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> The problem is the undergrad tuition is helping to subsidize the higher-level research that MIT and other big name schools are known for.

Actually MIT undergrad tuition is about 14% of MIT's revenue and about 16% of expenses (all in, not just the teaching portion), numbers which have been remarkably stable over the last 30 years. Undergrads simply aren't that important to a major research institution like MIT which is better thought of as a big research lab with a small school attached (undergrads make up less than 20% of the personnel on campus).

> The big universities will NEVER give out high quality equivalents of their courses online... MIT and the other schools know if they gave away their core curriculum's online that are basically the same thing then less people would want to go to the school at the current over inflated rates.

Except Open Courseware (thank you Hal Abelson) is exactly that: typically everything handed out by the prof including syllabus, lecture notes, problem sets, clarification notes...everything! And videos of lectures in some cases. And the motivation was precisely the opposite of what you say: "we assembled this stuff; perhaps it's useful for you to make your own course too."

> If you guys are looking for a revolution in online education, I hate to say it, but don't look at traditional institutions to do it....The revolution in online education will be done by someone ... that basically has no connections to the traditional education industry but is just very motivated to change the world for the better.

Umm, maybe. Sadly, a big part of higher education is credentialism, and for that you need to tie back to institutions. And the big institutions have an interest in such experimentation for the standard big institutional reasons that are not specific to universities (the "satellite campus" system has worked for some big institutions like NYU, and their students in, say, Abu Dabi who never go to NY at all) and there's no reason to think that similar classes of experiments could happen via linkups like U of Il + Coursera).

But I agree that new entrants like Kahn are doing interesting experiments that might have a huge, benefit effect in the long run.
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If you substitute "the bugs" with "climate change", this gets a lot hotter.
Agreed, but you would not want to use a URL that is larger than around 2k characters, in my case that wasn't enough.
Genuine question, why is this called a "prediction market" and not just a gambling exchange?

As far as I can tell, this is no different from BetFair et al who let punters bet against each other on the outcome of the next football match? (apart from "oooh! blockchain!" and "oooh! decentralised!")

I've read a lot of articles about this over the years and seen lots of lofty words about how this will change X/the world forever, or enable some new economic model Y or whatever, but as far as I can tell its just the same old grotty gambling we've had for thousands of years already except its better because blockchain?

What have I missed?
All around the world, nobody seems to like minorities, take from that what kind of animal humans are.

Some people even go out of his way to criticize the victims of a genocide in a public forum about technology.
>Paradoxically, in spite of its Christianization, the Byzantine Empire: ". . . saw to the transmission of the old authors. The classical tradition was thus maintained in Byzantium where, from 425 to 1453, the schools of Constantinople remained its pillars. This is why it is unsuitable to speak about the “Renaissance” in the Eastern Roman Empire. In the West, on the other hand, the rediscovery of Homer was a striking fact for the first Italian humanists."

The Christianization of the Byzantines was not some crude "Old Testament as literal truth" kind of dogma, but a mix of New Testament ideas with neo-platonism and influences from ancient Greek thought. The early theologians (considered "saints") had all studied those philosophies and had extended knowledge of ancient Greek thought.

Early Christianism was much more subtle than the crude version of Christianism post protestantism (protestantism itself being a fundamentalist movement, to go "back to roots" and back to the book, it's easy to understand why. It was a version of the religion for simple minded Germanic folk at the time that couldn't handle much subtlety).

Homer, to get back to the point, was official reading in Byzantine school education.

Worth noting, that unlike the western empire, that had the rule of the pope, the Byzantium had separate church and state.
That doesn't sound like an open source license at all - you have to submit a form to Oracle and they'll decide whether you get a copy or not.
Moves more people into better countries. (So the population-weighted average country gets better, too.)

Why care specifically about the country you are leaving?
Direct Democracy.

We had that 2500 years ago and it lead to the most amazing flourishing of culture, science, arts etc ...

It has not honestly been tried since then. Maybe it became impractical because states grew too big. Now with the internet it could become practical again.

Unfortunately it was opposed and subverted in the Pirate Party. I was shocked how many people are opposed to true democracy. They seem to confuse individual ignorance with the wisdom of crowds.
>I think there is a sizeable community of musicians for whom "doing things different than the mainstream" is a means by which important cultural development occurs. In fact for them, its probably more important than playing at the status quo.

