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Node is a runtime, npm is a package manager. Together they let you download code (js or otherwise) and run it.

This is the same as Java (JVM), .NET (CLR), and plenty of other languages. You can compile to a native assembly if you like (similar to C++ or Go) but it's not necessary when you have fast runtimes and JIT compilation.

Everything you listed for functionality is possible today - while also letting people write and ship code to multiple platforms quickly.
3-D printed objects connect to WiFi without electronics
The article mentions price gouging. Usually in that debate, the advantage is it makes efficient use of resources but the disadvantage is it strongly favors rich people.

So I have a partially serious idea: make the toll a function of how expensive your car is. The government is going to record your license plate anyway for electronic tolling purposes, so it can look up the car year, make, and model and from there estimate its value.

The idea being that this probably gives a better signal of who needs to use the toll lane. To a person driving an $80,000 car, a $5 toll is not nearly as big of a sacrifice as it is for someone driving a beater.

Of course, this would be pretty difficult politically, but in principle it's just a progressive tax.
You're not just paying for the damage done, you're paying for the space. If all cars weighed a pound, you'd still need to maintain and repair the road due to aging/weather damage.
I only see FastMail and ProtonMail mentioned on Hacker News, never in real life.

To those who made the switch away from free,conventional mail services like Gmail and Outlook, what was the appeal ? What's your case for making the switch ?
Sure, uncle blocks help increase the weight of the chain but are also wasted blobs of data forever taking up space on the blockchain. They serve no value other than to make the PoW weighting heavier.
I was a very happy FastMail customer until a hacker asked them to reset my password. After _incorrectly_ answering a handful of questions asked by the FastMail support, the recovery email address was changed and a password reset link sent. From there, the hacker attempted password resets on other services.

Initially, FastMail was dismissive that this was a simple "mix-up" and didn't disable access to the hacker for 7.5 hours after my report.

To their credit, FastMail gave me a list of the email accessed and the message headers of the messages the hacker sent from my account (and then deleted -- unrecoverable).

Until and unless FastMail addresses the human factor of security, their technical security mindset is of secondary importance.
The point being : $7 is not "cheap".
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Bitcoin has a flat transaction rate for moving any amount of value. So yes, more expensive if the amount being transferred is low, and I mean really low.
The agribusiness sector imports huge amounts of immigrant talent far from the coasts. If you're a potential immigrant in tech, you might prefer San Francisco over Omaha but if your potential employer is in Omaha, you're probably going to pick it over staying at home.
It doesn't matter. If you have an OS that can update itself arbitrarily without your permission and you have a culture and legal agreements that allow uploading ambiguous amounts of data through telemetry systems, that OS is not a viable choice for anyone who takes security and privacy seriously and deals with potentially sensitive data. It's really as simple as that.

My businesses have legal obligations under things like data protection legislation (for handling personal data) and our contracts with clients, suppliers, etc. (for handling trade secrets and other commercially sensitive information, as well as compliance with industry rules in areas like payment processing). Hand-wavy arguments about how everyone is using telemetry now do not relieve us of those obligations.
I assume that this is how all news that isn't either an AP wire or investigative deep dive works. The payment is just often in other forms (continued access, future employment, influence, coveted invitations...)

Difference is that startups by definition often lack the influence, status, and/or wherewithal to pay for coverage in anything other than cash.
The yearly disposable income for urban areas at best is 1486$ [0]. It still doesn't make data prices cheap.

[0] http://www.livemint.com/Politics/AvHvyHVJIhR0Q629wkPS5M/Indi...
Coinbase requires identity verification. Presumably, you won't be able to verify their identity.

You can gift a printed paper wallet using something like this, securing the private key with tamper-evident stickers: https://walletgenerator.net/
SoftBank has lots of interest in international companies also, but it still isn’t an international brand.
> ... but you don't hear a lot of stories of "I wanted to go to college but couldn't get a loan". Almost everyone gets approved, regardless of their future ability to pay it back.

This is absolutely not the case. Student loans have caps and they're incredibly easy to hit, especially if you go to a 5-year school where you're expected to pay tuition while doing 6-month internship blocks. Lots of people I knew in college (myself included) had to drop out in the first 2 quarters of year 5 because they couldn't get enough money to finish.

Edit: Just checked to see what the cap was at these days.
Back when I was in school, the unsubsidized loan max was 27k. Now its 31k. https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/subsidized-unsubsid...
With transitive dependencies, the total install footprint for this is 689 packages weighing in at 77MB.

