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Since it's gone now, I'll toss in context for those confused: there was yet another comment descending from this one that was also deleted.

It too advanced a weird suggestion that the Hi Capacity makerspace was somehow deeply tied into politics and the intelligence community, and was disrupted by Snowden. (And, of course, offered no support for that claim.)
It's really not though. Try to put yourself in Mozilla's shoes for a moment:

You run arguably the most "free" and "open" internet browser in the business. You are constantly pushing for standardization in the face of competing browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Edge; all of which are trying to establish a walled garden powered by browser specific features. Your browser is consistently losing market share to Chrome because you don't have the cash to spend on marketing partnerships and pre-installs like Google does. Your browser is a means to an end, not the end itself. Your browser exists purely to push forward the tenets of the open internet and open source software. You need market share to push further standardization and improvements to the web experience. To get this market share you need to ensure that your browser offers at least the same performance and security as other browsers. In order to do this, you need to make some backwards incompatible changes or risk falling into obscurity. It's a sacrific you have no choice but to make.
The problem is not the policies, those could be changed easily if those in charge wanted them changed. The problem is that the Internet is centralized and this allows the US government to control it. Remove the centralization and it no longer can be controlled.

This is a design flaw in the Internet and most conventional network designs. There is an inherent level of trust given to network members and this works just fine for a research network between CS departments at Universities, but when my traffic must pass through 12 routers each potentially malicious to reach the edge of Google's network I have to trust each of those 12 routers.

Protocols like the ones that underly Bitcoin and IPFS place no trust in nodes. The IPFS whitepaper outlines a very abuse-resistant protocol whose concepts could be used to build another more resilient network layer.
A mere coincidence, it actually tends more towards 63.2% as the number of threads gets large.
While your under 30 take the money if you can get it. After that when "your not a cultural fit for the company" anymore. They're plenty of jobs in the midwest. And you can buy 4 bedroom house 250-350k and be at work in 30 minutes.
This is a common source of delay in composited apps/games, yes. Ideally what you want is to have a completed frame ready for the compositor at least a few milliseconds before the next vertical sync arrives, but it's easy to screw that up, especially if you're getting fancy. Triple Buffering also enters the picture here (though mostly for games), because in the bad old days you had exactly two backbuffers, and if both were in use (one being scanned out to the monitor, the other your most recent completed frame) everything had to grind to a halt and wait before rendering or game code could continue. Triple buffering solved this by adding an extra frame, at the cost of an entire frame worth of display latency in exchange for your code spending less time spinning and waiting on the GPU. If someone is careless they could definitely end up with triple buffering enabled for their app (like if they're rendering using a media-oriented framework that turns it on.)

The 'Fast Sync' option NVIDIA added to their drivers in the last year or two is a fix for the triple buffering problem - you get spare buffers, but instead of adding a frame of latency the GPU always grabs the most recently completed frame for scanout. Of course, if a compositor is involved you now need the compositor to do this, and then for the compositor to utilize this feature when presenting a composited desktop to the GPU. I don't think any modern compositor does this at present.
I'd love to know what the Trump supporters on Reddit and 4Chan think of this move under the Trump administration?
You can't just create 100,000 new construction workers in San Diego because you raise wages from $45 to $60 per hour.

Labor availability + skill + time + market awareness = it takes a helluva lot longer than months or 2-3 years to meaningfully boost a skill trade.

Labor availabity means: how many people - heavily influenced by the unemployment rate - are interested in putting in the time to go retrain themselves to do a new job. Many people will not kill themselves to do so, if they're making $45/hour and you tell them the upside is $60/hour. A deep level of comfort sets in for a large percentage of the population once you get to $30-$45 per hour.

Skill means: it takes years to train someone to an appropriate level at being a professional anything, whether we're talking roofing or plumbing.

Time means: well, it simply takes time to rotate large numbers of people into blue collar jobs. The whole process takes a lot of time, from start to finish. There's only so much that can be done to speed that process up.

Market awareness: it can take years for people to believe that blue collar work demand is going to be sustained (history say otherwise, and people know that such work is often inconsistent; and they know that the downturns are brutal). It can take years to get the word out in just a mid-size city like San Diego, that there is high demand. It requires new entrants to take risk, which most people do not like doing. To be convinced to take a life change risk if someone is even remotely comfortable, the reward has to be extreme in most cases.
Yes. But, they chose 00:30 because she says "Half past twelve" at the beginning of the song
This is sophistry, privacy in the sense that a private company is not continuously compiling a list of every location you visit throughout your life.
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Thanks for giving a push to alternate networks.
Ah... that sucks
The compositor adds some latency, yes.

