skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowhere did I say that modern languages don't have their place and advantages. I use them all the time. In fact, I prefer them when they make sense for precisely the reasons you point out.

You might be reading far more into my comments than what they were intended to address. Namely that blaming languages for the failings of software engineers is dishonest. A true software engineer will know the chosen tools and languages and use them appropriately. Blaming C for pointer issues is dishonest and misguided. There's nothing wrong with the language if used correctly.
Yeah, not sure about the littering but I could have elaborated the argument some more. But it’s late here and other will do a better job than myself
Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials.

I would be interested to know how it turned out if you went back to them after your honeymoon to see if you could get a new contract then.
Email has a lot of problems, but the dealbreaker for my company is that it isn't secure.
> It will fail on the long term, as more and more companies question the wisdom of setting up shops in the Valley and California in general, and move to locations with much lower tax and restrictions, such as Austin TX.

That sounds like a success from the perspective of folks who don't want their suburb to turn into SF or Manhattan?
This is a common refrain of IRC users who don't know what it's like to have real, convenient persistence that works for everyone.

Nobody has made persistent IRC channels that are as usable as newer chat products that don't try to be IRC.
The different in the Linux/OSX comparison is that Linux is constantly improving. IRC hasn’t changed much in years.
This reminds me of the Steve Blank story about when companies stop giving out free soda: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
It depends on the company model. If everyone works in the same place, is probably not that useful. If you're partially/fully remote, something like Slack is pretty much necessary. It really changes the way you experience other people.

There's one side of it that's less organised then a proper email chain. There's the other side that replaces the physical water-cooler and allows people to join public conversations they'd otherwise not be aware of.
How many packs of butter per Library of Congress?

The problem is that most people just cannot conceptualize really, really, really large numbers, but journalists and authors try to make them more relatable anyway, and end up just making it worse.

I think what they meant to say was that it could make a typical globular cluster satellite of the Milky Way galaxy, containing about 225000 butter-stars with the same mass as our sun.
It's funny: I was actually prepared to _defend_ this article based on the first line you quoted above. But the rest of it is much, much worse.

I have no objection at all to long, complex sentences. Not everything needs to be (or can be) distilled into bullet points. But I'm struggling to find enough substance in this book review to merit the epic academic writing.

I'm not saying there _isn't_ an interesting idea buried in there somewhere, but:

> "Rather than seeing time as a scarce, homogeneous resource to be economized or optimized, Lupton invites us to follow her in seeing books as things that introduce difference, discontinuity, and even plasticity into time itself."

Statements to this effect are made several times as if merely repeating it in different, increasingly obfuscated ways makes a stronger point. It does not.

And:

> "Lupton defines the literary, which is the category to which she remains professionally tethered, as a mode of thought characterized by refusing linear or instrumental time use."

Really?
When DDR4 drops back to DDR3 numbers, I'll build a new PC. I'm betting we'll see 7nm by then.
"There’s fewer choices for people," is such a short quote that I would avoid judging it on its face without seeing the full context.
"Thing that has been planned for years happens on schedule, with no relation to current events whatsoever. We're writing about it solely because doing so allows us to write a headline that misleadingly implies it has some relation to current events."
There's a law in certain states that you can't serve alcohol in an establishment that doesn't also serve food. So, many breweries have tasting rooms where at the bottom of the menu, it makes it clear that, by law, they are required to have a food section - with a single token item which they will serve you, like a Pizza Pop or a single M&M - with jocular disdain.
Basically just needs idle tracking.
We use HipChat. It’s terrible, and it has been a frequent comment that having Slack would help us build better communication culture, because people avoid using hipchat (and use Skype or other platforms instead).
When you have a tea time, why shouldn't Git have it too? Learn about it
You should write an article called 'The unreasonable effectiveness of "The unreasonable effectiveness" considered harmful'
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It gets easier when the routine settles in. Eventually you will find a kind of schedule that suits everyone. Then it is mostly a matter of a few quick questions and maybe a call ahead with preorders. I have it seen working well with very different teams.
I read this as HipChat’s own export function having problems handling large amounts of data.

I’m not sure how this is Mattermost’s fault.
How is this European socialism? I'm unaware of such restriction in Europe. Also, the zoning rules in most of Europe are much saner.
I don't want the "best" textbook in a subject any more than I want the "best" editor[0]. "Best" is a really big judgement call.

I want "widely accepted as great" or maybe even "good." Great or Good books may not cover exactly the same material, but any given one is likely to cover most of the material (all of the material that author/team considers most important) and avoid mistakes.

