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I have been 100% digital media (we're talking movies, music, PS3 games, PS4 games, Nintendo Switch games, iOS app store, Mac app store, and Steam/Origin Client/GOG on PC) for over 10 years now. Maybe even 15.

This is where things are going IMHO.

Sometimes this has forced me to spend more money on drives/other storage (for example, I manually upgraded both my PS3 and PS4 to the largest capacity drives they support). And I have a NAS with a bunch of drives in it. Worth it, IMHO.
rtorrent https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent

Plain text, runs in a terminal (which means screen or tmux allows for remote, headless, operation).

No ads, just torrenting.
Looks great. I would try it if I didn't already use Org Mode capture templates. In Emacs you can hit `C-c c` and then choose a template (`n` for "note template" in my system). Then write your note in the box that appears (with Vim keybindings available if Evil is installed). `C-c C-q` to add tags, then `C-c C-c` to save and close the note. Each capture template files the notes away in locations and formats that you designate with short lisp snippets. I have 12 different capture templates for various kinds of information that I want to save.
Then they should get copyright for 14 years since publication, like in the first copyright law, the Statute of Anne. There is no benefit for society to extent copyright past that point, since it does not induce creative corporations to publish more works: profits 20, 50 years into the future are not relevant to current business decisions.

The original idea was that copyright is a compromise that maximizes the social welfare, people give-up their natural right to copy and share for a limited time so that more culture is created. Of course, once the system was set in motion, the holders of valuable works had a very strong motive to exert political pressure to extend the copyright to absurd lengths and push the notion of "intelectual property" at face value, instead of the original social compromise. No one was left to fight for the public domain and now we have these huge dynastic corporations that are strongly anticompetitive, using warchests of past works that new creators haven't yet amassed. If not for the internet and long tail consumption it enabled by lowering entry barriers, a few companies would own all comercial culture.
“Sicario,” “Arrival” composer Johann Johannsson dead at 48
USAF to Retire B-1, B-2 in Early 2030s as B-21 Comes On-Line
how much did NVIDIA pay your boss to make that statement?
Yes, but they require integration, which is no small feat. You'll have to wrap their fairly low-level payment processing services into your own business logic.

So, it's far from flipping a switch. There is Webhook integration, state management, notifying users, etc.
WhatsApp was the only viable alternative.

Which is why Facebook bought it.

Should that have been legal?
FB seems to be on its deathbed. It's obvious that it's completely lost on young users (18-25), and even young adults (25-35) are just about done with it.

Serious question: is now the time to disrupt? What would the "next" MySpace/FB look like? Ignoring techie "features" like decentralization, what do you think users actually care about?
Considering he graduated from Stanford in '99 I would say so.
I'm using API Gateway, Lambda, and the IOT Platform to do realtime lookup / enrichment stuff for contacts in our CRM.

I setup a webhook in the CRM to call the API when a contact was created or updated, which would then enrich (update) the contact. I didn't realize that I had to disable the option to not trigger the update when the contact was updated via the API. So it created an infinite loop of updates that called everything millions of times before we realized what was happening.

I guess the one positive here is that our system can scale and handle the traffic :)
There is (or at least used to be) a menu next to people's posts that lets you stop following similar posts (or unfollow the person completely while remaining friends).
Thanks! Coming from a company isn't currently implementing anything like this (you'll find many do not as of yet), it would help a great deal to improve the quality of the content which is an obvious precursor to ad impressions and subscriptions— especially for media companies who do not introduce [hard/any] paywalls.
If you don't already have an email address for all your spam, get one, then change your email address in Facebook to that one.

While the annoying emails still get send, you are at least no longer bothered with it in your day to day email use. Not ideal, but slightly better.

Of course you can also use email filtering rules, but seperating it physically makes it more likely you do not burn time on it by accident.
They release some information in their earnings report about user activity. [0]

Daily Active Users = 1.40 Billion.
Monthly Active Users = 2.13 Billion.

It's hard to extract too many statistics out of this. It's just fair to say that if someone used Facebook at all in the last 30 days, they probably (>50% chance) used Facebook today.

[0] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
if there is one thing we should hope for its that the next generation of deep learning processors will NOT be owned by Google or NVIDIA
Implying it won't accelerate the development of more/better solar.
Stripe just does the processing. But for SaaS, you really need something like https://bullettrain.co/. It does pricing pages, subscription and user management (which is what takes most of the time to implement).
That's what I've done. Professional contacts/co-workers on LinkedIn (not that I use it all that much anyway), and family on FB (since I don't live in the same state I can use it to still see pictures my sister posts).
> The US hasn't been the focus for several years. Africa/India/Asia were far more important than sustaining US numbers.

