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This seems more like a failure of those platforms to be honest. If they could actually moderate the content and not allow incitement, which is illegal in some jurisdictions, I don't think there would be any problems. After all, they do moderate it to some extent since there is no CP, drug markets, etc.
Orcas are one of the most amazing animals in my opinion. They are extremely intelligent and family oriented. There are some great video captures of Orcas attacking great white sharks by flipping the shark upside down which puts the shark into paralysis and then they simply kill the shark without any resistance. The whole encounter doesn't last more than a few seconds this is how precise and smart these animals are.

Many people are probably familiar with some documentaries where we can see Orcas hunt in groups to create artificial waves in order to wipe seals off the ice plates in the Arctic.

I personally was lucky to see Orcas patrol the coastline in Argentina where Orcas come extremely close to the shore and beach themselves in order to catch one of the many sea lions which relax there in false sense of security. Once they get the sea lion they wait for the next wave to help them back into the water. It's just amazing and one of the best spots on earth to witness something truly remarkable. The spot is very popular for whales to come and mate/give birth too so it's well worth to go there for a short break!

If anyone ever visits Argentina make sure to stop by "Valdes Peninsula" and get a car rental for 1 or 2 days so you can explore the peninsula yourself and with a bit of luck spot some Orcas!
Well that's the hypothesis - that since reversion to the mean stock allocation has always happened it will continue to happen. There's things that can invalidate the assumption, like the widespread common wisdom of HODLing index ETFs (till retirement, no matter what). If the hypothesis is false we could see stock market allocation go all the way up to 80%, or even beyond.

Am I wrong?
Taxes: where the government keeps finding new ways to make you overpay....
is this a joke? the article and nature says the opposite. it is great whites who avoid orcas.
Corporate personhood looks like a legal fiction of convenience to me, making contracts, accounting, and responsibilities/obligations etc. easier. Corporations can’t be called up for jury duty or conscripted into military service, they can’t vote, and they don’t need to exist for 18 years before being allowed to take out a line of credit.
You're already on this build? If so, that's great news.
Hear ya. Same here, loved computers and to build stuff.

For long time, I thought meritocracy was there for us, (maybe because we tend to be more rational?) And it sort of worked this way the first years but once I got up to political levels that’s when I realized people are taken advantage quite often.
The density only partially helps, because there is still an overhead in even a single delivery that has to be paid. I'll give you an example, 饿了吗 will deliver food for 5-10 RMBdelivery fee in Shanghai. I would often order say, 生煎包 for 8 RMB and pay 5RMB delivery. A guy on a delivery bike would take like 15-30 minutes to deliver, and I often noticed they only delivered one order in my condo (his bike had nothing else in the basket), and just getting from the street to my condo's door, ringing the phone, and having me buzz him up the elevator would consume 5-10 minutes of his time getting in/out of the place and back to his next delivery.

Shanghai minimum wage is 2500 RMB/mo. So in order to make minimum wage, this guy would need to make 500 orders in 30 days, or 16 deliveries per day. In an 8 hour day, could he pick up and make 16 deliveries? Sure, but it's tight, and obviously at some point, they have to pay the delivery guys more.

And they have, but in order for O2O players to pay more to the delivery people, they've ended up charging more to the restaurants, and so the restaurants have then ended up raising the prices on the menus displayed.

So this indicates that the current O2O system in China wasn't stable. Despite massive revenues, the heavy competition, discounts, and artificially low introductory fees, and ease of switching, doesn't give me confidence their current structure will work.

And 饿了吗‘s logistics seem pretty chaotic to me and no different than Postmates or Doordash in the US. I rarely saw delivery bikes loaded down with multiple orders, because 15-30 minute delivery windows pretty much dictate a point-to-point delivery, rather than a hub and spokes model.
Gotta pass out special privileges. With complexity comes opportunity.
Thinking on Your Feet
We Can’t Explain the World Through Language “ Reality Was Here First.”
Social Security will not be gone, and it is not unsustainable at a macro level. Currently configured, it will pay out ~75% of earned benefits once the trust fund is exhausted in 2034. Several small changes, in concert, remove any insolvency concerns. It keeps 22 million Americans out of poverty [1], and is very efficient in terms of admin costs vs distributed benefits. I posit it's cheaper to keep those benefits recipients out of poverty, versus paying for what happens if they aren't kept out of poverty.

