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P2P is already throttled, because of the crippled upload speed that most ISPs implement. Upload is often only 1/10 of download speed on residential internet connections.

I think Net Neutrality should also address this.
And currently the dairy industry in Europe is litigating to ensure that only mammalian milk is allowed to be sold as milk, this would appear to going in the face of hundreds of years of history of calling other things milk. I wonder what Milk of Magnesia will have to be renamed to
What makes you believe that? Is malware targeting putty common?
I think that the current reward for mining a block is 12.5 Bitcoin (+ transaction fees of course)
Google is sending more traffic than Facebook to publishers – again
Well, they already have a system for "this video is not available in your country", driven by the music licensing.
The config all lives in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY. You can export it all via regedit or:
reg export HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY PuttyConnections.reg

It is definitely a lot messier than working with ssh_config.
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For example, in Germany, public TV channels (e.g. the ARD), showing a 90 minute movie containing a minute of nudity before an implied sex act in a movie targeted at teens, broadcast at prime time (20:15) is not unusual, and won't lead to complaints (see: the first 5 Minutes of "Mein Sohn Helen").

In the US, this would spark an outrage.

Most German public TV channels try to upload all content to YouTube, but sometimes some videos aren't available there due to YouTube's restrictions.
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> Already done for a long time (and still doing).

Yes, me too. It has been a process.

> It does not change anything since most other people do not change their behavior.

I disagree. People do change their behaviour. You did. I did. There are many, many others. It's just not reached a critical mass yet, but give it time, it will. There are whole communities out there that didn't exist ten or fifteen years ago that are kicking back at the system because it gives them a better life.

Keep doing what you are doing, keep the faith, look for ways to accelerate change (something I've become increasingly interested in). It will happen.
You can use beakerbrowser. Personally I miss P2P application server. Meaning you could deploy your app to the P2P "cloud" and not care how it will be hosted/load balanced...
Something similar to ethereum smart contracts, but with possibility to run code without any restrictions. Add P2P database and I will call it real revolution.

So far nothing like that exists, but potential is huge. Effectively disrupt any cloud service as we know today and make a lot of money without building big and costly hw infrastructure.
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It's obvious the SEC intends to enforce securities regulations on crypto markets. The big exchanges already and typically employ experts in regulatory compliance specifically related to AML and KYC laws on a federal and state-by-state level. The reason being access to Americans is by and large more important than access to any other set of customers. And "everyone" knows ICO's exist only to side-step securities laws and make a quick buck. There are very few legitimate offerings. Expect the SEC enforcement arm to come down like the hammer of god.

What I find funny is this idea crypto won't be the next level of monitoring and control of the money supply. You crypto proponents are going to be very unhappy when you see what Uncle Sam has in store. Fiat currency has much better built-in anonymity then this block chain nonsense. And see how that is controlled, regulated, and tracked through treaties, laws, and digital mechanisms?
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"What I am doing" generally costs me either half an hour or 8 bucks. There's nothing wrong with it other than one of those two things.
Why Developers Become Frustrated and Companies Can’t Find Talen
If white-listing is employed, everyone not on the white-list is throttled. As peer-to-peer distributed applications typically connect with other users of the application they need only not be included in the white-list to stifle the performance of p2p applications.

ISPs could easily provide you a high speed to Netflix, Amazon, and Youtube's IP ranges. and limit it to 10kbps otherwise.
> Advocating murder of group X -> ban (even if you're quoting a religious text).

An alarming number of social justice advocates have been equating words with violence. Canadian Bill C-16 (now law) is particularly troubling because under the Ontario Human Rights Code it makes debate over gender neutral pronouns a punishable offense. It seems to me that the folks at YouTube are, necessarily, responding with the most "conservative" policies to avoid "controversy" (i.e. boycotts).
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Microsoft is definitely other company nowadays. When I started on IT, more than a decade ago, they had a completely other market positioning and strategy.
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> Algorithms [allow to] identify what exactly happened

"This video was demonetized because at the 1:15 mark, there is a patch of light dirt that our neural network classified as naked skin with a 70% confidence."

Oh, you meant you were going to do image recognition without any sort of machine learning?
Well you can clone with --depth=1, so performance wise it's not too bad at all, but yeah still gets all the other latest files.
I wouldn't buy them because of that but I always use the iMacs in the university computer lab just because SSH is already installed.
For most setups at most ISPs, PHP servers are zero setup, self contained systems which, without any setup from the client (the user, you), comes back after reboot with no issues. It has also been the case for 15+ years so it's quite something you can actually trust to happen.

