skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Googling for 2 seconds shows that numerous companies over the years have gotten in trouble for scraping contacts. A couple fast examples.

June 16th, 2015: Linkedin settled a lawsuit for over $13 million in a class action grounded on their alleged use of users’ email contacts it obtained from the “Add Connections” feature in its service.[0]

Apr 30, 2013: Path, the photo-centric social network that just hit 10 million users yesterday, has been getting some heat for what some users say are spammy tactics to recruit new users. Digital marketer Stephen Kenwright downloaded the app earlier this week, tried it out, uninstalled it, and went to bed. When he woke up, he found that Path had gone on a rogue mission early in the morning, texting and robocalling an unknown number of his contacts, including his grandparents. [1]

[0] https://www.hastingslawandpost.com/hlandp/2015/6/16/look-out...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/30/4286090/path-is-spamming-...
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>>While NATO countries don't pay their fair share of costs of maintaining their security, the United States has to pay the balance.

The counterpoint here is that US keeps American bases in Europe because US wants to keep their bases here and it serves their interests first and foremost, any defensive goals are secondary, if not tertiary. All Nato nations could contribute exactly ZERO to the budget and US would still be getting the best deal out of everyone here.
Paying taxes isn't getting fleeced.

I can tell you feel passionately about this, but your feeling that you're being ripped off by your taxes isn't going to translate well to any sort of workable policy.
> 6. services growth is a lagging indicator on the health of the ecosystem (or walled garden, if you prefer).

How very convenient that you seem to think you can handwave away the ridiculously huge growth in services by saying it's a lagging indicator. No chance at all that it could be partly due to new and more compelling services offerings (music, icloud)?

You sound almost as confident as the 'analysts' who predicted a down quarter with a failing and cancelled iPhone X.
I used SonicFileFinder before VS 2017. However it has ceased development[1]. VS 2017 has made code browsing much more pleasant.

[1] https://www.jens-schaller.de/2016/07/goodbye-sonicfilefinder...
Like the real life experience of those private Russian mercenaries who went up against the US military in Syria?

Some things governments simply do better; health care is one of them. Denying that fact in the face of the mountain of supporting evidence is nothing but dogma.
I see problems with a lot of the things this guy says.

> Access to liquidity for early investors. Would you buy stock in a company if the senior management was dumping that stock?

There are lots of cases where an early investor, or early employee, might want liquidity on their holdings. For example, there are many cases of employees being essentially "trapped" at their companies, waiting for an exit.

> Stock is effectively a claim on a company’s dividends and the governance ability to hire/fire management in search of better cashflows. Token holders waive all of their rights.

How many dividends have Facebook, Amazon, Apple, or Alphabet issued exactly? And how many people have common shareholders hired/fired?

> Fundamentally Incompatible with the Legal System [...] Unless courts decided to cede their power (don’t hold your breath!), they will always be able to override the blockchain through blunt means like seizure of bank accounts, physical property and/or arrest of principals involved.

There are lots of tokens where this is the case, and I have to agree that ICOs make no sense for those cases. However, if it's actually a decentralized tokensale (e.g. cryptocurrencies, all DAOs)

> Lack of Basic Investor Protections

I think that, for a lot of (especially early) crytpo people, this is viewed as a strength. While it's unsurprising that a professional investors is going to miss the rules and customs that favour capital over all, there's a pretty big movement of people who were frustrated watching banks devour billions of dollars of taxpayer money in the form of bailouts, who've seen private capital groups walking away with millions from failed investments, and who've seen earnings for capital outpace every other form of income for the past several decades.

> Bitcoin is the world’s first (and best!) censorship-resistant digital store of value, and has amazing potential to improve the world by helping individuals regain their financial sovereignty.

Gee, I wonder if the author owns any bitcoin lol
I'm sorry if it came across as manipulative. One of the reasons for having it like this is also so it can give me a metric on who in the waiting list are most interested in the program. And of course also to offer an incentive to share it.
When you re-read it you'll be visited by some antiquities.

It's a great book, but I'd be very interested in a reboot.
Was that really the consensus? I got the impression it was the opposite. "Fake news" can be used as an excuse to censor certain stories or publications.

The problem was created in the first place by Facebook deciding which stories to rank higher, instead of giving people the stories and posts in chronological order. But it did that very poorly and in a way that could be easily manipulated.

Now they're trying to "fix" that by exerting even more control over the stories - in other words, doubling down on the thing that hasn't worked.

