skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With him gone they could return to somewhat sane economic policies.

Not necessarily. Somewhere there's somebody with some political leverage thinking that the solution is simply more socialism. Not the bad, failed socialism that Maduro ran, but actual socialism, run by smart people! Because this time things will be different!
I'm in the same boat, though in my case I'd prefer Stripe for card processing rather than Paypal.

Stripe already has my card on file from other sellers, and I trust them where I don't especially trust Paypal.
Bcrypt as a Service
In practical terms I don't agree that the threat of someone doing all of the following things is worth worrying about (in comparison to many other more likely failures):

1) determine what physical hardware in aws the target is running code on

2) somehow get the aws virtual machine manager to let the attacker run their malicious code on the same hardware

3) somehow pierce the protections of the virtual machine to read memory being used by the target application

4) figure out how the data is stored in memory in order to make sense of anything that was read
When I read your first post I was going to respond "I'm a consultant and while I have to log 40 hours in the time tracker, I don't always bill 40 hours to clients". Much like yourself, if my clients don't have 40 hours of work for me, not much I can do about that. But next week they might have 60, so it balances out.

I've never worked a job where I didn't have to track my time, though. Four different companies, employed as full time staff, I've always had to justify where my time went each week.
The frontier was closed off for nearly over a year, but when last reopened nearly 132,000 people crossed on the first day. It's hard to know how many are just crossing over to buy groceries and how many will stay, but I read that the Colombian government estimates that roughly some 500,000 Venezuelans will illegally immigrate to Colombia during the next year, which is a worrisome number. As a Colombian I've personally seen how they've been clearly voting with their feet for the last 10 years, since they have no opportunities and are afraid of protesting against a government that kills and persecutes the opposition.

http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-36817172
Keyword: "Legislated".
The greening of the grid: Demystifying solar inverters
Code, girl! Setting my own bar prepared me for an unexpected SV career
Strange too that they only recently started commenting..

Though I guess it's not surprising 'stonetear' isn't on HN -- he wouldn't have acted the way he did were he.

edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535872
Ugh.

Guess I'm switching my default Safari search engine to DDG...
East vs West Germany, and North vs South Korea are good examples of how different governments result in different standards of living.
You're overestimating their final salary. Per-employee expenses are usually almost the salary all over again. Payroll taxes are a real bitch. It's probably closer to $110-$120k salary per employee.
Should I Start Doing Heroin? (2014)
Unlocking your Mac with an Apple Watch might be kind of exciting?

Although to be fair it stopped working for no discernible reason (was working this morning, not working now).
How to Guide: Getting Started with Apache Drill
Per the spec[0], AMP pages must load the AMP runtime via a script tag that references a Google-controlled server, cdn.ampproject.org. This means you are handing over both your site security and your traffic logs to Google. This is a non-issue for the many sites that have already made that bargain (by using Google Analytics, Google Hosted Libraries, Google Fonts, etc.), but it is definitely an issue to some.

[0]: https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/spec.html
I'm pretty sure that's how the black market works. Why do you think otherwise?

If you were on the black market, you'd LOVE to exchange bolivars for dollars.

The inflation rate is over 700% I think this year, and it's only going up. Why wouldn't you want something that's almost guaranteed to be valuable, instead of holding on to a rapidly depreciating asset?
Yes points. And perhaps there's a larger discussion about what the role of the federal government should be is now discussed in our daily lives, not just hacker news, with such topics as student aid debt forgiveness, basic income, mandatory health care, etc.

And also maybe it's an example how power can be purchased with social programs.

Also points. Gotta get those points. I hear someday I'll be able to cash them in for bad karma debt forgiveness.
> The point is that every single real world attempt at getting to socialism has been bad, so why wouldnt future attempts run into the same problems?

The problem is that "every single real world attempt at getting to socialism" has been inspired by the same ( bad ) implementors, using the same ( bad ) mechanisms, without anyone trying to implement socialism from scratch by going back to the source of the ideology as opposed to looking at other dictators who used the premise of socialism to get into power without actually caring about socialism itself.

