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I don't think the two are comparable. Cheating on a test doesn't "take" anything of intrinsic value from another person, stealing does. Cheating hurts no one.

You can argue that cheating puts you ahead of students that work in good faith, systemically, though it's still a bit different. Stealing has implied intent of taking something away from someone, cheating doesn't. You're just trying to get better grades.
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Thanks for the reply. Don't know if you will see this, but I was also interested in how the NBD client fails over to an alternate node if the one it's connected to fails.

Regarding locking, is there a distributed lock manager? What prevents two NBD clients connecting to the same volume via two different nodes?
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> But the language doesn't show you those costs in any way.

I think it's pretty clear. Access memory sequentially, and you can expect to hit the cache. Access more memory than the cache size in a random order, and you can expect to pay memory access latencies (100s of CPU cycles).

I doubt you would be willing to manage the cache yourself in every line of code. That would be a lot of code. Some programmers might want to tune cache eviction behaviour by changing it in a few controlled points in time. But not in a way that couldn't be exposed to assembler/C. (I don't know if that's even realistic from a hardware architect's point of view).
I respectfully disagree. Very few people will ever clear their history.
I can imagine why someone cares if someone else pretend being that someone....
It's like Tinder. But with the potential to influence the ads you eventually see on your cable box and web browser.

What could possibly go wrong?
An HTTPS connection sends the domain it wants to connect to in two layers: first unencrypted in the TLS headers, then encrypted in the HTTP header.

In a regular connection (even using a CDN), those two will match. Using domain fronting, you put a popular domain in the unencrypted part, and the real domain in a encrypted HTTP header.

Due to how they're implemented, the load balancers at Google and Amazon will ignore the first (unencrypted) layer, and will send the traffic to the correct server based only on the encrypted HTTP header.

Regular browsers always send the same domain in both layers, only a custom app like Signal can perform domain fronting.
Guitar sales have been declining, so they're trying to diversify into other markets. The same reason they acquired music software companies.

I wonder if Guitar Center played a role here? They've been struggling, and that may be impacting their suppliers:

https://www.dailynews.com/2018/03/20/guitar-centers-1-billio...
Yes but Lockheed martin and Sandia Labs are not your average sv company they will have some one whos job it is to laisse with the security services.

Surprised that the journalist don't seem to know that, I am sure the new Yorker has a security/defence correspondent

Bit surprised that he went to the local FBI and not his internal security team or direct to the CIA and got some cover.
Or Google, Apple, Facebook could grow the next 200,000 jobs somewhere else?

Everyone talks about housing affordability and NIMBYs and we get into class warfare and home-appreciation snobbery, but the simple thing I can't understand is how will the area's transportation infrastructure scale up? There's no credible solution.
I have a 6.3" smartphone that doesn't fit in these vr-contraptions.

So I guess I would be a potential customer?

On the other hand I didn't look into the whole thing too much and don't know anything I would like to do with this thing...
Are there studies that explain the cause of high house prices and what can be done?
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To be honest, if I can afford a 700 dollar phone, I can far more easily afford a 500 dollar older phone which has a headphone jack.

I don’t need the irritation of managing extra jacks for an obvious attempt to force me to give up a standard configuration.

No thanks.
> you look up your matches on FB anyway as a sanity test

Worst. Sanity test. Evar!
Arbitrarily picking web standards seems like an abuse of power. If this is the direction in which they want the internet to steer (a great one as far as I’m concerned) Google should advocate for the deprecation of HTTP in the appropriate bodies instead though.

It baffles me that TLDs are at the mercy of private companies... I guess I should read more about the history of the internet to understand how this came to be.

Finally, maybe the management of authoritative DNS is one of the few applications for which a blockchain could actually make sense. Still pondering on the specific model though, does anybody know of existing projects in this direction?
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They appear to be hand-made. Manufacturing niche toys is very much a chicken and egg problem. At scale, these could be made for $1. But that implies volume sales which would likely result in a bunch of people complaining that the puzzles were "broken" and "some idiot left out all the edge pieces -- 0 stars!"
Right beneath the domain available message should have been a note that these domains aren't available for purchase until May 8th.
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You think oppressive regimes don't already realize what they are?

