skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the overwhelming extreme majority of apps, I don't mind "supporting them" by buying the ad-free IAP or something but with one extremely important thing: I don't want them to have my card info, email, basically like I've handed them their $5 and it ends there. I don't want marketing from them. I don't want them to load ads or analytics of any kind if I've bought it.

If they allowed this I'd expect everything to load some kind of rubbish crashy invasive payments SDK asking for a credit card to circumvent the fee, and nobody to take my existing Apple balance or similar.
Companies hire MarkMonitor to safeguard their protected marks, which generally involves registering these marks under basically every TLD available. MarkMonitor themselves is an ICANN registrar so companies generally don't need to worry about renewals: MarkMonitor just handles it (how it actually gets billed back likely depends upon the contract).

So unless Google explicitly told MarkMonitor to release the domain, this seems like MarkMonitor dropped the ball.
From the cons:

> You have to drive to the post office to check the mail

One would think that the post would deliver to your normal mailbox. Maybe that costs extra, though.
It's in the article.

Basically, dating in our modern world of few meaningful social connections is a vicious cycle for women. Men rate attractiveness on a normal distribution, women rate attractiveness on a pareto distribution. (ie. 80% of men are "meh" or worse to women.)

I've seen this in action in my personal and professional lives. Smart, attractive women end up implementing (knowinginly or unknowningly) a complex rules engine for screening an endless pool of available men. (Male criteria for engaging a woman online is very low.) When you are a 29 year old female only considering seriously dating attractive jewish/catholic/athiest, asian/black/hispanic/irish/white/etc men 6'1" or taller in professional jobs (generally speaking or a specific gig) who have attribute X, Y, or Z, you're screwed.

Men will usually stop filtering earlier. They still get into awful relationships, but they don't filter out 80% of the population.
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Totally. You definitely can't compete against Slack's desktop app with web technologies: https://slack.engineering/building-hybrid-applications-with-...
If there is VC racism, doesn't that also mean there is a market opportunity for VC money to focus exclusively on African American tech startups. Even if there aren't many, there appears to be zero competition selecting investments.

The author is rightfully frustrated. But instead of focussing on lack of interest in their app, maybe there's a bigger opportunity here.
I've been using Flutter in the last few months and agree. It's the best multi-platform solution for mobile, although it still doesn't match native behavior and performance, it only gets close.

On the web it's DOA for most use cases - it's just a canvas, so scrolling, text selection, shadow rendering, etc. is custom, doesn't feel native and must be downloaded and compiled.

It can have a future on desktop. One "cultural" obstacle is that the de facto default widget system is Material, which is simply a wrong approach to desktop UI.
Signal starts saving user data on server-side
It is not an improvement, it's a punishment for universities being responsible. The outcome is worse for everyone involved, including anyone who lives near a college.

"At least one in-person class" doesn't make any sense. Either in-person classes are safe, and the rules can go back to pre-pandemic, or they aren't, and forcing students and professors to attend them is dangerous and cruel.

There is no legitimate justification for this. There's no slippery slope issue or anything, everybody accepts that these rules will go back to normal once it's safe to do so.
Why Browser Security UI Isn't Specified
This is a solvable problem. The vast majority of "shared" libraries are used by exactly one application. Commonly used libraries like the system interface, cryptography, networking, and the widget set, should be provided by the base system and their ABIs kept stable.
> This is the part that feels punitive and particularly onerous to me

But that's the part that people are upset about. People aren't angry that there exists a policy to prevent students of fully online universities from getting visas.

People are upset that because it is completely reasonable for a traditional brick-and-mortar university to run classes 100% online this coming semester (e.g., Harvard) and that suddenly a bunch of students who are attending Harvard and have been doing so for years are forced to leave the country on a moment's notice.

What nuance is there? The original exception (you can take 100% online classes) was thoroughly reasonable given the pandemic and the new updated policy is completely unreasonable. It only harms people and benefits no one.
Are there some semantic games being played here whereby the initial “Accept vs Customize” dark pattern dialogs don’t count as “withdrawing” consent because no consent has been given at that point? I.e. the annoying path of clicking Customize isn’t actually the withdrawal process, but is just the method of gaining acceptance?
This post would be a lot more persuasive with the pitch deck, or some growth numbers, or something indicating the app is in fact on a success track and is the type of app that is potentially VC scale.

I found no mentions on reddit. On google there is a single review on Capterra, no other results.

The Canadian ios app has no reviews, can’t check US on my phone. The Google play version has 88 reviews, but all but 3-4 of them are from Jan 26-Feb 2, with only one since, in May.

So some evidence of traction, product market fit, growth, or the general idea behind the app (pitch deck) would help with the argument.

