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I have a loving wife and two great kids, good job and a relatively conformtable life. My peace is made, so no, I wouldn't take it.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare aims to be most realistic war game on the market
> I don't believe in racism. Only genetics and statistics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...

> Apparently, Congo is in the 50 most violent countries. That's also recent. It has no accounting for what they were, but I'm willing to believe it may have been worse.

Unless we have data that hails from the 1800's regarding pre-Belgium rates, which I'd say is pretty damn unlikely, I don't see how you can possibly make this point. It just sounds like good old fashioned racism with the window trimmings of science and data stripped of any and all context, which is a pretty standard fare tactic for a racist. "The crime rates are so high in Detroit, must be all the blacks!" Can't possibly be the catastrophic recession or the lukewarm response by the Government to address the problems, no, black people are just naturally violent. That's why we had to kill them and put them in chains.
Yes, except in this case there isn't an exception.
Not only that but the article also leans on the somewhat infamous 'rat study', which produced hugely misleading findings, as explained in a good writeup by John Timmer here (https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/a-critical-analysis-...)
NordVPN's advertising has deliberately downplayed the significance of HTTPS, as part of their fear mongering campaign about public wifi and residential ISP connections, so it's not really surprising to see such misconceptions raise their heads when NordVPN screws the pooch like this.
> I'll have to check those out, but one inherent problem is that even if these tools really do solve my pain points, adopting them means I'm leaving my org on a relatively small island, isolated from the Python community. If these really are the holy grail, why isn't the broader Python community adopting them? Please don't take this as me looking for something wrong--whatever Python build tool I use, I'll eventually need support and there's a lot to be said for having a thriving community that has almost always run into my exact problem before.

Only because they are so new. portray was built a few weeks ago and already has a thriving community building around it - but of course it's still a small drop of the whole ecosystem.
Older tools I've built like isort, are now ingrained into the community: https://github.com/timothycrosley/isort, but that took years, even without major issues or complaints being present. It just takes people time to adopt new things.
I don't think this is true. At $JOB the extent of our cloud cost management is me reading a breakdown by SKU and looking for obvious inefficiencies, and we are very aware of transit fees. I would imagine that anyone in the 5MM+ range has actual models that account for this stuff.
> but I don't think they could have let him off with a warning and had any credibility left.

Credibility in terms of having a punitive response which demonstrates their authority or among players who would be outraged over Blizzard not being cool with political speech mixing with pro championship broadcasts?
Most things don't actually come with expiration dates, they come with best sold by dates which is the manufacturer's estimate that it will last at least as long after that date at a regular rate of consumption to be entirely consumed. Even then, the dates are usually pretty conservative.

Thus, even if you're receive it 2 days from that date, you should still have enough time to eat them at your leisure and still be fine.
As long as you cant get hurt, it doesnt come close.
Djikstra shortest path. it's a beautiful design.
I think C requires more of people. Granted I am no C expert but having worked in the industry a couple decades I have made conclusions based on observations.

As a sysadmin I wrote a small kernel module to trigger a panic on a certain condition hoping to capture some info in a dump several years ago.

Today I cant find sysadmins who can use a CLI properly.

The goalposts have moved inwards IMO

Not sure its bad thing either but it makes for interesting comparisons
Solomon Volkov on Stalin and Shostakovich
Yes, this also seems weird to me. And I think it might be a cultural thing, I noticed that in Europe renting dedicated servers is far more popular than in the US.
AFAICT the USA/UK "CLOUD" treaty rips a hole in the privacy of customers in other countries where the company has a UK/USA presence and prepares to non-consensually violate that privacy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21307082
Good. We need to stop subsidizing fossil fuels.
Avast says hackers breached internal network through compromised VPN profile
> - The language doesn't have component composition (like in React or Vue) and you end up having huge chunks of spaghetti code (but to be fair, it kind of works because of the compiler).

Um... yea it does. Elm makes functional composition very easy which which means it's very easy to compose "components" (which are just functions anyway).

> - Only pure functions in Elm, so doing API calls and generating random numbers are unnecessary hard.

I would say that Elm makes doing API calls and generating random #s appropriately hard. Elm strives to corral side effects into one part of the Elm architecture: "commands". By doing this, you're keeping all code that contains side effects at the fringes of the walled garden you're growing.

I think this explicitness/discipline is needed in more codebases.

> - It's complicated to implement routing and to build a Single Page Application.

I agree, it's no Ember, which comes with all the bells and whistles of a full router system, including page transitions, transition errors, data fetching, etc. Richard Feldman has an elm SPA example on github that shows how to create routes, pages, etc. The official Elm Guide also has sections on routing, etc.

> So in the end, Elm is an interesting beast, but I think it's too academical and not really practical for serious projects.

