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You make a very good point!

I'll just note that some of us who might have been most attracted to the profession would be turned off by pinkification, and that we may be harder to recruit into recruiting efforts that we perceive as ghettoizing. I quit a women's organization dedicated to a specific technology because all the meetups they organized seemed to be oriented around manicures.

Someone mentioned above that law and medicine have evened out (or even begun to invert) their gender ratios over the past generation. They didn't do that by pinkifying the profession - by giving little girls pink stethescopes or gavels. They did that by changing expectations of who turns out to be a doctor or lawyer - the expectations of both children who hadn't yet chosen their profession and of the adults who guide their choices; choose whether to admit them into study programs; and eventually hire them.
Lotta philosophical reasons as siblings to my reply here, and many of them are very fine. But let me give you a practical reason this forgiveness works out well: If you want to leap straight to aggressive compliance, you're gonna need a lawyer. That will cost you. So in a world where the choices are "ignore the infringement" or "aggressively enforce it", you've got the choice of either ponying up the dough up front, or losing your licensed rights. Now, sometimes reality hands you a bum deal and there's not much you can do about it, but that's a bum deal.

If you add a third choice of "politely ask for them to comply first", then you've got a free option, that is likely (albeit not guaranteed) to produce good results, and as an added bonus, if the company blows you off you are helping your eventual lawyer-involving case when it comes time to prove they knew and infringed anyhow.

So unless you've got bored lawyers sitting around who are going to charge you no matter what you do, there is a reason to be a bit gracious first, even for you, the programmer of the GPL'ed work.

(And yes, this RedHat effort does not create this result; this has always been an option and IIRC most historical enforcement efforts that went to lawsuit first used this. But it answers the question, in very programmer-centric terms.)
> you rarely see people fretting over the low percentage of males going for primary education jobs.

Perhaps not where you are. In the places where I have first hand knowledge (UK and Norway) people have been fretting over that for decades.
Haha, I often do, and they've definitely exploited the system most. That said, even they are accountable to a diverse set of shareholders, and if they were to disappear overnight, there'd also be quite some negative effects. But yeah, if you do want to blame any one party, Elsevier would be it.
Slightly off-topic: Arrested at 10? Jesus, I thought the US was harsh. I don't know how you grew up or if your folks were around but even a tough talking to by the pharmacist / cop would seem more the order of the day.
Worth watching this talk on Ripple's consensus algorithm by its architect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7abKUs9tYZg and related whitepaper: https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf

I have no affiliation with Ripple or XRP, just enjoyed the fairly technical nature of the talk.
Upwork is terrible. All of my work comes through personal contacts and relationships. IMO you've got to find a way to grow your network, be that meetups, events, etc. Get creative. It sounds like you have a lot of skill in your domain, maybe you could do a lecture somewhere and meet people that way. Relationships have a tendency of naturally generating work.
> Most dollars which aren't spent on consumption are converted into equity in productive businesses.

Like real-estate?
The fun thing is that many projects are already GPLv2 or later.
> put $10 in a single transaction, then charge the wallet once it is a time to pay to creator

They already group the transaction on the 1st of the month for me. I use PayPal, is it different for other payment types?
Historical practices are not counterarguments against for profit models of medicine. Even if it was, historic non-profit models do not scale.

Doctors for profit might not be the only model, but I'd like to see you propose any other model that actually works.

> Eating right plays a very important role in health and welfare and you don't have to wait until you are sick to wonder if your diet could stand to be improved.

Er, you do know most people are either overweight or obese? It's once thing to know what's right to do, but people don't do it or spend money on it.
> ebay started, the fees for sellers were ~3.25%. Over the last 10 years, it has crept up in increments to ~10%. All of those price increases were absorbed by the sellers.

Isn't this a false dichotomy? It's just a matter of how you phrase it, no?

If the increase in seller fees is reflected in real pricepoints on eBay's market, it could work out as it really being the buyers paying the difference.
Very nice advice, I couldn't have written it better myself!

Just to comment on one of your points:

On creating a website... probably less than $30 to get it started, or if you start on WordPress.com or something like that, you can start for free.

But I'd say if you were looking to make money with a website, don't do it just for that. Most people try.. and fail because unless you have a passion for it, it's not going to be what you want.

I began Confessions of the Professions ( http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com ) and it is nearing 5 years old now, close to 1800 posts. I never thought it would actually bring me any money, but it has brought me in nearly $3,000 - $3,500 over the past 5 years. Not anything near where I could quit my day job... but it is money I would have never made had it not been for me starting a website... and keeping it going.

