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I realize that he knows about rent seeking and Ricardo. He was addressing the issue of high housing costs and the question to ask is, why didn't he address the solution which is to reverse the rent-seeking that benefits wealthy landowners like President Trump over regular citizen renters and home buyers.

He should have written about this (article link was provided by another comment above) about how Japan solved the problem in Tokyo. We need a similar federal law in the US.

An article by Cowen that solves the problem by showing how successfully implemented the law was in Japan for Tokyo would have been far, far more interesting and implementable.

"The federal [Japanese] government recognized that these regulations were the problem, so in 2002, it passed the Urban Renaissance Law. The law stripped municipalities of the ability to control private property."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/08/12/tokyos-af...
> In order to render HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you need an entire web rendering engine.

Getting to piggyback on V8 and Blink work is, I suspect, often a benefit rather than a cost in the eyes of developers of Electron-based editors. Sure, it's bigger resource load, but for use cases where the performance is acceptable, it's a lot less developer load to get the functionality out the door.
Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers
Fake Article Titled “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?” Accepted by 17 Medical Journals
https://github.com/verekia/js-stack-from-scratch

Rediscovering the horrors of setting up a Java web app in the early 2000s, except now you configure it with json instead of xml.
Are they just hoping to drive business to their new CA: Google Trust Services?
I used it (1P) and it was super, but mac only - no Linux client. Just switched over to Enpass, and its very like 1Password, only they do provide a linux client. So far its great, very happy with it. * reply to comment above re 1Password
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Well, of course, no number that represents a physical quantity can go up forever.. neither electric charge, nor information, nor energy, or mass, nor money. Yeah I'm being a bit nitpicky I guess.
>Symantec will start a negative PR campaign, leading its users to yell at google to change things,

It seems Google has the leverage, not Symantec.

A PR awareness campaign is out-of-band information that's separate from the web surfer actually navigating to a site. Millions of users would see a scary message similar to "This site's security certificate is not trusted!"[1].

To prevent scary security popups, which is more likely?

1) The website owners abandon Symantec and switch to a Certificate Authority not flagged by Chrome

or

2) Users get "educated" on Symantec's side of the story and manually add Symantec as a trusted root certificate. (Some can switch browsers but for many non-techies, that's a pain because they have all their bookmarks in Chrome -- and migrating them on mobile phone is not obvious.)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=google+chrome+this+site%27s+...
I use KeePass+SFTP personally. Something like a password manager I won't trust to a cloud service.
My best experience is with Ember and Ember-CLI where the build process is pre-defined and laid out for you, and the requirements to start a project are: have node + bower + ember-cli installed globally, type `ember new project-name`, `npm install` it to get the dependencies, then start writing ES6. Type `ember build` when you're ready to create a browser-ready artifact. As far as tooling and build processes go, IMO it's less cumbersome than setting up a proper Go environment and cross-compiling to different platforms.
I can't see any such option in Atom, Sublime, or Eclipse to copy as rich text.

To be fair I didn't really expect it to work with automagically copying the syntax highlighting from my IDE, but it made it sound like it could.

It's definitely a useful project, and surprising that nothing else like it exists, but may be worth making it clearer that it's designed for rich text, and may or may not work with formatting when pasting for various programs.
I wonder if 1Password is equally susceptible or less so, due to the way that the extension works. Because 1Password has a native application, I believe the browser extensions merely communicate with the native application to retrieve passwords to fill when needed, instead of handling your whole decrypted vault.
1Password is different from LastPass; the article is about the latter.
"Fractional scaling" (I assume you mean e.g. 160 DPI instead of 200 DPI) is no problem even with the older KDE version from F23, just a bit finicky to get started up - but when it runs, it works. Gtk on the other hand seems (seemed? - I don't bother to check regularly) to be stuck at 100 %, 200 %, 300 %, ...
I never liked it, but I won't pretend it's because I'm some security genius. Just found it very unpleasant to use
http://keepass.info/ is awesome.

Put your keyfile on Dropbox/OneDrive/whatever so it syncs to all your computers.

Keepass2Android works great and can read from most cloud storage solutions.

Don't know about iPhone.

Edit:
It also has a lot of neat plugins. I use one for storing ssl certificates, which also supports key forwarding to putty.
Is this a case of a more specialized tool (with fewer but more focused features)? For example, you can view email in vim, and I'm sure you'd get better performance than Gmail for large emails but very few developers I know use vim for that.
I meant directly regulating the supply. Some regulations are good, others are clearly bad. And telling "therefore shall only exist 2k taxis on this city" is clearly on the bad category.
So, let's say you were born in China. Would you have a similar level of anxiety about never seeing anyone outside of your ethnic group? I find it very odd how white people are seemingly the only ethnic group so hung up on seeing people of different races one day-to-day basis.

