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A certain segment of the population - disproportionately represented on HN - strongly dislikes both Uber and cops. It's always interesting to see how people react to stories in which two groups they dislike are pitted against one another.
Did you mean to respond to GP?

This is effectively what I wrote, albeit with more detail and supporting arguments.
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The issue is - if you don't understand why the marketers are calling you, it can seem like an unsolicited call. As I mentioned, they never answered the calls till the very last one and that took a good 2 - 3 months. I think they were using an autodialler with PAYG sim cards and refilling it every couple of weeks as I blocked each caller.

The problem was, I needed to answer my phone as I was working away from home at the time. Any of the calls could have been a valid call about my real life. I often got calls from people not in my contact list.. from random clients, my kids' schools, data centres or related to work.
The paragraph about difficulty adjustment and transaction times is not really fair. It is true that the algorithm was broken which led to large block times, but since the network was not over capacity (as is the case with Bitcoin Core) your transaction would be included in the next block in <2 hours. This is comparable to the normal waiting time of Bitcoin.
It's much more likely, I think, to have been a drawing of a high-current z-pinch aurora. See the meticulous research of Dr. Anthony Peratt:

Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity

http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/PerattTPSv31-2003c...

Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current
Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity Part II: Directionality and Source

http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/Peratt,et,al,TPSv3...

More...

http://plasmauniverse.info/NearEarth.html
They should call ROP style Spectre "In Spectre Gadget"
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StackOverflow's job posts show the same trend. Jquery is required less and less
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Could you elaborate on what you mean by "healthcare reform," please? We just had healthcare reform and my access to healthcare went down and the price more than doubled. I can't even imagine how brutal a so-called single-payer system would be for Americans. Also, I don't see how one questionable correlation makes your case--for example, maybe we need Tort Reform so that people stop suing doctors? Or maybe we need to increase the number of people attending medical school and graduate more doctors? Or maybe we get the blood-sucking insurance companies to do something besides make billions of dollars?
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I'm almost sure this is a champion satirical comment.
Oh lovely. Thank you very much!
There are plenty of small secrets with predictable locations, especially if you defeat KALSR.
Also, his pre-modernist novels are incredible. The Turn of The Screw is one of those books that has stuck with me since I read it. Highly recommend.
Meh, it's not really very serious in the average case. It's a lot of sky-is-falling rhetoric from the infosec community. Remember Heartbleed and how it was end-of-times bad? Yeah, turned out to be a non-event. Information disclosure bugs like this are difficult to glean useful information from in widely targeted attacks.

(Obviously if you have nation states or serious criminal organizations trying to breach you regularly, this is more serious)
Indeed, not all uses of make are as a "build tool" for "projects".

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11942498
It's a reference to a statement the current president made during his campaign.
Usually MDMA has the backlash of lowering the amount of serotonin release in your brain the days after you take it, which makes you feel down. The so-called tuesday blues. So how come these people in these treatments aren't getting more depressed after their few hours of excitement?
The JavaScript/jQuery community (no difference from outside) was absolutely cancerous. It was impossible to find a javascript question that didn't include top answer "In jQuery...". Makes my blood boil just thinking about it years later.

I wonder what effect this has on usage. How likely are new developers to use it if virtually every question they have is answered by this (no matter how irrelevant the answer should be today).
But again probably less <this is losing popularity> and more <this is no longer cool to tag>. That's a really nice tool though
> There are also grains of a compound consisting of mainly nickel and phosphorus, with very little iron, a mineral composition never observed before on Earth or in meteorites

The title is correct.
Only being able to compare to 70k songs isn't really going to be adequate the second you step off a mainstream playlist.
Very good point and this obviously can skew the results greatly. Working in a fairly senior mid-size team I don't remember any of my colleagues asking any question on SO either so results could be also skewed by composition of user base and how good the docs are for a given proj.
"alleges a new lawsuit"

This is all speculation yet the title reads as fact. I'm not saying they didn't do it but let's get a title change to what is really happening here.
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You sure this is the same guy? It's available on Project Gutenberg [0] but the attribution is a "Henry" James ...

[0] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/209/209-h/209-h.htm
That's not what I got from his reply. He didn't say that Orion and Taurus are obviously a hunter and animal, he said that they are obvious patterns in the sky, which is correct.

