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Previously, when absurd patents first (see edit) as far as our sight alerted us, the history is of course very long -- we placed all our public facing work in a arms length company. Down to the company website.

I never imagined, then (being late 90s) that a brochureware dot com might require liability boxing legally, but I never imagined whole libraries like React being adopted so wholesale, so seemingly blindly (if not blindly, why has nobody posted the outcome of due diligence? A blog topic I'd like the attention from.) and so trivially as, yes, our brochureware site just could get used against us. Our early clients expressed concern, first: we had to pass their IP hygiene checks. We adopted those, right away. Such stringencies are why many entities I've worked with, have no or empty websites, but old old registration dates on their dot coms...

* edit, missing dependant clause I guess was strongly implied, but it's about when we first saw frivolous, vexatious patent suits aiming at the front doors of random web presences condition there might be money and weak legal... I mistakenly imagined that to be spurious, not it would develop into a psedo- legitimate"industry".

A moral thought: Maybe if we sold fewer reinvented wheels, there might be less temptation for parasitic behaviour to organize itself, like patent trolling has done? I can certainly plead the fifth to wheel reinvention, most days I write code ... (edit last) my meaning behind this is that I frequently have found highly objectionable behaviour being justified by the calling out of perceived comparable poor behaviour. Now I don't go sp far to condemn e.g. the js library crowd or any of anything for that matter, it's too young to blame yet. But with the first generation who grew up exposed to computing comparable to modernity, now maturing, its natural the industry will mature also. I see the brake on maturation more as lots of great new tools, than moral or human lacking. But self appointed grown ups trying to bully tax us, might be the natural parasitic compliment to this rich novel ecosystem. We don't need no random adults to appoint to combat this, we just need to question and talk about what is sane to accept. There's too much over reaching paternalism propping up big business assumptions, right now.
It's not a useless line, because prepack has no idea what Date.now() does (there are no guarantees in javascript that it hasn't been replaced with another function). It might mutate some global state somewhere, so the resulting code needs to call Date.now() as often as it would've if fib(10) was called. Basically the output is the unrolled version of the recursion, which cuts down on function invocation (comparatively expensive in dynamic languages).

If you replaced the line with say: `var y = 4;` you'll notice that it has been optimized out.
The other end of the spectrum is debtors' prisons, which are such a terrible idea for multiple reasons that we've mostly gotten rid of them (except for situations like child support debt where self righteous indignation overrides good policy).
Well that's not the precedent. When these mismanaged governments finally throw in the towel and hand the reins over to grownups what happens is the pensions and retiree benefits get cut. Detroit just had this happen after the state stepped in and dealt with that mess. Cleveland is in the process of cutting benefits before it goes bankrupt. CalPERS cut pensions last December for retirees from Loyalton. Same thing in the private sector; GM cut retiree benefits with the help of the Federal Government. Last year the Iron Workers union saw huge pension cuts. USPS is going to have this happen as well, probably very soon; you can be very, very sure Trump and the Republicans aren't going to bail out that hot mess.

We're actually getting pretty handy at cutting retiree pensions and benefits. The deals negotiated decades ago predicated on fantastic rates of growth aren't really plausible and they eventually have to be reworked. That means cuts. That's reality and reality has, at long last, arrived for Puerto Rico.

So expect cuts. Don't believe there is some pot of gold out there filled with untaxed entities that just need to be tapped to fix everything. Its fiction and it won't happen like that.

The big reckoning after Puerto Rico is going to be Illinois. Producers are straight up evacuating IL while the state government just keeps digging itself deeper into the hole. That situation is going to set all sorts of precedents for how this nonsense gets resolved.
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They're two tools in the same toolbox. Yes, it might be weird to answer a question like, "Is it better to spend more money on a cordless drill or on a circular saw?", but people actually - and I think legitimately - ask questions like this all the time.

I'm trying to balance a group of concerns against a limited set of resources. How do I make intelligent compromises to get most of what I want and hopefully all of what I need?

All this answer tells me is that Ted is out of touch with the practical concerns of people of limited means.
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Do the same thing on Mars. Then get self-driving space internet machines that transfer internet from here to Mars. They always position themselves to be between here and Mars for best RTT. Thank me later, humanity.

And yeah, I know latency would be between 6 and ~45 minutes.
> it's unlikely any email in that inbox (i.e. hhhh..) was read.

Any way you can tell for sure?

