skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most recent frustration with TP-LINK was they they DO NOT provide their firmware updates over HTTPS. They do not provide checksums for their firmware files either. (When I asked for these things, their support weren't helpful on Twitter.)

So you're expected to download some unsigned binary over an untrusted connection and trust that with all your traffic.

Definitely not buying TP-LINK next time. Good to know this there's a bandwidth problem like this!
Preferring the streets to the shelter system is not the same as desiring homelessness. Most homeless shelters are pretty awful. They do not constitute humane treatment.

I never stayed in one. I started the intake process at least once when a big snow storm was incoming. I never completed it. I asked for a shower and change of clothes, they gave it to me and then I my sons took the advice of a Native American man who had given us a ride and had talked about where to camp to stay warm in terms of local terrain. He was right. We were toasty warm all night and had to open the windows to not overheat. It was a shock anytime we got out the tent to pee in the snow. It was hard to believe the temperature difference.
I remember reading this exact piece of advice, but have been trying to remember where.

Would anybody be able to provide the blog post I believe we both read, which says almost exactly what Iv wrote? I could have sworn Michael Nielson wrote it, but I was unable to produce it last time I searched. So I am following OP's advice and am asking here. :P
I use a TP-Link travel router while on the road to get access for all of my devices in hotels that have device caps, and for my Android TV devices which don't gracefully handle hotel login prompts.

I have to say that the convenience, ease of use, and reliability of the product far outweighs any concerns I have over ~715MB over the course of a month. It boots quickly once plugged in, it reliably handles 4-5 devices utilizing it as a bridge for the hotel wifi, and I have never had it crash, give me any sort of wonky behavior, or anything of that nature.
Love it. HN is going to hate on this as it's a positive regarding crypto.
Does such a scheme continue to work well for high bandwidth, low latency traffic (videoconferencing, potentially livestreaming)?

Essentially, I believe such a scheme would break down if you had, for example, 4N bandwith, 3 users using an average of N, with the ability to buffer, and one user using an average of N but fluctuating by +- .5N, and without the ability to buffer. I don't think the scheme you described would work in such a case, but an "intelligent" provider could give everyone in this situation a "perfect" experience.

Granted, I'm not sure how realistic what I just described is, but still.
I'm not too bothered about NN because:

1. I'm not in the USA :-)
2. Competition will result in the more rapid expansion of things like Google Fi.
3. I wouldn't mind paying less if I don't use Netflix.
4. I'm wary of regulation. The FCC was founded to ensure radio waves don't conflict. Now it regulates speech.
He was a European gentleman in a remote land with a quirky sense of humour and generous spirit; not your typical stuffy academic in tweed. :) And he had an awesome beard, long before hipsters made them fashionable!

The tribute pages below provide more insights from others.

I was studying in the mathematics department at the time, which was on the other side of the campus from the philosophy department. But there was considerable overlap between pure maths and formal logic. Godel's incompleteness theorem was one of the topics we proved and provided a good theoretical foundation for higher order logic.

http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/291390/14a69b5ba4/test/te...
https://respectance.com/tribute/manfred-von-thun/
We also have hops, Micron & burgeoning real estate speculation
I've created a simple tool to address this issue: https://github.com/benmarten/CryptoETF
I just used my credit card about 9 hours ago. I've had the money taken out of my credit card, but I've yet to see the coins appear in my wallet for sending or selling. It shows in coinbase that the transaction was "Completed", but I have nothing so far.

How long does the credit card process take?
I don't really get what's different compared to using something like `from debian:jessie`. In what ways is this more lean?
Here's what it looked like just 44 years before the olympics:

https://www.tranbc.ca/2015/09/10/bc-road-trip-time-machine-h...
> I have to say that the convenience, ease of use, and reliability of the product far outweighs any concerns I have over ~715MB over the course of a month.

So your convenience trumps the impact you’re causing to global infrastructure? Yes, you’re just one among millions, but still a slippery slope.
Puffco Portable Vaporizer – puffco plus atomizer – justchillglass
> This is why net neutrality regulations are carefully designed not to apply to tech companies

Because they're not even remotely similar?

