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Disregarding the article completely, I'll share my opinion on Kong because we use quite a bit at my workplace. We use an old version (0.9.x as of right now). The things I shared below might not be true anymore in new versions but I can't tell and are regarding the plugin system.

IMO, the idea of taking things like authentication, rate limiting, etc in a proxy is a wonderful idea (https://2tjosk2rxzc21medji3nfn1g-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...). So in theory, the approach Kong takes is wonderful, but I think the implementation is not so much.

Kong is layer over nginx and uses lua as a scripting language to add all sorts of stuff. Quickly, you reach the limit of the plugins capability so you think, well, I will write my own plugins. Well, to me it was a very unpleasing experience. I found that the thing was hard to test and hard to maintain. Maybe my criticism is more lua than Kong but since Kong relies heavily on lua, there is not much I can do.

There is also magic happening. You declare a schema.lua files to configure the store to hold your data. Then automatically you've got a DAO interface available with a bunch of method on it to work with the store. You don't know what methods are available or what arguments should be passed into these functions.

Anyway, this is my take after spending quite a few hours working on home made plugins in lua for Kong.

In the end, I'm glad Kong is open source and it's a great piece of software. It helped us reduce our applications complexity but make sure you don't start to shift to much logic into it because the plugin system can be hard to work with.
> they often do so with poorly designed policies

This is often what happens when legislatures take a first swing and regulating something. That rule about "build one to throw away" is just as relevant with law as it is code.
> British worsteds, bays and serges being exported to Portugal – the ‘cloth’ from ‘England’ in Ricardo’s famous example – simply could not be paid for alone by the wine exports travelling in the other direction. Brazil, a Portuguese colony at the time, was responsible for a massive 40 per cent of the world’s new gold reserves in the eighteenth century (DeWitt 2002: 4). It was this that
was used to settle the trade deficit resulting from the inadequacies of the wine trade.[0]

Simply put, the flaw in their argument is they treat Brazilian bullion not as a trade good but as some magical thing. Portugal was able to consume more English goods than their wine industry could supply because they were also able to dig gold out of the ground and use it to "settle the trade deficit".

Portugal chose to consume foreign goods instead of investing in domestic production and this is somehow England's fault?

[0]http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13563467.2016.121...
No right or wrong? Why not?
You may "enjoy" this essay from a while back https://viewsourcecode.org/why/hacking/theLittleCodersPredic...
Nest egg goes a lot further with housing costs in the midwest.
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
I'm talking about primitive human hunter-gatherer society, you're talking about your grandparents.
I'm so glad for some news about Thunderbird's future. A conglomeration of little annoyances made me go hunting for an alternative client earlier in the year, and I just couldn't find one that would really replace it for me.

If any of the team are reading, I hope the search interface is on the radar for when the project is on stable footing again. That's Thunderbird's main area of weakness in my opinion.
I'm from Kzoo/GR but landed out in the Seattle area. While the sticker price might seem shocking at first, as a tech worker I've found my salary has scaled to meet the high cost of living (and then some). I think the high cost of living is more of a problem for people who are outside of the tech industry.
https://steempixels.com is a free-to-use (or optionally pay) example of pixel drawing on the Steem blockchain.
Intellectuals have never claimed that free trade is pareto optimal.

It's better to have free trade and compensate for the cost losing people other ways than limiting trade.
I'm okay if they, or anyone, thinks i "lost" or if makes them feel like their view is correct. That's always one of the possible consequences of doing what i did.

Plenty of folks on HN know i'm happy to participate, even in contentious topics.

I can get that kind of 'discussion' on Reddit.
(IE Where the response would be someone pointing out that claiming someone else is posturing is itself posturing, etc).

Meanwhile, i'll stick to HN discussions with people who assume good faith and actually want to talk about the topic. When that stops being a possibility, i'll delete my account and go do something else with the time.
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Facebook is giving the US government more and more data
The Alt-Right Created a Parallel Internet. It’s an Unholy Mess
I use thunderbird because it works on the 3 OSs I use but it's actually crappy as far as an email client goes and seems to stop working correctly or quickly once you've accumulated a few tens of thousands of emails stored locally. Hopefully they'll address the issues I've had.
I'm skeptical that we will ever see a day where there are as many electric cars on the road as there are ICE cars today. That's not because I think people won't buy electric cars, but because I think people won't buy cars in general. In the western world we are rapidly approaching "peak car". The number of cars on the road today is simply unsustainable. I would not be surprised if over the next few decades, more cars are taken off of the road entirely than are replaced with electric.
I too would like to know the cost per calorie.
> I would never risk the idea of driving to a supermarket hoping there is a free charging port for my car, just in case there isn't any free

Is the supermarket really the only place you don't park on the street? I realize at the present moment, it might be the only lot/garage you park in with a charger, but as EV adoption increases more public chargers will sprout up.

