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People drastically underestimate the prevalence and impact of UAF attacks. They're extremely common in complex applications and often lead to everything from information leaks to code execution. That's why almost every browser exploit (of the last ~10 years at least) uses at least one UAF in their chain.
Anecdata, most Australians would probably be ambivalent to either term. Shop or Store? They're synonymous. Just to let you know, and to keep you updated on international terminology :-)
Why is it a shame? I've been a listener of Gimlet since the start as well and Alex has always come off as genuine and hard working. If I lived closer, I would have loved to work for him. Its rare you find leaders with that type of transparency and candor. Most CEOs speak utter bullshit and so over-confident its laughable. While I don't know him personally and what he's like off-air, I can't help but feel genuinely happy. People should be rewarded for their successes, otherwise no one would innovate and take risks.
That's all you got out of this? Wow. Way to be ridiculously narrow minded.
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Specifically, Jackson et al. chose a 3D conversion company to do the coloring, because one of the steps in a conversion is to separate out the various parts of the frame. So much of the work was already done.

I "liked" this movie, as much as anyone can like seeing dead bodies. It really makes you realize how much most war movies, fiction or not, leave out. I wonder to what extent the lack of the true horrors results in a pro-war propaganda film, regardless of the intent of the director. Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket tries to be realistic in a sense, but still glamorizes war. It takes a documentary like "They Shall Not Grow Old" to give the full picture.
> Every time they build something good (Reader, Inbox) eventually they will kill it even despite users clearly opposing the decision.

To be fair, users aren’t customers. People don’t have any right regarding your product if you give them for free.
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We would like to support this use case.

For now, you can actually do the fuzzing on prem while communicating with app engine. We do this for our OS X bots since GCE doesn't offer OS X.
Fi's data is just "pay more get more", which makes sense to me. I don't think unlimited deals make sense since there's a true marginal cost here.
This is what happens when you build two decades of company culture of rewarding employees for launching new products over boring old maintenance and iterative development.
At least they tried. Infrastructure such as fiber to the home should be the realm of governments, as everyone can benefit from it.
I remember this very well and telling my sibling to use your service
Has Boeing stopped making 747-8F (freighter)? It was my understanding that a slower build rate of 747-8F would continue. Back in 2012 Boeing touted that half of all air freight was being moved by 747s [1]; I thought it was a foregone conclusion that Airbus would make a freighter version of the A380 to exploit it's greater lift capacity.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20121011082258/http://www.boeing...
> no real differentiating benefits other than size and brand recognition and maybe some vague “guarantee” to the customer.

- scale

- brand

- customer loyalty

that's a lot of differentiation. more then 99% of the businesses in the world and more than even many public companies.

(especially once you add the power gained from aggregating demand and supply which most of these companies have)
I'm building Hadoop clusters in the cloud with massive streaming piplines using Kafka, then feeding stream processing jobs using Flink on Dataproc for driving machine learning models.

We're doing this at a massive scale, bigger than most production games. So I don't know why you're talking about massive scale game servers, we are literally doing this at massive scale.
The developer must understand when it's time to use a framework. A small website with few pages doesn't need a frontend framework. But if you have to deal with a large/complex application using a web framework is not a bad idea as they offer a lot of reusable components, you don't need to "reinvent wheels" using HTML & CSS.
It's kind of cool reason: there are now planes with smaller capacities (think around 100 passengers) and are efficient to operate over long hauls.

Up to very recently the economics of air-travel dictated that long flights (e.g. USA to Europe)be on planes as big as possible and this plus other reasons meant flights to Paris are available from big cities like New York but not small to moderate metro areas like Raleigh, NC.

With new high efficiency jets, you can have 100ish person long flight service to a large city from a region like Raleigh that could never support the economics of a massive 300-400 person A380.
Batching incoming requests, for one. Kinesis only allows 5 write requests per second per shard, for example. As well, Lambda have limits regarding concurrent executions and are very slow (10s) if needing VPC connectivity (in this case the default concurrent lambda limit is 350 due to ENIs)
Yes, incorporating inflation sets the stage for increasing the capital-gains tax.

