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No, value is $10. Cost of ingredients $2. But 'making a nice dish and serving it is labour intensive' and so that brings it up to $9, the remaining $1 would be the profit of the restaurant.

A better way to think of it would be how much it would cost otherwise, and it's $10. So the calculation of annual value is pretty much there.
So, are tech companies going to finally leave the bay area or what? I can see we're not welcome here.
> But Vote Leave is peddling xenophobia, which is quite a different accusation.

Well we've listed many arguments counter your claim in this thread already, so I guess if you haven't been convinced yet, you won't be...
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Start with a dedicated hosting provider until you build up a user base.

Then when you need extreme bandwidth, Hurricane Electric is the affordable way to go.

For $400/month, you can host your own servers up to 15 amps/rack and get 1 Gbps sustained (you can likely negotiate for more bw.) Their remote-hands is free and expert enough.
Large employers moving in and increasing land value would also increase the rent that a commercial landlord could get for offices vs. restaurants. Restaurants get no upside to this since it's very hard to compete with free. And this is before we consider that new companies moving in with free cafeterias could be replacing old companies with no free cafeterias.
>No, we were discussing whether the argument in the article was circular.

Actually, on this subthread we were discussing whether the argument of the grandparent (
dziungles) was circular. That's what I called circular and started the circularity discussion -- not something in the article.

>No, they wouldn't. Deterministic universe is like a compiler. You give it source code and it produces output. Given different source code (such that you aren't born) the output is different.

That's not an option in a deterministic universe. Everything you've described, like the ability to give a compiler different source code, depends on non determinism.

In a non-deterministic universe there's only one source code that is given to the compiler, and it's predetermined at the first of the universe's deterministic causal chain. That's the whole point, or the very definition of the universe being deterministic: that it cannot change course.

>Yes, and it's arbitrary, because we don't know if that assumption is true

We haven't proved it, but we do believe it to be true. And that's not arbitrary (it's based on people's inherent experience of free will). It might be illusory, but not arbitrary.
$10 for a full meal (not including tax and tip) is probably unrealistically low for the bay area. State and city minimum wages are increasing (SF is $14/hr and they have other mandates like healthcare coverage) so food and restaurant prices are going up (many meals seem to be in the $12-15 range, approaching $20 w/ tips). Many restaurants are closing, and are exploring alternate business practices, like pop-up stores, mandatory/included tips, and food trucks instead of fixed locations.

Forcing workers out of the office without their consent seems disingenuous. Travel expenses can be a burden, and such travel can cause disruption in areas where rideshare services may be flaky and increasingly dangerous to passengers.

The increase of food trucks is, on average, perhaps providing office workers with less nutritious food options which they have less control over (especially compared to big tech office cafes).

Increasing use of outside food establishments increases the 'lunch commute', adding to already-insane traffic, pollution, and stress for workers who already commute too much.

On the plus side, this may create increased demand for lunch spots, however it is increasingly difficult for them to operate while providing affordable prices for healthy food, and I don't think the increased demand would truly offset this effect, but rather could have negative effects on the workers caught in the middle.
And drink a lot of water to not feel totally empty
I hope they buy Skype and every other corporate chat app too. So, I do not have to run all this crap at the same time
Call me a conspiracy-theorist, or crazy. But I say that that is by deliberate design. Just like the push for HTTPS, on some level. You can't proxy most of the web, you can't cache, you can't bookmark SPA and ajax-loaded results, you can't scrape any of the data easily, you can't intercept and modify it if you wish without doing fancy SSL certificate injection.

"Gee, I remember seeing this unique comment on a youtube video. Let me search for it, maybe some web-crawler has indexed it and made it available to the rest of the web. Nope."

"Oh I remember the video, it was XYZ. I'll just go there and find the comment. Oh, it's not at the top of the comments, and there are 5600 comments."

"It's okay, I'll just ctrl-F for that specific word I distinctly remember was used in that comment. Nope, ctrl-f only finds what's loaded in the Dom, you've got to scroll!"

"Hmm, maybe I can just keep scrolling for a while till I find it. Scroll, wait. Scroll, stop, loading icon, scroll some more, wait, scroll some more, wait."

Hey, at least I can share a specific time-stamp location within the video on Google+ and Facebook!
I don’t understand this argument, because you’re never liable for fraudulent transactions.
I think you've gotta acknowledge that a lot of this stuff is just fashion.

Anyone can buy a pair of pants. Look beyond the functionality to understand why people do things. It can be social signaling, wanting to be part of a crowd, or dozens of other reasons.

