skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we are looking at different websites (im viewing from a desktop), but I found it very easy to read and access the information I required.
I don’t think that means the developers don’t consider it important; it means that the people that want E2E aren’t necessarily in their primary audience.

The prime target of this protocol isn’t power users and developers; it’s the overwhelming majority of users that stick to siloed messaging because it’s convenient, and everyone has it. First and foremost, they need to be shown that this is more convenient, and has a larger and more accessible network.
After couple years on OSX, many years on linux, I've gone back (I was using windows before I've started working as a developer) to Windows (10) - and I'm very happy with it!
WSL works great for my needs (Node.js / front-end development mosty, but I run RoR / Python apps without any problems).
It's also the most environmental-friendly thing to do.
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IMO its comparing itself to Whatsapp and other messaging apps that do have end to end encryption. Thats why the current email trust model is not as important.
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> It is very difficult to build a decent email client with IMAP

Why do you say that? I've implemented a couple of embedded IMAP clients over the years and I always found it pretty OK to work with?
No: you find it ugly, but that's just your opinion.
No, that’s right, they don’t care about network effects; enterprise customers care about a SLA above everything else. An open protocol cannot provide a SLA.
When I first moved to Europe I was struck by just how domesticated the land is. I can sleep in the open without being afraid of snakes, scorpions, spiders, wolves or bears. Even when land is "wild", the larger mammals will be rabbits, deer, wild goats and such. Excepting natural parks, hunters are the only predators.

At least in Spain, a tremendous percentage of land is put at the service of mankind. The dehesas give cork, honey, acorns to feed the pigs, and grass for the cattle.

The situation where developing countries need to conserve their land in a natural state in the interest of biodiversity and climate reminds me a game of Civilization where you are no longer allowed to exploit them to your advantage (with good reason!). We need to keep this land intact, but the only way to do it is to make conservation more valuable than exploitation.
Assuming that the library exactly serves the needs of the project without much cruft, or the cost of rolling your own is higher than using a library all else considered, and the library is well written and documented, then I agree.

As a completely unrelated aside, I wonder if there should be a "Falsehoods programmers believe about libraries"
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If I get these redirect popups (not just popups over the content, which I can remove with Nuke Anything [1] or use Firefox's distraction free mode), I either just don't visit the site if I don't care that much about its content, or I open a private browser window, accept whatever popups they present, read the article then close the window to purge all their tracking shit.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nuke-anything...
I thought you can’t encrypt data at rest on an imap server? Apple even says this in their security guide... right?
>China is the sole producer of certain electronic components, this is not viable at present.

Maybe we should increase tariffs on Chinese components to promote production elsewhere.
How is this different from https://delta.chat ?
I think that was OP's point?

To tout it as an alternative, or "breaking free" of WhatsApp, is to discredit one of the pivotal reasons that people use WhatsApp, which is E2E encryption.
Uncensorable. Your politics or the politics of your leaders are irrelevant.
The steelmanned version of your comment might be something like "graphic designers these days really seem to have abandoned every recognizable principle of 'good' design". That would be a claim that design quality is deteriorating, like a lot of other aspects of civilization. There's a case to be made for that perspective.

But I'm guessing you just meant that hip graphic design/typography often confounds your own expectations. If you aren't a design practitioner/enthusiast, I don't know why you would expect your preconceptions of what design should look like to be validated.
One man's "convenient" is another man's "savvy." If you've got the technical ability (you are 'savvy') to use this TLD, you've got the technical ability ('savvy') to use your own CA.

And I didn't say it would be convenient. The world doesn't revolve around your convenience. I said you've got the ability to use a CA.
The companies you mention are only money services to politically aligned customers.
The excessive fines clause hadn't, probably in no small part because states would argue "this is a reasonable fine" rather than "we're allowed to give unreasonable fines."

I believe cruel and unusual punishment would have come up in method of execution cases, but not sure of the case.
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I think most people who use WhatsApp don't even know what E2E encryption is and use it only because their peers are using it.
or take the more direct route and promote production elsewhere.
Exactly, only lurkers view them 9 months or years after. To the downside they cannot comment, but at least some provide useful links and resources was fascinated to read wikipedia views on:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression , and boredom seeing them as learned helplessness.
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If you haven't watched it, there was a fantastic 2009 talk (given during HOPE09) on what goes into fabrication called "Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips" [1]. Keeping in mind things have advanced even farther over the subsequent decade, even at that point it was mind blowing what goes into the hardware at the core of what we all do. The level of purity and consistency needed for a lot of basic inputs is measured in atoms, really digging into the details it's amazing some of this works at all let alone with high yields. Helps give some context of how an incident like this can happen and how easily the cost could rapidly rise to eye watering levels.

