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dstaten··on SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models
I'd really like to try this out! Or try out something built based on this paper.
dstaten··on Southwest Airlines is intimidating our startup
> with no conditions at all

There are conditions on their site, and most sites.

Separately, if this information was public, then Google would have already incorporated it into its flight price notifications feature.

But again, fun idea. It's a good example of something individuals could create for themselves, and Southwest would likely never notice.

dstaten··on Southwest Airlines is intimidating our startup
"The problem I see with their argument is that they are making this information public."

I love this idea! However, I think that unfortunately this argument doesn't hold up, and wouldn't in court. The information is available via their site, but that does not make it public.

dstaten··on Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
not working for me, unfortunately
dstaten··on WhatsApp launches Status, an encrypted Snapchat Stories clone
heh
dstaten··on Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick
This is more God/Bible than I think I've ever seen on HN
dstaten··on Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick
"a dearth of yoga studios"
dstaten··on Why HTTPS for Everything?
The existence of the request itself (for the handshake) is most of the cost. If a client is on the other side of the world, hundreds of ms. Otherwise if you have servers everywhere, still probably 50-70ms for the handshake.

Edit: in my experience.

dstaten··on One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers
I will never use eBay again. It took over a month to get a refund for a product that was never shipped. In fact the transaction was somehow canceled by the seller within minutes of it being completed, but it still took a ton of work on my end to get the refund. What a shame
dstaten··on Simplify Service Dependencies with Nodes
Thank you! This is just Promise.all but for microservices. Every time a large company discovers that its messy infrastructure can be cleaned up a bit by reimplementing a simple programming concept, it's suddenly not just newsworthy but framework worthy
dstaten··on The Danger of Being Default Alive
board meetings, requests for intros to people/customers, informal checkins, even just dealing with the company within the VC firm
dstaten··on Keybase chooses Zcash
"The sex toy shop knows you gave to UNICEF so that feels good."
dstaten··on Ask HN: Someone here to team up with me on a project to learn React together?
I second this -- they're fantastic courses
dstaten··on How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple
siri has gotten worse over time, or at least that's why friends and i have noticed
dstaten··on Branch’s Deep Links Let You Preview Apps in Your Browser
TL;DR you can, but you lose the ability to pass data through install.

Absolutely. The unfortunately side effect is when these users open your app, you won't know where they came from. Using text-me-the-app allows us to link a desktop link click to the same user downloading on mobile and opening the app. You lose the ability to pass data through install, and you lose install attribution. It's a tradeoff--for you, personalizing onboarding, rewarding users or having install attribution may be less important than taking them straight to the App Store.

You can either point desktop users to the App Store on an app-wide basis (https://dashboard.branch.io/#/settings/link) or on a per-link basis using the reserved key $desktop_url (as Abbey pointed out). Let me know if this is unclear.

dstaten··on Branch’s Deep Links Let You Preview Apps in Your Browser
We are going to automate the uploading of templates within the coming weeks--the goal is to have a library of open-source templates that anyone can use, or contribute to. When you create or edit an existing template, you’ll have the option to make it public or private. Even cooler than that is that we’ll allow you to customize the templates to make use of whatever custom tags that you choose to attach to the links.

If you want to use a custom template now, drop a note to support@branch.io and we'll get it uploaded for you.