skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even at $1/mile, uber and the like are very expensive relative to the average car in the US fleet. As many companies have cars for business use, that churches use vehicles commonly, and that medical use of cars is a necessity, the IRS publishes guidelines on how to deduct the use of an automobile [0]. From my understanding, they take in account many factors when publishing the standard, from wear and tear, to gas purchases, to depreciation, and to age of car. Going off the IRS, the 2017 standard mileage rate for something like uber should be $0.535/mile or less. I have commonly been reimbursed at this rate when driving my own car for work, job interviews, conferences, etc. and it is the business standard rate.

[0]https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2017-standard-mileage-rates-for...
https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/distribution/app-stores

create-react-native-app works by leveraging Expo
Yes it is. I do not want to be that stickler but this is the charts for that term:

1st world: US, UK, West Germany, essentially western countries

2nd world: Soviets, East Germany, communist countries

3rd world: everyone who doesn’t fit the Cold War theater.

Either way, a GDP per capita of $15k isn’t considered “first” at whatever category you want to assign it by. Unfortunately there are no “1st world” countries in Latin America.
You do realize profit is built into a 0% loan right? Its essentially an upfront interest payment for the duration of the loan.
It would be better if you could attempt to support your argument with data, analysis and research.

Is Ethiopia in a lot of debt trouble? From [1], figure 1.17, doesn't seem too troubling, especially when considering its growth rate.

Your assertion that China plans to overload countries with debt also seem to be based on the heavily promoted Sri Lanka story while ignoring any other data points. The Center for Growth Development has a report, [2], Examining the Debt Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative from a Policy Perspective. They find that for the 68 countries analyzed, only 8 are at risk. Your story also contradicts the many times China has provided debt relief.

> In countries suffering from debt distress, the Chinese government has provided debt relief in an ad hoc, case-by-case manner [...] The IMF estimates that China has delivered over 80 percent of what it is expected to provide under HIPC. It was a creditor to 31 of the 36 HIPC countries, and the most recent publicly available information indicates that it provided relief in at least 28 of them, including 100 percent forgiveness for several (e.g., Burundi, Afghanistan, and Guinea). […] China has also demonstrated a willingness to provide additional credit so a borrower can avoid default. A prominent example is China's agreement in early 2017 to extend an RMB 15 billion swap line to Mongolia for three years in support of an IMF Extended Fund Facility.

[1] African Economic outlook: https://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/publications/african-econo...

[2] PDF Warning: https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/examining-debt-imp...
I still can’t see any proof in your posts that using type erasure for generics makes easier to have interop between languages.
And I can’t think about any single reason why that should be the case.
Python doesn’t have at all the concept of generics.
Why it should be any more difficult to implement interop between Python and a language with proper generics compared to a language with erased generics?
For Python it will always be an object, and getting the result in Java or C# you will still need to cast it properly.
Maybe you could be bothered to read what I wrote, or maybe you need some additional English lessons? Your lack of either education or willingness to contribute constructively it out of my hands.

Hint: Don't stop after the second sentence.

I know I know, reading is hard in the Twitter age. Sorry for writing more than two sentences.
it seems like less companies are making this mistake nowadays, but maybe it's just me.
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My company still uses a Symbolics Lisp machine! Granted, they use it as a coffee table in the lobby.
One of the biggest advantages of a blockchain is it's ability to trust the entries written on a distributed ledger and actions that are automatcally executed when certain criteria is met regarding those entries(This statement ignores the fact that it's still possible to take over a blockchain if you control enough of it) There are a lot of industry specific business cases where the elimination of a 3rd party trust authority would save a lot of money. Remember that not only physical goods can be stored on a blockchain. Consider a contract where multiple participants are required to execute actions in a pre defined order. In theory there are a gazillion use cases for a data structure with that kind of behaviour. In reality it most of the time comes down to the scaling ability of transactions executed/s, which is horrible at the moment.
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Sorry for the confusion. This is simply incorrect and I need to hunt down who is saying otherwise and get this fixed on our end.

If you have a subscription you can create standalone vaults outside of your subscription and sync those using iCloud, Dropbox or WLAN sync if you wish.

This behaves the same in version 7 as it did in version 6.

Kyle

AgileBits
Well. The flipside is that you can get a security oriented well configured virtual machine instead and ignore all this Docker thing that is no better at anything security than plain Linux kernel.
(While still using, say, Kubernetes to manage it.)
So running a plantation on slave labor, mistreating those slaves, doesn't impact whether you are a good or a bad person? After all, you don't have anything personal against those people, slavery is just good business, and the more work you get out of your slaves the more money you make.

