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please don't use code formatting for quotes, use

> this style instead

(surround the text with asterixes for italics)
post-service payment is a debt, taxi payment is usually post-service, and as your own link says “This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor”.

The import of this is that such an offer (even if rejected) has a substantial impact on the creditors legal ability to pursue a debt.
"Yeah sure thing boss. I'll get on the phone to Microsoft and ask them to fix that issue in IE8 that you insist needs to be supported."
that's a weirdly specific shuttle refueling point, dingaling. satellite servicing of any kind was very rarely attempted much less regular refueling. We can and do change orbits using onboard fuel without ever refueling - sure it's limited. Saying the shuttles supported refueling and hence maneuvering spy satellites are no longer a thing is very far from reality.
ASCII art only.
> When I upgraded my projects to PHPa7 ...

The universe of developers with PHP projects to maintain is filled with people who do not share the same goals and constraints that you might enjoy.

There is an enormous amount of lousy PHP code, and more being made by clueless developers. But please do not dismiss the need to support old PHPs as being driven primarily by those reasons.

1. The PHP project itself has EOLed 5.3.3, however distros continue to support it with backported security and bug patches of their own.

2. PHP 5.3.3 (with backported security and bug patches) remains the default in CentOS 6.9, which is supported until 2020. More recent versions are not available via their repositories. Hosts would have to upgrade PHP outside of the CentOS packages and assume the maintenance burden from then on.

3. About 50% of sites running PHP are at versions less than 5.5:

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all

4. Updating PHP is not like simply updating my Web browser. Real-world production hosts like mine are filled with various work by various developers over years. Bumping PHP further than a maintenance release would almost certainly mean unnecessarily breaking things that are hard to find, probably tricky to fix and written by people I’ve never met who are long gone.
As I commented in another thread: the difficulty adjustments happen periodically after a certain number of blocks, not after any given period of time. If the hash rate decreases, the adjustment slows down along with everything else.

A 5%/day sustained drop is enough to halt transaction processing entirely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16161326
There are so many glaring issues with BitCoin that it's insane that there are people who are dumb enough to buy it at these prices. 1) 96% of it is controlled by 4% of people. That means if it were to become a currency 96% of the wealth in the world would have to be given to 4% of people either through goods or a fiat currency. 2) It's just a matter of time before enough people lose their private keys that the total number of coins in circulation reaches 0. Already, something like 30% of current coins are considered "lost".
Beforehand I built something very similar to what you described for Flow (https://hackernoon.com/runtime-introspection-of-flow-types-d...).

Many others superseded this implementation, the above being one example.
Complaint at https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/23428507/Wong_v_Lev... but it's paywalled. Anyone have a non-paywalled link?
As a heavy Thunderbird user, my biggest complaint is offline support. An IMAP sync will download new emails' subject lines, but not the actual message bodies. Clicking on an email subject line then requires freezes Thunderbird for multiple seconds while it downloads the message body for that single email.
Dropbox's ToS for their file storage service also has an arbitration clause: https://www.dropbox.com/privacy#terms.

> We Both Agree To Arbitrate. You and Dropbox agree to resolve any claims relating to these Terms or the Services through final and binding arbitration by a single arbitrator, except as set forth under Exceptions to Agreement to Arbitrate below. This includes disputes arising out of or relating to interpretation or application of this "Mandatory Arbitration Provisions" section, including its enforceability, revocability, or validity.
In SF I can believe it. In a large area like DFW the wait times for a ride are too long to be practical. Also the question of cost is relevant, I drive a car I have paid for in a city with reasonable insurance rates and no issues with parking. Lyft or Uber would be impracticable here.
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> The native Gmail? Then get a conversations view.

Thunderbird has had a ML/usenet-like conversations view forever.
In the box at the bottom of the page, just type "author:tptacek jwt" (make sure you switch to "comments" mode).

HN search is much more efficient than Google for this.
Context is important here. If you make it clear that underhanded tricks are on the table then yes. Is is reasonable as an honest programming mistake? No.

This feels like handing some prospective code monkey an example from the Underhanded C contest without warning them first. Very few people are going to pass that test.
The title should have "Dennis" instead of "Ritchie".
How exactly does wrapping potatoes and bell peppers and cucumbers individually in plastic make it easier to distribute them? As far as illness goes, any number of steps along the food distribution chain can introduce pathogens, so they still have to be cleaned, separated, prepared and stored properly, regardless of plastic use.

