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My non-profit's focus is on early childhood education in developing countries.

It's sort of a long time to see a payoff but economically-speaking these are some of the most efficient education dollars people can spend (it's a time in the child's life that has high leverage).

You can read more about how we're trying to increase affordability here: www.sharedforkids.com
I can only wish the source would be released for all the researchers working on AI to improve also their algorithms. I understand that Google wants to keep his edge but it also slow down the whole field.
Define great society. If anything, parent's comment is more clear to me than yours. Both are [citation needed], but parent's hints at more detail.
Sorry, but all of those sound like things that are going to help people who were already going to be successful to be even more successful.

College debt, for example, is a problem for those who were successful enough to get into college into the first place, and who, simply by getting into college, are already increasing their lifetime earnings by millions of dollars.

Technological services for K-12 ed is pushing a string. The largest predictor of a student's performance is the educational level and socioeconomic status of their parents, not any in-school factor. Classroom technology offers the most benefit to the students best equipped to make use of it, which is again the privileged and better-prepared students.

Increased political engagement helps those who already have enough leisure and status to spend time following and engaging politics.

Poverty is a more basic problem.
This isn't supported by much.. The cost per student hasn't increased, only the proportion charged to tuition rather than taxes. It's easy to blame easy government money for the increase in admin staff, but during my grad program I GA'ed in the office and half of the staff were dealing with financial aid / loans / scholarships. They would be there regardless the source of the cash.

I've fought this battle on HN before and nobody wants to believe that college isn't any more expensive than it previously was, so I'll leave this here -- but do a bit of research and you'll be surprised.

Edit;

Since everyone seems to be downvoting this point, here's the inflation-adjusted cost per student in California from 1987 - 2013:

http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12...

It actually costs about $2,500 less per student today than it did in the late 80's -- yet during the same time, tuition has increased by upwards of 5x. That delta used to be carried by taxpayers but has been shifted to tuition.
I read an interesting piece that argues that the confusing interface is actually a feature. Can't find it at the moment, but it went something like:

Snapchat's confusing interface complements the way their users interact. Users tend to learn about features from social interactions with their friends (face to face, or digital), which builds a sense of ingroup. Additionally, the confusing interface tends to filter out older users, who lack the social guidance of the younger users. This keeps the userbase heavily skewed young, which further reinforces its branding as a fun app for the cool kids. After all, nothing is less cool than your mom doing the things you like.

I'm not sure that this is what the company wants (they've had screenshots of a redesigned UI leak this week), but it makes logical sense to me.
You'd get into trouble (meaning, pointless unproductive argument) with me trying to bring general intelligence into a discussion about HR directors as well, so that's a topic we're better off ignoring.

The good news is, we don't have to dig into that. All I'm saying is that it's calamitously expensive, across multiple axes (direct cost, opportunity cost, brittleness of opportunities) to assess capacity to perform the job of "HR Director" by looking for a 4-year degree.

I doubt that you believe a UMich Russian Lit degree is intrinsically an important qualification to work in HR (HR: one of the fastest growing white-collar jobs in the US, hence that example). I'm saying: that's a market inefficiency, and if you could find a way to arbitrage it, you could make a mint while making it possible for more people to get stable white-collar employment without reading Solzhenitsyn in a dorm room.
Similar (very, since appengine static files are served from GCS), is to write a "python" appengine yaml file that only serves the static content with secure: always.
SSH doesn't get this right. It's no better than a (auto-pinned) self-signed cert, in our world.

I challenge everyone to find in their extended group of friends and colleagues, and their friends and colleagues, a single person who consistently checks the fingerprint* on every first SSH connection.

Id personally have a hard time finding someone who even knows it matters.

And if you don't? Mitm can get your password, or tunnel your key to another host, bar some crazy ~/.ssh/config which nobody has.

WiFi's WPA2 actually does this better than SSH; the passphrase authenticates both parties to eachother, not just one way. I can't set up a hotspot with your home SSID and intercept your PSK---even on initial connection.

SSH: nice in a cryptographic utopia, not better than self signed SSL certs when applied to human beings.

SSH is just not suitable for humans. Apparently.

