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Any online apps to learn history/ geography/ economics (serious stuff)?
At some point i ran into this game:
http://bramus.github.io/mercator-puzzle-redux/
...and now I'm freaked out by the fact that i know where 95% of the countries in the world are, and what their shape is.

Does anyone know such games for learning history, economics... or whatever other adult topics like that? :)
Because as I said, trends are largely a function of available technology. There is a reason we put up with long DMV lines and mailed everything with USPS, until the web eventually moves all that stuff online.
https://www.ganttplanner.com is one of my side projects. It turns your Google Calendar into a gantt chart. The project is making a bit more than 1k/month and is currently on auto pilot.

I created this project for learning purposes and because it was a lot of fun. I open sourced the actual gantt component: https://www.angular-gantt.com
There were downsides too. Getting memes from eMule was great, but imgur is so much easier.
Its only purpose is to force businesses up to business class. You might see it enforced if you ran a public for profit site from a consumer connection.

In any case the encrypted p2p protocols run by dapps (decentralized apps) are opaque, and these don't really qualify as servers because architecturally they are not client-server at all.
There was an eventual copyright complaint and cease&desist which I had no intent to fight. I talked with a lawyer (friend of my family) who said I could probably win or find a settlement in court.

They only went after the app a few years after the show was in its prime (it was making ~40$ a month more or less) so I just removed the application from the Android Play Store as that was all they were asking for.
So what's the difference between that and using a personal LLC. It's legal nitpicking about a persons choice.
I'm not sure if this is the best approach. Matrix might be a better way to go, at least for some things. If you really want persistent history and persistent identity, I'm not sure why you bother with IRC at this point: both will always be second class there. Try XMPP, Matrix, Psyc, or whatever. Just so long as you can convince your friends to use it...
It's more the ambition than the prior stuff:

>“unlike Google, we grow faster as we get bigger. We could catch them in ten years.”

trying to be the biggest tech group in the world can be interesting even if he fails.
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Most cloud servers do this too. Spam has basically destroyed smtp as an open federated protocol anyway. Network reachability is the least of the issues you'll face trying to run your own mail.

Lesson: any distributed or federated protocol that is not robust against abuse is doomed.
I'm using Straight Talk for my cell, which seems to use TracFone on the backend, and the site you're scraping just gives me an error message. At least, every time I have to muck with the APNs, it seems to be filled with reference to tfdata and other such things.

Still, not so good for security to give out such info for any TF phone number to anybody with a net connection.
Again, politicians and advertisers, not to mention religious leaders and parents who don't like to be questioned will continue to oppose anything which empowers children with the skills and tools to think critically.
Zero symptoms for 15 years, so it's pretty obviously completely cured. I should say, however, that my startup is just me, and I don't have any funding, so there is pretty much zero stress. Even so, I'm able to put in a normal day's work and I can handle normal amounts of physical activity (e.g. cycling 30km) with no after-effects, both of which would obviously have been impossible when I had CFS.
Computers use about 13% of the world's electricity.

Electricity production is about 25% of the world's greenhouse emissions, transportation is about 14%, so currently this isn't correct but within 10-15 years it potentially could be, of course it is dependant on the energy sources for both electricity production and transportation or to be more exact their share relative share of greenhouse emissions remaining proportionally similar.
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I mean decentralized in the same way the Web and Email are decentralized. Not all the way to the end-user nodes, but to the servers. Any number of people can bring up as many new servers as they want, and they control the server and what's on it. In our Platform that corresponds to Communities. An end-user can have accounts in an unlimited number of communities and seamlessly use their identity and contacts across communities and widgets, even on the same page.

For example a dentist can include a Maps widget and the user can get directions while the maps widget knows the user's address and the dentist knows his medical history and both can display it to him on the same page instantly without either one knowing the other's info. It does this using iframes.

I also mean enabling decentralized networking topologies, eg collaborating on a document without the signal having to go to Google Docs, or planning get-togethers and coordinating efforts in your African village via running various social apps on the the local network.

That's the type of decentralization that is actually useful.
Where, when, how? You should provide some evidence to support such a claim or accusation.
If you're a designer yourself we could do with some design help on the Kiwi IRC project!

It's one of the largest web based IRC clients and currently getting a rewrite at the moment, but we've always had a lack of design input unfortunately.
Are you of the opinion that p2p piracy has somehow gone away?

