skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agile has a concept called the cone of uncertainty.

The way we use this concept in practice is by doing small chunks and delivering fast, and the more chunks we have done with a project/feature/whatever the more likely our estimates get better over time because there is less work left and we are more familiar with the work now.

http://www.agilenutshell.com/cone_of_uncertainty
>I find it somewhat mind-boggling that the US still searched for witches in the 1980s.

Our military commander in chief at the time was literally an Alzheimers riddled septuagenarian, guided on policy decisions by a personal astrologer. Nothing from the '80 surprises me.
I'm not sure the current path is any better. I am worried Github is going to start looking like sourceforge or codeplex.
I think that's definitely going to be a major motivation for journalists going forward. The media landscape is becoming more and more rigid and it is becoming harder to challenge certain points through the old networks and newspapers. So having reporters be financially independent would be huge for investigative reporting, which is one of the areas that has been cut the most in the new era of clickbait media.

Another thing -- what Substack is trying to do is to solve a problem that has existed in media forever. Writers of all types have always been compensated in an indirect, convoluted way, by publishers who get some or all of their revenue from ads. This forces writers to address audiences through layers of middlemen who may or may not want to meddle in the material. The Substack model could end both direct and indirect censorship.
It's recommended to stop using yaourt, it's not safe! I use yay, it's pretty awesome. Check here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers
Software development is much more like R&D than it is engineering
That's mostly because Domo doesn't really say what Domo does.
Don't write off saleor though. It's basically fully featured OOTB, all you really have to do is integrate payments and your own AWS setup if you don't wanna use Heroku. Probably easier than using Squarespace and def cheaper. I haven't looked into Shopify or Sellfy though.

It has taxes and configurable shipping costs by region. I was going to use Shopify or Squarespace until I found saleor. I definitely agree with using Etsy first though to gain traction before trying to get higher margins by rolling your own.
The Theory of Interstellar Trade
GitHub homepage heading: "All good things..." or "It's been a fun ride."
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You need to generate a certificate in the Developer backend, and for that you need a paid account.
Can't you just not connect them to the Internet?
There was also an economic strategy at play. Both sides were willing to start programs to counter each other, even if those programs seemed silly. Neither side wanted to be caught out if silly suddenly became practical. But the americans knew they had more money. If you could trick the other side into researching a dead end, that's a win. That's dollars/rubles wasted. So you might maintain research programs that you know are ridiculous because you know the other side will continue theirs too. It is one of the few cold war games that one side might actually win.

The pinnacles of this were probably the Buran and F-15 programs. US builds a Space Shuttle so the USSR needs one too... just in case the US decides to activate Shuttle's military features. Buran flies a couple times and is shelved as impractical. Net result: Billions on rubles not spent on other missiles/rocket programs. Conversely, the Americans convinced themselves that the Mig-25 was an epic superfighter. It wasn't. Billions were poured into F-15 development to counter a threat that didn't exist, billions that might have been spent on anything else. Net result: while the F-15 went on to be a great fighter, the USSR remained ahead in high-speed interceptors for two decades.
I've used Saleor before and while it was great, I was pretty familiar with Django at the time and worry it could be overwhelming as a way to learn.

I've also used Wordpress + WooCommerce so if you can find a theme you like, it's a great way to get something up in < 4 hours so you can hack away on Saleor for the next few weekends.
> ...never going through school, dating, having a job, starting a family, etc.

Are those things really an important part of “the” human experience? I'm surprised to hear psychedelics mentioned in the same sentence as such a normative prescription.
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> It's VERY unfortunate that Daniel Micay is airing dirty laundry

>ironically, from a @gmail.com account,as he refuses to answer from his @copperhead.co address now

Go on...
Windows VM, seconded. Wife has a high-end macbook. Feels very slow to me. Physical build quality is nice, but nothing to write home about performance-wise.
I don't think RedHat has enough money to buyout GH like M$ did.
There's just a handful of Ohio class subs and all of them should have been replaced by more modern and stealthier designs by now. It's conceivable that an enemy could locate most of them and hit them with nuclear torpedos or similar.

And even if most of the active subs survived it might not be sufficient to ensure MAD because they don't carry all that many SLBMs.
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I call it the "boring universe brigade." They go far beyond criticizing fringe science and pseudoscience, tending to also pile onto pretty much anything that is too new even if its entirely within known laws of physics.
this is your world

this is cryptocurrency

this is your world on cryptocurrency

any questions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5wwECXTJbg "This is Your Brain On Drugs" PSA - Partnership for a Drug-Free America - (1987)
I'm canceling my subscription. And I'll miss my contribgraph :(
I use it in the repl for classes I'm not familiar with. I use Ruby for duct taping a lot.
The new hot thing is to do a newsletter.

