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How about necessary and meaningful jobs, like taking care of the elderly who do need help in their household, or building accommodations for and helping the homeless?

The number of elders will only increase in most of the world over the next few decades and no automation could replace the human touch, or even physical dexterity, in the near term. Granted the people performing the job would need training and perhaps some supervision from professionals, but much of the work requires the skills like empathy and physical agility that most humans are endowed with (despite being left dormant from lack of practice by some).

The same sorts of skills are needed as part of a program that would be useful for mitigating the homeless problem as well.
I agree that worker ownership of the economy in which they labor would lead to better outcomes for all.
Greetings! Thank you for the kind words.

It's really good to see more developers getting into the space of writing open-source platforms for services. I believe there is room for much growth in this field. I'll take a deeper dive into 1backend and check out how it works.

hook.io has pretty much a zero dollar budget and maybe $150 spent on marketing. It's been slowly and steadily growing for the past years and I'm happy with it's progress. I'm currently working on building integrated hardware solutions with raspberry pi to offer an open-source local version of Amazon Echo or Google Assistant type devices.
It doesn't have to be agriculture. I support having the government act as an employer of last resort for people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits and can't find a job. But doing productive agricultural work requires specific skills, there is no shortage of agricultural workers in most areas, and there are few farms where most unemployed people actually live.

Instead of agriculture we can create part-time minimum wage jobs doing other productive things like cleaning up litter and graffiti, trail maintenance, coaching youth activities, etc. This will help to maintain basic employment skills until they can find something better, and give them a stake in the community.
I don't know about the internals, but my guess is one of the following:

1) there's something about the lambda platform that just doesn't lend itself well to customer provided containers. a lot of people would AT LEAST have issues keeping image size reasonable.

2) they plan to add this. AWS is already investing in serverless container services, take a look at Fargate.
I really like the formatting tool ineedaresu.me. It has an easy interface and clean templates.
https://www.extremetech.com/internet/248312-verizon-doesnt-s...

The plan is technically $195 monthly with a ton of “special bonus discounts.” Existing customers aren’t allowed to sign up at all yet, and the price will be higher when they can.
> You are contracted to modify it (regardless of what the buyer said he wanted) - and you are responsible for not making it dangerous.

Actually, with government contracts, you are legally obligated to perform only the task assigned. Providing work to the government without the government paying for it is illegal. And you are only being paid for what's in the contract. (This is actually overall a good thing. Otherwise, large companies with better margins could easily provide free value-adds to government customers to win contracts away from small shops with small margins.)

Now, in this case, yes maybe the contractual item could have been interpreted in a way that allowed a proper page redesign. However, I would never state that as a fact without having the requirements and also receiving agreement from the government customer over such changes.
>That the city sprawls like crazy is more of a red Texas artifact.

It's actually an artifact of Houston's original charter which allowed nearly unlimited growth via annexation and Houston's use of that annexation power to reclaim its tax and voter base each time they moved outward from the city center. Houston grew from 9 square miles in 1900 to ~600 square miles today. See http://www.chron.com/local/history/major-stories-events/arti... for more details.

As to our voting patterns, see https://www.texastribune.org/2016/11/11/analysis-blue-dots-t... for analysis. We're generally a blue dot surrounded by red but that's on average.
Of course the cash existed. It was their depositors cash and cash from their depositors Bitcoin
You should let somebody know: http://bugreport.apple.com

The demo site correctly tracks me in Safari 11.0.1 (macOS 10.13.1)
>> Sorry if I wasn't clear. I shouldn't have said media queries, I should have said "CSS property queries". What CSS properties you have doesn't leak any more than your UA I would guess.

>> Unique font names per user seem unnecessary.

As a dev that has worked in CSS for over a decade, I have no idea what either of those mean.

EDIT: I see the unique font names part now, totally missed that while focusing on the other parts.
You can't distribute most of the recurring revenue systems in question. The roads & infrastructure systems need that revenue to sustain themselves, to operate, upgrade, etc. The land/property taxes are a critical revenue source for most local governments.

This all just takes you right back to where we are today: you have to tax the top 1/3 heavily to pay for the money you're taking away from utility companies or infrastructure (and redistributing to everyone).

You could allocate shared ownership into currently non-utilized land, mineral rights, spectrum, etc. That also simply takes revenue away from government that would otherwise receive that money, which you then have to tax back away from the population afterward to replace it.
That happened to me: dealership mechanic offered to charge us $500 to diagnose (not fix, just diagnose) a problem, so we left and went somewhere else.