It also removes latency for everything else. We no longer need to suffer when apps are slow to redraw their content whenever we move windows around.
Two public reasons that are commonly given

* controlling data about Chinese citizens from going outside of Chinese control (e.g. onto international/US servers where it can be subpeona'd by the foreign government host)

* protecting local industries from foreign competition
The argument that Netflix needs to pay Comcast is absurd.

Why are people buying high-bandwidth plans from ISPs? Because they want to use services like Netflix. Netflix is not costing ISPs money, it's giving them something to sell.

Imagine that taxi drivers want to charge the airport for overwhelming them with passengers and you'll see the absurdity.
This will make it easier to port extensions from and allow developers to have one codebase.

Makes it easier for me to manage my extension
https://weatherextension.com
Very good suggestion. Here's is a similar but free book: http://people.uleth.ca/~dave.morris/books/proofs+concepts.ht...
Here are a few of my suggestions.

Picture books for young children- We really enjoyed I Want My Hat Back, This Is Not My Hat, and "Sam and Dave Dig a Hole" written by Jon Klassen and illustrated by Mac Bennet.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Read-Aloud-Award-Picture-Book...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Not-Hat-Jon-Klassen/dp/1406353...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sam-Dave-Dig-Hole-Barnett/dp/140636...

Books (with some illustration) for older readers- We're enjoying The Saga of Erik the Viking by Terry Jones and illustrated by Michael Foreman.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Saga-Erik-Viking-Puffin-Books/dp/01...
The Go portion of this -- a Go-based Linux userspace -- sounds very interesting, but not directly related to all the firmware stuff, unless I misunderstand.

Anybody got some good links about the Go userspace?
Dollar Tree posted its 15th consecutive quarterly increase in sales during 3Q17
While this is disappointing news and I think it will take years before it gets better. My prediction is that this won't last.

When the mobile internet was first getting it's roots most of the American mobile providers offered unlimited bandwidth. Once the network become constrained and consumers started overloading the networks with streaming content the industry moved to tiered bandwidth plans. Years later a few companies (possibly t-mobile leading the charge?) saw this as an opportunity to win customers and started offering all you could eat again. In order to compete it seems most if not all of the providers have an unlimited plan now.

I think the same thing will happen with internet providers. At first you might think that it won't be possible because there are locations with zero provider competition. But I don't think competition is all that far away. Mobile internet is starting to get fast enough for many use cases and there's all kinds of innovation in internet delivery (balloons, planes, sat, etc.) Eventually someone is going to use unfiltered access as a competitive advantage and an opportunity to win customers. The industry will have to follow to compete.

Sadly this is going to get much worse before it gets better. But here's hoping!
Really? I split my time between Canada and Germany and Flixbus was always reasonable (a bit late once though). Way cheaper than DB.
At least one major commercial CA does offer ACME to paying customers. If you want ACME and want to use their CA, and have whatever their entry level enterprise price is burning a hole in your pocket, they will take your money.

They basically position it as "As well as integrating with Windows we also make everything work automatically with your weird Unix stuff like Apache or nginx" but it's an ACME service under the hood.

ACMEv2 (the Internet Standard RFC when that finally gets published) is a bit nicer for a commercial CA because it spells out how you use ACME to say e.g. "Hey, I'm paying customer #383829, here is proof - give me certificates on my account". The only easy way this could have worked in ACMEv1 wasn't terribly compatible with the limited understanding of cryptography that say Steve in accounting has.
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The implication of what I was saying is that windows will always show the cursor lining up with the border of a window during resizing.
>It took Bill Clinton 78 days to force Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to stop the killing of Kosovars through a bombing campaign that, if accompanied by the threat of ground forces, might have done the job in hours.

I think a common argument against a ground war at the time was that it took the German Wehrmacht 30 divisions to "pacify" the Balkans. Even then partisans (e.g. Josip Tito) were making life miserable for the occupation.
A good (and easy to remember/no other affiliation) source for this data:
https://displaylag.com/
It’s been a while since the founding of the USA. Read about Pulitzer and yellow journalism. Nothing new really! Just scaled up and ubiquitous now.
This isn't something as basic as "the right to bear arms." There's a lot of information and this is a fairly dull subject, so the ISPs rely on that to gain support for this.

So you can have net neutrality be removed, and nobody care that it was removed, but still be in a much worse position than before.

Similarly, the PATRIOT act was passed, and "nobody" cared. That doesn't mean that nothing changed.
No need to try to explain why you think it is slow based on your understanding of React.

