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> He was pummeled for publishing, in the LRB, an all-but-refuted story claiming that the entire story about the assassination of Osama Bin Laden was a lie (he relied on the secondhand story of a retired, anonymous defense department employee for his sourcing; his home publication, The New Yorker, refused to run it).

The New Yorker refused to run his bin Laden story? The My Lai story was published in the St. Louis Dispatch, only 30 papers picked it up initially. Only the Washington Post published about Watergate for months (with a few exceptions). Abu Ghraib was barely reported until the pictures came out. That the commissar at the New Yorker would not affix his signature means little to me.

The official story was, and in your mind presumably still is (though it seems to be in tatters now) that Osama bin Laden sat in a compound in Abbotabad, to the complete ignorance of all high Pakistani officials, including those living less than a mile away at the Pakistan Military Academy. Tariq Ali called this risible in the days after the raid, as did some of the Pakistani press. It's a completely ludicrous story. Later investigation by Pakistani journalists, Hersh and others uncovered even more. The official story was known to be ridiculous when it was announced. You are correct that he was pummeled for publishing the story and about the New Yorker though. I am not sure what has been refuted, other than the US government sticking by its original story. I guess it all comes down to whether one believes IF Stone's old journalistic maxim "Governments lie". People seem more interested in ad hominem attacks on Hersh, appeals to authority etc. as opposed to looking into whether the bin Laden raid story was true. Because the idea that no one in high position with connections to the Pakistani Military Academy had no notion bin Laden was there is laughable.
I don't believe this is an issue. YC's stance is to always participate in their pro rata.

"We exercise YC’s pro rata investing rights in all follow-on priced financing rounds, beginning with a company’s first priced round. At post-money valuations equal to or below $300M, we exercise our rights in all companies where we have a formal pro rata right."

From: https://www.ycombinator.com/continuity/
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Yes. But tell me a Mac past 2015 that you can even use an nVidia card in.
Can't find the more attribution focused talk (see he's given it a few times but can't find the slides - think I found them once searching through slideshare.) Here is one Willem did which is probably a bit too brief to get much out of (was at a CDO conference) https://www.slideshare.net/Corinium/foxtel-at-the-chief-data...

Another two: https://www.cmo.com.au/article/630808/exclusive-iag-columbus...

https://www.cmo.com.au/article/575203/how-foxtel-regained-co...

Another talk synopsis here which might provide some insight https://www.meetup.com/Web-Analytics-Wednesday-Sydney/events...

Willem is the person I know in Australia who has put the most effort into this stuff and has been able to talk about it.
Nicely done.

The window scroll gesture DOES NOT zoom the view.

THANK GOD.
Weird, in my town it’s the opposite. Heavy rotations of ads on billboards, and a variety of topics from retail, politics, political influence and brand awareness.
> Notch decreases function

I know that some people like to say this, but it's pretty clearly wrong, and it makes you look unobservant when you repeat it. It takes about five seconds and two phones to demonstrate this. The standard top section on every phone, Android and iOS alike, is a dedicated status section with little system icons with wide gaps of unused blank space between them. Every phone, every time. A notched phone just puts the camera directly between those icons instead of putting unused pixels there. It doesn't take a genius to see that un-notched phones have both larger top bezels and more pixels wasted in the status area. The notch doesn't cut into the screen. The screen extends up around the camera and puts the status icons on the horns.

> and is aesthetically displeasing

All of the tens of people I know who have notched phones say they love it and don't notice the notch. So, maybe to you, but it seems like the market is speaking.
GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00247.html is a good example.

I can't find the exact thread right now, but RMS asked someone to use gcc instead of clang when proposed for code completion in emacs... and then refused to allow the necessary changes be made to gcc to allow code completion because evil corporations might use it to extract the AST from gcc and therefore bypass the GPL.
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Why? According to wikipedia, a manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.

Some manifestos are crazy, some are innocent, some are useful. Mozilla has a manifesto [1]. Apple has published a manifesto before [2]. And Debian [3]. The Russell-Einstein Manifesto against nuclear weapons [4]. Even the UN Universal declaration of human rights is a manifesto [5], or even similar documents like the US declaration of independence.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/designed-by-apple-in-californ...
[3] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ap-manife...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%E2%80%93Einstein_Manif...
[5] http://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf
Ask HN: Open source site cacher
Hello everyone, I couldn't find an open source crawler that cachés a website. A la Google. I'm not sure if there is one, my search skills are limited.

Is there any out of the box open source tool, or effective stack, maybe "w3af+ with varnish"

Thank you in advance

Ali
No it isn't. It's a legitimate about a website's policies being in accordance with the law. You're probably mistaking it for GDPR powered requests by customers, which are also legitimate requests empowered by law.

