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> Layered security seems to work best. Also I prefer to heavily monitor/secure two appliances/systems than heavily monitor thousands of end devices

It can't be both at once. Either you have multiple layers because both the appliance and the endpoints are independently secure and the attacker has to compromise both, or you don't monitor/secure the individual endpoints and the appliances become a single layer / single point of compromise.

And if the appliances can see all the plaintext of everything then they're a single point of compromise even if the endpoints are otherwise secure, because the attacker can still read all the secrets through the man-in-the-middlebox.

What works is to leave each thing to what it's good at. The endpoints are good at inspecting the plaintext, because they inherently have to have it anyway and they have the context to understand what it's supposed to look like. So you don't end up interfering with a newer, more secure protocol because the middlebox doesn't understand it. And plaintext is sensitive data so the fewer things that have access to it the fewer things you can compromise to get access to it.

What middleboxes are really good at is certain types of access control, e.g. blacklisting malicious IP addresses for outgoing connections, or whitelisting source and destination addresses and ports for incoming connections. They keep your local IP cameras off the internet even if the cameras "should" be secure on their own.
That actually sounds more reasonable, although it does run tiny risk of being trivial to mess with if a malicious client wanted to skew numbers. But I don't think it's possible to defend against that without being horribly invasive, privacy perspective.

I must say, it feels odd to support a Poettering proposal, but this actually does look like a good solution.
It is fascinating and a little bit scary to learn that adding antibiotics to livestock's feed makes it possible to fatten up animals with less food! Biology is full of surprises.
Not if you expand what's considered sensitive!
How are referendums brought to a vote? We don't have such a thing in the US. Certain states do, but not the country.
The short version seems to be that xenochemical effects, with varying genetic sensitivities, cause excessive appetite in animals via similar pathways to humans. In particular, food contaminants like antibiotics, emulsifiers, and plastic monomers (bisphenol A) may disrupt gut bacteria thus affecting hunger. The behavior of these animals is used as an example to argue that this hunger is very difficult to ignore. The effect of emulsifiers on gut bacteria seems particularly worthy of investigation because, unlike antibiotics and plasticizers, emulsifiers are added to foods intentionally.

It seems likely that because all of these xenochemical effects are purportedly mediated via effects on the gut ecosystem, they can probably be mitigated or even eliminated by a diet which promotes the health of gut bacteria; presumably, one with plenty of fiber and fresh vegetables.

The bit about wild animals getting fat links to a paper about marmots which blames it on climate change extending the growing (non-hibernation) season. Seems to be unrelated IMHO.
Can basic scientific principles explain why some medications (ie prednisone) can make people much more hungry?
I disagree a smart contract language is without value to business - but I agree it's speculative and unclear at the moment. The best we can do is look at cloud platform and programming language maturation/adoption to get a feel for what a decentralized app platform will take in time and engineering effort.

The idea being we're a few years at least before language and infrastructure can be mature enough to have value for most users beyond earliest of adopters. The other languages you've mentioned are much further along than any "dApp" platform at what they do. Decentralized application platforms like Ethereum are a new space with new requirements but, as far as I can tell, necessitate a new language to satisfy unique requirements. The hot-take is that Solidity is probably going to take some big changes to make it much further. I've not been impressed with it.
Corbyn is anti-EU, Labour is pro-EU, Corbyn is on record as saying it's a party matter and he will back the consensus.

Which is why we have the hilarity of a pro-remain PM in charge of us leaving and a pro-leave opposition leader in charge of trying to get us to remain.

UK politics is bonkers at the moment.
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I believe state-sponsored lotteries may be impacted, because they started selling across state lines since 2011. This would no longer be allowed.
It is, at least in part.
The Brexit promise is something nobody can deliver on. It was a lie, you cannot force the EU to accept an unfavorable trade deal. If only for the reason that it would set an exceptionally bad precedent and everybody would want their own deal, to pick and choose the parts of EU membership that are favorable to them, leading the EU to implode.

Somebody needs to own up to that lie and accept that a "no deal" outcome, which is clearly bad, is still the best thing brexiters can actually deliver. Instead, they are trying to camouflage that reality with a bad deal that keeps Britain shackled to the EU for a number of years while losing all of the (substantial) influence it had over the way EU works. That's an anti-Brexit, the exact opposite of the independence and prosperity promised by brexiters. It was a bad deal and it's good that it failed.
I wonder if it will even be a problem for me? I've spent my whole life learning how to create and use new interfaces, so hopefully I'll retain the ability to do so as I age? Or maybe AI will have advanced so much that it understands even my most incoherent request?
Frankly, I think culture and localization have value. There will always be companies that prefer local. There are definite advantages to having people in proximity together for at least a portion of a given week.

