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It's a complete bifurcation of the Web's technology underpinnings. That will keep getting more dramatic. Developers and their pay will bifurcate similarly more and more as time goes on.

AWS has 150 services or so now. How many of those does a 12 employee small business need? None most likely. That business's site gets maybe 1,000 or 3,000 or 10,000 hits per month. It's an absurdity to throw all the new tools, libraries, cloud tech etc. at that. Most of the Web looks like that small site, most sites on the Web get very little traffic. So little that you could run it on a $5 Digital Ocean instance and have over 95% of the droplet's use capacity to spare.

Does my insurance agent, who operates his own small business, need machine learning? No. And to the extent he does, it'll be built into the tools provided by various insurance carriers, entirely hidden from his daily business operation activities.

So who actually needs all of these tools? You nailed it, it's almost entirely isolated to the 0.1% group, the Facebooks, et al.
All those things existed before they became web sites, and they aren’t web sites for any particularly good reason today. Email is a good example. GMail is Outlook rewritten in VBA running inside Word.

Let me guess... you’re a JS dev and you think “little upvote arrows” are where the real value is?
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>>A significant portion of those would never even think about spending money at Gucci.

and a "significant" portion apparently do. This money thing is weird...at some point you realize that you actually can afford x, y, and z. So you start enjoying it.
>Even though better energy efficiency is great, the video highlights how policy for efficient housing requires minimising draft, which implies convection heating.

What on earth makes you think that? It's incorrect.
Your assumptions about me are pretty off base and that’s the problem. You’ll never be rhetorically successful by invalidating people’s personal experience. I have a lifetime of making decisions and viewing their outcomes to draw from. You have theory. I can look at what works for me, do more of it and see it pay off. I can see people do the opposite and fail.

This is why I think the concept of privilege will never grow beyond the people who already believe in it. It’s just too smug at its core.
I tried to do this and just use my PS4 for apps, but my wife thoughtlessly accepted the TOS on the tv within 2 days.

We still don't use the apps on the tv though.
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Really like the simplicity of the project, well executed ! Good luck with it and I hope that you will resist any feature requests which will turn the product into another Mailgun/ Twilio etc.

There is an audience for every (useful) product!
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I wish there was larger adoption of a system like what3words for these rural areas. Something like if Amazon is unable to geocode your address give you the option to specify lat/lon location or 3x3m grid.

Shame that the company that uses the system seems really protective of the idea and might try to sue if someone were to come up with their own similar implementation. It's one of the places I believe that the profit motive actually gets in the way of innovation (the idea itself is simple enough that you could probably engineer a system to use it in a few weeks).
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Warming incoming air is the opposite of what people in the US mean by "air conditioning". It seems to me that what you are describing is the opposite of how thermodynamics works. Warm air holds more moisture and condensation occurs when air is cooled below the dew point.
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I had been following Nano (previously Raiblocks) since it was at around $0.5 (now $10). I was convinced it was going to go up due to the promising tech compared to other cryptocurrencies. But I didn't buy due to exchange risk, as the only exchanges carrying it were Bitgrail and Mercatox, both small exchanges that didn't give me much trust.

I was a bit regretful when I saw how it skyrocketed in price, but now I know I made a reasonable choice... of course, perhaps I would have sold some time ago already and my money would be out of Bitgrail by now, multiplied by 10 or so. Or maybe not. But the risk was very real all along.

To me, exchange hacks and exchange risks are the biggest problem for crypto to be accessible to the mainstream. While we can't buy and store coins in a safe and trusted way, it won't be ready for the average (even reasonably tech-savvy) user.
Seems like pure luck with these guys - they didn’t seem to understand that the issue was just a very badly designed financial product that was designed to go to zero. Kudos to them for the win.
Walmart has a lot of good basic clothes but a lot of people -- even people who aren't particularly rich -- just wouldn't dream of buying clothes there because it has blue-collar associations. This is really just one element of the rich tapestry of signals a person gives you as to their social class (clothes and language are probably the most distinctive and immediately noticeable signifiers).
> why not consider an action as dramatic as forgiving all student debt?

As someone who would like to see public education be free for future students, I’ll give you 3 great reasons why rewriting the past is an awful idea:

1. It would treat someone who worked throughout college (and possibly learned less and earned worse grades because of it) in order to borrow less - and someone who didn’t even attend because they couldn’t service the debt - the same as someone who borrowed heavily. It rewards a poor decision, one that others handled better.

