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Interesting. Can you give an example of why DNS based service discovery was needed?

Often when I talk to founders who use Kubernetes, they could simply use docker and a bit of shell scripting instead.

Those of you who use Kubernetes: What is a functionality it brings to the table you would miss if you automated your docker handling without it?

    Users of online forums in Austria will have to provide
    operators with their true identities or risk fines that
    could run into the millions.

How trustworthy is a publication where the very first sentence of an article is nonsense?

Users do not risk being fined millions. The webmasters will.

The private upvote counts are one of the few things I dislike about Hacker News.

It feels like the system is hiding information from me that I would find interesting and that I could use to reason about the world.

I would find it even more interesting if not only the upvotes would be public but also who upvoted.

And for downvotes it could be an interesting experiment to make a statement mandatory explaining why one downvoted.

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So you need to execute 3rd party software on your machine and let it fiddle with your DNS settings?

Personally, I would not want to do that.

Is it still hard to do wildcard certs with them? That is one of the reasons I don't use let's encrypt.

    Any identity on any service can (now) be linked

No need to integrate Keybase or any service for this. You just can use any place on the web as a hub and post "I am news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rakoo, I am reddit.com/user/rakoo" there. And from the others you link back to the hub. Say github is your hub then you post "I am github.com/rakoo" on HN and Reddit. This would be user readable and machine readable. And any 3rd party service like Keybase could read it. No need for the social media sites to apply at Keybase and integrate it.

Can websites read that ID? Or is this about apps?

1: They claim the integration is needed because people are too dumb to copy&paste a string.

2: The whole user interface is set up so users believe in what they see in the web interfaces.

And you want to tell me with a straight face that users will do their own crypto foo instead and validate hashes?

Even if the users used that CLI, that does not help. As we saw with Ethereum. They simply pushed out new code that rewrote history.

This seems backward.

They want ActivityPub servers to apply to a central service (keybase) to offer cross server identities.

And they want users to trust that central service to decide who is who.

It's always amazing, how strong the force of centralization is.

Even when the whole value proposition of a technology is that it is decentralized, users will soon flock to centralized services built around it and end up in the mercy of a few organizations again.

Reminds me of all the people who think they hold crypto currency while in reality they "hold" yeah-we-promise-we-owe-you-somethings by some exchange.

Reminds me of how little resistance the Ethereum elite faced when they flushed "code is law" down the toilet and forced all users to switch to a fork with rewritten history.

What makes this attempt of centralization even more tragic is that it does not bring anything to the table. If you want to run a service that let's people claim they are joedoe@host1 and joe_the_doe@host2, just let them publish two messages. "I am joedoe@host1" on joe_the_doe@host2 and "I am joe_the_doe@host2" on joedoe@host1. Neither the integration with the hosts nor the crypto spiel is needed.

    the WC equivalent of <include> is the <script> tag

I beg to differ. My <include src="footer.html"> would insert the html in the footer.html file. While <script src="components.js"></script> will execute javascript. Then the javascript has to somehow prepare magic so that <hn-footer> will be replaced by some html.

The link to the library you gave does not help here. Because I am thinking about browser technology here. What has to go into components.js (without using a library) to make <hn-footer> be replaced with the html in footer.html?

When you guys think about all the developers you know, do you rather see a positive or a negative correlation between the usage of high level tools and developer productivity?

In other words, is your experience that developers who use an IDE are more productive then developers who only use a text editor?

In my experience, the (very few) developers I know who only use VIM or Emacs are way more productive then those who use an IDE.

The reason seems to be that they tend to 'sit back and think' about the task at hand. And then come up with elegant solutions. While the developers who use a lot of tooling seem to hope that the tooling will kinda force them to do the right thing. But from what I witness, that never works out.

I see a similar thing happening with coders who do a lot of tests (test driven development), some tests and no tests. Developers who don't write any tests are often the most productive.

    It’s clean and simple

How so? What is the Web Components equivalent of <include src="footer.html">?

I wonder why HTML never got includes.

It would be so nice to just write:

    <include src="footer.html">

On Hacker News, for the first pageview, this would load the whole "Guidelines | FAQ | Support ..." section. On all other pageloads, the browser would already have it in the cache. So it does not have to be loaded again.

Building complex websites would become so much nicer. Because each part of a page would be an include.

Well, what would be a "first image"? There have been countless images depicting black holes since forever:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=black+hole&t=h_&ia=images&iax=imag...

What is the difference between what Assange did and what every journalist does who does not disclose their sources?

