skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One aspect that probably plays a role: I'm feeling good because I kept busy, but I've been pretty isolated due to an extended health issue (heavy metal poisoning) that takes loooong to recover from (but it works fine thanks to chelators), and I deliberately work a low-paying job from home. While I'm not an extrovert I'm no introvert either, I enjoy talking and even presenting and got very little of that the last few years. So the reason I go to the coffee shop is - people. While I don't talk to anyone (because that only very rarely works here in Germany) somehow just being in the crowd feels good, it satisfies some deep desire. Somehow merely having "noise" at home, even if the source is people, is not the same. The brain is not that easily tricked, it knows the context. It's more complicated though since having people talk does help even at home, but it's different, different brain circuits are exercised, it's not a replacement for the 2-3 hours in the coffee shop.
Good point. I'm too far away from Moft's ecosystem to be able to tell how well they can execute such integrations...
Despite being a 1Password user myself, it's great that there's now a top-tier service being offered for free! The $1/month option is pretty awesome too
While you're technically right, no other operating system has the problem that its most popular applications will not work without an additional proprietary platform being installed. It's kind of like if amazon services were a critical layer to ubuntu's independently developed apps functioning properly.

>mapping services arn't part of OS, thus don't have to be open

The mapping services in question was built by scraping the location and details of wifi ap's from publicly broadcast packets, received and logged by your and other consumer's hardware so you would think that this is public information and could be opened up, but it isn't - which seems poor.

>don't see why they care. Even if they reimplement the client libraries Signal and other apps will still be dependent upon the proprietary servers.

The goal is to prevent google from controlling the hardware you paid for and the software you're using. This, while not 100% stable, is better than having no options.
Yeah, you're right. It was a simple oversight that we hadn't been caching 404s already, since we already have infrastructure in place to bust cache on publishes. It would have been our next step if necessary (it wasn't necessary to mitigate this flood).

You optimize for the use patterns you anticipate or see in normal usage, because, well, see famous saying about premature optimization. The use pattern we see most often is people installing from pre-determined lists in package.json, so 404s aren't all that common ordinarily.
No the issue is statement logging can be turned on at any time and when it is on, everything you are encrypting is revealed in plaintext in the log.
Look into Mattermost
Note the distinction between two types of js driven video playback that are possible. Those which require transcoding and those who can do with just transmuxing.

HTML5 playback can only support few codecs but FLV can contain a wide variety of video and audio codecs. Flv.js does a great job of transmuxing h.264 frames in a different container, hence it only plays those flv which are h.264/aac. Transcoding can make it possible to even play HEVC or any non-standard codec on browser. This can be heavy on CPU especially hand-held devices. When using one of these in production you must understand that it is not very practical to do transcoding on the fly like this : https://strukturag.github.io/libde265.js/ . It is theoretically possible to play vp9 on an ios or a hevc on a pc but this will be impractical for low-cpu devices.
I'm going to miss the interface for Google Showtimes.

http://web.archive.org/web/20161023155016/http://www.google....

Note the logically arranged sidebar, the simple HTML, and the links to IMDb and Youtube instead of images or embedded videos.

Contrast this with Fandango, IMDb, and Yahoo Movies:

http://www.fandango.com/

http://www.imdb.com/showtimes/

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/showtimes/

Does anyone know of a movies showtimes site with a decent signal-to-noise ratio?
Eh, it's a bit of both.

Yes, it's IRC with a pretty interface. But that interface is comfy and useful. Juggling multiple devices is seamless. It keeps your history and you can search it.

Not rocket science, sure, but not bad either. It's a step up from IRC.
Always wonder - what's a problem buying house in SF? Awesome 3br in luxury part of SF costs ~500k, if you and some of your friends just try to find money for initial payment (say 100k) then you could just pay only 1-2k$/month.
> tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

I know they've done this, and i know they've done this on purpose; but to read it bare like that is a bit too much for me, especially as I think more and more about the benefits of leaving their ecosystem, and weighing against the downsides.
Looks like you didn't follow the news. Microsoft is the new Apple.
So you're pretty much out of luck if you want to visit a page that contains some analysis?
Google Home Review: Google's Take on Amazon's Echo
I wonder how many people at MS had to pull an all-nighter to make that happen.
I think in the long run Apple will try to move developers over to iPad Pro. Rudimentary Xcode functionality is already in place on iOS.
>“It’s gone too far,” says one venture capitalist

I bet he wasn't quite so outraged at the illegal wage fixing cartel.
the Izzy on droid blog has a series of posts about it: https://android.izzysoft.de/articles/named/android-without-g...

