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"I believe that in reality, probably being vegan is the only morally defensible position"

I don't see much morally wrong with eating an animal that died from old age that one finds in the field

Also, thinking of microorganisms, being vegan is impossible. There always are things on the stuff that you eat that could be classified as being animals.
Yeah, you can search for remarkably vague things these days. Like literally "that movie with the bus that couldn't slow down" - the first two results are for the Simpsons reference and the third is the IMDB page for Speed.
I'll probably be downvoted but I think it's in bad taste to use this kind of (bad) news as another way to market your product. I'll surely won't be buying your product nor recommending it.
/rant

What you've said about making economics drive reforestation is true, but that's like saying that to end hunger you just have to give people food.

So you suggest planting trees that take 40 years to grow when the people doing the deflorestation are doing it because of profits that they'd never get via that method. (Economics)

It's the same with the plague that is eucalyptus, you know what drove its plantation and override of all other natural trees and plants in many places of the world? Economics! So you see that just economics might not be a very good way to solve the problem at hand.

So what do you propose to make the economics work? Highly tax meat? Or other products that are indirectly causing deflorestation?
https://dns.he.net/ works for me, though your requirements may be different.
So employees are trying to chat "anonymously" on a tech company's wifi network? Seems remarkably dumb for tech employees.

It should be assumed as a given that any company or hotel wifi network is monitored and HTTPS is quite possibly is MITMed.
No case is made that gen x or gen y would have done any better.
I found that you have to reload the page if there's an error or it'll stick. In my case it was too big of a file.
Nope nope nope. Consumer reports just doesn't get it. They're great from the consumer advocacy perspective, but again they fill their site with stuff I don't care about.

The pleasure of the wirecutter is that the decisions are made. I look for their top choice of wifi routers, then I read about why. In the off chance I disagree, I read the other entries. It explains by what aspects each other product is better or worse than their pick. Perhaps I want a cheaper one? A specific brand? More range? Done in under ten minutes.

I realize everyone is different, but what I love about the Wirecutter is that I don't want to waste my free time reading expert product reviews and comparing specs, and CR encourages exactly that. Any minor benefit from having that information exposed really gets drowned out by my frustration.
> Only data that was sent to CloudFlare's nginx proxy could have leaked, so if they only proxy their static content, then that's the only content that would leak.

The way it worked, the bug also leaked data sent by the visitors of the these "static sites": IP addresses, cookies, visited pages etc.
Many people probably tripped over the bug but didn't know what it was.

The data it reveals isn't guaranteed to be obviously private and exploitable. It can just look like a valid but useless response, or a invalid and corrupted response depending on what you were looking for in the first place.
This comment greatly lowers my respect for Cloudflare.

Bugs happen to us all; how you deal with this is what counts, and wilful, blatant lying in a transparent attempt to deflect blame from where it belongs (Cloudflare) onto the team that saved your bacon?

I've recommended Cloudflare in the past, and I was planning, with some reservations, to continue to do so even after disclosure of this issue. But seeing this comment? I don't see how I can continue.

(For the sake of maximum clarity: I take issue: 1) with the attempt at suggesting the main issue is in clearing caches, not on the leak itself. It doesn't matter how fast you close the barn door after the horse is gone and the barn has burned down. 2) With the blatantly false claim that non-Google caches have been cleared, or were faster to clear than Google's. Cloudflare should know, better than anyone, the massive scope of this leak, and the fact that NO search engine's cache has or could be cleared of this leak. If you find yourself in a situation so bad you feel like you need to misdirect attention to someone else, and it turns out no one else is actually doing anything so you have to like about that...maybe you should just shut up and stop digging?)
Well, it turns out I've been a stoic all this time, I'm finding out.

It blows me away how that part about taking every problem as a chance to learn and become a better "wrestler" fits right in with my natural conclusions. The rest of it describes me adequately also.

I'm reading Epictetus now, thanks for sharing.
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It's also about rebalancing your focus on to the things in the "in" of the control bucket.

Stoicism ties though to a lot of modern theories. The concept of resilience springs to the front of my mind (and positive psychology in general). Might be a good place to look. Tends to have the same bent so it can be integrated naturally, but more practical in application. Particularly in a modern context, where the psychological demands are quite different.
The fact that it requires to type in the exact answer (for its own definition of exact) is annoying. The first question I got was how Hemingway's protagonists are called. Let's say the answer is "A B". Well, the answer I had to type in was "The Hemingway A B". Both "The" and "Hemingway" are mandatory.

