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A potbelly sandwich and a bag of chips. I get rather substantially more monetary consideration from Chase Bank as a consequence of my relationship with Twilio than I do from Twilio. (I spend +/- $7k per year on Twilio, so 1% CC rewards is $70 cash money. Chase clearly has me on the take!)

Seriously, though: I've never taken money for promotion from anybody. That's not my business model, which is straightforward: mostly, I sell software to businesses for money. It's not terribly difficult to get me to write or speak for free, since I love writing and speaking about geeky subjects, as evidenced by about 2 million words on my blog or HN comments.
I think twitter shows us that independent internet commentary is fine and well.

Long-form blogs are perhaps less suited to the mobile era, but who can say for sure?
Legal rights are irrelevant if they cannot be exercised. In 1860, a runaway slave in the North had the right to life, liberty, and property; why did the Underground Railroad reach to Canada?
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That makes sense. My CS department came out of the math department, I wasn't thinking of the ones that emerged from engineering.
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I hope I can see the day when the justice system is run completely by benevolent AI. Legislative too, for that matter, and at least partially the executive functions of government as well, while we're at it, including law enforcement.
but isn't it at least a little exaggeration to say that Silicon Valley is the main "trench of the global gender war"

It's an exaggeration to say there's a gender war at all. It's feminists against the patriarchy. Feminists are real people. What's the patriarchy?
If you look at the demo you'll see that while it's likely close to the best you can do with web tech, the physics don't feel correct because we can't reuse the native constants. Also the UI is very flat and simple. More complex UIs would be a struggle without react native.
My statement could be interpreted that way, yes.
You're still missing the point though it seems the reason is that you've mistaken the context of the original "the relevant number is not their net income." To help spell it out:

1. seanp2k2 expressed doubt that a $600,000 fine would dissuade a company with a quarter net income of $192,000,000.

2. dsjoerg points out that in the context of what is dissuasive to a company net income is not particularly relevant. Rather, whether or not punitive action is persuasive depends on whether the gains are considered worth more than the losses from the punishment.

This is the context of the thread: how much of a cost does it take for Marriott to be dissuaded?

So when you say "Someone claimed that net income of an entity causing willful radio interference is irrelevant and that only marginal gains (as opposed to its "core business") made from its willful interference should be considered." you have to remember that this is in context of whether it's enough to convince Marriott to stop causing willful radio interference.

And when people were telling you "that Marriott does not have evil plans", they weren't speaking as to the morals of Marriott's actions. They were saying that Marriott's motives for their actions are the profits those actions generate and not some context-less desire to just be evil or to block wi-fi for the sake of blocking wi-fi.

And nobody said that Marriott "don't/didn't attempt to influence rulemakers to permit their interference." The closest is Vivtek's statement that the company wouldn't take well to an officer making it "his or her quixotic personal vendetta". A joint petition for a favourable interpretation is a relatively low-cost, low-commitment action and doesn't speak to the company having any desire to turn it into a vendetta or throw a significant portion of their income at trying to retrieve a small chunk of their income.

Basically, you replied to dsjoerg by saying that net income's relevance is that it represents the ability to fight an issue and the thread since them has been people trying to point out that it wouldn't be in Marriott's best interest to put significant resources in fighting it and so net income remains largely irrelevant. Your replies, meanwhile, seem to come out of left field, apparently discussing moral and legal viewpoints but not the actual topic of whether punitive action is persuasive to Marriott. This is why schrodinger said you were missing the point and the fact that you seem to be having a different discussion from the rest of the thread is the reason PhasmaFelis asked what you think others are disagreeing with. No one is actively disagreeing that blocking wi-fi to sell wi-fi is evil or illegal, nor are they actively agreeing. They're having a different discussion entirely.
You didn't answer my question. What legal right don't they have? Or, as you say, what legal right can't they exercise?
The 1996 Telecom Act's competition requirements were gutted several years later, hence the near total elimination of competition in the DSL and phone service markets.
We use both nexmo and twilio, and I prefer the nexmo. Better coverage, features etc.
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I understand no large company can literally directly hire employees for all their material, parts, tools, and assembly. BUT most large car companies still directly hire own employees to put together the final product.

And my point is Apple has hardly any employee that actually assembles the end product (in this case iphone, ipad, macbook etc), other than a few in US that build custome Mac Pro in US.

So before one gets giddy about how profit per Apple employee is so high, he/she should remember there are literally hundreds of thousands of people assembling the final product but they are not counted as employees of Apple.

You can call this practice any one of these:
1. It's smart business and that's what capitalism is all about.
2. It's immoral and unpatriotic.

