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I have a few reseller accounts from over the years and it’s rare to find one with 2 factor auth or even a modern ui. Network Solutions has SRSPlus, while it works, is horrid.
I'll work on the roadmap idea for sure. Are there any resources I can refer to for this? I've not really done that kind of work before, so I don't know how best to go about it.

> If your proposal is not accepted, even in some inevitably cut-down form, what is then entirely implicit, with no threats or rashness or backing people into corners, is that it's kinda obvious that your personal point of view and the general company's point of view have diverged. And that's the time to start looking for a new opportunity.

I believe this is why you had put the emphasis on saying "I believe this _needs_ to be done".

College is not really an option for me in my current situation. Regardless of anything else that happens, I will start to focus a lot more on networking just so I don't get backed into a corner anytime I'm in a hard place.
It's great to see progress -- I just meant I'm curious about building the sails in space for higher performance, and haven't heard about anyone else trying to refine those ideas.
Harvard Hospital Takes Down Portrait of 'Father of Neurosurgery'
Well, iff the reader accounts for the headline's question implicit qualifier: "could it strike us again" where we probably aren't in China or Kazakhstan ...

... then Betteridge's Law applies as always.

(But seriously, this qualifier almost always applies when discussing any kind of non-universal disaster or malaise. Some resource-stripped sh&thole on the other side of the world could get overrun by zombies and it still needn't matter to us because it's only a resource-stripped sh&thole.)
How did you get copies of zOS, DB2, CICS, etc.? I've played around with Hercules and really old versions of VM/CMS and MVS, but nothing modern, as I didn't think that one could legally do it. Maybe that's changed. I think it would really be in IBM's interests to make their z-series software accessible for those who want to learn on Hercules.
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The problem with that approach is that you can end up begging the question and not realizing that your proposed answers start to deviate wildly from evidence.

For Jared Diamond, the answer to the question of European domination is solely that Eurasia won the agricultural jackpot [1] and the Americas lost it, and anything that happened in the intervening 10,000 years doesn't factor into it. But... the Americas won the agricultural jackpot (there's a reason why potatoes became a staple crop in much of the world). And the European conquest of the Americas was anything but preordained: the Spanish only conquered Tenochtitlan (which was a larger city, it should be noted, than likely any of the Spanish had ever seen before) with the help of their 20,000 Tlaxcala allies.

[1] The astute will notice that there's a related question that Diamond 100% completely ignores... why didn't China dominate?
I don't quite follow your point.
> they will plant thousands of non-genetically modified seeds on a commercial farm to ramp up production

Why is it relevant if the seed were bred using genetic engineering or conventional?
The difference, of course, is that lebron James and Tom Hanks have some other talent that can explain their fame, and The Atlantic journalists also are influential because of some other thing they do (besides influencing). These Instagram people are influencers because... why? What underlying talent or past event launched them into their positions?
What do you think is difficult to listen to about earlier music? I can't say that music of the past was difficult for me, except for music written before leading tones became almost obligatory, i.e. before the advent of functional harmony — and that was a pretty rapid adjustment. I suppose some of the medieval music that uses parallel fifths between raised 4/7 and 5/1 at cadences took a little getting used to, as well.
I think music history should be taught thematically. Rather than going Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. in chronological order, use music theory to make connections across all time periods in each lecture. For instance, one could teach about open chords, those containing 1 and 5 only. That might be illustrated in both 2001: A Space Odyssey or monastic music from medieval churches. One could examine how melodies are shaped, what makes music sing. Harmonic analysis could be the aim, looking at how dissonance was increasingly used to create tension and drama. There's also storytelling in music, whether through words or not.

All of this to say, I'd rather not use chronological time as the axis of any musical study. We love music for its beauty and power, which is not a function of time but of the intricate neurological systems devoted to hearing and musical thought.
People want an authority to tell them how to value things, and they choose this authority not based on facts or results, they choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar.

-- Michael Burry (The Big Short)
You can never go back. The place you remember now exists only in memories, and it's doubtful it ever existed quite how you recall it.

I moved around a lot between 18 and 30 - About 30 different properties, 15 different towns, five major cities, a few countries.

Something I learned over that time is when you return to a location you once lived in, it never matches up to whatever memories you have. People have moved on (a particularly stark lesson in university towns, which churn ~30% every single year), businesses have shuttered, public spaces have been redeveloped. Even the road/path networks have changed. So it's not possible to turn those fond memories back into a current experience. Of the things that DO match, a significant number of them will be negative elements that your memory had kinda hidden away. We tend to frame memories of our environment as fixed, with a sense of timelessness that doesn't match how those spaces evolve over time.

