skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their imap gateway is nonstandard to say the least. The labels vs folders thing is already a mess, but it also speaks a protocol that is just different enough from regular imap that most clients (e.g. thunderbird) have a different implementation with quirks for google-imap.

Using those clients is sub-standard with google's imap implementation, and switching between them is more painful due to how each one handles googles "labels not folders" quirk
Laser Harp: How does it work? [video]
Blog: Kafka Topic Analyzer – a tool for gathering metrics from a Kafka topic
Yes, I do that too, for certain class of spam that did not score high enough in my spam filter solution to warrant automatic removal. :) But that's about 5% of total spam I get.
Of course it does not prove anything, but identifying "wisdom of the crowds" only and exactly with "group average" isn't particularly considerate. While public mass media thrives on simplifications, I had hoped that we could iterate on the basic premise.
Museums are not places where you can see art, they are places where you can almost touch relics.
It's still violated on agreed terms (even if not legally enforceable) so it can be called abuse.

Also, how does the provided link support claim that they are not necessarily enforceable legally? I read it but saw only criticism of TOS in general, nothing about whether they are or are not legally enforceable.
That design is...awful. Tons of wasted space, prominent screen real estate given to interactions the user will never engage and less than 50% of the screen is given to the content I am there to see?

> one doesn't know what he should look at first.

Pot, meet kettle.
I've been getting into baking bread lately, so it's very cool to see an article like this on HN.

That said, if you're new to baking, I wouldn't recommend this as a starting point unless you strongly prefer sourdough to other breads. Sourdough is trickier, and this recipe is quite minimalist: lots of ingredient ratios and timings should actually vary with your ingredients, equipment and supposedly even atmospheric conditions.

I'd recommend one of two loaves for fellow newbies: a bloomer or soda bread.

The bloomer requires more effort and time, and is a fun way to try out all the basics of baking: kneading, yeast, proving, shaping. It'll give you a loaf like the kind you're probably familiar with, albeit at a higher quality than supermarket bread.

Soda bread is very easy to get good results from and very fast to bake. It doesn't require kneading, and doesn't use yeast -- instead using bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk. You can substitute buttermilk with anything milky and acidic; I use soy milk mixed with lemon juice. This is a great way to get quality bread with minimal effort, and you can make it sweet or savoury according to your preferences.

I'll post some recipes later...

Edit: recipes in my reply to this comment.
It's better than nothing, though. It is almost bearable if you ignore the "All Mail" folder.

The problem is that it might as well disappear at any time. It is already disabled by default for new accounts, and you need to change 2 different settings to enable it.
Running NoScript, the entire website seems to not load - awesome.
Yes, and it's been really due in gmail https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/03/29/the-road-to-fogbug...

http://onoffswitch.net/fogbugz-priority-prediction-naive-bay...
Back when my tax situation was a bit simpler, I used one of these providers (I forget which) to file a 1040EZ: https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-everyone-can-file-an-ex.... If you are above the income threshold, you can mail in a paper return.

I don’t remember the process taking very long? Maybe there’s disinformation out there, but it was my experience that once you’ve actually found a free filing option, the process involves entering maybe a dozen numbers.
This is true, I'm well aware of this, but at least there's still a choice.

Unfortunately nothing is truly stopping Google to pull a Slack move and close the gateways... unless the amount of IMAP/SMTP users are significantly higher, than we know, or that those users are tech influencers Google don't dare to loose.
The reason you want to try it is because it's a banned substance. If it wasn't banned in the first place, it wouldn't have been popular enough to get your attention. Curiosity is the primary motivator. There are plenty of psychotropic substances that are similar or more potent than cocaine, meth but you have no idea about it because they aren't as popular or are limited to the labs of a chemist. Unless you know about it, from where would you get the incentive to try it? Banning is the most effective form of advertising. Have you ever seen a banned book or movie flop?

Like I said in my previous comment: rebellion varies from individual to individual. You have enough rebellious attitude to contemplate trying inspite of knowing the consequences but are stopping short because of it's legality. There are plenty who are by nature rebellious enough to even disregard the law. The law won't work in such cases. To be honest, legalization would actually make it less interesting. The element of thrill negotiating a deal with the peddler no longer exists when you can just walk up to a storefront and buy one from the counter just like everyone else.

There was a story about "legal highs" which you can read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/6549e0fc-ebd2-4777-9a...

The idea essentially is that those who want to try will not be deterred from trying in the first place. However, if it was legal the government would have regulation over the quality and quantity of supply. When it's banned there is absolutely no control. That's when it becomes really dangerous.