* a significant part of it, not just the security-through-obscurity random 2 letters in the middle and the last four.
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Well it's not like certs are a limited quantity; they take no time to produce, no limited resources to produce, and no manpower to produce. Supply and demand works when demand outstrips supply, so the price goes up to put downward pressure on the demand. There's no possible way for demand to outstrip supply of certificates, so prices shouldn't go up.
I tapped the downvote button here accidentally when scrolling - sorry
Just to clarify your comment so people aren't confused by the apparently low winning percentages, those are all 4-stone handicap games. (It's still an apples-to-apples comparison.)
They accounted for that. It boils down to males adopting unhealthy life patterns in retirement (drinking, sitting around and so forth).
You said: People who retire earlier die sooner

It's actually true only for men.
You're an outlier then. Within twenty-four hours of taking an antibiotic, I've always felt MUCH better. I will agree they are over prescribed, especially for things that don't even respond to antibiotics(viruses). But there is no denying their effectiveness.
I assume the NYT headline was a reference to a few years back when Page was talking about how great Glass was and by way of comparison described looking down at a phone screen as "emasculating".

I assume he (Page) was just meant that using a phone a lot felt awkward and took your attention away from the rest of the world around you, but made a poor word choice while improvising in front of an audience. The tech press had a little tisk tisk field day about though, especially since this was well past the point where Glass was looking like a silly boondogle.

In most newspapers though, someone besides the author writes the headline for an article, so I'm assuming whoever wrote this one for the NYT thought they were being clever here in referencing that faux pas.

edit: Just checked it was actually Brin who said the emasculating thing, so who the fuck knows what the headline writer was thinking. Maybe they remembered wrong too.
At the same time, I've seen rationality like yours result in people building their own versions of things that are available in the standard toolkit.
I've been working from home for the last 7 years.

Interruptions suck and you don't need to embrace them. You can perfectly have a dedicated time for your family as well as dedicated time for your job. It's all about planning and ensuring that people around you understand your schedule.

You can still have 1 hour allocated time with your son during the day and you can be present, that doesn't mean your son needs to interrupt you 5 random times within 3 hours. If you know when he comes home from school, by all means allocate that fixed 30 minutes or whatever to him, perfect.

There is pretty much no difference between allocating random time frames to people you love vs. allocating fixed times to people you love.

We all know from experiments, various sources and for many from personal experiences interruptions do hurt productivity, induce stress and generally bad.

Also, you can turn this around. Instead of being interrupted between your tasks (out of zone moments) just make rounds at the house, talk to your wife, enjoy a snack, take 15 minutes break. Then go back to hacking with a clear, recharged head.

So why sacrifice your focus/productivity when you don't have to?
Thanks! We certainly have seen a lot of success in SMB because of Lever's modern design. Design is a huge part of what makes the product work so well for such a wide variety of company sizes, from 5 employee startups doubling to 10 all the way up to industry leading public companies like Netflix.
You don't understand what money is. If it doesn't actually represent real work, or some material good, it's valueless. It's just this weird stack of paper that shows up at the door every month.
How do you know he's the outlier?
The solution for shared hosting environments is for your provider to integrate with Let's Encrypt (or any other free CA that might pop up in the future).

Once this change goes through, providers will be forced to either do that or (if they think forcing users to keep paying for SSL, even though it's de-facto mandatory) watch their customers move somewhere else. There's plenty of competition out there, and a lot of them already support Let's Encrypt[1].

[1]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/wiki/Web-Hosting-...
If apache and nginx follow along the lines of Caddy[1], we might.

[1] https://caddyserver.com/
I've proposed a number of things at http://catallax.info. It boils down to changing incentives. We are currently incentivised to get the most for our dollars in the present. When you change the incentive to allow for more reward in the future if you spend your today dollars 'better' you can make sentences like 'decreasing the cost of living' much less relevant to the conversation.
Thanks! I hadn't seen that paper yet.
Not sure why this is downvoted but I think this is actually a potentially interesting use for these!
Check out netlify (https://www.netlify.com) - we're like GitHub Pages on steroids (integrated continuous deployment, proxying, redirect and rewrite rules + lots of other features) and we launched free SSL on custom domains a couple of weeks ago :)
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well, he has to destroy a certain amount by using the earth resource, but he can raise the price of the resource with his 'service' part.

How much a resource is actually worth is the most difficult question. Perhaps environmental factors like CO2 and ecological damage should be incorporated?
This word "Free" amuses me. I am curious why you think that something can be offered for free with no payment associated with it? Will the Professors work for free? Who will pay the electricity bill to heat or cool the buildings? What about the course material?

Free? There is no such thing. Someone will always end up paying for it.
Angular momentum is an abstract concept, and an emergent property. It doesn't exist inherently in an object.
It looks like `letsencrypt-auto --webroot` does this: https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/

If your shared host has a way to automate deployment of new SSL certificates, this should be easy. (Or if they're willing to manually configure a new cert every 3 months.)
Not commuting saves a ton of time and energy, not only in gas but also calories for me.

