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> It is not the case that we should assume that whatever regulation is in place (especially in this case, where it's unique to Quebec) is valid and useful until proven otherwise

I agree with this sentiment.

> Innovation and industry have always moved much faster than lawmakers and regulators

This is also true in the case where exploitation runs rampant and a company that operates at a loss causes other operations to go out of business. The causal effects of these type of practices are not without malice to the local economy. Does this mean regulations should be so restrictive? Well duh, absolutely not. There are case studies where working together can work and there are cases where significant aggressive operating tactics are detrimental to the local economy. The two have to actually want to work together.
As always, Moxie impresses. :)
I'm thinking more along the lines of quality as well as features.

> VC

And both Hangouts and Skype both have very good mobile apps - at least on par with Wechat. The fact that the desktop component is limited sucks -- it makes it painful for me to say practice Chinese with relatives I have in China. (a laptop or desktop screen is a far better form factor than a small mobile device).

I agree with you that desktop is the 5% case, but that 5% is still a loss.

> Baidu

I just compared the Android apps side to side.

Google Translate's UX is far beyond Baidu's. Baidu's conversation mode requires holding a specific language button while I talk and releasing it when done. With Google, I can just turn the system on and have a conversation in both languages - it auto-detects the language spoken and pauses.

Google's camera based translation is also real time unlike Baidu.

> Maps

Transit: Google Maps also has this ability - it's also a simpler problem to follow train schedules than understand and route under historical traffic data. The historical driving feature is quite useful for Google when you are trying to plan any sort of outing. (If we're meeting tomorrow.. I need to know how much time to buffer in my schedule!)

> Email

Email is probably not a good item to discuss because the general public (i.e. not technologists) in America that only recently got on the Internet also favor other mediums over email. I'm only thinking of the technologist crowd here, but I don't have context on the Chinese one to comment.
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The situation is unfortunate, and the guy doesn't seem like the brightest, but he is asking research questions that need to be asked.

Unfortunately, people will take this as another example of how "racists are stupid," but they dont realize that the only people who are willing to touch what communities like HN have made taboo are those with nothing to lose, or those who have already been "outed" as the racists they'll be accused of being.

Research into gender and racial differences does not need to be as sloppy as this Kierkegaard guy, and I can't deny that he unfortunately has an agenda, and that he's created a breeding ground for confirmation bias and cherry picking.

Point is, though, taboo is antithetical to science. And when we dont treat it as such, and cordon off certain topics as "not socially acceptable questions," then we end up with shit like Kierkegaard.
The “optics” of a situation are “how it would be perceived in a critical evaluation”, especially in the press. So the optics of having a son bring patent case to his father’s patent-friendly district are very poor.
> Vue.js is more of a DSL.

You can use Vue as plain JS. You don't lose much by abandoning the single file components.

> React is just Javascript.

Except the entire ecosystem is designed to steer you toward JSX which is not "just Javascript".
That is indeed correct. We currently only support importing your highlights synced with Amazon's cloud.

It's totally possible to also allow you sync with the notes from books on your device, but the UX is a bit worse -- you've got to physically plugin your device. That being said, it's on our todo list!
But does MIT license really solve all patent issues? FB could still enforce patents regardless of license if I understood it properly.
> the examples I could readily find of program synthesis are decidable problems, like deciding the maximum of two numbers or deciding membership in a list.

Can you find examples of human program synthesis for undecidable problems?
> It is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk in every city I know of.

While I agree that riding on the sidewalk is generally a bad idea, it's definitely not illegal in all places. For example, in Austin it's explicitly legal except in these locations [0].

[0] https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Public...
Regardless of whether it is the optimal system for encouraging liability minimizing practices, other developed countries have found a perfect mechanism either.

American owners of diesel VWs might have their cars bought back from them and be offered up to $10k in additional compensation. Furthermore VW has portrayed this as an obvious decision they made because they love their customers and want to make things right again.

The same customers in Germany might get a free "upgrade" at the dealership which reduces airflow so that the car is compliant with pollution regulations, but less powerful.
Both of the CodePen example links on that page are insidiously broken. The demos appear to work, but they don't actually demonstrate the claimed portal functionality at all:

// These two containers are siblings in the DOM
const appContainer = document.getElementById('app-container');
const modalContainer = document.getElementById('app-container');

Note that both variables refer to the same element.
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We use portals quite a bit in our application and they always are a pain to test. This is what excites me the most about React supporting them natively. Hopefully this means that enzymejs will be able to easily walk down and seamlessly jump into a different part of the DOM without having to use references to adjust.

