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>No it doesn't. If you're renting, you're financing someone else's ownership of the property.

That's only true if your rent covers their payment, which tends to not be true in a bubble. Where I am, in the years leading up to 2008 there were more rentals available than the market could really support. People were buying houses and getting rents that only covered part of the payment because they were counting on capital appreciation to make them money. If you were a renter it was a great deal. For $1600 you could rent a house that would sell for $700k, which isn't even close to covering the payment.

After the bubble popped the price of housing went down dramatically, and the price of rentals went up dramatically as people stopped buying houses assuming they would appreciate forever.

Also, people who've never owned a house drastically underestimate the costs associated with owning one. I bought my house after the crash, for cash. My housing outlay (with no mortgage) is about 75% of what I paid in rent. And that's not counting maintenance, like painting and appliance repair, or major stuff like a new roof. If the bubble had never popped I would have come out far ahead just staying in the apartment and investing the savings.
Expensive coastal cities emptying out, Americans are moving to sunbelt suburbs
Literally the US can dictate what kind arms they can develop. It is required they comply to receive consideration for US military aid and to remain under the US nuclear umbrella (from other nuclear armed countries like China, India, Russia, etc...).
I just saw this insanity a couple of days ago:

https://youtu.be/l1Efy4RB_kw?t=343

He refactored a Java application into 1400 classes!
This is a free speech issue, plain and simple. Google is being entirely truthful in saying "this is a page that exists", and no one has a moral right to tell them they can't. This whole idea of a "right to be forgotten" is purest excrement of bull, and can only be enforced by violating the rights of free speech and, if you took the phrasing seriously, rights to our own thoughts. But of course they don't take the phrasing seriously, because that would reveal what a runny load of crap it is.
Some of the agencies work has been ok but I disagree with the FCC forcing the lock down of wifi routers http://www.wired.com/2016/03/way-go-fcc-now-manufacturers-lo.... This affects me in a different country while the stopping of a merger between American telcos or preventing hotel wifi blocking etc are more local concerns.
It certainly changes the burden of notification. A company can setup many hoops for canceling, forcing you to go through some asinine phone tree and drone script to stop charges to your card. Whereas lacking an established payment channel, they can no longer play dumb if you eg send them a simple email to cancel.
10) And THAT is because of the systemic starving of government by the ultra-rich.

20) That would probably require a sprawl tax. The wannabe rich in suburbs ... well goto 10
sometimes i start at the bottom and scroll up. i might be weird.
No. It will be a blockbuster success. Apple will "buy" copies of whatever comes from this and push it to umpteen million apple products. Instant top seller. Instant award winner.

Once upon a time people complained about large publishing corps owning both the content and the platform. Apple has taken it a step further by owning the content, the platform, and now even the customers. Synergy.
There's a startup building an API layer for banks that would make this better. The name has slipped my mind right now, but perhaps someone will know. IIRC it is about replacing ACH entirely.
1) How does session archiving work with non-line-oriented applications? (e.g. top and its brethren)

2) Does it ever capture passwords (or any other non-echoed characters) by accident?

3) Does it require a TTY?

4) Can it multiplex sessions across multiple servers?
This sounds like it would be an interesting use of our API. Can you ping me at bo@privacy.com? I'd love to chat more.
I am on the latest firefox, and your email capture box that appears on scrolling is a little too above the fold. It is actually getting partly hidden by the nav bar.
"I am getting tired of people complaining that this is a bad thing. "

Get used to it. It IS a bad thing. Taking advantage of addiction like this is immoral, plain and simple.

"Freemium monetization works: developers get paid and consumers get a lot of great content for free."

And the people who are addicted and end up spending insane amounts of money that they probably can't afford to spend?
> The "really lazy desktop app" choice is Qt, not Visual Basic.

Qt has nothing to do with laziness. It's simply a well thought-out GUI toolkit which looks good and doesn't require tons of boilerplate code to get a hello world app to work.

Nowadays, if other GUI toolkits aren't as user-friendly as Qt, someone has dropped the ball.
This is strawman! A reasonable right to privacy is defined as a fundamental human right both by the United Nations and the European Union. The United States constructively by precedent has a right to privacy though it's not explicit and clearly, rarely followed.

