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First, thanks for your response, it appeared much more straight forward and honest than the press release to me. Sincerely, thank you!

I personally was running an instance on FreeBSD and just went with the latest port after a quick glance at the docs. There was a new "lite" (or similar) port that did not include xpack, but after skimming the docs I saw no reason not to use these new features (even though in my setup they don't really provide any additional security). A few weeks later it all stopped working, some docs were broken (I checked against the source) and then I saved the rest of my weekend by simply rolling back to the previous setup.

To sum it up: My decision to move from Solr to ES due to much nicer configuration backfired and I effectively lost time compared to just using Solr (which I know but despise). But some early ES blog post (IIRC) indicated that the ridiculous setup of Solr was the initial motivation to write ES in first place, so it is a sad twist that ES messed up exactly that :(
Does Instagram have access to my text messages?
Today, I got a text from someone and he mentioned he needed to find a printer and was getting quotes for a red decal.

When I went on Instagram, I saw an ad from a local screenprinter. Never seen one from them before. Is this coincidence? It stuck me as fairly suspicious.
IMO the notch looks better than the S9 with an edge to edge screen but 2 black bars top and bottom.
The spec constantly evolves. At some point, there will be web components "v2" and coding "regular" web components will be outdated. As the spec evolves, browsers will evolve at different paces & implement things differently. Such is the reality of cross platform development. The only constant is change itself. To deal with it we use tools like polyfills, libs, and frameworks.
Jeez. I don’t support this.
work a job making 12/hr and tell me how uplifted you feel. that's the reality for a lot of people in this country.
>To-date there is no public research on fundamental aspect of Monero

What about these papers?

"An Empirical Analysis of Linkability in the Monero Blockchain" - https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04299

"A Traceability Analysis of Monero’s Blockchain" - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-66399-9_...

https://youtu.be/qpn9ICem5wk?t=704
meanwhile, my IRC client: under 10MB of RAM.
I was gonna say there's no way slack uses that much, then I actually looked. 750+mb.... What in the world are they doing?
>SpoonRocket had reached a positive contribution margin — it was selling meals for more than it cost to cook, package, and deliver them. But due to other costs and the frosty fundraising climate, it wasn’t able to get the money it needed to continue operating.

I wouldn't describe that as "failing horribly". They just couldn't raise money. I was under the impression that they were turning a profit. Maybe this article isn't accurate, do you have other information? I'm actually quite interested in this story, seems like a cool idea but I imagine the financial side of this needs to be really well managed. So many possible places that costs could get away from you.
Probably worth checking out the previous iterations/discussions of this post before wasting time with these folks https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bengarney
Brood War hasn't had to ban a whole unit or building, though.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, the narrow ramps that you see in the campaign are banned for competitive maps because units like Dragoon will simply never go up or down one unless babysat the whole way, one by one, clicking a few pixels further with each move command so that the Dragoon doesn't go backward. Brood War is full of unbalanced and unworkable mechanics and was fixed not by Blizzard patches, but by literally professional pro map makers.
Hasn't Sawmill[1] been OS since 1997? Or is the Logz.io package different, with the same name?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawmill_(software)
>Windows support will be out in late February

glances at watch
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Well, at least media don't play the Russian-proposed "we were heroic defenders" tune, like it was with Georgia in 2008.
Well then everyone should feel stupid for not realizing you could make a billion dollars creating a sane sign-up and account management system for IRC.
I worked down the hall from the XFS team at SGI in 2005. Development had definitely not ceased, and their work did not seem heavily related to Octane systems. They were focused on XFS for Suse and RedHat Linux for enterprise and supercomputing.
Oddly enough I read it the same way. It's blaming the conservative predecessors, but on first pass I got the impression they were blaming Trudeau.
I know folks who work at IBM as well - don't mean to put you on the spot - but IBM should be far better at leading and guiding customers to success.

Except at $250-350/hour, below average performance is more profitable than successful and a lot of good people suffer on both sides.
I’m pretty excited to see how the api could interop with some new native features of js, like for ex async class functions are now possible and I bet a setup like this could remove a lot of IO overhead in the future

class Test {
async render() {}
}

Kind of hard to come up with a concrete use-case with how little we know about the new features. Still super interesting though!
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The problem with the “inequality” framing is that your victory condition is dragging everyone down into the crap systems. Engineering greater total suffering so that you don’t have to be indignant at others suffering less, is not exactly noble.

