skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early on, the Web was imagined to have a plethora of "agents" (bots) which act on behalf of their users, extracting information from pages, following links, aggregating the relevant data, etc.

This worked really well for search engines, but certain economic incentives crept in which pretty much killed off this idea. In particular:

- Many sites gained revenue by advertising

- Advertising only really works if a human is viewing it (it's possible to integrate advertising into the data, with product placement, "native advertising", etc. but that's more expensive than slapping some Javascript in some iframes)

- Exposing data publically in easily parsed formats will mostly stop humans from viewing the page. Hence so much data is now in silos.

- Exposing services, like search, to bots can get expensive. Hence the rise of API keys.

There are other reasons too, like scraping being hard and fragile due to styling having too much influence over markup (CSS helped a little; a more radical attempt was sending raw XML and creating the page via XSLT). The rise of Javascript-only sites, and the difficulty of implementing all of the many JS APIs that a site might try to use, has also hindered alternative user agents.

The end result is the Web being dominated by a handful of user agents: a few search crawlers and a few user-facing browsers :(
"Browsers aren't real tools." oh yes they are you probably haven't worked pre browser based systems.

eg just before I switched to the web in 1995 I worked on an oracle forms system.

To deploy a pilot system to 5 seats the Other developer and I went to Liverpool and spent 2 day setting up those 5 people - this required feeding 15 or 16 floppy disks in the right order to install the oracle forms product.

As I said to my boss after the project was done imagine the savings if your rolling this out to 500 people and you could use the existing browser.
Buy [yourname].com on Gandi. Comes with two 2GB mailboxes or 50GB for something like $1/mo. Forward your GMail to your new address.

Then stop entering your old email address anywhere. If you notice yourself typing your old address, migrate the account to the new one. Eventually all the accounts that you care about will be moved over.
I think of this as: marketing.major.minor.patch
"Even before the treatments, the middles of countertops, floors, and other areas heavily trafficked by humans (but not bugs) had residue"

How can there be residue from the bombs before they were used?
Yeah, but they may also decide that OP's account is inactive, close it and release the address anyway, like Yahoo did.
The suggestion in the article is pretty straightforward. Forward Gmail to FastMail, and migrate your accounts and personal communications to the new address.

I did roughly the same years ago and it’s not difficult. Every once in a while I get a email forwarded from my old gmail but it’s effectively a complete migration.
Not much worse than zip codes with letters.
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Can't seem to find any cohesive point in this piece.

NOTE: Should be noted this is outdated as it's from 2014 (title says 2015, but that's just the last—minor—revision date). Particularly the stuff about Node running 0.x for a long time—effectively subverting the benefits of semver.

Arguments seem to boil down to:

- semver is harmful because some major libraries don't use semver (mainly discusses Node, which has switched to semver since this was written)

- semver is overly restrictive? because sometimes you want to make breaking changes without incrementing the major version number? Maybe? Don't quite understand the arguments made here so I may be misreading.

Is there anything else said?
I agree with that strategy. I was using @gmail.com since 2007 and just setting up new e-mail on new domain and using it was enough to reduce old @gmail.com traffic to max 1 new e-mail per week.
I would say that there is a difference between actively sitting on an email address and passively doing so or deactivating it.

To actively sit on the email I would leave in place all security alerts, 2FA, strong password, etc.

I would want to be alerted of any change in circumstance that affected that email.

If you deactivate, if you passively ignore communications, if you drop security... then you've taken the security of something that represented your online identity for a period of time, and essentially are being irresponsible about it.

Far better to just dial usage down, whilst dialling security up, and then to let it tell you if circumstances change.
Alternatively, if you use GAuth on Android and you have root, you can backup them up and migrate them yourself (it's just an SQLite file).
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It's not really just about being able to "start". Winter temps can affect fuel/energy efficiency of ALL cars regardless if they are EVs or not. ICE cars can lose somewhere between 22-34% in range.

