skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python for NLP: Introduction to the Pattern Library
The chart is very misleading. Instead of charting rank year on year, Axios should have charted the actual reputation, and then placed a few household names next to them so they're more comparable.

https://theharrispoll.com/axios-harrispoll-100/

Facebook's score (58) is basically in the dumpster category, a notch behind Comcast (61.4), Bank of America (60.9), and Goldman Sachs (60), though still several notches ahead Trump Org (50.1), Philipp Morris (49.4), and the US government (48.6).

The other tech giants are within a few points of each other: Amazon gets 82.3, Microsoft 79.7, Netflix 77.3, Apple 76.4, and Google 75.4. Amazon is in the same category as Disney. The other 4 are comparable to the likes of Coca Cola, Procter and Gamble, Unilever, Nike, etc.
If there's one uncomfortable thing Google has made painfully clear to all of us, it's that the vast majority of consumers just aren't interested in paying for things like email or search.

It isn't due to a lack of offerings. There are plenty of provides that will happily do so. Anyone who wants to can buy email from Google today! Yet in the face of this the vast majority of users choose not to pay for email.

My current operating hypothesis is that the vast majority of ordinary users value their privacy right up to the point where they have to put a price on it. At which point a handful of nerds (like us!) are willing to pay, but most people happily trade their privacy for services instead of involving money.
I admire your efforts, and I hope I wasn't to harsh with criticism. Main reason why I don't think I would use your product is rigidness of systems like this.
I looked into complice.co some time ago and this is another good try at achieving what you do, but for me personally I prefer the flexibility of pen&paper with ability to update how I try to do this kind of goal/task tracking.

I hope you achieve success, I saw your submission got a lot of traction on producthunt, so it seems all is good
> I mean, that's basic economics of competition.

Yes, in a free market. Airlines are expensive and heavily regulated. And regulators are subject to capture (ref: FAA and 737-MAX problems). Which means there are major barriers to building a new airline.

I suspect it's actually much more profitable for airlines to follow the profit-seeking lead of a competitor. E.g. if Delta rolled out the standing seats for their current price, I suspect we'd see United and American follow. You don't have to look too far to see that's been the case with other "conveniences" like bag check fees, bag weight limits, seat selection fees, food for sale instead of being included in the price, etc.
Amazon massive economies of scale due to operating a highly efficient worldwide supply chain. I don't see Slack's average variable cost per unit going down in that same way. Amazon also made a lot of money on things like AWS by reinvesting, which is why they weren't profitable. They were burning that money by reinvesting it, not for operating expenses.
What exactly is it about aluminum that you like?
https://blog-rails5-upgrade.about-src.gitlab.com/2019/04/10/... is a WIP blog post about how we upgraded to Rails 5 which might be interesting, too.
Having attended an ISO C++ meeting and hearing the very constructive dialogue between the various compiler teams and vendors, I am not that pessimistic. I believe they are trying to prove that they can be interoperable with other implementations, allowing you to use Visual Studio to build Clang/GCC projects if you so desire, which helps the ecosystem of C++ as a whole. If Microsoft only needed this for an internal tool for building Edge, they would have no need to go through the difficulty of releasing it to the public and having to support it.
> I think to balance the playing field with VC and private investment, companies shouldn’t be able to IPO with loses.

If the investing community really thought this was a bad idea then these companies wouldn't IPO. Especially after the lessons learned from 2000.

Look, I get that people want to shit on unprofitable tech businesses, but in case you haven't noticed, investors absolutely love the financials on these companies. Why? Because their cashflows generate insanely strong tailwind effects.

I strongly urge anyone who likes shitting on to read what Bezos says on his earnings calls about earnings vs cash flow, or read Tren Griffin's blog.[0]

Good example...look at FB's FCF - https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/fb/financials/ca...

[0] - https://25iq.com/2014/04/26/a-dozen-things-i-have-learned-fr...
The rules are about what information is disclosed. The difference is that with public companies, there are rules about what actually gets disclosed and how often. That's why the general public is allowed to invest. It's about how much information is available, not what that information actually is. Investors need to determine whether or not they invest.

In no world is the SEC's role to determine whether or not a company's business strategy qualifies them to go public or not. That would be an absolute disaster.
tesla wants to stay in business as a company, that would kill them, as it would any company. you might not be aware that on non-freeway roads, tesla won't let you 'auto-drive' more than 10 miles over the speedlimit. you can just 'drive' any speed you want, but you can't engage autopilot more than 10 over on side streets.
This is a ridiculous example because it equates clearly immoral and possibly illegal actions with legal trivia (because a hypothetical country may simply require a certain wording for compliance and it's trivial to mess that up).

Facebook claims to "value privacy" (and some devs have even told me that they value it "more than any other company") but their actions consistently show either neglect or outright abuse.

