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It turns out that Tropical Cyclones do provide a necessary function...wikipedia says: "They also carry heat energy away from the tropics and transport it toward temperate latitudes, which may play an important role in modulating regional and global climate."

So I think the desired goal of the question (that we ought to destroy tropical cyclones) might not be a good goal for the health of the planet. Anyway, even if a cyclone is destroyed, the hot water it would have removed would still remain and would simply increase the chance for another cyclone to form.
And nobody worked a full time job 10,000 years ago.
But those that inherited the wealth from their daddy, who have their investor spread that wealth around, what do they do? They don't even clean for themselves.
I get "Not found" as the only content served.
Ants have no road to stay on, and a loss of some of them does not affect the colony much.

Human car roads are extremely codified, and a self-driving car that drives as we as an average human would have an extremely poor reputation and no chance to take over driving.
The marijuana market is rapidly changing in Northern California to benefit the large scale growers. It's extremely hard for small growers to sell just a few pounds of weed. I know Garberville is facing a small recession right now. Anyway, I'm tired of being nervous driving in my forests. I've heard that you really don't want to annoy the Bulgarians living in South East Humboldt.
A peasant could ascend to the ranks of nobility, and climb the ladder, at least across generations. Likewise a nobleman could fall from grace and be stripped of status. But that doesn't make that class system any less real or oppressive.

Similarly, a Bangladeshi child sewing pants in a factory could, in the most hypothetical of senses, become a wealthy CEO, and it is possible the owner of said factory, earning in a month what the girl makes in 500 years, may lose everything he has. But it's very, very unlikely.
For the same reason my company used to, I'm retired, sponsor the local little league sports teams - even though the audiences were absolutely never going to be clients?

Sometimes, you do the right thing, just because it's the right thing to do. It wasn't an investment. It was just giving back to the community that housed us.

I guess you could argue that it improved employee morale? I don't think any of our employees even had kids on the team.
Yea, I've been thinking about a List of trust worthy individuals. It would be small at first, and their would be no second chances on moral/ethical issues.

1. I've thought about this for awhile. It would need to be Mafia street cred worthy.

2. It could start off with individuals, and then to honest/ethical businesses.

3. The "List" would be very, very hard to get in to. I don't care about a bankruptcy, or even a person's credit rating. I do care about their ethics/morals.

4. We used to have some religions that we could sometimes use ferret out the good guys. That is dwindling in my neck of the woods--on a large scale. Certain other countries are luckier than mine.

5. I don't know how to vet people on a large scale properly. Hell--there are people I've know for years that do things that astounds me, especially when it comes to money. It can't be a popularity contest, or I have money, so you can trust me.

It needs to go to the core of a person's being. In all honestly, I have been screwed over by people with advanced degrees, wear ties, and have perfect credit. On the other hand, I know some people who have done time in jail who I would trust with my life.

Anyway--I hope someone figures this credibility problem out. As a kid, I remember going to church, and just knowing who's a faker, and a solid person. I don't have that club to go to anymore, nor completey trust my judgement.
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This is true for programmers and the like. But:
Cleaning and cooking after cleaning and cooking at the Denny's all day?
Not so much.
We can probably add humans to this list too.
I don't think Amazon is actually "looking" for a new headquarters so much as asking for a sweetheart deal to do business there, sort of like how cities will spend absurd amounts of money to woo sports teams.
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And in no way this is a problem for society. New technology created new job opportunities.

Heh. If you hadn't noticed... society's not doing so hot, and it's largely due to an absence of opportunity in non-urban areas.
What's your actual browser? The most common cause I can think of would be if we think you have a newer browser than you do and serve you too-new code as a result. If that's the case, using an older version in the string might help.
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Just because it was led by such does not mean that the soldier was not fighting for their liberated futures.
I had reported the hash collision bug via Bugcrowd (independently but after OP). Their response was they have upgraded from MD5 to SHA256 when the bug itself has nothing to do with encryption type but rather how you construct your string. They had asked their clients to upgrade to SHA256 version of sdk saying it will provide better security than MD5 but actually in that version they sneakily updated the way they constructed the string (which was the actual problem) and no one knows about this. They should atleast be true to their customers who use their sdk for payments.

Edit: My report to them: https://imgur.com/1f2jU05
The title "deport them" is satirising the classical conservative discourse of blaming the immigrants and the minorities, suggesting that those really to blame by the average Joe's woes are the rich 0.1%, thereby making use of irony to subvert the term "minorities" to mean those 0.1% of the population. Clearer?
Monitor cryptocurrency prices and account balances from the terminal
Yaaay, text-only propaganda. Seriously, CNN is crap, this only helps the web scrapers.
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Yes it's true there can be only so many. However the skill of BillG is that he made his company the one to dominate. As I said earlier he was not anywhere close to having the strongest hand at the start.