On the other hand, if you get rid of plastic packaging, the consumer will bear the benefit in other ways. A lack of plastic in the environment means a healthier ecosystem, which affects their food as well as their quality of life.

But this is all a bit of a red herring because goods aren't packaged in so much plastic in order to reduce costs or improve quality. The single most important factor in consumer packaging is "Will this make the consumer want to buy it more".
Ride sharing drivers can pick up in the area they drop-off, though
I would be very happy with Thunderbird if it continued functioning as it already does, but without opening up a desktop notification listing emails I received 2 weeks ago... emails it notified me were new every time I clicked on the application and then off of it for the past 2 weeks. I have yet to figure out the logic behind what messages it chooses to show there.
> Not when it increased by 100% over the last 3 months...

Actually, yes, that is a pretty good indication of a bubble.
Yes, if either option was exclusively provided.
Maybe - but the people who followed definitely chose poorly by continuing to use null terminated strings.
Sure, that's the front-end and the service you are providing, just the ability to use WP. Sure it's great that it's not "on" unless I'm editing or using it, but why not add an option to build/output the static to a user's Git account? I understand that may not be the market you are going after, however I don't think it will lose you any of the customers who just want an WP/hosting easy-button; it will just add the customer who know's what they are doing a little bit, can work with Git, and wants to host it where they want. I think you can only win by adding this as an option/feature..
If you follow that line of reasoning to its extreme logical conclusion, you might arrive at a completely nonsensical argument that former rapists should be allowed to join rape victim support groups.

If someone wants to make an argument about equality, one needs to also consider the concept of a safe haven. If a specific type of people are a threat to the safety and well being of a community, the community should have the option to disallow that type of people altogether without being subject to "social justice" pedantry. Condominiums can bar entry to homeless people on the grounds of vandalism prevention and that's perfectly legal and accepted. I don't see how this is much different.
JSX is the the syntax for embedding HTML in a non-HTML language. TSX is just a file extension implying that the non-HTML language is typescript, which it wouldn’t be here because C#.
> Any ride sharing trip is going to be Driver Start > Pickup > Drop-off which is by necessity longer than pickup > drop-of

You forgot "circling for twenty minutes searching for parking." Include the parking footprint of private cars and I think ridesharing comes out ahead.
> That seems unconstitutional

There is no Constitutional right to bear cars.
Impersonating a remote using SDR and GNURadio
Dump to whose cloud? I'm not sure I want my car dumping data about my travels to something not under my control.
This is why some people think it could be a perpetual ponzi scheme/bubble... price goes up, people get interested, price shoots up, more people get interested, price drops down, a lot of people lose their shirts, but other people will think, "Oh, Bitcoin is cheap now, I should get into that!". I guess until you run out of people, or until it's ruled "illegal" that the pool of people shrinks.
Here’s a lovely real-world example, discussed just recently here on HN: https://kotaku.com/why-gandhi-is-such-an-asshole-in-civiliza...

Unfortunately, most integer issues don’t have outcomes that are nearly that amusing.
Appeal to authority is one of the most naive arguments out there... especially when it's to some programmers attempting to design an economy
I've known people who were promoted only when they threatened to quit. One was a relatively new hire - I couldn't believe it worked in her case (who demands a promotion/raise after 2 months on the job)?

Hmm....
Very enforceable, thanks to the GOP-stacked Supreme Court. See AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-893.pdf) and Amex v. Italian Colors (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-133_19m1.pdf).
Need to not tell the Russians where they are located.

http://www.newsweek.com/russian-forces-could-cause-catastrop...
Russian Ships Could Cause 'Catastrophe' for West by Cutting ...
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How does the myth stick around so much? The original design from the start has always avoided this issue: miners collect transaction fees too.
The Startup That Never Started: Lessons from .Mail
I came here to post this episode. It's one of the greatest from 99pi.
Someone announces they have had a large quantum computer for a while and have cracked every public key on the blockchain. That'd probably do it. Quantum Jubilee, y'all. The year of decryption, all private keys revealed, all captive coins set free. It's just a matter of engineering at this point. Give it roughly 10 years.
Triangle inequality still holds, sorry to say

It only makes sense if they are transporting two or more people that would otherwise have used two or more vehicles. But I think that kind of rideshare system is the absolute minority of Uber and Lyft rides.
What do you mean "advantage" is the wrong word? In general men clearly have an advantage in tech. Denying it is like denying that white people generally have an advantage in America.

