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I loved the premise of Unite; it was a home HTTP server with dynamic DNS via an opera-run service. Very cool idea, but it wasn't that good of a product experience. (Maybe somebody should try it again using Electron; "node in your browser" isn't that bad of a pitch.)

But, one of the big problems with a bunch of home HTTP servers is availability. The crypto-p2p network lets you push to a public peer and solve availability and improve transfer speed, without having to change the URL. That's a pretty big deal when you consider how unreliable the edge network is.

The other really key difference is that P2P removes the service dependency; sites/apps sync to your device, and then use device APIs to get work done. It's a different view of the applications model, and it means recipients can modify the application after download. This is a really big part of our focus; all sites and apps are user-modifiable.

Zeronet made decisions with their technology stack that I disagreed with, but it's in spirit very near to us, and I've always loved the polish of their applications and demos. P2P is pretty competitive right now. Some projects involve blockchains, some involve BitTorrent, some involve IPFS. We use Dat, and there are technical reasons behind why we chose Dat, but in the end this space will differentiate by the end-user experience.
1st impression after opening your website: you need to show more/bigger pictures on the front page. Add an image to every post, so visitor can see a picture before clicking the post title.
I've spoken w/ them. A very interesting team inside of amazon!
oh the amount of Ovaltine my mother made me drink as a kid !!!
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A lot of responses seem to be along the lines of: When doing support you need to put up with being abused.

Seriously?

I think the support guy/founder should have taken the high road, for reasons that are all too obvious based on the number of HN stories I've seen about this.

But, if my kids ever spoke to a stranger like this, I'd make them go clean up dog poop in this person's yard and apologize. "C'mon, we're getting on a plane!"

And further, if your opinion of a product is that it is a "piece of shit", why would you get mad when the product is disabled and you are offered a refund? Are you expecting them to turn a piece of shit into a unicorn? If it's a piece of shit, a refund is exactly what you wan't, isn't it?
There is no dichotomy here. Mathematicians also use heuristics to figure out what is probably true. This is a very important part of mathematical activity - generating good, not yet worked out ideas based on rough insights. What the physicists are doing here is also how the Fermat's Last Theorem was approached - a conjectural analogy to a different field(elliptic curves).

The only difference is that they are more careful about separating heuristics from proofs. If you read physics textbooks, they are less interested in being formally precise.

Mathematical activity is not all about formal reasoning, though that is the output.
The survey is missing team dynamics type of stuff. Do I enjoy working with the people I interact with most frequently. If I don't, everything else in the company could be the best in the world, but I would still hate my job. I think there are two components to that...are they competent and how well I can get along with them.

Also my current employer is very, very active in philanthropy and charitable activity. While I don't personally take advantage of those opportunities all that much, I know a lot of other people in the company do, and it's a big factor why they enjoy working here.
it will be great if you can provide answers for each question as well. specifically for the higher levels.
Date tags are only relevant when the information they contain is of a time sensitive nature. This article would say exactly the same thing if it was written today.
> There is still no "stop sending my personal information to Microsoft" switch

Sure there is. Don't use Windows.
"The demand for photorealism over high visibility has had an unattended consequence in relying on game engines that are frankly too easy to cheat in competitive multiplayer. Even if QC became popular, it would be plagued by the same fundamental client trust issues that CSGO has."

Could you explain why this is, please?
Before you do anything, I would recommend that you clear state a goal. Do you want to learn a new language? Do you want $100 a month in revenue. Do you want learn a little SEO?

Recently, I started on project for the sole purpose of learning more about nodejs and then in the second phase angular 2.

So a few months later I have a process that extracts data from amazon api and looks for price decreases in products. I learned quite a bit about nodejs and even about mysql database structures. So it was a good learning exercise.

Although I have accomplished my objective, I want to make money. This is the problem... Now I have learned what I needed, unfortunately I have learn more about seo, twitter api and facebook api to get users to visit my 200k webpages and make some money. So the side work winds up becoming a challenge and sometimes a burden, to continue to figure out how to reach your goal.

But when you reach your goal of $100 a month, then you will want more... So basically it never ends.

http://www.bestoftheinternets.com/Deals
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Of course. But is it worth a billion dollars or whatever the, say, EU, might decide to fine them if caught? Plus the added compliance costs of whatever a court decides they need to do? Not to mention press and loss of government contracts, etc.

There should be a project to fund some research into this, verifying some popular closed source clients.
> Put the server in the product - problem solved.

...and make that server public-facing. One problem solved, a million security issues gained.