It's the minimal version of a blog, and it's easier to get people to come back and read when new posts show up in their inbox.

(I am one of the founders of Substack, that lets you do a newsletter + website for free, and even charge subscriptions for it. There are a couple interesting writers choosing it including Matt Taibbi who is doing an AMA right now at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17239602)
This is why after incorporation, you should transfer the rights to all code, trademark and other Intellectual Property to the company to prevent the situations like this.

These conflicts should be resolved by the board.
They also have Visual Studio Profiles/Visual Studio Team Services, which appeared to be them trying to enter the space, but, bar people being forced to have a profile to use VS I doubt many are using the team or project features of that. Then there's one of their dev cash cows: Team Foundation Server, which I assume has been dying a slow death over the past few years due to git dominance in the source control space. I moved my team away from the shit show which is TFS for git (not github) several years back now.

So, I suspect this is shoring up their position, reducing the number of man ours needed in competing, and buying the best product on the market.

I wouldn't be surprised if github got more enterprise project management features, where it's a bit light right now, and perhaps more around management of super large projects. As well as tighter integration with Visual Studio (at the project management level, rather than just the source control level) - to phase out TFS over time.
Microsoft will probably buy Docker too.
Good luck! And don't forget to submit those posts to HN when you write them!
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They don't make enough money. User acquisition => get acquired was always the only plan for them, just like all the B2C tech startups.
It's a good series. Too bad people didn't take a look at the others before dragging it down.
Wasn't this a copyright claim against Wikipedia, where an ape picked up a camera and took a selfie, and Wikipedia et al decided that meant the camera owner had no copyright claim over the image?
Follow up, how does Substack improve on what Patreon is doing?
I don't know if I'd say I'm blasé about it, but incredulous I'm not. Now, this is one of the more egregious examples, probably why it's in the LA Times. And $800 MM is a number that would take some effort to blow on stupid shit. So if one were to ask, "how on earth did they manage to spend...", as you did, I might not be able to give you an exact accounting, but I can make some educated guesses along with being not at all shocked by their spending.
It's not $99 a year to list an app in the store.

We don't have to guess: Apple reports these numbers. They earned $11.5 billion in revenue from the app store in 2017.

I'm not sure what you're expecting here. Apple clearly views their role as protecting users from the hostile aspects of the web: see content blockers, reader mode, anti-tracking features in iOS 12.

Of course Apple is not going to jump on unrestricted JS background execution, unreviewable OTA-updatable tracking, etc. And of course Apple is going to focus their efforts on their native APIs.
Microsoft, love them or hate them, appear to have been turning over a new leaf for the past while. If trends are to be used as indicators, then it seems the trend is that more and more of Microsoft's projects are becoming more and more open, while it feels like Google is becoming more closed.

Yes, Microsoft still has closed source programs (Windows), and yes, Google still has open source programs (Android, Tensorflow), but the general feeling I'm getting from Google is shrinking away from a commitment to open source on practical grounds.

I don't know if I'm ready to say that I have more respect for Microsoft than Google at this point, but I definitely have more respect for Microsoft than I ever have, and that's the direct result of their recent efforts to embrace the developer community at large.
I'm dealing with some of the 30+ year old broken stuff today, and I don't think TCP / IP is that bad.

That there are some holes in the spec isn't really so bad when they didn't become readily apparent for 20+ years; many things are fixable with changes on just one end of the connection too (if you skip some 'required' sends, you can avoid ack storms, etc).

IP Fragmentation is pretty awful. I wouldn't say it never worked, because I see some legitimate traffic using it. But with decades of hindsight, it was never a better solution than breaking up data into right sized packets, and it would probably have been better for routers to truncate packets and forward rather than fragment or drop.

IP could use the 16-bit ID field as a 16-bit original length, if you need to truncate a packet, change the total length, leave the original length alone; adjust the ip and tcp/udp checksums (sorry other protocols / maybe IP should have checksummed the whole packet or owned the data checksum), and send it on its way.

For TCP, the acking packets could use the mss option to indicate the new effective MTU (under the current spec, MSS is only valid on SYNs, but let's pretend), providing an in band way to notify the sender, since clearly the out of band methods haven't worked out so well.

For UDP, the peers can figure it out themselves. If individual datagrams must be larger than the path MTU, you have to frame it yourself, but you have more options than what IP provides.

OTOH, I bet nobody expected janky path MTUs to be so prevalent.
For many this is probably true.

For my 84 year old neighbour, not so. He regularly pops round for help with sharing a picture on WhatsApp.

