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> People always talk about how SO is so terrible, and yet it's still the best resource by a mile. People have just forgotten that the lack of that carefully curated environment created the complete mess that was all the forums we used to have before.

I don't know, I've always felt that the apparent decline in usefulness came from the strict curation (and I do insist on the word "apparent"). In the past the site felt more natural to me as a big hodge-podge of various technology related topics. Questions came from various aspects of the tech world, whether they related to sys admins (e.g. linux configs, installations, scripting, etc), super users (e.g. text editors and other tools), programming languages (e.g. how to use a library or language feature), comp sci (e.g. algorithms), databases, or even networking. To me it all kinda related to how we all use the set everyday. Then came what I can only describe as over-categorization. Instead of relying on the machine to search stuff for us, they split the content into specific websites and changed their standard of what's relevant or less so (which is why you have closed questions that thousands of users still find useful). Google figured this out years ago with gmail, don't waste time organizing, just search. Case in point, how many people actually search any of the stackexchange websites directly? I'd bet that most users get there from google. And it's not unusual to be searching for a topic that intersects with any two or more of these communities. But none of them will refer to any other to tell you that the topic has a related thread in a sibling community. Only google gives you a clue, because it looks at it as the afore-mentioned hodge-podge.

It's not to say that the site didn't need any curation, I just think it somehow became a bit too systematic and oblivious of our instinct as human users. I also have the strong suspicion that people who feel that SO is declining are way off, but I doubt that the rise (if any) of its relevancy has much to do with the heavy handed curation.
I'm getting S3 access denied errors.

Here's the cached version if you need it:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F0QdH3...
On a related topic, y'all should check `f.lux` for removing the blue hues from your monitor after 9pm: https://justgetflux.com/
There's lots of internet posters in the world with '88' in their username, many of them also have a '14', you'll forgive me if I jumped to a conclusion based on a similarity of your posts to theirs.
Took me too long to realise your comment is glorious satire. Bravo!
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the question about "this" really is dumb
I agree. The researchers are aware of the challenge. There is so much we don't know about the C4 pathway and then to somehow successfully merge parts of it into a C3 plant. It might be easier to develop a C4 plant that can thrive in a rice-centric environment.
The decentralized nature of the web is critical to it's power for free speech. The whole point is that you shouldn't have to be dependent on a handful of media giants in order to publish.
Through most of history, people transition to doing other jobs. That transition is often painful. Thus various government welfare programs.
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Downvotes and close votes are two sides of the same coin. In the case of help vampires, the two are roughly equivalent. It's still moderation.
To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm not an expert in crime, prison, or socially integrating people back into society. I would start with listening to experts who have methods with reproducible results, however, which is something the US typically doesn't do when it comes to these issues.
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It seems like many people are talking only about their experiences as users looking for answers and not from the perspective as a user answering questions.
Leaking? Thats not leaking, it's the comment field of the key, you can change it to anything you'd like using -C

ssh-keygen -b 4096 -t rsa -C someshitidontwanttotellyou
He cloned a business model known as drop catching that has been around for a long time with other TLDs most notably for .com domains. If you look at how those markets evolved, there is an initial burst of profitability and then intense competition which leads to commodification and margin compression, which is what I predict will happen here as well. The smartest operators made most of their money by selling off the premium domains they were able to drop catch early, which seems to be what he is doing also (& kudos to him for what seems to be excellent tactical execution) - but the drop catching service itself has steadily less value over time and of course, even in the absence of competition from peers, is wholly dependent on the .io registrar's particular rules regarding drop catching which can change at any time.
This I don't get -- why are rich savers bad? How can a large number in some bank account possibly affect anyone else's life in any tangible way? The way I see it, the 'problem' with rich folks is when they use up a disproportionate amount of resources without creating any value, e.g. buying land, houses, cars and employing people to do their pointless (from society's perspective) bidding. I.e. spending money.
Who was Abigail? and is c.l.p.m the perl.misc newsgroup?
Since you're here, maybe you could help us all understand your business better?

1. You are not getting .io names at a discount from nic.io?
No insider deals/information?

2. The Only advantage you have at acquiring an expired domain names at nic.io is your propriatiatry program. A program that is just faster at buying these expiring domains--just faster than your competition?

