skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the future of reddit, if it doesn't fix its UX problems, is not being usurped like Digg, but being chewed up by piranhas like Craigslist. There probably won't be a multidisciplinary full-on reddit "replacement", but a bunch of sites that manage to steal large fractions of the userbase. The "long tail" can't spin off a new site for every subreddit, but it can split into several smaller tails. StackExchange is the first and best example. Two categories that seem like they could be targeted by insurgents are games and localities. A lot of subreddits for certain cities and/or certain games are good, but it's an open secret that some games and/or places have absolutely terrible subreddits -- and reddit doesn't have much of a correction mechanism for that, save for the userbase getting fed up and establishing a new one (like when the creator of /r/marijuana started posting a bunch of racist drivel and everyone moved to /r/trees).

The big thing protecting reddit right now, IMO, is that /r/worldnews for all its faults is still a much less awful way to browse international news headlines than the vast majority of news sites. Sure, the headlines are editorialized and the comments are mostly trolls, but at least it won't crash your phone browser and it's not gonna interrupt your unhealthy obsession with foreign affairs to bring you someone else's unhealthy obsession with celebrity gossip. And for all the ads pimping the reddit app, just try to download a recipe from Cookstr or the Food Network or whatever and you'll soon be begging to see fake loading screens that ask you to download an iPhone app. (Serious Eats is good though.)

So it'll be a while.
Yeah I had the same problem, although it's not like I'd necessarily belive the site even if I understood what it was trying to say.
Because that's what's happening. Having an app with both "read email" and "network access" is basically saying "this app will siphon your email to an unvetted and likely unsecure third party location". You wouldn't want your bank account info treated the same, would you.

Would it be that hard to raise the user's awareness right then and there? Bonus points for offering a sandboxing mode, where the app can only access certain network locations, like Google IMAP servers, and only Google IMAP servers. Extra bonus points for auditing traffic from sandoxed apps to catch them if they try something fishy.
In 1970, Princeton had an IBM 91 computer. It covered the floor of a building. It had two giant racks of bipolar memory (256 bits/chip) with 1 MB in each rack. It had an office for several IBM employees who managed the machine.

On day an IBM tech was bringing up the system using a check-list. He noticed a red light that said "temperature". He noted it in the log and kept going. It turns out he had forgotten to turn the water on. After a short while the room filled with smoke.

The machine was ruined. After the machine was replaced, the IBM office kept one of the old PC boards on the wall. It was curled up like a potato chip.
> I don't want my email to leave my desktop / mobile phone / Google's server, is it really that hard to have that as an option?

That option exists. It's called not adding a third party app to your Gmail and clicking its consent button.
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I know I do this from time to time with Slackware, but only because Slackware is nice about staying out of my way when I do so.
Unless those kids are giving away those berries, I'm pretty sure they are participating in a capitalist economy too.
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> Doesn’t mean I expect random engineers at Microsoft to be able to read my email.

The basic problem is that unlike with SMS, where what gets displayed is what you sent, with email what gets displayed to the user is probably best described as being vaguely 'inspired' by what the sender wrote. Email clients need to make tons of decisions on things like typography, threading, displaying metadata, handling attachments, sanitizing user input, unicode and emojis, phishing, etc.

Even within major email clients like Gmail, threads and messages regularly don't parse correctly. When a user reports that something is broken, or when an exception gets raised by the app because something doesn't parse properly, then it's not unreasonable for a developer to use that as fixture data to try to fix the issue, as long as this is explained in the privacy policy. In fact if you care about making / using good products, this is exactly what should happen.

E.g. in our privacy policy it says, "If you let us know that an email thread isn't being parsed correctly, we may retrieve and store that specific thread for testing and debugging purposes."
I loved Window Maker back in the day, but macOS consistency (other flaws not withstanding, macOS is exceptionally consistent) goes a lot deeper than what a window manager can do. The consistency in macOS derives directly from the NeXT APIs.

