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It'll require a huge shift in the political landscape. I suspect that if we see him coming back at all, it'll be as a humanitarian gesture when he's dying of some disease in his 70s or 80s.
> IMO it should not be about contracts. You should enter agreements in good faith and there should be social consequences for doing otherwise (reputation ruined, ... etc.). Be excellent to each other.

Exactly this! The consequence of letting people abuse trust on massive scale is more complicated contracts, which is a worse outcome than if everyone just agreed to act in good faith.
So, how much of the world can I get on my device with a 128GB micro SD card?
> Care to provide even just one example?

the tape

> Too lazy? To sort through some results?

yeah. too lazy to sort through 12 pages of results to find the lowest price, when a computer should do it for you in 1 second
... and that is if they have the Sharpies. There is no way to check the inventory at Walmart before you go, so you are left to hope it is there. Each time we go to Walmart there are a couple of items not on the shelf.

They are still struggling with it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/retailwire/2015/08/23/is-walmart...
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I think this is partly a knowledge problem.

People don't have knowledge that this even really exists, or what the expenditures they're asked to fund are actually providing (or not providing as the case might be).

A transparent (open) budget from taxes to payment might help, as well as an easy way to compare the typical compensation for this task to others in society. At that point a more informed, and hopefully more humane, decision can be reached.
Didn't they mention in the B2 announcement discussion that there's a linux client for that? Or, more accurately, it's a python library used by a simple python CLI?

I just found this[1], which looks like what you want. It's not a library, but it is only 245 lines of python, so I doubt it's that complex.

1: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/b2-python-pusher.html
> there's also a 'perfect is the enemy of the good' argument as well.

Making a serious existing problem worse doesn't make this "good"; the bad is the enemy of the good, too.
It actually already had more traffic and more upvotes than my posts usually get at the time you commented. I have posted enough stuff that made the front page (usually not my own writing) that I am well aware that 25 minutes in is too soon to jump to conclusions.

Overall, I thought it went really well and I am quite pleased.
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I would have guessed I had enough math to be in this article's target audience (two semesters of college calculus) but no. I think you have to have studied the Fourier transform already for it to make much sense.
Can you fix your post? Low impact should be low visibility and high impact should be high visibility.
True. It is definitely not easy. Another problem is the waiting periods these days is frustratingly long - so if you made a small mistake then it adds anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to remedy it, to an already lengthy process. This is why most people hire attorneys. The ironic thing is that attorneys make mistakes too - happened to me and a handful of people I know.
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> I would argue that improving kernel security is at best ambiguously beneficial and possibly actively harmful to users

Kernel security is inevitably going to improve - the argument is over the length of time that's going to end up taking. If we continue to rely on the incompetence of those standing against us, we not only weaken those who don't have the knowledge or expertise to take advantage of their freedoms (and who end up with phones that are compromised by even more overtly evil actors than the phone vendors themselves), we eventually end up in a situation where the holes are blocked off and we have no method to achieve freedom at all.
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Do you find any internal benefits from this stuff as well? For example, having it be better documented, or finding areas of improvement as you go through the write-up, or things like that? Not that you need it to be directly helpful, warm and fuzzy can certainly be enough....
"DNSSEC isn't about helping you with your security issues."

My understatnding of history as I experienced it is that the resurgence of interest in DNSSEC was due to publicized cache poisoning of shared DNS caches circa 2008.

I run my own local cache on the loopback. I run my own root and other zones. I also use DNSCurve.

Recently there was another one of these DNSSEC advertisement posts from this same company about DNSSEC on the HN front page. (Surprise. How unusual.)

I asked a simple question: What benefit would DNSSEC offer someone like me?

While I did not get any straight answers, I did get blasted with walls of text from some guy working for a domain name registrar.

Perhaps it is not only companies selling consulting and DNS appliances, e.g., on government contracts, that are behind DNSSEC. Maybe it extends to the entire "DNS industry", e.g., people "selling" (renting) domainnames to users. For readers who are unaware, Cloudflare is in this "DNS industry". Their customers must hand over control of their DNS to Cloudflare. Cloudflare's entire approach to "security" depends on this.

DNSSEC is generally a PITA to set up and maintain. This makes it the perfect "service" to sell. If you like to generalize, you could argue this is true for any sufficiently complex networking component. The more complex the set up and management for users, the easier it is to sell them services.

I am an ordinary user who happens to enjoy setting up and managing my own DNS, making databases of IP addresses and even making my own domainnames, so I need a lot of convincing to be interested in something like DNSSEC, managed by third parties.

DNSSEC, as advertised, is a system that focuses on some mythical "validation" of DNS data.

