skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also:

> And for instance, a $100,000 Tesla might be deemed to have the same features as a $65,000 gas-powered car. The rebate would cover the difference, minus the federal rebate (so $27,500). Because rebates for Teslas will soon be gone, the program would cover the entire difference – $35,000. This is where Senator Vidak got his “$30,000 to $40,000.”

Seems Californians will be footing a significant chunk of all Tesla sales once the standard Federal $7,500 rebate expires on Tesla vehicles.

This does seem to largely be targeting Tesla's since, according to the article, are the only US EV maker nearing the 200,000 vehicle sales limit for Federal subsidies.
> In Hollywood, men at certain levels throw tantrums and break things when something isn't to their liking.

How is that a gender specific thing?
Why the hell does Slack need 800 MB Ram?
I have just created an empty account, empty project, 0 team members (other than me). What the hell are you doing?

#spyware #bloatware #adsware

I don't see how any sane software dev / engineer could like this.
I'm implying nothing of the sort. I'm saying OF COURSE they treated her well. When they treat the unattractive and "not fun" (i.e. strictly professional) women that way, is when you'll know there's no sexism going on.
What other post?
This is a very short-sighted comment.

Electron or not, you need a web browser to display content. Unless you want to replicate a browser's layout engine, poorly. History and the rich interface are the main appeals of Slack.

I guess you could create a QT app or something and embed a web widget inside. Not sure how much that would help.
The only part missing? Physics...

Somehow boxes slide along a flat floor with no deceleration until they fall off the screen
AnandTech's interview with Lisa Su on Ryzen Launch:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11177/making-amd-tick-a-very-z...
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ehh, the author is a co-founder of Ably, a real time messaging platform, which competes with Slack in some areas.
While I have not tried the electron version, I feel that my seven slack tabs slow down my firefox noticeably. Especially during startup and after connectivity issues.

While the mobile app is at least responsive on Android, I have problems, too, for example with messages from push notifications that don't show up when opening them.

Subjectively, Slack performed great in the early days but has gotten worse over time.
I would also like to point out that one of the greatest parts of the Sonic games IMO was the ability to enable the in-game debug mode, allowing edits to the level with various sprites. A definite source of childhood curiosity with gaming/code/design.

http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Debug_Mode
This is actually pretty neat. I've had to consume quotes for an app project before and what I've discovered is: you are fucked. Good data providers want thousands, and free/cheap data is very slow.
>8 males

How does she know what her co-workers identify as? This woman is sexist, homophobic, and probably a deeply rooted misogynist.
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I mostly agree but the Brendan Eich firing and the dongle joke kerfuffle are counterfactuals. Or, taking a group example instead of individuals, "brogrammers".

I think you can be unpopular or stick out in a lot of ways and still be successful, but I don't think it's as simple as come-as-you-are. You'll do fine (I'm sure Eich is personally fine) but you can easily hit some challenges along the way.
Given that Visual Studio Code is also built on Electron but poses none of the resource issues (in spite of being a much more complex application - ide v/s chat client), makes me think the problem lies with the application and not the platform
Please don't blame Electron. VS Code is an Electron-based application and it runs beautifully, with much less RAM/CPU hoarding than Slack.

I only run Slack in a Chrome tab now.
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You might be able to use http://tweetstream.space
I created this tool, that isn't limited to 1-week-old tweets, uses the public feed, and outputs it to an easily parsed format.
I'll be more worried when it stops being news.
>Writers show us our possible futures, and it's up to us to pick which one we want to implement. Dystopias are cautionary tales.

Dystopian pessimism is more sinister than that, I'm afraid. The spirit of pessimism is the idea that what ever you do, things go wrong, because we're bad. So there's no point trying to implement things. Whereas in optimistic fiction things go bad but the protaganist learns something and sets the world to rights by the end.

>>I only read stories to my kids that have good old-fashioned happy endings.

>That's actually kind of a modern development, itself.

Good point! Makes me think of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables. Must take another look. (If I recall correctly these are moral tales rather than pessimism, however.)
Marketing? IRC's not sexy like Slack is. Realistically, it's going to take what, 10 extra minutes for a dev to get IRC down versus Slack?
It goes to running an extensive background check and doing an in-person interview and sending out paper letters and cards, staffing separate lanes etc.
interesting post, I'm sure this will ruffle a lot of feathers in the Tech scene.

But kudos on the audacity.
Since when you need a web browser to display content?

