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Why does not having a WiFi password mean that the information must travel unencrypted?

And why is a password enough to encrypt that information, even if said password is written in large letters on a wall for everybody to see?

I'm sure that there are a good technical reasons, but at the same time it seems like there should be a better way to have convenient and safe WiFi networks in public spaces.
AWS has Neptune as their managed graph database so it seems unlikely they will fork Dgraph. Azure and GCP could, though.

I believe Dgraph played a little with their licensing but the community's reaction was negative so they reverted back to something somewhat risky for them.

Let's hope they release their managed service quickly and garner a good following!

Observing Dgrpah and ArangoDB closely...
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The best security is the one you don't have to educate people about. Today's HTTPS implementations such as HSTS/Preload, DoT/DoH, etc can thwart most of the dumb attacks easily. In mobile apps, you can even pin a particular certificate and it's pretty much safe from.someone with the network access.

I work on security, and I connect to open wifi networks all the time when I travel. I trust myself to not install random root certs and not ignorant to go past https warnings.

For my own apps, I have HSTS preloaded, proper CSP headers, and don't TLS < 1.2.
2 out of how many? Is that 2% or .0000001%
> If you use a VPN, it's absolutely safe

There is still the rest of the internet, like the part between Cloudflare terminating SSL, and the backend on shared hosting, running bare HTTP. Point being that if you're using sites that are lazy about transport security, no VPN will help you.
I've always thought the most efficient setup would be two levels of governance:

1) Global Governance. Sets regulations on trade, basic human rights (i.e locals can't hang gay people etc), environmental policy (region A can't send pollutants down stream to region B). Things of that sort.

2) City/County level governance. Mosques can only be 10 feet tall and motor vehicles are not allowed. Or whatever the cultural preferences are.

However, an argument for nation states might be, they allow some level of selection. If nation A becomes corrupt or refuses to embrace science, nation B overcomes it. But this does cause a lot of suffering and war.
The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product
You will when the hackers checkmate you.
Missed “latest” in that comment, thanks for the heads-up.
nand2tetris.org
Haven't finished it yet but it's all about building a full computer from a NAND to other logic gates (mux, dmux, and, or, etc) to higher level things like assembly, memory, cpu, and it keeps going to a tetris game.
It's challenging, comprehensive and builds upon itself. It's awesome
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I can't get this page to load / render correctly worth a damn. Even with my ad blocker off. Lame.
> What we don't like is any talk of Americanising the NHS

The difficulty is that "Americanisation" is this catch all term (Along with Neoliberalism etc.) that doesn't have a defined meaning, but is wide enough to beat any non-left wing solution into the ground. I don't think anyone actually wants the NHS to be more american, but most european healthcare systems have more in common with American one's than ours to some degree (Excluding universality, which it obviously lacks)

Imagine if the Orange Book was released now, with it's plans to introduce insurance to the NHS: I can picture the momentum activists screaming now.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2014/0...
for example (old poll but still usable) 22% of people say the NHS is the best healthcare system in the world when it clearly isn't when measured by various measures most notably cancer outcomes which are pretty bad compared to some countries
https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/110/1/5/278036
Could somebody explain to me why Mozilla (or whatever organisation is using bugzilla here) are in a position to dictate policy here?

If the majority of outstanding certificates were held by the Italian government, major banks and hospitals, what are the CA supposed to do if they're just told "No, you won't revoke the certificates until we're ready, we don't think the risk is worth it"? Further, reading a comment below on the usage of these certificates by the Italian state for mandatory reporting: it sounds like revoking could be considered a criminal offense...

This very much reads like a private entity mandating that tens if not hundreds of thousands of Euros are spent by the Italian state over a very minor security risk.
Same! What the heck!
Things have improved lately, but it wasn’t that long ago that the Chase banking app on iOS did not check the certificate hostname at all, meaning that MITM for the TLS it used was trivial.

There are risks, and fortunately they are reducing.

A VPN is still a good idea.
And yet all these newspapers owned by hugely wealthy individuals keep conflating the two! Weird isn't it?

It's almost like there's an incentive for the media landscape to muddy the waters between well paid execs and the person who owns the company.
I'm sure this is not a popular opinion here, but as long as I trip over homeless people, sleeping on the sidewalks, on my stroll to work, it's weird that space exploration would pop up as a "must" instead of a "nice to have".
Greenland's ice sheet melting fast
And click on the first link, which is a Google ad?
The dichotomy for people earning high incomes, but viewing themselves as "average", stems from the fact that you need to be in the top 5% of income if you want to live a stereotypical 50's style "middle class" life in a high-cost of living area: a (modest) single family home, a car, 2 kids, health care, children's college paid for, saving for retirement, etc.

All of the above were easily had back then on the median income. Everyone lower than you on the income curve is cutting in places you can't see (retirement accounts). If you observe conspicuous consumption by peers making less, they're going deep into debt to make it happen.

