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I always thought that they would wait with this until they finally made an own iPad app, but that seems to be not they case.

Maybe it's because their mobile website is finally quite good, but looking at the Facebook Web Messenger story[1] I'm surprised they go that route.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11834935
I really don't blame them for being confused about VISA debit cards. They hardly exist in Canada; they were originally a scheme to allow credit card transaction processing fees on debit transactions, and Canada quite reasonably didn't buy in.

The problem is really that Canada's interac system -- which was very advanced for its time -- never reached outside of the country or online, and market share means that you really want your payments to go through the major international card networks. But that's a matter of getting unlucky in backing the wrong horse more than anything else.
The security of checks have never depended on difficulty of duplication. Most places checks at least used to be valid if you simply wrote the right information down on an arbitrary piece of paper.
i refuse to install the mobile app because there is no way to stop people from calling you on messenger. There is no way to turn it off or have some kind of do not disturb. If someone wants to mess with you they can just keep calling you and your only choice is to block them and remove them from your friends list
If you want to understand Ali's genius then I highly recommend When We Were Kings, an Oscar-winning documentary about Ali's 'Rumble in the Jungle'.

After watching it, I finally understood that he wasn't just another athlete with a big ego and mouth, but a brilliant, courageous competitor, far beyond the rest.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118147/
Due to the economy I'd love to ride a gas-powered bike and for the environment's sake would gladly take an e-bike instead. But I live in a city with 50%+ humidity and 80+ degree weather most of the year. It's brutal to be out in the sun and stopped in traffic; Texas doesn't allow lane splitting.

All that aside the reason I take public transportation instead of risking a bike is my fellow drivers. We've had several hundred wrecks with our 7.5 mile long at-grade light rail. What chance do I stand on a bike when most people down here drive trucks or SUVs and can't avoid a flipping train? It's frustrating.
I love how everyone else is just inventing shit about foreign policy. Folks y'all can talk good about hacking but it doesn't mean your armchair intuition is right about specialized issues in other countries
>Java (and by that I mean mostly the JVM) were designed after careful analysis of market needs. This kind of analysis is only available to certain players

I can't detect even the slightest influence of careful analysis on the rise and fall of technologies. If the creators of Java were planning anything, then it certainly wasn't what actually happened. Java failed completely in all areas it was originally built for (at least until Android, which happened very late in the game and is under threat).

If I had to come up with a formula for success, it would look something like this:

10% novelty-seeking and merit + 10% corporate backing and tenacity of the creators + 10% platform advantage + 70% historical accident.

In Java's history, that 70% historical accident was the web. No one planned for that to happen. All careful planners were taken completely off guard by the web.

Looking at my formula, I would say Swift has a shot at going somewhere. But there are huge wildcards like WebAssembly, the future of Java on Android and of course all the unknown unknowns that are probably going to disrupt all careful analysis including mine.
What was the alternative before Messenger? SMS?
Is that why Nakamura named the Bomye that! Very cool and what a great Homage.
> If they didn't like Facebook (or Android, or... etc) they'd just stop using it.

I don't like Android, and I am not using it.

But I have to use facebook because some real life events that I should attend are organized on Facebook.

Similarly WhatsApp. I give it no permissions, which makes it a little awkward as I have to memorize (or lookup) phone numbers; But I have missed several important announcements when I wasn't on WhatsApp.
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What you're saying is just factually incorrect. It is an open standard https://w3c.github.io/push-api/ currently supported by both Firefox and Chrome. Microsoft has also started implementing it in Edge https://twitter.com/jacobrossi/status/735153689501958144. Additionally, Facebook already uses it today.
Yup, because they're idiots and it's moves like this that will allow an upstart to steal all the market.
Sounds irrational :)
Not to mention that Facebook has intentionally changed the email address of contacts in people's phones without asking them [0].

This does not change my mind about banning all Facebook apps from my devices, it just means even less Facebook for me.

[0] http://www.cnet.com/how-to/facebook-changed-your-e-mail-addr...!
This is a nod probably towards the trend that Facebook itself is dying. What is left is Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.
I think I'm going to be dumping Facebook soon, I can text anyone anytime anyway.

Seems like every week Facebook is pissing off large groups of people
I'd agree with you if this was a company that actually sheds legacy tech gracefully, but Xcode can't handle our scale.
I'm not a heavy Facebook user, so I may very well be wrong, but I think Facebook is slowly start to be less valuable in some respects.

For instance businesses need to start evaluating if they really require a Facebook presence. The users that can reach you on Facebook are obnoxious, and expects 24/7 feedback. Unless you are a small niche business you're simply not able to build sufficient community around your Facebook page for it to help further your business. For medium and large companies Facebook is just a place for customers to complain and win prices.

