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>Anyone who has been a freelancer has dealt with the random, uncalled for threats from clients to give you a bad review or try to suspend your account.

It's amazing, isn't it? These are people who require outside expertise (they're hiring you after all) and yet do everything they can to make you feel small and worthless. It's utterly backwards.

I wonder how many of these abusive people are "idea" guys?

Regardless, utterly embarrassing on the part of Upwork. Glad they're being called out. I hope the internet has its way with them.
With the web going more mobile with less storage space. Why would anyone would want to be a node in such a network where you have to cache content for others.
Does anyone have any benchmarks for this?
(Aside from the issues with reason #1 for not using consul noted below...)

The author says that Atlas is essentially "required" for bootstrapping. We simply use our cloud provider's "list-instances" command (with a filter) so that we don't rely on any third-party and never contact the internet. This is important to us for security and stability, and has kept our cluster running with over 1k members. We don't want to go down when Atlas or etcd's discovery service goes down.
Got the same message but somewhere I read it was due to the fact multiple users where present in my account (long time since I last used it).

I was able to remove the other user (under Settings - Permissions) and, subsequently, close the whole account.
They didn't say dangerous, they said ridiculous and it is a ridiculous guess. I don't really agree with "This kind of thinking has no place in serious software development." part but the assertion that the change is "probably to prevent any association with slavery" is ridiculous.
Whether or not they ever switch the option of doing so has got to give them a lot more leverage in price negotiations with Intel.
Those companies have a STRONG incentive to avoid disruption and this co2 to ethanol technology might be helpful in that regard? http://energy.gov/articles/scientists-accidentally-turned-co...
The future changes are clearly written on the wall. If the credit markets continue to ignore the trends and the risks of oil, then they deserve to loose money.
GM is shipping a (practical) mass market electric platform in a few months. They are apparently behind Tesla when it comes to autonomous features, the Bolt looks to be competitive with the Model 3 as a daily driver and will beat it to market.
What you see as "groupthink" is really your bias attempting to dismiss any number of people for disagreeing with you. I understand the point of your post, I just don't find that particular bias funny enough to let it pass uncommemted.
The open source tooling here is getting better but the gold standard, used by virtually every professional application security worker in the industry, is Burp Suite. Lots of people have tried to make modernized, open source versions of Burp, but at this point cloning it is like cloning Microsoft Word.

If I was your director of security, one of the first things I'd do is build a plan to get all your developers trained up on Burp. It's useful for more than just security testing.
But you're not uploading something that hasn't been, you're mirroring something that's already up.
I can't argue with that. I think the population's general level of financial knowledge is low, which is sad considering the influence it wields.

I suppose my expectations of this place is higher because...it is a great comment section. But the financial discussion is heavily conspiracy laden.
Yes they are. For military and commercial aircraft.
Well I'm still in favour of competition, so if Ford tries to charge the police more for using their cars the police are free to switch to Toyotas. Same for taxi and courier companies. And so the general rule commodity products would be that the price would not rise much above the cost of production.

But if Ford was to develop something better than any other car company - say, a car with the greatest acceleration - I would like them to be able to charge different price depending on whether the purchaser is the police force or a car racing team.

Nails are very much a commodity product, so once again competition would prohibit the supplier from charging much more than the cost of production. But let's say that a chemical company developed a superior adhesive such that a carpenter could save an hour on some types of construction jobs. The value of a carpenter's time is much more in the United States than in Indonesia, so I would like the chemical company to be able to charge much more for the same adhesive in the US compared to Indonesia.
No, I mean downvoting costs both the downvoter and the downvotee one point each. People won't downvote comments they merely disagree with but they will still try to correct injustice and disruption. I'm no game theorist but that's my guess. It also reflects human psychology where righteous anger comes with a personal cost.
A search engine via ethereum is not going to scale, is not easily upgraded, and will fall far short of any properly centralized search engine. If you want a competitve decentralized search engine, you're going to need a different technology.
Mirror, non-paywall.
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/a-new-realestate-war-in-silico...
Can I just take a moment to say how incredibly cool Cheney on the MTA is? Fast continuations, and a really neat GC model: It's great.
I remember when large swaths of the Christian communities around me (and the one I was a member of) condemned D&D for 'causing' Satanism. There was serious paranoia going. Actual Jack Chick level fears: https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

It's not entirely implausible that, within your lifetime, your country's leadership takes a turn to conservative Christianity, and the mere fact that you actually bought D&D material will have some negative consequence.

Now obviously in this case I wouldn't worry about it, but I'm just trying to point out that even something as 'innocent' (to us) as D&D is considered actively dangerous by a non-significant group of people who are also generally more comfortable with imposing their views on others (because it's not theirs but Gods).