Should a developer be punished for implementing something illegal that the legal team signed off on and that wasn't obvious illegal? No, because the legal team is supposed to take the responsibility and if it wasn't obviously illegal the developer had no reason to assume the legal team was lying.

Should a developer be punished for implementing something obviously illegal even when the higher ups say "don't worry about it"? Yes. If your boss tells you to rob a bank, you still go to prison for bank robbery.

For everything in between: whistle blowing is a thing. If you suspect something fishy is going on, document everything, raise concerns and report what is happening.

Also if you are a well-paid employee in a position where you can easily find another job in the industry, speak up to your superiors and refuse to be complicit. Organise.
We are a relatively small company and we operate our own mail server, mostly out of a shared belief in data privacy among myself and our staff. We self-host most of our tooling (mail, internal chat, Gitlab, CI/CD, and so on). It turns out this is all pretty simple given modern virtualization infrastructure and, in my estimation, has many upsides versus the alternatives.

That said, like the OP, despite having DKIM, SPF, proper DNS, and every other measure applied, it's conceivable that gmail might reject some emails from us. I don't have any memory of that actually happening, but I have heard stories like the OP's several times. It's a fairly common topic in conversation forums about self-hosting email servers. I don't expect the situation to change any time soon—I don't expect Google to change their ways and it would require significant pain for me to surrender to the gmail hegemony.
It might also be something a bit different:

There's a lot of people on the left who are angry with Clinton and the Democrat establishment for running a very technical/data-driven campaign that turned out to be very flawed and ran counter to common sense (even her husband was telling her to campaign in areas she was ignoring due to this "data"). The technically driven 538 sort of represents that attitude.

Nate Silver has also started to stray into political punditry which is turning a lot of people off. People who liked him for his data are now having to hear where he stands on issues.
Mi Band 3. It appears its sleep quality measurement through gyroscope/accelerator is accurate enough.
Do you have any references for that?

I am not an expert but from my perspective I don't see why these would be illegal due to copyright or data protection laws in the UK?
Uber has a big competitive moat, which is willingness to burn money. They've got a lot of it, and any competitor which can't raise as much money for that purpose as Uber has will lose out. It's simple, in any area that a small competitor of Uber operates they just artificially lower prices and do it until the competitor runs out of money. The company with more money wins.

Slack... sure you can just spin up a rocket.chat or matrix instance, but operating those costs money and attention by employees that YOU need to hire and pay. And suddenly the Slack bill you have doesn't seem that high. Quite many companies are in such a situation. There are institutions in different situations, like the French state for example which employs millions (sic) and really wants to keep the data out of foreign hands so they use matrix instead and have staff to maintain the instances. With the costs being irrelevant for most institutions, they select for other criteria instead, which is quality of the product. And Slack for some reason is market leader here. I definitely prefer to use IRC but I'm not delusional, most people aren't like me.
In California, you have many undocumented immigrants whose vaccination status is unknown.
The only difference between hell and heaven is that in one, you end up understanding what you read. ;-)
If you think of a "digital business" as one that involves accepting user content, then being forced to identify those users and moderate their output could be a disadvantage compared to competitors in more 'liberal' (i.e. less regulated) regimes - if only due to the increased operational overhead.

OTOH, this is probably a small percentage of what most people think of as digital businesses, and might be seen as a price worth paying.
Spoiler alert: it’s 46 BC!

I confess I expected an article about how millisecond adjustments in 2008 made it slightly longer than all other years...
What using animals for scientific research taught me about myself – STAT
So you still type all this,

.selector .child_one,
.selector .child_two {
color: #000;
}

instead of,

.selector
.child_one,
.child_two
color #000

I no longer type a semi colon when developing a web site thanks to preprocessor and transpilers.
There surprisingly is still a toggle for density.

That appears to be the default ("comfortable") but you can change it to "compact".
This is disingenuous. A prediction is a prediction. There is a world of difference between 51% certain and 99% certain. People excited that their data science models get good predictions on their test set without considering, say, the RoC curve are setting themselves up for failure.

If a model says 75% chance of X rather than Y, that doesn’t mean you should expect X. Depending on context, you might be better off flagging it as unclear or even safer to conclude a possible Y.

Testing calibration of many models across many different trials as a test of data scientist competence is a little strange, but if you want to answer the question of how valuable the predicted likelihood’s are, it’s a decent measure.
The market is hot, and people would stuff money in a hole in the ground right now if you promised a possible 5x return. That will change soon enough. I think these unicorns may know this and may have decided their time to raise money publicly is now, before a market crash. Not saying the market is about to crash, but it's certainly volatile.
That's what people said when they were on Hipchat. And every other chat before Slack. Chat is commoditized software at this point.
Great article! My only knowledge of Oliver Sacks comes from his appearances on Radio Lab. I've just added On the Move to my wishlist. He seems like an interesting fellow.

