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You can build an end simple end user system with DDNS and OpnenVPN on the home router without going with static IP or cloud based services (outside DDNS obviously)
Well, not everyone is on HN following news around this as they are happening.
The law makes sense though from one perspective, as silly as this sounds. Having sex is far less worse than a video/picture of you naked, which may exist on the internet for a very, very long time. Think Amanda Todd and it being used as blackmail; the added threat of it being child porn is a real turn off.

Of course you then wonder how much can change in just 2 years, but if you're legally an adult, and you consented to the image, it won't be classed as child porn, but revenge porn laws are a thing.

But the easiest solution is not to consent to being filmed/photographed if you don't want to be...With how google photos uploads automatically the second you take a picture I don't trust smartphones these days...
I've had exactly the opposite experience with Hetzner support. Slow to respond. Difficult to convince that hardware failure has occurred and never less than 3 hours, often more than 5 to get it replaced.
$7k / person is nothing compared to most European countries.

And we still don't have a single payer healthcare system.
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Next thing you will be telling me is that the CEO of a company should be responsible for company debts?
An employee does not gain taxable income by driving to a client site and being reimbursed $0.535 per mile by the company as they have used fuel and have caused wear on their vehicle. But if the company decided to purchase an employee a new personal car at the end of the year as a bonus, that would be taxable compensation.

The university has decided to declare a tuition of $50k per year. So charging one student $50k and then providing the rest of the students with a reimbursement, is seen as a gift similar to your employer gifting you a car. The university could choose to set tuition at $5k per year instead and with a little bit more grad student pay and the tuition tax deductions, it should all be even.
EU pushes cut in car emissions, boost for electric vehicles
>Case in point: Try paying 100 times more for housing and healthcare in LA, once the vast majority of people are getting paid like call-center agents in India, won't work, can't work.

So, a bubble will burst and prices will decrease. You can already find cheap (as in cheaper than in India!) apartments some 30-40 mins away from Manhattan on the subway.
"More likely the insurance companies will aggressively raise premiums on drivers who insist on retaining their option to drive themselves. Markets will price people out of the driver’s seat and into the passenger’s."

The dedicated self-driving lane with its 150mph speed limit beside the manual drive lane with a 60mph speed limit will also convince a lot of people to buy/rent a self-driving car.
They are synchronous - "XADD returns the ID of the just inserted entry" so it won't return until the entry has been inserted.
It probably starts with the technological ignorance of the parents. Spreading stories like this hopefully reach these parents.
There have been many questions about how these crowdfunding sites compare to a vanguard REIT index. Taxes haven't been mentioned. Don't be so pedantic.
This is probably a better link than the product purchase page:

https://www.hetzner.com/news/neuer-dedicated-root-server-ax1...
FWIW you can disable the autoplay of all media, including animated gifs, in FF by going to about:config and setting media.autoplay.enabled to false.
Even worse than weasel words is false logic, such as these two statements:

> a recent study that looked at the 250 million edits made on Wikipedia during its first ten years

> At the time of writing, there are roughly 132,000 registered editors who have been active on Wikipedia in the last month

being used to conclude that:

> So statistically speaking, only about 1,300 people are creating over three-quarters of the 600 new articles posted to Wikipedia every day

This assumes the number of daily new articles being posted in 2017 is the same as the average number of edits of both new and existing articles being made from 2001 to 2011 (averaged over all 10 years), which is a ridiculous assumption.
Fair point, but the comparison is a bit uneven - you are comparing one industry's post-devastation numbers with another's pre-devastation numbers. Across the rust belt, just a few decades ago, there were many times more coal workers than 70k. If you go back to 1923 there were 883k.
Where is there a market for futures on cryptocoins?
Snap should hire Craig Newmark. He was able to get away with pimping prostitutes on his site for a decade+.
I guess people say all kinds of things, but I don't recall anyone arguing that Bitcoin was going up because of the impending fork. It certainly wasn't the conventional wisdom.
This is a common misperception, but it is incorrect. There is no fiduciary duty to avoid or minimize tax, and conversely no legal duty to maximize taxes either. It is up to each company to choose how aggressively they pursue these tax-avoiding strategies.
I think 100 kWh batteries and dual-motors should become standard in all EVs within the next 10 years. The second motor should be of huge benefit in snow for only like a $1,000 more (10 years from now).

Four motors will probably offer diminishing returns for "passenger cars", but sure I could see them become standard in higher-end cars, mainly because of that cool factor as well as the performance/acceleration one.

