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> Pure research... is expensive and that cost gets offloaded to incoming students

Do you have evidence for this?

I have never been privy to the financials of a university, college, or even department where tuition money subsidizes research staff, including professors.

> The "phony administrative positions", lawns, and student facilties you dismiss as pork are the school's way of competing for the piles of grant money replacement known as undergrads.

Believe me, we'd see this dynamic regardless of whether your hypothesis re: research funding were true. For evidence, look toward small liberal arts colleges. Most have never received anything more than token amounts of federal grant money, and yet their tuition increases match those of research universities.

>...Georgia Tech...

is an extreme outlier in terms of quality for cost.

Also, that $12k is only tuition. The actual cost, assuming you can't find free room/board in Atlanta, is 2x before interest on inevitable loans.
Good article. I'd be very interested to see these artists' original works. I imagine they have exceptional technical ability since they paint so much.
This is uncivil and unsubstantive to the point where it's simply a troll comment, and those aren't needed on Hacker News.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13005244 and marked it off-topic.
And, unless something is serious broken in all of those systems, only if the target is also dual stack.

So an IPv4-only website should not incur any delay.
I think Google should offer paid consumer support for their free services for instances like this. I wouldn't mind paying $40-50 if I get locked out of my gmail for 2 days.

I use my gmail for many important services as my main email. Looks like time has come to change that.
Your target market is somebody that wants to create lots of minimalist websites quickly. (those creating one personal website whose priority is getting things done likely skip the "evaluate best alternatives" step and go straight to Tumblr/Wordpress or their favourite social network.)

Unfortunately, apart from polymaths that just want to share their expertise on as many discrete subjects as possible which I'm not convinced is the biggest target market, it's probably blogspammers and astroturfers...
You are either a sadly ignorant person or a troll. Possibly both.
Ooh, where did you play? Love that track, will have to try and catch you play sometime if you play that sort of thing :)
That almost happened at my university the semester after they went big into debt for a new stadium. We're one of the last ones in the state who aren't forcing under clansmen to live in the dorms. They cited things like, "it sill save them money! It will help with inclusion! It will help their GPA!" It was bogus of course. Thankfully the students protested fairly hard and our president sided with the students.
I agree. It would be great if as a society we handled social media (and other addictive experiences) the same way we handle drugs and gambling: adults only, know your limits, here's help getting clean. Instead we have kids obsessively snapchatting and messing with their dopamine system before their brain is even finished developing.
Im not a policy expert, but I advocate for making things simpler. The capacity to default already exists and will always exist. Devise a new specific mechanism to offset another specific mechanism is like a patch to solve a patch on a bug.
Yeah, I have my own box. But if I remember correctly with the new ZTE routers they're shipping it works too.
Ya, I live in a small NYC apartment. I grant you that if I lived in a big suburban house I'd do it differently.
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Wasn't aware of that one. Significantly fewer people affected though(I think red-green is something like 10% of males)
That's a great DNS service you've got there; be a shame if someone were to DOS it.
As soon as AWS gets serious about IPv6...
I personally use Hugo, written in Go rather than Ruby, Jekyll eats up CPU in a very weird way when you run it as a server, don't like my lap on fire after I fire it up. Also love Mkdocs, for static doc creation.
Back a long time ago, the primary way to get information was to go to the library. There were draw backs and limitation for the consumer, and of course publishers offered an alternative like book clubs where users paid a set amount in order to have a limited number of books delivered home without the restrictions of library books. Lets make a guess and say that 6-8% of library visitors found this as acceptable. The rest did not pay for all their reading except through taxes that gave very limited compensation to authors per reader.

Then we have radio for music. At one time in history, this was the main method for people to access music. Radio has some clear draw backs and limitation for the consumer, and record labels offered an alternative where consumer could buy CD's with a limited number of songs without the restriction that radio has. Let again guess that about 6-8% of consumer accepted this deal, while everyone else continued to listen to music for free and paid by taxes/advertisement that gave very limited compensation to musicians that only could guess the number of listeners.

Then we had TV for films. At one time in history, this was the main method for people to access movies, but at some heavy limitations. Rental services offered an alternative for a limited number of films without the restrictions of TV. Let again guess that about 6-8% of consumer accepted this deal, while everyone else continued to listen to watch movies for free and paid by taxes/advertisement that gave very limited compensation to movie producers that only could estimate the number of watcher.

And then we have the Internet that has everything from text, to sound, to audio-visual, using both models. Let me guess that its going to be about 6-8% paying customer. Unless we expect the media budget per family to increase by 10x in average, I have some doubt that there is a good plan on how to get such increase in spending.

