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Class/wealth stratification is bad for everyone. The poor suffer, and if things get bad enough, emperors and their families are gunned down, [1] and the rich are beheaded. [2] Nobody wins. Striving towards a saner wage/wealth gap will have more benefits for society than hyperbolic wealth stratification.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Romanov_famil...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
"Be ready for" is one thing, but do you want your ads right next to it?
Above all maintain an abundance attitude. Stay positive and focused on building your network and thinking big. If you're one of only a few taking risks, there will be greater rewards.
Uber's network of drivers is way of providing transportation services. This network doesn't just spring into existence. It must be created and it costs money. A traditional bus service also costs money; the buses must be purchased, the drivers hired and paid, the routes established and signs posted, etc. Why isn't a bus company unfairly competing with taxis by offering lower fares based on massive upfront investments in bigger vehicles that are paid back over many years? Uber's "bus" is its network.

> monopoly in the region

There is no monopoly in transportation. People can drive their own cars, take buses, take taxies, ride Lyft, walk, bike, etc. Uber is creating a network.

> This not only discourages the competition, it discourages the existence of competition.

Discouraging competition is the same as discouraging the existence of competition.

To compete effectively against any good business requires investment. Uber is competing against the taxi network, bus services, zipcar, etc. Uber's strategy requires investment in building a network of drivers that can quickly reach anyone in the service area. To build this network, they have to invest in drivers and passengers. They do this by paying drivers more than they produce and offering passengers service for less than it costs. As more drivers and passengers join the network, costs come down, service gets better, prices may be able to be raised, and Uber may be able to recoup its investment and earn a profit. Maybe. if they earn too much of a profit by charging passengers too much or paying drivers too little, they risk being replaced by other app makers who offer Uber's network of drivers and passengers a better deal.

It's uncertain if Uber will be profitable. But in trying to be profitable, Uber is definitely offering drivers and passengers better options than what they already have (otherwise, the drivers and passengers would not be using Uber).
Does Australia? It appears to be the pertinent jurisdiction.
If you're a developer, you're really looking to build idempotent and self-healing services/applications as much as possible (especially anything that's being run by a queue/job scheduler/crontab). One thing that will make this happen faster is if developers are on-call and have to fix things.
> trying to stop a C&C server of a botnet is a futile exercise.

Laptop users who want broad Internet access (and will complain loudly if reddit/HN/Twitter is "down") aren't the same thing as the app server that only talks to a short whitelisted set of RFC1918 IPs, on specific ports only, and doesn't have Internet access - not even DNS. (WannaCry demonstrated why not.)

Reddit and the like needs to accept they are hosting botnet C&C servers due to hosting loads of user-generated content (I'd do an invite-only subreddit with a tracking pixel in the CSS), but that doesn't make it pointless for the rest of us to do something where possible.
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Regardless of the validity of your claim I think the answer to your question is why would Brown be incentive to lower tuition to eliminate student loans (lower profits) if they could just ask for it from alumni (same profits and free good PR)?
Tony Robbins suggests, more than solid finances-- 'state of mind' is the key, be prepared for extraordinary opportunities > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSi7BUqXuU4
Property can weather downturns. Investments can go bust. If you own property outright, it may go up and down but never (almost never) zero. And you have a place to park your butt. And maybe grow some food.
Are HTML wireframes a thing of the past?
Nice idea, but despite the "Open" in the name of the company, this is all based on a proprietary protocol. The internet has done pretty well so far by being based on open protocols and standards. I don't think it's a good idea to change that.
Is the source available?
Better solution is to determine fob distance based on response time rather than signal strength.
kind of unsettling if you look at current state of uefi, and other low level side projects like ME etc. which are plagued by bugs.
This feels like an impossible game. Reddit's advertising UI will never have as many features as Google's. Just compare how many engineers each company has.
you're assuming that the money is going to dispersed equally which is unlikely. The money is intended to replace the loan portion of financial aid packages. Most students get some amount of tuition covered by grants, and outside scholarships. So for example if tuition is $10000 (not real numbers obviously), and the student get $4,000 from pell grant and another $2,000 from an outside scholarship this new pool of money Brown raises only has to cover the outstanding $4,000 not accounted for by other sources.
We've previously used a redis-replicated backend to powerdns. The fact that it was pluggable was awesome. We'd love to support something like that one day. For now, however, our eye is firmly on recursion. If a golang DNS server designed for anycast is something people want, we'll keep developing authoritative features. If not, we'll stick to recursion.
Sorry, unfortunately you have moved the djb hat from the djb hat rack and so can no longer refer to it as a djb hat.
I've been saying for a couple of years now that Reddit is on a clear downward spiral. Do you believe me yet?

