skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought Bloomberg was above these clickbait headlines.

This doesn't really mean anything. It's almost all part of the stock plans that were put in place well before the scandal broke.

Even barring that, the data is meaningless unless you show the insider sales from before the scandal for comparison.

For all we know, insider sales might have gone down since the scandal.

Bloomberg usually has better reporting than this.
In some parts of the US, I'd be surprised if the specialist didn't own at least a share of the imaging company.
>entire establishment, business and media conspired to sway the result towards Remain.

I don't remember that at all.
Plenty of media was pro Brexit.
That's pretty similar to what Microsoft does with its myriad Cafés on campus. The food seemed cheaper than a restaurant, as if they charge for labor + ingredients. You could only order there as an employee or guest of an employee, though.
This seems silly. My company doesn't pay for food (chicago), we're right next to tons of options, but food is expensive. Most of us bring lunch from home. We live in the burbs and commute in. I don't see why workers would pay to eat out every day instead of bringing lunch. Maybe it's a SF thing that folks would be willing to waste that much money every day?
These cities really are trying their hardest to kill their golden goose.
There are two camps: the we-should-just-use-irc camp, and the we-need-every-feature camp. You fall in to the former, and I would bet that a lot of people here fall in to the former.

However, many people fall in to the latter, and Slack handily beats the competition there. There is also an element of having nice and polished features baked in that appeals to many people. Want it on your phone? There's an app. Want to search? Baked in. Want convenient chat bots? Click a button.

To be sure, all these things are possible in IRC and other lo-fi chat protocols, but getting them set up is easy on Slack. I see this as similar to the argument of Linux vs. OSX. Linux can do practically anything OSX can, but it requires tweaking and setting up. It's a battle of pick-and-choose vs having it all baked in.
Fake Zoos?
I don't know. It's really hard to imagine what a Hilary Clinton presidency would have been like. She might have been impeached at this point. Likewise, it's really hard to tell what the long term effects of Brexit will be. I think history will be in a better position to judge it 10 years down the line.

But I really think people need to get over both results. It's been two years now. The remoaners are much worse than their american equivalents. But on the other hand - how many variations on the same joke are Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah going to do? And - more to the point - how many post mortems is Hacker News going to have? No to mention the constant "I'm so woke gaiz" quips about it. Imagine if between 2008-2016 HN had been full of one liners about how Obama had no birth certificate. It would get so tiresome.
I originaly wanted to avoid negative feedback. This thread is more about positive feedback, I’d love to hear about good experiences and what made these experiences so great. I could rant for a while... not sure it would be uselful.
Newcomers like china usually shake traditional leaseholders and rent seekers up. Good thing they exist.
My personal claim is it's up to the people creating and training the system to be aware of biases and to account for that in how they create and train the system.

The problem, of course, is how woefully underprepared the average tech person is for realizing the existence of even extremely obvious biases, let alone more subtle and pernicious ones, and a tech culture in which people are lauded for being knee-jerk contrarians on topics like "does our society have a history of systemic racism".
Just for the record, I surveyed a dozen Hipchat users who used it all day in late 2016 for software development. They had zero complaints about using Hipchat.

My opinion of the Hipchat web client at the time was that it worked fine (no complaints from me.)

I believe we were on the free tier, so that was a great deal.

A new Eng. VP wanted to seem hip, so he switched us to Slack "to ensure we were using the best tools possible."

Nobody said that Slack was better or added any features that were worth mentioning.
I'd go further and suggest using changes in the logs of the price over time.
I've been a paying Spotify subscriber since 2010. Slowly I've grown dissatisfied with their service.

They killed the instant notifications of new album releases of bands that you follow. They replaced it with a weekly 'Release Radar' that comprises a selection of new music catered to your taste. It seems that the feature has a bias towards certain artists. I listened to Martin Garrix a couple of times years ago and he seems to pop up every few weeks in my 'Release Radar' even though all I really listen to these days is improvised jazz. It doesn't make sense and it isn't in my best interest. Perhaps there is an ulterior financial motive behind 'Release Radar' where record companies can bid for a place in that list, but I'm not sure. What I really want is to get a notification the minute my favorite artists release an album. Surely this shouldn't be too much asked in this day and age.

Until recently you could use search operators like year:1968 genre:jazz and now it's gone. I really like it when you can query repositories of data (music, in the case of Spotify) as a database.

These things really irk me and I'd love to migrate to a (legal) service that does this properly and is relatively free of "smart algorithms", and I wouldn't mind paying $50 a month or maybe more for it.
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Not sure if it's illegal yet but a few years back a dead mans switch of share sales was very popular.

