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From https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/12/attacke...

>The targeting of critical infrastructure to disrupt, degrade, or destroy systems is consistent with numerous attack and reconnaissance activities carried out globally by Russian, Iranian, North Korean, U.S., and Israeli nation state actors. Intrusions of this nature do not necessarily indicate an immediate intent to disrupt targeted systems, and may be preparation for a contingency.

This reeks of Stuxnet 2.0
Just to add...

If everyone in the office and even outside clients are not only noticing the slowdown but also able to point at the root cause (your coworker), you really don't need to stick your own neck out there to let them know something they are aware of. It's already known. Let the situation come to fruition at it's own pace.
This is very different in oratory vs. conversation, especially depending on the conversation style of the people you're speaking with. In some conversations, if you don't put in an "uh" or "um" when you pause, you'll immediately be assumed to be done speaking and will be interrupted.
When I see cockpit videos, the pilots tell each other what they do / run checklists together... Does the MCAS do the same, i.e. announce "stall risk detected, increasing stabilizer trim by 2.5 degree to xx degree"?
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As far as vetting contractors, we ensure they have appropriate licensing, bonding and insurance per local requirements and also vet their existing social media reviews (looking for 4+ stars). Most of our clients provide us their rolodex of contractors to work with and we can vet their responsiveness and quality that way.
> Are you saying that rhetorically?

No.

> And besides, the point here was largely about bundle size and fast time-to-interactive.

As long as the point wasn't to be productive I'll just mind my own business.
Pricing power doesn't have to have an unlimited range to demonstrate a monopoly in the sense of interest to anti-trust law.

So how does Apple qualify and Coke doesn’t? How do you decide what the “right” amount of pricing power a company should have?

I've only said the existence of other sellers in the descriptive category of “computers” is not inconsistent with he characterization others made of Apple having a monopoly, because monopoly is designed by empirical evidence of competition (e.g., whether or not pricing power exists), not by whether or not their are other players in a descriptive category.

What exactly does Apple have a monopoly on then? Computers? Phones? Lightning adapters?
> yet this is a very niche use case

I've always thought that one of the sensible basic data structures that Redis could support operation on is an (int->int) digraph.

There are a lot of things you can build on top of "digraphs as a toolkit object"—just see the lengths people go to to get PostGIS+pg_routing installed in Postgres, just to do some random digraph queries to their (non-geographic) RDBMS data.

IMHO digraphs very similar to Redis Streams in that sense: they're something that might seem like a single high-level "use-case" at first glance, but which is actually a fundamental primitive for many use-cases.

However, unlike a hashmap, list, set, etc., a digraph is necessarily—if you want graphwise computations to run efficiently—one large in-memory object with lots of things holding mutual references to one-another that can't just be updated concurrently in isolation. But, it is likely that people would demand multiple writers be able to write to disjoint "areas" of the graph in parallel, rather than having to linearize those writes just in case they end up touching overlapping parts of the graph data.

If I understand Redis Streams, it was created because there's no real need for things like Kafka to do their own data-structure persistence. Data-structure persistence is not the "comparative advantage" of a thing like Kafka; network message-passing with queuing semantics is. High-level infrastructure pieces like Kafka should rely on lower-level infrastructure pieces like Redis for their data persistence, and then they can just do what they do best. Is that accurate?

If so, then I would argue the same thing applies to graph databases: persisting and operating on data-structures is not really their job; it's just something they do because there isn't anything to delegate that work to. Redis could be such a thing. But not if it's single-threaded.

This is, just from the top of my head, a use-case (set of use-cases?) that needs threading (or at least "optimistically threaded, with fallback to linearization") for writes. And it's not really all that niche, is it? Not any more than message queues are niche.
I have used Uber from a browser from my laptop. It works but not quite as well. I couldnt tip, and it refused a valid credit card once with some weird error message. So I wouldnt recommend the non-app versions if you're pressed for time etc.
Open source developers need to be able to put food on the table. Open source developers do not need to be able to put food on the table while being employed by Elasticsearch.

Frankly, yesterday's announcement made me seriously consider whether I wanted to apply for a job working at AWS, since I expect they have many positions where you're spending most of the time working on open source code like Elasticsearch.

