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> higher-quality data in the EV certs.

Part of this is probably the fact that many people were opposed to the entire concept of EV certs as basically being a money grab by the dominant CA's from day 1, and indeed the trend is away from highlighting their existence in web user agents...
People who want to buy drugs over the internet, but using their real name facebook account?

(No, I don't get it either)
The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends introducing children to peanut at an early age: https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages...
How to be concise on multifaceted, complex topics like “experience” or “culture”
Anyone have any resources for how to hone concision? I've used YC's videos (Kevin Hale's are very helpful) - but I was looking for more sources that delve a bit deeper.

The problem is context - how can I generate excitement for my solution if people do not understand and appreciate the problem? Even my own industry isn't fully aware.

Critical thinking requires complexity. In Public Safety, (fire/ems) our critical thinking is patient assessment and incident command. We currently use power points and training mannequins but these are not complex enough. Furthermore, most of our experience we gain is on the job, on the actual patients. (thanks, you lovely guinea pigs)

I'm trying to get my description as concise as possible -but it is a bit like trying to describe what Facebook is, or the concept of a social network to someone in year 2000 in a single sentence and expecting it to have an impact on the reader. It's an outside context problem.

"VR simulations for First Responders, focused on low-cost for high training value" - That first part is clear but does it really generate excitement? The second part, I'm trying to show there is a real value but again, it sounds like marketing buzz. In reality though, it IS low cost, since I am the only developer use software design aspects like procedural generation and low cost assets. The training value is higher because i'm building what I'd want to use to train because I know it will make me better (versus a powerpoint)

"VR Simulations for First Responders, specializing in experience gained" is another one. I've spent a very long time understanding how experience works in the brain and how you can replicate the same process that gives someone experience. To me, that is the core of this platform, it's one thing to say learning or training, but when we read a resume, we don't ask how many years someone's spent LEARNING, we ask for years of experience.

I've tried analogy/metaphor but I'm convinced I'm dealing with a sleeping giant of a problem. I've spent 4 years trying to articulate this but I'm wondering if I'm dealing with a something that can only be reduced so much.
You wrote exactly my thoughts! I was so excited for a new generation of touch-optimized RTS games when the iPad was released and I’ve been disappointed with the options.

Do you (or anyone) know of any iPad games that fit the bill these days? I played Vainglory for a while but that’s not a RTS - it’s a MOBA (and was fun and worked super well on touch).
> Companies are even easier to control than people because their whole existence is made possible by laws and regulations of governments.

And this is how we know the "small government" slogan is an absolute sham.
Were you working with any human factors or related teams in the nuclear industry?
> auditing _every_ EV issued?

this is what Extended Validation is supposed to mean in the first place.. and lends credence to the argument that EV solves a problem that shouldn't exist to begin with for 'regular' certs
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Interesting. My parents we born and grew up about 20 miles from Mcalester. My Aunt worked in that munitions plant during WW2.
Which is a problem as people are wasting 50 years of their life giving fucks all the time.
> After Snowden we all know that TLAs are reading everything.

No, we don't. According to the documents Snowden released, none of the TLAs in the US are reading everything. What we do know now is that China has a list of compromised systems because Snowden gave it to them.
Canadian. So, about $2.50 US ;-)
Well if you include NGLs ok (natural gas liquids). But not if you talk about crude oil, which is the valuable thing. NGL is waste product almost.
That's not the point of my comment both regarding EV certificates and regarding relevance of Firefox (and I don't know where you got those stats).
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Chuckled. HN taught me that nitrogen fixing used to be a natural bottleneck to human population growth and factory-made nitrates made calories cheaper and caused a population explosion. And farming practices left the land less suitable for feeding them.
> a private military company asserting their right to conduct foreign wars in the name of a subset of citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi (formerly known as Blackwater)?
The authors know that: https://whatfreewords.org/faq.html
I think that the point that the article is making, even if it is not really expressed by its title, is that the mental significance of our first language hangs on even if we lose it by no longer being able to speak or think in it.
As a European, I also find it very weird to enable this globally by default. I really don't want to send my traffic to a third party on some other continent that gives me a service for free. I pay my ISP good money to do this for me.

No idea how common this is in other countries, but my ISP doesn't sniff or sell my traffic. I've only ever heard about that on HN or Reddit, which are USA-centric. I guess it also happens in other countries, but in the EU such a thing would have to be made known to the user because it processes personal data.

