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HTTPS (cert creation and auto-renewal) is trivial thanks to LetsEncrypt.

Flash/Java (applets, presumably) were never easier to deploy than HTML...
and deploying static sites continues to get easier and easier. See eg Netlify or Zeit/Now.

Autoplay is abused by advertisers and is a terrible UX. I get that you have a particular, outdated workflow and you'd prefer that nothing change, but really that ship sailed a long time ago.
> definitely not paying $10+/bulb

Maybe you should. I mean, the cheapest option is rarely the most durable or performant. See Vimes' Boots Theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Vimes#Boots_theory_of_soci...
Let me guess: you've switched from yellow light to white light?

White lights emit more blue light than yellow lights, which can negatively affect your sleep. It's the real-world equivalent of uninstalling redshift/f.lux on your device.

I've invested in "smart" LEDs and I change their color based on the position of the sun. If the sun is up, the light is white. If the sun is down, the light is dimmed orange.
In case you didn't know (and this is deep geekery, so I don't know why you would): It's a conceit of Tolkien's presentation that the story we're reading in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings was recovered from historical manuscripts written by Bilbo and the other hobbits, which were collected by later hobbits in a tome called the Red Book of Westmarch [1]. That big red leatherbound edition of the Lord of the Rings references this conceit.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch
What a dumb article. Whoever considers email addresses to be identities is an idiot, they are not, they are simply a contact address, and obviously you can have as many of those as you want. If your software can't deal with this fact, your software is broken.
Unless you don't want an account. So many things require stupid email verification just to get at no transactional stuff like content.
Firstly, capital gains and dividends are income. They're not taxed as personal income because of how our tax law is worded, but that law is not set in stone, and the way it is right now is, shall we say, intentionally favorable to certain people.

Your better option doesn't actually work, though, because the really rich can dodge it by borrowing money against their wealth as collateral, and because once stock (and other capital) is inherited, the new owner doesn't pay taxes on its appreciation before acquiring it - so most of it is essentially untaxed entirely.
> No one voiced concerns? Or, more specifically, if they did, no one listened?

Based on experience I would say that the engineers had concerns but they knew that upper management was not interested. It's all about that short-term profit!
It's not uncommon to tip your UPS/FedEx delivery person, or your USPS carrier. At least around the holidays.
This is wage theft, but the fact is even with this negative publicity these companies will continue to steal tips from now on. This isn't the first news report about it, but DoorDash and Instacart obviously don't care.

They're not so dumb as to not realize how this might be a public relations 'challenge'. They realized it would be seen negatively, did the math, and decided that the general public would be apathetic and the supply of people desperate for work would continue to provide them with enough deliverers regardless of how badly they treat them.

The only solution to this is legislative. The whole 'gig' economy is capitalism gone mad, where large corporations take advantage of the most vulnerable people in society for cheap labor without benefits or stability. Governments need to crack down on this before it gets bigger than it already is.
> The second huge fallacy (you are also making it) is that the government wants to ban crypto, but is afraid of saying it and comes up with all kinds of contrived tactics.

"Government" is a term that covers an awful lot of groups with differing agendas.

Law makers make laws. But "government" includes spy agencies, law enforcement, central banks, competing political actors, as well as just rogue individuals.

Making cryptocurrency illegal would require having some degree of popular support (which maybe they would have).

One dude with an agenda, though, could poison the blockchain with a single image. And that one dude (or dudette... i shouldn't be so close minded) could very well be a high-ranking member of a government agency of some sort.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting there's any evidence for this. Just that it doesn't seem entirely unreasonable to consider the possibility.
I tell them no. I don't have the time or patience for people that want to me to work for free. I'm happy to show them what I've done but anything specific they can either pay me or GTFO and find some desperate intern to walk all over.
The product is a big part of a business, so if you have one, all you need is a business partner and VC's to create a multi-million dollar company.
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for me theres one reason and i know there are people who will screw their noses up at it.

i smoke, a lot, especially when im trying to concentrate, when working in an office its quite an annoyance when i have to go outside every 30 mins.

before anyone starts no i dont want to quit, i have done before and found it made me less productive and a generally less pleasant person to be around (not just in the early stages, i quit for three rather unpleasant years) im happy to trade the potential physical issues for the sake of my mental state

other reasons: i can listen to my own music, wear whatever im comfortable in, drink my own decent quality coffee and i dont have to deal with other people (its not possible to work somewhere and not interact with others, id rather not engage their pointless smalltalk but its unavoidable in a workplace scenario)
The ivory example is bad. Aside from being illogcal, it is also wasteful.