In terms of working with remote workers. I've done it in several environments. Often it's time zone differences and differences in approach and culture that wind up costing more, which may or may not offset other needs. The total cost may go down, but the time to complete a project often goes up. It depends on the needs of given project(s) to the company, as well as the distribution and size/scale of management.

In the end, I'm happier to see offshore workers ask for more. I live in a city which has a higher pay to cost of income ration (for my field)... I stay here for that reason. I'm not taking less because the average is less.
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Rescinding it would require a vote of Parliament on a motion to revoke it. Such a motion is unlikely to be carried right now.
As an optimist I can just note that your, probably, fully accurate description is all artificial. Everything you mentioned are incidental issues we’ve created for our selves, and are trivially solvable from a pure technical perspective.

Organizing people to that effect might look doomed to failure, but entire economies have been overturned in decades before.
That's not agile. That's goal-driven motivation systems.

"Finish twice the average stories per month and you get a bonus!" People game the rewards system by generating smaller, achievable stories. I had a colleague once who [0] would save up test cases (we were on the V&V side) to develop that were smaller. He could've had them all done and delivering value in two weeks, 200 test cases done! But if he did that he'd be left with the remaining 50 test cases that each needed 1-3 weeks to develop test systems for (sometimes shorter, I think 2 weeks or so was the average). So if he found himself looking bad on the burndown chart, he'd churn out 20 finished test cases from the easy ones. This way he was always "on track". If he'd done them and gotten ahead, they would've wondered why he slowed down (because not all test cases had the same size, duh) and penalized him for it.

The problem is, that goals like that (as carrot or stick) don't change the fundamental system. If I manage to churn out 20 story points this week, but only 10 every other week, is it sustainable? Was it a fluke? Was it because I did 40 hours of OT? Or was it that they were overestimated? Maybe I had a unique skill set or insight that let me solve it more quickly than had been anticipated. Maybe something in my brain clicked (remember that moment early in your career where a "hard" concept suddenly became obvious, and all your programming tasks became much easier?) and the new level will be sustainable.

On the other hand, if you create a goal to double efficiency/capacity and provide access to resources to change the development/deployment/whatever system then you can get something useful.

I wrote a tool for data analysis for a project (actually a collection of related projects). The tool cut down test analysis time from hours to minutes. An activity done daily by the V&V team. I saved them years of work in that first year. The goal was to reduce the bottleneck (test results took too long to get so developers were waiting or operating blind). That goal, by itself, was worthless. It was only able to change the system of that team because I had been given permission to work on tools that would achieve it.

[0] We had a manager who did things like this, though no carrot all stick.
And then, if this second voting yields a different result, shouldn't they hold a third referendum afterwards? And maybe a few more, as you can always say the last one was not the genuine one.
My guess - it was overloaded with homilies.

But maybe the "push-button" denunciation culture has an agenda. We could be approaching a time where certain things we still take for granted today - e.g. good jobs - will become a lot scarcer. And how would one gain an edge? By destroying the competition by any means necessary.

Or so Peter Turchin and those who follow Structural-Demographic Theory seem to think.
I am surprised that in the current political climate any reasonable laws can pass. My only explanation is that there were no lobbyists fighting it.
I bought a few packets of seeds as salad greens this year, with a pack of sunflowers (nice to eat as young shoots apparently), chervil (not a fan) and something else; I've now got about 30-40 big sunflowers in my little garden plot, the honey bees and bumble bees are having a field day with them (and I assume the birds will with the seeds afterwards). Little crickets (relaxing songs at night), ladybugs etc have all moved in, and they look great.

Onto milkweeds next I guess, and something for the native Aussie bees too.
THIS.

The older I get, the less willing I am to waste time on yak-shaving bullshit. Make it difficult or tedious, and I'll just dump your product and go do something else with my precious time and attention.
> no matter how hard they beat the programmers

Maybe they should try not beating the programmers. I'm just saying...
Ask HN: Does copyright apply to “deals?”
There are numerous websites that share hot deals such as slickdeals and brad's deals. Are the deal sites in any way protected by copyright or can their content be shared freely on my website.

There are also numerous newsletters which provide deals.. can these deals be posted on my website?

I am not against crediting the original website in any way; however, this would be more difficult when the deal is found in a newsletter.

Essentially what I am asking is:

1. what is the minimum attribution required by law when reposting deals

2. what is the best practice?
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Because democracy, whilst not perfect, is the best system we have for civilisation to continue.

