skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We really wanted to not use Slack. We really wanted something self-hosted. After weeks of wasting time trying a half-dozen alternatives, we bit the bullet and now use Slack too. I too thought, "Chat isn't that hard -- why wouldn't we self host?"

Things we were looking for:

- Separate work / personal accounts (i.e. not just Skype, Telegram, etc.)

- Decent native apps for macOS, Android and iOS, bonus points for Linux and Windows

- Reliable notifications across those platforms

- Tracking unread messages across platforms (i.e. you get the whole history everywhere, everywhere knows what the last message you read on any device is)

- Some basic niceties like the ability to drop images into a chat and have them show up across all devices

That's it, really. Aside from the last one, that's almost the definition of group chat. It doesn't sound hard. All self-hosted alternatives failed.

Things that couldn't hack it:

- Jabber

- IRC

- Rocket.Chat

- Mattermost

- Zulip

- Matrix / riot.im

It seems mostly the Achilles' Heel is apps and reliable notifications. This seems like it shouldn't be that hard, but almost everything fails there. Most platforms couldn't reliably have message show up punctually on all platforms. Sometimes the clients took 15% of a laptop's CPU idling. Often messages just wouldn't show up until you explicitly opened the app on mobile.

So, like I said, now we use Slack. And we're mostly happy. I had to fight the dork impulses to start writing my own version of this and get back to work that mattered.
> The chance for exit drops off a pretty steep curve as you go down the “top cities” list.

Exactly.

Which either means you're either: going to get a bad/mixed bag on terms -or- you need to raise in one of those cities as an outsider.
I thought medical errors were the third leading cause of death in the U.S. with 10% of all deaths attributed to medical error.

With that error rate, is it fair to say that the extra tests are truly "unnecessary?"
I predict there will be another blog post in about 18 months from discord about "Why we moved away from React Native"
The CEO of IBM made a very good case.
> I do all my computing using just StumpWM, Emacs, Firefox and xterm

Same, though I use Awesome for my window manager.
You and I have had very different experiences with Hipchat. The search is terrible, the integrations are worse, the mobile app hardly ever sends me notifications when it should, there's almost no customizability, the native app randomly drops messages. For me, Slack isn't hype, it's simply a better product.
Same with the Revelation Space universe's lighthugger starships. The crews were seen as quite alien by the rest of their culture.

That's also the first place I saw the (in hindsight obvious) idea that a ship that can accelerate at over 1G can land on (or hover over) a planetary surface. Everyone else seems to have kept the "starships are for outside atmospheres only" trope.
I'm a little vague on the details, but I think there are some tricks you use to narrow it down and then go spelunking. Maybe a particular variable needs to be in a page aligned struct so you only need to find a magic value at one of N places, etc.

Like I said, I don't know the specifics, but there are methods of doing better than guessing.
My biggest issue with notifications on Android is that when I tap on them, they rarely take me to the same server, channel, and location where the notifications came from which leads to me trying to hunt them down from the brief time that I saw them.
tl;dr. The British planted, transported and traded drugs for profit, and as a consequence ruined millions of lives, and counting. This is a solid historical fact.

The British were drug dealers, and many modern drug dealers exist because of the British. Period.

Don't try to dilute or deflect the blame. It happened, it continues to cause harm today, and it will never be forgotten. Live with it.

I cannot care less about revisionist arguments.
Wherever Amazon puts HQ2 will be the next Valley. Not because companies can’t already move, but because it will be an easy excuse to focus there.
There are plenty of small businesses in India going through productivity transitions and becoming bigger exporters. Air conditioning has been the easiest gain in the last 2 decades.

More recently it is mobile payments and computerized inventory and financing. The companies making these investments quickly become local franchises or quality exporters who can charge more.

Of course the owners and employees are richer for doing this, beating competition.
Is the NYT Fingerprinting iOS devices to enforce their paywall?
Once you read 5 articles/month the NYT begins to paywall its content. Once blocked, a common workaround used to be opening your browser in incognito/private mode. As cookies aren't carried over, the site believe it's your first article & you can proceed.

That no longer works on Safari on iOS. Once you are blocked in "Non-Private" mode, you are also blocked in Private mode.

I tried on two phones to the same effect. (Note: the behavior on OS X Safari is different. You can proceed as expected.)

I'm not really concerned about reading the content. Long story short, I actually have a subscription, just get lazy about signing in.

My curiosity is connecting a session in Private & Non-Private browser tabs.

