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It is the multi-family rules that conflict with tiny villages in Austin, and many others. If you're seeking to build a multi-family "thing" on a plot of land, it has to be zoned for multi-family use, and the permitting process for that is much more complicated and subject to a lot more rules. So, yes, it is the parcel sizes and number of houses per parcel that triggers the problems.

You can put one tiny house on one regular plot of land in Austin, most likely, without too much trouble.

Density is the alleged goal for a lot of the rules that prevent tiny house communities from popping up. But, there's nothing stopping anyone from putting one huge house on a moderate sized lot anywhere in pretty much the whole city, including places that are extremely sought after.
The moment you want to build housing for several families (or individuals) on one plot of land, that's when they insist it be condos or apartments with high density. There is no middle ground where people can have their own house and garden...either you're in a McMansion or you're in an apartment/condo.

There is recently an ordinance to allow a secondary housing unit on a lot, but the language of it makes it very clear there has to be a full-size house on the property and the secondary unit is to be a "granny flat" or garage apartment or similar. I don't know if this rule has passed yet, but it's been discussed quite a bit. I'm too busy lately to get involved in the minutiae of that, especially since it still doesn't actually fix the problem I have with the rules here. So, it may be that you could build a tiny house village of two tiny houses. Maybe you can get two lots side-by-side and build a four house village. Still extremely limiting, and doesn't help to resolve the sprawl problems that Austin has.

A friend who researched it found that building an "RV park" would be the only way to do it given current code and political climate...which has a limit on the number of permanent structures that can be on the grounds. So the tiny houses would have to be on wheels. And, homeowners associations and such will fight hard against permitting any new RV park or mobile home park, so the likelihood of any such thing happening near downtown approaches zero. Also, being an RV park makes it commercial construction, comparable to a hotel, rather than residential (though there are rules allowing permanent residency at RV parks with different taxation that doesn't include various "tourist taxes").

Frankly, a lot of this stuff comes down to wealthy people just not wanting poor people living anywhere near them.
That's not true, pure urban legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Misconceptions_of_desig...

Even if it were true, designing something to withstand attack doesn't make it a weapon. Is a kevlar vest a weapon?
I don't understand how people could say bitcoin is instant. It makes me think they've never actually tried buying anything with bitcoin.

All the bitcoin stores/processors I have used require 3 or more "confirmations" with each confirmation taking an average of 8 minutes which means each purchase takes at least 24 minutes and sometimes even several hours.

When I tried to sell things with bitcoin, customers told me it was a hassle when a Paypal or credit card transaction completes in seconds. This is the main unfixable problem with bitcoin and that is why I believe it will not take off.
Which is why the article mentions Dwolla as the micropayment structure.

Answer to your question btw, is $0 if you give less than $10 to everyone. You can easily send $5 to 5000 different people in Dwolla, since it takes advantage of the ACH system already in place in the US.

I think he has a very strong point about micropayments. Afterall, DOGE outcompeted BTC due to those transaction fees and carved out a niche within the alt-coins explicitly because BTC's fees are a bit high IIRC.
If I want to, I can buy my next motherboard from Newegg using Bitcoin.

There are TONS of websites that accept Bitcoin, and a growing number of brick and mortar stores accept it also.

You assert that black markets are the only factor that drive value in Cryptocurrencies, how about you back up that assertion with some evidence.
"It's 'LASH'. Like a whip. It evokes 'snappy', or 'fast', which is exactly how we run our company; we are flexible, have long reach, and no rigid structure. All of our successful employees learn to use a whip, just to make the analogy explicit."
Famous is CSS based, not WebGL
I'm still on the fence about Bitcoin but this article describes our experience at early PayPal almost exactly. I suspect the most valuable uses of Bitcoin will be more blockchain oriented than financial.
So it's called decorator( like Python) and not annotations anymore ? interesting. I'm all for javascript to be more like python.
Those $0.00 fees from Dwolla are really harmful to microtransactions...
What backups can teach you about safety
Right? What are the chances that if the DoubleBubble is 20% more spacious than a 180-seat 737, that they'd give customers 20% more space rather than just flying a 216-passenger plane?
at the very bottom of my screen there is a next lesson link.
The pronto is a brilliant step in advancing product design at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMriPq9k278
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MIT OpenCourseWare has been a great tool for me as an undergrad. Since the start of year, I've watched the CS and Econ uploads concurrently with the courses I've taken.

