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Apparently we have different definitions of the word "xenophobic". Conversation won't get far until that difference is resolved.
probably true
That definitely sucks. Thanks for the headsup not to get one of those though!
Nit, that raises the question, you aren't begging anything.
> just want basic security against your average smash and grab criminals

If this is the attack vector that concerns you, then you should probably start by installing secure doors and windows.

IMO, cameras don't get you much beyond giving you some after-the-fact information. And smart-locks don't get you much of anything.
I have only played slots for a few hours, but my lifetime average is up ~3x and a few hundred dollars vs. what I put into the machines. So, I think they are set fairly close to break even as that's from a few dozen minor wins vs a single jackpot. Honestly, if every single time someone played for 3+ hours they where always down then fewer people would come back.

That said, they probably set machines in very high traffic areas to terrible odds to catch as many suckers as possible.
This will change only when these older landowners lose political power
Here's a blog post which talks a bit about how we use Cap'n Proto in production: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-lua-capnproto-better...
Years ago at another company, we got acquired and had to port our shrink-wrap application from Oracle to Cache and support both. It was a horrible experience. The cache sales support guy bought our lunch a lot though. That's something.
I commute daily between SF and San Mateo, which covers about a third of Caltrain's line. I get delayed due to mechanical failures (usually on other trains) once a month or so on average.
The Federal government is also notoriously lax on prosecuting employers who use undocumented workers. Can you explain why:

a) the Fed withholding funds from California somehow "because" they have spent money supporting illegal aliens is somehow different from:

b) California wanting to withhold funding from the Fed because of their relative disinterest in prosecuting those who knowingly employ undocumented workers (thus exacerbating, if not indirectly causing situation A in the first place)?
> You say it as it is some huge mystery, but we've had good UI platforms for ages, that have been way better to work with than the web ui stack.

Not as broad reaching as JS/CSS/HTML.

> The web implementations doesn't follow some inherent constraints of UIs, they are designed this (bad) way because they need to work with the pile-up of hacks upon hacks, and design by committee that is the web stack.

They were made to fit the growing needs and have done remarkably so.

> JS, for example, is not bad because there were some great domain constraints -- it's bad because as it's creator says, he had a tight deadline to go create it, alone, in a couple of weeks -- and had a design spec to make it look like Java as much as possible too.

Doesn't make it bad. Made it lean, portable, ultimately an easy to use language. There have been many languages in the browser.

> CSS is not bad because layout is inherently difficult. It's bad because it started like a pure styling solution, and all kinds of hacks were piled to make it useful for layout (abusing the floating functionality, which was not meant as a layout solution). It took 20+ years to get to CSS Flex and Grid layout -- features that have been in desktop UI libs since forever...

Progressive enhancement is a large part of software engineering and doesn't make something bad. Users of software abusing the software doesn't make the software or implementation bad either, they simply are adopting to the situation they are in.

Yep, and the result of those libraries and implementations gave us what we have now across not just a single platform but multiple platforms and distribution models. Modern achievements.

> And if forms have seen any love from the beginning, we'd have things like inter-changable re-usable components 20+ years ago, without the BS that is Web Components and the extra hacks like Shadow Dom etc. But they didn't even bother to add a few standard widgets like calendar in all those decades.

Except, you can do those things, and that does exist. Just check out bootstrap v4 it has html5 calendar support, just off the top of my head.

Shadow dom was an experimental phase to improve performance, it worked out, taught a lot of engineers a lot about not just Javascript & DOM but the browser, it brought about a lot of beneficial tooling and lead to Native applications.

We had interchangeable components for a very long time, riding on bleeding edge doesn't change that fact.
The other day a person asked on HN - he stated he taught himself to program, but feel insecure because he feel he can never be a legitimate programmer, he even doesn't know how to deal with pointers. I find myself the same way before I went to college -- I tried to program in Pascal with a college level textbook and couldn't gasp the idea of pointers. Not until college do I understand what pointers are -- after only 5 minutes of lecture from my professor.

I had a lot of a-ha moments in college like that. That is to say, the example above is for something I knew that I didn't know, there were many a-ha of something I didn't know I didn't know. Science courses are often dense and not everyone can easily gasp ideas in the textbooks or online resources without help. I wouldn't know to look up and study chaos theory, game theory, and many other interesting ideas without a primer in college. Plus, being able to interact and ask and see as things progress when the professor explains the problem is quite worth the money to me. Again, MOOC can provide some of those, but with trade-offs (I can't interrupt the professor to ask something everyone understands, but I don't). MOOC was not an option when I went to college though.
> illegal immigrants are more prone to crime

Source ?

