skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Despite a recent uptick above $8,000, bitcoin, still the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is down 39% since this year.

What a clickbait article. The Twitter cards mentions Bitcoin, it is even in the article. But nobody mines Bitcoin with GPUs since 5+ years anymore. It's ASIC or bust since 2013.
Stick to github issues or similar. Whatever is closer to the real work and gives you the biggest bang for the buck. Not the most wet dream. You do not need a gazillion of workflows and checks and stories and epics and boards etc. "Keep it simple, stupid"
Keep in mind that WebAssembly strings are not JavaScript strings, so there is additional data conversion overhead that needs to be accounted for, versus a JavaScript implementation. And it's not just events and DOM updates. If you wanted to preserve React's render API, the input data for re-rendered DOM needs to be converted from JS before doing a diff.

With slower data conversion and faster internal calculation, it's plausible that it might overall be either slower or faster. I don't see any way to know without doing some experiments. It would certainly be more complicated.

It seems like the sort of JavaScript library where WebAssembly would be an easy win would have low API bandwidth (not much data crossing the boundary) and do a lot of expensive internal calculations. As a UI framework, React does some internal calculations but has relatively high API bandwidth.
Tangentially related, recently Google pushed an ad for chat.google.com my way (in a Gmail popup no less). It seems they made a Slack competitor, it sort of uses Hangouts for one-on-one chats but its own thing for groups (and groups from Hangouts don't show up there) and broke Hangouts in Gmail since then (some conversation where the other person wrote the last message shows as unread the next time I open gmail).
Whereas in the US, the result of an election is decided by informed voters who don’t have to take into account what the majority of electors voted for. Much more efficient :D
Why does Discord need 2G RAM if you don't restart it regularly?

In your defense, it's a cancer that all "modern" apps done in javascript suffer from, but still, why?
Point is, citing the overspending by Leave as some massive deal looks a bit rich when virtually the entire establishment, business and media conspired to sway the result towards Remain.
><mst> enko: I'm not too worried about being swatted, I'm in britain, I'm white, and I've been meaning to have my front door replaced anyway

It's worrisome when the volunteers have to worry about things like this.
They don’t report automatically. They only report if they get a request for information.
Teams is bundled into Office365, so if you use that for email or Office software, you've got it for free.

It's exactly the same product as Slack, almost carbon copy.
The one about sneakers they even tweeted about two days ago. It’s a Thomas Rhett one and is the first song on Hot Country, it’s not a song Spotify!! (let’s all just skip past the fact I listen to country but live in the UK...)
It's true that it is much easier now in JS, but that is because the browsers and the core web technologies have radically evolved in that 10+ years since Flash was the dominant way of creating interactive experiences. Looking back at the eco-system when Flash was still a viable technology, we have to recall where the browsers were at, where HTML was at and also JavaScript itself.

At the start of 2005, I was helping lead a team build a highly interactive experience for a major car company using Macromedia Flash and Flex 2. When we launched the site we had full cross-browser pixel accuracy, fully supported URL deep-linking, bookmarking, page history navigation, web crawling, keyboard navigation, screen reading support, interactive video, highly animated experiences and even had fully integrated web mapping using a beta version of Microsofts first interactive map tech (it eventually became branded as Bing maps).

What we built then was possible only because of Flash, there was no way we could have created the complete experience in JS/HTML/CSS. Granted, we could have done a lot of it in native web tech (and in some cases, we had to under the hood), but to make it fully pixel accurate cross-browser would be tripled the dev & testing time. On top of that, some of the features would have been impossible without Flash.

Let's recall where we were in 2005. Chrome was still 3 years away (it was released in 2008), Firefox was still version 1.0 (1.5 didn't release until Nov. of that year), Gmail was just released into beta (you had to have a friend to get access), Google Maps was still in an experimental beta and was truly pushing the boundaries of what JS/HTML could do. The browser history API didn't exist so we had to do crazy iFrame hacks to create deep-links and history (this was true of any app, no matter what tech). There was no video in browsers without a plugin (HTML5 spec wasn't finalized until Oct. 2015). There was no such thing as CSS animations, they got their first release in Firefox 5 (June 2011).

So, were Flash apps trash? Absolutely, but not all of them. That's like claiming that modern browsers solve it all. We still have massive load times (look at how much time and effort is put into optimizing content delivery), the cross-browser and backward compatibility is a nightmare, and way more of a challenge then it ever has been. In some ways, modern web development is much better than Flash development was, but to be perfectly frank, we have a LONG way to go. Honestly, we haven't caught up to where Flash was 14 years ago.

