Readit Newswaspight commented on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday patrick-breyer.de/en/post... · Posted by u/tdsone3
How will this affect companies in a technical aspect? Just no more e2e encryption available in the clients? Or will it be some kind of weird e2e with a backdoor (which is not how encryption works)…
Traces uploaded to OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces can be downloaded on https://planet.openstreetmap.org/gps/ The page hasn't been updated since 2013 but still, it's gigabytes of data.
(Update: 848,000 files based on the annoucement https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/04/12/bulk-gpx-track-dat...)
https://community.openstreetmap.org/ is the forum to ask where newer data is. I remember a technical discussion by the system administrators about backup page for traces so the full data must be available somewhere.
That openstreetmap data was just what I needed, thanks!
waspight commented on Show HN: RevenueCat Paywalls twitter.com/RevenueCat/st... · Posted by u/jeiting
Hi! We’d love to have you.
For this particular case it’s tricky on iOS since you can’t programmatically cancel a subscription on iOS. It must be initiated by the customer on the device.
However, if you navigate that UX challenge, you can use our events and webhooks to make a smooth experience guiding a user through the process. Hadn’t thought of this before, but you could probably pre-authorize a stripe token, then ask them to cancel on iOS, then wait for the webhook from us, then finish the transaction and track it to the same customer ID in RevenueCat.
Alright, I might try it out. When the user cancel iOS the subscription is still payed and valid until the month ends probably. I guess one could delay the Stripe period the same amount of days or something.
waspight commented on Show HN: RevenueCat Paywalls twitter.com/RevenueCat/st... · Posted by u/jeiting
I might be migrating to using Revenuecat and I am curious about one thing. I have in app subscriptions in iOS and Android. I plan to add Stripe into this mix as well at some point and I wonder if you handle the case when users jump from subscriptions in one platform to another.
I would like to move certain users (for instance by recommending that in a newsletter, or handing out coupons for the Stripe subscription) from their current iOS subscription to Stripe, and it is hard to make the overlap smooth. Does Revenuecat have some solution to this?
waspight commented on Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Eh, Goodreads has always suffered from the same problem that plagues every other review system which uses "score out of X" ranking.
Humans just aren't very good at ranking things on a normal distribution, so you invariably end up with every item (books in this case) being ranked somewhere in the 3.5-4.5 range (since Goodreads is out of 5). For IMDB the rankings all hover around 8ish. When in reality the average book should have a 2.5. If you don't rate like this then you just end up with garbage.
Just allowing a boolean rating (ala Rotten Tomatoes when aggregated) is much better, assuming you can get enough reviews for that system to actually work (probably > 30 is required for most applications).
I think "aggregated personal Elo" would be a fun way to rank things: I just give you two books that you've read and you tell me which is better. Do this loads of times and eventually you have a solid ranking of every book you've ever read. Aggregate everyone's rankings and you have a much more robust system then "please rate this book out of 5 stars".
I have thought about this relative rating as well. Would it be possible to use? I mean, does it scale? I also have seen some ratings where you can only rate between 5 - 10, I guess since no one ever rates below 5 anyway. I think it kind of works.