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I would only blame the startup if they were members of Hamas and co. I'm sure there are decent people in Gaza, but unfortunately they are offset by murderous terrorists.

For some reason over the past few years I've been waiting to hear that Snapchat has gone under. Never really thought they would execute.

I still think they're one slip up away from disappearing, but I've got to give them credit for building the way they did.

I agree with the author on a few points:

1. the telephone number system is terrible (but only in hindsight) 2. a telephone number should not be used for security

But his premise of a DNS for phone numbers is ridiculous. Does he think the PSTN was invented when smartphones came out? What about the wide plethora of legacy phones that would cause countless issues?

If someone did manage to complete he herculean (if not impossible) task of making it happen, it would be a massive waste; the PSTN will become obsolete in the not so distant future as internet based solutions take over.

I in no way, expect our leaders to fix the situation in Syria. We have enough problems at home.

And the article highlighting similarities between the Holocaust and the Syrian civil war is sickening.

1. In the Holocaust, Jews were being hunted down and killed for no reason other than the fact that they were Jewish. Asad is murdering his own subjects indiscriminately. Are we supposed to just take in the entire Syrian country? I don't think he's purposely targeting Sunnis over Shiites or vice-a-versa (although I may be wrong in this regard) 2. There was no reason not to take Jews in. They don't have a publicly declared, religously mandated doctrine of hate for the West (especially the USA), or come from a society that is completely incompatible with Western society. I'm not saying every Muslim is like that, but even 10% of 2 billion is a lot...

Uber released a statement saying that it was human error

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/uber-looking-into-incident...

Anyone try this yet and compare it to Hangouts on a poor connection? I'm constantly dealing with colleagues in another office where the internet connection is sub-par.

What's to stop these scientists from fudging data to meet their agenda. Then they can point at the fed and claim they manipulated it.

End of the story is trust no one, make your own backup of the data, and verify for yourself if anything has changed in the future.

I love Java. It's a bit verbose. I love Kotlin. It's a lot less verbose.

Java has been my go-to language for a while. After taking 3-4 days to learn Kotlin earlier this year, I'm thinking my default is gonna be to use Kotlin. It's very nice.

I am sure. What's your point? That it's difficult to get new phones in such a short time? You're correct.

Although, to be technical it was a Moto Z Force Droid Edition...

I forgot my sarcasm tags

Kinda makes me regret getting a Pixel to replace my Moto Z. Except the reception was terrible on the Z. Oh well.

How is it that no one has made a worthy successor to the OG Turbo. That was a monster of a phone across the board.

Maybe the issue is that some guy using YouTube Live in his basement, is able to stream games at a higher quality and with less latency than WatchESPN...

Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13126149

This looks like it's gonna be a long, interesting read. I better save up my bathroom time...

I think you're reading too much into this. It's to make sure that the interviewee isn't trying to game the system. Pretty simple. You can opt-out anytime you want. You don't even have to start in the first place. It's not spying by any definition of the word. Unless you make one up for it.

If they need a job? Probably.

Is it spying if they let you know what they will be doing?

I started reading this article thinking, "nice try guys, not getting anything from me".

I'm about to order one, and sent a link to about 10 friends. Good job!

Because saying things like:

"the documentation describes the API in TypeScript, and then provides no examples at all! So the average JavaScripter can’t understand what the API looks like"

And:

"Add into the mix the way the documentation casually drifts into hard-core Computer Science and algorithmic discussions at inappropriate places, and you’re left with documentation that only the documentation’s auto-generator understands.

Don’t believe me? Just see this example describing Map, one of the most-used Immutable data structures:

Immutable Map is an unordered Iterable.Keyed of (key, value) pairs with O(log32 N) gets and O(log32 N) persistent sets.

OK. Er, of course it is."

If you don't know what you're doing, and you just want to know how to do it, everyone ends up suffering. And I don't know much about Typescript, but isn't it javascript with types? If the average javascripter can't figure out what's going on there...

I was thinking they'd have to prove that, and it makes it look that more likely that I actually did work for them (because I had access).

Most certainly :-)

I was worried about that, but I just couldn't resist. Besides, they were the type of organization that wouldn't have wanted that to get out.

I didn't, but it was only after some serious internal debate.

My first freelance job was for a prestigious organization. They refused to pay, because (in their words) "no one will listen to you if you file anything anyways" and they had denied that I did the work.

I told them that they had 24 hours to pay me and acknowledge my work, or I'd put porn on their landing page. 24.5 hours later I got paid.

Gotta love Moto. The droid turbo was the best phone I ever had. If they could make that with an updated soc and RAM, I'd be all over that.

I feel like I've heard this before...

I'm telling you a fact. A ToS is legally binding. Outrage, and wishing it weren't so won't change that.

Too soon?

I hear clintonemail.com is available

It's not retaliation or punishment. It's process.

At the end of the day, rules were broken. If you can't handle the repercussions then don't break the rules. Pretty simple.