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HN eschews all modern UI affordances as a form of status signalling. It's like how millionaire startup founders like to wear cargo shorts and hoodies.

It's Y Combinator's way of saying, "we're so fucking successful we can afford to have a site that eclipses even Craigslist in un-usability."
this includes a whole windowing system, a raster paint engine, and a C++ reflection mechanism

All of which the browser already has.
it’s not immoral or illegal. I just feel like the kind of customers it would attract aren’t people I would like. It would only really suit customers who are paranoid and self interested.

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

It might be helpful to come up with a broad variety of reasonable use cases besides the one you are imagining and not liking. Some thoughts on scenarios that might apply:

People fleeing domestic violence.

LGBTQ individuals, especially so in some parts of the world.

Other oppressed minorities, whether due to religion, ethnicity or any other reason.

People in war torn parts of the world.

People with hopeless medical situations interested in pursuing proven alternatives, like medical marijuana, that may not be legal in their location.

There are lots of situations where people are only trying to meet their own needs, are not up to anything nefarious, nor even questionable to my mind, who need to take precautions because the world does not approve of them getting their needs met for reasons that often boil down to prejudice and malice.
This. Completely agree. Google out competed established search engines when it released. AOL & Yahoo were entrenched.

History flies in the face of what this article is trying to say. Tech giants can be out competed with new and better technology. It's that simple even though it's very hard.

Google and Facebook are not the 'monopolies' we should be focused on.

Verizon and ATT own the last mile and can literally shut down traffic to a site instantly at the network level! Talk about monopolistic power. Can't exactly out compete broadband unless you figure out how to network with muons or other subatomic particles.
real wage stagnation is a social policy, not an emergent phenomenon. Politicians are concerned about unemployment numbers, and there is this bogeyman that "sticky wages" of lower classes gets in the way. The prescribed way around this is to decrease the real value of money and incrementally dislodge the liability of employing lower classes.

Systemic inequality is generated, by deliberate inflationary policy[0], it is not a "universal constant of the universe".

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...

"Even in the long run, it’s really, really hard to cut nominal wages. Yet when you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts. So having a somewhat higher inflation rate would lead to lower unemployment, not just temporarily, but on a sustained basis."

[0] I do, for what it's worth, think that liberal economists aren't acting in bad faith, they're just clueless, mostly because if you're a liberal economist (or almost any economist, really) you've probably never been poor.
Lower barriers to entry aren't a bad thing though - I'm perfectly happy having a lot of competition in the content distribution or content creation markets. It drives innovation and ultimately results in a healthier market and more consumer choice.

I think the possible danger that compulsory licensing would prevent is that companies can use their market power in one area to starve out competition in another. For example, once Disney launches their streaming service, they could easily capture a large portion of the market due to their dominance in content creation
Looks like the real ones are actually 1-2-2-1. The file names of the samples end in either "gt" or "gen", which kinda gives it away.

I thought the same thing initially -- I guess it fooled a few of us with that first one!
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/19/bmw-reaches-100000-electri....
I'm currently holding an H1B visa and my friend started a business where he currently owns 100% of the company.
Before moving forward with any additional share issuances (to myself and potential investors), we wanted to
fully understand my eligibility and any complications that could arise as a result.

Given my current visa status, am I permitted to receive shares without any legal implications?

I'm also really close to getting the EAD, should I wait for it? And once I have it, how can I proceed to issue the shares from a legal perspective? Can I only issue the shares once I have the green card without any legal implication?
If it weren't possible to buy a Mac at Best Buy, you might begin to have a coherent point. Beside, I'm not asking for laws to be made, Captain Strawman, I said I'm not driving across town for ice cream.
Yeah, I agree with you.
The issue of energy portability is not an insignificant one IMO. I can carry 5 gallons (or 100-150 miles worth of range) of fuel fairly easily. Not so much with an electric vehicle.

What happens when I run out of juice on the side of the road? I don't care how many times the car warns me; that it shouldn't happen, etc. People still manage to run out of gas today. With an electric vehicle already hampered by half the range of an I.C.E. vehicle, it will happen even more often. If I drain my battery, I can no longer walk down to a gas station, fill up a 5 gallon container and be on my way.

"But that should never happen!" sure and people don't get stranded for hours in traffic in the middle of a winter storm. An I.C.E. vehicle can easily idle for a day non-stop on half a tank. Can an electric vehicle provide me with heat for 24 hours when it's -3F outside on half a charge?

Even when we reach range parity, the convenience and portability of gasoline will keep me buying I.C.E. vehicles until it is overwhelmingly superior.
Haha, try again, the human is 1,2,2,1 according to the filenames (I was fooled too).