Also, as compared to what ? Legal immigrants or existing population ?
Your bio says: "Aside from living on a Caribbean island during crypto export controlled 1990s, I've lived on a tiny artificial platform in the North Sea, plus more reasonable places like London, Amsterdam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and spent 6 months diving in Thailand."

So you've moved around a lot. But you want to make it harder for others to do so. It seems to me that you think you are better than others with your desire for a point based system. And your felon policy, should have made it hard for you to move around, given that you claim to have illegally exported crypto ;)
Sucks that I have to rely on HN to get this information :/ Yeah, I am seeing the same 10+ minute delay
There is a link in the email to "view this email as a web page" which redirects to a page on 8x8.com (the parent company of Zerigo), so I assume it's legit.
Move fast and be super reliable: we (Authorea) want your feedback
Thanks for the replies and the link(interesting), cheers.
Isn't it great? Now every low level malware author in the world will start to follow adhere these tips, and the US has once again shot themselves massively in the foot, and fucked over the whole world in the process...

Thanks CIA
I think they're asking more like what's the difference between this degree (which is remote) and an "actual" degree in UoL where you attend normally and physically as a student. That's also my question.
> but this scenario means that there's a government-run clone of TurboTax.

No, in this scenario there is no place for companies like TurboTax in the first place.

> which have a lot of experience and knowledge in doing this.

TurboTax has more knowledge and experience in taxes than.. IRS ?
That dividend would be federally taxable income. :)

I mean I guess they could keep taking more and more money from you every year and giving more and more back, but generally any money they give you would be subject to federal taxes, unless they give it and take it all away again every year, just to give it back again.

It would be a huge headache but I suppose it could work. Especially if they made it like a voluntary tax overpayment or something.

Edit: Also, unless you have it all sitting around in cash, any money you spent during the year on non-deductible things you'd have to pay tax on.
Makes sense that you'd only want to pay for things that provide you with value directly. I think that applies when donating a small amount to support a project you make use of, when you get something in return (like a t-shirt or sticker), or as you say to fund specific features or changes you want. That also goes for sponsors: they should get value in return, and they do, like exposure and reputation in the dev community, a platform for their recruitment message, etc. To me, this dynamic seems quite different from ads, which are non-consensual and not tied to a direct value exchange.
Here's some literature on the Omnibus, Mr. Optimus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Counterterrorism_Act...

https://www.cnet.com/news/joe-bidens-pro-riaa-pro-fbi-tech-v...
Founder here; as much as it pains many of us to hear, the vast majority of software developers never interface with <stdlib.h> directly. You can think of our choice of name more as an homage for a new generation of web-based developers.

The question we asked ourselves was --- if I'm a developer today, and I want to release services for people to easily use and compose, take advantage of new "serverless" technology, where do I put it and how do I distribute it? How do I keep my services organized? Can I build a business around an API? What does that look like?

The name "Standard Library" was a natural fit --- I consider it a huge amount of serendipity that the domain was available. We've also been lucky to have a huge amount of support from our developer community --- we got a few questions like this to begin with, which naturally caused some unease, but far more positive reactions in total. I'm very happy we've been able to build something people like. The name choice has not negatively impacted our SEO or anything like that, thankfully! :)

If you happen to play with it at all, let me know what you think!

(Humorous aside; it is more frequent for newer developers to ask us about "sexually transmitted diseases" than it is for them to get the C reference - which is totally fine, don't mind sharing knowledge! But when I told my non-CS mother about the business we were building, definitely had to really quickly explain the background of the name.)
If are are going to be deprived of the means of subsistence by state force, we shouldn't expect them to be able to support themselves.
US recently lost illegal immigrants during the down turn, so it might be about keeping them in. More people went to Mexico than the US from 2005 to 2015, though only by ~150,000.
Thank you! This is very interesting.

I have wanted to implement something like this one - ie: Lambda doing the downloading of the page itself.

I have wondered how it would work with very strict sites like Yelp - limits similar to what you would get in their API (so doesn't make sense not to use their API).

What are your stats like if you don't mind? How much people are using it and much are getting blocked (404 or 500 after 1000 requests, etc.)?

Edit: Is it possible to use my own credentials for AWS?
I like autocomplete email addresses but I do worry that the day will come when I send something embarrassing or damaging to the wrong person. I never have afaik although I have sent a couple emails that resulted in a frantic follow up to please don't read the prior message.
Man, I am real, real sick of the premise that I, as a professional, am somehow second rate due to the fact that I have interests outside of my work when I am not working. I build a lot of shit, I am real good at my job, and I have survived multiple rounds of the predominant tech stack being totally purged, but when the whistle blows I am not in front of a keyboard.

