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Why compare sex and firearms?
Sex:
- Fundamental to life
- Something every human is capable of, and that (except for Slashdot users ;), most experience in their life.
- If consensual, a source of pleasure and love.

Firearms:
- A tool which can be used for a varierty of purposes
- Must be purchased, i.e. it is a choice.
- I suppose one could compare firearms training/use to martial arts, in that it can have personal benefits, but at the same time it's original purpose and base function is to defend oneself from, or (with guns) attack and kill another person.

So why are we comparing these two things again?

I am for anyone owning a firearm being educated. I don't own a gun and enjoy knowing a bit about them. I am also for a reasonable degree of gun control, and for acknowledging the fact that the U.S. appears to be unique in terms of the frequency of mass shootings, and of taking action (increasing the availability of mental health clinics, finding ways to restrict mentally ill people from owning firearms which does not violate the second amendment, etc) to do something about this.

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And no firearms (unless carried by an officer) in schools, on campuses, or in places of worship.
Agreed. The main complaint is just "I want a framework and I chose a library."

JSX isn't even required either. It just desugars into:

React.createElement(elementClassorString, props, children);

If they want to use their own function for that... they can, but JSX is a trivially easy way to describe nested components (which can get verbose with the above).

A nice bonus of JSX is that it also means your components and render templates are not tied to React at all (if you're using stateless functions anyhow). You can switch the React.Component part trivially with babel to anything else (like deku, yolk, a custom one, whatever).

So.. yeah, seems an odd complaint.
I don't know about you, but making real friends takes years.

> That really is a numbers game: you may make 20 friends, and only one of them results in a job.

Comparing the difficulty and social capital required to maintain 20 friends to having an app send out job applications is...not even in the same ballpark? People seem to have vastly different interpretations for the word friend, but making 20 friends certainly isn't trivial.

Having to wait that long for a better job shouldn't be necessary. Keep in mind, the goal isn't to get the best result, it's to get a better result than where you currently are.
GOG's fake-refund policy of "work with support to prove the game opens" is illegal in Australia and probably most countries with consumer protection laws. They're no better at respecting their customers than Valve, they just misrepresent it better.
Most media reporting is disgusting and written primarily to get page views. Facts are selected to support the narrative they are pushing.

That doesn't excuse Kalanik and the way he ran the company.
Then you also need to call google "the ads company", since 90% of their revenue comes from ads.
I don't work with him, I wouldn't be allowed to talk if I did. He showed up on my radar after selling Twitch to Amazon, then starting Cruise in 2013. Seemed like an odd thing for him to do, but his company has been making steady, rapid progress since then, and now with the full force of GM, the Bolt, GM's $500 million investment in and partnership with Lyft, and Maven, GM's foray into fleet management.

With 180 L4 ready vehicles on the road, they're now operating at the biggest scale of anyone. All the other autonomous driving programs are in various states of clusterfuck. Heads have been rolling at Tesla, and that Mobileye fallout really left them in the lurch. All the top talent has left Waymo, and Waymo abandoned a deal with Ford that left Ford scrambling. Uber is a total disaster. Cruise's record has been spotless.

So how did Vogt manage to find himself better positioned than anyone in the most disruptive industry to come out of Silicon Valley? I don't know either, but I chalk it up to more than dumb luck. They are now running a production line for autonomous vehicles with proper hardware. Disengagements for 2016 averaged 1 per 180 miles in 2016, and while driving in hectic downtown SF traffic[1]. Autonomous Bolts now have their own production line, they're just going to keep building them. The plan is to have thousands on the roads for 2018[2]. GM smells blood. Kyle is a mighty good leader.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tA_VvHP0-s
[2]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-autonomous-exclusive-id...
Thanks for the update Bob! I know you have been working on nullable types in Dart. Is this something we can expect before Dart 2.0?
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OK how about "Bill Cosby also had a popular children's show"
> piss-poor experience of writing mathematical notation outside of MS Word

Mind blown. I only write a little math, and I can't imagine my first choice not being MathJax/LaTex in a plain text file.
we've an air gapped one for the kids

every month I have to go in and clean it up - Malwarebytes gets rid of most of the browser trub - to the point Chrome is usable again

they are casual browsers - something is very wrong when kids can render a Chrome install unusable after an hour or so of clicking flashy things
No doubt. High resale + common item = higher portion of thefts, I would expect.
The problem is the lack of agreement on how to apply styles. Some tools do inline, some build stylesheets which use name mangling to format pretty names for CSS classes.
As Greg points out this has come up multiple times and in multiple strategies for implementation.

