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> compiling your own nginx is not trivial and I would not recommend it for everyone.

It's still pretty easy. For those that have never done it, it's a configure-like script, make, make install. That's it. It's almost your standard autoconf package routine of ./configure && make && make install, except the configure script is oddly in a subdir and not from autofoo. But it is all covered in the documentation, IIRC.
All of the use cases for this, Slack more or less solves, which Events being a Slack integration away.

That being said, outside of the HN Community and outside of Tech savvy companies who know and prefer Slack, it's not completely useless. It's sure as hell better than Email groups and Calendar events in my opinion.
But Slack is a chat service. I'm struggling to imagine what I would ever want to see in my Work News Feed.
This reminds me of a patience game I play. I count to 32 on one hand, with each finger representing a bit. If I'm doing it repeatedly, I'll count in my head in binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal. Works wonders when waiting for the subway or rocking a screaming baby.
Social vs Work, which one should we be more serious? Can they work together? I think probably not. Work productivity will decrease dramatically if we shift our focus to social.
Yes it's bad grammar but I'm pretty sure the phrasing is intentional. They're using an anthropomorphism, a common UX trend these days.

Apple uses it in all their iPad and iPhone ads (e.g. Do more with iPhone). A while back a reporter called out Apple on their un-grammatical naming and an exec justified it saying that leaving out the "a/an/the" on their products made them seem more alive and less replaceable. It shows there's a deeper connection to the product and Apple wants to convey that message to their customers.

So yes, it's bad grammar but it's here to stay.
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I imagine it has its own appeal as most people in non-tech industries where Slack is unheard of understand Facebook. Plus it has the double whammy of servicing linkedin-like features. The video shows a fabric company if that says anything about who they're targeting. I don't think the HN crowd is who they're after.
it says in like 15 different places on the page that you create a new account, you sign up with your business email, and while the interface is similar to the personal version of facebook, it's completely separate. My guess is you didn't read any of the linked page other than perhaps the title.
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How to rip Blu ray to Nokia Lumia 930
The Financial Times says:

"Nonetheless, one person close to the company said the sale price was lower than investors might have hoped for a couple of years ago, when Swiftkey was among the most popular smartphone apps in the world."

It is an unfortunately timed exit.

If they had sold even a year ago, they could have done much better.
A brick or electronic circuit is speech when being used as a medium of expression. Code is speech all the time because it can't be anything else. It's pure information. You can't email someone a brick.

It happens we have machines that will turn that information into action, but the code isn't the machine or the action. It's just a type of speech that machines can understand too.

People are always wanting to regulate speech by combining it with a machine, but the machine and the speech are separate. They don't have any specific relationship. Apple makes a) a general purpose computer and b) computer software. But (modulo DRM/copyright) you could run that software on any general purpose computer and use that general purpose computer to run any software.

It's like trying to regulate what information you can print in a newspaper by claiming you're regulating the printing press.
A methylated B-complex vitamin would be prudent in most individuals as well to complement magnesium. Up to 50% of the population has a partially broken methylation cycle (in a form of C677T mutation).

I had back pain sleeping for a long time, fatigue, and tons of muscle twitching (even in supplementing magnesium and vitamin d), and a methylated b-complex effectively eliminated my symptoms.

The test to check for an MTHFR mutation is expensive, but supplementing a methylated high-quality b-complex isn't.
From the official investigation [0, page 38]:

"Without on-orbit pictures of Columbia, the Debris Assessment Team was restricted to using a mathematical modeling tool called Crater to assess damage, although it had not been designed with this type of impact in mind. Team members concluded over the next six days that some localized heating damage would most likely occur during re-entry, but they could not definitively state that structural damage would result. On January 24, the Debris Assessment Team made a presentation of these results to the Mission Evaluation Room, whose manager gave a verbal summary (with no data) of that presentation to the Mission Management Team the same day. The Mission Management Team declared the debris strike a “turnaround” issue and did not pursue a request for imagery.

Even after the Debris Assessment Teamʼs conclusion had been reported to the Mission Management Team, engineers throughout NASA and Mission Control continued to ex- change e-mails and discuss possible damage. These messages and discussions were generally sent only to people within the sendersʼ area of expertise and level of seniority.

At 2:30 a.m. EST on February 1, 2003, the Entry Flight Control Team began duty in the Mission Control Center. The Flight Control Team was not working any issues or problems related to the planned de-orbit and re-entry of Columbia. In particular, the team indicated no concerns about the debris impact to the left wing during ascent, and treated the re-entry like any other."

TLDR. "They" knew that their was a potential problem, but the bureaucracy didn't.