I am not sure what the counter-argument to that is, but one thing I can think of is increased complexity of a tax return for an average joe investor, who bought and sold a few funds in his portfolio. Opponents will also likely point that an official measure - CPI - can be manipulated for political purposes.
It is a fact in the sense that the average stock market return over the course of the 20th century was ~10%. Of course, as every prospectus tells you, past performance is not a guarantee of future results, but what else are you going to use as a baseline?
We're a GCP customer and I definitely cringed in real life when I read the post. We're building cloud portability into our new deployment tooling and moving as many things as possible to kubernetes, so we can be somewhat prepared.
I think that Fargate is the “improvement” for ECS. I never understood the appeal of ECS in the first place, seemed (and still does) really half baked.
This is exactly why I won't hire good friends. The personal relations would skew business sense then, on both sides in order to stay loyal to your friends. This skew can be dangerous for business, and thus for the well-being of those who are involved and bet on its success.
Oops, I think I nixed that to use in a future article purely on raising money. My bad!
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There is often a clause which warrants that you have no conflicting obligations, though if you make a habit of signing these there likely is a conflict. The real solution is to severely limit these terms to reasonable scope. Some are written to be absurdly over-broad.

I like to frame it in terms of reputation risk to the company. If they own the contents of people's creative hobbies outside of work then I am happy to put "Copyright $COMPANY" in big letters on my amateur porn website... Surprisingly few companies have thought about it that way.
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Start from HTML.

There are A LOT of languages and tools you can use to build for the web like like PHP or JavaScript.
> Even price increases can take some time to do, as you have people in 1-2 year contracts.

It takes a while to do to those customers.

It can happen as soon as "let's update the webpage" for new customers. Especially when the only high speed internet game in town goes from three providers to two.
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During a fight Killing Time destroys two other starships and thinks afterwards "Entire engagement duration: eleven microseconds".

I seem to recall that one of the later novels -- maybe Surface Detail or Hydrogen Sonata -- had an even more lopsided victory by one of the Culture's latest warships over a battle fleet crewed by foolish biologicals who wouldn't let their own AIs operate autonomously.
BTW moving key notions from the realm of somehow reality-testable to the realm of purely denotational and conventional was the way how the Party in "1984" ruled the minds of people. War is peace, freedom is slavery, etc.

Also, such attacks on universal principles and the reality-testable are waged by taking the purely conventional and raising those up to the level of empirical fact and universal principle.
I'm not sure I can cosign the cynicism toward google in the particular instance. I am a Fiber customer in Austin and I've always been under the impression that this essentially an experiment and that it likely wont be around forever. Perhaps that is not a widely held enough believe however.
It should've been 6 months to a year. They blew a lot of use trust on this.

They've been doing that a lot.
Being from Florida, when I saw the image I thought "of course it's going to be morning glory".
I've registered here to write this.
It is interesting that two most voted books here, Master and Margarita and Animal Farm are both about Stalin.

In MoM the all 3 main characters have real prototypes. Master is Author (Bulgakov), Margarita is Author's wife Elena, Woland is Stalin.
Bulgakov was under assault of Soviet regime, he wanted to emigrate, but Stalin kept him in country. He was in constant fear of being detained for anti-soviet propaganda. Her wife which he loved a lot was forced to became secret informer, she reported periodically to officials against him. Bulgakov knew that, and this theme also in book. This moment is so tragic and central, because her wife was editor of the book. MoM is about exceptional courage of Bulgakov, his personal response to Staling, his sole main reader. At that time, just comparing Stalin to Statan was enough to be executed.

I highly recommend this course to understand better MoM
https://arzamas.academy/courses/39
unfortunately it's in Russian.
Be that as it may, it doesn't mean its sustainable.

Those "100% speed increases" were ISP's willing to lose some money to retain existing customers in select markets, using their other profitable markets to subsidize them.

I'm 100% for more competition in the quasi-monopoly ISP arena, however googles entree into the ISP market was just freshman exuberance. They were flush with lots of shareholder money and had young idealistic founders who figured they could "revolutionize the space" because they were smart and cared.

Over the past few years, google has been shutting down all their naive money losing ventures and getting into the serious business of making money (ie. selling your personal info to the highest bidder).
Can the Hacker News community ever forgive Google for shutting down Reader?
That's interesting. How did it break your system?

I've been using it on OS X / macOS for years. Occasionally I'd run into an ISP that blocked it or a resolver that was slow or down but the software was always solid.
Is your claim "for most companies the quality is already sufficient, and so it's not the limiting factor (even though it would be if the quality was insufficient)"? Or literally "the TAM matters, your app's quality doesn't"?
Maybe in another five years my company can dump IE, but for now we still have about 1% of paying users chugging along on IE 11, and getting them to update soon is a long stretch given that most of this industry still runs on fax machines.
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I hope it's biodegradable :-)
Depends on the location and cop. Laws vary wildly across city/county/state here. And, it could just be a speeding ticket, but could also get a reckless endangerment misdemeanor, which could be months in jail. Prosecuters and judges have lots of leeway between min and max.

