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Can you ELI5 what we ppl who are deploying to any cloud should have as First Principles WRT IPv6 and why we should be architecting around it?

Disclosure: I like turtles.
In the "ha ha only serious" vein, I suppose.
Unfortunately pulling in the now required polyfills for ES6 Map and Set can add 40kb :/

(the 40kb are with core-js, will need to look for something smaller)
There is no eivdence that I know of. If Apple suddenly signed every message with a third key (a Chinese gov key) how would people know? Maybe a jail broken phone could detect this.. but only if the third key was added. They could do it to specific people and no one would know until it happened. I have no proof of this, only guessing what could happen.
Probably because there are no i3 equivalents in the Xeon line (no dual core Xeons) and Intel wants a low-end ECC supporting CPU.

Keep in mind that for at least the last couple generations, even though Celerons, Pentiums, and i3s support ECC you must use a server chipset like the C23x or C22x to actually get ECC on those CPUs.
Reading the 280 test page feels odd. It kills the instantaneous feel of 140chars. The 280 ones feel like engaging a different part of your brain.

I think they should try to allow easier creation and reading of "thread" (when one user starts a long stream, while keeping the 140 char base.
Every step? Keyboard interrupts and the browser going from DOM to OS drawing APIs included? ;)

Many of these questions are very vaguely scoped which gives the confident and familiar plenty of room to show how clever they are, but also makes it more intimidating for those who haven't seen them before.

Or, to put it another way, the linked site looks like a great way to make yourself look like you have a junior-to-mid-level understanding of a lot of different areas. But the process it's optimizing for starts to break down the more senior a developer you either (a) are or (b) are trying to hire.
This release is MIT license release after they start losing in front of more real open source frameworks like vue. Better late than sorry facebook!
Working with the Chaos Monkey
CMake is the biggest reason I left C++ for Rust (there are others, of course), which is a shame because I actually came to like modern C++ (after years of using it). I just don't have time to maintain a complex build program (in a crappy, slow language to boot) when Cargo just works out of the box.
I'm not quite sure what you're complaining about.

What happens between you typing a URL into your browser address bar? isn't a question that requires a canned response to be parroted back – it's a starting point for a conversation about your knowledge of the web technology stack. It's not at all like there is a 'correct' answer, but demonstrating that you have a vague idea of how parts work, can identify gaps in your own knowledge, and make reasonable choices about how you might fill them.

Maybe what are the things you should consider if you were writing your own database server? is somewhat less directly applicable to most jobs, but I'd argue much the same sort of thing applies – it's a kicking-off point for a conversation about systems that you should have at least rudimentary knowledge about.

I'm curious as to what you would prefer in a technical interview - more directly relevant questions about the specific systems you would be working on?
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And in a few more years they'll increase the limit to 560 characters, and so on. Users will just continue to bypass any limit by tweeting images containing large blocks of text which is worse for everyone than just removing length limits.
Wouldn't Uber still be safer overall for passengers when it comes to intentional crimes (not accidents)? In Uber, a driver may commit a crime, but the nature of requesting a ride means there's now a direct link between a victim and the identity of a driver. A driver could only commit a crime one time before his identity became known, so there's no way to have a serial offender.

Compared to hailing a taxi, police can't necessarily trace a victim back to a specific driver, so that person could theoretically commit repeated crimes.

This personally gives me a lot more confidence when it comes to putting trust in a driver.

Also, from a cursory glance over that link, a few of those appear to be misleading headlines in which the actual story is "a person, who happens to be an Uber driver, committed a crime".
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/09/19...

Alice Goldfuss @alicegoldfuss
Hi, I'm a Site Reliability Engineer at a large tech company.

I have a BFA in Film.

Steaknap Sleepchew @treelzebub
Android Tech Lead here. Was a Religious Studies major, then a cook/chef for 12 years. #unqualifiedfortech

Richard Bejtlich @taosecurity
Undergrad degrees in history, pol sci, French, German. Masters in public policy. Wrote 4 #cybersecurity books, was CISO. #unqualifiedfortech

Twitter Ads info and privacy
(Bejtlich is the former chief information security officer at Mandiant, a cyber forensics firm that has investigated data breaches at many companies, including Equifax.)

Joe Uchill @JoeUchill
Peter Thiel majored in 20th centrury philosophy. Now he harvests the blood of the young.#unqualifiedfortech

About 85 percent of Duo Security's hires do not have a formal background in information security,

Wendy Nather @wendynather
I don't have a degree; if I'd gotten one, it would have been in liberal arts. But I've been in tech for 30 years, so their logic is flawed. https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/908430394529259520 …
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Derek Robson @asinine_net_nz
I know several people in infosec wth a music degree.

