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I'm not sure I understand the relevance of your comment. This is the motivation for mine:

tptacek> [T]he founders ideological views are also infused into the system.... [T]he most available first-class address in the system is in a 32 bit address space.

chc4> As for ideological views: there are 4 million planets. They are, essentially, houses, but each one of those planets can also issue 2^16 "moons", which can themselves be their own people. I don't know the reasoning behind why 2^32....

njarboe> 4,294,967,296 is the number of planets which is a much more than 4 million.

I read 'njarboe's comment as a correction of chc4's use of "4 million". 4,294,967,296 is 2^32 (rounded to 4 billion), which 'chc4 mentions here as well saying 4 billion another comment.

If I've missed something, please do correct me. I just think 'chc4 meant to type "4 billion" given the their other correct use of 2^32 in the same comment and 4 billion elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15300641), and 'njarboe's misinterpreted 'chc4 as misunderstanding, rather than fat-fingering. I'm not saying anything about the choice of 2^32. If you read that as otherwise, how can I improve my writing to make that clearer? Was there a particular phrase that you found easy to misinterpret? Something that made you think I was saying anything more than that? Do you think 'chc4 meant "4 million" and not "4 billion"? Are there actually only effectively 4 million (not billion) planets? As for my interest in continuing this thread, it's not that care about the discussion topic, but rather whether I'm communicating (reading and writing) effectively.
No, it needs to be strict liability. If an entity is as responsible as possible and still accidentally causes millions of dollars of damage, they've still caused millions of dollars of damage. Some things cannot be done safely, and if entities want to do them anyway they should be prepared to bear the consequences.

It may be the case that once all the privacy related externalities are pushed back onto credit reporting agencies then their business model is no longer viable. I, for one, am fine with that outcome. If that's the case then credit reporting agencies were never a net good for society in the first place, and all the regulations are doing is exposing that truth.
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> But a government agency that has all the info about all my accounts...

I'm quite happy with the approach that Switzerland has taken. Firstly, there are no credit scores or credit reports. Instead, there is a well-defined and regulated way to collect on overdue bills: The creditor requests debt collection from the state debt collection agency. At this point, collectees may decide to pay, to object to the prosecution or not to react. Objecting leads to a defined legal process where the creditor must prove the debt, and the collectee can defend themselves. In case of no reaction, authorities may proceed to seize assets.

As for the reporting, the debt collection agency will only keep a file on people against whom a collection request has been filed, and only make it available to the person in question and entities with a qualified interest in it. In practice this means that when renting a flat or getting credit, you request your own (empty) record and submit it to the landlord/bank in question. The agency is also responsible to expunge entries from that record after a defined time. And since responsibility for collection lies with a state agency, there's very little risk of the kind of harrassment you hear of in horror stories from the states.

The implementation has room for improvement: records are kept locally, tied to the state you live in and there's no immediate way to get online confirmation. Those are details though, that could be fixed in a clean implementation of the same system.
You also have to be registered in the system and some contracts are especially target to women owned, minority owned small business companies etc...
Activites are not stateless. They can simply be torn down and restored at any time. You should be using bundles to store and restore your activity state. You don't want to persist the view state to disk anyway.
Cool but it's hosted. I'd pay for a sql-notebook application that ran on OSX. I'm always working on speculative features or analysis but security, policy, and portability reasons I'd rather have a desktop app.
I don't see why opt-in wouldn't work. You could at least have control over who is amassing all this data on you and change credit agencies in a sort-of marketplace.
I'd recommend Cloud Atlas. It's like 6 very different books in one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(novel)
He must've known that he would have been marginalized as a candidate if he didn't continue to project brazenly offensive gaffes into the political arena.
Oh, Seveneves! I once listed it as the book that disappointed me the most [1] and seeing cool stuff like this simulation reminded me why again.

I think my explanation still reflects my opinions on the book and might be relevant here:

> I didn't know it before I started reading it, but the book plot is divided in 2 (very different) acts.

> The first one just captivates you in a way that makes it very hard to stop reading or even thinking about it when you are reading.

> Little did I know when the second act started and oh man, it was a complete struggle. It seems that the pace changes completely to an almost stall and the book just became complete unreadable for me.

> While the first act took me days, the second took me weeks and weeks to go further in the book and even with my kindle saying I still had 15% to finish, I got so frustrated that I just quit and never even had the curiosity to know how it ends.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/65z04t/what_book_dis...
Yea i guess the pressure should be on the lenders who use equifax not directly on equifax.
Totally agree with you. I know people who refuse to vote, use doctors, etc, to "prevent the government getting data about them" - but are registered on Facebook, Google, carry a smartphone, etc. I don't understand how people can be so paranoid about the government, and simultaneously so trusting of large corporations.
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I'm surprised to read this coming from you.
> When people throw around "mental illness" with "transgender" it is never to uplift, but almost always to denigrate.

