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Ultimately we do need to secure our endpoint devices. They need to be secure by default. NAT and firewalls let us get away with insecure broken OSes and services for a while, but not forever, and they create the "soft underbelly problem" where once someone manages to hop your firewall everything is vulnerable.
> If she and I had children, they would be Taiwanese from her, and would have to go to the military and learn how to kill foreigners. There's a conflict of interest - I don't want children to kill me.

Taiwan isn't the only country you mentioned that has compulsory military service. Your children would "kill you" (wtf?) if they grew up in Switzerland as well.
I have no interest at all in golf, but I'd like London to keep the green space it has.

London just needs to build taller. It happens, but very slowly. Middle class British people don't like anything other than houses, so compared to any German city there are very few 4-6 story apartment blocks in London.
Hey Jannes,
currently we're (semi-)manually gathering the data. I'll look up the source for our 3.2 mill data point for iOS Apps.

And yes, you're right. We have a challenge to make the data comparable as some marketplaces publicly show download count where others completely hide it or only publish it in ranges.

+1 for the sort by popularity feature ;)
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If you read it, you'll know.
According to the article, it will end in January 2019 (the government decided not to fund extending it), so results can be expected in a year or so.
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Hmm, there are monopolisations of property like copyright, or land ownership, but we're talking monopolisation of a market - AIUI competition is fundamental to Western Capitalism as without it there is no market optimisation. The justification for allowing functions of the state to be performed by private enterprise is that competition in the markets leads to optimised systems that can't be achieved through centralisation; without that justification you're simply stealing from the demos to provide private profits.
Link is broken. Anyone have an alternative so others can read this article?
That's a pretty broad statement. And it's a goal that a lot of scientific work simply doesn't allow for.

Any stochastic process will have variability for a given set of inputs. I think there are more fields within the umbrella of Science where purely functional programming isn't an achievable ideal--let alone a desirable one--than there are where this is a good fit.

You can make the argument that all programming should be functional on its own if you want, and I'm open to that. But this it's pretty sketchy to me to just shoehorn all scientific work into a category of work that should definitionally be functional.

There are huge numbers of scientists who do not agree with that at all.
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Guitarists and audio enthusiasts are some of the most superstitious and bull-headed people I know. You can overlay spectrum graphs of digital vs analog audio output, do double-blind tests, etc. and most will still prefer the analog version of it; crediting intangible things like "bloom", "warmth", "air" and touch-responsiveness.

Not discrediting the market for digital modelers though; most fans of these systems that I know use them for less wear and tear for tours and gigs on their tube counterparts.

EHX buying NewSensor's factory ensures that tubes will be around for decades, even for this niche market. Plus the NOS market is still one any laymen can participate in.

https://www.ehx.com/blog/peek-inside-one-of-the-worlds-great...
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It can be an experiment without being scientific or rigorous.

In this case, I believe the ultimate goal was to see how long they could keep it going.

EDIT: Why the downvotes? The word "experiment" doesn't automatically imply science. Why couldn't Finland have been experimenting with UBI the same way that individuals experiment with many things: to see what would happen?
This is rampant in the US as well. Many of the students cheated to get in, sometimes with the umiversity's knowledge, and weren't fluent enough in English to participate in class.

There are lots of companies writing essays and otherwise facilitating the admissions cheating, and several major universities were caught a few years ago (I believe Duke was one).
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Wonder why it would stop at businesses. What if every physical asset could be:

1. co-owned by one or more people

2. borrowed against

3. leased long or short term.

and every digital assets could be the same but also could be forked(create a derivative of)

obviously there would need to be some kind of insurance and reputation around it.

And the loans were based on a % revenue streams So, there is minimal risk of loss just time the money is returned.
IIRC AT&T, a GSM carrier with SIM cards, had the iPhone exclusively and was locked for it's lifetime.

In Australia, all three GSM carriers had the iPhone and could be unlocked just by calling up (now they come unlocked out of the box, even when purchased on contract).

Having a physical SIM card here never made a difference to carrier exclusives because that's a business deal, not a technical constraint. The US telecommunications market is a bit of an anomaly compared to most other countries.

Also worth nothing that the EU is fairly regulation heavy on the carriers, which has worked out mostly well, requiring phones to be unlocked/banning locked phones, requiring things like everyone use the same standards, easy/cheap/free roaming between countries, etc. If eSIMs became a thing and carriers started locked them and making them exile, it would be easy to envision the EU mandating consumers able to take a phone between carriers.
It took two seconds to find an example in my stackoverflow browser history: [0]

> Question: Hide Show content-list with only CSS, no javascript used

> Comment: Behavior is supposed to only exist in the realm of JavaScript.

