skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Does anyone else write emails as code?
For a while I've been becoming more syntactic in my mail writing, using colour coding to ensure keywords stand out, side notes are grey so easier to skip over, actions are highlighted, etc. Over time my mails have been getting more and more code-like. This made me think, it would be great to have a syntax aware mail client, so we could write mails along the lines of the below and have syntax highlighting applied and make use of semantics to hook in additional functionality (e.g. when asking someone to perform a task, have it automatically added to their todo list.

Does anyone else write mails like this / are there any mail clients out there which work along these lines?

Hi all,

FYI: The database has now been refreshed.

new Action ("Bob", "Please can you restart the application / let me know if any issues?");
new Action ("Jane", "Once the app's online, please confirm whether this has resolved your issue?");

/*
Whilst performing the refresh I noticed a couple of the settings were incorrect, so made a note of those values and replaced them with the standard ones.
*/

Thanks in advance,

me
A Population That Pollutes Itself into Extinction (and It’s Not Us)
Short term lets, long term consequences
yeah, but GDPR doesn't affect copyright.
I know a lot of this is anecdotal...

My Mom who is 77, has had a few Androids. Always calling her Sons to help fix her phone. She bought cheap phones for a couple of hundred dollars, but always limited the Ram, but had plenty of storage.

WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook would constantly fill it up and many times you'd have to clear out all the apps, clear the storage on the phone, etc, etc. Then I would have to explain to her that whilst she had a 64GB Sim, none of the Apps could be installed on there, etc, etc. She's not technical enough to understand what Google does on each update. She just wants a working phone.

Now before I get replies. My time is mission critical, I can't spend 1 hour debugging a phone and talking to someone who just wants to use a device as non-technical as possible as anything complicated with be forgotten.

I made her get an iPhone 6. Installed all her favoriate apps and waited. Never heard from her again.

She's 77, calls all over the world, has all her friends on messager and whatsApp, she uses grammerly and surfs the web and even navigates via GPS using google maps.

The Phone. Just works.

I. Being the technical one in the family. Gets left alone LOL.

In the family, 3 of Us have an iPhone. 2, Dad and 1 brother have an Android. All they have is problems, but they are too stubborn to get an iPhone. Oh well...
GetDataBack Simple v5.00 Crack Full Version (x86x64)
Nitpick: EU residents, not citizens, as far as I understand it (the text says people "in the Union", and doesn't mention citizens at all).
When I delete an article from my blog, it's because I don't want anyone to be able to read it anymore. Be it shame, inaccuracy, change of mood, etc... I think there is something fundamentally wrong with wanting to have EVERYTHING backed up at all time against the creators' will.
There's a new one coming into effect that will force websites to verify people's age using their ID (possibly by an external provider). Or I guess be blocked? Still a fucking stupid idea.
Ah yeah that makes sense.
Certain types of porn are illegal in the UK (for example depicting female squirting or face sitting). In April they supposed to introduce age check to all porn websites willing to operate in the UK, which essentially means every website that has porn (for example Reddit) should be behind the pay wall, as age check supposed to be done via credit card transaction. Now this has been delayed, but I don't think they are backing out on that. Furthermore this is going to be a huge problem, because:
1) Payment processors are frowning upon the idea of servicing porn websites. That means it is going to be very expensive to implement unless government figures out a different way.
2) Companies will have to store more personal data about their viewers and users will be forced to give up that data.
3) That poses a huge risk in case of the data breach as someone sexual preferences are sensitive data forced to be collected.
On Android, you can install any random file manager and explore & clean the filesystem yourself (many apps litter on the virtual sdcard). There's also a DiskUsage app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...), that will scan the device and tell you, where are the files that take up the space and allows you to delete them.

With iOS device, you can't really do that.
You are comparing a 2014 phone (iPhone 6+) to a 2017 phone (Pixel 2), and are surprised that one seems 'better.'

It's obviously not even close to an apples-to-apples comparison though.
I think the opportunity exists in the business world because when companies become successful is when collective leadership becomes most focused on maintaining success.

Usually, leadership tends to see more risk in the downside of the current plan and than upside in taking on new things.

Few things companies doing regularly:

1. View a temporary trend as a competitive advantage.
2. Focus on building reputational momentum.
3. Believe it’s easy to span across generations.
4. Love being right.
5. Love the new idea, not new way of thinking.
6. Love being “Data-Driven”

Being right and staying right is totally different. Doing well reduces the incentive to explore other ideas, especially when those ideas conflict with your proven business model.

LINK: https://allenleein.github.io/brains/2018/04/strategy-to-mast...
Apple has always done this, and it's frustrating. Another good example is how they've always only had one mouse button on desktop, because they claimed that having two or more was too complicated for users.

