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You know that feeling when half your mind is filling up the spare moments with the thought/feeling, "I'm screwing myself, here."

Yeah.

Whether you're "doing the right thing", "paying your dues", or just fighting your instincts and hoping that eventually, he/she will come to like you the same way.

One of my greatest challenges in life, has been to fight the messaging that put me on that track -- or the delusion I initiated. And, figuring out which it is and to what extent.
Thanks, I have a knee-jerk reaction to "reverse engineering is illegal / a tort" statements without nuance.
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How does one verify that we got this security update on ubuntu? Don't see it in https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/xenial/ yet.
> does that mean the two parents must be and remain miserable solely for the sake of their children

Is there really nothing on the spectrum between madly in love and miserable? Even if so, the answer is yes. Remain miserable until the children turn into adults, because that is the responsibility you signed up for when you had children under a marriage contract.

Otherwise you're just a shitty parent. You can't have it both ways.

> being in an open relationship changes the nature of their relationship

Being in an open relationship is almost always a ticket for the woman to be unfaithful and shirk away from holding up her part of the contract. Why do you think that is?
Sure, but the point is, the planet will be fine in 10k or 100k or 1M years, it'll still be orbiting the Sun. We probably won't be here any more because we'll have killed ourselves off, but that's OK, some other lifeforms can take over. Hopefully they'll be more successful.
and who says what is or isn't hate speech? cant you see the problem with these laws?
They're unconstitutional.
For brokerage accounts SIPC kicks in. It took some time but according to the SIPC all funds were returned to MF Global customers:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ORsA-jt...
... legal enforcement that includes the government's ability to just cut the victims a big chunk of fiat currency to make them whole.

It's a very solid guarantee when it comes to savings in an FDIC-insured bank.
Yup exhausting to have this world view isn't it? And rising depression rates suggest, to me at least, that people that think this way are becoming more common.
>Is it harder to learn what the word "SAVE" means than to learn that a square box with a circle in it means "save"?

Yes. The second is more distinct visually from other icons, and you can even discern it with just a glance, whereas various words are all juxtapositions of letters. There's a reason traffic signs the world over use a visual language.
A friend of mine had such an idea and implemented it on his undergraduate thesis. He used the technology for voting system in Indonesia called Pemilu. But, Pemilu is a manual voting system. He wants to bring blockchain technology to electronic voting system or E-Vote. From his research, the results:

1. This technology can prevent vote data tamper attempt inside the voting system.

2. There is elimination for invalid data through many validation process.

3. We can request copy of similar data from another node as a backup if there is any tampered or broken data.

I would like to share the paper. But, it's not available in English.
Why no null or zero-length values?
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I have a web app and I am always scared that it is not secure enough or a lot of traffic will bring it down if I don't do it right. Ideally I want a QA server and then a Prod and I want the deployment automated from Github or Gitlab.
I don't know about any US place with real hate-speech laws. In fact, in a lot of places it even seems to be legal to run around in Nazi uniforms (complete with Hakenkreuz and everything).

Meanwhile, Facebook and TV stations censor nipples and four-letter words. Can someone explain this double morals to me?
With that attitude, why stop there? Why not just outlaw saying mean things in general? That seems to be where this would be going.
Same Russian hackers targeted Obama campaign as early as 2007
We've banned these accounts that you created just to violate the guidelines with.
I would like to read someone's educated guess on what is the % of bitcoin transactions that have a direct purpose of paying illegal activities (drugs, guns, black hat hacking, ransomware, etc).

I am not capable of giving such a guess. I would be happy to read even about the order of magnitude of said %.
The problem isn't the technical side of things, it's the legal side.

If Uber loses this they probably won't be able to hire from Google, they will have to do "clean room" implementations, and this will all have to be done on the up and up with documentation and proof that whatever product they come up with was entirely started after the ruling with no use of anything that could have come from Google or Waymo. Not only will that all be a huge expense, it will be practically impossible to compete with those barriers constantly looming over the R&D team, not to mention all the extra legal red tape.

That is the crushing blow, not that they can't use LiDAR
Wikipedia - hate speech laws by country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#Hate_speech_laws_b...

US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States
Hi Brandur, I'll answer your final question first, then circle back. CitusDB is definitely more akin to a traditional RDMS that to Dynamo because it keeps almost all the goodness of relational databases while providing the ability to scale horizontally via clever partitioning, usually on the tenant and some other primary key (for the multi-tenant, B2B use-cases).

In contrast, Dynamo sacrificed all sorts of guarantees that relational database clients had relied on for decades - partly justifying your comments.

