skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We think integrations can be great, and offer a few of our own right now (a proof-of-concept /weather command and a deeper integration with Global Relay for some of our fintech customers, for example). That being said, we're being careful about integrations and making sure they're more than just novelties that do nothing but move email notifications into a group chat. Our primary focus is lean and mean instant messaging, the good old contact list + presence (with ICQ-era fun like invisibility allow lists!), speed (being one of the last few companies offering a desktop chat client written in C++ that chugs along without using 2GB of RAM!), and strong administrative controls. Secondary to that is our focus on integrations that bring clear value to our customers. I expect we'll add more good ones this year!
Spotify had that giant Drake "promotion" a few weeks ago, which a rational person would think is an ad.
I slap types on my elixir structs and even if it's not entirely comprehensive (success typing) it definitely helps with refactors and helps me catch bugs.
I spent high school in boulder. Don't get me wrong, the place is "great" and all. But I'm not even a little sad to be gone.

A job at Sparkfun might make me reconsider tho, that company is the bees knees.

Also, I really wish your experience was the norm. It's far to common to spend hour working on a solution to a technical assignment for a job application, and hear nothing in response.
The other customers are still there. Facebook's office is replacing old retail space, which is not much used on weekdays either. This will only increase traffic to those restaurants even without forcing Facebook to send all its employees their way.
But it does change the math. Where patients do not have to pay for their own injuries, ie under a national health service, they don't need to collect in order to pay for later care.
This is not "trying their hardest".
This is a possibly-misguided effort to slightly restrict their ability to offer one tiny perk.
> Now life is good, I got fat again...

Jesus I can relate. I'm back on the diet/gym train again but it was so much easier when I was running away from life stress.
I left NASA almost 20 years ago, in no small part because I came to the conclusion that trying to "make us into a more-than-one-planet species" is a fundamentally misguided goal. This is not to say that I do not believe in the value of space exploration. I absolutely do. But I think it's a mistake to try to send our DNA into space. We should be trying to send our ideas into space because they are a lot more robust and flexible than our DNA. I also think that we ought to define our identities by our ideas more than by our DNA.

It is merely an accident of history (and a reflection of misguided priorities IMHO) that we developed space-travel technology before we developed AI. But that seems to be in the process of correcting itself. It has been 50 years since we landed on the moon. I predict that in another 50 years the idea that a human can do anything better than a robot in space will be as laughable as the idea that humans can play chess better than computers.
welcome to 2018
> Large verdicts have been delivered where no or minimal injury was suffered.

We live in a country of 300 million people. Every permutation of things that can happen has happened. But that doesn't mean that large verdicts "where no or minimal injury was suffered" happen often enough to account for a significant share of medical malpractice payouts.

There was a Harvard study that looked at this issue pretty systematically, and concluded that the idea of "systematically" "large verdicts against defendants who are unlikely to have done anything wrong" does not fit the data: http://archive.sph.harvard.edu/press-releases/2006-releases/.... Most importantly, claims are about as likely to get denied despite the presence of error as they are to get paid despite the absence of error. (So improving the accuracy of the system would not necessarily decease payouts.)
Do you need to raise a seed round?

We're bootstrapped. Never took money, never really tried.

At some point in our company's traction, investors started reaching out to us. You have to remember that their job is to find the best companies, and convince them to take their money. Make your company one of the best companies, and investors will find you.
True, but under the traditional model, I have to spend extra time going over my statements, and then there's the hassle of having a new card shipped out and having to update the number everywhere I have it saved. God help you if your credit card(s) are breached when traveling--many banks will only mail replacements to the original billing address. Exclusive use of virtual cards via Apple/Whatever Pay would mitigate this and offer general peace of mind.
I actually raised a ticket for this.

There was a long thread I didn't follow at all about how that was how it was supposed work.

That's when I switched to Slack.
That slack is rather depressing I think I have most channels muted.
That's what coined the term, Hollywood Accounting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Bitcoin was increasing and possibly because of this ETF news and that Coinbase was considering adding more crytpos. It went up to $8507 then I saw news SEC is now taking its time on making a decision. From that day it’s been sliding back down.
I would add "The Jazz Piano Book" by Mark Levine - for anyone learning music theory, even if you happen to hate jazz
>Cool, so start-ups lose a potential hiring perk to the incumbents.

