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Ok Elon, only 39 light years away. When will you take us there?

Meh, I'll just wait for the iHeart, the iKidney and the iLiver. Surly hope I do not end up with an Android-powered brain b/c my insurance plan does not cover the always reliable and reasonably priced AWS Cognito Plus, while I'm definitely not rich enough to dream about the iBrain 7. Until then, the triple-b diet will do: beer, burgers and bike to work.

I see Amazon making a successful social network faster than Facebook making a successful market place.

Here's my wishlist, not sure if there is a market for it:

- Twitter w/out fake accounts.

- a marketplace that uses Facebook as a vehicle for engagement/promotion but which operates independently.

- Secure SMS for 2FA tokens

- Android w/out Play Services

- Schema-based email

- Stripe for the rest of the World

So, how many possible hashes in a 32 characters hash using letters, symbols and numbers? I am trying to guesstimate the number of page requests before brute force breaks it.

Do services like AWS S3 charge for 404's? If so, under brute force the monthly bill could get really big, no?

Twitter is broken. No news here.

$425bn/3.6bn = $118 avg. Now, the $425bn are not liquid assets, so we can argue that each of the 3.6bn individuals on the bottom half are worth a lot, lot, more than $120 each (worth in the same sense as measuring the net worth of billionaires). For starters, they own thousands of labor hours. Maybe the problem is that we cannot create enough jobs and it is easier to blame Zuck and friends?

It is a very dangerous idea to seek a fairier distribution of wealth by taking it from the rich. If you doubt it go ask Venezuelans or Cubans if it worked out for them.

Not all https are created equal. I am no expert but I understand that you need to tweak and twist your setup to not merely serve your site securely, but also ensure that the latest protocols, cyphers, libraries, etc are used; which means a deeper understanding of your web server software and OS is required.

Wow, it did load super fast on a slow phone and over 3g; however, once loaded, and a couple of seconds after content skimming, interacting with the site was clumsy. In particular, touching a category element was unresponsive. On a second experiment I waited 10 seconds before interacting and it worked fine. I guess there is some UI blocking JS scripiting going on right after load.

Anecdata: we are a 4 head-count startup. One of our heads is leaving soon. I thought about the impact on operations and realized most of his tasks can be automated and the rest we can absorb without overloading. Automation and AI are surely a main factor in some jobs never coming back. High productivity (also thanks to cheaper/better/faster IT-related services) is also a factor.

A successful challenge to the results of an election will most likely end up in a civil war. In other words, whoever is officially announced as winner will remain so, even if proof of fraud is found; accepting fraud would question the capabilities/transparency/independene of the electoral authorities. This situation is aggravated by electronic voting, not because of the possibilities of hacking the system, but because the results come to damn fast: victims of fraud do not have a chance to react. While they are barely starting the legal paper work to ask for a recount, the winner is already giving his/her triumphant speech!

True, it is a good setup to scale.

I do not think number of API requests per month for $x is an accurate way to determine if $x is cheap or not. You are missing concurrency measurement. What was your highest requests per second on the sampled month?

Maybe read/click count is hackable (bots?) and there is plenty of motivation to taint the system (new products would love to make it to the top of HN). Humans up/down voting seems fairer, no?

Not sure how comments are sorted (bubbled up also by up-votes and reply count?) but I sure think they can be better layed out. I always get lost when threads grow big and it becomes hard to keep a mental map of the thread structure. Maybe expand/collapse the nodes could help.

I use NodeJS like AWS lambda functions but running on my own tiny VPS (Digital Ocean droplets). Why instead of lambda? B/c I have zero restrictions on NPM packages and many other things I can use. Now, I do not write full APIs, instead I use everything a BAAS has to offer (like Firebase) and complement what it lacks. For example:

- When a Firebase ref changes I listen to the event in Nodejs and update a full text search index elsewhere.

- When a Firebase ref is created I send the appropriate transactional email/push/sms.

- Do data validations before pushing to Firebase.

So in general, I do things that cannot/should not be done on the client-side while still opting for serverless architectures.

PS: Parse.com was great in that it had server-side code that was run on events like object updated/created. The code was NodeJS. In sum, it had lambda-like functionality already built-in. But Parse.com closed shop. Not sure if any of its spin-offs are offering a good service at decent prices.