3. You only know when a .io domain name is due to expire is by looking at the same WHOSIS info we look at?

4. I ask these questions because so many of these domain buying services are just to magical. We tend assume the worst.
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>You might have a point in we lived in a free market where the FED didn't spend $6+ Trillion (with a T) in the last 8 years alone

The Fed didn't "spend" $6TT; they exchanged one asset for another that was in high demand. Also, do you have any idea how much wealth disintegrated in 2007-2008?
I'm not sure things are as zero-sum as you imply - he's not saying Paris can't have her trust fund.

> There's no consistent way to assert the right to violate property rights, without abolishing property altogether.

Is this a false dichotomy? It seem like defining it as a 'violation of property rights' that 'abolishes property altogether' renders things completely implausible by pushing it to it's extremes.
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> keep most of the savings as profit

Only to the extent they are resistant to market forces.
Do you know how he got offers on a prototype?
I guess you're joking, but just in case, C++ prevents entire classes of errors that are almost guaranteed in C projects.
> Varoufakis' argument is that since the state has been taxing the productive to fund research, that gives it a moral right to tax the productive some more.

Regardless of if the research done prior to WW2 was funded privately or publicly, that knowledge is part of our shared culture heritage.

The fact is, regardless of how well they run their hotels, the Hiltons could not be where they are without the travelers who pay to stay at their hotels. Without the government regulation, infrastructure and security that makes such travel safe and easy there would not be the market for the Hiltons to have made their money in.

The government has a critical responsibility for keeping our shared economy healthy, growing and stable. Taxation to do this is not a moral RIGHT, but a moral RESPONSIBILITY.

You sound like you think we'd do OK with no taxes, and thus no government. That is more idealistic and unrealistic than even the most ardently blind arguments for BI.
Yeah this guy (park.io) is getting free PR and manipulating everyone here. It's obvious that he is marketing himself in this thread and calls himself a hacker. The funny part is he has very little hacker credibility if he hasn't been able to get his server up all day.

A big no no is to steal domains that just lapsed on their registration by mere seconds or minutes and then engage in price gouging via a scheme that makes Park.io not legally responsible (because well it's the owner of the domain who had purchased it via Park.io who is doing it, and do we really know that it's that owner or park.io itself hiding behind a some fake user account?)

Anyway, the idea of stealing domains and then ripping off people who are interested in them is really super amoral and stinky.

People should do good in the world, not make it a worse place , and then bate others with how much they make for sake of publicity and more money.

B.S. business model.
But without significant discussion, which makes a repost ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Seattle has similar temperature range and city living, probably about as close as you'll get to San Francisco in a city with tons of good tech jobs. I left my car in the Bay Area when I moved here and walk everywhere, the only time I drive is to go hiking and similar. Seattle is expensive but less so than the Bay Area.

Lack of income tax in Seattle/Washington is huge if you make tech wages. My mortgage in downtown Seattle is less than the additional income taxes I would pay if I lived in California!
This couldn't be more click baity if the title involved "this one weird trick".
>I don't have enough 'reputation' to be allowed to answer questions

You don't need reputation to ask or answer questions, so this is FUD.
In a word, redistribution.

With a rising share of income going to robots (capital) rather than humans (labor), there needs to be a stronger social safety net. This means guaranteed health insurance, health care, retirement benefits, and even a minimum income.

That safety net will have to be paid for via some combination of taxes on wealth, profits, and investment income.
Yes, this is not good? Better than the alternative?
Judging by the earlier HN commentary, Krebs was hosted by Akamai.
Glad someone brought it up., I had guessed it was only the case with me., it's still a great resource to 'search' answers., but posting your own... only would lead you to humiliation with down-votes.

What I had guessed and stopped posting any question, that they only want to answer anything that's general... not 'specific' at least at this point, i still use SO a lot but only search for possible answers, I have never dared again after being trolled and downvotes.
Yes.

Buddhism with that rhetoric (that innovation) has persisted more positively than others that lack it I think.

But also, yes.
You may have heard it all, but what SO has chiefly achieved IMO is to drive users who regularly answer questions away from the site.

If you've a moment to check the data, I'd be curious to see the % of users who answer 5x more questions than they ask, and the same for 10x, 25x, 50x, and 100x. Then look at what their respective activity is in terms of answers provided over time per individual and overall. I'd be surprised if these numbers haven't each dropped significantly in the past 5 years, except perhaps the overall/total activity of high answer:question ratio (but then I'd expect the answer:question ratio to have materially dropped).
Of the many words mocking the opposite of a Luddite, I've always liked "Panglossian", from Dr. Pangloss in Candide.