The article already makes me worried about their plans. I've seen some stories recently say that many Trump supporters, for instance, have a tendency to "trust" fake news sources. So according to Facebook's plans, those fake news sources may actually become "trusted" on the platform now, because many people trust them.

Alternatively, just like YouTube, Facebook may "curate" the landscape so much, that only "non-offensive" stories will ever be shown on the platform.
My complaint is that Facebook itself is untrustworthy.
Just want to point out that part of the reason for larger healthcare spending per capita is probably that healthcare spending is mostly for services and US GDP per capita is 1.5x most other developed countries (excluding small countries whose economy is majority natural resource extraction). In other words, incomes are higher in the US, so health care is automatically more expensive.
These ones are especially relevant now:

> 1. Breaking or Slowing Down the Back Button

Thanks to people who like implementing Javascript frameworks but have no idea how to make them work properly. Then again, many also seem to break the whole page loading aspect too, for much the same reason (hey Wikia).

> 6. Moving Pages to New URLs

Seriously, this seems to be a thing every news site under the planet does, despite said content not changing all that much. Why? Why keep breaking things every few weeks or so? 301 redirects exist for a reason.

> 8. Jumping at the Latest Internet Buzzword

Oh hey, now it's 'cloud', 'blockchain' and 'PWA'. Either way, this tendency is especially common on news sites, whose web developers seem to think they're working at NASA (or maybe Google).

> 10. Anything That Looks Like Advertising

Looks at those newsletter sign up modals
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> If your long game is to be an attractive destination to healthy educated immigrants, investing in the "land of opportunities" mythology has better ROI than investing in universal healthcare.

Sure, but it's not a dichotomy either. I suspect they both have better ROI than average for government spending.

If you want to attract, say, a young PhD with a spouse and kid, the guarantee of healthcare for the family - even if they change jobs - is a huge selling point. Anecdotally at least, I've known several international students who left the US after college for Canada, France, or England and cited this as a factor. (The ridiculous artificial barriers like "go home to file this form and come back" don't help either.) And with non-open immigration, e.g. the Canadian model, there's no special economic burden to this approach.
Kinda like progressive web apps?
Eh, I think this argument is a bit glib.

Google's main endeavor is to develop an actual product. They design and engineer something in the hopes that people use it. (Then they sell ads, like the publishing industry has done for 200 years.)
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That's fine, but there's no point comparing RAM usage between completely different apps like video players and email clients.
Sensors are common, ranging from basic induction loops in the road to microphone arrays that can tell you what type of vehicle is on each page of an intersection from the tire noise.

Sadly there are laws that require each light to be green for a minimum period, so all these really do is keep one phase of lights on longer at rush hour.
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I remember back then, in the early days of the smartphone era, the lack of good Android phones that could be comparable to an iPhone. Even the supposed high-end Android devices were severely lacking in terms of performance and smooth UI when compared to the latest iPhone.

I think that the first Android phone that could actually compete with an iPhone must have been the Samsung Galaxy S3, in 2012, 6 years after the release of the original iPhone in 2007.

Apple was way ahead of the competitors back then, they basically set the golden standard for what a smartphone should look like and it took many years for the competition to catch up.
Because it's a crop from a stock photo with a male model (in fact, see the first image result on the page).
" ... ask questions, such as "what would you do if x happens" "

Yep. I already thought of everything.
Agreed:

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You will quickly find the limits of private healthcare once a surgery or advanced treatment is necessary. Usually that it is not covered in your plan. Heck, even relatively simple specialist interventions will go beyond coverage.

In many countries they are great at routine care, no doubt, as they're just not overcrowded and that is the main reason for problems in public systems.
If you shift all the crowd there... well... they degrade much quicker and worse than public.

So, apples to apples. Fully public vs fully private systems.

You could say compare German system with US system which are almost completely mirror images except German one is many times cheaper.
Your response to scientific studies that demonstrate the VA actually provides better care than private counter parts is to dismiss them all as dishonest cherry picking. You offer up no studies or data of your own. You have no evidence for your claims except vacuous appeals to personal anecdote. You've somehow reached the conclusion that the entire VA, a $200 billion dollar program that cares cares for ten million of Americans, is "atrocious" based on ... what?

I think this pretty much proves the point.

