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Ask HN: Do I Really Want *Net Neutrality*?
Okay, I'll ask a question about net neutrality:

My ISP has several options with download speeds from
15 million bits per second (Mbps) up to 101 Mbps.
And the faster options also have faster upload
speeds and cost more.

Just now I don't much need or want one of the faster
speeds so have the cheapest option, but later I may
want/need a faster speed and want to be able to get
it and will be willing to pay more to get it.

So, question: Would net neutrality mean that my
ISP could offer only one option on speed? If so,
then that option would likely be faster than my
current speed and cost me more which for now I would
not like.

Of course, maybe none of what I've just outlined is
the real issue, that is, maybe there is a hidden
agenda. So, maybe my ISP would work with, say,
Vimeo and give me good service when I was using
Vimeo but not work with YouTube or Netflix and from
them, then, give me poor service, largely
independent of what option I am buying from my ISP.
So, in effect, my ISP and Vimeo could have a
monopoly on video streaming to my computer and,
then, one way or another, be able to charge more,
say, from Vimeo to my ISP, or get higher revenue,
say, to Vimeo, as my access to Netflix and YouTube
were degraded. Is something like that what is going
on?

If that's what's going on, then maybe what we should
be asking for is for all the carriers, and call
them common carriers to publish a list of
speed/service options with prices and, then, let
anyone, at both ends, the user end and the server
end, select their option, pay for it, and get it,
with no funny business. Is that what we should be
asking for?

Or FedEx has more than one shipping option, and the
faster options cost more. No squabble there, right?
This is just depressing, honestly. It is pretty clear they just want to collect all of the data "just in case" you might one day become a suspect. :/

Sadly, unless you can convince the electorate to keep kicking people out until things change...nothing will change.
I have paid wildcard certs with them. Their site is weirdly designed and heavy on the self-service, but I have no complaints about them. I have revoked certs with them and everything has been reasonable.

That said, why does it matter if they're "credible"? Their certs are accepted by pretty much every browser, OS and library, and they have a long track record as a CA.

Regardless, as a business I have had business dealings with, let me assure you they are a "legitimate service".
Ask HN: Programmer life and CISSP advice?
Hello,

Disclaimer:

This turned into a bit of a rant, I think I needed it. However, any and all responses to the questions I asked would be highly valued (I put all my questions below the essay I regurgitated). The people here have all my respect, HN community is the best community.

A little background:

There's a security firm in the town I live that I've been bugging, politely, for the past several months about a job. I interviewed a few months ago and they said that they were impressed with some proof-of-concepts I put together and liked what they saw in my employment history. Nevertheless, there was someone more qualified for the position. I've stayed in contact with the technical manager and he suggested if I really wanted to work in security I should shoot for my CISSP. I kind of already knew this but was hesitant because I have no professional experience, and it requires 5 years minimum I believe.

Regardless of my lack of experience I've started to study, it looks like there's a program for those who want to take the test but lack the required experience. I've been reading and coding for the past couple years on my own without anyone to interact with, I think if I could get this job I would learn a ton.

Sorry for the rant everyone. Sooner or later they are going to hire me, that's what I tell myself, because I don't intend on quitting.

Here are my questions:

- Do you have any advice on study strategies/tactics for the CISSP?
- Any recommended reading related to computer science? (right now I'm picking away at Godel, Escher, and Bach; love it).
- Other communities I would be wise to involve myself in?
- Lastly, any professional and/or personal wisdom on building knowledge in infosec?

Thanks again everyone, this post isn't very community-centric and I feel bad for that but I can't think of anywhere else I would go for this sort of advice.
What's funny is the way the government are getting all the benefits of lots of data, but the potential efficiency benefits for end users have a habit of never materialising.

A very simple and obvious example is the administration of taxation, where the government have most of the information already, and the rest is just going through the motions.

The oddest I've seen is the US/Canada air border also improved immeasurably when they laid off loads of Canadian border staff, forcing them to come up with more efficient systems for handling the same number of people with a smaller staff. It's not what you'd call good now, but it's way better.

Ultimately I'd have less objection to the governments keeping data if I saw the benefits from them doing it. As it stands it seems it's just used for their own purposes.
To actively work against, and advocate against the only existing current pathway to permanent residency (i.e. EB-based green cards) for the vast majority of highly-skilled immigrants, without proposing a fix first, just isn't right.

You know how Congress works. If you had your way, and the US government ceased issuing H-1B visas, you'd see a significant drop in EB-based green card applications. Far fewer companies would be applying for them. That's because, under the current system, an H-1B allows a company to temporarily hire someone, assess their performance, and decide whether they really want to sponsor them for permanent residence. You'd likely get lower-quality immigrants (as the companies haven't had a chance to fully assess them), and most likely would disproportionately favor mutlinational companies with offices elsewhere.

