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> So, anyone who can successfully define what they're doing as "not prioritizing" can entirely sidestep any regulation you have in mind.

This argument makes no sense. Colocating a CDN node has nothing to do with prioritization. Nobody is fiddling with any QoS settings.

> Putting a server in the ISP's datacenter is a common approach. Traffic to those servers doesn't have to go over any external peering links.

What is your point?

> As one simple example, look at the ISPs that accelerate the first N bytes of connections, to prioritize interactive requests over bulk transfers/downloads.

This is an incorrect characterization of PowerBoost. PowerBoost uncaps your DOCSIS connection temporarily to take advantage of any momentarily free spare capacity. This is not prioritization, it's getting a free tier upgrade temporarily.

> Other ISPs apply more sophisticated approaches.

Such as?

> So, receive and deliver all traffic, regardless of available capacity or financial constraints?

Don't be silly. As long as the ISP provides whatever speed tier they sold to the consumer all is good and well. If they cannot do that then they are shortchanging the consumer and should be penalized for that.

> Provision every part of the network so it can handle all the traffic passing over any other part, because they're not allowed to limit bandwidth in any way at any point?

Yes, to the extent required to provide the service they sold.

> A saturated interconnect might mean "we're trying to screw Netflix", or it might mean "we can't afford it right now" (either because they're a small ISP and don't have the money, or because they're spending it on something their customers want more).

If you saturate your interconnect you fail at ISPing. There is no excuse. Interconnect capacity is cheap and plentiful.
In that incident, if "it's wrong" wasn't enough to dissuade them not to do that, then "because if it ever looks like we do this in the future it will be totally believable" should be enough. But I suppose some people will always want the marshmallow immediately.

And I suppose, today, Uber better be hoping none of its ex, current or future ex-employees ever get assaulted, baseball bat or not. For PR or legal defense, if not for actual human empathy.
I use he.net DNS quite a lot for personal projects. I've had a few instances where DNS was not resolving that make me a bit cautious to move larger sites onto their service.
There comes a point where regulations become a larger problem than what you are trying to regulate. We all have expectations to be trusted, innocent until proven guilty, and personal privacy respected.

We will always have crime, prejudices, and wrongly convicted. Social changes can't be artificially rushed. Trying to bring backward middle eastern countries overnight into western civilization made things worse. It turned out dictators filled a gap they weren't ready to handle.

Progress is on a very good trajectory. We could change absolutely nothing and still be better off.
The FCC was regulating the monopoly! And why would anyone want a monopoly to exist? "Cheap phone service for grandma". That's always been the justification for all the insanity. It took years to deregulate and allow true competition, and it always came through because of lawsuits. Telecom is an industry run by lawyers.
I find it troubling that the CEO of Cloudflare would attempt to deflect their culpability for a bug this serious onto Google for not cleaning up Cloudflare's mess fast enough.

Don't use CF, and after seeing behavior like this, don't think I will.
It might be interesting to know that an Arabic, there's still a fruit called Naarinj. It's basically a bigger and more bitter type of orange.
> If you are paying a bulk rate for jackets, that bulk rate must apply to male and female jackets. They don't have to be the same price at the end, but the discount has to apply to the entire order.

Group buys in fashion are very common, and this is never how they work. Two leather jackets of a different size but the same model will use the same materials and labor. A different jacket model (yes, even a female version), requires different cuts and maybe even different materials.

This isn't uncommon at all, except for the part where Uber thought this made it okay to buy nothing for the women.

Edit: Not even fashion, but anywhere really. If I want 10,000 of one IC, and 5 of another, I will not get a unit discount as if I had bought 10,005 of a generic item. I get a discount on the first IC, and full price on the latter.
Isn't it a bad idea to assume uniform distribution of variance over the hash?
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This is really good to be aware of, even if there were no collisions. I could imagine someone making for example a signed cookie scheme that is value,SHA1(secret,value). Someone could then change it to value+foo,SHA1(secret,value+foo) without knowing the secret, and it would verify as a valid signed cookie.
Funny, I thought that was how the game was played. It wouldn't let me open up any external sites so I was forced to find my answers directly in the search results. I wish the answers had a bit more give to them. One of mine only accepted "Art Donovan" instead of his full name "Arthur James Donovan Jr". Regardless, it was enjoyable to test my search skills against the clock.
Neat, but generated tree isn't keyboard accessible.
Fowler's next tweet emphasizes that she doesn't know who is doing the digging. She doesn't accuse Uber, and it might well be someone else.

