skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad you're here and listening. I'm another poor schmuck who runs his own email server for family members (you can look it up from my HN profile -> mx record) and Gmail deliverability has been a problem for me for over a decade. I do DKIM, SPF, reverse DNS, had the same IP for many years, etc etc., and it's a total crapshoot whether Gmailers get my message in their inbox or spam folder.
Postmaster tools have been useless for me because apparently my volumes aren't high enough.

I'm inclined to think Gmail's approach to this problem is fundamentally flawed, because Gmail has been by far the worst at binning my server's emails. I don't have this problem with Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, etc., etc. Now, feel free to argue that their approaches are too lenient, but if I have to choose between false negatives and false positives in my spam filter, I absolutely know which one I'd choose.
The shocking rise of lung cancer in non-smokers
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> When you're pulled over for a traffic stop, a search requires probable cause.

That's the theory. In practice police can get away with pretty much anything, and if you make it to the point where a judge is listening to you, he/she won't be sympathetic.

You've seen the videos where the idiot cop didn't realize his camera was on and filmed himself placing drugs? This didn't just happen once.
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This also happened to London during industrialization (London Smog), and they were able to clean it up afterwards. The hope is that China can do the same—there's been significant progress in recent years.
...says Axios, an outlet infamous for obsequious coverage of the wealthy and well-connected. In Tech, Microsoft is old money, thus this puff piece.

Just this year Microsoft's Outlook service had a massive breach, leaking ~800 million passwords. Their flagship product, Windows 10, is infamous for randomly blocking people from working. The recent October automatic update even went ahead and just deleted users' files. Remembebr Windows Phones? Remember Bing? MSN is still live... so I guess it outlasted Google Plus.

I guess since its efforts in social media are a whisper of a joke, that by default they're "winning" ? More likely it's just Axios being Axios.

meanwhile .. https://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/list/, http://www.millwardbrown.com/brandz/rankings-and-reports/top..., and any other extant brand ranking shows Microsoft pretty far from the top
Their business is doing extremely well. They can turn on profitability any time they want.

As an investor, I would not want them to turn a profit at this stage with so much headroom left, especially internationally.

If they choose to go for profitability this early on, then I take it as a negative signal.

Profit is too simple of a number to focus on. It doesn’t tell any kind of story by itself. But it’s a tempting number to latch onto.
> 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).

If they can detain you then how are you free to leave?
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Assuming people value the outputs of both businesses the same (i.e. the chain will get paid just as much as the independent business), economies of scale should let the chain have higher margins.
We have a very poor understanding of consciousness and when death occurs, and yet every day we harvest organs from living donors before allowing them to die. Why so much caution demanded here when we already consider something still much very unknown to be "solved enough"?
So... it's a re-post of an earlier article, updated to reflect the difference in time. Is that what I'm supposed to make of it?
> My company spends about $1,000/year on Slack. We likely will in perpetuity, as long as we/Slack exists.

What was your company using before Slack and what did it cost?
Since you profile claims you are from Google, you should know by helping here you really doing disservice to everyone else having same problems. Hacker News is not a “gmail customer support hotline center”. You have billions of dollars to setup a system or heck the whole state of the art department to help people with their gmail problem. So you will help two people on HN bitching at gmail.. what about all those that never heard of HN? Sorry friend you doing this only because at some degree google and gmail obviously does not want to look bad to tech society. /rant
> they can’t turn a profit, and for any hope to turn profit they need this continual growth at a loss, and at some point the investors dump the bag on the public getting a return in a bubble they created and let the public fund the losses.

Could you provide some data to show that companies which, at IPO, have any cumulative loss or a very large cumulative loss (as a percentage of valuation or offering size), perform worse as investments or as going concerns?

From your other comments, it seems like the foundation of your proposed change is that going public with significant losses is an attempt to get less-sophisticated investors to compensate more-sophisticated investors.

While there are many arguments against your proposed change, the first step seems to be establishing that the problem you’re trying to solve actually exists. I’m not convinced that it does (but don’t have data either way - that’s just anecdotal), and in fact many - maybe most - institutional investors in private companies continue to hold post-IPO shares long after the lockup (and gradually sell over 1-3 years simply to diversify).

As you investigate this, it might be worth reading about the “CAC payback period” and how it can lead to significant upfront losses: https://baremetrics.com/academy/cac-payback-period, https://kellblog.com/2016/03/17/cac-payback-period-the-most-...
I've used freelancer for design work several times with no issue. Concerning that they would lock peoples money up.