Too "academical"? Tell it to these devs: https://blogg.bekk.no/using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb.
Doesn't this mean one compromised account = all data compromised?
Do robots pick goods from the crates there? Or just the boxes go delivered to picking stations where humans work? It wasn’t clear from the video.
> Stop quoting people and stating that the opposite of what they say is true

I just like quotes, what can I say.
Well, reverse it: Amazon is about $1K per 10TB.

That's an expensive disk drive.
I had a coworker who went to Stanford on scholarships. The thing that surprised him about all the rich kids there was how prepared they were for life already. It was no wonder to him how they get ahead and stay ahead, and it wasn't just money.

But one of my theories in life is that power is money, not the other way around. We know that's something that the newly rich run into over and over. We even have movies with that story arc.

'They' are all too happy to see us get hung up on how much money we're going to allow them to have. They'll still be just as powerful and influential. Probably the easiest thing they spend that 'currency' on is to have enough money to cover the exchange rate with people outside their circles.
AFAIK, it still requires 3rd party software.

However, having a Samsung SSD and enabling RAPID mode in Samsung Magician (SSD management software) which effectively uses an invisible RAM disk accelerated my games' startup times by a factor of at least 3x. Some games even start 5x times faster.

I do recognise that games have a much different workload than compiler jobs of course; but invisibly utilising a RAM disk might help a lot regardless.
For sure, but you don't cancel events because of people just deleting their accounts. It's not like they were worried that this event would turn into a "let's silently delete our accounts party".
"First, catch your rabbit." - Old recipe for rabbit stew.

This lists a real serial modem as a prerequisite, and those are kinda getting to be collectors' items. Is it feasible to build a modem out of a Raspberry Pi Zero or an Arduino? You'd need to hook the phone line to the GPIO pins, do the ADC and DAC stuff in software, implement the V.22 protocol in software, and also implement the Hayes Smartmodem stuff in software, meaning this is one of the few times a Hacker News reader would have occasion to implement the Hayes Code. Is there any show-stopping problem I'm not seeing? Massive electrical incompatibility?
Cyberespionage group Winnti creates a backdoor targeting Microsoft SQL server
Vue Admin Dashboard Template
I agree my comparison was a little extreme, I tend to do that sometimes. I'll work on toning that down.
That's still the market.

The market isn't exclusively good, and has many failure modes. This is one of them.
Do you have evidence to back up the assertion that his positions have shifted in response to polling? The example I often see is his "Medicare for All who want it" plan which I responded to below (in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21315147).

From the beginning he stated his campaign would first lay a foundation of ideals, then build policies from there. In my view, that's what he's done over the last 9 months.

I have no connection to the campaign, but I'm sure someone reading does. Can you say more about what has turned you off recently?
Amazon Snowball, if I understand it correctly, is a box full of hard drives that they mail you to transfer data. So no bandwidth there.

It still costs $0.03/GB, which is on top of the $200 they charge you to use the service.
That whole Linux integration into Windows marketing campaign could have you believe that Linux things just work on Windows now and you can just "mount -t tmpfs none /path/to/my/mount -o size=64G".

I doubt that is going to happen. File system mounts do not run on marketing fuel.
I'll second this. DDG has been my default for 2+ years.

Google is better for obscure topics that lack good keywords to find them by. I usually know when I need to '!g'.
I believe you misread the quoted remark.

It was about decision maker's personal (career) risk when making decisions. Keeping things in-house means more decisions are taken in-house which increases personal risk to the management for getting things wrong. In context this is much clearer:

> This isn't simply about having fewer staff (although that can reduce internal politics and inefficiencies), but making fewer decisions and more importantly reducing the potential for making the wrong decisions (which can be career-costly, regardless of right decisions made previously).

The post above doesn't discuss cloud Vs. non-cloud security/safety at all.
I believe the shareholder class action mentioned is new though (filed Jan 2019).
That guy was a troll. Many of us have been using youtube-dl extensively every day for years without any trouble.
Fulfilled by Amazon is a complete mess and they should be tried for mail fraud.

Co-mingling? Sellers should be furious, and customer should boycott. Why isn't this just called fraud?

I can't trust Amazon to deliver what I ordered, period. Lesson learned.
It was presented to him as a puzzle and he solved the puzzle.

How far do you think he got in Elm?
There is no relation.
We all suck so nobody should complain about anything. Yep, sounds about right.
There are various verticals. But of all these verticals there are roots.

Sort of like how Set theory and Category theory make up the fundamental basis of all math, the fundamentals of computer science are encoded within your first example:

>For instance, there is a whole subset devoted to turing machines, the halting problem, finite state machines, provability, incompleteness, the set of all sets, diagonalization proofs etc
So you're essentially saying:

"If you have cash, you should gamble it by investing it in stocks or business."

but that's risking the money I earned. I don't want to risk it, I earned it, I just want to save it and not have it evaporate over the years.
These guys are shallow sleezebags. Bill Gates blew up the population of Africa as a PR stunt for his wife, which we see here has been successful. Nothing Bezos has done is morally praiseworthy, and many things questionable. Musk is a cool guy but clearly just a flashy narcissist.

