skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest that you want to get that marketing number as close to 100% as possible.

Spending time on anything technology related at the start is really a distraction from the important goal of understanding products, pricing, and customers. Any time spent on technology beyond that of doing the minimum required to make selling possible is a premature optimization.
So I see it mention that they were in trouble for deleting "potentiall incriminating" conversations. Are there any details or other articles that confirm the deleted messages were retrieved?
A static-site generator, like eleventy[0], deployed to Netlify[1].

[0] https://github.com/11ty/eleventy
[1] https://www.netlify.com
Ask HN: What is your note-keeping platform/method of choice in 2018?
It depends on the jurisdiction. In some countries like the UK they can be indeed waived, but in others like France moral rights are inalienable -- any contract wherein you give up these rights is null and void by law.
Call it what it is- a pump and dump. People can put lipstick on the pig but it’s just the same old scam that is centuries old.
same, except i use hugo. it's extremely easy to self host static content now, especially with something like netlify
Surveillance cameras pose a threat to privacy
> Having the choice to not buy a Tesla.

If Tesla's business model proves successful, all other car makers will copy it, and then it doesn't matter which brand you buy.

Look at the TV market. You technically have the choice not to buy a "Smart TV," which sells your info to god-knows how many third-parties and spies on you 24/7. But good luck finding one. Sony, Samsung, LG? They all have the same spyware features. Your only option is to buy brandless Chinese TVs with terrible picture and worse sound quality.

How long until all manufacturers start acting like Tesla? What choice will we have then? Start walking everywhere like our ancient ancestors?
Seems I misspoke a little. Michigan recognizes an LLC taxed as an S corp as an LLC, ignoring the S corp entirely.

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/uia/1080_394228_7.pdf

NO BENEFIT ENTITLEMENT

Unemployed worker performed services for a PARTNERSHIP of which any part is owned by the unemployed worker, or 100% which is owned by any combination of the following:

* Unemployed worker
* Unemployed worker’s child(ren)
* Unemployed worker’s spouse
* Both of the unemployed worker’s parents, if unemployed worker is under 18.

On page 2, the document goes on to say that owners of a corporation are entitled to limited benefits. They have to pay in to UIA, however. As the owner of an LLC I didn't have to pay into UIA at all for myself or family employees (and in fact got a refund when I mistakenly paid in).
Or making 9 different versions of the same thing like they have done with messaging.
Shouldn't the law prevent the CEO from doing just that? I mean, the board is presumably the only check on the CEO's power, so even if the CEO is the majority shareholder, they shouldn't be able to control the board.
Comcast drops bid for “gigabit” tax cut that was created for Google Fiber
Deploying Jenkins to a Kubernetes Cluster Using Helm
Static blog using Jekyll hosted on GitHub Pages
Shopify comes with a free trial. After that the monthly is very low.
I built my own WordPress-like item (albeit with static publishing) in Python: https://github.com/syegulalp/mercury

I haven't been working on it much lately, though, as it reached the point of my own personal itch being scratched.
CEO of the company, James Donaldson, wants to boot off Daniel Micay, CTO of Copperhead and the main developer behind CopperheadOS project. Both have 50% shareholder stake. As of now, Daniel Micay can't use Copperhead branding anymore, and is locked out of his own work (because copyright has been assigned to the company), and can only use CopperheadOS under CC-BY-NC-SA.
This is why I moved to Signal after the whole brexit/us election saga. open source and not run by an advertising company
You are correct, it is not, and I completely understand why most banks and financial institutions have this policy. My point was that if you are going on a vacation, or a trip, or business of some kind for 4 weeks with the need to take a relatively large sum of money with you, the 3 week delay would make this option less than ideal.
Actually, this is directly from the Bitbucket docs:

"Import a repository from GitHub or GitLab" - https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/import-a-reposito...
Ah, I did not relate that use of the word employee to becoming an employee of linkedin. Fair enough. Still, unadulterated hype by employers of companies with questionable ethics doesn't hold a whole lot of weight in discussions like these.
I installed Signal a while back and tried to convince as many people as possible to switch. But only 7 people in my contact list have Signal installed. Even when communicating with those 7 people i tend to use WhatsApp because i tend to process all my messages at once without switching apps.
WebDriver motors on to W3C Recommendation
Out of the list of companies that the article says have expressed an interest in GitHub at one point or another - Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Atlassian and Tencent - I have to say that Microsoft seems the most best fit, especially given their existing work on integrating GitHub with GVFS:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/microsoft-and-github...
A little oversimplified, but sure.
Propaganda to counteract the negative press about AI for defense/Project Maven, perhaps.
It's under non-free license (Creative Commons non-commercial).
The only thing that matters here is that they aren't actually owned by MS yet. They have just agreed to be bought soon. So, there's still a substantial time for customers to leave or adapt or whatever before the acquisition is completed.