Right to be forgotten, as the EU defines it, is specifically written to protect individual citizens, not obscure information that is 'in the public interest' such as Chinese history.
Like most businesses, most mobile games run on a customer acquisition cost vs. LTV model. Buy customers for $5 a pop, with LTVs of $7, which you can scale till you've used up all the profit. If you can drive that CAC down via better social (Words with Friends), better 1st party featuring (Clash Royale right now), IP (Star Wars: GoH), then more power to you.
Yep, that's essentially where I was leading.
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I use ear plugs, but that's not ideal of course. I used to live in a 200 year old brick building on the 4th story in a dense, walkable area and surprisingly it wasn't too bad. Now I live in a second story apartment in a much lower density city and the traffic noise is far worse than the human noise I used to hear.
I don't follow music pop culture, can anyone explain why? Has Will.i.am been in scandle or been unsuccessful in the past?
Clef does this. I implemented it in an app as a proof of concept.
Google has fought unreasonable Chinese demands, and Google has lost a lot of Chinese market share as a result. Perhaps Google will also not bow to unreasonable EU demands.

"Right to be forgotten" is a euphemism for censorship, and censorship is anathema to the Internet. That's the beginning and end of the matter. Stop legislating fantasies.
A lot of the research around the evolution of intelligence suggests that some large part of what we think of as intelligence is inherently intertwined with the ability to socially signal, prevaricate, and negotiate: to assert social dominance of a group through out-thinking rivals and being better at swaying the majority against those rivals. (Thus why sarcasm is considered inherently witty, exactly to the extent that it's subtle enough to trip up some people but not all.)

If you take the dual roles that a President embodies: that of "managed to out-politician every other politician"; and that of "is believed by the technocrats of their party to be capable of negotiating foreign policy, trade agreements, and military conflicts"—you end up with a fair proxy for that particular 'evolutionary' measure of intelligence.
> will have to figure out how to get a similar "mix" to avoid being flagged as prepaid/single use. This was the issue that ultimately caused PayPal to kill the service

That's fascinating. Perhaps PayPal killed it for multiple reasons because the (possibly biased) answer from a PayPal said not enough people were using it: "The one-time card numbers -- technically they were MasterCard virtual debit card numbers -- were discontinued as a public user-facing feature because they were not generating sufficient transaction volume and revenue to warrant further development."

[1]https://www.quora.com/Why-did-PayPal-discontinue-their-one-t...
Actually, I was wondering if a learning algorithm could be coupled with a builder that uses real synthetically created biological components in an automated system. This way, the builder comes up with new combinations, automates all the science around evaluating the combination as quickly and automatically as possible, and the software/learning algorithm controls the development towards some generalized goal.

Ok, I admit this sounds ridiculously sci-fi, but, why do I feel like this is actually possible (just really, really hard)?

EDIT: To clarify, I am actually suggesting a real living system coupled with software/hardware, not a simulation. The idea is, I realize real life can't be "sped up" like a simulation, but if it's truly automated and kept running/fed/operational, the system could just sit there and keep trying things as long as it runs - over a long period of time, humans could monitor its progress.
Saying that a law needs to be applied across the entire planet is another demonstration of the viral ridiculousness of the so-called Right To Be Forgotten.
That's a fat tail issue, though. What percent of Americans who live in an urban environment use public transportation?
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Does France have a protection for free speech?
Yeah, foam doesn't really "soundproof" anything. Foam is normally for sound treatment, so you get less interference when making music for mixing / mastering / recording purposes. You need extra drywall / more insulation / sheetrock / mass loaded vinyl / wall decoupling to actually block sound.
> Is anyone cited for public intoxication merely drunk while in public, or are they instead drunk while causing a problem in public?

Uh, YES. I am a quiet drunk, yet cops regularly hassle me to get in a cab just because I'm a little stumbly...
Yeah that solution still works just fine for me. Also just using a plain text file works well too.
Very useful Ruby resource.
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I like this, especially the repudiating of the privacy-hostile billing name/address voodoo. But I'd worry about forgoing the traditional protection of credit card chargebacks, and having to rely on debit card terms and direct ACH.
Well, Stripe is a YC-funded company, so around here on HN, you may
notice a strong bias in their favor, myself included. With that said,
I'll give you my own little positive Stripe story.

When Stripe was just barely starting out in YC (i.e. just announced but
before demo day), I noticed a few minor typos in their docs. I got on
the Stripe IRC channel, and asked where they wanted the diff sent, and
Patrick Collison (founder) told me to just mail it to support@ since
he'd be getting it anyhow. Patch sent, good deed done, and I'm all
finished... or so I thought.

Afterwards, they sent me a Stripe t-shirt just to say thanks. Stripe is
more than just developer-centric and easy to use, the people running the
show are a class act.
They are seen as throwing away cash, and throwing away 1% of cash holdings is very bad.
I don't think there is, sadly. It isn't possible on the iOS side (although Apple has started to feature games that don't have pay-to-win or freemium mechanics), and while possible on the Android side, 99% of people are going to get their stuff from Google Play anyway, so even if such a store were to start up, anyone offering their wares on that store would be offering them on Play anyway.
Interesting how you value money over time. WoW has bleed millions of gamer of their time, making them compulsively addicted, such as using incentives to make them log in every day (for "dallies" and other rewards). These gamers felt compelled/required to devote time to the game. Blizzard knew that they had to get as many subscribers as possible and keep them for as long as possible.
sigh

Let's put this in a way that you could understand.

