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Several reasons:

(1) IPv6 is a usability disaster. Addresses are not memorable, hard to type, and annoying to cut and paste. DNS solves some of these issues but is another system that can break. Network engineers deal in IP addresses because networks are IP-based, not DNS-based.

(2) Networking is a curmudgeonly field that clings stubbornly to old ways of doing things. Vendors like it this way because it helps them sell complexity and then sell more complexity to ease dealing with that complexity.

(3) IPv4 and NAT are huge sources of complexity and thus revenue for vendors (extending #2).

(4) A lot of old software still doesn't support it. A lot of legacy systems will never support it.

(5) Security superstition and cargo cultism. Many people think NAT is a security feature and fear IPv6 "exposing IPs." NAT was never about security and if exposing an IP is a security risk you have major security problems.

(6) A lot of ISPs and major cloud providers (Azure, Google) don't offer it yet, making full support across everything difficult. Until they do you'll have to maintain dual stack or ugly V4/V6 NAT hacks.

(7) IPv6 doesn't solve all the problems. It has no inherent mechanism for authentication, micro-segmentation, or encryption (IPSec is a usability nightmare) and you still get delegation issues. For example if you delegate /64 to your network then /128 to each host a host cannot delegate a /128 to a VM. You could bridge the VM but this is sometimes problematic. This is a huge oversight in standard IPv6 address assignment practices, which should much more liberally delegate addresses.
I want to start by saying that it's awesome that Brown, Cornell, Yale, and whatever other Ivies are need-blind. That's awesome, and I applaud them for it.

That said, economic status and academic performance correlate closely. A college that's very selective will necessarily filter out a lot of lower-income kids purely because it's hard to do extra-curriculars if you need to work after school and/or if you can't afford them, it's hard to get good grades if you're worried about whether you get to eat this week, etc.

My point being that Brown can be both need blind and not have a lot of lower-income kids there.
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2015 is a misleading goalpost. The problems that were tied up in the courts and led to a FINAL decision in 2015, started a decade earlier.
I develop full fledged Windows applications using GCC with MinGW. They could have managed to let people doing the same thing with WSL but you cannot.
Yes and no.

Speaking of bridges, you are IMHO a bit too extreme, a "double strength" bridge is definitely bad-engineering.

Over-engineering is (as an example) using a modified asphalt to pave the bridge (very good for adherence when raining and on cold, snowy places) in a warm climate country where it rarely rains, and never snows.

The good old definition of (construction) engineering norms is (maybe was) revolving around representing the reasonable cost for the society of reasonable levels of "safety" and "convenience" (both rather difficult to establish BTW).

When it comes to computing (and similar) the problem is often what I call the "because I can" syndrome, on the web there is an over-complication (maybe more accurate than over-engineering) on an increasing number of sites, which as an example if you have poor connection or not the latest OS and browser, reduce the number of visitors (or the quality of their experience) and this is the "under-engineering", as the site (while possibly offering a superb experience to someone accessing it with a given connection/Os/browser) will be inaccessible or only partially working to a not-so-trifling number of potential customers, so the site does not deliver fully what is supposed to, so maybe more accurately, it is over-complication that makes the result be under-performing.
It depends on your vertical. It can take years to get the first deal in the "Enterprise" space even with very strong industry connections. It took us a few years to ink the first deal and many enterprise deals we work on are multi-year courtship dances. Hopefully you have a very long runway for takeoff.
Because it's not true as the foreclosure rate proved in 2009.
The claim is that it's more efficient than h264, but I assume that's comparing software decoders? With h264 hardware decoding pretty ubiquitous on current CPUs, it seems like it will continue to have a substantial advantage for the foreseeable future. Is the AV1 team pursuing hardware implementations down the line?
From SFChronical: http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Uber-Waymo-case-...

> While he didn’t believe that work was illegal, “I had questions about the ethics of it,” Jacobs testified.

> He confirmed that Uber used encrypted, ephemeral messaging “to protect sensitive information and ensure we didn’t create a paper trail that would come back to haunt the company in any potential criminal or civil litigation.” It also used “non-attributable devices” to communicate with third parties providing on-the-ground intelligence about threats to Uber, and to research Uber protestors, he testified.

...sound like "Just another Fortune 500" to you?
Right, but nothing is being restricted. They have a plan that will give you everything, just like we have now. But then, they ALSO have plans, that cost substantially less, that only give you a smaller portion. It is a way to anticipate user behavior and offer solutions at affordable rates based on bandwidth use. There is no one forcing anything here, they're simply offering different plans based on use, while still offering the traditional plans, and that's exactly why it's not a net neutrality violation.
Perfect is the enemy of good.

I'm sure there's a utopian piece of legislation which would be specifically tailored to ISP regulation. Unfortunately it doesn't exist.

