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I know Stripe is in beta in India, but I don't see any other alternative better than PayPal. Or is there something?
I like to read release notes for libraries we use or clean up the Wiki.

Nobody wants me starting code at 3:00 on a Friday. But I can still clean up text just fine.
I think this is a very important distinction you make, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they are fundamentally incompatible.

It today's world, data about a person is an asset. A person should own their assets, and have control over them. If there were only one option, this would have to be it - it's the only one that aligns with business interests. If you instead go purely the route of anonymous data collection, because data is such an asset it just gives businesses the strong incentive to find ways to de-anonymize your data. That is an unstable situation, and a societal counter-productive incentive.

Since data on me has value (clearly since businesses are run off it), make it a true product. Give it value, allow me as a consumer to trade it, allow businesses to quantify it's value in the market place, and explicitly bid on. That aligns incentives. As data becomes more (or less) valuable, businesses will adjust their prices for it. This aligns incentives, the more data is worth to a business, the more they'll be willing to pay for it. IMHO this is clearly the right approach.

That said, there is still a world where both methods exist. Users choose when they interact if they want to perform anonymous interaction (or pseudoanonymous), and people provide services to ensure it is anonymous. HN, reddit those are forms people would likely choose pseudoanon for, but there would be a firewall between someones pseudoanon identity and their true identity. And people would be pseudoanon knowing the risks and taking care to not divulge linking identityy info, and businesses would ensure there are limits on data preservation / recording of pseudoanon interactions. The same way people post on HN and use care in what they choose to disclose, HN would also ensur data expiry is short enough and would not share/sell pseudoanon data to 3rd parties.

Again, if you can only pick one, it has to be consumer ownership of their data, but I think they both can work together.
Whenever you see someone showing a brief and incomplete window of data, you have to take a step back and ask yourself "why?". There is seldomly a case for you to just disregard newer data when trying to predict into the future.

That being said, this is simply a Tesla short that used incomplete (but true in the past) statistics to try and make Tesla look bad. They time boxed their statistics to 2016 and despite the post being made in mid 2018.

Tesla for the years 2019, 2018, 2017 has had 7 deaths per year each (6 so far in 2019). Despite the number of Tesla's on the road showing hockey stick like growth, the number of fatalities has remained nearly constant.

If the blog post were to be true, the number of fatalities due to accidents in 2017 should have been 14, then 24 in 2018, and closer to 50 in 2019.
Am I "missing" something? I don't get those scrollbar comment layout... Where is the problem being fixed?
VRBO sometimes lists the same places as AirBnB but cheaper. I suppose that their fees are lower.
Wouldn't variations in wind be a non-starter for catapults?
agree. Airbnb is overvalued.
This probably requires a fairly nuanced analysis. A quick googling suggests a low estimate for the duration of the K-T event to be about 1000 years.
There’s plenty of people of simply don’t care about that, they just want a cheap and pretty phone.
I think that asking someone with a proper CS degree if they "know how to code" is like asking a master carpenter if they know how to cut and sand wood. Yes, of course, but if all you wanted to learn was cutting and sanding then becoming a master carpenter was a waste of time and effort.
Sadly no, but perhaps next year if the rumors of a USB-C iPhone 12 are true.
Perhaps not, though I am unfamiliar with Ohio's state constitution.
I work in an org (not typical dev work) that has staff in several offices around my country. Almost all of my projects are run with team members or stakeholders in different cities (and I actually think it works surprisingly well).

However, downsides include:

messenger clients/email are just inherently inefficient. Absolutely necessary, but inefficient. Being there in person will always be better for work that requires in depth discussion. The psychological conditioning of always staying alert for the next message (whether that be chat room, message, phone) is not conducive to sustain concentration and intellectual work. I try to keep to a pattern of two checks through the day, but this is not universally accepted through the workforce. Always on is not healthy.

Time differences ug.

Public holiday and cultural differences.

I am no fan of micromanagement, but it can be hard to on-board new staff and team members. Sometimes junior staff do need supervision and handling, and that can be tough remotely.

And while it's nice to live in fantasy world where everyone gets along, conflict is also harder remotely. When people "go rogue" that's tough.

Also, if people are going off on the wrong track or there is a miscommunication, it's easier for it to stay hidden for longer.

Lastly, its easier for changes and decisions to happen without your input when you're remote. Unless you're just working on a small team which naturally gets along and everyone agrees (and then you risk groupthink), authority structures do exist, and decisions get made where authority lies. Those with proximity to authority have an inherent advantage in getting their way.

