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"To his bafflement and frustration, he has become a remarkably polarizing figure in the education world."

There's kind of a reason for this. If you're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting a specific academic agenda, one even more focused on the standardized testing that parents, students, and teachers alike tend to loath, and geared towards preparing kids for jobs rather than educating them (look at English in common core where now 70% of what students are supposed to read is not classic literature, plays, poetry, contemporary fiction, but newspaper articles and speeches and the like), he should at least educate his own kids in that way. Instead he seems to defy his own investment by sending his children to a school that emphasies no testing, a big focus on the classics and letting kids do their own thing and become well rounded.

As a student of history this sort of line of thinking looks interesting, though I wouldn't want to replace our entire history curriculum with it. Perhaps as an elective, though at this point Bill attempting to touch education is just asking for trouble...
One way is referral links. If you click on a link in my email and buy something on, say, Amazon, I could potentially make up to 10% of the purchase price (Amazon is actually normally around 5% I think).
It sounds more as if a history professor has an idea for a history class.

But Bill Gates has a lot of money, which means (apparently) that he's more worth paying attention to, regardless of the topic.
except the kernel now has strong interfaces between subsystems I think, which aids collaboration by decreasing required communications and making changes more local. Small companies working on a single product lack these.
It is a default post with a default +1 like added when a user visits from a subnet for the first time.

I was not sure how to indicate that you can have threads, likes and comments etc for first-time users, so I thought to have this default post just to get people doing.
Mathematically this is flawed. Its a data race.

Statistically it may work. Basically it boils down to any attempt to double spend will hopefully be heard before its encoded into the block chain, and recorded. Thus cheating the second transaction out of money. Your maintaining your own internal 'block chain'.

The problem is your percentage of the BTC network's listening node is roughly going to correlate with your ability to detect these events. Also the latency between listening events, and how fast a user can fire a double spend.

Its race conditions all the way down. Your just betting you have the fastest horse.
You can't guarantee that someone won't add a 'top-level' class name in the future that matches one of your 'modifier' class names. It's essentially the same argument as saying that global variables are OK because no one will ever have a global variable with the same name as yours.
The point of the article is that investment in Amazon is growing because Amazon has a business model built on stable infrastructure and expansion modeled as a large conglomerate of essentially separate business groups which distributes risk, and is thus better able to weather negative environments (see e.g. the stock's behavior during recent economic crises). It's being used as a hedge against volatility... in the short term. Because that's how markets operate. If you believed that you could make more money in the same amount of time elsewhere you would put your money there instead.

anyone with a spare $100

Being impoverished doesn't just mean that you're unlikely to have a spare $100 at any given time, it means that any negative life event is that much more likely to wipe out any savings you may have been able to accumulate, including an investment in securities.
One seemingly trivial (but potentially significant) thing about Greenwald and Obidyar's new venture that just bugs me is that "The Intercept" doesn't have its own domain name, and instead appears as a subdirectory inside of the firstlook.org site.

I know that First Look Media is going to play host to more than just this one publication (if you look at the homepage, there is a blog post from Matt Taibbi talking about his new collaboration with the organization), but that arrangement is not unique to First Look. It doesn't take a lot of effort to come up with a whole host of publications that operate under larger corporate umbrellas but which are accessible via their own independent domain name, even when they share resources with other sites. And I can't think of a single publication that is set up the way that The Intercept is.

I'm a longtime Greenwald reader (back from when he first joined Salon.com), and yet I don't think I have visited The Intercept's homepage directly (typing out the url myself) even once since it got off the ground. I don't know why I haven't; I guess it just feels amateurish to nest a substantive news site inside a boring corporate holding company website. It feels like they don't care about building "The Intercept" as a meaningful brand, and as a result I probably don't want to build any personal loyalty to a brand that feels like it might just go away. I say this as someone who completely supports the effort.

I also wonder how this might impact their search results, given that the firstlook.org homepage is effectively a non-entity, and each subdirectory will need to be separately indexed as separate site (for instance, firstlook.org/theinterscept/ has its own sitemap.xml).

What's even weirder to me is that it seems like they even own theintercept.com, which is currently redirecting to firstlook.org/theintercept/. Why don't they use it? It can't only be me. This has to be affecting their readership.
I meant something along the lines of PBXIAF in a VM. Or on a RPi. Running it on your gateway is only advantageous if you're forced to IMO.
One maths class we were only warned that we had to use Euclidean paper.

