skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very fair point. My leadership experience is in the U.S. so totally makes sense that it came out from that angle.

For assuming leadership of an existing team, I think it depends on the state of the team. Often the teams I have inherited needed a lot of work. There wasn't a defined culture or great communication processes, so I found a lot of it still applied.

In my last business, I needed to help re-build / re-calibrate several functional teams (including our leadership team), and a lot of this stuff definitely applied.
This feels a bit like IBM in the 90's. People have been predicting for 20 years that an Old Microsoft would look a lot like IBM.

I just hope Microsoft doesn't inflict the moral equivalent of XSLT, XPath, and XML-RPC proxies on us.
I was at the conference referenced in the photo - SAASTR 2017. The level of arrogance of the CEO was striking - down to the literal slouch in the chair for the entire talk.

I've remarked several times to people that he was the most arrogant conference panelist I've ever seen. The line between confidence and arrogance is pretty distinct in my opinion and at that time this ceo had no idea where that line is.
Photographers have a similar issue with a different take: they are trained on a tool, and apply it to a wide variety of problems. The difference, I find, is that in photography circles, photographers express a vast array of motivations and interests. They may be doing what they do because they are an artist, a scientist, a journalist, a human rights advocate, maybe even a computer scientist.

I would encourage you to look at computer science through a similar lens (pun intended). What human problem are you solving?
If you legitimately can't continue without your co-founder, you'll probably get the most mileage out of a coding bootcamp or a CS degree. As a non-technical founder you face an insurmountable knowledge and culture gap.
Why publicly name out real people who may not have any involvement in this issue whatsoever? What did they do to deserve that?
Architects regularly design new skyscrapers on fixed schedules. Look at some of the major developments going up in China.
Facebook ads genuinely add value though. 78% of randomly polled US consumers discovered a new product that interested them on Facebook: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/internettrendsreport2018-180... (From Mary Meeker's 2018 report).
YMMV, and there's not a ton of research on this stuff, but I personally wouldn't go near any stimulant while being on any psychedelic.
Honestly, we are seeing a lot of strength in the crypto newsletters on Substack and we love them. There are plenty of genres that are out-performing some of them – from absurdist humor to bankruptcy industry coverage to foreign policy – but the truth is that the writer matters more than the subject. People subscribe to writers they trust. Those reader-writer relationships are key in this world.
This only seems to happen for accidents that turn into national news, speculating that Tesla was at fault (or with drivers actively accusing them of fault). Their response is (understandably I think) to defend themselves when they can show they weren't at fault. I'd assume that if you have an accident and don't make it a media story, they don't publish your driving errors.
Or to be citizen of a government that gave a damn.
This was already debunked dumbass
The Trinity test was 2.5 years after the first man-made self sustaining nuclear reaction and 12 years after the idea of a nuclear chain reaction was first proposed. The R-7 ICBM first flew 13 years after the V2. I'd say nuclear fission developed a lot faster than ICBMs.
The short story is:

I'm naturally smart, motivated, curious. I grew up surrounded by technology, tech enabling parents and siblings. I got into robotics via. FIRST. I love building stuff. But if you ask me to sit quietly in any class for an hour it's game over. I just can't. So my grades never got within a mile of the minimum cut-off for ENG or CS programs.

So I guess I found my own route into engineering. But on occasion I will feel livid about how much I lost out on by not getting to go to school for engineering. Usually it's in a moment of, "okay I would probably understand how to manipulate these matrices if I had learned it in school, but yet again I have to play catch-up."

On top of that is a longer story about the struggle with ADHD, people always assuming you're just lazy or that ADHD isn't real. About the ADHD drugs that allowed me to adjust a slider between Focused/Antisocial/Suicidal and Energetic/Social/Impatient and how I very slowly learned how to cope without the drugs that I was pretty sure would kill me one day.
But how much value do they also take away? My bet is that they are a net drain.
I have such a hard time reading articles that I know are marketing a book. I just feel like I'm reading an ad the whole time. I'm not sure what authors can do about it though.
It's probably hard to get that information 50-60 years after the fact.

Are there documentary crews at SpaceX right now?
We subscribe to the pg take on naming. We went through a couple of options we like, and Substack was the one we could get the .com for. It's a Stack for Subscription publishing. We didn't realize about the node developer with the Twitter handle; hopefully it's different enough that it's not a pain for either of us.

See http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
All the companies providing infrastructure support to ISPs should be suspect.
Great advice. Those magical little rectangles are absolutely essential to have on hand.

However I would add that working through a 'bad' trip or 'seriously uncomfortably weird' experience can be the exact opposite of bad. More often than not, the inability to let go or a fixation on something negative happens for a reason. (Not to say this is the case every time - sometimes hitting the panic button is the right reaction).

