skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“... rich elements like buttons or webviews (unlike Facebook messenger). I hope Whatsapp adds these kind of features soon”. I on the other hand hope they never add these kind of features. If I wish to converse with bots, spam, ads etc. I could always reinstall fb messenger or enjoy the pop ups on every other website. I know I’m being naive but I hope whatsapp is left alone by fb.
My point is you don't need income tax at all to maintain a developed society as demonstrated in HK, Washington State, etc.
Yes. I'd say way more than half of sites won't accept that as a valid email.

And you'll be flagged for fraud as well.

It's very frustrating.
I participated in two "Drop"s for the XMIT keyboards. First time I got the 60%. I love it, it's hooked up to a Raspberry Pi that I run as a terminal. Then I bought the 120-key Sun layout, oh man it's big! I never use the numpad or the extra function keys on the left. Having arrow keys is nice I guess.

Numpad is weird. I'm a leftie, my previous keyboard was a Microsoft Sculpt, I loved that because I could put the wireless numpad on the left(or lose it entirely).

I think as long as the shift key is the right size, I'm looking at you Logitech K400, and the arrow keys are ⊥, most keyboards are acceptable.
On the other hand, my colleagues talk a lot. Like, almost half of their day (i.e, 4 hours) is spend talking about random topics like weather, food, gossipping etc and nothing job related. They aren't that skillful coding wise. But I wonder, is this more acceptable than having hard coding skills? Serious question.
Sarcasm aside, Apple benefits from having an effective way to retaliate against Rambo; signing up for a developer account and using it was, sadly, an imprudent move that gave Apple leverage against him.

There should be some form of legal protection, for example limiting company control of app stores (which would be a basic anti-monopoly measure).
i m confident he has all the time in the world to write it himself now
Anglo-Saxon drinking is the worst kind of drinking. In places where being fall-down drunk is not socially acceptable we drink differently and nobody is racing to puke on the sidewalk. It's not that difficult, just use moderation.
This seems like a huge pr fail on the part of PG&E.
I mean the government raises its tax revenue almost exclusively by leasing land and taxing real estate transactions instead of taxing income like we do in the West.
Seems it’s back though: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dash-offline-api-docs/id123916...
> The App Store is the only Apple supported way to release apps, there are unsupported third party app stores as well.

On iOS, these are nothing more than hacks.
Because punishing is how you restrict free speech. If your "free" speech has this kind of consequences, it isn't free.
Can’t you both be right at the same time? Going all in for poker may be interpreted as an exercise of my human rights, but it can also be interpreted as giving all my money to the chip lead.

Of course I don’t wish to argue the efficacy of my poker moves. They are an expression of my free spirit.
No thank you. I like whatsapp for its simplicity. If I wanted a copy of Messenger or Telegram I would use those instead.
This would be great, if only... Realistically, I just want a canvas with some audio/input stuff in most cases (though being able to put some divs in places may be nice for rendering things like menus).
Only if you admit in the review that you took no action whatsoever to allow them to fix whatever the issue was.
> In light of PG&E’s history of falsification of inspection reports,
PG&E shall, between now and the 2019 Wildfire Season, re-inspect all of its
electrical grid and remove or trim all trees that could fall onto its power lines,
poles or equipment in high-wind conditions, branches that might bend in high
wind and hit power lines, poles or equipment, and branches that could break off in
high wind and fall onto power lines, poles or equipment; shall identify and fix all
conductors that might swing together and arc due to slack and/or other
circumstances under high-wind conditions; shall identify and fix damaged or
weakened poles, transformers, fuses and other connectors; and shall identify and
fix any other condition anywhere in its grid similar to any condition that
contributed to any previous wildfires. The trees and branches to be removed are
not limited to those within the distances prescribed by the California Public
Resources Code but extend farther to any tree or branch posing the dangers
described above. As used herein, the 2019 Wildfire Season means June 21, 2019,
through the first region-wide rainstorm in November or December.

> For each segment of its electrical grid, PG&E shall document the
foregoing inspections and the work done and shall rate each segment’s safety
under various wind conditions (from little wind to high wind). PG&E must
designate one or more qualified engineers to make these safety determinations
and the rating must be certified under oath by the engineer in writing. In light of
PG&E’s history of false reporting, PG&E may not rely upon its earlier inspection
reports as substitutes for the new inspections. PG&E shall follow all
requirements of law as well as those in this order, shall follow all guidance
provided by the Monitor, and shall be complete and truthful. If a power line
happens to comply with all of the requirements of state law but nevertheless poses
a safety issue under the circumstances, then the line may not be rated as safe until
the safety issue is resolved.

