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mises··on Elevating original reporting in Search
Does any one know how to erase "personalized search" information from being not logged-in?
mises··on WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10B
> Some see its value as culture, others see it as real estate.

Can you point me to more information on the "culture" point of view? I have trouble seeing what kind of culture we work has, let alone how a culture can be monetized. But what's special about its "culture", any way? Real estate is at least valuable; for a while, I wondered if it would turn into the world's weirdest REIT. What future is it creating?

mises··on College, Calculus, and the Problem with the SAT
A serious university comp sci program teaches you a lot. This is part of the difference between programmer and software engineer. Going to college allows you to gain advanced kmowledge and ideally do reseach of your own.
mises··on California bill will drive a national debate over how to reshape labor laws
Potential for growth, probably. I may have more ambition than to make more than $45,500 per year for most of my career. I'd rather make six figures, save, and retire to a comfortable lifestyle. I've worked plenty of 80-hour weeks towards that goal, and I will doubtless work plenty more.
mises··on SIM Vulnerability leads to information disclosure via malicious SMS
Sim-swap attacks, forging communications from some one (snag CEO phone; send message "wire ten million dollars now to china; we're acquiring a company!").
mises··on Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
KRACK was a nonce re-use, not a core protocol flaw. WPA2's flaws are more around un-encrypted control packets; i.e. I can de-auth you without having to get session keys.
mises··on Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
It recommended me "20 ORANGE SNAPPY GRIP -Bucket Handles -Mining-Gold Prospecting-Gardening" under the customers also bought... I guess I'm just not leet enough. This in spite of the fact that I've actually bought a few external wifi adapters from amazon.
mises··on Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
The Alfa AWUS1900 is a nice model, but if you want something cheaper (and will put up with 2.4ghz-only), the TP-Link TL-WN722N is cheap, but get the v1 chipset! It's the best-supported with drivers on linux. Oh yeah, and you will probably need to do monitor mode on linux.
mises··on Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
They have a little. 5ghz is more common, so you won't get any thing there. WPA2 is significantly harder to crack, and I usually do it on GPU with pyrit or hashcat-ocl and a wordlist. WPA3 is out now, too, and I'm there aren't really any well-established procedures for it yet.
mises··on California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees
Then this won't cover them as people seem to think it does, because the actual driving is not uber's business. They run a market-place in which others operate; the actual driving is indeed outside of the hiring entity's usual business. Regardless, there seems to be an obvious loop-hole for uber lawyers to chase.
mises··on Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for Everyone
Quick PSA: You can do this yourself on cloudflare. I've got a sub-domain of my web site, "localhost.my.site". That resolves to localhost. I also added a wildcard, "*.localhost.my.site", which also resolves to localhost. It's pretty easy to do, and a handy trick. I figure some one probably turned this into a blog post, but this way you don't have to rely on some one else's stuff going down. I also use it for my local domain, cause I don't want to bother running a local DNS server.
mises··on OpenVPN vs. WireGuard – A Short Comparison
Wireguard is an excellent choice. Much simpler and faster (lower CPU, according to my bench-marks). It's also much better on windows, as it doesn't have to use the crufty old tun/tap driver. It's smooth and easy cross-platform, and so much simpler than openvpn.
mises··on California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and Lyft
A gentle reminder to every one that Uber and Lyft (though mostly uber) broke the monopoly that was considered un-breakable. Such companies aren't supposed to provide a "living wage", they're supposed to be "gigs" on the side. Some people to live off them because they don't have jobs at the moment, but I'm not sure that makes it incumbent upon the services to change their models. You can have a day-job and also drive a bit for a ride-hailing service. They've provided more opportunities for people to pick up some extra work, in an industry where the previous option was zero dollars for any one trying to drive a taxi on the side.

Bear also in mind that cities may have an ulterior motive of their own. Always ask, "Qui bono?" They sell expensive licenses, and don't like a revenue stream being lost (even if it's better for constituents). Maybe this is for the better, maybe not; but the motive of the cities is likely self-interest.

