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I opted for one email sent/received, display one line option in Gmail eons ago. The collapsed email format is complete bollocks with one small exception... coming back to work after a vacation. Collapsed view allows for reading a series of emails to acquaint with how a particular subject evolved over time while away.

So after vacation > turn collapse back on > clean up vacation built up email > turn collapse off again

Edit: oh, I also proactively search for "lost" emails with the following search string:

has:nouserlabels -label:inbox -label:drafts

With my workflow, I apply a label to everything I want to save when I move it out of the inbox, meaning I've finished dealing with whatever the email requires. So that search string finds whatever has fallen out of my workflow.
Wherever you have the most positive impact for your customers. Removing the bible from Amazon wont stop idiots from abusing it, the bible already has reach that exceeds Amazon. Removing pseudoscience health books from Amazon delegitimizes those books and reduces the harms they cause.
There are things that shouldn't be sold and ways that things shouldn't be sold. A better market for false eyelashes shouldn't come at the cost of the many abominations that Facebook has introduced into your world.
I think the major difference is that he didn't push his views about alternative medicine on others, at least as far as I'm aware.

We would have felt differently about him if he had published a book titled "iCancer: How I Beat The Disease Using Alternative Medicine".
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I'm far more worried about the long-term consequences of raging inequality and climate change myself. I suspect I'm going to see both of those in my lifetime.

I'm not so confident that I'll see an AGI in my lifetime, but even if I do, I'm not going to assume it has a hindbrain that drives it to maximize all the paper clips at our expense.
We've definitely considered this and the only reason we haven't is that BofA offers a relatively nice mobile app, web interface, support (24/7), and permission management (roles) for our team. I agree in principle but it's a tool that we actually spend a non-trivial amount of time in so the experience of interacting with the service is something we, unfortunately, can't fully discount.
How exactly? By adding a number (C) of average (2.5 stars) "virtual" reviews to all products?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_average
> I doubt you actually read that. There was no reporting in the mainstream press of any executive order.

This is incorrect. Simply Googling '737 max executive order' turns up multiple hits. This doesn't mean there was an actual order, however.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=+executive+order+737+max
Tahoe-LAFS does "erasure coding" on the chunks of data. This increases the size of the data (adding redundancy) so that you can recover a file without recovering every single chunk. These parameters are decided client-side. In the smallest possible case (i.e. every chunk required) there is some slight overhead from the zfec and Tahoe headers.

If you are using redundancy of any kind, it will inflate the size of the ciphertext versus the plaintext thus affecting sync speed.

Tahoe-LAFS does split everything up into fixed-size chunks, though, so the total size of the file doesn't really matter -- it will still be uploaded in 128kb (default) chunks to the storage servers.

So, it's not the encryption that has an impact but the erasure-coding (which gives the "RAID-like" features) and you can configure it to have zero redundancy and thus only some slight increase in the total amount of data to send.
I saw a program on discovery channel a while back on how resurrecting mammoths would help with preserving the permafrost.

Edit: A related article: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/shanephipps/2017/06/20/mammoth...
I was going to suggest this is likely a common cruizing height, but no, it doesn't seem to be. That's an interesting correlation.
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Add the cost of coffee, water (usually filtered/depurated), electric power, sugar, washing, ...

... and good luck to find a location that has customers needing 120 coffees/hout for 12 h each day of the year.
"But Google Fiber got something out of its time here. It learned that nanotrenching—the cost-saving process of burying fiber optic cables just two inches underground—was a bust. “We currently do not have plans that call for 2 inch trenches, our primary specifications are focused on going deeper,” a Google Fiber spokesperson said in an email."

It's so weird to just use cities as A/B tests and just disregard all the people and plans built around a failed case at the drop of a hat. Are they going to start A/B testing countries against eachother next?
I have experienced similar memory fragmentation problems with Python 2.x.

Java has a compacting garbage collector. So it should not be affected.
In my opinion the GM ignition switch thing was over blown.

Getting worn out and sloppy and failing in one of several ways (e.g. turning the car off unexpectedly) is not an atypical failure mode of old ignition switches. The only reason it was a big deal was because wealth-ish people (i.e. not someone driving a 1993 Corolla) driving fairly new (at the time) vehicles died.

Their cover up was somewhat scummy but I don't think it wasn't the kind of thing they should not have had to cover up.

