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I'm not arguing that their facts are wrong. I'm asking: Why this article, at this time, from this organization? And I'm offering what I believe to be an accurate answer to that question.

You can argue if you like that I'm merely engaging in ad hom, but I think that's a rather shallow reading, and not noticeably accurate; what I'm actually doing is identifying the intellectual tradition in which the publication bases its analysis, and calling the validity of that analysis into question on the basis of the grievously flawed results which in recent years it has exclusively produced.

Considering that the same publication is concurrently pushing its plan for war with North Korea - a plan which to its originators no doubt seems every bit as sensible and effective as the one they came up with last decade and which has clearly worked out so amazingly well - I think the provenance of even so anodyne an analysis as this one is nonetheless worth bringing to the attention of the HN commentariat, that we may all judge it in light of its full context. Perhaps I am wrong in so thinking.
I think his point is more that Web used to be plenty of smaller bubbles, with distinct culture and separate communities. Now we have only giant bubbles, which get homogenised, as everything of that scale is. I share the sentiment.
When I think “not the open web,” I think native apps (Android, iOS, etc.), I think internet censorship (a country blocking an entire website), I think fast lanes, zero-rating, and other ways ISPs are undermining net neutrality.

AMP is neither of those things. It’s a library and framework for creating web pages which are then hosted on the web, openly.
You need more container and a load balancer ;-)
That's a rather reductive approach to the current discussion, and has nothing to do with the original point. Once groups start being labeled it's no longer an opt in on the individual's level.
The most interesting tidbit for me was that Apple is the third largest ecommerce company. Very impressive.
This looks awesome! I am all for automating this stuff. Who do you see as your biggest customers?
Is it really indoctrination? Why?
Is this the only time they can file indictments? If not, they may have additional charges in the works. I imagine they would have told the judge "this is all we're planning to file" if they didn't have any other investigative work going on, right?
C++ and Scala don't really have dependent typing, but rather a single feature that is typical of dependent typing. That is: type-level values of any type.
Same here, doesn't instill much confidence for a hosting company to have their homepage down.
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Is it easier to write a program that behaves the way you want and a verification to prove the program behaves the way you want, or to just write the program? What if you goofed writing the verification, and now you have a program that is guaranteed to misbehave? How do you verify the verification?
A few things about "the" web and life in general.

Google has gone from a welcomed tool (indexing a priori data) to telling what should be the data (ranking). It switched naturally and logically so, but it's a problem IMO.

Lastly, when a domain becomes a social organ, everything changes. It has to be regulated, will cause tension, economic impact ..
Peer-to-peer has benefits... and cons. It's not a magical cure-all.

How would _you_ implement a secure P2P where you (and only you) can rapidly change content (dynamic web pages) and control who has access to authorized pages?

What about credit card info? Passwords?

I imagine there "are" implementations that solve many of those issues. But it's sure-as-heck not common knowledge if there are "easy" answers to all those problems.

I can't help but feel "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson screaming at me. How do you ensure every bit of the web stack isn't hacked on every computer in the network, as opposed to your own?

[1] [PDF] http://vxer.org/lib/pdf/Reflections%20on%20Trusting%20Trust....

In fact, when dealing with P2P, you're more likely than not, to be full of compromised programs. Many unintentional, but many others intentionally. Torrent users who run clients that don't upload. Every P2P game ever made being hacked. (See the entire purpose behind QuakeWorld moving to a client-server model over P2P, over the original quake.) And every Kazaa uploader had viruses on his PC back-in-the-day.

I'm not saying P2P is impossible. But first, you've got to define what application you want to implement (webpage, vs public video hosting) because the solutions are completely different. And even then, you're still walking into dangerous territory when you can't control the machines your relying on.

What happens if you need more bandwidth than your usernet can give? You can't simply "install more servers" or "buy more bandwidth" when your "server" is every user connected to your site.

And what happens when you roll out new versions, and some users don't upgrade?

The list goes on. And I say all of this as someone who has considered using distributed computing model for game hosting, where machines assist in computations and bandwidth. It's possible to do, but it opens up entire dimensions of additional problems to solve.
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Nobody would have accused Brainfuck of being a good language but it turns out that its radical simplicity works well for integrating with optimization algorithms for creating self-programming AIs. It's all about a niche, except INTERCAL, you're right about INTERCAL.
It also doesn't take into account the cost of that extra 59%.
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Downvoting me won't help you. LOL!
> This company is complicit in ethnic cleansing

I mean no offense, but this comment coming from a user named "IBM" is a bit ironic considering that IBM provided infrastructure support to both the US Japanese internment camp programs and the Nazi concentration and extermination camp programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
Even worse; by default this setting is disabled even for Firefox users. If 95% of users don't enable `privacy.resistFingerprinting`, then that setting is far less effective for the 5% of users who do.
webassembly with native dom access will free us from the earthly limitations of javascript.

