skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people in Zimbabwe were buying consumer technology as a store of value, that suggests a very poor financial sense to desperation ratio.
>To give a recent example, independence-related websites were blocked in Catalunya just weeks ago.

That required judicial authorisation. Good way of beginning a post, with a lie.
These are small countries with a number of sophisticated ex-pats who have placed themselves in positions of power to control local regulations. The result of this control is an influx of offshore funds which they manage as financiers, local board members, solicitors or other enabling corporate professionals.

These individuals make very respectable incomes doing very little work living in an area with a rock-bottom cost of living and propagate their status in society by imposing regulations that lock in the need for their services, like local directorship quotas for local companies. An individual can sit on 30~ or so local boards for $20,000 a year each with a PO box for an office. That's a cool half-mil per year to sit on the beach, drink out of a coconut, and read a few pages of board materials a day.

This isn't the case for all companies, but it sure is the case for some.
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I was talking about server-side JavaScript.
Much of the article seems to hinge on the dollar's decline in value, this may be down to Mr Trump being president.

Similarly with the UK's decline in the value of the pound after Brexit making it superficially more competitive.

Dare I say it, devaluation is overvalued.
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> Highly doubtful has any idea of even gender and age.

That depends if they know that you visit websites which are also visited a lot by other males between the age group of 20 to 30, then they can almost assume that you are a male between 20 - 30.
Why would light bulbs need to be connected to the Internet for the use case of being turned on at a specific time? They'd just need to be connected to a timer for this.

I mean, an Internet connected light bulb use-case would a bulb that flashed whenever a stock you owned went down in price, which is ridiculous despite being the least ridiculous example I could think of.

IoT security cameras and an automated kitchen you phone to, to prepared you dinner if you were coming home unexpected seems like the least crazy IoT device an individual could own - most IoT stuff seems more like what a global company would want rather than an individual.
- http://www.pyinvoke.org/
- http://click.pocoo.org/
Breaking social norms and getting away with it is an old trick to show dominance. When you are late you show the other person that you are the one to be waited for. Zuckerberg shows who the boss is with wearing a hoodie while everybody else is wearing a suit. Obviously this works mainly if you are already in a slightly dominant position otherwise you may be viewed as a jerk.
It can definitely be used as a power move... but claiming absent-mindedness is ALWAYS a power move is a very bold claim.
It doesn't matter what you're responding to; the guidelines ask us not to post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This ^

The editing in the videos is done well too. I'm amazed at some of the stuff that guy builds.
Well that could just be our lovely NBN, high performance NBN
Distributed systems and their architecture

- Samza, Kafka and interesing approach to data modelling
- Terraform spin up Kubernetes clusters with a few MAC addresses
- Raft
Even if you're only shipping to an English-speaking US audience, people are still going to be throwing Unicode at your app. One word: emojis.
You also appear to know English, another Germanic language.
Sure, until you hit a wall with the sandbox. Then you will have to write native code to enable features only available on the platform that the application is run on.
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The input lag on the latest iPad Pro is remarkably small to the point where I don't notice it anymore. The bigger problem for me is feel, a stylus on glass just doesn't feel like writing on paper. But other than that, as you said, the bigger problem is still software.

I really need something that syncs across all devices, can take handwritten or keyboard input, is searchable, and organizable via some kind of embedded links to other content in the "notebook". Usually you can get like half of those things in one piece of software.

I was really hoping the Microsoft "Courier" tablet concept would become a reality, but nothing yet...
Frankly, I still haven't seen a single reason to switch to Python3 beyond the fact that the original authors have gotten bored of providing security and bugfix updates and will stop in 2020. That's it.

The only thing in the last decade or so of Python3's existence that even got me slightly interested in using it was asyncio, and after looking into it a bit, it frankly seems like more trouble than its worth.

I know Python 2.7 extremely well. It works perfectly fine for just about everything I use it for. It's STABLE. For the tasks I use it for, it runs faster than Python3... (Not that performance is my greatest concern when using Python.) So, please tell me -- why on earth is it a good thing that people are trying to kill off Python2? What exactly makes Python 3.6 a "decent step up" from 2.7? I'm still at the point of thinking, as you said, that Python3 is a bad thing.
They didn't say it was blocked using this proposal. Just that it was expedited through website blocking infrastructure that was put in place for other purposes.
As a non-USAian, I would suggest that USAians take the approach of referring to the FBI and its ilk as the Gestapo, KGB or the Stasi (or any other well known like group). Keep the references up and you might just see some changes.

