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> Powell Jobs inherited the Steven P. Jobs Trust, which as of May 2013 had a 7.3% stake in The Walt Disney Company worth approximately $11.1 billion, and 38.5 million shares of Apple Inc. As of 2018, Powell Jobs and her family are ranked 40th in the Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires. According to the same list, she is the richest woman in the technology industry.
Developing Greenfoot Games with Maven (& IntelliJ)
To give you a sense of what this retreat looks like on the ground, let me tell you a story I’ve never shared publicly before. Two years ago, we got a call from a United States government official warning us of the imminent arrest of a New York Times reporter based in Egypt named Declan Walsh. Though the news was alarming, the call was actually fairly standard. Over the years, we’ve received countless such warnings from American diplomats, military leaders and national security officials.

But this particular call took a surprising and distressing turn. We learned the official was passing along this warning without the knowledge or permission of the Trump administration. Rather than trying to stop the Egyptian government or assist the reporter, the official believed, the Trump administration intended to sit on the information and let the arrest be carried out. The official feared being punished for even alerting us to the danger.

Unable to count on our own government to prevent the arrest or help free Declan if he were imprisoned, we turned to his native country, Ireland, for help. Within an hour, Irish diplomats traveled to his house and safely escorted him to the airport before Egyptian forces could detain him.

Makes me proud of the Irish diplomatic service. They are small but bloody good at what they do. I know numerous examples were they have put themselves on the line to help protect and rescue journalists, activists (and obviously) citizens.
West Michigan (US) here, Verizon has coverage everywhere, I could totally see somebody picking blueberries in a field, tripping and hitting their head.

At least around here cell reception != humans within earshot at all.
Anything with post-its on the wall.
From my understanding, it uses HTTPS to perform dns lookups.

This has the benefit of encrypting your dns lookups so that people reading packets can't read them.

However, your pc and the DOH provider still can read/store/analyze/sell your dns lookups.

Your isp is probably selling your dns lookup data. So do you trust cloudflare more than your isp?

The primary issue is that this bypasses the normal dns mechanisms built into your local network. No more blocking sites using DNS. Presumably, ad block in your browser will still work. But things like pi-hole will suffer.
I'm scared that malicious CCCP influence is becoming a core part of our internet culture.
What about intercepting requests from other devices on the same network? Fiddler and Charles both let you set a proxy on Android/iOS devices pointing to your instance.
eBay CEO steps down
I wonder if seeing citizenfour swill shift your opinion.
Hacktoberfest (2019)
A lot of managers think it's their job to decide what the quantity of things is. Like in an assembly line, we need 30 turbo encabulators at X price and it's your job to make it.

Software has an infinite quantity of numbers to use as tools to build an end product. A programmer's job is to decide what general ideas end up as what specific quantities. A manager cannot decide this, lest he do the programming job himself.

Money is a great tool for measuring quantities of material goods, or the value of material properties. But electricity provides infinite quantities, exchanging money for programmer time is closer to exchanging two forms of currency (binary numbers and dollars) for one another. Code is a constantly transforming river of numbers that we make a draw-down into a bucket that we call an end product. That is not a quantity of material good like iron ore, at all.

The factory model simply doesn't work and producing code should be treated closer to the stock market than the factory model. Early access/kickstarter/pay-over-time business models in video games represent an example of the constant transformation model working successfully. Business apps should be built by crazy people who will build them anyway and money holders should bet & invest in them like stocks that raise and lower value over time, rather than as promised end goods.
The account was created under fraudulent pretenses. Amazon didn't perform any due diligence to confirm the email and already considers you the owner. Just take it over and shut it down.
is that a VPN? why did it take so long to implement as they stated multiple times?

I try to avoid Cloudflare if I have an option because they are getting too big.
Why Did President Trump Mention CrowdStrike to the Ukrainian President?
The main point of the article is not that CF is evil and is now getting all your DNS data; it is that CloudFlare gets that data AND none of those that had access to it already are going to lose it after you migrate to DoH.
There is no shortage of solutions but from what I have experienced there is almost no demand for them.
DNS queries and the unencrypted parts of the HTTPS protocol (like SNI without recent enhancements). So passive sniffers can at least see what sites you're visiting.
Fedora Linux

Chrome

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Konversation

Pidgin

RSSOwl

Eclipse

Slack

Git
while that is true it can be meaningfully qualified.

On facebook you are the product in the sense that they sell access to your eyes.

On linkedin you are the product in the sense of aiming to the network effect (and also for ads I imagine)

If I am the product on warp in the sense that websites hosted on cloudflare are faster it is not that bad.

(it is your choice to trust them or not, but that truism just says that the profit needs to come somewhere and you should be aware of it)
That’s not really the issue. The hard problem isn’t making a bunch of DoH competitors but getting OS level support so that browsers can drop their own logic.

