skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the Golden Gate Restaurant Association supported the 2 supervisors who introduced the measure and has provided quotes as to how good an idea it is.

No one has mentioned the jobs to be destroyed in catering, nor the fact that catering jobs pay far better than restaurants for all the people making the food!
I used a sparkfun kit to create a sales demo for some sensors and I learned so much more about circuitry than I did in a couple years of theory based coursework.

The author's early point is right, getting hands on is the best way to learn EE and I have no idea why even good schools don't have you build stuff early and often.
I think it's reasonable to assume that there will be many efforts to create tools and libraries that make it easier. It will become less difficult with each passing day.
You a fan of Boas? Still have Mathermatical Methods open on my desk here at work.
Skype for Business, works on prem. Matrix is probably good too. Confluence can be installed on prem already.
The implication of the question is not not accurate. Make more connections and get more at bats. If you try hard enough you can get a call Jeff bezos.
Slack's competitors include Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. You can say that all of those companies have terrible products if you want (Hangouts, Teams, and FB for Work), but all have been positioned to act as Slack alternatives.

I don't think Slack is worried about looking anti-competitive in that crowd.
Check out DementiaHack http://about.hackernest.com/dementiahack-2017-winners/
> Actually, all physicists admit that parallel worlds exist on the microscopic scale

No they don't. The many worlds theory is a very tentative suggestion. And even if that was a professional opinion, does it have any consequences for the theory or is it an after thought?
Please. From your link

> The global cooling hypothesis nonetheless gained temporary popularity due to... press reports that did not accurately reflect the full scope of the debate in the scientific literature.[1]
NetSpectre: Read Arbitrary Memory Over Network [pdf]
I didn't build the playground website so I can't comment too much on it, but I can try to answer your question since I don't think it is specific to the website (but if my answer doesn't help please let me know, I may have misunderstood the question).

Actors in a Pony program all run within the same operating system process, so in theory there shouldn't be a limit to how many are run. In practice each actor takes up some memory so if you start enough of them you'll crash the process when you run out of memory.

Pony has a scheduler that schedules actors to run on threads. By default a Pony application starts with as many threads as there are CPUs in the system, but that's adjustable so the playground may tune that down. So all the actors are free to be available to be scheduled, but the number that are running at the same time is dependent on how many threads the scheduler has, and how many actors are processing messages at a given time.

Output in Pony is done via two actors: `env.out` is for stdout, `env.err` is for stderr. If you want to print a string you send that string to the actor via a `print(...)` message. Actors only process one message at a time, so each string will be printed in the order in which the output actor received the `print(...)` message.

Hopefully that helps a little. I'm happy to try to clarify or answer other questions.
Tax havens are tax havens for a reason. The only way to stop the Cayman Islands from being a tax haven would be picking a fight with the UK

This a solution which is easy to explain, but hard to implement.
Ask, don't scoff? Also to be fair, Slack's implementation of threads is awful. Probably their most poorly done feature in my mind.

If there is already a lively topic ongoing in a room and I need to jump in with another topic, I write a message and say "Hey I have a question, can someone help me?" and then I immediately start a thread with myself so people see that it is a thread and click it to respond rather than just spamming the room.

I have always wanted to try out twistapp and see how it is with their "Thread first" UX mentality.
It's "free" in the same sense that the food is.
Or so some studies say. But the quality and reliability of soft science studies like these is an even bigger myth -- and the reproducibility crisis is real.

In any case, whether learning styles are a myth or not, learning preferences about teaching styles are very real, and what works for someone to keep them engaged can bore someone else to tears and drive them off a course.
I'll counter that anecdote with an observation that I have never observed any of those issues. In our deployment Mattermost is reliable and I've never heard any complaints like those from my colleagues. It could be a question of scale; we only have probably 50 or so regular users.

That said, even though it works as advertised the product is not perfect. The Mattermost UI is bare bones and some things like conversation threading are implemented poorly.
Exactly. A big tech office next door will only give them nore customers than they have already, even if the office has its own cafeteria. Why are they forcing everybody to leave their office to eat?
Interesting. For what it's worth I am using Discord on Mac Safari (not TP), Win Chrome 69 (dev channel), and iOS. In one year I have not had any of the issues mentioned above. Perhaps using the desktop app can introduce problems.
From my experience, in most office jobs, email is primarily used for serious and well-argued discussions concerning projects, business goals, technical details, etc. Software developers really don't use email any differently from IT support, accountants, HR managers, or salespeople. Non-developers generally reserve chit-chat for chat software, just like developers do.

