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Instead of dealing with increasing costs of student loans we've thrown more money and accessibility at it (government sponsored, government backed, etc). Universities responded in kind with increasing tuition because well, people can get the money!

The other thing that happened is more and more of the job market requires a 4 year degree and some experience for entry level jobs! So while the price of education has increased, what your salary is after you are done has either decreased or not kept up.

We've overpriced the purchase of a degree, and made them a commodity in the job market making their value go down.
I was saying that artists and ticketmaster and politicians are happy to sell the narrative that "ticket bots and scalpers are the problem and we can't do anything about it" when that is very much not the case. Lots of fans buy this, because they don't know any better. As a journalist, the writing I've seen about the ticket industry the last year has been so, so bad and so simplistic and so infuriating, so I decided to do this piece to fight a lot of these misconceptions
Sure, but some fan wasn't going to make it either way.

Why should the fan who is willing to pay more money have to miss out, in favour of a fan who is paying less money?
Yeah, depending on how badly this infests Xfce, I may have to switch to MATE.

If it's just the task manager, then I can fall back to 'top' in a terminal window until I can write my own replacement. But if they start doing it to Thunar, Mousepad, xfce4-terminal, the settings control panel, etc ... then I'll have to abandon ship :(
Because bands make less money they produce fewer shows which is another net loss.

Further, it's not die hard fans that use scalped tickets it's people with disposable money. If anything fewer die hard fans get tickets because a fan will showup at 12:00 to buy tickets but they don't build a bot to get them in the next 0.1 seconds.
Unless your tied to Microsoft Products (including Skype for Business), its not worth buying the Surface Hub.
> On modern hardware, there is a chance that A20 is (against the accepted spec) default open, or possible not implemented.

To nitpick on this a little bit (consider it as a polite supplement):

In Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
Software Developer’s Manual
Volume 3 (3A, 3B, 3C & 3D):
System Programming Guide

in section

8.7.13.4 External Signal Compatibility

one can read (emphasis by me):

"A20M# pin — On an IA-32 processor, the A20M# pin is typically provided for compatibility with the Intel 286
processor. Asserting this pin causes bit 20 of the physical address to be masked (forced to zero) for all external
bus memory accesses. Processors supporting Intel Hyper-Threading Technology provide one A20M# pin, which
affects the operation of both logical processors within the physical processor.

The functionality of A20M# is used primarily by older operating systems and not used by modern operating
systems. On newer Intel 64 processors, A20M# may be absent.".

TLDR: The accepted spec is that A20M# might not exist.
Because it is about being equitable to middle and lower-income fans. Otherwise, only the richest fans would outbid everyone else and the artists don't want to alienate a large majority of their fan base by making their shows unavailable to only but the folks with the means.
Also:

65535 tcp-ports ought to be enough for anybody [1]

65534 hardlinks ought to be enough for anybody [2]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/113224/what-is-the-larges...

[2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5629/is-there-a-limi...
Depends on physiology. I have very big hands, and that makes gripping a bar really easy. To train grip I need to use Phat Gripz (this thing: http://amzn.to/2kG9XSf just look at the pic) when deadlifting for reps.

Some years back I was practicing martial arts. Certain disarms just didn't work on me simply because of how far around the weapon my fingers went.
One trick with counts is that you very rarely need a perfectly accurate count for that exact moment in time; doing an explain on an appropriate 'SELECT' and capturing the estimated number of rows returned by that is usually good enough in 98% of the cases.

When you do need an accurate count, phrasing the query so the results can be pulled exclusively from the table index is also usually good enough.
Yes, for all projects and small businesses I start, Postgres and Redis is what I use from the beginning. Then if it ever gets to the point where I need a different DB for something, I replace components with the new tool. People get fascinated with these fly-by-night data stores and put their operations at serious risk. Start with the tried and tested technologies, then carefully augment your stack as needed.
We use Zoom at Userify and love it. Fantastic Linux client, too. However, it automatically calling me (and saving me time auto-dialing auth codes) would be a pretty nice feature.
This is incorrect. There's a false equivalence between the fans who want to see the gig the most and the fans who are willing to spend the most. The current system means that people with lots of money who aren't super interested will out compete raging fans on low incomes.

I'm not suggesting that basing it on first come, first served is ideal, but I think it's probably fairer.

If an event organiser/ticketer wants to use dynamic pricing, that's up to them. Sometimes they don't want to be cause they'd rather build or reward loyalty. Maybe they want to make sure that low income households have a decent chance of getting tickets.

The system above is advocating for efficient markets over everything else.
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> Given that popular uses for the Web today include social networking, e-commerce, web apps, and online access to services like banking, I think the idea that sites should just display static information and should work better without JS and cookies is at least a decade out of date.

Do you realise that every item on your list wasn't just possible but flourished without JavaScript, and works fine without third-party cookies?

