skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say nothing. Discord and Slack are making a serious dent into one of the primary use cases of email. Facebook has also entirely replaced email in f&f communication. Twitter+Facebook have mostly replaced product newsletters. It's also slowly-but-surely being phased out in identity confirmation, by oauth2 (which is a really, really sad thing given the proprietary lockin of oauth2).

Nothing will replace email altogether any time soon but if you offer a better tool for one of the many, many use cases it has, people will switch. Email became the default means of communication because it was the only way to communicate; it's not anymore.

What's really unfortunate is that everything I have listed is proprietary. We're putting our communication channels (both as users and as companies) in the hands of private companies that could shut us down at any moment.
Thank you! For small sensor, what new device would allow full OS and JavaScript development? What would be consequences of that choice? Shorter battery life?
I'd recommend Cebu, in the Philippines... but seeing as you want to keep travel costs low, how about Hawaii? Rent a nice hotel room with a spectacular view without blowing your money on travel costs.
Still the corporate tax (Unternehmensteuer) is now paid in Munich, which brings income to the municipality.
I thought crop rotation was good for the soil?
An email client that aggressively advocates for and implements new protocol features. Browsers accelerated web standards and stole market share by doing this.

I would like to see an email client with an edit button for messages. I have already thought a lot about this feature [0]. Feel free to comment on the issue.

[0] https://github.com/deckar01/amend-mail/issues/1
Missing the point on purpose?
> Do the police not crack down and jail people, sending a message that this is not to be tolerated? Is this a situation like Berkeley 2017, or the American South around Jim Crow, where the rioters/terrorists are implicitly sanctioned by the government?

There's actually a branch of law enforcement named CRSs dedicated at this, they do make arrests sometimes, but seldomly as they usually favor the baton usage, which is an art they are very well known for.

Generally speaking, each protest is a war of opinion involving 3 participants: the government, the protesters, and the rest of the population. The latter is key as the way its sympathy swings usually designates the winner. It's usually an equation including the level of justification claimed by the protesters, how proportionate the law enforcement usage of force was, and of course the level of violence used by the protesters.
e.g:
- Too violent a crackdown makes the government look bad
- Destructions of public infrastructures, or vicious display of violence for the other side. Infiltration with unidentifiable agent provocateurs is typical.
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I stopped going to whole foods after getting food poisoning from a lunch buffet plate that cost $18. They overcharge, and don't deliver the quality to justify the markup.

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/addressing-grocery-weig...

> "As has been reported in the media, our New York City stores were audited by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) for weights-and-measures errors, such as those that cause improper price labeling on some of the products that are produced, packaged and labeled in our stores."
Wires in your you fucking idiot
The bullshit parts about Whole Foods were bullshit a decade ago.

The difference is that their quality has declined and others are catching up. The food bar was near restaurant quality in 2006, now it's slop at 3x the cost. You also have to be careful about date labels, my local store will relabel old inventory and add a few weeks to the sell by dare.

Also, Amazon impacts them harder because WF lost their monopoly on weird organic product.

It's the typical big company story. They grew too fast. I'm sure the supply chain is a shitshow.
One way to balance choice and safety is for Apple to share the data in their store and let people create app stores only as long as the store links within Apple's ecosystem. This really would just mean a different skin of sorts but perhaps there's a means of different approaches to app discovery possible.
I stand corrected! So from what I read up, ICAO adherence only facililitates quicker processing at the entry point[0]. But member nations are not bound to anything.

So I previously thought that a country can obviously choose who it will accept with its own laws, but that it has to still recognise a valid travel document. That's obviously not true because there are many countries that refuse to recognise documents like the Israeli or Republic of China passports, despite them being perfectly standardised. Or the case of individually declared documents like the world passport or Liberland [1].

So in this case, the AU would have to formalise the status of the document in law, then member nations have to ratify it, before anyone should feel comfortable trying to travel on it. But of course, this isn't EU law that is generally well enforced; there's hardly anything stopping many African nations from flouting international, regional or even their very own set of laws! Hardly looking promising... It's just a shame there's so much wasted effort going in to this.

0 - http://www.icao.int/Security/FAL/TRIP/Pages/default.aspx

1 - https://liberland.org/en/request/
Nothing too devastating. Wars were along the borders, once with China and few times with Pakistan.
I tried that not long after reading Icehenge, but didn't really get on with it. Again, that was decades ago, so maybe I should give it another look. Gene Wolfe does tend to reward older readers; I'm pretty sure most of his Urth books whooshed right over my head as a teenager.
SQLite is a library. If you call a program to store your data, it's a DB server. Same host or not.
Before Apple put the address book contacts behind permissions, facebook downloaded the entire thing, without asking, to their servers.

