skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only reason I accepted is because the alternative is having no work. It's harder to bargain for a fair wage when you're unemployed.

When we were discussing rates, I proposed $60/hr which is perfectly passable in the city I'm in for a contractor with my experience, but they couldn't do higher than $35. I am seeking something new but I need a plan to live comfortably in the interim.
Heh, s/foo/bar/ is about the only Slack extension (vs ordinary IRC chat) I am aware of in weechat. I'm sure others exist, just my use is extremely naive / basic.

One thing I wish wee-slack had (and I haven't updated in months, so it may by now) is the ability to download files attached to messages without opening the URL to webslack. That, and occasionally silent failure to display long notes attached to messages, are the only major hurdles I encounter with wee-slack on a regular basis.
Which is what I was pointing out rhetorically...

Also, it's not just that rich people can takes risks that poor people cannot. It's that they never risk a minimum standard of living. Poor people making decisions like that do.
The OSI has had to deal with charlatans attempting to co-opt the term "open source" since its inception, using dishonest arguments like the one you are deploying here; this is no different from trying to sell water with chalk dust as "milk" or gold-plated tungsten as "gold". It is possible that what you are doing falls within the ambit of US federal fraud statutes, depending on whether you are in a position to receive money for it. However, the Hacker News readershp is savvy enough to understand the difference; here, you have failed and you will continue to fail.

Aside from the issue of passing off whatever sad scam you're wanting to pass off as "open source" in order to take advantage of the goodwill earned by genuine open source, it is entirely and transparently false to claim that "OSI Open Source restrict[s] freedoms." Copyright, patent, and trade secret laws restrict freedoms; open source just gives some of them back.
That just shows that's as far as people get in the book!
> spinelessness of US government and corruption by industry

There are beneficiaries to this negligence and they are handsomely profiting (and giving their cronies in Congress campaign contributions) while the world starts to resemble the one in Wall-E more and more.

Campaign finance reform and fixing broken electoral processes has the best probability to exposing and removing the corruption.
An equivalent service for Windows: https://ninite.com/
I recently tried Apollo for a project as well, for the most part, its almost magic, doing most of the usually tedious things for me. But I often run into unexpected blocker on the most basic functionalities that I need.

One of them that I haven't been able to really solve till now is around cache invalidation / removing deleted items from cache.

How have you been finding Apollo around that area?
I agree on quoting. I think my problem is slacks product design isn’t very opinionated. There are many ways of calling back to an earlier conversation, but slack users don’t really have guidance on what they should do. So conversations past a few interactions get hard to connect together, continue, and discover.

Flowdock does a pretty good job of threaded communication. But Flowdock is pretty feature sparse and barely functioning mobile experience.
That's literally the first time I see that visualisation. Check this out:

Does the Antarctic Ozone Hole ever come over Australia?

No. The ozone hole has only ever been observed to be well south of the Australian mainland and Tasmania. In fact, during springtime, when the hole is in existence, ozone levels over southern Australian cities are at their highest.

Source: Australian bureau of meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/uv/faq.shtml

You can also check the Wikipedia page on the ozone hole, where the image showing the largest extent of the hole (2006) doesn't cover Australia

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion
That is a simple view of how a company works. It's much more complex than "make the results look a little better for the next quarter".

Entire forecast change when numbers are missed. People are also hired based off those numbers. Should we also not hire more employees when the out look is better?

Companies need to be healthy to continue to be able to employ at all. So yes. It is the duty to cut cost and maintain healthy balances based
off future expectations.

It would be far more dishonest to simply let the entire company fold effectively laying off everybody to prolong a subet of employees jobs for a little longer.

But beyond that it's rare that layoffs happen for a single quarter miss. And unless you are pure EBITA driven laying off probably won't make anybody looking for revenue groth happy either.

Companies are complex living organizations. The notion that laying people off is always bad is a bad notion.
I don't have data to back this up, but I suspect the main issue with needle skip is from vibrations being transmitted through (and maybe amplified along?) the arm. Since the arm is still mounted to the base, it could be that levitating the platter does zilch for vibrations. I wonder what it would take to levitate the arm too, and just have a flexible cord hanging down to pass along the signal?

Eliminating needle skip was the first thing that came to my mind too, there's gotta be a reason they don't even mention it.
While I believe that's true, anyone with a serious concern shouldn't be taking legal advice from search results.
Looks very superficial.

There is an implicit assumption that developer skill is scalar and transitive. If Alice is better than Bob, then Alice is better than Bob at everything. If Alice is better than Bob, and Bob is better than Charlie, then Alice is better than Charlie. This may be true in a narrow niche or for a specific skill, but does not hold in general.

