skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't suggest you did. I am simply saying that Cloudflare started with a Free plan which helped build the company. So Cloudflare took on the smaller customers by design, as evident from the Free tier of accounts.

So, by the time Cloudflare started really going after meaningful enterprises, it was a race to the bottom for Akamai if they wanted to kill off CF.

Yes Cloudflare has taken some Akamai customers, but when I was working there, it was pretty well established that we didn't directly go after existing Akamai customers. It was a losing battle for Cloudflare. Akamai had a far superior streaming service and there was no way Cloudflare could adequately compete against them in the space where Akamai retained most of their customers.

I'm not as up-to-date on the CDN wars, but I am pretty sure thats still the case. Cloudflare launched a streaming platform, but it still couldn't compete directly against Akamai. Cloudflare has decided that it wants to do everything decently in an agnostic way because it allows them to pick up a wider range of businesses vs being force to go head to head with Akamai or Fastly. Both of those providers offer similar cache response times, and in some cases are much faster than Cloudflare. So, Cloudflare tries really hard to not lock itself into fighting with CDNs directly. We viewed Amazon as a more direct competitor vs Akamai.
Ah, I get it - the hope was that Sanders would get young people to vote, and they wouldn't have done so otherwise.

It's kinda different here. People vote. Maybe you should consider making it illegal not to vote, like in Australia. (Yeah, I know, it's an eh.. stretch goal.)
The hardest part of what I did was getting enough documentation to understand the data. Sometimes we got fixed width text files, with no in formation about column definitions. Or column names. Or what values in descriptive columns meant. Stuff like "class of trade".

But generally you're right. It was just simple calculations using sales records. But lots of records, at least several gigabytes, and sometimes several hundred gigabytes.
Good. There needs to be a serious crackdown on 'puffery' aka lying ( whether lying about product feature or anything else is irrelevant ). Fingers crossed and it will go beyond $2 credit on future Zoom services for affected users.
>Google, the world’s largest ad-tech company, [...]

This is kind of snarky, especially in the light that the author is writing this post solely to sell something in competition with Google.
I’m hairy too, it still helps. It’s not peanut butter in shag carpet, but honestly the best thing you could do is learn to shave down there. You go from trying to clean up a disaster, to blasting it away in 2 seconds.
You may get more comments/emails than I do. I think I've gotten 3 worthwhile comments and 2 emails in the 8 years my blog has been active. I actually turned comments off, because I was getting thousands of spam daily, and that seems like a waste of everyone's time.
Files become namespaces (clojure term for modules) in the Clojure default behaviour, but namespaces can also be manipulated from code and don't need to have associated files. See https://clojure.org/reference/namespaces - you can create and remove namespaces, introspect them, work with ns aliases, etc. So namespaces are not strictly tied to files in Clojure.
Plus, a depressingly huge amount of the industry's product seems to depend on mindless consumption.
I guess I see the release number appended to the end in these: https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/windows/
That’s interesting usage. I wasn’t aware of the Synology products, I’ll admit I’m not very knowledgeable about security systems. Sounds like you take proper precautions!
and this is why product over security always wins.

there's mob mentality right now, but zoom got a TON of customers, and now is gonna have proof of end-to-end encryption in a couple of months.

boom.

zoom wins.

honestly just don't talk on zoom about something highly secretive such as ... idk... something a government is interested in as that isn't currently secure, other than that, don't sweat it.
I’ve been tracking my weight, stopped eating crap just because it’s there, I’m down 2.5 lbs after 5 days and I’m actually sleeping better.
Has anyone had any experience trying to prove the authenticity of a signature?
I remember reading somewhere that there are only three universities in the world, that have a department specializing in detecting signature forgery.
WebCams were actually quite scarce in early March ... I looked everywhere on-line as well as quite a few physical locations.
Yes, that works too, especially if you're using graphical IDEs/tools for development.
I can also confirm, many local computer stores and distributors have had a huge run in basic headsets and webcams. Game headsets are in stock.
I wonder if elephants would have been able to be as successful without hands and opposable thumbs and dexterity and stuff. Their trunk is pretty cool but they would have had to follow a rather different evolutionary path to reach civilization that didn't rely on dexterity and fine control for making and using tools etc.
See it in action here: https://examples.ext.net/

No official examples are published for ASP.NET Core, but it's coming.
Number of Coronavirus Deaths in New York Is Likely Much Higher Than We Think
All of the "clients" you mentioned are just "frontends". They all just produce openvpn configuration files and run the official OpenVPN client. Some of them (Viscosity) use the remote control daemon protocol, to more directly integrate with the openvpn client, but it's still the standard openvpn client doing the bulk of the work. These frontends are just UIs, not full fledged clients.
Hmm. Yep. Exactly like a condo. For context - I live in rural America, and have virtually no concept of how condos run. After googling -

Are they really collective? Like, everyone for the greater good collective, or everyone for that one pissed off old man who wants to run the HOA collective?