They could just do something similar to what colleges do:

- increase salaries just a bit

- but the increased salary goes to a food card

- employees can't easily turn this into cash

- you swipe it and "pay"

- the company is essentially paying for the employee's food

Money changes hands, but no one is at a net loss than what a free food perk would cost.
Prefix sums and their applications [pdf]
HipChat (At least for me on Windows) absolutely messes up any SQL I try to send to someone. It's unusable because HipChat apparently adds characters to the beginning of each line. At this point I just email the SQL, but I really shouldn't have to for quick and dirty queries.
Maybe those guys could work on Trump and make him look like a president.
Thats really cool :D I think getting it to the point where it's not just occasionally synced is really helpful for upstreaming contributions and bug fixes.
I was very surprised to hear discord used RN because I found that I had to break down and use native code to deal with a lot of multimedia and a few other things that aren't just displaying text. I still loved RN, I just maybe naively hoped I could do everything with it.

Is that your experience too, that a good bit of native code is required (with RN serving as glue and handling simple screens), or have you avoided that somehow?
I wonder then, this "partnership" means that whoever is on the Stride team is now going to somewhat work really close to Slack's team? Or is Slack acqui-hiring the Stride team? or ... ?
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They actually have a beehive onsite. (not kidding)
" worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours (down from 2,500 hours), and raised prices without fear of competition. The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours.".. Wow. How is this legal?
I like how much energy Sparkfun spends on education and resources. This helps me justify their prices for some purchases.
Pretty much. Source: I'm one of the guys in the picture.

The stairs are actually wider than the picture makes it look (wide enough to have people on both side of the oven while carrying it). The tricky part was the corner: the oven was long enough that it had to hang out in the air over the corner as we brought it around. I recall that meant lifting it to shoulder height to clear the railing.
I suspect there are very real limits as to what you can do with DNA.

Regardless, I'm not sure if splitting humanity into many other species is something you want to do. And you still haven't solved any issue with distance communication and different reference planes.
> Excess tests result in a higher number of false positives

True, but this is an engineering problem:

1. Just because some tests have a higher number of false positives does not mean all tests have a higher number of false positives

2. For those tests that do have a higher number of false positives, the well educated (and paid) professionals are aware and should have measures in place

Eg: Bloom filters are fantastic datastructures to test membership. However, they have false positives. We can control the probability of getting a false positive by controlling the size of the Bloom filter.

This is nothing new in engineering.
Maybe a bit pedantic, but, isn't RecyclerView in the support library which is open source? And since the support library is bundled with each app, you actually could fork it and ship a customized version with your app if you wanted.
> You get to all the requirements, and you end up with a discussion board instead or a new product that is to email lists what slack is to chat.

This would also be acceptable IMO. Any medium that enables asynchronous long-form written communication has advantages that are fundamentally impossible for any synchronous chat medium to match.

It turns out that listservs have successfully done this for decades. If there was even a fraction of the effort invested in this communication style as is invested in reinventing IRC with emoji and reaction gifs, I'm sure it would be even better.
Facebook's Duckling: a Haskell library that parses text into structured data
I wrote under the impression that locality would rely on a notion of space-time. wiki/Local_realism says as much. That then is one notion to knock down. The null hypothesis here would be non-locality.

Unifying that with GR is the big problem, I hear, especially regarding gravity.
Simultaneity is kind of arbitrary anyway. Sure, in our reference frame it happened a long time ago, but for someone on another worldline it happened just a minute ago.

Anyway, for most purposes, it just happened. We couldn't have noticed it earlier, it could not have affected us earlier. I don't think it's that inaccurate to say that they watched it as it happened.
"For example, if ⊕ is addition, then the all-prefix-sums operation on the ordered set
[3 1 7 0 4 1 6 3],
would return
[3 4 11 11 14 16 22 25]."
...and I am totally lost to the rest of the article, because some part of my brain is trying to figure out, "why 14?! shouldn't it be 15?!"
What a sad spectacle: the delirious lashing out at modern machines, the sarcastic capitals, the unhinged cries of "religion". Next time I chat with Richard we'll have a laugh as I mention how his name is invoked as a shibboleth by rabid Luddites.
Restaurants do have some added benefits over just a catering business though and those are mentioned in the article. Restaurants bring foot traffic to areas that other shops can benefit from where a catering business doesn't.
thelounge is an web based IRC client with persistence like irccloud, except that thelounge is open source and self-hosted.

https://thelounge.chat/
Hi @jawilson2, Mattermost team here. Sorry to hear you're having issues, it sounds like websockets haven't been fully installed on your Mattermost instance.

a) When you hit "Refresh" on your browser, do new messages appear?

b) Do you ever get blue bar message reading "Please check connection, Mattermost unreachable. If issue persists, ask administrator to check WebSocket port."?

If so for either of these, here's a solution you can send to your IT Admin:
https://docs.mattermost.com/install/troubleshooting.html#ple...
> As a Bay Area resident my priorities are the cost of housing, cleaning our dirty streets and alleviating traffic congestion.