JavaScript is a cancer on the web, a metastasised extension language which is swallowing up what was a thriving hypertext infrastructure.
I think the idea is that the ad networks then don't have any idea what you are actually interested in. The problem from Google's side is that it is pay per click for the advertiser so advertisers are paying for these fake clicks.
This is one of my favorite features. Using computer audio is awful especially on the go and GotoMeeting fails to recognize correctly the code I enter some 20% of the time it seems.
The majority of the web works fine without any Javascript at all.
Doesn't AdNauseam provide extra revenue for the websites you browse? (at least temporarily, with fixed PPC rates)
These Are the Robots That Will Be Doing Your Online Shopping in the Future
I'm glad you wrote it!

I was in quite a heated debate about this a few weeks ago, where everyone else in the room disagreed with me. Hopefully public opinion will start to reflect market reality in time :)
Howdy, Linkerd person here. Always nice to have a surprise Hacker News frontpage post! Please let me know if you have any questions. We also have a very active Slack at slack.linkerd.io. Hop on in and say hello.
I spent some of my formidable years scalping and brokering event (mostly broadway) tickets in various forms. The company I co-founded made a few million and I learned an expensive lesson in equity at age 18 (I opted instead for the $14/hr salary).

We worked in broadway (meaning the style of show, not just the street), and I met the Wiseguys folks at secondary market trade shows, but I had no idea they were this big, and to be honest didn't care.

We always got tickets long before they ever went on sale, as does almost anyone who has been in the game a while. We would buy tickets up to 18 months in advance, and we're a security blanket of guaranteed sales for the artists and venues. We thought the retail sales were always a losing bet (except for, ironically, the artists and venues that tried to fight scalpers).

When we started figuring out how to circumvent the safeguards (deciding deliberately not to use bots or "spinners" as they used to be called), we realized we didn't need to because most of the venues loved us. Just like the wiseguys, they didn't want to be in the business of scalping and arbitrage, they just wanted to move all of their tickets quickly and efficiently with as little loss as possible. So if we wanted to buy 5,000 of 10,000 seats for a show they were thrilled, and we'd get a discount. When a show was about to go on sale they'd call us. Then thy may turn around and say "sorry tickets are on the secondary market, we don't like scalpers" but usually that was PR-style BS. They wanted someone to absorb that risk.

There are certainly artists and venues (e.g. Metallica) that hate scalpers and try to fight them. But we noticed that really only eliminates the "beer money" scalpers and leaves all of the money to the more sophisticated one. I have never yet seen a system that cannot be beat by scalpers, including paperless ticketing, and I find that most venues and artists want to maximize profits and, more importantly, minimize risk anyway.
I feel like they still have a choice ... at least for now.

CSDs are still optional in GTK3. True, they are forced on for the common dialogs, so if you use GTK's file chooser or font picker, then you're going to end up with them. But at least then they're child modal dialogs to a parent application.

The Gnome 3 desktop team decided to move every application possible to them, but there's no reason Xfce has to follow suit there.

Again, at least for now. It's certainly possible the GTK team will decide to enforce this and remove the option for window manager decorations in a future release.

I would really love to see a maintained fork of GTK2, however.
Yes! It would be cool to compile all assets into a single html file and store that.
First step will be to figure out how to build xfce from source and how to compile. ATM this is a bit tricky because of the gtk3 transition: some of the modules have compilation warnings for deprecated functions in the latest version of GTK3, which is problematic because -Werror is on by default. And if you want to install the latest xfce on a different prefix instead of /usr and /usr/local you need to fiddle wit lots of configure flags and environment variables (like XDG_DATA_DIRS). I wish there was a more automated way to do all of this because I got stuck in this part the last time I tried :(

Anyway, I sincerely wish you the best of luck! You should probably get it working if you don't try to overcomplicate it like I did :) The source code is available at [1] and each library or component gets its own git repo. Building instructions can be found here [2] on the wiki. They are mostly up to date but you might need some help from the IRC [3] if you run into trouble.

[1] https://git.xfce.org/
[2] https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building
[3] #xfce on irc.freenode.net
Deadlifting maybe now that I think of it would in theory be okay, but my physio has me on a course of isolation exercises and has advised against complex compound movements because we're trying to correct muscle activation patterns. Leg press isnt ideal but it's a good way to develop the glutes without introducing too much lateral force. My particular issue is a badly eroded knee-cap which tends to float about a bit. The specialist I've seen has described it as advanced arthritis but I'm fairly sure it's not - just the effect of years of road running with poor form and injury. Going by the MRI scan it's about half the size it should be. Not a question of 'if' I need a knee replacement but when ...

