skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently switched (mostly) from gmail and realized what insidious lock-in mechanisms the "unlimited inbox" and "inbox categories" really are. I hadn't been giving it much thought, but I've gone well over a decade just casually archiving everything, on the presumption that I can always find anything important I might need to reference by searching for it down the line. And I'd just been ignoring those junkier "category" tabs for months on end, presuming I can always go sort through them later to find those handful of actually-important messages that end up in there.

Maybe this is just my personal organizational problem, but it was like a waking nightmare when I really started to look with fresh eyes at how unstructured my email management strategy had become with the tools gmail gives you. It took me weeks of nights and weekends to sort this all out (finding messages I actually want to save, identifying senders I actually want manually sorted to other folders, unsubscribing from lists I've been ignoring for years because they were conveniently out of site in "promotions") to a point where I felt ready to migrate to a more traditional mailbox setup. I can easily imagine many people seeing how daunting this task is and just deciding to stick with gmail.
Does this really seem that incredible?

Youtube marginalizes their users to this degree every day, and I would not imagine that they are the only internet company doing so.
I'm still angry about the face-sitting ban: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/30454773/why-are-peopl...
There's some setup cost, for sure. But there need not be that much of an ongoing maintenance (for me, it's just pacman -Syu + restart of some services, perhaps 10mins a month). You can also gain some interesting features and insight as a result.
>The cops brought the parrot back to the station, but so far, the bird is keeping his beak shut around police. A vet named Alexandre Clark told a local Brazilian journalist that police have been unable to get him to repeat the warnings he shrieked out during the raid—or squawk anything at all.

Sounds like the bird is flexing its rights. (I assume Brazil, like America, respects the right to remain silent)
Ironically Google's spam always seems to go through...
It also shows what kind of growth and development is possible when a city isn't hamstrung with oppressive NIMBYs and regulations.
I remember the spatial finder making my life difficult in the MacOS 7 days. For example, if I had a parent and child directory open at the same time in list view and then expanded the child to drill down to another directory, the finder would obnoxiously close the child directory window. I found the navigational approach in OS X to be a breath of fresh air.
I'm genuinely sorry to hear that. Our analysts are looking into the issue described in the article, hopefully we find something we can fix that will resolve this.
That's right if you only predict the probability of candidate A, but if you are predicting 33% for all three candidates each year, your 33% prediction will consistently be right 1/3 of the time in aggregate.
Your logic has some flaws. Allow me to elucidate:

The probability of you randomly selecting a sample of people who happen to have a high rate of cancer is very low.

The probability of you EVENTUALLY selecting a sample of people who have a high rate of cancer after selecting many samples is actually very high.

The probability of you eventually selecting a sample of people who happen to have a high rate of cancer AND happen to live in the same town AND happen to have cancers that are classified as rare is very very low.

There is no doubt this is an anomaly by every logical measure and not a statistical quirk.

This is an example of where your gut notion of a cancer cluster actually trumps the statistical logic. While logic is always correct and the logic you were using was technically wrong, this is a good example of how your intuitive gut feeling of what a cluster is, trumps your logical mind. Don't ignore your gut feelings, don't ignore your intuitions. The logical part of the human mind is just as flawed as your intuitions and it can build an incorrect scaffold of compositions that support an incorrect conclusion.

When your logic collides with your intuitions, do not automatically assume that logic trumps all. Evaluate both.
What portion of the delta in republican/democrat identification do you think might be attributable to the much more significant skew between the age of Twitter users and the general population?

This data suggests that, on Twitter:

18-29 are overrepresented by 8%

30-49 are overrepresented by 11%

50-64 are underrepresented by 7%

65+ are underrepresented by 12%

identified democrats overrepresented by 5%

identified republicans underrepresented by 6%

A 2016 Pew report (https://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2016-party-identific...) suggested the partisan affiliation deltas per age group (sorry--there's probably a better dataset to use out there: the age ranges don't quite align, and this is just registered voters) broke out like:

18-35: +12% democrat

36-51: +6% democrat

52-70: +2% democrat

71-88: +8% republican
I never made progress getting my hands past my toes in a pike (I attribute that to a lot of sitting) until I started strengthening my glutes and hamstrings with the deadlift. The muscle fatigue post-workout paired with stretching finally got my muscles to relax and lengthen.

