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> What reason for existence will they have then? EV certs?

I doubt that corporate users will move in any significant numbers to LE, even for basic DV certs.

Two reasons:

1. The certificate renewal process appears to be incompatible with most corporate change-control processes I've encountered: nothing may change on a production server unless an admin is given authorisation to change it. A cron job that could take all customer-facing services offline is just crazy[0].

2. When something goes wrong with a cert issuance or renewal, corporate users ( want | need ) to be able to call a human to have them fix it, regardless of cost. And even that cost is insignificant in context to revenue.

I'm sure LE will be popular with bloggers and hobby users. Beyond that?

[0] yes, the admins could run the LE client manually in non-prod and move the certs over to production. But that's no easier than current cert renewals, and would have to occur every 60-90 days.
It always makes me smile when I hear the term "8-bit" used to describe art. The strict hardware and software limitations of early computers spawned a complete visual aesthetic!
The future of work looks like becoming a relentless rat race
>I am at a tiny German ISP, got a new contract one year ago, and have a publicly routable IP.

You have one IP, not one per computer. Thus your router becomes a NAT for the devices you have internally.
When you're having a good time a "few years" is pretty short. :-)

Our RM80's were trouble free from what I can remember. We had an air conditioned, electrostatic filtered clean room for our systems which also included some PDP11's and PDP11/40's with RL02's and RK07 disk drives. The room had very limited access and you had to wear booties. The only time we lost a drive is when one of the RK07's went crazy, slamming the heads against the hard stops causing the heads to crash onto the disk.
> I get absolutely nothing currently by enabling IPV6 on my server because I cannot depend on it.

You know you can dual stack right? It's not a binary option. You can run IPv4 and IPv6 addresses side by side, offering the best connectivity to all clients. You gain a lot by enabling IPv6, and not much to lose. Out of curiosity, why are you against IPv6 so much? It's coming, it's not going away. Over 25% of US residences have routed IPv6 addresses. Adoption is higher in other parts of the world.
As always I think the answer is in the middle. You can't have a piece of software that defaults to insecure and expect everyone to have the common sense and skill to secure it. You rarely can release a piece of software with hard security defaults and expect it to have enough usability to gain critical mass / adoption / be popular.

I remember when I first learned web development and I absolutely had a belief that the defaults would protect me from royally fucking up. Postgres security defaults for example. And although this is obviously not true in reality, we can't let ourselves overlook it just because.
Yes, I think you're right. I'm really exploring this for the first time since university, and I don't have any real formal basis for what I'm doing. Just a real world problem to solve.
Hilarious? I thought it was fantastically thoughtful, insightful and witty.
It certainly wasn't the only digression either. I think you sign up for this when you pick up a Stephenson book. It's part of his intellectual style.
I come from a little place in the Iberian peninsula...

As someone that loves to study history, read old mediaeval documents, I know pretty well what our ancestors did.
> You know you can dual stack right?

I know, but why should I? When the time comes I will enable IPv6 but right now it's more hassle than it's worth.

> You gain a lot by enabling IPv6, and not much to lose. Out of curiosity, why are you against IPv6 so much?

I'm not against IPv6, I just don't gain anything from it. Which means that effectively it just complicates the general setup for me, more things that can break etc.

> Adoption is higher in other parts of the world.

It would appear those parts of the world are not customers to me, users of my software or they are fine with IPv4. And again, that's what is the thinking process for many, many people that have small web services or websites.
This is no longer the case. Their implementation of Happy Eyeballs now prefers IPv6 over IPv4. This is as of iOS 9 and El Capitan.
Maybe it was never reviewed for obsolence. Or maybe two sources in the reference section aren't enough. Either way, there are only two direct references in the article body, which seems lacking. I'd assume the last two paragraphs could use some citations and sources.
There are only two references (though there are several external links). It looks like only the first paragraph has specific citations, and the two other paragraphs have no citations at all.
I mean in Manhattan, sure -- but there are plenty of quiet neighborhoods in Brooklyn. The eerily silent room was in Gowanus.
If LIDAR could sweep materials with varying frequency and measure the reflection vs. absorption across a band, you could get pretty decent material identification.
> The amount of crap that needs done to get ip2ip communications working and other multiport protocols is stupid and introduces piles of security risks.

I'm sorry, but you are naive if you think that NATs will go away with IPv6 or that the absence of NATs would make it safer. In fact, NATs have found a way back to IPv6 and any deployment I have seen with IPv6 that was not done by a university actually goes through a NAT.
Has the state of ZFS on OS X improved at all? It seems like the ideal filesystem for backups, but last I checked there were major issues with using ZFS-formatted external drives — enough so that the developers working on the project recommended against it.