You would have a schedule of selling a large portion off all your shares every x days, then ring up and cancel just before the sale.
I was involved in the early days of IRC, and personally, I'm amazed at how great Slack is.

I parachuted into an org which had a not-great email culture and took up Slack as a replacement. It was amazingly great.
This was a contractual agreement, that Facebook agreed to, in exchange for allowing the office to be built.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17620281.
Please don't use allcaps for emphasis (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

(Submitted title was "You SHOULD Learn Vanilla JavaScript Before JavaScript Frameworks".)
My CNN says zebra, must be a zebra.
Awesome! Now it's official. I worked on MVP with Stripe Issuing API. That was a cool experience.
Are there any on the list here that are best for learning algorithms in a manner similar to a course curriculum and has explanations? I'm asking from a self-taught web dev (django) perspective where I have holes in my knowledge. Some algo books I have so far seem too mathy. While not afraid of math, I understand it better when coding them out myself.

I wish projecteuler would provide more hints/explanations. Adventofcode problems are fun but are random (not like a curriculum). Other websites are competitive programming focused which I'm not sure is comp-sci enough (correct me if I'm wrong).
Challenges Concerning Regulation of Virtual Currencies
You're being sarcastic, right?

It doesn't matter what the "unwashed masses" lack. What matters is that they have the choice.

Your argument is tantamount to "I have this gun, so I know best how to maximize the utility of your wallet."
"healthcare systems are strapped for cash"

I don't know about that. Most of the new construction in Connecticut seems to be building medical offices for Hartford Healthcare or other medical groups.
I didn't get it until I read your post out loud.
> Unless you claim that any kind of criticism of an outside country is xenophobia

Stereotype-based criticism of other countries is xenophobia.
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Thank you for sharing. It does help to know we aren't alone.

The bad part is, I would have been sorta-OK with breaking up if we could have talked about it, and maintained some contact. We were having problems before this point, so it wasn't a total surprise. But she suddenly turned ice-cold. I've never had a relationship end so badly. I'm still friends with my ex-wife, for instance, and am Facebook friends and sometimes exchange some messages with the girlfriend I had before that, but this gf had a "personal policy" of basically deleting me from her life if we broke up, and she did exactly that. And the thing that really pushed her over the edge was when I complained that she wasn't helping with my move (which she wasn't).

Edit: deleted the rest in response to parent's deletion; I don't want to violate his privacy.
How one climate scientist combats threats from chemtrail conspiracists
That's a process the UK, as a member state, used to have veto over. Not sure if they have lost it yet, but now or in the near future they'll just have to live with whatever the rest decide. That is, unless they want to leave the single market, which doesn't look very likely.
Gender Letter: Getting Real About Periods, Breast-Feeding, Menopause and More
Not the BBC any more. They were required to privatise tranmission in 97. Not sure who owns them now.

The Beeb still has a couple of world service transmitters I think, but the rest are gone.
Have you looked into the existing options? Citi and Bank of America for example support virtual card numbers (virtual account numbers and ShopSafe, respectively).
You may appreciate the book Scale[1], by Geoffrey West. I don't know if I completely buy all aspects of the book, but he looks at organisms, cities, and companies and suggests that there are certain fundamental scaling properties of these collections. IMHO, there are some fascinating ideas here, although the book seems more like a collection of papers with a bit of editing.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainabi...
What stops you either using a browser extension or analysing encrypted data sent between IPs?
It's been 6 months? How many RSUs does facebook give out? Conventional wisdom with RSUs is you sell the moment they vest. Why hold on to a security you cannot actively trade, and why hold security in the company that also handles your paycheck -- it's putting all your eggs in one basket.
> There are two camps: the we-should-just-use-irc camp, and the we-need-every-feature camp.

I'm firmly in the "email should be used for substantive discussions" camp, but ever since we got the bandwidth and CPU necessary for the internet to not be a primarily text-based medium, the illiterates took over and that was the end of that.
I've worked at over 10 companies in my life so far.

I've also done locum work in more than that.
And yet, Atlassian got as big as they did in large part because of transparent pricing. Because enterprise sales have such a long sales cycle, that transparent pricing gave people inside their enterprises the confidence to push for a product they knew their budget could afford, rather than spend large amounts of internal political capital getting colleagues to rally behind a solution that wasn't affordable for them to begin with. It makes adoption more risky and more difficult.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17613442
I agree that's a bigger fundamental issue, but I still think that if you take two different arbitrary windows from two time series of pricing data and then adjust the scaling of one to "match" the other, one can "find" many of these "correlations", even within the same pair of time series.
Employee salaries are tax deductible in the US.
I meant more cost in political capital.
http://archive.is/2Op62
This is very interesting for me for a very different reason:

We're in Germany where this is taxed heavily. If you offer your employees free meals, this becomes part of their taxable income, so you actually have to give them a raise to even this out, and then you have employees that want to opt-out to get the hands on that cash...