The argument you're making is equivalent to the old argument against open-source software itself: if companies can't make money by selling proprietary software, who's going to want to be a software developer? Sure, it's great that some bored Finnish guy wrote an OS that's competitive with Solaris, but if he drives Sun out of business what's the guarantee anyone else will want to work on his OS? Don't we need proprietary software companies to ensure that quality software gets developed?
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> But my internet connection has a 2 second latency so I still have to wait an annoyingly long time every time I interact with your app. My connection is terrible too, so it drops every 10th request, and now I'm seeing a lot of broken pages.

I often work on a train over a 4G connection, so this describes me too. I much prefer traditional style web applications over SPAs specifically because of this.

You know what happens if a request is taking too long or fails with a traditional web app? I hit reload and it retries.

You know what happens if the same thing happens with most SPAs? It throws away my unsaved data and puts me back on the starting screen.

Sometimes there's a JavaScript-powered retry I can use instead. Sometimes it works, usually it is very unreliable (if something has failed to load, often the JavaScript is having problems too).

Sure, I'm willing to accept the possibility that an SPA can be written in such a manner as to compensate for this hostile environment. It's just: I've used a lot of these apps, and I haven't found one that works reliably over a poor connection yet.
C is too high level and bloated. 20 kb for a hello world executable? That's just shameful.

Assembly language backends on the other hand absolutely scream.

And with a modern IDE they're a joy to develop.
Nope, not true, completely full of it.
This is a perfect example of the increase of government paternalism. Why shouldn’t kids have a choice of whether they want to eat meat or not? One size does not fit all.
If you think your analogy makes my point better than mine then you haven't understood my point. I might also have mentioned how I only befriend convicted criminals to avoid falling into the trap of thinking I can trust my friends, or how I only hire accountants who have been convicted of defrauding their clients so I don't get complacent about checking they are not stealing money from me.
The FAA has always been very pro-active about grounding planes that are unsafe. The airlines operating these aircraft do not benefit by continuing to fly them if they are un-safe. Between the cost of the loss, public image etc. it would not make economic sense.

Given the trade tensions the US has with both China and the EU and the fact that both are offering competing products (Airbus more so), this sounds like more of a political move. In the case of the EU, the WTO ruled that Airbus was illegally subsidized by the government that has now banned a Boeing aircraft while it has the green light to fly in the US.

As swampy as the US government is, the EU has it's fair share of payoffs etc.. I expect this to further heat up the trade war.
The main issue I have with this idea is that in practice I've almost never found the difference in payload to matter all that much, even on bad connections.

In some cases, even sending the entire HTML document and diffing on that using morphdom (because redrawing does bring noticeable cost rather quickly) was a viable strategy even compared to the most optimal json payload.

I'd very much like to see some examples that prove me wrong though, because while I've done some experiments, I might be underestimating how complex many web apps are. It's mostly that the apps I built in hindsight were often better off with a more old fashioned server-side, morphdom, turbolinks (or maybe intercooler?) type approach.
It depends who's making the argument!

I've generally found people on HN to be sensitive to the nuance, but over on reddit - where the level of discourse is lower but perhaps more reflective of everyday conversation - things are very different. Some use the choice explanation to dismiss the finding as not problematic, or to push the blame onto women. Some recent examples after a quick search:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/aujkwr/_/eh9n9r...

> The gender pay gap might not be a problem and it could just be the result of the choices of both men and women

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/ac8u6p/_/ed64p8...

> The gender pay gap has been debunked, can we move on already

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/acc3tv/_/ed6tw7...

> Do people still believe in the gender pay gap? Is is still being pushed as “women getting paid less because they are women”?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/acgxxn/_/ed7vbj...

> It’s almost as stupid as the gender pay gap day
Someone needs to pay for this and I think it should be boeing and not FAA.
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While this is technically true, it's irrelevant to the comment of mine you're replying to, which had nothing to do with legality in the first place.
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You absolutely can still buy a Gros Michel[1], they're just not the standard cultivar anymore due to Panama disease. Bananas as a whole are incredibly varied - the Cavendish was selected primarily due to being able to be grown in similar conditions as the Gros Michel and shipping well. Monoculture has problems, but it's not like there's no chance of recovery from crop disease.

[1] https://miamifruit.org/products/gros-michel-banana-box-pre-o...
I don't want to get too specific. We're a seed stage company and we're on track for profitability in a few months with plenty of gas left in the tank.
Medium will be a better place without Hackernoon's clickbaity & shallow articles.

