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> I doubt the web will ever be fully encrypted. There will always be tons of people who don't care enough.

I don't think the Web will become fully encrypted by virtue of everyone caring enough to move to HTTPS.

The knockout punch for unencrypted sites will come when browsers make the decision to not load plain HTTP sites by default in order to protect their users. At that point, for the vast majority of people, the Web will be 100% HTTPS because they'll never see a site that isn't HTTPS.

We just have to get the encryption percentage high enough to allow browsers to finish the job.
I'd be shocked if it hadn't it's a trend that recurs every time a country improves it's economic state and women become part of the work force.
Yeah, but what should you fear from organizations? It's easy to scrutinize an individual. It's lot more difficult to scrutinize an organization. It's actually difficult to even stay interested in them.

I'd claim that if Gates would have wanted to cause maximum harm, he would not have earned millions of dollars first. Just found an organization and go evil. It's more straight forward, less suspicious and more effective. Just look at Scientology.
Yeah I always thought DRAM refresh was built into the hardware, so this was kind of shocking for me to read too. I assumed he knew what he was talking since I couldn't imagine why else he would think it's something done by the ME.
But that was the problem with the USSR, wasn't it? Gorbachev said (quoting from memory from maybe two decades ago) that the USSR could produce a military that could go toe to toe with the US, but they couldn't produce toothpaste for their people. And his reforms started when he said, what's wrong here?

The Soviet command economy wasn't as productive as the US's economy, and it never would have been. And if you think that all that production should have gone to the military forever, and never have gone to making people's lives a little less drab, then I would ask: Why?
I remember that one. He was not allowed by SEC rules to sell any of his stock for a while. By the time the waiting period expired, the stock price had tanked.
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Don't rush to apply the Intel ME patch!

Several HN users here (beefhash, jlgaddis, joe_the_user) have raised the possibility that applying the patch might make it impossible to get rid of the Intel ME entirely.

If you don't apply the patch, someone may come up with a nice new exploit (using the security bugs) to completely remove the Intel ME.

If you do apply the patch, it might close off possible exploits and you'll be left with an Intel ME that's impossible to remove.
It doesn't make any sense to me why the administration would try to cancel this rule. If you qualify, you are already helping the US economy.
There is no way to trick this visa; the requirements are precise and only companies that already add economic benefit to the US can get it.

There is virtually no down risk for the US. Why would they try to cancel it?
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Over the past 3 years or so, I’ve seen Apple TVs attached to projectors in many conference rooms. People who want to present from a Windows machine do the cable dance still, but those who want to present from an iPhone, iPad or Mac just connect over AirPlay and go. I’ve started saving presentations to my OneDrive and using PowerPoint from my phone to display them, even when I have my laptop with me.
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are. - 'W. Somerset Maugham on enterprise architecture', Peter Hilton

In practice, designing seems to proceed by oscillating between sub-solution and sub-problem areas, as well as by decomposing the problem and combining sub-solutions. - Nigel Cross

Firmitas, utilitas, venusitas. ("Firmness, utility, delight") - Marcus Vitruvius, De Architectura (22BCE)

Less tongue in cheek, there are quite a few decent, mature systems encouraging thinking from different perspectives. Examples include De Bono's hats system, IDEO's mantras for innovation, Skillman's englightened trial and error, 99% perspiration (ie. just stay focused), design for data, partitioning the problem, prioritizing simplicity and clarity, prototyping, Alan Kay's dream while you are awake, etc.

Culled from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup .. there are more there :)
I still carry my smartphone, but have disabled all app notifications, and removed anything that isn't a tool or a direct text messaging app.

No Twitter, no Facebook, no Snapchat, etc.

It's amazing how much happier I became after doing that.
First off take a listen to Sherry Walling's podcast, it's made for you.

ZenFounder.com

I'll also recommend her husband Rob's podcast as well.

StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com

I would recommend starting with episode 1 for both.

You can follow Rob along over the years from drop shipping beach towels through .net invoice and hittail to drip with a $XXM exit. Inspiring.

What type of skills/business are you thinking about?

Starting your own thing is hard, not sure I'd recommend it if you are feeling depressed.

You might want to take a job outside your skill set, even part time to get back in the game. Do something interesting you've always wanted to try. If it's part time you could do contract work the remaining time if that's a possibility.

Take a look at your resume are you providing too much information or maybe not showing something that was keeping you busy in your gap areas. Maybe review your resume with someone to make sure you're presenting things honestly but in a better light. You might be too hard on yourself.

Good luck getting on track and getting your own thing going.

