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The first day he messaged her, we told her it was a scam to take window's money. Four months later, when we discovered she had been talking to him in the intervening months, we showed her a few websites that detail exactly how the romance scam works (matching her situation exactly). Last weekend, when we found out all of her money was gone, we had the police and adult protective services come out and tell her point blank that she was being scammed.

She listens, agrees, and then sends him more money.
Low budget made-for-tv films look better than 30 years ago.

With those budgets you can't hire top crew talent, and without A list cast you can't attract audience. So you will have a film that doesn't look like A budget film and you won't sell tickets. A list cast costs that much because they have brand value. With a product like that you're destined for TV and rental market. It exists and it works, but it can't fight in the same arena for viewer tickets.

There's also a feedback loop. New actors are introduced along established ones. That's how they become established themselves. And the cycle repeats. Doing a movie with whole unknown cast is extremely risky. Because you lose any brand value coming from actors. Two questions when considering watching a movie are: What is it about? Who's in it?
Pretty sure PyCharm uses pep8 under the hood. It's more permissive than pylint.
Sure, and it's pretty all right when they are young kids playing for fun.

When it's boys nearing adulthood supposedly playing more seriously, a few of them dreaming about pro careers, it looks silly and is frustrating to observe.

One essential thing to learn when you study football is that you have to respect and listen to your coach and also the teammates: don't lose the ball stupidly.
Curious how Myrtille compares to Apache Guacamole.

https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/

Also if it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I guess the jurisdiction depends. In the UK you'd stand a very good chance of intervening. Indeed oddly enough there was an article about just this yesterday in the UK, i'll see if I can dig it out
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Your pretty skilled at DIY. Your average person ime has incredible difficulty hooking up a surround sound audio system or setting up a router.

If you screw up a router install you have no internet. Screw up a diy plumbing job...
Intelligent people with time on their hands an on the border of desperation makes logical sense that petty crime or white-collar type fraud crimes would extremely appealing. High ROI.
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This can be solved by sanitizing it prior to parsing and removing any property that starts with 'comment'. I know it's not a pretty solution, but it works. It's an additional step, but it might be preferred by some people when it means working with a data format they prefer.
Charities are a huge fraud target too. Often, stolen credit cards get run against donation portals for charities like the Red Cross to see if the still work and are valid (as the charges can be quite small).

This costs the charities a lot of money in chargebacks and man power in dealing with it. Stripe's offerings here could prove invaluable in this scenario.
I admit I'm confused now. I think, but I'm not entirely sure, that you are making fun of the reply, thinking "that guy got a job, what more do you want?"

As I read it though the point was

> Although they have not met each other again since,

followed by

> she continued to provide him with financial assistance

the last part

> until he completed his degree a few years ago and got a job in the American oil sector.

is completely unverified, and given that the whole thing was a scam to begin with IMHO certainly does need verification in order to be believed.
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I wouldn't be too sure about an inability to interact. Given what we know about the fundamental laws of chemistry, it's entirely possible that the formation of life as we know it may be the only real way life can form. I wouldn't be too surprised if we discovered microbes that look and function very similarly to our own viruses and bacteria, etc., including DNA/RNA or some very closely similar molecule and mechanism.

But overall I agree with you. There are likely to be many differences, and even if they were exactly like Earth microbes the chances of them bothering us or us bothering them would be just as unlikely as a chimpanzee catching a cold from an iguana.

I think it much more likely that they could be biological irritants or even toxins, if indeed they affect us at all.

I think the main concern is that we'd want to study them as isolated lifeforms, and any Earth proteins or other contaminants would greatly hinder such studies. Even if we could clearly separate out the contaminants, we couldn't be certain if the Martian organisms had reacted to the Earth substances in some way.
Fraud?
One thing I never quite understood. These "Nigerian prince" scams can originate from any developing nation where the exchange rate makes for very lucrative prospects. Ie, Chile, Egypt, Romania, Kazakhstan, China, India, Thailand, etc etc. Why do a disproportionate number of these scams seem to originate from Nigeria?
But wouldn't that mean that you and your SO would inherit these debts when she dies, and there's nothing you can do about this? That's truly awful :(.
It's our responsibility to choose and support products that respect our rights and empower us. Vote with your feet.
One thing I wonder about is if we go to Mars and find microbial life at some later point. Will we ever be able to be sure that the microbes were there before us, or did we bring them with us without realizing, after which they reproduced until we detected them?
Your homepage crashed my browser. Not sure what you've got going on there. :/

Nice name but how does it relate to your product? I assume it refers to Michael Faraday.