That you feel compelled to apologize reflects the self-preserving power of this male advantage.
Study: Musical genre-dependent behavioural and EEG signatures of action planning. A comparison between classical and jazz pianists

Citation: Bianco, R., Novembre, G., Keller, P.E., Villringer, A., Sammler, D., Musical genre-dependent behavioural and EEG signatures of action planning. A comparison between classical and jazz pianists, NeuroImage (2018).

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.058

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.058

Abstract: It is well established that musical training induces sensorimotor plasticity. However, there are remarkable differences in how musicians train for proficient stage performance. The present EEG study outlines for the first time clear-cut neurobiological differences between classical and jazz musicians at high and low levels of action planning, revealing genre-specific cognitive strategies adopted in production. Pianists imitated chord progressions without sound that were manipulated in terms of harmony and context length to assess high-level planning of sequence-structure, and in terms of the manner of playing to assess low-level parameter specification of single acts. Jazz pianists revised incongruent harmonies faster as revealed by an earlier reprogramming negativity and beta power decrease, hence neutralising response costs, albeit at the expense of a higher number of manner errors. Classical pianists in turn experienced more conflict during incongruent harmony, as shown by theta power increase, but were more ready to implement the required manner of playing, as indicated by higher accuracy and beta power decrease. These findings demonstrate that specific demands and action focus of training lead to differential weighting of hierarchical action planning. This suggests different enduring markers impressed in the brain when a musician practices one or the other style.

Highlights:

• Real-time imitation of piano chord sequences with unexpected harmony or manner.

• Genre-specific strategies at high (harmony) and low (manner) levels of planning.

• Jazz pianists revised harmony faster (earlier negativity) at the cost of manner.

• Classical pianists had conflict in harmony (frontal theta) but excelled in manner.

• Focus of practice may cause enduring brain marks at different action control levels.
> Why would fighting racism with racism or sexism with sexism be a productive

Here you cross into making this yet another same-old generic ideological thread, thus guaranteeing repetition and tedium. What more we can do to explain to HNers that this is where discussions become off topic because the light/heat ratio goes to zero? I realize the line isn't obvious when a topic starts out close to it anyhow. But you know, it especially isn't obvious when you aren't consciously looking for it in the first place. Since you have a habit of doing this in HN threads and stand out as a user who's done particular damage this way—unintentionally I'm sure—we need you to do a better job with this.

Perhaps the following heuristic would help. If a comment breaks away from the specific content of the specific story and becomes generically ideological, it's on the wrong side of the line and you probably should not post it.

Note that this doesn't have to do with the ideologies or politics in question, or what view you're arguing for. It has to do with generic discussions being boring in HN's sense of the word.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Depends on how you do it, you could fork the protocol and start mining from the beginning. Otherwise you would need to convince everyone to actually sell before you could mine those transactions.

Often what happens after a massive price drop is people stop trading instead of a larger nominal price drop. AKA, you still get some high value beanie baby transactions, but the market is not large enough to really liquidate a collection at even close to the nominal clearing price.
7 Benefits of ELearning for Modern Organizations
Blazor is pretty amazing, but my coder fantasies mostly revolve around a React-JSX-in-C# vision - the syntax and approach just feel so natural and so right. Your point about rejecting inline XML is probably a pretty good data point that I shouldn’t expect what I’m hoping for to happen.
>Tech pushes many people out, male and female. Even if the men in tech are the same, what about the men who would like to be in tech but were pushed out? Or are all men the same?

I'd wager most men "pushed out" of tech weren't fleeing sexism and gender-based isolation. This whole thing seems like looking at a team of 10 -- nine men and one woman -- and, when the woman says, "Gee, it'd be nice to have another woman to talk to," responding by saying "Well how about you just talk to us nine guys instead? Wouldn't that be just as good?"
Just wait until the real fun starts - it will soon become apparent that among a group that identifies as "women" there are those who would command the vast majority of the available resources, just like it happens among the group that identifies as "men" at which point that group would also need to be sliced and diced into subgroups with specific rules applied towards say... cis-women vs. non-cis-women or cis-women-that-look-like-karlie-kloss (or Iman)
Can you get StackOverflow to "sponser" this idea? Not just for crypto (which you've done) - but for all PHP related answers?

Because the problem is there are many "old" accepted answers, with high upvotes, that will always come up as number 1 or 2 in google searches.

Given PHP has changed so much, many of those answers are outdated, use incorrect and insecure methods, and some are now just wrong. This is not just security - but a whole host of answers.