Healthcare? Universal healthcare (Medicare For All), allowing for shedding the current jigsaw of healthcare benefits across the country. Less admin overhead, more care providers. If you're a pension that committed to healthcare expenses (state & local government, and manufacturers), you should be ringing the Medicare For All bell the hardest, to get the necessary infrastructure in place before your shortfalls arrive.

> I would postulate the opposite - I would have thought because we believe that neither companies nor the guvmint would be there to support us, we would have fended for ourselves better (I know that's how I personally took it, and many/most of my friends). But you might be right... sounds like an attitude of "ef it, we're doomed" set in.

Most Americans don't have the discretionary income after mandatory expenses to save to "fend for themselves" due to forty years of wage stagnation. This is why so many must rely on government programs to survive. [2]

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/social-securit... (Social Security Lifts More Americans Above Poverty Than Any Other Program)

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us... (For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades)
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This just looks like an OAuth flow, which is rather standard.

It's not a good example to use of someone stealing an API.
Thanks for that, they're just incredible!
Oh, I dunno. Disney's worst traits are probably the cover up of deaths and accidents at their parks, and how litigious they are about branding and intellectual property infringement. Also "disneydvd" as a format is a bit overdone.

Other indiscretions are pretty minor. Like, on one hand, most of their parks (especially Orlando) are staffed by mostly gay males, which kind of flies in the face of the wholesome midwestern family fun concept, when you try to scratch the surface about what shape that takes when the rubber meets the road. And on the other hand, you have the Nazi characters in 1940's era cartoons, and other cultural improprieties (like disgruntled animators inserting lewd imagery into feature films, or ham fisted multi-cultural franchises) in their animation over the years, but hey, no one's perfect, right?

For a media company, this is splitting hairs. It's not like they're dropping bombs on orphanages, or blockading third world nations.
How to Boost Your Business with Residential Proxies: 5 Real-Life Use Cases
What?! You can't just "start a new account" can you? What if you used their other services, which they use a single sign on for?
Keep in mind if you're the company that can make ads 10% more effective than everyone else, then you're going to be extremely successful. Even if that means going from "horrible" to "less horrible."

Maybe you got an ad for a BMW and you'd never buy a BMW because you're frugal. But maybe it's showing those ads to everyone within your income band, which is several times more effective than showing them to every random site visitor.
Is it also racist to say, "The Americans"?
Legion of Lobotomized Unices (2017)
Perhaps he is! Just like in Seveneves.
The gist is that the entire source code for the original City of Heroes game has leaked out into the wild. This is fairly massive since I can't recall an incident like this occuring in the MMO world before.
We develop on Windows, deploy across OS X, Windows, UNIX, mainframes and embedded devices, without re-compiling.

Looks pretty much living the dream of portable language-agnostic VM for user-facing apps to me.
Looks cool, but years of cynicism regarding “new” databases has me deeply suspicious of things like “Kafka as a database”. I mean Kafka is already a complicated enough thing I refuse to rely on it 100% for its normal usage. How can I ever trust it as a persistent data store? The answer is I can’t. Others will have to blaze this trail. Sorry but my love of Datalog is insufficient to motivate me to A: trust Kafka, and B: add java/clojure/anything JVM to my tech stack.

My reservations aside, serious nerd <3 for the Datalog support, I really wish more data storage has native support for Datalog. I hope this project matures to the point cynical system architects like myself can trust it, because Datalog is just that awesome. The project looks like it’s off to a great start so keep it up, and don’t let the cynical types [ like myself ;-) ] derail you.
P=NP because all inputs and outputs can be represented by a 1’s/0’s number and a line can be drawn between those numbers that’s O(1) and all sets of algorithms are arbitrary so it’s possible to have a set of algorithms that fits the P=NP definition, k thx bye.
> I've also been influenced by your own comments in the past about a language for building web apps

Hey Rich have you seen Imba?

http://imba.io/

It's not reactive, but it doesn't need to since everything is memoized. I think it's interesting that they made their own language to solve the front end problem.

