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> the talent required to clone Cloudflare is rare

Talent is everywhere, but a lot of people who have it don't want to move to a big city. So IMO, the next Cloudflare's developers should be as widely dispersed as its POPs.

Edit: The more recently added part of your comment is very insightful, and I hadn't thought about it that way. Still, I think we could go a lot further with old-school hosting providers if we traded PHP and Ruby for Rust, Nim, and the like. Note that I didn't mention garbage-collected languages, because lots of applications running efficiently on a shared host is incompatible with a garbage collector that really wants the whole heap to itself.
They reached out to me on LinkedIn. Don't know why they need software engineers, but I don't think I'm aligned with their mission -- whatever it may be.
Oh, interesting, fair enough thanks. I agree that could be considered selling.
You underestimate how poisonous this is. Humans (and especially children) learn through imitation. This includes imitating characters on TV/shows, which form a big part of the 'society' they live in (that its fictional makes little difference). Letting advertisers shape (to an even greater degree) the fictional societies we imitate cannot possibly be a good idea. They will use it to present the illusion of a perfect consumerist society, until that illusion becomes the truth.
Runtastic becomes Adidas Running four years after acquisition
Windows 95 Made in React/Redux
Wouldn't there be motive to move Clay's customers to Chorus, to cut down on engineering costs of supporting two entirely different CMSs?
A pack of cigarettes in NY goes for $10+.

A four-pack of Juul pods goes for $16, and each of those four is supposed to be the equivalent of a pack. (And those are the brand-name pods.)
“Selling” can mean a general sales pitch (what is quoted) or actual transactions of goods (not what is quoted). Those two meanings have very different implications.

Not defending either of those, but making a distinction in meaning.
Ah. I turned on WARP, then googled "what is my ip?" and it is returning the IP address that I had before turning on WARP. Is that not the intended behavior?

edit: read your other comments and see this is (in some circumstances) intended behavior. I don't think you should claim WARP is a VPN if you aren't offering privacy from the endpoint. Perhaps the app should say "your browsing traffic is now private" rather than "your internet is private."
A little more to it than that.

There's an awful lot of glaciers in the Alps. I've no idea which rivers they feed, but I imagine quite a lot of the surrounding rivers are in part fed from the normal seasonal melt and groundwater. How much drinking water and farmland is dependent on those?

Switzerland gets most of its electricity from hydro. Now the glaciers are melting they are getting more power from hydro - thanks to increased water flow. That's a strictly temporary arrangement. At some point they'll be mainly melted. Then what?

The knock on effects of one glacier probably aren't much. In aggregate they could be enormous.
The US is a large, heterogeneous nation and comparisons with small homogenous nations are misleading.
It has all the same core functionality, plus:

- It's open-source

- It's cross-platform

- It can do all the interception setup for you, for a single specific target. Fiddler et al set the system proxy, so there's a lot of other traffic going on, and you then need to make applications trust the certificate manually too. Notably some apps (like Node) ignore the system proxy settings entirely, which means you need code changes. HTTP Toolkit does some clever injection, and skips all of that.

- Nice & modern UI

- Built in docs for all standard HTTP status codes/headers/methods/etc

- The Pro features: validation & inline docs from 1400+ API specifications, testing & comparison of compression options, explanations for how your response will be cached & why (and warnings).

I keep meaning to do a proper comparison page (any day now), but that's the gist.
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https://www.secureworldexpo.com/industry-news/cloudflare-sta...

But it's ok, 8chan is a 'hate site,' right? We all know which ones those are.
> If it's not killing people, how is it a health crisis?

I'm not sure we can safely say we know the long-term impact of vaping nicotine yet.

There are also indications that the uptick in vaping has stalled the decline in cigarette smoking.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/Youth-smoking-decline-stalls-...
I think top 3 is:

- Mac OS

- Google Chrome

- iTerm
Embark, Builder of Self-Driving Trucks, Announces $70M Series C
Every country's law is a bit different in that regard, but mostly : exactly like how the United States Supreme Court defines obscenity [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
I like Teach Yourself CS too, and I used it as an important source (or at least an inspiration) for parts of the OSSU/CS curriculum. I also use some of its recommended materials in my own private studies.

But since this comparison gets made often, I feel I should point out that TYCS doesn't provide a full CS curriculum. It might be better described as giving the basics of a software engineering curriculum, although even in this sense it seems lacking.

Consider that it excludes theoretical computer science (automata theory, etc.), a major core discipline of a computer science education, as you can see by looking at, for instance, CMU's requirements [0] for a bachelor's in CS. If we regard it as a CS curriculum, it also falls somewhat short in the resources it does recommend. For instance, I consider "The Algorithm Design Manual" very useful for software engineers but, compared to what else is out there, not terribly relevant for a modern computer science education. It also recommends either "Language Implementation Patterns" or the Dragon Book for learning about compilers, the former of which is only of limited academic interest (as the author acknowledges) and the latter of which is good but missing a lot of important developments in the theory and practice of compiler design/implementation.

