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Yes, it's a first world problem. That doesn't mean it isn't a very serious problem. We are seeing stresses that have millionaires scared of where this goes.

If the first world can't figure out how to turn this wealth of tech and knowledge into widespread middle class comforts and devolves into revolution and can therefore no longer send aid to developing nations with "real problems" I think things will get really ugly globally.
I don't want to post mine, but I just followed Clippy's advice on what would look good.
That is what we chose
Totally agree. At GitLab we doubled pricing and then introduced two tiers with higher pricing. Or highest tier is 50x what we started with. Turns out it is very expensive to market and sell to the enterprise. SDR, pre sales engineers, technical account managers, and strategic account executives are all involved.
This isn't the LED's fault. It's the fault of the fact that dimmers are awful designs. They feed a nasty chopped-up waveform to the fixture that has RMS voltage proportional to the desired power output. Aside from the fact that it has a bad power factor, it's more or less okay for plain old line voltage incandescent lights. For LEDs, several things go wrong. First, LEDs want DC or high frequency PWM. The driver is given a nasty waveform at 60 Hz. So the driver needs to rectify that waveform to DC, filter it, and then decode the waveform to dim the LED as the user requested. This is a big hack and doesn't work all that well. Second, modern power supplies aren't resistors. Supplying them with input power with rapid voltage swings is not so great. Third, the dimmers themselves are usually wired in series with the bulb without access to a neutral wire, and incandescent dimmers expect to draw their own power using current through the bulb. Given that LED drivers are highly nonlinear, this makes it very awkward for the dimmer to power itself. "Dimmable" LEDs will intentionally leak some current to power their dimmers. High-end dimmers in newer homes will have a neutral connection.

If you can find a "ELV" or "reverse phase" dimmer and you have the wiring for it, you can at least avoid the inrush current problem.

An anecdote: I have a fancy computer power supply that buzzes rather loudly when the lights are on. This is presumably because the lights are drawing a big inrush current spike 120 times per seconds due to dimming.

To top it off, LEDs have much higher frequency response than incandescent bulbs. This means that, unless you drive them with clean DC or with a very high-frequency PWM input, they'll flicker. (Not the kind of flicker you're talking about -- the kind you're seeing is the system malfunctioning. I'm talking about the kind where it flickers as designed and someone waved their fingers and decided it was hard to notice.) There's a new standard called IEEE 1789 that describes what levels of flicker are likely to be harmful (causing low productivity, headaches, general crappy feelings, etc.) and what levels are very likely to be safe. Very few LED drivers meet this standard so far. At least California has imposed a less stringent but still helpful for Title 24 compliance [1] for the last couple of years.

(This is extra nasty given that incandescent bulbs don't actually produce light proportional to the power with which they're driven.)

[1] It's Title 24 JA8.
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> "You haven't used DropBox in a year, so we are closing your account".

The cost of storing data long-term is non-zero. How would Filecoin offer free storage?

> No more "This video has been demonetized for all advertisers in our network."

YouTube creators want community guidelines. They don't always like the way that they are interpreted and enforced. I'm sure a small minority wants to build something where they can upload absolutely anything without being censored. For those folks there is Gab.ai. It will never become mainstream though and the advertisers with big budgets will opt out.

> Limewire, Bittorent, Popcorn Time, DC++, Napster, Kazaa

Users chose Netflix and other centralized streaming services because of their ease of use. Also, copyright enforcement may have played a small role. Some users were claiming that they weren't using the above software to download pirated content. That was a bunch of bullshit.

2)

> Decentralized peer2peer content delivery is currently owned by centralized players, like Akamai. I see no reason why it could not work when it is owned by its users.

There's no reason why it couldn't work, but there's also no business need driving it.

3)

Once an account is compromised in a trustless environment there is no way for the owner to take ownership of that account again. Also, in a trustless environment it's always possible for A) a smart contract to be hacked and B) a bug in the virtual machine to be exploited. Both centralized and decentralized face security issues.

4)

They will still be contentious though. Look at Bitcoin. Imagine the last election but applied to software. It's not going to end pretty and unlike a normal company people in the community may not "move on."

5)

There may be services in the future, but that would be anathema to the movement. The cryptocurrency apologists want each individual to manage their private keys. They would argue that 1) if you don't have control of your private keys you do not have control of your cryptocurrency 2) it's centralization.

6)

This didn't address my criticism. There is no proof that anything like this is even remotely possible.
The thread you linked makes a good point: there isn't really any reason to care about the actual time, only the relative time. These sorts of clocks just use 256- or 512-bit counters; it's not like they're having overflow issues.
DC or AC?
Tivo's decision to require a large up front purchase in addition to requiring a large recurring monthly fee was always the thing that kept my friends from buying one after hearing me rave about mine.

