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> The impossible-to-miss headline says "small teams".

Actually when you go to slack.com the first thing you see is:

"Slack is a platform for team communication:..."

and

"Slack is free to use for as long as you want and with an unlimited number of people."

With 2 textboxes for me to sign up for the service. Nothing to suggest that slack is for "small teams" only.

> The limit in place seems like a technical limitation to me:

I don't think you'll get any argument from me - there are only a finite number of CPU cycles, RAM, bandwidth, and hard drive space. But - they should have designed to be a scalable service where all they have to do is spin up some VMs or dedicated systems to increase captivity. Yes - this costs money, but when you offer a free unlimited service - I feel like that's the cost of doing business.

> no arbitrary limit on small team members. No sane person would argue that 500+ is small team.

They need to clearly define what small team means in their terms of service. The carriers were slapped for the "unlimited is not really unlimited"

This is what I found in their TOS:

"The total number of users is limited to the maximum number permitted for your account."

Which is what exactly? What is the limit for free vs paid?
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I wonder if dreams are nothing but visualization of the weights in our brains neural networks. May be shifting around the weights while training the network to retain long term memories.
It may be 'nsfw', but this is a real issue, and how they handle it. It's also a great example of viral propagation, and how it applies to viruses via the sex trade (Rather than a social media phenomenon).
Music for Programming has some interesting stuff, but personally, I need to systematically avoid anything with lyrics to have a hope of being productive while listening.
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Why Offices Full of Ping-Pong Tables and Video Games Might Be onto Something
Some people game the system.

Allowing people to delete and resubmit articles is another opportunity for people to game the system.
For those playing along at home, the "flag" button appears if you click on the timestamp on the above comment. When you see bigoted trolls on HN, don't have a conversation with them, just flag them off the site.
I think the point is for consumers to bear the cost and vote with their wallet. The problem is that the disposal costs of stuff aren't borne directly by the consumer (e.g. as a disposal tax) but collectively by the community. It's a tragedy of the commons, but not the one you think it is. I pay a fixed waste collection tax, and the marginal cost of throwing stuff away (or "recycling" it) is 0.
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Show HN: A new religion
I'm unsure if you'll see this reply with the topic being quite old, but I found out today (via a Youtube ad, no less - well targeted, sort of!) that Nixon Williams now have an online portal, called Vantage: http://www.nixonwilliams.com/vantage - judging via the Wayback Machine, it has only been around since February this year.

If you speak to your account controller, they'll be able to set you up a dummy account to see if you like it - my understanding is that this would replace the monthly submissions of expenses and invoices, and give you a better real time view of your profit/loss, but you should still get the same level of service and attention paid to your account and it costs no extra. I'm still waiting for confirmation of all that (my worry being that I could make a mistake and it wouldn't get spotted, whereas it would with a monthly submission to a human) and for my account to be set up, so I can't comment any more on it, but it's definitely worth a look!
Bring back the cubicles. Open offices are done not for collaboration and openness, but done to save money
Have you looked at enterprises?

AFAIK Slack and Hipchat are cloud based, which is fine for some but not all enterprises due to obvious security concerns, and if you can make self-contained and easily deploy-able system that can integrate with enterprise IT systems, particularly authentication, you may have an interesting use-case.

Healthcare is another big space, where there are several startups looking at messaging where Slack etc. won't work due to HIPAA compliance and other specific scenarios.

P.S. Didn't try your demo, since it wanted phone number, and sorry we don't know each other well at this time to trust you with it. :)
I'm just following links others have posted, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Germany#Human_....

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Germany links to a US Trafficking in Persons Report 2010. Here are some quotes:

"Ninety percent of identified victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation came from Europe, including 28 percent from Germany ..."

"... approximately one third of identified sex trafficking victims reported that they had agreed initially to engage in prostitution."

"Police estimate that gangs brought around 1,000 Chinese people to Germany over the past decade and forced them to work in restaurants under exploitative conditions."
Uh, seriously? Right now we have a huge public health issue with young people and hearing loss. It isn't some scam. Turns out the ipod/iphone revolution came with some external costs.

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/one-billion-young...

"If a person takes a subway to go from one place to the other for half an hour in the morning and a half an hour in the evening, and every day has to turn up the volume on his device because there is so much of noise of the train and everything around, and is listening to - let us say 100 db (decibels) for one hour every day, his hearing is going to get irreversibly damaged in a few years, in a couple of years time, for sure."

