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Bookkeeping for small-time consulting isn't very difficult, even then if you mess it up, the IRS will just ask for the difference
His sentiment is actually a very common one. Many smokers who try vaping find that they actually prefer it, and have no inclination to go back. And it allows for a level of control over the nicotine content that cigarettes never will.
I think freedesktop made some standard for this, but I'm afraid it's making .desktop files that are just .INIs with the console commands to run. XDG is a weird place.
> Bloodshed DevC++ compiler

God, this is the first time in over a decade that I see a reference to Bloodshed Dev-C++. IIRC, Dev-C++ was just an IDE, and the compiler was actually GCC. The IDE was actually very good for its days, and considering it was a free IDE before free IDEs were a thing.
"Regardless of account deletion attempts"? Seriously? First step of account deletion is, that Facebook deactivates the account, therefore, they should also know better to not send notifications. Why would they burden the user with notification settings, when the users wish/intent is clear enough? Spamming them with unwanted notifications is unethical behavior.
That's not how bitcoin works. The mining power being spent now is not tied to the number of transactions. The price is what is dictating all the mining that is currently being done. More transaction throughput requires almost nothing more from the miners than they are doing now.
Precisely this. Please don't read this and apply it to every conversation. If the other party is not particularly driven to learn about the topic, you'll turn them off completely.
edit: My apologies, it was my firewall setting blocking that javascript. Cool resume!
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"It often took several days for relatives to realize what had happened. When they tried to contest the guardianship or become guardians themselves, they were dismissed as unsuitable, and disparaged in court records as being neglectful, or as drug addicts, gamblers, and exploiters. (Belshe was described by Parks as a “reported addict” who “has no contact with the proposed ward,” an allegation that Belshe didn’t see until it was too late to challenge.) Family who lived out of state were disqualified from serving as guardians, because the law prohibited the appointment of anyone who didn’t live in Nevada.

Once the court approved the guardianship, the wards were often removed from their homes, which were eventually sold. Terry Williams, whose father’s estate was taken over by strangers even though he’d named her the executor of his will, has spent years combing through guardianship, probate, and real-estate records in Clark County. “I kept researching, because I was so fascinated that these people could literally take over the lives and assets of people under color of law, in less than ten minutes, and nobody was asking questions,” she told me. “These people spent their lives accumulating wealth and, in a blink of an eye, it was someone else’s."

"The opinions of wards were also disregarded. In 2010, Guadalupe Olvera, a ninety-year-old veteran of the Second World War, repeatedly asked that his daughter and not Shafer be appointed his guardian. “The ward is not to go to court,” Shafer instructed his assistants. When Olvera was finally permitted to attend a hearing, nearly a year after becoming a ward, he expressed his desire to live with his daughter in California, rather than under Shafer’s care. “Why is everybody against that?” he asked Norheim. “I don’t need that man.” Although Nevada’s guardianship law requires that courts favor relatives over professionals, Norheim continued the guardianship, saying, “The priority ship sailed.”
When Olvera’s daughter eventually defied the court’s orders and took her father to live at her seaside home in Northern California, Norheim’s supervisor, Judge Charles Hoskin, issued an arrest warrant for her “immediate arrest and incarceration” without bail. The warrant was for contempt of court, but Norheim said at least five times from the bench that she had “kidnapped” Olvera. At a hearing, Norheim acknowledged that he wasn’t able to send an officer across state lines to arrest the daughter. Shafer said, “Maybe I can.”"
TIL ... about Nasal Snuff. Didn't even know this was a thing - do you get weird looks in public?
Indeed. Some exclusive airport lounges are overcrowded, so they are reducing the set of allowed users.

Surprised to see this garner 22 votes in 30 minutes to take spot #4 on Hacker News.
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FWIW, I think it's cool :-).
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Just reactivated my 8 year old account and deleted it permanently. Long overdue!
Or you could just bundle the runtime with the application, you know, like Electron does.
+1 for intelliJ, or anything jetbrains. vscode gets a lot of hype but for serious development its still a toy. that said, as far as vscode proving that electron apps can be done very well, i do agree
> Without realizing it, the Norths had become temporary wards of the court. Parks had filed an emergency ex-parte petition, which provides an exception to the rule that both parties must be notified of any argument before a judge. She had alleged that the Norths posed a “substantial risk for mismanagement of medications, financial loss and physical harm.”