The only thing not 1950's about our middle class ideals: your spouse probably works to make ends meet.
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Thanks
I think the point that some of the naysayers here are missing is that while SSL and a VPN aren't _perfect_ security, they're more than enough for Joe NineToFive. They eliminate the vector of a random person running a honeypot network trying to scoop up low-hanging banking credentials. If you have a knowledgable, perhaps state-level adversary trying to get you in particular, then yes, connecting to random hotspots is probably not a great idea, but you either already knew that or were compromised long ago.
> [The] main performance difference between the 12W and 15W will be seen on multithreaded applications, which are more power limited. 3W of extra power will be used to increase average frequency into higher performance. We have seen between 5-15% performance increase on some benchmarks such as Spec06, SYSmark and 3DMARK.

So, nearly no gain. A disappointment.
For the South Bay, the top 5% household income is apparently $523k.

But this dumb website doesn’t even allow entering a household income that’s higher than $400k.

So if you think 1% or 5% is the threshold for being rich, then nobody who fills in this survey will ever be declared rich.

Edit: turns out you can enter your income in the field right above the slider. But that’s not obvious at all IMO.
Not many people here probably know who Mosaddegh was. So for context, he speaks of the 1953 CIA backed coup against the iranian elected president Mosaddegh, who nationalized the oil from foreign companys. Which the foreign companys and their governments did not like. But, I am not sure if all would have been peace and harmony without that coup. Sudden oil richness in a very, very poor society, is just very hard to do right.
This might be a good resource to get some more context on different countries’ energy systems and where petroleum plays in.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-03...

This is particularly visual. Not taking away from Farouk al-Kasims contribution but find Norway to see how unique their particular situation is.
I mourned the loss of the whiteboard when we moved to distributed teams in ~2012 or so. We turned to Google docs and Hangouts, but it's nowhere near the same in terms of flexibility / resolution / efficiency.
I would still want to look at the rate. Is it 1 of 10 or 1 in a million? At what number are we comfortable for our safety?
That's already the case whatever local network you happen to be using.
Yet another visceral example of why you shouldn't try to control the scroll with javascript.
If you still work at Equifax then I hope that you are able to find a new job quickly.
I'm glad you asked, and ideas are welcome! I'm not an audio pro and I suck at physics.

I'm at work but I fired up Skitch and made this ridiculous little drawing, which should explain the situation somewhat. http://www.nybergh.net/stuff/linked/2019/08/hifi-cottage.png

Basically, we're using the corner of the L-shaped kitchen+living room space to our advantage by moving the couch a bit and pointing the speakers there. The sub sounds super clean anywhere near the convex corner with the fireplace.

I find that the biggest challenge is the stereo sweet spot, which always is going to be annoyingly garbage and narrow with two-channel stereo. The subtle room reflections help a bit, and we rotate seating to make it a bit more fair.

I read renowned Harman researcher Floyd E. Toole's 'Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms' and he seems to agree that there's not a whole lot that can be done about two-channel stereo. In fact, Toole rants in favor of three front channels quite a lot, and well as mocking audiophiles who think their rooms are going to be likely to not need basic tone controls on reproduction gear. https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Psychoacoustics-Lo...

But back to business, with this nice house we don't really need to do much. The log walls absorb a lot, while leaving a nice little lively touch that makes it not feel like a padded room (one of my friends had a padded room before for music, and I've decided I definitely prefer a room that feels a little bit alive).

My friend has this DSpeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 for room correction http://www.dspeaker.com/en/products/20-dual-core.shtml

The same friend has two Genelec 8330A active speakers that could do room correction on their own https://www.genelec.com/studio-monitors/sam-studio-monitors/...

Then we have a previous model of the Genelec F One form factor subwoofer, I can't remember the model number, which is alphabet soup, even though it's connected to my system at home. https://www.genelec.com/home-speakers/f-series-active-subwoo...

The Genelecs are both compact, durable and easy to transport, and we have telecope model stands for them. They have a super nice mid range for guitar and the human voice, and they're also quite nice to look at.

When we set up the space, we basically let the DSpeaker box do its frequency swipes for ten minutes or so. We'd be fine without it even, but it just clears up the bass so nicely.
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The first thing I saw the name immediately relates to the Malay word Lagu. But no you don't see a word like this in real world, but you can certainly add them together.
> Big question for the founders: how are you going to fend off AWS when you will get bigger? (see what's happening with Elastic, MongoDB, etc)

Just judging by the stock price, at $100 and $150 approx today, Elastic and Mongo stock are doing well. I don't see them going down as badly as the media projects it to be.

Think our current license is pretty good. Can't predict far future, but at least in the near future, I don't see a reason to change that. It's not something we're contemplating right now.
that's not how percentiles work. also, you'd need to know whether that value they use is the lower bound on the top 5% and how that compares to the top 5% for the general population
I learned cable lacing in aviation maintenance school when I was burned out on tech. It has a lot of advantages (less abrasion, plastic flow, plastic waste, etc then zip ties). With a bit of practice it can be faster too. I still use it in personal projects, at work not so much: wouldn't want to confuse my coworkers to much ;)
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What percentage of a total community has to believe something is sacred before it is accepted as so?

