skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Potential customers would be more than happy to extrapolate from this data

s/extrapolate from/fixate on/.

Seriously, even made up "anchors" for potential enterprise pricing have a tendency to really severely mess up purchase negotiations--for both the vendor (losing them sales when the customer says "it's going to cost four times the example number for a company our size because we need it to integrate with our bespoke, ancient CMS/IAM solution? Hard pass!") and the customer ("this was supposed to be a productivity adder, but since it won't integrate with our bespoke, ancient CMS/IAM solution at a price we can afford, we'll have to train everyone on new processes and duplicate data/access credentials all over the place, making it a time waster and security hole.").

Number of employees and environment type (whatever that means) are not indicative of enough common scenarios in the large-enterprise space to be used to automate pricing decisions.

That's not a statement in favor of opaque pricing or service-provider-highway-robbery; just an observation of the real complexities of big (and often old), unique businesses.
> you risk just doing product research for the better staffed incumbent

Zulip is older than Slack, and it's been owned by Dropbox for years, so it's not accurate to think of them as a startup challenging Slack.

I wouldn't call it a "minor feature tweak" either...it's pretty easy to implement, but it's a design choice that Slack has decided against.
Randy's Story
That's not easy to prove, because nobody can look into the quasar. The question still stands. What are "those objects"?
It depends on the particulars, but my preferred approach is actually to turn all work email notifications off (even unread badges).

I check my mail a couple times a day during work hours, usually when I arrive in the morning, after our standup, after my lunch break, sometime during the afternoon and before I leave (but not right when I want to leave, at least a couple of minutes beforehand).

I always pay close attention to immediately deal with all mail I receive, i.e. complete the task immediately (usually if less than five to ten minutes are required), write a to-do item or (my favorite option) archive the mail. The important part is to get it out of your brain and besides archiving or doing it, the best other way is to write it down.

This obviously only works if real time critical information is not usually sent via email (unexpected, action required immediately and minutes to hours required, depending on the complexity) and if no one expects email to be used for time critical information. Luckily we have policies in place to both ensure that email is used for non time-critical information and other more direct channels (Slack, phone, coming over in person) are used for actual time critical information.

I know that this culture part is often the actual hard one. If people expect you to immediately react to email then there is not much you can do inside the expectations and you probably have to turn notifications on.

Even if you leave notifications on, dealing with email immediately (picking doing it immediately, writing a to-do, archiving it) is still a time-management basic and extremely helpful, but it doesn’t work very well if you have that notification gnawing your nerves somewhere in your brain. Dealing with email immediately actually has to mean dealing with it immediately, i.e. the first time you take notice of it.

(This is a very German perspective, though. My probably biased and also very limited experience in communicating with people in the US was one of general hyperactivity and I had the impression that many treated email sort of like a real time communications channel with weird expectations about response times.)
The same holds for Twitter or any other service. You can stop using it and use something else.
Cool colors. Just a note, the footer github link [0] is a 404. Please fix

https://github.com/apexcharts/apexcharts
My first experience with pen and paper RPG's is from JP's streams, I used to be obsessed with them, watched all R&D, Swansong and MirrorShades, hard to commit enough time to watch 4 hour long episodes tho.

Recently I played my first game where I DMed Dungeon World for a few mates, was great.
Which nobody was talking about.
I didn't get a clear understanding of what ActivityPub is from your article.
"In the Black Swan, non-financial event category we could list Russia, North Korea, China, Pakistan, Iran, domestic political unrest and the Mueller investigation as market busters."

Instead of Black Swans aren't these more like grey swans? Their shade can be discussed of course, some might be lighter than others.
> Getting in touch with a GP? I can use the internet. Bank fraud? Same, or just go to a branch.

