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> If everybody can spend twice as much on rent t

False presumption, BI will not enable everyone to spend twice as much on rent.

> BI will cause price inflation.

Unfounded.

> The sustainable answer is higher interest rates, so that frugal people can be rewarded for channeling discretionary spending towards paying off principle.

That doesn't remotely address the issue that BI attempts to solve, lack of available jobs for people due to the effects of automation.
What would the stable coin look like? I mean, we already have 700+[1] "coins." we are way passed the ridiculous stage on that front.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies
2%, in my case generating nearly an additional kilowatt hour per 24 hour period (33.8kwH vs 33.2kwH).
Evolving Steam
An interesting perspective by Mark Twain (1899): https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/twain/mark/what_is_man/chap...
Its a well known fact PHP powers a ridiculous number of very high traffic sites. It's also a well known fact that HN favourites like ruby struggle.

PHP is extremely easy to set up and use. Ruby is a quagmire of dependencies and build environments.

This makes php bashing on HN tedious and disconnected from reality. There is a clear preference here for tech that pays more and but let's not try to pass it off as a technical preference.
Here is the best visual approach ive seen to designing flexbox layouts: http://flexboxgame.com
I use Buffer as a marketer and I think I can see what keeps them from growing the number of their paid users.

I have a free plan and I'm completely OK with keeping it that way. It helps me schedule posts 10 per network at a time and not knowing any better I'm perfectly happy with this little convenience it offers and they are doing very little to break me out of this routine.

There is very little messaging to the user in terms of missed opportunities that a paid plan opens up. Actually even with a free plan they could do more messaging to bring me back to their product outside of my "go to schedule some tweets" routine. How about sending me an email when a Twitter account with more than 10K followers re-tweets me. Perhaps it's worth something to me to know that this has in fact happened and suggest some follow-up actions that might maximize this opportunity.

That's just a small example but there are tons of other growth tactics that would communicate to marketers that Buffer can help them become not just "more efficient" marketers, but better marketers overall. I think that's where the true value of most marketing technology lies.

This stage of their company evolution is notably harder and perhaps arguably more boring so it's not surprising to see people leaving. After working on the core product for a while and squeezing out all the potential growth from that, it takes hundreds if not thousands of tactics adjustments, product optimizations and management changes to fine-tune the company engine for slower but steadier growth from then on. And even then it's not an exciting roller-coaster ride anymore but a slow long-haul freight train journey. It takes a markedly different kind of employee to thrive in that kind of environment and this is what they have to optimize for going forward.

ADDENDUM: There's also the added risk of Buffer's success being tied to all the individual social networks, some of which are thriving, others which may not be here tomorrow, so it would be in Buffer's interest to develop their relationships with their users outside of their interaction with those platforms they have no control over. I mean marketers will always have to find the best way to do their job regardless of whether Twitter exists or not. This is probably pretty common sense advice considering how many times we've seen the rug pulled out from under smaller tech companies who built their business around some platform created by Google, Facebook, Microsoft or one of the other big companies.
I used to trade with Tradeking and can confirm they have a very good and well documented API, including their realtime streaming API.
The interaction is completely different. I can check on Elon's twitter whenever I want without having to subscribe. People can have conversations around his tweets without spamming strangers' inboxen. I can send you a link to one of his tweets and you can pass it on to whoever you want without exposing my address to your friends. I have no idea why you would compare the two.
>In the United States, Canada, Australia and Germany, for mandatory reporting purposes, corporate insiders are defined as a company's officers, directors and any beneficial owners of more than 10% of a class of the company's equity securities. Trades made by these types of insiders in the company's own stock, based on material non-public information, are considered fraudulent since the insiders are violating the fiduciary duty that they owe to the shareholders. The corporate insider, simply by accepting employment, has undertaken a legal obligation to the shareholders to put the shareholders' interests before their own, in matters related to the corporation. When insiders buy or sell based upon company-owned information, they are violating their obligation to the shareholders.

Presumably it's not this chapter you're referring to.

>For example, illegal insider trading would occur if the chief executive officer of Company A learned (prior to a public announcement) that Company A will be taken over and then bought shares in Company A while knowing that the share price would likely rise.

Probably not this one either

>In the United States and many other jurisdictions, however, "insiders" are not just limited to corporate officials and major shareholders where illegal insider trading is concerned but can include any individual who trades shares based on material non-public information in violation of some duty of trust. This duty may be imputed; for example, in many jurisdictions, in cases of where a corporate insider "tips" a friend about non-public information likely to have an effect on the company's share price, the duty the corporate insider owes the company is now imputed to the friend and the friend violates a duty to the company if he trades on the basis of this information.

Despite the fact that this chapter doesn't contain anything relevant either, it's probably this one you're referring to. There's no corporate insiders or relationships involving a duty of trust here.

