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> I could be wrong

Yes, you are ;)

Start here: https://home.cern/about/physics/z-boson
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It makes me bristle every time I read it. Advanced statistical computing != thinking! People love to conflate number crunching with intuition and all of the other things that are impossible for computers to do, so I expect it to continue.
Also it pre-selects for people who don't say, "But this story makes no sense whatsoever" after your pitch.

419 scammers use deliberately poor grammar and other choices to weed out the people who will figure out it's a scam before they hand over any money, same for an MLM. You want the people who'll lie and cheat and pump every dime they have into your MLM, not the ones who attend a seminar, make interested noises then walk away after losing less that $100.
Just trying to unpack your statement. Are you saying we're trapped because the standard model doesn't allow for FTL travel? (This is my assumption based on context)

I'm way outside my wheelhouse here for knowing what the standard model allows so please bear with me.
I don't think "wants to boot" is an accurate conclusion from a, b, and c; someone working in a company (as opposed to someone working on a personal project alone) should assign copyright to the company and share infrastructure / account access with other people in the company.

(Also I think it's super weird for you to use HN as a forum to push this dispute.)
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This was a fun and informative read. Thanks :)
Your family is counting on you being prepared for the future.
How many commits do you have? If the answer is 0, whatever you've been doing was probably not as productive or useful as anything your partner has been doing for years. If the guy who has written 90% of the code ghosts his CEO co-founder, my bet is it's the CEO being useless and not the CTO and I trust his word way more than yours. Regardless of how the CTO has handled this, you are clearly in the wrong somehow.
Giving up $400 mil for 3 months? I mean I know they're loaded either way but come on...
I think his point was that Apple has leverage over developers (you have to go through the app store to access iOS users) and therefore doesn't have to care about investing in a good developer experience. Microsoft doesn't have equivalent leverage to get developers to develop for Windows or Azure so they have to instead invest more in winning developers over by offering them better tools and services, hence the expensive GitHub acquisition.
IANAL, but if the operating agreement is set up so that the CEO has a specific power, then the next layer up would be for the shareholders to amend the operating agreement. If the CEO and CTO are equal partners, neither would be able to obtain a majority vote and the operating agreement would stay as it is - assuming, of course, that the agreement requires a majority vote for amendment.

It sounds like the CEO de facto controls the company in this case, and can ignore the other shareholder at will. He could block communications with him and basically have a silent partner.
Sales is means, not a goal in and of itself. What you're suggesting is a broken economic model that doesn't honor people that add to the world (i.e. authors).
Strange times, indeed.
Public Private key sharing manages the key sharing problem pretty thoroughly. All I have to do is look up the published public key before yelling.
If that's the reality you like to live in more power to you, but mine is not hype, is my personal experience, stuff I lived through. Can't you accept that someone's experience might be different than yours?
Well, they've been losing money for several years now, but they were originally profitable and operated without any VC money for years. If it weren't for the problems that growth has caused them since then I'm not sure they would be looking at acquisition at this point.
Imagine how useful it would be if when there is a notification about a friend on Facebook, you could peek it by swiping on the notification in the android drawer like you can with texts, without entering the Facebook app.

Nope. Engineers are dedicated there to increasing other things than the utility of the app. Interests aren't aligned with the users.

Same with removing chronological feeds. Turn things more and more into slot machines.
We think Patreon is awesome. It's a great general purpose tool for supporting creators, and the fact that it is so successful shows that people are willing to pay for stuff they value.

Substack is focused on letting writers start their own publication - top to bottom - with subscriptions as an integral part.
As long as I can use a browser with uBlock Origin and API access (location, file system, camera, etc.) remains sane, I would very much prefer a web app. I don't want to: waste time installing; use up limited storage space; allow who knows what kind of access to other stuff on my device (e.g. LinkedIn and Facebook style abuse of native APIs); and have no way to combat ads. Especially for something I'm going to use maybe just once a month or less.
So, have you read through and completely understood the 39 pages of TOS and Privacy Policy docs required to post on HN? Do you consider those who have not to also be "idiots"?
I am simply an observer, but the fact that the CEO is here in the comment section of HN slinging mud is pretty telling.

I mean, I understand the desire to stand up for oneself, but there are probably better avenues that a CEO should take.
A lot of Microsoft uses GitHub too. For example, a lot of Azure's tooling is developed on GitHub, likely because it's easier to engage with users.
As if Google even cares about this. Seriously, check your ego. You are just focusing on the gmail thing to take focus away from whatever the actual dispute is.
Yes, but one thing that I think is often missed is that you want to have 1-2mg of Xanax (or equivalent) laying around just in case things go wrong.

