skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a field, I think UI/UX has a ton of anxiety about it's place in the cannon of design. There's a pretty clear path from that anxiety to these hollow attempts to justify itself as a "serious discipline."

Look at the other paths that visual designers could take, from "pure art" illustration to a much "harder science" like architecture, UI/UX sits pretty square in the middle. So many of the people I've worked with want it desperately to be both art and science. I'm sure we've all had conversations with a UX/UI designer who will ping-pong between space "feeling better" with different padding, and something like Millers Law, or perhaps a misapplied statistical inference from Optimizely.

I'd love to see UI/UX split into a more art focused design field and a more science focused HCI field. This might stop the navel-gazing and impulse toward faux-science, and publications like this: https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/why-designers-shou...
Also possible long-term health consequences.
> Gmail does not, inherently, have any network effects

This is wrong. The current situation is "if you want to reliably contact gmail users you need a gmail address". This is no different than Facebook or messengers.
And that may actually be the incentive for Gmail being such a bad player compared to everybody else.
I’ve wondered about this. Is there no way to do it well with the safety bars? I know with a bench press you can get benches with safety bars that seem quite effective.

But squats are more complicated. Are the safeties really useless? It’s a bit hard in my area to find such a group, though I could look around. Have taken time off of lifts to fix some muscular issues.
Trying to grow as fast as possible. As others have pointed out, they could stop spending as much as they do right now to grow the company (employees as well as customers) and probably be profitable. That's not to say that this IPO isn't a cash grab by investors though.
As someone who lives outside of the US, can someone please explain how the US government has not implemented its own free tax filing system? In my home country this hasn't been a thing for over 10 years.
Pretty sure OP is referring to 1930's Nazi Germany and not NYC.
Your question is very valid and good.

i think having it be decentralized is a good way to build trust and transparency. It also protects one against the marketplace-operator acting against the interests of or favoring any one party.

Consider how Amazon now exploits its marketplace for its own benefit by analyzing which products are doing well and making their own versions of these products. So, there is potential for the marketplace-operator to become non-neutral.

I'm not sure how the NYSE started, but i suspect there are financial regulations governing its operations. These regulations take time to get established, and so in new fields having a decentralized marketplace that can guarantee neutrality (collectively) of the operators feels worthwhile.

Does that make sense?
i'm kinda on the fence myself, and trying to present the argument in-favor.
I don't think you can. If you give every candidate a 1/n probability in winning, but the actual true probability is less than 1% (I'm looking at you, Vermin Supreme[0]), then your calibration is going to be way off. Good calibration is having your 65% chance of victory be right 65% of the time.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme
Or if they have a newer iPhone they just hold it near their face. They don't even need to touch the person. It means someone can take your phone while you are sleeping and unlock it as well. Glad my kids don't realize this yet.
This may be a random link[1] to a page on the internet, but this author seems to have picked out a lot of benefits and whilst the page is aimed at seniors, much can apply to adults in general.

[1]: https://runrepeat.com/weightlifting-benefits-seniors
Other 737s aren't inheritantly unstable airframes that need software hacks to keep them flying.

Mind you, the entire MCAS issue would be mitigated, if the plane were re-certified.
Only doomed on broken hardware. I think that mitigating Spectre and similar attacks via software is a losing battle. Eventually hardware will have to be fixed to properly isolate microarchitecture state during speculative execution.

Also technically we still don't need separate processes to mitigate spectre, we just need to make sure that microarchitecture state is flushed when changing security domains. This is often accomplished with processes, but it could also just be accomplished by marking system methods in a LispOS as "priviledged" and decorating them to flush the microarchitecture state when called.
UK Firm Tests Wi-Fi 6 in Industrial 5G Setup, with BT, Cisco, HPE, Intel
Wait, how can the chance of 4 cases in any population be lower than the chance of 4 cases in a specific population? That can't be right can it?
You can already build Chrome in Visual Studio. clang is used to compile, but pressing F5 in Visual Studio will build it (with ninja), if there are errors you can click them and fix, and you can debug using the debugger in Visual Studio. This is how many Chrome developers work on Windows, and presumably that applies to the new Edge too.

