skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is 100% correct; the "oil prices" narrative is a very effective Media fig leaf deliberately used to obscure the clear consequences of command economics in Venezuela. The start of the nightmare in Venezuela began while Chavez was still alive.

The oil price collapse has just made a terrible situation into a genuine atrocity; an entire generation of young is being stunted physically and mentally by the leftist politics of Venezuela. Actual starvation is being inflicted in the name of economic `justice.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3794086
I take it you're the person who wrote the original to which your linked article responds?
The Buddhist temples ought to be embracing this. Many of them are running out of money.

Frankly, Buddhism in Japan was run like a business since the 1600s, when the government made every family register with a temple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danka_system). This led to the development of "funerary Buddhism," in which Buddhist temples made most of their money providing funeral services and benefitted from legally mandated customer loyalty. The temples survived primarily on funeral income for a long time, and now that it's no longer legally required to register with a temple, the temples are having a pretty hard time. Most of them subsist mainly on tourism money and donations now.
> sites take too long to load, they do annoying things with animations, colors and behaviour, and it's just generally a burden to use.

YOU THERE! YOU, SILLY USER!! YOU'RE SCROLLING WRONG. LET ME HANDLE SCROLLING FOR YOU!!
Still, they're certainly doing better than many other oil-rich nations.
I recently deleted dozens of apps off my Android phone. After years of using the phone as intended, a month ago I started getting full screen ads, some with video and sound. They start whenever they want, even if I am using the launcher or the phone is locked. So I reset the phone to factory defaults and only took back a few apps. I don't really need them.
Fair. I stand corrected.
I also use the gmail mobile web site instead of the gmail app, because the web site is fine and it gives me more control over battery and network usage than the native application. Same goes for google calendar.

I don't want to give anybody any ideas, but the only way to get me to use these specific apps would be to kill off the web versions.
> It is my opinion that Old Spice is the best based on the fact that my wife likes it.

That's not a rational conclusion. Why make a baseless comparative judgement like "it's the best" when you can make a qualitative judgement, like "it's good" or "my wife likes it".

That's my point. You think you're scientifically minded, but you have opinions like "Old Spice is the best" that aren't based on facts at all.

> It is a fact that I have a dog sitting on my couch.

This falls into the category of "mundane historical events" I mentioned above.

> 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.

My guess is you don't have any rational disagreement with what I said, so you just started saying random things about hypothetical situations and you bored yourself.
I agree. Apple needs to take a page from Android, and start breaking up these apps and distributing them outside of the OS so they can deliver new features faster.

Why do we have to update the entire OS just to get a new version of the photos and messages app?
> Does the world need another OS?

The answer to this question, and other variants like it -- "does the world need another ____" to me boils down to ethics and vision. Maybe we don't need another version of this product, but maybe we can have a product just a good with a better vision and supports making more ethical decisions, and then we can expect over time the technology or the engineering, or the manufacturing process to catch up.

Another thought I have is deeply experienced operating system developers seem to be fading away. I could be wrong, and maybe the world doesn't care but we shouldn't take forgranted that OSes have gotten as good as they will get. Maybe a new OS will help inspire another generation of OS developers. (I would be one. Would love to hack on some low level, hard computer science problems instead of the same, mundane, line of business apps I build every day)
I'm far from a hipster. The pens I use are apparently called "uni-ball", which I got from Walmart, which is also where I got my $3 little pocket notepad.

But I'm also not willing to spend large amounts of money to buy cool new gadgets that don't actually improve my quality of life at all, despite whatever Apple's keynotes will say.
https://security.googleblog.com/2014/09/gradually-sunsetting...

> That’s why Chrome will start the process of sunsetting SHA-1 (as used in certificate signatures for HTTPS) with Chrome 39 in November. HTTPS sites whose certificate chains use SHA-1 and are valid past 1 January 2017 will no longer appear to be fully trustworthy in Chrome’s user interface.
Linear motors are a lousy business. They're almost all custom, while rotary motors are standardized. Prices seem to start around 10x the price of a comparable rotary motor. Find a market for a million identical ones and the price will come way down.

Some nice linear motors.[1] Even used on eBay, they're expensive.

[1] http://www.linmot.com/products/linear-motors/
Assange addressed this; I guess you didn't read the interview. I still recommend it; I think it would be interesting even if you're not inclined to believe Assange.

Anyway, you yourself mentioned the possibility of grabbing Snowden off the streets. I don't think for a moment that Putin would allow that to happen; the governments of Central and South America are another matter (not that they would willingly cooperate, necessarily, only that they couldn't do anything about it).