Not sure what it is about HN assuming software devs are somehow intellectually and professionally superior to others.
Will these cards work at ATMs? If so, I can imagine that they’d be quite useful as a way to distribute petty cash.
Unequal availability of assistance/capacity.
Sync. I have three computers and an iPhone. If I check a message on one device, it still shows unread on the other devices. It's total crap.
This is why you should bookmark by copying important information into your own knowledge database.
I think the "best" is based on a lot of factors. I teach at a liberal arts college so the "best" book for me is an OER book because I don't want to charge my students for a book that some of them may not be able to afford. If there is something wrong or lacking in the book I tell my students what I think is right or missing.

What I use:

Public Speaking: http://www.publicspeakingproject.org/

Intro to Comm: http://kell.indstate.edu/public-comm-intro/ (I helped revise this and edited together one of the chapter from existing OER chapters with my own material)

Intro to Media Studies: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=143
Not really, unless you stick with the Copenhagen interpretation. There are others.

I don't think it's a coincidence that going on a century of experimentation with entanglement has yet to yield even a theoretical mechanism for transferring information.
I don't see any compelling reason to adopt IRC. It does nothing that I care about that Slack doesn't do. If Slack completely implodes, I would search for Slack alternative. If IRC really was my only option, I'd use it just long enough to write a basic alternative myself that replaced or extended IRC w/ the features I really want.
> I would expect 2018 to be the year where people start questioning the utility of "Slack everywhere" and not blindly jump on the Slack bandwagon because that's what great startups do.

I would not hold my breath.
That's technically not two factor if you only need to know a password to get access to the one-time code.

It's two passwords, both are something you have to know, there's nothing you need to have or be (sms and biometrics respectively)
There are two other thing that have happened in the past few years:

• Gchat was effectively deprecated

• AIM is gone

You might be surprised how many companies now use Slack that have NOTHING to do with IT an/or software: everything form PR agencies to manufacturing.

I wouldn't be surprised if half of Slacks user base is now people who were using Gchat or AIM. All the major players who offered free chat basically got out, and Slack was kind of the cheapest cross-platform alternative. Even at the end of it's life million of people still used AIM daily for work, and then it suddenly went kaput.
In Monaco, there are a small number of 'Monegasque' i.e. actual ethnic people from Monaco - they are just 'regular folk' - not like the bankers and millionaires ex-pats that make up the most of the actual citizenry.

The 'wealth inequality' issue is obviously a problem, so the government mandates that 'all citizens get meal chits' as part of their comp - this is to ensure that Monegasque folks literally are not priced out of food.

But everyone gets them - bankers included (the uber-rich don't work ...). So you go into a restaurant there and these dudes in $5K suits are pulling out their 'meal cards' to pay for stuff, it's kind of funny.

But it has to be that way.

If facebook et. al. has set up their own 'shuttle bus' system, there's no reason to believe they won't set up 'private restaurants' around town to get around the city's regulations, which will sure to cause even more angst and obvious concern.

Better to just let them have their cafeterias ... but the weird kind of inequality thing is not going to go away.
It seems he is in a different camp, specifically the one where you aren't on a chat application all day
Google has an engineering office in Toronto?

Are you sure you're not thinking of kitchener-waterloo?
Ah, yes, the UI (Flash-based in the cases I mentioned!) is definitely clunky, so it's not surprising Capital One's is similar. They also tend to hide the feature a little bit for some reason; it's not prominently displayed. But otherwise it's there and nevertheless usable if you can find it. If you need it on literally a daily basis, though, it might not be smooth enough to be comfortable.
I think humans tens to underestimate how much we + our domesticated animals 'rule' the world: https://78-media-tumblr-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1200/s/78...
Businesses pay for a lot of stuff that doesn't work. Simply saying everyone else is doing it is not necessarily convincing.
Client Hints Changed in Chrome 67
The OS-level tools won't be able to inspect the websockets-based channel that the browser-in-browser uses to communicate with its back-end. It will all be opaque TLS-encrypted traffic to the OS. The native browser will be hosting a canvas element that will host the UI and running WASM code and that'll be all the OS will see.
Austin is already a pretty big tech hub
Think of it as a counterpoint to Elon's car orbiting Mars.
Maybe they should just go full hog and make this their mascot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird)
Incremental Software Development for Large Scale Refactorings
The IRS values stuff like this at fair market value, not wholesale cost. The benefit to the employee is a meal that they would otherwise have to buy at retail. So that's how it's valued. If they were to enforce it.
If we make it for another hundred or few thousand years more without killing ourselves, I'd imagine we might be able to shoot self replicating ships out at near C, then beam copies of ourselves to each ship, expanding out everywhere at near C. We might be able to be everywhere.

I imagine we could 'live inside' a projected VR world that looks like earth or some other massive online world unless we wanted to go out camping at whatever planet we were orbiting.
It you like getting paid less than market rate, I'm sure you can work there too.

Sparkfun: your pay sucks, no one can live in Boulder on your salaries.
Truth be told, housing issues are very often local: zoning that prevents housing from being built.

