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Historically, if you look at past discussions, we've had great conversations by upvoting any comment that adds a new perspective to the mix.

If an ideal society wishes to eliminate climate change denial, for example, it won't be through silencing and stigmatizing their beliefs; it'll be through respectfully listening and debating.

As an example, I was rather unaware of the debate against climate change until reading a discussion on HN from people who were oft characterized as 'deniers.' One, for example, believed there were more immediate problems to be solved, and the other wasn't convinced by the science. It was a productive discussion, and I feel that everyone is better off having it, yet I fear that it wouldn't be condoned today without a mass of downvotes.
It has nothing to do with recording exactly what each person bought. It’s about making sure that you can’t spend the SAME 10 bucks on a shirt AND some weed, and that you can’t pull the 10 bucks back out of the store owners’ accounts after you run off with the products.
It's only a two-year school! Some stay for three years, for reasons that are beyond me, but two years is the norm.

And every year, at least one person bails after one year. That was very nearly me.
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Well, it's two DNS entries. You could do them both at the same time, but people were getting that TXT record wrong pretty frequently, which would have meant https connections getting an invalid certificate had they changed their actual hostname at the same time.

Since we control the http response once DNS changes, we don't have that problem. And it's simpler for people to create CNAME/ALIAS records.
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How simple is this intro to Apache Avro?
I am guessing first time is for verification and second is for actual configuration.
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Start simple. If you haven't written an interpreter, do that first. Then figure out how to write a similar program that emits code for a virtual machine rather than evaluating the language.

I'd keep an eye on http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html, although it hasn't gotten to compilation yet (I think).
Renters are the minority. 70% of households own their home in Canada.
Does anyone QA their software?
For the past several months, as I am sure many can relate, my reliance on cloud services and tech companies has grown. I've moved a lot of processes to the cloud. What I have noticed is -- there are bugs everywhere! I have a few questions for the community:

0) Am I alone in this?

1) If someone covertly hacked my computer, are defective web pages a possible side-effect?

2) Are tech companies starving for cheap QA people?

3) Are tech companies using TDD/BDD and testing their products from the customer perspective using Selenium?

4) Is Selenium widely used or hasn't caught on yet?
(I learned how to use this tool about 6 years ago)

5) Google tends to be the most reliable from what I can see, does anyone else share this opinion?

6) Anyone working at a tech company that could provide some insight?

7) Is reporting bugs actually helpful or does it just create noise for teams that have already moved on to other projects?

Please post some comments, I am really curious about the current state of the web.

At work I am held to fairly strict standards, but we are using all new platforms, Angular 4+, AWS, Azure. Needless to say it is not bug free but big tech companies have a lot more money to spend, which is why I am surprised to find so many problems. Thoughts?
Ask HN: Why has no one disrupted the DMV?
After spending three and a half hours waiting to fill out a paper form and paying 20 bucks for the honor, one must reflect: I would surely pay more to not do this.

I know AAA insurance offers some DMV-avoidance benefits, but are there any startups vying to destroy this shameful institution once and for all?
Sure, in a broad sense, all industry is technology. Human culture has been suffused with technology since we learned to bang the rocks together. It’s part of who we are. But we like to say that new, or at least newish, things are ‘high’ technology, because money and prestige. It’s what all the cool kids are doing. It doesn’t matter that other things may involve very sophisticated technology.
It definitely is, but that doesn't mean that you can't be more likely to develop an addiction as a response to that deeper ill.

For example, suppose persons A and B are both very stressed due to work and are worried about their marriages falling apart. Individually each is definitely more likely to become an alcoholic than if they didn't have those problems. However, if person B has addictive genetics, that may mean a 40% chance of developing alcoholism (obviously this is more complicated than a simple probability) vs. person A's 5% chance.

I'm not advocating banning alcohol at all, I would actually be very opposed to that. I just think it shouldn't be the default drug of choice considering how harmful it is. Now, I have no idea how to change that, but ACCURATE and UNDERSTANDING (i.e. non-adversarial) drug education would be a good place to start.

Basically I see drug education now as analogous to abstinence-only sex education. Instead of spreading scientific information about dangers, side effects, etc. it just focuses on fear-mongering and misinformation. We currently view a "drug-user" (someone who uses drugs, not necessarily an addict) the way people saw "sluts" not so long ago.
I... don't get it. :(

e: Oh, a beatles reference. Ok.
Of course alcohol increases the risk of some cancers - it's a known carcinogen. On top of that it can be highly addictive.

