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That is the absolute wrong takeaway here. It's about being overly harshly punished for mistakes in their youths. I've heard very similar stories from public defenders that have nothing to do with drugs, but with common punishment escalations that are hard to avoid when you're poor, and people surely can't avoid being poor.

Minor fine goes unpaid because this month the electric bill is more important.

Leads to more fines.

Leads to license suspencion.

Leads to driving while license suspended.

Leads to license suspension.

Leads to driving while license suspended.

Leads to felony jail time.

Don't get me wrong, there are choices made at each stage of escalation, and often all that's needed is to show up to court, dressed in your sunday best and respectfully explain situation to the judge, and the chain can be broken, but being poor leads to a lot of suboptimal decisions that could make it difficult or impossible to deal with any of this until there is no choice, and a felony conviction often ends up as the escalation that can't be putoff any longer.
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Whether created by you or a service you use?
The parent comment states "I bought a pan that arrived with a small defect". Under UK law, that would entitle him to a refund of product cost, delivery costs, and return costs (and Amazon's policies go further - even if not faulty, the seller must provide a UK returns address or pay the costs).
> I suppose it's possible that it's more meant as "it's being worked on" rather than "this is not a real issue, stop complaining",

Yup, that's absolutely it. I'm not sure of a good, succinct way to imply the former rather than the later...

> it now has a release number much larger than 1.0

We do releases every six weeks, so while it is in some sense, it's also just going to be higher than other languages.
Important (and inglorious) work. I wish you the best Richard, genuinely.
[Warning: semi-tangential deep dive on your point about Amazon not being a monopoly]

Amazon isn't in the retail business. Amazon isn't in the cloud computing business. Amazon isn't in the logistics business. Amazon is in the business business. It is no longer The Everything Store; it is now the Everything Everything. It wants to be the platform around which all of the world's businesses depend.

This is about as ambitious a mission as a company has ever launched, in my opinion -- and Amazon may be the first company with a justifiable claim to such ambition. Its only business constraints at this point are geopolitical, really. I believe it aims even higher in the long run: it is aiming to become the macroeconomic backbone of at least the Western world.

When viewed in that context, traditional definitions of monopoly -- especially the most widely known definition of the state, which is based on market share within a specific industry -- almost feel antiquated. Jeff Bezos isn't JP Morgan; he's freaking Cohaagen from Total Recall.

It is not in his interest, in fact it is starkly antithetical to his interest, to monopolize any single industry. He wants to engineer a state wherein stronger competition within any given market makes Amazon better off, not worse off, because it is the seller to that market moreso than a competitor in that market. (Though it holds de facto monopolist power in at least the publishing business, and probably others, these positions were the stick that makes Amazon's pivot to being in the carrot business credible and effective.)

Concern about Amazon as potentially Too Big to Fail may be warranted, but not yet. I'd argue that the sudden failure of Amazon tomorrow would have a severe but ultimately noncatastrophic impact on the US economy, with competitors like Walmart and Google and Apple ready to absorb the fallout with net-minimal total economic loss.

It is not TBTF yet, though at some point it seems to be on trajectory to get there. Now the tricky part is in gauging what metric we should even be using to talk about Amazon in the next 5 years.

(To be very clear, I say all of this in admiration of Jeff Bezos, not in fear or criticism of him. His business acumen is mindblowing. Whether you think of him as Business Yoda or Business Palpatine is your choice to make. But either way, you have to admit that the force is strong with him)
Yes, there's super-subset of SQL-92 called ADQL which is ran, but no inserts/deletes/updates are allowed. You can upload data to the services as XML files.
I can strongly relate to your situation. To me it felt like there is a constant unrest in life, you are not happy about how things are but not that motivated either to change overnight.

The quickest way to get what you want is trying out small changes which can have big impact on your day, which gives you hope that you can change.

Below are such small changes that made a big impact on me. I have come to know about these methods from the book "Mind Hacking" by Sir John Hargrave. It is a free GitBook and I strongly recommend it. Not a long read. -

1. Mindfulness Meditation -

I follow the below order

- Be aware of your breath for some time
- Be aware of your thoughts for some time ( don't fight them. Let them free but observe )
- Identify negative loops (Things that you believe in or repeatedly say to yourself that puts you down. Eg. I am a bad dancer)
- Write positive loop for each negative loop ( Eg. I love dancing. Literally write this on a piece of paper everyday for a couple of times. It is to make it stick in your head )
- Simulate situations in your head which you are afraid to face or are confused about.
- Think of the best possible future situation, 4-5 years down the line. Think in as much detail as possible.
- Think of the perfect day where you get everything done exactly as you wanted to. Again, think in as much detail as possible.

Also, try to stay mindful of your actions and thoughts throughout the day. It will help you control yourself and your unwanted habits like checking phone frequently or procrastinating.