It takes patience and a little hustling, between sponsored posts, ads, text ads, banner ads, etc. All from just blogging and accepting guest posts. Guests posts are free submissions (with about a 2 week wait), but there is the occasional person or company who wants to get it out within the week, so that has been a great upsell for me there.

I'm sure I could have brought in a lot more... but it is a side hobby and I work on other things as well.

But starting a website all began with a passion to get it started.. and even more passion to keep it going. Luckily for me, I'm not the only one who has the passion to keep it going... if it weren't for my contributors... I probably wouldn't have the motivation, but it is that strong community support that keeps me going on.

If I could change anything... I would've probably taken my email list more seriously. I actually just have a very small email list and I don't really advertise collecting of email addresses.

For many people out there... their businesses all started simply.. with a huge email list.
Reviewers certainly shouldn't be the ones profiting from it, that would be an absurd conflict-of-interest. Publishers do some work, but I think it's mostly the long-tail problem. The popular stuff is subsidizing the large number of very very esoteric. Unbundling might help.
I disagree. The company needs to restore trust. An incorrect way to restore trust is to babble word-salad about feelings that don't exist in whatever business unit made this decision. A correct way to restore trust is to 1. rollback the decision (check) and 2. articulate and implement a plan of action so that it doesn't happen again (missing, and more important).

Trust is immensely valuable. They lost a trust fortune over night. No amount of posturing or PR babble can fix that, and accepting PR babble as trust currency is deeply misguided when dealing with a corporation. A good-faith plan of action is something we can put some stock in.
> Well advise the kids of the dangers. I and most of my friends had unsupervised internet access. We are all doing fine.

Most people who ride in car don't get into an accident. We still wear seatbelts.

> Every kid is getting "addicted"?

Perhaps not the best choice of words from the OP, but look up premature sexualization and psychological trauma.

> No offense, but your kids aren't prepared for the real world. What will they do now that they are adults with no parental supervision. Also, no parent with 5 kids is "responsible".

A comment like that to a stranger can be nothing but offensive. For lack of space or time to use anything more nuanced than crude Freudian terms, the role of the parent is to model the superego for the child while he's too young to understand the consequences of his actions and the dangers of the world.
Internet 1.0 will be "good enough" for most people, so only geeks will be on Internet 2.0. That's not a bad thing, but the internet of today is a way nicer place to be than the internet of the 90s was. And the reason it's nicer is because basically everyone I know is on it.
That's especially bad, because you can't actually see the origin or whether TLS is in use from the store's interface...
Yeah I do any of the sign.
What's odd to me is that they don't seem to have understood that spreading this charge (basically the credit card fee) across several people the patron is sponsoring, is more or less their purpose. If a given patron is not (typically) sponsoring more than one artist (or whatever), then yes they would/will have a problem, but they also wouldn't have a reason to exist. It's not like there aren't other ways to accept a credit card online, on a repeating basis even. Enabling a "tip jar on a monthly basis" was their whole reason for existence. They may not have known this.
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My coffee shop has a sign: $0.50 fee for card transactions under $5. I’ve seen that sign over the years at a dozen places. The idea isn’t entirely novel.

And you’re right, in that perhaps they should send $3 every three months or. $6 every six if you’re only giving to one person.
>but you don't tend to see things that blatant as much anymore.

I think you stilldo. Chatroulette and similar services were besieged by them a few years ago.
> It probably wouldn't have been at peace since 1815 if it had not had enough defences to put off other countries from invading in WW1 and 2.

This is a oft repeated myth. Switzerland would have been conquered within a day by any major power in ww1 or ww2. The reason why switzerland isn't conquered is because they serve as a money laundering/transfer center for every power. Swizterland's "defenses" are for show. Swizterland's shield is it's dependable position as banker for nations and the elites.
For the same reason that The Stepford Wives was a creepy movie? There's a place near my town where they clear cut all the tree off the top of a mountain. Then, they built hundreds of houses and townhouses that all look exactly the same. Every time I drive through there I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone. The entire place makes the hair on my neck stand on end just due to the sterile and fake nature of the entire place. It feels planned by committee, abnormal, and out of place, not like a place that grew up naturally over time.
That would require taking on Frontier's dysfunctional management.
Thanks. Would Fullstack React book be a more appropriate starting point?
This is the experience we get in our local Walmart as well. The way the local store is run, I would be surprised if there is an upgrade coming for pickups. This is certainly not a commentary on Walmart - it is however a commentary on my area at large as far as retail is concerned.
They're raising them for Californians
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Gold doesn't go up 15x in a single year.
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Weird that they’d even use stripe as they could likely skip the middleman and save more money. Stripe is great for small business. Patreon isn’t that.
That's effectively how Lego Friends came to be. LEGO wanted to expand their market to hit the same market segment as Barbie. After years of market research, focus-testing, and development, they released Friends. It quickly became the fastest-selling line in the company's history.