For buses, trucks, semis, tractors, and whatnot, four or more motors will likely be a requirement.
> but most opposition as I understand it comes from the fact that segregated witness makes things more likely to rely on centralized infrastructure

That simply isn't true. It's just a new transaction format.
> maybe I should change over but then I potentially have to maintain two sets of plugins, one for nvim and one for vim

I use this in my ~/.config/nvim/init.vim:

set runtimepath^=~/.vim runtimepath+=~/.vim/after
let &packpath = &runtimepath
source ~/.vimrc

That lets me directly use vim config from neovim.

Then I set up an alias in my zsh profile:

alias vim=nvim

All of my plugins thus far have worked without a hitch (and I have a lot of configuration/plugins). If I ever run into problems, I can bail out by removing the alias (or for a one-off editing session, I can just run: $ command vim).

You might give something like that a go.
For moderate load: just catch the exception and try again. It will rarely happen, and when it does, you can easily recover from it since your site is not hammered.

For bigger load, have a worker that does the writes with a queue.
Maybe it's not exactly 'looks' and physical attributes but her general appearance in these tech tweets/blog posts. I don't see guys in analogous outfits in maker blog posts.
Berkeley is crawling with people who are foam at the mouth liberals that love taxes. Why are they upset?
Is that typical behavior though? I have to imagine no. Personally I can hardly be bothered to return defective merchandise
> Kids don't understand caches, archives, downloading media? Teach them.

Most adults don't really understand these things.

Also have you ever parented a teenager? Some are less troublesome than others but most will do what they want to do, regardless of what the adults in their lives tell them to do. They are actually individuals that way.
What if the 1917 Russian Revolution had been tweeted?
Ask HN: Why are websites like Silk.co and Copy.com shutting down?
These well-structured and free websites are closing for reasons that seem extremely arbitrary. How do we prevent this in the future? There are replacements for silk.co and copy.com, but they don't offer quite the same type of service.

http://blog.silk.co/
https://www.copy.com/
OK, but we're talking about hosting only a part of the website content on the CDN here. In this case - fonts. We can - and should - use the default font to render the text until the webfont has been completely loaded, using one of the available techniques. Unfortunately, even some high profile websites ignore this issue and block displaying the text until the font is loaded.
It’s funny that I work next to a mall and don’t mind shopping in it. Actually I would prefer it.

Problem is, I’m a gorilla... not skinny enough to be “tall” and not fat enough to be “big”, and there is not one store out of 250 that sell size 14 shoes, or a shirt with a size 19 neck that doesn’t look like a parachute, or a 52 long jacket.

I see it in other areas. If you walk through Lord and Taylor or Macy’s, there’s a whole floor of petite women’s clothing. I look on the mall and see lots of bigger, taller or bustier women, all of whom are wearing clothes — but not from Macy’s!

When you focus on the average consumer exclusively, you miss a lot of people!
I did. I saw them in a lot of places. I live near SNAP (I've seen a matte black Mazaratti in my neighborhood with the licenseplate SNPCHT, or something like that) so maybe that's why. But I only ever saw them at techie events like GDC and around Santa Monica where all the tech companies are.
Because the point was to say we're debating it, not to start a debate. And your starting a debate in order to show that we're not debating it is, debatably, silly.
They raised the standards, but you're delusional if you think they did it philanthropically. They did it because they thought they could get more info to sell ads.
I have seen it happen though in such contexts (though in Oracle). I assume the difference is that the database has much more freedom in how it writes to WAL (batching and such) but in the table itself it has to do some degree of coordination and locking.

The other big issue is that even if the insert into the shared table is fast (simpler structure) the transaction hence the commit can be long due to the complexity of the application transaction.

I will be happy to be corrected though if we are doing something wrong.
Indeed. I know it's changed a ton since I grew up in the '80s.

I remember Spaceport and Aladin's castle. .25$ arcades, and $1 gave 5 tokens. You could play for hours just on $5. And they allowed kids, competitions, and all sorts of things. I'd go hang out while my parents were shopping, and just chill.

There also used to be, in quite a lot of the malls, a jungle gym or playground area. They'd be full of kids, and you could just chill and hang out, except for free. But there were usually age limits so you didn't hurt little ones. And around this was always a common area. Lots of tables, food places, coffee shop or 2.

Clubs and nonprofits would meet here - it was a huge commons area. I remember fondly playing chess on chess club nights. Played some pretty awesome pros there.

And the companies there.. You had Sears, Estee Lauder, Nordstrom, and all those big name box stores. And then you'd have all sorts of smaller stores scattered, with rarely ever any room left over (1-2 empty plots due to eventual turnover). But there was something for everyone. Maybe it was a candy store, or a toy store, or specialty thing.

That's all changed.

Arcades are gone. Yeah, there's one 35 miles away from me, in the next city over. The jungle gyms and playgrounds were deemed dangerous and unsupervised, so they were decommissioned. You know, for "safety". And those tables? Yeah, those only encourage bums and lazy people to congregate, so they're right out.

