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> So something that frustrated me literally got me motivated. And that’s how I started learning how to code seriously.

My exact experience.
>I'm sure Slack will continue with much success now that they have their user base, so good for them, but to delude themselves into thinking no one can do it as good as they do is a bit naive.

The problem is, Slack has a user base consisting mainly of people willing to switch to the "next big thing" pretty quickly. That's how they got to Slack, but there's nothing preventing those people from leaving to move onto something new. Most slower to react companies are still using Lync, and probably won't ever switch to Slack.

The reason I use Slack is because it is better than any of the alternatives, but I wouldn't hesitate to switch to something better if it comes around.
> The case is going before the CAFC, which means a likely win for Oracle.

Frankly, everything else would be a travesty.

My personal wet dream is that in response to this, Google will partner with Microsoft to get dotNET as a VM backend.
Fiber is about .53C I seem to recall from my CCNA classes
> He has a 20 min. drive from his home in WV to the train station and then a 2+ hour train ride in to the city.

A train commute is not the same as a car commute (as castratikron (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12865204) also notes). I have a two hours' walk to work, and I love it; it is calming. Half that time in a car would have me a frothing mess of rage (I say with authority, having briefly had a 90-minute commute a while back).
Why the death of Vine is about more than just the end of an app
Until one found the code failed on some version on browsers, or worst - mobile browsers...

Then you need to debugger your code, compiled code, sourcemap files, compiler, compiler options, the layer and layers of configuration JSON scripts and mobile browser.
How Basecamp Uses Basecamp 3 to Manage Team Projects and Simplify Communication
I'm in the same train right now (literally as I type this) and have been commuting from Santa Clara to SF everyday. This takes me 2hrs 40mins combined of just being inside the train and another 20-30 mins of getting to the train station each day. Being in a train is not that bad as long as I'm preoccupied with my laptop, but I now have to sleep and wake up 2 hours earlier.
I don't know if this discredits General Relativity in any way. From what I understand, it underlies General Relativity by defining the nature of space and time.
I am a visual thinker. The method of listing columns as rows (i.e., the one line per column format) is too annoying to focus on the underlying code. Splitting a list is something like pagination or even regular text, so I suppose my mind just compensates for that without my thinking about it.

But I just can't do the columns as rows thing. I feel a little bit out in the cold because of it, but I'll just keep reformatting everybody else's code so I can read it. :-)
Because "Reliers" is a non-word?

Non-English word anyway.
Leave It to Science: Should We Hold a Grudge?
I wonder how automated cars will change this. I would expect we will see larger and larger commute times, as people will be able to work in their cars (given their job), and it won't be so onerous as many of the things we do at home to relax can possibly be done while the car drives us where we need to go.
Glad I got a reply :D You think it is a bad idea? How so?
>You could hope to find one person to fill any two of those jobs, but all you'll get out of a 'scrappy content marketer' is a vacant position and a series of burnouts.

One person can easily manage all of this and more very affordably with freelancers, tools, and a decent process.

Where you go wrong is when the person managing is "figuring it out on the fly."

Use canva or stencil for design, use textbroker or copypress for content at scale, all that is left is building an editorial calendar, planning content promotion, blogger outreach, all of which can be done with tools, etc...

...if you have clarity about what exactly needs to be done from ideation to promotion, its really not that hard for one person with tools and freelancers to execute on.
If real data is signal, then fake data is noise.
To drop, or not to drop - is that your question? Most Indian schoolchildren of my generation grew up with at least one play by the bard (or a few) at school. I don't know about schoolkids these days, though.
He was also harsh in a dishonest way, picking the pockets of his business partners and employees.
Many self help books try to make you think about luck as setting yourself up to take advantage of opportunities that show up frequently around you, but you might not normally notice them, or be prepared to act on them.

I can't think of any specific citations, since it's such a general observation.
I've lived in sane places. Problem there is you've got a handful of tech employers in most of these places. If you lose your tech job in the Bay Area, you can interview at dozens of local companies a week pretty much forever until you find something. If you lose your job in SaneTown, USA, you can exhaust the entire local hiring market in a week and if you come up empty you're moving (probably to a different State).
I like owning dogs and having a yard for them to play in. I also like equity and having room for servers in the basement and my fiancé and I both having our own offices.

I really like not hearing my neighbors parties or seeing random weirdos hanging out in the hallways.

To each their own. Nothing in the city really excites me. Quite frankly I find the noise and bustle annoying.
Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt
I recently visited my home town and alma mater. Both places need new industry. My home town is littered with empty office buildings and work is hard to find. My alma mater's surrounding area just lost one of its two grocery stores and has little outside of the college. Even where I currently live needs another industry as its current is literally a gamble - Las Vegas. It frustrates me to see so much potential concentrated in an age where travel and telepresence allow outsourcing abroad.
OK, but that only works for open-source OSs, not commercial ones. Also, it really helps to have a certain amount of crypto-savvy to be able to distinguish a competent consultant from a snake-oil salesman.