On the other hand, though, it's something a lot of people enjoy as as social lubricant, and there is also the evidence that drinking in moderation lowers the risk of heart disease.

So like many things in life the question is whether the positive outweighs the negative - that of course depends largely on your own risk factors for cancer, heart disease, and, yes... alcoholism.
A deep web for web 1.0 would be a cool project to work on!
Good luck with that. I am a university student and they told our group that the puck was the cheapest model and would not give us prices on the other ones.
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If the writer has records of his interactions with Nintendo, in particular his goodwill in returning the extra Switch, there isn't a judge on Earth who would take Nintendo's lawyers seriously on this.
which is why I hand them cash.
Haha nice. I deliberately hedged with “generally” because I figured it must have been done at least once.
Hey, I have a friend working on a very similar app to the app you worked on, just messaged you on LinkedIn.would love to talk about it
Honestly on the issue of the mother renting a father for her daughter, I think what needs to be emphasized is that this issue is not black and white. I personally think that perhaps she ought to be more up front about this to her daughter. Even something like "this person is not your father, but you can think of him a father figure", is better than straight up concealing the truth. Although that's just what I think. No one is actually fit to judge the mother's actions because no one has been in her place or had the same, exact experience/situation. So it's unfair to simply accuse her actions of being "immoral" or calling her names. To be fair everyone has done things which wouldn't be considered "righteous" by other's standards. Only you can determine your actions. No one is not fit to judge others.
FWIW, I just setup a sweet Arch + Xmonad rice on my MBP mid-2012 and it's working really, really well. Almost negligible footprint (<200 MB for sure, with a few background daemons). Arch has truly been a breath of fresh air. Every package that I installed has a reason. No cruft.
The fiscal year in Japan starts April 1st, no relation to April fool's day. I live in Japan and have seen ads for these kinds of services, this is very real.
"We could see his mirrors the whole time and he should have seen us."

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/self-driving-bus-crash-ve...
Agree, typescript does help with that slow realization that its a problem with your code passing in undefined instead of a object.
There is a fairly recent manga ("Kanojo, okarishimasu.") fictionalising the rental girlfriend version of this business. In a two-page preface to one of the chapters, the author depicts a date that he sent his editor on with a girl rented from a real service for the purpose of "material collection". In the wake of that, the author (@miyajimareiji) and the service in question proceed to exchange a series of Twitter PR backrubs, and notably it turns out that the employees of the company (@aoi_renkano and others) all have meticulously maintained Twitter presences. Based on that, I suspect that (1) the people doing the hiring are pretty good at suspending their disbelief anyway and would rather have more information about the "product" they are getting, and (2) the people who are actually going to be deceived are not even expected to track down a Japanese Twitter account, let alone an article in an English-language newspaper with near-zero name recognition in Japan.

Regarding the point about the interviewee supposedly being knowledgeable about what English speakers don't know, have you ever seen raw transcripts of a typical newspaper interview? The interviewer and translator (and there almost certainly was one: the English is far too idiomatic, and the person who ultimately penned the article seems to not even know that Japanese names are given surname-first, given how the article is written as if Yuichi were the surname) probably provided a lot of leading that was ultimately left out, or even added in explanations of their own.
> That there was ever a debate at all is still astounding.

It's due to the unfortunate rhetorical coincidence that it's very easy to paint this belief as "trickle down economics" (even though it's absolutely not) and many, many voters will nonetheless be fooled.

Example: https://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/its-still-calle...

If you haven't registered to vote where you currently live, please do so now. In many states (including California) it takes just a couple minutes, you can do it entirely on the Internet, and you don't even need a local driver's license.
> Some people are down voting him for name calling.

I was surprised by the downvotes to a fairly argued comment, and then I read this hours ago and it seemed valid. The most upvoted comment in response now, however, calls him 'idiotic' several times throughout.
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The op is clearly writing a paid article. No one in their right mind would ever believe the bunk spewed from a support person in this circumstance. So say you call company X’s customer support line and the result is the staffer saying we company X will take legal action against you the customer for company X’s mistake ? Never in a thousand years would I believe that statement from some random staffer nor would the staffer try to make such a claim due to the potential for their supervisors taking retribution against them for over stepping the bounds of their position.

So al if that being said ; what’s the point of the article if you toss out the bullshit of my first toy was damaged and the vendor accidentally sent me two replacements? The point is look how cool this toy is . You know you want one; you should get one early like i did before everyone runs out to get one .