You don't have to identify negative & redefine positive loops everyday unless needed.

This routine takes 15-20 minutes in the morning and has helped me be clear minded and motivated throughout the day.

I owe my current job ( which I am very happy with ) to this routine. It inspired me do things I won't normally do. The rush of positive energy I felt during the first few days was something I have never felt before, as if I was high on something very strong but positive.

2. Writing down a detailed to-do list the night before

You have to make a list of things you think you can do the next day and write them down in the exact order you want to do them in. Keep the list very practical and write in on a piece of paper or white board. Try not to do it on your phone.

Then, on the next day strike out the things you have done. This will give you a clear sense of accomplishment and in case you are ahead of schedule, it will motivate you to do even better.

This also eliminates the need of thinking what to do during the day and you will have very less confusion.

I implemented this a few days ago and it was the most productive and satisfying day I have had in several months, not just work wise but on a personal level.

The key in both the above methods is that you are actively taking effort in the process of figuring out what you really want to do in life or just the next day. Implementing either one of the methods would only take 15-20 minutes of actual thinking every day, so give it a try.
What's wrong with teaching them the trivially concrete? It's just the beginning of a journey that can progress as they get older.
The Bitcoin Cash Fork Proves That Markets Aren't Rational
This may be true, but when Oracle killed OpenSolaris, my non-Sun/Oracle friends wrote off Solaris and moved off it.

Killing OpenSolaris, and talking up SPARC so much, made people think that a) Larry just wants to vendor lock them, b) doesn't care about x86 support because it makes vendor lock-in harder for Oracle, c) the OpenSolaris derivative community will not be able to compete with Linux. So everyone has grudgingly accepted that Linux is it for the enterprise Unix market.

I hate this as much as you do. I <3 Solaris/Illumos. Illumos derivatives have their niches, no doubt, and I want to be able to use them much more. But that's not how business people think.

I'm not sure that Oracle could turn this impression around at this point. To begin with it would have to restart OpenSolaris, and that might not be enough. OpenSolaris greatly helped Sun overcome resistance to Solaris, but it only went so far, so Oracle will have to do even more work to make Solaris' future bright.

This blog post is as relevant today as ever: https://blogs.oracle.com/bmc/the-economics-of-software

(And yes, it's STILL hosted at blogs.oracle.com. I'm almost afraid of mentioning it: who knows, it might get removed if Oracle execs notice it.)
Yeah but the finished samples were fairly heavily modified by the author, or at least that was my understanding.
So true. Good luck getting a driver to pick you up around Wacker. Upper/lower confuses the heck out of the uninitiated.
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Sure, if you're willing to pay on-blockchain fees, which are only going up given a constant block size.

Neither option provides anonymity, so that's fairly irrelevant to this conversation. SegWit claims of future anonymity may come true, but given it's antithetical to a centralized business model, I wouldn't hold my breath.
>Time to fire Core

it's open source, there's no one to "fire". if you're not happy with it, fork it like bitcoin cash did.
A DIY Pharmaceutical Revolution Is Coming–If It Doesn’t Kill Us First
Every time I have to touch OO I sink. Even if I understand method ordering and multiple inheritance a bit. Nothing in OO helps me.

Every time I read function first (let's include lisp, scheme or lambda calc way of doing) I get clarity of mind, and spectacular zen attitude to approach problems.

I don't "love" clojure, but I so wish more people started with it.
I'm aware of this, but they should still have enough BTC in storage to cover the BTC in all accounts. This means they should also have BCC for each user.
Oracle Linux is the only direct upgrade path for CentOS (afaik).

A full reinstall is required to move from CentOS to RHEL. Oracle has a procedure to directly convert CentOS, RHEL, and Scientific Linux into a supported Oracle Linux system.

KSplice is the most common reason why this conversion is required and mandated. If downtime can no longer be tolerated for upgrades to openssl/glibc/vmlinuz, this is the only available path.
Actually, the author of the post actually wrote it an I brought it to everyone's attention in case anyone missed it.

(Don't know why I got downvoted though)
YES!!!! This is exactly the kind of innovation we need. Great work! Let us know if we can help. We are at very beginning stages of supporting people that are re-entering and getting folks lined up with jobs in a safe and supportive way is a big part of that. Again, hats off!
"Leads to license suspencion.
Leads to driving while license suspended."
Or, like, don't drive without a license.
I wasn't talking about LI, I was talking about the photo scenario from the comment I was replying to.
In case you were in a coma 2008-2009, the US justice system likes to settle with corporations, but almost never actually tries to convict white collar criminals. Here is a whole book subtitled "Why the justice department fails to prosecute executives."

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XBZFQR2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

It is very well reviewed.
My anecdotal experiences are not the same. The majority of taxi drivers and ride-sharing drivers have been good, with a few exceptions of actual bad drivers.