...at least that's when i'm planning to finally learn frontend development
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I want transparency to be the option to vote for, but I'm really undecided.

The explanation could be:

- you are trainee/junior not senior

- you demanded too less

- the labor market makes your position easier/cheaper to replace

- the company acquired big funding only after you joined

All is 100% independent from the amount of value you generate and work you do.

I once was told that the young designer on the team basically makes minimum wage and they therefore could not pay me what I demanded for becoming the CTO (One of a couple of things that made me reject the offer).

I'd probably feel bad for the young people in my team, if I knew what they are paid. I already feel bad when the team orders more expensive food and everybody joins.

The alternative would be raising or even loans, I don't know if the company could survive than.

On the other hand, a fair step-ladder to higher paid jobs within the company might be a nice incentive.
That's not actually him endorsing Rick, that's just him explaining why people give Rick that right. Which is entirely different.
Is there a legal/technical reason that Justice scanned the paper copy and uploaded that as opposed to uploading the original digital file?
At some extremes yes but, for example, I've spent at least twice as much time programming C and C+ than I have with Python but I still find Python generally more readable. Maybe if the ratio were 100 to 1 instead of 2 to 1 I'd feel differently but that suggests there are actually intrinsic differences in readability apart from just familiarity.
Defense in depth; you can't count on ads getting blocked so you also work to make the environment as hostile to them in other ways as well. If you've got something as easy as forging a single number, you take it for the ads that may still get through.
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Yes, exactly! And it gets even better. With a good MOEA, you can keep track of your evaluations, do a short run, decide your objectives don't really express your understanding of the problem, and seed your old evaluations into a run with new objectives. This means you can change objectives without repeating computationally expensive model runs.
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The fact that interstate bootlegging is something that even exists blows my mind. Feels like the states are all part of the same system until you hit stuff like archaic blue laws, marijuana laws, abortion laws, auto insurance, and (recently) gay marriage.

Those are all important things, and it's pretty frustrating not to have the same rights in some states as I do in others. I'm surprised (but glad) there aren't state border crossing stops yet.

This is small stuff like getting wine and fireworks across state lines, I can't begin to imagine how someone who needs an abortion must feel about it.
Seems that container that serves the website hadn't auto-scaled well ;) (currently it's responding with 502 Bad Gateway)

Based on Google cache results, I suspect that the page's rendered server-side, with React, and the container's really busy doing the same DOM stuff over and over. If owners are reading - I think the easiest trick to try (besides scaling up) would be to tell nginx to cache the index page (with `proxy_cache`), heavily - just don't forget to forcibly drop the cookies on `GET /` requests (for safety). The page from Google's cache looks mostly static, so that should do the trick. It would not know the logged-in state, but at least something would show up.
The same seems to be true for microservices. People can't or don't want to write well structured code so they need to be forced to do it by running different parts of their code on different machines.
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Yes, that's what I mean. It's not a significant conventional threat to a carrier strike group, not in the way that, for example, even conventionally armed Moskits very well can be. And Russia's not about to change the rules of nuclear warfare - or, rather, the rule, which is "thou shalt not" - by trying to take out a strike group with nuclear arms. Even a failed attempt would all but require a comparable response, and Russia's economy does not seem well equipped to effectively support a nuclear arsenal likely to be even more decrepit than our own - to say nothing of the fact that it's not a war anyone wants, in any case.

And here we have someone trying to sell it as a real threat, nonetheless. I think I know why that is, and in my earlier comment I explained part of my thinking. Agree or don't with that analysis - I think it's still worth wondering what makes it worth National Interest's time and money to advance the still highly questionable claim I discuss.
I imagine it's because of the handwritten signatures at the end of the pdf.
It certainly seems to be the undoing of the Dutch airforce. We always used to have around 100 fighters. It's going to 37 F-35s now. I wonder how many missions we can still fly with that.
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Yup campaign managers don't go meet with foreign officials before the election.
Shall we talk about Deepo, not docker?

Absolutely loading loads of packages in a container is never a good idea for production. But Deepo is not for production, it is a playground. It is a thing which help people to explore and learn these packages without a hassle and the worry for messing up their system.

Indeed, having played around dl-docker, I really appreciate the author of Deepo. It seems like to be more updated, more well-covered, and more promising to me.
I don't know.