It's true that it would be worse if one day you suddenly were already a customer of a different company without warning. That's not the case here though.

Side-note: I'm very critical of MS as a acompany and have been critical of GitHub separately, nothing above should be seen as defending them other than on acknowledging the fact that they've announced the acquisition long before it actaully will be completed.
Kate Spade, American Designer and Entrepreneur, Is Dead at 55
If the customer is in the US (or any other non-EU jurisdiction) they don't have to follow GDPR for them.
Frankly, I think the country that one should be the most concerned about pulling off a first strike is the USA, not China or Russia...
On reading the linked legal documents [0][1], it seems that the CEO is trying to make the case that the CTO is focusing on CopperheadOS in a development role, rather than looking at it as a product. I don't know if that's true or not, but I could see why it would lead to this conflict.

However, I'm curious how Copperhead the company can send these letters demanding that the 50% co-owner do this or that. As equal owner, couldn't he respond to these letters by asking the company lawyers to send a letter back to the CEO making similar demands? Is the CEO "more in control" than the CTO because CEO is a higher position, even though they're equal partners?

[0]: https://paste.xinu.at/RrWPGW/

[1]: https://paste.xinu.at/MBEyCM/
If you sell your soul to the devil don't be surprised he comes to collect it...
"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed."

--Terence McKenna
I should say, in full disclosure, that it worries me because I'm a product manager in the region. So, I am concerned about economic blow back to firms that have better business practices and therefore my ability to practice here. Though, I'm currently seeking remote work opportunities as this is a pervasive issue.
Code is data is code.

I wrote my surrounding static text as a Common Lisp program; relevant BLOBs are put into a resources directory. Blog entries are in Markdown, then read into the program, transformed, and the entire thing spat out as HTML.

It then uploads to S3 and renders out in a domain. I'll be moving to the Google cloud edition of that sometime in the next 4 months, I figure.

I've dinked with wordpress, blogger, tumblr, livejournal, dreamwidth, and other platforms, along with 1 or 2 other static site generators, along with writing my own static site generator. This beats all of them in terms of maintainability and simplicity.

I'm a no-name software engineer and this is a way to write down things that I want to share with people. It works really well.

For the curious, here's an out of date edition of the site as Lisp:
https://gist.github.com/pnathan/d57bb0e95fa68552a51755814844...
A bunch of horror stories of months-long turnarounds for fender-benders too. https://jalopnik.com/teslas-potential-body-shop-backlog-nigh...
Thanks for sharing. I was discussing trackerless p2p social network with offline publishing and syncing when close to a friend a few months ago, I'm amazed how Scuttlebutt seems to be exactly that.

I was thinking of using high frequency sounds (inaudible) for peer discovery when in the same room, like chromecast is doing when phone and chromecast are not on the same local network, but simply scanning network seems to work just as well, apparently.
Frankly, they don’t do much. It is nota kind of company that is “the Uber of...”.

It is “The shitty version of ...” (insert Looker, Tableau, etc.)
Just to counter the selection bias in the answers to this question; be careful. A friend of mine took mushrooms and it triggered schizophrenia. That was 30 years ago and he never recovered.
Do we have any experimental evidence of shortcomings of the standard model? It seems to me as a lay person that it keeps getting confirmed at higher and higher energies, and hints of science beyond it remain elusive. Is that true?
I was happy paying a subscription fee to whatsapp when it was still a thing. I dont know if facebook has ever made money off of ads shown to me.

Same goes with google and the subscription I pay for google music.
I know. I also listed some (Qualtrics, Adobe). However, I have no way of telling if some of the companies on your list are any more legitimate than Domo, which has for years been heralded as a legitimate tech company in the area.

To clarify (since not all of the companies you listed are in Utah Valley), my criticism was directed specifically at Utah County, not the whole state (i.e. not Salt Lake City or Davis county).
I remember seeing their ads all over LinkedIn for a while.

Two observations:

1. the ads made fun of Excel. "Still using Excel for data analysis? lol"

2. all top comments were invariably like "what's wrong with Excel for data analysis?", but Domo didn't care
You might read Walt Vincenti's book on this, "What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History" Excellent read. https://www.amazon.ca/What-Engineers-Know-How-They/dp/080184...
Earlier this year, I threw together something in Rails with Bulma. It took an afternoon, except for never-ending css tweaks. Rails is built for that kind of thing so it wasn't a huge amount of effort.