And a CISO is as much about risk management as CS and tech.
Running Advanced Git Commands in a Declarative Multibranch Jenkinsfile
Pretty sure still only 16 lanes from the CPU.
The analysis was really interesting. I wonder if there's cultural bias as well - i.e. English speakers tend to be more verbose because we have a need to speak more
External links shouldn't also take any characters in Twitter. It should be a separate data field, like images are right now.

Also, I'm not sure why there isn't a separate expanded post field as well. Use the twitter feed for your headlines to a post.
Notes from an Apocalypse
To provide some practical reasoning behind this: ChromeVox and software like it, naturally, runs in the browser. A blind person is unlikely to have a visual impairment which means they can't use a browser but can use every other part of the system without speech feedback. Therefore, system-wide screen readers see much higher use - who wants to keep switching between screen readers all the time?

On the plus side, though, keyboard predictability breeds accessibility, so any testing in this area is often better than none.
> feels the need to question things

Call me old fashioned, but I thought that was my job as an engineer. To question things and find ways to fix/improve them.

Am I wrong?
This was essentially my comment. All of the suggestions that appeared in the drop down were porn.
Sadly, I'm cynical enough to think that just because there is a path, doesn't mean it is encouraged or used. In fact, most of the excitement seems to be about doubling down on the Jupyter infrastructure so that you can have "executable notebooks."

I don't know why that bothers me, but it definitely does.
Interestingly, in this case the non-idempotent option is less safe.
I think many technical interviews are simply trying to assess whether the candidate has his head screwed on straight and the ability to do basic engineering. As such, the specific topics are practically irrelevant.

At least that's what I try to do when I end up interviewing someone. For example, can he suggest what sensors would be good for a Lego robot that would knock a tennis ball off the ping pong table without itself falling off? Can he describe the logic? How would he test this? How long, on average, would it take? What position of robot and ball would give the worst case performance (success or time)? His job will not involve Lego robots, but IME the person who can give sane answers on those would do a lot better than a coder who knows one toolkit well and nothing else.
Show HN: Cryptocentral – Expedia for cryptocurrency exchanges
The 21st century is not as homogeneous as you think. Not every country will have the same cultural timeline as the USA, and it's odd to me that comments like yours are so prevalent. The world is bigger than america. Comments like this just seem incredibly self-centered, and a bit culturally supremacist.
I live in Kansas, and hate spiders in general. However, I am not particularly afraid of the rather common brown recluse. What scares me are the black widows (quite rare in central Kansas). Kinda funny that in California the black widows are less feared than the recluses!
This seems rash. I feel like you should have to select something in order to have a 280 character tweet. I think the reason Twitter has worked is because of the constraints and the creativity working around said constraints. By opting everyone in immediately, I feel there may be some culture shock.
Can you describe which API you're even talking about? This one?

/attestation/sgx/v1/report

If so, perhaps you missed this:

> "The Attestation Service verifies the validity of the platform. It is the responsibility of the Service Provider to validate the ISV enclave identity."

This API gives back considerably more than just an "OK" or "not OK". It gives back an attestation verification report (see section 4.2.1 of https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/7e/3b...)

But beyond that, as noted in the document, this is Intel certifying that the attestation was created by genuine Intel hardware. It also carries a data-at-rest signature in addition to TLS:

> "The Attestation Verification Report is cryptographically signed by Report Signing Key (owned by the Attestation Service) using the RSA-SHA256 algorithm. The signature is calculated over the entire body of the HTTP response."

What Intel is providing here is not too far off from OCSP: the main things that can go wrong with "isvEnclaveQuoteStatus" beyond messages being malformed or signed by untrusted keys are the keys being revoked.

An OCSP server could just as easily lie to you about the revocation status of an X.509 certificate. C'est la vie.
> It's just the anti DRM crowd has some people that think the end user is always the person sitting in front of the terminal, and there should never be a way to reduce that person's access.

That may be extreme (if it's not a strawman), but a major problem with TPM is that there is no way to give control to the end-user, with the possible exception of customers large enough to demand hardware customization.
Have you sent in the crash reports? Go to about:crashes and post some URLs of crash reports here.
Just today I had someone casually mention that he thought women should not be allowed to vote. This is the Netherlands, the person is Dutch, not muslim or some other culture that I might not be used to, we're master's students... nothing out of the ordinary. And the third person in the conversation apparently agreed, calling it bad to prohibit it in principle but "seeing the effects of allowing women to vote" he agreed.

What the hell. Don't let women vote because they tend to vote "left" and "emotionally" (allegedly). What if the women of this planet decide that male votes are shit, what then? Are we just going to have to fight it out? (I didn't really get a response to that.)

