skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the app-restore behavior after a reboot? Gone, and Windows reboots a lot compared to MacOS

It's annoying enough on my gaming machine, I can't imagine using Win10 on a device I use for serious work. Reboots seemingly every 36 hours or so. Their update system is totally out of control.
Anyone else find it a bit ironic (?) that they say "an open platform is essential" but haven't open sourced their core code base? That feels like a bit of a misstep to me.
Why is it mafia like?
Let's hope my boss implements it, I'm tired of those endless email chains.
They definitely must have to hit those rates but regardless, that type of growth is huge. Wish I could talk to one of these companies and hear their story
Is there anything the other way around? Running a Linux binary on MacOS? Sometimes the source isn't available so recompiling isn't an option.
Unless I know something is what I really want, I'll buy it in a store. Clothes are a good example- returning something because it doesn't fit is a hassle (because the shipping is expensive so there is an incentive to make it a hassle), so I don't do it. And so the supposed savings from buying online evaporate. (And of course stores prevent the problem in the first place because you can try it on.) I used to buy a lot of clothes online but now I basically never do. The experience really kinda sucks.
Has anyone played with Bazel/Closure?

You get dependency management (resolution, pruning) for free from Closure and declarative build targets from Bazel. (Including dependencies on other targets, e.g. non-module-bundle.js)

To be fair, I don't think the (publicly) available rule set grants parity with webpack, but the syntax is a lot less gross and the concepts have been there from the start.

(Re gross: Instantiation in a config file?)
Here's a video, "Introducing Microsoft Teams" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKU-FMzZFF0
> GNU/Linux doesn't have desktop stack capable of matching Objective-C, Swift frameworks both in feature set and related GUI tooling.

Qt alone exceeds the feature set, has more GUI tooling, and is multi-platform. That's just Qt, and the same could be said for GTK. I'm not slinging mud at Obj-c and the frameworks Apple maintains, but they are not unique snowflakes without equal.
That was my second thought. My first was "when did Microsoft enter the revolution"
> "There are developers who don't care about guidelines, or design. That's not a platform fault, is just that there are developers who just want the job done, even in a ugly fashion."

And that is the biggest problem in software world, that's why our computers are full of half-baked, ugly, poor documented and uncompatible programs - because someone "just wanted to get job done".
This is neat, but I can't think of a single non-GUI tool on OS X that I need or doesn't have an equivalent in Linux...
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It's interesting that the pricing is changing. In 2007-2009 or so a house in the loop would be $300k (Houston pricing wasn't really affected by 2008). So clearly things are changing.

For what it's worth, $500k is still very cheap compared to many metros - a comparable house in many cities would be twice that. 3-4 times in (much of) NY, the bay area, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver.

I think we are making the same point about infrastructure progams there - but traffic still sucks (although it's nothing like some cities) if you live in the core, but you still have to drive all over to do basic things.
Interesting, the Android and WP developers I know use PCs running Linux... since the plural of "anecdote" is "statistics" I wonder how we proceed from here
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Of all the platforms my team has used, Slack has been the most "polished". Lots of things come under that, but its hard to define exactly. Speed, Design details, consistency etc. Product quality is just very high with Slack. Only Whatsapp comes close in some of those matters.
Yeah, this is perfect! Even while there are many tech-savvy people who can’t tell what is this in response to, surely a printed newspaper ad will just help everybody understand.
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I've read far worse and all I meant by that comment is praise to other Mac developers.
or more like "pants-shat"

their only hope is what they hope for in this writing, MS f's up somewhere in the process and create another yammer. I hope they won't, competition is healthy. ;)
Very much worth noting too that the bailouts ensure banks (mostly German banks) get paid back. Bankruptcy or debt forgiveness means the banks don't get paid back. And now when EU taxpayers get pissed about paying for the bailout, the EU bureaucrats can point at those darn lazy greeks as the problem.

At the end of the day, it's the banks' job to assess risk, they lent money to Greece, and they're only getting paid because of this bailout. What's greece paying in interest, again? Some kind of huge risk premium, probably?
Thanks to Slack we now know that MS is launching a competitor.

Never mention the competition, always focus on your shit.

But yeah, we get it - first Facebook Workplace, now MS Team. Slack might get pushed into the feature/addon category faster than it can move into full product. Hard to reach the crazy valuation that way.
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Gee, in the US, all property is debt as well. (Property tax.) So you don't really own your property--if you fail to pay, you will ultimately lose possession.

http://taxation.lawyers.com/property-tax/when-you-cant-pay-y...
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That's kinda the point. He pushes for donations, but doesn't offer support. It's not illegal for him to not offer support and it's not illegal for me to not pay him.

I would prefer to pay a reasonable subscription fee with a support contract which is also not illegal, but benefits all parties.
Recruiter here: I placed a developer or two who were laid off from Donlen (owned by Hertz) earlier this year. It didnt seam like they were laying off everyone though. Might be time to check in with all my other contacts though. Thanks.
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Dear Slack. No one cares.
Another tired accusation about tired accusations about negativity on HN...