These drugs amplify and reveal what's happening in deep parts of the psyche - subconscious, unconscious, habits, 'ruts' we have been stuck in so long we forget they're ruts. In my experience, the most profound growth and change comes from diving headfirst into the discomfort and following it all the way down to its origin.

Source: 50+ psychedelic experiences
Have you finished the whole novel already (and just publishing chapter by chapter) or are you writing and changing as you go?

Also, this might make more sense for non-fiction work but what are your thoughts on letting a book evolve over time? So the writer updates and changes the content as s/he learns new things (and obviously lets readers know when edited).
Companies (and people) are not pure good or pure evil. It's always a mix.

I'm not thrilled with windows 10 ads, but typescript, chakra js engine, dot net core, and others are open source and being developed in the open on github - and that's pretty cool.

In my opinion Microsoft's open source projects are not a scam to trick people into liking them. They're part of a broad realization that projects run like this will see broader adoption and generally will be higher quality.
People pay for internet access. They can hang something at the end of their internet access pipe which supplies them with these services at their own cost (electricity and hardware, mostly when using free software). So yes, it is possible to envision a future where this situation has changed for the better.
Hutcamp the startup specialized in tiny house, huts, green homes
Split time. Get a side gig. I have a friend who spends 4 days a week at the dental school fixing catastrophic oral pathology problems for the uninsured, and gets paid a pittence. He spends one day a week at a posh private clinic and pays all the bills for the month in the first week of the month. The following 3-4 days of posh work in the month fund everything else.
Feels like a fairly immature response to me. Not a Microsoft fan by a long shot but they have really embraced open source these last few years. Give it a chance, see what they do, there will be plenty of time to get out if we don't like what we see.
How do they get bank?
This is pretty awful advice...
100% this. I'd actually encourage your friend to start with an Etsy store and consider adding a shopify based store later if she gets some traction.

If you'd like to help her and learn python while doing it then there's a lot you could do around analytics, market (keyword) research and marketing.
sorry, i'm still not understanding how that works. from WWDC '09 to WWDC '18, inclusive of '09 and '18, is 9 events.
It also sounds too techie-sounding for the average writer, versus something like "TinyLetter". Though I guess they're used to it with things like "blog", "Tumblr", and "pod/vodcast"
more like superfusing, missile defense systems, superior early warning radar...
Then you're mistaking a trendy term "ML" for "hiring an analyst".
I just recently signed up for a paid WSJ account and have not regretted it one bit. Their iPad app is particularly great.
It's not an "article marketing a book"; it's an excerpt from the book. They're giving you part of the book for free, like a song played on the radio.
Add "10 apps need your approval to update" to the list
Hey Matt, I've been a reader since the days of the Exile. Just digging into your new book on Substack thanks to this thread!

Chris and Hamish: do you plan to introduce a discovery option (like the App Store) for people to find who is on Substack, or are you expecting the writers to market their work independently?
edit: yes, in our case the CEO actually got his hands dirty when he had his idea and wrote a huge amount of code with no prior experience until the company had enough momentum to hire developers. A lot less than you would ever do clearly, based on your responses.
Agreed, however, we shouldn’t fool ourselves into believing ms would put the wider software community’s needs before their shareholder profits.

The situation with GitHub has radically changed, it is no longer a neutral and independent project which exists solely to provide a service to entire developer community. It is now a tool to leverage more profits for one software company — a company who has proven they care much more about market dominance than the wider tech ecosystem.

I’m not trying to imply some forgone conclusion that GitHub is doomed or that ms will ruin it, but the entire purpose of the project is now completely different than when it was an independent company and we would be wise to keep this in mind.

I particularly think we should be watching and cautious to see what types of changes they try to leverage into git itself.
1. How scalable is the pivot to subscriptions and how does it effect democracy?
2. Can the news-media organizations continue with the kind of pre-internet organization that they continue to do? What are the changes required?
3. What does a news-media organization look like in the age of hyper connectivity and real time information exchange? How is it different from the pre-internet news organization?
What is the new model that you're proposing?
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Question: if one of the potential side effects of this particular mushroom is muscle paralysis, is going for a 30 minute walk after ingesting them a great idea?
Would not recommend anything Wordpress-based. That thing is a security and maintenance nightmare.
Exactly! (FWIW, I don't think fighting this in the court of public opinion, district of Hacker News is worth your time. The venue is prejudiced to believing that systems programming is a rare skill and we must all bow down to people who can do it, which is certainly not my experience as an actual systems programmer.)
WhatsApp had a subscriber model (99 cents per year). It was still very successful in India, a relatively poor country. I remember visiting villages in India, where people who are quite poor by western standards, still preferred using WhatsApp to other services.

