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"Copy paste? No, not without Flash."

What? Of course copy paste works, even with formatting. Or, at least it does on my machine. Spreadsheets are trickier, but there are ways to override the context menu to make it do-able. I assume Google docs can already do it. Haven't tried it specifically, but I don't remember not being able to...so pretty sure I have copied and pasted within a docs spreadsheet.

"Calendar notifications that work when the browser is closed?"

Why would your browser be closed? This is the future we're talking about. Your desktop and everything else will be in your browser. That's like complaining that notifications don't work when your computer is unplugged.

"Custom fonts? Vertical text?"

Already possible and covered by standards. Are you using IE10, or something?

"Software that doesn't rot?"

Hahahah. Funny. How's Visual Basic written ten years ago holding up on Win 10? Sure, it probably runs, but nobody wants to use it. Platforms evolve. Standards compliant HTML and JavaScript written ten years ago is still functional. What do you believe is uniquely prone to "rot" about the web platform?

All of the app stores have hundreds of apps built on web technologies. Google has a mobile version, but does not have a desktop version. In fact, GMail (and moreso, Inbox) are much better evidence for the case I'm making (that the web will devour almost every class of software in a decade) than the case you're making (that office software like Word and Excel are uniquely immune to being devoured). Inbox is a better mail client than Outlook. And Docs will become a better doc suite than Office...or somebody else will build one that is (might even be Microsoft that builds it...if they're smart, it will be).
In terms of taxes and accounting... You are going to have a hard time. If your solution isn't complete, then users will end up having to maintain their alternative solutions. And if they do that, then they will just stop bothering to enter that data in your app. Maybe there is some balance where a person with a property management role could enter daily expenses and another user with a bookkeeping role could export or link that data into the actual accounting program?

Things that a first time casual landlord may not have dealt with yet:

- Depreciation schedules
- handling bounced payments
- recording capital improvements
- asset accounts in general
- splits for expenses
- bank and credit card reconciliations
- handling other charges(pet fees, utilities)
- security deposit accounts
- billing expenses back to tenants

Or maybe focus on the CRM stuff instead of the accounting stuff. Like I mentioned, I use sugarcrm, but it is way more than a casual landlord needs. And by default it is tuned to a sales organization. However, keeping all my tenants, prospective tenants, and properties as "accounts" and being able to log calls, meetings, create cases etc are invaluable.
Why should humans exercise morality?
Cars have a peak utilization rate of about 30-40%. Cars sales certainly won't plummet to 5% of their current level as some would suggest, but I could certainly see them getting cut in half.
Ugh. I wish Signal had the UX to compete with Telegram so that people would use Signal instead.
What is the relevance of this wikipedia quote to my comment?
Ya, but... are some people more genetically predisposed to have growth mindset? :)
Um? You think morality is good enough? The reason why I have rights is not because a document says so, or because my neighbors are regulated by morality. It's because when my rights are violated, a mechanism comes along to enforce.

We should depend on mechanisms, not decency.

It's like when Ron Paul says we don't need government subsidies in healthcare because in his day, physicians helped people out of decency. Like we should depend on that for policy?
While true, LLL basis reduction is quite effective against it. To counter it, your key must be much larger. Further, it multiplies the length of the ciphertext, IIRC (or something gets bigger...).
re >slavery ended is because we had an industrial revolution that made man’s muscles obsolete

I think that's basically wrong also. It fits better with the advent of the printing press than the steam engine.
In principle it's not bad that police have an advocate. The union stops the brass from feeding random peons to the dogs to appease the mob. The union insists on adequate safety protections and working equipment. A mayor with a deficit to balance and an election to win might not provide them otherwise.

The problem is that the police's advocate is so much more powerful than its opponents. An adversarial legal system like ours breaks down when the adversaries aren't close to evenly matched.
> Specifically designed with small residential property owners in mind.

I think this is a mistake. As a small residential property owner, a property management company is so cheap I feel using one is totally worth it.

I suspect it might be wiser to target small property management companies. Or even better, uber for property management.
For one, quantum computing may not happen? Like, we're pretty sure it will work, but we aren't actually sure we can make it happen. The closest we've gotten is D-wave and it's still controversial.
Many Christians in those regions were recently converted through violent means, see the Saxon Wars in the 8th century. It's to be expected that crypto-paganism would survive a long time after such events, but inherently difficult to find written traces: not only were these traditions oral, but now they had to be hidden.