But my favorite example is the following, which I sacrificed a couple of minutes looking for because the exchange was so instructive: [1]

> Question: How can I replace text with CSS?

> Comment 1: To be honest it might be best to use javascript for this.

> Comment 2: The question is how to do it with CSS. I am using a CMS that only allows me to change the CSS, which is why I arrived at this page while googling for the answer, and not a different one. That is why we answer the question that was asked instead of asking why the asker's situation isn't different.

The thing people forget is that the question is not just about the person asking it, but about people coming across the question e.g. through Google who have to waste their time sifting through idiotic non-answers. For better or worse, SO tends to be ranked highly on Google for development-related queries and I've come to subconsciously ignore it because of its uselessness, in general.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17731457/hide-show-conte...

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7896402/how-can-i-replac...
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Isn't that where they are doing with the "paid subscriptions"? Twitch has that already with the "subscribe" and "bits" buttons.
Because when someone writes "the state pays your tuition", it hides the fact that people pay your tuition. Or, depending on your view, you yourself will pay for your tuition through taxes. A lot of people forget, when making a statement like that, what is called free is not in fact free.

And when you give something away, we presume that it is not something you have stolen. But the money spent at the point of consumption (i.e., when studying) is forcibly taken from people. <Insert standard libertarian arguments here>
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3rd party is just another actor in the system, they’re not running the system, they interact with it just like ordinary Joe with their private key.
I've had a look round this place. It's definitely not a good deal. The core concept is a good idea, but this particular building is just the worst execution of it.

Also it never opened as a student dorm, I think that's what the architects had in mind, but The Collective opened it as a co-living building from the start.
we usually don't recognize ideological patterns until after they're done
Can you fill in some actual numbers and a location here? Because that seems just atypical from this description.
Where's the HN-preferred route to finding good remote jobs?
Of course you're doing business with Google. Just like you're doing business with Uber.

Google may arbitrarily choose to place ads in your video and still not pay you for it. The behavior of Google is completely arbitrary with no real accountability. Google has clearly encouraged people to create businesses around Youtube video creation. And yet they retain all the power to destroy your business on a whim with no explanation and no legal recourse.
Why would IPv6 be a failure ? It sounds like you don't know what you're talking about
I did not know about it, I actually own and use a couple t-shirts from you guys, Codeship is very nice! Congratulations to all of you!

Last year I was in contact with the Jenkins team and had a couple of meetings to discuss the things mentioned above and some more.

The developers where very nice and interested, I know they were doing their best but the problem was my problems where not top priority, and I saw some problems solved over the months but I completely lost my will to help when blue ocean started and Stage view was abandoned, the super dick move of restarting stages as well.

It was not a small deployment mind you, the system was a critical one (payments) with multiple sites and all the works, not a small license as well, I left that company but before leaving we were already migrating away.

We had a complete pipeline dependent on it, we were an early adopter of the whole JenkinsFile (A developer myself I pushed hard for it) and stage view even without being awesome was already part of our way of working. We wanted more features that I was already discussing and bugs fixed, out of the blue they change to a completely different thing that was pretty but didn't solve any of my old problems, and that will have it's own problems and was/is not even close to complete.

I just feel I wasted my time, I don't plan to make that mistake again.

But I hope Jenkins X can improve on the past mistakes and become a contender again.
AFAIK the idea was that SQL is so close to plain English that any accountant could simply use it to generate reports or enter data. It's really an old fallacy that using plain language would make complexity go away.
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> and no sign of IPv6 on mobile networks

Not quite true - EE (so one of the 'big four' providers rather than a small MNVO) has IPv6 support. Right now, my phone has an IP address assigned out of EE's 2a01:4c8::/29 netblock and I can connect to IPv6 only websites.

My phone isn't super modern either - a 2016 era OnePlus 3 running Android 8.0.
What good is an experiment applied to a small group of people and only for a limited time? The people that get it aren't going to adjust their long term behavior and the local economy certainly isn't going to change in response.
Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16874921
I'm a web developer leading a team of four working on a research project that has no full-time academics and 3/4 part time academics. They will have several projects such as this.

There are another 6 full time members of administrative staff running this project. So our ratio is close to 4:1 I suspect. Research can require a lot of manpower...