We could end education and healthcare inequality today by shutting down all the good universities and banning all good health insurance. But that’s backwards.
This sounds about right. I would note the atomicity of the actual screen update. We don't flush the changes until the whole tree resolves. Another thing to note is that we try to render as much of the tree as we can (e.g. if a sibling asks for a retry, we still try to render other siblings so we can collect as many requests as possible).
I miss the days where people recognized that using using 20MB of RAM for a trivial task is obscene.

(Great tool, much better than the awful official client, but 20MB is actually a lot of RAM.)
Habitats don't need to be solid rock. It's possible to make many large habitats using the materials from a single large body.
These types of programs do exist in most insurance companies in the United States. Predictive analytics against claims and clinical data to do early intervention care management is a common thing here.

That said, the company has to make sure that only the people that have a clinical need to access the data have access. So the developers would probably use a de-identified data set to write and test the program. Only the clinicians (care management and disease management nurses) would have access to the identified data so they can contact the patient to offer care.
So, to put this in human terms.

A false positive or false negative, can be like a pregnancy test.

A false positive, can be where the pregnancy test shows your wife is pregnant, but she is not. And the baby never arrives. Phew, dodged a bullet!

A false negative, can be where the pregnancy test shows your wife is not pregnant, but she really is. And 9 months later, a baby accidentally pops out. Oh crap!
Hrmph. Poppycock. I grew up with depression. I suffered from it for over two decades. Between Ayahuasca and daily meditation, I have most definitely unwoven any of these "permanent" changes.

You can always, always get better. The brain is plastic. The spirit is fearless.
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Somebody could probably earn a lot of 'coffees' just building a C++ or Python Gtk UI that works with Slack's API, yeah?

It couldn't be that rough, could it? I've done little interacting with the API's outside of simple bot integrations for a little fun.
Haskellers would tell you that what they appreciate about this is that you don't have to understand sequence and return! They do the "same thing" for all monads in the sense that they obey well-defined laws.

"5 == 5" is a different issue, and ironically is ambiguous because it's so simple. Most practical arithmetic expressions would have some way of disambiguating the type.
Just start making the AI take forever on their turns until you give up.
What happened to the good and quick parts of the internet?
Back then, I switched to Google because it was the fastest website. By fast, I was in and out in a few seconds. Their competitors, Yahoo, Infoseek, AltaVista, AOL was slower and full of unnecessary distractions from what I am suppose to do.

For those who didn't experience it, yes, Google was fast and quick in getting what you needed done. Their goal was for your to spend the least amount of time on their website.

The internet has changed. What used to take me 30 seconds takes 1 mins, then 2 mins, then 10 mins and now I can't even figure out how to get out of the website. It feels like every site has designed their site to keep me on their website as long as possible and using their app to use their website. All of this on purpose because every "exciting" update forces me to spend more time on their website to do the same thing I did before in a few seconds !

I remember a time where many websites and 3rd party and even internet standards (Email, AIM, MSN, etc) basically allowed any app to use their service. I had a unified program where I could check things and go do other things fast and quickly.

It's not only the free stuff, it's also the paid stuff. I paid for new computer with Windows. Do I or my colleagues really need to hear about Donald Trump when starting work? By default, there are news clippings of highly emotional things on the start page of Windows. This is distracting.

The internet has never been faster then it has been today, computers have never been cheaper or faster. Bandwidth is cheaper, storage is cheaper. I had a faster experience in the Pentium 4 era.

What is happening? What is everyone in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and tech cities building? What is the end goal?

Even the captchas are taking longer!
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>> "Well maybe if you abolished drug patents innovatio could come from all over the world instead of the chilling effects we have today. Open source beats closed in the long run and Open source Drugs would beat big pharma in the long tail whose plight isn't even worth pursuing for these guys. Newton said he stood on the shoulders of giants, why is medicine different than science?"

Literally no new drugs would be produced if there was no guarantee of sole distributor for some X number of years. What country has "open source" drugs?
If you only ever hear men mention this, maybe you surround yourself with not very intelligent and/or not very honest women.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-g...

> One of the best studies on the wage gap was released in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Labor. It examined more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and concluded that the 23-cent wage gap “may be almost entirely the result of individual choices being made by both male and female workers.” In the past, women’s groups have ignored or explained away such findings.
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Better than a private company playing gatekeeper for a massive amount of websites.
> Usually less bureaucracy and politics

Untrue. Less politics comes from good experienced management and leadership. The more chaos (startups), the more politics. Imo, tech only people who dont navigate politics well are best off in middle sized companies.