1. That's horrifying, especially considering their daughter was minutes away. How was she not involved or at the bare minimum notified? This does sound like a kidnapping.

2. The couple and daughter had no relationship with April Parks (the guardian) prior, how did she get involved? More importantly, how did she get letters from the couple's doctor?

3. How was Parks allowed to hold a hearing without involving at minimum the emergency contacts for the couple? The doctor would have had that information.

4. Once underway, it appears that further hearings, costs, etc can be billed to the estate. How f*d is that?
This is the most terrifying part! What would prevent some calculating third party from doing this to my parents? Is it solely down to whether or not the children have the ability to pay costly legal bills?

I dearly, dearly hope that there was something I missed, and that it isn't just a case of bureaucratic maneuvering to deprive that couple of everything they owned.
As does the city of Toronto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_water_source_cooling
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On the bad side: Often times VCs demand board seats in a large round and put in terms in the contract so they can block acquisitions. The ballpark is that VCs would like to get back ~5x valuation. I don't know what the valuation in this Series-A was but I assume it was north of 200m, meaning they would need to exit as a unicorn.

On the good side: It's not unusual for founders to demand a secondary sale to take some money off the table when VCs come in, especially in successful startups that raise lots. This is the counter "de-risk" move that the founders can (and probably should) pull so everybody can swing for the fences and the founders aren't the ones holding the bag if things go wrong.
Yes, yes we do.
.NET Core can do that:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/deplo...
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Any idea how much H/s a typical GPU will produce?

I saw 94 MH/s how many GPUs was that?
Microsoft fixed this after 2010. VS 2012 and onwards can open a 2010 project file with no changes. A mixed population of Visual Studios from 2010+ can work on the same project file.
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A 'bunch of water' and a 'wave' are both vague things. The declaration that one is a thing, and the other is not is disugenous. But let us suppose that what you meant is the water molecule is a thing..but is a water molecule more of a thing than a wave is a thing? I do not think so, for even if you speak of the individual atoms in a water molecule the atom is a collection of other parts, and nevertheless is fundamentally a wave-like distributed field. This insistence that one is a thing and the other simply an abstraction of the mind is hubris and artificial.
Yea, puzzling out some scalaz code takes investment. On the other hand, the library is used for web apps, network servers, database based applications, streaming libraries etc.

It's incredibly multipurpose, more so than even Spring or Guava or LINQ, and these are things that developers regularly have to invest serious time in.

The argument is just that FP libraries (like Scalaz) have a bigger payoff in the investment.

At Verizon Labs were have 20+ microservices that I have touched/looked at. Some use Akka, some use Play, some use Jetty, some use Http4s but everyone makes use of Scalaz somehow.
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> It's not an insurance policy at all. It's a crazy tournament. It's a zero-sum tournament. If you were the president of Harvard or Stanford and you wanted to get a lynch mob of students, alumni, and faculty to come after you, what you should say is something like this: We live in this much larger, more global world. We offer this great education to everybody. So we're going to double or triple our enrollment over the next 15 to 20 years. And people would all be furious, because the value of the degree comes from massive exclusion. And what you're really running is something like a Studio 54 night club that's got an incredibly long line outside and a very small number of people let inside. It's branded as positive sum, everybody can learn, but the reality is that it is deeply zero sum. -- Peter Thiel (former YC partner)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T-RkxC5pVU#t=4m35s
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What about the base rate of getting breast cancer? Am I to understand women still get diagnosed at the same rate but the treatment has gotten better? What happened in the 70s that made it so much more common?
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I was a graduate student advised by a dedicated practitioner of the Socratic method. My experience showed me that this method is incredibly powerful, both to teach students to think, and later as an educator in our research lab, as a method for honing my own understanding.

