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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830868

Which gTLD? I was thinking of using .land for email aliasing?

In 2002, Caltech students rejected one of his pieces, which would have been installed on the Beckman Lawn:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-22-me-calte...

https://campuspubs.library.caltech.edu/1826/1/2002_05_20_103...

The most memorable thing about this location was their Ms Pac-man cocktail table game.

Wouldn’t they make less grass then if it wasn’t used to feed cows as much?

With this clear example of separation between individual and identity, it calls into question the need for real celebrities. What difference does it make if you're watching/following someone real/digital?

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/lil-miquela-digital-avatar-in...

12 vs 115 million, according to the second paragraph of the article:

In its letter, Slack warned Microsoft that “Slack is here to stay,” adding, “We’re just getting started.” But the 4 million users it had at the time would increase to just 12 million four years later, while Microsoft — which added Teams to its 365 bundle without increasing the price — took Teams from zero to 115 million users.

Oh Negative Time Tommy's Run was done the night when Daylight saving time ended, so students could leave campus and come back before the time they left. :)

BS 2001 graduate here. When I was there, Negative Time Tommy's Run was still a thing (although they did build a Tommy's like 5 minutes away). Also, I wonder how much of the undergraduate culture was visible/apparent to the graduate students.

There’s further discussion about the game here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/h7yw17/til_a...

Also lucky his parents had money to pay for a lawyer:

So he went to his parents’ home in St. Augustine, where, over dinner, he told them what was happening. They agreed to dip into their savings to pay for a lawyer.

Fortunately, I attended a college (Caltech) that as institute policy did not take attendance and no part of the grade was based on attendance.

I attended Caltech (BS '01) and given that they allowed us to take exams home with us, it would have been surprising if a professor took attendance. This was part of the overall honor code (http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/explore/about-caltech/hono...) that looking back, I really appreciated as a student.

I believe that comes from a satirical Facebook page, but in an effort for a serious response, this page does a decent job categorizing the different sub-genres:

http://www.fourfa.com/styles/index.htm

Power consumers won’t make the distinction between both scenarios; their power is off in both cases.

This was well covered in the NPR podcast Throughline:

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757539617/the-litter-myth

Ironic, since the Ad Council released commercials like these after 9/11 showing someone getting questioned after asking about a book in a library, and ending with "What if America wasn't America?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgmBFb4jfjw

I've previously wondered [1] if there was a market for a pricing SaaS, that does this customer feature tracking separately, like LaunchDarkly, but tied to payment processing, like Stripe.

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/ask-ih-how-do-you-keep-tr...

Hi Adhityaa, in your Terms of Service (https://commento.io/terms), you reference your company as " Commento, Inc". What US state (or jurisdiction) is it incorporated in?

If you still believe this is plagiarism (after the citation edit), then your recourse is to notify Gitlab, where this is hosted on.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/dmca/

As the sibling comment states, it was sharing endorsements, and not sharing photos of a marked ballot, as mentioned in your linked article.

About 6 years ago, for the 2012 election, I wrote my first iOS app called SuperVote (http://supervote.org) where Facebook users would voluntarily share their endorsements on a shared ballot, allowing you to see how your friends and family plan to vote (especially useful for California, and all the ballot initiatives). It got about 100 users, but didn't really take off, so I didn't continue updating it.

At this point, considering the state of politics and Facebook, I would not go about the same venture anymore.

As a resident of Hawaii, this makes perfect sense; this is part of state law [1] and includes public access, along with protections such as:

In June 2010 Governor Lingle signed into law House Bill 1808, a bill that prevents private property owners from blocking shoreline access by planting or cultivating vegetation.

[1] http://www.beachapedia.org/State_of_the_Beach/State_Reports/...

I haven't been to this meetup in a couple years, but WetWare Wednesday is a good consistent one to meet up with local developers (on Oahu):

https://www.facebook.com/wetwarewednesday

Event details are usually posted here [1], along with any other tech related events going on in the islands.

[1] http://www.techhui.com

That's why I moved to Hawaii and never looked back. Working remotely is a lot of fun, and is just healthier, both environment-wise and mentally.

I work from Hawaii remotely too. Downsides to here are entertainment and food. Flying back to LA periodically is helpful for that.

Its great to see he's continuing this work! Makes sense to use existing technology like IPFS to distribute the graph, instead of building the technology from the ground up like we were trying to do back in the day.

I thought Freebase [1] was the most promising "Semantic Web" technology, with a powerful query language (MQL) and an application platform called Acre [2]. I'm biased because I worked at Danny Hillis' adjacent company, Applied Minds, and met with the Freebase folks to talk about graph databases. I went to one of Freebase's Hack Days, and I could feel the energy around building applications on a semantically-aware global database.

Unfortunately, they got acquired by Google, and Freebase eventually shut down. Thinking back now, I wonder if there would have been a business model in hosting private data graphs to subsidize the open source data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase [2] - https://opensource.googleblog.com/2010/08/acre-open-source-p...

What code base did you develop the web app in?

The app itself was an iOS app written in Objective-C.

And do you have an android version?

Unfortunately there wasn't. It probably would have been helpful to write it in something like PhoneGap (now Apache Cordova) to increase engagement, but I was using it partially as an exercise to learn Objective-C and iOS.

What was the reasoning? Were you not getting enough use and participation? No downloads? Did you fail to execute the concept in some way?

At around 100 registered users, I felt it wasn't enough interest in the app to keep going. Some of the feedback I got through the App Store included not seeing all the available candidates (like lesser third party candidates) for a given election. Since I was entering elections by hand and not using a third party API to get the information, there was alway some information missing from the lesser elections. Also, after the 2012 election was over, I didn't see the purpose of maintaining an app that wouldn't be used for at least another 2 years. Its something you need to be dedicated for in the long haul.

In 2011-2012, I built my first iPhone app, called SuperVote [1], a social ballot app that showed your Facebook friends' endorsements for upcoming elections. I was motivated to build the app for state ballot measures more so than political office elections, because in California you could have 10+ ballot measures to vote on, and I wanted a crowdsourced way to see where my friend's sat on the different measures. I built the backend model to accept a ZIP code and return back a custom ballot for each user, since your Facebook friends may live in other states, so at most you would share the national portion of the ballot.

I worked with a small core of friends to refine the app's features. I spent much more time than I should have building the website using some software called Freeway Express. I blogged regularly [2] and shared those links on various state/city subreddits. In the end, I spent about $100 on Reddit ads to get a total of 100 registered users and few endorsements. As not a designer, I recognized the app was not flashy, so it may not have been appealing to download. I also realize that the website doesn't do a good job in selling the app, and that I focused more on the ideas rather than the app itself. I wonder now how well a more polished version of this app would have played out in 2016 elections, although I recognize that the mix of politics and social media has gone downhill since 2016.

[1] http://www.supervote.org [2] - http://blog.supervote.org

But if you make $130,001/year, you pay thousands?

No. From the article:

Another part of the program will help students whose family income surpasses the maximum: If their family's income is between $130,000 and $200,000, they can still get grants covering at least half of their tuition.

I was also on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE until a couple weeks ago. The blocker for me was that I wasn't able to open my credit card app anymore to see my balance, because they stopped supporting iOS 10 (there were other app updates that were pending my iOS upgrade). I upgraded to 11.4.1. I'm hoping to stay on that until iOS 13 is announced. I prefer stability, so I prefer staying on the latest minor version of each iOS release.