And I think the disregard for rules applies to a lot of public drivers. The Port Authority buses in Pittsburgh think they own the road.
Corporate entities were radically more powerful in Teddy Roosevelt's day, far beyond what they are today. They were almost entirely unchained in regards to economic power, whereas today there is hyper regulation (tens of thousands of pages of it, including direct Fed control over the banking system).

Standard Oil was as powerful as the US Government in that era, as were the railroads. JP Morgan was far more powerful than the US Treasury. Cornelius Vanderbilt - pre Roosevelt - all by himself had greater financial capability at his peak than the US Government at the time.

The difference, is back then there was wide-spread and growing fear of the combinations and would-be monopolies. Today, Americans are relatively unconcerned by Microsoft (desktop), Google (search, android), Walmart & Amazon (retail), Intel (microprocessors), Facebook (social), Cisco, Boeing, etc.
True, for better or for worse Google does this with basically everything.

They still haven't apologized or corrected their major mistake nearly destroying Fark.com last December.
Shock and amazement.

At this point, they're not pursuing IOT or anything similar and will have a very hard time trying to do so in the future given their behavior.

I'm sure the entire effort was losing money, but with their revenues, it's hard to believe it was significant.

I sure did waste a ton of time working with the Edison...
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The first three "From the database" samples (if I've understood) are not.
Noam Chomsky used to talk about how there are markets for good journalism. Economic journalism for people on wall street. Academic journalism for academics. These journalists are usually high quality, because they have to be, their audience understands the topic material and will make economic and career bets based on the text. By contrast, many types of mass reporting (economic reporting for the masses) has no such constraint, and hence becomes subject to whoever the highest bidder's spin/story is.
CDDL is per-file.
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I'd definitely consider hiring ex-cons, as long as they had some sort of 'come to Jesus' moment where they changed their life. I used to do a lot of bad stuff, just didn't get caught for it ( mostly doing drugs ). I wouldn't want to hire former me, but now that I've changed...
See definition 4

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthy
Brought it here in case anyone missed it. You didn't miss it but someone else could.
I did some freelance jobs on the side while I was still working full-time, all of it being remote even if the client would be in the same city, then I would just drop by for demo's and meetings. My full-time job consisted of working in remote teams for mostly US customers. While I was working for a certain customer through my day job I was the only person in the building working for that particular customer and there was no real necessity to be in the office. I was effectively fully remote from that point.

At a given point I got a new customer that basically wanted to hire me for 20 hours per week, which would mean I could sustain my life with it and I left my day job. Building upon that I landed two customers through LinkedIn, one lead through YouTube (some intelligent comment somewhere...that was pretty weird though!), some more work from local and remote customers I had before and then I rolled into TopTal.

TopTal has a steady stream of really interesting work. I had a pretty sudden drop in work from one customer and I could fill it up in a week or two by taking TopTal work. Now I remain on one TopTal client and for the rest I'm working directly for customers. TopTal pays a bit less but is a lot less headache and most of the work is pretty good. The sites that are recommended in this article didn't do anything useful for me.

I still don't know really how I manage to keep a full roster apart from TopTal but somehow customers know how to find me. Lot of referrals too.
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Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: The Antenna
Because all evidence I've seen is either sensationalized and based on emotion: "Oh no! My privacy!"

Or...I haven't seen any evidence there is a noticeable cost to me as a person?
Potential lawsuits don't pay my rent next month.
And .ico is just .bmp with some extras.
The worst of tech journalism is almost always content which is novel only to a total outsider. It's like journalists say "ok, a short investigative piece should take me 5 hours of research", and then apply that 5 hours to both deep dives on topics they know well, and basic reading on topics they don't know at all.

Longform.org is a favorite of mine because it sidesteps that problem. I basically never encounter a piece that makes me think "I knew all of that already, and more accurately". Journalism that could be created by reading Wikipedia and synthesizing is often wretched, and the sheer need to fill pages prevents that.
Also there are at least three chrome extensions in the store called "user agent switcher" which confuses matters. From useragentswitcher.org, google.com and toolshack.com
I'd love to hear things you disliked or found confusing. Just for the sake of seeing through others eyes.
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Diesel's authors have been hard at work on docs, but there's only so many hours in the day. Love to see posts like this.
What did you think the purpose of time locked smart contracts was? You can either believe Nakamoto Transactions originated with Satoshi, or you can ask just about anyone who was around at the time. Why do you think there was a scripting language at all? If simple payments was all that was envisioned we wouldn't have needed that.

It's strange thing to try to summarize something and have someone question it happened at all. The subtext of this confuses me. This is a public mailing list and most of the people are still around and can answer much better than I can why the design of the opcodes are the way they are. There have been surprisingly many blind alleys in the short life of Bitcoin.