They could have been much more successful than they were.
I guess the statistics that would matter more to the HN readers are not there, so I'll ask: what about the tech opportunities specifically?
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I think he got the the idea right. Yes, you need the secret key burned into the CPU to decrypt anything, and yes, you can't easily extract the keys. but his claim is that by fully restoring the flash storage (presumably where the retry counter is stored), it's possible to bypass the "erase data after 10 failed attempts" policy by constantly resetting the counter back to its original state. It might take a while (you might have to go through the boot process each time, but for a 6 digit pin and 30 seconds each attempt, it's still less than a year.
> This is just going to be another way for EU regulators to smack around Google and Facebook.

Actually, it's more like a giant gift to Google and Facebook: GDPR borders on regulatory capture, with only the giants really having the resources to comply properly. This will hurt startups and smaller firms far more than it will the big dogs with their armies of compliance lawyers.
I usually roll my own solution with Kodi + tvheadend + HDHomerun. Though HDHR is working on a DVR server that integrates directly with Kodi so it's gonna get even easier. Should work on any device that supports Kodi.
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My opinion is not binary. While I understand your point of view, I think, that there is much more optimized and valuable revenue models for SaaS startups.
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So data from patreon is even more valuable - what content is a user willing to spend money on?

John Doe pays $5/mo on Patreon for a youtube channel that shows how to remodel a home? He is obivously in-market for real estate, remodeling, home decor, tools, furniture, etc. That data could be worth more than $1 (a 20% cut) per month.
"Life" doesn't refer to just the span from birth to death; it also refers to "day to day existence".
Don't bother. It's a canard.

A very popular one, but a canard all the same.
This is fantastic. Not only as a collection, but also the techniques used within the collection to apply in other situations.

> Browser Support: 84.6%

The percentage isn't very helpful. If a specific set of browsers are to be supported, even 99% may omit one of them.
network effects from specialized labor = civilization

perhaps for a reason, civilization has something to do with cities
Everyone wins except for one class of people when you actually allow building density to respond to demand. The only group of people who don't want that to happen are those who own houses in urban sprawl that would lose value if the artificial limits on density were lifted that allowed people to actually live in the city affordably like a lot of them want to do.

More density does not mean more crime or more "deplorables" unless you actively enable people get into that position. It does not tarnish the environment worse than endless seas of sprawl housing and resultant insane amounts spent on transit. Literally the only reason to not enable growth is to profit from its absence.
What's interesting is that NAFTA is the number one reason Iowa's farmers are doing so well right now. Mexico buys almost all of it's corn from the US [1] and Iowa is a top if not the top producer of corn in america.

So it shocked me that Iowans voted for Trump when he agreed to renegotiate NAFTA. It seems like NAFTA was easy to pick on until people realized that it really is good for Iowa.

[1]http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/corn-war-u-s-farmers-say...
As an aside - Iowa has an enormous annual bike ride called [Ragbrai](https://ragbrai.com). I’ve wanted to go for years. Those that I know that have done it loved it.
How do you like negative-sum games?

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

(And yes, the system you're in, writ large, is sufficiently closed for this to hold true.)
First, thanks for taking the time to put that together; it's always reassuring to see someone take the time for democracy.

Quick question: why does "Tell me how they vote" require my email address? Couldn't that information just appear when the area is clicked on, or am I misinterpreting that feature?
Reading the text of the bill (which is short) I find it difficult to understand the EFF's complains.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865...

This law is specifically focused on allowing the victims of sex trafficking to seek restitution from companies that profit from their enslavement. I find it difficult to see how that is a bad thing.

This law is limited to parties acting with "intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person."

If a victim of sex trafficking can prove that you were acting with intent to facilitate prostitution and that they were damaged as a result it seems reasonable that they should have a cause of action.
>I have a variety of WiFi cameras, all of which are on a dedicated WiFi network that cannot access the internet.

> All of my cameras, for example, have some degree of motion detection and the ability to upload files to an FTP server or send an email.

Am I missing something?
Nearly all land has been taken away from someone or other, at sword or gunpoint, at some point in time or another. Do markets only work when land is distributed fairly as a starting condition?
You mean like automatically erasing the device after 10 incorrect passcode attempts?

That option has been built in to the iPhone pretty much since the beginning.
Yes, it's also in July and it's brutal if you ride during the afternoon. That's why everyone does all of their riding in the morning.

Edited to add:

There are biking trails, but the state of Iowa is not particularly bike friendly, because six months out of the year it's impossible to ride your bike.

The bicyclists I knew that lived there did road and highway biking. There's no mountains, so mountain biking is out.
I just want a decent electronic music scene (anything with regular non-house non-edm events) but that alone means i have to stick to pretty big cities :(
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You're right that changes are unforeseen, but the Hippocratic oath, so far as I know, is not enforceable. It's a set of principles that are open to interpretation. What exactly does "First, do no harm?" mean? An injection of life-saving medicine breaks the skin.

