skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. Congress Discusses the Establishment of the US Embassy in Taiwan
https://img3.picload.org/image/dlwwraia/times.jpg

The Taipei Times reported on the discussions at the U.S. Congress on establishing the U.S. Embassy in Taiwan and diplomatic contacts with the Republic of China (Taiwan).

According to the report of such international law firm as Alston & Bird LLP to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan), Joseph Wu, this lobbying firm acted as a bridge-builder in re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the US and Taiwanese authorities.

As a result of their joint efforts, President Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act and Marie Royce, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, opened a new representative office of the U.S. State Department on the island - the American Institute in Taiwan.

It is also worth mentioning that the U.S. State Department has taken an extremely risky step as it has been quoted in the newspaper: for the first time since the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, it granted visas to Taiwan's President, Chen Chen-jen, as well as, to Taiwan's Foreign Minister, Joseph Wu, and other personnel from this ministry.
The “ton of debt” thing isn’t true everywhere (although the UK seems to be pretty committed to that route now...).

I’m not totally against the idea that people should consider the likely financial value of education when choosing between courses. On the other hand it’s concerning if debt funding of university-level education is pushing peoples’ time horizons to be as short as you propose.
I would love for someone to take an investigative look at how the stock market is not working for society in many ways. I can't help but feel that as the pressure of being a listed stock weighs on listed companies, their value sets change and not in ways beneficial to "greater" society.
Please, read this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18055514
logdna.com is great. Has good pricing, a lot of endpoints and great support.
We had created a small Objective C wrapper around their REST endpoint to have remote logging, and they sent us some “Thank you T-shirt’s”

Other contender is Google Stackdriver, but I did not check the pricing policy they have now
No idea about Amazon or Azure ready images.
Any examples of those rules and how they were violated?

Im just curious
The title mentioned lending, but the article says almost nothing about it.

As other commenters have noted, these new banks often have great customer experience. But they don't do much lending. For example, as of February this year, Monzo's loan book totalled 160,000 GBP [0]

Disclosure: I co-founded a UK-based fintech lending business (www.oakam.com). We're hiring PMs, Data Scientists and Software Engineers. Message me if you might want to work on expanding access to credit, and increasing financial inclusion.

[0] https://monzo.com/annual-report/2018/ (ctrl+F 'Loans and advances to customers')
Hmm I've received a couple MAS updates already claiming Mojave compatibility in their release notes. In fact I just updated Magnet, which does so.
Unfortunately, it won't. So let's enjoy things while they last - when a market matures, quality always goes down the drain.
>Kennedy pointed
out that the legal professional style to which students learn to assimilate
is “overwhelmingly white, male, and middle class.”46 But the Socratic
method’s encounter with gender, race, and class diversity might related-
ly occasion worry about exclusion or oppression in a more tangible way.
That is, if the Socratic method causes the kind of terror and
disempowerment in students that some have observed, and is stylisti-
cally white, male, and middle class, would it not also impose dispropor-
tionate harm on students who are women, as well as on racial and class
minorities?

Of course the article is much more expressive than what I wrote-it is a summary.

I didn't inject ideology into this discussion. If you want to be consistent this article shouldn't be allowed either. This is blatant racism, sexism, and classism.
I'm just a user and I'm pretty happy with Migadu as well. I only contacted them once, and got a reply within a few hours. And a real reply, with technical details, written by someone who obviously understood the question very well.

The webmail is really basic though: it's basically Rainloop (https://www.rainloop.net/) without any plugin.
Yes, in a sense. But the reason they're expensive is they don't work very well and prove only trivial things.

Try using any imperative language with integrated proof predicates like Dafny, Whiley, etc. You'll immediately notice that they struggle to understand even properties of the code that looks extremely obvious, for instance they require lots of loop annotations. The examples being proven correct all end up being so trivial that you can just as well prove them correct by simply reading and thinking about them.