Source: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/coldweather.shtml
The cause for confusion with the house numbers in that town seems to be that the houses are not numbered sequentially with respect to their location.
Not a great idea to combine your first factor and second factor in the same place.
That was true for Yahoo too. But only up to some point. Then they not only released deleted emails, but even emails that have not been used for a while.

That made me lose my Yahoo email to somebody else and caused all kinds of headaches.
Outlook online now has labels (categories) and skype chat (that works) built in online. The spam filter sucks for me though.
Sequentially by construction date.

All you need to know to find somewhere is the order in which things were constructed :D
There was an article on HN some time back, which chronicled the life of a surveyor who presented evidence to the Congress early in the history of the United States. He basically said that state lines were being drawn all wrong and that conflict over water would be baked in.

Can't for the life of me remember his name or google it up, but it looks very apt for this discussion.
Thing is, if this system works reliably and swiftly enough, it stops being so scary coz you run out of bums: people are deterred well enough from bumming. And you don't need to be as harsh to them as you say, just let everyone understand that spending nights in the street begging and drinking will not be tolerated. Plus of course, you need to have at least some social safety net to help those of them that can be helped, and they have it in Belarus, the country has an expansive system of redundant government-sponsored workplaces which functions almost as universal base income.
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This has nothing to do with event sourcing. What you're describing is event-driven integration. Rarely the events used to source the domain model should be the same as the ones used for the messaging integration. Unfortunately, due to the repetition of the term "event" the purpose gets confused most of the time. The "Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside"[0] paper makes a good distinction even though it doesn't use the same terms.

[0]: http://cidrdb.org/cidr2005/papers/P12.pdf
Just finished a few of his and it was well worth it.
I’m left with the impression that he seemed to do things just to see what they were like. His descriptions of hunting critters in his squalid Paris bed sit and of going over the top in trench warfare are memorable.
I think like this - I don't only have to reject them, I have to let go. It's not just the usage, it's the perceived importance and dependency too.
Anyone else find this brought back memories of browsing or downloading on dialup, just to have to hit refresh when the page loaded with these odd images? It’s funny, I never really asked myself why — instead like MP3 data corruption I chalked it up at the time as simply a “quirk” of how the internet worked for me at the time.
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We use a combination of Appsee, Crashlytics, and Firebase. Crashlytics for super in depth crash reporting. Appsee to see how users interact with the app via user session recordings (you don't get that with other analytics tools). Firebase for everything else.

https://www.appsee.com/

https://crashlytics.com/

https://firebase.google.com/
You may want to re-read my comment because I don't think you understood what I wrote.

This is not though love.
What I am talking about is incentives. In exchange for free housing, you should at least try to get clean/ do some training/ do something.

To expect that society should provide free meals/housing without even the possibility of asking addicts to get clean does not sound fair to me.

Priority should be given to people who are at least trying to turn around their lives.

So yes I stand by what I said, I think a single mum with kids, a scared teenager/ somebody down on their luck should get free housing. Addicts should have access to care, to treatment, to food to everything that a human being deserves but they should at least try to get clean.

if they won't don't want to then priority should be given to somebody else.
Not sure about other EV manufacturers, but The Tesla Battery Management System (BMS) automatically heats/cool the batteries as needed to keep them at optimal operating temp and longevity.
wstool (https://github.com/vcstools/wstool) is a tool for managing a workspace of multiple heterogenous SCM repositories.

Very convenient. I have used it for ROS projects with multiples SCM
> less cultural value than Chinese porcelain

Care to elaborate?
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Don't you loose the benefit of 2FA then, an adversary only needs to obtain your 1Password password.
I de-Googled completely a few years ago and it's nowhere near as difficult as people think.

The initial switching of accounts can be tedious, but it's a one-time job, and there are alternatives all all Google's services out there (some better than Google's offerings).

Personally the dreaded 'convenience hit' was temporary for me.
For absolute beginners, a common platform is essential to be able to follow instructions, in special if they don't have external support and must learn on their own; think kids in a rural town in a developing country.