Edit: should not have
Given that the Max crashes both happened shortly after takeoff, I'd be more interested in a per-flight statistic. But I'm not sure how the industry does it.
These types of arguments tickle me. Why isn't instagram just a shiny web frontend to a newsgroup?
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There is a good reason we teach kids the allegory about the boy who cried wolf. If the FAA panics that easily they will destroy their creditability just as quickly as if they take too long. If they really did get new evidence yesterday and it prompted their decision, then I think they deserve more credit than the other world agencies that freaked out in a matter of hours. I want our regulators to be cold and analytical.
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This data is actually gathered by hobbyist and you can be a part of their network all it costs is about $25 for an ADS-B USB adapter. https://www.flightradar24.com/build-your-own
They also offer free membership (499/yr) if you share data.

Every flight broadcasts this data kinda like GPS and all you need is an antenna to receive it. In fact the tracking is basically done via ground-based GPS(ADS-B) by measuring the time delays between different receivers in the vicinity. The problem is that there aren't many hobbyists in those parts of Africa so coverage is sparse. In America, its pretty spot on in most locations. A USB adapter can surprisingly pick up planes as far away as 400 miles.
> they don’t use Docker Hub for anything

Nah, that would require going completely `FROM scratch`. Otherwise that won't be true as `alpine` base image is still hosted on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine
Legally in the US, yeah.

But should that be the case?
As a counterpoint, no real computation I've performed on a computer needed to compute the cos of 2^1023 radians. I can't imagine such a scenario either.
I absolutely agree with not giving the blackbox to the U.S. There is definitely a possibility of a conflict of interest with the F.A.A. not being fully forthcoming. U.S. politicians have a strong interest to keep the U.S. aviation industry strong and Id be surprised if there was absolutely zero interference between politicians and the F.A.A. conducting a fair investigation.

Also, the F.A.A. has already been aware that there were issues with this plane (software fixes were being worked on), but the planes continued to fly. If it turns out that the information already known to them BEFORE the latest crash should have been sufficient to call for a grounding, I could see them attempting to cover their ass.
There are lots of things it's moral for society to do but not a single person. Like run their own police for their benefit.
The government hasn't decided anything. Amazon is a private business not a government. Regardless of which side of the debate we fall on here I think it's important to keep that distinction in mind.
The NTSB is in the business of determining causes of accidents, though, not of assigning blame and certainly not of assigning criminal liability.
MUDs are amazing, I have quite fond memories of http://www.middle-earth.us/ (Shadows of Isildur) which is a wonderful thing to get into if you have the time to do so.

Also, from a tech angle almost all of these are incredible horror shows of legacy code, if you've ever wanted to see 40+ year old code that was written in danish originally then take a look at one of the DikuMUD descendants.
Ideas aren't products. There's a difference between books and physical products that you ingest (such as arsenic or mentos). The GP's argument uses a false equivalency.
I use keybase too, but I don't know anyone else; even though I've invited them...
Please don't do tedious flamewars on HN. When you get to "Putting people in Zoos is a good thing?", you've long passed the point to stop.

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This is good advice but we actually do pull from BofA. The mere act of using TransferWise is what triggered the freeze. Or at least that's what I was told.
I'm a fan of Galois, so I'll keep tabs on this project.
That's not true. Free speech as a concept is speech free from censorship, period, not just censorship by government fiat.

Look, you can disagree with that, but I'm not sure why you would. The entire concept is that two ideas, presented before a reasoning audience, can be examined and the one that is better will be likely to be adopted. This is impossible to do if one of the ideas is never presented as it is censored.
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A very good point -- if you don't have other sources of revenue aside from ads, and can't run the site/game/whatever without that, 10% of your users gone might be a perfectly reasonable trade off for the ad revenue that keeps the site running.

I think you mention later in the Twitter thread that Patreon has given you much more recurring revenue than ads? I wish operators would spend the time to look at the effectiveness of ad alternatives as you've done.
I've implemented G Suite for over a dozen companies. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Are they? That seems like an extraordinary claim. Do you have a source?
In my experience, the difference is sometimes even less than 100MiB (which is quite a lot). For the current ("real-world") project I'm working on, it's about 25MiB - something like 325MiB for Alpine and 350MiB for slim Debian base images.

Either way, it's not 1.12GiB I was getting with a fat `FROM python:3` base image.
Since the behavior is unexpected and very non-obvious for the average user, I don't see any issue with calling it "secretly".
I really do think the way ads are presented and how they are embedded matters. E.g., a static banner, embedded statically server-side without tracking and targeting, respectfully sitting besides the content may be not offensive to anyone. We may even appreciate that the advertiser is supporting the content we like, a positive image transfer besides the needs of last week's shopping list (of which we're kept reminded just too often by common advertising practice). On the other hand, what we mostly see, is advertising going off-the-rails, competing with the content (reading a news site is often some of a glimpse of war of its own today, at least visually), aggressive tracking and targeting, in combination fostering the feeling that the ad-networks and by this also the hosting site are actively working against you, providing the content just as a pretext for exploitation. Something has gone terribly wrong. (I've actually not bought products, I would have bought else, because of advertising practices.)

Edit: As an ethical workaround, I find myself increasingly opening a site in broser A without blocker and then copying the URL to another browser B with blocking, because I can't concentrate on the content anymore, or maybe switching to reader mode to consume the content. But, does presenting the ads to me make any sense at all? Most interestingly, this would result in inflated user statitistics. Maybe, we're seeing a combination of both?
It has been a long time since I played games, but I thought games still had demos. In Steam, do you have to buy a game before playing it?
This looks like a system set up for catastrophic failures. I mean, if everybody involved that has means and knowledge to do anything about safety faults has a huge incentive to not do anything about them, how we expect not to have very bad outcomes? I think it'd be smart to move on from "boo selfish people, how could they!A" to "we must redesign the system so people are not hugely disincentivized from doing the thing we want to be done"? Otherwise we have hopeless war against human nature on our hands here.
Facebook blames long outage on 'server configuration change'
An expert could figure out how to get the PrivateStorage Tahoe client to use other storage servers, but yes in general it is "a managed service" and I don't think using your own storage-servers will be "a supported configuration".
Most schools require the organization that administers the exam to send the official scores. I can't imagine any school worth going to would allow for self-reporting of scores. It seems like the guy in charge of all of this had everyone from the exam proctors to heads of athletic departments to look the other way or just out right lie. I would be extremely pissed if I had been given an SAT or ACT by either of those two exam proctors, my college would instantly have a good reason to be suspicious about my exam scores.

I doubt these kids did any of the actual college application. If you are paying that much to get your kid into school, you are paying for someone to fill in the app, take the exams, write a bogus personal statement, and to pay off anyone to vouch for the lies. It's probably very turn key, you write a check and your kid gets an acceptance letter in the mail 6 months later. I'm sure these kids aren't in regular highschool either, they probably have "tutors" faking homeschool transcripts and credits for them. I wonder how well these kids do in college if they had to fake their application so badly.
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There's a difference between being willing to help people writing stuff too awkward to market to earn them advances find their audience and helping people help other people to die...
I’ve been checking the server logs for over 13 years now with awstats and that has always covered my needs. javascript based logging makes no sense.
A feature/detriment of per vote verification is that it opens up the entire system to vote buying - are you describing verifying that your vote happened, or who it was cast for?
The majority of marketing/ad teams nowadays are performance based. It is trivial to see what your approximate ROI is for FB ad spend. Source: I have been part of marketing teams at many venture backed and public companies and seen the data myself.
>no gas stations, no gas transportation necessary.

In many parts of the world, being able to transport fuel to where it's needed is a huge advantage. We are a long way from a global electricity infrastructure.
Is that a 'should' as in best practice, or a 'should' in terms of a RFC for a mailing standard?

The reason I ask is because I'm pretty sure lot's of sites (invoices/receipts/newsletters) send out stuff via a noreply intentionally.
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> I have frequent problems with their mail getting lost, classified as spam, rejected, filed somewhere, or just difficult to see.

I have the exact opposite problem. My clients with ISP email, free email, low quality shared hosting email have the problems. My clients with G Suite, and Office365 have no deliverability, spam or reliability problems.
At this point you'd just go at the source and use Tahoe directly
If we're sharing anecdotes:

1) Opposite experience for me: Chrome loads things slowly and performing actions on pages just feels far less responsive than FF. Chrome also seems to use insane amounts of memory for a few tabs, while FF is a lot more reasonable.

2) You're probably right on this one, I don't use dev tools often.

3) The whole reason I switched to FF on Android was to run uBlock. Can Chrome on mobile run extensions yet?
This is definitely censorship, it just isn't censorship by the government.
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> It would be nice if there was a windows.h replacement that used namespaces, typedefs, enum classes, and bitfield structs to make typesafe non-namespace polluting names for everything while still being compatible with Win32.

I think Microsoft has made too many Win32 wrappers at this point: WinForms, XAML, MFC, UWP... Adding another one isn't likely to succeed. New Windows desktop app development happens in Electron or C#; Win32 is the layer for low-level or legacy apps that aren't going to switch to anything different anyway.
no oops. Your comment was what helped me find it. In a thread with hundreds of comments, it's okay to have information repeated if it's done so in a relevant way. The alternative would be a whole bunch of intra-thread linking that just isn't feasible. So, thank you.
The Concorde was not retired directly after the crash. It flew for three more years and was retired for financial reasons. The crash probably reduced the demand though and thus contributed.
What happens to Wikipedia every time the end of their runway is approaching? At least we can hope for a similar solution to appear for messaging.
Publishers being bullied by Amazon can go somewhere else and reach the same consumers, for the most part. It's intertwined with how much the consumers are being bullied.

