skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh... as if we didn't have enough environmental problems already to deal with.

It seems like a very tricky problem to solve. Plastic is such a wonderful material with so many important applications it is impossible to imagine a modern world without it.

But from what I understand not all plastic products contribute equally much to this problem, so perhaps one can make substitutes for only some key areas to make a difference.
I get that, but there was still some form of vetting - enough to disqualify 2/3 of candidates.

But that's just the thing... nobody actually knows if that level of vetting is meaningful... it may perform no better than chance in terms of identifying "good" startups (however you define that). This experiment will actually be very interesting exactly in that it will help YC see if their vetting IS as good as they think it is.

please build a mastermind group that requires an MRR of at least $15k. I'd pay good money to be a part of that

Sure, having a $15K MRR shows something about a company, but why do you think that is the best criteria to identify founders/companies to network with?
I've used Riot as a Slack replacement and setup notification bots. Its effective for the task and I could use the IRC bridge for a similar function.

Only reason I moved over to Discord was too many chat apps and the hobby users were all on Discord anyway.
This is almost never a problem since you simply use normal externs file for whatever library you are using. You never take an external library and run it through the closure compilation process, only your clojurescript code is put through those optimizations.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

This is an excellent ad-blocker, available for Firefox, Chrome, Edge & macOS Safari. It's well worth using; the only time I see clickbait is when I use someone else's computer.
I used Slack at work about a year and a half ago.. I have recently setup a Discord server for one of my own games. Discord seems to, have more features, work more reliably, and be a lot easier to administrate.. Also its free!

Maybe Slack has advanced in the past year and a half tho..
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This builds on the Persons with Significant Control rules for UK companies. In theory the rules for companies registered with Companies House require that they disclose human individuals who ultimately exercise significant control. For a public company there won't be anybody like that (individual shareholders aren't allowed to own enough of a public company to trigger "significant control"), but for private companies there's often just one or two real humans behind it, even if they own or control it via a trust fund with shares in an off-shore corporation that has special rights in a different off-shore corporation.

In practice Persons with Significant Control is not adequately enforced. Lawyers routinely write in things that aren't people in the PSCs field (e.g foreign company names) for a company and there haven't been any negative consequences for that.

I believe a willing government can and should enforce these rules by concluding that if, in fact, this company has assets but it's controlled by non-human entities, well then the government will seize its assets and add them to the treasury. No humans will be deprived of any assets by doing this so that's fine. When invariably an actual human squawks that their stuff is being taken we've found the actual Persons with Significant Control, they're welcome to pay some token fee, say, £100 000 for the wasted time and effort, and fix their records or we'll keep their stuff.
I read a lot on the train, but I find it impossible to keep the thread with audiobooks.
I think we should avoid commenting about the dev's background. It was clearly a company decision and the discussion should be at that level.
If you have just a few users, Rocket is very easy to install and has always worked well on a $5 DO instance. My preference is for Zulip, as it's easier to track multiple discussions, but I don't have an incentive to switch now that my Rocket instance is running.

I have no experience with more than a few users. If you want a hosted solution, I have seen reports that Zulip works well with a large number of users.
As someone that hasn't been using Python while the concept of "virtual environments" emerged I've always found how many tools for managing them exist confusing. Eventually I tried to just create a virtual environment without using any of those tools, which turns out to be pretty straightforward, and wrote a short article about it.
I think it actually shows this kind of image recognition AI doesn't actually think, i.e. it hasn't developed high-level concepts of the things in the pictures it's trained on.

When these neural networks get an input image and spit out labels like "bird" or "car", they haven't actually recognized which parts of the image are a car, nor what pieces it's made of. Instead they have memorized some textures and simple shapes which go with the label. It provides the kind of knee-jerk reaction that allows your brain to make you jump when a large object approaches fast, or think there's a tiger hidden in the dirty laundry when you turn around in a dark room.

That's why, when you reverse the process, it doesn't create meaningful images, but clumps of relatively common textures found in the training set. It lacks the hierarchy of concepts that allows you to identify objects and distinguish them from the background, which a baby learns in their first two years.
Gotcha. I figured it was too obvious of an idea for people to not already have optimized it.

Interesting about bookmakers being subscribed to a common line feed. I didn't know that, but it makes sense in a borderless-money, networked world.
It seems to me that Slack is very vulnerable. Their core product isn't all that innovative and already has credible competitors who could probably beat their price. In fact, I don't understand how they beat HipChat so soundly. I wonder if their next tack will be to start digging a moat of proprietary tooling now that they have a critical mass of adoption.
Hey thanks for the pointer! I'd never heard of the realworld example apps repo
Personally I am not that against advertising. At some point people have to learn about your product by some means. The offer is just huge nowadays.