A lot of people into the hippie side of psychedelic culture don't like pharmaceuticals because they're unnatural or whatever, but in practice, there's a chance that your psychedelics are going to trigger hours and hours of rolling panic attacks that feel like you're dying, to the point where you may convince yourself that you've certainly died, or perhaps that you've never been alive.

You're considering ingesting some very weird chemicals. Have Xanax on hand just in case, so you can essentially put yourself down. If you have to take it, you'll still be tripping but you simply won't care, you'll not remember much, and you'll have turned one of the possible worst PTSD-triggering experiences of your life into a "meh, that sucked" experience.

That said, you might have a great trip that opens your mind and changes your perspective on life. I'd say it's 100% worth it if you're in the right set/setting, but not worth the risk of having a terrible time without an benzodiazepine escape hatch, because things can get seriously uncomfortably weird.
I think this is a pretty insightful an accurate point. I'd like to add the following:

'Secret' software is very hard to keep secret: once your enemy has a semi-intact drone/AI then they'll have upgraded their own fleet within months (if yours was indeed superior).

I agree that it seems possible that a country with less wealth might outperform a country or group with more wealth. However, it's likely that the wealthier nation is better able to steal the technology and catch-up than the reverse scenario. A wealthier group has more budget for monetary bribes, and can pursue more parallel reverse-engineering attempts than the less wealthy group.
Who wants to work on monetizing open source by working hard to create a reliable way of paying the project creators to do the interesting work as what they get paid for?

Now that sounds meaningful. Email me if you agree.
Yeah. That generally how you fool people you are a good person. You do stuff that appears to be good hearted. Companies do that too. Just like politicians.

I can't understand why people today lack the ability to see a scam.
> I don't consider the founders, investors, or MS evil.

Fair point if I overstated your perspective on VCs.

I don't know if English is your primary language but if you didn't know, the phrase "sold out" is virtually always used in a derogatory manner. When one writes "<X> sold out to <Y>", the <Y> is the proverbial bad guy. It's also parsed as an insult to both <X> and <Y>. E.g. "It's a shame that guitarist sold out to BadMusic Record Company."

It seemed like "sold out to investors" emotionally taints the VCs as bad actors and poisoned the discussion. (Yes, some VCs are bad and unethical.)

In any case, people should think of VCs as one type of financing option. (Bootstrap is another, but that has its own risks and downsides. Bank loans are another finance option but most startup founders have no collateral.) If you don't want to pressure your company into a big exit, do not talk to VCs.

>So, normally an acquisition is considered the less ideal outcome of those two. It implies some sort of failure to deliver.

Maybe. One of the VCs I saw mentioned that acquisitions are actually the more common exits for B2B companies. Github (enterprise) was more B2B than B2C. If this is the consensus view, both a16z and Sequoia may have anticipated acquisition as the most likely (and successful) outcome at the time they invested.
Besides her entrepreneurial success, Spade's death is particularly notable since the cause appears to be suicide. Her brand was prominent enough that Apple Stores carried Kate Spade cases and watchbands.

According to Wikipedia, the label sold for $124M to Liz Claiborne. In 2017, it was acquired by Coach for $2.4B: http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/08/investing/coach-kate-spade-t...
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I think they know better. I mean, how couldn't they? If Microsoft trashed GitHub, that means millions of developers are never going to trust them with anything again. It'd be severe clownery to not see what's clear as day.
I disagree with both assertions. Unless any major breakthroughs in AI come along, you need a lot of people to create light, sweet crude data. China has multiples of the U.S. population, and is an expansive surveillance state gathering up every bit the internet has to offer, in contrast to the increasingly privacy-sensitive West. Given current trends in deep learning, those two factors alone give China an enormous advantage over the U.S.

Likewise, arguing that AI/software can supplant wealth in warfare is laughable. An example could be 9/11. The total cost to Al-Qaeda was a rounding error compared to the trillions spent in Afghanistan (and later, Iraq). And I have read anecdotes of U.S. Marines in Iraq recalling how insurgents managed to waste millions (if not billions) by firing one rocket at a Marine base then fleeing, all while the entire base has to shut down operations to dig in and defend, even if the lone attacker is long gone by the time anybody’s in position. And yet neither Al-Qaeda or ISIS or even the United States itself has managed to fully and definitely declare peace and go home without a new insurgency rising up in their wake.

