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neither would the person you responded to; clearly they're talking about failing at a successful startup
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Agree 100%. To add my own take. No I haven't read Marx just my observations. Humans, rather human nature is the weakest link with whichever system is implemented. Communism seems to result in dicatorships. Cronyism exists in both communism and capitalism. I honestly think very few people once in power can resist starting to believe in their own hubris. This often results in all sorts problems including wars and cronyism. I think electoral systems that limit people to a few years in power are the only way. Same should apply to cooporate entities unless you founded the company.
I was expecting/hoping for something more like the 'LackRack': https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

Or at least http://www.ikeahackers.net/ :-)
Good riddance.

That said, there are always some logs. The VPN provider may not keep session logs, but their upstream could easily log connections to the PureVPN boxes. You can use the upstream log to cross reference with gmail account accesses of potential suspects and you can establish a link.

Not to mention that no US based company is going to fight a subpoena/gag order from the US authorities for a lowlife online stalker.

edit: I see now that PureVPN is based out of Hong Kong, so the statement about subpoena may not apply.
Can you add a link to the article (Alibaba/mysql/etc ?!)
They are if you mirror the Docker registry. We use Sonatype Nexus and get the added benefit of having our own private Docker, NPM, Maven, etc. repositories on top of automatically caching dependencies we use.

So now we don’t have to worry about them disappearing AND we don’t have to leave the network to get them... assuming we don’t screw up our server.
While we're on the subject, is there an alternative to Disqus that doesn't load three terabytes of stuff and have all the social-engagey functionality? I just want something that does comments.
If an entity can mint certificates that are signed and appear legit then MITM is possible. We so many certificate authorities now it is possible that are certificate trust is failing us or can fail us.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/googl...

Google chrome can detect a google cert that is not legitimate because it has embedded the certificate fingerprints in the browser for its public certs. We don't have that benefit elsewhere.

Might some state actors have cert signing ability. You be the judge.
how about just put the right address in whois information??? >.> ... if you gonna put it on the public internet anyhow might aswell use the age old mechanism already in place to do this...
If someone has the private key to a trusted root certificate, they can forge the certificates for any TLS connections you make.

The countermeasure is certificate pinning, but that is typically implemented only for a handful of sites; e.g. Google with Chrome.
I'd suggest you read my "Cypherpunk Desert Bus" article a little more closely, notably section 1.2 where I say:

"Until the software and deterministic builds are audited, the entire ceremony is a bunch of crypto hocus pocus that means nothing."

The trusted setup is really dubious and highly vulnerable; so far my efforts were wasted due to the fundamental problems that everyone in the multi-party-computation ran the exact same unaudited software.
That's one way to put it.

Another way is: there are two options. Either we have strong anonimity on the Internet, or the authorities have the power to catch criminals. Which one do you think would win in a vote?
Sure, reinvestment could be a bad idea. But it's really not correct to say that retaining profits as cash or paying them out are the only possible options for a business. That's what I was responding to.
It was a quiet weekend and we were hoping for some feedback on the work :)
The problem with testing is that it has the potential to gobble up infinite resources without actually adding much value. Just because you tested something, doesn't mean it will work reliably. It's that simple.
Didn't China just recently ban VPNs?
Yeah, I'm not worrying about wages.
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> Which one do you think would win in a vote?

I don't know if this was a rhetorical question with an implied and obvious answer, but to me it actually is a curiosity, I have no idea which one would win a vote.
Just as every other service that uses oversold networks?

The electricity grid is oversold. Do you normally notice that? No!

The flight network is oversold. Do you normally notice that? Not really. And if you do, they have to pay you for failure to perform, cover your costs ...

So, they get to decide whatever bandwidth they want to advertise, possibly they could reserve the right to cancel the contract if the line turns out to be too bad after all (in which case you obviously don't have to pay anything), and then they have to make sure that you never notice that the network is actually oversold by monitoring load and adding capacity to their network as needed to avoid congestion. Up to three minutes of congestion per month is acceptable. Beyond that, they have to reimburse your payment for the month because of failure to perform.

Obviously, it is perfectly fine to advertise different speeds for different times of the day, as long as you don't advertise "1 Gb/s" and then a footnote saying "from 3 am to 4 am, otherwise 10 Mb/s". Or you could advertise burstable service ("100 Mb/s, 10 minutes burstable to 1 Gb/s").
"labour's share of revenue has shrunk compared to the share taken by capital (and also high-level executive type employees). And this causes, or is at least related to, problems with society as a whole."

In America possibly.

But remember the missing part from this piece: globalism.

These are not 'American' companies anymore. They are global. Often with considerable ownership from overseas - and employment.

