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Seems to be the case.

I'm the owner of an Xbox One, but I'm seriously considering selling it and getting a PS4 instead.

There aren't many differences in exclusive games anymore, and Sony's games line up seems more interesting to me.

But the major pain I have with Xbox One is the user interface. Dang, that is a hell of a complicated UI. When I first got the Xbox, it took some getting used to navigate around efficiently.

PS4's ui is way more straightforward (again, IMO). It just doesn't try to arrange stuff in fancy ways. It just works (TM).
I think you would like the book Windup Girl by Bacigalupi. It is exactly this future where biology is technology, but dystopian.
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Algolia wrote some good blog posts, for example:

https://stories.algolia.com/how-the-founders-of-algolia-thin...

https://stories.algolia.com/how-algolia-built-a-culture-firs...
Haha. A while back I searched HN for the Facebook share price drop posts and those were "No shit!" too. Turns out everyone's really good at predicting the present.
I had the same reaction. I don't want to judge anybody too harshly for their choices, but it definitely makes it harder for me to view them as victims of a systematic hollowing out when they are making choices like this. A $12k vacation is a luxury by any standard and something I could not justify for myself even with a much more stable financial footing than the article describes for this family.
There is a percentage for every transaction till one reaches subscription price (i.e max that will be paid)
Guess I always assumed Algolia wasn't anything special. Anyone know what exactly makes it worth so much?
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Not sure if this is exactly what you are asking, but there's tsan (ThreadSanitizer):

https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/ThreadSanitizerCpp...
1. Stop watching tv and listening to any news.

2. Quit your job and work at a place(s) where you don't have to think. In fact where you are supposed to not think. Deliver things. Be a cashier. Rinse. Repeat.

Mike Rowe of dirty jobs said the happiest people he ever knew were those he featured on DJ.

Struggle financially. Earn your vacations and personal purchases. Make your time not idle like retired/unemployed do.

These eliminated my anger.
The US is now so crowded that there is only 3.5 million square feet per person.
I find it helpful in cases like this, when in doubt, to replace the phrase in question with a single word and see what makes sense then. Here:

"a growing number of traders" => "they", so "are" is correct.

"the growing number of traders" => "it", so "is" is correct.
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Are all the nuerons in our brain interacting like a decentralized blockchain system to collectively make up our consciousness?
Germany (like every OECD country but the US) has universal healthcare but not (along with several other non-US OECD countries) single-payer healthcare. US reform advocates often confuse the two.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
I predict people taking out ostentatious lines of credit on their mortgages (esp. in GTA and Van) will lead to very high rates of default if the housing prices drop dramatically (~10-20 %).
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Actually, I think it is directly related to the cause of this middle class devastation. It's precisely on point.
Does anyone have an account I could use to read this? Wall Street Journal are seemingly trying to limit their audience by shrinking their online reach by charging people to read their content.

I would much rather them show me some adverts at the side than have to pay to read one article by them every month or so.
The story looks to me like an example of family budget mismanagement full of red flags. Expensive trips, two kids in day care while 1 unemployed parent stays at home, two cars, and very expensive payday loans on top of it. Honestly, I have little sympathy here.

PS. If there is a problem with middle class in Canada this story is not a good example of it.
QR Codes do work rather well actually in different contexts, they are very robust. Upside down, from across the room, weird lighting...
Also, in the Chinese context, everybody knows what to do with it and what to expect to happen if they scan it.

The farmer coming into the city on a trike selling fruit even accepts payment by QR code :)
Anyone care to share positive and negative experiences of using Algolia to power search in your SaaS?

(We're currently using MySQL's full-text search and are finding it to be a long way short of the experience we'd like our customers to have.)
Algolia is a fantastic service. I wish Elastic Search just as easy to populate and then to search with a front end javascript lib.
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It sort of follows the unix philosophy ;) It does one thing very, very well. It's literally a massive gun with wings attached.
This website is completely broken while scrolling. Does anyone else this stretching effect?
I understand Gov are lagging behind in these things. But still I cannot help but think why can't it be done ? And how can Uber/Lyft survive vs their own SaaS avatars.
How do the dots get linked to me? E.g. lets say I print a ransom note and send it to someone.
The police can analyze the dots on them, find the id of my printer... And then?
I never registered my printer with my name somewhere or so.
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You expect a company to continue to provide a service for you after you stop paying them?
Still blows my mind that Algolia is built on like, nginx
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There are issues where compromise is impossible. Reproductive rights, marriage equality, and separation of church and public schools come immediately to mind. There are also issues where compromise leads to a death of a thousand cuts with one position becoming more and more extreme to force movement in their preferred direction.