It's skill in the same way someone with a mediocre poker hand bluffs their way to victory.
I don't know about whatever legal jurisdiction you're in, but in Canada that would be an open and shut aggravated sexual assault case. People have gone to jail for failing to disclose that they have an STD, on the basis that you're not really consenting if they leave out an important detail like that; to deliberately infect someone is far beyond that.
> ...keeping those metropolitan areas that have had the best job growth over the last decade, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Metro areas that have actually lost jobs (Tucson; Birmingham, Ala.) and those that have grown more sluggishly are out of the running.
You can argue about the effects of different genes but you can't reasonably argue that children do not get their genes from their parents.
Vigil comes from Munificent, the principle developer of wren, an unironic language that fills lua's niche (portable c, embeddable, no dependencies), with a nicer syntax: https://github.com/munificent/wren
> To exploit this we need to construct a string which will be a valid request, and also a valid MIGS server response.

Whoa, crypto 101 fail.

In a secure channel between two parties, you either key the two directions differently or you explicitly mark the directions in the authenticated data. You never really on the next layer down to notice the the message was produced by the wrong party.

From looking at the example messages in the article, it's totally unclear to me that anything binds the response to the request that generated it, either. This could make replay attacks possible. Or maybe even more fun attacks: buy two things, but cancel one partway through and use its MIGS reply for the other one.
> However, this is no longer true, as silicon is now cheap. Like really cheap. Run time is no longer your most expensive resource.

Our client won't spend more money than a t2.medium instance on aws. Nothing we can do about it. In that case, run time does become an expensive resource.

But I get the point that OP is trying to make. Just wanted to mention that not all of us have the comfort of having enough resources on which our app runs.
People say automation will kill many jobs, but often forget that when that day comes, we'll also be much more empowered.

Now we can use neural nets and all sorts of mechatronics to create our own automation and bots. Software's free and hardware is cheap. What will so many people with so much free time on their hands, and with needs that are unfulfilled, do?
Some people use laptops.
Perhaps scope wasn't the right word. I think we agree. If Reason is to be considered a general purpose language, then Elm is DSL for web apps. In that domain, it tries to be all you need, which is what my context of scope was. Reason is more suitable for probably all other domains.
Also, NPR has had a text only site for ages

http://thin.npr.org
The idea of XML, namely typed, semi-structured data with namespaces, was a good one. What sucks is the particular implementation chosen. XML is implemented using SGML, a completely archaic, overly general beast that gives us DTDs, entities and countless other warts that make exhaustively parsing and handling XML the insurmountable pain that it is.

Seriously, I urge you to look into SGML and to explore what a weird behemoth it is, and to then realize that SGML is what XML grew out of.

Unfortunately, XML was so bad that the developer community suffered some form of whiplash from it, and promptly decided to run into the opposite direction: JSON, which--superficially at least--seemed to be the simple and easy answer to the problems XML was causing.

However, I don't think that XML's problems were in its ideas, but that JSON is taking away too much that had only been perceived as bad, because it came coupled to such a flawed implementation overall.

And now we have efforts like JSON Schema, which emerge out of the realization that writing the same typecheckers over and over again for nearly every use case is tedious at best, and error-prone and unsafe at worst.

So maybe we will get our conveniently typed and namespaced semi-structured data in the end, but I blame XML that we had to take a detour over vanilla JSON to eventually get there.
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I graduated from CU-Boulder in 2009 and have lived in the Denver-metro area ever since. I could very easily see Amazon drawn to the Boulder-Longmont-Lafayette triangle if not in Denver proper.

Lots of growth here in the last 5 years especially. Many long-time locals are complaining about the cost-of-living going up, though.
But that's exactly what "not guilty" means. Would it really matter that much if we changed the words?
Mozilla is a community effort.
Is anyone else surprised by the excess heat number? 6GW?

The reactors at Chernobyl were 3.2GW thermal designs and they had four of them. I guess I would have thought a super volcano that can cause human mass extinction would be... more powerful?
A predictable power play, born from creating a whole new legal regime instead of simply just scrapping the unjust laws. The marijuana legalese-ization movement lost its legitimacy the minute it started kowtowing to corruption with that whole "tax it" refrain.
I've got an old 2013 Moto X, and I've recently started using Messenger Lite on it. You'll likely need to manually install the APK, because it's not available in the Play store for the US market, but it's definitely a lot faster.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/18/15659414/facebook-messeng...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.m...
> The "nuclear pumped X-ray laser" may or may not have been feasible - tests were inconclusive. That type of research is similar to the Google "moonshot" projects, many of which have been busts, eh?

