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> Google or Amazon, or the rest of the tech industry, wouldn't be able to find the capital to build fast/unthrottled internet to eat Comcast's lunch?

Not while paying a Comcast (and other ISPs) tax to reach existing users, which then funds Comcast (et al.) staying ahead of them.
Maybe not. I have no idea. I'm not in the field. I'm probably confusing it with another DB role.
This CEO needs to Google "Streisand effect"

Unless that is actual what he wants. Sounds like this contractor (no employee?) is critical to the company's success and firing him would be suicidal without first diversifying.
Techmeme summary: ProPublica: Ads for housing that exclude demographics are still being approved by Facebook, a year after a study highlighted the illegal discriminatory practice on Facebook
The Willow Garage page is dead because the company went out of business.

Trying to run ROS on anything but Linux is a waste of time.
What's your hypothesis on why they collect so much data on people?
Come on, there is nothing impractical about not using a smartphone. You’re free to invent any excuse you need to justify your use of it, but there is virtually nothing you need a smartphone for.

The obvious answer is not to get an iphone. Today it’s android, tomorrow it’s apple—you’re willingly using a massive closed stack to handle your location at all times. Trust is simply naive.

If you accept you’re trading privacy, security, and money for a massively convenient liability, you’ll be much happier.
> That could change though as more providers are rolling out fiber.

And Google's competition heavily incentivized that rolling out fiber. Imagine what the threat of a new entrant offering unthrottled internet would do to these hypothetical plans?
Facebook doesn't publish what interest categories and demographics go into their ads (aka you can't click on an ad in FB and see what led to it being shown to you).

But we're talking billions of dollars a year in ads, of which real estate is a respectable percentage (FB is very good at doing geographic targeting).

And you certainly also have these relatively unsupervised and opaque "interest categories" that are being presented to advertisers.
Techmeme summary: Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: As Zuckerberg concludes his 30-state tour, a look at how he's described Facebook and its mission since 2005
i highly recommend reading this guy's hunt for the wrecked A-12 (the CIA's early variant of the SR-71):

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange...
The problem with the current net neutrality debate is that it seems to stop at layer 3 of the ISO stack. There's no reason why we should have dozens of incompatible video calling apps, why media streaming only works with a particular vendor's application.

Not to mention that many of the big players in silicon valley like to jump back and forth over the line of "is a provider" / "is not a provider". Twitter and Google and Facebook like to police the content on their systems, which is their right, but at the same time they like to hold up the DMCA safe harbor provision anytime someone finds copyrighted material on their networks. They have no problem banning unpopular parties from their networks while simultaneously profiting from clear copyright violations.

We should insist that net neutrality extend all the way to layer 7.
Its not like the traffic is coming from no where. The traffic is being requested by Comcast's customers. So yes, they should be able to support the traffic their customers are requesting. If its not legitimate traffic, feel free to drop the peer.

My arguement is that ISPs should deliver the product they sell to consumers. If the consumers demand for Netflix goes up, the ISP should adapt to ensure proper bandwidth at peak. The internet on the whole and interconnection between companies is hardly static. Its constantly growing bandwidth wise and its really very simple to increase bandwidth to other providers. Technically its fairly easy without all the legal bits that get added in to peering agreements.
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It works well under Windows via the Linux Subsystem, at least the transport layer (which is what most people I've talked to use it for anyway.)
Debian/Ubuntu has a similar mechanism. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/apt-mark.8.h...
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> STEM and 7 in the same sentence make me sad

Why? there are some excellent non-fiction for 7 year olds. In UK 7 year olds are learning science and math in school.

eg The Way Things Work https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241227933/

If... https://www.amazon.co.uk/If-Mind-Bending-Looking-Ideas-Numbe...

The Awesome Body Book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Awesome-Body-Book-Adam-Frost/dp/140...

Just a Second https://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Second-Steve-Jenkins/dp/132874...

Some children are naturally curious and can't get enough of this stuff.
> Both Facebook and Google are working at disabling ME. They make no secret that they not trust it.

I'm aware of Google's work with Coreboot and Chromebooks, but not Facebook's. Can you tell us anything?
Yes.

It's not like there are fossil fuels on the Red Planet, so we're going to need solar cells and batteries to power our electric rovers.
I'm not even sure about sending it as IP, rather as raw Ethernet frames (or simply just using the cables).
>the solution is to buy a (much more expensive) phone from this specific competitor

This sounds like advertising. Also, I'm fairly sure that Apple also sells data. Indeed, given current privacy laws, it's basically guaranteed that if a company has proprietary software, it is selling data from that software.
I've been watching the censorship and manipulation in r/Bitcoin (and bitcointalk forum) for a few years now. I'm genuinely dumbfounded they've as to how they've been so successful in the age of the internet. I also don't know how the Reddit admins have been able to justify ignoring it for so long.