---

Instead of subway, replace that with loud open-plan office and instead of one hour per day, replace that with 8+ hours. I think we need to address hearing damage the same way we started addressing RSI in the office back in the 80s. There are a lot of people who have no idea how much they are damaging their ears.
I won't pretend to understand the exact business model, but it sounds like this is an entirely different can of worms. Unless there is a lot more clarification, I don't see why this is an issue, though.

The few people I know who have photographed a concert in some professional capacity have done so for someone else on a paid contract. Usually the performer or the venue... it's kind of like a wedding photographer in that sense (in my mind, at least) and I'd be appalled if a wedding photographer started making a fuss because he doesn't own the rights to the pictures.

Of course, if Swift (or the venue) is not paying the photographers (and she isn't), then clearly there must be some financial motivation for them to go do this anyways, at which point you gotta weigh the pros and cons of taking pictures you won't own the rights to...
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> we're fundamentally the same regardless of our ethnicity/faiths/inclinations/etc.

Are you saying that Arab muslims who come to India marry poor young virgin girls, have sex and then divorce them are fundamentally the same?

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/10/13/indias_prostitu...
> inherently worth more

According to what scale?
I think you're severely underestimating Taylor Swift's clout in the music industry. She's the biggest artist since Katy Perry, and Katy Perry was the biggest artist since Michael Jackson.
I hope he gets nailed to the wall for this, because he's creating actual confusion

This is a mean spirited wish. What would you have him/her do? Why not hope Facebook brings him/her on board since they are solving a problem FB is not addressing currently?
Can we not pretend that a thread started by a hateful comment about locking an entire culture out of Europe is a good venue for a discussion about religion? Actually: the whole of HN is a bad venue for that discussion.
Thats crazy, I am sorry. Is the hearing loss irreversible ?
> what they did to sell Sunset had zero to do with improving the game itself

There are genres where this could and does work, but not in the niche Sunset is playing in.

> although I seriously question if their PR/ad markets were well researched before their money was spent

I agree, and it's an easy trap to fall into for anyone. Spending money in all the wrong places is always a danger, and the problem is that the people you are paying of course won't tell you even if they know you're making a mistake.

> instead of making a kick-ass game in the first place

I believe someone on the team thought the game was excellent as is. Development shops and teams of all sizes can exhibit work dynamics where problem areas get ignored and sub-par stuff is getting churned out. In a big company this might be due to politics and power structures. In small shops this might be because you don't want to disappoint a close friend.

Somebody at that company should have said "this is a good idea, and a promising prototype, now let's get back to the drawing board and keep iterating". In retrospect I don't get the bitterness expressed in the article. It's not like they lack talent, and it's not like they're drastically under-appreciated for unknowable reasons. Those would be reasons to quit. But not this. This is something you can learn from and improve on.
It is a reasonable point that organization is important but I have to disagree about "most important".

The most important skill in software development, by far, is managing your own psychology.
Yo progg'n books — I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but The Poignant Guide is one of the best books on programming of all time. One of the best of all time!

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.htm...
A pair of Bose QC25's has been my most objectively productive purchase this last year. I highly recommend anyone in an open plan office to buy some, or something like them - they're expensive but worth every cent.
The fact that they want beacons suggests that the location information is not as accuracte or reliable as they would like to; quantitative changes also matter.
Those are also a very good alternative to what I do.

I use earplugs with over the ears headphones.

You could instead use over the ears noise protection with little in-ear headphones inside.

The only reason I don't do that is that my headphones are worth $1000+ and I wouldn't want to trade them for earbuds. Otherwise, your idea could very well be superior to mine!
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"[Noise Cancelling Headphones] So while it may work to cancel the noise
of your office air conditioner, it’s powerless against the voices of your co-workers
(the real noise you’d want to cancel in an office environment)."

Um, this doesn't match my experience at all. My Bose noise cancelling headphones[1] are really effective at cancelling conversations.

Not completely cancelling mind you, but All-But-Cancelling.

You are playing music then too which further removes the voices, and you can play at a much lower volume for similar block-out-effects.

This does lead to some hilarious Boss-at-Shoulder moments when they have come to get your attention.

[1] https://www.bose.co.uk/GB/en/home-and-personal-audio/headpho...
I'm not sure that employers that have open plan offices are actually "clueless". It apparently works well enough that they don't mind the productively hit. I think it is easier for developers to believe that their employers are clueless than to believe the truth - that they've weighed that costs and decided that disrespecting developers is worth the cost savings.

