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On newer kernel is no longer required to install the "fq" qdisc to use BBR
Stop putting so many right wing people in office is a good start. Megadeals are able to be made because these people do not value, understand, or advocate for essental government services that cost money. The constituents of these cities are the losing party.
If you've been to Thailand, there's no reason for it to be said jokingly, at all.
Ask founders, ask users.
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I don't think even the worst nationalists only focus one one thing. But to be honest, I'd be okay with ignoring plastic for another decade if we'd make settling Mars the only topic anybody is allowed to work on.
Banned but not unsubscribed. Turned into a ghost who can see the world but not interact with it.
If you can't make a moral judgement about other people just because they are different from your culture, you are both setting them apart from you as a human and saying that your morals have no values.

There are some viewpoints like which is the best kind of bread that you can leave to personal taste, but if you view something as evil and let others off for it just because they are different then you might as well have no morals

Edit: Also your insinuation that I find cheating bad only because I'm some kind of White Knight is uncalled for. There are certainly Thai women that cheat, but it's not part of their culture to treat it as a standard and necessary part of business. People will make mistakes or just be bad people, but normalising that is not ok
bradfitz deserves the accolades that went instead to Zuckerberg. He’s the real genius hacker to admire.
This is good, because corporations actively try to jettison employees over 40.
I have a law degree, but I work as a full-stack developer. The shared logical thinking between law and programming is astonishing.

Nevertheless I transitioned from law to working in IT, because of the salary / career options ( being a successful lawyer is magnitude harder ).

As this seems like a crazy idea, I tend to agree that we need more specialised IT lawyers, understanding what's happening down to the byte. Unfortunately the idea folks are not always lawyers, but mostly politicians and this is quite hard to transition to.
OP has a scientific background.

-1 is meant as "to the power of -1". Thus, s-1 becomes 1/s, and the entire thing Mb/s

Never seen that either
The stadium "Stade de Suisse" in Bern, Switzerland has an interesting approach. The stadium is not owned by the local club but by a joint venture of the club and various shops that are located in the stadium. The entire stadium was financed by those shops, gyms and whatnot. As is maintenance.
Also, the shops are accessible from the outside even when no game is being played.
Trustworthy =/ World changing.

People can have a net positive on the world and still regularly backstab acquaintances. See Steve Jobs.
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~20 years ago I was a sales engineer to the extremely good salesman. We had submitted a substantial quote followed by invoice to one of the tier I carriers in US, but for reason or the other, it wouldn't get processed / paid. Rumor has it that the (now retired) VP blocking the payment at carrier in roundabout ways told to our sales exec that he will be going to Toronto at a given date and that he has never spent a night with sisters. Allegedly arrangements were made, and as soon as he was back, that PO was approved.

Till today, I do not know if that's how it expired. The salesman never admitted to anything. And in all ways he was one the most organized and professional salesman I've ever worked with. And in that vain, I want to believe this is how it also happened.
>> But if you looks at their entire search mechanism and the modal, it is true that it still runs on old metrics such as page rank and indexing which they introduced decades ago.

Not true.

>> Google seems to bring out outdated search results constantly.

If they want, they can easily tweak their algorithm to bring fresh results.
"Fake it 'til you make it" in so many words.
QUIC is kind of like a relaxed TCP over UDP. You can do SCTP over UDP (aka WebRTC), and TCP over UDP to gain those application-managed benefits with varying upper level trade offs.

SCTP has pretty wide support, but it's kind of like an IPv6-lite in terms of re-education and that is the barrier to move forward if to supplant or scalably supplement TCP for the web.
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It doesn't mean they are bad people. Everyone makes mistakes. You can do business with someone you can't trust, just don't put yourself in a position where your life/business/career/happiness depends on them behaving.
> I understand what you are saying, but open source code cannot be a product, so it doesn't matter whether you open source everything or not.

The point I'm making is: why open source it at all? Couldn't you earn money by keeping the source closed and selling the actual product?
I wonder if this is related to Boeing’s announcement: https://www.boeing.com/features/2018/06/hypersonic-concept-v...
This is tangential, but also relevant.

