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The urgent pointer mechanism is not reliable or well-implemented enough for widespread use.

Excerpts from RFC 6093 (from 2011, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6093), "On the Implementation of the TCP Urgent Mechanism", which examines current implementation practices in detail, and ultimately "recommends against the use of urgent indications":

Unfortunately, virtually all TCP implementations process TCP urgent
indications differently. (sec. 3.1)

All the popular implementations [...] interpret the semantics of the
TCP Urgent Pointer as specified in Section 3.1 of RFC 793. This means
that even when RFC 1122 formally updated RFC 793 to clarify the ambiguity
[...] this clarification was never reflected in actual implementations
(sec 3.2)

Because implementations just never bothered to implement RFCs 1011 and 1122's update, later in the document they retract the advice given by RFCs 1011 and 1122, overriding the earlier overriding of RFC 793, effectively returning to RFC 793's definition for the urgent pointer! (!)

There's more:

[...] an application might be unable to interoperate with itself if both
the TCP sender and the TCP receiver are running on the same host. (sec 3.2)

[S]ome middleboxes clear the urgent indications by clearing the URG
flag and setting the Urgent Pointer to zero. (sec 3.4)

Ultimately: don't do it. You will not have a fun time.

As a result of the issues discussed in Section 3.2 and Section 3.4,
new applications SHOULD NOT employ the TCP urgent mechanism. (sec 5)

Additionally, applications that still decide to use the urgent
mechanism need to be designed for correct operation even when the URG
flag is cleared by middleboxes. (sec 6)
> but like lunchtime drinking I thought it had died out in "the West"

This seems an awfully American-centric view.
Good enough for what? This is about aircraft design to reduce/eliminate the booms. Those test were about finding what the public would put up with, that being none at all.
"how are you" is not equivalent to "как дела" in this context. You don't get asked "как дела" by every single grocery store clerk.
I really don’t think describing two sides of the “culture war” as red and blue is healthy for anyone. Most people have a mish-mash of beliefs, but lumping people together creates division and solidifies factions, rather than allowing people to be swayed or make up their own mind.
> What could trustworthy mean if historical archetypes of honesty and great morality are not considered trustworthy?

What do the two concepts have in common at all?

Trustworthy means he will not screw me over if, say, I were to borrow him money. That simply has nothing to do with "who the person" is but only with "what he is like in his personal relationships". Business relationships are very personal and greatly dependent on one's personality.

In fact, the "greater" the person (in those historical, societal senses of the word) I'd actually be biased to trust them less even without any knowledge of their otherwise untrustiness.
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In theory there is separate oversight over public transit in the United States as well. In California the CPUC regulates, for example, Muni and BART while the CHP has oversight over agencies that use state and federal highways (the subset of the Muni fleet that runs down Van Ness and 19th Ave is under the purview of the CHP). In practice the regulators are feckless.
Yes.

I can't really fathom the snark here. Is providing this a bad thing?
Interesting! From a related discussion in 2017 on the bbr-dev mailing list:

BBR will run well with fq_codel only after linux-4.13 (not yet released)

Before linux-4.13, BBR _needs_ fq packet scheduler.

fq is not fq_codel.

See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bbr-dev/4jL4ropdOV8
I know multiple minimum wage workers who nonetheless spend a significant portion of their income on tobacco products, all of them taxed at enormous percentages. Taxation is literally the worst addiction cure in existence with 0 evidence that it works(and quite a bit of evidence that it does not and disproportionately hurts the poor).

"hey I don't really need this" is such a naive westie hipster take at it's not even funny. People do actually need social media, poor people and underprivileged communities especially. Your relative is working abroad? You need social media, your community suffers from serious corruption, you need social media. Natural disasters happen in your area often? You need social media. You need to find someone to barter with for old used items because you have no credit card access? social media can help you. You work in the city and need to make your way back home to the country on weekends? Car pooling groups are a life saver.

Social media globally is a tremendous net benefit to humanity. Just because the biggest ones are run by horrible SV oligarchs and infested with state security unscrupulous spammers and that some users can't seem to keep their face out of their phone doesn't mean the thing is bad, just that it has costs.

This is such a blatantly obvious social control and fund raising scheme not meant to actually help anyone, I'm confused how supposedly well educated thinking people can think it's a good idea in the benefit of it's victims.
"A low rumble" I presume? Thanks for the recommendation
It boggles my mind that I can get 80/20 fiber in semi-rural Scotland, and so many Americans are stuck on really crappy DSL connections!
This 4th of July, US veterans are calling on Congress to restore net neutrality
I almost lost a Google account because the Amdroid App I uploaded was I violation of their Terms. I had to work a few emails/calls with Google to demonstrate it wasn't a violation, but it was a very close call.
> I feel like it requires a full-time devops engineer to create and manage all of it.

