skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
looks like the OP created multiple issues: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Wire%20Chat%20App&sort=byDate&...

still, the issue is legit. companies are quick to opensource something to create buzz, but when the time comes to real support for devs, companies quickly backdown
Why does it matter if email content changes, if that's the intention the author?

Clearly one of the biggest benefits of email is that it's the only medium that's acceptable for memorializing agreements / decisions / roadmaps / plans / etc. At the same time, I don't really care if some clothing company's monthly marketing email changes if they run out of something, as long as it's clearly marked as ephemeral.
Sometimes what sounds like nonsense hints at a higher truth.

http://m.nautil.us/issue/40/learning/teaching-me-softly-rp
I think parent was suggesting giving some free rides away, not getting rid of fares altogether. Getting rid of fare collection services and infrastructure does save on costs (often comparable to the amount collected, as you say), but once that's done, then demand would presumably increase and possibly outstrip supply. At which point you need to increase supply (expensive, and you're not getting anything back from it), or decrease demand (by charging people for a journey). Every transport system will have it's sweet spot, and some cities have different priorities that others.
I have many fond memories configuring my voodoo card on Linux, reveling in my high glxgears score and super smooth Tux racer rendering. A simpler time.
Also, if you need an example closer to home, I'm interested in Google AppMaker. But, nobody will engage me unless I move from the $5/user/month plan to the $10/user/month plan first. That's definitely NOT how other vendors treat me. Literally, they won't answer questions unless I double my spend first. My reply was basically "fuck off".
Try to ask how much is the rent and you'll see what's expensive.
Is this a bot account?
Right. When I said "cheap", I was actually referring to something reasonably priced, compared to subscribing to several services individually. Unfortunately, the industry seems bent on proving time and again that pirating content is still the easiest, most user friendly (and not user hostile), most device friendly (supporting almost all devices) way to get to content.
If you block JS from loading from CDNs on AMP pages it literally takes 8 seconds to load the AMP page.
Given that most of these mails will probably be the sort of e-mails one doesn't want (i.e. mostly newsletters, maybe some notifications, but _zero_ 1:1 human-to-human messages), I'd say such a filter could be pretty helpful.
That’s a coordinated action (through the courts) which is a good point... if the four major labels collude they can fuck over Spotify and the DOJ sure as shit isn’t going to care one whit.
OK, so my hunch was right.

It's not only Facebook, BTW. Whenever you provide those "additional details" to "secure" your account, be sure there's a high probability they will be used elsewhere.

In my case, I provided a personal email address to Azure as an alternative email. That email address had an Azure account associated with it. Microsoft merged the two accounts without me asking for it and (not very surprising) it caused some issues displaying the subscriptions properly to the point that their support asked me to create an empty subscription with a brand new email address.
I checked and you're right! I misunderstood a series of articles from 5 years ago on this subject. Please excuse my confusion :(.

Edit: Also Rex is the kernel and RtOS is the OS.

http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...
The reason people were surprised is because they did listen to the voters.

Look at all the conservative religious voters voted for Trump, despite him being nothing like what they describe as an ideal candidate, and often believing he's been unfaithful to his wife or lying about his religious beliefs.

People often don't know what they want, or have reasons to lie about it. Talking to people about what they want is often ineffective.
The lamp sockets I replaced recently also had screw terminals with the brass=hot / silver=neutral convention.
This is how Facebook always manages to buy those up-and-coming social network apps approximately 2 weeks after they launch.

It sees all the apps folks are using and buys and kills the ones that look threatening.
Their moat is that discovery is fueled by listener data, so it will be very hard to get better at discovery than them. Apple Music tried and failed: their success comes from device bundling and most evaluators of both agree that Spotify’s discovery is far better (I have not personally evaluated Apple Music).
If you don’t like what you’re seeing, click the “hide stuff like this” option. I used to complain at end, then a friend forced me to use that feature and I rarely see something I don’t care about now (but still miss stuff I do care about as I don’t check FB that often).
Practical problem is how do you get hosts to provide all this extra info and trust them to be honest and accurate.

I can't even search for real estate and specify houses without getting apartments or vice versa
But they probably wouldn't.

That's the whole advantage of building up a business reputation over years (part of which is blog posts like these; another part of which is just not doing shit like that.)

As a potential customer, I knew that Fastmail didn't have a reputation for abusing customers or capricious/erroneous/fucked-up account termination. That's why I chose their service, and today I'm a mostly-satisfied customer.

I didn't and wouldn't choose Google for this kind of service because I don't have that level of trust in them (because, as we all know here, they not only can but also do engage in fucked-up account terminations all the time).

Even if the Fastmail terms of service said "we will not ever terminate your account unless you are convicted of felony child abuse" they could always terminate your account by going out of business.