But, that idea ignores a fundamental problem with expert-based markets; it's impossible to me, as a non-consumer, to make a rational decision about which mechanic to use because to me, the mechanic is a black box. I don't have any way to immediately fact-check what they're telling me, and in the worst case, if a mechanic does something wrong, I may not find out about it until it's far to late to hold the do-er accountable. Thus, I can change mechanics based on the limited information I have available (price signals, perceived reputation) but, A) this distorts the market to optimize for low prices and perceived reputations instead of efficient prices for quality work, and B) I don't ultimately have any way of knowing whether I'm making the right decision when participating in this market. At least, not in the time frame where that knowledge is useful.

The same, holds true with 'free' health markets; I'm not a doctor so I can't accurately tell if my doctor is lying to me, which should cause similar distortions in an ostensibly free healthcare market. Additionally, as with an auto mechanic, if I need something done -now-, my demand for that service becomes completely inelastic, which means prices for emergency services/procedures should become obscenely high.

They already are today, and people are -already- getting forced into bankruptcy by emergency medical expenses, so I can't speak to whether or how a market sans insurance might change that phenomenon, but it seems to me that the goal ought to be to eliminate it entirely, and that in turn a 'free' healthcare market cannot be the end goal.

That said, I don't think I know enough about the subject to pick out a particular optimal solution to this problem. I like the -idea- of single payer or other universal healthcare solutions, but I haven't studied any of them in enough depth to analyse them critically; dealing with healthcare in the UK was a joy while I lived there, so I wouldn't mind having that experience here in the US, but that in turn requires a lot of government funding (among other things), and we can already see that that's unsustainable in the short term by what's happening to the ACA.
Microsoft-created AI gains human-level reading comprehension
Nope. Dichromatic color deficiency is the most common form of color blindness, but about one in 20,000 people are completely unable to perceive color due to a variety of ophthalmic and neurological deficits. Even among dichromats, you can only reliably expect all users to be able to distinguish red and blue. It's probably not worth worrying about too much in most circumstances, but it is a relevant factor if you're designing safety-critical systems with a large user base.
I had Everyday Low Price internet service (3Mbit down, 1Mbit up) with Time Warner, before the merger. I just did some reading online, and at least in some areas, Spectrum is still required to offer ELP service as a condition of the merger, though they do not advertise it; you have to specifically ask for it. One comment said they are only required to offer it until March 2019. Dunno if that's true or not.

Spectrum raised the price (with no notice) to $19.95 a few months ago - a 33% increase for this plan. In fairness, they also raised the speed prior to that around 10%, which of course was heavily advertised. The great thing about ELP, and the reason I switched to it, is I got sick and tired of calling TWC every year to renegotiate my rate. They bumped my 30/5 service from $55/mo to $65/mo, I called 3 months in a row, they said they took care of it, gave me a $10 credit a month or two, but kept billing the new rate. Their final offer was $59.95/mo. I just got sick of talking to them and went to $14.95/mo. The great thing about ELP is that it is a non-promotional rate, so I didn't have to call them anymore.

The hilarious thing is, after I switched to ELP, I got offers every week to upgrade to 30/5 for $49.95/mo, but I didn't care anymore at that point.

3/1 service still allows streaming Netflix and Amazon TV at 720p, though with the recent Net Neutrality neutering, I don't know how long it will be before Spectrum inserts artificial delays to make 3/1 unusable for TV streaming. If they do, I've had it and will switch to reading books for entertainment.

Spectrum's lowest-priced non-promotional service here (Louisville, KY area) is $65/mo. To get $40/mo, you have to bundle with phone or TV, getting you back up over $60/mo. To get $30/mo pricing, you have to bundle with both tv and phone, getting you up to $90/mo. Who wants a landline these days? It's just a pricing gimmick.
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It's also roughly the same symptoms that are caused by the mycotoxins from black mold.
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List of Molecules as Potential Biosignature Gases for Life on Exoplanets
No, easily defeated. It would start a selector specificity war.
Trying to hammer the world into predicate calculus just doesn't work. Trying to hammer the world into "thought vectors" doesn't work either. Where to?
- How much for that antimissile program? $100 billion? what? it may not work?!! mmm OK I'll take 2!

- How much for a new web interface? 1k?! what?! that's outrageous!! just add another link, it will be fine.
"Google is generous by storing your email on their own servers."

"Facebook is generous by storing your posts and friend lists on their own servers."
I guess she didn't sign an NDA.

Also this guy sounds like the American Psycho guy of Tech.
Yes, I mention this in the article.
How we grew our 8-figure ARR by +65% two years straight – Ahrefs
> Does it keep a copy somewhere and check against it on every request?