I left Amazon in 2009 so I can't speak to how Dynamo is used internally today (and AFAIK AWS DynamoDB is based on a different design). However, while I was at Amazon the shopping cart data was migrated to Dynamo. That was definitely "core" to the business in the sense that it was a key part of the user's experience and we couldn't lose the contents of a single shopping cart - it's a bad user experience. And for that use-case we could change the per-cart schema on write (with additional scans to clean up carts that were written to old schema versions).
I would think that a company that grew large enough to be in the S&P 500 would not sacrifice it all for the next quarterly results. Hence, I'd expect a larger P/E for the S&P 500 than for the market as a whole.
Are there repercussions or actions taken for people who vouch for trash in this way?
Okay sorry and I didn't realize you had that capability for moderation, pretty helpful that you can isolate child threads.

One thing I want to question is how to criticize and steer discussion away from certain directions on this site? HN is widely known for the pedantic and non sequitur directions that discussions go, as ridiculous opinions get elevated and non-comforming opinions get downvoted to oblivion but not based on correctness or relevance.

Thoughts? I often speak in hyperbole to highlight the absurdity of other people's opinions, but that doesn't seem compatible with the mod's ideals for this site
> You realize that you are implying that any negative cartoon with a black person in it is automatically racism.

No. If this was a comic strip telling a story about a deadbeat father who happened to be black, that would be one thing. But it's a political cartoon. The entire point of the medium is to make broad points using clearly-understood imagery. If a political cartoonist draws a caricature of a black man (big red lips and all), it's either representing a specific public figure, or black people in general (aboriginals, in this case).

So unless you're arguing that the father is a caricature of a specific person who was in the news at the time, there is no way it's not supposed to represent all aboriginals.
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They're not the same but when you can't control the cause what's the difference?

Due to the nature of the web, unless you unplug from the Internet, the risk is persistent. So although a cybercrime-free world would be swell, until that day arrives we must control the effects.
I love GQRX. Use it a lot.
I think it's an American thing. ITT everyone is complaining about the last mile stuff and the logistics of it all, but fundamentally everyone just hates it for cultural reasons. In you head, you just see images of plastic seats covered in hobo urine and a train car that smells like disinfectant of some sort. In places where it's actually practical as a complete transportation solution, the conditions are also somewhat better.
That could also be improved with timed connections.
The lack of drive is itself the issue, though.
Yes. Buddybuild can build IPA files and upload them directly to iTunes Connect.
per se: in and of itself
as such: exactly.

you meant as such.
Hate speech isn't just ideas or thoughts. It's an incitement to violence, it's horrifically bad for the mental health of people subjected to it, and it acts as a form of discrimination against those people.
Public transist in LA is akin to mild torture. I feel for those who have to take it every day for work.

Aside from the haphazard and oblique bus scheduling routes, the ride itself is jarring and agnozing. Unnecessary repeated montoned annoucements bombard your trip with sudden jerking stops.

Of course, the homeless and drug addicted use the bus and trains for temporary shelter. The train has even more mind numbing announcements with a ridiculous annoucement system that could be replaced by screens.

And if you want to go anywhere beyond one bus route, your trip time will be 3 to 4 times that of driving.

We're supposed to commend those who take public transist, but the City of LA doesn't care. Corrupt, incompetent, indifferent -- whatever it is, they don't have a clue what they are doing.
Legally (depending on jurisdiction), it's barely "money."

The notion that he had any legal rights is a bit vacant. Morally, I think "spreading the risk you've brought upon yourself to your creditors without their knowledge or consent" is generally considered a financial dick move though. ;)
I really had a moral problem with this in Thailand.

It's an amazing country, beautiful, and the people are incredibly friendly, but they also seem pretty tolerant of the government keeping some ridiculous laws on the books and wielding them for obviously political purposes.

To me, doesn't matter if the king's a saint or a devil: let the people freely voice their own opinion.
It may be a nitpick, but Google don't stick atomic clocks or even just GPS clocks into every node. Just into every data center. The difference means that it's actually perfectly feasible to do that for very many other companies running DCs or just in colos. The big news was how they used the fact (that times are synchronised with an upper limit to how far the clocks in two nodes will diverge) as a very significant optimization in Spanner, one of their distributed databases.

Building a distributed database that can optionally benefit from the same optimization actually makes a great deal of sense. Your average hobbyist won't care, but spending some extra few kilo bucks on hardware in a dc and get big throughput improvements out of your database system is a steal.
Minecraft isn't just a game anymore. It is a cultural touchstone. An entire generation has been introduced to video games through Minecraft.

Furthermore, the gameplay effectively can go on forever. Especially with mods on PC, there are very few limits to what can be done. Entire separate games (e.g. Hunger Games mod) have been implemented.

Also, it's one of the best-selling games of all time. That helps. No one bats an eye when, say, Puyo Puyo Tetris gets released and ported. (Yes, I just compared Minecraft to Tetris.)
Except there've been multiple cases of ransomware where the encryption was improperly implemented and trivially cracked.