Granted, I put words in your mouth there.

But if you put such an attack surface in your device, you need to be really sure to secure it well. Especially for the case when your company goes out of business, but your customers' devices stay up.
Oh, I'm probably wrong and just arguing from my prejudices. I obviously haven't tried reading their paper. What is their argument for why the strategy would work?
> This level of data isn't anonymous. It can't be.

is there some big list of the hardware I have bought?
If not, sure, they can fingerprint me but I don't see how it de-anonymizes me.
Linux desktop is at a pretty nice place right now, you should at least give it a try.
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Agreed but the UK (assuming you are UK based) made such a hash of forced air the first time around that it's unlikely to ever see much uptake.

You can do electric underfloor upstairs but water is a no go upstairs unless you are concreting. The best balance is water based underfloor downstairs, underfloor electric in upstairs bathrooms + a heated towel rail (water or electric) and then water filled radiators upstairs that either run off a traditional boiler or an air source heat pump. You could use a ground source heat pump but, depending on how far north one is this can land up freezing the ground and creating a kind of localised permafrost unless you run the system backward in the summer. You could also use solr thermal if happy with balck panels on the roof.
agreed. no more octopus with potatoes for me.
they are too clever.
I will just eat the potatoes.
When you're using a loader, the CSS still exists, it's just a big string in your JS bundle. By default, I believe css-loader/style-loader will use cssnano to minify the CSS within your bundle.

What will be very interesting in the coming years (as the work gets done around it) is "full css" optimization. That is, when you know you have all of the styles for the whole page available to the minifier. If the minifier knows that no other CSS is being loaded, it can do a lot more work to remove and merge rulesets. In the case of styles bundled with Webpack, common CSS could be reduced even further, after tree shaking has taken place.
>Enterprise still doesn't let you disable telemetry though - just lets you set it to basic.

you can set it to security through gpedit
Apparently people occasionally choke on live octopus (which is served in Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San-nakji ).
Love the ZeroNet project! Been following them for a year and they've made great progress. One thing that's concerning is the use of Namecoin for registering domains.

Little known fact: A single miner has close to 65% or more mining power on Namecoin. Reported in this USENIX ATC'16 paper: https://www.usenix.org/node/196209. Due to this reason some other projects have stopped using Namecoin.

I'm curious what the ZeroNet developers think about this issue and how has their experience been so far with Namecoin.
Why does everyone hate Comic Sans? It's just a regular font. Not so bad.
Peter Bright is a huge Microsoft/closed source software proponent. All of his articles are about how MS and big software companies never do bad things. He even supported Oracle in their efforts to destroy the software industry by granting copyright status to APIs.
In political science, we refer to this notion as a monopoly on the means of coercion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
I see 7 words: "Database Error" in the tab header (page title) and "Error establishing a database connection" in the page content.
It strikes me that a good philosopher would make a very good software tester. Maybe this article could be adapted as "with-the use of heuristics anybody can think like a tester".
If it's the OS doing the data gathering, it can just hide that stuff from whatever you would use to monitor it. Look at how rootkits hide for an example.
Dude, see a shrink.
> I remember when police departments said they wouldn't put weapons on their drones, when they were first trying to obtain them, to quell the outrage.

To be fair, these may be different police departments.
Yeah although it tends to be the cast iron radiator style rather than the steel panel type that is ubiquitous in the UK. I think the US market for steel panel radiators is something like 50,000 units a year compared to the UK's 2-3 million panels annually.
A quick search found this from 2013 so it's maybe just something they (the BBC) do: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21442095
Haven't worked in CSS for about 5 years, but managed to get thru this. Are there any other decent games to learn CSS and JS?
very interesting. thanks
I read the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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Agreed with some and not all.
In essence anythung can be abused.
Seagger being URI is well documented well argued problem. And no support for hypermedia too. Asciidoc and Spring Rest Docs shine there.

But annotations is not IMHO.
Swagger also doesny make thing more complex, they already are.
Swagger also doesnt amke reading docs difficult as such *apart from URI problem above.

Also Spring Rest learnt from mistakes of Swagger so its a bit unfair on swagger.
hahahaha!
>Another option would be to just throw them into a source code tree and say something like "Here's a tree of one of our projects. Talk to me about it."

"Its in perl, I don't know perl, and especially not your internally modified version of custom-magic perl that Steve wrote 7 years ago."