GNUStep is my grandest regret for Linux. If I could wave a magic wand, all the mindshare spent on the early KDE vs. Gnome wars would have been dedicated to making a first class NeXT-like desktop environment and applications with display Postscript and the whole nine yards.
You mean like a search engine? :-)

I believe ML is used in search engines nowadays.
This is actually one of the reasons why I prefer to comment on hackernews instead of reddit. If they keep pestering users about its ad-filled, personal information-collecting apps, people will probably stop using it and just leave. If they really care about reddit, they might make a browser plugin that edits the page and gets rid of all the annoyances.
They serve tons of ads no matter the layout by vote manipulation of commercialized content. Literally the 3rd top post is a picture of a Big Mac.
Having used both Kubuntu and openSUSE+KDE, I'd argue the latter is much more stable.
If you know your way around the web it is very easy to make a few grand per month. Build websites in WordPress. Post to social accounts for businesses. Offer simple SEO by using the yoast plugin. Host websites and provide updates. Blog for people.

I'm sorry your situation turned out poorly but it is far from grim. You have the power and ability to fix it. Do you have the motivation as well?
Sure but you're fighting a strawman here. Nobody believes standardized tests are perfect or 100% accurate at determining ex post performance. We all know people who score well but lack discipline. People who support quotas don't merely believe tests are flawed, but believe they are flawed in extremely biased ways that need outside correction.

On most of these tests, you have to solve math or logic problems, or read passages and synthesize information. It's hard to imagine someone could do exceptionally well answering those questions quickly & accurately and not perform in a classroom, or be unable to do those tasks yet excel academically.
> Intel has always came back and stomped them right back into oblivion

Intel illegally abused their monopoly to prevent AMD from getting as much traction as they should have gotten. They've been convicted and payed billions in fines over that behavior.

Intel should have suffered much more at the hands of the Opteron and Athlon 64 chips; if they hadn't been abusing their market position things would have worked out better for AMD and their stumble with Bulldozer wouldn't have hurt as much as it did.

For the curious, Intel would sell CPUs at retail to OEMs, then provide a rebate/kickback to discount those CPUs. Shipping AMD processors would reduce those rebates. Shipping too many AMD processors would eliminate the rebates outright. This made selling AMD-based systems non-tenable for many OEMs.
It's not all, though it is the astounding majority. Non-profits are not capitalist though they can mimic them in internal structure and worker co-ops are a kind of market socialism as the workers own the means of production.
Mentioned that in the essay as well BTW.
data exfoliation lol
> they're about to Digg themselves into a amusingly-recursive grave

"You'll get over it"

> All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep

This is fundamental risk to any business that depends on a social space. The best explanation of the mechanics that create this risk is Joe Peacock's talk[1] at NOTACON 8 about the time fark.com made the same mistake... and then poured gasoline on the fire with the infamous "You'll get over it" comment being the only publicly visible response by fark.com's management.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnVeysllPDI
> Wow, 50c party members trolls on HN (see [1])?

I like how quick you label people as soon as they share different political view.

> Could you elaborate on this wild claim?

Taiwan enjoyed a short period of economic boom only thanks to China opened up its market to Taiwan and had policies encouraging business from Taiwan to do so. This almost has nothing to do with their political system.

And now things have turned around. Taiwan's democratic system is a drag on their economy and prone to foreign influence. (Buying outdated weaponary from States? Continuous internal political struggles?) Whereas China has a much more unified vision under a strong leadership and on track to seek total economic dominance.
tell me again why anyone ever thought an email “client” that’s running on someone else’s server was a good idea?
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Absolutely. Even better, just not use GMail until they start taking data protection seriously.
Funny that you cite Twitter here. Their mobile site tells me I'm rate limited half the time I land on it.
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I just got a new Samsung tv and while setting up the Netflix app I was prompted to pay an additional for HD stream.
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This is anarcho-capitalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism). There are other types of anarchism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism).

"Anarchism holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary and harmful."

As private property cannot exist without violence and capitalism cannot exist without the state, some forms of anarchism are incompatible with capitalism.

I'm not an anarchist, just stating some definitions.
The government did modify the spreadsheet, and we alleged as much multiple times.

They didn’t even gave us one SQL query like that. All we got was a typo-ridden excel spreadsheet, with multiple authors, no chain of custody, no queries, and a random list of accounts that can hop state lines in minutes, and they told the courts that was how the information came out of the computer.

If that SQL query was what they actually produced, everything would be fine. We asked them for the queries they used, but they refused.