He did say that the hunter/animal relationship is everywhere, but I took that as a bit of hyperbole.
Just because Vim was not designed for the mouse clicking UI environment does not mean that it's not designed well. If it weren't designed well, Vim would not be in widespread use 40 years after its inception.
That's not the way social proof works. I know that the flowers idea is just an example, but in general giving material things, even virtual gifts, to women is just not an effective seduction strategy. It's actually counterproductive in this day and age.
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Sure, but if you're trying to carry over Windows expectations over to Linux you're sure to be disappointed.

In Vim there are modes that describe sets of keybindings and there are commands that are bound to them. The commands themselves are are straightforward for anyone who's fluent in Linux vocabulary.

'Saving' is a Windows word. We :write to files or :w for short.
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one counter to that is the big dipper, all most all major civilizations independently associated it with a Bear.

http://members.westnet.com.au/gary-david-thompson/page11-2.h...
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Woah...

Was honestly surprised to see Vue.js was so tiny in comparison to Ang and React regarding "% of Stack Overflow questions that month".

I thought it was much bigger
The whole thing is lacking necessary context. For instance, the stat on gun deaths sounds shocking, but this article doesn't tell me whether gun violence is a major cause of death in American teenagers, or whether it's 0.00084% of American teen deaths and 0.00001% everywhere else.
> You cannot buy food with Bitcoin
let me google that for you

https://www.menufy.com/bitcoin
http://spendbitcoins.com/places/c/food/
I don't think I belong to any of those groups, but Uber seems like a company that operates on the edge of the law, which I don't find all too attractive.
The Longest Journey was one of my favorite games. I've been holding off on Dreamfall, but I should probably get it when I can find the time.
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I thought it was a coin based on the game "The Sims" or "Sim City". I was pretty disappointed when I saw it was not.
My one nit:

>All done through agreements with the sites you do visit and which spell it out in their ToS.

By the time I visit their ToS, more often than not I've landed on the page with tracking beacons and the damage is done.
Why is the measurement on questions asked for the first couple of graphs and then user traffic for the latter set? I wonder if traffic is the better measurement for the first two as well but I bet the graphs won't look quite as doom and gloom.
Yes. As a chemist, this was a very frustrating read. However, I found a concise summary in the abstract to the original article:

A lack of silicate matter sets the stone apart from interplanetary dust particles and known cometary material. This, along with the dual intermingled matrices internal to it, could indicate a high degree of heterogeneity in the early solar nebula.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703717...
Best practices?

They left the full payload unencrypted available to all. No deep hacks necessary, basically wget.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne3bv7/equifax-br...
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Perhaps they are. The question is whether these treatments (combined with talk therapy) lead to positive long-term mental health outcomes.
This stretches the imagination. Surrender came mere days after the A-bomb was used, but this timing was purely coincidental?

The Empire of Japan was willing to die fighting a dominant superpower for every blade of grass, but a second superpower (one hurt far worse in the European theatre) suddenly tipped the imaginary balance?

There's an argument for the A-bomb being effective but unnecessary to the end the war; but this article's view that it had nothing to do with it is seriously by no honest historian.
To be fair, that's because the jQuery solution was usually orders of magnitude simpler. Although newer versions of javascript have absorbed enough of the jQuery api that this is no longer the case.
Zoekt looks very interesting. We'll consider adding it to GitLab in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/41925 and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/41450 Please comment in those issues if you have thoughts about if we can use it.

BTW I know you're in Munich now but I wanted to say hi from your hometown Utrecht.
What's your actual privacy concern?

If the whole process happens entirely on-device, then this reveals absolutely no information of any kind to anyone, correct?
I wonder if the progressive left realize that the inevitable reaction to sacrificing all reason at the altar of progress, is a rise to the right

PS. Sorry for the poor sentencing structure, not as fluid in English as I used to be
I think the biggest issue here is that Uber actually has programmers on its staff who think its ok to write a program whose sole purpose is to try and break the law.

I mean, someone actually sat down and said, ok when, not if, law enforcement comes to raid one of our offices, how can we do our best to block a lawful search warrant.
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With 300 million+ guns in the US, if guns were really a problem you would certainly know it! We don't talk about automobile deaths, which are higher than gun deaths. The NY Times made a lot of hay about gun deaths almost reaching the number of automobile deaths without accurately portraying that automobile deaths have been dropping due to technology improvements while the increase in gun deaths were in the noise compared to population increase. Also, the term "gun deaths" is so misleading--the police defending themselves against a felon firing a gun at them is counted. That's more like "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" to me. Suicides by gun are counted, too. Take out suicides and gun deaths are pretty inconsequential. Not that some aren't tragic, of course.

