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The firewall isn't what was preventing Uber from competing in China...

But it is one of the things that prevented Google from competing in China. Here's an excerpt from an article previously posted on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218607

The hurdles could be unpredictable, with an element of deniability. Sometimes Google found itself at the mercy of China’s ability to manipulate the digital infrastructure. The site would work slowly, or there would be outages. In one instance, Google found not only that users were blocked from its site, but also that when they typed in the address, they would be redirected to it competitor Baidu. This played into the narrative spun by Baidu that Google was overmatched in serving China, and that the local option was more reliable.
I think it's harder to agree/disagree with the typical headlines featured on HN. Most articles on HN appear to be straight.

But let's say that two articles were in the queue, one pro-X, the other anti-X and the pro-X forces were dominant. Sure the pro-X article would hit the FP, but the anti-X forces would still comment on it and be down voted.

Also the bias is only visible in the comment section because down voted comments remain visible, whereas a down voted article gets flushed down the memory hole.
I don't know about single payer, but health care is tricky. What do we do (as a society) about this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12307526

He has his gallbladder out and all of a sudden he's a super risky person to insure. How do we get him in a risk pool where his premiums won't be unaffordable?
And I'm just one small developer, but I won't be investing my time in .NET and hosting on Azure.
This is the idea behind the new-ish "shadow dom" feature that is slowly being implemented by browsers. (Part of the larger "web components" concept that will hopefully become a thing at some point).

In the meantime... with some discipline you can keep things self-contained just by using unique classes for each component (like what BEM and other similar naming conventions espouse). Could also look into CSS linters to keep you and your team honest.
Metafilter does moderation well. They have a team of paid moderators. It costs a token $5 to join, which means it's expensive to generate sock puppets and anyway the moderators keep your credit card on file so they can permaban you if they need to.
it's amazing you're a founder from a YCombinator company. Just, shocked.
Please don't patronize other users by telling them to "calm down", "don't get defensive", etc. The root cause is that your comments were casually insulting; adding further casual insults doesn't help. A much better strategy is to edit such swipes out of your comments to begin with.
So? That's just an appeal to (200 year old) authority.
Actually, it was solved 100 years ago or so with technology. For example, steel framed buildings and Otis elevators made tall buildings possible and a more economical use of land (eg, less expensive apartments and offices than before these technologies existed).

If you lived in NYC, you wouldn't see Airbnb as a solution but rather a problem created. It allows transients into buildings and we don't want that. We value our safety and pay for it financially.

The real solution is to undo the laws that create the artificial "economic rents" that benefit landlords at the expense of renters. See Economist Glaeser's column I cited above.
It took me a little while to identify which shared folders were necessary for various programs used by this business. Having figured out how to re-share those folders and confirmed that everything else was still working, however, there wasn't a chance in hell I was going to roll the dice on a "restore" operation. They had work to do that day.
I agree with your concerns as a whole, but maybe not your analysis of the accommodation. If the startup is merely a platform for connecting babysitters and parents, babysitters could choose whom they want to babysit. A babysitter who was not qualified to deal with a developmentally challenged kid or infant should not have to, and probably shouldn't.
Except you can sue your insurance provider if they deny you coverage for something that they're obligated to cover. You wouldn't be able to sue the government.

Edit: Let me also add this; when you sign up for health insurance you're entering into a contract with the insurer. They have to be up front about what they're providing and it's your obligation to understand what you're buying. With the government you don't get that. You get whatever the vanilla flavour of healthcare coverage is today. There's no contractual obligation, only whatever the government says is right today. You don't get a guarantee. Because there's no contract you can point to, even if you're legally allowed to sue (and I don't think you are.) you won't have a case to stand on.
There are no lemon laws in Canada, just as an FYI.
Thankfully, this has been fixed.
The business model hasn't changed. Windows is an always has been a paid product (with some minor variations) and Microsoft is not a significant player in the advertising business. (AOL does sell Bing ads, I think.)

Of course, if you have any factual evidence that Windows users are a product, then I'd be interested to hear it.
For generated HTML docs or websites, this is still not ideal because you have to commit generated code into your master branch.

You can even use Travis to automatically generate and deploy your docs/website, which I find much cleaner and convenient than manually publishing or committing generated code.

https://github.com/L33T-KR3W/push-dir makes it easy to publish a directory to gh-pages (even .gitignored directories i.e. build/).
My comment regarding revocation was to clarify that unless you're currently revoking each of these certificates after removing a subdomain, there's probably no reason why you should remove the subdomain right away (instead of with the next renewal). I'm not suggesting you should revoke the certificates if this is just an implementation detail and not about actively revoking trust.