Portals are helpful when using content overflow in modals. For example, we have a modal which contains a form and that form has an autocomplete text box. When we render the autocomplete part, we need to render it outside of the modal, otherwise the overflow policy blocks the contents and does not allow the autocomplete are to appear over / outside of the modal.

The use of portals also make it easier to support screen readers through the aria tags by allowing the application to quickly block the background of the application and allow the screen reader to focus on the content presented to the user.
Firefox really has been slowly getting faster for a while; especially with Firefox 54, I no longer felt as if I was taking a significant performance hit as the price for not using Chrome. Firefox 55 got even a bit faster, but still was not quite as fast as Chrome. However, the recent changes in Nightly (Firefox 57), which now landed in the developer edition, really was a huge leap forward in performance.

I encourage you to try out Nightly now (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/). I’m not promising that it’ll be faster than Chrome, but it just might be fast enough now.
Khrushchev was prescient. We sold them the rope. Through an online self serve portal with keyword targeting.
In SF you're legally not allowed to ride on sidewalks if you're over age of 13.
Do a quick google search search for "Quebec snowplow mafia" and be prepared to be amazed.

The corruption extends to thinks like construction as well. Not surprised with this outcome.
It depends on how complex this is. If they played million chess games and saw so many moves then their brain linking memories is relatively trivial. This is in fact how computers do it.

Whats more interesting is how the moves came to be. How did one evaluate somewhere wothout reference evaluate a move or set of moves.

How does one "see" before calculating (checking for sensible conclusions).

More off these mysteries are found in the arts, since logic is common ground for the ration human mind and a computer. Emotions however are not.
Seems to not pick up the images hosted directly by Reddit under their i.reddit.com url.
Deterrence theory does not work against corporations, this has been proven so many times it's barely worth discussing.
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A graph is a mathematical object. It has well defined properties, such as 'degree', 'radius', etc.

Just as in e.g. relational domain you can propose well defined operations (such as join two relations based on a common foreign key) and devise benchmarks for these operations, it should be possible to do the same precise thing for graph databases.

For a graph database, you would want (a) ingress, (b) comps, and (c) recovery benchmarks. The (b) comps per above can be based on a set of common patterns of queries applied to a parametric graph spec.

> In fairness, graph workload performance, compared to other types of workloads, is unusually sensitive to a diverse set of details that are rarely captured adequately by researchers.

That reads: we don't understand graphs.
Ask HN: Do you meditate and which system do you follow?
My guess: giving back
I hope they’ll bring some fix for battery drain as soon as possible.
They already charge for features on the software.
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>So more comments are "destructive" than constructive.

Tell me about it! It’s gotten so bad that many times I would respond to someone’s comment to expand on what they’re saying or provide context for readers who might not have it and they will reply back to me with something like “I already know this. That’s what I was talking about.”

I know that’s what you were talking about! I’m just further reinforcing what you were trying to say! I think I probably fall into this sometimes myself. Online comments are just so reflexively argumentative sometimes it's hard to switch gears into discussing things.
> You need to actively go against the most basic aspects of the programming language you're using to force undefined behavior into your code.

Adding two ints together is potentially undefined behaviour.
I agree to almost everything he said and I am also avoiding all the social media. It's surprising that he didn't use his blog to share, instead a social media. He has intentionally not mentioned Twitter. Was/ Is he an investor in Twitter?
>clients will be able to efficiently and scalably determine whether the contacts in their address book are Signal users without revealing the contacts in their address book to the Signal service.

This should be the fucking defacto standard!

We really need Privacy-as-a-service and security-as-a-service
This is totally awesome technology, and it sounds like it is well designed and scalable. AWESOME.
they should have voted.
Wait, Plex has ads now?
Perhaps it is simply access to a curated pipeline of motivated and introspective potential candidates.

Hiring (good people) is a dev manager's/director's biggest pain.
There are lawyers that actively search for businesses misbehavior in order to bring forward class action suits. In this scenario, the bigger the misbehavior (financially) the greater the incentive, independent of the magnitude of harm on the individual scale, i.e. you’re not dependent on someone being harmed enough to want to report to authorities. That strikes me as a market behavior that’s fairly well-aligned with the optimal behavior.

As to the question of criminal prosecution or harsher penalties (e.g. dissolving the corporation): to my knowledge, these suits actually draw AG attention to areas of civil misbehavior which often borders criminal misbehavior. They even surface which citizens were harmed and bring forth information gained by discovery, etc. Thus class action lawsuits actually make it easier for the government to act — that they should prosecute but do not is an independent problem.
> As German citizens you German Jews (collectively) knowingly voted for government that implemented such anti-semitic laws and it is up to you to vote for government that doesn't pass such insane laws.

