skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplicity is just one of the strengths that made Inbox a superior product.

* Bundles: Made it easy to see all categories of emails from the inbox. Gmail offers categories, but you have to switch between them see each ones.

* Task-oriented: The concept of marking an email as Done was genius, and really helped to achieve zero-inbox. At least Archive kinda serve that purpose. You could also mark an entire bundle as Done from a single click if you wanted.

* Snooze: Inbox at one point offered time-based and location-based snoozes. Location-based snoozes were great for people travelling between offices without a well-defined schedule. It allowed me to bring back location-specific tasks once I got there, before they canned it. I also noticed it would even sometimes pick up relevant dates and times mentioned in an email and offer you to snooze up until that time without having to manually do it or choose a preconfigured time. Sadly Gmail only does time-based snoozes, and without the custom time feature.

* Chronological divisions: The emails were separated by days, so all emails that came today were grouped together, yesterday's the same, and so on. It was easy to see what was from today.

* Trips: Having the AI automagically sort and bundle relevant incoming trips together made it easy to find your hotel reservation, plane tickets, etc, and it would even show up a dynamic card with your flight number, departure time, delays, etc. All the useful info was right there.

Inbox was Gmail 2.0 and it was great. Too bad Google decided to regress.
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If you walk into my house, or request entry, I can treat you however I like. It's my house, my property. If you don't like it go somewhere else. We are all individuals. If he wants to be angry and make personal insults then people can choose not to interact with him or the things he works on. It should go no further than that.
> It was just a thing that happens

Citation needed.
That's good to know! I was born after Pascal's peak, so I've never used it, so I wasn't aware that I was wrong in a sense :D
I was asked to unlock my phone trying to get to Canada as a US citizen too.
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The fundamental problem is that there are rarely consequences for border guards exceeding or misusing their power. The incentives support them trying to exceed legal limits on their authority.
The growing pains come from the fact that the internet used to be a niche place, and now it's an extremely public place. When you personally know everyone who sees what you post, they have more context and understanding of both you as a person and the things you're saying, and that allows for nuance. For better or worse, most online channels are no longer small enough for that to apply.

We can mourn the loss of an understanding environment in which to speak impulsively, but there's a segment of people who react to this change by embracing their offensiveness and raging against the "SJWs", which is equally bad.

The reality is that one's online words impact a massively larger segment of people than they used to, and typically without context. This has bred constant reactionism and irritation in our society, which is a bad thing. I think the solution is to scale your "carefulness" to the scope of your media channel. Treat Twitter posts like you're speaking on live TV in front of millions. Because you effectively are. HackerNews tends to be a little more homogenous so you can get away with a little more. Private group chats with friends are all the way on the other end of the spectrum and allow you to say whatever you want. Simply don't expect the entire internet to be empathetic and give you the benefit of the doubt. Nuance doesn't scale that far.

All that said, I think Linus' words were referring to his fame and the scale of the Linux project, not the internet in general. His project has gone from a small, tight-knit group to one of the largest software projects in the world. So yeah, some adjustment in decorum is necessary.
Nowhere in my points did I say it's the best country. I just invalidated two arguments you used.
it's pretty transparent and gross to watch. He's just as clueless about how he's seen as a CEO as he was as a Presidential tire-kicker.
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Are you stalking me?
If you don't count the energy expenditure of either replacing or renovating 99% of the world's housing, sure.
From the interview: "As to C, nothing better has come around. ... And honestly, it doesn't look likely to change."
“You can ignore the consequences of your actions. You cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring the consequences of your actions.”
He's "abusive" toward technical incompetence. We don't want incompetent contributions to Linux.
Lets say he was flagged because of being vocal against the current administration; how do you think the incentive structure works for something like this to be executed? The president says I don’t like my critics. The person heading the CBP thinks they can get promoted if they show results on harassing critics. So they push that down as a goal...and somewhere a few weeks later agents on the ground actually take this up as a task to execute. Is that a realistic understanding?
Delmania was responding to stirfrykitty's argument that SJWs are ruining things, not Torvalds' specific arguments.