And do you actually own the condo at the end, or is it just rent?

I like when I am ignorant of something! Learning!!
Awesome. Another jihadi down.
Corporations doesn't allow you to comment on those by yourself publicly, unless a given statement is already given to them. The recruiter is doing the right thing protecting his/her own job.
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If “crypto” is “cryptocurrency”, is “cryptocurrency” actually “cryptocurrencycurrency”?
This whole thing is interesting to me because denial is inherently a form of critical thought. Whereas to simply agree with whatever authorities are around you don't need to think critically at all.

Any group of "deniers" is naturally going to have more critical thinkers than a group that would use the term "denier" for those who disagree.
Recruiters are trying to convince you to work for the company therefore they should know a lot about the company since they need to be able to sell it to you.

When you go to McDonanld's to buy some food you have already been convinced to go there through some other means. The cashier only needs to know how to take your order. There's no selling that needs to be done besides maybe asking you if you want to supersize it.

And calling someone's comment embarrassing is embarrassing. See, I just did it and now I'm embarrassed.
Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hlGqIx...

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar#Work_weeks
Oh, an app doing that to me would certainly get a review.
That isn't how bidets work. I happened to get a bidet in early January, before the wave. One of the first things I learned was to let it run for awhile, maybe 20-30 seconds, and shifting around if it seems necessary. This may be TMI, but one gauge of how long to let it run is when you can relax your anal sphincter and feel the cold water slightly entering your anus. Once I stopped being in a hurry and let the water do its work, I simply never see any discoloring on the few sheets of toilet paper needed to blot dry.
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The presence of this subdomain does not necessarily prove what exactly _was_ behind this subdomain, but SecurityTrails shows that it did in fact exist during the period when Zoom has misconfigured their network and allowed their DNS records to leak from their internal network.

It additionally appears that there are many other obscene domain names that had leaked out, including f*ckmenumb.athena.ipa.zoom.us [1].

The issue of course is that to my knowledge there are no other historical DNS databases that corroborate the existence of this subdomain, it seems only SecurityTrails has this record.

Two additional notes:

1) The fact that calls are not E2E on Zoom makes the presence of this dashboard entirely possible from a purely technical standpoint.
2) Alex Stamos has been hired by Zoom, which I find interesting timing-wise..., perhaps I am missing context.

[1] https://twitter.com/TwelveSecurity/status/124714209506588672...
[2] https://twitter.com/zoom_us/status/1247862458187841537
Reminds me of orangutans, too [1]:

> Males mature at around 15 years of age, by which time they have fully descended testicles and can reproduce. However, they exhibit arrested development by not developing the distinctive cheek pads, pronounced throat pouches, long fur, or long-calls until they are between 15 and 20 years old. The development of these characteristics depends largely on the absence of a resident male.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
I got a $35 one on amazon before it doubles in price and then sold out. It’s a knob with power, woman mode, and clean mode. It’s about the cheapest thing ever and the wife laughed at first but now she uses it. I honestly get sad when I forget to use it lol.
Sophie Lewis should be made aware of the nepreryvka, as it could be a useful tool in implementing a core part of her feminist platform: abolishing the family.
I've regularly used bitcoin to fund my cash app account because I don't have a functioning debit card right now.
everyone hating on this in the comments, yet it's getting upvoted. Silent support is a bit annoying. I'd also rather not be told what to do with these titles "Stop doing this, etc"

sigh
Google Stadia now free to anyone with a Gmail address
They... can't tell you about how the company treats employees? How are you supposed to figure out whether it's worth interviewing?
Vint Cerf has been infected with COVID-19 [0], btw.

[0]: https://twitter.com/vgcerf/status/1244636584508604417?lang=e...
You don't know what it is from just reading the link. And even that itself is not upfront -- browsers have been trying to hide the URL for a while now. What if you read it on Google AMP? I agree with the other commenter that this is misleading.
I've been looking for a C290s for a couple months now, which sell regularly for $70 or less. They're now on Craigslist for $140+, and on Amazon for $200+. Can we enforce price gouging on private sellers?
The banner complaining about not using google chrome (or derivative) is immensely annoying.

I am using it on firefox and it works anyway, but now my mom is being forced to use it for work and she's asking whether there are any problems (there aren't).

they should just take it away already, it's working well anyway.
I am (1) a current Photoshop CC subscriber and (2) an owner of the second-to-last version of Photoshop that was available under a perpetual license, and I disagree that Photoshop is the best photo editing app in the industry today.

For photo retouching, I prefer Affinity Photo. One thing I especially appreciate about it is how efficient it is at handling large, 16-bit-per-channel images with many layers.