So I get your concern, but that's really always a concern. You have to judge that risk, and the primary way to do that is by checking out a company's reputation.
Pardon me, I’m being slow. Is the rose a token of some kind?
This is a fantastic idea - is there anywhere which implements this?

However, if the transit system is already at capacity at peak time, then it would need to be restricted to off peak (in lieu of building more services), as the ticketing is acting as demand management rather than revenue collection.
Outside marketing, HTML has no place in email IMHO.

Personally I run my self coded all in one mail server(SMTP & web & IMAP) binary and only use the text parts, or convert them to text.

Any marketing email gets blacklisted(sender or domain) and don’t have to worry about them anymore.

Last time I was on Gmail I remember that no matter how many times I would report something as spam(and unsubscribe) it would somehow still land in my inbox next time.
Anyone sending text/x-amp-html should still be including a text/html part, which won’t have JavaScript et al. Unless just about everyone starts supporting AMPHTML Email, the text/html parts will still be necessary.
About Moore’s Law – it’s dead
What does "more VR than AR" even mean? Either the user is seeing virtual objects overlaid on the real world or not. It has nothing to do with the opacity of the lenses.
Looks interesting, but I'm not sure if people would want yet another box or yet another stick in their rooms just so they can watch what they want, what with all the apps for the streaming services already available on different hardware platforms. At $399, this is very expensive! I certainly don't want yet another box, and the TV app on Apple TV has kind of solved this problem (to the extent that services support the search).
OfferUp: Expresso: a framework for multivariant testing and feature gating
The Furby Organ, a Musical Instrument Made from Furbies [video]
Python disagrees with you. Given a python script with a single class. If you instantiate an object and try to "call" or "evaluate" it:

class A(object):
def __init__(self):
pass

x = A()
x()

you get this output to stderr:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "python_temp.py", line 6, in <module>
x()
TypeError: 'A' object is not callable

Of course you can mess with the callable magic method, but that's more of a trick then a standard. You may be referring to how functions in python are implemented as callable objects rather than primitives. This is an implementation detail that is language specific, similar to how in javascript, functions are also classes.

In standard programming vernacular and practice, objects and functions are two different primitives. They are not the same thing. An object is a noun, a function is a verb, and just like their english grammar counter parts functions and objects are primitives because a Noun is not really a special kind of verb nor is a verb a special case of a noun.

Edit: added more detail, grammar editing.
Fabric.

http://www.fabfile.org/

Works over SSH. Uses pure Python. No need to deploy and configure minions/agents/etc.

Fabric also benefits from being highly composable. Since it's python, you can parametrize and reuse functions and create class-based tasks [1]

Want to use Fabric with python 3? Here is a fork with Python 3 support: https://github.com/mathiasertl/fabric/

If you use fabtools, I maintain a fork of it for fabric3: https://github.com/develtech/fabtools/tree/fabric3

[1] http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.14/usage/tasks.html#task-subcla...
> a side of beef/ham/whatever (sorry vegans)

Maybe fruits or vegetables? Having them survive this would be impressive and memorable even if it isn't a realistic model of human flesh.
They also save their customers billions of dollars. (That's the flip side of running their competitors out of business.)
> His right to speak

Her.

> ends st my right not to die from measles because Gwyneth Paltrow has a gaping hole where her soul should be.

And if the speech directly impacted your right with no intervening action, that would be relevant. You have a very good point about why the proposed law should not be adopted, and, if you can tie it to an actual superceding (e.g., federal) guarantee perhaps why it cannot be implemented even if it is passed.

But it is not an argument against the action actually undertaken here by the State, which is the ministerial act of certifying that a procedural requirement to exercise the state Constitutional right to circulate an initiative petition, which is several steps from implementing a law.
A third possibility is that they're using this influence to give an economic advantage to US-based companies, and a disadvantage to foreign (or specifically Chinese) ones.

Could also be all three of course.
> Still big enough to intimidate a government from messing with them

Nope, per recent incidents.
From the UX I've studied it seems that ethics is unrelated. Typically in consumer apps the goal is to increase MAU and engagement and UX is dictated by whatever moves the needle on those areas. It's hard to separate whether people are using the app more because of it's better design through UX design feedback loop iterations or if it is a dark pattern.

For example it is entirely plausible that the sms notification being sent once you put in a 2FA number is completely unrelated. In a normalised database there will only be one phone number for multiple uses. If notifications are set to send to the phone number by default and 2fa uses that phone number the app will not necessarily have knowledge whether the phone number was entered due to a 2fa prompt or something else. It only checks for a phone number and acts accordingly. The 2 people/teams who designed each feature would most probably have no idea how else the number is being used such is the nature of complexity.
I made an iOS app to Browse all your favorite websites in one go
It seems wasteful to subsidize, say, 80% of a transit system's costs with taxes, and only use fares as a means to keep it underutilized.

