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>Again, to make this perfectly clear: she was only required to turn over official business emails.

Again, to make this perfectly clear: she was required to turn over official business emails and she omitted thousands of them. She deleted the ones she didn't turn over and had the server purged.

It takes a lot of chutzpah to set up a server such that your personal email is intermingled with official government communications and then claim you're the only person who can go through that server looking for official email that shouldn't have been there.

>The evidence shows that she wanted some privacy, and even Hillary Clinton is entitled to that under the law.

People try to use privacy rights to cover criminal activity on a regular basis. That's why we have subpoenas and laws against destruction of evidence.
I have ~30 apps that cover maybe 80% of what I want to do with my phone. I can do another ~18% via mobile web, which covers the one-off tasks that I don't want to download an app (with attendant privacy horrors) to complete.

The rest, I download new apps for. Which, as you say, is a handful a year. It's probably more than 4, but most of those are things I'm trying and then promptly uninstall when they're awful. I get why this is drama from a business standpoint, but from a user standpoint it just means that there aren't many things so appealing I download an app to complete them.
Surprised no one is commenting that their software has really poor usability. It may work well in providing secure certificates, but setup is a PITA and the documentation is abysmal.
Not a Venezuelan, but I've talked to a few Venezuelans in person, recently, about this. (Down in Latin America) They seem to feel very hopeless, and don't expect any change, any time soon.

I ask why they don't do anything about it. They seem to think, there is nothing they can do.
If we included all the uninstalls that people do (or try to do) of of the bloatware that comes installed with phones, I wonder if we'd hit a negative number.
Retention is very valuable. Having a user install your app is more valuable letting him use mobile web and then be at Google's mercy to see him again.

I have several niche apps that are installed by only 12% of people who visit the mobile page but those 12% people generate much more revenue than the 100% of mobile web.
For surveillance and user tracking.
Well, I think you get around that by making a service-based company instead of a software-based company--that's completely separate from open source vs closed source. Unfortunately, not all businesses can be structured like that.
Bingo. Too many people equate socialism with safety nets and draw the wrong conclusions from either.

Socialism traditionally means that the state - composed of the people, one assumes - owns the means of production. This does not mean that safety nets are assured or can even be sustained if the profits are insufficient.

A safety net can exist independent of government control/ownership of industry. Just take a bit out of everybody's paycheck and BAM! Universal healthcare.

It is clear to anyone with a basic understanding of economics and history that the private market allocates resources more efficiently and creates more wealth than central planning. There are times that the government steps in to fix market failures or areas without sufficient private investment (acid rain regulations and the interstate highway system), but that doesn't mean letting the government step in is an inevitable path towards Leninism.

It simply makes more sense to tax the profits of the private sector than to step in, say you can do it better, and route the profits directly to the social safety net without cannibalizing the business in the first place.
The differences and similarities when designing native apps for Android and iOS
You have a general problem with engineering management?

Just like the old "if you don't get paid enough, go somewhere else" mantra, if your manager is shit - go somewhere else.
Communism is tied to state-run monopolies of companies. Yes, the main fault was an incompetent authoritarian rule, but it wouldn't have been possible if the oil company hadn't be nationalized.

If Venezuela has an incompetent authoritarian rule, but had a free market for oil companies and didn't harass the employees of oil companies? Then they'd still be drilling with a state-of-the-art technology & workforce today.
My hypothesis, as someone who doesn't work on AMP, is it forces people to copy/paste the boilerplate rather than writing their own version (and maybe getting it wrong).
valid things to discuss. while doing so you might want to start form the point of having an actually relevant example to draw from? why would you attempt to use Venezuela for that discussion? Are you honestly trying to assert that Venezuela's social safety net programs are _really_ what went wrong there?
I'm always amused when I see an article like this at the top of Hacker News. I come here for interesting technical articles and discussion on computer science topics, not this sort-of marketing noise^H^H^H^H^H advice targeted at "entrepreneurs".

I wonder how much overlap there is between upvoters of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539522 (L4 microkernels...) and this article (Five Types of Virality). It would be very interesting if Hacker News could release some anonymized voting information so we could visualize our community's various clusters.
Do you think Wendy's is going to pass the savings along to consumers? That aside, I think the answer is still going to be, "I'd go to somewhere that isn't Wendy's or McDonald's, or some other fast food franchise."

The whole "robots cooking" thing is a lot easier to manage when "cooking" is essentially rote assembly of identical, pre-made products. That's also why the food is disgusting.
I'm excited to see a working speech interface. I use the one on my phone quite a bit to send quick messages to my wife while I'm driving. The shortest command so far is [press siri button on dashboard] + "tell my wife to come down in 2 minutes". I wish I could tell Siri I trust it and not to confirm the message. [Are you ready to send this message?] "Yes" [Ok, I'll send it]. Every. time.

