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I make per-movie purchases digitally through Amazon's streaming service. I have been happy with it. (This is in support of your comment, to say there are services close to what was requested. I'm not trying to say iTunes is bad; it just doesn't work for me, as my "media box" is a PS4 hooked up to my tv.)
Maybe the alternative is "desperation". In your publisher example, lets say they needed 12 ad units per page to break even. At that point, you might start losing people to a bad signal-to-noise ratio.

At the end of the day, it's a viable business model. It's not about the money in of itself. But if you can't support yourself and your business with the "right level" of advertising and you can't persuade people to give you their money any other way, your business model is failing, not advertising in of itself.
I commute from afar: Dublin/Pleasanton (last stop). It takes me 46 min just on the train without delay, plus a 12 min trip to the bart and a 7 minute trip to my work from the SF Montgomery station, so 65 minutes on a perfect day. But, often there are delays which turns my commute time up to an average of about 75 minutes.
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Even Milton Friedman argued that a basic income was better than a minimum wage, but a negative income tax would be better than that. Minimum wages cause labor misallocation and hurt small businesses. It's often that larger companies will push for a minimum wage hike because it will destroy the margins of their small competitors; then they can use their pricing power later to offset their margin loss.
Its almost impossible to bring in wealth and not have it benefit people.

People dont keep their trillions of dollars under the mattress. Its invested.
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Quebecers are my favorite Canadians!

But there is definitely language racism, especially with the language laws.

Here are some examples to prove my point:

On a phone call with the government to renew an ID card, my bilingual Montrealler friend messed up her French grammar. The government agent said "I cannot understand you" and hung up the phone! Made her call back and wait on hold and be more careful with her grammar.

The Bitcoin Embassy put up a webpage for international Bitcoin trading targeted to people beyond Quebec who speak English, and yet the Language Police stopped them because they hadn't translated everything to French before publishing the page! The government prevents international business simply because it's not French enough. But the whole point of international business is to target OTHER people.

My friend is COO of a large, successful international enterprise software company (I won't mention the company). All his programmers use English keyboards, but his company will be shut down if they don't use French keyboards. So they keep a stash of French keyboards in the closet. Every few months, the Language Police do an inspection and they have to bring out the French keyboards and pretend that they are using them to do all their work as good French citizens.

This last friend has lived in BOTH Palo Alto and Montreal for the last 15 years, and before that lived in France and Iran. He says that Quebec is more Racist than France.
Shouldn't our measure be productivity, then, instead of employment? At least as far as what a society should care about?

In terms of social benefits, not all employment is equal. We could hire all un-employed people to move rocks back and forth, but that won't contribute to society anything that simply giving those people cash for nothing wouldn't solve just as well.

There are two separate goals we are trying to accomplish, and traditionally they have both been solved through employment - the need for productivity and the need for resource allocation. If you want to keep trying to meet both goals through employment (instead of meeting the second one through something like basic income), then we need to make sure we continue to address both needs.
I'm not a lawyer but it's a public site.
Have to quite strongly disagree with you there. The FBI wanted Apple to create and sign software that they could forcibly push onto the phone in order to get it to do what they wanted it to do. In the recent case it was about bruteforcing a passcode, but the concept is identical regardless of the payload. It's exactly the same scenario Intel or AMD could be faced with. The entire Apple situation hinged on the fact that it was possible for Apple to comply, without that there would be no situation.
Academics should absolutely open source their stuff to a larger degree and contribute it a common open source community. I don't think LEON/GRLIB will be that community but may be a part of it. OpenCores did not succeed but I have hopes for what's cooking around FOSSi foundation/LibreCores.
Yes, I've got a couple. I was sort of changing the subject to other home automation devices, without really being clear about that. Nest is clearly the market leader in the home automation category; at least for thermostats. I'm sure there must be others, but Nest is the only one I see at Home Depot and Lowes. I think they've executed on their plan remarkably well, so taking them on with something that is a much lower margin product (a hardware device that doesn't hold the consumer for ransom for the monthly bill) would be extremely difficult, I think. And, because they do so much of their thinking in the cloud, their devices can be dumber/cheaper. So, they win on two fronts, as long as consumers don't mind being fleeced in this way.

And, yeah, hype has a lot to do with it. How have products like Dropcam and Nest generated so much buzz? I guess people genuinely prefer them, and consider the user experience worth the price (both in terms of money and in terms of privacy and choice).
My primary concern about instituting a basic income is that these things have a tendency to always want to rise. It then becomes a voting platform for politicians. Vote for me and I will get your basic income raised. I think anytime you promise a populous something for nothing, you create dangerous precedents that can spin out of control. I'm for increased minimum wage and price caps, but not a minimum income with no commitment.