Personally I have build a very good product (got great reviews on a few respectable sites and above average conversion ration) but in the end I am quite desperate because it is actually very hard to get people to know about it without an advertising budget.
I'm advocating for democracy. Free speech without meaningful accountability is the mob.
Sure, as long there isn't much to improve in the language itself.
Comparing Slack (B2B) to Instagram (B2C) doesn't seem correct to me. Slack wasn't the first-to-market (there's been Hipchat), but to my understanding, Slack was radically better, that's why it became so successful.

As for using Electron for its desktop app: do end users really care?
You can try LXC containers by Ubuntu, this is what Docker was based on initially. The main difference is LXC runs an init in the container so you get a standard multi process OS environment while Docker containers are single process environments.

We have been working on Flockport [1] that supports LXC containers and provides orchestration, an app store, service discovery and repeatable builds. It's still in early preview and we have not started proper outreach but it may be worth looking at.

Ubuntu also provides the LXD project that provides some orchestration across servers.

[1] https://www.flockport.com
I doubt the cost is the barrier for most of us here. Reading books isn't a very expensive hobby even if you buy them all.
>invalidate news organizations

It should also be mentioned that this has been Putin's strategy since he's been in power: blur the line between political/historical fact and fiction, and exploit the ambiguities that arise.

Adam Curtis' film _Hypernormalization_ provides quite a bit of insight into this strategy and its consequences.
How valuable can a forum with 15,000 companies (most of which are bad)

How do you know they're bad? And maybe it's the case that having ONE person in your group, who is the "right" person, will actually be what makes the group valuable...

Not saying that will prove to be the case, but I think you're rushing to judgment a bit.
Literally the opposite of me. eBooks are searchable, paper books are not. I don't need to search a novel for a particular phrase, but I certainly do for a textbook.
Tool integration and automation with Slack are things that people have come to depend on. There’s not much unique to Slack in that regard but they have the momentum and many products will either be Slack-first or be integrated exclusively with Slack. There’s a lot more out there in terms of APIs these days so people can, and do, develop their own integrations for other chat platforms but that’s not quite the same.

I don’t know about 7 billion but based on how technical and non-technical teams alike use and depend on Slack I can easily see 1 Billion or more. But 1 and 7 billion are really far apart. If I were a Slack employee I’d be thinking about my stock. If it sold for 2 billion would I be shit out of luck? Legitimately asking, I don’t know how stock preference works when the VC investment comes after stock has been issued to an employee.
"HN doesn't need to hoist posts/comments up on top that have the most votes"

Sound better?

"let posts show chronologically"

Raising upvoted/most engaged/whatever posts to the top is social media 101. It's hardly perfect but it's preferable to letting your page become a glorified chatroom. In HN's case you would be browsing /new all the time and sifting through useless spam comments on each post.
I always count these by Star Wars franchises. Is slack worth the rights to almost two Star Wars sized franchises? No. It's not.
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I've got near crippling social anxiety. It's hard because intellectually I know my brain is creating and responding to fear that is all artificial. However in the moment that's nearly impossible for me to realize or take in.

I've been having more and more conversations with friends and co workers about anxiety recently and that's helped a bit but realistically this is something that I'm going to have to do real work on.
So much for that inevitable/impending Web 2.0 'bubble burst' that the financial and tech media has been predicting since 2012. Nothing has changed from now and 4 years ago .same high valuations.
It's a reasonable case to be made that the wide adoption of Slack despite its issues contributes to their perceived valuation. This tells me that:

1. Slack has tapped into an energetic market
2. People will use the product even if it sucks, or can be compelled to use it by their company's management and IT.
3. There's money on the table for anyone who can build Slack-like services at a better level of quality.

There's also a spiritual similarity in this gripe to the gripe about Apple being a $1T company despite their descent into software and dongle hell—people are buying it despite its flaws because the marketing and the appeal is overwhelming.
#Microsoft says Russian hackers continue targeting 2018 midterm #elections
I heard that for SEO purposes you want to reach >2000 words. If it's true, for now, you'll be seeing articles around this word count for the same reason you see YouTube videos slightly longer than 10 minutes.

Try paying for something that's behind a hard paywall and you'll see shorter articles.
I've recently made this switch. If just for the sheer performance difference (mostly startup time), Discord is worth it. The free search, file uploads, and audio/video chat really makes it, though.
Something needs to happen for positive change. My Indian friend recently fathered a baby and couldn't see his son almost a year later. Politics getting in the way of people just trying to make the world a better place as per usual.
How much 19th-Century writing have you read, man?
I don't think the world needs to consist solely of page-turning books that "hook the reader."
Or with $80 billion a year, you could do lots of stuff like have a lower deficit.

