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Dave: It's been three days since your last comment, an no response. [1]

Well, your lack of response to my and everyone else's questions certainly confirms my impression about AngelList, and says a lot more than your non-apology apology did.

I gave you more than a fair chance to respond, provided you the date and time of my unanswered message from more than a year ago, and even gave you a second chance in case you deleted my year-old email, by sinking even more of my time into summarizing the problems I originally reported to you, and posting them here for you to read again. [2]

But still: no response from you, as more and more people continue to announce they're deleting their AngelList accounts.

You're asleep at the wheel, the lights are on, but nobody's home. If your attention has wandered on to other things, and you no longer have any interest in maintaining your web site or responding to your users for over a year, then you really should shut it down gracefully, and save everyone from wasting their time and having their privacy unexpectedly violated. Old unmaintained web sites running on auto-pilot that collect sensitive private information from their users (and automatically forge first-person email pretending to be from their users in order to virally promote themselves) are a dangerous security threat, which should be shut down for the safety of the internet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd0fBXwDBmo

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11350697
Hey, what's the problem with Click? It's for a general audience, and is gently (and healthily) irreverent towards tech. The presenters are all well qualified for their roles, and they get to report on some really cool and cutting-edge stuff.
Really? They are completely in violation in terms of having bottle and can recycling centers.
> Let me tell you that when I was a kid I loved to read, I read voraciously everything I could find, and I did because nobody made me do it.

Completely agreed, and this has been argued since antiquity. In Plato's Republic:

Socrates: Therefore, calculation, geometry, and all the preliminary education required for dialectic must be offered to the future rulers in childhood, and not in the shape of compulsory learning either.

Glaucon: Why's that?

Socrates: Because no free person should learn anything like a slave. Forced bodily labor does no harm to the body, but nothing taught by force stays in the soul.

Glaucon: That's true.

Socrates: Then don't use force to train the children in these subjects; use play instead. That way you'll also see better what each of them is naturally fitted for.
But all too often security research seems to consider anything that can be broken, even with the most complicated and time intensive of processes, as insecure.

That's basically the whole point of security research - to find any weaknesses and try to fix them. It sounds great on the surface, but the logical conclusion of reaching "ultimate security" is not so pleasant...
Sam, I know I'm late, but what a pain it must have been to reply to those questions with so many messy comments with such crappy interface.

Don't you think the time has come to stop to fake advertising the success of simplicity and to build a proper HN interface?
(Just looked at the sources to collapse all subcomments, and I found `<table>` tags, OMG)

I understand the whole "it's simple but it works, people use it"-thing, but what's the point, when [dozen of developpers](https://www.google.fr/search?q=hacker+news+collapse+comments...) are willing to make it for you, even for free.

Not very inspiring for startup builders either.
I have to agree... just because someone may have a case where they need multi-stage transactions or cancellable workers doesn't mean that Promises and async/await aren't useful as they stand.

I wrote a ton of code last year to migrate data from one system to another... without async/await, Promises and node-style streams, it would have been really nasty, deeply nested code... as it was, the flows were fairly functional, really elegant, and worked extremely well. I will say that Bluebird is useful beyond what the Promises spec offers, and have gone back and forth between using it, replacing the native Promise where available and just using whatever promise shim or native is available.

I didn't like promises earlier on, as without some of the extras that async functions offer, I didn't consider them much better than callbacks. Now, I'm sold.
I received a Dutch surname as a second middle name. I can never use it -- the "Van" alone is enough to break things. But even without "Van", having two middle names usually does not compute. I've seen people who lack middle names entirely have the opposite problem and insert the middle initial "X" just to satisfy the system.
Google has no interest in end-to-end encryption: It would put them out of the loop. It would be contrary to their mission to analyze the customer data to deliver better ads.

Gmail is a big privacy problem. Even if you don't use it yourself, nowadays a large percentage of your emails will end up there. And why? It's all about lazyness and low friction.

Computer literate persons (that's you, right?) should really consider to get off their butts and host their own email. It's not hard, it's not expensive and it's not a lot of work to maintain either. It can even be fun and informative. By sticking to gmail, you're no longer credible when complaining about the erosion of privacy on the internet.
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A free text entry field would cover almost everyone.
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Is that caused by schooling itself or by being exposed to other people [living in a society]?