I have found a lot of people don't communicate enough when working remotely though. So you have to remind people to get in Slack/Skype/Hangouts/phone. Also a video or voice chat is higher bandwidth so it is good to do that at least once a week or more often depending on tight the collaboration is.

But considering that most office jobs can actually be done over the internet now, the highway congestion, the logistical/military implications of maintaining the massive imbalance of fossil fuel distribution largely to support the commuting in oversize vehicles, global warming, etc., it surprises me that we even allow so much commuting to continue. Seems unethical.
What's important is that the skillset exists, not that a university has been given a considerable sum of money to provide certification that it exists. University was not the normal way to establish credibility until very recently. University is too expensive to sustain in its current form -- the whole thing has to be reworked to be affordable.

So don't ask yourself "What degree does this guy have?", but "How much physics research has this guy done? Can I see his body of work? Is it high-quality stuff?" The latter is performed anytime a competent person performs a hire anyway. It's fine to skip/ignore the education when someone can demonstrate competence. The problem really comes in "soft" degrees like business, marketing, communications, etc., where it's not really possible for a body of work to be presented as evidence that the individual knows what he/she is doing.
Thinking this stuff is unreasonable will not save you from a "hostile environment" lawsuit over it. Wise employers won't take an existential risk by allowing thoughtcrime in the office.
Domain validation is coming, which makes things easier, but some like Dreamhost are adding one click support to their hosting panels, and openly talk about making it default.
Switzerland has a lottery where you can win 4000 chf per month for 20 years.

https://www.swisslos.ch/de/informationen/spiele/lose/sortime...
One of the few products I find irreplaceable is Fusion. The fact that we could test and build on our desktops in Fusion or Workstation and deploy straight to VSphere kept us hooked on VMware's products.

With this change we're going to be looking at Hyper-V a lot sooner than I expected, but I guess this was bound to happen regardless. More and more of the devs I work with are using Vagrant or Docker and LXC rather than Workstation or Fusion. Hosted UI sales must've been trending down.
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>Serious answer: besides the ongoing need of the 'elite' for childcare, most proponents of basic income argue that people would not just play video games all day.

Unfortunately this is not the case. What do students who live on student loans and/or parental stipend as a "basic income" do? You can expect more of that when the government becomes the parent doling out the stipend.
Why is child care something that should be automated? Doesn't it make sense to spend a lot of high-value human attention on small children?

Humans are not a product. They are an end in themselves. It's like trying to automate your friends or your spouse.
I don't think eliminating subsidies will make housing much more affordable or accessible, but it is probably still a good idea (since tax deductions tend to favor people in higher tax brackets).

Conversely, I don't think that eliminating subsidies should really be a first priority, since I don't believe it will have a large impact, though I can't really say I know what should be beyond relaxing zoning rules.
I'm not a big believer in minimizing college debt. I'm a believer in minimizing college.

People who grow up in wealthy families naturally find themselves on a college track that seamlessly routes them to elite schools when they're 18 years old.

People who grow up in poverty aren't on that track and might not even have much agency (due to their circumstances, requirements to work young, entanglements with the law) until they're in their 20s.

The fastest growing stable white collar jobs all require a 4-year degree. Even if college were free, people of reduced means wouldn't have equal access to it, because taking 4 years off the workforce isn't an option for most people. Meanwhile: a 4-year degree has actually not much value in predicting one's ability to perform as e.g. an HR director.

So what I'm suggesting is the startup that finds a way to turn smart, enterprising 24 year olds working in retail jobs into HR directors, credibly enough that they'll be competitive with Russian Lit majors.

(I'm not picking on Russian Lit; it's just, that's the undergrad degree my sister got at UChicago before becoming a lawyer, so it's the first one that pops into my head).
It's about quality of life for me. The higher my quality of life, the happier I am, the happier I am, the more productive I am. I'm happier not dealing with a commute, having my own space and seeing my daughter throughout the day. If you're truly happy then the rest follows, i.e. establishing a routine, work/life balance, etc...
As I am now on my second Melanoma (luckily stage 1) this article hit me right in the stomach for some reason.

I kept looking to see if I am eating something wrong. So can someone with better understanding of antioxidants explain if this is only via vitamin or if it's specifically present in some types of food.
That looks great, I am going to look into this at some point. Thanks a lot for the link and all your hard work.
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I don't like it, but it's definitely relevant.