On the flip side, we're past the line of scrimmage where I like my OS knowing about my files and talking to a mothership about them. I know it was probably three operating systems ago that my checksums started leaking to interested parties, "hey he has a copy of Frozen, did you know that?"

In about 4 months I'll give it a try. I want to hear how the hardware reacts. I installed 10.10 the day it came out, and got bit by that flakey wifi bug for what was it, nine months before Apple fixed it? I automatically bluetooth paired with the phone when the wifi froze, did about 19 gig over LTE (which kept up!) A beautiful failure scenario.

I think I might not value my privacy enough, is my lingering thought, in reflection of this being available.
These are definitely some of the worst. Small-time news sites all push some wretched app they bought off a CDN, and any niche tech news site feels unimportant if it doesn't push an app on every visitor.

Meanwhile I have BBC's rather pleasant news app, and consume my other news in-browser or off-phone.
There wasn't anything stopping founders from donating to charity before, or from claiming they will in the future, so what does this accomplish other than putting a procedure in place for shameless virtue signaling?

Giving to charity is powerful. Talking about giving to charity or telling people you will conditionally give to charity in the future, is transparently self-serving.
Systemd is crap, but it broke little.
Yes, here in the US we get corporate-controlled media with their own delusional and destructive agendas.
What you (plus the quote from The Economist) describe is like shooting yourself in the foot. Still, ideology aside, why would Chavez do such a thing? Was he an intellectual moron? No. He knew that without oil exports his people would be hungry, and hungry people mean bloody revolution.

Also, quoting from The Economist is one sided considering their position regarding Venezuela during and after Chavez.

You see, media is biased and I don't want to trust them, no matter how "respectable" they are. (eg. NYT in the eve of 2003 Iraq invasion)

I'd like to hear from people who live there (or from less biased reporters) about causes for this situation in which an oil rich country must import oil from its major adversary, in which the whole society dissolves.

EDIT: User nnq asks the same questions as I do.
Apple is officially a law office. RIP.
Most of the jobs I apply for are remote, so all over the US (and a few outside of it). That does mean that a significant chunk is in Silicon Valley. I apply for local jobs as well but there are not that many, and the turnout has been even worse.
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Thankfully the numeral system was invented before patents. And humans learned to walk.

Imagine paying a royalty for walking or counting.
Also there are other countries than the US
It's still early, but it makes Rx code much easier to read. So long as you're comfortable using Babel for transpilation, it doesn't really matter whether or not it's TC39-approved.
I use CCS and the TI compilers for a processor at work. It's not bad. I was able to move us to a Make-based build system for the pile of artifacts that we use that compiler and gcc for in less than a week. TIs command line tools are pretty useful.

(Yes, I have tried CMake, and it is entirely the wrong kind of cross-platform.)
Back there lots of people posted their implementation (been there, done that... an easy one with triangles in pure C). It's a fun exercise you can then show around and get very interesting output of
I don't hate the option for niche apps - I'm sure there's valuable demand from people with uncommon usage habits.

But I resent try-the-app popups every time I visit a site, and I'm certainly not about to declare low clickthrough rates an industry catastrophe.
They had to find something to do with all the old batteries.
ok sure, but I still don't see what that has to do with Communism. suppose their incompetent authoritarian system had been nominally capitalist? or a theocracy? or a monarchy? what difference does it make.

my point is its the incompetence and authoritarianism that caused the problems.
The mobile web isn't a good ux. The reason I use Facebook's mobile web interface is that the Facebook app is too intrusive. The value of Facebook's best ux isn't high enough to justify granting all the app permissions it wants.

Make apps. Make them nice and useful, and not spyware.
I'm not saying they're right, but it's not hard to enumerate 3 or 8 people.
> unless very determined action is taken to avoid it (like Norway)

Norway is not immune. It's the current popular thing to say, but Norway will fall victim to it just like everyone else does.

Look at some charts on their exports: 60%+ is energy. Look at their industry: Basically non-existent, except energy. Look at where young people are making their living: Energy.

If (when?) the oil runs out (or people stop buying it) their economy will implode - the fund they setup will not last long enough (they have enough for about 10-20 years). No one is developing skills in any other fields, it will take a generation or more to transition, and in the meantime everyone depends on charity (i.e. the fund) - and that's toxic to any economy because people become used to it.

So what you wrote about "Iron Law" is correct without the qualifier you added for Norway.
To hire them, maybe. To employ them (after the cost of recruiting), it's more like 30% on top of salary.
I was going to say that they want unlimited access to my contacts, my location, my web history, my calls and my network traffic. But "root access" is a more succinct way to put it. I'm glad, actually, that people are growing stingy about installing apps, because it means they are getting smart about protecting their digital assets.
Where Do Software Engineer Salaries Pay for Highest Standard of Living?
Thinking deeply about virality is probably worthwhile, though Im not sure I agree with the breakdown here.