Who decides what DNS data is "valid"?

Does DNSSEC require a "web of trust" model like the CA system?

If yes, why should we trust these third parties more than the endpoint we're trying to reach?

How much will users have to pay to be "validated" in such a system?

If some third party(s) controls what is and what is not "valid" DNS data can they more easily "disable" certain domains?

I could go on.

By contrast, a system for encrypting DNS packets is something I find more interesting and useful. I can set it up without too much effort and I control it. No need for third parties. Once more, it costs me nothing. There is no built-in idea of "web of trust" and I do not need to "purchase" a "valid" dommainname to begin using it.

But I am just a dumb user so what do I know? Go get your DNSSEC, right away.
Folks in this thread may be interested in CamelCamelCamel

http://camelcamelcamel.com/

They let you set Amazon price watches. The browser/email interface works really well, with almost no mental overhead, and can save you significant money on items with volatile prices that you don't need immediately. I use it for collecting reference textbook, which I get at about 20% of the price if I bought them at a fixed time. (I'm not affiliated with them or anything, I just like it.)
I think the poster perhaps meant to link to the presentation generally[1], which goes over the introduction of BSD's pledge() feature[2].

[1]: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00001.h...
CoffeeScript for Go? ;)
In your "conspiracy theory", who is Amazon conspiring with? Themselves?

Do you know what "conspiracy" means? Do you think a "conspiracy" can be achieved by fewer than two different parties?
1s? You mean 50ms?
Any CCTLD that isn't today controlled by a government is one government action away from being controlled by that government; in practice, they won't even have to do that: they'll just use their authority to subvert the ostensibly- but- not- really independent operators.

I agree that governments control the DNS today.

The problem is that DNS does not in turn control Internet cryptography, and DNSSEC's primary use case is to change that.
It's pretty easy to find competitors that are cheaper than amazon, but it's not as common to find ones who will ship as quickly and still be cheaper. (Even if you exclude prime.)

Also, why does Amazon seem to be the only site on the internet that will give you a guaranteed delivery date and refund you the shipping cost if they miss it?
> any comments from guys on this? Are you ever hesitant to engage out of fear of a scandal?

Yes. Absolutely yes.

As far as I'm concerned my female coworkers don't exist. I think it is sad, but I'd rather treat them like ghosts than lose my job because one of them felt I looked at them funny or in the wrong way. Any meetings require a minimum of 3 people - I refuse to be alone in the same room because if it comes down to a he said/she said, she is the default. Same reason why male college professors avoid being alone with female students.

It's absolutely stupid that I have to be a sexist asshole because my other option is to risk my job due to the very real possibility of fraudulent claims of being a sexist asshole. I suppose there is a bit of irony in there as well.
Right, and these H1B shops are getting by that by telecommuting. It's exactly why Disney was able to find immigrant IT workers who could do the same job for less.
Great suggestions all around. I'm actually a few days away from integrating with HealthKit, which takes care of some low hanging fruit.

For example, I know that when I walk 10,000 steps a day (or run, dance, or backflip), I burn my TDEE is around 2500 calories. However, on a very rainy day like today, if I walk 0 steps - a true sedentary day - it would definitely impact my TDEE. I'd argue even enough to not average out in the long term.

Sure, 7500 one day and 12000 the next averages out. But 0? Imagine a rainy week? So in that case, proper integration and adjustment of your targets for the day would be useful.

I imagine something similar could be done for fitbit, etc.

Another low hanging fruit is integrating with scales: manually entering my weight every day is easily automated.

I do plan to eventually add exercise tracking for progression, but as we agree, encouraging "the eat back what you burn off" is not a good direction for most.
> The UI on everything Amazon does looks like it was designed by Helen Keller.

Ugh. That is just nasty.

If you are ever tempted to write something like that, don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
When people talk about ancient civilizations, they tend to... make things up. Stonehenge, in particular, due to its recent cultural significance, has lots of ridiculous stories told about it. There's this narrative about primitivism, which generates interpretations centered on religion and ritual.

A more informative view, I think, is to assume it's practical. When I look at pictures of Stonehenge, it looks to me like motte and bailey. A literal motte and bailey, the military fortification, not the logical fallacy by the same name. A motte and bailey is a military structure that was extremely common in the middle ages.