It's possible it won't make changes but, hey, ya neva no wot can appen.
It's clear that there's a problem but it's not clear why regulations will help (it never has before.)
You’re basically describing derivatives, which represent a multi-trillion dollar market...
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It's not strange. Python developers might declare Python 2.X EOLed, but that won't stop people from using it. Like it or not, Python 2.X is not going away.
This is also a business model problem. Consumer hardware companies do not have the margin to make and support software that needs to run for ten years or more.

Before the iPhone, software and hardware were often different and had different business models.
I don't see how the fact that it required judicial authorization contradicts what the author said. Many abuses happen with the full backing of courts.
I meant to make a point more like "I don't give money to people who obviously hold me in contempt."
I think Schneier is right. The market has utterly failed here and there is no reason to think it will start working. Class action lawsuits are very slow and you have issues of trying to prove actual harm. To use his example if my TiVo is part of a botnet but continues working perfectly, have I been harmed in a way that’s likely to let me sue someone?

What happens when you want to sue a company for lack of updates when the company went out of business 6mo after it was created (like Juciero)? You can’t sue them, where a law could have forced them to be secure from the start or put up a bond to support the devices for a while.

Companies will do the bare minimum to get certified? You realize that’s a massive jump compared to what happens now.
Check out libcaca[1], a image-to-ASCII library that already available as a mplayer and VLC output.

There's also a demoscene competition where entries can only use text-mode art, TMDC [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca
[2] http://tmdc.scene.org/
> Your website has no obvious way on how to buy the standalone version now.

It is not easy. In the beginning we had a website that offered both standalone version and a subscription on the same page. It is easy for HN people to make this decision but we had hundreds of customers purchasing both, most of them having no idea what is the different between license and subscription.

Since the purchase-separate-license-for-each-platform-and-host-data-yourself requires more expertise, it made sense to make it less visible and make the subscription option to be default.

> You guys used to make features that would explicitly avoid server side decryption.

All encryption is still performed on the client side. In fact, with 1Password service we went overboard and now encrypting much more data on the client side than we used to.

We also added a separate Secret Key that makes sure the encryption strength does not depend on the master password alone (many people still use pretty weak master passwords).
> saying that "rising prices are as bad for the owners as they are for everyone else" is hard to justify.

You're right. I retract that. (Unfortunately, it's too late for me to go back and edit the original comment.)

Let me rephrase: rising prices are not always an unalloyed good even for home owners.
Nice, this looks really cool!

Although...it is going onto a 'read this soon' list, and I'm probably not alone in that. With these sorts of concise primer articles, have you considered providing a .pdf or .tex of the page?
How do you know that the people buying BTC in Zimbabwe are not criminals?
> despite being the least ridiculous example I could think of.

A lighbulb flashes when visitors ring the doorbell, which is useful for people with visual impairment. the doorbell has a hidden rfid reader, and certain guests have an rfid card. the doorbell flashes differently for each visitor.
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The Native Oberon and EthOS versions used cooperative multitasking.

Bluebottle OS, which introduced the variant known as Active Oberon, made use of multithreading in form of active objects, a concept similar to goroutines.

Its compiler Paco, is one of the first multithreaded compilers I know of.

SSL was not yet a thing when Oberon was popular in the mid-90's, so I don't remember if the browser of the time supported it.

Network programming was a mix of Ethernet and Oberon own protocols, there was support for network printing and file shares.

All books that Wirth wrote about Oberon were written using the text editors of the OS.
...this sort of regulation will simply select for large companies who are experts at paperwork and soft bribes

What do you mean "this sort?" Schneier just says "we need regulation", that's pretty definitely all the article says.
I think you make the mistake of not thinking in statistics.

It doesn't matter if it's not always right, it only matters if it's better than what they have at the moment (ie: almost nothing).

Like the quoted bank said in the article, improving retention by 1% can lower costs by 100 mil per year. Offering a raise to people polishing their Linked in page sounds like low hanging fruit to me.

And of course, employees will try to game the system, which will become smarter and so on.
We should abolish prisons then? It's a ridiculous argument. Abuses can happen with full backing of the courts, but I expect them to not happen.

In all the years that this system has been in place in Spain I have never seen it used for anything other than blocking websites that were in breach of the law.
About product management and product requirements
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I don't know much about this. What would have happened if the other countries/currencies didn't cut rates? Is it just capital flight to the lower-interest currency?
Japanese- through a class in college?

I just finished learning all of the Hiragana pronunciations. Trying to figure out if I want to commit to learning the language or not.
Because Python 2 is an objectively worse language. Do we have to pretend this is still an argument? Do we have to rehash this? The reasons are well known. Do your damn research.
No, they're protesting the ridiculousness of the wall by delaying it's construction indefinitely.
And what prevents the arbitrary extension of credit?