I would guess the penalty might range from an expensive ticket all the way up to several months in jail with fines on top. Depends on where in the US you get caught.
"Domestic servitude" is a poor way to present homemaking, but calling its historical pull a trap for women isn't far off. Obviously anyone who's struggled in the business world understands joining the game is only liberating along a couple of dimensions (economic, mainly).

The choice should be there for men and women to work or rear. Applying that freedom appropriately is the individual's responsibility.
I don't think it's really about loyalty, it's more about managing expectations. Some brands use reliability and long term support as selling points, so you expect that from them. They have an incentive to keep offering long term support in order to preserve their reputation. It might not be important if you're buying, say, a smartphone that you expect to keep for a couple of years but it's critical if you're buying something that you expect to work with two decades from now, like some industrial machines for instance.

Google clearly is not in this category. They will drop basically anything with very short notice (two months here) if they don't feel like doing it anymore. That may be fine if you're buying a Google phone but that's definitely a problem for anything that can't just be replaced instantly and for (relatively) cheap.

Can you imagine if people who manufacture components for industrial designs behaved like Google does? "We have these subway trains with busted brakes, but it turns out that they were manufactured by Google and they dropped the project two years ago. I guess we have to buy new trains then..."
I guess I'm not making myself clear. The ability to learn this accurately is not the same for everyone. Those that can, are said to have 'perfect pitch'. What makes them different?

Not just the learning - as suggested, maybe that's teachable (but probably not, look at all the advanced music students that never learn). But the speed and facility are not teachable - that came with the person.

Which is about the same as said above I guess.

And Really? Appeal to authority?
Ask HN: Tesla promised a refund 6 months ago. I'm still waiting. What do I do?
Hi HN,

About 6 months ago, I placed an order for a Tesla Model 3. Three days later I cancelled. At the time Tesla support promised to refund my $2500 order payment, despite already having a VIN assigned, because I was cancelling for financial reasons.

About 3 months ago, Tesla sent me an email saying they'd refunded the money to my credit card. Except the money never showed up. I've called the bank to confirm---there have been no credits to the card whatsoever.

I've been calling Tesla support about once a month for 6 months. Every time the answer is the same. Refunds are handled by a different department, so they need to send a message. I've tried different wordings, asking for escalation, etc. Except for that one response 3 months ago, every support request seems to disappear into the void.

I also tried a charge back on the card. This was rejected because it seems the card company has a very narrow definition of what they're willing to deal with. Their systems seems to be built for cases where the merchant actually failed to deliver the product (and is "unable or unwilling") to fix it---not cases where the merchant is trying to refund me, but is just taking an excruciatingly long time to do so. Maybe there is some magic wording I can use here to move the needle, but so far I've been unsuccessful.

At this point, I'm not sure what to do. I've considered emailing Elon directly, but if you search on the internet, the results from others don't seem to be very encouraging. I know Elon uses Twitter---I'd prefer not to, but I'll consider it if it's really the only option.

I'm willing to go to a consumer protection agency if it has a realistic chance of working. (I live in California.) But I'm not sure if Tesla has violated any laws. Without knowing what specifically to complain about, I'm worried this will go the same way as the credit card dispute.

Are there other options? Or do you have advice on how to pursue any of the above?
We don't eat bugs because nobody has yet developed a machine that can affordably extract the meat.

We don't eat cattle whole. When we make burgers, we leave out the skin and poop and horns and teeth. Bugs aren't any different.
Agreed, these two metrics are just as arbitrary as any other life-defining metric, "the number of healthy grand children you had", "the number of phish concerts you went to", "the number of Free AOL hours CDs you collected"
From a bird's eye view, you also need to figure out what costs you more.

For example (and I know nothing about the use-case of OP, can only estimate), you might be able to buffer requests into a queue and have it scale up slower.

You might have auto scaling that needs to be close to real time and auto scaling that can happen on a span of minutes.

Every auto scaling needs to also keep in mind the storage scaling, often you are limited by the DB write capacity or others.
Sounds like I got lucky. I've noticed this with Li-Ion batteries; some are awesome and provide days of charge, and some are terrible and require half-daily top-ups. I'm not sure if the manufacturers do testing to determine which ones are better.
That means you still have to add a layer of build configuration on top of this tool, though, which obviates the point of using it at all.
I think it's important to unpack the briefcase term of "best companies."