On a related note, if being around so many white people bothers you so much, why aren't you living in, say, East Palo Alto or Richmond?
bash, make, and a POSIX suite probably run on many more platforms than nodejs does.

There is the caveat that too many people think they're writing portable shell scripts etc., but really they only work with GNU tools on Linux or MacOS. Then again, the same probably applies to many JS build scripts that end up relying on OS-specific behavior somewhere...
"effective immediately"
I really like it. Much nicer to use than Lastpass in my opinion.
> male counterparts (who are generally guaranteed government sinecures)
> These countries risk not only of losing their women; if they do not mend their ways, they will lose the most productive half of their populations.

Sounds like they're also losing the potentials of many of their male population with such guaranteed government sinecures.
"fact" is just a rhetorical label that relies on continuous social consensus, as tempting as it is to believe otherwise.

The "facts" change or evolve all the time. That's the whole point of the scientific method.
$100k to move your startup to Austin, TX
Slight nitpick, but this articles deals with "Docker Swarm mode" [1], which is different from Docker Swarm [2].

[1] https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/

[2] https://github.com/docker/swarm

[3] Difference between Docker Swarm and Swarm mode: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40039031/what-is-the-diff...
This is what I understand about efficiency after working with photodetectors (not used as solar cells, but similar in principle).

1. The sun emits a wide spectrum, with a long tail in the infrared.

2. Materials are only photoelectric at certain wavelengths.

3. The sensitivity to each wavelength depends upon design which is ultimately is related to the penetration depth of light in the material (longer wavelengths travel longer distances before reacting with the crystal structure).

4. Silicon is the most common and cheapest material, but its sensitivity rolls off sharply towards UV and infrared. Other materials are orders of magnitude more expensive. Not just in manufacturing, but the materials themselves.

5. To capture a wide range of spectrum you need a very long depletion region (kind of neutral area between p-n junctions). This has its own design tradeoffs.

So the end result is that the real world efficiency limit can have many reported figures, from theoretical energy physics to practical material, design, and manufacturing limits. The biggest contributor to loss is that silicon is simply not able to capture much more than the visible spectrum. Next is that even with silicon there is a sensitivity curve (efficiency of converting photons to current per wavelength), and then designing so that you can capture the current (or else it would just recombine in the crystal).

This is why gain in solar seems to be slow. There are tremendous limitations, and I have my doubts that there will be overcome any time soon.

But, there is plenty of sunlight, so I would say the real challenge is energy storage. If sunlight can be stored cheaply and efficiently, then what we have is good enough.
I'm interested to hear what the HN community thinks about keeping passwords in iCloud-based Keychain (Safari) or whatever Google's alternative is called.

I don't care about portability. Why would I want e.g. 1Password instead of simply using Apple Keychain.

Thanks!
This is about Lastpass, not 1Password.
Uses SQL Cipher, which uses "Algorithms provided by the peer reviewed OpenSSL crypto library".

Given all the problems with OpenSSL, I really wished they used something like BoringSSL.
The behavior that I saw, was a hashtag auto-complete working, then, after it became more popular, it would not complete.

In some cases a wrongly spelled hashtag would auto-complete and the original would not, even if you were to spell everything but the very last character.

That's the behavior. The motivation or code behind that behavior, I can speculate about but cannot prove.

Twitter charges for the custom icons that show up, e.g. the BLM three brown circles.

An ad agency used by the RNC (EDIT: actually the Trump campaign) had offered to spend $5 million for a custom icon for a hashtag they wanted to use.

@jack personally scotched it, even though the vetting process had already been gone through and the funds from the agency allocated. That is circumstantial evidence that gives a possible motive.

https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48c...
$3B is pretty small on the large scale. Especially when you consider the cost of adding them later (while it may not be paid for up front by the government, costs of doing construction, like closures, do add to gov't costs)
Something a lot of these comments are currently missing is the fact that the video specifically described that:

1. The brave browser by default blocks ads and tracking software.

2. That advertisements are opt-in only in the brave browser.

So while this is a subtle advertisement for the Brave Browser[0], I think this is also a clean separation from the browser in attempt to create a new form of advertising. While obviously those defaults can change, I'd imagine the reason for the clean separation between the BAT and the Brave Browser is because users would be significantly more hesitant to join if the "goal" of the browser was an alternative for of advertising. On that merit I would evaluate the browser separately from this idea.

Ignoring the integration with the Brave browser though, one issue for this is that this doesn't solve the fundamental problem of a company that might have a boring product, that wants to advertise and is willing to pay for it. Google will take your money, and show your ads to the relevant market. People click on those ads, and drive engagement to the company. Most companies don't have exciting enough products to be able to drive engagement with simply the "product".

