skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh... Is this an attack on Slack?

I have so many things to say about this but the last time I said anything anti-F B on H N I got lawyers against me.

Please god people don't use this.

Edit:

I'm going to qualify my sentiment.

FB thinks that "making the world more connected" is a good thing (TM) -- and in an utopian sense that may be true... But FB is not utopian.

See the fucking onion article. You all know the one.

The world doesn't need to be "more connected" --- it needs to be more conscious --- and very little work by many many startups are "making the world a better place"

The fact is that the world is still just as dark as always. Slavery is up, consumption begets inequality and the worlds economies are all about consumption.

How about creating an economy based on provisioning and providing. But because fuck you, that's why, is the philos of the day.

Zuck needs to read his letter to his daughter and then read that same letter to one who has zero relation or zero connection to FB. If the only person he is committed to making the world a better place for is his child through his tax shelter, then we will truly know the morality of FB.

Good fucking luck.

/rant
Some smartphones surprisingly decent specs.

1440 x 2560 pixels
Quad-core 2.1 GHz Cortex-A57
3 GB RAM
32/128 GB SSD
And 2 cameras / other smartphone features.

But, they cost 2-3x what a netbook does.
I would guess that startup founders have no idea what to say upon getting acquired, so they google around to see what other startups have said.
Use Automator to create a service so you could (well if you're brave) dump the code into whatever you need it to run, e.g Ruby or Swift REPL.

Let me know how it goes.
> t's impossible for USB C to be hooked up backwards by its mechanical design, so why guard against it?

Because cabling can fail in other ways. A short could be caused by mechanical damage to the cable anywhere along its length. It would be nice to have a host that doesn't burn up in those scenarios seeing as they are already required to protect the bus.
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why shouldn't this be used ?
Doing the same for iOS's built in keyboard:

The first half of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the year of high quality of life and the first half of the year of high quality of life and the first half of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half

Or in German (seeded with "I"):

Ich bin nicht so viel zu viel für mich nicht so viel zu viel für mich nicht so gut und dir auch ein paar Minuten vor Schluss machen wir uns in den nächsten Wochen in den nächsten Jahren nicht so viel wie geht das auch noch nicht einmal mehr die Kraft des faktischen der Stadt zu gehen oder nicht mehr zu sagen das es dir gut gehen lassen und dann auch die Möglichkeit zu Hause zu sein scheint es nicht so gut und dir auch ein paar Minuten
I don't really see the need for this, since the things you usually do on Facebook are not the same things you would do at a workplace community.
I just don't understand the certainty on your part. Was it because of the backlash or because they wanted Rey's prominence as a character to not be spoiled? Either seem plenty reasonable to me, and until there's evidence of the contrary, I don't really see what folks are on about.
I clicked this hopeful that Facebook had made a new product tailored to the needs of an office. Instead it seems like they recently decided that their existing product just happens to already be the perfect product for the office and rebranded it.

I don't buy this at all, teams don't actually collaborate by sending each other green giraffe stickers.
I belive there are some psychologists doing therapy with some of these drugs. Perhaps a guide could be useful. Tim Leary started that way.
> For companies who get things done

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/is-it-a-c...
I think Bud Haggert's narration in the v1 "original" is still the best. Be sure to read the video description on it too.
Immigration brings bigger problems than it solves. Japan would be better of accepting a lower standard of living than encouraging immigration.
This doesn't seem to jibe with reality^. Most of the literature [0] [1] [2] suggests that the first 10 employees split 10% of the equity (with founders receiving 50% and the rest left over for VC and later employee pools). Y Combinator for instance only takes 6%. Sequoia is said to take 30%. Suggesting that an employee (any employee) is worth the same as YC to the markets seems like a hard sell.

[0] http://themacro.com/articles/2015/12/splitting-equity-among-...

[1] https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078

[2] http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity

^ I'm no expert on equity and am a "get paid with american dollars" kind of guy...
Doesn't snorting 2CB burn like hell?

2CB dilutes in water with a little effort and it's much easier to measure out consistent doses in tablespoons or mL of a liquid rather than very minute amounts of a powder.

Fun drug, but it upsets my stomach.
An e-voting solution based using the blockchain
Do those affiliate codes support the original reviewer guy, or just the operator of the website (if they are different people)?
People who use Slack do.
"for absolutely no reason"

I thought manufacturing meat was destroying the planet?

The whole point of the idea is to stop the supply side isn't it and the price of meat remains at whatever level the market thinks - the meat tokens are traded separately. It's simply that there would be a centrally planned amount of meat produced and it would go to those willing to pay the most for it. The tokens that everyone gets are designed to sweeten the deal for those who decide not to eat meat.

Sure you can eat meat, but your quota is worth £4000 per year to someone.

I'm not saying cap and trade has worked well for fossil fuels, but this is effectively carbon offsetting done in a better way.