In the analogy Larry Page or Sergey Brin of Google would be Edward Teller, capable of forcing pursuit of an absurd project well past the point where it's obviously ridiculous to continue, simply because he can fire anyone he wants. But those guys aren't blatantly ideological, demented old men, and I'm not aware of Google ever burning money in a manner quite as cosmically absurd as Project Excalibur. The business wouldn't survive much of that.
We are supposed to feel sympathetic for growers who operated illegally and now struggle to comply with new laws? All while other operators are complying with the same laws?
Sacramento was kicked off for poor job growth, not population. Every city on the list met the population criteria.
Sites that hijack the "back" button -- be cautious.
An important feature is that the article pages don't have an article title. Annoying if you like to open a set of pages from the main page to read as an initial action prior to reading. Current pages at lite.cnn.io don't seem to have extra JavaScript.
If you can't get hired and have some land that you can cultivate, you got a job working the land. The land will always hire you and feed you, unlike big-corporation.
The same thing happened in JetBrains IDEs until about a year ago. I remember having to save my XML bomb unit test in a *.txt file to avoid freezing my IDE.
Yes, I'm sure that it's illegal now, everywhere sane. But this was a long time ago.
I'm surprised none of the comments here highlight the time zone benefit that one of the east coast options would give them. Having a large group of employees still based in the US, yet able to sensibly overlap with Europe is a huge deal.

In the same way that Portland is too close physically, Denver doesn't gain you "anything" for timezone diversity. They might offer the sweetest financial package, but it still seems like a wasted opportunity.
It's ironic you're explaining irony to me when I already got the joke.

It's in the context of "screw these rich people." That joke wouldn't be okay if it was "screw these black people." So are we applying equal standards? Why not?

Personally, I think all jokes should be fine. The more scathing criticism and wit, the better. But we live in a climate where that's not really realistic. (Well, it is, but the joke had better be pretty funny to get away with it. This one was a lowball.)

So again: Why is it ok to aim this hatred towards rich people, but not minorities?
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That's a good way to get a lithium fire. Lithium batteries need careful monitoring to charge correctly. To give you an idea, 4.2V is 80% charged for a chemistry I worked with. 100% is 4.23V, so you don't have much margin for error.
Russian here. I agree with most of this. The majority of people I know in this country have no interest in being an active part of the society. A lot of people have a feeling that they will be betrayed by the others as soon as the chance appears.

This slowly gets improved though, especially in the big cities.

At the same time, I think that Putin and his gang have got all the power to change the society and yet they don't do that and keep stealing.
The size of the ballots isn't the issue; the issue with “provide pre-marked ballots from which the voter chooses the one matching their preferences and discards the rest” for multi-race elections is the number of pre-printed ballots that have to be given to each voter to take to the booth and select from.

With 5 offices with 6 candidates each and 10 yes/no measures (a fairly modest ballot for a California election) this would require each voter be handed a packet of nearly eight million ballots to choose from.

This is clearly not practical.
I didn't mean "in reality, we aren't all rich", I meant "in the reality of our economic system and the way it works fundamentally, it is impossible for us to all be rich."

Whatever possible route there is to everyone being rich, it involves a fundamentally different economic system. Socialists would have you believe they have the answer to that, but there's good reasons to be highly skeptical. Capitalists don't pretend to have the answer, they (generally, there's lots of variations of "capitalism") openly accept that we need some people to be rich and others to be poor in order for the system to operate.

I used to try to live according to Kant's Categorical Imperative where I would aim to be the example for the world I want to see, the one where everyone would prosper if they all behaved as I do. Then, I realized that was just a delusional way to think. It's an interesting philosophical question to discuss, but people don't all act as I do in reality, so acting as though that fantasy were real is often totally counterproductive or self-sacrificing with nobody benefiting. Reality is complicated and complex.
One: the article is about several people. Two: that's demonstrably a load of sh*t. Case in point, any study about social mobility.
Are you purposefully reiterating the GP's point? Because that's exactly why he's questioning it.
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I know many wealthy people. And it's true that they can lose their wealth through bad decisions and unfortunate circumstances. However, nearly every wealthy person I've seen this happen to has regained most of their wealth. Why? Because once you're wealthy you have connections to other wealthy people. Their friends will build them up again. Reaching the status of "wealthy" is a sticky bit. As long as you don't alienate your other wealthy friends, you'll retain your wealthy status.

That maxim you hear is true: the first million is the hardest. After that you're set.
> At least 90% of the value created by Google, Facebook and Apple was created in California.

I'm trying not to be snarky but I need to say wtf.

FB & google don't make money from IP, they make money as service providers, connecting merchants on the advertisement hype train to our eyeballs.