That being said, Medium has broken its platform with the aggressive roll out of premium. I guess it depends on which categories you are interested in but for knowledgeable and in-depth tech articles the best articles are not written by authors looking to earn a couple of dollars as a side gig.

They are written by people that wants to create a profile for themselves and/or as content marketing for a company. A star marker is rarely an indication of a very in depth article and is never written by a true expert in the subject. These authors just don't write with the incentive to make money from the content itself.

Medium.com used to be a create recommendation engine for quality & related content. Now the recommendations are garbage full of clickbaity & shallow articles with a star marker. And their search is terrible and lacking in basic features like time filtering/sorting. When you search now you get many 2-3 year old articles in fast changing tech subjects which are completely uninteresting. A great search and ability to build some feeds/channels is actually a feature I would pay for.

Maybe other niches creates different experiences but for tech it is not a platform worth exploring beyond the article you came for via a twitter link.
I've heard that the Aldi guys (there's Aldi South and North in Germany) don't compete for other countries and usually one of them gets the whole.

As the US market is larger than most other countries combined they shared it with this agreement (Aldi is from Aldi South, TJ is Aldi North).

Might be an urban legend.
> ICQ recently disabled the OSCAR protocol, which means I am not able to use it with Pidgin anymore

Which is a strange claim, as it seems to work for me. Got the message they were turning it off, and then it just continued to work. shrug
Don't follow your biggest passion for work, it just kills the passion.

Follow your 2nd biggest passion, so that you enjoy your work but you still have something to enjoy when you aren't working.
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Oh, thanks, I'll take a look
This advice is certainly correct for public speaking, but for conversation, I've observed that saying "uh" and "um" is actually a good habit for most people. They convey clearly that you intend to speak soon. Without them, others interrupt or assume you're not listening. It's quite understandable that people would bring that good habit to a new context where it's surprisingly counterproductive.
Oh, you're right. I was misled by the Brave post -- sad to say I'm _mostly_ unfamiliar with either project.
I don't know how long but it was a simplistic approach. Replace the search engine, make myself use notepad plus plus to type, because backend engineering means we get a lot annotations if its breached, and then just a lot hotmail accounts and the youtube prank video life. Nothing fancy but google hates pranksters like those foosietubers cause they know too much and use it to make trouble, the engineering is what they tend to use so the illegal stuff is like backed into threading and is hard to move with because of that the listening sequence is SO FREAKING LOUD and naturally their non-engineer folk cant hear it so I avoid those websites and move on. Find replacememts and move on. My phone got loud? Use blank instead. After that ecosia starts to accomodate high profile users by also NOT giving them links when people like google are watching

I'm going home. I will be buying ecosia stock and making myself useful. Lol I finished this post and as I typed useful I think google bot spammer gave me a call and with the number, lol, 909 448 550...like the numbers in China. Like FUCK
> If you're eating two large meals, you're still releasing a lot of insulin, you're still doing the same amount of fat storage, you're just timing it differently. If that works for you, great.

Yes, but your body won't be able to use it's stored fat in the presence of insulin. If you keep that up long enough, you can only burn calories coming in. If you eat a lot of meals AND a caloric deficit your body needs to decrease your metabolism, mostly heat, thus cold hands and feet.

> This is a semantic construction that is not supported by the science.

It is. See insulin vs glucagon.

> but you are incorrect in the idea that you wouldn't consume essentially the same amount of fat over the same amount of time given the same caloric inputs

It's about your metabolism not CICO.

> Most people also go into ketosis while they are sleeping.

Well it won't be a deep ketosis. The longer your fast, the lower the insulin, the more body fat will be used.

> This doesn't matter. Given the same energy requirements and the same energy inputs you're going to burn the same amount of fat over a 24 hour period regardless of when those inputs come. Anything else is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.

It absolutely does matter, because your body does not burn a static amount of calories but adapts to the situation. Slowing metabolism is real. If you can't burn energy (low caloric input but frequent meals), your body will do what it needs to survive.

> Yes, keto is actually a low protein diet as much as a high fat diet. Most people ignore the first part.

Yes!

> This is great, and a very real reason for people to try IF/Keto/Other diets. But it does not suggest anything other than a compliance hack that is working well for you.

While it's anecdotal, there are good reasons for this effect.