(Taxes, as in state owned Library/Radio/TV. Sweden have a tax-but-not-tax on TV).
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I'm in the US but my house is still ~200 years old. I've had a couple of major renovations done and have had networking cables pulled when walls were opened up anyway for electrical and other reasons. (WiFi was less widespread and mature at the time.) I added speaker cables as well. But barring real issues with using wireless in conjunction with Powerline or whatever, I'd never want to open up walls just for the purpose of adding Ethernet cables.
> Seaking generally, "fake news" is a real problem, though a more accurate term would perhaps be "poorly vetted" news.

Undoubtedly. However I agree with Snopes here in that this was not "the" problem of why this election was lost.

> I think that it's better to say that we're still not sure how to handle and adjust to a new world where data updates are instanateous for the general population

Agree. I see that the landscape is changing quickly but how it is changing or the exactly reason need to be figured out.

> Fake news in the context of it being poorly researches and poorly vetted is a real problem.

Yeah, I like that Google and Facebook have started to attack the problem. I am a bit suspicious of those using this label all too quickly as it dilutes its meaning.

> but man, it's really hard to sort through a lot of the information out there, especially when the majority of the populous is used to having a few definitive sources they can rely on for good hard hitting journalism.

Agree. The lack of trust is the issue. I am guessing that's why the appeal of Wikileaks and email. Those can obviously be editorialized based on what's released and what isn't. However what is released can be considered as a reliable source. So in this environment of uncertainty, many probably saw raw email texts as one of the few instances of "valid" news (for better or for worse).
Our current global scientific and engineering output is staggering, and it is continuously accelerating. If there was a global 'manhattan project' focused on this, then it would happen.

Global economic output is $80 trillion. There are 100s of millions of scientists, engineers, programmers, technicians in the world. Aside from the ideological complexities, which are probably intractable, it seems like it would be pretty easy to me.

What would it really take to provide basic housing, food, water, clothing, energy, and medicines to 7 billion people? Robotic automation, free / cheap energy, and access to natural resources.
Who are they going to sue now?
All of them :P

Two at the moment and I don't know how I could do it, if I had to be in office 40h a week.
> do you know how many of them could readily provide carbon copy receipts for every single deduction they claimed in the last X years?

So on what basis did they take those deductions in the first place, if they didn't have the documentation to figure out what their deduction was in the first place? Did they just guess? Or are you saying they had it for one tax season and then destroyed it?
I run uBlock and got a message saying the site is down. Disabled it and got it to work.

I think one way to differentiate yourself in this kinda area is making it run without any backend tech like jekyll, python, etc. Make it run client-side only. Just my 2 cents.
On the linked page they talk about the brands (Netflix, etc) that are using Dyn. Those are the ones I meant. I wonder if Oracle will be seen as a good thing or a bad thing to these companies.
Instagram has done it again…
And Google Cloud too.

All Compute Engine networks use the IPv4 protocol. Compute Engine currently does not support IPv6. However, Google is a major advocate of IPv6 and it is an important future direction.
People like to learn things, if the desire hasn't been regimented out of them and their energy drained to the dregs.
To be fair, I'm sure the margins on a $300 book are much better than the margins on a $200 piece of electronics.
I like hangouts because the chat is indexed for search within gmail. So I don't need to remember whether I was chatting or emailing about a topic.
That’s how the most successful people use lists … under a specific time block.

Wow, talk about a spectacular exaggeration.
What I'm planning to do is move the services I have registered with my Gmail account to a Fastmail account, and migrate my Gmail archive to that service. They handle contacts and calendars too, and their basic service is $3/month. That's cheaper and easier than running one's own mail server.

I've been test driving their service for a few days and so far it feels much more intuitive and faster than Gmail. It also works properly on every browser I've thrown at it, and their Android app is nice. I'm going to spend the next few days pruning my Gmail archive before transferring it so I don't have to buy the 25GB plan from Fastmail, then I'll tell all the services that use the Gmail address to use the Fastmail address instead. That second task will be the most time consuming and frustrating one, but it's worth the effort to break the chains of the big G.

(Edit: Corrected the price for Fastmail's basic service)
The IRS is kind of strapped for money. I suspect the threshold is way over $500.
> You're first paragraph is so obviously anti-worker that I've assumed your pro-union stance to be false.

Huh? Maybe if you attach objective meaning to the word fair, but you said couldn't be done and would lead to a never ending philosophical discussion.

But within the context of my position that has held that a fair market is not desirable for employees, that would tell you that the first paragraph is very much pro-labour. Fair is clearly bad.

What do you hope to take away from this discussion? You originally asked why Americans see unions as having negative outcomes. How are these talking points codifying an answer to that question in your mind?
IMO, there are much better novels about this subject not involving any techno-magic. Lem's Return from the Stars is an excellent work that explores this very question, and unlike Culture novels, it's down-to-earth and fully self-aware. Hard to explain what that means. Lem realized that the very notion of "meaning" will change in the future.