It profits only politicians and impostors.
>>If you don't like the law elect different politicians. Don't get mad at companies that follow the law.

>I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws.
Lots of people love to throw around the word "shareholders" like it's a pejorative. The word seems to carry connotations of greedy old Uncle Scrooge, Uncle Pennybags, or some spoiled Saudi Prince. That's a highly distorted view.

Lots of "shareholders" are people's retirement funds, pensions, and the like. When those funds finally pay out, they get taxed as income just like for everybody else.
Great idea. I wish more local governments had this. Lots of cities are acquiring surveillance without pols even knowing.
What you describe only works for cash basis taxpayers. Public companies are all accrual basis taxpayers. Under accrual accounting increasing your inventory affects the financial statements as follows:
* Balance sheet: decreases cash/cash equivalents entry and increases the inventory balance sheet entry (in equal amounts), resulting in no change to net assets or equity
* Income statement: no effect
* Cash flow statement: will show up as a change to inventory, reducing operating cash flow and total cash flow
> If you assume that intelligence is evenly distributed across some demographic

Why on earth would you assume this? It's well known that IQ scores do differ across demographic groups. Maybe you are assuming that all groups have equal underlying genetic potential, but there's no actual evidence for this, it's just the politically correct belief that everyone is scared to question.
Are Uber and Lyft doing this too? Should we tip them in cash? I've wondered if that was better for them.
Sure but presumably, unless all employees start out only at your company, then the effect would also sometimes happen in your company's favour.

As I said in point #1, as long as the rate of defections/arrivals is about even, then your losses on one employee would be offset by your gains on others.
> This is even more true under No Child Left Behind

As NCLB was repealed in 2015, you have either a verb tense problem or are pointing to the wrong law.
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I totally agree with this, and I think this makes the point that social outrage can sometimes play a positive role.

In an ideal world, we could get people to act ethically because it's the right thing to do: if we can't do that, at least we can appeal to their self interest and point out how horribly this could backfire if people found out.
I thought the gig economy is about getting rid of burdensome things like paying employees regularly and reliably, or maintaining a fleet of vehicles, or health insurance and then putting the money into the pockets of the company.

"It's hard to believe that a balance does not exist that would allow for a "gig" company to utilize full-time workers and still be profitable."

Your plumbing business does it, also cleaning companies and most other service businesses. The gig companies can be more profitable because they take shortcuts.
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I would dearly love to use Clojure more professionally but the problem in every country I've worked has always been the talent pool; I struggle to hire because Clojure devs are comparatively much harder to find. Clojure is a wonderful language and I was firmly on the hype-train back in 2011 or so but I'm not convinced it has much of a future outside its current niche. I would be very happy to be proven wrong though!

I had a similar epiphany to you in that coming from a Python background, Clojure radically changed how I thought about and approached problems. Rich Hickey's work is fantastic and I'm very happy to have spent time in that particular corner of the tech world.
The Cree bulbs have been a disappointment for me as well. There was so much buzz about then when they came out, but I've had so many where one of the elements fizzles out and kills the whole bulb because they are wired in series and the elements fail closed or very high resistance.

If I cared more I might try to take the bulbs apart in a way that I could get them back together and just bypass the failed LED with a resister to bring the bulb back to life (at 15% reduced capacity or so).

I have been very disappointed in how hot the bulbs run as well. It feels like they must be wasting a lot of energy to run that hot.
I know they aren't THAT unusual but I'm kind of impressed by the quality of illustration in the article.

How does a writer of a Scientific paper get stuff like that? Do they hire an artist to assist them? Or can this type of illustration be generated from the normal programs they use in their field?
It's worth noting that Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, is working at Dropbox on this project, and that Mypy is funded primarily by Dropbox (I think).

I'm glad that they are doing it, because it's contributed hugely to the Python ecosystem -- especially making it easier for other companies to make the switch to Python 3.

I highly recommend mypy for new and current python3 users. It's one of the biggest and best reasons to be using python3 (not that you should need any more :) )
Nuclino is a tool to write documentation and the only thing "graph" about it, from my understanding as a user, is you can link to different documents within nuclino which then generates a graph. This graph nuclino visualises so the user can explore the documentation.

In my experience this exploring thing kinda only makes sense when you want to document doing/trying the same thing again ( which NASA probably is). If you are just documenting how to connect to a database, set something up or similar it, to me, falls pretty glat. Maybe I'm using it wrong...

No idea what they use under the hood.