In the early 2000's I lead the design of a memory based Ethernet appliance which we called "Network Accessible Memory". The basic idea combined the fact that FPGAs were pretty cheap, you could easily build a gigabit network interface on one side and a DDR2/3 interface on the other, and with a very simple ethernet protocol have terabytes of memory basically a couple of microseconds away from a CPU as opposed to 'swap' which was milliseconds away at best. (we also simulated the architecture using a machine just exporting memory to the network)

The two biggest wins are that the memory is already 'live' when machines that might use it boot up so they don't spend time reading in state, and in a multi-processor storage subsystem you can put the buffer cache into memory without tying up any individual processor's main memory which gives you faster throughput and lower latency as you're not turning around the disk interfaces for meta data reads and mixed r/w workloads don't blow up your buffer cache.

All very cool. But all very "specialized" too.
Was the Model X not tested and rated previously? It has been out for a while now.

I assumed any vehicle in the US had to be rated by these safety agencies before it could be sold.
AsciiDoc with inline LaTeX?
The miners only process transactions that have higher and higher fees. This makes lower fee transactions take forever to be processed or never happen at all. Since bitcoin limits how many transactions that can occur in a set amount of time it creates this awful fee-based backlog. The self-serving and shortsighted bitcoin community has argued and bickered amongst itself so long about how to fix this that it may be too late now.
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Ugh ugh ugh no.

Storytime. A couple years ago, I was in the midst of copyedits on a book with a bunch of math in it. The copyeditors were using a different version of Word.

When they sent the edits back to me, the math was gone. Completely.

Not only that, but when I tried to copy-paste the math in from a prior draft, the Word file refused to save.

Eventually, I had to reconstruct every one of the damn things, by hand.

(Happy consequence: I caught and corrected an error doing so. But still!)

That would never happen in a plain text format. And this was the experience that made me abandon word processors for good.
All I see is a sponsored article to show Binary Ninja as wonderful and talk trash on r2.

And a lack of openness about that fact.
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All states have criminal statutes against fraud, and some states, like Washington, have statutes that make using a fake degree a felony. And if you're faking documents as part of your resume lies, you could also be charged with forgery. - > http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2015/10/can-you-get-ar...
There is no need to write a formal cover letter to get a job.
Uber has 12000 employees; 20 were reprimanded for sexual harassment. That's 0.001%
"In a world where people are used to online payments being confirmed instantly, Bitcoin transactions can take anywhere from tens of minutes to several hours, depending on how busy the network is."

Online payments (via traditional means) are by no means "confirmed instantly". The authorization happens more-or-less instantly, but that's only the first of multiple steps in the transaction process; the actual transfer of funds often takes at least one business day, if not more.
Your link redirects to a picture of a scrotum in an eggcup.

Try this instead: http://nullrefer.com/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
You mean comparing apples to lemons?

Okay, lemon is «citron» in French, not Citroën, but close enough, right?
> What's so bad about maintenance mode? Do we really need a major new OS revision every year!?

That's a false dichotomy. Do you really believe they are the only options?
Real estate - terrible. Most young people believe they can't afford a house ever.

Healthcare - is London healthcare similar to Scotland? Aus isn't as good as Scotland but it is very close.

Niches - there's a lot, especially in Melbourne. Australia is a pretty remote country so we have a lot of our own websites. REA, seek etc.
AFAIK that feature is just now about to be added in the next update. I don't know how well it works.
> There was literally nothing wrong with the email

I have worked in tech for 30 years and have never seen anything even approaching the content of that email. It was completely unprofessional in every way.
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> this is exactly how you're supposed to run a massively successful startup in its first decade.

Why? Can you not think of any massively successful startups that didn't rely on exploitative grey-area business practices?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542573 and marked it off-topic.
Oh I was just highlighting them as staunch advocates for the 1st and 4th amendments. If one is looking for a staunch advocate of all those rights, I'd suggest the Libertarian Party but they haven't been able to gain that much traction in elections and consequently haven't been as effective as they could be, IMO.

edit: as an aside, I'm big on the second amendment but stopped contributing to the NRA precisely because, among other things, they're clearly not big fans of other civil liberties. Their magazines contain (or used to, anyway) a lot of bias against anyone who didn't support a heavily militarized police force, or was against torture for suspected terrorists, etc. It also wasn't clear to me how all the money they solicited was being tracked for efficacy.
Wasn't here tenure at Yahoo almost a mirror image of Stephen Elop's at Nokia? He was put in place to save their mobile division but couldn't turn the company around and it was eventually bought by Microsoft. It seem self-evident that failing companies are hard for CEO:s to save.