Many works by Strugackiy brothers also deal with this question.

I realize these writers belong to preceding generations of SF, but their works are still very much relevant and (IMO) far more plausible than futures of Vinge and Banks.
That would be great, here's my code: https://github.com/johnBartos/buffer-oscillator-node/blob/ma...

I wonder if instead of encoding as ogg/opus I could switch the string to WAV instead?
So does the Federation. It just lies to itself and everyone else about so doing.
Or maybe he was reading a text message about the death of a family member? Extrapolating from almost zero data usually isn't helpful, and probably often ends up being an opportunity to reinforce our own biases.
Not directly, but their crawler will use Cloudflare. same as with Facebook. They don't use Cloudflare but crawl websites that use it.
I wrote a detailed explanation last year which might also help some: http://eastfarthing.com/blog/2015-04-21-noise/
My first thought was Github Pages + Jekyll + a Jekyll template. And then it's been wrapped in a script that has the domain name bonus.

Not saying what you're doing isn't a good idea; I'm just not quite sure where the big distinction (and attraction) is. Is it that the process is more shrink-wrapped?
> What's wrong with expecting WIFI to work well enough to enjoy low latency high definition/4k content?

You can totally do that in rural areas. I'm talking at least 1/4 mile separation between houses.

If you're not in that kind of area and you still expect it, it's because you don't understand the physics. I don't mean that as an insult, just a statement of fact. I went to school for electrical engineering and that statement you made above is laughable for anyone who knows the trade. To me, a similar statement might be "Why can't I have a car that makes 1000 HP, gets 100 MPG and costs $10k?" Yes someday that might be a reality but with the tech we have now, it's definitely not.

Bandwidth over the air is fixed and it's split between everyone who is within "earshot" and similar to how it eventually gets impossible to hear anyone at a party once the room is packed and everyone is talking, so it goes with wireless. There's just not enough spectrum to go around. That's why people use wires; every wire has (roughly) a whole spectrum all to itself. Pull 100 wires? Get 100x bandwidth. Put up 100 wireless transmitters? Get 1/100 the bandwidth on each one. The math there heavily, heavily favors wires. Ethernet, coax, fiber, whatever. If you make a new signal propagation domain you can use as much of it as it'll allow you. If you use the big signal propagation domain that everyone has access to, prepare to share.
Wear them at least twice before washing.
I think it is mostly because they don't understand how much better wired internet is than wireless. I've basically forced many people to connect their devices with Ethernet as a "temporary" measure to solve their problems. For the most part, every single person has decided to leave whatever it is connected. Almost all my friends rent too, which is a huge barrier to using wires, since the wires can't be hidden in the walls or ceilings.

One of the big things that people don't realize is that bandwidth of wireless is split between every device on that channel. So if you are streaming to your TV/roku/xbox/etc over wifi, you are killing the bandwidth for your laptop and phone as well. Plus, if you live in a city your wireless bandwidth is pretty much guaranteed to suck because every ISP includes wifi with their modems, destroying the noise floor. Comcast modems are a particularly notable example, as they have a "public" 2.4 ghz network in addition to the "private" 2.5 and 5 ghz networks. There are no fewer than 30 wifi networks available inside my house when I check on my phone, and I live in a row house with metal lathe under the plaster, which greatly attenuates wifi signals.

I think the biggest barrier to wiring things is that patch cables are incredibly expensive if you buy them at Best Buy, etc. Most non-technical people I know only own the patch cable that came with their modem. Once I get them wired up, they are astounded by how much faster their internet is. They don't have buffering issues, the internet doesn't drop randomly, and it just seems "faster" (which I attribute to lower latency). I toss extra patch cables in my Monoprice orders now and sell them to my friends at-cost. To be honest, it's partially for my own sanity as well, because watching Netflix at 480p on a 50/15 connection drives me nuts.
>you fundamentally misunderstand what is actually happening at universities

What is actually happening is that in many cases "researchers" chase fame and money, not academic excellence. They have no time to teach "idiot undergrads", as you nicely put it, because they are busy running their consultancies on the side.
[I am in Boston, I see a lot of this first-hand, in "elite" schools in particular]
Coming from wordpress to a website that uses markdown for posts I have run into a few problems or inconvenience that I haven't seen addressed.

There's a lot of boiler-plate in markdown posts. Author, date, etc. Wordpress does all this for you.

My editor doesn't know which categories, authors or tags already exists. I can't remember if I use the category "car" or "cars".

I haven't found a nice way of handling inline images.
you mean you're perfectly happy because you're a straight white male?
Facebook seems to crawl ipv6 websites using an ipv6 connection. The Google crawler doesn't show up so it's probably working ipv4 only.