Yes, sadly there's a culture of novelty for the sake of it, as opposed to depth.
If we can consider discontinued features as part of 'discontinued products', examples that come to mind are things like boolean operators on eBay (also coinciding with a time when eBay search results weren't filled with irrelevant junk). And index dates on Google search results.
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I believe there's at least one company with a larger private valuation that got rejected from YC (haven't seen a primary source confirmation of their rejection though).
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17956740
Yep. This is something people get wrong about the old Limits to Growth study: they assume it's just about running out of resources. Actually a key feature of the model is that you spend more and more resources on dealing with the effects of environmental damage.

The interesting result was that, given that dynamic, your economy keeps growing and everything looks great, then suddenly it all crashes down.
Yeah thats a different use case somewhat like a modern version of openresty but built around a set of libraries rather than inside Nginx. There may still be a case for some applications for a jit compiler for the Lua parts but that depends on the application.
I did not know that a modern version of the system was in use. Spent a few years living along the South Devon route, and Brunel's seals eaten by rats were a definite thing.
Deal with the spam feedback loops - they exist for a reason. You have to treat an FBL email as someone hitting the "unsubscribe" link (though it might also be an indication your unsubscribe link has to be more visible or your unsubscribe process less obtuse). Some off-the-shelf software can monitor your bounce and FBL messages and automatically process them as such.

Getting blacklisted is a temporary state and I maintain it's easy to recover from if your IP's and domains had a good history. I've experienced the IP's that email hosting services send my mail through being blacklisted and then waiting days for them to deal with it versus being able to contact blacklists on my own behalf to resolve things same-day.

I used to pay one of these services $xxx/month and experienced delivery rates around 60-70% that they couldn't do anything about other than offering me a dedicated IP for a lot more money. Moved to my own mail server with an OSS transactional email system and delivery rates shot up to 99%-ish while eliminating the email bill.
Try playing Octopath Traveler, it gave me that classic Squaresoft feeling.
In this case, Constantinople is short for "Patriarchate of Constantinople", which is still called that.
> A surprising number of HN commenters in those threads supported both Facebook and the genocide.

I'm skeptical that there actually were non-grey comments in support of the genocide
Honestly, I don't know why corporate systems just plain reject standard HTTP(S) traffic and require browsers to configure a corporate proxy which signs connections with their own internal certificate authority. Transparent MitM is such a hassle and in a corporate environment you should control the client devices anyway. As an added bonus you can choose which protocols you will or will not support on the external side, protecting your ancient Windows XP boxes from SSL2 downgrades and allowing them to contact modern websites their SSL libraries might not support.
They also don't seem to like Americans.

There are tons of other things you can pick out that people don't like, for various reasons, too.

None of it justifies prejudice.
Software development is not one of the 'Professions', and never will be until it has a governing body and some degree of accountability for the shoddy work they can put out.
SICP only uses a small subset of Scheme, and it's only using it as a minimal vehicle for exploring computer science. You can absolutely learn the amount of Scheme used in the book as you go (that's why they chose that subset: it's not supposed to distract you from the topics they're discussing; they're trying to get as close as they can to simple axioms), but you won't really "know Lisp" (or Scheme) in practical terms when you're done, either (you'll be well-equipped to pick it up quickly, though).
I got close to contributing once (but ended up somehow clobbering my installed copy of audacious (edit: this is likely through my own incompetence - not saying the dev env sucks or anything)) - i think i should try again cos i do use it as my non-spotify player.
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Well, for now, I don't see any problem here with 70-30. But have you considered the future, what if he can bring some new customers or maybe worse, he can't maintain good customer relationships? And, if your biz goes larger, you need a third guy, how to share with him?
One discontinued product that comes to mind - and is missed almost daily - is Evernote's Clearly. Nothing else comes close for simplified reading in the browser. Pocket does the reading experience well, but items have to be added to its archive in order to be read, and its ability to consistently capture articles in full lets it down (in contrast to Clearly and Evernote's 'simplified article' view, which lets users easily adjust the scope of page elements to 'capture'). It was also Clearly's styling that gave it an edge over other on-screen readers (light-on-black styling shouldn't be a competitive advantage for something so simple, but it is for simplified reading plugins).
Most people taking homeopathic medicine want their symptoms to get better. It’s not as though they have some different definition of a “good health outcome,” they’re just mislead about the effects of the what they’re buying.
Edit the DNS records for your #1 time wasters to 127.0.0.1 , on your main PC only.

You can still use your mobile then but it's nowhere as easily done as a compulsive action.