Slack could easily use native widgets, without embedding any HTML.
What exactly is wrong with ping-pong tournaments?
Ask HN: Are there any academic journals that are free and provide open access?
We're recently seeing a lot of news on this site about how Sci-Hub is causing the downfall of subscription journals. How "evil" subscription journals really are. At the moment is there a generalised alternative?

(If not, are there any HN'ers out there that would feel like creating an open source platform with me?)
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title should have been "A sculpture playing sound controlled by live honeybees". I spent some time reading before i realized bees dont physically interact with this odd thing
Our founder's response to this article. https://medium.com/@dinah_davis/thanks-for-sharing-your-expe...
The pejorative is for companies that are requiring fancy degrees for simple jobs and not for the degrees themselves.
I'm curious if this includes unprocessed fructose, glucose, lactose, etc. I eat quite a bit of fruit, but my refined sugar intake is much lower than it used to be due to making an effort to cut sugary things out of my life (unless eaten with intention).
It is not that there is anything wrong with a fancy degree per se.

The problem is the opposite. People with fancy degrees often look down on others who DON'T have fancy degrees.

Thus, other people often engage in defense, counter ribbing at the other side. But we need to be aware that the current culture context of this it is very common for Fancy Degree people to be praised and everyone else to be looked down upon.
The kernel isn't licensed under GPLv3.
Is Bezos biting off more than he can chew? Until a few years ago Amazon wasn't profitable but it was living within its means, and just re-investing whatever profit it made. Has Bezos stopped using that strategy in favor of a much more aggressive "going big or going home" investing strategy?
Okay, so does the vast majority of degrees improve the world? Even if 1 out of 1000 startups improved the world it's still an improvement over students writing (often crappy) code just to prove their university they're worth enough to get that degree.
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It would be one thing if the gov said they were gonna subsidize Tesla and cited all the pros. Claiming its an across the board subsidy when it's pretty damn focused on Tesla and only Tesla is slimy.

This is exactly the quality of work I expect in a 1-party state.
> A native app will never have instant install, or update without download.

So ? Updates happen automatically anyway.

> A native app will never be available on all platforms.

I don’t need it on all platforms, I only use iOS.
This seems like an ad hominem attack based on developers making trade offs. Electron essentially seems to be born out of the trade off of engineering a web product and satisfying customer demands for a desktop app.

Edit: Removed commentary about most desktop apps based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14869864
Ah, okay. Thanks for the elaboration.
I wrote this in another comment somewhere, but do you think her coworkers were only like this in casual conversations and social situations, and treated her as a complete equal professionally? Or do you think their attitudes might have affected how they viewed her work, what she was assigned, her opportunities for advancement, etc.

It doesn't matter how "fun" you are when people who have power over you are doing this. It's not about being offended, it's about being unequal.
None of my coworkers are like.

Also, if you want to keep tech weird doesn't that mean you need to reject the non-weird, the "conformists". How is that accepting at all?
Cosmetic-only editing is pretty analogous to cosmetic surgery, I grant you that.

But if cosmetic surgery made you smarter, then clearly all who couldn't afford it would suffer (relative to those who could). We don't worry about that because cosmetic surgery doesn't have that potential (or does it? I dunno), but with gene editing I think it's a very real potential.

That's not to say I'm wholesale against it, nor would I support banning research or anything along those lines. But I think it's clear that it will be a huge shock to society if/when this becomes practical, and I don't think our society is particularly good at dealing with this kind of change that can only exacerbate existing issues of inequality.
Since there are a lot of US government offices in there, I'd like to ask if you noticed any changes to these feeds (frequency, topic selection, content, etc.) when the Trump administration assumed office?
I might be confused. I thought Slack was a text chat client with extra features. Why does it need a browser engine for layout, instead of using the system's native layout tools like native software has always done?
Have you used Slack? The rich interface is one of the main reasons people use it. It's not IRC.
If you’re on iOS, Reeder is a safe, no frills choice for iPhone and iPad. (No affiliation with the app, just use it for everything including Reddit).
The mini-series from a few years ago is very good and the English subtitles for it were pretty good. (I read each of the 3 major english translations and the Russian version as well and I think the mini-series is better than all 3 english ones).
NIH Syndrome. You can't make a walled garden out of IRC.
I don't know but _please_ let be something I can print on real paper and sketch on.
Lol, really?

Tell that to software engineers past the age of 50.

Look, every industry has its pros and cons. Sure tech is good for the Burning Man crowd (if you live in the Bay Area or other major American liberal city), but it certainly suffers from a ton of ageism, among other maladies.

I think it all comes down to what sort of industry you personally feel more comfortable in. For me, that's tech, but if my conservative Christian grandmother were alive today she sure as heck wouldn't be comfortable in the Bay Area tech scene.

