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I'm saying most complaints I'm reading here have no basis in reality. Microsoft felt negatively in the past about OSS when it felt an existential threat from it. In the past few years the work of many inside Microsoft helped shape a new vision of OSS inside the company and it's pretty evident to anyone that's not trying to be blind that things have changed.

So yeah, let's talk about telemetry, or Windows updates, or patent threats. Every business makes decisions, some good, some bad. We might not agree 100% on which ones are which.

We're in the business of creating software and not running charities, we all do what's in our best interest trying not to be too evil, there's plenty of good folks and also plenty of assholes in every big co out there and all the negativity doesn't help the good ones pushing for the right outcomes.
Yes? What does that have to do with anything that I've said?
To add to everyone elses responses, if possible, when dealing with psychedelics, it can be mentally helpful to have a xanax on you. Xanax kills psychedelics completely and totally within about 15 min, and bad trips are not something you want to experience. Bad trips are totally in your mind however, so I find that just knowing I have an off switch if I need it, prevents me from needing it, if that makes sense.
Sounds to me like the company is doing what it needs to do to maintain a going concern and ensure it has the paperwork in place for any future transaction (investment or sale). The company has to have an operating agreement with all employees' contracts in place especially the higher-up/founders as well as ensure it's IP is properly accounted for. Kinda reminds me of when the agency in Mad Men merges and Draper doesn't have an actual contract. Sorry for any spoilers. To me it sounds like this guy is unwilling to have other people access the IP which in any business is necessary. Worked at a company where the former CMO was the only person who had access to the FB page and was fired. We didn't get access back till months later and fortunately without any legal intervention. No one person should have sole access to such critical functions.

Edit: should note (although obvious) I am not privy to all the conversations these parties have had so I am only aware of what has been posted.
Plans were written, they didn't happen. We had a plan to invade Canada too.
Great for building a brand new team. Not so great for assuming leadership of an existing team/business.

Also, very American. I just stopped being CEO of a SE Asian business, and this just doesn't apply globally. There are culture differences that make enormous differences in leadership styles and outcomes.
Never heard of eleventy. I learned something new today, thanks!
Personally I use http://mrzv.org/software/artemis extensively and have no complaints.
Convincing other people you are doing good things when you in fact aren't is a scam.

Doing good things is not a scam.
you are misinformed.
Normalizing corporate sociopathy with fiscal metaphors is not a remedy.
I'm so glad the Domo chickens finally came home to roost. It's been pretty painful to observe all the undeserved hype around this company over the year, I felt for a long time like I was taking crazy pills.
Who is 'we'? Don't be coy.
> The innovation he has is an acceptance of failure for mission critical systems and quality assurance like cars or rockets.

That's definitely not the case unless you're really just out of touch or purposefully trolling here.
I don't think they use weather, but honestly, working in this field I would stay as far away as possible from auto-optimizations. For example adwords express delivers much worst results than a normal adwords campaign. As of today, I would keep all optimization in my hands, in the future, this will probably change. (This said do keep the pixels they offer many other advantages!)
Pluralsight being a prime example of a proud Utah startup focused on making a quality product with great management.

The instant connection to MLM's is unfortunate but it's real. It's not something that can be moved past unless there's meaningful change. I would argue there hasn't been meaningful change. If anything they've gained strength and notoriety see vivent, domo, etc. Would love to be convinced otherwise that meaningful change has come or is coming.

As far as a strong sales culture, I agree. MLM's are prevalent in Utah because of the sales culture. Not the inverse.
> if you notice, the letters are addressed to danielmicay@gmail.com

Why do you think that is?

> However, now that the cat is out of the bag

Go on...
Got it, glad you overall liked the information and thanks for the UI feedback!
Yeah, we need to get back in touch with the Jupyter Project folks to see if there is anything we've done that might be useful feeding back into the project in any way. I'm not 100% sure on the Oauth stuff, I am but the lowly PM. I've punted the question over to the dev lead, who may comment further (though not sure if he has an HN account).
Pelican. I actually author my posts in Org Mode - I have a plugin to handle org files for Pelican.
We ARE talking about the same company that gave us IE6, you know :P
I am not a fan of his, but is the situation going change unless people are willing to pay for these services? Most people wouldn't even pay for something as useful/important as email, let alone social networking (I can never understand the need for something like Facebook)
With the exception of video games, I maintain that it's always better to be 10% over estimate on every milestone than to all of a sudden be 50% off of the final deadline.

