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India's Telecom Authorities Rule Against FB’s Controversial Free Internet Plan
How did *that* get in a bottle?
Yes, what used to be called ES6 has been renamed ES2015.

What's the problem?
Making money versus making knowledge
> Is this a good time to look or better to keep a "safe" job?

No such animal as a "safe job", even the postal service is eliminating people.

As you evaluate a prospective employer-- consider their business model and markets they serve. Are they expanding? Does the senior leadership have experience and stability?

Relative to Yahoo/Twitter engineers-- some of those guys are getting fat severance packages and plan to chill on the beach for the next 18 months. Don't worry about them. Move when the right opportunity lines up for you.
Mushroom, mushroom.
> There's a huge operational and engineering cost buried in that statement, which the article is trying to unearth and provide better solutions for.

Sure, there's always an operational and engineering cost to logging. I think the original comment makes that plain.
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OS X also does this, even if you turn off all of its telemetry settings.

Source: Little Snitch and the log files on my OS X systems.
Somewhat related, I really like the NYCNC videos . https://www.youtube.com/user/saunixcomp, showing CNC machining, CAD work - you can learn a lot from those videos!
How does Facebook manage 1000+ config changes a day? Config as code approach
No, unless you make use of weak_ptr.

The problem with RC based solutions is that to beat the top of top GC implementations, they need compiler support and so many tricks that in the end one gets RC + mini-GC anyway.

For example, Cedar at Xerox PARC used RC with local GC for cycle collection, instead of trying to use lots of tricks for RC performance fine tuning.
Of course they belong. Their inflated stock hit almost $100 less than a year ago and now it's $10. They are in the 90 percent club, like most of tech back in the dotcom bust. They have arrived there faster than others, so why exactly doesn't it belong with the rest of them? Plus, they are having layoffs. It's actually a perfect fit to my argument.
India has different set of laws on it. It's not allowed to create slow lanes in the first place. It's also not allowed to provision a broadband speed of lower than 512 kbit which is due to be revised to 1 mbit/2 mbit minimum depending on where you are later this year. Similar minimum speed rules exist for 2G, 3G, and now LTE.

This new ban works alongside other laws. Broadband operators must adhere to existing neutrality laws, minimum speed laws, laws regarding unlawful banning of websites.

To answer your question, no, a Netflix lane of 0.1 kbps is not allowed, and never was. Even service provider assisted parental control is not allowed. Airtel had to backtrack Quickheal offer a couple years back because somebody saw it as operator influence. You must implement parental control at home, and your service provider can't sell you the software or that service.
Very true, although chrome has recently updated to use the new iOS web view and it's much nicer. Chrome does need a lot of work on OS X but I'm too locked into things like devtools at this point
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It doesn't look like it does yet.

http://caniuse.com/#search=Notifications
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Yeah, but the detection rates suck for every single AV.

Slightly better snake oil is still snake oil.
i did the same thing and was also pleased with the results until the recent change that removed the submit button from the text entry field on comments - now there isnt a way to reply to conversations on facebook.
I'll give you an interesting example. I was one day coding a keylogger for testing purposes. 100% original C++ code written by me based on Win32 API docs.

Compiled and ran the code and immediately Bitdefender blocked the program and put up a "Keylogger detected" message.

Microsoft built in antivirus doesn't have this kind of behavioral detection protections.
Pretty cynical. It all depends on your cultural framework I guess. I'm sure there are places in India (not upper-class technology workers for instance) where the rules are different. And there are sure different ways in America for dating to work. How about: meet in college, have a few study dates, go out for dinner or a movie, meet her parents on Parents' Day, graduate and continue common interests like folk dance club or book club. Propose among the amazing plants of the Cactus Garden on campus. No inebriation, settling or age-related angst involved.
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We get it, you don't use Facebook.

I personally love Facebook. I keep in touch with family I can't see often. They get to see my daughter as if they live near us.

I've engaged with people I would have never engaged with all because we have mutual friends, and end up growing friendships out of it.

I get to share things I find interesting, my thoughts, my feelings. I get to see a deeper side of my family and friends whom also do the same.

