skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who want their email under control already have something similar - for instance, I have filters and labels and folders for Newsletters and offers, one for Family and friends, University and so on.
People who haven't taken control of their inbox yet won't be bothered to do that now.
Loved the music in the video though.
Innovation is better in academia
Why the Chinese gov't wouldn’t let PAR cover a League of Legends tournament
The workaround for that is simply to release the update as a new app. So, your customers could buy App 3.x and receive updates for App 3.x through 3.x+n, and then App 4.x is released separately.
Gmail should just get a brand new "Compose Email" that's not an infuriating fucking tiny half-baked pop-up.
> while pretending to apologize

No it was genuine. I don't think you lied at all and I apologized for it.

> but are tying to suggest that I'm a liar anyway with the ambiguous phrase "it still seems the behavior fits".

Re-read my original comment. The behavior I'm talking about is what is above the edit, not lying, but I can see how you would have that mistaken interpretation. I'm not having my best day with communication.

> You know other people can see your comments, right? Not just me?

Yes, I'm quite aware.
This won't help me. The only pain point I experience in my GMail workflow is the inability to mark-as-read or delete emails from my status tray. I end up opening one-line emails and spam just so I don't have to track them down and mark them as read later.
Just change (unfair) to (sometimes unfair), and I think he's dead on.

Most of the SEO companies out there are still either link spammers or impotent content marketers. There are exceptions: SEO-centered companies doing legitimate digital marketing - but it's fairly rare for them to do it well.

I use Moz's Open Site Explorer, and I watch closely to see what SEO companies are doing. More often than not, they're spamming links all across the web. This is true even today, even with Google's spam-fighting techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated. SEO companies are often leading their clients to the slaughter. Some companies that preach "great content, great UX" also turn around and buy or blast links.

To Moz's credit, they've really been pushing hard to encourage people to stop spamming and buying links. Their writers constantly argue against link spam, encouraging SEOs to instead create content that people will love. Their message actually meshes quite well with PG's philosophy on start ups, and indeed I know Rand is influenced by PG and HN.

It's possible that someone deeply involved in the Moz community, as Rand is, may just see a non-representative sample of non-spammers. They must realize this to some extent, as they're pulling "SEO" out of their branding.
With which statement?

There is one which explicitly encourages side effects -- the one which says "write bar.doFoo() instead of doFoo(bar)" -- but I think it's orthogonal; you can keep your inputs and outputs simple without rewriting your code to have a lot of state.
From the press release:

"He and his wife have one child and one dog. Neither is for sale."
You're confusing "serve the underclass" with "rip off the underclass."
Adults don't get messages from friends? Adults don't get deals and offers from Groupon, LivingSocial, or places they've shopped before? Adults don't get confirmations and receipts for things they purchase from Amazon or for flights they're taking?

These all seem like things people have in their email regardless of age. Your point seems pretty flimsy.
I think it's unclear how scalable and replicable The Magazine's success is (or even how successful it is).

Marco Arment has a sizable niche following which provided an initial boost when The Magazine launched. His personal connections have allowed him to snag a handful of known names within that same niche circle.

But more importantly, I think there's a different level of burden on a niche, under-the-radar type publication like this as compared to much of traditional media. I don't think Marco has a research staff to vet every article, so it's possible that they have or will eventually publish false information thanks to a lack of due diligence. Will anyone care? I guess it depends what falsehood they publish.

What if the falsehood results in a libel claim? Now you're talking about significant legal involvement (and costs).

Or maybe they end up running a story that has been plagiarized. What happens then?

I think that what Marco has done with the Magazine has been great, but I often find that when you start dissecting "broken industries", you can start to see a method to the madness that led to the current state of affairs, and I question if big media is no different.

Simplified money transfers were (still are?) a booming concept when PayPal launched, providing a simple alternative to the major banking networks that were slow and full of red tape. But as time has gone by, most of these payment services have gotten equally complex (holds on money, automatic reversals, etc...) because they slowly discovered that there was a reason for all the red tape. I find myself wondering if The Magazine's business model will discover a similar situation.
Will the ELF, from Durham-based Organic Transit, save the planet?
GitHub was top of my guesses.
> Always chock-full of useful data and insights.

Judge for yourself and look at the past presentations:

2012: http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trend...

2011: http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trend...

Kinda low S/N if you ask me, but perhaps helpful to those who consider it helpful.
If Netflix had live soccer here in Uruguay, it would put all cable providers out of business - it MASSIVELY underprices them and has a vastly better service.