Lucky you. My GPs website has phone number and an address on it. My bank are equally as unhelpful. They have internet banking, but there is no way to suspend a card or re order a new one without phoning them. Last time I had an issue with my card I was out of the country so visiting the branch was out of the question (not to mention the branch is almost 2 miles from my home, has no parking and is only open 9:30 to 5 Monday to Friday, when I'm working). There's no technical reason they can't do this online, they just don't currently.

As much as I'd like to not have an active phone, it's not really feasible to live todays world without one. You're relying on other people to have phones so that you don't have to carry one. Your suggestion to keep a cheap non smartphone defeats the purpose of not having a phone.
Nothing makes me sadder than 2-factor that supports a phone but not my Yubikey. Yubikey is so much more convenient.

At my last job, I begged IT to turn on the U2F feature of our SSO product. Sadly, they did not, even though it was literally a checkbox in the service’s UI. I even sent them a link to the knowledge-base article.
It also helps that it's an intergovernmental organisation rather than a private cartel.
Or the japanese crash of the early 90s, from which japan still hasn't recovered.

The nikkei is about 1/3 of what it used to be almost 30 years on.
Dissent of Commissioner Hester M. Peirce
Federated does mean that the network overall does not rely on a specific node.

There is no true Mastodon instance, mastodon.social is merely the biggest. I run my own mastodon instance and can federate just fine.

Federation is distributed to some extend. However, unlike pure p2p where everyone has a node, it's more like little towns and cities where people live together voluntarily. Each one is a different size, each has it's own rules and if people don't like the rules, they can leave and go elsewhere.
FYI, we've posted the idea of a HipChat migration package to Mattermost on Medium to hear more feedback: https://medium.com/@mattermost/migrating-end-of-life-hipchat...
Yes, my image viewer can set 100% zoom. But my monitor just displays it exactly like if I did open mapy.cz myself on a lowdpi monuitor, and the labels are thus correctly sized and everything just looks very nice, except for a huge canvas with a need for scrolling.
At least it's the truth
The MAU metric has a value as Twitter earned $1.79 from each user in the last quarter. Financial models, which are used by many to guide investment decisions, use the expected MAU as one input used when modeling the expected future earnings. When MAU deviates from these models it causes these projections to change, causing the perceived worth of the company to be re-evaluated. If the perceived value of the company is now less than the market cap implied by the current share price then you’ll see downward pressure on the price.

Twitter and Facebook are largely measured by their growth. If that slows you’ll see investors head for the exits.
Sorry, should be fixed now.
I can't remember the exact app name, it's been a few years, but CMU had an app for Pittsburgh Port Authority buses. They were almost always off the posted schedule. The app used people already on the bus and some other factors to determine location and give a far more accurate estimate. It saved me numerous times from missing a bus/thinking I missed a bus that ran only once an hour (54). From my experience, smart phones and technology certainly do help with unreliable public transit.
I don't think the purpose of free food is to incentivize employees to work harder. It's to let employees have lunch in the office without having to leave. As mentioned several times in the comments here, employees at companies that provide this option tend to like it.
We need a logo/badge for ActivityPub, just like the RSS icon, for awareness.
To my knowledge, yes. Though in theory it should be possible to cobble together a static file version that is atleast capable of returning enough data that other users can see it as an AP post and share it, though liking or replies won't work.
"What will keep people--resigned to their fate--from plopping on the couch to wait it out, as opposed to attempting something more ambitious?"

When the mind and body is in movement, when it has goals and ambitions - that all creates a good feeling for a human being. Look at kids in healthy environments. Look at kids in unorthodox schools. Look at successful entrepreneurs who keep working even after they become financially independent.

The opposite "lying in bed" doesn't stimulate the mind, nor body, is boring and depressing.

Only in today's world, where we have the concept of responsibility, we blame people if they try and fail. Or we don't create opportunities for people to learn useful skills, and then we force them (in a moral ways of course) to work in poorly paid, low status and hard labour jobs. Of course, under such conditions, many people believe that happiness is lying in bed.
Hmm, I've tried Pop OS a year or two ago, and I wouldn't call it state of the art. I'll stick with MX17 when it comes to Linux..
And by "use something else" you mean "host your own Twitter instance"?