However... there is a lot of effort that must be put into the style of its application. My mentor didn't know when to turn it off, and never seemed to get the timing quite right when explaining that we were involved in this uncommon methodology. This may be less of an issue for certain categories of content being taught, but we were working on low-level kernel concurrency control mechanisms. It was a challenge.

When I started as an educator in our research lab, I realized that I had completely internalized this methodology. And as time went on I realized that the method allowed me to easily fall into a trap where I felt and acted superior to others, didn't inform people about the methodology, and likely came off as an asshole.

I continue to use this method with success. Students generally develop a lot of independence quite quickly, but it has been a challenge knowing when to turn off, and remembering to let everyone involved know that it is a teaching style rather than my own weird behavior.
With cigarettes, it's the burning that creates the issue, as the excessive amounts of heat create the carcinogens and the smoke.
Heya, I'm other said friend. We also put together some anticipated FAQs: https://thousandetherhomepage.com/faq

Some random fun facts:

- The frontend "DApp" piece is done with VueJS which has been very fun to work with. It's hosted as a Github Page.

- The backend is done with... there's no backend! The data is directly on The Blockchain, fetched from the browser through a standard-ish API (Web3) provided by your wallet or a gateway.

It's like serverless, but without a server.
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I don't think this is meant for commercial agriculture. It's for small communities that grow their own food.
Yes, you're right, this time they didn't try to delete. I read the comment, I understand what happened.

Why should @bmelton expect Facebook to respect the notification settings after he has evidence they didn't respect the account deletion request multiple times?

It's not weird nor is it magic to expect Facebook to stop the notifications. That's what pretty much all other web sites and services currently do. They may ping you several times, but eventually they will stop. I know because I run a service that does this, and I pay attention to what other services are doing, and I care about what is socially acceptable. Facebook, unlike other services, ramps up their notification schedule when you get quiet, rather than assuming that no contact and no response after multiple attempts means you don't want to use their service.

What Facebook is doing is what's weird here.

Elsewhere in this thread, @wpietri makes a compelling argument that were Facebook a person in your life, the increasing notifications would be considered very annoying and needy. This is the reason it's weird for a company to do the same thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15392947
> but with none of the advantages like great tooling, great languages, UI builders and so on.

Its funny you say this while using java
> Document Database for Apps

From linked page:

> designed to easily store and sync app data

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but that's not what I understand a "document" to be.

For me a document

- is a file that can be stored on a file system

- can be send via mail

- is using a standard document representation so can be used by different applications, such as markup (XML, HTML, SGML), or maybe PDF
Do you have a source on that claim? I'm pretty sure you're thinking of the cardiovascular effects of smoking, and attributing all of those effects to nicotine, which is incorrect. Everything I've read on the subject indicates that nicotine's role in cardiovascular disease is quite minor.
Only one thing: they should not live in such a terrible jurisdiction!
This is pretty amazing resource to get started with TLA+
Under History? Ridiculous.

Thank you.
I was disappointed to see that the city I live in (Oakland) had banned the sale of vaping materials and e-cigs, along with menthols and other flavored tobacco products, to "protect the children". I know many people who have stopped smoking real tobacco because of the introduction of gaping, so Oakland's decision just seems ignorant to me.
Yeah, anytime I take more than 10 days off in a year, I know that I'm pushing above the average. And that counts days around the holidays too. Every year I plan to take one vacation in the summer for a long weekend, or a full 5 days off in a row if I can.
Thats a totally valid opinion but its just that: an opinion. Personally I find Java overly verbose and bloated. I'd use it if it was the right too for the job though. Just depends on what you are doing.
they've reset my email settings twice I think
> "After the Norths left, Parks walked through the house with Cindy Breck, the owner of Caring Transitions, a company that relocates seniors and sells their belongings at estate sales. Breck and Parks had a routine."

Almost every paragraph has some completely f*d up situation. I can't believe this isn't flagged as a conflict of interest.

Fleecing old people must be a great business.
Or maybe observing country-specific laws and regulations
I can see how that might be confusing. We are using "Document" as it's used in database circles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document-oriented_database
“Growth hacking” is always creepy.
> Are you familiar with what happens in PhD research and the skills you can acquire during a PhD?

