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This sounds like a really useful thing to do. How do you set something like this up in a dev environment?

The fact that I have to rely upon a news site with some of the worst IN YOUR FACE ad UI to embed each tweet in this conversation thread individually is pretty damning for Twitter. Why can't I organically discover / follow this on Twitter itself? It really had so much potential for being the heartbeat of the Internet, and maybe for an age it was. However, they never innovated or evolved leaving their biggest innovation to be "140 characters".

I really enjoyed the writing style of the author. Great content.

Why don't we just use lat long coordinates or geohashes for addresses? The shit that delivery people have to put up with is truly ridiculous.

I am currently living in Shanghai and I use Mobike, Ofo, or 赶赶单车 to get to work everyday. I have logged over 250km between the services.

This article is largely unfair. The city has large swaths of sidewalk established as bike parking zones. I can almost always find a bike zone within 10-50m. Furthermore, there are almost always parking attendants and security guards outside of malls and subway stations ensuring that bikes are parked correctly. Even when these people aren't present, I rarely ever see bikes anywhere but the bike zones. And as much space as the bikes take up, it is NOTHING compared to the parked cars along the streets.

Furthermore, I see company trucks collecting and relocating bikes multiple times per week. They are constantly shifting bikes of high supply to areas of demand. There are certain times of day (eg Saturday night at the Bund) where there are untold legions of bikes, but car traffic is flowing well.

Many of the trips that I've taken on a Mobike were out of convenience. In American cities the fastest mode of transportation is almost always a car. However, because the bikes are essentially door-to-door with no delay, I can almost always beat a hired car because there is no delay and I can zip between waiting traffic.

Chinese cities are being strangled to death by the crazy growth in car traffic. There has been insane immigration to cities and average income has gone way up. The net effect is a lot more car usage. Every taxi driver I have complains about the ever-worsening traffic conditions, year-over-year trip times increasing etc.

Bike sharing does A LOT to alleviate this by providing a convenient, quick, and cheap ($0.10-0.20 / 30min) method to travel. This is all ignoring the obvious ecological impact of the many tons of CO2 not released by the saved hydrocarbon fueled trips.

An understandable misconception when the freedom of presses enables publicly airing anyone's dirty laundry. Not to mention that (god forbid) there is actual debate and conflict between our citizens on the best way to handle issues.

These differences are nonetheless not my biggest grief with China. The moment you restrict criticism of your institution, you have committed to sacrificing pragmatism for ideology. Pragmatism requires commitment to the truth, which can only come from the status quo being continually challenged.

I'm frightened by how a seemingly pragmatic government has been able to spiral into dogmatic, protectionists policies so rapidly. I suppose that I mistook the recent decades of economic development as evidence of true ideological reform taking place. Now I feel naive for expecting more from the government that imprisoned the father of their ubiquitous high speed rail system.

The Eastern desire to require "harmonious thoughts" is so at odds with the skepticism required to birth true innovations. I was once convinced that China was on the verge of becoming a new force in modern technology. But after seeing a long line of regulations meant to increase the echo of their political echo chamber, I doubt technological innovation can linger much longer.

In China with Alipay, I receive transfers instantly and deposits to my bank account "can take up to 2 hours", but typically land within 5 minutes. I get instant WeChat notifications whenever my card is used. Although, to be honest I haven't used a physical card in months. I pay for everything with QR codes. There's a code you can present to the attendant and they scan you (typically faster) and then I authenticate the transfer with a fingerprint or pin. It's honestly astounding to see how advanced the financial system is here, ESPECIALLY when compared to the bullshit that currently exists in the US.

Comparing modern Seattle to the insane totalitarian, 100% owned by Steel and Coal refineries company towns of the 19th century is sensationalism at it's prime. These towns controlled everything about your life and were willing to use night sticks and rifles to prevent unionization.

Amazon owning 19% of "prime-office space" is even remotely comparable.

Wouldn't this name change be immediately caught by the compiler?

It wasn't my assumption as much as my empirical findings. I like being in the office, so I never worked from home.

I think that stems from the many people that "work from home" only to take their cat to the vet, get their car washed, go to the dentist, and pick up their dry-cleaning. Most of the time whenever I hear the term "working from home" I immediately assume they will not be home and will not be working.

Using the online editor on Android with Firefox is essentially unusable. It feels almost like Laverna is trying to do autocorrect at the same time as my keyboard. Characters appear and disappear as I type which makes for a really confusing UX.

Ah. I see your point. I failed to consider the context of this application in particular.

More along the lines of: I now fully expect the cost of entrance for free applications to be data the developers collect of my usage. It's naive to assume otherwise.