Unfortunately I'm not certain that capitalism has solved the problems we are going to face over the next century if we want to survive. If we leave things to the market completely all this cheap oil will ruin the environment. Needs to be taxed.
What happened with the lawyers? That seems entirely unreasonable.
You forgot that you are the product being sold. This gives fb whole new layers of demographic data to sell to their customers.
This seems like the kind of safe and boring product you'd make while trying not to get fired before your options vest. As they'd say in the wine industry, "it's well made."
Because someone from marketing made the site, not someone from engineering
What are some interesting psychological marketing tactics?
Because Facebook has no intention of keeping the service around if it isn't successful. Whereas with Slack, it's actually their business and already proven profitable/successful.
The mentioned Nature paper: "Fully-integrated wearable sensor arrays for
multiplexed in-situ perspiration analysis", Nature, 529, 509-514, 2016.

http://nano.eecs.berkeley.edu/publications/Nature_2016_Sweat...

And there is more related research from Berkeley Javey Research Group
on their publications page:

http://nano.eecs.berkeley.edu/publications/
You are replacable. You can try to give them an ultimatium and threaten to leave. But they may just show you the door.

Even if they don’t now, when things get better, they will probably be thinking about ways to reeuce their risks by replacing you or dividing your responsibilities.

Most people in your position don‘t get much equity. Even if you do, it‘s usually diluted down to nothing with rounds of funding or you never see anything when the company crashes and burns.

I’ve been there more than once. It’s much better to just work for a salary that you are worth and forget about equity.

It’s a carrot used to prevent you from leaving when things get bad.
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I just don't believe having Facebook opened at work will in any way increase my productivity.
To clarify it's not that emoticons can't be part of how people communicate at work. I just couldn't really believe those exchanges they were showing there. Slack puts the whole conversation right in front of you and makes link and searching really comfortable. The fb share box really isn't meant for that.
Which is a good thing, in this case.
I think a lot of people are not billing 75/hour or billing at all.

When you're at work, you typically just have to use the tools the rest of the team does. Then when you are at home, working on a side project... it's essentially a hobby and saving time in a hobby is just a 'nice to have'.
This is great! Here's a demo of the full set to illustrate your point more fully.

http://play.golang.org/p/T1eJ4prBHM
It should be on every nerds bucket list to view live rocket launch.
How many people have you worked with who have required 2+ people to replace them when they left? Personally, in about 10 years "professional" experience, I've worked with 0.

I'm willing to accept that perhaps I've worked with non-exceptional people (I am one myself). But really consider whether your employer would actually hire 2+ people to replace you. Your domain knowledge is worth something and the cost of switching is high, but if your employer is paying below market, would they really pay below market for 2+ new people?

What I'm trying to get at is the fact that your perception of your value might be significantly different from your employer's perception. And if that's the case, you really don't have much leverage.
> I wanted to install Aperture on a new laptop; since it's been pulled from the App store I couldn't find it anymore
i.e., bought a license and installed the application, but wasn’t given a legal way to do the exact same thing on another computer—one of the rights Apple grants to users of the App Store; nothing lost, no replacement needed
He said it breaks pages when removed. I'm guessing he means it's broken from SEO perspective.
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Slack charges. When is "Work" going to end up like Parse?
Something about this creeps me out.

Next up "Facebook staring at you watching you sleep".
I don't see a clear answer on whether or not Facebook will analyze or use the data in any way. It is said that a company can "control" the data, but I'd like to know how Facebook will handle the data.
I will not use a product supported by advertising for internal communication.

The demographic data they would mine would be invaluable to them, but for a company would be unconscionable to give to a third party. Especially one so historically lax about privacy.

You can mine my social life all you want, but when it comes to business, get the hell away.
I don't want a social network like Facebook at work. This takes all of the worst parts of Slack and makes them worse.
It likely does use webviews, but it seems way lighter than an Electron app. It certainly isn't packaging Chromium given the size.
That logic makes zero sense. "Success" and profitability are only states, you aren't guaranteed either forever. Just as Slack took time to establish both — time which Facebook will also need to establish them both for themselves.
It's segmented with two accounts. An FB@Work account and your regular FB account.

Basically, everything at FB is run through FB. (e.g. Groups for everything!) Someone decided that because FB loves FB so much, and a billion people use it, others would want to run their business through FB as well. Now that there's post and comment search, it's not useless as a repository of knowledge, but at the same time I have a hard time believing that others will love FB@Work as much as FB loves FB@Work.
Homeless to VC in Silicon Valley
That's why they call it neg-otiating.
Ah, yes, the "post PC era" where we would do all our computing on a tablet.
It means something important to him, whether he conveys the idea perfectly or not to us in this post.
What company uses LI for internal communication?
So is this supposed to be an alternative to Yammer? Because that thing is terrible. Not just the implementation, but the very idea. Normal Facebook at least has some element of fun to it.