The same thing applies to Internets. There's a BB I posted heavily on in the late nineties that's still active and largely unchanged. But having recently started posting there again, it's just not an enjoyable experience. All the personalities are in a different phase of life (as am I), the central theme topic has aged badly, and the level of activity is low enough that there's rarely any point checking in daily. Worst of all, as someone that gets flighty at the first whiff of stagnation, going back to something so far in my past brings up a strong negative reaction. Even though it's just a bloody forum.

I guess all of this is obvious and not hugely insightful, but it leads me to the conclusion that it's not worth pining for the Internets that was, because the reality of returning to that would not be as awesome as our memories suggest. If anyone wants a taste of that today, stuff like TOR, freenet, and I2P echo a lot of the Web 1.0 feeling and community.
>So if you're sitting in a really nicely paid high-tech job somewhere in SV, realise that you are the origin of this problem. A problem that causes damage to democracy in numerous countries. Maybe a little less arrogance?

Tech companies aren't responsible for the decline in quality of journalism. They are responsible for shining light on how bloated and bad they were all along.

Checking facts and multiple sources on news stories was a major undertaking before the internet. Media has always been biased and bad, it's just that the internet is shedding light on how bad it is.

Transparency and widely available information is the pillar of democracy, not news organizations.
As if Instagram lets you search a pot bellied middle-aged bald white man travel blogger, especially without creating an account first.
The essay you read might have been by Yanis Varoufakis. (Former Greek finance minister.) The aboriginal peoples of the world .... had everything they needed, so tend not to invade for "more." To answer the question, "why" maybe a bit deeper view is worthwhile.

An alternative way to look at it could be Yanis Varoufakis passage:

"Debt, money, faith and state all go hand in hand. Without debt there is no easy way to manage agricultural surplus. As debt appeared, money flourished. But for money to have value, an institution, the state, had to make it trustworthy. When we talk about the economy, this is what we are talking about: the complex relations that emerge in a society with a surplus."
Discord is pretty close to the “old internet” from my POV, OP. Chat rooms full of random people are straight out of the AOL/IRC days. It has all the humor and pointless drama you’d expect. I’ve been enjoying the rebirth of chatting!
It's a very well written article. I'm just a bit surprised there is no mention of the origins of this paradigm as it originated in functional languages (Maybe monad in Haskell).
This seems to be a trend in the US with crypto and marijuana as examples. If you move faster than the government, the letter of the law no longer seems to apply once you have established a substantial market.

I like that both are gaining acceptance, but to the early entrepreurs willing to sell a clear security without filing or the growers willing to sell a controlled substance underground, go the spoiles when the states and federal government bend to the will of the market.

Unfortunately, it creates an unfair playing field for those willing to take a criminal risk and puts those that try to do things legally from day 1 at a disadvantage.
Was it run out of the U of I?

This was more early-1990s, but my first internet was a BBS out of Bradley University in Peoria. Ah, the sweet scream of ZTerm on a Performa.
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Both rock stars and sports stars have some underlying talent/reason that they have fans. What makes these “influencers” so influential? I think this is finally my “I’m getting too old” moment.
I do all of these things. The main problem is that other people do not. Good content is hiding behind the walls.

Just look at how Youtube and Spotify captured everyone's attention despite torrent infrastructure being easier and better than ever to use
The on-demand nexus already works on Apple TV. Say "I want to watch Billions" into the remote and it shows you all the services you can watch it on, then tap through to actually watching it.

Now if only it existed on other platforms.
It connects to a ZNC server on DigitalOcean.
I'm not sure if it would we a screw up. I mean, I actually liked early 2000-s, when Internet was kind of place of reigning anarchy as if there was no government and evil corporations, but let's just face it: it's long gone. Maybe there will be something else to offer the same kind of experience in the future, but it will never be the Web again, it's dead, taken by the enemy. Parents are home again. So, speaking about the least evil, you know, I would be actually glad, if Facebook (as it is now) would never enter the EU — and maybe somewhere across the ocean whole nations would be enslaved by it, I wouldn't care, because I don't have to use it, since my friends, local businesses and events don't force me to.

In fact, it seems that it's finally the case when people around might have to be "protected", since they cannot make the right choice themselves, and push me to it, as a consequence. So, being quite a libertarian myself, given the imperfect situation I find myself in, I'm not sure I mind some government interference.