They used it to build https://scrimba.com/ which is pretty awesome.
Some states also take into account intent. Meaning that you need a dealers license and insurance just to purchase and sell a single vehicle, if the original intent of purchasing the vehicle was to sell it.

In my state, Oregon, for example, the DMV has agents watching craigslist, facebook, autotrader, etc. who go test drive private party cars under cover and ask the question, "So, why are you selling?" where answering that question incorrectly (along the lines of, "oh I bought it to fix up and make a few bucks") will net you a several thousand dollar fine.
Just note that however you try to define "the photon's frame of reference" you end up with a division by zero, so the definition becomes meaningless.

Eg distance traveled is 0 due to length contraction. Time taken is 0 due to time dilation. So what's its velocity? 0/0 = undefined, the question is meaningless. But the velocity is arguably more fundamendal than the distance travelled or time taken, so those aren't truly 0. They're also undefined quantities.
> We created a standard API for cars.

Does that not mean anyone else can use the API?
I clicked on this thinking it was genuine satire about his ego, actually.
API usually have at least copyright protection, sometimes even license protection.

Although I am not a huge fan of many of their business practices, Oracle has been quite successful in defending API copyright violations.

https://searchoracle.techtarget.com/news/2240220840/Oracle-t...
> anything that allows large volumes of data to be moved around (copyright violation, child pornography, exfiltration of data from corporate networks)

So could Mozilla be on the hook if people used Firefox Send to do any of these things?
China is a nation, not a race.

Race itself is a social construct.

Nice try though!
Please inform me where I've misinterpreted your phrasing. I am responding to you assuming you intend for best-faith discussion but may be misunderstanding the person you are responding to if you are concluding it is one of "simply" and "inconvenience", the second word you used again to describe the position.

I'm not always neurotypical in my understanding so please clarify if I'm misunderstanding you: Is your position not that you believe the poster is creating an unfair framework of skepticism on how convenient evidence is?
What Does Belief in the Resurrection Look Like?
Nice post. Some more references:

1. AWS re:invent talk on Network Performance: https://youtu.be/LjeXZItav34

2. Twitter thread on network optimization by colmmacc, Principal at AWS Network and Edge Engineering orgs: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1099086415671877633.html

3. drewg123 on Jim Roskind's QUIC vs TCP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19461777

4. Google's BBR congestion algorithm for TCP and QUIC: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45646

5. The sophisticated HFSC (hierarchical fair service curve) qdisc: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang/HFSC/main.html
Do the offline/desktop versions of TurboTax, etc do this? Not arguing, just surprised
Mac: RubyMine, Terminal, Chrome, Sequel Pro, Sublime Text (scratch notes), [side screen: Slack, Spotify, Activity Monitor]
At $55M in funding, they can undercut for years, since they won't need to turn a healthy profit for quite some time.

For example, Uber and Lyft. (Point being: survival is not just about the long run, but also the short run.)
That's doubtful as I don't live some kind of hermit like existence and regularly buy many products.
Yes, because WASM is basically politics due to the refusal of other browser vendors to adopt PNaCL, and it doesn't provide any security for memory bound and null pointer exploits inside the sandbox.
I am sorry. Maybe your Harry Potter example is "obvious", but the case in the blog post is not obvious to me at all. I don't see any verbatim copied documentation. "overall structure"? Hey, the overall structure of almost any api doc is pretty much the same. All I see is similar API, which is not copyrightable, and identical randomly generated identifiers - and it's not obvious to me that it constitutes copyright infringement.

Let's not do witch-hunting.
Well the first rule of electrical work is to assume an idiot or a cheapskate did the original work (or most recent repair) and the colors have a fifty-fifty chance of lying to you...
In addition to being unwelcome in its own right, this sort of comment is against Hacker News guidelines.