I also disagree on flexible hours. Startups are flexible in that you can come late in the morning. You rarely can leave sooner (even if you come in very soon) without major hit and you are expected to participate in more non-work social activities (adding to total inflexible hours).

But yeah, higher job title might be a benefit.
I tried multiple times to try to refute all of the assumptions made in this post, but I gave up.

1) One does not have to be intelligent to be wealthy.

2) Those born wealthy do not have to be intelligent to remain wealthy - they just need not be a consumeristic imbecile.

3) Genetics has such a small impact, if any, on social mobility - quite the opposite. If I am born a Kennedy I am more likely to never fall below my birthright social class because of my family lineage.

4) You contradict yourself. You say the nobility rules by force, then immediately follow that with "If that society becomes free" - how exactly would that society magically free?
~$120 per station ($50+$50+$20) is a territory of perfectly fine Lenovo T420/X220/T430/X230 laptops from recycling centers. Not hugely scalable, but will work up to couple hundred units (can order that many with one phone call in EU).
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Tl;DR: They thought they were laundering money.
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The software platform itself, a heavily modified version of Oracle’s PeopleSoft program ...

What implementation of Peoplesoft isn't heavily modified?

Adapting business processes to COTS software packages is extremely challenging. Anyone remember the absolute bank that Peoplesoft consultants made back in the day when ERP and Business Process Re-engineering was all the rage?
It's up to you. I intentionally kept moving parts to the minimum in my demo, but here's the real thing I was using behind the scenes: https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/master/packages/simpl.... So in that sense it's not global, you can create as many as you like and then isolate them (e.g. per subtree).

The `simple-cache-provider` is just a reference implementation though. It's somewhat naïve, e.g. it doesn't have invalidation strategy and just lets you replace the whole cache with a new one if you want to invalidate.

We'll publish more details on lower level API and how to write your own cache in the future.
There are, fundamentally, two different kinds of attacks:

- Volumetric attacks like this one, mostly reflection.

- Application level attacks like SYN floods or protocol-specific attacks.

Defending against both costs a LOT of money.

Volumetric attack are dealt with at the network edge using rate limits and router ACLs. They're really easy to identify and block, but the point is that you need more bandwidth than the attacker in order to successfully do so. With attacks in the terabits-per-second range, this gets expensive.

Application-level attacks are harder to execute since there's no amplification and you need more bandwidth to pull it off, but they're much harder to block, too. They exhaust the server software's capacity by mimicking a real client. Common examples are SYN or HTTP floods.

When you get hit by a DDoS attack, you have two choices:

- Filter the attack and block the offending traffic without affecting legitimate requests. This is hard, and most companies can't do this. They need to have someone like Akamai on the retainer and dynamically reroute traffic like GitHub did.

- Declare bankruptcy and announce a blackhole route to your upstream providers (taking down the host in question, but protecting the rest of your network).

When you host custom applications that can't be scaled out or cached, DDoS mitigation is especially hard since you cannot just throw more servers at it like CloudFlare does.

Most services we host use proprietary binary UDP protocols, which is unfortunate, since UDP is easy to spoof and even experienced DDoS mitigation companies have trouble filtering it. Our customers get hit by DDoS attacks 24/7, so blackholing is not an option.

We had to build our own line-rate filtering appliances in order to handle the ever-increasing number of application-level DDoS attacks, by reverse engineering the binary protocols and building custom filtering and flow tracking.

All of this costs a huge amount of money, and most ISPs simply lack the resources to do this.

Happy to answer questions, but I'm going home right now, so it may take a few hours :-)

(Nitrado is a leading hosting provider specializing on online gaming, both for businesses/studios and regular customers, so we're dealing with DDoS attacks on a regular basis. We got hit with the same memcached attacks than GitHub and CloudFlare, and it was the largest attack in our company history. Ping me if you want to talk.)
This story is by Johann Hari who has an interesting TED talk about addiction [0]. He put addiction down to the amount of connections that people have and seems to be arguing something similar in this article too. Googling bought up this criticism of the video [1] for some perspective (with Hari, to his credit, answering the criticisms).

[0]: https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_y...

[1]: https://www.thefix.com/content/4-things-hari-gets-wrong-abou...
There is an idea circulating that the political system in the US is turning into a "neo-feudalism", pushed by a mix of those alt-right "theorists" and some of the new rich.

How much of this "neo-feudalism" shares with actual feudalism is not clear to me.

See

https://www.thedailybeast.com/californias-new-feudalism-bene...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/07/new-feudalism-fred-ba...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/the-age-of-n...
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