My wife is an architect. She made me see this.
The AVX side channel is neat. It relies on power management rather than cache: after 1ms of AVX2 inactivity (no 256 bit operations being performed), it goes into a power-saving mode; the next 256-bit operation pays a ~2x cycle penalty. They get 8B/min at low error rate with AVX2.

In Google Cloud, from unrelated instances, they're getting 1 byte every 8 hours (3 if the target has an AVX2 gadget). Attacks tend to get better over time, but still, that's an AES key in a few days, and it assumes one discrete target; in a real deployment, that secret might be mirrored over hundreds of instances.
Whoa, that's a name I haven't heard in a while.
I think it goes with the photo of 10-15 guys standing around a reflow oven at the foot of some narrow stairs.
Now the perk will be $1 meals instead of free.
If they don't want their suburb to turn into SF or Manhattan, then they're definitely taking the wrong turn by introducing this legislation.

Instead of a suburban office location, they are actively encouraging urbanization: more restaurants, more commercial spaces in general, more residents.

Moreover, all these tech campuses represent the majority of the richest residents of suburbs like MTV, and the main reason they are rich and have good schools etc. It would be very odd if the community as a whole wanted all that gone, especially when techies are a large part of the community.

Finally, if MTV wanted to repel tech, there are much more effective ways to do that with legislation. For example, they could apply the legislation to existing offices.

So no, I don't believe this is part of some campaign to avert MTV turning into "Manhattan", which is not something that can happen in the foreseeable future anyway.
When I visited Google they were making people scan their badges so they could prove they were complying with the taxes.
If all tech workers went out for lunch every day that would be a huge boon to the local low skill labor market.
Same reasons I take issue with the phrase "best practice". Besides my cynical POV that when people start talking about "best practices", they are about to tell you that whatever you're doing is wrong, and here, let me sell you on NEW_DEVELOPMENT_PARADIGM_FAD. I'm all for making things better, but I'd argue, there's no "best" practice, only strongly recommended guidelines and some practices that have fallen by the wayside as we learn to do things better.
It’s still not perfect, but they’ve gotten much better. I’ve been a Deezer user for a few years now and agree it was quite bad early on.
We might have to revert to talking. Aahhhhh!
On the basic level, it doesn’t have as many integrations as slack. It’s mostly important for obscure services, as they often won’t be integrating thousands of chat apps, so they’ll choose Slack.

On the day to day level, it crashes even more than Slack, and syncs badly.

The pettiest and weirdest part is it doesn’t signal edited messages. The editing window is super short, but it still feels like being moonlighted when you read something and 2 secs later it’s a different thing.
if the EU just wants to fine the big tech companies out of existence, then the big tech companies will just stop doing business there. The EU cannot break those US companies up. If disproportionately large fines (e.g. the fine Google recently paid) continue, the tech companies will just leave - which may be what the EU wants, but it also seems that the EU is pretty bad at creating technology companies
The space of possible inputs to a machine learning model is essentially infinite. This makes it a completely different ballpark than unit testing code, where a small set of tests can cover good amount of interesting cases, and where various coverage metrics can reasonably be used to estimate completeness.
It is also hard to generate tests for ML models due to lack of good oracles (detectors of wrong results).
Defense against adversarial inputs is still considered an open research problem, I believe.
Here's two. One to learn hexadecimal
http://flippybitandtheattackofthehexadecimalsfrombase16.com/

hair-nah, to teach people not to touch black women's hair.
http://hairnah.com/
Folks, these companies can still offer free food. At smaller companies in NY that don't have a cafeteria but want to keep the employees in for lunch they give out a seamless allowance. It works quite well. Not sure if it would scale to an office with thousands of workers but it probably could. Some places also order catering from local food vendors.
What about all the employees that work in the cafeterias at Facebook?
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Please don't use Hacker News just to promote something.
I like to imagine the Universe with the effects attributed to inflation and dark energy actually being explained by inverse curvature from antimatter (think relic antineutrinos). Every particle (including photons) would follow the curvature of spacetime, but antimatter would cause inverse curvature, and photons (perhaps bosons in general) would be passive rather than acting on it (inertial "mass" / momentum only).

This flies in the face of the Equivalence Principle, and requires that light's wavelength shifts due to the relative time where its energy is measured--not because of an equal and opposite gravitational interaction with the masses causing the gravitation.

Perhaps the most nonsensical consequence is the behavior of a particle-antiparticle pair co-accelerating to infinity...unless their eventual merger through relativity (length contraction) and quantum mechanics (tunneling into a merged state) actually explains the mechanism for annihilation.

