skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one thing I don't understand. It's great if used as an an aid to quitting, like nicotine gum, but I don't understand why someone would use them otherwise. A nonsmoker buying nicotine gum would be just as crazy. I can't imagine anyone being naive enough to think that nicotine by itself is a good thing, except as a step towards getting rid of a preexisting nicotine addiction.
Completely the opposite: Android has never been as proprietary as it is today. Almost every app you can get on your phone requires Google's proprietary services. Even Google's direct competitors, like Microsoft. Neither Skype nor Outlook run without Google's proprietary spyware installed.
A Python refactoring gone wrong
probably could be useful in some small "internet of things" device
I've always been a Bruce Eckel fan. This book he wrote Atomic Scala [1] is easy to read and digest.

[1] http://www.atomicscala.com/
I believe I understand the ideas behind Verilog. I see the problem rather in the fact that there are few tutorials available that lead you from beginner to decent "Verilog programmer". The problem begins already in the fact which FPGA board to buy, how to setup and use the environment, what software is freely available, how much does the code depend on the specific board, how to debug the code etc.

For programming there is good material for this available, but not for VHDL/Verilog.
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I'll have my impure Belgians any day over a pure German beer. Can't wait to go back to Belgium again :)

I've tried some trappist style beers from microbreweries but so far they've missed the mark. Even a La Trappe already has a wine like complexity in it's flavours.
The only real answer is to stop using operating systems and software developed by Google entirely.
They've been moving as many stuff as possible outside of the heap or to filesystem.
i would imagine as some sort of secure-boot or trusted hardware process.
http://www.orgzly.com
In my experiences using Slack, the people who aren't the normal IRC crowd (take that as you will, heh) fall out of common use after a short period of time. You're left with roughly the IRC crowd.

That may be dependent on team dynamics.
ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger and IRC were all entrenched at different points in time.

To give a parallel, so were Teamspeak, Ventrillo, Mumble, Raidcall, Xfire or whatever have you (for gaming at least).

Chat rooms and VOIP solutions are commodities and have been for a decade or more. Sure, some companies do some more value-add than others in terms of service and support, but at the end of the day it's still a commodity and no amount of rationalization and wishful thinking will change that.

Which is why their mimicking of Apple ad seems condescending and arrogant. Personal PCs were at the top of the technological know-how in the early 80s. Glorified chat rooms haven't been new or high tech for 20 years (IRC is how old?). In fact the only innovation in recent years seems to be end-to-end encryption, which Microsoft seems to be on board with.
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Then you're simply wrong. Spending 10x the money on making sure all data is atomically written and freshly read is idiotic if there's no problem with reading slightly stale data.
Anyone got some good Emacs advice for automated formatting?
Email sucks for real-time communcation. Most of the other IM applications you list suck for multi-person communication. Quassel looks good, but clearly harder to set up than Slack.

People always point at everything and go 'this stuff existed!' - even if all Slack did was pull everything together into a single cohesive environment, that's useful to people, it provides value. I'm shocked people are shocked by that idea.
Could this be applied to others that use a automatic memory management ? like Java or Android Java?
No, but from looking at it now that's likely because they've targeted themselves towards more informal (game) voice chat. It actually looks like it could be a good contender in this space if they decided to not only compare themselves to voice chat systems[1] (Skype, Ventrilo, Teamspeak), and didn't specifically market to gamers. That is, assuming the service is good, since I haven't tried it.

1: https://discordapp.com/features
Plus, Microsoft can throw engineering power at integrating their 'clone' with all their other tools. While I can't seem myself buying into their ecosystem anytime soon, that's a huge advantage that will be hard for Slack to compete with.
If they really wanted holy war, they should release a cheap phone that could be easily bought worldwide. They could even take a loss (using their $40bill as Jobs said he was willing to do), and try to earn back the loss in the app store.

It's such an obvious strategy, but oh well..
If San Francisco’s city boundaries included most of the Bay Area, regional transit and development planning would be much better integrated, and density would surely rise.
Which pairs up with the age old assumption that everyone is trying to create slack and couldn't have possibly been doing something more important with their lives than bringing IRC to the masses.
They already repealed Reinheitsgebot to replace it with Biergesetz, which expands the rules.
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I'm not defending the practices of small businesses but a couple things to note here that make it particularly difficult for a small business to provide insurance and not violate the law:

1) Group health insurance plans tend to have a significant upfront cost and it's extremely expensive per-employee with a small company. Larger companies get better plans and can pay significantly less per-employee. The SHOP [1] plans out there aren't even implemented yet in many states.