Feel free to email me at my HN username at gmail. I can provide some guidance if you're a developer.
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That headline is amazing. The article is interesting. The headline is just a jewel. I suppose someone might be tempted to call it clickbait, but it's in no way misleading. it's just a spectacular title.
Where the "is" should be generally understood as "is[1]"

[1] but in such a poorly tested, underbaked fashion you probably shouldn't bother for a few years
IT being a cost center at a modern information/product company is similar to doctors being a cost center for a hospital.

Only a deranged accountant thinks the cost center is the scarce talent that delivers outsize customer value, and that the profit center is the back-office filled with billers who "monetize" a relationship that wouldn't otherwise exist.

In tech, this flipped around in 2004-2008, I think. From 2001-2004, people thought IT was "over". Now, they realize software is "eating the world".

I am hopeful a similar realization will eventually come to medicine. Doctors deserve Google-style work perks and competition for their scarce talent. Insurance, back-office, and billing deserve to be turned into the AWS of medicine -- outsourced commodity.
Hey, this is a bit tangental but since you mention building enterprise SPAs I'll guess your experience will be able to help me. So, I'm not as experienced but can get around to learning any code and as I need to start building a portfolio I dove in again to build one. But things were breaking and I couldn't get rolling as fast I thought and although for a longer term bigger project I would spend the time tweaking I want to get something up fast and thought that I need to use a simpler tool. So, I'm curious what to you use to build your SPAs? What's the process like for you? Thanks
> Okay, but that doesn't tell you anything about the truthiness of this specific event.

That wasn't really a comment about the truthiness of this specific event, but about your comment about being lucky for avoiding a false rape accusation. That's like saying you're lucky that you didn't get struck by lightning. Well, okay I guess, but it's not a frequent occurrence to begin with.

> Black people commit way more murders per capita than asian people in America

In Moore's case, I'm not coming to any conclusion by looking at frequency of occurrence alone, as I wouldn't in a murder case. However, I probably wouldn't elect either man accused of murder to the Senate. Regardless, I think you're still not appreciating how widespread an issue this is for women. It happens on the sidewalk walking down the street, on the bus, at work, at a restaurant, on the train, at church, at school, at the hospital. Men are sleazes, and I'm pretty sure the sleaze frequency in men is much higher than the murder frequency in blacks. Much higher. Like, 60-80% high. And the worst part is, there is zero awareness of this by sleazy men.

> Unless you're willing to claim that women are engaged in a widespread conspiracy to take down men in positions of power, it's pretty hard to dismiss any of this as "false" accusations.
Is that the only possibility you see? It's either a massive conspiracy among women in general, or the accusations are true?

Yeah, pretty much. Although, I'm willing to hear a scenario that could account for all of the accusations, the corroborating facts, the mall ban, and Roy Moore not being able to definitively say he didn't pursue teenage girls.
Medicaid is a massive program. And it's "free" to the legitimately poor. It's a myth that the poor don't have health care in the US.
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Is it really all that common? HN often feels like a techno-utopian libertarian echo chamber to me.

Maybe if we both feel this way, it's actually a balanced group? Or maybe it just comes in waves depending on the topic.
Entrepreneurship is for the insane. I think depression counts.

Depression can also be source of energy and it powers creativity. It's a double edged sword; it can either drive you forward or drag you back.

But don't expect it to cure your depression. The highs are high and the lows are very low. You still have things to lose - your reputation, bankruptcy, your employees' livelihood. And like an effective drug, you might actually be reliant on depression as a form of energy.

Also be careful as you can easily get trapped in a bad business, making too little revenue to grow but also invested too much to quit. This is much worse than being stuck driving for Uber.

It's also harder to pitch while depressed. Investors like optimism. So I would recommend something you can completely bootstrap.

I'd go for low hanging fruit that you can almost immediately cash in on. You can do ecommerce on a niche. SaaS is nice but it needs a lot of time to start. Avoid things like games which are difficult to monetize.

Inexperience isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, people tend to do better when they can't just quit for some high paying job. You will get stuck at some point, and it's usually people like you who push past the obstacles.

You can check out indiehackers.com for a broad range of stories.
To be clear, you will pay more unless you have enough scale to already run more than {num_AZs_in_region} nodes for your workload.

If you want to be sure you get paid if you’re offline, your workloads have to be spread across all AZs in the region.

Otherwise your subset of AZs can go down and because it’s not the whole region you won’t get paid.
>Stripe is not widely known because it doesn't sell anything that consumers can buy. Instead its software systems enable companies around the world to more easily accept online payments and run their websites.

What does Stripe do that makes it a better choice for companies than PayPal?
These results are not surprising to me but it's great that they were published because people have been very quick to jump on the hype bandwagon for these kinds of projects.

I think that the idea of the isomorphic JavaScript app never actually worked in practice. MeteorJS already had a really good go at it.