I just don't have words for this, it's so alien. Am I weird for rejecting the notion out of hand?

Edit: two downvotes, please explain? I am honestly interested in opinions; I just found it very weird to hear someone say this.
Good.

Twitter needs to keep moving forward. There have been several features that feel like the core of their platform, but based on their revenue growth, they may be holding them back. Personally, eh, 280-length tweets feel weird and long and I don't see the need, but I'll probably get over it. If they can change how Twitter is used open up new audiences and conversations, this is good.

They are trying something big, and that is Good.
I actually enjoy the extra information they give, and the clear excitement about what they work on. I've seen how the sausage is made at AWS and the people I've met that worked on it were extremely detached. This very much shows in the product.

GCP is behind on features, but I find the features work very well and are super nice to work with.
Peter Theil says lots of things.
I take a slightly different approach: I netboot diskless clients with OpenELEC[0] and share my media library via a read only NFS share. It works great, since its hard to find any device (thin or not) that doesn't have enough horsepower to decode media locally.

This can be combined with a UPnP approach if there are also non-dedicated devices that need to access media.

[0] - openelec.tv
I like F#, but I think the "F# has objectively better syntax" claim needs a lot more support than the "signal-to-noise-ratio" argument. I don't know of anything that suggests that humans are better at parsing whitespace-delineated arguments than say, comma-delineated. My experience (probably biased similarly to F#'s target audience generally, possibly with above average exposure to functional languages) suggests that C-like syntaxes are easier to read.
Hermetic is good though. Hermetic means reproducible.
Dat: non-profit, secure, and distributed package manager for data
This type of announcement needs to come from the CEO, not a product manager.
Author missed an opportunity to title this "Git git Git git git git Git git."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
Presumably there are going to be a lot of broken 3rd party plugins on people’s sites(design wise at a minimum).
Should there have been more of a warning period?
Out of curiosity. Would you still ask these questions if the candidate has a github/gotlab/whatever profile with X repositories where they are the main / only contributor? Could you explain why yes / no and what the specifics would be? (Volume? Complexity? Commit history? )
Which is why they aren't doing that...

"Although we feel confident about our data and the positive impact this change will have, we want to try it out with a small group of people before we make a decision to launch to everyone"

I feel like this could be a good change, looking forward to seeing how it goes either way.
From my own personal experience through a Google acquisition: you don't need to go through the interview process. We got calibrated to Google's system, and after that we were as able to move around as any other "real" Google engineer (read: people who went through the interview process.)

Mind you, YMMV depending on division you get acquired into and your position.
I only wanted to show that react doesn't specify a programming style. He said javascript maps are "quirky." Maps are fine but so are plain loops. Ternaries are fine, so are plain if-then-else constructs if someone would like it better that way.

The example would run without keys, it's merely for demonstration. You'd need keys in Vue as well.
Yes, I'm using Headspace. I've been following it for just over a year. I either spend 15 mins at the start of my day or just after the daily standup which finishes at 11am my time.
Agreed, Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed by Xiaoyu Ruan should be the first thing anyone reads about it. Much else will become irrelevant or be revealed as ignorant.
280 would be the absolute maximum. I think their hope is that the number of English tweets that reach that amount is very low; at the same time they allow users to tweet easier.
Seems like one possible solution is to increase the character limit, but also increase the "pain" a user has to go through to use the additional characters (my ghetto solution would be to use a captcha to unlock the higher char limit).

That way people would only use the additional chars if they really needed them, reducing noise from otherwise unnecessarily long tweets.
And I'd say you misunderstand my point which is not that I have a problem with some people losing, I have a problem with a few losers losing almost everything. It's almost a negative lottery, where if you come up snake-eyes your job is deported and now you're competing with thousands of other laid off individuals with almost exactly your same experience to find the few applicable jobs that are available. Except that even in a negative lottery you could choose not to play.

>should be able to find a good use of our unemployed american t-shirt maker.

This is just a total handwave though. There's nothing in your economic theory that says these people are going to find good employment, it's just wishful thinking. We had jobs, we sent them somewhere else, now there's less jobs. Plenty of people who worked at the car plants will never have another job as good. I don't know the history but I'd say that there probably plenty of cobblers who never found as good of employment again either.

>I have no (nationalistic/whatever) allegiance to the people who happen to be living near me.

That puts you in a tiny minority though. Most people aren't true globablists.

>Do you feel like we should have banned the car, for the sake of stablehands and horseshoe cobblers?

No, because then most of us lose (we don't get cars), I feel we should have taxed cars and redistributed that money to unemployed stablehands and cobblers though. Then we all win!