It's currently about U$ 40 for the cable tv basic package, as there's a flaunted "oligo"(mono)poly here, which even managed to outlaw Carlos Slim's company - he doesn't care because Uruguay is not a relevant market.

Local football matches and European football drive a lot of cable packages, along with HBO and kids' shows and series (which are mostly available on Netflix).
There are pros and cons to both. I think I liked having them, but I would like them to stay hidden if it is indeed making the community better. And that I guess was the point of my post. Has it made the community better? Can that even be effectively judged?
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You don't think people would set up a tab to keep all of the noisy "this is what's on sale this week" emails separate if they could?
As George Carlin said: "Stop talking about saving the Earth. The Earth is fine. We're fucked."

One of the things I hate about green ideology is that it frames this issue in selfless religious moralistic terms when it's really all about pure self-interest.

To what extent can we continue doing this? For how long? We depend on these ecological systems, and the economic cost of replacing them would be far beyond our capacity to invest (if it's even within our technical capability). We depend on many, many resources that are presently being extracted far faster than their rate of formation, with fossil fuels being chief among these. Couriscant in Star Wars is fiction, and is likely impossible even with imaginary post-singularity-level technology. Its climate would have little or nothing to regulate it, and its atmosphere would revert to pre-photosynthesis reducing composition.

Less than a thousand years after mass die-off and the collapse of global civilization into a new dark age, most of the "damage" will be gone. This is less than a microsecond on geological timescales. The planet will be fine.

Such brutal die-offs have occurred before many times in geological history, and it's absurdly naive to think that it couldn't happen to us. Nature doesn't care about us. It doesn't care how much we suffer or how many of us die. We have to worry about that, or nothing will.

And even if it doesn't happen suddenly, there's the whole quality of life issue. Do we really want to live in a b-grade cyberpunk dystopia of endless ugly sprawl, routine Fukushima/BP Macondo type industrial disasters, increasing pollution, commodity hyperinflation, and unattainably distant gaps between the rich and everyone else? Because that might be what an ecologically depleted world looks like: a few super-rich demigods presiding over massive seething ghettoes policed by drones. That would also be a new dark age.

Edit: it might help people understand if we tried to estimate the cost of replacing these ecological systems with artificial industrial replacements. I'm gonna guesstimate somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000X current world GDP.

You could probably arrive at an estimate by working backwards and assuming thermodynamic efficiencies at reconstructing the biosphere in the 10-15% neighborhood. So SUM(GDP,1012AD,2012AD) / 0.15?
I wouldn't generally use the word "dumb", but I think the argument the two of you should really be having will be answered by the market (I hope they've done research). I would never buy one, but how many people will?

And is this a serious attempt at another revenue stream or a way of adding customers to their user base?
1Password in the Windows ecosystem is just horrible. They don't care about Windows users.

There primary focus is Mac users that sometimes boot up into Windows.

Therefore the app itself looks totally misplaced and does not follow correct UI standards on Windows.

They don't support Windows 8/RT Modern apps.

The Windows Phone 7 app is just lackluster. No edit, just read only.

Only Dropbox integration and not SkryDrive.
What if the electricity goes out in the park?!
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If you have a BS in CS already, the only reason I'd recommend taking a coursework-only MS program is if both:

1) Someone else (probably your employer) will pay for it

2) You _know_ it will get you a raise

For example, when I was at Lockheed Martin a long time ago, they would pay for a MS and give you a $N raise when you finished it. 100% worth it.

I know a bunch of people who worked their ass off getting a MS while working a full-time job only to keep working the same job for the same salary after they got their degree, except now they were saddled with $30K in debt.

If you don't have a BS in CS or you're looking to get a masters as a precursor to a PHD, that's probably a different story.
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Which is why the tabs have automatic algorithmic categorization - so that all of the people who don't take the time to set up custom filters and labels still get some automatic organization.
I guess you could call a YC partner "some annoyed blogger," since in this case he seems annoyed about a 3px difference. But, hey, guess what? His annoyance actually prompted an internal bug at Facebook. Somebody, at least, cared enough to consider the difference.

> Symmetry is not perfection.

Being a "perfectionist" is not the same as actually producing "perfection." It's about setting extremely high standards. I never said I agreed that the extra 3px was better, but I understand the importance of the decision, however minor.

I also understand that, in most cases, 3px won't actually make much of a difference. But hundreds of pixel-level decisions over the course of an entire project will make a difference in the final presentation. I'm not saying all of them are right or wrong, but unless you're going to A/B test every single debatable bit of padding or margin, deferring to a designer who cares about the presentation and aesthetics makes sense. It is often subjective, but so what? It's the designer's job to care about these things.

