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It's been "the existing way" for only 20-30 years. Before that we had newspapers, libraries, town criers, monks copying manuscripts by hand, phone trees, who knows what else. A webpage with an ad is hardly the only available means of disseminating information. There are other options even right now with donation supported sites, sites supported by sales of affiliated merchandise, manufacturer websites with product data, and so on.
Thanks for the ideas.

One thing makes me think that we will however have a physical digital device that we carry around: security. Having a finger print scanner on my android phone and iPad is a nice way to keep some personal data (encrypted) with me. A physical device can authenticate and log me into systems for purchasing groceries, authenticate me to the shared devices that you mentioned, etc. -- seems like a requirement. That said, that physical device could be a ring or a watch.
Amazing, a response including even more stall tactics.
Best of luck! I'll do my best to support you.
Sure, block ads. But why then visit those same sites that try to serve ads? Those sites clearly don't care about you, so why do you want to give them the pageviews?
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YC - Research - https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research (clearly universities have nothing like this)

Over 700 companies have gone on through YC, so they now have a few thousand alums and actively maintain an Alumni network -- really wish universities had something like this!

The companies go through the program in cohorts for a set amount of time -- they call these "classes". Not sure if universities have anything of the sort.

Sam Altman himself said that soon he "we will have to do something" with respect to housing. Again, nothing like I've seen any university do.

My personal favorite, though, is the part where they get everyone to come to dinner together to exchange experiences and whatnot. If only Harvard figured out that they could use their beautiful dining hall for this sort of thing...
> what would falsify the theory that humans are causing global warming and this is a bad thing

(emphasis original)

Who cares? Once you've asked whether something is bad, why on earth would it matter whether humans are causing it? It matters to the environmentalist movement, because it is a tenet of that movement that the same change is good if not metaphysically related to humans but bad if it is. That's not a viewpoint I'd endorse, though.
Trying, and mostly failing, to learn some game development methods for collision detection. Currently, working on a SAT implementation, quad trees and GJK.

I was taking game development courses at Coursera but they decided to lock everyone out of being able to actually finish the courses without paying for them (which is their right - but still annoying) so i'm also looking for some good 2d tutorials for Unity.
PNaCl is cancer to the web and requires Google Spyware.

No thanks.
I highly doubt that slack has more features than IRC, which has thirty years of history in dozens of code bases. I agree that taking a canned solution is easier, and easier is often best. But I think this is the main reason slack is popular; its less to think about. There are many dimensions in which it will be worse.
> This exchange works on a 5-second quanta. All orders arriving within a quanta are treated equally. How is that unfair at all?

It's unfair to the trader who put his order in first just as it'd be unfair to walk up to a sales desk and cut in front of people who there before you. All this does is slow down trading, it doesn't make it any more fair and now you can play the latency game for putting your orders in at the last second while allowing more time to analyse the data. 5 seconds is a long time to a computer.

That such systems exist is beside the point, they are less fair than simply allowing the fastest trader to trade first.
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I would like to be able to share my home network with my car within a 15+ km radius of my home... Maybe using a servo-controlled directional antenna on my car that would always point to my home using some sensors, or an unidirectional would be even better but I don't know if that is possible using open-spectrums.
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Well in TV jargon "content" refers to advertisement and "feel" refers to what you think as content.

Isn't public TV paid for by taxes?

Anyways, I second you, the ISP should not collect money for accessing content.
I'd edit this if I could, but I can't because the edit / delete window has closed.
You've been able to directly send files over DCC via IRC clients since like 1995.

Interpreting and displaying those DCC'ed files or cutting longer messages into sub messages and recombining them is something that you could implement via the IRC client just as easily as it was implemented in Slack (not to say that it would be easy, it'd be a lot of work, but it likely would not be much more work than what took to make that function in slack).

If you're modifying IRC anyway, you can modify the server to record logs and make those available to clients.

Same goes for editing.

IRC is not as bad as you think it is, and it wouldn't be an insurmountable effort to make it as good as slack, but open sourced rather than proprietary, which was the entire point of the original article.
I'm not sure how it could be considered a "mark against [...] AGW". One thing to keep in mind is that temperatures in East Antarctica are nearly always below freezing, so rising temperatures don't have much of an effect at first on mass loss[0].

From the article, the ice accumulation seems to be from increased snowfall during the Holocene. How this will ultimately be affected by warming isn't clear, but for now it seems somewhat orthogonal to AGW.