It does.

Kubernetes is a great piece of tech but it is pretty complicated and does add a fair amount of overhead on top of whatever operational concerns you application already has. If you don't have anyone that knows how to build and manage a cluster going to production with it would be extremely risky IMO.

I would recommend trying GKE, Google's managed k8s service, in staging/dev before even considering it as a serious path forward. If you are married to AWS or just don't want to use GCP then kops would be your best bet. I have friends working with EKS, AWS' managed k8s service, and it doesn't sound anywhere near as ready as GKE or as flexible as doing it yourself, frankly it sounds like a real pain. I haven't used k8s on Azure but I have heard that it's pretty good.

I also don't generally recommend deploying a new application as decomposed services either. Unless you have done this a bunch of time it will probably save you a bunch of time to just do it as a monolith and deploy it to standard cloud VM's or on-prem servers. Also be aware that Docker and by extension k8s are not the best way to run stateful applications. It can be done but it is definitely more work to get a k8s based DB working the same way as a non-k8s DB in terms of data retention. I imagine a complex application will need some kind of data store so even if you go with k8s you may still end up with non-k8s instances for you data.

k8s is great but it's overhead con easily outweigh it's benefits if you don't have a someone who can manage it. Start simple if you can and work from there.
As far as I'm aware, lolicon is about fantasy, while child porn is about sex with children. The difference is not so much whether it's drawn or not, but whether it actually harms any real children.
Email me (address is in my profile), I can put you in touch with our current firm. The process has been very smooth for us in the past.
Fair point. If I knew a couple in an open relationship, I'd be uncomfortable, but I wouldn't make a judgment on their integrity.
It replicates the API and provides a distinctly primitive implementation of that API. By contrast java streams provides an API that can never, ever be implemented in such a way as to issue a clever SQL select.

I don't know whether the JINQ people plan to write a good query generator. But if I were the maintainer, my plan would definitely be to focus on the API first and only then work on optimal backend implementation(s).
The refusal of the author to describe the difference between the two (while expending so many words to emphasise that they are different) is a bit odd. Especially as Lolicon is a relatively well-known term in the English-speaking world, and is even derived from an English-language/Russian-American-written/French-published book.

It sounds like the author would like to use stronger, more direct words but is skirting the issue to avoid apparent bias (though the bias is really quite apparent) and ends up sounding vague throughout.
This tax is meant to curb political discussions and a one Tom Voltaire Okwalinga , presumably a hacker whose main platform was Facebook
and he was always leaking the illegitimate governments secrets, since they don't have the technical skills to find him and after wasting millions of dollars to scammers, the old man devised a plan to stop the people from accessing the platform itself.
This guy has got the president , his family and tribes-mate , booty lickers and his party members by the balls that they get to discuss him in tribe , party meetings and the parliament of all places.But the grand plot of their scheme is to prevent an uprising fueled by social media
Long story short, if you happen to pay for the tax, they will link your IP to your mobile money wallet which is linked to your simcard who's operators have details of you national ID , and like that , you get to disappear(tortured if lucky and worst of all whacked)
for the comment you made or the post you shared or liked made against the government.
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I liked their video: http://voicecode.io/# / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlluHR6pgHc
(ex-Melbournian living in London/Amsterdam with a sister who owned cafes in Melbourne ...)

In Melbourne there are two kinds of cafes (to overgeneralize):

- Those in areas with nightlife are open at least 07:00-22:30 (e.g. The Fitz, Marios in Brunswick St, Brunetti's in Carlton). Most customers sit down for meals or coffee and cake. They have full restaurant-style kitchens and make their margins from a traditional food menu and serving wine with dinner.

- Those in office areas are typically open 06:30-15:00 for breakfast and lunch and maybe an early afternoon coffee. They often operate out of smaller premises, have just a couple of tables, and most customers take-away. They make most of their margin from coffee. Food is simple - sandwiches, soup and salads - because they have minimal kitchen areas.

My sister used to own one of these cafes that closed at 3pm. After previously owning a hotel that was a very full 24x7 job, they decided to live in a rural area outside Melbourne to build their own house. Owning this type of cafe was attractive because they would be home by the time their kids got out of school.
There are plenty of people who have been in that situation and have regrets. They themselves take the moral high ground in condemning themselves. Hopefully, they heal by also forgiving themselves. People who refuse to admit wrong are more on the sociopathic side of the psychological spectrum.
That's s good point. Could definitely be an amplifying factor.
>>> I would not be surprised if workaholism caused more divorces than cheating.

Doubtful. The man is traditionally expected to have the job and provide for the family, while the woman can take care of the children at home. It's somewhat assumed that the man will spend a lot of time at work.
To raise a counterpoint, the point where I though Google as a Search engine started being "a bit evil" was the point where it stopped redirecting users to search result websites, and instead started displaying content on its own pages, in the form of snippets, thus reducing traffic to those cites.