I do have to question the notion that free entertainment is what empowers people, but I suppose it isn't the stupidest attempt at justifying piracy I've ever read.
In my view Florida would be better served by deregulating their electricity markets (as 16 other states/territories have done) and allow 3rd party suppliers to compete for business. Then consumers who want solar (or other forms of green power) can buy it directly without having to put panels on their roof that will obsolete in a few years.
> Most conservatives would say the papers and media outlets are _all_ liberal. Would you expand on that spectrum?

How many active communist newspapers are there left in the U.S.? As far as I know zero, but I could be mistaken.

And yet those are what gave us our labor laws, integrated workplaces, women's rights, etc.
> Who, other than technical folks, could possibly have the time, interest or inclination to set up a self-hosted solution when the barrier is so high?

Some evolution of docker swarm could greatly simplify this.
I would like to have some basic issue tracking in git like in fossil (www.fossil-scm.org if you don't know, by the creator of sqlite). It's a shame that git has eclipsed all other options.
> worth having a dedicated team sitting in between sales
> and tech/admin support

As a customer, I hate it being difficult to reach someone technical. This doesn't sound like it helps that.

Of course, it's generally better the more technical the company is - since if all customers are developers then there's no point in going through a charade of "Hmm, sorry about that! Have you tried turning it off and on again?" type support.

When it's worst is when I'm not actually having any problem myself, I'm just trying to be helpful - like "by the way, if you follow this link you get a 404, correct link is blah".

In this case, I don't want "Sorry about this - we'll look into it for you!", I just want the message to get to the dev that can fix it in seconds, and a "Cheers!" response is more than sufficient.
What about the bigger, wealthier industrial families who have built coal mines and got subsidies for them too?

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-koch-coal-idUSL2N14W1JJ20...
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> That seems like a small improvement rather than a "game changer."

It shows you are not really aware of the state of Cancer drugs these days. Drugs that can make 20~30% patients live 3 months longer are usually considered pretty good, doubling the percentage of survival in ADVANCED cancer is certainly unheard of.
Well, yeah. When I was a teenager my group of friends used to use a QNet IRC chat for communications. Most on mIRC and such clients. Today it's pretty much all nerds. I do enjoy IRC, and pretty much live inside my tmux session, but I don't think I can recommend it to anyone who isn't already probably using it.
I can't say it's bad to update the IRC protocol, but I don't think it would make much difference either. What people don't realize with "decentralized" services is that they don't have a good ecosystem anymore. The web stack, which favors centralization, ships with usable encryption, user interface, distribution etc. To achieve similar end results with "conventional" stacks you will spend far more effort with far less developers to choose from.

People tend to dismiss web application development for being careless, but at the same time forget that this is what made these clear text fairly rudimentary protocols popular. Until we get encryption built-in, more robust programming languages and figure out distribution on the desktop it's unlikely that the ecosystem will come back.
I think the problem is that many doctors don't really understand (or don't want to believe) how stress affects the mind and body. Perhaps they don't like it because it's not really possible for a doctor to "fix" it in a 15 minute consultation. They prefer to just give you a pill.

If you look at the research, it's pretty clear that none of the common migraine triggers has any actual evidence, apart from stress.
For you. What about the millions of nontechnical people that need an open communication platform? We use IRC at my employer, and the complexity of getting a bouncer set up means that for cross time zone teams, most people miss any conversations that don't happen in their business hours. This has huge effects on collaboration.
While the developer might not be happy per say, the amount of crap that you now have to go through in the interviewing process makes staying the least worse option on the table.
The panel discussion I linked to was really intersting. I believe they said that Searge (who was on the panel) is the leader of the add-ons effort.

They did say that Java MC isn't going anywhere.

Their stated intent is to make add-ons/plugins as powerful as they can, but there is a limitation in that they want them to be able to work in environments like iOS. Add-ons sre no problem: they're just json data files. They think they'll be able use use C# plugins on iOS, but I'm quite interested to see how they pull that one off.

Regardless, there are 30-40 million players of MCPE who have no modding at all today. This new system is going to be a big step up. even if it is entirely different from the way Java MC is extended.
Consider what it takes to have a substantial advertising market: you need goods, you need buyers, you need sellers who are providing a great deal of a good (or are selling very high-ticket items for which buyers are thin), and you need means for transporting both the advertisments and the goods to buyers.

Hamilton Holt, a publisher himself (of The Independent magazine) starts off the linked work by detailing this. The first 10-15 pages cover a lot of ground, I highly recommend you read them if you haven't. Keep in mind that Holt is largely limiting himself to US practice, so specifics of earlier European publishers may be missed. But he is also focusing on the business volume of advertising, not simply the existence of occasional adverts or notices in publications.