2) A logical option that many businesses wanted to do was simply reimburse employees the full cost of their individual health care premiums. It seemed like a good bridge between ensuring they have coverage without getting into the extremely expensive weeds of group plans. But for some absurd reason/loophole, that's actually illegal. And there's a $100/day ($36,500/yr) per employee fine if you reimburse employees for health insurance. [2]

[1] https://www.healthcare.gov/small-businesses/employers/

[2] https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/employer-health-care... Question #1.
There's this weirdly common idea that density = skyscrapers, which ignores the fact that a community of 5-story walkups can easily support 70,000+ people per square mile.
The simple solution is to give the homeless homes.
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>Despite assad's violence, the Revolution remained largely peaceful for several months. It became a full-blown war almost a year after it began

Please clarify how this is possible. I don't see how this narrative can be correct.

First two protesters were killed 18 March 2011 (Hussam Abdel Wali Ayyash and Akram Jawabreh.) Then already in March 23, 2011 two another
men who were killed (Sa’er Yahya Merhej and Habeel Anis Dayoub)
were part of the Syrian Arab Army and not civilians. It seems that initially peaceful protests turned into violent almost immediately because
they were hijacked by organized militants. Armed gunmen were already moving into Syria long before the protests. http://www.innercitypress.com/LASomSyria.pdf

According to the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria,
2,569 Syrian government forces were killed by March 2012 while total
number of people killed was 5,000.
> to have to move every 2 years to a different city for work when your company goes belly up or when your company realizes it can abuse you because there are no other employers around.

You have a very warped view of the tech industry outside the valley. Your impression certainly doesn't match reality, but enjoy that commute!
Wow, that's crazy. The most interesting part is that for Tobacco, it's MAOIs, not nicotine, that is the most addictive.
Ever figure this out? I did the same thing today! I enabled it, and both the app/browser version say I need to enable it. Already did, but maybe it just takes a little while.
ERP software like you describe: http://acctvantage.com
IIRC that's an option when spinning up a Mattermost server.
That's more like saying I expect to write highly performant software without knowing about CPU caches or the O(n) of my algorithms.

These are tools meant to scale out designs that you already have a good understanding of. Hardware is implicitly bottom up because you're dealing with physics at the bottom. Very few pieces of hardware are lenient to a single cycle of latency much less 10's of milliseconds.
No mention of facebook.
Maybe but if their managers are okay with this, then either they aren't technical enough or they're not being paid enough.
What a badly written letter. No aim, no structure, no class.
Why do I need a maglev to go 70? A bus can go 70. Any old steel-wheeled train can hit 200.
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I wonder if the Bear reference is in relation to the other smaller SSL implementation in WolfSSL https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfSSL/Home.html
Most people who tell you online how to get rich got rich by scamming people into buying their "Insider tips on how to get rich for the life you deserve" content.

For someone with a talent for online marketing, it's almost the easiest money there is.
I only heard of Slack through people showing off their ridiculous bots on Twitter.

I think the first was the bot that told you off for using gendered pronouns.

The evangelism it has fostered has been a great promoter, however now I think if our company (non-tech) adopted it - it would be a massive distraction.
> If I've got this right, in Syria, Iran is opposed to ISIS/Daesh and Saudis are funding them?

Well, I have a problem with saying "Saudis are funding them". Some people, even some in government are funding many different groups and maybe ISIS. The state itself does not directly fund ISIS.

ISIS today is self funded, they function more like a normal state and they are taxing people, selling of assets and more.

> While the Russians are supporting the status-quo Assad/Alawhite faction

Yes. The Russians support Assad.

> the American backed "liberation" factions have mostly died out

There never really was such a thing. Different American organisations have given support to different fraction, but it was never very much of unified front.

The US does still support the Syrian Kurds. The Kurds are usually not seen as part of the "rebel" fraction.

> (People seem to have stopped talking about AQ in the context of Syria?)

As I said in my comment, AQ is fractured. ISIS, al-Sham (Nusra) are all splinters of AQ (or spliters of splinters). AQ central can not control them and those groups fight each other as well.

I don't know if there is a "formally" affiliated AQ branch in Syria or Iraq atm, not a powerful one.

Iran is trying to defeat ISIS as well. They mostly want to have strong foot in Iraq and they want to prevent Syria from falling. This is why Hezbollah is fighting in Syria, and in Iraq there are groups like it as well.