Photoshop is useful to have around mainly because it makes it somewhat easier to work with certain kinds of PSD files that I get from other people.
I have this setup https://matomo.org/

And when i have a new project, i just add the matomo script to it. It's pretty easy on the resources if you set it up right.
Pricing can be seen at https://plausible.io/#pricing

6$ / month for a personal website.

12$ / month for a startup.

36$ / month for a business.
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If you have access to an AWS account, you can host your own website statistics with very little costs. That’s why I built https://ownstats.cloud/ Would love to get some feedback.
Rick is awesome. Bought the book without hesitation. Can't wait to dig through it.

I've used DynamoDB in production (small scales only sadly) on a number of projects. Definitely done it the wrong way a few times!
Free as in speech[0] and beer too!

[0] - https://github.com/lichess-org
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So were headsets - while most people were stocking up on toilet paper, it seems companies were buying all the Logitech H390s they could get their hands on.
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Your best target audience for live instruction is probably going to be grades 4-6.

Older students will likely prefer to follow a recorded video or read from the tutorial manual.
We've all been there! :)

Thanks for your support. I really appreciate it. Don't hesitate to hit me up with any questions or feedback.
Australian IoT startup Myriota raises $19M
Well, damn, I guess that means that Trump will have a second term then.

I mean, its unlikely that someone who voted for Trump last time will be voting for Biden this time. I think the Democratic party is missing the boat on this one. They're so busy pushing someone "presidential" that they are forgetting who the actual target audience is, Trump voters.
I think everyone is so negative on the post because the post is a sleazy ad in disguise. If it had opened with "these are the reasons that we are unsatisfied with analytics which led us to launch our own alternate service, plausible" or even just "why we made plausible.io" then we would know up front that it's an ad but maybe still a worthwhile read. This hides the fact that they want you to maybe try plausible to the last section and the last bullet of the table of contents. Its nothing about the product and everything about the underhanded advertising.
Good point! The economy of scale is one of the ways to fight against spam bots
I tried this and the very first recommendation it gave me is already amazing. Thanks! Gonna add this to my other music discovery tools.
They made a statement within the last few years that they don't use GA data for their own purposes.

The scarier implication is they don't need GA to understand web trends. They can collect far more data using Chrome, AMP, Android, Ads, and more.
So you’re testing the recruiter? The recruiter would have an answer probably no more insightful than the NYTimes. Do you ask Google recruiters about their ethics and AI? Or Apple recruiters about factories in China? Or Tesla recruiters the long term impacts of batteries on the environment? In theory all potentially fair game, but a better question might be “I’m interested in this. Can you set up a call with someone who could address my questions on it.”

And once the recruiter gave an answer are you then done and ready to talk about the role? This seems like a setup more than a sincere question.
Apache Hadoop Ozone – S3 / CSI Compatible Object Store for Hadoop
> > Has the author seen an actual police state?

> Have you?

Yes.

> It usually starts with people excusing and defending police state behavior.

I can only speak for my own country, but it started with America cutting a deal with the Soviet Union, several prominent leaders getting assassinated during partisan conflicts, and America picking what they imagined was a safe bet which turned out to be a human butcher. (Well, to be fair, it wasn't like the US deliberately chose a bad guy - they picked someone with a Princeton PhD.)

But I can tell you how a country gets out of police state. It doesn't involve people doing whatever they want because it's their freedom. It involves people sacrificing their own freedom for the greater good, standing in front of total strangers facing the police, and saying "I don't know them, but they are my brothers. If you want to shoot them, you will have to shoot me first."

In other words, if your "police state behavior" is telling people to go home during an ongoing pandemic, it belongs to "not even wrong" category.

BTW, I don't believe the police are well funded in the US in general. Maybe in some sector. (And the funding could definitely become smarter.) But when residents of a major city (SF) have to avoid used needles on the street, it seems pretty clear to me that there aren't enough police to serve these people. (Well, maybe there are enough police officers but they're all deployed in doing something useless - which would mean we can't afford to hire competent managers.)
Not really. I think "two rooms to go", not "x windows to go". There's no point in counting or adding, so I don't bother. Also, I only clean my windows once a year, if that. There's an hilarious story about a spider family having bred on the other side of a closed window I hadn't opened all year. That must have been at least 500 spiders. It was hard to even look through the window, so I eventually bothered to clean that one early. Maybe a mistake, seeing how half of those spiders than entered into my room, but, whatever. I don't mind spiders.
Zoom Privacy, Security Issues May Affect Telehealth
Is that right? I haven't seen things other than spirits use proof as a measurement rather than ABV. I don't know about Turkish kolnya but colognes are typically 70-90% ABV.
Add "Chrome is evil, you ought to use Firefox instead" and "I switched from Google to DDG and it's mostly fine, apart from having to use !g as a prefix everytime I search anything on it". Oh and please make it a Chrome addon ;)
We'll definitely see a reversion towards the mean. But it'll be interesting to see if the investments teams are making in remote interviewing will lead to a sustained increase in remote interviews for candidates that prefer it (think, candidates that can't travel easily, or take enough time off of their current job). I'd bet the new normal will be noticeably more remote-friendly than the past.
M. is a common abbreviation for "monsieur". Perhaps the GP speaks French?
As someone who still uses GA for multiple sites, can we actually discuss the claims of the article and not the broad idea of it?

