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> It's really not surprising to me that the original link to Shaw's article is buried on HN

Submissions with lots of comments (or was it high comment/upvote ratio?) get automatically nerfed for being noise. Don't think it's got much to do with this article in particular.
Reddit is where you meet people. Reddit has bigger power in directing attention than most advertising networks. Directing attention for private communication is definitely censorship.

I actually think legislation has to be brought up to date here. We seem to favor communicating on privately owned websites, but people still seem to have an expectation of freedom of speech. Law should definitely reflect this common expectation.
If anybody removed the government from Venezuela that would be a bless.

I'm generally against interventionism, but I doubt the situation can get worse in Venezuela. I'm probably wrong anyway.
Why geometric mean?, I would ask.
(I read a lot of history. I do find the suggestion to "read some history," absent any actual historical argument being made, to be condescending and sort of useless, but I may be misunderstanding your intent here.)

I completely agree that asking one to perceive the world without ones' own biases is quite difficult. Would I know if I had a biased worldview? Maybe not.

On the other hand, I hear a view similar to yours quite commonly expressed. I read it as, "Both sides lie, everyone lies about the same amount, and we shouldn't try to call bullshit on those lies." That's exactly the view I find terrifying: it implicitly rejects the notion of objective truth, or at least rejects the idea that we can benefit from such truth in any way.

To take a counter view: do you think it's possible, in a given election (if not this one), for one candidate to be significantly more mendacious than the other? If so, how could we discover it? How could we agree when it is happening?
To give some numbers. The building of JP Morgan in London was bought for £500M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_Bank_Street

Hope that someone here knows the price of lightning so we can get some comparison going on :D
Really - it's fine here on this old iMac running updated Safari
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Do not accuse people on HN of "virtue signaling". That's simply a way of saying that someone is lying, or commenting in bad faith, not because they believe what they're saying but because they're trying to curry favor with some other group of people. It's semantically indistinguishable from accusing someone of "shilling", and that's one of a very few arguments that's specifically forbidden on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20shillage&sort=by...

There's also no way to make such an argument civilly, and civility is a basic requirement for commenting on HN.

Making arguments on HN is trickier than making them on Reddit, and you may find it's not worth the energy. There's nothing wrong with keeping your discussions there.
Ah, I see. No, I learned programming eons ago with a "Logic of Programming" course at my local community college where the book in question made heavy reference to mainframe programming and came with a stencil for flowcharts. There was no actual coding involved when learning the concepts, just tediously produced flowcharts and ample use of a sketch pad / eraser. Kids these days would be better off learning in a similar fashion.
I write Java, and I enjoy it.
for all his points about adoption of python 3, i think an interesting data point is that many of the OpenStack projects are actively converting (or already have converted) to python 3. that's no small amount of python.
Your reference doesn't fully support your claims, though I feel the strong downvoting is disproportionate to your comment's claims.

Rather, it states that:

President Barack Obama on Thursday extended for one year an executive order declaring the situation in Venezuela a threat to U.S. national security, saying conditions there had not improved and that the country's leftist-led government was continuing to erode human rights guarantees.

The declaration allows for sanctions, but doesn't, of itself, support the claim that the US is seeking to install its own puppet government. And yes, the US absolutely has interfered in Latin American politics since the 19th century: Cuba, El Salvador/Panama, Guatemala, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, and elsewhere.

But you'll need more specific evidence.

See the HN guidelines regards discussing voting patterns.
What a strange straw man argument you make. You feel that any time the government does something that benefits someone it is "vote buying". We're discussing the physical mechanism of voting here and you've redefined basic terms to make some kind of off-topic political point.
Sure, I did say "typically". Obviously the form factor does not define an HSM, but in general the term is used to refer to dedicated machines designed for high performance at scale with a large number of users, rather than a SmartCard/USB device which is, typically, for a single user.
> It's not your exact words, but I don't think it's an unfair characterization

You ignored the half of the sentence following the 'or'. To me, that's unfair.

> if the excuse is [...]

It's not an excuse, it's context.

The performance is a low priority compared to the content, when the site is a developer resource.
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The country pretty much has collapsed. And yes, crime is through the roof.
I sit on my sofa. Not the best thing for my back, but that's what I do.
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Crime is indeed very high - murder rate per capita is 15 times higher than in the U.S. or 70 times that of United Kingdom.