I don't deny the util of being able to see movie times without having to click through, or a businesses contact details, but the effective redirection of traffic with reduction in site's ad revenue of whatever feels 'wrong'.
Indeed in the UK it would be common to go for a lunchtime meal with a colleague or two, and during that meal beer would be drunk.

I think it unlikely somebody would take a break solely to drink beer, but I'm sure it happens even in IT.
The HN crowd isn't going to give you the low-down, and if they do, they will assert their place high up in the safe territory of the moral high ground, on the right side of history.

Those that crawl out from under a rock to share, if they do, would really be taking a risk at revealing true identities. #metoo

But hey, maybe someone will try to take the "porn is empowering angle" and share some perfectly wholesome consentual lbgtq bdsm tales? Nothing unethical there, right?
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Noise “concerns” were very much genuine with the Concorde.

An incredible achievement of technology and engineering, but an environmental disaster.
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It's a bit sad that, as a result of the urgent pointer being useless, there are 16 zero bits sent in every TCP header. They can't even be repurposed - the specs say they're meaningful only when the URG bit is set, and leave their condition when URG is clear unspecified, but various middleboxes take a clear URG bit as licence to explicitly zero the urgent pointer on the way through. (And of course some clear it no matter what.)

This is one of those areas where IPv6 could have been something quite different and amazing. Separating TCP and IP was, in hindsight, a mistake; some alternate universe out there had the IPv6 process focus on finding a better way of carving up the problem.
Wtf? The noise concerns were legitimate, and started in the UK, not America. Know your history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Concorde_Project
The Northwinds sample database predates SQL Server. I remember using it with Microsoft Access 1.0 back in 1993...
Is the UK’s Defence Secretary a Walking National Security Risk?
My psychology teacher in high school had an anecdote - undoubtedly false because he lied a lot - about a student that one day some kids decided to do the experiment of telling him how especially nice he looked that day (he wasn't grungy or anything, supposedly a normal somewhat good looking kid in the 80s)

So they told him he looked good and he seemed to be peppier for the input. But the news of the experiment had leaked, everyone started telling him how good he looked wherever he went, and as the day wore on he started to react negatively to all the positive reinforcement. At the end of the day he yelled at some girl to leave him alone who had innocently complimented him. And then it went on some weeks more because nobody realized they should stop the experiment.

So he stopped taking care of his physical appearance! (remember, this was the 80s) and fast forward couple years later he was a real dirtbag punk rocker antisocial as anything.

So whenever I hear this stuff I think of this apocryphal story, mainly because of how ridiculous it is.
but, but, they are NOT evil, are they?
So unlike the clean and rational business decision making process in the gloriously enlightened West.
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* Write plugins in C#
* Use NuGet / .NET libraries in Wordpress
* Best of Wordpress ecosystem + speed / perf / ecosystem benefits of .NET
* Why not?
Yes, I nearly majored in it. It's basically spacecraft engineering + orbital mechanics and celestial navigation.
I did an experiment a couple of years ago where I wanted to see if I could write code 1 pomodoro a day. I recorded myself in asciinema. It's basically several 25 minute pomodoros of me implementing Core Wars (a VM for machine language programs that battle against each other) in Ruby. I hadn't written Ruby in a while and I was more interested in playing experimenting with a TODO list for being efficient with such a small amount of code per day, so the code is not really fantastic. However, if you are interested I did about 60 pomodoros, I think: https://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/

It's a super old version of asciinema (I haven't bothered to update it). Also, I recommend increasing the playback speed using the '>' key a couple of times so you don't have to suffer from my pathetically slow typing.
I'm in the UK - I went for a SEAT Alhambra (we tend to have to ferry our kids and their friends on camping holidays)
You only hear about the crazy stories. Most workplaces then (as now) were probably very boring.

Same reason the news doesn't do stories about "Husband and Wife went to work, picked up kid from daycare. Situation Normal".
I'm pretty sure that, while they apparently party much harder on their private time, north-western Europeans appear to be much more "prude" in their work life than any other group in the world.

I also believe it's actually a part of their cultural inclusivity. It's a very stressful pressure if you're expected to go to a strip club with your colleagues after work if you're female, gay or in a relationship where such behavior would be sanctioned by the other party.

Americans and Asians apparently expect others to "fall in line" in all corporate policy matters, including this one. So as a result of globalization the corporate policy matters that one is expected to "fall in line" to have slowly become the least common denominator of all this cultures and that's the type of business chastity that is normal in today's HR rule books and everything outside is hastily sanctioned.
For electricity that really doesn't sound too cheap.
> I'm pretty sure it's always been very normal in Thai society.

It is unclear which "it's" you are referring to. Group sex dealmaking or using group sex for bonding business partners as per the original article? I don't think that is normal in Thailand or any Asian society for that matter.