It's much easier to make the world a better place by securing the proliferation of good ideas than to become fantastically rich. Ideas are after all what turn paper into money. I hope to raise a very large family of like-minded sons.
I'm curious what actions a government would need to take before you think it's irrational to for a company to support them. Between the reported organ harvesting, re-education camps, and massive invasion of privacy, I'd think it would be an easy call at this point. If you're still holding out, where do you personally draw the line? Or at least, where do you think companies should draw the line?
Yeah we literally turned our $7k a month AWS bill into $1k a month by changing to 3 dedicated servers (Fully managed!) and cloudflare. It's better in every conceivable way.
As a society we've been taking the "working with them is better than cutting them out" strategy for 20 years now, and it isn't working. That's how we've gotten to where we are in the first place. We are dealing with an actor that is a) working in bad faith, and b) smart. We aren't going to covertly sneak democratic values into Xi's country; he knows exactly how much is allowable before it starts to have an impact. By giving him the option, we're only helping his plans.
Can anyone who has worked on Bank of America comment on if any of the things they build actually worked?
Netflix versus Blockbuster
Normal as in I don't expect everyone will agree. There is no moral framework that everyone will agree anyway.

Whether its indefensible or not, is matter of your preference/personal value.
My 11 year old daughter has been looking forward to her first BlizzCon all year. She has been saving her allowance money so she can buy some d.va gear. She's been planning her cosplay, she's working with her mom to sew a d.va dress together based on a skin she likes. Everyday I walk her to school she's telling me her next Overwatch plan. I understand the protests, I'm angry myself at Blizzard's actions, but I'm not about to break her heart over my political opinions. Blizzard isn't going to be the only one hurt by what's happening.
> Years ago, a friend of the family said "You're so smart. Everyone thought you would be a millionaire by age thirty. What happened?"

You could have reacted (slightly confused) like so:
I pointed at my kids and said "I am."
"Streaming is their livelihood" is such a weird argument for supporting something.

Maybe I'm an old man, but I really feel like the best thing for the streamers would be for them to get a real job. Streaming is a fragile source of income, and many streamers 'work' 16+ hours a day trying to make enough money to support themselves - with majority of them falling short.
our internal cloud requires months in advance to get changes done :(
IANAL

I have spoken to a lot of lawyers about contract terms and what I've been told for both NDA and Non-compete style agreements is that they have to have very clearly defined scope to be enforceable.

For a non-compete for example, it requires distance and specific field with a clearly defined time period (that's reasonable).

For an NDA you have to ensure that the covered information is explicitly labeled (which is why people have confidentiality labels in email footers) and that there is a defined time to expiration. An NDA without those two criteria place an undue burden on a person who is not being compensated for their compliance.

Reasonable time period is generally 2 years.
Yes, and I included that in my point. Certain compilers: Java, Swift, TypeScript are faster with long-running worker processes.

To be fair, that doesn't require a long-running Bazel process to manage them, but that does become a natural choice.
Without seeing the other 17 pages this isn't really discredit it either... they were just as likely to look the same as not.

Slacktivism is a very predictable phenomenon today. I'm seeing plenty of examples of it in both the Blizzard threads today.
It depends on what you mean by 'hacking' a VPN. One assertion in this breach is that the NordVPN certificate private key was leaked, allowing anybody to spin up a NordVPN server that would pass HTTPS certificate validation (the cert is expired, it's currently unknown if the cert was valid for a period of time after it was compromised). This kind of an attack would let an attacker convince most users to download viruses, input credentials, etc.

Nord says that the above issue was caused by a data center breach. Depending on the company this may mean a leak of user info (account details, emails, etc) and password data (generally secure hashes, but often insecure/near-plaintext passwords).

There's a lot that can go wrong here even before considering the MITM vector. As far as that goes, you can generally trust that well-secured sites (Google, Facebook, etc) won't allow someone to steal your session tokens/passwords. There is a high likelihood that a malicious VPN would achieve script execution on your machine in a short period of time.
It’s a model. All models are wrong, some are useful. That the models’ wealth distribution correlates well with the real world is an interesting fact and strongly suggests further investigation. Edit:grammar
That is the reason you "loathe" Google? it seems it was act of an individual at best, and that is
if the claim has merit. Loathe is a heavy word, weird.
Absolutely.

They're only really worse at localized results for me (Swedish).
> If there's a compelling case for doing it differently, someone should do it and see if it works.

