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I'm not 100% across Chinese politics, but from what I understand the Politburo[1] (where the top leaders sit, including Xi) are voted in by the Central Committee [1].

But the Central Committee isn't really an independent body, and the people who sit there are selected by the Politburo - effectively the Politburo members just vote themselves in.

(P.s. as mentioned I'm not 100% across the politics in China so happy to be corrected)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_Standing_Committee_o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Commu...

I doubted this too but a quick wikipedia search proved parent correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd#Etymology

I hate this too but I think it's intentional - as once you sign in the banner will disappear on scroll

Ah sorry I'm an idiot - if there's a mod around feel free to change the link

I think OP is making reference to this quote by Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkz7xgsPGmQ

I've recently started putting my photos on Apple's iCloud photo library (both on my iPhone and Mac) and every now and again I'll get a notification from the Photos app saying it's create a new Memory (a collection of photos in a "smart album" put together by their AI).

Has a very similar nostalgic feeling to what you're describing, and a welcome surprise - especially after a long day at work.

Not sure that's the case as looking at this graph from The Verge, their revenues are growing but their losses are also getting larger proportionally to their revenues.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/1/16593582/tesla-model-3-pr...

> This also struck me as odd - do pedestrians and other drivers really make "eye contact" with drivers to gauge their intention?

This statement both terrifies and piques my interest simultaneously ...

Was this at an official Apple Store? Sounds very uncharacteristic based on my previous experience with Apple retail staff.

If you haven't already subscribed the author (Dr Aaron Carroll) runs his own YouTube channel - Healthcare Triage (https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage)

Highly recommended if you're interested in the space

I also use the web interface and I believe it tethers your phone to the browser - so the phone is sending the unencrypted messages to the browser window.

If you delete a message on the phone the message disappears in the web interface too.

Might be cached? I logged in earlier this morning (and seems to be working now) and exported all my bookmarks to pinboard.

It's sad to see all my thousands of bookmarks over the last decade in a file <1MB

Just had a browse of http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/delicious.com.html and it looks like quite a few people have the same plan (myself included)

I think with an outage for this long, is it safe to assume that we've moved away from "the migration is taking awhile" to "something terrible has happened and it may be a good time to switch to pinboard.in"?

Not sure if HN knows about Mehdi Sadaghdar's (aka ElectroBOOM's) YouTube channel, which is somewhat similar - but takes a more lighthearted view on electronics.

E.g. Compare Big Clive's mention of a full bridge rectifier in the video vs Mehdi's YouTube video of the same thing :)

https://youtu.be/sI5Ftm1-jik

> I used the quick swipe left to collapse comment threads 100s of times a day

Same, though I found the "skip to next parent" button on the lower right was a good substitute.

In case people think you're being dismissive to the parent, this was a quote from a popular "drink driving" ad which ran in New Zealand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWirGxV7Q8

Not sure what you mean but Android 2.x has been been unsupported for awhile now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Gingerbread

For those on Safari, I managed to find this extension which also does does collapsable comments

https://hckrnews.com/about.html

I remember watching this TED talk a couple years ago which stuck with me, though am not 100% sure on its validity.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_iliff_one_more_reason_to_get_a...

The theory being that sleep was a way to clear out waste from the brain during normal operation, due to the lymphatic system not extending to the brain, it has to put itself into "sleep mode" to drain the waste.

This might explain why memory is usually better after a good night's sleep, and also the cause of dreams - which is just misfiring of neurons while the waste is being cleared.

I've been using Chit Chat on Mac which I find suits my needs (https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat), and which is essentially a wrapper around the web interface

Why not disable proguard on dev and then let CI compile with proguard on?

Can ultrasonic welds come apart? I think it's Apple's intention that consumers aren't supposed to replace the batteries but instead Apple technicians

Ah yep makes sense!

Can't those other sources also be spoofed?

I saw this, but from what I understand it was only if you had an Android phone, and it needed to be beside you the whole time while it procesed the messages for you in the background?

I found out about Goofy a couple of months ago and when I'm at my desk, I don't have to use my phone at all for messaging (except for whatsapp).

Now I'd wish someone would do the same for Gmail chat / Hangouts, or maybe a way to combine all the webviews into one ;)

I was on the support team for my friends earlier this year for the Oxfam 100km trailwalker[1] - a fundraising event - though I know they're other endurance events where people run for 200kms and longer

1. https://trailwalker.oxfam.org.au/melbourne

For some strange reason I thought this was part of Alex Blumberg (also from This American Life)'s Gimlet Media - which he started in August this year, and which he's documenting at http://hearstartup.com.

Anyone know if the timing of Serial's debut was co-incidental, or if there's something happening between the two ex-TIL producers that we don't know about?

I think the reason they're so many dead bodies in this space is that there's not much a productivity tool needs to do, and any attempts to create a new one is just repackaging an existing tool into a nicer UI.

Basecamp is Asana is Evernote is Trello. You have tasks, you assign them to people, and I think 99% of the time the reason people go with a certain tool is the look and feel.

I've found the main driver for productivity (and I know this sounds flippant) is to actually make an effort to be productive. If you aren't making an effort (or your team members aren't making an effort) the tool won't change their behaviour.