I think you may be misinterpreting your source.
Right. It's a great story, but I've seen many a UPS truck take a left turn.
If we ask politely and explain why, most people are happy to play along. It's easy to see how trying for higher-quality discussion is good for the community.
Why NIMBY Renters Obstruct New Housing, Thus Raising Overall Rents
If we talk about Finland, there's definitely an aspect of raising prices due to transfers. It is particularly apparent in the price of housing in Helsinki region. Anyone living or moving here who does not have enough income is guaranteed a certain amount of money monthly, plus "reasonable housing expenses" (plus some medical expenses and such if needed). For a family of two parents and two small children, living cost 1419.77 €, plus rent on top of that, with a ceiling rent (known as "reasonable housing expenses") of about 1000 €.

This means that for owner of a flat, there is no point in letting out an apartment of any size or condition below the ceiling rent.

So it's not so much that we have a profound distrust of the free market; it's that the market is not so free.

For Finland, one problem of handing out checks is that we can't print money, so much of the commonly presented monetary and economic theories won't work at all.
powerful != profitable
I'm just aware that we reached the limit. Talking to Slack now to get it waived
Would it be useful to get notified when a Docker image gets updated?
Hey HN,

Looking for some feedback from the community on a new feature my team just released that allows you to subscribe to public images on dockerhub and get a notification email when a new image is pushed.

Here's an explanation/overview of how this works: https://anchore.com/blog/better-way-navigate-container-registries/

And

Here's an example: https://anchore.io/image/dockerhub/library%2Fubuntu%3Alatest

We'd love your feedback on whether or not this is useful and if you think there's anything we could add or improve around the implementation.

Thanks in advance!
I agree with this sentiment of weighing short vs long terms needs. However, if you are working in a medium to large place not everyone is benevolently doing things just for the sake of the company. Many times managers demand to sacrifice software quality for their own career climbing even if it will be a liability to the company as a whole.
Hah, well said.

PS hi Ethan
> It's like a game of Monopoly where everyone gets more money,

No it isn't, not even remotely.
JWT is popular with application developers. I think that's because it's cross-stack. Rails developers already have solutions for 95% of the problems JWT solves in the real world. So do Django developers, and so do Go developers, and so do PHP developers. But there's no lingua franca for this problem.

Developers would like there to be one. Unfortunately, they've chosen a terrible standard --- just really, really bad --- to run with. You are better off doing something by hand than using JWT. If you're at all familiar with my ouvre on HN: that's how bad JWT is. I think you might seriously be better off DIY.
Agree that Twitter could have been great with different expectations.

However, I don't even think they're number 2. Depending on how you count it, that's got to be WhatsApp, Instagram, SnapChat, or LinkedIn.
Until is gets stolen and you can't prove you own anything, or?
> It's apples and oranges.

And here I thought it was bananas all along.
Does hacker culture have to be liberal?
You just described a mailing list with a web frontend. Perfect example: NANOG (North American network ops group)

Massive mailing list. Web enabled. Trivial cost. Deep links possible to share. EDIT: And more than 160 characters! Hallelujah! A format an actual discussion can take place in.

I compare the two because I'm old, tech is cyclic, and everyone reinvents the wheel. Twitter is, clearly, not special, and can't justify its valuation.
and therein lies the problem, 10% of Facebook's MAU is 180 million, that nets them 1.8 billion a year. They made 9 billion dollars last quarter. It doesn't make sense for them to switch to $10 a year.

Even if they show ads to remaining users, most of the paying users are going to end up being avid users of the service who are probably more valuable for ads.
In reality most people who want "ad free" anything will just install an ad blocker - it's free.
I also work at Google on an H1-B (Formerly TN-1). I can also confirm that Google pays foreign workers exactly the same (Salary, stock, bonus, vacation, benefits) as Americans.
Then you are essentially negating the value in hiring remote workers. If I have to pay everyone the same as my employees in the most expensive markets, then why would I hire anyone remote? I would just hire the local talents and reap the benefits of being collocated in the same time/space as well as not having to comply with multiple tax/law jurisdictions.
I don't think your parent's sentiment necessarily has anything to do with the results of the election. Even before Nov. 8 2016 there's been plenty of debate about how much politics should play a role in HN, even beyond what the guidelines.

This is not the first time a member has mentioned wanting less politics. It's perfectly legitimate to want to be able to discuss articles without having politics added to it. The current submission makes no mention of politics in general or Trump in particular. Given how much discussion of politics is going on in other threads, it's understandable to want the bar to to drag it in to be higher. How much of what is being said is new?
I think the appropriate term for this is a pretty-printer. It isn't really a compiler, because the target language is the same as the source.

