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If you've never poked the IRC protocol directly, Google how to connect to IRC with Telnet.

You can pretty reasonably use IRC just by writing to a socket - by hand. It's all human readable and understandable. It's incredible. It's what an open protocol should be.

Writing a simple IRC client is a breeze!
Yeah, it’s easy to get nostalgic about old stuff, particularly when the old stuff was legit good. But man, FTP and telnet needed to die in a fire.
> I can throw them in the washing machine if they get too dirty.

I bought my first pair of Birkenstocks in March and this is basically the issue I'm running into; with everyday wear, rain or shine, they get very funky very quickly and cleaning them is tedious and time-consuming.

The heel wore away quickly too and now the cork is rapidly disintegrating... I'm not too eager to buy another pair.
It sounds like you have a very flexible day job.
If these people can form a union, what's to stop them from forming their own agency and finding clients? Software testing isn't exactly a capital-intensive business.
I hate paying it... but let’s be honest. Before app stores and the hardware & phone OS’s they run, mobile apps weren’t a thing.

The justification is the distribution, curation, promotion, updates, support, etc. The massive infrastructure needed to deliver the latest & greatest mobile tech, the APIs that let developers take advantage of it, native payment processing, tax reporting, etc.

You don’t even need an LLC to go into business for yourself. That’s huge and worth 30% IMHO.
No man, the bugs are open from long time. The team is no more, don't know why. Only the founder is doing commits from months.
I had so much hopes on dgraph, it was way better than other graph dbs but immature
Ask HN: Worth becoming a standard AWS partner?
Hey guys I'm basically on track to complete all of the requirements for Standard Partner on AWS. However, the 2500 USD per year fee is a big chunk of change with unclear ROI.

Am I missing some 101 on being a Value Added Reseller or Managed Service Provider? Basically, I'd love to migrate on-premise solutions to AWS and other AWS centric activities.
Most of the time people get rich by doing exactly what you want to do: help others.

But is that true? You have a feeling it is; I have a feeling it's not. I don't know if there's research on the (rather vague and hard-to-define) question, but that would be interesting to find out. I guess you aren't thinking of inherited wealth, which may be how most people actually get rich. Then there's the people who got rich from investing. Then the people who get rich from e.g. making weapons. Then.. (a dozen other categories omitted) I suspect it's rather small percentage left, but I'm guessing. Apologies if you aren't also.
I don't know why cap&trade should be more effective, it is almost certainly less efficient.

For example, a cap implies that polluting X amount is bad, polluting X-epsilon is good, and then sets a market around that. But taxing pollution means the less one pollutes, the less one pays, with the idea that less is better.

The other advantage of taxing pollution is it provides revenue to the government, while regulations and caps do not.
Okay, I found it. A SMT knob was added alongside in the L1TF fixes.

/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt

/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/active

/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control

active: Tells whether SMT is active (enabled and siblings online)
control: Read/write interface to control SMT. Possible

values:

"on"	SMT is enabled
"off"	SMT is disabled
"forceoff"	SMT is force disabled. Cannot be changed.
"notsupported"	SMT is not supported by the CPU

If control status is "forceoff" or "notsupported" writes are rejected.
I wonder if the recruiters for these “totally optional roles” are the sort who would also provide helpful reminders that wearing 15 pieces of flair is just the bare minimum.

> Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to wear more and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don't you?

-- Office Space, 1999

I can almost feel the soul leeching sensation behind the forced cheerfulness. Though that could be a bit of projection if these are PR people pretending to be workers instead of workers acting as PR people.

But it's still disturbing in a more direct way than news reports about workers peeing in bottles to help shave time to hit performance targets.
The notes / rhythm in the particular score aren't accurate to the recording, except for the lyrics. Supposing if you played it as written there, it wouldn't be so recognizable. Personally, I don't much fancy calling something so inaccurate a 'score'. More like, a 'rough suggestion' or something. A score is supposed to be like a thing that someone like Hans Zimmer would write for an orchestra. Pop songs typically don't have scores involved in their production anyways, which may be partially responsible for the inaccuracy. But the real responsible party is the person who transcribed it wrong!
"Their algorithms are designed to pick up on stock prices fluctuating before major corporate announcements, indicating that those buying or selling have insider knowledge..."

As someone who has coded high frequency algos that tracked orders and fill rate velocity, I love this little tidbit of knowledge that FINRA utilizes it's own types of analysis. It intrigues me to imagine the accuracy and dismissal of false positives. sorry nerding out on the tech
We currently have duopoly which is not much better than actual monopoly.

The reason we don't have anti trust litigation is because neither GOP and DEMs are interested to do it and that's because these companies since them got smarter and heavily lobby.

