skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quote from the Slackware README_CTYPT.txt

"NOTE: if you use a non-US keyboard and need to enter a passphrase during boot, this may be problematic if the keyboard mapping is US while Slackware runs from the initrd filesystem. In this case, add support for your keyboard to the initrd image using this additional parameter to the 'mkinitrd' command above: "-l <language>". The string <language> is the same as the one you select in the installer when your keyboard is non-US. Example for a dutch keyboard: "-l nl"."

Now I'm warned that other systems that use automated kernel updates may clobber the keyboard choice for the initrd.
Since we are talking about cloud provider, any experience with https://www.scaleway.com/ ?

Their price is so much cheaper and give to you bare metal ARM, but I can count on them ?
Some other variations:

* Make your (genetic data) available to algorithms to use as criteria within a dating app for people looking to meet someone that they might want to have children with.

* Similar but use it for helping women find sperm donors (although it wouldn't surprise me if this already exists.)
IIRC U.S. citizens are always subject to U.S. law. There's no such thing as a lawless jurisdiction.

Vigilantes trying to hack ISIS probably just end up getting on NSA controlled honeypots.
Your quotes are about destruction of beta cells (not neural damage). The 140 vs. 150 is a moot point: if you're diabetic, you're supposed to get your blood glucose fixed a lot lower than that.

Added: I read one of the studies, and it doesn't really controvert your doctors quote. It gives fasting glucose target a lot lower than 140 or 150 (as it should be), and 2hr glucose a lot higher than 150.

In essence, I think you're just interpreting these studies as you will without a proper medical training. My advice is: don't start experimenting with your life based on such weak foundation.
It is difficult to do at the peon level, unless you have a lazy job where your bosses give you privacy and lax deadlines. I've had experience with both. I worked at a large insurance company / asset management company in Connecticut. Initially, management was tight, so while we generally worked 9-5, those hours were fully utilized plus some. Curiously, management was overseeing efforts, and not fully utilized, and most people in management had a side gig -- articles they were writing, speaking engagements, properties they were managing -- all during work hours.

Then HR changed the promotion policy. You could only get promoted if you had 6 people under you. My manager immediately hired three more people to "stay" a manager. Then, he encouraged each of us to hire people under us, the wordload was mostly the same, we just created a lot more processes, controls, documentation, PMO, etc. But not enough to consume all the time the now-gigantic team had. While incredibly wasteful for the company and our owner (the US government) we had so much free time we were doing contract gigs during office hours. Two guys had full-on startups in play.
From my experience, this article brushes a very rosy picture of the Chinese language.

The bottom line is that even for a native speaker, if you encounter a new character, chances are you don't know what it means or how to pronounce it. If it's simple enough, you may guess, but that's it.

Learning Chinese means memorizing characters. A lot of them. It takes over a decade to teach a Chinese kid to even read a simple magazine.

Combine this with the use of tones, and you get a pretty complicated mess. You can't use tones to communicate things like irony, anger or doubt. You have to play on volume. You're losing a lot of expressiveness and subtlety in the process.

This is why building a search engine in Chinese is so hard. You can't apply a Porter stemming algorithm for example; there's no concept of stem or etymology (no apparently logical one at least).

Moreover, combining one character before (or after) another can change the meaning entirely. Adding a third one can again change things. Since you don't separate words with spaces in Chinese, good luck figuring things out programmatically. Things in Chinese are heavily relying on context.

Learning Chinese can be an interesting challenge, but understand that it will mostly rely on memorizing characters with little to no logic or trick to help you do so.
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The reason why there are so many rejections is because companies are trying to minimse the false positives instead of minimising the false negatives.
If your triglyceride levels are too high you're eating too many carbs and not enough fish. If they're not, there is not as much evidence you really have a problem.
Ha! In Japanese "Muji" ('no mark', literally 'no character') is short for "Mujirushi Ryohin" ('unbranded goods').

It's odd that someone would take this on as a brand name. And makes me have to ask: Are you sure that this is a brand name? (It may well be - I just don't know of it)

So, at the high-end, these are about the same price as a Uniball Vision Roller or the like (which are made by Mitsubishi Pencil, if I recall correctly. Who may, in turn, very well have outsourced the manufacture to China - I don't know).

Your point is that China can make a good pen if someone pays for it? According to the story, that appears to be the case - but the equipment to manufacture said pen core must be made by the Swiss which leaks the money/profits to yet more money-grubbing foreigners. It just takes time to assemble the complete set of high-end manufacturing tooling. By the time the Chinese have done so, I can hope that our labor prices will be more equalized, but I'm guessing that this will not be the case...
Many people doing this are not doing it after a full day of work, they are doing it during their day job.
It's encouraging people to start their own businesses, which is a great thing. The quality is terrible though, so the lessons people take from it are mostly wrong.
I've a few things going on. I'm being paid for 9-5. The rest of the time is mine, gloriously mine, to dispose of however I please.

