skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "social ownership" refers to the various forms of ownership for the means of production in socialist economic systems; encompassing public ownership, employee ownership, cooperative ownership, citizen ownership of equity[1] and common ownership.[2]

In Capitalism you actually have the freedom to share the means of production. Go out there and convince a few people to form a company that is collectively owned. It can be done.

So why don't we then see formation of companies with employee ownership or cooperative ownership? Because it is a model that is far less effective in producing goods and services, thus in almost every case someone tried it it failed. (and many did try)

The only way this can work is by outlawing private enterprises as we know them today, because if private enterprises were allowed to exist besides these models then they would be guaranteed to crush these alternative organisation forms.

We have seen this happen every single time Socialism was implemented. Capitalists economies consistently crushed Socialist economies.

Therefore everyone that insists on implementing Socialism has to accept that it will mean that innovation and efficiency will significantly go down as a result, which also means that everyone will get poorer. (if you produce less or at higher costs per unit then this is bound to happen)

It also means that other societies that do not implement Socialism will have an advantage and over time we'll fall back in development significantly.

And then of course you somehow have to sell your population to accept that the government will take away their private property and redistribute it, if it is any kind of business.

So it's kind of a tough sell to anyone that thinks the whole thing through.

It is also immoral by the way. You have to steal private property from others and limit their freedoms just so your little collective has a shot at surviving in the market.

If it weren't so then you'd have already created the collective, because you could. No one is preventing you from doing it in a Capitalist economy.
There's content which is simply disinformative. It's not only wrong, but makes the reader stupider for having read it. Objectively.
I generally like the full web version, but the mobile app is atrocious. Why, why on Earth can't I see the list of last searches or at least last played songs.
I'm curious about their long-term outlook. My understanding is that OPEC counties are currently desperate enough for money that they can't agree to limit output, thereby forcing the price further down. Anyone have better insight here?
This may well be the biggest attempt ever to get out at the right time
Just for the record if you disabled the Windows 10 update properly[1] I'm pretty sure it would never bother you and you could never accidentally install it.

I'm not saying I approve of what Microsoft did with the W10 upgrade but if you were technically competent to change a few registry/group policy options it was never a problem for you.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351
Now that's what I call an exit!
Peak Oil, then?
If you thought owning part of a company in China was difficult, consider the problems of owning part of one in Saudi Arabia.
Finally ! Goodbye php,ruby and go ! can't get rid of Python though, simply the best language for analytics.
#CensusFail – A Preliminary Analysis
Amazon CA locale is requested and I will add it ASAP. Any locale you want to see?
If they can't protect the binaries on their web site, how can they protect the keys and fingerprints they are publishing?
The article covers some basic things - as for VPN provider some store a lot of logs about user activity (avoid such services), some have 100% zero logs policy, and are based in countries that don't stick their noses to internet traffic. About TOR's exit node - article mention at the beginning about how packets travel, so it's obvious that potential spy doesn't know who you are....until you do something stupid like logging to your gmail, or facebook. So unencrypted traffic at exit node can be used to track you down.
I make no comments to the effectiveness of China's political or country policies or their agenda. I'm simply pointing out that as a country they have a sovereign right to dictate their own rules.

It could be ineffective, but if you believe so you should go join the Communist party and start advising them. Certainly if foreign multinational companies cry foul, it's fairly obvious they are biased as they have a corporate and legal agenda to push profits.

I don't understand your comment about channeling Mao... Sovereignty and protectionism are the rights of any country, not just China. This includes Japan, which is also heavily protectionist, and even the US, when it comes to their inane corn subsidies.

You'd probably support the TPP (https://www.google.com/search?q=tpp&oq=tpp&aqs=chrome..69i57...) which aims to limit country sovereignty in favor of shifting power to global multinationals under the guise of "free" trade. Not really free when you consider the foreign multinationals have had a head start (the exact same problem China faces). Such an agreement is designed to take advantage of smaller countries and reduce their power when battling foreign multinationals that exploit those countries. This is essentially at least part of the battle China faces when employing protectionist policies—primarily against foreign multinational corporations.
...secure asymmetrical (public-key) cryptography...

Hmmmm.
off topic, but on the Oracle one, "legal" should be "sales"
You make me feel bad about it but I find myself saying this kind of thing now. It didn't start with Windows 10 tbh.
Agreed. I use https://readthedocs.org to take care of building and hosting documentation, and it's really handy.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/your-rights-parent-pu... makes it seem like there is a US law which prohibits a school from asking for an ID. ("The people who work at the school are not allowed to ask parents to show an ID or to give a social security number. You don't have to answer questions about your immigration status or your child's.")

http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2014/04/aclu_takes_so... says that ID isn't required to enroll a student into the school district. More specifically:

> In the letter to various school districts, Shalom cites the 1982 United States Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which decided that undocumented children living in this country cannot be precluded from public elementary and secondary schools because of immigration status.