But given that Uber famously threatened to spend a million dollars digging up dirt on critics, and Fowler just wrote critically about her experiences at that company, its hardly surprising that people jump to the conclusion that Uber is doing what they once threatened to do.
I'm on my phone, but unless I'm mistaken:

http://m.thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-windows-ultraboo...

http://m.thewirecutter.com/reviews/which-macbook-should-i-bu...
I would argue that wired and wireless are very different beasts. If you want to regulate fiber, that's debatable, but a competitive wireless landscape is ripe for competition given all the possibilities for delivering service.
Do you know how many fossils end up each day in aggregate and gravel?

The vast majority of fossils even those which are scientifically collected have no real value or use, many of them can't even be sold as cosmetic paper weights and are often disposed off simply because they take too much space.
> On the more potent point, almost(?) all of the more potent opioids are derivatives of fentanyl and iirc use fentanyl in the synthesis so probably won't become a street drug.

You're alas wrong here. There's already derivatives of fentanyl being made illicitly and appearing in the illicit drugs markets. Not just any analogues of fent either -- there's been carfentanil (an opioid so potent that it's been successfully used as a chemical weapon) in product sold as heroin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carfentanil

> Honestly I'm suprised fentanyl is a thing because the active dose is like tens of micrograms and requires expensive equipment to measure safely

Ah, but a tiny active dose means that for a given quantity of raw material, lots of (very diluted) doses for end users can be made. This is the deadly "iron law of prohibition" at work here -- the harder the enforcement, the more potent the drugs.

For a unit volume (so, for a unit risk of ending up in a concrete box) of uncut/active material, you want to be able to sell the most diluted/cut doses to end-users. Of course people will want their chemist to synthesise carfentanil (over regular fentanyl), because you can supply the the same number of end-user doses with 10,000 times less active material.
Fuck. I use cloud flare for MX records to ensure I don't completely rely on FastMail for everything.
Pretty neat to look at this wikipedia link https://goo.gl/kAR1LW and see the descent of a ton of words of English!
Thanks, all. It's obvious I've confused Overwatch with something else. Given the backlog I've currently got, I'll wait until the "Game of the Year" discount and give it a whirl.
It makes a lot of sense for Gov't funded IP to not have a copyright attached to it. I feel similarly for gov't funded research. Of course, this doesn't include things that should be export controlled for national security reasons.
Yep, our GCE startup credits. We've only burned through about half of em (from the billing page, it looks like ~45k), and they expire in late march.
So if we had an extra year to use 'em, that would be amazing.

When I last chatted with our Account Manager I mentioned Postgres, yeah. We're currently running our own on GCE, but it would be awesome to have it aaS, with replicas and automated backups that I don't have to keep an eye on all the time :).
Would it be possible to mirror just the data somewhere else, such as S3?

I don't need the R code, but this sounds like it would make good companion data to my own wordfreq [1]. It would be interesting to see which words are learned early but relatively uncommon in corpora, and generally to be able to measure differences in register between child and adult language.

[1] https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/wordfreq
Please don't post URLs from shorteners as they obscure the destination URL.
There was a pull request merged a few minutes ago, by someone whose username suggests that they are also the first named author on the Google blog post.
Yep, even if the plane has not landed yet.

"If a baby with foreign parents is born on a plane flying above the United States, the baby is automatically granted American citizenship. However, if the baby is born while flying over the ocean, its nationality depends on the country from which the plane is registered."
Did you know that awful poetry tacked onto unrelated statuary does not dictate public policy? The entire media doesn't know this, so it's no shame if you don't either.
Does Bigscreen let you view modern web content in VR? If so, what are they using under the hood to do that?
Since FastMail is a paid service, FastMail has actual customer service. Additionally, they have information about your payment methods on file, so they have more information that can be used to verify your identity than the average free service. I do not know their specific policy on what level of identity confirmation is required though, if they do indeed allow account recovery in this manner.

You can, of course, get an account recovery code, or reset using your phone, as is pretty common.

A key difference though, regarding support, is that if your account gets suspended, there's a path with real humans to get it reactivated. Most Google account issues I've heard of aren't "loss of password" so much as "Google has banned you and has no appeal process".

Regarding deliverability of incoming mail, I will say I've found their web client refreshes faster when inbound mail comes in than Gmail, and when waiting for mail from other common services I've found they arrive faster since switching from Gmail.
Gaslight movie 1944 :(
This is true- but I'd assume all of these sites have flushed their session/cookie data by now.
These are counts--is it disingenuous to call them "statistics"? On a related note, is there a way in the UI to scale this data by population?
He is kind of a hero to the alt-right, because what happened feeds into their general anti-media rhetoric.
Tesla is so sure its cars are safe that it now offers insurance for life
Reminds me of the Onion report on the study that found "human babies, long thought by psychologists to be highly inquisitive and adaptable, are actually extraordinarily stupid." [0]. My parents were Vietnam War refugees. They had the legal clearance, and I believe eventually proved themselves to be hard-working and contributors to society, but they probably would have floundered if not for the initial cushion of government assistance (food stamps, welfare, etc) and the generosity of American host families.