One piece of evidence that comes to mind is recorded before the Stellinga uprising in the 9th century. Lothair, in his rebellion, got support of the local Stellinga (of doubtful religious allegiance) by promising them "if they should side with him, that he would let them have the same law in the future which their ancestors had observed when they were still worshiping idols." (From Scholz's Carolingian Chronicles, translations of Nithard's Histories).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellinga

Unfortunately, hints such as this are few and far between, but it still supports the idea that older cults may have been enduring. And of course, the last sentence about slipping off diseases, guilts and rebirth... that's just the little Wikipedia touch.
There was some question as to what "partial degradation" means on the status site. Is that a " takes longer than x milliseconds to respond" type measurement? Can you clarify?
Text secure is a cool application, but they are not focused on people. Very different goals of projects.
Actually it did. . . I don't see the need for outrage.
President Xi, please don't concern yourself with what the people of other countries think about your government's internet policies. Instead, concern yourself with what the people of your own country think.
So kill the asset bubble and give the next generation more disposable income...
An existing player I know in this space is AppFolio. How would you say this product compares?
is it that much better?
One is an operating system and the other is a Win32 compatibility layer for *nix. I'd say 5% is a lot.
A judge in a corrupt third-world country can say whatever he wants, I don't think Facebook should blindly be following court orders from overseas.
Avoiding the whole "real-name privilege" rabbit hole, I still stand by the point that nothing compels you to use their service/product -- there are a host of other products that allow the user to go by whatever pseudonym he/she deems fit.

If the response is "no popular social network I want to use allows me to use a pseudonym to my liking," I again refer to one of my original points that there's probably a reason why it doesn't last, and why networks that try to allow it like Ello eventually don't grow/survive -- people put trust in a social network that feels like a network of real people.

If you want citation for the last point, I'd point to the fast success of NextDoor, but I concede it's mostly a hypothesis, as I don't regularly use that product and haven't seen it since the beta.
On further thought, the genericism of transducers seems to hurt when you want to combine multiple streams, even somewhat trivially:

zip_flat xs ys = zip (flatten xs) (flatten ys)

I don't see how you could implement this as a transducer, since a transducer isn't able to reason about its inputs.
Out of curiosity, are you just really observant or does your work involve traffic laws?
Does this mean it's illegal for a company to create a zero-knowledge communication network in Brazil? Or encryption without backdoors?
Whoa.. leaking other users' data? Does not inspire confidence

http://i.imgur.com/at2JKyq.png

And exception when exceeding the free account limits?

http://i.imgur.com/Isbf4qR.png
Also, homomorphic encryption isn't about making it more efficient, its about being able to compute any function over the encrypted dataset, and get the same result as if it was over the unencrypted version - this is pretty cool if it works because you could say send over an encrypted version of a program to let someone else test it without giving any details of how it works.

from the paper:

The purpose of homomorphic encryption is to allow computation on encrypted
data. Thus data can remain confidential while it is processed, enabling useful
tasks to be accomplished with data residing in untrusted environments. In a
world of distributed computation and heterogeneous networking this is a hugely
valuable capability.
Exactly right. :)

More concretely, I think the market mechanism has its place, but I think states need a diversity of economic power & political representation, a reasonable level of wealth/income equality (far more than the current USA at any rate), enough enforced transparency to catch fraud and corruption, and widespread civic engagement at every level from neighborhoods on up, so that political discourse stays informed and productive and the interests of the few aren’t able to trample on the basic rights and needs of the many.

State supported markets and money and property rights are tools, not ends in themselves. Their purpose is to efficiently allocate resources and encourage innovations, so that the economy continues to produce the infrastructure and goods we need to support human flourishing, not to build feudal empires for wannabe aristocrats. At the point they stop serving their proper purpose, they should be guided back by additional institutional structure.
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Do you think you would be better off not knowing that everything is futile according to physics?
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How, specifically, are you "coerced" into those services? Voice and YouTube are owned by Google. I'd expect a Google account to just work on all Google properties, without me having to sign up for each individually.

