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TLS operational costs are still higher, right?

Not necessarily. Once you enable and optimize your TLS stack you're also well on your way to deploying HTTP/2. Unlike HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 requires only a single connection per origin, which means fewer sockets, memory buffers, TLS handshakes, and so on. As a result, it may well be the case that you will be able to handle more users with fewer resources.
The logical positivist school of economics is one branch, and dominated the field for a time. It is far from the complete story though.
It was written by the tech columnist John C. Dvorak, who also co-hosts the media analysis podcast No Agenda. I believe the findings are based his analysis.
I agree with you in principle; I now use ad blockers after arguing for years that people shouldn't. But in reality that's a tough case to make.

Sure, the NSA might find out what web sites I've been visiting, but that's a really abstract concept for most people. I don't want to attack your analogy too much, but sticking yourself with discarded needles is a much more tangible risk, and doesn't bring any benefits along with it.

There are some sites I frequent that are egregious about ads, but they provide enough value to me that I keep going back.
Hey, Andrei (the UBC grad) and founder of Human API here.

We still have a great group of people in Vancouver (and that office will be open indefinitely), however we've decided not to expand the team there right now. The biggest driver in this decision was communication overhead across the two offices -- it's certainly not an insurmountable task, however we can't ignore the benefits of having most people under the same roof.

I personally love Vancouver and some of our best team members are located there, so if we decide to expand across two offices again, we'll definitely start there.
There's a reasonable approach you can take to getting something out of bulletproof coffee that answers just about every straw-man'ed-up objection in the article.

For over a year, I made a mason jar every morning consisting of either cold brew coffee concentrate with hot water, or press-pot brewed coffee, mixed with a slab of grass-fed butter (1/8th of a package of unsalted Kerrygold), and a few tablespoons of coconut oil. Sometimes a small dollop of heavy cream if I had some on hand. I'd add some 100% stevia powder and 1/8th of a bar of Green and Black brand (no soy lecithin) 85% dark chocolate, and hit it with a hand blender until it foamed up to the top of the jar (you have to fill the jar only half full or it will spray over the top). You don't need to use a regular blender (in, having tried it, I'd highly recommend against it, because the steam tends to blow the top open and you have scalding greasy coffee everywhere). The hand blender (aka "stick blender") is perfect and to clean it, just put the end in soapy water and turn it on, then do it once more in plain hot water, and it's clean until the next day. One caution is that on winter mornings you should pre-heat the mason jar a bit with hot (not boiling) water, or it might crack from thermal stress when you pour in boiling water.

When I first started this, it _did_ make me a little queasy, but after a few days that went away. I also _did_ feel hungry shortly after drinking it as the author described, but I'm pretty sure that was more habit than anything else -- my body wasn't actually short of calories. After doing it for a week or two my system got accustomed to not having solid food first thing in the morning and I was not hungry like he described. I don't think the author did it long enough to let his body & brain actually adjust to a radical change in morning routine.

I'd have this for breakfast every morning and go for a long walk in my neighborhood (maybe 4-5 miles) then start work (I worked from home during that time).

The net effect was that I had quite a bit of energy, my mood improved, and I lost weight. I'm not going to claim that it was just the bulletproof. With this breakfast, I didn't crave lunch until about 2 p.m. most days. I think I actually ate fewer calories in a typical day. Also, I did have my cholesterol checked, and my HDL and all that improved after doing this for a year. Not that they were bad, but my HDL was low, and this seemed to fix that.

I never once bought expensive MCT or anything _labeled_ with the Bulletproof company name. The grass-fed butter (Kerrygold) is more expensive than regular butter and good coconut oil is not cheap, but as a _meal_ it's not that expensive per serving.

I realize it's just anecdotal but it was a good breakfast routine for me, once I figured out how to blend it well enough to stay blended. Your mileage may vary.
Yes and no. Support varies by the "app". Currently Netflix/PlayMusic works great with pause/stop, but no support for other buttons (next track, fast forward, rewind, etc...). I mostly just want pause though, so it works for me.
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There are many many things wrong with the article (elementary mistakes that a Harvard economist should not have made), but considering that it is basically a puff piece for his book, I'm not surprised in the slightest.

The article is typical WSJ garbage, gets cause and effect confused, makes comical, out-of-touch assumptions and, as usual, places the burden and fault on NEETs.
That applies to modern hardware and modern infrastructue – not to people in third world countries on decade old cheap hardware with barely working networks.
I guess I'm weird; I have no idea why the government has the ability to dictate what is and isn't in the soap that I choose to buy.