I think Andor has posted on HN since too with some other high level talk, though not further updates per se since unsurprisingly details around fabrications are very heavily guarded trade secrets. I still rewatch it every year or two, it remains a real source of wonder to me what we've pulled off there.

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1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
I'm implementing mobile client too :)
To sync all mailboxes, not just Inbox need a lot of commands (request/response). Which add a lot of latency which is not very user-friendly on mobile.
For example currently, I' exploring JMAP and for the same amount of functionally, the API calls a just 1/10th of what needed with IMAP.
it works over regular smtp and imap, via your usual relays and email servers, etc. If you can send and receive email, then I guess it should work fine.
Do designers design for laypeople (=i.e. supposedly the audience of most designs) or for other designers?
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As a Western developed nation inhabitant, you and indeed most HN readers benefit enormously for your rich lifestyle on past carbon emissions by your predecessors, which those in that country have not benefitted from. This is a good way to incentivise those countries who - quite reasonably - feel it's unfair that they don't get to use up any of that carbon to develop their nation towards a rich modern lifestyles. So, here is one solution.
Primarily I guess this is an open specification, whereas deltachat is a closed app? sounds like the same underlying principle to me though. Apparently in the future there would be optional extensions on IMAP servers to make things more efficient.

EDIT: looks like delta.chat is open source https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop
> you actually don't get your driver from AMD, you get it as a part of your Linux kernel

Thankfully.

However, the open source driver that is now part of the Linux kernel did indeed come from AMD, and could not have come from anywhere else.

Your parent said AMD publishes the sources to its (only) driver. That they happen to publish it with the Linux kernel wrapped around it, through kernel.org, is also true, but not incompatible with the claim that they publish it.
> China is the sole producer of certain electronic components

I don't believe this is correct in meaningful sense. Do you have any examples?

China assembles many components, but that's not something that can't be moved to elsewhere. Vietnam is already replacing China.

Best way to deal with exported CO2 emissions is to put carbon tax on imports and not to try to control where they are manufactured.
Airliners get better fuel efficiency per mile per passenger than most single-occupant cars.

The majority of people do not fly multiple times per week.

Having said that, I do agree with the main thrust of your comment: consume less.
I generally agree, but we are at such a bad position now where any and all attempts need to be made to preserve our planet. It might not be fair for westerners to pay for such initiatives, but lets remember that most western countries have outsourced manufacturing to developing nations in Asia/Africa etc and have turned a blind eye to the shitty practices of these companies as long as it suited them (aka, as long as the products are cheap)
You mean value that fluctuates "randomly" on the daily in what was proven to be a manipulated market? A market plagued by corrupt, insecure or amateur on-ramps like Quadriga, Bitfinex or MtGox? Anonymity goes out the door as soon as you get verified on one of these on and off ramps.

You cannot have a store of value if the only value that is created is a speculative agreement. The same critique that went behind fiat currency no longer being backed by gold applies just the same to cryptocurrencies. Turnkey solutions like stablecoins essentially mean you are now forced into using them as a pseudo bank and counting on them to not be handling fractional reserves at any point in time.

Crypto can have its uses in time, but it is not the emperor's new financial panacea that many people hope it is.

Regardless, the project is pretty cool and so is its execution.
I don't think there is any "remains to be seen" about it. It's illegal.
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If Silicon Valley can propel nutrient sludge like Soylent into notoriety, then I'm sure it can do the same for cricket nuggets. :P
after the fifth captcha chalkenge/demand I quit. please don't waste my time
Doctors have a saying "if you're a man older than seventy, you will die with prostate cancer but you won't die from prostate cancer.". The only thing knowing you have it for sure will give you is stress.
According to the GDPR, it is not legal. What remains to be seen is whether the EU will enforce or not.
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I really like the idea, but I prefer dedicated self-hosted services like Matrix.
You can run a suspicious Matrix instance, but I think privacy falls away as you talk to any Gmail user via CoI.

"With XMPP and Matrix.org -based services you would still need to convince everyone to join your new network. Easy in theory, very complex in practice!"