I'm just wondering why Google doesn't seem to use ipv6 where available.
For me, that's the right way to do things.
It's important to note that wiring what you can makes the WiFi that much faster for everything else as well.
Not sure of the specifics. Java SE is now included with the official OS (Raspbian/NOOBS) [0]. When the Pi first launched you had to use the soft FP version of the OS or Java wouldn't work but this had a significant performance penalty. They added official support for hard FP a few years ago [1]. I believe the .NET issue was similar in that the VM (CLR i.e. JVM) didn't support the hard FP version of the OS. FP on the Pi processor is a bit weird and a non-standard implementation from what I've read.

P.S. In researching this post I noticed that one of my projects (a globe wake lamp) has been included in the latest project book (p108) [2]. First I've heard of this! This is actually an old version and there is a newer write-up on my blog [3].

[0]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/oracle-java-on-raspberry-pi...

[2]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/Projects_Book_v2.pd... [pdf]

[3]: https://unop.uk/pi-glowbe-mark-2/
I would personally stockpile hard liquor if I wanted to hedge for a social collapse. Whiskey never goes bad, it's always useful and a few ounces can go a long way.
Yo, would be nice to have some functional programming language with decent syntax to program apple machines. Let's call it Dylan to honor the most recent winner of the Nobel prize for literature.

Just kidding. The bottomline of this page and talk is that Swift is still not functional. But you can do cool things with it.
Sounds like you are just avoiding uncomfortable questions.

However, most people will make assumption on race and class from things like PCP even though zero information about that in my example.
> That is a dangerously oversimplified view of how markets work.

Because university is so expensive, we're told that more things matter than just price.

Buyers are obviously attracted to more than low prices, but some buyers are highly price-sensitive. So, we should let them find something that works for them.
Why VCs sometimes push companies to burn too fast
I have an Asus RT-AC87U, which I bought in 2014, and it gets a few updates a year. Not sure how long they'll keep up.

Ok, just checked RT-AC66U as well, which is from 2012, and it still gets updates too.
I am very surprised that this exists at all and I'll be even more surprised if it is successful. It seems like, to make it work, they would need to give more than the vague promise of fewer ads and actually require exclusivity for publishers in the programme.

After all, Google ads tend to be among the least obnoxious, so if I were to pay for no ads (on the basis that I simply don't want to see ads and not because of a greater societal benefit of removing them as a perverse incentive) then I would want a very clear contract that says for X group of websites, I will get no ads and they will get revenue from my browsing. I don't want there to exist some group Y that still gets revenue from my subscriptions, even though they continue to show ads anyway. In that case the subscription is unfit for purpose; it might as well be called a donation instead.

It's also possible that Google intends to play both sides and offer higher-priced, high-priority ads that are always shown. It could just be the AdBlock mess all over again, which is the trouble with having conflicting interests.
We switched from the wirecutter's recommended AC router back to an older AirPort Extreme and everything got better immediately. I won't miss Apple's monitors because they cost way too much for what they offered, but Apple has been doing wireless right since they brought out the first airport (a friend of mine worked at Lucent at the time and they were excited that someone had finally shipped a usable implementation of their technology)

Ars Technica's article basically says good riddance, but if you go back to their original review observed that the AirPort Extreme crushes all competing routers on both ease of use and performance.
Symantec's lost its bearings a long time ago, this is another false move ...
Fastmail does email and calendars. Haven't tried calendars, but they're a really good email provider.
Mad as a Hatter in VR and AR
I tend to agree. But in my house now, a three story, the AP is in the basement at the corner of the house. Surprisingly, I have zero trouble with all my devices connecting to it.

Are you thinking of other issues besides signal strength?
Ahh, the old classic, PayPaI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPaI (uppercase 'i')
> if you want me to consume ads, give me ads I want to consume.

I'd rather see irrelevant ads - or ads targeted at the average visitor - than be tracked and shown things an algorithm thinks I personally want to see.
Reminds me of Aaron Swartz's Jottit application: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/sweatsmall
The last good Mac Mini is from 2012, so the Mac Mini is even more neglected than the Mac Pro.

If they ever release a new Mac Mini, it will probably be their last.
> they'll start losing customers

my understanding is that at their core, they are an ad tech company. Their actual customers are on Madison avenue, and I imagine, get excellent support.
I've been working on a catalog of tech conference talks, which you might find interesting - https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&type1=Tech%20Conference.

I'm hoping soon to have additional facets for things like programming language / framework.
Concerning facebook, I got annoyed by the whole newsfeed a long time ago. So I unfollowed everyone & groups. Next was the invitation crap. End result is a near empty newsfeed. If I'm interested in some person I will go to their page myself.