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> Surely not from the users.

I'd love for the recent changes to rendering which fix long standing performance issues on OSX to hit release as soon as possible. https://twitter.com/whimboo/status/1168437524357898240 . Many users are running nightly right now to take up these changes because they are so valuable. As a user, I'm requesting Firefox take features to market sooner :)

> Poor guys. At least the process “guarantees” long term quality as the result.

Philosophical question: does letting code incubate for a longer period of time with the same test/user load (same nightly/beta users, same integration test suite) really enhance stability?

> Translation: marketing managers want to change their minds faster than up to now.

This is just blanket cynicism - do you have insight into the Firefox development process that suggests this is true?
Yes, the OpenSSL dustup led to this amusing article: The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve [1] ... the more serious point being, at the time, massive pieces of the internet owed their security to two unpaid/underpaid developers on two different continents.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7657571
Shockingly, this was published last week. I was expecting a mid-90's/early-00s article.

That's the impression I had. Home automation hasn't gone very far, and seems to be more trouble than it's worth. Now you have to worry about your "cloud home animation provider" going out of business, or changing their business model, or just dropping support on your home devices. Someone faced with Google dropping support on something recently wrote "My house won't work any more". "Unauthorised Bread" by Cory Doctorow is close to reality now.

There's the Cameras Everywhere thing, with Ring and that crowd. That's the telescreen from 1984, privatized.

None of this stuff does any much. All sensing, no actuation. Power windows for houses, for example, are expensive and rare. Even HVAC systems for houses which have a controlled damper for outside air are rare. The robot vacuum cleaners still aren't good enough to just ignore and let them do their job.

Most of the ideas for the Internet of Things can be seen in the 1950s Whirlpool Kitchen of the Future. Today, you can really buy most of that stuff. Back then, though, Big Brother wasn't part of the package.

[1] https://www.inverse.com/article/12064-we-ve-finally-arrived-...
Please, I too would like to know
> my Linux workstation is also our NAS, so I'd be backing up roughly 4-5TB.

They've said in the past that this is an important reason not to release a Linux client. Backblaze backup is meant for backups of personal computers, which generally have relatively limited storage themselves capacity. Add a linux client and many people will start running it on servers with many terabytes of drive capacity.

They have a page[1] on their website about NAS backup, and it points to B2 for a reason.

[1]: https://www.backblaze.com/business-nas-backup.html
It's very telling that the word copyleft hasn't appeared in this thread nor in the submitted article.

I use the AGPLv3 for most of my software and it's a feature that large corporations horrified of contributing back fear it. I'm not exploited, because I use a license that doesn't allow me to be exploited.

No one using a permissive license, which are pushed primarily by corporations that slander the GPL I think, has any right to complain about being exploited, in my opinion. Copyleft is good and copyleft software still gets paid support and other things; as many companies have found, it's also a good means to release Free Software that people will still pay for, in the form of license exceptions, even.
>I'm saying that for a lot of open source software, virtually 100% of the beneficiaries are corporations

And this is bullshit. Most popular open source projects see heavy usage in academia, personal projects, public projects, government projects, etc. Python is a massive reason any students know how to program at all.
Out of curiosity what was the full timing - since the moment we get data till the moment when we sent request to exchange?

>> I had a lot of fun trying to optimize round trip time with various datacenters around the world.

To be honest - I am thinking crypto exchanges are not at this state yet: many of them relying on public clouds,
some of them still send non-compressed plain text json data, etc.
Thanks for sharing, that is indeed a quite complex resume, quite a challenge to keep it programatically.

Actually your same experience is what took me to make this, the pain of having to open Illustrator to edit the resume once again. Atleast for the next time I got this. And thanks for the kind words :)
The anti-cop sentiment in this thread is disturbing.

I live in a bad neighborhood where gunshots are common. Since I've lived here there have probably been dozens of homicides within a .5 mile radius. Living here has changed my perception of officer involved shootings.

People don't realize how quickly things go from a slightly weird situation to bullets in the air. It goes from somebody standing funny, maybe they have a hand behind their back or they're holding a towel in a weird way, then bullets. Fast. A quarter of a second separates "that's weird" from "oh no somebody's shooting."

If you've ever dropped your phone and had to figure out what to do before it hits the ground that's about as much time as police have to make these life-and-death decisions.

In this particular situation, the police believed they were arriving to a hostage situation where somebody had already been killed.

What happened is tragic. If you've ever dug into this story it's heartbreaking. At the same time I don't think the anger at police lines up with what happened here at all.
You're addressing the pain for the developer but not the pain for the user and society more largely. The user (who may be on a slow internet connection) has to deal with the bandwidth of the more frequent downloads. Society has to deal with additional network congestion costs and electricity usage.
Yev here -> Interesting! This price increase was for our computer backup service, not B2 Cloud Storage which does compete with S3. To my knowledge most cloud storage doesn't get more expensive as time goes on. We've had one competitor in the cloud storage space who did raise prices, but typically that trends down (we've decreased our download fees for B2).

