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the point of view of a single person, even if insider, is not the same as a well researched work.

I could counter your anecdotal point of view with mine. around here, google hire professors without any ongoing research just to access potential future research from their students and have early access to grad students entering the market. the professors in question are full time employees that have their own office in the university campus.
1) If you trust them to write secure router firmware you can trust them to keep their HTTPS certificates safe - the former is a lot easer than the latter. 2) Router intercepts all DNS requests and responds with its own IP, responds to HTTP calls with HTTP 428, like already happens and like OSes already deal with appropriately.
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Everyone is a "troll" when they are suing you. When you are suing other people they are thieves stealing your innovation.

These lawyers are doing great work by creating a market that allows innovators to profit from their work even if they don't have the capital to commercialize their innovations themselves.

The incumbents can cry about this but even if they have never sued anyone for infringement their valuations are still based on their portfolios and they still use the threat to suppress competition and when they are over a barrel for cash they will monetize those patents either themselves or by selling to another "troll."

Individual software engineers who invent new technologies deserve to get compensated the same as anyone else for their inventions.
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> ES6 symbols are similar to the more traditional symbols in languages like Lisp and Ruby, but not so closely integrated into the language.

This is why I'm not massively interested in ES6 symbols tbh, though I could be missing something.

Hopefully there will still be useful cases for them.
You are implying that Steve Litt is not very active in contributing to Devuan. On what data and metrics are you basing this?
*the American internet

Meanwhile the EU already has laws for Net Neutrality (though zero-rating is still allowed).
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It's more like some endpoints are 95% secure whereas cloudflare flexible ssl is 5% secure. Conflating those as "not 100%" is far more misleading than rounding them off to "secure" and "not secure". If https:// doesn't mean traffic is encrypted as it passes over the public internet then it means nothing, and that's what happens when you use cloudflare.
I am confused. What are these so-called "digital technologies"?
More like not use US ISP's...
Ask HN: How does one overcome the need for instant gratification?
...in the context of programming and problem solving. For me, it becomes intensely boring and border line ADHD while pondering over a complex problem that requires some dedicated attention without worrying about the end result. Instead, I end up taking the easiest solution that may solve the problem only partially, just for the instant gratification it gives. Needless to say, this is harmful for important decisions.

I believe this has come from years of INSTANT dopamine rushes from social media and Hacker News.

How do you avoid it?
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Assign a fqdn, I log into my router with a domain name, most routers actually have a domain name for them.

Configure the LAN setting of RT-AC68U.
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Ubuntu also has a history of things that go pretty well: Easy setup for average users including nonfree drivers, reaching a point of popularity where developers target Ubuntu first, PPAs as lightweight repositories for own packages, huge offspring of distros based on it.

Not everything is black and white, and while Ubuntu has failed in some aspects, it succeeded in others. Also, they are not hesitant to admit a failure, upstart is a thing of the past with Ubuntu using systemd, unity and "their phone thing" are being discontinued with focus shifting to the Gnome desktop and the traditional PC/Laptop/server market.
I learned that habit from the Professor (UK style) I used to work for whose speciality was non-linear control systems and was clearly rather bright.

He was very quick to say "I don't understand" or "could you explain that in simpler terms" - I particularly remember him being utterly delighted by the Unix "fork" system call.
True; and yet the British pejorative "berk" ("fool", "idiot") rhymes with "work" but is supposedly a contraction of "Berkeley Hunt" (rhyming slang for a word much ruder than the fairly mild "berk").
I fully support the net neutrality argument, it seems like a no brainer to me. However I find it interesting that companies like Netflix and Amazon who heavily differentiate in which devices you can have which video quality[1] will then argue that ISPs shouldn't be able to differentiate which services should have which transport quality.

The situation seems completely analogous to me. I'm paying my ISP for a connection and it thinks it should be able to restrict which services I use on top of it. I'm paying a content provider for some shows/movies and it thinks it should be able to restrict which device I use to view them.

The argument for regulation also seems the same. ISPs don't have effective competition because physical infrastructure is a natural monopoly. Content providers also don't have effective competition because content access is also a natural monopoly because of network effects (right now there are 2-3 relevant players worldwide).

[1] Both of them heavily restrict which devices can access 4K content. Both of them make it very hard to have HD from non-standard devices. Netflix even makes it hard to get 1080p on anything that isn't the absolute mainstream (impossible on Linux for example).
> (1) If you trust them to write secure router firmware you can trust them to keep their HTTPS certificates safe

wha? uhm, no. Just because I trust you to do something correctly once that doesn't mean I trust you to keep something else safe for all eternity.

