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> I think you mis/underestimate the extent to which you have a component model already. What you already have is the equivalent of React's "functional components," where the component is nothing but its render method.

When we (Polymer folks) think of a component model, we think of a lifecycle. Being notified when you boot up, when you're activated, when you're deactivated, and when the state you care about changes. React has that, Web Components have that, lit doesn't.

Agreed that there's a lot of baggage on the term `framework`, it's probably a good idea to taboo the word and break it apart into the pieces that we care about. IMO that's:

- how big is the cost of adding the dependency – mostly this is
the size of the library
- how big is the ecosystem of code that it can play nicely with
- are there well documented best practices
- is there a complicated black box of internals that do a bunch
of magic, or is it composed of small modular pieces that can
be understood in isolation
> Maybe the detractors would prefer that the app did less

I would. Unfortunately with these browser-based app solutions, rarely are features and resource usage proportional. Therefore, runtime configuration doesn't help that much.

I personally would like to see Chromium take a more staunch approach at memory reduction.
Yikes, you can't comment like this on Hacker News regardless of how bad a desktop app may be. We ban users who do this, so would you mind reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not doing it again?

The idea for discussions on HN is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, then don't comment until you do.

This isn't only about being nice, it's about preventing HN from becoming boring. Flamewars destroy forums. It wouldn't take many users posting like you did here for this site to quickly die. We all need to help to prevent that.
The biggest flaw in working for all those mega corps, is that despite their size, they still haven't fully embraced remote work. Yes there are island, but Amazon are still looking for that "2nd city" to locate in. Some people may dig going to an office, I don't. If you're lucky to be early in a given neighborhood, you can probably retire on renting out your house.
If you're late, like applying to Amazon now would be, you're just a blue collar worker, with higher turnover - you earn more and spend on rent. Especially in places like Seattle if I was to relocate with the family, I'd be an indentured servant, with obligations to pay high rent/mortgage, I'd probably have nowhere to change jobs to, if Amazon didn't work out.

One can dwell on small things like which version control does a company use, but ultimately, they are failing to deliver on the "quality of life" thing.
I'm not sure you can. If a site asks you for CC and CVV data it should already be PCI compliant, say a payment processor. Don't they need the plain text CC and CVV to be able to bill it, if it's a first time user? How can the client send a hash, compare it to what?

I'm really curious about how you see this working, I can't understand how you can forever obfuscate your CC info. I assume at some point the server needs your plain data.
Spending time on problems you wouldn't have to solve if you would choose your tools more carefully instead of following fads, and still coming up with something very far from optimal.

That would be awesome post if it was made as an experiment, to test the limits of Electron, to learn and let others learn, to just play with BrowserView. But seeing this as a technical write-up about one of the very popular chat apps used out there, it's just sad and wasteful.
The other major author is Patrick Non-White (Obvious pseudonym). Others are listed at https://www.popehat.com/author/ though most haven't been active in years. For example Clark split off to https://status451.com/ a while back when his views got too extreme for the rest.
I recommend nordvpn. I have been using it for a while now with great success. It's easy, fast, and private. They don't log and their hq is in Panama, so it's much harder to to get info out of them.
That's complete nonsense. The Supreme Court and several district courts have found states like North Carolina to be actively using purges and registration changes for the purpose of disenfranchising voters. Furthermore, if you want to protect the integrity of the vote, registration is the last logical place to start, as in person fraud is vanishingly rare. Only 2 people were charged with doing so in this past election, 2.

If we want to secure the machines, that is a totally different scenario, and unrelated to purging voter rolls.
I used to be employed at a place that was so restrictive I couldn't even access asp.net (the website). I think it was something to do with it being in the cloud and looking like it was being hosted in the middle east. Most people probably don't know what it's like to work in a company with the extremely power hungry network admin that want someone coming to them for everything.
You mean on six pages? ;)
I'm not sure the (frequent) comparison you are making to a company. In a real company, he would have received a salary for his work and equity. On the "firing" day, he would have received "severance". So if you are comparing it with a company and a termination, every termination involves some level of "severance" - unless you are firing him for cause (I'm keeping the company-firing analogy). I doubt this would be a termination for cause (I don't like you/it's not a good fit) is not a termination for cause.

I think the problem you have experienced is that you started a project with someone else in a team of 2. You managed him as an "employee" but he felt (right or wrong) to be a cofounder. It seems you haven't discusses this prior of the project, so somehow you got stuck with a co-founder (and everything else that followed is just that).

I've been in similar situations, where cofounders have to split. It's never easy and there's always intensity involved. I'd not call them harassment though. Following again your company analogy, when you fire an employee, there is (often) drama - especially if you try to fire an employee without severance (well, in that case often there are legal problems).