Do you have any logs that could be used to graph the spread of this? E.g. if you were able to find the earliest email to that mailbox you should be able to tell when it started, and with who.
> In statically-typed languages like Java, you should be able to infer, mostly, what your program is doing at runtime

Perhaps if your exceptions are type-checked. AFAIK Java is the only language that does that.

I find that "Use exceptions, but don't use them for flow control" always comes from Java folks.

Everyone else either doesn't use exceptions, or embraces them.
Perhaps I am being too idealistic.

I believe that with the right leadership and a conversation with the nation we could converge on a system that was fair, took care of the needy and got government and insurance companies as we know them to day out of the system to the necessary degree.

I don't, for a moment, believe that we can get both government and insurance companies entirely out of the system in the US. In the first instance, government, you would not want to. Oversight and rules are important. In the second instance, insurance companies, there could be an argument of their need in absorbing some of the risk. Admittedly, not an easy problem.

What we have today, this hodge-podge of laws, agencies and programs is a complete disaster. This should be obvious and evident to anyone who takes the time to take a full dive into the absolute mess healthcare is in the US. The ACA did not fix anything, it made it worst, because it isn't a real solution.

I won't claim to have the solution. As I alluded above, this requires leadership that can bring forth a national-level conversation that, over a year or four, can converge on something that can deal with all issues equitably.

One angle is what I might term a to be a moral obligation: We have the moral obligation to take care of each other. What follows, then, is that we all contribute to a fund or a national health insurance policy of some sort that covers absolutely everyone with, perhaps, reasonable co-pay's to take some of the edge off. If one of us needs a million dollars of medical care he or she should be able to get it.

This should also come with some obligations. I think there's nothing wrong with the idea of requiring regular checkups of some sort. This is where it gets complicated. What do we do about people who destroy themselves through substance abuse. I don't know how we deal with that and other matters.

Anyhow, I think we can all agree that we ought to be able to do far, far better than this mess created by our politicians in playing sick partisan games with one of our most basic needs. And this has been true over at least the last 50 years, no political party is devoid of blood (almost literally) on their hands.

We truly need to take this up to a much higher intellectual level in order to converge on a good solution.

It is interesting to see the reaction had on HN when someone like me, who recognizes the emperor has no clothes, comes along to critique a very real problem with one of these programs, Medicaid. The reaction is evidence of the political polarization out there and the disconnect that exists with what politicians have done to our healthcare system. It's a mess and what we have isn't getting any better.
There are lots of good reasons for secrecy in these circumstances.

All the more extreme, imaginable interventions aging are going to be quite controversial - scientifically, socially and institutionally. The effects of anti-aging interventions would also be controversial.

Just as much, this is going to be chasing a lot of things that will turn out to be wrong. Being wrong and investing money "uselessly" isn't something that is presented very positively in the public eye these days.
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I'm seeing multiple stuff go down. Anyone else also?

Even got a Cloudflare message on HN
Haha I hope this is sarcasm.
Also: I'm curious how reliable that 2013 figure is. 2014's was misreported:

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/fatal.html
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For anyone interested, I did some review in to somewhat related information (the review of national monuments since 1996) last week:

https://justinhorner.github.io/national_monuments.html
Not the OP, but I read this one recently about Puerto Rico: https://www.thenation.com/article/after-a-century-of-america...
This page is more relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
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Everyone seems unsure and lots of confusion among the people.

We live in a world where 1 minute of downtime is unbearable for people.

Wonder how long this will last!

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TNW Link : https://thenextweb.com/2017/05/03/whatsapp-is-down/#.tnw_GxxgHcdX
The 90% cost reduction from the original $70,000 Velodyne spinning KFC bucket is still nearly 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than the expected prices for solid state lidar, which a whole bunch of companies including Velodyne are racing to develop for the mass market, which are expected to be as little as $80, though several units will be needed to provide complete coverage around a car.
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I'm saying the "well known context" is a bunch of news articles of questionable accuracy. It would be nice to at least have a court trial before killing a company so actual evidence can be offered.

And also you should establish the reasons to kill a company.

Should a company die if some of its engineers sexually harasses other employees? What if it's HR department mishandles complaints by the victims?

Should a company die if it attempts to track and eliminate fraud being committed by purposely breaking Apple App store rules?

Should a company die if it attempts to outwit regulators trying to entrap it by giving them fake information?