If somebody wanted to get into weightlifting, where would they even start?
Heh, I just woke up and read this and thought “well thats enough problem solving for today” :) Glad we could help you avoid the hell that is adding npm to a non-node project!
Absolutely NIH. Plus the longstanding problems the Met has with race relations, and the usual underfunded police, schools and social services.
Bonds enforce good behavior. Sometimes you can send the bond money to whoever caught you behaving badly, but other times that's exploitable, so you just burn the money instead.

Things like this come up a lot in layer-2 scaling solutions, for example. It also plays a central role in proof of stake, though that's not live on Ethereum yet.

I don't have a good specific example handy, though.
> impossible to reliably short the instrument

I see this a lot, if you can't sell short then the price can't decline?

If I held Tether and thought it was worth less than $1.00, I would sell it.

If most people think it's worth less than $1.00, they would sell it and the price would drop to reflect the risk.

Why doesn't this happen? Is is just crooked exchanges posting phantom orders? If so, why don't smart traders sell into that and liquidate?
You really got me interested in this! Thank you for all the details.
Perfect, thank you for that! One other person reported the same problem. He is on the exact same build as you are. I haven't been able to download that build. But I've checked 72... and 74... and the problem does not appear to be there.
Domain Connect
I got very far with Starting Strength: https://www.startingstrength.com
I can be away for a few days, catch up quickly, and add a comment to a conversation that ended long ago and know that the participants will actually see it. All thanks to threads.
In my opinion the Gmail web interface should expose a way to generate something that is similar to a password, whose delivery is then controlled via the web portal.

This is similar to the +whatevertag trick that gmail pioneered for tagging, however that can be removed by malicious parties (spammers) via a simple regex. So Google have almost all of the infrastructure but should just add a bit more to get the rest of the way there.

What I mean in specific :

1. I want to sign up to and receive your newsletter (you[re Ted) but I don't trust you yet. so I should navigate to gmail.com, click something like "generate another inbox", leave it set it to "For now deliver this mail to my inbox", add the description "for Ted's Possibly Spammy Newsletter", and then click "generate". It should give me inbox3943578423@gmail.com - similar to a phone number but a bit longer and personalized to one recipient - and then I should give that to the recipient to use, in this case the possibly spammy newsletter. It should always be delivered to my inbox, as I've set. Once one of the spammers sells my email address (for example I start getting advance payment scams) I'll be able to disable further spam from there by sending it to the trash but also know that Ted's newsletter is the one that got compromised or sold it. You can do this today by going through the steps of registering a new gmail address and turning on forwarding, but it takes like 10 minutes to do so. it should be like 10 seconds.

This should be possible because people always have easy access to the gmail web interface. There's no reason it can't be a bit more like a social network where you confirm it from the web interface as well.

that's my idea anyway.
Form has captcha: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/supportrequestform/8ad56...
Has there ever been a non monetary benefit to going public?
That might be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma
Security flaw lets attackers recover private keys from Qualcomm chips
You have to compile it, just like this poster has to compile their go code. There are usually packages and formulas for it in most std repos.
Microsoft got a bad rep because of its nefarious behavior in the 90s. It has killed many concurrent. It has fought against linux, java, netscape, ...

It has tried to replace win32 many times creating a mess for developers. How do silverlight experts feel ?

Recently, Microsoft has changed. visual studio code is excellent and OSS. WSL is getting very good.
Amazon Flexes One-Day Delivery
I think you are referring to the Law of Large numbers. "with a large enough number of samples, any outrageous thing is likely to be observed" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_truly_large_numbers
You can't really compare Scandinavian countries with less than 10 Millions people with one with 1.4 Billions.

Most people there have no real reason to learn English: their customers are mostly all Chinese, their business partners are mostly all Chinese, they don't travel outside of China, every possible type of content you could want exists in local language...

Even in Western countries like France, Spain or Italy, English is not so widely spoken, even if there is a much larger influx of people from other countries.
Some of this infrastructure duplication ought to go down by that scale, as there are likely a good number of users at any given location.
Free IPTV service with more than 2000 channels
Boeing may be now well and truly fucked
I'm not on a machine I can access Gmail from right now, so I can't say if it appears the same size on my screen. However, just for perspective, HN's logo with name is ~122x22. I like that it stays at the top of the page and can go out of view with scrolling. Gmail's logo is always in view, taking screen space.
Catching up quickly is not something I associate with slack—mostly missing things, actually.

This is obviously a hard problem to solve without just making it back into email. Muting apps that spam notifications for someone else’s benefit would be a great start. Not allowing bots to spam new threads at you and cleaning up old threads automatically would also be great—having a ton of old threads brings the client to its knees on my dual core laptop.
> Elm gets plundered repeatedly before it ever reaches version 1.0.