The only testable prediction I have: Distant galaxies will be "too mature" for their apparant distance in space and time, meaning that the light has aged more than the distances would suggest (time slows in the presence of a gravity well, and would do the opposite for regions of space with inverse curvature--see above, re:inflation and the very start of the Universe).
"as long as you sign our CLA, which requires you give our lawyers your personal information, including information that you might not have. Don't have a phone or permanent address? hahahaha get lost".

Facebook's lawyers did some very questionable things to "open source" here.
It seems really weird to me that a CEO of a big company like Slack comes forward and comments "There’s fewer choices for people.” as if this is supposed to be a good thing. I get that this is true on paper, most CEOs however would rather hide this effect of a merger in order to avoid government regulation.
Not everyone who works at a tech company is an engineer. In fact, engineers probably do not even constitute the majority of the workforce for many large bay area "tech" companies.
To an extent I think the whole thing is borderline unknowable and inseparable from political leanings, so I bid you goodnight Sir.
In addition to many general software issues (it crashes a decent amount), it's not particularly easy to send images or documents over it (where as with slack I can take a screen shot of a dashboard and post exactly what I am referring too).
watch me eat this big bowl of crow. honestly, had no idea, and made a huge assumption. will actually have to rethink order from there. still don't like their website though ;-)
OPEC was meant to be a reaction to the Seven Sisters cartel and is much weakened compared to the days of the seventies oil crisis. The majority of world production has been outside of OPEC for years.

What they do have is the most reserves.
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There's even a theorem that transferring information with entanglement is impossible according to quantum theory as we know it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
The art is very interesting. Reminds me a lot of Fallout :P
I think most things that claim the "best" in categories which really don't have "best"s is mainly for the clickbait. They often end up being like the link... a recommendation with a bunch of other worthy recommendations
And is already stretching that tiny town thin wrt housing. I gtfo. Felt like the San Francisco of Texas, and not in a way I felt like fighting/putting up with.
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It's crazy to me that so many people here think IRC is a valid alternative to Slack in 2018.

With the recent trend of consumerizing business apps, IRC is an awful experience compared to so many modern chat apps. It's much harder to set up, looks way uglier, and lacks useful features.

Not to mention IRC has a somewhat technical setup, which makes any non-engineering team reluctant to buy in. Software companies have sales, marketing, design, product, support, leadership teams... use a tool that works great for everyone.

Personally we use Twist. I enjoy that it's lightweight and performant compared to Slack, which feels clunky (just take a look at your activity monitor).
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> I am constantly disconnected, have messages never sent.

Weird, I have never had those issues, and have been using Slack heavily on a daily basis for a couple of years.
> Solving the basics is incredibly important.

Ah, but you see, it is also difficult!

"Dirty streets" and "traffic congestion" are big, messy problems, requiring careful planning, managing projects and contractors, adversarial factors, etc.

By contrast, passing laws that apply to corporations is so easy! They are generally law abiding, so you just tell them "no more free food for you!", and they obey.

Until, you know, they skip town and you are left with nothing. But that will likely happen after my tenure in the local legislative body, so my utility horizon is rather shorter term...
_This_ is the 64 thousand dollar question that no one seems to have a clear answer to, and leaves people frustrated with both email and slack.

I tried emailing longer form things at my current job and rapidly hit a cultural wall: people _do not like_ getting long emails, or emails with more than 1 or 2 replies. Slack people apparently have no problem with because it's "lighter weight", but I struggle to see how always-on disruption is lighter weight than check-it-a-couple-times-per-day email.

I think a deeper problem is lack of delineation of responsibility and adequate planning. Slack & other "always on" communication systems make it easy to say "why plan? I can _just ask_ when I need to know something" or "we'll have a conversation" rather than specifying & recording or relying on a more rigid interface like a ticketing system.

tl;dr: get off my lawn you dang kids!!
Not if most of the people in the area, or even a decent chunk of them, work at Facebook.

If there are ten restaurants and one of them is pretty much the default choice for 25% of the people, that leaves the rest of the restaurants with an effective 75% of the market, which shrinks their customer base quite a lot.
This is the real point. The idea that somehow the catering business serving startups or the kitchen workers in cafes are somehow less worthy of support than owners of restaurants
#1 - very good point. Not having a cultural relationship with a Mac/iPod makes it difficult to appreciate iPhones and their non-functional aspects.
Now I'm wondering how Malta made the top-20 list of IC export countries.
I think most of the "Why not IRC?" sentiment comes from a viewpoint of "I only use chat for sending short, ASCII sentences." The parent comment really captures the additional use-cases which make Slack much more productive for developers discussing code.
In SF, Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safai: http://www.sfexaminer.com/supervisors-move-ban-workplace-caf...
Contesting this on the grounds that until a line-item on my paystub starts showing up for the cost of a free lunch, I don't think they're comparable at all.
"discussions are faster and more productive in realtime"

Real-time discussion is great if you don't have to think about what you're going to say before you say it. Unfortunately, that places a very, very low upper limit on the level of depth and consideration that a discussion can reach. Some decisions are hard enough and some situations are nuanced enough that you need to take your time with them, enough that the additional cost of making all of that time strictly synchronous can grow exponentially.