Venezuela is a corrupt place with socialism being implemented as a means to launder money as opposed to implement social safety programs, it's the same as the "Democratic" Republic of Korea or Congo.

Capitalism wouldn't really help a corrupt country like Venezuela, but Socialism was making some good progress in another Latin American country... Nicaragua, weren't it for the Contras.
The rest is history.
Here's one that TypeScript gets wrong. It's kind of a canonical example of a program that is difficult to get right in a type system. (It's how I found the Flow example linked upthread.)

let x: number[] = [];
let y: Object[] = x;
y.push('a');
let bad = x.pop();
// bad has type number but is actually a string.
What's the breakdown by platform? Also I wasn't impressed that it took 3 clicks to eventually try and reach Comscore's data only to find out you need to signup for it.
Bing has actually started using AMP in their results. See the last paragraph of this article: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/20/google-brings-non-news-amp...
Chinese hackers take over moving Tesla
I find webpack to be quite a 'holistic' solution I got pretty much everything out of the box or with minimal googling.

I agree though over-fragmentation is a huge problem for JS, we need the big players (either foundations or companies) to put their weight behind one or two solutions and just get on with it :-)
Care to explain? I really planned to buy a Pro instead of an iMac because of upgradeability. Why don't you recommend it?
Probably a whole bunch of unannounced security fixes though.
Sounds great! Just ordered a copy.

I really like pragmatic books like this; do you have anything in a similar vein? Specifically, I'm looking for a book focused on the practical application of fluid mechanics (not just plumbing). I know how daunting a subject it is, but that doesn't deter me from learning just enough to be dangerous.

I've been eyeing Granger's "Fluid Mechanics" (and most of the Dover collection in fact.) [1] It's more academic, so I would like to pair it with something more practical.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486683567/
It's not a JS scroller—it's just a scrollable div with `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch` which enables momentum-based scrolling. I've done hybrid (and native) iOS apps before, and this is fairly common practice to make things feel more native in webviews.

For those who are interested: by default, iOS sets webview scrollviews to have a fast deceleration rate (UIScrollViewDecelerationRateFast). This is because old iOS devices weren't able to quickly render webpages, so they needed to set a soft limit on scrolling. I actually believe that native (AMP-like) scrolling offers a better experience now that mobile devices are fairly snappy.
I would call Norway socialist. Not because the government owns everything, but because society distributes a large fraction of all earnings. Note, defacto tax rates are what's important. Greece may have a high nominal tax rate, but nobody actually pays it. The US has a 15% tax rate on capital gains irregardless of what the nominal top tax rate is. Further, the US pretends Social Security is not an income tax.

By comparison the USSR, China, and North Korea all pay / paid some lip service to communism, but if you look at the people at the top it was not even close to communism.

PS: The real world is complicated. If you promote revolution you generally don't get whatever the revolutions talking points where.
Can you describe what exactly happens/feels/what is this visualization of the mathematics?
Thanks for the correction.

I've honestly stopped using iTunes for the most part after 10+ years of problems like that. It's weird, but I'll listen to music on my phone while using my computer. I also sync phones/ipods a lot less often since so much has moved to the cloud. It may not interrupt playback, but I swear I still see modal dialogs when syncing.

I still think they should be completely separate applications.
What do Verisign, RSA, Comodo and GlobalSign have in common? Not being in SF.
Does your eye show if you have high cholesterol?
Its interesting that on one hand, we have this shouting "embrace, extend, extinguish!" directed at TypeScript, and on the other, Facebook with Flow and Babel is doing precisely that: its extending JS with their own type system, adding support for said type annotations to Babel (which is still thought of as the es.next -> es.current compiler) and still calling it JavaScript; or at least, muddying the waters (no extension change).

