skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Planet Money has good episode on this exact topic called "How Venezuela Imploded": https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/21/498867764/epis...

tldr: They didn't invest the oil revenues wisely and became reliant on high oil prices
Using a throwaway account to keep things private

Last year I was "sex-torted" on Facebook but not by a ring of French criminals. Instead, it was by someone I had chatted with on the internet years ago (while we were both still teenagers)

She had recently gotten divorced and contacted me after many years away. We spoke about intimate things (I never shared intimate images, though she did) and were getting closer and closer to each other.

She eventually asked me for money to cover an expense for her daughter, but I didn't send it fearing I was being scammed. In exchange, she took screengrabs of the most intimate parts of our conversations and shared them to all of my professional contacts via LinkedIn as well as friends , colleagues and family on Facebook.

The experience haunts me to this day, I discussed consensual kinky stuff with her and she used this to paint me as a freak and deviant. The only people who understood it were those who had been in a similar situation or those who were in the "lifestyle" as well. Strangely, most of the support I received after the fact were women who have been similarly extorted. Men in my entourage just whispered and snickered.

To this day, I still feel shame in certain circles because of what is unsaid. The police have done absolutely nothing even in the face of evidence (reports filed with local police and FBI) but it's simply not a priority. Facebook won't even pull the posts because no intimate images were actually shared and it doesn't technically violate their "guidelines"

Net result: I've deleted my social profiles. Every last one of them (and feel better as a result). However, the damage is done and I'm totally still feeling PTSD as a result of the ordeal.

I consider myself very tech savvy (engineer, infosec background, on the internet since the early 90's) and able to smell a scam. However, it's really really easy to fall victim to something like this. Be careful.
I completely agree; I wore my watch series 3 (no cell) all day yesterday, tracked sleep last night, and this morning I still have 65% battery left. I quick charge while I shower in the morning is all it's needed and I'm blown away by how long it lasts. (I had a Pebble Time previously.)
What about a black doctor? You'd be racist if you denied...
How? If a plugin could do that then the site could do that.
The Venezuelan authorities depend on the military to keep themselves in power. So they will continue to fund the military even as the rest of the country disintegrates.
I use Lighthouse and Dareboost as a minimum, and a suite of site specific integration tests that run on Browserstack if it's anything important. I do all my development using eslint and flowtype where appropriate, and I write unit tests for the Javascript logic (usually in Jest as I do React these days). I also use Sonarqube to check the code. I've been tinkering with Stylelint to check and format my SCSS code.

Even with all that in place the QA/QC guy always seems to find problems.
> That's a weak argument, in my view.

Definitely, but from all I've seen of debate competition, the strength of argument is largely irrelevant. How many points did you make, how many were responded to, how many of the opponent's did you respond to...you might not get credit for a completely off-the-wall response, but if you pass a basic sanity check, I think you're good.

I could be wrong, but this seems to match, what I've been told, what I've seen, and what seems measurable (and balanced when you're assigned your position).
Pretty much all the extensions I need have been converted to WebExtensions at this point. DownTheMAll remains the sole holdout at this point, but I really only use it on one of my workstations.
I've reported spam accounts to Facebook - in fact I do so whenever I come across one. And on more than one occasion Facebook have closed the ticket claiming the account was legitimate.

If some of Facebook's own moderation team cannot differentiate between spam accounts and legitimate ones then what hope is there for others?
What makes you say the book is 2 years old? Its publication date is Aug 1, 2017. It's based on Deeplearning4J and ND4J rather than TF, but that doesn't date it necessarily.
Vim text objects, extend Vim's natural language
What's with I guess the apparent void of anyone that matters not knowing what the fuck "software" is.

I learned this at 5, can you all at least learn this Hy I don't know what, college, graduate school?
A few years ago, we started thinking "maybe if we ignore IE long enough, it will go away?" Looks like we aren't quite there yet...

But in the mean time, it's very helpful to encourage companies to base their browsers on standards, and move away from outdated software -- at least a s security precaution.
Neptune’s other moons were normal until Triton crashed the party
Well sure, but I would assume that the Harvard debate team is also full of geniuses.. or at the very least, wealthy people with all the resources and access to top tier mentoring and coaching.
The main thing keeping me tied to Chrome is how it syncs passwords, bookmarks and history. Is Firefox's sync as good?
> Where did all the money go?

TL;DR: Socialism.

NTL;WR: Capital flight caused by the arbitrary seizure of private property.

Longer still: They allowed the state to control the oil revenues entirely, and because they wanted to enrich themselves, they promised unsustainable entitlements to the public which eventually fell through when the oil price dropped slightly. Because they didn't give a damn, the private sector was not involved to invest any portion of the revenues, and the government couldn't possibly care less to invest them. Now lacking the revenue they took for granted, the entitlements they promised the public have bankrupted the state, and all good-natured attempts to liberalize the economy (which could save it literally at any point, but with increasing transitional pain) have seemingly been met with threats against life.