It also excludes large categories of people, including introverts and non-native speakers. I've worked with a number of people who just flat out did not or could not participate in real-time face-to-face discussions, but who could express themselves masterfully via email.

Of course, the "faster! instant! now! now! now!" crowd don't even have the patience for slower, deeper, better-reasoned discussions, which is why they shy away from any form of communication that has any more depth than a tweet or a PowerPoint slide. Slack is great for these people because they don't even have to string words together to communicate, they can just click on a reaction emoji.

Sure, some things (operations, for instance) have genuine urgency to them, and I think real-time communication is essential for situations like that. But if you're doing work that will have an impact on the span of months, quarters, or years--either major strategic business decisions, design, or project development--you're better served by thinking deeper instead of thinking faster, and deep thought is exactly what the long-form written word was invented for.
So over 20,000 employees would leave the Googleplex every day at noon to get lunch?

This just means the next massive campus complex will not open in Mountain View. Big profitable companies and their hordes of tax paying employees will go elsewhere, and definitely will not be supporting MTV's local businesses.

Welcome to the wonderful world of unintended consequences!
Sorry to get triggered but oh my god I dislike those buzzwords. I find those two come up any time attempts are made to delineate responsibilities or make it possible for teams to run in parallel (by saying "you work on this area of speciality, I'll work on that" i.e. "silos").
>> No, the patient can sue for whatever reason they want to.

Check your rules of civil procedure. Patients cannot just invent reasons to sue. The case must hit several benchmarks before a doctor ever has to respond, let alone be deposed. Dismissal for failure to state a claim deals with the truly junk lawsuits.
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What's the mail archive that can be set up with the same ease of use and permissions as slack? What, are you going to say hypermail?

Nobody has put together a simple solution in the mail domain. Maybe there's a market for it - turns out someone might pay for it if it's better than the slack experience.
We are hackers, and this is a technology problem. Was it flagged because it have overlap with politics?
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It would actually be interesting to quantize Winograd transformed weights directly and then see whether we can squeeze some accuracy out (since Winograd is more accurate numerically than direct convolution). Maybe just too much work for potentially marginal improvement and you will get better result when incorporating quantization into your training process anyway.
What is the good story of multi-computer/mobile IRC access, with shared read state notifications?

I used to run IRC on the server in the screen session, but this is unusable on mobile. And setting up properly was a total PITA.
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I'm working on a fiction writing software, an idea which a few different fiction writers have independently identified as something that would really help them when writing their stories.

However, before I commit to building it, I want to reach a wider base of fiction writers to figure out whether this is something that would sell, and also to get feedback on early mockups and beta versions so that I'm building the right thing.

Communities generally have an anti-advertising policy, which is great, but obviously inconvenient for me.

If anyone here is a fiction writer, you can check it out at https://tapestryhq.com. You can reach me at my first name (habib) at the domain. Get in touch if you'd like to be an early user; I'm willing to give a large discount in exchange for feedback (although pricing is undecided at this point).
To be fair, there are a lot of efficiency gains and economies of scale involved.

Google pays a lot less to provide an employee with a nutritious, healthy meal than the same employee would be paying for a less healthy meal in your typical local restaurant.

So this law will create more local jobs in the short term... except the next Techplex will not be built in MTV, which will lose it far more local jobs than it gained.
That was one concern we had where I work, but Slack does many things better—not just unlimited custom emoji.
The support library sources have been published to AOSP for a long time now. And as of recently, they're even developing most of them in AOSP (as opposed too merely syncing changes there occasionally):

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/support...
> Anyone can buy a pair of pants.

Wait a second... what's the alternative to pants?? :p
Under traditional expectations, sure.
It's not about cost, it's about impact.

The team - myself included - works normal eight hour days and there is no "crunch time" (other than very rarely when we have external dependencies like when we launched our Spotify integration).

As an engineer we all want to have agency and be able to make impactful decision on the products we work on. Over-hiring too quickly is often what can lead to organizational bloat and can make things get built slower.

Instead, I think it's better to grow slowly, hire great people, and only hire when it's needed. I've found that as a company, staying small has made us always ask ourselves to make tradeoffs and constantly be thinking about what are the most important and impactful things we can be working on.