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> I don't think Airseed ended up panning out but I wonder what he brought from that business to Superhuman.

There are several other businesses that specialize in doing just this, so even if they wanted to continue doing the exact same thing it wouldn't necessarily make sense to continue using their own in-house technology.

That said email is insanely difficult to wrap your head around, I've been doing it full time for several years and don't pretend to be anywhere near close to fully understanding it. So just having experience in the space and having tried out some different approaches to similar problems would surely help a ton.
It's not in the list, but you can put windows95.com into the address bar. Man that's some crazy nostalgia. I wonder if it pulls from archive.com or some other old index/cache.

I remember that era of mIRC and eggdrop bots and fservs and Hotline clients and NNTP servers and RealMedia encodes of Transformers Beast Machines from Canada (which came out months before they did in the US and we'd leave our dialup on all night to download them and then play them through a CRT so they didn't look like trash).

A time when if you didn't find something on Lycos, you'd go to Yahoo and Hotbot and Dogpile and different search engines gave you different results.

It was a different era.
Horizontal space is somewhat of a premium though, especially if things like reader mode or buttons provided by addons as available in the current Firefox will return to the URL bar once more.
And the current design for Fenix doesn't help in that regard by having quite a bit more white space - the tab counter and menu button take up approx. 50 % more width than they do in the current Firefox.
1) "The system charges for two minutes..." One shot per two minutes is pretty bad; the current 5" gun shoots 16-20 rounds per minute.

2) "...at speeds up to Mach 6." One of the issues with old school, large caliber naval guns was that the blast from the guns would damage or destroy equipment near the muzzle. (I was just reading Pursuit by Ludovic Kennedy, about the British pursuit of the Bismark, and (IIRC) one ship (the Prince of Wales?) had its bridge windows blown out when firing the B turret "over its shoulder".) Is the shockwave from a railgun going to be similarly dangerous?
Just in case, you know this is not what's actually written by facebook, right? The original text is in the current top comment, and only says that it may take up to 90 days for the data to be removed from the systems, nothing about accidental backups not being deleted.
Jony Ive, iPhone designer, announces Apple departure
Jony Ive on leaving Apple, in his own words
Is it "free" from a customers's perspective, or from a merchant's perspective?

From a customer's perspective, credit cards are also "free". However, from a merchant's perspective, the cost is 2-3% plus a constant hassle with prospective fraud.
> It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.

Hmm, if you're already shining a laser on your target it seems to me there are simpler ways to achieve your goal...
> give any party the power to unpublish not-legally-allowed content

Like the party that published it?
> don't think a phone needs to be much bigger than the SE.

The thing is, a phone (to most people) is not just a phone anymore, it's an entertainment machine and for that screen real estate is crutial. E.g. During commute times, most people watch movies, read or play games on their phone but doing that with a small screen is not confortable.

HN demographic is an exception to the rule, mostly males (use phone on pocket) and less prone to use the phone as an entertainment source.
Mozilla also didn't have ad blocking when their contract was with Yahoo.
Is the upside down one available somewhere?
That's pretty damn risky. Not only would it draw the ire of the government, but they could have their entire company cut off at a whim.
This happened to me too. I hit a woman on a bike, because she unfortunately kept behind a pillar. Now when turning I always rock my torso sideways to and fro to increase the view angle. I feel stupid doing this but I think I avoided one or two more accidents this way.
I see your point now. Oh well.
while i was working for this xyz CDL marketing company, i did not come across any stats, but i saw fathers passing down the biz to their sons, and/or family members working all together to run their own trucking biz each playing various roles and running it quite efficiently. Since they do not have college degrees they are locked in and thus do successfully make a career of it, additionally some of them don't drink and have good driving records.

Also the sikh community inherently feels persecuted wherever they go due to their rigid beliefs, unfortunately this is also true in their homeland-India, but which in turn makes them help each other out even more, their community is well-organized and close-knit. There truly was a constant in-flux of new younger drivers who had plans of a long career.

Also, climate change/global warming was also another albatross around their necks...farming and produce are significantly affected each year due to floods an/or droughts
Finally. I already switched on Windows and Linux. Now macOS and Android is missing.
Apple's Chief Design Officer Jony Ive Is Leaving the Company
Weird. Changing sites worked for me and I'm on that exact version (Linux/Gentoo). Occasionally I'd get an error, but it'd go away if I go back and try it again.
The comment you're replying to is not a verbatim quote of the post, they've added the last sentence (among others). The original post states

> What happens when you delete: We’re providing more detail about what happens when you delete content you’ve shared. For example, when you delete something you’ve posted, it’s no longer visible but it can take up to 90 days to be removed from our systems.

FB has previously published notes about backups, such as https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th..., which include sentences like "Our job is to keep every piece of information you add safe, while ensuring that anything that's been deleted is purged in a timely manner".