The quote is what they call “dicta”, or in passing. If you follow the cited opinions in this brief you will find them all totally inappropriate. They don’t say what the circuit judge says they say. It’s like the judge just had his clerk do it and didn’t check the work.

It won’t let me respond as fast as you all are attacking me, so you’ll have to bear with me.
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Tracking and ability grouping have documented negative impacts on weak students. Placing a student in a remedial class becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, increasing the likelihood that his academic performance will fall further behind, and lowering the odds that he will complete high school. These students learn better in classrooms shared with higher-performing students.

However, those higher-performing students get nothing from being in classes with low performers, and get substantial benefits from being tracked into faster-moving classes with other top students. These students languish in mixed-ability classrooms as teachers focus on the slower students, or they’re conscripted to help teach their classmates the skills they’ve already mastered. And these students run in place while students in honors and gifted tracks press relentlessly forward.

The key phrase in the excerpt above is: "These students learn better in classrooms shared with higher-performing students." de Blasio latched onto those same study results and clearly believes that the trade off is worth it. While there may be some merit to your claim that de Blasio just wants to make himself feel better, I'm pretty sure that most "elites" in the city trying to send their children to top high schools are not happy with this outcome.

Note that middle school admissions are also being changed, starting in one district this year, such that top middle schools will be forced to set aside 25% of their seats for incoming students who scored below-average or at the bottom[1] of the middle-school state tests taken in Grade 4. The purpose of the plan is to "increase diversity in selective, high-performing middle schools [...]". A lot of parents in the affected district are upset.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/nyregion/new-york-top-mid...
> it's possible to add additional abbreviations to s-expressions

It is, and infix notations have been added many times, going back at least to Vaughan Pratt's CGOL in the 1970s. Yet none of these notations have ever caught on very much among Lisp programmers.

I understand that the syntax is a barrier to newcomers, but there's no point in arguing that it should be changed, because one really does get used to it, and even to like it. You might as well tell the Mexicans (or Indians, or Thai, or Chinese, etc.) not to make their food so spicy. Yes, it takes some getting used to, but to change it would be to ruin it.
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Thank you; just made the permission change & made Signal my default SMS app. If it's good enough for Edward Snowden, it's good enough for me.
I wish they included PHP’s Composer package manager.
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The inverse of this, of course is the danger raising children who expect everyone to be amazed and engaged with every little thing they do or achieve.
The article is about apps using the Gmail API and Gmail Add-ons, both of which using Gmail OAuth. Browser plugins have the same privacy issues, but it's hard to attribute any blame to Gmail there.
Of drinking. I am in the same boat.
A metric based on raw participation numbers rather than one that is inherently relative to other languages.

E.g. the number of commits on Github vs percent of total commits on Github.
Is that surprising though? There's a strong correlation between pay and intellectual ability/education. There aren't many dull, uneducated engineers, doctors, lawyers, or executives.

If intelligence is at all heritable, you'd expect to see this. If educated parents tend to push their own children to become more educated, you'd expect to see this.

I wonder what the chart looks like broken down by where parents went to school or some non-financial metric. I would bet the children of well-educated college professors or journalists also score well, despite growing up with a more middle class household income.
How could gmail take it more seriously? They even encrypt the links between their datacenters.
@tuxracer posted a comment here to use Signal.org which looks great for privacy so I made the switch
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> Github has had stunning stability

Has it really ? I remember many threads here on complaining about Github's up time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808496

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14893441

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984775
> like a thunderstorm formed from two opposing weather fronts, the physicality of outside Prineville air met the everywhere-ness of inside space in an impossible, non-Euclidean intersection

Not every word is a pretty one you can throw around, you know: what exactly about this metaphorical meeting was "non-Euclidean"?
> a huge incentive to take advantage of people... The centralized control of our data is a separate issue, no?

Not really. The more data is centralized the stronger the advantage the centralizer has over the centralized. In other words, the greater incentive/payoff to taking advantage.

On the subject of misinformation, there are a two common, non-exclusive explanations:

- Ordinary people are ill equipped to judge the provenance of news information on the web

- Ordinary people’s news intake is being manipulated to maximize their base emotional reactions for profit. Current affairs are interwoven with cat videos and soft pornography in an endless feed to tickle the “good”/“bad” classification impulses of our slug brains.