On the other hand, Uber's long-term play is quite possibly self-driving cars. I'm guessing that this is the route all taxis will go eventually, but it's also worth considering that Uber is not sustainable without continuing investment as it stands today.

mises··on Stripe Corporate Card
Because stripe is essentially in the business of fixing broken, old stuff in the payment business. It made a really good core product that developers love, then branched out to other payment-related products and applied that same excellence to those products, too. It is user-friendly, has helpful support, and can be easily integrated. In short, it solves real problems without making itself one more head-ache for people.
mises··on Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
It seems the bottleneck with netflix would be storage requirements and number of PCIe lanes for extra NICs. I really don't see how, "This framework couldn't run a site that accounts for up to 40% of internet traffic at peak hours on one server; clearly it's terrible!" I like scaling as much as the next guy, but Pareto dictates (as does experice) that most stuff is simple business logic with an interface.
mises··on Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike
You cherry-picked stuff from the center of the diagram. Stuff like climate "science" and "gender" gets posted a good bit; these are things of which the left has made issues. My point is that the whole left circle - issues important to the left and important to both left and right - are posted and discussed. Issues important only to the right are flagged down. Right-wing perspectives on political posts are flagged down. To take an example, very occasionally, I see a mention of guns that includes a right-wing perspective. Even if it's politely stated, flagged down. Example, something like: "The arguments about taking guns lowering mass shooting-rates does mot affect the right because priorities are different. The right is willing to tolerate some death as tragic but a fact of life to maintain rights, and mass shooting death rates are vastly below other public health issues any way."

Such a comment would be flagged down. A comment taking the opposing point-of-view, even much less politely, would be supported. Comments with vulgarity and rudeness are also tolerated only from certain perspectives. This disparity is particularly galling because low-ranked comments become greyed to the point of un-readability, and flagged ones don't appear at all by default. I couldn't care less about the internet points, but HN ought to leave un-popular opinions visible.

mises··on Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike
Maybe a better way to describe it is as a venn diagram. If there are circles with "lefty" things and "righty" things, you took (as HN tends to do) the whole lefty circle. That includes things in the center, but not those on the right.
mises··on Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike
Except all the issues you just raised are primarily things about which one side cares. The cares of the other are ignored or, in the rare case they are visible, flagged down.
mises··on Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike
The better option would be to get rid of political BS entirely. I am incredibly sick of hearing each side scream into the wind while the other screams back. This was originally mostly a tech forum; it's grown to a size where it needs to be only a tech forum. People can go to reddit if they want to scream about politics.
mises··on Daytripper
Maybe try sdmem: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/sdmem.1.html

Put it in a bash script with the above luks commands and profit.

mises··on Daytripper
He's watching Technology Connections on you tube, which is an excellent choice. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q

mises··on Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
The marginal negative environmental externality of one more digital song is very low. That of a record is essentially constant.
mises··on A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations in the background
This is not a quick process, even for legitimate users. I am on a quite-capable computer, and it takes long enough that I am all but sure it will harm conversion rates.
mises··on Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing
Gee, lemme just call up my grandma and teach her how to set up kismet and snort.

Seriously though, this is like holding some one liable if his car is stolen and used as a get-away car in a crime. It's also not really possible to get a shell on most of these devices with serious effort, so apart from turning one off, I'm not sure how any one is supposed to mitigate this. They're too locked down to do any kind of disinfection, in most cases. I guess now I have to teach granny to use a uart cable, too.

mises··on Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing
Some clown named ukdrillas. That's about all any one knows.
mises··on SpaceX Refused to Move Satellite at Risk of Collision with a European Satellite
> serve the public interesting

Define public interest. People pay through this through taxes; not really different than paying for spacex whatever via $$.

> less investment

So if SpaceX can do it better, maybe get the bureaucrats and the three-letter alphabet-soup agencies out of the sky, already.

> prioritize the needs of the public institutions

Public institutions have needs and wants. Why is this a need and not a want? This wasn't a military satellite. Why are bureaucrats more important? They accomplish little of significance or merit.

mises··on Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights
America is based on the idea that rather than having an enumerated list, you enumerate the most fundamental and simply say the feds have no right to trample on any thing not explicitly given them in the constitution.
mises··on Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights
"Just wait to get your rights back" is not a great plan. Habeas corpus could be the nearest precedent - you can't lock some one up for a year and claim he just needs to wait. More importantly, once you're in the justice system, it's all but impossible to get out. The accused will inevitable be forced to somehow prove he's not a homicial maniac, because the premise of "flagging" is guilty until proven innocent. That's supposed to be what judges are for, but still, it's not perfect.
mises··on Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights
The whole point of constitutional rights is they can't be abridged without due process (and a good reason), even if it is especially convenient. I bet you appreciated this when Pres. Trump tried to pull all those shenanigans around birthright citizenship, and every one reminded him he'd actually need an amendment, and couldn't just "do" it.

If you want one thing protected because it's a constitutional right, you sort of have to support all of them. You can't really pick and chiose with respect to their sanctity. I've found it to be a good position because it annoys both the left and the right on a regular basis. In reigns in both sides a little, and I think that's a good thing.

mises··on Show HN: Array with Constant Time Access and Fast Insertion and Deletion
Thank you very much for making this MIT licensed and not GPL. I'm glad it's actually usable by people. Looks like a great project!
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