Yep, a store like Redis that has automatic row expiration is what I have used in the past. Most clients will often be bursty in their requests so a simple few second cache on API after verifying the token can also be useful/performant.
There might be a point to "basic jobs" involving people signing on for community service type things which are (i) usually chronically underfunded or entirely voluntary and (ii) often in areas where automation can't eliminate the need for humans even if it does in other areas. Agriculture, which hasn't really required large numbers of workers in the West for over a century now, is a strange choice of "basic job" when you've got millions of old people suffering from lack of human contact, museums, arts centres and libraries on the verge of closure and no shortage of proper registered charities that could use some sort of volunteered time. Latter sectors probably also involve more in the way of personal development and satisfaction as unskilled, untrained casual work for subsistence income goes.
And which federal entity will over see this? Considering it's a Communications service, perhaps a Federal Communications Commission?

We have one. Have you seen what they've been up to? What's the likelihood this policy would ever be enacted under the current administration?
Distributism, protectionism on the local level to ensure widely distributed ownership of capital by labor, advocates for this sort of thinking across the entire economy:

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

It's also worth noting that there is a narrative (as with most historical narratives, difficult to prove or disprove) that the national socialists created an economic miracle in Germany by guaranteeing pay for any and all labor.
I think we should find a better way to heat ourselves without burning coal, because this air purifier will reach a limit in the future and we will be back on step one.
Interesting article, but you don't mention what tier of AppService plan you tested against in Azure (or what memory limit your Lambdas had)? I would also be curious to see the same comparisons, but with Azure Functions in consumption mode which, despite the perceived drawbacks you mention, would really be the closer apples-to-apples test, wouldn't it?
Fix proposal subthread. Can we harness HN collective intelligence to vote up some good suggestions?

Instructions:

* Reply with your suggested fix to this comment. (That way we can vote equally between suggestions, instead of having them being scattered throughout the thread).

* First line is simple one-line summary, optionally followed by a blank line then some exposition.

Example:

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Simple fix: Seperate links into 2 color coded sections, TEST and ACTIVE

Put each set of links into seperate divs, with different background colors or striped backgrounds.
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This is identical to a person's "present day" options plus one additional option: New jobs supported by the state.

How is adding one more option feudalism?
Add some more - anything built by the CCC or WPA. I've enjoyed many things built by this kind of labor, and I've always wondered why we couldn't bring it back or make it permanent. We certainly need more of this kind of work done than we currently have people doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
I seriously think we need an alternative to HTML that axes styling and scripting and concentrates solely on the markup / content description. Websites would use a certain set of elements/descriptors to describe the content they contain. The user’s website reader would parse the markup / content description and display a page how it thinks it should be displayed (according to the user’s preferences). All websites would have the same styling – the one chosen by the user. This HTML alternative could provide an API that makes it possible to have dynamic websites but still prevents scripting and fingerprinting.
Wow, that is a nice complement to the tools like ProductHunt.
Most trackers are built by third parties. This is true for analytics tracking and for ad tracking. Few companies ought to track their own impressions for many, many reasons.
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Client certificates, a.k.a. mutual TLS or "MTLS" authentication, are widely used within infrastructural deployments of TLS, where there are automated mechanisms to provision and rotate certificates.

For federated use cases, they are less popular, likely due to the added complexity being a blocker for adoption.
Lincoln Nebraska, Allo rolling out FTH throughout the city. 1Gb/sec for $90. Spectrum is trying to compete, but failing dramatically. No sympathy for the devil.
Nice. I wonder how comparable it is with Udacity's Self-Driving Car Nanodegree. Specially if MIT's lectures are freely available over the internet(YouTube).
Don't use repeaters each hop cuts the bandwidth in half

Use power line to connect to the router (for wired hosts) or have multiple AP's plus power line as the DS for your mobile devices.

Which band are you using now, 2.4 is slower but has better range 5Ghz is faster but shorter range also look at congestion are you using the same channel as the next house

Why can't you use your own router/ap? get one with external arenas and firmware (eg ddrwt) that can adjust tx power
This is arguably self-serving but I am happy there isn’t one. The appeal to coding is that it hasn’t matured to being computerized LEGO’s, where I spend my time connecting prebuilt components unspecialized for my application.