> At all times during the 2019 Wildfire Season (and thereafter),
PG&E may supply electricity only through those parts of its electrical grid it has
determined to be safe under the wind conditions then prevailing. Conversely,
PG&E must de-energize any part of its grid not yet rated as safe by PG&E for
the wind conditions then prevailing until those conditions have subsided. For
example, if Santa Ana winds of up to thirty miles per hour are expected in a given
county and if PG&E has not yet rated those power lines as safe for such winds,
then PG&E must de-energize those lines during the wind event and beforehand
notify affected customers that those lines will be de-energized. In determining
safety, PG&E may not take into account the need for reliability of service, the
inconvenience to customers resulting from interruption in service, or its impact
upon PG&E’s revenues and profits. Reliability is important but safety must come
first. Profits are important but safety must come first. Only safe operation will be
allowed.
Will this be available in Germany as well? My company is already using your services for sms and happy about it.
Phoenix cluster is cooling faster than expected
The logic behind opening things up with China (including allowing them to buy American companies) was that as they become economically successful, they would be more open to things like democracy. At what point do you realize you failed and close the barn door?
I'm about to release a bot for Whatsapp for NanaGram (https://nanagram.co). Amped!

The user experience of SMS-first products is novel and fun. There's something magical about snapping a photo and just texting it to a unique NanaGram number powered by Twilio. It takes just a couple seconds. I'm excited to deliver the same experience through Whatsapp to customers around the globe and people on wifi.

Building NanaGram SMS-first has been a challenge. There have been all kinds of gotchas:

1) AT&T started blocking any number permanently across its network last January if it contains a hyperlink or email address, even if the customer interacts with the number. I had to create separate messages just for the 12.5% AT&T users.

2) Twilio only works when you have cell service. If you're indoors with wifi only, the text won't go through.

3) Images are downsized in an unpredictable way by the carriers. If you're sending 1 or a couple images, they're pretty good quality. If you send ~5+ photos, they get downsized pretty far and luckily they're still good enough for 4x6 photo printing. Certain carriers like cricket are super aggressive with downsizing.

4) When Apple users with iCloud enabled share more than 1 image, it generates a sharing album which has been a beast to support. Then there's the added challenge of Apple's recent move to HEIC/HEIF images.

5) Twilio doesn't support group threads (WhatsApp doesn't yet, either)

... I could go on and on.

Getting approval from Whatsapp took a while. I first applied about a year ago and didn't hear anything, then applied again and was approved a few weeks ago. I'm guessing the approval layer is to ensure only high-quality bots make the cut. They also have an approval layer for all of your messages sent outside a 24-hour window of the last user interaction. The approval for that took a few days.

Integration with WhatsApp has been surprisingly easy. I basically just had to change "+1{number}" to "whatsapp+1{number}"
OS X and iOS development both require Apple hardware anyways, so shouldn't you have that as a developer?
Once you get past a certain point in your engineering career, in order to grow more you'll need to take on more responsibility than one person can reasonably do. Then it's more about leading and influencing others and getting them to jump onboard, even if you're an individual contributor.
Invalid analogy, since it's Apple's house, not his. Nobody forced him to write software for Apple's platform and nobody forced him to agree to the developer agreement Apple requires. He did it of his own free will.
aquascaping sounds interesting. is there an online community you recommend?
Nah reality is even more cyberpunk. They are machine cigarettes (commonly called brainsticks) produced by the Tetsuto-Osaka Heavy Industries Corporation, one of the biggest and more powerful mega-corps with interests spanning cyborgs, neuronal interfaces, and blazing fast matrix holo-decks. The founder, Rin Tetsuto founded the company over 200 years ago. And while no one has seen him in over 75 years, it is rumored that he still helms the megacorp, if true, making him over 240 years old.

But anyways, and maybe it’s just because I’m a smoker, I love the cigarettes. The mix of high-life and low-life is the definition of cyberpunk: and nothing represents that more than a hazy smoke filled room of salarymen smoking and watching VR porn.

In fact, my interest in cyberpunk made me start smoking (and other stuff) because my 16 year olds self wanted to be like Case and his dope hexogonal dex pills!

Unfortunately my implants got fried by a neuro-virus and never managed to jack in and see the beauty of the matrix. One day... (in the off chance I’m still alive)
Your rebuttal places responsibility for what news orgs print - on everyone but the news orgs.

So your argument seems to be this. News orgs have to defer their 1st-Amendment-inferred duties in favor of printing pap because otherwise they'll go broke. In the mean time they're going broke.

Americans have more sources of pap than ever before yet that is the arena where news orgs want to compete. Like news orgs, you appear to have zero concern with this plan.

As an aside, did you know that House voted to reauth Sect 215 surveillance? WaPo barely mentions it in their own article.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/11/19/house-pa...