The basic problem is that government at all levels has too much power. Less coercion and more voluntarism is the only long term solution to battles over power.
It's hugely useful for our Zendesk help center search [1]. Very easy to set up: https://community.algolia.com/zendesk/.

[1] https://help.chartmogul.com/hc/en-us
Phrasing matters. "Death taxes" vs "inheritance taxes".

I realized I don't know the origins of "net neutrality". Coined by Prof Tim Wu. It's pretty good marketing; nicely done Prof Wu!

Nor has Frank Luntz been paid to conjure it's evil twin. You can see the counter argument hasn't been weaponized yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#Unnecessary_reg...

Aside: Thiel and Levchin arguing the internet has thrived despite the government is hysterical.
I think maybe we were talking past each other. Yes there is more than one reason.

It's far easier to add capacity by adding sets, as opposed to ways. But they can't add sets in the L1 because of the aliasing problem. When they do increase L1 capacity, if nothing else has changed, then it will be by adding ways.
They can & already do p2p files & audio/video/data using WebRTC(even Apple got onboard yesterday).

The problem dropbox tries to solve is allowing access to files when either party is not connected to the internet or to grant publicly share a set of files.
> The ugly fact is the Unlimited Amazon Drive has been abused by media pirates and data-hoarders to store up to 20TB

Somebody on reddit bragged about reaching more than 1PB [0]

> Of course, I agree that you shouldn't call something "Unlimited" if it isn't.

I am maybe nitpicking, but it really was unlimited. Nobody is being billed for exceeding a given threshold or stopped from using it. The service is being discontinued and people will not be able to renew it. They never said "forever" :-).

It's like I got a special deal from my gym for unlimited access. If next year they won't offer it anymore I cannot say "it was not unlimited".

> As far as I can tell, Prime Photos will remain unlimited. I wonder how long it'll be before media hoarders hide their content in Google/Prime Photos with a convenient CLI tool?

In another thread on reddit somebody was already talking about that, so I guess it won't be long.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5s7q04/i_hit_a...
all-you-can eat buffets work because each person has to pay seperately and the amount any person can eat in one setting has hard physical limits that are fairly low.

Unlimited in the computing world usually has practical limits many orders of magnitude above normal usage, making outliers much, much more expensive. But you can't substantially increase the price because you can't afford to lose your normal customers and be left with only outliers.
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Throwing Grafana in the mix seems strange. It is comparing apples and oranges.

Also, contrary to what the article says Grafana does alarms as of v4.0 http://docs.grafana.org/alerting/notifications/
My perspective is that the politics of the the past 20-30 years lead to candidates like Trump. People were tired of being taken for granted and hearing a lot of promises that weren't kept, from the same bunch of recycled politicians, while their day to day lives kept getting worse.
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Sia's decentralization is unique. It's unique not because it spreads data all over the world, but because there's no central player that controls prices or decides to shut things down. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, they can change terms or disable services whenever they want. Sia is a lot more robust, because it's governed via a blockchain, and you put your data on 30+ individual parties, making it extremely unlikely that a sufficient number of them all shutdown simultaneously.

This situation with retiring unlimited storage on ACD would not be possible with Sia. Amazon is changing terms and conditions, Sia is a blockchain where no party has the power to do that.

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To address your pricing comment, there are more than 1000 TB for sale on the Sia network. Adding 2.5 TB to the network would not move the price at all, that's really not how pricing works on Sia.

The reason that it's more expensive than it used to be is because prices are set entirely in Siacoin. When the siacoin prices rise, hosts need to manually re-adjust their prices to keep the same USD price. As of writing, there are no tools that will let this happen automatically. The siacoin price has doubled 6 times in 6 months. The result is that a lot of the defaults are now grossly expensive, and hosts need to be very familiar with the pricing mechanisms to respond accordingly. Most have not, though the ones that have are seeing much higher utilization than the ones that haven't.

We will be releasing stuff in the next month to help hosts set prices more intelligently, that should move the prices back to the competitive spot that they historically been at. The high prices right now are merely a result of market confusion among the hosts.
I'd love to read how this ends. At the moment it sort of peters out.
I've actually been avoiding using Algolia after I used IndexTank and then they were acquired by LinkedIn. (I always said grats diego + team at IndexTank) but it was a frustrating experience to need to role up everything and pack up shop.

