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What "bloat"?
It's curious to see that when a technique comes out and is being misunderstood by the masses and praised as the best thing since sliced bread. Suddenly robustness, accountability and predictability turn into "bloat".
Do you have a real world example?
I have recently found myself forgetting that I’m even using DDG. The odd time it doesn’t return what I’m looking for I can try !g but it’s so few and far between that I almost forget that’s an option.
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If you have an understaffed team with a list of clearly defined tech debt, a temporary addition to the team to address the tech debt could ease pressure on the core team and allow them to "catch up" and work more efficiently.
The Intelligent Investor: It's a classic finance book for the layman, that really covers a ton. There's lots of little bits that provide huge insight.

I've been getting an interest in finance, so I've been reading this type of stuff, and maybe end up at a fintech company this year.
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I have to admit I am confused on this point.

I thought there was one theory that owning the stock makes one an insider because you are an owner.

I find people worried and thinking about this all over the web:

https://www.ibtimes.com/should-hedge-funds-be-concerned-abou...
You do know that an ISP has much more equipment than the cables that run to your house right? Good internet vs bad internet can easily be entirely in mismanaged peering, qos, aggregation, etc.

IPv6, support for static IPs, etc all depend on much more than the wire. I'm not confident municipalities have any motivation to do more than the bare minimum when it comes to managing all of this stuff beyond the physical infrastructure.
Electric and gas are usually not municipally owned.

Water is usually municipally owned but it's intentionally subsidized to the point where even poor people can afford it with relative ease so I'm not sure it makes sense to compare it to internet because presumably internet would need to be approximately pay for itself.
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In undergrad and a little bit into grad school, I did some 3DIC research. It was interesting stuff and really exciting to expand architectural design into 3 dimensions.

The biggest problem was heat as the additional layers trap heat in the chip and make it much easier to let the magic smoke out.

I don't see much in this article explaining any groundbreaking approaches and the diagrams offered look much the same as they did 5 years ago.
> Is this logging already available on Grafana Cloud ? Because someone I know is looking for a hosted logging solution and was looking at ELK till now.

There is a free preview right now: http://grafana.com/loki We'll be introducing a paid tier in the next few months, once things are more stable.

> Do you have integration with Docker ? Especially Logspout ?

Not yet! That sounds like a great idea though - mind filling an issue in the repo for it so I don't forget?
It's mostly just the natural evolution of catering to their #1 entity - large corps.

I don't think they care about the long tail.

The 'specialization' may just be an advantage, maybe not.
It's worth mentioning that in 1999 there were already tools that helped. Perl's Taint Mode was one of them. In a nutshell, any variables containing user input could not be used for stuff involving OS paths, system calls or databases. The only way to use such input would be to "launder" the data, usually by using regular expressions to pull out the pieces that actually look plausible.

As a side-effect, this introduced some great usability conveniences, such as numerical fields (think credit cards, age, dates…) in which the user could type all sorts of junk or poor formatting, and yet get some sane validation.

Nearly 20 years later, we're still a step backwards in having what I call "Forgiving UX", and have things like rigid drop-downs to select month/year of expiration on a credit card, instead of just lifting the first 4 digits—regardless of how the user typed them—and calling it a day.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Taint-mode
This comment is disingenuous at best. It also displays an ignorance of the history of Telecom in the US.

Cable companies were originally granted charters or franchise agreements in the 1970s and 1980s in the US. At that time cable companies were very much local and regional[1]. Also at that time television was delivered over the air and the monopoly was Ma Bell. Twenty years of consolidation happened at the national level. The victims of this hyper-consolidation were local.

Furthermore these municipal franchise agreements given to cable companies/ISPs are generally non-exclusive which is why there are some areas that actually have a duopoly instead of just a monopoly.

Municipalities will generally grant right away access to other interested parties which is why some places have both Verizon and Comcast or Comcast and Uverse etc. In fact the franchise fees collected by municipalities are a great source of revenue. I don't think there's a city in the US that isn't interested in collecting more money.

NYC recently sued Verizon for failing to fulfill its obligations of providing full coverage(and an alternative to the incumbent) to residents of the city[2]. So no local governments are not to blame for the corrosive and corrupt culture of these ISPs. Certainly not in any appreciable manner.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/14/chart-of-the...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-city-verizon-internet/
This is de-facto status quo in tech. Usually the carrot is that you can transfer into the company as a FTE in a year or two. I've also seen people go from FTE to a contractor doing basically the same job just with a different title. Honestly, there should be a mass class action by these contractors at Google. Maybe that will put an end to it all. Trump could curry a lot of favor by investigating these issues. It's as big an issue as H1B.
Too bad they didn't write Fuchsia itself in Rust. You expect something better than plain old C++ for a project in 2018.
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The bookies in the UK were predicting a victory for remain at the time.