You guys should really consider cultivating interests outside your work. You'll be glad you did.

And you'll also find that dedicating yourself to professional excellence just within the context of your daily work will yield more than enough opportunities to develop technologically. There's a lotta shit going on out there that's directly relevant to your work, you just gotta try it out.
Just wrote this, let me know if I can be of any help!

https://medium.com/@kylesf/my-experience-in-creating-the-wor...
I'll assume you are sincere, and write an answer. There are a few reasons I can think of.

1. They (people who live in this country illegally) and their families are often also taxpayers, so... why shouldn't they benefit?

2. It helps promote social stability and harmony.

3. It offers stable households for children growing up in their families.

4. It's the humane way to run a society. It makes our society more humane and less mean spirited, and thus better not just for them, but for the rest of us as well. Maybe this looks like a restatement of #2 but if you think about it, #2 follows from this one. Many of the points follow from each other. For example, the next one:

5. It arguably reduces the types of crimes that emerge when people are in desperate circumstances, which can include theft, burglary, violence, extortion, scamming, and others.

6. It increases public safety, for example if they can get driver licenses, then the existing system which gives everybody an incentive to learn and follow traffic rules will also apply to them, without the extra costs that would be incurred were we to deal with them as extraordinary cases using some other special system.
Generally: false equivalence, excluded middle.
AWS status just updated: https://status.aws.amazon.com/
not just holdback, some manufacturers offer hidden stair-step incentives that once hit, are retroactive to all vehicles sold that month. That's why you can usually get the best deal towards the end of the month, when the dealer is willing to sell below cost to get that hidden incentive, sometimes worth over $100,000 depending on volume.
Not really. I'd be surprised if most Uber drivers weren't already at least onboarded to Lyft. About half of the drivers I see have two phones on cradles in their cars.
Customer Journey Orchestration: The Quest for Path to Purchase
Yeah that's always a tricky stylistic choice - I include them because I know some readers prefer to scan headlines as opposed to reading every word, and I want to help them take something useful away, too. Though I do really appreciate thorough readers like you so I hope it's not too off putting :)
If Uber doesn't have a path to profitability before fully autonomous self-driving cars are viable and legal in enough markets (5 years?) then I don't think they had a chance even without this debacle.
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13856551
I used to think this, but it is not entirely true. Sure learning new languages is easy. I do it all the time. However learning the environment, libraries, tools and businesses which go with these languages is a huge undertaking.

I've been a desktop C++ developer for most of my career. I switched to iOS development for the last years. It was doable because Objective-C is native language like C++ and mobile apps work in similar fashion to desktop apps.

However I found doing Android development a huge barrier. The language Java was the easy part. The hard part was a completely different ecosystem, thinking and tools. With iOS it is easy, you got clang, xCode, cocoapods, homebrew and mostly apple tools and libraries to deal with. With Android there is a myriad of Java IDEs. There are several build systems. And each build system is seemingly huge and complicated, doubling and package or library distribution tools. Then there is a all sorts of testing systems, and the fact that Java is a world to its own. You don't use all the commands and tools a regular Unix guy might be used to like otool, nm, make, gdb, lldb, ld, gcc etc.

Still it was kind of doable.

Enter Java Script and web development. It confused the hell out of me. A completely different way of thinking of software development compared to what somebody used to native GUI toolkits running on one computer is used to. You got a client and server existing on different computers which have to synchronize. You don't debug in an IDE but in the browser.

And in some ways it feels like Java Script is harder for people who actually know a bunch of languages. You know there are common sensible ways of doing things which lots of languages do whether that is C/C++, Go, Java, Swift, Objective-C, Python, Ruby or Lua. But Oh no, JavaScript has the most odd ball nonsensical way of doing things. It is hard to get, because you can't figure out why on earth anybody would make the language behave this way. If you simply stopped thinking and didn't realize how stupid it was, you'd probably be better off.
The investment market for infrastructure software is difficult now. Some might put it another way, but I think it's challenging given the way that current market model choice moves back and forth between a preference for private or public offerings. Consider the evolution steps from MSPs to SaaS.

Of late, offerings that provide a hybrid approach to software seem to be emerging. Gravitational and Relicated are examples of toolsets for these types of modelss. Take logging as a service and the more traditional self hosted log solution. What would work best users would be one piece of software, which could run both on-premise and in the cloud on someone else's servers, or even someone else's service. On-prem, it might be managed by those who wrote it. Hosted, it might represent a segment of a larger market play for intelligent time series analytics and sold as a monthly revenue rollup.

