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I think it's the product of popularity and the impact of the bug. Slack is exceedingly popular, so any change is going to come under a lot of scrutiny.

It is not clear to me how many new features Slack needs. Clearly people were able to successfully use the old text-entry UI; there was no shortage of Slack messages.

I feel like it would be better for them to focus on things that will add value to their platform without affecting people that are already using the core product. Meeting scheduling, corporate directory, video conferencing... nobody is in a better position to do that than them. And you can add those things, charge extra money for them, and not upset your existing customers.

Sometimes software is "done". The core of Slack is done.
The automatic menu reordering is infuriating
Decoding the fundamental mechanisms of human salivary lubrication
Another one for the lists in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21480590
Kubernetes is the key ingredient IT needs for data science
The meeting was made public, which is why we're reading about it. I think it's obvious why people wouldn't go out of their way to say they had a meeting with trump.
I wonder if some day they will come up with another Snow Leopard.
Or if the size of teams and the complexity of the product line is an inescapable doom pit.
> The company is the world's strongest supporter of the Linux open source coding system

Citation needed.

Also, a gentle reminder that Satya Nadella, as amazing as he might be, is not the sole reason why Microsoft's stock price has gone up.
The developer would still need to understand enough to be able to choose between them though, even if using them is identical.
I buy almost entirely counterfeit/knockoff goods. Quality is variable, but paying only 20% of the retail price for a similarish item works out well for me.

I don't really understand why anyone would buy originals to be honest...

I am an engineer, so claims like 'it's made in china and might explode' I can take with an appropriate sized grain of salt. One thing to watch out for is that chinese made devices are not expected to be safe if you don't follow the instructions. For example, if a device says 'do not charge for more than 2 hours', that means if you leave it on charge overnight it will catch fire. In the USA, devices need to be safe even if the instructions aren't followed.
How is it limiting competition? Any BT headphone maker can create headphones that pair to multiple devices. What awesome features could competitors do with a headphone jack that they couldn’t do by creating headphones with a lightning end?
It's not a game. She gets paid cash, in addition to keeping the product, for helping them scam people.
In many states, this is illegal without two party consent.
The average in almost any domain doesn't earn enough. Pareto is a real thing and creative output doesn't scale linearly. Some people are Linus and most are not.

True especially in the arts where the median can't get a job writing SQL queries for a Telecom.
> I could go on. The worst part? These have all been ignored open issues that other people have submitted and for years they just sit there...open.

When you hire expensive developers, they don't want to work on years old bugs. They only want to work on new features.
Yeah, I agree we're bad at it. Are there alternatives you're thinking of I haven't considered?
Building Effective Corporate Engagement on LGBTQ Rights
I find the mobile view a lot easier to read on my laptop, funnily enough. I've started preferring mobile links to wikipedia lately.
These things are not mutually exclusive.
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The problem is not the change, but that it is not backwards-compatible with the way that the "tech savvy folks" have been doing it for years.

There is no way to opt-out of this change, essentially forcing everybody into entering text this way.
> We are committed to doing what we can to improve the new experience for you

What an insincere message.

If they were committed, they’d offer the option. They don’t want to and that’s their right, but implying they value feedback and just doing what they want is throwing sand in the user’s eyes.
Why is that? Does Kindle limit the number of words?
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I'd be surprised if it was only 10s of millions.
How are fake reviews against the law? And how do we know that they’re fake? She has the product, and tells her opinion of it. How do we judge if her opinion is fake? I know full well the circumstantial evidence argument, but from a legal point of view, I think you’d need more.
Or instead of this, actually put an effective vetting system in place for drivers. That would not require super-strict privacy control and the inevitable hack. (having this data would make uber the most juicy target for spy agencies)
Satya takes all the credit for Trump wanting to punish Bezos?
I'm curious, how does IRC handle history and multi-device sync?

How does IRC handle end-to-end encryption in groups?

How does IRC handle editing messages?
You can include native code in Electron apps. I am not sure it is actually needed in any of the messaging Electron apps (Slack, Discord), but the capability is there.

My favorite Electron app is Balena Etcher. It is "dd" but uses 200MB of RAM. It is AMAZING.
> If someone I care about has a problem in front of me then yes I'll try help them solve it.

You should read about the triforce. http://thebetaman.com/2017/09/26/the-triforce-of-communicati...
> Real estate will always be priced at what buyers in an area can afford per month when factoring in home price, mortgage interest, and taxes

This was the model that led me to believe there were problems in the housing market in ~2005. Well, technically, it was the concrete evidence that this model was being violated. House prices in South Florida, where I lived at the time, tripled in ~5 years, but incomes did not. Robert Shiller had a graph of housing prices normalized to income from 1890-2005 in the NYT in 2005. Price-Income generally stayed flat, with the exception of a bump after WW2, the S&L crisis in the late 80's, and an enormous launch in the early 2000's.

