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Has Slack fixed the problem with bots spamming people yet? I used to be a member of a lot of channels for various projects but then a wave of bots started hitting all of them spamming various scams or trying to impersonate accounts so I had to leave because I couldn't have my inbox flooded with nonsense and the signal-to-noise ratio was too high.
> the illiterates took over and that was the end of that.

That's pretty arrogant. Perhaps people have different communication styles than you. Not better, not worse... just different.
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That woman is an Amazon, and I love her for it. I'm happy to celebrate a female that is uniquely physically excellent in terms of strength, coordination, etc.

There's hardly anything unique about a born male being physically more capable than a born female, however, and I have no interest in celebrating it within the context of female sporting events.
I recently worked on an app with some learning resources about dementia. [iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dementia-overview/id13722090...) and [android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nativescri...)
“Of you”...

https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs?t=1514
What bothered us the most with HipChat was their lax security model. Any file uploads in HipChat would be uploaded to an S3 bucket and opts for security via obscurity [1] as opposed to proper authentication.

This forced us to send sensitive material via email as opposed to directly via HipChat.

[1]
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Hipchat-questions/Securit...
I really wonder what it will take to kill this Golden Goose. Bay area employees are already a big premium over employees in other areas, but companies still really want to be here. No free food is almost asinine... but it's not a big thing compared to the extra cost in salaries.
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Absolutely. This will increase demand and raise prices.
Do you have a source for your first assertion ? This link explicitly says that it applies to the Facebook development

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/New-Facebook-Offices-M...

They haven't decided whether to expand to cover Google's expansion

For the SF rule, it is only proposed by Peskin and Safai. And Peskin himself said on twitter that this is just a proposal.
Some of the books it is comparing are in completely different classes. For example it is comparing Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics and Jackson's Electrodynamics.

You can't read Jackson if you haven't taken Griffiths or an equivalent! Jackson is a graduate textbook whereas Griffiths is undergraduate. And if you don't have a strong math background (knowing multivariate calculus and differential equations) neither of those are recommended.

I think the hard thing about lists like this is that it doesn't specify who it is best for. At least compare books on the same level...
It was obnoxious and took over the whole discovery section.
Pandora has never been good if you listen to things that aren't so popular. I tried it years ago, and eventually got frustrated at their sheer lack of variety. It also wasn't available for some folks I knew. I considered re-checking them to see if there was improvement. But alas, I had switched countries and it simply wasn't available.

Pandora was never a robust enough service, so it is unsurprising that no one mentions it.
Why is everyone so concerned with $20/mo? If you're running a business, this should be the least of your concerns. Building on AWS means easy scaling for the future.

Who wants to redesign their entire project if it takes off?
This is wrong. There are ads in Spotify premium, in the UI. There was a gigantic obnoxious one a few weeks ago for an artist starting with D and ending with E.
Entropay.com is great - I use it for sites that really don't want my Australian dollars (normally this is enough for me to never buy from them, but sometimes I really do need the product). The cards are "American", but appear to be issued somewhere in the EU - I've had the number rejected by someone, maybe Sling?

I do wonder if I'm getting flagged as a higher fraud risk when I use it, though.
I think you're confusing communication throughput with latency.

I also don't like using chat at work. It's not because I want less interaction, it's because I want less interruption. Email has a norm of asynchrony where I can respond to email when I reach a good point in my current task. With chat, the other party is presumed to be sitting staring at the screen waiting for my reply, so I have to drop what I'm doing to respond.

I don't think the latter is good for my overall productivity.
I actually saw another UX oddity by Discord.

It was that you had disabled right click on the join server page in Chrome, it is generally considered bad practice, but somehow I liked it since it reinforced the game interface feeling.
I actually feel the exact opposite way when it comes to successful tests like the present one. Namely, these tests often also rule out modified theories of gravity which, to me, suggests that, by often considering more or less random (read: ugly) and little-justified modifications of general relativity, these theories have been looking in the wrong place when it comes to explaining dark matter (and, possibly, dark energy). …which, for me, not only makes the mystery of dark matter all the greater but also makes me appreciate Einstein's beautiful theory even more. :)
While we're sharing opinions, my take on these.

- Jira is tolerable. Many of the more essential features are only available as plugins and many of them feel like ugly bolt-on hacks (looking at you, Insight) to the point that Atlassian won't even investigate your problems unless you replicate them without plugins. But my largest complaint about the system is how dreadfully corporate and boring it feels to me in a very abstract sense. Jira is the least fun I can have with computer.

- Confluence's search is abysmal; fgrep would do a better job. The markup language could use improvement but it's not that awful.