I doubt you knew because 1000 news orgs are thoughtlessly, compulsively covering [SUPER SEXY STORY] today, to the exclusion of all else. I don't know how much other critical information I'm missing bc (like every day) the vast bulk of news orgs can't be bothered to fulfill their constitutionally-protected purpose for existing.

Do you have a specific argument as to why news orgs are not earning their collective death? Other than some belief that they should continue to profit at pap, I mean.
I'm intrigued by the possibilities offered by decentralized technologies like IPFS and the like. I think whomever can come up with a viable economic model that allows for the sustainable decentralization of web services will change the world.
Berkshire Hathaway (not Warren Buffett) is not who retail investors should be modeling their portfolios on.
IMO shadowbanning is a highly unethical practice, especially but not exclusively for the fact that there will be false positives.

There will always be false positives because even if reviewed or decided by group or committee, human judgement is always flawed and none of us really know if a ban is appropriate or justified. (And even if it is, there is always a concept of remorse or forgiveness that should be a thing too.)

Just think of your own personal experience. How many times have you been wrong when being judgemental about other people? How many times have they been wrong about you? Most of the time that's just a mild social thing and it has no consequence, but practices like shadow banning make it consequential.
A Swedish computer music system from 1970 with an unusual UI
It seems currently the only hope would be some EU regulation about it.
UTF-8 is the sane incremental path from ASCII.
If by valuable you mean they keep you employed despite not doing anything, sure. They are valuable for career progress and such, but when faced with real technical difficulties, you are not going to talk yourself out of it. Or maybe you can, delegate them to some poor bastard. What a wonderful world we are living in.
Web advertising always seemed like a losing proposition to me from a technical standpoint. Imagine if, instead of an MPEG stream, the Super Bowl was delivered to your television with instructions like "draw the field, draw the players, now put this ad here, that ad there...", and you could easily program your TV to ignore all instructions related to ads, while perfectly preserving the game content you came for. Wouldn't advertisers be losing their minds? And yet this is exactly the situation with your Web browser. Even applications that push the traditional boundaries of the Web seem easily defeated... for example, with my very basic ad blocking setup (just uBlock Origin, nothing fancy, anyone could get this setup in minutes), I have never seen an ad on YouTube, not once. So why does YouTube make money exactly?
"Free" speech only applies to governments limiting the free expression of their citizens. Private companies have no obligation to continue doing business with someone for any reason, especially when that individual is acting in bad faith by disparaging their business relationship.
Hong Kong is still extremely important to the CCP. Tariffs can be reduced by first moving exports through Hong Kong because of a first sale rule[0]. The recent bill passed in the US congress puts some of these rules under scrutiny[1].

[0] - https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/Hong-Kong-s-tariff...
[1] - https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/183...
Advertising is not an asset, it’s never a direct investment; It can’t be resold. Prices are too high? Maybe, a bubble? No...
>> the issue of course is blendle wants me to be the portal from which I read all my news

Bahaha, yeah, no. That’s not what I’m talking about.

Imagine we could also pay a generic monthly fee for e.g. access to Netflix, Disney+, etc, and the profits go to the services we are watching at the time.

All this celebration of Disney+ is honestly sad af, and shows just how out of touch people are.

We are in days worse than cable television, except that it’s on demand.
I have evidence that they are not mutually exclusive.
You may have heard reports of vandalism. I'm pretty sure the tycoons weren't too happy about their property getting damaged. They'd probably also like to keep the seats in Election Committee that they'd lose if universal suffrage were instated, but that the CCP has guaranteed them so far. https://www.elections.gov.hk/ecss2016/eng/figures.html

If you think the protesters support tycoons because they oppose the CCP, you ought to reconsider whether those are really opposites.
The Rust Belt lost most of its jobs prior to 1990, so I’m not sure how that’s relevant data.

I find it a bit hard to understand how someone could suggest that having access to garbage cheap Walmart goods would make up for the utter destruction of a region’s economy. A good place to observe this is southwestern Pennsylvania: there are hundreds of former industrial towns which are now almost completely empty. Drug use is also rampant in these areas and indeed it’s easy to make a direct connection between offshoring jobs and the opioid epidemic.
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What makes you think the big brands can't calculate ROI? They're able to target specific areas & demographics and compare that with pre-targeting levels. And that's completely ignoring all the traceability that ad platforms like Facebook provide their partners.

If anything online ads are the most traceable form of advertising.
Your industry's success depends on you being an effective communicator and "people person". Technical skills are table stakes. What gets you the job, the promotion, the fun project is how well you deal with others and function on a team.
> It was legal. That's all.

