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"The law doesn't say that they should get their money back explicitly, therefore the state is free to rob citizens blind while they have the chance with absolutely no repercussions".

God I hate this judicial philosophy. If legislation was perfect we wouldn't need judges. Every gap in the legal code that some lawyers can concoct is not valid grounds for exploitation.
> dispensing it for victim's relief.

IANAL either but wouldn't the victim's relief come from a civil trial, not a criminal one?

I believe there are already processes in place that can be undertaken to delay payment on appeal. Why should criminal penalties be awarded, subject to immediate payment and then have to go through another court proceeding where the plaintiff has to prove their innocence again to get it back?
How many 'virtual' cards can a user have?
The average Joe might not even notice that he's not searching with Google.

However, he will notice that his Windows can't run Steam and his games on Steam and his collection of Win32 applications ;)
I was going with the examples that only concern your body, and not other things as well.

But of course, by a strict interpretation of "absolute right", any infraction could count.
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I'm all for measuring discrimination. What I expressed concern with is measuring the perception of discrimination which is fraught with all sorts of biases.

In fact, just today there was another front page story today that got flagged that is perfectly demonstrative of this problem:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14252978

The headline is inflammatory and suggests falsely that they've measured something that "objectively" proves discrimination is happening and I'm sure people shared it and upvoted it based on the title alone because it confirms their biases about discrimination being all-pervasive. However a closer examination of the study shows that once you account for differences in level of the engineer that there is in fact no difference. I see this all the time. Anecdotally, the majority of studies and articles claiming discrimination and using data fall prey to the base rate fallacy and misinterpret the results to show discrimination where none exists or where it it is small enough to not be measurable.

I am not disputing that discrimination exists, but it would be prudent to stop crying wolf all the time. In 2017, I have seen remarkably few "smoking guns" relative to the amount of noise we see. What I have seen is an increase in how everything is distorted to maximum effect by people with an agenda to say discrimination is the cause of all the problems.
It doesn't sound like he supports forfeiture in general. According to the article "And Justice Clarence Thomas (the lone dissenter in the Nelson decision) recently slammed civil forfeiture for its “egregious and well-chronicled abuses.”"
I believe what apostacy meant was the ability to prevent a recurring payment from occurring without approval. I may have misunderstood what they meant but something along the lines of: a debit shows up in your account as pending, and you have X amount of time to approve or decline it. That way you are preventing a debit from even occurring in the first place, rather than having to fight your bank to get the money back.
To be honest, insider trading.
RN for windows is for UWP / store apps only. If you don't want to use the store, or want RN on windows 7 you're out of luck. I think even windows 8 might be off the table
There's a pretty good exploration of these periods of boom and bust in software development productivity from Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

I read it years ago and it really helped me disconnect the feeling of personal failing from those days/weeks of being a professional software developer where things just don't click.
How can you possibly agree with that? If overturned convictions are still financially valid then you have no de facto right of appeal (in financial disputes).
Looks like an interesting project. Is there any reason the extension isn't available for Firefox (missing WebExtension APIs maybe)?
Oh, but we very much do have a choice - you can also get into an aluminum box and drive around.
To clarify, the relevance is that deriving the vector field from the Hamiltonian requires taking partial derivatives; see the linked section from Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (SICM) by Sussman and Wisdom w/ Mayer. Closures lets one do this by composing functions in a way that mirrors the mathematical structure. Note in the SICM implementation, the partial derivatives are computed exactly, not numerically, but the resulting ODEs are integrated numerically.
Looks like it's applying the same sort of optimizations a normal optimizing compiler would.

With all of these JS "compilers" and transpilers, at some point, it just makes sense to build a client-side language in the browser that compiles down to native and runs sandboxed.

I'm excited for WebAssembly, but I realize that, like with all shiny new web things (for example, WebRTC on Safari/iOS), mainstream browsers that most people/users actually have installed on their computers/devices and use won't support it for another 3-5 years.

Meanwhile, the everyday JS coder wants to use ES7 from last year but has to settle for the bandaid solution of Babel because the browsers aren't going to be ready for it yet.