For reasons that I'm not even going to attempt to speculate upon, a non-trivial number of young girls really like that stuff. Pretending it's not true, or casting judgement on the morality of this won't change the fact that it's effective. If it helps spark children's creativity, imagination, and passion for building things, then that's great in my book.
Fair question. WebAssembly's browser support is indeed already pretty good, as I understand it.

Might be useful for old versions of IE, I suppose.
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Please don’t try to explain Bitcoin at parties
You make me glad the 2nd amendment exists! Did you study economics as your undergrad? I hope your prediction comes true and you refuse to put 10% of your money into btc until regret drives you to personally lead the revolution to seize the wealth from those dirty scheming bitcoiners
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The problem if I understood correctly their previous strife is when you finance patrons across taxation boundaries. If they have to collect vat, they need separate transactions, even if that drived up transaction costd
You have expressed this better than I could have.
Indeed, we should put in effort to make school fun and entertaining.
Learning is a life long process, and if the first thing you learn is that learning is boring you are less likely to engage in it and therefore you will be less adaptable to the situations life puts you in.
As teachers we should make sure that learning is fun.
> I'm reading that companies are going to do better in the future and will see a rise in stock price, and it makes sense, so I sometimes buy them.

I think that way about my index funds too. But then it's impossible to know the reason for the price rise. Maybe it's because of millions of other guys like me who read the same articles, came to the same conclusion as me, and put their money in too.
Seconded. It got my hair color wrong (I have light mousey brown hair, with a sprinkle of gray, the app creates an avatar with dark brown hair), and it got my eye color wrong (it chose brown over my blue)

While the idea is admirable, there is very little scope for error in a space as personal as thjs
The RGB model that is currently used (sRGB) is just an emulation of CRT-displays, it is not how human vision works. There is not actually much conceptual difference between red and yellow.
I don't know why people are downvoting, but what I'd like to know is how prevalent Bitcoin usage is in each country. Is it 10%? 50%? Who is it leaving behind? The article suggests it's not based on a scientific sample. I also wonder what the skew is in usage demographically and geographically.

And then I'd like to see this contrasted with other hyperinflation instances were people abandon the local currency and start trading in either a neighbor's currency or even USD.
This article is completely amateurish and without any merit. Don't waste your time.

The author tries to tell you that because a bitcoin can be divided up into a million pieces or more, it means it's not a limited resource. What idiocy.

Bitcoins aren't secure because most people keep their keys in a vault they don't actually own? What does that have to do with Bitcoin itself? Bitcoin's security (while having known attack surfaces) is proven, as are people's tendency to not care about securing their own digital information.
I don't understand why that would have impacted more $1 donors than others. Someone please explain!
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And in the meantime, banks are making money on investing, lending out funds deposited. And not doing too badly: http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/03/investing/bank-profits-recor...

Major US banks made $171B _profit_ last year. Lets not pretend that they're already bending over backwards to lower costs on transaction processing.
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Where are you, out of curiousity? I find most of the chips are no slower than using a swipe card was before.
For that stainless is a good choice. I usually use cast iron to fry, or toast things on the stove top, so sticking and even heat are important. Stainless is useful in a bunch of other areas though. Basically all my cookware is white stainless, or cast iron, not a fan of synthetic coatings.
Can you explain the conflict you see?

The editor would still pick reviewers based on reputation, they'd just get a lump sum along with the work.
I think it's a useful term, for sake of discussion
Yes, true, the effect is the same. A ship from overseas passes by PR with goods for the island. It harbors there. It continues to the mainland, now it’s in violation of the jones act since it’s transporting goods between US ports. What are the huge cargo freighters going to do? Unload everything at PR? No. They’ll pass and unload at the mainland.
Tried the app on my Nexus. It didn't work, at all. When I open the app and try to take a selfie, the image is completely blurred out and it can't detect my face. (The built-in Camera app works just fine, though.)
The title is a bit dense; a good example of what it does is available here: http://yknzhu.wixsite.com/mbweb (takes in a movie and its book form, and syncs them up and many other things.)

Abstract:

Books are a rich source of both fine-grained information, how a character, an object or a scene looks like, as well as high-level semantics, what someone is thinking, feeling and how these states evolve through a story. This work aims to align books to their movie releases in order to provide rich descriptive explanations for visual content that go semantically far beyond the captions available in current datasets. To align movies and books we propose a neural sentence embedding that is trained in an unsupervised way from a large corpus of books, as well as a video-text neural embedding for computing similarities between movie clips and sentences in the book. We propose a context-aware CNN to combine information from multiple sources. We demonstrate good quantitative performance for movie/book alignment and show several qualitative examples that showcase the diversity of tasks our model can be used for.
> It's a fair concern that something so volatile should be examined critically and relentlessly.