How does my org handle it? Well, we have budget/process for travel and a yearly off-site and offices in all key cities in the country. I hate travel for work, so that expenditure is safe on my end, but not all orgs/jobs are going to have all that as an option.

Otherwise you just have to be aware of these issues and figure out a culture, tech, and protocols to deal with them.
I've seen some industry insiders talk about how box-office takings effectively "snapshot" later earnings. So the TV syndication rights or streaming rights will pay out based on the box office (and possibly even just the opening weekend).

Certainly this isn't always true: The Room has been running for a long time, and is now presumably much more valuable than its initial box office would suggest. But I don't think that most movies become cult hits, and their revenue is probably closely related to initial box office.

I don't have a source for this beyond reddit comments though.
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For it to matter to the USG is has to be "X drone strike kills 30 pine nut farmers in [some US state]"
Here is an example of the problem this extension fixes:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

My “solution” is to add asterisks around the text to make it Italic, like so:

> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Here are the official formatting guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Exactly. And i think it 's better UI overall: You default to no ads , but when it comes payment time, you present the ad opt-in to the users. My bet is 99.99% of users will choose free with ads. This also crosses a psychological barrier to disable their ad blocker.
In case of major disaster such as meteorite hitting a metropolitan area, just in time logistics systems mean most major cities such as New York or London have enough food to survive for 2-3 days. If something happens that disrupts the supply chain 10 of millions of people will be starving in couple days. Imagine if something serious happened. In a week there would be anarchy and total collapse of law and order.
> If you engage in meaningful work, then it is impossible to get burned out for too long.

Definitely not true.
I use 1blocker on both Mac and iOS. Its pretty decent.
Beaver dams don't kill off the ecosystem. Tons of other life forms make use of the newly-flooded area. I've personally watched herons perch upon the dam to catch the fish that are now swimming through the now-deeper waterway, for example.
Ok, maybe I'm asking questions too close to my own viewpoint. Let me ask some follow-up questions that are a bit further out.

Would you approve of a law which forbade advertising of any sort?

Would you approve of a law which required service providers to offer their service for free?

Would you approve of a law which forbade service providers from offering their service for free?

Would you approve of a law banning the sale of digital goods or rights to digital goods?

Would you approve of a law banning subscriptions or recurring payments?

Would you approve of a law forbidding the use of cameras in public places?

Would you approve of a law forbidding companies from having more than $X in revenue, for some X?
I believe iOS 13 does via NFC. Yubico was just talking about this: https://www.yubico.com/2019/09/yubico-ios-authentication-exp...
I can't help but view it with disgust just at the headline of having the wrong kind of mentality. It is a spiteful logical fallacy of the worst kind. "Soviets terrified of plan to nuclear first strike whole world - good!" Just because even the vilest foe dislikes it doesn't mean it is a good idea.

The whole article seems to be about shutting down thinking and manipulation via playing with emotions.

I am probably an outlier but I view that as an active sign that is terrible because otherwise they would lead on better points. The article made me /less/ supportive of it. It is perhaps unduly harsh but I would call it an outright propaganda piece not because of the message but how it was delivered.
Something interesting to note is that Python’s ContextVar (introduced in Python 3.7) is a persistent dictionary.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0567/#implementation
sure, the studies may not be exactly comparable, and pointing that out is reasonable and even helpful. and yes, costs (including externalities) are not the same as the policies (e.g., direct subsidies) addressing them. but there is a relevant term in policy and economics for non-monetary benefits: "indirect subsidies", so again, your semantic argument is on shaky ground.

anyways, these are unimportant relative to the acute problem that burning fossil fuels kills people as well as other creatures great and small (not to mention other retaliations by our planet), especially considering that renewable alternatives are becoming economically attractive.

so let's price in those negative externalities (which on the flipside is reasonable to view as subsidies to the fossil fuel industry due to their market distorting effects) so that the invisible hand considers all costs in its march toward the optimal allocation of global resources.
I am honestly sad to read that you feel that way. To each his own I guess :-)
For a scientific/brutal reality check I would also recommend reading "When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress" by Gabor Maté.
Or you can't find the most valuable copy of something: highest bitrate video, multiple languages for subtitles, multiple audio streams for different languages. I just want 1 supreme copy of something.
They may not have been wrong about cars. Probably not planes either for people living near takeoff/landing flight paths...
Except you also have Origin and the Epic store which do demand exclusivity and we are rapidly approaching the same situation with video games that we are in with television streaming services. I have most of my games on Steam, but have had to download both the Epic and Origin launchers for one game each. Luckily I don't have to pay a subscription service for each launcher. Yet...
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While I had really liked the idea of hypothesis in Python I found that the edge-cases it was uncovering were the ones that were obviously gonna break but at the same time cases I didn't care to guard against, e.g., using 3-mile long integers, or cases that wouldn't work with the underlying libraries eg NumPy. Thus, I found myself spending more time adding constraints on the generated inputs than fledging out my test-suite. So my adventures with hypothesis were short-lived.

