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> What is ramp metering?

(The Bay Area contingent of HN can answer that!) Traffic lights (typically red/green only) at the bottom of on-ramps that rate-limit ("meter") traffic onto the freeway, typically during rush hour. You drive up to a red, stop, it turns green and you go. (Sometimes a sign indicates that 2 cars get to go per green given.) There are usually sensors embedded in the rightmost lane of the freeway shortly before the merge point, and on a good day, it feels like it gives you a green timed with a gap. (Although I think it also sometimes just times out and lets you go, in which case, no gap.)

The ones here have an HOV lane and a non-HOV lane, usually; typically they just force the HOV lane to come to a near stop before turning green; I think that's more to slow the HOV traffic down to avoid collisions with the adjoining non-HOV lane should their light also turn green, but it feels like a weird formality when driving it. Some days the cops sit on the ramp pulling people cheating in the HOV lane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramp_meter

It is one of the two things I warn family visiting that have never visited before. (In the majority of the US, you just get on the highway, there isn't a traffic light at the bottom of a ramp, that'd be absurd, since you're wanting to accelerate to ~70mph.) (The other is lane splitting: motorcycles will (ab)use the dividing line, particularly between lanes 1 & 2, to pass.)
They have much more money than necessity. If we're talking about eating they are foodies that spend $200 at every meal and give the scraps to the homeless guy on the way out.

It's not that they don't do good, but how do you quantify that even? The singular value that drives it (beyond the differing political values and the variety of tech they put out) is a desire to make money. What value does the organization have that is more central to that? If it was otherwise they wouldn't have hired a CFO who was in Wall Street at the height of its misbehavior.

It's been nearly 20 years since Google was the little guy. They're a massive corporation and many people have come and gone. The only constant is the need to make stockholders happy.

That might be cynical, but I just think it's realistic about how the modern world operates. They could be worse but they could also be much more and describing basic business behavior as "doing good" kind of dilutes the term and covers up what is really just a big corp being a big corp, the same way that MS's commercials with Common talking about "changing the world" is really just a way of selling stuff. It's a meaningless mantra.
Sweden opens new road that charges electric vehicles
It’s disadvantageous even if you do have Facebook based on a number of factors.

1. You gotta be pretty photogenic. This is a very strange one because I find more people more attractive in real life than in photos. The people who do look appealing in photos tend to have more angular faces and better proportions, but honestly in the end what matters most is how we look in real life.

2. You’re at an advantage if you’re extroverted and have pictures of you attending many social events. A good number of “friends” that you randomly hang out with helps too.

3. If you want to stand out, you better hope you have a close friend who is at least a hobby level photographer and goes out to most places with you.

Yea, I’m screwed. I never prepared myself to have an outstanding social presence, and it’s too late at this point.
Does this mean that Cloudfront does not actually require (correct) SNI?

Example: Sending HTTP request for signal.org over TLS to Cloudfront IP address with SNI as "allergan.com" returns signal.org web page, not allergan.com web page.
It's C using compilers from the early 90s. Some shops use C++, again with ancient compilers. There are also some Ada positions.
Yes, but that still represents a very serious problem. The EFF has written extensively on it since this occurred in August. Here's a starting point: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/eff-icanns-registrars-....

ICANN has worked very well so far, but if they don't put up a strong response to registrar-based censorship on already-registered domains and make this contractually impossible, the internet is going to be in big trouble. We can't let "you can't have a domain because we don't want you to be able to talk, as a matter of corporate policy" become a thing.
My impression is that GDPR is actually pretty clear, but people involved in PI processing business have a strong cognitive dissonance about it. It's GDPR telling them "don't do that", vs. them thinking "I must do that, so GDPR is unclear on how can I do that".
“Half” is a joke. If you look at the entire market (i.e the entire world) that Google is addressing, the segment of American Republicans who support gun rights and are concerned about equal time for the extreme right wing is vanishingly small.
Fantastic. Is there a library like this for Roku?
Dude I've been out of school for almost a decade. I didn't major in CS. And the only stuff I learned that was useful for my future career was through a project class where it was impossible to cheat or otherwise bullshit your way to an A. Most of my programming skills were learned from coding games in my spare time.
I have a thought that this is the consequence of GDPR. Just like Google's NBU (Next Billion Users) division which focuses on the Indian subcontinent, I think we will see a lot of Europe centric initiatives from the large companies... primarily to service a vacuum that will be created because of the GDPR.