A big part of the problem is not the lack of money, it's completely reckless spending and management of money. If you look at the actual amount of money spent on any public servant ranging from teachers to police to garbage collectors, it's a minuscule fraction of the spending for their respective segment, as is the cost for facilities and other fundamentally necessary costs. Where the real expenses come in are in bloated administrative salaries paired with even more bloated administrative structure, unsustainable and irrationally constructed pensions, completely wasteful spending of discretionary funds, and so on. It takes a truly special government to manage to spend in excess of $2,000,000,000 billion on a website [1]. Of course that's federal spending but the exact same is true at the state level.

So for instance we ostensibly should take pride in the fact that we spend more on education than nearly any other country in the world (3 spend slightly more than us), even parity adjusted. It should show how highly we value education. Yet of course in reality our educational institutions are seemingly underfunded. What gives? As a random example Illinois, like most states, is currently in a 'higher education crisis.' This [2] article provides details on where their funding is going, and this is completely typical. Primary and secondary education suffers the exact same problems.

And this is a similar pattern in nearly (and that is a weasel word - to my knowledge it's safe to just say every) every single government program. So how can we fix this? One of the biggest problems with bureaucracy is that when money is 'free', there is a massive incentive to not only spend every single penny you have but also slightly overspend to justify budgetary increase requests in the future. Organizations that spend less don't get rewarded; quite the opposite - they get punished with reduced budgets in future years. If our government suddenly had an annual windfall of $10 trillion, it's not like we'd be living in utopia as far as state programs are concerned. We'd be running a deficit within a decade again with shockingly little to show for it all. It's the nature of bureaucracy. The point of this all is that whatever we are currently spending is certainly much more than we what we need to be spending, and if fair taxation resulted in less revenue (which, as an aside, is not necessarily a given) - I do not see that as a major problem.

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-24/obamacare...

[2] - https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/pensions-vs-higher-ed...
Survey HN: Have you experienced unethical sales techniques aka strip clubs?
So the discussion on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17453554 with booze fuelled strip club "meetings" made me think - I know this used to be a thing, but like lunchtime drinking I thought it had died out in "the West".

But perhaps not

Maybe I just don't get invited to those kind of parties.

Do people here have first hand or reliable experience of such activities in say the past five years?

Do you think it is good business ?
I read recently that the Chinese have a term for that, something like "Western white savior" to refer to westerners who moralize about Chinese culture and act like they will show the morally primitive East the righteous way forward with their progressive views.
It's a different license. Here's a direct link to the Microsoft Research Data License Agreement (PDF): https://msrodr-api.azurewebsites.net//licenses/2f933be3-284d...

Disclaimer: I don't know if this affects your concerns, but it's at least the right license.
Disclaimer 2: I work for Microsoft, but not for MSR, and don't know anything specific about this.
More specifically, it appears to require this commit[1] that's in kernels 4.13 and later.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-ne...
> limited-audience experimental protocol like QUIC

That is not true. QUIC is currently used by a large portion of all traffic on the internet. How? Precisely because it uses UDP, which is supported everywhere (and that Google controls both Chrome and YouTube).
Partying with the right people?
I don't know about other companies, but I work in global sales for an american Fortune 150 company and everyone knows that if there is even a hint of a rumor of something like the things being described here happening you will be fired faster than you can blink.
It doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad people, but it's certainly a good indication that they're bad people at least on a personal level. Of course this is assuming that they operated in an environment with the same ethics as my own.
Umm. I think that is too simplistic because it does not include a way to get the same shuffled deck if you ask it a previous query.

From what I gather it is like a procedurally generated massive open world game, where every time you ask for a new place to go, you get a new randomly generated place. The random oracle olso lets you return to all the previous places. By effectively making the same query, and getting identical answers from previous queries. In that way you can to old cities, planets, worlds.

Now, someone do a car analogy! :-)
Windows 8 and later has PrefetchVirtualMemory[1]. Before that your best bet is to get a little hacky and try reading the file asynchronously to get it in the cache (Windows caches files pretty aggressively, so this more or less works).

