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Let's be honest, dark mode is only necessitated by the whole flat design trend which uses glaringly bright whites and stark interfaces.

The flat design trend is so tired, it never looked good, and it promotes bad UX/UI. That has always been my opinion and it has grown only stronger as more bandaids like 'dark mode' are slapped onto it.
It'd be more popular if it were safer/easier. Which is true pretty much everywhere. Some of the places where biking is the most common also have quite harsh winters (e.g. Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, etc.).
No. I don't care if a security system is not highly efficient in letting everyone moving around. It's not the point anyway.

That's the kind of thinking that makes our roads so deadly. If a rule in particular seems really silly to you, file a complaint / suggest a change so that it takes more parameters into account but until it is changed, stick to it. Loose some seconds or even minutes, I don't really care. These security rules should be followed by everyone, and people with your line of thinking shouldn't be allowed to own a car.
The link was even showing as visited. I kept refreshing my browser because I thought my cache was stuck!
That's why we have organizations like the CDC, FDA, NHTSA, etc. We have the internet, cheap computing and storage of data, so it should all be transparent. Countries verifying claims independently goes a long way too.

And obviously (sweeping) results from health related experiments should obviously be met with skepticism considering the complex nature of the problem.
> Facebook should allow politicians to lie in ads

There are more options than "Facebook regulates its ads" and "Facebook permits everything."

I am in favor of having a permanent, public repository of political ads, where they have to sit for a "cooling-down" period prior to going out. This lets journalists and the public fact-check them before they're blasted to a targeted group.

Another option is FEC, or some other independent body, overseeing political ads. There are a lot of options between open season and censorship, and it's only to Facebook's benefit that the debate is constrained to this axis.
What a dumb take.
"Which world? USA? Apple Watch doesn't work outside the Apple ecosystem, and Apple doesn't own the majority of the smartphone market."

Your own numbers show that apple is the leader of the market by far. However I agree that they don't own the whole sector
I agree that the people behind Tether are fundamentally pretty sketchy, and it has a significant risk of collapse. However, Tether can't be totally ignored because as of right now, it's still the best tool for some things.

The main value of Tether is that the BTC-Tether market is the most liquid cryptocurrency market. So if you want to exchange Bitcoin into dollars in an all-cryptocurrency transaction, you will probably get the best rates into Tether, and be able to perform your transaction the fastest. If you plan on swapping out of Tether soon, then the systemic risk of Tether collapsing might only be a small problem for your application.

It's a shame that the most popular stablecoin is such junk behind the scenes. I think we would be better off if a different stablecoin with a more solid grounding was the most popular one. But for now, since Tether is the most popular stablecoin and popularity itself provides value for some applications, Tether is a useful part of the crypto ecosystem.
FB is either a service provider or a content moderator.

One brings liability the other provides an exemption.

I know what I would choose. Let the people ads lie about sue the ad purchaser
Also, dark blue text against black or dark gray is absolutely horrible for legibility.
It's a really convoluted system which requires the kids to essentially be penned up and allowed to walk to their parents cars in a controlled way. They have a policy against walking since there are no sidewalks for most of the area around the school.

It's probably safer given the fact there are no sidewalks, but it still sucks.
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> It is the software equivalent of arguing that taxation is theft, without acknowledging the things government works toward (infrastructure, business development, education, healthcare, national security).

It's not that, and Free Software was never against paying for software. Taxes serve common good (at least ostensibly), and you have some say about it in democratic countries. You have little control over or insight into what proprietary software does, and in particular SaaS is a tool for disenfranchising users. The way they're done, you not only can't inspect, modify and improve the software, you also don't own your data anymore.
I don't care much about FitBit but sure wish I could get Pepple back.
Yes, it's not like this is a problem that hasn't been dealt with in other media.

I think one of the things that makes it more difficult in the case of facebook is that the ad targeting makes it possible to serve specific ads only to very specific groups.

This means that if the ads say untrue or damaging things, most people will never know, as opposed to newspaper or TV ads. In my mind this argues for at least as strict controls, if not more stringent.
Not if you use GSuite or IFTTT it didn't
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One thing to note: this only applies to politicians. It seems normal people and political groups can't post false political ads. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-tec...
This is not accurate. See the discussion here: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct...