If you don't fix the system first, you'll end up with a even more broken immigration system. (I'm sure anti-immigrant types would love that though.)

If you want to fix things, fight for an easier pathway for skilled immigrants to come to the US (like an easier/quicker route to permanent residency), before fighting to shut down what is currently the sole vehicle to the U.S. for the vast majority of people who receive EB-based green cards.
Great technical analysis, but poor choice of words. Why does the author deem it necessary to sensationalise it by using terms like conspiracy theory and conspiracy theorists? Those are rather derogatory and loaded, but introduce no actual information except that a conspiracy is involved:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

Note that both the currently most accepted hypothesis (rebels armed by the Russians did it) as well as the Russian party line (Ukranians did it to frame the Russians) involve government conspiracies and are, thus, conspiracy theories.
You haven't heard good things about Crashplan? I have heard of one incident (reported on the web) where someone's data was lost at Crashplan HQ. But no system is infallible. It's generally excellent. It Just Works, it's cheap, fast, unobtrusive, flexible...

My rules whenever anyone asks about backup:

1. Use backup systems, not file storage. Copying files somewhere is not a backup system. You could delete or corrupt files and never notice. Backup systems keep historic copies of files.

2. Use at least three backup locations. For example: Local hard drive, machine in a different building, the cloud. CrashPlan lets you do this, for example.

3. Test your backups regularly. It's boring, tedious and tricky, but it's less painful than losing your photos.
I upvoted you but I think you may be discounting "reinventing in a negative or ineffective manner" as potential outcomes.

The comparison to Wordpress is certainly frightening when one considers the ramifications of failures in security or anonymity. The whole article is rather breathless and trite:

"must sign up using a national ID card and a second piece of identification (early plans to use Facebook as a means of authenticating users’ identities were dropped over concerns about making the platform overly reliant on a U.S. tech firm). And how a person votes on the platform is not secret."
I'm in real estate and was able to locate the owner's condo. It's part of a HOA. The HOA's CCRs forbids leases for "transient or hotel purposes." The typical meaning of this is leases of under 30 days. The CCRs also require that permitted leases be in writing.

The sfgate article says that the owner was renting this out for $450/week to help cover her mortgage and expenses so it is probable that some of her activity was in violation of the CCRs. It also sounds like she didn't actually have a written lease with the squatter tenant who booked a 44 day reservation and therefore has tenants rights.

I am not a fan of AirBNB but AirBNB doesn't deserve blame for this. This owner thought it would be cool to become a real estate investor and she didn't know what she was doing. Now shes paying the price...
What is "humming" in this context?
If you can't profit off an enterprise, then there is not enough demand to justify your existance. If the market leader is going to undercut you to drive you out of business to then jack up prices to exploit consumers, assuming no artificial barriers to entering the market occur (mostly legal exploitation) or the price to entry is not too high, then as soon as they up their rates they reopen territory for competitors to arise.

In the end, if the market leader is constantly crushing competitors through undercutting to maintain their position, they are not really exploiting their customers at a monopoly and its a market win. It is still competition - the leader just moves to eliminate competition (which would piss off shareholders or anyone in general with a long term outlook on the company) rather than compete against it. As long as they cannot stop competition (and in a voluntary fair system, they cannot) then they have to deal with it one way or another.
I am sure the correlates with the flattening of the world population, to the extent that wars and mismanagement of resources are mitigated world wide the birth rates rise and then flatten out. One of those times where you wish you had statistics from 0 to present.
Forget about your startups and SHOWHN's, Wake up
Inequality actually isn't falling in China or India, though it might be falling slightly in Brazil[1][2][3]. Global income inequality is decreasing because the poor countries are developing, and those countries from a position so far behind the developed world that their growth has a significant effect on global inequality, even if within any particular country inequality has increased.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_China

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_Brazil

[3]http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/I...
It's almost as if the "first world" elites are transferring the wealth of their developed nations and their poor and middle classes to themselves and sending a bit of it overseas to their outsourced interests...
Well, most of those are low-quality links. That must explain why I never see example.com come up in my Google searches.
yes.

This is why many chains have separate long-term stay places and hotels. Most hotels will not let you stay long enough to be a "tenant".
Good form, sir!
I don't think he was telling you personally to STFU, but rather making the argument that if you really want immigrants you should argue for green cards, not H1Bs which give the employer too much control. I think you mis-read what he wrote. BTW, I've upvoted you even though we "disagree."
Now it's 1 hour. They're starting the 3:00 sessions a bit after 4:00.
Isn't the general hypothesis that whoever did it mistook the plane to be military. If so, this does not seem like a conspiracy, as much as a mistake (or incompetence) followed by a cover up.
It's because AirBNB makes becoming a landlord point-and-click simple. "It's so popular and easy! It's a big website, it must be legal!"

