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I'm always amazed at what gets downvoted. Does anyone want to explain why they think it's acceptable to install software on someone's computer without their affirmative and informed consent? Or articulate a legal argument as to why exceeding granted authority on a computer system isn't a violation of the CFAA?

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5) makes it a crime to "knowingly cause[] the transmission of a program, ... code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally cause[] ['any impairment to the ... availability of ... a program...'] without authorization, to a ['computer ... which is used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication']."

The argument that Debian has "authorization" to install MariaDB simply because it's in the documentation that it will do so when told to install MySQL seems pretty thin.
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Then you should compare the tinkering experience for linux with Hackintoshes?
That's too bad, you'd hope for a reduction.
I think I still mostly agree with it. let was on the way in when I wrote that, but that doesn't mean lexical scoping is a particularly interesting or defining trait of JS. Most languages today have pretty solid lexical block scoping, so that's more JS playing catch-up than anything else.

I don't think of promises as being particularly close to continuations, not even one-shot continuations. I think it's more "If you use promises you have to manually turn your code into continuations." :)

I wrote about my thoughts on that idea here: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...

One thing that has changed in the past few years is I don't see people comparing JS to Scheme very much anymore. I don't know if it's because JS got big enough with ES6 that the comparison seems forced, or because Scheme doesn't have the cachet it had a few years ago, or what.

Today, people who like JS seem to like it because they like JS — which usually means they like some combination of dynamic typing, JS's syntax, the platforms where JS runs, and the frameworks people built for it. I think those are all great reasons to prefer JS, much better than comparing it to some other language that it may or may not be similar to.

(There are also a lot of people who like JS today because it's the only language they know. I don't think that's a super informed choice, but everyone goes through a first love in their life, and the object of that affection doesn't say much more about its subject than the moment in time that they happened to start programming. My first love was Apple BASIC, but I think I turned out OK.)
I think the parent meant deflationary economics vs inflationary of today
The example you cite sounds reasonable and not misanthropic to me. Disincentive personal car user/ownership and incentivize public transit use. Can you expand more on why you find that problematic?
I think most people do care about privacy, but they're not being given much of a choice here. Their friends are on Facebook, so the only way to share pictures with all of them is through Facebook.
Comparing personal income tax rates to corporate tax rates doesn't really make sense. At the end of the chain, corporations are always owned by human beings, who must pay tax as well (albeit possibly in the form of capital gains or taxes on dividends).

Point is, if you are upset, and I'm not trying to say that you shouldn't be, then the focus should be on the difference between tax on income vs capital gains / dividend income.
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Looking closer at this you are describing one model but testing different values of one of the model parameters.
Right, we still have to deal with local laws anyway.

However, consider that technically I could create a "New PayPal" as I could receive digital payments and give cash to my customers. Of course this doesn't cover the legal aspect.

If you'd want to release something like PayPal in 1998, the only possibility is being rich or having rich friends. That's the only way credit card companies are going to consider doing business with you.

Now with Bitcoin you're relieved of that obstacle but of course you have to still deal with the law.
imo you cannot teach kids to be business people without proper real-life experience. So send them to regular schools, but create them an environment to be entrepreneurs. Without "working class" experience they will be not good managers and leaders. I think every person, especially one that are from rich families, should work as a sales clerk or similar to get real life experience.
I live in Los Angeles near a lot of the construction going on for the new subway line running down Wilshire Blvd.

My neighborhood (Carthay) has been getting a lot more cut-through traffic. There are days that seem particularly "Waze-y", when it's basically just gridlock on our little streets for an hour. I imagine it's due to apps re-routing people.

But I don't really think it's any faster for the commuter. I'm reminded of this article (seemingly now password-protected, so I'll link to a summary) that Waze chronically underestimates your travel time, while Apple Maps chronically overestimates (and therefore overdelivers):

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/22/informal-testing-...

From my anecdotal experience, Waze does vastly overestimate the benefits of a crazy route, like making a left turn from a stop sign across 6 lanes of rush-hour traffic.
Exercise is big as is sunshine.
i'm honestly trying to verify this. i'm quiet skeptical about the character of some developers of bitcoin, i dont know about peter todd.
bitcoinerrorlog is linking to this video of him talking about quantum computers as a proof. this is the closest i have come to hard evidence of this extreme claim.
i have listened to the first half of the video, just him talking about quantum computers. Very impressive talk for a 19 year old.