Corruption all the way.
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On the upside, I recently learned that the actual restaurant chain that inspired that bit quietly did away with flair after the movie came out.

/apropos of nothing
I guess my only thought is "why wouldn't they?" In an RTS FFA custom game, the two less strong contenders are always going to at least try to give the appearance of a united front against the score leader.
Slack is perfect for organizations, whereas IRC is not. And no, we're not locked into anything.
Nope, which is why I generally have JS disabled.
That money comes from future earnings. Averaged over the whole economy, it doesn't have a net effect.
I'm not even disturbed. I'm just very puzzled that there are people who would think these messages were anything but pure PR propaganda. It's so blatantly obvious to me.

...and it might just be my unfamiliarity, but "FC Ambassador" just reminds me of football more than anything else. That part of their branding isn't working, if they're trying to get into the minds of people who aren't familiar with the company.
i'm with satire, or counter marketeering
These accounts certainly seem like they are being directed or encouraged by corporate. I know quite a few of the ambassadors at the warehouse where I work and I don't think any of them would post these kind of responses on Twitter without some kind of direction from above.

Also, in case there is confusion with the term "ambassador", from my understanding this is mostly an internal title for associates who lead some training sessions for new hires. It doesn't come with any pay or benefit increases, it's just a nice thing to do if you like training new hires and want an occasional break from your normal duties. These aren't really meant to be outward facing brand ambassadors, at least that's been my understanding.

Disclosure: I work at an Amazon warehouse.
For those confused: Textual isn't an IRC Server, it's an IRC client.
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You (perhaps intentionally, perhaps not) have stumbled into a whole other topic:

Companies need capital. There are generally two ways to raise capital: debt and equity.

How do companies choose between these two options? It turns out that there are a pretty large number of factors and it's a complex and interesting topic.
My learning from this article:

1. An app for 1:1s is a real business!

2. You need 30 people to run this business!

3. Stay away from articles titled "M things for N things". You will find pointless regrets like "Not trusting my gut". So what's the solution? Trust your gut all the time?
I got that idea from being a decent human being that understands that workers will work more efficiently if they're not struggling in their personal lives; a struggle which can happen as a result of the market undervaluing humans with respect to the cost of living, and the workers lacking the bargaining power to demand what they need / deserve.
Sure, but just because two things are taxed at the same rate doesn't make them the same.

And I would argue that, in effect, the capital gains are taxed less because the tax is not taken out each year, and instead the capital is left to compound.
Dell.
Return? Birkies, umm, left?

They’ve been going in and out of style about every twenty years since the Sixties, like many things fashion. Like a faithful Apple user that’s been clinging to Macs through thick and thin since 1985, I can’t tell you how many pair I’ve had since the early 80s.
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You're probably right. Maybe the distinction is that Amazon has gotten a lot of bad press about its warehouses so the cognitive dissonance felt by the observer is more pronounced.
Universal Basic Income, adjusted per country, is a very good start. Probably assign varying coefficients to it depending on demand and supposed rarity of the job. There are not that many building architects for example so probably multiplying UBI times 2.5 is "fair".
Because the parts you need to provide the functionality you want at the level of security Yubico is promising are expensive.
You’d be surprised what people will believe. I once commanded 11m Facebook fans. It was surprisingly easy to convince a certain percentage of people to do whatever you tell them to do. Some people are so gullible blind and stupid that it makes you lose some faith in humanity when you see how easily manipulated they can be.
What a terrible, ad-ridden front page.
I don't think the ground workers at Amazon:

1. Care about tweeting about their company.

2. Talk like that.

However, I think this could be real if:

1. Amazon has some incentive program that basically allows workers to take on a "marketing assignment" for some sort of bonus. If so, how is this different than contriving good reviews about your restaurant on Yelp?

2. Amazon has developed or is paying for third party software that lets their PR people quickly manage and create activity on multiple Twitter accounts from a central interface.
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Gp was probably assuming an audience who had read the article.

From the article:

In Japanese, the phrase “I love you” exists linguistically, but does not exist culturally. Linguistically, it is best translated as 愛してる or Aishiteru. Unlike English, it does not contain the “I” and “you” involved in “I love you”; instead, the “I” is implicit, belonging to the speaker only in assumption, as is the “you.” The phrase most directly means “(I) am loving (you),” as if to convey that love is an active labor, not just an amorphous feeling tossed between two parties.
I used IRC Cloud for some time. Pretty good, actually. Works almost everywhere, nice UI. It's certainly no irssi in a tmux/screen, but it's pretty good. Costs $5/month when I was using it (so close to the same as a VPS or proxy.)
um, if people are being priced out, that could come from either supply or demand (or both or other factors).

But I think the core point is that if individuals drop out of a market, that relieves demand which can keep prices down and thus allow others to keep consuming!