So what's to prevent China from enacting a law that protects the privacy of its leaders and then demanding Google to remove all traces of any mention of any of its leaders, past or present, from the entire Internet?

If you think that's a hypothetical scenario, you would be well served to read up on what's going on in Thailand with regards to writing about the king there.
I'm going to speculate wildly, and I have no basis for these assertions. If any of this is objectively wrong, please correct me.

1. Easier access to firearms, and other suicide methods. Gun ownership in rural areas is higher than in cities, and I'd wager that gun suicides by gun are a lot more likely to succeed than other methods (e.g., jumping off a building.)

2. People in rural areas may socialize less, and may have less of a support network. I live in New York, and if I want to see my friends after work, it's an extra 5 minutes on the train for us, and an easy way to get home after having a few rounds at the bar. If I were back in Dallas, it might be 45 minutes out of my way in traffic, and it would be much more difficult to get home and then back to work again if I couldn't drive my car home. In a more isolated area, your friends might live two hours from you, or two states over.

3. Some suicide attempts are actually cries for help, and in a dense city, more people may notice that cry.
You'd be hard pressed to beat biological evolution...

A liter of e. coli can have upwards of 100s of billions of cells. Which can double every 90 minutes. Try to run that many instances of a full environmental simulation in software. That's 1L of bacteria. Scaling that up to 100L is pretty easy. Try to do that on your super computer...

A straightforward evolutionary experiment to find resistance to an antibiotic can literally run trillions of trials in a stupid simple overnight culture. Slowly increase the dose of an antibiotic in a few liters of bacteria over the course of a day or two and see what survives.
While most games have some degree of this, there are many games that are designed for other purposes as well. Mobile just happens to be the most soul-sucking thanks to it's profit model.

Lately I mostly play Rocket League, which is mostly for social reasons (my friends dig it and live too far for me to hang out with), but is enough like a regular sport to have a sense of skill-building, competition and team cooperation.

The witness is sort of like a really fun math course that looks really pretty and teaches in a more interesting way. In real life I only occasionally get to solve interesting problems that I don't yet know the answer to. This scratches that itch in a way I have power over.

Undertale is an emotional story that I have agency in. It's one of my favorite examples of how game mechanics can enhance a traditional story.

Minecraft is a lot of things, but creativity and design are often front and center.

Writing this, I think a lot of games may be about experiencing things in a manner where people have more control than in 'real life'. It's also cheaper and faster than most hobbies. You can even get social status for being particularly skilled at games (see: twitch). Admittedly you probably won't make money playing games, but that's true of art, music, football, open source programming and most other hobbies.
> Google already is censoring content at DMCA requests

Google not only alerts you to the fact they removed a link due to the DMCA, they even link to the entry in the Chilling Effects database that contains the actual DMCA takedown notice.

The implementation of the "right to be forgotten" specifically disallows a notification of any kind.
Or: one media center / seedbox accessing all pirated content you might ever want.

Not that I have it -- I don't own TVs, they're so '90s.
Not sure it matters. Only a small handful of people can turn a profit on a solely ad-backed games. The Flappy birds of the world, which immediately inspire a wash of cheap copy-cats. Games like subway surfers and sonic dash still need some IAP money -- a high production value game costs about $3m to make these days so no major studio would trust a solely ads backed game.
> Wanna grab drinks somewhere close? Choice of 3 bars.

And then you either leave your car there, and pay more to take a cab home, and then back again in the morning to pick the car up - or risk driving drunk.
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Ah, I actually missed that last part of your original comment, or I wouldn't have felt the need to comment myself. So much for reading comprehension on my part. ;)
> people don't agree with his criticism of stability because it conflicts with VirtualBox

Folks are welcome to disagree, but Docker has a history of shipping software which uses a 3rd party feature which breaks, to which they frequently responded "not our code, talk to someone else": btrfs instability, corrupted volumes due to conflicting devmapper libraries, iptables dropping routes, upgrades orphaning containers, etc.

I realize they don't have control over all of the variables, but constantly releasing unstable 3rd party features was not the greatest behavior, and the "Not My Problem" response to issues is aggravating.