And those clubs? Yeah, they need to pay rent if they want to have a group, so they too were summarily kicked out (Well.. it is private property :/ ). And now with less people, those food vendors started closing. That coffee shop had not enough customers and moved/closed. The rest of the food vendors (whom you've never heard of), now started skimping hard and jacking the prices.

And that's not to add in the compounding issues with online stores. A single online store can house millions of products. No real retailer can do that. So, you see the big box stores being squeezed by both the malls running people out, higher prices than online, and better selection than online. So, they end up closing and going bankrupt. It's not any one fault here, but a compound effect that set these things in motion.

For me, its that single shoe place. I make a point to park at the closest place to get in, try on shoes, and get out. There's nothing else here for me. And clothing is really the last bastion of something you really should be in person for - cause sending back stuff sucks.
Shareholders can sue for any reason. They would not win.
Is all about making the experience better to compete with online shopping. Retail can check out how movie theatres differentiate themselves from the living room.
I learned recently that even Amazon is banning people for returns. My first thought was that they must have returned a ton of products, but after a quick "banned from amazon" search online it showed that many people with a return rate as low as 9% have been banned. Which doesn't seem like a lot especially if we're talking about clothing. Here's one example, but there's plenty more if you do a quick search:

http://cbs4indy.com/2016/03/21/amazon-bans-customer-for-retu...

Apparently the cut-off lies somewhere around 10%, they ban you for life though.
Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado
>However, I do feel bad for the people that will lose their jobs over it.

I'm not aware of anyone there--except maybe... jewelers?--that enjoy long-term careers at a mall. It's like an entire parking lot full of McDonalds. They'll find new jobs. Everyone at Circuit City managed to move.

And I'm in no way bashing retail or food worker. I used to tell people I did a "five year tour of duty at Sam's Clubs and I've got the [five year] medal to prove it." My point is that those jobs are both 1) crap working conditions and pay. and 2) easily transferable to comparable jobs at other employers.

Circuit City disappeared and the world moved on. K-Mart is still around but everyone who values their careers has already jumped ship. Block Buster is gone and the world keeps ticking. Mall store employees will continue on.

The real question is why no malls either care to, or are unable to, attract stores that appeal to customers. We are definitely becoming more hermit-like as a society, but there's got to be "something" most non-hermits enjoy. The whole purpose of the Mall is a bunch of stores that add value to each other by being near each other. "I bring Dad for a lawn mower, and the kids hit the arcade." (Man, I miss finding quarters and taking them to the arcades.) So my point here is, single stores still exist, so clearly it's not "stores in general" going out, but more "the stores malls want" people care less about.
That seems pretty complex for distilled wisdom... ^

IMO we just live in fairly unprecedented times. Most people are still learning how to cope with new technologies and moral norms while trying not to completely throw away sacred traditions.
This reminds me of the grand C++ error explosion competition : https://tgceec.tumblr.com
That car is like fire! ... literally.
Being an optimist, I read the news as 2/3 of millennials would still prefer stocks to bitcoins.

However, had the question been "You have saved US$ 1,000, what would you do with it?", the number of millennials stating they would buy the latest smartphone would probably be preoccupying.
:)

I have a lot of time for liberal philosophy including even those like Milton Friedman and others from his (and our) era, where I tend to disagree with many of their conclusions. But, most liberal thought tends towards very hard definitions, of things that are (IMO) not that hard (objectively true in all cases) in reality.

It's an obvious problem in moral philosophy. You start from benign definitions of good and bad, like "greatest good for the greatest number." Then liberal philosophers push that to the extreme, usually weird moral dilemma scenarios. Killing fat men with mining carts to save skinny people. Infanticide. Involuntary euthanasia. Instead of admitting that your "moral maxim" or whatnot is really more of an approximation or a guideline really, they conclude that all this stuff which seems really bad and immoral is actually good.

The american liberalism (or conservatism, libertarianism and other bad, illogical names for it) is rife with this sort of thing, IMO. The concept of liberty is defined using simple, made up examples. Platonic ideals. Then it's applied to the real world. At some point, using the term "liberty" to describe it becomes defensible only by very academic, long winded philosophical argument. To the person who's liberty is supposedly at stake, it seems odd that these philosophers are calling it liberty.

I suspect this is why only very academic, extremist or philosophical types (or australians) call it liberalism or libertarianism (this one carries its own ironies). Everyone else just calls it conservatism.
> Less giant eyesore big-box stores that no one enjoys spending time in.

Instead, we'll have giant eyesore big-box empty buildings on oversized empty parking lots littering the land that nobody wants, and few who can afford to tear down and replace.

And what will they replace them with? New houses or apartments or condos few can afford? Maybe office space?
> But from an outside perspective, the current rules look like a money laundering scheme.