The present primary reliance on fractional reserve monetary is not a carved-in-stone requirement of financial systems, only the present norm.

If you're interested in ideas and thoughts on money, I'd suggest William Stanley Jevons writing as a starting point for modern views. A. Mitchell Innis's "What is Money?" (1913) is not entirely mainstream, but strikes me as among the more insightful enquiries I've read:

https://www.community-exchange.org/docs/what%20is%20money.ht...

I'd stumbled across that here: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/09/money-created-ove...
The article says that there is no local currency. Zimbabwe adopted USD and SA rand some years back and the bitcoin exchange sells BTC for USD.
On the main App Center Roadmap [1] they have Cordova CodePush dashboarding mentioned, but not build support.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/general/roadmap
which means that you do not use a npm proxy.
As far "primitive and powerful" goes, C is for pussies. Real men[0] code in assembly or Forth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Moore

edit: Golang rulez!
Been using SeaMonkey since 2009. Never switched to anything else, and have no intentions to do so.
Open Source Media streaming with skip ahead on GAE
Enabling the average worker to take risks like searching for a better job or maybe even starting a company of their own (if they can argue the business model to a funding entity or have sufficient savings or grant incentives) is the proper way of defusing that power.

Everyone should have access to quality healthcare (as a birth/emigration right); tax everyone, single payer (the government) negotiates with doctors in an area for the best price; everyone that needs a service done picks from among the open local doctors and just gets treated. No secondary bills, no annoying billing department, just treatment.

Second would be to actually have a national ID, and among other things, to have (an abstracted) public shipping address for registered mail to reach that person. First Class (normal post) would be able to lookup the address as part of the service. Anyone could thus mail to #NATIONALID# and not need to worry about where someone has moved or re-located.

Third is enforcing market competition for basic supplies (of all kinds, but I'll focus on housing since that's a major concern on HN). This would mean that if there isn't enough housing in an area people want to be, more would be encouraged, and if that isn't enough to match demand special arrangements would be called for to do things like buy out whole neighborhoods (at once) at something like 2-5 times current market value per unit and re-develop an area to a correctly targeted density.
For sure, and it's arguably worse when they claim "patches welcome" and then the PR sits for years without so much as a "please wait." Insult to injury when the PR is just a typo fix, or cleaning up a blatant lie in the documentation.
> I think people in this thread are talking past each other.

I am also getting this impression.

I think that while I am talking about libel and slander, vkou is talking about the need to be taken seriously?
It's worth mentioning they actually had the domain drip.com but sold it to the current owners. (For a six figure sum, informed a person at the buying company in a recent podcast, Art of Product.)
What is Money? (1913)
I can easily update my Mac or my Windows PC. I also know that Apple and MS will be around for a while.

How do I update my lightbulb? Who will make updates for? Maybe Phillips will for their product but what about smaller OEMs? What if the company quickly goes out of business like Juicero?

Depending on what you buy and where you buy it do people even know who made it? Would you even know how to check for updates (assuming they exist)?
This is giving in to surveillance: allowing it to define what you are allowed to say and do.

It is also not feasible. Sure, you can stop doing that, but there are millions of other 'tells' that you will give up through your actions online that can predict this information. Machine learning will pick up features you cannot control or even imagine that will accurately predict whether or not you are on the job hunt, no matter what you do to hide it short of just disconnecting from the Internet. Which is likely a tell itself.
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Picking a version longevity winner probably depends on whether you mean specification, or implementation.

ANSI Common Lisp was standardized in 1994, and there have been no updates to the language since then. There are several supported implementations (though the implementations have probably all incremented their major version at least once since then).

It seems that JavaScript gave up numbering at 1.8.5 [1], so you might consider it to still be on "JavaScript 1.x", which dates back to 1996.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Version_history
Thiel knows as well as anyone within pharma that the reason innovation in medicinal chemistry has slowed down is not the FDA, it's the financing model. His business is venture capital, he knows about finance. So - what is this game about, why is he baiting the FDA?
It targets Linux users, but is Chrome-only (and not Firefox support?).

That's a really really odd, step to take, especially considering both browsers use pretty much the same extensions API.
Neither founders nor employees ever get an anti-dilution clause, or at least, I've never heard of this. VCs would simply hate it. Founders and employees get common and are last on the liquidation preference list.

Anti-dilution is usually for A or B rounds against a possible later round. A cap (I hate caps) is a form of anti-dilution. None of this is available to employees at least that I've ever heard of. As a founder I'd never expect it from a VC nor would I ever give it to employees.