2. It would treat someone who took on $30k/year in debt for a mediocre private school the same as someone who took on $10k/year to go to an in-state school (or nothing because they worked), or $30k/year to go to a top private school. At least 1 of those choices is a low-return decision.

3. There’s a lender on the other side of every transaction and they may not have had anything to do with the policy decisions you disagree with.

Finally, the paper covers many possible implementations. If by “forgiveness” you mean that the government should negotiate a payment to lenders (so taxpayers are paying off everyone’s loans), here’s why that shouldn’t happen. There’s a much stronger argument that future education from public universities should be free.
Until that happens, given finite resources, any money that would go towards debt should go towards future students, not retroactively rewarding what may well have then been a poor decision. Pay/fund public colleges, not lenders.

Basically, any retroactive move rewards a lot of people who made what were then poor choices, and penalizes those who didn’t. Focus on making (public or otherwise verifiably cost-effective) education cheaper or free for future students.

Also, here’s a deep link to the paper PDF: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/rpr_2_6.pdf
A lot of the payloads RocketLab wants to launch are "cubesats" without significant propulsion systems of their own. When traveling as secondary payloads on another launch, these can only wind up in an orbit where its convenient for the launcher to drop them off.
You can store them in a safe.
Vlc doesn’t have a simple stream to Apple TV mode
You could not buy an Apple, and I'll bet a lot of people specifically do like the logo.
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> There appear to be an excessive number of package managers involved.

Largely agree with your assessment except for this. Which package managers are you referring to? 99% of the js world uses npm, and the other 1% uses yarn. I’m not aware of a single other package manager in the web ecosystem. In fact this is probably one thing where they got it right.
> I’m really not an expert in web dev, but it _feels_ like web dev has been badly engineered.

It is, but it's getting better because so many different approaches have been tried that some of the more scalable and maintainable ones have been worked out. Also, (thank heavens) browser support is a lot more consistent now.

> I need to build a website soon and I’m dreading the front end.

If you're a software developer, I recommend some atomic/functional CSS toolkit, like Tachyons. That will free you from having to do probably 90% of the CSS work you used to have to do, and it matches a more programmer-type mindset to styling elements.

I'm building a site now, and so far it I've just needed to define some style classes for the colours, and the rest of the styling is already included out of the box via their reusable classes.

For the JS side, really depends what sort of dynamism you're looking for. You can go with a tiny JS library for polyfilling and standardizing browser behaviour [1] if you're just doing simple DOM manipulations, or if you expect to be doing a lot of AJAX with dynamic rendering, go with something like Surplus [2], or Vue, React or Mithril if you want something more standard.

[1] https://github.com/naasking/PithyDOM

[2] https://github.com/adamhaile/surplus
The other side of the bet just went bust.

Credit Suisse Fund Liquidated, ETFs Halted as Short-Vol Bets Die

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-06/credit-su...
Plausible deniability is kind of bullshit in this and similar cases - sure, one can't prove that the message was from her, there are all kinds of possibilities, but the authorities can reasonably assume (especially combined with an interrogation results and possible other circumstantial evidence) what was the likely sender, and that's completely sufficient for them, they don't need to prove anything. Just as in this article - no proof is provided (nor will ever be), and a reasonable assumption alone is enough to reject or evict a foreigner or detain and punish a local.

I.e. plausible denial is essentially based on the hope that the opponent will follow some high standard about what constitutes evidence/proof and what is the level of plausibility. In a good legal/political environment you don't really need plausible deniability that much, and in a bad legal/political environment plausible deniability won't save you from harm; your plausible denials can simply be ignored.

E.g. in the Signal standard "plausible denial" means that the message might have been spoofed by your recipient as it involves a shared secret that's not solely available to you - but it's not particularly likely (without extra evidence, motivation, etc) and not really that plausible. A good lawyer in USA might succeed using it as an argument to prevent a conviction, but any totalitarian regime will simply disbelieve it and declare it not sufficiently plausible; they are not really looking for solid proof of wrongdoing, hints of wrongdoing are good enough.
Not all bus manufacturers make their own engines quite often they would offer different options based on the specific station keeping and in orbit maneuvering requirements of the client.

There are also a few startups that develop solutions these days for extending the life of satellites in orbit by essentially grabbing it and using their own engine for station keeping.

