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I don't think House of Cards comes close really, especially now that Spacey is out. Game of Thrones is a movement: cosplay, crazy fan forums, ultra wide appeal, the filming location of King's Landing in Croatia is constantly flooded by tourists because of GoT. House of Cards is a solid show, especially season 1, but I'd say GoT is the biggest show in the world culturally right now.

Both good points, too bad that HoC looks to be Spacey's swan song (and deservedly so).
How did the Russian stock market do? I'm curious and haven't heard this discussed before.
There are plenty of shills paid to dismiss these articles, and plenty of apologists who have dismissed morality and ethics for a variety of reasons.

Do not ever take internet comments as good representations of humanity's opinions. Most people don't have the framework to realize how bad these things are, but thankfully we have such Human Rights Groups around to help inform people.

These internet discussions are the first line of defense for the shills, they sow FUD which suppresses a lot of action because at the least people think "what's the point, no one else seems to care."
It's not the banking industry that is driving the stock market in the US.
> and then sends it to evil.com.

How would a man in the middle attack grant you that? This is the reason same origin policy exists. It is the foundation of web security. If can break SOP and prove it in a demonstration you can report this issue to Google as a defect in the top tier of their bug bounty for a sizable reward.
> It’s not a rebuttal though.

So what? Discussion doesn't consist solely of logical arguments (or arguments in total). There's a salient difference between "whataboutism" and a non sequitor. One has no way to continue the discussion (it changes to something else) and the other has an underlying set of issues that are likely beyond articulation of the poster, but exist nonetheless.

> I can just say “Yes, Y and Z are also doing that bad thing and should also stop.”

Then why not say that? The underlying issue is that there's reasons people are objecting to Google and not others.

Responding with a dismissive reply devoid of content is a nonsequitor. Implying that the assertion is without merit because you object to the syntactical presentation, avoids the issues raised.

e.g. Google helps steer culture and would necessarily have to actively enforce totalitarian and oppressive rules in China.
Houston would still be unbearable even without urban heat island effect. But yes, it would be slightly cheaper. But the cost to reengineer the entire city would far outweigh the marginal increase in energy costs to cool certain areas of buildings.
I just built a "normal" wood house.

I have no experience with building concrete houses. Are they normal for your area, or are you trying to follow unusual construction techniques?

Something to keep in mind: If you're doing anything slightly unusual, you need to be very careful about who you work with. There are people who will ignore your request to do something a certain way and just do it the same way that it's been done in the last 20 houses they worked in.

Assuming a concrete house is unusual, you will have a very hard time finding a general contractor to build it. You will need to interview very carefully.

In my case, I couldn't hire the general contractor I wanted, because I ended up buying land that came with a general contractor. I like where I live, but he screwed up a few of my requests. (Hired the wrong sub to put in my heat pumps, didn't put switches where I asked for them, didn't bury my gutters even though the contract specified that they were supposed to be buried.)

Had I hired the guy I wanted, I'm sure he would have done everything I asked for... I just wouldn't have liked where I could buy land!
I did.

.compose-form .compose-form__modifiers .compose-form__upload-description input::placeholder { opacity: 1; }

That looks like BEM, with all the underscores and modifiers.

Proper nested SASS would look like:

.compose-form .upload-description input::placeholder { opacity: 1; }

Scoped CSS would look like:

.compose-form-abc123 .however-deep-or-shallow-you-want { opacity: 1; }
Then the bug bounty programs can step up and pay what bugs are actually worth. The right bug in windows could decimate their entire os market, but most companies that i've seen tend to pay some flat rate for bugs.
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Here's the deal. Insurance is a simple concept. Take house fires. They are fairly rare, but they do happen. We could all just save up enough money to cover a house fire ourselves, or, since we know that house fires are rare, we can pool our money together as friends and neighbors and when one of us in that pool gets unlucky and has their house burn down, it can be covered by insurance. A lot of us pay a little money for peace of mind that if a rare catastrophic event does hit us, we'll be OK.

This same concept applies to some medical issues, but there are a lot of medical issues it does not apply to. Getting a routine infection and needing antibiotics? Everyone is going to need that. It makes no sense to pool our money and pay out for the rare person that needs money for that. How many other medical expenses are like that? Even things that are rare for a group of 20-year olds like heart attacks are actually a lot less rare (more common than house fires, probably) for an older age group. So while it might make sense for a group of 20-year olds to pool money together to pay for the rare heart attack amongst that group, it might not make any sense for an over-50 group of people to do that same. It definitely doesn't make sense for a 20-year old to join that group. Yet this is exactly what we do. We all pool our money together and use it to pay for every medical expense that comes up. Minor infection? Use insurance! Need a couple stitches? Use insurance. Routine screening? Wow, didn't see that coming, good thing I have insurance.

