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> yeah this is a bad idea in general. If you have critical stuff you need to SSH into from the public internet, keep it all in private IP space and have an openvpn gateway

This is not a bad idea in general. In fact, teleport proxy implements this exact model you have just described, where only proxy is available and acts as a jump host to the set of machines available only on the private net. The only difference is that instead of open VPN gateway it uses SSH jumphost model.

Teleport proxy uses OpenSSH cert auth, in addition to that teleport node also does cert auth.

Not everyone needs to always set up VPN, sometimes jumphosts + cert auth are perfectly fine.
https://pushover.net/ is what I use.

There is also https://www.pushbullet.com/ which I have bookmarked, but not tested.
One that isn't mentioned much is avoiding corporate overhead costs, which I found interesting when I learned about it.

Basically some big companies charge their divisions fees for upkeep of facilities, paying the finance team salaries, etc based on the number of employees in the division.

So if you can have ten employees you are only on the hook for $1M/year in corp fees even though you actually have three "consultants" sharing desks with every employee for years-at-a-time. If you added the consultants to the employee roles then you would become a 50 person division, owing $5M/year to the home office.

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The CAPEX vs OPEX thing is a big driver too, of course, but there are definitely ways to classify employees, at least partially, as capex.

It's why you can make an exempt employee fill out a timesheet to charge back projects which you have put into the capex group.

A few jobs ago my group was told to find 80% capex or find new jobs. Most fridays were spent negotiating with project managers in tasks-for-hours swaps.
My antilibrary is in the form of Kindle samples. Every time I come across a title that interests me, I send myself a free sample. Whenever I'm in need of a new book to read, I browse my samples and sample them until one captures my interest. It leaves much to be desired, but it does curb my tsundoku.
Go to the supermarket?
> I have the right to render your bits and bytes however I wish.

Legally I have no idea. But ethically/morally, I'd argue you don't. By visiting the site, you're entering into an agreement to exchange your ad views for content and you're breaking that agreement.

Doesn't feel right to me.
Hah! There is actually a 4th patent for asicboost: https://medium.com/@vcorem/the-real-savings-from-asicboost-t...

4 patents (applications) from 4 different holders! This provides enough competing interests that it is even less likely that asicboost will ever turn out to be a "problem".
> our articles get much more traffic on mainstream media that republish us, but we receive no advertising revenue from this

Um, so, shouldn't you be charging a syndication fee, probably a percentage of their ads displayed on your articles?
Recently we had a meeting about the next phase of the project now that Horizon and RethinkDB are owned by the linux foundation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0aucGzJE8&t=279s
A friend and I were joking about how small the Blue Apron meals were... so we played a little game where we compared the size of the Blue Apron meal to the amount of free samples we could stuff into a to-go box at Whole Foods without getting caught. The samples won.
Does anyone use this for work? Could I replace Ubuntu with Windows now?
If they are going to spend a million man hours of effort playing wack a mole with content creators, why haven't they spent a tenth of that effort keeping the ads they get paid to run safe and clean? Easy. Poor search results reflects poorly on them, when they put a dodgy ad on a site they get paid, and the site gets blamed.
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"You can still create a Digital Ocean droplet, Docker container, or VM Image - and do the same thing (upload & forget)."

Wouldn't it be easier - and free - to "upload and forget" onto github ?

If someone had a software release, why wouldn't they choose github to be the release point - even if it's just a single tarball ?

Are there costs involved in hosting binaries/tarfiles on github ?
I block all ads and don't feel one bit of guilt about it.
One thing that bothers me about the way people look at Spotify as outsiders is they only see it as a US platform.

Through DistroKid, I have a couple years of data indicating that Spotify is actually a music discovery tool in non-US nations a little more than locally. Most of this research corresponds to personal marketing efforts. There are indications I've found that Spotify's efforts outside of the US are likely more beneficial to Artists than might be thought of in a traditional sense.

Glad they posted this kind of "under the hood" rationale. It's a lot like a Director's Commentary on a Film to me, hope you see it the same way. Nothing's perfect, but explaining the logic is nice to see attempted.
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Why is Gizmodo still trafficking in clickbait posts?

Oh, wait.
Here's the overview of the feature we call "Trusted clusters"

http://gravitational.com/teleport/docs/2.0/admin-guide/#trus...
The second hijacking is mostly "bot", not "robot".

For real hijacking, there's "android". An android is a humanoid robot, not a mobile telephone.
Note: I believe this only applies to involuntary bumps, not voluntary ones(when you take the offer).
Yes, a small amount of racism that I don't even notice is far more acceptable than a large amount which inconveniences me daily.