I agree however, anti-bacterial soap is silly. Looks like a lot of people here agree. Looks like a market segment to me. Didn't need a gun, theft, or a jail cell to create it.
As long as they treat an untrusted certificate as worse than plaintext (when in fact it's strictly better) this is all theater.
> However, the cloud is actually made from cheap commodity boxes without server-grade anything! ;)

You know, I refuse to buy anything that does not support ECC for my home desktops (and don't even pay much for it). Only my laptop got a pass from this because there was literally no option available with it.

Good to know cloud providers are not as careful... But honestly, shouldn't be a surprise.
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Facebook was also in one of the University Ave buildings for a bit before they moved to Page Mill and ultimately to Menlo Park.
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I'll go add my grievances, then... You asked for it!
We have a Metalsmith static site that requires "npm build" to build and Netlify seemed to figure it out automatically. Pulls directly from GitHub, built, deployed, SSL with LetsEncrypt. All for free.

Very nice service.
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good". While not the optimal solution this route significantly increases security while at the same time being easy and free to setup. I hope that CF starts to validate github pages certs so we can switch to their "strict" option in the future.
Yes, all these terrible corporations that want to make the Internet more secure. Who will stop them?
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I love how the FDA shifts the burden of proof to the product makers. You now have to prove that your product works. It's not the state that has to prove that your product is harmful to ban it. I can't agree with this order, but it's just another case of classic FDA behaviour.

I would like to live in a world where you have to show that something is bad before it gets banned. Not just a feeling, or that it doesn't work, but solid evidence that it's bad, that is, harming people or animals or destroying the environment, etc.
The next paragraph in the fine article is:

At the high level, we can specify Mean Shift as follows :
1. Fix a window around each data point.
2. Compute the mean of data within the window.
3. Shift the window to the mean and repeat till convergence.
Curious as to whether you went with the 3.8 because it was what would have been OE, or if there was an advantage to it over the 3.6.

Unlike most others in here, I'm not trying to second-guess you -- everybody's choices are personal choices, and I'm sure you had reasons for every choice you made that we weren't necessarily privy to -- I'm just curious, as I don't hear of a lot of 3.8s getting swapped INto JKs
It's also worth noting that we've learned the hard way that many types of accidents take-out all four engines simultaneously-- like British Airways Flight 9 in 1982 which accidentally flew through a volcanic flume and lost all four engines.

The 777 is my favorite also, it's a beautiful well-designed and well-built plane with an almost unbelievable safety record. (Barring being sabotaged by the pilot, or being shot down by a surface-to-air missile, which are hardly things you can blame on the aircraft itself.)
Then you need to be deploying HTTP/2 over TLS. You are doing a disservice to users with slow connections due to the cost of opening up multiple sockets. Multiplexing your data over an encrypted channel over HTTP/2 and TLS will be faster than domain-sharding over HTTP.
Downtown Palo Alto and especially California Ave. have nowhere near maximum density. University Ave. is full of low-rise, often single-story, buildings with a few taller ones here and there. The buildings there (and on Lytton and Hamilton) could easily be replaced with four-story mixed office/retail and residential with no impact to the area's look.
Like SpaceX maybe?
It wouldn't be so terrible if they adapted it to laptops though.

You missed one other possibility and that's structural components. If any of the parts of the device can be part of the hardened envelope then you lose less space.

For instance, a thinner PCB bonded to or traced onto the inside of the case. Or look at the research in automotive circles for batteries that can support a physical load.

And also one of my peeves about Apple phones is that the chassis is so strong that you don't need a cover, but only a few people I know don't use a case, so phone plus case is heavier.

I'd like to see someone build a phone that HAS to have a case, and comes with one, which you can replace. You could do the same with the modular design and then you wouldn't have to make individual pieces bomb proof.

It's not that I don't think it's inevitable that the project was cancelled now. I'm just thinking in ten years when some of this is sorted out and we have no reason to keep making phones smaller, this plan might come back again. It's just another project that came out before its time.
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You are not weird. The FDA holds enormous power, dictating what substances we may use and what we may not use. A desire for self-determination is only natural.
23 3rd party Ad site's cookies were blocked (unless my count was off). :-) Glad the FDA wised up, anti-bacterial soap was causing skin rashes for us in my personal opinion.
To the critics: The problem is, how to pay for content while maintaining user control over their privacy? Micropayments seem like a solution, and Brave has found an economical way to implement them. How would you change Brave and,

* Still solve the confidentiality problem

* Be realistically economical: Everyone gets paid

* Earn a profit (not a sin and a good way to make the project sustainable)

* Have a technical and practical means of widespread adoption (e.g., personal contact with one website at a time isn't practical).

