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Yann Leger speaking here, VP Scaleway in charge of the Cloud Compute business since 2014.

First of all, thanks a lot for your feedbacks, we greatly appreciate you taking time to provide details about your experience with our platform!

I would make sure to understand the problems you are describing as most of the issue you faced seems to be related to our first generation of platforms.

I will try to provide a factual update of the situation:
1 - Are you speaking of SMTP? We have suffered a lot from fraudster in the past (~2017) but we have now more strict process toward SMTP opening and a complete team dedicated to fighting abuse.
2 - That's totally true for all generations prior to the General Purpose range. We do not guarantee local data and our users are responsible of doing backups. The new General Purpose Range is backed by replicated local storage but this doesn’t mean we can 100% guarantee the storage as simultaneous SSD failure do happen. We now have a backup feature and support hot snapshots, which means backup can be performed with no downtime.
3 - The answer you’ve got to your issue is inappropriate and abnormal as we provide refund toward outages and a power failure is of course an outage. I would like to further investigate if you can share more information in private.
4 - I’m not sure to follow you here. If you archive your server, we will indeed save your server to long term storage. You are only billed for the storage when your server is archived, not for the machine itself. A new server starts in about a minute but servers with large volumes might indeed take longer as we do copy your data locally on the hypervisor to reduce
5 - Our C1 and C2 BareMetal server indeed have a network served kernel. On all new server range, including our START, GPU and General Purpose instances, the kernel is locally installed and is the distribution provided kernel.
6 - There is no firewall NAT but a stateless NAT system which lets us transparently migrate IPs between servers in one API call. We have no offer providing less than 100Mbit/s with one of the largest network backbone capacity in Europe. Our network map is available online (http://netmap.scaleway.com/), we have an open peering policy and over 5Tb/s of network capacity. If you have specific destination with bandwidth issue, I would be happy to let our network team investigate as I’m pretty sure we have no internal congestion.

Source : I'm managing the Compute Scaleway business since 2014, so I'm aware of the issue we faced in the past and which one are now resolved.

I’m available on twitter (@yann_eu) if you’re available to discuss the issue you faced as I truly believe our last platform generations solve the issue you encountered.
My understanding is that a few hundred years ago most wealth was inherited land. Aristocracy was something you were born into. I'd love to see some statistics, but I believe the percentage of "self-made" people is much higher today.

Modern society may have its flaws, but I do think this particular historical trend is positive.
I don't understand what you're asking.

Many of the affected CAs have already come out and "confessed" that they've issued non-compliant certs and stated that they're revoking them.

No certificates are being "pulled from browsers" as a result of this incident as far as I know.
the highest level as supposedly suggested one of the "special forces" members.
Oh come on, why play dumb at the behest of a corporation? They ARE compelled to use Apple's payment platform on Apple devices, which is the problem and you know it.
What districts and when?

I’ve run it on Ubuntu for at least 5 years without issue.
Sure, but the SMTP server won't sign the email if it was sent with the wrong login. So unless I don't trust the whole domain (in which case even PGP could result in a false sense of security), this pretty much verifies the sender. Only thing I need to do is to check if it's correct.
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Yes. I'm actually gaining weight (lean weight, from bodybuilding exercises).
John Sarno's theory is that such pain is indeed caused by physical mechanisms ... which are triggered by psychological mechanisms. Such things are common, like a blush to the cheeks, hair on your arm raised by fright, erections and other sexual responses, etc.

He was also clear that this is not always the case, and that direct physical causes should be looked for by a specialist before pursuing psychological remedies.
Is this in their ToS or is this just hearsay?
If we make this about phone sales, sure. If the market is mobile app purchases, Apple’s platform and store is absolutely the dominant player.
As Apple hardware sales decline they are desperately trying to build other services to make up for that lost revenue.
Agreed, and I'm not saying duktape doesn't have a use case, I'm merely saying having a standalone ignition interpreter might enable different use cases.
The Ethiopian Airlines CEO has disclosed that the pilot experienced a control issue. So a fire, if one existed, was probably a consequence, not a cause.

It wouldn't even be surprising if the aerodymanic stress had caused a breakup, though that doesn't seem to have happened judging by the crater.
“who will lay claim to all their efforts both inside and outside the company”

Ah, yes, the infamous “inventions” clause which pretty much any and all developers need to sign to get a job. Here in California, we have a key exception encoded in law: Anything I do on my own time, with my own gear, not related to my day job is something I can release as open source code.