In short, a power with little relative wealth or population - even with sophisticated software and AI - could never be any more than an expensive nuisance to the larger powers.
Who's we here? The documents seem to imply that you have 50%, Daniel has 50%. Are you referring to yourself in plural?
"Email is dead. Long live email"

A few years ago, I kept hearing about how email was dead and Slack and HipChat were the future.

Now email is the future, again: https://www.fastcodesign.com/90160460/google-thinks-the-futu...

and it seems like there's a new generation of ecosystem tools coming out to support email's new lease on life.

I still have a few hotmail and juno accounts -- think they'll be worth something someday now?
A beautiful side effect of learning various ways of analysing poetry is that every time you learn something new, this poem gets more hilariously awful.
If you run Linux or MacOS you could always run Jekyll in Docker and not worry about Ruby.

Unfortunately Jekyll with Docker for Windows doesn't work. The file watcher is completely busted (even with polling). It's strange too because every other language / framework works fine (Flask, Rails, Phoenix, Node), etc. It's just Jekyll that's broken.
Sounds exactly like httpstat.us
Nobody can really recommend you a psychedelic experience because each person is unique and each experience is unique, but you should definitively research a bit before trying it. Erowid is a good resource to learn more about psychedelic substances.

Some common advices: be with people you can trust, in a non-harsh environment, and don't try it if you are tired or going through hard times. You could also start with a very small dose the first time to have a grasp of it (although it's difficult to measure dosage with mushrooms, but you could try a small amount of dried mushrooms which are less psychoactive).

My experiences with mushrooms were great, but not really life changing or anything like that, just pretty interesting, fun, and maybe even artistically inspiring. The only substance that have had a real impact on me was (tested pure) MDMA: I only did it one time many years ago, but it helped me understand the value and significance of interpersonal interaction, which I believe made an important positive effect on me.
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> Gitlab is now pretty well positioned to succeed where Github struggled.

Gitlab is also VC funded. In fact it seems like you should be _happy_ that Github is no longer owned by the VCs.
You know that OpenGL is an API standard, and not a piece of software, right?
To be honest all of the Silicon Valley innovators have this cult of personality that once you look behind the curtain they act in their own self interest (which isn't a bad thing).

For example Elon Musk has his "Iron Man" persona that puts himself on a pedestal and projects an ideal that his companies will solve the worlds problems. Once you look behind the curtain you see that he uses this to justify long hours by his workers. The innovation he has is an acceptance of failure for mission critical systems and quality assurance like cars or rockets.

The moral of the story is that while the people at the top might make it seem like they do the right things for the right reasons the reasons that any rational person actually do are the right things for the reasons to expand your new business.
I hope so. Serialization was such a huge thing for writers once upon a time. In particular it was a medium that encouraged experimentation and allowed writers to be compensated better for unusual work. It's how a lot of American detective writing got its start -- the fast pace of work like Dashiell Hammett's "Continental Ops" stories was built around the immediacy of periodical publishing. If you're writing that kind of prose as a book, it has a different style. The periodical form helped create that unique, suspenseful, fast format. My hope is that in the internet age -- when people are reading more as a whole but maybe reading fewer books -- that a serial web formal will help create a literature for readers of this era, just like magazines like "Black Mask" helped make a literature for the twenties and thirties.
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We use conversion pixel.

Isn't Google and FB going to auto-optimize our ads based on machine learning and data sources which also include weather
Kate Spade found dead in apparent suicide
It is interesting that a new HN account posted this, and it was almost instantly upvoted by a dozen people.
Maybe black and underclass social problems are not the same thing as making sure writing is bland yet as inclusive as possible in a publication that mostly rich left-leaning white people are going to read on their $1000 itoy?
I'm doing the same, and I only have 10 people. They happen to be my favorite 10 people, but still only 10.

I think Signal or something of that nature will be the ultimate endgame for communication systems. They're way too easy to make, they're cheap to maintain, and they're hard to monetize without being scummy. This is the perfect formula for a non-profit to step in. I think the WhatsApp founders alone could maintain a worldwide textual communication network for the rest of their lives using a small fraction of their wealth.
We use Propeller (http://propeller.in)

Some people think Material is old, but this has all the components we need and works well.
> Will my data be lost if the project is not popular enough?

P2P data access isn't about free storage (we're not all Linus ;) http://www.webcitation.org/6P8EBZqQX ): it's about decoupling data access from device access. Web addresses like `github.com/foo` make requests to a specific machine (github.com), in the hope that (a) that machine still exists and (b) it will respond with the data we were after.