[0] Vim, Emacs, Sublime2, Sublime3, Atom, VSCode, Scintilla-based stuff, various IDEs, etc.
We talk about it a little, but the best resource on this topic by far is https://blog.burntsushi.net/rust-error-handling/ which works the whole way from first principles. It was in the first edition of the book but due to space requirements didn’t really fit in the second edition.
It's the only way to run a business.

Everyone has different needs, different existing environments, different service expectations+++

So you can't effectively stick to one price for the "large" tier. Given the differences in complexity and capacity consultants are needed. Startups can't build in-house service teams - the economics are misaligned. Not that you can get away from consultants if you buy from Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, or IBM...

Plus there are issues in terms of pricing and domain expertise across different industries - Federal, Education, Health.. legal issues in what your pricing can be and serious issues around their compliance environment means you need different teams of people to serve different verticals.

If you really need HA you are going to call anyways to negotiate. No one puts 15000 licenses on a credit card.
Our team is happy with https://www.pivotaltracker.com
That's a little too harsh. Not everyone is good at expressing themselves through an email chain; doesn't mean they're illiterate though.
Why can’t we solve big, real-world Problems with Prolog?
I would agree with you, except that Slack promotes actively that culture of quick response and disruption.
And I indeed blame that most work cultures took that in blindly without reflecting on what the impact would be.

I see it as something similar to the rise of open-spaces. Now there is a backslash against it because people finally realize that it was overhyped and that open-spaces are maybe not always that good.

Regarding emails, I disagree with you. It is still my go-to channel for deep technical discussions on difficult subjects on which you need to reflect. With emails, I have no pressure to respond directly. When I respond, I will write multiple well constructed paragraphs where I explain why I would do this or this technical choice. Emails are archived easily and can be reread and referenced later.

Slack is a dumping ground of irrelevant messages, the opposite of your experience.
Populism (03/2017) – by Ray Dalio
Say's Law
>offshore websites like digikey

Digi-key has been based in Minnesota since they were founded 40+ years ago. Sure a lot of their parts are manufactured in other countries (just like Sparkfun), but their main distribution center is in the US, and they have thousands of employees working there.
It doesn't though, does it.
Tor's Open Research Topics
Nice try at a weak ad hominem.

Your parent comment is utterly irrelevant. The conversation is about the C language and the perception some seem to have that it has problems. My only argument here is that a capable software engineer knows the language and tools he or she uses and has no such problems, particularly with a language as simple as C. Things like pointer "surprises" are 100% pilot error, not a deficiency of the language itself.
But what about the compatibility, graceful degradation, etc. of the browsers that yet don't support this feature? Won't that break everything else?
I am surprised human biomass is so much among animals, just 1:16 against arthropods? And 30:1 against birds?
Going through all of your channels you don't need immediate updates from and doing /mute will go a long way to getting the silence you want. People can still @mention you to get your attention if needed. You can check muted channels on your own time when you feel like it. You should also set up Do not Disturb and turn off the red notification dots.

The rest is a cultural problem that exists will all communication channels (including email). Ask people to be mindful and not use @channel all of the time (you can disable @channel if it is abused). Ask people to keep their chats to relevant channels. e.g. Daily interesting links do not belong in #general, please keep it to #random. Stuff like that.

Also, encourage people to move long complicated topics to a thread (to not annoy everyone in the room). Or ask them to compose a larger email or wiki page on the topic.
> And as such it can be inspected and controlled

Not if the content is decrypted by EME that's not fully controlled by the browser.
they should be kicked out, based on what I've read they are not coming close to meeting the agreements they made to close their merger with TW. more states need to push back against ISP's who abuse trust by lying and not delivering on their commitments and harming customers by charging more for less quality.
I saw this posted by another user a few minutes ago, but then I couldn't find the post anymore, so I thought I'd submit it myself.
Conversa is a conversational and ideation tool using board game dynamics that we've developed:
http://lifeandeverything.net/

By scaffolding good conversations, it helps a group learn _from each other_ as well as _how to converse_. Through our trials, I've been delighted to see how well it works with families. I've learnt much about my children's thinking and feelings.

A bit more info:
We believe two things are needed to bring together differing groups into fruitful dialogue. Firstly, a set of clear, explicit, and strict rules that everyone submits to (regardless of existing power structures). Secondly, a relaxed, playful and fun context. These two seem in tension, and yet we integrate them all the time - with games.

Conversa is a tabletop game that helps a group talk about the big things in life in a way that's real, safe, and fun. It's an ideation and conversational scaffold that uses game dynamics to create the right amount of structure to let conversations flourish. It was designed by award-winning game designer, Tim Roediger, from an original concept by Martin Olmos.