I have a bit of history about him and how he compares to Tesla, along with a tour of monuments to him in London here: https://unop.uk/faraday-tour
What will Tesla do if you do it anyway? Disable your $100k car? Does that hold up in court? What did you buy for $100k?
Those expert modes went away because invariably newbies would trigger it, freak, and bother tech support.

And frankly the mouse, and more recently touch screens, seems to have made interface designers ignore the value of haptic feedback.
I've actually found that Best Buy is pretty reasonable when it comes to this if you point out the specs being identical. But I'm sure it is going to vary depending on who you get and what kind of day they've been having.
The Martian surface is bathed in radiation, a near vacuum, and very, very dry. If there is life on Mars, I think it is likely to be far enough underground that nothing we do short of outright terraforming the planet is likely to make any difference to it.
The lead feature here seems to be "buy domains with no hassle", but that already exists: Hover.com and Google Domains, to name two major ones.

Perhaps your lead should be the unified domain management. Because I will be honest, at these prices I would NEVER use your service over the two I mentioned above.
GDP is heavily skewed towards the wealthy and big business.

It's borderline useless for determining the wellbeing of the average worker.
Well, the GPL wouldn't be necessary if you could properly negotiate your rights by default.
Are you confident enough that a seller who is willing to sell counterfeit chargers is always going to send the same exact counterfeit chargers? I'm not.
How many cars did they wreck until it worked like on that video?
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No, but even a use strict type clause wouldn't have helped in this case, since the entire syntax was valid (volme was being properly initialized as part of the loop definition). The error occurred because 'volume' was considered to be part of the function scope, despite being defined as part of the for loop scope.

To me, it's a good reason to use different loop variable names for successive loops. A good practice to use in any language, since it helps keep loops distinct to your mind as well.

for volume in get_volumes():
print volume
for other_volme in get_other_volumes():
print other_volume

The second loop throws a runtime error and an error level linting alert.
I think shes gone senile. Go see a doctor.
> The decision to hive off the U.S. life insurance operations—into a new company called Brighthouse Financial—happened because of strategic and regulatory reasons. Company officials have said the new company will be small enough to avoid federal designation as “systemically important” and thus should be able to sidestep potentially stiff capital rules.

This is a key paragraph and it should be understood that this is an intended effect of the regulations.

The "Dodd-Frank" bill that was passed in the wake of the financial crisis gave the Federal Reserve new responsibility and authority to regulate "systemically important" financial institutions of any industry. These are the companies that would come to mind when you think "too big too fail." Prior to this bill, the Fed only had authority over commercial banks.

If a company gets designated as "systemically important," it has to meet higher capital ratio requirements and other extra regulatory hurdles. This is to (try to) make it less likely that the company will fail. But it will obviously have an impact on financial performance.

Some companies--like GE and now MetLife--instead choose to downsize their financial operations to get them under the "too big to fail" line.

This has the same effect as if the federal government "broke them up"--but it was accomplished via incentive instead of direct action.

The potential downside is that large companies do have some financial advantages, and foreign companies don't have the same regulatory requirement. (Their U.S. subsidiaries do, but not their business overseas.) Thus, over time we might see capital flow out of the U.S.
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Don't bring that "everyone is a winner" talk here, it a breeding ground for people with no competitive drive.
we have all sorts of people from all over the world in europe too, it is not an argument....
This is why I wish more cell phones could take advantage of VoiP using Wifi. Having the option to use wifi for calls is nice if you have terrible cell signal but great wifi thanks to the faraday cage you live in.
How would this work?

"Dear Customer - your usage patterns shows that you are using your car for ride sharing revenue. Please stop it."

"Dear Customer - Second warning."

"Dear Customer - we have disabled important safety updates for your car, because it looks like you are ride sharing for profit. You might be a real estate agent with irregular driving patterns for legitimate reasons but we cannot confirm that. Sucks to be you."
Maybe you should switch to a browser written in Rust.
So, lets be clear then, you do not truly own the car.

Am reminded of ebook and movie purchases - you're only just licensing the item. You own next to nothing.
When was the last time you used Firefox? They've put a ton of work into performance, which involved a serious rewrite. Current versions are now much faster than Chrome (for me).

A bit more technical: A big part of why it was so slow, is that the engine was written before tabs ever existed, before CSS and JS (both) became so heavy, and before computers had so much disposable RAM. It kept everything in a single process, on a single CPU.

The rewrite makes firefox multi-process and multi-CPU core capable. It makes the browser feel MUCH faster and lighter! The functionality is nicknamed Electrolysis or e10s, and they've been gradually rolling it out since March of this year. The work effected extensions in particular, so they have to roll out slowly. About 30% of the stable-release userbase has multi-process at this point, and they're just starting the follow up rollout enabling multi-core.