For a JavaScript compiler (or VM) to be genuinely described as self-hosting, it would need to be able to run using itself, without depending on an existing implementation such as V8, ChakraCore etc. The hard part is not outputting code that can be evaluated by JS itself, but implementing the semantics of JS in terms of a lower-level of abstraction, ideally native code.
If there was a text-based UI for Photoshop, I doubt it would be better at most things than how Photoshop works now, which involves direct manipulation of an image with essentially real time feedback of each action as you do it.

The OP is also talking about editing the visual side of things, and I think if a well-done editor that also output good CSS and HTML existed, it would be embraced by many.

Of course, I'm someone who enjoys using Xcode's interface builder tools to edit GUIs, rather than laying out controls in code, because I get instant feedback with Xcode's interface builder. As others have mentioned, something similar for Web work seems like it could be very powerful.
The Same Page Tool
It's impossible to follow a twitter conversation if you don't understand how twitter works. It's a huge barrier to entry for new users and I don't think they'll start growing again until they fix this problem
BI can't just come from inflating the money supply, it wouldn't function if it were implemented that way. BI has to be funded by taxes, and money-holders can't refuse to pay, taxes don't work that way.
Carmack used to, didn't he? Until Facebook hired him?
> to me, success is when you've managed to do something that a lot of people can't do.

> I just have a different perception on what it means to be successful.

Yep, I think these two things are the crux of the issue. The first is probably quite different to how lots of people view things. It can be really painful to evaluate your own worth/success relatively against others.

For many, I think, success is much less a relative issue than an absolute issue. Most who desire to be happy, loved, materially comfortable, and parenting probably do view success as achieving those things. Besides, if those things are what your peers aspire to as well, then you might even be doing better, relative to them, anyway!
I just want Twitter to die as soon as possible so that people move on to a better (and hopefully a decentralized) alternative.
Acquihire? For a company that does $13M annual revenue?
I don't have a Twitter account, so the only way I see it is if something gets reposted on my FB feed or some other media outlet. Which generally means someone notable and/or famous for some reason. Personally, I'm okay with this level of filtering.
How I Code Now – Tumblr Engineering Blog
> He's not even in the top 25 most followed or active people on the site. Obama had more influence as #3!

I think that's entirely the wrong metric. Obama used/uses Twitter to duplicate content that is being released as a press release, TV appearance, etc. etc.

Trump does not. His thoughts are "first on Twitter", and the combination of that plus the fact that he is the President of the United States means that he is an absolutely integral part of the Twitter story, whether you like it or not.
forget twitter, gnu/social is the future https://gnu.io/social/
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY is actually very similar to Redis pubsub. You can manually add triggers to send notification on changes, sure, but the real "in the database" stuff is in RethinkDB.
Well I didn't downbote you. But I imagine the people/person who downvoted felt your comment was too trivial and/or insubstantial.

HN is more serious and restrained than most social media sites (like Reddit). You can reply with a joke and/or use crude language (generally) so long as you offer ideas that add to the conversation.
Es6-Rws: Reconnecting Websockets with EventEmitter Interface:
Bundling up descendants into GeoJSON
Excerpts from Betsy DeVos’ First Speech as Secretary of Education
Has Amazon Ended Support for Older Kindle Models?
I was an intern at Goldman Sachs in 2007 working in IT and my boss was explaining to us how market making works and he described this exact phenomenon - how banks, hedge funds, HFT trading outfits spoof orders constantly so you cannot rely on the order book to determine direction / intent of other traders in the market. Apparently this guy's crime was not being part of a hedge fund or large bank.
Ask HN: Is V8 a large C++ program with a buggy partial implementation of lisp?
No, we don't "expect (HTML) markup to have meaning". Browsers don't do anything with that semantic information. What we have are generators which use HTML/CSS as an output medium, like Postscript or PDF.

Sites with HTML tables were faster to load, smaller, resized automatically, and never had overlapping text. Most of the claimed benefits of CSS were false. CSS pages tend to pull in, or include, large libraries of styles, Javascript, and other junk. That's where page bloat comes from. See yesterday's article on why the web is so slow despite more bandwidth. Do "view source" on the pages of some major sites. It's disgusting.

There seems to be a programmer mindset that users must write source code which is then compiled to something else. Nroff/Troff, then TeX, then DocBook, for example. (Is DocBook dead? The last update on the DocBook site was three years ago.)[1] This is a terrible thing to impose on users.

[1] http://docbook.org/
And a Snap is volatile and even more frivolous! Maybe they're even MORE valuable!
Funny, you'd think non-immigration visas for USA would be much stricter than for Canada, but lately I've been realizing that's not the case at all. That's specially true for rules applying to the companies (like salary requirements).
I think of Twitter as free multicast SMS on the internet. There is no business model in that.
What do you mean by early replacements?
Everyone's different! I also grew up in NYC so I can see how living there might be attractive. I always recommend to folks that haven't to give it a try. It wasn't for me, but it might be for themB
A stable coin is a crypto asset that is backed by a real value.