I don't mean to detract from this library, I think its a great combination of strong-typing and property-based testing but has anyone had any experience employing property-based testing on complex functions outside of the whole add/subtract/multiple stuff? What kinda thing have you used it on?
It's the other way around: US counties have any legal authority only at the pleasure of their state government, as expressed in its constitution or by statute. They are only immune from state government overrides of their authority to the extent there is a specific law prohibiting the state from overriding their authority.
No lack of demand. People are just buying less expensive clones of the AR15, like the Springfield Saint. $650 vs the $1k real AR15.
It's almost as if CO2 is a sort of "greenhouse" gas!
What did that have to do with temperature?
Stop putting your cat outside
>I am a big time traveler.

So who wins in 2020?
At least in America we already restrict certain types of transactions, e.g. selling illegal and/or restricted drugs is itself generally illegal IIRC. Similarly I'm pretty sure slavery is illegal even if it's entered into voluntarily (please correct me if I'm wrong there, I'm not speaking from specific knowledge).

We impose these restrictions for the good of the public. If we decide that exchanging personal data for goods and services should be illegal under certain conditions, I don't see why that's any different than the precedents I mentioned.
The culture and product are exceptional. In the long run I think they will outcompete rivals.
First time ever I've wanted to upvote multiple times on HN
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Reducing can mean helping developing countries advance to a point where they have a social safety net, less children per family by having better sex education, more opportunities for women, access to contraceptives.
For me personally, "meaningful" can be replaced by "interesting". I don't really care if what I'm doing has any meaning whatsoever, I want it to be interesting and tap into my strengths.

Note also, this had nothing to do with difficulty. I hear people say "I love difficult problems" all the time, but interesting yet easy work is far more rewarding to me than boring and difficult.
> Or is there something?

Razorpay. It’s also a YC company. I think of it as essentially an India-focused Stripe clone, with UPI, netbanking, etc.
Please can you make your update PIN flow a bit different to your view PIN flow ta? If you are developing an app it's nice to be able to confirm that someone has got their OTC correct before they move to setting their PIN - so perhaps give us an ephemeral key for updating PIN we can use to do this as opposed to it being a one step process
Thank you for being the voice of reason <3 Small correction though on your last paragraph: nuclear is not a renewable energy, but it does not emit carbon.
I expect they could lower price and remain profitable for the civilian market, however they would then be required to pass along that lower price to the government. Now they’re likely locked into government procurement contracts and they’re able to sell at a high margin. Net profit would decrease by lowering price.
More lies on top of lies.

IF this is effecting all of Cuba then this is exactly fucking hysteria.

It's not Russian spies, it's not magic sonic weapons that sound like crickets but for some reason can't be crickets! We seriously had recordings of crickets which the world knows what they sound like yet the Emperor still had no clothes.

It's hysteria.

On top of that the brains studies so far have been disproven.

And how did it affect the diplomats in China and other countries?

Seriously the whole mystical city of Havana has brain damage but only the North Americans have found out?

Banging my head on a wall reading these dumb stories is the only brain damage here.

He even says they are a 'very strong group' EXACTLY were you expect hysteria.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant that most people I know seem to shower for >>2 minutes, so I doubted the credibility of the comparison.

Clearly, if you are fairly consistently sticking to 2-minutes showers, that's going to be more economical than baths -- even with some degree of sharing.
There's also the dilemma that if you pay for something with a credit card, you have to identify yourself.
>If films were like $1-$3 for a high resolution download I think they'd sell like wildfire. I'd definitely pay for the convenience.

I really doubt that would be the case. It would be way more likely that movies would be stuffed with ads and we'd be crying about the death of "real cinema", like we do today with journalism.

$1-$3 doesn't even seem sustainable.
Yes - literally your airspace...
"Deep state" is intended to sound sinister. Brietbart coined it and it's amazing how quickly it's entered our political lexicon.
The release notes go on to say that you may need to provide your own implementation of bcmp, which does not sound very intrinsic.
My inner pedant compels me to reply that these are not in fact regexes, but Bash parameter expansions.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Par...