Well ... the problem is that having more than one button is actually useful, and when the buttons are hardware buttons at least they are discoverable. Instead, there's lots of functionality hidden behind Control-clicking and Option-clicking and maybe more that is very hard to discover on your own (and this goes back to the pre-OS X days even).

Force touch is similar in that the overall discoverable interface is too simple, and then the added functionality on top of that is way too hidden.
Li Haoyi shared his alternative to sbt here a little while ago. Looks good to me.

http://www.lihaoyi.com/mill/
When you write a piece, if you want to delete it so that no one else can read it, it should be your right. Unless of course you're a journalist and you have a duty to integrity or something like that, but I'm talking about people like you and me who might decide one day that they do not like what they wrote anymore.
A collegue in the UK was forced^Wencouraged to start a limited and contract for his former employer. As far as I can tell that was purely a scheme to shift liabilities and to pay less taxes.
A simple solution: don't publish things you don't want people to read.

This is no different to burning books that the authors no longer support the views in.
It's good that someone has made that but it looks nowhere near as nice.

When you open the Photos app on iOS you have a beautiful map with clustered thumbnails.

http://tinyimg.io/i/d4DRgIT.png

http://tinyimg.io/i/0lVO6KC.png

It's useful enough that I could find out the exact spot I slept by the river Seine years ago based on scrolling around Berlin on the map for 5 minutes until I found the photo, taken several years ago on a completely different iPhone, then go back there recently and recreate the picture.
World’s Second Most Valuable Cryptocurrency Under Regulatory Scrutiny
This is an often-complained about issue, though, so here's to hoping that Apple fixes it at some point…
No, if you intentionally made that data public then it's done. GDPR doesn't, say, force you to remove political views of Theresa May from newspapers, despite that being covered by personal data, because Theresa May made those views public.
Not since England left the EU.
Completely agree with your comment, not sure why you're being downvoted. A blog is the same thing as a facebook account, would you like it if you couldn't delete your pictures on facebook?
There's this meme that Google has terrible customer support that is years out of date. When you have a problem with a Google product that you actually paid for (like one of their hardware devices), experiences are generally good. I had a replacement Nexus 5X shipped with no problem, for instance.
Ask HN: Does anyone else notice a deterioration in Spotify sound quality?
Hi, I have a "Basic" (paid) subscription to Spotify, and lately the sound quality seems to be getting worse by the day. I now suspect that Spotify is trying to "convince" me to move to the Premium subscription. Does anybody else here notice the same? I have no problems with upgrading, but I want to do it for the right reasons, and not because Spotify forces me to.
For that reason, I didn't give attention to the device's speed.

95% of my comparison is the current iOS (which the 6s+ runs) vs. the current Android.
Discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16893814 : 50 comments

Other sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16895899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16905716

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16909529

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928360
So you're incentivizing people not to write. That's bad, we should encourage people to write. It's OK to make mistakes.

I see this problem as an even bigger problem with kids. Kids put everything they do online, and they will probably be ashamed of a lot of these things later in life.

Comparing that to Facebook: I guess I shouldn't upload pictures on Facebook because it's against my right to want to see one of my old picture disappear later?
Again. "Violators on users privacy" in what way? You present this as if it's a fact, it's not it's an interpretation. That's the lie here.

You are still using them one of the biggest users of personal data your ISP and that's a service you pay for.

Don't pretend you are stating facts when you are just stating you personal opinion.
My aunt bought a 'cheap' iPhone (SE, 16GB, $450) and ran out of storage the first month...
I don't get why they say pied piper is decentralized and a "new open internet" when pied piper is building it and is closed source
Not quite. The EU might want that but it gets into jurisdiction.

The EU cannot enforce its law on entities that are entirely US based. It can only enforce it on non-EU sites if that site has some sort of business that’s within the EU (like offices or employees).
>While I generally agree with the "if it ain't broke" sentiment, you have to perform some pretty wild mental gymnastics to end up calling COBOL the "best tool for the job".

Do you? Lack of programmers, aside, it was created and evolved exactly for the kinds of jobs its used in.
For my job as an app Product Manager, I use several different devices on a daily basis. I also switch between an iPhone and Android phone as my personal device every half year or so, to stay up-to-date with both platforms.

I think articles like these are interesting to read, but not relevant anymore. iPhones and high-end Android devices both offer a mature user experience, and you can't objectively say that one is better than the other.