EDIT: grammar

Is this just marketing copy they asked you to post in the comments? Few times have a ever spoken so highly of a product. What specifically makes Superhuman "indispensable"? It doesn't really seem like they've innovated that much (nor could they as email is still email)/

Serious Question: can you actually type using this?

I think I'm only surprised to see this comment and not that Firefox bundled analytics into their app. What's controversial about anonymized usage statistics in 2017?

Hue integration is one of the most interesting applications of IoT that I've read about in a while. An entirely obvious application once I think about it, but something I never thought about until now. Looking forward to trying that out!

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Yeah. I was referring to installing the applications from China. I was unaware of the ability to add a non-Chinese iTunes account to circumvent the issue. Thanks for correcting me!

As someone living in China, a VPN provider that doesn't provide direct download links to their Android client is completely useless. The only way for me to install an app from Google Play store is to flash a custom ROM and install the Google Play Store, install another VPN (?!!) to access the Play Store, and then download the app in question.

Furthermore, the fact that Apple has just pulled VPN apps from its App Store and the unfortunate fact that you can't sideload apps makes iOS an untenable OS choice.

Ditto to this. I come here for the delightfully well informed discussions by some of the world's most capable technologists, scientists, and engineers. The content I usually find here genuinely enriches my life and motivates me with success stories of what smart, hardworking people are capable of producing.

There is something thoroughly logical about this approach to the unfortunate waste implicit in Proof of Work (PoW) schemes.

In summary of the motivations of the paper: PoW is currently limited to cryptocurrencies as a security system because of the implicit financial incentive in mining coins. This approach could allow PoW schemes to be widely adopted to secure systems as the overhead is lowered dramatically. Additionally, battery powered devices (ie phones) could make use of PoW without incurring large battery drains. This last bit is particularly interesting and could allow some interesting, distributed P2P systems on cellphones to arise.

The general principle of the paper revolves around asking network members to prove computational power only as much as necessary as the network scales. Because an attacker could easily spoof their MAC / IP address when joining the network, computational tests are periodically distributed to network members. If the test is unsolved in an allotted time period, their network membership is revoked (and the node is blacklisted). The attack referred to in the paper is an attacker adding bad (fake or otherwise) nodes to a system rapidly.

I wish I had seen this comment before wasting 20 minutes of my life reading the real thing.

As someone rather unfamiliar with the differences in cloud containerization options, I've been extremely confused anytime I see extremely opinionated arguments about cloud infra. This article was a breath of fresh air and is exactly the reference guide that I have been looking for. The author provides a clear history of the development of the titular systems, provides an in-depth overview of their various strengths, and adequately describes the differences in architecture. Overall, an excellent read for the uninitiated.

I have previously tried to investigate why Kubernetes was considered useful [1], or why everyone was losing their minds over Docker [2]. But rarely came away with any clear insights.

[1] https://www.kubernetes.io/case-studies/box/ [2] http://www.quotecolo.com/the-case-for-docker-against-cloud-v...

After a quick search, there is no license file in this project. Whether that was done intentionally or unintentionally has yet to be determined.

Thanks to you (and all the other commenters) for the detailed answers! I learned a lot!

I'm new to frontend in general and wondering if I could trouble you for some context. Why is Firefox's CSS styling engine not already "in" the browser? To me it seems like Stylo is just a parallelized replacement for the old system, Servo. What am I missing here?

Also, why are you celebrating an alternative for WebKit? Isn't it already supported by most major browsers?

Purely speculation here, but I would think that devs would want to invest their time in established gaming platforms with established customer bases. Native applications with large amounts of engine / tooling built around them.

Again shooting from the hip here, but given the restricted environment of the web browser, it would seem difficult to believe that you could make a high performing full game given that you need to download THE ENTIRE GAME essentially every single time you play, no? So that restricts the size / complexity I would wager.

From my experience in China, it seems that the vast majority of Chinese citizens have no idea what a VPN is and or why they would use it. Friends of mine that are Chinese citizens that study abroad in the US make extensive use of VPNs to circumvent the GFW.

Every technology company that I've come across in China has invested a great deal of effort into establishing stable VPN connections. I have seen several "VPN microservices" that act to tunnel all foreign-bound traffic out of the country. In the vacuum of mature, western technologies many Chinese copycats have popped up. I have been hoping that we would start to see more and more Chinese technology companies exporting their technology [1]. With these new legislative actions, it seems like a step in the wrong direction.

I'm struggling to come to terms with the restrictive policies that the Chinese government continually struggles to hoist over their citizens. During the midst of one of the most dramatic periods of economic development in history, the Chinese government is moving to artificial isolate themselves from the developing global economy?

[1] Strikingly: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/striking-ly#/entity