Edit: The series is a little out of date, but should give you the general idea. ROMs that are probably new since that article was published that have no google dependencies are Replicant (entirely libre), OmniROM, Copperhead OS, and CyanagenMod w/ a no-gapps-script.
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Electron is a great framework. I've used the same applications on several OS's, each seemed stable and fully functional.
>Who is hocking shovels in our current scenario?

AWS/Azure
Slightly off topic: does anyone know of any forums/news aggregators of comparable quality to the HN community (e.g. generally well informed, polite, and strictly moderated/self-moderated) that focus on geopolitics?
Let's see. Department of Labor says there were 55,367 bachelors in computer and information sciences in 2013/4.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_322.10.as...

.3 * 55367 = 16610 or about 5000 per company. Google employs 57,100. Facebook employs 12,691. Amazon employs 132,600. It's hard to say how many of those are CS grads. Yeah, count me as incredulous.
Introducing Operators: Putting Operational Knowledge into Software on Kubernetes
> Which significantly raises the bar on entering the baseball team market. The world is unlikely to suffer from the shortage of baseball teams. Shortage of new tech companies does seem to have stronger negative effects on the economy.

Ahh. I see. If only they let go of tight grip on our balls by issuing more stock to the wealth creators, the problem should resolve itself. That is not happening though. Hence the pain. If you can't pay in cash, you can pay(generously) in stock. Can't you?
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Magsafe is also easily replaced with a BreakSafe power cable from Griffin: https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...
Everybody tries to do this, but few companies have such a comprehensive ecosystem as Apple. Do note that what you've quoted is not in any way malicious. It's just saying "make all of our products work really great together, so that way someone who uses one of them is much more likely to buy into the rest of the ecosystem". This is a bit different than saying "make it difficult for customers to leave our ecosystem", which would be the malicious approach.
I very badly need a TLS library in my embedded firmware so I can accept new firmware updates over HTTP.
If you want to dive directly into the technical details here are two example Operators for etcd distributed key-value and Prometheus monitoring:

- https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-the-etcd-operator.html

- https://coreos.com/blog/the-prometheus-operator.html
A friend of mine returned his surface pro 4 after 48 hours. A software update bricked it and it would not turn on. It really put me of buying one. My current laptop is ten years old an still going strong with a ram and sad upgrade
If it died tomorrow I don't know what I would replace it with.
MicroG is in fact the continuation of the project or "attempt" you're talking about (NOGAPPS). It's still the same author, too. You're right though in that the BlankStore hasn't seen an update.
Yes, it is possible. However, note that webm on safari will require transcoding vp8/vp9 into h.264. This is much more compute intensive than just transmuxing a flv (which has to be in h.264/aac) into another container (in this case fragmented mp4).

Here is an example of playing HEVC with this method: https://strukturag.github.io/libde265.js/
Create a useful REPL environment for scripting the .Net framework
There is no shortage in baseball teams. In addition to the two that played last night, the US alone has hundreds affiliated and unaffiliated minor league teams. Add to that international leagues, and there may well be a thousand teams with professional or semi-professional baseball players. Top end salaries doesn't change this.
It is almost like you have to execute with a very small team of all technical cofounders that have equal or nearly equal equity until you can find a clear product market fit, then raise money, then hire lots of people.

You almost shouldn't hire lots of people until that point?
The evidence for these things is not very good. Specially after ISIS actually established itself as a de-facto state.

Its very hard to say who is pulling the strings and if its the government.

I find it hard to believe given the current leadership of Saudi Arabia.

ISIS has long ago transcended being on peoples pay list, they are a de-facto state with taxes and other incomes. They are most certainly not mainly funded by the Saudis or other foreign entities. The US has a major effort underway to cut of money flows and those have been effective, ISIS could not survive without a local base.
Yep, 2.11.9 is the last planned release, but we would release another one for security fixes or anything as severe. If we get customer requests for backports, we (usually) also release those publicly.

Thanks for your support!
Javascript is a fine, popular language indeed -- but I absolutely loathe the way it's taught. I've helped several friends go through hacker schools/bootcamp programs and it's always terrible. They end up getting so confused by jQuery and Backbone and Express and Node that they don't understand where Javascript begins or ends. The end result is they miss the most basic, fundamental programming concepts.

For that reason I'm still of the opinion that the pedagogy is more important than language and I will continue to recommend SICP or HTDP to beginners.
Everything in this listicle (except #4) applies to product teams in general, ranging from a startup to an enterprise company.

I don't really think attending meetups are an issue, tbh. Are there startups that force employees to repeatedly go?
> Which significantly raises the bar on entering the baseball team market.

I disagree. Baseball is a legally enforced monopoly in the united states. (http://www.swcollege.com/bef/policy_debates/baseball.html) If not protected by antitrust laws, all major sports would arguably be prone to disruption and price undercutting.