They simply don't care.
They can probably write the PhD thesis required for a degree mill.
> it's not realistic to expect a company with so many projects and users like GitHub to be making those kind of individual calls

While I agree with that logic on some level, this sounds exactly like the same arguments that every tech company uses to detach itself from the social consequences of the service it provides.
Life-long Brooklyn resident here. Not it isnt cheap...i dont think anyone claimed it was cheap -- they just claimed that high-density housing (like Manhattan and northern Brooklyn) is more effective on a relative scale as compared to the Bay Area.

I've tried to make the math work every which way - the Bay Are is just out of control, even compared to NYC prices. NYC compensates quite well by building upwards rather than outwards, this has a second benefit of reducing commutes (again, on a relative scale compared to the Bay Area.)
Thanks! I'm not sure how easy it would be to put the git hook on all my machines though? I have a collection of laptops (and one desktop) that I work on and I often don't use the same machine for a few weeks :-/

I ended up using a "env.h" file... is there a C-equivalent of the PHP (?) .env file?
HSTS can be enabled for whole domain. See here: https://hstspreload.org/#tld

General information about HSTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security

But you are right that it is a browser thing.
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Yes it does. A broadly better-educated citizenry makes for a richer, more robust economy. Reducing or eliminating poverty, the same. "A rising tide lifts all boats," as they say.

If you actively think that's not somehow fundamentally helpful to you, or in your best interests, maybe you don't belong in society. If your notion of "freedom" is predicated on other people starving (which I take people to mean when they say it's an infringement upon their freedom to be "forced" to participate in other people's not starving), then I think it's a pretty terrible one. If anyone, anywhere is starving, or enslaved, and you trumpet your own freedom in the face of that, you are necessarily treating freedom as zero-sum, and washing your hands of the costs the people on the other side of that coin are paying — often with their lives.

When "freedom" is propped up on someone else's lack of it, I don't personally find it worth celebrating, or being all "Welp, I got mine!" over, myself.

EDIT: Phrasing
Sorry, but you can't claim that they both knew exactly what they were doing and that they were (forgive my paraphrasing) too stupid for it to matter.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantively here? We've asked before and eventually we ban accounts that won't start posting according to the guidelines.

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Fair point sorry I totally missed that. I still think it's too pricey but you're right that that is a more expensive material and definitely deserves to be reasonably more expensive.
I bought one this morning (heck, I actually bought two- got lucky at Best Buy) I agree it's better than the GearVR, but it still seems only modestly better to me- I agree the optics are definitely better.

As you say, it's a good deal given the modest price point.
They see the writing in the wall that tracking will be regulated and with that a nice chunk of revenue is gone. So they try to make up for it, one vertical at a time.
Academic cheating is NOT morally wrong in a general sense.

We only think it is because it's drilled into us from a young age by the educational system. But there's really no equivalent of "cheating" in real world industries where it's the results that matter. e.g. nobody cares if you took wrote the software yourself or got it from someone else's library, as long as the software product works.

If cheating happens, it is the responsibility of:
1) schools to deal with that accordingly (withhold degrees according to pre-written rules, etc)
2) employers to interview people instead of looking at credentials (something they should be doing anyway).
What do you mean by hardware version?
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"Besides, they are aware of the expectations of the high school professors and know what can impress them."

They claim they can write a PhD thesis, but they can't check their own prose.
The technique that Signal was using to circumvent censorship (domain fronting) will no longer be possible on Amazon:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/enhanced-domain-protec...
Plenty of people are, or want to, but the point is that no one knows except the maintainer and he's not responding.
> I don't think one can really blame the Estate of Martin Luther King for enforcing the rights given to them by law.

You can absolutely blame people for doing that. An action's legality and blameworthiness are completely separate things. Many legal things are blameworthy (e.g. talking in a movie theater, adultery, tricking people into eating items their religion forbids). The idea that you can't blame people for doing things they're allowed to do under the law seems to assume that everything bad should be illegal, which would result in a pretty draconian state of affairs.
> Would people who avoid facebook because of privacy concerns use any dating sites at all?