This is a form of survivorship bias - people who have meaningful things to say don't bother to speak on such a politicized topic. The same kind of reason freenet is full of criminality.
Network latency is only really a problem if you host your db on another machine. An Unix socket has something like 1ns. As for dependencies, the package manager takes care of that.
Yet we don't allow random traveler to vote in local elections.

Modern travel is big specifically because the world is diverse place. If all societies would try to include anyone from anywhere, they'd become similar and traveling wouldn't be as great.
I'd say that vendor lock-in is unrelated; any platform can have it regardless of the openness of the platform.

Jailbreaking is not part of the lock-in. It's a way of doing more stuff with the hardware than the original software allowed you to do. The fact that the term has 'jail' in it doesn't make the users more locked in than they already were, they were free to enter and leave without jailbreaks.

Tangentially, I used to jailbreak my iphone because it offered me useful extra features that I couldn't otherwise get (e.g. a SSH client back when Apple didn't have such apps). But I haven't felt the need to jailbreak iOS for years now, because just about everything I could want to do with the system is already possible.

Finally, 'jailbreaking' is effectively another word for 'security hole'. If my iOS device can be jailbroken, it's actually a worry to me, not a benefit.

Google's chromebooks do offer a better alternative to this, whereby you can flush out ChromeOS by making a physical change to your device (in my case, disassembling the laptop and turning a particular screw). But it still can be a security risk; if there was some physical means of replacing iOS on a phone with alternative software, you could never trust that a secondhand iPhone hadn't been maliciously tweaked to preload malware.
Only in the sense that a nuclear weapon going off solves any fears of nuclear weapons in about a 10km radius ...
Everytime I hear about "lightweight" algorithms being standardized for IoT and such, I worry about their security. There is usually a reason why the "lightweight" variants weren't adopts for PCs, too, in the first place.
>If you're building the average CRUD-plus-workflow application, the last thing you want are superstars who are going to get bored with routine work.

Even the average CRUD plus workflow application is only really routine & repetitive if you're using suboptimal tools. If you're good, you're good at choosing the optimal tools and automating all the tedious stuff.

In large companies, managers would rather have a mediocre team of six doing this type of thing than a stellar team of two even though it costs more. This is mainly because they're aiming to optimize their headcount rather than company profit.

In small companies, most managers are simply stingy, and feel affronted by paying over 'average' for something like that.

In both cases, measuring actual software developer productivity is pretty much beyond every manager who cannot code (which is most) so it isn't hard to justify this suboptimal behavior either to themselves or others.

>What you really want are people who are technically not outstanding but quite capable and have very strong soft skills.

No, not really. Soft skills are vital for team lead and product management but being able to write a good email and butter up your superiors isn't too important for other developers.

That is, unless you're using soft skills as a proxy for "writes clear, maintainable, easy to read code".

>people who are good at prioritizing their own work;

This is a product manager's job and if you're pushing that job onto developers then it's almost guaranteed to interfere with their other work and to be done poorly. It's a bad idea to ask them to do your accounts and file lawsuits too.
Why number 9? I actually look forward to a drink on the plane. However I usually don't have more than one.
I used to think that way and then the Office of Personnel Management sent me a letter notifying me about their massive data breach and any scintilla of faith I still had in government's ability to secure data vanished like a fart in the wind.
can you elaborate on the finicky part?
EDGAR is admirable in many ways, but it's age is really showing, especially from a UI and UX perspective. I really wish the government would spend some effort in modernizing that aspect of it. BamSEC.com charges $35/month for essentially just a prettier UI, and it's so much more pleasant to use. Honestly, it's a pity the government never does M&A -- they should just buy BamSEC.

The public filings themselves are also a nightmare of hard to follow formatting.
I’m guessing that, in the contracts you agreed to with credit card companies and others, you did consent to information being shared with the credit bureaus.
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Just to put a number on "way more": the Sun contains 99.86% of all known mass in the solar system.

Of the 0.14% of the solar system that isn't the Sun, Jupiter accounts for roughly two thirds of it.
I only mentioned HTTPS in the sense that browsers now actively push users away from unsecured transport connections.

And please provide some example of any browser vendor making moves to block/delist unsigned videos/photos for _any_ reason.
I confess that I didn't read the article. My bad, and thanks. I am going to hit up Google and see if I can learn about the mechanism and effectiveness.

It does look, from the snippet, like they aren't quite the same. I don't yet have an opinion on that, specifically the bit about data being erased after it has been settled. That's pretty different.

