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"What was powering and pushing up prices in 2007 and ’08 were loans to borrowers with No Income, No Jobs, and No Assets.
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Now we only have one kind of NINJA left, and those are students. Student loans have been the most rapidly growing loans in the country.
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The whole student loan scandal is a corrupt. It shows the degree to which the universities and the government loan system have been taken over by banks writing the loans to give themselves a free ride at public expense."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/25/another-housing-bubb...

Just read the above the other day, and I know it's slightly off-topic, but it meshes nicely with some of the points you made.

I figured out around the last year or so of my university career that I should have actually spent less time in class than I did, but I did eventually figure it out. And I agree wholeheartedly with no one explicitly telling students about all of this. I can't tell you how livid I was once it all clicked. I try to expose the idea to as many high schoolers as I possibly can, but they aren't yet affected so it doesn't exactly make a whole lot of sense to them.

Anyhow, this comparison of student loan / universities working as a new profit center, similar to the junk mortgages of the '08 crash is new to me though. I think it illustrates what's going on very clearly, even if Micheal Hudson is a bit extreme with his view of the schism between public/private.

Jane Jacobs also wrote critically of what Universities had become (credentialing), and how it might (negatively) affect our culture sometime down the line in her book, Dark Age Ahead.
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Straw man argument, you're looking at around $300/month for 20A, 10+ rack units, 100mbit commit to play with in a lot of decent US facilities. That's a few pathetically provisioned VMs on most clouds. I have such a colo for my personal use. This doesn't exclude me from using other providers for DNS and MX slaving, or things like object storage (i.e. I use Tarsnap for DR) and there isn't really any overlap or lost efficiency in mixing and matching those higher level services. My facility's house bandwidth blend provides free DoS mitigation as a nice bonus.

Most facilities and providers don't require you to have your own ARIN registration and block. In fact it's quite difficult to get even the smallest blocks right now. Instead, an ISP will lease you IPs usually at around $1/month.

A pair of x86-64 boxes running OpenBSD can easily virtual switch, route and firewall well above 1gbps. They can announce BGP if needed, if you have a delegation or are muli-homing. A pair of high quality 10g switches may push a few grand on the secondary market but you can ~get away~ with Ubiquiti gear.

This kind of setup can scale up pretty high by dropping the OpenBSD boxes from the forwarding plane and just using them as route reflectors into higher end switches.

There is a slight labor disadvantage that amortizes quickly. i.e. setting up switches and routers isn't hard, and if you aren't sysadmin skilled enough to do that in a few days you probably shouldn't be running VM infrastructure either and retreat to something like Heroku, Lambda or GAE where there is much less room for footshots.

So TL;DR $300/mo and 5k CapEx will run a company, double or triple that for DR of a serious startup. Reap significant saving as a larger company by partnering or outsourcing remote hands and basic ops with a company like yours for the day to day stuff.
> tight 700 square feet

That is pretty much space for only two people. But $1600 is not cheap, I agree.
Disclaimer - I am a man.

Just to provide some balance to this discussion and to confirm your perception that this might not be sexism... the behavior you're describing here really isn't inherently misogynistic. Talking down to your coworkers is perhaps more likely to happen from a man, to a female, but certainly isn't restricted to that domain.

I've experienced basically the same thing as you, where a female colleague was excessively aggressive in treating me as a pupil, and regularly talked down to me. She was new at the company, and immediately took to treating me like a pupil of hers (despite my 5 years, and an MS on her, which in fairness, she didn't know about due to vague company titles).

I'll spare you all the details, but suffice it to say, there were many "1+1 = 2" instances where she asserted that "1+1 = 3", despite clear, undeniable 3rd party documentation to the contrary.

Needless to say, she was fired.
It's probably inevitable. TV was free airwaves for so long. Now it's cable subscriptions. (And there's still advertising). Internet is already controlled by your ISP, so I have a hard time seeing that being "open" for much longer. Browsers, content providers, etc will all be regulated / commercialized / sandboxed.

Free zero-revenue startup idea: there'll be an IP-over-ham-radio or something to preserve "internet classic". (Largest use will be bitcoin-for-pornography).
I was just speaking to the part about being a "violent criminal living in a violent neighborhood" -- that doesn't justify shooting someone.

Typically in these cases the victim wasn't threatening the police officer's life in any way. Walter Scott was shot while running away. Freddie Gray was already safely in police custody. Eric Garner was selling loose cigarettes, not attacking anyone. Tamir Rice was a 12 year old playing with a toy gun.
It is somewhat hypocritical.

Curiously their school paper (or w.e.) recently posted a treatise [1] on free speech, including this bit:

> We also believe that the essential definition of free speech has itself been twisted and clouded. Free speech only entails the right of every individual to “speak freely.” It does not give one the right to speak free of criticism or protest. It does not give one the right to say something which could reasonably be construed as inciting chaos or violence. It does not give one the right to any forum that one desires... Certain speakers do not deserve the platform Harvard University offers, especially when their rhetoric runs antithetical to the values we should all hold dear.