Strangely, it appears to work. I've seen claims that Flow is better because "its just JavaScript, not another language"

I don't get it.
A moderate dose of Adderall wouldn't have you coding for 56 hours straight...
Nice!

A few years ago, there was an HN post about a similar algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912964

Inspired by this, I wrote my own implementation in Perl: http://qumsieh.github.io/blog/2012/12/14/Evolutionary-Image-...

Pretty cool effect.
A huge number of apps exist, it seems, either to get hooks into you in some way, or just to exist because someone up the chain said, "We need an app."

To be honest, nothing reminds me so much of the atmosphere around the 80's videogame crash as much as apps today. It's easier, and frankly more rewarding not to play that game at all, than to try and sift through the mess.
Right. I don't even have Google's store installed on my phone. Just F-Droid, for free software, ZANavi, for GPS, and Firefox. I use only about 50-100MB of data per month.
Maybe it wasn't so in the US but in the UK, Europe, Australia and NZ the Amiga WAS mass market. It was an affordable home computer (when 'home computer' was a phrase).
The transition to business computers is where they lost the plot and got out commoditized by pc box makers.
"A retail paper bag, comprising: a bag container formed of white paper ..."

Really, when I started reading this I first checked if this was some kind of late April fool's joke.

But no, it looks real :P

Why not apply for this, Apple:

"A wheel, comprising: something round ..."
If you can't be bothered to design for mobile web, I probably won't be bothered to download your app. I guess I'm not alone in that.
At the bottom of the page, they mention to get in touch, either via the mailing list (https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/proto...), or directly.
How Bad Off Is Oil-Rich USA? It’s Buying oil from all over the world!

in 2015, the USA imported 9,400,000 barrels every day from 82 countries (Mostly from Canada, Saudi Arabia and ... surprise, surprise from Venezuela).

Now the NYT thinks that Venezuela importing 50,000 barrels of light crude (to dilute their heavy crude) is news? They forgot to mention that last year the US imported 830,000 barrels from Venezuela (the third largest supplier to the US). If you read the actual import/export numbers [0], you will understand that it's just a political submarine article. The reason Venezuelan oil production is declining is a pretty complex phenomenon (driven mostly by Geology and exacerbated by mismanagement, brain drain, corruption, etc).

[0] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=727&t=6
> are things like ice screws and pitons always single-use?

No. Ice screws are definitely something the follower cleans (just unscrew them) and pitons can generally be removed, either by hammering them back and forth, prying them out like a nail, or using a funkness device (a wire with a loop on each end) to yank them out. "Big Walls: Elite Technique" by Jared Ogden has some nice diagrams, but they didn't turn up online when I searched for them. Also, pitons generally aren't used any more (definitely not in sport or trad climbing), but I wouldn't say they are niche or rare. Many big walls in Yosemite still haven't been done "clean", they still require the use of pitons.

This is coming from someone who's only climbed clean aid and whose climbing partner really doesn't want to climb anything that requires a hammer, but I've still picked up a hammer and some old pitons to practice with.
Milla Jovovich Makes Directorial Debut with SOHN’s “Signal” – LBBOnline
It's already happening... Several restaurant chains have already released fully automated restaurants in Asia ("where it's more socially acceptable"), but apparently it's coming here too. Wendy's is said to be rolling out self-service kiosks that're supposed to help offset costs.

Basically... it appears that humans are going to be too expensive to hire very soon. That's just self-service kiosks, but imagine if you were able to get your food for half-price (aka the same price before the $15/hr wage hike)? Which restaurant would you go to, really?

http://www.businessinsider.com/wendys-workers-will-lose-jobs...
We've come full circle to AOL. Everything is curated and walled off.
Trend-Following Investors and Investor-Following Trends
> WTF they are doing so wrong?!