And in many areas of the USA, I doubt removing fares will push demand past capacity -- it's not the $100 - $200 month in fares that keeps most people in a car that may cost them $700/month or more. [1]

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/
Well, every time you choose to do one thing, you also choose to not do a million other things.

A lot of people are experiencing real harm to their mental state from habitual social media use.
> Some of my friend are terrible people, & also my friends.

That's a really big deal. And for most people, that situation is a) unfortunate, b) unwelcome, and c) confusing in the extreme. People talk a lot with close friends about such a situation just to get a handle on it, to remain honest about the affection they feel while refraining from apologizing for the terrible person's behavior. It's usually painful to come to terms with it. Especially if the terrible person still acts unapologetically to hurt other people.

No one I know tweets casually about something like that, much less humble brags about the terrible person friends they've collected.
>This past fall, Facebook snatched up the teen compliment app tbh, and quickly integrated a similar Q&A feature into its social network soon after. This all took place before Tbh had truly established itself as a new social network. It wasn’t clear at the time if it was the next big thing, or just a flash in the pan. (It appears to have been the latter.) Onavo’s insights into Tbh’s fast rise and heavy engagement likely gave Facebook a heads-up.
>it’s not likely that all Onavo users understand they’re actually feeding Facebook the information that allows it to take on any challenger to its social networking empire.

I wonder if it's be possible to make a social networking startup, optimise solely for Onavo metrics, and get bought out by Facebook.
Nano (ticker: XRB) has no-fee transactions. Send 3 XRB, receive 3 XRB. I'd say it's biggest wart yet is the volatility, but there are already half-way solutions like instant fiat resolution. These kinds of services take their own fees unfortunately, but I am sure some sort of peer-to-peer crypto<->fiat will pop up eventually.

Monero is the go-to privacy coin. Unfortunately, I am not as experienced with privacy/security, but it appears to be good enough for many. Perhaps someone else can speak to its efficacy?

Finally, there are decentralized crypto exchanges. None that take fiat in (AFAIK) but there are definitely decentralized exchanges. Don't know of any off the top of my head, but I'm sure they're just a quick google search away.

Those are the things that stuck out to me about your post.
Coinbase Commerce: merchants can accept multiple digital currencies
PebblesDB: Building Key-Value Stores Using Fragmented Log-Structured Merge Trees [pdf]
If you're an American and you use services outside of the US, you are in fact enabling - entirely legally - the NSA to do dramatically more aggressive things to target your information / data / email.
Huh? You can’t cherry pick your data and claim something is “well correlated”. Well researched data shows bitcoin has no correlation to any exising asset class which is why it’s a great risk reducer to add to a portfolio.
Don’t use those phones because the Chinese government did get information off them?

Odd. Isn’t that EXACTLY what the US government was trying to do a few years ago to Apple phones? Get their own personal back door put in?
I can say with certainty that I see ads delivered by Google targeted to my search and browsing history while signed in to Google with my GSuite login.
From my perspective, it already has.
> So far we haven’t found a good way of detecting a lightly used deployment, so we’ve been cleaning them up manually every once in a while.

Am I missing something, or wouldn’t it be as “simple” as connecting to the running container and running netstat and conditionally killing the pod based on the number of connections? I bet you thought of that, so I’m curious why it didn’t work for you.
Who reads newspapers these days?
> There's not even such a thing as a "US phone" though, is there?

BLU?
There's a nice recreational lake here in Raleigh, NC. People run on paths by it, sail on it, and used to fish out of it. Sadly, it’s also an EPA Superfund site because a company long since out of business, Ward Transformers, saw fit to dispose of PCB-laden transformer oil right into a ditch behind the plant. The PCBs ran off into the lake and streams for miles. All the nearby waterways warn not to eat the fish caught therein.

This company wasn’t just irresponsible, it was malicious. At one point, a contractor it hired to dispose of the oil was caught spraying it along rural roadsides.

http://sph.unc.edu/superfund-pages/srpresources/ward-transfo...

https://sph.unc.edu/files/2015/08/SRP_Soil-Still-Toxic-25-ye...

Related story – “How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World“:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/benzene-...
If you can't see much of the real world (15% light penetration by this account), how useful is that overlay? If it was 1% light penetration it would look almost completely black, to the point you may not detect any real world at all. At 99% light penetration, you probably can't even tell there's any shading at all. Somewhere in the middle different people will draw the line as to what's usable as AR and what isn't (and even then, it may depend on the action being attempted).
Which is offset by the fact that you're paid significantly more
people could start writing letters again, that would be interesting
The work address part is just terrible and totally unethical. Facebook might have gotten your work address from other people who have shared their device/services address books with it, but I thought this is used only for more profiling and targeting, not blatant misuse!
I'll pass the link on to the team looking at it. I think they already have something in mind though. Ta.
What in the world would lead you to believe if the Chinese can monitor your phone, that the US can't? That's so far out there in terms of logic, I can hardly imagine where you're coming from.