It's not that the lectures are better, but getting a second chance to see the topics under slightly different contexts has been pretty effective for study. I've had the same experience with Khan Academy in my lower division courses.
It's hard to convey the feeling when I first saw an Amiga. In the office, surrounded by monochrome early DOS machines someone had set up an Amiga 1000 showing the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamen. It's like someone had switched on an electric light for the first time.
^ really cool - thanks!
I had a source for the devs leaving because it was no longer fun anymore that I can't find because of buggy HN features.

Are you implying that "the devs lost interest" is mutually exclusive from "the devs were facing burnout from dealing with a hostile community"? To me, the latter is causal to the former, but you might disagree.
Yes, I would consider it out of the blue. Sen Wyden posed follow-up question to something that Gen Alexander said 8 months earlier, and he waited until the day before to pose it instead to DNI Clapper at a committee hearing that 1) was focused on developments in overseas national security threats over the past year and 2) Gen Alexander wasn't going to be present for. I don't doubt for a second that Clapper didn't see it - you don't wait until the last moment to submit a question unless you're trying to pull a political stunt. If he sent it a week or two prior, I could understand some outrage.

I have no idea what was going through Clapper's head at the time - maybe he did consider the 215 program or maybe he didn't. What he said was factually wrong and he tried to correct it but couldn't do so publicly.

This isn't trying to get the truth out - this is politics. Wyden is an elected representative - he has a duty to act in the best interests of his constituents. He was fully briefed on the program. If he felt that the information should have been public, he should have made it public - as a sitting member of the Senate he was authorized to do so. James Clapper was not. Wyden didn't correct Clapper on the spot. He didn't ask for more details. He didn't ask something like 'can you address any domestic collection programs that would fall under the Section 215 authorities?' He didn't do a damn thing publicly until the program was leaked months later, then used it as an opportunity to advance his own political career. Don't act like Clapper is some sort villain but Wyden is a hero.
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I like that you try to qualify it with "not that React invented it" while simultaneously using a condescending tone. Although props are in order for so effectively sounding condescending with only text.

That said, it's only "basically React" in the sense that they both use a Virtual Dom. The implementation is unlikely to be as similar and the syntax is very different.

Your analogy is flawed in the same way that calling Linux "basically BSD" (or vice versa) is wrong simply because they both use a Unix-like kernel.
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Musk is a great marketer. I would be reluctant to conclude BYD doesn't have the attention of great engineers though. There's a very large talent pool to pull from in China.

All told, more energy storage production is a good thing, regardless of the producer. There is a massive technological shift underfoot, the next 5 years are going to be fun to watch.
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Or they're people like me, who don't want to encourage people to use Truecrypt, but do want to help ensure that the people who did use it know how safe they are.
I don't agree totally with the article bit it is very, very far from shitty. The arguments are reasonable and it is well-referenced. I'm just not sure it's reaching the right conclusion.
fokinsean, there is a 'Next' button in the sticky footer on every lesson. Hope that helps.
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Ask HN: What government-focused startups do you know and what are they working on?
I think I could distill your thesis down to "every investment strategy eventually becomes a Keynesian beauty contest" and it wouldn't lose a lot of punch, would it?
After selling company, businessman gives $6M to employees
The SONY hack was almost assuredly NK or at the very least NK sympathizers. There are technical reasons (malware fingerprints, servers, tactical similarity to similar operations against SK media outlets). But the best way to link them is to see that the motivation was specifically anti-The Interview.

The important emails leaked by the Guardians of Peace (their 'Christmas Gift') show that CEO Lynton, a boardmember of the RAND Corporation, had been discussing with the State Department and RAND Corporation specialist on nuclear deterrence, NK and regime change since June the same year how the film should end and what was most likely to cause instability in NK when CSOs introduced them to the NK population.

That is to say The Interview was a 'diplomacy product' of the US government and the NK hacking of SONY was a retaliation for that - and in fact the cyber team retaliating against SONY specifically punishes media outlets for running adversarial messages about the Kim regime.

