skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm planning a road bike tour of old silicon valley offices for next saturday, does anybody know where in Mountain View the offices of General Magic were located?
Seems like a move to take on Microsoft Teams. This is something that these independent software vendors will need to do in order to take on Microsoft: integrate and enable a best of breed world. Its not really a great experience if I buy Slack, Okta, Box/Dropbox, GSuite if I don't have a seamless and integrated and experience throughout. The only way is to build a integrated ecosystem and enable these horizontal use-cases.
I use Teams at work. Rumor has it that we are switching (back) to Slack, and I cannot wait. Teams is terrible. The UI is sluggish, and the UX is unintuitive to the point that it almost feels intentionally confusing.
I actually had one good manager, we're friends beyond just our professional environment. So indeed, that seems to be a valid case. Unfortunately, all the other managers felt much less friendly and kept spreading their authority rather than trying to elevate individual contributors. There's so little a manager can do when it comes to making big decisions. After all, a low level manager is more of a dispatcher rather than a decision maker. It is a role where you have to say "no" most of the time. That "no" usually looks like "let me see what I can do and I'll get back to you... never" or "there's a long way to go still but in the mean time, could you look at this because that's what we need to do..." type of answers. It's a good shield for senior managers so they don't have to deal with all these requests and can focus on the roadmap.

It's a pull relationship versus a push relationship from IC's to managers, these days it feels like IC's don't get anything unless they ask for it. This should be the other way around. There's no team building anymore, no more team spirit we're almost in competition mode with our colleagues rather than learning from each other.
Minor concerns.
an example -- i currently have 3 workspaces on my slack client (on linux) and it's currently using 500mb of RAM, which is insane for a chat client. the only thing using more ram is firefox with literally 25 tabs, including gmail's inbox and pocketcasts playing a podcast (~1gb).
Other guy quit months earlier. They didn't bother asking me about renewal until a week before my contract finished. Would have loved the money but life is too short and I've been forced to spend time chilling out which doesn't come naturally to me. Actually a good place to work with great people but life is too short. Apologies for brevity, I'm on my mobile in the garden after finishing the decoration for our wedding reception at home!
I can highly suggest "What Is Mathematics?" by Courant, Robbins and Stewart.

You don't have to read it cover to cover, but this is the book that will be very helpful in shaping the right perspective.

As a side note, a friend of mine gave it to me in high school. It was probably the book that influenced me the most mathematically. I ended up getting a PhD in math last year.
Really surprised that a CEO would make a comment like that on the record.
> In the React Native repo, we sometimes see hot issues with limited activity in response from Facebook. Lack of visibility into such a large company can bring about frustrations when so many people depend on their open source contributions.
On the other hand, it forces us to dive into the core codebase in order to figure out the problem, which admittedly one of the best ways to learn an open source platform. By understanding the React Native platform deeply, we were able to maintain a fork that fixes issues for our own use cases and reuse their core modules.

I guess that's one way to sugarcoat the fact that you're at the mercy of Facebook being timely in fixing bugs here…
"There's a reason hedge funds aren't pitching clients on technical analysis based trading...it's because technical analysis is the astrology of the investment world." - Two Sigma, Jane St., and RenTech are just slightly more refined versions of technical analysis - like comparing modern astrophysics to Ptolemny.

"Also, everybody seems to be scared about the yield curve, but the problem with using an inverted yield curve as an indicator is that...while it may be a good recession indicator, recessions are a bad indicator for market performance." - everyone should be scared. For the typical person, recessions cause a chance of job loss, which for the majority is a far bigger financial disaster than a market crash.
With the hindsight of these 2 years, do you believe that this was a good thing? (Genuine question. I’m European so from my perspective those were two terrible election results, and events since then have amply confirmed this fact, but I’m wondering if this is so clear-cut for other sensibilities)
Not really, Teams is half as large and growing much faster because it’s glued to the side of Office 365.
* Mentioned in another comment, but generally the performance of animations was poor with mixed in with any other kind of UI rendering - particularly on older phones (when we prototyped iOS we really only focused on the latest two generations of iPhones).

* This can be worked around by deferring work when doing transitions/animations based on user interaction but at the time we only had a single Android Engineer (myself) and I felt it would be an overly large hurdle to cross. The team is however still interested in trying again some point in the future now that we have more time for it.

* The minimum version we support is API level 16 which is quite old and we may eventually bump that to 17.

* We have not evaluated any native-ish alternatives mostly due to bandwidth but also because the goal is to re-use our stores/business logic from the desktop/ios clients so we can move faster.