Yes, I went there. What kind of insane guilt-attribution system makes the parent commenter (and all others who dissent) responsible for the actions of the US government?
> Before anyone accuses me of white supremacy or privilege or such nonsense, my parents were first generation legal immigrants.

How is that inconsistent with White supremacy or privilege? Because of geographic distribution of races, immigration demand, and per-country allocation of visa quotas, white people often have an advantage in legal immigration and the legal immigration is structured around preference classes which are themselves institutionalized privilege and also correlate with various more general privileges of birth, inheritance, and circumstance.
The lack of dev work on vimperator is actually what drove me back to chrome. I've been using cvim, and it has all the features I liked in vimperator.
Unfortunately, vimium-FF is still not as full featured as I'd like yet.
There are two categories of mentors:

1) Mentors who are already doing that or always wanted to do that, and what we provide them is:

- No time spent on scheduling / rescheduling. We take care of this for them

- We do a thorough work of qualification of the problem before so the mentee and mentors can jump right into the problem/challenge and spend 30 very efficient minutes

- A perfect matching so they spend time with only people they can actually help

- A product that ensures the follow-up, mentors don't want to give their time and receive 0 news from the mentee about how it evolved

2) For mentors who need to be convinced (although they already are very interested in the beginning, you can't convince someone who doesn't want to give their time), their feedback have been that:

(i)They good to give back/help

(ii)They learn a lot doing that, being confronted to so many different challenges every week challenges you

(iii)We offer our best mentors to be speakers on our monthly meet-up (we organized 4 so far, we gathered ~200 Engineering Leaders each time). Next one: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plato-event-4-building-an-engin...
Awesome news, now we can reconsider using GraphQL at GitLab! :) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/34754#note_41...

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any other specs licensed under OWFa?
> I'm curious to how this is priced. For less than $200 you could buy a coffee for yourself and someone else and meet with them in person every day.

Seems worth it as a perk for a company to offer to their employees - would be much more work for them to have to reach out and find mentors for their employees manually.

For an individual, probably doesn't make sense.

For a company as an employee perk, seems to make a lot of sense.
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Not too mention a whole lot of drunk driving in the meantime.
>Retiring is not protection against criminal charges.

It is, however, protection against a for-cause firing.
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He already apologized in the early days of the incident. At this point, after getting notified that he was canned, I doubt he gives a damn enough to comment further.
It was changed. I said "your just jelly". Sorry. I changed it.
I'm curious to hear more about your commute. I live ~3 miles from work, and would love to run there, but there isn't a good way for me to store my towel, a change of clothing, etc at work, and it doesn't seem feasible to carry all of this in a backpack. We do have showers, but they don't have overnight storage.
Should be as simple as 'yarn upgrade react'
Because the unfortunate and harsh truth is that if he had posted it on his blog, hardly anyone would have read it.
Email me (my HN username @mozilla.com) and I'll file for you.

I'd also encourage you to look into a password manager (I like https://keepassxc.org/, and I've recently seen folks taking a liking to https://bitwarden.com/) so you don't have to worry about the requirements. :)
This is a great point. Sufficient generation and robust distribution are two orthogonal questions, and 24x7 universal electricity requires both.
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No, US NGOs, the CIA, and western governments had nothing to do with it... The Canadian government actually admitted to involvement in Maidan and providing support to "protestors".

Also, if they were wanted by a majority of the people, that's why pro-Russian governments were back in power soon after, right?

The Orange Revolution government barely lasted a couple years before imploding, and the Maidan government is going the same direction.

Even Mikheil Saakashvili can't work with Poroshenko, you'd think 2 CIA stooges would get along but apparently not.
Not really, since that section places no time limit on when things have to happen, they are completely unenforceable. And even if they were, it's beyond the means of most people to actually go to court over the price they paid. IMHO the only purpose that section serves is to deceive potential backers into thinking they have some legal recourse.
duckduckgo is not bad but they really need to scale their servers because I found the response time wasn't good at all.
It does actually play into performance, too. The new multiprocess architecture requires that extensions get updated to be compatible with it. It is possible to achieve that in the old extension API, but every single extension author would have to do that, which is just not ever going to happen.

Otherwise, if you install a multiprocess-incompatible extension, Firefox will essentially fall back into single-process whenever that extension does something. So, then a good portion of the extensions on AMO would come with severe, for the user inexplicable performance problems.
Mozilla would have just not rolled that out without knowing that the switch to WebExtensions will clean that all up.