Dating is a very contentious issue in Europe and USA because of the GDPR,FOSTA,etc. I don't see anyone other than huge conglomerates being able to muster the legal resources to win here.
Network effects are powerful. But beyond the original secondary tech centres of Seattle, Boston, and NYC, there are now thriving tech scenes in all sorts of smaller markets--Portland, Denver, Austin, etc.

It's easy to see every major tech company having a base in SFBA for the foreseeable future, but it's also easy to see being a working programmer living in one of those smaller markets and actually being a homeowner being a much bigger thing going forward.
Extensive recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16822488
Don't Get Your Coworker to Agree with You
This type of work culture is very normal in Silicon Valley.
The latter is safer. I guess it's kind of the same thing as "don't talk to the police" meme in US - everything you say can, and will, be used against you. So correcting malformed/misinformed questions is dangerous, because you may trip up when explaining - or say something that will be misinterpreted.
Yeah, it appeared to just be general resource contention from having to share the machine -- CPU interrupts, less memory available, etc.

I'll note, though, that the 5% number is when using host networking for both Cockroach and the client load generator. Using GKE's default cluster networking through the Docker bridge is closer to 15% worse than running directly on equivalent non-Kubernetes VMs.
These Are the Dinosaurs That Didn't Die
GTD and a trello board works for me (when I have the discipline to keep it up to date)

I've used this guide (https://hamberg.no/gtd/) to start and really didn't need anything else
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except when it makes it to the front page of hn.
Decentraleyes and Onionshare look intriguing. Others seem more well-known.
I wonder if that's something they can start requiring after-the-fact
The author is actually Zep. Lexaloffle is the company.
That follows from "successful enough" meaning impacting a large fraction of society in some way - which is the government's area of competence. So they definitely will be interested in your impact, and whether or not your market-driven priorities are at odds with well-being of society.
> Would you like it if your side project all of a sudden got a 6 figure DNS bill because Signal decided they want to piggy back on your domain to route around censorship?

In this hypothetical example, is my side project doing $178,000,000,000 of annual revenue like Amazon.com? If so, I'd like to think I'd be honored help subvert censorship by oppressive regimes.
personal experience: moving towns I made friendship initially with a group, but didn’t fit, so I changed to a group of friends where I truly fitted
they even tried Q&A for a brief period of time, and messenger of course
Several recent discussions about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16924587 - 87 points/6 days ago/11 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634 - 390 points/6 days ago/262 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16940722 - 72 points/4 days ago/22 comments
Doesn't make us right about what? You want me to ignore the hindsight I do have just so I can say COBOL wasn't a bad as it was? This seems to be exactly the kind of thing that you shouldn't have to commit yourself to before knowing it is wrong.

>They had no way of knowing back then that having a programming language for non-programmers is a hard problem, close to impossible

They had a very easy way of knowing this. Ask an actual non-programmer to write code. And do this during the design process.

>Cobol was first (or close to it) so it had to discover what “wrong” meant in the context of programming languages.

They had to discover that ignoring all of the existing computer science literature on language design would lead to poor language design? And that employing an untalented design team would lead to a poor spec? Sorry, but I don't buy it. I certainly don't see some grand lesson that anybody learned from it that we didn't already learn from the previous hundred years of research and design.
Roughly, our vote is split between can't, don't, left, and right.
This article lacks focus. It starts well, sticking to the headline, but then all kinds of stories we already know about Google and other tech giants start rolling in, on and on.
You'll notice that 2 items in your list are about having money. If you come from a well off background, then you care about getting your degree, but not about actually acquiring skills/knowledge. Once you graduate you'll get a fictitious job for your parents' company, or something like that.

I'm not sure if any data is available/accessible on the topic, but I'd be willing to wage that the young Chinese person who is the first of their family to attend university cares much more about understanding the material so they can then get a high paying job than those who can afford to buy essays from Taobao.
I know everything you're saying. It gets better; your life can change for the better and probably will.

> When you are too alone that you don't even know where to begin in order to stop being lonely.