Secondly, have effective regulations instead. For example, in India, you are fined if you are caught smoking in a public space like bus stands, airports or railway stations. This has caused a big dip in the number of people who smoke. DUI laws prevent most from drinking alcohol while driving. People find these regulations reasonable: not completely baby sitting you on what decisions you need to take about your own life and at the same time having regulations to protect others from harm in case you lose your mind.
It always was, nearly since the beginning. I remember needing to turn it on around 2007.
Extra First Class World problems: Inbox is not optimized for iPhone X. Everytime I read this I cringe.

How about the thought that your phone broke common UI behaviour and not your software which needs to adapt to a new screen culture.

I'm sure very soon Inbox will support iPhone X. But there are many other problems in Inbox which I see more important like Unspam emails without Gmail.
It's only going to be one part of the puzzle, at best. But replacing concrete, steel and aluminum, all causing large CO2 emissions while the raw material is created, should be a benefit.

Anyway, you can also store a lot of the carbon just as forest, though it's more of a "one time" use of the land. Trees can also live for hundreds of years. And the soil can also store carbon. At least over here, large trees can often survive forest fires too.

But it requires changed policy, it's not a technological problem.
You can view the creators here: http://www.kanyewest.com/humans.txt

But it's pretty common for websites to be packed with tracking. Mostly it's not even the creators but marketing people who want's it.
These Paul Hollywood recipes are a pretty good starting point. They don't mention the buttermilk trick, but it's easy enough: squeeze half a lemon into your milk.

The nice thing with Hollywood's bloomer recipe is that lots of people have tried it, and share tips for debugging problems you may encounter.

Bloomer: https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/paul_hollywoods_bloomer_846...

Soda bread: https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/soda_bread_24837
I'm a comp sci guy, my fiancee runs big (2,000 attendee) tech conferences [1]. Being her partner I have a reasonable amount of visibility into this world. Happy to chat with you.

[1] https://craft-conf.com/
Big mistakes presenters make when closing
Is it ever brought up whether Burning Man is based on the Zozobra?
> Things like unprintable email is a bad joke. Unprintable? What if I connect to Gmail with mutt? It gives the sense of a false security.

It also fundamentally breaks with what the user expects. The user expects their email to be theirs, to do with what they will. I know of no situation in which I would like an email which I specifically cannot print; I have no idea how I would explain it to my Grandfather.
I see 26 individuals listed with salaries totaling $2,392,870. 9 board members are unpaid.

The highest paid employee not designated as "key" made $141,290.
Could you give some examples of "seeds" you've planted?

Do you mean to cultivate new hobbies, or keep paths open in your professional life (e.g. become a manager, or have a side project), or grow friendships with common interests that may remain common after ten years (e.g. not drinking buddies)?
Oh, no! I was totally fooled by the fake verified icon :/
True that. But I hope that's not your only take away from the article :) Still they updated everything else - so I guess they didn't cringe at that. Apple breaking UI standards, yap, they always do, gotta write on that too.
> we've failed to do anything productive (... learn anything valuable, etc)

Whatever you decide to do going forward, this experience of running a struggling company is valuable. If you continue on, you've learned many things that don't work -- you can focus your efforts on other things. If you start a different business, you've been around this block before -- you'll spend less time figuring out the mundane parts of running a business and more on your revolutionary ideas. And, if you end up as a regular employee somewhere, you'll bring a unique perspective that new grads can't-- your understanding of business goals will help you make better technical decisions.
e-MAIL. The stress is on the mail part. When your Grandfather sends a letter via post, he doesn't expect it to be his anymore, does he?
I also heard that a lot of museum actually present fakes (despite owning the original) to help maintain and secure the original.
I genuinely believe the Switch is what Nintendo wanted the Wii U to be, but couldn’t pull off at the time.
It's not extremism to say a company has wider responsibilities than profit
>It's still violated on agreed terms (even if not legally enforceable) so it can be called abuse.

If you grab data hosted on facebook or any other website, without having an account, where is the explicit contractual agreement? Are HTTP requests contractual agreements? MITM/DPI'ing facebook users who connect via your hardware contractual agreements?

The extent that is abuse, is that facebook (or any other site) service is engineered in such a way that makes such information it collects available to any degree in the first place. True, anyone can make dubious claims of abuse.

>Also, how does the provided link support claim that they are not necessarily enforceable legally? I read it but saw only criticism of TOS in general, nothing about whether they are or are not legally enforceable.