So the story here isn't that NK probably wasn't behind the attack - they probably were. The reason people are so skeptical is that they don't understand why NK would attack SONY, a movie seeming to be too petty a reason. It's easier to see when you read the leaked emails and ascertain that the US government was involved in crafting the film for its purposes.

There's a lot of toxic stuff in US foreign policy - and not just US but every nation. We believe in myths about our countries because they perform these actions in covert ways, and propel a lofty image of themselves in public interactions and through the media. The US does some very ugly, dirty stuff. But I take exception with some of the things in your list - specifically the characterization that the CIA's torture is or was somehow the 'most' brutal we've seen in modern times. That's some hyperbole and I think you know it. It may seems like picking on details but there is absolutely more heinous forms of torture (dissolving people in acid, using power tools to remove limbs and digits, etc) practiced at large in other nations.

But really the thing I want to leave here is that there is a tragedy at the commons. Torture and rendition, surveillance and propaganda, coups and proxy wars, theft and sabotage - all of these things are alive and well. The US is one of many nations involved in these activities as the planet races to establish water and food security before our planet exhales.
Wonderful execution. Great job!
Surely anywhere there are exams, there are rich parents paying for exam prep in order to gain an advantage.
Trijets have been around for a very long time, and aside from the DC-10's various misfeatures, have been rather reliable, even when the number two engine goes out with or without detonating itself in various ways. Given that this plane will almost certainly be fly by wire, I imagine that it'll be a lot easier to design the hydraulic systems in ways to further avoid certain failure modes that did occur in those planes.

Regarding maintenance, the article discusses how the reverse design gives a benefit of having the parts of the engine most difficult to service in a position to make such service easier, so I imagine maintainability will be /different/ but not necessarily worse.
USD to EUR is not interesting at all. It's the thousands of combinations of the other 200 currencies that are.
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1. DOJ/IRS retains its ability to regulate/enforce

2. Decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrency based economy

Pick one.
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Sorry, no reference other than me. :) Just personal experience on Chrome on iOS.

I have a bunch of websites that do "Cool Javascript Tricks" that I surf on iOS. The moment I switch a tab and switch back, the whole page loads again and takes almost 10-20 seconds.
Hard work, resourcefulness and imagination...
Like virtually everyone in the world, I pick #1.
I used to buy into the hype too, but Bitcoin has some serious scalability problems to overcome that will likely end up degrading its cost advantage relative to traditional payment processing. Furthermore, Bitcoin does not implement a number of consumer protections that are legally mandated in most western countries - those protections will need to be implemented by service providers like Coinbase, which will further drive up costs into the range of traditional payment providers.

Bitcoin only allows people who are unbanked to hold and transmit money if they can use it - a point brought up in the article. It's a chicken and egg problem: nobody is going to use Bitcoin until a lot of other people are using it. It's much like a fiat currency in that sense, except there's no central authority pushing it with the authority to mandate its use. It's currently far too volatile, and will remain so as long as speculators are the primary market participants.

Ultimately, there's not going to be a global revolution overthrowing the existing financial system. I expect BTC (or rather, the ideas/technology behind BTC) to be regulated and absorbed by the global financial system because, ironically, its best feature is that it synchronizes a single view of global transaction logs, making it MUCH easier for investigators to trace the flow of money across the globe. If laws are enacted that force payment providers to keep documentation of who owns blockchain addresses and to only transmit funds to verified blockchain addresses (similar to existing money laundering laws), the anonymity goes away and you have a record of every financial transaction that can be traced back to the individual who submitted it. Bitcoin won't be allowed to be a loophole to global financial regulation, but it may just become the mechanism of enforcement.
Same story in the opposing camp's echo chamber, opposite headlines: "OVER 10 MILLION ANDROID USERS INFECTED WITH MALWARE" "SIGNIFICANT ODDS OF MALWARE, EVEN WITHIN 'SAFE' GOOGLE PLAY"

The whole platform wars thing gets really tiresome
2 seconds every time I switch a tab. I have 12 tabs open right now.

Mobile browsers cache a LOT less after rendering than desktop browsers.
> the neat thing about a company that is really just a pile of cash and young coders ready to "pivot" on a dime is that any idiot can be placed at an executive level.

