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People are becoming radicalized in large part, maybe even entirely, because of forums like this one. A really good article along these lines was submitted to HN, but unfortunately didn't get much traction: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/all-american-nazi...

I think people can handle nuance just fine. Since everyone's gotten it into their heads that policing online discussions is exactly the same as censorship and limiting free speech, it's up to us, the participants, to restrain ourselves from the radicalizing shouting matches that usually happen on so many topics.

> See the top of this thread (well currently at least) for a line of discussion where somebody not only thinks climate will imminently lead to earth becoming uninhabitable but wondering how and where people could survive [away from Earth] until the planet does become habitable again.

I'm not seeing that anywhere in the comments on this article. Can you link to it?

> Or consider the fact that the comment you're responding to, though factually accurate and contextually relevant, is being downvoted for stating facts that mitigate this sort of hysteria.

Well, no. I disagree that it's relevant, and hope at least some of the downvotes are for that reason alone. "Stating facts" doesn't automatically make something relevant; good statements of relevant facts would have been, "the researchers didn't take ____ into account during the 800,000 period they're talking about", or, "there's another paper by respected researchers that disagrees with this one", or, "I know a lot about this field and I think I see an error in their methodology", or, "this is all correct but there's no cause for alarm because [body of evidence that global warming is somehow beneficial]" (it's not).

It's also not mitigating hysteria. There are good reasons to be extremely alarmed for our future generations. That's not a hysterical position. Some people may be couching it in alarmist statements, but given the opposing number of people who still believe that all of this data is an outright lie anyway [+], that's sort of unavoidable for political topics.

[+]: Including HN, during the CRU email breach a few years ago, where the popular opinion was that climate researchers were fabricating data so that they could get more money for further research.
>Many folks that work in CA are from out of state and do it for career/financial reasons, not for political/social reasons.

The fact that most folks in CA are from out of state doesn't imply that they would be just as happy in Texas. Something like 40% of our STEM workforce is from outside the country. Do you think an immigrant would be treated as well in Texas as in California? (maybe this is my prejudice showing, but everything I've seen and heard is that they would not.) add to that the developers who aren't heterosexual (or who are but who don't look it) or who aren't white, and I think you have a lot of people who... probably have good reason to stay on this side of the mason-dixon line.

(I feel the need to add a disclaimer; I've not spent a huge amount of time in Texas, and perhaps it isn't so bad, but... this perception is common, and it does mean some people won't take jobs in Texas, just like the perception that California is a nanny state where you will get fired for not being politically correct will keep many Texans out of California.)
We have interviews ;)
What's the problem with LEED?
Supposedly extinct kangaroo rat resurfaces after 30 years
Subsidize corporate profits, socialize losses, deinsentivize distributed local power, destroy the environment.

For an alternative view:http://www.mojavedesertblog.com/2009/11/solar-energy-develop...
>Amazon may come to the decision that it's not worth keeping this low spending tier of customer and price them out of the service.

Given the downward pricing trends of cloud providers for past few years as well as increased competition (Azure & GCP primarily) I think we can safely assume pricing tiers will remain reasonable.
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How you invest your salary to increase your wealth is far more important than increasing your salary (getting to 2x of your starting net salary is really hard).

Aggressive volatile tech investing is worth it if you have a (safe) programming job. Volatility is your friend if you can stomach it.
I disagree. Mandatory solar on houses is the low hanging fruit, and it's easier to address than higher density living or public transport. And it makes sense to put the otherwise unused roof space to work.

Besides that, big open plots of solar panels are an eye sore, and don't make sense when land is so expensive.
the way i think about this is mcdonald's employees getting their oil changes from jiffy lube across the street and the jiffy lube employees eating lunch at the mcdonald's - there's no external investment in the local economy (yes this basically a microcosm for all economics).
Do you want housing shortage? Because that's how you get housing shortage
Is "Toronto the Good" still thrown about much?
Sometimes you just have to do something simple that just nobody else happened to have thought of before. Graphene and scotch tape comes to my mind...
Don’t forget those rust vs go threads. 300 comments of people talking past each other ;-)
The program is 12 weeks, so the fee extends through that duration. At the end of the 12 weeks, there's a demo day (similar to YC). The fee aims to cover basic venue costs, snacks, and shared social events to build camaraderie.
https://opensource.com/article/17/12/open-source-business-mo...
I thought the expensive thing in California was land, not the houses that sit on them?
the only thing that stresses me out more than the story, is the likelihood that someone very smart is working on something that will take 99% of us all out in a last ditch effort to save the planet.
I'm speaking from three years of homelessness after being independent and nearly homeless at 17 and recovering from several years of alcohol abuse.