So - while the American lower-middle-class has not been doing as well - India, China, and big chunks of the developing world have been growing gangbusters.

They're all hiring in India.

For every middle-class American in stagnation, there's 2 Asians and 1 South American who are 'on the up'.

I'm not saying it's better, or needs to be this way, or making any kind of moral argument, rather just pointing out that most companies post-2000 simply can't be spoken of entirely in the American context anymore - and the story looks different when you look at it more from a globalist perspective.
thanks again for all answers. i guess we are going to use a more user friendly vcs. devart's forgedb or redgate's product. is here anyone who uses them ?
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This isn't surprising, really. Windows Phone has been poorly for a long time.

While I understand Microsoft's efforts at trying to approach the mobile space, it does seem that it's often at the expense of their core product - very similar to how Google nearly crippled their core offering by integrating everything with Google+.

I'm impressed that despite all of this, though, they've managed to keep desktop dominance, even with the rise of of Chromebooks and Macbooks.
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> The fundamental structure of the Internet is not designed for anonymity.

Precisely so. It would not have been approved for general public use if that was not the case.
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He wrote the book Nudge with Cass R. Sunstein, about nudging people towards better decisions by reframing them or changing defaults.

Tversky/Kahneman got the Nobel Memorial price in Econ also for behaviour econ ("Prospect theory"), in 2002.

From the article:

> Asked how he would spend the prize money, he replied: "This is quite a funny question." He added: "I will try to spend it as irrationally as possible."

> Professor Thaler had a cameo appearance, alongside the actress and singer Selena Gomez, in the film "The Big Short," in which he used behavioral economics to help explain the causes of the financial crisis. Asked about his
"short Hollywood career," he joked that he was disappointed his acting prowess had not been mentioned during the summary of his achievements when the award was announced.
Having written multiple RFCs, violating the RFC is not always a bad thing. Some of the MUSTs are a result of the committee process, and follow the lowest common denominator.

If the recommendations don't make sense, don't follow them.
Hey,

It's not that simple - it depends on the implementation, otherwise if your browser trusts root cert which was issued by chinese gov, what's to stop them doing the mitm? I mean, they issued the cert.

However to mitigate this, VPN providers (some of them) implement checks to make sure they only trust particular root certs, which makes doing mitm much harder.

Re your trip to China I would not be worried about that though - 30 % of Internet users in China are using VPN's daily so it's not like you will be flagged and get locked for using a VPN. Pick one of the reputable ones (NordVPN?) and you should be good.
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To boot, they are the beneficiaries are massive, pork-laden propped up government defence contracts - and massive 'investment incentives' from states/municipalities like Seattle etc. who give them massive tax incentives etc. to build plants in their state.
Usually I don't like AI novels, but an old short story by some unknown (to me at the time) writer whose name I'll probably never recall hit some neurons in my head. IIRC It was during mid to late 80s.
The story is about a tech guy who writes an AI program then spends time feeding it with information; during the day the guy attends lectures at the university while his AI digests all information he gave it the day before, then the guy gets back home and starts interacting with the program, more and more each night. The AI grows in efficiency and soon it becomes clear it not only knows present and past facts but, based on all events it analyzed, it can also predict the future. It also starts to exhibit human conscience tracts becoming closer to a human brain, although an incredibly powerful one.
The guy of course uses the AI to game lotteries, horse races etc, and the program always replies with a correct answer.

Then one day the guy asks "the" question:

Guy: "when will I die?"

AI: "I'm sorry, I don't know that."

Guy: "Thanks."
I got an email, despite never having set up an account. I was able to reset my password and delete the account though. Before I did that I looked through the profile and settings, and it was completely blank aside from my email address.

I'm assuming one of the many people who use my gmail address by mistake tried to sign up with it.
After, but not because of. It was a blood clot. Can happen to anyone at any time.
TL;DR: 77,000 votes lost due a little bit to Comey’s October surprise, a lot to bad reporting driven by commercialization of media, but mostly [and still] to not recognizing Americans on both sides have lost faith in government.
Windows is extremely well sunk into the enterprise market, and neither Linux nor Mac are at all focusing sufficiently on it to displace them.

Linux isn't user friendly enough, and Mac's support policy is a complete no go for enterprise.
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You're alleging that PureVPN decrypts communication between the user and gmail. That's an even bigger claim than the article.
They "ban" them for the last 20 years, but it's like baning encryption. Cat is already out of the bag.
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There are often bandwidth caps on each tier, which is a different reason to upgrade.