Sadly, the people dying prematurely from gun deaths are almost all members of one particular race engaging in illegal behavior. But we can't talk about that, so I'm going to be quiet now lest I be banned.
But they are not a small minority. It just costs more in campaign funding to sway their votes. You would have to have a smaller event in every county seat to equal one big political rally in the metropolis. That's a lot of time and distance, and the payoff goes into the basement if other candidates are doing the same thing.
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Vue.js has a spectacular tutorial that answers most if not all questions one might have about the framework.
and your fidget spinner can function like the spinning tops in Inception to tell you whether or not you are in a dream (so there really is a purpose for those things!)
Just tried this out on some of our code bases. It appears to fail to generate snippets/highlights for all files that contain non-Unicode text, e.g. "Müller" in ISO-8859-1. Known issue?

Many queries times out for me although I'm running it on a pretty beefy AWS c5 instance with SSDs. Queries such as "type:diff" doesn't seem to work at all on my code bases. It also does not appear to cache any data from previous runs of "git log", so attempting to do the suggested reload doesn't really workaroudn the issue. Are you working on improving the performance?
The claim I take exception to is not the fight for the leadership of the bureau, but rather the assertion that funds from fines levied by the bureau are being funneled to left-wing PACs, which is absurd on the face of it and completely unsupported by the article you linked.
> were you actually doing js dev back then?

Actually started webdev in 2004 php3 and basic js. Back then the joke was "nobody know how to code js, everybody just copied this one piece of code and mutated it from there".

It sadness me to think such behavior is more entrenched in todays development environment with sites like stack-overflow.

Don't get me wrong I'm grateful that sites like SO exist. I'm also grateful that when I had to learn the ropes or solve "hard problems", I could not turn to my browser. Like I do today; every fsck'ing time; because it is easier and I'm lazy.
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> "My access to healthcare went down and the price more than doubled"

That, to me, is a good signal that we need reform. The fact that people with good insurance in the US find it more affordable to buy a round-trip ticket to Japan and pay cash for medical services is another good signal.

I don't think anyone can look at the US health system objectively and say that it functions well, unless you define "well" in a very narrow way, such as "Provides high profit margins to certain groups."

I'm not saying I have the answers, but change needs to happen.
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Just took a look at your app for the first time. While I already know Solidity, I just wanted to say good job on making the subject approachable. It's hard to break concepts down and you guys did a really good job of it. You should be proud of your accomplishments.
Cheers to an attempt to using more open software!
Sincerely hope that the government can fund projects that help break the walled garden of Microsoft. In the toughest of times with LibreOffice, there is always an alternative in browser based MS office suite.
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Here's a really good summary of other things in the lawsuit with screencaps: https://twitter.com/mjaeckel/status/950446329603461121

If even half of that is true, then I'm really grateful that this lawsuit is bringing these actions to light, this is unacceptable.

EDIT: Really unfortunate that this article got flagged. It's important and we should be able to discuss it.
Is 'conservative' even a protected class? It seems like the kind of thing conservatives would argue against to be honest

Can a progressive company refuse to hire non-progressive people based on cultural unsuitability? Religious organisations seem to think it's ok
That's a possible explanation too. No one wants to say that the job is mostly maintaining large Angular codebase in addition to a small internal tool written in React that only senior stuff is allowed to play with...But hey we are a React shop!
As much as it is praised in HN it is not that much adopted compared to Angular or React in the real world.
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Yeah. The article clearly has a slant. It's not terribly surprising to find that a country with gun rights baked into its constitution has way more guns than countries who lack such rights.
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I agree with you that we shouldn't be citing accusations as facts. I do wish that rule was equally applied though, there have been a ton of Ellen Pao articles on HN that say she was the victim of discrimination when in fact she lost her lawsuit and the court found no evidence to support her claims.
Personally, I break everything down into 1 day sized chunks. It helps scope out the problem, creates a to-do and check list of what it takes to get the entire task done.
> Whether expressing anti-diversity sentiments at a workplace is a protected “conservative viewpoint” or, rather, a form of bigotry that actually creates a hostile environment is at the heart of the case

Expressing anti-diversity sentiments does create a hostile environment. I don't understand why this is so hard for people to grasp.
I took a bunch of molly, 20 minutes later gave my friend a hug and that was it.
About to make an App using React(and react native?)

Up until this point, I usually would make most things from scratch and pull in libraries sparce. No big deal because my previous programs didnt need to. (Self taught programmer for 11 years.)