Not to mention that you are now either showing source code trees to random potential hires, or you have to audit/create/otherwise use some potential set of source code. Maybe you prescreen by asking them their favorite language, and you come in with an open source project, in their language of choice, but now you have to have one of your devs spend time familiarizing themselves with Redis or the Python interpreter or Hibernate Core or Angular or whatever, and what happens when they ask to do the interview in Haskell?

FWIW, I know some companies that do the interviews you're describing, but they're all relatively small (<100 employees), and they all do that kind of interview only after a technical phone screen with your conventional questions, because the time investment required by the company is so great.
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Hi all. One of the MOOC volunteers here :)
If you're trying out the console at cloud.imad.hasura.io then don't worry about the bit that asks you for your "NPTEL" registered email id. Just go ahead and enter your email and it should work!
The subject of the article (Ma) added an additional comment on Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/759985267390294?view=permalink&i...

> "It was easy to see hackathons with 50k plus prizes 2 years ago. Now days some of them only offer Alexa as prizes. The college kids will do it regardless since they don't have other stuff to do, but once you get a job that is a bit too much work for very little gain."

This reminds me a few years back when Greylock hosted a hackathon with an unintentionally ironic prize of a "Hacker Cash-omatic": http://valleywag.gawker.com/hackathon-accidentally-picks-per...

The same hackathon now offers $10k for first place, round trip airfare for second place...and Myo Armbands for 3rd.
The company I work for, CodeWeavers, sells a commercial version of Wine called CrossOver for exactly that use case. We're a little behind the current versions of Office; 2013 doesn't work very well yet, but old versions work excellently and we're working hard on 2013.
Not surprised to see this doing the rounds again. It is a great use of CSS with a powerful message.
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One more reason why I realize how similar I am to a dolphin. You have no idea how many times I have risked my life so I too could eat octopus.
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20 years ago, Microsoft was convicted as an abusive monopolist. It's up to them to convince me that they've reformed, and they're doing a kind of poor job of it.

Are you arguing that I am to just assume that they've changed due to the passage of time?
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My take on this is that Microsoft is stuck in an awful compromise. Google's stuff is free because their business model is surveillance. Apple compromised the user experience to preserve privacy until it could push the machine learning algorithms to user devices. Siri lagged (lags?) Google, but it can now find all my locally stored cat pictures, even though Apple doesn't have a copy of them. There are toggles in iOS to prevent Apple from gathering personal info.

Microsoft is trying to double dip: Windows wants to be a premium product like Apple, and the cloud division wants to be Google. The CEO is from the cloud division.

To get more user data, many teams in Microsoft backported data collection to existing Windows devices without an opt-in (or even opt-out) at the same time they made telemetry mandatory, effectively compromising millions of devices.

This completely destroyed any trust privacy-minded users had in them. Now the telmetry team (which is probably actually acting in good faith, and just trying to make stuff better) is the lightning rod for all the other inappropriate data collection being done in Redmond.

This is why there is such a disconnect between Apple's response to privacy issues (usually: "oops, crap. We'll fix it in the next release") and Microsoft's responses, like this article, where the spokesperson doesn't have the knowledge or authority to provide honest answers.
I'd say a big one for me is hours. I'm currently capped at 40 hours a week and couldn't be happier.
> Because solar is intermittent, and isn't practical at all in many parts of the world.

The solution to that is simple, use less power at night. I.e. don't make so much aluminum when there is no sun or wind. We could decide as a society to trade a few percent of our wealth for using much less coal and nuclear if we wanted (and if our society were organized in a rational fashion).

Also: don't heat with electricty, but use e.g. solar thermal or geothermal power.
Yep. Though it feels a bit strange to be reading a Forbes article about it. Seems more like the kind of thing you'd read about on Know Your Meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/bob-ross
It's is merely privatized in name. They're basically owned by the government. Shareholding just passed from one government body to another.
Isn't vegetation essentially a form of carbon capture, and it's not nearly effective enough to keep up with human CO2 emissions?
Thanks, I should probably be embarrassed but it's great they've been found so ...
This really looks nothing like primitive. Primitive has lots of overlaying strokes.
If the workstation vm is pwned what stops it from hitting the usual home router internal network address and/or changing the route?

Is there some network isolation going on which prevents that?
Try to look at what you do at your day-job from an outsider's perspective. What are some little things that to you seem trivial and obvious, but to an outsider would seem complex and foreign. There's opportunities there to package your knowledge into a tool or resource.