From what I know, no other non-China and non-US phone companies outsource 99% of assembling. Maybe I'm wrong.
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Hundreds of thousands of cars are shipped between continents every year...
It's important to note that the kind of 'terrorism' being fought here is in fact a war and thus geopolitical.

First, jihad means holy war.

Second, we are in a 'war on terror', where we have deployed our militaries to neutralize and kill tens of thousands of people. If you think these people were terrorists that had not yet ever attacked anyone - "preterrorists" - then you suggest that the United States and allies have the right to be judge, jurer and executioner on people's intentions, and have the right to indiscriminately kill. But if you say they are soldiers, or factional forces, then the ethics and norms of war applies and it becomes acceptable for us to kill these people in mass, whether they have ever killed someone before or not.

Third, the uniting of forces in the Middle East against Israel and the mandates of the West (who in there eyes differ only in label and not in function from colonialists) have close to a century old history now of being an area of proxy war between other nations. During and after the first world war as punishment and destruction of the Ottoman empire and in the establishment of British control and extraction of resources from the region, and in the development of an Israel, and via the Sykes-Picot agreement the redrawing of boundaries to keep the area unstable and divided. During and after the Second World War as a proxy area of influence of the League of Nations and the USSR. During the Cold War between the USSR and NATO and today between Russia's Syria, a historically divided Egypt, and NATO's Israel.

The 'terrorist' label being targeted is in fact a type of guerrilla fighter, a soldier that is potentially recruitable to a United Arabia that has historically hated its occupation by the West. A soldier who is more likely to attack somewhere at home than even attempt to leave and do violence in a Western country. We do not drone strike any old guerrilla fighter, however. We drone strike the ones whose politics and infighting, at the current instance, are counter to the hopes and dreams of US foreign policy. Those Arabs who learn how to make homemade bombs that are against the Assad regime, for example, are absolutely allowed, even encouraged, to live.
This is why I'm excited for VR. Now that equipment like Oculus Rift is going mainstream, there's an opportunity to move beyond managing "windows" to managing "objects", e.g. taking a phone call would not affect the notes you were arranging on the virtual desk in front of you. Current generation phones are trapped by the limited screen size of a handheld device.

Even worse than being disrupted would be if my phone started trying to guess what I was intending. "It looks like you're writing a letter."
Even if Foxconn charged Apple really fat margin for assembling the final products in China, it's still WAY cheaper than hiring American workers in US. No doubt about that.
Furthermore, Chromium's now spent the vast majority of its life developed in the open. You would probably find today's code unrecognizable if you traveled through time from 2008.
and if I want Ross to help me sue IBM, does Ross act independently? :)
Word2Vec is getting referenced a lot these days, but that doesn't mean much about the referencing paper. This approach is pretty unique in trying to apply CNNs (which are very successful in image recognition) to NLP. But it's not yet clear to me whether these are just tricks or are they really onto some key insight.
Perhaps, if you are the 1% of lawyers who are associates at big law firms doing appellate-level research. They basically the same job as law students do in LRW class, pulling hundreds of quasi-relevant caselaw from a massive database. That side of things has, in recent years, been outsourced overseas.

See companies like http://www.legalsupportglobal.com/
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Since bool wasn't reserved prior to C99, they use the _Bool keyword (which was reserved). [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8724349/difference-betwee...]
Ah, but there's an alternative hypothesis. Tech is an industry that people enter because they see a new world being created and want to participate in the making of it with their own hands. Finance, corporate law, so forth, not so much.

So it seems believable that tech is a place where you will find people sympathetic to do difficult, tradition-destroying things to build a better world, much more than finance or corporate law. (The way that tech has publicly embraced things from LGBT rights to non-college-degreed people, more than finance or corporate law has, is evidence in favor of this belief.)

Given that, the pressure on tech to do better than the rest of the world, and thereby set an example for the rest of the world, makes a lot of sense. It's not that tech is the most sexist industry (it isn't), it's that it's the industry that's most likely to get significantly better in a short period of time.
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Exactly. As Haynie stated on tw, it’s sad that they didn’t included them in the design process. They already solved a lot of challenges.

BTW, did you have a look at titaniumifier? (https://github.com/smclab/titaniumifier) it’s a tool we built to port node packages to titanium (a declination of browserify, actually).
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Public defenders don't do much research. Remember that the vast majority of criminal cases will not see trial, or often even a courtroom.
Your repetition of ideological talking points is both inflaming this thread and making it altogether predictable. We don't need yet another flamewar. Please stop.
I understood that the native react serializes the ui "DOM" to some format and sends it to the native process. Will the native rendering engine be open source and/or will the protocol be open/specified ? This could be handy for embedded targets.
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Here it is (it’s border-{top, bottom} based, not inline-block) http://www.mademyday.de/css-height-equals-width-with-pure-cs...

