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Basically all the laws that are written to avoid government abuse and corruption create a corrupted system of regulatory capture.

Here is the simplest example. Say you need a device that does X. Now, I can go down to the local hardware store and pick up a device that does X (and Y and Z) for $40. But the law is written so that I can't just buy it where I want, because I might be wasteful and I might buy it from my buddy. So instead, I have to put out a bid that says I want a device that can do X and only select whom ever wins a bid. But there are a lot of regulations in who can bid, so the local hardware store doesn't ever even try. So I say I want a device that does X, and I end up getting a couple offers, the best of which is a device that barely does X for $200. That is the best offer I receive, so I have to take it. So now I have a much worse device at a much higher cost. Now, multiply this with every single thing you need to pay for in a software project (including other software, licenses, hardware, manpower, even the paper to print specs on).
Funny to see people arguing about archaic laws passed by people in the 1700s. As if the people in the 1700s knew anything about the world in which we live, or could possibly have any foresight about what is good and what is not good. It's similar to religious laws where people argue about what some Prophet said as applying for all time. We can see the flaw in that, we can't see that we do the exact same thing with a country's Constitution.

As if the Constitution is some holy document passed by God himself that is right and on the basis of which, I guess God, we can challenge the government which has real power.

That's the way I see religion in general, of the little man with no power creating an imaginary God, a LORD of the universe, with which they can challenge people that have real power and make them behave. Guess what people with real power don't care about your imagination.
I run an independent business in India and all my clients are in USA. I would rather setup a US based company where the regulatory certainty is much better in India. Keep and invest money within US to the extent taxation is not a problem.

I am pretty sure there are many more people like me.
Consider what I said as a placeholder for very bad news.

And I use FB mainly for events around my area and chat. I'm not much for posting or resharing garbage. And it's not like my "Rah rah candidate" shitposting is going to make someone else vote differently.
I wouldn't put it that bluntly. This study focused on large molecule biomarkers for the most part. There are HUGE number of possible smaller blood based biomarkers that could very likely be normal in finger-prick blood.
Also you cannot do queries on the encrypted db without being able to observe the results. E.g. if you are able to initiate a query on a fraction of the data, you already have access to that fraction of the data. And you cannot initiate a meaningful query if you are a server-side observer.

Of course, active adversaries could give wrong results (wrong pieces of the index) back, we didn't quite consider yet which problems that could cause.
reminds me of Sierpinski's triangle.
Love this! Thank you for sharing and making me smile on a Wednesday.
Also part of the deal with him running the place was to have Bill Gates return and spend a third of his time at Microsoft. Bill Gates has changed a lot over the years. I'm really curious how much of this change he (Gates) has played a part in.
This has been so obviously coming for several years. I'm surprised it took them this long.
It is possible to order Uber on a laptop. https://m.uber.com/ with location services active on your browser. Works well.

Just so this post is relevant to conversation... I use a Blackberry Q10 with the keyboard. I only have SMS and phone and it is great for those purposes. I used to have an Android but it was too intense for my fragile millenial attention.
The same could be said for certain vulnerabilities in Tor: Exploiting them could be illegal under the CFAA (unless you're a LEA with a warrant).
If you are resident in the UK and control a US company, HMRC need to be told about it. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/controlled-foreign-company-an-ov...

The US company will pay 20% UK Corporation Tax on (worldwide) profits and need to fill out CT600 each year.

You will probably be able to pay lower taxes in the US as a result of double taxation treaties, but it's going to be a very tedious task to organise.
It's very much a "what works for me", but any accounting system that supports an account hierarchy (which ledger seems to) can have some form of budgeting "bolted on".

At my bank, I have a "Chequing" and "Savings" account (that's their use, anyway). I use GnuCash for Android as kind of an additional data layer on top of my bank accounts.

In GnuCash I have a Savings and Chequing account I manage, but I've got a whole separate hierarchy of "bank accounts" called "Budget". Under that I build a whole tree of "Bills", "Planned Purchases", "Car", "Credit Card Payment", etc. When I get paid I transfer the appropriate amounts into the various "budget" accounts to plan for my bills and such. The displayed amount for my "Savings" account is actually "money that is not allocated to anything right now". (The true total is Savings+Budget.)

If I pick something up on my credit card (e.g., buying something online), that expense gets logged against my credit card right away and I can just transfer some money from Savings/Chequing/Budget into my "Credit Card Payment" budget item.

It doesn't really provide me any forecasting, and I can't really set up "future bills", but once I move the money into the budget accounts it's essentially "spent", so it serves the purpose just as well.

