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> Soviet housing system...? opinions vary.

Opinions vary for those who were exposed to privileged side only. In reality, most people had to wait decades for an apartment. There was an easy way to get an apartment though - get sent to bumfuck nowhere for infrastructure project (military base or factory, nuclear plant etc..). Or climb up the party ladder or get a job at well-connected company than get arrange you an apartment.

On top of that, many people were stuck in Kolchoz without any prospect of moving to a city. Thus were was no pressure to the system. If a city can't take in people - they're not sent in..
I have two of those speakers, and I’m actually quite happy with them.
Sounds just like London. I would hazard a guess these symptoms are common.
Interesting stuff, thanks.

> or in response to some form of judicial process (subpoena, search warrant, or other court order).

So basically, this info is available and can be used against you in a trial. Is a fake sense of privacy.

The main difference between public libraries and internet is that the former have much less controversial adult or political stuff but a lot of stablished literature touch taboo and very sensitive matter. Has this people read 'Lolita', 'the Catcher in the Rye' or took a look to 'The Capital' in the past?, has borrow a Quran recently? For how many days? How many times? Any attorney could easily use pseudoscience and cheap psychology to draw a line and build a relate leading to any conclusion of their interest with this info.
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I have been using Waffle :)
What i've lately dreamed about doing is a city-building Kickstarter. You take a piece of undeveloped land in Germany, buy it for cheap and then let people & companies pledge money to build housing at building cost with the requirement that it has to be used by the owner himself, until you get enough for a 500k-1M people city. I'd love to live in a city where every inhabitant is an owner, something drastically different than the rest of Germany.

It's just a dream with a lot of big holes, i'd love to hear how to make this viable.
It reminds me of the adage, "Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."

Though I like the more eloquent 1886 speech by Sir Edward Clarke in the U.K. House of Commons:

But what did that speech amount to? It came to this ingenuous confession of an open mind. The mind was indeed so open that it had nothing in it at all.
You've got any proof, indication or even slight hint for this? Aggregate data is indeed used for all kinds of analytics, but individual IP addresses aren't tracked nor kept for more than 48 hours - to combat abuse.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google corporate shill)
Perhaps it's a chaotically tumbling rod rather than a chaotically tumbling cigar. Somewhere out there is a huge alien ship lobbing them at earth! (Ananthem which wikipedia calls "a speculative science fiction")
There's no obvious reason why airports charging people who use the airport as a transportation hub is unreasonable or onerous by definition.
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Branding depends on a reputation.

That reputation needs to be established by either word of mouth or general reviews. For mattresses, word of mouth isn't that good because people have different preferences.

Moreover, general reviews have essentially been corrupted by 'astroturfing' reviews. That is, almost all mattress reviews that are prominent are financed by a manufacturer. They then use publishing clout or heavy SEO to be found over any possible remaining reviews.
Besides, single user reviews aren't that valuable because of personal preference and lack of comparison mattresses.
Thus, it is really hard for an honest reviewer to start. They need capital to get sufficiently many mattresses. Then, they need to be found, thus going up against the heavily SEO'd dishonest sites. Finally, they need to stand up to all attempts from the mattress companies and dishonest reviewers to actually survive.

Finally, bad-mouthing brands' product quality is again stymied by personal preference and the small number of mattresses anyone sleeps on.
I wonder how well 4.2.2.x compares...

Then again, a few ms of difference is unlikely to make any noticeable effect in real-world use cases where clients already have local DNS caching and the bulk of the time is data transfer, not DNS lookups.
Wekan https://wekan.github.io and Gogs https://gogs.io are both Open Source with MIT license. Wekan has WIP limits and Swimlanes. There is some integration of Wekan with Gogs https://github.com/wekan/wekan-gogs .
Fast and cheap are still not synonyms for instant and free but that’s at least possibly closer to one day being competitive with the existing mobile systems.

Those existing systems are also useful for evaluating the claims that this avoids bad governments, which is to say that it’s limited to bypassing antiquated banks. A networked system can’t avoid a sovereign state unless that state is completely inept, at which point everyone will be using a neighboring currency or USD anyway.
I don't think many people love their work so much they'd be doing it for free.

At best, they'd doing SIMILAR work for free -- but not the work itself, with the commercial and organizational constraints it has.

E.g. even if some people love programming and would still program for free, they wouldn't really want to program the features some bozo PMs have decided, and in the timeline they provided, and with meetings and other baggage that comes with it being a job.

So, one might love the field/domain, but loving "the job" itself is far less common (if it exists).
> Please elaborate how you think it changed gaming as a whole?

(not the person you're replying to)

I've heard it said that it's because there's a strong MMO influence on many console games (which aren't MMOs) these days.

