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Ask HN: Which Slack integrations do you use?
As a Slack App developer myself, I'm very curious to learn what really work for people. I went to multiple Slack events where they present use-cases from their customers, but all that stuff has gone through a good amount of marketing "improvements".

I'd like to ask the HN audience what REALLY works for you?

Here's a bit about what I use or I've seen being used:

- Trello notifications - even though trello sends me a load of push-notifications, #trello-update is somehow the first place where I look.

- HubSpot live chat - Replying to live chat discussions right from Slack is 10x easier than opening the app

- Jenkins, Sentry, Rollbar alerts - of course

- Standuply - we don't really use it in my current team, but I've seen it being adopted at my previous workplace so I'll leave it here.
One problem of applying this to the American cities that have a homeless problem is that housing in those cities is prohibitively expensive.

Go to a city like Seattle and a 1 bed 1 bath is going to cost 300k+ to construct at density. (The city doesn't have enough land to build enough tiny houses at 30k or so a pop, so fixing the entire housing problem that way isn't doable.)
I hack, and I volunteer at a kids drop-in center in public housing. (Similar target audience to yours.)

Drones! Especially if they can control them.

Animations! If they have access to chromebooks, get a free stop-motion animation app and show them how to make their own cartoons.

Video chat, maybe. Again, use the chromebooks if they have.

Remote controlled robot gadgets, if you can get them. Kids love stuff where they can control something physical from a screen. https://www.sphero.com/ might have some good stuff.

Beware games. All kids know all about games. You'll be bringing peat to Newcastle, and you'll lose them into the game anyway.
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Which is why there need to be bike lines, either between the parking lane and the sidewalk, so that it's protected from traveling cars, or on the left side of the travel lane so they're more visible and less likely to get doored.
Over here in Europe, Grenoble just built a bunch of new, separated bike roads. This is a small town, with ~300K population in the area.

One thing they built, and which I'm not sure yet how it plays because it's not "in production" yet (waiting for other parts of the roadworks to finish) is a bicycle lane in the middle between two bus/taxi only lanes. It is a few centimeters higher than the surrounding road. So we'll see how that goes. But in the meantime, bike infra here is amazing. :)
This is a good example of how the consumer pays for so-called "competition" between service providers. The practical effect is that they collude to fix prices and never work with downstream/upstream companies to provide obvious features like the one you're asking for.
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Fairly certain that's bullshit. https://www.iihs.org/topics/pedestrians-and-bicyclists
Wow, I'm not the only one who has run into this:

> For example, when I see JavaScript developers, I ask them questions about the HTTP stack. A lot of them are just like, “Yeah, but I don’t really know about networking.” My reaction to that is, “You don’t know about networking, yet most of your time is spent on the web, over a network.”

I am saddened and how many web devs know so little about fundamentals of IP addressing, simple routing (ie: the gateway), protocols/ports, and DNS resolution/caching/TTL/etc
You just have to take a look at homos, transgenders and those trying to normalize that insanity. I would say there is definitely a mental illness epidemic.
Can confirm. At first, I thought it was only calls to Canada from the U.S. Now I am only able to get through intermittently, Canada or not.
A Summer of Julia 2019
My issue with Verizon is they lock an account after 3 bad attempts, and the "username" is the cell phone number for the account. Which seems to be slurped into some automated brute force engine.

Every single time I want to login, I have to do a password reset first. Makes me which I had the phone number to every manager in the company, so I could lock them all out every day.

Also, since having the phone is the only second factor for authentication, that's all you need to access an account.
Does anyone here think markets alone could solve this problem? Or do you see that coordinated group action is necessary to practically solve problems markets can’t fix?
You're conflating way too many things and oversimplifying the whole situation into a fictitious idea of conflicting mindsets.

First of all, you're treating two very different types of services as equal and identical. Netflix and Hulu are subscription content providers. Google and Facebook can be defined and described in many ways, but subscription content providers is not among them [1]. It's quite natural and understandable that people would have different expectations and complaints.

Second, the situation with content providers isn't binary. The solution to the problem of not being to afford a whole bunch of subscription content providers is not limited to having one become a monopoly.

