skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never driven for lyft, so my follow on question would be assuming 20 hr/week and 40 hr/week, what is the average and std dev of the wages of a typical lyft driver?

I ask because though that is a good point, that is dangerously close to indebting a lyft driver to the company. Make them pay a huge cost for a car, and they have to drive more to make up for it.

To put it in a different context, my loan for a $20k car over years was $450/month.
But consumers are happy to pay subscriptions, we've seen this with apple music and spotify, amazon prime, netflix etc. Consumers know what value for money they are getting with these services and the convenience of them, converting freemium users to paid users is a task that each of these services has been successful at.

There was a similar thread on HN talking about this very subject. If a news source is behind a paywalled subscription model - even if they promise unbiased, non-partisan investigative journalism, how many would actually deliver this and not compromise the trust of their readership? How many would even dare to promise this in the zeitgeist of fake news and gear their business model around this? At the moment it's a risk that no credible news source wants to take.
Even Silicon Valley workers want more regulation of the tech industry
Why the United States will never have high-speed rail
A great example of a really nice information dense app is the Bloomberg terminal. Maybe it’s ugly (a lot of people say this, but I personally don’t think so), but all the right design choices have been made. High Contrast, monospaced fonts, extensive keybindings, absolutely no wasted space. And, most essential, it’s not a web app.

I used to work at a portfolio analytics company who’s explicit goal was: to have all of Wall St use Bloomberg on one screen, and our product on the other.

Our app was probably the anti-thesis to the Bloomberg Terminal in almost everyway: “modern” design, tons of white space, a web app, making you have to log in every 30 minutes for “security”, no keybindings.

I’m sure most of HN have never used the terminal, but let me give an analogy. The Bloomberg Terminal is like using Emacs or Vim, they make you feel powerful, they make you feel like a wizard.

Our app was like google docs, you never felt like you were in direct control of it. You never felt like it was an extension of yourself. Unsurprisingly, even though our app was incredibly useful and provided portfolio analytics that you could only get from excel (our biggest competitor), it, and the company, was largely a failure. Instead of being worth billions, we were capped at a valuation of 200m for over 5 years.

I believe completely that the company’s failure was due to our “modern” white space heavy app.
I don’t know how they come up with the numbers but I still think that menus and toolbars were much more discoverable and faster to use than the ribbon :)
What's the difference between that and a non sql approach?

Writing a program that makes a temporary table somewhere, and if there's a mistake you have to start all over again?
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You're conflating need with desire... and you're also wrong.

Not everyone who drives a pickup needs a pickup. That's pretty apparent by the fact that the F-150 is the highest selling vehicle in the US while less than 20% of Americans live in rural areas. Plenty of people buy pickup trucks and also live in the city. Even living in the countryside, most people in rural areas don't need (or even own) pickup trucks.

And pickup trucks aren't just useful for farm work. I'd wager that most of the pickup trucks sold in the US are for commercial use. Plumbers, construction workers, contractors, lawn care/snowplows. These people tend to live and work in cities, and they buy pickup trucks. And what's important for a truck? Torque. What do electric motors have? Lots of torque. For businesses buying pickup trucks for work, they don't need range or lots of chargers. They just need to get to the job site, park, then go back to the office at the end of the day to charge it.

That's also ignoring the millions of people who buy pickup trucks as daily commuter vehicles, who have the normal daily commute of 20 miles. Well within the range of even the worst electric car in the US. Pickup trucks are a status symbol for these people, not a work vehicle. An electric pickup is an even greater status symbol.
> ASK! ASK! ASK!

Except users lie all the time. They don't know what they need or want. People are horrible at being logical about what will actually help them.

Watch them work. Watch a bunch of people work. Test and prototype changes and watch more people work. And watch them work at their desk or where ever they work.
Burger King is already (kind of) advertising in McDonalds by offering $0.01 Whoppers if you order them from inside a McDonalds: http://fortune.com/2018/12/06/burger-king-is-offering-01-who...
I'll go back to saying it depends on use case.

The folks staring at Bloomberg Terminal want all that data.

If it was a website and I just wanted to get one chunk of data, change one setting, might be a pain.
>Use color deliberately.

And think of the color blind. Especially dark red shouldn't be the only way this information is highlighted. 8% of men are the kind of red-green colorblind, where dark red and black is not easily distinguishable.

If 8% of men don't see your error notifications, maybe that shouldn't be the only kind of highlighting (or choose a color that is less likely to affect so many people, like orange).

>Let users export data, instead

And maybe even import. I have a lot of administrative tasks I could script easily, if I had more direct access. But writing a python script using a headless browser, which breaks every time they update, doesn't sound as attractive.

