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> TBH noticed that teens often list their high school in their Instagram bio. So, using a private Instagram account of its own, the company would visit a school’s location page and follow all accounts that included the school’s name.

The idea of a company targeting and following individual high school students on instagram does feel a bit "off" to me. If facebook or any other billion dollar public company were doing this, a bit of public uproar would not be out of line, even if it is perfectly legal.

But it sounds like TBH stopped doing this after they were acquired by FB, claiming that the methods were too “scrappy” for a big company. While facebook is of course now ultimately responsible for any actions that TBH took in the past, trying to make a big stink about it after they have already stopped (and using misleading headlines to boot) feels a bit disingenuous.

EDIT: I initially missed the fact that TBH was essentially pretending to be affiliated with the school of the kids they were targeting, by creating a new account per school and saying things like "You’ve been invited to the new <school name here> app—stay tuned!" (A fairly dumb oversight on my part as that's essentially the whole point of the story). This is indeed hugely deceitful and having re-read the article it changes my opinion entirely. Facebook should be banning companies that pull stunts like this instead of buying them out for millions. I would like to see Facebook issue a statement clarifying their position on these kinds of marketing ploys, update terms of use if necessary to prevent them, and also probably issue an apology.
ConyEdit is a cross-editor plugin for the text editors or IDEs. With ConyEdit running in the background, you can use its commands in any text editor or IDE on Windows OS. It has defined A completely new way to write code or edit text (for example, extract data in any text editor or IDE and store them in ConyEdit's named arrays. Then batch refer at anytime anywhere, without wasting time on moving data repeatedly). It has rich features for the in-place column-editing, line-editing, and string-editing.
We've got these in New Zealand - once you have a "smart meter" (which I believe most homes now have), then you can pick an electricity retailer like https://www.flickelectric.co.nz that bills you according to the current price. Flick provides an API to allow you to turn on/off loads when you see fit.
There's a lot of generic numerical analysis libraries which is where it shines over Python. It matches pretty well in areas like data science and machine learning. For example, for tables there JuliaDB which is more akin to dask since it works out-of-core (but it's also able to use built-in online algorithms), DataFrames.jl which matches R, and Pandas.jl which is a straight wrapper for Python pandas.
Ha! I never would have considered the possibility that MechWarrior 2 wasn't slow on Transmeta, and that it was simply fast on Intel! That is interesting. I guess there are all sorts of optimizations one such as Intel could make when sitting on billions of dollars.
That will work... until a talented guy from a poorer country starts selling a cracked version of your ROM for half the price. Good luck competing with that in a 0% regulated environment.
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I'm not the author of the comment above, but I did. I didn't compromise too much, but I could have done much better I believe, have I prioritized salary/tech/opportunities.

But I get to build a thing that is meaningful to me
It's not utter nonsense because it provides a much more stable market for companies building renewable energy plants and allows them to finance research and development. A lot of the improvements in solar energy technology were financed thanks to this scheme.
I have completed KYC for numerous exchanges, it is not impossible at all, no more than opening a bank account is impossible.
I don't think current market prices have anything at all to do with KYC.
A degree vs no degree for 1 semester's tuition? Yeah I'd advise most people to put it on a credit card too if that was the only option.

Over your lifetime, it will matter to the vast majority of people. For 1 semester's tuition, it's worth it just to get past HR filters.
I remain hopeful that the outrage machine will fizzle itself out. The key is to make sure resources are distributed as widely as possible, but without eliminating the concept of private ownership. When people want for nothing, there's not much to be mad about.

... If only. Even as I write the words, they ring hollow. Hate may be with us forever. But one cure is time: it's easier to look back and see how ridiculous it was in the moment. It always is.
I watched one the other day called "final space". I don't think it had much magic either.
Armchair critic
There are remarkable parallels between the two, it could be argued. There is something of a myth of Chinese continuity which isn't really warranted at face value when you examine the history more closely. Likewise, there is another myth that one day there was a Roman Empire, and the next day Romulus Augustus was deposed and suddenly Europe was cloaked in darkness, and the legacy of Rome extinguished completely. Real events are considerably more muddy and don't necessarily conform nicely to narratives.