They take money from local and transnational businesses, and present ads, aggregation and search services to individual, local, users.

How is this California related profits when I see ads for $smallbusiness in my french town? Because they host the servers there? Please. To be fair I'd concede Amazon may be different with regards to where the value they create resides but I'm sure you'll feel the same way I do when the tech giants step away from Silicon valley and it looses the sweet sweet techmonies.

This not about IP rights, corporate liberties or socialism, it's about realising when you're defending the fire that's roasting you. 'Cause google and fb don't give a F about US vs EU further than how they can leverage them to lower operating costs.
I looked in the notebooks and I don't think programming can be taught like this:

if 1 is 1:
print("hello world")

What is this "if 1 is 1" ? It makes no sense to ask this question, for a kid. It's not clear in English, and if you don't know programming syntax, it is quite mysterious.

We need some kind of game where kids can learn the purpose of if statements and other basic operations in a grounded way, not purely theoretical.

I think the best way to go about teaching programming to kids is to invent some interesting problems they can solve and let them play it out. We can't axiomatically introduce programming at that age.
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The other part to remember though is that it takes roughly 600,000 years to build up enough pressure to erupt.
They spread said wealth. Do you not want it? They don’t have to, you know.
The BBC News site used to have a wonderful text-only version which disappeared a long time ago. I still miss it. It even worked really well in lynx.
Well not quite. The wiki article is worth reading.
...and the World Wide Web goes full circle and mimics the service it replaced. #gopher2017
Are you suggesting that cannabis should be tax-free? What kind of corruption has emerged as a result of taxation on cannabis?
Do you recognize that these prohibition laws were unjust? If they were, then what does someone's defiance of those laws have to do with anything? Shouldn't they in fact be praised for standing up to oppression?

Or do you think these laws were just after all?
Text-only fake news, hooray!
Article doesn't really highlight the environmental hooliganism practiced by these guys. They rip up a meadow in a national forest, or on BLM land, and they irrigate like crazy people, eroding everything rapidly, and they drive up and down the mountainside in their giant pickups. When they are done they leave everything including their trash and their toilets. When ordinary people go motorcycling in these public lands the growers chase them, shoot at them, and set booby traps. The whole thing is a public menace.

I think with legalization should come some kind of harsh regime for these pirates. Ruining public lands should be a serious felony.
This + reader mode in Safari is heaven.

If any other news org is tuning in, please do this!
> California, which by one estimate produces seven times more marijuana than it consumes, will probably continue to be a major exporter — illegally — to other states. In part, that is because of the huge incentive to stay in the black market: marijuana on the East Coast sells for several times more than in California.

Interstate cannabis transport legalization appears to be the hurdle to California's reaping tax benefits from the industry. How will legalization in a few New England states impact Northern California's economy?
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I enjoyed reading this. Question for patio11 or others more knowledgeable about this - could a chatbot similar to the one being used to fight traffic tickets be useful in keeping a paper trail and putting the fear of god into banks/CRAs when this happens? Because why not automate this, especially for people who aren't as articulate/level-headed/organized, who might otherwise bungle it?
I won't even try this since I'm certain he'll get shut down with a cease-and-desist letter.
Thanks for pointing that out. My comment is past the edit window now, and so I can't change it. I'm embarrassed to have used the masculine pronoun without paying attention because I wouldn't want to assume or make incorrect inferences. I skimmed through the article and didn't pay as much attention to the introduction and names of the interviewer and interviewee. Lesson learned! Thanks again!
Taxes may be inherent to society, but so is crime. I believe we have a moral obligation to minimize both.
You could look at the alternate site: https://equifaxbreach2017.com
You can remove the SIM card from a Tesla if you don't want it to phone home, and only connectivity functions are broken (obviously). This isn't a particularly satisfying solution, of course, but it's more recourse than I have against, say, Google shutting me down.

You probably actually have implied (or express) warranty protection against the manufacturer screwing with your car. Certainly for the first four years, possibly even after that. I feel like software updates ought to come with their own implied warranty, though that's far from standard understanding right now. Beyond that, it's likely that anyone deliberately degrading your car, even the manufacturer, is a tort.
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Likewise, users ought to be punished for making mistakes as well. If someone has a typo in a command on the cli, delete a random file from their home dir.
I'm into fashion, but don't want to dig for sales. So we built this bot that gathers fashion discounts catered to your size, favorite brands, styles and other preferences.

What do you guys think? Is Hacker News into fashion or did I just post to the wrong place? Would love your feedback!
Of course, there is a risk to doing nothing as well. (Literally, 'take their chances'...)
Haha this tickles me. If you arent already using reddit you should be.