Somehow, adding a Pocket button is bad but sending all visited websites to Cloudflare is good. The top two comments (and many others) on the thread about Pocket can be applied here as well if you just replace the name "Pocket" with "Cloudflare": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9667809
nations also used to be convinced it is inherent to their sovereignty to tell us who to worship and who to marry. this is no longer the case.

not sure there is a principled reason why the power to govern the exchange of goods and services (which is what money facilitates) should be up to them.
Who remembers Jimi Hendrix?
I once went to the ER and the FIRST bill I received was from a law firm/collection agency. They actually employed a law firm to do first-line billing (which they of course double-billed, sending the bill to the insurance company and the threat to me at the same time!).
>Blocking a communication platform doesn't sound right in a free society.

Collecting data on the citizenry under the guise of a communication platform doesn't sound right in a free society either.

You obviously transition and acknowledge/consider the same in your second sentence.

Maybe if the companies primary goal was to provide a communication platform government regulation may be concern, but their primary goal is to collect and monetize user data, the premises upon which they get the users to contractually give them that data being secondary should give the government more latitude without any free speech concerns.
If murder is immoral, what are death penalty and soldiers killing other soldiers (when it's not civilians)?

Besides the context (and the legal aspect), they are the same act, homicide with intent. Their morality seem to be different depending who you ask.

And as for Libra being made illegal, I don't see what value it provides in EU to make it worth breaking the law.
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Facebook could offer their social network in Germany without having a presence here. Then blocking it is necessary to enforce the law.
Also on the "money" you can read "Vereinsinterner Regio-Gutschein" which means that in a legal sense this is a voucher not a currency.
In terms of celebrities/politicians, it's worth glancing through late 19th C. newspapers. They make the modern version look positively unbiased and polite.
Maybe they can lay off the cocaine for a few days then? If I were a restaurant owner I wouldn't bat an eyelash at a positive MJ result though. I definitely don't want coke/meth heads though.
> If your movement's leadership acts in a way that hurts the movement, what's the appropriate response? Everything short of pushing RMS out has been tried already.

You are making a baseless assumption that it hurts the movement and are using it to push a change in leadership to someone, who is ideologically more aligned with your views (presumably, maybe you have hidden agendas, who knows). To me it seems that politically correct leadership afraid to talk about controversial topics and express controversial opinions is going to hurt free software much more by letting "the mobs", corporate PR attacks, etc. influence them and shape the movement.
Cal's essay is backed by empirics. I'd add that, for those like me who used to believe that women are better multitaskers, both men and women are equally bad at multitasking. Early studies would sometimes show a female advantage or a male advantage (not sure why the female advantage idea came to be popular), but they were based on humans performing tasks that didn't resemble the real world... or at least tasks from the world of business/office work.

A newer study, based on a real world task of meeting preparation, showed that both men and women were quite bad at multitasking: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00426-018-1045-...
> It's also odd in the context of Germany in particular where a private currency has been used for many years:

That‘s a single, mostly dead non-profit project in a tiny area, not accepted by most stores even in that area and 99% of Germans have never heard of it. Hardly comparable to Libra.
All problems from big tech stem from their centralization.

If Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook were broken up into collections of smaller, independent companies... a lot of the ills would simply disappear, and the market as a whole would be a lot healthier.
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SEPA Instant Credit Transfer should allow this, but it's adoption is not 100% widespread yet, in my experience.
The monetary policy of the currencies underlying libra are also fully determined at the behest of their respective nation states (or centralized monetary authority in the case of the EU). So, actually not that flawed. Governments and central banks are foolish to not get behind something like this because the alternative is something they can't influence at all like Bitcoin which maintains no peg to anything they do.
How do you know/measure who is the best and what justifications do you have for doing it that way?

You(and probably everyone else) have an intuitive understanding of what being the best means and that’s alright, but it’s important to question our underlying assumptions.
> Risking imprisonment isn’t exactly what I’d call a selfish act.

Immediately giving lists of compromised systems to China in an attempt to gain asylum in Hong Kong is a selfish act.
It probably is what he meant, because this is not a casual email but written for publication. If he used the word “engineer”, I will assume he meant “engineer”, and it is not necessary that you speak for management to correct perceived misunderstandings.

