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every time Brad Frost writes something a bit controversial, it always feels like he can write and understand html and css, but anything else (including React) is way over his head.

No disrespect, it just feels like he's not spending the time necessary to understand how things work and instead of doing so, he just goes on and vents on his blog.
The federal government was quite limited for the vast majority of its history. It wasn't until the New Deal where the president and congress teamed up and threatened to pack the court if they didn't play ball that the whole limited federal government, but strong state government thing became a relic of the past.
Absolutely nothing. There are two things that we provide that going directly to a builder can't get you:
1) No upfront costs. We pay for the entire unit without asking our homeowners to put any money down.
2) Turnkey solution. We do all of the building and rental management for the homeowner, allowing them to sit back and see rental income coming in.
At least in NYC, growing up, there were always playgrounds and parks full of kids. And I could go there by myself and meet my friends there. If we got bored of the nearby park we could always go use public transportation and go to a different one. And when I got older I could go to restaurants by myself, or go to museums and shows by myself, etc.

There isn't that much within safe walking distance of a suburban home. Especially now that anchor tenants and the attached malls are starting to thin out. Anecdotally when I went to college, the kids from the suburbs definitely drank and did drugs much more heavily, and I suspect it was because that's all there's left to do if you get bored of video games and whatever little is actually at your fingertips.
Sumbt: Slot-Utterance Matching for Universal and Scalable Belief Tracking
Actually. These incredibly interesting Wikipedia articles pop up here on HN from time to time.
how do you go on errands with your kids in the suburbs? did you buy a used schoolbus? also, your oldest children must be somewhere between 15 and 20. assuming they haven't moved out yet, are they totally incapable of helping your shepherd their youngest siblings?
Occasionally something adult slipped through but we caught it as quickly as humanly possible.

The government never had an issue with us, and we worked with them. The only company enforcing anything was Google, and they kept moving the goal posts every time we talked to them until it became clear there was nothing we could do to resolve these issues to meet their standards, standards they themselves have not met in the past 11+ years.
>So she had lived in the US for six years and still had to beg the government for permission to change jobs? I had no idea it was this bad.

The purpose of the H1B program is for foreign specialists to do work for which no American worker can be found. It's not for foreigners to come to the US and go job hopping.
It’s not quite so simple. Both men and women state the ideal number of children they want to have as about 2.7: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/upshot/american-fertility.... Our society doesn’t just introduce more alternatives to having kids, it introduces more factors that get in the way or having kids. We’ve structured our society around this extended adolescence, where young people aren’t even really done with school until well into their adulthood. By the time they get their feet under them and settled down, they’re rushing to have a couple of kids before the clock runs out.
and then you have to trap InterruptedException... etc. It's not straightforward.
Weigh it?
> The super perplexing thing is that cloud providers jumped on the kubernetes bandwagon so quickly and this is what made this commoditization possible. Pessimistically speaking, this means either they're either about to butcher the cross-cloud usability of kubernetes (i.e. drift between EKS,AKS,etc) or kubernetes was a wolf in sheep's clothing from the start.

Is it perplexing? Didn't Google do the same thing with Chrome and Android? Understandably those aren't enterprise systems, but they successfully entered a market by open sourcing something that became wildly popular. In the case of Android and k8s, user cost is also reduced. Once it was clear that k8s won over mesos and docker's solution, AWS and MSFT didn't have much of a choice but to adopt it.
Well 1stcity3rdcoast is "raising children in the densest urban core" and asks us to "Imagine" being in his situation. I did imagine it.

In reality, of course I don't live like that. I'm in a big house in a non-urban city, I almost never go out to eat, and there is no subway here. We drive a Ford E350 with 15 seats in 5 rows, and the vehicle title or registration does actually say "bus". The kids usually surprise other people with good behavior, but they are still kids. They aren't the sort to throw tantrums, but spills and other accidents will happen.
You're confusing stats from my other company with LiveVideo. Those numbers are from my second startup that Google messed with. It was a much smaller operation nowhere near the size of LiveVideo.com. The amount of traffic I did in a year with my startup was a weekend for LiveVideo.com.
The article mentions recent state laws that overrode city prohibitions on multiple units: SB 1069 (2016) required cities to approve ADUs in backyards of all single-family houses and inside houses, and AB 494/SB 229 (2017) reduced parking requirements to 1 parking spot per ADU and made them more financially feasible (by limiting utility fees and allowing ADU rental). These are a big deal, especially on suburban 5,000+ sq. ft. lots where there is enough space for egress and parking.

As for your dog, no homeowner is required to construct an ADU, so an owner who wants to keep a big yard is allowed to do so. Other homeowners can make a different decision depending on their situation.