The author does highlight an issue of how to get funded if you don’t have an existing network though. Network based introductions seems to be the norm for VC from what I’ve heard. And to be clear, there may be racism involved: my point is it’s hard to tell without knowing more about the app’s and whether it seems plausibly a fit for VC. Once an app has been around for a year you need more evidence of traction.

Edit: I should mention that if the app is indeed somewhere between “can be bootstrapped” and “needs VC investment” then there are are new options like Tinyseed aimed at this middle ground of company. Another commented pointed out that a competing app has 1-10 employees, which is not VC scale.
It's too bad that YouTube subtitles still show up in the main YT page and is not present in the PiP modal.
The domain was registered with MM.
> Canonical already spent a large amount of investment opensourcing launchpad and nobody other than them operate it.

Launchpad has a weird user experience and was for a long time too much focussed on bazaar when git won.

At work we used bazaar and lp for a while, but still I always have to search for the right path for getting to a project's code. The bug tracker was more useful than GitHub's but that didn't help ...

Aside from that there are the legal implications of AfferoGPL which prevent many people from touching it.

But yes, doing infrastructures is hard. I however don't know how complicated hosting is and how well it's packaged. For software starting for in-house use this often is a mess ...
Going back to the restrictions in place before COVID, while COVID is still very much a thing, and we haven't even finished the first wave while a second wave rises, is bad. While Conservative administrations are good at finding ways to punish people through neglecting to act as opposed to having to actively take action, this isn't behavior that should be lauded.

The options here are either that the administration is risking lethal consequences for these students out of: 1) incompetence (they forgot to extend the exemptions), or 2) active negligence. Either is exceptionally bad. Whether it was an active decision or not to let these exceptions end, ICE seems almost gleeful to take the opportunity to kick these students out of the country, and ICE is entirely under the control of the executive branch.
Pop!_OS integrates flathub into their "app store" [0]

[0] https://blog.system76.com/post/616861064165031936/whats-new-...
There are lots of reasons why a site might get banned, but the main ones are when they are spam or consistently a source of off-topic or low-quality articles.

In this case it's hard to say because 2013 was a long time ago. It might have been because someone was oversubmitting or trying to promote the site on HN. That's another reason why we might ban a site.

This site looks like an online magazine focused on the SF Bay Area. When I look at the submissions I see a penchant for sensational titles and a lot of articles that aren't on topic for HN, but also a few articles that would make good HN submissions, except possibly for the titles. Two examples of good ones:

https://thebolditalic.com/the-remarkable-story-of-the-golden...

https://thebolditalic.com/how-tech-is-deciding-who-gets-to-g... (good article, bad title)

For that category of site, we generally don't ban the domain, but rather downweight it to countervail the sensationalism. I'll switch this one over.
Makes sense. Depends (as always) on the use case
> This matters only if Flutter is a closed source project

Nonsense. Even though it is open source, if Google drops it it will be effectively a dead project since the vast majority of the work is done by Google, and Flutter still isn't a mature project.
Science solved this problem way before the shake weight.

Understanding some basic concepts in nutrition/wellness, such as macros and micros, calories, how Energy Expenditure (keeping you alive, walks, lifting weights, etc) and Energy Storage (Fat, Muscle, etc) all ties in with your unique genetics, body composition and lifestyle goes a long way.

Quick and dirty trick: be at a low Body Fat Percentage and have abdominal muscles (which we all do ha).
I agree, and maybe to help you out here, I'll suggest that whenever you use the word "should" as in a value judgment, ask yourself what footwork you need to do in order to make it happen. Merely suggesting it as as a value judgment however is not footwork. Fully define the problem and bring them something they can use, and I guarantee it'll facilitate way more than just getting you what you wanted.
> On Ubuntu you can go to the Ubuntu software app (gui) search for software and it blends apt results with snap results.

GNOME Software and KDE Discover support both Flatpak and the distribution's native package manager together. For example implementations on Ubuntu-based distributions that work out of the box, see the elementaryOS AppCenter and the Pop!_OS Pop!_Shop:

https://github.com/elementary/appcenter

https://github.com/pop-os/shop
"the top 20% of men hold 80% of cumulative attractiveness in the eyes of women" - OKCupid stats

As a guy who lives polyamorous, this is an interesting observation.

Many guys told me that they try the poly life, because if they don't have to be "the one" for a women, their potential partners would give them a chance even if they aren't a 100% fit.

Somehow, only a few guys end up with multiple women.
Founders need stewards, not masters
> Canonical's decision to abuse the power of apt packages to make it some "universal installer" is kinda gross.

This is a mischaracterization. "chromium-browser" is a transitional package that installs the chromium snap for one reason: it is to provide an upgrade path for users of Chromium in previous Ubuntu releases to the latest Ubuntu release without breaking Chromium.

