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caprese··on Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
your A/B tests can also be lying to you.

just because a test is giving you a result of doubling down on a particular feature, it doesn't mean you should.

now of course, if you just need the clicks so that you sell to the greater fool, by all means boost that engagement sister!

caprese··on Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow
protip: you can also increase your StackOverflow clout by merely asking or answering the most generic basic questions.

You'll look like a community expert and thought leader in no time.

Helps the resume inhalers that weigh these arbitrary things.

More complex questions about specific frameworks or how that might work with your ORM and memory cache just don't get the attention.

caprese··on Selective Empathy Can Chip Away at Civil Society
> as for Islam my main beef is it doesn't distinguish between the religion and the secular state

A lot of muslims don't consider or care about the governance model

I think your 'trick' is still masking a lack of very basic understanding about the vast population of people that aren't doing anything radical

caprese··on Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty
wait, your opinion actually changed? you should take what is said in US/any courts with a grain of salt

don't trust testimonies, don't trust statements, or at LEAST recognize their infallibility

just understand the decision tree and how they change the options available during the legal process

in this case, we have:

- duress

- a short remorseful statement that is hoping to get his sentence reduced or even nullified

- no room for appeals court due to the plea agreement

the saying goes "remorse is for the courts", and unfortunately this will be used against me if I am ever indicted for something

caprese··on Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype
Yes?

Deconstruct what you wrote, in other circumstances why do you think there is a benefit to liking something that hasn't been liked before

You already have expanded the call to action of affirming your resonation with a post to something that transcends that action - meaning you aren't clicking the like button solely because you like the post - you decide to click it based on completely irrelevant unrelated factors (just like everyone else has), but you act like other people must be acting strange

caprese··on Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions in engineering culture
I would say there is a push to expand productivity of the population instead of simply stroking the ego of the most disciplined and adapt at sink or swim situations.

This does that.

Your experience should go by the way side and tap into the productive capacity of people that shouldnt be distracted by pressure.

caprese··on Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole
How does this close a loophole when its merely the first of 50+ autonomous jurisdictions in the US to do it
caprese··on Do people become happier after 40?
This study is assuming that your children would have a greater degree of autonomy by the time you are in your 40s

....because you would have had them 10-15 years sooner.

Just an observation of the study

caprese··on FAA Grounds All Cirrus Vision Jets over Angle of Attack Issues
Is this exceptional news?

I am curious how often this happens generally

I’ve been told to consider how issues evolve after they stop being reported, and so I am skeptical whether this is exceptional at all because aircraft groundings are only in the public interest because of the recent worldwide coordinated grounding

caprese··on Self-Described Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright Sues a Podcaster for Libel
Can you tell me more about that and how to establish jurisdiction in Britain and also collect upon winning?

Are judgements in Britain worthwhile, monetarily?

caprese··on SEC Charges Two Robo-Advisers with False Disclosures (2018)
Look how I'm living now

Series F around the corner now

caprese··on A New Photo of Tank Man in Tiananmen Square (2009)
not at that point in time, if at all. his identity and the outcome is unknown. many people were charged, many people were killed.
caprese··on Assange tried to use embassy as 'centre for spying', says Ecuador's Moreno
odd to add Snowden to that

Assange was in a building, Snowden is in the largest country on the planet

caprese··on The Cold War bunkers that cover a country
> responsibilities

possibilities

caprese··on SEC Charges Two Robo-Advisers with False Disclosures (2018)
$6 Udemy course, unpaid intern, $250,000 kickback to federal government, $250,006 SEO strategy

Invest in your SEO strategy like Wealthfront people!

caprese··on Cracking the Code: A Toddler, an iPad, and a Tweet
Your 2 year old can read, type and count? Is this common?
caprese··on Cracking the Code: A Toddler, an iPad, and a Tweet
> She knows first two digits already. At some point I’ll be forced to upgrade to touchID/faceId iPad for her as well.

I mean, or change the digits...

caprese··on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Globally
Not having issues with Whatsapp here in France
caprese··on Ola Bini, Swedish Software Developer with Ties to Assange, Arrested in Ecuador
> he wanted the GOP to win because they wouldn't be able to get anything done, which is a hint about how he feels for US government.

Ha really? He said that?

I felt the same way but a Californian’s vote doesnt influence representation

Its been a great few years: we operate better with agencies paralyzed, disarray in legislative consensus, and an ongoing appetite for risk in the markets. I understood which taxes would likely be lowered.

I remember being at the voting booth thinking of this decision tree. But there is nothing a Californian could have done by that point in time. I would say the outcome has been very accurate and predictable on these fronts.

It has been entertaining listening to other Californians tell me what people think if a left vote isnt deemed the clearly favorable vote for those people. I would say it doesnt really factor in what people think at all.

caprese··on I miss Facebook
> I miss knowing how my online friends are really doing these days. Being able to go through their life, their personal updates, the ups and the downs.