Can we expect societies with low school enrollment to have greater percentages of people exhibiting creativity? Or do we also we a decline in this creativity despite not going to school?
Interestingly, Wikipedia says AFSCME was not really interested in collective bargaining until the late 1960s/1970s, when it had a period of rapid growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_of_State,_...
Isn't this problem mostly solved by type casting? I've never encountered a problem where 'Null' and Null were the same thing. Is it just shoddy code that runs everything through an eval or lambda?
No experience with UK specifically, but being in the same position as you are (Eastern Europe, problems working with payment providers because of both their unwillingness and stupid local laws) I want to give you a warning. Do check your domestic laws on corporate tax residence. A lot of countries (e.g. Russia as of lately) will want to tax your company simply based on the residency of the physical person(s) managing the company (you in this case). So make sure you don't end up owing taxes in both jurisdictions. And even if your country has a treaty on double taxation with e.g. the UK the procedure to apply for an exemption may be really gruesome.
1. Not supporting any features that trigger a layout recalculation is a pretty major drawback, I'd say. The complaint I hear most about CSS is that it's actually terrible for layouts, and while flex is a step in the right direction it still has a long way to go.

2. Houdini is specifically proposed to address the issue of browsers not implementing specs quickly enough. Now they'll have yet another spec to implement, and it's intended to "just work" in all the browsers, except it'll depend on what version of the spec the various browsers have implemented, taking us right back to square one.
That's not the problem, the problem is they needed commissions
All the comments on "don't rely on 1 customer" are correct, of course, but I'm more interested in how, as far back as the 80s, we all believed in the magic of having something show us the best price for an item. Now, sure, it may often be Amazon, but not always, and they don't carry everything.

So, multiple price engines come and go. Why? Because consumers won't pay for them, and so they rely on kickbacks from merchants. Same for Travel sites/aggregators, and for review sites: You either get folks to pay for them (of which Angie's List was the only kind of success) or you get vendors to pay you (Yelp, any affiliate aggregator (Creditcards.com, etc.), price engines).

I guess I wonder: I love CamelCamelCamel, I loved PriceZombie, I loved PriceRunner and Jango and all the rest... but they keep going away. Google killed google shopping comparisons, as did the other portals. We can probably all think of ones we used that are all gone now.

What kind of service would one have to create that grabs prices but can charge consumers so it's not depending on affiliate vig? And given that many merchants are creating terms of service to block displaying of their prices (we see this also in the travel industry), will one of the earliest dreams of the internet, that of a flat marketplace where I can evaluate all players and their pricing and pick the best store for me, still fail to come to life?

It feels like online shopping has become a big mall, where I have to go to as many sites as I can find til I get tired and just buy the thing at the most recent site (or just trust that Amazon is the cheapest). I hope we can avoid this fate.

(Update: fixed typos)
100% in agreement with... well, all of that.
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I'm a computational scientist too, but those mathematical models don't provide confirmation. It certainly can help build evidence, and when a model starts to make predictions outside of the model, then we really can a lot of confidence in it. But a model is just a model, and unless the universe is truly mathematical in structure (not a completely crazy idea), and our models match that structure, then they can't really confirm anything.
Yeah, it's an RES feature. I never noticed that actually because I keep most features of RES turned off, including Tagging, which I believe that is under, after searching for what you said.
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If Amazon found out they can still shut down that affiliate link.
It's giving me a 502 bad gateway :(
"supported by", or "anticipated by", but not confirmed.
Yeah, I guess I'd rather search myself if I'm actually considering buying a product. And most of the time, if I'm participating somewhere, I'm not actually looking for purchase advice myself, just reading, helping out, or discussing.
This story is great, I want to checkout the author now! The demon seems less of an actual evil being and more as a person who gets excited about awesome stories, uses ying yang guide the vine of destiny. Maybe half expecting a smile only to see horror. I know this is now the best place for poetry, but this story was very fun to read
Yes but plaid can see my transactions and balance
Why the hell does Betterment need 180 people?
Mucky definitions: excludable and rivalrous.

> Roads are obviously rivalrous (gridlock!) but you could argue the extent to which they are excludable

That sounds like you're arguing that roads are in some way a public good, or more of a public good than trains, to me...
That, and we have bosses who don't believe us that a single string for first and last name won't work for everyone.
She has a point. You might actually have delusional thoughts about the government if you spend too much time on the Internet, especially on forums like this. I mean, look at the support you're getting here! Pretty much every commenter is on your side with this. HackerNews isn't really known for being able to cater to outside opinions.

What do you mean by "the government collects all of our data". What do you mean by "the government"? Do they come in to your house and go through your private photographs? Do they break in to your house and read your journal while you're at work?

Or do you mean that the NSA intercepts electrical signals that you publicly broadcast from your house?