https://youtu.be/DkUpZkeqhF4?t=16m46s
Don’t worry about shadow profiles. CCTV cameras already document you just fine.
Or, it allows you to type faster and hyperlink on $TWTR.
$GOOG will show the stock info immediatelly if you searched that.
> There is also budget for developing a language converter IT program to recode Cyrillic script into Latin in the third quarter of 2018 (approximately $166,000)

what
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Why do you still recommend a Thinkpad? Thinkpad screen resolutions stink across the board. X-series RAM caps out at 16GB where my XPS15 gets 32. I understand TPs work well with Linux but it's 2018, a lot of things work pretty darn well with Linux.
Advertising spending went down over 10% in 2009 compared to 2008 (I thought it was more than that). In that kind of environment Facebook might still gain share but growth and margins are likely to suffer. And Facebook/Google represent already one third of the advertising business in the US, they can only increase market share up to a point.
Eastern Canada, Ontario to the east coast, has alot more french speakers in that region, compared to the rest of Canada.

Even in Ontario, there are people who will only converse in French.

Western Canada, I have never had to use french ever outside of highschool which I dropped French class after the required years.

Alot of us resented being forced to learn French in BC cause practically never used.

You don't need to know any french on the west coast, but it's a requirement in alot of places in eastern canada.
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Well if you where an employee of a listed company and did not know your employers SEDOL (or eqvielent) id start to question your commitment :-)

I have had a job where I quickly scanned the FT copy on reception as a regular thing - just in case they had brought another acquisition and our team (in house consultancy) needed to get involved with them.
Disagree. People who drive trucks do not consider them a subset of cars. That's why it's the automotive industry not the car industry.
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For mine, it's basically any speck of debris that get's lodged, it fails to register the press until that debris moves to another spot.

I think the tolerances for "pressed" are too small for "real world" use. Any crumb will "lock up" the key.
When does your algo close the position?
It looks like they are teaching how to integrate the Microsoft APIs to implement AI-based solutions, rather than learning about AI or ML.
I suppose not having Mazda around anymore for sedan platform/engine sharing really hurt Ford.
How about Vitalik himself

http://archive.is/bXZaW
INTEGER BASIC or APPLESOFT? ;)
Presumably Ford could repurpose their European models quickly.
There's a _ton_ I'd love to have help with :) See my comment elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16918991 .
Tax is on profit, not revenue. Granted, still $5B.

Also, the tax figures have seasonality. Q4 is highest, Q1 is lowest. This quarter's effective rate was up by 100 basis pts yoy.
Now THIS is a felony that is 100% forgivable. You really, truly did nothing wrong and I hope all is going well for you.

OP on the other hand...
They care, but what they’ve shared is likely not what they actually care about keeping private.
By that logic German uses a thirty letter alphabet, but no one says so.
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> My main takeaway from this is that #deleteFacebook has been a flash in the pan-- their active user count is still increasing across all regions

I don't know. Think I've observed a general drop in engagement in my relatively well-off and educated social circle. If Facebook dies, it's not going to be sudden. #deletefacebook type-stuff may be more akin to lifestyle advertising than the buy-it-now kind.
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I wouldn't express in as delightfully salty a way as you have, but I totally agree that JavaScript is got little from Self beyond the word "prototype", which it misused.

Self is an incredibly powerful, simple language. I'm still not sure if it's a good language. My own experiments with prototypes left me feeling like it's too simple and formless. It felt like building a house out of toothpicks.
DeleteFacebook is mostly western, specifically an American thing. Their user growth is most happening in other developing markets (non-Europe and non USA).
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This happened on a smaller scale—and more innocently—in the world of video game journalism, during the golden age of Alternate Reality Games, when "PixelVixen707" was revealed as a fictional character in a promo campaign for a novel.

https://kotaku.com/5859814/the-fascinating-tale-of-pixelvixe...
Knowing French, though, and thinking that "magazin" will probably sound more like "magasin" than "magasine", the meaning wasn't entirely unexpected.
Clearly you don't work in advertising, my friend :-)
One group of women working in an incubator environment to get a boost is not socially harmful.

Women get this all the time - whatever they do, its the wrong choice because whatever. The first, and often only, critique their actions get is negative. Why is that, do you suppose? A common thought is, its a form of institutional bias. Its an undercurrent that makes the work environment feel like wearing cement shoes.
They do mean technical analysis.
Does help her much right now, does it?

There are several expensive medications that the Canadian health system has elected not to cover.

Here is another example where if the husband didn't have drug coverage through his employer, he would have been on the hook for the entire cost. Eventually he had to shell out $3,000 per month.[1]

At first, he says, his company insurance covered the price of the drug. But years later – Gary’s employer changed insurers and he was now on the hook to pay more than $3,000 a month.