The decision making process was described in far more detail in the linked report.

[0] http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/CAIB_Vol1.html
It always starts looping with "I love you", but I only type those once or twice a day. I'm not sure why it always ends up falling to that.
It's not just about tech. The real issue is that government is running up against scaling limits.

Arguably, a government can only rule over how people relate within boundaries it can defend and control. Previously the boundaries were physical geographies, and then regulated channels (mail, PSTN, etc). Now, we have a kind of fractal boundary of peer-to-peer connections that provide tremendous freedom to organize and transact on a diminishingly microscopic scale.

Sovereignty is zero sum.

Crypto provides a kind of micro-sovereignty to users, and for a few privileged or outlying people this is an acceptable risk, but when you have constituencies of people achieving that micro-sovereignty, it cuts into the sovereignty of the state at critical level.

Imagine the strategic consequences for U.S. national security if Rhode Island became it's own country, with an impenetrable laser air shield, with it's own allies, currency, tax laws, extradition treaties, defense systems, resources, etc. It would be such a constant threat, it would make more sense to just invade.

Tor and similar systems could reach that critical mass, where they become a constant threat to the sovereignty of nations. Tech is naively forcing hard questions about the conventions that provide "stability."

The feds know they might just have to just outlaw crypto. The technology exists to detect and round up most people who use it, or enough of them that it will be hard to find people to use it with. If they have to, they will.

This dance they are doing is political posturing, testing the edges to see what kind of resistance they get, and how much political capital it is going to cost.

Like voting and graffiti, if crypto really changed anything, it would be illegal.
"You can mine my social life all you want, but when it comes to business, get the hell away."

I like it when people accidentally summarise life in 21st century capitalism on HN
TL;DR - be careful, don't make the decision lightly, take reasonable precautions.

I came here to write something along these lines.

About a year ago, I ate _way_ too much cannabis before a party then proceeded to have a terrible trip.
The subtle meaning in people's interactions, which I had always been able to respond to intuitively, suddenly became apparent and burdensome. I saw a man who did not receive enough affection from his wife and spoke needily to others, reaching out for warmth. I saw a woman who appeared to be dissatisfied in her marriage, lingering just a bit too long in hugs with other men. I saw a man who was uncomfortable with parties, and wanted to corner me in a private discussion so he could disengage from the group. The feeling that these people were unable to mask their deep and private needs in this public forum combined with the feeling that something was expected of me that I could not give sent me into a spiral of embarrassment and nervousness.

Becoming terrified that I would be unable to control my emotions (that I might begin weeping in front of everybody for example), I disappeared without a word to hide in my car. Fearing that I would be seen and mistaken for a criminal waiting to commit a crime, I tried to stuff myself into a ball on the floor of the backseat. I was convinced that someone would see me and call the police, and I'd be arrested because I would be unable to communicate with them. The fear was so intense that I could feel myself shivering, and when my wife came to rescue me I was unable to speak in a steady voice.

Over the course of the following year, I struggled with depression and crippling social anxiety, which I had never experienced before. Things as routine as taking my cat to the vet were a real challenge, and I relied on Xanax to get me through a number of totally banal interactions which I had previously handled automatically. Granted, I was also experiencing intense social isolation and a weakening support system due to unrelated factors - I cannot definitively pin my struggles on this incident with cannabis. Still, it scared me enough that I began researching and critically examining my cannabis usage.

Ultimately I decided that it would still be a part of my life, but that I would no longer use it in public settings, that I would be exceedingly careful with dosage and reduce my usage in general, and that I would examine my current state before using it. I've recovered 100% from the depression, 95% from the anxiety (I still feel mild nerves speaking in group settings, like introducing myself at a meeting), and I have never had a bad cannabis experience since. I have also decided that using other drugs with psychedelic effects is not worth the risk for me, and I have sworn off them altogether.
I agree, it only works when you're not too dynamic. Smalltalk wasn't designed that way.

You need a compiler that can tell when thing A requires thing B at a fine-grained level. That often requires type declarations, or at least fairly unique function names.

You also need library owners to design with tree-shaking in mind, so that calling library function A doesn't automatically pull in library function B. You need sane dependencies.

You also need dependency injection (if you have it) implemented in a way that doesn't defeat tree-shaking.

GWT, Closure, and Dart all do this by not being too dynamic (most of the time). In particular, reflection and tree-shaking don't work well together.
In one of the screenshots, it shows how many people are "following" an employee. This is reminiscent of Enron's peer-evaluation process commonly referred to as "rank and yank". Since employee evaluations were based on ratings made by their coworkers, this led to unpopular employees being fired, and other employees engaging in questionable business practices to stay on top.

