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Unfortunately Slack is where documentation goes to die. When I face a weird internal issue the first thing I do is search:

> in:@<channel> <error>

You would be amazed at how much unofficially documented stuff is sitting in Slack. It is unfortunate but paying attention to the right Slack channels at work can be very important in understanding company strategies and decision making, as well as random tidbits on architecture decisions.

Of course I would prefer official documentation but sometimes you gotta make do.
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Nudge your staff to get TSA Pre
It’s true loan servicing does not always change when loans are sold they are independent.

In 2010 the policy changed, however plenty of older federally backed student loans are still being sold and resold. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08121...
Well, I guess the (physical) security has been tested and found acceptable.
I'd hope this was the case, but big part of what has made web development popular and smooth is the easiness and flexibility of JavaScript as a language.

Rust is not exactly easy and flexible, but everything else about it is absolutely great. I think people who will use/learn Rust are top x% or xx% developers who have decent experience in programming and probably understand pretty well how computers and computer systems work.

Javascript has democratized programming and React/Redux stack is widely accepted by developers as well as people looking after business interests in companies doing software development.

Rust would probably make world (of software) a better place, but there would be much less developers available and there already is global shortage of devs while demand is increasing. I don't see Rust replacing JS or React/Vue anytime soon.
Forget I mentioned money, then. That doesn't change anything else I wrote.

I guarantee I earned less money in the past year than anyone reading this (I don't work in tech any more), and it didn't stop me from volunteering my skills. Being rich is not a requirement for contributing.
It's actually pretty difficult to enumerate all trusted CAs (or even just what organizations are running CAs). Certificate Transparency certainly helps there, but it's not fully required, and doesn't solve all problems.

The DigiNotar attack (from 2011) was mainly chosen because it's well known and easy to convey. It wasn't even that technically effectively because Chrome had Google's keys pinned, so it was immediately blocked and reported (like you would get with CT today). But, only in Chrome.

More recent examples of mississuance, like tricking Comodo's OCR-based validation [0] or spoofing DNS to hijack Let's Encrypt issuance [1].

CA's are always going to be vulnerable to these sorts of attacks, and they have such a broad attack surface and so much systemic trust (i.e power) that can cause unbounded damages with any error.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1311713
[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/04/hackers-hijacked-banks-entire-...
128 GB is the sweet spot. I imagine there is a very large glob of users in the 50-75 GB range, which is right there on the border of "64 GB will give you problems".

Getting the Pro model, the next step up is 256 - which is super eye-rolling. The 128 GB model on the regular 11 is perfect.
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He has to tell people it's for his other company, so they don't get worried; that's what I mean by not really liquid. If Jeff Bezos attempted to sell a million shares without any indication of a purpose, it would degrade the value of the rest.
The JS implemention is a fork of bcoin, the JS Bitcoin full node and production backend.

It binds to libunbound but you are right that you would want a lower level language for it to be more scalable. There is a rust implemention work in progress here:
https://github.com/UrkelLabs/rsd

There is also a C light client here:
https://github.com/handshake-org/hnsd

For the consensus, there are C bindings for the cryptography and a workerpool that really speeds things up.

It could also be possible to dump the Handshake zone into a zone file and serve from behind unbound.
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An obvious example of properly concealed information, however, would be the current address of an abusee testifying against an abuser. More pertinently to the Snowden case, information that might disclose the identity of people who risk their life to collaborate with the USA. There is legitimate cause to conceal information known to the government from the public.

That said, I believe Snowden acted correctly. The federal government in its current form has lost its legitimacy as an arbiter of sensitive information, and citizens of the USA have every reason to believe that federal intelligence agencies are abusing the priveledges vested in them by the people.

Laws can be formulated in good faith by a legitimate government to protect and conceal information, but in this particular case they needed to seriously overhauled, and Snowden's act of civil disobedience was justified.

I think he should be prosecuted, and the laws changed. Personally I'm rooting for Snowden, but effective civil disobedience requires a willingness to go down with the ship that Snowden clearly lacked.
In some states I feel like they just thought “well we can’t just keep letting these guys off when we catch them before actually picking the lock” so they made the lock picks illegal.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08121...

There was a change as a rider to the 2010 affordable care act. But, older federally backed student loans are sold and resold.
But people do actually speak like ads these days.
Moral and ethical argument aside. The numbers are extremely wrong here. This is based upon the claim that Jeff Bezos makes on average $78 billion a year. He doesn't. That was the jump in the Amazon stock price two years ago. It's actually gone down in year over year valuation since last September (~$1,900 a share then, $1,839 a share today.)