Let me pose to you a hypothetical example. ABC Corp sells $20 shirts in America. It moves its shirt factory from America to Cambodia. It still sells its shirts for $20. Its new profits are greater than the lost wages of the americans it laid off. If all that profit were distributed to one person, say the CEO would you still think it morally good?

I think that example might get at the heart of our disagreement.
> Trying to cram your thoughts into a Tweet – we’ve all been there, and it’s a pain.

When I read this, I thought I was on somebody's blog who wanted to give her idea on why they didn't like Twitter. Then I realised this was... Twitter's blog.

The constraint of 140 characters is what made Twitter, IMHO, interesting. Sure it required you to do a bit of puzzling, but that's exactly what made each tweet read worthy.

Then came the bots and the spammers and the place got ruined. Twitter has a bunch of problems, but the 140 characters isn't one of them.
Any reason not to simplify that measure and make it 280 chars for all? They might not use it in Japan but what's the point of limiting them if they apparently don't use the space anyway?
FWIW, though I'm just one datapoint, if I'm going to have a "this isn't the day to day job" question thrown at me, I'd rather it be something more off the wall like this than most of the "do you remember this from your textbook/reference materials" style of trivia. Then I feel like approaching it from first principles is what's desired, and free to bounce ideas around, rather than being expected to remember the optimal log(n) "right" answer.
The most perverse part of this whole thing is that people cant/wont pay appropriately for truth. Otherwise it would be as simple as setting up a newspaper that is fully paid for by people - no ad money, no one pulling your strings.

Lies are only unmasked as lies months/years later where no one even remembers the whole arc of the conversation well enough, or sees the actors that spread lies to think "huh if we all had known the truth at the outset, none of this shit would have happened".

Its the same problem with online education - you can put up courses but there are many more courses than motivated learners, even fewer who would pay for it except to signal worth to employers.

Do you have any ideas on how to make truth even slightly profitable?
Ask HN: Is there any other similar project to Flapjack Monitoring?
According to this issue https://github.com/flapjack/flapjack/issues/955 and the fact that last commit was made on Aug 9, 2016 it seems to me like Flapjack project is dead, so I was wondering is there any other similar project out there that can provide similar set of functionalities (notification routing + event processing)?

I will be grateful if you can send me this information
But then people tweet pics of text!
>Presumably there are going to be a lot of broken 3rd party plugins on people’s sites

even worse, buffer overflows
You'll get downvoted to oblivion here just for mentioning the ME.

By the way for those unconvinced that this is a serious issue just lookup this one from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15298833
Yes! I do all of those things too. git git, vim vim, and 'gi tpull' and 'gi tpush' and everything.

I think any command where you might start to type something out, but then need to refer to another window or session to figure out what else you want to type, is vulnerable to this kind of mistake.
Sounds nice :)

Still I would love if you prioritized getting some WebExtension APIs ready for 57 (or delayed WebExtensions-only to a later version).
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So I wonder. If someone memorized all that trivia, do you think they can code?
Luckily the demoscene graphics showcase platform https://www.dwitter.net still enforces the 140 character limit! Keepon making those webgl canvas graphics!
A database of unforgeable append-only feeds, optimized for p2p protocols
I wondered what it was written in, so i clicked on the Github language details bar. Prolog 1.4%! What could it be using Prolog for?

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/ContactDiscoveryService/se...

Fooled again!
apparently they're working on a built-in threading tool: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/10/tweetstorm-button/
Well, if the code does the same thing and it’s 1/10 the size, that would be convincing. Don’t recall seeing this sort of comparison for ML languages in the past, however.
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The character limit is a core aspect of what makes consuming content on Twitter so engaging vs. other platforms.

Will this change improve engagement number or ad revenue? I sincerely doubt it.

An actual useful change would be versioning functionality so that users can edit tweets to correct typos or factual errors while not erasing the record.
Ask HN: Are you using MongoDB? If yes, are you a paying customer or open source?
If not using MongoDB, what are you using?
That's the only helpful use of the disclosure line I've seen in a few years .. thanks.
I'm not sure what to make of this.

I suppose there is nothing inherently ideal about the (arbitrary) 140 character limit on tweets. Why not 180, or 280, etc?

Still, my first reaction was, this is .. a bad idea: the 140-character limit is iconic, it's at the core of their value proposition, and Twitter is going to dilute their brand if they abandon it.

I think it's not only that people sometimes feel limited by the 140 characters that matters, it's also all the other times when people don't feel social pressure to write up longer, perhaps more thoughtful messages, that's important here.
Japanese/Chinese only “fit” in 140 because of the way they count “characters”.

280 for alphabetic languages seems roughly equivalent.
https://twitter.com/_buf/status/912791999706738688
In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel