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Recording artists have had a fairly similar set up for quite some time; the label takes almost all the money from album sales, so the artists tend to make their money off live shows and merch.

I can't tell if you're implying that they store iMessages unencrypted, but iMessage is encrypted end-to-end. Backups of your phone, which may or may not contain message histories, are only encrypted at rest.

The numbers in India are staggering, but I was even more blown away by the news that Bangladesh managed to get open defecation down from 44% in 2003 to 1% today.

https://www.thethirdpole.net/2016/03/03/open-defecation-ends...

I'm certainly no Uber apologist, but talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Went back to check, and you're totally right. Not sure how I remembered that so wrong.

> The original Facebook didn't have a status to update; that didn't come until around late 2007 or early 2008

It wasn't that late. At early as 2005, there was a form with the prompt "John Doe is:" and you had to squeeze whatever thoughts you needed your friends to know into that format.

> If competitor X beats them to the self-driving-punch, I'll simply install their app and start saving.

And Uber couldn't double down on their existing strategy of heavily subsidised rides to undercut self-driving cars? I mean, this is assuming that self-driving taxis are cheaper off the bat, which kind of ignores the fairly large capital expenditure of buying a fleet.

> A first-to-market competitor will have 747s full of money landing on their doorstep begging them to take it.

I don't think it's that simple. That's not taking into account how difficult it would be for Competitor X to build enough of a network to rival Uber, and how easy it would be for Uber to replicate/steal/buy the tech and steamroll Competitor X. Having superior tech and being first to market are not enough alone to trump market share.

> what exact benefit does running a $800M losing ride-hailing service confer

Market share. Or more precisely, establishing market dominance by undercutting the competition.

Perhaps they consider security by obscurity an acceptable technique?

You're right: Knowledge shouldn't be the end goal, but I think you're overstating the effect of fringe communities on the internet.

Consider that for many people on Earth, getting access to the internet takes them from the knowledge shared amongst the members of their community to the collective knowledge of world. That's quite a leap, and I'd argue that having to read flat-earther nonsense once in a while is a price well worth the benefit

It's probably not right to classify all HFT as unscrupulous. However, consider the kind of algorithm that picks up when you're looking for a big amount of stock X, and then proceeds to race you to the other exchanges in an effort to buy from under you; it's pretty hard to justify that as anything other than predatory.

Making money from speculation (i.e. investing) is one thing, but gaming the system for profit is something else entirely, and something that quite inarguably does not add value.

Shouldn't the same feelings of smallness be imparted by staring at a sufficiently large building? So the sensation of awe fades as you become accustomed to seeing the object in question?

You should be able to enter reading mode before the page finishes (or even starts, for that matter) loading.

We use the readability (https://www.readability.com/) API, which does all scraping/parsing server-side.

Are you implying we don't attribute all the libraries we use? ;) Everything we use is there. We're not using any closed source frameworks.

Hi there. We're going to take note of the first two points and see what we can do about it.

As for the third, have you tried reading mode? It's the armchair icon to the URL in the browser.

Thanks for your comments.

Dynamic type is very high on the to-do list. Akepa is a news/text reader first, and we recognize that comfortable reading is the highest priority.

Some of what you're asking for might be solved by the themes we have. We hear you on not being able to see what you're getting, though.

We contact our servers only to verify receipts when you buy Pro (had some issues with that earlier :$). We also use analytics for crash reports.

Everything else is either direct to https://news.ycombinator.com or https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com (the official API). And, of course, sites explicitly opened by the user.

Edit: We also use the readability API for reading mode. https://www.readability.com/

Fun fact: A lot of these towers are now used in HFT; they have even lower latency than fiber laid nearly as the crow flies.

This doesn't sit right with me. A species does not exist based on something as brittle as some ego-stroking social contract. Apes have the same genital layout as us, and I doubt they have the same unconscious desire to maintain this alleged facade of masculinity. They, and we, have made it this far with this apparent Achilles heel.

No, it's more likely that the groin is not an Achilles heel. It's more plausible that we have the ability to protect that area, quite readily, given that it is quite necessary to do so in order to reproduce, and that a threat can come from beyond the species.

Any failure to defend the groin is likely an artificial one, induced by the expectation of a regulated sport, or a situation where the fight is more about dominance than incapacitation. Even in the latter situation, outrage is more likely to be at disregard for the purpose of the fight than that the offender has suddenly dropped the veil on masculinity as a whole.

I'm no professor of sociology, and I am a man, so maybe the brainwashing has gotten to me, but I found the explanation a stretch at best.

> how long till a brick goes through your window as you're sleeping?

Going from answering nature's call in a somewhat uncouth, unthinking manner to outright vandalism is a bit of a leap.

The real issue is this guy talking like people should be grateful for employment and that objections to crazy work hours are attitude problems. I don't know if this is a cultural thing, but I found that more off putting than that he lacks the human resources to contribute to OSS.

Without a doubt, unless we're making the argument that punishment benefits the punished somehow. I should probably have made mention of rehabilitation to contrast.

> There are situations in which it is right to send people to prison without them posing an active and dangerous threat

Do these situations exist only when we consider punishment a valid reason for imprisonment? Don't get me wrong; Bernie Madoff being free and enjoying life wouldn't sit right with me, but you have to wonder if locking people away as retribution really benefits tax-paying, law-abiding citizens.

Apologies for being off topic, but I, for one, was not aware. Which tests are considered more meaningful?

The same reasons any number of atrocities are committed without so much as a blip on our consciousness: Ignorance and apathy.

We're pretty limited beings :).

Why wouldn't SSL help? Unless the offending exit node has the requested site's cert, there's almost no way they can carry out a MITM attack on an SSL request undetected. That's kind of the whole point of certs.

Or is this an indictment of Cloudfront offering to be your SSL termination point?

Check out supervisor (http://supervisord.org/). Super painless daemons if you're like me and hate writing init scripts.

I'm pretty sure Apple never claimed to be able to stop the NSA. Walling off any obvious back doors both for itself and anyone else that may want access through said door is not the same as saying that what was once a house is now a reinforced bank vault.

Probably milk and eggs. They're not vegan, as far as I know.

I don't know whether to laugh at the ridiculous (and almost obligatory) ad-hominem science denial or cry because there are people who are ignorant enough to actually take this seriously.