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i m always surprised by the obvious promotion posts here. I 've had free Ddos protection in my hetzner servers since forever and nobody ever mentioned it
Userbase dev here

Yes, this is a thorny issue.

We chose to offer a service that keeps user data end-to-end encrypted by default. With that choice comes this tradeoff. And it’s a tradeoff similarly offered by practically every other end-to-end encrypted service I’m aware of.

That being said, we have plans to alleviate the weight of this tradeoff, and we’ve already written nearly all of the code. That code is pending a security review and further refinement.

The high level summary of it right now is:
1. you as the developer can opt to keep the user’s key stored in plaintext in local storage (via a single parameter passed to our signIn() method)
2. if a user forgets their password, they can get a temporary password emailed to them, then use it to sign back in
3. the user can then change their password normally
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Amazon is coming after Swiggy-Zomato's food delivery duopoly in India
Amazon.com Inc. is testing its food delivery service among employees before a full rollout in Bengaluru as the retail giant prepares to disrupt India’s meal-ordering market that has turned into a duopoly.
It is. The "1 vcpu" is basically a lie. They throttle Lightsail viciously based on use.
> sometimes you even want to use a more-wrong model because it fits your problem better.

Or they are equal in fit, but the more wrong is easier to use.
I agree, but it's better to add more details. (All titles are clickbait.) Let's try:

The takeaway in the articles are unrealistic:

1) You can't force everyone to follow centralized instructions.

2) If you ban parking in the streets people will be unhappy. The plan should explain how the Major of the city is not fired.

3) I don't understand how electric car can solve the traffic jams.

4) I agree that a good model of the trafic of the city will be extremely useful. The problem is to construct a good model. Just saying "let's build a model" doesn't solve anything.
Seems like you confuse dark energy (needed to explain the universe expansion acceleration) with dark matter (needed to correct for the galaxy rotation curve)
The problem here isn’t integers at all, as 8.95 is not an integer but an integer (8) plus a fraction (0.95 or 95/100==19/20). That’s in decimal, but since computers use binary, your decimal fraction must be converted to a binary fraction. This is what floating point is used for, although it’s important to know that floating point is an approximation of the real number line, and also that fractions that are rational in decimal may be irrational in binary, namely if the decimal denominator is not a power of two.

Looks like that’s what’s going on with your example. Floating point approximation of an otherwise unrepresentable irrational binary which resulted in that repeating sequence when converted back to decimal again. I don’t know how BigDecimal works but I guess just by the name it is not floating point but rationals represented by arbitrary precision integer numerators and denominators.

Definitely read up on how floating point representation works, with binary mantissas and exponents, normalization, and converting decimal fractions to binary fractions.
> Would you also argue that, say, indexes of literature or libraries should pay the authors money per item viewed, because the data isn't "theirs"?

At least someone has to pay for the book to be in a library.
No. VPN tunnel in between.
How hard is it as an observational astronomer to adapt to "night mode"? I'm guessing it's like night-shift work, tough on family and social life.
You don't remember correctly, this is a persistent falsehood I see repeated in all these sort of threads.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...
That makes sense, thank you. I'm also guessing they need to go into the sitemap so search engines discover them, right?

I'm not sure I've ever searched for something and got a different landing page as a result (though maybe I just didn't notice), so I didn't realize this was something people do.
Just because quantum physicists can't get their act together over gravitation doesn't make General Relativity wrong!

When the lay person reads headlines like this, they assume you are talking about Einstein's theory.
Sounds nice, but good luck with the noise pollution. Start and landing still requires to move a lot of air downwards in order to make the vehicle float.
Userbase dev here -- yep, biggest difference from both being that user data is end-to-end encrypted with the user's password by default.

Compared to Parse, we offer a simple SaaS product.

Compared to Firebase, we have a much simpler pricing structure.

Considering how early on we are, we also have the benefit of being much simpler to start using (fewer features/options to wrap your head around and configure) :)
I'm not convinced that requires a barren environment, though. My son spends hours in games with friends starting every other sentence with 'Imagine if...' setting out one crazy scenario after another using the game he's playing as nothing more than a prop.
> it still prevents fingerprinting

I seriously doubt that, because the % of people using Searx is very small compared to for example Chrome. This should make you very unique in terms of fingerprinting.

Also note that simply changing the User Agent is possible in a browser as well, you don't need a self hosted Searx for that.
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sorry, i just like the word modicum. haha. didn't mean for it to sound so agressive.
I personally generally consider the reddit platform incompetent for surfacing that wheat by default, and incidentally view the site as a whole somewhat dimly as a result. I want to enjoy the internet and/or get at info I might need. Some seem to enjoy being a pawn in what amounts to a poorly-thought-through "crowdsourced wheat-surfacing" architecture; I find it draining.
> That said, it is absolutely theft for Google to source data from your site, then use that to add value to their site, without giving you any click-through traffic.