Exhibit A: https://shift.newco.co/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-a...
What does traffic look like?
Or even just contract work in general. Lots of code needs to be written.
Yeah I don't have a good answer either. I tend to take a more pragmatic approach, as opposed to a moral one, asking myself, what behaviour do we want to encourage? "Discriminating" based on intelligence => meritocracy => probably good. Young men subsidising pregnant women => possibly good (for Western nations at least). What does discriminating of car insurance do - no idea, possibly discourages men from driving and driving recklessly, but the effect is probably minimal and might not even be there, so...
How do you find such awesome companies to work for?
There are a lot of assets that you can bring to raising a seed round, and "elite connections" is only one of many. Others include: a great dream, a great team, a working proof of concept, a working MVP, customer validation, and customer traction.

I've been a founder at two companies that raised unusually large A rounds. In both cases, it was because we had an experienced founding team. One was stuffed with folks with "elite connections", one was not. In both cases, seed was no problem even though we didn't have even a proof of concept.
Herbert Gross' videos - absolutely amazing work of art. Nostalgic sentiment as a bonus :)
Yeah, not so much. I had a bunch of tests run at the suggestion of my Provider when I turned 40. Insurer decided not all were needed in the first place. So Provider's lab (in house, attached to a hospital) just sent me a bill for $780 instead, for the balance.
Doesn't mean housing is built.

San Francisco builds 1 unit of housing for every 1.8 jobs. This means tons of people commute into the city from elsewhere, and lots of living rooms converted into de-facto bedrooms.
Austin was the hippy central of Texas until the tech boom.
I'm only a very casual free user of Spotify, but the thing that has stuck with me is that if I start it off playing from an album and just let it continue on from there eventually it almost always ends up in very strange places with me looking up and saying "What the H am I listening to?"

I'm also surprised that out of > 100 comments there's barely a mention of Pandora - has it truly fallen so low?
Can you share an image inline? Can you rapidly search the history? Can you customize alerts? Does it work reliably on mobile? You're debugging something and you want to share a screenshot, inline, how does that work on IRC? Can you start audio or video calls with room participants?

Slack is great. I don't need to waste time writing bots because all of the tools I use already have simple integrations: GitHub, Box, DropBox, Intercom, etc. Doing all of that within IRC is a pain. For example: responding to an Intercom conversation from within Slack. I can set up Slack for an org in literally minutes. With IRC? Not literally minutes.
>it was never a fair fight to start with

What is a fair fight in this context? If there was a referendum to decide whether the country believes in evolution would you make sure the balance of scientists vs cranks in the public sphere was exactly 50:50? The vast majority of people with knowledge in the area knew that Brexit was a terrible idea, so they said so. And reality has proven them right. Or is this a prelude to complaining that the EU isn't being "fair" because it won't give the UK what it wants?

> this the incessant sour grapes from the overwhelming favourite

Remain was obviously not the favourite because it lost. That the winning side continues to paint itself as a victimised minority speaks volumes.
I live about 10 minutes from this location, and often frequent the restaurants there. It's smack dab in a high-traffic area (San Antonio+El Camino) and judging from the crowds, I can assure you that they get plenty of business already from the local community, even without Facebook.

That said, I would still have no problem if it was the landlord (WeWork) making this restriction, instead of the MTV government. This is a private business-to-business matter, and shouldn't be the domain of government.
I don't see how this is related at all. Still sounds better than an AIDS epidemic.
I generally agree with greg, and that covers 90% of the cases, for the times where Email is used with external entities, it usually gets dumped into issue tracking / wiki

Most work communication is usually within our issue tracking system

We use slack very lightly,

- most of our conversations are face to face but anumber of remote employees, and slack is used instead of face to face. Often for video calls

- copy pasting things to other people

- a sort of mini internal HN where links are posted to interesting things in the dev world and we discuss

- prodding people "Oi, my PR is still waiting .... " "did you setup ... ?" etc

- telling people where we went to lunch so they can find us.
>having more than 250 ducks transport more than a million passengers

That wasn't the number for DUKWs that was the number for all amphibious passenger vehicles.

>It's reasonable to assume that that number has been increasing over time

That's really a reasonable assumption considering the vehicles are 70+ years old.

>but the millions in the 90s at least gives you a decent ballpark

Again that's all amphibious vehicles, nothing about DUKWs, but let's assume they are.

1 million passengers. The DUKW in Missouri had 30 passengers, so let's assume the average trip is half full. 1 million passengers / 15 ~= 67k trips * 1.5 hours per trip ~= 100k hours per year.

There have about 40 fatalities caused by DUKWs in the last 20 years. 100k hours * 20 years = 2 million hours.

20 deaths per million hours operated

For cars we have ~0.625 deaths per million hours operated.

32 times more deadly per hour. Remarkably close to my first estimate.