The Tang dynasty, like the Roman Empire, splintered in internal divisions and revolts, leaving behind a rump state that preserved elements of the previous structure, as well as a plethora of semi-"barbarian" successor states controlling portions of the former extents that had their own synergies of "Chinese" and non-Han properties, which one can squint at and see similar reflections of in the Germanic Roman successor states and the Eastern/Byzantine Empire. When Genghis rode into the gates of Zhongdu (Beijing), he had driven out the Jin, who were originally Jurchens from Manchuria, who had in turn displaced the Liao dynasty, who where originally Khitans from Mongolia, who had in their turn taken over when the Tang dynasty fell to pieces. Then his grandson completed the conquest and wiped out the Song dynasty that had remained in control of the southern portion of the old empire. Imagine Charlemagne being coronated Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, and then rather than his grandsons dividing his empire between them in civil war, one had proved powerful enough to maintain control, and then turned and captured Byzantium and the rest of the former Eastern Empire.
Maybe what they're referring to is one step removed. InfoWars yammers on about crisis actors, insisting that the parents are government agents or some such (I can't make heads or tails of these conspiracies) and the listeners make their life hell. Here's an article about it, I'm surprised you haven't seen it if you've been following the sandy hook lawsuits.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sandy-hook-conspiracy-20...
Here in Tokyo I ended up with a Nissan Leaf v.2 (2018 model) with the 40kw/h model with real world range of 150 km (93 miles). It sees about 10 to 20km for errands, ideal city car model. It's home is a stand alone house with a 200v outlet, rare for this area. Typical residences are dense apartments with over subscribed mechanical parking spots.

I did consider the Toyota Prius and all it's variants; the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV; and Nissan's e-power series. Several negatives. Both the Prius and Outlander 10% to 20% more expensive then the Leaf. After government discounts; manufacturer discounts; and dealer incentives they ended up nearly 60% more expensive. All of these hybrids had the shortcomings of ICE (internal combustion engine) of dealing with fuel, oil changes, belts, plugs, and others.

The PHEV (plug in hybrid electric vehicle) would have worked in my use case as the battery has 30km range. Just recharge daily at home but the price was a turn off.

The perceived negative with the Leaf was range. But just the other day I've made a 300km round trip and the three 30 minute breaks to charge the battery was just fine. Japan is easy with such good density of chargers: https://www.plugshare.com/

We rarely use the charger at home. The Leaf gets charged at the local market whenever it's below 50%. Charge time is limited 30 minutes at the public spots and it's enough to get the charge to over 80%. This means that even for people without access to a charger at home easily use the public spots. The salesperson used the same pitch, saying that Leaf owners regularly drop in for a 30 minute charge and hang out at the lounge with free soft drinks.

Anyways, this was my reason and experience on getting BEV instead of a hybrid.
I think we are on the same page.

Don't worry about QR codes, it kills the vibe of an "organic" meeting. Just do it via GPS.

I wouldn't worry about liability, look at the physical contact Tinder is promoting :)

I think the rating should be on the group overall, and not on an individual level.

Negative individual ratings should only be done with consensus, if everyone says Bob was a bully. Then Bob's a bully. But if only Debbie says Bob was a bully, then maybe Debbie just overreacts.

If Debbie constantly negatively rates against the consensus, then Debbie probably isn't a good fit for group situations.
What makes him so special? He's not King, and Twitter doesn't have any government contracts.
Unless eating from landfills harms the seagulls, why? What precious things are the seagulls taking from landfills, and why do we need landfills to remain perfectly preserved?
Hacker News commentators seem to be falling for troll strategies that should be obvious by now.

Don't assume the people in this conversation are acting in good faith, that's what they exploit.
Why can't you pick and choose with IM?
That FWD.Everyone site is pretty cool.
The AAA company I work for has tried everything possible to work around C++, and let me tell you, had they not started any such efforts, they'd have been way better off. Seeing the results of it all makes me super sceptical of any C++-killers.
Prescription drug ads do far more social harm.

"This shit will fuck you up six ways from Sunday but we make a ton of money off of it so ask your doctor..."
> "To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm"

> "The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade"

I find titles promising a specific piece of useful information combined with longform, author storyline based content to be one of the most fustrating things about reading traditional journalism on the internet. A form of bait and switch.
> I really wish D as better C worked better in that realm, but it's missing a few crucial things.

Such as? We are always looking for for things that get in the way of use.
They're sort of similar, and you can probably get the same work done in either system, but I think real threading (green or otherwise), may leave you with less cognitive load. Spawning a thread may be complex, and thinking about how the threads are scheduled is often complex, but what each thread does can be very simple -- and you don't have to think about 'long running things need to be futured/awaited', you just do things in a straightforward way in the thread (caveat: slightly less straightforward if you need thread actions to be cancellable).