And there are starting to be companies with “open source Fridays” out there who can and do let people openly work on open source while on the clock.
I've used OVH for several years (a few small Cloud VPSes). Never had any outages, but their web interface is very complex and unintuitive. I left because they messed up billing, then immediately threatened to delete my servers within hours of their mistaken billing (my creditcard was charged but their systems somehow didn't register it), then was charged a second time. They refused to acknowledge the error (even with screenshots, I had to do a chargeback instead). And their support took 2-3 days to respond to tickets.

I'm now a happy Hetzner customer since half a year. Support was quick, interface is simpler, and their small VPSes are even a bit more attractive.
> If it was a "similar cause", it is absolutely pilot error.

That's a very blunt argument to make. Do watch the below video - I'm not educated as much on these matters, but the pilot here makes a compelling point as to why it could be from the Lion crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQW0upkVus

He makes reference to the system for disabling not being included in the type training for the MAX, and given there wasn't an update on the fix for the issue (read that this is partly due to the US government shutdown meaning Boeing and the FAA didn't have as direct comms channels), it could still have been the same issue without the blame sitting on the pilots.
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We were basically thinking about routing /64 blocks over the /127 interconnection to provide routed /64 ;)
Smartphones, il est temps d'adopter une approche holistique de la sécurité
What are they going to call and complain about if you don't have a social media account for them to dig through?
The literally only changed the CSS of the pages. Not even pagination logic was changed - what am I missing?
I really hope Apple dies and burns. They have good PR but thats it. They lie and deceit developers just like Google. Bait and Switch.
There should be government regulation of Apple, Facebook and Google. These corps are just too big and control our democracy.

Apple is starving innovation by deliberately not supporting many thing on the Safari iOS browser and prevents competition illegally by restricting 3rd party browser engines.

Taking a 30% rent on purchases is blatant theft. More people need to speak out. #AppleRentSeeker

Because Apple is unable to increase revenues, it's now trying to increase by using uncompetitive tactics and illegal restriction of competition.
Yes that’s it.
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2^x is exponential. GP is correct, it's still only one bit, so the cost is halved.
Apache 2 can be applied to whole projects. It doesn’t say anything to the contrary.

That’s very common in language communities with strong packaging norms, like npm and Ruby.
> For example, Harvard could fill its undergrad ranks with valedictorians alone, twice over.

I think this is a valid argument overall but all valedictorians aren't made the same. My alma mater isn't high tier at all (NC State) but a huge chunk of my entry class was valedictorians...from tiny rural high schools with a graduating class of 50 (mine was a suburban high school with a graduating class of 40).

> the primary purpose of today's elite universities is to maintain social stratification

I think that this is their prerogative. But society should change, not the same ~10 universities.
Its been a super long time since I have looked into developing on the iOS side -- are there restrictions on Safari which would prevent Spotify from going to an all PWA type deployment for iOS and peacing out from the App Store? What would the API for Safari restrictions be to overcome? Thanks in advance.
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Their timeline is a bit unclear. They claim that in 2015 and 2016, they were denied outright. In 2017 they say that "Apple continues to make it challenging for us to deliver a workable streaming solution for the Apple Watch". Then in 2018 they say that "Apple finally allows enhanced functionality for the Spotify app on the Apple Watch".
Seems like scientists at that point have little choice but to bring legal action against those activists for slander. Unfortunately, and apropos of your point, most scientists likely won't be that aggressive in their action and I think the activists know it.
What will be the real innovation if the platforms are more open?

I'm looking forward to the Chrome dev tools and v8 that comes out of this.

Microsoft/IE antitrust led to a retraction in unhealthy Microsoft dominance (see IE6) and a rise in Firefox and eventually Chrome. Rise in Chrome led v8, node and better dev tooling (and by extension a richer JS ecosystem and maybe things like ClojureScript tangentially).

When the platforms monopolist/duopolists get retracted that will pave the way probably for more open source apps in the app stores and maybe a few other large corporations (like Google did for Chrome) dominating. Maybe better cross-platform tooling will come out of this? It's fun to think of what this will allow.
Sarno’s book concludes with the idea that negative emotions cannot be changed, and I disagree. I _think_ this is due to the psychoanalysis framework he employs for his analysis.

For me, it didn’t help either, but guided me to search how I could change my emotions. A mix of yoga and meditation plus techniques from “Code to Joy” by George Pratt helped me chronic headaches.

Yoga helps you become more aware of your mind-body. Meditations practiced in Kundalini yoga can help you become more deeply aware of your mind, or trigger certain helpful ideas (they usually have a very specific intention). What was left for me was to change negative beliefs that were created throughout my life, and that I accomplished with Code to Joy (and some of their previous work, which is more focused in emotions rather than beliefs).
I’m not sure there is a fix here. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, et al can be used as powerful tools to conduct organized harassment and coordinated bullying. And the bullying is remarkably visible and thus easy to report on so we also hear about it all the time.