An app running on the system needs to be able ask the OS for an encrypted DNS lookup or where it should perform such a lookup and get be able to decide what to do when it can’t.

The UI needs to be there to accept DoT or DoH networks from DHCP on trusted network profiles but the a user-chosen default on untrusted networks.
Huh, that shouldn't happen! What browser & OS are you using?
Of course HR is not obligated. That's the whole problem in the first place.

You're responsible for keeping your own paper trail.
I ran a small web service in the video game industry for several years, and CloudFlare was essential to our survival, as the DDoS attacks would repeat every few weeks, and at times last 6 to 12 hours at a time. CloudFlare simply ate that up, and our customers were not impacted. Today, at a different company, different industry, we use CloudFlare for similar needs, but within physical area security networks. It's essential.
From my understanding there is no reason a OS level resolver library can't support DoH, I am surpised we haven't seen whatever Linux uses add support for it. Or maybe it did and I missed it.
Would you now consider that AWS is Cloudflare’s greatest threat?
It’s a much bigger problem than this, sadly. The fact that you are even saying “If you want it to continue to work, you also have to be very careful how you communicate...” is the problem. The problem is that the way we manage things causes engineers and management to be against each other in principle, so that management is pushing one way and engineering is pushing the other way. Your advice is kind of like marital counseling, “let’s agree to not label Tom the person as an inconsiderate asshole but just talk about how he makes you feel,” “OK, well Tom, I am frustrated by your daily behavior that I perceive as assholish and inconsiderate” and I am sure it helps a little but I mean if you think Tom’s feelings aren’t going to be hurt you’re not giving him much credit.

In fact if we were being honest with our managers we would be scandalized. We base our estimates on something like an 80% chance of getting something done (which already improves on the 50% chance by roughly doubling our estimate) and then every engineer I know has some informal rule about doubling or tripling the estimate before they hand it off to their manager. Those managers often add their own 20%. Then their managers see that something is up so they slash 50%. More than half of any project—perhaps even three quarters or more—is estimated as safety-factor. You would expect that if we were getting it wrong, we would be getting it wrong the other way, delivering early. The fact that we are late so often is a scandal in its own right. Adding more time buffer is clearly not helping much, since we have such a surfeit of it already. We must have wasted that safety buffer; there is no other explanation for how it disappeared.

And once you have set up these luxurious margins of safety it is already too late. Why is the engineer adding that extra factor 4x or whatever it is? It is because management is already at cross-purposes to engineering. That engineer is adding that safety because they do not feel safe without it. Any insufficiently safe ski-lift in active use will see hundreds of buggy ill-specified implementations of safety harnesses: I will go on this ride but I am taking some precautions.

The starting assumption has got to be that it is OK to fail on the deadline. This cannot be because of hidden information but must come as a result of trust: “we are eating into the safety buffer, that is totally OK and that is what it is there for, but I want to do whatever I can now to get you out of meetings and approach-planning and to fill out your timesheets for you and heck, even plan an amazing weekend between you and your fiancee to alleviate relationship stresses—and take any other distractions and loads off of your plate so that I can get your single-pointed focus on this feature and we can finish this.”

If management makes themselves that safety harness, then there is no cross-purpose.
To add to all the other replies, CenturyLink does this too. This is a major problem with US ISPs.
For reference, Mozilla negotiated an agreement with Cloudflare around this. It's different from Cloudflare normal policies. You can read it at https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv...
>Increasingly large odds after a certain age,

Yes! Falls by the elderly are a huge issue and there have been major product lines that focus on it. Many will probably remember the 80s/90s commercials about "I've fallen and I can't get up!"
As an ex smoker and now ex vaper, who wouldn't have quit cigs without vaping, Juul definitely feels to be something apart. Part of the problem, not the solution.

Their USP seems to be delivering a much higher "hit" more quickly, trying to give a hit like your first ever cigarette. Never tried one and don't intend to so have no clue how true this is, but it was definitely part of the buzz around them.
Is that cost effective though?
Yeah a temporary ban for 6 months ... how many companies/shops can sustain employment and existence with no sales ???.
Any text summary given the warning
Perhaps: the field of physics, in its discussions, allows for local observation and within local observation, the observation of local causal effects. The lack of causal effects in your observable context when a distant event occurs means that the time of the event to your local context is the time of the effects of that arrival (when you actually have evidence of it). One might suggest this is a correlate of the "no" answer to the "if a treefalls in the woods but no one is around to observe it, does it make a sound?" question but... On the more practical side you can consider CPU clocks and time synchronization. One can only synchronize two clocks to agree up to a time span but within that span the relative ordering of events at each is undefined. The physics reason is that only causality establishes order, the cause precedes the consequence and beyond causal entanglements, ordering is undefined.