One thing that took me a while to understand is that the problem is not primarily that your behavior is essentially public, but rather that it's recorded and stored 'forever'.
Out of interest, why is 17" the requirement? While there are laptops that have screens that size, they're not as portable as one might think. Laptops with screens that size tend to be used by video editors, photographers, anything that involves manipulating photos and videos really, so a powerful graphics card is pretty much part and parcel of that.

I used to have a 17" PowerBook years ago and I can tell you, if you're wanting portability then a 17" machine is not it. Machines of these size tend to be used in the field when needed, so it's not typically expected you'll be carrying one around day to day–they're more a "need to head to a shoot, take the 17" and put it in the truck so I can edit video while we work" type of deals.

More importantly, you'll find that many places where you'd normally be able to use a laptop are no longer an option, simply because of the gargantuan machine you're carrying (coffee shops, airplanes - many places you would expect to use a laptop tend to be uncertainties with a 17" laptop). If you're going to be carrying this around for any length of time then your back is also going to let you know just how painful this is.

As pointed out on the thread, the rise of 15" hi-res screens provides many of the benefits of the real estate of the 17" without the drawback of the extra bulk - provided you're eyesight is pretty good.
The problem is that the obsessive focus The Intercept has on these kinds of scoops, where they've identified a "key player" in the surveillance market that nobody has heard of --- EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT INTERCEPT --- creates a narrative in which technical surveillance is mostly attributable to a number of small rogue companies.

But nothing could be further from the truth. The amount of money Endace made on enabling GCHQ surveillance is literally a rounding error compared to the invoices that the tech giants generated on the same projects. We are letting the giants off the hook, and hammering these doofuses from New Zealand who just want to find a way to make money building packet capture cards. I almost have a hard time blaming them: packet capture cards are fun to work on but difficult to make a viable business out of. At least I understand a sort of relatable motivation for what Endace did. No such motivation exists for the GSA/FGA sales teams of the tech giants. If their firms sold murder-robots, those teams would happily sell them to North Korea if they could.

Endace deserves the attention, but the giants deserve it more, and they're getting let off the hook.
I would have no problem buying an 'old' car if price/performance was right, as would many others, not to mention that outside of hipster circles people value old brands as reliable and trustworthy. You can't comparre brands like VW and BlackBerry.
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They would first have to define what exactly they mean by 'mental illness' and children getting diagnosed with ADHD has more to do with the pharmaceutical industry selling more drugs than any valid evidence that ADHD actually exists.
Ask yourself "will authors consuming my module need this dependency?". If not, it's a development dependency.

If you're including pure-JavaScript artifacts in your npm releases, downstream authors probably don't care about your Babel/Webpack configuration.
Why did they write a Scheme debugger in TCL?
Yes because with improved tools we are expected to do more things to achieve the same goals.

Doesn't this mean we are becoming more inefficient? I wouldn't agree with calling those tools "improved", in that case.

About the size of the code: the code I wrote this time is roughly one third of the size of my original code which probably means it has less bugs and is more maintainable

That neglects to consider the fact that you are now depending on orders of magnitude more code than before, which from an overall perspective certainly doesn't mean "less bugs", and in fact could even make things more difficult to debug.

...and for something related but on the opposite direction, a competition on making the smallest (binary) Tetris clone that follows a spec:

https://files.scene.org/view/mags/hugi/compos/hc22fin.zip

The winners are 363 bytes.
The difference is that Blackberry spent years ignoring the iphone, pretending they didn't need to change anything.

The car manufacturers don't appear to be ignoring tesla at all. In fact, Tesla is being outsold by more than one of the "old" companies electric cars today.

If you have to compare it to phones, it's much more similar to iphone vs android. Android might not have been first, but they responded quickly.. a variety of phones/cars allows manufacturers to meet the requirements of more market segments.

At the end of the day, Tesla/Apple can only offer a handful of models.. if you don't like it, you're choices are the large variety produced by Android manufacturers. That virtually guarantees Android will have a greater market share than the iphone/Tesla.
From the Upwork FAQ: "You'll need to download and use the Upwork Team App—this tool includes the Work Diary, which ensures you are guaranteed payment. By taking work-in-progress screenshots every 10 minutes, it provides proof to your clients that you are hard at work."

Screenshots every 10 minutes? You mean... screenshots of MY SCREEN every 10 minutes? That was what made me close their website and totally forget it until I've seen this submission on HN today.
"The problem is that many people who are hurt easily by cynical and sarcastic behavior(which is very different than being as asshole) typically take themselves very seriously and it's a sign that they are very self focused and place their own concerns way above those of the team."