BTW, /dev/urandom on OS X may be random, but it is ridiculously slow:

```
time head -100000 /dev/urandom > /dev/null

real	0m1.832s
user	0m0.015s
sys	0m1.817s
```

So there's another reason someone might want to implement their own CSPRNG.
Weird to blame current Scala versions for not supporting end of life versions.

You can still use Java 6 and Scala 2.11.

It's just that Java 6 will not receive any bug fixes or security updates, and Scala 2.11 will not either. But both will continue to work.

Seems very sane to me.
I wasn't a mega commuter, but I had a commute of around an hour. A few years back, I moved into the city. One of the most life changing decisions I've ever made. I didn't love commuting at the time, but it wasn't the worst thing. After experiencing what it was like to not commute, I realized how truly awful it was. Killing the commute is one of the best things I've ever done for my overall well being. If you're able to cut out your commute, even if it means sacrificing other things, I definitely recommend it.
While there is some PostgreSQL-specific things in this, the vast majority of it is pretty solid advice regardless of the database you have.
Thats great. I would love to read more about how you made it..
> No, that's not how it works [...]

Are you sure the people's feelings align with how your rational thinking
goes?
Most probably to employ a third-party X server is more robust at the moment.

However in this case we can achieve the same effect with the Ubuntu bits of the X server. It's true that here we require other tweaks but this is a bigger step towards letting Ubuntu on Windows on its own to run X apps.

LoWe provides a generic approach and idea that can be applied in a specific way to other functionalities. Eg. it's possible to play music (PCM) by "emulating" some ALSA devices.
Time to update the old canard. "If you could have invented Slack... you would have invented Slack." Execution is everything.
Source for "In the 50's congress was made up of Engineers"?
Sure, if you find a trait common to survivors that those who died did not have--but to do that, you have to look at those who died, too.
Still is if you want good maps.
Exactly but not many people realize that
Trump vs. Clinton: understand how people are talking about the US elections
> Or maybe it will evaporate into the ether, like Yammer, which Microsoft spent $1.2 billion on to seemingly no effect whatsoever.

Ah, Silicon Valley. Where growing slowly is the same as being already dead
Slack-like chat in an integrated offering isn't new. Zoho has offered this for some time: https://www.zoho.com/chat/
I would imagine the problems they might have with this project is that it, I assume, calls private remote Google APIs -- which would by definition be an unlicensed use.
It's also crazy easy to dump your Slack history out of Slack, as well as use their Discovery API, to have a competing service interrogate your team configuration and replicate it in a new service. Maybe not one click import, but it wouldn't be painful to move.

Perhaps an open source utility will be written that can package all of the content and metadata required for your chat service up as a JSON bundle for import elsewhere.

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-yo...

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204897248-Guide-to-...
> > armies

> That's a feature of any society.

> > And let's not forget the cost of shooting war or currency war.

> That's, again, a "feature" of all societies. Bitcoin is completely orthogonal.

No. War is a feature of the State. Currency war is a feature of State control of money.
Slack: Open letter to Microsoft
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If they give it away for free (as part of office365), is that not effectively anticompetitive behaviour?
The US, like Britain and much of Europe has a long history of practicing economic protectionism. I wouldn't say its wrong one way or the other, but it is kind of hypocritical to say "Do as we preach, not as we did".
Steve Jobs is portrayed as Savior of Apple but isn't it true that he was the man who actually drove Apple into ground in the first place by pushing Lisa over Macintosh.

In many ways he was lucky enough to return at a time computing power had caught up to realize the dreams cooking into his head.

In addition to this he didn't had a formidable competition as Microsoft didn't had the right leadership after Bill left. I remember Microsoft demoed Surface back in 2001 but then lost to mobile war completely.
This, IMO, is a good reason to legalize and regulate all drugs, including hard drugs like heroin and meth. The user having the tools to regulate the potency and amount of the drug in order to use this taper-down strategy is not available via the black market.
I couldn't agree more. What I will add is that there are loads of development jobs in non-techy companies that will treat hiring a developer like they would with any other skilled employee in the company, and these usually involve a related degree.
I didn't see such a catastrophic marketing decision for a long time.
Imported beers do not need to be brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot. EU legislation only allows discrimination against in-country merchandise.
It definitely felt polar opposite to the tone of the wonderful animated animal character ad. Even visually the tone was too stark.
"Money in Silicon Valley knows no prejudice."

