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Because we don't sell to apps that would hurt people. See manifesto on usedopamine.com/team/index.html.

~100 years ago, the most frequent causes of death in the US were pathogens for which we barely had a name. Pnemonia, Flu, Cholera, Fevers. And it was only after we developed a rigorous technology of the body (modern medicine) did we lift millions of people out of suffering simultaneously.

Today, if you are under 50, you're mostly like going to die of opiates. Over 50? Type-2 diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease, obesity and its complications, and stress-related illness.

Every single one of these has strong behavioral components.

Building a smartphone-first, AI-powered rigorous technology of the human mind gives us all an above-the-table, democratized chance at designing scalable technologies that stop this. It spreads better across national, sex, gender, and SES lines than most other behavior-change oriented solutions. And as we enter an age of an excess of cheap energy, food, and data, we NEED a rigorous way to help us better align modern aspirations with an ancient brainstem.
Is their crypto currency ad replacement system in play? I recall that being one of their very early pitches.
the school bus one really sticks out to me. it seems all the net cares about is seeing orange juxtaposed with black. No shapes, no vehicle features, just orange and black.

hazarding a guess with no knowledge of the subject, I wonder if that is because no other class in ImageNet can be defined by orange and black. The net simply doesn't need to learn anything more about orange and black, because on 100% of the samples it trained on, orange and black meant "school bus". Every time. So no need to learn any other features -- if you see orange and black, it MUST be a school bus, at least in the context of this data set.

I wonder if we introduced other "orange and black" classes to ImageNet, it would need to learn more features about the school bus in order to identify it.
(right, it was more an invitation for discourse!)
It is interesting how this article had the same affect on a lot of people. I also wasn't too comfortable with their angle or what they are doing.
So, what is the purpose of this site?
No offense, but I do not believe you.

I can't, on something like this. Talk is cheap.
I was trying to figure that out too. These "great historians" are in opposition to what he calls "scientific" historians, which I assumed meant the Annales School (really into sociology and quantitative data).[1] But I don't know all that much about the historiography of the US (and of course things have changed a lot since Smith wrote this in 1973).

My guess is the great historians were those in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who tended toward writing gigantic broad narratives that academic historians love to pick apart and prove wrong. But that's a guess, partially derived from this 1985 interview.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_School
[2] https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0702/dpage-f.html
Right, but that’s not required.

You can live in the Mission with a roommate or a few and save a lot of money. I have a bunch of friends splitting a nice Glen Park apartment for $1500 each and its right next to BART. I personally pay $1750 a month with a few roommates and I love my situation, and I’m also close to BART.

You have absolutely no right to complain about rent unless you’ve done.. literally anything but nothing to pay less than those absurd amounts. You don’t need to live in a luxury SOMA apartment to exist in SF.
but you’ve changed your mind?
I dunno, identifying groups like "Jew-Haters" seems useful beyond "prospecting new customers." For example, if the US government cared about tracking hate groups (as opposed to hiring them into the administration) they could use it to identify people to track.
I guess it's a win-win situation both ways:
- it can make people more addicted to apps to the point where we all fall off cliffs or get run by an app addict while crossing the road using our phones.
- or it can push people to the limit where they get so much addicted to their apps that they actually call for interventions, completely abandon their phone, or seek help; introducing youjustneedspace.com </sarcasm>
So, I’m having trouble understanding how I would use this tool with respect to the local government near me.

What am I missing?
But I'll give you the TL;DR:

Lightening rod: because now we're on HN.

Humanitarian use: see below about 100 years ago vs. today.

Quality of people: that's why Space is free.

What's design's ethical imperative: also, see below about 100 years ago vs. today.

Founders of push notification companies: Ask the CEOs of Leanplum/Marketo/Intercom/Vizurly/Kahuna why they haven't released an antidote for push notifications? Please. Try to get them to talk about it.

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Thanks! We think so too! Also, you have a close sarcasm tag with no open sarcasm tag. Dude that's bad form.
Supposing that your server-side tech uses multiple workers to render pages, I suppose you have to serialize the access to the SQLite file. What is the best way to do this?
Unfortunately greed often turns people from ethical to not so ethical pretty quickly. Would be nice if the chaps above could create an AI to help with that!
I mean. Facebook owns Whatsapp. And if you're not in a WhatsApp country, the US, Korea, Japan or China, you're in a Facebook Messenger country. They handle messaging for the vast majority of the western world.

The Facebook website itself is no longer particularly useful to me, other than that it is very good at events (both private and for public event discovery). The groups feature is also handy.
What on the evil part? Or that we make the whole team read Skinner? It's a thin book.
Is it $200m+, or is it just Eth currently worth $200m+ (and obtained at 1/300 of the current price?)