* On 64-bit support https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/2814 it ca be worked around without much consequence but is a consideration as ones application grows in complexity and dependencies.
I agree completely, that's a terrible statement for an executive to make and PR should have stopped that. But on the other hand, I can almost see the logic in it. I'm making a huge leap here, but I remember back in the early 2000s, I had some friends who used AIM. I had some friends who used MSN. I had some friends who used ICQ. I had some friends who used Yahoo. These different chat services were really all exactly the same, the only difference is you can't chat between AIM and MSN. I don't care which chat service "wins", I just want all my friends using one so I don't have to sign into fifteen different services just to communicate.

In that situation, Adium or Trillian or various third party clients were basically required if you had any sizable group of friends. Just standardizing on one chat platform would have been better than everyone making their own, since they weren't really competing to make anything better. They just existed, and all did exactly the same thing and were incompatible with each other.

The question is, does Slack differ from Hipchat differ from Teams in any meaningful way, and does Hipchat disappearing actually make a difference when Slack exists? I honestly don't know the answer.
The worst bit for me is server addressing. So my DNS server's have to be static, so I use ULA address for them, that's fine. But then everything else has a global address, and they change them frequently, so my DNS zone is filled with old invalid addresses, which then slows resolution, since clients are going through addresses to find the latest ones.
That logic leads to infinite regress... If everything has a parent, then what's the parent of that thing.

So either there is an infinite chain, or the logic is flawed -- e.g. it's possible to not need a parent.

Another possibility is that our conceptions of causality / structure / parenthood are fundamentally flawed (but still useful for human purposes at this point in time), and the question isn't fully coherent.
I preferred that approach, personally. I felt the categorical treatment led to a bit more unified insight rather than treading each of the cases as independent with similarities we just "take note".
the unwashed masses often lack adequate background, information, or necessary context to make a balanced, well-suited solution that will maximize their utility based on their needs.
The problem is that sales taxes are regressive, disproportionally impacting those for whom consumption is a large % of their total income. Particularly poor people.

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.
My Linux user group used to hangout in IRC until 3 or 4 years ago when little by little we stopped joining the channel. Some of us tried IRC clients for smartphone and it was a lousy experience.

Until one day someone created a Telegram group. Now we are all there, the conversation might not be as fluid as IRC, each is in their own timezone, but it is there.
Huge problem for on-prem Hipchat customers. Plenty of customers out there not willing to put all their internal communications on the other side of their firewall, and now have to migrate.

Slack doesn't have an on-prem option.
Microsoft Teams doesn't have an on-prem option.
What are enterprises supposed to use, RocketChat? Matrix? With no clear migration path?

Really poor move on Atlassian's part. It would be one thing to sell off Stride, it isn't doing well, work with Slack to have some kind of automated migration made available and let customers flip the switch. Maybe if Slack were to keep supporting Hipchat on-prem, or provide a migration path to a new Slack on-prem product, that'd be fine. But to leave HipChat on-prem customers out in the cold?

What's the next Atlassian on-prem product to get thrown under the bus? Bamboo for sure, it's been unpopular relative to Jenkins almost since its beginning. It's definitely surprising that Fisheye/Crucible get any support any more, or Crowd for that matter. But why not Confluence on-prem too? Do we have to worry that Atlassian will stop supporting Confluence on-prem in eight months because Office 365 keeps gaining marketshare?

Atlassian's continued long-term support for minor on-prem products was one of the signals that said, if you pay up for HipChat on-prem, we'll support you long-term, you'll be fine. Atlassian completely shattered that with this announcement and eroded a lot of trust that enterprises were putting in them. Big shot in the foot here.
Gosh, I hope there will be a #MovingToMattermost movement coming. This feels like a dangerous move to me, and bad for the market, competitiveness, and users. One more thing the tech world does not need right now, is even further increasing its reliance on a single service (and even more so one with a mediocre track record of uptime).
But no-one is discussing whether it is right or wrong. The original question was "what about Obama's statement?" in the context of the legal investigations against the Leave campaign. The "what about" answer is "there is no criminal investigation because nothing illegal happened".

I get what you're saying but it doesn't really have any relevance here. If you're disregarding legality then any questions about why a criminal investigation happened vs didn't is moot.
Still, it is bad journalism and fishing for clicks to mention Bitcoin as if AMD GPUs were directly related, without further clarification.
> Why would a western country want to enter into democratic union with such a country at this stage?

It wouldn't, and that's why claiming "turkey is joining the EU" is highly misleading. Turkey is far from becoming an EU member, a process which was started in "brighter times", and the UK has control over that status ever changing.
Why do you need an analogy for that? It's quite literally someone who doesn't want someone of a different ethnicity as their neighbor, which is xenophobic.
So you're saying that you believe that governments should begin imposing censorship laws on privately held companies (a foreign one in this case) because without censorship, people who were susceptible to being convinced to do something were convinced to do so? And you really don't see the problem with that?
I would look in robotics, location based entertainment, and wearables.
One System, Universal Service
Just use SabreCMS :) You can set up your grid in much the same way, then build a full blown webshop or site directly on top of that.
What I like is to specify dependencies. Unfortunately, the simple ones (Github, Gitlab, Trac) don't have that feature.

