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This is some strange aspirational, manifest destiny read on American individualism vs. Russian greatness through military might, anchored and extruded around the Tocqueville quote. I much favor the alternate view, where the justifications a
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I used HN search, through Algolia.
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It doesn't, really. It's just that these companies tend to draw more modest valuations, generating a more subdued kind of excitement. Forbes just wrote about how VCs should invest more in B2C startups [1]. A different piece from C
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In my opinion, Facebook yes [1][2][3][4][5], Twitter no [6][7][8][9][10][11][12], Uber probably (because the laws of the land only bark and rarely bite hard enough) [13][14][15], and because they have less cash-on-hand than Uber, Lyft no [1
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These are all brick-and-mortar companies that were built around a single product (electricity, telephone, railways, airlines, dairy roll-up) and later expanded by merging with competitors or expanding into related fields. You can also add P
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I have a difficult time envisioning what sort of journalism you expect. Is investigative reporting okay? Are opinion pieces off limits? Are government sources acceptable, or should they be excluded? What about business owners speaking on ma
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Facebook wants to solidify being a content portal for news. Its competition is Google with AMP, Google and other search engines without AMP, and first-party content producers, and 'orthodox news aggregators'. Both Facebook and Goo
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Why shouldn't these be taken care of? Both Windows and UNIX/Linux programs have had interactive, guided installers, graphical or text-based, for years . Package managers support post-install scripts. Organizational division-of-re
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It's implied in the article that the opposite is true. Certain elite schools cover tuition, room and board, and occasionally supplies for low-income students through merit-based scholarships [1] even for out-of-state students, while ma
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This is a good read. It's from danah boyd, whom I've disagreed with on some points before, but this article looks at why certain people distrust mainstream media or the opinions of experts, and traces it back to America's ind
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Though I am not familiar with this particular project and can't comment on its quality, a C-S-P directive engine is always welcome. In my opinion [1][2][3], it's fairly clear that C-S-P isn't a fire-and-forget header (unlike
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Hard to say for sure, but when I've told people to go to sites with new TLDs, they ask if '.com' is at the end, and seem skeptical when I assure them I gave them a full domain.
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- BBC's old mobile site, discontinued in 2015 - https://braille.wunderground.com/ - http://www.smh.com.au/text/ and any other news source that still bothers to make RSS-like versions - https:&#x2
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This is mostly an awareness article that summarizes previously deployed techniques, and illustrates a situation where those techniques can cause maximum harm. For background, a HN submission a year ago about these kinds of ads linking to ph
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You're gonna get self-selecting responses to this, but I listen to FM a good amount -- maybe not every day, but several times a week, mostly in the car. For me, it's a way to attune to mainstream music or a particular station form
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Back in 2008-2010, FB conquered instant messaging [1]. Since then, other services proliferated, including WhatsApp (which they wisely bought), and others, but FB Chat, rebranded as Messenger, is still a hugely important platform. Instagram
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There was a good interview [1] with Dominic, the author, a month ago, where he covered much of the design rationale behind Inferno. And he's on HN [2], and his comments often offer valuable insight as well. In a strange twist, he also
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The Nano is essentially a Client Certificate in USB form.
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People who graduate from US universities qualify for exactly no immigration benefit.
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This situation is subject to information asymetry, and, as with some other conflicts, reduces down to a question of trust [1]. Half a year ago, the question of the Tor Project and accusations against Appelbaum formed a situation that also c
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These situations are awkward because any other resolution would've made GNU look like an aggressor. This response acknowledges that GNU isn't a fan of the maintainer's choice, but all other outcomes are sub-par, and they don&
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Does Iași have significantly lower cost-of-doing-business than Cluj?
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This terminology comes from project management. An employee's work hours are finite. In an effort to estimate delivery dates and prioritize work, project management allocates 'resources' to work items the same way that hardwa
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It's hard to overstate how bizarrely opaque healthcare pricing is in the US. Despite the quality of the care ranking favorably worldwide, medical bills are an after-the-fact surprise. In the diplomatic, foreign exchange, and expat comm
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For the time being you can freely switch two different interfaces for the same backend: Prime Photos and Amazon Drive [1]. It's clunky. Cloud Drive was their first pass, Photos is their second and is barely a few months old, and I&#x27
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That's not a protocol, though. That's a userspace application.
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Because most people pay them for the hosting, and the UI/UX is just a bonus. There are plenty of open protocols for file sharing, like HTTP or SFTP. What unmet requirements do you envision?
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For your usecase, Prime Photos [1] from Amazon, where they meld the traditional album and folder metaphors with auto-classifying ML -- the latter which you can luckily turn off if it creeps you out, unlike with Google. But this is an under-
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Well, it was. It bootstrapped its userbase with college students, creating an air of exclusivity and giving highschoolers something to look forward to . The profiles were clean-cut and professional, as opposed to the garishly styled HTML t
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Previous: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=renewing-mediums-focus&sort=by... Discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321322

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