Google's Native Client had the right idea but never quite took off (nor was it ever adopted by anybody else):
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

This type of working solution would also stave off the Electron-ification of desktop apps (which means an effective halving of my laptop battery life, spinning up wasted CPU cycles -- like 13% being spent on rendering a blinking cursor, and reducing my computer's RAM by a factor of eight as just about everything I run on my computer now is its own separate bloated Chrome instance -- Slack, Atom, VSCode, Skype, Telegram, Discord, Spotify, ...).

EDIT: Facebook employees, please stop downvoting my quality content. It is getting tiresome.
Stupid question -- isn't that (usually) good? My model of Kickstarter projects is "I wish this product existed so I could buy it", not "I would like to personally profit from bringing this to market".
According to wikipedia facebook has 17,048 employees. Couldn't he have chosen 50 of those instead ?
Nope, history says otherwise. As long as the debt stands Greece will not be able to get any financing exactly because it's assured that it will not be repaid.

The only way to get financing is by debt restructuring. It has happened time and again. You'd be amazed how many countries defaulted the last century. I think Germany defaulted twice.
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Thank you for this explanation, that makes a lot of sense.

A priori civil forfeiture goes against this countries values but the legal logic in the majority opinion seems like it has some problematic aspects which is why Thomas dissented and Alito agreed but with stipulations.
That is terrible advice.

"Divide your fortune into seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth." - Ecclesiastes 11:2
OP: Why wouldn't you want to change a job or take a vacation? These need to always be on the table. You have _one_ life to live..

>If you want more money look at where you can save money (not eating out, buying generic products, etc.) and things you might be able to do on the side to earn more.

Oh dear god, the guy is depressed and now he has to stop buying his daily coffee too? And possibly a second job!?? You're an engineer, not a tollbooth operator. You're in one of the few fields that's actually growing and still pays worth a shit.

On the money front, take several queues from Ramit Sethi. Level up, do a cool side project with the latest React/Vue/Node and learn a bit about selling yourself.

Most engineers, even if they're really good, decide to take the humble, quiet route and demand a "fair pay". It's bullshit, it's a cop out, and if you're just 10% confident, you can increase your next jobs's salary with the money the other introverted engineers left on the table for you.
Market share was likely always more important than quality.

Besides, do app developers even understand statistical quality control? I tend to think this kind of software grew up on a very black/white, functional/broken, bug trackers, etc., a very narrow view on quality as a concept.
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There's a tension between "invest in what you know" and avoiding correlation between your financial investments and your job.

Most HNers know the tech sector better than other sectors. But investing (long) in tech would not be a great idea from a diversification perspective. If the tech market tanks, your job prospects will suffer (you could get fired/furloughed, your startup could stagnate) and your portfolio will drop simultaneously.

One way to resolve this tension is to take short positions on tech trackers and long positions on particular stocks that you think will outperform the sector. On days when everything goes up, you won't win as big. But on days where everything goes down, you'll be glad you have the hedge.
I built one of these as a kid complete with lander and orbiting module. Colours were accurate too.

Around that age I also built a bomber plane with cruise missile. I was inspired by Greenham Common and the news! My parents did not think that was so good.

All the adults were impressed by our creations, plus our child view of the world. So that Saturn rocket would be subtly on show rather than thrown in the box. We had feedback on our creations and played to the crowd.

I am sure brick economics would have me not getting every piece optimal, however there would be few spare bricks. I doubt our version would compare to this fancy kit version though. Therefore the original mega project would not have been attempted had the new kit been available, it would enforce a requirement to have the special bricks rather than be extra resourceful.

Yes I will buy this for my sister in memory of those happy times, to be a familiar object on the shelf for her newborn to eventually play with. It will be there ready.
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Thanks for the book recommendation.

(And if you're hiring, I have a math degree and know some SQL. :)
I wonder what could happen in the following circumstances. Multiple companies have such accounts. Perhaps whole industries. And the programmability was used for interactions between those parties. Automated systems, run by those companies, that shift money around between them for whatever purposes. Perhaps it could help automated business functions.
China has 30,000 people who work full time moderating the Internet: http://certmag.com/the-great-firewall-how-china-polices-inte...
Just a piece of advice here. Buying stocks on the rise is no better than momentum chasing in stocks and you end up with stocks which are not worth it. It is advisable to find good businesses to invest in if you have time and inclination to do so. If not passive index investing is great.
This might be interesting as well for a free way to access a list of biases we can fall in to: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
This is amazing, congratulations!