I'm aware of browser fingerprinting. I'd be surprised if the NYT was using it this way, but maybe I'm wrong?
What does it mean for a reanimated woman from 42000 years ago to live a "normal" life in modern times?
Would you guys ever consider using Drab to interact with ReactNative on the frontend?
That's amazing. I could imagine a personal web app where you set some sort of a personal spending limit and have to pre-approve transactions over that limit.
Chinese Government Annual Work Report 2018 Infographic
Russ Cox on Go dependency management
> The problem is that sales taxes are regressive, disproportionally impacting those for whom consumption is a large % of their total income.

So? That is a problem for necessities like food, housing. But not for advertising, phones and computers, gas, cars, etc...
I don't know what you mean by "native" but in about:preferences#privacy you can click "clear history" and select "cookies" to clear them.
The Economic Collapse of China $30 Trillion Dollar Dark Cloud of Debt
How many more laws until we become a just and fair society?
GURPS - though not often, no one else will run it and I don't have time these days.

Dungeon Crawl Classics - D&D-esque, but not really. Worth checking out, it's fantastic. Some of my favorite games come from this one. Start with a zero-level funnel (each player has 3-5 PCs all 0-level). The magic system is awesome. The recently published Mutant Crawl Classics but I haven't got it yet. Tons of pre-made modules.

Castles & Crusades - This is a D&D-derived system, something like a streamlined 1E/2E in mechanics, but retains the themes and character. Also a lot of good pre-made modules (not as many as DCC, but enough to run you for a while if you can't play often).

Fiasco - No GM. All storytelling. It's fantastic, you build up the world and story collaboratively. This is my go-to these days if I can get people interested in RPing.

Dread - Low mechanics, focus on storytelling. Mechanic is a Jenga tower, if it falls the PC whose player pulled is dead (or otherwise out of the game). Story set up is a set of questionnaires the GM gives to players beforehand with guiding questions intended to connect the various PCs (the players don't know what the others wrote, this leads to neat developments). Good for one-shots, not campaigns.
I used to really love the bootstrap layoutit tool. Used that heaps in the past. Can you guys please make one for design systems (like Prime React, Element, Vue Admin etc) in React/Vue so you can visually build using components from those systems? That would be beyond amazing.
With the placement of the Control key on most keyboards, your pinkie is doing a straight downwards motion which is much less straining than going sideways, even if it is a bit of a long stretch. Most keyboards (maybe not on laptops though) also have two Control keys so the load is distributed over two pinkies instead of one and neither hand makes any crazy stretches. Personally, I think Caps Lock as Control is categorically terrible advice. I'm sure your intentions were good, but I wouldn't be surprised if this classic trick wasn't originally some vile Vim scheme designed to undermine Emacs users.

Ideal would be to use a keyboard and OS (MacBooks have both) where you can map Control to the keys immediately next to the spacebar. Using the strongest finger (thumb) instead of the weakest finger and the strongest movement (thumb curl) rather than the weakest is a true upgrade.
I’m a big fan of reading textbooks. I tend to buy and read several texts on the subjects that interest me most, and then continually to revisit each of them as my experience and knowledge in the subject broadens and deepens.

But I feel like this sort of list is basically misguided, because the textbook that best suits a reader depends crucially on (a) the reader’s particular background and (b) the reader’s goals in learning a subject. Every textbook on a particular subject is written for a different target audience and emphasizes different aspects of the subject, so in addition to trying to identify overall quality of exposition, prospective readers should try to identify the text that best suits their knowledge and interests as they sit down to read. And after reading one text, a reader’s knowledge and interest in the subject should have changed substantially: his or her interest may be exhausted, but if it’s piqued the reader should then move on to another text that covers the subject more deeply or from a different perspective.

In short, there is no such thing as a “best” textbook. There are good and bad texts, but they’re good and bad for different readers. Well, there are some texts that are just bad and will be bad for just about any reader, but the good ones are all good only for a certain subset of readers whose background in the subject and its prerequisites, and whose goals in learning it, best match what the author had in mind (or implicitly assumes).
Private corporations on private property should be able to make private contracts with employee as they see fit, without government interference.
All kinds of new fun diseases, probably.
To be fair, there are tons of very low severity vulnerabilities disclosed on HackerOne and this does not mean the application is vulnerable. Slack is definetly not vulnerable because it is written in php and you can pollute an iframe on their career website.
Having such a program in place is actually good for the application security as it does get audited by tons of hackers thanks to the monetary rewards.
Maybe if you live in a stable first world country. We just got out of an irresponsible government and it's shaken my trust in the system.
I'm not sure if you're intentionally being dense or we're talking past each other about different things.