The Jira we use at work has gone overboard. There is too many ways to specify and people are confused. For example, we have "blocks" (B cannot be finished without A closed) and "follows" (B cannot be started without A closed).
It's an excellent book for folks who haven't been exposed to this stuff [1] before, but it could be called "Cybernetics for Dummies" (I don't mean that in a bad way!)

I can recommend "Feedback Control for Computer Systems" by Philipp Janert [2], but the real underlying treasure is understanding Cybernetics. For that, try "Introduction to Cybernetics" by W. Ross Ashby [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory

[2] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028970.do

[3] PDF available from http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html
> smaller platform providers should at this point be considering their life span to be under 5 years and probably closer to 2 years.

At least in price there still is competition. Scaleway seems to be 3 to 4 times cheaper on x86 with comparable nodes and even more if you choose arm, at least when you compare on demand pricing.
I've used code push before and didn't really love the lack of visibility into what was running on the other side, it also feels really risky to make it a core part of my app considering that microsoft has already changed direction on backend hosting for code push at least once.

Any chance you could share any info about the architecture design of your homegrown system? I've seen a few snippets where devs build their bundles and host them in s3, how complicated was it for you to roll your own OTA solution? Would you guys do it again or would you use Code Push?
> It's hard to say that it's not a mistake when the author of the article itself describes their response as "immediate".

It is an obvious backdoor.

They justified XORing in arbitrarily string into the key you have established with DH with the fact that your phone may have bad random number generator. But it obviously gains you nothing. If the server is honest, then it does not read your secret chat anyway. And if the server is malicious or compromised, it knows the string.

So even if it is possible to overlook the possibility of XORing in the difference of keys and evading MITM detection, it is very unlikely that no developer (for example, someone who coded it into the server or one of the clients) have seen that it gains you nothing in any scenario you can think about.

When users started to asking developers for the explanation in the comments, W_K (main developer of the protocol, brother of Pavel Durov) stated that they "don't know" who added this feature in its current form. Shortly after, he stopped using his account or answering any questions at all: https://habr.com/users/W_K/

Upd: regarding the remark in the end of the https://habr.com/post/206900/ that "the story ended well", Telegram team is responsive etc.

Keep in mind that they paid this guy. Adding such updates to articles and publicly confirming that the bug was fixed is almost surely a part of the bug bounty agreement.
Mostly, as a user, the main thing that I'm looking at is interchange revenue sharing (the main thing that makes a difference). This can vary for personal and business cards and can be a non-trivial revenue source. If this is not competitive, having the well-known Stripe integration convenience doesn't go that far. I'd rather suck it up and work with an old-school CC vendor if this means the company gets a better interchange rev-share.
Could also be a reporter misquoting. Reporter says, “how do you respond to someone who says this creates fewer choices for people?” CEO: “There’s fewer choices for people, but they are better than choices.” Boom, first half is the money quote.
I was curious whether or not the Sride project was failing. We were about to do a migration once some key integration things were done; doesn't look like they'll finish those.
Can you expand/clarify on what you mean by "on Android we have to re-write most of the stores/business logic and not just UI"?
Also leaving another "we are doing amazing work!" job because they can't make the office be an amazing place for the staff. A non-profit in the humanitarian space. Ironical.
MEPs do not propose legistlation, that is done by a seperate group, the European Commission.

The European Commission is not directly elected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission

> There is one member per member state, but members are bound by their oath of office to represent the general interest of the EU as a whole rather than their home state.[3] One of the 28 is the Commission President (currently Jean-Claude Juncker) proposed by the European Council[5] and elected by the European Parliament.[6] The Council of the European Union then nominates the other 27 members of the Commission in agreement with the nominated President, and the 28 members as a single body are then subject to a vote of approval by the European Parliament.[7] The current Commission is the Juncker Commission, which took office in late 2014, following the elections for the European Parliament in May of the same year.
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I think one of the reasons they served it so hot was that they brewed it very hot. The reason they brewed it very hot was because the hotter you brew it the more flavor you can extract. The more flavor you can extract from the beans, the more liquid coffee you can produce from the same amount of coffee grounds.

They made it dangerously hot because it was marginally more profitable.