This isn't reducing complexity, it's just taking all the junk you'd normally have in your bloated boilerplate and putting it directly into the build tool. I'm not convinced that's a good idea.
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Actually, housing crashed when lots of people who had bought housing on credit turned out to be unable to service the debt. I don't think there's a similar scenario with bitcoin.

On the other hand, a large secular demand will always exist for housing. The same is not true for bitcoin.
> There is definitely an education bubble.

Right, and people in poor countries stealing money to feed themselves is a "food bubble", with the solution being a reduction in food consumption.

How come there is no "education bubble" in countries where college is essentially free? That would be guaranteed to create the biggest bubble of all.
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> which would allow me to give out an address like <hackernews@mydomain.tld>, and thus determine who shared my email address if I start receiving spam at that address.

I've been doing this for over 15 years, but with a much simpler setup: I just forward it to another account, which for the last 10-ish years has been an @gmail address. The mails show up in my Gmail inbox as From: the original sender and To: the custom domain.

As a caution: don't forward a top-level domain. You'll get all kinds of dictionary-style spam attacks and it becomes flooded with noise. Instead, use a sub-domain, so you get for example <*@something.mydomain.tld>.
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Sure, you can't definitively say something's a bubble until later. If the value ends up high, it's a boom; if not, it's a bubble. But every serious Bitcoin proponent should be concerned that we have crossed from boom to bubble, because the latter can be harmful to serious participants.

I also think there are reasonable cases where Bitcoin ends up with a modest non-zero value. It's not a bad technology for a narrow slice of the cross-border money transfer market, and people could make it more useful if they wanted to. But those outcomes are much less likely if they're a giant crash.
I use ProtonMail for the simple reason that there is less of a chance they are selling my data and building up a user profile of me for advertisers to target.
FB’s advisor on the WhatsApp acquisition was a boutique investment firm headed at the time by former CIA director George Tenet. To this day I think that Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype (which was quite expensive at the time) was also made under the same auspices, i.e. to bring an entire social network under the control of a country’s intelligence services (in this case the US services). What I’m trying to say it’s that this is a well-known game that everyone is playing.
I use create-react-app and make sure I don't need to eject so (I guess) I use webpack under the hood, which I never had to learn. If CRA switches to parceljs and makes the build twice as fast, I'm all for it!
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My understanding is that the technical implementation of net neutrality is a ban of traffic policing (dropping prior to complete congestion to signal senders to slow down) for purposes other than "reasonable network management"

So Comcast shaping Netflix when Cogent won't pay their share to upgrade their peering point is probably still legal, but they would probably have to go to court to prove that it was "reasonable network management" and depending on the technical prowess of the court, could easily go the other way. The outcome is that telcos lose a lot of negotiating power to content providers.

More last mile providers probably wouldn't solve this problem, because people pay money for what they actually want (streaming video) rather than what they say they want ("free speech") and an ISP that protected freedom of speech would be protecting nazis, white supremacists, fake news, etc.
Sure, maybe including uncle blocks can help secure the chain. It's not without cost, however: now you're forever persisting valueless blobs of data as part of your blockchain.
WeChat is enormously popular in the US. Every Chinese person here uses it. That means a huge number of US students and employees.

I think the US should pass and aggressively enforce anti-snooping laws. No company allowed to monitor communication of customers over whatever platform that company is selling (unless the product requires it or that IS the service - some sort of Mood Analysis API or whatever). Would also conveniently take care of a key net neutrality point :)
Bitcoin Cash was a hard fork intended to solve the problem of fungibility. (Low fees, fast transactions, etc)
License plates are already tied to the class of vehicle. This regulatory regime would make it easier to implement what you're proposing, not harder.
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Can you provide a cite for this? I wouldn't be surprised, but I can't find anything at hand.
Paying taxes doesn't guarantee unlimited free use of a resource. You pay taxes that help national and state parks, but you still get charged to enter or to park your car.

Americans get so upset about this because they've come to believe that free road usage and free parking are fundamental rights. They're not.

Tolling on congested roads -- and for that matter, for parking in dense areas -- is good policy.
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Why block an opportunity for a country to better understand our culture through the monitoring of our social media communications?
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Generally speaking education does not make you a better person. It can even make you a worse person than alternatives such as manual labor, working in a kitchen, or a job at a summer camp. Cops apparently don't need a two year course of study to understand the law well enough to do their jobs. Instead of spending years up front, an alternative is to spread that time throughout their career on basic stuff like fitness or gun training.
Ask HN: Techies: What do you do to limit environmental impact of your work?
This is for everyone who works with hardware, writes software, or is involved in "tech" in any miscellaneous capacity:

What do you and your colleagues do to limit the environmental impact induced by your products? For example, do you take into consideration how said product will be recycled in the future? Do you focus solely on product costs, or do you try to use more expensive, but sustainably sourced materials? In electronics, a number of relatively rare elements are required -- do you try to, or do you know of research that is, seek(ing) out renewable substitutes? Are you unaware of the impact you or your products have on the environment?