It’s just a ploy to sell more crap and improve earnings.

Let the products sell themselves. Fuck advertising, commercial psychology. Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed.
Is this his idea of a joke?
I believe it's a Beatles reference. Strawberry Fields forever
In Slack’s case, there were existing solutions that companies had paid money for like hipchat or IRC. So existing competition is one way.

If you find that a company is spending skilled time (translation:money) on a crappy internally-cobbled together verson of your product, even better.
Our DMV provides a lot of routine services online now. I had to go last year for a vision test. That was the first visit I’d had to make in person in six or seven years. It’s just not that onerous anymore.
That’s true, but theoit h for autonomous cars is that don’t freeze and they don’t react slowly. They are better drivers then humans.
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From what I can see, you've stuck to the facts and been completely honest about the process - it's completely unfair that you should suffer any hardship as a result of it.

It's infuriating to see big corporations act like bullies behind their lawyers, and equally satisfying to see good people stand up to them.

The best thing Nintendo could do - and their senior managers have a window of opportunity here now - would be to deliver a huge apology to yourself personally, along with a promise to review their entire delivery system processes.
Yep I'm thinking I'll make a tag like that and hide them by default and have a toggle to show the goofy/obscene ones. Which means manually adding that tag, but since relatively `0` people have posted (compared to, like, the internet) it should be ok
A reference to The Beatles song.
Particularly since most drivers think they're above average. A car which is just better than the average driver might be a tough sell for them.
yeah, it sucks. That is what turned me off of initial messing around with JITs. Wish I had known about GNU Lightning then.
The idea is that someone who thought the glasses would be successful deserves to be mocked? I don’t agree.
OK, I get it now. Quite surprising that serialisation is a key performance issue. But then again, pushing signals in and out of CAN frames is also a key performance feature in regular ECUs so I guess that's a universal issue with all sensor/control/actuator systems.

Finding the WCET used to be about cycle accurate models but that's long been blown away by the complexity of real hardware. But there's quite a good bit of work on how to instrument real hardware and then pick up key subpaths measurements to assemble into a good bound. These guys have been doing this for a few years now and have a good tool:

https://www.rapitasystems.com/products/rapitime
Using the San Francisco example from the article, renters are 62.5% of all households [1].

[1] http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty....
> my house ... for which I have been paying consistently for years

If you are paying for it, not past-tense, then it's not technically your house.

The apparently uneven market for real estate is shocking to buyers because of the variability of supply constraints, caused by geography but also in great measure by zoning regulation. The hackneyed refrain of "location, location, location" as the chief determinant of the value of a property illustrates this point.

> I must admit that I have tolerated this behavior from my landlords.

You have tolerated it precisely because you actually know that the value of property is not fixed. As demand increases while supply does not, the value/price goes up. Clearly you like the location, so you've not moved away. You are part of the demand that is moving prices upward. Your willingness to pay more is precisely what sets the price, along with supply.

> A problem to be remedied by legislation if the governing societal expectations do not naturally lead to a different equilibrium.

As the article points out, legislation focused on remedying the problem would relax constraints on supply caused by zoning, regulatory hurdles, etc. But so often the people complaining about the cost of housing are the same people voting to keep supply constrained.
Folks - please add immigration.

Why on earth people don't grasp that when population is increasing mostly due to newcomers it affects housing ... this bothers me - because it's politicized, nobody can talk about it it seems.

Immigration is just a reality, it's part of the equation - it has real effects on housing costs and wages, one can't ignore it because sometimes the answers might not jive with one's politics.

So, immigration (or rather, population change, which can include births etc.) - is an important driving factor.

Which includes migration between states/regions obviously.
> This kind of mentality that someone's news article counts as a source is poisonous.

Most underrated comment in the world.

This coupled with for-profit journalism and the atrophy of critical thinking is giving rise to nonsense like anti-vax, chemtrails, and flat Earth.

In America, the public has been led so astray by both the media and the government about things like basic macronutrients that a recent report found 1/3 of Americans, 100 million people, are diabetic are prediabetic (will have type II diabetes in 5 years).

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics/statistics-repo...
And while most of that research is now banned, Dr Robin Carhart-Harris (who studied under David Nutt) is one of the few researchers still allowed to experiment with psychedelics.

I'd highly recommend reading / watching some of his work.
You don't and this is why people that advocate for Bitcoin as store of value criticize the push to prioritize "low fees" above all, and are perfectly fine with these kinds of use cases being priced out of Bitcoin in exchange for security and decentralization of the network, through the ability of more users to run their own node.

