skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. I'm not sure that this is actually an email app. For the record, I think Gmail and its steady incremental improvements embody email perfection -- I can't imagine going back to life before auto-sorted tabs -- and I'm totally willing to give Google the benefit of the doubt. Still... it's tough to see how Inbox improves on Gmail.

Instead of email, I think Inbox is an effort to finally (FINALLY) improve GTasks by marrying it into Gmail and Google Now. GTasks is woefully lacking. My recent switch to Trello has absolutely revolutionized my work flow, more than I thought possible. Inbox's autotasking looks like a big improvement on the dumb list, but it still doesn't look like a real competitor to Trello's kanban system.

(One last plug for Trello, just because using it for an hour has turned me into a wild-eyed fanatic. It's AMAZING. Try it!)
I also found myself thinking about the lifestyle of the people in the video, instead of the product. I'm no marketing expert but I suspect that this is a bad thing for a successful campaign. I haven't seen anything in the video that's not already available with the combination of Google Plus, Gmail, Google Keep and Google Now - maybe that's why I feel that way. Can't tell.
Even if that was the case, there isn't normally a stable mapping between processes and physical cores. There would have to be something within the kernel itself that gives higher priority to some cores than others.

Not saying that's impossible, but I've worked on machines with more than 8 cores and never seen it happen.
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I can't be the only one disappointed that the legacy ".oz" domain for Australia is defunct because he could get "w.oz" otherwise.
Interesting... True?

"the iPad Air 2 might be on even footing today with the MacBook Air. It really is desktop-PC-level performance."
I don't think the JREF would accept them as an applicant. The JREF specializes on much smaller scale tests where they can stop shenanigans and allow for very low p-values. For example, they'll task a dowser with determining which of ten boxes filled with sand contains a gold nugget and repeat that six or more times so they can hit a p-value of 0.000001 or lower. Requiring a medical study to achieve that kind of p-value would cost more than the prize, because there's so many more variables in play.

Also, they'll probably simply disagree that totally changing someone's environment counts as a paranormal way to influence cancer outcomes.
> designed to focus on what really matters

So it has open and auditable secure end to end encryption?
I too consider email to be a perfectly working system and I have achieved "inbox 0" since I started using email in 1994. IBM drilled it into me that my inbox wasn't meant to be a 'pending' queue, and as such I should action items or clear them out.

That and some general common sense has added up to me being bewildered when people discuss how difficult email is.

I really hope that doesn't come off as snarky, because it's not meant to be! :-)
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Correct.

Applications like this are BEST used when utilized as yet another "tool" in the proverbial toolbox, and NOT as an endgame(ie: not a problem solver).

I too used WA to great benefit when taking the full calc series at my university and I credit it to helping me achieve straight A+'s in the series(the ONLY A+'s I EVER received in Uni). Yes, I studied my butt off too, and looked at outside work to learn the material, but WA helped ensure I was on the right track, or at least gave me "hints" as to what I was doing wrong. I never once used it as a solution, merely a calibration of my methods.

So yes, I think there are definite places for tools like these in the classroom, as much as it may seem like they are "cheats".
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I might also point out that OO and FP are not strictly at odds. You can use object libraries in FP languages to encapsulate the state and logic but avoid the mutation of the state.

So if the two issues are orthogonal then you're both right. :-)
So you wrote yours in a singe snackathon? Congrats!
Rebranding Gmail is a bold move for Google. I have to imagine that this is the culmination of years of strategic planning and some critical mass or convergence of mobile & desktop computing.

I just hope that it remains possible to keep advertising and email totally segregated. The "bundles" feature appears to be a euphemism for advertisements right there in your Inbox, which looks like the continuation of those silly Web Clips and "Promotions" tab that have come and gone.

That said, so long as I can get my email in a third-party client, who cares?
The video actually caused me to laugh from how cliche it is: A racially diverse group of 20-somethings doing "active" things like skateboarding and running on the beach.
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How about via VPN into the VPC?
Google doesn't sell your information to advertisers, it allows advertisers to sell their stuff to you.

Big difference.
Nokia had better quality HW, logistics and sales infrastructure than any of the Android manufacturers back then, by far. Nokia's strong points were precisely what was needed to win with a commodity OS.
Hmmmm, apparently I'm the only one here with a positive experience. I've used their Windows Phone and Windows 8 components and I really really like them. They are much, much faster than their opensource counterparts, they are very flexible and advanced and Telerik's support is great. I always get answers within 24 hours, and they often provide a complete solution/project with samples.
The fact that you had to configure and maintain 119 filters is the indication that email is broken IMO.
> I don't understand why people want some algorithm to sort your email for you. IMO email should always be sorted chronologically, and if it's too much, then used rules and folders/labels. Your inbox is not the place to add reminders.