If you happen to not take the environment into consideration during your product lifecycle, do you think the next Zuck or Musk is going to be able to back-pedal and reverse climate change?

I'd like to gauge where other techies land on this subject. We're in such an influential position in that we can literally place ourselves in peoples' pockets, and truly are creeping into every corner of the general populations' lives. Our craft is extremely topical, and unfortunately, "magical" to many and we therefore have a responsibility to look out for the greater good. What are we doing to conserve our planet, and its resources?
Absent public service loan forgiveness (which we may very well soon be, if Republicans in Congress get their way), the number is actually 30 years and the forgiven amount is taxable income. Additionally, income-based plans often result in payments that don't even cover interest, so the debt continues to pile up quickly.
Meaningfully different from the original suggestion.
Un-related to the FCC nightmare, how do you, as AG, feel about bitcoin and crypto currencies?
Of course this option exists, but given that it's less likely to happen, that the market cap in this scenario is unknowable, and that when averaged with the two scenarios I mentioned it doesn't move the needle, it's almost irrelevant to any kind of reasonable investment thesis.
If you think Conduit is bad, you should see the list of names we _didn't_ use! ;)
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The gas tax still has a useful purpose even if there's full utilization taxes since it encourages more fuel efficient vehicles which have a lower environmental impact and reduced pollution in cities could lead to big improvements in health saving money elsewhere.
My wife uses it also, just no one outside of the Chinese sphere of influence does. It also has no functions outside of china beyond chat, you can’t even use it to buy things at merchants who accept it (mostly spots where Chinese tourists go) unless it’s connected to a chinese bank account (so not for daily usage).
So knowing how the discourse is around here, there will likely be ardent support and the rural people can just be told to pound sand and move to civilization.

Snark aside, it makes more sense just to add an additional tax to semis during the licensing process to go to road maintenance. There's already way too much tracking going on as it is, and then there's the fun of having your plates stolen or whatever getting you stuck with another bill to contest.
Why? IMO it would be way better to follow the model used for sales tax and require charging devices to collect a tax for vehicle charging. Historically, it's much easier to tax and police dispensers vs. end users.

Wide-scale road systems are super expensive. Systems like EZ-Pass are only cheap compared to toll operators; the transaction costs are ridiculous and the vendors who operate the systems make a obscene amount of money for a guaranteed slice of a huge cash flow.
If Tether is garbage, the only way to get your money out is by converting Tether to something worth real money.

We saw this in Mt. Gox. When USD withdrawals failed and people suspected Mt. Gox was insolvent, the only way to get money out was to buy BTC and withdraw that. The Mt. Gox exchange rate inflated because everyone knew dollar balances on Mt. Gox were worthless.

If Bitfinex is insolvent and Tether fails, we'll probably see panic selling across the market as people start fearing Bitcoin is a giant tulip scam.
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It's a chicken and egg problem. Americans hold driving in religious devotion, and won't allocate serious resources to non-car modes until they're forced to.

I guarantee you those suburbs of DC are full of people hostile to transit. The only way they'll support their own areas contributing and going along with a regional transit plan is if they feel like they have no choice.
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The first release doesn't include Ingress support. This is something we plan on folding into our Routing API in an upcoming release. If you have opinions on how you'd like to see Ingress implemented, now is a great time to share your thoughts (in a GitHub issue, is probably best)!
Those educational networks still connect to the commercial networks, via commercial ISPs.
> No Chinese firm should be permitted to own a controlling interest in any communication system widely used in the US.

That can backfire very quickly, when Europe is going to say the same – no US firm should be permitted to control any system widely used in the EU.

Which would kill Google, Microsoft, and many more.
Unfortunately, Olympics, as a world monopoly, have been very important for and under strong pressure of politics for the whole period of its existence. Of course, most people do not like to see how sport is being converted into a politician battlefield and manipulated by world powers. Yet, nobody knows how to remove this strong dependence. Maybe one solution would be to have two independent Olympic games in hope that they will compete for the spectators and not for the attention of politicians?
It's not the ER that I'm worried about. It's the ICU.
No, net neutrality will leave (some/many?) other countries as well in some form or another.
Tencent, surprisingly, is 33% owned by the South African company Naspers, as well as 7% other foreign institutional investors. Alibaba is 30% owned by the Japanese Softbank and 15% owned by a US holding company resultant of Yahoo's sale. [2] Baidu is 35%+ held by a hodgepodge of funds and holding companies. [3]

[1] http://www.4-traders.com/TENCENT-HOLDINGS-LTD-3045861/compan...