But, we are getting there for sure. I can see why Steve Klabnik is so excited about WASM. I can envision where it is going and it reminds me of where Flash was trying to go before it was slaughtered by Adobe. It's an exciting time for sure, but we should also look back at where we came from and instead of just stating Flash is trash and it caused the web to be terrible, we should also look at what it did right and what it allowed us to create before we throw it out with the bathwater.
The cynic in me is curious how of this is due to the knock offs breaking/dying in a few months, and people just automatically rebuy.

Sure you can increase your widgets sold stats by selling cheap, disposable widgets. Doesn’t seem like the best long term social and environmental process to use.
I remember looking up a meta analysis back when Obamacare was being debated about why doctors have a skewed perception of the liklihood of being sued (that part is apparently not controversial in the literature). Most of the reasons found were just basic human psychological errors (I heard Bob got sued and I'm not taking into account that I know a thousand people and that Bob is only giving me his side of the story). But I do also remember the point being brought up that medical malpractice lawsuits follow a power law distribution where a minority of doctors get sued the most and repeatedly, while the vast majority of doctors may occasionally get sued, but rarely lose (yet it creates a perception that they were lucky, even though they're good doctors).

I think my takeaway from that analysis was that doctors are just as illogical as everyone else when it comes to things that aren't medicine. So you shouldn't really be surprised that they're unduly influenced by large, visible, and rare lawsuits, because that's how everyone works psychologically.
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I knew once I posted it that someone would suggest using a block chain.

The problem with the block chain is privacy. Publishing people’s votes can and will have a huge impact on their life. It would also make buying votes much easier.

A block chain solution would have to find a way to ensure that only valid voters can place a vote, ensure that only people that could vote were the only people that placed a vote after the fact, and ensure that none of this can be tied to a real identity. Otherwise, either bad actors could place votes, or a complete voting record for a person is published.

Solve all of the above, and a block chain may be an acceptable way to go, though it would be a waste of energy in my mind compared to a normal database, which could easily be exported with only the vote and signature stating it was a valid and verified vote for a person.

In the end, we have just made something more complicated than a paper ballot, which has been shown to be reasonably secure against foreign and/or national actors attempting to influence an election, except in already corrupt nations, especially those without term limits...
i don't even mind charging for meals, but not having to spend most of my lunch break driving for easy food would be a huge plus. guess i know what to look for once i graduate.
I mean this without being tongue in cheek, but Teams itself is anti-competitive. It's a horrible product which is basically only in use because it's bundled into Office 365. Absolutely nothing in Teams is not done better in other products, including Microsoft's own products such as Skype for Business or plain old Skype.

Business chats in general are just completely incongruent with what users are expecting from end-user chats like Telegram or WhatsApp or Messages. Even Google has fallen far behind with regards to Hangouts, and Allo is not a good answer either. From a business perspective, I get why businesses choose Teams or Allo, but the actual products have usability as an incidental feature. With both major players, the chats are just there to ensure that Slack cannot/will not grow, same with other programs such as Discord. It's a revenue stream that is yet untapped, and soon Microsoft and Google will come calling for their payment from Businesses.
If this is to deliver your ID for the purposes of KYC laws, then that’s somewhat sensible, I suppose.

If, however, this is targeted at the providers who are actually collecting IDs as part of their AML compliance strategy, then there’s a much simpler solution here: just become the ID equivalent of a Certificate Authority. Dedup Telegram accounts by using a unique constraint on accounts’ validated ID documents’ extracted creds; and then allow sites to use Telegram for Single Sign-On. Boom—instant surety that each of your users is a real person, and not fifty bots laundering one person’s money; and no need for anyone besides Telegram to actually see your ID (i.e. a much lower chance of identity theft.)

Plus, if enough sites require SSO through an ID-document verifying identity provider, then even sites that ha d no legal reason to require it can free-ride off the benefit in user-deduplication it provides. Imagine, for example, a Reddit or a 4chan where users are still pseudonymous or anonymous, but where banning a user truly works, permanently, with no routing around it (unless you have the criminal connections required to buy yourself a new real-world identity.)
Teams at the moment is mostly used by massive companies, as Slack is really built for smaller teams. I like Slack, but it is very unreliable. I am constantly disconnected, have messages never sent. This is not on the free version, it's almost inexcusable in the amount of times it happens.
What specifically is the lie?
I agree that the confirm password field should be gone, but disagree on the show facility. You need to toggle the password type to text to show it.

Additionally, we should be encouraging people to use password managers. If you want to be able to see your password, look at it there. A single password field with no unmasking is best matched to the password manager use case I think.
A very large part of the problem here is the UK and nobody seems willing to say that out loud. Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Wight, Gibraltar, Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, all are british overseas territories, remnants of the british empire and known tax havens.

