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Matt,

I have really enjoyed your books and all your articles over the years, especially about banking, corruption, and the financial crisis. i am curious if you have read the book 'The Chickenship Club) [https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute...] and your thoughts on it?
Bye-Bye, SF Scooters as Bird, Lime and Spin Go on Hiatus
Ha. I was just talking to a coworker today about using XSLT, unfortunately.
Forward-looking statement
Chrome 67 incognito: https://imgur.com/a/1uVotPo
It's an argument of semantics at this point. I'm saying war isn't won by bigger muscles alone. If you can't feed your troops, or equip them with more efficient weapons and armor, and train them with better tactics, then you'll lose at "war" to a society which can.
The times I have visited the US I have always been disturbed by how little privacy I feel like I have in a stall. I am sure I have made eye contact with dozens of people in US airports at a time that is not appropriate for either of us.
> moved my team away from the shit show which is TFS for git (not github)

TFS also supports git repositories. Do you use TFVC (Team Foundation Version Control) and TFS interchangeably?
So I started my career in "traditional" journalism, working for a nice little newspaper called the Moscow Times, but the problem there was they wouldn't let you write with humor or break certain formats. So I quit and ended up several times self-publishing by putting out newspapers, which is hilarious in context -- these days people just need to type something and upload it, but we used to have to painstakingly design every page, create huge metal plates, print off them, make giant stacks of newspapers, distribute them (I've even done the distribution on my own, in cars), just to be "self-published." Also I had to sell ads back in the day! With the internet came blogging, which is obviously much simpler but the problem, again, always comes back to representing a larger financial outlet, not wanting to clash with an editor or advertisers over material, having to haggle over what to write about and when. Substack is basically just the writer and the reader and it's very painless. I think in the future you'll see a lot of writers and media personalities breaking off and using this kind of format.
Re discovery: Yes!

We want the writers to succeed, and while it's ultimately up to them to write something good enough that people want to subscribe, getting discovered is something we can help with.

Having a place to feature them will help with this (though it's less important right now than e.g. helping free posts get shared.)

In fact, we have a super basic version of this that we wrote in 20 minutes here: https://www.substack.com/discover but we have a ton of plans on how to make it better - most importantly by focusing on the author & publication as the key element rather than the post.
I wonder how much can actually be optimized due the reduced number of instructions found in risc processors. Is is the case if they need some special instructions they can still fit them in an arm processor ?
End-to-end encryption for push messaging, simplified
If you're worth $9 billion you might make different decisions.
I'm not sure that the type of content people aren't willing to pay for and people aren't willing to create without payment is really all that worthwhile. I think there's a solid argument to be made that targeted ads just make creating and distributing low-quality clickbait content profitable, pushing more serious content aside.
Here we are on HN with many people complaining about free* Facebook, and then also complaining about pay services too. It takes money to run a world class news organization. Either that or they can get paid in non money equivalents like "likes" or page views which make everyone but them money. Where the value is to fool someone to come to your page so you can mine their data for ads, and serve ads. To get people to subscribe to you, you have to provide more value than that.
What were a few differences you ran into?
> Microsoft wanted to be in Github's space but couldn't compete

Did they though? Codeplex predated Github by 2 years and I don't recall there ever being much competition between the two. If anything I think Stackoverflow and Nuget played bigger roles in obviating Codeplex.

Codeplex was launched as a community platform for hosting Windows based opensource projects and libraries. It had forums, bug tracking, and all sorts of niceties but Stackoverflow showed up a couple years after it's launch and became the defacto destination for community support. Around the same time Nuget landed and removed the need for most consumer developers to even visit Codeplex.

GitHub showed up the same time as SO and Nuget and was largely a platform agnostic way to host opensource libraries but wasn't any more appealing than Codeplex to Windows Devs at the time. Since Nuget became the primary means for Windows Devs to consume libraries and Nuget packages could be hosted on any webserver, there was never a driving reason to use Codeplex or Github.

Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online for enterprises three years later without even farting in Codeplex's general direction. A couple years later they added support for Git to Visual Studio and have been moving people to use it for version control over their proprietary solution ever since.

I think Microsoft's purchase of Github wasn't so much to control or insert itself into Open Source, but rather to protect itself from others who might trying to push them out.
So something that is entirely outside of your control may determine if Tesla shames you in front of millions of people and violates your privacy? That's the defense you're arguing?

Plus Tesla never releases the crash data, they release select snippets that make them look good. For example, the famous "six seconds" claim in the barrier incident but absolutely zero data on their automatic emergency braking's actions, what autopilot was doing, what sensors detected, or any of their other systems.
Good or bad being relative. All companies are bad if you are the thing they consider expendable to make profit. All companies are good if you are a shareholder receiving profits.