Also many news outlets have mentioned this bit from their admissions policy:

> the university reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission if the admitted student “engages or has engaged in behavior that brings into question their honesty, maturity or moral character,”

One might claim their "speech" displays a lack of maturity and moral character and avoid a paradox.

[1] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/25/commencement-201...
I had a similarly negative view about your article and "passed judgment on you" for making the choices you made for your kid. In particular I have a very negative view about e.g. 6 year olds using guns to kill enemies in video games. If the article was about what I would consider to be more constructive video games I probably wouldn't have given it a second thought (eh I probably would still judge but not so negatively!). Did you ever worry about a game like Contra having a negative effect on Eliot? Thanks for chiming in :)
Is it close enough to the star for relativistic effects to make a difference here?
Your office is pretty tidy though.

But seriously, we have a bunch of developers asking for JavaScript improvements. Maybe OP doesn't want them, fine that's useful feedback... but it would be more easily received if it came in a nicer package :)
> Are you planning to put your back into it and run with it if given a good idea? Or are you hoping that someone else will.

I am not in position to put my back into it as a founder - with one day job, and a major side project already I am running pretty thin. It's just really sad when I think about the situation (and of course, hackers are not the only people in this situation, it affects the entire society), but the best I was hoping for was was to prompt some discussion.

Of course if this thread would grab the eye of someone with unlimited resources who decided this would be a worthy cause to take up, that would be an extra special bonus, but I doubt that would happen.

> Most hackers don't even want to white list my sites on ad blocker nor leave a tip.

Do you have a patreon maybe? I'd leave a tip - not much, but a few bucks from a few hundred people per month would still add up to something. That doesn't solve the systemic problems though. I'm heartened when I hear about the single payer system California just passed, but not really sure how that's going to work out yet... hoping for the best, at least it's a start...
Agreed. These videos are horrible and kids (mine included) love them for some reason.
What about enforcing the laws about illegal renting? Turn the property over to the current tenants, perhaps fine the prior owner and call it a day.
Sparks is basically Reno for what it's worth. Meaning you can rent a house or apartment in Reno and not be far from your job in Sparks. If I were you I'd rent until you have a better feel for the place.

$120k/yr will go a long way in Reno. Would not be hard to save $30-40k a year without feeling like a poor church mouse. And I would not say there are no tech jobs in Reno.

Note Reno is 30-45 minutes from Tahoe and Carson city. There is a fair amount of other places within a 1-2 hour drive.
Very slight. Mercury is close enough for very very slight.
I use fullscreen mode for all my apps. Maybe it's because I started using Macs after multiple desktops and fullscreen mode were introduced, so it's just the way I've figured my workflow.

It gives me more screen real estate, and removes icons and menus that I don't need.
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https://aap.cornell.edu/admissions/undergraduate/tuition-cos...

In 1997, it was roughly

$19,000
$4,000
$1,700 (the best plan)
$1,000
etc.

I know that was 20 years ago, but even your $46k sounds outrageous to me. But someone who went to cornell 30 years ago would say the same about $25k of 1997.
If the future involves a domino effect where major content providers start falling WSJ's lead, then yes, it's an indication that the current model isn't working and Google needs to either evolve or be replaced.
Honestly, that doesn't seem that non-intuitive to me. Certainly missing opening and closing brackets, but if closing with fi is a common idiom of old languages. The rest doesn't seem that bad. Just verbose.
Right, the natural barrier to a lot of these crimes is the difficulty of unloading that much product on the black market without attracting attention.
Who are the new wave writers? I'm looking for some more good authors, and not finding these jump out on Amazon.
If the page is in focus yes. If I open 5 videos in new tabs no.
If we were all communist we wouldn't have any bike locks. There's a silver lining, you just have to look for it.
No problem, hope it's useful :). You're right about deploy frequency - that 10-20 minute manual deploy done 3-6x a day already adds up to my 4 hours a week deploying things. 10% of the work week right there!

On the other end of the spectrum, a lot of my personal projects don't warrant even the small effort of configuring an existing build server. I'm the only contributor, nobody else will be breaking anything or blocking me, builds are super fast... even if "it will pay off in the long run", there are other higher impact things I could do that will pay off even better in the long run.

In the middle, I've put off automating some build stuff for our occasional (~monthly) "package" builds for our publisher - especially the brittle, easy to fix by hand, rightly suspected to be hard to automate stuff. I was generally asked to summarize VCS history for QA/PMs anyways - can't automate that.