Their comment wasn't a strawman, but rather on point. Anecdotally, as a university student, I've seen plenty of times in group projects and asking/answering questions in class where opinions brought by both female and not-native (intersectionally, compounded) students are belittled or discarded.
Feels like what you are describing was the state of affairs like 15 years ago when i was in secondary school. We had an "Informationstechnischer Grundkurs" teaching office / excel and a separate programming course for guys like me who wanted to focus on that. I don't really follow the state of education that closely, but would be quite surprised if the latter is not at least more widely available now.

Does everyone need to know how to program? I don't know, probably not. Us humans specializing is the only way we have to handle the huge amount of knowledge necessary to support our society. I certainly would have a hard time just surviving by myself. Also education slots are limited, we'd have to abolish other courses in exchange. This obviously will generate opposition.

Now let imagine we have an open slot to teach "CS" for 90min a week for a year in such a young age. What do you teach that would actually be useful to most of them later on? A bit of python? Basic C, since it doesn't come with many complicated abstractions on top? Javascript, since many of its courses quickly give colorful results? Even the programming bachelor I later did had trouble answering those questions, they switched from c->java->c++ to teaching 3 courses java. Plus all the languages other courses used and had to teach pretty much from scratch.
I don't think that solves anything. "Human driven" is precisely what forwarded messages on WhatsApp are. FB is feeling the need to limit the number of people you can forward something to in order to solve the same problem you're attempting to solve.

My presumption is that by far the single biggest signal on whether to display a post on the FB feed to more people is how many people like and share. That's a people problem at the core, not an algorithm problem.
> If you have enough money (from voting how the people with the money want you to vote) to steamroll whoever you're running against you don't actually have to listen to your constituents that much.

Perhaps we need to reconsider the idea of running government on the basis of a popularity content. Perhaps we should give strange women lying in ponds dispensing swords a reconsideration.
It's possible for both of these to be true. Supporting regulation - particularly known regulation that it pretty similar to what you have to do anyway to compete internationally - both takes the PR crosshairs off your company and creates a barrier to entry for any potential competitors.
> Maps... had much better scrolling than competitors? Being pretty isn't revolutionary.

It's a combination of being always immediately available and having so much useful information about every place, all presented in a UI that is accessible.

The digital maps we had in our country pale in comparison to current day Google Maps. It even has graphs showing working hours and crowding level and reviews, and picture-perfect 3D simulation. That surely wasn't possible for any GPS or phone maps of that period.
If this is really for the purpose of email verification, I can't even begin to fathom what they were thinking. Asking for users' email credentials is terrible, but even requiring that they log in using OAuth is ridiculous!

Verifying email addresses is a solved problem that doesn't require _any_ of that... you just send a time-sensitive, signed link containing a unique identifier to that email address, and users click it to verify their address.

I really can't understand why they would choose to go a different way -- and particularly _this_ one.
this ACLU article shows exactly this https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
The economics are extremely attractive if you have an abundance of electricity production at unpredictable times with build electricity rates tending negative occasionally. Turn that excess electricity into kerosene for jets and ocean travel and turn a profit!
We can but we don't want to. It's even worse.
> I don't want to live or work in a world where I have to constantly guard my tongue for fear of "offending" someone,

If you cannot handle the heat, leave the kitchen.
Would it though? Didn't I just read an article pointed to by Hacker News about a woman in England, where they have millions of surveillance cameras, who's purse and laptop was stolen and it was pretty obvious who did it and where he went with it, and the police basically threw up their hands and said, "Well, nothing we can do about it!"? It seems as though they aren't targeting petty crimes with all this surveillance, so I'm not sure that what the comparison would show us would be meaningful.
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> Facebook makes about $25 / user / year.

This feels outrageous to me. They snoop and spy on every move I make online and off for a measly $25?
Right, that’s my point.
Yes, that was pretty obvious.

The elephant in the room is advertising. This is all about ad targeting. Zuckerberg's "rules" totally ignore that. Of course.
a) It's debatable how much people "suffer" from fucking with Facebook. Facebook is evil. Fucking with them is good.

b) Facebook will only suffer if the feed becomes (more) useless.

I don't understand how you don't see the logic. Bad feed -> worse FB experience -> decreased usage.
People say that a lot, but without really thinking it through. There are 2.79M civil servants, each of which can be pejoratively referred to as a "bureaucrat" if that is your wont, and pretty much every one of them wants government services to become more expensive solely for expense's sake?