> Dr. Pangloss was the pedantic old tutor in Voltaire's satirical novel Candide. Pangloss was an incurable, albeit misguided, optimist who claimed that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." So persistent was he in his optimism that he kept it even after witnessing and experiencing great cruelty and suffering. The name "Pangloss" comes from Greek pan, meaning "all," and glossa, meaning "tongue," suggesting glibness and talkativeness.

You see people trying to articulate the desperation they feel about job loss, and some Pangloss sweeps by to comfort them by talking about how macroeconomically speaking they are more than offset by someone else's gain in welfare. It's bizarre.
This is kind of an oblivious response to

> we decided it was critical that CloudFlare wasn't the one deciding what was "politically or artistically important." Instead we rely on the input of civil society organizations like the EFF, CDT, ACLU, Access, etc. If one of the partner organizations says something meets the criteria then we have committed to protecting it

which is in the first paragraph of the comment you're "responding" to.
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Agree- my girlfriend's sister just rented a nice 2br on the UES for $2500 a month. I can't get anything close to that in the same price range in SF, even for a 1br.
They're people that know that they're wasting small amounts of time for large numbers of people and presumably gaining financially from some small number of those people. I delete the e-mails because it's the quick and convenient thing to do, but I don't have any problem with the idea of someone trying to waste their time. "It's their job" isn't a convincing argument; it sounds too much like the defense of "I was just following orders".

If someone feels entitled to someone else's time, I don't see any problem in turning the situation around. If there wasn't a good enough ROI on cold-call marketing, it would be rarer, and that sounds like a net benefit to me.
The changes in TLS 1.3 are long overdue. There are some of us who argued vociferously to not include some of those bad ciphers but we were overruled, probably by the same cabal that decided to remove IPsec from mandatory-to-implement for IPv6.
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What kind of lock-in do you get from starting a convenience store? A repair shop? A McDonald's franchise? Those can all be quite profitable and provide an excellent living.

Simply because competing with him may be "easy," doesn't make the business model any less valid.
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Yes. There are lots of things that I personally believe are incredibly abhorrent that use our network. I'm not proud of them, but I am proud that we don't censor them.
And if it's on your residential block, it'll definitely mess with your sleep.
If you read the article or the process about how domains expire, they don't actually get re-released until close to 75 days AFTER the domain actually expires.

If you forgot to renew the lease on your apartment and 75 days later, someone else rented it, it might suck or be annoying, but you'd still have to move.

The easy fix? Set everything to auto-renew & have a backup credit card on file.
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one note about Taxation. He's careful about using that word because he doesn't want the money to go federal coffers that the state can spend as they see fit. It almost has to be a side-channel that doesn't use the normal tax machinery - which is the talk of 'dividends' and such.
We are not talking a little crime here, we are talking a lot of crime ...
If you don't initiate the connection ( no reverse proxy ) you don't have to recycle sockets, only the nofile / iptables settings matter.
I think both you and @anovikov are on to something. A decline in crime is not incompatible with increasing law enforcement expenditures and the general militarization of civilian police forces that been much lamented here and elsewhere. Nor is a decline in crime in the recent past incompatible with an uptick in crime rates in the present and near future. (Some reference to recent national crime statistics -- especially property crime -- might be in order here but I can't find a reliable one offhand.)

As far as societal adjustment, this episode of This American Life, a couple years old already, takes a detailed look at how a de facto pilot program in Guaranteed Basic Income is already being "implemented piece-meal" in the U.S.:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/t...

I've seen this linked here before and it really is a great eye-opening journalistic investigation of the issue.

Will this scale? Would a more transparent implementation be politically palatable in the US?

I think this is one of the fundamental issues starting to get worked out in the current US presidential election with Sanders millenials tending to support an implementation of lifestyles standards like those found in European social democracies and Trump boomers seeming to suggest that protectionism and a re-assertion of vague nativistic principles will restore the lifestyle standards that well-paying blue collar jobs provided for them and their parents in the past.
Now that is something very interesting. I would love to use this ASAP! :)
For example, Lumileds PC Amber and Lime LEDs employ this trick. They're usually used as a corrective color component and not the main lumen source.
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How do the wages compare? My impression is that they're significantly less in Europe.
In addition, it might be a good idea to think about a system that can update/rotate your keys across all of your servers on the fly in case the third-party service you're using to manage the keys to the kingdom is compromised or assumed to be compromised.
And here's the meta discussion: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19665/the-help-vampi...
If commenter apathy is the reason we see this article several times a month, allow me to chime in as a minority who is intolerant of repeat submissions.
They most certainly do need a court order. See Art. 40 and Art. 41. of the NDG.
A peasant's most valuable asset was his mind as well; you have to go pretty far down the curve before you find a worker's manual labor power output to be their most valuable asset (oxen are usually cheaper) or where obvious mental retardation isn't a disadvantage.