Please give evidence supporting that claim. What I've seen is a lot of people are just non-confrontational by nature. They'll do a lot to avoid being in a fight. However, they may want to discuss things even with criticisms. It just becomes harmful to them after the conversational style crosses a certain line. Knowing this, groups like Toyota put a line down that allows the negative information to come in without the personal attacks or circumstances that shut many people down. Continuous innovations resulted that dwarfed the competition doing what you suggest. This is not an isolated incident as many innovative companies create similarly respectful environments where everyone tries to improve, either positively or negatively, the process or products without attacking each other.
I haven't meant that you need to use atlas, but I have never seen a nice automation implementation for a scalable consul cluster that doesn't use atlas. I've also built something around atlas, mostly using hiera in puppet - but since I used atlas and the etcd discovery, everything else looks like a workaround.

What provisioning do you use to integrate with your cloud providers api?
>The old content remains visible and online if the private key is leaked, afaik.

The problem is that content that is not access becomes garbage collected and that links and listings will most likely not point towards the hash itself and instead at the IPNS entry.

It doesn't have much more protection than a DNS entry if the private key is stolen; you could use the last known IP but it's not very practical and might eventually become dead if the IP changes.

In the same way, the old content may remain online after an attacker takes over and people could continue using it but it only remains online if people are using it. If the attack remains unknown for long enough there is no previous version IIRC.

>I think there was some discussion about having there be a chain

Still same problem, if the private key gets leaked, a malicious attacker can manipulate the entries on the chain.

The real solution is something like Swarm or Filecoin where Users can actually encourage keeping old versions around, something IPFS lacks atm. Theoretically any IPFS link can become dead once it's no longer used, which is a problem.

Merely putting the entries on chain solves little, you need to actually encourage archiving of data to get resilient against attacks.

Even then, you would also need some sort of PKI, where someone can set a master key which authorizes other nodes to manipulate content and can also revoke that. This allows to easily fight off attacks based on leaked private keys.

However, the PKI should remain largely private, not much different to Bitcoin Cold and Hot Wallets.
Critical and sarcastic seem to be two rather different things to me.

Constructive criticism is certainly important in all sorts of contexts. You don't want to be all "Oh that's perfect" when in fact it's fundamentally flawed in some way.

Sarcastic is more a matter of style than substance. "That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard." Which doesn't seem necessary or necessarily positive.
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While the conversation is moot, I have tried to use bitcode to target multiple Apple targets. You are correct that bitcode is architecture specific. This makes sense if you start thinking about endianness and how instructions are generated. Inaddition to that, even the default platform address size, e.g. 64 or 32 bit, needs to be encoded.

In fact Apples requirement for submitting bitcode for tvOS and watchOS confounds me, b/c as far as I can tell it only gives them a minor set of instructions that they can actually change. Then on top of that it locks you into their toolchain, see this discussion on Rust around this: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/ios-rust-integration/6928/2
No multiple users for me though. Will give it another try later on. I was already fed up with how Upwork works and this article just pushed me over the edge.
Yes. It's just Econ101.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
>Those companies have a STRONG incentive to avoid disruption

A less cynical person might says "Those companies" have a strong incentive to preempt and partake in the disruption. And it is my belief that's the path most of them will take.
>>China is not a communist state these days

That's your opinion. FYI, China has the dreaded communist politburo running the show.
I've surmised from years of reading the economic press that there's really only one bad thing that can happen in a capitalist economy: bondholders not getting paid. Heck, lots of commentators argue that war is good for the economy, a natural disaster is good for the economy, the broken window fallacy is a mainstay of Keynesian economics. However, bondholders not getting paid is something that should be prevented at all costs! The federal reserve is doing $40 billion a month of bond buying with electronically printed money (quantitative easing) so the bond holders get paid!

"I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody." - James Carville
HN comments are moderated (not the moderators which are completely fine and, in my case, always clear of what was off-topic and in need of flagging, but the community that flags) by the hive-mind that is like any hive-mind against diversity.

Of the dozens of accounts I had, some have reached karma levels of awe, and some were met with extreme flagging and disapproval.

The most pleasant and interesting discussions are mostly in the technical, scientific themes.

When it comes to diet, lifestyle issues, comments are overflooded with bunch of anecdotal claims, unscientific babbling and extreme boasting.