Yes, very familiar. I've worked as a researcher in a public university and enrolled in a PhD program, but I dropped out after it was made patently clear that the whole thing was a complete waste of time.

I even had my advisor pressure me to continue working for the research group with scare tactics such as warning that getting a job would be virtually impossible and working for the research group was my only viable option.

> And that's exactly what having a PhD proves: that you can start from a cursory understanding of a topic and end up contributing something novel to the field.

...and that on its own is worth absolutely zero. You either have marketable skills or you don't, and a PhD degree does not help a PhD candidate develop marketable skills, It's years of drudge work for a research group that managed to get funding for areas which more often than not are entirely irrelevant. To develop marketable skills the PhD candidate needs to devote extra time that he doesn't have to go out of his way to make himself relevant as a job candidate.
Literally just came to Hackernews to post this article. I don’t really hangout with older people or come into contact on a frequent basis, but Jesus H. Christ this is the most horrifying thing I’ve read in terms of scams in a while.

For what it’s worth, I think older Americans have a ton to offer to younger people in terms of mentorship. Probably the dumbest person you know now will grow into an older person with some valuable wisdom to share. Imagine then how smart most older people are...
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That is as irrelevant as it is correct. Yes, humans speculate, but we shouldn’t be amplifying our known cognitive biases by presenting wild speculation (let alone 4-chan) as if were authoritative truth.
Do you realize that you can compile open source programs for FreeBSD and FreeBSD can run linux binaries?
That's true regardless of the teaching technique though, isn't it? Having someone lecture at you because they assume your knowledge is lacking is the part that makes it condescending, IMO.
I had to stop reading after a bit, I got so upset. Completely unbelievable that this could happen to someone.
Dan Friedman books The little lisper/schemer, The reasoned schemer etc all follow this kind of questioning dialog.

It's a bit annoying at times, but it really drives the point at the end.

The method should be used more often.
So which would you recommend for documentation and which would you recommend for price?
As someone who defends the right to own guns this still resonates with me.

Somewhere in between "doing nothing" and trying to "ban all guns" there is a good solution waiting to be found.

Meanwhile the discussion seems deadlocked and I guess many of us can understand both sides.
"There's a plausible mechanism for harm" is not the same as "definitely unhealthy". The word "definitely" is the bold part.
> there's better alternatives than JavaFX (use Qt).

I've recently written a decent-size Qt app (QtWidgets, not QML) and the problem is the language. C++ leaves a lot to be desired especially coming from higher level languages. If you look around at language bindings, the only quality one I can find is Python and I want to avoid that too (I don't want to build a large app in a dynamic lang). Couldn't use Go, I needed MSVC to interoperate. Rust bindings had drawbacks or were incomplete. Etc. (I probably need to revisit D's Qt binding)

I just want a full-featured (i.e. not QML) widget framework in Rust, Go, D, or some other high-level non-VM cross-platform language. I'd even take C bindings because we can work from there. And I want the widgets to appear native. C# + WinForms would be great if it worked great on non-Windows and was easy to interoperate with third party C-level widgets. WxWidgets is C++ or dyn lang (though there was a C binding maintained by Haskell devs IIRC), Gtk doesn't look very native, etc.

Widget-based desktop development will continue to lose to these alternatives while there is not a good widget library on a good sans-baggage language.

Edit: Just saw https://github.com/christolliday/limn (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/73w227/limn_gui_libra...) ...a good start!
This is one of the many reasons I don't like electron (the apps become /massive/ and I can't update electron separately from the app), but I recognise I'm not the target market.
This is approximately an equivalent of "because they can". There must be a deeper explanation, or a history of the law which can give us a better understanding.
It's simply begging for a 3d printable version! (you would have to press or melt in the metal pins) It reminds me strongly of this design which I like, though it doesn't have the pins and is not designed for 'side mounting': https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:724471
Reading this is making me extremely angry. This is one of the most disturbing things I've read ever. It's sickening.
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