I feel sorry for those who've invested in Bitcoin but haven't been around long enough to understand how thick the walls of the r/Bitcoin bubble really are. A lot of people are going to get hurt. It's just a matter of time.
I don't see this comment as helpful. Bitcoin, and other crypto currencies, is akin to the internet when it was first introduced. It has the potential to disrupt the value business which is controlled by governments at the moment.

Worse, a lot our value system is controlled by corporations that have fees littered throughout every single transaction we do today. Crypto-Currencies have a chance to disrupt a system that is increasingly not good for the common person.

Secondly, Chinese buyers area already visiting the US and buying property and they pay cold hard cash. So not seeing what your point is here.
I do think that people wanting to break into my medical history, could much easier just break into the system where my doctors hold my medical documentation, at least that's 100x easier than breaking into Google. The medical clinics have to check my ID anyways, so they have all the info about me.

As for the second one: yes, if I'd be doing something inherently illegal, having a phone with Google on it could be kind of dangerous to me. As I'm not doing anything like that, I have no reason not to use it.

Yes, with technology comes digitalization of information, and people can hack any of the places my information is, wherein Google is one of the most secure comparatively.

You could argue that digitalization is bad, but before that, you could just find info on patients in the dumpster of the clinic.
There was a recent HN post that delved into booting and testing on many machines and fuzzing injections but can't find it at the moment.
The protocol itself has not been hacked, but private keys get hacked all the time
At this point, I don't want to use anything other than star-drive screws, like GRKs, if I can help it. They're a little pricier, but its worth not dealing with stripped out heads and bits that get all chewed up.
Man to launch himself in homemade rocket to prove Earth is flat (not the Onion)
Yep, (ding!) and solar cells, batteries, compressed gasses, vehicles... all important colonization core tech.
There is no such thing as a "universally right thing", and not even laws can force it into existence.
Original title: New York attorney general says the FCC won’t help investigate fake net neutrality comments

Techmeme summary: Adi Robertson / The Verge: NY AG says the FCC has ignored multiple requests for logs and records amid NY's investigation of the flood of fake net neutrality comments to the federal agency
Budweiser is an interesting example of an American beer, as the original Budweiser beer was from the Czech Republic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery
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You should be assuming that all networks are pwned anyway. KRACK was exciting, but really isn't a major threat to people.
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Id be surprised for TS I looked at a job at Hanslope Park which would have required DV (TS) clearance and you had to have drug tests. Didn't get a second interview was well over qualified - but one has to keep the DHSS happy or id lose my nugatory benefits.
This is a non issue.
> Would you be charged capital gains taxes if you wanted to make a straight-trade of real estate properties

In the United States there's something called a 1031 exchange that allows the deferral of capital gains recognition on a sale of one asset and the purchase of a similar one under some circumstances. But in the case of real estate in can only be used for investment properties not owner occupied residences.
This may seem pedantic, but I think your quote of the misquote is wrong. The media have been putting the period / 'full stop' within the quotation marks (not just outside which you have above) which Caitlin Johnstone rightfully calls out as journalistic malpractice. That very few people know the actual quote is testament to the mainstream media's ability to sell a false narrative.

Edit: Why the downvotes?
Right... This is basically what happens in a neighborhood like Chinatown, where they can't explicitly deny you because you aren't Chinese but you won't be signing a lease any time soon. Maybe it's because I'm currently reading "The Sellout," but I don't think that it's universally bad to have a practice like that. I don't want Chinatown to be filled with white people. It's different when the people being denied housing actually can't find housing anywhere because the practice is so ubiquitous.
coreboot is not the Linux kernel.
Focusing on even getting it to that point is important, though. I'd suggest let's focus our efforts on getting some bit of Net Neutrality written into law (not just a guideline by the FCC) to at least protect certain things, then move to improve that law over time.

Let's not sacrifice the good for the perfect.
Especially as the guy's a contractor, he can do whatever the hell he wants.

It's like it is becoming the new normal in startups, treat contractors like they're your personal slaves, while you can drop them whenever you want.

It's a reminder of why employment laws are so necessary.
That story is out of Brian Schul's book (he used to be an SR-71 pilot). I am lucky enough that years ago, a girl who had a crush on me bought me that book. Its out of print now, and I've seen copies on eBay for > $1000.

Next to Ben Rich's "Skunk Works", it is one of the best books on the SR-71 that I have ever read.
If you are interested in how the Pentagon, Air Force and Navy decides to fund and build aircraft, I highly recommend reading this book [1]. It's about the father of the A-10, F15 (sort of), F-16 and FA-18. Fascinating read about how the armed forces will completely ignore data on flight characteristics due to politics. (it's about the life of John Boyd, not just how aircraft a chosen but its covered quite a bit in the book)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/031...
77% of 433,000 Sites Use Vulnerable JavaScript Libraries
My first instinct was to laugh. My second was "I want this."
There is no requirement that you be good at what you are doing to have a successful startup. Just as the right team doing the right thing can fail by chance, the wrong team doing the wrong thing can succeed by chance.
Thanks. I can’t circumvent the paywall either with Google, nor Facebook, nor the E-Mail URL trick.