Later the question was what musical period was the definition of symphony, sonata etc. standartized in. I copy pasted "C period", it didn't work, so I tried some other ones. Well, apparently "C" was the correct answer all along.
I switched recently (kept my old address) and I've had only a few spam messages get through. It has a learning filter that kicks in once it knows enough about you, too. And finally, if you're getting some specific spam you might be able to create a filter for it.
Its NOT free, you are paying with your customers/visitors privacy.
I do think that hard work and preparation can land you a job at these companies. I went from doing a manual labor job and never making over $33k/yr, to busting my hump 4 years in University to land these jobs. I also recognize that interviewing is its own skill that needs to be worked at, and simply doing LeetCode questions or reading Intro to Algorithms by CLRS isn't everything. I can honestly say that I have never had all the interviews go my way during a loop. I have been given problems where I could only find the naive solution. I have been in an interview where I made it through the first teaser question to be completely stumped by the second question. And I have made really ridiculous coding mistakes like increment the string variable instead of the index variable. But I also manage to never beat myself up about these mistakes, always talk about what I'm thinking during the interview, listen and try to apply the hints that the interviewer gives me, and have pleasantries with the other person during the interview. I dress well, always with a fresh haircut and clean shaved face, wear deodorant and take a shower the morning of an interview, and walk with good posture, because I do think that these things matter.

I do also believe in the interviewer anti-loop (see Steve Yegge's blog[1]), but I also think that it doesn't really matter unless you really want to work for a specific one of these large tech companies.

I currently work at Microsoft and just finished interviewing with a couple of the other large tech companies and have pending offers from them. I don't know, maybe I am smart, but when I see people like Andrei Alexandrescu or Mark Russinovich speak, or watch a video of Grace Hopper explain how she demo'd nanoseconds to military generals, I feel like an idiot compared to those people. I personally think you obviously have to have problem solving skills, but also gumption and a can-do attitude goes a long way.

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
Including your 9x write amplification in the number of "consistent writes" doesn't count -- like at all. I'm amazed nobody called you out on this yet.

You're doing 3k batches per second with 4 logical writes each, right? So that is at most 3-12k writes per second using the way that every other distributed database benchmark and paper counts.

Or otherwise - if you continue counting writes in this special/misleading way - you'd have to multiply every other distributed db benchmark's performance numbers with a factor of 3-15x to get an apples-to-apples comparison.

The 12k batched writes/sek through what I assume is a paxos variant is still pretty impressive though! Good to get more competition/alternatives for zookeeper & friends!
On top of that the FBA also seems to enable massive tax fraud. There was a report on German TV recently that the vast majority of products for certain categories that are produced in Asia (mostly China) shipped via FBA on amazon.de don't list any sales tax on the recipes and it seems the sales tax is simply never collected (the companies usually don't even have a tax number). Seems like very massive tax fraud, not sure if Amazon could be sued over this for enabling tax fraud at least it seems they are pretty lax about it. Iirc due to English laws, amazon.co.uk requires that every seller has a tax number.
I get what your saying. I think you've set a really low bar for how you decided wether something is good or bad though.

For me something doesn't become ethical when an animal can just about tolerate bad conditions.

I cant give you a hard line for where I decide, but it's not that.

What about if an animal can have some positive experiences of a wild animal (some space) with fewer of the negatives (very painful death). We have given them a better alternative arguably.
I simply have experience in the subject because I've spent the last three years researching ways to make woodworking more sustainable. And driving up demand will in turn drive up supply, and as I explained above increased supply does indeed increase forests, as they have to be sustainably managed to come into the U.S. due to import restrictions.
Airtable looks like exactly what the world needs for a modern system to let everyday users manage data well rather than bunging it all in a spreadsheet.

But the row limits are too low for many obvious uses. I assume this is for technical reasons? Otherwise it doesn't make much sense that if you pay for 20 users to share a database you get the same number of rows as if you pay for two.
I assume it is owned by the government much like unclaimed land in other countries.
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>how much capital does it take to build a competitive ISP from scratch (keeping in mind that Google wasn't quite starting from scratch)?

It's significant, but it's often done in cities that don't have this regulation problem (see most high-density cities around the world with sane access to cabling tunnels). Or, if you take it to the extreme the other direction, look at all of the municipal fiber projects that end up working out. If a municipality can pay for it, certainly a company would be able to as well.

Laying fiber requires labor, but many of the service tunnels already exist so the only digging required is the last bit from the street to the customer's house.

There is an entire industry designed to help finance capital-intensive projects. Just because you can't do something with a text editor and a compiler in your basement doesn't mean it can't be done.

>but we are talking about a real natural monopoly

No we aren't. Trying to build up an ISP is 95% lobbying local governments. It's only 'natural' in the sense that it's a government created monopoly.

>much more resentment from their prospective customers

You wouldn't be pulling fiber to peoples' homes if they weren't already signing up (see the google fiber rollout mechanism).