(As an added benefit, I've set up the expense accounts to more or less mirror my budget accounts, with some additional ones for the unbudgetted day-to-day. I can always get an accurate picture of "how much have I spent on <x> since I started tracking", which is interesting.)
I completely agree but what happens when some startup produces a product with serious flaws and is then sued out of business before they're able to fix the product. Who's liable for fixing the product then?

IMO the people who lead the corporation that released the product should be held personally liable but I realize that's an unfavorable opinion. Otherwise the government ends up footing the bill, which means WE foot the bill, and we're back to being in an unfair situation.
I think it's probably the opposite of the author's hypothesis. Easy VC money has prompted companies to hire full time, in house designers to work that was normally done by short term contractors.
Amazing. Either I'd never seen this quote before, or didn't understand the huge negative implications of punishing the innocent on society.

If innocence isn't held in the highest regard, then society itself collapses as people no longer deem it necessary to act in an ethically- and morally-superior manner.

I see many signs in modern society that this maxim was ignored.
> which you would know, if you could read

We ban accounts that repeatedly post uncivil comments to Hacker News, so please don't do this.
Perhaps he meant data-mining? :)
"Works quite well" is a phrase I've never used with Xamarin. I stopped using it about a year ago for two reasons: (1) _every_single_release_ would break my apps and would then require spending inordinate amounts of time trying to get things building again, and (2) I could no longer justify paying for the professional edition just to be able to use Visual Studio on my hobby projects.

I am very much hoping that both of these issues are addressed with this acquisition, and like many, I have been holding out for a while now hoping this would happen.

EDIT: pjmlp, can't reply to your comment directly: You are talking about the Indie edition, with which you cannot use Visual Studio. Using Visual Studio requires the professional edition, at $999/platform/year. Even with the discount they gave me, the thousands of dollars I spent just to do hobby projects was a mistake.
Terrible writer.
> That's what the documents say - natural rights codified.

What documents? The Constitution says nothing of the sort.

> If we were writing new founding documents, we'd have a pretty good idea of what 'should' be rights. Where does that come from?

To the extent that people would share common preferences as to what rights should be protected, its a matter of shared cultural norms shaped by our political/legal history; there'd also be considerable disagreement, too.
Moving from MartyJS to Redux
EEE only works if you're a monopolist. Microsoft in 2016 is so far from being a monopolist that they can't even see monopoly from where they are. Xamarin is just another tool, so it's not clear what Microsoft would gain from extinguishing it.
Keeping up with the frameworks is a full time job! Smart engineers don't bother. Find one you like and milk it for 5 years at least.
For those not willing (like me) to take the plunge into the world of no phone or changing back to a plain old flip phone, try just using Airplane mode on a regular basis.

I do this all the time when I want peace and/or focus and it does the trick for me. I still have the benefit of a phone nearby if I have a genuine need to make a call or to get some information, but I don't have the inbound calling or popups which come with having data enabled.
> Seriously though, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence may refer to the idea of natural rights

The second does, the first does not.
Over the past year, Plenty of Fish has been emerging as a higher ROI alternative to Google ad offerings.
That's exactly why I'm asking the question - it's unclear.
>3 year old leaves are already surprisingly cheap, I was considering getting one.
According to the rules [0], "Show HN is a way to share something that you've made".

Cool site, though.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
My theory is that it seems so much easier to "delegate" and buy one's responsibility out of the problem when one's budget is awash with investor cash, particularly for public companies. In some ways it is often refreshing to work for early-stage/cash-starved companies because blatant waste such as this is not that easy to achieve. A darker variant of this theory tries to determine whether the principals of the firm being contracted have any relationship with the people hiring them.
That's far from guaranteed, and looks less likely all the time. See, the "Luddite Fallacy Fallacy." Gwern gives it a nice treatment here: http://www.gwern.net/Mistakes?cx=009114923999563836576%3Adv0...
There was backlash against iTunes 'helpfully' giving you a crappy U2 album. Traditionally, advertising is something you see when you 'go on the internet'. It doesn't usually appear before you even log onto the machine.
Yep, relevant pieces, thanks for bringing this!

Our performance become a little better since then. And also we'll update our fulltext search algorithm using Lucene's practical scoring function: that makes it more scalable and will also help with performance.

As number of clients grows, things actually become better for read queries (as long as we support MVCC). However, multiple writing clients can create congestion if they write data to the same place which can affect the performance indeed.
One web design agency I used to work for in the U.S. has exploded in growth. When I first started, they were a few dozen people. Now they have hundreds of employees and offices around the world.