My inner pedant has no comment regarding readability of Bash parameter expansions.
That's exactly what I'm trying to get at with this post.

I initially started my study of algorithms about a week ago, with nearly a decade of professional programming experience under my belt.

I quickly realized that expecting myself to find the optimal, or even near-optimal solution, was setting myself up for failure. Yet (hence this post) I wasn't sure if that was the case for other people.

I continue to wonder what other people's experiences have been like in the pursuit of algorithm study. Do you find that the intuitive, brute force solution is readily available in your mind, but that you have to "peak" aka "cheat" to find the elegant / right solution? Or are most people finding themselves able to just tackle the problems outright, getting (or nearly getting) the optimal (or nearly optimal) solution on first pass...?
The catapult launches the drone, not the package.
When a large business makes any significant investment decision, it has nothing to do with anything else but the perception of increased profit for the business.

Anything else is a side effect, always. If the action can be painted in a way that PR spins propaganda up that the people love or that quantified positive benefits from that PR result in net profits then we have successful alignment as a society (but the motive is never there). Amazon could have done this (or a partial) transition years ago but they didn't because it would have hurt their bottom line. Apparently now, this is more cost effective and the image/optics for the general public is more valuable.

Heck, most small investments big businesses make fit the same model but small investments get much less scrutiny (analysis) and typically give a better bang for the buck to society.

Now as to which is better for the environment... that's a very complicated matter and Amazon isn't concerned about that. If electric vehicles are better than we have proper alignment between goals to strive for in society and business actions. If not then we need to adjust incentives for businesses so they do get us to where we need to be.
TL;DR Can you give me a summary. :-)
My DSLR is aging out...they've changed lens mounts (manufacturers seem to do that just long enough to blow the cost benefit of keeping lenses long term...I use my phone for 98% of my photos. The last one I actually printed out (a panorama) came from my iPhone XS Max.

I just can't justify a $1200 camera purchase to replace my Sony A57...and I'm a little sad about it.
Are you sure they aren't? Better check your facts.

It's a longer border, making it harder to man with...manpower.
Hardly. It doesnt seem the law will affect the business, it will just make the cost of data collection explicit: "Pay $40/month to use facebook or get a free rebate by enabling ads".
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Surveilled by who: everyone. Have you considered how many corporations "work with the government"? The DMV itself sells your data. Everyone is spying, hacking, and selling your data. They're watching, identifying, tabulating, and tracking. You are not free to move around without your government knowing about it.

What rights do we have? None. 9/11. Terror. How many buildings fell that day?

Panopticon: We've been talking about the NSA, evidence in hand, since 2013, after Clapper lied, under oath, on public television.

Epstein 'suicide': the people who work behind the scenes are beholden to nobody except on paper. "Intelligence" is a free pass to do anything you want.

Overdue for legislation around citizen rights: Of course, in a "free world". Do you expect anything to change? What happens when our cities are covered in drones? One for each person maybe. The CIA had dragonfly drones in the 1970s. In the last five years, we have erected surveillance cameras and tracking sensors absolutely everywhere, in plain sight, and most people somehow simply aren't aware. Others ignore or make excuses. We call politicians "public servants" but government doesn't work "for the people". Government works for government, and it get bigger every day, its budget gets bigger every day, and its power increases because its eyes see farther. Soon there will be no private space left, and people will accept it. It will be suspicious to desire privacy. We still hear a chorus of out-of-touch masses bellowing the programmed refrain "Well, I have nothing to hide". We are reminded that "If you see something, say something". Report anything that does not conform to your idea of normalcy. Get a doorbell cam and connect it with the police. Trust your government. We are entering the end of the road.
The Tesla truck will almost certainly beat them to mass market. Look how long it took Tesla to scale up production -- the Model S shipped in 2013. It wasn't until 2018 that Tesla built their 200,000th vehicle. Rivian hasn't yet shipped a single truck to customers; they're in for a long and difficult road ahead building out their production lines.

All that said I do hope Rivian is successful. I would absolutely buy an electric pickup truck.
Same thing when humans build dams, right? We're creating new ecosystems.
I wonder if that will have unintended consequences.

It might inadvertently assign a price to the data collected.

It also shows a direct discrimination against poor and/or young people who might not afford the service.
I currently work on a project using protobufjs. Our generated static classes are ~500KB and ~1.5MB, or around 140KB gzipped. The schemas are not that large, and this does not even include any network code (not part of protobufjs).