skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like it wouldn't be a great idea to IPO at the same time as everyone else, since like there isn't unlimited money out there, but who knows.
Flight comparison sites don't show any information about comfort, so passengers cannot pick it.

Meaning all they'll see is "Ultracheap: $50" Vs. "ComfortAir: $80" and pick the $50 option because that's all the information they're given.

You want to sell a nicer class of service, you need to change the entire industry to communicate it.
True, but this does no good if your email system doesn't accept it at all (the sender gets a bounce) or worse, if your email is silently deleted (not sent to the spam folder).

If I send you an email and gmail doesn't get it to you for either of the above reasons, you won't get a second chance.
An employee is definitely a sucker if they indefinitely keep increasing output without a rise in compensation.
So you're saying you need a N+1 panic codes to prove it wasn't your panic code.

That's why this should be done at the manufacturer level. If all iPhones, say, have this feature built in, then it works. But if it's a default-off feature, having it enabled makes it useless.
> holding power + volume up for a few seconds disables biometrics silently

I didn't know about this great shortcut until today. Note that it isn't particularly "silent", as it displays an "Emergency SOS" slider that, when canceled, prompts you for your password.

Apparently, saying "Hey Siri, whose phone is this?" will disable biometrics as well.

Finally, you may be interested in the "Police" shortcut[1], which sends a text to a contact, starts recording voice and video, and saves it to the cloud.

[1] https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2d68cb1ee7b84f08ace2fd600b9...
What's the town?
Google probably stores the selectors for a domain when it processes email from that domain.
Do you have TSA Pre? Security normally takes me about 5-10 minutes. I do prefer the experience taking the train but there's only about one destination a few hundred miles away where it makes sense.
The real issue is a preexisting "dancing hippo" one where what people want doesn't line up with other higher minded ideals like security or freedom that others presume should dominate. (Whether said ideals are right is irrelevant for better or worse - the phenomenon can happen for good or ill.)

Google cares about spam and malware because the users do. If nobody gave a crap about spam they received or did their own filtering on their "raw" local copies then they wouldn't bother with filtering beyond infastructural reasons.

Spam and malware are the ultimate enemy of openness as it gives reasons to shift to centralization - analogous to how raiders helped lead to the rise of feudalism although the stakes are obvious vastly different.
I'd like to see reclining seats keep the top stationary, but move the bottom forward. That way when you recline you are only taking away your own space.
Work on the Business and Not in the Business
More mundanely:

Sajid Javid, the current home secretary, clearly has ambitions to lead the country. Within the purview of his ministry, he is attempting to position himself as a decisive strong-man, in contrast to the weak and ineffectual prime minister. His ability to actually reduce crime is hamstrung by years of austerity, which have led to a substantial reduction in the number of police officers and other law enforcement resources. He wants more money, but he doesn't really have the influence to get it. He needs to look tough on crime, but he can't do anything that costs money.

Silly legislation is practically free, even if it doesn't achieve much. We've had a worrying increase in knife crime over the past few years. How should the government respond? More police patrols in violence hot spots? Better intelligence on gang-related disputes that might lead to violence? Social work interventions to work with troubled young people who are at risk of becoming involved in violent crime? No, because all of those things would cost money.

The government's only substantive policy has been the creation of "knife crime prevention orders", which restrict the civil liberties of people who are suspected of carrying knives with violent intent. It's illiberal, there's no evidence that it'll work, but it looks tough and it doesn't really cost anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/24/sajid-javid-...

The internet censorship agenda plays into this perfectly. It costs almost nothing to force foreign internet companies to censor their content, but it looks tough in the headlines. Terrorist attacks? Blame Facebook. Sex offences? Blame Google. Gang crime? Blame Snapchat. It's free, it distracts the newspapers for a couple of days and you get to make some vague but tough-sounding pronouncements without actually being accountable for anything.
While it is, it doesn't lead to a net loss in hydration.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

https://nationalpost.com/health/nutrition-fact-or-fallacy-do...

http://time.com/5192272/coffee-tea-dehydrating/

https://www.webmd.com/diet/qa/does-caffeine-have-a-dehydrati...
you might consider Mattermost instead, if in research setting. It has better support, imo, for researcher use cases, and you can host yourself.
So for a shiny future, we are supposed to trade away all our rights ? Forget about injustices as long as trains are clean ? We are just all supposed to be productive organic machines working for the glory of our leaders.

Fuck this future.
> Absolutely terrifying.

Indeed. We seem to be increasingly awash with evidence that the standards of rigour in academic journals across a number of fields are... quite poor.

Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose set out to demonstrate this in the field of grievance studies by submitting and, in some cases, successfully publishing a series of fake papers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg

I mean, in some sense this is highly entertaining for the rest of us, but it is also utterly horrifying.
No it hasn't. Airline prices have trended downwards over time.
Here it is:
https://avibelleli.bandcamp.com/track/trains

It's from a film soundtrack, used in the opening scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoC2PHu5f4I

Apparently, they transliterated the guy's name incorrectly (it's Belleli). I found it by searching in Hebrew at which point google managed to correct my spelling.
Unfortunately Github doesn't support Mermaid language natively. Meanwhile, I've created an extension (Firefox & Chrome) that adds support for it: https://github.com/BackMarket/github-mermaid-extension
Did you even try the subway network? That's how most people get around in Shanghai and it's top notch and definitely not a missed opportunity. Every large city will need a road network as well as a public transit, the difference is the percentage of people taking each.
Is there any officially acknowledged evidence of the story (minus the IR footage)?

To me the probability of independent means of sighting with simultaneous obviously optical effect hallmarks is very low...
Does the human body process breastmilk differently as a child? Why can’t we immunize small populations of people or animals and use their milk to spread the antibodies to young and at risk populations?
Reminds me of this comment on the bulshitter article that hit HN yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19749477

Specifically: "Your customers are idiots, that's why they hired "experts." They don't know how to judge expertise (otherwise they wouldn't be hiring you). They hire based on emotions, recommendations and epaulettes because that's the best they can do."
No, it means that sovereign jurisdictions must communicate with one another. ESA isn't limited by the budget of one European country.
Thanks for resurrecting this post! I also appreciate the clear guidance that "a substantive article with a slightly baity title is not one that should be flagged". Maybe this could be added to the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html?

I'm not sure, though, that it makes sense to focus on the idea that it was a "mistake" to flag this article. I think flagging is currently one of the weakest areas of the HN moderation system, in that it allows a minority to suppress discussion of otherwise good articles that they disagree with. Clearer guidelines can help, but I think you should also think hard about how the system can be changed to be more resilient to "mistakes".

Maybe flagging of articles with some minimum number of upvotes should act only as a "request for moderator review" rather than having any immediate visible effect?

Maybe there could be a way (either mandatory or optional) to explain why an article was flagged? I presume it would be easier to review a flag that says "Bad title, should be X" than just an opaque and universal flag.

Maybe there could be some better feedback for users who flag articles, to tell them if they are flagging articles "correctly"? As it is, I presume a lot of people persist in doing what they think is best, even if you think they are using the system incorrectly.

It's great that thanks to good moderation HN is still going strong after all these years. Obviously you are doing many things right! But I strongly feel that current flagging system needs to be rethought for this success to continue. Explanatory comments like the one you made here are helpful, but I think some deeper changes will also be necessary.
I think the point is that we need to punish companies like Facebook in ways that might actually incentivize them to behave differently. If they get slapped with a fine that they can easily pay and then see their stock price go up, what's the point?
Khatmandu is a strong contender there.
Public officials need to start going to jail for wasting money like this.
People with migraines can have a similar reaction. One of my pre-migraine tells is that I can't "see" text.
As always, it's important to remember that even in the absence of environmental factors, the probability of a particular town of this size having cancer rates this high might be very low, but the probability of there existing such a town in the U.S. might actually be high. This is simply due to variance.
Bing is their major ad business, not Linkedin which makes its money mostly from subscriptions and jobs.
For piracy sites they first blocked the dns, dumb easily circumvented use the ip.
Then they blocked the ip, dumb easily circumvented spawn multiple versions.
They made linking to pirate sites illegal so they could block alternative versions.
They used to sniff all plaintext looking for tracker announces which look really distinctive.

But their latest methods are scarily effective.

They now do a man in the middle attack to decrypt ssl, and store all of it, if you use openvpn as a proxy without accounting for this they own you.

They also have the ability to send fake a close packet (I think its a corrupt packet and most ssl / ssh will just drop the connection) to stop you tunnelling out and around their censorship.

The average citizen could not possibly hope to overcome this censorship and I find my own abilities more and more challenged to stay ahead of them, they have a whole army of people that understand the internet better than me, eventually they will exceed my abilities, its only a matter of time.
Status upgrades are pretty rare until you get to about 100K miles or so per year--and, even then, far from universal and free.
Google Inbox’s co-creator wants to fix Gmail with a new Chrome extension
Working with pdb – Essentials of effective use of the debugger
This already happened in aircraft seating. "Premium Economy" is what Economy used to be, they took away space (seat pitch/width) and then sold it back to you as a premium service at a premium price.
A classical example is the direct free kick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_free_kick#/media/File:V...
It is a bad idea to host your own SMTP, but only because you need to keep on top of maintaining it. Most of that effort is the same if you have one user or a million, so it is more efficient to outsource that maintenance. However if you are willing to pay the price in time there is no reason you shouldn't be able to maintain your own server.