Payment channels are what Satoshi advocated, but it was my impression at the time that many others were more interested in things like sidechains and bearer proofs. The scalability of a system where everyone stores everyone else's transactions for all eternity was and still is the first thing people comment on. The second is the feasibility of everyday payments when the recommended confirmation time is up to an hour, best case. That's the reason people took interest in these proposals, even at a time when there was no economic pressure to do so, as transactions were completely free.

There's was no "original plan" as much as there were discussions. That doesn't mean Satoshi didn't have opinions. If your impression of the block size is shaped by the carnival mirror that is Reddit, it might be interesting to look at the reasoning why this limit was kept in place. But none of that matters in practice right now, because there is overwhelming consensus to double the block size (or quadruple, thinking adversarially) in a backwards compatible way and this will be active in a matter of weeks.
>Steve Jobs did the same with his children after all

Is there any reason to believe that Steve Jobs is an authority on raising children?
Inside the Jasper documentation, there is some discussion about the configuration of the Speech to text engine. They seem to list 5, 2 of which do not use off-site aids.

http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/configuration/

I don't know if other portions of the code might use off-site access data processing. I wish more projects would create a system block diagram of their software.
Not below market at all. There's great demand for this labor, and it's driving wages up, if anything. The real effective response, I think, is providing training for jobs that pay much more than minimum wage. That's something we're working on, at scale. More on this at a later date.
I genuinely feel that that is not an ethical approach, nor is it any more effective than removing the temptation/ ability to commit certain crimes. In some cases, I agree, severe punishment needs to be codified into the law, but that represents a tiny minority of crimes committed in the US.
> They can decide to use their (users') coins on either blockchain but not on both.

Please stop saying this. Read your own grandparent comment:

> There is no "conversion", it is free money for all BTC holders. Everyone who owned BTC, now owns BTC+BCC.

It isn't possible to spend BTC on the BCC blockchain, because coins spent on the BCC blockchain are BCC by definition. Once you've spent your BCC on the BCC blockchain, you still have your BTC on the BTC blockchain; that's what a fork means.
> I felt so guilty...

I've had that same feeling, and I sort of cynically wonder if that's not the point. It is difficult to have ire for a seller when you feel like you've just taken advantage of them.

I ordered a 3-pack of baking mix, one of which was damaged in shipping. They couldn't accept the damaged material and insisted on shipping out a new 3-pack. I got five packs for the price of 3.

That's cool, I guess, but didn't I just get rewarded for the shipper's mistake? That doesn't feel right.
I didn't write the API, I just bitch about how it should be improved, but it really is a REST api.

You post to a query resources, which creates a query-resource object for either sync or async queries. If it's an async query, you get a query id back, which you can use to query the status of... your query. When it's done, you can get back the results.
leads to job loss. you want them to work, right?
HN loves to hate Apple and everything they do,

...not all...

and the Internet as a whole loves to hate Apple.

...not all...

(Yes, I mean this whole comment as a reference! However, it's also a correction intentionally reflecting the structure of the parent and gp comments.)
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It's easy to say. It's hard to do, especially when you have a family to support.

I'm not saying you're wrong - we should push back against things like this - but not everyone's cut out to be a martyr, and some people aren't in a position to martyr only themselves.
Oh, so you work at Google.
I was shocked by this as well. I can't imagine the criticism the U.S. would face if it had such a mechanism.
I'll go back and listen to them a few more times then.
Ok, let's blame it on Solidity ...but "this address was incorrectly verified before deployment due to its similarities", WTH?
Doing any kind of business in non-USD currency is itself not a great move.
It seems clear that Coinbase must have a major fundamental financial problem.
> Beyond Amazon specifically, the big picture trend is that any marketplace of 3rd-party sellers which includes eBay, PayPal, Uber, Airbnb, etc will always tilt the advantage towards the buyers.

eBay found out very early on that having a great marketplace for sellers is worthless without having a compelling buying experience. What good is a flea market if no customers come by, or your reputation is so bad that buyers avoid you?
> The best way to stop people doing bad things they want to do is the fear of certain and severe punishment.

There is no evidence that's true. People still take drugs in countries with the death penalty.
That's certainly a possibility. I was working from the assumption that Coinbase actually held BTC totaling the sum of all users account balances. Given the highly volatile nature of BTC and the nature of the BTC community (e.g. the conventional wisdom was to pull all funds from exchanges prior to the fork occurring), it seems quite irresponsible to not be holding funds as BTC.

I'm aware that exchanges in the past have behaved very irresponsibly, but I'm hoping that Coinbase is the exception here as a well known US-based company.
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Um, why are all of the photos on the site of African Americans? Yes, it's true that African Americans make up 40% of the prison population, but whites make up 39% and hispanics 19%. It seems the images you have chosen are an unfair stereotype.
I appreciate this observation, but our prisons are predominately filled with people of color.