You're right that the default tooling would not work quite the way I described, but this use-case seems to call for a more low-level ACME library anyway, and with that it should not be too complex to implement some kind of bucket system where you just split your subdomains in buckets of 100 each, and occasionally rebalance them as subdomains are removed (i.e. merge two buckets into one when they have less than 100 subdomains total, etc.)
This is not proof at all that "Obamacare is a Rube Goldberg machine." This is a major insurer pulling out the markets, but over trivial amounts of losses.

I don't know what you mean about Kentucky. There are plenty of health insurance companies with offering on the Kentucky exchanges (Anthem BCBS, CareSource Kentucky, Humana, Aetna, and Bluegrass Family Health). And in any event, even if there truly were no insurance companies with offerings on the Kentucky exchanges, I find it very implausible that either Mitch McConnell, or Rand Paul would have claimed to be "gobsmacked." They were leaders in the fight against ACA, and they certainly claimed before passage that the law would destroy the health care industry.
On a planet of 7Bn with dwindling resources the case that making more people should be rewarded or subsidized isn't very convincing.
Nice meltdown
This is an interesting move, and a topic I've been discussing with friends. I've stopped using sites like Reddit, because the comment sections are just toxic. I've gone as far as installing Chrome extensions that make comment sections disappear from popular sites like YouTube. It's too easy to get drawn into the negativity, and I'm completely over it. "Social Networking" has reached it's low point as far as I'm concerned. Hacker News is about the only civil place I'm capable of contributing to a discussion to at this point.
> A publicly owned and operated business has no incentive to improve its operational efficiency and little to no incentive to respond to complaints in service.

In the UK, the NHS has the incentive to improve its operational efficiency that it simply gets told regularly "we're cutting X billions of your budget. Deal".

The NHS is also split up into a range of trusts that have independent management teams. While there's a lot of cooperation and shared resources, this means there is a lot of opportunity to compare cost and outcomes, and so they can't just hide behind "but that's how much it costs", because the government will know it if there are other trusts delivering similar outcomes at a much lower cost.

And they have the incentive to respond to complaints in service that the NHS Trust in questions board of director will find campaign groups talking to MPs and cabinet ministers, tabloids calling them murderers and the like if they don't keep quality under control, and if they don't respond appropriately, the trust will get put under special measures which can include letting another trust take over management.

There are plenty of ways to apply pressure in addition to markets.

But you have some points: You can certainly make things better by e.g. requiring more transparency.
I think Trump is more of an infected pot of filth catapulted over the walls... Not sure he's hiding much.
I had to install Windows 8.1 from scratch recently, for the first time in my life I had to review update-per-update what the f%$k did they do, it is depressing that too many updates had something to do with Windows 10 or an increase in telemetry...

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It is not possible, but can be implemented Amazon Advertising API /scraping and machine learning.
I'm not sold on it because a lot of newspaper web sites use facebook comments and any topic about politics, race, or gender seem to be full of people making hateful comments.
Most everything does.

My lawnmower has a 3 year warranty. 30 days if commercial use.

My blender has a 2 year warranty. 0 days if commercial use.

I don't know about cars or not having the exclusion, but it wouldn't surprise me.
How to Train a Neural Network for Wine Tasting
I have a 1 and 3 year old. Their naps never align.
Calling it the "last mile" is a bit of a mischaracterization though. It isn't a need to just reach a single endpoint, but the ongoing transportation requirements in the visited destination.

Similarly, light rail is personally advantageous not because the trip itself is better than driving (likely it's not), but because it allows one to not be burdened with a car at their destination.
Is it illegal to use directional antennas in China? If not, do businesses just get a place with a view to Taipei and route all non-chinese IP requests that way?
The power feature I am most looking for, and which I think this site could implement well, is cross-category search. If I want, say, ECG leads, manufacturers and vendors will list them in, variously, Industrial & Scientific, Health & Household, Electronics, Computers & Accessories, Professional Medical Supplies, or even the pervasive Tools & Home Improvement category.

Many of these sub-categories have useful filters that aren't available in the general product list, but if I want to use them, I must open tabs for each category.

If this site could do a union on all the categories, offering sub-filters where available, filtering in the products that meet those filters and categories, out the products that have different categories, and in the products that have no categorization at all for that filter, that would be very useful.

On the other hand, if Amazon would just do a better job of curating the metadata on all these products, that would be great too. Maybe it takes a full time effort for a few people to maintain the compatibility lists for all the phone cases on Amazon. But that has to be more efficient than having thousands of under-informed consumers try to repeat that work over and over again...
Fantastic news. Makes static sites publishing way easier. Looking forward to the upcoming gem-packaged themes (in Jekyll) on GitHub pages too.