Deploying these types of models will be interesting, but it's totally doable using some type of lightweight federation across services. Sandstorm represented a portion of the infrastructure needed to do simple deployments that felt like a hosted service. A service proving cryptocurrency payments for their APIs might be another piece of the puzzle.

I continue thinking about these new markets as new technology enables them.
Question to folks here. Is it still worth joining Yahoo as an engineer (if yo u are not able to manage Goog/Facebook/Apple/Amazon? What are the risks due to Verizon takeover?
If we didn't get conspiratorial about it, we'd have to admit it's the natural interest and tendency of labor monopsonists to try to suppress wages.
This was so eloquently put, I almost completely saw past how condescending it feels :)

Disclosure: I am probably a Type 1-aspiring Type 2 developer
I'm not the one that came up with that term. I think it was Norm Ornstein?

What I don't understand is how you think you can have a discussion with one side willing to do anything to subvert your position. My point is that republicans have been playing to win and Democrats have been playing along. If you value science or secular society there isn't another choice. You have to oppose them.
If the laptop was re-imaged to Windows, I doubt much of the syslogs from linux were left.

Especially since windows is much bigger than a default linux install these days, and this was a rarely used laptop, it seems unlikley any linux was left, even in free sectors.
How was this determined?
The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
I disagree on the supposed "transparency" in vehicle prices these days. That's what they want you to think. KBB has a separate (supposedly more accurate) pricing service specifically for dealers. There is also a ton of shady pricing tactics going on, from manufacturers that advertise bogus entry prices (on vehicles that are not really stocked at dealerships), to dealers that price vehicles with every incentive thrown in (which nobody actually qualifies for). You still have to do a ton of research to figure out what's going on.
Exactly you are trying to to smooth out the gaps between React Native and Expo. You have every right to help your company succeed but the way this is presented here is that you did it as a neutral party, you did not. You crossed that line as soon as you included the Expo SDK by default.

"Do you have the same concerns about the recommendation in the RN docs to use Airbnb's maps library?" No because that is not even an apt comparison. An apt comparison would be if AWS Engineers helped make 'react-create-app' and they bundled the AWS SDK as well merely to be 'helpful'. That would be an apt comparison not a recommendation on the official documentation to use a certain library.

If you don't push people towards the Expo SDK then remove it from the default 'react-native-create-app', I'm okay with it being in certain templates but a private entity should not be in a default. You clearly benefit from this decision, yet your pretending that it is only because it's in the community best interest.
The new version the old version is at $1.60 +-
People cannot even develop a game with RN, so I would not count on that.
I noted the downvotes and went investigating.

"[His] body was found... April 23, 2013."

He was identified by dental records, so body was decomposed &/or carrion, is there any information that suggests he was dead prior to 4/15?

So the two middle eastern fellas in running attire w/ backpacks didn`t turn out to be Tripathi, as I assumed. I am assuming again, but I bet they felt some consternation at being accused. Wasn`t another person falsely identified, as well? My point stands.
They're moving to web technologies but that's happening very slow. It could take at least 10 years at current pace.
Source - I am ex epic employee
USA Freedom act isn't reform, it's a post getting caught minor change of and extension of the Patriot act. Reporting is still voluntary for all practical purposes. Oversight of FISC matters is still the domain of the same FISC that did close to nothing to stop the rampant abuse, except maybe give cover.

My biggest issue is the mixing of the NSA's surveillance power with domestic law enforcement.

As for your facts you've made some very loquatious attempts​. I'm skeptical as to the actual number of facts contained therein.
The internet is being absorbed by greed and hunger for power. I hope that somewhere in northern Finland, there is an awkward teenager writing something that will later be known as, "The Great Decentralizer"
1M NYC homes can’t get Verizon FiOS, so the city just sued Verizon
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Not sure what the UI of kimono looked like but with this one, you can more or less create one for it if you wanted to. (or ask someone to do it)
Extremely interesting. How much time do you need to devote for a successful completion in 3 years per your experience? Is there any way to advance faster?

Edit: The website estimates about 250 hours for each course, at four courses per year, that's 1000 hours per nine months, it looks like the estimate is at least 4 hours of study per day (weekends included) for the duration of the course (about 9 months). How accurate is this?

Also, do you have to be physically present for the exams?
I see the same behavior. Additions/edits are not propagating.

The oldest affected route53 change I can find in our system is a new record that was created at 23:16:10 UTC. As of now (40 minutes later), it still won't resolve.

Edit: The AWS status page confirms "slow propagation of DNS edits": https://status.aws.amazon.com
See the bottom of the page where he talks about the link to their internal (previously top secret) CIA crypto standards, which is probably one of the few cryptos that is actually any good (most of it was done with the NSA and just talks about which protocols are secure).