My point is that opportunistic charging while parked places people go already can meet the needs of at least some street parkers. I don't panic if there are no charging spots available when I park somewhere, because I'm not depending on any one single parking session to charge my car. I get a little charge here and a little there and in aggregate it meets my weekly charging needs (most of the time anyway, weeks with substantially higher mileage need special handling currently).

This is not to say it will necessarily meet your needs anytime soon; however, I think we are at a point where the relative price is the biggest hurdle to adoption. There's a lot of people for whom an EV would be practical with current infrastructure that don't have one. As more of those people buy them, there will be additional incentive to invest in public charging infrastructure. The more public charging infrastructure there is, the more practical EV ownership is for people who can't easily charge at home.
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You can downvote me all you want but in 2014 even the American Academy of Pediatricians began recommending iodine supplementation, presumably based on the same research I had been reading at the time: https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages...

Having a high-quality, upper middle-class diet isn't a simple answer. For example, cruciferous vegetables like broccoli inhibit the uptake and use dietary of iodine. Whatever the causes of the recent regression in wealthy societies, the fact of the matter is that the more modern studies 1) actually measured iodine levels, 2) measured outcomes, and 3) used large, randomized controlled studies. It's a good thing prenatal manufacturers are adding iodine, because even smart people (or perhaps _especially_ smart people) are stubborn and think they know better.
Born and raised in the midwest here, and the article has done well to cherry-pick a relatively liberal spot in an otherwise conservative state. The same could be said of the Carolinas and the infamous research triangle park.

I left the midwest for the west coast because of the culture, full stop. I was tired of my state representatives writing my sexual preference off as a disorder. I was angry when the state decided a pharmacist could refuse to sell me birth control and I hated the legislative decree that tried to exert control over what gender got to use the bathroom or not. In short, I did not want to live in a state where the legislature had nothing better to do than fight the culture war to win votes for the next election. Yeah, I cant buy a house in san jose, but at least I dont have to worry about the ten commandments showing up at the DMV in stone or some toothless anti-shariah legislation burning through my tax dollars.

Drive 15 miles outside Columbus and it doesnt matter how many VC firm employees you have in the city, the bible thumpers win this state by a landslide of gerrymandering and arent ashamed to force their backwoods culture on you from the hinterlands. The midwests relationship with silicon valley terminates at the facebook, google, and twitter HTTP connection for a damn good reason.
Perhaps, but the details could put certain people in life-altering danger. The safety of these people has very rightly taken precedence over publishing information which could be quite literally incriminating (although they almost certainly wouldn't be prosecuted for it, just sued for all they're worth).

Konami has contacted some insiders and some arcades with stern legal warnings and they are taken very seriously. There's a joke in the community - "konmai will sue" - but it's not just a joke.
> I commit to not querying the data with the purpose of sending it to others.

Nobody's arguing with that. The problem is that there was no commitment to avoid querying the data with the purpose of sending it to yourself.

And when Facebook bought WhatsApp, they ceased to be "someone else".
What's the right-wing counterpart to Shareblue? I have never seen something equivalent to the effectiveness of modern "grassroots" messaging campaigns sponsored by certain democratic chessmasters. The fact that full-time protester is now a decently paid and socially acceptable job is incredible.
Just go forward with it anyway and see where it leads. The trick to entrepreneurship is to bring out the "great" ideas you have in your head and see where it goes.

You can deal will an anti-corruption slant later.
Plenty of big palaces and castles in China and Japan too, for what it's worth.
I still use 5.10 because that's what ships with CentOS 6 and my products will continue to support CentOS 6 until it reaches EOL. I think it'll be very common to target 5.10 until CentOS 6 dies. Any of my Perl code, even code written today, would include this line. I don't think it places the article in time.

As an aside, Red Hat, for a long time, would ship old Perl versions in RHEL, even at the very beginning of the RHEL version lifecycle. Which meant you would be stuck with a truly ancient Perl version by the time the RHEL version reached end-of-life. I mean, 5.8.x was already several years old when it was settled on for RHEL 5, and was EOL by the Perl community for a couple of years while RHEL/CentOS 5 were still shipping it.

RHEL/CentOS have gotten a bit better about it in recent years, I think because there are some folks actively maintaining Perl packages for Fedora and those trickle down into RHEL/CentOS, so it's not quite as bad as it used to be, but we still end up stuck with pretty old versions for the last couple years of a RHEL/CentOS release, which is annoying.