All that said, since they're working against their own fork of xhyve, it is a sign that these kinds of issues will be addressed by the Docker team this time, which is a good thing.
Author about content-addressing (on HN): https://bentrask.com/?q=hash://sha256/59fd0cb6d129452290291a...
Some other articles have mentioned that he was previously on some pretty powerful psych meds and there weren't any found in his system by the coroner. Quitting those medications cold turkey can make someone with previously minor mental health problems go full "point a taser at the cops" crazy.
Europe, mostly, where what are essentially small towns and villages are often connected by good train or bus service to each other. You may consider it inter-urban rather than intra-urban, but the distances would easily fit within LA, and the density is clearly lower (because there are farms in between).
I think Cheers was the key artifact that transitioned pop culture from begrudgingly conceding there was value in high culture to valuing itself at the same level and later above high culture.

Anti-intellectualism/nerd bullying on the other hand has always been with us
> Americans routinely say (paraphrasing) "it is unacceptable to monitor Americans, but fine to spy on foreigners!"

I think you'll find that this viewpoint isn't routinely said on this American internet forum. The prevailing opinion here is that dragnet surveillance in general is bad and should not be practiced by the U.S. government.

Not to mention, France (among many others) routinely conducts digital surveillance, including industrial espionage, against American and EU citizens.
The majority of premium titles on Android are pirated, especially for the most popular games. If someone wants to go to a 3rd party app store, it will be to pirate a premium game, not better curation to pay for one.
True in the sense of what one is offended with in their day to day life.

Not true in that it's really easy to invent countless new offenses if you need to in order to bypass a filter.

Good luck to MS...
From my point of view, if we remain by why not allowing everything Boost, it isn't controversial at all, for the same reason that Linus (an I too) believe that it is a good that Linux kernel is pure C and not C++.

And the same reason why some people now see that the presented Node popular practices aren't something that the battle-tested players consider reasonable to do.
OK, got it. So, in my original post, just replace "cell wall" with "cell membrane", and you'll have what I should have said...
Multiply the speed by the 12th root of 2 (1.059...) to transpose up a semitone. Repeat for further semitones.

When you get to the 12/12 root of 2 you get a factor of 2, which gives you 12 semitones up at double the speed.
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"They range in difficulty from simple to knotty and fiendish. We will let you know the answers next week."

It's not a recruitment operation. They're just some fun puzzles which are accessible to laypeople. It shows the fundamentals of cryptanalysis in a way that a casual reader can understand and even have a crack at solving.

Someone mentioned in another comment that Simon Singh's "The Code Book" starts in a similar way and they're dead on. You don't introduce someone to a subject by posing problems based on constructs they don't yet have the tools or context understand. The history of the field informs its current state - cryptography and cryptanalysis have a very rich and fascinating history.
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Maybe we can compromise with drinking at home? I'd hate to suggest that anyone shouldn't be drinking...
My jaw is still dropped from 2014 when Apple forced their music of choice onto every iPhone in the world and wouldn't let you delete it.

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/apples-devious-u2-album-giveawa...
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I'd be interested in hearing about where Stripe's service was lacking.
Censorship is bad, but "right to be forgotten" is a very different thing. Please read this document: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...
Maybe it's the European in me but I think the right to be forgotten is a good idea. Maybe not implemented the best, but the idea is sound.

Say someone published a book of peoples names and photos, complete with a description of the worst thing they have done during their lifetime. Sure, if your a doctor and you had some malpractice problems then it's a good thing that people can see that, but that time you got drunk and did something stupid that ended up in the news? Should that be the first thing that pops up when searching for you? Wouldn't that effect your employment prospects, your future? Is there any actual value to anyone in that being only a search away, other than it matches a particular query for your name?

Google is being truthful in saying "this is a page that exists", but does it have to if the person the page is about has a legitimate reason for wanting it removed? The actual page still exists and can still be accessed so nobodies freedom of speech is being curtailed, this just gives citizens a right to say "maybe I don't want the fact I was wrongly convicted of something to follow me around forever".

If anything this is giving citizens the freedom of speech to say "I want this to be forgotten, it's not me and shouldn't haunt me forever".
I would say it's the new organism only after nearly all the old host cell components have decayed away. In the meantime, it's a hybrid. Then the new genome starts transcribing and translating new proteins to replace the host cell's components, and due to aging/entropy/repair eventually all the old components will be gone.

Venter didn't invent shotgun but he did popularize it. He was a top-notch biologist even before he switched to genomics, though, and that work was good enough that I think had he kept to it, he may very well have won the prize eventually.

Likely, Venter will not win the prize for several reasons. He's political- too many people hate him. Most of his work is viewed as "technical" by the scientific community. The words "obvious" and "boring" seem to be the things that I hear most levied against his efforts.
Yes, you are right, but your quote was not complete, so I got confused.
I believe you'll find that the U.S. intervenes in international incarceration in only the most extraordinary of situations.
Sin taxes make the world go round.
To me they were implying "no one employee can decrypt your data". I agree it's worth being explicit.