Both are true in my experience. Little short of improved and updated education programs will address the first. However, I’m hopeful that redecentralization can help with the second.

I’m willing to give it a whirl!
did you forget public schools, hospitals, roads, fire services, police services, military, medicare and libraries exist for a second there?
The parents of "gifted" white 4 year olds trying to keep black kids out due to their "gifted" 4 year olds hard work and their grind and the meritocracy...I mean it sounds like a parody.

"It's not due to racism or the to the manor born gift of idleness - these 'gifted' 4 year olds are high achievers"
> yet I have never actually seen a single person actually riding them.

I hear this all the time, in my own city. I am not sure what you people are doing, but I have seen all the share bikes in my city used at different times, and quite a lot. I used them myself when I was a tourist in cities.
I am aware that people believing a thing doesn't make it true.

I am also aware of the arguments in favor of HFT. As you stated, the oft-made claim that the market is improved is theoretical as well; hence, is also a product of "belief".

It's not a settled question. [0]

>The point of a market is to expediently arrive at the best (as in, most reflective of intrinsic value) price

Yes.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/high-frequency-t...
> If Git repos just "had" wikis, issues, etc. inside them, the lock-in wouldn't be there

People clearly never cared about that, since Fossil (
https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi... ) has these things and it never caught on
Me neither. As a fruit eater, I would definitely prefer picking low-hanging fruit than high-hanging fruit.
It's also a shame Google has abandoned all attempts to encrypt email data with end-to-end encryption. But most people keep defending their decision "because how would they ever survive if they cant data-mine your most private conversations for ad-targeting?!"
That's part of it. Another cause is that companies grow and get more employees and those employees need to justify their existence by changing things up. You don't get promoted for not fixing what aint broken.
Misunderstandings looks like happened regarding my intention. I'm totally not interested in running my own github instance in other server just like people who signed the open letter dear-github to plead Github to add +1 button in issue which took really long to be recognized as an issue to be implemented. I'm sure if it was open source, somebody implemented the feature and made a pull request.

My intention is to make github.com "Client Side Code" better by let OSS community join into the development. So open sourcing backend and architecture is not my interest and possibly not interest of MS too. I'm not sure if Github is made of micro services, but if it is, certain client side code could be open sourced first and only that could generate great contribution to improve it.

I'm heavy user of Gitlab and disappointed because it is no longer fully open source and some enterprise features would not be welcomed to be implemented by OSS community because it conflicts with Gitlab company revenue. In my ideal world, MS splits Github source into client and backend and open source "Github client + test backend" for community to test if client code works while they make pull request and keep production backend closed. Do you think MS would be interested in this?
Yea it's explicitly separated, just not shown at the same time. For example, if you search for "kings", there will be a couple of bubbles at the top of the page with different entities: "Kings" (2017 film), "Sacramento Kings" (baseball team), etc. Clicking on one of those will show you a list of results that only pertains to that entity. This feature has been around for years, and is part of the series of "things, not strings" features they've been working on.

As I said, Google is pretty conservative about this and other entity-based features, so they definitely wouldn't do it got something like "lkw attachment". My question was whether Izik triggered this feature in such cases or not.
You mean somewhere where you can lock your bike up? These exist all other the place.
Putting up more barriers to protection would do nothing to protect authors or encourage their creativity. Most works protected by copyright have no value and aren't even worth registering. Of those that are registered, most aren't worth renewing. But if those works weren't protected, non-authors could exploit high-quality, unrecognized works instead of expending resources to create something new.

An obvious example might be the brilliant novel that goes ignored by critics. If it were to easily lose copyright protection, then a producer could adapt it into a movie and pay the author nothing. But there are thousands of great novels (and many more terrible ones) for every successful one, so you need to protect all of them, and do so cheaply, in order to make sure the successful one is protected.
You are less likely to get stopped though, and more importantly you are much less likely to kill anyone else.
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That makes sense.

Maybe an alternative solution is that he is never surprised because he is expecting it every day.
Yes, that's how software works? I mean, once you've given software access to your data. You can't statically verify what software is going to do. Users shouldn't trust random third party developers with their data.
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I am generally supportive of your position, but these are actually organized as "State Capitalism". They are not subject to internal democratic controls. Hierarchy still exists though there is nominal democratic political control.