To work it takes being comfortable saying "that's my/our fault", and my experience is that a lot of people who would rather die than admit fault. It's part of a larger raft of skills around transparency. So they cover up problems hoping for some miracle that never comes (or more cynically, they hope to be employed somewhere else before the shit hits the fan).
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There's a third option that you're not considering: these companies receive significant scrutiny from the press because of their size and power, especially as it relates to our daily lives. That scrutiny leads to the disclosure of wrongdoing and controversy where it's found. In my experience with journalistic outlets, they're not writing stories out of a cynical desire for pageviews, or because of some massive conspiracy, they're writing because they believe there's an important story the public should be aware of.

In order for a media conspiracy to work, you would need to convince dozens if not hundreds of individual, competing journalists (who are not exactly known for their conformity) to go along with a scheme. I don't believe that should pass Occam's Razor for anyone.
Just posting to say I miss the TARFU report.
For now, yes, but if the business model is successful enough (particularly for something as expensive as a car), is there anything stopping a manufacturer bundling in their own Internet connection?
There's a lot of criticism that this was a waste of effort because obviously you wouldn't find evidence of psychic phenomena, but was it really that obvious at the time? Lots of scientific things seem bizarre and we still know very little about how the mind works, so it's not obvious to me that you could say at the outset that this was a fruitless research direction, though that is now obvious in hindsight.
Apple has a pretty good market share and in their home market (because it's viable there, many other countries have insane prices) iMessage is compatible with Android users by SMS. This may be good enough, plus iMessage is just one of the features they sell with their devices. I doubt these cases are very comparable.
Wonderful book. I enjoyed it so much, I used one of my Audible credits to purchase the audiobook version, narrated by Pollan himself. It was a delight to hear his experiences firsthand, retold in his pleasant tone.
As someone who lives among fellow Sherpa families nearby the Himalayas in Nepal, I come across different individuals/teams wanting to conquer the summit to experience the ridiculous "living on the edge" sensation.

Having climbed the beast myself once, I can partly appreciate the fact that the feeling of accomplishment and reward is like no other, but practices like these when an inexperienced group of folks lead to loss of innocent lives is totally unacceptable. Despite our government trying our best to reduce such casualties by implementing strict rules & prohibitions, Sherpas are compelled to go for the climb because it's their only source of income at this remote part of the world.
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How do you prioritize which features to work on? If you have to pick between two features with similar expected value (or similar cost of delay) then you need at least rough relative estimates to make a rational decision.

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/wsjf/
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indeed nothing has changed overnight. youre telling me it will stay that way?

the reason 'why' is that GH is no longer independent. there are thousands of comments on all the related posts here on hn for you to figure out why that might be significant..
I work for a BI startup (competitor to Domo), so as part of my work, we did our own analysis of Domo product, and also chanced across prospects/customers that are current/ex-Domo users.

Domo is very "business users friendly", they do this by:

- Very pretty (and drag-and-drop capable) visualization. Not as compared to Tableau though, but still.

- Native mobile apps

- Their Domo cache + datasets concept, that makes it easy to load simple data into Domo and visualize

- Their commenting system?

I suspect that it's these things + all the marketing that made them sell well in certain contexts.

They have the dataset concept that ties to their cache, which makes it easy for business users to upload a file and "just explore", but then joining these datasets together is not quite straightforward. And you have to load each dataset one by one. So it's good for very basic use cases, but for advanced stuff that requires proper data preparation, it starts to fall behind.

Also soon Domo customers would run into performance problem, since Domo hosts the data for the customers.

Besides that, I feel like the entire product is a patch work, without proper thorough design/thinking. Feels like they hire a lot of different product managers, each responsible for one feature, but the features they don't fit together very well.. Some I even find redundant (seriously what's the 3D visualization of datasets/data sources in the product homepage for?).

It's been very interesting for me to observe the space. Our startup, we took the directly opposite approach to Domo in building our business: totally bootstraped with no funding. We've been profitable since year 1, working with customers from unicorn startups, public companies to fast-growing startups. We're very conscious/aware about the space to shape our product strategy.

I think ultimately the team and the product are the most important in the long-term success. I can say that among the solutions, we're most impressed by Tableau, PowerBI and Looker.

In case you've read this far, do check us out: https://www.holistics.io
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...and how is it worth twice as large a share as Patreon takes? (10% after the payment processor's fees, vs 5%)
> other reasons

Like door to door summer sales, and the massive bro culture associated with that.

That gripe aside, there are a lot of lifestyle companies. And it's great. They aren't chasing silicon valley, they are just some small business owners trying to make a good living and provide employment for people in the region.
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How did you guys settle on "Substack"? I only ask because Substack is a really well known handle for one of the most prolific Node ecosystem contributors, and I feel like you guys are going to run into a lot of SEO pain dealing with that.
> “Plants and mushrooms have intelligence, and they want us to take care of the environment, and so they communicate that to us in a way we can understand.” Why us? “We humans are the most populous bipedal organisms walking around, so some plants and fungi are especially interested in enlisting our support. I think they have a consciousness and are constantly trying to direct our evolution by speaking out to us biochemically. We just need to be better listeners.”