It is so high that the government has stopped publishing statistics, and also so high that "authorities would assign judicial police to Caracas area morgues to speak with families. At that time, they would advise families not to speak to report the murder of their family member to the media in exchange to have the process of recovering the victims body in an expedited manner. It was also reported that police would intercept the families of the victims and take them to the library of the University Institute of the Scientific Police (IUPOLC) where authorities offered families ways to "streamline procedures and advise them not to give information to the press in return for their aid"*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Venezuela

The government also banned private handgun ownership in 2012. The number of murders has grown by about a third since that.
There was a fairly well publicised incident in Tower Hamlets (part of London) where a local mayoral election was declared void for reasons including "Voting fraud: ballots were double-cast or cast from false addresses" [1]

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32428648

Was this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutfur_Rahman_(politician)#Fal...
You could expand some conventional macros first, then go to HOAS with what is left (and then do another pass with a separate HOAS macro system, perhaps).

How the heck do you handle hierarchical run-time environments in these representations? Especially mutable ones? If we have this:

(let (a b c)
(let (d e f)
(lambda ())) ;; escapes somehow
(let (g h i)
(lambda ()))) ;; ditto
(lambda ())) ;; ditto

These lambdas capture different, overlapping environments which share the (a b c) bindings. If there is an inner loop which repeatedly instantiates the (d e f), then new closures are made with different instances of these variables: yet those closures all share the same (a b c) bindings.

So we can't just flatten the entire lexical scope to some HOAS terms and pretend that its hierarchical structure doesn't exist.
What is Hampstead Satanic Abuse? http://bfms.org.uk/hampstead-satanic-cult-hoax/

Who is Holly Greig?

What was the Cleeveland Ritual Abuse Scandal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_child_abuse_scandal (See also Rochdale, Orkney, Broxtowe, etc.)

Those historic scandals don't stop misreporting today, see the coconut shell reported by police and media as being a skull fragment -- even after it had been tested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_child_abuse_investigati...

The sad fact is that child abuse is fantastically common, and by devoting so much time to bogus bullshit we're failing to protect children who are being harmed right now, mostly by their relatives.
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As someone who can't stand apple yet also is getting bored of Android apps (linux) crashing every 5 minutes, I feel it would be great if Microsoft could release something new to the market with the same reliability as their Desktop OS.
why do we need this? Mongo (3.4) is now doing graph and will also (obviously) do document and key-value. Is there something special about the storage engine, for example, that will make this awesome for range queries (contiguous location ala RIAK TS or Cassandra rows)? Does it optimize for the new SSD controllers that have order of magnitude higher random read throughputs? Does it leverage GPU RAM? Does it occupy some barren area of the CAP triangle?

Does it do something new, or is it just another neat query language on top of the same old storage algos? The "3-in-one" pitch doesn't fly for me unless the underlying storage tech does something special.
The weird thing is that Maduro has so far refused to default out of some sense of pride. The bond market has already priced in the inevitable default.
Color me unsurprised that a person who wrote software for voting machines also finds them useful.

The problem I have with this particular scenario is that it imagines a reality in which someone can afford to collect votes one by one with impunity but can't force these same bunch of people (and one or two simply aren't enough to matter) at the voting station itself.
The only time first matters is in patent filing. If your product is patentable, you should probably file (or publish) as soon as you can, so you don't have to fight someone else's patent later.

Other than that, I can't think of any current large successful businesses that were first to market. It's usually much easier to build something you know can be built (because it's in the market), especially because you can see which parts are important and need more focus.
I think the suggestion usually is that Putin would prefer a disrupted, uncertain, inward-looking U.S
This is more about falsification. Many view automation as a substitute for human labour. This is some evidence that contradicts these expectations (although it is far from conclusive).
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-As for crime, Venezuela has the 3rd highest (reported) murder rate in the world. (at 62/100,000 in 2014.)
> I really don't think its such a great idea to reinvent the UI wheel, throwing the decades of research and refinement represented by native UI toolkits under the bus for the sake of branding and aesthetics, unless you have a good reason

It's a romantic thought, but that boat sailed a long time ago. Users got used to the web that had a very inconsistent UI between websites and on the website over time; before bootstrap, you would be hardpressed to find 2 websites with the same button styling. The last time the web used unstyled OS-controls was the 90s (with that default grey background - blech).
Don't forget broken HA features. HSMs are a great idea in theory that are ruined by incompetent companies making them. They soon become a gun your org holds to its own head with the outcome of a data loss incident or a hack because of their janky OpenSSL integrations.
Yes, this was one of my questions. What is the accuracy and error margin of the voting system itself (and each state seems to have different methods so its not even uniform). Of roughly 126 million votes cast, 1% accuracy would be 1.26 million votes which would be of the same order of magnitude of Clinton's "win" of the popular vote. I have no idea if 1% accuracy is close or wildly too high or too low but we can't have a meaningful discussion without it.