I know this, because I make a very clear distinction between work and non-work data, facebook is non-work, so I will never have colleagues or work related contacts on facebook.

Suddenly one day, out of the blue, I get a facebook "friend suggestion" for a boss I had many years back. There's absolutely _no way_ there are any contact paths from my facebook friends to this person.

The only thing I had done was (reluctantly) installing the facebook mobile app. I researched it and found other people had experienced the same thing. The app simply took your entire address book and started matching up "friends" using that.

WhatsApp seems to do the same today.

Facebook is an evil company that absolutely will take any data they can get their hands on.
^ the original poster has made an absurd extreme claim, that Facebook listens to your microphone and serves adverts depending on what it hears.

It's not up to me to disprove such an absurd extreme claim, it's up to the OP to prove it.

That's how the world works, or else everyone would spend their entire lives having to disprove the claims of cranks and conspiracy theorists.
You can't just buy a single enterprise-grade NVMe SSD and call it a day. Are you planning on buying enough to populate at least 2-3 servers with multiple devices, then setting up some type of synchronous replication across them? What type of software layer are you going to use to provide high availability for your data? DRBD? How are you going to manage all of the different failure modes (failed SSD, network partition, split brain, etc.)? How are you going to test it?

I'm afraid you are seriously underestimating the operational capabilities required to successfully operate a highly-available, distributed, SSD storage layer.
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>> capable of being aware of their illness, not necessarily that they are aware

Now you're splitting hairs to try and prove that your perspective is superior to that of those you're labelling. This is exactly the characterization of someone who is being (perhaps ignorantly) oppressive. In such a situation, one has no business trying to argue that they have a bloody clue talking about a subject matter that does not directly affect them; and no, having a friend or family member who is "affected" is not "direct". You cannot claim to understand racism simply because you are a white person who happens to have a black friend.

>> let's consider a hypothetical conversation between a depressive A and two healthy people B and C

That whole discussion is one-sided. You're assuming that a majority consensus from B and C completely nullifies the possibility that A's perspective is valid and normal. The very fact that the word "normal" is used to indicate a majority consensus against the behaviour of a minority stinks of exclusivity and is outrageously abhorrent. 1,000 people saying that "situation A is normal" does not mean that 3 people saying "situation B is normal for me" is somehow abnormal. They are both normal scenarios, each having a different section of the pie chart. Who the fuck is so high and mighty as to decide that Slice B of the pie is not normal because Slice A is larger? When the sophistication of the statistical analysis you are using to generate your world view requires a grade 5 level of mathematical comprehension, you're using the most selfish of non-analytical thinking to justify your personal bias.

>> Now you're changing the subject to how other people view mentally ill people

Exactly. Those who label themselves as "non mentally ill" have no valid perspective of what it means to be "mentally ill". Seeing oneself as "normal" while comparing oneself against others who "must clearly not be normal because I say so" is the entire problem. You have no frame of reference, because you can't put yourself in their shoes - end of discussion.
How would you know whether that product's maker pays for that sort of marketing? Perhaps if you tried ten products and got one positive, that would suffice.
Random example, aside from the Microsoft Office-incompatibilites: For producing a passport they have to use software by the federal agency which talks to a fingerprint reader. The municipality has no choice what is used there.
Just to be clear, are you blaming protectionism ?
A local caching DNS server should offer high-speed response. You could build out a tier if necessary. High-capacity, high-speed DNS is not a greenfield.

The genuine Google requests will typically be cached quickly, and given HTTP codes, you could give a nonpermanent error whilst you're adding new entries, so there's that.

The problem is your misses may come from all over. So they're both expensive and (potentially) large.

Even if Googlebot is only a fraction of requests, it's a large fraction, and I've not investigated how many of same are suspect.

For ASN, either the CIDR Report or Routeviews.org offer information. The latter has downloadable tables, in CIDR format, for IP-based lookups. I've long advocated that this be incorporated into routing hardware with reputation data allowing for linespeed determination of traffic acceptability and rate-limiting. Shifts toward VPN and Tor are making this slightly less useful than previously, but it should still be a generally worthwhile option.
One of my coworkers was fantasizing the other day about starting a company where they don't send any internal emails. His plan involved prioritizing face-to-face communication, dedicated Slack channels, and a suite of tools that made it easier to index, and search across Slack. It was an interesting thought experiment, but it broke down in a lot of areas, and I think our conclusions were:

1) It would only have a chance of working in a small organization with a single team, or few teams that communicate regularly and effectively.