Sharing JavaScript modules between the client and the server is great but when you start to pretend that the backend and the frontend are the same environment, you're bound to run into all sorts of problems and create inefficiencies.

The kind of performance penalty incurred by server-rendered React is bound to make your system vulnerable to DoS attacks or at best make it unnecessarily expensive to operate.

When programming abstractions shift too far away from the reality of the underlying architecture, you will start paying dearly and the cost won't be worth it in the long run.

In my opinion, the client-server divide is a fundamental aspect of multiuser applications and no amount of abstraction can make it go away.
As a LA/OC local, we have tons of farmer's markets near us. The two powerhouses are the Wed Santa Monica Market and Sunday Hollywood market, but there are several others depending on the city you live in.
Excellent comments, and very much on point about the Sybil attack. I should have seen that myself.

The spam relationship is a correct interpretation. More specifically: as any new medium or channel becomes influential enough, it will be sought by those who seek to use it to their ends: for commercial or financial return, or social or political power. And their means are distraction, disinformation, misinformation, and manipulation.

There's quite a body of literature on this topic, going back a few thousand years.
Have you tried asking Microsoft for Azure support of it?

Devil’s advocate: AWS rolled their own CA and cert management system.
I’m just reading the abstract at the moment, but this paper says that there was a -nuclear- explosion, not just a steam explosion?
"With the new AWS Secret Region, we are bringing the same tools and workflows that are already available for Top Secret workloads to customers with Secret datasets and workloads."

Does this mean they already had an AWS "Top Secret" Region?
I was surprised how easy it was to setup, and the huge advantage is that you never have to worry about renewals and the various problems associated with forgetting to renew ever again
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Let's Encrypt is great.

I would like to see native ECC support and a more stringent validation mode that allows more than 3 months of certificate lifetime.
But clearly what you mean when you say that is you really want a long-form article filled with OPs life story about how they discovered vegetables, best ways to prepare vegetables, pointers for the recipe, etc. interspersed with ads before finally delivering the recipe somewhere towards the bottom of the page (possible behind a link to a second page with the actual recipe). /s
"Not new" != "not significant".

Facebook quite literally connects more people across a single platform than any medium in history. That logo is the most-seen image in the world right now.

And the history of media change shows that it is tremendously disruptive. Something today's new-media moguls seem to be only just starting to realise. Or at least, admit.
Triple the density then. Renters will come, I guarantee.
Review the app perms before opt-in. "This app is requesting access to Full Name, Email, Friends, etc..."

FB trusted Developers to do the right thing with that data through T&Cs.
United Airlines continues to cheat customers
So how do you explain charter school achievement?
I've always been curious: what are those ways?
Shoulder surfing and spitting back bitcoin wallet words would be a neat trick.
Yes. It's called C2S.
Could he get full value for all that ETH? Wouldn't a sell-off cause a crash in value?
Microsoft got on the boards of banks that their competitors used, then called in the loans, pulling the rug out from under their competitors.

Microsoft used astroturfing campaigns in newspapers and magazines talking up their products and talking down their competitors. These tactics are much more widely known today, primarily because MS.

Microsoft created all kinds of undocumented apis that enabled their products to function much better than the competition. This is illegal for monopolists to do. IBM was forced to document all of their OS APIs because they were a monopoly, so that application developers would be on the same level and able to compete with IBM.

Microsoft changed apis and functionality that somehow always seemed to break their competitors products, but not their own.

Microsoft dominated to such an extent, that they essentially were forced to bail out Apple so that they could have a fig leaf excuse that they weren't actually a monopoly.
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I use headphones with a play/pause button on them so I can pause/rewind from time to time to re-digest things.
"no tunnel bank jobs have been pulled in the L.A. area since" - but there was one foiled last month in Brazil.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/04/brazil-bank-ro...
For this reason, we don't use SSR for pages that change often, and turn it off completely for authenticated users. Some performance analysis showed it was actually slower in the average case than shipping the JS and having the client render it themselves, especially with a hot cache.

This still provides what we wanted anyway; the ability for pages to easily be viewable without JS and easily indexed by search engines.
Okay congrats ..you are a billionaire on paper, now what?

What was the point of this article ?- To showcase an already predictable scenario ?

Either way, congratulations nonetheless, I do admire and respect the work they put in for Stripe.
Better API, documentation, and support. It's pretty much that simple.
However, women voted Bill Clinton and feminists aggressively supported him despite his sexual assault of multiple women. So there are ideological nutcases on all sides.
> I think many discussions miss the nuance here. The problem is that the functionality is hidden, not necessarily that the function is there.

> If they were more transparent, then they could be used by normal users for remote administration as well.