Green threads may be running an event loop underneath, but it's a useful abstraction in many contexts.
For me it had the opposite effect.

Working with async-await syntax was the last straw that made me finally go "there's got to be a better way" and find a language can handle concurrency without the semantic overhead (in my case Go, but there are others).
Do you happen to know any open-source games that do this?
You have weekends to catch up as well, where depending on life style, might keep the car parked in garage for longer period.
What do you care about more, cheap gas or the types of lives your grandchildren or great grandchildren will be living?

Regulations solved the ozone issue, leaded gasoline, etc. It has also failed many times. It's tricky, I get it. But it can be possible to create effective regulations. Sometimes situations demand we try -- this looks like one to me.
Yeah I’d like to see how many Antifa folks would show up if they weren’t able to be anonymous, both online and in the RL.
I don't agree 100% with the OP, but there are some students that are indeed just net negatives on the class and in general.

My state used to pay 100% of your state college tuition if you maintained a 3.0 GPA. A lot of students in my freshman dorm stayed until the 30 hour re-evaluation period and then disappeared forever. They partied, never went to class, never studied, and withdrew from most of their classes. They'd regularly fall asleep in or oversleep for 11:00 classes.

As a teacher, how do you handle these students? Many of them have not been raised to be on their own, and college is the first time they're let "off the leash". They're unprepared to be independent adults.

Additionally some students fail the same class over and over, then keep retaking the class with no improvement. They keep asking the same questions, slow down the class, and make it more difficult for everyone else to learn.

As a teacher how do you handle these students? Maybe you've already failed them twice. Maybe you've had extensive study groups, office hours, extra credit materials for these people, but they continue to do poorly. Some of them you suspect have learning disabilities or other mental problems that may always interfere with their ability to take your class.

(Later the state college system changed it to 80% tuition for 3.5 GPA, and at least my college mandated a maximum of 5 withdrawls, which cut down on the problem some.)
End-users who produce electricity aren‘t a problem for the grid, they produce electricity very close to where it‘s mostly consumed (typically they consume most of it themselves). Wind farms on the other hand are built where it‘s cheapest and yields are best, often far away from any relevant consumers.

With their own batteries for 24h+ (soon...), end-users will be the best thing that can happen to the grid.
Same with messaging, right? I have a personal vendetta against email.
This is true. Ambien doesn't help you sleep.

I'm ambien right now. I was clean for 1 1/2 month but i cant anymore.
> Those that won't or can't, no school can help them

Rich can have unmotivated kid and poor can have motivated kids and vice-versa.

Those who can't succeed, schools can still accept fees from them and create a larger pool of resources which those who 'can do' can leverage at expense of those who can't.

Wether it's good or bad - it's for the society to decide.
What is in it for YC to give away a million dollars for nothing in return?
I've found the same to be true for mentoring junior programmers. Those who treat it as just a job rarely advance their abilities. Those who are genuinely interested in learning grew.

I've always disliked the verb "teach" because it implies that it is something I can do to you, when really all I can do is nurture, facilitate or provide a framework for you to learn.
They said they were insured, so presumably, the landlord is covered.
Eastern Europe or Asia or Latin America and speak only conversational English.

It’s the opposite - they have access to markets that English-only speakers don’t. A Brazilian developer networking with Brazilian companies is going to be much happier than one scrabbling for work in a race-to-the-bottom marketplace like Upwork
If the average utility is calculated as ideas by they who have the most money, then you're golden.

I agree completely - why would paid posting do anything but create a chilling effect on anyone but the wealthy?
Does Luna have meta-programming capabilities? In particular:

-does it have a templating system?

-can nodes be created and/or connected programatically?
How exactly do I do this?
At least it'd be a fair matchup. Me vs big companies is like an ant vs you. I'm less worried about a talented Russian who's stuck one generation behind my latest work anyway.
They will get it wrong till they get it right. The law isn't too different from software. It just deals with a lot more ambiguity. And people are conditioned to think things are black and white.

Social media and mainstream media will get three sets of regulation wrt
Privacy, Individual Manipulation, Group Manipulation. It doesn't matter which country you pick, the free for all that currently exists is not being tolerated.
Yeah. What's stopping them from decriminalizing their own criminal desires? Be it drugs, child rape, petty theft, etc.
I'm glad you had a good experience! But it's also true that the most recent random macOS update thread on tonymac86.com
(10.13.6, a minor update) has 44 pages of user comments ranging from the update worked perfectly to the computer completely won't boot and kernel panics - and all manner of issues in between.