"Incentivized" is an optional attribute that applies to the other four, not just word of mouth.
This is the important point for a developer that wants to get traction
Openshot does the job pretty well, last I checked. It's not exactly polished, but it seems to work okay.
I'm no socialist, and I'm one of the people who flagged it. Partisan ideological posts are toxic to HN, no matter who's ideology they represent.
how disappointing... everything is working fine, even stuff installed by macports.. the only thing that doesn't works is the port command itself
"Android developer" is one of the hats I wear, so I'm instinctively drawn to the "app version" of something. I have dozens of apps I find "essential" and use regularly. But yes, that list has remained mostly constant over the years (at least on my phone; games on my tablet are an exception to this pattern) as different apps and services have fulfilled my essential functions reliably.
Meanwhile, individuals continue to own entire corporations and the right to appropriate all of its productive output for themselves, as if this idea somehow makes any kind of sense.

The fact that all of the gains from automation will go to a handful of people is a political choice we continue to make every day.
But there's a difference between "scientific proof" and "fact". Science has never proven that Old Spice is the best scent, but the fact is that's what I wear and my wife likes the way I smell. It is my opinion that Old Spice is the best based on the fact that my wife likes it.

Fact doesn't have to be based on research or science, all it means is "the truth". It is a fact that I have a dog sitting on my couch. I don't need actual research to back that up, it's just a fact. It is not a fact that my friend, who died a few years ago, is also sitting on the couch beside me. That's just a belief, based on faith. There has been zero scientific research into either of these claims, but one is undeniable fact and the other is not. It doesn't matter if you don't believe that I have a dog. Your lack of belief doesn't make it less true.

I honestly don't even remember what we're actually talking about, and at this point I'm pretty sure I don't care anymore. Sorry.
Anyone have any really good sources to learn to think about virality?

I'm getting a few insights reading this (e.g. demonstration virality now seems stupid obvious but I had never thought about it before ), but I'd go a little deeper and have no clue where to start.

I've tried several different Google searches but came up with mostly garbage.
No, the basic mechanic is a lead climber and a follower. While the leader climbs they are belayed by the other from below, and they place projection as they go. Then they reach a good point and setup an anchor where they then belay the second climber from above. The second removes, cleans, protection as they go until they climb to the anchor. Then they climb the next section (they can switch off who's leading or not depending on preference).

Also, pitons are rarely used these days except for in some types of big wall climbing. Typically rock climbing protection uses cams and nuts, which don't mar the rocks the way pitons do.
> It's also bad news for app makers, because it may reflect a shift in consumers from app-hungry to app-apathetic.

Come on, you're not going to write "app-athetic" here?
Without some kind of formally assured way of building your application, you can do that anyways.
In principle, yes; in practice, most users are completely unable to assess whether the E2EE is effective in any way. How can you review the implementation does what the vendor says it does?
What I don't understand is, how the hell are the leaders still in power? Why aren't people taking drastic action against this failed government?

If people are literally not eating food, that's typically when there's a revolution. If I couldn't eat everyday and feed my family, I'd be out in the streets. Why not? You have nothing to lose at that point.
I agree with your JScript and VBScript answers, but not Java applets.
Note OS X mostly doesn't use Mach IPC for anything. Calling, e.g., write() results in a system call into the BSD portion of the XNU kernel, not all that different from what happens on Linux.
I'm not sure the average native app is better than the average Web app.
WASM is supposed to be first class citizen so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't have access to the DOM or any other browser feature available to JS.
Firefox 49 fixes sites designed with WebKit in mind, and more
"...This meant that the only way to create applications was to open Eclipse"...

Surely not. Now, this may have been much more trouble than it was worth, but I very nearly guarantee there was a way to do it from a command line.

It's been a while since I Eclipsed, but I (probably erroneously) recall a "generate Makefile" option on most adaptations of it.
Public pre-commitment is a basic building block of human coordination. Criticizing it as "virtue-signaling" is facile.
I apologize to you for Apple for not catering to your specific needs and wants when rolling out their newest version of OSX. I'm so sorry that you consider none of these new features exciting nor useful. Personally, I agree with you to an extent - I prefer taking notes on individual parchment paper with a Ticonderoga #2 HB pencil that I sharpen with my $400 hand crafted knife. Heck, I don't even use digital photos or credit cards. I am 100% satisfied with the polaroid camera that my father left me before he passed, and I always prefer to barter with the root vegetables that I grow in my back yard (100% organic of course) as a means of payment.
...And IDEs being better is your opinion. It's all subjective. Don't shove VS down our throats, and I won't do the same for Emacs.