Why remove Title II prior to getting that magical piece of legislation finished? Because it is PROFITABLE $$$$.

It has nothing to do with an intellectual argument about the merits of Title II vs. other regulatory control mechanisms. If it was, we'd be debating drafts of that piece of legislation, not the FCC's actions in implementing it.
Ex-Uber staffer says that Uber had unit dedicated to stealing trade secrets
Wow, I think this is an amazing example of how articles on the web aught to be written. Clean presentation, great typography, entertaining yet not too superfluous prose, and plenty of tasteful illustrations and visualizations. Hopefully this is the start of a new trend.
They should just do an ICO

/troll
I'd love for this story to be true but it's almost certainly not, the bacteria must be terrestrial.

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tersicoccus_phoenicis
"It has only been found in two spacecraft assembly clean room facilities..."

Maybe it's not T. phoenicis but it's not ET.

(However, if it somehow turns out to be alien, that seems to be to imply that interstellar space must be swarming with bacteria, yes? For the ISS to have encountered some already?)
It's time to admit that companies can not protect customer data anymore
Sure, but we aren't holding to this form of biological geocentrism for no reason. We've never seen any definite proof of life on any other planets. Given that science is an evidence-based methodology, it makes sense that we would assume Earth-based life is the only model of life until proven otherwise.
That's a pipe dream - there are no services built this way, not even the electric grid you referenced. If everyone in your neighborhood fully utilized their 200A service, guess what happens? Yeah, you all lose power.

ISPs are built the same way - resources are built out to provide service levels acceptable to most customers most of the time, but they can't be built so everyone gets all of their bandwidth all of the time and still be sold at consumer prices.
>However if you come from Rails or want to do mostly web development, then Phoenix is a nice framework, so maybe a good place to start. Also Elixir has a very friendlier community for newcomers perhaps, kudos to Jose and team there, they went above and beyond to make that happen.

One of the best parts about Elixir/Erlang/other BEAM languages is that you can use something like the Phoenix framework in your erlang project just fine. You do not need to learn Elixir if you want to use any of the neat stuff developed in it.
Maybe but "funding for entrepreneurship" or "access to the network" is not where most of the tuition money is spent.
Would a law be better than Title II? Sure. Let me know when congress gets around to that. I'm not holding my breath.

Until then, Title II seems like the only realistic option.
Protocols in Clojure
> It's hard to give advice without knowing more details, but this sounds like there is really no need for what you're offering.

this has occurred to me of course but i just don't think it's true. without giving too much away it's a simple app that makes distribution of content at tradeshows much easier, personalized, and trackable (lead gen/capture for the content producer). if that's not a thing that tradeshows dearly need then i don't know what is.

> How did you come up with the idea? How do you know it's something people want in the first place?

everyone on the "advisory board" has decades of experience in the industry. it was one particular advisor's idea and i've run with it.

> Try talking to (potential) users and find out what version of the general idea you want to build they could use and why.

truf
Stash cash.
Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago
You're probably right in this case, but as for the last part consider that the Earth is a gravity well and the ISS has been in space for a very long time. Earth is going to draw in particles and the ISS has had plenty of time to catch them.
There is a link to an article in my article explaining this. I am not in a google fiber area, but I still received the ability to have my broadband speed amplified when Comcast decided to raise its ceiling on streaming speeds as a reaction to the popularity of Google Fiber.
This is precisely why I stick to Windows 10 LTSB - to avoid these kinds of changes.
This is part of the problem: every time you push the door button the lock state toggles. If it was locked, then pushing the button unlocks the doors. And the sound of locking and unlocking is identical. Once you're unsure of what state you're in, there are only three ways to be sure again:

1. Lock the car using the fob (which sounds the horn)

2. Unlock the car using the fob, and then lock it using the door button.

3. Pull on the handle.
And yet here we are - https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...
im on the same boat as you, the problem is pretty much validated and I got 2 credit card before writing a single line of production code. Unfortunately, I am not able to grow from ONE paying customer (from the 2 credit cards), I am afraid that I have either built the wrong product or targeting the wrong demographic (CPAs/bookkeepers).
That’s a red herring.

Then pass the law. Title II is the only solution until then per the courts. If the ISPs are exempt from the archaic rules, then there’s literally nothing but imaginary future harm. As where we’ve seen real abuses by ISPs. Pai is not acting in the public interest.
Linux works great. It provides freedom in more ways than just the UI.

It's interesting that the main attraction of a company that advertises "think different" is to force everyone to use the exact same setup. I've never seen a Mac desktop that looked different from every other Mac user.
> Carriers have a say whether or not they can block things on the Google Play app store.