I did great in exams with cheat sheets, but poorly in the few truly "open book" exams, because I didn't know how to properly prepare for an open book exam. My silly undergrad brain thought "Woohoo, open book, I guess I don't have to study all this stuff, I can just look it up when I get there" which led to two hours of feverishly flipping back and forth in the book.
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> Off topic question: Why has rich text fallen so far out of fashion? I really like Markdown, but why is it that Markdown is now so popular and richtext boxes that can display a realtime preview (e.g. bolding text, italics, etc) aren't. What is it markdown offers over that? Is it just transportability?

A very good question. I think it's because once you can type fast, having to take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse to select text, apply various styles, add links, etc. is slower than just writing everything with the keyboard without raising your hands.
If the security of the JPM website depends on 5 executive level employees leaving within a short time, then there certainly is something to worry about.
I don't need to use the mouse with Markdown. The keyboard is sufficient, and once you have a bit of practice it's easy and quick to use.

Additionally, I think it emphasizes the styles that are important in social media (blockquotes, code, bold, and italics) while de-emphasizing those features that are less important to it. The rich text editors, even on the web, all have a standard layout of buttons which displays all the wrong features first.
I've had plenty of free range chickens, but I've never seen one sold unplucked.

Normally the process is to pop them upside down into a cone, kill them, put them in a plucker, then cut off the neck and remove the innards. It's hard to to that unplucked.

Yes, it's more expensive, but I don't really see how any meat raised in decent conditions can cost anywhere near $1/lb.
It isn't a ponzi scheme because Amazon isn't dependent on new share purchases to keep running. It is a fully functioning operation that is in the black. It just isn't generating any real profits above its costs.

Amazon is worth money right now. Just like a lawn mower doesn't turn a profit on its own, but it is still worth something.

In the long term view, which Amazon definitely takes, this current process is just there to fund the final business. Which is providing infrastructure. It uses its current operations as a way to fund the build out of that infrastructure. The future of Amazon, in my opinion, is not selling books etc, but providing someone with the infrastructure to sell books. Its using its current book sales etc to fund that build out.
That perfectly sums up why I stopped eating meat. There was no great moral outrage, and I don't yell at friends who eat meat. I just decided that I was no longer comfortable with my money funding processes that I found objectionable.
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>Bezos is running it for fun, not to deliver economic returns to shareholders

I that case he's done pretty well delivering ~$150bn in shareholder value accidentally.
Agreed. I would summarize that as: it doesn't have hidden state. Which is nice.
As for the scaling up part, you could hire a student (or even a responsible high school kid) to do the buying part for you.

A friend of mine was a full time magic trader, and he hired a kid to sift through mountains of commons that he bought in bulk.
Yes, I was using bgates@micrososft as an extreme example of predictable lameness.
There is a saying "ask 10 doctors or lawyers get 10 opinions".

Well this is my opinion based on 35 years of business experience and having graduated from an Ivy business school as well. And reading, operating and observing business from before most HN readers were born. In other words not just reading blogs or online comments or whatever. It's a pattern that I've seen. Having seen bullshit of different types previously.

Sure I could be wrong "ask 10 doctors" but I do have a basis for my thoughts.

Edit: Because of course being in business and making a profit for 35 years means nothing to the younger generation on HN.
hmm

I am not so sure about this. I imagined it originally for small office/company cases, not sure how it would fare if I make the allocation dynamic.

Tho yeah, I think making the subnet larger should be an easier process. I think one way of doing this maybe is having the subnets right on the top navigation bar as /0 /16 /24 etc with the selected one as a color and a (+X) next to each subnet based on the number of users in it.
We need more media that compares competing histories. John Haywood's New Atlas of World History (10 pdf samples: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9519.html) experimented with color-coded timelines & maps, e.g. history of global writing systems up to 1492, http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/haywood/s4c_9519.pdf
sure. Its nothing fancy, mostly its in pure node.js with only selected few libraries for the database etc. I'll do it once I have enough confidence that everything is alright after some usage.
The EdgeRouter Lite can do everything you're asking for with the exception of switching - but buy a switch for that. Again, you get what you pay for and managed L2 switches between 16-48 ports @ 1Gb are dirt cheap today. In fact Ubiquiti has some managed L3 switches coming to market very soon - 24 ports with full PoE for $400, can't beat that. The 48 port version has 10Gb SFP+ ports for $800, try that with Cisco/Juniper.

There's also a newer platform that is often overlooked in their lineup, see here:

http://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching-routing/usg/

I don't own one and haven't tested one - so I can't comment beyond having looked at it. Seems to be an expanded EdgeRouter Lite (same proc specs) but with additional software to run the UniFi gear (which is a nice addon - otherwise you need to run UniFi software on something else if you want to be able to manage and log from your controllers).
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There's a measurable difference between the bonus and no-bonus option, and in this case, that's 5%. That is the offer. Given the option between the two, I'll take the bonus knowing fully well in either scenario they are profiting.

