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> it should start with a list of companies that publicly state that their employees are allowed to protest, even if the company disagrees with them.

The part that is objectionable is the expectation that my company would need to register on a list stating that I respect the rights of my employees. Doing things within your legal rights is the _default_; I reject the act of playing into someone's political "are you with us?" game.
In the second case, at the very least there were rational, honest reasons for her doing so, and a human being is at least capable of discerning context and making a judgement call, even if it's just to kick the issue up the chain to someone who has the authority to rule on the issue.
Yeah, I did the first part a couple years ago too. I also put the whole thing behind a VCS so we'd have version-controlled data. But, yeah, it didn't scale well enough and I ended up dropping that for mongodb, and later for postgres.
They may do. The theory is North Korea but it could be China/Russia/Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
The one word great CEOs never use
Lol, didn't even read the article and just kept repeating the same tired copy-pasta. Could have used another "if you don't pay for the product you are the product" just for old time's sake. The tie in to your friend's 4 yo website is pretty good, it also makes your point 4 years old.

Meme guy played Facebook Page like it was an arcade game. Key actions were posting OC, sharing, and commenting. He paid for boost-ups and speed-ups, got pretty good and he accumulated a vanity score of 6MM likes.

Problem is he opted to get rewarded by dropping in affiliate links. Facebook didn't like that and banned him access to his own Page accounts. But he can still log in for his profile account so he's in the nether-sphere of both active and ban.

But that's not even the point of the article. The point is that Facebook doesn't manage it's community despite being the center hub of communities.

As we go from 22 yo Marky Zuck's FB to 32 yo Marky Zuck's FB, there might be a trajectory change: add on more humans.

But have you run a customer service team? It's hard. Have you staffed one? It's expensive. Built one up? It takes awhile. Have you considered the ramifications of actually listening and enforcing community policies rather than blanket outright ban? We here in Silicon Valley being engineers just opt to hand wave it away with dialog trees and a zendesk account.

The last time Facebook dabbled in humans doing this kind of work they had to bring in Glenn Beck and others to ramble on and on. That's just part of it. They're going to have to keep doing lots of that to grow up.

That's the difference. Facebook is going to have to grow up like Apple did by tacking on the additional 30k retail workers. Otherwise it'll just keep being a college dropout kid's wishful thinking.
Anonymity - good enough to protect criminals, not good enough to protect citizens against a state

If you really want anonymity, bitcoin isn't the only blockchain technology you have. I know you were focusing on bitcoin in your answer, but I feel the need to expand here because blockchain != bitcoin.

Trustless consensus - 51% attack makes this unreliable, esp. with semi-anonymous actors

51% attack is overblown. The bitcoin miners self-police and are switching pools as they get close to 50%. And the worst thing that could happen with a 51% is a double-spend. Big
whoop.

Trustless transactions - POW as in bitcoin makes this impractical due to energy use and delays

I don't follow you here. Sometimes the block size limit delays a transaction for a bit, but you still get trustless transactions. The bitcoin community is working to address this problem and I am confident this problem will be solved.
Yeah it is refreshing to read an article and find out the headline was misleading. I really enjoyed putting that effort in.
Man I would kill for an ultra-simple, ultra-lightweight, robust music player for macOS that was just like Winamp 2.81, the last good version. No, not foobar.
A friend suggested remapping the Screen command key to ` (backquote), and it changed my life. Maybe it's because I grew up using Esc key combos a lot (terminals with broken/missing meta keys), but it feels natural to treat it like another modifier key there on the left edge of the keyboard.
I would be surprised if it has. For most people playing compressed music is a solved problem.
House Intelligence members' IT staffers fired in security probe
That was the case, but now there's an exception: http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/Condition...
I think it was pretty obvious that it was an evaluation the commenter was making, not something that came from another source.

That makes me wonder whether you were being sincere in your response, and if not, what you thought you were contributing.
So in a blockchain, it's straightforward to verify whether a block contains only valid transactions or not (in the sense of an address only being allowed to spend coins it really has for example). Any node running the reference implementation will reject any block that is invalid regardless of mining.

The issue with one actor controlling over 50% of mining power is that they can spend their money, then go back in time to before the spend to create an alternative chain. Since they control the majority of hashpower, their alternative chain catches up and ultimately becomes the reference chain in the view of the nodes in the peer to peer network. The bad actor is then free to spend the coins from their original transaction again, despite presumably having already received the goods or services from the original transaction.