As I see it, current housing prices are being forced out of the traditional model by the effects of the Fed's QE efforts.
Well I hope you're not using Google's browser then, because it is everything you listed, but way worse.
> Saying "How so?", in general, is not handled by people as a genuine and sincere question, it's usually laden with an "I don't believe you" vibe

That sounds like an extremely regional interpretation, and does not consider that the question was asked in good faith, something the HN guidelines specifically ask you to assume[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
BMW spends billions to secure batteries and drivetrains for its EVs
He's Gothic, and Gothic has been out of fashion for a long time. He was apparently very popular, though.
I can't believe people waste their time doing shit like this. I make well into 6 digits and I don't work that hard.
That's why I like Steam's thumbs up/down. Stars 2-4 are useless.
Same for me on macOS.
I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own home things, these seem like BIG deals in life. Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area or is this an inside joke or something like that? Everything I know about living around there I've learned from HN and I don't think I've ever seen someone complain or even joke about troubles at brunch.
I agree with you, but downvoted you for the line "hacker news is a reactionary cesspool of vile cowards"
then again if amazon did that, they d never come up with AWS
Re-read the article. She's not really getting paid for the reviews. She's getting the cost of the items refunded. Net $0, and she's even in the hole a bit from companies that ghost her.

> “I’m pretty sure I’m at a 10% loss. But I’m okay with it, because I’ve gotten a whole bunch of new stuff.”

The cheap crap is the payment. She's not making much on reselling them, either:

> Jessica gives away many of the items she reviews, and she has made about $150 by selling products on Facebook Marketplace. She’s donated clothes that don’t fit and handed off the rest to family members or friends.
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But it's not clear that JS developers being plentiful actually reduces cost in the long (or even medium) term.
No... nothing on google either.

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/14/rosetta-come...

He wasn’t even fired. What is there to complain about? Cancel culture is a myth.
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Problem is this just puts another barrier against legitimate reviews. Amazon doesn't want to add friction to the review process, since that will discourage actual reviews and not bother the fake reviewers at all.

I've only reviewed a few items on Amazon, mostly when an item stood out as really good or absolute crap. For instance, my last review was 1 star for an esp8266 that was so poorly faked they had mounted an op-amp instead of the microcontroller (I assume because it was the cheapest thing they could find in the package size). If there are barriers to leaving a review, actual customers will leave less reviews. I certainly don't want to have to tick multiple checkboxes in order to review an item, I will just not bother leaving a review.
The way I read it she's not getting paid. She buys the item out of pocket and then the seller reimburses her after she writes a review. She gets a free item, but no payment. She said she's losing money (probably some sellers are even more unscrupulous and don't pay, because what is she going to do?).

She could probably resell some of the stuff for money, even at a fraction of the price she's make a little since she got it for free, but it doesn't sound like she's doing that.
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What Happened to Tagging?
> I'm kind of surprised the article didn't mention the role of dual-income households

The number of single/no earner households has actually increased since 1980.

If you look at Table H-12. Household by Number of Earners by Median and Mean Income [0], you'll see in 1980 the percentage of households that have 2+ earners was ~44%, and now its ~40% and has steadily decreased over that time.

I made it into a google sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vm8d-XTuGu_ilbK0xn_r...

[0] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...
I've received a counterfeit blender and only discovered it after a BBC article showing how they can catch fire. Amazon were very poor in handling that which would have left it to be sold to the next person if I followed their procedures.

When it comes to things like batteries and chargers which can catch fire, I always aim to buy direct from the manufacturer or a non-marketplace retailer.

In addition, Amazon is unable to stop sellers gaming the system by getting 5 star reviews on one product, then swapping the listing out for a different product. So when looking for an audio cable you will see reviews saying things like "Great Waffle Iron".
Cutting CO2 emissions is the trivial part. Convincing politicians to cut CO2 emissions is almost insurmountable.
I wouldn't trust Amazon to review products they sell. Not because I think they are dishonest but because there's a built-in confliyof interest.

Trusted reviews are better left to 3rd parties.
Can you source these predictions? The timetable matters, for example. If a transition in sea level takes place over a hundred years, it seems reasonable that populations would gradually move uphill.

Also, as land becomes less farmable, other land at higher latitude and elevations might become more so. There's also the increase in vegetation associated with higher CO2 levels that might actually improve some farming.