You're comparing apples and oranges. Compare the 5% bonus with simply lowering the cost of fares an equivalent amount.
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> Outlets that just provide a place where customers could pick up their packages. Hell--he could automate them, and they could be open 27/7?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
And I was considering nsns' point about how the costs associated with sending email aren't nonexistent, and how, given a certain set of concerns and constraints, might be higher than other means.

I also thought your £50 example was a bit silly. Of course infrastructure costs money. There's means of communicating and delivering things like money that use infrastructure that require a far lower initial investment for a user, and that might be a better deal for that user, circumstances dependent. And not all communications need to be near-instantaneous.
No, the protocol does not impose central authority for data signing, it is up to the application to do this.
There are indeed intelligent Redditors. However, people who use the phrase "white knights" are at best seriously misguided, and usually not among the intelligent subset. It's just a slur, not anything with content, like calling someone who acts in a way you deem insufficiently masculine a "pansy" or "fag".
Steve Jobs was steve@apple.com, right?
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Another robot researcher agrees.
Classifying images is totally different from enabling a robot to perform a difficult task.
Object recognition is a supervised learning problem, mapping image -> vector of probabilities.
Robotic manipulation is a control problem, mapping a long sequence of images -> a long sequence of actions.
hmm, yeah. I think I can do that, maybe as button when the user clicks it shows him the top posts on the 'wider' subnets and he can see them without having to switch his default subnet.

It will come in v2 then !
The problem with IP geolocation is that at the city and ZIP code level, it's just imprecise enough to be kind of annoying for something like this. It's very possible 2 people in the same ZIP code may be geolocated to neighboring but different ZIP codes.

At US state (and often international province/region) level you generally get nearly 100% accuracy, but that's probably too broad for something like this. Unfortunately I'm not sure there's really anything in between that you could use.
Mozilla and IE should adopt similar policies, and not just for SHA1 deprecation, but for other weak security protocols, too. If website A uses much weaker security than website B, they shouldn't be treated equally by the browser.

Reward the ones who embrace stronger security, punish (within reason, and gradually) those who don't.
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I have a pair of their devices doing just this. I'm using a NanoStation M and a Rocket M with a sector. I get a nice 300Mb link between the two buildings (roughly 300 ft apart) and I spray wireless over a dock within range where I run an IP camera. Both units have survived, now, 3 brutal midwestern winters and I've remotely upgraded them well over 20 times over that time period. They have been nothing short of impressive for the price. Skip the hardline, unless you need more bandwidth than a few hundred megs!
You are seriously comparing an artist wanting you to buy their album as a whole vs. piecemeal to curing cancer?
I thought that novadays even the AV companies admit (off the record) that they've lost the battle, and cannot really do a good job detecting the more sophisticated viruses?
This part worries me a lot

With Amazon, Bezos is deferring that profit-producing,
investor-rewarding day almost indefinitely into the
future.

It kind of sounds like never.
That's a good money (providing it's not a 24h job), but what about treatment? Sales people make more than average devs at Google, but who gets more respect?
It's long been known that the CIA is actively involved in all sorts of foreign espionage and operations to forward American business interests. I mean, hell, just look at Panama. We firebombed their capital city because the president had the gall to say that he wanted to hire Panamanian companies to do construction and maintenance on the Panama Canal after we ceded ownership back to them. The US government claimed that this was, somehow, 'socialism' and launched an attack. They've done similar things all over South America for decades. The CIA is the biggest enemy of democracy outside of the US, and the NSA is the biggest enemy of democracy inside of it.
This would be interesting if they "put their money where their mouth is", by selling insurance.

0.01% chance of reversal? Then charge me $0.01 for a $100 transaction, pay me $100 if it is not confirmed. Or charge me $0.05 and enjoy a nice profit.

And it would be an awesome business model!
Not unless you are an illegal.
Being fluent in a topic and having concepts and facts memorized can greatly increase your ablity to conceptualize harder problems within a domain. Wouldn't you agree that even if every bit of knowledge were available for instant access through some massive google/wolfram ai database, people who internalize knowledge would have more, better, ideas on average, and more quickly, than people who had to constantly look everything up?
It'd be interesting to add some sort of source IP filtering as well. I'm behind a VPN, so I'm on a private subnet. I'd rather chat with others on the same subnet within my company than anyone who happens to be in the same private subnet, worldwide.
hmm yeah. An indicator can easily be done for any subnet you are in. Awesome idea, I'll do it in v2 !
Broke it, tapped new thread, then instead of entering anything, just tapped board. Not sure if it was that or just coincidence, but here's the error :

iisnode encountered an error when processing the request.