I don't find that so problematic. People just needs to see a bit the inner workings to feel a bit comfortable and give it a chance.
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Sorry, but you can't compare a multistory building where people live with an old church.
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Natural rain forests are just not economically productive. No matter what industry you promote in Indonesia, they can always make extra money by cutting down the forest.
The Guardian had a really interesting blurb about palm oil[1]. One of the takeaways is that as bad as palm oil is, other plants consume far more resources to produce equivalent amounts of oil. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Soy has already wreaked havoc on the Amazon, and Bolsonaro in all his septic glory is a staunch advocate of destroying as much of the Amazon as he can in pursuit of short term profits.

The other blurb[2] I read recently was about Maya Bay. A situation like this is a bit more amenable to ecotourism and whatnot than palm plantation... but still it's a daunting task to try to preserve the environment in a country that's very dependent upon it for short-term sustenance.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/19/palm-oil-ingred...

2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_beach_nobody...
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Tweakers.net had their lawyer take a look at it, and they claim it is legal. I'd love to see it on trial.

My take on it is it is BS and a cost/benefit analysis.
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> With XMPP and Matrix.org -based services you would still need to convince everyone to join your new network. Easy in theory, very complex in practice!

I think they missed the the bit where Matrix is called Matrix because it bridges (matrixes) the existing networks (Slack, IRC, Telegram, Discord, XMPP, etc) in, rather than needing to convince everyone to join. But no matter, we'll just provide a COI bridge if this takes off :)
This reads almost like a satire. I urge anyone to read this over and consider that this disgrace of a CEO not only took someone else's place in Stanford, and later took funding that could have gone to other uses, refuses to own up to her mistakes, and still has fans greeting her on the streets of SF.
I'm pretty sure that "verify real users" was about captchas. Solving that problem in general is probably impossible, I grant you that. However, reaching a good-enough solution for a particular site is often doable.

In increasing order of strictness and complexity:

- Use hidden/visible field shenanigans

- Ask questions your audience should be able to answer (chess-captchas, maths-questions, etc.)

- Require registration with e-mail validation

- Require registration with SMS validation

- Make that part of the site invitation-only

- Use some kind of trust-based system (e.g.: users can invite other users)

- Manually approve stuff

- Ask for ID scans and manually check them

- Combinations of the above

Unless you are a juicy enough target (not many sites are), just a few measures will get you to that good-enough point. Of course, implementing any of the above will be harder than slapping a recaptcha and calling it a day ;)
Sure but in practice there aren't any entries from Reddit or HN. They are all from Github.
actually, the native library does use X11 for showing the hashview window on Unix systems :D
The issue isn't that they fall, but they become outdated much earlier for other reasons. For example, materials (asbestos). Or that they don't comply with newer fire safety regulations. Or that the old design no longer accomodates modern working conditions, etc.
Ability to change font-size or scaling up content on a page has nothing to do with referential accessibility. They are orthogonal to each other in fact.

Location to paragraph is nice but not enough for referential accessibility requirement of a classroom. No one in my class uses an eReader, it's iPad mostly or Galaxy Tab.
Locals or "locals"?

My experience in Berlin from approaching people littering is that they're mostly not German. And what's fascinating, they're actually proud of their littering.
Also, an increase in heart diseases will lower cancer deaths.

In first world countries, death is caused by very roughly 1/3 heart diseases, 1/3 cancer, 1/3 others. More heart diseases mean less cancer and vice versa.

5 year survival may be a good metric though.
You can in theory. But you have to choose: Either your data is encrypted or it's searchable. So in practice you prefer searchability.

Someone will probably say something about homomorphic encryption. Not deployed AFAIK, and deploying will be difficult if you want to ensure that you can search your encrypted mail but others cannot.
I really don't like that the client would require full access to your e-mail account.

Otherwise it's pretty neat.
Hah! I used to do a lot of telco work. This led me to basically assume nothing about phone numbers.

What got me, was that people working at the telco used to give us requirements that clearly indicated that the telco people entertained a lot of falsehoods about phone numbers too!
The whole point is JSON is not in time-critical path.
Agreed – looks like a fantastic product!
Seconding the question about MySQL support. I use MySQL for everything. I don't want to add extra gigs of RAM to my VPS just to run an instance of PostgreSQL for Commento. Postgres is much slower than MySQL in simple applications and uses a lot more memory per connection. MySQL is also more popular and more people know how to use it and tune it properly. Postgres is probably more stable, but I don't care about that in a commenting app.
Comments are on by default, and when you upload a video it gives you a "share this URL" thing after, so there's a good chance the families never actually notice the comments. If they're watching on mobile too, then the comments aren't obvious unless you scroll down below the video.