Similar to the entire internet, while the tools to securely encrypt things exist, incompetence can cause people to roll their own, or roll things out improperly.
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I never thought that so-called progressives would be in favor of blasphemy laws. This includes "hate speech"
Exactly this. There's absolutely no reason you couldn't use the system for public transit. Just need pods with an enclosure as shown in the video. It'd be way cheaper than sending your whole car.

Whether the car pod or the transit pod make the most sense is largely irrelevant at this phase. The system can (and seems to be planned to?) use both at the same time. So if a bunch of people want to pay to use this for their cars, then it can be used with cars. If people want to use this as a more responsive subway, then it can be used that way as well. They just configure the little pods one way or another, 98% of the system (tunnels, elevators, track, vast majority of the pod, etc) remains the same either way.

I actually kind of suspect that enclosed pods will be used for both, since otherwise you have to worry about debris flying off of cars (like those dumb little flags, dirt, and drinks accidentally left on the roof) and hitting pods behind.

Personally, my favorite mode of transport in a city is bikes mixed with public transit. This system seems to work well with both.

But the point of a pod-based system like this is that you can let the market decide which exact mix makes the most sense. If people are willing to pay to transport their whole car, then why not let them? Or why not have just passenger pods? The system is designed to be expandable to arbitrary numbers of pods and tracks, so there needn't be any reason you couldn't do both.
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That's true, but no game is hard real time.
I agree with the theory behind this, but if you talk to anyone who is working at Sprint, I think you'd start to realize that it is a zombie company at this point. In my opinion, Sprint is nothing more than uncollectable collateral for Softbank debt.

The best possible solution for consumers is to let T-mo acquire sprint & let Tint take a swing at things.
My problem with hate speech bans always comes down to two things:

1. Who decides what is hate speech?

2. In 1800, would describing all slaveowners as "immoral, godless abominations" and calling for the destruction of their property and livelihoods have been hate speech? If not, why?
To my mind, there's a difference between "blaming Russia or China" and saying the attacks originated in Russia or China. The former is a reference to the nation state itself (i.e. state sponsored cyber attacks), while the latter is broader and can also mean private individuals within those respective countries.
I literally just grabbed the last (at the time) machine learning paper that'd crossed my feed, and started reading.

Whenever I encountered something I didn't know, I googled around until I had even a vague idea.

That said a) I don't know how do-able that would have been without the math background I've already got, and b) I haven't gotten much further in that reading that one paper ...yet.

Regarding the math - The only thing I know for sure to point you at is multivariable calculus, which is also (probably) the most useful math class I ever took. (It helps that the teacher was completely amazing). The set of concepts it introduced me to are amongst the most useful things I ever learned, and it's that understanding that has always given me a leg up on jumping into things at the deep end.

(I took multivar from UC berkeley in, I think, spring 2002? I went looking for video lectures, but did not find what I was looking for...)
The technical aspects are explained very well here.
You want your phone to, what, grow legs and scuttle around to find the best angle and composition? You're not being reasonable.
I agree with you. Keep in mind that the U.S. is on an extreme end of the free-speech spectrum. (This may spring from, in part, our sense of individuality [1].)

[1] http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/Individualism-...
Hate speech is a broader category than incitement to violence.
If you are on a developer salary this makes no sense
Also in the case of hostilities, there's no way you could block this channel ( OS updates ) on a large enough scale, fast enough. This vector would be utilized in advance.
And how many fiat currencies have had large scale markets like Mt. Gox just practically vanish overnight? How many bankers liquidated the entire assets of a bank's deposits to attempt to save the business? That straight up does not happen in the Real World.
Interesting. Now I'm really interested in this subject I should talk to some of the people I know in Chicago who work with policing data about it. They might have some insight.

Though I guess this is probably good motivation to go to one of the Chi Hack Nights, because I'm sure if someone there doesn't know how Chicago is using the ShotSpotter data, they probably know how to find out.
They have a link to sunroof below their estimate. Not sure what happens if you aren't covered by sunroof, but their are a ton of solar estimation tools out there that will give you a rough idea of your potential just based on lat/lon.
Exactly! Language is power because it allows communication, and controlling language is effectively controlling communication. Persuasion and enlightenment involves taking on all sorts of, err, troublesome concepts.
> “Not so,” [yeah, I'm sure this is a literal quote from a court document] said Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in her order on the motion on April 25.