Don't assume, because it only confirms that you don't know what you're talking about.

Even through all of that, I found time to exercise. Even when I was a drunk, hell I still jogged now and then.

I'm not saying bad things don't happen, I'm saying having three jobs and eight kids isn't "a bad thing happened"
Electricity is different. The charge is decoupled from point of use. When you flip a light switch, it doesn't visibly and immediately bill you 2¢.

The bag tax, pay per article, etc. do.
I partly agree in principle, your idea is much better generally. But it's also tricky for government to evaluate every energy efficiency invention. When you know certain solutions work and work at scale, it makes sense to mandate them. It's like saying let's not require every home to be connected to sewage because that reduces incentives to invent new waste management systems. Some things 'just work' and make sense as a minimum building standard. Whether solar is part of that, I don't know for sure, but the notion it's useful to agree on a few basic ideas strikes true.

It's also important not to forget the economies of scale here. It can be a blessing to know you and all your competitors will need to create solar roofs, the one who builds the best standardised product at scale wins.

I'd prefer to see builders be able to choose from a set of proven standardised technologies (e.g. not just panels but also say solar water heaters) and allow an exception procedure for people like you, which allows you to showcase efficiency-equivalence... rather than for all builders to do their own thing and government having to evaluate each system individually.
well, just sitting on a patent and waiting for an infringement isn't going to help fix the internet. That would be the other thing.

Seems to me like a patent is a good start, a good nucleus around which you could build some venture capital to actually try to start a company to solve the problem.

I totally agree that the problem isn't technology, it's the business side, the negotiation and that end. You'd need a very business-y business partner.
That would be awesome. Maybe you can start one :)
An ethical journalist will absolutely go after that auto shop. But what you're describing is a political/ethical conflict which can arise any time an organization accepts support money, even from readers.
see also https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/251460/were-genera...
I may be the only one with zero problems on Windows 10...

Sometimes I think the adjectives to describe some situations are too harsh.
For certain types of organisations, especially those with dealing with more in-house projects Phabricator is really worth a look:

https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/
I thought 17.09 allowed you to defer feature updates for 1 year. It's an advanced setting under the update manager. No fiddling around needed.

Is that not available on Home editions?
It isn't cool to try to boost your post with promotional upvotes, whether from sockpuppet accounts or friends. That is against the rules here (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and we ban or penalize accounts and sites that do it.
> If the state would focus on higher density living

Contrary to popular belief, the Los Angeles metro area has a very high population density. It's 2nd in the US, and the SF Bay Area is 7th. Both are on par with European metros.
A typical failure to understand the law of unintended consequences.

The total volume of water consumed remains the same, but the water lost to evaporation & distribution leakage (collectively akin to the transmission losses for electricity mentioned elsewhere in this thread) means that not collecting rainwater is less efficient.

Then there's the flood damage caused when the increasing expanses of paved ground fail to absorb heavy rain that rainwater collection can help alleviate.
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I forgot that sarcasm isn't welcomed here, even when someone makes baseless and nonsensical claims.
My coffee is not for pretentious people.

https://onlinestore.smucker.com/display_product.cfm?prod_id=...

$8.99
180 cups
$0.04994 per cup
Yes, I'm interested to know about it too.
I'm afraid I don't know, sorry! Sounds awesome.

That said, similar concepts in a world where Monads exist include: Free monads, Freer monads, Final tagless encoding.
Google has a tool called "Sunroof" that uses Google Maps satellite data to identify the best location to install solar panels on your roof:

https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#p=0
9 of the 10 translators in the article are translators of other languages to English. The remaining one translates Arabic to German.

I wonder if in general X to English is harder or easier than English to X?
Not to mention for an 8 oz latte you'll be paying around $0.70-$1.20 for organic, pasture-raised, eco-friendly milk. We're already at a $1.70 for a morning latte.
Like I told the other moron, I was homeless, on my own early, and an alcoholic. You're making excuses for people that aren't proactive. I'm not disparaging the poor, I was poor for the majaority of my life, I'm disparaging the poor choices people make to stay there.

My mother to this day is an oxycodone addict. My dad is somewhere out there, maybe, I don't know. I didn't let those factors dictate my life. And once I learned how to make better choices, I stopped being homeless, went through a rehab, and got my career together. It was hard, but it was a hard choice I made, for myself.

You don't know who I am because of an opinion your reactionary, careless ass misread on the Internet.

Get a grip.
At the Existentialist Cafe by Bakewell I think is the best catch-all for phenomenology in many ways despite being part historical rather than full philosophy. Would highly recommend even if one is familiar with the usual suspects featured in it.
Land is less in short supply than T&D infrastructure and built environment.