Then there's little to substantiate the claim that "Simply deciding to become a 10x developer will give you a huge advantage over the competition." Sounds like a slogan from the self-help section of a book store.
My original comment said "React ecosystem", not just "React". Apollo is part of the ecosystem.
I'm generally pretty stoic, but I find if I'm very candid about how I'm feeling it comes across better. Not all the time, of course, but interspersing candid feedback on my emotional state throughout interactions with others makes me feel better and makes me seem more human to others, increasing rapport, and enabling me to accomplish my goals better.
Phi functions are a syntactical hack which can be avoided by allowing a basic block that would contain a "phi function" to instead take parameters (similar to the ANF representation). It's a lot more principled than the "phi" hack, but still quite simple and intuitive.
You could connect to it through a terminal client and save gigabytes of RAM.
Fun fact... the Japanese word is itself phonetically, semantically and philologically Chinese. The English adaptation taipan from Cantonese being of similar derivation, and the character the Japanese use for 'coon' (Mandarin jun) being the traditional Chinese word for gentleman or learned lord since at least Confucius' time.
I worked at CodeWeavers during the development of Proton, and one of the biggest hurdles for getting Wine (and therefore Proton) running on Haiku is the memory layout of Haiku[1] and subsequent failures of mmap(). I have a Haiku port that runs basic applications out-of-tree, but many Win32 programs crash on Haiku still.

1: https://wiki.winehq.org/Haiku
Control of Russian radio telescope satellite lost
... claims the anti-nuclear-power advocacy group.
Saber Rattling in the South China Sea
> they'd be just fine with :-) instead of an emoji.

And IRC supports UTF-8 and unicode emojis just fine.

> But having an IT guy spend half a day properly setting up an IRC server is hard and it doesn't have a crappy web UI by default, so lets all use Slack.

I've found my organization uses Slack less because of the buzzy features and more to route around the brain damage of IT.

E.g., IT won't allow standing up communication servers with access allowed from outside the Corp intranet. Especially IRC.

Sales and support engineers frequently need chat access from outside the corp network. Ergo, 3rd party chat solution.

Slack is the worst solution in many ways, but it turns out fixing idiotic 90s security policies in IT departments is hard and you have to completely block the public internet to block Slack.
Rotating Black Holes Could Make Hyperspace Travel Finally Within Reach
It's not missing anything, really. It just doesn't do more than the website.
Oh, it works. That money trickles down right to the Cayman Islands or Panama. All that trickles down to the American public is the drops left when the rich shake after letting it trickle to those places.

Trickle down economics could easily be summed up as "pissing on me and telling me it's raining", when Republicans love the rain.
Because TJ's is essentially 1/4 of a grocery store. There are many many things you can't make from ingredients at TJs that you could from even the worst stocked super market in the blandest food areas.

TJ's in many ways is a way over stocked 7-11 full of prepped foods and the most common of things.
Earnshaw's Theorem does not apply to moving magnets. A spinning magnetic disc can levitate over static magnets.

As much as I'm liking sounding like I have a clue about the theorem… my brother had a Levitron and I played with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitron
Well, it's a mass and a nonlinear spring connection. The result should be a lowpass filter.
Creating the proprietary, unstable API protocol was a great choice for Slack given they want to lock-in customers to their paid service. It's just a poor choice for everyone else.
- good search (for stored knowledge across a company)

Slack's search is absolutely horrible, in my opinion. It's one of the things I complain about.
This only proves that the teaching medium is flawed. Clearly it’s not working ..public education has become so bloated and big that it has become more harmful than good.

I wanted to push my thoughts a little further:

It is natural to feel gratitude towards certain service professions. Doctors, nurses, law enforcement, teachers etc because the person paying for the services is always in a dependent and less powerful/taking position. The ones providing the service is the one in power. There is a certain surrender and volunteering to give up agency. This is also true in personal relationships between parents and children, spouses and lovers when one is financially dependent on the other. And they are all ripe for abuse depending on the nature of players involved. Power has an insidious appeal and absolute power corrupts.

It is natural to overestimate the value due to the power hierarchy and that’s why some people will always seem larger than life. If you don’t respect a teacher, you can’t learn from them because you have to first admit that you don’t know something and someone else has something you need and they have to share it with you. And your grades/children’s future depends on them.

To the parent, there is no difference between the admin or teacher. To them, the school is the authority that decides if their child passes or fails a grade. There is admin and teachers. Unions are the middle man between them and as usual, they are getting a cut of money and power by claiming that they will ‘protect’ the teachers. Their rights and pay and pensions and everything else.

All this is funded by the tax payers and for many of them, even if they have kids..it’s a game where they have no role as most kids only use the school system for 12 years.