In other words, if many of us do the environmental thing and drive less, that just enables wasteful irresponsible others to more cheaply use up all the same gasoline in the end.

Or because LED lights got so efficient, places (in China incidentally) can plaster them over most of the surface of a building for no reason other than showing off, thus using up all the efficiency gains.

To actually reduce overall consumption and pollution, we need widespread social changes that make such consumption and pollution seem shameful (and/or illegal) even though the market price isn't itself discouraging.

The only market solution would involve effectively internalizing the now-externalized costs of pollution.
...and people still buy motorcycles (which are significantly cheaper), proving that "security" or "safety" is not an absolute, nor a must-have.
Revenue, not profit. Their margins might be very slim.
Yup it will be. I've actually been in touch with Dmitry, he came up with a nice backup solution. We were thinking about coming up with some sort of protocol so devices may initially be designated as this sort of backup.
My Discord <-> IRC <-> Slack <-> Matrix bridge with Matterbridge [0] still works as of today, I didn't notice anything being shut down.

[0]: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
I keep meaning to write a simple client to get some networking code practice. It's been sometime since I wrote some.

> It's what an open protocol should be.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I agree, but I also want to welcome things like gRPC/Protobuffs over HTTP/2 which introduce really fast comms between clients and servers, sacrificing the visibility of the stream's contents.
The SEC complaint from 2015 is also a fun read: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2015/comp-pr2015-16...
1. Care about tweeting about their company.

I feel the same way. I know a lot of warehouse associates are active on some of the Amazon Instagram pages, but that's mostly just silly pictures and activities. I don't think anyone would post such detailed responses on their own when they aren't being paid.
I agree the transcription is awful, but would you say it's unrecognisable?
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Interesting... I suppose their game plan is to get bought by Airbnb for providing them with a convenient add-on service that could boost their revenue.
All barriers are insurmountable UX burdens to a significant portion of users, no matter how trivial the barrier.
You should see the scale of similar manipulation efforts that exist on Reddit. Hundreds, sometimes thousands of accounts that completely overtake a sub to drive a certain viewpoint. Any decently intelligent person can see what’s going on but I’m afraid there is a large number of people who are non the wiser. I’ve seen this sort of social manipulation on a grand scale across numerous large online publications with yahoo news being the worst offender.
At least they are using something which is an open standard, that's a good thing
Okay so the earlier poster was correct that capital is consumption all the way down if you twist the semantics to say that owning land is itself consumption (and that's reasonable enough, I'd accept it for sake of discussion).
In Amazon’s early days(pre Twitter obviously) there were plenty of warehouse workers who could have written far better tweets that sound less Borg Collective-y
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. Hotels cheap out on that stuff all the time.
I'm fairly certain these are satire and not actually affiliated with Amazon at all.

Just the bio alone seems to give it away:

https://twitter.com/fc_ambassador/with_replies

Maybe only this one is satire? Hard to tell which level of galaxy brain this is.
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>Amazon has some incentive program that basically allows workers to take on a "marketing assignment" for some sort of bonus.

I haven't heard of any such program, but if it existed, I guarantee Amazon wouldn't offer a bonus for it.
People talk about blockchain and ML/AI as the revolutionary technologies of the day, but I think public manipulation via the Internet (social media at least, probably more) may turn out to be more significant.

Is it real and does it work? Undoubtedly, there are people who believe it works and invest a lot of resources in it, from businesses to political movements to governments (Russia and China, for example). We can see that disinformation can be effectively spread, and it seems hatred and other things as well. Arguably, we can see it to a degree in Facebook's and Google's (and others') valuations. We discuss it, from a different perspective, on HN regularly. But what are the technical details of this new tool: In what situations does it work and in what does it not? How powerful is it? How much does it cost? How does it work on a detailed level? What are the key components of this machine? Is anyone talking - we know it's done widely, so it seems that information about this technology should be available. (I'm not asking for speculation - we have heard plenty of that - I'm looking for actual technical knowledge.)

Another way of looking at it: Perhaps it's analogous to the Creel Commission - innovations in manipulation via a new communication technology.

For example, how did Amazon and others turn around Seattle's new tax so quickly and effectively? IIRC, it was widely supported and then public opinion reversed itself in a matter of months.
Miss Manners says you should call people what they wish to be called.
I hoped WebAuthn would allow such general-purpose use of security devices. Unfortunately, in the spec: "To save bandwidth and processing requirements on the authenticator, the client hashes the client data and sends only the result to the authenticator. The authenticator signs over the combination of the hash of the serialized client data, and its own authenticator data." [1]

So, in the foreseeable future on the web, the devices are useful just for authentication.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/
Smalltalk is still a thing of beauty.
...it sounds like they did fix them? People used to complain about not getting bathroom breaks and unpleasant temperatures. Either they're lying, or they did fix those things and are informing people of it.
Yeah, we're working on fixing the existing bugs and working with Kit Patella (https://github.com/mkcp) to further extend Jepsen's Dgraph tests.