In the functional space things are hardly better. Formal methods in FP has evolved into dependent types research. But dependent types are more or less dependent on functional languages - the flagship is Idris, which is based on Haskell. But Haskell and other pure FP languages have been around for decades. Despite being extensively promoted to students at universities around the world, these languages have not seen wide adoption, so it stands to reason dependent types can't either. And again, the sorts of things being proven tend to be fairly trivial.

The way industry is going is pretty clearly small improvements to existing type systems, in particular, implementing value types into managed languages so the costs of using strong types is lower, where otherwise raw/primitive types would be used. And there's a huge focus on tuning and improving generics, flow typing, type inference and other usability improvements.

In other words, industry practitioners don't believe lack of proving power is our problem. They believe we aren't using the power of the type (proof) systems we already have, because the usability is too low.

The popularity of JavaScript as a server side language would seem to suggest they are right.
Nowadays i recommend runbox.com.

The services are good and when needed support is also good. Clients have given good feedback.

In the past i have recommended protonmail and fastmail.
It's surprisingly responsive for large email accounts too. I had ~100K emails imported and marking all as read would take about 10 seconds. I can't complain with that all things considered.
Many HN users seem to be affected.
I love Gandi, but their email service is still unable to sign outgoing emails with DKIM, which is almost mandatory nowadays to avoid being flagged as spam.
I'm a co-founder of a Swedish startup, and we have built a tool targeting product owners and product managers. It aims to eliminate endless email threads and disconnected workflows that are common in product development. It sort of replaces Word, Google docs, and Confluence and integrates with Jira and Slack.

I would be happy to give you a quick demo!

https://www.delibr.com/demo
Not new. But yes useful when needed.
>By the way, if you're in the EU, bunq is a similar mobile challenger bank but based in the Netherlands and serving all of SEPA (if you're in the Eurozone you can use them as your main bank; I live in a non-Euro EU country so hold an account just for the hell of it).

I've considered bunq but couldn't really make sense out of their monthly fee (at least for me) once compared to N26. At the moment I've got them as my main bank account and Revolut for exchanging money quickly with friends and family.
The reason people switch today is because Google introduced a few days ago an automatic and mandatory login of Chrome when you log in Gmail/any other property.
Sadly, this will really just create a reminder to run the shortcut. Not run the shortcut.
>and get the inevitable “keeping birds in cages is cruel” backlash. It invariably comes from people who do not keep birds.

Yeah, either them or hypocrites who do.

>Budgies love their cages.

Relatively to being free? Or you just mean they keep them tidy, decorate them, and generally make the best of a bad situation?
I don't know in which country your bank is but my anecdotal experience of banks in France are that monthly fees are common ?
Your comment says — essentially — “every email company shares with their host country”. If I take that at face value, I would take the USs and Australia’s rule of law and due process and concern for my privacy many many times over Russia’s current government’s.
Tried that. However, because they refuse to let their spam filter look at mail contents, it’s worthless. Other than that, it’s acceptable and custom domains are possible, too.

Many of my mail addresses have been around for decades and receive substantial amounts of spam. Google correctly deals with that. Mailbox.org does not. In fact, during the week I experimented with it, their filter didn’t clear away a single spam mail.
As an ex-customer (with Migadu for about a year), I have nothing but good things to say. Customer support was always very quick and knowledgable. It's not a huge team so it has that "I'm a regular" kinda vibe when you chat with them. Obviously I left but it was to try out Fastmail's JMAP (?) format because I had a lot of emails that web UIs struggle to handle. That's maybe the only improvement I could suggest?
Never heard of Mailinabox, and I don't want to buy or subscribe to Office (AFAIK the only way to get Outlook). I've tried the others you mention, as well as a bunch of alternatives. Windows software in general is much poorer than that available for macOS, and this seems particularly true of mail clients. The built-in UWP one is particularly hilarious (does Microsoft really think anyone will use it?)
Been eyeing Vivaldi for a long time, still waiting for their Android browser.
I heard Python is very on the rise right now. Thank you for sharing, looks interesting if it won't be too hard for me. JavaScript person here.
Some more details - https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/9gqr6y/anybody_....
The emails from Google Play are never very specific so you can only guess what's wrong :-).
This is called subadressing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Subaddressing
Sexual Harassment Allegations Wipe a Name Off the Map
> in exchange for attending training and religious sessions

