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How does this deal with proxy loops?

As an example, I would assume worker is making requests with the internal view of the site, but can not have an internal view of other sites or security problems would ensue.. So what happens when two of my sites have service workers fetching something from each other on each request?

The people who buy stolen goods also get more value then they spend, so all thieves are inherently good?

Some companies produce more good than bad. Some companies produce more bad than good, but the bad is primarily not affecting their customers. The latter is inherently easier which is why civil courts must be eternally vigilant.

This is the kind of attitude that disturbs me about recent journalism and what appears to be the dominant opinion in the US.

Getting quantitative results is entirely useless if you don't want to think about the subjective qualitative reasons we thought some arbitrary metric might matter and how they might be limited. Having a high GDP or salary is about raising your quality of life and options. If you are actively prevented from living all sorts of other lives simply because they are not as profitable then you are poorer than the wild man.

So I can create antisocial companies that hurt more than they help and take/distribute profits until damning evidence is assembled using public resources, then pay back a small portion from whatever I couldn't get off my book value?

I'd say that's giving organizations rights in civil matters that only are supposed to apply to individuals in criminal ones. The end result is thousands of companies actively trying to kill us and manipulate evidence and politics for much higher profits than the ones doing net positive work.

Every technology has negatives that companies try to turn into externalities. The ones that hurt their non-customers are the most egregious and should be subject to the highest corrections. Hardly a new theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract

To give an example, we should be paying more for many electronics as the result of suits against most existing companies for not dealing with Tantalum sourcing.

If I make a device that lets half of society sit on its ass for 100 years then murders everyone, I think the costs should be factored in by sueing me before everyone is dead. But maybe that's just me.

Then other holdings of Bain sold "Toys R Us" goods and services and were perhaps sold after a good quarter?

I see your point. I'm just trying to point out that failures of general tech to emerge are quite different than failures of use cases. You need more of a limit preventing the emergence of a Moore's law on entanglements to really make quantum computing go away and not just solve other problems than those originally assumed to be "easy" and months away.

Flying cars not existing has everything to do with the resources they use (public federally controlled airspace which requires every driver to be a pilot.)

Quantum computers have the same barriers as other private space technology. The question to me is how long they will take to go from research toys to hobby toys which has a lot to do with cost and something to do with consumer safety.

A community that hasn't established a semaphore for updating the code isn't a community. It is hard to build that with consensus instead of input from its creator.

The nature of what succeeds in opensource has everything to do with whether the creator puts community work in themselves, nominates someone, or just publishes read-only code.

Naturally, anyone is free to do whatever they like.. but most people seem to expect a result from their actions and publishing pure code is rarely going to have any result.

It's really about blasting advertising and hiring good enough cheap. The engineers with a network will know not to go through your process and would expect a salary appropriate to the job, the ones that developed a lot of skills on their own with no network (or afraid of honest discussions with peers where they might not be the best) will settle for what they are offered.

When I look at who from my network (or really missing from my network) is at the places with these tactics.. Losing time and failing to get the job is not the worst outcome.

File stream is a Kernel module reimplementing NFS or Samba? Or they are killing standard FS access achieved via Rsync and are trying to position a webapp bundled in chrome its place?

Interesting article, but I don't really agree with their conclusions. I think social networks are legacy from first engaging people on the real web and have a fate similar to AOL.

Experiments in decentralized social are more of a test run of components for "subversive" networks that will eventually engage the global youth politically on tor rather than compete with fb for grandparents sharing photos and recipes or Myspace as a MP3 storage space for forty somethings with bands.

Ellison bought sun then disparaged cloud and killed Sun's cloud ventures only to watch Microsoft recover on selling cloud to a market that no longer wants proprietary desktops..

I was very negative on Sun, but looking at Microsoft fill the gap eventually, I have to assume IBM would have made me eat my shoe if they got the deal instead of Oracle.

Fujitsu was interested, US threatened to block any foreign sale. IBM was interested, a loud mouth blocked negotiations and pushed his golf buddy instead..

Sun made some strange moves toward the end, but there absolutely could have been a product line left if the developer market felt neutral about the buyer and the buyer tried to focus on upsells and professional services. The way Oracle tried to sneak this EOL in is very much evidence of there still being support licenses and professional services money for a few years more.

But it was worth it if the Sun curse took down Ellison. May your foot never leave your mouth again, cloud boy. Now go play golf with network's owner.

The politics and social Dynamics in the US seem completely wrong for growth that I would consider positive in most regions. There is instead a lot of low density strip mall style growth and the resulting structures and density will largely be protected from reexamination due to risk of losing grandfathered building rights.

I would be interested to know which cities are consolidating high density areas while growing such that they will have a Manhattan.

Could you bribe someone to avoid imprisonment for trial in US courts for health or safety reasons?