[0] Instead, most mass loss from Antarctica appears to be at the margins and driven by ocean processes.
They got $17.5MM in the four years prior to even launching.
Yeah, I was referring to pnacl (as in Portable Native Client), but that is a very good point about a technology that is obviously still going strong all these years later.
Thanks. When I saw the Microsoft Lumia 950 XL demo in Microsoft's web cast the other week (where they introduced the Surface Book) I thought that could be my "one device." I am not sure however how simple the docking procedure is - I should re-watch the web cast.
Great read about the relationship between franchisees and the franchisor (Dunkin’ Brands). There are lots of benefits (and costs) to being a large franchisee network.

Also, the chart at the bottom is revealing: most of their sales come from beverages, not donuts.
The wretchedness of men is timeless.
nah, I and many others directly block Google Analytics = no pageviews in google dashboard. I refuse to be tracked by third parties whenever I go.
Thank you very much! He is better now (knock wood), but needs medication 3 times a day and may have a permanently damaged bladder. But as long as he's happy and peeing I'm happy.
I like how yolk exposes the .registerElement. Does anyone know if react has something similar?
> Let's all jump on the bandwagon of another closed-source, proprietary, walled-garden service and hand over all of our private intra-company communications to a private third-party in another country. GREAT IDEA.

Well said, I chuckled. Let me just add something...

If you want a paper trail of anything, use an email you own.

I have a friend who was locked out of a startup's Slack right before he was due to be paid for three months of work. He had been discussing business inside of Slack, and instantly lost access to all of those messages.

Could this have happened if the startup used a private email server, or a private IRC server? Of course. But if they were using more open protocols, he would have at least been able to back up the messages. Slack provides an easy tool for backups to admins, but not for normal team members. Slack provides an API for all users, but team admins can disable the API. Slack also allows team members to connect over IRC and XMPP, if team admins turn on that feature (https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec...).

Slack is great, I love using it. Just remember who owns the data. Always use your own personal email if you want to create a papertrail, as my friend found out.
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Lots of people think it's a great idea to make packaged all-in-one mail systems, but what you're really doing is making it easier for spammers to get up and running.
The task was about repetitive multiplication strategy. Which was what the child did. Just not by the EXACTLY taught convention.

So your analogy with dovetail joins would be not replacing them by rabbet joins, but setting them just in the different order. And it would have been a complete nonsense to ask for a specific order in a wood shop.
That's a business achievement attractive to filmmakers and has nothing to do with the classic'ness of the film to moviegoers. No one is going to do a review on a film and say "wow, you know what made that a great movie, the budget".

Anyway, I don't care, I've already talked about this bad movie more than I ever care to. I don't mind to never hear of it again.
I agree that this might be a reason that people delay adoption, but I think things will change when the people who adopt Rust do better than the people who don't. This is similar to how things changed when people who adopted scripting languages for their web apps did better than people who didn't.
Anyone buying a lot of shares will move the price up. Buffett makes money because he buys shares under their future value despite moving prices in the short-term, not because of it. Anyone can try to become as smart as Buffett, hire away his analysts, and so on.
s/used to//
Are you writing about Napster or Ad Blockers? (Seriously; can you articulate a principled differentiation on which your argument legitimates ad blockers but properly censures Napster?)
Also: .nu is owned by Niue, but is mostly used by Swedish companies (nu is swedish for now). It was even taken over by IIS/.SE in 2013.
But that is not what the problem is. In any scientific discipline, we never know anything for certain. Climate deniers are not saying, "we still don't know some things about climate change." They are denying the basic facts of climate change because they are ignorant or self-serving, or both. To not point this out and address it with equal fervor – especially given what's at stake – is just as much a slight to climate science.

By all means, in the scientific field, maintain humility and approach each result with skepticism. But #1 is more a political problem than a scientific one. The nation's (and world's) response to climate change is vastly insufficient. As educated individuals in a high-tech field, we have a duty to call a spade a spade, and sometimes preemptively calling the opposition's bullshit is a means to this end.
Supported by a single browser and based on a single (and the same) vendor's spec, which needlessly duplicates about half a web browser's functionality using a brand new API, and with no support due for other browsers any time soon
It's getting crowded in here. We sure aren't doing this earth any favors, but I have my doubts to weather our machines are making this planet a warmer place. Everything moves in cycles.
Just image how fun would have been the Apple Maps rollout if it was deployed on cars. With the software glitches that has plagued smartphones in the last decade - we would have had a small genocide on our hands if it was translated on fast chunks of metal, able to kill couple of people on collision.

A single messed OTA (or heaven forbid maliciously corrupted) could inflict some serious pain.
PNaCl allows me to run vim and python natively in my browser.

Thanks.