Seeing a huge raise like this actually makes me feel better about the possibility of using Algolia rather than rolling my own Solr containers.
Well, the original post is still not flagged, and the topic is started there, not by my comment.
Have you used printers? Because you write like you're only vaguely acquainted with the concept of printing, let alone ever having tried to print something.
This quote is telling. After listening to a lecture given by someone who is a master of their craft (even if I watch online), I can feel a sense of clarity whenever I'm doing the task they talk about. A master of his/her craft knows the craft so deeply that it's as easy as breathing. This is how climbing must be for Alex... though, sometimes everyone skips a breath. I guess his atypical Amygdala helps him get over that.
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I open dropbox manually on my Mac & quit it manually after a file has been synced. I don't see how can they survive any longer except for institutional customers who should be extra careful about surveillance.
> If everyone put not only their money where their mouth was, but took legitimate action to ensure their lifestyle fit what was important to their belief, I don't think we'd suffer from half of the problems we do.

One problem with this is that we fall into a very suboptimal, deleterious Nash Equilibrium. Imagine you're in the 90% of farmers that can't set themselves up "high in the water catch basin" because there is limited space up there. You may be very aware of the problem, but it can only be solved if a majority of farmers in the valley adopt sustainable practices. And, if a majority are not going to do so, then you're am simply hurting myself if I incur the expense of adopting those practices yourself. There is some missing ingredient that needs to be added before people will start cooperating to ensure a long-term good state of affairs.

Another problem is that, even if you do set up high in the catch basin and use sustainable farming practices, your produce is going to be comparatively expensive and noone is going to buy it until such time that all those farmers below you finish ruining their soil/aquifer. And you have to eat in the meantime.
This is a scenario that plays out repeatedly. It always ends badly.
That's a bogus argument, since nothing stops Apple from supporting common standards in their hardware, instead if NIH.
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26k seems pretty good to me, plus if you convert the 37k USD into CAD, it's more like 50k. If you are in a good program, I think 26k is perfectly fine, it's the students going into debt for programs that don't get them a job who are the issue.
In other words: Germanic tribes were using the defensive strategy of not preparing wheat fields for invaders to harvest during campaigning season. Kind of equivalent to cyberdefense by pen and paper.

Half of Cesar's Gallic War seems to be more than half about grain logistics (huge efforts to start the campaigns jus a few weeks earlier) and ripeness of the local crops. And that is even while he was likely trying to downplay all the robbery.
lesson learnt, there is no free lunch. Eating free lunch means you pay back later essentially.
The Ironbound is getting nicer every year. Yesterday I was walking home from the train and there were young people everywhere. Definitely not what I am used to around here.

Granted, the Ironbound could be a totally different city than the rest of Newark.
> Advice to pray to a God you don't believe in is useless advice. Imagine if I told you to sacrifice a lamb to Thor to cure your toothache.

I'm atheist so to me it is as if it was your Thor example. It doesn't bother me though, I just disregard it. However, if I were depressed/stressed I could see it being irritating.
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They will ask you: What operating system does your computer have?

> <answer mainstream operating system: Windows/Linux/OS X>

Then they will tell you "that's not a real time OS, thus you can't possibly be doing real time music with it. Musicians can't stand like audio/keypress latency."
Marketers and Politicians have told us that we are 'worth it'. So everything including laws just follow.
So does Canada still have the highest household debt in the western world? Higher than their GDP?

Do a search and all you see are articles downplaying it. Really shameful, looks like Canadian publications are just as shady as ours.

Does this hurt the assumption that subsidized health care and college was supposed "fix" this?
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What a... confused comparison? Most prometheus deployments _use_ grafana for their visualization needs...
What if there is great wisdom in letting the land lie fallow every seven years!
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It now says "€31,800,000,000 (31.8 billion)", so presumably the latter.
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Here's what a mentor told me many years ago:

Look for the clenching of your emotional fist. It happens before you say or do anything, and if you can recognize that and decide to delay a response until after you have time to think about an appropriate response, then you will be much better off.

It takes practice. For me, the positive outcomes from waiting reinforced the waiting behavior. I just know if I wait, it will always be better and I can respond in a way that won't make the situation worse.
Agreed. Grafana is great as a single-pane-of-glass solution for viewing a variety of stats/logs data, but doesn't actually handle the behind-the-scenes work of collecting/storing them...
"Grafana can only visualize time series and it excels in this task over all other, but neither alarm management nor event tracking are part of its core functionality"

This is false, grafana introduced alerting last year.
To be fair, it was never about a hollowing out. The link is, "Many Canadians are living on cheap credit rather than living within their means" and the title is, "Canada’s Middle Class Is on the Brink of Ruin". The whole purpose of the piece was pointing out the frivolous spending habits of the average person that leads to deep financial problems when a negative event happens (job loss, divorce, etc.)