If it hasn’t I might put together a cheap FreeBSD box for the express purpose of networked file storage and backup.
If you want to play around with Van Eck Phreaking, try https://packages.debian.org/sid/tempest-for-eliza , which lets you listen to MIDI-like music via AM radio from your computer monitor.
> "You know, we can't say for certain; perhaps at that time dropping the landline was in effect risky behavior."

No, that's their explanation for why there might be a correlation. It's quite clearly not something they're actually certain about.

The only fact the CDC believes is that cell phone exclusivity correlates with risky behaviors.
Getting Started with Swift on Linux
I made a react wrapper component for using d3 style components within react apps. It uses the react lifecycle methods instead of render ...

http://bl.ocks.org/cpapazian/6228888157c39be85e9c

Scroll to the bottom for the wrapper class. Please excuse the coffeescript.
It is all of those things. The language is just a bit overwrought.
I think you have to use pointer events to detect the eraser -- e.button should be 5 for pointerdown events. I'm not sure how hard it is to use pointer events when available (currently only on IE/Edge, it looks like).
Low-Hanging Fruit
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GeoIP routing is sometimes worse with native IPv6 than IPv4.
Take gstatic.com for example which goes to a neighbouring country with IPv6 (inside same ISP, but still):

$ ping -c 3 gstatic.com
PING gstatic.com (82.77.159.222) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cache.google.com (82.77.159.222): icmp_seq=1 ttl=61 time=2.11 ms
64 bytes from cache.google.com (82.77.159.222): icmp_seq=2 ttl=61 time=1.98 ms
64 bytes from cache.google.com (82.77.159.222): icmp_seq=3 ttl=61 time=1.78 ms

--- gstatic.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.780/1.960/2.118/0.143 m

$ ping6 -c 3 gstatic.com
PING gstatic.com(bud02s22-in-x03.1e100.net) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from bud02s22-in-x03.1e100.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=9.85 ms
64 bytes from bud02s22-in-x03.1e100.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=9.67 ms
64 bytes from bud02s22-in-x03.1e100.net: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=10.5 ms

--- gstatic.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 9.675/10.031/10.568/0.403 ms

So I have this in /etc/gai.conf now:

precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100
Or alternatively they would simply channel their wealth back into their own economy and make their own people more wealthy. That's what's happening in the real world right now, not some bizarre 19th century imperial conquest.

Capitalism is not a zero sum game, and that's where you seem to be tripping up.
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So read "oil" as "oil and gas." To an extent, coal too.

That too, although pound for pound alts are still slightly more expensive.
Similarly, we should prevent NY based companies from purchasing Salesforce and Oracle, in order to foster the creation of local competitors. And California should prevent their tech companies from making use of NY-based investment banks when they go public.

That's the way to prosperity!
Are you talking about this paper: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html? It appears to be the same as the linked PDF.
> Frustrated with the stock of apartments in our price range, I started contacting hosts of more expensive places, up to triple our budget.

I really admire the "hacking" of leveraging what you have (some money + a great story) to get what you want when you can't afford it in dollars.
I wonder what happened to the "don't tase me" guy who apparently intersected with the "leave Britney alone" guy.

http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2007/10/06/
> The money has to come from somewhere.

More like "An equivalent amount of US dollars has to be taken out of the economy in order to keep the money supply in balance with the amount of real goods and services and thus prevent higher-than-desired inflation." I don't know if the tools available to the Federal Reserve are sufficient to do that indefinitely like taxation does, but my real point is that it's a mistake to think of Federal fiscal/monetary policies as moving money from one place to another when the important part is creating money (spending, including transfers like Social Security checks or a basic income; lowering banks' reserve requirements or the discount rate; buying Treasury bills on the open market) versus destroying it (taxation; Federal fees and fines; raising reserve requirements or the discount rate; selling Treasury bills).

For example, the national debt isn't a problem because we might not be able to afford to pay it off, it's that it creates constraints on our ability to manage the money supply. Over time, we're obligated to pay back all the bills that make up the national debt, and each one we pay back increases the dollars in the economy, reducing the Federal government's ability to perform necessary spending (which also creates more dollars) without causing inflation. So we sell more Treasury bills (destroying dollars in the process, albeit temporarily) to create room for spending.

Point being: a basic income is possible, but we'd have to get real creative about destroying dollars. The US dollar economy is a big, arbitrary game with rules and mechanics made up by humans; there might be some way to change the mechanics to make a basic income work elegantly. Demurrage, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_%28currency%29

Edit: I just threw demurrage out there because it was a cool, strange monetary thing I remembered reading about, but it got me wondering and apparently Robert Anton Wilson conceived of a basic income system funded by an unlendable demurrage currency at least 40 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/3h89tn/demurra...
Certainly, that is the theory, but capitalism does not always optimize for worker salaries. You can find examples of what you describe happening, but you can also find examples of the opposite:

For the last few decades, the perception is that the economy is not expanding at a rate required to "float all boats." as it were. In fact, I think your example is a very good one:

>This "lump of labor fallacy[1]" was used when women joined the workforce. The worry was that with only so much work to go around, the additional workers would cause mass unemployment. But we didn't get unemployment, we got a larger economy with a higher standard of living.

