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> As Android developers, we’ve come to rely on the safety of a strongly typed language like Kotlin, maybe with a side of Java. Since this new microservice uses Node.js, we had to write our endpoints in Javascript (...)

I wonder why they didn't go with a microservice on top of kotlin? I mean, nodejs is ok - but it's not like it's not possible to write a microservice backed by an uberjar?
If you think about HN, it seems a good deal of the (annoyingly :) pro Apple users are just ordinary happy Apple users, not astroturfers.
No, Apple don't have access to your sources, only the compiled binaries / ir, and symbols
What difference does the uniform make?
> Because a VPN in this sense is just a glorified proxy. The VPN provider can see all your traffic, and do with it what they want - including logging.

Wow, I didn't know VPN providers have broken SSL and can read all that traffic.

This was on the frontpage before. Are people just upvoting it for the clickbait headline without reading the points that are being made?
So Stallman (RMS) was right... Again.
It feeds the hustle mindset getting you all pumped up so you can be prolific by writing about it, saving it to your bookmarks, sharing to your social media, and assuring yourself that you, too, can be prolific. You're not a total failure! It's a great feeling.

It could also be some sort of operation where artificially generated content and comments are put out to try to train an AI further or try to probe reactionary sentiment over specific key issues.

But that's as much intellectual gratification I'll self-administer momentarily.
Unless you are a high profile target, the most important factor would be whether you trust it more than your ISP (which you should in most part of the world).
>> Maybe some texts that describe a given language should also be used.

But in what language would those texts be? Language models used for translation are trained on sentence pairs. How would e.g. a book on the grammar of Finnish, written in Finnish and without a translation in English, help learn how to translate Finnish into English?

I'm genuinely asking. This sounds like an interesting idea- but how exactly would it work?
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See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT1Rowl-EFM

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No one can see me wrap up when I'm at home. I can go about my business around the house and get back in minutes if someone pings me on Slack.

If I'm at the office, I can still just walk out when I'm done, but I can't get back to work as quickly if I'm needed. So it's just polite to be physically present for the full work day.
No... it's not this simple.

The mechanism for overriding a government existing is one thing, but making it so easy to trigger for the most random things left and right is quite another. I'm not sure if you've seen the CA ballots, but casting an informed vote is quite arduous for the average person, partly due to the nuances involved in the topics (experts who've spent their lives studying these topics can easily disagree on some of them), and partly due to the sheer number of things people need to vote on. You easily need to forego days' worth of income (hope you have disposable income to spare!) to do anything resembling a reasonable amount of research to cast something that can be called an informed vote.

Even ignoring the fact that many people don't have the time, energy, or means of sufficiently informing themselves to decide nuanced public policy issues, what they do cannot be overridden by the legislature (except for the few issues that specify otherwise). Which is fine for the fraction of people who want that, but for everybody else who doesn't think their opinion is the last word on an issue and understands unexpected problems might come up later, there's no way for them to vote "I'm in favor of this policy but only if the legislature can override it (say) after N years". Or to vote "I think the legislature should decide this and not my fellow citizens, because I honestly have no clue and I think the issue is just too complicated to let random people decide." Just imagine if the FDA approved drugs by popular vote...

Really, it defeats how the system is supposed to work. The entire point of electing officials you trust is so they can find experts they can trust and rely on their opinions for making informed decisions. So you don't have to spend your time deciding random things, both to save your time (don't forget it's literally your representative's job to legislate, and not yours), and because you (and me, and most people) probably don't know nearly enough about many issues. It's especially counterproductive to have to vote with people you agree and trust but to be forced to do that in a way that prevents them from being able to improve it down the road. The last thing you should want to do to someone you like and trust is to bypass them in the decision-making progress!

Ultimately, there is certainly wisdom in letting people override their government, but CA's implementation of this idea has left a lot to be desired by its own population.
I know you may find this hard to believe, but some people like to help other people and be of service. I drive where I want and when I want. I don't have to pick anyone up. That's going to change if we have to be employees. Taking away freedom and forcing employees to follow restrictive rules is how to breed resentment. You're going to miss Lyft and Uber when it is gone and turns into a taxi company.
Wow it stayed the same in nearly 10 years since i last looked at it. Probably only thing I’m aware of that did in CA
The AFL-CIO wrote it.

https://www.senate.ca.gov/media/senate-floor-session-2019091...

Jump to 8:22:00.
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They don't stand to lose their jobs if they don't bring in enough "customers" - which is quite different to comparable jobs outside of academia.
There are definitely lots of miss-conceptions about VPNs and some ridiculous claims by VPN providers for things like security or malware protection.