And a point they kind of forgot:
Make it perform well. There are so many enterprise apps where you need to click a lot and wait so much time in between you start doing something else, which reduces your flow.

A second point: Give people keyboard shortcuts, and make them apparent through tooltips.
Your power users will highly appreciate if they can do things more quickly with the right shortcuts.
Same for me. I'm so surprised that browser makers still haven't solved this particular problem in spite of all browsers now being multi process.
> Most people on Twitter don’t insult each other. A low percentage of people do in both cases. Does Twitter facilitate and provide a more lubricated vehicle for insult? Possibly?

Possibly? Absolutely. The foundation of Twitter is the retweet. Without it, there is no sharing, and stuff can't 'go viral'. Most people don't insult each other, but they sure do like and retweet insults, false facts and other negative stuff ruining online communities.

Retweeting is the ultimate cop-out, because you didn't have the guts to say those things, but had no issue having it show up on your feed and those of your followers. You were just "sharing".
People will seek confirmation more than truth, even journalists. But I think the main problem here with Facebook et al is “virus-like” propagation.

The platform is optimized for engagement and thus “virality” rather than “organic” spread and diffusion.

If anti-vaxx sentiments remained in its tiny circle and didn’t spread beyond, that would be good.
science fiction fiction? that's my favorite kind of science fiction!
That's another lovely anecdote. Are you sure that:
- Unneeded testing isn't also pushed by patients?
- Hospitals and administrators also push testing as a profit center?

I don't know.
Cutting your screen time isn't curbing your phone addiction, survey says
It is indeed my normal method of reading, and I don't speed read.

PS: note that as I mentioned in another comment, now that my attention has been drawn to it, I am indeed "listening" to my thoughts as I type this. Maybe this is going all the time and I simply don't notice it normally. What I definitely do not hear is some kind of narrator voice reading carefully enunciated words to me (as an audiobook would be). That would be distracting to me.
They re-added the accountant feature recently. I imagine they received major pushback on that change.
Yeah I think their news and investigative journalism are top notch https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/intake
I have been out of this space for a few years (transitioned to data science from drug discovery), but from my time doing in silico and in vitro work, a major issue with docking was rank ordering. His comments are right on the mark IMO. Especially this paragraph:

>Another point is that high-middle-low effort on the D4 case. The binding assay results compared to the docking scores are shown at right. You can see that the number of potent compounds (better than 50% displacement, below that dashed line) decreases as the scores get worse; the lowest bin doesn’t have any at all. But at the same time, there are a few false-negative outliers with binding activity at pretty low scores, and at the other end of the scale, the top three bins look basically undistinguishable. So the broad strokes are there, but the details are of course smeared out a bit.

These methods can filter millions of compounds down to hundreds, but as an academic lab, it's still a herculean effort to synthesize hundreds of compounds. And out of those hundreds, you might get a couple that are active. This study is a combination hard work, yes, but also a lot of money and luck.

That being said, good for the team, and good for science. I have nothing but respect for Shoichet and Roth. Didn't ever cross paths with Irwin.
Boris Johnson has practically said the same thing in his latest editorial in The Telegraph [1], i.e. that that woman was transphobic and that the U.K. police should focus on other more stringent tasks (like knife crime). Transphobia is ugly but it’s not on the same level as Holocaust denial and people shouldn’t get arrested for it.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/10/police-wasting-t...
As an American living in the UK, I feel compelled to translate the title for my friends across the pond: "Bikes throw a wrench in the plans for Dutch driverless car schemes."
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You think academia, the tech industry and mainstream media have no power? They have manipulated narratives to the point that people have supported unjust wars and unnecessary riots.

Saying "fake news is the enemy of the people" is not controversial. It's quite true. No calling out a Washington-area circle jerk that perpetuates false B.S. is not the same as Tianeman Square.

It's criticism. The President has every right to criticize his critics as his critics do him. Freedom of speech works both ways.
Agree completely, and the 500K number was indeed from azure. So have consistently done $100k means this program still exists?
QED. I rest my case :)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2005/10/31/inside-d...
What was the motive?
Perhaps this could be a nation state (Russia?) covering it's tracks on manipulating the U.S.A. elections?
Nice. Unfortunately it stopped working after a couple of results. I get this google maps error now - https://imgur.com/a/Yf9Bv5l
Just out of curiosity, why "ud"? It seems like any two letter subdomain works in the same way.
given that the aforementioned neighbors are more than 60 years old I don't think you can really blame school and university
Companies are absolutely increasing their investment in security. You're seeing a response to the number of large security breaches over the last few years, and the increase in compliance requirements such as GDPR. More companies have adopted compliance programs, which means that their vendors need a compliance program. If you talk to anyone in enterprise sales, you'll hear that more people ask for their SOC2 and other compliance docs.
I probabbly didn't emphasize it enough but yeah you give them something mvp like and watch them and get feed back on it.