I shall see what I can find. It may change my opinion. Thanks again.
Then buy a different truck. Or roll your own hackintosh.
What was so different between the two acts?
"It's occassionally cheaper to provide poor with a huge Uber voucher than with rent subsidy."

Failing that, let them eat cake.

Uber, taxi service, and most forms of public transportation do not exist at all in rural areas.
Unless you're flying overseas having in-flight meals doesn't really make sense. There are far more food options in both airports you will be in and it will be a lot more comfortable. In-flight food should be reserved for when it's required by length of flight. (This is already pretty much the case. I never see meals on planes during domestic travel really.)
the real question is, can you afford Superstar Developers?
It is kind of surreal to look at a source file and not immediately know if it's Scala or Scala.js (like, oh wait, this is the front end).

Just finished porting a legacy 5K Coffeescript front end over to Scala.js. Having a typed front end with all the power of Scala completely transforms the browser development experience. Great stuff.

Only major drawback is generated js binaries incur a 160KB "tax", primarily due to size of Scala collections. Though, FWIW, the front end weighs in at 232KB non-gzip'd, and was able to scrap jQuery + DataTables + Modal window and Validation plugin dependencies -- shaved off about 200KB compared to previous front end.
I'm curious, are there actually any Android phones at all that don't let you sideload?
Wow...no idea how that happened...
> And lots of people don't like foreigners.

And that's morally wrong.
Glad you liked it! It's still going, with new owners :) I'm revisiting the map generation because the authors of RotMG are working on a new game, and have asked me to work on the maps.
I can understand the impulse to want Equifax punished for getting hacked and releasing all of this information. But I think these credit bureaus are small fry compared the size of the companies that are at the root of the problem: banks and other entities that make loans. The reason most people don't like the credit bureaus are the fear of "identity theft" not the spread of truthful information about themselves.

A bank makes a loan to a fraudster who is impersonating you. The fraudster defaults on the loan and the the bank tells a lie about you to the credit bureau, which gets spread around and hurts you in many ways. If we called this situation "bank slander" or "bank libel", the focus would be on who is creating the problem: the bank with its lie. Create high enough penalties for banks reporting false loan defaults and "identity theft" will disappear as the banks become more cautious of fraudsters. This is unlikely to happen as banks are concentrated and powerful institutions. "To big to fail" I believe is the term. I don't think the credit bureaus themselves are that influential in Congress but the banks want them and will lobby on their behalf.

It would be interesting to know how much money the banks get from people illegally each year from people paying off fraudsters debts to clear their credit reports from the false default reports from banks.
Webpack watch mode is how I use it. On top of that you can run webpack outside of the IDE, just like you do with sublime text. My setup is i7 with 16 GB, and only electron app ( webpack + react ) will make my setup really slow. Anything else usually is swallowed by webstorm
run it locally: https://github.com/hvf/franchise
You will need a antenna that is resonant on the frequency you're transmitting on for any hope of the signal leaving the immediate proximity of the Pi. It would also be a very good idea to filter the signal coming out of the Pi to reduce the strength of any frequency spurs accompanying your Pi generated signal and to keep your transmission legal.

This is a pretty good write up of using the Pi as a wspr transmitter: https://github.com/JamesP6000/WsprryPi
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please let me know if you fix the broken reference. pretty excited about this
Why won't Uber exist in rural areas? And by "rural" I actually mean most of places which aren't a booming megapolis, including cities of ~100,000.
spot on. This is a national crisis, and everyone had their part on it
Yeah, that quote is just out-and-out racist, and it's disgusting to try to defend it.
> Security and privacy should be a given

I couldn't agree more. The news shouldn't be that Apple is doing something remarkable, it should be how other browsers fail to protect their users in similar ways.
Glad to see openness about this. Been thinking about doing a free tier for one of my own side projects, but have always feared "what if everyone jumps on free tier?". Granted, it's a luxury problem, but in a startup fase it seems like an unnecessary risk to take.
I've found it varies a lot based on the microwave, distance (obviously) and positioning. My old apartment, anywhere in the kitchen and it'd kill my connection to my headphones. My new apartment (new appliances, too), I can be standing right in front of the microwave, and nothing.
Yes. Some knowledge of history helps in these conversations. Crimea has been under Russian control in some form for hundreds of years and is the home of their most important naval installation. Under political pressure from the West, the felt that their position there was threatened.

Anyone who thinks America wouldn't do the same given the circumstances is mistaken. We're not the "good guys" in the world.
Back to the individual? The government should protect you from corporations, other individuals, other countries from infringing on your rights to do what you see best. Not dictate or meddle in every aspect of your life. They should be a referee, not a player. I don't think that vacuum needs to exist; I don't think people need rulers.
> When Google keeps the canonical git repo in googlesource, and uses a google-run gerrit instance for code reviews, it does not make the project feel like it's open source. It makes it feel like it's a google project that they let the rest of us look at from afar, and participate in if we're willing to hike up the mountain.