I work for FB.
Self comment: in addition to echeese's suggestions, found this great blog post

https://jvns.ca/teach-tech-with-cartoons/
iOS has native support for ad blockers.
Cool strawman mate. There's plenty of people who call out rap's shortcomings. Some of them are black. You can do it without being called a racist, I swear.

I don't know why people are calling you a racist, but I have some theories...
I'm not thinking about ad delivery, I'm thinking about behavioral analysis. Knowing how a person thinks and acts can be a very useful weapon in the wrong hands, and FB and the like have done nothing to make me think their hands are the right ones (I don't think any are really.)
Back in 2005, my undergrad school gave students access to the then newly legit Napster. Everything was DRM-d WMA files, but there was a third party tool that stripped it out and let you play it on any device that played WMAs natively.

I'm reminded of that occasionally when I see files with "noDRM-$Artist-$Title" pop up in the File Manager. Does Napster even exist anymore?
if you just use html 4, minimal css, and no js, you'll get a good old internet experience. :)
Show HN: Reading 2D coordinate grids from ASCII-art-like strings (JavaScript)
In fact, the majority of books you will find in most libraries are at the very least 10 years old.
My understanding is that the newer X- and T- are still less serviceable than earlier models in the same line.
I am very happy to hear you made that decision. I hope your problems are not long term and that by dealing with them now you are able to make a full recovery.

I wasn't sure about posting my comment if I am honest. I even closed the tab. I am glad I decided to do it now though as it has started an interesting discussion and, more importantly to me, it got you to keep your appointment of which I am very happy to hear :)

Take care of yourself maccha, nobody else will or can and you only get the one body.
The MixPanel stats reveal the disconnect between the SE fans who always flood these threads and the rest of the world.

David Smith is a well known dev in tech circles and his audience would skew more toward "tech nerds". Look at the wider stats and suddenly you see the 4" audience sliced in half.
Jony Ive to Form Independent Design Company with Apple as Client
Personally I find that I just don't get as much out of digital books. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but the closest I can describe is that it feels like I'm looking through a window at a book rather than actually viewing it directly.
At least Windows 95 had colorful icons, labels, and tooltips on everything. Black on gray dialog boxes didn't blind you, and it had sufficient contrast to be readable (unlike every designer's website that uses microscopic gray text on barely different gray).

On the flip side, about 8-ish years ago, I installed Xubuntu on my parent's PC, replacing XP. I told them here's Thunderbird, Firefox, Solitare, and how to shut down. Once I said that it worked like Windows (i.e. the X in the corner closes things), they didn't have any problems. I anticipated having to move them back to Windows, but didn't need to.
How do you strip Kindle DRM? asking for a friend.
How it works now is that some percentage of the humans want to become, and/or want to support authoritarian rule. Authoritarian rule always wants to expanad, and will treat both it's subjects and other people as objects.

How should it work? Like eradicating smallpox, we'll need to somehow engineer, or teach, or by some other method, eradicate from the entire human race the authoritarian impulse.

Until then, the choices are: 1) submit, or 2a) create systems of laws & institutions to ensure that power remains distributed and is difficult to hijack/co-opt/capture by any one person or group and 2b) (since all systems are hackable/fallible) be prepared to fight for your freedom and the freedom of others less fortunate.

EDIT: add 2a
A similar thing happened with Ultraviolet's movies service: https://www.myuv.com/

There's also a great story regarding "right of first purchase" in the USA where Redbox literally purchases DVDs at retail so that they can rent them out to customers because Disney would not sell directly to them: https://gizmodo.com/redboxs-crafty-workaround-for-stocking-d...
With --results or --joblog and --resume-failed GNU Parallel can do this, too.
> As a cyclist, going behind buses is straight toxic.

Maybe[1], but still less so than the equivalent emissions from the dozen or so passenger vehicles that bus replaced.

The upthread point (which is correct) is that the environmental gains from bus transportation are concentrated in the efficiency gains of shared vehicles and that the relative impact of the fuel used is fairly minor. Get people on buses, then optimize. The linked article is worrying about things in the wrong order.

[1] I mean, no, not really. Diesel exhaust stinks, it's not particularly "toxic".
If you don’t think that lawyer fees scale linearly with regulation complexity you’re either an early Uber employee or mistaken.

When you’ve built a social consumer business in Europe that is profitable after compliance, send me a term sheet.
I have the clusterHAT as well. You gotta admit it is one of the cooler rpi devices out there. It's a Big Mac sized super computer, even if it isn't truly practical; it is way cheaper than any other super computer out there, so the pi's reputation as an educational platform is accentuated.