So there is a relationshio between teachers and admin. Admin and unions. Admin and state for funding. Parents and teachers. Parents and students. Every one of them have a set of expectations from the other. And none of it has anything to do with another. And then there is the one between the student and the teacher for which we all pay for...and the anonymous taxpayer has no role at all.
VW Steals Apple Executive To Develop Autonomous Cars
I have personally witnessed a silicon valley company attempt to impose a non-compete on some employees in another state.
Hybrid clients like Quassel even have a sort of integrated bouncer you run on a server that provides native offline history for the client-side GUI.
a turntable is not a static configuration
Your reply is ridiculous and not what I would expect to find on HN.
No, it's slow in chrome, too.

Multi user Hangouts is also horribly broken in chrome (first user can't see or hear anyone).
It wasn't a conscious choice -- they were drafting their laws from a set of model statutes called the Field Code and simply didn't even think about changing the provision.

Interestingly, this also happened in North Dakota.

https://www.noncompetereport.com/2013/01/north-dakota-non-co...
Show HN: Orbis: Group Discovery and Personality Interests Map
It surprises me that people believe that margarine, a concentrate of vegetable raffinates fats, is healthier then butter.

I believed it was common knowledge how bad margarine is for our body... at least in Italy, where we always use olive oil of butter - I don’t know anybody that would prefer margarine here!
Fantasque Sans Mono is my daily driver, I love it.
While I personally prefer irc and definitely agree that an open protocol along the lines of irc should be the direction we head towards, I think it may be a bit shortsighted to imply users don’t prefer things such as in app searching and it definitely seems they love gifs.

I’m pretty sure asking users to leave their app and go to a separate webpage to search wouldn’t sit well with most users, particularly people who are involved in some kind of deadline for their project—what we might brush off as “it’s just like two extra clicks!” is actually much more disrupting. It pulls you out of your workflow and those extra clicks feel like they add up over time.

While some of us may sneer at chat apps like Slack, it’s obvious their UX/UI heavily resonates with users.

We should be looking at why users absolutely prefer Slack and see if we can build a client based on an open protocol which will give the user experience most users prefer while still maintaining an irc type experience for users like us.
Architecture is low pay and looooong hours unless partner at a hot/top firm. Apparently the thrill of "building cool stuff" and "changing the world" makes up for the low pay. Typically architects age into consulting or management. Thinking about it, not too different from the tech industry.
Yet despite the fact that only _maybe_ executives should be subject to enforceable non-competes, it is the case that just about every new hire has to sign a non-compete clause at most tech companies. In fact, the only people with enough leverage to successfully be able to push back against a non-compete are the very execs who the non-competes are meant for.

You're right that the fear has more power than the non-compete itself, but the reality then is that companies en masse employ a politics of fear in their contract language.
Has the Slack defense armada already found a good reason why an Electron-based proprietary, vendor-locked-in US version of IRC is even worth a comment?
It rather is a "better XMPP" in my opinion.
I drive I5 regularly. It's flat all the way from Canada to San Diego. The train tracks run parallel to it.

It's also jammed with semis.

There's a lot of low hanging fruit in transitioning to rail.
Mental Palace.

Maybe more a mansion than a palace. A villa, really. Well, it's got a roof. Mostly.

Ok Mental Caravan if you really want to be pedantic about it.
> But at the end of the day, it just lessens the experience for everyone.

Pff, speak for yourself. I used the slack IRC gateway until it was shut down as an alternative to just not using slack. Now I use wee-slack, which works great.

To respond point by point:

- the rich integrations [don't know what you mean]
- emoji responses + emoji statuses [wee-slack has this]
- video calls that "just work" [didn't know Slack had this]
- good search (for stored knowledge across a company) [Slack doesn't have this]
- pinned messages [not sure what this is good for; are you familiar with IRC's "/topic"?]
- notifications people are snoozed and the ability to force a notification [IRC's had the former in many forms for years and I don't think the latter is a benefit]
About Daniel Stenberg (creator of curl)
The world is bigger than just USA. Plain UTF-8 is just fine, though, and IRC supports it.
If the average person has nothing to worry about then why do all average people have to sign non-competes if they want the job? The fact is that companies see a benefit in threatening all new hires with non-competes, and like I said elsewhere, the only people with enough pull to negotiate out of a non-compete are those highly specialized non-average people who are the least likely to sign the boilerplate contract, who the company will still want to hire when they push back with specific demands.

So who are the non-competes really for then?
Always great to see some perl these days.
Ask HN: What are my options to run Windows programs on Linux?
We use Linux desktops at work and all our development/release is on Linux. We are however using Office 365 suite. We are now forced to move to MS Teams as hipchat is going away. MS Teams does not have a native Linux client and MS does not have any future plans to develop one.