(This isn't something I can personally comment on, as I haven't played that many modern console games, it's just what I've heard others say).
I think there is a question of terminology here, Blockchain is a concept, Cryptocurrency is an application of that concept.

I imagine there are few people on HN who hate blockchain, it is a useful concept and forms the basis for some very useful technologies i.e. Git version control.

I imagine there are a whole range of reasons for negativity toward Cryptocurrency/Cryptoassets on HN. Personally I think the enormous number of new ICO and currencies being made available is purely driven by greed and fraud. While I see bitcoin and other major coins representing a great new application of the technology, I think it's been over-hyped to the point where I just tune it out.

TL;DR: Crypto != Blockchain. People hate Crypto for many reasons.
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I've seen too many variations for this specific title. Wanted to hear from the horses' mouths.
FYI seems like this article was posted in 2016, not sure why it's labeled 2014.
I think there are more coping mechanisms being taught these days than when I was a teen (I'm only slightly younger than Graham), but I agree with your point overall. We try to teach our son (9) that you can't prevent feelings, and it's ok to let yourself feel them, but that we can find ways to respond to our feelings. He's young, so we'll see how it works out, but it's what my mother taught me and it works ok. My wife's mother taught her to basically step on her feelings and suppress them. She has lots of anxiety/depression issues as a direct result.
>but do other animals exhibit the same effect?

I have an arthritic cat whose hind leg occasionally pops as loud as my knuckles. I don't know if it's the same phenomenon, but it sure sounds similar.

No, you can't probe her. :)
They pushed a design update recently which fixed a lot of the issues I had with it such as glitches and slowness. They're doing a great job imo.

I wish we could reuse GitHub projects instead of having the projects be stored on the zenhub API. But GH projects are super lackluster still especially in terms of permissions.
On which RPi? With hardware rendering? Which codec? Cause whenever I try it, I get stutters. I first suspected it'd be the wireless of the Chromecast, but that wasn't it.
One more thing.

Shoehorning new applications of Blockchain concepts into every new conceivable application, especially where the key advantages, i.e. decentralised trust, distributed consensus are not needed also causes a great deal of hate. But so it should.
And throughput to the content as well - RTT (even time to first byte) by itself does not a benchmark make.
I think his, and Spolsky's, writings are fine, and actually have some insights, but often have a lot of cruft around them. It's kinda like the internet condensed ;)
for the curious arch user, it's on AUR

ps: namebench is quite extensive. thousands of queries and a nice and long report. enjoy it
I just played Carcassonne last night and immediately thought of it when I started reading the piece. I am not sure how the game designers built the game to almost always ensure there was a valid configuration, in my play-throughs I think I have only hit that situation once.
> We need more of this in the western world.

AFAIK EU zonings are not significantly (if at all) more complex than Japanese zoning, the US are the stand-out there with a constellation of byzantine exclusive zonings. I do know for certain that both french and german zoning are national/federal policy and (quite necessarily) mixed-use.

So it would probably be a good thing to unfuck US zoning (good luck with that though), but it can not be the "true essence" of the article.

My reading is not that the meat is "simple zoning" but:

1. Japanese people don't have "mandatory fantasies" of single-occupancy dwellings, and people are fine with living in good multi-family dwellings (apartments), note that the average Tokyoite dwelling is 64 sq m (690 sq ft)

2. Japanese people don't value buildings[0], only land

3. Which means tearing down buildings and replacing them is normal and expected

4. Which (combined with residential zoning concepts) means it's easy and common to redevelop low-density dwellings (single-occupancy and low-density 1~2 storeys apartment buildings) into higher-density ones, the graphs in the middle of the article could hardly be clearer there with single-occupancy dwellings having remained roughly flat but 3~5 and 6+ storey buildings having skyrocketed (alongside the number of homes having increased much faster than residential land acreage)

Simplifying zoning codes is not going to make Europe — let alone the US — adopt these mentalities.

[0] personal ones, family/clan homes & temples are a different case
> It was the single most destructive air attack of WWII, though it is likely that more individuals died in the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

If you take it as a single event, yes, but by far the cumulative effects of fire-bombing Japanese cities killed way more civilians that Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined.
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This is the most alarming thing about this trend that has been happening for the last few years

The Internet should be DECENTRALIZED yet it seems we are attempting to do everything in our power to ensure only a handful of companies control access to all information. For what to save 3 ms off a ping time?

Facebook is in hot water over privacy issues, but that is just the tip of the ice berg

Google, AWS, Cloudflare are IMO are larger threat then facebook ever could be.
Someone tell me what I'm missing.

From this article it seems that the appeal for renters is that it's a more friendly process to rent from Turo than e.g. Hertz. A renter doesn't care if the car is owned by average Joe or by Hertz.