I don't feel like we should fall into to emotional trap of throwing up our hands and predicting the apocolypse.
I honestly have no clue what you’re talking about.
Have you thought of a career in Murdoch journalism? The totally disconnected from reality, non-ironic yet feeble attempt to cast shade on Green New Deal that could come straight from the Daily Mail or one of his titles. Or write fantasy BoJo opinion columns for the Telegraph.

Instead of going for a mega city comic book dystopia, would it not make a lot more sense to go somewhere that can be achieved in some measure in reality? How about some common-sense constraints of capitalism? I imagine we can get most of the way there with an appropriate revenue neutral carbon tax, with an end of profit as the sole arbiter of business, with the end of ignoring the inconvenient (externalities and globalisation) that allow limitless race to the bottom whilst completely ignoring labour, pollution and other related issues.
Neutral... between what? The financing and your reporters? That is the neutrality I am aware of.
If this would be true, veterans and abuse victims would be happier and better adjusted then rest of population.

They are not.
She's an Amazon cardholder with a volume of purchases probably in some high percentile, probably an abnormally high review rate along likely near-exclusive 5-star ratings. Geographic clues aren't as narrow, since you can pretty much only rule out the far South where trees don't lose their leaves in fall. However when taking the above into account, I suppose you could filter the resulting addresses even further with map data as her house appears to be at the junction of a T-intersection. Article also mentioned an upstairs neighbor so her address might have a unit number as well.

All said and done, identifying her doesn't sound like an impossible task for a motivated person with access to the necessary data on Amazon's end. And that's before even cross-referencing with specific items shown in the photos.
A long time bug that drives me insane: the dock forgets how to hide itself on full screen apps. Here's someone talking about it in March of 2012: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3797657

Same exact issue exists today.
Personalization vs. Privacy
Where does this second backup live: cloud, or local? You might want to clarify that on your website.

If it's local, I wouldn't make it tiered by library size.

I think you're being perhaps optimistic with your $15/mo tier. I'd love to be wrong, but that money would pay for a new 10 TB HD every year. Maybe other people won't think that way? Are you using s3? Your costs might be lower using glacier or backblaze.

You should also take a look at https://github.com/mholt/timeliner. Open source, easy to install, runs locally for free. Worked perfectly on my very large library.

However, both your service and timeliner have to deal with Google Photos and the file mangling they do. Most tags are deleted, and several are modified (!!?) when you fetch them via takeouts or timeliner. I don't think there's anything you can do about it, because you're downstream of where the damage happens.

Good luck! You should try PhotoStructure, BTW. Link in my profile.
At least it’s still worth shutting off the internet.
> We don't own an AC, use LED lights everywhere, and always check the power consumption of appliances we buy.

> Being aware of your consumptions really helps.

A lot of people live in places with summers and winters though, with ACs working through may to september and central heating through november to march.
If you have control of the entire IRC stack (the daemon, the bouncers, etc) you can work around a lot of those issues.. though at that rate, it's probably a lot less work to just host something like Riot..
Slack should stop iterating as each time they do it the product gets worse. They're not good at this.
Latest funding round values Munich startup Celonis at $2.5bn
Even if Amazon fixed this situation and the fake product stock would I wouldn't switch back to using them.

Personally the customer trust is gone since it's been years now that I've been seeing articles and hn posts on this subject with nothing being done. The "world most customer obsessed company" really sold their customers out for profit over basic service and let fraud run rampant on the platform.

At this point seeing these articles is like seeing another post about Facebook secretly being malicious with user data, it's known they're a shitty business and a risk to use.
Let’s say %50 of the world populace find it easy and stop eating meat.

This is a good reduction, keep up the good work!
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In the article, she says she doesn't use many of the products she reviews with 5 stars because she's worried they aren't safe.
Samba on macos is also buggy itself. I have to relaunch finder manually every day if I don't unmount all volumes from my nas, because if the device sleeps with mounted volumes, they won't be working until you do so.
Anyone willing to protest in front of the Chinese embassy?
OK boomer
But full ban costs Google money.
One would assume that the terms of service would mention it. Don't like it, don't ride.
I do think it's funny that the footer lists an address in San Jose.

It's also unclear from the "how it works" page whether it's actually required that participants initially reside in the Bay Area to be eligible for the program.
Hackernews is reddit, but with significantly more arrogance because its population is majority techies. It's why I don't use a real name here; if I did I couldn't express anything even remotely controversial to the hive mind.
From the contact details:

105 North 1st Street #28, San Jose, CA 95113

I'm certainly not an expert, but Wikipedia claims that's in the Bay Area...

