optimaton

Re:We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002) on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:50AM (#23777298)

This is wild!

Re:Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 months on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:40AM (#23649040)

Not a popular opinion, but I have a feeling that this is going to quickly go from your privacy is our responsibility to gatekeeping is virtuous, so we won’t let you do that.

Re:An audio app that has consumed my life on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:46AM (#22985096)

Really curious to know. Is it because of the conversational tone or the click-baity suspense?

Re:“Today I cut my pay to $0. I'm committed to laying off 0 of our emp... on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:40AM (#22725758)

Someone who is going to such lengths to save their employees should at least be given the benefit of doubt.

He did something similar 7 years ago, so I don’t think he has some ulterior motive with all this or a grand plan. IDK, Seems like a great guy to me.

Re:“Today I cut my pay to $0. I'm committed to laying off 0 of our emp... on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:30AM (#22725725)

Fantastic! People never go out of business, but businesses do, take care of people not some fictitious entity.

Ask HN: How do services like readwise extract highlights from kindle?

Posted by optimaton on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:11AM
from the ask-hn dept.

As the question states I want to get my kindle highlights to my personal mail, but it seems to me that there are no public apis to fetch the highlights, and neither does readwise use MyClipping.txt file(I know because it is only present inside the kindle device, and never goes out unless you connect it to your computer). I am wondering how do they do it?Do they scrape read.amazon.com/notebook,...

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Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:20AM (#22644919)

I don’t think they do.

The response clearly is reasonable, but no reasonable person would say that on someone’s face. So I don’t think Marta _moreno really knew about Walter

Re:Ask HN: What makes an online course amazing? on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:47AM (#22581601)

All of the following in one website or tool/sw:

1/ Interactive tutorials and quiz format like brilliant.org

2/ A Wikipedia like comprehensive wiki embeded with course website for all kinds of reference.

3/ An online community — could be a piazza/forum.

4/ A github like service integrated with course site specifically for that course where students can submit their projects and be evaluated by other forum members/mentors etc.

Re:Recurse Center switches to online-only until at least May on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:15PM (#22564407)

Isn’t the primary intent of having an offline place to cut off the distraction and to make it feel like a retreat? How can that be accomplished online?

Re:Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook on Monday March 02, 2020 @12:15AM (#22461837)

When you stop using Facebook, it makes the quality of your life better.

Re:Heart doctors 'held back stent death data' on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:03AM (#22363407)

This is terrifying. Does anybody know of any alternative that would work well in long-term? Asking for a relative who just had a mild heart attack.

Ask HN: What do you think is the soln to the issue of anonymous pseudo-experts?

Posted by optimaton on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:48AM
from the ask-hn dept.

In platforms like reddit, where there are sub-communities(subreddits) like eli5, askscience, etc--where anyone with half-knowledge can answer a vaguely sciency looking answer or something that resonates with the majority using jargons--how do you bring accountability if no one knows what is true? It is like there is potentially no downsides with such anonymous platforms. My concern mostly is...

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