So can't Hertz and others simply fight this by improving their renting process? What's stopping Hertz from coming up with an app and completely destroy Turo? They already have the cars, they already have the distribution, they already have the compliance. Now just get an app.
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> If you really want something fast and secure, run your own caching DNS that uses root DNS servers.

is there a good tutorial for this somewhere?
Make it look like a cartoon without too much blood so that children can play it. Stuff it with memes and dances for children. Parents approve and ignore the fact that the child is playing an extremely violent (and detailed) game 12hrs a day and gets rewarded for shooting other players in the head. Parents pay up for lootboxes and micro transactions every time the child screams
eBay, Uber, and AirBnB are all great. Much better experiences than what was available before.
One detail which I feel must be mentioned: if you block `ampproject.org` by default -- directly or by blocking 3rd-party javascript by default, -- you will be "punished" with a 8-second delay before the page becomes visible.

This is an entirely artificial delay, implemented through an inlined style CSS animation in AMP-based pages:

animation:-amp-start 8s steps(1,end) 0s 1 normal both}
@keyframes -amp-start{from{visibility:hidden}to{visibility:visible}}

I can't see any good reason for such delay. If you are not aware of this 8s delay, you might be misled into thinking the page is broken and that `ampproject.org` is really needed, while the page renders just fine without it, except for the delay.

Example: https://ampbyexample.com/
Isn't it in Google's best interest to list the ad heavy sites first? They don't receive any commission sending users to your ad free site, but they'll earn 32% of AdSense profits from your competitors.

Now, I don't believe that is actually occurring, but it's one of the many ways that our interests and Google's interests do not align.
This is some pretty sage advice. I think it's great that Cloudflare is offering the service, but it's relatively simple (and fun!) to setup up our own. There's guide in the link below for using unbound server to do this. Example#1 fits many people. And, if we choose to censor any domains we can always do so on our own service... take a look at Example#2!

https://calomel.org/unbound_dns.html
> Just mentioning your IDE as an essential part of the "stack" shows how little core understanding you have

The GP seemed to be indicating they were trying to put together a standard set of tools for others in their company to use. Having one official 'blessed' IDE and a 'standard' way to do things - even as a demonstration process - isn't out of the ordinary. And... given how much any complex Java program relies on the author having an IDE handle things for them (the assumption is that an IDE will help find the correct imports when developing, for example), it's pretty common for people to assume you're using one of the few common ones out there. I guess the author was looking for 'free' up front, but I'm curious why they didn't mention IntelliJ - it's the only thing I'd bother with for 'real' Java development in 2018 (although I'm keeping an eye on the vscode landscape).

> should read up on the documentation of the basics of java, gradle and spring first

There's no 'basics' to those - they are sprawling ecosystems, and any non-trivial task requires a pretty deep understanding of how those pieces fit together.

> maybe rails developers expect everything to be spoon fed to them in pieces of 5 minute screencasts or something?

Perhaps other tech stacks are able to deliver useful/functioning tutorials of information in 5 minute screencasts, without requiring someone to be an expert or have years of the 'tribal knowledge' the GP spoke of in another post?
"Granted, if aneutronic fusion becomes possible (no time soon, even experimentally with a surplus of energy) that will be a miracle."

A group at Princeton has a concept for a FRC-based reactor burning D-3He that, through a combination of quite interesting tricks, reduces the fraction of power output in neutrons to as little as 0.5%. The design is also very small, with a power output of 1 MW. At this level of neutron output the reactor structure are lifetime components, with no replacement needed due to neutron damage. Power density is still a struggle, although the small size of the reactor helps there.

The downside (assuming the aggressive plasma physics doesn't disappoint) is where do you get the 3He.

At this point, my default vision of the future is neither fission nor fusion, but rather renewables and storage. The engineering and economic issues of these appear much more tractable. Simply extrapolating solar down its demonstrated experience curve puts the cost of PV electricity at $0.01/kWh or less when fully scaled out.
> But for how long?

As I wrote, "lifetime of the function". Maybe that was poorly worded - of course I mean "until the function call returns". (I think "borrow" is universally understood in this way).

That means, again, don't assume you are allowed to keep the pointer argument in an associated datastructure. In general we don't know where the data is coming from, how it was allocated, how or when it will be freed, etc. It's just that: data.

And as I wrote in the other comment, don't do OOP. It's wrong. I think it has had a good twenty years of hype to prove any merits, and failed to do so. Yes, OOP without a garbage collector cannot be done reliably because the pointers will kill you. But that's not an indication that pointer management is impossible. It's an indication that we shouldn't do OOP. Even in a GCed language it's still a pain to maintain all these redundant links, and to write algorithms that collect the data that was littered in a thousand places and is accessible only through a hard to understand object interface.