On the other hand, if the federal government did not give away all of the profits from American natural resources, and instead took a percentage like most developed countries - and the state of Alaska - that money could be turned around into a basic income for all. That I believe is where a basic income should come from: use a nationally produced commodity sold abroad and the profits therein to give back to the citizenry.
> multimedia content

Obviously that's not what would be sent. A keylogger would be far more likely.
Not just "no revolution", but a sequel to a joke we had a decade ago.
This guy is a comically nasty piece of work. His wikipedia article lists a bunch of controversies ranging from racism to corruption, and including... removing criticism from wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Burns#Controversies
Ask HN: Generic cross-platform package and environment manager?
First time asking here. Hi everyone!

At my employer (a visual effects house) we use CentOS, Windows and OSX, with various softwares. The internal code is mostly Python, but there's a bit of C as well.

We are looking for a generic package manager for internal use that can resolve package dependencies and assemble environments with specific versions to make our dev life a little better.

We're currently considering Rez: https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez
which (if you've never heard of it) is a Python-powered, software-agnostic, platform-agnostic packager, dependency resolver and environment prep'er.

It's a cool project, but some of us are convinced that someone must have solved the problem of cross-platform packaging and environment handling already.

So far, the only similar project I've found is "conda": http://conda.pydata.org/docs/

Do you guys know any others? What do you use and/or like? I'm all ears.
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The 4 seconds comes from speculation from an article before the reveal. Maybe that's the target for the performance variant?
Buildings which are just residential (and, for that matter, ones which are just commercial) still tend to produce dead zones, with little to no street life; and it's street life (and walkability) that makes a city, at least if you ask me.

I'd say that the best kind of city -- or district/neighborhood, more accurately, since cities tend to be a patchwork -- is an area of multi-storey buildings with businesses on the ground floor and apartments above them. My understanding is that this is the usual pattern in the Old World; in the US, the North End and Allston-Brighton in Boston, Seattle's Chinatown, and of course Vancouver are among the examples. This isn't a common pattern in the US; I know that parts of NYC fit it (although I don't know that city particularly well), but I've heard that even Manhattan Island is all office buildings, and becomes a wasteland after dark.

I certainly agree, though, that 4-9 storeys is a pretty good height. Smaller than that and you don't get enough density to support interesting streetscapes; larger, and you get wind tunnels and the need for more parking. Of course, sometimes geography (San Francisco, Tehran, most of Japan) or politics (Singapore) force a denser population, and require a more built-up area...
>Don't expect that to hold true anywhere else.

It is still possible in some countries. For example Ukrainian president was kicked out of office when he tried to make SIM card registration mandatory like in Russia.
Sure, but it's a low paying job vs no job.

Minimum wage is stupid - if you need people to get a higher income than the value they can output, you need to supply that additional income through social grants. Forcing them out of work by allowing robots to undercut them is idiotic when they are willing to work.
Yes they have, yes it does, they think the world would be better if everyone Just Said No to DRM and the W3C isn't going along with their grand plan, yes, and because they (correctly) think it'll sound convincing to the target audience (mostly other Just Say No-ers, probably consisting mostly of the EFF and Mozilla. And that's it.)

I'm really getting tired of what seems to be the EFF's somewhat-newfound mission (it's been getting steadily worse over the last couple years) to push the limits of "shrill squawking about nonsense" to new heights.
been here 3 years and don't recognise your issues at all, I found it a friendly place.

I'm sure they loved you thinking they move in herds and are sub-standard to US schools tho.
Exactly! Like in Seattle: a culture of fitting in, rather than standing out.
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When I saw RISCV mentioned as an alternative, I had to check the date twice to make sure it wasn't an April Fools'. I understand the concerns and all, but wish the alternatives were a little better picked out.

Most people already mentioned SPARC and ARM as alternatives, so I won't delve into those arguments other than point out that there will _always_ be commercial interests at stake here - hardware, unlike software, requires considerable material resources to create* and distribute (and is still harder - and therefore rarer - to create for its own sake), so there won't be a wide variety of viable options out there, and new CPU architectures don't grow on trees.

Better to lobby for open specs on the "offending" bits of hardware, really.

* - yes, software creation can also require material resources (and a whole lot of time, which can be expensive). Let's not belabor that point...
I was bothered by that too. Up until three years ago, we had kept the DVD-by-mail subscription active for those movies we wanted to watch that weren't available on the streaming sub. After we got our first Roku, we dropped the DVD sub since pretty much anything we wanted to watch was offered on one Roku channel or another (not to mention Netflix's streaming offerings steadily improved over the years).
Looks cool! This should totally exist and be independent of any given country's postal system. Perhaps prepend a "SHOW HN: "
> PS. Paying for content is also not an option until there is an anonymous way to make a payment and the payments are minuscule.