Most of the money is very dumb and extremely prejudiced. Listening to women talk about fundraising is horrifying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_BBC_television_c... - presumably its web site counts as "on air".
That's a strange way of saying "BBC UK's UK monopoly prevents BBC Worldwide from serving UK users"
Amsterdam and other cities in the Netherlands are the some of the best examples of this. People look at the massive portion that bicycles take up in their split of transportation modes and think that it could never happen in their country or city for all sorts of reasons because Amsterdam is special and the Dutch are unique and special.

However if you can easily find pictures of Amsterdam in the 1970s where the streets look just as crammed with cars as any other city of that time. What happened is that people decided this wasn't working at all and they simply made a choice and they made a change to their spending priorities. Anyone can do this. All that is needed is the political will to make it a priority.
Nearly the entire point of the project is to have an Android system that isn't reliant on Google services.

Edit: I see I misunderstood. This page talks about opting in to Google services: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki

So they are using them.
Or you consider this off-topic ?
Run Your Existing Golang Web Applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway
> The last thing the world needs is another immature SSL/TLS implementation

Here's an interesting thought: you don't become mature without starting somewhere.
Team communication tools don't suffer the same network-effect downsides to switching that other social apps do. The decision to switch can be made by one person. Everybody else is responding to a mandate.
If there's only 5000 types, why don't you just keep a catalog file? Then it's a single hit.
That is true, but not the same as an additive put in on purpose.
Incentives matter. Cities should work together to push and pull industry where it needs to go using policy.
Regardless of the particulars, I find the most important thing for readability is for the author to have made some kind of decision and stuck to it. The most illegible style is no style at all.
Related thread;
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11232111
That's true; indeed, the fact that ISRO does so well supports what you claim.

That however does not contradict the fact that India's exam system also filters out a lot of smart people, and trains them really well... most of whom have historically have left for the US.
That's fine. My favorite thing about React is that it's not opinionated -- it follows simple, easy to understand conventions that are not unique to React. It's also compostable from the ground up meaning it's easy to use React in non-React code and vice-versa.

I don't think Vue will replace React for this reason (it's much closer to old DOM-munging style) but if something does its much less of a big deal than going from Backbone->React.
One of the big challenges in increasing spending for public transit is homelessness.

For example, this 2013 article describes how the VTA 22 El Camino route becomes completely full of homeless people during the overnight hours: http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/10/31/homeless-turn-overnigh...
They did far more than "added a pretty UI". I used IRC for years, and getting it to do the things I use Slack for (mobile interface, file transfers, a half dozen API integrations, near instant search, etc etc) was either painful or impossible.

Also, if all it took was a pretty UI, companies like Hipchat would have been the winner years ago. I mean, Slack has a better UI in my opinion than Hipchat, but it's an example of taking the basics of IRC and slapping an interface of it.

Besides that though, I agree this letter was pretty stupid.
My rule: No agenda, no attenda.

(I didn't come up with it.)
Thats not a startup. It is a small business.
Hi /r/dataisbeautiful/!

For creating Tarsier, we used Tweepy for extracing tweets using the Twitter Public API, we used MonkeyLearn for analyzing the tweets and finally used Plotly for creating the visualizations.

You can see some of the insights we got using Tarsier here: https://blog.monkeylearn.com/donald-trump-vs-hillary-clinton...
Will this, by any chance, increase the number of open-source apps available in f-droid? Every now and then, I spot a wonderful app that is only not available due to dependencies on one or two proprietary Google APIs or components.

I'm trying to run a totally open-source android installation, and have opted-out of Google entirely. It's worked out fairly well so far, but the app choices are fairly limited, of course.
Yeah, it's designed to pass through the same mechanisms that handle JavaScript. It's a new byte code standard afaik, too, but one that's used in those systems.
How Man Caves Took Over America's Basements
The YC Effect: Charting How YC Makes Your Company Better
Schiaparelli crash site in colour
India obviously has a huge English influence, going back to the colonial days.
My opinion is that Persona was still untested, we will never know whether Persona was going to be it or not because they never launched the browser integration.
No, what he's doing is taking X successful companies (and X' similar but unsuccessful companies), looking BACK for Y years, and looking at the Z things that the X companies did differently than the X' companies, attributing a causal relationship between those activities and success. The flaw, of course, is he ignores other companies that ALSO did Z but were not successful.
So, this would involve anodizing the steel in Nitric Acid to make a suitable anodized surface (that wasn't just rust). I'm not sure what the anodizing bath needs to be for brass. I wonder what they use?