Thanks for the clarification of what you meant by multimedia. VLC, GIMP, Openshot, or an app run through Wine can handle all the things you described.
That's just it: apps that are just wrappers for a website are never worth the time, yet they are so very common just to say "we have an app!" Actual apps are great, though.
I don't think you have anything to gain from telling them and potentially much to lose.

All it takes is an obtuse manager or a lawyer wanting to cover the company's back (they could be required by law or by contract to disclose any successful penetration) or just a prosecutor eager for another notch on the belt.

Perhaps those are extreme cases but I wouldn't take the chance if I were you.
This comment also shows that privacy is always based on trust. Trusting Cisco, Google, Microsoft, OpenSSL devs, Whisper Systems, whatever. You can decide who's more sympathetic, moxie, Zuckerberg, Nadella..
> The second problem is nationalizing companies. The government sucks at operations--that's been proven time and time again.

You mean like Saudi Aramco? That little company with $380bn of revenue (about 4 times larger than google but with the same number of employees?). /s

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> Apple thinks that "the way things should work" is that the webpage author has the choice.

No, the way Apple thinks it should work is expressed in the defaults, the options are there if the author is trying to do something else. There are cases where it may be a good idea.

I don't see how this is one. I get Google thinks they know better (and I really do wonder what they think the benefit is), and I now avoid one of their products that I actually liked quite a bit because of it.
Perhaps not, but who cares about the 'average' app? There are millions of apps and almost all of them are terrible.

The only ones that matter are the best ones.
> Their initial fall test actually broke some carabiners! So they adjusted it to be a smaller load.

I'm surprised they didn't go by the UIAA standard of 80kg factor two falls; it's been in effect for a while and makes comparisons easier.

> if the long screw hits rock before going all the way in, the exposed tube creates a lever arm. In those situations the generally accepted practice is to use a webbing runner to tie off the ice screw at the ice, instead of using the hanger.

This goes for pitons as well. There's a nice illustration in "Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills" which I can recommend picking up as a good introduction to climbing and mountaineering. The supplemental resources listed also are good if you want to go into more detail.
I just stumbled onto this:

"Data Scientists Automated and Unemployed by 2025?"
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/data-scientists-automated-2...

Nothing to get excited about, especially since you aren't yet invested. However, should the odds indeed be high that ML will become automated by 2025 then another field choice might be wiser.
Like most people I know, I download a bunch of apps when I set up a new phone, and I don't download apps frequently after that.

I simply haven't found many newly released apps compelling. I think the most recent app I downloaded was Uber Eats back in June or July.

I suspect that most users are like this. Not everyone is trying all the latest games.
> The web on 2g networks is a horrible experience

Completely agree. But instead of adding another layer of complexity and bullshit on top of the existing stack, why not just take away the existing layers of bullshit and complexity?

I like the premise behind AMP, but we already have a solution for that. This is just another attempt to lock sites into google.
I'd love to see some proper data on "incentivized word of mouth". When I engage in that, it's almost always normal word of mouth plus a mutual cash-grab. Compare how often you decide "I should spread the word about this for money" to how often you go "This is really great. Oh! Let me recommend you and we'll both save a couple bucks." Hell, I've told existing users "I want this app, recommend me and we'll grab some cash?"

I guess it might still improve retention for the new users, which is probably Uber's goal, but I'm skeptical about whether incentives promote more sharing, or just raise the price of existing shares.
The other reason to keep quiet about confinement is that it's their secret sauce. The 10 year number is a deliberately pessimistic one I pulled out of my hat, not meant to be precise. I'm just saying, it's possible that things have changed enough to make possible in the near future what was impossible/impractical in the past.
I didn't use that particular book but would note that it seems to be a fairly standard Intro to Fluid Mechanics college-level textbook. As such I'd expect a fair bit of math and, for whatever reason, fluid mechanics math like Navier-Stokes equations and I never got along very well.

Perhaps this textbook is better than others I've used but I wouldn't really expect it to be especially focused on practical applications. For really practical stuff you may look at Crane's (http://www.flowoffluids.com/). I used it a lot when I was designing piping systems.
What you don't want is a bunch of opaque gnosis in the IDE itself. You want the process to be transparent, in an SEI Level 2 sort of way.

I used to use ObjecTime, and it added random stuff to its C++/'C' code generation process that meant you were never fully SEI Level 2. We had to keep a Golden Build machine alive because of it.
Patents are only valid for 20 years. That is short enough that even if the patent system did predate numerals and walking, these patents would have long since expired.
That's an interesting way of putting it. I think I would spend longer double-checking a bitcoin transaction that I would one through paypal.

Name/address are easy to autofill even if you don't want anything saving your card info.
That's under the control of the publisher, so it's up to them to make decent amp versions of their pages, it's not a fundamental limitation of the format. Agreed though that in some cases, these sites are throwing up an amp version that is simply inferior.
Because the takeaway from ad blocking is everyone wants their privacy and security relentlessly undermined faster.