Still VPNs can be useful to access content\networks that otherwise you can't.

As for privacy, it comes down to trust. You mentioned HideMyAss but other services have good track record, far better than most ISPs that publicly state they share information with 3rd parties.
Uber hasn't made any profit yet. They are a worldwide operating player for years now and didn't have single profitable quarter. Do you call this sustainable? VC money and not paying benefits for their drivers is the only thing keeping it alive.
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Can a person who purchased these products with a US-based credit card now perform a charge-back based on this?
I guess the point is do you trust your hotel more than your VPN provider or not.
I wonder how this was worth it. At 550km/hr it's slower than a plane and with 8 turbofans it's certainly more expensive than one.

But it's certainly cool!
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Only reason for VPN I see is circumventing geo-fencing. And even then you need to remember that it can put your account at risk. For subscription services this might be insignificant, but for likes of gamestores it might prevent you from making future purchases at some point.
That's essentially only necessary if you want grant money or want to be seen as a team player (and get promoted, and not have your colleagues be annoyed with you, etc)
You are right, sorry :)
To improve, busy work is not enough - some kind of quality control is needed to provide feedback, like mentioned in the "Share your Work" paragraph.

I have been playing guitar for 28 years and barely improved in the past 15 years - after a teenage burst of disciplined, daily drills with metronome and recording a lot of music, I still regularly doodle and learn new songs, but it is just not enough to give me escape velocity from the current plateau.
I found a lecturer referring to a pottery study and sent them an email asking if they could point me to the actual study. Let's see and wait.
Since many companies must follow the rules set by one compliancy or another and these have demanded passwords to contain 3 of the 4 different groups of characters AND require changing said passwords every 3 months, most employees have been trained to use a number scheme along the lines of:

<word> <special char> <number>

Whereby word & special character are set in stone (easy to remember) and the number just increments with every change.

If only there was a way to allow more flexible demands on passwords within MS AD, things would improve so much.

Password > 14 characters and NOT listed in Pwned Passwords == allow for passphrase to be used "forever"

Password < 14 characters OR listed in Pwned Passwords == demand (regular|immediate) change.

Very decent source for Pwned Passwords https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
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>give you an x amount of money and force you to spend it (by taking the excess away at the end of the month or topping it up to a limit).

that could be an interesting one for Universal Basic Income .
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The funny part is that all the hate they have towards PHP, pretty much most languages have similar or other problems. I say this as someone who loves languages like Go, Python but I run a SAAS business in PHP which brings in close to 7 figures ARR and employs 15+ people. All these developers shitting on PHP are basically the elitist form of "I don't do PHP so you shouldn't either because it sucks and <my shiny language> is so much better".
Wow, hadn't realized that A Fire Upon the Deep, Red Mars, Snow Crash, and Doomsday Book were all published in 1992. Awesome year for SF.
Thanks for writing this out as you've really hit the nail on the head. I manage a medium sized team and I can tell you some people are totally cool with just being a worker bee. I wish more of the conversation around WFH focused on how everyone is different, one size fits all rarely works, and if you do want to "get ahead" you'll need to put in face time. Period. Humans are social and want connection. Meritocracies are great in principal, but that's just plainly not how the world works. If you want managerial carrier development and growth, you have to put in the face time.
It's possible that I misunderstood the text but what's the alternative interpretation of "The log function asymptotes at 0"? Also note that the text says log probabilities when it actually refers to log densities.
We built https://traverse.link/ for this. Markdown based, take notes as you go, turn the ones you want to remember into flashcards with the click of a button
As relevant as the gatekeeper argument is, there is also a big drawback: you need to trust the gatekeeper's competence and motivations. Not only do you need to trust them in the here and now, but you have to trust it into the future. Keep in mind that a change in management or a change in the viability of a company can lead to radical changes in their direction.

Contrast the locked down model to the open source approach. Yes, there are nefarious operators in the world of open source. On the other hand the privacy concerns are much lessened. Now there are many reasons for that, but two of those reasons are the visibility of how the software works and the ability to modify it when necessary.
That entire email exchange is a thing of beauty.

Massive, massive gratitude and goodwill toward u/confiks. You, sir/madam, have executed a brilliant maneuver.

Thank you, original linker, for pointing this out.
"is as intense as in industry if not more"

That wasn't my experience - I've never seen anything like the politics I saw in an academic department in industry. It was one of the reasons I left as I got the distinct impression that you have to politic like mad to get ahead and that really didn't interest me.