The SF megacorps are not similarly protected. These salaries are market based pricing.
I've taken 6 weeks so far this year, and I'll take another week by the end of the year. I got married this year, then I went on a honeymoon. I was also in 8 other weddings over the past four months, each of which required a couple of days off for travel. My boss has been extremely understanding, and I don't think it's hurt me professionally at all. When I get back from my vacation, I work a little harder for a similar amount of time. That said, I've completed all my official tasks (and then some), so there's little to complain about, I think.
And they did so with an OS based on a technology, er, "borrowed" from SUN and now owned by his great friend Larry Ellison.

Lots of straws on that camel...
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Or hire remote, which is a perk in itself

How is it a perk? You provide your own equipment, give up some of your personal space, do your own support, the company saves on rent, cleaning, utility bills, equipment, furniture, security... and they convince you its such a perk you should be paid less too! Remote workers should be more highly paid! The boss is laughing all the way to the bank!
I work at the company that popularized internet messaging in the 90s. We used our own product exclusively for interoffice communication, until slack came out, and slack totally replaced it within the course of a couple of months, totally organically. Literally nobody at the company uses our own product any more.
Agreed. Reminds me of my favorite quote.

"Chance favors only the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
Oh wow! I have only hired remote employees within my own state and contractors out of state. That does sound like an entirely different level of challenges. How many employees do you have within your own state vs out of state?
IIRC IRC doesn't switch messages to your phone when you close your computer. In fact I think IRC messages don't even tell the sender that you're offline.
Well, for the sake of argument. Two downsides:

1) warehousing: as an engineer you are on ice in an insignificant project in the bowels of one of these tech chaebols but are locked in with golden handcuffs. Some people find that soul crushing, some are perfectly content with it and just focus on raising their families and hitting personal finance milestones.

2) Disconnect from true value-add. As horded talent at one of the tech chaebols you're not paid on your direct value add, but rather your value is in context with higher more nebulous corporate goals. One day one of the corporate game masters decides your initiative is no longer a strategic play, and you are axed. One thing sv engineers often don't consider when they say they want Wall Street like comp, is Wall Streeters have a very mercenary and "live by the sword / die by the sword" existence - there are tons of guys on Wall Street making a million a year and if they lost their current gig they'd never work in the industry again. This works for many people, but others hate it.

Some things to consider.
Welp, looks like last night was sleepless for some people.
I associate Skype with being slow and heavy for some reason. However it's possible that I picked this opinion up from other people and just started repeating it.
This is nice, and it actually looks pretty close to my current docx invoice (I know, I'm that lazy).
I'd like to suggest 2 simple features that would at least make me use it:
- remember state on localStorage (invoice is almost the same every month)
- add a textarea for generic notes on the bottom.
If there were more decent housing to rent and buy within a short to medium commute within the Bay Area, I and plenty of other engineers I know would gladly relocate to there without insane salary requirements.
> In the early days of compilers, of course, you were mostly writing C as a macro language

In the early days of compilers, we were mostly writing FORTRAN.
There is no way that is even close to true
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Why not run Gitlab on that server?
It's on a need to know basis and you don't need to know.

Apple considers it a relevant secret today, so it's redacted.
> "It’s gone too far,” says one venture capitalist...

This investor is probably making more than the vast majority of the people building technology. It's not clear to me why society benefits from that.

High salaries encourage young people to enter the field. That's a good thing.

High housing costs are another matter...
Bringing Eyes to the Internet of Things
Any other ideas of making 250MM by investing $1 ? Even if odds are super-low ???
Interesting. I find it hard to see how they could pull that off, but who knows...
Wow...
So if I understand correctly :

1) They decided to mess with a company having $500B in-cash

2) Which decided to attack their low barrier-to-entry market

3) And took the unusual revealing step of building its own instead of buying

4) And is playing in its comfort zone (productivity tools, Office, API, cloud-scale integration points : azure, azure marketplace etc...)

5) While having a pool of 90M trustful paying customers and the ability to provide them the same offering for free in less than 1 second.

The worst they could do was to help Microsoft define this offering as a direct competition. But this is just what they did with this arrogant and high-schoolish "Welcome" letter.

What really has me roll my eyes here is the way they think that they can be frontal with a corporation like Microsoft playing in its comfort zone and having the dollars we know they have.