Did you talk about the details of how the government collects all of our data? Perhaps you were both unable to disassociate your paranoid thoughts about a totalizing outside power from the reality of the situation.

The reality is that the government is not collecting all of our data. It is collecting most of the data that we publicly broadcast. The politics of this are a totally separate concern from your feelings of anxiety.

Maybe the problem is you spend too much time publicly broadcasting electrical signals and too little time dealing with your actual private thoughts and effects.

Maybe write a poem that no one will ever hear outside of being recited in your own living room! Maybe keep a physical journal that you keep safely stored under your pillow! There are plenty of things you can be doing to convince yourself that the government is not collecting all of our data.

Edit: facepalm...
Well, someone noticed if the percentage of encrypted mail increased that quickly.
'Anti-authority' is not a well defined label. Independent thought and independent behavior are very different things. And unless your behavior is disruptive or destructive, generally nobody cares what you think.

Iconoclasm is a more specific label: independence of thought, or belief, or convention, without any mention of behavior. Presumably iconoclasts are what Levine is describing as positive examples of anti-authority, AKA mentally healthy folks who just think differently, but don't act on it, or who act on it in constructive ways.

But anyone who acts disruptively or destructively also qualifies as anti-authority. So I don't see where Levine draws the line between good and bad forms of anti-authority. Inactive belief is good? Disruptive or violent is bad? He doesn't say.
So all the hard work of converting year/month/day to InternalTicks is done at creation time, greatly simplifying the weekday calculation occurring later.
Not a great analogy. It's still one line of code; just a very stupid one line of code. [System.out.println("Hello World"))]
But why are we arbitrarily reducing the set from "life" to "sentient"? Right now, we humans are looking for _any_ other life in the galaxy.

But, when considering life, if applying the Big Alien logic, I should expect to be a single bacteria. And if not that, then, say, some insect.

But, instead, I'm a human. Or a mammal. Or a vertebrate. Any of these very fundamental descriptions of myself already put me in the SMALL group not the LARGE group when classifying the population of all life on this planet.

It feels like confirmation bias to select "vertebrate" or "mammal" to show that we are already indeed in a large group.

And indeed you can argue scientists are already applying this logic by looking for signs of simple life, say, or Mars. Or Europa. Because, that's the most likely to be found.

Maybe we should call it the Bacterial Alien Theory. Of course, it wouldn't be very controversial.
Ah, you're right - it changed in 2009 as a result of the 2006 act (which otherwise made a whole bunch of things more complicated).
One could argue that Word embeddings are also dimensionality-reduction techniques: Words live in an infinite dimensional space, and the embeddings is a finite-dimensional projection of this infinte dimensional space.
There are many funds that own the entire market (or subsets of the market like small cap, mid cap, etc). And if I want to TLH, I need a similar asset to buy when I sell the asset that is losing money. Unless Vanguard has a lot of funds that serve similar purposes but are slightly different, you won't be able to do that using only Vanguard funds AFAIK.
> I can assure you that if a teacher had sat me down and forced me to read something boring at that young age

I added emphasis on an important word here. Of course kids don't like to be made to read something boring. Where things get serious is when a kid refuses to read AT ALL, or worse, is demonstrably incapable of focusing long enough to read.

While I think that ADD is over-diagnosed in kids, I also know from personal experience that some people (not just kids) really do have ADD and benefit from therapeutic intervention. To me it seems just as dangerous to over-diagnose political anti-authoritarianism as it is to over-diagnose medical ADD.

Anyway, 7-year-olds do not actually have an anti-authoritarian streak; they crave the attention, acceptance, and approval of their parents and teachers. But they are in the process of establishing an independent mental model of themselves, which means they experiment to find out where the boundaries are. Kids don't employ political thinking to reject authority, they are still stuck in the process of discovering and defining what authority actually is.
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Holy shit, where do they find these people.

Clueless but with influence, no wonder we are all in such poor shape.
Digital camouflage has been used for a long time, with it's roots going back before WW2. Countries like the US and Canada who have advanced the technology. The main advantage seems to be it has more than one optimal viewing distance.

From wikipedia:

Traditional single scale patterns work well in their optimal range from the observer, however an observer too close or too far away will not see the pattern optimally. Nature itself is very often fractal, where plants and rock formations exhibit similar patterns across several magnitudes of scale. The idea behind multi scale patterns is both to mimic the cross-scale self-similarity of nature, and also to offer camouflage at close-range in addition to the traditional combat range camouflage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camouflage
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Statistically speaking, it's unlikely to take 10,000 tries (every single permutation) to find the passcode. My understanding is that in most cases, PIN guessing is usually successful in 1,000 attempts or less on 4-digit systems - an order of magnitude difference.