Full time work is a misnomer in common use. If companies wanted to control how I disposed of all my hours, there'd be a much higher price involved.
I upvoted, but I don't think I agree.

There are lots of people building things on proprietary platforms all the time. Why single out FB and Slack? AWS is proprietary. Twilio is proprietary. It's not as if it's hard to find examples.

And so what if some small team implements an auto responder bot and gets a couple hundred thousand in investment?
EC2 can't do migration, that's one of the things Google Compute has over EC2.
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I've been running a server for a few months without any issues. The CPU is really slow, but the network seems ok.
So awesome! I'm a big fan of Albert Omoss as well:

http://omoss.io
Sure, but what the parent comment suggested isn't a breach of fiduciary duty.
Urgh, completely thought that the name was clobbered by a second project. Silly me.
10 to 15 people for a few years seems like quite a lot for a 'business' like PH.
big companies [in the US] already largely deal with retention/e-discovery requirements.

there are many, many offerings, like Google Apps Vault, to facilitate this.

https://support.google.com/vault/answer/2462365?hl=en
Wonder if their stack is still PHP/MySQL etc?[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/426469205005705217
You could give out randomised voting smartcards with an embedded private key at every polling station, which would preserve the anonymity.
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Your first quip also applies to Mathematica. It's very easy to write quite inefficient code in Mathematica. One classic example of this is a newcomer not using N[] and evaluating every expression symbolically. Seems trivial, but it really isn't for someone new. I still could get speedups on linalg code two years into grad school.
You are often not allowed/better off not saying anything due to legal risks of letting slip something that could get your sued.
If you're coming from running standalone servers on DO you don't need to worry about most of AWS' services.

To get the equivalent you'll need to read up on the basics of:

EC2, which provides you with the actual server.

EBS, their network attached storage which your server will boot from.

Elastic IPs, to give the server a stable public IP address you can point DNS at.

And Security Groups, which don't have a DO equivalent, but control network access to your server. They're arguably worth moving from DO for alone.

If you just want to test the waters then EC2's startup wizard will handle all this for you, and you don't really have to think much more about it than you would on DO. However, you've then got the ability to grow into the rest of AWS as you need it.
Well, the account is now secure. Objective achieved?
One difference is that with AWS you're the paying customer and have leverage. With FB or Slack, you're a non-paying "partner" and your leverage is almost null.
That's why you want encrypted root file systems. Less convenient but much more secure.
That's how Schwab.com implements passwords. 8 characters max. For life savings brokerage accounts.
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Maybe you can't customize notifications extensively in Slack itself (I found them okay, yet slightly lacking), but if you're on a Mac, you can definitely comfigure Desktop notifications per App, which I also did.
I usually carry around a Pilot G-2 these days. I've been pretty happy with them and they're easy to find in stores when I need more. In general, I'll favor a gel pen with fast-drying ink.
The Matlab GUI and tooling is a buggy and unpolished Java turd from the 90s which fits in poorly with any modern operating system.

And yet every time I try to get Matlab users to use something else (Python or Julia) the one thing they almost immediately complain about is the lack of a GUI IDE as good as the Matlab one.
I'm pretty sure the standard US layout offers more than enough symbols to write an excellent password.

I tend to prefer extremely long passwords/phrases over things that require stupid characters (had trouble with WiFi keys using the French "é" back in 2008, all my passwords are ASCII since)
It is yammer all over again
http://i.imgur.com/DKODqy3.png

I can't help but post this based on my experience pitching to vendors
to join an app store.

Slack CEO: Yammer made $1.2B. We need to make $12B. For that I need to make
a hit song with 10,000 background dancers with me on the stage.

Board: How much can you pay each dancer?.

CEO: $10/hr

Board: Ok. Announce an App Store.

You are already a hero and there are hundreds of them to jump on stage
to dance with you in that 5 minute song.

CEO: Now you are talking!
First, because the (perceived) risk is relatively small, both of damage and the chances of damage.

Second (this is the point I think hn-like forums grossly underestimate) is because the alternatives are not really alternatives. In practice the likelihood of using Irc or some open source chat within a company with the same wide buy in as slack (or Skype etc) is 0.

The way to judge this is adoption.
That's because you're writing incorrectly!

The sinistrous among us should be writing right-to-left. Yeah, OK, so most people may need a mirror to read it - but it's natural for you.

Aside: the world is terribly 'right biased'. With all the other individualist movements of our era, why not a 'Sinistra Liberation Front' or something similar...?
I should mention the Mark Rosenfelder's thorough introduction to Chinese characters [1].

