skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you were never going to put Heathkit or Zenith or any of these other companies out of business with your side markets. You could never compete even if you wanted to.

That is the ex-post perspective: Those businesses that never became big weren't the ones that put the big companies out of business. And that is what you label "your side market" now. That doesn't mean other companies that ended up as serious competitors and that you wouldn't think of as "your side market" now didn't use such things to get started.

Also, even if you in fact couldn't put them out of business, that does not mean you didn't have a major influence on them. If small repair businesses around the country can upgrade your cheap TV model to a premium device for 50 bucks, that limits what you can charge for the premium model. Even if people are willing to pay a premium of 500 bucks, you won't be able to charge that. You may be able to charge more than the 50 bucks for convenience, but the mere fact that those repair shops exist prevents you from charging your customers as much as you otherwise would.
Not really. Nowadays a user base complete with data usage of the demographic you want to target is super precious.

Think about it: Microsoft will know exactly who, when and from where people accessed your repositories. They will have detailed metrics on your commit/push patterns, the devices you use, etc...

A social network of developers is probably something very precious. And whether MS's motives toward open source are hostile or benevolent, it is a precious thing to have.

Even if they just want to kill it, that's probably the amount you need to spend on it.
High Sierra didn't have much notable or interesting either, and it proved to be the least stable release in a while by a damn sight.

Lately it seems like Apple has downshifted in competence all-around (at least on the Mac). I'll believe evidence to the contrary when I see it — not sooner.

I know that makes me seem like an HN Apple hater. And it pains me to say that. I've been a Mac fan since the mid-90s. I've tried to give them the benefit of the doubt for a few years, but at this point they've blown through that into deep red territory. It makes me sad :(
I don't see that locking handles in Mac OS has any relevance to the merits of Unix. That was just part of dealing with relocatable memory without an MMU.
I worked at an F50 corp that built a special FB app for our platform. I worked on the project itself.

This is getting a little conspiratorial: contracts are very real, and though I didn't see ours and was not privy to any special user data we might have received, we are very careful about that kind of stuff and liability is a huge, huge deal.

A contract stipulating that data has to be protected in a certain manner is a reasonable protection, depending on the sensitivity of the data.
I really don't think reputational damage in this case came from adopting an embrace-and-extend strategy as such, but rather the monopolistic position they were in combined with specific tactics they used.
The Range Extender means you can drive across United States without depending on the grid; the REX is a gas re-generator. The BimmerCode hack(s) makes it more enjoyable to actually go the distance. I now have a combined 140 miles per charge and ~2.5L gas reserve. There is a popular i3 Facebook Group where people log their long distance drives.

All of that said, my average commute is 10 miles so I'm purely electric about 95% of the time unless I forget to plugin. I got the REX because I thought the resell would be better in Texas.

The i3 has a "BEV" version that is much cheaper but more limited in its range; newer models are getting better tho.
GitHub has, what, 600-700 employees? Most of those have probably been hired in the last five years. Ownership distribution was likely relatively slow, given the way GitHub proceeded as a business (slow ramp, only took on a series A four years after the founding).

Gates had 45% of Microsoft after its IPO after a similar length of time (a decade) that GitHub has existed. His position rapidly diluted after that with increased share-based compensation and Microsoft's size ballooning. Allen + Gates + Ballmer probably had 65% of Microsoft after the IPO.

Larry Ellison still holds 27% of Oracle after 40 years.

I don't think the GitHub distribution outcome is particularly historically unusual. One could argue obviously that from a strictly subjective moral basis that it's still not enough distribution.

The only thing historically unusual, is that the venture capitalists got such a small share of the outcome, courtesy of GitHub not drowning themselves in funding across a decade. In most cases these days, the VCs would be taking up a far larger portion of the founder's 50% position.

I'd guess the employees are getting 20%-25% of the $7.5 billion. That's maybe $2.25m to $2.75m average per employee, assuming a 600-700 employee range.
Bubbles (last I checked) don’t have a firm empirical definition. But the ebb and flow that you’re arguing for is very dramatic. Society could have made those discoveries without leaving large swaths of people and places unemployed. Further, anything that impacts the populous negatively makes a bigger, deeper, and longer lasting, negative impact on national wealth than anything a few companies could ever achieve in similar constraints.
Unlikely given the founders' projected involvement, but this would be seriously awesome.
I'm cranky because I want previous generations' features to work before they roll out new ones - that presumably also don't work very well.
Oh, I thought it came from Spanish, with the same meaning.
Multicollinearity is a huge issue when fitting autoregressive and distributed lag models. In fact, it is even mentioned as such in the introduction section of the Wikipedia article on distributed lag [0].