> 2) Router intercepts all DNS requests and responds with its own IP

Actually, what if I have multiple of these routers in (say) a chain? I have to go physically find the one I need so I can connect an Ethernet cable to it and bypass all the others? I can't just connect to the one I want directly by its IP address?
I've certainly apologized a few times - usually for writing something that is badly worded, unintentionally inflammatory or simply plain wrong.

I certainly apologised profusely when I wrote something that annoyed dang.... :-)
As a foreigner who deeply cares about the web, what can I do to help? For good or for bad, USA decisions on the Internet spread widely around the world. "Benign" example: the mess before UTF8, malign example: DRM and copyright fight.

Note: Besides spreading the word; I do not know so many Americans
Lectures have worked well enough for years for many people.
https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/884939675617472512
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there have been a few businesses that lost data, or got hacked, or shut down.
Politicians are also better off without a laptop during legislative sessions [0].

[0] http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/solitaire.asp
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Does that mean your code repository is on CentOS inside HyperV, and use code editor from Windows to edit it?
Most of the US websites that I visit are owned by major multinational corporations, which do more business in the rest of the world than they do in the US (http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-sales-region-chi...), (https://www.recode.net/2017/4/29/15479932/alphabet-revenue-g...), (https://about.twitter.com/company)

Are they even US companies anymore?
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What will be the most likely scenario now? will we see this piece drift away and melt? stay relatively close to the current area? and if it will start drifting, how far can it go with such an impressive amount of ice?
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It is an entitrely new package that shares part of the name. I could provide numerous examples, but you already know about them. You keep minor version bumps for fixes and patches while major changes you plan to charge for are a part of the new package.
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Not to be confused with OWL framework from Borland.
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I have been anticipating this but have had better things to spend my limited time on. I have more than 135 sites I need to convert to https and they are load balanced. I don't think letsencrypt handles load balanced sites yet. My management is against wildcard certs. This might push them over the edge in favor of wildcard certs.
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I think there is a huge difference here. First of all, the restriction on 4K has a lot more to do with technical limitations than anything else. Very few devices can actually handle 4K. While your laptops screen might be able to handle it, your browser might not be able to decode h.265 at all, and might not be fast enough to decode h.264 at 4K resolutions.

As someone who works on a video streaming service for similar type of content. I see this policy as a help to consumers more than restrictions, simply because they ensure they only allow 4K where they are fairly certain it works.

Secondly, if Netflix doesn't provide you the service you need, you can switch to Amazon, or Hulu or any of a number of providers. If your ISP doesn't provide you a service without restrictions, plenty of people have no recourse. It isn't unusual for natural monopoly industries to be more heavily regulated.
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You've omitted inventing and adding pre-seed hooks to the installer, let alone improving the installer so that the user does not have to muck about with preseed hooks in the first place.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580024

On that subject, the Debian Installer has an interesting bug in the current version.

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866206 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14710986)
Between 2001 and 2016, the U.S.D.A. intercepted semislug-infested plant shipments from Hawaii to the mainland at least forty-five times. If the organism made it across the Pacific, it would have little trouble surviving in warmer parts of the United States

The slug (which feeds on lettuce and papaya) is invasive; therefore this lungworm parasite that hosts itself on the slug becomes invasive by default... nature is sick sometimes.
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The difference that comes to my mind is costs. I suspect software "inventions" are usually very cheap to make (a person with a laptop is enough), compared to other industries.
IMO the system needs to work on getting a better deal for the public in exchange for granting the monopoly that a patent holder gets.

For example after 5 years the renewal fees could relate to gross revenue from any device including that patent, or actual licensing fees. I like the former as it seems harder to work around [though you'll get components sold as products to companies residing in the same factory, I guess] and means that patents that don't contribute considerably to revenue will be dropped. This means people can still profit from useful inventions.

You could also underpin renewal fees with an exponentially growing base cost.
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No, I bouht some recently to experiment: Always about 10% packet loss (yes, i was on the same circuit, packet loss was much worse across circuits)
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Agreed...was surprised to see a lot of plots which is nice.
Caveat: I'm not 100% sure on my stance, personally. Most arguments (for or against) net neutrality appear based on assumptions I don't agree with.

The priority internet argument seems simple: It's the ISP's cables, and they should by default be able to make whatever deals they want, just as I can make unbalanced deals around who gets to use my car or headphones.