That just leaves me speechless
In a way you're certainly right: Not really a big deal. But then again, it's a difference like day and night. True automation versus assisted manual task-activation. I love the shortcuts feature, but not being able to have them run truly automatically (and in the background, you can't have a "wait"-action for longer than ca. 3 minutes) is a major roadblock that Apple should hopefully solve in iOS13.
>The extreme version holds that I ought to be using lynx+Tor and DJB’s custom search engine, and if I’m not I pretty much deserve what’s coming to me.

What is this "DJB’s custom search engine" ? I fail to find it with both DuckDuckGo or google..
+1 Protonmail

Good security practice and decent Android app.
https://tutanota.com/

https://protonmail.com/

Port to your own domain name
It really depends on what you're building. There's a reason civil engineering isn't "Agile" - this also applies to major IT systems. A tiny difference in requirements can have massive impacts.

Honestly, in these cases, there's nothing better than waterfall, partly to save development time, but mostly for contractual protection: If a small change can cost millions more (and from experience, they can), you need to know who is responsible for paying those millions...
Whoever hosts your DNS is the weak point. Account and login security with whoever they are is critical.
Degiro has very competitive fees for trading.

TransferWise has significantly better fees than Revolut for currency conversion and also offers a card.
For self-host:

- iredmail if you want it simple

- dovecot + postfix + opendkim + opendmarc + bogofilter + rainloop if you like tinkering and you have a small/personal setup. Drop in radicale with imap auth for calendar/contacts, and prosody with imap auth for jabber, and you're good for life, unless people want shiny web interfaces, in which case consider nextcloud for contacts/calendar.

- zimbra as an all-in-one solution

- exim + cyrus if you want mail only for a large company and you want it open source
> but ProtonMail is under GDPR

I thought GDPR was European union? Protonmail is in Switzerland.
I moved to Runbox from GMail earlier this year after the AMP-in-mail debacle. I wrote up my criteria and a bunch of different suppliers[1] and Runbox was the pick. I’ve been mostly happy with them, although their uptime hasn’t been brilliant recently.

[1] https://www.robinwhittleton.com/2018/02/18/dropping-g-suite/
Clarification from Google on the current controversy over Chrome
Threads about email providers seem to be a prime target for astro turfers on HN. There are so many different providers, yet weirdly its always the same company with the most comments.
anecdotal, but once, after a 2-week period of cold and antibiotics, followed by 1-week worth constipation and and painful release of bowels, i experienced a very vivid depression (anxiety, fear, it's a bad, persistent feeling.
NOTHING i did managed to shake it off). I'm a very introspective person in general, and while my brain was telling me it's because 'i'm worthless', i managed to convince myself that something was happening in my digestive system. My first guess was some kind of a laceration (due to constipation) in the colon. I mean, why not? When you are happy, you feel butterflies in your stomach, right? But at that time, everything that 'usually' bring butterflies to my stomach, ended up doing the opposite. That's how i thought about it then. I was also aware we have a lot of neurons in our gut. Note, that, while i made this connection, it was not at all obvious it had anything to do with the gut at all, it all started as a hypothesis.

Anyway, I swallowed paracetamol, which is used to treat fever and pain. And the difference was clear as day, the bad feeling stopped. At least for 2 hours.

But what happened next cleared me of any doubt that the source is somewhere in my gut. I was waiting in a reclining chair in my car, feeling bad because the effect of paracetamol had subsided. That's when i discovered that 'whether i feel bad or not depends entirely on the angle of the reclining chair i was on'. I tested it, if i raised it to such degree, i will start feeling bad, and if i lower it to such degree, i will stop feeling bad. It was so weird to me.