Would you be OK, if Google didn't show images from your site on their site? If so, I believe a simple robots.txt statement should be sufficient.

> This would mean that you would get paid to have good SEO, or to be a central hub. The websites that comprise the entire web should negotiate better terms with central data brokers like Google.

I don't really get the logic by which someone letting people find you, should pay for that privilege.

(have not used Google search in a long time)
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To be fair, there are a range of little issues when applying tax rates, not connected to the representation of the numbers involved.

In Italy the generic VAT rate is 22%.

When you expose a price (to the final customer) it is always included VAT, but VAT needs to be explicited on fiscal documents (receipt and/or invoices).

So you have an article priced to the public Euro 2,69 (included 22% VAT), what is the net price and how much is the VAT?
2,69/1,22=2,204918...

So, let's try rounding it to 2,20:
2,20x0,22=0,484=0,48 no, wait, 2,20+0,48=2,68

Ok, let's try rounding it to 2,21:
2,21x0,22=0,4862=0,49 no, wait, 2,21+0,49=2,70

You have to use the first and add 0,01 to the VAT to have it work:

2,20+(0,48+0,01)= 2,69
I think it's useful for when your feature columns have names. Otherwise yeah not really.
Today hacked together some scraped data with basic visualization at https://github.com/globalcitizen/2019-wuhan-coronavirus-data... ... contributions welcome I'm about off to bed.
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I'm not quite sure I understand your point.

The people who paid for the game on the App Store won't end up with what they paid for.
for every such blunder that a major company does, i want to know what promotion/bonus someone "earned". For example this recent redesign of paypal: https://i.imgur.com/T7Rj3Tq.png
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"Best practices" is too often (in computer science, at least) a way to mean "Drunken distortions of the manuscripts of Dijkstra."

Basically all of the modern languages in common use are (either; rarely both) clones of his work on ALGOL (like Go, for example) or heavily inspired from his manuscripts.

Dijkstra is easily the most-misinterpreted and cargo-culted figure in computer science, and most people don't even know who he is! "GO TO Statement Considered Harmful" is a great paper, for example, but based on how it's talked about, it seems unlikely that 90% of people who are against the use of GOTO have actually read the paper, or have any logical explanation for why it shouldn't be used.

Dijkstra would strongly consider dropping everything and fleeing to a ranch in Idaho if he saw C++ in common use, for example, but it seems like C++ programmers (sorry for stereotyping, but programming communities do trend in one direction or another) tend to be the first to espouse the values and 'truths' of his writing and opinions.

I may be slightly biased, though, because Dijkstra has been proven wrong about the best way to write programs (by typing your code into a computer; something Dijkstra was against strongly), and that he hated APL so much that he went as far as to diss a Turing Award-winner (Alan Perlis) in his death because Perlis was an advocate of the language:

1968 was also the year of the IBM advertisement in Datamation, of a beaming Susie Meyer who had just solved all her programming problems by switching to PL/I. Those were the days we were led to believe that the problems of programming were the problems of the deficiencies of the programming language you were working with.

How did I characterize it? "APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums." I thought that programmers should not be puzzle-minded, which was one of the criteria on which IBM selected programmers. We would be much better served by clean, systematic minds, with a sense of elegance. And APL, with its one-liners, went in the other direction. I have been exposed to more APL than I'd like because Alan Perlis had an APL period. I think he outgrew it before his death, but for many years APL was "it."
yandex image search is way better anyway
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The trick is to forgo ICANN scam and go with a ccTLD. With TRAFICOM (ex FICORA), it was a matter of filling a form. There could have been a small nominal fee but if there was, it must have been very low (under 100 eur).
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Seriously? And what about Man-in-the-middle attacks?
I mean come on, there are files to download from that website? How can I know if the site I see is REALLY your site without https?

Really, I don't know why you just don't obtain a Let's Encrypt certificate, it's not difficult anymore...
google search is only as useful as the content that it points to. They used to incentivize people to make good content, now they re just stealing it, so people naturally will take their content off google or hide it behind walls.

It's also not "leaps and bounds ahead beyond anything else" , but they have the network effect and technical lock in to be safe enough. Two things they did: first, they promoted the usage of the omnibox as search box, so now almost every browser is auto subscribed to google,and subscriptions are sticky. Second, they stopped sending the search referrer to the target sites and worked to remove referrers completely from the web. This precludes target sites from providing a competitive search experience. Google now stands uniquely and exclusively in the pathway from the users' search bar to the destination website, and extracting the rents.
Congrats! This looks like a really nice service. Thanks for making this!