In a broad sense, the shift towards a services-based economy is a type of "make-work" in the shadow of heavy automation in first agriculture then manufacturing. This is very much Parkinson's Law writ large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
"These lawsuits expose a couple of things, one there needs to be more kinds of work classifications than employee and contractor."

Why?
You only need a dedicated IP address for clients that don't support SNI. If your hosting model supports it, you can also still support these clients with a single IP address with a SAN cert that includes all of the possible hostnames.
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That coral reef was exactly in the same point since the last 800 years. It is supossed that a such expensive yacht would exit the factory including a decent updated map at least.

Or maybe with several complex electronic devices able to scan the sea bottom that are common in this century and can be found even in much smaller boats.

If not, maybe a quick look at google maps at least could have helped. Divers are optional.
I've had an antibiotic shot a couple of times and that was amazing. Going from tonsils so swollen they were touching and impeding my breathing to being able to eat my first meal in days just a few hours later. Was quite amazing!
SSH gets this right

No, it doesn't.

When was the last time you verified a host key out of band?

And if you're using SSH, you know well enough to know why you should do the damn legwork to verify the key. What do you expect for end users?

Furthermore, if nobody is doing out of band verification on the first pass, how do you expect users to distinguish between an attack and legit host key change?
Very good point. However, I do not believe that the welfare cliff argument applies to job creation and entrepreneurship.
So Facebook is a Massachusetts company?

My point is, when a company moves locations and then becomes wildly successful, one should wonder why its birthplace can't create that success instead of patting it on its back.
SSL hasn't required a separate IP since Windows XP. And XP no longer has any security support, so anyone running it has bigger problems.
Occam's razor. Antibiotics aren't over-prescribed/over-used just for giggles. It's because when they're actually necessary, they usually improve one's health quite quickly.
Fair point.

It seems that in 2009, 13.2% of americans have been living under the poverty threshold. Lets say that they make 50% of the poverty threshold on average (don't know the number). That would be an increase of 3.3% of government revenue. Plus the savings on bureaucracy you point to. Does not sound like the most libertarian plan ever, but it's certainly not unrealistic.
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This is a seriously great list of high-impact possibilities - I especially like the alternatives to university. Your thinking is clear and logical. +1
In addition to CloudFlare, you can also use AWS CloudFront for this. We just implemented this to get https working on our custom-domain Github Pages site [1] this week.

You first have to upload your SSL certificate to AWS IAM [2] (you only have to do this once, or you can just purchase your certificate from the AWS console now too). Then, all you have to do is create a new CloudFront distribution and point the origin to your subdomain.github.io URL and select your SSL certificate from the drop-down, then point your CNAME record to the CloudFront distribution.

[1] https://os.alfajango.com/

[2] https://bryce.fisher-fleig.org/blog/setting-up-ssl-on-aws-cl...
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> I think basic income is important to do but decreasing the cost of living is a critical component as well. I'd be very interested to hear thoughts from the HN community about what we could be doing here.

Increasing rents in particular metros (the ones where the good jobs are at) is the most obvious and solvable cost of living problem we have right now. Pretty much all we need is to just permit more housing to be built, in the form of radically loosening zoning regulations that block dense housing. There, done.

Housing in the bay area would still be somewhat expensive with more liberal guidelines on housing, but nowhere close to where it is right now.
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The images themselves are likely copyrighted. Might be worth finding some public domain images to use in the example.
The money for the basic income comes from taxation. Even though everyone would get it, higher tax rates on people with middle or high incomes would mean they were no better off, or worse off. This isn't supposed to be a way to make everyone $x per month better off, it's a way to change incentives and replace welfare.
Which, according to the basic principle of economics, will cause pay for the shitty, but necessary jobs to rise.
I assume this is the reason I was able to safely use a 5000V power source in school, despite being shocked multiple times (IIRC, the maximum current it would give, even if you shorted the output terminals, was 3mA. Our teacher at the time did initially insist on wearing latex gloves, but they were discarded once we realised the current would just arc through the gloves and leave holes in them).

You do start to see some odd effects at those voltages though - I recall holding one of the output plates for ten minutes or so, without realising the supply was on. Didn't really think much of it, until I realised I could hold my hand over a piece of tin foil (roughly 1cmx1cm) and it would be attracted to my hand from 2-3cm away (that persisted for five minutes or so).
this is a really awesome visualization of hip hop.

One question: any way to keep it running when not the front tab?
Is there a housing bubble brewing?
Ibuprofen is a NSAID where 'AI' stands for anti-inflamatory. Reducing the inflamation probably helped draining your ear through the Eustachian tube.
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I left out a metric ton of shit for the sake of making it easier to convey the concept.