Facts are always better. Good news is: I suspect you have no React issue. How is your NODE_ENV? Set to production?
After looking at your website, you have no perf issue caused by React itself! Remove the blinking cursor made with setInterval, and use CSS animation for that. You'll see :)
In a text editor, we don't want to compose a whole frame just because a character was inserted. The situation of drawing directly into the visible frame buffer at any time we like without caring about V-sync is pretty much ideal.
If the user inserts three characters very rapidly, but each draw has to wait 1/60th of a second for a V-sync, that will be visible.
Why Karl Marx Thought Robots Would Destroy Capitalism
Centralized control has made things a lot more secure. The fact that centralization also makes government interference easier is definitely a big negative. However, you can always go compile the app from source and install it that way, or sideload the app onto your device on iOS. It's not 2009, there are official ways to do this from Apple including for free.
The more I read about Musk the more parallels I see with Edison.
> "Net neutrality" is one of the most Orwellian terms in modern usage.

> It's a corporate welfare play by large tech companies

It was coined in academia in 2003; the concern was raised (without the term) at least as early as 1994, well before most of the “large tech companies” embracing it existed.

> to "solve" a "problem" that nobody can identify. It's pre-emptive, busy-body regulation at its worst.

No, while it was largely an abstract concern when the issue was raised in the 90s, and even perhaps when the term was coined in 2003; by the time in 2004 that the FCC defined it's “Network Freedom” principles concrete threats were visible, and for years before the first effort to adopt regulation (starting shortly after the Network Freedom principles) the FCC responded to numerous concrete problems with case-by-case actions, which provided the direct experience with real, existing problems on which the regulatory efforts of the two Open Internet orders was based. The idea that the regulation efforts were preemptive ignores the well-documented history f the issue.
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New Windows search UI borrows heavily from macOS
I think that SVG is best done with a 'stylesheet' of SVG definitions that then get 'used' with the use tag in inline SVG. So you make one rectangle and call it something sensible. For icons and other mono elements the 'currentColor' feature is great as that will pull your colour from whatever else is in the div that contains that particular inline SVG, e.g. a 'a' link can surround the inline SVG and get coloured accordingly.

Taking the 'SVG stylesheet' approach means that the actual SVG can be generated, so it can take variables in the backend code, e.g. to localise the icons/images. This can then be ajax loaded into the DOM in such a way that all the SVG images are only loaded once in one reasonably optimised but editable file. Subsequent pageloads will be fine, no need for all of those http requests.

I use SVGO a lot but I think there is a lot to be said for using 'rect' instead of a path.

For some reason I decided to re-do the 18Mb Adobe file that was 'vector' that Instagram have as their definitive icon. I got this down to four lines of SVG, with the result being accurate rather than yet another kid-with-photoshop-redesign effort. Had I taken the 'let's gzip it morely' approach then I would still be waiting for my icon to download.
60% of the country has three providers of 10mpbs+

90% has two providers of 10mpbs+. One of those is satellite, which sort of sucks, I'll grant you that.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...
> You're being told to pick tails by a man with a gun

No, you are not. A man brandishing a gun and telling you do do something is threatening to kill you. Nobody at instafacetweet is going to kill you for ignoring their products or limiting your usage.

What we're dealing with isn't an armed strongman, but a clown. The clown really wants your attention and has a lot of tricks up his sleeve to get it, but regardless of the difficulty, ignoring him is not dangerous.
I doubt that any scientist working in academia would make such a claim. Career suicide, unless you're right and it's confirmed. Scientists tend to be a lot more cautious in their statements, unless they're looking for funding...
It is unusable for gaming.
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Sadly IF Microsoft could have gone with Unix for it's servers I certainly would have stayed with System Admin. I got spoiled I had 3 VACs that I was working with that hooked up to 300 DOS PC with NetWare and 100 Apples with Tolken Rings!@!!!!123$!@#$@#%$ The VACs was where you could find me if I was hiding from the horrible mess of a network we had. The last Admin Job was at a library with Windows on the servers. I had to reboot them EVERYDAY according to our vendor's directions and I had to shut down all services to do tape backups. WHAT!!! I was done.
It is BS, but I was under the impression it's more a CYA strategy for liability if a worker has an accident that puts the company at risk. IE imagine a roofer drops a shingle on someone's head, accidents happen and the roofer was sober but if they can't pass a drug test the company could be in serious hot water in a negligence lawsuit. BS runs downhill, so to speak.
If your ISP cracks down, you can always go to the local Starbucks or library to torrent movies. And since the few people who share the WAP all know each other, they can talk things out.
I am not claiming the "kickstarter" model is the final solution, rather an attempt at starting the discussion / process of iterating towards the correct one.

If you need a guarantee for a feature / bug being handled within a timeframe you can do multiple things depending on criticality of the FOSS
- develop / patch it yourself. and contribute or fork the project and maintain internally.
- purchase paid support (see RedHat, SpringSource, MySQL)
- have your employees contribute to the FOSS as part of their normal duties effectively building your own expertise
- other

Something like BountySource existing is a proof there is a need for other models to "motivate" community into putting more effort into FOSS.

