skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Link me to the most user-hostile ECMAScript-based web page you can find, and I'll open up devTools and delete my way out of whatever email-list/login/begware DOM-jail they try to keep me in.

Link me to the most user-hostile Flash-based web page you can find, and I'll watch a ten year old hour-long video presentation from a Gnash developer explaining their 100-year plan to ship a usable open Flash runtime alternative.
Email is crap for many types of workflows that Slack excels in.
IRCv3 has some great features it’s trying to standardize: https://ircv3.net
This is a good question. What stops companies from asking $100 per meal, and charge it on an employee account then reimburse the same amount every month to clear any tab? The free meals are taxable income anyway.

The ban on "company cafeterias" cannot possibly work, they will be simply replaced by separated business entities that happen to share the same building and have a financial arrangement like the one described. Pretty soon you will go full retard trying to stop this.
I tried it. It's garbage. Worse than every other option listed here. You can't even search for rooms.
They will absolutely merge in fixes, though they may well not be timely if they're not from internal engineers. I've had broken behaviour sit in a PR for over 6 months before.
My group of friends did the same thing, we moved from group texts (Which became a huge mess) to Slack — not because we like it better than Discord or anything, mostly we're using Slack for work anyway, so it made sense to make a group there.

Works a lot better than group texts, and with better file sharing to boot. We'll still text each other for 1:1 conversations where we're not near a computer.

We'd switch to Discord if Slack's free offering is ever gimped.
I guess a more general way of putting it would be that I believe in redefining credentialing in tech to be more efficient/meritocratic in parallel with giving broader access to education.
Also contract work in the market you want to approach might bring you the connections for seed funding.
> She might have been impeached at this point

Why?

> need to get over both results

The results deliver real harm to real people. The separated immigrant children are probably never going to get over it, for example. And I'm not going to get over a result while I'm still worrying about stockpiling food. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/no-deal-brexi...

> Imagine if between 2008-2016 HN had been full of one liners about how Obama had no birth certificate

Those were obviously false and therefore often flagged to oblivion or deleted by the mods, but they did turn up when he was mentioned.
This feels politically coherent: it strikes a populist chord, but just furthers the rent-seeking interests in the area. It's of the same ilk as NIMBYism, but this time, it's a different form of rent.
A set of RFCs isn't really in the same ballpark of the same planet of the same local galactic group as a mature product that I can go sign up for and be using in under a minute.

Maybe in a few years. I say maybe, because XMPP is an IETF RFC, and frankly, it sucks.
I agree. I'm also blown away by the programmers that have done the math on how to unbend the light we see to put it back into an actual image.
My employer gives me free health care.

Your health care is not “free” it’s part of your compensation where the employer gets to choose how you’re compensated. I get healthcare via my wife’s insurance and I would much rather have the money.

In a sane society, your health care wouldn’t be tied to your employer.
When I was in college at CU Boulder I remember frequently taking the bus to their old location to pick up parts. We all felt lucky when assembling our final projects that we had such a great resource so close for local pickup, and many of us owe no small part of our degrees to being able to pick up replacement parts the day before we needed to demo!
They’re being built by bicycle mechanics for goodness sake.
This reminds me of WeWork's company-wide ban of meat for employees.
There is probably a balance in how much unbecoming things can you leave out of your newspaper before its readership drops so low that it goes bankrupt.
A distributed ledger with an entry for every single voter who gets to move their single “token” from one column to another column with their selection. Roll it up and there’s your result. Enough bits and everyone can have their own token that is unique, anonymous and secure. The argument about corrupt regimes is a nonstarter cause you’ve got bigger problems.
The death of a TLD
You can't just put any arbitrary restriction in a contract that you feel like, particularly not when the party imposing the restriction has the coercive power of government or quasi-governmental entities on its side.

The classic example of this is the old-school homeowner's association covenant that forbade selling your house to people of a certain race.
There is a whole field of mathematics on how to figure this out.