Conversa is the anti-Facebook experience. Players meet in person, facing each other rather than their screens. They share an intimate time where it's 'just us', with no wider audience watching or judging. They respond to a prompt creatively, from a limited set of image cards. They get to see each other smile, hear each other chuckle, while tasting a shared drink. Each gets a turn without being shouted down, although no one has to say more than they want to. It's a real game, with a score and a winner. But there's a twist - the points go to the player who opens opportunities for others to speak up. Rather than insults, the outcome is conversation that builds relationships with listening, learning, and laughing.

We've trialled it in organisational contexts and with children as young as eight. We're looking at applications in design, team ideation, project reviews, risk assessment, and more. Below are two examples:
Project Management: http://blog.lifeandeverything.net/post/147037633043/gaming-f...
Focus Groups: http://blog.lifeandeverything.net/post/147037631598/gaming-f...

We are exploring paths to market. We are also exploring ways for larger groups (50-200) to use the game (e.g. company conferences, strategy development).

Disclosure: I'm in the two-person design team.
If we get the food riots that the government seems to be planning for, we're very quickly going to cease to be a democracy. We've already had the lunatic wing of the Conservative party calling for the execution of dissidents, and an MP shot dead during the campaign.
When Correcting a Lie, Don't Repeat It. Do This Instead
I doubt those lowballs were your first picks for the numbers here, but nonetheless I respect that you put forth some elbow grease so I'll reciprocate by grabbing some better data. The first Duck Tour business started in 1946 [1] - they're still in business. You can read the NTSB report on the 1999 incident here [2]. The PDF (on the right side panel) has far more information. It includes information such as each year having more than 250 ducks transport more than a million passengers on tours averaging 90 minutes. It's reasonable to assume that that number has been increasing over time, but the millions in the 90s at least gives you a decent ballpark. And so like I expect you were finding with more reasonable estimates, these vehicles are hardly dangerous.

And the NTSB also did not find the boats themselves unsafe, though that they could be made to be safer in case of accidents. They stated the cause of the accident was "inadequate maintenance." 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. The cause then, like now, was human error. The 1999 boat was sent out to sea with with a 4.5" hull access plug removed. The mechanic, who was new to the job, forgot to put it back in. The operator did nothing to evacuate the craft, and so on.

[1] - http://amusementtoday.com/2015/05/original-wisconsin-ducks-c...

[2] - https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/MA...
Congrats to Nate and Sparkfun! I studied ECE at CU a few years behind Nate, and fondly remember the departmental pride in the local and growing (despite the GFC!) electronics company he started.
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Every engineer I met dislikes Confluence. Engineers who write most of the documentation don't like using Confluence which lead to out dated, subpar and incomplete documentation.

In my org, I noticed this and created a github repo to push documentation in Markdown. I created initial version of docs and now every engineer in our team uses it because they know markdown, appreciate version controlled docs and can use whatever editor they want to. This repo is now filled with quality documentation for most of our stack and operations.
For on-prem, why not use a free and enterprise-quality XMPP server, like Openfire[1]?

It's Java so runs just about anywhere, and with even relatively low resource allocations, you can support a large number of concurrent chats and group sessions. Plus, since XMPP is an Open Standard, you can use any XMPP complaint client of your choosing.

Cisco embeds Openfire in a few of their enterprise products already (including Finesse), so you might have used it without even knowing.

The IgniteRealtime community is pretty active and new releases come out regularly[2].

[1] https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/

[2] https://www.igniterealtime.org/index.jsp
Incubators, startup battlefields can be a good place to start
All I see is "Log In" and "Sign Up".
"Learn More" and "Need Help" just circle back to the same.

Not going to Sign Up just to check it out...
GetFinal was acquired by Goldman Sachs which may or may not fit your definition for "folded".
My understanding is that using the first difference of the log is just an approximation of % change that is in common usage primarily because it was computationally faster and because it's closed form is smooth. I could be wrong though. Is there some advantage to doing that that i'm unaware of?
Rev must be good, save on tax buy a useless company.
A shift from logic to ad hominem is always an indication that there's nothing further to discuss. Live long and prosper.
I think the Leave side was considerably more backed than the conventional narrative portrays. And received additional illegal, undisclosed funding, hence the reason for this post in the first place.

And I still don't understand what you think should have happened. People across the world should have conferred to make sure that representation for both sides was exactly 50/50?