I seriously wish by now links to paywalled content that aren’t archived versions should be banned from HN, especially now that circumventing these paywalls is basically impossible.
Employers and landlords should be able to deny access to anyone they please. It's their company and their property, after all.
"engineering you've got to do whatever it takes to solve the problem."
No, no and no. Engineering is about taking Science and finance and working out the best fit. Wasting resources in using inefficient divining rods is the exact opposite of Engineering.

A really tricky bug, back to first principles and science, then work back from there.

By the way - I work with underground services....
I normally use Evernote but its been getting very slow on my phone(2-8 seconds before i can input my text) so I was thinking of writing a simple bot for Telegram that would log my messages and set cron-like reminders. I guess i would search it by sending something like "/s words to be searched for" Is that something you would use?
I'm unclear from this article whether wages are going up or costs. Wages are take-home earnings of workers. That is something different than costs to employers. I need clarification as to whether insurance/tax costs are part of this math.

Ideally, in such articles I want to see actual numbers. I want to see "the average wage for a carpenters in 2015 was X, and today is is X+10%". I'm not so sure that those numbers are changing all that much.
Maybe ...

But the process of getting addicted certainly involves making some choices poorly.
SONAR was my first DAW when I was like 15. I eventually "graduated" to Pro Tools when I was running real recording sessions later in my 20s, but Cakewalk absolutely opened the door for me. Sad to see them go, especially since I have a few friends in Boston who work there.
I wanna know more about the onboard wifi services. what team deals with that and are they in Berlin? I'll buy them beers! :)
> Where is the same uproar that happened in 2013 and stopped this B.S.?

The 2013 uproar was with a pro-neutrality majority on the FCC, and was a reaction to what critics perceived as a too-weak implementation of neutrality. While certain people (John Oliver, notably) acted like the FCC majority was anti-neutrality, this was basically a disagreement between the loud public critics and the FCC over methods where the goals were shared.

The scenario is very different now.
This explains why Richard left the Aurora Borealis alone, for Joan to study.
Because those complete languages are Turing complete. That means, for example, that the build system cannot guarantee that a build will finish, even ignoring that individual steps may run forever.

Some argue Dtrace’s scripting language and PDF (and, IIRC, various packet filter languages) are popular because they aren’t Turing complete.
I guess I expected the sleep habits to be more revolutionary, but after reading them, they're very practical and simple, and that makes sense. I've recently been implementing about the same, and it's so refreshing. As for falling asleep, instead of reading I fall asleep chanting mantra on a mala.
I was going to do a search for this HQ app but lost interest after reading about the founder....
I guess the problem could be that he find himself in a situation where his app is being associated with a contractor they hired, and he doesn't want to further solidify him as "the brand".

Imagine if MySpace Tom was just a contractor that could leave to join the competition any day.

Panic mode, which result in observed nutty behaviour.
No need to make things this complicated. Assange simply tried to do the most damage that he could to US interests. That this aligns quite well with Russian interests and Trumps is merely coincidence.
The founder/CEO comes off as absolutely unreasonable and reactionary in this article, and the title is surprisingly not clickbait (assuming everything happened as reported). It seems that startups oftentimes attract those kinds of big egos, although the brutal startup marketplace oftentimes punishes those people for their hubris.
yeah. I decided to avoid chrome at all costs when noticed that when you install chrome and have firefox already installed , chrome automatically without user’s acknowledgement installs some mysterious google plugin which does not sure what. To verify it , I reproduced same scenario again and plugin was installed again. After that I uninstalled chrome and avoid google products as much as possible.
You can move the cash straight from Mainland, instead of having to get around the 50k/p.p. capital control. This is huge as there are many more people who have money inside of China than in HK bank accounts.
The CTO of Blockstream in question, is at least semi intelligent enough so that the criminal trail will not lead back to him. He probably hired some guns over TOR to do it for him.
Morse code of ASCII art I think
That's a perfect example of the ridiculous lengths this idea would have to go to sound feasible. Hence why I believe it's so detached from reality.
If anyone here is looking for a startup idea: hire Scott at twice what he's making, clone HQ Trivia, and make him a cofounder instead of a contractor. The market has been validated, it's clear that the market cares about Scott as a person (they're dressing up as him for Halloween!), and it seems doubtful that he enjoys being a contractor given all of this.
This sounds an awful lot like FUD. Care to back up any of those generalizations with evidence?
I'm not for this merger, so I'm pleased but . . .