(For the record, I don't accept your claim that the passport is irrelevant. I don't really know how these things work, but I don't have the impression that it's easy for a known international fugitive to persuade a commercial carrier to board him with a canceled passport. I will grant that if Putin wanted Snowden to leave Russia, he could have made it happen; in that sense, the passport is not a barrier.)

As for the extradition treaty -- is it possible Snowden would have made a mistake in selecting his destination? Of course it is. What's your point? [ETA: I get it. You think the whole story is a lie and Snowden planned to stay in Russia all along. I think the absurdity of that view is matched only by its cynicism.]
I've been using emacs for over 10 years. I use it for the things it is good at, and other tools for what they are good at. In practical terms I use emacs for complex or repetitive editing tasks, org-mode for planning and lists, budget my finances using a my own emacs code, edit and work with Clojure and Common Lisp, writing blogs.

What I don't use it for:

email/browsing - the web works better for me.

Scala/Java - IntelliJ.

Python - PyStorm.

file management and git - bash shell is fine.
Google Compute Engine Outage
I'd say it's a true statement. The reason you start a company in SV is to get access to the people who live and work in SV. If you don't use that pool of resources, there is no point in being in SV and paying to be in SV. Might as well move to Madison, WI and halve your expenses. And there you'd have access to University of Wisconsin graduates and can compete on wages with Epic instead of Google and Apple.
Please stay away from weight rooms, swimming pools, and avoid running alone at night.
I use youtube.com in Firefox, and it plays sound in background and with the phone locked.
I just always put a 0 or 1, if the company considers my answer a disqualifying response, it clearly indicates I wouldn't want to work for them.
Things were not that bad back then. The worst thing of the early web was that any practical web browser had to process broken HTML the same way that Netscape Navigator 3 did.

Microsoft had the resources to reverse engineer that behavior, and then they designed CSS in such a way that it could not be implemented on the Netscape rendering engine without wrecking it.

Mozilla finally caught up, then eventually the undocumented behavior got documented in HTML 5 and it is all roses now.
It's so easy, I have a cron job do it for me!

(That is a comment on how easy LetsEncrypt makes generating certificates, something I very much appreciate).
>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

I first used Uber because I was with someone that was already a user and we were going to catch a cab... He would have just done it himself, but because of the incentive, I downloaded instead so our shared ride would cost us less.
There is a separate thread here on HN about this[0], though most of the discussion is around the original editorialized title for the article.

If you read the "Exploitation and Public Announcements" section of the Cisco publication, it meantions the source was another CVE from a month ago[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12540692

[1] http://blogs.cisco.com/security/shadow-brokers
irony galore >.<
Santander Just Announced Plans to Launch a Blockchain Token Digital Currency
This is definitely not a thorough (or deeply useful) investigation of the topic.

As I read it, there are three types of transfer identified here and two modifiers.

- Word of mouth

- Demonstration (intentional or not)

- Network effects (N.B. this is a problem as well as an opportunity)

And the modifiers:

- User incentives (cash-for-shares)

- Central sharers (e.g. Let's Plays, celebrities on Instagram)

That seems like a better framework than the one provided. We can see that Pokemon Go was demonstration and word-of-mouth with central sharers, Uber was demonstration and word-of-mouth with incentives, and Instagram was network effects with central sharers.

Building this up into a proper model with more elements would be interesting. Additives like "controversy" and "media appeal" would probably be key to identify.
They might have--I don't remember. I think I still have that magazine in the basement somewhere; I'll try to find it this evening.
> iOS web doesn't give you interactions with the device like notifications, geofencing, background refresh, etc. - FTFY
HN has been a glorified subreddit for years.

Get over yourself.
> When you're on a shoot, you don't want to keep swapping storage media every 30 or 60 minutes.

You really should, though. Not in the filming domain but in stills, I've shot airshows in the company of professional[0] photographers who changed their cards for fresh ones after every act. No point losing a whole day's shooting to one bad card.

Apparently this is also common at weddings, though even more so as the photographer might be taking shots of the same scene on two different cameras and then changing cards in both. Just in case.

[0] as in, they are paid for their output
I suspect anyone from the Netherlands or Norway/Iceland might disagree with you there. The issue with Venezuela is almost certainly not socialism, but chronyism and good ol' fashioned corruption.

Chavez's "Bolivar Revolution" was a farce to get rid of his opponents and seize power as a strongman. In that, he succeeded. When the price of oil was high, it worked. Now, well... His legacy is a once great nation left in ruin, and many desperate people. It is sad stuff.
I stopped downloading apps because, first and foremost, they enabled every stupid little company to access my notifications bar. Now every stupid little marketing droid is sending me stupid chipper messages about whatever stupid thing they think I should care about.

Yes I can turn them off. No I should not have to. These people should respect other peoples' space.