I know people in my family that didn't even know YouTube had comments. They watch YouTube on a smart TV and just use the built in search tool, and all videos play fullscreen. This doesn't fit with the above family sharing thing but it shows how little lots of people understand YouTube in general.
The worst culprit for many people I know is flying. You can eat a lot of meat for the emissions of just one long-haul flight. (Which is sad because flying is great.)
Depends on what the fee structure is. Most of the high-fees come from top tier firms that charge on an hourly basis. If you look wider for your legal services to smaller firms with fixed or consenus pricing[1], then it'll be cheaper. Still pricey, but cheaper than the stereotypical big firm.

[1]https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/sme-law/23173-small-firms-t...
Was her reputation damaged? Did she expect no effect?
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Chat over IMAP seem a bit misleading title.
Their proposition is to add additional info in MIME headers. Or later some of them like Message-Id with chat info.
So seem more related to MIME and SMTP.
A client app can get those headers with different protocols too. MAPI, EWS, JMAP, etc.
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This is great and all, but you're relying on IMAP, an inherently mobile-unfriendly protocol. They should have worked with Fastmail to get this into JMAP.
Token in what sense? A pass phrase? If so, yes because you can assign a pass phrase to your gpg key.

Then you can choose to either type it in every time you unlock a password or cache it for your session (depends on how important security is for you).

Personally I cache it for my session. This way I only need to type in my pass phrase once when I power on the machine.

The best part about the pass utility is that it piggy backs off GPG for its encryption mechanism.
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Show HN: Facerank — A/B test your Tinder pics. What do you think?
The pivotal reason people use WhatsApp is because it can be used without paying (with money that is), and because up to 90% of people in any country use it¹.

That's it. Facebook could remove E2E today, and lose only a fraction of its WhatsApp users. Of course many little annoyances might mean that a competitor may step up, but WhatsApp is incumbent, and this is no longer about features or technology. It's all about the fact that your friends, family, and colleagues are using it. It can safely ride the network effect for years.

I welcome any protocol that makes chat something that is available for everyone with a computing device again — not just on approved smartphone operating systems.

1: Varies quite a bit per country.
"Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language. It is an open source programming language with more than 1 lakh libraries and more than 2 lakh active contributors. Python is also known for its simplicity as compared to other programming languages. Be it Artificial Intelligence or Web Development or IoT or Big Data Analysis or Cloud Application Development or Automation domain you can find n number of use cases for Python."

Er.. how many? Had to look this up:

"A lakh is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand."
Sounds a bit like Arrow's impossibility theorem, which I see as an exercise in how to sneak unreasonable constraints into a reasonable-sounding problem formulation.
Nearly all passives, generic active components, and a bulk of the cheaper processes ICs are being produced in China for a while now. PCBA production is another issue, but much of it happens in China too.

Vietnam doesn't seem to be really that different from China in politics, environment or other respects. It is hard to see how moving things from China to Vietnam is an improvement.
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Deltachat is opensource for every platform it supports:
https://github.com/deltachat

It also includes a core library in C:
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core

The spec is documented here:
https://github.com/deltachat/spec/blob/master/spec.md
Hi HN

I’m building this app to A/B test your (and mine) 1st profile pic on Tinder.

I tried relying on Tinder’s “Smart Photos” feature before, but it does not give any insight into which picture is actually better, and there is no control over the sequence of pictures in my profile. So I thought it would be cool to have a super simple web app where people can actually vote for you.

The way it works is:

1. You upload your 2 pictures
2. Community votes
3. You get the results which picture is better (and some feedback too)

As you know, 1st pic is like ~70% of your success and impact on your ELO score. The higher your score, the higher up your position in the queue is and the hotter profiles you’ll be shown too.

I’ve been working on it for the past 3-4 weeks and would really like some feedback on it:

- What can be improved?
- Trying to come up with a funny tagline e.g. “Facerank yourself & your friends” but think this can be improved LOL.

Hope you guys can roast this idea as much as you can.

Thanks!
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There always was a market for such a service

"Hot or Not was preceded by the rating sites, like RateMyFace, which was registered a year earlier in the summer of 1999, and AmIHot.com, which was registered in January 2000 by MIT freshman Daniel Roy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_or_Not

"Hot or Not was sold for a rumored $20 million on February 8, 2008 to Avid Life Media"
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The alternative for Slack is MatterMost, which you can host on-premise, and is free. I can heartedly recommend it.

It's just not an urgent a problem as this is.