This will cost them a lot. You can't easily backtrack from that and even if they somehow manage to do it, by the time they get there, Teams will have already seized a good chunk of their user base.
That stat isn't necessarily causal though. Have they controlled for the fact that 8th graders who start using e-cigs are already more likely to start smoking tobacco cigarettes? Which seems like a very reasonably assumption to make
People were saying they hope Microsoft would put Slack out of business. That's not disagreeing, that's actively disliking them.
I seem to remember some discussion about this with GEO600 results a couple years back. Their detector was seeing a bunch of noise and the conversation included asking if we had begun to see granularity of spacetime at their resolution.
From yesterday, the 1.7 release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12859347 and subsequent reversion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12860806.
Your absolutely right. There is really nothing innovative here. But never underestimate the power of eye-candy.

Think about apple products. You could throw your hands up and say "but there's nothing innovative here! they just built a pretty UI on top of BSD and people have been using Unix operating systems for 50 years!". True, but it's the pretty UI that connects it to the masses.

Slack took a concept that has been done to death (a chat server) and made it useable and accessible. I remember years ago installing pidgin, psi and adium at work because they all ran on different operating system and som guru had to configure an XMPP server somewhere in the company. Then at home i'd fire up mirc to work on some open source. My daughter would come home and hop onto yahoo chat so she could send terrible looking ascii/emoji bling to all her friends.

Yesterday i came into work and some guy came over and saw i had slack up and said, "whoa i love slack, do we have a company server for this?" I said, "yep". He said "send me an invite! i'm gonna go get my boss on this". That sort of emotional reaction to a product I think is what makes something a success.

I a chat room innovative? no. But i think success can't really be wholly described in terms of innovation either. Somehow software has to connect with real people (iXXX - because i own it?) and get people to buy into it like a brand of blue jeans.
Slack is much more Jabber/XMPP than it is IRC (although they do provide an IRC gateway for oldsters).
I like the UI. Great work. Kudos!
I'd love to see an update; 538 has cut a third off of Trump's chance.
The fundamental issue is that you should not be exposing the encryption keys to the database. If you're using pgcrypto then you're issuing SQL statements in the database with the key. You should do your encryption client-side so that the key is never passed over the wire at all.
I would be amazed if you could find a property of any type at all available in SF for 500k.
This was Slack's Liam Gallagher, moment. At the peak of their fame Oasis shits on the Beatles and every great band that has come before.

McCartly responds- "Now go and do better than The Beatles did"
In which way is it a security hole?
> The fact is in 2016, startup founders take considerably less risk than they did a decade ago. You can go from idea to revenue in days, with essentially no cost upfront.

That's awesome. If it's so easy why are you an employee? You should totally start a company and go from idea to revenue in days with no cost upfront. Then you'll own 100%!
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Because the situation is absurd or kafkaesque. British citizens who pay for BBC are not allowed to view BBC Worldwide, which is owned by BBC.
That is totally false. Oil is a major factor but some people throw sense out of the window and want to reduce everything to energy politics.

No expert on foreign policy, or the middle east I have heard give talks in the last years, considers this to be true. The only people who believe this narrative are naive leftist who don't understand the real situation.
I'm on 4 or 5 different slack teams. There are network effects in slack, even if the cost of moving your company is minor, nobody is going to switch to another product unless it's an order of magnitude better.

People who are totally active directory and exchange are going to use Teams. Nobody else is.
It would risk Apple's position as the luxury brand.
Google Maps, Play Store DropBox and practically all apps requiring a Google account used to work fine for me. However, with the latest update of Maps, Maps stopped working, unfortunately, and just crashes upon start-up. I'm not sure, though, whether this is related to MicroG.
Are there versioned alternatives out there that give the client as much control as GraphQL?

I mean, requesting only the data you need is a killer feature.
Except, that's not true. As I pointed out with History, IRC does not do that. Even if you count hacks like bots or additional services, it doesn't do it well, easily, or as a core part of the thing that is there the second you set it up without extra effort.
Too sad, Germany is a bit too far away. However, thanks in advance for recording, looking forward to watching it!
Normalizes events, etc.
Sure, and none of those solutions are as good as 'scroll up' after clicking five buttons to make a slack team. By quite a way.
- Property owners

- Restaurants, bars, night life sellers

AWS is more like SUN microsystems, selling infrastructure, whose subscription will dry up (or at least slow down in a bust cycle).
Robert DeNiro sniffed this future out a while back. http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-de-niro-lashes-out-at-...
Welcome IBM. Seriously.
...and black turtlenecks
The big difference for me is that with Slack anyone can create their own network with their own plethora of channels. You can't really compare it with traditional IRC where everyone is on the same IRC network.
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Good remote companies will provide you with equipment, pay you a competitive salary and provide you with support. Ones that don't are probably best to stay away from. Similar to non-remote companies who pay below going rate but try to entice you with ping pong tables and other perks ;)

Remote isn't for everyone but is a perk for many.