The right approach is federation with small, user-operated instances that all talk to each other GNUSocial/Mastodon style. That's the only way to make sustainable social networks that work in the interests of their users. Capitalism-driven social networks do not work.
Your even allowed to copy movies of they're remakes you know. /s
I doubt anything on HN has ever matched the bullying of r/fatpeoplehate
Isn't survival, at a minimum, an instrumental value that has to support the objective values of a culture?
Yeah, I was disappointed by that too.

"we're going to run out of new BTC to mine sooner or later"

Not for about 100 years.
Because it is a fiendish dilemma. Most people are fine to obligingly use proprietary apps on approved operating systems to gain access to the content, so if you care about remunerating content producers, and watching the media by means of open technologies that work on any modern operating system, then supporting Netflix is currently one way to do so.

But you are right, the downside is that my account is effectively limited to 720p because of complete non-sense.

The sad thing is that any competition (e.g., Amazon Prime) appears to follow the same rules as far as I can tell: sure, you can use your browser, for now, but nothing over 720p for you until you run our software outside of that sandbox of a browser on a verified trusted operating system.

I'm not sure where my point of rejection of this deal lies.
The 500lb gorilla in the room that no one is talking about when it comes to Reddit ads is this. Go to Reddit right now and hit the "All" button and just see how much hardcore pornography pops up immediately. I'm not making some sort of moral judgement here at all, but that can and does scare off tons of big brands.
> They can’t monetize the web version of their site because their users are sophisticated enough to use ad blockers.

I think you've over generalizing a bit - I think we've gotten to the point where reddit is fairly "mainstream." My bet is there are plenty of reddit users out there not using ad blockers.

There was a time when playing multi-player FPS games against other people on the internet was a "fringe activity" probably mostly enjoyed by a very small subset of the population. Now 40 year old I-bankers blow off steam playing Halo. I think reddit has just about gotten to that level.
What industry do you work in that would give you insight into a coming downturn?
Just wondering how much of this upgrade pain is Rails-specific? How about Spring, Play and Django? What's so different about Rails?
Right, but you have to put NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED on them.
This seems like the most likely explanation to me. It's a classic "Heads I win, Tails you lose" calculation, but with much better odds and payoffs than usual! If you are bullish on BTC as I am, this will turn out to be fine for everyone.
The benefits of having assets in cash during a crash only outweigh the downsides if you know when the crash is going to happen. Since you don't know that timing, you're statistically better off investing anything beyond your emergency funds.
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Yup. Like many new convenience features, it seems so silly until you use it and then you can't go back. My new Golf has it, and it works so well that the doors unlock as my hand is entering the door handle cup but before I even have a chance to pull on the handle. If my passenger needs to open the door without me unlocking it, i have to stand REALLY close to them. It's pretty impressive (in normal operation) how perfectly it works as the key-holder but how close you need to stand for it to work for someone else.
I'm hardly an expert on Bitcoin but was is glaringly obvious over the past month has been the highly speculative betting on Bitcoin. This run up seems like a musical chairs and when the music stops there will be a lot more standing counting their losses. #JustKeepinItReal
We have a new site (ipdata.co)
Here's one: Mastodon [0]. It's decentralized, you can deploy your own instance, and doesn't (necessarily) rely on advertising.

[0]: https://joinmastodon.org/
I didn't mean to imply 'impossible'.

Adult supervision for extraordinary events (fire, collision, sick kid) is very feasible on an ordinary bus. We're not talking singing songs around the campfire, but a baseline of a responsible adult is very important.
I'm a huge fan of Reddit, it's basically where I got my info about everything in my life. It's like an up to date, curated version of the mess that some news site are. Plus conversations is highly interesting most of the time. Of course, you have to follow the good one, and read what you want to read.
> once a year new stuff comes out, some stuff breaks, it gets fixed.

Then why is there so much crying all over HN over how hilariously broken any new macOS release is?
And thank you for PowerDNS. We got to the point with this where we wanted the convenience and easy parallelism of go, but we've used powerdns many times over the years, and it's been a great contribution to the net.
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It's extremely convenient and I have no regrets.

I have car insurance and zero worries about theft.
Many people don't have an emergency fund, so it's good advice and worth repeating. Being stuck in a high-expense life style, especially if you owe a lot of money, makes it very hard to be flexible. E.g. you might not be able to move to a new place where there are jobs. So living below your means and not having a lot of debt really is important.