- No comment on Bamboo and Bitbucket. I'm not a developer.
Please elaborate on your rationale.
Is there any chance for an android version?
And how does that work for your average person using outlook / google for email?
Keybase has chat. Available on desktop and at least Android
alz.care is/was working on a tracker https://alz.care/
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Is there anything stopping the next campus from opening a restaurant and not charging their employees?
RAM is fast, disk is slow, network is really slow. Your operating system optimises for performance. Minimising RAM usage is bad for performance, because empty RAM is wasted RAM.

If your RAM is full, there is a probability that something will need to be read from disk. If your RAM is empty, there is a certainty that something will need to be read from disk or from the network. A probability of a slow operation is preferable to the certainty of a slow operation. Something in RAM is preferable to nothing in RAM.

The pretty chat app will not keep all of your cat pictures in RAM indefinitely, because the OS won't let it. If something else needs that RAM, then the cat pictures will be paged to disk. The OS is incredibly good at figuring out what belongs in RAM and what belongs on disk at any given moment.
97 writers sent letters in 1971 to celebrate the opening of the new library in Troy, MI., including Isaac Asimov, who had this to say: "Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you --- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life."
I can tell you what I learned from my undergrad econ professors. Every time you see regulations that look like they hurt an industry, you will inevitably find the biggest player in said industry pushing for it. For large companies, the cost of compliance is a smaller percentage of their total costs than for smaller companies, and so it acts as a moat for smaller players trying to break into the industry, effectively reducing competition, and keeping prices high.

So, conspiracy theory or not, it's very plausible that the large established players had a hand in drafting this law.
>why would ANYONE in their right mind give their DNA...

I've been thinking about this a lot since you posted yesterday and I think you're doing yourself, your relatives, and your whole ethnicity a favor IF your data is used to build better drugs.

There's a huge issue with drug testing skewing against certain ethnicities, which is why some drugs are not effective for certain people. This seems like a good solution.
Hopefully the web server will come back to life in less time than that

Cached version at https://archive.is/b0WjK
If you decide you really need funding, talk to everyone and everyone they know.

A guy I had met a few times before asked me for some advice about an offer he had from a start-up. At the end of our conversation, I mentioned to him that we were raising a round of financing and were looking for introductions to angel investors.

This guy is not an "elite connection", but he mentioned that he did know a guy who had invested in a start-up and offered to do an introduction.

I met his contact for coffee a few days later and he brought on a few of his other friends and contacts and we closed a seed round.

I learned in the process that you may not be looking for "elite connections". Our investors are not flashy "elite" types, they are hard-working people who have managed their money wisely. They don't have the net worth to invest as an LP, so they invest as angels.

That to me was an interesting realization, that most angels aren't the ones who have made it to the top, but rather they are still in the fight, and managing their risk trying to get to the next level.

They are also keen to offer their help and advice.
Atlassian wins again.
Even if you don't give out your peers information, they only need a few data points from your relatives (who may not even know they have given it their information) to figure out who you are.
The problem is also impacted by how those songs get onto the platform. Apparently, music companies literally just upload the music files, correct metadata or not
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I agree that the "software dev" distinction here is not relevant.

However, it's definitely true that email is typically used both for "serious and well-argued discussions" and for chatty threads along the lines of

Thanks.

BTW How are we looking for this month's revenue target?

>No idea, maybe the data load didn't run last night,
>I'll look into it.
>
>>This report looks broken, the opportunity I closed
>>yesterday isn't in there, what's up?
> Not sure what it is about HN assuming software devs are somehow intellectually and professionally superior to others.

Dunno but this thread is full of a bunch folks rather arrogantly assuming their way is the One True Way.

Slack (and hipchat) didn't get big for no reason. It's because it fulfills a pretty big need. Tons of people in my company use & love Slack... Last company was a big hipchat company...
Well, not really.

Back then, the Facebook API gave out personal details of not use the end user, but all the end user's 'friends'. I never gave the explicit opt in for that.
> Of course, the biggest issue with using free tiers for your entire stack is that you have no guarantee that the services will be running forever.

That's not guaranteed for paid tiers either; no product offering, free or paid, is guaranteed to be offered forever.
I'm in the camp that Slack is a great UI for work chat, and that work chat is for low latency, low bandwidth communication.

If I want high latency, high bandwidth, there's email. If I need low latency, high bandwidth, that's an in person whiteboard session or a video call.