Interesting to think about that perception though, I didn't consider that aspect of it!
even if these actions were through an intermediary of theirs

The Equifax Data Breach Settlement Administrator is not an intermediary of Equifax. It's a court appointed representative of the plaintiffs.

Someone chose this representation that's creating additional hoops.

Indeed, and that someone is the plaintiffs. Not the defendants.
That is already addressed in the parent comment, "deal with a more frequent risk of getting an update I don't like"
The animations are nice, compared to a default visualization with dots and lines moving around. Was this done just for the public release, or was it worth it to researchers to have an eye-pleasing visualization while doing the experiments?
NAT is older than 15 years though. And

> lack of interest, lazyness and no will for configuration

Is a symptom of v6 being over-engineered.
>don’t you think you would perceive this as a rather hostile environment?

No, I'd see it as pathetic and desperate. Which is exactly how I felt about the men and women that worked for the university I attended and were known to date students or had hit on me.

Now if we wanted to talk "hostile environment" the uncomfortable situation my gay highschool principal put me in always drops jaws when I tell the story, but I just think it's funny. I shrugged it off in about 30 seconds and doesn't even rate on the list of things I didn't like about highschool.
And as a counterpoint my daughter's school had 'high ability' math students skip geometry (over my objections) to hurry them to calc, which surprise, surprise she did miserably at.
> How would they seize that money from him even if they got a judgment against him??

They wouldn't. But in the event he ever has assets they can touch they have an enforceable judgment against those assets. (For example, if he ever chose to hire a US attorney for any reason, they government could sue the attorney for any amounts paid to them)
> Also EveryTown is already a very very large organization.

Is it? I have never once met anyone involved in it.

> The NRA is powerful not because of its donations, it rarely ever does that...it's because a lot of people own and like guns.

I think it's fair to say that a lot of gun-owners despise the NRA. Selecting Olly North as a figurehead is not a way to please a libertarian-leaning constituency.
I kinda do this with a Raspberry Pi currently using OpenHAB on OpenHabianPi[0]. I was going to link it all up with Mycroft[1] but I havent setup my own version of Mycroft just yet. I might just buy one to support the project.

Up next is security cameras using MotionEyeOS[2] and Raspberry Pi Zero W's.

You really don't have to pay millions of dollars to automate your home. My thermostats use technology called Z-Wave for which there is a USB[3] adapter available on Amazon, for about $45 I turned 2 different Thermostats into Nest-like thermostats that I fully control myself, if my pi dies, the usb device still has them synched.

All in my house, all in my control and managed by yours truly.

[0]: https://www.openhab.org/docs/installation/openhabian.html#ra...

[1]: https://mycroft.ai/

[2]: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Aeotec-Z-Stick-Z-Wave-create-gateway/...

Final thought: If I ever get Mycroft setup, I'd essentially have a robot in my home running off a Raspberry Pi. He wouldn't move (wouldn't need him to) but he would do whatever I wish. For now openHAB has a UI for me.

Edit: Forgot to mention that openHAB is also scriptable, and even has a bit of IFTTT type of capacity internally.
What kind of gun control should there be?
The constitution does not explicitly enumerate a right to privacy.

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) explicitly established the right to privacy. Justice Douglas’ opinion states that such a right exists within the “penumbras” and “emanations” of the constitution. As there is no explicitly enumerated right, strict constructionists may oppose this interpretation.

Katz v. United States (1967) established a two part test to determine whether an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in a given circumstance:

"first that a person have exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy and, second, that the expectation be one that society is prepared to recognize as 'reasonable.'"

Smith v. Maryland (1979) established the basis for the government’s claim that the data collection program is permitted. The case focuses on whether an individual has an expectation of privacy for metadata they willingly give up to a third party. The court found that a warrant is not required to collect such information.
This isn't about law, it's about removing someone who is unfit for a leadership position.
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I've yet to find someone explain a serverless API based setup that isn't more complicated than good old fashioned LAMP or equivalent. Serverless seems to always come out more expensive as well.
A backup service offering "unlimited" storage for a flat rate is not the same as a "bucket" of storage where you pay for exactly what you use plus data transfers out. To be profitable, Backblaze's flat price needs to cover their costs which are not only affected by storage hardware per GB getting cheaper but also average amount of storage customers use increasing. As Yet wrote in the post, "we had spent years enhancing the service and making it easier for people to store more and more data with us, thereby increasing our costs."