Total built area is, very roughly, equivalent to solar PV insolation requirements, and at least a portion of that space (or area) is low-hanging fruit.

Undeveloped land has other potential uses, including rec, ag, and ecological ones.
Right, this is a co-working space that does mild cofounder screening and takes 1% of your company.
We've already pointed out the "proportionate" clauses of the law, as well as the decades of regulation where the maximum fine has never been imposed.
The level of naivete in this article is frustrating.

>I’m frustrated that the web’s promise of instant and free access to the world’s information appears to be dying.

Free access won't die as long as there are people who are willing to work for free. It's not that subscriptions and paywalls charge money for something that was made by someone for free.

>I’m frustrated that subscription usually means just putting formerly free content behind a paywall.

That content was never free. Someone paid for it, typically advertisers. We all know the downsides of cost-per-click based economy. It's time to grow up. Kids eventually realize that food doesn't appear in the fridge magically, but someone pays a price for it and brings it home. The author also should realize that there is always a price to pay.
Education has fads so a person learns to be cautious about things in this field. But one that seems to have a lot to it is helping students be more active learners. Working through those programs sounds like it helped you in that way.

I teach Theory of Computation and one problem with that course (which I expect lots of people here have taken) is that it can be people watching as things get proved. I'm working on a text that includes programming work;there have been others in this direction but my point is that I hear more stuff like your comment where people are taken through the material in doing the scripts.
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Show HN: A Ruby gem for building xss/csrf safe JWT sessions
This is one of those things that sounds nice at first - especially as a soundbite. But, it's clearly a NIMBY move to protect existing home owners financial asset. It's a clever trick to protect existing home owners even more by making new development even more difficult and expensive while making it look like it's an environmental move. Tack on $30k in expense to any new home development and (probably) some lovely legislation about how it has to be installed. On top of this, now they're "encouraging" all-electric homes. What does that mean?! No gas range?! Please, god, no. Why not enforce this legislation on existing home owners, raising the property tax to fund solar farms, enforce better building standards on existing homes, or /something/ that would actually have a substantial effect on the environment? Cause, that ain't helping existing home owners or helping push their home prices even higher.

As a renter who wishes to have a home /somewhere/ in the bay area, this is killing me inside. The existing home owner lobby is so ridiculously strong here. California has the Superman of home owner lobbies. Each day, it's nailed into me that Prop 13 will never go away and home prices are just gonna keep climbing so that non-1% income outsiders cannot get them. Meanwhile, estates will be passed down generation by generation tax free and with no reassessment.
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The project had already forked in the past, but it eventually was deleted and was merged into the upstream because of one very simple reason: Unknwon, the creator of Gogs, came back. The fact that he left again is the main reason why the project forked again.

It's not like other people are mentioning in the thread that "some contributions would not get added" - but rather the fact that he often has really long periods of absence: just take a look at the contributions on his profile https://github.com/Unknwon

And of course, I'm not putting the blame on him - all of us need breaks from time to time - but during these periods where he can't work on the project, the project is essentially brought to a halt, seeing as there is no one else in the community of contributors who is able to merge pull requests - even if they are critical.
Maybe so, but could you please not post unsubstantive comments here? It just makes things worse.
What is pretentious about buying products that attempt to be better for the earth, and better for your body? It's fine if "coffee is coffee" for you (heck, I've been known to skip coffee altogether in favor of caffeine pills), but there's nothing pretentious about being conscious of one's consumer choices.
Taxing land intensifies use. This is a stealth land tax.
I'm running two machines (a recent laptop and an older desktop with Windows 10). I've wiped both drives and did a fresh install of a recent Windows 10 vom USB Stick.

I haven't had any problems updating and even big updates are fast. This is in contrast to a Dell laptop I got for work and which regularily took 45min to update.

If you have problems with your Windows 10, get rid of the crapware that came with your PC and/or do a fresh install from a clean image from MS (not one of the OEM rescue partitions/disks).

I with MS would do something about all the preinstalled crapware, because it has gotten out of hand and is hurting the brand.
Doesnt look like it is (I'm on W10 Home 1709).

I managed to defer my update to 1709 by like... 5 months by hitting 'later' on the nag screen though.
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You also get the perpetual fallback license if you pay month to month for a year, for whatever version you had 12 months ago.

E.g. I start paying month-to-month at 2016.2, after 12 months I have a license to 2016.2. But say after the first month, 2017.1 comes out. Then after 13 months I now have a license for 2017.1.
That is a good question, perhaps it is the destructiveness of the test. I have seen documentaries where they have purposely crashed a jetliner and they always seem to learn a lot from that, and yet it isn't like the NHTSB crashing cars left and right. It is expensive and takes a lot of real estate to crash a plane.
Also having no problems.
Here’s an idea: make solar mandatory, but require it to be funded in part by a property tax increase
> Pasting into a terminal is interpreted literally, meaning an attacker can hide ;sudo do $really_evil_thing; in innocent looking, pasteable HTML with CSS trickery. Therefore, we can’t blindly paste text into a terminal.