That does mean I think Slack is overhyped... but that also means I think Slack does something valuable. Just maybe not as valuable.
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Law enforcement is requesting more digital evidence from tech companies
If they tried to take the cafes away from existing tech employees, they would have a riot on their hands. Googlers and Facebookers would burn the city to the ground. It is an intensely beloved part of the job.
Payola and "promotion collaborations" are are an easy way to monetize the service. Make 20% more money from all users, lose 5% of users? Great deal, according to Excel.
Those aren't slack problems, those are people problems. I can just as easily point to email threads that are incoherent and hard to follow. I can also point to meetings with no agenda that waste everyones time but give the appearance of 'managing' or team building.

When used properly (not lazily), Slack is a great place to organize communication between teams. At worst its Skype with a way better UI...what's wrong with that?
It has little to do with tech and much to do with market power, political influence, and scale economies.
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If I read correctly, Alphabet can just add another letter that's a catering company with a commercial kitchen and bring all the meals in on trucks. "Startups" don't have their own food preparation operations as-is, they use catering or similar food delivery which seem unaffected. Maybe the people affected don't realize that. More demand from those services might even make them cheaper as more players enter the space. I don't see who loses, unless "kitchen" extends all the way down to stocked pantries and dish washers.

No opinions of my own offered here. I've enjoyed offices with and without meal options in SoMa and around the Bay.
I do that but it's not the same as not having a chat I'm expected to be checking.
Do you think they're the exact same products, and that there's absolutely zero reason for anyone to prefer Slack over HipChat?
The last job I had was seasonal, and the season ended. I doubt this is what you were looking for, though. It's OK, as it was an accomplishment in itself - the first job in a country after learning enough language to work somewhere.

The one before that, though, I quit because I was getting married and was moving overseas. I gave a few months notice and trained my replacement. Best life change I've made.
The Village at San Antonio is not North Bayshore. This wouldn't work at Google's current campus because there are literally not enough restaurants to feed everyone - there were 4 when I worked there (Sports Page + the Sunnybowl/Falafel/Sushi complex), and since then Sports Page has closed and there are apparently a few new ones by the Computer History Museum. Perhaps the new zoning plans for North Bayshore include more, but it'll be years before that's done.

But when The Village was zoned, it was explicitly done with street-level retail for a wide variety of restaurants. There are over a dozen restaurants within a 5-minute walk of Facebook's offices, plus a Walmart, Safeway, Whole Foods, and produce market, all of which have ready-to-eat meals.

Something that's left out of a lot of the news coverage of this: it's not a law but a development condition attached to the particular property that Facebook is occupying. When a real-estate developer wants to develop a piece of property, there's a complex negotiation with the local municipality (or county, if it's in unincorporated land) that includes things like contracting for water/sewer/garbage services, how to ensure there's adequate police & fire coverage, how the town will build new roads to handle traffic generated from the property, what's the impact on schools & community services, and what types of dwellings & permitted uses are available for the property (you can't build a skyscraper in the path of SJC airport, for example, nor can you build a chip fab on residential land). Written into that contract is the cafeteria clause under discussion here. While I have some doubts about whether this is a good thing (I've got another comment here where I expressed mixed feelings), it's a contract and not a law, and obviously Facebook has felt that the restriction is not too onerous for the building to be worth occupying.
I doubt people could be perfectly adapted by gene engineering, but one could reduce the life support requirements significantly.

For example, shorter people could probably deal with heavier gravity better.
Related research on basketball: https://www.physics.umass.edu/events/2015-09-09-statistics-b... (arXiV: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03509)

I had the pleasure of attending the mentioned colloquium by Sid Redner back in 2015 and I was absolutely blown away by the effectiveness of a simple random-walk model.
Our Corp IT requested engineering to Pilot Google Hangout Chats as we already have GSuite. Turns out that Slack is the most expensive enterprise application that IT owns. It is more expensive that GSuite, although it provides a specific utility, while GSuite has emails, spreadsheets, docs etc. etc. That doesn't really sounds sustainable.
I'm wondering the same. Two growing trends that I'm observing:

1. Businesses moving out of California, especially NorCal. Sergey Brin already said two years ago that he would not have started Google in NorCal today. He was right. There's a lot more interest in other locations, such as Austin.

2. Remote work, and fully remote virtual offices.

Personally I know a bunch of people who declined offers in the SFBay to avoid the pincer squeeze of impossible housing costs + highest tax rate in the nation. A friend of mine did the math and realized that downtown Manhattan (!) was more affordable for him than the Bay.

This stupid rule will not be the last straw. I do think it will deter companies from starting large complexes in MTV specifically, and SF if it passes this same rule.

It is however a sign of the arrogance and greed of municipalities, and their mistaken belief that they can just keep squeezing big tech indefinitely.
What's stopping FB from ordering catering and pre-packaged meals for their employess from one of these large contract companies : https://www.food-management.com/top-50-contract-companies ?
>We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once!