The UK could normalize the status of these and remove all the advantages that make them attractive as tax havens, but doesn't seem interested in doing so. Perhaps because of all the nice money involved, perhaps because the British government has other things to work on right now.
Isn't the anti Middle East sentimate more a fear of or aversion to people of cultures seen as tolerant of implementing Islamic theocracy in governance?
Amazon’s facial recognition tool really messed up this time
> They undermine Westminster

That's an argument against referenda?!
Actually Slack is paying Atlassian.
"When we are not actually holding them, books are things over which we like to wring our hands. They stand, in their very solidity, for what might be precarious and endangered in our brave newish world."

Definitely an off topic question, but why is this kind of writing style so common? This super academic style that uses the most complicated and unnatural phrases, and likes to use esoteric definitions of otherwise normal words. It's hard for me to read and it just gives off a vibe of show-off-y-ness.
These were the injuries sustained by the coffee, which was more than just "hot":

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4820c7e31a90a1b89482c6...

and http://www.gruberlawgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ste...
This is an incredibly good move by Slack, even more so after the recent announcement from MS with the Teams free version.
Of course they released another IM product. Their IM teams are at war with each other.
Interesting. I worked at a healthcare tech startup last year and the reason why we had to use Hipchat is because the self-hosted Hipchat Server was HIPAA-compliant and Slack does not have a HIPAA-compliant self-hosted option. Have no idea what they're going to do (or anyone who needs to comply with stricter regulatory guidelines that prevents use of cloud-based messaging apps).
You could actually reach almost anywhere in the galaxy within a single human lifetime (the traveler's lifetime that is) using only 1-G constant acceleration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac...

No FTL required. We just need to figure out how to use propellant efficiently enough among a few other slightly difficult challenges.
A broken clock is right twice a day, but a running-but-off clock can be wrong forever ;-)
Slack going out of business is also anti-competitive. There is probably something like a half billion Teams users now.
Maybe they decided that the trade-offs are worth it.
> Now almost the entirety of its functionality is to help various middle managers track things that are important to them, while continuously making development slower.

This!
Compensation per word?
Ah, there it is! Okay, I know it's being pedantic, but the whole NIC aspect is what I was looking for. Taking my OS theory class at 8am was a bad choice. Thank you so much for the excellent explanation!
Yes, ShopSafe is useful when dealing with flaky businesses.
*navel. Looking at one's own stomach, an internally-focused meditation. Nothing to do with the sea :)

But yes, it does seem rather obvious.

However, I do think it's illuminating in that this business practice is really only relevant to big companies. It's more effective the bigger you are. If you can have a team of a dozen programmers, testers, and sysops engineers employed full-time to make 10,000 other people more effective, your company will be more efficient than mine. A small business will be much better off spending a couple hours creating a website on Squarespace and calling it good, because the ROI just is not there. Software scales, and this makes big companies bigger.
Probably because they don't want to (or can't) have a huge portion of their company's internal communication stored forever on a third-party server.

I still find it hard to believe that so many companies are okay with doing that.
The algo missed 507 of those crooks!
But, but, but.. Amazon will never make a profit!
There's a linked issue in React Native regarding 64-bit: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/2814. In short, you can't use 64-bit dependencies.
there's Mattermost for that, which is open-source to boot.
Technically data can be biased because what you call a misrepresentation is termed bias:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
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I've been on the site for five minutes and haven't found the pricing. Not a good sign.
Tomorrow will be the end of the requisite one month notice period for me in a job in the humanitarian world. I have no job lined up, as yet.

I just couldn't take it anymore. I can't count the number of times I walked into 2 of my female colleagues sobbing alone in the office. The office is small so it is common to occasionally be the only one in the office. Management knows about the cause of this toxic culture but I just can't stand it anymore. My mental health is more important than whatever they have been paying me.

Now, while I have been teaching myself programming for sometime, I believe I can find my way in a Ruby code base. I also know some Elixir and Python. I am based in East Africa just in case someone here would be kind enough to adopt a 40 year old degree-less man. Just for the experience, I wouldn't mind accepting a non-paying software role. Well, thankfully, I can afford to pay the bills for a few more months.
It seems more interesting to hear from an insider under those circumstances. For starters, an MLS analyst might actually be able and willing to chitchat with you. MLS is an odd place compared to the top European leagues - there's no threat of relegation, no scrambling to earn Champions or Europa League spots and, comparatively, also no money. There's the business with the 'designated players'. The dominant sport in this particular analyst's market is ice hockey. Etc.
Would be interesting to see Discord make an entry into the space. They're killing it on the gaming side already.
Reduced Awards =! Reduced Premiums or Costs

Texas seems to have set caps so low that it has reduced premiums for doctors. But "making malpractice cheaper" isn't much of a policy goal.