"These "terms" are actually purported legal contracts between the user and the online service provider (websites MMORPGs communication services etc.) despite the fact that users never get a chance to negotiate their contents and can often be entirely unaware of their existence."

purported legal contracts != legal contracts, i.e. just because someone says it's a legal contract, doesn't mean it actually is.
Self-Regulation
I'm sure the Gmail team has done great research on this, and this might have worked for the majority of the users, but just not for some power users such as Hacker News readers. And I think, that's because we might have one false belief, that is User Experience/User Interface is one big, beautiful, monolithic top of the mountain everyone wants to reach. It is not: Power users and the normies might have different needs. A normie like your mom and mine don't know how to turn off annoying notification emails from Facebook, so they might need a tool to help them hide spammy emails. They need something easy to hit, hard to miss, because they use their fingers to point. But you and I use keyboard shortcut and know exactly not to give our serious email addresses away, we don't need that.

An UX that is great for your mom and mine might be bad for you and I.

I noticed that on one of my project that got on Hacker News and Hackaday, then got viral on reddit and media and such a week or so later. It has both a github and a couple of videos linked on the site. What I noticed from my rudimentary Cloudflare log and Youtube analytics was that the HN crowd read and looked at the github, but most didn't watch the video. The normies crowd watched the video, but most didn't read. To me, it was kinda funny.

I think that's part of the crisis that GNOME 3 suffered lately. I seriously tried GNOME 3 for a while and their macOS approach - simplify, trying to make good choices by default - genuinely sucks for me. I want to see my options, don't hide them away from me. I want to be able to make choices. The problem that the GNOME 3 team doesn't realize is that their users aren't made up of majority normies. They are the ones who are savvy enough to install a Linux distro on their desktop. They are the ones that will go great lengths to customize something to make it work exactly the way they wanted. And GNOME 3 fails to deliver that [1].

At first when I worked on my project, I wanted to create something very simple that "just works." As time went by, it turned out to me many of my users, the ones that stick and support my project aren't the ones that just install and forget. They read the docs, wiki and the source code to tease out what I was trying to do. So I realized having a great, updated wiki is a very valuable asset. It takes great pain to do it, but it is worth it.

The problem with project that are extremely popular like Gmail is that you tend to carter for the mass. But are they loyal? Are they the ones that actually use and love your product? Are they the ones that influence other people's choices? I think those are the questions worth asking and considering when designing products.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8etezq/_/
IDK why you seem annoyed, Drupal is so far from formal verification it's obviously a different subject... this bug didn't care what D version you were on anyway. There are many advantages to staying behind the upgrade curve, especially on simple software.

You can spend a bunch of time going from 6 to 7, or you can spend almost the same amount of time going from 6 to 8. It's not like there are major features the users need, most of the work goes into not breaking existing customization they expect.
No that's not the my only take from the article ;)

btw. I've read once in a German Blog that using on iPhone the app Outlook as a frontend for Inbox works really well. Never tried it myself but it seems this Frankenstein setup works better than expected.
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> How about the thought that your phone broke common UI behaviour

Ok, sure…

> and not your software which needs to adapt to a new screen culture.

Why not? UI paradigms change all the time, and software usually keeps up if it wants to stay relevant. How is this different?
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8826060

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11611661
The March of Myopia
Why some people have trouble telling left from right (2015)
> Things like unprintable email is a bad joke. Unprintable? What if I connect to Gmail with mutt? It gives the sense of a false security.

I'm not a GMail user, but can someone explains how this 'security' feature works? If a GMail user creates a 'secure' email and sends it to a non-GMail recipient (so it goes over SMTP/TLS), how is the DRM enforced at the other end. I know MS Outlook has DRM features.. but are they compatible with GMail's ?
> so they might need a tool to help them hide spammy emails.

They need a tool to make the source of the spam stop spamming them, not a tool to hide this. Sweeping the dirt under that carpet is not an actual solution or fix.
More news sensationalisation.
I actually quite liked the initial implementation that Google published in their original set of guidelines. The issue, I think, was that nobody, including Google, implemented it that way so we ended up with a bunch of substandard interpretations of how "material design" was supposed to look like instead of the real thing.
EdX has a good course on this (tho' taught in R) https://www.edx.org/course/high-dimensional-data-analysis-ha...
I think these suggestions make some sense since they are still problems that exist. The way you'd imagine solving them could be different if you were on that team, with the data and would iterate to find the solution. The bullet points under the innovation section are not suggestions for solutions, on the contrary, they are problems that users still have. For each of these problems, there are services that are trying to solve that problem.
Take scheduling a meeting as an example. Google's solution was to bring the calendar into Gmail and increase complexity. X.AI's solution is to make a bot that coordinates. Some other companies will have different solutions. The point is, what is the best solution for a user who is in the frame of mind of emailing.
It is very easy to stuff things from different places one on top of another and it's called sustained innovation (if I'm not mistaken). But what ideally should happen is finding new ways to adapt these extra services, including these problems in a way that is matched with the main use case. Otherwise, it gets complex.
This is exactly what I'm wondering (for example) - what is a reminder?