Racism isn't like homeopathy, where any quantity at all has the same effect. More is worse, less is better.

In that study, the median black taxi rider is passed by 2 taxis before being picked up, vs 0 for the median white (see fig A.6). The difference for Uber is not remotely as large.
I don't pretend to know the answer but many of the big retailers they mention are simply terrible brands.

Anyone who has walked into a Sears, JCPenny, Radio Shack, or Macy's, knows what a disaster those stores have become.

Zara, H&M, and Uniqlo are probably in a much better spot.
I look forward to your principled commitment to opening your home to everyone with a bullhorn and an opinion to share with you.
It's a weird thing because this seems to be the culmination of YouTube, as a platform, becoming a worse place consistently for content creators. This ad-hysteria seems to have just accelerated the process to its (yet unknown) logical conclusion. I think a lot of content creators didn't look for alternatives to YT as a platform because they've been a pretty alright place for free speech (most of the time -- even during this debacle!), but it's been having some pretty severe issues over the years (a lot of which are caused by YouTube's absolute refusal to deal with people personally).

It's also a weird situation, because free video sharing on the Internet is not really a profitable line of business when it exists in a way as liberal as YouTube is (Vimeo, for example is limited for free users, etc.) so there are not as many long term, similarly equipped alternatives to it, at least as of now.
No, but they aren't doing anything to suppress the video, they are just refusing to host it. If you expand the definition of censorship to anyone who refuses to host a specific piece of content, then it basically loses all meaning. The New York Times is censoring me by not publishing my article. This science journal is censoring me by not publishing my paper.
I created Let's Be Chefs to help solve a lot of the pain points of Blue Apron and other such services. We don't deliver the ingredients, so you're free to buy organic/regular, swap ingredients, alter number of servings, etc. as you wish. (Receiving ingredients never really reduced my grocery shopping anyway because I still have to buy milk, bread, eggs, etc.). We don't have the associated waste, and the service is much cheaper ($6.99/month after a 7 day free trial - no credit card required for trial). Best of all, we'll learn your likes and dislikes and will send you weekly menus through the app of meals that you'll enjoy.

If you'd like to try it out for free for 7 days, check out www.LetsBeChefs.com. We're a new startup, so we'd really appreciate any and all feedback as well!
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The comment two levels above said that Uber reduces my daily dose of racism to levels far lower than "daily". The comment one level up says that the study your clickbait article cites supports this point.
My bet goes to Android + Chrome OS + Fuchsia OS

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
> Words get tweaked, re-purposed, misunderstood, munged, combined, slurred, abused, enriched, extended, negated, confused, and broken

Or as I call it, twepurdgerruchxtegused

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They were pretty ridiculous. After one meal I was looking around in the refrigerator within an hour, and after another I could have literally eaten another whole portion as soon as I finished. We cancelled after the first week.

Now I'm using The Fresh 20, which makes portions for "4", but we usually eat most of it and have some leftovers for a small lunch. I have to actually buy the ingredients but since I needed to go to the store either way it's been working out fine.
The quote goes on to say that liberals are "too polite". That's not self awareness. We are many things, but polite???

We literally hurled every accusation/generalization imaginable at trump supporters.
Deepstreamhub member here: The platform, similar to Firebase supports multiple Auth strategies and has a fine grained permission language called Valve, similar to Firebase's Bolt. Please find an overview of security concepts here https://deepstreamhub.com/tutorials/guides/security-overview...

Dsh allows you to store arbitrary data, but breaks it down into smaller chunks a large Mongo or Couch db.

As these smaller chunks have their own life cycle lists make it easy to use them within iterators, e.g. For each in Vue etc, where every component manages bits own granular document
Which is why I have a GNU/Windows sticker on my laptop.
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I just wish our devices were designed with the recognition that we users of them, yes, even adults, may want some help limiting our usage of them. Something like granular parental controls, but for the average adult user. I'd love to be able to set a time limit, at the system level, on my ability to use my phone or computer. Or limit what apps and programs and sites I have access to. I.e., I want my computers, tablets, and phones to be mostly TOOLS, with reliable limits on how addicted I can get to 1) reading news, 2) watching YouTube, 3) watching Netflix/Prime, 4) browsing the web. Of course this is not going to happen because there's a lot of money in peddling addiction. Apple and Google make a lot of money serving ads, selling games and content, etc. So we really need another option who builds a really good TOOL which has limited entertainment potential.
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> You can also just do a tip jar model or patreon.

I've contemplated this kind of thing, but it feels like panhandling, and I'm reluctant to go there. I would do it if I thought I could do so tastefully and respectfully.