Are they paying their own team to quit?
What they mean by subsidies are externalities they government doesn't tax, not active subsidies. The problem with that thinking is that people aren't remotely in agreement of what the dollar cost of those externalities actually are, so painting them as straight subsidies that can simply be cut off is dishonest.

In addition, the use of untaxed externalities in arguments like this implies they aren't asking to take the government's thumb off, they are asking for the government to use more thumb, except against the companies they don't like.
I assume this is a joke about millenials and brunch. Kind of like how millenials can't afford houses because they spend too much money on avocados
It's insane. I hate this keyboard with a passion, but at least I have a "quick fix" that isn't going to make me give Apple much much more money.

The should recall these laptops.
Yes, information will spread in other ways, but simply saying "it will not work because information spreads in other ways" is batting a blind eye to how effective outages are, and how reliant and vulnerable we are to outages. We all use screen-based devices that connect to the web. If our countries did not offer streamlined cellular services, we would be at the same limitation. Internets require backbones. This is both a boon and a drawback. The spread of information is slowed dramatically, but also this requires more old-world creativity in message relaying. You can always put a USB stick on a pigeon's leg and get Gigabit transfer rates.
I moved to Boston about 18 months ago, and while it's not as crazy out here as it is in the Bay, I really don't think I want to spend the next ten years with a 3 hour daily commute, living in a house that costs four times as much, for half the square footage, as the one I had in rural New York.
Plus, you know, DRM makes ebooks more profitable to the original publishers.
Which version are you on? I had that problem until High Sierra (10.13), and now I'm a bit reluctant to upgrade to Mojave (10.14) because it's working great.
First: A stock can rise for reasons having zero to do with the reality of the business behind the stock, for example mispricing, availability or the lack thereof of alternative investments, inflation, currency devaluation etc. Second: To me it always leaves a very foul aftertaste when the achievements of a team are ascribed to whoever the visible front-person is. I find it hard to believe that among the other 149999 employees that Microsoft has, there aren't some that deserve to be mentioned in relation to this achievement as much or even more than Satya Nadella does.
Let's be clear, this isn't an outright ban but just a restriction.

> It said political groups would soon only be able to target ads based on "general categories" such as age, gender and rough location.

This just means that the moneyed few with deep pockets and illicit agendas will simply have to spend more to get their message out since they won't have the benefit of niche targeting.
FYI: You can escape the tick by pressing right arrow: it's not optimal but at least it works.
excellent detective work!
They use same grill to make them taste better, whole thing reminds me of Cartman Burger (Ass Burgers, Season 15 Episode 8).
It honestly seems like a Brooklynite's take on urban woes, without understanding that brunch isn't nearly as big a deal in the Bay Area as it is there.
Specifically it makes it easier to get straight to the chat app.

I suppose I could use Hammerspoon to script hotkeys that jump straight to a Chrome tab with the right title, but that sounds like a lot more work than just binding a key combo to focus "Slack.app" (which is what I currently do).
One of my clients came DDoS attacks every summer three years in a row, we said we were going to print up T-shirts for the annual event but they stopped this year.

We setup copies of the site so we could quickly rotate it to new IPs during the attack and signed up for the CloudFlare business plan for a month or two during the attacks every year.

This kept the site up for us. We also posted a message on the home page so our users would know what was going on.

We were able to use under attack mode without it affecting the site too much.

Good luck riding it out.
> I always thought Tom Waits was clever to come up with the line "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King" but that came from Vonnegut in "Player "Piano.

This is a Gaelic proverb at least a couple hundred years older than either of these people.
He/she might mean the bow of a ship? If I am not completely wrong about my English pronunciation, that is.
Here's an example that I encountered recently:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58657087/after-upgrading...
Blue Beard fans, unite! Of his less-famous ones Deadeye Dick also stands out for me.
Grafana Loki was the one I really tried out. To be honest, I had the impression that this is still a bit alpha. You can work around a few shortcomings by reading from loki as a prometheus endpoint, but I experienced a few things in the data which were strange, and I could not observe when double checking the logs.

While it is true that the server footprint of promtail for collecting and pushig logs is much smaller, you still have to setup your loki sever for data aggregation. I spent nearly a week on the setup of promtail, loki and grafana and wasn't quite satisfied with stability and the end result. Of course this could be due to my limited experience considering log query language, time series db, prometheus, ... But overall I had the impression that what they aim for is quite similar to an optimized ELK stack.
The good side of carbon monoxide
That's the reason why there was a USB port on each side of the original Apple keyboard (not the wireless one of course). These ports (on the back) are most likely located there with the idea of having a device pluggued in for good and not moved so often.
There's a joke I like to make at Burning Man when I see lines for dumb shit: If I wanted to wait in line I would've went to San Fransisco.