2) It's one thing to favor other channels of communication, but outright banning of email didn't have a lot of benefits other than forcing people to favor said alternate channels.
I think your confusing house cost and property cost. There are not a lot of 500k homes around.
What can we use email to disrupt?
I love email. My only problem with email is that it's too difficult to reliably run your own server with a Gmail quality interface. I have Fastmail for email on my own domain and it is quite nice but the more experience I get the less I want companies involved in being the gatekeepers to my critical and personal information.
The media talks to their own base and you can't persuade people who don't tune in.

The media on the left did persuade their audience that Trump stood no chance of winning the election, even as Trump was drawing larger and larger audiences at every stump speech. Everybody could see the flood of pro-Trump signs, hats, and bumper stickers in swing states, but this was apparently of no consequence. People were expected to disbelieve their own eyes, and so they did. I think there was a stunning amount of groupthink going on in the media this past election. Who consumes the news all day, every day? Media people, politians, and policy wonks. And so they brainwashed themselves.
We can map 3D sooo nicely in to 2D. Can we map 4D in to real 3D (e.g. with 3D glasses and VR) and get something that might become intuitive after a few weeks of usage?

I wonder if at some point you could quickly graps something rather simple like a 4D scatter-plot. Though I could just encode the 4th Dimension in color and get used to it I guess. Maybe I should write my own styleguide for visualizations to get a native feel for such things.

The moving lights on the hypershpere allowed for a glimpse of making senso of thet 4D, but in general I couldn't follow just yet, even less: grasp it.
Yes, the fact that you can send email to people who aren't using your email system is the main thing that's keeping chat services stuck as part of a company's communication tools and not being the entire (or almost entire) thing.

I actually wrote the easy 50% of email back compatibility for a chat app once - it wasn't as hairy as I expected it was going to be. Everyone has a unique username (or at least username+org pair) so use that to generate an email address for them. Similarly, generate an email address for every group/room. When you receive an email for one of those addresses, use the from headers to find/create a new pseudo-user and dump the body of the email in as a chat message. When someone writes in chat that has a pseudo-user as one of the people watching that chat, send them an email with that text and throw in a few previous messages as a fake reply chain for context.

There are a lot of hairy details about thread management and making sure you don't send pseudo-users too many emails and dealing with all the messed up headers that different platforms send you and trying to only extract the actual message and not the signature/replies from an email and attachments so on that I only worked on a little before the whole thing was shuttered. But it was really cool. Email users tended not to notice that anything was different (they're used to email looking weird from various services) and chat users got to stay in chat that was a little awkward instead of having to switch to a different tool entirely to talk to people outside the organisation. (And, if all the different chat services started doing it, you'd get really janky chat federation for free!) And it lets you get a lot of stuff that gets made as Slack integrations for free, too. Why bother setting up a bot to post to chat when a Jenkins build fails when you can just give Jenkins your dev chat's email address and let it send emails?
How about some due diligence first? I know, it's so easy to say "just create a pull request". To which the answer is: "I'm not going to use your software if you can't make effort to test it and document properly".
Here's a JS that can run on small (64k ram) devices: http://duktape.org/

They also link to other small-footprint JS implementations.
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Politics is a human thing, it is an artifact of interaction of persons and peoples. And irrationalness is as human as a fart, you know it's rude and it's wrong, but sometimes it happens. The fact is, we're hard-wired to be politic, irrational and superstitious.
So, the solution to some customers not understanding the economics and functionality of ephemeral storage is to charge all customers for a minimum of 25 hours of use, even if they only use the instance for a single hour? That seems crazy.

Look, AWS is trying to balance the economics of a large, shared, multi-tenant platform. It would be great if they had enough excess capacity around to keep ephemeral instance hardware unused for 24 hours after the customer terminates or stops the instance, but frankly, that's an edge case, and they would be forcing other customers to subsidize your edge case by charging everyone more.
I'm being realistic. If you want something to be private, don't put it on the internet. It's like putting up a bulletin at your local gym, and getting mad when someone from out of state reads the bulletin. It just doesn't make any sense.

"They violated my privacy! I didn't intend for them to see that!"

They didn't. You put private information in a public place. I'm floored how on hn I'm having to describe how the internet works.
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You might also give "Dancing With Eternity" a try by John Patrick Lowrie. It has a similar idea, but instead of total memory loss it's selective, and an individual can choose what they keep. I'm not done with it yet, but it does have some very interesting ideas and musings about what happens when death stops being a factor in life, or what if the process were more expensive than most could afford.
Most of CIA's work is at the ground level. Stuff relevant for tourists is highly relevant in the field. (Meet this source next to the statue of St. Something, next to the kiosk across from the children's zoo entrance #3.)
Coding: The next blue collar job? Sure hope not
Probably a social electric car with AI, and a voice interface. The driver's seat will be a standing a desk, and the dashboard will use flat design. Data storage will be handled with Blockchain, and devops will keep everything running smoothly using Github and Docker and React.
I suspect that they are preparing such a jump, at least as a trump card for Android.