It's beyond my neighbour's ability to learn how to use WhatsApp correctly. Learning another messaging app for him is not an option.
The real Paul Stamets was interviewed on one of the episodes of After Trek as well.
#MyHeritage data breach – 92.3M user credential exposed
self-hosted jekyll in an s3 bucket. I detailed how I set this up here: https://www.josephecombs.com/2018/03/05/how-to-make-an-AWS-S...
Even if the solution exists you still have to integrate and test it. Those tasks can require a lot of engineering labor, but fortunately they're fairly amenable to estimation.
I've had a tremendous amount of respect for Mark Zuckerberg as a leader, and have gone out of my way to defend him in the past (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17128369). I always envisioned whatsapp as a defensive purchase that would stay true to its initial vision (perhaps being used to prop up their other products in an unintrusive manner). But this article makes me realize Mark is s a one-trick advertising pony like half the other tech leaders out there.

His speil about how he's "connecting the world" is undermined by his clear attempts to build a monopoly of social+communication, with an inefficient layer of distracting ads. Imagine a future where every time you want to electronically communicate with someone you have to spend mental energy filtering out ads. It's the equivalent of every road having a toll booth, directly paying into a rich person's bank account. This is the "connecting the world" Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to hide from those of us who aren't paying attention.
I set up my blog using wintersmith and github pages years ago. It still works well. Being able to write articles in the editor of my choice and having the full power of git is great.
This is definitely part of our motivation for making Substack. When readers pay writers directly, the writers are accountable to those readers, and not e.g. advertisers.
You might also enjoy the recently featured:

"Sloc Cloc and Code – What Happened on the Way to Faster Cloc"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17232884
Don’t write your own store, since GDPR and EU VAT it's absurdly complicated to be compliant.
Why? Nothing about the service has changed.
just out of curiosity, what kind of external SSD did you get, and what kind of hardware interface (i.e. usb-c, thunderbolt, etc?)
Ditto, the linked article indicates only that the parties had deleted a conversation between them at a critical moment, but not that the specific content of that conversation could be known.
Care to elaborate on why your opinion changed? I agree with not taking high doses alone, but a good friend nearby is controlled enough environment for me.
I've also thought about this a lot. My last years of work life have been quite boring as well. On the other hand I realize that, as you write in your first post, are scarce and precious.

A few years ago I applied for a really interesting jobs within Telematics - one of my favorite areas. So I called them, got the CTO on the phone and he had almost no time for me. Then I wrote a mail with my formal application to them. It was appealing and they replied with some coding riddles. I guess I did well enough and was one of 2 or 3 people to get invited. Of course before the in-person interview I studied some Algorithms & Data Structures book. At the same time I did Scala programming although it wasn't expected to know that but people worked with it.

Anyway, during the interview they made me sweat for at least 3 hours. Every now and then also reminding me how good the other people working there are - the one guy having worked 8 years at a company writing DBMS in London. So yeah, after leaving the communication was difficult but the CTO said the people said they liked me and they would hire me despite my shortcomings - I would have to unlearn stuff. The offer was really bad, in fact even the most senior people got below average salary.

At the end I started working at a company that worked on a moonshoot project involving a CAD program in the browser. Even some mathematician who worked in Japan on Robotics was there. Salary was good enough but the people were borderline insane. I quit after 3 months and landed a below average paid job, but with a lot of nice people. I don't regret that. Work was mostly boring but the environment was nice.

Anyways, not living in the Bay Area, I guess things are they different again.
With regards to your edit, yes, you are wrong. And I don't mean that in a harsh way, just answering your question.

From WhatsApp themselves [0]: "WhatsApp end-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read what's sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp. Your messages are secured with locks, and only the recipient and you have the special keys needed to unlock and read your messages."

[0] https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/general/28030015
I'm basing my gross over-simplification off this letter: https://gitlab.com/yegortimoshenko/copperhead-takeover/blob/...

It says quite clearly that you a) believe copyright belongs to the company, b) want him to give all access to infrastructure, c) revoke his access to Copperhead branding.

What exactly have I got wrong or over-simplified?
Microsoft killed Codeplex because everyone at Microsoft was basically using Github anyways. I doubt they're going to change it meaningfully.
Have you seen https://github.com/pangeo-data/pangeo? It's pretty amazing.

There's still a lot left to figure out, even storage formats aren't fully solved.
What has it been like switching from non-fiction to (semi)fiction? How did it change your writing process?
If you're prepared to give up control for the duration of the trip, yes. It could be light and fun, or challenging and introspective, but either way worthwhile.