These requests are legit, and if anything, the answers to these should be automated by companies ASAP.
I'd like to hear though from someone who's using F#, asp core with fable for example and know how the productivity is and the maturity of libraries.
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So, the fact that people didn't stop producing new software when github was created is because github was created?

Or the fact that there are more software developers in the world today than there were when github was created wouldn't have happened without github?

Or is it that because sourceforge wasn't a quasi-monopoly, therefore everything that was not on sourceforge didn't exist?

Or what exactly is your point?
Turning on DND blocks all your other notifications too. You get very little control over how much the phone can bother you, and this is still my biggest complaint about iOS. Even if you have a silent ringtone set for someone, an incoming phone call still takes over the full screen of whatever you're doing to go "HEY SOMEBODY IS CALLING YOU!!!!" and frankly, I don't care. I'd rather just have an unobtrusive banner like every other notification.
What is vi? Lol
I would take old age any day. The process around dying of cancer is horrible.
Will he fix these sorts of problems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118

and also issues of people being removed from projects _by GitHub Management_ because of political or personal opinions expressed in other forums that were unrelated to the open source project?

This is why I don't use GitHub
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50% of a $7.5 billion sale is going to 3 people? insane.

what about the employees?
I guess the question is if they actually changed or just retreated back to the Embrace phase with plan B.
> Wisdom is not the sum of success, it is the sum of failure

That doesn't make any sense. Failing is not implicitly useful and (while we are on the topic of morality) must not be held up as a goal.
While I agree I know a few ex Facebook employees and they all, genuinely, believe thst FB cares about user privacy.
I suspect they've convinced good people to go bad with some strange coolade and all those free lunches.
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Ok, I can see what you mean, and you didn't need to be hostile about it. My personal view is that no country should regulate the Internet -- beyond upholding freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom of trade (caveat emptor), and punishing fraud. But I don't get to tell either the EU or the US or China what to do, so we somehow live with what these political entities force on us all.

[added] Things the US did that caused trouble everywhere: DMCA; COPA (thankfully destroyed by the courts but websites still ask whether you're 13yo); as well as countless anti-encryption laws and sabotages.
I'd be a lot more okay with this if Apple would drop the Metal moniker, as I still have a functioning Virge with MeTaL acceleration and is still in use.
I might choose a stronger word - gross, for instance. I'm all for founder success, but that sounds a lot to me like the employee equity pool suffered.
Almost like it was too good to pass up. What does Microsoft see in a Github acquisition?
They won the lottery on the backs of their employees. Unfortunate, but also unfortunately acceptable in today's climate.
They've bootstrapped for some time.
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As a consumer, not an ad tech guy, I don’t get digital advertising at all. It rarely if ever drives behavior on my part, and I just don’t see effective use of it. The most useful ads I see are the circulars in the newspaper that I seek out.

I still remember brands and jingles from my childhood on radio and TV, but today, I can’t think of anything digital advertising that stands out as other than clumsy and dumb or useless retargeting. I’ve been a Gmail user for 12-13 years, and the best they can do is some phoney “Win an Aldi Gift Card (very enticing) for taking surveys” and “Milfs are looking for you”, seemingly triggered by some spam I receive.

I’m also getting bombarded with air conditioner ads from Amazon because I bought an air conditioner, from Amazon, a few weeks ago. For all of this big data and machine learning investments, they are trying to sell a man sitting in a 60 degree room another AC — which given the price and free shipping they probably lost money on.
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raising $350 million is bootstrapping?
ASL (or any language's sign language) isn't a simple translation of gestures for words or letters; the different sign languages have their own grammars and a different "vocabulary". Think of every sign language user as being bilingual, with a sign language and a written language.
Ditto for OpenGL ES (http://moltengl.com/)
You mean the employees who chose to work there understanding the terms of their deal? The employees who probably just made a ton of money themselves from this deal? What exactly is unfortunate about this? Are you upset that some people made a lot of money?
Each of the three could receive about 12.3 million Microsoft shares, assuming they control equal stakes in GitHub. A 0.16 percent holding would give each of them about 10 times more shares than Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, and roughly 14 times more than President Brad Smith. Among insiders, only co-founder Bill Gates’s 1.34 percent holding would exceed theirs, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Imagine an Apple buys NeXTSTEP styled coup by acquisition.
I'm not sure if their numbers are sound. For example they claim to be able to deduce hosting service market share from their build numbers, but considering GitLab has built-in CI/CD system and GitHub doesn't it would make sense to me that the numbers they see are not directly comparable.

Interesting numbers but no real value without more analysis IMO.
I'm 100% with you. I heard nothing about focus on stability, or bug fixes. Really, just silence about it.
Could have been just the best possible shot to avoid a neo-totalitarian society, and the current abuse could be actually a minor consequence (and completely manageable for nation states > take a look at EU GDPR).

