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I have an ansible role that deploys letsencrypt certificates. It's not perfect, but currently the flow is: check if nginx is running. if it's running, use the webroot authenticator. if it's not, use the standalone authenticator.

This creates issues come renewal time, but a few tweaks to the renewal config (/etc/letsencrypt/renewal/your.domain.conf) fixes that
Clearly anecdotal as I've heard the complete opposite. Those who smoke are well aware of most/all of the effects.
Also relevant by Paul Braffort:

ALAMO, the computer branch of Oulipo

http://www.paulbraffort.net/litterature/alamo/alamo_experien...
Protocol buffers disassembler
"People of Color" means "non-whites", so includes pretty much everyone but Europeans. It's used instead of "non-whites" to describe a demographic by an attribute they have, instead of an attribute a different group has.
“This is why Tesla is so insistent on selling direct to customers”
> You could begin by trying to understand individually what they stand for before you paint them with a wide brush. Try asking them.

Maybe I do? How do you know what criteria I use to decide if someone is an SJW?

> Labeling all voices of change as "SJW" is a tactic

I'm sure it is, what has it got to do with me?

> to help you avoid trying to understand

oh, right, another projected motive. You sure seem to know a lot about me.
Why Is It So Difficult for Syrian Refugees to Get into the U.S.?
@Mods that is the actual title, not an editorialization :)
Tech companies specifically have seen their historical predecessors disappear very quickly - Sun and SGI nearly evaporated, IBM has had 16 quarters of shrinking earnings. So tech company execs hoard cash in the hope that if they get blindsided they'll have time to recover. I'm pretty sure this is Eric Schmidt's explicit strategy.

Also, as someone else noted, a lot of this cash is "trapped" overseas as it would cost 35% to repatriate it to the US. The logical thing to do would be to move more operations out of the US to balance expenses with revenues but I guess there are issues with doing that.
Medium broke the "Signal v. Noise" RSS feed by truncating articles. I complained to Basecamp; they blamed Medium. I complained to Medium; they said they might consider fixing it.

Run your own blog on your own website. Then you don't have to depend on someone else to fix your bugs.
Yeah..weird. I think somehow he is going to rant about how medium is a close platform, bad for the web...But in the end, it seems like all leads to Medium is a start-up and will eventually die???? What the heck...
> statically typed, memory safe, no VM programming languages that retains most of the advantages of dynamically typed languages

Those requirements contradict themselves in numerous ways. As always, engineering tradeoffs are paramount.

As for "statically typed, memory safe, no VM" -- C++ fits all those perfectly. (Provided you put in the effort of learning C++. There's another tradeoff you'd need to keep in mind.)
> The US is out of demand

How is the US out of demand? Peak consumption years of population are between twenties and fifties and the biggest cohort of US demographics - the millennials - is just getting started. They crossed over the Boomers last year and now are the largest group. Behind them the younger (Gen Z) equally large in size is ready to backfill in another 15 years. It is true that demand from Boomers is done, but the Gen X's are not big enough to backfill the falling demand.
The problem with nuclear is the enormous up-front costs of constructing, even if we could somehow get rid of all the red tape involved. There's some experiments on small-scale fission plants, but there's no market, no buyers, no deployments.

Meanwhile, solar power has a market, has deployments, and is on a path of incremental changes that will take the cost of solar below coal. And once you're below coal, the market will automatically make the switch without any lobbying whatsoever.

I fully agree that we need to keep all existing nuclear as long as possible though, but I'm not so sure it's something it makes sense to invest in.
> Is labor law all that clear on it?

In the US, I think it's pretty clear that they are employees.

https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Emplo...

"Does Uber control how the worker does his or her job?" - Yep.
"Are the business aspects controlled by the payer?" - Yes, almost entirely.