The real innovation of the blockchain is that it solves the Byzantine Generals problem in the case where less than 50% of the hashpower in the network belongs to coordinating bad actors. In the absence of that level of centralization and collusion, you can be sure that nobody is cheating.
That's a great story. I can't resist quoting Dijkstra: If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced", but as "lines spent" -- the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.
Best course of action possible. The entire post-WW2 educational system in the US is geared towards channeling people into feeding the corporate machine, and not towards financial independence and self-sufficiency. That system has been showing its age for a while now and it's past time to prepare.
I'd like to hear more about this "free market" idea. Please give one example. Past, present, or future perfect.
Their site[0] says that they're revitalizing it, and the last dev tweet I could find was from October 2016 [1]. So I'd bet it's going along at a reasonable pace.

[0]http://www.winamp.com/index.html

[1]https://twitter.com/Ed_Rich/status/788650603383754752
React Component Library for Google Places Autocomplete API
Looking for more feedback and contributors to this library!! https://github.com/kenny-hibino/react-places-autocomplete
For niche CAD tools theres usually only one or two games in town and a lot of stickiness with old files, production workflows, user skill with the tool, etc.
Switching to a different solution may not be an option.
Unless they start suing all of their customers, they're probably fine.
You know you have an account anyway, right? FB makes and manages profiles of people who don't have accounts, even of people who have never had accounts. They use this for their ad network, among other things.

LinkedIn does this as well. I don't know about others.
Could Immigration Policy Turn Vancouver into Silicon Valley?
> this will be a list of real patriots.

Isn't this is a list of all arrests, not merely protesters?
Does programming count? :)
This irritated me too. I suppose a shortcut can be added to say "treat the next thing entered as a text element", along with the uppercase shortcut. So the user can type e.g. "!new" and the editor will make a text node with "new" as its content.
Funny, just last night I re-read my diary from a bus trip to St Petersburg and Moscow as a student in 2002.

Just before we left St Petersburg we heard rumours of the theatre siege which had just started in Moscow. A few people on the bus had studied Russian in high school so the news filtered around. Even so, we had basically no idea what was going on.

Being poor students we didn't want to waste money on phone calls home, but we did find an internet cafe and wrote a quick email to say we were ok. The people at home knew more about what was going on in Moscow than we did.

We navigated around by paper map (in Cyrillic) and often took wrong turns. If we split off from other groups there'd be no way to meet up again until the evening. (I don't remember anyone having a roaming mobile phone.)

These days I feel vulnerable navigating in my own town without a phone, and people get worried if you aren't reachable within 30 minutes.

Even though it was a very busy trip there was still time to write the diary. On later holidays with a phone and wi-fi there was a lot more to do back at the hotels and much less time was spent writing!

So the big changes I've seen are in communicating home, navigating, and filling the time.

I suspect the next big thing will be usable real-time voice translation, which will make things easier but take some of the fun out of things like ordering a meal and playing "guess the mystery meat!"
Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching. A Psychophysical Study (2013)
Those are indeed valid criticisms of Bitcoin. But Bitcoin != blockchain (and vice-versa). There are hundreds of different blockchain implementations. That includes some, for example that will rely on Proof of Stake as opposed to POW. Thus solving the trust and energy problems you mention.

Well at least that's the theory :-) Time will tell.
A generation who can't imagine the novelty of performing a first search on Napster or Direct Connect. Magic!
It's quite feasible. You just pay a programmer or smart student to do it for you using the published literature. Done. Even stronger if you trust them. Use multiple, distrusting pros on same project if more trustworthiness is needed. What you cant afford you crowd fund or ask for grants.

It's a question of priorities rather than feasibility. Most users or customers dont care enough to invest time or effort needed. End of story. Same one as usual for strong INFOSEC.

I'll also add that there already exists certifying compilers for C and Standard ML that both extract to ML. The ML extracted is simple enough to hand-compile to ASM following one of two guides. So, not only can oma human verify no subversion, there's already a production one with machine-checked proof that's also be checked by humans [again].
Kinda funny this comes from Thomas Jefferson, as he had a famous feud with John Adams
(paywalled)... but the "web" links takes you to other reports on the same story.
They'd be saying they're not interfering with their employees rights.

I.e. Doing the right thing.
"Ultra-lightweight" can mean two very different (and nearly opposite) things: some people want a player that has no external dependencies (and thus must do everything itself, like VLC); while others want a player with minimal binary size (which thus will then rely on the OS's AV frameworks as much as possible for media support.)

Personally, I prefer the second definition, but it's the harder of the two to satisfy. I don't really understand why the approach Perian undertook was abandoned when Perian itself was. It'd be very nice to just have macOS "natively" support every media format+codec under the sun, and then just play media files in Quicktime or iTunes or any other player GUI you prefer.
Update on Today’s ACLU Fundraising Frenzy
> a margin of error of plus or minus 30 percent

Seriously? 30 percent?
> First Amendment rights: filming public officials, attending protests, blocking streets.

Is blocking streets a First Amendment right? I heard protestors blocking an exit to a hospital sometime ago. I would think that puts lives in danger.