But then there's the "common carrier" issue. If the ISPs want that status, they should be held to its implications, which roughly equals net neutrality.

Priority internet with common carrier status is just ISP's having their cake and eating it too. That's what's on the table as I understand it, and I can't endorse it. It's just a money/power grab.

But I'm not sure whether neutral internet with common carrier status is morally better than priority internet without common carrier. There's maybe a productive conversation to be had there.

Edit: got words mixed up
I guess people here are less afraid of false accusations, and more of 1) actual wrongdoing, and 2) creating wierd rules that they feel are sexist or anachronistic.

Just to insure myself against potential false allegations of affairs or harrasment doesn't seem to be reason enough to advise that kind of segregation. Also its a slippery slope: it may start as a precaution, but if widespread, it becomes semi-mandatory.

The comparison with Saudi Arabia is hyperbolic of course, but I think not too far fetched. Everywhere where men and women are segregated, the stated motivation is not misogyny, but to protect women, and some kind of decency. It only ever looks wrong from the outside.
I guess the government will soon be... Sans-Sharif

(sorry)
I am not sure I understand the outrage. We are, I assume, talking about peer reviewed research papers here? Regardless of who has funded the research and for what motives, the work has passed the community's filter for quality, significance and correctness. You might raise questions about the effectiveness of that filter, but that is a separate issue.

In fact, it much worse to dismiss research just because of who funded it or what their assumed motives were -- which is a strong human instinct, and which seems to be implicitly behind this outrage.
Aside from macros, pretty much all of these have been covered by build tools for a few years now.
That argument would have worked better if it hadn't been the case that Fedora used upstart for a few years.
Professional game developers have a different opinion regarding graphics APIs, even those that have been strong OpenGL apologists in the past:

"John Carmack: Its still OpenGL, although we obviously use a D3D-ish API [on the Xbox 360], and CG on the PS3. Its interesting how little of the technology cares what API you're using and what generation of the technology you're on. You've got a small handful of files that care about what API they're on, and millions of lines of code that are agnostic to the platform that they're on."

http://fd.fabiensanglard.net/doom3/pdfs/johnc-interviews.pdf

AAA studios already adopted Metal on their engines, Vulkan only matters on GNU/Linux among those having supported graphics cards.

On Android, it is only available as optional graphics API in 10% of devices available worldwide.

On Windows, it is only supported on legacy Win32, it isn't and it won't be supported on UWP.

On Nintendo Switch, there is the option to use the more lower level API NVN instead.

So laugh at will, lets see which APIs game studios care about.
Is this someone's slide deck as article? Beginning with what symbols aren't — not logos, not emoji, not cymbals, har har — seems more suited for a cheesy in-person ice breaker.
Well, prevent espionage from other countries on US firms of course. And there is always the discrepancy between stated goals and reality.
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The deduction that some document must be a forgery because it's dated to 2006 and the font it is written in wasn't available until 2007, sounds like something out of a Sherlock Holmes story.
Delegate address space the whole way through your internal network - you should get a large enough block from your upstream ISP that this is fine. If you're too big for a single upstream ISP you should have your own AS number and participate in internet routing.

If this is truly disconnected from the Internet then yeah HTTPS is unsuitable - it fundamentally relies on the idea that there's a central, universal definition for who owns "foo.com" so that users can rely on talking to the correct "foo.com".
I think low cost prototyping is one of the best features here -

I work in an academic environment and was introduced to web development as part of the projects I am working on. The simple interface made it easy to put something together under tight deadlines with little/no Web experience, but experience working with GUIs in other systems.
Clue 1: it praises PHP. Even PHP apologists usually restrict themselves to simply defending PHP rather than praising it.

Clue 2: it calls JS "dangerous" and "poor designed" (sic). This is vague but provocative enough to invite emotional responses rather than factual discussion.

Clue 3: it explicitly calls out "the scope of variables" as "broken". Again this is vague enough to be ambiguous but strongly worded enough to seem insulting. This is especially confusing if contrasted with PHP, which isn't exactly known for being intuitive and simple in that regard: http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php

But you're right, which is why I said it seems like an obvious troll comment rather than insisting that it can only be that. It might just be a poorly worded expression of frustration stemming from an incomplete understanding. Hence my attempt at a factual response.
Sure, if you're starting on that basis. But it's a different thing entirely if you start out with an explicit deal saying "you pay 30% of your income to the government, and you get a pension when you retire" and then after you fulfill your part of the bargain, the government says "oh uh, that money you paid, we spent it."