>Given the choice, the customers would vastly prefer a local loop unbundling solution

Not if it means the best they can get is 5 mbps over cables that were laid to homes 20 years ago. If your city is filled with a bunch of NIMBYS, they are just as likely to vote down a bond or whatever it takes to raise money to lay in new fiber.
Even in 2017, we are still not understanding that if you block something it becomes more exciting just for the fact that it was banned, ignore it and it'll die.
I wonder why there isn't more interest in simt style approaches among cpu manufacturers, instead they are going for longer vectors with scatter/gather/masking (avx-512 and sve by arm/fujitsu).
Unfortunately, it's presented in a way that's totally unreadable on mobile.
though peering, like always, is a potential problem

Would you mind to explain? I am not sure what you mean.
He described system that would work the other way around, null-route the ATTACKERS, not the victim.
Tabula is the nice free tool but requires technical background to run it. There is a free https://pdf.co with both online and offline tools (Windows) for PDF to CSV. (disclaimer: i work on it)
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I've sort of been fighting with this myself - a few years ago I started working full time and spending more time with friends.

When I get downtime it's pretty much just turned in to playing games or watching TV - I barely have time when I feel motivated enough to start learning something new anymore. I taught myself almost everything I know about programming in downtime during my teenage and college years, but that sort of highly motivated downtime hasn't carried over so well now that so much of my time is occupied automatically.

I think you're right and having actual downtime when you're doing something relaxing is a very good thing, but I can't shake the feeling I should be accomplishing more.

I guess I'm just sort of disappointed that all my most motivated times seem to have sunk into other activities and now I don't get them to learn on my own. I don't know what to do about it.

EDIT: You know, I don't know anyone else who feels obliged to spend their free time in some sort of "productive" way except developers.

Maybe I should just ignore this whole thing and accept that development has for the most part went from a hobby to a job for me and that's okay. Spending time with friends and gaming in my free time are probably more relaxing and improve my overall happiness more than forced productivity would. Optimizing happiness is probably a better idea than optimizing productivity.

Eugh, I don't know, I keep bouncing back and forth on this one in my head.
Water utility company is a epitome of dumb pipes, but they will cut off bad supply instead of pumping poison while cutting out customers.
> Incoming kinetic projectiles are just as vulnerable to defensive systems as ballistic missiles. Hit it hard enough and you can knock out the guidance system

Not true at all. Kinetic projectiles would have no guidance system. It's just a big, dumb piece of tungsten. That's it. You would have to hit it hard enough to make sure that, when it hits, it won't cause damage. This means near complete vaporization. That's very energy intensive.

Ballistic missiles, however, simply need to have their payload exploded at almost any distance away from the target to reduce its power to near nothingness.

> If there is large-scale asteroid mining in my lifetime then I'll eat my hat.

Not sure how old you are but if you're under 40 and not planning on dying sooner than average then, in my opinion, you should start looking up hat recipes :D. At least I hope but it depends because the primary customer for asteroid mining is going to be space companies and government agencies like NASA. A disruptive political system that prevents said purchases could hamper progress significantly.
Sort of funny that one of CloudFlare products is Cloud Web Application Firewall. This 'enterprise-class' solution somehow for months failed to detect all sorts of invalid and suspicious content being returned in index.htmls. It even has detection of 'Sensitive data exposure' listed as a feature. https://www.cloudflare.com/waf/
PDF.co offline tool (for Windows) supports OCR and partial OCR for pdf to text and pdf to csv with layout preserved. (disclaimer: i work on it)
Couple of months ago I was asked to provide a non-Gmail-hosted email address for reliable confirmation (while booking a flight with China Airlines). After a bit of investigation I made the decision to jump onto FastMail’s cheapest personal plan.

Guess what, had to give up after 10 minutes or so—their sign-up form kept reporting server error!

Rationally I do realize that whatever it was it’s unlikely to affect their existing customers… Still, anyone can comment on FastMail’s actual uptime?
Doesn't Opera Mini or Turbo already provide this sevice? Perhaps add PPMD proxy text compression with an English dictionary with a JavaScript browser plugin on top of that. You can't get more efficient than that
The morality of hosting the sites of jerks is not nearly as objective as you claim. I could make an argument that they behave morally by treating everyone equally, but they make an exception and perform immorally with phishing sites because google would punish them.

But the real answer is a lot simpler. The DDoS sites are not doing the DDoS through cloudflare. The phishing sites are doing the phishing through cloudflare.

And exposing some DDoS sites to DDoS is not going to fix the root problem. People will still sell DDoS services, and people will still put insecure devices online to become part of botnets.
Allow me to share my collection of links to Stoicism resources (which I will soon update with this)

http://www.pa-mar.net/Main/Lifestyle/Stoicism.html
Well, it's easy to ignore politics until you're personally affected by it.
First time hearing of Blind, can anyone share their experiences?