When we started doing daily package builds near a release, however, it ate up enough of my time that non-technical management actually noticed and prodded me before I thought to prod them. Started by offloading my checklist to our internal QA (an interesting alternative to fully automating things) and eventually automated all the parts QA would forget, not know how to handle, or waste too much attention on.

Even then, some steps remained manual - e.g. uploading to our publisher's FTP server. Tended to run out of quota, occasionally full despite having quota available, sometimes unreachable, or uploading too slow thanks to internet issues - at which point someone would have to transfer by sneakernet instead anyways. Not much of a point trying to make the CI server handle all that.
I've had tons of people ask me how to do something on an iPad (even though I have a Surface.) Long story short, anecdotes are useless.
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This is why many tend to consider only uncompressed/lossless formats viable for archival usage. Doubling down on those doesn't really address what you were talking about — something that you make today being viewable in browsers of the future — but with the original content itself preserved in a way that maintains its full quality, the 'deliverable' formats can be updated periodically from the original masters in a way that the content will be viewable with software 20 years from now, and without degrading quality each time.

We had similar problems in the past with physical media, and still do to some extent, but in the purely digital domain this problem is somewhat more tractable (content negotiation helps facilitate these transitions for those willing to work that into build pipelines and maintain those over time, for example.)
It absolutely is. Consider that that means that python takes 2-3 frames to start up. I'm not sure one should or could reasonably consider that "slow" for interactive use.
...since you don't know whether there is a new version available on the server or not. To not make the user wait, you show him/her the - potentially - outdated version of your data until a new version is available. It's especially useful in situations where users lack internet connection.
> That is the original intended protection

That’s a myth. The “little old grannies” was the original sales pitch of prop 13, but the intended beneficiaries always included rich people’s trusts, heavy industry, commercial real estate, large property management companies, etc., at the expense of the state budget.

The folks who wrote it were Orange County businessmen and staunch anti-government anti-tax activists.
How exactly did a Stanford professor end up homeless? And why in the world would they be taking classes afterwards?
You don't need anything but regular PC's these days...
2 front end IPVS servers running MAC layer direct return. Those can handle close to 40 gigabits each. If that's not fast enough hack something together with DPDK or netmap.

Firewall is on the front end load balancers. Linux is one of the best firewalls you can get if you configure it right.

Redundant L2 switches past that running RIPV2 or OSPF for routing. I've found that crappy consumer quality switches usually work fine, as long as you wire them in parallel. You can do dumb things like wire them quad redundant and it just works.

Redundant transit handled by datacenter level multihoming.

Extra redundancy using dual data centers if you want with DNS round robin.

Buy dedicated lines to avoid bandwidth costs.

You can rent a cage and do all this with used last gen dell workstations running Ubuntu. Get some last gen fibre NIC's off eBay too. Total cost of maybe 2k in hardware to run top 500 site levels of traffic...as long as you're not using something piss slow like PHP.

Historically how shitty your setup is depended on how good your network guys are, the cloud just took that out of the equation.

Now everybody can have a great setup as long as they pay out the nose.

Edit: Also you can patch Linux without reboots, even the kernel. I don't remember the last time I had to reboot from patching.

You do need to reboot for major version upgrades but if you stick with LTS versions you're usually good for 5-10 years
Right. While I actually believe society (and students) would benefit by converting a large fraction of our "liberal arts" colleges into more practical trade schools, your point stands—the problem with the "choose your own adventure" model of undergraduate education is that 18-22 year olds are distinctly bad at choosing the adventure that's best for them, especially when it comes to getting a liberal education. Trade schools for STEM and the trades, but stronger core curricula and less highly-specialized BS in the humanities.
This will be huge for the peer to peer internet. Companies like Peer5 (YC Company) for example, which offers a way to reduce bandwidth costs by sharing video files peer to peer over WebRTC can now work on iOS.
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With telcos, there are only a few companies to choose from. If you want to run your own dedicated servers, nothing is stopping you. So what if people want to pay more for the ease of cloud platforms?
I love the way they keep repeating "stainless steel vats" like it's something horrible and scary.

Ummm... I guess they've never been in a commercial dairy or on a commercial dairy farm. Stainless steel tanks all over the place.
Here are US census estimates. You can take from them what you will. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/RHI125215/3260600,00.

It's not 99% white. There are other communities here, Hispanic being the largest by far. I can't speak too much more on the topic.

Try reaching out to a local group that you think represents you. Hit them up if you're worried about that sort of thing. I'm positive that there's something, at least at the university.
The WebKit team.

You like that question! Third time in this thread already
Unless you have lived in the tropical humid heat, you wont be able to relate to this. Moving to NYC recently and living without an AC or even a fan feels so glorious. I bet 10% of my brain was constantly fighting the heat back when I was in south of India.
Yeah, I like open offices. It's nice to be able to take off my headphones and ask a question to someone close by. Or just take a break and talk to them about something non work related.