My isp is not the same as a host I connect to. They're not even possible to compare.
Holy crap. You're right! I read it back in February and must have consistently read "cylindrical" as "spherical" :o

I guess I should go back to see if the experience is better knowing the true shape...
The last fucking thing I want in the world is for an ignorant government to have an "open and honest" debate about stuff they know nothing about.

Net Neutrality regulations that are blind and naive to administrative changes sound great to me. And you can add strong encryption to that as well.

I don't want idiots who don't understand either of those things making laws about them that favor governments and large companies.
"Oh that porn video of me isn't signed. My signed porn videos are over there"

How are you not seeing the obvious issues with your idea? People are not going to put compromising photos and videos on this blockchain because they are compromising. And yet some compromising photos and videos taken by other people are real. The fact that it's "on the blockchain" means basically nothing in this case.

Other users who were discussing "hardware signing" are closer to a working system. This is not a problem for a blockchain to solve.
I love it in the dark at 2am with bears running across the road, love those single lane bridges also. Wonder how automation deals with single lane bridges.
Reminds me about the D-Link vs phk NTP drama years ago https://slashdot.org/story/06/04/07/130209/d-link-firmware-a...
Wait. Earlier you said this was a side project ("side project marketing"), but now you say you've been working on this full-time for the last 6-7 months. Which one is it? :P
Subutex (Buprenorphine) Should Be Just Part of Opioid Treatment
Wow! 11 years ago Dlink were the ones abusing NTP https://m.slashdot.org/story/67096

Strange how these "mistakes" keep cropping up. Is it laziness, malice, or just ignorance?
RentHop (YC S09) Hiring NYC-Based Mobile Devs
Proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit
There should be a line drawn between services that cater to lower income people that are blatantly exploitative and those that appear to be profitable but are highly risky.

Pawn shops and loan sharks are explorative. Yet, there has been much research done in recent years on the business of check-cashers and payday loans. They may appear profitable based on fees, yet the reason they charge fees or higher interest rates are due to the high cost of serving their populations. A higher risk of default means a higher rate of borrowing to compensate for the risk. Lisa Servon at Penn has done a lot of interesting work on this topic, and financial services for underserved populations in general: https://www.lisaservon.com
The kicker is, of course, that you can't, at least not without radically reforming how you understand matter.

What reformation is required here? Given how simulated neural networks tend to end up with particular neurons representing concepts, it should not be surprising if one could find neurons in the brain for colors. The experience of color is the combined effect of activation of those neurons.
What's the advantage of SAML over Kerberos?
This should be the new ToDoMVC of 2018
Yes, they succeeded.

I did tweet a few things recommended on the break the internet article and I am debating what else I might do. I recently moved, so I have not yet registered to vote and I am not a phone person. I also recently started over on Twitter, FB and other things. I am not sure my efforts make any real difference. I also have only voted twice in my life. Politics is kind of a foreign land for me.

But I do feel I understand it better and it does matter.
PSA

Anyone with commodity routers, repeaters, etc. please check out LEDE project https://lede-project.org. Check if your device has support here - https://lede-project.org/toh/start

LEDE firmware is amazing. You will be able to do a lot more with your router and they have quick security fixes. The recent krack vulnerability was fixed within 2 days after the announcement.
I was always taught...

"It's the volts wot jolts, its the mills wot kills."
I don't fully grok this logic. So if Google adds a test assertion framework to the stdlib, then you would recommend using because it is now "Go approved"? In that event nothing has changed other than where the code is coming from.

You can't reasonable say that both methods are equal. Would you still recommend the (if res != exp { t.Fatal(...)}) in this case? If "No", then doesn't that mean you actually prefer more complex assertion primitives?