I'm not a physicist but I've been pondering this sometime...
I think he intended that unadulterated free speech is not necessarily the most important of the rights.

I think freedom of the press and freedom of association come before that.

In fact the first thing Mussolini did when he won the election (not without the help of violence, verbal but more importantly physical, like Hitler also did after him) was to abolish the free press and make all the other parties illegal.
Nextdns.io was featured on here a few weeks ago. They offer DNS over HTTPS (and they also list DNS over TLS)
I loved the "Do you have a scheme to become fractal?" infobox
As a father, why the hell would you invite strangers into your home with your children in it? It's not like you make bank with Airbnb.

Don't do it.
Send an email to the general council of the lawyer's firm explaining this. I gaurentee the problem will get fixed.

Edit: having sensitive information sent to a personal gmail account is also a problem in itself and is probably directly and unambiguously prohibited by the firm. You should really let them know
I was never big on IDEs. So I am pleasantly shocked at how much use I currently get out of "lite" tools like VS Code and Data Grip

I also think cloud interfaces are getting much more performant, rich, easier to use. Tools like Google Cloud's BigQueryML are designed around rapid experimentation. Speed here is key. As well as a revenue driver for them, I guess!
Neither, and New: Lessons from Uber and Vision Fund
Yet mass shootings is still a thing ... find the US to be a really funny place.
> That’s the lazy “blame the violent colonialists” approach though.

Crazy to think that hundreds of years of violence and extraction had nothing to do with this, and it's just due to cultural faults.

There's no world in which their legacy of oppression wouldn't affect their present day material conditions.

> Modern technology coming around and wiping out the need for most of your tribe to hunt and gather is going to have a big impact on cultures like that.

Culture isn't static, it evolves over time. It's not just "their time to die out," or whatever the subtext of a statement like this is.
Hey hi, I have experience in Vue. How can I contribute?
Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Like Silicon Valley
- vim

- qutebrowser

- alacritty

- mpd

- git
Not only that, but get ready to hear some more:

DoH - DNS over HTTP(S)

DoT - DNS over TLS. Often meaning DTLS

ADD - Applications doing DNS, where the application is sending DNS queries instead of asking the OS resolver. Usually implied to be HTTPS as well.
The Norwegians can hire murderers as babysitters, as a reactionary American I would rather not.
>Or the watch breaks in the crash.

This doesn’t seem like a very difficult problem to solve for the vast majority of crashes.
On the contrary, filing a bug report now can help them get it sorted out before lots of other people run into the same problem.
This reminds me of what my friend once said about a failed project he was in:

The worst thing that happened to this project was that it went to production. Had it not come to pass everything would be fine.
> Usually this is more the case in orgs who view software engineering purely as a cost center

In my experience, this is more of a cultural issue, with it being pushed by engineering managers and tech leads who insist that everyone can be a 10x engineer if they just throw away their life.

When they’re past a deadline, it doesn’t matter why, because they were clearly just being “lazy”.

Estimates truly are a lose-lose for software engineers and they have probably caused me more grief than any other aspect of this field.
CentOS 8.0
> In practice ISPs are the almost universally reprehensible in how they collect, track, and sell your data

... in your country.

For me it's the other way around; i'd rather trust my ISP because privacy laws in my country/EU are much better vs the US.

I interpret the move by Mozilla as hostile in regards of privacy, and i can't understand why EU politics don't intervene when a US company starts hijacking all Firefox users DNS requests (opt-out instead of opt-in.)
Siri Is Too Important for Apple to Ignore
I would still wait for European DoH to be available (if ever). There's no way I'm sending my entire DNS traffic to the US or a US entity.
Amazon launches virtual healthcare internally
WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism
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Would time reversal violate the law of thermodynamics about entropy never decreasing?
For all, who missed it: the deep adaption paper [1].
there is written, it's not a crisis anymore, it is already a 'tragedy'.

[1]: https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf
When I'm walking my fields repairing my fences I absolutely wish my fencing tools were lighter, even if I'm using my truck or other vehicle to carry my tools. I don't think they'd belly laugh at someone who preferred more efficient tools.
How Browser Fingerprinting Works
I have a saying I've given to every programmer I've mentored, that builds on what Larry Wall said:
Good programmers are Lazy, Shy, Dry, and Spry.

Lazy - Same thing, but also with emphasis on automation and guarding against overengineering

Shy - Encapsulating code modules and writing to enable testing in isolation

Dry - Don't repeat yourself, automate where you can when you can

Spry - Always be willing to adapt better processes, adopt the Agile mindset and don't be a slave to any one process or technique. At a deeper level this includes striving for the Ri level of Shu Ha Ri in our programming skills [1]

The above is going in a book I'm writing, albeit slowly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari
> and i can't understand why EU politics don't intervene

Maybe it is as simple as nobody having filed a complaint with a data protection agency yet.
Yes, there is a difference between data you collected about someone and a work they published.
As JB said, this is a pretty poorly cut together video and article.