Our funding does not come from tuition, but research grants and similar.
> That's the point. Why is coca cola fine with advertising on controversial video on kimmel's TV shows but not on other people's content on youtube?

They aren't, and there is a high-touch, humans in the loop process to avoid their sensitivity getting stepped on in traditional advertising markets like TV.

YouTube (and high-scale online advertising, more generally) replaces that with one size fits all, relatively low overhead approaches which are necessarily much blunter.

> Advertisers are advertising in china, saudi arabia, israel, russia, etc. So obviously they have no qualms about image or controversy.

Or advertising in those places has relatively little impact on image and produced little controversy compared to the scale of audience it gives access to.

I think Laura Ingraham is pretty good recent evidence that advertisers do respond to controversy in the TV advertising market.
It's not even priced for convenience. It's not in a well-connected area, and you can get basically any other flatshare with all bills included for equal or less price.
Frankly, gov't programs should be fully open and transparent. If Conduent is "blocking" access then the gov't needs to step up and make them "play nice".
> Audiophiles... I don't understand why you want tube amps.

The ode to the way things used to be I think drives this market. Combine that with vinyl and you have a medium and listening experience that's superseded entirely.
Can you get an interest only loan on a home in the USA?
Can you briefly describe what you mean by recompose? I'm a backend dev tasked with writing some react, and what I'm using currently is redux+react, but that's about it. More information would be appreciated so I can research :)
> One of those arbitrary costs of budget airlines is paying €50 for having your ticket printed at the airport (Lufthansa).

I have good news for you then. Ryanair no longer demands that you print the ticket. You can do everything from their app.
I guess we just see things differently, you think that we need nuclear power to meet demand, I think we will be able to meet that demand with renewables + interconnected grids.

I appreciate that nuclear waste is not what it once was, but I think it is still right not to pursue nuclear when renewables are cheaper, and an interconnected grid can provide the base supply requirement by shipping power long distances.
Interesting. Just finished running a conference in Australia, and was having a beer at the end of the day with one of the UK guys talking about how many of his team and network were making early to mid six figures GBP.

I only lived in London for a couple of years, but also knew a few. Most were 45+ years old and "financially independent", although they wouldn't have thought about it in FIRE terms because their idea of independence was pursuing interesting careers choices rather than retiring early. (Which is largely my plan as well.)
I'm surprised they were able to reattach the nerves as well. Isn't that something that can't be reattached after being severed.

If nerve reattachment now is possible, can't we cure quadriplegics?
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It's also a bit of an open question how many universities were effectively selling visas. Clearly anyone with a place at Oxford could find another way to immigrate if they wished. But one wonders how many fee-paying applicants to bottom-tier places were really paying for their basket-weaving lectures.
https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201...

This is a recent investigation that I found particularly intriguing. It involves a device used to monitor electric utilities that ended up interfering VZW's signal in Silicon Valley.
> To novices, the long bureaucratic rigmarole associated with asking your first question on Stack Overflow can feel either completely unnecessary, or just plain weird.

I just think of SO as being "read-only." It might as well be Encyclopedia Brittannica for all I know.

I also think of the errors I read in SO as being part of that immutable encyclopedia. The only alternative is to spend time trying to correct an error which led me down this rabbit hole:

1. Realize that the site makes you jump through all kinds of hoops just to respond to a (wrong) answer or comment on a question.

2. Spend a total of 45 minutes researching and emailing two people who already are SO members. Sending them a link to the SO page that has a clearly wrong statement, and politely asking them to add a comment or whatever to make it clear that the statement is wrong.

Ironically, that wrong statement was about one of the old string-handling functions in the C standard library. So while the old usenet might have gotten a cranky response from a C Jedi who knows all the answers, it is prohibitively expensive to even provide the right answer on SO.

Luckily SO has enough correct information on it that treating it like an immutable datastore still has great benefit.
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Do you want more blight? This is how you get blight.
Japan shows an interesting contrast to the UK housing market. In Japan there are many small single occupancy apartments. I rent one right in the middle of a large city for around 300GBP per month. Sharing is almost non-existant outside of families.

Recently however, so called "share houses" have started popping up. They are usually centered around an idea: "English language immersion house", "pet lovers house". You pay a small premium for extra services related to the house.

It seems that most people choose to live alone, and London's house shares are just caused by the economics of the situation.
My choice is between living close to work, living alone, or cheap rent. I can pick two. All three if I choose to live in a room which fits no more than a single bed.