Voting system isn't broken, Democracy is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

To aggravate: many elections lately are win by tiny margins and with not all citizens casting a vote. Hence, the majority per se is not really setting the course of nations.

On a side note, I wonder why close results happen. I do not think it is an accident (some that I can remember now that are almost split in half: the popular vote in 2016 US elections, the yes/no vote for the Peace Treaty with FARC in Colombia, the 2016 presidential elections in Peru). Maybe there is no pattern either, but it seems odd that when facing an important decision, voters split in half. (my own conspiracy theory is that given the lack of grey area options - a raking effect as proposed by the OP - voters MUST pick a side and they are manipulated to veer in one direction by smart and sophisticated communications)

While no system is perfect, I disagree. Mainly b/c I find it too limiting to bubble up a link based on comments count alone; and secondly, a down-vote with no explanation will teach new users group etiquette more effectively. On down-votes some false positives will happen but overall the system works and HN has avoided the fate of many other forums filled with flames and trash.

M O T I V A T I O N

You'll do whatever if the right buttons are pushed.

Wait! You are missing Central America, South America, Mexico and Canada. Either that or you have the wrong title :)

Will this help me tag and classify my thousands of personal photos? Once it recognizes a face will it tag it and identify it the next time I call it with the same person on another picture?

There are countries where the chances of a new mobile OS succeeding depend mostly on the ability to run Whatsapp. Simply put: WA is the free SMS in many developing contries where air-time is still expensive. Carriers even offer plans with unlimited data for WA usage and that is key to drive new sales (I know this for a fact). I still argue that the main reason FFOS on a ultra cheap ZTE failed to gain market share on developing countries was because potential buyers realized they wouldn't be able to chat with friends and family.

For this reason, if Sailfish can trully run any Android app, I'd say they have a better chance.

They say: don't worry! Jobs taken by AI will be replaced by new ones yet to be invented.

Right.

It seems you did not read the article thoroughly. The argument being made is that Signal is sending the WRONG signal by making the user think/feel that encrypting the tunnel and passive data is enough to guarantee privacy and security.

Quoting:

There are many things users can and maybe should be concerned about: Hackers, providers, promoters, crooks, spooks, shareholders or maybe the person on the next seat in the bus. Do they want to prevent their data from being used for other purposes than communication itself? Maybe they want their messages to be tamper-evident, or perhaps they want plausible deniability or immunity against eavesdropping? What is the use of end-to-end encryption when there could be a key logger or a rootkit on their device, transmitting everything they do to a remote entity? Encouraging users to believe in a general sense that Signal makes their communication safe, will tend to promote a false sense of once-and-for-all security (regardless of the indisputable and substantial increase in end-to-end encryption). It is very important to remember that even though encryption will increase security, some information should not be stored in IT systems at all – and especially not if they are provided by a third party.

However this is no argument against the use of the Signal messenger or protocol itself. We instead want to think about the problems created or supported by OWS‘ promise of security.

I do not see any comments to tackle the weakest link: exploits on the OS. Federated or not, the tunnel can be encrypted. On the servers static data can be encrypted. How can a regular user know his/her device's OS is not compromised? That is the problem to solve now and it seems that a formally verified OS code is the only long path.

Facebook Zucks

Anonimity is not enough. We need easy to use/install descentralized secure IM. If governments cannot get data from companies providing IM, email, social nets, etc. they will just ban the service. See the two recent cases: LinkedIn in Russia and Whatsapp in Brazil.

Awesome job. Here's an idea for v2: keep the IKEA bag intact and find a way to wrap/fold it in such manner that you are able to mount it on some sort of shoulders/waist strap. You then use the same bag handles to hold/transfer the weight to the shoulders/waist. This assembly seems easier and the bag can still be used as such. Bonus: if the bag breaks you can replace it and have a new backpack for $1 :)

Which is only possible b/c through Google Play Services it tracks every move of every Android user. Unfortunately Google Play Services cannot be uninstalled/disabled without affecting the correct operation of the phone. The European Commission is right about investigating how Google is doing business lately.