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I tried the beta version before this launch and found a couple of really interesting stocks. Companies that weren't even on my radar.

Perhaps it works at your organization. I've been a PM where engineers and UX had no sense of ownership nor business sense. A PM's role is to understand what is important, how to prioritize, how to validate ideas fast, and how to avoid the tail wagging the dog (the tail could be UX, tech or your VP). If you have engineers and UX folks who can do this, more power to you!

Ben Thompson had a good comparison of messaging apps [1, $] yesterday. He ranked them as follows:

1. Signal Signal encrypts your messages end-to-end, and does not back up your messages to either iCloud or its own servers. This is the most secure option (and also the option most likely to lead to data loss or getting locked out of your own account — it’s a tradeoff!).

2. WhatsApp WhatsApp encrypts your messages end-to-end (with the same protocol as Signal), and does not back up your messages to its own servers. By default it does not back up messages to iCloud either, but that is an option. If you enable that option then your messages can be accessed by Apple (who has the keys for iCloud backups) and, by extension, law enforcement with a warrant.

3. (tie) Telegram Telegram does not end-to-end encrypt messages by default; they are stored on Telegram’s servers where they are secured by Telegram’s keys, which means they can also be accessed by law enforcement with a warrant. However, you can turn on end-to-end encryption for one-to-one conversations (but not for channels).

4. (tie) Facebook Messenger Messenger does not end-to-end encrypt messages by default; they are stored on Facebook’s servers and can be accessed by Facebook and, by extension, law enforcement. However, like Telegram, you can enable end-to-end encryption for one-to-one conversations.

5. iMessage iMessage encrypts messages end-to-end by default; however, if you have iCloud backup turned on, your messages can be accessed by Apple (who has the keys for iCloud backups) and, by extension, law enforcement with a warrant. Unlike WhatsApp, though, this is both on by default and cannot be turned off on a granular basis.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2021/the-whatsapp-kerfuffle-comparin...

What's the point of monitoring unless you can get paged about outages?

Previous submission with details on how priming works for my use case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24778350

OP is already paying for them by buying the products they sell.

Here are the alternatives:

FileMerge - part of Xcode. Free. use opendiff to launch from CLI

BBEdit - My go to editor for the Mac. Freemium. Available both on the Mac app store and their website as a download.

VS Code - Also free.

SourceTree - Acquired by Atlassian. Also free. Good for git context to diff branches, commits and modified but uncommitted files in current branch.

> For example, David Brooks and Ross Douthat write for the New York Times. There’s no equivalent among the Wall St Journal columnists or Fox News hosts.

I used to think that too but it's not true. Example: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-elect-joe-biden-to...

I feel like a big reason for the divide is the filter bubbles[1] the public has trapped themselves in. I wanted to force myself to read news from both sides of the divide rather than simply NPR, which was my go-to source for several years. In spite of RSS readers being essentially dead, there are still RSS feeds available. So I mashed up feeds from 10 left and right leaning sources each and created Smash the Bubble[2], mostly for personal consumption.

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

[2]https://smashthebubble.com/

> This is exacerbated by the fact that 9 out of 10 times a story like this appears it's an algorithm gone rogue which its billion-dollar shepherd assumes is infallible.

This. And it happens in all businesses Google is part of. As a website owner who monetized with AdSense for a decade, this year their algorithms suddenly decided that 33% of the ad revenue was from "invalid clicks". The month before this happened, I was experimenting with a different ad provider. My suspicion is when I returned to AdSense the month-over-month increase in revenue tripped up the algo. Talking to Google reps was of no use because they have no control over the algo. I lost ~$12K in revenue over 2.5 months and eventually just stopped using Adsense.

Those aren't among the sources. The sources are listed here: https://smashthebubble.com/about

(National Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fox News, CNN, Politico, RealClearPolitics, NewsMax, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Quillette, The Atlantic)

From the name I assumed it was about breaking out of filter bubbles, which is something I'm very interested in. A couple of years ago I created a news mixer that pulled stories from left and right-leaning outlets and intermingled them: https://smashthebubble.com/

Since RSS is pretty much dead, it was hard to find the right feeds for US politics from each source. So you may see some non-political stories there from time to time.