If we treat it instead as a software engineering curriculum, it fares slightly better, but the resources it recommends for learning about programming are severely lacking. SICP is a gem but it doesn't teach large-scale software architecture (nor does HtDP for that matter). If SWE is what TYCS is going for, then this subject either belongs under Programming or under its own category, but it's nowhere to be found.

Unfortunately, OSSU/CS suffers from similar flaws in its content choices. But that has been due to our decision so far to only select material available in MOOC format; TYCS doesn't appear to impose this limitation on itself. All that being said, I'm just nitpicking that it feels incomplete for either CS or SWE. Every one of TYCS's recommendations is excellent and anyone would be well advised to follow it.

> they provide both Book AND Video/MOOC resource for each topic

The format in which we currently present the material is the major limitation here, as it revolves more around courses rather than topics. We are working on fixing this (albeit slowly due to other commitments I have). I myself much prefer text resources as I retain the material better, and I can easily reference back to it. My goal is to re-orient the curriculum around topics, providing recommended resources for each topic in both text and video format.

[0]: https://csd.cmu.edu/academic/undergraduate/bachelors-curricu...
I was about 6m away from a boy killed by a lightning strike at the 1977 US Boy Scouts Jamboree. I did feel the static electricity on my skin and my ears rang for a few minutes.
They cut down a few trees near where I live to put up billboards. Your woodland escape won't last.
I didn't ask more I was already too frustrated.
I was accused of having a hidden agenda and then blocked by the Senior Director of Browser Engineering at Mozilla for suggesting that building DoH into Firefox and bypassing the OS network stack was a significant concern. This person expressed some bizarre lack of understanding of how DNS works, how OSes work, etc. for such a position, as they seemed to suggest that the only way Mozilla could impact DNS requests is at the browser level, and that implementing it at the OS level wouldn't protect people from ISPs snooping?

Not only will Firefox's approach cause significant breakage, but the fact that it doesn't protect non-browser traffic means users may mistakenly be protected when they are not. Mozilla may be putting lives at risk here, and what's truly irritating, is that Mozilla's said engineering director, didn't seem to realize Mozilla could've built something that integrates with the operating systems' network stack properly.

Mozilla should've invested in improving DoH support at the OS-level or built a VPN client, again, that worked at the OS level to protect all DNS requests and/or network traffic, rather than trying to shoehorn in a way to redirect your DNS queries to their partner into your existing install.

I have nothing inherently against Cloudflare, but Cloudflare should not want to be associated with this bad hack solution to DoH, and Mozilla should rethink implementing it.
This is mostly how things already work under EU rules. Neither the original "right to be forgotten" established by a significant court case, which in fact did relate to systems like search engines, nor the subsequent "right to erasure" under the GDPR creates an unrestricted power for data subjects to require all data about them to be deleted regardless of circumstances. For example, you can't take out a bank loan and then force the bank to erase all records of it.

There is at least one significant deviation from your "transitive" reasoning, though, in that while EU law might not extend to an original source that is providing misleading/harmful data about someone but is based elsewhere, it can still affect those providing indirect access to that data who are within the scope of EU law.
This was my reaction, too. People have been talking about doing this for a while. The first time I heard someone talking about it seriously was in like 2012, and at that point it didn't seem experimental in any way.
Thank you for this. I have struggled with addiction my whole life and switched to a tank based e-cig seven years ago and have not had a full cigarette since.

I say fill cigarette because I use fruit flavored liquids and it helped me develop an aversion to the taste of Tobacco and smoke. A few years ago I had a few drags of a cigarette at a party and it made me want to throw up.

Not saying what I do is harmless, but it's a major harm reduction for me. I went from having some pretty serious lung issues to being able to do intense cardio workouts for several hours without any problems breathing.
Maybe it can be observed even earlier as technology develops :)
Here's the last language question I asked on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50704766/elementof-can-i...

I got a clear, concise, and correct answer. I've heard a lot of noise about the toxic community on SO, but I never see it whenever I'm there. Or maybe it's me. Anyway, SO is a very useful resource for me, even at this late date.
Now that Cloudflare has their own VPN, will there be an increase in showing those annoying captcha/challenge pages for connections made from every other VPN/Tor?
Well, it's officially time to just use tpb with elinks from a sandbox if you ever want to watch TV.
This is Richard Nixon level paranoia. I think that your second point is probably occurring quite a lot, especially in tech, where empathy & people skills aren't always high up on the list of priorities. But to walk around with suspicion to the point of carrying around a microphone is just lunacy. It's also an overreaction to such an unlikely outcome of being accused of misconduct with a female employee. It affects such a small segment of the population that your suggestion to walk around wired seems vastly excessive. There's probably something more reasonable that can be done.
> Is it incitement of racial hatred to post a joke video of your dog performing a Nazi salute?