I figured they were only important to keep of the facade of forever increasing user growth. If North America and Western Europe aren't were the bulk Facebook's revenue is coming from (and where most of its focus in placed), I'd be very surprised.
Trump budget purposes eliminating ARPA
In other words, proof-of-stake is the future. Legacy PoW coins will stick around, but they will not be dominant.
As soon as Uber launches UberEverything , Instacart will be bleeding tons of money. I already left Postmates and Seamless for UberEats. Fast, predictable and more options.

If Uber could get more grocery delivery services and keep the onus of packing things on the stores vs delivery boys picking things, it will be more reliable.
UberEats will struggle unless they didn’t service issues. They are slaves to the whims of drivers who can cancel orders at any time.
Don't you have stores that will do the deliveries themselves? That's got to be a better system than using a third party like Instacart.
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most men of a certain age range would welcome this sort of attention. i would, and without a deep study, i can confidently say most of my peers would.
Not necessarily ahead of curve, most normal people don't care about the feed algorithm. They are happy to see what their friends and family are doing.
I think I remember reading the Reddit post, but I guess this is the first I've read that the post's claims were debunked. The end of the article suggests a borderline unfalsifiable claim (that she "designed" it, and that all apps are cobbled together of other people's code, and played down whether or not the amount she wrote matters).

Are there other write-ups chronicling the claims back and forth?

EDIT: Original post (with updates at the top) appears to be here: https://namc.in/2018-02-05-plagiarist

> After the Daily Beast article, saying that we took down the post because the information was false, we decided to put it back up, because the information is not false, and we would like to stand our ground.

Interesting.
That's not an excuse. CA is anything but politically diverse.

The people of LA, SF and surrounding cities have done a very thorough job of consolidating power and marginalizing everyone else.

The source of your problems is in the mirror.
I agree. I use instacart every few months, but I will NEVER use them to buy groceries for a dinner I'm preparing that day. I've had too many instances where they didn't have the meat I needed, so I had to order out. They are not useful for folks who cook a lot and care about their ingredients.

They really really need real to have real time inventory for users like me. The shopper model worked when they were just starting off because it allowed them to launch in tons of cities without even the groceries approving but now they need to move to a model where they get the grocery store's inventory; the current method is just plain inefficient.
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The only thing I use it for is messaging people whose phone number I don't have and a couple of groups that have events near me.
And now, if you're marketing or selling to people in the European Union, you're expected to have a deep understanding of data privacy law to negotiate GDPR, ePrivacy, and a host of other (often contradictory) regulations.
I think at this point, between Facebook Messenger and Instagram, I don't really use Facebook for anything else other than events.

If Facebook spun out its own events app, I would probably stop using Facebook core altogether.
We've warned you before about not using HN for national flamewar, yet most of your posts to HN—in this thread and elsewhere—are making this sort of aggrieved comment about China. That comes across as an agenda, and we don't want agendas here. They're mechanical, make for bad conversation, and provoke worse from others. HN is for intellectual curiosity, about as far from agendas as can be.

I'm sure you have legit reasons for this grievance, but you're abusing HN by taking it out in the threads here. We ban accounts that do this kind of thing, so please stop it if you want to keep commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Indeed they don't, but Assange isn't being charged wit those in the UK. He's charged - rightfully so - with skipping bail.
Except if it’s a japanese show. Then it won’t be on itunes or you’ll see it in a year.

Because apparently fuck japanese shows, both ways (right holder side and distributor side).

Netflix is getting better at this game, but worldwide same time release is still more of a miracle than a standard procedure. If it ever gets release outside of japan in the first place.
>The last time I used instacart, there was a box checked called “service fee”

i used it a few months ago, and there was no checkbox (it was mandatory)
The problem with immersive theatre: actors need protection from sexual assault
But there are so many services out there, and instacart isn't a particularly good one. There are services like fresh direct/amazon fresh which are based on delivery as a primary concept, and there's the services spun up by the individual grocery stores (which don't have the same crazy fees as instacart, and generally have more accurate listings).

Especially given that wholefoods is now going to deliver direct which was one of the primary uses of instacart (delivery from premium stores), demonstrates that their utility is fading.
Not a bad idea. I was thinking something similar to where I could possibly hire a few people for what the salary is.

Only fear about going into hibernation is falling behind competition wise...
Unless you have a low cost SaaS product (monthly credit card billing) Stripe is a pain. If you have anything resembling an enterprise sales process juggling dozens of invoices, discounts, payment terms, etc., becomes a hassle.

Is there an Enterprise Sales ready billing / invoicing solution? We're using Quickbooks - it leaves much to be desired.
I've also done the unfollow-everyone thing about a year ago and I thought I was a pretty rare case, your post leads me to believe that it might not be that rare.