Look if your family and friends suck and all you see is "I had a bologna sandwich today" repeatedly, or that's all you can contribute, than take a look at your life and choice of peers, because using Facebook or not doesn't make or break them.
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It isn't exposure to writing in itself that reduces remembering, but the difference in how literate people tend to behave, by relying more on "external storage" than their own memories. I first became aware of this possibility when I took a class in translating Homeric epic poetry, much of which has been shaped by its origin as an oral tradition. (For instance, it has been speculated that the many repetitive phrases the Homeric epics are aids to memory -- 'the swift-footed Achilles,' etc.)

It's well established that remembering is to some extent a skill. You can find sources with a cursory search. If you're interested in a longer treatment of the subject, "Moonwalking with Einstein" by a journalist named Josh Foer, who managed to win the largest memory competition in the US using mnemonics, is well worth the read.
Do you have a MakerSpace nearby?

Two near my house let you use their gear after getting certified (trained). Then you pay per minute.

A third MakerSpace has the gear, but they operate it for you. I was prototyping a laser engraved product. Working thru someone else's hands was expensive and unsatisfying.
"Well walla" and "kaka felota" are just quality conlanging.
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Ah, yes, sorry. Still, nearly $2B revenue and funneling most of it into trying to break into the Chinese market; I don't think they're doing badly at all.
The badger cull is absolutely the only reason this article was written.

Note that Ridley is a member of the UK government, so it's not a coincidence that he would be writing an article to defend the UK government's policies.
If you wrote a letter supporting the opposite side how big are the chances that your letter would be given equal weight as his given that you are both just 'any other citizen'?
Interesting point but I'm not sure how it applies to the argument. If websites are low quality, is that justification for an ISP to block them?
Well, it depends on whether you're designing a distributed system or not, what kind of sharding scheme you use if any etc.
ES2015 is the title of the standard that defines ECMAScript Language, version 6. They're essentially the same thing.
Even more, Microsoft and the OEMs don't really go out of their way to explain this choice to customers. I work with a senior software engineer who recently came to me for help with his new PC after having purchased the full version of the included anti-virus software. He seemed surprised when I asked why he wouldn't just stick with the built in software from Microsoft. So I sent him a link from Microsoft's site explaining about Windows Firewall and Defender. He later told me he felt stupid for having been convinced that he had to purchase the full version of what came on the system or else he would be unprotected. I think it is Microsoft who is stupid for not pushing this message harder, especially in light of the recent developments such as this one. In some of these cases, we're seeing that by installing a third-party anti-virus suite, you're actually reducing the security of your system. I think Microsoft should be concerned that these companies are actually hurting their reputation further.
I would go even further to say that after years of competitive swimming, I literally never heard it called "front crawl" by anyone. Every coach, swimmer, heat sheet, swimming record, etc...says freestyle.

NPR calling freestyle "front crawl" would be like referring to Tuberculosis research as "the consumption."
I find that quote very hard to belive. Writing had been developed for millenia before Socrates' time.
Oh yeah, I agree. I was just responding to what I thought was the person above me's recommendation to not use Facebook at all. I may have been incorrect in that interpretation of what they were saying, though.
"More and companies are opening up their firewalls outbound because it makes developers feel warm and fuzzy." - this is the actual issue, and should fail you in the audit: precisely because it is a major vulnerability which can be abused in 10^128 different ways.

Running around screaming "OMG OMG, the tool designed to tunnel over the network can be used to tunnel over the network, TEH SKY IS FALLING!!1!!!" is even somewhat funny in this context.
If the state thinks it's a bad idea, they can not offer their own infrastructure to FB. That's not what happened. They decreed that nobody, even those who agree with FB, can rent their infrastructure to FB. That's the problem.
I don't know much about the geographic distribution of hybrids, but I've never seen anything other than the scraggly little western ones around San Diego; they're about 30 lbs soaking wet, nowhere near as big as the ones you see in New Hampshire or around Canada.
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There's a huge story arc in the novels, so I think we're safe for a while. I highly recommend the books.

I've thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a wonderfully constructed world and they're doing justice to the complex characters too.
malloc/new is slooooow, about an order of magnitude slower than GC for many small allocations. You can make it faster by using an allocator or doing allocation yourself, but nobody's come up with a dynamic manual allocator that beats GC, not even in research.

When you compare benchmarks in GC languages to benchmarks in non-GC languages, you're usually comparing mostly-static allocation to dynamic allocation, because non-GC languages tend to be oriented to the former. With functional data structures, however, lots of dynamic allocation is typically unavoidable.
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I don't see it that way. We don't get WebKit through Google and Apple. We get long tail contributions to the project:

https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus...