SB 1069: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

AB 494: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

SB 229: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Nope. I've spent enough time among Catholics and other Christians to know that "the person you should love most of all" would be unequivocally understood as God. In their worldview, just because God is with you all the time doesn't mean you are actually free to give him all your attention and focus on that relationship.
I'm confused, because:

1. The story seems to acknowledge that there was adult content on the site.

2. There is adult content evident in the Archive.org snapshots of the site.

3. Some of that content appears to be promoted content, links from the front page appear to go to content tagged "xxx", and many of the categories in the directory are also tagged with things like "sexy" and "girls".

4. It's not at all clear what the distinction you're trying to draw between UGC video and... what other kind of video is there on the site? Why is there a family filter at all if there's no adult content on the site?
If they're coming to you offering to do this it is most likely a scam as others have said or something you could easily do yourself. First place I would check is with your state's unclaimed property (e.g. in california: https://www.sco.ca.gov/upd_msg.html ). It's highly doubtful they would have knowledge of an inactive account held at a company and that company should have been trying to contact you before turning the assets over to the state. Your idea of contacting the acquiring company's finance dept wouldn't hurt either.
Libra is owned by a Swiss organization, not Facebook.
VMWare seems a good nod. The others seem more of the same, though I may have missed a stealthy good catch.
I think it's highly dependent on your area. In my smaller town I never have traffic. I have plenty of restaurants and activities and more "parkland" and nature than a city dweller could dream.

City dwellers seem to think of smaller towns as some sort of dessert wasteland, but I can get to anything a city dweller can in the same amount of time. There's just as much stuff out here, we just also have enough room to live comfortably. The low property prices and crime are great too.
https://github.com/umbrae/reddit-top-2.5-million/blob/master...
> Send a message to everyone requiring a government root CA with an easy install, or their internet won't work.

They’re training their entire population to install things that they get in unsolicited emails that purport to be from a legitimate source.

What could go wrong?
I thought of replying, thought better of it. But it's true that you can get a lot of density from low rise buildings. My old neighborhood of 100 year old two story town houses is about 18,000 people per square mile. Friends of mine with older kids just let them roll around the city. There's a lot to do.

My take on the bad thing about sprawl and suburbs is the amount of time and driving needed to get to not sprawl and suburbs. And when there was 'the city' and 'the suburb' living in 'the suburb' was 'nice'. Now that it's all suburbs and a city jammed with traffic from the suburbs, nothing is that nice.
Where do you live that you're seeing "used needles littering many of them"? This was something that I often heard talked about by teachers and parents, but I only ever recall seeing ONE used needle laying around when I was a kid and it wasn't at a park - it was on the campus of an Ivy League college!

The vast majority of the parks I've been to in the US have been clean and well kept up, even ones in the higher-crime areas of town.
> Surely you still don't need to support <version of IE released in 1997>!?

We exist. I'm still forced into document mode 5 by the top level frame.
For [3] (exploiting IE's XSS filter default behaviour to create XSS) see also https://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/xss-attacks-exploitin... .

The author recommends either changing the default behaviour to block or disabling the filter altogether. I believe experience has shown this protection method cannot be fixed.

Ultimately, safe code is code that can be reasoned about but there never was even any specification for this 'feature'. By comparison, CSP has a strict specification. It covers more attacks, and has a better failure mode between XSS protections' filter and block entire page load behaviours.
This is just a legal maneuver crypto projects do I believe.
Yes. It had live video, and live streaming in 2007 that is better than what YouTube even offers today. LiveVideo.com had way more features than YouTube even has today.

Justin.tv which eventually became Twitch actually struggled and almost failed before they were able to capture the live streaming gaming market.
Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Man?
Wow, this is some amazing stuff! Congratulations!
It’s not about counting licenses. It’s the hassles of responding to proving you’re not in breech or complex contracts signed over decades when the vendors change product names, definitions and terms every few years.

It’s gotten so complicated that these vendors hire specialized firms to go after their customers, who then have to buy software to prove they’re not stealing.

This activity fills IBM’s coffers while distracting their customers.
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Personal anecdote.

Vox itself removed comments after a time, probably because this bubble could not reasonably be preserved in response to the majority of their articles.

The Verge is somewhat more open, depending on the topic and whether it is technical or political in nature.

Polygon's Ben Kuchera is a caustically aggressive moderator, and is the primary one I saw behaving in this manner, in addition to antagonizing commenters who disagreed with an article's premise; doubly so if he himself wrote the article.
IBM is very guilty. Then they hire Deloitte to chase their customers for breech.
Hi there! You can always choose to buy us out of the contract whenever you want -- we just ask for people to pay for the equity they have yet to earn in the unit. We will need to eventually give custodial ownership to a larger entity (think big bank) in the medium term to mitigate the risk of our company going under for the homeowner, such that, if the worst-case scenario happened to our company, the homeowner continues to make rental income as usual.
>JavaScript stepped up to the plate because nobody else did.