There are much simpler ways to organize a program. Pointer management can be pretty easy when the project structure is right, and we focus on the data instead an overly bureaucratic object graph of funky objects that do almost nothing in the name of "reusability".
I must be super unlucky. I find their maintenance well below par. They're the only company that attempts to rent me cars/vans with: oil service lights, bald tires, cracked windscreens. This isn't limited to a single branch either.

Also £100 is not their standard excess, so you're paying for the reduced liability. (Also, they like to tell you every time in the hard sell that the £1,000 excess is for each and every incident and the full amount will be taken immediately... ?! Not sure how true that is)

However, they have the most branches in the UK of any rental company, so they're often extremely convenient.
"Hightened awareness that you're being misled day" seems more fitting
> Steel tariffs hurt automakers, for example, who now must pay more for the metal and deal with supply chain issues.

Many US automakers have factories in Mexico as well as in the US, and some models for the US market are built in those Mexican factories.

Question: will steel tariffs in the US encourage these automakers to shift more production to Mexico?
I did a quick search when starting and found it as well as GitHub's own thing and some others. It looks great, but I was looking for something more lightweight for personal projects and Trello wasn't it.

Also remember not to let the existence of something even done well stop you from creating. There's lots of room for differentiating--it's not one size fits all. Pretailored is what the market needs.
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> At the very least, when you say "Rails X.0", you've described all the major pieces of the stack, and the IDE is immaterial. That is simply not the case in the Java world.

Of course the IDE is immaterial. I understand that developing in a stack that you are familiar with is much simpler for anyone but people could make similar claims in support of Java+Spring.

That being said, if you are forced into this by your company, I think that stepping back from this would help you a lot.

The IDE is absolutely irrelevant to java stack (of course, there are some little nuances when you do something like develop an eclipse plugin, but in your case where you list several general technologies, there should be zero dependency on an editor) - whether you use netbeans, eclipse, vim, vscode or intellij should change exactly nothing about your project setup, maybe except for extra .gitignore line or two for the editor specific files.

I suspect that majority of the problems you're describing stems from this misconception.
are you speaking from experience or why do you make such brave assumptions ?
Not in this case, though hegemonic is a big word here. You can still buy a mattress for $200 if you want. Micro-102 has all sorts of funky examples where things behave weird. This mattress situation is only possible because people want to buy a premium product "irrationally." This isn't housing.

Mattresses and wine are pretty straightforward examples because "marketing" is straightforward, advertising and sales. It seems obviously wasteful when $400 of your purchase price was spent on FB ads, $400 on sales and only £200 on manufacturing.

In the garment trade (a much bigger industry), there's still that insane manufacturing/price ratio. It's just that "marketing" is more complicated, involving premium retail experiences and difficult stock management. In both cases, you could hypothesise a different structure where stuff gets produced and shipped to consumers at a fraction of current prices.

But... this particular thing can't really happen in markets where people want/need stuff and can't afford it. Cheap/cost-price alcohol (also wine) is also available, and popular. This can only really exist when people don't mind paying more.
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The uk gov website is a blessing, now leaving in the UK I can compare with the french ones and those are not playing in the same league.
> The online retailer is swapping the low cost of contract workers for the greater control of employing its own people. Doing so puts it on the hook for things like minimum wage, workers compensation and overtime pay. But it also lets Amazon determine how the workers are trained, which cleaning products they use and how they organize their schedules.

As an Amazon employee, I very much hope this trend continues. Amazon logistics has gone the industry standard route of contractors hiring contractors and no one seems to be happy with it at all. When Amazon is the employer, Amazon can control quality better. Customer obsession means more than just lowest possible price.

(My own personal opinion and of course I don't speak for the company)
Not only did this modern design fail and kill people, it's ugly: https://news.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/bridge-model.jpg

Compare with the Millennium Bridge in London, which is also modern and ugly, and was also originally faulty, but was fixed before it could kill anyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London
Do you also feel that Uber and Lyft should constrained from day 1 not to operate without following all the regulations for taxi services like a requirement to have a medallion and to only allow drivers who have undergone an extensive background check?

Do you also feel that Airbnb, if it is going to work in the room rental space, should be required to comply with all of the regulations for the hotel industry (including collecting of hotel tax, posting of room rates on a placard affixed to the door, and installation of better-than-consumer-grade fire suppression systems)?

It sounds good to say "innovators can do whatever they like but need to follow the same rules as everyone else". But perhaps the existing rules are specifically tuned to the existing business model and will not be rewritten to support another business model unless that business model has been proven in practice. Or perhaps the existing rules are just excessively restrictive.
I might have chosen a name that sounds less like Cron, but regardless, I can see how Gron would be useful.
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