What's more interesting, though, is that the majority of bets were for leave, but the bigger bets were for remain. The bigger bets tipped the bookies' odds two to one in favour of remain as far as I remember.
Concur. I was interrupted by two different popups within the first 15 seconds of trying to consume content, so I gave up and left.
I agree that there are risks, but at the very least you and your neighbors can a) identify corruption or mismanagement and b) work to vote corrupt leadership out. Much harder to do with Comcast.

(And for the record, I'm all for real competition in these markets. Let Comcast and the municipality battle it out. May the best provider win.)
1. Amazon is paying a living wage (and more)
2. FDRs politics to this effect failed
The article link is broken at this time, but this seems to be the Github repository: https://github.com/runbox/runbox7
Hence my clarification that it wasn't fraud because the articles were true (or at least based on enough evidence to clearly not be fabrication).

Fraudulent market manipulation is illegal (such as that based on fabricated or material nonpublic information). Market manipulation when based on good-faith information discovered legally is entirely legal.
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>America's present ISP situation is worse than almost any alternative.

Blanket statements like this are pointless. I lived in Austin for a few years and had multiple fiber ISPs to choose from and was able to get 1 gbps for $70/mo.
No one is forcing people to work for companies that pay low wages, so there's no justification for intervening in their private business and forcing them to shut down.

You're also not helping anyone by killing off companies that pay low wages. There is no automatic substitution where a new company emerges that pays good wages when you kill off an old company that paid low wages.

All you do by killing companies off with mandatory minimum labor standards is reduce the demand for labor, and with it, wages.
"Intel expects to launch a range of products using Foveros beginning in the second half of 2019."

That timeline implies they've done the internal technology demonstration and the implementation is somewhere in the tapeout process.
This is a purely random approach. Currently on 382.08832 after 1.4B swaps. Might have a look at tweaking things later when I'm not at work...
This is the best ducking thread on the internet today. Well done all.
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Agree with you on Taleb. The guy has an Incredible mind.
Why it was squatting?
Don't forget "Rates went up, but the central bank struck a dovish tone so bonds rallied". Blegh.
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The mayor of my town won election with just over 300 votes. Even the nearby city of 100k people elected their mayor with only 10,000 votes.

It's a lot easier to rid yourself of corruption at this level than it is at a corporate or a federal level.
That's right. You can read more about it at https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/. There you'll find how remote work is changing the workforce, how it changes the organization, advantages for employees and organizations and what did we learn about remote working.
> Man's Search For Meaning (brooo... I am so sorry)

??
And let's be honest, while macOS has a lot of BSD in it, it isn't FreeBSD.
Uber is 'hell-bent on stifling competition,' an out-of-business startup claims
No, they don't. See my other comment.

NameCheap provides auction services through third parties for certain domains. You're confusing a poor experience caused by a bad response from one of these third party services with them doing something malicious. GoDaddy actively sells lists to "Executive Domain" accounts specifically so they can make money off the resale of these domains. NameCheap is just listing domains from third parties that provide auction services and sometimes they either don't get a response (so they show the general "buy" option) or they get an incorrect response (so you get an error). You're suggesting malicious intent on the part of NameCheap without any evidence that it exists.

Also, how is what you described scammy in any way? There's a difference between an error showing up for a domain name vs. a domain name showing as available and then later in the day showing up for an exorbitant price on the same site. NameCheap even labelled that domain for you as coming from a third-party but you're choosing to ignore that to sell the narrative that they're scammy.
His lawyers have abandoned him and he is now defending himself on the supposed whistleblower case.
How do people do HA with DO? Coming from the AWS world I’m used to running in 3 or more AZs.
How did that come to pass? Was it people losing their balance and falling?
Anti-SLAPP laws generally allow for quick dismissal of lawsuits that fit the criteria. They don't lay out any criminal penalties for doing so. Also, not every state has an anti-SLAPP statute.
I read a lot. These were the best books I read this year.

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński. Kapuściński was a Polish journalist who traveled around the (mostly developing) world, reporting on civil wars, coups, revolutions, and other tumultuous events. This book recounts many of his experiences in Africa over several decades and is interesting in its insight into the lives of ordinary people. Someone told me Kapuściński had the most interesting life of anyone in the 20th century and I'm inclined to agree with that.