Javascript didn't "step up" to any plate. Browser vendors simply refused to support other languages.

> Electron is there because nothing else could provide the same level of power for total novices to come in and make groundbreaking applications.

Electron is there because software developers wanted to create apps with cheap labor and there were plenty of javascript web devs around.

> Node is there because nothing else let you hire a guy who could handle literally every single aspect of your business's digital presence, from front end sites to internal employee portals to mobile apps to APIs to vendor integrations.

Node is there because of SV hype and money, and no company should (or would) have the same employee handling "literally every single aspect of your business's digital presence, from front end sites to internal employee portals to mobile apps to APIs to vendor integrations," nor does knowing Javascript qualify a single person for all of these roles.

That's not a use case, it's a power fantasy.

I agree with most of your comment, although it seems as if you believe there was no open source development or public development of software before javascript came along, and the line you're drawing between "javascript" and "elitists manipulating society and capitalism" is specious, but none of what's good about javascript excuses what's bad about the ecosystem, culture and the increasing centralization and control over both by corporate interests.
That sounds like a problem for women. Men can happily have children in their 70s as the current president has shown.
This feels so foreign to me. Just...use React? JSX syntax isn't hard :<

Like if it was Haskell or something I would be understanding, but this just sounds like lazy.
Oracle’s pricing is “whatever we can get from the customer.”

Their salespeople are so hyper-agressive that I can tell which vendors have ex-Oracle reps.
Hi there - my name is Spencer and I'm one of the co-founders of Rent the Backyard.

@simonebrunozzi -- great summation of the ADU climate in the US. In California, the government has become even more receptive to ADU in the last few years (https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Are-accessory-dw...)

Our financial model is different than a loan. We use the split from the profits of the unit to make back our money and secure that with a lien on the home. The great thing here is that this lien decreases each year over 30 years until it goes away and you own 100% of the unit and its proceeds.

The great thing about an ADU is that it appreciates the value of your home. We're focused on building long term partnerships with homeowners but if you decide to move before the lien decreases to 0 you can pass the contract to the next homeowner who can continue it to completion. Or you have the flexibility to buy out the contract. When this happens, the increase in value the ADU brings your home can often cancel out or make you money compared to if you didn't have the ADU.

You are right about the potential limits on taking further debt on a home with our agreement and that's a value call each customer will need to make: earn rental income from working with Rent the Backyard, or maximize the access I have to my home's equity.
> Seriously, if you are building a google competitor, you probably need to use something other than adsense.

That's kind of the point. Using Monopoly power in one industry (advertisement or search) to cripple a competitor in another (video) is kind of the definition of anti-competitive behavior.
> Son does not have the sort of goodwill from partners that someone like Buffet has to sit on a giant pile of cash until good investment opportunities emerge.

That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

But yeah, big money doesn't have to be very smart, in principle. Like this pitch, 45 minutes for $45B dollars from the Saudi prince:
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/03/23/masayoshi-son-...

This article has another good quote:

> The stockmarket, for its part, values SoftBank itself at a steep discount to the sum of its listed constituents (see chart 1), despite a $5.5bn share buy-back in February. Worries that Mr Son is paying over the odds are thought to be a big factor. Take WeWork: when Mr Son slashed his investment to $2bn, SoftBank’s shares leapt by 6%.
Singapore, being a city state ruled by a benevolent dictator, is not comparable to nation states with normal political systems.

Period.
I'm not sure if that would be an actual answer so an nth-wave of on-prem workloads.

It's not about owning a platform to run VMs, it's about owning the software stack to enable you to run and manage, bare-metal, VMs, containers, and high-level services on your customers own hardware I their own DC or colo'd.
>Where I work the H1B applicants (who don't get selected) have masters, from a US university, for a degree that applies specifically to their job. These folks should be on the red carpet to US citizenship. They have checked every box.

Job specific degrees are always a boon-doggle and they really shouldn't be getting the jobs their degrees proclaim. School is the time for theory, but these Job-specific degree programs these days are just glorified bootcamps
Mere collateral damage.
BTW, were you aware that links to your older blog posts (e.g. [1]) were broken? Looks like you just removed "/blog" from the path, but you don't seem to be doing anything else with it.

[1] http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2017/02/14/pathfinder/
Hi there - my name is Spencer and I'm one of the co-founders of Rent the Backyard.