Third, it's not just cost and convenience when it comes to access to content. Take Spotify Premium, for example. It's a subscription service that gives you access to all the music in its catalog as long as you pay your subscription. Except that there is absolutely no legal way for you to ensure access to any subset of the content. Have a favorite song, album or artist? Tomorrow it might disappear from Spotify's catalog and you have no way of hanging on to it.

Fourth, the concerns that lead people to suggest that Google, Facebook or Amazon should be broken up are varied and nuanced, and they go way beyond cost and convenience.

So no, I don't think you can sum up people's opinions into two seemingly contradictory mindsets.

[1] Yes, I'm aware of YouTube and Spotify having a similar model. That actually happens to be a pretty good argument to break up Google.
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> Wearing a helmet increases your chance of death on a bike according to the statistics

I've heard that too. If it's true, could the causality be the other way? As in, people wear a helmet when the chance of accidents is bigger.

When I road bike on open roads it's both fast and higher chance of accidents, so I wear a helmet. Same with downhill cycling. But when using a city bike, I bike slow in the inner city, and don't have a helmet.
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And how do you change 1 person into many, if not by making public arguments?
The God of the Old Testament is not morally ambiguous in the point of view of Christians. That was my claim.

This news article is reporting on the beliefs of a Viking-age religion. It is not attempting to say that the actual gods of that religion are actually morally ambiguous.
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It is extremely hard to convince someone they're doing it wrong, when what they're doing is working for them and is making them money. Its pretty much ingrained in our human nature, I think.

Instead of telling them their solution blows, its better to gain trust by first addressing the pain points without any major rework, and then slowly change the system bit by bit, with each bit providing an instant usable benefit to the end user.
One of the big incel complaints is that the least attractive women don't want the least attractive men. If that is indeed true there is none for them to settle for.
Having lived in China, I can tell you it doesn’t get better when they own their own e-bikes.

Also, bike helmets are mostly an American/ Anglo sphere thing, there are whole countries with mass bike cultures that don’t bother with helmets and are still much safer than the USA.
I’ve never heard anyone say it’s actually less safe to wear a helmet. What kind of helmet are you wearing? Most helmets are so light you’d hardly even notice. I’m just confused about this comment.
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He says he used Markov Chains - which is just stringing words together based upon probability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain
Agreed. The bashing does not really come from the end users / business people who benefit from the spreadsheet but those that are either competing against it (engineers) or having to take on risk through misuse (compliance).
There are plenty of international horror stories where a teammate in Japan checked out a file and forgot to check back in, effectively blocking teammates in Europe and the US from working on the data.

Then don't have people check out files and check them back in. Only programmers like that kind of nonsense! 99% of the time, let people "nominate" a particular copy of the file as authoritative. If something happens to that particular person's copy, let's say their machine gets smashed, then the latest version can be downloaded by their coworker, and an admin can nominate that copy as authoritative. People then go back to the 99% case of just using Excel and saving their file.

The main advantage of Excel, which leaves us pessimistic on the long-term viability of the niche SaaS solutions, is the "hackability". There's an incredible depth of tooling and market expertise around Excel, from mundane formula structures to macros to addins and COM automation. Thousands of office workers who otherwise have little programming experience are extremely adept at solving problems with Excel.

Therefore, a SaaS solution needs to let people do what they've always done, only better. Don't try to make them act like programmers. Don't change their behavior one iota, unless they're getting a payoff of nifty functionality in exchange. As much as possible, just let them act like they've always done.

The SaaS solutions might individually solve different problems, but are not really designed to play nice with each other (nor are they really incentivized to work well together).

One SaaS solution which can solve dataflow and versioning with ultra-low friction could be the one ring to rule them all. All the other SaaS solutions could be built on top of that. The problem is keeping everything super low friction.
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Cold and harsh winter is actually what makes homelessness not an option around here
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Increased investment in public transportation would make it easier to use land that's not in already-densely-packed urban areas. It's not as though the US has less land than Finland, after all.
The other problem of applying this to American cities is that these homes will be used for criminal activity and trashed.
The article's "solution to homelessness" is giving homeless people homes.

The article says they have to pay rent or they get kicked out, but doesn't explain how these homeless people can suddenly afford rent.
Per a screenshot in the Keynote, Sign in with Apple will also work on the Web, which will be interesting.
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Disposable, anonymous email forwarding is a massive step forward for privacy. I know we've all been doing it for a while, but this on a consumer level is fantastic.
Some satanist cults come to mind. Thankfully darwinism takes care of that.