Recently, I actually forgot to make a whole series of changes on a dashboard that were requested. They hated the old version .... but I didn't change it before the next meeting ... and then they loved it at the recent meeting. It was the same one they hated on.

Sometimes you also just have to let them get used to it too ;)

It's an iterative process no doubt, but as a dev... I'm no better at knowing what I'll do too. Iv'e worked something up and weeks later changed it completely after I've used it.
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The only thing I'll disagree with is "SQL is permanent". Nothing is permanent. SQL will live for a long time, but eventually it will be displaced by something else once something displaces RDBMS as the defacto data storage standard of the world and chooses some other interface. That being said, learn SQL, it really is a very very useful thing to know.
What's happened to the vanished Uighurs of Xinjiang? (2018)
Why not both? It's not even that people lie, but they might not know what's possible, limiting the amount of information they will give you.
I can't believe how many times I've heard your story but in different companies.

I feel like there is an opportunity to make a graphical user interface framework that mimics old terminals. Full screen apps that leverage use of the keyboard shortcuts or hell even a custom keyboard specifically made for industrial use. Basically a IBM 400 system but running on modern software stack. Airlines have stuck with their UI and for good reasons.
Many previous articles in the nytimes:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=nytimes+xinjiang

Let's not forget that a member of the UN security council is apparently running prison camps for an ethnic/religious minority.

Foreign journalists are severely restricted from working in Xinjiang.
The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years
Exactly. Asking users is only interesting if you know what you are looking for and you have to ask around the questions instead of leading them to answer. 90% of the time observing is what you want.
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No idea, but the period of prescription starts when a libelous/harassing item is taken down.

I learned this because of a recent scandal where numerous, well connected, French journalists were operating coordinated 4chan-like online raids and IRL harassment on colleagues they didn't like.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligue_du_LOL — Literally the "League of LOL"
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This is a really cool idea! Looks like it suffers from API limits, though. Would be a cool service to integrate with something like Planet.com.
Tried the email on the paper but I got in response an address not found return. Is the email correct? I double-checked it and I did send it to the email on the paper as it was typed.
Just the fact that you are conflating persian and "arabic" words makes me chuckle.

They are quite different, even if they are close geographically. Ask a an actual Iranian/Perisan if they would like to mistaken for a Saudi/Arabic.
In the "Use color deliberately" paragraph the table has a column of numbers that are left justified. This makes comparing adjacent rows very awkward. The should be right justified. This is such a simple thing to get right yet it is nonetheless very common that it is done wrong.
This entertaining diatribe about Sibelius' difficult to use design mentions poor use of a Ribbon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI
Thanks guys, looking at links below looks very useful!
> These two situations are very common:

> 1) SQL queries that are orders of magnitude slower than a simple offline computation in Python or R (let alone C++)

This is largely anecdotal[1]. Do you have any sources that back up this statement? To say that Python or R is faster than X, well, I've never heard such a statement.

[1] https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal
Never underestimate the power of a data entry person working in a high volume organization with an app that looks like it was designed in 1975.

I worked on a potential redesign of the US Navy's medical appointment booking application and the data entry rate and responsiveness of their "ancient" system was far superior to the newly proposed solution (web based).
Honestly, I think that was just one I bookmarked at some point and there it is in my history ;)
Not often that you hear Visual Studio described as "minimalistic"!
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I was thinking about that, but it's hard to imagine a large lay-off being surgical enough to reliably target just the under-performers. They usually target entire under-performing product areas.
The OP mentioned arrest. You then wanted example of prosecution. I cited 3,300 cases of being detained and questioned, but that clearly didn't satisfy.

There does not need to be 100s of successful prosecutions a year for there not to be consequences of police action (whether it be warnings, being detained, arrests, prosecutions, jail) and for there to be serious chilling effects.

EDIT:

> You don't get a pass because you totally didn't mean it that way

I'm no lawyer, but isn't intent a critical part of analysing someone's actions in prosecution (and perhaps why Liberty mentioned it)?
The real lesson here is that the company tried to save money by hiring a design agency instead of a UX designer who would have done the research to understand the end user and their needs. Had that been done then the new interface would be just as quick to use but with major improvements. Instead of modernizing they should have asked how to design a product that’s even more useful.

