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Eh, maybe off of all google services, but the barrier from switching of the consumer version of chrome is frictionless. Uprooting you're whole life and moving to canada is a non-trivial commitment that it would be difficult to get the numbers neccesaary to have an impact. Moving to something like Brave not only limits googles potential developers & information flow, but harms there cash cow:ad revenue.

That said, I like Canada a lot and have spent a lot of time there. It is quite nice

I just posted a thread asking about design considerations for something like this. There are a lot of monitoring sites but they are typically for internal consumption.

I am really interested in real-time, or timely monitoring of external services. I'll check the service out, but curious if any of it is open source, and hos you verify a site is up/down?

That is essentially my thinking but I don't fully understand the profile of an attack. Small websites would go down, but something like google or twitter would certainly not simply cave. Twitter would serve cached content (as most sites) unless it was really nasty. I am not sure if I should manually set up logins and test for timeouts or potentially get away with testing status codes on example.com/login?

Do you know what signs or tests could be done on these robust services that would tip off an attack?

A meta point is a configureable search engine.

> the future for Oracle is much more promising that[sic] it is for Google or Apple.

That is a bold statement. Google has ~1/3 of the world who have access to the internet as regular users. Apple is a hardware maker with a very desirable array of products. I won't say I am a fan of Oracle, and I agree with you on how the lifecycle of enterprise adoption works, but that is a very far fetched conclusion.

First, large companies need to adapt quicker; while this has always been the case, the pace is accelerating. As pointed out above, Oracle has done some shit to alienate a lot of people, and have been for a while.

New companies grow up to be "enterprise". While they ard gouging and alienating their current customers and potential employees, people are NOT building on Oracle. They aren't being locked in.

As old companies (or their management) retire Oracle will have adoption rates like cobol. I am not saying tomorrow, nor this year, but Oracle is going to make big changes or see their MRR fade out with the salesy slicks who brought them on board 2 decades ago.

We need to take a stand, but I encourage everyone to look at what is happening with depth. The immigration actions are terrible, misguided and anti-Anerican BUT much like abortion or taxation this is the most distracting and highlighted issue in the media.

Surely, we should stand against such a law, and I will. But let us not do so at the expense of more dangerous and less publicized attempts to curtail freedom. This will be fought on many fronts and is much bigger than immigration. We stand to have surveillance bolstered, restriction in our movements, loss of input in our governments behavior & worse. We are entering into a world war-- which is already being fought publicly; and we need to work as a country & the global community for diplomacy and freedom.

I agree that OP is pretty unashamedly doing "bad" stuff. That said, if it was a jr dev who really had a different question that was closed, and had searched through SO and couldnt get help, I would be more apathetic/agree with the decision.

That said, SO should link the duplicate question to the answer question if it does exist. It would stop this behavior and be very useful

If this is genuine (and it feels that way) then flagging it not the right way to handle this. Downvote the post and hope the community agrees but flagging something that isnt outside HN guidelines is a bit strong unless you believe itvis a new user trolling

The reasons states were essentially:

- Not Comprehensive - Not wholly accurate - Difficult to keep updated - Not all sourced/vergiable or unsourced

Which is totally fair, except that would apply to a lot of articles...

It's tough to get excited about macOS. F.lux is 7 years old. I am running Yosemite and I have to keep my own installer for new machines & restoration.

I like nightshift, don't get me wrong, but I've never met someone who based their software ecosystem on a vendor provided way to change the color temp...

IDK enough about ML to guess whether this is a uniquely useful dataset, and it is def good they are doing this...but.

Quora and Yelp are ao user-hostile I try to not even open their links. The mobile homepage is literally oath signin buttons...that is it. The blog article on mobile has the large follow button fixed to the bottom of screen, hoping I fat finger it to bail me out of my fav app (a browser) and put it on my device.

On a computer, at least browsing some questions is possible, but it is annoying they won't let non-technical users just see these questions on the mobile web.

I am sure spam & ad revenue is better for them, but there was a time where developers focused on making an app/site useful to attract signups. To be fair, Quora has never done this, but others have followed shit in te last 2-3 years.