I stay away from these threads after I've realized this was the case.
I don't understand why he quotes from w3.org. HTML5 is being developed by whatwg.org

"The WHATWG was founded by individuals of Apple, the Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software in 2004, after a W3C workshop. Apple, Mozilla and Opera were becoming increasingly concerned about the W3C’s direction with XHTML, lack of interest in HTML and apparent disregard for the needs of real-world authors. So, in response, these organisations set out with a mission to address these concerns and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group was born."
> I think any re-implementation of something you are fond of is a great exercise

This is basically my procedure for learning a new programming language. I have a list of things that I like to have on hand that cover a fair amount of possible paradigms, and re-implement them. Things like FFT, linear algebra methods, numerical root finding/optimization algorithms, etc. Project Euler (and now also exercism.io) are great for finding small but digestible things to do too.

At the moment I'm working on finding some better mathematical examples for class abstractions & better use cases for object-oriented concepts in general. Because it looks like I'll be teaching a course either in Java or C# next fall. Coming from a scientific computing background the usual use cases for java and .net aren't my typical problem areas of expertise (though there are some things I definitely do appreciate about them).
> Because the hype will be with the new ...

> no one wants a Blackberry even if the newer versions have ...

I agree that there is a hype aspect to this, but I don't think it's the whole story. You rightly point out that it's hard to shake off widespread public perception short of reinventing yourself. I think that in many cases the perception is earned.

As is often pointed out, there are many aspects of the iPhone that are not original to Apple. Tesla isn't the first company to come out with an electric car. I don't think hype alone is going to have people shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for a new car.

What prevented the established companies from putting out compelling products themselves? After all, they already have experience in the industry. Clayton M. Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" discusses this in part. And once you've lost the perception of being competitive, you're playing catch up on both marketing and product. Ouch.
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I haven't access to the Fitch article, and I'm no specialist of the automotive market at large. I know even much less about oil. However, here are a couple of guesses about how things are likely to go wrong for car makers.

In a vertical market like cars, you've got many actors, from iron ore mining to the "going from A to B reliably" service, going through part makers (who actually make most of the car), car maker (brands), repairmen, dealers, etc. Very often in those markets, one actor controls a key level, protected by entry costs, secrets, regulations, exclusive customer relationship, whatever. By leveraging this stronghold, this actor extracts most of the margins, leaving just enough to other levels to let them survive. You want all other levels in your vertical market to be commoditised: Microsoft wants PC hardware commoditised, Über wants driving to be commoditised (through underpaid drivers first, unpaid robots ASAP), etc.

It seems that for cars, mastering the engine is the way to control the whole vertical market. Moreover, ever-more-stringent emission + fuel efficiency regulations keep it hard to make engines, despite technical progress. Electrical cars change that, because it's (comparatively) very easy to make an electrical engine.

Another asset held by carmaker is the brand and consumer relationship, and this one's probably doomed as well. Cars stay parked for 95%+ of their lives, the only reason you buy one (and it's your most expensive possession after your house) is because you want it to be reliably available whenever you want. Once cars drive themselves, it stops making economical sense to own one: for a fraction of the price, you'll rather subscribe to a fleet of autonomous cars which reliably deliver one on your front door 10 minutes after you summoned it with your smartphone. That not only means fewer cars driving a higher percentage of time: it makes obsolete the car-makers' genuine expertise in making individuals want to buy their models. I'd bet that selling hundreds of thousands of units to Kalanick is significantly tougher than making some hillbilly lust for a Canyonero.

It looks like mastering level-4 autonomy will be the new way to lock that vertical market, and current car-makers don't look better positioned than the Silicon Valley to secure that stronghold. Cue the famous last words by the then Palm CEO, saying about the iPhone “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in”. Yes, in radical changes, it typically is an incumbent who figures it out.
I followed by doing it even more on more topics containing bullshit. I had a steady following of people that respected that I continued counterpoints to fads while linking to evidence justifying it. I have opponents, too, that prefer I cancel my Internet service or end my unrelenting, evidence-driven "attacks" on certain things.

Anyway, the trend exists but can just be ignored. There is a huge crowd of people here that appreciate thoughtful, civil counterpoints. I'll add that quite a few are also professionals in industry worth having in one's network for people that use HN that way.
ddos attacks are script kiddy bullshit. I bet whatever kids behind it are absolutely loving the attention. Completely sensationalized stupidity to say our entire infrastructure could be "taken out" in such a way and wild speculation about it being a state sponsored attack. If a state wants to actually take out some infrastructure they have fucking bombs and missiles for that.
Not necessarily.

The Honda Insight hit big Western markets before the Toyota Prius around the turn of the century, but ultimately the Prius became the most popular hybrid vehicle.

What customers want in a car is different from what they want in a phone.