[1] http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm
Swedbank in Sweden have a feature where you can access an accounts entire balance by generating random CC#'s for online shopping and this service is protected by your social security number, a 6 character password, a-z, 0-9 and no special characters allowed.

They've had this for at least 6 years now, maybe longer. Early on when I e-mailed them about it they simply stated that it's not their service, in other words; out-sourced.
Plus, in many cases, it just doesn't click with the other person.

Interviewing is not a standardized test with a standardized evaluation. On the spectrum of human interactions, it's closer to a date, than it's to a test.

In doing interview coaching/training for a living (http://interviewkickstart.com), I see this every day. It's frustrating to a certain degree, but also very powerful once understood.
I was brought up on italic handwriting like many in the UK, it works for me.

I personally can't write for a long time with a biro / ball point pen of any make or expense because of the tightness of the grip needed as mentioned in the article cited above (not the OA).

My test is simple, can the pen make a mark on the paper when I drag it down the page without any pressure other than the weight of the pen? If so, its fine, if not, I can use it for forms but not much else.
> You can't use tones to communicate things like irony, anger or doubt. You have to play on volume.

You can't use Chinese tones, but you can still modulate your speech tonally to convey emotion while respecting them.
Well, "startup" is a poor choice of words, but he actually has a half-decent idea.

As someone who owns dozens of little "tool" sites (think less/scss converters, meme generators, JS beautifiers, etc), I can tell you each is probably 1-2 pages, took an hour to build and thankfully due to some domain squatting (kw in domain) and a low bounce rate I don't have to worry much about SEO.

As for the Adsense revenue, I think you'd be quite surprised.

One is an afternoon, not a startup idea.

50, on the other hand, could be passive income for a very long time.

Just something to consider before jumping to negativity. ;)
Humans will always reverberate around truths like this.

The emphasis shift on breaking vs fixing looks like a good example of how fashion trends in tech create artificial struggles that help new people understand the "boundaries" of $things.

Fashion's like a tool for teaching via discussion

Edit: I'm just commenting on what I percieve as a fashionable title not the article.
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How very American. With your 10 hour work days + 3 hours commute, you should totally take a side job. Why not work the 10 vacation days too?
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I sort of assumed this would be discordian up front, just from the title. I guess it isn't a joke, but going into it assuming it is one puts an odd spin on the whole thing. All that marketing, buzzwordy talk just reads too well as humor, if you look for it.
Securing the bot itseld is definitely a larger challenge, but a heavily shielded box and tools like Vault can go a long way. It's actually not much different to securing other solutions to the problem like Capistrano or Chef, and definitely still better than giving root SSH access to your developers.
Having met the bloke a couple of times i can confirm that Dino himself is slightly unhinged, but in a charming way :D
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totally agree about the lack of customization.

A portion of the difficulty is owing to them using a web app in a SSB (single site browser) instead of a properly native desktop app.

I would love to be able to tile different channel/message windows, like we all did with IRC clients. Unfortunately this is fundamentally intractable in an SSB-architected app (including Electron, node-webkit, et al.).
GWT 2.8 already does this. Long are passed as doubles unless they exceed 2^32. Also, Double and Boolean are now unboxed native values. And Object[] can be transparently passed to JS and back. Moreover, varargs work between JS and Java, maintaining the semantics of both sides to work correctly.

If you want to build true hybrid apps that combine Java and JS programs, there's a lot more considerations that have to be made, we learned some hard lessons the last 3 years on Inbox, which is why JsInterop was redesigned 3 times to get the semantics sound.
>> Next, it was the machine tool CEO’s turn. “There are two things that only Chinese people can make,” explained Guan Xiyou, CEO of Shenyang Machine Tool Group, “The first is fireworks. The second? Folding fans. Foreigners still can’t make a good folding fan."<<

I'd add the humble wooden handled iron/steel wok to the list. The local Chinese shops have them for about £6 to £7. Look after one (wash promptly, oil lightly when storing) and it lasts decades.

But I take the point about these being low cost items.
Less flippantly, because I sound like a dick there, try putting Cloudfront in front of the site. Assuming WordPress now properly sends cache control headers it should drastically cut down on the traffic your actual server is seeing.
That logo, Kojima's entering his MSF phase.
I think this is just +1 "silly reason". Did you ever rely on an authentication feature of a bootloader?
My point was that his conclusion seems wrong but I didn't make that clear. He didn't fix the stalling, he just found a work around which seems more like a hack.
On the other hand, I would think that a language that uses tones has higher "bandwidth". When you use tones, you can use shorter words. With these shorter tone-words, you can "transfer" more information in less time, compared to a non-tonal language.
In all honesty I don't think it's in Jeff Barr's authority to release roadmap plans or definitive answers to questions like this. My experience in the past has been he has always been helpful in connecting you to individuals who may be able to answer these sorts of questions. So I suppose it doesn't hurt to ask.