Congo: An Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck. Congo is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural resources, but one of the poorest and least functional in terms of economics and institutions. This book gives a good overview of the history of Congo and explains why the problems are so deeply rooted.

The Rise and Decline of Nations and Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, both by Mancur Olson. Why do some nations develop into relatively free, relatively rich countries, while others stagnate in perpetual conflict and poverty? How can countries transition from one of these states to the other? Why is it so hard to get obviously beneficial changes to occur in developed countries? These books try to answer these questions. I don't think they have the entire answer, and they don't have much in the way of easy solutions, but they get a lot of it right.

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. I thought Freud was largely discredited and his theories superseded by better ones, but reading this book showed me how insightful Freud really was. He is one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. This book helps you answer questions like: Why are most people unhappy? Why do our societies have so many problems? How can we simultaneously satisfy our desire to live in a community with our desire to be independent?

Spring by Knausgaard. I don't think I can do justice to this by summarizing it. It's a beautiful, sad, and short book. Definitely worth reading.

Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty. I'd been hearing a lot about postmodernism, mostly in a derogatory way, over the past year, but I had a hard time believing many of the criticisms of it were true. These two books do a pretty good job of articulating a postmodern worldview and you realize postmodernism isn't the boogeyman it's been made out to be. In fact, it seems like a fairly obvious step from the Enlightenment ideals of rational inquiry to postmodernisms primary project of questioning where the truths that this rational inquiry finds come from and whether they are valuable or not.

The Burden of Responsibility by Tony Judt. Only worth reading if you are interested in French politics. Profiles three French public intellectuals who stood apart from the mainstream in their opposition to totalitarian communism. Not a hagiography; this book offers criticism of these figures at times, though is largely admiring.
Do you have more about what is considered privileged access? That notion of privilege seems to be a slippery slope.
> Sell yourself as a software engineer who knows security, and watch the money rain as literally everyone tries to hire you

How can you brag about the fact that a software engineer who knows security is worth more on the market, then try to claim that every engineer needs to know how to write highly secure code? Those are incompatible ideas.

A lock manufacturer designs locks. A carpenter designs the building the lock is securing.

You wouldn't rely on your carpenter to build you a lock, because you understand that they are two separate domains of knowledge. You need to have this same mindset about good security and good engineering.

Digital security requires a high amount of specialized knowledge and involves far more variables than lock construction. It also requires constant vigilance and integration, where as a lock is fire-and-forget.
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Meh, I suppose that's somewhat convenient. Those have been available on the Start Menu however if you clicked a radio button in its preferences and enabled Admin tools. You can also right click the MyComputer and pick manage.

I don't use those so often that I need a dozen shortcuts.
It shouldn't fall to me to pay a business's employees directly. The business should pay its own employees.
> bronco21016 for Mayor 2019

Can we do this? How could we put this together? More generally, is he qualified? How do we tell?
This is what, for example, Android's ART does. On 64-bit platforms all the JVM references remained 32-bit. They know the heap base address so they can trivially expand the references out on deref, saving the memory overhead.

But in this case you can't do it entirely in userspace because things like mmap exist. You get pointers from syscalls all the time, and those can't really be compressed down since there's not a single fixed base address to add onto them. You'd have to use a different type to represent malloc'd memory that is conforming to 32-bit compressed references, but that gets real messy real fast.
People have been prosecuted for sitting in on a court case and trading the second the ruling was made because it was deemed that the information was not yet public information.

It’s definately not ok to trade based on insider information. Doesn’t matter if you just heard from you cousin who’s the CEO of a company that they are about to tank or reach for the moon. You might not work for the company but you are still guilty of trading on non-public insider information.
The "book" I will recommend is: A practical guide to evil [1]. Extremely fun read.

[1] https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/
Thats a really good question. I feel like its pretty well covered in the design doc[0], and you should also read about OKlog[1] which really championed this idea.

To be clear: Loki indexes metadata about the streams, and the streams themselves are indexed by time. We don't full-text index the streams though. We think, when combined with metrics, this represents a nice trade off in terms of complexity vs features. This simplification not only makes Loki easier to understand, but also scale and operate.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/11tjK_lvp1-SVsFZjgOTr1vV3...
[1] https://github.com/oklog/oklog
>is the panacea we all hope for

I have never seen "panacea" used by anyone except those opposed to any public infrastructure, and while you sound like you're speaking in all good faith and I appreciate that I still have trouble seeing this as something other then a strawman. Of course governments can have issues too. Public roads can have potholes. Bridges have not been kept up. Public parks aren't always maintained to the extent they're supposed to be. Etc etc. But at the same time there are plenty of good cases to show it can be done very well too, and the massive failures of privatized infrastructure are also in ample evidence. Fundamentally natural monopolies and basic floor level services for society (taking into account not just existing people but future generations and flexibility value to the nation overall) aren't great fits for a market. Some things really do make sense as an area of government.