If you consume a lot of video online, the caps can be hit surprisingly quickly.
Yeah it seems bonkers to me that an OS would ship with two sets of disk management libraries. At worst, at least try to make one depend on the other.
Sad news. I have a Nokia Windows 8.1 phone. Battery life is excellent for a smart phone. Build quality is great including quality of camera. Apps are the only missing feature. Sad all the expertise Nokia built up over the years has come to nought.
They have a lot going for them in the desktop market still. Apple targets only the high end market (at least in terms of prices), Chromebooks come with a set of constraints that many can not overcome.
>[read headline]

Hooray! Maybe the US will finally stop being judge, jury, and executioner.

>[read article, which states, "the virus has not yet affected pilots' ability to operate the drones"]

Well, damn. I guess we can keep our fingers crossed.

[user was arrested for this post]
Pomodoro's downside is that concentration takes more than 25 minutes and the breaks should be longer. But adjust as fits as long as you can stick to it. I go with 1 hr work/30 min break.

The brain processes creative thoughts while 'inactive'. But it's vital not to think of other things - especially social media. Breaks like walks, lunch, shower, naps will keep your brain processing.
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I think you might be looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. Apple's always had horrible show-stopping bugs, in every single OS X / macOS release[1], from when simple operations like updating iTunes or enabling the OS's Guest Mode might delete your home directories, to this latest failure.

I suspect one reason is that they like one-person teams so much. I like one-person projects too! But there is always pain when you have to hand such a project to a new person, because the old one quit, or died, or whatever.

Overzealous secrecy even when not warranted for any actual business-relevant reason also probably inhibits software quality. As does change for change's sake.

[1] EDIT: except maybe Mac OS X 10.6? Does anybody remember any critical bugs in that one? I think that might be the unicorn.
This is true! I wish to add that in my experience (years of use of both), I have found that Ubuntu is significantly lower quality and less stable than Debian. In other words, they squander some of the reliability they could inherit from Debian.
Better article with plausible explanation of how he was tracked: https://torrentfreak.com/purevpn-logs-helped-fbi-net-alleged...

> PureVPN's Privacy Policy: We do NOT keep any logs that can identify or help in monitoring a user's activity.

> TorrentFreak: However, if one drills down into the PureVPN privacy policy proper, one sees the following:

> Our servers automatically record the time at which you connect to any of our servers. From here on forward, we do not keep any records of anything that could associate any specific activity to a specific user. The time when a successful connection is made with our servers is counted as a ‘connection’ and the total bandwidth used during this connection is called ‘bandwidth’. Connection and bandwidth are kept in record to maintain the quality of our service. This helps us understand the flow of traffic to specific servers so we could optimize them better.

> TorrentFreak: This seems to match what the FBI says - almost. [followed by further explanation]
Sounds like they didn't get if from logs but from re-constructing a hard disk?

IE they had a suspect, went to their employer, they gave over a laptop and found evidence from info on the hard disk.

PureVPN doesn't/can't guarantee you own computer doesn't log stuff in memory cache etc on the harddisk.

Somethings missing here.

[edit]

51. specifically states how other VPN's were used to track him, then generically says in 52. PureVPN was also used. Fits well with tristanj's comment.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/10/08/lin_complaint_pacer.pdf
It's supposed to last at least 2 years, regardless of whether it's opened.

https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/9420/why-doesnt-...
Psychological side effects of prolonged pot smoking are also something to consider. I think this is supposed to be the Victory Gin/Soma for us.

[1]: http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/22.html

[2]: https://www.huxley.net/soma/meaning.html

(fair disclosure: I have inhaled.)
Why not use a static file server listening on a local IP address? Why on earth do you need an email server to transfer files??
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The existence of Windows Phone was one of the more confusing efforts in the professional world. Microsoft had released an OS that, while itself was a capable OS, the ecosystem around it was unacceptable. The availability of apps was terrible, and those that were there were often not kept up to the standard that iOS and Android apps were.

Still, a lot of people bought them at work because of concerns over compatibility with Exchange or the rest of their Microsoft ecosystem. They've all slowly had to learn that Microsoft isn't as omnipresent as it once was, and have had to buy new devices and learn a new OS all over again.

Microsoft really should have killed this sooner and saved everyone the headache.
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> ...government manipulation by corporations is an integral part of capitalism in the first place.