I think that reasonably priced subscription model, perhaps taking in account the per capita income of the country, could help preserve privacy while also ensuring mass access to technologies.
I don't like the message this is sending.
Microsoft knows not to fuck up the acquisition lest they want to lose the last bits of hope the community has in them.
Github is not profitable. It needs money. If it "doesn't sell out", as per the author's parlance, then there will be no more Github.
Let's just watch how this plays out.
Companies don't have souls. They're not intrinsically good or bad, but they may act good or bad depending on the leadership team. When the leadership changes the company's behavior changes along with it.

Nadella's microsoft is not the same as Ballmer's and Gates's microsoft. In Gates' day windows licenses brought in the money, and linux and the web were the dominant threats to microsoft's revenue, completely explaining microsoft's behavior around 2000 that earned them their reputation.

Nadella's microsoft however is a cloud services company, with office 365 and azure bringing in an ever larger slice of the pie, and windows reduced to a single digit percentage of the revenue stream. Cloud services are built on open source. It makes complete financial sense for microsoft to be a strong open source backer now.
It’s called Threema:

https://threema.ch/en

(Signal is free, though, and Open Source …)
CMM level 5 does work, if you actually do it instead of just treating it as a paperwork exercise to satisfy an auditor. There's nothing in CMM that's contrary to or incompatible with Scrum or other agile methodologies. The major emphasis in CMM is on documenting your process (whatever that process is), training people properly, and continuously improving.
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Anyone else think that products should require large warning labels explaining what parts of them will completely stop working with no recourse when the provider devices to pull the plug on services?
Mushrooms definitely give you the feeling that everything around you has purpose and motive. The tree to your left isn't just a tree any more, it reminds you of a dragon, and you can determine its character, etc. You feel connected to things and can sense the "life" in everything. It doesn't mean you have to update your physical worldview. But the feeling is powerful, and is accompanied by some strong insights into your own life. Highly recommended, even without any spiritual inclinations.
In the past the function of the "phone company" was a paid for service which provided for your communication needs. You didn't have to listen to ads before you could talk to your friends but you did occasionally get unwanted calls.

This medium reached people rich and poor, all around the world.

The challenge here is greed.

One of the interesting topics in economics is the ability to subvert the supply-demand curve by extracting economic value without the participants awareness. In classical economics the equilibrium point is met when the buyer thinks they are paying too much and the seller thinks they are getting to little for a good or service. In the idealized experiment the buyer doesn't have any other choice, nor does the seller have any other customer to turn to.

But in our internet connected world there is an "invisible" (to the buyer) stream of value which is personal information about the buyer. To date there hasn't been a good way for the buyer to see or negotiate that value. GPDR helps that but it doesn't go far enough in some ways.

What GPDR doesn't supply (yet?) is the practical way of enforcing the theft of personally identifiable information for financial gain. So in your example of a hybrid ad model, if you 'opt out' and now pay a fee, how do you know that they aren't still just selling your data? And if they are selling your data to get extra value out of you being a customer, what recourse do you have when you discover it? What risk are they taking by pursuing that path and maximizing their revenue?

EDIT: From the article -- At the time of the sale, WhatsApp was profitable with fee revenue, although it is unclear by how much. (99 cents per year)
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Massive software companies deliver high-quality software, on-time all the time for one reason: resources. They got the money and the time and the developers and all the enterprise accounts up the wazoo.

Typically no one wants to pay more for less, but that's the best strategy to deliver high-quality software on time.

You reduce the scope drastically but do not adjust the timelines. You pay for more development resources(tooling, developers, servers, time, etc.).

If you can't deliver at that point, then there's a serious fundamental issue with either the leadership or the team or both.

Startups don't have this luxury. So they must execute on the least complex scope on a very tight timeline. High-complexity scope increases the fatality risk to the company.

So as the scope increases in complexity the risk increases and the likely the company itself will fail increases. Again, because startups do not have the cash to pay for the proper amount of resources.
that's the business plan for my js doodad too
Thank goodness for that. If Google had picked up GitHub I would have had to start a migration strategy since their buyout strategy has included killing off the service in < 2 years.
In name only. A company is just people, who change jobs often, and a few different leaders can change the entire outcome.
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Interviews went great with team members and members of other teams. After 5 of those, it was time to talk with hiring manager. He kept making awkward questions like about second to last job only, if I had transitioned to developer career in my last job (that's absurd! It says right in the resume, this is the path I've been for more than a decade), wanting to know the exact number of apps I work on currently (well, that varies!), wanting to know how many users use those apps (and asking again in a different way later on).

His tone completely bummed me out. The company is great, the job is great, the team members seems to be good people but then I'd be working for this person that probably doesn't want me there but can't justify going against his subordinates? Odd.