As someone who voted remain, I have to say that we now have to leave the EU. If Brexit was to be stopped by Parliment, the damage to UK politics would last a generation. People would simply loose faith in the system, giving rise to more extreme political parties - and we all know where that leads to.

If I was in charge, I'd do a hard Brexit - use the ££ windfall from not paying into the EU as buffer until the economy recovers with new trade deals.

It's not going to be the apocalypse like some hardcore remainers describe
Wonder if you can use that to create a legal gambling product or something. Like a game of roulette powered by the delta of volatility index.
A workaround would be to use extension methods, depending on your reasons for extending.

Or, reflection if you're breaking the rules anyway.
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Great minds debate Brexit?
Apparently more than 51% of the UK's voters thought that the UK belonging to the EU was a real problem worth solving. What's your legitimacy to belittle this concern?
Tragedy of the commons is from a story that was made up. There is zero evidence that shared ownership causes such a tragedy. In fact, the opposite is shown, that no shared ownership causes tragedy. The problem with overfishing, for example, is not that the ocean is a commons, it's that it is specifically NOT a commons. Everyone owning something is not the same as nobody owning something because commons usually means cooperation vs competition.
I voted remain but I spend a lot of time with group of people who voted leave. Some of them have realised the leave campaigners basically had no evidence to back up their claims and so feel lied to but, sadly, the others are just angry - and I mean really angry.

They want out at all costs because the “EU is telling us what to do”. Revoking article 50 would be a bad idea for civil stability but going through with it seems to me, to be economic suicide (ask any small business owner or retailer how it’s going at the moment and they’d say the process has already started). A bad deal (like this) really did seem the best of an awful situation to me - it reflected the vote, 48/52. Half the country (probably more since a million or so people have now become old enough to vote who couldnt before) didn’t want to do this so perhaps it should be an awkward compromise that gives both sides a bit of what they want.
The body distinguishes between fat, carbs and protein. There is a different physiological hormonal response to each of these macro nutrients. I.e, insulin primarily only responds to carbohydrates. So yeah, it's all about physics, but not every macro nutrient is treated the same. It's highly dependent on physiology. There's a maximum amount of energy in a calorie, obviously, but the body treats 100 calories of sucrose differently than 100 calories of fat and it mediates the bodies response through hormone and protein signaling. Look up mTOR for example. That's a protein that acts like a nutrient sensor that tells the cells which proteins it needs to generate, and it's primarily mediated through IGF-1 which is a response to dietary protein.
So they can "take back control" they never lost, to have an impotent government that's unable to get primary legislation through parliament, but unlikely to be voted out?

This doesn't seem to be an improvement.
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Washington DC also passed a partial ban a few months ago: https://dc.curbed.com/2018/11/15/18095658/dc-airbnb-regulati...

Under the new rules, you can only rent out your primary residence that you actually live in (not second homes/condos), and you can only do that for up to 90 days a year. That'll remove a pretty large percentage of the AirBnB inventory if it's enforced, since a lot of units on AirBnB are investment properties used purely to rent out, not anyone's primary residence.
That hasn't been my experience. The other way around has - most VRBO listings are cross-listed on AirBnB, but AirBnB has a large superset of VRBO listings. As a guest, that makes me want to go to AirBnB over VRBO, because I know they'll always have selection, while if I go to VRBO I see largely the same listings I would've on AirBnB.

My experience is that as long as you go to a tourist destination (like Hawaii, Croatia or Santa Cruz) VRBO is fine, but as soon as you start to go off the beaten track (like Northern Northern California past Redding, or suburban rentals near major cities, or rural college towns) AirBnB has much more selection. I just did a quick test at my alma mater (Amherst MA) and VRBO had 4 listings, AirBnb had 15.

When your reputation score stays with the platform and is a major factor in who will host you, it behooves you to pick one platform for all your travel and stick with it, so getting the "long tail" of non-resort travel is a big coup for AirBnB.
Some platforms thrive and others don’t
Same with me (hungarian too), I always fail to use the proper pronoun, but using "they" sound weird to my ears.

In speech I mostly use "he" automatically, then I recognise my fault after a few sentence, then correct. Sometimes it feels so embarassing to recognise that I have just told a story about my wife refering her as he. (of course most of the time, I only mention her to people who know her already - so usually I don't have to explain myself)
our "standards of living", by which you mean our tendency to grossly disregard our commons, should go down
Revoking article 50 means canceling brexit. They can still do it, but no major party currently supports it.