And if any CEO should be burned at a stake, shouldn't it be that guy that refused to sell Yahoo for 47 billion to Microsoft?
Does the site have support for remote jobs? From what I can tell, you must choose a single city when searching and there's no way of telling which jobs might allow remote work and which ones are onsite only.
So a guy from a company selling Ethereum is telling us why it's better then the stuff they've copied?
Is this a conscious decision on behalf of the miners themselves, or is it a result of mining becoming increasingly more difficult?
If other SUV makers wanted to make aerodynamic vehicles, they'd look like Model X. Still, if you see a Model X parked next to a normal car, it looks like an SUV to me.
Said comments typically get downvoted/flagged already.
I'm in New York. I'm more than 1.5 hours away from the totality, so I'm going to have to head south and hope - although, I'm in the somewhat enviable position of just being able to sleep in a car... as long as someone cracks the window and leaves me a bowl of water.

On the other hand, the totality will pass in the very early afternoon, so I can probably just head back once it's over.
I find these pictures fascinating!

Would you be willing to share the albums as zip files or such for downloading? Strangely, google photo albums don't seem to have a method to download the complete album for public albums (there is supposed to be a way to do it for your own albums, though - but that doesn't apply here - though if you were willing to create a download file of the albums, you could download them that way to your google drive, then share the drive files publicly).

Regardless - thank you for sharing these!
> common sense regulations make sense

See, and like that you've lost me. That's exactly the sort of politicized weasel-wording that has been used repeatedly to pick away at gun owners.

State what precise regulations you mean, and then we can have a productive discussion.
The ideal location is 70 miles wide and 2100 miles long. I don't think viewing space is going to be much of an issue.

PS: Sure, the closer to the center the longer the total eclipse lasts. But, you still end up seeing the same thing.
Numerous automobiles in "Luxury Cars" category have ratings higher than that of the Model S. This includes the following: BMW 5 Series, Audi A6, Hyundai Genesis, Volvo S90, Acura RLX.

The list of top safety picks of 2017 as rated by the IIHS is here: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/TSP-List
There are a few things that contribute to this bitcoin has a block size of 1MB and they only add new blocks every 10min. There are only so many transactions you can fit in that block size. The other thing is as the block reward gets half'ed miners will ask for more fee's as well as miners will mine blocks with higher fee's first. So as a way to combat some of the congestions people increase the amount of fee they are willing to pay to get included into a block faster.
> a much less capitalist-friendly corner of the internet

Since when? It's a pro-capitalism, free-market, libertarian, Ayn Rand, love-fest in here most days.

Talking against those points is a great way to be voted down unless you happen to be commenting in a thread that has attracted the smaller left-wing side of HN.
> It's almost a rule that regulation always increases.

This in and of itself is not a sufficient reason not to pass a particular piece of regulation.
TK has the unfortunate habit of leaving a trail of history of screwing his employees, and that shit stinks, and sticks.

You either:
Treat your employees well such that they will go to war for you because protecting your interests is as important as protecting themselves and their own interests.

OR

Be the unbendable, spotless and ruthlessly calculating leader raising a horde of mindless robots. You churn them out and turn them over as soon as they're used up, but there's no room for you to be a flawed human being.

Can't have the cake and eat it too. Know thyself, and choose your path.
The whole reason why Ethereum is "outpacing" Bitcoin is easiness of taking money from clueless "investors" that feel like they missed the boat on becoming rich through Bitcoin. https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/i-was-wrong-about-ethereum-80...

It's going to be a big mess, one this bubble pops.
Are we to assume that NOBODY has reported this in the two months it's been in the app store?
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Early on in bitcoin, a 1MB limit was added to the block size, which puts a cap on the number of transactions that can be included in each block. Now that bitcoin is more popular, there are more transactions then can fit in each block, which means miners will only include the transactions that include the highest fees. There are a number of ways to solve this (the easiest being expanding the block size), but the community is split on the best way forward, so the congestion is getting worse
You are not supposed to run a massively successful startup by blatantly breaking every single consumer protection law that gets in the way of your profit margin.

The e-mail by itself isn't the only problem. It's that it's just one line in a list of unethical, illegal or abusive behaviour that's as long as his arm.

Keep in mind - this is also the guy that stole money from the IRS (By funding his previous company with money he was supposed to withhold for employee income taxes... And by not charging taxi/sales taxes on Uber rides in many, many jurisdcitions), from drivers (By dramatically cutting their share of fares - after many of them were locked into long-term leases for their vehicles - leases sold to them by Uber), and who has blatantly lied to the public. (About Uber's background check policies, or the lack thereof. While having the audacity to charge riders a 'background check fee'.)

If running a successful startup requires being a completely terrible corporate citizen, then the valley needs to be burnt to the ground, before it drags the rest of us down with it.
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What percentage do you need it to be to acknowledge sexual harassment is a problem in that company?
Started with a Stallman-esque rant I could get down with and then ended in a very un-Stallman-esque and opaque ad. :(
I suspect this forum is mostly teens and twenty somethings. We all lose a parent(s). It happened to me and it'll happen to you. It happens all the time with your coworkers, you just don't notice it. People don't take a year off to 'find themselves' after losing a parent. They suddenly have a funeral to plan (and pay for) and then get back to their jobs. That's life.