You are making some awfully strong assumptions about the legality of Neumann's actions. How could you possibly know that everything he did was perfectly legal? The very fact that this investigation was opened strongly implies that you should be less certain in that assumption.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here but I don't think it would cost $2 more for a keyboard, try > $100 for a keyboard. Unicomp is one example, made in Japan Realforce keyboards go for $200-$300. New balance makes sneakers in the USA but those cost ~$200. Everything would cost 2-3x. Would you pay $3000-4000 for an iphone that's built in the USA? Ever try to find a toaster oven that's made in USA? There is one but it'll set you back $285.

I would buy usa made stuff because I have the means to, currently typing this on a Realforce keyboard wearing USA NB sneakers. But I'm pretty sure it would put a huge dent in retail sales across the board. Maybe higher volume in manufacturing would lower usa-made prices and create more jobs in the usa which might tip the revenue flow from the 1% to everyone else.
Thanks for the shout, Pete!
If it wasn’t China, the US would be importing goods from elsewhere.

It’s unlikely the response to not China will be America.

There are reasons to believe the US should still do not China even if it means Bangladesh or Vietnam (in fact, this is exactly what the TPP was supposed to have achieved, and would have better protected worker rights as well as IP...but I guess that wasn’t blunt enough for America).

The US is wealthier than it has ever been thanks to trade abroad. It makes absolutely no sense that the country that has overall benefited the most from trade, is complaining about it.

What the US hasn’t done, is spread the benefits of trade internally. The US economic problems stem from whatever led to a small percentage of the economy pocketing the vast gains. It’s far more likely that tax changes, regulatory changes, and changes in union power have a lot more to do with that than anything else.

But it’s always easier to blame Johnny Foreigner and people have been doing it for millennia, so there’s no reason to believe the US would be immune from it.
Well this is certainly news. Lots of us use self hosted email or just whitelabelled domains. Can you link to a source or more info?
Maybe not. If you read the portion posted by another comment, any shutoff is perhaps a big public sign that they haven't done their maintenance on the network yet.
Astronomers are way behind on this -- it has never been a problem before -- but launching a huge constellation of satellites before considering the potentially irreversible impact on a branch of science seems unwise to me.

Global internet sounds awesome, and has undeniable benefit to humankind. Uncoordinated launches of large constellations will have some detriment to humankind. The thing I'd like to see is a clear-eyed assessment of the impacts and mitigation strategies before there are billions more in sunk costs deployed in launching these constellations. Once they're up, they're up, and large companies will lose huge if the constellations have to come back down.

Motorola's bankruptcy came from insufficient monetization of Iridium. SpaceX will be in the same boat, if they aren't already.

I'm an experimental physicist, not an astronomer. Limiting systematic uncertainty is what I do all day. When I see these constellations, what I see is a zoo of uncontrolled systematics and a shrinking opportunity to address them before they become permanent.

As someone who looks at the stars, I want generations in the future to look at the stars and have their imaginations captured by distant pinpricks of burning hydrogen, not a visual screen of our own construction. Our children's understanding of our place in the universe may depend upon it.
> Apparently there was a whole informal trading ring of tapes amongst the teenage employees and the rich yuppies in their 30s (my parents and their friends).

My parents were not rich yuppies by any stretch, but were also part of a similar video cassette trading ring. They were probably really common.
In places like the oil boom towns in west Texas and South Dakota the average salaries for all jobs are multiplied higher. Because the average worker in an oilfield makes so much more they have to pay the cashiers 4x what they normally would make. You are wrong.
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Foreign trade policy is not defined via consumer preferences. It's the exactly the same as for environmentally sound products: the burden is not on consumers to choose better, but on government to regulate the market.
It reminds me of something out of The Right to Read.

> Programmers still needed debugging tools, of course, but debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers. The debugger Dan used in software class was kept behind a special firewall so that it could be used only for class exercises.
"At all times during the 2019 Wildfire Season (and thereafter), PG&E may supply electricity only through those parts of its electrical grid it has determined to be safe under the wind conditions then prevailing. Conversely, PG&E must de-energize any part of its grid not yet rated as safe by PG&E for the wind conditions then prevailing until those conditions have subsided"

The court order doesn't prevent them from doing the work to declare more of the system "safe" to reduce or eliminate the scope of the power shutoffs.
If you research that time period you will find many arbitrary rejections were being made that could not be resolved by the developer and may even have been nonsensical.

https://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-app-rejections-2009-1...

https://www.cnet.com/news/behind-10-eyebrow-raising-app-stor...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3dwq8/apples-long-histor...
There are always reasons that companies want to keep their monopolies. But the fact that "Apple Experience" is something important to Apple should not be the end of discussion. The negative aspects should be evaluated as well.
You could make an argument that that’s no longer the web, it just happens to run in a browser.
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