The short version is that they fired all the technicians and replaced them with the party faithful. And then went nuts driving the PDVSA around like a combination of a gift horse and a war horse.
I wonder if this pessimism existed towards the web in its early days

No, lots of unbridled optimism, open standards, and no walled gardens.
Let them know privately, then forget about it.
(Forgetting about it includes deleting your copy of the client data.)
You declined the offer, so its not your problem.
However, as a good netizen, you can gain some good karma by letting them (and only them) know about it. Who knows, your good deed may open up opportunities down the road.
> I actually believe that native (AMP-like) scrolling offers a better experience now that mobile devices are fairly snappy.

Doesn't matter. Personally I disagree, but that's not the real sin. The real sin is inconsistency with the rest of the web on Safari. If Apple thinks that's the way things should work then they'll make that change. Until then having the random page behave differently feels very strange to the user.
Mylan CEO's mother used position with education group to boost EpiPen sales
Wow, you've complained about scrolling in a lot of different threads on this page.
Germany (as one example) has a social expenditure of 25% versus USA at 19%[0]. Switzerland is 19.4%.

[0] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SOCX_AGG
Maybe I'm odd, but I don't trust Paypal with a recurring monthly debit.

Their track record makes me doubt it would just be smooth and painless.
The really amazing thing is that the "Predictor" device actually exists [1], and has since 1963 when it was invented by neurosurgeon W. Grey Walter. Here's a description of it from Dan Dennett's Book Consciousness Explained:

Grey Walter performed his experiment with patients in whose motor cortex he
had implanted electrodes. He wanted to test the hypothesis that certain
bursts of recorded activity were the initiators of intentional actions. So
he arranged for each patient to look at slides from a carousel projector.
The patient could advance the carousel at will, by pressing the button on
the controller. ... Unbeknownst to the patient, however, the controller
button was a dummy, not attached to the slide projector at all! What
actually advanced the slides was the amplified signal from the electrode
implanted in the patient's motor cortex. ... One might suppose that the
patients would notice nothing out of the ordinary, but in fact they were
startled by the effect, because it seemed to them as if the slide projector
was anticipating their decisions. They reported that just as they were
"about to" push the button, but before they had actually decided to do so,
the projector would advance the slide - and they would find themselves
pressing the button with the worry that it was going to advance the slide
twice!

Now that you know it's real, will you behave any differently?

1. Not the negative time delay mechanism, though.
> as they would need to specify entry points and APIs that they then can't change.

Presumably they could add new extensions as they go, and disable functionality that depends on them if they're not available. This stuff isn't exactly rocket science.
My (limited) understanding is it can be tax-advantageous for founders to give equity rather than cash. They can avoid capital gains taxes. So if a founder will give, best to do it this way. One can say they should be generous to their employees, but at some point they will still have wealth to spread around. And if you're giving it to charity, you might as well do it this way.

Similarly, when Warren Buffett and Bill Gates give their fortunes away, they do it via stock.
Tesla patches exploit
Propaganda doesn't have to be a good argument.
that's right. They patched the very last exploit there was only one and there will never be another. Problem: solved.
Bullshit.

She has spent her life advancing her political career.

Her stances on key topics have changed more times than i can count.

As for "women in public office", most didnt get there by being married to the President.
"Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of corruption in a socialist country. Based on this latest report, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds."
In India you can get the whole thing done online:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-31002439

(there was a better story but I can't remember the search keywords for it…)
News sites in particular are big offenders. I don't need a new app for every two-bit small town newspaper. I have a couple of major ones (WSJ, FT), but if you think I'm going to install the app for your minor newspaper because Google News linked it ...
It worked for dock workers when containers were invented... but... these days there's quite a bit of nuance and a lot of money in it.