There are, of course, good options for building/maintaining newer versions for your own development or deployment in hosted app deployments (plenv, perlbrew, etc.), but if you want to be able to run with minimal dependencies and no requirement that end users install a whole new Perl, you will still `use 5.010;` instead of something newer.
Does Ethereum play Crysis?
I haven’t done the math but I have read that growing duckweed to feed tilapia is a very economical alternative to commercial fish food.
Same here. Especially with screen-sharing or pair work. Receiving some NSFW language IM notifications from chaty coworker is absolutely embarrasing. Just simple dot indicator on a tray icon is enough to remind me to check later.
Flaw in GitHub OAuth logic allowed unrestricted access to private repositories
Many just received this email from GitHub support:
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GitHub has discovered an error in the logic used to enforce OAuth App access restrictions, which restrict OAuth integration access to an organization's private repositories. In certain situations, when a member of an organization granted access to a third-party OAuth integration, that integration could have been given more access to some of your organization’s repositories than we intended to allow.

When an organization enables OAuth App access restrictions, GitHub generally limits OAuth integration access to private repositories. This error in OAuth App access restrictions allowed third-party OAuth integrations, such as continuous integration providers, the same access permissions to certain private repositories within an organization as the user who implemented the integration had, provided they had authorized the integration for a scope capable of interacting with repositories.

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Full email: https://gist.github.com/kailan/9f37ec2cd76314f945dda65e5beab241
If a non-US citizen works with a US LLC remotely, with changing responsibilities (basically as an informal partner in the firm), is there any immigration path to bring this person into the US?

[Side note: thank you for doing these repeated AMA's, Peter. You address a vital, often deeply emotional problem for countless people. Hats off to you for taking the time to de-mystify so much of this.]
Also a Boston native that's moved to Silicon Valley.

The rule of thumb I've seen is that technologies are invented in Boston and commercialized out West (either in SV or Seattle). Microsoft, Facebook, Reddit, YCombinator, and DropBox are all Boston startups...but you wouldn't know it unless you're intimately familiar with their histories.

This has a lot to do with the business cultures of the respective places. When I was working in Boston, the message I got was "Work hard for 30 years, build up expertise, and then maybe you can get a VC to fund your startup - but only if it's in an industry where you know who your customers are and how to make money!" And then Google came calling and was like "Wanna help us redesign the search results page?", and I saw many of my colleagues leave and successfully found startups, and folks here are like "Got an idea? Just go quit and start working on it, and if it turns out to be worth anything funding will be available."

I'd say that Boston understands technology better than Silicon Valley, but aren't very savvy about how to apply it for maximum impact. In Boston, people really really want to be smart, and thorough, and innovative, and fully explore all the implications of what they're doing before they bring it to market. In Silicon Valley, people are like "You know a tiny bit more about something than somebody somewhere else? Great, bring it to market, listen to feedback, and then go hire some smart MIT grads to work out the details."

The market seems to reward the latter approach much better. Silicon Valley's internalized the counterintuitive market maxim of "It's better to be differentiated than good", while Boston is still hung up on being good.
Remote only is the next silicon valley. Office space in a major city is a luxury, and having to do all of your work 8 hours in a row at a specific time is a waste of productivity.
Apparently not? I imagine it would have to be replicated by someone else. One also assumes that the volume of training data - I don't actually know - is not insignificant!
Lol right. Not a native speaker, sorry.
The downside is that you don’t get to support the media you enjoy through purchase or Netflix metrics, that kind of thing. It probably skews the ability of streaming services et al to learn what people who know how to pirate watch. Given that pirates skew to a very desirable youth demographic, that’s no good at all.

Still, they’re giving us few good choices.
> Portugal chose to consume foreign goods instead of investing in domestic production and this is somehow England's fault?

Huh? It's Portugal's fault, they could have imposed a tax on imported cloth to change the domestic economic calculus to favor creation of a local textile industry.
The shortage was 560MW, and the Tesla facility provided 7.3MW, or 1.3%.
From the headline, I thought that the article would be some materialist Sam Harris fanboy talking about how analytic philosophy is the only real philosophy and how science can tell us objective truths about morality. Count me surprised! This writer has great taste.

Philosophy and poetry are closely related. Transmission of knowledge is very difficult. People don't learn well through textbooks and diagrams; they learn through metaphors and poetic forms. Philosophy must be entangled with messy stuff like this, otherwise pedagogy is impossible.
The only issue I see is typing fast could get frustrating given what I experience just typing on my kindle. Though maybe the applications and user habits would adapt around it to limit keystrokes and be more efficient.