As the company I work for has expanded and become less and less niche we seeing decreasing user engagement from our customers on Facebook, unless they can win a price. At this point marketing really should evaluate the continued need for maintaining a Facebook page, it's just becoming a third support channel, but one where peoples expectations are simply to high, in terms of response time.

Honestly, why is companies like Coca Cola or Volvo on Facebook, it make zero sense when you think about it.
I don't identify the general notion of "functional programming" with any particular language, including Haskell. I stay with the "idea of a function" as a reliable mapping. Similarly, I don't identify the general notion of "object-oriented" (as I characterized it long ago) with any particular language. Both of these terms have now been "colonized" and their meanings changed, etc.
Chrome on Android does support real-time push notifications. I know because I was notified of a friend's Facebook post I was mentioned in within 5 seconds of my friend posting it. I don't have Facebook installed on my phone, and he posted it from his phone while my phone was face up on the table between us and we both where surprised at how fast I was notified.
The Iron Law of Bureaucracy: In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bu...
>In a single page, you clearly see your gross income, your estimated income tax, and the history of pension contributions.

And now so can Google thanks to gov.uk forcing use of Google Analytics on all government departments just because "it's private industry best practice".

Injecting untrusted third party javascript controlled by a foreign corporation into the tax forms of all citizens seems absolutely insane to me.
Hand-written as opposed to what?
I don't think 
 is necessary one your rely on his/her own human intelligence.
I pay $450 (converted) in one of their Tel Aviv locations for a single private office.

- Gets me out of the house, away from wife and kid, huge deal.

- The networking I don't use often but it IS a good option.

- The facilities are great, well staffed, clean, no complaints.

- I don't have to deal with anything for office upkeep.

- I can use other WeWorks all over the world, which are a lot these days.

As another poster said, who knows if I'll have 1 or 20 employees next year? Leases are impossible at this stage.

I would probably grow within WeWork around 8-10 employees before looking at other options. Yes, it's expensive per square meter but well worth it for flexibility.
Some great interviews with parkinson https://youtu.be/YkM0v4lYEUc
What's My Name?

Beautiful little 20 min doc on his life and, yes, his name:
http://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/100000003216440/muhammad...
TFS used to be pretty clunky but MS has modernised it quite a bit. Especially their SaaS version [1].

[1] https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-te...
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Thank you - I never heard the first part of that quote.
>you're not going to roll your own on a VPS that is going to forward DMCA notices right back to you

Why not?

>DO and AWS are not cool with operating as high-transfer seedboxes and will be fairly expensive

DO and AWS are certainly the last providers you'd want to use for anything high-transfer. Why would you even consider them over, say, OVH?
Something very 'readable' is something read and understood easily. Python is considered very readable, for example. I would not consider Python verbose. C++ Template programming is verbose and it is not particularly pleasant to read. At the same, APL or J or something can be very concise and is largely unreadable to most. Notice how Python, which is considered by most to be readable, is somewhere in between.
Most people are aware at this point that non-end-to-end encrypted electronic conversation is being tapped. It seems like a new development to extend that assumption to non-electronic verbal communication you're having with another person physically in the same room as you. Again, communication not occurring via any electronic means whatsoever. Just so happens your phone was in your pocket while you were non-electronically verbally communicating with someone physically sitting in front of you.
Overall even the rich benefit from higher taxes if the middle class had more income today most of them would have been spending it on things the rich provide.
Today by squeezing the middle class and lower middle class they might be making money but over long term with the middle class having lower disposable income they will be spending less so hurt the higher classes as well.
> The only thing I use Facebook for is to say "Thank you" when folks wish me a happy birthday on my "wall".

You can fix that by removing your birthday from Facebook. I did that one year and it turned out as expected, people only wish you happy birthday on Facebook, because Facebook more or less tells them to.
The tie in was flakier in the past, and at some points in time was done in a strong-arming way, which killed a lot of goodwill (YouTube unification, real name policy -- enforced from day 1 much more vigorously than Facebook and applying to old gmail accounts, ...) and there was not enough to start with anyway). Couple that with the Buzz fiasco before it .... But that would not have mattered if FB wasn't there.

The real problem is network effect: Most people were already on Facebook, and maintaining two presences (FB and G+) was a chore. So most people kept to FB. Everyone I know kept their main profile on FB, and had a "professional" or "interest-based" profile on G+, which naturally saw about 10% or less activity.
If they had sent position, altitude and heading every minute (which requires very little bandwidth) literally millions of dollars would have been saved with both AF447 (which had ACARS info every 10min) and MH370
A stable standard will only really happen when people stop using nightly for what should be common stuff.