Anyway, no more running for me, and as much as I dislike spending time in the gym a short burst of heavy weights a few times a week really is a great tonic!
If Apple can manually review and curate the thousands upon thousands of apps a day being submitted to the app store, I think it's reasonable for Steam to manually check that 30 new games a day load and actually work.
They don't in all areas. A lot of schools in Indiana do not, though occasionally they offer a savings plan so the teachers still get paid during the summer. (This is due to a quirk in payroll law, I guess, and a conservative response to it. My father worked as a business manager for different schools). It definitely isn't a standard at all of them.
> There's a false equivalence between the fans who want to see the gig the most and the fans who are willing to spend the most.

This is how scarce resources are allocated. There is no fairer way to decide who wants something the most than to ask who is willing to give up the most to acquire it.

> If an event organiser/ticketer wants to use dynamic pricing, that's up to them.

Absolutely. And if a third party wants to buy tickets at the offered price, that's up to them.
I recall Joel Spolsky was worked up about this, too, and wrote an article with the memorable title Please, Sir, May I Have A Linker? Somehow we built a ton of apps and got along without the linker all these years, but it sure would have been nice to save the startup time and dealing with customer machines without the framework installed from the beginning.

I'm confused to what extent xcopy deployment works with .NET Native. The Getting Started article[1] makes the point that the native binaries are sitting there in ilc.out and that you should "Test your app thoroughly," but it does not describe the deployment mechanism there, and double-clicking on the .exe does not work. Are you xcopy deploying the appx file (which is not there in ilc.out)?

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn600165%28v=vs.110...
I completely agree. Only those with money should have the right to enjoy life. Or education. Or health services. Or their favourite bands, if that's the case.
Why not? The only reason to believe this is to believe that having more money means you're inherently more deserving of things, no matter the wishes of the people providing those things.
Not people who are currently weak but people who can't be strong in those specific ways. So not 100% die-off but a stronger divide between healthy and dead.
Well, why should the fan who is able to pay less money miss out in favor of the fan who has more? Are people fundamentally more deserving for having more disposable income?

The Artist (ie the provider of the 'value') is not making more profit, they have set what they feel their work is worth. Scalpers add no value and simply take. Automation of scalping is bad for everybody involved (edit: except of course the scalpers themselves), as typically bots will buy out tickets to popular events extremely quickly, leaving legitimate fans out in the cold.
It isn't the job of people writing code for free to write anything but what they want to with it.

If XFCE wanted to stabilize GTK, they could try to do that with a fork, but there was no bait and switch - it has always been the Gnome ToolKit. You should probably consider that before building desktops based off it that are not Gnome - its future developments are by Gnome, for Gnome.

If the fragmented ecosystems on the fringes of GTK - Elementary, XFCE, and Mate - were united, they could have easily forked GTK2 or 3 and maintained their own independent stable toolkit. Hell, the Gnome developers might have appreciated a wider swathe of developers working on it and switched to the fork with a transition to a plugin model for all the Gnome extras than constant churn in the toolkit.

Code churn for the sake of it can definitely be a hostile tactic, but GTK churns because Gnome is constantly changing at the whims of its developers in their pursuit of their own ideal desktop. Unless you are paying them for their time or contributing code yourself to their projects, why should you have higher priority over their own desires or those of their immediate users of their whole software suite?
Season 1 of 'Freelance to Founder'starts now
If you open System Preferences, it has a handy little brightness slider. Just Option-<brightness> opens the right pane.
Look at YC model. Ask for shares!
Google Glass is probably a good example of halfway failures. They did well on implementation of some sort of screen in front of the eye among other things, but in the end, they stopped short of AR in favor of just a screen sitting in front of the eyeball.

To your point: it'd be impossible to achieve AR without some major breakthroughs in eye-tracking _or_ general 3D image rendering in front of the eyes. This is what hololens had to achieve before AR made sense, and just to be able to ship it in spite of the hardware constraints, they were stuck with a small viewport in Gen 1.

The only real compromise with implementing AR is FOV coverage. If you're going to cover the entire FOV, you should either get creative (rendering low-res outside what hits the fovea of the eye, which would be possible only with eye-tracking) or use a small viewport.

Hololens did it right. It seems (judging from the hardware) that Magic Leap is trying to avoid compromises of any sort, so they're probably doing it wrong.
I find myself thinking that i recall reading about certain thinkpads (or some other brand) had the option of an attached battery that would fit flush with the laptop bottom.

Thus i find myself thinking about some way to do a combo of frames/cases and batteries so that one can add a frame to a laptop and insert batteries into the frame to extend overall runtime.

The idea of the frames being that if one replace the laptop one only need to replace the frame but continue to use the batteries.
> What's the alternative?

The alternative is cleanly separating web browsing (a passive activity requiring no code execution) and using distributed apps.