If you don't want to use those services, just don't visit them. What's the issue?
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There is ALWAYS much more than one story. I am not saying it is good, not bad, but there is much more than opinion A. There is A and B. And once you are enlightened, you will see there is not enough alphabet to count the options.
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Yes. Signal has perfect forward secrecy. There's no way any government could compel them to release private chat information: they are literally unable to do so.
That's a good point, sincerely.
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There's a lot to be said for trying.
Contempt of court in the U.S. escalates considerably beyond fines if the company doesn't start complying quickly. The court can jail the company's officers, issue an injunction forcing them to stop doing business, instruct customs to blockade them at the U.S. border (in the case of companies selling physical goods), and a range of other things.
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Facebook only goes after profiles that are flagged by users. Nobody cares enough to flag your dog, but there are plenty of homophobic / transphobic assholes who flag LGBT people.
> Ok and what does the html page do to solve the problem?

You should check out archive.org. You'd be amazed how much better a job it does at retaining records than blockchain.

> You seem to be a pretty big fan of bitcoin. I've noticed a huge blindspot in bitcoin proponents when it comes to private chains almost like they are threatened by them.

Because blockchains are bad at this, and most of us are in a position to know that.

> Bitcoin was never going to win the markets/use cases

Agreed

> private chains make sense in

Not compared to databases. Do you know when NYSE and Nasdaq will switch to a blockchain? The answer is 'never'

> Bitcoin went the way of ultra generalisation which has resulted in it being pretty much worse than everything else for everything else.

Agreed.
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This. When my wife first got an Android phone I installed Signal on there as the default SMS app (she values her privacy and was worried about Google Hangouts). This lasted for almost a day until she tried to send a group text to a few of her friends. When she found out she had to create a named group first, she asked me to install a different messaging app immediately.
It replaces suffering with relief.
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Well, yes, but why should the workers care if they can get a better job.
> It's quite possible to create a community in an IRC channel.

Sure, but it didn't used to be the norm. The usage of IRC has shifted over time, from "channel-as-place" to "channel-as-community", with many of the original "channel-as-place" IRC networks now dead or virtual ghost-towns. The big reason everyone is in a love-fest for Slack but can't quite enunciate is that it's IRC but with multiple channels for each community, which encourages people to distinguish the two concepts further.

> I would not call that a feature unique to the "newer" Internet.

I didn't mean to imply it was, but rather that the first-wave of BBSes was a unique time because there was very little of that; everyone was their full self, in all their horrible glory.

It may have helped that many Internet users up through the early 90s were nerds without enough emotional intelligence to see the point in putting up a face; and that the great number of these made it easier to drop one's own face without being judged for it.

You can still see this effect on e.g. 4chan, where it's impossible to feel "excluded" in any ongoing sense, because of the lack of persistent identity. Anyone who says that "4chan's anonymity is valuable, because it generates a lot of Original Content" means specifically that people dropping face enables for some uniquely-interesting interactions.

> What has been lost on this "newer" Internet is the ability to have an ideological conflict remain purely ideological.

This still happens—but, instead of being an automatic result of everyone just sort of airing their views in the open and colliding (and then blocking everyone annoying enough until everyone who's left has this ability), you have to actively look for a community where "keeping ideological arguments ideological" is a cultural norm of that community.

http://slatestarcodex.com/ 's comments section (which has somehow become a vibrant community, despite the worst UX for community-building ever) is a pretty good example: there are people from everywhere on the political spectrum, of several religions and varying backgrounds, engaging with one-another on some decidedly controversial topics, where it's the culture of the community—and the desire not to lose it—that keeps everything civil.
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The inescapable question of free choice always seems to come back into these things. It's easy to say "just think like this" when you already do think like that. It's much more difficult when (for whatever reason) you don't. How much control do we really have over our feelings, our attitudes and our emotions? How much is the result of environment, genetics and circumstance? My personal opinion is a bit of both. But it's really hard to say in what proportion.

Do we really choose when we choose or are we just acting a predetermined role? I have noticed people who do well tend to believe the former. But I'm not convinced this belief is necessarily what caused them to do well and somewhat suspicious that it is partially an attempt to frame their achievements in their own mind as the result of "their" free will and goes back to their need to "prove" themselves superior which may well be the cause of much of their success in the first place. I've met more than a few people who have this need very intently and it seems pretty mechanical and not generally the result of meditative conscious choice.

Not to bash the concept. Sometimes the faulty, but useful belief holds more value than a more truthful belief which leaves one powerless. At least in the short term. Long term and on a societal level the side effects of faulty beliefs become much more prominent. For you and I however, here and now, we are almost certainly better off thinking we can do it (imhop). But the question is very deep and certainly a lot more complex than just clicking a switch and deciding to "think" a certain way which to be frank, is a bit of juvenile and superficial way to think about the topic.
Nice observation! While I was trying to make this easy enough for my Grandmother to use, I tried to keep some of these items to a minimum, of course I am ready to expand the platform to meet the needs of users. Great feedback, thank you.
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"These days I'm using an iPod Video 5.5G with a Tarkan iFlash-Dual SD adaptor, with a PQI Air Card for integrated WiFi."