The issue is that it’s only width-constrained.
I thought the talk had a nice balance of pitching the idea of native React and the technical ideas behind it.
if this is an issue, send a letter to the FCC and a copy of this to your IT dep't or something (anonymised from a gmail account maybe?)
50 years? We must not allow a mineshaft gap!
That's a proposed syntax for try/catch.
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This would be the sweetest pricing structure for a billion uses like a friend-group Slack, a slack for your open source project, a slack for gaming clans, a slack for your minecraft server, a slack for small non-profits or small businesses, a slack for families.

Right now, the free tier only gets you basically an isolated version of every other free messaging service around. If you could pay $8/month for each additional integration, small slacks would go from being an {inconvenience OR huge bill} to something everyone with technical ability could use to integrate a million different signals with the people they care about.

I really, really hope slack lets us pay per integration someday.
Wow. Indeed. thanks! I really thought that they were HTML5 based on how similar the HTML5 version is compared to the Android experience. Thanks again!
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Thanks! That's reassuring to see. I would definitely put that up somewhere on one of your pages. A history of lies in Kickstarter/Indiegogo hardware projects have led people like me to be skeptical of these things.
Primecoin (http://primecoin.io/) has been out for a long time. It's a decentralised cryptocurrency which uses prime number chains as its proof-of-work. I don't think it revolutionised anything, but some mathematicians were a little excited when it was released.
>There’s no account or sign-in required and nothing extra to download. Just start a conversation, send your friend a link and ask them to click it.

I don't think this is such a great idea, at least in my case, if I'm sending someone link for them to open instantly then I'm probably already using a platform that supports video conversations - for example Skype, which also has IM and some other stuff that FF Hello doesn't.
> These were due to excessive overtime. The Lieutenant who made $300k ($50k more than the Chief) tripled his base salary.

How many hacker news readers do you suppose that work "overtime" get paid for it?
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Are you brave enough to put a law enforcement agent under citizen arrest for this constitutional violation?
To translate my statement to the language used in your cartoon, "equality of individual opportunity" is "SAMENESS" and statistical equality is "EQUITY".

One major obfuscation made by various activists in this discussion is that lack of EQUITY can only be caused by a lack of SAMENESS. As illustrated nicely by the cartoon, some folks are short. If shortness is distributed unevenly, then SAMENESS will result in some groups being underrepresented.
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How about "amoral 'journalists' trolling for clickbait," "far left-wing nutjobs salivating at the chance to strike at the tender underbelly of a vulnerable target hesitant to defend itself," "people with low social status desperately trying to act 'progressive' for kudos," "people who politick because they can't cut it technically," and "yuppies with no interest in computers who joined 'the industry' purely for the money, who 'appropriate' the culture of the native geeks while shaming and condemning them for the slightest trespass?"
> This big roadblock that everyone claims with Haskell, Monads, didn't give me any problems at all...even if it didn't make any sense to resort to them to do something as trivial as IO.

That's a bit uncharitable. You're likely going to end up working with Lwt (monadic concurrency/IO library) as soon as you need to do something interesting with IO in OCaml.

> Everything seemed to revolve around cool tricks with no practical concern behind them, and then in the comments you inevitably find comments from other Haskellers claiming to do it just a little bit more cleverly using <<lenses, GADTs, zippers, continuations, or some other obscure abstraction>>.

While I agree that showering code in mathematical abstractions doesn't make for readable code, a zipper is not "cleverness for cleverness' sake". It lets you manipulate easily manipulate an immutable tree (and it doesn't decrease readability).

> Ocaml does fine with concurrency, but parallelism is a disaster.

Hopefully the multicore runtime will turn into something concrete eventually :)

It's also lacking real type classes, at least until modular implicits are ready.
A sidenote: There is nothing in Java/C++ etc that would stop one from making only legal states representable. It's just easier and more obvious in ML family...
It's not about winning wars or even predicting crime. It's about having the knowledge to control events to your advantage.

Intelligence agencies are tasked with questions like "If Russia invades the rest of Ukraine, how will Germany react?" That can be answered with data from tapping the leadership's phones, or by how often the words "putin" and "despot" appear together in emails from German citizens.

Will the current German government fall if they do not react? How about if Russia moves the day after an important German election? How much does Russia know about German public opinion? Is there a greater chance that they will invade after/during/before the election?

Replace "German election" with "the Winter Olympics" and you have a very realworld question.
That would be a violation of Directive 4. So no.
If they opened their platform up properly, then Chrome could simply use the advanced javascript engine it already has.
Do you possibly mean Brian Banks, the Long Beach high football player?