I'm all for cutting people slack for systematic issues, environment, zeitgeist etc. But just giving it a free pass because it's business seems very wrong. Most of the bad things in this world are "just business".
another aptly named is branded. basically bringing capitalism and big marketing to russia has some fantasy elements.
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No worries, soon enough we'll be rid of the horror that is "human interaction". I'm sure that this will have 0 widspread social implications.
Atalier is spelled wrong. It’s atelier, which roughly translates to workshop in French, unless I’m missing something.
If you're a software developer that's certainly a valid gripe but what if you're part of the 99.999% of people who use computers but don't run servers? Linux doesn't run your desktop or iOS devices and if Google swapped the kernel on Android the users wouldn't notice.
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Did you subscribe to our newsletter? We also sent an email about it.

Blog and newsletter are the only options we have to communicate with our customers. I agree that it is not enough and not everyone receives this information.

If you have an idea how we can make it better, please let me know!
wow... citizens are struggling to pay for the mandated Obamacare yet this pariah get it for free... Taking about being a citizen and getting the short end of the stick!
It's amazing how US-UK centered this is. Talking about fingerprints history and not even mentioning the first time it was developed and used in criminal forensics? They talk about novels talking about using it, but the actual first case in which was used to solve a crime was in the 1890s, and the whole technique was invented on site and developed there, in Argentina [1]. But, hey, not english speakers, so probably only barbarians who know nothing about technology.
[1] https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visibleproofs/galleries/c...
London is one of the most surveilled cities that I can think of and yet I saw or heard of people getting robbed/pickpocketed on a monthly basis.

I would argue that only more police force would help with that.
You can do that. It is possible to have a subscription and also host a vault on iCloud.

If you only want to use iCloud then you might be served better with a license.
That is a real challenge. On one hand we love talking about 1Passsword and what we’re working on. On the other hand...

1) We often don’t even have contact details for customers (e.x. App Store purchases)
2) When we do have such contact details they may have only been given for the purpose of completing a transaction, and did not agree to receive a newsletter or ongoing communications
3) Even when none of the above is a barrier it is very time intensive to send a newsletter. Not only does it require a fair bit of time to craft but the volume of inflows to our customer support team after sending a newsletter are huge.

I understand and agree with your position that putting the onus of keeping up on what is happening at AgileBits on the customer is no solution, but we do have to balance the above considerations. We’ll continue to look for ways we can do better.

Ben Woodruff

AgileBits
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Soviets, East Germany... in 2018?
You're right. This is a kettle-pot issue.
So how come so many arguments here get reduced to "I side with kettle!"

Yelp is bad. Google is bad. Or more precisely, both are amoral, and responding rationally to the incentives of the internet. The traditional anti-trust sense you mention doesn't take network effects into account. If you ask me, network effects cause the landscape of the internet to inevitably trend towards oligopoly.

This explains why the strategy of most startups amounts to "Growth at all costs, until you're the only game in town" (The model of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and every wannabe unicorn running at a huge loss to investors)
Google was recently asked to mandate diversity and equal pay.
The mgt of Google is against it: https://i.redd.it/htqi8nuk6xx01.jpg
It's perfectly fair to criticize her article, criticize her decisions, emphasize the responsibility that people take in watching out for their own long-term best interest…

But when financial institutions are making massive profits off of other people's irresponsible decisions, you can't ethically just say that's fine. The ethical way to deal with irresponsible people is to teach them to be responsible, not to exploit them.

As long as powerful interests are profiting off of irresponsible people, those interests will actively seek to encourage continued irresponsibility…
I played around with Forth last year and found it very fun. Similar to Lisp it has a simple ruleset with which you can build up abstractions that almost look like a DSL. I'd say it sits somewhere between Assembly and C. It's like writing assembly but you don't have to worry about register assignment.
Is possession of these simple torrent files a copyright violation or does one have to actively download them to create the copyright violation?
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I completely disagree. If it is critical then it requires constant monitoring and regular updates.
This is a very good point that most people fail to understand. We get frequent demands to add 2FA to standalone vaults... the best we can do is try to explain.

Ben Woodruff

AgileBits
> I do not want to be that stickler

Really?! You do but you don't but you do want to be a stickler? ....

PS West Germany and East Germany are not separate countries. :)
When I read the post title, I expected something a bit worse than pitching rehab clinics to addicts. What's the ethical dilemma here, assuming the rehab clinic is being run in good faith?
> The proper method being "use rote memorization to learn about things which could have easily been made available via some discoverable visual mechanism"

I already said that this is a trade-off. Nobody's claiming that the vim way is the "right way" to do text editing. If you prefer a discoverable visual mechanism, you can go with it.

But some people clearly prefer to "use rote memorization" because they obviously gain something out of it.