Please don’t do this here.
Fwiw, law in California requires allowing users to cancel subscriptions via the same medium they used to sign up.
The wikipedia article has a few examples. For instance:

sentence --> noun_phrase, verb_phrase.
noun_phrase --> det, noun.
verb_phrase --> verb, noun_phrase.
det --> [the].
det --> [a].
noun --> [cat].
noun --> [bat].
verb --> [eats].

And here are some example queries:

% Running as a recogniser
?- sentence([the,cat,eats,a,cat], []).
true.

% With a string not in the grammar
?- sentence([the,cat,eats,'YeGoblynQuenne'], []).
false.

% Running as a generator
?- sentence(P, []).
P = [the, cat, eats, the, cat] ;
P = [the, cat, eats, the, bat] ;
P = [the, cat, eats, a, cat] ;
P = [the, cat, eats, a, bat] ;
P = [the, bat, eats, the, cat] ;
P = [the, bat, eats, the, bat] ;
P = [the, bat, eats, a, cat] ;
% ...
% More results generated on backtracking

To prevent any confusion - the "A --> B" syntax is syntactic sugar. Such statements are expanded to ordinary Prolog terms by the Prolog equivalent of a macro (an expansion hook). You can inspect the ordinary Prolog definitions saved in the program database:

?- listing(sentence).
sentence(A, B) :-
noun_phrase(A, C),
verb_phrase(C, B).

Indeed, it's perfectly possible to write these by hand - as you can see above the ordinary Prolog definition is not that complicated, the macro expanding the DCG notation adds two variables to each nonterminal and relieves you of the need to add this boilerplate yourself.
A lot of new cars do have internet built in whether that is exposed for your use or not.

My 2014 Chevy gave me 2 years of their mobile app which could unlock/lock the car via cellular for free. I know the car still has a data connection available because if I play songs via bluetooth it pulls in album art that doesn't exist on my phone via Gracenote. I can also hit the OnStar button and talk to someone via the car and I don't pay for that.

That Chevy lock/unlock API may not be a public API but there is nothing stopping someone from reversing it. Or just signing up to use it: https://developer.gm.com/vehicle-apis

Most modern cars offer the same features.
This is super neat, and definitely a great tool for early debugging -- but for anything more in-depth, there's built-in pdb and third-party ipdb, which gives PDB an IPython frontend.

Both use gdb semantics which is great if that's what you're used to.
SPARC already has an ecosystem thanks to Sun/Oracle. Gaisler did open implementation, Leon3. Sun/Oracle did T1 and T2. Registration to say it was SPARC compatible was only $99 when I looked at it years ago. My only question was why the heck isn't someone cranking them out for security or FOSS markets?

Didn't get a chance to find out. Now we have RISC-V chips being developed with lots of companies getting behind it. Still easier to get ahold of SPARC chips, though. I'll also add that quite a few projects in academia used SPARC. OpenPiton being one that might justify using SPARC over RISC-V, esp if NUMA machine. :)

http://parallel.princeton.edu/piton/#
Go home to China and cry.
I avoid them after they asked me to write about a topic that I didn't even have on my resume. I also found the quality of the books that I had purchased to not be very high.

> Packt is planning to publish a book titled as 'SQLAlchemy cookbook' which would be a 300 page book and in the process of seeking potential authors to work on this book I also read through your resume [Link]. It is evident that you have an expertise in this area and as such seems to be an ideal candidate to author this book for us.

They linked to my actual resume that had 0 mention of SQLAlchemy. At the time, I had also graduated less than a year before, which was clearly mentioned on my resume as well.
WASM has bounds checking on the linear memory as well.
> you'll be incredibly disappointed what passes for DD for VCs.

There are lots of VCs, some are better at this than others, some really suck. On the whole though they tend to do their homework at least on the commercial front and a competitor with a feature-for-feature identical offering would have most likely been spotted even at the 'not so good ones', irrespective of whether or not the API docs were made public.

The interesting questions to me are:

- what was the exact timeline?