Plus I have an ass now. So many upsides to doing deadlift.
Normally I'm the first to shout the same, but given how many similar stories about freelancer.com exist, I'm leaning toward believing this by default
Great news! I first found this book at the end of my first year in a corporate dev job, as I was becoming a bit bored/disillusioned with the industry. Most of the lessons were great and have improved my career. (Here's a succinct list of the Tips from the first edition: https://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/tips)

The only piece I'd probably eliminate was focused on code generation ("Write Code That Writes Code"). The idea is fascinating and led me down a rabbit hole. I've always looked for an opportunity to do code-gen since, and have never really found a good one.
If everybody listened to advice 4 it would conflict with advice 5
Same thing happened to my sister! She filled out the tax form, thought she owed, mailed in a check, and then received a check back from the IRS saying they actually owe her and told her where her mistake was.
#NotAllICOs
Would it be fair to expect the performance to get better once the Web IDL Bindings Proposal for WebAssembly is done?
I like gitlab very much and i see that they improve there autodevops feature. That looks promising that i now can include single steps.

I'm playing around with autodevops and currently it sucks. I cloned there script and the helm chart otherwise it is not possible to just use it.

And quite frankly if you promote it as auto and enable it on default and it is not able to build a standard spring boot application or a angular frontend, i'm a little bit disappointed.

there is also a bug open for frontend builds: It is able to detect and build the anguluar project but is not able to execute karma tests because the image doesn't contain chromium. And for the backend there is another bug: autodevops builds the spring boot application and enables/enforces postgresql ssl but the image from gitlab for postgresql doesn't support it.
>Do others have similar experience?

As a habitual Microsoft hater who spent most of the 90s and early 2000s being constitutionally incapable of writing the company name without a $, yes I have.

They still suffer from an appalling lack of taste and poor design sensibilities, but their enterprise level products and services are top notch. And I'm developing a new appreciation for a business model that involves transparently charging me a known price in exchange for a known service. They could still get better at that though. They still have too many enterprise clients over a barrel.
Generally, cloud is still better for many. Managing datacenters at scale is hard. It also takes time to build up capabilities in house, while cost of delay is usually far greater than cost efficiencies wrung out of infrastructure. Cloud is often a euphemism for “supported hosted software that happens to come with hardware”. Not that different from Dreamhost managing PHP for you , just richer and higher scale. Why build a cheaper internal capability over 6 months when I can have a slightly more expensive service NOW that I don’t have to worry about? This is why we have 3rd party transportation companies, telecoms, power plants, etc.

Netflix still uses cloud hosting for most things. Some like Dropbox have found a way to DIY. On the other hand, Gitlab tried to move to in house kubernetes on bare metal, and reversed that position
Why not? You might not be able to automatically hook it in via their UI, but can't you just do everything with the CLI in the GitLab CI? I mean I don't see a reason why this wouldn't work.
I did a lot of work on similar freelancing sites in the 2000s. While it is true that there is always more than one side to the story, there’s also a massive power imbalance with these services.

Most of the workers come from outside of the US, work for already ridiculously low fees, and they have no recourse if they do end up having their payments cancelled or their accounts frozen / locked.

It’s not the easiest way to make a living.
> Were they also hoping to develop something they could make some revenue from? Surely.

That depends on who you mean by "they". The researchers themselves generally don't give this any thought. The university administration, however, is always hoping for additional revenue streams.
> I routinely do this before i go through the TSA complimentary-preflight-massage line, when i'm within about 50 miles of the mexico border, and whenever i'm pulled over at a traffic stop.

These are all unnecessary, to various degrees. Compelling your fingerprint requires a warrant, which officers had in the linked case. The controversy is whether a search warrant of a property extends to compelling a fingerprint, not whether officers can go searching phones with abandon.

Specifically:
- TSA officers aren't police officers. They can search you because you're entering an airport, but you're free to leave at any time (though they can detain you until police arrive, as any citizen can).
- Within 100 miles of the border (not only the Mexican) officers can detain people momentarily or search vehicles to ascertain their citizenship. That's the only additional power they have, they can't search your phone (or even search your glove compartment) without probable cause.
- When you're pulled over for a traffic stop, a search requires probable cause.

You didn't mention the one time you might think about doing this: going through customs, where your 4A rights are weaker and less certain. If you're interested in learning more, US vs Cotterman is a good jumping-off point.
Most of this seems like a perpetual problem for UX designers. Feature creep doesn't (usually) happen in a vacuum. Each feature exists because somebody somewhere wanted it. OK, sometimes it happens because a mucky-muck wanted to roll out a new product release, for income or attention, but that's not GMail's line, since they make their income from ads rather than sales.

I honestly can't tell you whether the decluttering here is better or worse for the average user. It's the kind of thing that's hard to measure, and the aesthetic judgment is subjective. I can say that desaturating some of the widgets looks nice: I myself have to constantly fight with my team who wants to draw attention to their new feature by giving it a color pop.

But I myself don't feel that GMail's UX is so radically broken that it's worth the effort of installing a browser-specific extension, thus binding me to that browser and requiring me to re-install on every device.
If you can land a contract for development work on freelancer.com you can find a decent paying job for the same work.

Freelancer.com provides nothing, and takes money out of your pocket.
> Problem solved.