Turkey is trying to prevent a Kurdish controlled belt from the sea along the sudden boarder because the see the PKK and YPG as the same.
Performance hit is not from the log though, but from having non-reading-writes (and ttls). So you have to look other versions too on disk for latest value.

I think newer data and tombstones would stay for a while in sstables, not in the log.
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Teens already experiment with smoking actual cigarettes, all vaping does is provide them with an alternative to experiment with that is far safer and less addicting than tobacco.
Well, what you want and the physical realities of synthesis are different :-)

In the early days of compilers, of course, you were mostly writing C as a macro language for your system's assembly language. If you wanted your program to perform well, you'd have to write C that was, more or less, a translation of assembly that you'd constructed in your head first. If you wrote bizarre C, you'd either get incorrect results, or if you were lucky, you'd get correct but inefficient results.

But that's also Dan's point: Verilog isn't a "high level language". You don't write programs with it, you describe hardware with it. (In fact, that is why it is called a 'hardware description language'!) So if you try to write a program, instead of describing hardware, you'll get something that isn't really either.
It sounds a lot like all the people that bash StackOverflow - "It's just posts and a voting system, I could write that in a week!", ignoring all the complexity and design behind it, operating at scale and cultivating the environment.

If people need something to be 'amazing' not to put it down, and 'amazing' doesn't include doing the right things to be highly successful...

If no one else did it, was it really so obvious?
Why is United Launch Alliance always ignored in these discussions?
You still have the choice to use many different mapping applications within an app you create on Android - Bing, Where, Mapbox, OpenStreetMap etc.

If you're using an app created by another developer that uses Google Maps as part of its functionality - you have no right to change that anyway.
https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc maybe?

http://usejsdoc.org/about-getting-started.html
I got one, back in 2012.
Absolutely not. Much harder to pull off a recipe that involves multiple malts and several late hop additions.

Maybe what your saying applies to some homebrewers, but breweries don't make IPAs because they screwed up a pale ale and decided to add more hops. Even at small breweries every brewing is planned in advance and coordinated with supply and brewing space.

The QA at any commercial brewery would have to be absolutely terrible if they couldn't brew something as simple as a blond without off flavors.
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Yes, but it's actually faster. Source: scylladb.
"keeps them happy and not looking for greener pastures"

These types of developers are always looking for greener pastures. No fault of their own. They should be. If all you "really have is creative freedom" you can't compete with the bigger guys who provide that + higher pay + equity + perks.

It would be better to choose a tech stack that is best for your company and attract talent that actually wants to work on what your startup is doing vs playing with the latest shiny thing.
Another reason is that, with respect to the rise of China, the United States is committing to investing in a rising India to challenge China economically, politically, and militarily.

Somehow the article fails to mention the burgeoning defense relationship between India and the United States, and the US imperatives to build out regional challengers and opposition to a China that is growing in power.
>it is near impossible to use it for anything worth while if you're stuck driving

It's also impossible if you're stuck standing on a public transit vehicle. You need one arm for the overhead rail and another for the backpack there isn't room to wear, and most of your attention to keep from falling over when the bus or train accelerates and brakes.

BART for me is a 15 minute bike ride + 10 minute transfer + 25 minute train + 10 minute walk, for a total of a little over an hour. The AC Transit transbay bus is more like 50 minutes, given that have to transfer from transbay terminal to Muni, but it's unreliable and the chances of getting a seat are zero instead of slim.

I now accept a 75 minute commute split between my car, the Oakland/Alameda ferry, and Muni because traffic within the East Bay is reasonably pleasant to drive in and the ferry feels reasonably civilized (no quick jerky movements, not crowded, reasonably clean).

In clear traffic, like if I go in on a Saturday, the drive straight to my office takes 18 minutes. Our public transit system is horrifically dysfunctional.
You are literally describing monads.
Cool! Do you have any blog post explaining how to do it?
sshing into my PC with emacs. With Evil mode (vim modes and keybindings for emacs, without loosing emacs' ones) it's perfectly usable. Don't need an extra app for that IMO.
Literally 3 years ago you could have said the same about Backbone.

And 2 years ago you could have said the same thing about Angular.

And now you can say it about React.

Are we to expect the next article from Pinterest about [angular 2, vue, elm, etc.] in two years time?
Over 400 invested. Ask Ross Perot about the success of NeXT.
So what? you don't have to innovate to be a success, that's where a lot of HNers get stuck imo.