Social change, such as user confidentiality on the Internet, comes when someone finds a practical way to get it done, not when we all complain about it. Naysayers on the sidelines who simply don't like change and find fault for sport are, as reformers have long pointed out, the biggest obstacles.

Kudos to Brave for tackling this tough and very important issue. They just might change the world.
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It also depends on the type of grill. Many common gas grills have thick bars with a grease channel, which would trap more gunk than thin rods common on charcoal grills.
It's better not to pretend to establish trust than establish a fake trust.
In this case, all humans are at a potentially grave risk from the actions of others. Seems like the perfect place for regulation.
A good reason to look for another webhoster.
The answer to this depends on information not present in the article, and is probably not possible to answer without an actual lawsuit. Are the manufacturers taking reasonable steps to avoid the problem? If so they're probably not responsible.

If there are internal emails at the company saying "well our testing shows it might kill people but we'll save 2 cents per brush if we accept weaker wire attachments" then sure. I doubt it's that clear cut.
Well, the big one is that it's a joint effort as a society to not continually strengthen bacteria by selecting for strains that are resistant to these antimicrobials.
Ugh, why do we have bad libertarian apologetics at the top of HN?
To me, consumer protection is a valid use of government.

And if "antibacterial" soap isn't better, and might be worse, then I'm all for restricting it.
For all those struggling to understand the mean shift algorithm, it's much easier to understand in pictures. Here's an article that explains it with some diagrams: http://eric-yuan.me/continuously-adaptive-shift/

Basically, it goes like this:

1. Select a data point of interest.

2. Draw a circle of a specified radius around the point of interest.

3. Collect all data points within the circle and compute their mean.

4. Move the center of the circle to the mean.

5. Repeat 3 & 4 until convergence. Each iteration will move
"uphill" on the density gradient of the data distribution until it reaches the top of the hill (a local maximum).

6. Repeat 1-5 for all data points. Points that converge to the same local maximum are members of the same cluster. The number of clusters is the number of local maxima.

For higher dimensions, replace "circle" with sphere (3-D) or hypersphere (4 & higher dimensions). Obviously, this algorithm depends on a choice of radius, which determines the granularity of the search for local maxima.
I've been working on this game in my free time for a while now, it was time to just hit the button and submit it. So far the feedback has been positive, but the size of the game might be too large, primarily caused by the music within the game. I might push a new version this weekend with less music that is loaded over wifi after app download.
I've seen several opinions here.

Antibacterial soap is unhealthy and should be banned for health reasons.

Antibacterial soap is largely ineffective, so should be banned for false advertising reasons.

Antibacterial soap should not be banned.

Which one is right? Is there any science or ethical political philosophy to justify this executive action?
> How would they prove the integrity of the data leaks?

Most jurisdictions already have security breach notification laws. If you're already required to report data loss to customers and/or the government, then at that point I don't think it's unreasonable to require companies to provide a copy of any leaked credentials since they should all be deactivated anyway.

> How would you prove that the password is reused, and how'd determine the size of the fine?

If companies were required to turn over credentials that had been breached, then this would be determined from the entire set of breached credentials.

> Does it matter if the password is strong, but reused and one of those services stores it in plain text and is hacked?

Sure, that's exactly why you're not supposed to ever reuse passwords even if they're strong.

> Would it be legal to use a weak password for a service if the hashing algorithm is strong, or just as long as the service isn't hacked and the data leaked?

I think there should be some minimum entropy level that's required regardless of the hashing algorithm. E.g. given that passwords can be automatically generated and stored, there is zero reason ever to use a password that's less than 30 characters of completely random characters.

> what you're suggesting requires at least two other crimes to be committed

The fact that these crimes are interconnected is why such a law is needed in the first place. And all these attacks are automated, so if you're reusing your last.fm password on Facebook and it takes ten minutes to brute force your last.fm password, then your Facebook account is going to potentially be pwned in ten minutes and 1 second.

If there were some benefit to having weak passwords then that would be one thing, but the way I see it it's just people creating a national security risk out of pure laziness.
LibreOffice should go back to its Java roots. It was a dumb decision to move away from an excellent language and platform.
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As another data point, It's the same story for international web-tech conferences.

Scatter sample: https://www.techdiary.co.uk/elsewhere [1]

[1] I run this, though only keep the NE section updated just now.
I think that was the case in the past, to a large degree.

But with desktop PC technology largely plateauing technology wise, I think this scenario is becoming more and more realistic. As long as the desktop market hangs on long enough for parts to be available, that is.
That's true, but market share is a pointless metric, since ultimately all it takes to get market share is money - the more you spend on advertising, the more you discount your product, the more people will own it regardless of how good or bad it is.