It depends on the probability that an "attacker" has done such a thing, which depends on the website among other things.

Sincere question: is it really appropriate that so many of us think in such black and white terms about security? I submit that it is not appropriate to strive for zero-probability-of-being-pwned solutions in all personal computing scenarios; there is a cost benefit analysis always.
What about the activation? Would Windows recognize the device automatically and not ask for a key?
The issue I’ve run into more than once is that whatever regex or terrible validation some website is using doesn’t recognize the TLD and marks the email as an invalid email. Hasn’t happened tons, and it’s never been for something super important, but it’s happened more than once.
Eh, I had a similar problem. I'm low on disk space on C:, but it was able to download the update to C: + E: (E: is a partition on the same drive). Partway through installing the update, it asks me to "insert" disk E, which obviously I can't. Had to roll back the whole update. Now I'm kinda glad I did.
summary: google allow 800 of the international youtube domains to autoplay, plus some 200 other publishers to pretend they are neutral.
One thing that always rubbed me wrong about this is that, logically speaking, if you buy a license for a year, the perpetual fallback license should be the version you had at the end of the license, not the one that was on the market at the beginning of it. It doesn't really make sense the way they do it, and it feels like a particularly hamfisted attempt to grab an almost negligible amount of money, so I'm puzzled.
Show HN: Create interactive backgrounds with Brusher
Aren't shorts very low resistance? I'm not an electrician so maybe I misunderstand here.

What would be the benefit of me "properly flipping switches" in the context of a natural disaster? What if I am not home?
Is there any hopes of them un-forking? I haven't followed those communities, not sure where such discussions might be happening.

Also, thanks for noting this. I had the mental perception that Gogs had really been fully surpassed by Gitea, and I need to re-evaluate now. Thanks.
Shameless plug, but if you're trying to avoid eating into your free tier, I documented GitHub pages + Cloudflare for the same effect. Just turn your Cloudflare cache to super high, and GitHub shouldn't ever get any real load.

I gave an example of running a React app[1]

[1]: https://www.toptal.com/github/unlimited-scale-web-hosting-gi...
According to this page (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-commercial-crew-program-mi...) they will also do an in flight abort test. (should be exciting).
I, too, rarely have major issues with Windows. However, I did come across the login issue in the article, which was fixed with a restart. When people shit all over WinOS I'd like to instead give Microsoft credit for creating an OS that works as good as it does on virtually endless amounts of hardware configurations.
Keys are stored in the firmware on the motherboard. Shouldn't be an issue.
I'd expect for a 1% stake to get something of value in return, like access to investors (angel and seed stage, not VC) to at least pitch the idea to, office hours with successful other company starters, etc. The $30/week covers what you're offering already and it seems like you get the 1% for basically nothing. On the other hand 1% of most of the companies that come out of this is likely to be worth not much.
Regardless of understanding and ability to type, I've had mixed experiences attempting to access sites with non .com TLDs from behind corporate network policies. You're specifically asking about email here which might not be affected by that, but it's not out of the realm of possibility to want a personal site hosted at the same TLD your email comes from.
Yes, it did on the desktop. I did buy a professional licence for the laptop though (it came with home).
China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry
Kindergarten through calculus. Calc I and II are traditionally a first year undergrad courses, if you don't take it as an AP class.
And mostly without any technical user intervention.
Please don't make HN even worse by violating the site guidelines like that, no matter how bad another post is.

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Your numbers are technically correct, but a measurement along the lines of "perceived density" is probably more accurate. I would define perceived density as the density of people living in urbanized census blocks (i.e. 1000 people per square mile [0]). For example most people in the Bay Area don't live in (or even afford to) Marin County. Yet all those multi-acre properties are counted in our land measurements.

The Bay Area is basically a series of valleys where everybody lives and works, mountain ranges that are barely developed, and a large body of water right in the middle.

0: https://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/urdef.txt
Try to go with TLDs that aren't known for abuse https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
This will limit your ability to present yourself to non-emacs users as someone fluent and proficient in a command line environment. (Spoken as a dedicated emacs user.)
That can't be true when so many of these small businesses have such massive margins. They're not spending the earnings on other small online businesses.
As I recall, the perpetual fallback thing was added to appease their customer base, who were enraged when IntelliJ announced that they were moving to a subscription model. The term "rent-seeking" was thrown around quite a bit then and seems appropriate now as well.
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