What's the purpose of the same thing, but for work? To share a bunch of the same "professional" garbage that people share on LinkedIn and maybe try to look smart in front of the boss?

Seriously, who actually wants to use something like this?
As much as people were hollering Post PC, you'd think, but alas, it didn't happen.
Backup on Linux: rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup (vs. Time Machine)
I've been down voted on here for an anti FB post before. And I wasn't even saying anything that contentious. I have since stopped using Facebook because of all the regurgitated noise that appears in my timeline.
Really? After Slack, Yammer, and LinkedIn this is all they have to offer?

Totally uninspiring. DOA.
Coolest framework for you to check your mobile network
Yessir. Agreed
Why on earth does this site attempt to remotely log you in to WordPress? It was completely jarring to have the WordPress bar appear above the site.

EDIT: Seems they are using the WordPress.com VIP service. That explains that.
Facebook At Work is not a free service.
coolest framework for you to check your network on iOS devices
As @voynich61 has mentioned, there's something incredibly morally murky about this product.

The first thing that came to my head is stalking. Before Facebook "Work", the workplace was relatively safe. As long as you don't provide any info, such as phone numbers, personal email address, and had some pretty good privacy settings, you could deflect some potential stalkers at work.

For the sake of the argument, I'm going to assume that with Facebook Work, you login with your normal Facebook account, because, you know, ease of signing up, etc. And I'm going to further assume that this "work" thing will also make a copy of your profile picture, bio details, etc.

With all this information, it's not going to be hard for co-workers to start harassing you online. And since it's the same workplace, you'll soon have to rebuffing them both offline and online.

Additionally, employers will easily find your personal information, such as things you did on the weekend, embarrassing photos that shouldn't be shared around the workplace, etc.

While I sort-of (not really) congratulate Facebook on trying out some new moves, there are some lines that shouldn't be crossed, and lately, Facebook has been crossing all of them. Free Basics, is the latest example that comes to mind. I know in the past Facebook has had a "hacker" mentality when making new products, but for a company as big as Facebook, I wish they gave their products a bit more thought before attempting them.
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In direct competition with Slack, let's see how this panes out.
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Quality? In what way?

Yea agreed. Yahoo is a bit of a head scratcher. They don't seem to be worldclass at anything in particular.
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I'm pretty sure this is going to be big. I think Slack is so successful not just because of the chat interface and the integrations, but because people reliably receive notifications, messages can contain attachments that are presented in a helpful way, and because it has good ways of organizing groups. Facebook has everything but the chat interface and the integrations. I don't see any reason for them not to add these.
And, I would add, I've been around several multi-billionaires. They have already transferred the wealth to themselves, and the "income" numbers will show them receiving relatively small incomes. They use offshores to do their transactions (and avoid taxes on the income). So, really, the IRS numbers vastly mislead us about who the 1% are and how much they really have. (I read one study that estimated the total US offshore hidden money to be about 30 trillion. And when you consider that the rich are spread throughout the world, you have to wonder just how much money they have really hidden away for themselves.)
Anybody else having issues with the video on their main page? It doesn't load for me on Chrome.
Sounds great, really like where Cloudflare is going. Did search the job page for the "Prototyping engineers" position, but couldn't find it, where can one apply for this job / find a job description? Thanks.
on iOS, at a glance, the new app icon looks like an app when its updating. When i look at my home screen really quick, i see it out of the corner of my eye and think its updating.
good advice, fascinatingly it turns out the whole thing was part of the development of the IFB, the earpiece in common use on every tv news show:
The turboencabulator skit was originally intended to demonstrate the usefulness of earpiece radios as a replacement for cue cards when actors are delivering lines for a video. Bud Haggart wanted to show that you could use the earpiece effectively even when the lines get ridiculously difficult to follow, so he used the turboencabulator as a subject because it'd been a running gag in the engineering community ever since its first technical description was published by John Hellins Quick in 1944.
Ahh, Kloudsec [0] uses a fork of this in our free CDN service for our users. The issue with something like this is that

a) most website owners who want to get things done will find it hard to recompile, optimize, and deploy in production.

b) most websites in the web are really just WP sites hosted on X hosting provider

And yet we truly believe that sth like Pagespeed is a worthwhile investment (if done by 1, deployed on many). So we built Kloudsec to make optimizations like this available for free in our CDN layer (which is also free).

---

Most importantly, it is super easy to deploy. No programming/dev-ops required. Register an account, add your domain, then update DNS records. (You get to keep your fav nameservers)

[0]: https://kloudsec.com
Reversing the scanline lookup table is indeed how it was done.