[2] http://www.4-traders.com/ALIBABA-GROUP-HOLDING-17916677/comp...

[3] http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-majo...
Really, you’re going to treat Mac "Keeper", well-known malware, as a legit source for security info? Really? Really?
Your link says a lot of form letters were submitted. That's not the issue. There's nothing wrong with submitting a form letter with your name attached to it.

The issue is using someone elses name and information to submit a comment -- ie: identity theft.

Form letters and identity theft are not equivalent. One is an easy way to submit a comment. The other is illegal.
> Russia’s Olympic team has been barred from the 2018 Winter Games [...] The country’s government officials are forbidden to attend

> Some Russian officials have threatened to boycott if the I.O.C. delivered such a severe punishment

I don't understand. So they threatened to boycott if they weren't allowed? Or am I reading words wrong?
And the metro would probably be non-awful if the area wasn't split up into a bunch of different governments that often don't want to cooperate.

Transportation and housing authorities should be at the metro area level. Lower than that just results in dysfunction.
...but it wouldn't be fair to charge people using the same car more or less depending on where they are driving.
The cycle described here is perfectly acceptable in principle, not to mention unavoidable in practice. Our developer tools will stop changing when humans stop changing.
I wasn't the one downvoting, but my guess is that it was related to your claim about plausibility. Just because something is simpler or more plausible it doesn't mean it's more likely to be correct. If it were, there would be no reason to be conducting studies like this
I'm curious if Net Neutrality can be enforced at the State level. That way each state can fight back, and the ones that decide not to will experience enough of a difference that they'll do the same.
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Istio runs on Envoy; it sounds like Conduit is an Istio alternative.

https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/load-balan...
If the fire that this smoke points to is really there, someday soon a lot of people are going to be left holding a bag of worthless tethers. That'd be a pretty bad day, wouldn't it? Kinda like being stuck in Mt. Gox during the end days.
> Tether is how you short bitcoin ... so they move into tether hoping to buy back in after bitcoin goes down without having to do the expensive/difficult bitcoin-usd move.

"Shorting" means borrowing bitcoin and then selling the borrowed bitcoin. What you've described is simply selling bitcoin for USDT, unless I'm missing something.
If memory serves, the current Net Neutrality doesn't apply to mobile carriers. They got exempted from that and some other rules apply in their cases.
Does not the claim, that Tether is not actually backed by dollars, also double as an argument that it would be difficult for it to behave as intended? - i.e. to the extent that the former may be correct, the latter is likely?
It's long past time to start ratcheting down on Chinese access to our markets. Until such time as they open thiers in a meaningful way. Without the essentially unfettered, one way street access to US markets it enjoys today, China looks a lot less economically sound.
> Do you have evidence that Aetna's valuation was not based on profitability?

No. But if you read the comment of the person I originally responded to, you'll see that this discussion is irrelevant to the overall point. Any clarification of Aetna's valuation has been for your understanding of stock valuations in general. Not to pursue some point about Aetna's ethical or unethical valuation.

> The company has a financial incentive to deny care because that increases the profit.

> Do you deny that Aetna has a financial incentive to deny coverage or to look for ways to get out of paying for coverage?

Yes, categorically. If Aetna signs an agreement to pay health expenses and fails to follow through they face three major consequences:

- They can be sued for breach of contract.

- They can lose market power as their brand loses public trust.

- They can face fines from government regulators.

If Aetna is denying claims that they were never contractually obligated to pay in the first place, then I see that as fraud prevention.

> Do you believe that the $500 million for one person is money well spent in the U.S. healthcare system?

Why should I even have an opinion on the subject? I have never given Aetna or CVS my business. It's not my money they're swapping.

CVS is in a highly competitive market segment. If they were ripping off their customers they would have never acquired the market power to pay this CEO a bonus of $500m.
Built-in anti-virus and Edge as the default instead of IE are pretty big improvements themselves, for the average user.
Doesn't look like it. The "Search" section in their settings has options to disable Predictive search, enable Contacts search, turn on location access, Clear Gboard search history, or Reset Google Usage ID. No way to disable the whole bar.

EDIT - the search prompt actually only pops up if you bump the G button at the left side, otherwise the bar is text predictions once you start typing. Maybe I'll give this a shot.

Android version definitely lets you disable the G button. It's listed right next to the "Predictive search" setting, so I'm fairly sure this can not be disabled on iOS. https://www.ghacks.net/2016/12/19/remove-g-button-android-ke...