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The migration process is very painless [0]; it will take longer to switch your installed extensions on all your devices than to migrate your vault.

[0]: https://help.bitwarden.com/article/import-from-lastpass/

Note that the linked article is only about 22 pages, followed by 2682 (!) references.

I know this article is explicitly from a creator's perspective, but as most people reading it will be backers, I wanted to chime in.

Specifically, it seemed to me that many of the features that made IGG appealing to the author are things that are undesirable to backers. Pervasive, cross-site ad tracking? Hidden product tiers and partitioning of backers? It seems to me that IGG is trying to merge crowdfunding with ecommerce, where such tactics are obviously de rigueur.

From my perspective, however, the original point of crowdfunding platforms was to provide a place that good ideas without funding could have a second chance to see the light. In my mind, this makes crowdfunding perfect for things that target niche markets, or are very "out there", or want to explore ideas that generally would be difficult to pitch to the mass market. Instead, what it seems to be evolving into, and what it should not be (in my opinion), is a place for companies to soft-launch their latest DNVB idea.

In that sense, the choices that Kickstarter is making is to maintain the platform in a similar form to its original incarnation, which at least gives projects the chance to stand out for their ideas rather than their marketing. Marketing wins practically everywhere else already! For projects which are outstanding in their area, but truly too niche to gain sufficient traction to meet their funding goals... I'm not sure what the solution is there.

Another, different approach is that taken by Massdrop, which seems to have embraced the niche appeal of crowdfunding rather than trying to move the needle back to web sales. Of course, it does provide a sales channel, but not in a way that encourages the peddling of schlock through one-and-done, ad-driven campaigns. I'd be interested to read a similar write-up on their backend support for creators, to get a better insight into their thought process and business model.

Finally, I sincerely appreciate the author taking the time to write up their experiences and share them. Even if their goals and my (naïve) preferences are not perfectly aligned, we wouldn't be able to talk about it without this article to spur discussion.

If you're interested, 2018 statistics show Android's share of the smartphone space as 54% in the US, 73% in Europe, and 88% globally, all above the 40% threshold.

In general, the US maintains unofficial diplomatic relations with Taiwan, which means that although the US does not officially recognize the government of Taiwan, it is subject to different tariffs than those imposed on China. Similarly, tariffs imposed by Taiwan are set by the ROC, not the PRC, and therefore are totally distinct from this trade war.

More information can be found in this position statement from the Department of State:

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35855.htm

The bias the parent refers to is implicit, I believe, in the selection of information to convey. That is, the choice of which columns and rows to include in the graph in the first place.

They could have included a row for "Open platform for games", or "Has finger detection", etc. Alternatively, they could have included columns for Vive, or Vive+Wireless, and so on.

This kind of implicit bias is very difficult to avoid, however; in general, viewers of ANY online media should already be assuming the viewpoints they're consuming are biased in the first place.

In particular, since the source is the /r/oculus subreddit, anyone viewing this information there (1) already assumes this implicit bias, and (2) is likely to share it.

I think the parent was implicitly referring to smartphone platforms. Certainly Linux is both the most open and most private option for general computing, which is probably why the parent was lamenting the fact that privacy and openness (in smartphones) are not tightly coupled.

I would also agree that in general, there is certainly room to grow in dataset discovery. However, that will require a drastic improvement in the metadata associated with many (most?) datasets, which I think is probably a large contributor to discovery difficulty.

Regarding your data, at an individual level, it will be very difficult to find that information publicly available, for the simple reason that the organizations that have that information (US Census, IRS) are under extremely strict privacy-preservation requirements whose goal is to prevent exactly these types of linkages.

You could instead try an analysis on aggregated data, i.e. correlations between (zip, average age, average household size) and (zip, average income) tuples. That data is available: [0, 1]

[0]: https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch/search?query=us%20i...

[1]: https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch/search?query=us%20c...

Yikes, talk about poor timing [0]!

Of course, the proposal [1] was submitted at the beginning of August before this was available, but it must still be a bit of a gut check for the research team.

Hopefully they can figure out a way to inject additional novelty in the project.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919297

[1]: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1816325

I'm a little surprised they didn't even bother to ask if anyone stopped using FB (i.e. "deleted their account") completely. "Deleting the app from your phone" is a pretty poor proxy for "I reduced usage of FB" in my view.

> Most researchers, in most fields outside of mathematics, physics and computer science, have rudimentary editing skills at best.

Why exclude those fields? I would argue that poor editing skills are fairly widespread, regardless of domain.

It's difficult to estimate what value the described systems add to a location, but in the grand scheme of a location's expenses, even $600/mo is a drop in the bucket. Align those contracts with the lease on the building itself - no more problems!

Here is a list of all 22 states that filed, with links to their local roadblocks to municipal broadband (if any):

California : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Connecticut

D. C.

Delaware

Hawaii

Illinois

Iowa

Kentucky

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Minnesota : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Mississippi

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Oregon

Pennsylvania : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Rhode Island

Vermont

Virginia : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Washington : https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

My impression from reading the article was that this wasn't a choice of a gao tree monoculture over better methods, but actually a choice between this monoculture and widespread slash-and-burn [0]. See also, [1].

It may not be the best from an ecological standpoint, but it's certainly better than the alternative, and as you said, has the advantage of being well-accepted among the farmers in the area.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash-and-burn

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

More commentary found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16173345

More commentary found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16173345

It's possible that they may be able to grant exceptions on a case-by-case basis; this is strictly based on my lawyer's interpretation of the clearance process.

In general, the theory is that I could potentially have travelled to Iran, Cuba, North Korea, etc. on my German passport, and the US government would never know.