(Shout out to my boys, Sam Clegg, Brad Nelson and company!)
I like the idea of the detachable screen for a more portable device with the full power (better GPU and more battery life) when attached to the keyboard. I look forward to trying one.

I am really looking fo something though that would also replace my phone.
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I agree to most of the points you make, except that none of those points would work in real world without a LOT of effort.

I've summed up my thoughts on this topic here:
https://medium.com/@kumarharsh/please-use-slack-for-foss-pro...
> Those who buy a stock on an insider get money - meaning those who sold the stock lose it.

This is definitely not true; those who buy a stock on inside information are buying from people who independently decided it was a good time to sell their stock. Those people are likely, in the counterfactual universe, to sell their stock anyway.

And while a shop foreman might be guilty of theft for shutting down a shop in response to a bribe (I find this a little unlikely, but won't express further opinion than that), the money which changes hands can't be relevant to that, since the theft would be from the factory owner or operator, while the money comes from a completely different source.
Thats exactly what I meant when I said "we all". Thank you for the clarification. I'll just be over here nursing my hangover.
This is really cool!! I always wish to setup such network amongst peers and get everybody connected with good b/w, especially in India.
This kinda stuff can create marvels in emerging economies whose existing infrastructure is heavily loaded.
> - How do you feel about medium? Love/hate/indifferent?

I like a lot of its content.

> - What did they do right, and what are it's flaws?

Good: People talk about things people care about.

Bad: Trends define what people care about.

> - What would you do better? What needs to be changed?

People hate reading. What makes an article popular on Medium is:

1. Its title

2. Its bullet points

The future of communication is:

1. Don't tell me things I already know

2. Show me the stuff I need in ways I can relate to

This requires some kind of intelligence or AI. This also requires a new language that's not English. Something more visual, easier to consume. In the future, we will never write for humans. Machines will read us, customize the message for each individual human being, and then communicate it to that person.

> - What do you expect to see in the future? In 5 years, will medium be what twitter is now, or will nobody care about it? Will they be able to maintain the content quality, and if yes then how?

Medium is dead in 5 years. Twitter will be dead in 5 years. People will communicate through a semantic graph. We won't read text, we will read nodes and edges.

> - How do you think they are going to monetize it? How would you do that?

Most posts are actually ads in disguise. People will pay to get their posts professionally improved (with A/B testing) and cheat the recommendation system.
Don't we already have adblock detector detector technology that remove those banners ?
No. In Slack, files and images posted to channels are content associated with the channel, not a private and opaque stream of bytes tunneled over another protocol between two specific channel members. The comparison between Slack and DCC is silly.

Given the problem of sharing a diagram with a team of developers on a group message channel, I'm sure there's someone here who would say they prefer the DCC option of receiving a named file and then opening it with a file viewer, rather than simply dragging the file into the chat window and having it appear instantly to everyone on the channel. The existence of that person is not interesting to me.
The winners write the history books. In effect, popular knowledge of WWII often differs from the truth. The German losses on the Eastern front (while known but rarely spoken of) are one example. However, to counter that view slightly, America's late arrival may have tipped the scales against Germany anyway.

My Grandfather fought with the Australian army. While not often spoken about, he referred to the the blind eye of the mass rapes in Germany -after- the war that most of the allies turned a blind eye to,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_o...

Also, this is a link that provides a summary of many murder campaigns by numerous countries,
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres_east.html

Or, for those wanting a well documented and extreme view of how bad humanity can be, research Nanking during WWII. I won't provide a link but you have been warned.

We tend to have a very blinkered view of WWII. While most of the truth is known, it is rarely spoken about, misrepresented or ignored. On that basis, the original headline contains truth.
This assumes the app isn't ransacking your device for as much personal or saleable information it can find, in addition to the nominal purchase fee.

Information leakage between sites and apps on mobile no doubt varies wildly based on your configuration and willingness to accept apps requesting outrageous permissions, but I'd suspect web-apps to be easier to protect yourself from, as a user.
Your comment reminded me of that blog post I read about PIP, and why you shouldn't sign them: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/never-sign-a...
Yeah the microwave thing seems made up. But it is true that large amounts of cash (as in hundreds of thousands, not something like 10k) will raise suspicions. Banks are also legally obliged to report all amounts over 10k I believe, and do impose restrictions on the amounts of cash they will deal with at any given time. Many cards (and ATMs) also have a limit on the amount of cash you can withdraw, although this has been the case for years. I remember when buying a computer some 15 years ago or more – from a private seller who only accepted cash – and having to withdraw cash from three separate ATMs because there was a limit on withdrawing more than 8k or so per ATM. This was on a Sunday I believe, so the branches were all closed.
You plug in the dock.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile/accessory/hd-500/
You're joking, but a quick Google search of [site:livecoding.tv banned] shows that's exactly what is happening.

https://www.livecoding.tv/2pointoh/

https://www.livecoding.tv/hekton/
Considering the investment you'll need to make in antenas, equipments and such, unless you live in a poor coverage area, you'll be better with a 4G.
Or perhaps something like Google glasses without the camera (to avoid social issues)?