Cloudflare doesn't charge for bandwidth. I always throw cloudflare on top of anything I do, not because I really need a CDN or anything, but because the bandwidth cost would bankrupt me otherwise. The ceo of cloudflare gave the rationale on why they don't charge:

> There’s a fixed cost of setting up those peering arrangements, but, once in place, there’s no incremental cost. That’s why we have similar agreements to Backblaze in place with Google, Microsoft, IBM, Digital Ocean, etc. It’s pretty shameful, actually, that AWS has so far refused. When using Cloudflare, they don’t pay for the bandwidth, and we don’t pay for the Bandwidth, so why are customers paying for the bandwidth. Amazon pretends to be customer-focused. This is a clear example where they’re not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791563
Assuming I retire at 65, which is pretty much guaranteed not to happen based on economic factors as well as rising retirement age it will be around 2060, 30 years after people are projected to lose 25% of their benefits.
A Text Analyzer in Python
I wish there was an „about” section or something similar.

Right now I see basically two registration forms.

Can anyone provide more context?
What will next-gen social networks look like?
"Op-ed" doesn't mean anything these days. I've seen plenty of "proper" Scientific American articles that get basic physics horribly wrong, or have a very heavy slant towards a particular point of view.
> Corporations are allowed to exist by the public

I would argue that in America, the public is allowed to exist by corporations.

(Tongue in cheek cynicism, mixed with more truth than I'm comfortable with.)
Context matters. When the only relevant sins are those of our chief geopolitical rival.. at a certain point that says more about us than them.
Banning something strikes me as a very heavy-handed way to stop subsidizing it. Why not stop the subsidies without banning it?
“Except this one!”
So what's with all the recruiting companies?
I wish I could see memoirs like this from Ken Thompson and Rob Pike.
Nice! Working on a transpiler myself :). https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/e1bdadab4f9691c8564b...
Hi, thanks for answering questions. Does the Firefox extension work on mobile Android? Thanks.
Cross AZ traffic:

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfe...

No connection to the blog.
Seems to have been hugged to death. Also, some of the header links seemed to not work, possibly due to overzealous ad blockers? Not sure, I clicked on something else and got a 502 after that.
Object Orientation to which your recommendations point at is not fundamental at all. OO is more of an opinion than it is an axiom.
Or you can look at it as a single correct auth and encryption mechanism is shared company wide vs each individual teams intern inventing new was to base64 encode your password. Glass half full or empty
Got caught up in an organized witch-hunt to remove him from power. Too much freedom of speech for the current FSF.
Not directly a response to you, but GCP is actually phenomenal in some areas over AWS: BigQuery, Data Studio (I know it's not really "GCP" but vs AWS' offering), and Pubsub come to mind.

Oddly enough, they falter in other areas: no equivalent to Kinesis Firehose, and true to your point, I was told by customer service just to build my own DataFlow job to take a Pubsub topic and make files.

It's like some of their product managers have a very customer-first mindset (BigQuery, Pubsub) and some could not care less.
> I’m pleasantly surprised to hear Zuckerberg articulate this thought.

I'm pleasantly surprised that people are waking up to this problem, but disappointed as hell that what they are waking up to is not the problem - but rather, the disruption of the status quo.

To the rest of the world, American values, media, culture, etc, being the dominant shaping force on the internet (And before that, through literature, television, film, etc) was cultural imperialism, that has shifted discourse, starved local culture, and, in short, was Americanizing the world. [1]

Americans now feel threatened by China's cultural weight being thrown around in this space. Okay. You don't like China using the same mechanisms that you used in the past, to broadcast and spread your mono-culture.

But instead of taking a moment to self-reflect, about whether it is good for the world to have an 800-pound cultural gorilla warping discourse, culture, and media around the world...

... We are upset that we stopped being that gorilla! It's more than a little hypocritical and peevish.

[1] Talk to a Canadian sometime, and ask them about Canadian culture, versus American culture - in the media sense. You'll find there to be very little of the former left, despite the government's best efforts to promote, and develop it.
Even if the 'BitCoin' <sic> is distributed exactly the same as money is now the 80/20 Where 20% of the population control 80% of the money.

Wouldn't it be better if your money (that was BitCoin <sic>) increased 2% a year instead of decreased 2% a year?
Indeed. One of the big advantages of the cloud is you provision just the number of servers you need. And scale out to handle temporary spikes in load.
How often do you use !g or other bangs?
Because it's the same bad-faith argument that people have seen dozens of times from climate-action-deniers before. The idea that scientists at NASA and dozens of the most prestigious and reputable institutions and journals in the world have all conspired to miss That One Thing That Explains Climate Change that isn't the obvious CO2 that has been known to contribute to global temperatures for about a century.

Eventually people tire of living in Groundhog Day and go through the same thing over and over again and they just click the downvote button and move on.
Nope.

One easy fix. Send a verification email to users when a different device is detected before allowing log in.

I mean, even Steam does this.
Spatio-temporal points enough to uniquely identify 95% of individuals (2013)