Just wonder what does the law state there. Say a patient in an ambulance dies on the way because of a protest blocking the street. Is there a precedent, what happens then?
select * from arrests where indictment = null

Probably also group by citizen id and sort by count. :-)
By forcing people to respond to or otherwise discuss the contents of the article instead of the headline.
Pretty much anyone can self publish on Spotify. I listen to a lot of Folk Punk that is independently produced. I really hope none of these record companies are trying to take a cut for music they didn't even produce.
Why has Spotify not pushed harder to own their own content a la Netflix? That's the only reliable way to both have some control over margins and offer a non-commoditized product.

They have tons of data on user tastes, owning and operating a studio is cheap compared to licensing fees, so why not try to predict tastes (like Netflix), aggressively sign unheard of artists, and A|B test the hell out of the homepage with promoting different ones?

Apple has very deep coffers, which we have seen with the exclusive content they have acquired. Competing there seems like a loser's game.
is the music player "Vox" still around? if so, try it out :)
'Problematic' isn't quite the same as dismissal. But I get your point. Will tone it down!
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Pinker isn't an anthropologist, and his statements about "universal" gender roles across every fucking society in history are false. Common, sure. Universal, nope.
HN commenters hate when people question the purpose of an article. In fact, even suggesting that HN should allow a short description is considered blasphemy. Also people on HN have no sense of humor because 95% of them are on the spectrum.
This Bloomberg article explains what has been happening here: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-vancouver-real-estat...

Vancouver is located at the most western point of the Fraser Valley which is locked in by a mountain range to the North and the US border to the south. I live in Chilliwack, BC at east end of the Valley. I bought my home out here in the "cheap" part of the FV in 2015 for $375,000 and two years later it's assessed at $570,000.

The joke here is "they pay you in mountains and rivers". Wages are nowhere close enough for the average family to live here, so many are having to leave. But because Canada has some pretty epic winters in most of the country, and Vancouver has the mildest weather and climate (read: it rains a lot here) many baby boomer Canadians move here to avoid the winters the rest of the country endures 3 - 4 months out of the year.

If you're a US citizen thinking about leaving the US and are considering moving to Vancouver, do your research first. Talk to other Vancouverites and check your assumptions before committing to buy property. I'd recommend renting here for a couple of years to see if it's for you, and also because the market will hopefully correct and you'll get a better price on a home.
Google told to hand over foreign emails in FBI search warrant ruling
There's no trade-off. You can use platforms like facebook or twitter to increase your exposure and reach, but make sure the real content is either hosted on or duplicated on a site you control. That way, if one platform decides to kick you off, you're not completely toast.

Unfortunately, that's not an option for iPhone app makers. Those people (and their incomes) are at the mercy of Apple.
Yes, in a sense. The longest blockchain is the "truth." But with independently acting miners and mining pools there isn't a "majority" in the sense of a group of actors bullying the minority.

The 51% problem describes this but it probably won't happen. The miners don't want to be a part of a pool that achieves over 50% hashing power because it would undermine bitcoin and sabotage their efforts. Currently the biggest mining pool is either AntPool or F2Pool. They both have about 15% of the total hashing power [1].

- [1] https://blockchain.info/pools
Nice post. Related note, I just recently found this gem of a Hickey talk about "Simple" vs "Easy":
https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...
Please, feel free to glower right back at them. The doubt is your own.
For what it's worth, Justin Frankel continues to produce great software. He founded Cockos Incorporated, which produces REAPER; I think it's pretty widely accepted in the audio recording community that REAPER is the best value in the multitrack recording DAW market, and among the best overall tools for the purpose.

He's obviously wealthy enough to never need to work again. It's clear Frankel just loves music, and wants to make meaningful contributions in the field. So, I think that's pretty cool. (I've also been a very happy REAPER user/customer for many years.)
As I posted on the other blogspam rendition of this story:

This is bogus. The new, higher readings are from areas never measured before[0]; levels are falling consistently.

[0] http://blog.safecast.org/2017/02/no-radiation-levels-at-fuku...
You have changed the topic to your own preferred talking points. You should be a politician: you'd be good at it.
I know many doctors are caring and well trained, but they work in systems that often prevent them from seeing what they should or taking actions that they would like to take.

You really need to take charge of your treatment. It can mean the difference between life or death, or the difference between being a victim or living a normal life.

In my own personal experience, I've unraveled medical mysteries affecting my health that have stumped some pretty good docs, and in one case, a super specialist. On the other hand, I've been greatly helped by docs.