Trying to follow tutorials for the Raspberry Pi on a different platform will more often than not be a nightmare and demotivate anyone first approaching the device. There's a network effect at play, making the most popular platform also the most desirable for diving in.

As for price, 60USD is almost double the price than a Raspberry Pi 3 (and 10 times a Pi Zero), so it would be double the effort for someone with limited economical resources in those countries.
come on, i never said they are sent to gas chambers or anything. there is a due process in place. this is a punishment for crime, not random terror.
Glitch maybe.
No ambulances, either. Or law enforcement. Or fire trucks.
> there's no chance of them releasing it without my knowledge down the line

That's not a guarantee. Companies can and do shut down accounts for inactivity, sometimes with no warning, e.g.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715866
I almost finished de-google-fy my digital life as well, but I really can't fully leave Youtube, there is simply too much good content there.
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More and more people are using Google docs instead of Ms office. How do you get away from having a Google account to edit a shared doc that another company or consultant had shared with you? Keep a dummy account just for these instances?
I wouldn't call "not using Google" radical. We have grown used to hearing that independence on GAFAs means being "radical", even though it should probably be the norm.
I completely agree about the trackpad - it is absolutely magical, and every time I use mine I don't even think about the button press not being "real". What I could see them doing is having a glass substrate be the actual keyboard, with haptic feedback, but overlay a plastic keyboard "structure". Kinda like those keyboard overlays that they sell for iPads that allow you to type on the screen faster and more easily. This would give you the best of both worlds - a completely sealed keyboard (no more crumbs) and the ability to touch type (sorta).
It's pretty amazing that content creators haven't left yet; of course, the problems with copyright claims are likely to chase them wherever they go. At least they've become less dependent on Youtube's revenue, thanks to Patreon donations.
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This is very reminiscent of the Code of Conduct recently integrated into Linux as a way to silence and expel the Linux developers who oppose Intel CIA-backed backdoors.
Actually. Truly pirated content - whole movies - are removed as soon as they're found (or even before they're uploaded). Music videos - and music used by others than the publishers - get all their ad revenue to the publishers themselves, so for the music publishers it becomes a streaming platform like Spotify (plus there's links to Google Play and such in the description).

They won't sue as long as youtube pays them.
It's because phishing works, and the success rate is a combination of the right message and the number of attempts. Of course smart people will notice right away, but how to discern who is smart and who is not before the incident happens? To make sure you make everyone undergo the training.

As for the smartphone example: they could just have said to make sure you always have the most recent version of the OS, which is quite easy if you own a certain brand of smartphones, and can be frustratingly difficult if you use something else. I'm sorry to say but they were right: most vendors don't care for customers who have devices older than a few years because they don't bring them any money. It's a general problem in the industry, nothing surprisingly new.
It's basically impossible to tell, as a human, on YouTube which videos are sanctioned by Copyright owners and being monetized, and which are evading YouTube's Content ID systems. Clearly some are - e.g. videos where the content is horizontally flipped, or in a small box, or the audio is heavily distorted - but that's not universally true.
what about apple watch users?
> More and more people are using Google docs instead of Ms office.

Source? I haven't heard much about this space in a long time now, and due to that I get the feeling that it's kinda meandering.
Those numbers don’t sound right at all (we serve more JavaScript than that at FastMail, though not terribly much more, so it can’t be that small), but the ratios are about right; I last looked at Gmail shortly after the latest redesign, and when I measured it in Firefox (which tends to use less than Chrome, not so sure about Safari or Edge these days), Gmail was using 160MB or more (and I think I estimated about half of that to be Hangouts), while FastMail sits steady at 10–12MB, or add on another five or six megabytes if you use calendars too.

Note that these sizes depend a little on how you measure; some measurements will increase these numbers by up to a factor of two.
thats how you get Venice
Third party email services have an import feature and you can set up forwarding of all emails from Gmail to your new address.