I'm counting 45 minutes tube/20 minutes motorbike as close because for London that's honestly quite good. About half of the people I know have commutes over an hour each way, at least one above two hours, and I can cut my public transport commute to 35 minutes if I time everything right. Biking is actually the favourable option but not possible if I'm drinking, and the miserable weather doesn't bother me.

I would love to cut my rent down to 25% of income but it's honestly not possible without increasing travel costs and time. Plus I work in computer security, London is one ofthe few places in the UK with any job mobility in my field.
I’ve had the pleasure of doing some contract work that involved dealings with Conduent, and my oh my are they absolutely horrible to work with, and generally incompetent.

Their m.o. is to put you on the phone with some folks from Bangalore, where if you ask anything off script they stonewall you with “that’s against internal security policy.”

Then, because the project is 6 months delayed and the main stakeholders are upset (the ones paying $$$ of taxpayer money), some account manager there CC’s every living soul who has ever been involved and tries to get them all on the phone together, which goes about as well as you would expect. Promises get made, timelines agreed upon, and then they never deliver.
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In this day and age, with trustworthy online review sites like Consumer Reports, I find it is fairly easy to find quality products at a price somewhere in the middle.
I always wondered if non-EU students are going to keep coming in the long term too. Only Chinese for example, there are 60k undergrads coming every year. That should be about $1.2B/yr for three years only in tuition fees.

It is not that much money at the end of the day but it has to be important because universities are building campus overseas to capture all those students.

And at some point Indian, Chinese, etc. universities will become more attractive and that money flow will stop too.
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Airon is the emacs of chairs.
My point was that they used to do that in my country, but they stopped as it is completely pointless. Phone contracts usually last at least a year, and they have to unlock after a year anyway.

> Has any CEO of any carrier or company ever said: "Oh geez, I wish I had fewer subscribers so I can cut the cost of operating this company"?

But the point is that they do not have fewer subscribers, they have the same amount of paying subscribers, they just have to provide fewer services to those subscribers.

To re-use your example: if you get 1000 customers more but none of them ever calls the helldesk, then you get paid for those 1000 customers, but you don't have the costs associated with those 1000 customers. That's a win/win for the phone company.
This feature is really cool, however the ratio of parse-time and compile-time improvement is not always meaningful to end users. I would be curious to see the absolute & relative load-time gains.

When I was benchmarking Firefox on the same feature [1], back in November 2017, I noticed that reddit loads very little JavaScript that any improvement on it does not matter.

Also, I wish that the benchmark website domains were not truncated, such as "http://www.", and better distinguish websites such as "http://reddit." (for http://reddit.musicplayer.io) as opposed to "http://www.reddit." (for http://www.reddit.com).

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/12/12/javascript-st...
I don't have a big problem with ads on broadcast television or billboards or in magazines. But I don't see how you can feel good about what you do if it requires harnessing the surveillance apparatus of Facebook. Even if you are promoting something positive, doing so on the back of a company like Facebook just feels wrong.
And that's going to be an increasingly valuable passport in the coming years, I would think.
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That's a little unfair, the Aeron doesn't give you carpal tunnel syndrome ;)
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Ask HN: How can a non-degree programmer show their skill?
I'm a Chemical Engineer by degree, but Ive been programming since I was 17. 10 years later, I have a full stack app, playstore apps, etc...

If I have an opportunity for an interview, I can prove my abilities, but even my internal company hiring wont interview me because I dont have a degree in electrical/computer engineering.

Any idea how I can build a resume that shows my programming experience rather than my past work experience?
really glad I live in the suburbs in Texas.. mortgage on new construction 300m^2 is $2000/mo, my commute is 25 minutes and my salary higher than Londoners..
Support for IPv6 is weird.

Comcast's IPv6 implementation is rock solid and faster than IPv4 most of the time. I've been running publicly accessible IPv6 HTTP hosts over it for several years now.

The last two Motorola Modems I've had came with IPv6 support and were provisioned by Comcast out of the box.

Access Points from D-Link will autoconfigure via SLAAC but DNS has to be hardcoded.

It's 2018 and yet Ubiquiti's UniFi enterprise networking gear only has alpha support.

IPv6 on Tomato just works and has for years, IPv6 on Raspbian not so much.

Windows just works seems to fuck with nonWindows clients so Enterprises disable it via Group Policy.

Android devices seem to forget IPv4 if they catch a wiff of IPv6 on the network.