Do you only use "if" test conditions in C, C++, Java, Python? Why or why not? If "No", why is it acceptable to use more code and logic just because you switched to Go?
Yeah, but Trump does. Pai's existence in that role depends on Trump leaving him there. And Trump gives no fucks about popular opinion.
That's not really the culture of Puerto Rico.
As an aside, why do you use a second account to answer your own questions or participate in your own threads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646876

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=googlryas

In one thread you inadvertently out yourself, saying "despite having an account for more than 8 years", while posting on an account that is 18 months old, that is replying to a comment your parent account made.

In others, you quote your other account as a disinterested third party: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15554173

And there's a near 1:1 correlation between articles and comment threads where you and googlryas can be found (most often, but certainly not exclusively, on the topic of Trump / Republican / conservative politics, including how both accounts regularly refer to 'T_D', aka /r/the_donald).

Not particularly upfront or fair behavior?
Don't forget that those 715mb you take have to be delivered by someone running those servers at the other end, multiplied by the number of devices. Don't be a vandal on the internet. Don't be the reason for why we can't have nice things like community ntp pools.
damn that looks sweet, thanks for the tip!
As much as I hate HTML documentation, at least it's not info.
Looks like sprunge.us is down.

Alternate:

http://ix.io/D2F (html)
And perhaps the biggest difference: internet connectivity in 2001 didn't pose a threat to the established cable TV revenue streams.
I couldn't disagree more. A CLI tool is a program/app/product like any other. A library is a piece of code that you call using another piece of code. And what about text-mode programs? Is Midnight Commander also a "library"?

There are a great many CLI programs out there, but only a few can be considered "awesome", and none of the classic Unix tools are eligible for the being "indie". It's a shame to not include standout projects like Fish, FZF, Ripgrep, FD, and Exa solely because they are command-line products.

That said, here are some other (non-CLI) products you might want to consider:

- Wallabag (not that small but certainly not big)

- Shaarli (a descendant of del.icio.us)

- Wekan (another Trello clone)

- Standard Notes (note-taking and syncing, like the Notes app that ships with Apple)
Can SSO be used for SSH like Google Cloud? That's the coolest thing I miss from Google Cloud
You're paying 0.7% primarily for the ability to pay, and also for the ability to pay on credit, to get a chargeback if needed, to cover fraudulent use of your physical payment device including loss, etc.

This is a) a good deal on its own and b) a much better deal than Bitcoin, which provides only the first of those things, and only reaches 0.7% if your transaction is over about 3000 USD.

If you think this is a bad deal, I'm curious what you think is a better deal and who's offering it.
> Now imagine Ethereum. It was ICO'd, talking in today's terms. Is it a security? (hint: SEC just admitted it's not)

I didn't see any admission like that. Quite the contrary. I think the statement pretty clearly places the ethereum ICO (as distinct from the functioning network after) as a security.

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/22/launching-the-ether-sal...

There are a number of points in that post that scream security.
Can you lie convincingly enough to someone with a gun to your head (or the head of someone you care about) who demands the other 99 pieces as well?
Okay, I see, they moved it back.
Desktops and laptops have lost much ground to phones and tablets. There was a time where comparing a desktop to a phone was silly, that time has passed.

The number of people using Windows to do their "computer things" has gone down dramatically. Even if they have a Windows computer, much of the time spent doing computer things has moved to Android and iOS.
Is this possible? Hold ICO, sell like 5% to accredited investor. The rest is reserved for team. Sell 35% on the open market at a fixed price.
> Even in desktop it's difficult to figure out web apps wrapped under electron when they are done right..

Name one.
Well, if he works in the field, he has training, so it's more likely his opinion would be based upon Fact, rather than fear of some vague unknown like you tendered.
What makes you think they're unsigned? Surely there's at least some basic checksumming if not cryptographic signatures inside of that blob? There's no reason to even bother with delivering it over https if you put a good signature on the blob itself.
Key Values is my main product. I first thought of it at the end of March and then went full time at the end of May. (Full story if you want it here: https://www.indiehackers.com/@lynnetye/how-i-went-from-indie...)