This is not so for Go or Node for most hosters out-of-the-box. Sure in the HN echo chamber, every hoster offers this maybe, but there are literally 100000s of small/big hosting companies/resellers in the world that run, say, CPanel. And the only thing that is trivial there is LAMP (with PHP/MySQL) hosting; the rest is just not very convenient or even impossible.

So once you set it up, no there is no difference, but then you have to know how to set it up, secure it, have access to set it up and secure it and know how to maintain it which is the point i'm making (not meant about specific environments besides PHP/MySQL); if you are a small company that needs to make money, you might not(!) want to bother.

Edit: Cpanel, in some near-future version will offer Node, I cannot find Go though.

Edit2: I'm definitely not recommending anything here or saying Cpanel is any good; I just know it well and I know that it's the most installed 'admin panel' on hosting servers.
Shhh. It will only be another decade or two for Microsoft to complete their ugly rewrite of Unix.
That's a great expression of how expansion and exploration drive technological progress. Much of the technology in the later video didn't exist when the video started, and was created on the newly-explored continent.
The first thing I always installed in Windows was the gnu tools port. (unixutils?)

Now when I sit down at a Windows box, it's the Ubuntu terminal. Over the years, I've become pretty platform agnostic. However, having to change my keyboard shortcuts for Mac, and no single way to copy/paste in a terminal between Windows (double right-click)/Mac (alternate between middle-click, or right click and paste depending on the source)/Linux (good old middle click!) is pretty annoying. It's also annoying that the Mac uses a whole different button for copy/paste, and the Home/End keys don't work the same.
When I have to work on a Windows machine the first thing I install is git: https://git-scm.com/downloads

It comes with bash and all the standard tools (including ssh IIRC), so I can work on a real command line. Especially as a vi user, I'm right at home.

I find this a lot easier to manage than Cygwin: a lighter install, no packages to select, and smoother integration.
Ed Lee, 65, SF mayor who had a close relationship with the tech world, has died
check this out
https://searchengineland.com/library/google/google-search-qu...

edit: i am pretty sure the websites that were marked as low quality lost their rating on next google search update.
> I might've made it 6-7 months

Hat's off to you, I didn't even make it that many weeks.

Between filenames/paths being too long, poor terminals with janky colour schemes (save for Mobaxterm, it's great), WSL issues (like umask handling), gvim/vim issues with plugins, and loads of other annoying bits I just went back to Linux.

Linux is FAR from perfect, especially as I have an Nvidia graphics card, but there's a lot to like there too. Having run Fedora 27/Ubuntu 17.10 I've found I really really like Gnome. I seem to be in a club of one there (and it's buggy as hell on 17.10) but for me it's been great to use.

Not that I wouldn't use Mac if I found a couple grand down the back of the sofa, but as a daily driver Linux has been less painful. Even on the laptop, though I do have one of those Dell certified ones.
6 COSTLY MISTAKES AFFILIATE MARKETERS MAKE IN THEIR CAREER
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How can large companies survive the cloud-powered startup revolution?
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There are lots of potential ways to track via an email besides images. I'm not sure which work in Gmail. But the more common marketer's strategy is just to provide a lead and a hyperlink - let the user click it and track them in their browser.

Marketers can still embed images with unique URIs that identify an address and know when a user opens it. Even if Google caches it, they know that address opened it once (because Google doesn't preload images until the user opens the mail)
Powershell doesn't but not everything is powershell. Win32 underneath pokes its head out occasionally. And I don't want to use powershell. It's horrid in so many ways.

I'm a Unix user since about '93 for ref as well. I am poisoned with forward slashes everywhere :)
Your alternative is the idiot on his last day at Twitter who in his post Trump account blocking interview basically admitted that it was the totality of things that happened that day to him and it being his last day and that Trumps account popped up in front of him which caused him to make the arbitrary decision to block it.

Please remove humans from making decisions that need to be uniform. So yes, algorithm it is.
(b) possible to identify what exactly happened (c) blind to the context and inputs outside of the algorithm

Neither of these are really true for neural networks: it's hard to pinpoint the exact feature or hidden layer which results in a particular classification. Training also requires datasets which are often proprietary, and stochastic approaches mean you can get different networks from the same dataset.
>Just the articles I've read

I strongly recommend reading the Bitcoin white paper:
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
It is not as nearly as long and complicated as you would think, if you know the basics (what's a hash, how do public keys and digital signatures work). I found it way clearer than all the explanation articles I've seen on the internet.
The fact this is often glossed over causes many problems in society. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algori... makes some interesting and good arguments imo.
> What happens if Comcast decides that Hulu Plus will be free with their broadband?