This entire thread is overloaded with posts that seem to not understand the US intelligence system, its legal authority, how FISA works, how the court system works, et al.

I keep seeing people say that they might be better off with their information outside of the US, because China or Russia can't arrest them if they reside in the US. If your information is outside the US, transited to a foreign service provider, you just dramatically increased the US Government's authority to target your information.
This is why I'm still on private torrent trackers.
Jiffy Lube spammed their customers via SMS and got sued for $47m.

Source: https://www.tatango.com/blog/how-the-tcpa-impacts-text-messa...

I don’t know the details about FBs (mis-)use of SMS for this particular situation and IANAL, but perhaps they accidentally opened themselves up to this massive liablitly.
I've found the Meta 2 AR headset to be quite dark (and it's still not quite as dark as what was shown in the pictures in the article) and it becomes very difficult to look at the graphics and understand them as part of the real scene behind them. With the real surroundings so darkened out, it creates a completely different contextual space. You definitely get to a point that you forget to pay attention to the real space and only pay attention to the visualization on its own.

So that's what "more VR than AR" means. Continuity of context between real and virtual is the defining attribute of AR. Without it, you just don't have AR.
I run a community site, with a lot of loyal long term users (most users check the site about 10 times a day and have been registered for years). My AWS bill is 15k per year, and the site earns 70k a year from a couple of advertisements.

Now, I also give users the option to pay per month to remove advertising and receive a number of additional perks for fun. However, only 100 of the 100k active users decide to do so, and that only brings in 5k a year in earnings.

In short, 15k in expenses, 70k from advertising, and 5k from users willing to pay money. So, if advertising fails I go from a 60k profit to a 10k loss per year, and the site would quickly close.
"Even phones manufactured by US companies like Apple are made in China with Chinese/Taiwanese sourced parts."

Exactly my thought. US gov't even outsources to private contractors that then subcontract and outsource to China for electronic components including chips that can easily end up in our DOD systems. I wonder if this is more of a money or market thing being pushed by the Existing Oligopoly?

Something doesn't appear to add up completely?
You have a good point but only stopping two-stroke engines is not going to help. Single person car driving is a big problem and cab sharing is still premature. I think these are by-products of the poor public transport. Major cities don't have fully connected subway system, inter-city public transport is even worse, be it railways (sigh!) or public buses.

Other bigger factors to pollution are industries and electricity production. Curbing pollution is not possible if country/states are not very concerned about it, be it regulating the industries, making better public transport or focusing on renewable energy. Problem is, some of the leaders are focused on politics and others care only about growth and economics. They don't even think that pollution is a real issue. And those who care and think about it, are not allowed to live and do their work!
Raiden is a poor and incomplete implementation of Lightning. Bitcoin has 3 independent implementations and a developing ecosystem of software around it.

Proof of stake is a pipe dream. Such a system can’t reliably achieve consensus due to the nothing-at-stake problem. Additionally, randomly selecting a winner in a distributed yet unpredictable way continues to be an unsolved problem.

Sharding has the cost of weakening security.

Bitcoin is addressing scaling better than any other blockchain. It’s making transactions more efficient through technologies like Segwit and Schnorr. It’s adding robust smart contracts and instant payments using second layer sidechains like rootstock and lightning.

Ethereum is already imploding under its own weight — it’s impossible to even sync a full node on basic hardware. In a few years it’ll be dead.
uBO seems to block ads well enough for me but not the tracking. I can easily see this by turning off uBO. What's a good way to block tracking within chrome?
It is hard to have all your friends on that specific service.
> HEVC is pretty amazing though, and it's clearly better than VP9, so it looks like the proprietary stuff beats open source in this field

This is just a restatement of the fact that codec patents exist.

When the state of the art advances because of improvements A to Z and A to W are in the public domain, the proprietary codecs are still "better" because they use A to W plus X, Y and Z which the open source codecs can't use because of the patents.

The real question is whether the patented things would have been invented without the patents. But the answer is probably yes, because the industry is full of huge companies like Google and Netflix that directly benefit from improving compression regardless of whether they can sell it to anyone else.
the fewer that people use the network (FB) the less valuable it will be
The former helps ensure the latter (minus the quotes, of course)
> A mountain of idle cash belonging to rich savers and to corporations, too terrified to invest it into the productive activities

I was not familiar with this. AFAIK cash hoards were to avoid taxes on productive activities?
Yeah but it's not 1%. At 15% your eyes will adjust. Why bother with 15% if the point is not to overlay on your surroundings?
Xiaomi now has the largest market share amongst phone manufacturers in India.