Correction: Actual total was 126M votes for the presidential election not 160M votes as I stated. But the question remains.
What? UK to US is 70:15?! How savage.
Religious flamewars aren't allowed on HN. Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13032718 and marked it off-topic.
Definitely a nice site. However, I'd argue that if CSS was in any way intuitively designed, this site wouldn't be necessary.
Voter coercion is something to be concerned about but the scenario you describe won't keep me up at night. The number one problem is it's hard to scale up to a level that would actually sway an election. It only takes one hero to call the police while they're at the polling station or after their family is released and the sequence is broken. There's no need for the victim to actually submit the pre-filled ballot, they can throw it out or do something to it to make it invalid then come back with the blank one. The ballots where I vote are on a heavier stock paper that are not trivial to conceal bringing in and taking out; most could do it but one victim slips up and the scheme could fail.

Where I vote, my paper ballot in no way identifies me. I identify myself upon entering the polling station, they find my name on the list of registered voters and mark it. When I'm turning in my completed ballot, I again identify myself and my name is marked on a separate list. So there's a record that I voted but not for whom I voted. How would an electronic voting machine improve upon this?

BTW, where I vote, the paper ballots are the bubble scan kind and the voter feeds it to the machine themselves. This provides very fast tabulations with a paper record for security and recounts.
Unfortunately we have infinite capacity for rationalization of horrible deeds. The core teachings of my spiritual path condemn killing? Well, yes, in principle, but just look at how special my situation is. It certainly wasn't meant to be applied literally and in every possible circumstance...
> As touched upon in the article, the objective not being differentiable is a big deal for modern machine learning methods.

I'm not sure the absolute value is a big problem here. You still get a convex optimization problem. In neural networks a lot of people use ReLU or step activations functions, which are no more differentiable than the absolute value.
From Giorgio Maone, developer of one of the most complex and most popular extensions, NoScript:

Developers and users are also concerned about add-ons being prevented from exploring radically new concepts which would require those "super powers" apparently taken away by the WebExtensions API.

I'd like to reassure them: Mozilla is investing a lot of resources to ensure that complex and innovative extensions can prosper also in the new Web-centric ecosystem. In fact, as mentioned by Bill McCloskey, at this moment I'm working within Mozilla's Electrolysis team and with other add-on authors, involved in the design of mechanisms and processes helping developers experiment in directions not supported yet by the "official" the WebExtensions API, which is going to be augmented and shaped around their needs and with their contributions.

https://hackademix.net/2015/08/22/webextensions-api-noscript...
For being healthy. For loving and feeling loved. For working for a company whose vision I believe on, with people I learn from, and which allows me to work remotely so I can spend most of my time with the people I love. For having a job that is well paid, that I enjoy doing and that allows me to see how people use my work to learn and build amazing things. For being part of communities that share their work and knowledge so we can grow faster than what we'd do individually.
Can't speak for anyone else... but will say that I find McDonalds, Burger King and Jack in the box burgers suck... I'll generally prefer Carl's Jr./Hardees. There is room for better quality chains. People can taste the difference and marketing helps.

That said I've yet to have a burger as good as the first time I had one from Heart Attack Grill, they were never as good since and other places have been close. Just moved to FL, missing the chuck box.
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Send me a locked STM32F1 chip and I'll send you back the binary contained in it. Not kidding. The problem with general purpose MCUs is that they are trivial to break.
Venezuela's problems stem from several issues, and there's sufficient political invective about them that a clear discussion is difficult.

An earlier HN post addressed the question of Venezuela's refusal to simply default on its loans, as another South American state, Argentina, did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12057616

In another earlier thread, I suggest strongly that the problems Venezuela is facing are far more characteristic of a failing end-stage oil state than of the inevitable failure of Communism, for which China and Vietnam offer possibly interesting counterexamples.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12541955#12545819
I never said you couldn't charge a capacitor like this. I said (a) that it was a bad idea to charge a capacitor living in a portable device using a small power and (b) that it's extremely inefficient. (And (b) tends to imply (a) when the power brick is a tiny little thing with limited heat dissipation.) You also have the capacitor's leads to worry about if you scale to cell-phone-battery-sized capacitors.
The biggest issue that I can see with this is abuse.