I'm a (non-tech-related) "content producer," and I absolutely refuse to put up ads or be a shill or "native advertiser." Instead, I wrote a book, and if people want to support what I do, they can buy it. It's not enough to be a day job, but it probably could be with day-job levels of time and effort, and my "content consumers" appreciate my integrity.
Everyone needs to aggressively block ads so that there's more motivation to develop better monitization approaches.
Idiomatic C++ is not like Cello at all. But it still allows you to do all things that Cello does - and most of them wouldn't be macros then, but classes and overloaded operators on them.
I agree. It's just like any other kind of piracy. If the content isn't valuable enough to see with ads enabled, then the ethical answer is to not view the content at all.
Paper by FiftyThree - https://www.fiftythree.com/paper
I don't think that people want things for free. People want things with the least amount of effort, money or not; Steam and Netflix have proven as much in context of piracy. People don't pirate as much because they have always wanted to enjoy games/movies, not derive pleasure from denying publishers money and these services provide a way to do just that.

Adverts are a pain in the back for the user, they take up bandwidth and processing time and that fucks with the experience. If you could simply charge $50 for a ticket for the whole amusement park, once you are in you don't have to worry about paying but only the experience, rather than nickel and dime them people would gladly pay that amount. It's about the convenience/experience.
By visiting the site, you're entering into an agreement to exchange your ad views for content and you're breaking that agreement.

C'mon, you know better. What agreement? If your answer contains the word "unspoken", I'll let you in on the real definition of that word in this context: "non-existent". I didn't sign anything, no notice was posted. The only agreement I have is that I ask for data, and should your server deem me worthy, it will send me some. That's what I signed up for low those many years ago. If you and advertisers would like to change the "agreement" after the fact, well, good luck with that upstream swim.
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> You know what the alternative to all of these Electron apps coming out is?

Do you think people 'knew' what was going to kill Flash before it died?
I had an otherwise excellent (if infamously uptight) calculus teacher in high school whose one mistake more than undid everything she did right: she insisted that everyone take extensive notes. She also moved quickly though materials and examples, making the problem worse. It ruined the class.
I totally believe distributed systems should be modeled using declarative circuit metaphors.
Actually, deepstream has a very similar datasync approach with its records, pub sub and rpcs are mainly a supporting feature.
Ask HN: Is anyone using AI to dj / mix audio?
I'm not even boycotting it, I just don't use it (or any apps built on it afaik).

Unless they significantly rethink their approach it's significantly flawed without much room for improvement. Plenty of room for something better to come along. Even if it saw mass adoption, the demand for a better base would invite an alternative to gain traction against a sluggish goliath a la Firefox-vs-IE (or Chrome vs Firefox).

Why stick with a doomed formula?
Don't forget about the Semites. While the diversity would be great, but you have to keep in mind that many of them won't work from sundown on Friday. They'll also skip out on all 12 days of Ramadan.
Yes, that's been known about AdBlock. These days I recommend uBlock Origin.
Thanks, this is perfect. Will try it out!
Because Uber keeps taking on VC money. If you think that can continue permanently then you're deluded.
"Well we are moving to a web first world, and passing the terminal days of IRC."

That's too bad - mostly for the people that won't experience it or see it as viable.

In 2017 I use (al)pine as my sole mailtool. It's many, many times faster and more efficient than web based email - and much more private and secure.
Or invent a system by which 10% of the ad revenue gets cut out to the end user.

Or the user-allocated payments in the Brave browser[1].

1. https://www.brave.com/publishers.html
What I fear is that smart people with money (like you and me) use ad-blockers.

So the ads that do get shown are exactly the low quality crappy ads that appeal to the great unwashed.

This is certainly evident to me on Facebook for instance. The very first ads that get shown do not have the benefit of the marketing analytics about me so they're very low quality ones like the ads in the article.

The second wave (after about 5 seconds) are vastly improved and often touch on my interests or have some connection to friends interests or real current news events.
It's such a weird time to be alive: with all the controversy around advertising nowadays we're kind of seeing Google's previously invulnerable tendrils around the Internet slowly being peeled off. That being their major source of income, they must be worried. I am too, but for another reason -- I don't want a company like Facebook taking over and establishing a monopoly (say what you will about Google, companies like Facebook are even less ethical).
That's understandable. Thanks for the reply.

Out of curiosity, is progress on WSL bound by any blocking issues in particular, or could your team benefit from more resources being assigned to the project?