I think a more robust arrangement is a living organization. Only people can be flexible and adapt to changing circumstances with critical thought. By debating and voting, such an organization can adopt revisions to its ethics statement.
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Extremer example: you jumped in front of of my car.
Interesting read, particularly being someone who takes lots of baths when alone. The difference between even two similar activities: shower (dance hot/cold) and bath (ahh) is profound.

Lots of subtleties though too: primarily, perception.

Ex1: My mother is a person who always hugs on meeting. Early life, good. Lots of physical affection. Later life, mixed. As [yes, hug] is at best normal, or duty, while [no hug] only produces cold. Normal is set high so all is down. Yet friends with families that shun physical affection would probably report mother as "very warm."

Ex2: Converse, had friend I hadn't seen in years basically insist on hug "none of that handshake shit." Rest of visit was decidedly warm. (Helped he kept house at 80+ ... 'or did he?')

Other is subconscious for examples like "think or say warm.". Like the Buddha example of 'monkey with a red hat'. " Have it clearly pictured? Now try not think of the monkey."

Having been freezing to death many times (last was cave in Himalayas), thinking warm often produces reverse effect. I want be warm, I'm thinking "warm," but subconscious focus is "sooo cold. !cold."

Be interesting to see if geographic effects have large play on ideas like family size or number of kids. "Want to stay married? Move to the South.". Could be iterative too. Trend is yes, feedback develops in resistance, but social institutions have also now formed that reinforce.

Perception is wild.
An app would need an environment to run in, but the main CPU/etc may not be available if the recovery process involves removing chips or other hardware modifications.

A better idea would be to put an RTC + watchdog timer[1] into the security chip that holds the keys and power it continuously with a small amount of external power. The power must be available and the watchdog timer must have time remaining to disconnect a circuit that pulls the memory holding the keys to ground.

More advanced types of tamper resistance and self-destructing chips are possible, but they tend to have significant downsides.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchdog_timer
Why don’t you create your own? If you have something difficult to manage in Trello cards and you really care about contents then probably you should create your own or fork a open source one.
No. An example would be automatically erase if the device has not been unlocked in 3 days.
your age really comes through with the way that you refer to cathode ray tubes as "monitors."
Yeah. I’ve always thought if there was one thing that might kill it is all the manipulation and Pump and dumps that are happening. It’s not a free market and if people get burned hard, they’ll never come back.
Here's how the ranking works:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings
I think that's how some HSMs work to guard against tampering. The keys are stored on volatile memory, and there's a internal battery/capacitor. You can unplug it, but its tamper intrusion mechanisms will still be active because of the internal battery. If you trip the tamper detection mechanisms, the keys get wiped. If the battery runs out, the key gets wiped. So if you're relocating the HSM, you have x days to replug it in before you lose your keys. I imagine if you're designing a high security phone, you could possibly want this as a feature, but I doubt most people want a phone that wipes their data if the battery went flat for 7 days.
And being an actuary is the "best" job. But also mind-numbingly boring.

Goes to show that choice of metrics matters.
Only if your land is directly built upon. For everyone else it cuts the housing shortage if more housing units are on the market and reduces prices.
Good points. Thank you for this reading material.
Your private code, expressed verbally on a situational basis face to face, is very different from a public declaration that obviously threatens unethical business practices, of which many are currently employed in the ordinary course of business.
Yes! Come to Iowa if you value your 2nd Admendment Rights. Currently they're in a race to surpass Florida as the most gun friendly state.

Recently passed Stand Your Ground.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20170630/iowa-critical-self-...

Adding the 2nd Amendment to the state constitution passed a subcommittee on Jan 26th.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20180126/iowa-right-to-keep-...

Working on Courthouse Carry and School Parking Lot Carry.

Permitless Carry got recently scrapped, but was heavily favored to pass, until someone cast a big shadow by slaughtered a bunch of high school kids. Go figure...

Also, proposed May issue permits, Bump stock bans, semi-auto bans, carry restrictions, and private transfer bans have all been defeated.

http://iowafc.org/news/

EDIT: forgot the /s
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Just like the us news college rankings these rankings are entirely subjective.
That doesn’t work as well because the counter is kept in the Secure Enclave so it’s not part of the flash contents. Also the exponential delay in attempts is enforced by the enclave.