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

And yes, nothing is 100% accurate. The census isn't 100% accurate, but it's good enough. A 95% accuracy is the generally accepted target, which is what you have a statically significant. If you have a target population of 330 Million people, you only need 40k people to hit a 95% confidence value with a 0.1 confidence interval. Again, this has all been figured out, formulated, and settled.

You keep using the word bias and I don't think you know what it means. If the data is inaccurate, it's inaccurate. If I wanted to sample the US population, but only used people from Long Island and only polled 10 people, that's not a bias dataset- it's inaccurate. Conclusions drawn from inaccurate data are inaccurate.

Bias data would be statistics cherry-picked to showcase one view point over another. The dataset itself isn't bias, but maybe the presentation is. As I said before, good (and this is important) data can't be bias- what you do with it can be. Saying "Men are more likely to be bad drivers" is a factual statement. "All Men are bad drivers" is a bias one. See the difference?
> ...Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day ... hundreds of thousands of straws are found littering coastlines around the world each year...

If "hundreds of thousands" means 500 thousand, then this is saying that 0.00027% of those plastic straws are found on coastlines.

I understand that there are problems with both of those statistics, but it still seems a bit odd to publish them like this (there are 13 words between those numbers).

Again, the "500 million" number is likely wrong (as OP references, [1]) and the "hundreds of thousands" number was probably the author taking a spitball at something that there aren't real statistics for, but they still chose to print it.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-b...

EDIT: In reference to [1], being within an order-of-magnitude is pretty impressive for a 9-year-old.
The post says, "it’s roughly 1.5s startup delay to load a 15mb bundle on an iPhone X."

I've seen startup latency much slower than that on my iPhone SE. In the best case, the application takes about six seconds to cold boot when I tap on a notification. Sometimes it's closer to fifteen or twenty seconds if the app sits on the "connecting" screen for a while. It's difficult to understate how much slower the app feels than everything else on my phone.
I dont think that's considered a deal breaker for most people, or even a major consideration
He could still imagine them, though.
The looping radar views use flash [1] [2]. The composite regional radar loops don't though [3]. That is unfortunate because the former has more information and detail. There's no reason why it can't be reimplemented with canvas or SVG to manage the overlays.

[1] https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=buf&product=N0R&over...

[2] https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=BUF&product=N0R&over...

[3] https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/northeast_loop.php
Slack offers quite a few features over HipChat that make it a nicer platform to communicate on, particularly for discussions of a technical nature. Things like easy message editing & markdown formatting make it easier to paste scripts, log messages, console outputs, etc.

HipChat was fine as a bare-bones text chat. Slack is a pretty clear winner when it comes to a collaboration platform.
Navigation in particular is nearly impossible for me.
This is a really great article outlining the current state of research in the field. It'd be nice to pin canonical articles like this every time a disease is discussed.
> small and mighty team

Says it all. It is all about cost.
If what you want is math for computer science, then I recommend Knuth's TAOCP, and its cousin Concrete Mathematics. This is not traditional math, but math applied to CS problems.
How to Ignore Most Startup Advice and Build a Decent Software Business
Similar to what happened to Brendan Eich.
There's way too much noise in my email inbox, stuff gets lost.

Important/immediate discussions take place in person, or on slack. (Or hipchat or sametime or lync or windows messenger or hoary old ICQ for all I care...)
Therapeutic Manuka Honey: No Longer So Alternative (2016)
The Most Diabolical Python Antipattern
Thanks, will check that blog out.
I've seen that used to sell a lot of cheesy "online trading school" e-courses but I can't speak to whether that was what ultimately drove him to make the trade.

This article seems to suggest Jones got the idea from a guy named Robert R. Prechter using Elliot Wave Theory:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/business/13speculate.html

Prechter called the '87 crash using wave theory, but he also called for "the end of the great bull market" in 1995. Which was 5 years too early (ie. flat out wrong).