Example: i
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The octopus and likely the dolphin is probably much smarter than we give them credit for. On a whim one day I studied the octopus and finding them majestic and so smart I stopped eating them. The kicker was when I learned that female octopus when giving birth find a rock out of sight of predators and spend their last days and minutes doing nothing (no eating etc) but waiting for the next generation to birth and then they subsequently die. It was moving.
If you have a build step (you probably do), in most cases it's as simple as running `npm install --save` for your minifier of choice and adding one line to your build script.

Even if the difference is minimal, it could mean the difference between, say, three TCP packets and four, which adds up for users on high-latency connections.
I'm not sure that they do this, but all it would take is for it to be tied to the license key you bought from microsoft.
Windows 7 reportedly "works" on current hardware, with a beta driver for Intel Kaby Lake GPU.
Those tools rely on Microsoft-developed APIs to monitor traffic though...

A monitoring device connected along the network path would be more trustworthy.
If you're using Crass, it has a --pretty flag that will pretty-print your CSS, even after minification. You can play with it online here, too:

http://www.mattbasta.com/crass/
It can be a very good drink. I find it a drink of choice for a New Year's Eve party when champagne alone doesn't sound strong enough, but you want that bubbly excitement.

(Also, I do recommend having one in the Seelbach Hotel sometime, given the chance. It is a beautiful, storied hotel as some of the photos show.)
Which is conveniently taken care of when you sign in using your Microsoft account.
Sorry to go off topic but are you living, holidaying or "digital-nomad"ing in bkk?
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Interesting, I'll look into that. (I use 2010 anyway, so that's no issue.)
Again, yes and no. I know a few local on-line retailers that handle their own faulty services like so:

- bribe the customers leaving negative reviews into cancelling them, by offering e.g. free products

- use multiple accounts on the marketplace services, kill off an account after it got too many negative reviews and create a new one to continue

The point being, "customer is always right" is not something that works for all B2C; depending on your market type, there may be strategies that let you be pretty much immune from the effects of a wronged customer seeking revenge. For instance, commodity items are bought by people who are mostly price-sensitive; as long as you keep a lower price, even angry reviews won't mean much. This works well for brick-and-mortar grocery stores (and other inherently local stores) and for business that sell through on-line marketplaces like eBay. It's sometimes even beneficial to not have a strong social media presence - Facebook pages and Twitter accounts are a good place for angry customers to vent off and spread the bad word about you.
MS team said they were working on the standard CSS Grid implementation now

https://twitter.com/MSEdgeDev/status/848997331567497216
> There is no norm or enforcement for citations.

Obviously there is a community norm. We both just experienced it. You were downvoted (although that could have been for presentation), and I was upvoted for noting that the reason you were downvoted could have been for not supplying sources. For better or worse, that's how it is here at this point in time.

> That is your personal preference.

It is my preference. I'll note that it's not my preference to the point that I'll generally downvote for it though, and I didn't in this case. Other people do though, and there seems to be a general support for requesting that people supply evidence for claims. That's what makes it a community norm.

> I don't want to spend time chasing down and writing citations.

And I don't want to either. And other readers don't want to either. As a trade-off between one person, who presumably already knows that the reference exists and has some idea where to find it and every other person who reads it, it's obvious that the efficient answer is for the person who is using it as evidence to also include a link to the source when they use it.

> There is no rule written that says all comments must have proper citations following APA formatting.

No, there isn't, which is why I asked nicely.
The stock controller app states "Running our of component stock" which is probably supposed to be "Running out of component stock" in the component monitoring section.
> No, it only becomes political when it comes to forcing other groups to change or support your cause.

I am having trouble understanding why you think this. Care to explain why?
Things that advance your career don't always come with money upfront. Example: unpaid internships.
For discussion purposes, in order:

- A team I enjoy working with.
- Career growth, solid pay and benefits.
- A culture that doesn't tolerate toxic people or excessive politics.
- A quiet environment where I can concentrate and/or remote work days.
- An interesting project.

I used to care more about working with resume building technology. As I've gotten older, I care a lot more about interpersonal issues and my work environment.
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One difference being that seriously privacy-sensitive or -critical smartphone users can avoid using Google's services on their phone and create a firewall whitelist, or a filtering loopback VPN, to avoid leakage.[0]

Not that's ideal, but it seems a lot better than Windows 10 seemingly indefatigible ways and means of sneaking data out. Ignoring hosts file and DNS responses is just rude.

[0] baseband attacks are still a problem, but at that level of threat then the BIOS or management subsystem on your PC isn't trustworthy either.
I guess by the time the media finds out and publishes an article about an interesting way to make money, it's probably too late to make a lot of money off of it.

See: bitcoin
Is there a consensus on a good distro for this use case?