"move fast and break things" > Why the hurry?
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Indeed, I directly thought of 3d applications like Blender, Maya, etc which use OpenGL.

It's a very weird move to me, even if the software in question will be kept compatible with Apple's Legacy OpenGL, these versions will be worse than their counterparts running on other platforms making use of new shiny OpenGL features.

It's like Apple is saying 'we don't care' to the 3d professional market, also doesn't Photoshop rely on OpenGL these days as well ?
Surely it depends on where you leave it?

Leaving it ringing for hours in a crowded office is obnoxious; leaving it on a side table in your house while you do some chores is totally normal.
I wouldn't trust any corporation with something I couldn't afford to loose, Microsoft or not. Corporations, by definition; have no souls.
I'm not sure I agree with the claim, but even if we take a full rewrite at face value, "every major graphics vendor" for desktop applications is NVIDIA and AMD/ATI. On mobiles, you're probably using Unity or similar middleware and therefore not thinking about bare metal (no pun intended)
So jealous of the founders. Making it this big at such a young age. This is generational wealth.

OTOH, anyone else think Microsoft has massively overpaid for Github? Feels like Satya's Nokia moment to me.
When you raise that money after four years of success, sure why not?
interesting that the stock grant was based on monday's close price. is that common? or accurate? because if true they would technically want the stock to TANK on the announcement so they could get more shares? :) just fun to think about.

they deserve it for the risk taking and management. github is a once in a decade, maybe century, company.
Why? 50% of 7.5 billion is still a lot of money. Github doesn't have that many employees.

In fact, they have 745 employees. That averages out to 4.6 million per employee. Now, there's probably a good bit of VC money in there diluting that, but i'd bet not by more than 50%. I think the employee equity pool did just fine here.
Exactly. But now, in contrast, they're silent on the issue of stability. I'll take them at their word: if they say they've only done X, Y, and Z, then I'll accept that this is all they've done.
> what about the employees?!

Presumably the employees were paid salaries.
My company is concerned about that as well. We don’t use any cloud storage from Microsoft or anyone else, and we self host Exchange and SharePoint servers.

That is a good point though, it’s becoming more and more inconvenient for a company to self host everything. Microsoft does stand to benefit from everyone becoming more accustomed to relying on 3rd party services in the cloud.
I don't expect there will ever be an AAA game presence on macOS at this point, given so few of their machines offer dedicated GPUs anymore.

And even in cases where they are available, for example Macbook Pros, the cost difference involved in stepping up from an integrated GPU to an entry-level dedicated card is greater than the cost of buying an Xbox or PlayStation.
> assuming they control equal stakes in GitHub

That seems like a pretty big assumption. And as mentioned in other comments, what about the employee stock pool? That must account for some chunk of it also.
The "jewellers can't tell" is BS. Unless you put quotes around the jewellers (as most jewellers are now just importers/re-sellers). As someone who bought lab grown diamonds for some custom made jewellery and had them tested by the best jeweller in town (one of the few true jewellers still remaining) they certainly can tell.

The lab grown diamond passed every test except conductivity. The jeweller found this curious as usually if a stone fails conductivity it also fails, for example, refraction tests. A bit of research on this topic led me to discover that the lab grown diamonds have a slightly higher metal content than natural diamonds which makes them slightly more conductive.

TLDR; A good jeweller with the right equipment can tell.
I wouldn't want stock options. Just pay me more. I am too old to want to deal in lottery tickets.
They're doubling down on eGPU support, so there's that. But not as ideal as having something actually inside your machine.
What do you mean "what about the employees?" Were they not paid? Or do you assume anyone who profits from the sale of a company is automatically immoral? Lots of founders lose everything when they attempt a startup; the employees of those companies got paid up through the end and much more than the founders in many cases. Let's celebrate the success of those who hit a home run rather than sniping at them for not sharing their wealth with the people who risked less in the venture than they did.
Not leaving but I'm going to first create my repos in gitlab and then syndicate it to github from time to time.
The fact that the founders still own 50% of the company means there was less dilution from investors.

Less dilution is better for employees too (especially the early ones).
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There is already OpenGL-on-Metal and OpenGL-on-DirectX middleware, so this may not actually be an issue.
And if you're at home by yourself?
Obvious thing to say is: is this limited to YC companies, or can external companies apply too? And if so, what's the "cost" (equity / etc)?

Thanks.
> OTOH, anyone else think Microsoft has massively overpaid for Github? Feels like Satya's Nokia moment to me.