The Snapshot Isolation bank test bug, in particular, is proving a lot harder to reproduce now -- it takes many hours (even up to 8h) to show a violation; which makes debugging harder obviously. The rest 2-3 are sort of related and easier to fix.

I doubt Jepsen blog post would be updated, but once all the remaining bugs are fixed, we'll write a blog post about it on https://blog.dgraph.io.
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And what of those who are not engineers? Do they not matter to you? Maybe I'm being dense, but I assume that the engineers are making the most, so they were not the ones I was referring to. An economy doesn't subsist only on engineers alone. The trivial increases in terms of wages or one time bonuses are going to the non-engineers; the manual laborers, low level employees, etc..

These one time increases and whatever other bread crumbs that get handed out are sculpted to feel good at that moment, but pale in comparison to the truck that's going to hit them down the road when the completely unnecessary government budget deficit as a result of tax relief for the rich starts eating away bit by bit at the government and country. This isn't hyperbole. This is history repeating itself.
Any advice on cleaning them? Seems to be a problem from other comments.
While you're totally right about the government spending, that's where currency comes from, not where capital comes from. Currency in practice is our measure of capital, but it isn't inherently capital. The government could give everyone a trillion dollars, but whoever actually owns land and factories and natural resources will still be the people with capital.
I have two pairs of Birkenstocks, a cheap foam pair and another cork leather one that I just got. I've been wearing them for the past year, even in the winter or in the rain.

My conversion followed from the thought of having sock-less shoes, mainly from the cathartic feeling of removing them after a long day. A cousin recommended me to get a pair of Allbirds; initially, I liked the material of the shoe but it still didn't feel "breathable" (especially on a hot day in summer) and the wool began to rub my feet in a wrong way. This is in addition to the issue of build quality: the glue at the head of the shoe was visible, and also began to deteriorate; I've also had a friend whose Allbirds ripped during a session of basketball -- it lasted only a couple of months.

I'm not sure about how other people feel about this, but if a shoe or a sandal costs over $100, it should last at least for a year or two; I sincerely doubt that the difference between retail price and manufacturing cost is small enough to not cover a replacement 3 times over.

My issues with Allbirds stirred me to find a long-lasting, breathable pair of footwear. I don't remember if it was seeing people on campus wear sandals, or hearing about the longevity about Birkenstocks on reddit that drove me to buying a cheap, "test" pair.

After test-driving a foam version, I decided to invest the mid-tier Arizona sandal (which I'm still wearing today).

Back to the main question, is the "return" of Birkenstocks unlikely. I don't think so: the culture of the company seems to fit well with the demographics of millennials, who aren't afraid to splurge on items with great story / quality behind it.

And anecdotally, the first time I wore them outside, my friends jestingly compared my sense of fashion to a "white, sorority girl" (which I take to be an implication of their popular amongst college students).
Birkenstock has an actual distinctive product.

I'm more curious about the efforts to revive/remarket Champion and Fila as the streetwear brands they are today.
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You understand that in addition to simplifying the protocol, confining it to authentication helps, somewhat, keep Webauthn from becoming essentially a hardware cookie.
You are forgetting the utility. A $2500 computer in 1992 without internet, GUI etc would be as hard sell as ML-1. As utility of the product increases, the $2500 price tag starts making sense. The biggest issue with AR is that we haven't found the killer application yet. It's not the form factor or field of view (we have had large computers with pathetic displays), it's the utility to a common consumer beyond few minutes of amusement.
Do it for 20 apps. On two keys. When every app has a different place they hide the feature, when every app has a different workflow to get it done, and most of them don't tell you they support it in the first place. It really sucks. At minimum, WebAuthN should enable detecting when the key has been slotted and ask if you want to enable U2F, then take you through it...but nobody does, and nobody probably will anytime soon.

At work, Okta at least will handle it for us, but personally? It really sucks.
This is temporary, due to the wildfires. The Seattle area is in the same situation, although it cleared this afternoon.
> it sounds like they did fix them

On what basis? All we have is PR talking points presented, deceptively, as genuine opinions of real employees. That doesn't seem like evidence.
I don't find that particularly insightful. The reality has always been that companies which find the most effective way to either produce or consume electrical power are the most profitable. Actually I'd argue that power consumption per capita corresponds quite well with prosperity. If you want to 'win big' in the long run, do it in power in one form or another.
Dr. Martens will always be cool. Birkenstocks, not so much.