Maybe the people who lost that Eth didn't lose all that much?
Bruh. Did you even look at the price on Space?
Same here. I had an issue with Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. Whenever a pendrive was plugged in to an USB hub both the mouse and keyboard had their ranges reduced to about 20cm.

I'm glad I can finally have some closure :P
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The line from travel via auto mated car to TSA style security invasion is actually pretty short.

It just takes one person to decide to go carmageddon and now every car will have weight restrictions, luggage restrictions, then there will be ~~economy cars~~ pods and more.

The moment you start paying for a seat, and the car is owned by someone else, the owners are going to see exactly how LITTLE they can keep in the car, and still get someone to use it.

Unlike flying which benefited from budget airlines, car transport is not likely to benefit more people by going this route.

All this thread is filled with people talking about some sort of benevolent firm wanting to take care of its customers.

The moment the market place hits it's growth plateau, people will be cutting corners to reduce weight, and improve fuel efficiency.

As for rapey scans - they will just expect people to get to a hub, and from that hub pick up their cars.

The hub will have the rapey scans.

The point of the TSA is to make the public feel that something is being "done", post 9/11.

Its a product of fear, not of security requirements.

So you can take it as a bet, that if any of the scenarios come true here - you will eventually return back to TSA levels of security theater.
I just learned Ruby (and rails) about a year and a half ago. I found it incredibly easy to pick up. Coming from a PHP/Java background I found that most MVC based frameworks that I already knew are fashioned from Rails in some way.

I think if you're new to most server side languages and javascript SPA's are your wheelhouse your experience will be very foreign and dogmatic feeling. I switch between the two worlds often and am still amazed at how productive I am in ruby/rails.
A large number of companies are advertising /only/ online, and therefore have a pretty pure measurement of ROI via click tracking from the ad to purchase. It's one of the promises of internet advertising: there's sufficient <strike>surveillance </strike> logging to be able to see what's happening with much greater clarity than TV or billboards.

The other half of the promise is that you can target exactly the 'right' people. And this seems sketchier to me, as the article kinda gets at: as targeting complexity increases, it's harder to tell whether problems are arising due to market fit or issues in the targeting algorithms. In the old world, you bought ads on content, and now you buy ads on eyeballs: my guess is that there's an unexplored happy medium between the two.
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How do they know if someone was going to tweet a longer sentence, like for example:

"Donald Trump is the worst president ever this country has ever had. He stole the election with help from the Russians and is running this country into the ground."

But knowing that they only get 140 chars, they just decided to tweet "Trump sucks! :-( And he's in bed with the Russians"?

You don't have to hit that 140 char limit too many times until you start self-censoring yourself and write shorter messages.
Or, my personal favorite of BASE65536 encoded gzipped text.
I'm not sure about the provenance of the statements apparently attributed to Musk.

However - assuming he said that stuff - I don't think it's particularly interesting or shocking that he wasn't hired at Netscape, especially if Netscape was at a point in the evolution of their company that they were hiring based on resumes/degrees/buzzwords, versus productivity or personal relationships or whatever.

SpaceX and Tesla probably ignored some resumes this week from people who will go on to found amazing companies. And from people who will never do anything interesting.

The fact that Musk turns out to be a good entrepreneur doesn't mean he's the right fit for any job. Would I hire him if I needed someone to run a startup, or scale up a startup? Yes, he's proven he's good at that. Would I hire him to clean my house or mow my lawn? No, I'm pretty sure he'd get bored/frustrated and leave to find a more interesting project. Would I hire him to work in a bakery, or as a glassblower, or a bus driver? I don't know, he might or might not be a good fit for those jobs.
I _guess_ he means that siloing email provision to a few large providers means that its harder to run your own email server without being flagged as spam.
'Also, you have a close sarcasm tag with no open sarcasm tag' -- sarcasm does not start by priming people of what to come. Especially those who would take you words seriously and start to relate to your comment.
SQLite can handle concurrent reads, but needs to lock the entire DB when writing. Multiple workers shouldn't be a problem per se, but if you need multiple workers to support the traffic, then maybe a client-server db like postgres is a better choice.
They could build small self driving busses.
Yeah it's possible that's true for those two cities at this particular time -- I haven't run the numbers. But you can apply the argument for Austin too.

If you're living in Iowa or Wyoming, Austin probably seems like it has a high cost of living. You could probably find an apartment for $300 or $400 a month in a lot of small towns. But it's probably better to move to Austin, make more, and save more, if you have a job offer.