We now have mandatory superannuation contributions which work pretty much how you're suggesting, and the government is pushing towards getting rid of pensions in future.
>I think there is a huge difference here. First of all, the restriction on 4K has a lot more to do with technical limitations than anything else. Very few devices can actually handle 4K. While your laptops screen might be able to handle it, your browser might not be able to decode h.265 at all, and might not be fast enough to decode h.264 at 4K resolutions.

The exact same setup (Chrome on this Linux laptop) works just fine with 4K youtube streams. Yet both Netflix and Amazon have restrictions for 4K where it basically only works with closed set-top box type devices. There's no reasonable technical motivation for the restriction.

>Secondly, if Netflix doesn't provide you the service you need, you can switch to Amazon, or Hulu or any of a number of providers.

There isn't "any number of providers". For relevant content my two options right now are Netflix and Prime Video, there is no third.

>If your ISP doesn't provide you a service without restrictions, plenty of people have no recourse. It isn't unusual for natural monopoly industries to be more heavily regulated.

While I only have 2 choices, and those are the same two worldwide, I easily have 3 good ISP choices and those are local to each market, so worldwide there are hundreds or thousands. That's exactly my point. Worldwide the neutrality in content access is probably more important as it is a much more consolidated industry.
You are assuming that you control all client machines. Unfortunately it is not always possible and far from the admin technical decision.
The admin usually can't fire the upper management.
Would be interesting if the document also has the "tracking dots" printer companies use.
I was referring to TOTP. Some 2FA doesn't protect against this, sure. But the whole point of TOTP is that the codes change over time, so having the current TOTP token is entirely useless. This is literally the threat model of TOTP. The only way of breaking it is to get the shared key (which a keylogger won't do, and you need to attack the TOTP device).
Perfectly put. Quoting here as it's short enough:

@Pinboard Net neutrality is about making sure the cable monopolies can’t play favorites among the Internet monopolies
The trick is more commonly used when writing to sockets. A socket owner is required for reading, not for writing.

The trick then is that when you need to write lots of data to a socket to just send a copy of it to the writer so they can dump all their data for cheap, but without changing ownership (which is costly).

Also recently I've gotten http://propertesting.com/ out, you might enjoy it :)
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Those stereotypes are backed by HN posts about how the CLI is so great, how using a tiling window manager is so great, how using XFCE (a CDE clone) is all that is needed, that GNOME/KDE devs destroy the desktop because they care about UI/UX for non-technical users, that systemd is a desktop plague infecting servers,....

Plenty of material.
Google is moving away from network-centric security and VPNs. See https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp/ . The threat model is a bit different but you could also follow their approach and put an auth proxy in front of Jenkins and deploy it on the public Internet.

But yeah, don't expose Jenkins to the Internet directly. Last month I saw a Jenkins instance that was mining bitcoins. The worm had used one of Java's serialisation vuln to get in the box and install the miner.
> There's no reasonable technical motivation for the restriction.

There may well be licensing restrictions on the content which preclude them sending 4K video to unDRM'd or unverifi{ed,able} clients.
Did… did they render the text on the landing page as an image?

edit oh no, I see the <p> elements… but the page makes the text non-selectable, and the right-click context menu acts like I clicked on the background image.
>The iceberg is one of the largest recorded and its future progress is difficult to predict. It may remain in one piece but is more likely to break into fragments. Some of the ice may remain in the area for decades, while parts of the iceberg may drift north into warmer waters.

http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/calving/
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It's also not really true: they're the opposite of symbols in lisp and ruby. In lisp and ruby, `:a == :a` is true, while in JavaScript `Symbol("a") == Symbol("a")` is false.
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I definitely don't only see a bunch of wealthy buisnesses. I don't know where you are looking but in the list of supporters I see a mixed group of organisations, people and businesses - all of them of different size. The videos linked are from comedians, professors, politicans, Youtubers... I have no idea how you got "only people making lots of money" from that (hell, you mentioned Facebook and I can't even find them in the list of supporters).

The only big voice I have found arguing against net neutrality is Ajit Pai himself. His views on the issue can be found in numerous interviews but maybe the best place to find his views of the internet would be in FCCs notice of proposal [1]. I don't agree with much of it and found it completly misunderstanding how the internet works.

I have seen some argue that VPNs and encryption would solve the problem even if net neutrality would disappear but I find that a solution not a very complete one.

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/document/restoring-internet-freedom-noti...
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