skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read further, she did get indicted:

> Last March, Parks and her lawyer, along with her office manager and her husband, were indicted for perjury and theft, among other charges. The indictment was narrowly focussed on their double billings and their sloppy accounting, but, in a detailed summary of the investigation, Jaclyn O’Malley, who led the probe for the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, made passing references to the “collusion of hospital social workers and medical staff” who profited from their connection to Parks. At Parks’s grand-jury trial, her assistant testified that she and Parks went to hospitals and attorneys’ offices for the purpose of “building relationships to generate more client leads.”

But I agree with you. Having lived in this country for 10 years, I am still shocked by the audacity of these kinds of legal loophole scammers and also amazed that we don't see more retaliatory murders when the legal system fails, considering how easy it is to get a gun in most of these states.
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We have actually be using an internal navigation framework that is unfortunately quite tightly coupled to our app. It's been working very week for us which is why we decided to make an open source "clone" of it. Our original intention was to migrate our internal navigation library over to the open source clone we made. However, with the realities of life, we haven't had the time to actually do that yet which is why we haven't been maintaining it.

Like Leland said above, we're still working hard and making exciting progress on React Native but we continue to invest in native platforms as well and product teams make a case by case decision on which one to use.

Hope that clarifies things a bit :)
But doesn't the principle of being able to add more cryptocurrencies grant the balloon infinite expansion?
> Then you have the language creep (Typescript, Dart or anything to paliate JS deficiencies; LESS/SASS), the JS framework creep, the libraries decay, etc.

That is totally a thing in Java too. Languages: Groovy, Kotlin, Scala. Framework: GWT, Spring, Struts, Vaadin, Grails. Libraries decay: commons, apache, different parsers, different db drivers.

On top of that though, you need to think about your JVM? What dependency manager: Ant, Maven or Gradle. Then figure out which JDK to use, cause that's a thing. Then figure stuff out like facets. Sure this is more IDE field but the fact Java app architecture can be so whack that something like 'facets' needed to be abstracted only proves my point.

> If multiplatform support is not a requirment, the desktop languages and tooling are way ahead in term a ease of use.

Ahead with the size of muddle yes. Web stack is just very good and fast at emulating the amount of it.
Seriously? this makes more sense to you than much more human-centric release names like Fuzzy Slippers
and Spicy Chicken Sandwich?

sheesh.

:D
"Trusted data" can exist in theory -- on a closed network where you control all endpoints -- but does not exist in practice (as many devices eventually connect to the Internet or exchange data with Internet-connected computers).

Therefore, it follows that re-writing parsers in memory-safe languages would provide a nice bang-for-buck.
> But it won't, the US investment dollars will simply be spent in the entrepreneur's home country, which won't create any US jobs and in fact will help dilute the power and influence of Silicon Valley.

This is a benefit. It would spread wealth and enable more people to be tech/entrepreneurial.

> in my case it is a quality of life sacrifice to work in the US in exchange for significantly more interesting work environment

... which should not be exclusive to silicon valley.
I think this concept is "who executes first wins". I'm looking at the guy in this thread who tweeted out the idea a while back and especially the guy who's posted his tutorial on how to create one with a tinge of sympathy ;)
Parametric equation for a hamburger:

x(t) = Sin(Tan(t))
y(t) = Cos(t)

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Static typing was grafted onto Apache Groovy in 2012, but no-one really uses it. I'm not sure about its reliability -- its use never took off on the Android platform, and none of the Groovy codebase itself has ever been rewritten in static Groovy.

Groovy's still great for scripting on the JVM though, for stuff like those 10-liner build scripts for Gradle, glue code, and mock testing. Just don't use Groovy for building systems -- use a language based on static typing from the ground up, like Java, Scala, or Kotlin.
Not to disparage your suffering at all, but jail isn't always so much better.

> you broke a written rule and you spend some time for it.

Not true. Jail is for people accused of breaking rules, not convicted. And arrests are severely biased against certain subpopulations.

> The judge gives you rules and you follow them and you get out.

which generally involve sitting in jail because you can't afford bail, with a nontrivial chance of losing your job due to absence, then losing your home due to poverty.

Don't argue which injustice is worse. Fight the injustice.

https://brooklynbailfund.org/
Getting to work with shazow has been the best part of this project.