PS: Anyone interested in static (web)site builder news (e.g. GitHub Pages, Jekyll, Middleman, Gatsby, Metalsmith, and friends)? Follow along @statictimes on twitter -> https://twitter.com/statictimes
PPS: Anyone interested in Jekyll - I've put together an Awesome Jekyll page -> https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll (incl. a history on GitHub Pages updates/news).
Yes. I think Bitcoin is an example of this in action. I remember some people (academics if I remember right) thought it technically impossible for a variety of security, comp sci theory or economic reasons. Since then it has become clear a blockchain is a valid expression of computation and economy, flaws notwithstanding.
I put 100k on my car in 1.5 years of driving Lyft.
I love that there are many people on here clamoring for physical copies. But over the years, I've noticed (for the books I have written and edited), print copies sharply declined and ebook copies sharply went up. It's to the point where I don't even know why we bother doing paper anymore.

I prefer digital because I can send out updated copies of the books to readers for free, which I can't do on paper. And programming stuff changes so frequently.

So I guess I'm saying if you want print books, you should make that known by buying physical copies of books. Cos if the trends I see continues, I can't imagine it'll be practical to do print tech books too far into the future.
It does specifically say raw carrots - typically when mashing food it's cooked then mashed, so I'd assume cooked carrots in any form are OK.
I'm sorry you feel that way. Unfortunately time is something we all share, and it brings me a lot of joy to have students say that my courses have saved them a ton of time and helped them meet their goals.

I see that you recently left Amazon after making 200k/year there (a comment you made 5 days ago). I can see why you don't like people promoting Amazon products, I fully understand.
> Their incentives are not aligned with yours on anything besides wanting to get it over with asap.

To be fair, that's occasionally exactly what you want - if you've just moved into town for the first time, for instance, and want to mitigate uncertainty (and hotel expenses) ASAP.
Regulations catch up.

Often the reason the regulations are there in the first place is because otherwise the need wouldn't be met.

That is the reality around you now
Oh, that is neat. That may be exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing.
Lynching is an epithet for Social Justice, and vice-versa.
> I've never been able to understand how a parent could advocate against European-style healthcare goals

I'm pretty sure parental leave is not mentioned in the US Constitution nor in the founding documents of most countries.

If we don't have it today, it's not because people advocated against it and removed it, it's because we simply haven't had enough push to advocate for it and add it.

Large countries have a ton of inertia. Diverse, thinly populated countries even more so. When people are far apart, they care much more about local politics and their neighbors than they do centralized government. Making change happen at that scale is very very hard.

People living in European countries enjoy criticizing the US on stuff like this, but they fail to realize how much bigger and more spread out we are than they are. The US is more than twice as large as the entire EU. Our density is less than a third of the EU's.

Another comment here mentions Denmark. If Denmark was a US state, it would be 36th in size, smaller than more than half of all US states. In population, it has fewer than 20 other states. The metropolitan area of the city I live in (Seattle) alone has almost half the population of the entire country of Denmark. LA and surrounding environments contain more than two Denmarks worth of people.

Consider if every US state were to independently enter the EU. In that case, of the top 40 largest members by area, only 9 would still be in Europe.

The US is behind in many ways, but this is not because we are backwater full of regressive idiots. We are a very large country without the density and homogeneity to benefit from good economies of scale. It's a lot easier to reach consensus and move a government forward when you have fewer people and they can more easily relate to each other.

If you are unable to understand why we might not have attained the same healthcare goals as your country, consider that your inability to understand people whose situation is different from yours is the exact psychological problem that slows us down.
$500M in revenue is a small drop in the ocean. Cisco reported $49.2B revenue in 2015 alone. Huawei reported $60.1B in 2015. Apple reported $16B in one quarter of 2014 in greater China alone. Given Huawei's strength in products and advantages in pricing, they should decimate Cisco righteously, if not the barrier stood up by the US government.
I'm not sure how much explanatory power your summary has: couldn't that be a description of any government fuck-up? b^)
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Taking a substantive discussion in a snarky generic direction is exactly the wrong thing to do on HN. Please don't do it again.

Maybe the comment you were replying to hinted at that (if I squint I can read it that way), but if so, the thing to do is gently turn the discussion back in a neutral direction with a substantive reply, or simply not to reply at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12306675 and marked it off-topic.
Researcher creates software to improve data sharing in research and academia
You've essentially repeated what the article said, but without addressing my point. If you want to claim that Walmart is the problem, then you need to measure the causal link I'm suggesting and demonstrate it to be negligible.
I think the main issue is that beyond the very basic examples the new Docker 1.12 swarm features aren't really production ready. At this point there is a significant amount of tooling required to get a production cluster running with your applications. The Distributed Application Bundles (DAB) files, one of the features I was most excited about, are still marked as experimental.