And yet this is ultimately just normal human behavior, amplified. There have always been crackpots who lead frustrated and scared people into mob behavior of blaming some specific opinion or type of person rather than confronting their problems head on. When your problems seem unsolvable you’re very likely to fall for this sort of trap.

This specific issue with CFS research is just one microcosm among thousands of others, all the way up to the world of national governments and international relations, which suffers from all the same behaviors and toxicity. It’s amplified more now, but no different than it has ever been.
So Chrome supports dark theme, and PWAs can now be installed, but the PWA window does not support dark theme. Ironic. Two features developed in isolation?
interesting, so I assume if I google "venezuela and haiti bilateral deals" we can get "[1] Both leaders [POV and POH] also reaffirmed their governments’ commitment to the PetroCaribe program, an initiative created by former President Hugo Chavez Frias which sees Venezuela export oil to Haiti and other Caribbean and Central American nations at 40 percent of the market cost, with the remainder payable via 25-year low interest loans." https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13522 (didn't OSINT the source)

Like this one?
Yeah, I think the thing a lot of commenters are missing is that the medical field itself has a pretty bad history of telling people "it's all in your head" when there turned out to be specific, treatable biological causes. This is especially true for CFS, where for a long time it was seen not just to be psychosomatic, but actually "not really that bad."

As another example, stress was blamed as the main cause of ulcers for decades, when an H pylori infection turned out to be the primary culprit.
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So the takeaway I'm getting from this and a few other comments is that, in general, running automatic updates for most software is still more secure than not, since a 0-day is more likely than a compromised server.

E2E encryption is still valuable, because assuming that the codebase is delivered/signed separately from its app servers, it decreases the number of available attack points. It's usually easier to secure code delivery than it is to secure your entire backend/database. It's even easier than that to secure a private key that you never put on your delivery servers in the first place.

JS has some additional concerns regarding stuff like Spectre and random number generation, but ignoring those for a sec, E2E encryption is in theory viable and valuable on the web, assuming you've split your backend from your code delivery endpoint and are taking extra steps to secure those specific code delivery servers.

But E2E encryption on the web could be improved a lot if we expanded code-signing for browsers. We download code over SSL, but that's just to make sure no one MITMs the server itself. We could, in theory, have some kind of signing system for raw assets that was completely unrelated to the connection to the server -- a "only allow Javascript to download/eval on this domain if it's signed with a key that's not even stored on the delivery server at all" policy. But we don't have anything like that yet.

Is that a reasonable interpretation?
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I think the idea is that these scientists are publishing their findings which are getting translated (poorly, more often than not) by the media outlets and thus its trivial for the activists to locate where the scientists live and work.
CudaText seems to like claiming to be "written in Lazarus", which as far as I can tell, is an IDE and not a language?
It just means you are gonna have to initially work a bit harder, be a bit more resilient to rejection, and be a bit more creative in trying to build those networks. I.e You are going to have to force those doors to open for you.
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Well that UX somehow exists: If DKIM fails, the changes are high the email will be classified as spam or possible phishing.
Ask HN: What are you working on? – March 2019
It's been a while since someone asked whearabouts of the community and what's new in the space.
Jobs/projects/sideprojects/startups/research etc. Anything that occupies your time.
We've been in the same situation. I discovered WebFaction was sold thanks to a GDPR disclosure WebFaction sent us and it was quite a shock, a few months ago, after many years with them. We do not want to be involved with GoDaddy under any circumstances.

Temporarily using Gandi, which I don't know enough about to recommend.

I only heard good things about it but had a somewhat rough transition of domains and servers from WebFaction to them with not such great customer service as everyone seems to talk about. Once set up, no problems, but still.

Searching for a better alternative. Preferably with servers in Singapore, or at least Asia.
Also: there were multiple ebook readers on the store at the time that were already selling books in-app. Several stopped development, others removed their in-app store.

I suspect we (Kindle) we're either the trigger for the in-app purchasing store, or really accelerated plans around it.
> - It blocked Spotify from using a podcasting API after it acquired 2x major podcasting companies

Interesting one since it is Spotify that is trying to close the currently open podcasting universe.