And it's gotten worse! If polluting the notifications bar isn't pathetic enough, Facebook now begs you to "help thousands of users" with a review in-app. Windows 10 lockscreen is begging me to try Cortana. EVEN MY F@%#! camera app does this now!! STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO ASSHOLES!
> I don't see why they need to highlight these pages.

To lock more sites into their system. Sure, they don't need to, but it's definitely beneficial to them.

> Apparently they already use page load speed as a signal in their search rankings.

I hear this a lot too, but I don't think they really place much importance on load speed. Try searching for "weather", and see how many sites are slow to load, but are at the top of the list. Meanwhile fast-loading sites like http://myfreeweather.com/ are buried in the results.

I have no insight to the other multiple factors of their ranking algorithm, but I've never found speed to play much importance.
We neither want nor need these.
Extra irritating because it offers that app on every mobile browser, including those run on an OS they don't have an app for.
> what about the case when founder owns only 5% and still wants to donate a part..

Seems pretty atypical.
This is amazing. Does anyone know if there is a prisma type open source project as well in addition to this?
Can you now invalidate Google cache ?

Because by the look of that issue, you don't have any control.
https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/1901

So basically you are completely at the mercy of Google's crawler.
That just seems to lend weight to the idea that there was a lot more going on and blaming it all on social programs doesn't make sense. Unless you're lumping price and currency controls into the "social programs" category?
This is the case for many complex topics. One recent example for me is aviation: Textbooks for pilots are woefully inaccurate, contradictory, and plain confusing. But they get you flying.

This happens naturally when you can practice an art/craft/skill without deep understanding of the complex system that underlies it. Since that understanding isn't interesting to many, the system survives by teaching an incomplete or inaccurate model that works most of the time. The full understanding only comes with actual practice, and is [implicit knowledge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge) rather than an explicit one. This is sufficient for most people to master the art/craft/skill.
Say WhatsApp receives a request from some government saying they need the data. Period. WhatsApp complies by setting some flag on your account and now your client isn't doing proper E2E encryption anymore and it's all up to be intercepted. And when someone not on an intercept list goes to audit the network traffic, it all looks fine. Infinite possibilities here.

What makes people trust the advertised E2E encryption is really happening when they most need? Faith in these companies?
Man go read Byrd's wiki page or really any piece of information before presenting a faux defense

"Senator Byrd came to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda, doing well on the NAACP Annual Civil Rights Report Card. He stood with us on many issues of crucial importance to our members from the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, the historic health care legislation of 2010 and his support for the Hate Crimes Prevention legislation," stated Hilary O. Shelton, Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau
At scale, a time server's DNS address will likely either be a reverse proxy or a multi-valued A record. The coordination amongst those separate physical servers that are serving requests for the same DNS name would become a scale challenge if they needed to share state.
I have to wonder if it's worthwhile though. Aren't they also chasing away a lot of potential local readers? If there's two or three local news options in my locality, I'm going to settle on the one that's least annoying. I don't disagree with your proposed logic, but I think they're mistaken in believing that only non locals will bounce.
I'm as skeptical of Google and any of their initiatives as the next guy, but I'll tell you what, I clicked the AMP link for a WSJ article (from HN web link, obviously), and it displayed instantly. Very un-modern web.
Obviously you'd have the phone out and the app pulled up before going into the scene.
Sign up with Google or Facebook ... no thanks
No art, no keepsakes, no souvenirs? Nothing that you keep solely because it pleases you?
Recurly, Senior Ruby on Rails Developer, SF or Boulder
It's a question of up-front or down-the-line. Do you design your database schema, think out your queries and plan up-front? Or do you do ad-hoc, quick-turn-around development and deal with the technical debt down-the-line?

From the beginning, I saw NoSQL as being great for prototyping or MVP. But the reality of our industry is that you very rarely get to bang something out overnight, then rewrite it the "right way". Your prototype or MVP more often than not becomes the foundation of your stable, mature releases.
I'm afraid there is no such plan. US production has been declining since the 70s in spite of all attempts to keep it going. Only with the >$100/barrel prices from the last few years did fracking become viable and production recover (Tight oil's growth in the US is not expected to last very long though).
It's a bit of a straw man to present failed socialist-in-name-only states when critiquing socialism. If someone were to bring up the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea as an attempt to critique democracy you'd rightly scoff.

I'll freely admit there have been numerous failed socialist states. Very few self-proclaimed socialist states have even attempted to implement socialism. Many who claimed to be socialist were destroyed by capitalist states[1]. Some attempts for free states have been crushed by other self-identified socialists[2] but it's of course impossible to know if these groups would be socialist in the long term. Socialism is inherently horizontalist, which means it doesn't fit into the model of centrally controlled countries, making it very hard to achieve for any extended period of time.