The open plan office sends the message: "To us, you're not a thinker [we have management for that!], you're just an expensive typist." The exception to that would be an startup that is forthright about needing the cost savings and doesn't try to sell this lack of respect as a "feature" (ease of collaboration!).
"louder conversations" doesn't mean "all conversations".

That said, there are advantages and disadvantages to a high-interaction cube farm, and I'm not convinced the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. In particular, the productivity hit for people less comfortable in such a setting seems higher than the productivity gain for people more comfortable in such a setting. As much as many offices try to put everyone in the same type of environment, I think it would make sense to design floorplans that incorporate both offices and cubes, with different types of employees in different types of work environments.
There is a functional language called Mercury. I don't care about the language, but on the website there are incredibly insightful documents, and reduction order is explained in a very clear way: https://mercurylang.org/documentation/papers.html
(The oldest stuff)
No. For new business I always seek available .com

There are only two gTLD's: .com and anything else.

If you launch a new business without matching .com - you're facing few troubles down the road:

1. .com owner is going to ride on your [potential] success

2. .com owner might pursue trademark violation from you [in case you'll succeed in your business]

3. .com owner will boost price for this domain according to your success.

So to avoid all that start with .com ownership.
It doesn't have to be single word .com - it can be creative brand-ish word or 2-3 words in a short combination.
Proof that free plans don't attract the right users
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The keyword being "some". I've rarely had any problems with null/nil reference errors in Clojure, because nil is treated both as false and as the empty list, so most of the time you do the right thing in case of nil. You also don't call methods on objects, but send values to functions, which eliminates a large source of NPE right there.

Clojure is also a compiled language. So things like calling a function with the wrong arity, and calling a variable/function that doesn't exist are caught at compile time. This is, by far, the most common runtime bugs I've experienced in Javascript and Python, due to spelling mistakes in and out of refactoring.
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Or four and a half days a week.

Actually, any startup that chooses new open-office workspaces over secondhand cubicles solely for reasons of cost might also want to consider moving to a location with cheaper office space leases. Even $5/sq.ft. is too high for a startup, regardless of the workspace furniture.
This project just blew me away. In fact, a lot of the projects on woodgears opened my mind to how far you can go in a wood shop. Really inspiring!
Modern Binary Exploitation by RPISEC
I wonder how suitable commercially available discrete MOSFETs are for building logic? They're all made for power applications. Of course, it's not like discrete BJTs are "suitable" either.
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I have never heard of getting drench by a folded umbrella..lol. A solution in need of a problem
I have never heard of getting drench by a folded umbrella..lol
i use nested css with react components. Seems to nicely solve the collision issue.

.component-name{
.label-header ...
input{..
}
1 in 3 data center servers is a zombie
I believe ClojureScript only supports boolean type hints/performance optimization. Other type hints are "supported" but don't do anything.
I'm convinced that the ideal layout for developers is single offices, with doors, big enough for pair programming. Anything else is wasting developer attention and the opportunities for collaboration enabled while being in close proximity.
Text only mirror:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
As we all know, musicians are wealthy fatcats and developers are poor starving artists.

When has Apple contacted developers to increase the size of its cut? Amazon claims to match Apple's 70% but in fact charges book authors for download size and halves your 30% for books over $10 (which is ridiculous given expensive books should have higher margins).

When has Google informed you that you can opt out of having ads shown next to your content in search results?
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> Side Note: Noise-Cancelling Headphones

What I've seen done by e-sports events such as WCS is to use earphones in combination with mufflers[1] to cut out the live spectator noise - yes the ones they use on a rifle range.

I can vouch that such a solution works as my room mate in residence would watch series up until ungodly hours of the morning: wearing no-name rifle range ear mufflers eliminated enough (broad-spectrum) noise to allow me to sleep with no issues whatsoever; I would assume it would cut out enough noise for concentration (given that they go as far as reducing the sounds of gun fire) - even without adding music to the equation.

[1]: http://catalogue.3m.eu/en_ZA/PPESafetyProducts/Ear_Plugs_and... - this specific model is frequently seen in WCS.
One can speculate the whole thing was planned.
Yeah but they choose when to be extroverted. They still want a status signifying office for when they don't want to be bothered. Meanwhile, open plan employees are always being bothered.
I think you've missed the point a bit. The third (pretty likely) scenario that you don't mention is that they planned the whole exchange.
Sure. I added some reading material links to my comment. The Rane document has an OSHA safe sound levels table at the end, a good reference. Keep in mind that the dB scale is logarithmic if you want to crunch numbers on device power, headphone sensitivity and impedance, and resulting SPLs.
My personal experience is that I had to maintain a set of applications I wrote for a company. The same application had to be used repeatedly (3-5 times) a year because it supported a specific business processes.
It was mundane work, but did it teach me how to organize because it made the pain of disorganized code very real.
That one hack comes back to haunt you several times a year.