I always wondered how Google Germany deals with this. There is a minimum below which it doesn't get taxed and specific items like coffee, water etc fall out of this, but it blew my mind the first time I was trying to set something like this up for our company.
> Indeed so, if judging in a reference frame of gross oversimplifications and dismissing importance of details.

I'll admit, re: IRC - yes, that's a stretch and ignores details. It's more that Slack managed to kick Hipchat's butt so thoroughly that really surprised me.
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They probably got a flood of applications from native mobile engineers who want to work for a successful company who's new architecture direction aligns with their existing (native framework) skills.

If the announcement was the other way around (we're going from native to react native!) I bet they would have gotten a similar flood of web/rn engineers.
The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results [pdf]
I suspect the key fraud deterrent is that funds must be available in Stripe in order for the card to accept the transaction. In other words, if I issue a card via Stripe and you attempt to use it fraudulently, I'm on the hook for the transaction either way.
> Finally, we highlight that the mass of humans is an order of magnitude higher than that of all wild mammals combined

I sometimes wonder if the Earth is an egg and humanity is a kind of embryo and the other biomass is a yolk.

I don't believe it but it's the only hope I have that what we're doing is okay.

We're converting oil and the other living things on this planet into humans (and our meat animals) so voraciously. We're strip-mining the oceans of protein. If we invent e.g. antigravity and the bulk of humanity can leave that's one yet-fictional option. Realistically, we've already reached a tipping point to ecological collapse and we will be very fortunate if even 0.1% of humanity is still alive by the end of this century.
US has far more leverage than any third-world country. E.g. they could simply prohibit countries incorporated/owning/owned by countries in tax havens from selling in the US. Seems to work well for China.
Ahhh so simple! Thank you very much for the moment of enlightenment.
You are forgetting social graph embedded in phone book.

No one else would give you social graph that easily.
I've come to the conclusion that better documented, quality controlled parts are worth it as my free time for hardware projects dwindles. In the end the parts for RPi and Arduino projects are generally quite cheap in comparison to my time.
As much as I love IRC, this argument seems to me to not be that different from the "just use rsync/ftp" Dropbox argument. There is this IRCv3 extension proposal, though: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/pull/292
Trump warns Twitter it will be investigated for 'SHADOW BANNING' conservatives
Meditations on authority
There are legitimate criticisms of the functioning of the EU, absolutely.

However, leaving the EU does not make the EU go away; even if other countries leave, relations still have to be negotiated with them. Bilateralism at that scale is probably unworkable, so it would end up being done through a different unaccountable international institution.

I'd take the EU over the WTO or TTIP any day of the week.
I wish I could find the original document. They do spend about 1/8th talking about how it has to be a great experience. But the majority of the document discusses how they aren't a chat app, they had a broader vision of team communication. And so you don't compare Slack to IRC because IRC is "just" a chat app while Slack is for "collaboration".

In the early days of Slack we had Office Communicator in Microsoft. But because they thought of themselves as essentially MSN messenger for business they didn't do the things Slack did with their clear vision. Ultimately both apps existed to send text/files/images to people in realtime but Slack communicated a vision of how this should work while the rest just let you figure it out yourself.
Shameless self-promotion: We (Trillian) just received HITRUST certification, provide a BAA, and offer both a SaaS variant and the self-hosted Trillian Server product, both of which run over our own open IM protocol. We're not exactly a Slack/Hipchat clone (having been around for 18+ years, we're more of a traditional IM and group chat solution with some modern stuff like an API, chat bots, and federation capabilities) but have been getting great feedback in the healthcare space with our business offering. More: https://trillian.im/uses/hipaa-compliant-texting/
It really does come down to sour grapes. The mental contortions people go to question a democratically determined result really is telling. A lot of people are only fans of democracy when it goes their way.
Lotus Sametime still exists.
An awesome success story.

As Ray Kroc is supposed to have said: "The two most important things for success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it."
That is certainly not true. The knowledge base you need to even start compiling to WASM is far greater than just JS.
This implies debit as the underlying mechanism for completing the transaction, however one could presumably build a credit-based business using these cards. If XYZ company issues a Stripe card under a credit model, then XYZ company would be footing the bill using their Stripe balance, and the cardholder would then have a credit balance with XYZ company.
> I've listened to a Spotify people brag about their A/B testing efforts. It is absolutely crazy how many different variants they have at any given time.

