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For what it's worth, I've absolutely used whois for journalism. It's helped me contact people for interviews- usually small business owners or bloggers who aren't particularly trying to hide but don't have their contact info on their actual websites.

Most memorably, I reached someone who imported erectile dysfunction supplements from China, only to have them destroyed by order of the FDA because they were actually made with prescription drugs. He said he felt the manufacturer defrauded him and was happy to talk.

But that hasn't worked for me in at least three years, as far as I can remember. The robocall problem has just gotten ridiculous, so everyone's paying to be anonymous. I briefly had a domain registered without privacy protection a couple of years ago, sort of out of principle, and immediately started getting spammy calls about SEO services.
Yeah, you if you search the installation folder of the GOG game for the dosbox.exe and replace it with the dosbox-crt.exe (renaming it), and then edit the dosbox.conf of the GOG game to use output=opengl, then it should run by default.
Zeplin.io does that. We use it at work and though it is a little slow it is certainly a productivity enhancer. But the designs and outcome in the tool are as good as the designer, so consistency is very important.
Ask HN: What do you think of a marketplace for 3rd party software consultants?
Most people don't know a thing about software, but need a website, app or tech consultant to discuss the viability/progress of a project.

Do you think a marketplace for software/tech consultants would be useful? A place to hire a third party consultant to evaluate developers, review project plans, catch pitfalls, etc.. The key to this being that since the consultant is third party, incentives are better aligned to ensure the project is successful.
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Have you tried using MongoDB Atlas for your Mongo database? It's an on-demand, fully managed database service that you can provision on Azure, AWS, or GCP (so no lock in to any 1 cloud provider)
https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas

It includes a free tier for experimentation and evaluation (currently only available on AWS)

And as this is real MongoDB, rather than a Cosmos shim of the APIs, all the features of MongoDB actually work....

Disclosure: I work at MongoDB
There are middlemen not unlike recruiters but for freelancers. They serve the same purpose as sites like Upwork but at a smaller scale.
You can't "repeal" local zoning at the state level. You can only place restrictions on that zoning. So yes, we need state laws that limit the power of local governments to restrict housing construction.
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The best solution is not politically possible.

I agree that this proposal is not ideal, but it's much better than what we have, and it might have a chance of passing. Add some way for cities to trade permits, and we can still have suburbs and job centers.

And actually, the root of all this is Prop 13 and the California tax system that makes it profitable for cities to have jobs inside their borders but a money loser to have housing.

If that was fixed, and cities got wealthy from housing, all this would solve itself in a few years.

But that's even more impossible than your "best solution", so we have to keep looking for half measures.
But if everyone drives to the station, you need to build parking for them all.

Garage parking efficiencies run around 350 - 500 square feet per car. So if you are your spouse drive to the train separately, you're taking 700 - 1000 square feet of space. It seems better to build 1000 square foot apartments on that space instead of wasting it on parking.

I say, get rid of segregated zoning and build more mixed use residential+retail+commercial developments and put everything closer to transit.
Fair point. There are the OTC exchanges.

In any case, I don't see any mom and pop shops offering their customers stock. There are only 10,000 companies with stock on the OTC market, out of 30 million in the US.
Frog Fractions [1] had a great history of boxing in narration form. Video form is here [2].

[1] http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIlTJIJS8p0
This sounds great and all, but we need a solution right now, not 30 years from now.

If we built a massive, efficient, and effective mass transportation system right now, the big moving parts would probably be starting to break at right about the time that self-driving cars really took off in the best case. Because really, it is going to take some time to get that working.
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I'm curious what you mean by "cache oblivious". How can a data structure be "cache oblivious"?
The main reason why not is political viability. Voter ballot initiatives are required to ammend or revise the state constitution. The problem is that voters are selfish and expecting that to change is unreasonable. Not only because of the scale needed but because the degree of selflessness required in exchange for no guarantees is unreasonable to expect.

Existing owners gave a sweetheart deal and are reluctant to raise their own taxes or allow the rate of tax assessment to rise faster, especially when much of the population is in a high desirability high cost area. Their property value is a considerable store of value and they are incentivised to be against further housing. Renters fear that changing the situation would open up further gentrification as if true value is assesed there is no reason not to upscale the property, indeed it would be required to make the value sustainable. It might make things better long term afterwards but when they don't want to stomach the risk in the short term. Add to the love of keeping the area after they moved in and things get deeply personal.