I don't think the DOJ will necessarily honor that unless you have some kind of health condition and evidence the foreign court is refusing to hear about it.. I don't think anyone in the cases I referenced made medical arguments before bribing officials.

Exactly, and the defense claimed they handled the goods and put them back with the video being cut to simply imply they never were put back..

If you can claim duress in this case, then can you not bribe authorities in every case of being arrested and awaiting trial? Do you need to file paperwork to claim this duress, might another country acquire this paperwork before you flee? AFAIK, it is all a minefield as the higher post claims.

Yes, what could possibly go wrong if an official doesn't respect the fact that you can't bribe them, pay their "official" fee, or hire a consultant from a very short list of "approved" consultants?

Anyone who hasn't chosen to spend years in jail when they were a victim of the airport mall shoplifter scam is an example of someone who has violated the FCPA.

Network virtualization was barely integrated before Indiana got cut off.. Only Oracle has the infrastructure and customers necessary to find and fix the less obvious bugs there.. But I wouldn't use code owned by Oracle.

Porting what is good into BSDs is really a better idea than trying to keep anything Solaris based going. There are people I respect that I wish would realize that, but I don't think it would be fruitful if they heard it from me..

It is a certainty that some traffic is fake.. In this case it is doubleclick on websites and (from the commission numbers) probably over other ad networks, so Google has one connection's header and a few ms to triage the traffic. But the anomalies there are probably not so different than if I setup an open proxy and invite real people to use it.

Being cynical makes sense, but then it is actually more likely that Google has been generating fake traffic on fb than fake traffic for itself and vice versa. FB spent years being irrelevant to much of the market while getting a lot of money from less savvy advertisers for bot networks. I don't think the short-term revenue was worth it to them and I would be surprised if their exec bonuses weren't mostly hurt by missing targets and losing big advertisers.

> It's not beyond the realms of imagination that this fake traffic could be an attempt re-bolster their main revenue stream

It basically is beyond imagination unless you think they have a new income plan that just needs one more quarter. Google's long-term value is in the conversion rates of long-term advertisers: drop conversions in half with fake traffic and next month they are going to offer you less than half the bid or nothing if they have high site costs per visitor. I.e. licensed booking listings.

Probably partners that share immediate revenue with Google but are less invested/secure in their portion of the long term value of that stream are behind it.

Yes, I think RadioShack is probably the most famous example for sceptics. The US legal system really is that bad.

This breakdown cherry picks comparisons, is written by someone who discloses they represent fb in license matters and denies the nature of reality between 2013 and today.

I looked at react during the first hype was alerted to its license terms right here on hn by other people who understand the difference between software with a termination clause for those who sue to gain exclusive/royalty rights to the particular software and software with a termination clause for those who sue a particular party engaged in a significant amount of unrelated activity.

All that has changed recently is that more people are questioning their strange assumption that it doesn't matter since it is incongruent with fb again putting a recent rework and then substantial defense into something that "doesn't matter".

Building the main campus in SF Bay then formalizing a location pay differential, then SF Bay staff pestering the distributed talent to move to SF Bay and fly to SF Bay for every team bonding/etc until they quit or move to SF Bay (and then quit as they actually need double the salary just to get back to their previous standard of living.)

The one I'm considering is orangePi, for example, their 2plus is available with 2gb.

Everything bellow that is probably going to be headless and then the only meaningful differentiator for me is physical ethernet.

Yeah, I can't bring myself to "upgrade" to a RPi3 since I know my threshold for a desktop I might regularly use is 2gb in 32bit. Upgrading to a RPi2 was a pretty marginal benefit while I'm just playing with GPIO via ssh.

Some of the clones look better but the community is too biased toward the RPi brand.

I've not seen many apps do more than one native UI well enough that the provider's own tech support didn't avoid supporting the 2nd, 3rd, etc, OSes.

Trying to go for least surprise starting from common web UI is really a better plan, though execution may be lacking.. I think if Mozilla didn't take a wrong turn at mobile OSes up instead of web apps down they might have steered things to a better UI level from a small but existent market share.

As my last project developed, I moved it from simple bash scripts directly to (mostly) python utilities that had their own DSLs.. ansible, supervisord.. I expected to need to look into their source, but given the workarounds in docs and web searches that never seems to need to happen.

The resulting configuration is all configuration and not hardcoded paths mixed with Popen and random custom parsing..

I would consider custom python worse than writing bash with too much logic in the cases where you could just exit with a failure.

I think the question for your coworkers is what are they reinventing and why do they think a custom remake of it isn't a waste of everyone's time? Further, why do they think they will be more employable after making embarrassing custom internal tools? Compare that to knowing how popular tools work and perhaps contributing something small to one of them or at least being able to answer a question about them.

As a non-FB user, I fear the day when they have finally motivated real and meaningful content that people might expect me to view and that requires one to log in to facebook. So far, I think mostly their greed has kept them in a position of non-mandatory. Keep up the good work FB!