We have achieved irony inception.
Is it correct that the Firefox uBlock Origin doesn't need the companion as it already supports WebSockets filtering?
Why I, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, would vote for Trump to be President
I think they did a good job promoting their competitor. I had no idea that Microsoft had such a product. Now I'm interested.

I guess if your only product is a chat platform, how much can you innovate in this space in 2016? I'd be desperate too.
Ask HN: Any cool conversational interfaces?
Looks like everybody is talking about conversational interfaces but cant find a lot of specific examples or successful use cases. Any examples?
This is the only natural endgame of "you can't manage what you don't measure" and metrics-based results-driven accountability. Particularly when those metrics are quarterly.
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this is often times done on purpose, for companies listed on the nasdaq or nyse, i believe they have to announce publicly if they're laying off x% (i think it's like 7 or 9%). if they're less than x% then they can totally disregard public notification which helps with morale.
Yeah the free sites are owned by the same German company, they basically jack your material as soon as it hit DVD, now that doesn't happen because they destroyed 90% of the industry.
It's possible that you made the right decision - you were young, you got the job, you got experience on your resume.
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It's easy to move quickly when City Council ignores the law and invests in you:

https://medium.com/@CaseySoftware/mayor-steve-adler-is-scamm...
Anyone feeling defensive or threatened today?
I think the large compensation helps the CEO act on what he/she feels is in the best interest of the company. When you make enough in one year to retire, you can make decisions with a lot more courage.
I've been at PillPack (pillpack.com) for more than three years now and I found them by searching for "Cambridge" in the June 2014 post.
Curious if there is a desktop version in the works.
This is never going to be accurate. Titles alone are a poor indicator of ability in software.

E.g. I hold the title of "Senior Software Engineer" despite only have 2 years/4 mo. of experience and very little of that experience is project management or non-code things.

When talking to recruiters in my area for a new position and giving a base salary of $90k, they routinely come back with "You won't get that offer with your level of experience".

In practice, I routinely cut the Senior from my title to avoid expectations I can't meet.

Dice.com has a much better idea behind this, which is tying skills and years of skill to estimated salary. The backend for LinkedIn's site honestly does not look more complex than a few straight-forward SQL queries.
Because I really enjoy not getting malware installed on my computer. As long as ads are one of the major vectors for malware installations, and ad networks barely vet the ads they publish, I will be doing everything I can do to block them.
Basically the last mile is by far the most expensive.

It's cheaper to get a truck full of stuff to your shop than having trucks all over the country's cities going from door to door to deliver stuff to individual customers.
Yes, although is reproducibility even possible in polls? People's opinions change on a whim. In fact people's opinions can change simply because they were asked a question so the answer might be different if asked the question again,

I guess you could conduct the same poll with multiple sets of people and see how the results compare, but in a way that's what poll aggregators do.
And yet, it does a similar thing as every chat application ever, be it IRC, MSN, Skype (previous work communication tool), Lync, probably some HP and IBM solution, and what have you. I don't know why Slack seems to be perceived as that much more distracting. Maybe because they're doing something right and making everyone want to use it much more for everything?

I'm no big IRC user, but when I joined some of the open source IRC channels, there was activity all the time; how is that less distracting?

Also, do not disturb and 'quit' are always an option.
You know some impressive five-year-olds.
Where is the data? Probase is sanitized; there is no MS https://concept.research.microsoft.com/Home/Demo?instance=pr...
It's probably worth mentioning that they were called out previously[0].

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129353...
Yup that came up but it looked a little too complex to use for the person for whom I made the website. He can handle basic HTML tweaks but isn't really a techie. He also wanted to be able to update his website from any machine, including his iPad.
Tested tried this out, here's the link (minute 6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBF3EreWIm8

I'm kind of in the same boat, when I first bought mine, I went with the base model because I didn't want to pay too much for something I'm unsure about. Now that I've been using it for a while I wish there was a way to upgrade.
Razer looks like exactly what I was looking for, I guess I could settle for a 14" screen. TBH I forgot about them.

I didn't see any Dell, System76, Asus or HP laptops that were all metal and on par with a MacBook, only an Asus netbook.
They never were.

We only use a mix of Microsoft Lync and Lotus Sametime.
When did they ever have a monopoly?
Now I'm interested in Microsoft's product. I'm certainly not in love with Slack. I'd love for someone to eat their lunch.
After interviewing, they strung me along for weeks, repeatedly promising me that they'd get back to me soon about whether or not they wanted to proceed. In the end, they never called me back at all.

This was especially frustrating because it was my first-choice job prospect, so I didn't actively pursue other decent opportunities.
> Gifs are a form of communication. You might not use it, but most people do.

Just like most people use whatsapp and I don't want to stop them at all. BUT there is a demand for a secure communication application that does just this. Secure communication.

I don't say they should never put in funny gifs or whatever is fancy or trendy aka "necessary" today when they are done with it and when it does not risk the main claim of the product at all.

But seeing that the priorities switch to really unnecessary stuff when there are so many important things that could be done with that, is sad and bringing in a bunch of trendy kids ideas in there won't help at all. You may be happy with your gifs then but if this is the case, and those are the features you consider important, you many be more of a problem for this product and the claim then a gain. And honestly, Signal survived without it, it wouldn't die not having it.

