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Add a wildcard forwarding all emails to your primary email address. When you sign up for a new account at Example Co, use exampleco@xonlo.com as your email. This way, you can’t be easily identified via email, your accounts can’t be matched via email address if your data is sold, and if your data is sold/breached, you’ll know the culprit because all the spam will be sent to a forwarding address with their name.

My actual recommendation is to use GraphQL instead. But I assume that’s not an option.

OpenAPI is the way to go. The official client generator libraries are fairly consistent in my experience, albeit the design patterns sometimes stray outside ecosystem standards.

Alternatively, you could add JSON-Schema validation & schema endpoints to the API’s, then use a library like QuickType to generate types. Or even setup sample requests for each endpoint then use QuickType to generate types based on the response JSON.

Brand = Personality.

Substitute the latter for the former and everything will make sense.

Personality is the basis for how you talk (copywriting), how you dress (design), and how you act (business conduct / PR).

Your company’s personality should match the personality of the person/company that your target audience wishes to be.

The act of using your product is an expression of your customers’ own personalities.

Branding is about embodying the ideals that your customers wish to express.

True. But after spending a long time looking for the “JavaScript Rails”, I realized that I didn’t actually need an ORM. Learning SQL is just as difficult as learning a new ORM’s API. Slonik + Postgres + Graphile is now my go-to.

Yes. So long as you do it morally. Your project must extract novel insights from the scraped content, not steal it. Some of my most successful projects have been a result of web scraping.

However, there are caveats. 1. If the scraped website receives frequent updates to its html structure, you will need to update your scraper frequently. This can turn your codeitonceandforgetit side project into a monthly maintenance headache. 2. You are entirely dependent on that site. If they shut their doors, or start blocking bots, you have to find a workaround or shut down your project completely

Ultimately, I would recommend it as a means for quickly attracting users, or as automation for part of a larger project. Ensure that the value is > the maintenance.

No. But one could use a smart contract to strongly disincentivize themselves from uncovering their own treasure.

E.g. Smart contract sends 20% of total treasure (in cryptocurrency) back to the hider each year until the treasure is withdrawn. Treasure can only be withdrawn by the finder address linked to the paper wallet (private key) that was hidden. When it is withdrawn, it sends the finder 15% of the remaining treasure each year, to an address of their choosing.

This way, it’s almost never worth it for the hider to uncover their own treasure

Many web backends are deployed to platform-managed runtime-specific container environments. The idle Linux monolith is becoming less common. In these environments, it’s often easier to set up a cron webhook endpoint than to write a DIY task scheduler.

That said, most deployment platforms have their own task scheduler systems. And https://cron-job.org/en/ does this for free. So, I understand the market but I don’t understand why anyone would pay for this.

But cheers & best of luck to the maker!

I shared Juicy Tag with HN a while ago and there was a less than scintillating response. The landing page lacked clarity and there was a tedious signup process. Since then, I completely revamped the landing page and streamlined the way the entire app works. I also realized who my target demographic is. Accordingly, the site is now full of emoji, hashtags and Snapchat-edited screenshots. Enjoy! :)

Hi, Juicy Tag makes it easy for your followers to follow you across all platforms. Rather than praying that someone will take the time to open an app and type in your username, just add the link to your profile. Hit that link and you'll see a page with three options. Let's say one of them is Instagram. Hit that link and if Instagram downloaded, it will open the app to your profile. If not, it'll open your profile in browser.

I think it's reasonable to say that the HN crowd is predominantly more educated on this matter than the average American. We are not the target audience of this letter. Neither is Apple. Comey is playing on the emotions and technological ignorance of the bourgeois. He refers to brute force hacking as, "...try to guess the terrorist’s passcode..." Then he plays on Americans' current distaste for large corporations and says that the, "American people," need to decide whether this is right or wrong. No, we don't. Every cryptologist, cyber-security expert and halfway decent IT is saying that this is a catastrophic proposal with the power to mutilate the fourth amendment and send a whole Jenga tower of rights tumbling after it. It shouldn't even be a question.

The FBI appears to be using this tragedy as a trojan horse by which to commit atrocities upon our crucial freedoms. No, our thoughts and prayers are not enough, but our privacy and security is far too much.

My concerns in regard to fusing human and machine aren't necessarily because I question the supportive nature of humanity. It's more so that there is no telling what a brain would do with that much power. It's not implausible to say that such a being might disassociate with the human race altogether. Furthermore, innate urges such as survival and production of offspring would still be strongly intact, probably much more prevalent than any idealistic thoughts floating around in the frontal lobe, hence posing a threat of the classic "robot takeover."

Comparatively, teaching/programming a system to have morality seems like a safer bet than giving the reins to a being whose psyche was sculpted by evolution.

Magic+ 11 years ago

You're looking at AI as if it would be their primary product.

They don't need to compete with Google or Apple on the front of AI as a polished product. Not now, anyways. All they need to do is make something that works. They can get away with building something that wouldn't even be beta-worthy for big tech companies to release. To Magic, AI could simply mean more efficient infrastructure, keeping human interaction in place of UX.

The more efficient they get, the more they can lower the price. The more they can lower the price, the more users they'll have. The more users, the more revenue, the more cash to spend on improvement.

AI doesn't have to roll out of MIT looking like Jarvis just to be useful.

I'll admit that I'm a complete novice on this subject but I think Transcendence did a halfway decent job of showing some possible applications of friendly AI. That said, I don't think I'd constitute the conflation of any human mind and supercomputing as friendly.

This doesn't come as a surprise. Amazon has created fantastic consumer and merchant experiences and brought buyer friction down to almost nothing.

I'll be interested to see how they plan to tackle the in-store experience. There are obviously the perishable aspects of grocery store products which, with intense and continual establishment of their current strategies, will eventually present opportunity to become a viable part of the company. But on another end of things, shopping as a hobby is something to overcome. No amount of UX or UI (in current stages, at least) can compare to the coveted experience that shoppers seek when going to a mall. This is an area where Amazon might find value in AR. Ex. being able to try on an outfit without leaving your house.

An obvious method would be to open their own physical stores but that would probably just be a "tiller on the car" fix.

Whatever direction the company goes, I look forwards to seeing what Amazon has in store. (Seriously though, no pun intended.)

This information is very vague. I'd be interested to see how they grouped the startups into those categories. For example, FarmLogs is a business in the agriculture industry but the product itself is information/service. Where do you draw the line?

Actually, it fares really well, depending on how you use it. If you're using one-click, ultra-simple modules like shadows and highlights, temperature, or brightness and contrast, Photoshop & Lightroom will win every time. Doing high-level editing with tone-curve, base-curve, color-zones, color-correction, split-toning, etc. is a different story. Darktable holds its ground. Even if it messes up, you can easily fix any errors with a parametric mask.