A+ would pair program again.
Yes. Changing privacy and security-implication behavior around without good cause for edge-case "usability" is silly.

What happens, if say, a Syrian is killed by their government because they were able to use their gossiping device to locate them? All that iOS 11 privacy work becomes moot if there's a SIGINT fail.
This example is one of those things I keep running into though, and don't fully understand: why does type inference not work on consts? e.g., here, why can't we drop the entire type:

const USAGE = "usage: blah blah";

The RHS has sufficient type information, does it not? After all, if this were a let USAGE = ... inside a function, that would be sufficient.

(I don't find this particular bit a deal-breaker though; thus far, I quite like Rust.)
Those participating quite often love the unaccountability the bureaucracy provides them. Hiding behind a procedure is often preferred as to being out there making a difference.
The indifference some people show, especially here in my country, to this bureaucracy is astounding. Makes my blood boil. Which might be the reason I'm having difficulty discussing it with them.
Tandy 1000 HX. 7.16 mHz 8088, 256k RAM, 720k floppy, MS-DOS 2.11, 320x200x16, and 4 glorious sound channels.
Well, yes - but being speculatively questioned is more infuriating because it's pretending to be the exact opposite of what it really is, as long as the questioner is happily taking a position of authority on the issue - which they are, as they're the one who's set the question in the first place. It's like a fly looking at a quivering piece of silk and imagining the worst, even if the spider's miles off.

What you want, instead of questions, are themes - and the willingness to make yourself ridiculous through positive speculations.
The VA fiduciary program has similar problems to this.I believe their fees are capped to 3-4% of pay.
Also, the video is mp4 w/out fallback which doesn't work for those of us who compile our browsers w/out proprietary codecs/containers (admittedly pedantic and only applies to 0.0001%, but it applied to me).
You might also be interested in something better like Project FIFO[1].

[1] http://project-fifo.net
Even if you got rid of that, would a patchwork of Caribbean nations really replace the US as an economic partner?
Your complaint was with the "latin legalese terms" - extolling your ignorance as a virtue. This is unlikely to be popular on a site that exists to gratify intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> You don't get less secure in one area because you were more secure in another.

I agree with you, however that doesn't address what I actually wrote.
I find this hard to believe. Even initialized variables are undefined behavior, I’ve yet to meet a c programmer that hasn’t been bitten by this.
You should probably email quora support team about that.
Those wealthy people can spend some of their wealth to hire reputable maangers, or donate their wealth to communal funds so they aren't a target.

Hunger for wealth and control makes one a target.
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It is when you kill the members of the ruling body.

This is why "2nd amendment protects you from the government" arguments are absurd. Attacking the government is illegal - if you find a legal way to do it, the government will protect itself from bodily harm by declaring whatever you did illegal.

EDIT: This is not an argument of moral right versus wrong, this is about the definition of "illegal," which only has function as a concept if there's an actual government.

For example, we can all agree that shooting unarmed civilians is wrong, right? Or taking their cash money? But, it's not illegal. Cops do it all the time, and in the case of cash money it's explicitly legal.

I would love to be challenged on this point, so I would greatly appreciate if you could spice your downvotes with a quick thought on why I'm wrong.
I see alot of new high rises always being build near places where no one will ever live, especially for the price that they ask for.
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The old dropbox for me had a spectacular unique design and i really loved it. The design of the file browser before the previous one was imho the best.

I feel like this is a huge step backwards and if the seamless experience of using dropbox worsens i will consider switching. But then again i am not a paying customer.
This is just unsubstantiated FOMO.

You'll grow out of it once you hit 30.
We have definitely not stopped using React Native! Not sure where you got that impression. We continue to heavily invest in it as well as native platforms and make a case by case decision for all new products.
Maybe I'm not clever enough, but I found that the Socratic method never worked for me. If you ask most people a question that makes them aware of a contradiction they don't generally say "that was such a clever way to have me see the flaws in my argument, thank you!" Instead, motivated cognition kicks in and they double down.

A much better way is to ask how much money people would be willing to bet on their argument. That immediately aligns their motivations with getting a correct prediction-- a much better way to get people to see the flaws in their argument (including your own).
He seems to have led a winderful and impactful life but it's a little shocking when so many people in the news, who seemingly led healthy lives, pass away in their 60s . :(

Why is this happening?
I believe the VA fiduciary program has similar problems but it does cap fees at 3-4%.
I have the same thing, but with PayPal. My full namesake has created another account, and used my email there - so I guess he is not getting any notifications. I am afraid to contact PayPal support, since they might just go ahead and block the wrong account, or both of them, so I just ignore these emails from parallel universe.