Also, if you want to get into boating, don't let an animal onto your boat. This accident happened because the family dog stepped in between mom and dad switching passenger/driver positions.
Using emacs is a giant drawback however.
Worth mentioning that that the Model X is longer and wider than a 4Runner. The 4Runner is taller though.
ruthless business leader

That's what people don't like. The people who are most vocal don't like the "do anything it takes" approach.
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tl;dr someone who doesn't understand how i/o works gets a small insight into how memory and a cpu work and decides "Buffering is the secret" and "You can't out-optimize your hardware"

Can we have a new flag for posts by people who don't know what they're doing so I can skip them? I am serious.
Small typo: "hunt-and-pack" should be "hunt-and-peck."
That's what I'm doing but the wildcard is we don't know what a meaningful amount of "super early" would mean since we don't have recent eclipses in the USA to use as past guides about crowd behavior. It's an unprecedented mega event since the last total eclipse to cross the USA-48 was 1918 when the horse & buggy was still prevalent.

I plan to find a spot 6 hours early but my worst fear is that everybody else camped out 12+ hours before I did. Or there is unforseen traffic gridlock towards the path of totality.
Candidates are judged relatively, not absolutely. Doesn't matter whether I'm hiring PhDs to write neural networks for $200K/yr or bootcamp grads to move fields around a form, a generic copy-paste application is a sign of a weak candidate. Doesn't mean I wouldn't hire them, either, but it does mean I won't call them unless I had no luck with the strong candidates.
It's alright, somebody has to do it first. Though you shouldn't be surprised that a specification written by an employee at Microsoft is still primarily implemented at Microsoft.

Maybe it could be integrated into the Unicode shaper (HarfBuzz/Uniscribe/AAT) with a language code for "maths".
It's kind of sad that my standard for Uber was so low that after I read the email, I concluded that it was super unprofessional, but at least he made it explicit to not fraternize with someone within your chain of command and to get consent.

But yeah, still gross.
Yeah, it's crazy.

I waited too long to plan and we're flying (ourselves) up to Idaho Falls and paying like $700/night. Selection was really bad and virtually every other town I tried had zero availability at any price!
I agree. I was asked in an interview how fast I type. I didn't know how many WPM, but said "Average - maybe even kinda slow". I followed up with a similar thought - I tend to spend more time thinking about the correct solution, finding the right spot in the code than I do typing. I got the job. I've had the reputation at every job as someone who can get things done quickly so it must not hurt too much. Knowing what to type is way more important than how fast you can lay it down. Of course, having both would be ideal.
I understand that, but I don't see why interest should count for much. Out of two equal candidates, the interested one is probably better, but I don't know if interest is a good predictor of job performance... Maybe it is, though.
Yes, the repeated, systematic usage of a sexist slur makes me sick.
It's been said, "Truth is the best defense for libel". Reasonably held opinion would then be the second.

Realistically, not mentioning anyone or anything is the only complete defense. The truth still comes close.
> And optical sights = more things that can break / run out of batteries / fall off and make noise / etc etc.

If you're talking about a pistol, the right Trijicon optic might easily be the most reliable part of the weapon. The issue is that is really difficult to use a handgun with optics well. Intuitively, people might think it makes the gun easier to use, but it's a feature that can really magnify your mistakes.
Steam has an automated refund policy nowadays. You just need to ask a refund for your new purchase and you will get the refund the next day.

Tried it twice, works wonders.
May be relevant - from the ACLU website:

"In striking down Washington D.C.'s handgun ban by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court's decision in D.C. v. Heller held for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, whether or not associated with a state militia. The ACLU disagrees with the Supreme Court's conclusion about the nature of the right protected by the Second Amendment. However, particular federal or state laws on licensing, registration, prohibition, or other regulation of the manufacture, shipment, sale, purchase or possession of guns may raise civil liberties questions."

https://www.aclu.org/other/second-amendment
How was that a lie when the ad aired?

The ad also doesn't make the claim, just that Mac can't get infected by thousands of Windows viruses.
> But this is exactly how you're supposed to run a massively successful startup in its first decade. This is exactly how FB started out.

"A famous man once paraphrased, 'We create our own role models.'" -- Tony Stank
My understanding is that it is fueled by greed and desire for short term gains at the expense of bitcoin health in the long run.

The people involved aren't the most admirable folk. For instance, this is the leader of the biggest mining company- https://twitter.com/jihanwu/status/731902686379933697?lang=e...

A good contrast is that Vitalik Buterin, one of the founders of Ethereum recently said the gas fees for Ethereum are too high (they were still quite low compared to bitcoin) and the miners voluntarily just lowered the gas fees, which determine the transaction costs. It seems to be a very different community running each currency.