Sauce: I had to do this myself for a few sites including HN at work..
I don't know if it works anymore, or were to get it, but Spotiamp was a Winamp clone for Spotify.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/22/5235456/spotify-debuts-s...
They dealt with the "cultural revolution". I don't think they are currently afraid of losing control to religion.
The manipulation of social networking platforms such as Facebook by political actors (Myanmar's military) for the purpose of spreading disinformation with clear real-world consequences is patently 'on topic'.
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So what is it, those investments are stupid and overvalued and will never make money? Or the Saudis are gaining so much profit from it?
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They explicitly allow eg the Google crawler. Not sure about others.
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Considering "sides" is itself an a priori bias. Articles can stand or fall on their verifiability.

That the current soup of deliberate misinformation happens to be played more by the loony right than the loony left is an artefact of those misinformers.
ah i see now. ur using ascii code as the color value. i used to gen them with a php lib don't recall experiencing this error on alpha. browser thing?
Came here to say the same. Although, Feedly has taken over well.
>>> It's an interpreter for a small subset of Scheme, but Scheme is of course itself small and simple†, which means that it's not hard to mentally extrapolate from the small subset to the rest of the language. C++ is a large language, and so it would be less compelling to implement a small subset of it

Exactly. This is the point of Lisp. I think many languages are over complicated for no good reason.
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Just because I feel like arguing a bit, here goes:

>- In your scenario you're not decentralized, you have a clear authority: the news agency
Only due to current technical limitations. Shift to Blockchain, get distributed news agencies, with reporters[1] residing all over the world. Think of the time and costs saved by not having to send reporter out of a central office

>- The news agency can broadcast a signed merkle tree of the articles it publishes alongside the normal newspaper/news program etc... For instance through their website.
Doesn't help a bit, given how they have total control over the content of the website, they could just as easily swap out the merkele root and claim it is the original one. Blockchain denies them this sleight of hand.

>- Anybody who cares about it could maintain a copy of this signed tree locally.
...and there's a well known tool for distributing that in a verified & timestamped format - Blockchain.

>- If the news agency censors or edits an article anybody with a copy of the original tree can prove it by showing that their tree has a valid signature from the news agency and yet the hashes don't match.
Introduces a 'he-said, she-said' problem. Which the Blockchain neatly avoids.

[1] possibly with a lot more "citizen journalists" who do the reporting as a side activity, rather than mostly plain old full-time journalists.
Yes this is a great article, thanks for reminding me of it.
The Palm Pre (and WebOS)

When it first came out I thought it was kinda cute so I got it for my gf but I ended up loving it.

The slider mechanism was solid, the OS was a breeze to use, and it was years before Android and iOS fully caught up with the "cards" concept.

It revolutionized the mobile experience in many ways for me.
Every one of them probably wound up being downvoted and flagged, but that doesn't require a majority of users. My point is that the sentiment was still expressed, so it exists as a facet of HN culture.

You won't find many threads where Islam, Muslims or immigrants are mentioned in which at least some anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bias doesn't appear, including this one.
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Please note that I am not excusing the (alleged) murder but trying to put things into a perspective (for my self).

What if Jamal Khashoggi was a Ruhollah Khomeini of Saudi Arabia [0]?

That is, what if it was not about wahhabism but about self preservation?

[0] https://spectator.us/2018/10/jamal-khashoggi
He donated 2 billion dollars of his wealth to advancement of science, technology, education, wildlife conservation, the arts, and community service. What standard are we talking about?
>All around the world, nobody seems to like minorities,

That's an even better observation. Maybe the problem is the obsession some people seem to have with shoving minorities down everybody's throats.
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I also find it hard to concentrate.

Exercise is a big one (needs to be just the right amount though), and so is sleep. I struggle with chatter noise in my work environment being the thing that derails me, so a pair of noise cancelling headphones is an absolute must to quiet the mind; currently waiting for the new Sony one..
the older models of the the ThinkPad X line by Lenovo. The current model is just a fancy ultrabook instead of a working machine. Althoght they have a similiar product (the X1 line) they decided to make the current line useless with less battery power, no Ethernet jack (in corp environment this is essential) and with almost zero options for upgradability and fixability.
Really miss the older models like the X240, X200 and even before which was just sturdier.
I tried this a bit myself. You are right that you can provide tremendous value, but early-stage startups either don't have, or aren't willing to spend, the money that you deserve for the value you'd provide. Maybe there's a niche you can target that I was unaware of. Hopefully you have more success!
Nonsense, the enterprise programmer of the time was programming in C or C++ and was making heavy use of macros.

Macros, unlike generics are super easy to implement, so there is no reason not implement them, unless you specifically don't want to implement them.

