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> The parent's point is that most alternatives to Google are a "second-rate experience".

Because there is competition they have competitively built up a better product within the market and on top of the internet. Google built up when Lycos, Excite, Yahoo, Alta Vista and others were there, they did it better up until now. There are still user choice and Google has no local/physical monopoly control.

People choose to use Google, most people can't choose their broadband provider.

ISPs could have invested in their own search engine or a third party one but they did not. Google built the best search engine but there are some up and coming competitors (DuckDuckGo mainly).

Companies that built up their market lead and or mind share monopolies did so in the open market, they did not lobby their way to a monopoly that controls your local area and blocks out competitors and innovations like muni networks. Google also isn't against NN.

If there is a monopoly do which you seem to think Google is, do you support companies building up their own product into a monopoly by choice or one that uses representatives and bribes to buy their way to control your internet from the moment you are on to the moment you are off.

Google is a destination on the web, built on top of it. Broadband is a lower level that we need to access a fair playing field of competitive products.
This is pretty unbelievable. And they're running an ICO right now.
All 6 of us. :(

Really though, I spend the time reading the readme thinking “This looks very cool, shame it doesn't have a nice language to go with it…”
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These side-channel attacks -- which, as illustrated, are not new -- are becoming perceived as more acute because more so than before we're intermingling processes with vastly different purposes, responsibilities, and origins, on the same hardware. When you do this, it's exceedingly difficult to cloak intrinsic attributes of execution, such as cache timing, or even execution timing, from other contexts of execution that have access to observe enough facets of the system.

This applies at all levels of reading, really. We're mixing the trafficking of sensitive authentication information in the same process as code that executes instantly upon clicking on hyperlinks. We're mixing business and pleasure on the same filesystem, in the same OS and memory space. We're mixing mutually untrusting entities' private data and code on timesharing systems that we're renting in someone else's datacenter.

Process boundaries, both in terms of physical reality and design choices on what constitutes a system boundary, are critical, and will need additional thought. At the same time, a boundary that's more robust to side-channel attacks than most is having all the hardware exclusive to yourself.

Also, this entire issue neatly demonstrates the problems with executing untrusted code. Solving the issue of vetting code and evaluating trust, especially by average users, is extremely difficult; but the current culture of the Web largely consists of running untrusted code immediately from a single user-entered string, or through automatic or manual navigation thenceforth. This is a frightening proposition, and yet entirely mainstream today.
Just because you don't understand doesn't mean it's "unsound pseudo-algebra." There are ways to properly manipulate infinite series, and Wikipedia does actually explain some of them on the page, even if it relies on a generally-unsound way to illustrate the intuition to a lay reader.

It is very well-known and long-recognized that our natural intuition is very wrong when it comes to infinities and infinite objects, and mathematics had a crisis in trying to come to grips with it.
On a related note - it turns out that he's been running the New Screen Savers show for a while now - didn't even know about it. Happy memories watching the original show - I'll have to give this a try.

Oh, and some of the old team pop in Kate Botello, Patrick Norton, etc.

So there's one benefit to suing Twitter - it gets your name in the media again and all of us old timers can reminisce and catch up on the new series.
About 8 years ago, a colleague and I interviewed a nervous kid fresh from undergrad. He was applying for a junior front-end position at our fast-growing startup. Dressed in a shiny, double-breasted suit and wingtip shoes, he followed us into a tiny office (space was so limited) where we conducted interviews.

"Tell us about your CSS experience," we asked him.

"Ah, yes. I, well, haha, of course. The CSS is where you make your calls, to the database, ah, server, ah, of course."

Unsurprisingly, we did not hire the applicant, though his answer to our question lived on in infamy for many years. But all that changed, today, reading this. The joke was on us. That kid was clearly from a future of which we had no awareness. Starting today, I'll always trust programmer applicants donning double-breasted suits.
Ah yes, thanks for catching that. Will fix.
The Web is great for accessibility in the traditional sense of the word. Information is accessible. The HCI sense of accessibility is completely dependent on the Web page authors. The hoards and hoards of them, who are using a technology that was specifically designed to be used by people with no training in the medium.
Indeed, I would imagine that thousands of hours of commuting would make one an expert at those specific skills. That said, I imagine the skill ceiling is quite low and likely reached long before 10,000 hours, and the skill set is certainly different from what most people mean by “expert driver.”
What about privacy? How about:

5) ISP's must tell consumers in plain English that no information will be stored or used for any other purpose than providing the user with internet connectivity.
I didn't read it as an attempt to derail or recenter anything, just as another data point. But i also don't agree that we are in a position to just refer to harassment as 'people treating each other badly' or whatever, given that in a situation where a person is being sexually harassed, the harasser is overwhelmingly likely to be male.
Native Americans is always understood to mean the indigenous people of North and South America and their descendants. "American Indians" is a term that has fallen out of favor due to its roots in colonialism.