I actually hate all these pop-up banners warning me about the cookie usage, and I'm not sure if GDPR (being vague and undefinitive it is) will turn out to be a good thing, and I sure hate this copyright filters thing. But I kind of like EU trying to force Internet-businesses to behave.
I mean... It happens within the software industry quite frequently. Look at Ryan Florence, the guy who thinks Github should remove "issues". He's revered like a god to some.
Url changed from https://boingboing.net/2018/06/17/three-days-left.html, which points to this.
Ever play neopets? That was once a 100m company owned by Viacom
The place information is does not need to be relearned as it does not move. We then leverage our spatial "lay of the land" skills to reassemble it in novel ways with less effort.
A "just so" explanation I like is it is a hold over from being a timid subterranean species. When an individual entered or left the borrow the threat model changed dramatically. Individuals that dumped their short term buffer reacted to escaped quicker (Poor Fred was deciding if the snake back there was worse than hawks and it flew off with him).

On Refrigerator blindness it generally goes like; open the fridge, bask in the possibilities, and after a while my wife who is doing several things at once on the other side of the room states "cream" which brings the pre-fridge reality back into sharp relief.
I would argue that by using the term "steal" in regarding to content, you demonstrate why we do need to continue this dialog.

There is no single truth here and I think that you are being overly offensive in saying that, by advocating for a different set of social rights, the OP is a sociopath. By the same token, any civil disobedience should be treated as sociopathy, no?
It's not exactly the same as railway programming as in Swift it's typically not used to connect functions together but rather to replace separate callbacks with one "result" function and to hard type certain results. One typical case in Objective-C style API's would be:

- (void)fetchData whenDone finished: [a block] ifFails failed: [another block]

Or:

- (void)fetchData whenDone finished: [a block that has nullable Data and nullable error as parameters]

Both approaches had problems. The first one uses two result blocks, but you want to do a lot of the same stuff usually, like:

* Stop the spinner

* Enable the send button again

This often lead to repetitive code or a maze of function calls.

The second one made you basically duck type for the kind of response it really was. Does it have an error? It probably failed. Does it have data? It probably worked. But what if it has both data and an error (error data?) or simply both values were nil? Brittle code.

While I really like the railroad approach the typical problem area Swift is applied to (often web API driven iOS and macOS applications) simply don't lead to these huge chains of functions. I'm definitely going to try it for backend code though.
Should be "those who did - teach".
> Honestly, if you apply for any of those jobs with even a passing familiarity of COBOL you're pretty much guaranteed.

This is interesting. How the companies there react to the fact that one doesn't have an academic degree despite IBM devops knowledge?
Ask HN: Why COBOL is not hip anymore?
So I've been looking into various modern languages and have been working in few of them. While new kids like Golang, Rust, Kotlin, Crystal, and Elixir are getting great traction in today's world of writing business oriented web applications, something that was designed to be expressive is not getting enough traction. There are no mainstream languages that are inspiring their syntax from COBOL (like Elixir or Crystal did). There are no popular frameworks, no famous community or a famous company (exclude legacy) that is promoting COBOL. Looking at sample code listings I can see a huge potential where businesses can write really expressive code. Yet I don't see somebody like say Salesforce, or IBM pushing it. Why?
Exactly. At least Instagram has a visible number (your follower count) that is a decent proxy for what "level" you've reached. With "good old boys" networks it's totally opaque.
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You are not alone on this one. I myself have also been through this experience.

Have you considered a different option ?
How about building your own start-up to serve real business needs? Or working on open source projects. There are a lot of opportunities to look forward into.

Why keep banging your head multiple times on something, when you can use that energy on other meaningful ways.
I am more suggesting that this is a fundamental problem in the world where we have "might makes right" rather than "might for right."

People can exist without companies. Companies cannot exist without people. Companies should serve people, not the other way around.

Something has gone very wrong that it works this way. Given that people created these companies, people run these companies, people created the laws and court system used to justify this shit and on and on... Somewhere, we lost our way and forgot that all of these things should serve the common good for humanity. These systems became bastardized and we sit around lamenting that this is just how it is and we are too powerless to stop it.

We have become the slaves of things we invented to serve us and we loudly proclaim that this is the new natural order and there is nothing to be done about it.
I teach a startup course at a public university. We had a class on disruption, where we specifically talked about Netflix. I polled my students and asked how many have cable or satellite. A single hand went up, out of over 30 students. I then asked how many had Netflix. Every hand went up. AT&T can buy Time Warner and Comcast can buy NBC and Fox. It's not going to matter. Millennials and Gen Z aren't going to pay for bundled linear content via cable and satellite with heavy amounts of advertising. The model is in process of being disrupted. Within a decade or so, I bet traditional cable and satellite goes the way of AOL and landlines.
As I explained above, their problem is offering renting only video which you can't buy.

> What device that you own can’t play Spotify music?