> ... “We were surprised by the number and broad range of school districts with restrictive, discriminatory enrollment policies,” said Jeanne LoCicero, deputy legal director of the state ACLU. “These policies exist in almost every county, from the poorest cities to the wealthiest suburbs, and everywhere in between. Clearly, the scale of this problem demands serious action, and serious self-examination among New Jersey school districts.”

You can ask what their policy is for undocumented people or those without id.

If they ask "aren't you a US citizen?" you can say "you are not legally required to know that."

However, while I suspect that may let you pick up your child, meet the teacher, and attend PTA meetings, I don't know if you might not be allowed to chaperone or volunteer.

From one of Skenazy's posts (who schoen mentioned), that may require background checks, as in http://www.freerangekids.com/no-mam-you-may-not-chaperone-yo... .
NSA Blames Website Outage on Inclement Weather
A is not difficult, and B is also won't be difficult as it will list on the London Stock Exchange or one in New York
Pretty sure Disqus is often set up so comments are also stored in the site's database. That's how it worked when I used it for a WordPress site.

So all the comment text is likely being stored on the NPR website, even with Disqus.
They say global economy worth $100 trillion. the whole oil industry should worth $18 trillion, is oil %18 of oil economy? I say no. so Aramco doesn't worth $2 trillion either.
This is really not the time I'd be investing that heavily in Aramco. 30 Years ago, certainly, now... not so much.
Every single snmp device I've ever encountered was reachable via the private interface from any other private nic and used "community" as the shared secret.

Would it be very had to sniff traffic and brute force the secret otherwise?
You can't divine rights out of some fundamental logic. The only ones who can decide what rights humans have are the humans themselves, and then we structure our society to make sure those rights aren't violated.
Thanks for the info, I haven't heard of Lenore Skenazy.
The key fingerprint mentioned is 01EA5486DE18A882D4C2684590C8019E36C2E964. (Mirroring into comments to make life difficult for anyone who wants to modify bitcoin.org's web page).
No. lightning is nicer anyway
Ah, that universal excuse: we are to big and too diverse.
Drop the "U" then, maybe?
Sturgeon's law at Internet Scale is far worse than six-sigma compliant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1yzvh3/refutat...

On the volume vs. time-to-assimilate basis, nobody can read more than a minuscule fraction of online content.
Peak Saudi oil, perhaps.
"You can't divine rights out of some fundamental logic" - of course you can. This is the role of philosophy.
I think maybe that's why they're trying to get a ton of money, and as others are saying, exit.
"When the founding fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, scientist and inventor, wrote arguably the most important line in the Declaration of Independence—“We hold these truths to be self-evident”—they were asserting the fledgling nation's grounding in the primacy of reason based on evidence."

Actually, that's exactly the opposite of what that phrase means, IIUC. The Declaration claims that human equality is self-evident, meaning obviously true without the need to resort to empirical evidence or reason. According to Wikipedia, "a self-evident proposition is one that is known to be true by understanding its meaning without proof".[1]

While I sympathize with their concerns about antiscience politics, I can't help but feel this essay tries too hard to legitimize modern science by borrowing the authority of the American founders.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-evidence
I buy physical books exclusively and I buy a lot of them (well, it's a lot to me anyways; probably 40 thus far in 2016).

I've bought a handful of e-books, mostly just to help support people I know who wrote the books, as usually they were on topics I wasn't really interested in.

For my own "use", I've bought one e-book that I can recall and I only bought that one because I had recently bought the (very thick) dead tree version, it was offered at a significant discount, and I was about to leave on a trip and was wanting to take the book. For a few bucks, I was able to buy the e-version, load it onto my iPad (that was going along anyways), and have one less to have to worry about packing (there's not a lot of "luxury" space available on a Harley-Davidson).
"you'd never get a super majority to agree to such a stupid bigoted rule and it conflicts with other parts of the constitution" - oh really? Please open a US history book.
...noun: the voluntary giving of help to those in need.
That's what an accrued-over-time reputation is supposed to help with.

Your Imaginary Internet Points on HN, for example.
I feel like all the effort we put in investing in open source, being more open, and just generally a more empathic company is totally destroyed by this w10 fiasco.

I'd like to sympathise, but I'm afraid this is looking like a general trend for modern Microsoft, and if your group isn't doing similar shady things then it's the exception.