I do get a number spam replies and even plagiarism from time to time, so I could see why they would kick some people out.
It's not going over my head. You support Justice Democrats.
That can only be answered in hindsight.
IRA/401k contributions are pre-tax and thus tax deductible, so you need to account for that deduction in the current tax year. The income produced within the IRA/401k is taxed upon withdrawal.

Roth IRA/401k are post-tax investments, and thus not tax deductible. And the income they produce within the IRA/401k is not taxed upon withdrawal.

Ergo, traditional IRAs are more complicated because you have to account for the deduction in the current year, and you have to account for income tax (as well as FICA by the way) upon withdrawal, plus there are mandatory distribution rules based on your age. The Roth IRA are less complicated, no deduction claimed therefore no deduction to prove in the current year, and no taxes to compute on withdrawal, with no mandatory distributions.
It's not a sudden replacement, the old guard are naturally going to promote people who have the same mindset.
I think the implication is that the poster has continued to work there for two more years despite still having the same complaint.
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seems like the post has been deleted?
One of my colleagues in a previous job had this super boring but very critical task - making sure the financial numbers entered in the system are correct. One mistake could cause serious problems for the company.

My boss (CTO) once remarked - "we never hear from or about Patrice, she must be doing a fantastic job!"

Point being, when things work, it is rare that people talk about it (like my boss), they just take it for granted. When things don't work though, that is a different story.

I suppose it is just human nature.
This is literally described in the S-1.

A large plurality of it is sales & marketing. The next biggest chunk is R&D.
I imagine there's quite a lot of juicy information hiding behind noindex tags across the web. Is there a search engine that ignores these tags?
Release it as a program that patches a Super Mario Bros ROM until it functions as a C64 ROM?
A lot of what you say about The Pragmatic Programmer, applies to the book Code Complete too, particularly your last paragraph, however, it has so many "good practices" points, that it is worth reviewing now and then, even for experienced programmers, IMO.
>As a side note, people like to talk about how capitalism has slashed inequality and lifted people out of poverty. However this is misleading. China alone lifted 700 millions people out of poverty.

Those aren't really contradictory statements though. China lifted 700 million people out of poverty after the government opened up its centrally planned economy in 1978 and started trading with the free market. China calls themselves communist, but they act like a capitalist country in a lot of ways
There are similar stories for Upwork (brand name after Odesk + Elance merger).

I was literally blackmailed by an Upwork contractor who refused to release the already paid-for source code unless I gave them a 5-star rating. I notified the platform and they didn't care - and the solution was for the platform to prevent my ability to leave a review at all, making the contractor happy.

That contractor/agency was still on the platform at least a year after it happened.
They need to justify the spend for the execs with something that looks like it took more than 100 man hours to work out.

What I'm curious about is how much these design agencies recycle their stock bullshit for different clients. Just swap in different logos. Restyle with the new palette of pretentiously named colors. Apply the new commissioned font and voila, you have a rebranding document the C levels can feel chuffed about.
Something seems wrong with this story.

If your life depends on the projects you are participating in via a freelancing site, then you have clients. If Freelancer wrongly withheld the authors money, why didn't they contact their clients and tell them to make a stink? And why not deal with the clients via some other marketplace or payment method?
N=1, but my small email server actually hosts emails for a business, and the only problems I've ever had were with Microsoft, and they went away after i jumped through some hoops for them. I'm using a linode and dkim/spf/dmarc/tls/rdns.
>Am I correct in understanding that interest paid to deposits at a credit union get you a 1099-DIV?

No, income from interest paid on deposit accounts is reported on form 1099-INT, not 1099-DIV.

1099-DIV is for dividend income. 1099-INT for interest income. They are are reported different places on your tax form.

Nowadays most people don't get 1099-INTs from their banks or credit unions because interest rates are so low most people are making no more than $1-$2 a year in interest because rates are so low and financial institutions aren't required to issue 1099-INTs for interest income below $10. I used to get them from my credit union back in high school when rates were higher.
It's an incredibly stupid way to make a living and all the workers there should unionize and quit using sites like that.
This is why escrow companies exist. They are specifically to handle the case where parties need to transact but can't risk trusting each other.
[Backed Up] Freelancer.com stole from me and ruined my life
>you're suggesting that "public investors shouldn't have access to loss making companies, regardless of growth".

No that’s not what I’m saying...there is a difference between a company that is registering for an IPO and an existing publicly traded company.

And let’s not pretend Tech companies IPOing at losses is somehow protection to small investors...I don’t see anyone clamoring to allow these small investor be allowed to get in on unicorns pre IPO.
lol yeah wtf is OP trying to imply?

How about just stating what you think is wrong about the post rather than trying to be subtle and hinting at something nefarious while pointing out basic facts.

