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Something very interesting about this comments section. For years now when HN had a link about problems with the Chinese economy, there would be number of comments from China defenders who would say no, things are fine and the government knows exactly what it is doing. I strongly suspected many of them were paid government trolls.

This time we are aren't getting any such comments. Instead we have gotten a number of attacks on Krugman, without saying anything specific about how his analysis is wrong.

I could be mistaken, but I am guessing that the troll minders see they can't make a real defense, so they are trying to just distract readers away from what Krugman had to say.
Interestingly (perhaps?) we got a Leaf a few months ago and the biggest thing that surprised me is that it is massive inside. I guess because the battery is stored under the floor. Although I have relatively short arms for someone my height (5' 10"), I still think it's instructive to say that when I'm sitting in the passenger seat, I can't touch the dash without leaning forward. And, again, I have slightly shorter legs, but with the seat all the way forward, I can still stretch out my legs without bending them and not touch the front. I have a long body (if it weren't for my short legs, I would be well over 6') and I can wear a straw hat in the car and still have a couple of inches of clearance. Not so sure about width... I'm probably "average sized" for a North American (fat for a Japanese person -- my wife likes to remind me...) and the width is perfectly comfortable.

My supposition is that electric vehicles are just a lot more efficient on space. The leaf isn't a huge car externally (although it's not exactly small either), but it's the biggest interior I've ridden in for a long time (probably not since my Grandfather's Buick).

As for the 2 car issue, I actually don't use a car much at all. The only reason we have one is because my wife insists that she needs it. Getting things delivered is both more convenient and cheaper from my perspective. The trade off is that I need to plan ahead a day or so, but I don't actually have to lift big heavy stuff. If I need to haul something bigger, I just rent the appropriate vehicle. I usually end up renting once or twice a year. It saves massive amounts of money. It is a lifestyle change, but it's got upsides as well as downsides.
There's demand sure, but not much profit available. Those fleet buyers choose the cheapest stripper spec trucks and have no brand loyalty. So the manufacturers focus on more profitable segments.
And best of all, electricity just produces itself!
I'm in Utah. I have a small wagon that gets 30+ mpg and and f-250. Do I need the 250? No. I don't really need the wagon either, I can take transit to work every day, or bike. Or walk. But I like having the 250 so I can haul loads of dirt by the yard for my garden, stone fill for the driveway I'm diy'ing, the compactor to tamp it down, drywall sheets for my remodel, or my mountain bike along with those of six buddies. And if I had to pick just one car? It'd be a truck.
FastMail offers spreadsheets, word processing, and cloud storage now?
Those are well paying jobs so I assume someone will want to do it.
After working with Pentagram in the past, I can't say I'm all that impressed. Most times they tend to completely lose the concept they were trying to go after, and this is no exception to the rule. The beauty of the original hash logo was that it harkened back to the tags and IRC channel names. You can't see the hash in the new logo, and frankly, it looks like a blasted swastika.
It would be quite cathartic to read an apology for the shitty software on cable boxes.
There are so many apps from Osmo. Which ones are you talking about?
The parent’s point was that contributors shouldn’t have permissions to upload binaries; they only commit source code and your CI infrastructure compiles, releases, and deploys it.
Surely the bags are reusable, so it’s not so much “Whole Foods bags” as it is, “bags of Whole Foods groceries”.
Nike's New Self-Lacing Basketball Shoe Is Smart
Yes. I feel indifferent about all programming languages. I don't understand emotional attachments or reactions to programming languages.
No, but your business might not need those features. Why pay for what you’re not using?
If I'm reading the numbers right, even using the slow way you'd expect to break on the order of tens of keys per day. Thus the claim that "two out of every one thousand RSA moduli [...] offer no security" is easily verified. The secret algorithm doesn't compute secret data that can't be verified.
Untrained people pulling poorly maintained trailers with under-sized vehicles and without the brake lights hooked up properly because there are several connector standards will cause a lot of wrecks.
Hey, so the SSPL is an unlicensed modified derivative of the GPL, which is a copyright-protected work of the FSF which carries this notice immediately following the copyright notice, “Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.”
I have a couple small businesses on it for nothing other than convenience. I clicked this hoping for a pleasant surprise but instead got an expected reality. No problem, email migration is one of the easiest out there (as long as you aren’t to tangled in their other services) and I find myself using clients more than their web interface anymore so much of the gmail advantage is non-existent.
Targeted ads are almost universally pretty terrible. My reaction to seeing a targeted ad usually falls into one of these categories:

- I already bought that recently, why would I need another one?

- I already decided which variety of thing you're showing me I will buy, this ad isn't helpful to me.

- Why are you spying on me? That's creepy, I'm not going to click that ad even if it was exactly the thing I wanted to buy right now.

I expect that this experience isn't extraordinarily unique. Having less targeted ads is actually somewhat helpful because it maintains the pretense that ad companies aren't spying on you constantly.
Troy's site does indicate which site breach it came from generally. I ran my emails and found it funny when myspace came up (and others I was aware of). I guess I did have an account there after all but I've used password safe for over a decade and always have unique passwords including that one from 2007.
Yeah, the shops like H&R looks like people there literally are just typing in numbers into forms on screen with zero added value. I got the same impression when I talked to them, fortunately I discovered it before paying them. OTOH, there are real professionals which gave me excellent advice over the years and saved me a bunch of money. They are usually independent CPAs and not part of any large franchise like H&R. Otherwise I just use TurboTax - no reason to pay anybody for typing I could do myself.
Scientific modelling has given plenty of examples, many of which have been mentioned here and you've dismissed them out of hand because, in your opinion, 'modelling' is apparently unscientific.

What other method does humanity have of estimating future effects?

If you don't accept the modelling scenarios then you won't accept anything. Continually asking for something that is impossible to provide is what's absurd.
Can't mention this without posting an article by Matt Levine on this topic [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-08-24/are-in...
Why not invest in space-faring companies? There are 40 billion earth-like planets out there. Plenty of room for lots of different eco-systems to flourish.
The big question surrounding GM food, I would argue, is in fact the most interesting of all questions facing human civilization, drilling down to our core identity: is intelligent design a long term sustainable strategy? Is the nature of the universe even capable of supporting life intelligent enough not to wipe itself out shortly after discovering a technology like fossil fuels or is the nature of biological life such that all intelligent species will be destroyed by an insatiable hunger for growth? Hell, is the universe capable of producing life intelligent enough to even grasp a fraction of the knowledge required for long term (approaching heat death of the universe) survival?

It's unfortunate that the interesting debate/study of whether or not we should play god and whether we are capable of dealing with the long term consequences is subsumed by pseudoscience.
I'm also developing a website that allows users to run their own code.

I have done some investigation on this topic, initially I did something similar to yours, run code in a webworker. But because I want the users to render graphics, webworker is very limited (offscreencanvas) and doesn't support mobile well.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5044608/javascript-sandb...

both google and facebook have developed some kind of sandbox for javascript. I briefly checked the google thing, I didn't like it, because it put limitations on the javascript users can write. it also needs a compiler server, which adds complexity to my backend.

my current choice is similar to that of jsfiddle, codepen and observablehq.com, I let users to run code in a sandboxed iframe. I have some restrictions on the iframe and the iframe is served with a different domain, so it is isolated from my main site.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8004001/how-does-jsfiddl...
His post is super unclear but I think he is concerned about someone getting their hands on his source code. In general, a compiled Go binary is not trivial to reverse engineer, so there’s some security through obscurity there.
Creative Genius he’s had for about two years, I think it was their “flagship” kit for much of that time. It includes tangrams, math, spelling, a couple creative drawings game and a physics game of redirecting bouncing balls towards targets. Thats the one I would recommend without hesitation for any kid pre-k to mid-elementary.