Can you give a few examples of companies in the last ten years that are "nothing but a pile of cash and young coders ready to pivot"? There are a couple of outliers where that did happen, but it is certainly not the rule.

> Your product doesn't matter if your competitor gets a 9-figure injection

Can you give a few examples of a few companies with terrible products/early traction that got nine figure cash injections in the last ten years? Again, there might be one or two, but it is not the rule.
> Bitpesa exist undercutting remittance

Bitpesa takes 3%, significantly more than a credit card transaction, and much more than many established low-risk remittance corridors (e.g. Arabian Peninsula -> India/Pakistan, Europe -> Central America, are all under 1%). True, many remittance flows can be 9% or more, but that's because they have significant levels of fraud, and the overhead of KYC regulation. Ignoring fraud and regulations means you can reduce fees, obviously.

> merchant processors like Coinbase all undercut any creditcard

Coinbase charges 1% to buy, and another 1% to sell, and users are responsible for all bitcoin transaction fees. This revenue means that it can charge nothing for coinbase -> coinbase transfers; however nearly all financial institutions charge nothing for intra-bank transfers.

> companies like Microsoft accept bitcoin and keep more profits

About 0% of Microsoft's revenues are in Bitcoin, this increases Microsoft profits by about 0%. Accepting Bitcoin is a marketing expense, not about increasing profits.
Yet another instance of html2canvas being used to do something interesting. It's the library I have been surprised by more than any other, for any language.
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Is your business looking at the cloud?
What if you update it ? Software sometimes requires some crucial back-end changes and can't be supported to infinity.
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Good concept, but an unfortunate name. It reminds me of "diploma mill" or "puppy mill"... which indiscriminately pump out things just to make money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_mill
No, I did after the 3rd time I had to remotely remove crapware from my grandmother's computer... when the hdd died, I sent her a chromebook... my mom liked it so much, I gave her one too, and she got one for my dad. They all really like them. They simply work for what they wanted.
Congratulations for this nice project. I wonder, how to write such an emulator? My initial idea would be to write an interpreter for the processor instruction set with a big array representing the RAM. Then some callback functions are registered via openGL. They are called when there are some inputs (eg. joystick). When this happens, they put something in the simulated memory (some mapped area for I/O or specific registers) and set up some interrupt flags. Does it make sense? then how to simulate accurately the processor (and coprocessors ?) frequency? any other difficulties I haven't seen?
This is surprising to me, since I have read many primary source documents and have not seen mention of camels in Ottoman cavalry, besides some of the Yemen and Hejaz campaigns. It certainly does not make sense to bring "war camels" to Austria when Ottomans had horse cavalry which are much more suitable to the geography, I think at most it could be a pack animal.
Really interesting your VR editor!

> Do you really expect them to fix those issues?

Mozilla could fix the issues without hurting their business. Their legacy Thunderbird email client as well as various FirefoxOS system apps would profit too.

Microsoft, Apple and Google all have Office cloud apps and a really bug free contentEditable implementation would be a competition to their online Word/Pages/Docs. Google Docs v1 used contentEditable, but with v2 they coded a page layout render JS library.
From http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man5/crypttab.5.h...

The second field, source device, describes either the block special
device or file that contains the encrypted data. Instead of giving the
source device explicitly, the UUID is supported as well, using
UUID=<luks_uuid>.

That covers the init scripts, and it looks like recent versions of cryptsetup will "do the right thing" if pointed at a file rather than a block device.
I think, in this context, it's not important _why_ developers leave - it's inevitable.

In a commercial setting, there is financial motivation for a company to hire and train new developers, but in the case of an open source project this may not be the case.

How do we motivate people to fix or continue development of open source projects? Is it possible at all?
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Frankly, I have to dismiss this report. As Truecrypt is cross-platform and this report evaluates Truecrypt only under windows, this is at best 33% of a report. A fault in the linux/mac implementations could result failings in the windows version. For example, if the mac version has issues with RNGs, volumes created on mac could be week even when mounted and used on windows machines years later.

"Linux" only appears once in the report, and then only in a footnote.
I think it's fine. For the limited threat model FDE is equipped to handle, XTS does the job.

I'm not sure what the best answer is to your second question. I wouldn't use TC for that. I would typically use PGP, but I don't think it has a good UX for general consumption. There may be room for someone to build a better product.