Business has parted with ethics a long time ago. Many don't even pay it lip service putting bribes as line items on budgets.
PureOS was not a great experience for me and I'm using Ubuntu (budgie) now.
The economics were aligned with the customers. The whole business model was based on paying for private services using the same great tooling that was available for open source projects. People developed familiarity with open source and naturally clamored for the same tooling within companies. It was a loss leader of sorts.

Now the economic incentives are different. This would be true if Google acquired Github or if Amazon or Facebook or Twitter or any other company acquired it. Since it's not a standalone company, the parent company optimizing for greatest comprehensive profits will make decisions that are not always optimal if GitHub were standalone.
This CEO is absolutely toxic. He's coming here, insulting everyone who disagrees with him and is essentially trying to attack the CTO as a person.

Hopefully this will get forked and the CEO will learn a lesson of respect and self control.
Most US bathroom doors do not reach the floor. It is much more common in Europe. As an American, that line did come off as a somewhat exotic request.
There’s “big” and then there’s “big.”

MKUltra was wide in scope but no earth-shattering new information was revealed, and I suspect most of those involved didn’t really know the big picture (and the ones that did were likely either too ashamed or too patriotic to talk about it).

That’s a very different type of “big” than, e.g., “we found an alien spaceship in the desert”.
The norm is stalls with walls having ~12-18 inch gaps between the bottom and the floor,and 1/4-1/2 inch gaps between the edges of the door and the posts the door is hinged to. It's trivial to see someone doing their business without even trying or intending it.
Honest question:

Why should i be freaked out?

I don't think MS will go full Sourceforge, you never go full Sourceforge...

But seriously - shouldn't people, if they think that there _ever_ will be a problem with MS owning GitHub, prepare for a backup solution instead of going in full panic mode and moving repos off left, right and center?
The terms you're using - they come from Machine Learning, which comes from the same division of mathematics as ordinary statistics. And that's how ML is educated at the universities anyway.

So if you've got an analyst sitting on that issue - then your problem is solved anyway.

So again, why hire somebody with a trendy specialty who is <probably> full of BS, when you can hire someone with some respect for classics?
For some reason american bathroom stall doors don't reach the floor.

It is very weird the first time you see them coming from Europe but it seems to be the norm here
GitHub was relatively independent in that hosting git repositories was the only product that it sold and it didn't clearly favor any sort of tech stack. Now, MS says that they will not remove any of the existing functionality, but their press release did hint that they would add features to make it easier to launch apps onto MS platforms like Azure.
It's not a norm in the states, no. Typical restroom stalls in the US have about 10" (25 cm) of clearance between the bottom of the door and the floor.
I wonder why they chose to place the school in Paris (very expensive city) and went for expensive Apple computers.
I'm so glad my college had class sizes of 10-15 and not 100, what a waste of money.
I remember when they picked that shitty CC-BY-NC-SA license, and Micay was defending that decision. Slightly amusing that it turned around to bite him in the ass (though sad at the same time).
Derek's argument seems to be that some drugs may actually harm patients, and so Right to Try is bad.

Isn't that known, and just something terminal patients need to balance with their doctors? If I had 6 months to live, I would probably roll the dice for a cure even if 50% of the time the drug would actually only give me 3 months to live.

I doubt anyone believes that trying experimental drugs can only help, and never hurt the patient. If that was the case we'd have been allowing experimental drug usage for a long time.
I guess this guy can create a voltage difference between his hands for electrotherapy.

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00787...
You mean because Google did not have just that until two years ago. /s

Why does such an article not at least mention Google code? The digital memory is short.
How? It's not shown on their website.
This is a pretty common trigger. I was researching a similar idea a couple years ago. Some others include:

http://www.weatherunlocked.com/
http://www.weatherads.io/

Had found some others but the bookmark folder seems to be gone.
That sounds right to me, though to be fair, I was the one who screwed up the operation, not Zed. It was my very first time using Fossil.
Then what is the actual dispute? We would love to know...
I think their selling point is the whole package - iPhone + apps + iCloud (photos mainly) that will be supported in person in store. Though Android is free of such a tightly integrated package of hardware software, services, and supportmaybe not so thankfully....

Worth pointing out you can pretty much replace all the default apps with 3rd party apps, it would definitely be an improvement if you could set them as the default apps though.
Could you talk a bit more about what kinds of rules and prohibitions exist? Why did they fail to stop the askfm guys in this case?
You are just okay with giving out your financial information?

Top. Kek.
I'm not mistaken on their motives, but nor do I believe that anybody (or any company) is entirely one thing or the other.