Using this metric, Bezos currently makes negative money per hour.

Appropriate compensation is an important discussion. But bad and/or misleading math to prove a point undermines the argument. If the person making the point is clearly wrong about this simple matter of economics, it should make you wonder what else they don't understand or are misleading you about.
How about taxing him and others to pay for universal healthcare?
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I tried a few books, and Google changes the rules so quickly that the books were already outdated.
Curiously since Snowden is a US citizen he’ll have to file & pay taxes on that income.
The answer is no, a company cannot legally just send any old gif containing copyright material. The only time it’s automatically legal is when the copyrights holder gives explicit license or permission. Under the Fair Use doctrine, it depends on what the source material is, how much of it is used, whether it damages the copyright holder’s ability to make money, whether the infringement is for commercial or non-profit purposes, etc..

A company is really unlikely to get sued for one or a few GIFs though, because there is an absolute deluge of minor copyright violations on the internet. If your entire business model depends completely on distributing minor copyright violations, you might be at risk for legal trouble...

Some companies do actively defend their copyrights and are actively suing over GIFs and YouTube clips. There are brands that you don’t see in most GIF collections. Many companies don’t bother, or don’t have the money to bother, or can’t stop the flood, or don’t want to piss off the public who thinks that anything they can find in digital form can be legally distributed on social media. For some companies, they might like it and view it as free advertising.
> Is that just fiscal education?

Given how small the US decline is, were China to stop the massive supplies of fentanyl they're intentionally allowing to pour into the US, that decline would probably arrest. The Chinese fentanyl is killing people at a young age, which hammers the life expectancy calculations.

Remind me how China feels about what was done to them in the Opium Wars.

The US isn't alone in this however. Britain is starting to see declining life expectancies. Is China better off than Britain? It's laughable.

"UK life expectancy drops while other western countries improve"

https://www.nhs.uk/news/medical-practice/uk-life-expectancy-...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/07/life-expecta...
You write your name on a piece of paper that says -

"IOU so much money"

and then you take money from anyone who's willing to give you money in exchange for that paper.

Debt = that paper

Selling = basically getting money for that paper
I recently started to ship around for hosting solutions and this showed me how much github is leeching off the openly visible projects. Everything is focussed on making projwcts and users as visible as possible. Site wide search, directories of hosted projects, free user account to get started as a contributor...

Extreme SEO for hosted public projects aerves as a marketing trojan hirse for their commercial offers. At the same time, the networking effect forces everybody to stay on github or massively lose visibility. The frustrating part is that most other hosters don't get that - especially none that support some actual VCSes instead of
a glorified patch database manager.

If I could stomach writing all the web frontend and plumbing stuff for a hosting service and doing all the marketing, I'd try to start my own. I have harder and more interesting problems to solve, though.
Especially when the stock price the premise of the argument is based-upon has gone down (meaning Bezos made negative money). It makes you wonder if the people making these points actually understand economics...
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You know, you could write a decent essay with that as a prompt. Suppose you did sketch out a CRUD social network site which can auto-scale on AWS. Would anyone want to use it? Of course not. All those people at Facebook are doing something, adding value some way. Think about all the things they are doing which your auto-scaling prototype completely omits. (...And so on from there covering all the stuff like network effects and spam-filtering and cost-engineering and language support and per-country customizations which do not scale but make Facebook what it is.)
Landing at SFO always scares me a little bit. The way you see runway/land only few seconds before plane touches the ground is insane.
In terms of Greece’s liberal progressive spectrum, in fact, the tradition of a newly wed bride’s father gifting the groom a house/apt is still a thing. I know because I am from the Balkans. As much as you think that Greece is progressive, its actually not, in the western sense of the word. Also, I dont really believe that one can have an individual’s opinion of progressiveness, or whether ones left wing or right wing, I believe that most things people believe in are there because of their herd mentality, and of course theres the wealthy and powerful people who are trying to keep the citizens in a status quo. Chomsky has a great book on this. Also, I believe it was Napoleon who said “Religion is why the poor havent murdered the rich yet”
Jeff Bezos doesn't "make" 19 million dollars per hour. That's just the rate of change of his net worth calculated at some point in time. It's not income.

For most of 2018, that rate of change was negative. Yet, we don't see a headline like "Jeff Bezos lost 19 million in the past six hours".
It's extremely important to include a clear statement of work in any pentesting contract exactly for this reason. The contents of the contract will become very important in this case, and depending on whether or not the SOW included physical intrusion into the buildings, one side or the other will end up with egg on their face.