Why would they? The privacy problem with Facebook is its size and the amount of personal data it integrates. If you're privacy conscious, using a stand-alone dating site is fine because the data is more siloed. It's also more practical to setup a burner identity on a special-purpose site than on a one that tries to be your online identity and social graph.

I never used tinder, but I thought about it. Part of that plan was to create a burner FB profile for it.
That's a real problem, but I don't think it's related to this situation. We have to assume that censors can inspect apps, and can inspect some app traffic before it gets encrypted. This means that they'll know all about your servers and their IP addresses.
I don't do a lot of shopping on eBay anymore but this was a bigger problem back when I did for sure. I haven't been around since they started doing this accurately but it used to just be "Ships from US" so then you'd just "Oh ok so it shouldn't be more than a week"
Indeed, on occasion TAs are deliberately rotated, which has benefits, but does mean it will take them a long time to learn your "voice".
To focus the attention on the role rather than the person, who is clearly just representing the company. It softens it.
Why can't they add a new URL scheme "secure://" to Chrome that will only support HTTPS?

Adding a new scheme would support all existing https websites on the internet today with no need to pay anyone money or rush to reserve domains.

This .app thing is needlessly difficult, and just a way for Google to push its brand on technology concepts en-masse, like the .dev fiasco. Now everyone in the world has to register a new domain (and make it work for their site) to make sure their URL is always secure.
I've been managing it myself over the past couple months mainly by working on getting my privacy policy and terms of service updated to cover GDPR, and how that affects both EU and non-EU customers (I'm applying GDPR to all customers, because I think privacy is important, and because it's easier to implement when it's "across the board").

Updates include things like a detailed disclosure of all data that is collected that could be considered PI (IPs, machine fingerprints, names, emails, etc.), GDPR-related requests, the third parties (sub-processors) I use to run my business, and the responsibilities of my company as a data processor, and my customers' responsibilities as data controllers.

I've been looking over a lot of other GDPR privacy policies and terms as inspiration, so I know what needs to be covered for my particular business, to see how they go about structuring their contracts, etc.

That, and I have been implementing adjustments to data retention (logs, backups, etc.), explicit consent, record deletion (luckily I never did soft deletes), etc.

I may hire a tech lawyer to look it over after I'm done and recommend that I make adjustments where needed.
Which is why I used the caveat “if a significant percentage of users” do this. If not then fine, but if they do, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that we can all say goodbye to Facebook. That’s how big of a problem this would cause.

They apparently announced that they’re getting into online dating today. Maybe the plan is to knowingly decimate the ad platform and charge for dating at some point. They’ll have massive layoffs and have to sell datacenters, but could at least keep the lights on for a few remaining employees managing the dating service.
Florida is a big state :-). It doesn’t say anywhere what part. In any case I’d be curious to learn more if you guys want to chat sometime.
"Specialization is for insects.”
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Your viewpoint is basically that we should overspecialize. I believe that the more diverse skills a person has. The better they are. Would you ask a romance author to write a highly technical piece? You wouldn't.

Papers help with communication. Communication is a skill that a lot of people lack.
Course you have more space- people aren’t using the phone for that use case anymore.

My phone upgrade is now always going to be an iPhone 6 Or I move to Android.
The only video content I can remember paying for has been on vimeo and udemy.

But then again I'm old fashioned and like to read about stuff on some web site and then click to whatever video hosting site they use.
That signal to noise quote is actually great, and one of the reasons why the late Aaron Schwartz refused to read the news. He said in one of his essays it's far more valuable to read books, and basically explained in more words, the signal to noise problem.
That makes sense.

It is probably in the interests of someone with a Master degree to devalue all Bachelor degrees.

But it is also perfectly understandable that those with Bachelor degrees who actually earned them would be super pissed at you for helping a bunch of useless idiots achieve exactly the same institutional recognition, but without the same level of actual mastery, thereby ensuring that they would all have to pass a stupid bozo filter in every job interview for the rest of their lives.