What? That was horrible! The simpletons talking about every mood change, or publicly plotting juvenile retribution against an ex-lover, or a respected keynote speaker who was previously isolated to that role now inviting you to Mafia Wars

I deleted my first “everyone I met everywhere” Facebook in 2008.

Allowing a new bare bones one in 2012 which is merely deactivated now.

This article is a mere nostalgic highlight reel, ironic how it complains then about instagram

Yeah ok, people in their 30s complain about selfies, selfie sticks, pictures of food, ephemeral stories, vertical videos, and older people using social media. They’re lost in between a dichotomy demographics that do not care and who these current networks are made for.

I would say the delayed gratisfaction is bigger component to the prior experience: planning, coordinating, and uploading just a few photos from different sources much later. The next day even, if your friends were tech savvy and had fast connections. The dopamine of social interaction coming in bursts, and the anticipation of the possibility having its own allure.

caprese··on I miss Facebook
“Kids these days” dont have the problem you are experiencing

Sure 12 year olds blowing off steam in an FPS will go to quick play but people self organize

Many obscure mobile games have robust chats with the same regulars and centralized servers

Twitch communities and discord groups are pretty wild

caprese··on Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement
In this context

Bad = additional tool state uses to potentially circumvent established rights in an unexpected way, which may result in prior assumptions about established rights becoming obsolete in subsequent court rulings

Good = things that dont do that

Yes, the consequences are a check on the use of this tool.

caprese··on Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement
I was pleased to see the discretion being used so far in the cases presented in this article.

But thats only because the warrants werent sealed by the judge, the state law allowed for public knowledge, the detectives were willing to talk with media, and those available warrants happened to use discretion that is more agreeable so far.

So lets not get this confused with something good. All these people know it is a questionable tool and that as soon as they or anyone else in the public sector uses this more broadly then it is going to mess up their ability to use the tool at all.

caprese··on Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
> Months after his release, Mr. Molina was having trouble getting back on his feet. After being arrested at work, a Macy’s warehouse, he lost his job. His car was impounded for investigation and then repossessed.

/Facepalm

But before I go further on the social commentary, can we confirm that the arrest at work was the reason he lost his job, the week of being in jail being the reason he lost his job, performance due to the arrest being the reason?

caprese··on Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
I like how “a lot less” is the new standard, compared to “at all”
caprese··on Amazon’s D.C. Move Threatens the Founders’ Vision for America
Good points, although just a matter of time. The DC area functions as regional support for basically all large tech companies.

The article makes it seem like an absurdity to the founding fathers to imagine such a large multi-national corporation being there. But they certainly could imagine this, the revolutionary war was a fight against the British East India Company inextricably tied to Britain until the entity dropped stewardship of these colonies out of budgetary concerns. Masquaraded as a decisive victory to support its new national identity, it was clear that corporate control of the government would not be the stance of the new American government.

Yes then the largest public company in the world moving there does theeaten this. But at the same time, that ship has long sailed and this just reminds everyone.

caprese··on 500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time
Watch it be like 2009 Twitter
caprese··on Hackers publish data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents
> I didn't see any indication of that in the article, beyond what could be regular typos

part of standard OPSEC is to run your typing through an anonimyzer tool. Hm thats not the colloquial names of those tools

Basically something to reduce the fingerprinting of how you write. Often times it makes you seem to have bad grammar, but some of the tools can intentionally give you the profile of a Russian person that learned English as a second language.

gives you an easy scapegoat to get away with the hacking, and gives the investigators an easy scapegoat to mask their incompetence

caprese··on Fisher-Price Recalls Rock ’N Play Sleeper Linked to Infant Deaths
an irrelevant point in this article thread because nobody talking about this fisher-price toy is a cheapskate.

everyone here already agrees, now lets talk about this issue at hand.

caprese··on VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trackers
Great-grandparent OP was most accurate in that this crowd cares most about privacy regardless of what it is used for, and that it would have little utility outside of this crowd, but your dismissive response is as if you've been in a coma for 10 years.

As grandparent OP said, in recent years this has moved waaaaay beyond theory territory and been shown time and time again that <Corporate Sector> + NSA + FBI + CIA + intelligence agencies around the world all employ different ways of collecting analytical data broadcast over the internet.

NSA just taps the servers without telling anyone.

FBI sends National Security Letters containing gag orders preventing companies from telling you that the federal government is now a data sharing partner.

CIA just pays companies for it.

FISA court issues secret rulings justifying the legality of it all.

Whether that bothers you or not is up to you. Most people don't care. I usually don't. I wouldn't say "logic dictates this won't happen" when it is pretty much only the multi-national multi-billion dollar companies subject to this kind of tampering, and most incentivized to monetize the analytics by allowing these and unknown third parties in.

To avoid the security exhaustion, some people would simply prefer their text editor not be "smart", which is a euphemism for internet connected.

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