The point here by the way is not that the VA is perfect. Nobody has claimed that, though you seem to keep insisting that people must admit something they don't claim. The actual evidence we do have shows the VA has problems but still offers better care so I'm not sure how we're "ignoring" anything. It seems like you're the one ignoring the plain facts and have chosen to buy into a convenient falsehood. Until people like you are willing to even look at the evidence -- and the evidence for universal healthcare is overwhelming at this point -- real discussion is pointless.
architect your app around failure and loss of compute nodes - if you aren't you aren't doing cloud right.
Getting a sensible git-diff would be great!
>Couldn’t Facebook pay publishers directly by licensing their stories or programming? “Yeah,” Zuckerberg said, “I’m not sure that makes sense.”

How in the world would having Facebook pick which publishers to pay end up with better news? They've going to pay the ones that people already want to see and show it to those same people. But now those publishers are further incentivized to cater to that crowd, if that's even possible.

There's no way that Facebook ends up being an actual source of truth for news.

People want to point to FB and say "Hey, they're spreading the wrong news!" But it's other people who are actually pushing the buttons to spread that news, not Facebook.
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> Locked and closed compared to what?

Did you miss the part where Linux was mentioned as the preferred tinkerers OS?

This isn't about Android vs iPhone, it's about freedom vs no freedom.
PICO-8 is proprietary; TIC-80 is MIT-licensed free software. There is no reason to consider using PICO-8 now that TIC-80 exists.
Also the problems with the VA generally stem from the reality that US politicians "support the troops" right up until they're home and maybe not so enthusiastic about the war anymore.
Any CSS framework can be included as namespaced mixins in LESS.
My mother is supplementing her medicare with insurance. GAP insurance is I think what she calls it. I mean I'm sure what you are describing exists, but it's not universal.
Have at it, deep fake geeks...
Its handy to be able to make changes on remote servers there and then without too much messing about.

E.g if you are connected to a remote server and you need to change a file, how do you do it with say VSCode or Sublime etc? Download it to your machine, edit it, save it, then re-upload? Sure that works for the occasional once-a-month kinda thing, but it is a bit convoluted.

It is much easier and faster to just edit the file there and then on the server. Especially if you are doing multiple changes.

Vi really is very simple - you just need to remember esc, i, x and :wq and that is basically all you need to know to be able to do basic edits a file on pretty much ANY server you'll ever connect to (except perhaps windows or a super-stripped down cloud image).
Close, we’ll hear complaints that untrustworthy users are skewing the scores of trustworthy organizations.

Naturally, this will lead to rating user trustworthiness, and filtering untrustworthy people and their untrustworthy views out of your newsfeed.
my friend lives in Beijing and teaches English and gets paid $3k$ / month. So I can bet a lot of folks are paid decently in China too
Cool but only for up to 8 minute videos. Unless you found a way to parallelize the lambda tasks.
Minified js isn't particularly hard to reverse engineer compared to tools that are geared towards actual obfuscation, and regardless, you don't even need to look at the code if all you care about is privacy. A look at the dev console's network tab should tell you all you need to know.
Streaming uncompressed raw video over ethernet for TV production. It's still commonly done over dark fiber but people are slowly migrating towards IP. A single uncompressed 4K video stream is over 12Gbps, 1080p is 3Gbps and obviously when you're producing content you have a few of these running alongside each other (multiple cameras, feedback, big screens etc... Think something like the world cup or superbowl). It quickly adds up to a tremendous bandwidth. On top of that it needs very low latency and jitter to keep all the streams synchronized.
I’d love to hear from anyone who actually uses services from the VA whether they’d trade that system for the “pay or die” system the rest of us get.
How is this "Reddit-style"?
However there is a trust issue here, how can Americans truly trust their government to implement it right when the same government cannot get the VA right and worse there seems to be active opposition within the VA and government to right it?

Throw in the BIS run systems which make the VA look good and its a very hard sale.

A lot of the cost of medical care is because there are too many limits on competition for both services and insurance. It certainly needs reform but to get the trust of the people it must prove it can run what it has
We wouldn't have, because Apple was the only company that was user-focused, not technology-focused.

Windows, RIM, Nokia, and others had all tried to produce similar devices. They invariably ended up with a clunking mess of buttons and features that appealed to geeks and/or business people, and no one else.

The genius wasn't in putting the parts together - although that was a significant achievement. It was in making a device that was uniquely beautiful, elegantly understated, and so easy to use it could (literally) be picked up by almost anyone.

No other company has ever taken the obsessive interest in design and aesthetics that Apple had under Jobs.

Not even the current Apple, which understands visual presentation, but seems to have prioritised ease-of-manufacture and profit margins over user delight.

Jobs was hardly infallible, but when he had a hit he hit it out of the park.

As for what we don't have - VR, smart home, and health, are all bumping along when they could be soaring.

