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So how exactly, will Polar "re-boot" the internet, deflate inflated tuition and decrease the cost of textbooks? What exactly does "re-boot" the internet even mean? Honestly, this seems like a whole lot of snake oil to me. If you have no intentions of directly combating tuition prices, which would require political intervention at the highest level of government, then why would you mention it? Unless of course your intentions were simply to evoke some emotional reaction in your viewers... reminds me of a family guy episode I watched where Louse ran for mayor. Eventually her campaign devolved from something substantial into a buzzword shouting competition between her and her running mate. I was half surprised when the article ended without talking about how Polar was going to rid the world of terrorism and the opioid epidemic.
This is a downright grotesque lead-in for the story. I suppose the implied connection is something about how being an "adventure sports personality" creates pressure to continually up the ante, but frankly that's garbage too. Wu was an experienced hiker in a park in the country where she grew up, and I haven't seen anyone seriously claim she was pushing her boundaries for a story or a photoshoot. A solo traverse is dangerous, sure, but expert hikers who aren't "adventure sports personalities" do similar things all the time. And sometimes die in similar accidents, because bad weather and bad falls are in no way selfie-based risks.

There's no story here beyond bad luck and the inherent dangers of remote, rugged places, so for ostensibly dignified outlets like the Washington Post to headline their pieces with "Bikini Hiker" was lurid and unfair. But seeing Outside do it, even with a more accurate story, is much nastier. This is their beat, and they're usually much better at discussing these risks than non-dedicated journalists. Anyone who keeps track of dedicated hikers and climbers knows that these incidents happen, and happened long before selfies got involved. So Outside ought to know better, and with any luck their readers do know better.
You thought this article was promoting this sad life living in a flophouse?
That's true, but it's much easier to pay for the 20% of a car that you actually use when you're renting it as needed.

While it's less obvious with housing the same applies: People buy houses that are bigger than they need at any given moment so that they have the space they need to entertain guests, or house prospective (or past) children, etc. It's much cheaper for me to put my parents up in a hotel when they come to town, than to keep a guest room idle for the next 20 years of my mortgage.
My personal opinion:

It comes a point in your life when you realize that responsibilities actually give a meaning to your life. Mostly responsibilities for other people - your family above all - and that you do depend on economic stability for that, which means owning your own house (or at least be well into its mortgage payment) and having a career or owning a real business (not some startup haemorrhaging money).

The kind of lifestyle depicted here is just postponing what you should be really doing and making it more difficult in the future.
You’re oversimplifying.. selling while everyone else is often due to irrationality, but quite often it is the best move. In the case of a crashing asset that is determined to be unlikely to recover, selling with “everyone” else is the rational action. cf cutting your losses. In fact I’ve feel like more experienced investors are prone to the opposite problem... irrationally holding on to a hopeless asset when they could have cut it.
If the restaurants in my neighbourhood choose to not serve hamburgers, are they shutting out people who eat hamburgers? If hamburgers are in sufficient demand, a restaurant will choose to serve them. If the government forces all restaurants to make 1000 hamburgers a day, it will tank the market value of hamburgers, and force non-hamburger-eaters to pay more to cover the losses from making an excessive amount of hamburgers.

When the government forces all developers to build parking, and provides free or severely underpriced parking on streets, it lowers the market value of off-street parking. Developers are forced to price-in parking development and maintenance.

Developers will still build parking where residents need parking. If they didn't, they would have trouble selling/renting their property. There is no need to force them. In cities around the world, we still find private parking in absence of parking minimums.
Vacation Tracker hasn’t raised much money. What a way to waste what little they’ve raised. I feel like someone should tell their investors.
Right, but that is a factor of your supply chain.

In Shenzhen you might make hundred boards, go down to the market and buy a hundred boxes and leave them with the shipper. Boards don't work? Re-work them or make another hundred. Box doesn't work? Buy another box. You don't like your box supplier? There is a hundred others on Taobao.

In NYC it might take you weeks to do the same thing while you are bleeding rent (and everything else) so you need the thousand boards and boxes to make it work (or you are selling very few in your spare time). And if something goes wrong you are probably fucked.

I am exaggerating, but you get the idea.
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I think that's a matter of debate - I personally don't think hardware should allow any sort of memory leakage in an otherwise safe language. It also renders any attempt to move critical software out of the kernel and into user-space very dangerous.

With meltdown, the issue was definitely a failure of the hardware vendors obligation -> Kernel memory should definitely not be exposed to the process and yet it was.