Even if they passed that, there's a special category for workers called "Statutory Employees", where some contractors are treated as employees even if they don't meet the normal check, which includes :

"The service contract states that all services are to be provided by them personally" - Yep. Uber drivers can't accept a route for someone else, or vise-versa
"The services are performed on a continuing basis for the same payer." - Yep. Uber drivers routinely drive for Uber.

If the court respects the current rules as written, I don't see any way Uber can claim their employees are independent contractors.
So long as you don't wait forever. The market bottom of any exchange or stock is $0.00. The market, will likely never actually "bottom out". Look into DCA Dollar Cost Averaging. I personally, and professionally, manage DCA strategies with applying additional infusions during obvious lows (example: markets are down 10% in a given period). The bottom of a cycle can undulate "sideways" a bit over a period of weeks, months, years, decades with few discernible entry or exit points. Sometimes after an "event" occurs, the market/stock jumps XX% and opportunities may not occur again in the near future (goes sideways at new level). I note sideways markets/stocks and calculate the risk/reward if I deem it an opportune time. In most markets stocks don't go sideways forever.
This has nothing to do with feminism. In this day and age we can expect most to agree that the causes are worthwhile.

The problem here is simply put; piss poor financial management.
> The CEO of WarMart has mentioned this

So a business model of screwing every penny out of your staff and suppliers can result in customers too poor to buy your merchandise?

Who could have forseen this?
And of course Medium didn't pay you to write the post, another difference from magazine publishers.
Good rant on the current state of web development tools
I created a video course that addresses the exact problem you're describing and shows you how to build a full multi-page app backed by a database (but it's for Angular rather than React).

http://www.angularcourse.com

When I was learning I saw the same thing you're still seeing — most tutorials only explain high-level concepts and when they do show code examples, they are tiny, arbitrary, and unrealistic. So when I quit my job to teach web development, I wanted to make sure I didn't do the same thing as everyone else.
This is when you line up an army on one side of the field that believes heart disease is exacerbated by the saturated fats, cholesterol, and sodium in red meat, and you line up the army on the other side of the field that believes that heart disease is exacerbated by sugars, simple carbohydrates, and insufficient magnesium, vitamin D, and vitamin K.

Then they converge in the middle, and methodically slaughter any chance at rationally examining the science, with their sharp blades made from laminated dollar bills.

Politics and science do not mix well. Some may not like that other people eat beef steaks. Others may not like enriched white flour or high fructose corn syrup. Some people might not like genetically modified whatevers, or artificial hormone treated this-and-thats. But I don't want my diet to be constrained on all sides by FUD and scaremongering.

Besides that, I don't believe that cigarettes are taxed heavily as a means to benefit the public health. I believe that they are taxed heavily because nicotine addicts will just pay that much for a fix. The supposed health benefit just makes it easier for other people to ignore that a consumer product is being selectively taxed at a scandalously high rate.
Why would they all go to this one place though? Perhaps the sellers of the tool configured it with a default location. Now that would be cruel.
For someone with any amount of tech savvy, I just don't think there's any excuse for not posting writing on your own, self-hosted system. HTML in its most basic form is literally designed for this use case.

Medium's cool now, but it won't necessarily be in a few years. And it's completely within the realm of possibility that they will disappear entirely at some point. It happens all the time. Big sites that people have contributed mass amounts of content to blink out of existence on a very regular basis. Sometimes without warning or the ability to back-up data. But the best case, like Winer points out, is that any links in become broken, comments get lost, etc.

Your writing is yours. Own it.
I agree with the timestamp argument for storage but you might also want to keep the timezone/locale along.

Operation like "1 day from this timestamp" is locale-dependent. And SECONDS_PER_DAY is not a constant.
Wouldn't hurt to change the MAC of the router (and the SSID while they're at it).
My money is on a wifi SSID that matches the one used by thieves or a heavily-trafficked location the victims all pass through.