Imagine a second order autoregression model for a time series that is a flat constant value for all time. How would you assign the coefficient for the first lag term and the second lag term? 0.5 to both? 1.0 to one and 0.0 to the other? In the presence of perfect correlation like that, it would be indeterminate how to assign effect sizes. Prediction accuracy of the model might be fine, but any causal interpretation of the effect sizes would be nonsense.

This also happens greatly for lagged regressors for more standard regression problems, and you often have to do something like z-scoring them and then combining the correlated regressions together into some type of pre-treatment aggregate score, like an average... effectively reducing N correlated lag terms into 1 composite score, when the correlations are high enough to cause multicollinearity problems. [1] has some further details.

In the context of pure forecast accuracy, you may not care so much about multicollinearity as long as the overall prediction is highly accurate.

But since this comment thread was about causality, I think it's important to point it out here. It can cause problems for causal inference in many classes of models, and it is a reason why you have to do careful pre-treatments, instrumental variable methods, etc., in some cases.

[0] < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_lag >
[1] < https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/278049/8927 >
> "will I get ROI on this or am I just making more work for myself"?

Or more often I see a brand spend money on a brand lift study when that $50k would've been better spends on more advertising.

I work in a trading desk and use a dmp daily. I definitely don't trust it 100% but there isn't really a need to. As long as I set up ~7 strategies (some of which use data from the dmp) I only care which strategy is the best, regardless of how accurate the data is. Of course more accurate is better, but that isn't something I have control over.

Sounds like we've had some similar jobs over the years!
Oh what sweet irony.
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...
How does this article support the idea that WeChat raises concerns about monitorig by a surveillance state?

The Chinese authorities in the article didn't "monitor" anything. They retrieved the deleted message from the phone itself. For all we know, it could be as innocuous as running a SQLite DELETE to delete the message and the scheduled vacuum hasn't run yet. I don't see any convincing evidence of either actual monitoring or Tencent conspiring to allow such monitoring.
Minecraft is evidence in my mind of Microsoft being a reasonable corporate overlord. They could have fought modders and killed off java, but instead have been continuing development on it. I think they have gotten to understand the value of existing communities and maybe how not to accidentally destroy them.

For all these companies with the free time to migrate repo hosts on the same day, get back to work and make something worth your focus.
I'm not sure what part of my comment you are responding to.
I understand your visceral reaction here, and agree that equity pools need to be increased in general. But isn’t that really a reflection on all the folks who choose to join a startup for the prevailing equity packages offered today? The reality is unless you have founder or very early employee equity, it will take a Facebook size outcome to Be truly life changing.

Having been part of a billion dollar acquisition myself, I can attest that for the vast majority of people (myself included), it was equivalent to a nice bonus. Perhaps more people need to realize that and internalize that before they forego the higher compensation, and easier workload of an established company?

The only thing that will realistically get founders to share more equity is for the market to demand it. Personally I would not sign up for another startup journey unless I felt there was substantially more upside on the table. Otherwise, you’re better off joining BigCo or go further and start your own thing and get founder equity.

FWIW, I wouldn’t begrudge the Github founders... they’ve done an amazing job over a very long time. They rolled the dice and made it happen. Hats off to them!
Failure is not what happened in any of those examples. A failure is several orders of magnitude below a Great Recession or Great Depression.
I take Apple at their word. If they don't claim to have focussed on stability in this release, then I won't assume that they did.
There is no comparison between such a "I promise not to murder contract" and a contractual agreement between two companies regarding data integrity.

Companies share sensitive information all the time, this is not a new thing, contracts are real things, breach of contracts is a big deal, consequences can be huge.

Both FB and most of the entities with whom they would have shared data are huge, and there'd be way to much risk in not being smart with the data.
It certainly is that simple. I know a lot of serial contractors who would rather take the guaranteed $150/hour instead of $95/hour+equity because the latter is a crap shoot. Sure, there will be cases where they could say "If I had taken the equity deal on GitHub/Instagram/Fabulous Startup I could retire now".... they can dry their tears with the realization they are still in the top 2% of all income earners even without the equity millions.
In that fields interact with particles, resulting in an electric current or acceleration, for example.
closer to 150 actually.Thx
Many employees do much more than what they're asked to do. Stay longer hours, postpone their families and many times take salary hits, refuse job offers, give away intellectual property... many even put their health and marriage on the line.

And without that sacrifice on the part of employees, many companies would never have made it out of a vast pool of mediocre nondescript companies.

This is not the case for every employee or every company, but I think you need to balance your world view a little bit.
> OTOH, anyone else think Microsoft has massively overpaid for Github?