Your #1 link estimates that there are 300 operational DUKWs in the US today. That's going to include reserves that are only operating during busy seasons/weekends etc... But let's assume they are all active for 6 hours per day on average (which is way too high). You still get a fatality rate per hour about 5 times higher than cars.

And again, tour boats and tour buses are much safer than cars, so the comparison will be much worse.

>And the NTSB also did not find the boats themselves unsafe

They did. Here is their recommendation:

“Without delay, alter your amphibious passenger vessels to provide reserve buoyancy through passive means, such as watertight compartmentalization, builtin flotation, or equivalent measures, so that they will remain afloat and upright in the event of flooding, even when carrying a full complement of passengers and
crew.”

“The Safety Board considers that the major consideration in
assessing the ability of passengers to
escape from a sinking DUKW is the overhead
canopy.”

>The other issues, which the media is obsessing on today, were listed as contributing to the magnitude of the incident, not causes of the incident.

Of course they aren't the cause. A canopy isn't going to cause a boat to sink.
(I lead the Zulip project)

When did you last try Zulip on Android? I agree it was pretty much unusable in 2017, but everyone who actively uses it agrees it's improved a lot in recent months (I use it every single day, and have a good experience using it to get my work done). The mobile apps remain our top engineering focus area, since they're certainly far behind the desktop experience's level of polish, but we've generally stopped hearing new users describe them as "unusable".

I should also mention that Zulip's threading model makes the experience of replying to a conversation when you get back to your computer feel great, which isn't true for any other chat tool. You don't have to be glued to your keyboard/phone in order to communicate effectively or avoid missing out on participating in important conversations, and I can't emphasize enough how much better this makes life.

That doesn't eliminate the value of mobile (as I said, this is our top focus area right now), but it's a big part of why people love Zulip today, despite the mobile experience being way behind the desktop experience.
That’s the best case.

It often fails to notify of new direct messages, I suspect thinking one device was active when it was received.
I don't really think that's being fair. The association the parent made was between Digikey and Alibaba. Digikey has pretty much exactly the same startup story as Sparkfun. Read all about it (https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/about-digikey):

It was Dr. Ronald A. Stordahl's interest in ham radio that provided the springboard for what has become Digi-Key today.

While in college he assembled and began selling a digital electronic keyer kit for sending radiotelegraph code for ham radio operators. It was called the Digi-Key.

After obtaining his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Stordahl returned to his hometown of Thief River Falls, Minnesota. The keyer kit was discontinued and he began selling electronic components in 1972. The Digi-Key "keyer" is long gone, but Digi-Key has become one of the fastest growing electronic component distributors in the world. We continue to operate on the premise of providing our customers – you – with superior service, focusing on the key areas of product selection, product availability, on-time delivery, and responsiveness.
Deezer user here, welcome aboard. One thing of note is that FLAC files are only available via Sonos and the desktop Deezer app. I wish they’d offer it on mobile as well, but I greatly enjoy the service and feature set, and most of my listening is on Sonos.
You're correct, OPEC has been around for almost six decades and still wields significant power.

Yet, is it perhaps possible that it has less than it used to? The days when OPEC could single-handedly crash the economies of much of the Western world are mostly gone. There's too much oil production outside of OPEC nations. American frackers have shown an extraordinary ability to respond quickly to price rises, checking them and OPEC's power both.

OPEC is holding together as a group and cartel! But, outside pressure and internal political differences have severely weakened it...
What you've described is just as applicable to nearly every other popular communications platform whether it's Slack, IRC, Skype, Twitter or even email.

Slack didn't invent those qualities. It's not unique in that regard.

What Slack does do better than most is provide a half decent interface for real time chat amongst groups of people. Personally I'd prefer vanilla IRC because I'd then get to chose my chat client but in terms of official clients go by, Slack is better than most (though that's really more of a criticism about Skype, email, etc than a compliment to Slack. I mean how is it that so many collaborative tools have such poorly designed UIs?)
> I assume you are referring to the recent tariffs, in which case we gave China an ultimatum

No, I'm referring to the fact that foreign (Western) companies cannot sell in China unless part of the products are made there, and can't own Chinese companies without Chinese co-ownership. It all resulted in a massive transfer of IP to China, simply because for most companies, the tradeoff still made sense (short-term at least) (Google is a notable exception).
Poster you're replying to said 'new HQ' indicating their comment was about the place Amazon is shopping to build, not their current Seattle HQ.
There is a finite supply of numbers. Not recycling old numbers and just throwing them in a hole forever wouldn't be very prudent.
The benefit to the employee is that he does not have to bring it from home. Why would an employee automatically go out and buy lunch when a much more practical and cheaper alternative is available?
I worked at a place where employees lobbied for Slack endlessly until we got rid of HipChat because -- and I am being completely serious here -- you can't upload as many custom smilies in HipChat.
Are they also going to buy Discord?