I can easily imagining the type of boss who thinks this would be good for their office to also believe that someone who doesn't have as many followers isn't a "team player".
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My guess is "Work" is a ploy to get Facebook un-blocked by corporate firewalls.

The business functionality has already existed (since FB uses its own platform internally), so its comparatively minor in engineering effort.
Trying to do that creates strong non-linearities and the end result is unlikely to create a healthy equilibrium.
Beware if you're using this BEHIND a separate caching layer such as Varnish. That's not well-supported (and helped contribute to an outage for us. we used auto-scaling groups and that shot us in the foot when first trying out pagespeed).

In itself this module is pretty cool, but you're actually better off simply internalizing the various practices within your own code & infrastructure, with a CDN in front.

None of this is to knock the Pagespeed plugin. It IS really cool, and in an organization with many silos (like Google) it has many benefits.
I tried saving a Youtube video (to mp4) as a test, and the video ends up out of sync with the audio (video .25-.5 seconds ahead).
I always laugh a little bit when male authors force female pronouns for hypothetical personages as an attempt to show how progressive, liberal and enlightened they are. It's doubly funny when every name they've cited is a man: Max Weber, Noam Chomsky, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Ezra Pound, Lenin, Gore Vidal, John Dewey, Adorno, Hazlitt, Stefan Collini (Note I stopped reading this flowery bit of drivel at this first section break, maybe some actual females make an appearance later in this gaudy thesis).

The especially funny bit is the use of _male pronouns_ for the 'lower' character as in: "She never speaks to the reader as he is; she speaks to the reader as he might be."

To clarify, I'm not saying you should force yourself to cite women when the most apt examples you can think of are men; ala this Oscars fiasco attempting to appease the mewling masses by forcing the bellcurve into a more colorful shape. I'm saying that your writing sounds fucking obnoxious and you should just use "they" and "their" like a normal person.
I agree! Although, I am curious about some of the privacy concerns that are being raised.

To further your point, I think Facebook's timeline dynamic complements Slack quite nicely. Slack is great for broad, real-time communication, whereas Facebook posts can be much more hyper-focused and the conversation can revolve around the specific topic over a long period of time.

For example, we have a development channel in our Slack. I can go back and browse through the chat log, but it's awkward to contribute a suggestion or thought to a conversation that happened yesterday. Everyone has moved on. Not the case on FB.
Ultimately all changes are recorded physically, so I'm not really sure the distinction has that much meaning.
They forced everyone to turn in their shortwave radios too.
Good riddance to the Java plugin
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If a problem is too difficult to solve, then we solve simpler related problems first. In doing so, we typically gain insight into the more challenging problem. For example, before Calculus was discovered, areas and volumes were all computed in ad hoc ways, via "parlor tricks". Only by generalizing the insights gleamed from some of these "tricks" did we stumble upon Calculus.

Problems such as chess certainly did not seem like "parlor tricks" at the time they were proposed. In fact, many thought of chess play as being an idyllic example of human intelligence. Just because we do not understand how to solve Go today doesn't mean that it won't be a trivial "parlor trick" in ten years.
Do they have todo lists for teams? Team Calendar with intelligence features?
Considering I'm already Facebook friends with all my coworkers, being FB Work friends with them feels like presenting fake versions of ourselves to each other.

Keeping Facebook for personal stuff, and Hipchat/Slack/Google for professional communication seems to work well for me.
I wonder if this product was conceived in a Utopian vacuum by FB employees where they think all other companies operate in a similar fashion as theirs, where everyone is brilliant, motivated, young, high-tech, and are always aiming at the apex of the Maslow's pyramid; and have similar pain points.

I'm not being sarcastic (to the down voter). If you're an "A" talent, and are always used to working in certain type of environment, your view is quite skewed. How do you really know how a normal 30-people small business operate?
This is a problem in business management. If you want to discriminate against an employee in a certain group, you just give them low scores in a performance review. That way you can claim they are a bad employee to justify laying them off or terminating them.

Even if they did nothing to get low scores.

It sort of avoids discrimination lawsuits if they can document that the employee got low scores.

But this is fishy because he was given low scores while on leave.

Something like that happened to me while I was on short-term disability and in a hospital and at home. They had employees sign papers that I was doing all sorts of things to give me low scores. The dates when they claimed I was at work doing those things, I was in a hospital or at home and not at work. When I returned from short-term disability I was put on probation and then fired. They tried to use the stuff against me to block unemployment benefits but the state saw the complaints were on the same dates that I missed work and sided with me considering the complaints were made up. I could have sued for discrimination but it was the best law firm in town, and they could have proven an undue hardship defense because they hired a software consultant for $100/hr to do my job because none of my coworkers could do it.