Content addressing (bittorrent, ipfs, dat, etc.) lets us request the specific data we're after. If the original host is still serving that data, it can fulfil the request for us; i.e. the existing Web setup will still work. The advantages are those situations where the Web model would break down. For example if the host changes its address without a redirect, if their layout/navigation changes, or if they disappear but someone else just-so-happens to have it (even us!).

Many people focus too much on that last scenario. I think it's nice that with something like IPFS I can have a few flaky boxes serving my files, including a laptop that's often suspended/offline, and I don't need to care about failover, load balancing, etc. Plus I don't need to do anything specific to support offline usage from a local cache: those with the files can just serve themselves.
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Wow, even larger than my napkin calculations. So my assertion that the app store business is significant is correct.

The problem with Apple, or any other big corporation, "protecting" users is that censorship is a two-edged sword. It's great that the iOS App Store doesn't suffer from, say, malware. It's not great that Apple has the final say over published content; Apple (or hostile governments forcing Apple) can block content for any reason; political, religious, or even vindictive. This is not merely theoretical[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple
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Thank you for this... how is something with a paywall so upvoted, it kind of goes against the spirit of this website.
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It's weird to me. Because on the one hand I can see your point of view, on the other hand - if the CTO of a company is withholding access to things from the CEO that's strange. Is that a recent development, or is that just to prevent the CEO taking control? I don't know.

It seems possible one of them is a bad egg. Or perhaps they have just had a very bad falling out. It does appear to be the case that because one guy is a/the coder, everyone is being more sympathetic to him. I haven't chosen a side yet - and I'm still reading through everything.

Hopefully this gets resolved and after it the bad egg (if one exists) leaves the company.
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So they would have to set the price as high as the high-value ad-viewers are worth - I don't see why it wouldn't work.
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the limit has been lifted! Thanks Cloudflare.

yes you got point about case sensitivity. in our case it would not work though because we wanted to use Routes to save on API calls to worker due to limits. Now with no limits we don't need this workaround using Routes.
> How many commits do you have? If the answer is 0, whatever you've been doing was probably not as productive or useful as anything your partner has been doing for years.

Tell me, does your employer's CEO have as many commits in the codebase as you do?

If not, why are you working for this CEO instead of for yourself?
This shouldn't even be a profitable company -- it should be a non-profit open source project.
My strategy is to use it for planning birthday parties. Gets lots of people in for planning big group "secrets", and then they stick with the app afterwards.
It's completely different and fun. This is kind of an in-between change for me. Oddly enough working with my anonymous partner has been a real help -- my own natural voice is probably wordier and slower on the page, but he has a great natural narrative voice and gets to the point a lot more quickly. So trying to replicate his voice, I think, has made the material different and more fast-paced than I could have done on my own. It's been a blast, the most fun I've had writing in ages.
Matt, What is your favorite investigative piece you've written?
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That would just be a jump from the frying pan into the fire. The real solution to all these problems lies in the use of decentralised services, e.g. XMPP+OMEMO connecting to a private server. This could be the same server as the one hosting any other privacy-sensitive services, e.g. Diaspora or GNU Social or something along those lines. It could also host a private mail server, a private "cloud" server, a private (meta-)search engine and any other services which you'd rather not have data-mined.

...and all that would fit on something like a Raspberry Pi 3B+ nowadays...
To add to Chris's point (this is Hamish), I think Substack is just really simple. As a writer, I like the idea of not having to think about building and designing my own site, or coming up with various payment and rewards tiers, so I can focus almost all of my time on writing.
Your email is not in your profile :)
I'm not expert enough to answer that, but Fossil and its "Built-in Web Interface" seems really interesting. I remember Mercurial seemed interesting back in the day, but as far as I can tell it mostly didn't take off because it's too similar to Git.

All in all, I'd just like a distributed scm that doesn't feel like it was designed to make Linux with 10,000 other people. It is... frustratingly sophisticated at times.
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I'm sharing here because I think there's a lot of developers interested in blockchain and I believe EOS is the cutting edge next-gen chain and developer-friendly. The community is awesome and the chain itself allows developers to build amazing stuff! :)
Maybe I'm just not creative enough, but what is a better alternative?

Let's say you have a subscriber model, but than what kind of world will it be where only the wealthy have access to these communication technologies and access to social information.

Or you have a hybrid ad model with the ability to opt out by paying some fee. Than what kind of world will that be when privacy is a luxury item limited to how much you can afford.

The best solution I can think of is keeping the current model, but adding regulation and government oversight to limit some of the most damaging effects i.e. creating platforms that abuse human psychology to keep people clicking and make them addicted to these platforms.

I'm genuinely interested in other models people suggest.