The people that have trouble are the ones that can't submit.
I like Rotten Tomatoes's system. Individual critics give a thumbs up or down. A movie is "certified fresh" if at least 80% think it was worth watching. It doesn't mean the average rating was 80% or that that number means it was amazing or excellent, it just means the vast majority thought it was worth your time and money.
> If the research is successful, such computer systems would be able to think for themselves

At what point will journalists stop writing this. We may very well have general AI at some point in the future, but I really doubt it's going to be in our lifetimes.
I tried to go with Jekyll but didn't even bother setting up a ruby env. So I went with Hyde. It works OK but I still was rather annoyed that I had to learn yet another markup/template syntax. Customizing wasn't really straightforward either, docs were rather lacking on some areas, so it was mostly trial and error. I'd prefer some static blog generator that's really dumbed down enough to have a dead simple template system and uses some form of simple markdown, but my search wasn't successful...
"refined" ie put in a place where you can control him explicitly
Out of curiosity, are you familiar with strcat's previous involvement and later dis-involvement in the Rust community? (slash, were you, when you started working with him?)

It's not my story to tell at all, as someone who's not a Rust core contributor or anything (and certainly wasn't at the time), but http://slash-r-slash-rust.github.io/archived/2u1dme.html is part of it. (IIRC the /r/rust mods archived that thread on GitHub as a compromise between deleting something from Reddit and leaving something Googleable with his name.) There was a lot of dirty laundry in public and my impression is that neither he nor the Rust core maintainers left that situation happy.
It's the almost forgotten cousin to the much overused "alleged".
Honest question: what's wrong with Atlassian? They're the only bootstrapped company in the space, but for some reason HN dislikes them.
People think they generate no revenue via ads, but you do, all of you are.

Best ads on Facebook are brand ads and these work on your subconscious. Unlike Google Search that shows immediate intent, you don’t have an immediate need while browsing FB. Sure there’s the occasional impulse buy for some iPhone case or jewelry you don’t need, but the big companies don’t care for your clicks. E.g. what are the default beverages people buy when organizing an event? Beer and Coke and it’s not a coincidence or because there aren’t better choices.

In other words, as long as you look at ads, your buying choices get influenced by them, so you are generating revenue for pay-per-view ads, even if you never clicked on one.

I don’t mind seeing ads though, as long as they are tasteful. What I mind is the tracking and in that regard Facebook is among the worst.
In my experience it starts with relationships. Co workers, partner, parents etc. Then sometimes you crush an interview at a place that already has scale and you are offered a pool of problems to work on, and you pick the most important but also probably scariest one. The types of multi year results that come from that make for cool stories.

For instance, patient outcomes from a feature you built in an electronic medical record get published in major newspapers.
If you want a good overview of how money works overall this PDF from the Bank of England is pretty approachable:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

There are a lot of misconceptions about money around, many based on older ideas of physical or commodity-backed currencies.
I have tried to cancel the WSJ before and they totally give you the runaround. It's not as bad as other services (e.g. Comcast), but it's 100% of the reason I won't sign up for another subscription.
Hugo on gitlab pages (it even deploys using their CI/CD pipeline)
Hi Matt, do you see any potential for serialization to make a comeback by utilizing a platform like Substack?
I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about something I rarely hear mentioned to newcomers:

It's very common for one's first or early psychedelic experiences to be really special.. more powerful, more magical, more intense than any later experiences. A lot of people wind up chasing that magic later without success.

Don't squander the opportunity. Prepare yourself well. Think of it as a trip to another planet which you'll only get to take once. Think carefully about why you're going, where you'll be, when you'll go, what you'll bring, how you'll travel, and who you'll travel with. These could make or break the experience.

It's also important to try to bring back and integrate what you learn from your trip. Try to record what you learn in some way: write it down, paint it, draw it, sing it, something... even if you're exhausted afterwards. Like dreams, psychedelic insights are so fleeting. If you don't get them down soon you could easily lose them.

Check out The Secret Chief Revealed[1] and The Psychedelics Explorer's Guide[2] for some more detailed recommendations on preparing for and making the most of your experience.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Chief-Revealed-Myron-Stolaroff...

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Explorers-Guide-Therapeut...
Surely they’re getting a lot more info. Whatsapp demand complete access to your Contacts to work properly. So they know your full name and address, your bank, the names addresses and perhaps jobs of your friends and colleagues etc.
Medially great. Good information. Nice to read. Except for the in-page popup (reported to Mozilla).
Well, they took a politically- and PR-unfriendly stance when suggestions were made that they should provide an iOS version to the the federal government that allowed a passcode bypass because terrorists.

Again, leaving China would not help their users, but it would be a huge blow to their finances today and in the future. Is martyrdom a good play for a business and its stockholders?
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I don't know why people never mention https://instructure.com for Utah startups but I work for them and they seem great!
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Thousands of people summit Everest every year. This is not 'bold', it is a dumb marketing stunt. I guess I'm aware of their ICO now, and my likelihood of buying their coins can't go below zero, so they didn't hurt their chances, but this is still sad.
Or it could lead to a boom in construction and modernization of the city, much like in StarTrek where SF is leveled in World War 3.