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh7...
The "sane" thing to do is to complicate the protocol by building it on top of both SCTP _and_ UDP? How is it the "sane" thing to do to make the protocol more complicated with a fallback that easily allows the middleboxes to just ignore the SCTP option knowing that UDP will work? That wouldn't have accomplished anything, except re-affirming that middleboxes tend to reject SCTP at rates that make it unrealistic to adopt it at scale. What they did accomplish, however, is getting an open protocol to the IETF for adoption that works on the actual internet. I fail to see how that is some sort of conspiracy or incompetence. And that isn't even taking into account that building on top of SCTP would have made some of QUIC's goals hard / impossible such as eliminating the penalty for establishing encrypted connections - something which benefits the internet at large.

What open protocols / standards duplicate WebSockets, WebRTC, or WebAssembly? TCP is kinda like WebSockets - but, giving any random JavaScript the ability to open TCP connections is a bad idea - nevermind that WebSockets provides are variety of useful abstractions such as messages. I'm not sure what you are saying duplicates WebRTC - there are a bunch of proprietary protocols, I guess, but, I'm not aware of anything open that its competing with. As for WebAssembly, it explicitly works with JavaScript providing significant efficiencies for certain types of code.

Google, Microsoft, etc have their faults. But, picking out instances of when they have worked together, in the open, to create free, open standards that benefit everyone to complain about is just super bizarre.
100 tons is fucking massive! Even my kerbals have trouble launching such payloads, when we can do that I see no problem colonizing the solar system.
Although DNA didn't exist at the time the FBI later got a useable sample from the clip on tie Cooper left behind. It was already used to rule out one potential subject.

Why didn't all that FBI brainpower tail the guy and get a sample of his DNA that could be compared? I kept reading in the story and it was never mentioned. If the FBI refused to run the test well then you know they're protecting him which I doubt.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/db-cooper-dna-results-match/story?...
Well, for one, most things described here would be a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the US; so if not morally wrong, it's at least illegal.
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The podcast .NET Rocks has several "geek out" episodes, which go into depth about tech. About two years ago they did one on supersonic flight, and I remember a lot of details about quiet sonic bombs there. Well worth a listen if someone wants to learn more about supersonic travel. Actually, all of the geek outs are fantastic.

[Episode summary]

> Concorde is gone, what will replace it? Time for a Geek Out! Richard talks about the aeronautical evolution that led to supersonic airliners, Concorde being the big one that flew from 1976 to 2003. What went wrong? Why did it stop flying? Besides the technological challenges, it all comes down to the sonic boom and laws that make it illegal to fly a civilian aircraft above the speed of sound. Richard talks about how technology has advanced enough now that aircraft can mitigate their sonic boom with specific shapes and flying capabilities. However, in the end, supersonics only get you there faster, typically for more money. Would you pay for to go faster?

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1286
It's weird to see real innovation happen again. For so many years innovation has been about how to fit as many meat bags as possible in a shoe box, prentending to be luxurious, at the adequate speed to save the most fuel as possible.
I was just skimming the comment (didn't read the article yet). But to me this feels a lot like Mad Men. In those series similar dark secrets were shared. And to me it seems to be good depiction of sexism in the 1960s in New York.

I'm just noting this since I know that I would have had much less of an image of a quote like this in your ocmment without having seen the series.
An amusing little sentence to end on:

> Event will be cancelled if hazardous weather conditions are predicted.
Going from Google's servers to home and cellular users is a limited audience in this context, because it avoids all the legacy middleboxes that tend to plague corporate networks. It's the same effect that's responsible for IPv6 traffic being higher on weekends. Consumers may not be competent at upgrading or administering their network equipment, but at least they throw it away every few years and buy something newer (or their ISP swaps out the rental modem+router box).
That would likely just flag you as someone trying to obfuscate facial recognition. Making you quite unique, no?