I would say such a justification is somewhat of a cop-out by the hardware vendors.
> I got a big porcelain board for 5 bucks on eBay because one corner was dented. Best purchase of my life.

In case you or others aren't aware:

Bathroom tile backer board is commonly sold at big-box home improvement centers for a very low price per 4x8 foot sheet of material. It's the exact same stuff as commonly sold whiteboards, just without the aluminum edging and large price.

I've worked at a couple of employers who had open-plan style work areas, with the walls lined with such boards. Everyone had a set of white-board markers and a rag or eraser, and maybe some windex.

It's a cheap and practical solution for brainstorming and other uses software engineers often find themselves involved in.
The logical solution would be for cities to switch to photographs and even automated cameras, which in the end will probably be more invasive of privacy than a chalk mark on your tires.

Funny how the legal system can work sometimes.
While functional programming is imo easier to understand in general, you can really get screwed with spaghetti when passing modular lambdas around. Take a look at the OTP tftp server code. It's a nightmare.
Yes and no.

Yes: rented stuff is generally more expensive in expectation - you're paying for LandLord2.0's marketing department.

No: you own a home and the roof leaks - good luck getting the insurance to see to it promptly, even after half a dozen phone calls.

If you are truly time poor and cash rich I suppose it could make sense to rent most things.
That social media producer in Hollywood chose that as well. He could move to a number of cities where the cost of living is lower. He could have gone to school and become a brain surgeon which would pay for a nice house even in Hollywood.
I lost 90% of the value of my Lloyds shares. I’m fine, of course, but just because other things are worse doesn’t make a bad thing into a good thing. As for ‘deserves’… there’s a reason why speculation on financial products is something banks and governments don’t want J. Average to do.
The first half is excellent and contains practical examples of why statism (all sorts of centralized planning) is always doomed to fail and helps understand why this site has many inane comments by supposedly educated folks. (Hayek described the problem in The Fatal Conceit, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fatal_Conceit)

But in the second half of the article the author somehow concludes the opposite, that centralized planning by workers would work better than centralized planning by State (whether it's capitalist or socialist).

The only goal of optimization in a free market society is freedom for each individual, not profit. The idea is to create conditions under which everyone is free to execute their own personal goals, whatever they may be, as long as they do not violate another person's freedom. No other optimization is required, or moral.
I'm sort of that story - however my high-school class mates are generally nice people and are more curious than condescending. I'm glad I chose to start my own small business as they share their woes of collage debt, office-politics, and dead end jobs that seemingly suck the joy out of life.

I would say that for some, a family centered life and a humble trade could be better than chasing after what I perceive* to be vanity.

* I'm probably mistaken in motivation, but life does present us with choices that are seemingly easy yet are full of hidden costs.
I edited your pitch briefly to shorten it, to change from abstract to concrete, and emphasize slightly different things. This version is still not concrete enough imo, and the benefit not crystal-clear enough, but this was just a quick edit

The Internet is the greatest content-sharing system ever devised, but it is broken. The content that people create is being pooled within walled gardens like Facebook and Twitter where comments, likes, and ability to share with friend is locked down. While this content is locked down, users have no control over their rights or their privacy. Their ability to use this content and its metadata is also severely limited.

Polar is attempting to reboot the internet by correcting these issues.

Polar protects the rights of users by providing a free and portable personal datastore where users can link content, reactions, comments, and discussions with anyone on their own terms.

Polar is implemented as a 'read it later' style app similar to an RSS reader where you add entire documents to your datastore. The key part is that Polar adds a metadata layer on top of PDF and the web: you can add notes, markups, reading progress, or even flash cards, and finally exchange both the documents and the metadata with anyone of your choosing.

Note that this makes Polar ideal for both spaced repetition learning (never forget anything), and for incremental reading (never forget what you're reading and where you left off)!

What We Are Building

Right now we support local mode and cloud powered by Google's Firebase. We intend to use our funding for X Y Z

Polar's design (though not yet implemented) can support end to end encryption and key sharing for group encryption. This means we can support fully private user networks that require zero trust.

Finally, in order for this project to reboot the internet as it is capable of, it is important that this remains Open Source. Because of this, Polar will never vanish and need never give in to special interests that are not our own.
This assumes a perfectly efficient market with no opportunity for arbitrage.

Sometimes what you can get in rent is less than what it costs to maintain a property, but it’s still better than letting it remain empty. Assuming the owner is even that financially disciplined. And again, sometimes people just don’t understand the finances.