Is it illegal?
It's not only not-illegal, it's Constitutionally protected.
Worth noting that mattermost has made pretty significant improvements around this in the past several months, now that there's a large customer: https://eng.uber.com/uchat/

web/apps have been pretty much completely rewritten too. it's noticeably better, if you haven't used it for a while.
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>paying good wages and benefits to these people

Absurdity of this proposal aside, most food service workers in these cafeterias are contractors who are not paid well and receive shitty, if any, benefits.
You don’t add percentages that way. 20% tax on a 20% tax on a 20% tax = 48.8% tax not 60% tax.
Wait, two posts ago you were the one complaining about the lack of fair fight, and now you're using it in an analogy where the losing side is complaining about it despite their advantage. It's no wonder I don't know what you're talking about, you very clearly don't either.

I have no idea what Guardian piece you're referring to. I'd certainly never claim to be the only person capable of formulating such an obvious conclusion from the evidence in front of me. Won the referendum, have no idea how to actually follow through on the promise, so blame anyone but themselves. That's where Leave is today.

And please, save the "democratic will of the people" guff. A 52/48 vote when people didn't even know what they were voting for. For example, Leave campaigners said we'd stay in the single market, and get £350m for the NHS, yet here we are on the precipice of leaving the single market and NHS budget freefall. You can try to deflect the blame for that all you want, but the reality is that the Leave side didn't think they'd win, made a pile of fanciful promises anyone with their head screwed on knew would never come to fruition, and then sat there and shat themselves for months on end while they were supposed to be negotiating an exit. No one voted for this.

55% of people would prefer to remain in the EU than crash out with a no deal Brexit, so presumably you'd be fine with that "will of the people" too. Or are opinion polls bad when they don't say what you want?
tl;dr placebo effect is real, cognitive/behavioral/talk therapy works, and the distinction between physical/mental health is useless
Blehhh... see this done that ... lets stop prostrating before anything Google for God's sake.
The article is newsworthy but I bet there's a source that's less of a junk media.
For being the business chat darling, Slack is just not that great at being an amazing chat platform.

I'm comparing to WhatsApp, because in my org that's what everyone defaults to, as the basic chat functionality in Slack is a subpar experience:
* No delivery notices, even in private chat
* Can't upload multiple attachments/images in one go, but instead defaults to N single uploads
* No option not to download large images
* Logs in slow, needs to be "connected" and thus struggles to send messages on intermittent connections

Maybe the HipChat infusion of people with a different viewpoint will help?
Flat out, it's just extremely disingenuous to conflate the dangers of tobacco and e-cigs. Malik should be ashamed to perpetuate this, but it's so common that it's not surprising. (Plus as he's a former smoker, it has a nice ring of moral high ground to it.) Everyone needs to cut it out with that. It's bullshit, which is not to say that e-cigs are perfectly safe or unworthy of concern.

Now, is this company selling people on nicotine addiction? Sure it is. Just as coffee companies sell people on caffeine addiction, just as smartphone companies sell smartphone addiction. No need to be coy about it.

But the point is that we should be looking at the dark side of all SV businesses- Facebook (data mining, privacy, tracking), Apple (smartphone addiction), Google (all of the above) to name a few. From this perspective, we can see that VC-backed Silicon Valley companies are not building the brighter future they purport to build.

Investing money to make more money is the name of the game, and they have been wildly successful at that, but let us not fool ourselves that it is anything more or better.
If that were viable people would already be doing it. It's not, and so very few people are. I wish this weren't the case but it is.
From TFA:

> the city prohibits companies from fully subsidizing meals in the Village, and the rule could spread to other Bay Area cities in the future.

So no, it doesn't apply "only to Facebook", it applies to new office complexes, in this particular case the complex called "the Village". It would apply to any companies within that office complex, and potentially any new complexes and offices built in MTV going forward.

> For the SF rule, it is only proposed by Peskin and Safai. And Peskin himself said on twitter that this is just a proposal.

You only need one lawmaker to propose a new law. Plenty of laws in the book were proposed by one or two lawmakers initially.

> Peskin himself said on twitter that this is just a proposal.

Not sure what tweet you're referring to. The one I've seen seemed very serious and even militant:

> Announcing new leg to ensure on-site tech cafeterias don't continue to chip away at our vibrant neighborhood commercial corridors & small businesses. We're not the suburbs, we're an urban city with a vital local economy that corporations say they want their employees to support

https://twitter.com/AaronPeskin/status/1021856608417021952

He's saying it's even more necessary in SF than in MTV...