I still think that equating this to OCD is simply not accurate. As someone who does not suffer from the disorder, I guess I can't actually speak to whether or not it's insulting, so that was poor word choice. But I do know that living with OCD can be totally debilitating, and to say that it could be "medically accurate for a lot of them" (designers? perfectionists?) is just plain wrong. This is what OCD looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrRqb5cvM5E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sadYeLHKU
Oh, one other thing, is my son. He's eager to download anything resembling a game, but I've managed to get it across to him that he can't just download random 'games' and not expect bad things to happen.

I expect a little better vetting from games that are on Steam, so he has the ok to download whatever he wants from there.
The best thing I can say is that when interacting with other people, subtle course correction early on has a big effect in the long run. When I've tried to influence other people to change practices (in my case it was building more testable code), I've found that making the right path the easiest path is the best way. There are a lot of ways to do this. Code review is an easy one if you're not doing it already. It gives everyone the power to have influence over the code before it lands in the repository [1]. Building tools that make the right thing easy is also useful. I spent about a year making development tools to enable rapid testing of some of our JS modules, as well as doing a little bit of static analysis to automatically detect and fix certain classes of errors. By doing these things, every engineer gets guided to the right path without needing to reach out to anyone and without a huge cognitive overhead (like reading an interface guideline or something like that).

[1] http://www.phabricator.com/docs/phabricator/article/User_Gui...
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It's not clear - and many people who've used other languages simply call all derivations "C" - when they're clearly different. Also, if you're going to be a betting person.... is a Ruby person more likely to learn C or Objective C? Right. So I was in fair ground. :)
Scheew! I think I'll close the nongnu.org tab I have open and go get that mojito right now. Thanks!!!
Knee-jerk reactions are a big problem on this site. Perhaps there should be a delay between a story posting and comments being allowed.
I'm kind of curious as to how close we are to being able to use them for Gravitational-Wave astronomy giving LIGO[1] a run for its money. Anyone know if this is even possible?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO
Dude, he's clearly whining without bothering to even read the post.

If he actually read it, no reason to complain because you can turn it off.
It's arguably less ridiculous than the Mars Bigfoot story, and I seem to remember that Fox reported that one too. So I'd say probably not.
That's why we put it on an island.
The Third Language
New day, different way to organize your inbox. What it comes down to is the ability to find a system that works for you and then to keep up with it.
SEC fines Nasdaq $10M for botched Facebook IPO
Amazon actually regularly sends you e-mails letting you know if your configuration can be optimized to reduce it's price by moving to reserved instances. This suggests to me that they favor the reduced revenue but predictable capacity planning of reduced instances.
I think it's interesting to see the evolution of a startup engineer/now entrepreneur.

Instapaper was a little product made by this one guy at home that grew big and I think for that reason, Marco Arment's story appealed to a lot of people here that are hoping to build their own bootstrapped product. And now he's at a later stage where he used the Instapaper success as a stepping stone for more projects, like The Magazine.
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O'Reilly is selling the ebook for more than Amazon is selling the print book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027072.do
Agreed. I sure do miss the pictures, artwork, liner notes and hidden track bonuses that came with my CD purchases.
For email you've already read, sure. But it's often nice to have some organization for what you haven't yet read, so you can focus on the email you care most about first.
Look Google just invented mail filter rules!
I absolutely WAS there when it came to sight reading; able to play songs on the piano with a lot of practice, but not able to sight read, despite years of lessons and practice. It largely comes down to studying the songs before you play, looking for the key, patterns, and difficult parts, and keeping your eyes a measure or two ahead as you play
If you're disappointed with big data, you're not paying attention
I just hope they don't retire the "classic" view over time, like they are doing it to the classic compose interface.
Take a look at the area just west of Dulles Airport. The 80s is when that all started turning from farm land to suburbs at an astonishing rate.
Sorry, but not a chance in hell that Moz got hit by Penguin.

1) You can look at their links yourself, if you have any clue how Penguin works, and see that it's not even close to spammy enough to get hit by any Penguin algorithm.

2) Their rankings for key terms remained solid after Penguin. [1] The very definition of a Google penalty includes drops in rankings.

3) In this case the Penguin penalty would transfer across with the 301 redirects they've put in place.

[1] http://suite.searchmetrics.com/en/research?acc=12245&url...
This one hits me straight to the heart. On January of this year I was involved on a big project. The company needed to have a piece of software written with their own custom ReST framework. The framework was/is undocumented, and was still under heavy development. The software I had to build had some requirements, but the actual design was not set in stone. I was given a "technical document" and told to build it as is. Turns out, the document was wrong, and did not follow their conventions of even architecture. I talked with the person in charge and we changed the architecture to have it fit correctly.