As it stands, I only "follow" brands/pages as sources of news (predominantly non-political) and Facebook is actually moderately useful in that way. My news feed is now just topics I'm interested in and I cut out the friend-filtering algorithm portion, which makes Facebook a lot more pleasant to use. The onus is more on me to follow up with friends on what they've been up to and I'll probably lose touch with some along the way. However, it feels more genuine when I can talk about those things on a more personal level a few weeks/months after the event is posted online and I'm not just contributing another comment/like on a post.
We use ChargeBee for our SaaS product.
Really great offering!
They give you a customer portal where the customer can cancel, update, upgrade, ... his subscription. We have a custom checkout page where all options are listed. Then one API call and the user is forwarded and can fill out billing address, payment information, etc. on a ChargeBee page. They will handle taxes, issue invoice and everything else for you.

They have also an extensive API and webhooks.
Especially with Kernel 4.15, AMDGPU got HDMI audio out.
Amazon Prime Now is already starting this (https://goo.gl/fSF4DR) in select markets. I used this last weekend and the delivery was perfect! You can opt to have an out-of-stock item either left off or replaced with a similar item. They will even send an SMS to request confirmation if they need to use a substitute product, giving you an opportunity to provide more feedback.
His books weaponize common psychological traits and teach how to use them to achieve one’s means. An extremely toxic approach in my opinion.

I really enjoyed Sandi Metz’ talk on this very topic, in which she addresses the books and offers alternative approaches to creating influence through leadership and solid relationships.

It’s a talk I’d recommend for the whole team to watch, together.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VzWLGMtXflg
Technically it is easy to create the subtitles, but legally that would be a derivative work of the CC subtitles, so again, it comes down to copyright law. :(
It’s because low paid work is the hardest, physically and mentally, so poor people don’t have the energy to cook, and with McDonalds available, they don’t really need to when you can get a dinner for $2.
Oh wow! Even a backend for Jupyter's interactive widgets!
It is also a service culture where they have extra people to help you pack your bags. Meanwhile, Japan, Scandinavian countries and plenty of other first world places are going big on automation. You don't even get bags or a checkout assistant, it is all self-scan and pay by chip and pin (or contactless).

Against this back drop of US service culture the idea is to make it as easy as possible for the customer - they don't have to enter a complicated four digit pin number, they can just sign their signature and if the cashier thinks it looks like the scrawl on the back of the card then the sale is done.

I currently do not have millions of credit card details from a client database on my computer but that has happened before now. If I was criminally minded then I would have been able to sift off a lot of money, however, I have yet to steal a penny, despite also knowing some flaws in the 'double entry system' that I could have hacked to cover my tracks. I am sure that there are many millions of developers out there that have had such data on their laptop at some time. How many go rogue and steal? Not many. But in crypto-land it seems that this situation is reversed, everywhere there is a scam. The good actors are as rare as the bad actors in regular accounting/book-keeping.

So ten years ago when I did have many millions of credit card numbers that could be used (no 3D secure back then), I was trusted but not expressly by a single one of those named in that 'Sybase' database (as it was then). The system then very much worked entirely on trust and generally all those in the chain were trustworthy. I don't feel that banking has moved on in the USA from this trust way of working, things are much more locked down in the rest of the world. This is good for many reasons, I prefer today's customer databases where all the bits you would want to hack are hashed and salted if at all present.

This flakiness of banking in the USA - where a bank is not really any more likely to stick around than a company - means people do flock to the crypto coins precisely because of the 'store of value', there is chance of getting more than 2% return and the perceived risk is not much 'worse'.

Hopefully the net result of this fantasy blockchain nonsense is that we do build out better banking systems that do have a better 'trust model'.

The article does point out the absurdity of pushing around a whole copy of the database to every user and keeping it synced...
Here's another good HN post from today about Facebook that didn't seem to get enough traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16358148
> TypeScript is miserable. I see people building libraries in TypeScript and it's sad because they will never know how much better their performance could be or how small their lib size could be because the can only think in OOP.

And once that lib gets larger then 4 files, it becomes slower and slower to maintain, because JS. Spinning up new devs on any large JS project is a pain. Typescript, no problems.

Lib size differences are ~0.
Are there any SaaS that do all these things for SaaS?

Especially for Germany/Europe?

If not, why not? Sounds like a good business opportunity.
maybe

>Blatant tip stealing.

[...]

>Plus they mark up everything you buy, and obfuscate this

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> But let's be honest, 99.99% of Kodi and Plex use is purely for pirated content.