This is the most important part of your post. I would be glad to find a way to pay for content that I value. I do in other realms (e.g., Netflix original programming).

But to me it comes back to a) ease-of-use and b) trust. On the former, there's a big opportunity in a way to make that seamless. One click and done. And, on the latter, trust is huge. People are using ad-blockers because publishers' sites have malicious ad networks. And now you want me to give you my credit card number!? It just doesn't work.
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No, you're actually agreeing: GP says "it reduces how much a CPU can turbo", while you are pointing out "it will not reduce frequency below the regular marked frequency".

Say marked freq is 3.4 and the CPU turbos to 3.9. GP is saying an AVX2 instruction will drop it from 3.9 to 3.7 or 3.5, while you're saying it won't drop it below 3.4.
From experience, some countries require a national ID number to get a SIM, even for the prepaid ones
Probably just resubmitting with "Show HN" at the start of the title would work. There's a period of time when titles can be edited, but if there's no link, it's past.
How? A full time employed person will still make more than a part time. Basic Income is flatly applied, everyone gets it; earning more then means you still have more. This isn't some cutoff-if-you-make-too-much thing.
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Just imagine how safe we will be if we reach Level 5 autonomy, no driver control possible? I think the Model 3 is going to be the first production car to reach Level 4. I'm hoping that's what the "part 2" update is.
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NIC would be harder to understand, or BI would?

If the latter, I wholeheartedly disagree. Normal taxes would remain, the only difference is that you get BI as well.
The only way this would work is to remove income taxes and use other forms of taxes to pay for basic income. This would ensure those that own the automation pay for it. But as being discussed elsewhere in this thread, the more likely result is that people who are working for income will end up with less money than before (even when you count in the basic income), thus being rewarded less for working as hard as before.
my (poor) understanding of email SaaS was that staying off blacklists is the value add, not the server code. is that wrong?
High torque FWD vehicles aren't exactly that great in the snow either. I think you would want RWD in an electric.
ok that's enough now. ssssh.
While negative income tax might be "simple" in theory, in practice I think it would likely turn into the same mess of loopholes and bizarre rules that we have now.

A big benefit of the basic income model is that there's really no room for lawyers, accountants, etc. to pervert the process. If everyone gets the same amount, there's no way to game it that I can see (now, I'm sure someone, somewhere will figure out a way to game it... that's what people do, but at least on the face of it it seems far less gameable than our current tax and welfare setup).

If it were made a part of the FairTax model (which would be easy to do, given that that model already requires cutting everyone a check), then gameability would take another huge hit.
1) The number of attempts from startups to go after a fairly well-defined idea (more specific than general). A high number of attempts indicates a problem is unsolved. A low number indicates unexplored terrain.

Ideally I'd also like to know a bit more, like the most common angles attempted (in general terms, not specific), although I can imagine how this might be disclosing people's ideas. Example: x% of attempts at idea A going after the high end failed, but y% of going after the low end survived and morphed or expanded to something else that has potential.

2) Which areas have the most statistically significant change in number of applications since the previous funding cycle. e.g. Developer Tools vs Developing Countries. Because it could point to upward and downward trends.

Ideally I'd also like to know about ideas in general too.

3) The top 3 questions on the YC application that startups answer most poorly.

4) The top 3 questions startups that are accepted and/or do well answer the best.

5) The biggest mistakes you see in applications and how they can be avoided (if they can.) Or the most common things missing.

6) The most convincing arguments you see in applications, and how they're made (e.g. by providing numbers and percentages, rather than saying "we're growing a lot".) Example: "if X is true, then Y" is more convincing than "I know Y will work", because you show that at least you're aware of X and are digging into it.

7) What most applications think will never work for a fairly well-defined idea, because it's such a good source of new ideas. But only if it's safe to assume the startup that applied won't pursue it, as to not run into confidentiality issues.

This can be information in the aggregate. e.g. show the top 2 things most applications think will never work, which could account for 80% of the applications, but don't show the outlier 20% which may be a good idea. In other words, provide corrective information, but don't provide what might be the answer.

8) If there's a positive or negative correlation between confidence in the idea and being selected or doing well. Ideally, I'd like to know if I'm writing my application in a way that suggests I have no idea what I'm talking about. But only if you believe providing this will help the startups and the application process.

9) Which parts of the application process that founders often think look like negatives turn out to actually be positives. So startups don't get discouraged.