Do you have a way of preventing email spam and outgoing DoS attacks?
I don't think you realize the people gave up power generations ago. It doesn't matter what the people want now or even if they want or do not want to give up power. The power was given up to the government when it was formed and forever it will stay there until the government is destroyed by violence. We've seen this over and over again and know this to be the state of things. I don't understand what pretending the people have any power left gets you. The only power the people still seem to have is the power to vote (not very powerful, IMO) and of referendums and other state initiatives. These are the powers that were given to the people in exchange for people giving up the rest of their powers (except as otherwise legislated). If you want to talk about people regaining or not giving up power, you are necessarily talking about violence and rebellion on the scale of a civil war. I don't think anyone wants either of those and even for people that do, it's likely unwise to talk about it on the Internet.

As far as free speech, the original topic of this post, IMO, it doesn't exist when people are afraid to speak out and right now, many people are terrified to silence.
he could just force him to make a video of him voting the way he wants with his smart phone (for both, paper ballot and electronic voting machine).
I had a similar thought but went slightly further. Imagine a hd capable screen with high frame rate without back-lit illumination and then also like the eink readers not using battery life when screen is static. It could open up a lot of neat things
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I'm a developer and I just read this whole site on mobile to see if there's anything I don't know. Initial load was clunky, fonts have initially not been showing up but after that it works pretty well on mobile.
What I'd like to understand is: why did he publish the previous post? I mean, it was an opinion and he knew it's one that many don't agree with. If other people calling him out and disagreeing is a problem, then what was his original intention?

You can't publish your writing with things like "I don’t worry about the vindictive assholes out there who feel any questioning of their tribal beliefs is an affront to their person." and expect that nobody will point out it looks like you just took questioning of your beliefs as an affront to your person. Maybe I'm missing what he tried to achieve...
That's where it started, I don't think the mainstream media wants it to end there though.
@Thankyouverymuch, thank you very much.
Yeah, we agree, actually. Tor probably won't even be the default. We are adding flexibility to network support right now. Soon you'll be able to have just cleartext SGOS, or be able to send sandboxed apps through different paths: one app might exit through a VPN, another through Tor only, another through i2p maybe, etc, enforced by the sandbox.
> Mods: could you please edit the capitalization in the title?

Yes, and the punctuation as well. But this isn't an on-topic story for HN.
There are different ways to explain it, I will use the simplest one. This formula essentially says that goods get exchanged for money in the monetary economy:

M(oney)*V(elocity)=P(price)y(output)

Lets say you destroy 50% of M overnight. This will have a huge effect on Py, because prices can not change that quickly, you will have a falling output.

Now its pretty easy to keep M constant (as long as politicians can not fund their pet projects with printing). The problem is that Velocity (another word for money demand) is not at all stable. So if something happens that for some reason effect money demand, it will have a effect on Py, that is price or output. In the short term, prices can not change, thus output suffers.

Every good monetary system has a way to balance this out. Note issuing private banks (before central banks) would automatically do this because when the noticed increasing demand, they would have to raise the gold reserve ratio. If the notice a decrease in demand, they could decrease the gold reserve ration and thus make more profit.

A modern day central bank will say that they target inflation. So they attempt to make P stable (predictable) and let the market (supply side) determine the output. If there is a huge crash in V the central bank should be able to see this and before it affects P or y to much, adjust it back. They are making it quite hard on themselves. Many people now call for targeting NGDP, that just means MV.

Bitcoin is fine as long all your doing is making payments, once you have multi layered complex economies that depend on the correct working of the prices system to aggregate information threw the system you will have constant problems. Price systems are the secret sauce that make markets actually work as well.
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Mark Zuckerburg, referring to Facebook users.

http://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zuc...
Sooooo. Basically eating 3 pieces of bread at once?

If I have a Crescent roll. That has hundred layers. Is that like a toast sandwich inception?
My opinion is that you should make your best attempt on your own without input from others. As a coder and as interviewer it's often painfully obvious to me which candidates had 'help' to get to that point in the process.

Landing the big job is not worth much if six months in you are let go or transferred because you didn't really meet the qualifications. (Not trying to say you don't deserve a job at google)

I guess the best advice I could give is be yourself in how you solve it, employers often overlook minor skill deficiences in favor of character strengths.

Good luck!
> Short term (especially weekend) tenants don't care about the neighbours or the building.

So probably the smaller period the higher rating/experience of the tenant. And of course fines for landlords.

> I'd like to see a way for building owners, or local government, to get a feed of every listing on AirBnB. They can then terminate leases, or whatever.

You propose AirBnB give out gun to shot AirBnB :)
That's not what I meant, more like notifications who rented what, so building owners could report/fine right landlord later.
I can't believe it's actually a thing. I've been doing it since I was a child and was certain that it was my brainchild.

It's even better if you put peanut butter on the white bread and jelly on both side of the toast. Peanut butter and jelly time with an added crunch!