I concur. Ever since Elm 0.17 [1], when Evan removed event streams and standardized on The Elm Architecture, Elm seems to have lost its way. Just saying as an interested outsider.

[1] https://elm-lang.org/blog/farewell-to-frp

I presume it is a matter of perception: Elm is now perceived as a GUI toolkit rather than a language in its own right. Elm achieved simplicity and, ironically because of that, it is now plain easy to port its main ideas to other languages.
I can imagine the thinking on Pepsi's procurement end after all said and done:

"Oh yeah, looks like a modern version of our old logo - good! Seems like there's some golden-ratio-ey stuff behind it too which will have subliminal effects - bonus! Price is abit steep but only exceeds our budget by 10% - don't wanna cheap out either, so let's take it!"
Sounds like Sacks was doing 5x5s coincidentally.
I wonder sometimes how this has effected our current politics also. With everyone born from post-WWII until the 1980 experiencing some level of lead poisoning.
“Let's bring a goddamn bookstore to the Bronx.”
I assume we're talking about scintillating scotoma here - you have about a minute to find a safe place to stop until the "blind" zone grows enough. But yeah, this precludes the bearer from piloting mechanisms that can't come to a stop within a minute.
It contextualizes a remark from a group that claims to speak for the party's electorate by providing hard numbers. That's what people who follow Nate expect from him on Twitter.

Edit: to be fair, if memory serves JD mostly/entirely endorsed primary challenges rather than incumbents. The base rate for primary challengers is pretty low, so ~1/3 is a respectable win rate and I would concede that it's a little disingenuous not to mention that.
Oh no, turn back while you still can. My team is in full revolt due to a company-wide migration from Slack to Teams. Teams is worse in almost every way. We're seeing lots of missing functionality, bizarre UI bugs, random crashes, extremely slow sync, you name it. Teams is in no way a viable replacement for Slack unless your use case is one or two plaintext messages per day.
Although in principle “safe” is a necessary precondition of most businesses, it’s being used in this case to mean “censorship of categories which have been poorly defined by people who think they’re obvious”.

As I grew up outside the USA and never lived in a culture of “freedom of speech is an inalienable right” (even after it became a right in the UK in 1998), I’ve always been comfortable with the principle of censorship. However, I do also understand the inherent danger of censorship, and that it makes certain social and political movements totally impossible. For example, one of the examples given in this story is that moderators are exposed to bestiality — an act which was legal until a few years ago in Germany when a moral panic about animal brothels caused the law to change. Just like a Bayesian trap, when it became illegal, any evidence that it shouldn’t be illegal automatically got zero credence and was no longer able to change the average person’s beliefs (if you are willing to continue to update your beliefs about that, good for you, but the ability is uncommon).

Now, I’m not going to argue for any particular prohibition policy positions on that or any other topic, but just the fact that “harm” isn’t defined in the UK proposal means that the censorship they call for is vulnerable to very large changes in short periods, and the nature of censorship means it’s likely to ratchet up rather than stay at any particular level. Not so much a “slippery slope”, more of a drunk walk/hill climber.

Of course, as I said before, I’m not a free-speech absolutist. I’d be very happy if we start with the basics like “don’t make death threats” and “take steps to prevent your users making death threats”. I just want it done properly, and one thing most people can agree on these days is that the UK government isn’t capable of doing anything properly right now.
This happened at Netflix. I don't know if it was automated or not but the person that came up with a firing method was fired by said method

https://www.fastcompany.com/3056662/she-created-netflixs-cul...
Aphasia. It's happened to me a few times and it is awful

https://migraineagain.com/migraine-babble-words-get-jumbled/
Difficult to host smtp?! That's absolutely not true and has never been true. It's difficult to configure and set up in the first place but after that it's just updating. Source: personal experience for decades.
Wouldn't the reduction in pigs increase demand for soy? I think that must have been what you meant.
These days many people don't know the difference between Facebook and "the Internet". We've handed the reigns to our communication and culture into the greedy palms of about five mega-corporations that put profit above all else. Much better to use community software and platforms - things that people run for people, not companies running for profit.
> That doesn't sound quite right:

Yes, the non-substantive framing language around the substantive announcements sounds very different than what was actually announced, but what was actually concretely announced—that construction would proceed as committed on the ICS and that design and environmental clearance activities would proceed on the rest while the state sought federal and private funding—is exactly a continuation of the status quo ante.

Whether Newsome was trying to be seen as “doing something” about an issue that was perceived as a problem without actually concretely doing anything or whether he was trying to kill the project by giving political fuel to it's enemies while being able to say to supporters of the project that he had take no concrete steps against it is unclear or whether perhaps he planned concrete changes that somehow were below the level described in the announcement but his staff drafted an announcement that was too high level to capture the substance of the change is hard to say.