I was able to shut down a couple of Instagram accounts that were using my email though. Instagram does not verify emails, but fully trusts them to reset your password.
> It's better than it once was, but you're going to have to check every single feature of HTML5 you use to figure out which browsers implement it

There's tools for that and i'm pretty sure just writing plain html and css or some compile-to-js would have shaved off significant time from that 8 month full dev time.
Sure. Depends though where you work: at my firm, a publicly traded healthcare services company, when the last person passed away it was a big deal and everyone knew about it.
Good question - but all these gateways have tendency to drop messages, report weird errors, messages are sometimes delayed by hours, their MMS support if quirky, etc.

I.e., if you ever worked with Twilio you will learn about "30008 Unknown error" - Twilio support tries but because "Carrier Network" problems these problems cannot be fixed.

In short, reliable delivery of SMS messages internationally is still not solved.
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Not really loving the new branding if I'm being honest but I hope it will grow on me.

The https://dropbox.design site is terrible, my main gripe being it completely destroys scrolling. The complete mishmash of moving parts also makes it a pain to get into a flow of reading it.
This works similar to the Realtime Database in that it's last-write wins (where in the offline case, "last" is the last person to come back online and send their write to the backend). This model is very easy for developers to understand and directly solves many use cases, especially since we allow very granular writes which reduces the risk of conflicts. But for more complex use cases, you can get clever and implement things like OT conflict resolution as a layer on top of last-write wins, e.g. similar to how we implemented collaborative editing with www.firepad.io on the realtime database.

PS: Hi Chris! :-)
My first thought is that it didn't really save lives. 322k now die of other causes.
By the way, here's a GIF of what the buying process looks like:

https://gfycat.com/BleakSimilarGermanspaniel

This is the part that blows my mind, it feels like magic every time.

(P.S. Thanks for your support, Chris!)
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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...

This presumes there's something better about surviving to old age than not, that people learn correct lessons from their life experience, that experience is a better guide than information that can be easily accessed from books and the internet, and that people retain correct memories into old age. I don't think any of these presumptions really hold in a general sense.
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Definately agree with the overall point -

That said, if using as a critical file server, etc be sure to do some system managment practice in a VM to get the commands down 1st - one of the major ways Linux differs from FreeBSD is that storage managment is radically different - and these are the kinds of commands you'll need to run in this context, only rarely, and typically when dealing with critical issues (disk fails, yadda).. so good to make sure you have solid fundamentals before putting all of your critical stuff there - not because of system issues, but because of potential PEBCAK issues..
Plus the punks that skip traditional routes to mainstream attention end up on major record labels just like the original elites anyway.

Alex Tew, the original Million Dollar Homepage creator, runs a VC funded startup in Silicon Valley. Social media stars tend to make their money shilling for big brands. I can't think of any internet stars I'm particularly desperate to see go into politics, and that's not because I'm delighted by the status quo
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But to open a channel you do have to have a transaction on the blockchain with a smart contract right? So there's now two transactions for every channel opened which means unless channels are reused for multiple transactions between two parties there's no net benefit right?
Agreed - most people attribute the effects of smoking to nicotine, when it should be attributed to inhaling the products of combustion.
My parents shrewdly and pre-emptively reorganized their "estate" (feels silly calling their meager savings that) with a lawyer that specializes in this. In Central Florida, their are enough retires that many know what's at stake (RE: OP article, plus other money grabs when elderly required assisted living), and lawyers have setup to attempt to prevent it.

While listening to my dad explain it all, I wrote down "Stripe Atlas for old people's estates" in my idea notebook. Another poster mentioned setting up nested LLC's, just a service to scale and productize it. Not just for the elderly either, I can think of a lot of people that would want the protection and power of obscuring money that real estate developers and politicians have benefited from for years. It would be a real game changer.
Honestly I don't mind. A document API with a little manipulation on the front-end would be fine, as long as the back-end has some way of running through the relations.

A SQL-ish API might even be better, although I can see some pitfalls. Maybe base it on GraphQL as a compromise?