Give it a try! Try the firefox beta (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/) or better yet, Firefox Developer Edition. If you want to see the full speed improvement of multi-core, go to about:config and set services.sync.numClients to something higher than 1. (they're rolling out with a value of 2, and ultimately ending on 5).
Probably the best reference is the SRE book, specifically the chapters on loadbalancing and distributed consensus protocols.

Other than that, the general approach is to minimize global control planes and dependencies in our software stack. In the case of GCS, we do have a single namespace which means we need to look up the locations of data early in the request. Once we know the locations of data we can route the request to the right datacenter to serve it. That global location table is highly replicated and cached, of course.

When outages happen, most are caused by changes to the stack, so we also are careful to roll out code or configuration slowly and carefully, slowly increasing the blast radius after it's been proven safe. For example rolling out new binaries first to a few canary instances in one zone, then to a few instances in many regions, then to a full region, then to the world, all spread over a few days.

Disclaimer: I'm an Engineering Manager on Google Cloud Storage.
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I get that but once an AI reaches the level of intelligence we can no longer understand, beyond its source code,the outcome is unknown.
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I don't think you can inherit cash loan debt. You can inherit property that is still under mortgage (no problem there), but then it's a choice: keep the house and pay the mortgage debt or sell the house/give it to the bank.
I agree with this, and I try to follow it as much as possible, but it can be hard to find companies that produce those products.
I'm not familiar enough with the pricing details to disagree with you, but it's worth mentioning that a Model S can be used for the UberLux service (~3x more expensive than UberX).
Learning the rules and developing situational awareness.

But, yes, until you're talking about more serious off-road/bad road (which is challenging in a completely different way), there's nothing especially hard about driving on a private dirt road.
Is this video sped up to make it seem like the car is more capable?

It seems jumpy, and, for the speed at which the car is going and comes to a stop, there is not as much lurching as I would expect.
It's hard to provide feedback on something that hasn't been built. My initial response to the idea is that a tool that moves the problem to 'meat space' is less ideal than one that automates fixing it and probably not as good as concepts like continuous integration where the person who 'broke the build' knows shortly after committing.

To put it another way, layering a tool on top of a middling process is less desirable than fixing it. Anyway, hope there's a prototype soon.

Good luck.
Embrace, extend and invoke? ;)
The paper is wrong. The reason they say they are from Nigeria is simple - "Follow the money." Those who don't have a means of collecting money from outside the country must mention Nigeria eventually.

Those who've been in the game for a while, have the ability to collect money from any country the "victim" feels comfortable sending money to.

Also, about the intentional grammatical error. It's not intentional. Many of them aren't educated. In fact, most learn to use the computer and internet on the job.
One simple explanation is that Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. Also Lagos is massive city and has good internet (better than more rural areas) so you have a lot of people without a lot money, but a lot of time and relatively cheap internet access.
Great song choice. Tesla is winning the sex-appeal game by far.
Truly impressive. I wonder if the Model 3 will also be fitted out with all the sensors and cameras. If yes, I'll definitely get one.

As a German citizen, it really bugs me that Volkswagen is incapable of this kind of innovation. I don't see their roadmap play out like they plan it, because Tesla might beat them to market hard. I fear German regulation will jump in (again) to help them against Tesla.

Currently, the German government gives out electric vehicle subsidies (~5k per car), but it is limited cars less expensive than 60k. At the moment there is very low demand for this subsidy, because everyone who goes EV wants to go Tesla.
I had to move to AWS entirely due to lack of GPU instances on google cloud. If someone from GCE is reading this - please add GPU instances.

Yes, I know unrelated, but I like GCS much more than S3, and I can't use it since by "network" effect caused by GPUs eveyrthing have to run on AWS.
You are taking a point made in about diversity in general and applying it to a single case.

I hope you understand what's wrong about that.
> The gameplay on screen rewards visual stunts that are much less effective in real play. The movement of ball and players doesn't actually have to be like it is in reality, because it is a video game.

Ronaldinho would like to have a word with you.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IBERQ9abkk

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ksVaLlaIw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6mk0auHpis

* Edit: For the donwvoters: I used to play college-level football in the US and Brazil, and these kinds of plays are commonplace in Brazil. Kids learn to dribble before they even learn how to run. This is part of Brazilian culture: a player who can dribble is much more valued than one who can shoot or pass accurately.
I didn't grow up on a farm, but my grandparents were from rural Arkansas and raised me in a small Texas town. I had plenty of opportunity to learn to drive cars on back roads and had my own dirt bikes and motorcycles by age nine. (Modern day helicopter parents would boggle at the freedom we kids had in the 70's). By the time I was twelve my grandmother retired and bought a 3.5 acre plot in rural Texas.