Source: Use it where I work
Or, avoid the whole problem by eliminating tipping altogether (please!). Charge a fair and honest price where you can compensate contract workers enough to incentivize them to work for you in the first place (no surprises), and customers will appreciate not feeling the pressure to figure out what an appropriate tip might be. Use feedback/ratings to reward exceptional service.

As an added bonus, you eliminate the discriminatory problems of certain classes of people earning more tips than others for reasons unrelated to service.
Thats silly because Cree is literally no questions asked replacement.

You literally ganked yourself, here.

And they pay shipping.
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now I'm curious
And you can get burnout from exercising too much. Had this happen when I was training for some ultra-distance stuff before I had the proper training framework.
> And yet none of the websites that I enable javascipt on have essential javascritpy features, but they merely don't present the content in plain html.

You're right, that can be a significant problem. Often what I do is to turn JS on and let the page load then turn it off again. When I encounter Smart Alec sites that try to catch people like me out by refreshing JS every few seconds, I either toggle network access to the internet off or capture the text by various other means.

There's always a solution one way or the other.
I don't know, and I'm not sure if anyone outside of the person who gets the order can know, because these laws are so vague anything can be required.
Allowing organ harvesting creates an incentive for executing prisoners.
The tip you give to the UPS driver is a real tip for good service, not a necessary wage supplement to keep them from starving.
And the same may be said about the products we make today 40 years from now. Survivorship bias is the logical error of concentrating on the things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not.
Not sure if the question is meant seriously. There is no shortage of countries in the developing world having all kinds of parental leave, and plenty of information how that is structured.

> bring in another person as a temp CFO for a year?

Yes, that's bascially how things are done. Either a temp hire or, more commonly for specialised roles perhaps, a consultant. There's a whole job market for doing these one year stints.

Of course, you can't force people into parental leave. Some doesn't take any at all. Some take as much as they can. It may very well be the case that specialists and business leaders take less time off than others, but it's not a general trend, especially not with the working class which is perhaps the opposite of what one might expect.

> Is the person entitled to their old job back?

Generally yes, but these things are hard to enforce.

> Do you fire the new person or the old one?

Not really since replacements are hired for a specific time period.

> if someone is definitely necessary in the near-day-to-day?

Then you have a problem but usually you know about it half a year before it's too late.

> things like passively selecting against women and younger people for critical roles. Is that how they manage?

There are plenty of data available on this. Comparing data from different countries is problematic, but countries with more social insurance tend to also have more women in leading positions. This is probably due to confounding effects of course but should be indicative that if the above effect exists it is comparably small.

> the women already did half the corporation's work for them.

I didn't quite understand this part.
If Gmail sends emails for first.last@gmail.com to firstlast@gmail.com, then I would hope Gmail wouldn't allow another account to be made with f.irstlast@gmail.com or fi.rstla.st@gmail.com or any other permutation of the dots (or lack of).
Who polices the VCs? It seems like they have no accountability, even financially speaking. If one investment fails they have nine more to reallocate towards, so to speak.
There are literally 10-100 times more clojure jobs in every market I’ve searched than Julia or D jobs. The ecosystem continues to evolve in new and exciting ways, and third party developer tooling and integrations keep expanding. HN has been bullish on D for at least 10 years going and yet all the _new_ systems programming roles in my city are C++ and a bit of Rust.
> The capital gains rate is the source of our most gruesome wealth inequality. It's absurd that Mitt Romney pays half my effective tax rate on 200 times my income. The justification for low capital gains rates is "double taxation" due to corporate income tax. Abolishing corporate income tax eliminates that.

The lower capital gains tax rate leads to income tax inequality, but I doubt it significantly changes wealth inequality. In CA, top long term bracket is 37%, top ordinary is 54%. That 17% jump will reduce dividend compounding a bit (by 17 bp or so) and require withdrawing 20% more portfolio [if at zero basis] to cover expenses -- but when you have $1B, neither change fundamentally changes your lifestyle.

And don't forget that cap gains tax can be avoided or lowered in all sorts of ways (step-up on death, donations, gifts, tax advantaged accounts, etc.) You also have business owners subject to QSBS getting no federal cap gains taxes.
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I completely agree with this. Why would the average Joe trust the chain you describe more than a Corporation with a physical address and humans to interact with?

What are your thoughts on stuff like the many blockchain real estate related projects? e.g. "tokenized real estate" "100% liquidity" etc etc.
> subsidize education so much that every school is as good as the ones Zuckerberg and Gates attended.

You won't get that. The truth is that parental involvement is at least if not more important than the sort of school they go to.