I agree - but backed with concerns based on legitimate understanding not "price is going up quickly, must be a scam".

> I think governments/regulators should have some say the same way you'd want them to regulate any financial instrument and punish Ponzi schemers and pump-and-dumpers.

Because they did such a great job in 2008? When are they planning to punish the architects of the financial crisis? Who's going after the banks when they launder money for mexican cartels and ISIS? You really think these people are trying to protect the public?

> I'd like to think about the motives of both sides from being so passionate.

I can't speak for anyone else but I come to these threads hoping to find sensible insight and technical analysis not "THIS IS A BUBBLE! BAN IT!"

> For yaysayers, it's a bit more obvious---once the hype dies, they'll stop making money.

There may well be a huge correction but the overall market is anti-fragile and here to stay.

An article that sums up my thoughts:
https://www.callmegwei.com/2017/11/24/crypto-price-isnt-an-e...
Hi Friends- so I made this video tutorial because I ran into this issue a couple of days ago and just couldn't figure it out. Because TensorFlow does global variable initialization in a non-deterministic way sometimes the program would work just fine. Otherwise, the thing would fall over and have errors all over the place. I couldn't figure it out. Finally after looking through some GitHub issues, I realized that I was defining some variables that were using other variables. So when I ran sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer()) every so often it would try to initialize some variables that depended on other variables already being initialized.
> What is stopping somebody from not publishing in a journal and simply putting up a PDF on their own website?

That they want to have a job in research, which are really, really scarce. I explained this in more detail at https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...

> Otherwise, if you ran a Journal, how would you setup a free system to curate high-impact research? Or alternatively, how much would you charge to run such a journal?

If you run a journal, you're most likely one of the big publishers that is profiting heavily from the status quo.

Much of the actual academic work (finding reviewers, etc.) is done by actual academics (mostly for free), but the rest of it, including promoting it to potential readers, is done by the publishers. (There have been some success stories of editorial boards leaving the publishers' journals to start their own, e.g. Glossa (formerly Lingua), but those are few and far between.
I didn't say every child :)

OP
>Perhaps not the best choice of words from the OP, but look up premature sexualization and psychological trauma.

Existence of it is hardly grounds for mass hysteria - this smacks of 'will somebody please think of the children'.
Off topic, but is there a good solution like Patreon for registered charities?
And yet somehow US banks manage to struggle by not even making it to $200B/year profit, having to survive on $170B or so...
It won't, because the gross combination weight is limited by law.

Any weight you add to the cab comes out of the payload for a vehicle application that hauls at the legal limit.
Creators need to treat it like business income and realize that whatever fees patreon takes is just the cost of business.
How in the world can they make money on $99/yr?
If I had a bitcoin for every time I facepalmed while I read this...
Blaming individual scientists is largely misplaced, but you can definitely blame then collectively. The root cause of a lot of these problems is that academia has an almost farcical obsession with prestige, and that's largely a bottom-up function of the culture. The inability to collectively move to different publishing venues is merely one consequence of this culture.
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I use contactless chipped card everywhere and it literally takes less than a second for most payments.
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My favorite:

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We have to be careful about a road tax that distinguishes type of vehicle instead of its weight.

One could easily see this becoming politicized to harm whichever industry the state's friends wanted. Eg if Old Fossil wanted a jab at New Electric to "level the field against unfair competition", slapping a big joule tax would do it.
Right. The very first step in trying to prove a theorem is to try and disprove it (by looking for a counter-example).
Ask HN: Comodo re-issuing certificates?
My company uses an EV SSL certificate from Comodo. Recently we received an email from Comodo containing a new certificate.

We originally purchased the certificate through a third-party provider, which actually gets the certificate from Comodo. The third party also emailed us, explaining that there is an "encoding error" with the original certificate, and that it needs to be replaced within a few days, when the original certificate will be revoked.

Is this happening to anyone else? Any idea the nature of the problem?

EDIT: I did reach out to support from both companies, but haven't heard back yet at the time of this posting.
Great! Shareholders can use those gains to invest in other things. And, dividends get taxed y’know.
My use-case is currently quite simple (very few services) and so getting a TLS cert into each pod is easy enough. (I use the cluster CA to manually provision certs for the small number of private services that I have, and Acme certs for all of my publicly accessible services).

As I roll out more services I've definitely got my eye on Istio, since auto-provisioned mTLS certs will be very useful. It does seem a bit bleeding edge though; it's only on version 0.3.