They've only massively overpaid if they rapidly confirm the worst fears that have been expressed and thus tank the value of what they've got; leveraged well—which will take a light touch—Github is of enormous value to Microsoft.
So, you are positing that the employees were screwed here? Do you have some evidence for that claim?
Show HN: HTTP Status as a Service
People always say that on HN because they think they are unique or immune to advertising somehow. Its not like advertisers toss out some ads and then you automagically go buy a new roof for your house. All advertisers do is see you own a house and send you some new roof ads. Your reaction is not "Oh I better go get a new roof from Steve's Roofs". Your reaction is 18 months from now you're searching for a new roof after a hailstorm, you see "Steve's Roofs" in a google search and click on it because you've seen the logo/tagline before. (Or maybe their is some latent brand awareness, you might associate Steve with trustworthy due to an ad but not realize it, etc).

With the AC.. that is due to a lack of data. They can't always match all of your devices to you, maybe you cleared your cookies etc. They missed that you bought it, and so as they see it you're still a very valuable prospect. IF there was more/better data that annoyance would be solved.
Can somebody change the title to "GitHub is joining Microsoft and a former GNOME developer will become the new CEO" or something like that? "Hello, Github" doesn't say anything...
GitHub Enterprise (GHE)?
When was the last time Github was fined for having abused a monopoly position? It was 2008 for Microsoft. EU charged them with more than 1 billion dollar for their abusive practices.

An investigation is ongoing in Spain since Windows 8 UEFI's practices made competition harder.

Microsoft is still Microsoft. Breaking standards, making interoperability harder. It won't be 6 months before github starts having VS-only or windows-only features.
This is such a tragic outcome for GitHub. Microsoft is a joke. Immediately plan to migrate all my projects off thr platform, no matter how painful that'll likely be
Wow, thanks for posting this. The user interaction is really great on mobile web! Usually maps like this suck on mobile.
This is a forum. I was thinking of making it more Medium-like
This part:

> on the backs of their employees
What's the proper set of answer about the Dickenson passage? Does any interpretation count as correct?

(I know this thread isn't about the methodology of literacy assessment, but now I'm really curious to know how they do it. Does publicly available question-level response data exist somewhere out there? from previous years?)
Are you arguing that only Americans would know about the drugs created by American companies..?

I'm sure a European specialist could do a quick Google search to find the latest options in care, including any newly approved drugs globally.

The cost of developing a new drug is insane.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/10/18/dru...

When everyone demands a discount, the guy paying full price ends up picking up the rest of the tab.
How do you archive? Screenshots?

I haven’t found a way to do mhtml with chrome headless which would be so convenient..
California Cities Keep Declaring Fiscal “Emergencies” and Investors Are In On It
> Feels like Satya's Nokia moment to me.

Most, if not all, big acquisitions are failures.

Stock doesn't seem to care about this because Microsoft's share price has barely moved.
I think you're right about engagement, yet imho this is in the same direction as the essay.

> Then don't isolate yourself and others into a special group of the anointed.

Thinking that the essay leads to isolation is a dangerous oversimplification. First, this reaction is an ideal. Everyone has some form of ideal and everyone draw some limits on how much they allow themselves to diverge from that ideal. So two important things: (1) you'd better get conscious about your divergences and (2) you'd better strive to lessen your and your surrounding's divergences at your pace and bit by bit. This is exactely what RMS is doing with that post.

Going back to the FS activist's reaction, the problem here is that rejection of a program doesn't mean in any case isolating from it. I deeply hate and don't use most social media and yet i do follow closely their development, looking for interesting bits i can learn from. It is actually very important that some individuals speak out and do "strikes" (eg perform "unbeneficial actions" for ethical reasons) because it's the starting point to bring unsuspecting people to think that there might be something wrong with the service they use. Speaking out and stubbornly refusing to use something is actually the opposite of isolation, it's goal is to communicate with people and build a link between less-known alternatives that would need some work&love and people that didn't think about that issue before. The root idea here is to make people think about new questions and open new doors into stuff that they didn't think was questionable (eg that we could do otherwise).

The first step in solving a problem is stating it clearly and thoroughly. Thus i think that just thinking "problem solving" (eg "let's just build a FLOSS alternative to x") is never gonna reach anything meaningful. You won't have done the step where you healthily criticize every single part of some service, deconstructing deeper and deeper the model it projected. Only then can you start doing it. So of course we need to eliminate barriers, but first we need to run around them for some time to not realize aftewards we're not breaking the most important ones first. And i'm probably noone is gonna break them themselves so the best choice is probably to spread plans of the barriers. Solving social issues (here patents and copyright laws) takes time, ideas are hard to figure out alone and somehow the biggest step is just to get a sufficient mass to understand the issue.
depends if that $50k is 10% 1% 0.1% 0.001% of your media spend haha!