I really liked some of Gab's features when it was relatively new, especially the more advanced and fine-grained "self-censorship" tools that allowed you to do things like establish a blacklist of words that hid posts from you.

Once they tied the growth of the platform to a political ideology, I did what I could to try to increase diversity of opinion there. It didn't seem to work; Gab has become the far-right version of Reddit's /r/politics.
This is alot like blaming the patient for getting addicted to opioids.

This nation indoctrinates the youth into believing that they are worthless bums if they don't go to college. So when they walk into the door, barely an "adult" by any stretch of the word, we put a piece of paper in front of them and say, "Sign this, or you will never get the degree you need, never get the job you need, and die cold and lonely."

So they sign that paper, unaware that the loan they incurred at the beginning of their adult life will follow them for the rest of their lives. And if the degree fails to bring in the job they were promised, tough luck. And if the Department of Education decides not to forgive their student loans after years of service to a government job or non profit, them's the brakes.
Yeah probably... im not a lawyer so I have no idea.
Unsubstantiated claims like this pull the entire discussion down.
May or may not be the actual reason: It helps guarantee that there is no data leakage via "track changes."
Everyone wants to dream; few people want to put in the work necessary to make them reality.
Miserable? I don't think that's likely to happen. It's only a phone. I'm speaking about convenience.

I'm not certain I'm getting the phone. But if I do, it'll be for the camera. It's my number one use case of my phone, and it seems like it's got a great camera. I know there are good alternatives from Android, but I'm largely married to the Apple ecosystem.
These failed because they built all of their hype around "we have a truck selling them in random cities for a couple days" and they weren't interesting enough to buy second market. To be honest, I didn't even realize I could buy them now. Their whole thing was that you CAN'T just buy them online.

This is the same issue Pokemon Go had---they made a really cool product that would go through a period of super high demand followed by an extreme dropoff, but they didn't roll out their product in time---their release window didn't match the window for the traction they actually generated. Pokemon Go was massive when it released for a couple weeks, and they touted a IoT thing to go with the game that made it even more immersive, but that didn't come out until people really stopped caring.

The moral of the story is to know that if you're going to have a huge release, be ready THEN to sell things. Hype is useless if you aren't capitalizing on it.
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Wikipedia is blaming the victim. Should be taken down.
Why did paul go to Russia before the election? It's not like an outlandish claim considering we are discussing this on the thread about the guys indictment.
And yet not a single project written in Rust is out. The only project is Servo and nowhere close to production.
I love adding my svg as react components, actually. It makes it easy to conditionally toggle parts of it, change text, manage colors, etc.

Of course, if you just want to use the svg doc as a static icon, then yes by all mean, a plain file will do. But given the (very small) size of a svg file, caching it as a single resource may not be that useful.
I was talking about using Bittorent to distribute videos.

I was also talking about the ADSL tragedy. We should have had SDSL from the beginning. (And yes, the corresponding decrease in raw download rate would have been worth it).
The mechanism for evolution is often the opposite of abstraction. Living things tend to make a copy of some really important bit of 'code' and then mutate that 'copy' rather than say losing the ability to form cell walls.

On the other if a cell is making X then the new process can easily leverage the existence of that X when doing something new.

Net result copy paste coding + dependency hell.
Super helpful list Bram!

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Indeed.co.uk has 2 jobs in the UK for title:Rust and one of them is for a Ruby Developer. When that changes I'll start taking Rust seriously.
I've advocated for version control of documents (and they're Word docs, no matter what tech stack the project uses) since the mid-90s. Don't do this unless you want project managers to look at you like you're growing a second face on your ass.

But working with source code without version control (usually something useless you have to pay for)!?!? Why, that's against Best Practices! What if you get hit by a bus!?!?

I'm amused that someone is trying to monetize the fact that Word's weird file format isn't amenable to any kind of ordinary version control. Good on ya, and more power to you, Simul! The world needs Word docs in version control, and I'm not being facetious or ironic.
No, when he was hired he was not constrained to only Russian interference. He was specifically instructed to prosecute any wrongdoing encountered while looking into election influencing and possible collusion with the trump campaign.
I was thinking something related this morning, that one of the reasons uptime is important to google, apart from the usual reasons, is because if they were switched off for a day people would realise the extent to which they have so many of their eggs in one basket, and a basket over which they have no control. I would expect that would trigger some concern, and significant numbers seeking alternatives, and building them.
I've been using bitwarden for a few months now, and it has totally supplanted LastPass in my workflow.