What your link describes in considerable detail are early instances of advertising, and a few specific publications which carried them. They're drawn from across England and France, as well as the US, but don't give an impression of a thriving advertising industry, which is precisely what Holt is talking about (there are a slew of similar and related works at TIA from the 1890s to 1920s covering the boom, many offering advice to publishers, or more often, businessmen who are looking at this newfangled thing called "advertising" -- it's surprisingly interesting reading, at least for me).

I'd argue that this passage from your reference largely makes my point: that advertising wasn't a truly significant force until the 1850s, due to a confluence of factors. Again, it's patent medicines (small packages, complex product that has to be marketed, travels well, premium price, mass production) which launched the phenomenon:

The abolition of the advertising tax in 1853, the duty on newspapers in 1855 and the duty on paper in 1861 created a new environment for advertisers and publishers alike. Thomas Holloway (1800-1883), a purveyor of quack pills, was spending over £30,000 a year on advertising by 1855.

QED.
The two stances aren't exclusive. Good developers may become unhappy, but they likely have very little difficulty finding a new job so they are on the market for a very short period of time.

To follow the used car analogy, good cars do occasionally need to be sold, but when they do they get taken quickly by a friend or through word of mouth recommendations. The cars that sit on the lot for the public to peruse are not great deals.
I use KiwiIRC each and everyday. It's one of the nicest looking and easiest to setup web frontend for my hybrid-ircd setup. Sadly it's just a small group of friends and an OLD eggdrop bot that runs a crusty old megahal.mod as entertainment. I haven't found anything that runs as well and can create humerous replies since then. Hopefully the old code will continue to compile for awhile.

Anyway, I strayed off topic. I too am excited for IRCv3 and the future of IRC. I love the protocol, and despite it's drawbacks it serves my purpose well.

And thank you for all your work on KiwiIRC. I love the project :)
The working group seems to have formed in 2012, first under Atheme. They do want to work with IETF: https://github.com/kaniini/ircv3-harmony https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/issues/132
> a version implemented in Rust is 90% complete - cheaper to run

Is it cheaper to run because of Rust? Why is it so? Could you please explain, don't know anything about Rust though.
Yeah you get very little hurricane damage if you built outside of the area the hurricane hits. But what if you don't?
There's still a lot of value in a mostly centralized network operating on a protocol designed for a decentralized one. That means that people who want to opt out of centralization can, and it limits the walled garden effect.
I read the entire thing forwards and backwards and either way does not make any more sense than the other.

I guess marketing.
Nah, I am not good at designing either. "Borrowing" from Slack is probably the way to go since people seem to like that.

Btw, your file upload button at bottom right seems to be not working, it says "Application AisMDMMInTAOji478kuNxz is unavailable." when I click on it.
The internet is decentralized. The thing is that you need to get the data from person A to person B. And neither A nor B can alone afford the infrastructure to enable that.
He's built one of the few companies that take valuing developers seriously?
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In my opinion one of the disturbing trends increasingly presenting a "usability" issue is the insistence of sites putting content behind a login wall, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Glasdoor etc. Some of these make a subset of content viewable but then prohibit me from scrolling further until I sign up. Usually the sign up requires selecting one of FB, Google, et al as an Oauth provider. So by extension you kind of have centralized control of third party content as well.
Many computer users can do this, but most computer users can't. So most users don't have that choice.
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They could have chosen to tax solar power or property to cover the loss, but they chose to tax the average person. That was choice, not an accident.
I remember one of the first VOIP clients (if not the first) PowWow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)
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Very much so. I was going to mention that but figured I'd rambled on enough already.

You might enjoy a piece I wrote about a year ago on J.P. Morgan and the purported "Banker's Manifesto" of 1892. (It proves to be a hoax.) The investigation took me through quite a few old newspaper archives, many of them political organs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/39w8u4/jp_morg...

The Arizona Republic, commenting on its own endorsement of Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, the first presidental endorsement for that party in the paper's 150+ year history, noted that it was originally known as the Arizona RepublicAN.
It is as easy as installing a desktop app. Sometimes even easier (you can not just write "apt-get install Word<Enter>" and it will be just there).

The problem is that you don't just want a CMS, you want it to look a special way, do special things with it, don't want other people to access it without you allowing it, etc.
The SWI-prolog website is written in prolog.
I imagine you never had the fortune of using Oracle Forms or its replacement Apex.
So what is your facts?
Joel is a manager, and Dan isn't.

Management often believes that they understand hiring, and that their mechanisms for examining performance are good. If Joel believes that one of his employees is fantastic their requests will be heard, and they will be better compensated. Dan instead is seeing developers that he knows are awesome and can't find work because Dan can't hire them.