This blog post seems to be more like an official version of https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LLVMExte... (but only for cmake projects), plus providing clang directly in the installer, which is really nice.

But Chrome doesn't use CMake or MSBuild, and presumably the new Edge doesn't either, so I don't think it's related to that.
I want a linux phone so bad I can taste it

The only reason I'm on android is because of f-droid -- the android experience still degrades every few months (we can process all your SMS through our website! slower animations!). So tired of carrying G's hot garbage around in my pocket.
> But I'd say the vast majority of GUIs

(a) not convinced that's true

(b) not relevant

> But their main idea wasn't "immediate mode",

No, as I've written, their main idea was to provide mixed mode. On top of which you can provide a widget set. Something like GKS or Phigs was true retained mode graphics, and toolkits like AppKit were reactions to the limitations of those types of mechanisms.

There is a reason the Mac had QuickDraw and NeXT had DPS and not GKS or Phigs. Well, many reasons, but one was that the limitations of pure retained mode graphics systems were well known.

> they have escape hatches to draw your own widgets when needed.

Yes and no. While you can view them as escape hatches if you're primarily doing widget-only programming, they aren't really escape hatches as the entire system is based on / built on them. Just like in Objective-C, objc_msgSend() is not the escape hatch, it is both the basis for all messaging and it enables the escape hatch, which is -forwardInvocation:. Similarly -drawRect:: and responder handling: they are the basis on which everything else is built. Since they are exposed, that means you can build your own views/widgets as peers to the ones provided.

> Almost any book on GUI programming on Cocoa ...primarily focuses on the available widgets

The books I learned AppKit with focused on creating a custom view, drawing with DPS and pswrap, handling mouse events and the responder chain.
> using automated methods that allow others to post tweets on their behalf

This is so vague that it includes effectively all integrations with anything. Setting instagram to post to your twitter feed, for example. Spam is a possibility, but also just general scheduled posting, which seems fine. I expect the reality of that statistic to be very boring.
Only if you're given raw memory access, which you are not in Lisp.
The craziest part about GSuite right now, is that it costs -more- than O365...but has less features.

Google pushing all of their APIs to force you to sign up a GCS account has also rubbed me the wrong way.
I've seen tons of outdoor ads from them on the L
considering something to be bait or not is subjective. so why argue on it ? :D wtf guys
Original author here, happy to answer questions about data structures, algorithms, and coding interviews!
>having a hard time deciding if this is a parody or the actual one

Thats the one.
So they're saying hospitals cause cancer? 8-0
To make it a little more confusing, olympic weightlifting's lifts are more powerful (think watts--energy over time--explosiveness) than the three power lifts.
I'd like to see a study which compares the average sentiment of a user's Tweets to the amount of Tweets that user has published in their lifetime.

From my casual observations I've seen a direct correlation between amount of lifetime Tweets a user has and the likelihood of them consistently Tweeting angry or hateful messages.
MmWave 5G real-world deployments will require dense networks
>super-premium professional's device, still doesn't have mouse support

I would like mouse support on the iPad as much as anyone else here, but it's still a very bold assumption to say it needs to have a mouse to be called "professional". It only takes a few minutes in any large airport to see real professionals using iPads for real work.
I’d fit that case under my “minimum seat space regulation clause”, but yeah, not gonna happen. I feel for the tall guys on flights, but not enough to want them to jam their seat into my chest.

