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How does BotKit compare to slack-client[1]?

[1] https://github.com/slackhq/node-slack-client
I used to get these tension headaches while waiting to be shouted at. Being shouted at was a relief - switch off, nod nod. Running around and around carrying something heavy after the shouting was relaxing; while I was doing that, I could switch off. There wouldn't be any shouting while I was running around and around carrying something heavy. I realised I was being conditioned to seek out being shouted at.
My bank (German "Sparkasse") only allows passwords with exactly 5 letters or numbers for their online banking. I asked why they're doing this, but didn't get a good response.
Define "fine"... reference levels of TSH for example are controversial [0]. The HUNT study in Norway (which followed 25,000 healthy Norwegians for 8 years) found death rates 69% higher amongst women with TSH 2.5-3.5 mIU/L than amongst those with TSH 0.5-1.4 mIU/L [1] (via [2]).

[0] http://tpauk.com/main/the-tsh-reference-range-wars/

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18443261?dopt=AbstractPlu...

[2] http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2010/07/thyroid-more-evidence-t...
Keeping bad people surely tells that (or that you are too stupid to even keep the bottom-line).

But hiring somebody bad by mistake, then recognizing that mistake and firing the person? How could that tell this?
Eventually these folks got accepted though. I guess that's the moral we're supposed to take away from this: If you get rejected a lot, but you keep trying, you'll eventually be accepted?

If so, that's bullshit. The only reason we don't see any examples here of people who never get accepted is because they're invisible to the industry. Many of them probably ended up committing suicide or switching careers. (I've contemplated both more than I care to admit in polite company.)

We can't all be winners.

(But by that logic, we can't all be losers all the time either. You're probably somewhere in between both extremes.)
To summarize: "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent". Reversion to the mean that was fast during Black Monday turned out to be much longer for 1997 Asian financial crisis.
To be more formal, there are two possiblities that I see:

1) You are RecruiterBot born from the forge of a brillant engineer smarting from rejection and trained to communicate using audio samples from bugs placed in business schools.

- The announced intent to harvest data is a flaw in the algorithm because it is known that humans find overt monitoring "creepy". My response is to submit a ticket to your maker using the contact info, with steps to reproduce and other data.

- I assume the monitoring itself is rational because my priors tell me the marginal cost is likely low enough to be worth it.

2) You are a real person

- In this case your decision to stalk the above user represents a significant economic investment. The idea that you will spend 30 minutes? or more following stranger on the internet shows to be an imbalance in your economic incentives. I begin to wonder, are you a rational actor?

- In the interest of safety I will avoid you because the data points I have do not fit human models of behavior. My percieved risk is much higher because your economic incentives do not appear to align with mine. Therefore it is unlikely that trade is worth the opportunity cost when I know of others who do align AND have lower risk assements.
Oh yeah, there will always be a place. But that's not what really matters, but the size of that place. Cloud-based productivity systems can replace native apps for over 90% of all corporate functions (marketing, HR, sales, etc.).

Sure, you'll still need native systems for a few heavy functions (finance will keep on using excel for quite a while), but most of the use cases don't need a full-sized productivity suite.
Looping over lists/arrays is not idiomatic Python.
The L-1B Visa does not allow you to transfer to another company like a H-1B Visa, so the Visa process is the same as any other H-1B.

The L-1A Visa has a clear path for residency as a Multinational manager or executive (EB-1) while the L-1B does not.
Wonderful, writing my application now. That's why I learned Japanese in the first place, and some day it has to pay off!

(Well, the experience alone was worth the effort, of course.)
I admire your desire to adhere to the law, but in the DC area I never see traffic enforcement applied to cyclists and I rarely see it applied to cars, so I doubt an officer is going to nail you for having some earbuds.
There is untold information in our voices when we speak. If you're only doing this for information sure. But have you ever heard a story told better than it ever could be written? Do you remember reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark out loud? Ever wonder why? It's because audio is high def. Text is a stenographer... For stories and personal interviews you are depriving yourself if you choose text over audio.