My company moved ~5 blocks and it really screwed up the map on my phone (which I use to get around the city) for several months. My company had left the network SSID the same in the old location, so that no one had to re-configure their wifi. Even with GPS on, my phone was always convinced it was in the old location up the block, and this would persist even when I was out on the street, until I walked around a bit.

There are companies (presumably Skyhook is one of them) who drive around mapping SSIDs to physical locations. The problem is that SSIDs can move or be duplicated elsewhere.

The article says of one of the couple "at one point he reset their router, and changed the frequency at which it broadcasts; it didn’t solve the problem." It does not say if he changed the SSID.

Theoretically, location is often determined using not just one but several nearby SSIDs, a sort of triangulation. Another possibility here is that there are multiple nearby SSIDs around this home that match the SSIDs surrounding some other area tied to the victims.
And another thing: is Medium really that popular? I mean, inside the tech bubble I know it is, but I feel like this might be another case of us having a warped view of the world (like how, outside "tech people" I still have yet to encounter somebody who has heard of Slack). To the general public Medium is just another thing alongside Tumblr and WordPress and Squarespace; I really don't think it's in imminent danger of taking over the web as a monoculture.
Debates on Blockchain Eclipse Talk of Basel III at Davos
Video presentation of the same material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpuUUxMfaJs
This is more fun to read as the cross-post on Medium (https://medium.com/@davewiner/anywhere-but-medium-5450cb19f2...), especially the parts about how people can't criticize Medium on Medium.
I find it strange the author of the article seems to imply this is a surprising find. Humans have been slaughtering each other for all sorts of reasons since the beginning of known history. This merely is another confirmation.
There's a cultural difference too, for example in the terms of Hofstede's theory, Switzerland scores highly on pragmatism:
http://geert-hofstede.com/switzerland.html
Story time! I smoked my first cigarette when I was 20. I was living in chicago, and at the time I was homeless and had spent about an hour and a half sitting on one of the train stops contemplating jumping in front of one. Obviously, I was looking a bit distraught, and a woman came up to me to ask if I was alright. I said I was fine, and she offered me a cigarette. I figured at this point, who cares. I was literally about 10 feet and an impulse away from killing myself, so I accepted. I was able to resist that particular impulse, but the anxiety and depression have more or less followed me. I continued smoking, and my daily use has varied, and even ceasing periodically for months at a time. But I find myself turning back to smoking at times when I am so anxious and depressed that I really want to die. It helps me to calm a little, and placate the suicidal impulse long enough to pass.
How is that a circular dependency?
I thought it was the MAC addresses of routers which were used for mapping, not SSIDs. Duplicate SSIDs are very common.
I'd observe that Dave Winer, and I guess me too now, have lived through several instances of this. The question to me isn't how you feel now; it's how will you feel 5 or 10 years from now? Do you still think Medium will have your stuff? Do you think they're going to have your interests in mind?

My weblog ain't nothing special and gets basically no hits (as befits its basically-no-new-posts), but it's 16 years [1] old and still all there (albeit with the first couple of years somewhat scrambled from some importing across systems; just never taken the time to sort it out), and all mine. Has your content lasted 16 years?

The only thing about his piece that surprised me was referring to putting something on wordpress.com as a happy ending, since it seems like the same basic problem.

[1]: Jeepers, my blog can get a learner's permit. When, metaphorically, did that happen?
Markets have proven exceptionally unreliable at fully pricing energy.

Much our present problem results from under-pricing of fossil fuels due to:

1. Negative pollution externalities.

2. Far more significant: failing to account for replacement costs of consumed resources. Fossil fuels are accumulated biofuels. We're consuming them at about 5 million times the rate of their initial creation, and at rates exceeding substantively most or all present net primary production.

Enjoy the windfall. It won't last.
Thank you, I'm confused as to why this is happening.
Users cannot tell you what's wrong with your design. They don't know. It "feels wrong" or they "don't like it". But they CAN tell you that your design is BAD. It's up to you (or other designers) to tell you what's wrong with it. But if the users don't like it, you failed, and it doesn't matter if other designers think it's good.