If you are using the computer to do paid work and can't gamble like on every update, I think you'd be crazy to use a hackintosh. But if it works for you, sweet.

Two people can both buy "the right parts" according to the site's myriad recommendations but randomly choose slightly different combinations of motherboards or video cards or wifi cards or whatever and have wildly different experiences overall with updates.
Since when was the bar ever a "substantive" way to interact with people?
They have not failed - not sure where you get your information from. Maybe you are confusing with the mortar attack earlier this year?

From earlier this year with pictures: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russia-...

There were several attacks repelled in the last month also but I only have Russian language sources (maybe South Front will have some more details in English - coverage of Syria in Western media has been pretty sparse in the last months with all the government successes in Daraa).
Greenland Is No Longer Larger Than Africa: GoogleMaps Drops Mercator Projections
Might be considered as a less biased list of achievements (not that I'm saying that Walter Bright's list on his website is biased).
...meanwhile, books on managing anxiety are soaring.
The problem I see is that jamming GPS / wifi / mobile frequencies once you see a suspicious drone is too late. When the drone is already in view, it can find its target by inertial or camera navigation alone.

But jamming 1km around every possible target, every day as a precaution is going to be too disruptive. It may actually increase risk to life - by jamming 911 calls for any ordinary accident.
Getting large groups of people to join a new social app is very tricky.

Take a dating app/site for example. You join - there's 2 people on the platform and they are no where near your location. People leave and the product fails.

Start a social media app/site that doesn't have the backing of a large company and large media/news advertising - you join, no one is there. People leave and the product fails.

Start an app like instagram where you can upload all your photos. The bulk joining doesn't matter as much, as the social aspect is not the primary purpose and that can come later. Product can grow and the "social" aspect can develop over time.
> As a teacher, how do you handle these students?

Many people don't believe in working hard today for having a better life tomorrow.

They think they might as well get stuck by lightening and die. Should we blame them for this kind of thinking?

This why the idea of a weflare state seems to saddle the ones who work with more work at the expense of those who are not willing to do anything.

Today, the ones who get most benefit from the social system act indifferent to the soceity's need and refuse to contribute.

Maybe best system is one where everyone is left to fend for themselves and receive no help from government or society?
...but tends to be windier. My understanding is that renewable use in Germany is largely driven by wind power.
HHVM JIT: A profile-guided, region-based compiler for PHP and Hack
So letters are a social network?
I'd give Gresham some due as well.
> There is a config option for most broswers

Yes, this is what I meant (and I have it switched on) although reading my comment back I can see how it could be interpreted as me wishing for this capability.
Anybody who is arguing with you is your opponent. It's not so dramatic word :)
These markets rarely pay as much as US or even UK. I've seen dozens of developers with 2-5 years of experience earning more on Upwork than senior developers in their countries.

Also, it isn't a "race-to-the-bottom" if you have a good portfolio and know how to present your skills.
Go has a bit of a niche, and Rust is trying real hard, but they aren't Javascript or Java, or C#, or Python, or Rails, or PHP, or C++, or Objective-C or... Out in the wider world, they are very much playing catchup, and have a very far way to go.
It is amazing how successful YC has been. Is there another well known accelerator that has close to YC’s total valuation of startups?

Also it baffles me that YC has close to 1000 startups that have gone through them but only one “Dropbox” has IPO’d.

I get the feeling that YC’s best days are ahead when things they invested in a decade ago will pay off huge returns.
Leaded fuel was banned in the 70s so the people that were of criminal age and exposed to lead were aging out of the criminal pool.
It's nothing to do with him, it's to do with the position of head of state or head of government of any country or international political body.

For Twitter to block anybody in such a position would be a step too far into playing an active role in the political process, and would open a can of worms by forcing them into the role of determining which other political leaders or contenders should be allowed or banned.
Here is a direction if you are all ears : instead of a new language, add a new layer.

I tried creating my own languages before, some 15 years ago. While I had fun writing compilers, I missed a lot more writing actual programs. One day I suddenly realized I don't really need new language, what I needed is simply context dependent syntax and code block organization, which can easily implemented on the spot. It become MyDef and I have been programing with it entirely for more than 10 years now and wondering how others don't go down the same path.

Actually in a broad sense, Knuth's literate programing adventure is very similar to mine. He also wondered how others were not as excited as he was.

So rather than a new language, try a new dimension.