1. Progressive and liberal-minded individuals think that promoting the idea that there is no functional difference between men and women will help fight gender inequality but this is not only untrue, it is dangerous. See the linked articles in my comment; people absolutely are debating this, these people are driving real policy changes, and you misrepresent them saying they are not.

2. Part of this agenda is shaming people for treating men and women differently, like in the OP. In this case they're right to do this, it's not productive or fair to write science articles about women differently than ones about men. But in other ways there is definitely a culture being created where it is taboo to treat men and women differently in any capacity and maybe that's not entirely a good idea. That's why it 'matters'.
Many have wondered the same. I personally think Brandon Frasier's perspective in the film, "Encino Man," was quite apt.
What does "regressive" even mean? The state doesn't interfere with private contracts?
So these are probably the oldest living organisms in existence then, huh? I'm not aware of anything that's older than 42000 years, but I'd be amazed to be wrong :)
Interesting. There is a kind of obvious conflict between cloud resources and hardware intensive applications like ML. The zeitgeist is obviously swinging.
I've never seen any email system used securely. Even smart people will send sensitive info to a personal address instead of corporate, for example. Email wasn't purpose-built for controlled internal comms.

Part of this is a UI problem, but it's still a problem.

I didn't say Slack is the answer, either. Just that email isn't a serious competitor to Slack.
The reason I used the word principly is because they are the same thing in principle, the current law is insufficient to treat the issue appropriately, which is what makes it unjust.

A foreign politician who is popular will generate free advertising showcasing the merits of his endorsed position through news media coverage of his statements.

Take money out of the equation entirely. I am a rich filthy corrupt CEO who owns a giant media corporation. I contribute 0 dollars to your campaign, but my TV channel has reporters singing your praises daily. My newspapers write about you in positive terms. My interns spend time on social media defending you from critics.

Everything I have done for you has helped get you elected. My news channel and publications are read by millions. You now owe me.

Similarly, a politician from another place who is very popular in your constituency shows up and campaigns for you. You pay nothing for it, but thousands show up to listen to him. His speech is aired to millions in your constituency.

Eventually you are elected, now you owe him.

Not accounting for some money is principly the same as not accounting for an endorsement by the President of the United States. The same negative outcomes that are associated with money in politics can be applied to endorsements too.

Existing laws do not address this, and are thus unjust because they are outdated in the context of how news and discourse works in 2018
With medicine becoming a cartel with sprawling medical networks, the tests become synonymous with cheese on a fast food burger — an extra quarter.

We have a old school PPO plan. My wife can go to the doctor for any purpose, and sure as hell there’s a pregnancy test for $5. If you’re on a statin, you’re worth about $600/year in lab tests. Not because of insurance companies, but because the GP or NP is the top of a sales funnel. They need to drive revenue in the network as the medical networks are less efficient.

The insurance company response is urgent care clinics, which the insurance companies spent millions lobbying for. Those are great for insurance because they hand out z-packs and nebulizers and send you home. Large employers self insure drugs, so it’s a profit center for everyone. Best part for them is the 32 year old unhealthy dude stays away from the both the outrageous ER and the GP and that statin prescription.
Confluence's editor is truly awful. I've spent 15 minutes just trying to remove superfluous newlines -- it's maddening. If you do something like {{fsck}} to create a bit of monospace text, it's totally unclear if there is a space after the text, or there isn't, due to the way the reverse video section is larger than the actual text. God help you if you accidentally backspace into the monospace section, everything you type after that is monospace. It's extremely frustrating.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many folks when faced with the prospect of updating a document using the Confluence editor will instead just find something less terrible to do.

I often write my entire document first using the old style Confluence markdown, and when done I import it into a new Confluence page. You can't take an existing document and convert into markdown, but if you are the only person working on the document this is a workable approach.
...regressive state politics...

I didn't realize Texas had instituted soda and straw taxes.
I'll take this over open offices, at least you can tune it out.

Search is pretty good too
That is what I do now though, with about $25k in the bank. I suppose too many bosses assume that I'm not willing to quit, if there's too much bullshit. But in this industry, we usually have a lot of other options.
It "sucks", really? You don't think that might be a bit of an overstatement?

You may not prefer it, but it objectively does not "suck".
> these voluntary cartels very rarely work for a long period of time in a 'free market'.

The Phoebus Cartel worked for fifteen years. That's plenty of time to prove that "free" markets just don't work.