And believe it or not, "rote memorization" is an essential part of our everyday life. Without it, you can do nothing. I don't see any harm in somebody deciding to apply it to text editing as well. Obviously thousands of people decided to do that, looking at vim's popularity.

And lastly, the memory we are talking about here is the muscle memory. You put something there once and it's done. Using vim is very much like riding a bicyle in that sense.

Would you prefer to have a bike that has labels on the pedals, brakes, gears; and prefer to go through those labels each the you need to use one of them?

Memorization allows you to do things without thinking. The mantra of vim and similar tools is to enable you to become one with the tool just like you become one with your bike, your tennis racket, your sword (!), whatever. Touch typing really helps here as well.

You can't understand that without investing enough time to that. (You don't have to. But you don't have to criticize it without really knowing what you are talking about either.)

I use Arch Linux. Keyboard accelaration is perfect.
So are you arguing that this behavior is acceptable from private companies but not from governments?

You can't argue both 1) companies are allowed to do anything they want and 2) they can grow unlimited monopolies.

If you do, sooner or later they will surpass national states in power and you have an even worst distopia.
Visualization for understanding Raft protocol for distributed consensus
So ssh private keys are stored in plain base64 encoding in the windows registry? How is that even possible?
I'm on the #4 train, but I don't think he's in on it (though maybe he is.) Some people just collect shells, etc. I don't know where he is, but it seems like it's a Russian round. I can't vouch for why it would be in the server room, but it could just be someone's collectible and they are playing a prank or it was on a shelf and it fell. The "server room" looks very small and he says it's only a 10 person business.

Edit: he now says it's live munitions, but I feel like there would be new articles to confirm this later.
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That's just not true. A more accurate statement would be there are very few African companies listed on American stock exchanges. They are still listed in their home country's exchanges
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I’d argue that it was largely dumb money that was scammed. Not Silicon Valley. Those so-called marquee investors named in the article were not even VCs. In fact you see a lot of this in enormous funding rounds. You didn’t see the premier firms in there like Sequoia, Khosla, Founders Fund, a16z, Benchmark, ... DFJ was the only notable firm there and it looks like they came in early with Draper seeding it when it was still idea-phase.

There are a million ways you could be screwed by an entrepreneur so due diligence is really about finding the 3-5 questions that will make or break a business. In the case of Theranos, the whole idea relied on an assumption that you could massively reduce the amount of blood needed to do an analysis. So that’s where your due diligence starts. But after 20 minutes of desk research you’ll find that small blood samples intrinsically heterogenous for many tests. VCs are trained and paid to ask the right questions. This was dumb money plain and simple.
> Same. I start on Google and then usually buy on Amazon.

When I said "visit the store" I meant "visit a physical shop." Amazon Basics aside, purchasing their physical products are fraught with peril. Especially with easy-to-forge high-margin products like clothing.

I have a few pairs of $40 inauthentic shorts I'd ordered off of Amazon a few years back. I realized they were fake after venturing into a physical store and seeing the difference, but I had gone years thinking Billabong had some seriously shoddy clothes.

I'm surprised we don't see more lawsuits of companies suing Amazon for peddling fakes goods and damaging their brand.
2000 miles a year is what I seem to drive in SF. 10000 is what I drove in Houston. Another example of how startups can be SF/Bay Area oriented.
> Acela (our high-speed intercity train) makes the 39 mile Washington to Baltimore trip (with a single stop in-between) at 68 miles per hour.

That's not necessarily a fair comparison, as IIRC Amtrack shares rail tracks with cargo trains. Cargo trains are far slower and occupy tracks for longer stretches of time, while passenger trains require longer stretches of track to be reserved for their passage to ensure higher circulation speeds. Thus, having to share tracks with slower trains limits how the track can be allocated to passenger traffic.

To put it differently, that would be like stating that a bus is slow because in some stretches of road it is forced to wait cargo trucks to pass.
> > if you showed google maps to someone from 2000, they would think it is magic.

> By 2000 the most likely reaction would have been “oh, it's like MapQuest but faster”.

Depends on context. Sure, maybe if you showed it to them on desktop with basic operations (e.g., turned off traffic display, etc.)

Show using it on mobile for navigation with “Ok, Google, navigate to...” with turn-by-turn navigation and real-time, traffic-based route adjustment with voice promoted and confirmation, and it's at least as far beyond 2000s MapQuest as that version of MapQuest is above a dead-tree book of maps.
While I'm not a big fan of reinventing the wheel, when you're maintaining a 31-year-old cross-platform app that the majority of the planet's businesses rely on for their calculations, I'd be using a custom cross-platform math/sorting/etc engine rather than delegating to any OS, framework, stdlib, third-party anything. Considering this is Microsoft, where Office 4.2 for Mac was as close to WINE as you could get in the 90's, I'm assuming they're doing the same.
> I don't really think of that as an actively maintained language.