We had JB on the Demuxed Podcast last year, and he told a lot of the early stories around VLC, it's much less edited than the version in this article. Here it is, with a full transcript: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/demuxed/ep-8-video...
It baffles me someone can be a product guy without understanding the market. Surely where, how & why the product sits where it does in the marketplace is intrinsic to the value of the product to the customer to begin with.
An OSS-focused Meetup for maintainers, based in London (first event: Oct 8th)
I also have a few hundred GB of personal videos and photos and have historically managed backing up the collection on optical discs. Partitioning the backup by timeframes seems to work well for me, and tends to mirror the basic structure of historical photo albums. As disc density increased, my older CD's got grouped together on to new DVD tech, and DVDs now being grouped together on BDs. 300GB of data is 6 dual-layer BDs, or 3 100GB BD-R XL. To me storing a dozen or so discs as a backup for all my family's usual photos/home videos is not onerous. All of this is on top of storing this data "hot" on a storage array and various cloud services for normal browsing and usage so its not like we're constantly juggling these discs around. They tend to stay put tucked away with all the other important family heirloom kind of artifacts.
Bad example. Anti virus software is a scam. Just adds another attack vector when the anti virus software has a bug in their file parsing & makes it that you can be impacted by just downloading a malicious file

Windows Defender is sufficient & bundled with Windows
Frontier (8th-largest US broadband provider) has also done this in the recent past, not sure if they still do.
Does attacking the assumed physique of a commenter really add anything useful to the discussion?
Thank you for your explanation. I guess your last point is why I thought I was missing something:

> None of the above are likely to apply to hobbyists, so most

> hobbyists who are developing for FPGAs are likely doing so

> just because they find it very interesting.

I see posts on HackerDay about FPGAs and think: "What am I missing?". I build robots as part of a hobby and was wondering where on earth they fit into that pipeline. Most of the things I build are either already solved within a single chip, or are easily solved with the addition of a small micro. Developing something using a HDL would be too extreme, even for me.

One thing that I think might be of interest in the future is when the cell count is such that we can process large neural networks, although I suspect they might always lag behind GPUs and/or TPUs.
> orgs who view software engineering purely as a cost center

This is spot on! I've heard this phrase before and it's never made any sense to me. Any business concerned about profit should never have a "cost" center. If that unit is not returning a positive ROI it should not exist. Of course software development costs money just like all other labor, building and materials but it's assumed the value generated by the work product is worth the investment.
What about etc/hosts ?
In fact, the number he used on the card in the video is the number shown in the article.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to roll a cigarette either, but I think most people buy them in stores.
I don't know if you've ever met a child, but informing them of risks and letting them make their own decisions isn't always the best idea. I don't know how many times I've been at restaurants and heard parents say "be careful, the plate is hot" followed by the sound of the kid crying because they didn't listen and grabbed the hot plate/food.
That is not true. Several middlemen are now going to not be able to see your data. Most people that used public resolvers were sending plain text UDP queries over their ISP. This could be redirected, hijacked, etc. If you had a connection that wanted you to use their filtering software, they could/would block outgoing port 53. That is not possible with DoH, they can no longer see what domain you are querying. They may be able to block 1.1.1.1, but as more places get DoH, it will be harder to block using other DNS providers.
1.1.1.1 DNS and mobile app have improved my internet experience considerably outside the US (currently in Costa Rica). I'm very excited about WARP and totally buy the "everyday user" premise.

As soon as it feels stable I'm telling my activist brother-in-law in Venezuela to install it and enable WARP. Personally I trust Cloudflare above any ISP. I see myself installing it over holidays to the rest of the family there.

I understand and celebrate HN's high level discussion about concentration of power on the internet and its effects. But at the same time I want to celebrate a geeky company, releasing something cool, with a free tier – and an evident openness about its plans and how it works. Congrats on the launch!
Maybe the people acting dangerously are responsible for their actions?
I'm gonna join the "I've been closer" crowd. Twice, actually. I was outside in a storm when a tree was hit by lightning about 10 feet from me. The tree was split down the middle and rained debris all around me. A blue flame burned briefly and then disappeared. It was so close that the concussive force felt like being hit in the chest with a bat. Another time, I was standing on wet ground when lightning struck about 100 feet away. I felt the jolt of electricity through my shoes. Scared the crap out of me.

I did not feel my hair standing up in either case. But neither of these would have hit me so it may not be relevant.
I dunno, some of the worst managers I’ve had have been great engineers and fully technically competent. It doesn’t always translate, and even during estimates or sprint planning I’ve seen them make these same mistakes.