Many of these employees left to start their own web design agency and all have again, grown in size and worked on very notable design projects.

While sites like Squarespace has made it easier for small and independent businesses to develop sites, medium to large businesses still don't mind going to agencies or firms. Agencies have the capacity to do other things like do professional photo shoots, influence branding, and give strategic consultation that DIY simply doesn't allow.

I do think there is an evolution to the web design position. Now, on top of understanding aesthetics, designers need to know how to prototype, code (basics), interpret and apply human research.
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I completely agree on that point. I find it quite insulting and also the term 'white' is totally unacceptable to me. Which is why I use and encourage people to use European American. That term at least has a definitive connection with our home countries and the cultures of European diaspora.

The homogenization of all Europeans into on mass of culture-less 'white people' serves a political purpose. It polarizes the entire electorate into easily manipulated identity blocks based on race. They create a narrative that the amorphous 'white people' has this or that evil intentions and serves as a bogyman to scare other groups. Polarization keeps people voting in very narrow dependable voter blocks based on a dependable list of identity block issues.

The way forward is to assert European American policy issues into national policy debates. And take the magic wand of 'white people' away from the progressives and the republicans. Neither of which have any intention of advocating policy on the behalf of European diaspora.

That is what the media and the establishment fear most of all. European Americans asserting there rights as a coalition demanding political representation. Once that happens they can no longer hide behind 'white people' while simultaneously demonizeing us as a scapegoat. There will be a clear demarcation line between the policy objectives of the super wealth who control the economy and Political parties and the 99% of European diaspora who have legitimate political, economic and social demands that have to be taken into account.
What are TAM and KAM? Surprisingly, not google-trivial.
You can stop most of that behavior on Android.

Virtually all of it if you use frameworks like xposed and xprivacy to protect yourself.
Reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8
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I'm wondering if running a remote control(cell network) robot on a sidewalk is illegal?
See http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
Agree. I figured the person asking the question was being amusing.
He was on a public network so any email he sent as going out in plain text over the air. Nothing secret or advanced about that.
As someone who's lived with health professionals my whole life ... if you're smart and have a background in science or engineering, you're only about two or three questions away from stumping health-care providers.

The level of understanding required to build a thing is very different from the level of understanding required to patch a somewhat broken system.
Personal attacks will get your account banned on HN, so please don't do this again.

prawn's comment wasn't helpful, but the whole sorry subthread was started by a rant that you shouldn't have posted here in the first place. HN is for civil, substantive conversation, not overwrought outbursts. Please don't post those either.

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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A core group of these people (in the orbit of Miguel/Nat) have been plugging away for like two decades on solving programs through building software. From mc, to GNOME, to Ximian, to Mono, to Xamarian.

It was a lot of hard work and dedication and, above all, constant shipping. Good for them.
Open sourcing the compiler, CoreCLR, and JIT made Xamarin's life easier, not harder.

Acquiring Xamarin is just acknowledging that Windows Phone is DOA and their best shot at monetizing the mobile world is providing backend hosting/services and developer tools. That's not a secret - that's their publicly announced strategy.

I'd expect all the Xamarin tools to be built-in to VS going forward. One VS/MSDN subscription gets you everything and the tools will make it trivially easy to host on Azure.
It's because I've been around for a while.

The idea, and failed promise, of FOSS wasn't that there will be many "great FOSS projects around", it was that it will win the desktop (and not just as some FOSS released by some corporate behemoth, but by community -bazaar- FOSS projects).

That, it never did.

And in fact, in all those years, they've failed to even better Photoshop (Gimp is still far behind), MS Office (Open/Libre Office and co), etc and other such basics. Heck, compare GTK/Gnome's latest APIs to something like Cocoa (and even more so with Swift) and weep.

And then SaaS used server-side FOSS to kill the free part behind the service providers server farms. They can use all the FOSS goodies they like, and nobody gets to see their code or change it.
Still in litigation. OR has spent more than $6.6m in legal fees fighting Oracle.
I am not from Stripe, but my guess is "absolutely no":)

On the other hand, I do wonder if one day a startup will be able to offer one-click business, residential, or tourist Visas. "Visa-as-a-Service".
But coder output is definitely higher now than ten years ago. And a lot of the work that's out there is of a much lower level of complexity, so the experts now are either working on things which need the requisite knowledge or working in places where their productivity is correctly compensated.

The thing is that a few years ago people were willing to pay designers to make Photoshop templates and that's it. Nowadays this simply won't do, so the work is moving up in complexity and the bottom tier is being handled by people with no specific training.