> But overall, it’s inaccurate to say that "most networks" will refuse to air an ad by Trump with a lie in it. We could find no evidence that most networks reject false candidate ads.
I work for one of the major players in a similar space, and the best advice I can give you is to stay away from delivery because of the capital expenditures (lots of fundraising or massive credit lines) it would take to set up that network.

The "easy MVP" of delivery will be tempting - drive the vehicle to the customer, drop it off, the employee takes uber back but I would suggest staying away from that temptation.

I'd be interested in the deprecation curves you're modeling on the vehicles as I'm just trying to ballpark what that break-even point is for the dealer. The other issue for the dealer is that while they have excess inventory, they typically have excess inventory on vehicles that aren't moving quick enough so I don't think the target is luxury models but more functional users (e.g. your situation in NYC makes sense. You need a car to get away to a destination and the car itself doesn't matter much as long as it's clean and runs)

Looking forward to seeing how you guys grow.
See Redoubt's comment. The use of "shocked, shocked" is meant ironically, in reference to a scene from Casablanca. In general when you see the word "shocked" doubled like that it basically always means this.
Yeah, the "suddenly" part refers to new techniques for using non-random inputs to fuzzers like AFL, combined with massive compute power from e.g. Google's ClusterFuzz. I don't have any good summary links, though.
> one of the reasons why political ads are so bland and content-free

I'm not sure I would describe them as bland: https://youtu.be/LcjEe9guEIA?t=435.
I bet the bland ones are by choice.

> a question of whether or not Facebook should submit to FEC regulation or not

There are official political ads by campaigns, and then there are non-official political-influencing ads/articles/etc. A new challenge will be defining how "political" something has to be for it to be considered a "political ad".
Refusing to take all political money would be a no-brainer. Candidates would then just need to use the non-paid approach and organic shares.
The amount of people making weak "both sides" arguments (nobody runs political ads without lies in them) in this thread is alarming. Facebook is easily capable of fact checking every ad on their platform, and if they can't, they should'nt run them at all. We should be prepared to demand that all political advertising be free of outright falsehoods.
They do seem to have successfully shifted the debate to whether or not they should be deciding about the ad instead of why they are somehow exempt from FEC regulations.
It's the subtlety, because vision algorithms don't necessarily look at the world like we do.

Here, some folks perturbed an image of a cat to scan as guacamole, and have 3d printed a model of a turtle that scans as a rifle: https://www.labsix.org/physical-objects-that-fool-neural-net...
And yet Facebook is a privately owned company and thus should be free to allow or deny any content including particular political ads. Isn’t that the whole freedom of speech thing?
You're probably more likely to hit cyclists or pedestrians, but they're a lot less likely to kill you.
Cynical view - Deaths are never a trigger to prioritize safety. Liability is. Ask the lawyers.
Good question.

While I think a bunch of nice people work there I have the feeling that the industry sees their opinions as quite controversial.
Seems like a verifiable, open voting ledger is a lot more transparent and obvious, regardless of the code and method of vote collection, which are orthogonal issues. No reason you couldn't use paper inputs and an ID into a public ledger. In fact, it should be much more consistent.

But a simple search on the internet shows that there are a lot of folks who don't want something like this.
What do you mean by "vertical enterprise software"?
Doesn't look like it. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:joVJgc...

If you prefer: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/09/30/cops-blow-off-witness...
I think the key issue is that these machines are internet or network connected.

If we're really concerned about this - get rid of the network connectivity.

Obviously this is over simplified, but just make a simple locally ran app or web application that refreshes once a vote has been cast. Store the vote in a simple SQLite database and at the end of the day, have a voting official go to the machine, and unlock the case, press a button on the back, which prints out or shows vote counts on the back on a small screen or something. They then can report that to whatever commission, committee, or otherwise is monitoring the election.

It's all locally stored, maintained, and under lock and key.

Why does this seem so difficult? We don't need democracy hindered by "network connectivity", just make it more environmentally friendly so however millions of people times the size of the paper ballot isn't wasted needlessly.
If your idea of success is of the unicorn-flavored, Elon Musk, startup/VC-world kind, then it's pretty much true.
> There are reasonable concerns about AWS from non-retail too.