I do think the difference would become obvious with a paragraph or more of speech, though. It's difficult to judge what the correct intonation should be on these single sentences without context. Ultimately, correct intonation requires a complete understanding of meaning which is still out of reach. An audiobook read by tacotron 2 would still sound strange.
That's the official reason. I've long suspected that the real reason he didn't want flash was because it would cut into app-store revenue.
Buying into pyramid schemes is always profitable as long as you are the one who gets to cash out
The reasons why it can be expensive to be poor have been studied and written about rather extensively. e.g. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lauren-greutman/why-being-poo...

I do think many people with lower incomes budget aggressively. However, they may simply not be in a situation that they can optimize for a longer time horizon.
Celery skims funds from users' wallets and shuts down
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In an two-stage election system, rigging the districts to make the second stage irrelevant to the outcome, well, makes the first stage relevant to the outcome.

When the first stage elections are contested among isolated ideological subsets of the electorate their results tend to extreme positions.

What I'm saying is this: it is inevitable that the REDMAP project that yielded the kinds of district-level results shown in this article will continue to generate more and more extremist election results.

Ryan and McConnell, and the whole US federal house of representatives, have bought and paid for their dysfunction with this systematic gerrymandering. The situation isn't going to improve as long as this holds.

Pouring money into contesting the general elections in these districts is entirely a waste. It enriches nobody but robocall and television companies, and doesn't affect the outcome.
> Vandalization is a synonym of vandalism.

[1] https://wikidiff.com/vandalization/vandalism
I'm fine with this arrangement. Between Netflix, HBO & Amazon I have more than enough content to fill my viewing habits. I rarely pirate content because usually there is something good to watch.

Customers were frustrated by highly integrated cable companies who charged for channels they didn't want. Now customers are frustrated by highly module content creators creating their own distribution channels, at the end of the day I do not think there will be a middle ground. Content has become segmented and you'd better pick your providers wisely.
For various reasons it may not be practicable to get a more proportional display unless you just fudge it.
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The cookie popup is terrible, I agree.

Some pros:
Being able to force social networks to provide me with a physical copy of my data is alone a reason to get an EU citizenship. I don't even use the social networks, i just demand my data every 3 months to FB, Tinder and Linkedin to punish them for being so aggressive in their spamming and tracking.

Being safe from throttling, censorship and all the nice stuff that US ISPs are going to feed american citizens with is also pretty nice.

Also very efficiently getting my money back when companies try to scam me.
> something close to algorithmic probably ends up the least controversial and most comprehensible in the long run

One suggestion in this direction is the shortest split line algorithm: http://www.rangevoting.org/GerryExamples.html

(The OP also uses split lines, but they are optimized for maximum partisan effect rather than minimum length.)
FWIW, I now advocate Approval Voting because a) superior election integrity prospects and b) nearly ideal fairness.

Score Voting and Instant Runoff Voting are a bit more fair than Approval Voting, but much more difficult to implement, execute, audit, describe / educate, etc.
I paid for WhatsApp.

That was a few years before they were bought by FB.
You don't need to go out of your way looking for highly challenging world class unsolved problems: I'm versed not just in CS/IT but also in various fields of physics, thermodynamics, solid and fluid mechanics, automation, electricity, and electronics, and it's readily apparent to me that some solutions or effects are just obvious to me while being completely elusive to my colleagues with a good level but pure CS/IT education.

This is a case similar to biodiversity vs monoculture: complimentary knowledge fosters alternative modelling scenarios and patterns, nourishing the mind, not just drawing parallels but spurring creative thinking and easing radical changes of perspective.
You should contact me so that I can get the specifics but it sounds like you should be able to do contract work without this affecting your green card application. To be clear, the issue is not being able to do contract work, the EAD allows you to do this; the issue is whether this could impact your green card application.
Thanks. I'll contact HN admins.
The article is describing an event that has been covered a couple ways. It was also the basis for a presentation at the 2017 Seattle Casual Connect - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGl3pDhYC9o

I was one of those who asked some questions at the end.
I work in Minnesota and non-compete clauses have always had a very narrow scope on what can and can't be enforced:

http://horowlaw.com/employment-law/non-compete-law-in-minnes...

The law of non-competes in Minnesota is entirely court-made, in contrast to states such as Wisconsin and North Dakota, where it is governed by statute. See Wis. Stat. § 103.465; N.D. Cent. Code, § 9-08-06. Non-competes are “disfavored” under Minnesota law for being a partial restraint on trade. As such, they are to be strictly construed, with any ambiguities interpreted against the employer. Lemon v. Gressman (Minn.App. 1999).

Acceptable interests include (1) protecting against deflection of trade; (2) protecting confidential business information and trade secrets; and (3) protecting customer goodwill. The question boils down to whether the departing employee can hurt the former employer.