Well, and then besides that there's also the points that 1) the old extension API is quite complex, so it's comparatively hard for extension authors to write an extension, especially also qualitatively good extension, 2) the old extension API was really unstable, basically whenever Mozilla changed something about Firefox, some extensions broke, and 3) with the new extension API being based on Chrome's extension API, it becomes often trivial to port Chrome extensions to Firefox, making it much more likely that Firefox will continue to have extensions even if Chrome continues to eat up market share.
Canada has training requirements for other low income jobs, and the kids take them even if your just going to work part time.

For example, you usually need to take a 1 day foodsafe course to work somewhere like mcdonalds: http://www.foodsafe.ca/courses.html
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Cause and effect. Uber operates at a significant loss at the whims of VC investment. Operations undercut competition so the competition may have to close down shop and sell off assets or get bought out by the monopoly of the area. When this is the case (monopoly) then you have unfettered control over how pricing works.

Uber has to eventually make a choice about whether they need to cut costs, jobs or assets at some point in the future; or just wait it out until all the other competition dies out and they are the monopoly of the area.

But, as a result of pulling out of a city, a location, or a reduction in services, you have twofold problem:

1. Loss of jobs
2. Loss of local companies

(or adding the monopoly scenario)
3. Loss of price gouging prevention

Now what makes this type of market more feasible to resiliency is that the assets are distributed (i.e. owned by actual people). So if Uber did have to bail out, people could feasibly still work anyways. This is different than other models where major assets and investments are required to even operate at all.

That being said I worry about how long this is going to last. Uber is operating with the expectation that there will be fully automated self-driving cars and drivers will be unnecessary. This seems to indicate, at least to me, that the distributed asset model would go away (unless all cars are self-driving).

It's an interesting thing to consider, whether their future depends on continued reliance on VC subsidies (which is going to run out), and whether it relies on significant investment in self-driving assets, or whether it relies on everyone having self-driving vehicles. But perhaps part of the math is to balance the book by pushing more in that direction. (At least that's the pitch to the VCs). Basically, I am skeptical that this is sustainable to operate this way at a loss for so long that eventually they will have to increase prices or cut operations. In the case of the monopoly scenario, you have no way to competitively prevent price gouging (however temporary it might be).

My hope is that some aggregator services come along and turn the model into something more distributed with an open-pricing model based on efficiency metrics like operating cost for a self-employed/freelance driver.
Things that might work:

- if you are actually lazy: hunger, physiological or metaphorical depending on circumstances

- your perfectionism gets in the way: cult of done

- don’t have time: skip tv

- fear of starting/failing/completing (you might not even be aware of this): "the NOW habit"

Now, for a number of people at least a couple of these seems directly stupid.

That doesn't prevent them from being really useful for those who need them.
I'm aware, I don't want to use the comments as advertising, but these problems have been addressed in a specialized manner with the services we provide. Not that they can't be wrong (location) but protocols are in place for dealing with those that are/maybe.

Does it need to be fixed? Yes! but its wrong to assume that V911 is broken at a wholesale level. The same issues face E911 as well. The entire location system (Long/Lat) does not work well when altitude is brought into play. Their are standards in place for VOIP systems to transmit their exact NETWORK location, but it rarely implemented.
It's amazing how much the end-user cost of facts has dropped. I used to ride my bike across town to a library and spend an hour finding a fact. Now I can have them on my screen in seconds.

One might have thought that as the cost of obtaining facts dropped by 100x, people would consume higher-quality facts. But consuming higher-quality facts requires more effort, so in the end people consume more low-quality facts, like listicles of celeb gossip.

As a thought experiment, what is the cost per-fact that would make people consume the maximum quantity of high-quality facts? Too high and they consume less facts overall. Too low and they consume crap.
Massive political science experiment: political campaigns don't persuade voters
As a pedestrian I would have a lot more sympathy for cyclists if they stopped at red lights like cars do.

Crossing the street in NYC is more dangerous than it has to be because you always have to be wary of a person on a bike coming out from behind a truck or something.
I wasn't a BJP lover, but the criticism is just absurd. I think they're getting caught by the beast they unleashed (social networking).

GST everybody wanted it, but because everyone wants credit for it, no-one was letting it pass.

This whole tax system is changing, few problems are going to come.

What's wrong with using it as political agenda, rulers(so-called democracy) do this everytime. Atleast so far better than congress nation wide corruption.

He has marketed India well around the world, people talk about India. He is talking tough stands, don't know who you think is better one to rule. Congress, third-front( maya, lalu, nitish). I think he the best option we have.

If you think we've some better option, do enlighten me. Will be happy to hear your opinion.