Also, Amazon's "everything store" mentality pushes it up against industries that have never considered themselves retail before, expanding the definition of "retail" to the breaking point in some cases. A lot of companies have been surprised when Amazon expanded into an area they didn't expect, and given time a lot more companies might because there hasn't yet seemed to be a stop to Amazon's "everything store" expansion.
Sad if that happens, but I doubt that's Google's intent/strategy. Presumably to spend money on an acquisition, Google must think the user base that goes along with the acquisition is valuable.
You mean ads paid for by (American?) registered campaigns or anyone who buys an advertisement deemed 'political'?

It's easy to define an ideal ad or ideal bad-guy scenario, the problem is in the grey areas of categorizing such a chaotic, broad, and unpredictable group of content.

That's always what ends up making this sort of thing a bad idea. They're always at massive risk for false positives, selective enforcement, moral panics, etc. It's also a giant distraction from real problems in the world and provides little long-term ROI compared to all the work that will go into it.

It should be either all ads are okay with some obvious-tier moderation (ie, no ads promoting violence) OR no political ads at all. Let's not give FB et al even more power to choose what ads are okay, please.
If people were better educated regarding math and statistics, then it would become much less effective to "bend" the truth, especially with verification of experiments.

But yes, society doesn't function well when people are corrupted.
> Everything is a string is a great way to reduce the mental load about typing.

I feel almost the exact opposite way...

Everything is a string means I have to "know" whether any given function takes {a single element, a list of elements, a glob, a list of globs, ???}.

When I inevitably mess it up, I don't get any help at all from the language. In the best case, I'll hit a run-time error and figure it out. In the worst case, my program will just do some random thing that isn't what I wanted, and I'll get to debug it.
Of course Facebook has a bias against conservative viewpoints. You think the Facebook employees quoted in the article are referring to “misinformation” such as false assertions that our schools are “underfunded?”

That is not to detract from the crazy things the right has said. But it’s impossible to read the NYT or HuffPo or the like without cringing over misleading assertions. And it’s not just those organizations. As a card carrying ACLU member, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve worked up a froth reading some email to members describing a case, only to be distraught when the representation turned out to be gravely misleading when I researched the case. I’ve started to notice that on HN, even EFF articles get some comments these days asking “wait, is that characterization accurate?”
FTA:

> Facebook’s position on political advertising is “a threat to what FB stands for,”

2 points I'd like to make:

(1) Facebook is a tool for mid-30s people like me to share pictures of their kids and vacations with friends and family. We are on it because we're platform locked with logins across various services, and because there's too much critical mass with the generation before us to migrate away.

(2) It shouldn't "stand" for anything, nor should any other communications medium. We did not elect a sect of silicon valley developers to decide what is proper communication and what is not.
I find that HGVs and busses are the main danger, they have huge blind spots right where cyclists are. Traffic in cities usually isn't fast enough for a big speed differential.
> When you have a lot of capital

just causes a different set of failure modes (cocaine burnout, celeb wannabe, reality shock, etcetera).

> Failure is relentless

Very true.
This is what makes Facebook's behavior really inexcusable. Facebook has granted these people a special power on the platform, but are unwilling to police it.
Also, biking itself keeps you warm. But I would be concerned about ground conditions.
If you don't live in NYC you should know that a lot of bicycles in NYC are delivery guys riding electrified bicycles that go up to 20MpH. Many of them don't wear helmets and ride dangerously. I don't have anything to back this tip but the raise of deaths can be linked to raise of electric bicycles
What foul, specifically? Currency manipulation stopped over a decade ago.

Is it a 'foul' for them to run their domestic economy/politics the way they want? Or to buy freely traded American assets, as everyone's freaking out about here?

None of that is them 'ramming' our ship. People are just mad because they thought we'd reached the end of history and the Chinese would know their role and play second-fiddle to Superior Western Culture forever. They're figuring out that that's not a natural law, and they're piiiiiisssed.
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Or the opposite of that, since so much of what was said in the article is basically true. Ordering pizza via the internet wasn't a big deal. Getting the customizations across correctly, OTOH, made a huge difference, and every pizza ordering site now uses interactive ordering processes similar to what the author described.
How much money would Facebook actually lose by banning all political ads?