Yeah, I once "decompiled" the Spotify desktop app (it’s mostly a bunch of zip’d web apps glued together), and found details about ad targeting and A/B identifiers. I had 20+ identifiers, most of them regarding ads (i.e. named `ads_<something>`), but also some with weird names like `liar_detective_rollout_Exposed`.
Not sure where your shore is, but Digikey is in the US.
Can you tell me why I should trust them? Shouldn't we approach these organisations that purport to be the single source of truth
with extreme scepticism?

Apart from that in my observation these organisations are not impartial, and I think in the context of the universal anti-Trump media they are easily dismissed as just another group suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

I should make clear I don't live in the US and so have no direct stake in this and follow it more out of curiosity/amusement than anything else. I'm not going to try to argue Trump doesn't lie, but I think CNN etc are becoming hysterical.
The Tesla Model 3 rollout is turning out to be a classic bait-and-switch scheme. Besides, who knows what defects and shortcomings lurk in this automobile? Caveat emptor.
>Cartels are very interesting: historically few are successful long term

OPEC has been around for 57 years and seems to be holding together. My uneducated hunch is that the success of a cartel has to do with how fungible the product is and oil is very near the top of the list.
We already have that problem with genetics interfering with sports. Height has a strong correlation in basketball, and blood levels with endurance sport. Weight and height are used to limit unfair competition in horse racing and boxing.

So one way to keep our minds and still eliminating segregated women and men sport is to segregate based on other attributes that correlate to an unfair advantage, just like those examples above.
There are strict rules on print-based political advertising in the UK - it's required to have an imprint detailing who it's by. Similarly it's banned from television outside of the "party political broadcast" system. There are also a number of laws on funding accountability that were broken here.

Distributing online political advertising without an imprint ought to be illegal, although I don't believe it is at the moment.
> Because then you won't have a hard time remembering how it works!

Hah, I wish...

Still, it's a fun exercise to do so, easy to get started and can have interesting challenges if you want to make it more complicated.
You write and borrow plug-ins for Slack. With plug-ins, Slack becomes an extensible, configurable, fine-grained company alerts system. You adapt it to alert you about your latest website traffic, analytics goals, customer support requests, and bug tickets to triage.

When Slack is down for a few hours, I know start-ups that feel it in the gut.

As a social tool, Slack is one among many, but social tools for work are becoming huge because they enable passive knowledge transfer. Employees can spy on others' conversations to see who knows what and that knowledge makes companies more efficient.

Something's lost and something's gained in living every day, but Slack isn't a fad and it's not going anywhere.
> The restriction aims to increase business for local food retailers

I spilled my coffee. This is straight out of Atlas Shrugged.
> That said, I don't know how you would monetize a system like that.

My personal intuition is that the simplest forms of communication (defined as exchanging data between two or more participants) shouldn't be _directly_ monetized.

If we compare to physical communications means and services, there's an obvious yet powerful realization to make: communication is free (from any third-party) so long as it's distributed (i.e. when you and I talk, we take it upon ourselves to spend the energy required to communicate, we don't need a middleman), whereas it becomes a paid-for service when it's centralized (e.g. post office, telephone system, nowadays internet).

Notice that in the physical world, most (centralized) communication businesses are monetizing a more-or-less public container, which operates as a black box for the (de facto) private content. — e.g. package, letter, phone conversation.

Translate this into the digital world: email, file storage and exchange, chats and calls. So far, to my knowledge, most of the popular solutions have been centralized and therefore, monetized (notable exception are bittorrent or IRC, the protocols, widely used as a consequence, but rather nerdy to the general pop, which I think has to do with UX).

Simply put there's a business behind most of the middlemen (Fb, Gmail, Skype…), few solutions rely strictly on tech that anyone can freely operate: you need that central server authentication to reach other users in the walled garden, and neither 'speaks' to others (can't use app X to speak to someone using app Y).

Back to my personal intuition, there is an increasingly higher chance that someone comes up with a decentralized communication system wherein users each bear the cost/energy required to communicate, based on a free protocol (as in beer, it needs not be OSS, although probably should for security/trust purposes).

Think Bittorrent for data specific to communication. The internet in itself, with requests being free (POST GET etc), is such an example of a distributed architecture which you enter simply by leveraging the correct tech; there is no gatekeeper. Blockchains might be another good example of distributed systems (even ignoring cryptocurrencies and focusing on the distributed database tech).

It's a general trend, I think, that we progressively massively distribute technology-based services starting with the most fundamental, the closest to "first principles" for the purpose. Think about printing, how it started with Gutenberg, what a single individual can do today. It takes decades, centuries, these are deeper trend. However, as fast as things go in this day and age, I think communication is just about to be disrupted _forever_ by virtue of massively distributing the means. Just like printers. Or file exchange.