Latest example being Spyglass that was recently posted in HN.
I remember him receiving an honorary doctorate degree on stage during my own college graduation. He was shaking from Parkinson's, helped by his daughter, but looked strong. This was 9 years and 3 days ago.

RIP.
I'm not saying that is a valid strategy, but man I see more bad old code than new code.
That story took an unexpected turn
There is a way to do this actually via https://copy.sh/v86/ Although this is straying from the main point. There are certainly things native apps can do that web apps cannot. But requiring "always-on super-stable internet access" is absolutely not required for web apps. This hasn't been true for at least 5 years now. It also seems to be the most often repeated (completely inaccurate) limitation about web apps. There are certainly limitations. Let's talk about the real limitations, not the mythical ones.
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I wonder if is now ingrained in boxing training to move like that -- no one notices a big difference like they did with Ali because everyone is trained to move like that. Looking back through the videos I have to think that none of the heavyweight boxers move like that today. I wonder if there will be a renaissance in boxing where you have a whole generation of boxers moving like Ali. Does anyone follow boxing? Can anyone comment on how Ali influenced the state of boxing generations later?
Uncovered: A wave of assassinations of pro-govt supporters in Venezuela
The article mentions they're now getting ready for a larger double blind trial. This one was I think a test for safety.
I guess people will just have a hard time getting a response out of me if they try and contact me via Facebook message. The Messenger app will never touch my phone.
Only if your time is valuable.
Speaking of dark patterns, Google has completely broken Gmail and Google Docs/Drive in incognito mode in Android Chrome. It purposefully loses the cookie and will not function once you switch away to another app and then back to the browser. They are trying hard to force people into using the native apps, or at least staying logged in, for GMail/Inbox and Drive. It's really lame. Instead of being passive-aggressive, they could just put up a message saying that they don't support a specific usage. This is a well known "bug" that has been around in their bug tracker for a while.
Because, to quote Sturgeon, "90% of everything is crud", and that includes CEO candidates.
There seems to be a common problem that many of us never-will-be-CEOs have.

We don't act like sociopaths and put profits and duties towards boards before people.
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It's possible they could detect those devices and leave chat active in the web app.
If they could deliver this at a larger scale and be able to reduce their prices it might make a little more sense. You can get an entire office for the price of a desk.

WeWork Walnut St. Desk[0] - $450

Allegheny Ave Office[1] - $450

[0]https://www.wework.com/locations/philadelphia

[1]https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/off/5595848731.html
Android Chrome supports push notifications, even when the browser is not loaded.
This was a fantastic read!
I actually liked that I could use a messenger app without all the rest of the stuff that I never used. But I think they split it back then because they wanted to have something more similar to whatsapp (which wasn't theirs yet) - They apparently let you use a phone number to log to messenger too.
Anyone have a more informed opinion on whether this is in some way due to their efforts with bots?

I'm guessing a native app enables a lot more on that front in some regard than web, or perhaps provides a moat.
So after this and screwing with Instagram (removed API access to timeline 3rd party apps used and enabled global curated timeline only) I wonder what will they ruin with WhatsApp.
> a permafrost that holds insane amount of methane and other carbohydrates.

I never had this thought until now, but the things you eat are called carbohydrates whilst the things you burn are called hydrocarbons.
This coming to light is a good thing, because the MPs will finally be scared enough to do something pro-privacy and stop all the anti-encryption nonsense.
Sane defaults are a very good reason to decide to use an app. It's very common to reset user settings back to defaults during a "major" (or just marketing) upgrade of an app.
They are redirected to mbasic.facebook.com which still works. Most Android FB wrappers have used that as a workaround for now to still reach Messenger.
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>3) Multiprocessing

IMO shell makes it very easy to work with multiple process (&). It's built in and natural.

>4) Performance

If you are carefull and know what you're doing, you can achive very good performance with the shell. Usually, better performance is achived processing less data, ie being inteligent. Rarely depends on the language (unless you care about cycle level performance, then yes :).

>6) Portability

I claim that it's way easier to depend on sh being on a (UNIX) system than $SCRIPTING_LANG.

>7) Documentation

?? You can mess up documentation in any language.
There's no need to store the credentials -- you can just ask the Apple keychain to store them instead.
I've been learning go and this is my first CLI app. There's definitely some YAGNI in this..cough emoji cough..but supporting unicode/emoji led me to expressing the charsets as an interface instead of as a string or array of characters, which are so nice and so lightweight in go.