The choice of one OS over another depends entirely on your personal use cases, and of course personal taste. This is also reflected by all the valid, but personal reasons people list in this thread to choose a specific OS.
This means this should be applied to everyone because how do you check that someone is an EU resident? Should websites display a page requesting visitor to upload their residency certificate to be complaint?
I think this is more likely to be unintentional. As another comment mentioned, article.is isn't affected. If you want to remove things from the Internet Archive, you can do so using your robots.txt:

https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#14

https://www.fightcyberstalking.org/how-to-block-your-website...
I make web apps so... all of them.
> iPhone 6S+

I replaced my battery and the phone sped way up. Unfortunately, after the battery replacement, the new battery health UI doesn't work, saying it can't communicate w/ the battery.
I don't have a globe handy, but can't you sail indefinitely round and round Antarctica? Or doesn't following a line of lattitude count as a "straight line".
NASA Sets Sights on May 5 Launch of InSight Mars Mission – NASA
The EU can say that some businesses are so uncompliant with GDPR that they're not able to be used by EU companies. It seems weird to chose to limit your market just because you don't want to protect user data.

See also changes to "safe harbour".
> every incoming/outgoing/missed call puts an entry with the details and timestamp in my calendar, so I can look back for reference

Now that's a cool trick. How exactly do you do that?
that would certainly not be a geodesic (the only sensible defintion of "straight line" on a sphere), more like a circle. It would be just like running circles around your house.
Elo Rating System Implemented in Single SQL SELECT
The Story of ISPC: Intel SPMD Program Compiler
I don't like you. You need to get punted.
Garbage collection can handle reference cycles -- that's why it is better than reference counting (at handling the eventual freeing of arbitrary data).
That's actually pretty different. If you purchase a book, you pay for a copy with the expectation of both parties that you own that copy.

Putting someone else's work on a different website and serving it to others would be similar to printing copies of someone else's books. If the author changes his views, it wouldn't be acceptable for someone else to print new copies of the book. Making a copy of a website for your own personal use would be much closer. I don't think anyone disagrees that you should be able to do that.
Of course. You will note I only went macro to prevent an error I already made. C macros suck, I don't use them lightly.
If no one can read an a book what good is it?

You are purposefully muddying the issue of access. If you upload your pictures on a password protected ftp server no one will know or care when you delete them. If you upload them on a publicly accessible website, despite what outdated laws on copyright say, you won't be able to withdraw them and that's a feature.

Facebook is a monstrosity that pretends to be a password protected server but leaks your data by design. Do not try to equate someone unpublishing a work after they wrote, uploaded and publicized it with someone removing a drunken status update that should have never been public in the first place.
The maps on the page are not Mercator, but what's the problem with Mercator? It is a perfectly reasonable projection, with some nice properties.
In this case, it was a C compiler for MS-DOS.
My desk height is set with a GET.

I was going to fix it, but considering how hilarious this is I might not.
I've seen it a while ago too, but without lightbend blessing it's next to useless, in practical usage. I can't deliver that to a client
Or you could send a good ol' DMCA takedown request.

I'm not sure where this idea that nothing could be forced off the web before the GDPR came from.
Yep, an app I want to always be in bg is https://www.thetileapp.com/
> deleting something from the internet
Well. As much as I don't like what WhatsApp has become under Facebook I think you are unfair to them in the same way that I think people are unfair to Telegram today.

Early Whatsapp still respected privacy. They didn't datamine us or spam us. And they where working long term to make it better. I've no doubt encryption has been worked on well before they were bought.

Same with Telegram now: they seem to be working hard to provide a good messenger.

Their crypto is not as good as Signals (AFAIK) but unlike new WhatsApp they don't plan to datamine me for profit. And I think they are working hard behind the scenes to make encryption even better and possibly decentralize the serber infrastructure.
For location based stuff it seems pretty logical functionality to at offer the ability to sort results by travel time or at least distance. I still have to log into god-awful store websites and use their store locators because they'll give me the information I need.
We need this law, there are enough terms in it and range on how it will applied so the little guys won't have much trouble if their intentions are to comply.

I know that laws get abused but do you see the OP asking to remove laws that are in his favor like copyright law or patents law?
Just use Telegram Instant View.
>If the author changes his views, it wouldn't be acceptable for someone else to print new copies of the book.

When the author burns their own book and forbids new ones from being made is the only time that it's acceptable to print new copies.

Need I remind you of the purpose of copyright?

>To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
What version Android was that?
I sincerely hope that machine is not accessible from the open internet.
The device should not support GET at all for this. It opens up a number of attacks and there’s no good reason to support it.
I think a difference can be made about the individual "right to be forgotten" and the transparency/accountability of a public company.
https://amturing.acm.org/p558-lamport.pdf the paper he's talking about in the first video.
As I mentioned in a top-level comment, you can use robots.txt to disable Internet Archive's (Wayback Machine) archiving of your site. If you dislike your site being archived, I suggest you do this. Their intention is not to be a monster of the Internet who embarrass creators against their will.
I'm Polish, I think I never heard that rhyme but it sounds like classic Polish way of thinking so it probably exists. We have to teach babies pessimism from the beginning so they're not disappointed about the world.
I was talking about in the context of the medium post / businesses which is what I was replying to. I don't think I have seen anyone complaining about household activities. A red herring.
We took our security product to the RSA Expo floor and documented our journey
You have copyright over that letter, and can definitively sue someone for sharing a picture of it.
I wish you were right.
My GF always has a battery pack with her for her iPhone 7. She also has Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp up 24/7.
https://i.imgur.com/0gAVffm.jpg

I've also noticed that sometimes the video will resize between full page and minimized, automatically when he wants you to pause the video, with relevant links below the video, what is this amazing system?
I'll try and make it a bit more mobile friendly. It was glitchy on my phone too. Sorry about that.