The other big miss was handing content creation over to YouTube. Apple could easily have set up a content store to match/beat YouTube, as a follow-up to podcasts and the app store.

I have no idea if Jobs even considered any of the above. But Cook doesn't really get content, so Apple are unlikely to win big in these markets now - more likely to offer a not-quite-right product like Watch, which was mildly interesting, but not the game changer it might have been.
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That is the plan, move and redirect. That work is in the works. We will have more blog post on this soon :)

As for the links, can you send more info to support@travis-ci.com and we can look into this.
This piece is maybe a bit extreme, but I agree that many ICOs are scams.

That's actually why (shameless plug) I made one that's sort of an anti-scam: https://initialcornoffering.com
People don’t like it when you’re dishonest. You get in trouble for that. Whether you steal money, pay someone for a university exam or wrongfully outsource your job, there will be consequences.
"gathered data on how consumers perceive news brands "

Oh great, its a model based on consumer opinion. And we know loads of people trust Fox news.
> But Italian doctors believed different treatments were warranted

Again no.

"The Italian hospital had acknowledged it could not find a cure, but had proposed maintaining Alfie’s life for about two weeks while doctors tried to investigate his condition."

There are no treatments - even that seems to be agreed.

> In a private healthcare system, the parents would be free to pursue that

If they could afford to write a blank cheque for open ended life support. Any insurance would defer to the consensus of medical opinion and cease treatment. They would have ceased cover long before the 2 year trail of court cases and appeals all the way up to rejection from the European Court of Human Rights (not part of the EU or UK govt).
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This is rewriting history. GMail was created by Google engineers (as an internal only project) way back in the day because they wanted a better email client (Gmail was, originally, a 20% project). Eventually they added ads because well, sure, companies want to monetize things. But to say that it exists solely to show you ads is a disservice to the people who originally created the tool. It was not made to, and does not exist to show ads. It was made to, and exists to be a better email client. To do that sustainably, it now show ads.

Also I'm pretty sure you can disable all promotions within Gmail, and I'm fairly sure that Inbox has, to my knowledge, never shown ads. So as billboards go, I think it's anything but brilliant, since it has never shown me an advertisement!

Much like how CoLab[1] apparently exists solely to show you ads and how hangouts and Google Voice are there just to show you ads (I'm not sure where though). Duo is just a video chat app to show ads. Clearly.

This argument is so silly. Indeed there are people at Google whose job it is to do things with ads. That doesn't mean that everything that Google does for free is intended to be monetized with ads (see, again: CoLab, which gives away free GPU compute). There are a variety of reasons for a company of Google's size to make products freely available. Showing ads is one of those reasons, but by no means the only one.

Note: I work, tangentially, on Gmail.

[1]: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb
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I gave up. There is no defense against local exchange number spoofing so I switched my phone to send all callers not on my contact list to voice mail.

Anyone of importance that I talk to is already on my contact list which will ring through and anyone else that is really trying to get a hold of me for a legitimate reason will leave a voice mail.
> He brags about the quality and speed of his healthcare all the time. This is in Charlotte, NC. Different offices might be different.

The VA is run in a federated fashion, so there is a massive variation in how well they operate.

The problem with the VA isn't that literally every hospital is terrible. The problem is that:

(1) a lot are bad

(2) the bad ones are really terrible

(3) the bad ones are consistently bad over time, with no success in improving them

Part (3) is the really damning one, because it's not like there haven't been efforts to fix the issues with the VA. But because the US is such a heterogeneous country, the successes of Portland don't translate well to Memphis.
It wasn't the first smartphone, but it was the first phone of any kind that wasn't bundled with crapware from the cellular companies and locked into their ecosystems. That was a huge win for consumers, and it was solely due to the persuasive power of Steve Jobs.
- don't be afraid to crack a joke, even in front of the CEO

but

- never at someone else's expense

Some of the best work relationships I made came after walking into a room of strangers and saying something like 'Hi I'm your architect, for all your pretty diagram needs!'. People want to connect to someone human and who can joke about the surreality of the work environment.
I am not currently actively or passively ignoring anyone's injuries. I'm a trained first responder, registered organ donor, and actively lobby my local, state, and federal government for universal healthcare and robust international humanitarian aid. It is instructive to note that two attempts to shift goalposts and distract with trivia have been made while nobody seems willing to take a crack at what is a very simple question.
Can't Thunderbird do that? I'd imagine most IMAP clients do this.
That is not a good metric. There's no way I would take part in that even if I were interested. It's just a big turn off.
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