Founders can get something called Series FF that grants them a supermajority of voting which allows them to retain control even as they give up their majority. You have to do really well in the seed round to get it in A. I think Larry+Sergey got this.
From me directly :-)

Nah, buy it wherever you want. It's all good. Hope you enjoy it.
Just skimmed but looks pretty comprehensive.

Another great reference is the Art of Electronics.

Tons a practical advice for selecting components and building circuits that is still relatively relevant even today.
The article mentions a video but I can't seem to find it. If anyone finds it, please share it.
That list is of the top packages. If internal Mozilla tools are downloaded enough to become top 200, then either Mozilla is larger than I thought or Python is smaller than I thought.
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> In your gmail example, the HTML version doesn't have:

> Chat

> Spell checker

> Keyboard shortcuts

> Adding or importing contacts

> Custom "from" addresses

> Rich formatting

Sounds excellent. I might give the Gmail Web interface another go (I've always used it through POP and IMAP in Emacs, due to monstrous "features" like these). Whilst I agree in principle with spell checking and keyboard shortcuts, not only does my browser provide both, but Google's poor wheel-reinventing interferes with them (as does that of many other sites, e.g. GitHub).

As for the "chat", my experience has been that even nudging one's mouse in the wrong way ends up migrating a gtalk account to "hangouts", which doesn't support XMPP and it's very difficult to undo.
If Bitcoin gains significant adoption overseas, that pushes up Bitcoin's value everywhere, USA included; geographical differences in price will be arbitraged away. The increase in price might or might not lead to greater US adoption, but it'll still benefit US holders.
I wanted to fully quote Ron because they're his feelings and I think that's the only fair thing to do. He's my friend (this is from Facebook (a public post so I don't feel it is violating any trust))
The change to string handling justifies it for me. Writing `u’foo’` everywhere is a pain, and the rest of the 2.7 model is extraordinarily prone to runtime errors. With 3.6, I don’t have those problems.
> some form of currency

Which form? At some point Zimbabwe economy was (is?) so fucked up that currency does not hold any value, so barter is all there is. Money literally evaporates overnight:

> The peak month of hyperinflation occurred in mid-November 2008 with a rate estimated at 79,600,000,000% per month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
Hold on. So the multisig wallet itself is a smart contract? Why isn't it this stuff handled client side?
In a few years not having a meaningful Facebook profile might be suspicious in itself.
I found the opposite. When having to deal with utf-8 text, I hated life in 2, but 3 handles it with ease. It made life so much better.
The world is never finished
I think this is the relevant paragraph in
the document (page 27 in http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/commissions/imco/inag/...) linked from the article:

"3. Competent authorities shall have at least the following enforcement powers:

(e) where no other effective means are available to bring about the cessation or the prohibition of the infringement including by requesting a third party or other public authority to implement such measures, in order to prevent the risk of serious harm to the collective interests of consumers:

- to remove content or restrict access to an online interface or to order the explicit display of a warning to consumers when accessing the online interface;

- to order a hosting service provider to remove, disable or restrict the access to an online interface; or

- where appropriate, order domain registries or registrars to delete a fully qualified domain name and allow the competent authority concerned to
register it;"

Seems similar to already existing measures against infringement of copyrights, except that thing about circumventing the courts, as Reda writes. Could this possibly mean websites such as Facebook could be blocked on the grounds of protecting consumers? The document defines 'widespread infringement' as

"(1) any act or omission contrary to Union laws that protect consumers' interests that harmed, harms, or is likely to harm the collective interests of consumers"
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In recent history, a fair bit of AIX on IBM Power. Further back, lots of other Unix variants and other vendor-specific OSs.
C++ (and its ilk) is a language that I don't touch with a 40 ft barge pole. Irrespective of the aficionados of the language, it is poorly designed in oh so many ways. I would rather program in BF, befunge, or remorse than C++.
doesn't work for apples or prescriptions
The Fabric dev(s) seem to be developing a v2 branch with Python 3 support: https://github.com/fabric/fabric/tree/v2

But I'm not sure how far along it is yet.
The neural network said so
That's how we designed the original 1Password data format (.agilekeychain). It certainly made syncing with Dropbox much simpler.

It does have its drawbacks though. Once you have too many files (and make too many requests), both Dropbox and iCloud will start throttling you.

It also might take a while to reload the data, even from the local disk. We had to add a cache file at some point.
> opening the source code once security updates for the device stop, so consumers could help themselves

That might help the readers of HN, but not users in general. Most users won't bother installing security updates for their PC if it's not forced on them. Updating one's light bulbs with something off github is a non-starter.
You've been posting mostly comments that violate the guidelines. They ask, among other things, for us to comment civilly and substantively and avoid generic flamebait. Could you please change this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html