What we have is centralization in phone manufacturers when it comes to Apple, but not Android. Google tried to re-centralize by making the Play Store but Amazon and others already forked Android. In fact, Chrome is a fork of WebKit which Apple started for Safari! And that is how we had such an acceleration of features. Open source and commercial competition.

I don't deny FOSS commingles with commercial offerings. Rather I'm saying that when platforms became freely forkable, the quality AND the freedom rose dramatically. That has yet to happen in social -- as you say, Diaspora* didn't take off.

But once there is a viable FOSS social tech platform, it will disrupt all the big players. Who needs http://twitter.com/MyBrand when I can just add the Twitter module to mybrand.com !

You can also see the problems with Facebook campaigning for India to have a billion people have their internet signal go to Facebook's server farms. Besides state spy agencies, this is also simply bad engineering. Early internet apps like email worked even if email.com was down. I could use the local network.

I think we will actually soon have software that runs on social mesh networks and that's going to enable everyone in the world to share files, communicate and collaborate faster and wasting less energy than going through a central hub. You'll see a re decentralization of the internet in the next several years.
Have you ever been under the control of a central corporate infrastructure group? I've had good and experienced the worst as well. I'll gladly take my chances with AWS instead of dealing with internal groups.
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That's an interesting point. One of the nice things about immutable structures is that old things can never point at new things. (Some might exploit laziness to allow some sort of loop but I'd count that thunk as a mutable structure, even if it's referentially transparent like in Haskell.)

Some functional languages leverage this sort of restriction to their advantage. It can simplify garbage collection and serialization protocols don't need to track visited nodes for example. It's certainly nice to be able to step out of this mode from time to time and many functional languages provide controlled effects of sorts. I think an interesting area to study would be the balance between minimal effects and otherwise immutable structures. I wouldn't however, use this to sacrifice persistence, which it seems many implementations do.
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Confused. Even GC requires something like malloc - a heap manager for allocating new storage. GC adds complex algorithms on top of that. It has to be slower than malloc.
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The author is a Go developer; if you are too, a good starting point is to use expvar and then whatever tool your collector provides for collecting expvars. Besides being in the standard library, there's the advantage of there being lots of tools that speak expvar.
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I don't think this comment is fair to them.

Computers are less widespread than phones because latter are cheaper and you can also take them where (cheaper or free) connection is. They are not just an entertainment device although they use it for that too (and why shouldn't they?).

Any research for school or otherwise will be done through phones as libraries for many are not easy to reach or well stocked. And social networks play an important information role beyond socialising that every human person needs purely for health benefits.
This looks more like a blog post and should probably be a regular submission:

Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
But the royal family owns a vast amount of land. If they have a badger problem on that land and they would like the government to do something about, how do you think they should do it?
the reason this is mostly useless is malware writers can do the same test with every AV and just evade the heuristics.
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Well eventually, oxygen et al will just be catalysts to silicon based life :)
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> But it certainly comes off super close-minded to think that original ideas and values are somehow purer than current ones.

Facebook looks to use technology to trick people into allowing the collecting of huge swarms of data from every user to feed its new features and cheapen its bottom line. There are many ways to make a profit, and in fact, I have no ethical quandary with Facebook doing this (I choose not to use Facebook because I am a discerning consumer. If you want to not be discerning in your internet use, I think that's your right.)

However, my _moral_ quandary with this premise is enormous. Of all the great ways to make a profit, why choose this cynical and disturbing model? Most great products help people, but Facebook does not make life easier or more enjoyable for its users. It's really just a blogging and chat platform riddled with "features" that exploit its users at every turn. I do not wish to engage in such activities myself, but I won't tell others not to do it. Ultimately, it is the consumer who needs to individually realize that these products are bullshit, not the companies making them. The only reason Facebook is successful is because its users are foolish enough to adopt it. If people didn't agree to these travesties, Facebook would not exist in its current form.

The "old" internet made up of hackers, academics, and government types, was far too discerning to allow something like Facebook to just happen.
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Both, and that's the key issue. Here's an example:

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1266875/exclusive...
Personally, I think the consolidation down to a few players is a big concern.