Finally, just because the work has shifted one way in coding jobs doesn't mean it will work that way in design. It is quite possible that the intermediate knowledge gap being created by better tools and more complex work just won't require people in that area, so we'll have both more experts and more newbies.
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In fact, the approach you used for actor (using GWT) is no less applicable to us (using pyjs or rapydscript - see https://medium.com/@ZeroDB_/zerodb-js-zerodb-in-the-browser-...)
yeah, it's similar to what https://bitcorps.co/ is doing too
you can bind a key to switch to relative mode.

since switching to VM based gaming about 6 months ago I've played and completed: SC2 LOTV, Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 1/2, and The Talos Principle and have not had a single problem.
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And while getting a blowjob from Halle Berry?
I think generally speaking, you know when you're going to want to take a
photo, or be navigated via gps, or listen to music. So why not take the
route that allows you to experience those tasks at their best?

Because life is all about trade-offs. Yes, I can buy an eTrex, a Nikon D5, a standalone audio player, and a phone. But now I have 4 devices, each of which needs to be kept charged and kept track of. With a smartphone, I have a decent GPS, a decent camera, a decent audio player (which can play FLAC with the right apps), and a decent phone. I can carry one thing in my pocket, or a backpack full of gear.

That's not to say there isn't a time and a place for specialized kit. If I'm camping, for example, I'm definitely going to use a dedicated GPS device, rather than an easily breakable, low-endurance smartphone. If I'm out on vacation, I'm going to take a proper camera in addition to my smartphone. Most of the time, though, I don't need the advanced capabilities that a dedicated device would give me. A phone gives me easily 60 to 75% of the same capabilities, at a much smaller fraction of the space needed.
> Computer software has somehow managed to almost entirely escape liability, avoiding legal responsibility for shipping software with serious defects that makes it not fit for advertised purpose.

So did early car manufacturers etc etc.

Personally I think if everything had been thoroughly regulated from the start a lot of the innovations we are all benefiting from today wouldn't have happened or would have taken far longer time.

So I am not against regulations, but I can understand why waiting a bit and thinking very carefully before implementing regulation might be smart.
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OpenWRT is plain vanilla and probably a hard place to start if you don't understand terminology, etc.

Try Tomato for a friendlier newbie environment. Google your router to see what alternate firmwares are available for it and never buy a new router unless you know one of the alternatives is available for it because most factory firmware is full of holes.
Right, no-one cares that the website of the plumber in your town looks the same as that of the plumber in the next town, because those guys aren't competing with each other.
Something that's always perplexed me -- if we're talking about small amounts of blood, why finger-tips? This is such a sensitive area. Why not a prick on the elbow or the shoulder?
Yeah, only in a totally different and irrelevant context, where only "let them" remains the same.

The FOSS community weren't some hungry peasants that the aristocrats at Richmond took their bread away.

On the contrary, they were shouting how they don't need those stinking "proprietary" products, and that they can do one better.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11168904.
I might be misunderstanding your question, but the code that's part of the tutorial should run a webcoin node; does that make sense?
"A newsletter entry dated 26 December 2012 states: "MS [Microsoft], working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal" with the issue. "These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...

Noticed how this date is withing those 5 year of "It's a whole new Microsoft" mantra you guys chanting over and over?
As someone who spent a decade there and moved on, I second this sentiment. Austin has a homogenous weirdness and a southern corporate consumer culture, and its fabled affordability is a thing of the past.
The skin is thin, easily accessed, and heals quickly.
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OK, here's another thing: Miguel has long advocated MS opening up their platform, and has welcomed every such move as it happened.
Zero; it won't happen. Apple's stance has been stated and unchanging for years now. Statically compiled frameworks like Xamarin are fine. Interpreters are fine if the app ships with the code (no dynamic patching by downloading new code) or if the code is part of a reviewed/approved in app purchase. For JavaScript you also have access to the native code JIT too.

The only thing you can't do is issue new code by bypassing App Review (except web pages / web apps) or have your own non-sandboxed JIT.
I think arguing for the Bolshevik abolition of the family is going to go down even less well on HN than the abolition of Wordpress.

Irreconcilable differences of opinion on what the best way to do things are the reason why we can't all just join in one big cooperation; the alternative requires either total stagnation or the squashing of dissent.

(See also The Tyranny of Structurelessness)
Not sure if serious...
So the government mining of all meta data sent to any third party (including all texts, phone calls, and internet usage) is fine? Also, what about the data itself. You are putting the data on lines you don't own, so that is all fine too, no?
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