Without the contract and/or other agreements it isn't clear who's at fault here, the pentesting firm involved may very well have been an incompetent one that exceeded their SOW or did not even produce one to be agreed on--and I tend to suspect that this is the case, because physical intrusion testing will almost always include measures to prevent the police being called or make them aware of the test due to both the expense of an intentional false alarm call and the risk involved in triggering a law enforcement response.
Author of the post here. My aim was to keep this post focused and cover the differences between Handshake and previous blockchain DNS attempts in a separate post. The keyword here is attempts: previous projects like Namecoin and ENS haven't really taken off. I think the reason has to do with the underlying technology and the go-to-market strategy (or lack thereof) of the projects.

On the technology front, Handshake is the only naming blockchain that's launching with a light client that can resolve names. This may seem like a small thing but it's actually a critical input to success — without a light client, users would either need to run fullnodes (which no one does bc of the terrible ux) or rely on third party services. Third party services provide good ux but reduce the benefit of using the decentralized system in the first place.

On the go-to-market front, the initial distribution of names is really important. It's much more important than the initial distribution of something like Bitcoin because names are non-fungible. They're digital real estate so if a whale is able to bid up all the good names before adoption, there will be no incentive for new participants to invest in the ecosystem (this happened to the previous projects).

Handshake created a few GTM mechanics to prevent that outcome:

* The Alexa top 100k domains have been pre-registered, so that only those domain owners can register their names on Handshake

* Names are released for bidding over a 52 week period. If you hear about Handshake 8 months into launch there will still be a lot of good names available

* Auctions last two weeks and require locking up your coins, making it difficult to bid and win on a lot of names at once.

* Most importantly imo, Handshake coins are being distributed to developers, not investors. 70% of the initial Handshake coins are being airdropped to ~250k open-source developers. Basically, if you have a GitHub account with over 15 followers and an SSH key, you can anonymously claim Handshake coins. This is a no-strings attached giveaway so it will hopefully give developers a reason to check out the project, and it also makes it difficult for whales to buy up a lot of coins early on to outbid everyone.
I found their approach refreshing open, especially when you compare it to cPanel's recent price hike debacle. That was a good example of how not to do it,
Metal / resource patches are asteroids.

Mining outposts are small ships, which are automated to carry or transfer resources.

Your main factory is a space station. Or perhaps a mother-ship.

Internally each ship is kind of like a small factory, similar but different from Factorio. Hopefully I can achieve similar depth.

Ships can be piloted, controlled like an RTS or automated.
No, but I suspect that’s only because before the Internet there was no easy way to organize a critical mass of people to name-and-shame platforms which aired objectionable content, not because back then we had objections to the concept of deplatforming.
Pagerduty's stock is in the toilet. Almost anyone who has bought in the past 5 months has lost money.
I actually fairly agree with your point on this. Its really not as bad as people make it seem to be
Go greenlight. They Are Billions launched early access without a campaign and did just fine. Same for The Long Dark. Wreckfest was notorious for it's long early access cycle (years!), but turned out fine.

I'd happily chuck $10 at something like this.
I'm interested to hear more of your thoughts. What are the downsides of a shorter copyright (e.g. 7 years) vs a slightly longer copyright? I was trying to think of some scenarios, but I can't think of anything about that time range that might fit. For example if copyright was only 3 years, you could imagine big publishers sitting on things until they were out of copyright so that they didn't have to pay royalties. Most music, movies and TV shows are relevant for only a few years. By 7 years out, they are relegated to the rerun slot.

The only thing I can think of are things like novels. So the first Harry Potter novel was quite successful, but it took a while until a movie came out. Movie producers may be happy to wait until it came out of copyright. But that argument might be made for 15 years as well. It would be a different way of doing things, but not necessarily worse, I think. Is it reasonable that Disney can buy up the rights to all Marvel comic books for the last X years? Or would we prefer that anyone could make Marvel comic book movies after a short time -- even if that meant that the original authors aren't compensated.