Much like the legislation around not letting commercials be louder than the main content was subverted, I'd expect companies to weasel around any attempt to keep automatable jobs in human hands.
I've never used the soundcloud website from mobile, but I do really love the app.
Yes, living in the USA does make one sympathetic to other nations living under state-controlled media, with an incompetent government obdurately dragging everyone down a self-destructive and delusional path.
Yelp is so annoying on this front. Click on a review and you have to scroll past a full page suggestion to open it in their app. Then to read reviews they have a "Read more reviews" button, but if you click that it takes you to the app store to install their app. If you click "close" you can actually read reviews.
Are the donors creating a legally binding obligation when they sign up?
It's not premature optimization. It's optimization for ad revenue; they can charge more if they can prove an advertisement is visible on screen.
Since we're talking, how much did you make at Netflix? 250k seems "entry level" there for a good engineer. Do managers make more?
Attention:
Will "KORINEK Michael; (San Francisco, CA) (Sr. Packaging Product Design Engineer at Apple)
WHANG; Eugene Antony; (San Francisco, CA) (Number of Co-Patents with Jonathan Ive: 321+)
SHAFFER; Benjamin Andrew; (San Jose, CA)" (Former Nike design director Ben Shaffer)
Please report to the principal's office for a public shaming? Thank you.
JavaScript is a good example. It wasn't the only web scripting language available, there was JScript and Java Applets and VBScript. JavaScript won and now it's ubiquitous.
This is a bit of a false dichotomy, I use TypeScript + Babel to get full ES6 + TypeScript features - they work so seamlessly I forget that I have a Babel layer in there.
Let's not pretend you tried to make a well-researched and honest argument. The whole point of your comment was bullshit propaganda.
Everyone's certainly prone to confirmation bias, but some information about the real numbers would be interesting.

Has no one yet developed a super duper machine-learning-based sentiment analysis system that could give us a more precise answer about HN's political leanings?
Grab primitivepics.com NOW.
Forced 3rd party JS you must include... no thanks, no AMP for my sites.
Reasoning about Performance, by Dan Luu (Strange Loop) [video]
The entire history of HTML up to and including HTML5. :-)
Man sues Samsung, saying Note 7 exploded in his pants
Well, if you use your computer as a sort of "dumb device" or single (or few) purpose instrument (typewriter, internet terminal, etc), then there's only so much innovation they are likely to make in those areas over a period of time. It's natural for them to also look at integrating with other devices and providing new functionality. Obviously not everything will interest you, and it's possible some releases will just happen to have few changes that hit the particular areas that you care about.
The US is hot on the plan to burn all of the world's fossil fuels and natural gasses before anyone else does. Some old strategy from ww2.

Edit: my android autocorrect is altering my posts
Presumably, Apple thinks that "the way things should work" is that the webpage author has the choice. After all, they're the one who put that CSS property into Safari. They wouldn't have done that if they thought one of the options was definitively better.
so? That just means he's right multiple times
I don't see the share links, but I have noticed on Google News articles with the thumbnail on the left side, clicking the thumbnail opens the original source. This doesn't seem to work (and I can't find a workaround) for the headline stories at the top though.
Minor critique - Getting a MBP to run with dual external monitors is a complete and absolute nightmare involving propriety standards (thunderbolt), OS lockouts (MST works with bootcamp, but not OSX), and expensive Apple hardware (outdated $1000 monitors only). Apple is no longer the company of simplicity from yesteryear.
That's possible, but look at Japan where their automotive robots have been paying union dues for decades. It can happen, although it's probably a really bad idea for it to happen.
Although AMP is just a subset of HTML, if your site passes AMP validation, it gets cached by Google's CDN. I believe that's what makes AMP pages feel fast.

You can certainly write HTML that doesn't do anything of the things that AMP prohibits, but if it's hosted on a slow server, your users won't get the lightning-fast experience. By caching the pages, Google takes the quality of a publisher's host out-of the equation. (In fact, since the pages are being cached anyway, publishers probably have less of an incentive to invest in speedy server rendering.)

(This is my understanding. I don't work on AMP.)
What comes out of the Alberta tar sands is basically asphalt. It has to go through an "upgrader" before it can go into a pipeline. This is an "upgrader"[1]

[1] http://jirirezac.photoshelter.com/image/I0000y08u1qUWSHA