He also got the pizza game one that teaches about money math and making peoples orders over the holidays and has had a good time with it.

On the complete fun side he also got the mindracers set for the holidays, very little educational value there but he’s had a great time playing with it and I think kids like having something tangible to go along with their games.
Please note[1] that:

> To rev-parse an automatic FLOUNDER_LOG or diff the working subtrees, use the command git-link-submodule --retrieve-wrestle-change.

I often overlook this detail when trying to hulk smash some broken change I've made upstream (what the manual entry correctly refers to as RIP_OTHER_TIP).

[1] https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#81394c8bf3806f9...
The other hidden cost of automation that feeds into less engagement is that some social media will put a damper on automated/bot accounts based on internal criteria for organic engagement. Also, automation isn't a binary choice. You can lessen the frequency of automation and mix in organic content.
Microsoft Is Pledging $500M for Affordable Housing in the Seattle Area
Ditto on the Leaf. I’m 6’5” and still have 2” headroom, and most importantly, clear line of sight (not looking into visor).

I can also put the seat all the way back and still fit someone behind me.

It has much more passenger room than my Toyota truck. Very happy with it.
Actually, Rick Koz is the original and current Son of Svengoolie character. He's been on two or three different stations since the 70's I think, but it's the same guy.
This reminds me of a meme I saw once upon a time:

> Dear Amazon, I bought a toilet seat because I needed one. Necessity, not desire. I do not collect them. I am not a toilet seat addict. No matter how temptingly you email me, I'm not going to think, oh go on then, just one more toilet seat, I'll treat myself.
They are already doing so. VIP recognition and check-in are two cases.
Very succinct and eloquent, thank you
I was home-shopping recently, and every time I looked at a FSBO home and tried to figure out what the price should be, I got the overwhelming impression I had spent more time looking up comps for the home in question than the owner had. I ran into realtor-sold homes that struck me as priced high for the market, but nothing like the FSBOs.
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Is your handle a wordplay upon Ry Cooder, or are you actually a wry coder, or both?
Microsoft pledges $500M for affordable housing in Seattle area
Amazon affiliate links for books are the sole times I've ever clicked on an ad with the intention to buy the product behind it. And I can count the number of times I've done that on one hand.

Incidentally, those weren't targeted ads. Those were ads hand-picked by the person producing the content about those books. From that very small sample I conclude that ads relevant to the context in which they're placed are more effective than targeted ads.
Bogle was certainly a visionary, though I always find it odd that he never got on the ETF bandwagon. They are the next logical step in his vision for finance.

Granted, they carry some risks that index funds don’t (liquidity and market risk), but they provide many advantages (like taxes). They also can be repurposed for any kind of investment vehicle as they essentially are just an “API.”
Fuel cells appear to be a dead end. There's no efficient way to produce hydrogen, unless electric power becomes far cheaper than it is today.
Wow. Thus passes a legend. Deserves the black bar IMHO, if you consider the debt owed to him by roboadvisors and such.
Buying individual stocks in proportion to the market-cap index is possible today as a service, and advertised by Wealthfront as "direct indexing" or stock-level tax-loss harvesting

The small tax advantage is that you can sell individual stocks for tax-loss harvesting. Fisher advisors also offers this for HNW folks.

This article criticizes this as a lock-in for wealthfront, unlike funds which can be easily transferred to brokerage "in-kind" (without 500 separate securities, or selling as a taxable event)
* https://medium.com/@wwalser/the-trap-of-wealthfronts-direct-...