> Cartels only really work when you have governments to enforce them (see: wireless and ISP pricing in Canada)

I don't know about the specifics of the situtation in Canada, but networks are natural monopolies. Competition does not make sense in that sphere to begin with.
> I disagree, compliance isn't particularly difficult unless you're going out of your way to do something harmful to your users

Article 27 is a big pain for those of us not established in the Union, regardless of whether or not we are doing anything harmful to our users.
Aren't these free meals essentially untaxed compensation for employees?
I have no real opinion on the tech stack (beyond being glad that it works for you), but this is very cool, and is something I've looked for in the past, unsuccessfully.
In a previous life, I used to tutor students who had to cover high-school mathematics for their university courses.

What I found was that going through a proper high-school textbook was the best way to cover all the topics systematically and in a focused manner. If you can get your hands on some such books (such as a text for the International Baccalaureate Higher Mathematics or the UK Advanced Levels), that would be the ideal solution.

You can also look at Schaum's series at this level (search them on Amazon). Some useful books are Schaum's Basic Mathematics, Intermediate Algebra, Precalculus, and Calculus. These have the advantage that many problems are solved and the text is completely waffle-free. I myself enjoyed working through Schaum's Calculus whenever I had to brush-up my calculus skills in the university.

Yet another option is to go through the texts by "Art of Problem Solving" (https://artofproblemsolving.com/). From what I have seen so far, these are beautiful texts that stress on improving your problem solving skills along with acquiring technical knowledge. However, I haven't taught from these, so I can't vouch for how the learning experience with them will be like.
It very much depends, fiber construction can have a very long ROI and be very costly depending on how much of it has to be underground, right-of-way issues, etc.
I believe that we can solve our problems, but only if we deal in reality. Once I hear people advancing agendas that rely on humanity pulling together as a world group to help each other for no more reason than "it's nice to do that"; well let's just say I remain skeptical.

I have the same reaction when I hear talk of Socialism. It is simply Not dealing with reality to expect people to; start a business, spend every waking hour thinking and working on that business for some years, and then give Most of the profits away to benefit unknown strangers. Who will do that? (And yes I know Gates and Buffet and others are giving most of their money away, but that's after they have already lived a life of their choosing.)

Glib, sure after a fashion, but much more than that it is a factual reply based on reality.
I think the real challenge would be creating a trailer for a movie that is not very good so that you don't give away the few good bits.
Caps-lock is an abomination. I used to try remapping it to something useful, or disabling it in software with autohotkey or the like, but that was not sufficiently foolproof, so I've given up and just rip the keycap off my keyboards. Looks a little trashy, but it works fantastic.
"Trumpfeed" will probably have a similar requirement...
Even more, an exponent increase in the number of papers on a subject might mean something but it could easily mean something other than the optimistic scenario.
Came for this link.
Agreed. I use it a lot and it is really, really good as you say.
Many people don't use Telegram and presumably most sites can't afford to alienate that many people.
Stop complicating things. This is very simple:

1. The British planted opium then transported it to China and traded it.

2. The Chinese told them it was illegal.

3. They continued trading it.

4. The Chinese seized all of it.

5. They declared war so they could continue trading it.

I don't see the confusion or debate here. What the British were doing was very simple: illegal drug trade for profit.

What others were doing is a separate debate and does not absolve the British from anything. Don't mix things.
have you considered fundraising on an investment platform that operates under Regulation Crowdfunding and allows all of your non elite connections (and everyone else out there) to invest? Check sizes can be small and it gets the word out there and drives demand for your business while fundraising. Lots of platforms out there, Republic spun out of AngelList and does that for example.
Two ways:-

1)Ask. Ask everyone. Tell them what you are doing. Take their feedback. Good or bad. Improve your idea and update the person who made the suggestion.

And be ready for rejection. 99% will say no. Thank them for listening. You just need 1-2 investors to say yes.

2) Focus on a few people you think will be a good match. Really understand what their ideas are and how they see the world. Find a way to meet them and show them how what you are doing fits their ideology. Easier said than done. But very effective if done right. Lots of work involved in preparation.
Since (some) nematodes eat poop, could we get viable megafauna DNA this way?
That's a fair point, but to me, the article's message seemed to be that the important issue was the productivity gain (just look at the title.) That interpretation, and my response, may well be a biased, to which I can only say that it wasn't my initial response, which was more favorable.
California Should Provide Public Access to Police Body Cam Footage
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> Googlers and Facebookers would burn the city to the ground.

At most, they would make a website with a little game featuring an animation of the city burning down, then giggle and and share it with each other, all the while deaf to the irony that, in reality, they already are burning it down; they just can’t see it. The disconcern behind your whining threat exerts, on the broader population, a blunt misery of slow-burning economic torture the likes of which the tech worker’s comforts will not afford them to perceive. A real fire would at least offer closure and hope amidst a new beginning. This one just keeps blistering.