Godaddy has been doing it for at least decade now, i just searched a domain i think 10 years ago that I in fact needed, however didn't want to use Godaddy for registration, anyway the only mistake I made was, i searched for its availability on their site, and it was available, then i went to namecheap to register it. (im from Pakistan no way affiliated with Namecheap anyhow) .. and to my surprise it got registered within i think 10 min, I was quite shocked, and then I tried to look for its whois and found Godadday had registered it, and I can swear, this was the last time i visited their website.

this godadday practice story keeps showing up every now and then everywhere reddit or HN etc.

Some people say it's great, they 'secure' your domain than hijacking.. blah blah. nonetheless it's a creepy behavior.. in the past such discussion i guess it only cost them few cents to register it for a month period etc.. not sure exactly, some peeps had suggested to make a bot to search tons of them.. but I think it doesn't cost them much... somehow....

basically he still made great money, i don't think anyone would pay more than $10k .. if he had listed it on flippa it's simple 3 x yearly revneue for such sites = $ 5000 maxium. he got the right buyer and $10k isn't bad deal for either party.

while I applaud the author, but it didn't entirely settle well with me... I guess it still amounts to misuse of one's resources. in this case twitter.

is it back, or they are clearing refurbished stock? it was on clearance page.

I didn't get the Uber reference, have not they given up on driverless cars, at least for the near future? after the sensor / lidar failure resulting in a fatal crash.

Uber stopped for a few months after killing a woman, but resumed testing a month ago: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/uber-self-driving-car-test...

It wasn't a sensor failure. Multiple sensors (including the lidar) detected the woman with plenty of time to stop.

It was a management failure. The car had a perfectly ordinary radar based emergency braking function factory fitted by Volvo but Uber disabled it, presumably to avoid interference with the cars autonomous driving functions (if I recall correctly).

With Google Reader Gone, Facebook and Twitter essentially have taken the place of feed readers. It makes a lot of sense for Facebook, it's not merely a social network anymore. It's acting like a social 'OS' for the users now.

Yahoo.com used to be that "social OS" in the 1990s and early 2000s, and look at them now. They even had a Facebook-like feature as part of their service, Yahoo 360.

Google Reader and RSS has outsize importance in tech and blogging circles, but as someone who was in college in the late-2000s, I count on one hand the number of people who knew what RSS even was. I'd say FB and Twitter killed forums and website comment sections.

I happen to work in an industry (intl shipping) where we scan billions of PDF daily, and I have no clue, how would we share docs with all the parties involved ... 'sanely' ... if it were not for PDF, TIFF isn't good either .. PDF docs are like 3kb-10kb ... other than physical scan of papers ... however 'generated PDF docs' are 5kb at best.

It's scary how differently PDFs can be output depending on the exporter. I have some Word docs for user and installation guides that can be 100% larger depending on whether the content writer saves it as PDF, exports it as PDF, or prints the document to a PDF.

Not really. Each of those PDFs has a different intent and thus a different amount of metadata embedded it in.

For the purposes of what we're doing with them, we don't care about any of that, however. The real answer would be to automate the process, so people don't have to think and have the opportunity to do it wrongly, it just happens, but it's hasn't been high enough priority to bother with getting right.

hmm why one would want 'always-on' i guess raising the wrist to look at the time ... is both ideal and battery saving too? please enlighten me.

I have an Apple Watch that doesn’t have an always-on display, and this lack is mildly annoying. Most of the time “it just works”, but there are times where I would have like a smarter raise detection. Always on display isn’t necessarily the best solution to this problem, but it certainly is one.

Because then you don't have to raise your wrist to look at the time?

It was a consumer product until Mircosoft acquired it, now it's neither.

Only if your recipient is a bot too. Having said that could work very well for ‘business emails, where essentially we’re writing in the same tone than personal email’

PS: I’m loving the idea and let’s hope it can get tailored to ones individual needs