All I can say is don't give up just because docs say they don't know or don't seem to be making you better.
And yet millions of people — including my father and uncle — have successfully quit smoking cold turkey (no nicotine gum or patches) after being addicted for years. So willpower obviously counts for something.
We need a trade union for techies.
Ask HN: How does remittance services (BrastelRemit, WesternUnion etc) work?
- Do they use payment gateway services.
- If not, how do they transfer money overseas?
530 Sv/hr seems like a surprisingly high amount of radiation.

For reference, 300 Sv/hr was coming from the immediate vicinity of the Chernobyl reactor when the firefighters arrived. [^1]

[1]: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA335076
dingaling is technically correct, even though the point s/he makes is irrelevant to mine.

Companies do have discretion about their own accounting policies, e.g. about whether to expense printers in the year of purchase, or over how many years to depreciate them.

Regarding your tax point, your country probably has rules about what can/cannot be deducted from profits. Complying with those rules may require a different calculation of profit. So your company's 'profit' may differ between your accounts and the accounts you use to calculate your corporation tax.
It's good to know that a candidate gets the right answer, but just as important to know how they got to the answer (communication, thought process, coachability). Tells more about what working with them would be like. Online tests can't do that

Also, to your second point, I can tailor to candidate - i.e., hints for someone struggling or adding layers of complexity.
I am author of The Tao of tmux, a book I just finished a few weeks ago. You can read it publicly at https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read.

One of the things I stress in my book is that there is no "correct" way to use tmux. The approach I take to teaching tmux is separating it into its objects: The server, sessions, windows and panes. Then where they stand in relation to one another, how configurations work, and then leave some examples of usage available to the user so they can pick out work flows they may like.

I'm sort of against the approach of just throwing a config / toolkit at someone a la oh-my-zsh and spf13-vim (even though I think they're ok after you've learned to customize yourself). The gift of allowing someone to wrap their brain around something will let the rest come to them.
I have found these ways for Facebook to require verification:

1. Created a fake account in one country and used it a few times, then many many months later I tried to login from another country and Facebook promptly required government-issued ID.

2. Created another fake account and changed the E-mail address after a few days and Facebook promptly required government-issued ID.

It makes me really happy that so many are deleting their Facebook account, or at least trying to use it less.
Some broad strokes there...
Okay, but it wasn't Trump who did this! Trump is trying to dismantle the machine, not build it up. I'm a libertarian, I'm perfectly happy when government shrinks and I wish it would shrink back to its constitutionally mandated duties. I would also like it if companies would stop enabling the police state here and around the world by selling the tech that allows it to go on. Talk about dangerous! This is why we have dystopian science fiction--to warn us about crap like this.
It means the mortgage is based on a 25 year repayment schedule, but the money is only lent for 5 years at a time. After the 5 years are up, you need to pay back all the remaining principle. That's usually done by taking out a new 5 year mortgage.
OTOH, maybe some people on the list are also bad employees.
Yeah, but you don't learn crypto from a chapter in a book. You take classes, learn the mathematics, and then you use a library made by someone much more experienced than you
> I've never heard of anyone being arrested for peaceful protests, not since Martin Luther King at least. I'm not saying it doesn't happen ever (your case might be a good example), but peaceful protests virtually never led to arrests.

Cops arrest and assault people engaging in peaceful, legal, constitutionally protected protest all the fucking time.
Well they do compensate for number of authors on a paper. IMHO large departments often have large clusters where everyone is co-authors so I do think it evens out.
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I can guarantee to you that the data will only be used by me (that's more than facebook does).

Also, I don't understand comments like yours. It seems like a fallacy. Just because you "have nothing to hide" doesn't mean anyone should get your whole life just for the sake of it.
Well, plus, you have a lot of none-too-bright lefties who cheered Obama's actions for eight years and who can't see that conservative Americans don't want authoritarianism but rather prefer smaller, less intrusive government, lower taxes, and more freedom. But at the same time, they know they can't have any of that if we keep importing the third world into our neighborhoods--crime went through the roof in 2016. The unintended consequences of open borders are obvious to see.
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What do you all think of Cordova? Do the author's comments apply there also? Does it crash from using too much memory after a while of loading objects? And does it make things not work on older devices and platforms making it a dealbreaker for anyone?
I dunno, a standard residential US circuit is max 15A at 120V, or 1800W. A GTX980 is 165W and the highest powered Xeon I could find was 165W. A Xeon + 4 GPUs + power supply loss comes to around 1050W and between the motherboard, RAM, SSDs, HDDs, monitors, speakers, cooling and such I'm sure you can push it high enough that it causes issues but I really can't see that coming from a laptop, even with peripherals.
Plenty of free parking though I don't know about Miami. Only times I've been to Miami I've just been passing through on my way out of the country.
30 year fixed mortgages are offered almost exclusively in the USA. They would not exist here if not for the massive government subsidies in the form of backing & tax breaks.