Corruption is simply something that has to be fought, period, but we do have the tools to do so more easily at the local government level then for more widely distributed private entities. And whatever else the fact is that privatized information infrastructure simply has not worked overall. There will absolutely be cases of mismanagement and corruption in public information infrastructure should it become widespread, there will be fierce fights and politics and so forth same as with roads and everything else. That however doesn't make it worse then the alternatives, and long term in America at least citizens get the government they deserve.
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This should not fall to the patrons. This is the problem of the business model. Remove tipping as an option, price the meals, and pay the employees a wage.
Suprised pregnancy doesn’t fall within the ‘no targeting based on health conditions’ policy of most ad platforms.
Buy a lot with a decrepit / destroyed home, remove it, place one of these (which should be fast), start renting it out.

The "AirBNB income" line under each picture is touching.
From blind XXE to root-level file read access
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> If you need a doctor to explicitly mention to you that good nutrition will improve your health, then I'd suggest being a little more perceptive

huh? the point was made about their in depth understanding of impact of specific nutrition. not that "good diet is important" generality. and I am being "a little more perceptive" by doing a decade of my own research. not sure why that comment was necessary or what it has to do with my point
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I could never unsee it in this old easymock logo https://www.javacodegeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eas.... They have since changed it to something much more neutral, thankfully!
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Read your list, we have a bunch of books in common

Why Nations Fail (was an interesting read!)

Thinking Fast and Slow (This was on a lot of trader desks and was a good read.)

The Elephant In The Brain (this is the first audiobook i have ever listed to, agree, highly underrated.)

Principles (many years ago, I worked at BW for around 4 years... It was required reading, but remains one of my top recommended books. I actually own a copy of his original principals, and still bought the hard cover. Dalio's deep thinking is amazing).
My point is there is some governmental oversight with regards to the quality and access (including price) so that all members of society have access to it, and since it doesn't make any sense to run a different pipe or cable to each residence, internet should be treated in the same manner. Internet is a requirement in today's world, and it's crazy that you can barely get a 1mb or 2mb upload in many places, and that's not even fiber.
A warship is not going to have auto-collision avoidance, at least not without possibility of an override. Ramming is a legitimate naval tactic.
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Facebook was aware that tracking who people call/text is creepy but it continued
>If the government isn't competent to hire a competent company

In a small town, there may just not be anyone with the necessary knowledge and expertise. You can't vote for someone who doesn't exist.
When that advertisement first came out, most gaming media was still in print and magazines. Online media still viewed the potential of Daikatana as pretty favorable and PC Gamer even did a preview story of the game that was incredibly well-received yet was based only on screenshots and Romero's reputation. It wasn't until the demo of the game came out and, shortly after, the release where people turned on ION and Romero because the game was nowhere near what it was hyped to be and, although there were positive aspects to it, it was nowhere near what the preview had suggested it would be.
Collective bargaining power stems from the ability to combine the leverage of the individuals towards a common purpose. That still relies on the individuals having some baseline of leverage. You see this when you read about Walmart firing an entire store's staff just on the rumor of a union forming.
Thanks for your advice, I'm currently starting down the path of writing (what I hope will become) a book. I'm at your piece of advice I). I'm working on a framework which links LaTeX and Python notebooks in a dynamic compilation setup [1], so reading your first point of advice makes me think I might have started on the wrong path.

Did your setup ultimately prove useful in writing your book? Or did you give up part way through and that helped you get to the task of actually writing?

[1] https://github.com/poulter7/ipynb-tex
Absolutely! While it's not my preferred method of control, you can send AT commands encapsulated in SMS to update/troubleshoot BGAN terminals.
Don't forget all the people the corporations and the wealthy have convinced to vote against their own interests, in the name of "freedom".
No way, downvotes make HNers feel like they are making a difference against Amazon.

Its slacktivism.

People don't respond, they downvote.
A more broad question. Why is it that corrupt officials continue to get re-elected? Especially in a small town (speaking as someone who has never lived in a small town), it seems like the residents would be better informed of a representative's corruption.