Please try to regret what you have done, just a little bit.
Strattera (atomoxetine) actually helps with impulsiveness (and anxiety) but it's not a substance that can be just taken when you need it, you need to titrate up, and for some people it causes unbearable side effects. My experience with it is very minimal to non-existent side effects, but a very noticeable increase in executive function (doing what I know I need to do) as well as a decrease in anxious tendencies. My advice if you go that route is to start with a small dose and take it with protein.
It's not hard, once you know what to look for. Basic pawn shop training.
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True, they will not get extra fees from sites running HTTPS.

However, they will get extra fees from any .app domain registrations.
>> people will simply leave the Bay Area, and demand will fall

Short of a bubble popping, it usually doesnt work like a cusp, but rather, things remain on the edge of extremity (i.e.: dual income couple plowing 70% of income into insane mortgage.)
Please don’t use code formatting for quotes, it makes the content unreadable on mobile
Iran is probably sophisticated enough to make some DNS queries...
I get what you're saying. It's interesting that there's a different mindset since they're relatively the same, perhaps the explicit nature of action of inputting an email address is the important piece. Of course Facebook also has options for "Friends of friends" to be able to view posts, and likewise any of those friends (or people you send an email to) can forward the email or a post - or even make it public in part or whole; that explicit action of taking the effort to define who you're sending it to also likely makes receiving the message/post more valuable to the reader. The ability to CC and BCC in email also has some unwritten rules as to the intent of if you're attached as a recipient of either - ability to dictate to show others "you're the main person I'm sending this to", "see who else I've sent this to", "I want you to see this but the others don't need to know that."

Thanks for responding.
GChat/Hangouts is a prime example. The embraced XMPP and Jabber much to the delight of the open protocols communities. They then expanded on the protocol adding stickers and drawings and other stuff. Then closed off their XMPP gateway once they were huge (stickers no longer work with the protocol they said), essentially killing the future (at least mainstream) of XMPP, and pushing more people to proprietary messaging platforms.
The one HDMI per screen thing is because Virtual Desktop simply output your actual computer screens in VR.

There is nothing stopping you from using one huge screen with transparent background and a bunch of windows.
Keep in mind that it's very very easy to edit HTML in webpages.
Which languages have pointer arithmetic, longjmp, goto anywhere within a function, address-of operator, memcpy that is equivalent to assignment even for lexical variables, untagged unions, switch with fall-through in absence of explicit break and a textual/token-wise preprocessor?
Looking at the 2008 crisis debacle and “too big too fail”, maybe it wouldn’t be that bad. If your company has an impact on the level of a public utility, maybe it should be regulated like one.

And God knows that Zuckerberg’s lifestyle wouldn’t change much if he was only a “simple” billionaire instead of a multi-billionaire ;)
I did this game (Pigs in peril) using unity https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/pigs-in-peril/id1229331975?m..., though didn't use VR, can help though.
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The comment referred to Google flagging other content as insecure; Google does that for HTTP content, not non-.app content.

The problem is either the “not necessarily” part is wrong (in regard to flagging HTTP) or the criticism is directed at a fantasy that isn't actually occurring (in regard to flagging things that aren't .app). Either way, the criticism is defective.
The cost of distance and synchronization are also a factors.

It is very easy for me to establish a virtual third space for a topic of interest, but the reality of timezones make establishing connections with those friends sometimes insurmountable; and those friendships do not translate well to the physically limited world.

Conversely, local relationships are also extremely difficult to establish due to the diffuse living areas surrounding larger cities. Those whom you might be inclined to establish a social relationship with can live /hours/ away during the evening commute periods and are often extremely busy on weekends.

Even if time to meet up can be established a stable and sufficiently (warm/private/intimate) meeting place might not exist or might require an economically infeasible increase in rent. The inhospitably to cars (for outsiders of the urban core) and the low quality of public transit in US cities (particularly 'out west') compound the pain of this friction.

The net result is friction on social activities that destroy network effects that are probably expected in larger populations. When combined with a lack of locality stable careers in many fields, at least first hand, I observe a lack of community and the ability to establish social links.