There's a ditch around the outside, which is for defense against small groups of invaders. There's a big stone structure in the middle, which you can climb up on if attackers get past the ditch, using a structure that was removed some time later. The graves, cooking pits, and other things at the site are just signs of habitation.
We've got that coming up with Backblaze B2, we have APIs and CLIs that you'll be able to use for Linux builds and servers! If you go to: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/ you can read our docs!
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> If the "most talented and highly-skilled" people only get "very mediocre salaries", it sounds like there is not actually a dire shortage of them

It's not always black and white. The same argument has been used against mexicans in low paying jobs. However you kick the mexicans out, farms and restaurants will collapse.
Things like key pinning are why control over TLDs doesn't equate to control over Gmail, which is my point.
<quote>All because I was bored of the old tech.
and it made the site unmaintainable. I mostly blame the MongoDB and Coffeescript for that.</quote>
I think the blame would logically reside with you.
I just had the perfect idea for a test, but then I went back to the recent discussion on Mimic[0] and double checked my favorite example[1]. Google has already updated their support, but there is a chance that Facebook M is still behind. Test them now before it is too late:

"When is the next Τаylοr Ѕwіft concert in my area?"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10437619

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Τаylοr+Ѕwіft
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I just needed to think of something big. Anyway there is big stuff that is not that important - lets say couple of gigabytes of logs but nice to have.

BB folder and file type structure makes it relatively hard to back up just some files of given type. And some stuff like tars and zips could be arbitrary in size and importance.
FWIW jut.io shut down the day after this was posted. https://twitter.com/PurpleQuark/status/661274501728964608
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How could it possibly be supported if you admit it has not been investigated?
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I see. So goroutines are just green threads with a nicer name? Thanks for correcting me. EDIT: Editing my comment because I can't reply to your reply. Yeah, I used "just" with the intention of saying that goroutines are well within the category/definition of green threads.
>How else will we decide?

Opening up the archaic caps on talented H1B labor. Clearly there is demand for it.
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And I think you're making a lot of assumptions about what I believe. Nothing I believe contradicts the idea of civilization, as long as the basis of that civilization is voluntary participation, with the use of force reserved for defensive purposes.

And hence, the rule of law is born,

But so very much of what passes for "law" today is nothing of the sort. But my view of what constitutes a valid law is pretty much a reflection of what Bastiat had to say (minus the religious stuff):

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G004
I'm lost in your argument. Help me understand: if I'm reliant on key pinning and cert transparency, which exists for TLS CAs but not for DNSSEC, what exactly is DNSSEC doing for me? Why is it interesting that I only depend on one untrustworthy (and irrevocable) CA?
> This is what I believe: if you build a side project and allow real customers to purchase it, you have a moral obligation to support and maintain it properly and if you are unable to fulfill that obligation, then it is your obligation to shutter the project or find a new owner who can amply care for it.

I agree with the core idea of this quote: don't take people's money and run away, especially if you led them to believe you will support a paid product for a long time.

However, I wouldn't say that supporting every paid product you make is a moral obligation. Just because a couple of people paid you $20 doesn't mean you should force yourself to spend your valuable time improving and maintaining the product if you no longer benefit (through joy or money). Certainly, you shouldn't defraud people and lead them to believe you will maintain a product for a long time, but this kind of blanket statement might scare away people from trying to create a paid service because of the fear of having to perpetually support a handful of users.

Again, I agree with the principle in particular cases, but there are cases where it doesn't apply (at least in my opinion).
A man does not need to be attracted to me to be worried that close collaboration -- working late together, having dinner together, etc -- will lead to other people wondering if there is an affair. Bonus points: My experience has been that men who aren't attracted react really negatively to me giving off signals that I am interested. So men who are not hoping to sleep with me can have powerful reasons to just not want to work closely with me in the kind of manner that could dramatically further my professional goals.

(I am the author, in case that is not obvious.)
By all means, if you want to depend on social consequences to enforce business contracts, you are welcome to do so. Some people are able to operate that way in areas where there are limited players and everyone's reputation is well known or easily discoverable. Companies like Uber and AirBnB with reviews and ratings systems actually bring us much closer to this being a reality.

If social consequences were sufficient, we wouldn't have invented this whole legal system in the first place.
what kind of accent do you have? I used to laugh at other's accents (even though I have one myself) and was very immature until I started learning a 3rd language and appreciating language itself.

It's just horrid to laugh deliberately at someone for how they speak. I know of several people that have a heavy pompous Indian/British accent, but their knowledge of English is 100x my own ability.
I should be laughing at myself.
Yes. The gov has both cost of living (COLA) and avg pay per field per location (Locality) tables.
Thank you for pointing this out. I've always really struggled with how long this kind of saying has stuck around for such a magnificent person.
I found an example of a Wiley journal that claims to be "open access." But you dig around it is really "pay to place". Example: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/11/fast-food-fast-public...
Good question! As part of the process for developing these we spend months and months using AGILE/SCRUM to iterate and come up with a "final answer" (though we're constantly still iterating). So it's not so much that we gain anything from writing the posts, the posts are more of a culmination of months of effort. We do end up talking about the pods more closely when we're writing the posts and as part of that some minor changes do happen, but not that many.