You were never to empathize with it; it's just saying people spend beyond their means.
* cheap
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Did you read the part of the statement where they promised to make changes to the application disclosures?

Characterizing typical users as unable to understand rooting sidesteps the point that, when the concept is explained to them, most will not be comfortable with software companies doing this.
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Yes, that was one concern. pedrocr's reply below (in addition to all the other comments) makes sense - if the current inflow in passive funds is just active funds being sold and reallocated, doesn't seem too bubbly. Though I am an active reader in the early retirement / Financial Independence blogosphere, and the real life people I talk to (usually nerds) are like 'Vanguard or gtfo'. So it would seem like the average person, and especially Baby Boomers looking for 'safe returns', would think "well, everyone's recommending it so it's all good" and voila, hundreds of billions flowing in. On the other hand my coworkers, most of whom wont read a book to save their lives, are just happy there is employer matching on their 401Ks. I suspect that's more representative of the average population. Not sure the data on this.

Also, would the share price of these passive funds go up due to demand enough to cut significantly into returns? Like a 30% increase in share price just because everyone is jumping on the bandwagon takes a while to make up for. (Am I wrong? How much exuberance would it take to bubble up an ETF's share price significantly?)

Thanks for all the replies, though. I'm looking for both sides of the argument. The businessinsider article supporting the 'bubble view' was a quick read but too light on substance.
I'm sorry, but people not having just a basic understanding of how debt works is not 'the system's problem.

After reading the article I can identify a few things that would've raised a huge red alarm in my head if it was me:
- Don't spend $12k in holidays right after you're fired and have a couple kids.
- C-Sections are quite normal these days... It'd great that you want to be with your wife and the new babies... If you can afford it! Most people can't.
- Using loans that have an interest of 590% APR... Sorry, you have to be quite ignorant to sign that. Even the worst credit cards have an interest that's a fraction of that. That's definitely not cheap credit.

I know many Canadians... And people with that little financial knowledge is definitely not that common. And yes, most people take more debt than what they should, but the case portrayed in the article should give way to a very different headline "Couple chains badly financial decisions".
Approval voting with a binding "None of the above are acceptable" would be a great improvement over the status quo. I suspect that NOTA would have beaten both Clinton and Trump.
I know at least one supplier who lives like this financially. They and their spouse have above average incomes, but large debts, and constant spending on expensive vacations and house renovations.

They have jobs, so they don't go over the edge. But it's basically one step removed from the more extreme situation highlighted in the article.
This sucks. I have about 3TB in there, which is a money loser for them in 2016, and probably a money maker by 2018. That seems like a reasonable loss leader arrangement to me.

Instead, I need to find a new offsite backup solution ASAP.

Every single time i have trusted a consumer cloud service I have been burned. Grr
I believe the Canadian number is the average across all students. The American article breaks things up more:

+ 66 percent of graduates from public colleges had loans (average debt of $25,550)
+ 75 percent of graduates from private nonprofit colleges had loans (average debt of $32,300)
+ 88 percent of graduates from for-profit colleges had loans (average debt of $39,950)
+ MBA = $42,000 (11% of graduate degrees)
+ Master of Education = $50,879 (16%)
+ Master of Science = $50,400 (18%)
+ Master of Arts = $58,539 (8%)
+ Law = $140,616 (4%)
+ Medicine and health sciences = $161,772 (5%)

This is a highly skewed distribution (would be in Canada too, but all values would be lower). Graduate school in the USA is significantly more expensive than in Canada. The average of the Canadian distribution across all majors + graduate programs is going to make the difference between the two nations seem much smaller than it really is. The Canadian report has no such breakdown unfortunately (though see the average debt levels on page 40 of this http://www.cusc-ccreu.ca/CUSC_2015_Graduating_Master%20Repor...).
That's not true. I have mild allergies. It's not a life and death decision to get care or not. If the costs outweigh the benefits, I will opt out.
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The primary focus of Instagram is achievement broadcasting.

The primary focus of Snapchat is messaging.

Snapchat's messaging platform is also heavily gamified. There are a lot of very clever psychological incentives to continue using the platform on a daily basis, which drives user engagement through the roof.

Instagram's messaging platform feels bolted-on, secondary. I would never consider using Instagram as a primary method of communicating with someone, but I use Snapchat as a primary method of communicating with people on a daily basis.