That doesn't even pass the smell test.
> their a basic and necessary element of free societies

"They're"?

> It used to take months, weeks, or at least days.

Sure. Many things were different in the past. For example: hysterical and paranoid border patrol personnel didn't use to be the norm.
There are two types of social force: physical violence, and attack on reputation (shaming). However imperfectly, we instantiated The State as a monopoly on violence, subjecting violent force to The Rule of Law; while the success of that enterprise is hotly contentious, it's fair to say it works at least sometimes (exonerating some innocents who might simply be killed under pure tribal dynamics; allowing some who are guilty to redeem themselves after "paying their debt to society").

But we've never really conceived of an equivalent "Rule of Law" for reputational attack: both epistemically, to decide whether someone is actually guilty, and proportionally, to decide what is the proper social punishment and the appropriate path to redemption.

What's more, the internet has vastly increased the power of reputation attack, for better and worse: it's good that it's more difficult for an actual sexual predator to skip town and offend again, but bad that someone unjustly accused (including of lesser crimes) cannot restart their life. Instant world-wide communication has introduced a super-weapon, like going overnight from spears to aerial bombardment.

I frankly have no idea how we would go about constructing a Rule of Law for shaming. The distributed, bottom-up nature of the phenomenon is one of its strengths, able to act nimbly to respond to cases that the Law cannot; and each person's ability to make their own assessment of the character of others (including outsourcing that intelligence to the crowd) is a non-negotiable component of individual freedom, the Liberal Enlightenment tradition, etc.

But none of that changes the fact that every tweet can now carry the social equivalent of a tactical nuke. If we don't find a way to solve that problem, however imperfectly, we'll have to learn to live with a certain degree of unjust collateral damage, both to individuals and our social infrastructure.
It scares me the number of people who think that the US is in some uniquely bad place for some issue, not because of "whataboutism" but because of the blindness it can entail and skewed perceptions of all sides. No, it's not a dystopia in the US, but a wonderland paradise everywhere else. There's plenty of places that treat various people badly.
Is this good or bad?
Uproar in WordPress over displaying ads inside the plugin search interface
Good architectural design can also help a bunch here, having the majority of natural light sources on the southern wall (for us northern hemispherers) can drastically shift the heating profile of a building, especially when coupled with good insulation.

The bigger issue is that many buildings are built to be heat traps that necessitates active cooling in the summer, this is where architecture has long-known solutions but ones that haven't been well incorporated into modern styles, setting up buildings for consistent controlled cross breezes can, again, make a huge difference. A lot of actually traditional spanish architecture is a good reference for this since spain gets _hot_.
The border agents are in fact correct. The Supreme court has ruled that US citizens have no constitutional protections against search and seizure or basically anything else on the border of the US: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

Also police are allowed to lie about anything they want during interrogations.
A LOT of people who take the bus here are elderly or disabled.
> problematic

There’s that word. I find its prevalent use in modern times to be problematic.
"...everything works great despite the occasional check engine light..." that may make you feel better but it's not true. The life and efficiency of your engine is being reduced. What year, make, model are you driving? When you sell it do you plan on telling the next owner that you drove it religiously with the check engine light on?
> ... but multiple orders of magnitude cost reduction for building end-to-end, scalable software applications.

So I would guess it's toolchain and/or debugging/tracing tools for building scalable distributed system?
Gender Bias from a Woman in Science
Or possibly, a lot of people have always been kinda shit to each other, and it's only recently that people have felt confident in speaking out about it.
Can categorization break the 'curse' on learning?
This is correct. However, these belief systems do have a concept of good and bad karma. It may be thought of as an authority that is not personified.
Very typical on enterprises doing Java development.

It doesn't matter where the JVM is running.
You should never write tests against a live API. Always mock APIs and handle what happens when e.g. they send a 501 response, etc. Stripe has testing libraries in Ruby and other languages which are very easy to use.
Matt Levine's take is this is due to fact that "private markets are the new public markets"[0]. The lines between public and private markets are blurring so this is a prudent move by A16Z.

TLDR;

As companies stay private longer, and get bigger and raise more money while staying private:

* The secondary market for private shares becomes more important.

* VC's now may have more asymmetric information or more reasons to invest in public markets.