I see this problem all the time when I talk to companies. They hire a big agency expecting big results and the agency rolls out the red carpet and does everything they are asked. Both parties fail. The first question I ask when someone asks me to design something for them is “why?” Most of the time the response is way out of touch with the actual reason why you should ever consider design. A real UX consultant will do 70% research, 30% design if they offer that portion of the service which I do. Please don’t make the mistake of assuming you know what you need. Find a UX designer not a UI designer and listen for the hard questions- who is your customer? What problems are they complaining to you with? What do you think this redesign will do for you? These are just some of the basic questions you’ll be asked. Your consultant will know your customer better than you when they are done before they touch any designs, if they don’t do any of these things then walk away.
This tweet is from 2018, inferring May 2018? Still appears that it was abandoned, just correcting.
Gurdijeff Attention honing exercises
The Caesar cipher was based on obfuscation, not on computational complexity. It is not unreasonable to expect humanity to soon have enough knowledge to make unbreakable cyphers. We might very well already have such symmetric cyphers. If you count one time pads then we definitely do.
A champion of data density who has a lot of thought provoking words on design is Edward Tufte: https://www.edwardtufte.com Worth a look if you aren't familiar.
Additionally, Erik Prince (ex-Blackwater chief) held informal roles in the Trump transition team, establishing channels with various foreign governments (including clients of his). He has also been an informal advisor to the White House. His sister is also Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
Usually when I hear that something "killed an app" I think "software stopped working", not "users didn't like the new look".

To be clear this is a "users didn't like the new look" story.
I am White and I use White emojis with pride. If that upsets anyone they can just deal with it.
Spotify.

These days it's so hard to organise or browse your own music collection.
No - that's built on webkit, which is apparently becoming the next IE.
If you are able to:
1. Narrow down your GPS coordinate to within the nearest 50 meter radius (really crappy GPS signal.) BUT
2. Are able to use the physical structures surrounding the user to pinpoint the actual precise GPS coordinate. Which Google can do using streetview data.

Then you will be able to triangulate and locate the user quite accurately as long as they are above ground and outside.

And you get this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWbY5jdJnHg
(Interestingly, this just came out today)

With the work that Google is doing for in-door-mapping, this might also work indoors as well as underground, I don't know.

But it seems like the location accuracy for location-based AR is being "solved" right now. Unfortunately, the way it's done can only be done by somebody like Google or a company who can afford to collect streetview level data (maybe Apple can afford to do the same here.)

[Edit] Plus, if you're talking about parallel worlds, Google could even use the Streetview data to potentially pre-render the alternate world over the real world and only send the data back the user after they manage to triangulate them. This way they don't need to do that in real-time, reducing the latency of rendering something over the real world structures.
Well, if we ever do send humans to Mars just have them visit the site and fix 'er up and she'll be good for another decade.
Pulling into memory is an attribute of implementation - you could write LINQ in C# (which is a great abstraction too) and not care about the fact that it's translated to SQL that runs server-side.
Ahh, but you have discovered the crux of the problem Twitter faces. I have done as you did, culling my Twitter to only include interesting people in my industry who I can learn from. What happened?

My Twitter use dropped off a cliff. The people I follow write interesting articles or give good talks, but are incredibly boring on Twitter, or retweet stuff that once more puts me face to face with the 'regular Twitter' dumpster fire.

"Microblogging" works for traffic or service updates, and commercials. Its use case narrows to almost nothing when it comes to human interactions, which require more substance than what a <textarea maxlength='280'> provides.
There was an anime series called Dennou Coil from 2007, that explored a lot of these themes, based on a world with a very detailed AR model of reality. Being a TV show, it had lots of anthropomorphism, but it asked questions such as, what if self-driving cars relied only on this modeled mirror world, even for real time information? What happens with power dynamics when when an authoritarian corporation owns the mirror world? How do assets age and become dilapidated if they are virtual?
The local bank office used to have text terminals (ok, this is a long time ago).

I distinctly remember that they got much slower at getting work done when they switched to a colorful GUI.

They did not switch back to the text terminals. If you deal with processes that don't change much, it's a questionable decision.
Its important to distinguish between apps that have super users and then apps which is really just for consumption. Super users apps might have features that if you use them once in a while it doesent matter if they are a little more cumbersome if in exchange you get a cleaner and easier to understand interface, the problem arises when clean gets to trump feature and functionality which is used all the time.
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I think this is what you are talking about:

https://threadreaderapp.com
looks like bulma css
> 'With'-clauses (aka Common Table Expressions) allows you to name and compose subqueries much more cleanly.

These are great, but their implementation varies pretty significantly. Notably, MySQL didn't have them at all until v8.0, and PostgreSQL's CTEs are... wonky, for lack of a better term (I believe they use an "evaluate and store" method that's closer to a temp table, and as a result they don't optimize well and have been known to have strange side effects). Not all RDBMSs support recursive CTEs, either.