This sounds like a great thing to release an instructable for. I'd be happy to give some home chemistry and construction a try to build a big battery. However, I question whether all this can really be done safely with "home chemicals". Many home chemicals are hardly safe and have some serious potential for harm if you find yourself breathing fumes, burning, heating, boiling, or handling them. I wonder at potassium hydroxide in sufficient concentration to be a useful electrolyte. Anything >2% is considered caustic.
Note that you can turn this off yourself by setting "dom.battery.enabled" to "false".
Execution is everything? Then Microsoft is also copying their execution. What's wrong with that? Why going overboard and trying to troll Microsoft?
It's probably linked to this quote:

> I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs said. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

The primary strategy appears to have been to use IP courts to make Android undistributable rather than competing directly, as Apple have no interest in capturing the bottom 90% of the mobile market. The Oracle v Google case is probably part of the same campaign.
> Execution is everything.

Execution is a lot, but so is timing. Execution can be controlled, timing is mostly luck.
I've worked at three weeks,5 weeks and unlimited. The reality is that I like 5 weeks more than Unlimited. When I was working unlimited I actually was able to take as much time as I wanted, but it was obvious that different employees had different trust levels in the vacation system. No one would stand in my way, but it was very apparent that certain people were just not comfortable either with me leaving or with taking the time they need themselves. Additionally having unlimited time off means that you do not earn that value when you quit. I have used the money from saved up vacation to sponsor my next job search. This gives me enough time 2 develop new interests and gain traction on a new project.

When I was working at 5 weeks, I generally average using four weeks a year
I'm really weirded out that people can't see the value Slack added. Having your messages stored while you are offline is hugely valuable. If I have been out of signal range on a train, I want to be able to look at history on my phone once I'm back in range of a cell tower.

Beyond that, a well made UI for web, desktop and phone that is consistent is valuable. 'Adding a pretty UI' isn't a zero-effort or skill thing.

No, Slack isn't a world away from IRC or email - but it's enough better that people want to use it, that's good. I'm not sure where all the hate comes from.
Agree that "it's a chat room" but it's also a chat room that's pretty well entrenched at this point, hooked into a lot of people's entire operational workflows thanks to API hooks and bots, etc.

In short, they are entrenched and have done a great job of ensuring that the cost of switching is high enough that it's going to take a lot of justification to get somebody to take the time to make the move.

All they really have to do is avoid a colossal screw up.
I commuted 40 miles each way for four years living in Vermont. Not by choice as I got the job after moving there when my wife got hers first.

As housing options are limited in Vermont due to restrictive development laws, we had to pick a place that is reasonable for my wife to commute. It ended up that my commute was much longer when I got the job.

It sucked esp during the brutal winters! Never again. Now I'm happy with an easy 10 mile commute.
I wonder what his opinion would be on Tablet sales spectacularly crashing. Surely it's not just bad execution.
I think some formatting got lost. The context:

– we invented Digital Hub concept
– PC as hub for all your digital assets
– contacts, calendars, bookmarks, photos, music, videos
– digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud
– PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ...

Train of thought seems to be, "Appled invented the digital hub, with the PC at the center for all your contacts, calendars...etc - That's moving to the cloud"

Hence why its under the topic "2011: Year of the Cloud"
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I'm in UK so healthcare isn't an issue.

The pension contributions and paid vacation is nice but it doesn't make up for the difference in income. Also contracting means that you can essentially decide the holiday/income ratio yourself.

One of the main benefits for me is that I usually get bored/sick of working at particular companies after an extended duration (the work can get repetitive). Contracting means you can job hop, gain a wider variety of experience and take extended holidays without stigma.
Ask HN: How to get started with artificial intelligence?
You might be reposting this a bit too much (8 times in 2 weeks). Additionally, it's political and not as suited for HN.
yes I hadn't seen that but they do provide some elisp code snippets to automate some of those code changes. thanks!
I imagine this is for video site's that still have a lot of flv's which they'll never reencode but want to work on devices that don't have flash player.
Slack is the most overrated startup of the last couple years.

A native ui for IRC with some extra features.

Their valuation is laughable and is a prime example of the bubble forming in vc tech.
With GeoIP you can estimate the zip-code
Caveat: I've never smoked or vaped, but I have plenty of friends that do both.

I think the idea is that when vaping, you are able adjust the level of nicotine you are consuming without having to adjust how often you engage in the physical act of vaping/smoking. The act is a comfortable ritual, a chance to take a break, step away, relax for a few moments, whatever. It's a habit itself, distinct from the nicotine dependency. Quitting smoking is doubly painful if you are craving both the chemical and the act. Vaping gives you the act without the chemical.

This doesn't even touch the fact that nicotine is not particularly harmful - simply a habit-forming stimulant like caffeine, adderall or modafinil. Vaping delivers the nicotine without the tar, and the tar is what kills. The thing that makes people nervous about vaping is not the nicotine, but the behavior of the (largely unstudied and unregulated) substances in the vapor being inhaled.