Real enemy here is the airlines and the lack of regulation.
Parrot Detained for Yelling 'Police' to Warn Its Owners About a Drug Raid
TLDR: “The White House keeps asking why we can’t do what Huawei does, and how long it would take for us to be able to do so,” said one US telecoms executive. “They don’t seem to understand — we gave that capability up a long time ago.”
So that sounds like a Virgin block and not a UK government one.
And my recollection of the Power Broker is that he got a lot done by aligning with the desires of the rich at the expense of incredible numbers of poor people who had no power to stop him from destroying their lives. I would hope that we can figure out better ways to justify building bridges, freeways, buildings, and parks.
Planet Money had a great episode a while ago about how much more complicated tax returns in the US are than in any other country, and how TurboTax has been fighting to keep it that way: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
You can add your “generic address” to another inbox as an “alias” free of charge.

$210 annually seems like a deal if it keeps your family’s most sensitive private messages away from ad targeting.
Major emperor penguin colony disappeared, or “Thanks, global warming ”
I note that it is missing from the Wikipedia page, as well.
Pepsi is a global brand, $1M is on the low end for a redesign of their primary logo.
I'm from Germany, live in the US and have lived in Shanghai for several months in 2015 and have returned every year since. Definitely had some blue skies.

I would consider living / working in Shanghai. Ever since I spent my 3 months there I have called it New York 2.0.
I have no experience doing this, but Erlang and Elixir do support hot upgrades.

The Big Elixir 2018 - Desmond Bowe - Hot Upgrade Are Not Scary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeUF48vSxwI
Intuit is actively involved in making the process as convoluted as possible.
What I do on my Pixel 2 is use the wrong finger 5 times to force passcode / pattern entry, though I'm not sure if it resets after a certain amount of time or forces the next unlock to be passcode / pattern. Still might be useful in a pinch or if being coerced to unlock the phone under duress.
So naps the same day catch it up? I will often wake up and be unable to get back to sleep. I am able to sleep later in the day after I have walked, and had food.

I finished most of the book, but don’t remember seeing what he wrote on this.
>The most comical part was the words were still spoken by an actor trying to lip sync.

As brilliantly parodied by The Day Today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UhXivPyw4
Intuit lobbies to keep taxes complicated so they can continue to have a business model.

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
I guess it depends what you mean by "thing",. I see a roundish thing, a squareish thing, a gridish thing, a softish thing. But they are all "ish" because not real things.
Can't you send some preliminary request based on pending patent? Also, Huawei and Xiaomu have been getting stronger in US market for years now.

Expensive? We are talking about $1T company here. I can't imagine they are unable to afford litigation in their core business space.

Basically, until somebody shows they violated some patent(s), these claimes about stolen tech are just a smere campaign. I don't understand why Huawei won't sue for it.
Good summary! One could almost say that the main point of weightlifting is maximum power production, while the main point of powerlifting is moving as much weight as possible. Ha!
Meh. Flipped another way, "90% of people in the US with twitter accounts don't post much if ever, and that long tail makes up 20% of twitter's US content"

Sounds about right, and not very alarming. Unless you're on twitter's engagement team, heh.
I'm betting that Microsoft is going to come out with a Surface branded Android phone in the next 2-3 years, and allow Android apps to be entered into the Microsoft Store. Use their leverage in developer tools to make publishing in all 3 stores easy. The groundwork is being laid, but I think they are very much focused on the cloud and catching up to AWS offerings.
That's how it is in cutting edge research. It is much better to say "we don't know" than to speculate, which is what a natural reaction of many other researchers would be.
So, the amount of people that would find the word “cis” to be an insult is vanishingly small. So small that what might be considered nuance in this context is beyond the scope of what defines the word nuance.

The reason it’s as small a group of people as it is, is because first, you’d have encounter someone trans. There are few trans people one might happen upon, outside of dense urban cores. To say one in a thousand is padding the density distributed across the suburban population.

Second, you’d have to locate a trans individual advertising (or attempting to advertise) a clearly determined gender of some kind.

Third, you’d have to interact with this person.

Fourth, you’d have antagonize them. More often than not, inviting problems for yourself.