(NPR could have misstated Smith’s intent, but imma need a citation.)
I have no idea who that is; I just know that any "publication" that uses that language is rather biased and not to be trusted.
Agreed, it's a huge reason. Blizzard is the Nintendo of the PC space. Developers have noted for ages that competing on Nintendo platforms meant you had to match their 1st party titles. Which are held to a higher standard than others and don't get the reviews they deserve. There are few true competitors to the Mario games, Smash Bros, Mario Party, and Mario Kart for the same reason most people don't want to be compared to Blizzard's efforts.
This should be easy to move to another cloud. It's only using serverless funcs and cloud storage, from a quick glance. Dockerfiles for all pieces.
Indian here. My ISP does inject ads into plain HTTP traffic, so based on that user-hostile behaviour I assume that they also record my DNS queries and/or sell them. Also whether or not they do that, they are mandated by govt to keep DNS query records for at least 18 months (last I looked) and then anonymise them. Under the current authoritarian leaning govt, I wouldn't be surprised if rules have been revised mandating indefinite recording.
So perhaps the right solution is to run a plaintext DNS server bound to localhost, and it calls out using whatever encrypted protocol deemed necessary, systemwide.
He thought he was going to get a comfortable life in Hong Kong by leaking lists of compromised systems to China. That China laughed him out of the country after receiving the documents does not change what he thought his trade was.
China isn't a democracy?
You probably don't need a full-fledged general-purpose HTTP implementation to do DOH.

However you'd need a pretty complete TLS implementation in the network stack. Which I guess you also need to provide DNS over TLS.
I think we also need to convert that into elephants and blue whales. What's the conversion rate for elephants to London buses?
Stealing a chicken is very different from using something. Stealing chicken is no doubt immoral for most people but punishing the usage of something that Americans can use will not fly unless the USA becomes the arch-enemy and using Libra is perceived as treason and way or unfair enrichment.

Stealing a chicken has a clearly defined victim and stealing, not even piracy or patent infringement is well understood and universally condemned action.
Here's an alternative:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06605

Victor Coscrato, Luís Gustavo Esteves, Rafael Izbicki, Rafael Bassi Stern — Interpretable hypothesis tests (2019)

Abstract:

Although hypothesis tests play a prominent role in Science, their interpretation can be challenging. Three issues are (i) the difficulty in making an assertive decision based on the output of an hypothesis test, (ii) the logical contradictions that occur in multiple hypothesis testing, and (iii) the possible lack of practical importance when rejecting a precise hypothesis. These issues can be addressed through the use of agnostic tests and pragmatic hypotheses.

Note that this enables acquiring one of the Holy Grail of Statistics, namely, controlling Type I & II errors simultaneously.
No. This is not what I wrote there. I try again:

Most of the game content and mechanics is unchallenging.

A group of people "guarding" the tiny difficult part are difficult.
I posted something similar in a child comment but wanted to see if anyone had suggestions:

I bought an iPad excited for a generation of touch-optimizes RTS games and have been...disappointed. I played around with some of the MOBAs (Vainglory, etc) but that genre isn’t for me.

Are there any great (or even decent) iOS games that fit the RTS bill? I see a ton in the App Store that match the description but most just end up being free to play micro transaction gambling/monetization pits of despair, not actual RTS.

Suggestions appreciated!
It's a numbers game. I used Craigslist last year to find freelance jobs. I talked to about 40 potential clients in a month. Out of those, 30 were a no from me right off the bat (wanted to hire cheap developers, etc) and out of the last 10, I was able to setup a contract with 2.

Here are two things that have helped me:

1) Answer the ad within an hour of it being posted. This may be tough if you have a full time job. My response rate when up 100% when I did this.

2) Give them your phone number and offer to talk on the phone. Email generally doesn't work that well to sell yourself, especially now with all of the low-wage competition.

3) get good at selling yourself. They need to know why they should hire you over a $5/hour developer from overseas. Some don't care and only want to pay peanuts.

Freelancer.com is horrible. I used it a few times and got a few potential clients..but most expect things like a turnkey Facebook clone for $100.
“Social media is the /dev/null of critical thought”

Beautiful.
If something causes more harm than good, then we would be better off in a hypothetical world where it was magically erased from existence. In the real world, the negative effects of trying to forcibly ban it can easily be worse. See: drugs.
Not your fault. It's impossible to do in the post description.
my own experience is that I have to eat a sickening amount of meat to get enough minerals so I started to get some supplements. apparently vegs that I can buy are little more than starch and sugar.
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There are arguments against Mozilla's current DoH rollout. DNS should be an OS setting and it should not default to a single commercial company. Both are totally valid and I hope be addressed as DoH matures.