I would say that if you are young and in tech, you should apply for jobs all over the country, including in SF. Don't worry about the cost of living. That's focusing on the downside rather than the upside.

But if you are older and have more expenses, and less variance in what your salary will be, then you might want to run the numbers, and not bother applying to some places.

FWIW I've lived in SF for 15 years and I've never paid close to $3370. I did pay $2600 once for huge place, and now I pay less than that. But even if I paid $3370 I would still save a ton of money. It's all relative.

One bedrooms are also the worst market, precisely because people are moving in and out a lot. I've known people with very nice 2 BR apartments in desirable areas splitting it at $1500 a piece. Although granted this was several years ago and the market may have changed.

I think it got insane in 2013-2014, hopefully it's a bit better now. There are also places to live outside the city that are less expensive.

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Also, two asymmetries to consider:

1) There's no hard upper limit on the amount you make, but there is a hard cap on how much you can save.

2) If you live in an expensive area like SF, you can move back to your hometown at any time. But the converse isn't true, because at a certain point the expenses will probably be intimidating.
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Ruthless business models like this seem inevitable in a society that values making money far above anything else.
Gmail doesn't play well with plain text emails.

Even if you manually select Plain Text to send, it still reflows lines at 78 characters by manually inserting linebreaks and adds its own special characters where it feels like. It also doesn't follow a handful of RFCs specific to email. There is no workaround for the forced hard-wrapping of lines in Plain Text. It will not let you use format=flowed either.

Plain Text mode has been obviously unusable for a long time, and the only folks who ever really bothered to complain about it were kernel developers (the mailing list requires plain text). Nobody else cares, but they should. Go figure.

If you're using a 'modern' mail client, you don't notice this. If you're using old, tried and true technology, the problems are plain as day.

Gmail broke email.
Such a terrible name for a company.
Does he not remember how much spam we received before those sorts of upgrades? Email spam in the late 90s and early 2000s was insane. And every grandmother who plugged in their PC at the time got hit by it. "I ordered v1gr4 cheap from this business, why hasn't it shown up 4 months later?!"

Sure, I guess it's harder to run your own email server, but the trade-off was virtually zero spam making its way to my inbox. I think that's a trade worth making, since I vividly remember the dark days of email.

One thing I've noticed about people who are nostalgic for the past, is that they either misremember or forget the negative things while wearing their rose-colored glasses.

I saw someone pining for the good old days of the late 90s internet due to a lack of ads everywhere and I gently reminded them that due to a lack of bandwidth and modems capable of download at speed, a gif file took 5 minutes to download and view, videos were basically non-existent to download as real-player was in its infancy serving up what amounted to flip-book quality clips which still took 15 minutes to download a 15 second clip.

The internet wasn't in some golden age back in the late 90s, it was slow as fuck, quality was shit and there was barely any content. We take so much for granted today...
wow, amazing coincidence since I was just reading earlier today about the 425BCE Battle of Pylos in Donald Kagan's The Peloponnesian War. and that battle was a thousand years after this burial!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pylos
To be fair, Fossil's intended use case is the exact opposite of the Linux kernel. See 3.3 and 3.4 of the fossil vs git page[0].

[0] https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w...
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Snap is paying Google $400m a year for hosting costs... https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/snap-commits-2-billion-ove...

Seems like at that point it might be cheaper to run your own datacenters?
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FaceTime is a huge value add to the iOS ecosystem. It's extremely reliable, crystal clear quality, and incredibly easy to use. I know so many people who get their grandparents iPads exclusively to use with FaceTime.
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That's great but what is really needed is litigation/legislation.
Are your kids in school yet? I am pro-San Francisco, and don't have kids. But my neighbors do, and told me about the school lottery.

While I understand the logic, it sounds awfully inconvenient. SF is already annoying to drive around, I can't imagine dropping off and picking up a kid to/from a random location in the city during rush hour. That seem like a good way to kill a lot of your day.
Nice but misleading graph.

If you count the situations that lead to "No" you'll realize that all the "No" cases can be easily checked for, and if you're not in a "No" case then you're in a "Yes" case.

Can probably be implemented in a regular function with about 30 lines of code?
It's not too much to ask. A person overlooked a thing once. Heck, I overlooked it too because on my phone the green text was so incredibly small I coudln't read it.

I don' think it's too much to ask for commenters to have a little charity.
Thanks! FastCGI is currently not supported. If your shared hosting allows you to run a binary that accepts connections on some port, it should work with Apache as a reverse proxy. I'll add fast cgi soon. It should be easy enough since golang's net/http supports it.
Writing does not lock readers if you use the WAL feature (Write-Ahead Log, introduced in 2010)

https://sqlite.org/wal.html

> WAL provides more concurrency as readers do not block writers and a writer does not block readers. Reading and writing can proceed concurrently.
My take would be:

- now it's quite impossible to administrate your own email servers. Anti-spam measures are very effective (and enjoyable for us as users), but so paranoid that being part of the few select nodes that don't have their emails marked as spam (or are even propagated at all) is a full time job.