Reducing defense spending being good does not mean that using it to discharge bad student loans is the best use.
If your jobs are written in Python, there is nothing wrong with a Python-based scheduler. It can actually be quite convenient.
You're mistaking outsourcing with offshoring.

Paying maximum viable cost for minimum viable output is the type of outsourcing that you're thinking of. India, Eastern Europe, etc is full of smart people capable of doing pretty much anything. Being located in California doesn't give you super-powers.
I have to disagree with the following statement "They would just grep the logs for errors or timestamps in which the error occurred. This method of troubleshooting PHP problems requires a high technical skill and would take a long time to find the root cause."
This will only be the case if your error log is bloated with errors, your error log should be empty.
Atlassian tried to beat them with Stride and failed.
This is one of those recent tech success stories that just leave me scratching my head. I simply can't understand the value Slack is bringing and why would anyone pay for an absolutely metoo product. They are either deviously smart or the market is in full bubble mode.
Amazon Prime seems like it pulled out the checkbook for syndicated series. It's also got a lot of old HBO stuff.

Which makes sense if you've got a pile of money but are trying to bootstrap a streaming service.

I expect most of that will disappear when it comes up for renewal and they've built out their original content (in the same way it did for Netflix).
"Julius-Christian Schreiner’s Silent Agents series, shot in London, Paris, Innsbruck and Hamburg, depicts examples of ‘hostile architecture’: subtle interventions in urban spaces designed to hinder people’s use of them."

I found this series of images quite disturbing. It made me think of the people who design these 'interventions'. Are they proud of their work, or do they have trouble sleeping at night?
Every major political power (including/especially the US) does this and it's never cut and dry good vs. evil. Russia's actions are the same and as someone living in the US there's nothing they are doing that justifies putting the entire planet at risk by reigniting our tensions with them.

The cold war was an entirely different thing. It wasn't a local skirmish, it was doomsday hanging over the world every day for 40 years.
Or one that doesn't drop 5 seconds of call audio when I open a new tab in Chrome. Yes, really.
I did not like the Hobbit, but other door-stop books like Moby Dick and Crime and Punishment I really have enjoyed. Seems stupid to stop because you didn't like one book. Would you write off movies if the first one you saw were bad?
Pulling this kind of crap on customers also reflects poorly on us as a professional community. Which other profession steals so much personal data from others through manipulation and trickery?

So all in all it looks like we're all part of a low standars professional community that should be perpetually embarrassed of itself.
Alaska Airlines app works really well in my experience. Sometimes too well, as the gate agent starts the boarding process and suddenly a crowd forms at the gate before they have even announced anything.
It depends on the person (some substances work better than others on someone, most doctors will recommend to try for 4~5 weeks and see if there is any effect, positive or negative).

Also there can be a strong placebo effect of taking the pill.
Better answer: eliminate coal. All furnaces run on wood. Carbon neutral. People can now grow and sell wood. But wont be many trees around. Ya, green energy!
> As for what to move to... That's definitely an open question.

Is it really? I find that Linux is an excellent development platform, and also an excellent home-computer OS. I've been using it exclusively in a professional software-development context for over a decade now (prior to that my employer made me use Windows in addition to my Linux box), and I couldn't be happier.
OpenRTB Advisory – GDPR [pdf]
Exactly. The reasoning behind this decision is obvious:

"Hey, look at all these downloads CE is getting. We need to start following up with these users to try and promote Enterprise and other products. Start capturing emails at the point of download."
Writing Multitenant ASP.NET Core Applications
Sea level rise is eroding home value
Riot has inline Markdown, so I'd argue it's actually superior to Slack for serious work.
We've known, for many years and from millions of dead people, that fascism needs the media. Without the media you don't get the widespread mass dehumanisation of people as vermin or cockroaches, and you get less violence against those people.
Highly recommend #django on irc. Wonderful community that would be willing to help you as long as you post code and full traceback :)
China, World’s Biggest Polluter, Hits Carbon Goals – 12 Years Early
How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites
I doubt it triggers the "drowning reflex", which according to Wikipedia looks like this:

"Involuntary actions operated by the autonomic nervous system involve lateral flapping or paddling with the arms to press them down into the water in the effort to raise the mouth long enough to breathe, and tilting the head back. As an instinctive reaction, this is not consciously mediated nor under conscious control."

