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I can't say I agree. The solution to "these oversized corporations have too much power" is not "let's give too much of a completely different kind of power to those other oversized corporations".

(The little guys are screwed either way -- that part I do agree with.)
bankrupt within the next year? no chance.
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I disagree. One needs to be consistent in their actions, otherwise, what's the point? Two wrongs don't make a right, after all.

EDIT: Er, I agree that hypocrisy shouldn't stop you from doing the right thing.
It's been the official position for quite a while that kernel.org releases - even "stable" ones - are to be considered bleeding-edge, and for it to be the responsibility of distros to do the necessary cooking on behalf of users to avoid unleashing something raw on them. Long gone are the days of regular users being trusted (and being able to trust) to just grab the latest linux-2.0.36 tarball from there and upgrade by compiling themselves.
This is so stupid. Flagged. "Let's take the amount they've spent over the last quarter and divide by the number of hours to get a click-bait headline. Wow!"
For those who are interested, our ndbench results post has just been moved to a new location: https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/yugabyte-db-p99-latencies-with-...
OK, that's fair enough. Let's not be enemies :)
> Can a future administration overturn this (via an FCC chairman/congressional bill)?

Yes. There is always a way to change things in the US, it just might be difficult to do so.

In short: rulemaking such as this can be overturned by new rulemaking or by new legislation. Legislation can be overturned by passing legislation to repeal it or by a court finding it unconstitutional or otherwise invalid. Unconstitutionality or other judicial precedent can be overturned by new legislation or constitutional amendment.
We can vote for people who don't want the US to kill civilians while not using Uber. I don't see the conflict here.
Ask yourself why you considered him a hero. You don't know this person. He's a person, just like you. I went through a similar process a couple years ago.

Relevant quote regarding Feynman:

…in many ways Richard was a sexist. Whenever it came time for his daily bowl of soup he would look around for the nearest "girl" and ask if she would fetch it to him. It did not matter if she was the cook, an engineer, or the president of the company. I once asked a female engineer who had just been a victim of this if it bothered her. "Yes, it really annoys me," she said. "On the other hand, he is the only one who ever explained quantum mechanics to me as if I could understand it." That was the essence of Richard's charm.

It's complex. You can respect their achievements while separating the other half. And until you really know someone, it's not good to lump the two halves together in your mind.
I've found snippets of Rand Paul's opinions on net neutrality, which basically sum up to "any government control in a market is bad".[1]

[1] Campaign for liberty's "The Technology Revolution" http://www.campaignforliberty.org/national-blog/c4l-introduc...
It’s all about appearance of intent and managing expectations. If you cannot deliver, don’t make a promise. Also, individuals tend to have their own range of fudge factor, think “claimed divided by actual.”

George Carlin on BS:

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lol @ the clickbait headline. nothing to see here.
You’re replying to a comment with a paywal circumvention link but saying it’s basically impossible?
> In Java, 70% of duplicates were due to code generation. For C++ is was 18%, for Python 85%, for JavaScript 70%.

C++ is the real outlier there. That could be because C++ code is much harder to generate, but I don't buy that it's that much harder than Java. Or it could be because C++ templates aren't considered "code generation". Or it could be because C++ doesn't get used for projects with that much boilerplate code. Or...
The point is that if you know that the US kills civilians yet you stay in the US, giving them money through tax, the majority of which is used to fund the very same military that kills civilians, yet claim to do the right thing, that's hypocritical, no?

In any case, you're right. There is no conflict. Just hypocrisy.

EDIT: I realize I sound far more judge-y than intended in these posts. My overall point is that people should just do whatever makes 'em happy while doing the best you can (w.r.t. everything else). Trying to emphasize the morality in your actions is just wrong, imo.
... and when you give people direct access to the front buffer, they write code that tears or generally scans out incomplete renders and users end up blaming the operating system.

Compositing is a good thing, and in the vast majority of cases its latency isn't actually intrinsically higher than writing directly to the front buffer. Certainly its intrinsic latency is never higher than writing directly to the front buffer if you build a system without visual artifacts. (Because at the end of the day, all compositing does is shift around who does the job of putting things on the front buffer; the jobs themselves stay the same for all practical purposes.)
2fa is just another hurdle. Good to have, but by no means a silver bullet.

Just one of the many ways to bypass it in this case: hack a developer machine and look at the local checkout.
Surely this is a joke or shill account. Not only are you arguing against an entirely different topic than at hand. You're openly suggesting that the best way out of getting screwed is to allow more companies the opportunity to screw you?
If you want to be let down further check out the industry-wide wage fixing that Catmull actively participated in.
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Rust doens't have copy constructors, to be clear.
Or, more likely, he's just an asshole.
> But any new services that threaten existing ones will be hard-pressed to compete.