I'm not at all against the idea of a common, cross-platform execution environment; I'm 100% against the idea of executing cross-platform code when all I want to do is read an article.
China, Russia and the EU's intermarium bloc (2016)
> btw if you're using this plugin on Firefox, enjoy the exploits that your browser downloads and runs in the background by clicking every ad! :-D

It doesn't download or run anything. Just clicks links without even rendering the response, pretty small attack surface there I'd say.
But neither is loading 3x your bodyweight onto your spine "natural". What does "universally accepted as one of the best natural movements" mean? - As you suggested to the previous comment, please "Provide some data or get out of here".

It all depends on your objective and goals. As with everything moderation is key. A balanced program of squats, deads, pushing exercise (chest/pecs) and a pulling (back/delts) is best for oevrall muscle, bone and tendon health. Whether you do this via free weights, body weight, or machines is really not material.

Rippetoe style heavy free-weight squats, squats and more squats is not the be all and end all of resistance training. Personally, I got into heavy strength training with Rippetoe's books and videos - and, IMHO, he did a great service by educating people about the benefits of heavy (free weight) strength training using a very very simple ('KISS') type program (at a time when the focus was on machines and overly complicated routines). His routines are great for beginners - especially very young ones - hence why they are copied and 're-mixed' so much (like Stronglifts 5x5 and countless variations thereof).

And I would really not suggest heavy squats for improving grip strength - that would be a very inefficient way to train your hand grip.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/squat-versus-le...

http://www.thedreamlounge.net/barbell-squat-worst-exercise/

http://ericcressey.com/newsletter91html

https://criticalmas.com/2012/06/i-no-longer-give-a-squat-abo...

http://community.myprotein.com/off-topic/28225-mark-rippetoe...

https://forums.t-nation.com/t/rippetoe-ripped-apart/191700/7
Electrical Grid Demystified: How Energy Gets Where Its Needed
And I wouldn't say standard of excellence--just the possibility of excellence. With closed source you can't have even that. You pretty much have to assume the worst.
Scala is half a decade older than Go and has lead in big data infrastructure projects. Go has lead in container management infrastructure. May be that's their niche areas.

I would be interested in seeing when they are applied in other's domain and how good/bad they really are.
Charge backs. For a long time those industries were dominated by affiliate programs, and so affiliates would hire firms in other countries to use stolen credit cards to inflate memberships, then charge back after the affiliate got their payout. By using shared networks of the finger prints we were able to identify computers already used for fraud on other sites or our own sites and refuse them the chance to even sign up.

EDIT: Sorry, to be clear, the people using the stolen credit cards didn't charge back, the actual owners of the cards would. But this affected the industries two-fold, first in constantly having to battle with credit card and billing companies that didn't want to provide services for an industry with such a high charge back rate, but it also hurt us in paying out to affiliates who cost us money instead of bringing it in.
I don't know how any of these could compete with Zoom, in terms of their offerings. Perhaps Zoom just doesn't have enough of a big name branding push, otherwise, it is hands down a product one should use over any other. I am a free-user of Zoom and I have explored many others out there; there's just no one who come close to Zoom's offerings.
I honestly don't think he hates anybody but the 10-15 year old audience he has to continue to pander to for years and years on end.
Pumped hydro requires very specific geography to make it viable, which is why it's present in so few places. That's why so many people are investigating other storage systems: batteries, compressed air, flywheels, etc.
Ops support and transparency is superb on the JVM. That some languages don't even have something remotely comparable is something that didn't even occur to me before expanding my horizon beyond Java.
This is another reason scalpers are bad. Botting the process gives an edge in both speed and tenacity over legitimate fans sitting in the queue. Ticket allotment limits are only affecting legitimate users, as those scalpers who use bots can get around this with multiple sessions.
How would this work?
Would you have to enter a number an wait till let's say 24 hours before the gig?
Could work and could minimize the problem.
The buyer wouldn't know til x hours before if he hand won. But the scalpers would know: " were payed average of x for similar gigs." So they knew how much to bet and still scrape of most of the tickets. And the sell them at a high rate as last minute tickets for a sold out gig and you could be sure to get a ticket.
I'd rather just close the tag instead of trying to recall the specific instances of when I'm not required to close the tag.
Three reasons I avoid anonymous JavaScript functions like the plague
Complete tangent, but I must say that since I recently started using pycharm it has really caught most of the obvious typo and uninitialized bugs and my python code is really crashing surprisingly rarely as I prototype to death.

Just saying in case there are others who haven't been trying modern python tooling and don't know that you can get real close to a compiled language type safety certainty these days before you run a line of code.
still using php+mysql here as I can find so many documents about their various usage easily.
Skype for Business is abysmal. Login credential always seem to be a huge problem using the desktop client so we just join using the web client.
Transportability is an oft under-valued quality when comparing languages. Yes you could write something highly performant/compact/domain-specialized in perl,scala,lisp etc but when the time comes that your product is successful and your team needs to scale or you want to transfer ownership to another team how easy is that transition going to be?