As for the history of prostitution in Thailand. That's a well covered subject. You're points are somewhat accurate but OP's point appears to be different than what you are addressing. I thought he/she was implying that the Vietnam war had overarching societal and economic consequences, one of which was the availability of vulnerable exploitable migrant and rural women in Thai cities.

https://www.endslaverynow.org/blog/articles/history-of-prost...

The location of Thailand plays a key role in the success of the sex trafficking industry. It is close to war-torn Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. China and Vietnam are also nearby. Various waterways along with porous borders also facilitate trafficking.

If the point that was being made was that the Vietnam war had huge side effects, including enabling horrific sex trafficking and exploitation, then yes, I would agree.
They 24X'd revenue in 12 months.

Whatever they did produced results.
> Do you know if there's a way that your company can report this as an inappropriate block to FortiMail?

Our corporate email is outsourced to another company, where they apparently use FortiMail as a packaged solution. So I don't think it's very likely that they'll listen to me - but I'll try anyway. Good luck with the new campaign!
Partying hard is away to bond and form a brotherhood of exclusiveness. It's a relief not having to bother with that anymore, it just leads to misery in my opinion. Sure that brotherhood feeling can feel great, but it's so easy to take advantage of if you know anything about group dynamics, just takes one psychopath or an experienced player.

I'm really glad alcohol isn't an requirement anymore.
You've broken the HN guidelines by making this personal. We've warned you about this before. If you do it again we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Australia isn't west of much except for New Zealand, but drinking a pot, pint, or glass of wine with a meal is entirely normal here. Getting drunk would be a big no-no, though.

Strip clubs I've not heard of. The craziest verifiable thing I've heard of was cocaine at a friend's office Christmas party.
Part of that is improvements in HPC. You can now do computational analysis of these designs and evolve a good solution way faster than was done by hand in wind tunnels for the Concorde and other supersonic aircraft. I don't think this would be possible without today's computational technologies, which allow orders of magnitude more "experimentation" (even if virtual) and therefore iteration in design.

Aside: personally I'm waiting for someone to take up the Avrocar, aka the original flying saucer UFO. It's basically the jet version of the helicopter or quadricopter drone from an aero engineering tradeoff standpoint. At one point the Army thought that they'd stop buying jeeps and start buying flying saucers instead, but the Avrocar project fell apart for dynamical stability reasons. It was just too difficult to keep it in level flight during flying regime transitions, and they weren't able to design a control interface a human could use to compensate. But that was with 50's tech, and I'm pretty sure with modern ML techniques you could design a fly-by-wire feedback response control system that would have no trouble stabilizing Avrocar or an improved version of it, just like Stanford got a helicopter to fly upside down (a very analogous stability regime actually). It would fill the niche for medium-distance drone transport or perhaps short-range personnel transport (like choppers).
Depends on whether it makes the site unusable, because that will make you lose customers
> Respecting monogamy, at least in America, is one of those things: regardless of how we naturally would like to behave, we are expected to (and promise to) respect the sanctity of marriage.

When did residing in a particular nation-state define such specific moral boundaries? Are you saying if I move to China I can cheat on my spouse because that's how things are done there? It seems you are applying your own morals to 300 million members of a very diverse group of people.
Yes, the first loonies were in the UK. Still, the Concorde operated out of Britain for four decades, and noone died.
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wouldn't forth be more obvious for handsfree programming? REPL command line to run functions or programs is the same REPL command line to define words i.e. the IDE.

Apart from a handful of unspeakable words which would need to be named speakably... The bigger reason I stay away from forth is mostly the memory/paging/record system
They are definitely comparable. First I don't buy that GDPR was about protecting normal people. It was a shot across the bows of Facebook and Google (but will actually end up working in their favour). The word for this is protectionism.

Also as I just wrote on twitter it kills innovation. All the ad revenue is supporting some of the most cutting edge machine learning work in the world. The data itself enables this too. The algorithms and learnings that come out of this can be applied in many spheres of interest and now all that is lost. It is a massive loss for innovation and humanity just as articles 11 & 13 will be.

People like GDPR because they have a kneejerk emotional reaction to it and they never consider the second and third+ order effects which are disastrous at best.
Install this and it contains Facebook: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

Install this and it contains LinkedIn: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkedin-cont...

It'd be great if Firefox were to integrate this into their out of the box build of Firefox.
And dare I say it... not only "one of those abilities that make humans as a species notable", but

...one of those abilities that make humans as a species
noble.
I can fully support advice 2) 4)
An ergonomic keyboard will work wonders.

1) NEVER take meds that mess with your brain! That's such an American vice.
3) ?
5) yes, but building muscles is better than building fat (can be combined;)
2 hour flight is OK, but 5+? I would pay up.