It seems to be a nasty democratic deadlock resulting from the fundamentals of the rules and how they may be changed resulting in the can getting kicked down the road. Prop 13 isn't viable long term nor wise. There are only three ways it can end really, four if we get really fantastic.

First is the unlikely result of a supreme court ruling that invalidates a lesser state constitution. Not likely to make it there and there would be few arguments as to why it is not allowed. It would likely cause a real estate crash in the short term. Even if the legislature holds a paniced mass tax cut much of the damage would already be done un reaction to the explosive real estate tax growth.

The second is if voter balances change to repeal Prop 13. This would likely call for a substantial change to voter populations or things getting bad enough to change minds. It would cause real estate prices to get very unpredictable and volatile but the panic would be lessened by time to prepare for the possibility.

Third would be if the real estate disaster hits first such that there is little resistance to a repeal or it becomes unnecessary as the actual accessment now matches the frozen prices largely. Prior real estate bubbles didn't do it so this would be huge and have global financial ramifications.

Fourth is in the realm of science fiction, reducing housing demand technologically and beyond any ability to restrict to preserve the status quo. Extradimensional living spaces, widespread teleportation, alternate universe copies of California, antigravity houses floating over international waters or other things possible only in imagination.
I'm sure that I had a keyboard with speakers in it years ago in the early 2000's.
I wonder how many of their warheads are in as good condition as their airplane carrier...
There's certainly some things to be skeptical of with regard to Prop 13, but:

1) Property taxes are not the only way cities can function.
In California, property taxes represent about 70% of local government revenues, which is in line with the US average (72%) and higher than many states[1], with no clear correlation to housing prices or per capita GDP to be seen. And prior to Prop 13 it was 84%, which is still pretty middle of the road and not that much higher.

2) You seem to take it as a given that the reason cities like Menlo Park aren't allowing more houses to be built are financial; that they literally can't afford to change the zoning code. I find this preposterous, and I'd love to see any evidence you have to support it (studies, not plausible stories that happen to match your biases).

3) You say "they impose a negative externality on their neighbors, who suffer in the form of higher housing costs". Given than Menlo Park will see the sharpest increase in housing costs, then by your logic Menlo Park suffers most. That's the opposite of an externality.

I won't argue that prop 13 is a good law, but I think it's at most a sideshow, if not outright irrelevant, when it comes to the housing crisis, and I don't think you're offering a coherent argument otherwise. Houses aren't being built because key voters (and campaign contributors) want high housing prices, while no one influential wants low housing prices. If Menlo Park (and similar cities) were driven purely by revenue, rather than votes, they'd allow tons of housing to be built; even low-ish Prop 13 property taxes are better than nothing.

[1]: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/local-property-ta...
Whois can also be used to identify who owns IP blocks. Which is crucial to many applications such as security.

If you don't want your personal information to be visible thats very different to the full range of what whois can do. You can always use a proxy so there are options for privacy available. I've never got a single spam email/call from my whois data.
It's pretty ridiculous that Chrome has a whitelist. This should be enough of a red flag something isn't right.
An intro here: https://rcoh.me/posts/cache-oblivious-datastructures/
Nevada state income tax is 0%. One of the few without one along with Alaska, Florida, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming.
I would 2nd Gandi.net. No additional fee for their who is privacy option.
And it's super convenient, you can get off the train and pick up groceries on the way home -- or just stop and have dinner at the station, you'll have dozens of restaurants to choose from.

Have time to kill before your long distance train? You can go shopping while you wait knowing that you only need to be at the train a few minutes before departure time.
I'm actually curious how useful fingerprinting is. One the one hand maybe your average enthusiast has a unique fingerprint. On the other every model of iPad/iPhone on the same OS version should have the same fingerprint as every other of the same model/OS.

Also

>> when will you enforce a no third party cookie by default?
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> When it can be done without breaking too many users' day-to-day browsing.

Doesn't Safari do this already? Isn't that proof that millions of users (every iPhone, iPad, and greater than 30% of all mac users) are having no real issues using the web with that in place?
Oh wait, I thought you were talking about this guy:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/11/07/the-cas...
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They can’t afford them because all San Francisco housing is in high demand, not because new apartments have some irredeemably extravagant physical features. Granite countertops do not take a 700sqft box from $1200 to $4800.
Building new housing usually means also selling the houses, which means a market value assessment, which means more taxes.