(working at a startup so can't just sign up and see it myself...)
The scoring does not make sense:

FastMail has servers in the US and is domiciled in Australia, a Five Eyes country:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

Mass surveillance and powerful security services do not go together with privacy IMHO.
There are probably enough younger people around who've rare even used a physical keyboard, let alone have formal touch-typing training. I imagine mentioning the 'home row' would usually just get you a blank stare.
An employee's personal phone wouldn't accept the certificate if HTTPS was MITMed.
So you work from home and your 12yr old discovers loaded revolver in night closet and shoots few friends, so now the Police come and arrest you. Now what?
Can I somehow register to be an Uber employee on the app without actually being one? Would love to read all the crap employees are going through as lessons learned when I start my own company (one day). Any ideas? The blind app requires an uber.com email address. Any employees want to help out a fellow HN'er?
That's a good site. I wonder why Fastmail has a red mark against business ethics. ProtonMail (and even Gmail) are green (not even yellow).

Edit:

ProtonMail seem to be better for activism. I guess because of things like: https://protonmail.com/blog/investigatory-powers-bill-email-...
I'm going to assume this is an age thing, because the example linked on that page has a date of 1996.

This is more accurate for every platform I've actually worked with:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/write.2.html
This is a general rule in life. If you're flexible to take the jobs that are currently in the highest demand (such a pedestrian web-dev or backend Java jobs), you'll make a lot of money. However, if you add a hard constraint to your search - say you want to work with biology-related stuff or in video games - your salary will depend on how profitable that specific industry is at the momement, and how many people have the same dream. In practice, usually it means making way less money. In other words - if you optimize for anything else than money, don't expect a lot of it.
Would it make sense to pay locals to be stewards/guards of the forest? I imagine it would cost a pittance compared to the cost of buying the land.
You really have to see this to really grasp the severity of the bug.
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> Whether these groups are
> over-represented because of
> socio-economic status,
> cultural factors, genetics
> or whatever seems largely
> irrelevant to me

Then I'm entirely unsure why you're contributing to a thread of conversation about evidence on that specific point, and providing evidence for something else entirely.
Some people earn income by preparing handwritten calligraphic wedding invitations and signs; plenty of graphic designers (and software developers, for that matter) use paper in the process of preparing a digital product. It's no more of a party trick than playing a musical instrument.
Most developers use Macs to write Java, Ruby, PHP etc.; these are the developers who would leave first, and that would already cause a lot of damage to the ecosystem.
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Where I work, I can make changes to what I'm working on that break things far away, from time to time. In well designed systems this doesn't happen too often, but you might be surprised sometimes how a seemingly insignificant change can make a system fail somewhere else because someone made an assumption that is no longer true.

So I can make a change, see that it breaks some test somewhere else (failed CI test), and peer into the diffs on the opposite side of the code base to decide what to do about that. It's proven quite useful, from time to time. I've seen weird problems like hitting pessimal access patterns for software developed halfway around the world.

> Anthony clearly didn't work on it's contents, because he didn't already have the software to access that server on his computer.

That doesn't follow. I work on a source code repository every day, but I'd need special software to exfiltrate a copy. Same with the various design documents and things I work with—all stored in a private cloud. If I wanted to exfiltrate it I'd get a script to do it automatically.

Remember, this wasn't just the guy who started the autonomous driver project. He wasn't just the "department head". He's an industrial engineer who founded a Lidar startup. The idea that he should be denied access to Lidar design documents is patently absurd.
If you've ever wondered why so many people review cameras, it's because it's a relatively easy way to rack up high-cost, good %, affiliate returns.
It does seem a little inconsistent.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/email-chart-formulas/

"Our headquarters are located in Melbourne, Australia with servers at New York Internet and QuadraNet in the USA, and at Switch Datacenters in the Netherlands."

https://www.fastmail.com/about/company.html

Maybe this?

"We do not participate in, or co-operate with, any kind of blanket surveillance or monitoring. (We also point out that Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter, so we cannot be forced to do something without being allowed to disclose it.)

...

Unless prohibited by law, we will disclose to the account holder when we receive a warrant for their account."

https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html
Its always interesting to me that such a good answer implies technical excellence of its own, but criticism follows: "would of" which you used twice (and therefore more likely intentionally) is not correct English! The correct phrase is "would have" and its easy to see why, online, people use "of" .. when speaking, the h is silent and the contracted written form is "would've" so it does sound similar, but because "of" and "have" have such different meanings, it always seems really dissonant to see that written.

pedantic regards,
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