UK rather than US though. You know what they say:

"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."
Also bypassing throttling like cell carriers limiting video bandwidth to a small fraction of normal speeds. The article also ignores the multiple VPN providers who have been subpoenaed in court and replied that they have no logs. So either they don't log or they're willing to lie to a judge on their customer's behalf.

I feel like every few months one of these holier-than-thou anti-VPN articles hits HN where the author completely ignores the real demographics and use cases of commercial VPNs and acts like our primary concerns are ISPs finding out what color of underwear we like. Most people use VPNs to watch Netflix and steal Game of Thrones. They don't leave them turned on because they noticeably increase browsing and gaming lag.
based on music.
We can agree to disagree. Plenty of great developers work with PHP.
Well he's not wrong. traffic is far more than perfectly configured TLS.

DNS, SNI and mixed content are all insecure for the vast majority of users. You can learn a lot from HTTPS traffic.
My main reason for using a proxy is to prevent my government from tracking and logging all my internet activity (when you look at the huge list of agencies the UK government has allowed access to that information you can see why).

I skimmed through this article but I don't think it addressed this use case. Sure, my VPN could be tracking me, but I have much more trust in Mozilla than I do any other internety company. This article seems to be arguing that because perfect browsing privacy isn't possible that you might as well not bother with any.
Just in case you're not joking, it's slang

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based
The problem with your statement is that you won't know if you should or shouldn't be the type of person to do it, until after the damage has been done.
Same for a few blocks of downtown Santa Monica.
Probably because Java (and it’s structure) is what is taught in school.

It does surprise me to encounter over-complicated Java-style patterns in PHP.
Then you realise this is what a lot of people spend their working lives doing, rewriting frontend code in a different framework for no good reason other than they want to.
It would be impossible to maintain backward compatibility if they made the language HTML context aware. It would make it more difficult to output any non-HTML content type from a PHP script. It would require many new syntaxes (e.g. for outputting variable data in the attribute values of elements, selectively outputting elements or attributes, looping through them, etc). It would also mean the language is tied to specific HTML versions and it would not be able to be forgiving of HTML syntax errors, defeating much of its ease of use.

I am not sure it would have been practical to turn PHP into a strongly HTML aware template language like Thymeleaf for example, while still having it be useful as a general purpose programming language. IMO, the dream of PHP/CFML/JSP/ASP mixing code with templates just isn't realistically possible.
Need an accountability partner? I know how it is. While I'm not looking for improving my guitar skills, if you need a strict drill sergeant (that doesn't shout :P), I'm available and for free.

For the first month ;-)

Consider it an experiment, for science ^^
Yeah this is the only reason I have one. Weird licensing restrictions mean basically nothing I want to watch is available in my country and so I need to constantly jump through hoops to _pay_ for content...
this is good news.

do videos like Netflix/Prime/Youtube play smooth in high-res through this ?
Using a VPN also raises the actual cost of the adversary. For a simple example, considering something like a movie download - doing it from the home IP means a form letter information request from a lawyer to the ISP. Doing it through a VPN means an international request for legal support is required to get the name behind the IP. Costly and time-consuming and perhaps even impossible depending on jurisdiction. (USA won't honor an information request from Iran,etc)
So it's true to life
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PHP picks up ideas and syntax from many other languages. I'm happy about it, because it popularizes and normalizes concepts that used to be niche or advanced.

C established a lot of common syntax, and there's some consensus for post-C syntax emerging, like `name: type` syntax, `match` expressions, non-nullable types and operators for them.

Nowadays `[1,2,3]` seems like an obvious syntax for array literals, but it wasn't obvious before JSON and other languages converging on it.
The ability to switch from work to personal time is something everyone either learns by themselves or is eventually forced to learn after burning out.

A few colleagues use their commute time to take a walk around the block, that gets them in "work mode". And after they clock out they do the same in reverse.
I'm interested. I thought the proposed tracking and logging requirements on ISPs never made it through parliament. Do you have any details of the requirements and agencies with access?
Outsourcing always brings cultural and time zone issues, they can all be managed but do require extra attention and know-how to work through.
Ah, I see, you are objecting that you did not complete what you were setting out to do. I think that is quite noble of you to admit but at least the demo presentations were quite impressive even if they lack a certain totality.

Well anyway, thanks a lot for these presentations. I don't think it's as good as a software course where someone breaks all my preconceptions of what computing is, to leave me truly free, but they are helping to widen my thoughts.
Yup, this is my use case. I live way out in the middle of nowhere, and our internet is LTE - and the provider traffic shapes like crazy, depending on content and time of day.

The VPN sidesteps all of that, and allows me to use the full speed of the connection - otherwise we’re throttled to about 40%.