Your target is the users, if the users aren't having a good experience, you're not doing it right.
Chase RiceWill You Accept This Rose?
Thanks for posting that link.

It's important background info that apparently the other commenters weren't aware of.

They basically have, due to their excellent product, deep pockets, and professional promotion, become the default place to post not just start-up posts, but political ones as well.

All that background is assumed in my post because I've written about it many times before, in different contexts, and posted links to other commentary about Medium.

As often is the case commenters on Hacker News don't always thoroughly research the background for THEIR opinions as they excoriate others for the same. ;-)
Microsoft's PR to Get Node.js Using Edge’s ChakraCore Engine
The Story Behind F.lux
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I'd imagine depression also plays a huge role.

"Why stop? You are going to die anyway. And don't you deserve to die? You are smoking after all. No point in stopping now. Not like your life was ever going to go anywhere."
Fair Use Economics: How Fair Use Makes Innovation Possible and Profitable
There is value in advertising, but it's a very inefficient way of providing that value, because the incentives aren't aligned with that goal at all.

An independent agency is likely to provide consumers with more accurate advice, AND can more effectively establish trust in decent products. I know Which? exists in the UK, and apparently there's something called Consumer Reports in the US. Is it any good?
Sadly I can't cite a source, but I once read that farming didn't increase the lifespan or health, but actually greatly reduced it (note that we today have a totally different diet from the first days of farming). However it made an extremely higher population density possible. A real paleo diet would be so land consuming that it wouldn't be possible for more than a negligible fraction of today's population.
Well, that and they didn't do DNS based validation first. I guess they have that now.
maybe that's cause the NSA has secret algorithms to factor large numbers with quantum computers 0_0

:p
Thanks for the clarification about Mallow's C_p, I always get the name messed up for some reason.
Nielsen will access your FB convos for TV ratings (anonymized)
Based on my experience interviewing a handful of developer candidates graduating from Howard, not being prepared is the best way I can describe the impression they left.

It felt like they only had a smattering of CS courses, none of which pushed them very hard.

In other words, they should fix their curriculum.
Remember how I said this software was an example of Not Invented Here? This means that when you ask for my feedback and then switch the topic to the classic open-source defense of "so fix it yourself", I'm even less likely than usual to comply.

The Nim community's attempt to write a forum from scratch has left them with a deficient forum, and I've explained some reasons why. I took your request for feedback seriously, so you should take my feedback seriously.
Agreed, I kept waiting for him to come to the point but it never seemed to happen.

A good rant should be like a well-optimized piece of code, and not waste a lot of the reader's mental CPU cycles.
Good point. My understanding is that both SSID and MAC address are typically used as inputs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system
“Maven customers will experience seamless smartphone and keyless integration with the vehicle. Maven customers use its app to search for and reserve a vehicle by location or car type and unlock the vehicle with their smartphone. The app also enables remote functions such as starting, heating or cooling and more. Customers can bring their digital lives into the vehicle through Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, OnStar, SiriusXM radio and 4GLTE wireless. Each vehicle will provide an ownership-like experience with the convenience of car-sharing.”

Maven 'passengers' are the drivers. They rent a car, pay by the hour.
Great.

Now what happens when you have to do a rotation because of another attack that makes it possible to leak private keys?
Nitpick: EULA usually applies to end user, not buyer (hence the name). Agree otherwise.
They seem to have sold very early in the lifecycle of the Unikernel technology. Possible they've left billions on the table?

Were the terms of the deal disclosed?

Perhaps Unikernel Systems ran out of money and it was an "acqui-hire"?
> A modern "new deal" for elder care would also do the trick..

Oh please no! Boomers have already pillaged and mortgaged the futures of the youth enough already. The last thing we need is for them to stick it one more time with a new set of unpaid indefinite obligations.