The United States had the view that the UK staying in the EU was in their favour, so their President expressed that view. What's actually wrong with that? Surely it's up to voters to decide whether they think America's opinion is important or not when deciding how they should vote? Business leaders were in favour of Remain because they knew that leaving the EU would be financially perilous. How is that not relevant information for voters?
Firefox Nightly Now Has Time Travel Debugging
I've worked in a lot of places with cafeterias in the Bay Area and we still went out to eat a few times a week for variety, a change of pace and to satisfy a desire for some food that was not available or much higher quality than the cafeterias, and since we commuted together from/to restaurants, it was more time spent socializing with coworkers and getting out of the office and getting some sun and fresh air. In my opinion so it might not matter to everyone, it's kind of a waste to live here with this fantastic weather 9-10 months a year and not spend some of that time outdoors, even during the work day.
to be fair Digikey is in more than the US, they ship to me from China - probably a good thing given the current US trade war on itself
When I worked at a company that offered free lunch, the company used it to help build rapport and camaraderie among the coworkers. It's one time during the day when the entire team can sit down and eat lunch together and get to know about each other, which is not possible through Slack nor via meetings.

I stopped bringing my lunch to work and go out to eat specifically to get a break from my coworkers. Not that there is anything wrong with my coworkers, but I really enjoy the alone time in the middle of the day where I can just sit back and read.
Show HN: Pattern matching in JavaScript without a transpiler
Check out http://inverse.chat/
High performance distributed DML in Citus
I'm not suggesting that governments should decide what is and isn't misleading, or that they should restrict campaigns to only "approved" messages. Preventing foreign companies (and governments) from influencing British elections might be worth considering, though:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/theresa-may-russia-putin-fake-...

Ultimately it is the job of the British people to decide which claims (in political advertising bought transparently by British people) are misleading. To do this, I think it would be helpful if political campaigns had to also publish in a centralised register, up front, all the political messages they paid for.

There may even be a case for preventing political campaigns from targeting people based on individual psychological profiles, as opposed to geographically focused campaigns, or based on the demographics of a specific newspaper or television channel.
Larger black hole would mean larger mass. Larger mass would mean a larger bulge/dent/bend in the fabric of spacetime. That would imply to me a larger lensing effect. Not sure if it would be similar to larger primary mirrors for telescopes or not. But in my head, it makes sense. Another movie plot begins...
> IRC hasn’t changed much in years.

https://ircv3.net/

It's changing a lot for some time now.
Watson is medical AI's Theranos.
That IBM would actually try and sell something like this doesn't bode well for their future.
Sorry to be contrarian, but not really. I'm not jobhopping, so whiteboards are something that sit in the corner gathering dust, while I actually write code or slap together Visio diagrams if need be. I'm largely distrustful of people that tout whiteboarding; if it works for them personally, then great, but I've just seen too many people first-hand who wrap themselves up in drawing pie-in-the-sky diagrams, at the expense of figuring out the real details of how things actually work.
First 5 pages are gold. This part trips me out on how similar the Trump's administration and Trump himself are doing. It's like their playbook one by one.

"And while their political ideologies vary, the 1930s populists shared most of these core beliefs and policy goals:

o They aligned themselves with “the people” or “the common man.”
o They were anti-establishment and attacked the current ruling interests (government, corporations, wealthy individuals, etc.), calling them elites who were out of touch and had failed the people.
o They sought to undermine those elites in favor of others by, for example, advocating wealth redistribution or the nationalization of industry.
o They were strongly nationalist and held national unity as a key aim.
o They detested the debate and disagreement inherent in democracy, and sought to empower the executive branch, using strong-arm tactics to prevent others from getting in their way and, in more extreme cases, undermining democracy.
o They tended to be anti-international, anti-global trade, and anti-immigrant. They often railed against foreign influence in their countries. This often translated to hostility toward other countries, which pushed those countries to embrace political extremes as well.

• Conflicts between factions became increasingly intense, leading to great obstructionism, crackdowns on opposition and free media, etc. This led to more autocratic leadership. Those that had the weakest norms/shortest history of democratic institutions were quickest to move away from democracy to dictatorship"
Granted I’m from Sweden where Apple probably never even properly tried marketing to displace Spotify, but I was still surprised to learn Apple even had a streaming music service. I had heard the name Apple Music but just assumed it was a new name for buying songs on iTunes. Why is their service having such a low profile? Is it for example that it isn’t yet launched in all countries?
Ya, you're right. That is an issue as well, though I think it's a second order one here. His correlation likely disappears if he does it on the returns. But spurious correlations, even done mathematically correctly, abound.