Let's not pretend that Spotify is either the white knight or the underdog here. This is two big companies negotiating over pricing.
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I would love to do that, I'm testing new releases, but every time I try, my machine wants to explode https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7g6k9n/firefox_qua... , https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/asdkxf/firefox_on_... , etc...
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For me, spam is easy. About 99% of it is rejected by using a regex methodology created by a gent in japan that he named "S25R". [1]

[1] - http://www.gabacho-net.jp/en/anti-spam/anti-spam-system.html

I've been using that for about 15 years. Works great. I even implemented it in a medium sized company. The only issues it caused were former employees that were running mail servers on their cable modem and stealing customers for their small businesses.
If you didn’t read the article, these activists are digging through research papers, finding the researchers’ contact info, and harassing them directly. On Twitter when they are on Twitter, but also on the phone and through the mail, and via their employers. This has nothing to do with whether or not the researchers themselves are on Twitter. The mob that’s harassing them uses social media to organize and recruit.
It's nice to see it again, but remember that this was done in (2013). More info:

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Atom

How it was made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA4QWwaweWA
All companies do this. Back in days, even Evernote started doing that (with disguise "API bandwidth limits"). Nowadays, Evernote is irrelevant, so nobody complains.

The only difference here it that Apple's customers have $$, so everybody wants to be on their platform and everybody make noise.

And these politicians are talking on both side of their mouth: first they say how "3rd-party apps are stealing data" so platform must to have more checks when adding an app on their store. And when platform tries to enforce the rules they complain how platform needs to be "more open".
>Both have very different cockpit layouts. Even something simple like cockpit lighting is totally different. They have significantly different limitations, speeds and procedures for dealing with abnormal situations.

This sounds like a UX design problem. Things that are the same should be the same, things that are different should be different.

The most dangerous thing from a UX perspective is always the slightly different, especially in sequences. Everybody knows if their way to work and way to the store is partially the same it's easy to take the wrong fork when you want to go to the store.

So if the things are slightly different, it often makes sense to make the sequence different from the beginning. Otherwise people often make these common path mistakes.
That's not really true. MCAS can not be argued to meet https://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part25-672-FAR.shtml, so it's not airworthy. The FAA's allowed them to continue flying anyway while they disclose the problem and workarounds, and deploy a fix which is now very delayed. That's a much more questionable decision now that another flight with similar characteristics has crashed.
Thanks for this! Extracting only used CSS was really helpful. I really needed this a few weeks ago and didn't even know it.
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The author of that ASRS report almost surely holds an ATP, a 737 type rating, and has passed the -MAX differences training.

That's quite a stretch from a 4-cylinder single engine, 110mph prop plane transition.
There's no factual reason to believe that college education reduces susceptibility to political manipulation.
>From what others have said, I gather there is a problem of this plane behaving differently than the rest of the family, which is being 'masked' by the on-board software so that it 'feels' similar to the other planes in a regular situation and thus requires minimal additional training

The problem that's (presumably) causing crashes isn't how the plane flies. It's perfectly flyable but has a tendency to pitch up more than other planes of the type. As a response, Boeing added functionality to MCAS to compensate.

The first crash likely wouldn't have happened had the pilots turned all the electronic nannies off and flown raw dog. The just didn't realize that was what they had to do for a combination of reasons.

Not knowing that they were flying with a screwy AoA sensor and what the symptoms of that would look like is a maintenance/communication/human systems failure.

The fact that a faulty AoA sensor can have those symptoms and the fact that the pilots didn't know about it well enough to make the connection themselves and disable the system is a failure on Boeing.

Think of it like having a crossover that wanders more than the comparable sedan at highway speed so the OEM silently turns on lane keeping when you use cruise control to compensate. There's a risk that if you're not paying attention it will find a lane that isn't a lane and drive you into a barrier at 70 and on this particular one the relevant sensor was faulty and more prone to doing that.
Smirking at how YMCA has better safeguards for attention drift around pool safety than Uber does around road safety.
I used to feel the same way, until I read Sarno’s book. The way he explained what psychosomatic means completely changed my perspective over it.

I think the main problem with many doctors is the fact that the patient tends to feel blamed when told that their minds are causing the problem. This is not Sarno’s approach at all, since he states that chronic pain can be seen as a defense mechanism against deep negative emotions.
Behavioral genetics is perfectly safe - if they deal with actual genes instead of the utterly unscientific proxies of race that have been long discredited.

There has been no public stir over say ADHD or psychiatric prevalence, hell theories in either direction for "gay genes" failed to move the needle. The Warrior gene" research (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_A) didn't despite a crime link and the double Y males link to violence wasn't controversial even though it was later shown to not be endocrinal but IQ related from the condition leading to their overrepresentation.
> Customers have a right to choose a tightly-controlled platform, just as they have a right to shop at a grocery store that refuses to sell poisonous food

And giving them the choice is the whole point