Edit: meant to say Twitter and not Mastodon, to get the point across.
universal API for realtime feeds.
The difference is that you can still communicate with your friends on their instances
Worth reading:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/02/21/cobalt-stocks-what...
Which religion?
I've had similar experiences. Often Firefox is what's eating all the RAM, and I'm viewing it with htop. I've had cases where the freeze is indefinite and I had to hold in the power button. Couldn't change to another TTY or even ssh into the machine. When people say SWAP isn't needed, I just get mad. I've delayed these halts a bit by having some SWAP available. If I ever get slowed mouse movement, I panic and quickly check RAM usage and determine what has to be killed or restarted. I don't really understand why people pretend this doesn't happen and that unused RAM is always wasted RAM.
> The problem MV's fixing is the perception

That's a lot of regulation to fix a perception. If this doesn't work, will they mandate friendship between employees and others in town?

> connected by pedestrian thoroughfares to the office space that Facebook is about to rent

Why is the city building large office space like this if desires strong interaction between people in town? Even corporate campuses in middle America build cafeterias once the office space is big enough. Food, gyms, etc. just make sense as something to make easily accessible -- nothing new here. What did the city think would happen?

If there's a market for people to dine out, you open a restaurant. If there's a market for people to dine in, you open a delivery kitchen or a catering company. Why does a particular set of dining out behavior need to get preserved? (And when did Chili's become a beacon of community preservation?)
These distinctions are imported from Chinese, where 叔母 and 伯母 are pronounced differently, although nowadays 婶婶 is much more common than 叔母 and both only refer to the wife of the father's younger brother, while 伯母 is an older brother's wife.

There are many more different terms for various fine distinctions of relatedness, but I only know those I had a need to use, and when I asked a Chinese friend for help, he told me that he can't remember all of them either.
Keep an eye on https://level.app/ if you're interested in self-hosted chat and/or are tired of the interruptive nature of Slack.
My last name always blows up when I get shipments from asian countries.

Sometimes I simply get Pler

Sometimes I get things like Pl#&!π¥er on my packages.
From the customer standpoint, I think the only real difference is that you could host your own instance and take part in the network yet still "own" your posts. I say "own" pretty loosely since they get broadcast across the network.

But in this case, even if mastododon.social went down, your posts would still be available on the network and through your own (and other) mastodon instances.

In terms of the API, this is a open source project and it needs to communicate with other nodes in the network; I believe this puts real limits on how much they can change the API.
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the radioisotope power system works
RSSAC023: a history of the DNS root nameserver system [pdf]
For me the biggest pain is that there are plenty of libraries that simply don't "quickload" in LispWorks. I've never had that issue with SBCL, which about 70% of the community seems to use, followed by CCL.

No surprise considering how gimped the personal edition is (which is even one major version behind). I wish they had a sort of revenue restricted Community Edition just like embarcadero is doing now. I'm old and I don't mind paying for tooling, but how many are dropping $750 on the Hobbyist edition?
Women were simply not allowed roles in these positions in many countries.
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet

Robert X. Cringely's follow-up to Triumph of the Nerds was pretty good. It looks like you can watch the whole thing fit free on line now too - check the links at the bottom of the Wikipedia article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerds_2.0.1
I think you're right in general, but it's also worth noting that on-premise software stacks are still very attractive targets; companies may be running old versions with vulnerabilities, so attacks are both easier and can continue for longer--one site patched the vuln? On to the next one; just move down the "customers that use us" list on the provider's sales page.
Looks great. I think it's the "ICO Crypto"* wordpress theme.