I hate to break it to ya', but I think this isn't just what it feels like.

The sooner people realize that "Open Source" is different than "Open Development", the better. That said, I think it's a stretch to assume that Go is contributor hostile just because it hasn't gone all-in on GitHub. Just off the top of my head: Ruby, Python, Javascript, Lua, Clojure, C++, and Java are all languages that haven't embraced the "GitHub Workflow". Indeed, the only language I can think of that has is Julia. Actually, I just checked, and it looks like Rust is also bought in to the GitHub Workflow. So that makes it: 2 for, 7+ against.
I'm wondering if it is possible also with Signal (signal.org)
I had trouble figuring out precisely where on the slider I would rate images - might be better to just have the five named choices. Or maybe even just "BAD", "OK", "GOOD".
Very nifty, but the fragmentation of bodies wouldn't look anything like in Seveneves or this sim in real life.

http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2015/06/seveneves-an...
You're right, it does make sense, given that the USA also experienced similar credit downgrades over the past decade when it went through its own credit crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_governme...

While we're being snarky, let's not forget that China also regularly steals, copies, hacks, and sources much of their "production" innovation from the USA while simultaneously impeding the United States' ability to enter Chinese markets in just about every category of good or service. So we'll just call this one even and leave it at that.
And the other side of the coin is that being too focused on documenting all of your code usually ends up with lots of out of date and confusing documentation over time.
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Donetsk_Airpo...
> The company was told to use "off-the-shelf" software called PeopleSoft

Why didn't they just hire Oracle?
More generally speaking, it seems that the faster society in general changes, the shorter its institutions last - it's like too much baggage and cruft accumulate up to the point of breaking. The new generations demand a different way of life, and they want it faster than the old ones.

The Roman empire lasted a couple of thousand years, the medieval empires up to a half a century, the British empire a bit more than a a quarter, the American, well, almost a quarter (with a violent change about right about the middle of the period, so...). Interesting times, and all that.

I've sometimes thought that the rigidity of the US Constitution (i.e. it's not revised completely ever 50 years) is both its biggest benefit and its weakest side. If only the founding fathers made a clause like "and thou shall revise whatever we've written every 50 years in the light of new facts, because we are just men, and fallible."
1k people getting 1k a month for 5 years = $60 million. At the end of the day, an expensive group. Really impressed by the ambition here, and hope for great success for the project.

Basic Income research will be vital in the future when it actually becomes a genuine piece of public policy. Although I have little faith it will be used effectively by politicians/decision makers.
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WHAT? Since when free money from government in already economically depressed area will "make it even worse"?

Worse compared to that? Channeling more money to landlords in SF and NY?

It's basically people on early disability choosing between whisky on payday and making extra buck on hauling other people like them around.

Face it, many less-fortunate areas are on the bottom already even in developed nations.
The web server doesn't really use the object-oriented features. OO is mostly used in the Racket standard library for the GUI, where it models existing single-inheritance GUI libraries.
> For example, if we accept a strict premise that Germany's low median net wealth is due to not having seen a big property bubble - then what accounts for those home owners having not paid down a lot of mortgage debt in the last 10+ years and significantly boosting household wealth accordingly?

Well, for starters, differences in pension systems. Some types of retirement savings are counted as part of your net wealth, some aren't. In Germany, most don't, even though they're probably worth hundreds of thousands of Euros per person. If you look at net pension wealth, Germany is much closer to the top [1].

Second, net wealth is dominated by property owned, and German's don't buy homes as much, both for good and bad reasons.

1. The German tax system discourages property speculation (and to a lesser degree, also buying property). Fees and taxes on property sales can be hefty. If you buy, you generally buy for life and only once you've settled down. The upside is that controlling property speculation contributes to stable and affordable rents.

2. Renting is both more affordable and also otherwise an attractive, non-stigmatized alternative to owning. Tenants have strong rights vis-à-vis their landlords (arguably, too strong, but that doesn't make renting less attractive).

3. Germans tend to be debt-averse and are less likely to take up a mortgage even if they could afford one. A recent study showed that one third of German renters could buy ... if they wanted to, which they apparently don't. That said, due to a strong economy, the home ownership rate has been growing in recent years.

4. Higher population density and exacting building codes make homes comparatively more expensive.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/pension/net-pension-wealth.htm
Do you seriously believe that credit freezes are an adequate response to the massive harms inflicted upon individuals by identity theft and credit report inaccuracies?