S3 has gotten a lot cheaper over time; in 2010, it was $0.15 per GB and today it's $0.023 per GB (Standard S3 in US East). Data transfer costs haven't changed as much but have gone down over time. At today's rate, $6 gets you ~260GB of S3 storage but file versioning will cost you more, restores will cost you more, and you'll have to supply your own backup software. Backblaze for desktop backups is not for everyone but I'd say it is for a lot more people than using an S3 bucket for desktop backups.
Yep, I suspect that's probably exactly why they don't have a Linux client for their "Unlimited" backup system. (You can do it with B2, but B2 doesn't have an "unlimited" plan.)
You mean the people Snowden warned us about don't like him much?
Agree that support is hard, especially when dealing with a very technical product, with very technical users. As far as fixes/enhancements go: every company has to prioritize somewhere. That means not everything gets done. Limited time, limited resources.
Not necessarily. If you're using it a tape drive, it requires you to scroll through half of the entire tape on average every time, but fast-forwarding a tape is a faster operation than actually reading the entire tape. Other sequential access data store may have similar behavior--i.e., if you are accessing data from a scrolling/paging API that lets you skip ahead and drop pages, but doesn't let you back up without restarting.
Backblaze has explicitly said more or less the exact reason they don't have a Linux client for their one-price-fits-all backup service is that they don't want people backing up multi-TB NAS devices. The folks over r/DataHoarder/ would absolutely destroy them if they offered unlimited backups for NAS devices for $6/month - many of them have hundreds of TB on their personal NAS'.

Its absolutely the correct business decision, and as you note, you are more than welcome to use B2 and pay per GB for as much storage as you want.
I especially like the fact that he can’t fly back to the US since he has no passport, but at the same time he is being prosecuted. It’s been so long, why even care? Who is running the show on this?
Youtube comments are the worst for written memes. The smaller or more niche the channel, the less it seems to occur. It's always a breath of fresh air to see informational/interesting comments on the smaller channels (and to have responsive Youtubers). I don't really use FB much so I don't know if it's equally as bad these days, in terms of memes as comments.

Regarding the Show HN, personally I'd like such a repo for WhatsApp conversations, but nothing work-related for the reasons others have mentioned.
> i would honestly rather it all be backed by corps and people get paid for it without any hints of "benevolent dictators"

Well don't use opensource software then, go buy it... It's your choice...

Just like it's the choice of a developer to give away something they made for free...
Everyone on US soil. It's definitely a radical, non-consensus opinion that the US bill of rights protects non-Americans outside the USA.
> Nobody is advocating for everybody stopping flying tomorrow.

You should read the Green New Deal. Not tomorrow, no, but one goal is to make flying infinitesimally rare.
I sent them a msg about 2FA recently and got a real reply that didnt sidestep the question/problem.
The person that actually carried out the SWATing got over 15 years. The person that hired the SWATer got just over a year.
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Semantic versioning is useful. Unfortunately the marketers have taken over and there's a numbers race going on.
The fundamental problem which seems to be recurring is that the system is generally hostile towards consumer interests.

It's all so broken, it makes me want something dramatic to happen. Maybe the robots will take over soon and be better at governing. Or perhaps yogurt. Or maybe we can start over on Mars.
Hi @rossmohax - Support Manager for GitLab here.

> Per their own policy all they do is finding relevant tickets and send you there, from there on you are not their problem anymore.

I believe you're referring to: https://about.gitlab.com/support/#we-dont-keep-tickets-open-...

I think it's a bit more nuanced than that, although I can certainly understand your reading. If your support ticket does end up as revealing a fault in the product or a feature request, we will close out the ticket and prefer further communication on the resulting issue. This is in keeping with our Transparency value. We want to make sure that others who are affected can also chime in, and that the resulting issue is the single source of truth.

For issues with configuration, up-time or other support-related things that aren't feature requests or bugs, we would be handling those directly.

On those cases that do result in bug reports or feature requests, it's certainly true that sometimes they aren't prioritized, don't get attention, or have milestones slip.

Again though, that happens transparently where you can interact directly with the PMs in question.

Ultimately, it is a _different_ support experience, but we believe that it's better to have our community as close to our development process as possible.

We do consider this an ongoing discussion, and have a long running issue where a number of customers have provided some feedback:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support/support-team-meta/issu...

Please do feel free to join the discussion.
> how much they’re pissing everyone

I am afraid that it is not even a significant portion of the population that is pissed.

If it was, then Snowden leaks wouldn't have been almost forgotten in 5-6 years. People seem to have accepted governments can do whatever they want without any consequences.