* https://themeforest.net/item/ico-crypto-bitcoin-cryptocurren...
Are you not friends with any work colleagues who would want to call or text you as friends?
Well... even if we do leave it at home, everyone else has at least one where ever you go..
Twitter shares drop after reporting declining monthly active users
Top lead generation tools in 2018
And even in Rust earlier module system written by someone else and was dumped wholesale without enough justification to author who finally left frustrated.

Same with green threads which at one point they were hell bent on adding and then one fine day decided to dump. Also leading to ban someone in Rust community who was against green thread.

I think what people do not want to talk about or do not get is unlike Oracle, Google, MS or Apple Mozilla can't just add few dozen highly paid people for language development. So this big community led approach is more of practical matter than some enlightened way to develop software.
Show HN: 'classchange' Event for DOM
Right, but if you're not in a rent controlled unit my expectation is that the landlord can adjust the rent as high as they'd like at the end of each 6-12 month lease.
Zulip supports Github flavoured msrkdown. Also you can include mathematical symbols, equations etc. in your messages using TeX syntax.
https://zulipchat.com/help/format-your-message-using-markdow...
I thought bad guys could get your SMS only if they manage to clone your SIM or call provider to change the SIM by social engineering. In both cases service on my SIM will stop. Unless they are state sponsored, in which case they can just arm twist telecom provider to give them texts.

Could you please tell how they can sniff SMS without user ever noticing?
With 2G going away everywhere finding a usable feature phone to use on new networks has become a desperate question. One problem is that display technology seems to have actually regressed. The original transflective monochrome displays were viewable under any light conditions and consumed very little power. So backlit colour displays require a flip phone form factor just to protect the keys from being pressed and turning on the display all the time. The Nokia 3310 3G is a good example of getting this wrong.
You're asking "how is a site like Gmail different from a site like Twitter?" If Gmail goes down, you can get a different email address elsewhere and still talk to everyone. If Twitter goes down, you can't get a Twitter handle elsewhere and still talk to everyone. Mastodon is like email.
This following is meant this in sincere and non-snarky way:

If the problems you are working on can actually be done/solved at a large table with lots of people around, then it probably isn't a problem that requires 10+ years of experience i.e. it probably could be done by someone younger/cheaper. [Of course, if you "hack" around this by coming in early, working from home, etc. you aren't actually "doing it at a table with lots of people around you".]

I know lots of gray haired guys solving problems in the desktop and embedded space. I'm a not-a-genius developer/consultant and at 0x38 years old, I have no problem getting work.
> Bottom line: In almost all of the cases above, my advice is to build a war chest of capital so that you can deploy it in the down market.

What I think he is saying is that in a downturn things can get tough if you don't have enough cash to get through it, and it will be harder to raise more money if you need it. But, in a down turn everything also gets a lot cheaper so if you do have the cash then then you can really capitalize on this and emerge from it as the leader in your sector.
Why+Uber+Engineering+Switched+from+Postgres+to+MySQL
FWIW, report the domains to https://someonewhocares.org/ , as he keeps updating it, and it is used by e.g. PiHole and my own hostfile generator.
Depends on who you define as 'you'. If you are 'jbb67@mastodon.social' and mastodon.social goes away or kicks you off their server, there is no more 'you'.

You would lose all subscribers, likes, comments etc.

Then you would have to find a way to prove to 'your' old friends that jbb67@someotherodomain.com is the same person as the person that formerly was 'jbb67@mastodon.social'. And have some of them follow you again etc.

The same process as if you changed from Twitter to Facebook.
EVNE Developers
Link to Lofstrom's paper on the loop, which is need of some editing:

http://slides.launchloop.com//launchloop.pdf
I wish you could display images in the command line. it would have so many cool applications
I don’t know. It feels like SOAP - or XML-RPC. These protocols that are just layered on top of HTTP keep coming, but they never seem to gain adoption. In part because - what are static websites supposed to do to participate?