Prop 13 only limits tax increases when the ownership doesn't change. The nice thing for municipalities is that even during housing markert downturns, the tax rolls still generally increase every year as those properties with prop 13 valuation caps deeply below the market value still have room to grow when the market value dips significantly.
> Q: Why are all these companies designing their own fonts. It's not needed...

It's marketing.
Hey mr_bill it's me Andrew
Look up Robert W. McChesney, who's been arguing for similar concepts for decades.
Let's discuss the font then. It's boring and generic. Obviously it needs a 30-page puff piece written about it. Remind everybody the AirBnb had a super bowl ad, etc. This is not content marketing. Yada yada.
Are you running the latest firmware?
If you're optimal for a cache without knowing how big the cache is, you're optimal for all caches. It's tough to do, but it happens.

This property probably doesn't get the respect it deserves in this super weird world where you can't really say how many caches are between you and your data.
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"The division is supported by me" would be an actual passive.
Ah, so "blockchain" is a Libertarian Trojan horse that will obviate government. Man, "blockchain" can do ANYTHING.

"voluntary smart contracts"... more buzzwords that sound great but mean nothing. What's so smart about contracts that lose hundreds of millions of dollars because someone put a semicolon in the wrong place? I'm not volunteering for that.

Can't wait for the first time the soon-to-be-obsolete government has to "fork" the Social Security "blockchain" because a few $$$BILLION "went missing" when some 25-year-old, third-tier programmer/consultant screwed up the "smart" contract. Oops.
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Avoiding answering a question directly does not make you dishonest.

If my wife's grandmother had asked me how the food was (assuming the food was awful), I might say "it was very much appreciated" -- and I could say that with 100% honesty, because she would have put a lot of effort into it, and even if she failed, I appreciate that she tried.

Or let's say she didn't try very hard (which would have been unlikely for either of my wife's grandmothers), I could answer with "thank you for making it", or something else like that, and my response could be 100% sincere.

I think the fundamental argument being had in this portion of this thread is that if you don't say everything you think about something then you are being dishonest. I and many others in the thread totally disagree with that assesment.

Your statements can be 100% truthful, and yet not reveal all of your thoughts about a subject or situation. Having a filter doesn't make you dishonest. Some of your thoughts are unkind, some can be even downright evil at times. The fact that you don't reveal these things is often a sign of self control. Words have power, and they affect others around you. There's a reason everyone can't hear every thought you have.

Again, the fact that I don't reveal everything I think does not make me dishonest. If that's your definition of "honesty", then I'm glad I don't live in a world where everyone is "honest" -- it would be a miserable experience.
Here is what you wrote.

>There's a weird fundamentalist notion of "honesty" that implies that anything short of continuously broadcasting all of your thoughts to everyone around you is "dishonest". Perhaps that's just innocent literalism, but I think a lot of that is, itself, a dishonest attempt to establish false equivalencies between submitting a completely fictitious resume on the one hand, and restraining yourself from barging into your boss's office to tell him he's a complete idiot every time you feel cheesed off"

Here is what I wrote that you were responding to.

>Politely laughing at an unfunny joke, and telling someone that their food is "interesting", fall well within the realm of socially acceptable polite dishonesty. But skipping work to see a ballgame by inventing a fake funeral is considered lying by many (most?) people.

>Like most things in life there is a gray area along that spectrum.

How does your response follow from my comment? There is no false equivalence on my part--there's no attempt at equivalence at all. I would place a completely fictitious resume clearly on the opposite the spectrum from polite social lie.

Again this your response was to a comment where I agreed with this previous comment of yours.

>That's not lying; that's just normal social etiquette

I even stated that this is the argument I'm making. Normal social etiquette isn't lying.

Where we seem to disagree is on what is normal social etiquette.

I think that politely laughing at an unfunny joke falls well within normal social etiquette. I think that telling your partner's grandmother that you like her food is well within normal social etiquette. I also think that telling a polite lie about your opinion of someone is within normal social etiquette.
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the fact is 99.999999% of people do not see or notice the difference.

i can say with strong belief that changing your font did not add to your bottom line.
First of all, nobody mentioned building anything in a weekend. Second, generic responses like yours can also be considered "classic HN", so it's kind of like the pot calling the kettle black.