Fifth, after introducing conflict, you’d have to know that “cis” is viewed as a counter-slur by in-group trans people.

Sixth, you’d have to interpret the context of the usage as not an abbreviation for sister.

Seventh, you’d have to be a gender that doesn’t fit the premise of being referred to as a sister.

Eighth, you’d have to clear these previous requirements and care about the insult that was just used against you.

Ninth, for the burn of the insult to really stick, you’d have to be outnumbered by those also recognizing “cis” as a slur.

Tenth, and finally the most punishing moment of the supposedly insulting counter-slur, you’d need at least one peer of your own in-group to turn against you and side with the individual using the counter-slur of “cis” against you.

There is, exceeding a five-nines level of probability, near certainty that for most people that ever hear the word “cis” pronounced by a live human being standing within earshot, and used in anger, no situation ever reaches 8. When used in anger against those self identifying as male, most have a hard stop at 5. And five just leaves the victim slightly confused and dismissive.

So the situation, as described, teeters on the brink of fantasy. For most trans people hoarding the word “cis” in their arsenal of concepts, they will never get to use to its intended effect it in a situation that matters.

Even now, on the internet there is a six sigma certainty that among the sevens IRL, very nearly none will cross over to an eighth degree “cis” target.

So, to sum up, the word “cis” pretty much doesn’t have any impact, for all the effort impressed upon it.
Same goes for the iPad and iPhone. Never thought I'd see the day when iPhone model names became as meaninglessly inscrutable as Nokia's or Blackberries (e.g. BB Curve 9730).
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Once China switched to a market economy they became communist in name only. A totalitarian regime that asserts its dominance over private, market based industry is the textbook definition of fascism.
Teslas are billowing smug into the atmosphere at a faster rate than the pious prius people. If the fanboyism would take a back seat to pragmatism we could all move forward with electric. As it stands they are growing as annoying as the bicycling vegan birgade.
> It's simply not true we have no incentive to fix this

I just happen to have set up an email server and encountered the same problems with Google as described in the article. I own the IP since quite some time, it is not on any black list, reverse DNS is set up etc. but Google rejects email as spam.

And this even happens when the gmail account has added the sender in his address book and has send the first email to which I replied - thus there is a message id that should already be known on Gmail's side.

Use your AI to put email into the spam folder. Refusing it outright is a case for the European Commission which hopefully will slap you another few billions of fine onto the wrist until you remember to play nicely with the other kids.

There is no excuse to refuse SPF, DKIM, reverse DNS, proper MX, no blacklist, sender in recipient address book and reply-to msgId email.
How long before we see "Is my flight a 737 Max " app
It’s a bit on the nose to see their robots.txt file state:

> Disallow: taxfreedom
They have, but they've also been helped by the former center of Mojang's fanbase's cult-of-personality going completely off the deep end. If Notch was still "that quirky dude making little games here and there" instead of a chud screaming on Twitter all the time, I tend to think there would be more (unreasonable, but extant) dissatisfaction with Microsoft's handling of Minecraft.
Yep, newbie gains will be almost entirely about the nervous system. You'll get stronger without adding much if any bulk. Then as you continue over time, you need to add rest to your routine. It's counterintuitive to a degree.
Sinofsky on Email and Email Clients
I think you're being overly negative. I think you can do a lot with a little.

Does a chat app need to be fully searchable? I don't think so. Does it need backups? I don't think so. These are features users could opt-in for if it was that important to them. Could be something simple as sending encrypted nightly diffs to an email address.

The whole world doesn't need to be over engineered to have a useful product.
It’s not just your phone, and a warrant isn’t always needed thanks to this precedent. Police are able to search without a warrant under many circumstances. For example, they could pull you over, give their dog a command to “hit” on your car, claim the dog smells drugs to search your vehicle, and force anyone in the vehicle to unlock their phones if they’re using biometric security.
Where there is money there are people trying to get a piece.