Anyway, if you point out he was a volunteer at a startup weekend, do not mention the company analogy. In the company analogy - regardless if he was a cofounder or an employee - he would not walk away empty handed.
That's exactly my point. There are two issues: cost and access. The OP said "It's not a payment issue, it's an access issue." I say it's both.
> How do you think IP owners can adapt when piracy is made so transparent that it doesn't even feel like piracy anymore?

Maybe it is time to admit that copyright is obsolete?

If crime is rampant, then there are only two possibilities: either society has collapsed and the rule of law no longer applies, or the law itself is broken, and is unjustly penalizing people for doing something that is perfectly normal and acceptable or desirable.

I'm looking out the window and there aren't cars on fire. I'm leaning towards the latter.

So called "intellectual property" needs a deep reform. It probably made sense a century ago, but it doesn't make sense today, where copying and transmitting data and ideas is so simple that it happens by accident.

As for IP owners and their "profits", I say fuck em.

Selling "copies" is an obsolete business model. The software world has already figured this out ages ago: services are where the real money is.

Netflix and Amazon are making a huge chunk of money with their streaming offerings. Microsoft's Azure and Amazon AWS are making their respective companies a huge chunk of cash. Hell, Microsoft is even giving Windows 10 (Home, but still) away for free now.

The media companies need to adapt, but greedy fucks that they are, they refused to do that. In the age of digital, they still want to sell you DVDs, CDs and physical books. Worse: the digital copies in some instances cost almost as much as the - scarce - physical copies. WTF?

So, again, fuck em. They needed to adapt, but they have been resisting change and throwing roadbloacks at every intersection, and generally, being a nuisance.

If they go down in flames, serves them right.
The inaccuracy is a feature, not a bug.
I really don’t understand the point of this article. It’s quite rudimentary without much insight or new analysis.
> would be interested in knowing if I can build UIs via code alone

Yes you can! Check out all the code examples in: https://anvil.works/doc#forms
IO+Game+Bots
On the following issues that the Libertarians are at odds with the Republicans he sided with the Republicans and/or said it is a States right's issues rather than take a stand: marijuana legalization, LGBT rights, military spending, and foreign policy in general.*

I've heard some people argue, "well at least his is more Libertarian than the other Senators" which is true but you can't cherry pick who gets freedom and who gets thrown in jail or their country invaded instead.

* He also is pro-life which I didn't list here because I know Libertarian's on both sides of that fence.
Russia has its own history. We have ours. Ours is a history of intentional disenfranchisement.

The discussion about disenfranchisement is the correct discussion for the US.
Well, you're kinda right, but only if you count the IRC gateway in.
Many companies have overseas teams that take the night shift, eg: every on call dev has 12 on during the day, 12 off at night. Amazon does not based on cultural reasons (allegedly) because it promotes ownership and accountability for those teams.

Idea being if you're woken up at 4am because of a flaky test or some issue you'll be more inclined to fix it. And if it's a recurring issue, you'll really want to get it sorted or else your life will be hell. It also pushes emphasis on serious testing methodology and the idea that Amazon is a 24/7 business.

It actually makes a fair amount of sense, but it's also brutal and contributes to burnout and attrition. I also think this is starting to change for some teams.
>b) they really don't store logs and have no idea which one of its thousands of users logged into his website with that IP.

>It seems in the latter case, even with a malicious VPN, it's one additional (maybe trivial step) to associate me. But it's still better than just using your own ISP. Isn't that why people use VPNs to avoid DMCA letters from their ISP?

I'm not sure how you made this jump. If the provider doesn't have logs, Bob can't find you. The end.
I'd take issue with Bitcoin being a brand. In my view it's a pretty well defined "thing".

Brands are words that need to be trademarked, but "a cow" does not need to be, because everyone knows what a cow is, and if I sell you what I say is a cow but is actually a cat and then explain that that's now the established brand - you'd say it's cat, not a cow.

The test for Bitcoin is very simple - fire up an old version of the Bitcoin software, and if it validates the blockchain, then the blockchain you have is Bitcoin. If it doesn't, it's not Bitcoin.

And if/when Bitcoin Core ever changes the software such that it is a hard, backwards incompatible fork, then on that day they should stop referring to it as Bitcoin, because it is not the Bitcoin that Satoshi originally started.
Hey!

Being a penny pinching student, do you guys offer any discounts for students?
I liked arcosanti when I visited it. It was very much a small group of people essentially working for the artist though. I think the concept has merit. But this particular example was maybe co-opted for cheap labor.

I say that as that may be something OPs father saw and felt disillusioned. I think even that may be a fine thing. Things have to start somewhere.
My team is currently using the hosted cituscloud, which uses PG Bouncer. They note that the reason for sharding is because of high writes. We've actually seen big benefits for moving over to a sharded setup via Citus just as much for the read performance.