"Last year Abe said he was 15 years old, now he claims to be 16! Which is it Abe? Better keep your stories straight."
I carry an iPhone only because I don't trust Google. I don't like it, but at least I understand how Apple is trying to screw me. I am very excited for the Librem 5.
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Lots of smart people have been claiming since 2015 that Tether was a ponzi fraud, that it didn't really have dollars to back the Tethers.

But in fact Tether did have the money, at a real bank, and at this point that bank was Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd. in the Bahamas.

Amazing, Tether actually was fully backed by dollars in an actual bank!

But then Bitfinex took $625k of Tether reserves to make up for a separate fraud or government asset seizure.

Bitfinex took $625 million in real money at a real bank from Tether, and in exchange gave Tether back $625 million in fake money at a fake bank.

The real mystery to me is why rational traders continue to buy Tether at $0.9926, less than 1% from parity with USD. Why wouldn't people sell?
You can unfollow people on Facebook without unfriending them. Works wonders for people who you have a relationship with, but don't necessarily need to see their stream of posts.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!

Our navigation was redesigned about 2 years ago (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32794), and we conducted a lot of research and user studies to ensure we were creating the best possible experience (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/34917). All the navigation items to get to different pages within a project are contained in the left sidebar, while the buttons on the main portion of the screen are directly related to the current page.

For the issues page, I agree; we should probably add a max-width to the list. I've opened an issue to try it out https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/61046

We're currently also in the process of rethinking the right sidebar. It's getting cluttered, and there are items in there that probably aren't as frequently used as others. I've opened an MR to test a new design idea- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/27752.
We're also conducting research to find out which items are most frequently used/most important- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/issues/134 (the issue is private, but will be made public once the studies have been completed).

Hopefully this addressed at least some of your points. Please feel free to open some issues with any other ideas you have.
Can someone explain the need for and uses for a stablecoin in the world of cryptocurrency?
Eliminate it or not, it's how big projects are managed, in some industries at least. Instead of rewriting the same stuff over and over again, paying attention to the slightest of details, you generate your code based on the slightly modified new requirement which can be an excel sheet that all the stakeholders can read. Taken to the extreme, even the configs are done by clicking menus and buttons where a single line of code could would suffice. This is taken to the extreme, I agree, and it's the reason lots of devs are not so happy with their jobs. But it's also necessary, I suppose, if you want to externalize your projects to far away lands or you can't find top-notch devs for each and every project: you simplify and dumb down the work. Code generation helps here. It removes the hairy details.

From another view, eliminate you cannot not, since if you think nice and deep about it, what your compiler does is to generate code. You use this idea everyday, even if you know it or not. It's code generators all the way down.
I am the developer in charge of this, thanks for promoting it.
The "For whatever reason" is that the risk reward is not worth it to experiment with independents. Consumers have shown that they like the familiar by rewarding it financially. Real estate owners and fund managers aren't choosing to make less money, they just have data that shows what course of action likely leads to the highest returns. There are a few places with enough density and people that consciously like to go out and experiment with different vendors and whatnot, but not most places.
Yeah I read through them as well, looks a lot like astroturfing.
For the same reason that I do not use Windows or MacOS - I like my software to listen to me, not to some remote dictator no matter how 'benevolent' he might portray himself to be. My phones run Android but do not run anything Google - no play store, no Google Services Framework, no Google apps. Seen from foundation to screen they run a - generally closed source - bootloader, the Linux kernel, some derivative of AOSP with F-Droid to feed the thing with software. Somewhere on the side they also run the closed-source, closed-everything 4G (or 3G on some older devices) modem. The bootloader and the closed radio software are thus far unavoidable but for the other parts there is no excuse not to use open, 'free' software. Just like my servers and user-facing machines run Linux or one of the BSD's.

An iPhone would not be a step up but a jump down.
Similar story, different middleman company...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427086

The point is, as a freelancer, you are on your own.
Twitter is the literal opposite of community-building, like usenet used to be.

Not that I'm nostalgic, usenet simply could not scale to the number of users we see online today.

I think Reddit is closer to usenet in its DNA, but usenet groups were TINY compared even the smallest popular subreddits. reddit isn't perfect by any means, no one has solved the scalability issue, but if it weren't for mods, reddit would be even worse than it is right now.
Yes but economy today is half the price of what it was 30 years ago!
Nope. This is replacing composition with configs for no good reason. It's like the people who made Grunt and Webpack teamed up to ruin React for everyone.
The 7+ is a firmly mid range phone. Why even try and compare them?
My point was that designers don't get to decide what products get launched, the market does. If there was an alternate design that created excitement and was relatively affordable, it would very quickly become popular. Products are created through user testing, market research, and limited by available components (which themselves are limited by what's already out there), so change is slow and conservative.
SF tech company salaries.
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I wonder what the minimum-effort private organization would be which could comply with IRS rules to offer free filing of extensions, 1040ez, etc. I'd happily throw in $1k toward it (even though I'm not eligible, and thanks to Puerto Rico, don't need to file federal taxes, probably, after 2019).