There are only a few details about this, but some googlers are working on Fuchsia, a new OS for constrained devices, with apps written with Flutter.

Flutter can also be used to write Android apps by embedding its own runtime in the apps. In both cases, apps are written in Dart.

This would be a huge transition though ... it means rewriting the apps from scratch in another language with a completely different tooling.
Isn't this how it works in the us? the property you own tends to keep appreciating. This is why house vs condo pricing is so different.
Email Lists and the Shady Economy
I disagree that the animal welfare labels are doing some kind of lip service to animals, or paying a guilt tax. There is a big difference between a chicken from a factory slaughterhouse, and a grass-fed truly free-ranging (outside) one. When people come for a tour of my farm they get a better idea of what it's about and why it costs more. Over time more people will be informed about the origin of their food and why labels aren't just labels.
Well that is correct. But I was not answering OP, I was commenting on your pointless statement. I'm fully aware that this is not how the world works.

You haven't answered any of my questions so there's that.
> Email sucks in a lot of ways

I guess the real question is "How feasible is it to remove or change the things that suck about email while keeping and possibly enhancing the good parts?" And I suppose the answer is that it's technically possible, but would be expensive, painful, and require a lot of cooperation.
It would probably be pretty easy to build one from scratch. Fun weekend project?
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> It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them.

The author already mispredicted the future once. Why should his new analysis be trusted now?
1) Better email clients

This would help people manage their email better.

Outlook and exchange are getting better, but still lacking.

Gmail has it's threads which work most of the time. Both have proprietary tagging which is not IMAP compatible, which is why Thunderbird suffers.

If Thunderbird could handle Exchange and Gmail proprietary nuances it'd be perfect.

2) Better email etiquette

The easier your email is to read and comprehend the more likely it'll get responded to.

Fix / improve these two then this need to "disrupt email" would fade.
Well, basically we don't use email for internal communications. The only emails I send to or receive from coworkers involve some kind of external parties that only work with email.

(Ok, I admit there are a few (very, very few) reports we send by mail to archive them).
I have been approached by companies that wish to listen for audio on our mobilenetworks for tv stations. They have pretty good id databases of the shows in the background and use the information to reset ads and to sell back to stations. They did mention facebook being a client. As far as realtime interpretation of plain audio for ads that doesn't seem far fetched. Ad units of these companies are the elite i wouldn't put it past them.

https://www.audiblemagic.com
I think it was a sailboat. He told me it was relatively cheap (10-20k euros) but maintaining it was costly.
>What i was trying to convey is that the only reason to whaling seems to be tourism[1], and if you think whaling is a bad thing (which I think it is, as it is pretty cruel), you as a tourist can have a direct effect on this economy by refraining from participating

That's a totally reasonable and very fair standpoint, but I want to be super clear on this: That argument has nothing to do with the conservation status of the species. You meant well, but you lied.

It's hard to talk about things like rational people if everyone is running around lying. Being passionate about something isn't an excuse for lies. It muddies the waters. Neither side is helped by lies, all lies do is entangle the discussion so that no progress can be made.

Also, you can't buy good sausages in this country. They're all pork, no one makes an honest aussie beef snag on the whole island. How can you make good hotdogs without good snags? :(
Twitter has done this to me twice.

I had a deep and random conversation about Oreos and the tv show Colony recently.

Within a day ads started showing up on my timeline.
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In Canada the Interac debit card network has transaction fees on the order of a few cents. It's crazy how much money US payment processors manage to skim off.
I think its good to always be highly skeptical of all technology these days. I don't mean that we should do so in a tin-foil hat sort of way... but we should question everything. I saw a post on HN just a few days ago about how Vizio (the low-cost TV supplier) was wholesale collecting and selling all usage information to a third party... without users' consent. Its good to be vigilant and ask the "dumb" questions sometimes...
I work at a company with about 25 employees, some of which are remote. All communication happens on Slack, Basecamp and Github. We also have Friday afternoon drinks to catch up in real life. It works well. Can't remember when I last received an internal email.

External communication does still happen over email, that won't change any time soon I think.
It does, just not at the HFS+ layer. Sparse bundles are the functional equivalent at the Vitual file system layer and are used by Time Machine and are useable by developers or via the CLI. Sparse images are entire virtual volumes and are used for FileVault.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_image