Added: Hey cowards, if you dislike this post so much, why don't you make a reply and tell us all why it's wrong? There is probably a civil war on the horizon and you can't help but QB the ideology of the establishment which has turned Venezuela from a forward and developed country with a bright future into a prison hellscape of rape, murder, and mugging.
This is what's holding me back from changing mostly. Honestly, lastpass is great for me but I almost wish built in browser password managers were better. I used to use Google Chrome's password manager but one time I synced with another computer or phone and everything got erased and there was no undoing it. I lost everything. Maybe syncing is better now but after that sync that thought "hey let's make sure everything is like this brand new device" I hesitate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_phone_makers_by...
The funds involved made far more than $20M.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/business/dealbook/how-arg...
That doesn't mean IE is a major browser, just like Windows XP is not a major OS simply because some old hospital equipment and ATMs still rely on it.
If I have to buy a stick for everyone's streaming service I'll be up to my ears in dongles!
Building Fast Data Compression Code with Intel Integrated Performance Primitives
This is a function of market share and customer loyalty, and thus Apples ability to tell carriers to f-off. iPhones will sell regardless whether the given carrier does sell them or not.

On the other hand, iOS updates do cause problems and then it's the carriers, who scramble to modify their networks to make iPhones work (remember when Brits didn't have mobile data for a few days after an update?). They would not do it for Xiaomi or Sony.
Oh yeah ur smart future people graduated graduate school and have a very Shakey understanding of the concept of software and hardware, if any concept to speak of at all. In many cases I'm genuinely left wondering if most of you have ever even HEARD THAT WORD.

I am angry and I'm getting it out through words, also though expressing a valid thing. It's called "killing two birds with one stone" for the "american literary geniuses"

The heard that word thing in this thought jot being meant towards graduate school graduates. What I mean is that if I'm right and most of them haven't even registered the word "software" there's a big problem, and I don't mean that in a funny way.
Depending on circumstance, they may also be tied to whatever home insurers deem proper for a roof. I'd guess roughly a third of my peers have had their roofs replaced and paid for by their home insurance (storm damage - tree limbs, hail, etc).
Interesting, I have not encountered that while using Authy on my phone (Android, Galaxy S5). I think that Authy has the best UX overall, especially when looking up a 2FA code, but generally because:

- The overall design (color scheme, shapes, etc) is much more pleasant and friendly

- each entry has a helpful provider icon, which makes it significantly easier to visually search the list and identify the correct provider. You can also manually change the icon (from a small list) if the one auto assigned is not correct. FreeOTP just shows a blue square icon for every single entry in the list.

- after finding the correct account by scrolling through the list, you need to click on the account to show the 2FA code. I reallly like this (compared to Google Authenticator) because the only digits shown on the screen while I am manually entering it into the browser are the digits that I care about. I cannot tell you how many times I've used GA in the past and accidentally typed the 3 final digits from the incorrect row above or below and need to backspace and correct in the browser. Silly, but incredibly annoying. FreeOTP gets this UX right too.

- when adding a duplicate entry in FreeOTP (scanning a QR code for a service and account combo that is already in FreeOTP), it silently fails to correctly update the 2FA secret (it just does nothing). This happens anytime I rotate my 2FA secret on a website. Authy and GA handle this scenario better. Authy create a duplicate entry with the same name and GA overwrites the existing entry.

- though I don't use it myself, Authy can show either a list of entries (one per row), or a grid of entries. Some users will likely prefer one display over the other. FreeOTP only has a list view option.

- I don't use Authy cloud backup myself, but that is one main reason that many people choose to use Authy. FreeOTP does not have any backup options that I am aware of.

- When deleting a 2FA entry, Authy immediately removes the 2FA entry from your home screen list view, but gives you a 48 hour grace period before it actually deletes the entry from your phone. This significantly reduces anxiety when rotating 2FA secrets and generally gives me warm fuzzies in case I screw something up accidentally.

Authy has some of its own warts for sure, but I personally find it to be the best of the mobile apps I've tried by far.
What's amazing to me is that there are people who don't feel like they're capable of changing their own doorknob.

(I get it; there are some people who would rather just pay, but surely some of these people just don't feel like they could manage this task. That's wild.)
Yes. It beats building up your own crawler that handles all the edge cases. That said, before you reach the limits of scrapy, you will more likely be restricted by preventive measures put in place by twitter(or any other large website) to limit any one user hogging too much resources. Services like cloudflare or similar are aware of all the usual proxy servers and such and will immediately block such requests.
Same issue here. Disabling smooth scrolling fixed it.
Isn't out yet and from what I can tell they haven't released much info about it yet. Maybe will be worth revisiting the idea when it's actually released.
The master electrician's compensation for training the apprentice is the lower wage of the apprentice.