I'm curious - are you using SD card(s) mainly to:

A) Increase capacity

B) Decrease weight

C) Decrease power consumption (??)

D) Use wi-fi

?
can you explain more?
The article is about Brazil. He's probably a Brazilian green card holder.
I liked the note at the end about Pair Instructing. I forget many disciplines haven't embraced pairing to the degree programming has.

In college I took an elective course taught by a husband and wife pair from the geology department. They interacted with each other a lot, and it definitely encouraged us to join the conversation with questions and comments of our own. Overall, it was a really good class. Okay... so it was a survey of bad science shown in environmental disaster movies, but the teaching style was an important factor as well.
Hey hackers!

This collection includes the best write-ups on ES6/7 from Addy Osmani, 2ality, Mozilla Hacks, Dan Abramov and many more.

I've been collecting those for several months now and I'm really hoping they'd help someone understand ES6 concepts better. Like they surely helped me.

P.S.: Do you know some good once missed in this list, anything I can add?
Your simple math is wrong:

120 employees * 40h * 52w * $0.35 = $87K, not "over a quarter million dollars"

And then? To add insult to injury, they weren't asking for 35c/hr more, but 35c per DAY:

120 employees * 5 days/week * 52 weeks * $0.35 = $11K.

Ten thousand dollars a year lead to the firing of 120 employees.

Hiring and training 120 replacement worker is going to cost a lot more than $10K.

EDITED to remove some untoward hostility.
I think the biggest difference is the $200 minimum with AppFolio. I wanted this to be easy and affordable.
Nobody mentioned The Lorax movie where O'Hare air sells air to the smog ridden city. :-)
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As an aside, every time I see a politician or executive blaming bad apples I start singing this Harry Shearer song to myself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPc3PEmvdQE
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>Sure, but it didn't used to be the norm. The usage of IRC has shifted over time, from "channel-as-place" to "channel-as-community."

Interesting. My experience is the opposite. The channels I am still involved with are much less communities now than I knew a couple of decades ago. Anecdotal so not intended as a refutation to your point, just a "hmm, that's interesting..."

>you have to actively look for a community where "keeping ideological arguments ideological" is a cultural norm of that community.

Which is one of the reasons why I like HN. Also the effective moderation here does help.
And then you can have off-peak discounts, which may cause change in transportation timetables.
You're not obligated to do anything. But people are also free to think you're an asshole for not respecting an incredibly basic request.

Not using someone's preferred name / gender pronouns is plain and simple being an asshole. Nobody really gives a shit about your opinions on being trans or whatever -- we've literally heard every argument you could possibly make many, many times. Just don't be an asshole so my day isn't ruined and I can pretend your outdated views don't exist.
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I understand what archive.org can do I'm asking how it can help solve the situation I described? You have your web page with what on it exactly? How does that help cut down settlement requirements?

Also archive.org is centralized so all the participants would have to trust them. The people investigating blockchain alternatives are looking for ways around that.

>Because blockchains are bad at this, and most of us are in a position to know that.

But they aren't. Bitcoin is bad at it but that doesn't mean blockchains have to be it just means they will be if you go into the problem with bitcoin as your only toolset. One you remove the need for PoW they are barely any more inefficient than a master-master DB with the combination of immutability and known entry ordering.

>Not compared to databases. Do you know when NYSE and Nasdaq will switch to a blockchain? The answer is 'never'

Did I say it was better than databases for every usecase? The NYSE and Nasdaq are already centally trusted figures. There is little benefit they would get from a blockchain.

I gave you a use case a few posts ago.
I'm not sure about that specific instance of Japanese culture, but for East Asia I'd say fixed mindset was much more relevant. I grew up being told that I will never do anything great with my life (not in a mean you-are-stupid way, but just a seemingly "rational"/"realistic" world view that only a few very smart people can do great thing, and I'm not one of them).
size is a const int that holds a positive value so you won't ever have INT_MAX < size.
"blockchain" or "a blockchain" to me is generic. "the blockchain" to me refers to the most famous one (Bitcoin)
Selling domain name to chinese buyer over the weekend :)