- gmail dicthed IMAP in favor of their own API. Pluging an IMAP client into your email account requires to dig inside your account security settings and change several obscure values with scary names and warnings. Sometime it even doesn't work, and then you do it again later, and it works for no reason. A non tech saavy user will never succeed in doing that, and hence everybody will use the web base version.

- the security of gmail accounts are insane. Not in the good way. I have yet to have a problem with a pirated account. But I had several problems with being locked out by Google deciding that "something was suspicious" because I was traveling or using someone else computer. Of course google has zero help desk to solve this. Loosing access to my emails is NOT ok. And to do it to protect me (against a threat visibly less likely than google freaking out) is adding insult to injury.

- Google scans and collects every emails you send and receive. So much for privacy. It also shares everything, thanks to PRISM. Even when I decided to dicth gmail, most people are using gmail and will never setup encryption. So by just existing, my communication are spied on, even if I don't use the service myself. Oh, and the bot scanning your mails may follow links in them. I had "burn after reading" documents that I could never open because of this.

- The gmail account is a google acount. Which means something that should be "just emails" is now a beacon to track me on all the websites I go to. It's also associated with all my google services activity. And on the android phones I log into. It requires a lot of effort and disciple on my part to mitigate that. Running a phone without an account is extra annoying. Having to juggle between several emails providers, migrate, make sure I have extensions to handle trackers, etc. I just wanted emails when I open my first gmail account. Not that.

While I do appreciate what google did with gmail (it does have tremendous benefits), the cost to get that is quite important.
I love Markdown Here and if the author is reading this — thanks a lot for your work. I've had a great time using it for years.

I've did had problems with it when using it with FastMail and I hope it gets fixed at some point. Naturally it's optimized for Gmail first.

Btw folks, webmail isn't the only option. I've been using MailMate (https://freron.com/), it has baked-in Markdown support, keyboard shortcuts, plays well with Gmail too and it's awesome.

For messages it's much better to use a client like MailMate instead of a browser plugin like Markdown Here, because it will properly format and send multi-part mime messages — your message will be displayed well in both text and HTML ;-)

PS: I wish an open-source alternative would be as awesome as MailMate, but alas. On the other hand MailMate is very standards oriented and I don't mind supporting its author with money.
Heh. I actually enjoy maintaining old code, as long as that means I can improve it while adding new functionality.

If it means "no, we can't change that method with a 200+ cyclomatic complexity because the NY office wrote it and they would be upset about it" then yeah, that would suck. (Real story in a recent contract with a bank.)
Tangentially, think of all of the wasted bits sent in the multipart section of the email (often 2-5x longer than the text itself) just because HTML is the default...
This is how I understand what you're saying:

We are building something evil and reprehensible, but we are open about what we are building, and therefore we are better than the other guys who are doing it surreptitiously.

Fine, but in that case your product is basically performance art. Bravo, you did a good job raising awareness: now go actually work on fixing the problem instead of pretending like you aren't part of it.
Today it’s google that decides what spam(aka marketing emails) gets delivered to my mailbox. No matter how many times I mark some emails as spam, they always seem to find the way to my inbox.

But I guess that’s what you get when you use an email service from an advertising company.
I missed limiting the size of user inputs. Will fix it soon.
We're not really running out of land or resources, or even getting remotely close to it. Divide the US by acreage and there are more than 7 acres of land per person. Even after taking out farmland, national parks, etc there's still an enormous amount of good land for each person in this country. Consider that a place like San Francisco has a population density pushing 19,000 / square mile. That's, in terms of availability, an extra ~133k acres of land per square mile of San Francisco. China, for contrast, has a population of nearly 1.4 billion in a smaller land area than the US. And the vast majority of their country is also completely empty.

The problem seems to be a sort of network effect in real life. People want to live in cities where there are opportunities. Where are there opportunities? Where lots of people want to live. It'd be an interesting experiment to see a planned city where a large number of individuals/companies agreed, before it was build, to reside there. Bypassing the network effect and ideally make it an instantly desirable location to live. If such an experiment were a success it would create an instantly replicable model that could vastly improve the state of the economy and the country as a whole. But the up front cost of an experiment like this would make something like colonizing Mars seem like the cheap option, even if the costs could be recouped in a fairly short period of time.