It seems reasonable for the next iteration of Google glasses to have an option to not have a camera (and be lighter and smaller) and just provide a great information display with a voice interface. You give up some things not having a camera but this tradeoff might be worthwhile.
I can give you a hand. UK born and bred, translator/writer and familiar with 'converting' web copy. Just a once over to get you started, if you like.
Okay, well I am sorry your experience and mine differ. Fortunately you can continue to use your solution without regard to my criticism.

But I think if we asked your IRC network how ma you nets plots they experienced in the last 2 years the number would be >1.
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Should we fire low-quality contributors to projects?
Before optimizing marketing please, please, please optimize shopping process. I don't want to click through three(four??) Cart pages. Also, I don't want to register with your shop. I just want to put my details in and order - all in one page....make sure it works great both on desktop and on mobile.

You obviously run analytics on the shop. Check how many people ran away because of cumbersome order process.

One more thing. What does "Save this information for faster checkout next time" mean? I don't get it. Will I be registered, will you put cookies in my browser....how does it work? Get rid of it I say....

Oh, and, photos are dull. Get some fire going in me when I am looking at your web site, product photos. You are both Italians, you say? You have it in you!

Good luck!
You've described the situation pretty accurately here I think. I wonder, though. What if a browser extension generated tokens and stuck them in headers, and then sites sent those tokens on to the central authority after some appropriate transformation? It seems possible to set it up so the central authority would have enough information to remunerate sites without having enough information to know what users are doing.
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If you gave "IRC" a quarter of a billion dollars, we'd have the world's most complex ncurses UI, and a security ACL system whose complexity would rival X509. And normal people would still use Slack, because Slack was able to make simple design decisions that benefit the overwhelming majority of users but piss off Unix nerds like us.
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"It’s true that larger time zones would seem to cheat many people out of daylight by removing them further from their true solar time. But the demands of global commerce already do that."

Most people don't care about global commerce, nor does it cheat them out of sunlight. And those that do will need to know how to coordinate their clocks regardless.
YC isn't going to run your company for you. This isn't a YC problem.
I'm not sure what your point is, he's been writing this blog for years and it's quite good in my opinion.
IRC population has also become harder to track because more people now set up cottage networks that have one server and only host a few channels. There was an article a few years ago discussing this exodus from big networks which I'm having trouble bringing up now.

The worst that can happen to IRC is something like Usenet's death - growing too popular to scale. But scaling isn't of primary importance because a network hosting 100,000 channels is only mildly more convenient than 100 networks hosting 1,000 channels each. Nobody wants a chat stream that looks like a popular Twitch channel, because there is no longer any signal when that happens, so big channels are outliers. (And Twitch chat is IRC-based itself - demonstrating how much this technology is a commodity.)

IRC isn't going to stagnate completely until people decide to give up on text-based chat. The main thing it has trouble with is new client features like inline images.
Yes. Just as it is now true with other media (TV, Radio, Magazines) it is also true of the web - and largely for the same reasons.
Yeah, IRC is generally UTF-8 with some Windows-1252 mixed in.
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Funny thing those were not actuals CDs, Philips asked Sony to stop using the official CD logo on those infected discs or face a lawsuit.
False.

From the Native Client wikipedia page:

As of 13 May 2010, Google's open source browser, Chromium, was the only web browser
to utilize the new browser plug-in model.[28] Mozilla has announced that they are
"not interested in or working on Pepper at this time."[29] As of 2015, Pepper is
supported by Chrome, Chromium and Opera.
running a rack of servers will basically cost you $50k a year including the finance cost of the machines and switches.

it's not the money, it's the expertise that's the limiting factor. very few people know how to do it reliably.
> Theft benefits the thief while costing the person stolen from.

> If one can backup and use a fuzzy enough lens, one can just ask "how should society calculate the total benefits here" but the problem is this begs the question of whether it's proper for the state to just ask these questions.

But in the case of insider trading, there is no such person. Lambdapie identifies that there is a cost (yes!), but that cost only exists at a fuzzier level than "the person stolen from". Trying to examine at a finer level doesn't make sense.