I would guess that if Zuckerberg and Gates had been forced to go to public school, they still would have done well due to parental involvement. On the other hand, if you took a child in a single parent home in which the parent works 2 jobs and struggles to pay bills and put them in the same school that Zuckerberg and Gates attended, I would bet that they would do worse than hypothetical Zuckerberg or Gates at a crappy school.

Part of the reason why private schools score higher is that they select for parents who 1) Care about education and 2) Are well off enough economically to afford it. You put a bunch of students like that together and in aggregate they are going to do well. On the other hand, if you have a school (with mandatory attendance) where a large portion of the students live in struggling households where concern for education is behind putting food on the table and a roof over head, the school is going to struggle, even if you had the best teachers in the world with a vast amount of teaching resources.
The referenced paper: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3241726
The argument, especially for low-margin businesses like these delivery startups, is that the company might go under if financial tricks aren't in place.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Might as well take the path of least embarrassment and hope no one calls out the tricks.
TIL about PoE lighting.

I always imagined homes would migrate to 12VDC and converge electronics with RVs.
> Are digital assistants really representative signs of cultural harmony and world peace? Hardly. In fact, the logic of binary is inherently polarizing. You can either be a 1 or a 0 and you must pick a side. Pro life or pro choice? Trump or Hillary? Democrat or Republican? Amidst the ironclad logic of the syntax of binary code, the ultimate form of protest and rebellion is to declare oneself non-binary.

…what? Seems like a strained metaphor to me. Computers suddenly becoming ternary would not magically make the country into a three party system.
The camper van movement is pretty popular for sure.

Sportsmobile has been converting vans to mini RV or camper van since 1965. Someone recently got a guided tour of the factory by the owner and here it is.

https://youtu.be/p3X9UjNx9g0?t=123

He said there were about 100 vans at the factory at the time, in various stages of conversion. And they were sold out for 14 months.

Near the end the owner shares stories of some of the customers. Some are professional nature photographers/athletes (?) who must stay outdoors for days, and need clean/dry place for equipment, eat/sleep etc. Having the van saves them much time required to travel to/from hotel to their work site.

A lot of employees of Google/Apple also are customers of Sportsmobile.

And some are even medical residents who basically need a place to sleep between shifts and choose to sleep in a camper van, parked at the hospital parking lot.

So camper van is not just for people who want to travel for the sake of travel.

I would love to have a camper van at my disposal so that I can go explore some popular sites like Yosemite, beach campsites etc. But $100,000 is big money.
At least for DoorDash you tip ahead of time so it doesn't really make sense to associate the tip with the quality of the driver.
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You need the transformer to step down the voltage For example: going from 120V AC (in US) down to something the rectifier can use to produce the DC line voltage like 5V. An AC to DC converter will have both a transformer and rectifier.
Destroying the knowledge now is counter productive and if anything it makes all lives lost in vain
The monetization is having a curated up to date list of email verification handshakes.

This has value.
Lots of technological systems have non-reversible consequences. For instance hard drives and airplanes for example. Schneier is essentially identifying an inherent trade-off between trusting the correctness of a technological device vs trusting in an institution. This is a trade-off happens all over the place:

1. Many people don't encrypt their email (trust technology) and instead trust gmail and associated intelligence agencies to act in their best interest.

2. Many people encrypt their HTTP connections rather than trusting ISPs and internet providers.

An important difference between encrypting HTTP connections and encrypting email is that one is far more convenient than the other. However encrypting your email does make sense in certain situations and so does Bitcoin.
For bulbs that are really cheap, people won't keep their receipts and warranty information. I think it will be hard for bulbs to differentiate by warranty.
interesting, "beat it" was the development name for the drumbeat project, and the lable of the main routine in the original source code. Is it circumstantial that you chose "beat it" in your comment or is there an inside knowledge?
No one pays dividends these days anyway. It's all shifted to capital gains, to pumping the stock price rather than delivering profits.
> This system is not meant to be used when roaming? Or is this a use case?

kingo555 described a home network, but I don't think it matters. kingo555's threat model doesn't appear to consider traffic analysis, excluding it from the threat model, and that's a very reasonable choice. The system doesn't make any timing attacks easier.

> In this case, the answer is apparently "Well, your question isn't really relevant because this system is just meant for home use." One helpful sentence, no assumptions and no negativity.

I thought that was what I did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095304 But I was wrong, and sometimes it takes an entire conversation to discover the differences in assumptions and definitions.
> The account "bruceschneier@gmail.com" maps to the exact same address as "bruce.schneier@gmail.com" and "b.r.u.c.e.schneier@gmail.com" -- and so on.

Just a minor nit: the distinct addresses map to the same inbox or google account. I fail to see how this breaks email.