That's the sad part: the new services that fail will fail quietly and we'll never know what we lost.
The other side is that net neutrality is just a bandage around the more fundamental problem: that there is not much competition between ISPs in the USA.

The seemingly endless debate around "net neutrality" arguably benefits ISPs, who have little to gain by being "non-neutral" but MUCH to gain by maintaining their local fiefdoms.
I think as a German that has been using different forms of transit in the US, I think you - unknowingly - are comparing apples with oranges: Flixbus is bad, yes - but only for German standards.

Inner-american travel comes with much less "classiness". I don't know why; I'd like it to be because of more price competitiveness, since more access for poor people is a good thing. But i dunno. Just that inner-US flights have the flair of an european subway-commute.

Anyways: Riding the bus in Germany was always only chosen by those who couldn't afford train or plane. This is why I loathe Flixbus! City-to-city bus rides were prohibited* in Germany until Flixbus basically "uber"-ed the prohibition away. But their network of busses, drivers and subcontractors are basically the same of what the market offered before.

Personally I'd never expected ICE-train quality standards for for a fraction of the price.

[*] = to be exact, the Deutsche Bundesbahn (state owned railway) had the only license to operate inter-town bus-rides, which - being a town-connecting railway company - they "just happened" to under develop.
I'm pretty sure that's actually not what would happen. If you could attack sha-256, then you could forge all the transactions in the network and take all of the money. Then people would lose faith in the currency and do something else.
Because the field wasn't formally uninitialised - it was initialised to zero by bio_init(). It was instead a logic error, which are not as amenable to static analysis.
Can you guys not do this, please? HN isn't Reddit.

We try to maintain some semblance of effort and thoughtfulness into posting here.
I developed tinnitus in 2009, a neurological "gift" from a case of swine flu. (The other gift was chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, a nightmarish migraine-like condition that threatened to destroy my life until I got it under control with medication.) The tinnitus was exacerbated a few years later after a freak accident while inflating a mountain bike tire. The tire exploded off the rim, more-or-less directly into my right ear. I'm now partially deaf on that side, but of course I hear the tinnitus load & clear.
> Places with a lot of people? People who have been harmed by what NN is intending to fix?

Yes and yes. I've lived all over southern California, but never anywhere that had two broadband providers available at the same address. Parts in cities; I'm not talking about little desert communities, or something. I have however been inconvenienced by various ISPs' content-based packet filtering policies.

> Facilitated by government. If government was responsible in the first place, why not just undo what they did?

Part of it is that you're talking about every individual local government, with lobbying from the incumbent ISPs. A lot of those governments have contracts with those incumbents, giving them franchise rights in the city. They can't just declare those contracts void.

Beyond the local level, a lot of states have laws that make setting up a new ISP difficult or impossible (especially municipally-operated internet access).
I missed this when chrome removed a similar addon. It was an awesome feature, would love to see it make a comeback.
The term "witch hunt" doesn't apply just because there are many bad actors being exposed. It applies when innocent people are caught up in a frenzy of accusations.

Sometimes a frenzy of outrage is earned and deserved.
Define 'breach'.

Did Equifax obtain information about me via a breach?

Show me where in my mortgage contract I gave the bank permission to disclose anything to Equifax.

Show me any agreement with my employer that authorizes them to disclose salary information to Equifax.

Out of the thousands of points of data Equifax has collected about me, how many of those were obtained through 'breaches' by some definition?
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ITT a bunch of white collar software engineers discuss subjects about which most have zero familiarity.
This is great, I would hope that GE would consider putting her in one of their "Milli" commercials.
1. Expelling a student for bringing a gun to school is hardly tantamount to 'kicking kids to the curb the minute something bad happens'. It's preserving the safety and the integrity of the school.

2. We can also reduce the cost of prison by keeping more kids in school

To the extent that school can persuade people to trade a life of crime for a more virtuous path. There are some people who are going to be criminals regardless of how much schooling is available to them, those people are lost causes and we should stop investing in them the moment they reveal themselves.

3. The cost of incarceration is high because people are concerned with human rights and getting their cut of the expenditures. Prison would be much cheaper if we just put all the convicts on an island and catapulted basic supplies to them, and just made sure no one swam off the island.

4. I never claimed that my plan would produce more scientists and fewer criminals - just that we'd spend less money on criminals and free up resources that could be spent on educating scientists or funding their experiments.

5. Part of being a teacher is interacting with parents, but some parents demand extensive communication that's above and beyond what we should expect. And you're right that parents talk to teachers outside of school hours, however, there's no free lunch - we have to pay for it in some way whether that's teacher job dissatisfaction, teacher salary expectations, etc. We should respect parents' interest but empower teachers to tell them to hit the sand if they're overbearing.