What I am advocating is to attempt implementing "value based pricing". Right now a lot of projects are started by someone in their "spare time" and being abandoned because there is no easy way to reward the author.

Your points are valid but these are exactly of the type that should be solved by market (money). Features hold different value for different users. In the low end we just live with bugs / missing functionality and in the high end you see $200/h consulting gigs.

(per downvotes: let's keep this a discussion board where we agree / disagree by words rather than like / dislike).
How did Snowden work with Wikileaks? (That's an honest question.)

As I understood matters, he avoided leaking to WL specifically because he didn't trust their approach to disclosure. He's had some vague contact Wikileaks since, but those connections (e.g. introduced on telepresence by Appelbaum) didn't seem to involve any kind of actual collaboration.

Is there some kind of deeper collaboration between the two? If not, why would Snowden and Greenwald have any more reason to feel connected to Wikileaks than any other high-profile privacy advocate?
Well ok, but that's up to our votes to decide. You may vote one way and I will vote my way. If you don't want to provide for these people under these circumstances, vote for someone who will roll back welfare. The system wouldn't work if taxes were voluntary (how many people were poor before welfare when charity was the only way people got help?) so I see no moral hazard in coercing people who don't want to support the poor to do so
> You are fooling yourself if you think that this won't affect you just because you don't live in the US.

You're right of course. Economies are chaotic dynamical systems. Precisely, what I meant was "there is a high probability that I will suffer less from immediate externalities associated with this policy than those living in the US.". Thus, my risk in the near term is lower, and my assumption is that if it doesn't work that in the long term my country won't copy the mistake. I could be completely wrong here as well, but anyway my main point was about policy methodology.
You seem to think it's impossible to craft a ruling that allows, say, a newspaper to exist at all without also having exactly the current system we have. It's not impossible.
I think that's the point. That quote is not from Chairman Pai, it's from former FCC chairman Wheeler.
Need to add/remove/read system's crypto keys, Do it in ME.

Need to monitor/hack the computer when the users think it is "power off", Do it in ME.

Need to add other "features" to the system in the future, Do it in ME.
Yeah because pot is the same thing as heroin.

I can't believe that we still trust the DEA when they perpetuate complete falsehoods like "pot has no medical applications... except for all these doctors saying otherwise and all these patients that switched to it and are much better"
Uber hit with fine in Colorado for letting unqualified drivers on its platform
> People are dropping cable due to the heavy-handed control and lack of choice. Why would ISPs want emulate that failing model?

Because it's a monopolistic monoculture, and they can do whatever they want and get away with it. In this age, having corporate controlled information choke points is a feature that those who want to control what the citizenry think and say are no doubt in love with.
We have already seen this:

VZ was refusing to increase capacity to allow uncongested access to NetFlix (Netflix was willing to pay for the PNIs and the cost of the line cards to terminate those PNIs at VZ in addition to paying for their own gear). NetFlix started putting pre-roll into content sent to VZ customers to explain to them that it was VZ that was unwilling to do it. VZ threatened to sue. Netflix backed off and started paying for a better access to VZ subscribers by buying transit from VZ to use it strictly to access VZ. From that point on NetFlix' position on NN kind of "evolved" - it only kind of supports it.

All of this was with so call Net Neutrality on the books.

I said it before and I say it again:

Consumers do not give a flying f!ck about this fight - it is a fight between Comcasts/ATT/Verizons and Google/Facebook/NetFlix of the world about who gets to fleece consumers more wrapped in the talk about "fairness" and "freedom of to access information".

Just a few days ago we had someone working for small mom and pop NSP/ISP breathlessly tell us that it is NN that is preventing his ISP from offering grannies in a nursing home cheaper email only plans!
>I love how these laws are veiled with patriotic sentiments, e.g. "Internet Freedom".

It's an accurate characterization, it gives ISPs lots of freedom!
Just like the FTC, I do not care about the existence of the affiliate link being on HN, but only the disclosure. It makes for a fair(er) market.
Uhm... coreboot is the linux kernel, just like this project, running that plaform control module that normally runs via Intel ME.

The big difference is Go on one side, and a small selection of config files to support a small/growing collection of hardware on the other.

Is this guy looking to use the existing kernel code, as coreboot does? Or is he going to add to it, to make the One Kernel to Rule Them Allz? Because Im hearing the former, not the latter. I could be wrong.
Because they are a liability if they come to work high, or they have illegal drugs on them at work.
If it takes 3 years to become good at construction work, there can definitely be a 3+ year shortage in qualified construction workers.