AliExpress does this too. When you are looking at a product and want to share it, one of the share options is AliExpress code. It copies a message to your clipboard, which is this:

To view 【US $21.83 40％ Off | 10 Pcs KN95 Face Masks Dust Respirator KN95 Mouth Masks Adaptable Against Pollution Breathable Mask Filter (not for medical use)】 on AliExpress with code #_qsrSbGW#, copy the whole sentence and open the app.

This is really quite short-sighted. Sure, customers like this in the short term. But this hurts the website owner.

e.g. 1: You are a restaurant or retailer and your potential customers search Google for your hours of operation or phone number. Google shows them the answer so they never come to your site. So they don't see that you have a free delivery offer during the Covid crisis. And you can't market to them via any campaign that retargets visitors to your site.

e.g. 2: You are a publisher that makes money from ads, like say CelebrityNetWorth [1]. Google steals your content and you never get the traffic you'd like to monetize. This is HN so there will be scorn for the ad-fueled business model. But they serve a need. It's one thing for the market to punish ad-monetized sites, it's quite another for Google to steal from them.

e.g. 3: You are Wikipedia. While your content is free, you rely on community contributions to grow. If someone never visits your site, they don't learn about your mission, don't learn that they can contribute. Your corpus stagnates.

The only reason Google gets away with this is because they are stealing pennies from millions of people rather than millions from a single entity. Indie content creators do not have the resources to fight Google on this, because G offers them an all-or-nothing option[2]: you can either be in Google search results or not. And no one can afford not to be.

Google has been so emboldened that they now change the content and user experience _on the website_.[3] Consumers click through to your site and Google will scroll them to a specific section, and highlight that in yellow. Not only does Google control who gets to your site via the search monopoly, but they steal your content, and control how people experience _your_ site.

[1] https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynet... [2] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6229325?hl=en [3] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280115/google-search-eng...

People who had this mutation could have died of causes other than aging.

Developer experience

The same thing happened to my .cm domain with Namecheap a few weeks ago. They were eventually able to recover it. But there was no communication from them for quite a few days.

Nothing in the article quotes anything directly from the founders about geographical separation of economic centers and political capitals. Lobbying has already corrupted Washington. There is no logical argument in the article. It seems to be be anti-Amazon propaganda.

Nice! Could you please augment that list with links to the HN threads about the release of each? A list like that is the starting point but often the pros and cons are found in HN discussions.

Isn't that the point though? It was B's inventory that was fake so why should A get in trouble?

Took a while for me to find the VSCode extension. Here it is: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-ossda...

I'd argue this is a feature and not a bug. When copy-pasting text from PDFs, I'd love to not have to deal with unicode and ligatures. There's another comment upthread here where someone's complaining about having to deal with unicode.

If Preview can do this automatically, please don't change that feature.

Why not just release it into the public domain then?

I've been looking for a low-cost provider so I signed up for Elasticemail. Their new account confirmation email went to Gmail's spam folder. Not a good sign :(

I guess I'll have to keep looking.

This is truly sad because RSS clearly fulfills a need that Facebook/Twitter feeds never will.

Just last month I launched a bipartisan political news aggregator to force us out of our filter bubbles[1]. The only way I was able to do that was by consuming the politics RSS feeds for both right-leaning and left-leaning news websites.

Without RSS, it's much harder to build an aggregator like this.

1. https://smashthebubble.com/

Exactly. Came here to post this and ask what I'm missing.

Such comments are common after every "disaster". When Intel chip vulnerabilities due to aggressive caching were announced, the fixes reduced perf for those chips, and these same types of comments were made.

It never happens.

Would you trust a random individual who may or may not even be a farmer or a business that has obtained USDA organic accreditation?

We are at a time in history when we could benefit from reading _alternative_ points of view rather than remain trapped in our ideological bubbles.

The headline is misleading. It says ICOs "die". The actual article says that after 3-6 months, returns from a cryptocurrency are no better than the overall crypto market.

This is like saying after 6 months of an IPO, the stock does not outperform the S&P 500. It doesn't mean the IPO is dead, or the stock is dead.