You may be referring to the diving reflex instead?
I think being South Sudanese or Eritrean is much better than being murdered for being a separatist, on ethnic cleansing scale.

What's with the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century? You seem to refer of it as of something well-know and yet I have no idea.
It’s a bullshit degree only because the ratio of debt to projected income.

Literature is a really rewarding path of study, if you can pay for it. Sadly, this requires independent wealth or scholarships or a state school.
First time on record:Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks
HipChat, flowdock, yammer, etc.
I use to like Tumblr but a significant part of the content creators I was following (photographers) moved to either Instagram or Patron. It's not the same as it used to be and the platform is quickly losing ground.
If you don't want to use your email to download docker, use bugmenot:

http://bugmenot.com/view/store.docker.com
I was told all these phenomena (on maps) are referred to as "cartographers' follies", so the other names are interesting to hear.

In the "real world", it was commonplace for compilers of mailing lists to include several "phantom names" in their lists. If those names received a mail, the list-holder would send an invoice to the person who sent it. Simple, elegant, very difficult to bypass way to protect your knowledge-based business.
How to Ensure Your App Is Online and Working Properly
Does that mean you think HN should turn into a private group, and that way get better than it is now?
Hmmm. The story I keep hearing is companies switching from Slack to Teams, not because Teams is better, but because it's more or less integrated into O365 and has various compliance certs already. 7.1B seems a bit high when competing with MS.
Yep, I let mine expire this summer. It would have been 50% more expensive than when I first signed up for it. If I want two day shipping I'll pay for it and it will be significantly cheaper than a Prime subscription.
Azure Stack: bring the cloud home with you
The author's more concerned with fiction
"It really is a nice product, but it feels like a 'First-To-Market' success story."

If I tried to write down all the other corporate-focused chat products that preceded Slack, there would be no way for me to write them all down. To say nothing of the chat products that weren't necessarily corporate focused, but could easily be used in a corporation. They were not first to market; they came into a crowded space, but one where nobody seems to have quite put all the pieces together the way the market wanted, and proceeded to dominate.

If I would have any concern about Slack as an investor, it would be that they don't have a terribly great moat, in part precisely because there are so many companies sitting on a code base that has 90% of the hard technical work done. Personal chat products had a certain amount of stickiness because you had to be on the service that your friends were on. A corporation can simply move wholesale by executive fiat, and the bigger the customer, the bigger the savings number will be and the less connected the buyer will be to the people demanding Slack in particular. I would expect Slack to be facing some pricing pressure in the medium-to-long term as the abundant field of competitors starts essentially copying from Slack what works and starts tweaking their products to fit.
Is this a general VAT on electricity or is it an additional fee specifically on mining crypto?

Based on the original comment of "I hope more will push for taxes on all things we want to discourage", my position is that crypto mining should be charged an additional fee for using huge amounts of electricity and negatively impacting the environment for speculative financing activities. Anyone who's concerned about the environmental impact of single occupancy vehicles or raising cattle should be horrified with the amount of energy consumed in mining crypto.
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I'll stop posting then and if there is ever any reference or link to me on HN, remove it. Thanks.

I'm happy to absolutely no contact with HN/YCombinator/related companies if they do the same. :)
"it feels like a 'First-To-Market' success story"

Can you say why you feel this is a first-to-market story? When they started my first reaction was "This market is too crowded and they will have a tough time gaining traction." At that time, I used Basecamp for project management, and so I thought Campfire was excellent for team chat.

I also worked at one company that used Yammer, and that seemed fine.

Also, obligatory, I worked at a company where the tech team used IRC.

Back in 2004, I worked at a company where the dev team used Yahoo chat. It was surprisingly good. We would be logged into video chat for hours, talking over problems with each other.

I like Slack, but I've never understood why developers made such a big deal with it. I wonder if it caught some generational shift? It arrived on the scene just as the economy was recovering from the Great Recession, and it caught the eye of the next wave of founders who were building startups in the new era. But I don't think it is an example of first-to-market. It is actually more interesting than that. It is an example of late-to-market-but-still-successful. That's rare. But I still don't understand why it has been so successful.
Docker is my perfect example of a OSS being poisoned by excessive money.

OSS needs money to survive but too much of it (a too heavy burden to turn a profit) can poison it leading to significant issues being ignored because either the paying customers are not affected or because the issue is an integral part of the business model.

I wished someone were able to fork docker and strip off all of the extra fluff (mainly service stuff) but I don't think anyone without deep pockets can support such massively complex software.
Lying, especially for company profits or personal gains, is easily one of the most toxic and despicable things to do and people who do it so casually don't deserve a lot of respect.

So yeah, my real life response to that would be very similar.