At trial they claimed they served it that hot because people wanted it to be hot when they arrived at their destination, but their own research showed that people consumed their food, including coffee, during their commute.
I have been in US for 10 years and have had this since the first time in I opened an account in BOFA. The feature is called ShopSafe
Chanos kept his short on TSLA secret for 3.5 years.
The fact is irrelevant to the problem and there is no reason to mention it, if they want the debate to stay professional and not emotional.

The whole racism angle of the article seems way too loaded for me.
To answer your second question, of course it has.

I don’t understand your first question? Those anti-EU stories were lies pure and simple - all the references are provided on the linked site. Are you in favour of the media publishing lies in order to advance a political viewpoint?
if you have to ask it's probably not for you
Hey, it could be worse. It could be VersionOne.
Ah—good to know!
There's always Cisco Webex Teams. I actually kinda like it, although I do work for Cisco. Unfortunately I have to keep it, Slack, and Jabber open on my laptop so I can communicate with anyone anytime (/sarcasm). On my phone I only have Webex Teams which is great when I'm away from my computer.
Maybe so. But I suspect that individuals who attempted profit shifting would quickly get nailed for tax evasion.
As others have said, it's not great resources-wise, but it also doesn't fit in well with the OS.
What about it is horrible? My team loves it.
Teams is a shitty version of Slack but it’s bundled and included with Office 365 which almost every big business licenses. Free is a hard offer to refuse.
I find 2942 a stronger example. Not even about membership or job competition (as strenuous that is in many cases), just about visa-free travel. I guess the "official" reading of that is "illegal immigration", it's just helpfully not mentioned?

Generally that type seems very weak on actual arguments instead of what I suppose is intended to be a general feeling of uneasiness, and projecting powerlessness despite UK governments being part of the processes. (Although the latter sadly isn't unique to the UK when it comes to dealing with the EU, governments love to play the victim of decisions they helped decide the way they were decided)
I would agree that an extra sentence or two to clarify would have been appropriate.
I grew up in Colorado and having them as a local resource for components was truly a gift. My dad was an EE and in his eyes Sparkfun was a great alternative to the Radioshack of his early days.

When I was in college in Fort Collins I made a quite a few trips for last minute parts to finish my projects and I had a ton of fun when I got one of the 5.00 dumpster dive boxes.

Keep up the good work!
HipChat was orders of magnitude cheaper. This is like Coke buying RC cola to eliminate a cheaper alternative.
After starting to use RN for iOS, did you adapt the web app to use react-native-web?
Ray Dalio said the same thing in 1982, pushing him near bankruptcy to the point where he was forced to let go of all his employees—there's no doubt he learned since then but keep in mind he also made the same error in 2011.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/15/ray-dalio-went-broke-and-nea...
What does a VC do?
This game is too real
> I’d have suggested a two thirds majority requires for change.

Which position would you consider the "default"? Slavery? Prohibition on gay marriage? Ban on abortion? (All of these were "changed" through history, some very recently.)
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It is interesting that so many of these doom stories are coming out just before Us mid-term elections.
With genetic engineering, we can adapt our bodies to other situations.
They don't discriminate based on race. They do discriminate based on ZIP code, which is correlated with race.
Indeed - I've flagged the article as it's clickbair and insanely partisan:

> In the case of Brexit Central/BeLeave, their ad creative was more subtle in its xenophobia — urging target recipients to back a “fair immigration system” or an “Australian-style points based system” but without making any direct references to any specific non-EU countries.

How is arguing for skilled migration xenophobic? TechCrunch has become Buzzfeed.
>I'm not really sure what you're referring to

Maybe this is the problem, then. I'm not the only one saying it, it was said in the article and other people are saying it here too. You can pretend a problem doesn't exist, but that doesn't make it true.
Clubhouse [1]
It has flexibility of Trello and features of Jira. We have been using for a year and we really enjoy it.

[1] https://clubhouse.io
Well it’s not anti-competitive to be competitive...
Wow! This is so cool that I am a little sad for currently not having a problem to solve with this yet!
I really like Stripe.
I cannot up-vote this more.

Many people don't realise that they don't own their phone number! It is possible to own a phone number but it is not widely available just like domains are. Hence it is a stupid idea to use it as an identity.
Ultimately it comes down to semantics but I think there's a lot of confusion about the difference between traditional technical analysis and what a quant shop like Rentech or TwoSigma does. Quantitative strategies might use certain technical data as inputs, but it's not the same thing as drawing teacups on charts and publishing an article in Market Watch saying the world is going to collapse.

Nobody knows what RenTech is doing in the medallion fund, but I can tell you with certainty they do not have analysts drawing head-and-shoulders patterns (ie. traditional technical analysis). I think we could argue semantics here again but my point is ultimately that what this article is doing with that chart makes no sense.

I do agree that increased risk of job loss is of course bad and that recessions are bad in general, but this article is about the stock market.