Most MEs I know bill everything out between $90 and $130 per hour during normal business hours. Apprentice is usually getting around $35 per hour. Apprentice has to work for years to become a master.
Samsung Invests in Cray Supercomputer for Deep Learning Initiatives
>Almost like an economy that can adapt on its own might be a better idea, but I digress.

Works just fine in the US. Not like people are dying on the streets due to lack of healthcare or anything
Yes. Been using it for years. The only gotcha is that adding a new devices loses the date of bookmarks. If you care about that, a workaround is to export and import them.
Not the most exciting release, but boy am I glad Fedora exists. I switched over from Ubuntu around this time last year and it's been so much better, more stable, better packaging, more up-to-date packages by default. A really great OS. And on my Thinkpad it runs flawlessly.
Yeh the hedge funds buying old Argentine debt second-hand for pennies on the dollar and then holding out for 100% was pretty ... yuck.
Corruption [1], I guess. It appears to me that if a country has access to oil or minerals and still has bad infrastructure or a suffering population, it sits high on the corruption index.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela
I'd like to buy an Android Ereader - there are a few but they're all on Android 4.x, is there a reason for that? I'm guessing its licensing not technical but I'm not sure.
More generally, the point is that if you have two locations where the fastest you can send a unit of data is t, then the shortest possible time interval you can pass a transaction from one location to another is t.

That puts a upper (EDIT: corrected from lower) bound on throughput of many types of operations, such as e.g. if you need to guarantee strict ordering of transactions (EDIT: in the worst case, where transactions are being issued from multiple nodes; best case you can optimize in a variety of ways).

So while we won't have to deal with interplanetary latencies, it still matters greatly for throughput and consistency guarantees.
Interesting read and insight into a subculture I know very little about.

Looks like only a few of them are getting rich, and it isn't without its costs. Working seven days a week as a professional gamer is pretty brutal.
TLDR; AirSim is simulation software built upon Unreal Engine 4 from Microsoft Research. It now includes car simulation and real city-like environment where you can test your self-driving algorithms. You can just download the binaries and start calling its Python APIs in minutes.
I was also very, very concerned about Tree Style Tabs. It's one of the main differentiators Firefox has for me over Chrome. Very happy it's mostly been preserved. I really only care about having my tabs on the side, not necessarily the nesting.
Well, the server is abstracted away and vanishes in a puff of logic, you see.
The benchmark Mozilla highlights for this release (2x faster) is Speedometer 2.0. FF57 is 2x faster than FF52, which came out roughly 7 months ago.

In my own personal testing (you can run on your machine in a couple minutes), FF57 is 10% faster than FF56 on that benchmark, and Chrome 60 is 10% faster than FF57.

https://mozilla.github.io/arewefastyet-speedometer/2.0/
I think you underestimate the type of "spin" (for lack of better term) that goes on in the street? At least here in the Bronx, some of these people find ingenious arguments to get out of situations. Who is going to be better than understanding argument and the law, than someone who personally went through the process?

These people find ingenious short-term "quick-fix" arguments, a lot of that advantage can go away in the long term.
they only have to seized a few oil fields they are owed and do that via corporations and private security, no invasion pe se.
The same applies to pretty much any skill: to be successful, work hard and be very good at what you do. That's the entire article in a nutshell.
They do it so wrong and it seems like countries like Norway ,Sweden etc seem to get the balance right.
Mozilla Releases Firefox 57 'Quantum' Web Browser
Wow, that is horrible. Given that, I would argue that, for all intents and purposes, they do not support TOTP then. An average user has zero chance of doing all of that correctly. Bummer the don't support it as a first class citizen in their security UX on their main site.

Care to share a direct link to the TOTP configuration site though?
I am using saka key, it works pretty well for basic stuff.
I suspect these guys are not the only debt collectors operating this way, but the whole thing is shameful. Talk about an industry crying out for more stringent regulation.
This is an insightful observation. Designing more and more complex systems to achieve high availability may end up not achieving anything or even being negative because those HA systems are too complex to implement, configure and operate in a way that actually achieves HA.

I think the same may end up being true of globally distributed databases that try to provide generic ACID transactions. Will they actually ever achieve the performance and reliability needed to serve massive scale global work loads?

Or will this be a Mongo situation where all of the scale promises turn out to be unfulfilled once you actually reach the scale where you need them?
The WebEx Tree Style Tabs is markedly inferior to the "Legacy" version. It is simply an integral and indispensable part of my workflow, so much that I can't even fathom browsing without it. I guess I'll stay on 56 for a while.
There is a massive performance difference between compiling to js and compiling to wasm.
Anyone know how the new FireFox compares on battery-life? Safari crushes Chrome on this front currently, but I'm curious how FireFox compares now.
Squandered of course, in an extreme vote/allegiance buying escapade that was never sustainable by a middle-tier economy. They would have had a lot more time had oil remained at $100 of course. Chavez didn't plan for that oil price plunge just as the Soviets didn't in the 1980s.