Source: I disassembled it, a long time ago.
Magic Leap Just Landed an Astounding Amount of VC Money
About 90% of the stories I've heard of LSD ca be summarized by "I spent 3 hours watching a story unfold on my wall"
This is just fucking hilarious.

You know what gives me reliable notifications? You know what lets me view my attachments in whatever way I want? You know what lets me organize/tag/correlate my messages the way I want?

OMG ITS EMAIL.

In 3 years everything is going to bitch about IM the same way they bitch about email. And they're the ones that asked for it.
My point was to refute the myth that "we, software engineers (assuming you're one), are in the 1%" which is patently untrue as a generalization. Five percent of the top 1% of earners in the US is a very small number of people compared to the number of software engineers in the country.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics[1], an income of $149,000 would put you in the top 10% of the software engineering profession. The medium annual wage for software engineers at all levels is around $100k. That's definitely better than many professions, but it doesn't even begin to approach the level of inequality we're talking about when we talk about the 1%.

[1]: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...

EDIT: This doesn't even take into account the fact that other related titles like Computer Programmer (which, despite being a less fashionable job description of late, is often the same as what a "software engineer" would be doing) have significantly lower medians and are broken out separately.
imaging if the lens being used for the light field display, could be another solution for a mixed reality display device that the Magic Leap is developing.
I think https://gingkoapp.com might fit in that niche.
I will not use a product supported by advertising for internal communication.

It does not.
Just gave a brief run through the paper, and I'm curious: is reverse-mode differentiation in this context similar in concept to adjoint-type methods used in computational fluid dynamics (and increasingly, in design optimization in other fields)?

Backwards-propagation of a gradient calculation to allow for extremely high-dimensional parameter spaces is a trick that has been around for awhile in some circles, but also seems to have been missed in a lot of other disciplines. I'm seeing a lot of publications making use of it in the last few years, and it's pretty exciting to see them used in more places. My hope is that more scientific and engineering analysis codes will expose derivative interfaces for use in numerical optimization.

Here's some short papers with some background for those interested in the topic from a physical engineering perspective:

http://www.piercelab.caltech.edu/assets/papers/ftc00.pdf

http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/prost/proceedings/npcw09/A...
Wow. Where do you work that you worry about things like that? Why do you continue to work there?!
You create a new account. It's mentioned in the first line of marketing copy.

> It's easy to get started. You just create a new Facebook at Work account to connect with coworkers.
Maybe they killed Parse because it wasn't all about keeping people in their walled garden, and enabled people to duplicate features of facebook. It could be in line with what they did with FBML & facebook apps.
I think it's a debated point. I have seen multiple folks comparing, with proper scanners, the resolution of medium formats vs digital pictures and found that the resolution of medium format was higher with quality films. If you use a bad scanner, if your film is of a poor grade, your experience will vary.
Oh, that makes sense! So it's exactly like Vim (with noswapfile turned on) or any other program that tracks history at the application-level, but doesn't write it to the directory you're working in.
Multitasking Is Killing Your Brain
I thought this was new, but apparently they announced working on it around June 2014 and even had the apps around since early 2015 which would explain how the Google Play app already has 60k reviews... Discovered this while looking for comparisons to Salesforce's Chatter: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/facebookwork-vs-salesforce-ch...
re: Throat mic, they have their use! Specifically, being able to properly do the "Ah-ah" in "Da da da": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtMThVUpc-U
US Treasury Department Issues Cyber-Related Sanctions Regulations
They're probably thinking that since so many people are familiar with facebook's UX, it can become the baseline for an office collaboration tool (one with a very small learning curve).
I love flexbox (compared to what existed prior) -- but just watched layouts break on the release of Chrome 48. Yay! :)
So, I found US death data by age and sex for 2007 ( http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/mortfinal2007_worktable310.... )

Here are male deaths, expressed as a percentage of female deaths, for every year of age from 0 to 30:

0 127%
1 119%
2 130%
3 131%
4 142%
5 138%
6 123%
7 129%
8 122%
9 125%
10 126%
11 152%
12 143%
13 145%
14 178%
15 193%
16 199%
17 248%
18 278%
19 313%
20 317%
21 317%
22 342%
23 310%
24 314%
25 291%
26 261%
27 269%
28 250%
29 231%
30 237%

Odds are good (I haven't checked) that the male population in this age range is larger than the female population. But it's going to be larger by less than 10%, which is completely neglible in the face of the factor-of-2-or-3 differences in deaths.

This isn't "little role in early-life mortality", it's a gargantuan genetic effect you'd have to devote quite a lot of effort to ignoring. (And if you meant something different by "early life", male deaths stay in the range of 150-200% of female deaths right up until the early 60s. Female deaths finally exceed male deaths once people hit 80 years old.)
While there's nothing explicit in the demo video, screenshots like the following infer LinkedIn like behavior between people:

https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/facebook-at-work/ass...
https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/facebook-at-work/ass...