If you own 1 EthUSD, there is a warranty that someone will give you 1 USD for that token
People were attributing miracles to the Pope as recently as 2015. http://www.christiantoday.com/article/pope.francis.shows.his...

Though I'll admit the Papacy is something of a special case as far as Western Leaders go.
It takes unreasonable people to change the world.
I share the same feeling when using Twitter with a following mainly consisting of friends. If the sole purpose was to communicate with friends, why do so publicly on Twitter?

There is a sense that you can connect with influential people on Twitter, but the truth is your voice just gets lost in a sea of noise.
However it still leaves the impression that H1Bs are doing more bad than good
The reach of mailing lists is orders of magnitude smaller.

People have to sign up for a mailing list; and people who aren't signed up generally don't get your content. This is a stark contrast with Twitter, where content is shared at a significantly higher rate. I don't necessarily have to subscribe to a certain source to get content from them, if someone in my network decides to share that content. When was the last time you received a message that was sent over a mailing list that someone forwarded to your inbox?

I don't follow Elon Musk, but if he puts out an important tweet someone I follow will retweet him putting his content in my feed. An Elon tweet with some big announcement easily reaches an audience of millions. No mailing list has that kind of reach.
It's like getting a bonus for living somewhere more desirable.
Oddly, when I clicked on Linus's G+ link it redirected me to a G+ advertising sequence, complete with web popups. I had to click a second time to actually get there.

I think that may be my biggest issue with G+ (despite so few people using it)... they keep changing it. Facebook evolves much more slowly, so it's much more predictable and comfortable to the distracted and comfort-seeking social media user like myself. G+ is constantly experimenting and I can't easily pin down exactly what it is...
> but will never use Snapchat as it is today.

Snapchat is completely covered in sponsored content now. Unless you have dozens of people you follow, ads make up the majority of the experience.
Individual, one license.
Where's this ~1ms overhead for an additional asset on a HTTP2 connection coming from? Do you have a reference to a benchmark or something that demonstrates it?
> If the increased cost is due to government inefficiency, there is opportunity for for-profit businesses to provide the same service at lower cost, and either capture the difference as profit or compete on cost for more business. However, in practice, for-profit hospitals and schools operate at similar cost.

One possible cause here is government regulation causes increased costs, which all (legal) private companies can't avoid.

> However, US costs are much higher and have increased much faster than in other developed countries, despite the US system being the most privatised by far.

Which industry are you talking about here? The US does not have privatized medicine at all.
Not to mention the sub second latecy for querying 1B rows.
Torvalds. David Brin. Tim O'Reilly (although Tim uses or used to use multiple platforms in an ongoing fashion). Randall Schwartz. A few others I'm not thinking of right now.

Plus garnered a bit of a "tech"/thinker corner. I don't know whether it has any remaining vibrancy/growth, at this point, or whether its mostly a matter of inertia combined with the crapitude of other platforms for the particular communicating they are doing.

Too bad Plus was so thoroughly hosed from the start by political agendas.

OT: At Christmas, I stopped accessing Facebook. I thought it would be for a few days or a week. Coming up on two months, soon, and I haven't been able to make myself go back. Even with a relatively small set of FB friends whom I actually, personally know, and who are nice and not rabid and actually respond meaningfully to some of my own contributions, there.

In some ways, the impersonal, more technical content on Plus (and here, and etc.) is easier. There is no "missing aspect" as there is with FB engagement with friends.

Twitter? Gave up on that years ago. Tim O'Reilly had an interesting post or two about some of its positive, community aspects, in its early days. But now, it just mostly seems a megaphone for the loud and discontent.

And then, too, anywhere Trump et al. are and that seems to aid his lying megalomania. I'm not inclined to lend it the (incremental) support of my participation.

If he's a particular indication of their future, well, then, welcome to the gutter, Twitter.
Yes it is.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOHbM4GGWADc5bZgvbivv...
The barrier for a follow is so much lower than a mailing list. I am not going to sign up for a mailing list from a random comedian to send me their tour dates that 98% of the time aren't relevant to me. But I will put up with them Tweeting those date if their other Tweets are funny.
In related news, app.net will shut down in March (http://blog.app.net/2017/01/12/app-net-is-shutting-down/).
Please consider trying to get off of Solidity at some point.

It doesn't matter how much auditing is done, if you're building on a shaky foundation mistakes will eventually slip through. Solidity is definitely a shaky foundation.

I really admire projects like yours for their daring, but that needs to be backed up with hard engineering work. I would hate to see smart contracts go down the path of the "Internet of things" -- finally succeeding only to cause more harm than good due to compounding security vulnerabilities.
I found the relevant discussion on this: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/960
get your head out of the gutter