The lesson here is there's always somebody calling for the next collapse. When it inevitably happens each time, there's always a fresh stock of people you can point to who "called it." Whether this is genuine smarts or just random probability, is questionable.
Angellist is an option.
It's as if different people have different preferences.

I've observed that many people don't like Faulkner, and others don't like Hemingway. I aim for Hemingway with my technical writing, but I love reading Faulkner for pleasure.
It's very much a learned skill. I was fortunate to learn it well in school (and polish it further in my professional life). People who haven't learned to express themselves clearly and concisely are indeed to the left of me in the spectrum of literacy.

But again, it can be learned by everyone, it just takes time and effort.
See my response to sparkling. Part of what enabled Atlassian to get as big as they have is transparent pricing. A customer can always negotiate down from a list price, can always negotiate for additional support during setup and migration. But that transparent pricing establishes a price ceiling that drives a lot of internal discussion and decision over which solution gets the first move in terms of reaching out to sales and getting started with an initial proof-of-concept.
That's why you should also bookmark with the Wayback Machine, not only urls.
It's a little frustrating to read analyses like these, which sort of seem like they're premised on the COGS cost of the parts they sell.

In fact, the marginal cost of one U2F token has probably not much to do with the price Yubikey assigns to its tokens. Yubi has to pay not just for the hardware, but for their engineering team and for the cost of educating the market about using these things, which remain super-niche products that we're barely even able to get Congressional campaigns to adopt, let alone a significant fraction of the Github user base.

Also, I don't know what teardown you're looking at, but it sounds like you're saying you can buy an NXP MCU that can do ECC operations for under $2, which sounds... low... to me. The one-off BOM cost for the NXP MCUs they apparently use for the Neos looks to be something like $40.
For a more apt example: In a billion years when the moon's orbit has expanded an additional ~118,000 km it would suddenly stop being a moon?

The problem with barycenter is it is equally changed by distance as it is mass ratio.
I'm not sure what they mean by "export function". Hipchat isn't "an application", it's a bunch of services running on a network of VMs. At the very least, Hipchat includes Elasticsearch and MySQL. Seems odd that they'd rely on any particular Hipchat API when they can rip that data out of the guts of the machine.
Depending on how you define "immediately". This is from the Atlassian FAQ:

The end-of-life dates for each products are below:

Stride: February 15th, 2019
Hipchat Cloud: February 15th, 2019
Hipchat Data Center (v3.0): June 22nd, 2019
Hipchat Data Center (v3.1): September 26th, 2019
Hipchat Server (v2.1): December 8th, 2018
Hipchat Server(v2.2): May 30th, 2019
Hipchat Server (v2.4): June 30th, 2020
> the particle is not choosing a locally determined, pre-existing value as in classical mechanics

Translation: The value of to entangled measurements does not allow inference of a value back in time.

> What you believe after that comes down to which "comforting illusion" you are most willing to ditch.

You should drop the illusion that even 1% reading here understand enough relativity theory to even understand the problem. I don't. I took a few crash courses on physics and they tried to teach the double slit experiment to us in the second semester. Of course they had to cut it short and call it "magic". Of course even scientists parrot popular science when explaining only the difficulties they face, not the exact physics, I guess.

All this local hidden variable stuff seems like a version of Laplace's demon. Well of course you don't have enough data. There could always be another hidden variable. But instead QC takes a statistical approach like thermodynamics, ignoring single states and looking at, ironically speaking, the bigger picture.

> What you believe after that comes down to which "comforting illusion" you are most willing to ditch.

There's no illusion to ditch. You start with a null hypothesis, so the problem is which null hypothesis to fall back on. To ditch a hypothesis you need to understand the experiments in question and the math. The philosphy is an after thought to rationalize the results, but it doesn't matter much to e.g. the material scientists doing the field work, and vice versa, the level of precision of these measurements is so far removed from our every day understanding that it really has no bearing on Multiverse Theories and all that popular nonsense.