For information you should continue to read as you were.
Oh, ok. I'll probably try and spin up a container or vm and install it and play around. Thanks!
Related: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/oxfam-unwrapped already exists; http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/04/ethics-offsets/ explores some of the (creepy) implications of ethics offsets.
You are modded down but internet in India is faster AND cheaper than USA.
Are they no longer using SIP at all?
They care, but drivers contain bugs too. Your attitude seems overly negative without much argumentation. Are you sure your negativity is warranted?
"Making it fast" wad not a goal of that benchmark. The whole point of it is measuring core features of the language - looping, recursion and so on. That's why they have this horrible Fibonacci impelentation: to meadure how language hanfles recursion.

Author misunderstands this. If you say that you're optimizing python by calling C, then something's wrong here.
Yup, podcasts are great when you're grabbing lunch, taking a walk or doing chores.

Part of it is also just an addiction factor, I basically can't walk at this point without putting something in my ears.
83% of AmEx cards in U.S. have EMV chips vs. 40% for Discover
I summarize Slack this way generally:

- If you've never used Hipchat, Slack is completely revolutionary.
- If you've used Hipchat, Slack is still cool...and then you see the price comparison and ponder...WHY?
You could just as easily use a lightweight native productivity suite. None of the arguments you're making imply web-based solutions in of themselves.
Interesting, could this be the beginning of something like WeChat for businesses, where every business function you think of can just be completed on Slack? I doubt there's anything about the U.S. market that makes these non-open / corporation controlled platforms undesirable (as some other comments suggest); after all, Windows dominates the business landscape. Its just a question of whether Slack can go from convincing start ups x,y and z to use these apps, to convincing Fortune 500 companies to take the plunge.
Hey, have you looked at https://matrix.org? If you build on us, you don't have to fear ever being cut off - we're completely open source and free! We do also have a slack-bridge, and we're building more bridges - our goal is interoperability rather than isolated silos!
I remember Mezzo from that time. I found the ideas interesting but I couldn't understand why they couldn't plug them into an existing WM via plug-ins.
I meant no harm, and as you can see, thebooktocome actually understood my comment, and has given me a useful answer.

Have a nice day.
maybe, that sounds pretty dire though, how about interactive gaming where your input affects the mood of the conversation without the start/stop clip style used now.
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Once you add history to Slack, it's performance is just awful. One of the worst performing apps I use. It can take over a second to switch rooms.

If I have to cycle through 4 rooms to get to the conversation I want, it can take seconds just to Option+UpArrow there.

Plus I can't manually reorder rooms as I like. I don't get why everyone talks about the Slack UX. Slack has snippets. Which I find mostly useless. Especially since they kill performance. But HipChat lets you reorder rooms as you see fit. Which is something I actually used and miss desperately.

At least Slack has finally gotten rid of the useless Channel vs Group distinction?
Getting the Most from Your CMMI Initiatives [pdf]
Depend on your startup niche, some startups offer tools for business owners, startups, marketers, finance etc.
The Evidence Is Piling Up That Higher Minimum Wages Kill Jobs
If you think that's a mess, wait till you learn the history of English...
Will that stop people complaining to Philips support when it doesn't work well?
I'm surprised the article makes no mention of Adam Carola's podcast. Possibly due to some of the controversial remarks made by Carola on the show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adam_Carolla_Show_%28podca.... I'm not a fan, but if you're mentioning Serial and WTF, Carola's podcast is right up there as far as numbers go, and was involved early on in monetising his podcast with adverts etc.
Show HN: Opp.io – Meetings. Followed. Up
The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
Here in Atlanta http://businessradiox.com/our-studios/ is doing it on a regional scale. They are very knowledgeable in the domain, and they are very active in the local start up scene.