Whenever you find yourself patting yourself on your back for being inclusive, just do the math - is your group really inclusive or is it just symbolically signifying inclusiveness?
Used to be some time ago when downloads were ~5-7mb. Nowadays it uses Electron:

/Applications/Slack.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Electron Framework
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There's also weird bugs/features. Have an animated emoji in the currently active channel. Just one. Put Slack in the background - it's still using 10%-15% of a 2016 MBP CPU. WTF.
Thanks! That's great to hear.
Can somebody tell me why a chat application should use 5% of a CPU and over 100MB per account?
Amazing that people are OK with this, or the misbehavior of Electron in general. Bring back IRC indeed...
If you mean OS distros then this is not a concern. Unless your python needs are very small then you shouldnt use the OS distro for your python apps you should be running them in independent virtual environment with independent versions and packages
I remember reading somewhere that the source of problem is gifs. They are kept in memory and always running, even if off screen. If this is true, the solution should be pretty easy?
With conferences specifically, if you don't make specific efforts to get more diversity (across any axes you care to name) generally, you may (probably will) end up with neither the range of perspectives or topics you'd like. This isn't limited to gender by the way. At many conferences, it means you end up with too many vendors pitching their wares (because that's their job) and fewer customers who actually use products.
It's a nice sentiment, but tech is very far from any sort of meritocracy. Falsely believing that it is a meritocracy can do more harm than good.

I'm not trying to be negative towards your experience --- I'm glad you have a happy perception of the industry --- I just want to reinforce how important it is for us to improve diversity in all its forms before we start congratulating ourselves.
Javacript "apps" on desktop using too much CPU and memory?!?

Say it ain't so!
Overhead in what aspect?
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And as a result, people clicked on it. And then they voted on it. And then it got to the top of Hacker News. And then it'll probably go on to get 10k+ reads.

Now, remind me why we shouldn't use smart headlines?
I'm a happy user of Ably, and I can't think of a single place where it competes with Slack. Can you point out where they are competing?
> What if I buy a pair, never open or wear them, then a year later want to get rid of them by selling them as "New"?

It's pretty clear that you selling your own shoes as a private person is a different case from a professional reseller.
This is a contender for the greatest work of Russian literature in the 20th century. The Bergin/O'Connor translation is a good one. Even if you don't get the references or historical context, you'll still enjoy reading it. Giant talking cat!

As pvg points out, Kevin Moss's notes (http://cr.middlebury.edu/bulgakov/public_html/) will reveal whole new layers of the onion when you re-read the book.
Do I actually need to display web content? Unless I need some custom embeds which supply their own HTML and CSS, I don't, and I'm happy to do away with embeds and stuff if this means my client no longer makes my laptop go on fire.
I guess the downvotes here show that Silicon Valley tech workers really are as sexist and misogynistic as the French jerks in the article. I guess I just never noticed because I've never worked in SV, especially not with younger Millennials.
One of the contractors who got access to the data was employed by the Serbian military for a decade. I suppose you are aware of the ties Serbia and its military has to Russia? It's not unprobable that this guy sold the information to Russia. Even if not, Sweden must treat a potential leak like this as a real leak, or else risk endangering their operatives.

Oh, yeah. The leak is _still_ ongoing: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

More info here, with Google translated for your convenience:
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/07/swedish-t...
I noticed this a while back too. Switch to a private chat that only contains text when you tab out of a team and it doesn't hog. I think the "don't draw in inactive windows/tabs" feature implemented in most browsers is missing.
Check:

https://doaj.org/ --> Directory of Open Access Journals

For some specifics, I can think of:

http://jair.org

http://jmlr.org

http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/ (site seems to be down right now though)
> The problem is the opposite. People with fancy degrees often look down on others who DON'T have fancy degrees.

Arrogance is not a desirable trait in any person, but doesn't a fancy degree take work? I find it interesting that on HN we seem to hold up startup employees as shining examples but fancy degree holders as corrupt power brokers, when both take quite a bit of effort.

> But we need to be aware that the current culture context of this it is very common for Fancy Degree people to be praised and everyone else to be looked down upon.

Right, but in tech, where most are paid astronomically high salaries, if the Fancy Degree is looked down upon, then aren't the non-Fancy-Degree people in a fairly privileged position? Maybe this attitude is only prevalent in the online HN forum, and Fancy Degrees are actually valued in industry.
Not really... it's still considerably slower than Sublime, Gedit/Pluma (or anything gtksourceview), vim, and others, and VS Code got to where it is today due to much gnashing of teeth

I would love to see Electron abandoned...
Mosaicism is not inherently bad. It is definitely case specific. The current technology just doesn't allow much control over how much mosaicism you will get, on top of the off-targets, which is your point basically.