The idea of going with what the majority thinks falls apart in this context.
> App stores require apps use https nowadays

No: there are exceptions apps can apply for.

> nobody is MITMing https

Kazakhstan is by forcing you to install their certificate to get online.
Commercial space systems are expensive because the rockets are expensive, though. When you spend a couple hundred million on a launch, everything has to be super lightweight and durable. There’s nothing that says a comsat has to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s just the most cost effective way to use very expensive launches.

In a world where reaching orbit is cheap, satellites can be cheap too. If it breaks down, go fix it, or bring it back and put up a new one. If it’s twice as heavy as it could be, but also twice as cheap, that becomes a win.

Imagine if all cargo sent from China had to be sent in single-use cargo planes. Everything being sent would be designed around this. Making a cell phone one gram lighter but $10,000 more expensive would be a huge win. All of the cargo would be incredibly valuable. A naive analysis might therefore indicate that sending stuff on reusable ships instead of expendable cargo planes wouldn’t save you much money, since the cargo itself is most of the cost.
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I connect all my usual sites with history completion from the address bar. I never type them.
And that's higher than the Bay Area's 5%.

I think the difference is that Boston has a lot of highly paid professionals (doctors, white-shoe lawyers, consultants, finance) who can earn much more than most people do in tech and other professions.
Here’s one: https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/...
Forgot the link to the energy maps
https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/473335.pdf
I don't say that you should always be overly concerned when using a wifi. Though, you should pay attention at which wifi you log on and what services you access while doing that.

Do you really need to check you email on a public wifi? If it's not necessary, then just don't do it. It's the small things. Sure you can take this into the extreme (which is never a bad thing in this case), but even if we don't, then we should not teach people that every public wifi is perfectly fine. Please remain thoughtful.
Most everything in aviation still uses lacing (former aircraft mech). I think zip ties only started to be used (lightly) around the early 2000's.
Anybody ever abused wireless printers direct wireless modes ?
> NSA secretly spying on the US's own citizens

There was one program that was arguably capable of doing that, which was collection of phone record metadata. Snowden grabbed and leaked a lot more than that.

> Also Snowden didn't "flee to Russia" - that's pure right-wing lie/talking point.

Is fleeing to China any better?
The capitalized word "Velcro" is still a trademark.

Capitalization has no bearing on word marks (in the US, at least. I can't speak for other countries). "Velcro", "VELCRO", "velcro" are all the same thing as far as the trademark office is concerned. And yes, there are still active trademarks for the word "VELCRO", but it has still been unquestionably genericized.
>Bill Gates did something very similar, and we were similarly skeptical then. I like to think that once you're the world's richest man, your priorities might shift in a way that's difficult to imagine from the midst of the rat race.

Indeed.

If I was independently wealthy and only had 1 million extra, I can immediately think of a ton of stuff I'd start doing with it that would not directly benefit me. If I had tens of billions that I did not need to survive I would absolutely do something like develop my own rocket. I wouldn't stop there either.

Mars 2020 has a 2.5 billion dollar price tag, if I had Bezos-money I would absolutely try and send a lander/rover pair to both Mars and the Moon except I wouldn't have a bunch of science equipment on it, I'd purely be going to record the best VIDEO and photos that I could on both purely to get people interested.

Even if I couldn't get a government to let me do a lander, simply sending orbiters that could capture 1080p video of the approach and several times around Mars and the Moon, and then taking days, weeks, months to transmit it all back, just throwing that up on YouTube would be worth the spend to me just to see it, and the amount of people that would likely inspire to be interested in things bigger than just them, bigger than politics of this or that country, bigger than Earth could be truly profound.

I'd open source the designs of the equipment too and creative commons the video for general use and allow entities to obtain commercial use on a sliding scale depending on their intended use. If a student wants it for something, give me 10$ and a producer credit, if some big studio wants it, still be very fair but obviously charge more.
How does using a VPN protect you from poorly secured apps and services?

My understanding is a MITM attack can happen between your VPN provider and the service, just like it may work on the wifi point.
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That's exactly how they work...?

And it's stated explicitly that it's a lower bound ("More than").
Why it pays to be contrarian
Anything that destroys the power of the Senate is good. This would do that, therefore this is good.
Phonetically for a german the word schtroumpf has a striking similarity to the german word Strumpf which means stocking
This is by far my biggest pet peeve with media and finance...

Income != Wealth/Assets

And the two are used interchangeably all of the time, which gets misused. And it happens right here on HN "omg Uber is worth $160B, how can they not pay developers more?!"...
Nobody hanging around in a cafe. But https is not ultimately secure and state actors have the resources to do this, in particular China.

However that same security professional better be complaining about home/corporate WIFI.
This is a subset usually referred to as dispersed camping. IME, this is usually the case in US national forests (in fact, I think the rule is that it is allowed by default).

There are a number of parks (including most US national parks) that only allow backcountry camping at designated sites (which may or may not have the amenities described by the GP).
What an amazing video. Thanks for this.