By the way, non-local hidden variables have not been ruled out. Where's the difference, distance (ie. locality) might just be a matter of more than 4 dimensions?! Maybe I misunderstand. Different question. Why is time always the independent variable?

I think the problem is that people like things linear, first order, because I have a huge problem imagining differential equations, recursion and what not, even OEDs, not to mention PDEs.
The matrix homeserver is... suboptimal. I'm running it for a personal instance (two users), and it's using insane amounts of RAM (4-8 GB) and still managing to lag (even though I gave it 4 cores on a Ryzen 2700X). Forget talking in a matrix.org room, even talking to people on other personal/single user servers isn't fully stable.

There is a replacement homeserver (https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite) but it's not done yet.

Also, client support is awful. The only one I can reasonably tell a non-technical user to use is Riot - but that's somehow more resource hungry than the Slack desktop app. There are good ones, but they are either only for technical users (weechat) or are extremely barebones (nheko, quaternion).
This makes me so happy, thank you! :D
Quantum entanglement suggests strongly there are forces in the universe that travel much much faster than the speed of light, or rather, travel in a way in which speed does not matter.
Some modern artists sacrifice communication when they produce works that I don't understand and don't find aesthetically pleasing enough to study. I guess taste is just one of the pitfalls of style.
I use Teams in a small, half-remote team within a large company (50K+ employees). It's been great in comparison to the other option available to us, which is Skype for Business.
Email can also create bottlenecks and unneeded silos of information...
Russian Hackers’ New Target: A Vulnerable Democratic Senator
There's a discrete math course that uses types/proving in ML
https://cs.wheaton.edu/~tvandrun/dmfp/
cheers for all your links :)
I'm firmly in the "email has no place in internal discussions whatsoever" camp.

Tasks belong in tickets, long-term documentation/policies/meeting notes/etc belong in shared space (wiki), and discussions are faster and more productive in realtime (in-person, video call, or chat). E-mail might kick some of this off, or be used to schedule, but that should be it.

The problem I think most people run into with the realtime discussion is failing to document the outcome of the meeting -- and that of course goes into a ticket or long-term docs. A meeting with no notes or outcome might as well have not happened.
Yeah, really. Big tech companies, come down here to Texas. With your well-above-market-average salaries and free food.
This is getting really, really old.

Modern RAM doesn't work the way people who complain about Slack/et al think it does. The operating system will cull it from other places when it needs it; even a native Cocoa app will not dump memory you're done with until the system decides it needs it for something else, because on the off-chance your app ends up needing it again, it's already allocated. "purge" exists for a reason.

It's like when you pull up a StackOverflow answer for "how can I judge how much memory usage my process has?", and the top voted answer is some bash script to determine peak ps, when every other answer tries to explain that that's only one measure of memory and isn't even totally accurate.

Furthermore, that nice feature of most modern apps where you're scrolling up rapidly and an image is nice and ready to present? Images are big, especially when we all use retina displays. They take up memory. There was a blog post that went on HN a few months ago but didn't seem to make the front page, wherein the author determined that forcing Electron to dump image cache junk lowers the memory usage substantially.

Could Electron & co do better? For sure. Loading an entire browser for a UI does kind of suck. But stop acting like all the stuff that the browser does for you _for free_ is or should be zero-cost.

End rant, I guess.
Slack buys Hipchat with plans to shut it down
It's amazing - I've used IRC before but every feature is an indecipherable mess based on what it offers me as a user.

https://ircv3.net/irc/

IRC is interesting, but it doesn't solve the use case by itself. (IE, as a user I can easily look back to the entire history of the channel regardless of when I joined and can search every message that was ever sent on the server - or every message in the last 12 months even.)