On net though, Microsoft appears to be doing more things that I like, but if we're being pragmatic, I should like the things I determine to be 'good' whether or not they are also doing things I consider to be 'bad' -- but on the whole, if they're doing things I like just to make me more likely to contribute to their code, or work for them, or be a customer, then they're still doing more things that I like, scam or not.
So I'm embarrassed to say that I haven't read that book, but I imagine I've read almost all of Jesse's articles from that time period, as we were both covering essentially the same story. Along with Gretchen Morgenson of the Times, Jesse was one of the first reporters to start asking the question of why no one from the crisis era went to jail. I gather from the title alone that he traversed a lot of the same area I did in "The Divide," which was significantly about the pusillanimous Justice Department not wanting to take on complex financial cases. Jesse is a great reporter so I will definitely check it out.
"Is there any platform with higher barriers to entry than the App Store? "

Just about everything that came before. Getting an app on a phone before meant you had to go through the carrier's store, where they had a 70/30 split, with you getting 30%. There's also selling your software in a box on a store shelf, where the distributor takes 50% off the top.
Perhaps less so if you use a wordpress hosting service.
I second the IBM comment... they could have consulted the heck out of GitHub in the enterprise.
What tools do you use to do your work? What tools/processes are essential to your workflow?
I think it makes more sense for RedHat to buy Docker, but I wouldn't bet on that happening.
> There is no way in hell Gitlab is worth anywhere near what MS just paid for Github.

On the other hand, Atlassian is worth twice what MS just paid for Github.
Dev has no account so relaying this:

"we had an issue with Oauth when we upgraded JupyterHub version 0.7 to version 0.8. The instance spawner we wrote needed to be updated to fix the issue. The case that opened about this in our repository* fixed with the latest update of the instance spawner"

So it seems we could be using GitHub standard OAuth now. But 95% of our implementations utilize Canvas auth reconciling with our university AD.

*https://github.com/harvard/cloudJHub/issues/2
Some of them feel like perfect for a weird little art exhibition. I personally really enjoyed this one, which just seem to describe something that has been observed in orbit: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789...
This is one of the weirdly recurring founder stories of 'after you sold something for good money, you don't get to tell the buyer what to do with it'.
Understanding UX Vocabulary [5 terms for creating digital experiences]
Thanks, good one. I'll definitely add this. They just got a status page, looks like a statuspage.io type so it should be super easy.
Wells Fargo is closing all its branches in three Midwestern states
TFS is used in every single corporate I've worked for, for the last I don't know, 10 maybe 12 years?
Yes! The worst for me was a couple of days ago, I started playing a video, I changed tab and the video stopped! I came back and it started again. I guess one of their main KPI it's time on site, like people are not spending enough time already, and regardless of how people want to use their website.

Edit: rephrased one sentence
I'd peg the beginning of the research that jostmey mentioned at the discovery of radioactivity. The science was already well-underway when research reactors were being built.
What I said applies perfectly to that case!
> the companies which use the service don't have enough revenue to contact their customers through dedicated channels. If you try to monetize this, then most companies just leave because those who could pay already have such channels to customers

I'm not sure that's true about the companies which use Whatsapp. They are not using Whatsapp because they can't afford anything else. They're using it because the clients use it. In a large part of the world, everyone uses Whatsapp for everything. Companies go out of their way to support clients via Whatsapp - they even pay for shady unofficial APIs implemented by third parties.

A company unable to afford "Whatsapp Business" probably doesn't need it anyway. They can just continue using regular Whatsapp. No need to force them to use the paid version.

Some of the use cases for Whatsapp Business:

- Customer service.

- Product listings.

- Orders and delivery.

- Knowledge base.

- Notifications (flight status, tickets, etc).

- Promotions.

A lot of these would be attractive for large companies.
We left TFS altogether because it was just so terrible, I've lost count of the number of hours lost to that software. We use Gitlab for source control now, Team City for builds, and Target Process for project management.
There is already so much shame directed to the one family member that forces everyone else to use something other than iMessage. Sometimes they just get left out of conversations. Apple's taking this even further with improved photo sharing in iOS 12 (moving more families off Facebook/Instagram), and group FaceTime.

As a user I wish that these apps were widely available because I prefer them to alternatives, but as a shareholder I'm not at all upset by this. At least Apple is charging for these privacy-protecting apps, which is the most important detail about WhatsApp: it was already profitable charging users $1/year before acquisition. If Apple ever does release FaceTime and iMessage for Android I hope they charge subscription fees for both.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> That's, like, your opinion man.

:)

See, that cuts both ways.

My experience with linkedin: Countless emails suggesting that someone has 'added me on linkedin' when I never made an account, they clearly bought a list and kept on spamming it over and over again.