It happens that I'm building a game which has a CLI and map integration. I was going to left the map out of the CLI client but now there's a good chance I'll use your library sometime in the future :)
Zuckerberg has the charisma of a damp rag, he'll embarrass himself if he actually runs for president. Clinton had experience and all the data in the world thanks to Eric Schmidt and still lost to a novice because she lacked any charisma at all.

The fact he thinks corny stuff like this actually makes him more relatable to the average american really says it all about how out of touch he is.
Read /r/financialindependence (better than personalfinance, and more appropriate for this subject), and also the Bogleheads forum [1] and wiki [2]

[1]: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php

[2]: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
In my experience, this is only the case if you set up the payment through the bank's automatic payment system, which typically uses paper checks (but may do an electronic deposit for some payees who have specially registered).

Most subscription-based businesses that go to your bank account get an authorization to do an "ACH pull". In some instances, this authorization alone can act as collateral (e.g., in securing payday loans or medical payment agreements). As such, I would assume that allowing consumers to revoke the authorization is more problematic than it sounds.
Because I don't have serious money to invest, I invest in building my network, "buying" time and then... relaxing.
You don't even need a drill press. You can do it rather easily with a jig and hand held router. And the jig usually comes with the 80 percent receiver.
You just have to store your fists separately and each fitted with a fist lock unless you're at a punching range.
Does this mean police can't legally steal your money anymore?
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The existence of this project says that JS is supposed to be taken as a very serious programming language now. But what, exactly, is it that is so serious that JS can be used for, which will start making hardcore developer's minds see its unlimited possibilities, as a deeply systematic runtime environment?

I'm saying its something like: https://linuxontheweb.appspot.com/about
This looks cool, but is it doing anything that an engine like V8 doesn't already do? Since the JS still isn't actually compiled the browser engine still parses everything and does its own optimizations. Are there some benchmarks showing actual speed improvements?
Vanguard and the non-market etf ~ Berkshire Hathaway.
I think it is critical to figure out if this is a short term feeling (tired, burnt out, etc.) or you are just not interested in what you are doing anymore. I think being honest with yourself and not rushing the decision will help -- say, take a month and ask yourself each morning "do I look forward to going to work today?".

Depending on that answer the recommendations will likely be very different.
Also mentioned in the article, but Seiken Densetsu 3 was one of the most fun and amazing games I ever played. I hadn't seen the 'action RPG' style before, and it just added a new level of adrenaline
Here is my quick wish list of features I think I would use at least weekly if my terminal included them.

- jump to previous commands.

You just ran a command that printed a few pages, you want to scan from the first line. You have to scroll up and find the last prompt, where you typed the command. Why isn't there a shortcut for this?

- collapse previous outputs (stderr / stdout / both)

Hmmm, were there any warnings in the build I just ran? Anything on stderr? Let me toggle stdout / stderr after the command has been run.

- connect a pipe to a previously run command

You run a computation that takes a minute and produces a few pages of output. You realize you want the output sorted. So you run it again. You could pipe to sort, or if you piped to a file you could cat the file next time you needed the output. But why can't you re-use the output that is there in the terminals scrollback buffer?
I'm not convinced there's any passive investment that will beat a Vanguard S&P 500 index in the long-run. 99% of people would be best-served to just dump 100% in that.

I've made some pretty incredible returns researching and investing, but in retrospect even though I did very well I would have been better off spending that time earning more money rather than investing it. My net worth isn't big enough that an extra percentage gain moves the needle that much.
They're creating new pieces all the time, plus the molds have a limited lifespan in order to maintain those high tolerances.
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I worry about passive investing. Does it turn into winner take all?

If most everyone puts there money in a index tracker it would go up or down based on contribution and withdraw rates versus actual results of the market.

So, while there is more contributing than withdrawing it continues to go up which would attract more money to it.
Speaking of FB ad targeting in elections, I was recently surprised to learn that an advertiser can give FB a specific list of names of people they want to target.

I learned that because I own a handful of shares of Arconic, which is a company in the midst of a hostile takeover attempt. I was rather curious how FB figured that out... but both sides know my identity, and apparently whatever I agreed to when I opened a brokerage account included giving my identity to companies I invest in, and them giving it to activist investors, and the company/investors giving it to social networks.