> The "tax increase" would stop incentivizing universities to do these accounting tricks and declare tuiton as 0.

You cannot just ask the Universities to "declare" tuition as 0. It is not some money laundering scheme for the purpose of cooking tax books. The universities actually do get all that tuition $ from the funding bodies. The tuition is "waived" for PhD students, because it's paid for by the PI's research grant/funding agencies. This bill does not shift some already-existing tax burden from universities to students---it's creating new tax liabilities for the students.

You cannot just write laws to force Universities to zero out graduate tuition and forfeit all the revenue either, as the Universities would just hike up administrative overhead, cutting a bigger slice from the PI's research grants.

What really should have been done, for curbing student debt and stopping nonsensical measures like this one, is to restrict university administrative expansion, board member salary, campus expansion etc. Universities have expanded too much from their core functions of teaching and research, by adding out-reach programs and program administrative staff.
Why is that wrong? Surely I am entitled to my opinion, however judgmental it may be. Also, it's barely an opinion at all. It's practically a fact based on the information in the article alone that a number of extremely bad decisions led to that woman's unfortunate situation.

Let me put it another way - I personally have never met a single person who was responsible, level-headed, and made rational decisions with their money ever wind up in a scenario even remotely like this woman's.
I would feel marginally better but still hate it. I don't like the web as a platform anyway, especially not one for applications with cancerous amounts of JavaScript. HTML is not a platform for desktop applications. It shouldn't be a platform for almost anything.
Maybe you can find an used Atom N280 model, they're dual-core and 64-bit (I owned one)
Furniture is probably, next to a house and a car, among the most expensive things most people will purchase. And frankly I'm sure a lot of people just buy whatever guitar anyway, especially thinking back to the never-used one I used to have.
"At least in STEM fields, essentially no PhD student actually pays tuition."

As someone who apparently "essentially" doesn't exist, I object to this statement.

Further, there exist fields other than STEM, and I'm not even sure this applies to all of STEM.
We're not talking about expense reimbursements, though. They needed to be able to show that we have some number of certified AWS architects, so I paid $150 for an AWS certification test, and my employer is reimbursing me. They get the credentials they want, and I was made whole.

In this case, it's not that the grad student is getting to take classes (this is tuition we're talking about, remember) for the university, nor is it that the school is benefiting from the student taking classes. That's something the school is providing to them as a service for a cost.

What the schools and grad students are trying to do is to barter their way around taxes: "you give me tuition, I give you some TA and research work", and no (or minimal) money changes hands. That the tax code allowed this was a loophole: in general, you're responsible for the value that was received, not just the dollars portion.

This is even part of ObamaCare: I have to pay tax on part of what my employer pays for my healthcare, even though it was never given to me in any monetary fashion. (the reason it's only "part of" is one of the great tax engineering f-ups, leading to the disaster that is our current system of health insurance)

Even campaign finance law recognizes in-kind services as being equivalent to the dollars they'd otherwise be worth. If your airline writes off the cost of the candidate's cross-country trips, for example, the value of those tickets would count as a campaign contribution.
The average would or at least could be a rather poor metric, most people could get poorer and the average could still rise. Besides that people certainly care a lot about inequality and, in my opinion, that is absolutely justified. You don't become a billionaire by producing goods worth billions with your own hands, you become one by letting a lot of people work on the factory floors and taking a share from the value they produce. And because you can, you don't take a share that makes you ten times better of than your workers as compensation for the risks you took, you take a share that makes you thousands of times better of.
That's why being rich is so amazing - you get to play by a different set of rules. Or, once you're "3rd level rich" - write the rules of the game.

Apple aren't breaking any laws. They, and other of their size, can just ~bribe~ lobby politicians to make special little loopholes for them, loopholes you can't take advantage of, but you can't pay an army of accountants. But, honestly, I can't blame Apple too much here.

We are at a place of our history where giant, global corporations operate outside of any national/political boundary. They have offices everywhere, employees everywhere - it's a nightmare to figure out whom they should even pay taxes to, and how much.

I'm not even close to being Apple-level, but even lowly plebs like myself face similar issues.

I have two passports, but it's a major pain for me to live in place A for more than X months and pay taxes to country C which has an office in D but I'm technically an employee only in office G in region Z - even though it's all the same damn company - again - who gets to tax me? Both countries? One country? No country? Why can't I live in Spain and work for a US company that has European HQ without incredible hassles? And if I could - the US would still like their share of my pie in the form of taxes.

I think a lot of this stems from the simple truth that we are in a new kind of economy, where money and information can flow instantaneously, yet our laws are still bound to archaic nation-state concepts of "physical presence". Which made total sense pre 1950, not so much anymore.