What the hell, what kind of inbox-policing is that? How about "I don't understand why people would ever want to use a Mac, IMO the window management buttons should always be on the right side"?

People have different tastes, different workflows and different use cases. Is that really so hard to understand that you need to call this "the facebook of email"?
Maybe I'm not the target audience but I'd love some details or even just some screenshots. Is it a web app? Native app? The parsing of some emails for quick views looks nice but not sure I want to mash my todos and email together...
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I've been messing around with the new email schema stuff that Google has had out for the past year or so.

I'm really looking forward to having a more intelligent layer around email. It's a great messaging protocol but up until now it's been mostly contextless.

I don't see email going away anytime soon and projects like this just confirm its usefulness.

For those who haven't seen it yet take a look at Google's email schema stuff: https://developers.google.com/gmail/actions/
How does this compare to Mailbox from Dropbox?
Apache and openssl in rhel5 are too old to use IMO. People should upgrade.
My first video, which took several hours for a 90 second lesson. The video shows how to use the Xcode Snippet Library. I made it with iMovie and QuickTime Player's record function and Keynote for the slides.
That's exactly what I thought. Was wondering if Google acquired Mailbox app!
So, I assume this is Android only right now? The screenshots seem to imply that, but they never come out and say it.
Seems like the course of action here would be to pay Apple the licensing fee rather than building your own, very odd, clip on connector.
Would you mind sharing how to obtain location?
It's funny how everyone seems to have a different view of how equity should work. I'm reading Felix Dennis "How to Get Rich" (highly recommended, much better than the title makes it sound). He made his fortune in magazine publishing which is actually somewhat close to Wizards of the Coast in business model. His view is exactly opposite; fight as if your life depended on every share, and pay people bonuses to incentivize performance.
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I want to know the reasoning behind this question.

Do you think a Google employee is going to come in here and answer "yes! we'll break it hard!"?

Do you think anyone here actually has the answer? Most don't even have access.
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Is this their answer to parse?

Until Twitter can establish a solid track record of supporting developers (see their historical API track record), I would be apprehensive to use this.
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I accumulated them over the years.
I think it can work well for Android app continuous integration. If you can spin up multiple Android emulators in the cloud, you could test every build against a plethora of Android devices and accelerate your development.
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And a bit of email on the side.
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I would argue this product is not made for you. It is made to grab market share of the twentysomething crowd from Twitter/Facebook as Google sees it's gmail views shrink. These types of ads appeal to twentysomethings. Yes they're vapid and contentless, but that's what works to get that market to sign up to a product.
Great book. Probably the best value to cheesy title ratio I've seen. I was hesitant to pick it up initially, but very happy I did.

Really interesting to see how his view on equity shaped his businesses.
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Yep, though it's not as easy as it could be yet. The best way currently is to write your own command leveraging our spawning APIs (a thin wrapper around node's child_process module with some extra cljs sugar).
Don't forget, the nutrition bloggers (paleo, vegan, etc) will get more fuel for cherry picked blog posts so they can sell more ads, products, newsletter sponsorships, etc.
Do you know of any experiment where machine learning was applied to building an algorithm that learned anaphora resolution based on a human generated training set. I'd love to read any articles/papers you have on this. Thanks!
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These videos are so homogenous. Virtually any phone app could have been interspersed in the video.
Check Android app for more info:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
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There were bad Google outages earlier today (at least in the UK). I wonder if these were connected?
If you type "open the wire door" in the chat, it opens a secret window with Limewire running in it.
I find it interesting that I'm not the only one turned off by that video. I thought maybe I'm just not the target demographic but now that you mention it; it looks like just about every other video marketing some tech production. Its so... cookie cutter.
It's actually not that kernel. It's the CentOS kernel, which is the RedHat kernel, which was based on a 2.6 kernel years ago, but has since had every single kernel change under the sun backported to it. It might as well be RedHat's version of 3.10. This is also why it's a bad idea to build any kernel patches on top of RedHat kernels: it has nothing to do with the vanilla trees.

In any case, it doesn't matter if it's a 50 year old kernel. If it speeds up connections per second, someone will put up a box on the frontend with it as the load balancer.
> I don't understand why people want some algorithm to sort your email...if it's too much, then used rules and folders/labels.

What, really, is the difference? I see many of Gmail's changes as the automatic equivalent to rules/labels and they have a massive sample set to base it all on.
I usually get annoyed by too-hip advertising. But I think it makes sense here. Inbox is designed for mobile use, on the go, for a diverse array of tasks. Young urban people fit that demographic a lot more than a suburban commuter would, since that lifestyle comes with a pretty set routine and a limited variety of schedules.