False accusations of any crime are horrible, but they are in no way common: The United States Justice Department agrees [with the rough percentage of false rape claims], saying false accusations "are estimated to occur at the low rate of two percent -- similar to the rate of false accusations for other violent crimes."

Coincidentally, 2% is the number of rape accusations that ever result in a conviction: https://rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-rates (this sources back to the DoJ as well. RAINN just has a nifty infographic.
Having worked on production software with both WPF and React, I can tell you why React's "data binding" approach is categorically different (better, in my opinion) than WPF's.

Like many abstractions in WPF, bindings have a "shadow world" feeling, where they are their own little isolated DSL. With the React model, "bindings" are just JavaScript expressions. Sure, with WPF you can overload operators and create "ExpressionBinding" converters and play other tricks, but you can feel the seams between the subsystems.

On the topic of the scene graph: React's scene graph is an abstract service that you can only interact with in limited ways. WPF's scene graph is a big mutable machine with most of its moving bits exposed. To a first approximation, React's rendering strategy is laziness and WPF's rendering strategy is fixed point iteration. The former is much more likely to produce easy to understand and high performing UIs, even if it comes at the cost of making a few special use cases harder. In such cases, you can bypass the abstraction and muck with the platform guts, which seems to be the default choices in the dependency properties context.
Different people's workflows differ, of course.

I can totally imagine this for the video conferences we have with external partners in our group. These are usually scheduled ahead of time, so we could just arrange that people check their inbox for the link. Email is what most people use in these projects, while IM'ing is very exotic and practically not used.
Heh, I remember coding a vertical FlowLayout in 1999 (before that was included) out of fear and loathing of GridBagLayout...
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How do you guys understand this stuff!?
The topic absolutely fascinated me, but after reading the paper... I just feel dumb. Are there any good resources I could use to better understand machine learning papers such as this? I mean I can't even comprehend the implications this paper could have? Is anyone opening to doing some mentoring?
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I bet someone is planning to write a Markdown editor using React Native. Maybe a text editor is a good test if React Native app can be as good as native app.
I don't know about security and scalability, but from what I read, it seems that Amazon gives you fine grain control and AD integration which is nice. Also, customer support is one area where AWS is better than Google in my opinion. YMMV.
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> Yet I'm certain women are welcome. Sorry, they just are.

How are you certain of this?

If you have an overly-touchy manager, and he never overly-touches you, would you know?

If you have someone in sales who makes not-that-funny sexist comments, but they're not actually bad enough that you should bother caring, would you know if it's rising to the level of being a problem for women?

If you don't offer generous parental leave, and that matters disproportionately to prospective employees who are women but not so much to men, would you know? (Do you know, off-hand, what your employer's parental leave policy is?)

If one of your usual interviewers says something like "You're pretty good for a woman" (and not "You're pretty good for a man"), and your technical interviews are one-on-one, and this is why there's a drop between job offers to women and new hires, would you know?

(The answer may well be "yes" for all these; there are systemic problems far away from all these that can easily get a company to 10-20% women. But I, personally, am hesitant to answer "Is your company a good place to work for women" with anything stronger than "I'm pretty sure it is, but I couldn't personally vouch for it.")
iOS version is also a native app. As they look almost identical to web version, lots of people assume it's HTML5.
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Mike Bostock's visualizations of maze-creation algorithms (via spanning tree) are absolutely beautiful:

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/#maze-generation
I'm referring to Mono; Xamarin = targeting of iOS/Android via commercial license.

.NET is now licensed under MIT and is being developed out in the open by Microsoft on GitHub. vNext (5.0) is being concurrently developed/tested on linux (mono), osx (mono) and windows. https://github.com/aspnet/home which also means the platform is being unshackled from IIS via project OWIN (http://whereslou.com/2014/06/10/asp-net-vnext-moving-parts-o...) and the SDK is no longer a system wide installation, instead it ships with your application (https://github.com/aspnet/XRE) which enables .NET to be dockerized. Visual Studio is no longer required (it's preferred) but there are other options -> http://www.omnisharp.net/

Check out http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingASPNETVNext.aspx for a overview.
The demo doesn't render on Safari on iOS 8. :-\
Yep, you've got the gist of it. We render the app in JS, React creates this view hierarchy (still in JS), this is serialized and sent over the bridge (asynchronously) to the native engine who then creates the equivalent native view hierarchy and renders it.

The source code for the iOS native engine (and the JS infra, and some examples) will be given to attendees of React.js Conf tomorrow (Jan 29). The iOS and Android versions of React Native will be open sourced soon! :)
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What about native APIs like in-app purchases, push notifications, ads SDKs, GameCenter ?
Will we be able to access those ?