Yes, I could and probably will set up my own endpoint, but for less than a dollar a month this is just an easy and cheap solution, for now.
This is a useless statistic. What proportion of startups are founded by women? Only with this statistic can we draw a fair conclusion - and it's notably missing from the entire article..
Yep that pottery class also comes up as an anecdote in “Art and Fear: Observations on the perils and rewards of artmaking”:

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaki...
Ask HN: In what ways C++ (web) backend services can be made fault tolerant?
I sent them an E-Mail with a link to a copy https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z5u-UrIkihxq_6tDwiau....
Same for me, on current chrome.

Actual content is in about a quarter of the page, at top right. It's bad.
he did that as "mercy"
I've seen this work both ways. The original FireTV stick had awful latency, the 4K one is far smoother despite shifting four times as many pixels.
This is because you‘ve built up expertise and know the ins and outs of the language and frameworks (which are often very complex and idiosyncratic to achieve their cleanliness and expressivity). You know what to use, how to use it, what to avoid, how to debug stuff etc.

However for people who have not invested this time and effort it is an objectively worse language than other web focused ones in many dimensions.

PHP is a workhorse for the web and still the most important language next to JS in that regard. But there is a reason it is declining (slowly) as well.
I read about this eons ago but it is possible for your employers to take a policy out on you though you do need to allow it...

https://www.businessinsider.com/is-there-a-dead-peasant-life...
I know Indonesia introduced visa wavers back in March for anyone still in the country on short term visas.

I returned to Australia just before that and flights got shut down during my quarantine period. So I've been living in my mother's caravan while having already paid rent on a large tropical island villa that lasted until last month ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Managing a split remote/local team is one of the hardest things to do. Nigh-impossible I'd say.
Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System
Author here.

The Common Lisp Condition System is my first book and it was previously discussed on Hacker News[0] as soon as the Apress page for the book was first posted.

The HN discussion was very fruitful and insightful and prompted me to add more content about the condition system in general. Due to time constraints and the flow of working on the book, it was impossible to add this new stuff to the actual body of the book, so me and Apress have decided to publish this content as an appendix named Discussing the Common Lisp Condition System and release it[1] on the Internet. The appendix is free to download and use in any way and I'd like to once again thank everyone who participated in the original thread.

The book is currently available for purchase on Apress[2] (with chapter samplers) and Amazon[3].

The full source code is available on GitHub[4] and should be buildable under any conforming C compilers and any conforming Common Lisp implementations. I'm available for answering any questions about it and merging any PRs that might arrive.

I hope that the book is helpful in general and wish everyone who decides to try it a good read.

AMA.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23843525

[1] https://github.com/Apress/common-lisp-condition-system/blob/...

[2] https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484261330

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Common-Lisp-Condition-System-Mechanis...

[4] https://github.com/Apress/common-lisp-condition-system
> I can go about my business around the house and get back in minutes if someone pings me on Slack.

So your phone alerts you about every work email?
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Your comment made me look into this in further detail and you may be right; it seems the situation isn't as bad as it once was.

> in April 2018, when the high court found the government’s power to order private companies to store communications data, including internet history, to be in breach of citizens' right to privacy.

It seems the original proposal has been watered down and then challenged in court. I'm wondering if someone more knowledgable can chime in.

Still, I don't want some government agency to be able to pull my entire browsing history, now or in the future.
I’m in Turkey and I decided to get the 1 year residency so that I have a home base I know I can be in if everywhere else closes their borders
Or maybe they employed the principle of charity. The provider can see all your [encrypted] traffic [including from/to pairs].
> I hate the Youtube Music web UI so much, already.

It's such a shame Grooveshark went under - they really nailed the UI. The only reason Spotify isn't too bad is because everyone knows it now, but back when it was relatively new, far too often people obliterated my entire queue just because they wanted to add a single song.
Should be definitely doable and fairly easy afaik.

Quick google search also reveals a few libraries [0] that should help.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/midi-writer-js
The article isn't making that claim. Logging the traffic can for example mean storing CDRs for the connections. The kind of thing your ISP could also do, and in many jurisdictions is legally obligated to.

They could do per-flow logging of TCP flows (subscriber 89 made a TCP connection to 1.2.3.4:567 starting at 12:00:05, ending at 12:02:04, transferring 10kB up and 1MB down). In the worst case this would also include the TLS SNI, which is transmitted in plaintext.

Or it they could do logging based on the endpoint (subscriber 89 transmitted 1MB from IP 1.2.3.4 in the 15 minute interval 12:00-12:15).