You don't need to go low carb for a healthy diet, but cutting insulin raising foods for periods of time does have its merit. Take no more than 3 meals a day and leave 12+ hours food-free. Will do wonders for most people.
"...because if chatterers can just go ahead and talk to anyone anywhere, then your service probably won’t go viral and how are you going to monetize?"

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think the problem is engineers, but capitalists. Specifically, grow-at-all-costs venture-capitalists (and those at FAANG, of course). Engineers, for the most part, just want to improve things. Increasing openness is one way of doing that. But right now they're getting paid tons and tons of money to do the opposite.
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> A barrier to entry is something a competitor cannot acquire.

This is 100% incorrect. By that definition every company's private source code is a barrier to entry for their competitors. Clearly this is wrong.

> It is impossible for competitors to acquire the insight that Google has amassed, since it is based on historical data that is not available anymore.

I'm sorry but you are just plain wrong about what constitutes a barrier to entry. "The product is so advanced that nobody can compete" is not a barrier. "All you have to do" is produce a better product; just because that is hard does not make it a barrier.

> I am arguing that Google has critical resources that cannot be replicated by this mythical group of genius polymaths because they are now owned by Google exclusively

I am just going to repeat myself with emphasis since you don't seem to be understanding that patents are not an antitrust violation. I am going to repeat it again: patents are not an antitrust violation. If you want to discuss the ethics of software patents that's a different topic where I likely agree with you, but within the context of anti-competitive behavior owning patents does not qualify. By your logic I suppose you want to break up Tesla since they are a market leader with a massive patent-warchest. If not, why not?

> it is ridiculous to suggest that the only thing preventing this is ‘brand awareness’.

This is a misreading of what I wrote. I'll assume it wasn't deliberate. What I said was that if a group of engineers produced a better product, the only thing that would prevent their product from being successful is google's ubiquitous branding, there is nothing about google's business practices that would prevent a superior product from being successful. Your argument is that google is so advanced that nobody can produce a superior product, but even if thats true, producing a superior product is not anti-competitive.
I think the only take-away from this article is "Don't Shill Bitcoin".

And of course, step 16 of your not-so-easy plan to vanish to avoid the consequences of your actions should not be contacting the New York Times and having them write an article about you.
This comes up every-time YouTube tweaks their algorithm and some YouTubers lose some number of views. It always seems like creators expect the platform to drive traffic to their blog/channel/creative work/etc. when in reality the creator is ultimately responsible for doing the legwork of marketing.
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IRC is about as featureful as the telegraph, I'm pretty sure that's why so few people bother with it and while interfaces (bots that relay messages to other platforms and back) exist plenty, pretty much everyone would rather use something with at least scrollback without bouncer. Probably also file transfer, (video) calling, screen sharing, typing notifications, read receipts, etc.
It’s a great example of how “normal” minded people need to be wary of extremists on the left and right.

The people fighting to kill dairy are mostly transitioning people to soy grown in a region depleting it’s groundwater to pump out surplus and nuts grown in a few California counties.

The consolidation effects kill agriculture everywhere else. There were 50 vegetable farms within 20 miles of my home in 1981. Today there are 3.

Good thing California has no long term risks from a transport or water POV.
This guy sounds like he needs a therapist.
Better safe than sorry. For example if a plane crashes in the first flight should we just ignore it because it is statistically insignificant ? 2/350 seems like a fairly good number to ground the plane and do an investigation. In general this is good for aviation industry because next time Boeing will not cut corners as it has so far.
I looked briefly but wasn't able to find a posted reason for the requirements. Are you aware of why these requirements were put in place?

What an odd thing to see from a webpage in 2019.
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How do you bootstrap a company with strict compliance and security requirements?
You mean they didn’t spend $7.6 billion on Nokia and before that $500 million on Danger?

They tried to buy Yahoo.
Yep -- when I started researching corn for my own horticultural reasons, I was cold shocked to find out only ~10% goes to feed humans, with the balance going mainly to animal feed and ethanol :

http://worldofcorn.com/#corn-usage-by-segment
I recognize your username from a couple days ago: But the truth of the matter is that Windows 7 is unsafe to use, and should not be used after January 14th of 2020.

Microsoft very obviously has no plans to budge on how they handle updates or telemetry, and switching your workflow to Mac or Linux can take quite a while, so these reminders are an excellent nudge that you should probably start now.