- was an (ex) employee of the company involved in the copying?

- is Otonomo itself aware of the fact that they have this sitting on their website?

- How far down does it go? Is it just the API documentation, or also the underlying code?
Both apollo-client and react-apollo ship with definitions in their npm packages, so using TypeScript with Apollo isn't a problem.

I don't like the stack. It's way too heavy. If I were building everything again now, I'd go with a standard Phoenix app and ditch Redux for sure and hold off on fullblown front-end frameworks and Graphql.

I'd ship v1 with Phoenix, UJS and Turbolinks, and it would take 1/4 the time. Then, if the project grew to where it needed and could support a larger team, I'd bring in Absinthe, Apollo and then finally Vue.

My main recommendation would be to keep things as simple as possible for as long as possible. Use something like Phoenix or Rails or Laravel and get stuff shipped.
I sell Bonsais.
Intel went up to 1.8 GHz on 180nm, just saying.
I used to use TurboTax and painstakingly enter everything imaginable and read everything to make sure I wasn't missing anything and would consistently get back around $4,500 to $5,000 in total between Federal and state. Using him, we got back $6,500 total. Also, with the Trump tax changes taking effect, a bunch of coworkers of mine said they got screwed and got back like half of what they used to get back. A few said they were about on par. We got back more than usual.

He actually just does them for free because my wife has an LLC in her name and we pay him to do the LLC taxes and other stuff. And he said the hardest part is doing the LLC work and we were already paying him for that - so since our returns were actually quite simple he'd just file them for us because the hard part was done (and paid for). Not sure what it normally goes for. I think you're correct that it's around $400, though. And in that case, we definitely net out much more than the $400 we would be paying if we were paying. I'm sure every situation is different, but for us it's a clear win. And if you're wondering - no we aren't funneling losses through the LLC or anything like that. The LLC is profitable and only increases our income which is why we figured we would get screwed like my coworkers with the tax changes, but somehow did not.
Eslint already warns you about issues like this, and is framework-agnostic. Does Svelte just use eslint under the hood? Otherwise you risk fracturing the ecosystem with framework-specific a11y requirements.
> What likely happened here is a remote team was paid to generate docs with a directive like, “Smartcar has a good API,” and stole them directly.

They didn't steal the docs (not only the docs). They stole the whole public facing architecture as evidenced by the fact that they are using in some instances the exact same API resources names and method names.
Colorado Tried a New Way to Vote: Make People Pay–Quadratically
Care you point it where in the standard, because I don't see it on the memory access opcodes.
The disease will never exert strong evolutionary pressure as the symptoms start appearing well after deer will have reproduced.
That thought definitely crossed my mind when it was first announced. I sure hope they thought of that before releasing.
Average-case can be quite an odd beast. You have to be careful what you are averaging over -- what distribution you're assuming in the analysis.

For example for quicksort, if you implement it such that it always pivots on the first element of the range to be sorted, that could be average-case O(n lg n) if I consider all possible orderings of the inputs of the given size, but if I usually call it with an almost sorted array, that's not the average behavior I'm going to see by any means.

So in most cases it ends up being a pretty leaky and dangerous contract that your function is providing, with average-case analysis. You have to know deep details of how it's working.

An often better way to go, when it's possible, is to use expected-time. So again using quicksort as an example, this would mean the algorithm randomly chooses a pivot in the given range. The difference now is, the worst-case is still O(n^2), but there's no input I can give it (accidentally or intentionally) that will trigger that behavior, I'd have to get insanely unlucky for that to happen on a large input.
The US government currently takes in about $1.7 trillion in individual income taxes per year, so even spending $500 million to pre-fill forms would be almost nothing (0.03%). Heck, that's less than a useless aircraft carrier or a Facebook consent decree violation.

The IRS already has W-2s and 1099s, which cover ordinary pay and retirement investments, and enough money has probably been automatically withheld already. Remember that this isn't automatic billing, but automatic filling. They'll send you the form, and you can insert the number of children. If your taxes are much more complicated than that, you can probably afford TurboTax.