At the moment, there's a fair amount of diversity out there for things like:

- server hardware, network hardware, etc

- specific linux distribution

- webserver "brand" (apache, nginx, etc) and version

- database choices (oracle, postgres, mysql, etc) and versions

- application server level (java/j2ee/tomcat, node, python, php, etc)

I would argue that most of that diversity is currently driven by non-cloud applications. You do, of course, have choices in the cloud as well. However, they all have a lower friction path that would naturally consolidate the current broad array of choices down to fewer solutions.

The hard bit is trying to visualize if the majority of non-cloud solutions are eventually going to move to the cloud, or will there always be a significantly large non-cloud solution set out there? There's also the question of how many of the cloud customers would leverage the providers' default tech stack choices versus customers making their own choices.
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Ask HN: Do you need a new Issue Tracking and Project Management tool?
I've been working for quite a while on a new issue tracking/project management tool. The goal was to make it as a native cross-platform application (think Slack), with potential offline support.

Now I've been demotivated a little bit after making some more research on this whole topic, as there are so many Jiras and Asanas out there, that making another one is like starting a new Facebook - at least, these are my thoughts as of right now.

To either confirm or deny the conclusion, I decided to simply ask community.

Is anyone looking to replace existing project management and issue tracking software with something else?
I've seen first hand the kind of damage a feral cat can do to an adult guy (you would not believe it so no point describing it), I'd hate to walk into a lynx, especially one with young nearby. It's not just the livestock farmers that will react to that one. Lynx are nothing to mess around with if you can avoid them please do.
Does anything rolled in flour and deep fried actually taste bad?
That article strangely claims it's not Forbes' fault if their pages serve malware. Of course it's their fault and responsibility when they have freely chosen to work with this advertisement provider. Of course they should change the agency, and perhaps claim damages, but one can't transfer the responsibility on third parties.
That's a feature, not a bug. SSH is a power tool; if your users can not be trusted with power tools, it is your responsibility to provide them with something brightly coloured, drool-proof and locked down.
That's my point. I don't see the facebook app in this list. Despite having it installed and being logged in.
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I've seen goto used in golang stdlib for error handling

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/strconv/atoi.go...
It's highly likely that "business-class" antivirus is the same code sold at 100x the price.

It's also highly unlikely that the teams putting out shitty consumer-facing antivirus magically write awesome code for the enterprise versions.
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I get more excitement from seeing his avatar in my Twitter timeline than any other.
I mainly have the app installed so I can use the "Nearby Friends" feature as I enjoy spying on my wife and random friends.

I think the video calling is pretty good too on the app. Of course the last time I video called someone was in the early 2000's using 320x240 webcams so I might be a little biased quality wise.

I haven't really noticed battery drain but since I normally work at home, I keep my phone on "Airplane" mode so I don't waste battery maintaining a cell connection (the phone has wifi calling which can receive calls and sms).

This is a samsung galaxy core prime. If I don't use it and let it sit there at idle, after 2 days it will have only used 20-30% battery.
Give the land to the government?

It doesn't seem to me as if they got it through legitimate ways to begin with. Royalty never struck me as fair play.
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This is pretty weaksauce. You can get all the open sockets in like 10 seconds. Besides, all of these IPs have been out there ever since W10 came out. How about an actual analysis of what data is being gathered, what data is sent, and what settings affect it?
I can't see an analysis of this, just a huge list of IP addresses? We need to know what the actual content is and from what Windows components it's being sent.
Helping the poor is a red herring. Facebook could easily give fair, unbiased acccess, but they want a monopoly.

Would you be so apologetic if Comcast gave everyone free NBC streaming but charged more for Netflix?
It was just meant as an illustration that nobody is safe, no responsibility was implied.
I think Mark Zuckerberg's benevolence is going to be put to the test now that India has rejected it on his terms.
This is cool. On this:

To ensure that your servers are kept in a cached state, you can manually configure a scheduled task for your Zappa function that'll keep the server cached by calling it every 5 minutes.

The cost of running the warmer (300s * ~3M * 512MB) comes out to about $18 and that's not counting the number of actual requests from end users. It's interesting but costly as a substitute.
Github -> Gitlab, Slack -> Mattermost, and a thousands other open source projects.
I can see non-competes as valuable for people who know business details that would be considered trade secrets (and only for a limited period of time). But for people further down the ladder, this seems like an extremely high burden.