Just offering a simple, responsible, and stress free process for these filings, ideally with zero advertising, or just a brief "fuck turbotax, this is why..." message, and good infosec/anti-fraud (to protect against the EIC-claim-scams against the poor) would be great. The downside is a lot of those people need immediate access to cash, so a shittier commercial option offering instant refunds for a high fee would probably still get a lot of victims.

A big company like Walmart could possibly offer this to users, too, for free, and offer instant-refund as store card or savings accounts.
Heck, don't we even have a name for it because it happens all the time? Pareto distribution.
Sure, but look at the flip side: it’s a way for people from tiny, remote countries to get access to an integrated market of software projects, and a payment platform.

The payment part in particular is lucrative for that population.
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> Feel like this is essentially copypasta for tech IPOs now.

It literally is; the SEC requires companies to state that unless they have an established track record of profitability (which most tech IPOs do not).
This also mirrors my experience, as I host my own email and it's solely for me. At one point, I couldn't successfully send any email to gmail, but then it changed for some reason and simply gets sent to spam folders instead. Perhaps it's entirely related to some people emailing me first that it gets through at all.

I don't send much mail to gmail, though. Sans that, my only issue has been a mail server that uses Reverse DNS, which I don't have set up, and entirely ignores my email without it.

I suppose I can understand this if some people get a great deal of spam, but requiring so much of this on an unencrypted message seems more like useless reassurances than anything. I'm not criticizing email for being unencrypted, but this seems more like another hoop to jump through than anything.

Also of note, almost all of the spam I receive is from gmail addresses and I wouldn't be surprised if the invalid addresses that send messages demanding bitcoin are also from gmail, but with fake From fields.
I would assume the smaller companies are much more efficient when it comes to R&D.
The next time you think about using a platform / marketplace for freelance work just repeat this to yourself:

"I should spend a large portion of my life to become an expert in my craft, and then I should agree to have my privacy stripped away from me while I race to the bottom and undercut my competition because I will actively place myself into situations where I have the highest competition to ensure I receive the lowest rates. Lastly, I will bust my butt and bend the world to satisfy clients who take advantage of me."

Then it starts to make total sense on what you should avoid them like the plague.

Really, just put in the leg work and build up your own network[0]. It's so worth it.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-start-a-successful-fre...
It depends if the game makes you pay for facing changes. In that case the drunken walk ends up being much slower.

Of course you can say "so make facing changes free", but that can be a substantial chunk of the movement strategy, especially if the units are fairly slow. And it definitely won't feel right if your Roman Legions can do doughnuts right outside the city.

The best compromise I've seen is Dream Pod 9's system that allows one free hexside change when you enter a hex. I don't know why more games don't adopt that rule.
I've enjoyed that article since it was first posted. Its predictions have held up well.

As you said, it's a very slow signal. The model predicts what will happen over 10 years. It doesn't say whether there will be steady X% YOY growth, or a massive plunge and then a compensating rebound.
I imagine there must be a scale where Azure is pleasant. Certainly, Microsoft seems to do a great job of marketing it to the sorts of giant Windows-and-Office companies that might not want to sign on for a standard AWS package.

But all of my experiences (up through "startup" size), and virtually all the stories I hear from below "major corporation", are terrible. Endless compatibility issues, awful interfaces, flatly inaccurate documentation, and support which is more time-consuming than GCP's approach of "buzz off" but equally unhelpful.
From what I can see... user lost $1300 and ability to use Freelancer.com. I'm not sure what lead to "not been able to even leave my house".

Just move on and use Upwork.com.
> A lot of what you say about The Pragmatic Programmer, applies to the book Code Complete too

Agreed, that's why I listed that book in my linked comment:)
In terms of corruption the US is no different.
Microsoft tries to block Hackinwindows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)#Microsoft
Well I of course believe every bad thing I hear about one of these sites, although I did do an extra validation layer on SAML one time for 1000 dollars that took 4 hours work all in all so that was good, but I think the thing that is sort of off is that if you update to reflect the difference in time but still keep it in present tense some things, such as the been in the house for a week after losing the money, start to seem unbelievable.