Anyway the bad feeling persisted for like a week after, then i was back to my usual self. However, had i internalized it, I'm sure it would have a long, and destructive, tail.
Dynabook: The Complete Story [video] (1996)
Chrome: Here, log in, so we always know it's you!

FireFox: Here, create cookie containers so nobody knows it's you!
How do you use their calendar? Do they have a special app or are you talking about the calendar integrated in mail app?
Hey, Microsoft, stop installing third-party apps on clean Windows 10 installs
I'm also using the web UI. I create "example.html" and "example-latest.html" with a daily cron job (the way I described) and move it into my web directory (behind a http auth).

I planned to do a write-up for a while now, I should finally get it done (my blog link is in my profile)
I think paid email services are a great idea, but $50 a year and 2 GB of storage for Fastmail seems expensive to me. Why not something closer to five or ten bucks a year? Can someone explain to me why this type of pricing makes sense?
Please don't recommend installing ancient versions of Chromium.
I use K-9 Mail too, and while I think it's great (fast and customizable) I think it could use some gestures or more in general a UI revamp to reflect the fact we are not using Ice Cream Sandwich anymore :)
my wife at the time convinced me to get a cockatiel since she grew up with birds. Her tolerance to noise as a Japanese is very different to mine as a European. (Japanese can sleep anywhere, I sure can't) The bird we had is very small in comparison to the parrots discussed in the article but the noise they make is not to be underestimated. And you can't turn it off. Yes you can throw a cover over the cage but you can't cover it for longer than what they need sleep.

It was very hard for me to endure the constant noise (never ending screeching) which felt like Chinese water torture. That bird drove me absolutely insane over time. To me it felt like the bird was so loud exactly because it was incredibly intelligent but it used that intelligence to be jealous and protective and the intelligence was probably the cause of its unhappiness (since it knew it was in a cage).

My wife loved that bird to bits but to me it felt like I was taking care of a disabled child that is not mine (bonded with my wife only) and which would never grow up. It became more nasty and mean to anyone except my wife even it was hand-fed as a chick. Knowing nothing about birds when we got it I thought I'd be able to manage it (after all I grew up around cats, dogs, and farm animals so how hard could it be looking after another animal?). But it just got worse and worse and still is horrific today. I am no longer with my ex and that bird was at least 20% reason of why I could no longer live under the same roof.

Seriously don't get a bird unless you have lived with it for a couple of months. Once you have done that think of what it would be if you live with it in a more stressful period of your life ... Could manage that animal at a time when you are looking after your new born children? When you are up to your elbows in baby diapers and chronically sleep deprived?

After seeing this animal in captivity for so long I have grown somewhat disgusted with the idea of birds as pets. I guess it takes a very special breed of people to keep birds and be OK with it: The type of people who see a bird and go: "You see those beautiful creatures that are able to fly. Yeah, I'm going to make them stop do that."
It’s better light, not worse behaviour, that explains crimes on a full moon
>In fact I generally assume that ads have to be clicked on to make money.

Not at all. Most of the industry moved away from CPC a while ago due to how dodgy it skews data. Most clicks end up being bots on shady websites Vs actual people. Viewabilty is what the good agencies are advertising against now; with the hope that you'll navigate to the advertiser's site down the line.
Unfortunately, no. Banking is tied to residence, not citizenship.
To back astonex’s point, I never tried their browser but Navernis far from a random company.

If you’re afraid of them not having enough resource or not caring enough to maintain it, the company has deep pocket and won’t disappear tomorrow.

I know naver mainly as a chat app, and it was pretty good and hugely popular in Asia at a point. There was a huge account leak a few years ago, so I guess they also should be battle tested now.