The same mosaicism phenomenon which cause tabby cat's coat (especially callico) can be seen in human and would cause that individual to sweat by plaques, instead of the entire body. So you could imagine a scenario where someone would like to select a specific eye, or hair, or skin pigmentation, and end up with inequal pigmentations or a patchwork. That actually sounds cool...

In the case of an autoimmune disorder, like type-I diabetes or a blood disorders like beta-thalassemia, you would absolutely need to hit the proper germline which is responsible for creating your diseased cells. So that's a hit or miss, there is no inbetween. If you do have a hit, then while this germline is dividing and differentiating, it would need to reach a threshold at which the disease becomes asymptomatic. I don't what that number is for any of two diseases I just mentioned, but I would think it is higher than 50% of your cells that need to be corrected, so you would need to successfully hit more than one allele in your succesfully hit germline population that will become blood making cells.

It's a lot of moving parts, which needs to align correctly. That being said, I am optimistic that we will eventually get there. I have some doubt about the scientific pertinence of that "breaking news", i.e. I just don't believe they have accomplished anything that wasn't obvious, but being an optimist, I am sure that not all the ink will be a waste.

Nice question.
and chat history

How is this not possible with IRC? Channel log bots have been around for yonks.
I agree with what you said about meritocracy, mostly.

A few months ago, I made a sexist statement here on HN about women and that they don't think logically [0]. Well, I couldn't be more ashamed and sorry for that. I've known some incredible women in tech ever since, and came to realize that I was wrong. Tech is actually a place where women can shine.

[0] That statement got my account banned and I couldn't get it back.

Edit: corrected my sentences to better convey my meaning.
What about all of the grad students working and doing research? I'd argue that their labor improves society more than the average startup.
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I know, but it's hard to resist editing the document in the web page while talking about it with a remote coworker. No commit, no push, only save. Then I discover he made another edit to the page :-(

I liked much more the workflow when a customer decided to use Google Docs for the technical documentation. We were editing and checking documents live with multiple cursors in the same screen.
I was referring to:

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Mal...
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I have no problem with reusing existing libraries, queues whatever. But sometimes you have to work with lower level stuff. Even in 2017. So the question is less about general recommendations and more about specific methods that can help in designing and analysing concurrent code. Sorry if I did not make it clear.
I feel like I've made a mistake mentioning IRC - that was just an example to say that a client that receives and sends messages over the network was a solved problem.

Rich interface doesn't mean HTML and CSS. Have you seen good iOS apps? Their interface is just as rich and yet it's pure Swift/Objective-C compiled down to native code.
Note that most of the Californians (and people in other states) are also subsidizing electric cars by not collecting the gasoline tax which is (at least partially) used to fix roads.
> Sure, but imagine a stereotypical American family with three kids, two cars, maybe a dog, and both parents working professional jobs. I don't see how you could consider it abnormal for them to spend $2000 a month to rent a house in the suburbs.

That's a massively expensive and large house for the stereotypical American family in the majority of the country.

(They're also not going to be paying 2K to rent a house in the suburb, they're much more likely to be paying off a 200K mortgage, looking at the median US home price as well as the median in areas like Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte...)

If you're paying a lot more than that you're either abnormal in terms of "spending way more than most / you have to" way or abnormal in the "you live in a super expensive area" way.
You really think female coworkers want to hear about your sexual organs at work? You're exactly like the men in the article, and everything that's wrong with this industry. I guess I've somehow managed to avoid working with unprofessional sexists like you.
What alternative would you propose?
ALWAYS link to your site when mentioning it. You do not have enough SEO presence for me to find it or for most people to bother looking for.
IRC already has these, its just a matter of packaging it.

FWIW irccloud is a lot like slack but for IRC, they offer "team" accounts and hosting. No search, though.
I'm getting an antivirus warning when accessing your site :

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It's an operating system insofar as it's a layer of services on top of the "bare metal" that is the EVM. Through those services it allows the development of complex applications in the same way a normal OS does.
If different versions of a paper have different DOI then the DOI is broken and should be replaced by something better.

I consider it a heresy that some sites (fuck ResearchGate, Academia.edu) consider it fine to alter the PDFs. Document integrity should be the holy grail. Files should be final and never get touched. If they are, they are different.
A static binary serves the same purpose. Docker is actually worse because you can't be sure if the bug is caused by your particular combination of Docker version, kernel version, networking setup and moon phase.