[1]https://globalnews.ca/news/1654757/canadian-patients-struggl...
We make pierogi every Christmas Eve. It's a lot of work.
When I was at RailsConf last week I realized (during a session while I was typing) how loud the keyboard is compared to the last gen
"compression ignition" presumably different to a Diesel?
This happens because of the publicity that companies get when new users find out about them this way. Everyone who gets this news knows Facebook by now, so there is no such effect in play here.
And then maybe India will follow in China’s footsteps.
My first thought was neither of those, I thought the headline was referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm
That's a really pedantic interpretation :) It has been adopted and published, but enforcement starts May 25. Because nothing can actually happen until May 25, I think that is a more reasonable date to say that it is "active".
I have tried for many years and literally all my algos have resulted in loss after extensive back testing. I still believe it can be done but as of yet, I believe it's really really hard to do it. I've tried options, stocks, forex, etfs. The books, blogs, courses all gloss over the notion of repeating your algorithm 1,000 times with asset allocation.
From my point of view, I do care about privacy, beside I don't use mobile phone, I don't want to. Since whatsapp isn't an option for me, messenger app is only way to be in contact with friends, family. (I have iPod Touch) Considering I'm traveling often, I need to use it. I'm not fan of it, but I'm not against either. In the end we are product of Facebook and #deleteFacebook is a joke.
Not quite the same.
To me the logic behind Proof of Stake is more like "so much money is bet on the answer being correct, that we'll assume it is. If the majority is wrong then feel free to permanently leave this chain and start your own". I consider it to be a superior system to Proof of Work in nearly every way.
I probably stated it wrong, but meant the first two characters between them, that was my mistake. As in first position of each. Kind of repeated it initially.
My impression about inefficient cars in america is that people are mostly inconvienced about frequent visit to gas station, not actual costs.
You should visit Ukraine. Ha
My experience:

Joined a startup, raring to go, and they needed to get me a top-end MacBook Pro (16GB instead of 8GB as I recall). Apple stores in SF refused to stock the top-end, pointing me to their build-to-order options at the store. +5 days minimum.

Went with a mail-order house and next day aired in a top-end MacBook Pro laptop (which they had plenty of in every color). Shift key was DOA. Took it in to the Apple store. They had the gall to tell me that since I didn't buy it directly from Apple, they wouldn't (not couldn't, wouldn't) repair it in store, but would send it to their warranty center in Houston (right after Harvey). Got it back fixed, but so many days wasted.

Apple gets so many really difficult things right. Simple-seeming things like basic customer service and proactive quality control escape them.
The subtle joke went past you. Anandtech is a bit known for a noticeable pro-intel bias.
As far as I can tell, Ethereum isn't actually doing anything interesting here - it's just being used to transmit pings to the server, which could just as easily be done with, for example, tcp/ip.
At the same time, it is not absolutely untrue. I never said every single thing and every single country.
It’s more SOAP vs TCP/IP, the latter being Blockchain.
If learning to write in a new script is a substantial and intimidating step, doesn't it make more sense to put it on visitors than on your entire citizenry?
I get it, but I'd remove the first 6/7 of the post and add another 6/7 explaining the last sentence.

The first 6/7 is a condescending description of something obvious that doesn't respond to the OP's post, then reads histrionics into the post, then in the final sentences veers towards a real explanation, only to leave the rest as an unobvious exercise to the reader.
Of course there are people doing it successfully ... but very different industry than tech - those who know stay silent. It's really not worth getting into unless you already have years of experience imo. Keep in mind you're competing with the smartest people in the world who have much more resources than you. There's just more low hanging fruit elsewhere.
> But if we consider taxing corporate profits that go to shareholders, taxing here is a very relatively painless place to tax, as opposed to, say sales tax.

Aren't stock dividends taxed when it hits the individual?

I can understand profit taxing to incentivize spending.
Developers should just buy a ThinkPad and run Linux. A much more dependable machine and a far superior keyboard.
I think I know what parent is getting at. I am increasingly able to bypass the "load problem into brain" stage by reducing the problem scope to a subset. When the problem seems potentially quite large, like "greenfield a new system", I look for "seven plus/minus two coherent concepts": while I can't know the whole scope until development begins, I can pick a set of concepts that I can commit to memory(hence, about 7) and search for an optimization of which concepts I'm using that makes each one cohere better with the others, contingent on whatever belief is driving the need for a software solution.

This process typically only takes a few hours at most and usually illuminates something really unexpected about the problem space. Selecting for coherence is effective at reducing problem scope since it cuts through unquestioned practices: in a more coherent solution all the answers feed into each other.