Never had a trading job - i'm a publisher at the moment!
this is seriously some very thinly sliced semantics, all of which is sidestepping the thing I have now repeated in 5 different comments; that Hersh was right to point out the incredible level of anti-muslim bigotry, of a very specific religious character that dominated (and probably still dominates) the upper levels of the special forces. Its amazing that ya'll are going this deep on something that is so widely documented. Chris Kyles autobiography spoke to some of this. Mike Weinstein, whose name I've now typed, what, four, five times, has a foundation specifically documenting and challenging religious intolerance and specifically christian supremacy/theocracy in the military and he has his hands full 24/7.
https://truthout.org/articles/us-army-special-forces-officia...

Not once has Thomas or now you, addressed this. Jeremy Scahill has covered this in both reported pieces, interviews and at least one book.

Here's some more:
https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2018/3/29/christian-take...
https://www.economist.com/erasmus/2014/09/09/one-army-under-...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08...
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/uploads/attachments/For_God_...
I could go on, citing any number of people from all across the political spectrum.
And for the record, no, I think tptaceks summary was not accurate, either in content or in context. Freely throwing around that Hersh thinks the specops brass is run by a cabal is not the same as what he actually said, none, I repeat none of which was actually a reported piece he himself had published. It was a throw away comment in a speech. Full stop. Which, again, is outside of internet slap fights and access journalism types like Blake Hounshell, utterly uncontroversial. I could post links like the above literally all night and not reach the bottom of reporting on the slowly theocratiztion of the upper reaches of the American military.
You're envious of the founders. You envy what other have; you're jealous of what you have and don't want anyone else to have.
Andreessen Horowitz invested $100 million into the software startup in 2012, the single largest check it had ever written.

The firm owned about 13 percent of the company after that deal, according to Pitchbook, and made sure to take its pro rata rights — or right to follow up with more investment at a later date — when Sequoia Capital valued the company at $2 billion in its own deal in 2015. Those were the only two times that the 10-year-old company ever raised money. [0]

So, the other two winners are a16z and Sequoia?

[0]: https://www.recode.net/2018/6/4/17424664/github-microsoft-sa...
Charity billboards are likely PSAs that brands use to test the effectiveness of a billboard. You find two very similar towns, each with a walmart. Buy a billboard in each town, but in town A put up a walmart ad, in town B put up a charity/PSA billboard. Over simplifying, but if sales in town A increase more than town B then the billboard is effective.
So much goodness in this update :)
you're right, people can't. If you want shot at a significant chunk of a multi billion dollar sale you start your own company. As the github founders did.

If you want up be paid $x a fortnight right from the get go then you get a job.

I don't see how the success of people who chose to do A means people that did B got screwed, just because they both worked on the same project. The decisions they made and context of their choosing to work on it were still different things each with their own pros and cons

Unless there was some more to it. Like share /options shenanigans that might not be legally fraud but fraud in spirit. No one seems to be saying that happened here though.
I may have misused the term zombie process. Seems that's when an entry for a terminated process doesn't clear it's entry in the process table.

I'm my experience Selenium will appear to be functioning normally from the outside, but the driver completely locks and doesn't proceed at seemingly random times. I couldn't think of a sane way to detect this, killing containers seemed easier and has worked reliably so far. I'm definitely open to hearing suggestions though.

That aside though Tini looks like a good starting point for containers like mine anyways. So thanks, it does seem helpful!
No really, you could do the same with an ELF file and have start() mmap some zero pages before calling main().

In the scheme of things this is no big deal but it's still fun to think about.
Or maybe, you could become profitable organically in the future. Today, might go down as a turning point in your history
Most people who own a Volt buy it with the plan of using the ICE as little as possible. Thus, if you use it, say, 20% of the time, you'd only have 40k miles of ICE driving after 200k miles of total driving. An ICE with 40k miles on should need very little in terms of maintenance.
They're all free to attempt to start their own GitHub competitor, if they're able. The founders of GitLab did.
I think the Chevy Bolt all electric vehicle is luring some customers. It's not as sexy but it's ~400km range and availability right now make it a great buy.
I often see debates around here about whether or not people should accept equity as part of their compensation or prefer all-cash. My perception is that there seems to be a lot of support for the cash-only position. That is fine. Nobody gets to have their cake and eat it too. People who chose to accept the risk, in this case at least, were richly rewarded. Lots of people at other companies choose not to accept the risk and they are protected if their employer happens to go bust.
>Hersh's key claim is that UBL was captured by Pakistan in 2006(!) and ransomed to the US in exchange for increased aid and influence in Afghanistan

There have been several leaks as suggesting Pakistan knew of his whereabouts as early as 2009. And Hersh says they did it as the US was threatening to cut off aid, anything about "influence in Afghanistan" was about the reason they kept Bin Laden.

Aid did not see the sudden stop, and stayed about the same level as most preceding years, save one one outlying year.

https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/PAK