The sinister benefit is that the more folks read the posts, the more it gets shared (presumably) and we hope that can lead to some new folks finding out about our online backup service, and therefore signing up. Which would make our finance department feel warm and fuzzy too!
It would be a surprise to me, but we'll see. I haven't seen much discussion since the vendor experiment, weirdly. (But I haven't been looking, either.)
This is the biggest load of entitled BS that I've read in a long time. Wow, OP has to take out tape and actually tape up the return box? Would he prefer that Amazon send someone out to his house to pick up the item and pack/ship it on their behalf, obviously for free otherwise he would be whining that he had to pay for the service.

He sounds like he would complain about having to WAIT IN LINE if he had to return the item at a physical store. What a load of crock.

Yes, Amazon's prices aren't the lowest for many things. They never say they are. Prices at Home Depot are often much, much lower for many home items, and you definitely have to do comparison shopping. Which means continuing to sit down, and move your mouse and clicking and typing. Not exactly coal mining and not exactly driving around from store to store like how we did 20 years ago.

But for me, the combination of free, fast, reliable shipping and a decent price is enough to get me buying stuff almost 3 times a week from Amazon.
How the hell is Walmart's inventory surfacing to consumers so bad, yet their supply chain so efficient?
But herein lies the problem. By treating a civil contract as a purely economical transaction you just robbed us of the best advantages of being humans rather than mindless systems.

Or look at it this way: everyone on this site knows that the basic problem with programming is that machines execute what you wrote to the letter, and do not know about what you meant. That leads to bugs, because our descriptions rarely capture our intentions precisely enough. But we, as humans, most of the time know the intention of the instructions we're receiving. Every time we force something to be evaluated formally instead of socially, we're robbing ourselves of the increased efficiency our minds give us. It's a trade-off, and it's often worth it - but it should be done only when we gain something from it.

In the AirBnB subletting situation we gain nothing - contracts gets more complicated to cover new abuse vector, and end result is the same except we've just lost flexibility and efficiency by codifying another part of our interactions.
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How is that relevant to DNSSEC? Key pinning works indepedently of how you validate your certificates (against public CAs, against DANE, or a combination of both).
Thanks. They new site is snappy.

Tripal I had never heard of. It uses "Chado" db schema which I have heard of (though flybase) which while flexible isn't always performant.

Performance gains and simplified development are so appealing (I have 12 tools to maintain in Java/perl/php)..

Biogo is what I was looking for.
https://github.com/biogo/biogo
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OpenDNS will happily send you queries over DNSCrypt. Thats like 3-4% of the internet right there.

They also open sourced client implementations for end boxes to talk to them or any other recursive securely.

jedisct1 is also looking for work right now, he'd happily implement it all for you I'm sure.
> So goroutines are just green threads with a nicer name?

I don't know that I'd say "just": like Erlang processes, goroutines have some special features not shared by all other green threads, even with a similar M:N threading model. I'd say that Erlang processes and goroutines are each specific kinds of M:N green threads with unique features and distinct names. So, its useful to distinguish them within the broader category, they just shouldn't be distinguished from the category.
This story is a follow-up to the "Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program, and Jobs Leave the U.S." story currently on the front page.

The most interesting point: 13 global outsourcing companies took nearly one-third of all H-1B visas in 2014.
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Amazon may have been cheap but now it's convenient.

Of course I would prefer that Amazon is as competitive as possible. However, as mentioned by others, the time savings of going to a store vs. shopping online justifies a little extra cost to me. Amazon solves a few other problems too:

* Security: The more online stores I use, the higher my risk of identify theft. Amazon isn't perfect, but they both have more resources and more incentive (higher stakes) to protect my information than small online retailers. One tradeoff that must be balanced is that Amazon knows more about me.

Note that if Bitcoin were more widely accepted, and retailers collected less personal information, the security offered by Amazon would be less important.

* Selection: Amazon doesn't have every product available, but it does have more selection than most retail stores. I tend to look for high value (high quality to cost ratio) products because I want things that work well and last long. It's often difficult or impossible to find the same selection at local stores.
I really can't imagine a simpler return process. Each time I've had to return something, I went online, stated there was a problem with the product, they immediately shipped out a new item, and I had 30 days to return the old item. I also didn't have to print off a return label, as that was included with the replacement.

Being upset that you need to put a label on a box is one of the most first-world-problems I've ever heard.