RIP Bogle, making the world a fairer place rather than being a billionaire. I'd like to bike from Philadelphia to Valley Forge again to make pilgrimage.
I think it's time for an external, trustworthy entity to spawn that would vet and endorse companies that respect their users. Something like the "USDA Organic" label but for user privacies. Maybe it'd be an EFF-like entity that audits companies in exchange for a fee and endorse that "Company X, and the product/services it uses, are respecting user privacy". We could then derive a chain of trust between companies, maybe have a browser extension that tells when we're using a website that is endorsed by such entity?
Do you own a house? Do you do work on it yourself? Do you maintain a lawn?

How about sporting activities? Own a boat? A snowmobile? A few kayaks maybe? Dirt bike?

I assume you have a trash pickup at your place. You know a lot of towns don’t, and you have to haul your own trash to the town dump?

Perhaps there are a million reasons why it’s great in your life to not own or even feel like you need a car. Perhaps there are a million other reasons people want and need a truck to drive.

Personally, once I started maintaining a house and an acre of land, the way I wanted to maintain it, it gets very difficult having to wait hours for someone to return with the Home Depot truck because I need to get xyz thing home. I mooch off my brother a lot to move heavier equipment around, because he has a truck and a trailer, but there are a lot of projects I can’t get done for lack of a proper work vehicle.

I order a lot of stuff off Amazon. But every time I’ve tried ordering groceries I’ve regretted it. Mostly because they insist on delivering from a store 13 miles away when there’s a perfectly good Whole Foods 3.5 miles down the road, and it just seems so asinine.
The best protection is going to be execution.

NDAs aren't really going to help you in this regard.

Just take some meetings, tell them what you're working on and if some form of collaboration is of interest.
It’s mainstream in the sense that it’s commonly discussed in media, but isn’t mainstream in the sense of adoption or anything like adoption in our lifetimes. Consumption of animal products is growing, and if you want that to change, you have to recognize what reality is first. The future looks like China and India being able to afford more animal products to per capita, especially China, and that’s not the kind of transformation lauded in this article or your post.

Some “Impossible Burgers” on the shelves in Whole Foods isn’t a revolution.
This is absolutely a problem. The buyers agent is a gatekeeper. They will not show your property if the commission is that low.

Source: I used to be a real estate agent. I left the industry because of BS economic incentives like that and others that incentivize you to not put your client's best interests ahead. That and the ripoff racket that is most brokerage licensing requirements and the arrangements enforced by law (that is heavily influenced by the NAR).
Purchase price is not public in all states
The rate is negotiable.

But usually it’s because people need their house to sell while they are still making payments. If there isn’t any urgency to sell, experimentation is fine.

In extremely high demand markets, you’re clearly better off experimenting too.
I vote for black-bar
Yeah, but it was the setup that included all that information about him. That's why I said "F". An OPSEC fail. For the ex-employee, it was failure in judgment. And also OPSEC failure, for not checking the device for compromising information.
I'm white and my wife is black, and she's said and confirmed this with me, saying she's surprised how I will handle certain situations.
You almost always don't want your hired professionals doing freehand reproductions (there are exceptions -- a stated goal of the NASA worm was that it should be easy to freehand on NASA property), but you certainly want amateurs reproducing it in the wild. If your logo is so ubiquitous and simple that children draw it in their school books (think Nike, Pepsi, McDonalds, NASA again, etc.) then that's free advertising. This sort of non-sponsored advertising exists on a continuum, and it's usually beneficial to the signified organization.
Most businesses do need those features. Businesses using only mail are relatively few and far between.
Literally just a 20% price hike.

Why bother with all the fluff, just say, "We're charging you 20% more now."
And don't most undocumented immigrants first enter legally and then just don't leave? I know several Irish immigrants who've done that (though I bet nobody would call them 'illegal", which is what leads me to suspect there's something else behind all this).

But, seriously, if you want to curb the problem, hit the people who hire them harder. Make it hurt. We can start with Nunes's family farm and Trump's properties. But, be prepared for the backlash when prices start increasing on everything...
Well, on one level, you're not. If you're doing house work, cooking, and cleaning up, you're doing better than many of us.