I have no idea about whether the valuation is sane, but combining a powerful, intuitive tool (GH Enterprise) w/MS's sales channel is likely to drive a lot of new revenue. Lots of companies stick with IBM's revision control products because companies like Github might not be taken seriously by decision makers.
Ah you’ve stumbled across a bug I filed with Mozilla a few months ago but wasn’t able to follow up on for lack of time (it’s not my primary browser and I’m not a web dev primarily): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1448682

I encourage affected people to follow up on bugzilla.
You think that the employee equity pool was 25% of the company? That's pretty high. Not maybe completely unprecedented, but I'd expect considerably lower.
The aspects of Perl you mention are trivial bits of syntactic sugar, that don't add significantly to complexity and don't prevent you from using the idiom other languages do. Saying "everybody" thinks they are stupid is begging the question as much as if you dismissed the ternary operator that way.

Also, Perl and COBOL originated almost 30 years apart, so grouping them together as "early" languages is peculiar. If Perl is "early", then are C, C++, and Java also?
The question was posed "I wonder how can Microsoft release such a glitchy browser and expect users to use it as their main browser."

To which I gave a related anecdote and responded

"So I would say that releasing very buggy software without blinking is not a new concept to Microsoft."

Since they released an entire OS that was massively unstable (win98), while claiming their browser was an integral part of it, it doesn't surprise me that they would release a buggy browser at a later date and expect people to use it.

I wasn't only addressing browsers, but rather my perception of the general quality history of Microsoft products at that time. It affected my perception of Internet Explorer, which at that time was not as popular as Netscape Navigator.
> You mean the employees who chose to work there understanding the terms of their deal?

As if anyone can just choose to be working for a company with the right terms, in a position to make a multi-billion dollar sale, and also somehow not get screwed out of what they thought their terms guaranteed.
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If this bubble is to burst it will be followed by a "trough of disillusionment" (see the gartner hype cyle). But then hopefully the "slope of enlightenment" - unfortunately many of the early companies won;t survive the disillusionment phase.
Well, it's closer to winelib [1], which is an integral part of Wine.

[1] https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib_User%27s_Guide#What_is_Winel...
let’s not sit here and pretend it’s that simple.

there is certainly a gulf in the present day equity split between even the least helpful founder and the most instrumental employee.
The article doesn't really align with the title. I was hoping for some history on how math men came up or how their value compares to traditional mad men. Unfortunate just another hot topic hit piece on google/fb.
"has massively overpaid"

Certainly seems like it, but I was spectacularly wrong when I said that about Google's purchase of YouTube and about Facebook's purchase of Instagram, so I've learned to stop saying that.
If you looked at the price range of the Model S, then interpolated for the base Model 3 price, it's not hard to imagine the price of the configuration that you would be buying. Without going to the P model, the price of a Model S goes up 50% just with options. Extrapolating for the Model 3, base price of $35k means you are looking at $50k without a performance model, just with some options added.

If those numbers are painful, you really shouldn't be in the market formthis car in the first place. If a car costs more than ⅓ your annual income, you probably shouldn't be buying it.
You're misunderstanding this. They added GitLab and Bitbucket in Xcode 10, but Xcode 9 already had GitHub integration. These two are being added in addition to GitHub.
at least Tesla got to use those interest-free loans for quite a while...
I know of another site doing a Molecule of the Month articles[1] that I currently have in my RSS rotation.

As an aside, I wholeheartedly recommend the book "The Machinery of Life"[2] by David Goodsell, the author of that site. The illustrations in the book have the same style as the site I linked, and have the important feature, IMO, of having a consistent scale[3] throughout the book, which helps put a lot of the molecules in a more understandable context.

[1] https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm

[2] http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/books/MoL2-preview.ht...

[3] IIRC it was two distinct scales, but still, it was a nice touch
I would be surprised if it disappears entirely. More likely some third-party hero (or perhaps Apple themselves) will spin off their GL implementation as a separate package - see XQuartz.
Don't be. Mo' money mo' problems. Money corrupts everything.
The C300 in that example is not a C63s. Its a C300 completely optioned out. Same model. Same engine. Most of the cost comes in exterior options (which are often borrowed from the AMG models), interior comfort (ultra quality leather seats), and tech (premium speakers, some form of autonomous driving).

And that's just what is on their website. Especially with BMW, you can go wild at the dealers with customization. You can turn a $40k car into a $100k car easily, just with factory options.
Thanks for sharing this! Can't wait to show my son who has just recently taken to memorizing the periodic table and has found joy in learning about different molecules and compounds!
Apple only bought Jobs and some ideas. NeXTSTEP was worthless. Yeah, it turned into OSX, but they could have started with Linux or BSD just as easily. This analogy only holds if the GitHub founders stick around, and they've already announced a new CEO.
No one forced them to work there.
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