Culture Queries is my side project marketing attempt for Key Values. I've been working on Culture Queries for a few weeks on and off.
If HN "hates it" it will be because of the artificial promotion (brand-new submitting account, brand new positive commenting account, and 10 magical upvotes in the first few minutes).
Getting rich by investing in public markets....come on. No non high net worth individual will get rich investing in public markets.
Why did they change Rama's name?
Laziness and ignorance (probably not even knowing what they were doing other than just using these ntp servers) at the beginning. I bet someone just “copied and pasted”.
I use fish as my primary shell. I've ran into a few issues where it broke existing fish scripts, and, uh, let's just say some of the developers (not 'ridiculous_fish) were less than stellar in their response. (I get it. It's open source. You don't owe anyone anything: but you also don't have to be a jerk about it, and I also don't owe you using your software.)

My original reason for using fish was onboarding junior engineers. I had a pretty fancy zsh/emacs setup, and they'd ask me how to make their shell do that (reminder: on macOS you get bash3.2 by default!). So I switched to fish/spacemacs, so the answer isn't "uh sure you can rsync 50MB of accrued elisp".

Result: I have a nice zplug[0] setup now:

> cat /usr/local/opt/zplug/packages.zsh
zplug "zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting"
zplug "zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search"
#zplug "zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions"
zplug "zsh-users/zsh-completions"

#zplug "plugins/git", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/github", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/fossil", from:oh-my-zsh

#zplug "plugins/docker", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/docker-compose", from:oh-my-zsh

#zplug "plugins/python", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/pip", from:oh-my-zsh

zplug "plugins/lein", from:oh-my-zsh

#zplug "plugins/autojump", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/command-not-found", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/gpg-agent", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/ssh-agent", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/thefuck", from:oh-my-zsh

#zplug "plugins/aws", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/osx", from:oh-my-zsh
#zplug "plugins/battery", from:oh-my-zsh

zplug "tweekmonster/nanofish", as:theme

Still easy to reproduce. Maybe consider some of those plugins. You don't have to give up being POSIXy. Whether or not that's good or bad, I leave up to you :)

(Commented out bits are things I'm playing with: mostly to improve shell startup time.)

[0]: https://github.com/zplug/zplug
If you trust Google, consider buying into Google Wifi
mesh routers.

If not, consider eero.
And yet, in practice, it seems to do something completely different...
Stop asking for Tech Company offer numbers
Every staff member had one of those. They opened new computer labs at La Trobe in about 1995 but before that it was VTxxx terminals accessing a mixture of VMS or *nix, I believe.

I remember using vi in typesetting a paper with LaTeX before print previewing a DVI on one of the PC or Mac machines.
A goal of producing a "nice, clean, logical, and minimal" history, as opposed to preserving history, is very opinionated, as I'm sure you're aware.
I think it's not something most people should attempt voluntarily - If you want "nice, clean" waypoints, just diff between the relevant merge commits, and read their commit messages.
The worst is yet to come for American shopping malls
Google opening an AI center in China
Crime

Nobody wants to get started there because theyll get kidnapped and murdered

Thats the perception anyway
Say it like it really is
What are the ZSH plugins that you use, out of curiosity?
The quality of interconnects is not a net neutrality issue.

Net neutrality rules are from 2005, with the basic premise being as old as the protocols we use.

Moreover there have been a variety of issues isps have done such as blocking VoIP and payment services to promote their own.
The finest motivating JavaScript library ever
Fish shell is the first thing I install on my setups. Been using it for a few years now and love - and advocate for - it.
We'll see about that. Crytpo is real, it's for the un-banked around the world who also do not have clean water and that's about 1/3 the population of Earth and those make about $1/day. Give it a break. Ref: https://hackernoon.com/blockchain-mohammed-on-the-blockchain...
I’ve got a 9 year old 27” iMac that gets used constantly as an external monitor.
My biggest problem is software stack performance--not physical layer performance. Most protocol stacks in the embedded space other than TCP/IP are mind-blowingly bad.