The only current socialist experiment I'm aware of is Syrian Kurdistan, Rojava, which is trying to promote a co-op based economy based, while reducing the damage private ownership can do.

Imagine you tried to have a capitalist revolution in feudal Europe. Can you imagine that would go very well? Probably not. It's easy to see why capitalism is an improvement over feudalism, but it's hard to comprehend how long it took to get there. Similarly socialism, if it is ever achieved, is probably going to fought against by the established order tooth and nail. This is certainly no excuse for the failures and crimes of vanguard communist parties[3]. All this humble fellow would ask is people take the time to educate themselves on what socialists actually want before presenting critique.

[1] This category is almost beyond enumeration, Reagan Doctrine, Guatemala, domino theory, Vietnam, etc. etc. etc.

[2] My history isn't great but I believe these count: Revolutionary Catalonia, the Black Army, Kronstadt rebellion, there are probably more, especially in relation to the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922

[3] As an aside, I don't believe vanguard parties are the way to go
can anyone tell me why we aren't using the mega-millions lottery to encode our vote with our private hash? We already have a completely reliable voting mechanism. If anyone thought that was insecure imagine the uproar.
For sure, thats the definition of a real time system after all. But having conversations about what the long tails do to the "normal" path and what the costs (both in money and performance in the "normal" path) is quite simply something that you can't back into.
Thanks for implementing this! I was a bit standoffish at first but after several attempts to implement my own typed-templates[1], I found JSX to be very nice to work with because type safety in templates is hard to come by.

If anyone is interested, I have a working boiler plate with React Server rendering using TypeScript[2].

[1]: https://github.com/styfle/typed-tmpl
[2]: https://github.com/styfle/react-server-example-tsx
Cisco Finds New Zero-Day Exploit Linked to NSA Hackers
What does that say about your supposedly progressive candidate.

What a pathetic time to be a Democrat.
In response to the complaints about "this is Big Internet Corps. fault", i think that is hasty. I code systems for all major modern browsers (including IE and Edge) and Cordova. I can count on exactly 0 fingers the number of times i have used a '-browser' prefix in the last year.

The fact of the matter is that standards are moving fast and better still is the rate at which browsers are implementing those standards is very powerful.

The use of css prefixes is, in my opinion, lazy. Many of popular directives are now implemented by browsers in the generic form anyways. The ones that are not can almost always be achieved through another styling method.
For the Tesla comment, what more could you expect from them right now? If you have auto pilot on your hands have to be on the wheel or it vibrates and then it starts slowing down e eventually since it knows it's not safe.

People can work around any system for this, but stuff like this makes it have to do it consciously. Seems pretty reasonable on Tesla's part.
The more google tries to figure out what I want, rather than searching for what I tell it to, the worse the results get. I find quoting helps a lot
Yes, all reasons why I prefer the mobile web for many things.
I think it was kind of a joke with some seriousness to it. It's really easy for Canadians to move to the US to work. So a large chunk of the highly qualified Canadians do leaving less in Canada. Canada suffers a shortage of highly qualified people in many professions. For example medical professions have it really hard given doctors moving to the US can make multiples more than in Canada.
It's really hard for me to imagine an austerity program making life better for Venezuelans.

There's also plenty of history of corrupt right-wing governments with market economies in South American that were just as miserable, so I'm hesitant to say social programs did this. There are plenty of social democratic governments around the world that aren't corrupt failed states.
I also don't get the ORM stuff: typically you work either (1) with lots of different objects organized in some kind of document (in NoSQL sense), and you want all these objects to be predictable, free from side effects and clearly serializable to e.g. JSON, or (2) with bulk data which you transform and aggregate to come with a small collection of fully constructed (also, denormalized) objects, and for this purpose SQL is beautiful. Or else they wouldn't've invented Linq to Collections.
I think jondubois's proposal was to de-nationalize it.
Yelp is now in the position where I won't even visit their site, but only scan previews from maps/google/etc. So they went from showing me an apparently low value web ad to showing me no ads.
It was more an overview, a "well, if you're going to use pitons, here's how to use them safely" at least in the case of the tie-off loop with a piton that had bottomed out.
Agreed - a grievous missed pun app-ortunity.

Compensatory content: This does seem to be a natural & logical trajectory for this I'm afraid. Or at least for those who don't fetishize technology but rather just want it to do something for them (which is most people, or I guess, about half of people!). As a brand-new smartphone owner you might be downloading & trying different apps all the time, experimenting, searching... but once you've found the "app for that" for every "that" that you want to do, you're pretty much set. You just maybe dutifully download updates. But even there, you're hoping they don't irrevocably change something you like, and in my case on Android I'm ready with an adb backup to roll back to the previous version.