I wasn't allowed to fell the trees but I had to use a chainsaw and cut the branches off the felled trees and then section the denuded trees into small enough rounds they were suitable for busting into firewood with an axe. I was given the option to learn to drive my grandfather's stick shift Toyota pickup truck in order to move all the wood with that, or move it by hand. It was an easy decision.
There have always been kids who wanted to play sports the fancy way, with flair, long before video games. Especially at the youth level, you'll just get a lot of kids who value creativity and self expression over what the most winning strategy is.

I play FIFA (and soccer IRL) quite a bit and the highest level players (yes, there are professional FIFA players) actually play the game much closer to what you're referring to as the optimal style of play: short ground passes, keeping possession, playing backwards to keep possession, very little trying to beat your man one-on-one, creating chances by making runs, defending by jockeying your man without gambling, and good shots from good positions. At a high level, it's well understood by players that most scoring opportunities are created by causing the opposing team to lose their defensive shape through probing passes and runs, and then capitalizing on that space. Of course FIFA is not a simulation and can't be fully realistic - you're generally fitting a 90 minute soccer match into about 12 minutes of real life gameplay.

What you're describing sounds like typical youth behavior, but you're blaming it on video games. Before video games, kids would try to do things they saw their pro idols do on television as well. It didn't ruin the game.
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I didn't need science to know this is true.
Wow. Very powerful. I'll definitely have to play and test this out but if there are no limitations, I can see myself using the blend tools more often in some of my upcoming work
The off-ramp scene seemed precarious like a pinball down a bumper lane.
A statistics from a few years ago:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-08/mars-rover-cur...

"In the decades since humans started sending spacecraft to Mars, the Red Planet has outscored us handily; humans have only about a .411 batting average overall -- not great for missions that cost billions of dollars and countless time to build. Seventeen landers have been sent, and just seven made it to the surface safely, each of them with varying degrees of success."

Afterwards, Curiosity rover luckily succeeded, under much harder constraints then these now (being huge but sensitive), so that is at least 8 from 18. With this one, 8 from 19 (giving, interestingly, 0.42). I don't know which the real ratio now is, am I missing something?
I think it's sped up because driving is boring to watch.
I love Jupyter. I set up pydot in a notebook, and made high level functions to create and print trees and graphs. My 10 yr old picked it up quickly while we killed time at his brother's swim meet.

But, I'd love for them to learn to use a CAS engine. I appreciated, in college, being able to quickly factor a polynomial, solve an equation, and find derivatives.
Uber pays over a dollar per mile for UberX. The GSA rate for autos now is $0.54/mile, which is intended to be an "all-in" figure for operating costs.

I think there's room for profiting from driving Uber. (I also agree that it's a good bit less than it appears based on the cash-in and cash-out every week.)
There is no place on Earth that gets sunlight 24/7 all year round.
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Could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own?
I've never been able to tell if the following strip is authentic, or if it's a dark reinterpretation: http://www.actsofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Peanuts...

Edit: tvtropes suggests it's real, and it has a pleasant followup, although I'm not sure the followup fully offsets the initial effect.
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Voting with your feet/dollar is hardly an option when everyone else in town is doing the same thing. Voting for representatives that will enact legislation to change the situation is still an option.
I'm quite excited by this. The video was a bit lengthy but it demonstrated the concept quite well.

Glimpses of Mario, what appeared to be Skyrim, too - more third party support this time perhaps?

I'm most interested to see the price and the spec of the machine. Xbox One and PS4 seem to have become more homogenised in terms of architecture than the last generation of consoles (PS3 was especially weird), if the Switch follows suit it would hopefully encourage more third party support. Assuming the power is there.
For everyone who hasn't realised this is a Key & Peele sketch, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly33QgeDphw
Sure, granted, and I'm sure GP agrees. However this major subtlety between licensed and purchased goods could not be clear to the layman, so it's also arguably our responsibility as technical types to elucidate the difference.
To clarify, I think what he is saying is that the effect exists on both ends. On the low skill side it's over confidence and on the high skill side it's imposter syndrome. It's the same effect. You are both saying the same thing.
Looks like Tesla self driving cars 'dry steer', something that my driving instructor always told me not to do.
Ironically, it is that browser.
Yes model 3 will have the hardware. You'll have to pay extra to enable the software though.
Amazing.

It does give a feel of bus/train when the owner gets off and the car heads to its next job.

I wonder if you need to _buy_ cars when complete autonomous cars start to roll.
Makes sense. If money is to be made Tesla with all its engineers and finance people can think better than individuals who were thinking along same lines.