Previous iOS versions used to have some small window where you could race and power off after trying a passcode but before the enclave had incremented the counter, but that bug was fixed long ago. Maybe there are others unknown bugs of similar kind
I would pay $10k for fixing my health problems or my wife’s. I have been sick for nearly 6 months now. My wife has had her symptoms for nearly 2 years now. Both are slowly getting worse over time. But it’s not bad enough that doctors care enough
I agree, but based on some people's risk profile, the option would be nice.
Alien life could thrive in a place like Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, experiment
There can be different kinds of meta. Learning how to learn more efficiently and less painfully would be great for schoolchildren. Learning how thinking may go wrong (basic cognitive biases and faults) is also important to learn in e.g. high school.

Going into hardcore epistemology is probably not the right thing for a school.
I've heard this story of the utility death spiral for about 5 years so I don't think it is a sudden problem

5 years is sudden in the utility world. Building a new power plant is a huge project that takes a lot of planning and economic forecasting to budget correctly. Do it wrong and you can waste astronomical amounts of money and bankrupt your energy company.
Hmm, I wonder what the racial demographics of Iowa look like. Does anyone know? Seeing as diversity is our greatest strength, I'd assume it's one of -- if not THE -- most diverse state in the country.
^This. I use Biotene because it doesn't have SLS. I used to have this weird issue where after brushing, a residual, thick stuff (saliva? inner membranous lining of mouth?) would gather on my lips. It would be embarrassing wiping it off while talking to someone but it would subside an hour or so from brushing. After reading about SLS, I started looking for and SLS-free tooth paste. Since I have been using and SLS-free tooth paste, I have never had that problem again.
So do Minneapolis and St. Paul. Let me tell you, they are an absolute blessing in the winter months. Heck, they're nice in the summer months too if you need to cut across a few blocks and don't want to walk amongst the traffic, or it's crazy humid out.

IMHO, I think they're really beneficial. MSP / STP will never be the urban utopia that everyone sees NYC or random European cities as in terms of walkability; we've gotten what, a foot of snow between two days in the last week? It's not unheard of for weeks of summer to break 90 or 100 degrees F.

Heck, the two cities are only a half million between them; the "metropolitan area" constitutes over EIGHT THOUSAND square miles for a grand total of a little over three million people. Traffic- cars, busses, and light rail- are all here to stay, and that means walking city streets is only as nice as you enjoy breathing exhaust fumes and the noise of tires.
What's the advantage in using an EC2 instance as opposed to a box sitting in your house behind a VPN? VPN services cost about $6 / month or less.
WA #6

CA #32

So glad I relocated. My kids and I constantly refer to being thrilled to have moved to civilization. It is nice to see somewhat objective data backing that up.
Thanks for the No.14 man!

However, for No. 15, that is not the point of the exercise.
That was four years ago, and I was back to my baseline self in about two months.

A month ago I was diagnosed with severe apnea, and since starting treatment I feel like a different person. I wonder whether the apnea was worsened by modafinil four years ago, and that was the reason for my constant wearing down. Maybe I'll do an experiment just to see, but I don't need stimulants anymore to be productive, not even coffee.
Or, perhaps, those states and the populations of those states have been overwhelmingly negatively effected by the economic and immigration policies of the previous 8 years of government.

But, you know, you can just call them racists and morons instead. That's the Liberal thing to do, of course.
I ended up using Synology to manage my IP cameras but came to similar conclusions. It certainly isn't for the faint of heart, though satisfying at the end of the day knowing who has access to your data. I've given up on viewing them from my phone (Synology's DSCam mobile app has been more trouble than it's worth), but I can access them from my laptop over VPN as long as I have a decent Internet connection.

For my wife, who's less tech saavy, I keep a couple nest cams handy :)
I can't tell if you're serious or not. lol.
My favorite is when they got off the gold standard, allowing essentially infinite amount of debt to be created without making anything.
>Hostile takeovers and LBOs don’t exist.

Why not? A group of shareholders can team up to get rid of the founder and force a sale.
If you can notice people at a bus stop outside your house then you need better sound insulation. If you want to keep your windows open at night and have that be quite then move the the middle of nowhere.

I say this as someone that lived near an airport, even guests did not notice unless the windows where open.
It says it applies to the “...processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union…”.

If someone in the EU (say a visitor) asks to have their data removed that was collected while they were outside the EU, then the controller or processor is supposed to comply.

How is any business supposed to know if a user while they were in the USA of a service located in the USA will not later travel to the EU and make a data removal request while there? If the request comes from someone located in the EU then the regulations apply.

The practical result is you can’t just geo ban people from the EU and this is before we get to the problem of proxies.
“I’ve seen as low as 35¢ per 1,000 views and work with some YouTubers who can earn $5 per 1,000,”

Comparing that to the numbers in the DailyCandy YouTube advertising post from yesterday, it seems video creators aren't getting a lot, advertisers aren't getting a bargain, and so someone is making an absolute mint on the difference..
That assumes enforcement will be homogeneous.
Why didn't Forbes send them an iPhone X running iOS 11 to hack, to find out if it's true or not?