brew install leighmcculloch/randstr/randstr

or

go install github.com/leighmcculloch/randstr/cmd/randstr

Feedback welcome, especially on project structure and best ways to distribute go CLIs.
Every value has some identity in domain space. Even if it doesn't have a unit.
Yeah we now finally have them on android too in marshmallow
You are cherry-picking Western Europe -- the most peaceful and developed part of the world -- to make your point.
Folio and Swipe for Facebook use mbasic.facebook.com and are being actively worked on.
I stated that I want to use numba, and it's a pain to install it from pip because a lot of system-wide dependencies have to be installed.
I don't think this is the main point of this limitation. Main point is to prevent "primitive obsession" anti pattern.
Looking at the other posts it looks I am confused about what constitutes an amphetamine? I guess I am fine if people want to be pedantic.
I use gdb's Python API all the time, and I'm really happy that they have it. It's good for custom pretty-printing (well, almost - I wish p vec[6] worked well and not just print vec if vec has a pretty printer defined for its type) and it's good for commands needing to access a bunch of state and print a custom summary/run external commands based on that (for instance, view an image object graphically.)

So when you say it's not good I guess you want to do other things (which?) - or else you mean that it's messy (if so I ought to say that I've seen much worse and in relative terms I'd say gdb's API is rather lovely.)
So in many countries, there's this thing called "park and ride", which allows people to park on the edge of the city and catch a bus in instead of driving their vehicles into the city. That's a more than suitable solution to the problem of people outside the city needing gasoline-powered vehicles while the city bans them.
I hope you're being sarcastic?

NSA was caught snooping in a Supreme Court justice's data. (I think it was before he was on the Supreme Court, but nonetheless.) I find it unlikely that they're not intercepting American legislators' data, along with everyone else's.
it's usable for me if you switch to desktop, but still go to m.facebook.com rather than www.facebook.com (easiest way is to go to facebook first and then switch to desktop). i'm guessing that whatever ajax call clicking on the message icon triggers gets a "this is a desktop" token attached to it even if you are visiting the site via m.facebook.com
I've been on Vivaldi from the beta days, and am glad to see it's been steadily improving.

On my Mac, it's extremely responsive, probably as good as Safari. It feels snappier than chrome or (god forbid) firefox. Page load speeds feel quicker than other browsers. It's as stable as anything else I've used. The chrome extensions I use all work well.

All in all, a very positive experience. I just switched to Vivaldi as my main browser after using v1.2 for a couple of days now.

I only wish they bring some of the old opera features like text reflow, user CSS for page rendering, etc.
It's not available all over the world and is iOS only.
Safari doesn't though :/
Why look at clojure's STM and not CL? https://github.com/cosmos72/stmx
Yeah, I don't know, hence the "fantasy" adjective. But, somewhat realistically, the cream of my day lasts on average about 4 hours (longer when i'm hot, shorter when i'm not). So this really would be a bargain for an employer.
I met him briefly in 1991 but will never forget. A man in the history books now and forever. I shall look up to the sky and smile. I'm sure he is resting in peace.
Is resource redistribution the only way to solve income inequality?

You're asking the wrong question. Why is income inequality a problem?
Try doing that as a mobile developer.
What do you mean by Yishan's style?
Yeah. It will be fixed by making it illegal to access politicians data. They need privacy.

Normal people need security, so this clearly doesn't apply to them.

/s
Its not about how much you get, its about what the shares represent.

Do you know what a CAP table is? Can you read one? Good your 1/2 way there. If they are brining you on at this point and balk at showing you a CAP table, run the other way.
Unfortunately the GCHQ has a ton of blackmail material on all of those MPs to shut them up if they get too loud.
Except Braintree are owned by PayPal and, just like PP, they love to just randomly kill your merchant account. I know plenty of people this has happened to for no good reason other than 'sorry you no longer fit our risk profile'.
I only have limited experience with the headtracker + monitor combo but I much prefer VR.

With the headtracker it more felt like just a convenient input method for head position, whereas with vr, well, it's like you're really in the plane. It doesn't feel like there's some translation between me moving my head and the camera on screen moving.

The loss of visual acuity is an issue, but since I fly only GA this is not so much of an issue - I'm mostly looking out of the windows and try not to focus on the instruments, just like in the real world.

If anyone you know owns a headset (DK2, CV1, Rift), I'd highly recommend borrowing it and trying the free version of FlyInside (15 minute demo limit) to get an idea: https://flyinside-fsx.com/Download
The funniest thing I see around here (Norway) is people driving around in big SUVs (LandCruiser, Suburban, etc.) with just two seats installed, since then they can buy them much cheaper under the "workmans car" tax rules, which do not require that you're actually using your car for work.
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So just in time they're shipping global curated timelines, you can't make an app that sorts posts back in chronological timeline? What a coincidence!
Are you saying that web standards should go further and there should actually be a open-source web standards library?
I sympathize.
Yup, before they were public.
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My wife visited his home in Berrien Springs, MI. As an exchange student she had no idea who he was. Hugging The Champ in his frail years without having a clue... sigh. Fun fact.