I'm looking forward to transplanting it onto a Pi4, since it is more likely able to run the types of simulations I run, and the separation of network stacks will make it really hum. So much cheaper (and forgiving) than renting cloud instances too early on.
Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
Apple Says Jony Ive to Leave, Form Independent Design Company
Clear Your Mental Cache (2014)
David Smith's apps have a very particular audience. MixPanel is more reliable to get a better view of the entire market.
Medallia S-1
Eventually, you'd mount the laser on the drone, and let it wander around the city doing a search.
Interesting. Where's he going?

Edit: sorry should have rtfm
> This is why DRM isn't just anti-consumer, it's also morally evil using the same logic that says libraries are a good thing.

It's also simply an inferior technical solution due to its unnecessary complexity and dependence on servers, corporate entities/departments/decisions.
Clicked some random parts. Got hooked right in! Is there an epub/mobi?
I think most libraries offering this are doing it through Hoopla. It works fine though you can only play them in a browser and the video quality is roughly at the level of a DVD.
I really feel like this should be the top comment; losing addon support in FF on Android is about the only change I can envision that would cause me to stop using it. It's great as it is, and there is no amount of tinkering they could do to it that might possibly make up for the loss of addons.
Inevitably most every creative person crave independence regardless level. So he pulled a kanye and started his own Donda. Now awaiting LoveForm x Mercedes, LoveFrom x Piguet, LoveFrom x Nike, LoveFrom x Apple luxury goods collabs.
My father was a physics professor who worked at CERN in the early nineties. He had a MIPS workstation on his desk running one of the early web browsers. (I think it was Mosaic, so it must have been around 1993?)

During the weekend, I'd borrow the car keys, go to his office on campus, and browse the early web sometimes until 3am, printing out the pages that I found interesting for in depth reading at home.

I was blown away that you could get information from all over the world for free. My biggest concern at the time was: "what will happen when he retires 15 years from now, and I'll lose access to all of this."

I've never been accused of being a visionary.
Where have you lived/visited? I'm brazilian and almost everyone here has at least a debit card. Some people don't even carry money when they go out. Credit cards are widely used as well.
> If we merely had the same copyright we had when the country first formed, this entire "your books turn off thing" would possibly be completely acceptable: a subset of works would be onerous and somewhat annoying for 28 years, after which you could literally do whatever you want with them

Also, the US didn't respect any other country's copyrights or patents so anything published outside the US would be free immediately.
Hammerspoon – Powerful Automation of OS X
I heard the CEO speak at a meet-up a while back, and based off his points, I actually think they don't. It seems like they've figured their sweet spot is with people who spend 3+ hours of emails a day, and that tends to skew towards high-profile, rich, business execs in their case.
Does reCAPTCHA v3 block Google's own crawlers?
If yes, how is that "fair"?

If no, how are they ok with making the web considerably more difficult to scrape?
The question is what will stop working earlier: archive.org or the 18th century book?
Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple
This. Also a machine doesn't come back with PTSD, wounded or in a coffin, so there are no parents, relatives and friends finally realizing the true costs of war.
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Which side is nuts? Is it the one that rejects the irrefutable evidence of Google's past and future election interference?
I've never quite understood why we need to change technologies so completely to get the projectile moving faster. As in, why couldn't we do the same thing by just making a bigger explosion in the barrel? I assume there's some point of diminishing returns or inefficiency that makes it impractical, but I haven't been able to find a source that gives the math to explain it.
It’s there in the subtitle: “Outgoing chief design officer speaks to the FT about his venture, LoveFrom”
Uh... a via IS a 90 degree turn. We live in a universe with three spatial dimensions.

The wording was loose, but I stand by the point: there are no interconnect technologies in the modern world that use anything but axis aligned conductors. All turns are 90 degrees. (It's just that to turn 90 degrees in the plane of the wafer you need to make two of them)
Huh? I constantly see iPhones sticking out of womens' back pockets.
That seems a very generous interpretation.

The wording about overriding legitimate interests is specifically in the case of erasure because a data subject objects to processing. It doesn't cover any of the other cases where erasure is required, any one of which is sufficient. One of those is "the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed" and another is "the data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to [cross-references] and where there is no other legal ground for the processing".

There may be legitimate interests in things like maintaining logs and back-ups, but it would be quite a stretch to argue that an organisation with the resources of Facebook and the potential amount and sensitivity of personal data Facebook are dealing with can't manage to delete the underlying data in as long as 3 months.
RPM makes the simple easy and the difficult impossible. RPM's grace and sin is its simplistic, rigid, singular spec file.

The startup costs to Debian packaging are greater. In the most basic case not that much greater--a single control file with intuitive fields, and a rules file (i.e. Makefile) with intuitive targets. However, to do things according to best practice (i.e. official Debian policy) often requires using additional tools and configuration files. So, yeah, it can become byzantine. But if you realize that it all comes back to generating that control file and rolling up a target directory, same as RPM, it can be easier to make sense of everything.