Since I personally sought out these rights, I have also demonstrated "insufficient loyalty to the United States", which is a second strike against me.

Finally, I am not willing to renounce either citizenship, which is yet another.

The difficulty level will vary based on how much paperwork you have already (for proving citizenship during your jus sanguinis claim).

I had to submit FOIA requests for records going back to the 1950's, as well as retaining a lawyer. The process took three trips to the German embassy, 18 months, and roughly $2000.

However, once the initial process was completed for myself, processing it for my children took a single trip, no lawyer, and roughly $100 apiece for application fees.

If this claim was exercised for you by your parents prior to turning 18, and you have never travelled on your foreign passport, and you are willing to renounce your foreign citizenship, your eligibility will be maintained.

Otherwise it's highly unlikely.

German citizenship can be passed jus sanguinis, which doesn't conflict with US requirements based on jus soli.

Thus, a child born in the US to German parents is eligible for citizenship in both countries. This bypasses both countries' requirements on exclusive citizenship because you are not applying for citizenship, but rather exercising your claim to existing citizenship. This is a semantically meaningful differentiation from a legal standpoint.

Note that exercising this claim yourself will permanently disqualify you from government clearances at all levels.

Source: I went through this process.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

I understand this position, but I still would say that it's muddying the semantic waters a bit. If you had "prejudice plus power" against someone in the LGBTQ community, would that also be called racism?

In general, I think the most common interpretation of racism would be "prejudice w.r.t. race" rather than "prejudice plus power". I would suggest that perhaps oppression is a more appropriate word to use for "prejudice plus power".

I think the argument would be more along the lines of, "I marginally dislike the concept that I no longer own these products, but I absolutely hate the other team, which therefore deserves my attention to a much greater degree."

They're not necessarily related semantically, but in terms of allocation of attention (a finite resource), they are competitive.

I think this really depends on your motivations. Are you trying to convey the information to the community? Trying to build a reputation as a researcher? Increment your citation count?

arXiv is a pretty good option for disseminating information, but most papers published there don't receive as much consideration as those that have gone through a peer review. Therefore, only the most obviously-groundbreaking papers end up accruing a lot of citations there.

If you want to build a reputation, you'll need to target peer-reviewed conferences, and probably those that have a double-blinded process. This will allow your work to stand on its own, although you'll need to ensure that it conforms to the structures/patterns/shibboleths of the academic community. They best way to learn these, if you don't already know them, is to read as many papers as you have time for in a domain as close to yours as possible, and then replicate those formats.

If you're looking to increase your citation count, this is difficult to do without really groundbreaking research. Some manage it by doing "citation sharing" with collaborators, but this is (A) frowned upon, and (B) difficult to get going if you're not in academia.

In any case, you'll probably want to learn LaTeX if you haven't already; this is a pretty necessary first step for publication, either at arXiv or an IEEE/ACM conference. Edit: This is because most conferences have a template that you must follow, and these templates are provided in LaTeX format.

I'm not sure, but it seems like the site/service this article is referencing is for either coders, or people who need coders, but either way is targeting a more-technical / business-oriented audience.

What is the overlap on the Venn diagram between "people who like to use AMP" and "people who are technical enough to need this service"? My first instinct would be that it's low.

> I hope we can agree that de facto serfdom is a bad thing.

There is actually some evidence that what we currently have is already worse than serfdom [0] in many ways. I don't think this is a crisis which is about to occur, but one which has already started, is currently ongoing, and will probably get much worse.

[0] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...

> Who is this article actually helping?

It seems to be primarily targeted at highly-technical people, such as those who might stumble on this article via HN, or who casually frequent websites with "crypto" in their name.

These audiences naturally would have a higher tolerance to technical adoption barriers than the average consumer, which is who your other advice seems to be targeting.

I don't think this is very well-known, at least among people who haven't worked on telephony implementations (? I have no idea where this is commonly used). Never in my life has someone asked me for my DID instead of my phone number.

It's fairly plausible that the people working on this specification were unaware of this pre-existing acronym (which ranked after Defense In Depth, when I searched it), and just said "Oh, we're making Distributed IDentifiers. Let's call them DIDs! That's easy to remember."

When used in verbal conversation, is it generally spelled out like CPU (dee eye dee), or said as a word like RAM (did)?

The skills (usually) must follow a specific syntax involving the word "ask". So, for example, if you're using the Domino's skill to buy pizza, you say something like "Alexa, open [pizza brand] and place my Easy Order", or "Alexa, ask [pizza brand] to track my order." which are significantly more unwieldy (and more importantly, hard to remember) than "Alexa, order a pizza."

I frequently have to chain several, distinct "Alexa" commands together to achieve my desired end state. For example, if I want to turn on all the lights in my house, set their brightnesses to 100%, and set their colors to soft white, I have to send that as three distinct commands. Being able to create a shortcut, such as "Alexa, Lumos" or whatever would save roughly 30 seconds per instance.

Edit: I forgot to mention that some larger skills are exempt from this, once Amazon has added additional integrations. For example, for my thermostat, I can say "Alexa, set the AC to 78" rather than "Alexa, ask [brand] to set the temperature to 78". I still haven't discovered the special syntax to set the AC to Away mode yet.

It has been able to do this for some time.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/11/16460120/...

My cynical side says that this is a feature, not a bug - a litmus test to see whether or not the selected city will be politically pliable under Amazon's significant financial leverage.

Any city that can't pass (or force through) favorable legislation isn't one that Amazon would want to choose long-term anyway, especially viewed in the context of their relationships with local governments in Seattle [0]. The key point here is that this is a descriptive feature that's hard to ask about, but easy to test for.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogervaldez/2018/07/31/good-new...