Sometimes the rent people can charge is far higher than the cost to maintain property. But that doesn’t mean the owner is selling or that the renter is in a position to buy.

One is not categorically better than the other in all situations.
In uk? If in France, Germany or Scandinavia maybe.
selfie death = natural selection
Even before Paul Graham and Viaweb, the stats were that about 90% of new businesses fail and a big predictor of success (but still at low odds) was ignorance of those odds.
Yup they have the photo taking, license plate reading technology in my city of 60,000 (metro 100,000). And now they also enforce the parking restrictions for the full 24 hours on the entire block face. No longer can you drive around the block to move your vehicle and [re]park on the same black face but in a different parking spot.
Every large, long -lived Ruby app I've worked on eventually needs more performance, better concurrency, and would benefit from static typing. It's great that each company got to the point of 'a problem you want to have'. I'm just looking for the best of both worlds: good to start, good to scale.
It's not about saving money; it's about not having the savings and resources to deal with unpredictable costs. That's the situation for a lot of people.
I would much rather they chalk my tires than store my car's license plate and location in a database...
> Probably the most effective hardware mitigation would be to shift the isolation to a page-level granularity, so that you could say that speculation is disabled for memory in specific pages.

What's wrong with the hardware mitigation of just using multiple processes? It already exists, it already works, and it already has decades of tooling & infrastructure built around it.
It's very far from the vision people had in 50-60s. We haven't found yet the gravity fighting mechanism that will allow them.

We might find a novel way to fight gravity tomorrow, in another 50 years, or never. Like AI. We might find a way to build truly intelligent computers tomorrow, in 50 years, or never. However in both cases, it's ridiculous to try to come up with rules for a non existing technology. It will be like people in the 50-60s trying to make rules from the Internet.
It also compounds your risk - if you only own two days of clothing as opposed to ten days of clothing, you have much less margin in doing laundry before you start to smell. If you rely on ridesharing you are dependent on having a cellphone, an internet connection etc. Owning things hedges your risk / increases your runway (in terms of time) before things are catastrophically bad. Bad things often compound. Outsourcing all of the risk seems like a bad idea to me.
The whole Trump-Russia saga, summed up in a single Google search mistake
Every other interaction with one of my apartment’s neighbors (I rent, he’s an owner) involves him telling me “I know that you guys are only renters and don’t care that much about the state of our building, but here’s what’s wrong with it [and then proceeds to list the stuff our building needs improving]”. It’s mildly infuriating, it’s not like I don’t care about the state the building is in, why wouldn’t I? I live in it!
Location is also important. Some places did much in the 2008 crash than others.
I agree with your sentiment but I have doubts about your actual analysis:

>Owning a house or an apartment might seem unnecessary in our modern society, until the next rent increase or some disturbance in your financial situation (assuming you're not sitting on a huge mortgage).

There's a large number of people (myself included) who are affluent but not affluent enough to own property without sacrificing standard of living. In a "steady state", you would expect the cost of renting and owning to be comparable, but in a bubble context owning is incredibly more expensive for the same unit because future rent increases are already priced in to the asset. That is the case for all of the top cities in the country.

Indeed, from my understanding many young people want to own property but have doubts they will ever be able to

> And why does nobody talk about how we have to pay every fucking minute, regardless what we do, in the share economy?

This is just an economic fact of life for everybody under capitalism, no matter how you slice it. If you invest capital to own something instead of renting it, you're constantly paying on the opportunity costs of another investments' dividends. This is in addition to the cost of maintenance and real estate taxes (for property), or the cost of maintenance, depreciation of asset, and cost of insurance (for cars), etc

> Who cares about the gearbox of a rented car? Just have a look at the interior of your average subway train. When the street I live in gets to dirty, why not simply move away?

I agree but these are collective costs, not individual costs (unlike the other points you made). Capitalism rarely factors in collective costs unless it gets to a certain breaking point for congress to act, like rivers catching on fire.

> While I love to be able to rent things that I cannot or don't want to own, I have the impression that this "share everything" paradigm is actually just a toxic mixture of permanent monetarization and centralised control.

"permanent monetarization" - that's just capitalism 101. Labor exists in a state of permanent monetarization because they don't have capital. If you have capital, see my above comment for evaluating whether you buy or rent+invest with said capital.