As far as I understand, the prevailing policy is doing the exact opposite on all those three.
This is a good one. I was going to post it. It's good that I checked before I duplicate the same content.
Our product https://www.fwdeveryone.com does almost all of what you’re looking for, and will do everything within a few months. (We still need to add live updating threads, and we’re also working on an add-on so you can upload content directly from gmail.)
The title could almost be: "Large tech companies lobby local officials to allow them to offer exclusive employment benefits."
It's pretty much unheard of. Large companies will frequently have cafeterias and they may be partially subsidized but it's very rare that they would be 0 cost to employees.

Also, the quality of ingredients and the creativity and care in preparation and presentation is significantly better than I've seen elsewhere, although the executive dining room at global HQ for one of the companies I worked for did rival Facebook or Google's typical cafe experience.
It’s that regex joke paraphrased:

You have a problem: you have no connections.

You organize your life such that you send an uncomfortably large number of interesting emails.

Now you have two problems.

Jokes aside, life is short, don’t chase.
Not sure where you're getting those numbers in your first paragraph (other than the minimum wage increases).

I live and work in the downtown part of San Jose, and on some days of the week work in downtown SF (SoMa near Caltrain).

I rarely spend $12-15 (more so in SJ but also in SF). Usually the significant cost is adding a soft drink of some sort (soda, juice, tea, etc.) because I'm finding restaurants are increasing the price of those for whatever reason ($2.50 at some).

Definitely wouldn't say $10 for a full meal is "unrealistically low". Perhaps it's really a matter of choice. Some people prefer to get lunch often from New American restaurants and similar where you need to tip, etc. Some don't mind going to simpler places like a taco truck around the corner, or Panera Bread/Chipotle/etc. (although I will easily admit Panera's cost has increasingly gotten more expensive, as you describe).
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Microsoft owns Skype. I doubt they'd sell it to Slack.
i once (~15 years ago) worked at a web design shop where the founders were both architects. they did everything in flash as it somewhat resembled the tools they knew - cad software. one of them was the designer and he was really good and they made amazing websites without even knowing a shred of html or even programming languages (they didn't even use actionscript). in case the customer wanted a guestbook they used a free ad-supported one (until i joined as a programmer).

flash was a good tool for the websites they used to create, usually graphics and animation heavy websites low on interactivity. they used the export function to generate the swf including the html index page to embed it.

over the years focus shifted more and more to dynamic websites with content generated from databases and they were mostly lost there. dynamic content (loaded by http requests from databases) in flash usually turned into a huge pain in the ass after a while. for those projects we switched to a traditional website model where dynamic content mostly wasn't loaded into flash, instead it was a html-by-php website where flash animations replaced header jpegs (i.e. animated passive content).

so, in our case, flash was a good replacement for animated and slightly interactive but not dynamically generated content.
Unplugging makes a big difference. I think what the author is going through is the brains ability to adjust to it's environment.

It's not dissimilar to being in an active social setting for a period. The brain reworks itself for better smalltalk, extroversion, glib remarks... when you find yourself suddenly alone, there are pangs of loneliness until you accept the downtime. Longer & deeper thoughts are possible after the adjustment.

This even happens more quickly to us nightowls. You essentially rent out your brain during the day (for social reasons, empathy, etc) but when night arrives (and you're alone), the brain is free for your own thoughts.

Funny thing about the easy access to information making us dumber. I see parallels here to the handheld calculator. When I was in school, decades ago... I refused to use a handheld calculator even though they were allowed for math calculations. Not really sure if it made any difference in the middle to longterm...
We have both HipChat and Teams at work, with my team using HipChat. My team ran an experiment to move all conversations and collaboration to Teams for a trial period. That trial period ended with everyone feeling very frustrated that they spent more time trying to figure out WHERE things were going on in Teams rather than the content of actual collaboration efforts. Teams has a horrible design for threads, and is ill-suited for the type of rapid-fire communication of a highly vocal team. I dread having to go back to that product and will be pushing either Slack or Mattermost as a migration path from HipChat Data Center.
And that’s great if that’s what you want. OP was just saying that free, internal lunch promotes team bonding for those who do desire it.
This title is a little hyperbolic. There has exactly been two proposals. One in Mountain View, that only applies to a single office development. That also doesn't ban office cafeterias, but limits subsidies. The other one is in proposal stages in SF, which is a regulatory capture by the local restaurant industry. Unlikely to pass
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Do you have a recommendation for "my own knowledge database", and also, do you have a recommendation for one that benefits everyone, not just me? When appropriate, of course.
In practice, not usually. It's usually resolved in the courts, often partially or wholly in favor of state power, without resort to argumentum ad baculum.
Since there's so much Spotify hate in here, I'd just like to say, the service is so good it has changed my life. Specifically, my music library has grown in a thousand new directions because I find it so incredibly easy to discover new music. I think I would have stagnated long ago if it wasn't for Spotify's features. I'm 6 years into my subscription and it just keeps offering me more and more value. Maybe Apple Music is equally good? I haven't felt any need to switch.
Facebook can't even fix their own bugs. The UX of their social media platform is far from flawless.
yeah, and Zeno's ship never reaches its destination
She might have been impeached at this point

Because she was incredibly corrupt. Seems likely that foreign intelligence agencies had even more information they could leak.