And third, If you've made the same font for Netflix, it apparently takes 3 months to make enough subtle changes to brand it "one of a kind".
Regarding the laziness, i kick while scooting, making it go faster which is very dynamic and lots of fun, although it doesn't seem to impact the range.
Self-driving cars in there own lanes on freeways would work right now. Convert carpool lanes on freeways to toll for self-driving cars. Maybe let people get a special license with a special training course and, if they can drive like a self-driving car (no fucking around, always have the right following distance, etc,) they can also go in the toll lane. As more and more self-driving cars come on-line (and every major car manufacture has the tech to do this already) convert more lanes to self-driving only. If you really want to get crazy, relax the passive safety features of these self-driving cars and they can be made very inexpensively.

Add cheap tunneling for future additions to the road network and cities can be super dense with individual, point-to-point, transportation systems.
This is not true. If you dig deep as I did with a family member, you get to a question like "So if they can't pay, they should ultimately just die?" and get a hemed and hawed yes.
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But wait, the devil is in the details. What/where are the actual stats?

Winning isn't actually binary. A trivial example is an award of $1 to the consumer, technically a win to the consumer, but clearly a loss.

The far more meaningful statistic would be the magnitude of the awards, especially as compared to awards by courts.

I suspect mindslight's argument may well be supported by the statistics showing a reduction in costs to big firms at the hands of arbitrators, though I admit that's just speculation.

Also, you mentioned consumers. What about employees versus employers, tiny business versus large business, or other large power disparities.
Sad that an article on Airbnb’s font gets more attention than most startups could ever hope to get.
Of course, the top 1000 sites is exactly where I don't want anything to autoplay, because half of these sites have spurious videos instead of the textual content that you'd reasonably expect, just to pump ad engagement metrics.

It'd be nice to have a whitelist/blacklist import/export, so there can be multiple community-sourced efforts to classify sites into reasonable use of autoplay vs. unreasonable. One can dream.
Of course we need to figure out how to get homeless people in safe housing, and find jobs and get them treatment. But I don't think helping them encourages people to be homeless or move here. In Utah, they have housing for basically all homeless people now, they are dealing with it better. But our homeless people aren't all wanting to move there.

The belief that if we are "too nice" to homeless people it will encourage them is counter to the facts, with Utah only the latest example. There are plenty of people who live in their cars in south Seattle who have jobs, who want a place to live.
Why would they do that rather than just not submit anything and let the already broken next-best competitor win?
They are also limited to a total tax of 1%. In most other states, the property tax rate is higher than this, and the income tax rate is lower. With a 1% cap, and a cap on the increase, it's hard for residential taxes to pay for city services. Office buildings require a lot less services, and so they make sense for the city to allow. This isn't the only answer, but it's certainly a major consideration when these things get taken up by city councils and planning commissions.
Probably. I had to move to baremetal.ca to get DNSSEC support, and even then I had to email the info to their tech support team as the web interface didn't support it
Without ECC, that isn't a very industrial PC.
I'd actually argue that it is the opposite of a trade-off.

The more houses that are built down town, the less urban sprawl will exist.

One of the biggest contributors to climate change is everything that comes with urban sprawl, and high density housing fixes that.

A basic example of the problems that urban sprawl causes is more transportation pollution. (IE, people who live near work are less likely to drive. Total average driving could be cut in half)
Really good read, thanks. My brain couldn't quite grok the idea of a "cache-oblivious" data structure, but the article suggests they'd be more aptly described as "cache size-oblivious".
Governments should work for the people, and specifically, for the people they govern. Telling “existing residents to fuck off” falls somewhat short of that.
Definitely didn't mean to advocate for campus based housing or worker warehouses.

The proposal was that Mountain View (Google), Menlo Park (Facebook), Cupertino (Apple) are all big enough such that equivalent high density housing could have been built within those cities at the same time of the construction of the high density open office space.

Instead, the Apple Campus was built across the street from single family homes and Cupertino got to get the big tax increase without any additional city services or having to share that tax base with San Jose which now has to house and educate all those additional employees.
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I really love vintage computer design. Looking at these Bloomberg keyboards, although made for a high-end market, makes me wish we had good computer hardware today. Besides Apple/Microsoft/Thinkpads, I pretty much dislike every single piece of computer hardware out there.

Oh, and I want to see an complete and utter cessation of RGB lighting in computer products.
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