EDIT: Added will-change: transform and translateZ(0) but it's just a bit intense for a mobile I think
> hen I get a text message, it gets archived to Gmail with a label so it's searchable. And every incoming/outgoing/missed call puts an entry with the details and timestamp in my calendar

What? I have used Android phones for many years and had no idea that is possible. Teach me your ways!
Where are drugs generally legal?
Sorry, but the EU has no teeth here to enforce its laws on entities that exist outside the EU.

When the first purely US based company is successfully fined or shut down by the EU I’ll believe in their ability to enforce GDPR.
Britain is still in the EU and GDPR will apply there.
Of course a doubling function is not idempotent!

I think the confusion arises because side-effectful functions can be considered as having type

f :: (RealWorld, OtherArgs) -> (RealWorld, OtherOutputs)

and so for a garage door toggle you have something like

t :: RealWorld -> RealWorld

where the new state is the old one with the door opened/closed as appropriate.

Now the idempotence condition becomes:

t(t(world)) == t(world)

but clearly

t(t(doorOpenWorld)
= t(doorClosedWorld)
= doorOpenWorld
!= t(doorOpenWorld)
= doorclosedWorld

so this is where the notion comes from. If you abuse notation and just say a function of no arguments can be idempotent then you'll get confusion like this.
Australia to get national data commissioner
Most pages have an author section already.
And Ireland?
Are you from US? In EU we had many similar rules that were in the public favor and hit the big corporations, the one I am thinking now is the roaming phone charges, big companies lost a lot of profit from this, so you can see that this big companies do not have the power yet to change the laws for their own profits.

But I see a lot of anti EU sentiments here on HN, anything EU does is painted as anti american or anti startups when from inside EU we see it as for the people/society
Your desk runs a web server? I need to step up my game...
As AI advances, More Human Than Human says, “Stop, let’s think about this”
Actually the recommended data handling says you should specifically state the purpose for needing the data, and that it should be reasonably limited to that need; i.e. if you don't need it any more you should pro-actively delete it.[0]

[0]https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1475/de...
Pages 4-6
Coincidentally, I just watched this (posted 3 days ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbWP9nvnRhw

As a non-native speaker I never understood the hate for puns, I've always found them inoffensive fun.
My whole family (parents, sister & her kids, wife & our kids) have switched to iPhones (and macos devices) years ago.

Result:

1. no "technical" issues anymore. As the go to IT guy in the family this alone is worth the supposed premium price one pays for the Apple logo.

2. Everything is updated, at all times.

3. "Facebook logs my sms" are a none issues

4. All devices die of old age (even the devices that have since long not recieved updates "just work")

5. Nothing beats the quality of Facetime (we live all over the globe and use it extensively to celebrate and share together).

I still buy a couple of Androids per year. Cheapish phones for experiments with wardriving, imsi catcher catchers and other fun projects. So I totally get the "Android is outselling iPhones", thing is that we spend x moneys in the iTunes shop, and not a dime in the Google store.

We've also moved out contact data out to google (since gmail is just absolutly the only email one ever needs and having synced contacts is wonderfull) together with the google photo app (since it is free and does a great job while migrating between devices).

Now if only there was a way to painlessly move from one iPhone to the next, we would be exchanging them far more often. But no matter what I've tried: one always looses certain passwords / content / settings from different apps.
That's because it doesn't fail globally all at the same time
I have always had a huge fear of HF, but as a biologist I rarely had to work with it. The chemical that I did work a lot with that was rather nasty was phenol (carbolic acid). Splash that on you, or worse get it in your eyes, and it hurts. I luckily never got it in my eyes, but I had a few cap-failing eppendoff tubes (being vortexed) end up all over my face. Not nice.

The worst horror story I was told about phenol was of a grad student a few years before me doing a large DNA extraction using phenol in a 3 litre measuring cylinder. They filled it with phenol and DNA solution and then sealed the end using parafilm (a stretchy plastic membrane). They then mixed the solution by inverting the cylinder. You won't be surprised to learn that phenol dissolves parafilm and the phenol ran straight down the student's arm and they ran straight off to hospital.