That statement just killed my enthusiasm to ever try mushrooms. If using them results in this sort of thinking process, I think that I would be better off steering clear.
Great post. Upvoted.
Actually, the letter says "On the assumption that you have no wish to depart the Company, the elements of a CTO
job description the Company considers important are set out in the attached proposed
job description. We invite your comments on that draft." So without the contents of the attachment, we can't know what actions you're saying you expect of him.
and yet:

>>>Mr. Acton initiated the clause in his contract allowing for early vesting of his shares. But Facebook’s legal team threatened a fight, so Mr. Acton, already worth more than $3 billion, left it alone, according to people familiar with the matter.

Turns out facebook sucks as a company.
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From an investigative journalism standpoint, hypothetically, do you envision soft releases to your paid subscribers followed by syndicating(?) the greater story to traditional outlet?

>The Substack model could end both direct and indirect censorship.

There will come the inevitable time when Substack will be pressured to censor/boot content creators for all of the usual reasons, especially if it becomes the home of a new investigative journalism model. Does Substack have any particular commitments/limits regarding content?

I like to think the paywalled feedback loop between creators/readers can help isolate controversial journalism topics from drive-by scrutiny by provocateurs of all politics.
That's what this announcement was. It can take months to a year before the deal closes.

Source: Am LinkedIn Employee. Thats how long it took from public announcement through SEC approval.
handful = 14 boats on deterrence patrols.
there are literally 1000 warheads on active american boomers with superfusing.....

If literally one submarine survives this amazing russian counterstrike by taking out every single other ohio class at once that still leaves a counterforce of at most
12*24 = 288 warheads. that is 144 to burn russian cities
and 144 to burn chinese cities. to me that seems like a credible strike.

and this is still assuming literally NO land based or air deliverable weapons are left.
... considering the spotty accuracy of russian missiles (seriously go look up their CEP ratios - do you even know what CEP stands for? ) I find that scenario very unlikely.

China is widely believed to have only 270 warheads...

https://thebulletin.org/how-us-nuclear-force-modernization-u...
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I totally understand. You are facing the classic dilemma of privacy vs convenience. Personally, I distrusted facebook so much that I have avoided any of their products since 2013. Obviously a major win for my privacy, but it sacrificed some convenience -- then I had no real-time way to communicate with my relative in India.

In the end, you'll have to do some introspection to see if the convenience gained is worth the privacy lost. How essential is it that you communicate in real-time with your relatives? Would your relationship be substantially different if you sent email or wrote letters?
> Google article title.

Oddly, I've had better results doing that with DuckDuckGo than Google.
Yeah, I get tripped up on that a lot too.
A few years ago I was able to guess Domo's documentation wiki, it was public and not protected by password. The product was really unimpressive, not surprised they required NDAs to show it.
Let me guess, because of Trump, right.
Wow. I would say -- let me just back up and say that generally the job of investigative reporting is mostly about getting up to speed as quickly as possible about really complicated topics, and then communicating what you've learned in readable prose in as short a time period as possible. So the biggest challenge is when you have the hardest, most complex subjects. After the 2008 crash I was given a general assignment to explain what happened, and since I knew nothing about Wall Street, I basically had to learn about ten years' worth of financial practices in the space of maybe eight weeks. Those early stories about Goldman and AIG were both thrilling and terrifying because it was so much to digest.

Another fun one (in retrospect) - I don't know if this is investigative journalism exactly, but I was once involved with what in hindsight was a very crazy caper: a Russian newspaper called "Stringer," for whom I worked occasionally, had a contact who was willing to sell them a week of wiretapped phone calls from Putin's chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin. I ended up doing the writeup of that story. There were some minor improprieties exposed in the transcripts, but nothing world-shaking. Still, I was so terrified about publishing it that I left the country. And when I returned, I was detained at Sheremetyevo airport for hours. It turned out the problem was an unlamented passport page. I thought I was going to prison forever.
The article is hitting the nail on the head: "For one, the mainstream conversation is now waking up to the perils of a world governed by Silicon Valley and the ensuing damages of “surveillance capitalism.”7 Is it realistic to expect academics to scrutinize these techno-political systems, much less to help build alternatives, when their institutions share so much with the owners of these systems?"
I was curious about this claim so I looked some numbers up. The latest A11 chip has 8MiB of L2 cache. I could only find a small handful of xeon models with 6MiB of cache while almost all of them contain equal or greater amounts of L2 cache. The chip does not have L3 cache so there is nothing to compare here. The A10 has total package cache less than 8MiB (split into L2 and L3). So I'm not sure this is a good explanation of the performance or size difference.