Maybe they could be sued like Microsoft was for offering IE with Windows.
I am interested as well!
This seems like apple fixed something that wasn't broken. The cynic in me suspects that long term Face-ID it is less about security and more about giving Apple/Advertisers insights into what we look at (specifically on a page) and how we emotionally react to content, in order to sell us more stuff.
It's not red tape. It's the millions of (occasionally even aggressive) hypocondriacs, careless people who book appointments and then don't show up

Allegedy 1-in-5 NHS GP appointments are no-shows, costing north of a billion squids/year. The total NHS budget is £125Bn so that's nearly 1%. Which doesn't seem like a great deal but when you add on all the other waste such as people filling prescriptions they don't need it's going to be pretty significant.

We need a system where you pay a deposit say £10 for an appointment, refunded in full if you show up on time, say £5 if you are late. Because it has a knock on effect on other patients.
Ask HN: How to help a suicidical friend?
I'm very concerned about my close friend. She's a 29 years old female and has been depressive for as long as I know her (~8 years now), but lately it got much worse after her last failed relationship. I know the usual drill - "it will pass", "time heals", "there are plenty of fish" etc. but it's not helping here and not even the point - she has been through many broken relationships before. She's also really beautiful and has plenty of guys that would do anything for her, so it's not the lack of attention or opportunities. The point is, that she's extremely self-destructive. She has driven away all the people that has once cared about her, including the closest relatives - mother, father, brother, and all the friends. Those, who at least still talk to her, keep their distance. The problem is, that it looks like she doesn't want to be helped. I'm the only one left.

She goes to therapy, drinks antidepressants, but it doesn't seem that it's helping in any way. I'm now worried, that she might really commit suicide, as few days ago I noticed she started cutting herself again (hasn't done that for >5 years) and during the recent feud with my girlfriend (who also genuinely tried to help her until this) invited to her own funeral in two weeks. What can I do in this situation? I was thinking about institutionalization, but it's the very last mean as it would leave the stain for the rest of her life and also not guaranteed to work.

P.S. I'm a long time user of HN, but created a new account to post this for obvious reasons.

P.P.S yes, it has nothing to do with IT, sorry - feel free to skip it, but HN has an awesome of community smart people, I've learned many non-tech things here and don't know where else I could ask for such advice.
> Freedom of the press/media is an agreement that as adults we individuals are responsible for our own consumption.

I think that's a fair agreement for traditional media. Commercial social media, though, uses psychological research to optimize engagement and promote addiction. That is to say, that they are actively working around individual responsibility. Are adults as individuals responsible for their own cigarette consumption? Somewhat, but not entirely.

I don't think the solution is anywhere near requiring the commercial social networks to regulate content. I think that would produce the worst possible outcome. I think a better approach would be along the lines of banning optimization for engagement, requiring chronological timelines, or user-controlled, transparent timeline algorithms.

And ultimately, the goal needs to be to replace commercial social media with decentralized social media.
They need to run more tests because you don't mess around with many tropical diseases that just are not a problem in Europe
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I was a Braintree customer for more than three years in another company. My experience in my former company was very good, so I was a bit surprised when I was rejected.

I wrote to them and I asked them to explain to me why they have rejected me. I told them I was an ex-customer and I could prove it. So they came back and they asked for an insane amount of information and documentation. Something I learned is the 'no-paper' model of Estonia is something Braintree doesn't like at all.

I had a problem with a very specific request, and Leapin helped me to get it in less than 24 hours.

So yes, go and try again!
There are decentralized and anonymized networks (Tor, I2P, etc) that may be effective to prevent ISP interference but on the other hand those networks are not known for their speed so while it may prevent tampering it will be certainly slower than whatever the ISPs put in place.

There are also decentralized VPN-like networks such as Zeronet and Docker overlay that route peer to peer and plain VPN which requires traffic routed through a central server. Which are very efficient and as a bonus, traffic is encrypted at least part of the way and thus can't easily be tampered with without raising red flags.

Then there is decentralized file hosting like Dat, IPFS, and if you want to go old school Bittorrent (though that has centralized trackers). All are great for spreading bandwidth across hosts and if throttling is bandwidth per destination IP based it might be an effective way to get around it.

None of them would be great at preventing throttling though, except in that they would be less obvious than large amounts of data coming from a central source. But ISPs could "solve" that but using a white list to make some sites immune to limits but have destination IPs severely limited by default.

Overall, I'm not worrying about throttling of websites. I'm worried about throttling of protocols and tampering with websites. An ISP can easily say, for example, only allow some ports to go limitless and completely cripple any other ports. For example... forcing customers to use their DNS which is a big privacy concern.