This is insane, and this is the root of all our problems.
There's no world in which economic growth is low enough that 30 year bonds win out over equities, yet high enough that the US can afford to pay their debts in full without inflating them away. Economic growth isn't a given, sure, but there basically isn't a plan that works for that pessimistic of market conditions. If there isn't enough economic activity to support retiring a large majority of your generational cohort, then unless you save extraordinarily large amounts of money you simply don't get to retire.
I seem to remember that Ruby was already replacing Python pretty heavily 10 years ago. Rails was gaining momentum at a huge rate and Python web frameworks were dying, tools like Puppet were on the rise etc. The full history of Perl 6 still lay ahead too.

If it hadn't have worked out in the end, it would be just as relevant to claim "what a horrible rollout" was just the benefit of hindsight talking.

I think the Python devs and community need to take some credit for managing to pull off that transition successfully (even if it took longer than most expected). And to claw their way back into relevance again.

And every other language community now has a case study they reference during discussions about language upgrades :)
> Are there particular 'magic phrases' you need to use, or is it jut a question of persistence?

My situations varied, but when I had no insurance and was living off of savings, I found a generic "hardship" form and explained my situation to them - they waived 80% of the fee without much resistance. This is compared to the laughable discount of 2% they offered me on the spot if I paid in cash (at the moment of the visit)

In other situations, I'd imagine it's more a question of persistence, but I'd venture to say you can knock off at least 50% on _any_ hospital bill.

I recently bought a house, and my credit was 800+, so I don't think it does in any appreciable way.

That wasn't the gist of my post though. I was advocating more to resist the bullshit and to legislate something that allows the customer to replace materials instead of paying a hugely marked up item.

Same concept would be applicable, for example, for a car mechanic shop. Just because they billed me $600 for brake pads doesn't mean that they've actually provided me with a 10x markup of value on having bought brake pads myself for $60 - at some point this needs to be treated as "usury" (I don't know if there's a word for exorbitant markup on a regular good).

Another thing I would add - don't put your social security number on medical forms. I've never seen it enforced and there's no medical reason for them to have it.
It's not all about the investors dude. Money misallocated means companies, solutions, and inventions that could have been built aren't since the money wasn't there.

We all lose when that happens.

This is a developer device. We'll see when they release the consumer one if it flops, but that'll probably be if no one makes the apps or games it needs to be successful.
When this happens, call or write anyway to thank him.
C doesn't have generics. Objective-C didn't get generics until 2015, which is well after Go was released. Not all major static languages have generics and not all major static languages had generics when Go was being planned.

Not that Go ever planned to not have generics. It was always simply a question of how to implement them in a non-ridiculous way. They were warned early on by members of the Java team to tread carefully and not make the same mistakes they did.

The team has crafted many generics proposals over the years, but they all fell short one way or another.
I did not build this, and it doesn't meet all your design criteria, but it's very interesting...

A couple of months ago, I visited a friend and her fiance at their home in the Colorado Rockies - way up in the mountains, not down on the front range. The architecture was very interesting, straightforward, and inexpensive. They simply cut a house-sized trench into the side of a mountain (about a 45 degree slope there), put a prefab quonset hut in the trench, and covered it with dirt/rocks. Then a poured concrete floor, and concrete-lined walls, and a brick facade with big airy windows. The interior was given a half-second story, and some rooms in the back.

Effectively, it's a cross between an A-frame cabin and a hobbit hole.

On the minus side, the back bedrooms have no windows/exits, and thus are not up to code as bedrooms. On the plus side, it's basically fireproof anyway (I'm sure it would survive even a forest fire). The other minus - or plus, depending - is that it's technically off grid, getting power from a generator and solar panels, and the only connectivity is satellite internet. This wouldn't be an issue in a more residential area.

Personally, I love this house. It's cozy, practically disappears into the gorgeous scenery, and was not difficult or expensive to build, even in the quite rugged terrain (almost a mile up a steep, switchbacked dirt road).
Indeed. There does seem to be a lot of people who take a lot of pride in unnecessary waste. Even among the supposedly smart people here, just the suggestion that we should reduce waste results in angry backlash.
> Hospitals should be legally mandated to accept replacement of materials in lieu of payment.

> If I can source the same stents for cheaper than the hospital bills me, they should be required to erase them from the bill and accept them as material replacement.

Meh. The only reason they inflate supply costs is because that's where insurance negotiations let them. Mandating supplies must be available at-cost to consumers is just a stupid cost-shifting game. Consumers shouldn't care in particular about the cost of supplies — overall cost is what matters.

Price-fixing in general does not really work. The difference is made up somewhere. Things that would actually reduce pricing stupidity and surprise bills are obvious things like: increased pricing transparency, consumer stake in reducing costs (HDHPs are a stab in this direction), and single payer.
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> Is there a way you think the strategy and when it's appropriate could be made more clear?