Edit: Wanted to clarify that I am not even talking about the US, as part of the leaks it was revealed that NSA was listening to Angela Merkel's Phone. Germany has already forgotten that it seems.
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(It is possible for there to be multiple anecdotal exceptions.)
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Good luck getting through to Twitter’s useless “support team”. I’ve been locked out of my account for four years and it’s pretty much impossible to get the attention of anyone over there.
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That makes a lot of sense
Should've kept the major at 69 and started incrementing the minor only, forever. The browser must be nice! :D
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Yes, she did that. Her entourage of assistants weren't on the boat. They flew back and forth, several times. Therefore the whole endeavor had an undeniable net-positive carbon footprint.
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Feel free to star this repository to Reach a lot of developers. https://github.com/ganeshmani/solve_scenarios
Description:
As a developer, we all know how hard is it to learn a technology or programming language and become proficient in it. There are lots of resources and tutorials available to learn the programming language or technology.
But, I felt something is still missing in that part. There is something that is more than just building a Todo-List, Calculator App and a Snake Game.
That is Business Problem Scenario. Once I started to work on a Production Application. I was able to understand why I do that, why it matters. My previous Angular Experience helped me a lot to understand the Business Problem and My Personal Projects on React(Learning the Syntax) helped me to Solve the Business Scenario using React.
From this experience, I just thought why can’t I learn this production problem scenario in a tutorial or resources. what am I missing?.
Why can’t we have a platform like leetcode, TopCoder for solving just a business problem scenarios which helps me to learn and put it in my portfolio? I am still thinking about that(why).To start an initiative to address this problem. I have consolidated all the business problem scenario in a GitHub Repo. (Feel free to use and star it)
you can create a platform like Leetcode, TopCoder which helps the developer to solve this problem statement(Startup Idea).
Being an economic powerhouse does not make you exempt from cause and effect. You can print your way out of a mid-level problem, trying to print your way out of an actual crisis is just going to accelerate and deepen that crisis.

More of the kind of behavior that got you into some problem is usually not the way to get out. Hyperinflation could hit the US, China or the Eurozone in a very hard way. If you do it gradually you may get away with it, do it too quickly and the whole thing will take on a momentum all its own. A bit like pushing a ball of snow down hill. For a while it seems like you are in control and then suddenly you realize you are no longer in control. By then it will be too late to stop it. I was on the fence in 2008. Despite having money in one of the Dutch banks that was hard hit by the sub-prime repackaging I was all for letting them go bust. Instead the state stepped in and propped up the bank. This meant that everybody ended up paying for that and the execs walked.

Hard to make the call on what was the best solution there, it is very well possible that this was the optimum outcome but it set the stage for a repeat, the beginnings of which we are already witnessing today.
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However, the post indicates React + Redux for the front-end. Perhaps it's my bias as a back-end curmudgeon, but those strike me as _unboring_ choices in the front end, particularly if you're not targeting SPAs.

My point being: one person's "boring" could be another person's anything from "clunky and archaic" to "faddy" to "efficient and sensible." Not even Rails, built upon Ruby's idiosyncratic blood magick, is an entirely uncontroversial choice.
As an outsider I don't have much insight to Australian politics, but all I've read about recently is their stance on fossil fuels and encryption. Based on that, from an outside perspective, I'd be very inclined to agree with that statement. Out of curiosity, in what ways is it untrue?
If you're REALLY naive, so you can put a face to the person. Could also be seen as a form of “authentication” i.e. to stop people from submitting multiple resumes. I personally consider that misuse far outweighs any reasonable use except for actors models and such
Seven fires and a law suite before Tesla started to consider to fix things? Ok, that's bad. I wouldn't be amused neither.
That was an interesting article.

I don't know much about life in LA. Is downtown still a no-go?

Also it looks like the Clifton's website was hacked and filled with Thai blog posts? https://cliftonscafeteria.com/
So the problem of these companies that are many billions of dollars having "most of their value tied up in their brand" is that the brand becomes... kind of inextricable from the operations.

Who would buy a $10B brand? Much less a $30B one or whatever? The answer is almost exclusively "companies that already have a better brand than you do." Like, Apple could buy Uber, and then do its own ride-sharing service, and brand that ride-sharing service Uber... but they don't need to. They're Apple.

Any potential ride-sharing service that would like to build its own operations and the bootstrap itself to wider name recognition by buying Uber's brand won't be paying tens of billions of dollars.

So what's left? We and Uber need to reform their own operations to make money, which is the exact problem that nobody thinks they can do. What does their supposedly powerful brand get them?
This is spot on. You should blame the tool for mismanaged expectations if the tool inherently sets the expectations.

I'm just trying to imagine ways you could use slack and not set an expectation of having someone online to chat to. Use a bot to resond with "we'll get back to you when we can"? There's no option that doesn't feel like an incredibly frustrating experience for the user.
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