I don't agree with "centralised" - the long-term rental market is decentralized but should fall into the same bucket. There's no real reason you couldn't have a decentralized uber or airbnb, except that these services rely on technology for convenience, and there's all manner of problems with decentralized internet technology that makes it unlikely to succeed (I'd bet 10 bucks theres been an ICO for an uber-on-the-blockchain startup already).
Serverless guy here. You’re on the right track. I’d just add that it’s more about ops burden than anything else.

iRobot is a $3bn market cap company with 23 million robots in the wild. Their entire IT estate for managing 23 million robots including the communication and systems is $15k a month. They can see their costs down to the function, they can see where every cent is spent and they do this with 10 engineers, 8 of which are in development, 2 in Ops.

shrug
Use windex or other common glass cleaner sprays; they tend to evaporate very quickly.
"Rebooting the internet" is a bit of a stretch. You are referring to the Port:80 and meant the "web". Also, you touched the topic "decentralizing the web" with this claim, which is a much more bigger concern compared to your plan.

Please consider a more narrow description of your idea.
Using Chrome 73 I was getting pretty wildly variable results back from performance.now() a week ago. Was near useless when trying to profile some game code. Apparently the timing results you get back in devtool perf tools are reliable, but that's not useful for in-game performance dashes or real-time profiling.
The utilization argument about rental cars is valid when and if we get driverless cars. Until then, the amount that you pay the driver completely destroys that savings.

(And in fact you pay for more wear on tires, gas/electricity, and other per-mile costs with rideshare, because the car travels more on your behalf than would a car you own.)

How much house you want/need is a valid concern, but not one that really cuts towards the question of renting or owning your primary residence. You can buy a house without a guest room. I did!
Thanks for your feedback ohazi!
You are right that “No system should ever fail silently” and there are many ways to address this.
However, we’ve seen cases where not enough attention is put into input data pipelines and similar mistakes are being made by new and even well-funded AI startups. One of the reasons this is happening is because some of these startups are launched by people with little experience in machine learning / data science. For example, we’ve seen doctors, web developers, lawyers and accountants moving into AI space. They can learn the basics of machine learning and maybe hire someone to help them, but often don’t know about the best practices or things to watch out for when building a data driven company. Unfortunately, there are few guidelines or best practices available online. With this article, we were hoping to help these new AI startups by bringing awareness to the importance of data pipelines.
I wonder if they only marked the road, and not the vehicle, if that would be sufficient.
Ditto. I'm reminded of the practice of police officers touching the tail light at the start of a traffic stop to leave a mark of their presence as later evidence [1]. Is that a search too?

A little colored talcum powder on the wheel seems like such a trivial, short-term intrusion that I just don't see the issue. Those perfume spraying salespeople at department stores routinely do something much more invasive.

[1] http://mentalfloss.com/article/502605/reason-police-officers...
Growing the onions is even more fundamental. It also takes even more money and a hell of a lot more time!

That's life in a nutshell, I guess.
The article does say that some do it by choice, but a lot "rent and share because they're broke and they need to save money."
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It's very expensive. Site isolation in Chrome explodes memory pressure on the system. Language enforced confidentiality is a lot less resource intensive.
Is that a business opportunity? Something like "develop my domain"? Like a land-owner who lets tenants develop?

So, you pay for the domain name, list it on the development site, and a developer (say me) can pick and choose from what you have and build a product on your property.

There's a contract, you get x% of proceeds from my endeavor, I get a domain name specific to my needs, and we all benefit. The contract would also specify a dwell-time. I get 12 months, or 2 years, or whatever on the property.

Then the contract comes back up for negotiation. Maybe a sale is negotiated (you want my development, or I want your domain name).
Ah, no I think I misread it. Thanks.
If you can't afford to buy a house, then by definition you're not "affluent." Many of the type of people profiled in this article can't afford to buy a house in their locales, and thus should not be labelled "affluent."

The article should be called something like, "The Non-Indigent Homeless."

Words matter.
They knew since the 90s that people were doing this and expecting it to work, or did you miss that whole Java thing? Java became big as Intel was adding OoOE to their cores.

Hardware and software is codesigned, and yes the onus is on the chip manufacturers to release chips that let you continue to use them securely.
Amen to Emacs-Cider-nREPL hell. The number of hours/days I've wasted over breakage between these three. I would also add the obsessions with boot and elaborate "quickstart" guides to Clojurescript which eschew the easiest path to getting started - Leiningen - in favour of the latest DIY fad such as shadow-cljs.
I'm not sure this follows. Is the idea that lack of maternity leave will cause two-parent households? What is the mechanism?
The question is, what is his alternatives? Living in SF making plenty each month doesn't mean he can afford to own something reasonable. Perhaps he would make a different choice if he had more opportunities.
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Thank you so much, not had a clue
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