I'm not sure if I am right, but I thought the whole point of Wikileaks was to be a publishing platform with good source protection?

Thanks!

The link says nitpicking is "Looking for small or unimportant errors".

That is certainly not what I want to do.

The press is full of articles about this "First photo of a black hole". This seems to imply that it is somehow important. But so far, I fail to see what is important about it.

So my question still stands. I would really like to know in what sense this is the first image of a black hole. And if there is something we can learn from looking at it.

My first impression is "Yeah, it's round. I would have thought so." :)

I posted a comment 10 minutes ago and it got immediately downvoted into oblivion. Could you guys please tell me why it is such a bad question to ask? Thank you! Here it is:

Does it really count as an image of a black hole? Since no light is reflected by the black hole, all we see is light bend by the gravity of the black hole.

Haven't we seen that before? I have the strong feeling there have been photos of star constellations that seem distorted because of black holes.

A quick googling brings up this article from 2014 for example:

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/12/tech/black-hole-nasa-nust....

"Black hole bends light, space, time -- and NASA's NuSTAR can see it all unfold"

Extensions are analyzed by the Firefox team:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/AMO...

If the review process is still insecure (That is how I understand you reply) I would prefer them to put their energy into this. Analyzing popular extensions in depth (and giving them some 'in depth analyzed' badge) so you do not have to trust a third party.

    In collaboration with Disconnect, we have compiled
    lists of domains that serve fingerprinting and
    cryptomining scripts. Now in the latest Firefox
    Nightly and Beta versions, we give users the option
    to block both kinds of scripts

Isn't this something that content blockers like umatrix already excel at? Why put it into the core of Firefox?

I would prefer to see Firefox giving more power to extensions. For example, it is still impossible to make an extension that makes a typed in url use https per default. Because it is not possible for an extension to know if a network request stems from the user typing it, using a bookmark or one of the other many ways a browser can be triggered to do a network request. So typing urls in Firefox keeps being dangerous because it will load the url per http by default.

I do see it on Bing.

Also on the "Million Short" search engine mentioned by kickscondor:

https://millionshort.com/search?keywords=%22Metallica%20only...

I never saw that one. Do they have their own crawler?

I don't think the articles premise is that Google axed all content older then 5 years or so. But that it gradually discards old unique content.

Which goes against the original mission of Google to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible".

A "bug" could be an option, but I don't expect that to be the reason. It's too easy to find examples of forgotten content. And I don't think a bug of that magnitude in Googles core business would go unnoticed.

Here is an example:

http://www.gnoosic.com/discussion/metallica__5.html

No matter how you search for the content on Google, nothing comes up:

https://www.google.com/search?q="Metallica+only+played+2+son...

DuckDuckGo has it:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q="Metallica+only+played+2+songs+fro...

I checked the wayback machine and the content has constantly been on that url for over 10 years.

This is the first example of an old forum page I tried after reading the article. So I tend to think it's true. Google is discarding the "classic" web.

He has a donate button on his homepage. I wonder if that brings in something? Anybody here who ever used a donate button on their website and can tell something about it?

How does one even receive 'donations'? Is that like getting paid? Do they have to create an invoice for tax reasons? How is it taxed?

It would be nice if there was a number, how much is donated per month. I can imagine donating something. Depending on how much cash flow there already is.

Here is he sitting in his truck and working on his computer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBGgi5Lqn0U

Yes they should. But they will not. Because that is how small companies do it. Ride the wave of open standards and become big. Remember how Google embraced the web in the early days? Now it's time for them to lock users in and milk them.

I would love to see a startup tackling the issue. Creating a score that takes into account load time and other factors. If sites like HN and Reddit would use that score as a ranking factor, then this might get something rolling.

Why do Android users update slowly? I have a few Android devices and I think they pop up with a message from time to time "new os version ready to install". But I am not sure. That shows how much I care :-) But I guess it is that way and then why would anybody not update?

One reason that I do not use my iPad as a productivity device is that I do not understand the security model. I would need a terminal app with ssh capabilies. But how do I know if the maker of the app is sending my SSH credentials to his server or something? Does apple check that? Is the process how apple prevents this documented somewhere?

At the moment, I only use software that is in the debian repos. At least I understand the security model of debian to some degree. And it is open and verifiable to everybody.

I wonder why the Linux distros are so slow to adapt to tablets.

Centering got really easy with flexbox.

If anybody wonders, this seems to be his account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TerryADavis

I have been following his coding for quite a while and I think it is really impressive.