Sure, i'm not calling Slack amazing - but i very clearly said i use slack, love it, pay for it and recommend it. I used Dropbox too.

I don't think anyone here is claiming Slack isn't a massive success. Nor that the product is any less great because it's not innovative. A comment like:

> This time we are saying this after Slack has already established itself. :-]

seems to suggest "we" are somehow wrong.. but i'm not sure where. Is my above statement somehow wrong? Or are you simply linking success and innovation where as i am not?
Another day, another post dismissing success as luck.

Let's take this somewhere. So what if it's just luck? What useful information can we glean from your dismissal?
High IBUs were a few years ago, now it's more about the fruity non-bitter aromas. The Viel famously marketed a "0 IBU" IPA recently.
Would be it be possible to support a `.well-known/portier` to support arbitrary SSO?
Products that remind you of episodes from Netflix's Black Mirror
I'd imaginethe developers of the products integrating their own things into Slack would give more and better thingts than Microsoft integrating other products into their things. We'll have to see if people start shifting where they integrate.
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"What do you do for work?"
"We're on vacations."
Seems like he ran out of ideas and was ready for a settle life milking the cash cow.
When you say "we", who do you mean? Hacker News readers? Tech people? Europeans?
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Likewise with genocide. There is a reason "we" get involved in some conflicts.
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I don't think Russia is interested in meddling.

If anything, it seems like a made up "threat" the US officials can use to justify whatever the heck they're doing.
Even without creating new lines, simply increasing the frequency of the Caltrain would make a big difference.
That was a choice made by Microsoft to enable those services at the app level - that does not take away from the argument that the operating system is open.

It's like saying Linux is more proprietary because Oracle is closed and runs on Linux.
I never got that. SF is 17k per sq mi., Queens is 21k. Queens is 4 stories with greenery, courtyards, parks, etc - forever. It's really calm and easy to get around.

People think SF will be Beijing when it needs to be Queens.
The last announced plan was to conclude 2.11.x with 2.11.9 (currently at 2.11.8).

Maybe we'll see longer support for people who don't migrate (heck, SBT still uses 2.10.x), but justifying it by Java version is weird.

If you're okay with using old Java versions, it's not much of a stretch to say you'll be okay with old Scala versions.
> Public transit works best for young healthy people. If you have kids or move a little slowly due to health or old age, public transit is a straight up no-go.

Is this a joke? Car travel works for healthy people who are ~20–60 years old with a stable income.

For everyone else – children, teenagers, elderly people, the disabled, the poor, etc. – cars are terrible. The lack of other transportation options is perhaps the biggest reason that living in car-centric suburbs is hell for teenagers; they end up entirely dependent.

Go take a bus in a city and you’ll see a huge variety of people riding.
Apps put a lot of effort into working on old Android devices, they actually have a pretty good position in this respect.
Actually most of those companies run consistent systems compared to cassandra stuff. They may have a kafka-log at the beginning but mostly consistent dbs at the other end.
Personally, quiet train with comfortable seat > driving > nearly everything else > standing on a loud, packed train.
As someone who commutes [usually] on 280S from Mountain View to San Jose -- adding about 5 miles to my optimal commute -- because 101S-->87S is even worse, I'm dreading the opening of the new Apple campus.
I get your point, but, if an anti-trust suit ever happened, it would be DoJ that sues MS, not Slack.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned e-bikes. As far as I can tell, that is the answer to the bay area traffic. Since I bought one roughly 5 months ago, I've commuted almost 3000 miles. My commute is the same every day, and it is a lot faster than a bad day of traffic. The bonus is that I don't have to change into bike clothes or shower.

Details:

12 mile commute

40 minutes by ebike, every day

25 minutes by car, best day

50 minutes by car, average day

1 hour 40 minutes by car, average day
I don't know much about Android, is this FUD and/or not really relevant?

https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/772592323112869888

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/516z23/according_t...
The general response in the thread was hoping that Slack would get gutted and dismissing it as trivial. Not being 'innovative' isn't a sin. Thinking there is nothing to learn from slack sounds like a mistaking to me.
It was widely predicted that Iraq would descend into sectarian war if the US withdrew before the Iraqi government and military was ready, but the party that wanted the withdrawl said the didn't care - it wasn't our problem.
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Brion gave a talk about this just a few weeks ago: https://www.twitch.tv/demuxed/v/94956075