Edit: Yes, technically, people born in North and South America now are native to it. But Native Americans isn't a technical term, it is a cultural one that is widely understood to be so.
I have been wanting to do this in Phoenix, AZ. We have then ultimate duopoly between cox and century link and no other alternatives for most neighborhoods. I find it perplexing and think that market exists to offer better service. I have some experience launching an ISP back in Pakistan when I was still a teenager but this guide is exactly the kind of motivation I needed to get me going.
Yes. A good demo of this is starting off in 3rd gear (for demo purposes!). Without training fine clutch control, you'll just stall. After hours of traffic, it's easy.
It applies to both quotes. Zero Hedge quotes Mike Whitney's article, and within that Mike Whitney quotes Businessweek. The quotation from Businessweek is the portion in quotation marks:

“synthetic financing to reduce the up-front capital required if they agree to form a joint venture with Fannie Mae and share proceeds from the rental or sale of properties"

It's from the same Businessweek article, "Colony Capital wins foreclosed homes in Fannie Mae auction". Mike Whitney attributes it only by title on his site, but Zero Hedge added a Telegram.com link to the syndicated article. It looks like Zero Hedge actually took an extra step to verify the Businessweek quotes in this case.
It's possible (see the reddit comment), but there's no advantage to doing so.
From a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138708

Those antivirus companies patching early windows kernel calls to do their thing sounds pretty horrendous today, but on the other hand, at the time, they made a bad situation better (suing microsoft later was just ridiculous though).

But I think this is point in case why both the SimCity example in this article is flawed. Malloc on DOS behaved that way. Windows 95 kernel calls were patchable. If they couldn't "rely on behavior which is not guaranteed to hold in all future versions", had any of this software seen the light of day?
I think you're substantially understating the difficult in recruiting spies. Any mistakes there and the recruiting nation would not only end up with double agents but also expose their handles, methods of contact, etc. Perhaps the biggest issue is that you'd need, as a foreign nation, to know more about the loyalties of intelligence agents than the country they're working for.

And similarly, I think you're greatly exaggerating the difficulties in obtaining US citizenship. It's a process that can take as few as 4 years. And thanks to our laws, people can simply have children in the US and they are automatic citizens.

And there's the third option that sort of meets both these opposite extremes in the middle and that's simply recruiting people already within the nation. Given the reported brain drain of the US intelligence forces, getting a substantial fraction of valuable targets (computer scientists, mathematicians, engineers, etc) into positions of intelligence does not seem like it would be all that improbable. Countries like China are already at a major advantage here given the huge numbers of Chinese involved in STEM.
You will have to hook into Cox or CenturyLink, it's not really competition I don't think.
Hi graham, really neat site! One recommendation, you currently recommend google dns. What do you think of opennic[1]?

1: https://www.opennic.org/
I find it quit nonsense. And moreover, why don't they sue twitch then too in the first place?
On the contrary. Antitrust regulation is an essential function of the government which it has performed for a long time.

If the government is failing to carry out essential functions, that suggests a radical change in government is likely to occur (or has already begun).
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I’ve found that having control of schedule is one of the top things in life.
Future proofing is futile, but creating maintainable code should be on the short list of priorities. Unfortunately, it seems that all too often the single-minded desire to ship as quickly as possible overrides any consideration for the future at all.
Not sure. William stepped down from CEO and is only a board member. Unless I am wrong, since there is no formal contract ever signed, then this implicit, informal contract/agreement may be null after William’s resignation.

Consider the following scenarios:

1. Suppose there was a board meeting in which William had voted No on the expansion, since thr majority ruled in favor of the expansion, could plantiff now argue the new management was aware of this implicit agreement? Had William ever shared this information with anyone else?

2. If not, and if the board and the CEO were not aware of this implicit agreement until recently - whether William had forgotten about this whole agreement or not, then is Twitter obligated to honor this implicit agreement?

It seems Twitter should honor the agreement because William represented Twitter when he made that correspondence. However, it is not uncommon for one CEO to write “We do not have a plan to sign a contract with your competitor yet”, then after his or her resignation, the new CEO can join force with the competitor. That’s perfectly legal and has always been done before. If a resturant owner said “I will never stop ordering wines from you”, then the new owner doesn’t have to honor this causal “promise”.