You treated the symptom, not the problem.

The problem is Boeing's willingness to cut corners and risk lives in the name of profit.

You can't fix that with software or pilot training.
But you can mark it as "not spam" (and hope that it does something, I guess) while you (as the recipient) have no options whatsoever with a hard rejection.
US military prepping robots for underground combat, emergencies
HiveMQ Goes Open Source, Brings MQTT and Kafka Together
Don't be so sure, they still run their disc rental service out of 17 distribution facilities. They added a lot of automation in their heyday but there's still a fair amount of low-skill work to be done.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/netflix-dvd-business-still-a...
Big Tech’s Invasion of Banking
Aahh still going over your head. The whole point I am trying to make is that anybody who is fully objective and data driven would refrain from making such statements online, especially when it is uncalled for. Nate has been consistently taking a pro-establishment stance even when he was proven wrong over and over again. To say it in another way he could have said:
Justice Democrats, founded in 2017, went from having zero members in the House to 7 within a year. Including AOC, one of the most popular politicians in the US.
I get what you're saying here (and generally agree), but I really think it's worth taking a step back when "the law is too complicated for humans to follow it; machine-readable versions should be available" starts making sense.

Imagine if the speed limit was a function of current local wind speed (as measured by one of three airports, depending on the time of day), tire pressure, the azimuth of the sun, etc, and that large companies had digital speed limit signs outlawed. Saying, "Oh, we'll just mandate that all cars carry the necessary equipment to calculate the current speed limit" is probably the wrong approach. The solution is to do away with the convoluted calculation because it doesn't add value in the first place.
So says... Google?
The fact that people are openly praising you for acts that perhaps seem futile or downright insulting to you is a good sign. It means that you're approachable and able to handle a joke or two with no hard feelings. It can be an advantage if you learn how to leverage it.
My grandmother was forced to write with her right hand at school, despite being left handed and punished with violence if she didn't conform Every so often when writing like this she would accidentally flip into mirror writing.
Signature of changing fundamental constants may hide in copper block
Usually interviews are all day, with each interviewer going one after another for an hour. So it's not possible to schedule this way.
> Earlier you complained there was "code that's very unidiomatic" but now you say "writing all the Lisp programs as if they were being written in Java" would be exactly right?

I may have misinterpreted your comment. By "as if they were written in Java" I meant using a similar algorithm. Alternatively, there could be a rule about idiomatic code (enforced by experts), which would compare very different things, but would also be at least somewhat meaningful.

> For some programs

I don't know. Whenever someone refers me to a result on that site that looks weird, I see very different algorithms.

> for some definition of "algorithm".

For a very well-accepted definition of an algorithm in the context of real performance comparisons.

> What is the speed of a programming language?

I'm not sure (although perhaps I could come up with some definition given enough thought), but I didn't make a website that compares languages based on performance. In fact, I said that the website is totally meaningless. But the people behind it may have something in mind, and if they do, they're not telling us. All I can do is think of ways to use the site's data in ways that can at least be meaningful.
I'd like to put my hat in to support the 5/3/1 approach over traditional 5x5s. I managed to get my way to a ~317 wilks on a 5x5 program and after taking a few years off and getting back in with 5/3/1, I wish I had had the patience to leverage a more well rounded approach like 5/3/1.
Ahh yes the classic "muh roads" comment.
Participant nonetheless. Again, don't buy the ticket.

Whats the alternative here? A nice fat regulation that all airline seats require 4 feet of legroom? Then we can all fly in absolute comfort! What? The cheapest ticket is $4500? &%^$% Capitalist pigs!
And Napster...
Which newsrooms do you think are run by the "far-left"? I want to subscribe and I've never been able to find any, despite diligent searching.
Small Claims Court
Yes, that's true, that's why I said this was this original appeal of Android to privacy-oriented nerds. It hasn't been the case for a long time, but Android is still coasting on the goodwill it built up over the time when it was.
An evidence based guide to anxiety in autism [pdf]
A 1098 caused me to have to pay turbotax 70 bucks. Instead of doing that, I just switched to H&R block which remained free shrug
Disclosure: I worked for Freelancer.com seven or eight years ago back in Australia and know the founder.

This is a "new" post from an old and now deleted post [1] by the same author.

In the initial post [1] they state "I've been a member in this platform for over 5 years".
In the new post they state "I have worked on this platform for over 7".
The initial now deleted post [1] was posted two years ago.

Make of that what you will.

Edit: I was hoping HN would actually read the deleted post too and/or assume I didn't have a nefarious motive. It's from the same author, isn't a repost, the story has an entirely different fact pattern and the deletion of the previous story (with no reference to it when it was previously posted on HN at [2]) is at least odd at best. I merely wanted to raise the possibility that an unsourced post is potentially not the best thing with which to sharpen knives.