Here's one place to start: Take care of yourself; be your own best friend - it's essential regardless of how many others you have. Have compassion for yourself, accept that you're flawed like everyone else, and do good things for yourself.

And then try having compassion for others. Don't think of them in relation to yourself, as friends or not friends, but as people with their own lives and problems and vulnerability. Listen to them; accept they will be flawed in how they act, that it is not because of you, and that they still need compassion and love just like you do. They may not show their vulnerabilities and needs, but I guarantee it's true.

That can help put you in a much healthier (and happier) place.
IIRC, .app isn't the first TLD to be included in HSTS preload list. I hope the registrars will make it clear to customers that .app itself is in the HSTS preload list to prevent any confusion.
Electric car sales in Denmark tank after subsidies end
Aflatoxin contamination in Europe increases due to climate change
It won't have that "tailored experience".

People can pin this on Facebook all day, but that's the same bullshit every user-productizing company spews. That the best experience is the one they design, which necessarily includes tracking, ads, and half of the dark patterns in the book.
Sounds dumb but consider the evolution of world population over time:

- 1950: 2.5 billion

- 2000: 6 billion

- 2018: 7.6 billion
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I only found out about these a few months ago because there was always a cop leaning against one outside a ballpark before and after games with a radio plugged into it.

I asked what he was doing and he gladly showed me that he was just manually cycling the lights, basically on a longer delay where required to clear jams and work with another cop directing traffic.
That's a good point. We can probably account for the increase by seeing when Instagram started having an uptick in #outsideisfree photos.
You'd have a very hard time making that lawsuit go anywhere, I think.
Wow, that shines a new light on things. He's clearly defrauding customers by telling them that they're buying genuine Dell and Microsoft discs when they're not. I don't have any sympathy for him after reading that.
Selling a DVD for 0.25USD is hardly snake oil.

Perhaps you are confusing him with the official from Microsoft who testified that the discs were equivalent to the 25USD discs sold by Microsoft.
Which fires off a new email thanking them for re-subscribing.

Soon your inbox is full.
I got that, too. I'm using Firefox on Linux, with both Ghostery and Privacy Badger enabled. Not impressed with the ACM.
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Googlers are definitely loud and politically opinionated at the NYC office.

Seattle/Kirkland tends to be older, more domestically settled people hired from Microsoft/sometimes Amazon, so just demographically it’s no surprise that they don’t agitate as loudly for social justice.
You may not like the ads, but they pay for the product.

Please don't think the audience here on HN is naïve enough to believe rhetoric like "Search is the product." It isn't, and it never has been. The product is the ads; they pay for the mechanisms that display the ads, whether that's search, YouTube, GMail, or whatever. Those things are undoubtedly useful services, but the product Google makes is ads. Everything else is marketing.
Advertising is a race to the bottom. As long as GDPR affects everyone more-less equally, it'll only reduce the current depth of advertising hole. That is, non-targeted ads might become more profitable again.
In general, CEI and their brethren would love class action lawsuits to go away. Without them, it's much easier to deceive a large group of customers/consumers just enough to avoid being held accountable for their actions; they know the vast majority will never sue because they couldn't afford to.

Forced arbitration is one key to this strategy, but occasionally that fails. This looks like a step towards covering that corner case.
I left that out in my post because I've moved on. I may seem a bit triggered, but that is because reading about this Void project possibly doing the same thing to someone else right here in such public view just brought back strong memories. What the void guys are doing is clearly wrong, they should fork with another name, with a separate website, github, mailing list, etc. If the users want to follow them they will. Performing a takeover, even if the guy really is missing, is underhanded. If you see any project doing this, it should set off alarm bells. And, the open source community as a whole should start digging into some of these projects and see if proper attribution is being given. Because, I can guarantee there's a percent of those of us who were erased for political or personal reasons. I made peace with my exit, others might still be clenching their fists over it.
Good, let large powerful companies have robust internal debate. Suppressing it in the name of efficiency will lead to the kinds of terrible decisions industry is known for. Google is currently providing support for TensorFlow to assist the pentagon's drone assassination program. They ought to be taking a hard look at themselves.
Posting from a throwaway account for obvious reasons.

There are a lot of internal discussion groups - it is just an internal Google groups thing so anyone can create a group about anything. Often they are purely work related (e.g. groups for specific tools/services/teams that people can join), but there are some that are not work related.