But if you re looking for a similar example take the armies. They all have lawful license to murder they just disagree on who to kill.
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Does this require that every device you'd wish to use to sign into the service be an Apple device?

That is, if you're signing up for Netflix with this, would you be able to access your account from a Roku box?
You would just shift the costs away from maintaining pipes to treating massive amounts of water that would never get used by anybody.

And you will still have to maintain the pipes. Your solution would reduce costs per mile, but you still have a lot of mileage to maintain with a shrinking population.
I think you're right that there are social, societal, and stress-related causes of many of these conditions that are under-explored. And certainly the cultural attitudes need to be adjusted more towards compassionate acceptance and helping others than they are today.

However, when it comes to an individual person being stuck in one of those states... What you are saying winds up feeling a tad ridiculous. For example, if presented with someone who has a delusional belief in something objectively, demonstrably false on a factual basis, to the point where acting on their belief makes them a danger to themselves or others ... It is not the case that a different society will make those delusions into true facts. What they need in that moment is probably medication. I have seen people for whom that has definitely been the case, and they show improvement with treatment.
Markets clearly haven't solved the problem. They've certainly had the time.
i strongly prefer the EDK, despite the name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_death-knot
That's fair, I too use a trucker's hitch for the ridgeline of a tarp.

However, I'll use adjustable grip hitches for the guylines. That lets me freely adjust how my tarp is placed and holds up the tension reasonably (from experience, the friction hitch on paracord could do with tightening every 1.5 days or so). It's also quicker to tie and uses less cordage, so that's a plus.

Combining the two straight up never occurred to me. Will definitely give that a shot :)
> If you've not worked somewhere that uses Google Docs for collaboration, it can be hard to know what you're missing.

I have (for a previous company), and it still hasn't proven worth it at other companies, including my current employer. We use Office 365 exclusively: it's not perfect but, as I say, Excel is streets ahead of Google Sheets in every other way, and that matters for our use cases.
The other side of this is that there are some customers who can't manage to cancel a subscription even when they literally just have to log in, click/tap to go to whatever page handles their personal details, and then push a prominent button to cancel and maybe a second confirmation one to prevent misclicks. The entire process can take less than 10s, yet you'll still get people who email you claiming they can't find it and have been looking forever and now they'd like a refund for their last six months of payments please. Remarkably, although they have trying to cancel for months and have looked everywhere, some of these people have no entry in your logs showing them visiting any of the personal settings pages on your system, nor is there any record of any previous attempt to contact you via any of the five different methods you advertise prominently for customer support...

Now, we're generally fairly relaxed about subscriptions. We very much take the view that it's not worth quibbling over the odd month's payment and we'd rather offer good customer service and build a good reputation. For example, maybe someone seems to have made an honest mistake but we believe they really did intend to cancel and they haven't used our services since, and in that sort of situation we tend to just refund them anyway if they ask.

However, cancelling a payment authority or charging a payment back retrospectively is not a substitute for cancelling a legal agreement, and in some cases it also hurts us. If someone deliberately messes us around like that, we are much less sympathetic, and we certainly consider whether to pursue them through legal means to recover what they owed us and any other damages and costs.
And fwiw, I firmly believe that reading Factfulness and absorbing its lessons does make you smarter. Enough so that I would buy you a copy, if you promise to read it.

It's not weird to think a book can make you smarter, either. Assuming you believe reading and learning in general make you smarter (I assume you do), and that smart and engaged people are sometimes wrong (I assume you believe that as well), then it stands to reason that a book dedicated to understanding how smart and engaged people can believe incorrect things will make you even smarter than before.
They already offer Apple Pay on the web. I imagine the experience will be similar here.
No, an investigation is necessary for legal action. Without, the likelihood is 0, with it's higher although clearly not a certainty.
The video also has color if you watch all of it. And a nice bit of water music.
Innovation implies growth. Is that so hard to understand? No growth then demands no innovation (because innovation would lead to growth).
Maybe nothing special, but pretty well executed by a teen!
> So if you live off the coast of some country, that country is liable to take care of you?

If they ever get into a storm and need help: yes.