I use an example of where Debian does the same thing: on the latest Debian release, install "mysql-server" and you'll get MariaDB, not MySQL. Granted this doesn't bridge across from a deb to a snap, but the mechanism is the same and the technical reasoning is the same. It is to stop users from ending up with a regression in available software following an upgrade.

There is no "to make it some "universal installer"" going on here.

You may not like the decision, but please do not make it out to be for reasons that do not exist - at least without providing the facts to allow readers to decide for themselves.

(I work for Canonical but don't work in an area related to the Chromium snap, Snap Store, this decision, etc. I speak for myself, and not Canonical).
I had very bad results on Vietnamese using Tesseract and their trained model. French output was mostly fine. I guess less attention is given to some language, and the huge number of diacritics used in Vietnamese make it harder to process too.
Whenever I visit family in the midwest this phenomenon makes me twitch.

It seems people out there have taken to using "exponentially" as a pseudo-scientific word meaning "a lot". i.e. "you're making my job exponentially more difficult"

Edit: fixed typo :)
You can watch the discussions from Popey, Martin Wimpress etc... It's pretty clear from their perspective that they built the tech from users/devs first approach.

Do you really think Canonical is looking for money over here? If so do please precisely explain in the short-term how exactly you think they are gonna achieve that.

Do you think they are suddenly going to be able to dominate the entire 100% Linux desktop software market and charge 30%? Do you think a company like Microsoft/Spotify/Jetbrains would just roll over with that? I don't imagine they can do that considering Red Hat/Suse market position. Nor do I see the total Linux Desktop applications being a blip at all on their revenue streams.

Last I checked, they are still providing infrastructure to the Linux community for free. They still have more market share then the rest of the Linux distros combined. That and without them, Linux Mint wouldn't be operating as they do now.

Frankly they don't deserve the hatred the FOSS community throws at them and you are being somewhat disingenuous by presenting them as such.
This is SJW right-speak: vague words that can mean anything to anyone interpreting them at the time.

There are no hard and fast rules because the language doesn't allow for it. It's always shifting and getting hard to comply with as more and more radical people gain a foothold in culture. Each new person decides the previous one didn't have enough control and _therefore_ more control is needed because _obviously_ the previous generation was evil.

It's so lame (and dangerous to all people too).
Semi-interesting geeky aviation tidbit, those flights were also given the original Concorde LHR/JFK "BA001" flight number.
It would help if you provided a link to the CNCF results.

From what I see in https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/master/test/extende... there are additional policies granted (search for "Disable container security").
> The way the EU usually works is that they say "we are concerned about X, Y and Z's effect on our citizens" to industry, and industry responds "we'll self-regulate to ensure X, Y and Z do not have the effect you're concerned about".

The problem in this context is identifying adtech as the industry rather than the adversary. It's like identifying a problem with spam and then asking the spammers to self-regulate. It's misapprehending the nature of the problem.

So then you say the spammers wouldn't self-regulate by not spamming so we're going to regulate email. Everybody hire a lawyer if you want to use email. And then the spammers still give you the finger because the internet spans the globe and they just set up in countries that won't enforce your rules, and the rules increase costs on everybody else.

What we need here are technical solutions. Browsers that resist tracking and fingerprinting. Technology to resist correlation attacks. The dissolution of unitary identity systems. More software that runs on your machine and not the adversary's machine. Make tracking too hard and there is no more tracking industry.

The thing most needed there is funding. There is profit in tracking and not so much profit in anti-tracking, so if you want anti-tracking then provide money for it. And for goodness sake stop passing laws against anti-tracking measures.
Though maybe don't start any new projects in C.
So your point is that HIPAA is bad, your doctor should be able to sell your data? My point was that your browsing data is similar to health data, it could even contain health data so it should be a trail of who is collecting what and is sharing with whom and why. I won't believe the argument that implementing transparency for what you collect and sell is too expensive.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true just as it would be for divorced seniors. People don’t typically randomly try to meet someone on the street (usually it’s against norms and may be categorized as “creepy”).

Most people meet the kind of people they are attracted to in places where they are likely to congregate.

In other words hardly any population has uniform distribution.
I've just recently committed myself to take Javascript seriously and more than a language that can work with frameworks.
This isn't true for all registrars. My domain expired and it was re-sold via auction within seconds of its expiration. Network Solutions used to have a retention policy, they don't follow it if your domain has been bid on. I lost a domain I had owned since about 1997 this way :/
Code reuse and configuration is the biggest one for me. Seems like lots of us end up having to roll wrappers around Terraform to generate .tf's on the fly. I thought that was Terraform was supposed to remove the need for shelling scripting and make files in infrastructure standup :-P
No we cannot. Tribes cannot ignore the state, particularly since we are pretty integrated with the overall state-wide higher education. There are areas of jurisdiction that don't affect the tribe, but there are things that do.
Because coffee
Android Security Bulletin–July 2020
The internet is changing drastically for Hong Kong’s citizens
I don't frame it ideally as "work". I'd move to somewhere warm with good food and sit on a beach and just sell put options out of a big margin account to generate income.