While I don’t know how much room there is in the market for more engines I would say that likely as long as you can have any usecase specific advantages you can probably find a customer.
> What a straw-man argument. He clearly says "[t]he XML/XSLT approach",

That's a good point. I think I'm so scarred by how much I dislike XSLT that I fail to read comments that are positive about it in good faith. Clearly a mistake on my part, thanks.
Numbers were done it's cheaper to run in the cloud nowdays, also VM ( EC2 on AWS ) have the same perf that baremetal. Have a read: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c5/
And that is the point when my entire foot will go through the screen.

I don't shop for TVs anymore. I buy really large monitors.
ICF (Insulated Concrete Form) construction takes this approach tempering the indoor temperature. My brother just moved into a brand new ICF house in Salt Lake City (relatively cold winters and hot summers) and it is remarkably efficient.
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I wonder what men's magazines read by HN users. Men's magazines usually contain about health, relationship, fashion, and etc.
It's also explicitly untrue. Very few people have regular access to my house; even fewer have access to the "private" domestic areas of my house. Losing this perception of privacyand safety can/does/will have real psychological impacts. It's also the cornerstone of psychological attacks - zersetzung - to lose control over your private life.
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> Debugging is one of the biggest problems with FP

I don't see why that's a problem with FP and not just the lack of tooling in most FP languages. Debugging in F# via Visual Studio is a breeze, and OCaml's time travelling debugger looks pretty good.
Nighttime cooling only works if you have a big thermal mass inside the insulation envelope to cool down to store your 'coolth' in. In general the problem with lightweight stick frame construction is that it is too quick to respond to temperature changes so it not a good fit for this. Ideally you build off a big concrete slab which is sat on top of non compressible insulation. The houses on page 36 of this magazine use this technique.[0]

[0] https://issuu.com/passivehouseplus/docs/ph_uk_issue_23_digit...
Funny enough: also Rust production users.
> blah blah blah

The real problem here is that all these comp sci "geniuses" want to make a name for themselves with a "real" project and so they create all these garbage tools (compilers, pre-processors, etc) that make things worse by introducing and encouraging more complexity when just using plain JS would work better.

A lot of them are Java/C++ people with no experience in web development who see the simplicity of JS as a flaw and want to recreate the s--tshow they are used to working with because the complexity makes them feel smart and special.

That is just human nature though. The same argument has been going on for decades between C and C++ people. Nothing new here.
Yes, but in an article lamenting the downfall of a 35 year old business entity I'd expect a little more than "oh btw it was resold several times and let's talk about the recent stuff they really didn't invent themselves".

More harping on the original polygon article. :P
I was not clear, github works as an identity provider. I am not talking about api access to github, I am talking about using github to log into other services.
you dont seem to have read the article. passive houses generally have very good insulation, very air-tight envelopes and a system that is called heat recovery ventilation.

insulation and air tightness afford the house the property of staying the same temperature on the inside regardless of the temperature on the outside, more or less. if its too hot or too cold outside, this is something you always want. heat recovery ventilation gives the house the ability to move old air out of the building and new air into the building while not changing the temperature of the air inside, more or less. this is why its called heat recovery (also it could also be called cold recovery). this solves humidity problems.

the end result is a house that will tend to stay the same temperature, whether that is hot or cold. in an ideal model of this kind of house, you can see that heating and cooling costs are reduced to almost nothing because you simply choose a temperature that you like and simply never think about it again. this is the origin of the "passive" component of "passive house." with a passive house, you simply dont need a large hvac system. and there is nothing stopping you from adding a modest solar system to your passive house to get to net zero -- it is done quite frequently.
We need a concentrated effort to move solutions like Ghostery and Ad Block Plus up the chain, from the browser in to the router. And we need to make it user friendly and sexy.

And for what it's worth, I don't like in Ghostery, a plugin I run to try and stem the tide of tracking, how many times it begs me to send usage data and create an account. That's literally the opposite of why I downloaded you, Ghostery.
Yes, if I had bought, I would probably have stored them in a local wallet. But anyway, they must be on the exchange at least for the necessary time to make trades, which is often more than one thinks as withdrawals tend to take time, etc. And if the hack/scam/etc. hits precisely on the day that you're trading or pending a withdrawal, you're out of luck.

Probably some Bitgrail users were minimizing the time their money was on the exchange, but they were unlucky enough to have it there at the wrong moment.