Basically it could be a strong independent browser vendor mainly interesting in capturing users in their ecosystem.
the video is linked for the "pay developers a fraction of a fraction of a pie" line in the catchy song

extremely relevant and the 2007, in italics for emphasis, is irrelevant ... or is it timeless

Peter Thiel? yeah I'm going to go with "'Missed the Point', for $10,000"
A while back I made Ruby Ship (https://github.com/stephan-nordnes-eriksen/ruby_ship) to achieve just this.

It lets you put a full Ruby MRI install in a portable location. Works on most (all?) platforms.

Could be worth a check
Command-line tool for generating passphrases
my stalled project, maybe you want to take over?
https://www.meinesz.de/automatische-nebenkostenabrechnung/
Spotify: Artists Can Now Upload Tracks Direct to Spotify for Free
They did, for a few years. It was a bit scary, but also really good. It was really easy to test, if you sent an email discussing a weekend trip with some friends you'd immediately get hotel and flight ads for that destination. Actually quite useful...
> why can't an ad-blocker plugin still trigger a payment for the ad view, while preventing me from seeing it?

The ad-blocker won't load the ad at all for two reasons.
1) Performance. Less to load (and process, and render, etc) means faster load times, less bandwidth consumption, lower CPU usage (think about all those extra scripts), etc.
2) Privacy. If your computer contacts the ad network at all, then it could track you.

Because the blocker fundamentally can't load the ad or contact the respective network while also doing its job, triggering a payment would seem to be more or less impossible.
a stalled project of mine, maybe you want to take over?:
https://www.meinesz.de/automatische-nebenkostenabrechnung/
Software that is used, changes, because successful software influences the world around it, which in turn changes it's requirements. So typically, even if a team gets it right the first time (which by itself requires enormous effort), the once perfectly specified requirements will have changed shortly after release.

Edit: sibling is right as well, it depends on what you're building. Sometimes there is nothing better than waterfall.
That does say they don't read your email for ad personalisation, but it doesn't say they don't read your email.

Reading your email for data gathering is their entire business model so if they don't explicitly say they don't, you should assume they do.
Monzo: https://docs.monzo.com

Starling: https://developer.starlingbank.com/
iCloud mail. No issues, and I already use the native iOS client.
I think google has been starting to help people in getting investment and money in returns rather than helping people gain important information just like before. It's become monopolized in a way people will think of having money rather than gaining knowledge.
Tried it. It ignores my window manager's decorations and enforces its own, with no apparent way of changing that (unlike e.g. Chromium).
How create-react-redux-app-structure helps you to start a project faster
Regarding the "Gun Rights" fact box, the different results Bing and Google use here looks to be the results of an edit war[1] over how the page should redirect.

Judging by the text in the box, Google appears to be using a snapshot possibly around June 2018[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gun_rights&action...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gun_control&oldid...
I personally use hosted Exchange for $4/month¹ and think it's the best option out there. What matters to me is support is good, your email won't get detected as spam, they support push on iOS and they have datacenters in Europe, USA and Asia.

[1] https://products.office.com/en-us/exchange/exchange-online
Using Monzo, Monese, N26, TransferWise Borderless, Revolut, for both personal and business purposes, and am a happy camper. EUR and non-EUR accounts.
And yes; it works on Windows :)
I think it was after the US election results, senior leadership was discussing with employees what it could mean for them, and what Google's stance would be. Quite reasonable for a company that is open to diversity to reassure their diverse workforce when a president who is explicitly against diversity is elected.

Typical Breitbart trying to create much ado about nothing, I've had similar "town hall" discussions in the UK since Brexit - "what does this mean for our employees? etc"
Agreed. There is no way MacOS would ship like it does today if he was still around.
This has been going on for over a year now. A lot of astroturfing coupled with misinformation criticizing predominantly US-based incumbents. I think there are a few mods with a political agenda who are pushing this. Often the advertised replacement is an inferior product that doesn't even provide better privacy or securty than Google or whatever is being criticized. Interesting time to live in.