Such ads make less sense when you have too-happy hipsters dancing in a park about the latest Windows edition, admittedly. But showing ads in the context of their use and probable demographic seems reasonable.
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Yes I totally understand but I think the nature of the problems to solve in Java are not related with this complex algorithms. I mean, I have been training myself in generics, OOP, SOLID principles, Clean Code, Design Patterns, TDD, BDD and some others for the last three years.

How I am supposed to show my skills in one hour resolving a low level algorithm in a web IDE (this particular case)? All my "low level thinking" is pretty oxidized.

Maybe I am just wrong. A novel speaking.
So this is unrelated to the Fabric tools for managing devices? There is zero information on the website before asking to agree to rather long legal agreement and give you permission to spam my email. You have an opportunity to improve your on-boarding.
Good point, I agree. After watching the video, I cannot remember any features of this product.
This is interesting and I'd like to hear more opinions on it. My impression is that distributed computing has been eating Power/Sparc/Z processors' lunch for a long time now because software has made up for the deficiencies of coordinating 30 boxes. Do you and do any others believe that we are at an inflection point where the pendulum swings back in the direction of 'high-performance' processors like Power8, or will improvements in 'scale-out' ease-of-use and economies of scale continue to win the day?
Why didn't Google just buy Meta?
> But he's still a world-class asshole.
There's bits about him berating Tim O'Reilly for charging for the books his company publishes.

Here's the famous rider for his speeches:
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer...

He's a fine leader for the FSF, but not a frontman.
Yeah, looks like an option and maybe it's even payed for

Meaning that MS can, but is not obligated to name it Nokia
As a counterpoint, I use Gmail's "Priority Inbox", and it's basically the best thing since sliced bread for me.

I don't want to have to bother creating rules for every Kickstarter I back, mailing list I join, marketing email that's just useful enough not have me unsubscribe.

The Priority Inbox does a 99% perfect job of sorting the emails I actually care about. Occasionally (once every other month), it misses something, but a quick scan of the "everything else" box usually, which I do anyhow, has me catch that.

That's the kind of algorithmic sorting that I want more of.
I built my first game (and native iOS app) in 6 weeks - its Sim City for tech startups and its called Hipster CEO :)
I don't see how these statements aren't compatible. The claim is that every "new email" product google has made hasn't been as good as when they just made an email product.

And, I don't think anyone really wants them to quit trying. It is scary that they may eventually kill what they have though. They explicitly did this with reader, after all. (Maybe I'm projecting, of course.)
How good are you at pentesting Angular webapps?
Mailbox was acquired by Dropbox some time ago.
Just to be clear: when I said "pool", they don't like, blend the blood--I just meant that your bag of blood is available for general usage. They can and do track individual packs.

Regarding the postcard: I have donated in Illinois and California and have never gotten one. But I haven't been able to donate for a few years now because of trips into malaria zones, so if this is a recent thing, that would explain it.
The RJ Metrics founders Bob and Jake gave a really great talk sharing their seven year journey Monday night. Lots of good lean startup lessons, and they just raised a $16.5 million series B. The full video is at the bottom of the article.
Who are the majority of people who work for tech companies? Twenty-something people who live a Brooklyn lifestyle. Guess who the products are made for?
Wrote a very simple genetic algorithm engine in OPL... my fitness function was just to optimize toward a specific 32-bit pattern. But I got familiar with the technique, along with quite a few other explorations.

Then I dropped it on a steel deck, broke a hinge and the power lines from the battery case. Never have pulled it apart to rebuild, but it's in my closet still, 15 years later :)
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I've been working on it in my spare time for 18 months and can do some rudimentary stuff. Graphing was the easy part. ;) I do a lot of material layout at work and need to maximize how many parts of a specific shape can fit on a single sheet of raw material. The hard part is coding the math. I'm using robust statistics/regression, DFT's, SVM's, PCA, nesting and clustering which are much harder to code robustly than anything else I've run into. The other hard part is selecting the correct algorithms for the correct problems. So far my intuition is pretty bad. The only saving grace is that the amount of available info about these problems has literally exploded in the last few years.
Didn't pg specifically call them lawsuit-proof?