[0] http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~arobic/funny/babies.html
What happened in Europe was that Britain had the industrial revolution, then twigged that they could make even more money if their competitors couldn't use slaves to compete with the machines, so banned slavery, and then enforced that ban on other nations using their navy, which was stronger than most other country's navies because Britain is so rubbish people who live there would rather die of scurvy than live there.
For a better dictionary than Urban, Paradict is waiting for new authors
I shuddered when I saw the Enigma. I'm sure other people have similar reactions to some of the other constituents.
I'd love to find a shell + terminal that's aware of the semantics of shell output.

One nice thing about (good) GUI programs and websites is that 'results' are quickly navigable. In a terminal, I'd love to be able to drill down into results of ls; from grep output quickly open a file and jump to that match; etc.

(Shell output can be in any format, but even if it could grok the output of only specific programs/commands (and also their switches) that would be a starting point.)

Does anything like this exist, for any platform? It seems like PowerShell could be a good match, but I don't know anything about its ecosystem.
Can't you just clue them in to the MITRE paper lauding open source in defense applications.
Business model is fine it's just that the problem that arises from the wanted business model is hard. Given their bad reputation, especially now, they just don't have quality engineers to solve the problem.

Ride sharing is computationally NP-hard (assuming vehicle capacity larger than 2), the whole fleet management itself is NP-hard and depends highly on the realtime routing capabilities and prediction.

To make a combinatorial optimization algorithm capable of incorporating ride-sharing constraints and realtime data is a serious feat which maybe they jumped in too early to solve (given that no current research published tries anything similar). For really groundbreaking work to happen one needs quality engineers and researchers, and realistically, who would want to work in a company that is openly criticized for having terrible work culture?

The only way they can lower the prices and then find the sweetspot prices after monopoly is by having superior machine learning and combinatorial optimization solution.
Apparently not bad enough that SHA512/256 isn't in the SHA2 family.
If you are/were using Cloudflare to cache PHI though their CDN without a BAA, you were likely in breach before this.

Some have suggested that Cloudflare might not be a business associate because of an exception to the definition of business associate known as the "conduit" exception.

Cloudflare is almost certainly not a conduit. HHS's recent guidance on cloud computing takes a very narrow view[0]:

"The conduit exception applies where the only services provided to a covered entity or business associate customer are for transmission of ePHI that do not involve any storage of the information other than on a temporary basis incident to the transmission service."

OCR hasn't clarified what "temporary" means or whether a CDN would qualify, but again, almost certainly not. ISPs qualify, but your data just sits on the CDN indefinitely.

p.s. Hi Patrick and Aditya!

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/c...
A different take on macaroni: The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12356070
Affiliate blogs are quite the cottage industry. (complete with their own dark patterns like PBNs)

Look at the listings on Empire Flippers and how many of the sites are affiliate based:

https://empireflippers.com/marketplace/
Bringing people to a foreign land does not really help them that much. It is a much better form of help if you were to help them fix their own countries.

Having to adjust to a new culture is not really fun (unless you had an interest in that culture for some reason; but this did not apply to "poor"immigrants).
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I agree that it is impossible to suddenly jump to another level of civilization. But there should be ways to accelerate the process of moving in the right direction. I'd like to understand the landscape of these problems and what countries, companies and insividuals can do at their levels to contribute to accelerating positive changes.
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Out of curiosity. Did you change it back and did you inform the radio station?
free() doesn't know what portion of the memory you allocated actually got written to. So for the model where a large, page-spanning buffer is allocated and only a small portion used, this approach causes many unnecessary page faults at free () time as it tries to zero out lots of memory that was never used or paged in at all.
What a waste of time. Raise taxes and pay them more.
https://empireflippers.com/marketplace/
A naive person may be fooled into thinking that, say, the actual number of rapes per capita increased substantially, especially recently. This is likely untrue. For example:

"In Sweden, the definition of rape has been successively widened over the years, leading to an ever larger number of sexual assaults being classified as rape.[3][13][14][32] For example, in 1992 a legislative change came into force which shifted the dividing line between sexual assault and rape. This legislative change resulted in about a 25% increase in the level of registered rape offences.[12]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden
I was assuming they meant in general, not just CRSPR. $100m would be an enormous amount of money for the Broad and they license all kinds of stuff regularly
Would some kind soul please divide by the growing size of the population? Meanwhile, this link has population-adjusted charts back to 2006: https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statist...
If this is all that has happened since August, well, the commit speaks for itself:

https://github.com/e2email-org/e2email/commit/434f99c66efe49...