Nobody in this business starts at 0000 and works their way up if they have resource constraints.
Nope, everybody on Facebook and Wikipedia is expected to play by Facebook and Wikipedia's rules, regardless of whether their local laws are stricter or laxer.
I saw a documentary a few years ago about this called Rent a Family Inc.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dROyjWHleUs
I think it's quite a nice idea, but I'm struggling to imagine myself using this. For a start, I want my tests in my source code repository. Secondly, I want to run my tests locally before I upload to production, perhaps even before I write the code to satisfy the tests.

I see that you have also developed a chrome extension so that one could run their tests locally. But that is essentially different from running your tests as a service. In this case you're essentially providing a testing library.

I could just about see myself writing my tests locally (perhaps using your chrome extension) and using the local tests for development and then uploading those tests and using a service to check a production server periodically. But I'm a little sceptical (why not just have the production server run the tests periodically itself?)

There may be some other uses for Web UI Automation as a service, for example scraping.
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The way they word these releases certainly makes it sound like they have users' best interests in mind.

But honestly, as you have highlighted, these announcements should be insulting to users' intelligence.

"Dear Users: Please allow us to store copies of all your sensitive data, including every email ever sent or received, in perpetuity. In return, to the extent the law permits us to do so, we'll let you know (_ex post facto_) when some other third party is having a look at it."

The solution to the problem if indeed there is a problem here is not going to come from Google.

The problem _is_ Google.

The only parties who need a copy of an email are the sender and the recipient. If you really care about privacy, security, whatever, then "store and forward" and "POP" via some third party (Google, etc.) is not the proper way to implement email.

Hypothesis: Google does not charge for Gmail because, quite simply, no one would pay.
Names are an incredibly tiny subset of human communication, and if we were having a beer at the bar, I'd take a swing at arguing that they're not part of language at all.
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Here in Austria, Amazon pays the major price comparison website to be listed: www.geizhals.at

And I hear it's not cheap for them.
I've run into the same thing on trips to Toronto and Montreal recently. I'm (marginally) glad that I'm not the only one.
Your point is a good one, though I'd say that calling it all subjective takes it too far.

If the outcome of long view -- ie, valuing education and information over watching star wars -- is less poverty, more self-reliance, the ability of a population to provide better for basic biological needs like food and water and shelter, then what you're really looking at isn't a subjective difference of value systems, but a question of delaying gratification.

That is, sure the price of "star wars" is higher because people would rather watch star wars most of the time than put in two hours towards, say, a 500-hour education project that's going to benefit them in the long run. Yet those same people would rather live in the future where they did have those skills.

In that sense, there is such a thing as intrinsic value, and its basis is shared human biology and universal needs. Asking what behaviors and choices ultimately provide for those needs can be objective, at least to a degree.
I think the red lock next to the recipient email is more confusing than anything.

It's suggesting strongly some kind of end-to-end encryption, like PGP, when there is still nothing. Google still has full access to the plain text versions of these emails as well as the receiving email providers.

It's creating a fake assumption of security that can be more damaging than anything.
It's not possible enter a space key from my tablet as there is no keyboard view. You might consider detecting mobile users and providing a button.
Oh no, someone doesn't know every little detail of a "universally accepted opinion" in philosophy for the past 100 years... on a technology news website. Shocking. It's almost like not everyone knows everything all the time? Interesting take on it.
It's because they compared with other services, and Amazon has been raising prices across the board lately, which they don't really want people to figure out.
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I find there's too little open information on how for a software company to do things properly in classic off-shore jurisdictions.
Everything on the web related to this seems shady so I don't know what to believe.
Things like: are there online payment processors that work with Cayman Islands? Where will I be able to open a bank account? and more - are not clear. I'm sure there are use cases for tax havens, but for me it looks like a more expensive and complicated option. Maybe i'm wrong.
I just a simple and sure way to do small business, I don't mind paying some taxes and sending a report a year.
Lack of ability to nest rules in CSS makes it harder to organize styles. Not being able to create mixins and such makes all too easy to have to copy-paste and memorize cross-browser solutions & vendor specific rules for certain browsers.

In short, there is a lot of inefficiency with the current system that preprocessors help alleviate.
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Ah yes..The Secretary was more than quite all right!
I really like the trick of subtracting one from the year for January and February, it makes leap days come at the end of the year. This simplifies the calculation greatly.