I am not a front-end preson, but I run a static Jekyll blog hosted on GitHub.
I don't want to miss the zero maintenance (!) ease of deployment and network-performance of the GitHub CDN, but I have been missing some dynamic features. Most notably:

1. A view counter per page

2. Comments

3. Signup for Newsletter Form

Since the GDPR landed, I have removed my Google Analytics and Disqus plugins. And I am happy with that. No reason to leak PII to third parties, that I can't trust anymore.

Is that a use case you want to be supporting on your platform?
Looks like, this should not be hard to build with your SDK.

Best regards, Heinrich
>but we shouldn’t need to do that to have a decent user experience.

Not only that, this (as well as many other simple "tricks" or "workarounds") creates (arbitrarily) two kinds of users, those that know the trick and those that don't (and likely create two different sets of user opinions).

I mean, to me (because I know the little trick) usage of Quora is relatively painless (though I still try my best to avoiding using it because of the mostly terribly bad content) whilst another user that doesn't know the trick and doesn't want to login may have the illusion that the content, once accessed, may have some value.
OMG, YES!

Exactly same to me as well!
Plate shift is why it is important when recording coordinates to also record the time of the measurement, because not only do the plates move, they deform.
> if there is a cash only business thats between them and their customers...

This is the exact opposite tho... Not accepting cards means not participating in a private company's service, not accepting cash is not accepting the government-issued official legally-mandated currency.

> they just want tax money

Wouldn't only using cards make it harder to avoid taxes? Also, why is wanting to collect the tax money you are legally entitled to bad?
I work fulltime on an ecommerce platform deployed in AWS and part time on a number of small side projects on a Digital Ocean droplet. Managing infra on AWS is a big, complex undertaking with lots to learn. With my droplet I need to know some bits of Linux sysadmin (how to update it, install fail2ban and other small things). Deploying is via a bash script that basically builds, tarballs, scp’s then restarts server.

Basically for small, simple applications, Linode or DO are great. They’re simple, the pricing is simple.

For more complex applications with lots of components, service buses, microservices etc, bigger cloud services offer you lots of features, but it gets difficult to operate if you’re just one guy (IME).
Here's my configuration for Phoenix (with gifs): https://github.com/fabiospampinato/phoenix

You might find it useful as a starting point or as a source of inspiration.
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It's not exactly what you want, but have you tried binding "Move focus to next window" to alt+tab? Then you can use alt-tab-shift to cycle focus backwards, at least something. (I always forget where that setting is, it's in Keyboard->Shortcuts->Keyboard).
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Moving too fast for the cell network to keep up, I'm guessing. Before it manages to handoff to the next cell, you're actually leaving that one already.
I tested this script in Firefox and it worked for me:-

https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...
Why should local bindings use let? In scheme internal (define ...) is defined in terms of letrec, which can add some overhead when letrec is unoptimized, but for schemes with optimized letrec (guile 3.0, chez, racket...) (define ...) is just as fast as let or let* unless you start doing cyclic references.

The only real reason to not use Def would be if the bound symbol escapes the scope, but that would be ridiculous for a modern language.
I like Linode and DO and have my issues with the big cloud players, but I don’t see them as monopolistic at all? There are multiple highly competitive offerings in the market, each competing on features and cost. You have lots of choice and even vendor lock in is somewhat mitigable if you want to put the effort in.
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Same here. I wonder whether the backtracking is just due to the criticism or whether they have measured an actual impact on their numbers.
Looks like the stylesheet failed to load. (On a lot of websites these days I actually find that improves user experience!)
Show HN: Drive Password – Password Manager Based on Google Drive
We just launched Drive Password. Secret manager that will allow you to encrypt and store all your sensitive data in your Google Drive.

Would you be more confident knowing that your sensitive information is encrypted and stored within your reach instead of our server?
Another reminder that we should fight for encryption by default, without requiring a validated certificate. Just self-signed like most end-ro-end encryption schemes. For such sites, browsers could not display a padlock to differentiate them from validated certificates (DV/EV).

Thus without any additional configuration, the data sent over those connections would be safe.
This definition seems to reflect usage. The question then is: what is the operational difference between a company aiming at an IPO, and one aiming to maximize the total expected profit (that is, every company)? Or is the difference just in intent?
At least in my bubble, AI discussions have been going in predictable ways.. and getting grounded in the same places.