If you think a company should be killed, you damn well should be able to clearly elucidate the reasons for it.
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They have tried in Venezuela. Did not work.
Excellent! I'd love to see the results if lasering works out.
The best way to do it is just look at what packages you use frequently. If their github repo is accessible then dive into the "issues" and start opening some PRs to address them. And if you've ever wished the package did X then propose it and open a PR to see if the maintainers are interested in adding it
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> In a normal, non-sexist, non-racist sector, when people say they feel they are being discriminated, it would be investigated to see if there is in fact any real discrimination

Can you give an example of such a sector? Because discrimination is everywhere. Indeed, when it comes to the racism part, tech seems to be doing better than other high-paying sectors (if not perfect), which was part of my original point.

There are no sectors as you describe them - minorities and women have had to fight on all fronts to gain a fair deal.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think anything was being sent to that mailinator address.

From looking at both that source code and emails received by my users, the mailinator address seems to be only in the message header "to" field, which, AFAIK, doesn't do anything other than display in the mail client.

The actual recipient's address is in the envelope recipient field.

I don't understand what the purpose of that mailinator address was.
Define "promise" in this context though.

VCs invest in opportunity, not promises.
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Ask HN: Where do you live?
I’m interested to know where fellow HN users live. I get the feeling that there’s a large US presence here, but I would love to learn a little more about where in the world folks are.

- - -

Rules:

1. Do a Find (Ctrl/Cmd+F) for the three letter code of the airport nearest to where you live (e.g. LBA).

1.a. If you find your airport, upvote it.

1.b. If not, add it (e.g. LBA: Leeds Bradford, UK).

2. Just for fun, comment on your location with some interesting and/or fun facts about the place. We can use this as an excuse to learn some things!

3. I’m guessing that the higher upvoted the airport, the most users we have in that location.

4. Upvote this thread for reach.

- - -

Why airport? I guess there’d be a lot of ambiguity and contention if people were to list their own cities (someone might live near San Francisco, but might not actually identify as being from there). Plus it will give us a cleaner and smaller data set than if people were to just list anywhere and everywhere.
> I know I make an effort to only share certain foods with people who aren't accustomed to actual Chinese food, because I get a lot of dirty looks when offering some dishes.

I have given Marmite to foreign students to eat, and they responded with a funny look or horror. Sorry but I can't work that up into some kind of anti-Britishism. Similar with the turducken issue, can she really be serious about working that into some kind of anti-Chinese prejudice?
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LBA: Leeds Bradford, UK
And the other question is why would auto makers want to sell or sacrifice their production capacity so they Google can kill them?

Also, there are soy many regulations and safety rules in the industry, if they can't abolish them (with perfect tech/lobbying) old automakers will win.
I'll add to travisturner's response - Pilosa has a few bells and whistles beyond being a straight up bitmap index including:

- associating each bit with a timestamp (at various granularities) and queries over time ranges.

- adding arbitrary key/value metadata to each row or column

- automatic sorting/caching of bitmaps to support "TopN" queries
Unless you have your own currency and a central bank and presumably some control over it. Then you can inflate away your debt.
Sourcegraph CEO here. We have a Firefox extension at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sourcegraph-a..., but it does not have quite as many features as the Chrome one.

I agree we should open-source the browser extension code, though. I would like us to do that soon. Can you send me a quick email at sqs@sourcegraph.com so I can tell you when it's open source?
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In the US it is extremely easy to rack-up hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills. A single operation can cost $200K. Be ill for an extended period of time and the idea of millions of dollars in medical care isn't out of the realm of the possible.

And so, imagine selling the family home to try to pay medical bills or provide more favorable circumstances only to get a knock on the door by the Medicaid estate recovery folks who have first dibs on the proceeds of the sale.

Not only that, the sale also means the patient is now kicked off Medicaid because they have money.

I'll repeat it because the shift in perspective is important:

If a private insurance company had exactly the same clauses in their policies people would be up in arms, they would be brought up on charges and some of their management would land in jail. Yet we are willing to accept this from our government? And enroll people by the tens of millions?

This should not be. We should provide care to the needy without any such preconditions. Our government should not sink hooks into them at all.

Readers seem to be confusing passion for fear mongering. This is real and, as far as I am concerned, it is seriously immoral. We should not be in the business of doing this to our own citizens. This isn't health insurance. Not sure what it is, but I know what it is not.