But beyond that:

1. Get to know people outside your small industry niche and outside your local geography.

2. Don't define yourself by a single technology or set of skills. Get good at learning new things on your own.
So stealing is ok? Who pays for that content you pirate?
This is also a big barrier for me using firefox in development, and pre-v57 Firefox used to have an extension for websockets that was nice, but its gone now with the new web extension APIs.
Reddit as a monolith is pretty good at catching that. Sure it'll miss one or two every now and then, but I don't see it being inundated by organic marketing anytime soon.

Also, as I understand it, they have been working on catching this stuff behind the scenes and they seem to be doing okay.
That's probably the wrong question. The right question is along the lines of: What makes you think that simply buying something such as Bitcoin at a particular "time" would lead you to becoming rich? Is there any basis in history for such an idea? The answer is a resounding "no"--at least not on the mass scale that we are experiencing right now.

I have a friend who believes he is an Ethereum "multi-millionaiare." I keep telling him he's full of shit but he won't listen! There is no other explanation that this is a mania because in the past whereas some handful of people got rich through lucky market timing or inside information, there is no point in history where millions of people got rich by just buying a currency (or in this case, a pseudo-currency).

Best of luck, though.
I think it's important to note, as mentioned in the article, just how much more mainstream Reddit is becoming. And along with that, less tech-savvy users less likely to use adblockers. I'd love to see some numbers on this too!
Its actually built into blockchain currencies, that no regulation is even possible. Until they come up with a feedback mechanism, I'm staying the hell away from them.
Long may https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/23/magazine/old-... be relevant!
I remember walking to school myself when I was six, and taking a regular city bus every day since age seven. It was fine, never had a problem really.

A self-driving bus from door to door would have been fun... But on the other hand, getting familiar with the city environment by walking was useful at that age too.

(This was in Finland. I know Americans don't really let their kids outside on their own anymore.)
Serious question, how is Reddit/Advance Publications making money off of AMAs? Are the mods of that sub Reddit employees?
no one cares abouyt the future, why do you think people are inventing more types of money lol
I'm also in the no supervision would be a disaster boat, but just to clarify the concept bus only has 6 seats.

"The design was influenced by campfires and dinner tables, and it ensures there’s no one sitting behind anyone else–likely reduced hair pulling and teasing as a result."
My uncle did tax preparation in NYC, and he definitely saw signs of 2008 bust coming.
Capitalism is a tool that expands where money finds "life" (like in Conway's game of Life) but money lacks direction for short term and long term benefit to the planet, humanity, and all the species on it. Money is not necessarily oriented toward harm and creating inequality, money can be oriented a different way, and peace can be profitable.
My solution with Windows is easier. I run it in a VM and block all network traffic. Problem solved.

And regarding (5)... well, the same thing I used to tell people about WINE applies, just in reverse. Unless you're butting up against a corporate policy or something, why pick the inferior, broken imitation when the real thing is right there?
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Practical Monitoring, just released by OReilly discusses this same problem. If you have a Safari Books subscription, it's definitely worth a read
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If there is a Java/Scala kernel for Jupyter, then Yes. Even if not, we managed to get RStudio to work on that so there is hope for <your preferred environment>. I would reach out to github.com/jupyterhub/binderhub (you can say I redirected you there, same username on GH) the R support was prototyped a few weeks ago at a free workshop we ran. We'll be really happy to get Java/Scala people to contribute and invite them if we can do another workshop.
Nah, just give it some time and we will see RedditCoin. Instead of reddit gold, you will reward posters with RC.

Then the_donald will rebel and create kekcoin.
you could associate data with the distance field based renderer - e.g. objects at x,y,z locations... the bigger problem imo is that working with such a fancy renderer is a headache. want to render anything else in there? you'll need to do custom depth writes or sort things... want to insert a custom building? now you have to cut a fancy hole in things .. etc...
Advertisements in the Start Bar is a new low
I thought Fair Use was a curiously USAmerican thing, do they really have it in Australia, I expected they'd have something more like Fair Dealing which gives _practically_ no usage rights (I'm exaggerating, but only a little).
Nitpick, but sushi is about the vinegared rice. You can have vegetable sushi. The raw fish is "sashimi".
Control over your own end of life decisions is a right that is routinely denied in most of the world. It is a sad state of affairs. Similarly for medicine, and the right to choose your own medication and medical procedures.

Cryopreservation is a time-sensitive operation, and in practice akin to a surgical operation in the tools and people required. It runs best with preparation and forewarning, and as soon as possible after death. The primary cause of poor preservation and increased cost is the delay and rush forced on people because planned euthanasia is illegal in most jurisdictions, and as a result the providers are forced into a standby/emergency response model of operations.