This is why we need regulations.
This goes way beyond dark patterns and ux strategies to push people towards paid options. This is manipulating search engines to hide their services when searching for "free tax filing". If they're going to offer free services, but hide them from potential customers, they might as well not be offering them. if they're not offering them, then they're not holding up their end of the bargain with the IRS.
Using graph theory to inform changes to 1000 services
Absolutely any successful aircraft has pilots on the development team. And you're absolutely right that us in the computer business DO spend a lot of time navel gazing instead of listening to the users. It's endemic.
I'd never considered it like that. Nice! thankyou.
And most have redundant systems.
Right, but say in 2016 you gave a 1/3 chance to Trump, 1/3 chance to Clinton, and 1/3 chance to Vermin Supreme. Exactly one of them will win, so your calibration for 1/3 will be perfect. If you do the same for elections with different numbers candidates, you can have good calibration overall without actually producing any information over the base rate.
In theory, that's not supposed to work, as FaceID has an "attention check" to make sure your eyes are open and looking at the phone. I don't know how robust this is, but perhaps your kids could do some tests?
Mind your own business.

Who cares what they do or their own web site.
How do they even get into that business? They see the tax filling process and think "hey, it's too easy, let make it harder and sell a product to make it easier" (I'm clearly not a business person).
Plate Echo – The Greatest Studio Effect of All Time
Well, that's not really a quarantine, then, is it? So, 'they' (meaning, the government) doesn't quarantine people with the flu.
I prefer the current way that content makes its way to the HN frontpage:

instagram->4chan->crappy content aggregator->reddit->HN
Short story: lobbying.
You were given raw memory access on historical Lisp Machines.
It's called 'cult of personality'. Forget Elon as the person he is and focus on metrics and outcomes, which is what Elon essentially wants: bare bones data on how (and why) his ventures perform.
Credit Karma does legitimately free filing
This news totally made my day! Read the owner's (Noëlle Santos) poem "The Bronx is Burning with a Desire to Read": http://www.thelitbar.com/odetolitbar.

How can the HN crowd help independent bookshops like these? Schedule a meetup at the venue? Help with the webpage? Free cloud hosting? Help with the books and/or legal?
They don't need 20 years of anything; they simply needed a change in leadership, which they got.

Satya is drastically changing the culture and with it the business. I get there are people out there that will always have an ax to grind (you seem to be one of those) but if you wait 20 years to trust a business again, you'll be left behind with any improvements or optimizations that happen in the meantime.

If Microsoft sustains its direction for a few more years at most, given the pace at which the industry they are in evolves, the legacy practices they had won't much matter.
Last time I tried to navigate the free system, it ended up being so labyrinthine that I just printed out the forms and did it by hand. Took about 45 minutes for a mix of W-2 and 1099 incomes.
Isn't the Boeing incident a symptom of poor engineering practices? Spaceships by all accounts seem to have similar if not higher levels of computer-controlled overrides to actually make the damn thing fly past Earth's atmosphere. The difference of course being that spaceship software is rigorously tested whereas Boeing was very lax in their implementation so they could rush the plane out the door.

I don't see a problem with the idea of delegating aspects of flight to the computer - just fix the software engineering practices that lead to this tragedy. Please. :)
AirPods Are a Survival Tool for Open-Plan Offices
Isn't charging people to use other carriers one of the big things that got Bell broken up? Google seems to tread in a of very dangerous waters. I wonder if they're just not aware of how close they are to being shutdown entirely, simply because so far they've always withstanded most legal challenges.
Kayak added a filter for it last month.
If your entire core team does not want threads, then police your company's slack to make sure people aren't using threads. The engineering org at my company decided that threads should be used as much as possible and when people don't reply to a previous message using a thread, they get told to use a thread next time. After months of doing this, noisy messages that are just replies to other messages have decreased significantly. Another alternative is having people always mark the checkbox that says "Also send to #channel".

Vocal minorities shouldn't drive product decisions.