For the next 3 months, I'll be working on this almost alone. Is it worth using some of my resources to hire a React developer?

Also, this topic implies React will be gone in about ~5 years? That sounds good for me.
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I don't think people here have a problem with police. You might be confusing that with a distaste for homicide and assault by police.

Those don't just automatically go hand in hand. And police accountability is not some kind of team sport.

People here are talking about enforcement of actual laws.
If people are victimized then why does the money from the fine go to the government?

I would prefer receiving a $50 check in the mail from a class action lawsuit. All this does is add more money to gov't coffers
We could just search the sky for nebulae in the vicinity of the given constellations. That would provide evidence for the authors' theory.
Out of all the cryptos I've seen over the years, I'm most bullish on Ripple. They actually have a clear use case and are being implemented by big companies. Its still a bit of a pain to buy some, but I'm crossing my fingers that Coinbase will add them this year.
Constellations are probably much less obvious to most modern humans, what with our fancy lights we rarely get a good look at the stars.
Political affiliation is a protected class in California. Race and gender are both protected classes at a federal level. As I understand it, his class action lawsuit is on all three fronts.
So when a data breach happens at a government body, who will be fined?
>I mean, someone actually sat down and said, ok when, not if, law enforcement comes to raid one of our offices, how can we do our best to block a lawful search warrant.

But was that 'someone' a programmer? I'd say whoever programmed this probably did so on order of their boss. Tech isn't immune to the same pressures that exist in every field. Basically, make the boss happy.
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I think most people hate crypto markets, not the underlying tokens or technology
Gist.GitHub.com down?
GitHub in general has issues currently.
I _feel_ like that this is a pretty common practice in our industry.

At a previous employer, we had someone who was dyed in the wool Republican that was outspoken in his personal life about "the blue line" and "all lives matter". When it came to a discussion for a promotion for a senior engineering role for this individual, we had another manager who felt uncomfortable having an employee with the views this guy shared. Mind you, at work, he was pretty polite and you only got an insight into his life if you accepted his friend request or saw the bumpersticker on his car in the garage.
I don't think that's true. A cryptocurrency can be optimised, so there'd be currencies for fast and cheap transaction validation (like raiblocks), currencies for more secure transactions (ethereum?), currencies that are strongly private (mimblewimble), and so on. There's likely to be more than one of each 'type' as popularity of a coin will ebb and flow. We'll see lots of them come and go.

I don't think Bitcoin is really optimised for anything. It's a brilliant and successful proof of concept, but there are too many flaws compared to other coins for it not to be surpassed. I used to think it could hang on as a base currency that people transfer money between other currencies, but that'd be horribly inefficient and probably unnecessary so I don't think so now. Eventually its price will plateau as people actually start to use cryptocurrencies rather than speculate, and then it'll die.

All entirely speculation on my part though, obvs. I don't hold any currencies so it makes no difference to me really.
I've had some CI jobs start failing this morning, and now I can't get my gists to load or download locally either :/
I actually don't care for both as classic Uber is not legal where I live and instead Uber is just a regular taxi app.

Also, police is fine here and so are cab drivers.
We got our first 0.01 bitcoin in 2011. Libertarian conference, wife gave her email, got crypto. I literally was stealing Gary Johnson's nametag during this time.

Bought my first whole bitcoin in 2015.

Until the end of last year, I had a good feeling about crypto.

The alt-coin madness has me scared for family and friends. They arent listening when I tell them Bitcoin and diversify. They go all-in on pump and dump new coins like TRON and IOTA.

Im actually scared.
A lot of charities do like 5% nonprofit stuff and 95% for profit

Despite ideals it makes your rebuttal moot
Ask HN: Do you regret having a public email address on GitHub?
The conventional wisdom of ten years ago was that if you published an email address on the web, you would soon be driven crazy by a flood of spam. It was also thought to be clever to list your address in the form "name at example dot com."

Is that still the case? Spam filtering seems better now, and I doubt bots are fooled by simple obfuscation any more.

Has anyone published a new email address in plain text on github, a blog, or a web site and concluded either 1) that wasn't so bad - and now people can reach me easily, or 2) that was a terrible mistake, and now I need to toss that address and start over?
Henry is William’s brother.

I’ve heard the James’s called “a family of geniuses.”
Sounds like a fun system to make, context aside.

It's there an OSS version of this somewhere: contact a server, server initiates clients on all devices to perform lockout with pre-arranged credentials. Client can clean caches, wipe partitions, etc., as required.
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