I think that most men who are not in our industry would disagree. If you look at the inflation-adjusted income for a man from the '70s and now... and it hasn't grown a whole hell of a lot. One can make a strong argument (supported by the meteoric rise in woman's salaries during the same period) that this is largely the effect of effectively doubling the number of workers available for most jobs over the same period.

I mean, obviously, from a justice point of view, this is righting a very old wrong. It's great that women are on a more equal footing; it's fair. I'm not saying that this is bad overall... I'm just giving an example, that can be tracked with publicly available statistics, of how the average wages of a group that is employed can be pushed down by adding more laborers to that group.
I don't know if it is especially innovative, but I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of James A. Corey's Expanse novels lately. Hopefully the SyFy channel doesn't butcher it when they put it on TV.
Is this different from the other module nginx push stream which offers websockets, long polling etc
Thanks for this one, liked it more than the NYT.

Was also interesting to learn where the game company "Machine Zone" (Game of War) got its name.
Why Great Britain Residents Live Where They Do
Mozilla has a revenue share agreement with Pocket
This makes me want to breed Tamagotchi-like programs to find and exploit vulnerabilities in the AI for the purposes of gaining arbitrary code execution in the AI. Ultimately, the goal would be to break out of the matrix and/or infect other Tamagotchis, causing them to do the same.
> This is no longer the case. Their implementation of Happy Eyeballs now prefers IPv6 over IPv4. This is as of iOS 9 and El Capitan.

It prefers, but only if it gets a response within 25milliseconds. It still queries AAAA and A in parallel.
Challenging the Oligarchy
How does this compare to MQTT ?
For those interested in digging into the facts and data, this FCC document is actually pretty good and no white wash in my view: https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Do...
I hope that link works but you can google the title "Evaluating Compliance with FCC Guidelines for Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields" and it comes right up.
There are some interesting tables and graphs for the TL;DR
Figure 1 on page 30, shows the relationship between distance and ERP to the power density. Then Table 1, Page 72. Most cell phones operate in the .6 - 2.5 Ghz range and the power is ~ 100mw range.
Cell towers operate at about 40 - 60 W ERP, the distance depends on where you are.
My own writing style, for better or worse, tends to hover around a sixth-grade reading level, but I love experiencing authors who have distinct voices, and I especially appreciate ones who have the courage to break out all of the five dollar words and obscure metaphors.

In our anti-intellectual culture, doing that really risks mockery (case in point), but I think sophisticated, complex writing can illuminate in ways other styles can't, and it's just a fun obstacle course for the reader's language center.
OK, I found this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10335742

Show HN: I will build your prototype web app for $4K (bhsiao.com)

and this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368190

We'll build you a prototype web app for $4242 in two weeks (webappdock.com)

Both have subsequently been deleted, and both are much more than a few days old. No other title that has the substring "proto" or "build" in it looks vaguely relevant, and without more clues, I don't have any way to help you.

Good luck.
I can, if I want to, as I said, order multiple IPs, for multiple devices.

Currently I only have one, as I don’t need more, but I can easily get one per computer.

Just like I can get one phone number per room.
Ask HN: Do you find reading increasingly challenging?
I was a good reader throughout my childhood, youth and academic years. Lately, and after a couple of decades, it's becoming increasingly challenging to focus, consume and finish books. I'm becoming the modern age illiterate. I'm usually squeezed for time - but even if I find some, I don't pick up where I left.

Does anyone encountering the same challenge? Any ideas/tips that could help overcome the cycle? Do you think it's caused by modern information overload, distraction addiction, or perhaps dealing with short cryptographic lines of code?
12 ways video games are good for you
Woman Up
My bad, you're right. I mistook Netflix's family price for the starting one I think
C.S. Lewis' Greatest Fiction: Convincing Kids That They'd Like Turkish Delight
its a 2012 mac mini with windows 8.1 and chrome as the browser.

works fine if i use firefox and osx 10.10 on my 2013 macbook pro. :)
That's a complete and blatant misrepresentation of what I am saying. Empirically, countries that have not put all of their eggs in the proverbial free trade basket have been much more prosperous than those that have. You can't deny that.
My money would be on latency guarantees. If you add up the longest path through all your loops and one of them is a while(1) then you can no longer give any guarantees for any latency at all.
I think there is a third kind too; consuming media (music/video). I'm not sure how that compares to the hanging out by time-spent, but by dollars-spent I would imagine it's the biggest one.
Well, that can be automated easily, too.