Also I have been working on this https://www.chirbit.com/ on the distribution/consumer side.
Horrible color banding on certain low-end Lenovo laptops. Fix? Tilt the screen
If anyone knows, please let me know of a company selling podcast production service... I'd love a sharp, reliable pick axe. :)
Unbelievable...
I sincerely hope it's a joke.
That's exactly the solution used by Apple, so you can still use DIY HomeKit accessory.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...
Sure you can, concepts survive, but the companies that implemented them in a certain way don't. Things will move to the server and back probably an endless number of times in the future, and each time, a large score of companies will become irrelevant and die off.

Take pagers, the concept (delivering messages) still exists, but the mass market for dedicated, dumb message receivers disappeared a long time ago, leaving only a few niches.

Any company doing a mass-market, native-only, offline-only office productivity suite is bound to fade into oblivion, unless it changes. And that's the point of my original post, LibreOffice is going exactly through that.
I don't agree that speeding up your code is your compiler's job. If that is true, there is no point to learn data structure and algorithm.
I feel an App ecosystem definitely helps to expand the functions. However I also feel it is opposite of a nimble app which does one thing clean. In general we have always had this conflict and it is difficult to choose to stay lean and simple especially when you decide to grow and scale to engulf everything. Its almost like 'Let me grab as much as I can before some one comes' sort of thinking. Only the market can prove if this is the right thinking in the long run. But when you see it in the short span, you do not have much choice.
I agree. We're building https://matrix.org (a free and open communication protocol) and we've realised that until we have a client with better UX than proprietary offerings, people just won't switch.

We hope that a Matrix-enabled client (https://vector.im is looking promising) will get the UI/UX right - and thus actually offer an open and free solution where you can run your own server (should you choose) and own and control your own data!
A LED bulb converts your 230V AC (or 110V in the US) power source into 12V DC (in case of Hue itself). This converter part can, if poorly made, create a fire hazard. And a bulb is usually mounted inside a lamp, many of which are flammable and have the shape that will accumulate heat inside instead of dissipating it.
> 21 year old boy

Old enough to drink in a bar, vote in an election, die for his country, and he's a "boy"?
I use both, how is LibreOffice slow?
I don't think this would accomplish anything vis-a-vis brand protection, since consumers have been conditioned to just click "OK" at every dialog box that doesn't look like it will explode a mine. Six months down the line, nobody would remember the warning -- they'd still get mad at Philips when a third-party bulb breaks.
Example Lenovo Z50-75 with HD display:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Z50-75-...

Completely unusable for anything beyond Excel. I don't see how it is different from selling laptop with B&W display. By their own description it's an "multimedia" notebook. They also have fake product images with proper color gradients :)
Unfortunately the study is limited to life scientists. Generalizing the findings to all of science is a bold statement that needs more evidence than this study can provide.
use Burnbit.com
Slack launches app store and an $80M fund to invest in new integrations
You ignored the part where I included "skilled". Of course it's hard for unskilled white people too, I'm complaining about the specific combination of white + male + technically skilled, who have no real reason to complain, as they are extremely likely to land a job and become wealthy.
Rs. 100 is $1.5... nowhere near the $0.3 purchasing power you mentioned!
When it comes to Audible literally anyone can be 'sponsored' by them - I don't know if the big guys get an upfront or set amount but I was able to register as an Audible podcast affiliate before we even had a single episode out
In case you missed, this article is on Vox. Carolla is worse than ISIS in their eyes.
I'm working on something, but I have troubles naming it. If someone has an idea just shout. It will be on Github
Have you tried listening at 2x speed? Takes a little bit of getting used to, but I've found it to be well worth it. This also makes it so I can watch lectures on youtube/coursera/etc (whereas I was never capable of paying any attention to lectures when I was in school, and found them almost unbearable to attend).
As far as I'm aware there are no complete implementations of OOXML other than Microsoft Office, and given the complexity of the specification and the huge gaping holes, it is unclear if it ever will be, or if it is even possible to implement for parties other than Microsoft without reverse engineering large chunks of Microsoft Office.