Being able to obliterate USB, CAN, and RS-232 (to a lesser degree--RS-232 is really reliable but the problem is generally in frequency drift if you don't have a crystal anywhere) in all of my designs and replacing it with ethernet will dramatically improve the reliability of my hardware. The only places I don't currently have ethernet in my designs are where I'm limited to a single pair of wires.

As for RS485, it doesn't really offer me anything that I don't already get with CAN.
Updated: South Korea Clarifies Position After Reports of Possible Ban on All Crypto Transactions

"On Monday, Financial Services Commission (FSC) Chairman Choi Jong-ku clarified to reporters at a luncheon meeting that “the FSC is mapping out measures to restrict [cryptocurrency] transactions to some extent,” which he did admit include “an all-out ban,” Yonhap reported. “The restriction is aimed at minimizing side effects of bitcoin transactions and reducing speculative investment,” the news outlet added. Choi was then quoted by Asia Economy:

We are discussing to what extent the government will regulate the trade, including the prohibition of trade.
The chairman noted that the Ministry of Justice is currently reviewing measures to regulate cryptocurrencies. News.Bitcoin.com reported last week on this ministry being put in charge of a new Virtual Currency Task Force in order to “set up and implement the regulatory measures through consultation between the related ministries.”

And also "It is expected that the government measures related to virtual currency will not be a one-sided regulation that prohibits virtual currency trading altogether, but a regulation that limits investment amount and investment qualification."

https://news.bitcoin.com/south-korea-reports-ban-all-crypto-...
Can China Contain Bitcoin?
>So your convenience trumps the impact you’re causing to global infrastructure

Honestly? Yes.

Should I want TP-Link to fix it? Maybe. Should pressure be put on TP-Link to fix it? Yes.

But not by consumers. It isn't the responsibility of a random consumer that has no idea what an NTP server even is to understand whether or not the TP-Link router is going the "right thing" for all sorts of use cases they've never even heard of it.

From a consumer perspective, does TP-Link build a good product? Yes. And that's all consumers care about.

The pragmatic reality of the situation is if this is an issue, the public service providers need to do something about it.

You cannot expect consumers to worry about or even know about this sort of thing. They don't care. They'll never care. This blog post won't make these random consumers that see it as a highly rated product on e-commerce websites care. TP-Link won't care when the niche population of people that care about this don't buy their product because we're not the market.

If the NTP pool cares about what TP-Link is doing, they should reach out to TP-Link about it, and if there's no co-operation, be public about it.

Pissing into the wind on a random 3rd party blog about how consumers should switch because of something 99.9% of consumers don't care about isn't going to accomplish anything, whether we a conscientious net citizens should care or not.
My first thought was this old chestnut http://bash.org/?464385
An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage
Maybe USDT is used in cross exchange arbitrage, where USD would be a lot slower and thus not worth as much.
It isn't. But what do you replace it with? Better solutions are likely to only cover a fraction of use cases, so they really need to be stellar to win over users.
If the NTP pool has an issue with what TP-Link is doing, they should talk to TP-Link. If TP-Link is unresponsive to their concerns, then they should be public about it. It is not the responsibility of random consumers to know about how two other parties interact with each other.

This appears to be entirely a supposition that the NTP pool cares that TP-Link is doing this, without any evidence from the actual people in charge of it are concerned. As best I can tell, this blog is not run by Ask Bjørn Hansen and neither he nor the ISC have voiced any concerns here.
The comp is against other telcos though, not other industries

So for example pharma rates of return would be irrelevant.

Saw that chart - that’s exactly why you never use a chart like that, it’s effectively prejudicial without context.
Can the idea of quantum computing be simplified/abstracted to say instead of doing binary (0 1) calculations, it do does calculation on arbitrary base? E.g. base 16 (hex) or base 1024?

If this is true, it would be easier to code, and compilers could spit out very efficient machine code.
Credit where credit is due, nearly all of the design doc was written by Axel Liljencrantz, the author of fish 1.x.
How's this compare to oh-my-zsh?