The only thing I miss is LastPass's form fill capability, but so far that's not been a huge barrier; trusting my browser to keep my credit card and address information handy and relatively safe isn't as convenient, but it's acceptable.
Not remotely true, the web isn't dying, it's changing, but that's less clickbaity :) For such a hard claim you have to specify what do you exactly mean by "the web".

"The original vision for the Web according to its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, was a space with multilateral publishing and consumption of information. It was a peer-to-peer vision with no dependency on a single party."

This web is still alive and well, nobody stops you from grabbing a domain name and launch anything you wish. Tim was a bit naive that he assumed profit seeking won't mess with his creation.

The underlying protocol is still the same as it was 20 years ago. With 3,885,567,619 internet users this dying platform is the best thing in computing we had so far. Of course it's changing, but the web is much larger than GOOG, FB, AMZN.

Yo are ignoring the long tail and that tail is very long.
Having played with dependently typed languages (ATS, Idris) some, and with verification tools (SPARK/Ada, Frama-C/C), I'd like to go a little farther and say that the verification tools are much more like "normal programming" rather than building a proof with the side effect of creating a program.

https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/tags/applied%20formal%20logic.h...
> But not having to use a password at all is still faster...

Not if it means having to check your email and wait for it to arrive.
The mainstream media are mumbling about these charges being filed now because of some concerns about statutes of limitation. Nothing really clear and on the record though.

They can file more charges.
I've had the pleasure of working with Swift for a few months last summer to develop some iOS prototypes. To borrow something Douglas Crockford said about JavaScript and the DOM in 2006[1], Swift is a pretty good language saddled with an awful API. I cannot believe that this is the stuff a multi-billion dollar company (Apple) is giving to developers to build the billion dollar "App economy".

As an example: To this day I have no idea what media formats are supported by AVAudioPlayer on iOS[2]. The documentation's links (Cmd+F "iOS Hardware and Software Audio Codecs") have been broken for so long that not even the Wayback Machine has a copy. And Googling for the same information only gives me Stack Overflow answers that references the same broken link. I suspect at this point not even Apple knows what formats their own audio framework is capable of playing.

[1]: https://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/10/20/video-crockford-domtheor...

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avaud...
That Latin suffix.
What point do you intend on making with this comment? Surely the burden of proof is on the claimant? If you have evidence that Trump hired Manafort strictly to collude with Russia, you may want to present it to Mueller's special investigation unit.
At this point they have been indicted and charges have been filed (the link this post points to). The steps for an investigation are very straightforward[0], and so now that we're past the charging process, if separate charges are found, it will result in another trial. I think it's pretty rare for simultaneous trials to be going on though, just based on anecdotal experience. It makes sense that prosecutors would want to wait to see the outcome of the first trial before issuing more charges.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/usao/justice-101/steps-federal-crimi...
That argument still only works when you're preaching to the choir. People can be absolutely against other people looking at them when they're in the bathroom, but at the same time be absolutely fine with The Government being able to retroactively spy on a specific bathroom when they suspect someone did drugs there, i.e. have all bathrooms recorded and the recordings only opened with a court order. Or watched by an algorithm and flagged for review by a person.
We generally offer candidates who made it through the 15 minute phone screen to bring along some code to an interview. Quite honestly, it can be their own project or we can supply a simple "test" so that they have something to bring. We make it clear that we're not looking for perfect code samples, or even great ones, just something for the candidate to talk about. This seems to work pretty well, makes sure they're not doing any free work for us, and doesn't ask for much in the way of their free time.

I've had too many "tests" that were a giant waste of my time to ask it of others.
It's _not_ click bait if it describes exactly what the thesis of the article is.

It's a simple explicative sentence.

Maybe you folks have just been conditioned enough by click-bait now that you can't distinguish the difference, and I don't mean to denigrate you by stating that.
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> It's also difficult to believe the web will stop working, or that people will stop making websites just because more people are browsing just on the "trinet"

Is it? Lots of small companies and social groups rely on having a Facebook page as their primary way of contact and advertisement, where they would have created a web page of their own in the past.
Maybe now, considering they tailored their network for ADSL. If they did it from the start, that wouldn't have been a problem.

By the way, even now, a user have to send requests to the right place to get any data. IP packets still have to go both ways.
This isn't an accurate assertion, IMHO. Trump didn't set out to collude with Russia. He just has no morals or ethics and is wanted to win at any cost. Manafort promised him good things and he didn't care where it came from.
Our top supercomputers can process tens of petaflops. That seems to easily dwarf these biological time scales you mention. There appears to be some magic in evolution that surpasses mere trial limitations.