Edit: nvm I found a video explaining it. Probably never missed it bevause I use a separate calebdar and never use Google for that.
I wonder if it’s practical to make a laptop suitcase where all external edges are touch sensitive? Have a serial number etched into each surface as well.

Edit-the case could have additional logic and wireless charging for power.
eFusing to revert their "upgrades" is "pleasantly surprising" their users?
"As I shifted into broader machine learning, arXiv became my new home."

Similarly, when I researched machine learning topics for my master thesis (around 2001), citeseer.org proved to be an absolute treasure trove. I did not check out anything beyond machine learning and general computer science topics, but for these at least open access papers have quite a bit of tradition by now.
I created an account to comment on the good experience I was having with the update.

I did a side-by-side comparison of the old UI and the new UI and I've changed my stance. The old one is a better "email" UI, but google is trying to mature the email experience.

A big problem here is that email showing it's age. Google is eager to hide less common tools behind menus. They want to delete all of the old "manual" buttons/tools so their smart filters can take over. It wont work. The truth is everyone likes email because it's fairly consistent, but we're forever trapped in 90's tech.

Instant messengers have transformed the way that we communicate, but email hasn't caught up. Maybe... it shouldn't.
I've ascended more than a dozen times in 3.4.3.

3.6.0 is hard thanks to Elbereth being significantly nerfed. I've ascended a few times, but it was much more luck-based due to the early game being much harder. 3.6.1 should be significantly easier due to its reboosting of Elbereth.

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Read the excellent wiki, spam Elbereth as much as possible, don't get trapped in open rooms, establish good playing habits, and go slow. Much of Nethack's late game is dependent on good habits.
I noticed InVision in the e-mail. That's the worst design of an app I had to use so far. Icons everywhere without explanation (you have to hover), a lot of stuff has extremely annoying gray (like text in #ddd, so you see it on screen that there's something there, but can't read it)

Why designers don't use background to highlight active items, while keeping text/icons high contrast, instead of making everything unreadable, and using black color to barely highlight what's focussed, is beyond me.

It's all extremely gimicky, especially all those useless animations of huge areas of the page.

I never understood what it's for, aside from commenting on screens - and it does shitty job at that too - you start typing a comment but you can't move the fucking comment box around so that it doesn't cover the part you're commenting - so you close the comment box, to see and reopen and your unfinished comment is gone. Instead of focussing on important stuff like this, they create shitty gimmicks.

It's almost satirical how it markets itself compared to how bad it is.

And whatever this is it certainly seems inspired by InVision.
That's the other way around. The grandfather is the one receiving the email that he can't print.
What about the "improved security" of the enterprise version that the FAQ mentions? What makes the community edition less secure?
Blockchain development companies in 2018
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My understanding is that if you connect with a non-Gmail client or send to a non-Gmail user, the email is just a link to a webpage that enforces the restrictions.
I worked at a small company that had a mathematician on staff. He wanted to retire, and hired a replacement.

The new hire made some comments that I thought sounded irresponsible, such as almost nobody does numerical analysis and instead they use double precision because, usually, even with catastrophic cancellation there are enough bits to give a useful answer. But, apparently, “use a higher precision” is a common answer in scientific programming, and it’s much easier to get right than numerical analysis ( https://www.davidhbailey.com/dhbtalks/dhb-expm-sun.pdf , first and last slides).

If you can afford it, that probably is the best approach. Cook’s article specifically mentions that the issue crops up with single precision floating point (which people might want for SIMD or GPU reasons, or on mobile to save power). In other words, Cook is talking about cases where you can’t afford extended precision.
The website doesn't work for me because of my tracker-blocking plugins.
I don't quite get why a nearby parking lot and a relatively short track trolley isn't a more common thing.
How many things are we supposed to do as people? Everybody touts options spanning every domain going from email to mobile devices and it's like, oh it's just a bit of configuration/tweaking for a few hours and then you're good to go.

So yeah, hand holding is good, because to be honest, I don't get up on a Saturday morning and say "oh boy I can't wait to setup my email filters, right after I tweak my Arch Linux install and add a few more lines to my .vimrc!"

This sense of being looked down upon for relinquishing control over things that to be honest, I don't care that much about is just annoying after a time.