Oh, were it only so! It's an actively diddled language.
I had the same experience recommending private sector jobs to a scientist friend of mine. He just finished a Ph.D. in chemistry at a very prestigious program. This (inevitably) involved doing a lot of analysis of experimental results in Python. "You're not a real data scientist" was the over-arching conclusion of his effort to get a job doing data analysis, even for comparatively lame old-school BI type analyses. This is very silly and unbelievably short-sighted.
My understanding from friends who spent time in 12 Step groups a few years ago was that the general consensus was for people in the groups to actively discourage each other from connecting on Facebook and other social media and from otherwise revealing their status as "recovering addicts" in these avenues. The expectation of this sort of thing happening was already there, and the principle of anonymity is already broken just by going online and discussing these things. As I understand it, the in-person groups were generally quite effective at self-policing to discourage commercial interests from creeping in. Of course, for people in rural, isolated situations some online contact with others might be the only option. Generally, the groups themselves run online forums and Skype group meetings for these situations. They may not be as flashy and all-pervasive as jumping on the latest social media hype train, but they are a heck of a lot safer when this sort of thing is going on.
I'll try to remember to do it when I get home, but if you beat me to it can you please check and see if that's a known issue with Transmission? Because that seems easy to fix, and in my mind it's bad news to need "vendor specific" magnet links
I suppose I was the opposite. I enjoy seeing the big titles of the year, but I usually only go to one or two because I really don't mind waiting another 3 months for it to come out on bluray or some instant video service. Whereas after I got moviepass, I go see pretty much everything that catches my attention.
The czech police apparently doesn't know about it

https://www.lupa.cz/aktuality/na-redditu-se-resi-udajna-bomb...
There used to be recommendations to change oil for time as well as mileage. Has that changed?
Id imagine that rigging the windows with piezoelectric transducers, and vibrating them with FAKE office chatter, would be an even more effective solution.
I'll clarify for you then :) I'm a developer on our Apple team (Mac and iOS).

If you purchase a subscription you can create standalone vaults and sync them to Dropbox, iCloud, WLAN or Folder just as if you had purchased a license. You'll have both an account (which has vaults in it) and standalone local vaults that can be synced as above.

This is how it behaves in version 6 and nothing has changed with this in version 7.

So if you'd rather have a subscription AND just use standalone vaults you're welcome to do that.

Not however that this may not be true for Android or Windows. I'd have to double check with those teams as to how they do it but at least with regard to Apple platforms this is a viable option if you so choose.

I've brought this topic up internally and hope that we can all be on the same page. My suspicion is that someone from a non-Apple side of the company is answering these. It's tough because our Windows and Android apps are still trying to play catchup with Mac and iOS, so they may not do things that Mac and iOS do.

I do apologize for the confusion though. That said though you can take my answer and trust it. If you have questions though please reach out to our support and mention me specifically (Kyle) and they'll get you in touch with me.

Kyle

AgileBits
https://www.ascb.org/newsletter/novemberdecember-2016-newsle...

"This money is effectively a surcharge, or tax, on scientific research imposed not by a government but by a for-profit industry. Imagine for a moment how much research could be carried out using these resources if they were channeled back into our academic enterprise."
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Depends on what you want to see. If Netflix has it in your country in your language of choice: Netflix wins, else BitTorrent wins.
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There used to be recommendations to change oil for time as well as mileage. Has that changed? Also, not all driving is equal. Stop and go driving in the city is many times more wearing than highway driving.
DirtyCOW requires either ptrace or /proc/PID/mem, neither of which are accessible natively via gVisor. Even if they were, the VDSO is isolated, which was a good vector for privilege escalation.

I don’t think “locked down namespaces” means anything. Sandstorm was not vulnerable because it doesn’t mount /proc and doesn’t allow ptrace.
If you're on G Suite you can use GAM (https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM) to automate mailbox exports directly to mbox files.
There was another question on this recently that was interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17061281
That's true. China had some advantages at the local level though, in that many of the reforms were actually first done by the peasants and tacitly allowed by the government until Deng Xiaoping allowed economic reform to happen.

I think Ethiopia has some really tough challenges ahead of it, but it will obviously be good for them and good for Africa if they can make it work.
> The question then is why it takes so long to accelerate.

For a number of reasons, including safety, passenger comfort, and managing the trade-off between energy waste and traveling speed. You can picture a passenger bus and how gradually the driver needs to start the ride. You can't just supercharge the engine and expect passengers to grab hold to their seats.
If there is no action and only rhetoric, then it is in fact, a thought crime.