And anyway, this is not the kind of thing people should need to think about if we want crypto to become mainstream. If I place an order on my bank to buy some shares, I don't need to be thinking that I should go to the bank as soon as possible and request the original paper version of my shares (does that exist anymore?) to store in my safe because it could get stolen from the bank any day. The risk of that is so minimal no one but the most paranoid would worry about it. Having significant risks of that kind totally kills crypto (or at least all but the largest coins) as a mainstream option.
> WebAssembly is not an attractive compile target for general web apps in the foreseeable future, it's going to remain a C/Rust thing unless it changes dramatically.

How come?
Oh wow! Things got cheaper since last I checked, thanks!
I came across that site probably seven years ago when I was going through Fortune 100 websites and looking at how they were approaching mobile web design, and I had a good laugh at this one. Glad to see they still haven't changed. :)
> It's a highly misunderstood language due to human stupidity.

Or maybe it's a highly misunderstood language because it doesn't match human intuitions. That makes it a poor language, like the OP said.
Vendoring the JDK is a much better use of resources than chasing compatibility, esp for a research project.

Is Graal.Python related to Zippy [0,1] ?

[0] https://github.com/securesystemslab/zippy

[1] http://socalpls.github.io/archive/2013nov/slides/zippy.pdf
Much of the JavaScript ecosystem can be cringeworthy, but recent versions of JavaScript are far better than the days of ES3, and libraries like Babel are high-quality.

With modern improvements to XMLHttpRequest, the URL object, and JSX (actually quite easy to use without React), I suspect that creating a fast, modern website using only Babel, Yarn, and a few polyfills (mainly for IE) is quite easy and enjoyable. Of course, if you want a styled date field, autocomplete field, etc., you'll want to use a library, which may have its own dependencies.

As for CSS, everyone agrees that flexbox is a godsend.
Yeah, I meant heavy-handed skewing of incentives. Government contracts are absolutely crucial at this point, I agree.
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Passive houses typically need almost no heating so it doesn't matter how the heat it delivered.
Cancelled debt is usually taxed as income. Which would simply create another liability.

One alternative, is to securitize student obligations. they have avalue which is non-zero. And allow them to be traded in an exchange. It would provide the reverse incentive that certain majors or career paths would obtain better terms.

But an even better option is to simply allow for direct corporate sponsorship at the undergrad level. If Apple needs 300 extra kernel hackers by 2022. They should begin recruiting right at the high school level. Offering full tuition, stipend and guaranteed employment upon successful graduation.

In other words, transfer education "risk" away from students. And provide some insurance mechanism in case of failure.
Oh wow, really? I feel pretty stupid now. All languages I've used in anger have an upper limit for integers so I'd just assumed this was pretty much general. I see now that it works in Ruby just like in Python.

Pretty cool! Learn something new each day :-)
Good idea. The name is not final.
In trading and the markets, you can beat the drums of war for as long as you want. At some point you will be vindicated. Then everyone will look back at you and think "genius!".

Ultimately, timing is everything. I can tell you markets will be X in Y time. Within reason, there's a good chance it will happen. Question is just "when?" The problem with strong views is whether they can be maintained. Being short in a rising market or long in a falling one can be painful. Markets have a way of wiping out your position (margin calls, psychological biases to losing money and exiting) longer than you can hold on.

In these guys' case, timing was even more important- because of options maturity dates. The article seems to allude to the fact that they rolled their position forward multiple times: "For about a year, Ibex had been buying options on the ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF, ticker SVXY."

So the real question is how much money did they blow on premiums before the final trade did well?
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“The most baffling part is the strange sense of entitlement as if people releasing their work for free on the internet is a burden to some because now they have to decide if they should use this free option.”

Agree with this 100%. I keep hearing coworkers trash a particular open source project/framework with no understanding of what kind of problems it solves.
what are you talking about? who mentioned a dehumidifier? mvhr simply exchanges air without changing its temperature. its not great for cooling or heating by its very definition. its good for humidity and freshness. using insulation and hr ventilation simply allows you to have a heating and air conditioning solution that is massively reduced in size. in some cases none at all.
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>focus on reducing the professional cost of starting a family //

Few professions are important enough to spare a passing thought over compared to the importance of raising children IMO.

I mean Facebook? Do people working there, for example, really think social data mining for advertising is important in some way? Sure, income is important, but people don't say they want to protect their income, they always talk about career progression (which is conceptually unrelated).

We've got plenty of people, making ways for people to sacrifice everything to a job without failing to reproduce seems pretty counter to any need.
Thank you for an intelligent answer, one that accounts for nuance.
Why are credit cards and auto loans displayed as static, rounded numbers? When is the last time those were updated?