First, we try to build the (proverbial) foundation: What is AI? What is intelligence? Is it general? Lots of places to get stuck here. Can machines understand meaning? Is general intelligence statistical. Can it be?

No real way of settling these, so we have poor foundations.

Then we ask: What can it do? When? What will it do? Why? Can it automate driving? Other stuff? How big a deal is this economically? Will all cars be taxis?

At this point, foundations crack. We're trying to predict the economic side-effects of a technology, its viability, timelines, regulation... and we're building these predictions on very abstract foundations. Obviously, it's all too squishy so we end up nowhere.

Anyway, the effects of technology are very hard to predict... especially recent ones. Computerisation of offices has not measurably increased productivity since the 80s/90s[1], for example. A PC landed on every desk. Many more people work at a desk than before. What predictions would we have made in the 90s, when this was starting to look inevitable.

[1]David Graeber, Tyler Cowen & others highlight this point. It's hard to define or measure, so most economists don't. But within wide margins of error, it does not seem to
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I tried to find an iOS habit tracker the other day, but eventually failed because I can’t tell what the actual cost will be, it’s all In-App-Purchase at this point.

Now add that you can’t even be sure that apps you “purchased” will continue to be available.

The app store model is broken, there’s also zero chance that I will buy anything from any app store anymore. I’ll download free apps that solves a problem, like buying a bus ticket, but that’s about it.

Apple does give a crap about the quality of their app store, as long as there’s no porn and you both directly steal, they simply do not care.
Yelp isn’t USA only but it definitely tends to be a lot thinner outside the US then inside.

TripAdvisor also has somewhat reasonable coverage internationally.

In my experience, none of these sites are great but they’re probably better than walking into a random restaurant.
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At a plane. Then you get a SWAT response and terrorism charges - consequences are also a reason this doesn't happen on a mass scale.
I was also really frustrated when they removed the exact size filter under search tools.

You can add "imagesize:32x32" to your search query to only show images of a desired size, but I'd still rather see Google bring back the search tool option.
I have to say I daydream all the time. If you were to ask me when I last did it, it was half a minute ago staring out of the window of a train.

I am however somebody who always did this more than other kids and never lost it really. I hate beeing distracted all the time, stops you from seriously thinking about yourself and the world you inhabit.
Quite; the latest trend of "Robotic Process Automation" is quite sad. Rather than automating a bad process, you should improve the process itself.
>There is being bored and free to explore, and being bored and stuck in a car.

It's just as good a version of boredom for the stated purposes.

People also need to learn to explore their mind and thoughts, not just their surroundings for the next thing to distract them.
Coronavirus virality coefficient is possibly very bad
i have turned off blockers. every profile page is like that, and it says on the page that they ve "updated your settings and profile experience. let us know what you think". kind of agree with you about ux though

its probably a blunder that they ll fix soon, but one would expect much better from billion dollar companies
> as a kid they were kinda torture

I'm sure I was just as big a pest as my own kids on road trips, but I don't have any bad memories of them. Quite the opposite, actually.
This design made the results look more like DDG. They also use favicons in their results.
They're entirely different fields you can't draw an analogy and any attempt will be awful.
While at the begining I thought I sensed a bigger argument here, the further I read I am certain the author either prefers to discount MITM or lacks the understanding of the full scope of a MITM. I agree that there are other evils of the web but that does not mean we make trade-offs.

The last paragraph goes as far as to say

"The ad is not from the website; rather, it is inserted into the datastream — after it has left the Web server as it streams the web page to your computer — by your own Internet Service Provider (Optimum in my case). This is called "watermarking", a variation on the classic Man-in-the-Middle attack. So far it's an infrequent occurrence and not a major problem, and in any case definitely not a security risk, just Yet Another Annoyance"

You let go of your user's privacy and security the moment you make such a trade-off calling it just another annoyance. While visiting this site a MITM could possibly inject a malicius javascript or sticky cookie. How is that just an annoyance? Protecting this is the biggest selling point of HTTPS.
Sounds like the author doesn't know about Let's Encrypt. Pretty simple and free way to secure your site with no disadvantage and it kills OPs primary argument.
You’re 100% correct.

I find the only thing that comes in the way of meditation is the mind’s attempt to escape while under duress. People tend to prefer to drink, watch something, and even blame others, rather than sit and close eyes and feel.

Thats why i think its important to actually have a meditation buddy to help out with starting, and when its particularly tough.

The more an ego needs to meditate, it seems that it develops more and more aversion - i sort of think its one major cause for many mental pathologies.
Is this a joke? It’s not a redesign. You must be ad-blocking or otherwise failing to load the stylesheet.
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