I want DOJ to start doing their job and monopoly busting (without regard to politics).
We have several industries engaged in anti-competitive behavior at a scale far larger than big oil.
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Really assuming you don't work in a Job requiring security clearance that seems excessive.
One of my favorites.

Here's Brian Shul telling the story live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg73GKm7GgI
They were within visible distance, so he just used his hand up against the window. The plane really was right off the wing. Think Top Gun, with less inversion.
Yep, thanks, just corrected it.
Ideally, you'd measure from real keypress upto visible light;

This, I think. When measuring latencies for e.g. reaction time experiments for neurophysiology I'd always use a photodiode or similar to figure out when things actually get on the screen as that's the only thing which matters. IIRC this was always with V-Sync on, but still with custom DirectX applications it was impossible to get lower than 2 frames of latency on Windows 7. So it has always been a bit mistery to me how these articles talk about latency of keyboard to screen of < 1 actual frame. Maybe this explains it, i.e. they're not measuring actual latency from keyboard to screen? I just don't know enough about graphics but even with V-Sync off I'm not sure you can just tell the GPU 'hey here's a pixel now put it on screen right now'?
If they were that close, out the window.
I wonder what the creators of git think about your opinion on how to use it properly...

Jokes aside, what you see it usually just the squashed commit submitted for merge. With 6 million git objects, you reconsider twice having each change in a single commit.
> I also recommend µMatrix – it’s pretty much a better version of NoScript.

No, it isn't. uMatrix is a replacement only for the shallowest feature of NoScript. There's a ton of stuff that classic NoScript does that nothing else provides (including the new WebExtensions NoScript, so far).
> ...do not, get high the week or two before your pee test.

In case someone is wondering, hair follicle tests are apparently problematic [1]; had to look that up because I remembered correctly that follicle tests can show use over the long-term, but didn't know some of the intrinsic challenges with that method. Come to think of it, I've never been asked to submit a hair sample when I've had to pass FBI interviews and drug tests to gain admittance to extremely-sensitive data centers at some of my clients in the past.

The "week or two" needs contextual guidance. An article on Wikipedia [2] gives a good run down of the detection periods. I would imagine detecting pot is the most common request, so that's about 100 days on the conservative side for a heavy (daily?) user, but apparently three weeks is fine for more casual users (what, once a week?).

[1] http://www.fleetowner.com/driver-management-resource-center/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_test#Detection_periods
It doesn't really matter, who sits around using drugs? They don't do you any good and there's many other ways to get "high".

Reading a book is the longest lasting. You can also play a videogame to release endorphins if that's what you're looking for.
Meh. You have to write down any drug use on your application, and they will most likely ask you about that in the poly. The poly is what busts a lot of people.

It's actually ok to have used drugs in the past, you just have to be honest about it and write a letter saying something about not doing so moving forward (an acquaintance of mine had to do this... not sure what the specifics were).

Once people are have a clearance, most of the tests are decidedly not random. They can be requested for erratic behavior at work (e.g., passing out), but they are especially common for people who are formally busted somehow for illegal drug and/or alcohol abuse. Get a DUI, yeah, you're going to be "randomly" chosen for a test more often than anyone else you know.

If you look at the system holistically with regards to drug testing for folks with clearances, most people would say that the implementation is fairly reasonable. The rules seem incredibly draconian on the surface, but the actual enforcement is decidedly less so.
It's not unusual for employees/contractors to be forbidden from speaking about their employer with reporters, at least not without clearance from PR and/or some vetting of questions and responses.

That said, this CEO's response is completely off the rails. Presumably he _didn't_ have a pre-arranged agreement or contract with Rogowsky regarding talking to reporters, and was trying to shut them up after the fact. Lame.
This might interest you: http://neuromorphic.eecs.utk.edu/publications/2014-07-14-dyn...

(Disclaimer --- I was a student working on this project)
So, and single line of code change? This is why the language choice is not the biggest issue here. Keeping all the necessary state in a programmer's head is the real issue. Using <insert fav lang>Rust</> would not have helped.

bio->bi_partno = bio_src->bi_partno;

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
More like 100k, but yes, salaries are high for highly trained trades jobs. You just have to get your foot in the door.
What are a few things you can do with Bitcoin that you couldn't do without it?
+1. I do wish NPR is fully publicly funded and gets some degree of medium term immunity from the current legislative and executive branch (media as a fourth branch of government / res publica?).

Now it's just a mouth piece for rich donors but has 'public' in its name for marketing.
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Googles getting more information than your carrier. Your carrier or any carrier knows about your cell phone and it's registration and hand off between towers. It doesn't know the network you are seeing. It doesn't know what competitor telcos are seeing. But your cell phone knows all that without a sim no matter what your carrier is. Law enforcement doesn't have access to this data at all.