But we are not alone in this regard. Bridge building is centuries more mature than software engineering and their shapes, materials and construction methods still change regularly. I would expect to see this trend remain for a long time. Engineering is an inherently creative practice, often staffed by appropriately creative people. The continued evolution, including the trial and error approach, are likely to continue for decades.
Do you want a button pushing clerk to be able to write any message to millions of people over an emergency network? There is so much potential for disaster in that idea. Options is much better. Having the employee type out the predefined message word for word would really be a good confirmation though.
Ask HN: Any rich programmers that don't have to work but coding for fun?
Are there any rich programmers that don't have to work for a company just writing code that what they want to write?
This is actually very worrisome for me. I use Gmail as my personal store of weird information, from Wifi passwords to the account number of that service I only use every 4 years. I Just send myself an email with obvious terms to search for in it and the relevant information. It's super convenient and I've never had it fail... yet, apparently.
> Besides half of Europe wanted to be socialist -- and I'm speaking of the support for such parties in Western Europe. [...] Many wished exactly [Soviet Europe] at the time

While there was support for socialism in Western Europe, after 1956 it was not necessarily support for Soviet-style socialism, since the invasion of Hungary appalled many Communists and led them to denounce the USSR. Then, the uproar of 1968, the USSR was mocked by many as a spent force politically and no friend or guide to future actions, so the Situationists or Maoists proposed instead their respective takes on Communism. So, plenty of Western European socialists appreciated the USSR staying far, far away.
I think the idea behind contemporary UBI discussions is to prevent exactly that kind of populism from congealing. The plan has to be something like introduce UBI as a short term panacea while the wealthy further consolidate their power. Once the stranglehold is in place, take it apart in all the same ways Americans have destroyed their safety nets in the past (means testing, welfare to work, etc). Exactly what they did with healthcare “reform”/Obamacare.
I haven't tried Jitsi, and WhatsApp seems to work pretty well even for video calls, but I don't think it scales for normal use in a company. In my experience Zoom beats Hangouts and Skype every time.

Software aside, when some attendees will often be in the same location consider using https://www.owllabs.com/meeting-owl. It certainly improves the experience for the remote attendees.
It’s just like how in Aliens vs Monsters when they gave the president of the united states two big red buttons right next to each other:

1: Launch nuclear attack

2: Make coffee
It shouldn't be hard to check if there's a spike in mortality above the median background around the period of the test.

Statistical significance will depend on the size of the spike.
There are so many allegations of wrongdoing that have nothing to do with her main complaint (unpaid wages and mistreatment) that I wonder if this is a tactic to get him to settle quickly, in order to get her to shut up.
I'm confused by the downvotes you got, because you basically said the conclusion of my post.
Oh, no, you’re right. That’s the one I saw but I misremembered.

But (looking again) I see in a reply they say the image was provided by the office of the Governer.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CivilBeat/status/9532704728204574...
Thanks! It seems that this paper is already in hands of TechCrunch(the currently discussed article) and CoinDesk[1] and now it's available for HN users :-)

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/big-money-murky-governance-kicking-...
Many thanks Jason for your effort on posting it on ProductHunt.

We were thinking of postponing the launch on PH when the new version of the site is ready, but that's okay :-)

You don't need to transfer the domain to us (we are not registrar), you just need to set a CNAME when your site on HardyPress is production ready
Yes. Luca Milan's, mentioned here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158252 .

Compare M. Milan's design to the mainframe menu screens I have listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158878 .
Are you aware of any piece, writeup review or anything on Assange’s programming skills?
Blackmail as a lawsuit. Have to be careful who you trust these days.
I know this is a joke but you will still have tracking in the rss reader or in the images loaded along side the articles. The only solution is paying for software that does not track.
It's not after event, the "after" is for inserting a pseudo-element. That then sits inside the original link element and hits the tracking URL by trying to load a resource from it when the link is active.
I am currently looking for something along the lines of a distributed CPU - or Amazon Lambda, but enabling me to run sets of interdependent computation steps "in the cloud". Also - supporting redundancy and replication (so that a running program would never crash if one of the servers it was running on has crashed).

Any ideas?
What does the 1990s have to do with it? The 90s were all about data consistency (probably too much so).
Plenty of this type of insanity in "Command and Control"
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I think zoom is the best for 1:1 and group chats after trying a number of such services. But there's still moments of dropped packets and confusion. You can't blame Zoom for every dropped packet, but what it doesn't do well is tell you when packets are dropped.

I wish video-chat services/clients would be totally up-front about the real-time quality of the connection. There are natural pauses in any conversation, and if you're always wondering whether the pause is natural or a result of a few dropped packets, it makes for a very un-natural conversation. This could be as simple as "last transmission received N ms ago" indicator or something, but I'm sure there are more clever solutions.

I don't think this is an "easy" problem to solve, but it's one that I think most video chat services seem to pretend doesn't exist. Or they implicitly blame outside factors ("we can't fix the network") rather than helping customers live with the realities of the internet ("we show you immediately and in real-time when the network isn't what you expect").

(I've not put Jitsi through its paces - would love to know how Jitsi handles the UX around dropped packets.)
I also have the 3/1 plan for $15. It's great value but I wouldn't mind a little more speed. But the next level they have now is $70 which is too much for what I need. I bet a lot people who would be fine with around 20MB have a more expensive plan because that's all that's offered.
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