If I could just put a public key in DNS, sign stuff with the corresponding private key, and send the signed request via POST to LE, then they can easily check that I control the DNS, and I can automate it (and never have to change the webserver’s content or DNS).
Not if inherited wealth is in fact more stagnate in terms of the results it produces in an economy, because that wealth is acquired without earning it (with the heir very likely lacking the early formative experience, knowledge, talent, or drive required to create it), including if it acts as a large drag on new wealth and business formation.

The stagnation is derived from people inheriting the wealth who do not possess the creation ability or skill level of the originator/s. Put in starker terms: incompetent, low ambition, low skill, low accomplishment heirs that rest on the wealth. I'd argue that's far more often the outcome than not, and I believe we have the proof of that in the history of who starts companies, who creates the most successful companies, and who creates the next tiers of innovative breakthrough companies - and who does not.

Scrappy entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs do, not the Nth generation of extreme dynastic wealth like the Quandt or Walton families.
> I can, if I want to, as I said, order multiple IPs, for multiple devices.

Very few ISPs let you do that and if they do, continuous blocks are really expensive these days, even for servers. For end user networks it's even less likely that you get them. Maybe in the states, but not in Europe. In Germany especially there are many ISPs that do not give you any IP address any more but have a carrier side NAT unless you call phone support or switch it in a panel somewhere and then you get exactly one dynamic IP that rotates every 24 hours.

If you have an ISP that gives you anything larger than /24 I would really like to hear which one that is.
Not understanding your tax obligations can hurt you
Does anyone else wonder if the concept of "internet famousness" has a finite shelf life? At least at the level that these people experienced?

The internet engine seems to be cranking through memes faster and faster. Sure, a video might get several million views, but the very next week, those millions of people are already on to the next thing.

It just seems to me like our collective memory is getting shorter and shorter and the fallout from internet famousness might start shrinking, if it hasn't already.
The US would have been able to replace their aircraft carrier losses pretty quickly, far quicker than the Japanese. By the end of the war the US had close to thirty carriers IIRC.
It's open source now... seems like a reasonable project for the community to pick up. (Not to say Apple shouldn't do it, but I don't see them doing it with Xcode being their default IDE)
I love the clean client API, e.g. the use of ETags with long-polling.

In some ways it reminds me of our LiveResource protocol (http://liveresource.org). It's still a work in progress, but maybe we can consolidate ideas. It'd be cool if an LR client could be pointed at an Nchan resource.
Try looking for ISPs whose main business is hosting and business lines, for which home users are just a side business ;)

Those, like TNG, often offer far better contracts.
"Technical, operational experience". It's really a thing. As specializations have become more narrow, it's more of a thing. We're all on intellectual ice floes, drifting apart.
Microsoft beats Apple in online tablet sales
Are there any legitimate reasons for a 28-300% variance in price? Why are discounts secret? I can totally see why the seller would want that, but these are public health care countries studied and I don't see why public spending is allowed to stay a secret.
Very depressing.
i'm fanning an interest in getting involved in moving legislature making plastic bottling illegal

anyone have any early objections i could work on developing responses to?
This is the full disclosure vs antisec debate... if they posted it after they had a patched version out, the best thing to do is explain the issue and get people to upgrade, in my opinion.

Granted, I didn't read the original blog post. Were they distributing tools to make it easy? Or were they explaining how it worked?

In any case, if he hadn't written the blog post, someone else would have.
Facebook says that IPv6 is faster and clients stay on their site longer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfjdOc41g0s
Great work @jennmoneydollars! This is fun.

I feel that I missed my calling as an artist. http://imgur.com/zxE2QKC
In my day being Internet Famous was having your a quote in bash.org
The root of the problem is a lack of city housing stock caused by suburban sprawl in the last century, and NIMBYism in this one. Blaming a rental service for that is silly.
> ...all of the countries which have done extremely well (China, Brazil) have protectionist economies while the countries that have stagnated or suffered (US, EU) have fervently implemented free trade policies....Empirically, countries that have not put all of their eggs in the proverbial free trade basket have been much more prosperous than those that have.

Are you saying that Brazil and China are wealthier than the US and EU?

I also think that this is a curious way to describe China's recent history in going from Mao to Deng...
>Ever been to a university where everyone gets an non-RFC1918 IPv4 address?

Heh, yep, with a firewall that dropped all incoming connections. Worse than configurable NAT.
Terrible shame :(

In the interim, they should set up a Stripe form (super easy nowadays, and at the same rates I think) and even Bitcoin since their target audience seems the sort to use Bitcoin (just avoid Coinbase and folks like that to be double sure you don't get held funds)

Edit: If Stripe is too complicated for the Neo folk (web is weird), give me a shout, or visit their IRC.