6. the 60% of the budget that goes to normal and high achieving students is the only part of the budget that has a positive ROI. Ideally we'd have more of it, but at the least we'd do better if we didn't spend 40% on the failures.
I agree it doesn't seem to violate the letter of this particular law.

But it's close to being the digital version of redlining. Before the Fair Housing Act real estate brokers would show certain houses only to white clients and other houses only to clients of color. That was explicitly deemed illegal. If you see real estate brokers as a medium through which sellers would advertise their houses I don't see how this is much different.
I hope you are not implying that poorer people do not get in trouble for sexual harassment or worse.

This recent uptick in wealthy people being brought down by it is only newsworthy because they were previously seemingly immune to the normal rules everyone else lives by.
The most I've ever personally seen a company do is require a VPN for their privately-hosted repos. For others using GitHub or Bitbucket? Never anything beyond a standard login.
uber engineer here, we have 2fa set up for everything. Starting my day takes about 5 different 2fa checks (ssh access, aws, phabricator, team chat, etc)
I'm getting sick of this stuff. As a user of Uber (or Equifax), would I have any case if I tried to sue them for mishandling private data (I live in Massachusetts)?

http://www.mass.gov/ago/doing-business-in-massachusetts/priv...
Not sure what your links have to do with voting D or R. Specifically I don't see how either link has anything to do with "avoiding putting a checkmark next to a (R)"
It's not a witch hunt when you actually find people who have done wrong, then it's just “laundry day”
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> There are bandwidth caps and data usage caps,
Actually, commercial ISPs don't really do bandwidth caps and datacaps are simply laughable as a means of controlling congestion. (Honestly, they're literally not a means of controlling congestion.)

I really just want my ISP to be like my datacenter: 95%ile bandwidth billing. Nothing else. No services. No filtering. No "speed boosts." Just a connection to other networks.

> I pay for what I use.

Unless you have a metered services, you are not paying for what you use in that sense. You pay for access, sure, but not for what you use.

> My electricity provider does not charge differently for setting up and maintaining the connection based on what I do with the electricity, they just charge me for what I use. Why should an ISP be treated differently?

The issue is not metered billing. I think most people would be OK with it; it'll suck for some but an honest effort to keep the 95% of usage at normal would go a long way, I thinks.

The issue is when you're being billed differently for what you consume, not how much. Would you be OK with electricity used by an LED bulb from company X was metered at 2 times that of company Y which is 2 times that of an incandescent? _That's_ the issue, not metered billing.
That may be yeast related.
I worked at Pixar for three years back in the early 2010s, and that book is mostly hot air. There was not a culture of extreme candor or honesty, at least not in the department that writes all the core software.
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Proof of work is better than proof of stake as proof of stake makes it easy for those with the most power to forge transactions rendering it useless to anyone who actually sought out cryptocurrency in the first place. Proof of work is just also very bad.
Agree with everything you said, but I think Yusupov is regretting having Scott being so prominent, and the article is just making him more important to the app. So he lost it. It happens. But it does make him look bad.
It's in the book Freakonomics, when talking about economic, social, and moral incentives.

The day care changed what was a social incentive for an economic one, and then couldn't reverse the consequences: Not fining the parents anymore didn't reduce the number of late ones to previous levels.
> Ok, but the curators would need to provide a suitably large range of content in order to stay competitive.

Assuming that there was robust competition or low barriers to entry so that new competitors could easily jump in, sure.

But that's basically nothing like the US ISP market.
Not all houses have toys strewn around them, many don't, and those kind of people (single or dual income people with no kids, possibly no pets, little free time) are the prime audience of roombas because for them it works great.
"about the typical MBA strategy for pumping and dumping"

There is nothing typically - or even remotely 'MBA' about this statement.
The former CEO of google is bff with the clintons and was heavily involved with Obama's campaign. Good for him, I guess. But the previous administration did very little for internet privacy and rights.

Dont fool yourself that the problem is the "current" administration and the next administration from the "good guys" will solve everything.
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Trying to make data breaches much harder has some unsettling implications. "Make CEOs responsible" or "make companies in general responsible". Ok. Sucks if you're a startup, but ok. The big ones are going to turn around and put a clause into every engineer's contract to the effect of "you are now directly responsible for the code you write, if the company is sued because of a bug you caused, we're suing you". Then we'll either accept it, or go against our profession's history and form a union to fight it, which will inevitably lead to the union representatives accepting a compromised version on our behalf that's the same at all companies and now in addition to that there are various additional requirements that increase the barriers of entry to the profession and slow down getting work done. Either way has its downsides.