Why do you believe this is okay?
> are in the mid 5 figure annual contract if you've got a long sales cycle

our initial price was there but we've scaled it down exactly because of the long sales cycle (which honestly i could tolerate if i knew that i was actually in a cycle rather than circling the drain).
Transaction fees are currently 11% of the mining reward, which isn't nothing. If the non-transaction mining reward went away tomorrow, you'd expect the mining power to decrease 10-fold, and the work securing the Bitcoin network to be about $700M / year.

By itself, I'd say $1B / year might be enough security. Any malicious nation-state wanting to attack the network through mining power would need to spend on the order of a billion dollars, which is a lot even for a large government. On the other hand, if you did have a sharp discontinuity, and not a gradual turn-down in spare capacity over many years as the mining reward gradually decreases, you would have a unique opportunity for attackers: a huge amount of mining equipment would likely be dumped on the market at once, and an attacker might be able to build up their own capacity quickly and cheaply.

The Lightning Network helps with scaling the number of transactions, but it doesn't change the need for an adequate amount of work to be done to secure the core network; you still need to spend a large number of dollars (or Bitcoins, if you prefer) each year mining, so that attackers cannot afford to attack the network through that venue. The Lightning Network gives you a larger tax base for this security tax to be levied on, but it doesn't change the fact that when you ask the question "How much money should we spend mining Bitcoin?" the only secure answer is "As much as we possibly can.".
For the W3C to have importance then the web needs to be the main delivery mechanism. If Netflix can just say "either do what we want or we'll just use another solution", then they can force through their demands.

I think using apps seems a backwards step to the days of having to write cross platform software. So it's better if there is just the one delivery mechanism that Apple and Google don't have total control over.
this blog post is a kind of guide to starting your own company and making millions of dollars. this is a little unrelated but i just find it funny to read this guide because its very convoluted. there is actually a much simpler guide that their guide is a derivation of. here is the actual guide:

step one: be more intelligent than most people

behind almost every business, behind almost every professional success and behind almost any success in general that ive seen, is a highly intelligent person. i find it irritating to read because the concept of a guide is spelling things out so that anyone can follow the steps and get the same result. successful people always benefit from high intelligence, money and success will always be unfairly skewed to the benefit of those who happened to be born with better brains and into better developmental circumstances. nobody needs this guide because they are either smart and dont need a guide or dumb and in which case cant use this guide.
If you want something faster than github.com/miekg/dns, there is golang.org/x/net/dns. I am the author, but I promise it is a lot faster. It is about an order of magnitude faster in my benchmarks.
Does this allow iOS and Android to talk to each other over the mesh without reaching into the cloud? It says iOS and Android, but it doesn't seem to say -between- iOS and Android.
You can download Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for free at my project, Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...

The translation is good and Meditations is one of my favorite books. Super interesting to get an inside look at how the most powerful man in the world used Stoicism to deal with both the weight of an empire, and with day-to-day trivialities.

The Enchiridion is another Stoic "manual" that's very short and just as good: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/the-enchiridion/...
Mom Faces Jail for Recording Daughter’s Bullies
Seriously, what's with this widespread assumption that because there are two sides, they must be relatively equal? The amount of harm this absurd belief has caused is immeasurable.
The idea of being always available on Slack is bad for all programmers regardless of gender. Flow requires long periods of uninterrupted work. Sometimes intense thought outside of sitting at a computer. Slack sets up the expectation of instant communication from non-devs who don't follow the same schedule.
How can you be charitable without any capital?
Super interesting, thank you! Are you aware of any books exploring this topic further (aside from the textbook mentioned in the post)?
Well, at least it's a nice break from the incessant talk about Facebook from Ben.

I think his newsletter could be renamed "facebookanalysis.com"
North Korea fires ballistic missile, says South Korean military
> what information would the Walton family need to take with them in their time machine to destroy Amazon from 1996-2015

Amazon was massively in the red (investment liabilities) until they had enough extra capital to start the 2004ish AWS initiative. Having dealt with AMZ techs in the 90s, I certainly didn't think they would do any better than Pets.com did.
Just use bitUSD :\ it's been around and working great since 2014.
It wasn’t just the name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism#Economics
Monopolies are not per se illegal, but it is illegal to create a monopoly.
The example that immediately come to mind involves Netflix and Comcast. I believe it was these shenanigans that prompted the rule changes in 2015.

This article gives a good overview of the strategy Comcast employed.

https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...
Princeton went about it the way Brown is striving to do now: meet 100% of a student's financial need with grants and no loans. You don't need to lower tuition (and hurt "prestige") if you can do this.

> Richer universities have no incentive to do so because they can attract enough full-paying students and have a large enough endowment to pay for everyone else.

From personal experience, this statement is wrong. A lot of my classmates at Princeton were not paying the full sticker price. Princeton also has a need-blind admission process so admissions and financial aid are kept (on paper at least) separate.
>Does this mean that all Uber employees have been trained to 'communicate carefully', that their e-mails get deleted after X months, and that sensitive conversations that could hypothetically, and out of context, be held in person, as opposed to electronically?