Part of Venezuela's problem is erosion of infrastructure. They continually robbed from the necessary reinvestment into their energy production, while managing the state firms in a wildly incompetent manner typical of similar regimes.

We've seen plenty of other authoritarian countries manage their production drastically better, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, so it's not all down to just that factor, it was a special combination of authoritarianism + Chavez incompetence.

You end up with exports that look like this:

https://oilprice.com/images/tinymce/James%207/AE3023.png

While over time your own domestic needs climb some, against falling production that looks like this:

http://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Venezuel...

Once you erode the whole system down far enough, you slip below a level of recovery, where you can no longer afford to actually fix anything even if you theoretically could or wanted to. You start becoming dependent on outside funding, in this case from China and Russia; but even in the case of China, they start to lose their patience if they think they're going to see a hundred billion dollars vaporize entirely with little to no benefit.
Step 1 be a girl. Step 2 break all of Twitch's community guidelines. Step 3 ??? Step 4 Profit.
If done right, I think those ads could feel more like previews at the movies. I think the problem that Amazon gets into is that they show the same one over and over and it feels like an ad.

How would I fix it? 1) create a setting that allows people to turn it off. 2) Don't hide or delay the skip button. 3) Make them really previews. Previews do a good job of intriguing and entertaining. Some of Amazon's ones just feel like ads which more just tell you that something is available - I'm thinking of The Tick ones in particular. 4) Don't repeat a preview within a 36 hour window. When a preview is new, it can be interesting. Even an ad can be interesting once. When I see the same ad over and over and over, it gets ridiculously annoying. One of the worst things about online video ads is that I can watch a show and get the same ad 10 times in an hour. I've watched HGTV and gotten the VW-man-cave ad literally twice in a row during the same ad break. The ad stops and then it starts again because it's the next ad. Amazon isn't as bad as that, but I don't want the same ad for the same content starting every episode I watch. I've seen it, don't beat me to death with it. 5) Also mix in some previews for non-exclusive content. Amazon has Indiana Jones. Throw in a preview there. Show people your library.

Still, one ad for another piece of content doesn't feel the same. Once in the program, there's no interruption. Amazon isn't making money by you watching more content (unless you count continuing to pay for Prime because of its value).

I often appreciate good previews. It's something I think can be missing. How do I decide to try a new show? I really want a good preview that gets me interested. Shows can start slow, but a preview can show me that I should try it.

Again, I think there are some adjustments that could be made to make them less annoying and possibly even welcome for most people. I think the biggest problems are the annoying ad-like properties - delaying the skip button, repeating the same preview over and over, etc. And I think if you allow opt-outs, that's more than fair.

If I were guaranteed not to see the same preview more than once in a 36-hour period and there was no delay on the skip button, I'd keep them.
The one issue with home appliances is that they are becoming disposable and cheap enough to just throw away and buy if it breaks. Although the higher end stuff still breaks down and may justify a repair cost but a $300 dishwasher does not. Even washer and dryers are now very close to being disposable. I would have hoped it had gone the other way with today's products being super reliable due to improved manufacturing and technology but we got cheap and fancy useless features vs cheap and reliable.
If you know the ids of those two divs, you could easily make a javascript bookmarklet to delete those two divs at click of a button. Or I will be happy to do that for you just for fun :)
I see that one of the David Faures is still doing the release. ;) How long has he been with the project? Should be close to 20 years now.
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Yes, and you own the private key.
I'm not assuming anything: I asked a question, rather than stating a fact.

"Not significantly" would be a valid answer to the second question. However, you seem to be answering "are home routers entirely secure?", which wasn't my question: my question was about real-world risk levels (i.e. "_are_ public wifi points significantly more likely to deliver threatening payloads", not "_could_ they be").

I'd still be interested in an answer to the main question.
> keep in mind LTE is effectively broken because of the emergency tower
> redirection implementation

And it will fails after only a few message, when the phone modem tries to authenticate the network (MME) and fails. LTE and 3G do have mandatory mutual authentication where the device authenticates the network very early on. It's 2G that's the problem: a 2G network does authenticate the device, but not the other way round, which opens the door to the well known MITM attacks on 2G (stingrays). The worst a LTE/3G rogue cell can do is try to attack the modem during the early non-authenticated messages (send corrupted messages), and waste UE time or jam it. But it can't do MITM.

So if you're paranoid and you can afford it due to good 3G/4G coverage, disable 2G on your handset ;)
Never heard of the Pace, that's pretty cool. And GPS too! And round! And fits standard bands!

Maybe I'll get one when my Pebble dies.
I’d argue if you started with these rules from the beginning, you are not much of an artist.