While you're grouping them in that category, why not put Microsoft Windows Media Center, XBox Media Center, and Playstation Media Center, and Apple TV in that category as well.
It's call the Lipstick Effect, aka Lipstick Recession Indicator.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lipstick-effect.asp

And just as a somewhat tangential but related story to the phenomenon, British soldiers distributed lipstick tp the liberated but gravely ill women of the Bergen-Belsen concetration camp in WWII, it lifted their moral just enough in some cases to help save their lives.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Vuex state is almost a plain JavaScript object but with Vue's getters/setters on it. I can access the root state object easily with `store.subscribe((mutation, state) => {}`. Mutations feel nearly identical to reducers (but simpler!) and interact with the state as a plain JS object. What `foreign artificial constructs` are we talking about here?

EDIT: I assumed Vuex state was immutable outside of mutations, but that's only true with 'strict' mode enabled.
If that’s a sacrifice you are unwilling to make and you can’t find work elsewhere, maybe
I'd love to freeze my credit but as one of the millions of Americans living overseas I have learned that this is flat out impossible for us. I've even written to my Senators and they can't get it done either (One positive note, it was surprisingly easy to reach them and they seemed genuinely eager to help).

Fortunately 'identity theft' is an imaginary concept, you cannot have your identity stolen - you are still you and no one can ever change that. It's the financial institutions' problem to fix at the end of the day, but there is this expectation that you are obliged to help them understand how they fell for a scam, and you are expected to do this for free or they make your life more difficult.

We do need a better system for expats.
My understanding is that most groups outside of Alexa and AWS are in a hiring freeze and they are trying to cut down on the amount of middle-management across the board.
I agree. but the deviation is not that huge.
Regardless if it's "ethical/fair" or not (and it's really concerning that you're conflating the two words) it's still illegal and you can get hit pretty hard for it. Saying it's ethical doesn't get you out of court or a hefty fine.
My point wasn't about whether the were doing it (I'm sure they were) but about whether they were confused about it.
When people spend cash at a casino they're not "using it"?
Similar experience, I hate to say it. Instacart's support has been pretty poor as well. If your delivery person gets an item wrong or delivers expired goods, good luck trying to get a refund because you'll be presented with a "you can return it yourself". Something go wrong with an alcoholic order? It's even worse because alcohol sales are non-refundable. I've had orders where the delivery person brought the wrong item and Instacart just ghosted me on my support emails and tweets until eventually they said my order was done too long ago to resolve.
Good. It's about time start-ups started taking that responsibility seriously.
Is there an expected time commitment? I'm working through school while working full time, but would really like to start working on larger side projects. Although, I don't want to make a commitment I can't follow through on.
Yep -- and all women do, too. Only the undesirables or unappreciative complain.
I agree it once was a good thing, but not anymore. It once was a good compromise where we gave up our right to share for a limited time to incentivize the distribution of works. This was a good compromise as 'sharing' at the time was very hard (required hand copying or a printing press). But today it is a terrible compromise as not only is distribution no longer a problem, they have stretched limited-time out so far as to be meaningless.
What did for me was the influx of the "you won't believe what happens next, this video will make you cry" shares, and then political diatribes (you may call it virtue signaling) by well-meaning friends. Unfriended many people to cull my list to around 100 and FB has been more palatable since.
If they're realizing it, local governments are still not acting on it

- Brisbane still does not want to build any housing at the Baylands, just south of SF. Developer wants to build 4400 new housing units.

- The Central SOMA Plan (in SF) as written would add 50,000 new jobs and only 7500 new housing units.

- San Mateo blocked new housing just last week: https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/council-denies-con...

- Local governments in Marin County and Beverly Hills are lobbying against SB 827, which would upzone large swaths of land near public transit.
If someone lost their house to the bank, the bank would be liable while they control the house. Main focus is on empty rental units or empty investment properties.

Presumably you'd need some window of exemption for normal transfers and typical moving times.

I'd probably implement as ~2x property tax on dwellings unoccupied for more than 3 months in the past calendar year. As you pointed out, this would have a downward pressure on rents, as landlords would be less able to leave an apartment empty while they wait for someone willing to pay the highest rate. Also, people who own multiple houses would be penalized for keeping some of those houses empty without renting them out.
Injecting a REPL into a given section of code is my favorite means of debugging and interactively developing. I've gotten into the habit of building up a class interactively within Emacs and re-evaluating files after they have been changed.

It feels a bit like test driven development, but much more concrete. When I don't really know what I want to build, or what is possible, it's a fun way to spike out some functionality.

Then after you see what sort of path could exist from your interactive session you can use the code as a scaffold and re-implement the functionality by writing a test and implementing the code to satisfy it.
same bomb? http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-39939925
Whatsapp, Instagram and Snapchat are already far in the process of obsoleting Facebook and scooping up leaving and young users.

2 of those 3 are now owned by Facebook