Edit: Just to add to that DNS piece. I've always felt that Namecoin and the like are underrated. That is to say, DNS on the blockchain. It is an awesome use of blockchain tech that provides both transparency and allows users to look up domains 100% anonymously. Tor and Zeronet both have decentralized service lookup (others do as well, I'm sure) but the service names are often hashes not something friendly,
Blacklisting is complicated because the web is large. The blacklist would quickly approach gigantic sizes and slow down internet while the ISP is scanning requests.

On the other hand, a whitelist can be much shorter (Facebook, Youtube, Google, that's maybe 50 entries including the CDNs) and simpler (don't pay? not in it.)
In the context of an (albeit semi-satirical) article in a medical journal, it's a legitimate question to ask and not at all 'dismissive'. The economics of a healthcare system requires such things to be asked.

From the perspective of a GP, they might find it troubling that, despite continual patient education efforts, patients persist in seeking GP consultations for symptoms of minor ailments rather than opting for a nurse (or even a chemist). Patients can usually be seen by nurses sooner and for longer consultations, with the ability to prescribe and triage for further diagnosis/consultation.

My own idea for why this happens (in a UK context, at least) is that nursing's reputation for basic healthcare skills persists amongst the public, as well as a notion that nurses may be acting 'above their station' in diagnosing and treating patients. The popular idea of nursing as providing basic care and observation is something that tends to be done by healthcare assistants these days. The role of specialist nurses - including nurse practitioners - in recent times should allay such legitimate concerns, but it might be the case that they are encumbered with a low-visibility public presence or status. Another idea that occurs is that it seems to have been part of patient culture for patients to arrange appointments with a family GP when seeking assessment and treatment - a norm passed down through family generations? Changing it or introducing new norms within families' relationships with primary care providers may be a particularly tricky challenge to overcome.
I mean, the way people bash PHP and praise javascript is completely ridiculous.

The two languages are comparable at best in the amount of warts they have, while my firm opinion is that the js ecosystem is the most horrible thing in the world.
As I understand it, the real concern is that ISPs will create "fast lanes" for companies they're friends with, and reduce / stagnate the speed of everything else. Subscribers will be happy with their low base rate because they can stream 4k video from Netflix, yet your video startup will fail because of relatively poor performance or will have to pay a ransom to the ISP gatekeepers. Peer to peer applications would be hit just as hard, because they wouldn't be fast laned.
Replace Google with a VC and you have the current state of startups.
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> Obviously, all the people you are referring to know all about this; it's just suckers like me who have to suffer.

Absolutely, but that's exactly why these barriers exist: because dealing with the hoggers sucks up all available resources. It's not like GPs sit around, their time is still allocated for the most part. In a context where central government keeps squeezing GPs (forcing them to work longer hours for less pay than before), they have no incentive to do anything but to deal with the high-maintenance types. Some sort of external shock is required.

I had a similar experience with my local GP surgery, in a working-class area in the North of England. Doctors kept rotating (they would hire kids and other practitioners with no experience, who would then leave very quickly after they realized what the workload was), it was impossible to get an appointment, and more often than not one would just be dismissed with paracetamol. Then people discovered the feedback tool at https://www.nhs.uk/service-search , and inundated the surgery with bad reviews. This seems to have kicked the right asses in gear, and now it's much better. Mind, I still have to log on Patient Access right after midnight to get a same-day appointment, but at least I don't get dismissed once there...
You may get a different network from a same dataset.

You will get a different result if you let two humans classify the data.
I agree - cmd.exe is quite usable, especially considering it's (almost) always available no matter what machine you use.

Why they're trying to replace it with Powershell rather than improving cmd.exe is silly, however.
I very much doubt that this is a Git issue, but suspect that it is instead a file system/OS/hardware issue. The problem is that operating systems generally offer only very limited guarantees about the atomicity of the bits actually being physically stored on a device (at least guarantees that can be used with reasonable efficiency).

It should not normally be a problem, but a power failure just at the wrong time seems the prime suspect to me; there's nothing in Git's logic that should normally allow for such a problem.

See, for example, the "Failure to sync" section of SQLite's page on "How to Corrupt an SQLite Database".

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html#_failure_to_sync
Anecdotally, in the UK this now normal. Apparently you have to beat the system by calling at a certain time and saying your problem is urgent. Obviously, all the people you are referring to know all about this

This mirrors my experience and stories from friends. The GP system just isn't designed for people who work. The only GP I can actually see is a private one near work, which I pay for directly (not covered by insurance - fortunately I rarely need to go).
Been using my iPhone X for about 3 weeks now and 99% of the time faceID is so seemlwas I can’t believe it. The other 1% is me getting used to it. So I disagree. It’s fantastic. It does not surprise me though how clingy to old ways some people are: how they abhor change. This is apparently the future of Apple devices so we get onboard and adapt or find a platform without it - like an iPhone 8.