And yet, the way you speak about your marriage (and your reasons for wanting a divorce) still strike me as fundamentally selfish. Perhaps emotionally selfish, or perhaps that you're thinking about your marriage from a fundamentally selfish perspective. I'm having a bit of trouble putting into words why I think that, though, and how I think you should be different. So, maybe not much help...
That's not really what they're trying to do.

What they're trying to do is make it so challenging to host MongoDB as a service that cloud providers can't do it. They implemented it with an absurd requirement forcing contributions to open source, but the intent is not to improve open source, it's to end regain market control.
Wait. So am I getting this right? They scrapped Hangouts, in favour of 2 seperate apps, Hangout Meet and Hangout Chat, and they are using that as a reason to raise their prices?

Cloud Search seems interesting. But the email auto-completion isn't full enough, especially in a business environment to even bother using. None of this is worth a 20% increase in prices...
Don't you give Jeep your name and address when you buy the vehicle?
Seems like they are missing an opportunity to improve their advertising.

Also Google could place a survey question instead of an ad, asking "Which of these products have you purchased in the past month?"
Thanks! It’s been fun to develop it and we love when people discover and use it
I had some terrible experiences with Airbnb a couple of times. Their customer service is as responsive as that if Google’s; almost non-existent.

I prefer to stay away from any company that doesn’t offer a human to talk to when things go awry.
Did not see any mention of how politicians in Texas dealing with this - - - most likely with a big s##t eating grin taking huge bribes from the oil industry so they can pump the Permian basin dry, pedal to the metal, as they say
There's always a chance of both being caused by the same thing. Genetic profile could be one example of such thing, but there may be other. If you (or me) cannot readily give a full list of possible causes, it doesn't mean these causes do not exist.

...And there’s a chance that Oumuoamuoa is a spaceship, that I’m an AI, and that you don’t even exist.

It’s vanishingly unlikely though, which was the point being made by the person you responded to.
I used Hangouts today and it was really bad.

Had much better experience with AWS Chime and Zoom.
> Why should we favour the first one?

If confirmed, which of the following two will get to the first page of all newspapers in the world:

* Scientists find a rock in space

* Scientists find a alien starship in space

The "default" selection is the other, unless someone provides overwhelming evidence.

> In this case, when we discovered a new, weird and unexplainable phenomenon,

It's probably a rock with some ice.

> Well, according to the Fermi Paradox,

The Fermi paradox starts from the assumption that we should expect a big number of advanced civilization in the Milky Way, but we really don't have the smallest cue about how the number should be. We have a estimations from millions of millions to much less than one. We just don't know. We only know that we didn't find an alien civilization yet. We didn't even find alien life yet. So you can't use the Fermi paradox as a proof or supporting evidence that an unknown object has alien origin.
Because it is awesome
I’m guessing your not happy with Ford and GM’s all new aluminum beds then?
Yes but such a crap shoot. And you'll easily spend $500 paying for one. Best advice I ever got was to just hire a general contractor to do it for roughly the same price. They find way more stuff and generally know the codes better. I've had inspectors miss huge structural problems that destroyed me later.
You have a point :D. But I would expect AirBnB owners to lie about it and me being unable to find it when it's hidden in a plant or something. I was mostly curious about any legal ramifications that would come up if I decided to take my privacy in my own hands.
Literally the only reason I pay for GSuite is to be able to use Gmail with my custom domains. I imagine a lot of their Basic membership subscribers are similar. This might be a deal-breaker for me because I was already debating on if it was worth the $5/mo.

Are there any other solid alternatives that the HN crowd can recommend?
Hidden damage to the house that wasn’t found in an inspection and not disclosed by the seller. Low level water or termite damage that can’t be seen because a layer of wall was built in front of it.

Just as an example.
This is terrible. How am I supposed to roll coal in an electric?
The actual audio ads are blocked/skipped? (vs the pop-up ads)
Is it connection based like MySQL and such?