Small-value and/or micro transactions are arguably never going to work at least in the way most people think about them, though lightning network may succeed in this area, but it's not the most important aspect. Instead, the existence of a money whose supply cannot be increased at the whim of political expediency is the true value.

Maybe you already know this, but there is a strong debate amongst the Bitcoin "community" of whether to accept higher fees, less transaction throughput, but greater decentralization and security or to worry a lot about fees which are rising, and increase the block size "now" because a lot of these people are upset about fees being too high for small value transactions such as the ones you seem skeptical about.

They would argue the tradeoffs aren't that bad, and also that scaling on chain can be achieved to allow for high throughput and low fees. Many don't think this is possible to even approach the volume of something like Visa so why bother and besides 10 minute block times make retail purchases challenging anyways.

Immutability comes with the territory of irreversible and unforgeable. Why you need immutability gets into the argument of why proof of work is the only way this system can work. The double spend problem, consensus, the decentralized blockchain etc etc which I'm sure you're familiar with but anyways

I encourage you to read the Gilder book, it's not that long and he's well known for seeing innovation trends before many... the value of sound money is pretty profound in my opinion. The fact that not only is Bitcoin scarce but completely explicit in its monetary policy (though there will be lost coins that fudge this a little) provides the best form of money as measuring stick that we've ever had.

TL/DR* You don't for small purchases, that use case is already solved today. Finite money supply serving as superior store of value is the point.
Thanks for hopping in while I was offline! (upvote)
While I am no expert in robotics or in functional programming, at a quick glance your code seems rather imperative.

You are probably already familiar with this but see https://github.com/fpinscala/fpinscala for some examples of functional programming in Scala.

Functionality like ugliness, is in the eye of the beholder, particularly when dealing with multi-paradigm languages like Scala. But certain idioms are expected...
Why I'm founding a startup I don't really care about
How much was that shirt 20 years ago?
I had never thought of the need to remove perspective. Interesting!
This is the same in every single country. However, if the mail say it was delivered then what do you do? You lose.
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Nederlands?
Erm ... you had people create TXT records? Why would you do that? Wouldn't people then have to manually update the TXT record on each certificate renew?!

Why not have them create a DNAME, a delegation, or just two CNAMEs?
I seem to have misplaced my copy of "An Illustrated History of Book Burning".
Most addictions, or at least vice dependencies, are probably symptoms of deeper emotional issues. People wouldn't try to knock themselves out or change how they perceived the world if they were happy with how it was at the moment.

Sure, drugs like alcohol and heroin can introduce severe physical dependencies with consistent use, but I don't think many people start slamming whisky every night on a whim.

So okay, fair enough, regulating alcohol more strictly won't solve the malaise of our zeitgeist, but it might steer people towards other vices that are less likely to seriously hurt them or others in the short or long term.

Like...well, that's probably a pretty short list right now, but if we were more open-minded as a society about more victimless vices, that might change.
So, it sounds like:

1) Building any kind of more housing is beneficial

2) Building subsidized housing is more beneficial than market-rate housing

This leaves me with two questions:

1) Does subsidized have double the effect because you can build twice as many?

2) Zoning laws seem to prevent cheap housing from being cost-effective for developers to build. If you made it possible to build cheap housing (in LA, maybe by reducing parking requirements), would developers be building cheap housing on their own, without prompting / subsidies?
This is how it works in Sweden, where all post offices are now integrated with grocery stores. I’m not even sure the typical package above a certain size has the possibility to go to your doorstep, it basically just goes to the nearest supermarket.
> This is why things like the "flat tax" or other simplification schemes are perennially floated, and also why they continue to get shot down

because a flat tax is a terrible idea.
> It's not as if they necessarily misrepresented their situation, they were pretty clear they have no profits and no clear path to them.

Exactly. This whole thing reads like some folks make a poor choice because they assumed this was The Next Big Thing(TM), and now they are upset that they got burned.
Why not take a class about compilers and implement something like that as a class project?
> outright idiotic comprehension

> spit out little pathetic buzzwords

> dealing with unmitigated idiocy here

With all due respect, your post contains some content, but this isn't behavior for HN and I'm really surprised it's being tolerated, let alone upvoted. Do you somehow expect to change any opinions with an insult-riddled comment like that?
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HTTP/2 support?
The alternative was nothing. A flawed system that leads to single player is still a victory.