Even if I had a private office I would have my headphones on 80% of the time.
Communism isn't funny. It's killed much more people than fascism ever has, yet it's completely acceptable in a university setting.

You have to be very blind to not think that rampant, institutionalized political extremism among faculty isn't a huge reason why critical thinking skills are lacking.
Fair enough. I just think that infastructure is a bigger differentiator of success than most give it credit for. By using the cloud you're giving up the possible performance and money advantages of doing it yourself.

It's really just a new form of vertical integration. If you're working only at the high levels you're not only paying someone to do that rest for you, those people are making profit off of you. Profit that could be yours.
Ask HN: What is your favorite laptop manufacturer?
I have personally been quite happy with the medium to low end HP models in the past 8 or so years.

I have only owned two of them, but they've both been great.

For each I walked into a local shop, purchased their cheapest old floor model for about $350 CAD, installed debian on it, and have been pleased ever since.

They've never broken down or given me any problems in terms of quality. I even sold my first one for $100 and the new owner is still happy with it apparently.

The only reason that I ditched my first one was because the CPU was beginning to show it's age.

I am still curious however to know what other HNers could vouch for, because I know the only reason I bought my second HP laptop was because the first one worked so well... which isn't really a rational reason in this day and age unfortunately.
Unless Google can track you better when you use Chrome, that's not an argument against using Chrome.
So HN commenters who don't use Service Workers can have some invective to throw at WebKit.
Many thanks for the tips (also the other guys).

I'm aware of some of the issues you mentioned, but don't you think my site, with the depth of information provided, deserves at least a mention among the other ~200 ones? I'll try and fix the heading issues first, then see if search results improve.
Did I say I was healthy?

What works for you doesn't necessarily work for everyone else.

You frankly have absolutely zero clue about what I've tried over 30 years to become that morning person.
Django, because it does the job very well, has plenty of libraries/plugins to do what I would need, I could reuse all the scaffolding knowledge from using django in previous projects and focus on what's important. It is fast enough for my usecases.

For others, it could be rails, phoenix, flask etc. In case of a shippable product, time to market is very important, both to validate your product and boost your own morale and confidence.
Why should we believe that their critical thinking evaluation is accurate?
>Monopolies are natural; they are the end state of most markets in most market economies. Capital distribution follows a power law, and that implies that a few big players always end up controlling the majority of a market unless you explicitly break them up.

The latter does not imply the former. A monopoly is defined as _a single big player_. That's what the mono means, one! Like in monorail or monotone. If there are "a few big players", that is by definition an oligopoly, not a monopoly. This is _really_ basic English.
It was sabotage in the 'oops this project isn't working' or 'oops this really import thing came up, no time' or 'didn't I do that?' sense. Having some plausible deniability. Work slowdown/stoppage stuff. Not actively breaking things (mostly). And it was all directed at maintaining control/power.

Worst person I've ever worked with. When I tell stories at future jobs I fully expect people to not believe me. Hell, people who weren't there for earlier incidents often didn't believer them.
Step out to where exactly? Generally it's not just you in your own office, everyone else is too.
I would imagine contention ratios would also factor into pricing. At least in Australia you might have a 8:1 ratio of actual bandwidth available for a consumer plan, and 3:1 for a business plan. I'd imagine that you pretty much get all the bandwidth you pay for in a data centre. I've certainly saturated 100mbps connections on servers in the past, 24x7. But perhaps people more knowledgeable than me could comment on this?
IBM's previously owned East-Fishkill Foundries have long been part of the DoD Trusted Foundries list. [1] (Slide 8)

IBM split off and kept the R&D part of the foundries and sold the manufacturing aspect to GlobalFoundries.

[1]http://www.acq.osd.mil/se/briefs/2016-TrustPolicy-Baldwin.pd...
Of course that happens, but most of the time it doesnt, simply because its not sustainable. There is no difference for a CEO to be generous with stock to an employee than handing over the cash to his own son.

A more valuable employee is going to tend to have better wages.
Are you denying that there are issues at tech workplaces that affect women more than non-minority members? You have a point that a sexist toxic environment might be unpleasant for the white men who work there too, but it obviously affects the women more.
like usb-c and thunderbolt compatibility, I am worried there will be a lot of confusion and what works with what. Less in the area of devices that attach to your hw direction, but more when it comes to consumer devices with HW decoder support and getting these formats to display.
Not Toshiba or as I like to call it - Toshitba. Dell is nice.
There isn't anything majorly interesting here for "tech". Some interesting new features for existing consumer products and a new consumer product. Nothing special.

Now, something that would be more HN-appropriate would be a nice analytical breakdown of Apple's on-device ML strategy vs what everyone else is doing in the Cloud.
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I'm not sure what you're trying to say here