It's not very socially media aware or SEO-savvy of me, but I'm doing it as a fun way to build a fun website, which was something people used to use the internet for.
The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method (1987)
Archiving backend: https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy

Stores the scraped content in a postgres database, with external blob storage for binary content.

Additionally, historical records of the scraped content are kept, so I have something that acts kind of like the internet archive too.
Built-in social network. Most church-goers automatically have access to a couple hundred people in the neighborhood.

I live in Utah and I hate MLMs so much.
AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business model for journalism
We’re Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie, the founders of Substack (YC W18), and Matt Taibbi, a journalist and author who has written four best-sellers and is a contributing editor to the Rolling Stone. Substack is a tool that makes it simple for a writer to start a paid newsletter – but we’re also experimenting with other models for online publishing. For instance, Matt is using Substack to serialize a novel called The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing: Adventures of the Unidentified Black Male, which you can see here: https://taibbi.substack.com.

Matt has so far published six chapters in the book. The serial is an experiment for him, too, but even when it’s done he intends to keep publishing his independent work through Substack. We thought it might be interesting to bring Matt into a Hacker News discussion about this model, other things that might be tried, and the state of online publishing generally.

Last time Substack was involved in a discussion here on HN, we got a ton of great feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16326411). We’d love to hear your thoughts about online publishing and how tech can (or cannot) help journalism!
>The statement here is that ASKfm is not at all afraid to rise to challenges. They're conquering Everest because it's out there to conquer. By doing so they claim: if they're bold enough to do it, they're bold enough to turn a social network into a blockchain ecosystem, and they're definitely bold enough to overturn the market with their new product.

This nonsense could be an absurd line from HBO's Silicon Valley, and people would have found it hilarious. Instead it's not only real, it's cost _a life_. I can't believe this.
I don't have experience with those particular programs however things I would consider are duel booting windows when you need to use them. Or run them in a VM so you won't have to reboot your system.

Then, since they're proprietary programs, you can't really fix them yourself even if you had the ability to do otherwise. Therefore research if others have had similar experience with those particular programs. Then, if those programs have actual Linux support, contact them and let them know what issues you're encountering. Since they're not open source libre software the community can't fix it so it's those companies programmers jobs to fix those problems.
It's mostly just that particular part of Utah. Mormonism is also highly correlated with successful and honest businesses. See https://www.economist.com/node/21554173
Users love the VC's money. Uber handed out multiple billions of dollars subsidizing both riders and drivers from these massive investments, but even smaller investments often mean the same things. From photo sharing to local delivery most of these services are beloved in large part because they don't need to be directly profitable.
I would if you really need to fix something, or just once or twice so you can permanently see the world differently ... but after that I would be hesitant. Check out this essay:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/28/why-were-early-psychede...
Yaeh, it made me subscribe to audible and listen it for free: https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/How-to-Change-Your-M... I enjoyed the book, but the claim that quantum physics might suggest that matter can have mind (because of wave particle duality) kind of killed it for me. Also, I don't find opinions of proponents of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning very relevant. But it's a nice overview of history of psychedelics and introduced me to some fascinating figures, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Matthew_Hubbard

N.b. Pollan presents his subjective experience. If you liked it, you will love reports on https://www.erowid.org/ and there's a lot of information on https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page if you decide for firsthand experience.
I love the focus. Starting at the base level data and working to normalize it is definitely the most difficult piece. How far back have you assembled data?

Feel free to reach out to me individually (email in profile), I'm working on operationalizing climate data like this and would like to look at this together!
Unregulated capitalism by no means naturally prevents large monopolies being formed. That's why the government got involved in "trust-busting" in the first place.
> The US nuclear triad is way out of date and potentially vulnerable to a first strike.

How are nuclear submarines vulnerable to a first strike?
Or even just "there are certain companies I don't trust enough to let them see what's in my private repos".
>It's a pretty stupid motto from a public relations perspective.

Wait a minute. It was a great motto when Microsoft was clearly the enemy. It was a subtle Us versus Oracle, MS...

The motto gave Google massive developer mindshare and support for android and anything Google.

I've got no data to back this up - but I believe Google's key early employees may have joined the company partly because of this motto.

However, with no clear enemy in sight. And with Google's privacy stance, the motto's begun to backfire.