Java didn't have macros because no one wanted the kind of dialect that macros allow, ie. re-learning a language every time you change company.
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Why do need the user's current timezone? You say calender events. Do you really want to mess with their calender based on the latest timezone their computer reported? What if they access your site whilst on a weekend trip? Do you really want to then shift all their appointments for the next week around? I've seen people miss out on jobs because overeager software changed the interview event's timezone... As a general practice don't fiddle with peoples' data without them knowing.
You make a good point so long as that is the focus of the discussion. If on the otherhand, the discussion spins off into politics which it is already doing, then it is still off-topic because it is arousing off topic discussion.
so if people don't see your listing or your price
isn't good enough then you get no sales

Again, I understand how that can prevent a profit.

But how does it hinder you to put ads (I guess both Ebay and Amazaon have those) for your product and sell it off for half the price?

I'm not addressing that she might have to fold her business. I'm only addressing the being stuck with inventory part. That makes it sound like she had to throw it away or something.
If I personally published a signed merkle tree... I think I'm too much of a nobody for people to download it to keep me honest you know. Unless I pay them to do it of course.

So then the problem is, I need to go to some entity that is famous enough. And I need my tree to connect to theirs. And all this on the cheap. I'm not a aware of any such thing in existence.

Another nice thing about the blockchain is that the timestamps of the signatures are provable.

And also nice is that there are no record keepers to whom which pressure can be applied.
It's a bit more than that. That particular passage was also about eliminating anything that got in the way of following god. I believe Jesus also said if your hand causes you to steal, cut it off. You could also argue that this is a passage about trust as getting rid of everything to follow a god requires a lot of faith that a god will survive.

For those of us who are atheists, the messages would be to not place things above people and to take risks in aiding others. Usually the things we fear never materialize.
There is also the case when no one else wants to sell (buy) and bids (asks) way out number asks (bids), especially on contracts that people are using to cover for their other trades. There's plenty of times where I massaged the price up (or down) to where I wanted it more, and dumped/slurped up contracts (at least confirming by checking the bar once it filled and seeing that the price I got filled at was the highest/lowest price of that bar). Granted, it doesn't happen every time, nor do I count on it.
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> What?? In chapter 4, you write your own Lisp interpreter. If they had chosen C++, would you be writing a C++ compiler? Or a Lisp interpreter in C++?

That's in chapter 5 :)

Exercise 5.51. Develop a rudimentary implementation of Scheme in C (or some other low-level language of your choice) by translating the explicit-control evaluator of section 5.4 into C. In order to run this code you will need to also provide appropriate storage-allocation routines and other run-time support.
He's not a saint, I don't think anyone would claim that. My point was that after he amassed all that wealth, he did a lot of good with it. He's more proof that you can make a lot of money and help people.
My fingers can touch type the url autonomously, before I even realise what's happening. That's why I need the hosts entry block at work..
Exceptionally well written, and very believable advice.

Wish I had understood this concept of positioning long ago...
> A consored Google would do so much good by bringing proper competition to the market.

China is experiencing some weird shit right now. Before we can sort things out by ourselves, I don't think a new character can change the status quo magically.

Also, censorship is just one of the problems.

I use foreign service mainly because it's harder for CCP government to acquire my data, so I can fully enjoy my constitutional rights like freedom of speech outside China's Internet.

If Google operates the China branch completely independent of it's home company (No data sharing in between), then I will probably fine with it. But I DON'T think that would be the case here.

So in the worst case, Google China may one day became a tool that can monitor me even I'm using foreign services. I don't like that at all.
Smart contracts can’t even do anything interesting without a trusted source of data input.
...for a certain definition of "doing anything interesting", just as well as "trusted source"*.

As the locus of economy shifts more and more away from physical widgets and into information, the value of information goes up in relation to physical widgets. This makes Blockchain a practical, if not all-encompassing, tool for verification.

Compare a plain old car - the software onboard is a small fraction of its value - to any half-decent workstation, where the value of software can easily exceed the hardware's value several-fold.

Proving I had certain information at certain time point - e.g., a license for the software, or CAD design or other valuable file I've created - can easily provide a lot of value. And in this case "trusted source of information" is the mere fact of existence of a cryptographically secured license file naming me as the licensee at certain time point. Easily securable with the Blockchain.
Problem? Slow ramps are the ideal way to drive adaptation. That's why finishing a course of antibiotics is so important.
I have a notification with a timer set at every n:15 time of the working day, e.g. 9:15, 10:15, 11:15. This is because I find meetings rarely fall on to this time at my current place of work. The notification works well and constantly reminds you to keep an active journal.
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This place is wonderful - for someone like me who works with languages like C, but is quite young it was very valuable to be able to see how programming with older machines worked - and seeing the progression of things like Vi/Vim etc.