This was the beauty of RSS. I didn’t love RSS, because it eliminated all the styling from blog posts - but it did achieve real widespread usage.
The  Muse (YC W12) is hiring an Engineering Manager
While that's true of ActivityPub, the data format it uses (ActivityStreams, which a form of JSON) could be hosted on a static site separate from the HTML version people are reading, which would at least make the content reference-able on the ActivityPub federated network.
The only two factor auth I have is steam, which I could just disable.
I don’t think it’s just open-source projects: a great deal of all projects end up rife with some toxicity or another, and normally they do alright in the end. Human beings are a problem: we have emotions, we have feelings, we have needs, we’re not hyper-rational automata. But we mostly muddle through alright.

I don’t know if we can avoid this. What I think we can avoid are blow-ups, or at the least calm them back down again. We have to use our hearts, not just our heads, to say and mean, ‘yes, I acknowledge your feelings, which are valid.’ In the case of Go & dep, I think Sam Boyer feels let down because he’d been so proud of the idea that his tool dep would become the official tool. Rationally he acknowledged that it was the official experiment (maybe he even acknowledged that was an official experiment — I forget), but emotionally I believe that he thought that it’d become the official tool. To see it replaced is a colossal letdown.

We can honour him and his investment of time & energy while at the same time acknowledging that the tool he created isn’t the right tool long-term. This is something the net is terrible for: it’d be far better to break the news, in person, over dinner or drinks. There’s no good way to do it, of course, but sharing physical space helps.
I'd say you should give Flock a shot! It does provide a very similar feature set and does some things differently! The ease you talk about is all there, a lot of third party app integrations are also there. The platform lets you run proper apps inside of flock, apart from the usual slash commands and bots. All the pricing grids provide video conference by default, even the free plan! And the pricing is way cheaper than Slack.

I'm a dev at Flock, and an ex-user of Slack in my previous company, I hardly miss anything Slack had that isn't there on Flock!
The company who insist the on-premises relies on proprietary software? What are they thinking?
Not ironic: totally intentional marketing trick. It makes you more inclined to trust the provider of the warning. They seem knowledgable about something important, and they're sharing that information with you. More insidiously, it makes you less likely to apply the warning to them. Because (unconsciously you think this) why would someone warn you about a trick they themselves are trying to pull?
Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine
The Holographic Display of the Future Is Here
> I have the feeling that people confuse 'federated' (aka provides API access) with 'distributed' (aka does not rely on specific nodes).

I think you mean federated vs. decentralized since federated is also distributed.

And before people jump into a blockchain discussion remember that blockchain ⊂ decentralization, so, in general, you (probably) don't need a blockchain to decentralized an application.
I suspect that only a minority of ML PhD graduates stay in academia. So even though the growth is exponential, it's probably much closer to 1 than to the student:professor ratio.
Whether an ant becomes a worker or queen may depend on insulin metabolism
I don't use Go in industry, but the Go integration in VSCode is super easy to set up and has some pretty decent IDE-lite functionality (e.g. renaming variables, automatic error highlighting, running tests). Apart from that I don't think you need much except Go itself.
What drives people to use social media is gathering followers and likes. You will lose those when your provider shuts down or shuts you out. And you cannot get them back.
We did this at my company; we already had self hosted free GitLab. We tied it into our AD and went happily without Hipchat about a year ago. Some things are rougher (image support) but it was mostly smooth and equivalent, and actually nicer in that it supported Markdown.

Recommended. And, a lot cheaper than Slack which is insanely expensive ($72/user/year) - of course it is not free as it takes up AWS server resources and DevOps time, but we control all our data and security now.
> Right, but if you're not in a rent controlled unit my expectation is that the landlord can adjust the rent as high as they'd like at the end of each 6-12 month lease.

Depends on the lease terms; the current place I live we had an un-the-lease $50/mo. limit on increases for the first two annual renewals. Also been in month-to-month leases where in principal the rent could increase at any time without limit for m with 30 days notice.