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Can I ask what you're using to park them? I have a few unused domains myself.

The trouble with this argument is that both sides agree with it.

I was under the impression that Google Play Store apps were cryptographically signed by the developer/publisher (not by Google), and the phone would refuse to update the app if the key behind the signature had changed. Am I wrong on this?

The state of Washington publishes the entire voter roll, complete with names, addresses, and dates of birth, online in CSV format.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/vrdb-current.zip

When authoritarianism is prevailing, the shrinking of the Overton window is, to my mind, exactly what one would expect.

From the project's GitHub repo:

This does not mean that the kernel is guaranteed to have zero bugs. There can be bugs in unverified code (e.g., initialization and glue code), the specification (or things not modeled in the specification), or the verification toolchain including irpy/ and Z3.

I live in neighborhood that was annexed by the City of Kirkland in 2011. 7 years later, Google's geo data still can't decide if it's part of Kirkland, part of Woodinville, or its own city altogether. Twitter identifies the neighborhood as its own city, which it never was, and definitely is not today.

In the case of Seattle, Kirkland and Bellevue are host to quite a few small and large tech companies already. The office space is plentiful and cheap on this side of Lake Washington, and there is less of a worry of being hit with poorly planned taxes and regulations that Seattle is, at this point, infamous for enacting.

With the way the housing market is going, and the upcoming King County property tax hike, I wouldn't be surprised if tech workers started creeping out into Snohomish County and favoring jobs on the Eastside instead of Seattle due to traffic.

The dillema I see with this argument in regards to the Internet is that it's exceedingly cost-prohibitive to publish content on the internet without the discretion of an entity like GoDaddy. What's more, even if you have the monetary means to buy an ASN and IPv4 space (which has a market value of about $4,000 for the smallest block you can announce), nobody is legally obligated to provide transit to you (which itself typically costs somewhere in the ballpark of $300/month).

I don't believe resilience to censorship on the internet should be a right reserved for the wealthy (or even reserved for networking experts who could build their own AS), but I have yet to reconcile that with the right that private service providers have to turn down customers (and it goes without saying that this particular website will not be missed). I wonder if a non-profit hosting provider that was bound by its constitution to host any legal content for anyone that could pay could be successful.

> This is a contributed post by Bill Harris, former CEO of Intuit and founding CEO of PayPal and Personal Capital.

I was not in the least bit surprised that what followed this disclaimer was by and large the same tired anti-Bitcoin arguments we've all been reading since 2010. Not to mention the title is a gross exaggeration and undoubtedly fishing for angry clicks.

The worst part is there's a nugget of truth hidden amongst this FUD: the danger of ICOs and other varieties of altcoin scams. There's really no value being created when yet another coin is created that's just an existing coin with a new PoW algorithm stapled on, yet the creator stands to make tens of thousands off of his or her 2% premine, because of people speculating that this might be the Next Big Coin.

For this reason, I think the cryptocurrency market is definitely in a speculative bubble. But so what? So is Silicon Valley. Is a Wi-Fi enabled plant waterer really worth $30 million in VC funding? Probably not, but that doesn't mean the Dropboxes and the AirBnBs of the market aren't adding value. The abundance of worthless altcoins doesn't mean the cryptocurrency market as a whole is worthless, but it does mean you should be careful what you invest in.

I notice some videos play fine at 1080p60, while others auto-throttle down to 360p. I wonder if this indicates that YouTube videos can be stored on a variety of datacenters (with a variety of paths between them and CenturyLink). Google's video quality report also rates CenturyLink in Seattle as "standard definition" [1]. I don't have Netflix, but I just scored 910 Mbps on fast.com (Netflix's speed test), so I think their connection to Netflix must be good.

A quick Google search reveals a thread of similar stories: https://www.reddit.com/r/centurylink/comments/5y1jzy/does_ce...

[1] https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/

I've been fighting dreadful peering between CenturyLink and a variety of endpoints. I can saturate my gigabit connection on speedtest.net with a directly-peered test host, but YouTube videos at peak times of day buffer at 720p, and downloading from any USA OpenBSD mirror (of which there are only a few, and none in Seattle) nets me about 4mbps, compared to 450mbps or so I can get on a Comcast connection.

What's funny is that using a VPN or tunnel to which CL has a good connection resolves the issue, because the VPN/tunnel host has better peering than CL does.

The difference between Panic's anecdote and mine, is that CenturyLink support won't even acknowledge the issue exists.

The eastside is a really promising target for a WISP. I've done some tinkering with HamWAN (the top of Eastgate Park&Ride has great line-of-sight to Seattle), but it's strictly non-profit and doesn't cover the eastside too well due to an abundance of hills and tall buildings in the way. If one could peer in a fiber-connected building in downtown Bellevue, and beam that from the roof to a couple tower sites... you might just have a WISP.

They've made CJK characters (including fullwidth characters of any kind, without exception for Latin letters or Arabic numerals) count as 2 characters. In a mixed alphanumeric/CJK tweet, the CJK part will simply count doubly towards your character limit.