Why did you post it?

Because you know it's controversial and would create engagement.

If the nazi salute wasn't controversial (and rightfully considered hate crime) you would have ignored it.

BTW the first amendment does not condone hate speech.

Because even USA understands that there is a limit on everything.
Similar experience.

I was on a trip this summer with my girlfriend and at some point we talked about a particular bag of a particular brand. She wanted to buy it and we talked about trying to find a store in the city we were in.

The next day she had ads of the same exact bag in her IG feed.
We never did any research online of the bag so we assumed the phones were listening.

On top of that, none of us are english so we spoke in our native language.
> That's clearly stretching the laws of physics, at the very least

This is not clear to me. Few mobile users have pings to anywhere pushing up against the speed of light, and the bandwidth/loss/routing is not close to being limited by physics.
Think of it instead as our perception caring about the universe's version of time. It doesn't care about us, but we certainly care about it, existing in it and all. We might be way off, but there's (I would guess) every reason to evolve to be spot on about perceiving real stuff, at least in the part of time that relates to the local notion of causal structure of X evolves into Y on earth.
Yeah I didn't pull that out of a hat. The specifics were arbitrary, but I chose that as a real example of systems that people already tried building. THAT'S why understanding Bayesian statistics and underlying distributions is super important to consider when you might inadvertently create biased systems.
Why this and not something like WTFPL that is more honest about the nature of code as mere data?
From previous discussions here, I took that Juul juice is formulated differently than other vaping juices, with a much higher nicotine amount.

I agree vaping can help stop cigarette use, but I am not sure they are all equally good at this.
Hmmm, just look up Thalidomide and Germany. As well as Sulfa drugs to find out why rigor in testing and efficaciousness as well as purity of ingredients is paramount and why they have established such stringent controls.
Presumably, it will be closed as duplicate since it's already answered.
Some people wanted to use video cards with unsigned drivers. The hardware Mfr said “disable this malware blocking security feature in order to use our hardware”. As it happens most people with exotic video cards are avid users.

They disabled the malware protection and got killed by the malware.
Ok but if I don't want to use DOH then what?

I'd previously used Cloudflare's DNS because I trusted it more than my ISP.

Is disabling DoH going to enhance my privacy?

What action items can I take away from this article?

I see a lot of writing about how DoH is back, but rarely do I see the writers lay out a specific solution.
Installed on android. Doesn't work. Says "connection interrupted". Looks like it needs more work.
Full Metal Gymnast
Does this apply even when you are not using Spectrum's DNS? I.e. do they modify the DNS responses of other DNS providers?

I am not a customer of theirs, nor have I been a customer of an ISP that engages in such practice.

As a EU citizen I am much more concerned about sending my data to a US company which I am not a customer of. ("if it's free, you are the product") At least my ISP is subject to European regulation and I'm paying them to provide the service.
I'm going to hold my tongue but I'd love to hear you say that to my face. You are not the only one affected by suicide, I don't care if you live in bumfuck or the East Coast. You know nothing about how suicide has impacted me personally. I'm making an observation about historical events which have led to the lack of opportunity.
JUUL's competition is super cheap. Which is why JUUL/Phillip Morris will lobby to have most of them regulated out of existence. You can get a bottle of the same strength juice that's in a JUUL pod for the same price as a pack of pods. But the bottle has 30mL and the pack has 2mL.
You are legally required to supply your SSN for the following reasons:

Credit applications

Cash transactions over $10,000

Applications for certain federal benefits, including Medicare and Medicaid

Military paperwork

Interactions with the Department of Motor Vehicles

Social Security business

You also need to supply either your SSN or a taxpayer ID number to companies that are required to report about you to the IRS.

Under all other circumstances, there is no legal requirement to provide your SSN.
This is funny to me because CF's previous reputation was that they'd do business with anyone no matter how scummy. They're notorious for selling to both sides when criminal gangs were DDoS'ing each other. But they terminate service for a grand total of two sites and suddenly they're "capricious".
Should've at least talked to a recruiter to hear them out, I'd be too curious not to. Years back I'd had a recruiter for one of the world's largest pornographers reach out to me, was very interesting to learn about what they do and how they do it.
Actually, yes, a bit of account stalking says you have. m(
Hey there! Folks on the team still miss you.
Yes, sure, but it's harder to convince people to pay for something monthly when there's a good (and free) alternative available.
I'm not claiming that the rates aren't much lower than on-campus completion rates, that seems quite reasonable, but my point is that it's useless to base any decisions of the official "dropout rates" since if the true rate is (as in your example) 25% then the 3% rate is quite literally fiction.