That is in fact a literal quote from the court document:

Defendant contends that Plaintiff’s reliance on
the unsigned GNU GPL fails to plausibly demonstrate
mutual assent, that is, the existence of a contract.
Not so. The GNU GPL, which is attached to the
complaint, provides that the Ghostscript user agrees
to its terms if the user does not obtain a
commercial license. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant
used Ghostscript, did not obtain a commercial
license, and represented publicly that its use of
Ghostscript was licensed under the GNL GPU. These
allegations sufficiently plead the existence of a
contract. See, e.g., MedioStream, Inc. v. Microsoft
Corp., 749 F. Supp. 2d 507, 519 (E.D. Tex. 2010)
(concluding that the software owner had adequately
pled a claim for breach of a shrink-wrap license).

See page 4, line 17 here: https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/california/...
> Undoubtedly, if a company offered some sort of account to store that gold, they'd be in deep shit if they took gold from those accounts and sold it to pocket the money.

We've actually had situations similar to this play out.

Star Wars Galaxies had a counterfeiting bug, and Sony responded to people exploiting the bug by zeroing out the money---regardless of whether the holder was a counterfeiter or a victim of a counterfeit---and banning a subset of players who were holding the money.

While the path from "take player money" to "sell the money and pocket the value" isn't direct, deleting money from accounts has the side-effect of making all the remaining money more valuable; in essence, Sony boosted the per-player value of the remaining accounts and future created accounts (though that likely wasn't the intent of their actions; they were just punishing cheaters).

Check the legal history to see what the ramifications were. To my memory: there were none. Game space money bought with real money isn't real money (should it be? Excellent question; I don't believe the law has caught up with that question yet).
Pick a poison gas, buying and operating an all-electric car generates less of it per mile than a gasoline car, even if your electricity is all-coal. It also enables even greater poison control by using renewable electricity sources.
what is your findings for limitations?
Wow.

Suppose I see a squiggle on some program. Where do I go to look up its meaning? I can't even type it in.

Let's take that | that now means "ON" on electrical equipment. If you guessed that it meant "1" because you're a computer/electrical engineer, wouldn't you already know what "ON" meant? If you aren't, how would you guess what | means? Flip the switch back and forth to see what it does?

If you're resorting to that, why bother marking the switch at all?
But what does it look like in practice? All the sudden you have a cudgel to shut down all sorts of controversial statements by relating them to hate speech. I doubt the UN had jailing an Indonesian politician for claiming the Koran doesn't forbid voting for a non-Muslim in mind when it passed its resolution, and yet that's how it was used.
Those are hard to pull off across a full XY grid as soon as something happens like a line is single tracking or your grid is missing a stations it's a mess. You also really want some slack in the system for cases like single tracking if the average train is 4 cars, but you can send 6 cars trains when demand is up that makes a huge difference.

So, yea that's one way to lower the average wait time, but again just sending more trains and the system becomes more stable.
You think this is bad, this is nothing. The worst thing is when one of these call-bots hijacks your phone number as the source/caller ID. Then you get all random people calling you about a missed call. We had a high-value xyz-8888 business number several years back that had this happen. We had to abandon the number. I assume it was someone entering in a random source number that just happened to be ours.
The problem is who do you trust enough to endow them with authority to decide whether something is hate or free speech?

I'd probably draw the line at a limit number of items (e.g. 5 or 10 or 100 specifically named items, I believe similar to Germany). If the government decides something new is important enough to be regulated, they must decide whether it's important enough to replace one of the previous items.
Thanks, I appreciate the response.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324129
It would be nice if they implemented machine learning to cluster icons with similar style together. Then your queries could return only icons in the stlye youve selected!
How does that argument not also apply to blasphemy laws?
I think I don't like software quite that much, but enough to where if I did have spare mental energy, I probably would use it. That's an interesting perspective though, and one I see in many Type A coders. I just don't have it in me I don't think.
It is a very american thing. In most european cities public transport works very well and people don't really mind walking 10-20 minutes if needed.
I would worry more that any of their C/C++ components would have ridiculous dependencies, such as Cortana being up and running
Android has toast messages baked in. When you long press something, it can display a small tooltip at the bottom with the message. Toasts disappear automatically, and they are dismissable with another touch event.

iOS doesn't have the equivalent by default, but Stack Overflow shows that this behavior is achievable.
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There are about a million words in the English language. The site has a long way to go to get to "everything". Me, I'll stick with phonetic alphabets, which have long displaced icons.

Interestingly, iconic languages usually wound up assigning sounds to the icons and were transformed into phonetic alphabets. Icons just aren't practical.
ah I think it's due to the high viewport height that we didn't account for (it's rare, but in your case, it broke the code). thanks!
I would take this up a level of abstraction. I don't believe that the law should be considered the ultimate means toward shaping human behavior to the liking of minorities, majorities, interest groups or what have you. That would be oppressive. Rather it should be considered an expedient way of maintaining a minimal standard of order and societal functioning.