I use fastmail. They have humans that respond quickly when I have a problem (twice in 10 years)
The use of proof-of-waste for cryptocurrency, which allows people to get rich by consuming extremely large amounts of electricity, is one of the worst inventions for the environment since CFCs and tetraethyl lead.
Not any more now they block the ip and use active attacks to kill proxies.
Don’t understand this take at all. The public is free to just not buy the stock if they don’t want.

You think the problem is that investors are leaving too much potential for growth on the table when companies IPO? They should wait even longer and keep more of that growth private?
Seats should automatically recline after take-off, and automatically raise during meals and landing. No manual recline control.
How do you really know? G-Suite has become extremely popular with business in the last few years.
Do you want supervillains? Because this is how you create supervillains.
journalism in crypto space is indeed ridiculous
It's a testament to how much spare money is just floating around in the upper VC class.
My only real hint is it's instantly fixed with a few glasses of water. I'd expect that I'd need some glycogen change if it were hypoglycemia.
As far as I can tell, Gmail isn’t actually “real email” anymore, and you shouldn’t use it for anything important. It’s verging in being a walled garden.
Yeah, I always argue that planes are just buses with wings for me and I don't understand the whole 'seat size thing'.

But I'm 5'10 with a healthy BMI. It's interesting that the airlines have effectively made height a disability, and what sort of responsibilities airlines have towards making their flights accessible.
I really wish Microsoft would release a modern, capable smartphone. Not based on Android. Revive the windows phone UI, couple it to good hardware. Maybe partner with Samsung. A surface phone, so to speak. I'd buy it instantly. I don't care about apps. I care about a good browser, good screen, maybe whatsapp, long battery life.
Performance: Is not too bad.

I laughed at this, idk why.
The purpose of the fine is to discourage FB from engaging in illegal and unethical behavior. The problem here is that FB sees a $3B fine as the cost of doing business, since they surely made much, much more than $3B engaging in these invasive, user-hostile tactics. If they know that regulators will only come after them for an arbitrarily low percentage of revenue generated from these activities, why would they stop doing them?

If a punishment no longer deters bad behavior, then it's no longer a punishment.
You could say the same thing about Frank Sinatra
Not sure why you're being downvoted. In Brazil, we used to be able to dispatch one luggage volume without cost until the law changed and the airlines were allowed to charge extra fees for the right to check in luggage. The decision was supposed to give us cheaper tickets and what not, but, guess what, ticket prices never dropped even for the cheapest options where you have no rights to any luggage besides a small carry-on baggage, but instead, those prices only increased in the last few years! [1]

Airlines are a prime example of why the so called free-market can be a terrible thing for the consumer.

Edit: Oh, not to mention just how abusive the check-in fees for luggage are and how they wildly increase year after year.

[1] https://todosabordo.blogosfera.uol.com.br/2018/06/01/1-ano-d... (Title roughly translates to "Ticket prices increases by 6% after luggage check-in fees instead of falling like promised...")
Well first of all, blockchain technology has become so overhyped that its bound to draw scoffs even if the business case were legitimate. "Blockchain" anything almost sounds like a joke at first pass these days.

But in this specific instance, it is even more ridiculous as one of the biggest concerns surrounding blockchain technology is that it is insanely inefficient in terms of energy usage, and concerns have been raised about how widespread usage of blockchain technology could exacerbate climate change.
Google Ads support is incredible. I’ve been shocked. You can tell where their real business is. You call and you get a competent human in less than a few minutes.

Also, Google email deliverability is good, inbound and outbound. I’ve been running an email service and have had no problems with them, unlike Hotmail/Outlook.
I have been a longterm dreamer to work for amazon AWS. But honestly speaking as much money as this company does, I am not sure I want to support this...
as this is a tech forum with big AWS fans here, don’t you think that without separation of the blue-collar-cruching part and AWS there is a serious risk? Would you support this organization?
Creative Trello Board Use Cases
The cultural center, much like schools, can become a means to invest in the education of a community. Build a computer lab, hire tutors, and then... Oh crud, all the poor people cant afford to live there anymore.

Also of note, we can also draw a similar analogy to Motorcycle clubs in the US, though such demands more wealth from each individual than community centers.
That’s not the issue, though. The issue is that Gmail are too zealous in blocking and wind up blocking legitimate email with no way for the sender to debug what happened. From your perspective, nothing happened because how do you prove you never got an email you never knew was sent to you?

The people having problems here are non-Gmail senders sending email to Gmail recipients.
I think it's more mind boggling that people will continue to invest in them on the basis of a vague promise of profitability in the distant future. Turning a profit is much harder than buying market share.
The right response to this problem - for gmail users - would be to switch to a different email provider. After all, if you are not receiving important mails because Google decides to block them for inexplicable reasons, you are getting an inferior, faulty service.