> My IT club group chat are all nerds, yet we still do not use Signal, because things like gifs were missing.

So what do you say? Would your "IT club" fall apart without it? Would you switch to unsecure messaging without it? If yes: Signal should not care about you at all because the marked is already covered with alternatives better suited for you. If no: why are you arguing with me?

Edit: my god...I misread that in your favour. You really don't use Signal because there is no gif search in it....this is...I don't even..

> The Strategy of Signal is to make a mass market chat client that is save. Not a nerd utopia chat client.

If their priorities are gif search and not an account without a number, secure contact sharing or all those other requests that have been out there, they will end up being not more then what WhatsApp is atm. If you think this is a viable marketing method, you should join a economics club instead.

> I don't remember my mother asking for reproducible APK compilation.

I was talking about the app in general. We have enough apps out there with fancy trending useless crap you miss so much. It even uses the same encryption. We don't need more of the same.
The old joke about "Prepare three envelopes" has a lot of truth to it.
Sure - I've submitted a request to join the group, and will add a post once I've been approved.
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If MS can nail the creation and organization of "micro channels", that would be a huge innovation in this space that Slack has not been able to figure out yet.

We are a 100% remote company and we use Slack and Teamspeak as our primary communication tools. Our biggest problem with Slack is when multiple conversations are happening in the same channel. There should be a way to segregate those convos into separate "theads", without having to make new channels.

That would be a huge win for whatever chat product can solve this pain point. Unfortunately, innovation is probably not a huge payoff since the competition would simply copy the feature =(
It's appropriate to call this at least GNU/Linux, right?
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Because that's a totally separate discussion. Blocking ads is about controlling what code runs on my machine, not about trying to obtain content without "paying" for it. There has been a nightmarish amount of malware served through ads and so blocking ads (and external JS content) is a security concern. After the fact, once all ads have been blocked, there can be a discussion about creators getting money for their content. In that conversation I am happy to talk about paying for Youtube Red, supporting people on Patreon, and sponsored segments in podcasts, all of which I am in favor of.

But don't try and turn a security issue into an ethics issue.
uBlock Origin sees, reports, and can block websocket connection attempts on Firefox. The onus is on the parent comment to make the case with something more substantial than "No it doesn't". Maybe he is just referring to the plain "uBlock", which is no longer maintained.
I currently use xfce[1] with docky[2] and it feels pretty good. Probably not as polished but I know it's stable.

There were other distros in the past trying to copy macOS, pear os[3] was one of them.

I remember Lindows[4] trying to market itself as a windows replacement. I can't believe they got sued and actually lost[5]! Xandros[6] was also in this space. They probably went BK.

Every year is the year of Linux for the desktop but it's really not possible to capture this market. It'll have to come from someone like google. Why couldn't chrome os have been a legit linux distro instead of trying for a niche netbook market with a locked down OS?

[1] http://xfce.org/

[2] http://wiki.go-docky.com/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Dock...

[3] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pear

[4] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linspire

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com....

[6] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xandros
Totally, the lack of self-hosting/open platform with Slack just might be their mis-step that cuts off their growth.
Don't confuse being known with being trusted. One is a prerequisite for the other, but they are not the same thing. It's not so much who you know as it is who trusts you.
Agreed. A strong case to sue, especially with other co-plaintiffs.
I've never gotten them to work well on laptops running Linux. I have limited patience for fiddling around with drivers, releases, different laptops, so perhaps I just haven't spent enough hours trying to get them to work; in the end, I've always given up and just thrown a small mouse in my bag.

For me, the palm rejection has never worked as well as it does on Macs and the scrolling and multi-touch gestures are so pathetic under Linux on a laptop that its better to just disable the touchpad and stick with a mouse.

Even the glassy smooth feel of the Mac touchpad is superior to other laptops and the new haptic touchpad on the newer macs makes clicking on any part of the touchpad wonderful.

I do have a question for HN: with enough practice, does a keyboard with the pointing stick ever feel adequate? I've never seemed to get the hang of it in the numerous times I've had to use them (each time for only a few minutes).
I have worked with some impressive people who have little to no formal education.

That said, getting inside the door might be a lot harder.
Here is what the _current_ content says:

One of the interesting dichotomies with compensation data
is that many users want this information, but don’t want to
have their individual data exposed or connected back to them.
Salary information is personal to each of our members. With
this in mind, and consistent with our Members First organizational
philosophy, one of the first goals we established when we set out
to embark on this project was to provide powerful salary insights
in aggregate without risking an individual’s private information.
In the end, we built a salary collection system to provide the
strongest protections for the anonymity of all of our members—no
easy task. Parts of our approach are detailed later in this article.

Because we proactively separate a member’s submission data from their
Member ID when compensation data is submitted, it enables us to
secure the system in such a way that we cannot even support the
ability for a member to update their previously submitted salary
information - they have to resubmit. Furthermore, our system provides
protection not just from hackers out in the wild, but also provides
access control against unauthorized use by internal users.

If I am reading this correctly, what they seem to say is that as implemented currently, they don't have the ability to track a person's salary information to their profile and hence won't be able to sell that information.