Either way, I'd love to have something like this.
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I actually remember Delphi and C++ Builder (though I spent most of my time in Visual C++), and React Native certainly wasn't my first exposure to hot reloading, but if your only exposure to iOS programming was via XCode, having hot reloading (whether that's React Native or Flutter or Xamarin) can seem like a revelation in how much more productive you can be, when you're not waiting for your app to rebuild and install. So from that perspective, it is kind of like rediscovering the old. (And I didn't mention it, but React Native can reload while preserving state, it's just not the default).

Flutter looks very promising btw, I probably can't use it yet though for the same reasons as Matcha, which is my current project depends on too many external libraries (for which React Native and the larger JavaScript community has been great).
Different strokes for different folks.

I hope to work at the same company for the rest of my life, raise my kids, vacation regularly with my wife, then die. I would be completely content with a 'boring' life.
> Further, in the case of binary numbers, I found that when you used this sequence of questions with impatient or math-phobic adults who didn't want to have to think but just wanted you to "get to the point", they could not correctly answer very far into even the above sequence

That could be because the effectiveness of the Socratic method depends on the students' ignorance of the Socratic method. The more familiar one becomes with the technique, the less patience one has for being relegated to receiving end of a Socratic lesson.

Also, adults must contend with the added work of differentiating a good faith Socratic method from a bad faith Socratic bomb. If I want to hide my ignorance, spread my ideological, or even merely troll you, I'll just keep repeating the low-effort pattern of deconstructing your position with more incisive questions, none of which I have answers for myself.
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This is the PhD thesis of Durk Kingma [1]. Reading this right now; appears to be a well-written introduction to stuff variational autoencoders [2] and ADAM [3].

[1] http://dpkingma.com/

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6114

[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6980
> So maybe he didn't feel bad he only had 4 years of retirement?

He had a family, including children. Maybe that pointless speculation isn't appropriate either direction.
Yeah learning Go and Erlang has been on my mind. Basically I am interested in learning about the different prevalent models like CSP, STM, actors and how they differ or relate to each other, or how things like event loops or sync and async fit in here. I have a basic idea of the terms but I don't have a clear picture in mind.
I thought the chrome extension rendered a website with an embedded youtube player.
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I haven't looked into details, but the presentation looks pretty garish. I think the best thing about Dropbox is that you don't notice it. It just works. A garish, attention-grabbing logo is the exact opposite of what Dropbox should represent.
More info from a journalist with some origin theories:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285450/The-untoucha...
Huh. The Walking Man looks like a novice yogi attempting to get into Virabhadrasana I.
Good filters have both "include" words and "exclude" words. It could also have something like Outlook's filtering "wizard" that allows fairly complex logic trees. But one has to be careful to not get carried away early in a project.
The entire way that it works - giving police a direct, personal financial incentive to confiscate personal property with no due process, arrest or official accusation of a crime - is clearly problematic. I personally experienced and witnessed systematic, flagrant abuse of forfeiture in the late 90s in a small US state. The officers involved said they were especially interested if someone could help them locate cash rather than drugs, because they got to split it all vs. only being paid for a percentage of the drugs.
I remember Paul said his biggest regret was not working with Apple on the iPhone.

I wonder how different Intel would be today if that occurred.
That's an unscalable, intractable problem unless you go to a certain bar in Los Gatos, CA known as Cougar Central (pun intended). Many of the affluent "bedroom" (pun also intended) communities have bars with bored naughty felines looking to hit it. PUA skills FTW.
$15 is pretty high for 4 python exercises, especially without any examples to show what they would entail.
Yes Heinz has added support for FreeBSD to Fifo and it works. Having setup a fairly large fifo setup . I can say its not as painful as Openstack or Vmware.
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"The C programming language" is a fantastic book and I treasure it. Unfortunately it's also not a book I would recommend to people who want to write good secure code.
316L stainless steel is a much safer option than Ni200 or titanium wire, shame it's not more commonly used (Kangertech sells 316L coils, but they're awfully hard to find compared to the Ni200 ones).
> Jail is for people accused of breaking rules, not convicted

While you make some good points, you are confusing “jail” with “pretrial detention”; while much (but not all) pre-trial detention is done in jails, that's not the only thing jails are used for; people do serve post-conviction sentences in jails, too.
It's not a matter of 2-3 years. That product dates from 2004. It's very very very old. He's talking about the original Airport Express.