I for one think both are right in some fashion. People that management considers high performers stay long and are very well compensated. People who are not valued that way by management might still stay (if they are not valued in the market), but will jump ship after a few months otherwise. Willingness to stay depends on getting what you want out of a job REGARDLESS OF PROGRAMMER QUALITY!

I have worked at places where people with tremendous flaws were considered high performers, making the place shed great developers while keeping bad ones. Other places just look at a specific set of things that might make someone good, and end up with unbalanced talent sets. Imagine you hand tasks to single developers, and value getting them in production as soon as possible. Stability, readability, maintainability will go down the window, and eventually said company will either fail or have to hire a different kind of dev, and force those people to win a culture battle.

So ultimately, I think this is all about how difficult it is to evaluate programmers, and how people with one evaluation function look at a world that either shares their evaluation function, or differs significantly from it.
reducing prices, or shifting prices to the rest of the population, regardless of energy use?
I assumed there was quite a bit of research and Hegelian synthesis that occurred outside of the narrative.
he's been talking a lot recently without releasing much at all. Wonder what he's got. If it's about when Schmidt was CEO why wait till now?

Although given that Google seems ever more obsessed with collecting/retaining data I guess it's just as relevant...
The World Health Organization has a report titled "Health risks from drinking demineralised water". The main problem is that water without minerals upsets the osmotic balance and leads to lysing (rupture) of the cells lining the stomach.

The WHO has moved stuff on their site, but I think this document is one source:

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap...

Coffee grounds are a good filter for removing heavy metal contaminants from water:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/science/coffee-grounds-fil...
So, after announcing that he would leak important information at a press conference he then only announced again that he would do so.

And now -- finally -- he is announcing yet again that... he may announce something in the future, I guess?
Well just look at the president candidates for the most powerful and richest country in the world. How is that possible that in a whole country of many smart people these two individuals could get someone's votes.
In many ways, the idea of IRC chat has grown significantly beyond the conventional client. From the ubiquity of chat for productivity in applications like HipChat to the hugely successful Twitch.tv platform, IRC has proven to be a viable backbone in these scenarios. It's quite nice then to see a concerted standardization effort. Hopefully, many of the proprietary features we might recognize today will be widespread and freely available in the future.
I also think there is a generational component to this as well. You have an age group who don't know an internet prior to this centralization grab. So there is not much in the way of a standard of comparison for them.
I used https://privatepackets.io/ to setup my own server while in Turkey.

The HN search has a couple of recent 'best VPN' discussion threads https://hn.algolia.com/?query=best%20vpn&sort=byPopularity&p...
Subsidies for early adopters are a way to finance early productionization so that the industry can grow to become more efficient in the future at which point everyone else enjoys cheaper energy. Early adopters paying full price is a subsidy gift to late adopters who don't take on the risk.
Firstly, psychosomatic means physical symptoms due to psychological cause, so if there was no physical thing happening inside the body, it wouldn't be psychosomatic. (It would just be psychological).

There are many types of stress, e.g. physical (exercise), viral, or psychological, and they all have a similar effect in the brain (i.e. all of those stresses activate the HPA axis).

From what I can see, the type of shutdown due to chronic stress that we see in CFS and similar conditions is likely due to the central governor[1] or Boksem's cost-benefit analysis centre[2] (which may actually be the same brain areas) deliberately generating fatigue due to excessive negative stress. So the mechanism isn't "lack of sleep causing damage, resulting in fatigue", it is more along the lines of "central governor sees that we aren't getting enough sleep, and then deliberately generates fatigue to tell us we need to sleep more". So even though it's not a psychological primary cause, it's probably fair to say that the fatigue is psychosomatic because the brain is doing a psychological determination based on a physical input. (The same would apply for excessive exercise resulting in overtraining).

If you prefer, you could call it "functional" rather than psychosomatic. I prefer not to get caught up on terminology, and instead concentrate on what's actually happening in the body.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323922/
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51426280_Mental_fat...
Point 6 is very good.

Not in USA but in Italy web development is still "something exotic". I was there 2 years ago as a contractor of a big bank but out of the enterprise world, freelancers need to accept very uncommon agreements if they want to work. An incredible amount of works are "gentlemen agreements" and contractor are exposed.

I'm not defending this kind of "ideas", mostly because theoretically nothing should be introduced into the customer application without his/her approval. Just considering that "ideas like this" are probably happening because a more complex situation in background.
"most people miss any conversations that don't happen in their business hours. This has huge effects on collaboration."

Why don't you send them logs of the conversations?