Or they'd just attach a small digital output screen akin to those old typing machines that you'd then push to the main screen when done. Still wouldn't use much of the battery at least, but would look ugly.
If they're meat plants. According to this article (http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/Knifefish/BlackGhostKn...), they're carnivores who can eat pellets. Reading this entire page, it looks like Black Ghost Knifefish are not trivial to keep happy and healthy, and will eventually need 100 gallons of water. While I would argue that it's irresponsible to treat any fish as a mere fertilizer producer, this fish may be especially miserable for its limited life.
A while ago, someone posted this sample from their TTS startup: https://instaud.io/KlA

Anyone remember the company?
A capitalist wouldn't not take money because it came from the government -- they'd take it and then vote for the government to remove the grant.
I suppose an API will come to Google Cloud platform to use this service sooner or later ? Or, is it still on the research side (not production ready) ?
Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
Isn't the content they show you just a reflection of the data you have provided them?
Really? Yeah, it's been tested extensively, but it's security has also been found to be quite lacking. I'm legitimately surprised someone can say this with a straight face.
The beauty of REST is that it's not defined. If one says it's no great, the response is "that's not REST". A nice trick.

One would think that a integration protocol standard would be defined by someone who's been doing integration for years, over many projects. And only then would those hard-won lessons would be codified in a standard.

Nope, it was by a student for a thesis. Are students known for their expereince in integration? Also this guy was "heavily involved in the development of HTML and Uniform Resource Identifiers" [0]. Other questionable 'standards', IMO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding
This.

Norway is going all-in on smart meters, installation has been rolled out this year to ~80% of the country, due to reach 100% next year. The total installation cost is estimated at around 2.5 billion USD for around 2.2 mill. houses, i.e $1000 per house. Which of course we as consumers will be paying for through higher electricity prices.
How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune
To the extent that open standards support multimedia, you're absolutely right that Facebook could preview any video from any place on the internet. There might be some potential for minor security concerns around loading and serving big blobs of external data, but those are controllable.

What might be of larger concern is the IP licensing aspect. Users uploading video and indemnifying Facebook against their dubious claims of ownership is questionable. It's possible that what you suggest might run afoul of copyright concerns, as well as the business model reasons you so correctly point to.
You typically have a high surface area medium (pea gravel) in the sump or in another tank that provides a bacteria filter for the waste breakdown.
This brings to mind other stories I've read referencing studies showing people appear to emphasize more with dogs than other humans. Is this a recent phenomenon? Or has it always been this way?
Regardless of how impressive your side project is, unless it is a very special exception (e.g. you’re head maintainer of a linux distribution or open source tool the company hiring you is extensively using and needs your expertise on), it’s only getting you into the door to talk to people, and it’s not a route around the interview process.

So, ultimately that process is going to be whiteboard coding, because it (let’s be honest) basically always is. That whiteboard coding tends to draw its questions, most often, from question pools like those on Leetcode.

This means if you’re resume’s strong enough for someone to talk to you, you probably should be optimizing to pass the whiteboard section.
Model S is equivalent to a 7 series, not a 3 series. P100D is 4960lbs, 750 xDrive is 4623. That’s not 40% heavier.
There very easily could be a middle ground. If there was one source to stream data from and have a single login/payment where you selected your content sources and they were added to your single bill, I don't think any consumer would be unhappy. Paying for the content you consume isn't the problem is either paying for extra content you don't use with cable, or keeping track of numerous providers and having to authenticate all of them whenever I get a new device or change cards.

The content creating companies don't want this however as they would lose power in this arrangement and probably make less money. That'll just lead to rampant piracy again. As we've seen with every type of digital good where consuming it legally was difficult/frustratinf
The revitalization is happening as we speak. Normally Big Tech would have been able to rely on establishment Democrats and Republicans to avoid antitrust scrutiny. But Democrats are on board with the progressive wing now [1], mainly as a result of seeing the fallout of Google/Facebook/Twitter's role in enabling Russian influence operations in the US (and Europe), but also because newspapers and rivals of Google have been campaigning for it for years (Foundem in the UK and Yelp in the US have been massive thorns in Google's side, as well as the entire FairSearch group). They were successful in the EU (the shopping and Android cases are slam dunks in my opinion) but were stymied in the US under the Obama administration (despite FTC staff recommending a case be made) [2].

The exciting, and refreshing, thing about the revitalization is that's its bipartisan in nature. The Bannon wing of the Republican party are targeting Google/Facebook for the perceived threat to conservative speech and likely because the companies are too liberal, the Warren wing of the Democrats are concerned with concentration in markets. The mainstream of the parties are more open to these arguments than ever before. A Republican attorney general opened an antitrust investigation against Google [3]. That's dangerous water to be in if you're Google or Facebook.

[1] https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember-2017...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-u-s-antitrust-probe-...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/technology/missouri-googl...