I'd say that these sort of political debates are the extreme outliers. I've never encountered any significant political debate/argument during my 6 years at Google, but then I don't go looking for it on the groups. From my experience people at google are well-mannered, polite and respectful; disagreement of course occurs but is usually handled professionally without much fuss.

What does happen though is that although we do have an online tool to vote up questions for the TGIF meetings, you get "regulars" who ask in-person questions at TGIF in Mountain View. These people are often fine, but there are a couple who clearly have their own political/moral axe to grind. I find these people the most irritating, since unlike the questions which have been voted up to the top on the online tool, they don't need votes to ask their questions. This can give their opinions -minority or majority held- more apparent credibility than they might otherwise deserve if it had been left to the online voting only.

There is also a lot of focus from certain groups on purely US related things - e.g. asks about allowing people to volunteer if they are conservative or democratic in the HR system. These blinkered people asking these in-person questions in California don't realise that they live in one country, and that the political parties in that country aren't the same as the ones in others (most countries are not a two party polatised system like it is in the US)

TL;Dr there are jerks if you go looking for them but 99.9% of the time yiu just do your job and no one wants to know or cares what your political or moral views are.
Reminds me of this scene from MI3
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ojRRr3nOD3Y

The joke was supposed to be that his cover job sounds boring, but I always thought it sounded fascinating
Amazon was supplying Signal's content as souq.com but with the request making it clear it was for Signal.

How might this be noticeable? Like so:

- (irrelevant) the SNI and certificate presented by the server don't match the request -- only the hoster can see this, so what might they care?
- (serious) metering: if the hoster uses SNI for metering... then Signal would be stealing the fronter's bandwidth
- (mild) DNS metering: the fronter's domains will see more DNS lookups not related to serving the fronter's content

Nothing that couldn't be addressed contractually. Signal could pay the costs that would otherwise be unfairly born by the fronter, and whatever makes the hoster comfortable with the whole thing (if making the fronter good is insufficient for that).
As soon as a writer mentions the CIA in conjunction with fighting the "terrorists", you know they're clueless or a shill. Standard Operating Mockingbird fare.
Not sure if it’s an Easter egg from the author but the title of this page is “All you clowns in the Art Dept can kiss my *”:

http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/subway-portaltour4.html
There's also Azure Container Instances: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-instanc...

And Google has AppEngine, now with Flexible Environment that can run containers: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/dotnet/quic...
About half of Americans are right of center. What I'm saying is EVERY political stance google takes alienates a segment of their customers and employees. This includes stances which alienate left leaning people too.

Does anyone remember that the YouTube shooter was a PETA activist who was enraged over the demonetization and de-circulation of her videos?
There's far less variability in the human brain than you imagine; we have a natural tendency to amplify it.
But HRT is not necessary for registering a legal Gender.
in class actions, the compensation is very much "controlled and limited." The lawyers have to make a separate motion to be awarded fees and there is intense scrutiny by the court and potential objectors of every dollar requested.

The benchmark in the Ninth Circuit is 25% of the common fund, but district courts almost always also ask for a "lodestar cross-check," which is the hours expended by the plaintiffs' firms multiplied by their customary hourly rates, plus expenses. It's often a very contentious battle to establish a reasonable hourly rate and will turn on the relevant legal market (SF has higher rates than, say, Tulsa even for the same sort of work), the attorney's experience, the results obtained, and so on. And the judges often cut hours, saying they were duplicative or excessive for whatever reason. This can be used to increase or (more commonly) decrease from the 25% benchmark.
The idea of scanning the crowd for your final soulmate is very specific to our culture. I have to ask, if that's the right model, then why doesn't it seem to have been the case that the massive migrations to cities over the past century spawned a never-before-seen blossoming of more perfect love? Surely, if the number of strangers someone meets in a lifetime has been skyrocketing, the number of people who had found perfect partners would have gone up with it. We'd be living in times that'd make us look back on romantic poets as stodgy.

Sometimes, I wonder if the whole "we got lucky," thing was just that they did get lucky, but only for long enough to bootstrap them into having spent enough time around each other to get attached. My experience of human nature is that everyone is actually really, really close to the same once you get to know them.
Great. Casting is broken on Chromium from the Debian stretch stable repos.