In my previous methods I would just sit and stare at the problem and sit and stare at techniques until a match of technique to problem came to mind. That's why it took so long - there wasn't a philosophy there, so my thinking could drift in an undirected way for long periods and even get deep into writing code without doing anything effective.
PoW is generally even less balanced than PoS, because poor people can't afford to take advantage of economies of scale with ultra-efficient mining farms. Meanwhile everyone will get the same % return in PoS.
I recall seeing in the UK our local dealer had one of the Mid engined Group B Ford Escort the RS200 that was a beast.

Though I did have one of the Volvo Group B's transitioning between stages drive slowly past me years ago and that was an amazing sound.
I don’t think that’s the same at all. The submarine article is about helping journalists with stories. This article is about lying to journalists and everyone else by creating a fictitious person, all for their company’s financial benefit. And ironically they tout their intent to “provide transparency”. Too bad they didn’t make him a combat vet, then they could have been prosecuted.[1] Makes me think of a quote I once heard, “Integrity is what we tell other people to have.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2013
In the broad sense that they are an influential industry group that has taken a number of political positions that impact laws. Chiropractors and osteopaths have in particular felt discrediting hostility from them, as I read. Now to be clear, I for one do not personally hold either of those two fields in as much esteem as much of the American public might, so I don't meant to be partisan, but to simply say that the AMA has used it's influence to maintain the standards of what should or should not be licensed medical practice. They are free to maintain their own standards, which I do much respect.
Google Maps does this too at times. It isn’t so much residential streets but I’ve had Google take me on windy country drives where I inevitably screw up.
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It's really not that bad.

They've added 9 of their own to 33 of Russian Cyrillic for a total of 42 when using it for Kazakh. Now they're gonna add 6 diacritics and two digraphs, that's much less already.

Compare this to even Polish that has:

1. 9 additional letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż.

2. Technically no x, v nor q, but everyone knows their sound so casually or artistically you can use them, just not in 100% orthographically correct Polish.

3. 7 digraphs: ch, cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, sz.

And it's not really a problem in any way and the words are distinct enough that if you skip all the Polish specific stuff it's still 100% readable, people texting or writing online or Polish comments in code (in an ASCII file) often do that.

I've seen many systems (CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, various European ones) and have somewhat an interest in this stuff and I don't think it's a big deal at all.

I also think (as a layman) that it's really not about the system anymore but about fitting it to your language (within reason, e.g. don't try to write Polish with Chinese characters), someone could say Polish butchered Latin or gave it 16 warts but it works and I'd say the phonology is way saner than English (okay, that's not an achievement but still, no one tells English off for it's use of Latin despite it's crazy pronunciations).

I also wondered about an experiment of using both Cyrillic and Latin together at once in a language that already uses one of them to denote foreign words (e.g. Polish with foreign words in Cyrillic or Russian with foreign words in Latin), just like katakana in Japanese does (among other uses). I wonder if Kazakh writing (casual or maybe even official) with loanwords from Russian (if they exist, I don't know Kazakh, maybe they have none) might do that just for Russian foreign words, to avoid transcribing them into the Latin alphabet (which would be more awkward than just using them directly as they could in their Cyrillic which was a superset of Russian Cyrillic and would either ignore their own Latin phonology and diacritics or require a new transcription style that is unlike the other ones, thus adding to confusion).

Using Cyrillic and/or Latin of course has implications about politics, history and religion, with Cyrillic being associated with Russia, Soviet Bloc, Orthodox Christianity, etc.
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What eastern european food have you eaten?

P.s. many people from places like Poland consider themselves Central European. Some even Western European. I think this is about how they feel about being aligned with Russia, but also where their affinities lay
> Corporations generate activity that taxes support, such as the use of roads. That's really what it comes down to I think.

For roads specifically, if a corporation causes increased usage of roads from say, more employees, the employees already pay for it through their personal income taxes (off of salary). If it's a trucking company, then there are weigh stations that weigh these commercial users and charge them extra for road maintenance.
FWIW, AWS has a whitelist of Postgres extensions you can use in RDS so that'll probably take more time, if it ever happens.
Are instagram revenues included the revenue numbers?

Are instagram dau included the dau numbers?

If not, anyone know how to back out those metrics?
This. Automotive industry media in general had me confused with the terms.
"SUVs" are absolutely cars. Most utility vehicles are cars. Even "passenger cars".

Dumb terminology but TC is perfectly in line with the industry.
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Eh, did you read what WF was found doing recently? When money matters, at executive level, it doesn't really look like they care about law, human lives (that FB memo), etc.
No argument here, I'm just trying to keep the facts straight; I have no opinion on right/wrong/good/bad/easy/hard (at least, not in this forum).
Had mine for almost a year. There was a couple times the shift key had to press really hard, but just hitting it really hard rapidly usually realigned it.

The back of my Macbook screen does make intermittent popping sounds though.
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