That alone allows you to make a move today (from my experience, it takes less than an hour), and then you can move your accounts as you go one by one. You'll probably get rid of a bunch of accounts in the process as well.
Though now I just buy groceries online and have them delivered

... which requires more road use than people stopping by the store on the way home. (Round trip vs. one way)
> I'm imagining something like a nutrition label, where there's an estimate of how many liters/gallons of water is needed to grow the food.

We already have price labels.
I can only speak for software, but as an industry it doesn't have any clear framework of process at an individuals level. It's all very much left to the individual on how they organise themselves, and a lot of people (including me) never got the memo that it's something you should think about or else there can be consequences (like burn out, inefficiency). Just generally speaking the software industry is a melting pot of loose ideals when it comes to actually working. There are no regulations, no unions, no standard tooling, hell sometimes we make our own tools, set our own hours, move our own goalposts.

I think that's why software companies are often approached with quite a bit of caution by other businesses. It's not like hiring an engineering firm, where you can be pretty certain you'll get an industry standardized result.
The banner at the top of this story seems to indicate that it's part of a BBC series called "Japan: Untold stories", which could explain the frequency of similar stories: http://www.bbc.com/future/columns/japan-untold-stories
Ah, the good old days of "This site was built for IE6".
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Backup codes and then the protection is against illegal SMS porting which is a social engineering attack hard to otherwise defeat. Your phone is fulfilling a different function and yes it does collapse both factors onto one device but the primary risk wasn't loss of phone, it was weak password and no variant second factor and then porting attacks on SMS.
The phone thing isn't unique to Huawei. My wife has two sisters and they can unlock each others phones using Face ID. They were surprised when they realised this so I don't think they added each other's face or anything (I don't know if you can do that though..).
I always assumed that VEVO were legal and the others illegal (unless uploaded by the artist, usually for amateurs or not-so-big-time artists)
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> "It’s a painting on a rock," he says. "You can never be completely sure who put it there, that it wasn’t some joker in the 1960s. But it’s likely that the image is authentic: there are much older paintings, produced with what seems to be the same iron oxide pigments, nearby."

...so how do they know that those other paintings are not from recent times?
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If you want to just avoid some of the tracking and logging, you could use an app like NewPipe which will stream only the video from youtube. I wonder if there's anything on the same lines for the PC.
>I also use Youtube for its intended main purpose, listening to illegally pirated music content.

Isn't the quality shit though ? It's good for discovery I guess, but if you have regular stuff that you listen often, wouldn't you be better off procuring good quality files ?
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your comment is 100x more informative and interesting than the main article :)
Some privacy-conscious Gmail alternatives from Europe (I use them all):

- Mailbox.org (DE), from 1€/month, basic custom domain, aliases possible
- Posteo.de (DE), from 1€/month
- Migadu.com (SUI), from 4€/month, run unlimited custom domains with very flexible settings (mailboxes, aliases, forwarding)
Hm, in Sweden they are shifting Kiruna, a mining town.
One thing this project does really well is to start the readme with a screenshot. I open the link, scroll down to the readme, and I immediately see what sort of user interface/experience I will get. Some commenters have noted that Gita is similar to other multi-repo tools, but both Repo and wstool are more effort to evaluate, because their readmes don't have pictures.
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You assume there is a problem.
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Labelling is definitely something that I miss from Gmail; I live without it at FastMail, but I and a few others of us in the company would really like it. Fortunately, we’ve established the technical foundation for supporting labelling with JMAP, which can work with both folders and labelling; I have no timeline (I don’t think it’s on a concrete scheduled roadmap yet), but we are planning on supporting labelling as an alternative to folders.
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Personally I switched to a mix of LibreOffice and Pages/Keynote and have been very happy with them. Google docs offers some awesome feature but I don’t think the privacy and ethics of using Google products justified its use and as of MS Office - I personally think that the software quality is terrible (Yes I know excel is powerful but there’s probably a better product or system for most of a spreadsheets solutions (but not all I’m sure)).
There's also mailcow that's popular in the self hosting crowd. Anyone use it and can share experience ? I'm a bit lazy to switch email since the other end of the mail is going to be gmail/outlook etc. anyway. So not much net gain.
They can play something else