Let’s see how the court takes this case.
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Can somebody explain to me what is the base of the lawsuit? I mean, it looks to me if FCC has the right to introduce certain rules for Internet providers that Mozilla supposedly liked, in 2015, then they have the right to revert those rules back to pre-2015 state as well? So what is the basis for the legal claim against them? Or is this a kind of lawsuit like "we don't like it so we sue you, and as for legal basis we'll think of something"? I don't think that's how law and lawsuits should work... Am I missing something?

I.e., the matter is clearly political, so if Mozilla lobbied the Congress for it, it'd be clearly the right thing to do. But lawsuit implies there's already a law that mandates the result Mozilla wants, and FCC is violating this law. What law is this? How comes this law wasn't enforced before 2015 - was it created later?

The only argument I find is "it is arbitrary and capricious" - which sounds clearly false to me. Even if you are NN supporter, you can't fail to recognize there is a certain political theory behind what FCC is doing, and even if you completely disagree with this theory and think it is very harmful, you can not ignore that FCC is doing this for a specific reason and not just "arbitrarily". Can someone explain to me what serious arguments Mozilla has here?
Lucky it worked out so smoothly this time sharing with the Linux dev team...
I am now looking forward to the time a FreeBSD (or Linux) developer finds a complex-to-mitigate architectural bug, only pushes it to their kernel, and the world burns down around us because of this petty shit (including these posters, Google and hardware vendors in this). So thank you for that.
I suspect that Freud’s place in psychology will be like Galen’s in medicine.
Several positions involve interaction between people and organizations as their main responsibility, such as HR, sales, pure management, etc. What are they supposed to do on meeting free days?
This started happening to me after I stopped using Chromium and went back to Firefox couple of years back. Switching to Duckduckgo eliminated this nonsense completely.
what this administration is doing is going to be impossible to undo
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Great. I bet the humans that falsely get this will be thrilled.
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But they are being driven around by parents, family members, Uber/Lyft or friends.
Strict null in TS was before flow public release.
They can ride as passengers. You're arguing that tandem bicycles is a serious solution for the elderly or handicapped people? Is there a community where this is common?
Just the state tax credits alone amount for ~$219k per "job".

How much money does a Foxconn worker need to make for how long to make up $219k in tax payments?

Seems pretty damn silly to me to pay a company to come here from China, pay them to hire locals, pay them to pollute and destroy.

Only way this makes sense is if politicians/land owners are going to be making a pile of money at the expense of Wisconsin's environment and people.
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Using Google from Tor brings to this kind of stuff.
Non-rich programmer: works on CRUD apps to feed the family.

Rich programmer: works on compilers, OS dev, DB internals, in-house 3D engines/games, AI, etc... to have fun :)
Treating your users like shit is actually a pretty easy problem to solve. It's companies that don't 'care' to solve it that cause this kind of strife. Coinbase pulled the same shit with me.
Lotteries are also illegal to operate privately, which makes them completely irrelevant to this conversation.
Playing the Lottery is worse than speculation. Lottery has negative expected outcome. Speculation doesn't have a quantifiable outcome before hand which is why it's called speculation.
Go home and re-think their lives?

"People who like meetings would have nothing to do" is so stupid yet a hilariously plausible reason why this would fail.
Other companies have fiber around the Phoenix metro area too, including SRP (the power company) to major buildings and along the paths they run power lines. http://www.srptelecom.com/darkfiber/networkmap.aspx
I am making the case that in order for you to claim a moral high ground against an actor, the actor needs to benefit from the action they do. In this case, they don't. If you start a human carcass diet, you poison yourself. Your body reacts to it in terrible ways. Clear enough?
Google is as much of a monopoly than Microsoft ever was. Microsoft never was the only OS provider or browser provider or sole provider of anything, yet the parent comment calls it a monopoly and praises the effort to hurt it. You can't have it both ways - if Microsoft was a monopoly, then Google is.
> The quantity and orbits of spy satellites are public knowledge since there's no way to hide anything in space.

The "Misty" satellites came up on HN last week related to the SpaceX launch and failure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(satellite)

http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/the-real-mystery-satellites...

"A week after launch, reports were released from the Soviets that six bits of debris had been detected suggesting an explosion had occurred. The Pentagon announced that any debris would decay after six weeks. The amateur astronomers and observers that were tracking this object only catalogued five out of the six pieces. Six months later an unidentified satellite was discovered in orbit on a similar trajectory to that of the classified payload was released, leading the satellite spotters to suspect it was the missing piece, nick-named Misty. However a couple of noticeable manoeuvres later, Misty disappeared again. Perhaps the ‘explosion’ was a decoy to put Misty into place unbeknownst to the Russians."
This doesn't really work as a blanket statement. Future proofing and trying to guarantee bug-free code is worth something -- for example if I'm building a space shuttle to go to the moon, I want some degree of certainty that software bugs will not cause that mission to fail, and I might be willing to spend a lot of time and money to ensure that doesn't happen.