I've only seen one issue of a non-compete being enforced is when a reporter went to a competitor and took the same job and was accused of taking confidential information to his new employer. The judge ruled against the reporter and banned him from working at the competitor for one year:

Higgs wrote that given Ridder's past conduct and his cavalier attitude toward his use and disclosure of confidential Pioneer Press information, it seems to the court that his past actual misappropriation is a good indicator of possible future use of that information.

The court said there is also a substantial threat that Ridder will further misappropriate confidential Pioneer Press information, or use the confidential information in the future.

The judge ruled that restraining Ridder from further misappropriating confidential Pioneer Press information is necessary to prevent further injury to the St. Paul paper's competitive position in the industry.

Make a note the story is from 2007. A decade ago and I haven't seen any case remotely close to this since then.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2007/09/18/ridderruling
Maybe services like AWS Polly would upgrade over time to be as good as this. (Sadly, Polly is currently worse than the standard macOS TTS, IMHO..)
Read the Privacy Policy where in the US and EU companies are required by law to say how they're using your data.
I am thinking the EU don't want any companies to know more about it's citizens than they do themselves. Knowledge can after all be transferred to power.
Music has compulsory licensing, and rights societies; visual entertainment doesn't.
Can you provide an example of WSJ defending duopolies, or this sort of thing?
But like I said, my internet bandwidth + quota is not high enough to replace my fileserver with cloud hosting, so I'd still have that expense -- and the $25/month fileserver also acts as a security camera recorder, a media server and a few other things, so it's more than a fileserver.

And yeah, S3 is not a fileserver replacement,AWS's best solution for that would be EFS, but that'd cost me $900/month for my usage.
> I don't like Aldi and Lidl because the checkout process is so rushed and chaotic. Obviously, some people don't mind and see it as a fair trade-off?

I don't like rushed for the weekend food shopping. Monday - Friday 12 o'clock shopping needs to be rushed though and since you don't have much, I prefer Aldi before REWE. Especially because it's cheaper too.
Accessing HTML5 features is usually by javascript api. Even if you used another dependency, how would that help?
Even more so, there is a question I asked a professor a long time ago.

Does learning make us dumber? As we learn things and take them as absolute truth, we limit our ability to explore new ideas and concepts. The search is sometimes the more important thing.
There is no issue with your receiving shares as long as you are not providing services to this entity.
On paper, E2 visas look fairly easy, as many active businesses can demonstrate $100k+ in investment/expenses and a decent business plan. What are the potential issues there? Why are those visas not more popular?
If you listen carefully, it's possible with some of the samples to hear that the human is stressing a different word (e.g. "that girl" vs "that girl", or "too busy for romance" vs "too busy for romance"), but I couldn't tell which was the real recording based on that alone.
Dunno about Germany but in most Europe i lived cashless. Maybe I am misunderstanding your line about living with only a credit card.
To put it in perspective, the daily volume in BTC is a few 100,000s. 5-600'000 BTC is $10B. Sure the Winklevoss twins can't liquidate their entire holding in a week but if you only have a few million dollars worth of bitcoin, you can liquidate in a few days without moving the price significantly.

The other major crypto-currencies are more or less liquid in proportion to their market cap.
The example Ricardo gave for comparative advantage was Portuguese wine for English cloth.

More than two centuries later, Joan Robinson reexamined comparative advantage using Ricardo's original example. How had such trade affected the two economies - Portugal staying a more agricultural society, whereas in England, textiles served as one of the backbones for the country's industrialization. The analysis Robinson came up with should be obvious - both countries did not benefit by the trade of cloth for wine, it had been much more to England's advantage, and Portugal would have been better off staving off free trade and building up its textile and industrial base. The original example given for the benefits of comparative advantage for all parties turned out to itself be a fallacy.
1 * x = x but -1 * x = -x.

This is also true for x == i.
> Now content creators want to own the store, too.

They don't want to let any company do what Apple did to the music industry. If another company owns the platform with all the customers, then they can dictate prices to everyone else.
Sitting down to use the internet in 1995-2007 took a certain kind of personality. It was an act that required isolating yourself for long periods of time.

"Normies" are very unconcerned, easily distracted, and quickly trusting of Big Apps.
Funny enough for most people, I suffered the problem of drinking too much water. I could easily drink 8+ liters a day. This brought me terrible headaches and killed my productivity. I did not find the reason for a long time since in that period I was experimenting with different diets and I could not figure out the cause.

The condition is called "Hyponatremia": too low levels of sodium in blood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia).

I make sure now to drink less water and add a bit more of salt to my food.
I like to drive to Goodwood Motor Circuit once a month or so, which is about 80 miles each way and 160 miles round trip.