If they don't revoke it, they have to leave on March 30th. This can happen through some kind of deal with EU (a potential one was negotiated but shot down by todays vote) or without any deal.
They won't get any other deal though. So out means paying for consequences with negative economic outcome.

The only pragmatic solution now is to cancel the whole thing. Let's see if they aren't too stubborn to do it.
Apple Maps sucks but DDG is also terrible (in languages other then En) and both make dubious claims about protecting customer privacy. So this is match made in heaven.

I have given up on Apple Maps long time ago and I have given up on DDG after many failed attempts.

I am using Qwant https://lite.qwant.com/ which is surprisingly good for general search terms and embarrassing for specialized search terms (like programming and such).
At least here in western Norway, Mapbox’s directions are incredibly buggy, to the point where they’ll send you on a 150-kilometre scenic drive (including two ferries) to avoid a tunnel instead of going 15 kilometres straight through the mountain. This is apparently because they’re rolling their own telemetrics-based data on top of the OSM road network.

Then again, Apple Maps (on DuckDuckGo) seems to think I that want my maps labelled in Indonesian, so you may still have a point.
For those who believe in efficient markets, or markets that are rigged by hyper-intelligent people against the average investor, I'd like to call their attention to a bit of history recalled by Matt Levine in his column today:

"Google announced that it was buying a private company called Nest, for instance, and the entirely unrelated stock of Nestor Inc. (ticker: NEST) was up 1,900 percent"
And already on the live site. Impressive. I've already changed a few things on my Ubuntu laptop thanks to your checklist. I'm going to pass this around to friends and family.
While true, I trust a union to be lobbying in favor of workers far more than I trust Walmart.
Ask HN: What do you think about ecosia.org?
Two days ago, I found ecosia.org search engine. It is true that they use Microsoft Bing (https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206153381-Where-do-Ecosia-s-search-results-come-from-) to get search results. However, I found the idea very impressive that they use 80% of their profit to plant trees. What do you think about it? Have you used it? Did you like it?
A vote for Google is a vote for death.
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"The people have voted to shoot themselves in the foot. Parliament rejects proposal to shoot themselves in the right foot, but proposal to shoot themselves in the left foot also seems destined for failure."
"Homosexual" is not strictly offensive, but does mark you as potentially holding regressive views. It's easy enough to see from context that you're probably okay, but you can't always count on context.

You can just say gay.

-- Signed, The Gays
A lot of it came from TomTom.
Out of interest (also a remainer here) what do you think to the argument that since every 5 years we get to change the government if we want to and if the Leave campaigners basically lied to the electorate, we should get a second vote?
Homosexuals don't have some special monopoly on honesty, nor are they immune to using emotional string pulling when they try to get you to believe what they are saying.

The reply would have been better without the first paragraph.

Regardless, Apple do collect lot of personal data. And even if they don't sell it or use it for marketing now, they could still potentially lose control of it, or change their policies down the road.

The safest approach from a privacy perspective is not to collect the data in the first place.
The betting odds show an 83% likelihood that the U.K. remains somehow after 3/29. There is a 40% chance of another general election this year (15% in 2020 and just 13% in 2021).

I’d say odds are the confidence vote fails tomorrow and a general election is called, with a motion to extend article 50 until the election is held giving the people a chance to speak, albeit not via a referendum.

Another referendum is not going to happen. Labour wants tories to hang themselves through the utter failure of Brexit. A referendum risks another Brexit approval or worse and gives the tories political cover for the whole mess.
Crap for Munich at least. Just tried it, couldn‘t even find the route between home and work - and both are along major public transport routes. However, I typically use the DB Navigator app for these purposes in Germany. Highly recommended.
What we're doing is stripping everything, then only adding the immediate things we want to see, in a way that's glanceable. To each their own, some want tons of information, we don't.
Here under Climate Impact and Loss of Oceans sections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
Maybe? If you think that most of the people are actually looking at or arguing about the implementation of any specific policy (I'd suspect this is the minority).

It seems more likely people are just arguing about which tribe they're a part of. In that case nobody cares about what the best outcome is or what the truth is. If you can get a brexit deal passed that still allows the UK to 'brexit' in name only, but otherwise retains all of the actual agreements of being in the EU it could be a win-win. People get to pretend they left, but it doesn't actually change anything.

Without this there isn't a good outcome here short of just ignoring the referendum. I think owning the lie is a good idea, but not sure if it would work politically since someone like Nigel Farage can just come back and loudly call you a liar that can't deliver on a 'true brexit'.
The first time I heard to a brain referred to in this way it was in the scifi book Blindsight by Peter Watts. The book is pretty solid and deals with a lot interesting ideas from cognitive science.