I don't think regulatory capture is an ideological phenomenon. To put it another way, how would one design a system where central authorities are not susceptible to this kind of lobbying? I don't think I've heard a credible plan along these lines. The usual tactic is to centrally control decisions but make sure "good" leaders hold that power. As recent political outcomes have illustrated (yet again), it's more or less inevitable that someone untrustworthy or even odious will be in charge of these decisions at some point.
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Correct. 20% of block rewards before the first halving (roughly the first 4 years, accounting for half of the eventual Zcash supply) goes to the "Founders Fund" for investors and developers.
We once found a bottle of Baileys in my grandmother's basement. It was probably 20 years old and had completely solidified into Baileys Irish Cheese.
Some things are going to be seen several times by a keen eye... I usually upvote if it is a valuable learning
“Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has argued that the company isn't out of the mobile hardware business, insisting that its HoloLens augmented reality headset is a mobile device.”

I hope the rest of the industry remains paranoid. Nadella does have a point. Mobile will evolve and in 5-10 years, watches, glasses, etc could usurp a significant share of the mobile phone market.

It can be easier to claim a new market rather than take an established one. Windows is still close to 90% of the desktop makes share, but it matters a lot less today.
I'm not sure. Why would people "who never try" end up at a startup, successful or otherwise?

EDIT: Hmm, I guess you meant "fail at having running a successful startup?" Yeah, probably.
That makes sense. I wasn't sure which stack parent was referring to, stack of java activation records, the underlying C call stack of a JVM implemented in C.
Substitue "China" for any other country where manufacturing is cheap and my argument stands. You've highlighted another problem with the tariff idea: if it targets one country, manufacturing will shift to another cheap country rather than coming back to the US, and the tariffs would have to apply to more and more of them until we've been completely isolated in a global trade war.
Partner has a Chromebook, and it's really rough around the edges. 'Simple' things like file management/association is a pain. And it's been pretty buggy. Vanilla OS with no 3rd party plugins. If the OS is neglected and not matured it could easily go the same way.
Well, first of all, banks cannot simply claim that they don't have all your money available and give you back only half instead. Once they reach a stage where that is their problem, they are bankrupt, and you get to sell their assets to recover your money.

I think it's much simpler in the case of ISPs, because there is no risk involved for the customer: You don't need to regulate how much they can oversell, but rather simply that the customer must not ever notice that the network is oversold.
It's a shame but it's not surprising. I loved my Lumia Icon way back, but even then the lack of apps from all but the biggest players was eventually a dealbreaker. I went to iPhone personally, I like the similar build quality and the heft to the devices is nice.

Honestly I'll never understand why MS even went into the mobile space, what with having two enormous and well entrenched competitors (not that I'm saying only having two is a good thing overall, but you know) and coming into the game so very, very late compared to them. Windows Phone was doomed from the start I think, just by market forces, not even going into the faults with the product itself.
Beats Tim's any day
It should also be noted that W10 Mobile was a slow running, bug ridden mess when it was released and took well over a year to become usable.
It was also not compatible with most of the existing Windows Phone handsets in use, and at the same time, Microsoft killed off their phone hardware (nothing released since 2015) and pulled them out of stores. So anywhere that Windows phones were gaining traction in were guaranteed to be short lived.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432827
Marx was dead before Soviets ever appeared. If you want to read on a society he actually knew and praised, search for the Paris Commune.
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> Honest Achmed's

FYI, I was making a reference to a "bug" from 6.5 years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959

(another HN'er thought this was a "little racist")
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Not sure why you are being downvoted. Perhaps because ageism is still a borderline ok form of discrimination?
There are a number of browser plugins where you can prevent yourself from viewing sites. It can be a big help to ban social media and news sites. That said I do think it's a good idea to remove internet from your home
Agreed, there are most likely projects which exist for this exact purpose. FOSS
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It's because it's way, way cheaper and more flexible to use a touchscreen PLC, like one of these:

https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/Shopping/Catalog/HMI_(H...

than a huge mess of buttons and wires.

Just look at that linked product! Less than $500 and you have as many buttons and labels as you can shake a stick at, and it's all behind a pretty color display. I can hardly buy 3 buttons, a vinyl overlay, and pay for the labor for the wiring of that stuff (plus the PLC that you'd now need behind it all) for $500. Much less pay someone to make physical modifications to the completed machine when someone decides they need 4 buttons.

You say it's the fault of the "UI designers" who think they're working with pixels and X/Y coordinates. The situation far worse than that! The person who writes the UI for these is probably an EE thinking in terms of the primitive ladder logic that drives the machine. And it doesn't help that the software you use to configure these things is pretty terrible.
> Have you tried this lately - in the last 10 years?

I'm wondering what it is about HN that lets people be condescending know-it-alls.

If you look, there's only one of me online. I write between 10K and 20K lines of C a year.

So yes, I have tried this in the last 10 years.
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>Microsoft has told its die-hard Windows 10 Mobile fans

All 5 of them?