In the case of e-ink kindles it's sort of the same problem, but the kindle app is available on many platforms so it reduces the harm by a lot.
Interesting, I read about this from here: https://medium.com/@floriendrees/a-poodle-is-a-dog-ruby-is-n...
The talk mentioned in the beginning is quite interesting. You can watch it here:

A systems neuroscience approach to building AGI - Demis Hassabis, Singularity Summit 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgd3OK5DZWI
Congrats to the Arango team! I used it at my earlier workplace for computing suggested friends/followers which replaced an older service (Postgres + redis and application server-side caches). The resulting solution was faster, ran on a single modest machine (8 GB RAM, 4 cores) and allowed us to spin down 3 higher-end machines and reduce a layer of caches on application-servers. Writing the microservice using Foxx (which is built-in to Arango) was a pleasure and the easy deployment + Swagger API was a great developer experience. The community slack was friendly and helped me out with some AQL.
Downvoted purely for the snark. It's irritating when an active participant in a website puts down the community that... they choose to be part of.
It's hard to say. What's not hard to say is that crap like “Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism” belongs on the other side of the line.

Stuff like this baffles me. Like, yes, it's hard to say where you draw the line between patriotism (good) and nationalism (bad), but no one (who is also sane) wonders where you draw the line when discussing Hitler.

(Yes, I know about Godwin's law. I'm not being hyperbolic here, I think this is a good comparison.)
I would absolutely love an ad blocker for my car's windshield (or, since I don't drive much, some sort of AR glasses that block ads). I find advertising unbearable. People's tolerance levels are different.

I wouldn't say that your old site, with its two image ads, was "covered with too many ads", but I would still expect an ad blocker to remove them.
I don't want to buy a 20,000 euro battery if I can get by with a 7000 euro one + an ICE that I might run every few months on some longer trip.
No, that's critics selecting shows for year-end best lists.

If you're looking for what consumers enjoy, look at the ratings, where HBO also does not fare especially well.
> Kiniy said Galois will design two basic voting machine types. The first will be a ballot-marking device that uses a touch-screen for voters to make their selections. That system won’t tabulate votes. Instead it will print out a paper ballot marked with the voter’s choices, so voters can review them before depositing them into an optical-scan machine that tabulates the votes. Galois will bring this system to Def Con this year.

This sounds great: paper trail, no chance of "hanging chads" or bad handwriting, verifiable by the voter at the moment before scanning and hand-countable if necessary.
Your ideal voting system is vulnerable to coercion ("log in and show me who you voted for or else") and phishing.

Voting systems should provide confidence to voters that votes are counted correctly, but not permit anyone, including the voters themselves, to learn how they voted after the ballot is cast.
If confirmed, it's a great example of lack of professionalism. This is the behavior of a gang of drunken thugs, no words. Which kind of information worth the diplomatic incident and the irritation of a partner nation ? Because that kind of desperate action only is justified to rescue information of capital importance.
Hmm, up to a point, but Amazon own the biggest marketplace; Facebook own the biggest forum; etc.. They have unique positions, with far greater powers than single governments. I don't think arguments such as yours work for supranational organisations.

It's like saying people have the right to protest, but then saying they're not allowed to use a vehicle to get to a protest, in theory you're not interfering but in practice you prevent exercise of their rights.
Because why have scale if you don't leverage it.
It looks as if in the next several months Firefox will become all but invisible from most 3rd party trackers as Firefox ”will strip cookies and block storage access from third-party tracking content, based on lists of tracking domains by Disconnect.” [1]

The full list of trackers that will be blocked by default is substantial. [2]

1 https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/02/20/enhanced-...

2 https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...
Software is perfectible, skinware is not. As long as corruptible human beings are in charge, there will be room for fraud.
Ratings, as in, how many people watch the show. Obviously, Westworld is a better show than True Blood. But HBO needs people to want to watch it. On the metric that matters, True Blood was a more important show for HBO, and Westworld did not make up for it.
Trying new products in small markets as an experiment has been a thing forever, and is something literally every company does regularly. There is nothing weird about it. As for the fallout, IMO the city is to blame for it more than Google, since the company is obligated to do exactly what the contract entails.
So they are 'too big to fail' ?
We can’t treat large corporations like government institutions, even if they have the power of them these days. IANAL, but if amazon doesn’t want to be held liable for the contents of these books in some inevitable tort case I think it’s entirely their judgement call to remove these books as a private entity. These writers aren’t a protected class.