I think a more accurate statement of this sentiment is that investing time and effort into preventing future bugs and problems stops being worth it after a certain point (and perhaps earlier than many software engineers would think).
only on HN.
I think for circularity you'd need a pair of definitions -- "programming: making a program" and "program: the result of programming". In this case, we already know what a program (or a "programmed solution") is -- that is, we can tell that something is a program without necessarily knowing how it was made. So the definition at least provides some new information on top of that -- the name for the activity of creating programs.[1] Also, by including the concept of "design", it lets you know when the author says "programming", he doesn't just mean the acts of writing source code, or typing it in.

[1] You could have probably guessed that the name was going to be "programming", but it might not have been.
I missed the grayscale option at first sight and discarded that solution. Thought it could only invert colors.

To make it clear: NegativeScreen has a grayscale option with default hotkey F11.
`grpc_cli` is what you are looking for
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/command_line_to...
You may be right on these specifics (and I'm sure Twitter's lawyers will spend hundreds of hours searching through all the possible permutations), but on the other hand, as long as someone is acting in the capacity of a corporate officer with duly appointed authority, and makes an agreement in that capacity, then the agreement binds the corporate entities. Whether that officer then informed other members of the company may not really be material here.

Just ask yourself whether this would be a good general policy: corporations get to escape contracts if their exec promises something and then leaves, or they just 'conveniently' forgets to inform other execs. In that world, how can any two corporations agree on anything?

Note that if an exec really does enter in a huge future liability and fails to inform the corporation, the usual way it should be resolved is the corporation is still liable, and then the corporation sues the former exec for failure to execute duties properly, with the sudden unanticipated liabilities going towards proving damages.
If you have NVidia graphics, open NVidia control panel and set "Digital Vibrance" to 0% from here.

[0] https://superuser.com/a/480524/125700
Nice summarizing article, with some programming concepts—explicit data flow, for example—that are even more generally applicable (though the topics of security and code volume/quality be linked).
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I can’t parse this sentence. Could you explain? Thx
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There’s no shortage of materials to use for self-education before you seek out a community.

Bitcoin resources:
https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html

Ethereum resources:
http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/
https://raiden.network/
https://www.plasma.io/
Vitalik’s recent scalability blog post with many links to further reading: https://blog.ethereum.org/2018/01/02/ethereum-scalability-re...

All of the legitimate projects have a decent technical community, and many maintain good docs and/or blogs. Personally I find Tendermint and Cosmos very interesting, and I gained a better grasp of proof-of-stake by reading their articles.

Run your own nodes and interact with them from your favorite programming language.

After you have a grasp of the existing technologies used by Bitcoin and Ethereum, I recommend learning about the issues both are trying to tackle going forward (second layer channels, proof-of-stake, sharding). Then you’ll be in a good place to understand the alternatives proposed by newer projects, like using a DAG instead of a blockchain.
60,000 feet is the limit of controlled airspace, i.e. if you fly above it air traffic control will not guide you to make sure you don't collide with other aircraft. It's not related to sovereign airspace, the area where a country has the right to decide who may fly.

I think the general rule is that sovereign airspace covers air-breathing planes but not spacecraft. From your link:

> There is no international agreement on the vertical extent of sovereign airspace, with suggestions ranging from about 30 km (19 mi)—the extent of the highest aircraft and balloons—to about 160 km (99 mi)—the lowest extent of short-term stable orbits. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale has established the Kármán line—at an altitude of 100 km (62 mi)—as the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space, while the United States considers anyone who has flown above 80 kilometres (50 mi) to be an astronaut.
I agree it varies by place. I live in Charlottesville, and it is not very plausible if none of your friends have a car. The public transit is only convenient in downtown and in UVA, but none of the supermarkets are inside the city.

Supermarkets, many restaurants, and malls are all along the state high way. It is ridiculous for a walker, because sometimes you cannot walk across the street to get to the McDonald's right in your eye sight. No crosswalk for a few miles.

Walmart is 15 minutes drive away from the city. But to take busses, you will need about 45 minutes to an hour to get there,depending on your timing.

There are closer grocery stores, but the busses still take much much longer than a car.

I will be willing to ditch my car anytime, if either there is a grocery store in city, or a faster public transportation method is available.
Don't bother. his (simooo) opinion is no more valid than anyone else. Not coincidentally anyone can see Leo puts out original content for a very long time. From the beginning. No matter what I hope he always is able to keep doing it.
Now folks please don’t start smashing your head right wise into the wall, ok?!
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