> " > These two tracking scripts combined add 45.7 KB of page weight to each and every page load."

Google makes fantastic products that are available for free (with limits) because they make most of their money from ads. I may not like it, but gmail, Drive, YouTube are all great and I would prefer people who can't pay for such products have the free option.

> "It’s a bloated script that affects your site speed"

As others have said, no? Not with caching? Anyway my websites are probably bloated by all sorts of bigger things, I am no web dev and have had no time to optimize them overmuch, and the still work fine. So guilt tripping me about GA Analytics aint gonna work.

> "It’s overkill for the majority of site owners"

I like having the flexibility ; I seriously doubt this is a good pitch for any growing company or even project.

> "It’s a liability considering GDPR, CCPA and other privacy regulations"

Is it? It's not like Google is not addressing GDPR concerns (https://www.cookiebot.com/en/google-analytics-gdpr/)

> "It uses cookies so you must obtain consent to store cookies"

Okay, finally a good one -- nobody likes the cookie popup, so removing GA analytics would improve user experience. Then again, it's so common that people maybe are used to it?

> "It’s blocked by many plugins and browsers so the data is not very accurate"

'There’s no definite answer on how many people block Google Analytics as that depends on the audience of your site, but for a tech audience, you shouldn’t be surprised to see 50% or more of the visitors blocking Google Analytics.' Really? I kind of doubt it..........

> "It requires an extensive privacy policy"

Any analytics should have privacy disclosure, presumably.

> "It’s abused by referral spam that skews the data"

And other analytics aren't?

> "It’s a proprietary product so you need to put your trust in Google"

Fair, Open Source is preferable.

> "It worsens the user experience due to the necessity for the annoying prompts"

A repeat

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So yeah. Look, I am uncomfortable with big huge giant companies like Google ruling the earth. But I also have quite limited time and money, and already use gmail and Drive. So far Google has not done anything to seriously hurt my trust and I think their products are excellent. Most of these points seem weak to me, as someone already using GA analytics.

Still, for someone building a new website, I could see this being enough to make the point. But, I think it would be far more effective if it was more concise and less easy to point out holes in the arguments.
Indeed :-), can't edit anymore, but thanks.
>There are common definitions of what words mean.

What are they? People assume their definition is common, but everything is much less clear than that. This causes frequent disagreements, and it's best to get more information.

>There is no need to put another label on it randomly, just call it what it is, picking up a quarter.

There is no need for me to label the action at all unless I'm in a position to explain what I mean. My position on the action is primarily private. Changing the definition is more useful in the other direction, when you call someone a thief I don't assume I have any idea what they did or what kind of person that makes them.

>Everyone (or at least majority of other people) thinks a thief is a bad person.

Using such labels to judge an entire persons worth is ridiculous in a number of ways. There are too many ways that both of us would consider innocent that can get you labeled a thief. I was almost booked for stealing $40 of gas after realizing I lost my wallet after filling the tank. Am I a bad person because of that?

>So I can just go around calling you a rapist right?

This started as me labeling an action as theft. If I walked around blindly calling people thieves I would expect the misunderstanding to cause problems for me.
I don’t work at Google, but I’ve worked for and with many big corporations and government entities.

The army of lawyers look within too. The problem with big companies is usually that they lobby their way to do things that you don’t like. They are usually very good at working within those parameters.

That’s why you generally don’t see data breaches in places like Google. When you do, they are usually a combination of acute issues (hacking, etc) and incompetence (Equifax). There are overlapping controls and segmentation that make it harder to rogue stuff without oversight.

At a startup or small adtech place, forget it. The controls are not there and the company has nothing to lose.
I've been reading a book about Heaviside (Forgotten Genius). Something I had not appreciated was that he was an Engineer. I suppose I imagined a nerdy dude in his mother's basement trying to reformulate Maxwell's work. But in reality he was a guy who spent his working life trying to do things like find the location of breaks in subsea cables; figure out how to transmit higher data rates through long cables, and so on. It was in trying to solve these engineering problems that he ended up becoming interested in the mathematics of transmission line propagation and hence Maxwell's work.
Mandated? If you grant government the power to mandate this sort of thing (in the absence of an emergency), you have granted government the power to micro-manage everything. What would be the limiting principle to government power?

This is a bad idea.