So I would like to see the manipulation of the low performance ratings to be investigated. You see the years prior I had gotten high scores and pay raises, then as soon as I got sick, low scores and complaints.
Oh, the nostalgia.

Does anyone know if there's something similar for Amiga (for ascii art)
Here's a good comparison table I found (not sure how up to date it is):
https://webpack.github.io/docs/comparison.html
I agree with a lot of the concerns in the posts so far.

As of now it is simply Facebook with a different colour and focused on a group. Nothing special.

But I do think that Facebook will end up releasing a better collaboration feature to help integrate teams into Facebook At Work.

The reason I love Slack currently is the various apps and addons you can add, like the Github bot that posts when a pull request is created, or the Trello one that posts when someone completes a task.

If FB adds something like this (or better), I think they will grab a large portion of the market that isn't already dedicated to Slack.

Then it will slowly be improving features to steal Slack users after that.
If ADHD is a mental problem that has roots in secret fears about yourself, I'm sure a psychedelic experience could uproot those fears and present them to the host to be resolved.

You might be of the opinion that mental problems are fixed however. If you are, there is nothing anyone can say to convince you. Many mental problems could be thought of as spiritual problems insofar as you're not understanding yourself and why you're here. This leads to secret fears, which drives the cogs of many people's gears, but their blindness moves them only in circles.

Again, you'll be without convincing if you are of the victim mentality. If you're not, psychedelics are widely known for inducing huge character changes because something deep happens. You can think of it as a rotted root made anew. The plant "out of nowhere" thrives. It's the same thing for your mind. Clean the mirror and the message shines forth. This is hard to understand for many humans who have many self-created messages dirtying their mind. Psychedelics literally turns all that stuff off and you get to have a real experience as a result.
A piece of encryption software is clearly both.

It is speech. If you wanted to you could even go find the source code and translate it into english in such a way that a relatively competent programmer could turn it back into code ("If the first bit in the byte is 1 then do .... other wise do ....").

But it's clearly also a tool. I've never read the source code to the software I use to encrypt my hard drive. It's unlikely that I ever will. I just care that it does the job I want it to.

Trying to say that it's either one or the other is silly. It's both.

But just because it's speech doesn't mean that the government might not have an interest in regulating it. The first amendment is not absolute. I can imagine a great many prima facie arguments supporting the idea of regulating encryption software. The fact that code is speech is not, in and of itself, a defense against any of them.

As with most cases of constitutional law, it comes down to weighing competing interests. Failing to acknowledge these varying interests fails to acknowledge the actual question at hand.
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What is the gist of this article?
Facebook at Work isn't going to be free. I also highly doubt they'll be touching any of the FB@Work data for mining, just like Google Apps for Business doesn't mine business accounts or serve ads.
> Hollywood thinks they have money and power...until an Apple, or Google, or Amazon comes along and shows them what real economic clout looks like.

Something I read once stuck with me. I don't remember the exact wording, but basically the movie industry's entire market, soup to nuts, is an order of magnitude less than just one of Disney's physical goods departments.

An entire industry's market doesn't even hold a candle to one company's department. Hollywood is stranger than you could ever know. It makes a pitiful amount of money in relation to global capitalism, always has, always will. But it wields outsized influence on American policymaking regardless.

Another quote comes to mind. When Apple released the Watch, someone asked one of the top watch companies if they were worried about Apple butting into their market. He just smiled and said something to the effect of, "Call me when they can figure out how to get men to wear diamonds on anything other than a watch."

Established industries have spent long, long periods of time getting to know their customer. More often than not, they can take any upstart's best efforts and treat it as outsourced R&D. Netflix and Apple can succeed to their hearts content and still not have a prayer of unseating Hollywood.
Yes, those who gain and those who lose are not the same people. Just like bankers taking their bonuses from bail out money.

No "skin in the game".
Nature is not that reputable, I'd put it above science, below JACS. The most reputable journals are cell, and organic syntheses.

If you want to know why org. Syn. is so reputable, check out their description: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Syntheses
All I will say about this topic is never try new drugs when you're drunk, never.
Secret US flight flew over Scottish airspace 'to capture Snowden'
Totally understand. I spent several years working at a brutalist shrine modeled as a modern interpretation of the forum of Rome. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Plaza)

It's an amazing expression of grandeur and power, especially as a model. But in person... it is too big, too ambitious, too set apart from the city it dominates.
> all the way down to the kernel

There was a bug that allowed you to go to SMM. The fun doesn't stop with the kernel.