An alternative approach: assume everything is compromised all the time. Identify the material harms of such compromise, and work to minimize those harms. The SSN-is-proof-of-identity system is obviously a big source of harm, not so much applied to whoever was deceived, but inflicted on the actual person trying to put everything right again. There are many many changes to this one system that would help minimize the damage, ranging from complete overhauls to just minor things like being able to change one's SSN with more ease, or putting more pressure on companies to verify people instead of trusting the SSN. This is probably one of the few cases where doing just about anything to improve the system even a little is much better than doing nothing.

I doubt anything will come of it though. Congress routinely talks to domain experts who warn about the problems in the future should they not do what the expert suggests. Nothing gets done, and the problems manifest, sometimes worse than predicted.
It's not related to this particular breach, but given this and Uber's other issues, it's not out of the realm of possibility that at some point they had a more serious breach involving loss of password hashes or interception of credentials at login.

(But in all likelihood the poster's account was just compromised through the usual means, otherwise there would be more reports of hacked accounts.)
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At this point if the next headline is “Uber sold nuclear submarine secrets to China whilst kicking puppies” I won’t bat an eyelid.
I know about day care in Bay Area which is charging $20 per 5 minutes delay. I guess that's the reason:)
I don't know if I did it right, but it changed the tone in my right ear.
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Feynman was a pig and will be one day stripped from the history books ala Robert E. Lee. All these 'men' will suffer the same fate.
This point is irksome. How hard would it be to provide a switch to disable mandatory signing? Something similar to the unknown sources option in Android.

To all those claiming that Mozilla doesn't owe this to their users, you are technically correct. But why piss off users when you can easily satisfy them with a simple option. I shouldn't have to use a patched browser for something so basic.
> Absurd for you, not for the carriers.

Yup, and only because those same carriers are making competition impossible, if not illegal.
> You can respect their achievements while separating the other half

Agree to disagree. If people would tell them to go to hell from the beginning, their achievements would go to someone else and we would all be better for it.
You couldn't enforce 2FA on GHE for the longest time. GHE version 2.8.0 lists [0] "Enforce two-factor authentication" as a feature. 2.8.0 was released November 2016. According to the article,

> Kalanick, Uber’s co-founder and former CEO, learned of the hack in November 2016, a month after it took place, the company said.

I don't know if they were using GHE. If they were, at the time it did not come with a good way for them to enforce 2FA for users.

[0] https://enterprise.github.com/releases/2.8.0
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...going to that political rally? I'm afraid you can't pass sir.
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It wasn't really a release, more like an announcement.

He has to keep the Magic going - without the Magic, they would have been dead long ago. They are dependent on it to sustain crazy valuations.

Maybe saving either the truck or roadster for the next show would have been keen though :)

I mean, these are cars, not like some little Apple software feature ...
I'm replying to a comment after already 4 attempts at circumventing have failed

The alternative is that people start commenting on an article without having read it, and that would truly turn HN into Reddit.
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C++ has changed quite a bit in the last 10 years.
Consistency is absolutely impossible, as you already alluded to. It’s not a bad move to assess the current position, accept it for what it is, and improve it bit by bit. Pick your battles.

Two wrongs don’t make a right when you try to sum them, I.e. combine them. My point is: don’t compare them at all. Don’t change the subject. Uber is one, other things are another. Being a hypocrite doesn’t make you wrong, it just makes you a hypocrite. Don’t even pull in the other wrong to begin with.

Otherwise, how do you ever justify standing up for anything you believe in? I was born a hypocrite, surely a life of mute acquiescence can’t be my destiny?
Actually AFAIK the APU2 SoC includes a PSP already, the APU1 is still free of that.
But even the APU1 SoC has a small LM32 core that you have no source for, see Rudolf Marek's CCC talk "AMD x86 SMU firmware analysis".
How does this compare to the amount of money each of Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple burn every hour? Just the salaries alone must be phenomenal.

What's the news here?
We are witnessing cultural norms shift right before our eyes. The line went past a lot of powerful people in the shift and now they're scurrying like roaches. In the old days this was borderline behavior, but not something that would typically get them in trouble. A little butt slap here or innuendo laced comment there was tolerated and sometimes even expected, but those days suddenly ended when even the powerful and influential Harvey Weinstein could fall. One can argue that it might even be blowback from the election of a man who boasted on camera about showing dominance through sexual assault.

I'm actually excited about what the housecleaning of the old guard means for the future. Many of the men implicated in these cases should have retired years ago to give the fresh faces some breathing room. The message is coming out loud and clear now: If you sexually harassed your coworkers/secretary/etc... back in the 60s or 70s as was the custom your day of reckoning is coming. Get out now before the scandal hits.