The last sentence from the book Animal farm fits perfectly

>Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
https://github.com/kelvinh/org-page
The last drawing on that second link is actually quite a good sketch, IMO.
Rebinding ctrl-C to super-C everywhere sounds like a big hassle. And I wouldn't be surprised if not every app lets you rebind this sort of thing.

One thing that can be relatively easily done is to remap the super key to act as an additional ctrl key or to swap the ctrl and super keys. But that wouldn't solve the "terminal consistency" issue.

Some terminals allow you to change their keybindings to use ctrl-C and ctrl-V for copy-paste. However, if you do this you need to also remap the key you use to send a SIGINT to the current running process.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/53688

All that said, most people I know just get used to using ctrl+shift for terminal shortcuts eventually.

BTW, in Linux you can also use the middle mouse click to paste. Select some text and then click the middle mouse button to paste the current selection. This works the same on regular apps and the terminal.
That's an odd article. It claims to be about the alternatives, but then the alternatives are only briefly mentioned in a single short paragraph halfway through.

On top of that it doesn't really say much about the alternatives, somehow even forgetting to mention that GitLab is one of those alternatives, having cold-introduced it earlier in the article.
Here's someone who was harmed:

http://gawker.com/5671582/how-facebooks-targeted-ads-reveale...
Would throwing coins into trash be considered destroying them? They are physically intact and can be used. Those laws often come because sometimes coins are worth more in raw metal than their nominal value.
No. If you're a US citizen* doing business with a US-based company you don't have the right to request your own data, even if that company also does business in Europe.

* and there are European citizen dual passport shenanigans
I feel like this would be a great way to get investigated for insider trading.
Microsoft is currently running Visual Studio Team Services [1]. We will see what will happen with that.

1: https://www.visualstudio.com/de/team-services/
It’s just a matter of time. ;)
Did you try it? Worked for me in Firefox 60
Same laptop here. I've noticed the laptop drains battery when its suspended which is pretty annoying because I sometimes go a couple of days without using it. Have you run into that? I haven't had any luck getting suspend to disk to work.
Also consider how much potential there is for a liquidity event (and at what price); and the impact of investing in this company in terms of the diversity and balance of your overall investment portfolio.
Yes, founders always have ownership, but it is not always the case for the founders to own more than 50% of the company after a few financing rounds. Startups that do super well can pull this off, but I think it is safe to assume most normal startups do have super majority voting schemes that give founders total control of the company.
For real though Cubby's is so good. If I worked there, I wouldn't be upset about the relationship because it's a very popular restaurant.
Hugo. Self hosted. There is no way I'm going to hand my content to some third party to monitor and track the visitors and monetize at their discretion.
...dammit.

Well, at least I have Rock Band too.
We have a stream cipher based proposal, but it's a much bigger change and needs much more review, so it can't be landed for P. A drop-in replacement for AES is a much simpler change to make.
So propaganda to counter propaganda?
The page is still full of ads so I imagine yes it does
Vue.js with Playframework
a[href^="https://www.wsj.com"] {
text-decoration: line-through;
}
Give me a break. The WSJ cancellation is absolute crap (I've done it twice before and it's a pain in the ass because I have to call during business hours) but the Guardian is way worse.

This is common practice outside the US too. Which newspapers have you tried to cancel?
Also, can you think of any trigger which could make or break your business?
It's a matter of taste: I personally love the keyboard, much better in my opinion than the one of my old MacBook Air, or any other keyboard I've used in fact. But it took me a while to get used to it. However I would not be surprised to see it die prematurely: be careful not to stick something (food...) under a key!

The touchbar is entirely useless though. I've mapped the escape key to capslock, not doing so would have driven me insane.
MFax API now available on Mashape
Haven’t ran into much as our needs are fairly basic right now.

Biggest gripe for me is the lack of comparison period within the tiles that display numbers. For example you have 1k users doing X. Is that good or bad?

Data in context is much more usable - if X is leaving and it’s a 50% drop from last week, that’s great news!

Conversely, if X is feature use, you have 100m users and the change is 2% from last year, maybe it’s not so good.
It seems like the company must cease operations if they can not agree. Is that the case?
I think they are already working in that direction I last checked. https://www.whatsapp.com/business/

I liked the business app especially for shortcuts, auto-replies and other stuffs. But yes, official APIs is deal-breaker.

NOTE: Many applications and websites somehow are already using custom APIs (or something). Ex. Airlines sending booking details as WhatsApp message, flight/bus status and so on.