Sometimes I think that even 5 years on software copyright is not a bad length. If you've been updating the software for 5 years, who wants to fork your project from 5 years ago? If you haven't, that's still pretty far out on the revenue tail even for something like enterprise software, let alone games, etc.
There aren’t any. Nobody makes “49-state” vehicles any more because New York and several other rich, populous states adopted the CARB standard. Only motorcycles are still made without California emissions.
I think markets on private land like malls should have many of the same freedoms we enjoy in public spaces. Of course I think universities should as well. It’s unfortunate that in the second half of the 20th century we put so much of our public life on private property.
Previous attempts at blockchain naming have basically failed, and there are a few reasons why. I go more in-depth into why Handshake is different/may succeed this time around in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21001806
Please don't. I'm just looking for companies that already have a coasting culture.
Factorio is the most successful game on steam. It has no singleplayer campaign either... they're just adding it now.

Just be transparent about where you are and what your plans are.
That doesn't make sense, the US government probably isn't better than billionaires are at capital allocation. It would just kneecap them in relation to other countries that let things like that slide in favour of free flowing capital. On the capital side of things the problem is so few investment opportunities and so much capital seeking yield.
Inkscape didn't exist in the 90s....
The story makes some very good points, but completely misses two other reasons that tuition costs have risen so much faster than inflation:

1) State aid has dried up considerably. Public colleges used to get a a huge amount of their budget from the state. However, cutting funding to higher education has always been more politically palatable when tightening the belt than other areas. When I was in college, the funding was roughly 50%. Now it's about %25, and in inflation adjusted dollars is significantly lower than 20 years ago.

2) For at most of the past 20 years, there's been an arms race amount colleges competing for students. In that pursuit, enormously expensive new facilities from dorms to rec centers have ballooned capital expenses, covered primarily by bind issues that have interest to be paid and therefore necessitate higher tuition. To make ends meet.

These two items, along with easy financing, represent the three legged stool on which massive tuition and increased and student debt sits.
Did Snowden ever suggest that there should be no surveillance whatsoever? I thought he was a proponent of targeted surveillance.
The sweet irony of you criticizing him of not reading something when you yourself clearly didn't read what he had to say!
Theyre not financially stable, but politically intracountrywise, they are. Theyre not diplomatically stable with the west because Saudi oil is competing with Iran oil, and Saudi pays their debts in big lobbying and massive weapon buying from the west. But socially speaking, the country is very stable. Their culture is as strong as it has always been. They really dont have any social frictions. I would say the US has big social frictions, like the massive false allegation cases where men lose their whole careers over made up stuff...
If you believe you can just tax the rich for universal healthcare, you better do the math. It doesn't work.

Taking the European model, everybody will have to pay for it, on the order of 15% of income.
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What are your thoughts on killing cops?
Your comment reminds me of Peter Thiel's 2x2 matrix of opptimistic/pessimistic x definte/indefinite

The US in the 50's and early 60's was definitely optimistic - everything is getting better soon because <nuclear|space|laser>

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140924171143-103827-zero-to...
Starting out with the first few lines of a Clutch song (Book of Bad Decisions)..

«One rode into the east

Another to the west

In a fit of desperation

In the dark I sought redress » —> of my anger

But I hid from the people

The rest in their turn hid

They told tales of violence that had never occurred before

The rest fled into the open sea

And their survivors never told me

The tale of the woman whom I had once known was the ghost,

She came crying, she saw the sun rising...

Not bad, but I’ll stick to the original lyrics

https://youtu.be/mIkkdtoKTA0
It's completely unrelated and off-topic. This community does not derail posts with inflammatory remarks just to satisfy our own emotional need for argument or validation, regardless of the validity of the statement. It just does not belong here.
He was a Yale graduate, Wall Street banker entrepreneur. Today he's homeless
There is no gun to your head telling you to buy anything from McDonalds, Amazon or Walmart.

But you won’t find that small profitable businesses automatically have better compensation packages either, nor even those rising star hipster burger, coffee and grilled cheese joints that are smaller than the big players but still you know, corporate chains. If you want some modicum of independence from modern American consumerism, to take a fully principled stand against the way we do business in this country, take out a loan with your morally scrupulous bank and/or credit union and start a farm with the goal of feeding yourself and your family first and foremost. Or start a small business, but then see what you can afford to pay your workers when it turns out that what you would need to charge to pay them a living wage will drive people away from your business. $15 sandwiches or whatever might be delicious, but short of some very expensive areas with very expensive leases, they won’t sell in the quantities you need them to because it turns out, Americans do take a stand when it is their dollar or even just their time on the line. Which is why many of them shop at either Walmart or Amazon or even both.

They made themselves appealing by being cheaper and/or getting stuff to your door quicker than the competition. The market selected for these types of companies, and as a result they are incredibly profitable enterprises!
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