As clarification I'm not saying that great companies, with great products and wonderful teams don't often have a hard time fundraising.

What I'm saying is that market transforming companies, like Docker and Whatsapp will get good offers without having to "fundraise" in the grinding format that we all know well and is written about and pored over in thousands of blogs and bootcamps and all (the one I described).
When did "deploy" become a noun? I always considered it only as verb. Can someone enlighten me?
He's saying eclipse caused this on a linux distro while windows/mac would probably not go nuclear from an eclipse install.

inb4 eclipse uninstalls windows wireless drivers.
Source?

If that's accurate, it's comedic anyone thought that would work.
It's interesting how Lambda School was able to capitalize on investors pumping cash into and hyping up Gumroad.

It's a smart move to capture some of that VC money without having to pitch anything to them.
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Oh c'mon with the exaggeration. I would still use them (even if I had to pay), it doesn't take that much time to switch. The major issue though will affect most people in Louisville, since it's almost guaranteed that AT&T will increase its prices. Thanks to Google Fiber at least for limited time, people there enjoyed fast and relatively cheap internet access.
Apparently from other comments, most of the fiber was really shallow, like a couple inches deep, and poorly insulated so shifts from cold/thaw created a lot of damage and is likely unrecoverable short of re-laying a deeper infrastructure for the entire area.

They were experimenting with real customers, as google often does. Only this time it was what many would consider essential infrastructure.
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> The author seems to be resigned to the fact that HTML/CSS are skills that you should use as an introductory tool

…And she's right. It's the perfect introductory tool in web development, because that's what any given framework is going to be abstracting over anyway. A student needs to feel the pain of typing everything a million times before the solution of a templating system really makes sense. Same goes for event delegation, browser inconsistencies, etc.

> and that just this is not enough to be "employable". I maintain that this is not true: many websites would do just fine with just those two (as in, they don't need JavaScript at all!), and I'm sure a very large fraction could get by with some small amount of hand-written frontend code hooked up to a database.

You're right that many websites would do just fine with static sites — most of the (highly paid!) advertising industry is brochure sites. But that's not the market though. You do need more than just HTML and CSS to be competitive in the market, even if you're BSing your way through most of it.
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Completely agree. It seemed like they struggled to construct a coherent or particularly interesting narrative given the constraints they set out for themselves. I think it really would have significantly benefited from a relaxing of those constraints to may be have a narrator that tied things together or filled in some narrative gaps for which they didn't happen to have footage or interviews. Amazing technical achievement though.
>It is often a prestigious and above average paying position

Incorrect. Furthermore, the salaries are often public, so this is provable. Look up our 990 if you don't believe me. You can also review via GuideStar[0] or Foundation Center[1]. I work with a lot of fellow non-profits, on average our positions pay about 80% of market. Perhaps you are only looking at CEO pay? On average, that is also below market, but there are some outliers which I'd have to guess you are basing your incorrect assertion on.

[0] https://www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx
[1] https://foundationcenter.org/
I have high confidence that Verizon will continue to offer fiber at my house for years to come. “Will Verizon decide to stop serving this place?” was not a question I had to ask when looking for a place to live. Expecting some stability isn’t about loyalty, it’s just good business. Google is going to start scaring people away from stuff they actually want to sell if they have a history of abandoning things.
What interest you the most? Back-end development or front-end or full-stack...
Those are by analogy, but in the case of Fiber, which we're talking about here, the users are customers. So what rights do they have now?
Look, I don't even like frameworks. A framework adds incredible amounts of complexity if you're trying to develop for the system, and acts as a single-point-of-failure from a social POV. (That's the issue many people have with systemd on Linux, for example - it addresses a number of issues that probably need to be addressed, but does so in an inevitably hackish way that ends up looking like a big ball of mud. Hopefully it'll eventually reach some degree of maturity and we'll be able to replace it with something that's more decoupled and more geared towards expressing mechanisms, not policies.) What does the Haiku "framework" experience provide that other OS's don't?
The “meat paradox” only happens because people living in cities are disconnected from how their food is grown.

People that lived on a farm, even for small periods of time when they were little, have no such issues.
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So he'll be worth $50M in a few years with Gumroad. Meanwhile his original investors lost all the millions they invested. His employees lost all the time and vesting. Ouch.

That's why it's way to dangerous to just follow any guy and do a startup and waste a few years of your life.