Just don't get your hopes up :)
But companies usually pay for Slack? You pretty much have to to get full history.
Wasn't it always?
that's a bit inflammatory to say; especially without offering a single example.
I just wanted to comment on your point about tones. I'm a pretty mediocre Chinese speaker, but I find it much easier to hear Chinese than English. At the level of full sentences, English is far easier for me, but at the word level the advantage is equal in magnitude favoring Chinese. I think it's because it's much easier to hear the voiced sounds that comprise the majority of Chinese, whereas in English a lot of the meaning is loaded into the high-pass unvoiced component. From the perspective of the listener, it seems to make much more sense to use the higher-SNR of voiced sounds to convey the bulk of information (as I believe Chinese does), rather than the much weaker unvoiced sounds (which English makes heavy use of.) I'm guessing the prominence of unvoiced sounds in speech owes to their being less effort to form, or to their universality across different people whose voiced sounds would have substantially different frequency components.
Swedbank also requires two-factor authentication. You can bypasss this by calling them - they only ask for 1 thing to authenticate you. Two-factor authentication is rather useless if you can just bypass it like that.
Care to share your setup? I.e. minimal todo-like application with both direct development and with compilation for production site.
I feel like I came across that as I was weighing the various options for us to try haha. Zulip is the kind of thing I'd love to give a shot, but I have to take into account people who won't be tech savvy enough to use something like that. Therein lies Slack's value to us.

At the end of the day, Slack is really useful, but I just don't see its use getting expanded much. At least for us. There's lots of stuff that just shouldn't get communicated across there. Coordination across the sides of the business that don't use Slack wasn't an issue in the first place, it was never really even considered afaik.
This is a really good comment and covers what a lot of people seem to miss in benchmarks. The fact I can install 2 different compilers (with varying degrees of support) and some hyperoptimized linear algebra libraries don't really tell me about how fast the system is in general when I need performance.
Of course, characters that I use in my everyday language aren't "stupid" to me.
"May" as in "most certainly did", at least when you are lazy like me and use a GUI-centered distro.

I ended up plugging the harddrive into another computer and fixing it from there.

I never got that shit from slackware...
On one hand, I want to leave a witty comment in the line of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".

On the other hand, I'm sad that I didn't try to do that myself.
Nice, what you mean by "slow" ? Just to have an idea, what is your workload ? Serving and rendering html ?
Doesn't this bug affect LenPEG 1 then?

An compression algo that returns "surprised baby gif" if it has a file with first bet set to 1... would match LenPEG 1.
If you take the key with you after you vote, which you will need to do if you want to validate your vote later, then you can be coerced into disclosing it.
The "How It works" wasn't bad. But nonetheless: does it distribute itself (and my data) to multiple VMs? If it needs a kernel patch, does it appropriately plan downtimes and/or shed load from that VM before applying the patch and rebooting the instance? Does it handle machine failure?
It was a long password phrase. One of the words just happened to be in my mother tongue.
Cursor speed and precision link to anger and other negative emotions
SICP is a great book to start with although it's not about web development (src https://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/) and like lnk2w said, The Odin Project is something I usually recommend to people interested in web development.
> I was rejected at Amazon and other companies with no technical interviews because I wasn't a Java engineer.

That one seems pretty legit to me.
I don't know whether it's important for Slack's marketing to claim they are replacing email.

What I can tell you is that it factually has wiped out internal email for our team at Charge.

And I think that's pretty common for most teams that have used it. Why write a slow clunky old email when a Slack message will do?
They are pretty much integrations. Access APIs of different platforms and manipulate / gather data.
> But the one with all the pre-computations correct, and the switch off, is not particularly different from just reading the list of states in a book.

The states were (probably) produced by computing a conscious mind and recording the result.

Follow the improbability. The behavior has to come from somewhere. That somewhere is probably conscious.

Similarly, authors are conscious, so they know how conscious characters behave.
ultimate irony is that Muji products end up being super recognisable (is this really irony? Well, kind of funny), because they use the same sort of material and design for everything.
You're not making fair comparisons.

FB and Slack are platforms in which you write directly for it and it cannot be used or moved elsewhere.

AWS provides many things but, unless you're directly integrating with them, you can move onto another service if you need to (and even direct integration you can later abstract and move away from many of their services to alternatives). Same with Twilio; they provide SMS and other like services but others do as well so you can move your app to any platform with, mostly, minor code changes.

You can't make a minor code change to move your Facebook or Slack app to another vendor / platform. In fact that wouldn't really make sense.