Overall I think Docker is heading in the right direction, but for now Kubernetes, ECS, etc... are better solutions for orchestration. I was hoping to only use Docker for my current project, but I think I'll have to wait until the next one rolls around and Docker releases a few more updates.
This article reads like a paid ad... is it?
I think you're understating the amount of protectionism going on here. This isn't just a matter of language barrier and it's not even just a matter of the CCP wanting to maintain control. There's a deliberate effort to kneecap American tech companies in order to help their domestic tech companies develop.
Everything is there intentionally, in a sense; but some shapes of codebase adapt to some requirements changes better, and some less -- and thus, this becomes a choice of implementation strategy given current requirements and some sort of probabilistic model for their change (both in theory and practice, where the probabilities have to be assumed creatively, as there is no other way).

Basic and worth-thinking-over stuff, yet in no book or blogs (as bloggers seem to like to express themselves on "cohesion" and such, w/o using any metrics, of course, even for simpler examples :)).
Netlify, a sevice for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M
Wow, an extreme book bundle. Happy to see and instant buy from me, especially since it's drm-free and in many formats!

Myself, I've already read Clojure for the Brave and True and also the Eloquent JavaScript so I can recommend the bundle just because of those two. Currently reading Land of Lisp which is good as well but haven't finished so hard to comment on.

But, for the price of $15, it would be hard not to buy this.
Android Support Library adds snapping to RecyclerView
This is the best explanation I've seen so far.
« a practice of writing inline styles (as opposed to the standard practice of using CSS selectors and external sheets) »

The constant "ava" can be stored in another page of the wiki, a library which can be called via a {require mylibrary}. Please be nice enough to believe that I'm aware of the standard practice... This "quick" introduction can't explain everything. Neither CSS standard practices, nor first class functions, currying, tail-recursion, macros, and so on. Please take time to go further in this work before saying « it's just plain misleading ». Thank you.
I always liked slashdot's comment system back in the day. It allowed you to adjust what you saw and how many points a "funny" post got vs how many an "informative" one got and then set a point threshold based on that.

Since then they seem to have eliminated that level of customization so either it wasn't working or they just didn't see it as worth reimplimenting when they moved away from their old code base.
China's Internet been an Intranet means GFW don't need to be precise in recognizing traffic flows. A little false positive is fine.

Some examples:
- Dropping GRE packet so PPTP VPN is not possible
- Send TCP RST to both end when a connection to dport=22 generated too much traffic

Also from my understanding, it's not that hard to use some basic machine learning techniques to classify the traffic. That's the reason why Tor project developed obfsproxy to obfuscate the traffic flow.
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The 21st century version of "16 tons"[1] becomes "16 terabytes" and the refrain becomes: "I owe my soul to the company stor[age]".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk
I'm automating my finances on Twitter
Maybe you haven't heard of Cricket, but I'm sure you've heard of their parent company: AT&T.
I don't personally have a problem with ads being displayed. What I have a problem with is Google building profiles of people who are not Google users.
You are still assuming that great need and profitability go hand in hand. The issue being discussed is specifically the cases where they do not.
I don't think for one minute that you confused space consumption with rate.
I was referring to the issuance rate limits, not about letting anyone add domains to their certs.
That's a pretty nice feature. Is there a browser on iOS which supports that? Safari and Chrome do not seem to reflow.
They don't except it all from a single entity.
Forgot JWZ, but it's usually Greg KH, not GKH. Although either works...

JGC hasn't written any particularly well-known code.

On the flip side, we both took it in turn to forget GLS (aka The Great Quux), to say nothing of johnc.
I feel like this is kind of...overblown? Maybe I am wrong, but in any case, here's the general gist of what GameDVR is: http://support.xbox.com/en-CA/xbox-on-windows/social/record-...

It basically enables a hotkey to activate screen recording.

So, it's not recording your screen all the time, without your permission? Even if it was, how is that data managed by Microsoft? That's a LOT of data...so it doesn't seem believable that MS would be that stupid.

Disclosure: I am not connected to Microsoft in any way (they'd never hire me), but I am pretty attached to my Windows system. I have used Ubuntu and Debian for a fair bit, and frankly, there are just too many rough edges. It annoyed me. Windows on the other hand, has just been getting smoother.

For me, the biggest reason why I couldn't stand Linux OSes was because I had trouble finding a PDF reader that did all the nice things Adobe Acrobat Professional does. I have to read through a lot of PDFs for work.

I also do a lot of scientific computation, but it is pretty OS agnostic as I am not tied to C when using Python+Numba(I am a huge Numba fan).

Appealing (but not something I use) "killer apps" like Vim or Emacs are also OS independent now, so yeah.

No motivation to go back to Linux.

Even if Microsoft was spying on me, I couldn't really care less, because I am a no-name nothing. Life's good.