* Mutual funds are competing with VCs in later private rounds so why should VCs be able to compete with Mutual Funds in public markets.

* The obligatory crypto reference.

Another one he doesn't touch on is maybe it's difficult to efficiently deploy > $10 billion in just private markets?

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-03/buying...
I don't know if it's absolutely necessary to completely zero our carbon emissions. We're going to need to do some sequestration and other countermeasures anyway to lower the current CO2 levels to a safe level, and it may very well end up more cost-effective to continue using those countermeasures than to try to invent an electric jet engine.
You're working for a small buy side firm, which is quite different than large sell side institutions like JPMorgan, BoA, Citi, GS, Deutsche, UBS, HSBC etc. The big sell side broker dealers have big staff, lots of bureaucratic rules and process, and better defined career paths. But they are still be frustrating environments. In my experience retail banking is similar...
Part of the problem, too, is that when you initially join something like Twitter, the only people seeing your posts may be a dozen friends, and then the size of that channel scales up, sometimes exponentially. It can be hard to track that and adjust your expectations accordingly. Historical posts can also be a problem because of this. If you're going to make in-jokes that would be offensive to the public, it could be a good idea to set up one of those services that deletes tweets older than a particular time span (months, years, whatever).
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> But the grid systems I've seen

They may have been referring to the new(ish) CSS Grid https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

I've not used it yet myself, but it looks to work well enough for at least top-level grids. Your description of other grid systems is accurate, both of those and frankly of most advanced CSS in my opinion. (Cue someone saying "It's easy, you just apply these 3, 5, or 20 CSS properties that you knew applied because of dark magic, and It Just Works!)

> wordier than old school tables, and significantly more confusing to write by hand too

The issue with old-school tables was never that they didn't work or even were hard to write. The issues (beyond the issues of effective obfuscation of data and accessibility) were that they didn't handle revision well at all. Nor modularity, for that matter.

> I know I shouldn't be coding up web "apps" by hand and instead learn React or whatever

There are bitter haters on all sides, but the practical truth hasn't changed: template libraries make sense when you start to code solutions to the same problems they solve, or at least encounter those problems. If you aren't encountering those issues, they have little to offer.

> Maybe I didn't google the right things, but I expected something that allowed me to say "div id=topnavbar"

Unless you use some built in setup (mini-css, bootstrap, foundation, etc) and accept their limitations, you're left to write that all yourself.

> Next thing you know I'm not allowed to repair my TV despite having had a short protoboard-electronics hobby in my teens.

You seem bitter that some downgrade of experience has been forced upon you - it hasn't. Just because there are new best practices and preferred alternatives to old best-practices, doesn't mean the old ways stop working. You have more options today, not fewer. If you don't like those options, keep at them.

I myself am happier with the newer options over not having them, even if I think CSS is STILL way too obtuse and makes simple things difficult. Many old practices are not best practices for reasons. But no one is forcing your hand.
It may be blatant to us but America has demonstrated an amazing ability to buy into delusions lately.
Maybe they do lead pipe crypto analysis or make an offer you cannot refuse?
Just something to think about: many people simply avoid people who have a default mad, cynical or otherwise negative attitude, but they wouldn’t say it to their face. The badass might say ‘Good riddance!’ (or “Can’t handle the heat? ...”), but they will miss many great opportunities.
Friendly reminder that the amendment after the first amendment is for correcting this sort of tyrannical behavior by the government whether it likes it or not.
I got to know Nathan 10 years ago when he was working at my YC batchmate's startup Backtype. He created Apache Storm previously, and now with Red Planet Labs, he's made something incredibly elegant - when I saw it, it was clear to me this would be the backend to end all backends. There are some very powerful abstractions here that will make developers a lot more powerful.

He's hiring and this is probably the best pure opportunity to write code that will touch a lot of people. Talk to Nathan!
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Anecdotally as someone in the industry 20+ years I've very, very rarely seen this and 100% of the time it has occurred the offender was properly dealt with.
Have you heard of the Sinclair group?

> The company is the largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations, and largest by total coverage; owning or operating a total of 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets (covering 40% of American households)...

> Sinclair's stations have been known for featuring news content and programming that promote conservative political positions, and have been involved in various controversies surrounding politically-motivated programming decisions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#Polit...
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Non archive link to the same story. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4450958.stm