Anyone can relate?
it's not a problem, it's fully what i would expect to happen in an acquisition. and like i said, Nat seems like probably a good choice for CEO. but it doesn't square with a commitment to keep GitHub independent from microsoft. if microsoft is appointing a CEO for GitHub, that's not independence by any normal or sane definition of the word "independent".

"Microsoft made a good decision when they appointed a new CEO for GitHub" and "microsoft is keeping GitHub independent" are not compatible statements.
I canceled my paid github and went to VSTS for private stuff a couple scandals ago. Never thought I'd be ahead of the curve.
You mean the web browser that once had 90% market share because there was no meaningful competition?
if you do $10 of good things as a smoke screen for $11 of bad, then those good things aren’t good
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A Wordpress website isn’t an advantage, it’s a nightmare in terms of security and maintenance.
Look at who you're replying to. I'm not the CEO. I'm not affiliated with Copperhead at all. I'm a random systems programmer who actually knows the subject area.
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The "Smart" software also tends to add a lot of latency, which may or may not be acceptable depending on your circumstances.
That's not even accessing Tesla's data. That's just accessing the airbag system's event data recorder, which is a US-mandated device in the airbag controller, not a Tesla thing.

Airbag controllers have a circular buffer of the last 15 seconds or so of the vehicle basics - speed, steering angle, acceleration, braking. No GPS. That data can usually be retrieved from the wreckage after a crash. This requires physical access to the vehicle. The data is used to analyze airbag failures, especially unwanted airbag deployments, and for crash reconstruction.

Airbag controller data is much less extensive than what Tesla seems to sending back to the mothership.
A friend asked me the best way to start a few months ago. I advised her to use Squarespace for a while and if her idea takes off, perhaps then look at something a little more bespoke.

She ignored me and contracted a local development company, ended up paying £1200 for a Wordpress/WooCommerce site that could have been set up for peanuts.
they're paid to not understand it.
I have been using Ghost for more than four years now (I tried using Wordpress before but I was left frustrated). Although I know there are probably attractive alternatives (Hugo/Netlify), I don't feel the urge to try something else. I like the Ghost editor and it provides with a nice and focused experience of writing [1].

I use a very simple, minimalist (albeit, slightly modified) theme called Oscar [2].

[1] https://abronan.com/
[2] https://github.com/abronan/oscar-ghost
Most choices come with a cost as we can only pipeline execution of our aspirations, and not multiprocess. It would be interesting to know to what degree the regret is felt around the priority as opposed to failure to achieve. The control really ought be a third group who tried and failed.
Hugo.

Many years ago, I started with Wordpress (and tried many PHP-based CMS like Typo3, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, etc). Many years later, I eventually moved onto static site generators and discovered the joy and freedom of pure static HTML. I've been using Jekyll for a while. But I wanted to move away from Ruby so I've played around with Metalsmith, Hexo, Pelican, Gatsby, etc., but Hugo won over by a big margin. It has no dependencies, works on all platform, and it has the fastest build of any static generators.
Geek for science!

There are trade off for sure,
but I would go back to building things in the physical world rather than program for any other reason.
note: I have been happily at it for decades
Very good ones do, or at least could if they wanted to
Not a fan of Microsoft either, but can't bring myself to move away from GitHub just yet.

I think my liking of GitHub is outweighing my dislike for Microsoft. So until they actually force GitHub 365 down our throats and force us to use MS accounts and link it all to Azure, I might just keep using it.

Just hoping they don't shutdown Atom.
> If using them results in this sort of thinking process, I think that I would be better off steering clear.

This is a normal sort of thinking process, psychedelic or not. Let's look at this sentence:

> ...so some plants and fungi are especially interested in enlisting our support. I think they have a consciousness...

Pollan is exploring a metaphor. The metaphor in question is "plants as people": plants are "interested" parties, plants "have a consciousness." He's using the metaphor to better understand how plants work. Anthropomorphization is a major feature of how humans understand their environments.

You'll note we use similar mental constructs with software, if you look closely at the language... Metaphor is the root of all abstract understanding.
The could price the data at $1M, a price no one would pay.
Much manufacturing and warehouse software is on Windows, with extremely high end costs. ERPs, some are moving to the cloud but so much is still hosted locally. With HUGE annual license fees (often in the millions per year).

These systems are slow, unintuitive, and annoying. But they're stable. Companies don't want to risk their existence to change something that sort of works, so you'd be amazed at what a ERP solution with $X00,000 annual costs can get away with.

(In turn, they are often managed by / developed by the IBM/Oracle level of consulting b.s., which further drives up the costs.)
GitHub never made a profit. So eventually someone would have bought it. I’m just happy it is not Oracle.
What's the definition of "low income"? It would vary wildly from country to country.