By sharding by customer we're able to more effectively leverage Postgres caching and elastically scale. Since switching over, our database has performed and scaled much better than when we were on a single node.

There is some up front migration work. But that's limited some minor patching of activeRecord ORM, and changes to migration scripts. We considered casandra, elastic search, as well as dynamoDB, but the amount of migration changes in the application logic would take an unacceptable amount of time.
The 20 minute quiet reading in the beginning is kinda different.

At the other companies I've worked for, you were expected to come to the meeting having read the docs sent over email.
Amazon has one thing going for it that I think is a huge deal for a standard BigCo job: if you don't like your initial team, you can switch ANY TIME. And if you're an engineer, you can probably join any team you want.

The reason this is such a big deal is that when applying to any company, you'll get placed on a team and it's really hard to get enough information on the culture, mission, management, etc. Once you're inside? Tons of information, and a lot of coworkers you can ask. This really reduces the downside risk of a new job.

I know this because I work at Amazon, and switched teams very early. I'm much happier on my second team, and probably would have quit on the first team.
Show any evidence whatsoever that the type of voter fraud you're talking about is a problem. Until then, the talking point is worthless.
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There're IRC clients that do half of that (unless IRC got audio and video support at some point) using < 1% of RAM or CPU...
Haven’t news been always above the search results? And only AMP news pages are currently above the search results. Non-news AMP pages have to rank like non-AMP pages.

I don’t like the entire AMP thing either but a bit more differentiation would be helpful here.
I doubt it correlates as well. American Christian 'leaders' (specifically Evangelicals) have strategically married their religion and conservative talking points. It (climate change belief) is not as associated with identity in other cultures.
> there's often reasons to reinvent a portion of an API

Yes, but I don't feel that a message app really needs to do this to the extent that Telegram does–they've managed to make their app look out of place on macOS.
Ask HN: How did you significantly reduce your AWS cost?
One of the most obvious things is to better utilize your Reserved Instances, but what are some things that are not so obvious? Do you use any tools? Thanks!
I did read the article and I think her interpretation of the events as harassment is not at all liberal, it's quite spot on. Initially I was questioning it, but as it went on and on... and on, it clearly fit well within the realm of a conservative definition of harassment.
I disagree that there isn’t some totally fabricated information on the good sources you listed.
Do you think the tier 1 thing started after the NYTimes article on them, or before?
It has a footnote but the introduction could have been smoother
Randomizing your MAC Address and using a live CD would not be enough for most cases?
A non-amzazon link to the poster's excellent recommendation

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70078.No_Place_to_Hide

[edit: punctuation]
Given that Gitlab is open source, adding a NewSQL DB into the mix would be pushing that dependency to downstream users, who would then have to take on the maintenance burden. It may end up being the right call from a performance standpoint but just too complex to ask users to manage.
> If Mark was an employee who was fired and refused to leave the premises

It's not clear to me from your post that this was an employer/employee relationship. It seems apparent that Mark felt as if it were an equal partnership.

Was there anything in writing going into Startup Weekend that defined the terms of the relationship?
It's not so much that they couldn't sell you out, but that if word got around that they had, it would be bad for business.
Wouldn’t even surprise me if it was the other way around either.

Some of the brightest minds of this generation are working on ad tech.

Sadly.
Thank you for your support! You are right I have problems with the scrollbars in some ffox editions. I'll work on that!
> a non global passive adversary (GPA) would need to control both your entry node and the exit node to de-anonymize one of your Tor circuits

That's not a benefit, that's a feature. A benefit involves a use-case. What does a person gain from not having their traffic de-anonymized? The described user is someone who doesn't have any particular activities they need to keep secret or risk jailtime. So, for them, what's an example of something that could happen differently in their real life if they used Tor vs. if they didn't?

(This wasn't a rhetorical question; there are such use-cases. I'm just commenting to prod you into zooming out a bit from "privacy is its own end" to thinking more about what regular people care about and how privacy helps them get it.)
And lose all those users who deleted their Facebook account, and don't want their Google account to be associated with more data than necessary.
What is your favorite way to create VPN chains in Windows/Linux/OSX?
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IIRC, Russia is hoping climate change will help their tundras be more farmable and oil-exploitable.
UEFI is open source to some extent. There is an Intel project [1] that every company's UEFI is based upon. Even having fully open source BIOS is not enough by itself. The binary that is on your system can be anything. You can somewhat trust it if you can verify it, only if the project would use reproducible builds. But the hardware can still lie to you. What I also have in mind is the trusting trust issues [2].