Anything they didn't think about? DRM-free formats can be accessed anywhere, you can re-encode them in any codec and etc. For example I can take my audio files and play them in RockBox on my portable Sansa player. How would Spotify help for that? Benefits of DRM-free are quite self explanatory.
Companies can also decline fast too BTW. In the current economy, debt can increase very quickly. When this debt stops being spent on a company, they can decline quickly. I mentioned this in the essay.
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Are you arguing that New York Times and Washington Post of 20 years ago were secretly just as vapid and outrage-focused as the stars of modern clickbait media?
This is a topic that HN would probably respond to with extensive discussion if the ideas were in a more accessible format. A download link to a book pdf is—sadly but surely—not something enough people will look at to get the ball rolling.

If you put up an introductory article, please let us know so we can put the submission in the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there).
There is a better way to think about this.

What the SEC cares about is whether uninformed investors are being ripped off.

What matters way more than the letter of the law is whether people are being scammed.

Ans I don't think this is a bad thing. The whole POINT of these laws in the first place is to protect people from being ripped off.

And if you ARENT ripping people off, then the government probably won't go after you.

Fairness isn't the purpose. The purpose is to protect people.

And if you don't hurt anybody, well what was even the point of the law to begin with? No harm no foul is a perfectly reasonable philosophy.
Like others mentioned, I'd go with a laptop with a long battery and remote in. The main advantage of using a Razer Blade or similar laptop would be doing live demos of algorithms, likely after training them, but that is a pretty niche application.
Because a large part of the US market believes that GMO are dangerous or potentially unhealthy, and this is probably more common feeling in a traditional product like whiskey.
I had dimly recalled that at some point in the past, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had said that Twitter was like a utility: http://allthingsd.com/20120122/jack-dorsey-twitters-not-real...

"“We definitely see social as just one part of what people do on Twitter,” Dorsey said. “We think of it as an information utility and a communications network.”"

I don't know how to look up cases, or if this is possible online, but, the info is "The case is Taylor v. Twitter, CGC18564460, California Superior Court, San Francisco."
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I set this up in the most hacky way 10 years ago with my girlfriend. We would watch dvds together and I wanted to synchronize them (especially important for comedies)

My setup? An app that would monitor DVD Player for events while listening to events over iChat using AppleScript.

If someone paused or played the DVD, the moitoring process would notice the event, make a JSON payload representing the action including the local timestamp, and use AppleScript to post an iChat message. Then, the process on the other side, would see the special iChat message (forwarded via AppleScript), and apply the action to the local DVD player process, taking into account the difference between the sent timestamp and the local timestamp.

It worked like a charm and made watching movies so much more fun. We always had iChat open anyway so it seemed like an easy win to piggy back on that, no server needed.

An inelegant hack, but it worked.
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Part of the problem is that we’ve criminalized too many regulatory violations. Exclusively civil liability is more appropriate for the vast majority of regulatory violations. Provision for statutory and punitive damages if you want extra bite.

If it is truly worthy of prison time, it will probably fall under existing general crimes: criminal fraud, reckless endangerment, theft, and so forth.
Only if you let your soul be immovably coupled to a fragile and exogenous variable like your job.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it's a federal issue and can be enforced even if you don't cross state lines. There's a drug case where Scalia seemingly ignored his previous opinion about what can be regulated as "interstate commerce" that I remember.
To be fair on them, despite what their instagrams show it is a lot of work. My girlfriend follows Alexis Ren and showed me her workout routine, it's easily 3 hours a day. Which combined with reaching out to brands, dealing with advertisers, scheduling, photoshoots etc I could easily see it being a full time job. Plus the constant dieting on top of all that which I can't remember the details of, but I know is hugely restrictive: no eating after 5pm and zero alcohol for example.

For sure a lot of them are pretty low effort and just do it as a side job, but I don't think it's as simple as just being attractive and I don't think a lot of them are as entitled as they seem.
Securities are civil though
HBO had $8.6B [0] in revenue last year.. For comparison, Netflix had $11.7. HBO is clearly succeeding..

0. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hbo-had-its-largest-subscr...
From what I have read, it looks like speculators who have shorted Tesla stock are going to loose a couple of billion dollars in the coming months, and so they have been seeding the press with negative stories and op-ed pieces to try to get the stock price down.
That’s not law. It’s exactly the kind of thing the rule of law is supposed to prevent. What constitutes “ripping people off” is an incredibly political and ever-shifting judgment. We vigorously debate and make laws, so that everyone knows what is allowed and what is not, regardless of what they think the law should be.
I'm the opposite as far as vivid dreams go, I have no dreams during a nap at all, and it feels like someone actually scrubbed my brain of any thoughts altogether. Feels like waking up with a clean slate.

But the rejuvenation effect is the same.
This works in business, too, if you have the stamina to persistently improve and compete.