I was lucky that this was one of the first things I had learned as a developer out of school. It was a little different because the projects were small enough to be solo, but it was humbling because all of the mistakes were my own.
It is unreasonable for Apple to pass on the cost of promoting it's business to artists.

With more money than god, why does Apple insist on being a asshole?
Well this method can be faster and can encourage more businesses to take up a web presence as a device like this is free. Not only this but the physical device like this and notifications on the users phone can push more users to interact with the businesses. This seems to be being pushed forward in order to encourage a greater presence of businesses with more interaction through Facebook. The more interaction that Facebook can bring between the customer and the business the better for Facebook, but also the better for the business.
Presumably it's paying the rights-holders, whoever they happen to be (i.e. usually labels). How would you expect it to work?
Taylor Swift is by far the most influential person in the music industry right now. Ignoring her when trying to launch a new music service in this competitive market would have disastrous results, even for Apple
It doesn't work if there is no free movement from one "compartiment" to another. Im not saying the whole world should be the same, as far as we know we live in a bubble as much as NK does. But I cant go in there freely and people there definitely can't go out. The guarantee of being able to flee would have helped a lot of people in all the humanitarian crisis of the past, and all those current. In these days, having simply global funding to move refugees and provide safe passage into open immigration countries (to the which there are many) would help a lot.
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I do. I want to store stuff in it (my assorted gear I want nearby wherever I go but won't be lugging around every time I leave the vehicle), I need specific features (say, child seats), I want to customize it (be it bumper stickers or off-roading bumpers), I want to know that there WILL be a suitable vehicle ready when I need transport ("whadayamean there are no vehicles available with two child seats? my girl needs a doctor NOW but an ambulance is super-expensive overkill!" or "it's 1AM and I have to wait 15 minutes for one to arrive? with my own car I could be home in 15 minutes."), and I don't want to deal with consequences of strangers driving it before me (everything from annoying seat settings to vandalism & bodily fluids).

Sounds like you're thinking of a self-driving taxi, overlooking the many reasons why people don't want taxis (not deeply relying on others being a huge one for many of us).
Noise Reduction technology works great.

I use my Sony Walkman with noise reduction and no music to calm down my environment.
While on this subject, would anybody recommend a book in french? It would be for my nephew who is quite smart, high-school age, and knows java an python. I would like to expose him to something different: lisp, or functional programming.
> Lets say you are that artist. You have practiced, trained, studied. You have worked hard and have a rare natural talent. You sang the songs and played guitar. Now you have "this summer's big record".

You should read KLF's The Manual. For purposes of achieving "this summer's big record", there's quite often not a lot of correlation with training, study, talent, etc.

Not saying that's always the case and in particular, it's very different with artists producing more than two or three top10 hits, over time, or producing more than one successful full album with good sales. It's that consistency and prolonged creativity that really requires the talent and training. For the #1 big summer hit, it often suffices to just be lucky, hitting the right gimmick and vibe at the right time, just like a video or meme going viral.
See also: a single board computer built out of relays: http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/

(I see uBlock blocks sourceforge now, amusing)
Here's OSHA and NIOSH:

https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/noisehearingconservation/

TL;DR: NIOSH would recommend limiting the 8 hour exposure to less than 85 dBA. At 100 dBA, NIOSH recommends less than 15 minutes of exposure per day. NIOSH also recommends a 3 dBA exchange rate so that every increase by 3 dBA doubles the amount of the noise and halves the recommended amount of exposure time.

15 minutes is 7 doublings away from 32 hours, i.e. constant exposure. So, 100-(7*3)= 79dBA is safe, and 82dBA is safe for long-term exposure, and 85dBA is a limit at which you should have hearing protection.
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John Deere didn't invent the technology though, Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI) did. They partnered in ~2000.

http://www.asirobots.com/news/

http://www.asirobots.com/farming/

http://www.asirobots.com/products/mobius/
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I find that the older I grow as a programmer the less I enjoy cleverness. There's never a good enough reason to use clever algorithms over boring ones. In fact, most of the refactors I did over the past year was to 'undo' cleverness (thankfully those programmers are no longer working here!)

In terms of performance you sometimes need to do less conventional things, but that's precisely where documenting WHY you're doing it that way is so important.

The small bits of performance you're going to get isn't worth the maintenance hell it's going to cause.