Hopefully there's more to come! :-P
I mean... who can?
My name is Mike Flynn and this has been a rough few months to have that name...and now "The Negative Flynn Effect"? Perfect.
What happened in 2004 ??
The quotas don't apply to applicants who are immediate relatives (e.g. spouses) of US citizens.
Reading around a bit, it sounds like it's capturing your desktop via some kind of VNC type protocol so I guess it's whatever you're using on your desktop.
Checked out how youtube-dl does it. Remarkably, nrk.no is satisfied with a faked X-Forwarded-For header.
I smoke a cigarette or two about once a month on average, typically when attending a party.

Not only is it quite pleasant after I've had a beer or three, but they're the ultimate social hack for introverted nerds. Are you at a crowded bar/party where it's impossible to have a proper talk with someone? Step outside for a smoke, and you can instantly have a nice, low key conversation with the other smokers. Lulls in the conversation aren't awkward cause you can just go back to taking drags; and once you're done, you can keep talking if you like the person- or have the perfect excuse to head back in if you don't.

Highly recommended.
Anyone else's comp become a turbine?
The idea as I define is: Yes congestion management is a necessity. But congestion management should be done at as high a level as possible, that is, if we see a lot of bits, we add more hardware or shift those bits over to a similar path of similar performance and capacity and fill it, then add more.

We don't care about who sent them or received them, we just keep congestion low overall.

Usually the anti-neutrality crowd pedals an agenda of metered paying and those who can't get shittier service. It's more regressive rules intended to raise costs/profits by focusing on squeezing more money from those that have it, and ignoring everyone else.

The former is merely a technical solution to a technical problem.

The latter is the ruling financialist class forcing their "sound economics" on humanity without providing anything truly valuable in return
Thanks for the hugs gang. A bunch of us have been at M3AAWG working on email deliverability and security standards just this week - sitting in a coffee shop in San Mateo right now before flying back to Melbourne again tonight!
I don't think people ignored it so much as felt like Uber Drivers were still a lot safer than Taxi Drivers. e.g. Who hasn't looked at the taxi's license and realized that the sketchy-looking driver isn't the same person?

That is until now - when we collectively realize that Uber is just plain a bad and probably lying about background checks to...
There can be substantive debate about how governments should prioritize policies to discourage or reduce the incentives for illegal immigrants. But the fact that a sudden heart attack/gunshot victim who has no health insurance gets priority over me in the ER, despite my perfect history of paying my bills, isn't enough to convince me to go uninsured.
look at her twitter before and after this scandal broke..now it's hugely popular...before it only had <5 hearts+retweets per tweet. now hundreds. Maybe this is part of a bigger self-promotion plan to sell amazon books and get affiliate revenue. She provided no documented proof..no screenshots. Maybe she determined there was no legal recourse, so she went to social media? The only info we have is that single blog post.
Use a different passphrase for each service. Never reuse it.
Here's something relevant:

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5195/sweden-rape
Why is it trivial?
My wife is a speech and language therapist for under 5s and we have 2 children under 5 ourselves. There are so many techniques she uses without even thinking about it to encourage communication that, left on my own, I would never have known to use. For example, in the really early days, when a child said "blah blah blah blah" I would have been inclined to repeat it, but now I'll say "that's right, an aeroplane!" (Or whatever it is).

Parent-child interaction goes a really long way in child development and if you ever get the chance, it's worth sitting in on a session (whether your child needs extra help or not). A large part of the work my wife does is around enabling parents to assist kids that need more input (through no fault of the parents themselves).
Analysis of Daigo Umehara vs Momochi, Stunfest 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKj5NMnc05Q
> want you to pay us to use Skylake

I already use a nice E3 Skylake workstation at work, thank you very much. Could be an E5 or a big i7 with more cores (I just rechecked on ark and I guess it's still not available publicly for Skylake, but I also guess this can not held for very long...), but we want it to be close to our product target, which is an E3, so E3 it is.

For tons of practical purposes, lots of reasonable E5 are comparable to what you can get with the biggest i7 -- and during the last gen for tons of practical purposes gen to next gen comparable CPU have only progressed slightly. Of course there are workloads where you want to use the most insane CPU, or some CPU with new features / better perf in some niche workload, and so over, but when you start to have such advanced needs I doubt a little that OTS platform solutions are better for the majority of people with highly advanced needs...

But yeah, on the mass of people, some will remain interested by "your" solution. Meaning mainly Intel solution, given how you advertise Skylake soo much...
I think the more important collision to worry about in 2^80 time is the Earth colliding with the Sun.

Our interstellar successors, if any, will probably have found something better than Git to use.

EDIT: I should be clear that I'm not making the usual silly claim that we don't need to worry about hashes being broken because they take forever to brute force. I'm saying that hashes will be broken, but not by brute forcing the entire hash space. A decade or so of cryptographic research will save you eons of compute time.