Measuring improvement is even easier to cheat. One merely has to purposefully give wrong answers in the early parts of the class, and then answer more earnestly in the latter half of the class.

rcm, the dotfile manager! I use it get fresh systems going. FreeBSD and OpenBSD have a pkg/port, but neither Debian nor Arch currently have an official package.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rcm/

Should also mention Blink, the softphone. Looks and works better than Linphone (in the offical repos) in my experience.

MS PGothic, a very common font in Japan, still uses this type of quote. "Quoting like this'' (double quote, then two single quotes) looks the most natural in this font. "Using two double quotes" looks quite odd (see screenshot) [1]

If you've ever seen an English-language page on a Japanese website that used weird quotes, this is probably why.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/zcuFZa1.png

In the box on the right, it says "Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters are currently not supported", which is disappointing, but probably why you're not seeing it in the results.

Books can be shared in study groups, lent between students, checked out from a campus library, bought and sold between terms, and photocopied. Much the same could be done for a DRM-free PDF.

The only way to complete MyMathLab homework is to pay out for a poorly-written Flash app.

When I was at Oregon State (a couple years ago), all my math and econ classes used "My{Math,Econ}Lab" as homework. Meaning, if you chose not to or could not pay for Pearson's infamous Flash-based "web" app (which I had to spin up a Windows VM to run), you could not pass the class.

It really astounded me that we had to pay a third-party for-profit company to get access to our homework.

That is my biggest concern with the health of the GNU Social network at the moment. Some operators of popular nodes are configuring their nodes to reject messages from all users of some other nodes, which they deem to be housing undesirables.

I think people have forgotten the origin of John Gilmore's famous quote, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." He wasn't talking about the people of the internet (though I believe he later said it wouldn't be wrong to interpret it that way), but the way the Usenet network would find a way to pass messages across the network, even when some Usenet node operators decided there were messages they didn't want to pass.

Those who do not learn their history...

It would have been difficult to design it in a truly backwards compatible way, but it would have been nice for the the two protocols to be able to interoperate (ie, a packet could have an IPv4 source address and a destination IPv6 address, and vice versa). There's a draft RFC about this [1], but realistically speaking, it's probably far too late for anything to be done.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omar-ipv10-01

Most (all?) ports than run servers get an unprivileged user all to their own (_dovecot, _nginx, etc). Many (including desktop packages like Chromium) also have pledge() support patched in.

Reminds me a lot of this DEF CON talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X772EBdvnM

He managed to stream video across VMs by doing a similar cache timing trick, which brought a round of applause from the crowd. Very cool stuff.

An ISP can still see the sites you browse, even if you use HTTPS everywhere and don't use their DNS.

For shared HTTPS hosting (1 IP serving multiple domains), SNI (the domain) is sent in cleartext so the server can pick which configuration to use (SSL cert, etc). For sites that don't use SNI, they can still see you browsed there because without SNI, 1 IP = 1 domain.

I would love to upgrade on my GitLab server, but I haven't been able to build GitLab with the omnibus builder since 8.14. I opened up a ticket but it hasn't garnered a response.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-omnibus-builder/issues/...

That is why I said "with moderate success". It's not 100% reliable, but mostly good enough for basic cases. Twitter, for example, used to do an NFC normalization and count codepoints to enforce the 140 charcater limit, and this was close enough to or exactly right for enforcing 140 graphemes in probably 98% of text on Twitter. They can no longer do this because some new emoji can consume 7 codepoints for a single grapheme.

I would imagine this is a legacy from the Good Old Days when every Asian locale had its own encoding. Unicode imported the Hangul block from ISO-2022-KR/Windows-949 (different encodings of the same charset), which has only Hangul syllables.

Somebody involved with Unicode must have had the same idea, because the ideographic description characters exist. However, I've never seen them used in practice because they don't actually render the character. You just get something like ⿰扌足, which corresponds to 捉.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic_Description_Charac...

The thing that frustrates me the most about Unicode emoji is the astounding number of combining characters. For combining characters in written languages, you can do an NFC normalization and, with moderate success, get a 1 codepoint = 1 grapheme mapping, but "Emoji 2.0" introduced some ridiculous emoji compositions with the ZWJ character.

To use the author's example:

‍woman - 1 codepoint

black woman - 2 codepoints, woman + dark Fitzpatrick modifier

‍️‍‍woman kissing woman - 7 codepoints, woman + ZWJ + heart + ZWJ + kissy lips + ZWJ + woman

It's like composing Mayan pictographs, except you have to include an invisible character in between each component.

Here's another fun one: country flags. Unicode has special characters 🇱 🇮 🇰 🇪 🇹 🇭 🇮 🇸 that you can combine into country codes to create a flag. 🇰+🇷 = 🇰🇷

edit: looks like HN strips emoji? Changed the emoji in the example into English words. They are all supposed to render as a single "character".