I think it's a useful strategy as part of a diversivied portfolio. As the GP mentioned:

> Prudent portfolios include equities as well as debt.

Your guide to building a treasury ladder would be useful to someone implementing Harry Browne's Permanent Portfolio concept, which holds 50% of its assets in US Treasuries. However, building a diversified portfolio is likely outside the scope of your guide.
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Are you serious? You think every American should be required to write a living will for them and their children listing every conceivable illness and injury by individually researching all the medical options in their area? And what, update it weekly as they follow the markets? Should they keep up with the latest medical research so they know what the newest drugs and treatments will cost? What about vacation, do you need to do a week of research to prepare for a weekend trip to NYC?
I'm currently helping a friend build a house in Austria, where houses are generally brick and concrete. You don't want to build the walls out of concrete. Use thick thermal bricks, he kind with lots of internal cavities. Then, if you are in a really cold climate, apply a layer of thick rigid insulation on the outside, followed by a rigid top coat. Floors and ceilings only should be poured concrete.
There is no user data crossing the wire. You are instead sending code that the user will execute. An attacker can substitute literally any code they wish. This new code can collect user data and send it over the wire literally anywhere.

SOP offers zero protection against this. Just load evil.com?data=XYZ in an iframe.
Offload all the mundane aspects of life into TODO lists in iPhone Reminder app (that are also shared on iPad, and web via iCloud) so that they don't clutter my mind so much. Go through them and execute on tasks whenever you have some otherwise unoccupied time. Have separate lists for different categories of tasks. Mine are currently:

- regular reminders - thing to do soon/soon-ish

- things I need to do at a specific date, but no sooner, set with reminder for that date & time (ex. go pick up car from the mechanic on Friday afternoon)

- recurring reminders (ex. backup laptop weekly, send monthly invoice to client)

- list of stuff I'm waiting for (ex. stuff from amazon, reply to email from client)

- less important stuff to do/explore, whenever I have some free time (ex. try to find comfortable and not terribly-looking 100% waterproof pants so that I can take long walks in the rain)

I also keep a list of recommended media (books, movies, tv series) to consume next.

All in all not terribly original, but it took me a while to arrive at this system, so maybe it'll be helpful for someone.
I don't really see how that makes the article more or less likely to be true.
why would you ever not want to like something? liking something is universally better than disliking something.
Exactly. I don't see anything new or differentiating here except that A16Z has a louder microphone and is using HN as a stage to announce it. Besides also apparently reveling in the fallacy that if expert are involved, it can't be hacked.
Came here expecting to find nifty "tiny house" anecdotes.

I see the virus is not spreading :(
As an American, whenever I see articles about Dutch cycling culture, the thing that stands out to me is that nobody is wearing helmets.

In the US, I wouldn't dream of doing that - it's just too dangerous, because there's too much risk of being involved in a high speed collision. But, after having spent some time in the Netherlands, it's come to feel like a minor injustice every time I put my helmet on. It's a little reminder of how, in the US and much the rest of the world, we have blithely turned our public right-of-way into a space that's fundamentally dangerous for humans to be in.
I would say the dynamic is skewed in the US because so few motorists are cyclists. Just perspective.
> C++/Java Style Generics

C++ and Java generics are nothing alike, so there's no such thing as C++/Java-style generics.
You're right about that, but Thrustvectoring is right too. The lowest risk investment that will make you the most over the long term, at least historically, has been index funds. Of course, environments change, and past performance is not a guarantee of future results. As you correctly imply.

I think most responsible advisors would not say, "Put everything here!" Or, "Put everything there!"

You need to diversify a bit, and that diversification should be informed by your own personal appetite for risk. If you have a low appetite for risk, TIPS are the way to go. Maybe some small percentage of your assets diversified across other asset classes.

Conversely, if you have a high appetite for risk, I believe a responsible advisor would still recommend some smaller percentage in TIPS, and then maybe the majority of your holdings diversified across other asset classes.
Here in Europe (and I believe in many other parts of the world as well) propane and butane have been the standard refrigerant in domestic appliances for a couple of decades. I think the industry went straight to these when CFC's were banned.

Considering that your average refrigerator contains a quite modest amount of refrigerant, compared to all the other flammable stuff in your average apartment, it's not really any significant fire risk.
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My wife and I were in Amsterdam a few weeks ago for a music festival and we were blown away by how easy it was to get around on a bike. I don't have much to add to what's in the article just to say that I was shocked by how comfortable riding a bike in Amsterdam is. I live in Austin, TX and would never in a million years ride to work here. There is so little infrastructure to make regular bicycle riding less risky.
Sounds cool, but the fire concern is very real and not so much flames as it is being unable to escape the smoke.
> One thing though is that our geography works well with biking. I visited the US recently and you can drive for 30 minutes in a car and you are still in LA, if you drive for 30 minutes in the Netherlands you're in a completely different city.