Until there are other complete implementations, calling it an open format is pretty much a bad joke.

> I just don't think LibreOffice stands up to MS Office as a product

That may be so. But a government has many other requirements than the day to day use. They also, for example, have archiving requirements (with timelines measured in decades) that are hard enough to deal with without the risks incurred of locking documents into poorly documented formats only fully supported by a single vendor.
There actually are a bunch of Catholic apps related to confession -- the most popular of which is http://www.littleiapps.com/confession/ -- but none is meant to take the place of the sacrament itself. They just walk you through the process of making a good confession.
Debugging Fortran code with GDB – tips and tricks
I've always wondered how honest such statements are. Even if you'd actually enjoyed work much more than family time, wouldn't you tell your family what they'd want to hear under those circumstances?
We are used to using GDB for debugging C and C++ but it can also be used to debug other languages including Fortran, D, Go and Ada. The Undo team shows a simple example of how to debug Fortran programs, using features provided by GDB and gfortran.
This was fantastic. These are the kinds of articles that I read HN for. Keep up the great work Internet!
12 Coders Get Naked for a Good Cause
They can still control it and reverse the reversal in the future. You are at their whim. It is not user-friendly unless it is free software (and hardware). Amazon can still remotely remove books and no one bats an eye. This is just an issue because at the moment these kinds of home automation are per-dominantly "nerd" territory while e-book readers are already mainstream.
People who would like a product/service and are willing to pay enough (in the required scale) for that product/service to exist.

The current core market for office productivity suites are business, followed by consumer. And I'd bet only a very small minority of those are sticking with plain text files until something better comes along.
The only real solution to this is to go Google way and just refuse to have any support altogether. Otherwise you can't really stop people calling in with absurd requests. It's a general rule in all consumer sales - the smarter / more savvy a customer is, the less likely is that he'll be calling.
>> there's still some appeal to being able to get what you want where you want it

That implies most companies are willing to trust their business secrets to the cloud. That isn't what I see happening, not in medium sized business or enterprises.
I once built a Chinese search engine, which worked quite well. Stemming isn't an issue as Chinese has absolutely no inflection. The problem is that there are no spaces between words. To separate them, I used a dictionary and a greedy algorithm. At any point in the text, I simply found the longest word in the dictionary which matched and committed to that. On rare occasions, it would get it wrong but soon recover (e.g. if my next few characters are ABCDE and the longest matching word is ABC, I'd match that, followed perhaps by D and E, even if the correct tokenization is AB CD E). Without a dictionary you can't meaningfully tokenize Chinese.
Cut any segment of 10 seconds or more that is found in more than one podcast episode. (I think this is feasible considering Shazam)

It would remove pre-recorded/repeated ads in the middle (assuming that's what cutaway means), but wouldn't be able to remove live reads. It would also remove intros/exits.
If you do this, make sure you're using something which can do tempo scaling. mpv can do it, PocketCasts can do it and it makes 1.5-2x speed workable.
Vroom Raises $95M
"As part of our own commitment to making the world a better place 10% of our profits go to providing blankets, electronic journal access and dental insurance to unemployed moral philosophy phds."

I don't think so, this guys are here for real!
Indulgences were always about making you feel good about you. The Catholic Church merely took some money for the privilege.
Oh, they can, no doubt about that. And that's what the post is about, trying to stay relevant in a changing market. But it adds a lot of complexity, since it switches from a product to a service.
Are you sure?

At my previous company (a relatively small startup, admittedly), one of the indisputably best engineers (a 10xer if I've ever worked with one) was hired after such a "second shot". A few weeks is probably too rapid a turn around, given that a "failed" interview is a negative signal (or at least, should be That's the point, after all). But say, a year later for engineers in that wide fuzzy area between "Hire!" and "Oh god no!"? I think plenty of companies do do that.