My understanding is that in the US at least, it's common for both parties to attempt to maintain complete databases of all voters, so it's feasible for them to select individual ad targets themselves and just give FB the names.
Molds have a finite cycle count before parts go out of tolerance. A typical steel mold might have a million cycles, more complex and precise ones may be much less. At the volumes Lego delivers (~19 billion elements a year), I'd expect nearly 100% turnover each year.
The same protections that are in place to access bank accounts right now. Strong authentication being the most obvious one.
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Some of the collections do include alternate instructions, e.g. the LEGO Creator range is "3 in 1".
Does that work on all versions of Windows 10?
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The Google Talk about his previous book[1] was very good. You're encouraged to give it a go and make up your own mind on Varoufakis.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Zpkz7lK-s
Yes, they were really naive thinking that the meetings of the ministers of economy were about economics and how to improve the lives of the citizens.

This is telling about what the Euroarea is about today.

I suppose, at least it's a good thing if those naive professors, now that they are not so naive, explain the rest of citizens how the system really works.
I've been told something similar when going to Canada (I work for Amazon and we have offices in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, B.C.)

Basically, I'm required to not work on anything not related to whatever the purpose of my visit is. For example, if I have a meeting with Team A then I'm not legally allowed to work on anything unrelated to meeting with Team A.

I'm on a business trip to meet with Team A. I'm not in Canada to do my normal work.
Being familiar with JavaScript did you consider something like React Native over Swift?
Thomas' opinion would seem to point to a "great" way for small municipalities and courts to raise money.

Just pull people over for no reason whatsoever, give them a ticket for "enforcement goal of the week," and collect the fines as most people will pay it. If anyone eventually disputes and wins, the local govt still gets to keep the money, since they at some point in time "justly" stood guilty.

Or arrest and convict people of jaywalking, or any other made up charge. As long as you have a judge that will go along with this (the communities in and near Ferguson MO are an example), it's a "great" way to collect money. Just convict them, no matter what.

As civil forfeiture is increasingly scrutinized, it will not surprise me if streamlined convictions and 1 day "time served" sentences become common along lonely stretches of Interstate 80. "There, we fixed it."
He would/will get slaughtered. The guy lives in a bizarro world, surrounded by a legion of handlers and yes-men. I strongly believe that history will be very, very unkind to him.
There are deep historic and cultural reasons for this approach. Homes and businesses are generally not secure because the doors are locked, they are secure because the people around them don't try and break in or even check if the door is locked. In city's where that changes you see what looks like more security, but that has surprisingly little impact as it mostly convinces people to break in somewhere else.

What changed in computing is the internet is the worlds largest 'city' by a huge margin and people can mostly automate checking to see not just if the door is locked but if the lock is of poor quality. Clearly in that situation laws are going to have limited value, but because they have been so successful in the past it's really hard to get out of that mindset.

PS: Sure, there is crime, but compared to say 20,000 years ago the odds some kills you and takes your stuff next year is tiny.
No need, you can instead trust the common deposit insurance (up to 100,000 Euro)
Now that's innovation.
I appreciate his "generally" staunch defense of constitutionally enumerated rights, but his logic tends to fall apart once applied outside that scope. His weak interpretation of the 4th amendment is particularly disappointing to me.
Index funds are therefore the next bubble?
It's not something I have thought about before, but I wonder how prevalent the bystander effect [0] is in online media streams. Say, if there are 1000 people watching a live stream on Facebook of a horrendous crime, will no one report it because everyone thinks someone else will report it? If that's the case, Facebook is up against human psychology in hoping people will point out these acts.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
No source, just quotes to give the feeling of fable.

IE, What Gandalf or Obi Wan perhaps should have said.
Luckily not a single anti gun politician has a bit of sense regarding guns or the disposition to ask an expert.

Making the barrel the serial numbered and tracked portion of a gun would make it much more difficult to machine at home.

Then they could just leave the 3d printer industry alone.
Yeah, the ability to make payments outside of the scope of the panopticon is one of the better arguments in favor of cash and against a completely cashless society.
All 17,048 employees are in the same open-plan office. Wouldn't be much of a tour.
If you're not a US citizen. CBP cannot legally deny entry to the US for US citizens.
Passive investing is nice, but I have seen few good articles about drawing down when retirement actually hits.
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Though your broader point holds, they did in fact find WMDs in Iraq, but it wasn't really big news (or especially serious weapons)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...
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