From what I can tell, while cache is still a large portion of the area, GPU die space is quite large now. The CPU performance seems to be due to expanded execution ports leading to more dispatched instructions per cycle, which is generally a good idea as long as one can keep the execution ports fed with a good amount of speculation in other stages of the pipeline.
For all the rap it gets for its own crypto, I would still recommend Telegram as an alternative because of its superior UX. It shouldn’t be very difficult to move from WhatsApp to Telegram (of course, I do understand that people who are not used to technology much may have difficulties).

I wouldn’t recommend Signal to anyone who’s not paranoid about privacy and security. It still needs to improve a lot on UX, reliability and many other fronts.
Well nowadays Skype is tied to a Microsoft account.

I look forward to the pull requests from Xbox Live users. Commit message: "You suck, you n00b loser. I f*ed your mom."
What genres currently are outperforming cryptocurrency newsletters?
Free version for those with verified low income?

(I've been toying with models like this for awhile, and not to say its an easy or simple solution to implement, especially when considering bad actors, but it seems the best chance at getting something "fair")

Alternatively could steal from games and add "cosmetics". Charge extra for things like themes that personalize but don't necessarily improve the experience. Items with enough value that people will "want" it but not "need" it.
Depends what that particular course is supposed to teach. Stats, maybe some sort of intro course, or a programming course intended for non-CS majors are all courses where it could make sense to abstract away setting up complex environments -- just like how, in the business world, companies (SAS, etc) make tons of money abstracting away complex environments so businesses can have their employees focus on what provides value in that context.
I was close: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238911
Getting to the moon took many many man years of planning, experiments, material development and cost a few lives. It also involved several of the worlds leading scientists, and probably the best computers money could get at the time.

If you can accept those kinds of preparations and also agree to not change the specs much (i.e. no, we aren't going to Mars instead) after we've started developing it I'll say we can get you a pretty nice estimate.
I miss it, too. Alex is one of my favorite people on earth.
The wild rice and kale salad is especially tasty. (Here's a copycat: https://meaningfuleats.com/chicken-kale-wild-rice-salad/ )
This isn't a guide on how to be a leader, this is a guide for building version 0 of a team and trivializes a great deal of the complexity that goes in to being an effective leader.

It's a great content marketing piece though, and at first glance, far outstrips the value of the tool they're marketing to - but this is still meant to drive people to a SaaS product.
Who would have thought. It’s only going to get worse.
Building scss/js with hugo hasn't been an issue for me yet - the theme I use shipped with its own build pipeline, as I imagine others do. Fortunately, the theme dev organized it well.

I didn't know about the cache busting with jekyll. Right now, I just toss assets into the 'static' dir so I don't think Hugo does anything with them, but I think there are other ways/shortcodes to serve them. Overall, I'm not super happy with hugo, I just latched onto the "it's fast" marketing line because I've had bad experiences with Ruby's performance. As far as my main gripe, the go templating engine seems pretty bad.. Either that, or I don't know how to use it well. I believe templating engines are swappable, however.

Overall, my content is so simple (photos + text) that the usability issues don't bug me yet.
Are we, though? How many of Microsoft's current executives were there in 2001?
Erowid is I think is nearly as old as the internet, it's good to see that it's still around.
You don't need Xanax and that might just make your trip a lot weirder.

You can kill a mushroom high quickly with lots of caffeine and sugar - say one red bull.
What business relationship, if any, exists between Mr. Taibbi and Substack?
I haven't read the book and was going to ask about accurate vs precise but found this helpful article discussing it as it relates to software here if anyone else is curious about that distinction:
http://itsadeliverything.com/accuracy-vs-precision-in-estima...
Yes, someone should make a messaging app with end-to-end encryption that costs $1/year. I think it would do well.

edit: this is supposed to be a WhatsApp joke.
I’m not going to say one way or the other, but you should at least known the potential consequences and decide if you’re willing to accept the risks.

It’s worthwhile to at least read through some of the issues that others have confronted here:

http://hppdonline.com

For most people it’s probably fine, but for some it can result in life-long torment.
Hi Matt, thanks for taking questions. You've been around media since its "olden" days and have had success on a variety of traditional and online platforms. How does Substack -- or more generally, newsletters -- compare to other ways you've tried to self-publish, such as blogging? Both in terms of finding/engaging an audience, to the creation/production process.