Some other examples:

I was going to try a bit of C++ programming on Windows for the first time on a new PC a little while back, so I looked into what is now called Visual Studio Community. Whereas Microsoft used to make the basic Express tools to develop on its platform free and readily available, I now have to sign in with a Microsoft account to use Community. I don't know exactly what that does, but after probably half an hour of reading on Microsoft's site, I do know that it seems to involve uploading data to Microsoft, multiple very long privacy policies, and no guarantee that I could find that potentially sensitive things like the actual code I'm working on wouldn't be included.

We were looking at getting some office software for that PC as well. I thought MS Office still came as a standalone desktop application as well as the online service-y thing, but I couldn't find anything in more than 20 minutes of looking around Microsoft's site that even mentioned the former any more. Again, it's all online-this and subscription-service-that now, and I have no interest in renting important software or sharing whatever I do with it with Microsoft.

Obviously the new PC itself, which we specifically ordered with Windows 7 because we didn't want any of the more recent versions, also needed lots of updates immediately uninstalling just to clean out all the spyware, adware, and so on.

There have been related concerns with other MS products, such as the gaming and console line, in the more recent generations as well.

For many years, I have generally been positive about Microsoft, and considered Windows, Office and Visual Studio the gold standards for useful software. I'm sorry to say that none of that is true any more, and I'm now actively hostile toward and distrustful of anything associated with Microsoft. It's a great pity.
You write less code by:
- Removing dead code
- Applying a coding standard to emphasize code consistency, so similar problems have similar solutions.
- Once you have similar problems, you can generalize code to solve a family of problems instead of a single problem. Otherwise known as code reuse.
- Diminish coupling so code can be reused as much as possible.
"Only" a $100bn IPO.
I have to disagree. While I do agree that the "liberal-right" (referring to the "classical liberal" definition) certainly is tolerated rather more than American style conservatives, Progressive/Left viewpoints are rather more in vogue here than anything that could be considered libertarian. That a vocal and supportive minority of libertarian types exist here doesn't change the predominate viewpoint of the community as a whole.

One need only look at the number of articles that deal with ideas like basic income, regulatory responses to climate, energy, or finance, public transport, or other areas where systematic centrally planned responses are supported as being the way forward and you can't help but see that progressivism is the larger ideal supported here.

It's hardly surprising though. This is group of professionals that engages in build systems to tackle problems in new ways. We convince ourselves that we're the disruptors who's vision can change industries and our way of life. A natural extension of that viewpoint is to believe that the public sphere can be molded, too, if only the right programs are put into effect under the watchful eye of intelligent and visionary custodians... which has much in common with progressivism.

Of course, that's my personal viewpoint (and I am certainly not a "progressive").
Huge growth potential here!!
Feature.

I'd hope that my comments mean something, even after three days.
I don't try to trick you into buying anything via this site. I wrote an article, and I try to promote it that's all ;)
Edit: Oh, and about reviews - I try to describe each service with its pros, and cons. This way potential user don't have to dig for it on his/her own.
Actually it is just a primer for the bigger exit.

The best time to exit for a large scale venture like this is between right before the peak and right after it.
I think we really need to have a conversation on what "right career" actually means.

Case in point. I'm a scientist, working on drug delivery technology. I absolutely love research as a career. What I hate though is the poor pay, non-existant job security, irregular work life balance and cult of self-sacrifice.

In retrospect, could I go back 20 years and start again I would have pursued a career with greater job security and pay, less stress and more flexible working conditions. Such jobs include regional train driving, trades-crafts or administration to name a few (in my region).

These days I value less my career and more my free time with which I can pursue my hobbies.

Subnote: With the advances in automation I think we should also consider whether spending x0,000 hours to become great at a career is really important anymore. Is it ethical to tell someone to sacrifice huge swathes of their time/life for a career that might not exist when they're ready?

2nd Subnote: I want to expand my comment again after finishing the article. I think we need to bear in mind that theres a lot of unspoken assumptions in this guide. For instance, the assumption that theres time to explore possible careers or that one can even trial different careers. A lot of people I know from more difficult backgrounds never had the luxury to try things. They had to make money to support their family so they took what they could get. Alternatively, they never had exposure to other fields so didn't know what was out there anyway. "Finding the right career" is in retrospect an extremely telling phrase about ones socioeconomic and political position.
Color me skeptical. This sustained outage got very little coverage outside the part of the twitterverse inhabited by cybersecurity specialists like @ericgeller
Or you can cross the relatively shorter distance between Shenzhen and hongkong
The NewtonScript Programming Language (2001)
I think his surprise is a question of quantity, not quality.
There are other reasons to invest. I believe mostly oil companies will want to take stock for the purpose of influence.
One of the issues that makes political discussions extra toxic is that because there are hundreds of millions of dollars spent on propaganda using the most sophisticated psychological techniques available everybody is full of outrage-inducing hatreds against "the other side". This makes it really hard to have a constructive exchange of ideas without falling into a minefield of unexamined, implanted mental prejudices, even if you try really hard.
A thought I've had is for journals to require two abstracts for a paper. The first is the traditional one, directed towards a technical audience. The second is akin to a press release, expressing the scientist's own summary in terms that a layperson can understand, including an assessment of the robustness of the result. For instance, "this result needs further work to establish its reproducibility."