(For me gmail is inferior regardless as my privacy is violated)
All that R&D but it’s still unreachable over IPv6.
They might not be completed on time and on budget for the client, but I'm sure their delivery timing and over budgeted-ness is still considered a success(ful project internally) at Accenture!
Don’t Design Your Emails (2016)
I'm staggered that there are 575 companies paying slack $100k / year.

I don't even have anything against slack but what is possibly worth $100k a year from a comms software?
I think the problem with Google is it can't decide if they are into software or into advertising.

Google had a big lead on Microsoft with their web based 'office like' products, but they just could not get the paying business customer.

Microsoft can see what Google is doing, quickly push out their 'Office 365' clone and without much effort find they have quickly become the biggest player in that field.

I think Google would have easily won that game it they could just convinced business they where more than just an advertising company.

I get the impression business is more than happy giving their data to Microsoft, while also paying for that privilege where as they are not so sure about trusting their data with Google.
I'm honestly curious if blockchain alone improved their process that much. Could it be they had crappy processes that got overhauled with the blockchain adoption?
Asking for passwords has been an industry standard for a decade or more. Bad security practice? Yes IMO but companies have been getting away with it.

Besides Facebook I can think of LinkedIn and Mint as two big examples of SaaS that ask for 3rd party passwords. Mint is even getting your banking information, whereas LinkedIn and Facebook were just doing contact import.

And of course before the era of SaaS giving applications passwords was normal, e.g. putting your email passwords into an email client like Eudora or Thunderbird. It only really becomes questionable in SaaS where the passwords inevitably end up on a server somewhere subject to a data breach, or, in Facebook’s case, misuse by another piece of its own software.
Between this and Blazor ( http://blazor.net/, among other wasm projects I'm forgetting right now), I'm glad more complicated UIs are being once again designed on the backend and keeping bundle sizes (relatively) small, rather than making everything in JS on the frontend and expecting everyone to download megabytes of code to visit a website.

I'm looking in your direction Medium, at 6MB with a cold cache!
Does anyone know the truth of the statement - infected persons have a 90% change of transmitting measles to another person. ?

edit: regardless of all the downvotes, I am glad I asked.
Not having the top of the seat angled forward to push your head into a weird position would go a long way towards fixing that without reclining.
What a type of algorithm like this will never account for (and what it should really be used for) by design is nepotism.
I can see that happening.

Loss making unicorns go public -> investor pressure builds to reach profitability -> none of them can deliver on promises in the short term -> public does not want to own these stocks anymore -> causes a frantic selling spree -> market crashes.
> Microsoft doesn't get a bad rep like facebook or google, because their business model is not based on pushing ads onto their users and selling their users' data, which everybody hates.

You mean they don't put ads in the windows home menu or hundred of spywares in the OS ?

Or that they don't have ads in bings, skype or outlook ?

> Apple's bad rep is probably due to high pricing, tech lock-in, horrible apple store experience, bad behavior regarding right-to-repair, pretty bad software overall.

Or maybe you mean they don't lock in with proprietary formats, avoiding to publish the specs and when they then do don't follow it like with Office ? Hopefully this has been compensated by the fantastic Windows Update experience and good behavior.

I'm not an FB, Apple or Google fan. In fact I don't have an FB account, I voluntarily don't buy Apple products and refused a job interview with Google.

But let's not forget the numerous bad deeds of MS. That's how we never solve the problems we have: we let people misbehave and after a while, they are all forgiven. It's the same with politics, bad bosses, abusive spouses, etc.

Don't let people forget.
I don't think the schooling system does this, but I think a schooling system should instill in the students a desire to learn and the tools to be able to learn what they want to learn. Some of these tools would be the learning how to be determined and persistent when something is difficult. I also think literacy is highly important, to be able to read and actually understand what you're reading. This will help you refine your thinking as language and thought is connected, it will help in all areas of learning as you often read to learn. Literacy will also help you be able to express yourself, which is important. To be able to express your thoughts with clarity so you're able to contribute your ideas and thoughts effectively.
Gmail's spam filters always err on the false positive side. It's always been like that. Add the opaque nature of google operations, and you can't in good faith place the deliverability burden on third parties. It's like trying to hit bullseye in darts in pitch black darkness.

Best to assume gmail is flawed, which it is, as the parent poster did. At some point Google will realize the image problem and act.
>Have back problems? Feel free to pay more to sit in first/economy plus/whatever.

This line of thinking deserves reflection. Too fat/tall/disabled/female†? Pay more for this condition you probably didn't choose and can't easily "remedy." And if you're lucky enough to not need "extras" to achieve baseline dignity and comfort, you'll certainly have family members who do.

†Granted, this is how US healthcare works…