Further anecdata: Friends who've been rejected from Google have told me that they were explicitly encouraged by their Google recruiter to re-apply in ~a year.
Personally, I'd say most blog posts are very low quality as well, taken as a whole. Most music is low quality. In 2015, it's not a stretch to say most content is low quality. We're all now responsible for our own curation and filters, which includes where we source from and where we spend time (like HN versus 4chan).
If you are paying for Applecare, you are paying for "more not better". A second laptop is zero (amortized) overhead: every night your real laptop rsyncs back to the spare. Battery floats at 70% charge, nothing to worry about there either. Now when you spill coffee all over your laptop, you have a hot spare ready to go. If you are accident prone you can do this "for free" up to four times. Imagine the productivity gain not having to visit a store and deal with the Geniuses.

It is irresponsible to always buy the "best" when you should be looking for the best value per dollar. Your own bank account is zero-sum, be more effective with it.
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I though Europe had much better access to fast and cheap Internet compared to USA? Lowest offering from my ISP is 100/10 for around $16. No problems with HD video. Especially not with Youtube's interpretation of HD.
It seems to me chasing 'high profile' Tech company employment is setting yourself up for failure. Competing against thousand of applicants should not be viewed as 'failure' it's a mostly a number's game. Not saying you shouldn't apply to these companies, but you should also consider your odds and adjust your expectations accordingly. Also, we seem to identify way too much with the company we work for ... taking a step back from that helps balance your outlook.
I just checked userify (haven't heard of it before), looks like a useful tool. What I found a bit odd is that pricing page is nowhere to be seen and it doesn't seem like userify is one of those enterprise 'request a demo' kind of services.

It might be ok if I really really need it like right now but if I'm just 'oh looks cool, might be useful' and have no clue how expensive it might get (and not motivated enough to sign up and find it out then) then it's not great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMsPppwIH4&index=5&list=PLt... might bring some confidence. We hear from other security experts that we're considered an example in how we handle security.
Uh, he ist not a bot, he is not a bot, he is not a bot... :D
"Moving forward should be done with one side, usually the left, turned somewhat in the direction of movement."

This strategy is known as straferunning, and was previously thought to be effective only in 90's era first-person shooters, particularly Goldeneye. Maybe Putin is also a 00 Agent?
This is totally off-topic and quite irrelevant to anything in this thread but I just realised from your comment that written language is lossy compression for thoughts, sight and sound
I dunno. I bought a Hue starter kit (hub+3 bulbs) and three more bulbs when I moved into my new house. I wanted something cool and "gadgety" to set up in the new place. They've generally been OK but I haven't bought any more bulbs since that first setup two years ago.

This is mainly because the Hue bulbs are quite pricey and I've had a couple of them semi-fail (some colors in the spectrum stop working due to the blue LEDs crapping out). I've been keeping an eye out for compatible bulbs that are a bit more affordable since Hue prices haven't dropped at all and I'm more likely to drop $20-30 on a fancy bulb than another $60 when they can still fail.

Granted, I've already got the hub so they have my money. Their risk is that I only buy third party bulbs instead of Hue bulbs from now on. Still, the next time I go to buy more lamps to expand my setup, if there are less expensive options that are reasonably equivalent, I'll buy them instead anyway. If Hue lamps become more affordable, I'll stick to first-party by default. But if Hues are still $60 each and some other platform starts selling good RGB LED bulbs for $15-25 each (and Hue has locked out third party bulbs), I'll just drop Hue in general and cut my losses.
You maybe want to look at http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/how-hue-work... to reconsider your position: They [the lights] are connected to the bridge via an open standards protocol called ZigBee Light Link.

If you want an analogy, then it is similar to the case where MS Office would refuse to open ODF documents from another office suites and then after uproar would only support documents from friends of Microsoft.