But the client was asking for ridiculous terms. They were using Python/Gevent to handlea lot of connections at the same time. They had already achieved 3K connectionns in testing, and wanted my software to handle 30K per second. Ten times what they had achieved, in two months. Yeah right!

I knew the writing was on the wall. But out of loyalty I decided to stay. I got fucked when the project was cancelled, because I wasn't paid for a months work. I really didnt pursue it because I just wanted to move on from it. And was in a good enough financial situation where that money really wouldnt make a big difference. I did learn a lot from it, and will now cancel a project if it shows signs of too much drama. There is nothing to gain in sacrificing yourself for others who dont appreciate it.

The team who hired me? They tried to blame it on me. But their company is so fucked up that they were even the focus of a mayor PR incident during the past months. So much about being a great company to work for.
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I agree with the advise to throw away all MS programs that don't waive/pay tuition.

Also I am currently a CS Undergrad in my senior year at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and from what it looks like (at least from where I am standing) I would benefit more getting a MS in something such as finance or (what I am doing) chemical or bio molecular engineering. This gives me both the appropriate background to take jobs in CS as well as the ability to work in the field of medicine or both.

Just thought i'd share...
You're in for it now.
He should hire people to do that, and then hire people to manage the people he hired.
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I'm not sure if this is fair, but it strikes me as somewhat slapdash to take a sample right there in the field.
Also, while there is red liquid, what's the chances it contains actual viable DNA, rather than what amount to DNA fragments and a bit of haemoglobin?
Wow, Marco really does hate the idea of having employees. In this case, he accomplished the goal of many small business owners: a successful product where a trusted employee handles the day-to-day operations and the owner can be hands off and take the profits. But his immediate reaction is to sell it because he doesn't want to be a product owner, he wants to be the entire business.
I'm surprised the main point needed elaboration. Of course one needs some basic nature in order to perceive success. I thought the 10k hour rule talked about the hours alone not being enough. It's usually unique opportunity + one grasping it + dedicating x hours = success, in my understanding.
Yes, I would like to keep them separate, but I would not like to have a big prominent link to them at the top of my inbox. See the labels listed in the mobile app screenshot ("Family," "Fun," "School")? I (and most other people, I would think) would much sooner like to have big buttons to those things at the top of my inbox. Not "Promotions."
While this UI might have changed a little, the feature set isn't new. The Smartlabels Gmail Labs experiment does the same automatic categorizing and filtering. I have used the experiment for a while and it is really pretty good about knowing what is what and in turn minimizing the amount of email that I see as soon as it arrives. In my experience it has been much more helpful than priority inbox system that Google rolled out a while back.
That is correct, but which species before humans has caused so much change to the environment in such a short time?

Sure, there's the natural eb and flow of the environment. But that tends to happen over very long periods of time. When you're talking about 70% of forests being destroyed within 500 years though, that's something else entirely. Make no mistake: the change our planet has gone through over that short time period is unprecedented.
Last I checked, you can get it online from the webapp.
I worked at a company that had "hack weeks" - most people loved them, and they produced good prototypes. But personally, I just hated hack weeks. But then again, I hated trying to work in that office at all, and trying to work on something "fun" there just felt worse than trying to do my regular job.

I think, though, if I was running a company, I wouldn't have hack weeks or 20% time - I'd try, for as long as possible, to give people extreme latitude to work on whatever they think might be useful/fun/interesting for the company - more like the Valve model, I guess.
It is funny how much we agree with each other.

When I wrote "direct translation" I meant that I don't know a single word in Spanish or Portuguese that easily translates the whole meaning of those English words. There might be words translating some partial meaning but not fully (e.g: "responsabilidad" vs. accountability). But the main problem is that all translations are too generic and abstract, without the strong specificity of the English original. You showed it very well with the example of bullying, very few people use the translation. I feel that, because these words become vague and generic, they loose some of their original and focused strength. When there is a strong word in Portuguese & Spanish it becomes much more natural (e.g.: "asedio/assédio" means "military siege" in English but is used very colloquially as a translation for harassment).

I already posted below in this thread about how the origin of Portuguese and Spanish is so close. I grouped them because for the purpose of this discussion, they are a lot closer among themselves then English and German are. But I surely agree they're not the same language, sorry if I gave this impression.
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hmm, so if i buy the mac + windows version that should be sufficient - thanks!