What matters is profit share, and Apple vacuums up nearly 100% of the profit in the smartphone world, and meanwhile Samsung silently prays that some day it will be within earshot of just breaking even.
Will this warning catch insecure pages which URL (or URI for pedantics, whatever suits) begin with https://google.com/amp/... ? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12395092
Ya, agreed. I'd much rather have this built into my ad blocker extension. IE, I could configure a wallet there which I could fund and they could send micro-payments based on the ads I block.

(sorta like Google's contributor but more open / distributed)
Why China says it censors (to eliminate porn and dangerous rumors) and what it actually censors (political views opposed to its own) are very telling. You can find plenty of porn and hysteria behind the GFW, but you'll be shut down quickly at the slightest mention of political reform, corruption, or financial info that doesn't fit the gov's narrative.

Judge China by what it does, not by what it says.
That only works if you can get device drivers.
Antibacterial soaps end up in very dilute concentrations and are used dramatically more than they used to. Sure, these soaps don't use Antibiotics, but having a wide range of Antibacterial substances that continue to work and can be applied to your skin is very useful.

Remember, an autoclave or UV lamp work fine to keep stuff sterile, but they are not safe to put your hand in / under.
Negative.

If I'm being phished by organized crime, I'd still rather the NSA not also be able to listen in.

The blinkard refusal of parts of the security community to understand this is appalling. An untrusted certificate means I know I am communicating with one and exactly one agent, whose identity I may later negotiate by other means.
It contributes to antibacterial resistance, which is a shared good. It's a case of the tragedy of the commons, which the free market is incapable of moderating on its own. This is exactly the kind of thing the government should be doing.
"I have no idea why" seems like a good place to start doing some research. In short (and as mentioned elsewhere in this thread), "the soap you choose to buy" may affect the ecosystem we live in. In particular, the bacteria that may infect us. When products on the market cause a public health concern, it is absolutely within the purview of government to regulate said products.
After updating Chrome, I visit google.com and see the gray i due to "a weak security configuration". If users are seeing this gray i everywhere, it will just be ignored, right?
Logical positivism is a school of philosophy. It certainly impacted the view of what constituted scientific analysis in the realm of economics. I'm more talking about the development of economics as a science, rather than a branch of politics or philosophy.
If you want you can use a self signed cert for that leg.
Btw, more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12061320
The point the article is trying to refute doesn't stand, teachers and first responders actually make more money than most athletes and actors.

I happen to know lot of ex-pro athletes, who are really good but didn't quite make it big, or just in a less rewarding field (like swimming), and lots of musicians who have trained in their art for their whole lives.

Even the very best violinists, sans a few in the world who happen to be famous, are only making comfortable middle class income. There is a joke in the classical musician world :"Real musicians have day jobs."

And for the athletes, most make nothing, especially in North America where there is no semi-pro clubs and leagues.
I too am interested in this documentation. I'm aware of concerns going back over more than a decade, when somebody stopped me in the grocery store to warn me about the BPA in plastic liners in a can of crushed tomatoes. Since then I've kept an eye on the situation. This has turned up plenty of concerns, and a lot of "folk" documentation of harm.

However, I haven't seen relevant scientific documentation that would indicate that the FDA should act. If there is some documentation, there should be a lawsuit to force the FDA to act. There are plenty of interested watchdog groups that would fund something like that.

If you can provide that, I'm getting on the phone today to start lobbying.
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Extensive discussion within the last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702779
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Democracy as a whole is kind of illusory at this point; the world has grown to such a scale and the general public so distracted that they often can't make valid decisions at the polling booth because they are so disconnected from the issues. In the old days, there were only so many things people had to understand before they were given a vote and, while those issues were more impactful on everyday life, they were also less complicated.

Today, the real issues have gotten complicated and nuanced, but the average human IQ and curiosity level has not caught up. As a result, we are handed lots of small and barely-relevant decisions to give us that illusion of choice, both for practical reasons and to shut us up. Local elections certainly have more impact on one's life, and really aren't hard to understand, but life is too good for most people to care enough. And, with people more infantilized than ever, the more they want surrogate mommies and daddies to make the tough decisions for them, just as their own parents did for them in childhood. So, when we are handed a piece of paper so we can say who we want to be our surrogate parents, most of us say "meh" and vote for the incumbents because, well, we have our smart phones, TV, Starbucks, and gourmet restaurants, so the current politicians can't be doing that bad, right?
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