A website that leaks data like a sieve, one failed attempt after another to create a sense of community, utterly meaningless endorsements and competency system.

On and on. I really wonder what the draw of linked in is, I would never use it as a decision in whether or not to hire someone and I think it is one of the worst possible experiences on the web.

And that's before we get into it now being a Microsoft subsidiary, another major strike against it.

The sooner linkedin goes away the better, it's been ripe for disruption for many years.
> What I found interesting is that they reference the analytics visible to the page administrator: Does that mean that turning them off makes a material difference?

I also read that as saying that if an admin could opt out of analytics, everything might be fine.

Though in the actual final ruling part they just say that "the concept of ‘controller’ within the meaning of that provision encompasses the administrator of a fan page hosted on a social network" without any further qualification.
>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/microsoft-and-github...

sounds like MS is trying to make Git into Clearcase. Typical bunch of FUD stemming from not understanding the tool and how to work with it, and of course the monstrosity of a solution ( "Git at enterprise scale" (https://www.gvfs.io/)) to the rescue:

"Microsoft wanted to move to Git because of Git's features, like its easy branching and its popularity among developers. But the transition faced three problems. Git wasn't designed for such vast numbers of developers—more than 3,000 actively working on the codebase. Also, Git wasn't designed for a codebase that was so large, either in terms of the number of files and version history for each file, or in terms of sheer size, coming in at more than 300GB. When using standard Git, working with the source repository was unacceptably slow. Common operations (such as checking which files have been modified) would take multiple minutes.

The company's solution was to develop Git Virtual File System (GVFS). "

I think it is more that Team Foundation Server is failing to scale and MS needs [their own branded/controlled] "enterprise-scale" VC solution for themselves as
well as for their customers. GitHub with GVFS on top (ie. kind of Sharepoint for VC) fits nicely here.
Right -- I don't care what Bill Gates' motives for donating all the money to charity that he donates, because I believe that the money he's donating is doing actual good.

Maybe he feels guilty for some of his actions as Microsoft CEO, maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's cheating on his wife, or doing some other nefarious deed -- but those charities still have that money, and they're still (probably) doing good work with it.
Perhaps the most fascinating part (to me at least) in the article was his second step - he knowingly and purposefully created a vaporware product and took orders for it. He refunded the money from the customers, but used this as a validation step.

I'm not sure if there's a moral judgement to be made here that's meaningful, but it's an interesting approach to product validation. I feel like we see this approach with Kickstarter style approaches, but without the refund step (and without ultimately delivering the product), but this idea of getting transactions and refunding them to validate interest is... well it feels a bit off-putting(?), but interesting none the less.
The project's web site or RSS feed? If there's an existing mutable, publically-readable, privately-writable location then it can just be put there.

My projects aren't big enough to have their own sites, but I do push my repos to IPFS and give links at http://chriswarbo.net/projects/repos (actually using IPNS, which should reduce regeneration but is still experimental and flaky ;) )
Turns out, Facebook users do have a red line when it comes to sharing their data
I had a dream where I was in a coma for 20 years, woke up, and found that AI was now able to trivially answer even the most difficult research questions I could imagine. In my dream I visited my old workplace, and found that while the CEO was still there the ease at which questions could be answered made the humans more supervisers than researchers.

For some time in my dream I was lost, not sure what my value was as a human being without my skills that I've spent decades refining.

Then I remembered that humans have inherent value, that I am not my work, and went to a park to meditate and teach karate. It made me think, in my dream, how even if a machine could teach karate better, I was not doing it for society -- I was doing it for myself.

Realizing that you are not your work, and are not defined by your work; that humans have inherent value and you have every right to simply be happy when the opportunity arises; that the Puritan virtues of work are an illusion, and that humans should follow their passion; that the illusion of the necessity of work often prevents people from ever discovering their passion in the first place.

It was probably my best dream, and I approach life quite differently now. I think when I feel like I have a closed form solution, it is much the same spirit as an AI that will solve your problems for you.
Samsung Portable T5.

USB-C and USB-A ports no USB 3.0 protocol.

It's a "fast" SSD, but it doesn't come close to saturating USB 3.0, and is basically equivalent to an internal (not PCIe/NVMe) SATA based SSD.

If you wanted to future-proof, you could get a thunderbolt 3 enclosure.

Also, fits super comfortably in my pocket (smaller than a phone).
Works great, just enable linux support and you can apt-get whatever you want and run UI apps right next to chromeOS windows. Glitches are few and far between, though it's still only a beta feature.

EDIT: Yes, the lack of GPU support is still a major limitation.
We've been hearing this tale for more than a decade and native apps are still better at pretty much everything. :)

Web devs are a very optimistic bunch.