I am wondering if there are any solutions that I can sell to management besides running entire windows os in VMware?
I find 2nd generation immigrants in the US have cooking skills passed down from their parents, but most other students I wouldn't trust to boil water.
Everything is the new smoking. Ambien. Deli meats. Roasted things. Now sunscreen. Are we supposed to live in a hobbit hole and eat boiled roots?
You can compost many greasy pizza boxes though. Thta's the guidance up here in Seattle.
Thanks for the blog post. I was going to look for a similar thing soon enough.
I doubt most people care about reactions.

Replies in chains are a mixed bag. It makes it easier to follow that particular conversation, but the UI/UX is godawful to the point of it being more confusing than just in-band discussion, IMO.
> Having to search the entire conversation history in the chat window is a terrible idea because it's slow and difficult to use. Having a separate tool or page to search history is a superior solution, and software exists to do that in IRC.

I have to disagree with this. Having to search for historical messages right where you can see recent messages is convenient. Using a different tool (potentially with a different UI) increases the context switch overhead. And there's no reason the search must be slow; the current chat window can display a portion of the messages, and the search can be done either on the server, or a background thread searching a database locally. Slack in particular has some bad engineering to make its UI slow and memory-hungry, but many of its copycats are actually functionally similar yet much faster.
I think it entirely depends on your past experiences. Let's compare two hypothetical experiences:

1. When Alice was 7 years old, she scraped her knee and started to cry. Her mom ran over and comforted her and then they went and got her a bandaid.

2. When Mark was 7 years old, he scraped his knee and started to cry. His dad yelled at him to stop being such a pussy and shut the hell up. He couldn't stop crying so his dad hit him.

It is pretty clear who is going to try to not cry going forward. You don't need to repeat what happened to Mark many times for him to learn that expressing how he feels in that scenario is not a good idea. Keep this pattern going long enough and you get an adult who is probably going to view emotions as a burden. As to whether expressing emotions is a good thing or a bad thing, it entirely depends on who you are expressing them to.
What we really need is to make insurance coverages and deals public as well, for services and prescriptions.
This really doesn’t answer all your needs but the Microsoft Office 365 office and productivity apps are available as web apps, and work very well on Linux.
In my cases, for 1) and 2) the parent component would be fetching the user and passing it down to the child components.
Damn. I have to think it's because the higher level of education required by a rising percentage of jobs is boxing less educated people into more demanding, less engaging, and higher stress jobs that are disappearing.
Maori make up just 15% of the NZ population. They do however have more obese despite fewer who are only moderately overweight. Since the BMI ranking is by arithmetic mean, extremely fat people will have an outsize effect.

Ref: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/populations/maori-health...
Apple demanded $1B for chance to win iPhone: Qualcomm CEO
The problem so far is that the nuclear industry is really secretive. We like to think we have the best design, and all other designs are goofy. We like to patent things and protect secrets. The nuclear industry started in secrecy, developed in secrecy, and still has a lot of it.

This is precisely the condition much of the software industry was in, when Stallman came up with Free Software. You could s/nuclear/software/ and the above would have been mostly true. So maybe Open Source is what's needed here.
True, but "a reddit question" doesn't exactly narrow it down all that much. I wouldn't have minded so much if they'd included a link.
Uh, I know of several low-mid level techies where their companies played hardball around their non-competes.
Yeah I agree with you about all that...I just think being able to vent anonymously is a good thing for anyone sometimes. Especially people that deal with a lot of stress. I just didn't see the teachers as being toxic. Maybe the system they're forced to work in. But not because they complain about it.
Agree. That's how we are using it. However teams webclient can't do some of the things like desktop sharing and conferences like we could do in hipchat.
Excellent, this is great information that is difficult to find!
Are you upset that the website is using a CDN? That is the standard distribution method for common libraries.

As for the other half of your analogy - stop poking holes in the gas tank and it won't need active service.
I don't know how much bandwidth wee-slack uses.

You could run weechat+wee-slack in screen or tmux on a server; the ssh or mosh session to that server would be very low bandwidth.
I prefer having either too much information in the response for each case (I'm not operating at Google/Facebook-scale), and then other endpoints for sub-resources (both individual and lists).
This is true, but they must compensate you for the time you aren't allowed to compete. No such thing here in CA as a free non-compete.
And I'd argue that this is one of the biggest reasons why the area was able to evolve from a couple of semiconductor companies into the world's most valuable business ecosystem.

Most other states are too beholden to a few big companies and don't see how following suit will only help them over the long term.
Can you explain how the Earth reacts to sound waves?

In the sense that babies, plants, and my Echo do, by engaging in a prolonged process in response, after the wave itself has dissipated.

We’re not talking about pollen being blown off, we’re talking about a biological process that’s activated in response.
A neighborhood full of people on food stamps is a bad neighborhood. Those people are the people who the residents of good neighborhoods are trying to stay away from.

They are fairly likely to be good neighbors to each other, in that impoverished people are generally part of a favor-trading network with family and neighbors. But they are undesirable neighbors to other people.