Of course a journalist can still give their own take on it.
Saudies want Iran to cut production too, but Iran was forced to cut production because of sanctions and they missed lots of revenue when oil price was high. Iran is not going to cut production or cap it. Saudies have 2 bad choices let the prices fall or stay the same or let cut production and let Iran get more revenue and lose market share to her.
Don't forget https://zeit.co/now

The biggest difference seems to be the caching
30 years ago you would have needed a blue water navy and nuclear weapons.
It can be a lot less, if what happened in China spreads to more operations. Imo, Uber is going to fail very big.
China will need oil for a while...
> If you turn off Windows Defender Real Time Protection it explicitly tells you "You can turn this off, but if it's off for a while we'll turn it back on". It turns itself on upon next reboot, it seems.

I don't really see this as a negative but to each his own. You're probably better off just using Windows Defender than some third-party A/V solution anyway since they're all pretty useless.

> You can't turn off Windows Update. It will always end up downloading new updates.

While this is true prior to the AU where you could at least change it to not automatically check for updates. You would then have to explicitly check for updates but yes it would then automatically download and install them when you did.

I believe since the group policy no longer works in RS1 it will wind up always checking for updates now. You can thankfully still disable getting driver updates through Windows Update using registry tweaks.

> You can't remove worthless apps like Microsoft Groove and OneDrive integration.

No but you can disable/not use them. You can disable OneDrive in the Startup tab of the task manager.

> They are continuing to try to weasel the Windows Store into my life by buying up or forcing exclusives (games), with all the drawbacks of UWP.

I think they pushed games on UWP too early. After the AU (RS1) I'm not sure if there are any game breaking issues for UWP games anymore other than the fact that they're on the Windows Store if you consider that to be a negative.

But there's an obvious solution to this and it's simply to vote with your wallet. Don't like games using the Windows Store? Don't buy them. It's that simple.
The company is valued at $2 trillion, the value of the IPO is expected to be 5% of that. Title seems misleading...
Rocky.JS: Code in JavaScript on Pebble
What amount of your taxes goes to military? Do you consider killing people more noble job than raising them?
Can't say that I'm surprised. Technology of today is amazing, yet not quite enough for a feat like this just yet.
Netlify founder here. Firebase hosting is great for simple static content that you push manually.

We do continuous deployment with deep git integration that'll create unique preview URLs for each pull request, making it awesome to collaborate on single page apps or content driven websites.

In general you'll find a very deep feature set that's making it possible to take this approach to building sites all the way from simple prototypes to running, maintaining and serving huge projects.
As someone who does not follow Bitcoin news, what makes this release special enough to warrant an advance warning?
hm, just $100,000,000,000 for less than 5% of Saudi Aramco. That's quite low, valuing themselves at 2 trillion. Prior pie in the sky estimates had put them at 10 trillion dollar company. So maybe after the independent audit they'll release the shares, wall street traders will bid it up 500% and then they'll impress everyone with that share price performance and 10 trillion dollar valuation.
It was the military who were buying it (until it wasn't).
A state sponsored attacker can reasonably easy generate a valid ssl certificate to man-in-the-middle any website, and replace it with what ever they please. However, they wouldn't be able to forge a signature if checked against the right keys
Agreed. I use their web interface all the time, NEVER use the mobile app which I installed years ago. The experience is just so different and broken...

As someone who has published over 100 of my own recordings on SC, interaction with fans is paramount, and the mobile app just plainly sucks at it - it is more of a 'quickie consumer' gateway, not a social experience at all.
Amazon DE would be perfect! Great tool btw!
Damn, I just bought it a few months ago too (spur-of-the-moment when it popped up on Amazon as a recommendation). Perhaps I'll get around to reading more than just the front and back covers someday. :/
The article states that Saudi Aramco controls ~20% of the world's oil supply. The $18 trillion valuation of the global oil industry that you offered would imply a $3.6 trillion valuation for Saudi Aramco. Obviously there are many nuances to this, but $2 trillion is not unreasonable superficially. It's important to note that state owned oil companies tend to trade at lower market caps after IPO for a variety of reasons.
If it were possible to get in short on this (it's usually not, right after an IPO), that would be the best investment decision anyone's ever made. $2 trillion is ridiculous. Remember when PetroChina hit $1 trillion market cap in 2007, and it was supposed to be a huge milestone for publicly-traded state oil firms? Now they're at a little over a tenth of that. Every reason to expect that the same thing will happen here.