It's tricky (years and $$$) to become a mortgage lender but we have flexibility in our agreement for a homeowner to pass the agreement to a new owner (we'll even move our lien back to the second position so the new homeowner can get a mortgage)
The white category in the US has always been shrinking and childless. The only way that it isn't 5% or less or the population is that every generation another group get a added as white. Be they Irish, Swedes, Germans, Poles, Jews, Ukranians or currently Asians.
Funny you should mention global data structures. Last winter, when doing Advent of Code, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that I didn't really need to be writing super well-factored Clean Code™ with no globals or anything like that to solve these problems. And, when I stopped worrying about that stuff, my code ended up getting cleaner and easier to understand and debug.

New hypothesis: Some practices make all the sense in the world in huge enterprise projects, and no sense at all in small utility projects.
Hi there -- this is Brian from Rent the Backyard. What we are doing here is finding a synergy between homeowners and renters, allowing for people to profit off their unused backyards while increasing the housing stock. Airbnb started the trend of being able to monetize your home in the form of rental income and we see ourselves as an extension of that phenomenon. In our case, homeowners give up zero privacy to make meaningful extra income. We help existing homeowners stay in their homes amidst rising costs in the Bay Area.
You absolutely can, and should if you want to, just be prepared for people to look at you like you drive to work in an automobile made of logs and animal skins by pushing your feet against the road.
Being a proper lender requires a lot of paperwork, compliance, and investments. I doubt they will do it from the start. Perhaps if they become wildly successful.
I look forward to F-Droid banning Firefox as well as any and all web-browsers that don't implement a blocklist that perfectly matches their ideology.
It would be interesting to have a commenting system powered by Twitter where each article/post has a Twitter post with the article name and link so others not finding this post through your website can still comment, and the replies to this Twitter post can be pulled into you article/post and listed as comments.
You are correct. I am probably using the wrong words.

I saw something once on wikipedia showing more sunlight (sunshine?) hours in one place than another. So I am guessing they are measuring it based on the sunlight strength being over a certain threshold. It may have taken cloud into consideration.

I think the more important point in terms of mood is winters nearer the poles have daylight hours such that you go to work and come home in the dark, and spend all day indoors, so you don't see much sunlight. Then at the weekend you catch up but again it might just be 8 hours of sunlight and 6 hours of reasonably strong sunlight.

OTOH the long nights in the summer nearer the poles don't do much for me over a reasonable 7-8pm sunset time. If anything it makes it harder to sleep.
Here’s the thing - universities can’t compel people to testify. And there are no consequences for retaliating against witnesses.

Until universities can compel testimony and subpoena evidence from everyone, including non-students/employees, they can’t have fair proceedings.

Until they have that power, they should be severely restricted in what negative negative findings they can make.

An accuser/accused who had to beg people to testify in their support isn’t likely to get justice.
Marcus Hutchins took a plea deal so we'll never know. The first article on the Washington Post was about why the charges such as "conspiracy to violate the CFAA" are a stretch. With that in mind, there basically isn't someone to Google, and no case law. Are we even still talking about the now-patched brute force guessing of a 2-factor code, because now you're gearing up to dissect a legal review that will fail any equivalency and has no case law whatsoever. Classic internet discussion.

Now back to the practical reality: You wouldn't get caught selling it on darknet. You would just post in the forum and 31 people would buy it for $1,000 in a few days. Have you even used darknet? Have you ever used Monero? Have you ever done an obligatory cleaning of bitcoin just because you dont know what THEY did with it? You are trying to support your position so hard by making all of this stuff sound so unfeasible when its exactly what goes on every day.

You would sell it for a premium JUST BECAUSE the earliest clients will do "god knows what the fuck with it". That would be the literal sales pitch! Accomplice? Ehhh maaaaybe but not really a concern.

and even with all that, you're missing how much the customers would make. these are the ones incurring the most liability and they use clearnet and still wouldn't face real consequences.

you're missing how the exploiter would do it themselves before considering selling copies of it, which is what I was alluding to. the exploiter would already understand how to control and monetize instagram accounts and make several hundred thousand dollars, or millions over time. A 500k follower meme account with 3% engagement could make $1,000 per week from promos if you worked at it, and be sold for a revenue multiple. Take a bunch of those. Rinse, repeat.

you're inventing viable business plans trying to argue with me, its wild.
Everything old is new again...
You said there is no recourse after talking about a situation in which no one has recourse against the employer, i.e. if you get fired out of spite for looking for a new job. There is as you know recourse if you're fired illegally, as the American people have been so generous as to grant foreigners the right to sue Americans employers in such cases.
4M people have Web browser extensions that sell their every click
Portugal didn’t solve the drug problem. Portugal has stratospherically high rates of drug use before it’s change in policy. At one point fully 1% of the population was addicted to heroin. That has come down, but drug use rates are still much higher than in China, Japan, and Singapore.