10) To the extent each question on the application is scored and the score can be useful if it's communicated back to the startup, provide the score back to the startup.

Ideally, do this fast enough so the startup can rethink its answers. e.g. in cases where the startup had better info to supply but didn't, or if you believe it would help.
I think the federal government and the states should reduce the tax burden on corporations that hire the disabled. For every disabled person you hire, your tax bill is lowered that much more. If 15% of your workforce is physically or mentally disabled, your state tax is zero. That would incentivize corporations to hire more disabled.
Sort of tangential, I'm curious about your internal process with this kind of workflow. After you have a new design approved the next milestone is just "here's the app"?

We like to have our junior guys build the "HTML": HTML, LESS/SASS (BEM/SMACSS concepts), JS, Responsive, and cross-browser tested, which we can then review and approve and build the project.

For those of you doing this kind of workflow, building CSS while building components, you just review it all together once the whole thing is done? Which is not a risk as everything is "scoped" or "componentized"?

(We do mostly websites not apps, if it matters.)
This is why I have decided against the Dropcam/Nestcam. We currently use the (now end-of-lifed) Logitech Alert system. Each camera has its own storage and you can option to have that offloaded to a network device. The entire system functions without any dependency on their backend. For free you even get live streaming (which does depend on their backend). However, for something like only $80/yr you can also access the video stored on the cameras for playback. And that one fee gets you all the cameras in your network (where Dropcam charges more... and per camera). I guess Logitech could do it cheaper because their backend just connects you to your cameras so they don't have to handle the data storage/streaming. And even though they end-of-lifed it, they still work. I plan to use them until the wheels fall off. Was hoping to switch to Dropcams, until I researched them more to find out they are cloud-only.
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A common complain about FWD is understeer though. It's worse with more torque at the front wheels.
I find it very hard to understand what these CSS-in-JS libraries are for, and how anyone can be happy with them. They're all extremely leaky abstractions for what's mostly a 'solved problem' - how do I style something.

What's wrong with just "plain old CSS" with whatsoever pre processor you choose? If you're working in a larger project and what to completely modularise your styles, throw in CSS Modules.

I think this over complicated approach by overloading the style attribute, and then figuring out how to do :hover is just too much snd is partly what others point to and laugh when they talk about "JS Fatigue"

Edit: Look, I love React. We just build a reasonably large site with it using some fairly novel and modern approaches to how to make a website. I have absolutely zero sympathy for this self-imposed JS Fatigue that was all the hotness 3 months ago. But using a convoluted system like Radium is just begging for the JS Fatigue crew to point and laugh at you.
Disabling JS on mobile is a godsend though. I keep JS disabled on my phone[1] most of the time and it's generally just a more pleasant experience. I don't even have a particularly slow phone (HTC One M8, I guess it's a couple years old now but it's held up well) but the speed improvement is very noticeable.

We may be crazy but we have our reasons.

1. The very nifty Lightning browser <https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser> exposes a convenient setting for this; there's very little menu digging involved if I want to enable it.
This is FUD, POWER8 is bi-endian and they're pushing LE as standard with the OpenPOWER ABI.
Not trying to say VCs are holy, but... they are investing, in large portion, the public's money, just in the private marketplace. Pension funds, insurance, family offices, etc., are all active in venture, and that's all "our money" as well.
Putting GCP into an Alphabet company would expose that they essentially have no revenue, so they haven't done it.
Recent increases in the capital gains tax rate were very effective at increasing taxes on people in the upper end of the income spectrum. The ability of high earners to avoid taxes through complex use of loopholes is vastly overstated.
I've never flown Alaskan either, but I regularly fly Alaska between the Bay Area and Portland.
also checkout https://devsisters.github.io/goquic/ if you want a sample project using go.
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I think that NIC could be some sort of a base system with a set of modifications to handle various corner cases (people with disabilities etc.).

Yes, the cliff is definitely a problem with the current system.
> Vince Vaughan[sic]

That explains a lot.
For many people working improves their quality of life.

Making things, having some purpose, giving back to society, ect are all very rewarding things.
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People are still trying to call Tesla the new Delorean. Even after all the successful deliveries.
The reality is no one can 100% derisk a new venture, and hardware is a particularly complex industry. Even those with lots of experience in hardware face challenges (google Tony Fadell and Nest). It's up to consumers/backers to do their due diligence on a campaign and its founders. The same is true of any investment or purchase.
Your argument could be made about any form of welfare.

"Liberty is not a topic that can be discussed in polite company" seems more likely to be an issue with your definition of liberty rather than an issue with the polite company.