Cryopreservation should be a form of euthanasia for best effect, for the lowest level of cell and tissue damage, and for the best odds of future restoration.
I was thinking exactly the same thing, speed of light is the only robust way to prevent the attack without hobbling the entire feature.. doubt it could be reliably retrofitted to an exiting design though, timing that precise probably requires additional hardware or at least hardware specifically designed for low jitter
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> They can’t monetize the web version of their site because their users are sophisticated enough to use ad blockers

Or I just pay for Reddit Gold, which removes ads (among other features).
Rails introduced me to software development. From the beginning I felt really comfortable in Rails, and that's part of what gave me the confidence to switch careers.

I don't write Ruby for a living anymore, but I am super appreciative of all the things the Rails team has done.
I think the point is they may have had the thought already, but are afraid to express it, for fear of getting part of it wrong and suffering a reappraisal.
It was fine because there were adults around. 30 kids unsupervised would be chaos.
i've used this in practice for a number of full screen effects... e.g. if something is volumetric and you are inside of it, it makes more sense to draw two triangles than an elaborate mesh that completely bounds the player.
... And are users ready for ads?
The trick is that most people don't pay full tuition[1]. It's like hospital prices: most people don't pay the sticker price and those who do are subsidizing those who don't.

[1]http://time.com/money/4777909/private-college-scholarships-2...
It runs on Linux just fine, just no download.

I've gotten it running myself. Tried to build it for Windows, but it just wasn't happening — far too alien an environment to try to develop software on.
I'm not saying remove the human element entirely, but there's a lot of low hanging fruit in education to consider where technological automation can help improve the productivity of educators.

This x1000. With all the improvement in educational technology, it's weird that the gold standard of elite education apparently remains the lecture.

I am reminded of the quote: College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Part of the issue is that college-as-elite-networking-venue needs to remain scarce, by definition, if it is to retain its value. If everyone can "go to Harvard" (through online delivery, enhanced ed-tech, automation, etc) then the scarcity is lessened. When you go to an elite college, you don't just get an education, you get association with a brand that, you hope, retains and increases in value.
Here is a fun fact regarding DRM: Ever since I discovered how easy it is to buy music from Amazon, both legally and conveniently, I have not downloaded a single piece of music illegally.

I do not mind paying for music. Making music is hard work. There are many gifted musicians I would rather pay for their efforts if that means I get to enjoy more of their music.

I do mind jumping through all kinds of insane hoops that effectively punish me for playing fair while the kid next door gets his music illegally from the Pirate Bay and has no trouble putting it on any device he or she chooses.

I really wish film studios understood this simple fact: If buying movies was as easy and painless as buying music from, say, Amazon, I would be happy to do so. Making movies, too, is hard work, and compared to making music, it is fairly expensive, too. I have no problem with paying for a movie.

But having to watch a trailer that tells me I cannot make copies of a movie or watch it on a DVD player from another continent, being unable to watch a movie with its original audio track without subtitles, while the kid next door gets his (illegal) copy
online, a copy that does not force him to watch a trailer that basically insults him for being stupid enough to pay for a legitimate copy, where he can choose to watch or not to watch the movie with subtitles, in any language he or she likes -- THAT annoys me to no end.

It's not even that movie studios (ab)use the law to cling to a moribound business model - it's that they lack the creativity (ironic, given that their whole business is about creativity) to imagine it could work any other way, and that they effectively distrust their customers.

Maybe I am just a naive dreamer, but I think if the movie studios trusted their customers enough to let them actually use the movies / series / ... they actually ____ing paid for in the ways they see fit, the problem DRM is - at least officially - supposed to solve, would at least shrink so much it would become negligible in practice.

Okay, just in case I lost you there, let me repeat my key point: Buying music legally, from Amazon or one of many other companies, is so convenient it actually trumps downloading music illegally. Paying money turns out to be the least problem in the whole process. If buying movies legally was as hassle-free, I would happily go on a shopping spree of epic proportions. You don't even need to look at the ethical dimension of the whole issue. Just do the ____ing math.

(Yeah, okay, sorry for ranting. If you are still reading this, you are probably the last person that needs convincing anyway.)
I wouldn't say it means he's nuts. Even if you ditch the right-wing politics commentary, there's a problem with decentralized currency - it's directly in opposition to the interests of governments. Which makes it questionable whether it will ever succeed. That's not nuts.

That said, as I've pointed out elsewhere, bitcoin does not currently behave even remotely like a useful medium of exchange. The price needs to be be rock-solid stable, the way the dollar or the euro or the yen is stable, and it needs to be extremely liquid, usable for most transactions. When bitcoins are generating 500% annual returns relative to stable currencies simply by existing, spending them is actually irrational (although unloading and getting out while the getting is good might not be). Until it's stable, forget government interference... the banking system won't accept bitcoin.
I suppose we should file a bug about bringing it back.