The fundamental objection with ME isn't that it's "proprietary" or "non-libre" or whatever other ideological objections, it's that it's an opaque embuggerance that makes any analysis or reasoning about the system's security/trustworthiness/reliability completely impossible and specious. There aren't even any robust specifications for it (like those for ISAs); it's literally a black box -- and one granted terrifying access to both the system's internals and external network interfaces.

It's 10PM. Do you know if your ME has been provisioned by evil malware?

I don't care much about whether its source code is public or not, I care about the fact that I have no verifiable and irreversible way to disable that little implant's function. It's not an innocent housekeeping microcontroller, it's one hell of a remote-access-tool, plain and simple. That intelligence agencies have demanded that Intel provide a bit to neuter the ME after its bringup is testament to that.

My personal computer isn't part of an enterprise/corporate network, and I don't want any RAT (nor an auxiliary CPU with network access that is waiting to be provisioned to act like a RAT) installed on it, the same way my house-lock isn't keyed with a master key that the police holds.

I (and most other end-users) do not need any sort of remote-management capability. We need trustworthy and robust computers that are capable of not leaking secrets and losing control to adversaries -- and "remote management" hardware is a severe step backwards from that.
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Of course it does -- because the Senate didn't convict. So the impeachment was about as meaningful as getting arrested then getting the case dismissed.
Correct. There's a decent lay summary here: https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/new-finding-nuke-blast-cr...
Before you decide nuclear power has any place in the future of producing electricity, consider two facts:

1. Worldwide, not a single nuclear plant was built with private funds. All were underwritten with public funds.

2. US law protects nuclear plants from liability. The risk of any harm they pose is borne by the government, not the utility.

Nuclear power is and always was uneconomical. It exists out of a combination of mid-century faith in progress, and to have a nuclear industry to provide infrastructure and technical expertise (or maybe camouflage) for nuclear weapons. Behold the military-industrial complex.

Like "clean coal" there are always supposedly designs on the drawing board. I say, assume full liability, and raise funds on the private market. While I'm waiting, I'll bet in wind and solar.
And we are lucky for it. If the runaway core had reached the water table beneath, it would have exploded and irradiated most of Eastern Europe, if not the whole continent.
uBlock Origin and Ghostery deal with these kinds of trackers. Makes the internet a lot quieter.
I'm "young" and I love 2x on youtube and such, not to get "more" but it actually gives me more time to reflect on the content. If I can listen at a pace I'm comfortable, usually when the video ends I can spend that extra time or so thinking about the concepts presented, not just moving on. The fact that it helps both of us to achieve different ends is pretty interesting.
It was interesting that there were firm denials at the time, yet everyone was used to propaganda (yes, fake news) so it wasn't at first clear if there was a coverup or the claim of a problem was western misdirection!

But reports from neighboring countries pretty quickly put that to rest, and then the narrative switched to the heroics of the emergency workers (who were indeed heroic and, sadly, literally self-sacrificing.

The plume traveled over northern Western Europe, but West Germany, at least, didn't take any immediate action. 15-20 years later there appeared to be a slew of unusual cancers (e.g. my mother in law's tear duct; my friend's mother salivary gland...unusual ones in accretive tissue. But I don't know if there's been any systematic survey to see if there was an assignable increase in the death rate, or if I am just divining a signal from what's actually small-n noise.
Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl has many stories like this, highly recommended reading if you want to know more about the incident
Tone: Honest. How does attention economy abuse impact people in retail and service especially?

(I get that the internet at large is impacting them immensely, and the list of such people and professions hardly stops there, but I don't immediately see the connection between them and attention abuse specifically.)
> which are probably
I subscribe to a few dozen podcasts with AntennaPod... didn't even consider speeding up playback. Going to try 1.1x this week. I do like retaining information and I usually like to think about what my podcasters are talking about (Like Stuff You Should Know / Radiolab) so I can't see myself speeding it up that much.

I just never even realized this was a thing, and that that 1.0X next to the playback buttons actually did something...
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I don't disagree with your comment, but I'd like to introduce a small refinement....

> Rather, what people should realize is that back in 80s it was IBM who was the monopolist, and it was Microsoft who became the monopolist IBM once was.

This is true, but Microsoft only became the IBM of PC software. Intel became the IBM of processors. Cisco became the IBM of routers. And so on....

IBM was the IBM of everything, and at one point, was twice as big as every other IT company put together. Today's youngsters have absolutely no idea how powerful it was. (And after decades of failure, IBM is still almost a $90 billion company.) Microsoft never had that degree of power.

In the end, IBM's monopoly was split between a lot of different but less powerful companies, each with its own niche. Today, I think, only IBM's mainframe monopoly is left....