I would then spend the rest of my time attending to hobbies like playing magic cards, hanging out with family and anything else my mind conjures up.
I'm now in technical sales working with clients, meetings, deliverables, etc. I've migrated from paper to Evernote, to emacs, out of emacs, and now journal and take notes in emacs with org-mode and org-roam, and use evernote for reference material. Searching notes is now a snap, and I can trust that my reference material is indexed. I'd like to quit evernote, but the OCR, web clipping, and mobile application are still working well enough for me. (although I do monthly exports from evernote and import _what_I_can_ into emacs and file system)
Circles in space made of radio waves are like nothing we've ever seen
I don't seem to have a "Picture in picture" option in the context menu on an arbitrary YouTube video on Chrome 84 beta on macOS.

But there is a PiP button in the "hamburger with musical note" menu in the toolbar.

It seems Google has an optional PiP Chrome extension as well. It looks like it just makes the button more visible.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/picture-in-picture...
people used windows without an app store just fine. I don’t even use an app store on macs, I download straight from the publishers
Thunderbolt 4: Universal Cable Connectivity for Everyone
Sure because Snap is designed to be able to distribute closed source applications. Part of the reason Snap and Flatpak exist is that distributing binaries on Linux is an enormous pain.
The cost of running a bootstrapped SaaS in 2020 (+ my learnings)
I've been happily using Fedora for years. Just another option to consider.
TIL about Maui. From my light researching, it looks like any Linux implementation of Maui will be community-led instead of Microsoft led like the Windows and MacOS implementations.

https://github.com/dotnet/maui
The containers do not restart when the snap package is updated.
The part about Nguyen was frustrating. It's hard to imagine a more honest hypocrisy than explicitly saying, on the record, that one will be forthcoming and helpful towards the marginalized, and ending up being just as dismissive and unengaged as everybody else.
Quite a bit. Lots of data has ranks/priorities, lots of UI has to be organized.

Are you asking if I have written (shipped) a sort implementation? Only once, ages ago. No built-in stable sort, and none of the dozen articles I found had examples that scaled past 20 elements (which I found quite upsetting). I did my own port of mergesort that was almost 2 orders of magnitude faster. Constant complexity kills.

It's good to build a few on your own to become an informed consumer. Just don't 1) ship it or 2) use it as an interview question. If you want NIH people, you get them by asking NIH questions during the interview process.
Excellent. He's got slings and crossbows as well...
Agreed. As a user, I really don’t care that Apple takes their cut. If you’re a developer, either figure out how to make your business work with the Apple taking their cut, or go out of business. The market doesn’t care either way.

I love apples draconian policies against apps: it results in consumer benefit not consumer harm.

I love closed platforms on a phone (not on a Mac). I love Apple for not allowing people to side load, change the font or other useless things that only developers and power users care about. When you look at Apple, I think of my mom and grandparents. They are the people Apple is protecting. They are the customer that can only really use Apple because Apple protects them from nonsense. Go apple. Go App Store. Go 30% cut and all the rest of the policies people constantly complain about. It’s inconvenient? Boo boo! Go into another business then.
Distros (at least Debian and Ubuntu) don't package Oracle Java AFAIK.
> Although this is all assuming people date to get married.

Tongue firmly in cheek, I bet a not insignificant number of people get married to stop dating.
Because SO/Google told them in 2012 to do it that way.

Suddenly the sysadmins in charge have forgotten they used this mechanism to install it on their ancient linux boxes.
Most efficient in terms of what, disk space?
New digital youth service center in Cameroon expected to create jobs
Hopefully there's more, but here's a few:

Backstage Capital (https://backstagecapital.com/)

TxO (https://a16z.com/2020/06/03/talent-x-opportunity/)
Prospektor – Running customer validation on autopilot
Yeah, this has a tendency to happen, it's sort of the constant fight. You can really only fight it with metrics, you can sort of start to show that 3tiny+1med tends to be equivalent to 1 large tends to be equivalent to 5small, or whatever. At the end of the day, you're trying to make it as hard as possible to simply add numbers. People will naturally try to map these things to ordinal numbers, and it's important to sort of keep a light constant pressure to prevent this the further away from the team you go. You need to start by training your team and your PMs and your manager to avoid this as much as possible. It's their job to train their stake holders and bosses in turn. I can tell you from experience that it's an incredible amount of effort, but the benefits are really worth it. Having a team with space to be effective is a magical place to be. I still mourn needing to leave that team and organization.
Descartes Labs Releases Economic Activity Signals