For a simpler approach, just give everybody $X (00 or 000?) either one off or repeatedly. It's as progressive as it gets and at least some youth will benefit.
Pumped hydro / storage sites are largely built out. To meet full needs, or alternatively, the equivalent dispatchable generation capacity of present fossil-fueled generation, would require something on the order of 2,400 Hoover Dam equivalents.

Siting and water flows for such installations are somewhat lacking.

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor...
No mention of svbtle?

Edit: I just visited the site for the first time in ages, and noticed it's no longer free to sign up.

I take back any implied endorsement thereof.
Yes, posting there!
I think these points are only radicalized by things like Bitcoin which will have an effect like the silver coming in from the "New World" . . . except more eerie . . . or ethereal: Ethereum's currency is called "ether"
Open-Source Firmware for Your Toy Drone
Or spearphishing. Send a secretary something that looks like a nice business proposal, then when she forwards it to her boss it's a link to some XSS attack.
Xtensio
Seems choking is also now cheating.

Tennis is a confidence game, miss a big few shots and you stop going for them. It's all downhill from there.

We need to see the phone records.
The book this "evidence" comes from is the much derided "Bell Curve." The poster is a HN racist troll. I checked his comment history and he pretty much only posts stuff similar to this.
The display name is often referred to as ESSID while the MAC address is also called the BSSID. Confusion!
He's arguing that Medium owns the distribution rights to your content. Which... if I were to be partial to him, I'd say Medium can monopolize the public's attention as to where we read content. Like Amazon and Books, PornHub and Adult Videos, probably others. It's possible that if Medium goes under, it does everything it possibly could to prevent people from downloading their content.

Not saying that I agree with him. At the end of the day, Medium says the writers own their content. I feel ok with them, though I can empathize with OP, given the amount of shitty things BigCorp companies have done in the past.

https://medium.com/policy/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e...
This businessman turned $40 into $6B
> I feel like you're 100% okay with ideological posturing when it's politically correct and aligns with your worldview, and 100% not okay with it when is is misaligned with your worldview.

I'm glad you said "I feel", because the statement that follows is not true, nor could you know what my worldview is; you've simply imagined it. I have a feeling, too: that people say this when they don't want to admit they've been abusing HN. It's easier to believe that one is being "suppressed" and "censored"—grand political reasons instead of petty procedural ones.

> Calling anything you don't like "tedious" or "acrimonious" and then flagging and removing it

There are orders of magnitude more things that I don't like.

> Especially when PG has written articles specifically about how much he dislikes tone policing.

It's ironic that you would invoke pg when he's the person who wrote the HN guidelines, taught us how to interpret them, and in seven years of commenting on HN never once (to my knowledge) did the things we're asking you not to do. If you really understood what he wrote, you'd follow suit instead of undermining it.
This is what I did. Everything was too heavyweight or ugly for me, so I hacked together a PHP script: https://github.com/TazeTSchnitzel/blog

Doing it yourself means it's as simple or complicated as you like it, and you can add whatever feature you want.

For instance, my blog displays a seasonal emoji next to the year: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TazeTSchnitzel/blog/75d789...
I guess it's not exactly difficult for the likes of google to remove the millions of 'Netgear' SSIDs from their dataset.
This is great for microservices where managing lots of SSL certs can be a pain.
As someone who tangentially works in the industry, you couldn't be more wrong. Ads literally subsidize the vast majority of content you consume on the internet. More importantly, ads subsidize and promote innovation. Without ads, we wouldn't have sites like youtube, facebook, reddit or pretty much every website that doesn't rely on donations (wikipedia, etc).

It's interesting just how much of a disconnect young people have with this topic (in my experience, older people are skeptical of all the free content on the 'net. My grandmother thought she was going to get a bill from youtube for watching so many videos and not having to pay anything up front). Perhaps it's one of the reasons why they call our generation "the entitled generation". We've always had free content on the internet so we don't appreciate or understand how the people who create that content get paid.