IMHO a good metric would be to simply ask people (probably on that first quiz) "What are your plans for working on this course?" where "I intend to finish the whole course" would be one option of many (and many people who answer at least one question right in the first quiz would honestly say that they never even intended to 'graduate') and then you'd get a reasonable completion rate by counting only those students.
Libel laws aren't anti free speech at all. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences*

*Unless it's from the government in which case it's absolute.
Thanks for taking the time to read the piece. The main point is that the value of anything is really based on what the collective public believes it's worth. The interest on long term treasury notes is fairly low and stable becomes the collective belief that the U.S. is stable, and the collective belief doesn't deviate from each other by much (right, wrong, or indifferent). The more disparity about the future paths of something, the wider the range. The goal is to try to understand what those different beliefs are, and see which one you align best with. SoftBank seems to believe the story of high growth with improving margins. The sellers seemed less optimistic (which is why they sold, and SoftBank purchased). With all of that said, we believe that there are a number of stories (and futures) that could be true—in our analysis, that results in a valuation as low as $10B or as high as $100B, with the most likely value being between $10B and $20B, and the most reasonable value being around $15B, given what we know now.
Three Virtues (Larry Wall)
Exactly, that's why they want regulatory capture to force people to use their closed systems.

I spend maybe 25 dollars a month in liquid for my tank. None of that money is going to big Tobacco which is why they are going to push for rules that force people to buy their expensive disposable products.
This was useful, I like the Evernote and Outlook ones especially. I'd like to see if we could add in some Autohotkey scripts for programs that don't have any native keyboard bindings, something like the "Soarer's converter" so even if your program has no shortcuts, you can use the 'internet standard' ones and have common access to shortcuts whatever machine you are on.
I haven't followed this closely, but how much of what Snowned revealed has since been independently confirmed?
Ways to leak your data: apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system
I don't think ShadowDOM can be used for security purposes... https://blog.revillweb.com/open-vs-closed-shadow-dom-9f3d742... makes it seem trivial to access closed shadow roots via side channels like prototype manipulation
If I am a child of a Harvard administrative staff member, then I have an advantage when getting into Harvard. So that would not be a merit advantage. That's just called luck.

Here's the big difference between the upper-class kids and everyone below when it comes to admission's fairness.

Everyone else says "I worked hard as an individual, therefore i deserve to get into a good college."

Upper-class kids says "MY FAMILY worked hard, therefore i (as an individual) deserve to get into a good college."

The emphasis is WHO worked hard. Upper-class kids tend to ride on the coat-tails of their parents and grand-parents.
Lasers Impact on Surveillance Cameras Tested
I've said this before and I'll say it again. If you don't like the fact that DoH is centralized in the hands of Cloudflare, all you have to do is offer a competing service. Especially if you're a DNS company in the first place. It's your domain of expertise. Build something. Ship it. Once there are a number of alternatives, Mozilla et al. will have no reason to insist on using a single provider.

Right now, for a lot of people in a lot of countries, a choice to use any resolver that isn't controlled by their ISP/government is a step in the right direction. So please stop trying to drag down other people who are doing their best to make progress. If you don't like the direction that they're headed, build an alternative, write an RFC, or do whatever you can to show us how you think it should be done instead. Show us the code or GTFO.
Radioactivity is not the driver of lung cancer in cigarettes.
I was considering getting a Thinkpad and running Debian or Manjaro to replace my MBP. I know historically thinkpads have been good machines, but do the new X or T series laptops still live up to the reputation?
Native windows 95 worked better ;)
Assuming that they can remain the only suppliers of Nicotine.
Bad idea. This could get called identity theft. Also you would really be on the hook for the bill!
Has the product not been thin enough to easily hold one handed for years? We're talking about shaving millimeters off a 1.5 cm thick product. Not inches off something a foot thick
Free speech is not responsible for WWII at all?!

You forget that Hitler's ideas were popular at the time - that's why he was elected. Slowly but surely it was the free speech of Jews, their very ability to combat the incoming tyranny before it was to late, was clamped down on.

As such, censorship was quite popular.

Free speech levels the playing field between government and people.
IMO if you're familiar with the language and libraries it's pretty easy to predict how long writing some feature will take (provided there aren't bugs in anything you're working with, you don't get any weird emotional hangups etc. Those are fairly rare.)

What's hard to predict (at least for me) is writing non trivial config files or using some new library or language or finding a new algorithm. Some of those things you might be able to estimate how long it might take to estimate the time it will take but other times you just have to say "I don't know" and time box it.