[1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

[2] http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
The Orville is so much better anyways.
Yay, more good news.
Happened to me in 2016. In Texas, provisional votes are 'reviewed' by an unelected group of inhabitants of the county, in this case a very conservative one.

Guess what? They tossed my vote despite me never having any issues voting in Texas before in a liberal county just to the south, both counties comprising a significant part of Austin.

I feel like folks who arbitrarily strip other citizens of their civil rights should be imprisoned for lengthy periods of incarceration.
> Especially in places like Seattle if I was to relocate with the family, I'd be an indentured servant, with obligations to pay high rent/mortgage, I'd probably have nowhere to change jobs to, if Amazon didn't work out.

That's quite the opposite. Wouldn't living in a big city mean more choices? Seattle for instance has high paying job options from Microsoft, Google, FB if you decide to leave Amazon.

However, yes having more acceptance of remote work would be great.
> I'd probably have nowhere to change jobs to, if Amazon didn't work out.

Seattle rents/homes are, compared to SWE salaries, not that high (Yet), and Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Tableau are all hiring.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14066784. Here's a discussion on alternatives. It's really not the only choice.
Are you saying, "prove it has happened" or "prove it is a risk"? I doubt it's happened yet, but I think the risk is getting worse every year (technology enables this, like when personal identifying information on large numbers of American voters leak from large companies...)
So you cannot prevent other sellers from selling under the same ASIN?
That's a fair assumption I think. It will be interesting to see whether Vega's high-bandwidth cache controller (HBCC) will help nullify this difference if implemented in ML frameworks.
So there is the Intel reference implementation. But vendors are free to make changes, and their versions are not open source.
Perhaps more specifically, it's its intended feature, not some goofy side-effect. The whole game here is voter suppression, and this is just one of its many new implementations as heralded under this administration's plan. Can't beat them with Gerrymandering? Deregister people who will vote against you.
> if VisiCalc for a different computer, where would you be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npqD602G90o
How strongDM used early sales signals to build their product roadmap
I'm not sure it has nothing to do with IP ownership. I "volunteer" to a million of opensource projects. However, I am not giving up IP ownership - they get transferred as part of the license associated with my work.

In the absence of a license, I still retain 100% ownership of everything I have produced. There is a reason why every employment agreement requires to sign a special document where the employee transfer IP ownership to the company. In an "informal" setting, Mark is fully entitled to the intellectual ownership of his work (unless he signed a license or a IP transfer). In the current situation - from a pure legal standpoint - Mark could claim ownership of the project.
Re 3.

"There's a skills shortage (at the price we want to pay)"
>For starters, Amazon has very good policies that allow sellers to protect their IP and products.

No they don't. Maybe on paper, but not in practice.

>It's very easy to remove fraudulent products from your listing... the sellers in the article, and many others, don't quite know how to protect their ASINs.

No its not.

Big players like Birkenstock are pulling their products from Amazon due to counterfeits. If it were so easy then they would have figured it out.

> it is a clear and blatant violation of Amazon policy to drop-ship from overseas

I'm not sure what you think "drop ship from overseas" means, but its not a violation of Amazon's policies to do so. Here's their policy on drop shipping: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8... As long as you clearly indicate your products are coming directly from China and you have your shipper prepare the invoices correctly (identifying you as the seller) its not a violation of Amazon's policy. And even if it were, is has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand, because Chinese factories ship directly to Amazon's warehouses in order to sell their counterfeits FBA.

Its absolute ridiculous that you say "its up to sellers and buyers to police themselves." If someone orders an item from Amazon how do they tell its a counterfeit? Do I have to, for example, do lead testing on all the toys I buy? We are talking about baby products here. You're also ignoring the brands who don't want to be in the retail business - they want to sell through merchants and distributors but not directly through Amazon.

Amazon can police its listings 1000X better than it currently does. Do we really want to turn eCommerce into Russian roulette for a quick buck? It's bad for the buyer, its bad for the seller, and its bad for the manufacturer. The only winners re Chinese factories and Amazon through their fat commission.
Guy in Chicago trading Bitcoin at a loss so he can trick or treat with his kids
That's not what was said. "Free VPNs are not to be trusted" does not imply "All paid VPNs can be trusted".
Deregulation won't help, and I'm not sure what you mean by standardization?

Nuclear is promising but it is just too costly and complicated to build new plants when solar and wind and plummeting in price. Subsidizing could help.
Though this can provide an extra level of defense against MITM, if you trust your personal connection to the internet less than the server's connection to the internet.
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I've been using DO for my VPN needs and it's been a very good experience.
You can start a 5$ Ubuntu droplet, which is more than enough to host OpenVPN, and then configure your VPN manually. Check here :

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

Or you can do it the easy way (but you won't learn as much) and run a bash script to configure everything automagically :

https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install