Edit: s/lawsuit/apple/: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7460204

Also, I believe that your link was specifically related to them building their own MagSafe connectors rather than they current business model that involves severing an existing charger.
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The Ethernetpedia application is about helping customers to understand the in depth of networking cables that are used to connect one network device to other network devices to share printer, scanner etc. Different types of network cables are used depending on the network's topology, protocol ,size and structure.
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That makes as much sense as Google making Chromebooks run Windows to sell more of them. There is not much money to be made in the Android OEM market unless you're Samsung(and even their profit is falling precipitously). I think the world has enough Android OEMs and that Microsoft has enough cash to burn.
I wouldn't say I have a problem with email as it is today, but I am the exact opposite of you; I never archive or organize any of my email (besides rules for labeling email lists and groups so they directly bypass my inbox). I appear to have 11,600+ emails in my Gmail inbox.

If I need something, I just search for it. As the Gmail search is really, really, good, I can pretty much instantly bring up any thread. I therefore don't see any value in spending even a second of time in trying to organize a piece of email. I also really like the "Social" and "Promotions" tabs Gmail added, it's like a smart filter for "unimportant stuff" that I don't even need to bother looking at but can search for if needed. I look forward to Inbox automating and highlighting actionable items even more (check in for flight etc, should just be a button press without even opening the email).

I would rather apply a label, or mark a message as unread (this is what I typically do), if it is something I need to return to later. Most emails can either be directly acted upon, or don't require a followup at a later time, so optimizing the common case down to "do nothing" makes sense for me.
Hungary is a member of the EU.
I'd say that eating moldy foods is substantially similar to eating wild mushrooms.

If you can't identify the mold species with certainty, don't.
My younger brother is doing his project and he uses TortoiseSVN on windows all by himself. I think that would be a better start.
Watch the live stream at dev.twitter.com/flightlive.

@CharlesMerriam2 - more info will be published after the presentations happening right now.
How much are we willing to hurt an economy with sanctions and embargoes (Iran, Cuba anyone?), instead of focusing on overthrowing a nasty government?

I'm being somewhat facetious here, as current Hungary is far from the point where direct action against govt could or should be considered.

I'm just stressing the point that punishing the populace for the sins of the leaders is also uncool ceteris paribus.

PS: I'm Hungarian.
Agreed. Disappointing to have so little technical details on something as critical as email on the blog post. Understand less technical approach in tv ads and such but the blog is the place to provide some actual details about the product.
Isn't this just an email client?

If you connect via IMAP, you get all your email as usual. It's up to the client to do things like set calendar reminders from emails or whatever.
Would you say that 501.3c's are a bad idea? If not, they you have to agree that shielding certain activities from taxes is in the best interest for society. So why do you think increasing the barrier to entry for a society to communicate, create, discuss is positive?
Yep, as much as this is the typical HN type response, I completely agree with you.
Why is this “ghetto” do_enclose line in WP files?
I wonder just what kind of ghetto it is referencing and who thought that was a good adjective to use? Is this an example of techie-humor?

//TODO: Tidy this ghetto code up and make the debug code optional
include_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-IXR.php' );
Because programmers love to be huge dicks to one another and it is unfortunately widely supported behaviour in the community.

In no other field is it really acceptable to ask a candidate to solve issues that have nothing to do with the job, I liken it to asking your prospective surgeon how they'd fix a leaking faucet, or a plumber how they'd repair a ruptured artery.

However I am most definitely in the minority, most programmers thing it is perfectly fine and normal that you have to study obscure CS curricular whenever you apply for a programming job. Then never ever use that same material again while at that job.

Sorry you had to interview at a dicky company, just do what I do, reject them as somewhere you want to work and move on. It speaks volumes of the atmosphere (e.g. unrealistic expectations, treating people badly, arrogant/pompous employees, etc).
> I believe the fee is there to prevent a malware propagation problem like we have on Android.

Anecdotally, I have had zero problems with malware on Android and I have used Android since 2010, and I have never known anyone to have a problem. Yet you're making it out to be some kind of huge deal, also $19 a year is still more than $0 a year to build your own app for your own hardware. Not being able to side-install apps on other platforms is the sole reason for me using Android, because otherwise I would use iOS which otherwise has the best phones and eco-system period.
Pegasus has a 5% failure rate. Taurus has a 33% failure rate. Taurus has three failures in its last four flights. Not impressive. SpaceX had a perfect launch record on the Falcon 9. Not bad for a 12 year old company. And regarding Boeing being 100 years old, I'll drive a Tesla and not a Model T, thank you.
I always feel dumb asking - but doesn't the total number of shares matter? The real thing you're buying is a fraction of the pie when someone buys your company, and it would seem to matter quite a lot whether the pie was cut into 10^3 or 10^6 pieces. Indeed, I wish we could just talk about ownership percentage instead of shares to remove the ambiguity.

Why is there a reluctance for people to talk about this openly?