The drive takes me on some of the best roads in West Sussex, with some truly amazing cars (think Lamborghinis from the 70s and 80s, Porsche Carrera GTs and old 911s) and as such you can imagine we're too busy having fun to worry about economy.

I can do the trip there and back in 3/4 of a tank (11l/100km, or 25MPG). However, I genuinely worry that if I bought a Model S I would not be able to make the same trip on a single charge. There is a video on YouTube of someone driving their 85D on the Nurburgring and in 10 minutes the car has gone from 90% to 60% charge. Given that these roads allow for a lot of throttle use I expect I'd run out after 100 miles at best.

Sure, you could argue that we should drive slower, more economically, with less throttle. However, if electric cars are going to be fun and appealing to enthusiasts I think electric cars need to start matching ICE cars when it comes to range under high load, and I think the leading cause of such poor range when driving the car in a more demanding style is the extra weight electric cars have to carry over their ICE counterparts (a P100D is almost 40% heavier than its ICE equivalent, such as a BMW F80 M3).
To be honest, I'm not sure. The only way to be 100% sure would be to ask them and it's not easy to ask that in a diplomatic way.

Although it's my own conjecture, it's based on numerous other signals I got from them during the interview process. As an example, any team member A can point out that any other team member B isn't pulling their weight and shouldn't be working there. That initiates a discussion about whether B should be fired.
sure, but if you want to get your existing 500kloc Qt app to show quickly on screen to make a demo for instance, you aren't going to rewrite it in HTML/CSS/JS for the fun.
Thank you for your time. How hard is it to overcome the Labor Certification requirement these days?

For example.. if I have remote worker in Europe that worked in our custom built ERP/CMS system for a year... would my company be able to sponsor said employee on US soil, solely on the fact that they have this unique skills of knowing how to operate custom-built CMS?
> clearly some trickery is going on to deliberately cherry-pick people for some reason.

Yah think? Read David Daley's book Ratf*cked. http://www.worldcat.org/title/ratfucked-the-true-story-behin...
>running a clothes dryer all at the same time

Fortunately those "clothes dryers" are already connected to the internet, and have sophisticated power electronics hooked to the grid that can detect voltage sag and phase lag. Connected to a central server, each car (or stationary battery, for that matter) becomes BOTH a sensor that can monitor grid health AND a remote-control load that can be dialed up and down (so long as the car gets a full charge before 7am, or whenever the user chooses).

The internet allows entire neighborhoods of EVs to be controlled at once, so that the substation is at 100% power and no more, and so the distribution/transmission lines are at 100% power and no more.

Is that a hard control problem? Sure. BUT it's easier than overbuilding the electric grid by 2-3x (which is, after all, the largest machine ever built[1]). And given the very large opportunity cost, there's a lot of incentive to solve it.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/innovation/th...
As the developer I couldn't agree more - it's pointless... but hopefully a little bit of fun along the way.

Isn't that what the internet is for?
Ah also no roaming across countries and having aligned ALL phone producers on the micro USB phone charger standard have been really nice news
Visit https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD. Notice the v-shaped graph below the price graph. Hover over to the left on the green side. You won't have an answer to your largest-ever-on-HN question, but right now I can tell you these are all possible (picking random zoom levels) with the quoted price around $18,100:

You can sell 556 BTC for $9.949 million for an average price of $17,893.

You can sell 2,160 BTC for $37.4 million for an average price of $17,314, which is 95.6% of the current quoted price.

This is if you are a complete idiot, transfer your Bitcoin to GDAX, and place a market sell order. Maximum slippage, and yes, you'd temporarily tank the GDAX market down to $16.5K or $17K. And it takes a while to withdraw that amount of money from Coinbase, but eventually it happens, and your trade is already complete.

Anyone with an ounce of sense would instead sell their BTC in a number of limit-order chunks over a day or two to reduce slippage.

Now, you can keep saying that it's a "common misconception" that the last ticker price means anything. Technically you are correct. But I doubt the guy who just liquidated BTC for over $30 million USD at 95% of that price would care.
Then its a joke. The EULAs already contain huge outlays of information and are frequently amended with more. In the US they like to contain restrictions on your basic rights that you don't really expect.

The EULAs will just all be amended with terrible terms as take it or leave it for all services just like they are in the US.
When we send scientists to document and study the penguins in Antarctica and their march to lay and sit on eggs, do we have the scientists go walk down to where they are, measure them, interact with them, etc? Or do we spot them from a distance, as discretely as possible, so that we don't disturb the subjects, and don't bias the study of their interactions?
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Current priority date for EB-3 India is 2006. For it to clear all the 2007 priority date applications, it will take another 14 years [1].

Since my priority date is today, 12/19/2017, why do you think my wait time is only between 8-10 years?

Or, did you mean 810 years?

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/no-one-knows-how-long-legal-immigr...