This is the point that is being missed in my exposure of this issue: This is an abomination. The US should not have a program fraudulently presented as insurance that takes people's property at all. Even if the net effect was that this only affected ten people, it would be wrong.

We should take care of those who need care and not set hooks into them or their estate.
It's absurd to suggest that it costs $2bn to treat 500 people who die of their injuries.

If you don't have numbers to back up the idea that that injuries soak up the rest of the expense then I'm just going to call it and say your imagination is flat out wrong.

Most gun related deaths are not accidents, and wouldn't be presented by safety classes.
I'm Canadian, so not only can I buy Cuban cigars, I can buy them in a store down the street with my debit card. (A real debit card that connects directly to my account, not just a prepaid credit card.) Regardless though, making an illegal purchase isn't a very good reason to argue for cash; in fact you may have more luck changing the dumb laws if people are truly hurt by them.

The US definition of a "debit card" is massively different than the Canadian one. For us, our bank card is the debit card. The same one I use to take money out of my account at an ATM is the same one I can use to buy a $1 coffee.

Why some banks do charge outrageous fees, thanks to the free market there is a healthy market and many banks in Canada are now fully virtual or offer next to no fees.

Just because a system is poorly designed in one locale does not mean the idea itself is flawed, just that it should be implemented in an improved way.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer all that in so much detail, the legal aspect in particular is really interesting. Users staying on old versions is also a good point, and something I didn't consider.

Best of luck with the future of Teller, you're doing something that I personally think consumer banks should've been offering for years and it's great to see someone filling that gap. I'm hoping Monzo and others end up pushing "legacy" banks into opening up API access but I guess the realist in me finds this unlikely.
UK too.
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Doesn't Netflix and EPSN already do this? In contrast, have you ever encountered just how "paranoid" about these issues a cannabis user can be?
Apples and oranges. You can't sieze the server or domain name and turn off cryptocurrency. That guarantees that the back end keeps running. Then your only way is to regulate the usage of it, but when that can be obfuscated with things like tor, VPN, public WiFi, etc it's going to be incredibly difficult to do any sort of meaningful enforcement. Add decentralized 'smart contracts' such as what ethereum has and it can be run beginning to end in a fully decentralized way.
Will it be: "Can afford it AND are of similar mindset" or would it be "OR".

Just much, the ultimate cost is big question. The only way to make a breakthrough imo is some combination of procedures that cut the Gordian knot of current health care processes and ways to automate these processes. Together, this may be cheaper than artisanal Cancer care and research - well especially if it could be done without royalty payments in Costa Rica.

So whether the knowledge gets out is a big question - cue the secrecy question again.
For past one hr. It said everything is fine. Now it's saying there's a problem.
I think they do, I got an app shut down because it was named too similar to one of their products, this was just a week ago or so.
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Neat, TeleDesic[1] V2.0 (or is it 3.0?) :). That effort stalled when single stage to orbit rockets became impractical due to insufficent launch demand when Regan's StarWars program was cancelled.

With a fast turn around re-usable F9 booster (so its relaunch costs are significantly less than launching a new one) Musk would have control over his destiny in this case. When Iridium was being built the whole ground station thing (up/down links into the switched telephone network) was nearly a decade slog of permission, licenses, and regulations.

That said, if he is successful he will suck a lot of money out of wallets that belong to some pretty big fat cats companies. And if he made every ground station a Tor exit node it would really mess with the powers that be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic
Well seeing as any future business in either rockets or satellite internet both depend on not creating space junk, I think they are pretty motivated to not let that happen.
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This isn't about a social norm. This isn't about non-payment of debts generally. This is about a very specific and narrow type of loan. The creditors here chose a risk. They could have insisted on security. They could have asked for collateral (ie the deeding over of a property right for a mortgage). They did not. They extended credit on nothing more than a promise and in full knowledge of bankruptcy laws. They also sold these debts onto other knowledgeable investors. The social norm at risk here is the idea that all debts should be treated equally, that we should force unsecured debts to be repaid as if they were secured. To equate credit card debt with mortgages and car loans, that's the really dangerous moral path.

We cannot force debtors to repay money in perpetuity. That's half way to indentured servitude, or worse. If someone has no hope of every paying off their debts, the logical thing to do is not bother trying. That is waste. And we long ago abandoned the idea of debtors prison. Puerto Rico cannot be jailed nor can it be forced to make payments forever as that would destroy their economy forever. The only reasonable thing is to eliminate the debts through the legal process.
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