That's not geography, that's urban planning, or a lack of it. America's geographic size meant that we could sprawl, not that we had to.

And indeed, especially in the post-WW2 era, we collectively chose to sprawl out far and wide, greatly favoring the automobile at the expense of walking, biking, and transit.

> I would feel really unsafe on a bike in the US.

That makes sense, since yeah, it's dangerous as hell. Got hit twice the last year before I moved to Munich.
> 60% of republicans believe that the Earth and the human race were created ex nihilo recently. 20% of trump fans support SLAVERY.

Not a Trump conservative by any means, but I'm gonna need a source for that one.

Addendum: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/25/donald-tru...
You can get a B/C grade massive oak tabletop quite cheap - bought mine for $100 in Sweden[1] that was 2 meter before I cut it.

[1]: https://www.bauhaus.se/bankskiva-ek-b-c-2020x635x27mm-postfo...
Vi Hart has a "Sol Lewitt Forgery" VR project. http://elevr.com/portfolio/sol-lewitt-forgery/ I don't know how far it got but I liked the idea.
They are not putting _that_ much energy into Monaco, and these are not terribly huge systems. Also, I've been doing this for ten years, so that helps, in terms of experience.
> ultimately too expensive and too late

Their only (admittedly public) rival in the space is Microsoft, and adoption of HoloLens even as a developer platform hasn't exactly been groundbreaking.

There are still many laps left 'til the finish line.
It did about what you'd expect out of a national stock market - that is, until the Soviets seized the means of production, at which point you had literally nothing.
Not to knock your answer, I agree with you that this is a usability problem, but also to be fair, there’s a lot more to the technical side of this than the use of public/private key crypto as you described.
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I don't see what's conspiratorial when it identifies several recent examples of governments doing exactly what the scientists they've interviewed speculate is happening here. If we followed your standard, the Chinese government would be able to get away with anything without scrutiny indefinitely simply by refusing to respond to inquiries.
The advantage of ray tracing is all about reflections - not just with glossy reflective surfaces.

A ray-traced scene can have correct reflections, radiosity, shadows, etc. Reflections also lose their resolution limit, since they are no longer accomplished with a temporary camera.

As far as usage goes, that is very dependent on an engine's current rendering pipeline. The main difference would be with the way fragment shaders work. Instead of rasterizing triangles, you ray-trace a scene.

This also changes the way shadows are mapped, and the way reflections are done.

Here is a nice page I found with a lot more detail:

https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl3-wiki/wiki/2.6.1.-Ray-tracing...
Nice! Bonds seem to be a bit out of favor today, but they have the advantage of reduced volatility.

Glad to see this one on HN.
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I work in a small full-stack JS/TS shop, and we've inherited a RoR application lately.

I see a lot of criticism against the Javascript ecosystem. Let me tell you why I prefer working in Javascript rather than with RoR.

It all boils down to the magic Rails advocates rave about, which is precisely what made my life a nightmare while working on that Rails project. Conventions over configuration is fine when you know those conventions. When all you have to do is work on the frontend part and rebuild an app, then you don't really care all that much about what an asset pipeline might be, or how you're supposed to use it. All those abstractions slow me down. At the end of the day, your run-of-the-mill CRUD apps are all structured kind of the same, and calling a cat a cat instead of inventing non-obvious abstractions is detrimental to speed of dev.

I prefer having `package.json` explicitly listing all the commands I might possibly need than having to memorize what does what with Rails. We've had absolute noobs work on both JS and Rails project and they seem to move much faster and be stuck less on the JS project than with the magic Rails provides. The fact that JS is more imperative helps linking parts of the source code intuitively, compared to Rails having standard classes and hooks and whatnot.

I'm very grateful for what Rails brought to Webdev in general, but I do think that monolithic framework are on their way out. I kind of appreciate being able to follow non-smart code when things go south, and being able to understand what is wrong by just reading the code. I've spent waaay too much time skimming through outdated documentation pages about things that were so clever that they were changed in ulterior versions.

I had the same problems when dealing with Symfony (which still angers me to this day), or Angular.js, or just anything that pretends to know better than me how I should write code. It's kind of a recurring pattern with frameworks that makes me increasingly wary of all of them.

Working with much smaller libraries that you can hope to grasp fully has proven to be much less frustrating personally.

Another advantage is that I can write code once for both the frontend and the backend, which helps me move a lot faster than writing the code + tests in 2 languages.

I know this is not a proof by any means, but I felt that having the point of view of a non-believer would be interesting to you guys.