Nationally,'tort reform' caps have had mixed results. "...better-designed studies show that damages caps reduce liability insurance premiums. The effects of damages caps on defensive medicine, physicians’ location decisions, and the cost of health care to consumers are less clear." [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690332/
Theresa May led us here
Socialize? People are too busy working to afford living in the big smoke. :)

All joking aside, some folks I've known driven from St Catherine every day to work in the core. Summer wasn't too bad, winter they left at 4am and got home around 10pm just to rinse and repeat. Hardly got to see his kids. Truly not sure what they told themselves to keep doing it every day as to me it was simply insane.
You can reduce this a huge amount by simply using it in a tab in a browser. When I'm travelling I use it this way, as it eats much less battery - I just pin a tab.
Hmm mentioning it would probably be a bigger mistake. If they say anything they'll have detractors and proponents, by staying silent it allows them to prep & bleed off users who MUST have onprem.

All in all I would guess that slack will probably retain more than 80% of users, which is pretty good.
EU promised Turkey that the talks would continue, in exchange Turkey would keep immigrants at bay. So either the fear is more justified than you portray it to be, or EU is at least as hypocritical as you portray Vote Leave to be.
They changed the headline to "Slack Is Buying HipChat" from "Slack and Atlassian Team Up to Take on Microsoft in Chat Software". The latter still survives in the URL.

The "team up" makes it sound ridiculous, like some sort of cabal is being formed -- the team up here is like when I team up with a cheeseburger to take on hunger.
And I'm saying that whether or not you "broke the law" isn't a very interesting argument to me because some truly horrific things are legal and some perfectly mundane ones aren't. Simply being a law isn't a compelling argument in my mind as to whether something is right or wrong. At the same time you can undermine the spirit of something while being perfectly legal. The original argument was about people attempting to sway the vote. Surely Barack Obama and his fame/notoriety taking a side would do that. It's a good counterpoint to make and one that I think has merit.
An opinionated workflow of collecting from a development team and its customers potential future efforts, estimates of the cost and value of those efforts, prioritizing based on those estimates (maximize expected value, minimize expected cost), scheduling & forecasting efforts based on a sound statistical model (e.g. estimation error).
The challenge is still communication (it's going to take you 100k years to send a message from one end to another) and synchronization (it took you 60 years to get to your destination, but hundreds of thousands of years have passed for your peers)
The problem with this is that, by the time you get anywhere, a ridiculous amount of time has passed back on Earth, and also on the destination planet (since the reference frame for the other planet is very close to Earth's). So if you travel around to hundreds of planets, pretty soon all the stars have gone nova and you're nearing the heat-death of the universe, even though you may not have aged much.
I am actually a fan from Serena, but could not hide the fact that she might have a slight advantage....
Can the physical world keep up with our digital demands?
Levie is wrong. His personal bias is showing: an over optimism that Box can survive as an independent long-term. It's going to be Microsoft and other giants. There's no scenario where Slack remains an independent company, for the exact same reason there was never a scenario where Github remained an independent company. It'll be surprising if Slack is still independent three years from now.

It's perpetual consolidation in enterprise, nothing has changed about that in decades. Microsoft eats Github. Atlassian eats Slack (or some other company does). Maybe Atlassian is the next Oracle, or maybe Oracle or Salesforce or SAP or Microsoft eats Atlassian.

The one thing every scenario has in common: the little fish don't stick around and cooperate, they all get eaten and merged into ever larger companies. Nothing can stop that process, all the little fish have shareholders more than willing to sell when the big price comes in from the giants.

PeopleSoft, Siebel, Sun, MySQL, Great Plains, Sybase, Business Objects, Ariba, SuccessFactors, Concur, RightNow, Taleo, MuleSoft, Demandware, ExactTarget, etc etc

It's the same thing going on over and over again. The little fish never stick around. Box will end up in someone's stomach just the same as the rest.
Yes, but you can mine other cryptocurrencies with GPUs. The market as a whole tends to move with Bitcoin's price, and many of those cryptocurrencies are traded for Bitcoin.
Let's turn this around, people have characteristics that they don't choose and can't change, but those characteristics have an impact, on average, on some real-life aspects. Would ignoring that be a net gain over whatever would be gained by not ignoring it?
> Crazy.

Indeed so, if judging in a reference frame of gross oversimplifications and dismissing importance of details.

I hate Slack, the client, the cloud lock-in.
But I think they and those in between of golden IRC times and them did refine team chatting experience.

Speaking of my own experience: it's now easier to follow discussions and way easier to form more complex messages (mostly thanks to markdown) that convey your point. Just some things of the top of my head.
The huge advance of Teams is that you get it in a package if you buy Office365. Otherwise it is a chat app similar to Slack with less ready made integrations.
They seem to be HIPAA compliant now. (No self-hosting yet)

https://slack.com/security
Winklevoss Twins Bitcoin ETF Rejected by SEC
With current tax cuts, I can see a delay in down turn compared to what happened before
I feel like it's far more unusual to see a blog post from a tech company that _doesn't_ end with them soliciting for engineers.