The "meta" StackOverflow rules will tell you to downvote the old answer and post a new one - but that is not practical - and will take years to take effect. Plus, many people simply read the first large upvoted answer, copy + paste the code, and move on.

edit: I guess it would be nice to be able to "flag" an accepted answer (not a question) as outdated, get 5x people with gold badges for that tag to accept it - and then the answer is highlighed as wrong/out of date (or even deleted). Something like that.
Amazon Is Said to Pit Argentina versus Chile in Data-Center Race
I see one fundamental problem that needs to be solved before blockchain can become a mainstream technology platform in the same way the Internet and the WWW did.

Without a centralized authority, there is no recourse in the event of theft. None. Someone stole your identity? Guess you need a new one.

Building an entire life on blockchain makes the security of the private keys extremely important, and surely we have more than enough examples that any connected system cannot keep its secrets forever (or even for very long)?
No. In fact quite the opposite. A good meta-analysis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20192553/ suggests a statistically significant link. The US military spends a lot of money to desensitize recruits to violent killing. In the limit, would we really be surprised if a hyperrealistic video game had at least some of the same effect as basic training?
I don't really care either way about the colors and the fonts. I care more about functionality, and the current version still has a very annoying bug, where there's a type of spam email that Thunderbird will choke on when trying to download it using POP. I have to use webmail to go manually delete the offending email so that Thunderbird can download the rest of the emails. Last time I investigated this, it seems that others have reported this problem, but nothing's been done about it. I'm very close to moving to Outlook now (which would also help with calendaring, but that's a whole other can of worms), and a simple re-design isn't what's going to keep me as a Thunderbird user.
Though it seems to be doing the opposite. In London where car ownership is low (at least in inner London) it seems to be taking share from public transit. Nearly 100k uber/minicab drivers have been added and bus ridership has collapsed.

A) from less usage because of Uber

B) because all these extra taxis have caused mass congestion which means buses are unbelievably slow compared to even a few years ago
New DigitalOcean Droplet pricing
What's the point of having people in this?
> How many times do you see a dialog box and click "yes" without even reading it?

A simple fix would be to use a tried and true method that's been effective for decades. Have different popups that read

Type "REAL WORLD" to send this alert.

and

Type "DRILL" to send this alert.
Which is why I bought some QRL recently.
Proof of Stake is already on the horizon for 2018 for Ethereum.
ConcurrentDictionary Is Not Always Thread-Safe
> Should the C language represent strings as an address + length tuple or just as the address with a magic character (NUL) marking the end?

This explicitly is a different kind of representation in memory.
You are right however that event is similar to idk deadly asteroid approaching earth. Sure, it might make btc go to zero but so will like so much other shit. Also quantum resistant crypto is possible.
I just find it amusing because autonomous vehicles don't really solve any traffic problems. You still have too many cars on the highway at rush hour. Even if they move better, they won't move as well as a train system would for the same number of people in much less space.
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Reformatted for mobile:

> There is a check-box that users must click adjacent to an affirmation similar to, “By clicking on the box, you are indicating that you have read and agree to the Terms of Use”;

> The webpage is designed so that if the user does not check the box manifesting assent to the terms, the user cannot proceed in the transaction;

> In addition to a check-box that users must click, the terms of use are available either in a nearby scrolling text box or a nearby hyperlink;

> Any hyperlink of the terms is obvious, e.g., “Terms of Use” is underlined and has decent size lettering and visible coloring (not small lettering and not obfuscatory coloring);

> Any hyperlink of the terms has a central or obvious location on the webpage, e.g., the hyperlink is directly below the “I Agree” button (not relegated to the bottom of the webpage, which would require the user to scroll down to a submerged portion of the webpage);

> Any hyperlink of the terms immediately displays the terms (instead of requiring the user to click on a series of hyperlinks to view the terms);

> The terms of use are evident in every webpage on the website (rather than visible on only one webpage), in addition to requiring users to attest that they have read the terms of use;

> The terms are in readable font (at least 12 point); and

> The agreement contains all requisite elements of an enforceable contract (e.g., consideration, sufficiently definite material terms, etc.).58
What problem are they trying to solve that can't be solved by a closed Facebook group? Do we really need another social network?
Stellar is not decentralized.
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> In the limit, would we really be surprised if a hyperrealistic video game had at least some of the same effect as basic training?

Given that basic training doesn't involve hyperrealistic lethal violence...yeah, I'd be surprised if the two had similar effects.
My main problem with Thunderbird is that it's a poor citizen in email, particularly with regard to its handling of plaintext. It's far from alone in that respect, but I would really appeciate Thunderbird being a leader in taking the problem seriously.
Not yet, but I plan to in the future.