The historical solution (eg in the context of manorialism) was that if you couldn't afford to have a family, you didn't (and if you did, the kid got shunted into a monastery or the equivalent and was prevented from reproducing), so the "surplus" peasant population effectively shrank, and the English lower classes ended up being the descendants of downwardly-mobile gentry, who mostly found employment in different sectors.

That solution breaks down in the context of modern welfare systems.
At least the Swiss citizens have a say in the matter. I don't think the same can be said of the UK or the US.
Nearly every SO issue I've viewed over the last few months has been closed as "off-topic" or some other "not welcome here" reason (I don't know what they are). I was joking about it with friends and they said the same. It makes me think of the wikipedia "deletionists" and I wonder what kind of contributions they would be happy with.
This kinda rocked my view on spammers. It's easy to group them together and have a lot of prejudice, but clearly they come in all kinds of forms.
How does blockchain play a role?
I pay 39 EUR/month for 40GB of data with free roaming in Europe and the US. Unused data carries over up to 80GB on top of the 40 included. So you can travel around with about 100GB of data which is significantly more than you get in Germany for that price.
My issue is the power over the people that the Basic Income would give the government. "Vote for me and basic income goes up!!" and the ways it will be manipulated by those in government in 10,20,100 years. Sounds good, but I can think of a million ways this can easily be abused.
Actually, the decrease in crime can largely be attributed to the the decrease in atmospheric lead (coming from lead-based gasoline and paint), which was proven to interact with children's brain chemistry such that it resulted in hyperactivity and behavioral problems later in life.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure...
I have fond memories of a tool for Acorn RISC OS computers called "The Hacker", later "Desktop Hacker", the website for which astonishingly still exists: http://www.doggysoft.co.uk/cheat.html

It worked very much like the examples given in the linked article, except you had to find the memory locations yourself, in most cases. So for example, if you wanted to find a cheat for extra lives, you'd start the game, drop out into the "Hacker" tool, search memory for "3", then lose a life, then search the results for "2", and test anything that was left by modifying it. Fun stuff.
Yeah, it's on by default. See IdentitiesOnly to turn it off.
You can use bounty for difficult, niche or obscure questions.

http://stackoverflow.com/help/bounty
That is a solid point. The institution should definitely be more akin to the Federal Reserve than to the congressional budget process.
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I always wondered if this was how they created the codes. Even at 10 years old I had assumed the process was more eloquent. Amusing that I had assumed wrong.
> This I don't get -- why are rich savers bad? How can a large number in some bank account possibly affect anyone else's life in any tangible way?

Quite the opposite - savings are integral to a healthy economy.

Investment (in an aggregate economy) must equal savings; this is an identity, not an equation. Any money that is invested (whether loaned to private individuals to buy a house or car, or whether invested by the state into public infrastructure) - all that requires others' savings in order to happen.

For some reason, people get mad when they think of other people "hoarding" money. But in reality, there's no such thing as "hoarding" money. You can hoard a rivalrous resource, but you can't hoard fiat money.
While indeed very exciting, it's important to note that this makes the BDR extension from 2ndquadrant compatible with stock Postgres. This does not include BDR shipping with core Postgres.

This continued improvement with the core code and extension APIs will make more and more extensions feasible which will mean more are able to plug-in and add value without things having to be committed to core. Though in time this is one that has a good chance of actually being in core much like pg_logical.
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What about authenticity?
I know this might sound like a broken record, but a lot of people don't want to live in Omaha: it is a right-valued sprawling city with very four season weather.

Compare SF to other west coast cities, and maybe even to a few east coast ones...but those more central midwest and mountain west cities have a very different lifestyle to consider.
> The funny part is he has very little hacker credibility if he hasn't been able to get his server up all day.

FYI indiehackers and park.io are run by two diffrent individuals. park.io website is still up. It's the indiehackers website that is down.
Having a 2-hour commute driving in heavy traffic every day is something many people, myself included, would move across the country to avoid. In general, it's awful for one's relationships and health, and it's awful for the environment (perhaps less so with a Telsa or Chevy Bolt and solar panels, but that's presently an outlier).

It might be the right personal choice for some people, but public policy should not be designed so long commutes are the norm.
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Nowdays they'd use an emulator to find them, which is at the very least faster.