Seems like the amount of revenue their getting from political ads might not be worth the headaches and distraction they are causing the company.
They've recently adopted the Nest branding for Google Home Mini (now Google Nest Mini) so I doubt it.
There is a "group game" of sorts going on at navalgazing.net: https://www.google.com/search?q=rule+the+waves+site%3Anavalg....

And if you're interested in this sort of thing, you'll probably also appreciate the rest of navalgazing.net - e.g. https://www.navalgazing.net/Top-Posts, https://www.navalgazing.net/Jutland-Part-1.
I don't think I've ever actually ordered from them, I'm not in the market for 20 quid takeaways.

When I had a look a few years back basically everywhere looked the same with stock professional photos. You wouldn't know that your fancy-looking Indian came from a grimy backstreet shop or container or whatever else.
>The parties that are in control of the media need to take responsibility to protect the public's rights and if they wont, the government should regulate them.

Disagree. It is your responsibility to be informed and call bullshit on things that are lies.

IF you think the same politicians who get elected by lies are going to force the corporations that line their pockets to tell the truth I have a bridge I will sell you. Nice one right there in San Francisco.
I'm guessing right now, not very.

Cyclists will deal with bad weather or bad infrastructure, but not many will deal with both at the same time. The solution is good infrastructure.
What annoys me about Apple, is that clearly their time is valuable to them, but us paying Developer Program members are forced to waste days worth of business hours hunting through their appallingly maintained "documentation". And that really pisses me off.
It's not that helpful for elections. The ballot is secured by ensuring that people can't vote more than once and that they can't be easily coerced into voting a certain way. Allowing significant remote voting destroys ballot secrecy no matter what. Blockchains don't help either problem: The former is an issue of voter registration and the latter requires ensuring nobody physically watches ballots being marked.

There are verifiable voting protocols that allow for accurate counting. That is, verification by the voter that the ballot is accurately recorded without allowing the voter to prove which way they voted to a third party. They require complex infrastructure and they don't hold up against total corruption of the process any better than paper anyway.

I think simple paper ballots are superior.
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I live and work in lower Manhattan (about a 15 minute commute each way by bike) and I will ride a Citi bike to work unless there are multiple inches of snow on the ground
I've never heard another cyclist express this sentiment. Most of us are scared of speeding cars grazing us or parked car doors suddenly opening up in front of us.
noob die
That's almost like saying that if there isn't a company-wide security policy, every department will implement security whatever way they want, making company-wide data breach impossible.
At the level of five- and six-figure software licenses, "personality" doesn't matter much to buyers.

True UX—not UI, which often gets confused with UX—could matter only if it affects org-wide adoption or ease of use for non-technical users.
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Imagine a law mandating a sign be put on every toilet stall door with the message "wipe your ass". Rather than overregulating, we should allow ourselves time to adapt to this new world, this might include - block your kid's ears - committing quite a few mistakes and learning with them.
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Yeah I was really excited. I left Apple's ecosystem when I switched to Project Fi and really did find my Gen1 Apple Watch useful, the Pebble 2 looked like it was going to handle the stuff I used the most on the Apple Watch and after having already been disappointed by an Android watch (ZenWatch 2) I was really looking forward to it.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted but thanks for the links
250 signatures on a letter at a company with 35,000 employees is an eruption of dissent?

I'm reminded of a quote about urban warfare, something like "In a city of 10 million, if 1% of the population opposes you, you have 100,000 adversaries." That seems to apply here.

0.7% of the company is writing to complain? Okay - what amount do you expect to complain? How many would complain about the opposite direction?
It's not an interesting point because this topic has already been studied. Cyclists break traffic laws at roughly the same rates as motorists.
You don’t say?
Remember Zuck wanted to run for president not that long ago. He wants to sit at the table and to do that he absolutely has to pick a side. How to do that and still pretend it’s in the interest of shareholders is what we’re kinda witnessing now.
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Perhaps votefrauding swing states would be an easier target, much easier than targeting all states..
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