I use that daily.
I'm an engineer and love Confluence + Gliffy. Writing fully interlinked documentation with illustrations and tables and styling is much easier than with any other tool.
It does have that. No idea why it wouldn't work for GP. If I lock my computer, or don't look at the Discord tab for a few minutes, my phone gets notifications.
Well there are 7 billion of us, which is an absolutely absurd number for an animal of our size
It’s too bad most of those workflows don’t apply to business use cases.

Is it a chat client? A knowledge base? A conference call? A command line? Who knows!
I feel like the outages and backend infrastructure issues at HipChat were a major factor in its being overtaken by Slack. Don't know how open Slack is to discussing this, but I'd be very interested in a side-by-side comparison of the two architectures.
Outside of regular hit pieces in the Daily Mail and Telegraph there's little real awareness of the EU in the UK. The EU haven't been especially good at getting the message about their successes out. The little we do see is an occasional news piece about a joint venture or a little EU flag on some region's signage because they received development funding.

The irony that some of the most resounding leave votes were in regions heavily supported by EU funds was not lost on me. Clearly the UK governments hadn't been doing enough for the people in those regions or they'd not have have been eligible for that support. Clearly the message that the EU was trying to help didn't get to the people concerned.

Both sides lied, both sides ran terrible negative campaigns. No one anywhere seemed to promote the EU as being good in any respect - just it's least worst. Only leave chose to pander to xenophobics, closet racists and suggest a FU to the establishment at every opportunity.
No, It seems like Apple Music's initial focus is mostly on US customer base although its available in nearly double the number of countries(113) than Spotify(59). It recently crossed Spotify in no. of paying customers in US.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/06/apple-music-more-us-subs...
What I’ve learned early: tax law is subject to negotiation. Depending how well your tax department connects and negotiates with the responsible tax office you can structure things like that.
> Its one of the best marketing coups in recent history and I'd love to see more analysis on how it was pulled off

Steward Butterfield pushed private beta invites to his well connected Silicon Valley social media friends, who then imposed it in their startups because “it’s what everyone else is doing, it’s going to revolutionize communication”. Rinse, repeat.

Source: a social media ninja wizard friend of Butterfield worked in the same startup as I did in the private beta days. I found it to be yet another internal chat app at the time, but my CEO drank the kool aid right away.
Yes, i’m not sure how you’re suppose to use Elliot Waves but in the movie they compared charts to the Great Depression era.
I'm curious as to how that breaks down? Which kind of workflows are best in email, which in Slack?
Queue all the miserable Java programmers that hate javascript because its more popular than their shit language! :)
> I used to work on the Mars Rover program.

I just need to thank you for that and hope that you're still somehow involved in making us a more-than-one-planet species. I don't really care whether it's another planet, a space station or whatever else can ensure our survival past this beautiful blue aqua ball.

On topic, there is no debate that robotics is the key to exploring space, magnitudes of orders faster and farther than we could in flesh and blood. We could —and probably will— swarm this whole solar system or even close stars with armies of tiny (dare I say nano) drones.

A human being is a sniper bullet — one big shot, extremely powerful and focused. A swarm of robots is a fragmentation grenade — small impacts in all directions of space. If you needed to blast/repaint a whole room and only had one shot, which would you use?
For those who don't follow, there is another set of ETFs still under active proposal by an ETF specialist company.
I just keep a rando Skype number for this kind of stuff. After the first login Telegram will typically ping your other active devices anyway.
Show HN: I interviewed Shawn Frayne about his 20 year quest to build a hologram
Mid-to-late 2016 was the peak of periodic outages in HipChat (like, several hours per week, which is a lot for a core messaging platform), which was when we threw in the towel and switched to Slack.

At the time, Slack had the feature of "you can log in", which teams really liked :)

https://status.hipchat.com/uptime?page=10
Any bulimic fraudster would have no issues supplying dishonest "evidence"
Like when you buy a product that seems solid and then have to scramble to find a replacement because it's being shut down out of nowhere?

--Hipchat onprem user