>If that's all it does, I would like to remind everyone - that's the kind of training that everyone in any Fortune 500 company receives.

Both of the Fortune 500 companies I've worked for have also followed that up with something to the tune of "and if you don't want it quoted in the New York times you should think about why you're discussing it in the first place."
Well, not everybody who dug for gold in the gold rush got rich, but those who sold shovels certainly did. Nice job.
I literally didn't ask, I said Whataboutism and "Both Sides" bullshit needs to die.

But for some reason that makes the Uber Defenders League on HackerNews come out of the woodworks to say whatever they can to make Waymo look like the villain in a story whose entire contents is that Uber's lawyers withheld key evidence to Waymo's case and is operating a nightmarish "Competitive Intelligence" group like a 21st century foreign Intelligence Agency, on top of what we already know about police counterintelligence like Greyball.

That makes me truly have to wonder if Uber's also operating an Astroturfing/"Grassroots" staff too.
MySQL 8.0 Pre-General Availability Draft
> I love these lengthy write-ups

I wish there would be a site which collects such detailed technical writeups. There is just so much good stuff out there which is impossible to find again through Google.
Well, assuming that men and women would make the same choices given the same options, we must consider countries were the number of women in STEM fields is close to that of the men to be much more equal for women, than countries where this is not the case.

Otherwise, you have to explain why womens' "individual choices" would differ from those of men. I note that assuming that they do not is the simplext theory that needs the least complex explanation.
Exactly. This is like listening to Trump talk about Obamacare. Oh, he agrees with the principles — more than the next guy! — but we’ve taken a massive step in the wrong direction and need to repeal it.

I lost track of all the slimy rhetorical techniques in this article. FUD about the “cost of regulations” by talking about restaurants in SF. Saying that T-Mobile’s rise was good for competition, so I guess zero-rating is a good thing after all (without arguing that it was specifically zero-rating that led to T-Mobile’s rise). Saying the “only future we have to fear” is one where these regulations stay... really?? Just because he has a hand-wavy argument they might be bad, or at least unnecessary?

Oh, let’s not forget, the argument that regulations as written don’t eliminate all possible ways to violate the spirit of the law, so they don’t do any good at all. Law can be updated. If there was a legal loophole that let people murder each other, would we say the laws against murder are pointless?

Zero-rating is not aligned with net neutrality, even if it’s currently allowed by a loophole, and if it benefits some customer or some company in some way. Hemming and hawing about it is just kicking up smoke.

The author wants to drive a wedge between the positions of “net neutrality” and “ISPs are telecommunication carriers,” and I don’t see it. Or he wants them to be neutral carriers but not have it be legally enforced. Or first repeal the current enforcement, and then talk about enforcing it some other way. Slimy, slimy, slimy.
I often use my own or available checklists for making sure I have covered all the important tasks. (For example before launching a new website: https://stayintech.com/info/UX)

Recently we have been using Wunderlist for grocery shopping.
so a bunch of people decided to buy into a scam -- decided to buy hugely, massively overpriced houses, and enter into loans with insane interest rates, all the while not having even the most tenuous fucking hope of ever paying for any of it, and you point to that and tell me that its evidence that land is a bad investment? are you fucking crazy?
JavaScript was once to have SIMD. ;- )

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
There's an app on the Play Store called "Bixby Remapper", let's you choose nearly anything you want that button to do.

Honestly it's been extremely useful and I'd recommend it to all S8/Note8 users.
That‘s being worked on in Q1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15695910
Likely confused rather than mistaken. The Telecommunications Act set up the various titles and regulatory regimes, but the FCC decides which regime applies to whom, and until 2002 (Cable) and 2005 (dial-up and DSL) ISPs were classified as Title II, which is where the FCC put them back in 2015.

And the reason the FCC moved them back to Title II is that in 2014 the courts ruled the FCC's long-standing Net Neutrality rules could not actually be enforced under Title I.
This is probably my favorite article I've read on here all year. User experience is so important and so hard and so iterative (and requires so many new sets of eyeballs) that far too many people and organizations call it quits at the 10% mark without ever realizing it -- this is as true in web design as it is in game design. It's great how spending time learning lessons in one can translate into improved performance at the other.

Mark Rosewater, lead designer for Magic: The Gathering, likes to talk about how he looks for designers with experience doing things other than designing games because they can bring new perspectives and approaches that can help redefine their game design problems in new ways. I completely agree, and again feel like that same lesson can be applied in reverse—hire great game designers to work on your UX, assuming you can pull them away from their game designing long enough! It'll be good for them and good for you.
Are there any good online sales classes?