I have noticed that it's very hard to recognize faces of people with very black skin, under low-light conditions. So I can imagine black makeup that's 100% non-reflective across a wide range of wavelengths. But then there's millimeter-wave radar. How would one block reflection of mmW radar?
This times 100. Ended up having a week of intermittent outages when a Dev on my team created a single helper method which took in an Func<> not an Expression<Func<>>. Having the same interface for both is imo dangerous
I tried to delude myself for years, telling myself that I'm not a "morning person". It was just an excuse to stay up late and watch garbage on the TV or scroll endlessly through Reddit.

Since I've forced myself to go to sleep no later than 11, I've realized that hey, I actually am a morning person.
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Please cite sources for the Hitler reference.
> his annual budget had increased from $65m to $70m in the past two years – about the level of inflation. “So I’m at net zero.”

Now there's some creative spin, describing five megabucks as "net zero".

Even accepting the premise that the budget needs to be adjusted for inflation (some of which is, after all, increasing costs of such things as land and labor) over such a short time period, that's a rate of nearly 3.8% annually, which strikes me as remarkably high.
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Posture wise I am normally using a Matias Ergo Pro mounted vertically and an Evoulent Verticalmouse and of course an external monitor. But, in a pinch / short travel I can just work on laptop. I tried desktop before but since everything I work on needs to be on laptop too, the necessary sync becomes old quick.
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> Where I live, it would be hard to find anyone who didn't feel adults should take responsibility for the consequences of their own actions.

This is a very general statement and probably won't hold up in a number of specific cases, such as the total legalisation of the drug trade. But i do believe that "people" (as in: the majority) draw that line in a culture specific way and it appears that the US leans more towards personal freedom than the rest of "the west".

However, this discussion was about laws in Australia. I think it's reasonable to assume that the laws reflect the majority opinion. Now i'm not discounting fringe opinions in general and i certainly don't think the majority is always right. But in this case it's relevant because it offers a much simpler explanation for why helmet laws exist: because people living in those jurisdictions overwhelmingly want them.

Let me turn the argument around to illustrate: Not wearing helmets increases head injuries, and the people in power know that. Having a pro-helmet-law stance, it would make sense to see a conspiracy between lawmakers and health care providers (more brain damaged people, more revenue!). It seems much more reasonable to assume that places without helmet laws don't have them because people living there draw the line between personal freedoms and collective interests differently.

> I haven't made such an assumption.

Well, you wrote "Imposing helmets by law is a way to reduce cycling" and i really can't parse it any other way than to mean that the sole (or at least main) motivation for helmet laws is to reduce cycling. I stand by my words.
> innovation has been about how to fit as many meat bags as possible in a shoe box

That's an odd way to describe the most accessible era of global travel in human history. It's not like first class tickets, which provide a comparable experience at a comparable inflated-adjusted price, aren't available to bring back the 60s.

There are more travelers who want a cheaper ticket than there are those who want, more than cheaper tickets, (a) more comfort or (b) faster travel. Evidence for this is in the demand for cheap tickets with long layovers and repeat flyers in basic economy.
I'm not current on this and don't have the test setups to collect data, so I can't say much. All those feedback algorithms interacting implies not much predictability.
> What open protocols / standards duplicate WebSockets, WebRTC, or WebAssembly?

Those aren't duplicating open protocols, they're just re-inventing the operating system inside the web browser, but with more overhead and fewer features and generally not even working as well as Java. The Web-* standards just make it possible to do things inside the browser that are already possible outside the browser, and are a bad idea to do inside the browser. Their only advantage is that it makes it a bit easier for the developer to deliver the "application", but it usually also results in the developer leaving out a lot of functionality and refinement that a native application would have.
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Yes, obviously there are details that are missing. The article doesn't have any of the letters he wrote, and refers to a very complicated code indicated by repeating words, none of which were in the article.

Even with the evidence, I'm sure it's far beyond me to assess it, but it seems insane that people are dismissing a highly trained codebreaker's extensive work because 2 specific sentences in a newspaper article cribbed from multiple letters aren't immediately obvious to the layperson.
There is a fascinating pattern, in aeronautics, whereby the design that works best is almost always inexplicably beautiful. It's as if humans have a broad and innate understanding of aerodynamics, even far past our natural environment. (Contrast that with astrodynamics, where the best design is usually the ugliest.)