Maybe I'm naïve, but I tend to view WSL as a perfect way to win over a ton of developers who are becoming disillusioned with macOS, but are hesitant to run bare metal Linux due to the headaches involved (insofar that macOS and Windows "just work").
Finding Dory and Jim Gaffigan
I assumed this Ask HN was a ploy for free research toward the $1M Satori contest.
An annotated digest of the top HackerNews posts first week of April, 2017
Blekko had a contract with a VPN provider for search, and they were very popular in Egypt during the Arab Spring. We were hoping that we were powering curiosity about freedom, but the query stream was... 100% porn queries.
Unfortunately the situation has devolved into a kind of arms race where content providers need to recover costs via advertising more aggressively because more people are "skipping"/blocking the ads. Those "more people" include me because some of it has become unbearable as well as malicious.

That said, I do maintain that a site owner has the right to try to extract revenue from their enterprise and to a degree as visitors we have a right to not put up with overwhelming advertising. It's one of those things where we both have rights and we need to find an agreeable medium --not that everyone will agree but at least "the average person" will agree.

Maybe small enthusiast site will always be free and depend on the goodwill of the site maintainer (as in the "good old days" before ads) And maybe we'll have services which bundle premium content ala cable. And maybe there will be a micropayments aspect too. In the end, content does not come for free --someone or many people have to put work into bringing that content to light/publish.
True. Mostly anywhere in Louisiana, Arkansas, many parts of Texas, and probably all of Alabama and Mississippi. I also don't see large racial issues in my community with the exception being what happened in Baton Rouge last year. Something the South is historically bad at is education. I think we have the 5 lowest scoring states.
The parent poster did say "ethically/morally". There's no legal agreement, obviously.
I have read the study; there is just no longer a difference. "Traditional" taxis now use apps & drivers now drive for Uber, Lyft and local taxi companies.
I had more books than I could reasonably read when I was still an undergrad on student welfare payments. Books aren't that expensive...
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Society has many unwritten agreements.

You don't like ads, I get it. You take without compensating because you want to. Don't just shrug and say, "no notice was posted." Own it. Say, "I felt like taking this so I took it."
There's some difference between removing individuals for specific behavior and in going after identifiable groups of people. As well as whether a service is some sort of public accommodation or not.

So it's one thing to ban someone from some public accommodation for specific behavior and another thing entirely if you don't serve that kind of people or if you play games with the rules and enact a grandfather clause that somehow only applies to 'that' sort, but avoids spelling it out.
If you have a genuine question, I feel like it is fine. If you're holding up the class because they're all smarter than you, well, they can take up their issues with the admissions department.

But if you're asking basic questions even though you understand but you think the explanation might be confusing for others, you're probably just holding up the class.
I used to feel that way, and still have absolutely no problem with ads in and of themselves. But they are the ones who breached ethics and morals by tracking me around the web, tracking my search queries, running all sorts of terrible JavaScript, and generally being dicks. So I don't feel bad anymore.
I'm for GNI\NT
Why speculate when you can ask?
Consider the following: If you pick up a newspaper or magazine, is it wrong to skip the ads? What about changing the TV channel or radio station while commercials play?
The headline is deeply misleading.

This article is not about classical negative mass or exotic matter – which would be major breakthroughs.

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

It is about "engineering" of the dispersion relation – wave-related phenomena that can have counter-intuitive effects at small scales where multiple waves interfere:

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

In this case, the "counter-intuitive" effect is that the particles appear to move the wrong way when subjected to forces, resulting in an "effective mass" with a negative sign:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_mass_(solid-state_ph...

The particles still have exactly the same (positive) mass, they're just moving the wrong way due to wave interference.

If you want to be super misleading... why not call it a "tractor beam"? They're applying a push force but the particle is moving towards the push.

As others have noted, the abstract for the paper correctly characterizes the phenomena as "negative effective mass". That word "effective" makes all the difference.
Isn't this something similar to vala ?
Author here.

Fixed the scroll issue in the docs. Should be glorious normal iOS scroll.
The argument about why slack doesn't work well is a bit of a stretch. I understand all the points on closed system etc. But the author states that slack doesn't work because it's synchronous and it excludes others from participating in the conversation. Then mentions that even with history recorded, the person in a different time zone can't participate. Then the argument is to use email threads instead. email suffers the same problem of slack, where those who didn't check their email while a discussion was happening now feel missed out on. However, they can reply 8-20 hours later or even days later. Well, you could do the same thing with slack. The problem with slack is the lack of relevant threads. Everything is one giant thread. But that is how most email mailing groups become anyways.

Now, I am not a proponent of slack, I think it has its own problems, but I don't think email is any better.
I tried Hyper, listed in their "apps made with Electron" gallery thing. lol 250 megabyte fancy command-prompt
"What I do see is that more and more communities switch from IRC to Slack as the primary "sync" channel"

Just keep your hands off my mailman ...
That would be Forth
Doesn't stop you from consuming their content though?
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