Another issue is that if the BAT tokens are generated from users attention and the quality of the ads, and NO user information is stored like is claimed here, then there would engagement would most likely be significantly less than with other advertisers, as the advertising market is then expanded to all people, rather than the demographic the company is trying to hit. This would mean that whatever monetization form Brave comes up with is going to have to be a lot cheaper than what Google is charging, because I can almost guarantee engagement suffer drastically.

Finally, as a quick test, I don't even see the browser succeeding on the basis of blocking "all" ad content, as it doesn't even block Facebook ads with the "block all ads" setting checked[1]. I'd imagine because Facebook sends their ads along with the actual page content, which I'd also imagine most other ad companies would figure out a way to do if Brave becomes more successful.

[0] https://brave.com/

[1] http://imgur.com/kN8l8Ph
If they're going nuclear then it's akin to merely lobbing tactical nukes on military bases, not city-busters on some megalopolis.

They're "only" planning to remove the extended validation indicator and reduce the maximum validity time instead of completely phasing out the root.
Yes, I'm sure this is true. It's just that it takes a really long time to get all the commands into muscle memory. I've been using Vim for over a decade and still don't feel comfortable doing more than quick edits to individual files.

All editors from Notepad to ST / Atom, Browsers and Document editors have the same keys for search, replace, new tab, close tab, new document.

But learning vim is a completely different language. I mean that in the sense of actually learning a spoken language. Until you're fluent in it, it's really awkward.

My latest step has been finally to get round to using tabs which I'd never even really considered for Vim. But even that requires learning all the new tab commands, there's no Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab.

I'm in the Windows world which doesn't help with learning Vim as it's just not as pleasant experience as using it in the Linux command prompt.
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Yip, misreplyed to a comment asking about 1Password
Banks can just switch to better SSL services...
New twist on sofa problem that stumped mathematicians and furniture movers
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Weird.

Never heard of this two-space thing before, at least not growing up and working in the UK.
Scott Adams responds: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158709087061/some-fake-news-abo...
> you can effectively use the native pre-receive hooks & wrap the git shell

The way GitLab is organized (pre-Gitaly) makes it very hard to do things like that. Roughly speaking, when handling a push, it is a coordinated dance between GitLab components to make sure it all goes in, but none of these components has full control over the push from start to finish. One of the reasons we are creating Gitaly is to create a 'place' (namely Gitaly) where we _can_ exercise such control.

The other big reason for building it is not having to use Git repos on NFS.

(Gitaly maintainer)
In the context of Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, autoscaling refers to container level scaling ie. given a set of nodes, any autoscaling function would manage the number of containers that are currently running on these nodes.

For instance/node level autoscaling (which is closer to what you need), I would recommend using the autoscaling features provided by AWS/Google Cloud.
Medium debuts its paid membership subscription program
That's unlikely, as they currently do not offer certificates to the general public. I imagine if they do at some point, it might be as part of something like their version of Amazon's ACM for their Cloud offerings, or for custom domains on sites like Blogger. I'd expect both to be free. They're also a platinum sponsor of Let's Encrypt.
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I think the idea here is that they're not trying to prevent other CAs from issuing end certs, they're trying to only allow certs for their domain - from any CA on their short list - if the owner of the cert has been through Extended Validation.
Thats why sidewalks are included... having conduit with all new sidewalks would definitely ease the last mile
1Password has no Linux support so it's not really a drop in replacement. Android autofill functionality is also significantly worse.
Wind is not thermal energy, so energy extraction from it can achieve 100% efficiency in theory.

Turbines do have some theoretical limitation, but it's a technology limitation, not an ultimate theoretical one.
According to some sensationalist stories I've read, it's only ~10X what we're spending to protect/transport President Trump on his weekend vacations.
The Windows 95 optimization related to the blinking clock making it difficult to page code out... which was very important on systems at the minimum 4MB RAM required by Windows 95.

I suspect that iPhone's "Clock" app would have difficulties both with smoothness and battery life if constrained to 4MB of RAM and paging...
Oops, direct link to email: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/98attendees/5LwgAgviCg...

Maybe someone can update the link.
amazon has brand recognition, they don't need to assuage people's semi-conscious perception of site trustworthyness.
100% passive income is index funds in the stock market.

A few hours a month may be low work residual income.. but not passive.
Most outliers are hard to reconcile with the mean.
It should be noted that the vast majority of the IT industry isn't startups. Lots of the drive of rent is not funded by VCs.
>Huh? I was appealing to why they might support something, not oppose it.

I might not have read it in the tone you intended, and boogeyman might not have been the right word I was looking for. I'm used to the discussion of religion on this forum having a suspicious or negative tone, so I apologize if I projected that onto you incorrectly.

It seemed strange to me that out of any number of political forces in the US you chose to mention religious right, as though they're this monolithic group that are preventing mandatory holidays and could get it done if they wanted to.