The moment an AirBNB site for cars comes along, you'll see it.
Also, you might want to edit your post. You have:

http://1milejobs:8080

rather than:

http://1milejobs.com:8080

The first thing I noticed was the use of "mile" in your domain and
company name. Using "mile" is problematic since most of the world is on
the metric system. I fired up a thesaurus to augment the tiny amount of
imagination I have for this kind of thing, but the best suggestions I
came up with that weren't already registered were:

No match for "NEIGHBORINGJOBS.COM"

No match for "CLOSEBYJOBS.COM"

Sadly, tons of domains with "jobs" in it are already taken.

Your faq says you've tested with recent browsers, but you need to put
some effort into maintaining support for older browsers (yes, I know
it's a pain, but such is web development). The following screen shot
was done on Firefox 18:

http://www.designtools.org/pix/1milejobs_app.png

It looks a better in chromium 24:

http://www.designtools.org/pix/1milejobs_app_chrome.png

In Chromium, when loading over a slow-ish Internet connection, there's a
flash of a set of icons with titles, but they disappear behind the
above. I don't want to poke at it, but I'd bet if I toggled visibility,
I might find something that you don't want accessible.

For your initial app display, I'd use geo-location to get the general
location of the visitor, and display a few listings from that area, even
a wider area than one mile if need be.

It's an interesting concept. Good Luck!
No, they're not a company that I personally would suggest.

I highly recommend Comodo bought from NameCheap: https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates/comodo.a...

Another heartbleed type incident could happen in the near future (lots of eyes on that codebase now) and their strict policy will leave you choosing between coughing up $35 per certificate or leaving your site vulnerable.

There has even been a large amount of discussion regarding removing them from the trusted list of certificate authorities because most of their users can't afford to revoke certificates and have no choice but to leave their sites vulnerable.
My Candy Crush – (The Candy Crush Addict Song)
I just posted this to my Facebook wall with the tagline I use for a headline conclusion that states a fact that everyone should know: "But of course." Globalization (increasing international trade on increasingly free terms of trade across more goods and services) would have to act as a worldwide phenomenon to reduce income inequality. Moreover, a country's greater rather than lesser involvement in international trade generally reduces income inequality within the country. Many of the countries in Europe that have especially low Gini coefficients (in other words, have especially equal distributions of income) are long-time members of the European Free Trade Association, and many of the countries in Central and South America that have high Gini coefficients (that is the region on the world to look in for the worst income inequality, among regions of the world) have long had protectionist trade policies and remarkably little involvement in the world economy.[1] Free trade improves income equality.[2] If reducing income inequality is your policy goal, improving provision of primary and secondary education is a good idea,[3] and other policy responses may be useful in one country or another,[4] but the world trend should continue to be toward more and more trade, the better to reduce income inequality and raise real wealth for everyone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

[2] http://www.efta.int/statistics/news/efta-countries-show-decr...

http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2014/lic/pdf/Lim...

[3] http://www.oecd.org/eco/labour/49421421.pdf

[4] http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/laura-tyson-desc...

AFTER EDIT: I would be glad to hear from multiple participants here from all over the world how your income (as a hacker?) compares to the median income in the country you live, and I have opened an Ask HN thread specifically to focus discussion on that topic, which may help me learn a lot about other people's perspectives here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8058579
I remember those days and am really hoping that we don't end up back in that situation. Even as recently as 5 years ago I saw a shop that did exactly that in the gift card space here in the US. They were notorious for their semi business dress code, crazy hours, uncompetitive pay, culture of fear and had more H1B's than any other place I had ever seen.

If anybody spoke up or didn't tow the line they were fired. I took a short term contract there during the peak of the recession and quickly moved on to something else, but the H1B's had no choice. Because of the economy a lot of Americans stayed because it wasn't obvious that there were other choices to them given the recession.

When I was a kid my dad told me that in this capitalistic society, in business expect people to treat you the way they can afford to treat you. In the case of this company they could afford to tread you poorly at that point in time and they did. Was it wrong, yes. But if you are a commodity that has no options but to either get fired or shut up and tow the line more companies than not will treat you that way.

H1B's are basically another form of indentured servitude the way they are currently implemented in the US. I'm not sure how to change that, but increasing their numbers is not the answer and is only going to make thing worse for everyone.
I keep all important files on Google Drive. Drive is syncing with my NAS, which is pushing a backup off-site to Amazon Glacier daily.

Using TimeMachine on my laptop as well (for convenience).
Yes, the app only took up 150MBs max as the data was processed in chunks.
To all the doubters, real manufacturing wages in China have actually been soaring over the past decades, this is corroborated across non-correlated sources:

PRC Government numbers: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/wages-in-manufacturing http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-wages-jump-in-2012-de...

WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870384920...

Journal of Economic Perspectives: http://leedsonfinance.com/2013/02/24/the-end-of-cheap-chines...

No one source is believable but there appears to be wide consensus here. Also note these are real, inflation-corrected wages. You can tell especially by the WSJ's concern over prices, if inflation explained the changes it wouldn't impact export costs which are priced in USD not Yuan.
That's similar to what I do. I have a pair of 2TB bare SATA drives that I rotate offsite. I got two different brands to try to minimize the possibilities of them both failing at nearly the same time. I used to use Synctoy on Windows to back up to them but now it's either cp or rsync from my MacBook. I do need to do this more often and I really should upgrade to bigger drives now, but they hold the stuff I'm most worried about losing. What I'm most worried about is if my original source files got corrupted, I don't want to back them up over top of good copies.

I've tried online backup services and was really disappointed by the throughput. I think it took me nearly 5 months to do an initial backup on Crashplan and that didn't even include my photo archive, VMWare images, etc.

I've tried using services like Flickr as photo backup but the retrieval process is brutal. There's no good way to bulk retrieve photos from them.

I do use Dropbox to sort of back up anything I'm currently working on but they don't retain history past 30 days without paying for Packrat. Plus I've soured on them due to privacy concerns.

I do use BitBucket for almost all of my source code and I've been pretty happy with it.

I do use Time Machine on an old 1TB drive for my main system (MacBook Pro) and that's actually been pretty damn good. The handful of times I've needed to recover a file lately, I've been able to get it from Time Machine in a couple minutes with little hassle. I do need to get a newer, bigger drive for that sometime.
It's true that the writing style here is a little grandiose. However, the vociferous rejection without understanding of new ideas exemplifies the crushing small-mindedness of HN. The author has schizophrenia? Really? It reads like time cube? Honestly? Apparently it's Boilerstrap or get out!
I submitted a request and got absolutely nothing, as if a black hole.

I never followed up after 1 or 2 months.
> I think that the internet is key to making the most dominant systems irrelevant

That has been the rhetoric, but the practical application seems to be centralizing to one or two dominant players in a given market. From an economic perspective the frictionless nature of the internet and the limited attention span of the humans that use it seems to result in one platform outperforming all others and leads in customer acquisition fading slowly if at all.

Having alternate internets might increase the friction enough to encourage diversity; but the end users desire to use the "best" solution for their problems will probably result in these alternate internets being knit together.

In sum. There are forces at work that your solution does not address.
This is just propaganda without any real facts.
Sometimes, I think the "friendly" community of AirBnB needs to be a bit more business when dealing with squatter scumbags.

Once AirBnB couldn't collect the money, the rental should have been terminated and the host should have immediately call the cops to vacate the property well before the 30 days was up. I'm not sure why they tried to work out something with the renter. Maybe they tried to be "nice" but if some situation starts to smell fishy, handle it quickly.
I wonder if the government can be fined for violation of PCI. Or perhaps the airline companies for providing it to the gov't in the first place.
Minecraft Fractal Trees
I have a very simple folder structure in my /home/ directory.

├── Code
├── Dirty
├── Downloads
├── Media
│ ├── Books
│ ├── Music
│ ├── Pictures
│ └── Videos
├── Projects
└── Scripts

I try to keep it very tidy because otherwise I would create a mess.
"Dirty" and "Downloads" are working like /tmp, except they're getting wiped every 5 days [1].
Everything except "Downloads" and "Dirty" is backed up daily, incrementally and encrypted with s3cmd [2]. Some Inspiration here [3]. Sometimes I delete old stuff manually with s3cmd or from the S3 backend.
Dotfiles and bootstrap scripts are stored on Github and Dropbox, so are serious projects.
I also keep track of installed packages to be able to restore state on a new machine [4]. I'm not very emotional about restoring my machine. With a fast internet connection it takes me like 20-30 minutes to completely restore a wiped machine.

[1] http://askubuntu.com/a/20831
[2] http://s3tools.org/
[3] http://www.triatechnology.com/encrypted-incremental-backups-...
[4] http://askubuntu.com/a/137991
Did they also compare/correct not only with "inflation rates" but with raw material (e.g. foods) prices?

To my knowledge, food prices have risen in many countries more than official inflation rates.
This is the comment I wrote almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870933

I was not aware the USA has so many information about every single travel. According to this [1] they record everything.

- amtrack

- trains in the EU (including sit numbers)

- bus travel in the EU

- plane travel in the EU on a carrier that doesn't fly to the US

- hotel reservations

- pedestrian border crossing

Everything.

[1] http://hasbrouck.org/articles/Hasbrouck-Cato-2APR2013.pdf
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