I literally just wanted to add this data point to the discussion, that's all =[

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20171104123112/https://www.trust...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624677
What is the parrot being charged with, exactly? It is not illegal to warn someone that police are nearby, much as I'm sure they would like it to be.
ProtonMail has a free tier. It's definitely not the same level of service as Gmail, but I prefer it to being so dependent on the big G juggernaut for a critical service.

Downsides:

* spam detector is a bit aggressive, sometimes legitimate emails make it in there.

* features are limited unless you pay.

Full disclosure: I pay for their Plus product. My rationale is that I pay twice as much per month for Netflix yet email is hugely more valuable to me than Netflix is.

More full disclosure: I used to work for Google. That's part of what made me move from Gmail.
Google Releases Anthos, a Hybrid Cloud Platform to General Availability
I'm unsure if you're being disingenuous or legitimately don't understand the wording.

"To identify and suggest products or services that might interest you" -- means your data can be shared or sold to be used in advertising models.

"To provide you customized user experiences, including personalized product and service offerings;" -- same

"We may ... provide access to, or disclose ... location data without your approval to ... operate and improve ... our business," ellipses added so you can see it literally says we can give your data away for money.
Probably already mentioned, but looking at the "schematic symbols" - I noticed they didn't mention the (usually international) form of values - ie 2k5 - meaning 2.5k.

Also - they show symbols for potentiometer and variable resistor, but they don't show how if you connect the wiper to one end of the potentiometer, that means "variable resistor" (and is how you usually make one - unless using the potentiometer as an actual rheostat, which means connecting between one end and the wiper, leaving the other end free; electrically it's equivalent to not leaving the wiper floating with respect to the other end, but in a real rheostat, there is no "other end" to connect with - not without modification of the rheostat).

Then the battery symbols - and this isn't on them, but more the "standard"; yes, positive is the long side for a series of cells - but on virtually every standard consumer battery cell (C, D, AA, AAA), which end is the positive end? Yep - the one with the "bump" or "short end".

Even on the 9 volt battery, the smaller terminal is the positive end.

The only time things are "proper" are with coin cells, where the positive end is the flat plate (usually with writing), with the negative being the smaller plate surrounded by the edge of the positive plate on the other side. Knowing humans, though, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a coin-style cell where that was reversed...

I expect, though I don't know, that the battery stuff is the result of history (much like how positive and negative aren't really correct per physics as to how current really "flows").

I'm sure there's more weird stuff in Sparkfun's tutorial; it seems mainly geared for an American audience, and also toward older-styled symbols (like you'd find on schematics from the 1960s-80s). Most of the newer style haven't changed too dramatically - but there are some differences (they did note the resistor differences - but I've seen some others).

I'll have to read this in more detail later...
I think that your intentions are good, but approach may be off a bit. I agree that the SEC does protect investors and markets, but I do not agree that a company should be in the black before they IPO.

I think that your main concern is the public market funding VC capital returns. If so, then a more reasonable approach to prevent public market exploitation may be to require a lock up period for investors for a certain amount of time (not sure how you would determine this...) similar to how employees are often beholden to lock up periods post IPO.
For a lot of freelancers in smaller countries, these sites provide a way to accept payments internationally and get access to a very big job market.

There is some value they provide - but they enforce their place in the food chain harshly.
Quasi-experiment is not necessarily a bad thing. It is to denote a study that does not have a traditional control-experiment structure with explicit pre- and post-measurements. This is particularly difficult to do with real time data analysis over time periods or with concepts that have ill-defined units of measurement.

For example, productivity and learning would be considered ill-defined. How can you prove more sleep makes you more productive? Since that is difficult, you can instead do a quasi-experiment or case study to observe the effects.
I power my devices off completely when CBP gets involved.
You'll see something like this in the logs:

... status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1556280611 c1###########x.57 - gsmtp)

even if the e-mail address doesn't end with @gmail.com
Well, its certainly much easier to upvote than to write a comment - you don't have to actually justify your upvote nor will the words be scrutinized. If you feel happy with MSFT products, you can just upvote, but if you don't like them you can't just say "Well, I don't agree!".

And the lack of downvotes can be explained by another phenomenon - there is no incentive for some to downvote a comment like yours at this point, because nearly all replies are negative! If a comment thread surfaces some bad things about someone you don't like, and it becomes popular, you actually want it to become more popular isn't it?
Half of cannabis users think they can drive safely while high – are they right?
Do I really need to squeeze my shoulder blades together and pull my shoulders down during bench? It feels SO unnatural..but otherwise my shoulders hurt.
Your told that because it’s true.

If someone is sending you messages that are so useless you need to mute them, either your organization is seriously disfunctional or you shouldn’t be in Slack.