HRESULT: 0x6d
HTTP status: 500
HTTP subStatus: 1013
HTTP reason: Internal Server Error
You are receiving this HTTP 200 response because system.webServer/iisnode/@devErrorsEnabled configuration setting is 'true'.

In addition to the log of stdout and stderr of the node.exe process, consider using debugging and ETW traces to further diagnose the problem.

The node.exe process has not written any information to stderr or iisnode was unable to capture this information. Frequent reason is that the iisnode module is unable to create a log file to capture stdout and stderr output from node.exe. Please check that the identity of the IIS application pool running the node.js application has read and write access permissions to the directory on the server where the node.js application is located. Alternatively you can disable logging by setting system.webServer/iisnode/@loggingEnabled element of web.config to 'false'.
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I thought the same thing while reading the description of the lecture series. I loved Connections!
Yes - very much so.

And if you're running an SOHO all-in-one today what most people don't realize is that all of those devices are underpowered for the features they run and the packet processing is the piece that takes the hit. You'll likely improve on latency numbers and just general performance from a network perspective. Splitting out good RF and a decent router are two things that people never seem to understand can make as big of a difference as it does until they do it.

6 months ago I would have told you the EdgeRouter needed some hard edges ironed out in software, but now it's rather functional. I use it for a lot of interop testing of OSPF and BGP with our product in my home lab.
Not unless you are an illegal. The TSA is a complete joke with respect to security. The TSA is not there to protect us, it's there to CONDITION us.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/22/TSA-Admi...

For an agency that has to be perfect 100% of the time to protect us, here is a list of their failures just from this year:

http://tsascandals.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/tsa-security-fai...

You are being lied to!
Those are some great specs for a very reasonable price.

I actually think the midrange is the most interesting area for mobile phones these days, particularly as more impressive hardware trickles down into the lower models and we reach the end of rapid hardware increases. For around $200-300 (or 150-200GBP) you can pick up powerful phone that will do almost everything a flagship will. They are an even more interesting proposition outside of the US, where a greater number of people tend to buy phones off-contract and thus are more sensitive to the unsubsidised price.

At the low end you have the Moto E and several of the Nokia Lumia devices at around the $100 price point, basically replacing the feature phone. I'd consider these over the cheap Android clones that may have better specs for the same price due to the build quality and software support.

Then, at the lower-end of the mid-range, you have this just announced Moto G (2nd Gen), alongside the Lumia 730 and a few others in the $200 bracket. Such a price is perfect for people like my parents who just want a phone with respectable smartphone features, solid build quality and reliability. I think this really is the sweet spot where sales and growth will occur - are there any other quality phones in this price bracket?

Going up to the higher side of the mid-range, you have the Nexus phones, the OnePlusOne, and the just announced Sony Z3 Compact and Lumia 830. Such phones will do pretty much everything more demanding customers are after in a smartphone, including myself. I imagine they will end up overshadowing the flagship phones, leaving them to just the tech-spec obsessed. Honestly, is there really any need for a $600 phone anymore?
If you have any specific suggestions please tell me and I'll do it :)

I have little CSS knowledge and I wanted to keep a strict minimalistic look and feel to avoid confusing people.
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> Also regarding founders giving up large amounts of equity to VC's so they can afford developers: there is a very simple solution. Give employees more equity. Take out the middle man.

That's been tried a lot and is often referred to as "sweat equity". Most people won't go for it when there's 5 jobs across the street that will offer cold hard cash which they have obtained by getting a premium on equity with a VC.
You and I are speaking about two very different things. The incompleteness theorems and the halting problem (which are deeply connected, by the way) are positive proofs. I am speaking of a negative proof.

Imagine that I believe in Bigfoot. How shall I be dissuaded from my belief by evidence -- it would have to be negative proof. If I started out assuming Bigfoot wasn't real, that would be much, much easier.

In the same way, people assume that logical incompleteness isn't real until there's positive evidence. They assume there's no halting problem until there's positive evidence. See the difference?
I would assume that big companies that are post-investment (Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Autodesk, Cisco, Intel, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Zynga, etc etc etc) pay out several orders more dollars of salary than companies running on VC. Startups with VC money have to compete against THOSE companies to hire. Engineers here have a great alternatives and can optimize for money, stock, satisfaction, education, connections, etc, so you don't have to stay in a sucky job, low salary, or bad company. That is why salaries are so high.

CA as a whole receives about $15B/yr in VC. Assuming every penny of that went to engineer compensation (not at all accurate - customer acquisitions is probably a bigger line item), that would be 75,000 jobs @ $200K company cost (probably low for the Bay Area). So VC directly pays for maybe 5-20K engineers in the Bay Area.

Insatiable, rich tech companies are why salaries are high.