Or do you mean nothing sinister in this OpenBSD move? Well, it is kind of ironic to downgrade Firefox defaults to unencrypted DNS, since the absence of any modern & encrypted DNS on OSes was likely the only reason Mozilla felt the need for the switch in the first place. And this move doesn't seem to address this underlying issue of unsafe defaults caused by OSes like OpenBSD and thus feels a lot like some "no, shut up, everything is fine" reaction to criticism.
Not sure about Linux/Mac/Windows, but for OpenBSD, you can simply use unbound in base system to enable DoH (EDIT: No, it's not DoH, it's DoT) for everything in your system.

https://man.openbsd.org/unbound.conf
Some argue that it's better than nothing, seeing the lack of progress on this matter at the OS level
but why should it be up to a company like facebook? What inherent right does facebook have to create a currency. The only reason it is able to do so in the first place is because of the legal framework and protections that exist thanks to the nations it does bussiness with.
Stop pushing the blame upstairs. If you knowingly build software that hurts people, you share the blame. The job market for programmers has never been better. "My boss told me to do it" is not an excuse.

I, for one, hope more engineers involved in fraud (eg VW), privacy breaches (eg Facebook) etc get tried and punished. It might help make programmers realize that yes, your work actually affects real humans and yes, you're partly responsible for getting it right.

If your boss makes you write evil crap, quit and get a better job. No need to be all courageous and write an angry blog post, most of us are wimps and that's fine. But that doesn't mean you can't vote with your feet. We need engineers to stop being willing to work anywhere as long as the pay is good and the tech is cool.
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Yeah, I could certainly cram for the FE exam, though only a few states let anyone sit for it. Likewise, it wouldn’t be impossible to take two semesters of chemistry at some community college.

Still, this seems like a massive, unnecessary effort to establish that your Caltech degree, or my Yale one, are at least as good as one from DeVry Tech.
> I am not sure how a "black market" could be prevented.

Black markets can never be prevented.

The question is whether people would want the goods. Is there a black market for Zimbabwean dollars in the USA, for example?

Libra is pointless in Europe. In fact, it's pointless anywhere there is a developed financial and payment system.

The battleground is therefore places like Africa or South and South East Asia, and there's a reason China has quickly announced an alternative.
Just because something makes you unhappy, doesn't mean it makes everybody unhappy.
The old-school approach to this was "distcc". At the company where we used it for C++ we had a small compile farm and usually did "make -j 50".
Why? I assumed everyone asking for it to be OS level would mean that the system resolver does DoH while normal clients continue doing regular DNS. Otherwise what would it even mean to be OS-level if all the client applicatios are doing DoH themselves...?
> They concluded that working in communities that wouldn't tolerate people like RMS was more important than working on free software.

This is clearly a fabricated justification. But if such people were to actually exist they would not participate in the free software movement either way due to misalignment of values and ideologies.
The 'tech titans they serve' bit presumably refers to higher management, so he's not leaving them out...
I don’t disagree it could be quicker, city to city, but this was airport to airport. That would eliminate the drive to the airport for the person flying.
Exactly, that’s why I’m wondering about the door-to-door times for a typical trip, and I don’t know enough about American cities to give a qualified answer myself.

My expectation would be that they’re more central and less time-consuming than most airports. Then again, my experience with bus stations so far has also been that they’re even less inviting places than most airports and not usually as well connected either.
we have digital euro's? the fact that it is a physical note or a database record does not matter for fiscal policy.

ever used a digital system to transfer money? like ideal, bancontact or giropay or just plain SEPA?
We need more financial freedom in the west. Facebook is right to allow its users the ability to protect their assets with Libra - backed by a basket of currencies. I'm very excited about this idea; of course Governments are not going to be comfortable with something they can not control. Whey they go to the printing press to pay for their deficits I certainly want the ability to protect my assets with a stronger currency.
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I haven’t set this up in a while but I think you can set up a “fake” cert on the origin to Cloudflare portion and then also pin that cert into Cloudflare, so you get protection against MITM on top of protection from scanning (and from accidentally serving directly from your host). They should probably support “secret name” http headers instead of the normal host, too. So e.g. your site is set to serve for fjeiiejdndjs.dhdjdj.com and publishes via Cloudflare as www.riskysite.com

Cloudflare also has (had? I haven’t kept up) some special accelerated serving products which would de facto protect from this. Doesn’t help if you just have https vs a full vps though.

It would be awesome to have some standardized containers/ami/etc which were set up for “concealed hosting” via cf, ipfs, tor, etc.
>more harm than benefit

The "harm" Facebook causes is subjective. Some people actually get a lot of pleasure out of it; not everybody is an introverted, neurotic techie.
I don't think unbound supports DoH yet (the manpage you link doesn't mention it either). But AFAIK it does DoT.

EDIT: clearly shouldn't have used unexplained acronyms: DoH = DNS over HTTPS, DoT = DNS over TLS (which typically uses port 853)