The separated immigrant children are probably never going to get over it, for example.

It's unfortunate their parents decided to break the laws of the United States and enter the country illegally. Maybe their plight will discourage others from doing the same.

And I'm not going to get over a result while I'm still worrying about stockpiling food.

That seems like more of an issue with paranoia, then anything happening in reality.
Not really... I'm mean it's great for IBM financially, but not all that great for Hospitals and Medical Centers duped into this scam:

"University of Texas says the project cost MD Anderson more than $62 million"

source:
MD Anderson Benches IBM Watson In Setback For Artificial Intelligence In Medicine
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/02/19/md-and...

As for your analogy, you got still tragically flawed predictive text technology for free. Nobody bought iPhones for their crappy predictive text capabilities. Imagine the horror if you actually had to pay for predictive text. As it is, it's a nice to have freebie that came along with your phone, which works.... sometimes.
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This is not related to the post but I have an honest question. I use nitro(and absolutely love it) and I'm constantly getting inquiries about how I use blobs. There are literally 5 accounts I would happily gift a nitro subscription to but dont have the option. When is discord going to allow people to gift nitro to other accounts. It's a huge potential revenue stream and something I would happily engage in if I had the chance to. Thank you for your work. I love discord.
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Yup. Otherwise he's basically talking about a structure-preserving index that maps DOM elements - that are rendered outside the main document DOM tree - to a file.

And that's not really what's going on here.
> If states actually wanted to address the costs of defensive medicine, they would do something like create affirmative defenses for doctors who adhered to certain established testing protocols.

Not a bad suggestion but resolving regulatory overhead by instituting regulation is a bit, suboptimal, IMHO.

The better solution is to reduce costs of the tests themselves:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17620197

In the software world, we have enjoyed significant productivity boost using Git/Hg/FOSSIL vs. CVS/SVN.

Branching in CVS/SVN was so expensive that people rarely do it. It takes me 2 seconds to branch in Git/Hg/FOSSIL
I really hope that this results in a combination of the two's best features. Slack is so nice and polished and runs well as a standalone app, and Hipchat has some really nice features (like channel re-ordering in the sidebar) that I'd love to see brought into Slack.
One can dream...
If it were my company- everything would be $0.01, thus not free. Stupid rule.
The case I know of with SPEC was non-conforming code, not undefined behaviour. You really can't hold gcc responsible for bad code, though there's often a workaround like -fno-aggressive-loop-optimizations/-Wno-aggressive-loop-optimizations in that case. I'm glad GCC optimizes well and takes advantage of language definitions (specifically Fortran's) while being more reliable than ifort which gets lionized for optimization.
Is that what happened? Did large tech companies advocate for this?

Or is that a conspiracy theory?
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This is only the case for the most selective VCs.
> And sales taxes (vs. VAT) is a terrible idea overall, it is a tax on consumers, not on companies, as it only applies on the final sale to consumer.

you are correct that sales tax is almost always regressive, but please be careful making this kind of "just so" argument regarding taxes. the place in the production pipeline where taxes are collected has almost nothing to do with who ultimately bears the burden of the tax. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence if you're interested in learning more.
Different kind of hippies, I believe.
I can recommend Gilbert Strang's "introduction to applied mathematics".

It is a great overview of calculus and linear algebra, leading up to PDE and chaos theory. It starts with the discrete models (kirchoff's law on graphs) and then moves on to continuous models as an approximation of the discrete case, which is quite neat.
> (especially compared to a more flexible system like ServiceNow

Oh dear god no. Our company runs mixed Jira and Service Now, and for all Jira's disadvantages, at least I can get a link. to a ticket. To you know, reference or share. Without explaining the awful UI for where people need to put the ticket number in if they want to see it.
I'm an engineer and I like Confluence, especially compared to any other options. And doubly compared to markdown (although I concede I'm probably the only engineer who dislikes markdown)
I agree with you and I feel your points are well articulated. I especially like how you summarized the internet as 'the illiterates took over.' Very poignant, indeed. So much of the average person's internet usage boils down to memes and videos, it's quite unfortunate.
Excellent advice, very well-said.
S4B works with our VoIP infrastructure and is on-premise but the client is awfully slowly and badly needs to be reworked. But with Microsoft is abandoning on-premise services...
Mean while, every single chat and IM application has steamrolled straight past.
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