I don't know if it's really even as partisan of an issue in a liberal/conservative or Democrat/Republican sense; it's just not part of the culture here, at least not on the federal level. I'm thinking about blue laws here, because religious influence did translate to mandatory days off for a lot of businesses in times past. But as far as I know, most of that was state-by-state. I'm not aware of federal blue laws, or any kind of federal mandate on holidays.
No problems. Overall, I'm glad you shared your paper, lmbench seems very nice.
> Tracking is important for delivering "relevant" ads, which many people would prefer.

I know that advertisers prefer this, but I'm not quite convinced that most users do.

The most polarizing example of this is, of course, remarketing.
Yeah, I agree I don't really see this BAT stuff as the solution, but I do appreciate people trying to find novel solutions.

Straight up selling content isn't the solution either, IMO. It would require a huge cultural shift in what the web is, which I don't think people are willing to do. More problematically, if all web content was a la carte paid for, that would lock out lower income people from a ton of information, which seems like a step backward, socially.
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I was really surprised that I was able to get 1Password for Windows working under Wine, even 1P Mini works with the browser extensions. It's not terribly reliable, though.
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Given that our web browsing history will now be sold to the highest bidder[0], I'm no longer considering a VPN optional. I'd like to have some options on the table. Can anyone share their VPN setup?

0: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/senate-votes-to-let-isps-sell-your-web-browsing-history-to-advertisers/?comments=1
Precisely this. The LastPass extension actually handles the decryption, whereas the 1Password one merely communicates with the app. 1Password should therefore be significantly more secure.
I would guess that's the effect. It's not as if women outperformed men to such an extent that all the men in Saudi Arabia conspired to oppress women; I'm quite certain that Wahhabist culture---"justified" by the Quran---is the root cause of the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia. That oppression forces women to have to work infinitely harder than men to achieve anything.
From a strict security standpoint, maybe all of this is true. But I see strong PR as a feature, not a bug...at least until password manager market penetration is closer to 100% than it is to 0%.

Once you've adopted a password manager, you've limited the scope of potential abuse, and you've decreased the pain of recovering from abuse that does happen. Being forced to change passwords used to be a stressful problem for me, and now it is not. Before, I would procrastinate changing passwords after a breach, because I knew how hard it would be. With lastpass, I literally changed every password in my vault in less than a half hour.

The PR matters because it's too easy to hear some bad news and give up on trying to be secure. If the PR prevents people from giving up, I'm all for it.
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Is Homeaglow even real?? This is so funny, I wanted a side job on my days off work, my fiance was totally against this and said it was a rip off. Before I jumped to conclusions I decided to try to contact them and boy that was a 8 hour wait for a response! I didn't get a text back offering to talk to someone until like 10 pm at night! So I asked to deactivate my account given that I had already given my social security number and bank account. The alerts were annoying all day, seemed to be the only text I got in from 323-210-4101 but couldn't get a clear answer about the pay becuase the video instructions didn't do me justice made by Kenneth, a Homeaglow Operations Manager. Nothing made sense and my fiance told me it sounded like a rip-off. I've also contacted the owner Aaron Cheung (linkedin.com/in/aarontch…) who was also owner of Homejoy which failed somehow and now is called Homeaglow....I see why, I just wanted a little side job on my days off, this is silly, I told them in a email that i will have my social and bank account on high alert. This is how people get you and use your information to do shady things. Too bad this really sounded good and I wanted to give it a try!
> “Right,” Dennett replied. “He would be so different from regular lions that he wouldn’t tell us what it’s like to be a lion. I think we should just get used to the fact that the human concepts we apply so comfortably in our everyday lives apply only sort of to animals.”

That's just silly. We taught Koko the gorilla how to talk, the effort was supremely insightful in helping us to understand animal cognition. Animals communicate with us all the time, they just do it non-verbally. We often just choose not to listen.

A talking lion would still be a lion. He wouldn't be able to tell us directly what life on the fields is like, but that's what the researchers are for.

I would not continue the 17th century delusion of non-sentient animals any further than we absolutely have to. Animals have exceedingly rich inner lives, and so do humans that don't have language. They just lack certain tooling. I'd put not having language on par with not having sight. A handicap for sure, but you're still a person and you still have thoughts.

There is, literally, a part of the brain that if you shut it off, you lose language. Dennett would have you believe that it's that one part that makes us human.
Some would stop, some would not. Some would just not do so as their day job. Some would find other ways to get revenue, etc. The "starving artist" trope is plenty real. Low revenue has not stopped them.

Whenever someone argues that less content will be produced, I always feel that it just won't be enough reduction for consumers to care. Things like Youtube grew in a climate where being a full-time Youtuber was not possible like it is today.