The important distinction is that all the complexity, required and optional, in Debian packaging can be hidden within the confines of the packaging framework. That is, whatever your build rules and workarounds, anyone trying to build your package can just invoke a standard dpkg build without having to understand any of it. Working around deficiencies in RPM often requires adding and exposing additional layers of complexity, like generating spec files in ad hoc pipelines before a user can invoke rpmbuild.

For example, do you autogenerate your RPM package version from the source? How do you embed it within the spec file? And are you able to also generate a source tarball that can generate the same build? It's one thing to cobble together an RPM that explodes to some binaries; it's another to do so in an automated fashion that's also transparent--i.e. generates SRPMS that can be built within clean environments. I know, I know, CI/CD systems can obviate the need to build binary RPMs from SRPMs, but that's exactly my point. RPM alone is seriously deficient. There are lots of little problems like this that pop up when your needs become more complex; you end up building taller towers of complexity than what would be needed using Debian.
Hinduism calls it Karma yoga[1] - the path of selfless action. It is portrayed in no way inferior to other approaches. Do you work well with passion without attachment towards results.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_yoga
If anyone at Superhuman could refer me, I’d love to give it a crack at my 5 emails accounts where I receive 1,000 messages each day and I only get to respond to a few hundred. :-) anything I can do to be more productive and answer more fan mail.
I’m more disturbed by the fact that they can also edit or remove books that I’ve already purchased. How long until Amazon is forced to “deplatform” something offensive? Those old books contain a lot of words and ideas that have no place in 2019.

It’s one of several reasons why I mostly only buy paper books.
So how is this working? I'm seeing traces of Wayback Archive here and there, but it seems so much faster than when I ever use it directly..

Edit: Ah, if you go to the very bottom of the page, it explains the situation: "It is a dumb, pass-through proxy. If the content exists in the Internet Archive, and the content is requested by the end user, theoldnet will blindly pass the search result from the Internet Archive to the end user."
I always wondered why Mawk did not implement Gawk's extensions - or at least those that could be done without any major penalty for the rest of the code.

Do you know why?
The peak of this was Forbes who made you turn off ads & served you malware;

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/220696-forbes-forces-re...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11455031
The loss of books and other written works was almost total prior to the printing press. A small number of durable tablets and some funeral documents were preserved simply by lasting a long time. Others, like many religious documents, were preserved in some form or another by expensive, tedious, completely manual copying. Some information (both fiction and nonfiction) was only ever verbally communicated, as it wasn't deemed worth the expense and difficulty of putting it onto paper.

Your link says "A manuscript copy was commissioned by Jiajing Emperor in 1562 and completed in 1567.[8] The original copy was lost afterwards. " That doesn't often happen when you can produce 10,000 copies.

It's not about the loss of the printing plates. It's about the extraordinary difficulty of preserving a document of which a single copy exists, and the much higher probability that one of thousands will survive.
The only thing worse than being the 6th submit on this subject in the past 10 minutes is spelling his name wrong.
I think by "loss of books" he means the extinction of a text. The printing press means more copies of a book can be printed, thus lowering the chance that we lose the text altogether
Thanks, I am looking forward to ed25519 support as RSA and DSA are considered too weak [1], [2].

[1] https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html

[2] https://latacora.micro.blog/the-default-openssh/
A fitting name for Ive's new firm. Now perhaps Apple can get back to work on fixing the function part of their laptops, like, say, the keyboard.
As someone who's been to plenty of punk shows and plenty of punk clubs, I promise you that you do not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
But Carl Sagan did not have a horde of anti-Sagans from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon etc to ridicule him. Really, this is the crux of the matter.

I have been to several Stallman talks and have had a chance to speak with him privately. He is weird in his manners, to put it lightly, and he is uncompromising in his positions, but he is very clear, very eloquent, very factual, and has a great track record at predicting the future.

You have hundreds of Carl Saganesque people fighting against big tobacco, hardly making a dent. The problem with Stallman is not that he is abrasive, it is that he is outnumbered by people trying to make money.
Fair point. I agree that the incumbent digital avatar is more of a file and less of a book, a classic enterprise solution for a consumer category of products.

And yes, experience of relaxed intake with page turns in between does open a portal to another dimension!
Id Software’s origin story set to become USA Network TV series
Bloomberg says Apple will be among his primary clients, so he's not gone entirely.

Still, this is a major change. His public-facing role has been quite diminished over the years, so this might not be the biggest shock, but it's still a major change.

Some will say that it's time for him to go. I don't think I agree with that, but I am interested in what a post-Ive Apple looks like.
THANK YOU! I lost the name of the web site and was having trouble Google-ing the right phrase to find it again. Much appreciated.