I hope this is useful to some, maybe I'll even play with the data, but I can't support Quora by visiting the actual site.

I am easily distracted and also like the team environment because you can tighten the feedback loop and communicate efficiently. I am the same way as the author-- night owl, ect. Going to an office is a solution for me and an option I wish I had, and enjoyed in the past. I would ammend the authors point:

You should trust employees who have a good track record to work remotely if they want and are sufficiently operating independently.

JR employees should be allowed to work part time remotely after some time in office.

There isnt a good way to inprint culture remotely, and there is a learning curve for jr devs who need senior devs for support/the internal support structure. So most Incs would be in bad shape if all there strong engineering talent worked from 6pm to 9am (as I would left to my own devices) because their jr devs wouldnt grow and other devs with supporting software on dif schedules have to wait.

Tldr not all offices are open plan, growing a team (culturally & skill-wise) is easier in the office, part-time remote work and coordination is a good tradeoff/reward for employees of all skillsets and functions.

I find Ellen Pao to often be wrong and ineffectual due to external and internal factors. Lauren Betchelder, referenced in Paos article, is an 18 year old mature and accomplished individual. She had a strong biased against Trump and when she said "you're no friend to women" she was probably not wrong, but she shouldve realized she would face backlash. Random people ard brought into the spotlight from being put into image macros-- much less than arguing with a presedential candidate.

Ellen, you're not only wrong about censorship which shouldve been proven to you-- but you're not making the right case. Trump potentially shouldn't have Twitter. however, the internet isn't going to stop being offensive, nor is Trump the only offensive person on the internet.

The most core tenet of America is freedom of belief. Like Henry, I think I think Pao is wrong and what she says is horribly damaging because it notmalizes censorship much as the "fake news/only trust us" meme; BUT I would spend my lifetime fighting for her right to say it.

If one of those was fact I would guess "a".

Yeah, really pretty much confirms what everyone already believed.

A few people have made the point that the ability to switch is much easier-- both because linux has become more user friendly & their skills have evolved as well.

Linux is great. I have been coding/learning/programming for almost 3 years and there is a lot of knowledge neccessary to be productive-- in any environment. There have been a large amount of these "os x alternative posts"; and I agree with them.

Apple is alienating people like me-- not just the archetypal guru ninjas who contribute to the kernal or live in vim. I just bought a used 2011 15" macbook pro. The 2012 mbp are really the last year that could be hardware updated. I have a flashdrive with bootable yosemite and a carbon copy of one of my hard drives that run Yosemite. This is because if you upgrade you can't revert to previous gens. Sometimes even when testing a beta.

I am ALL for progression, it would be AWESOME if people updated their browsers and the web could push forward-- but os x has gotten worse. El capitan & sierra are pretty bad imo and many others.

Also, the hardware is leaving a lot to be desired. Also, linux is rising, shit even Microsoft is making software for linux. Apple is barely competing in the "pro" space.

I am sure people will still decelop plenty of hq apps for iphone and macos but with Linux, Android and Microsoft making such obvious pains to win devs, this could be a mistake.

I am running 2 OS back on a 5 year old hardware and the experience is only alightly worse than when I had a 2015 maxed MBP. Also web platforms are allowing tons of greatvsoftware to be env agnostic.

I am semi sick of these posts, but there is a reason they keep topping HN. A few years ago I remeber PG even calling Apple out. He said something like, he had just unconsciously subscribed to Apples next computer, but it wasnt obvious he would anymore. They weren't keeping up.

OS X was-- and still is, pretty great. Cook is likely making the right business decision in the hub progression:

laptop is hub > cloud is hub > phone is hub

But a little more effort to ship better software and reasonable hardware would go so far. No ports, non-upgradeable, limited memory and SSD storage for fing 1600.

I can punt on a decision for 1-2 more years with current configuration but without marked improvement and inprovement v alternatives i will leave amd so will many other like me-- avg & beginner developers, designers and media(photo/video/music) pros.

Bummed.

Super dangerous! Sure twitter is a big private company it has the right to moderate content-- but should it. Reddit also moderates content. The NYC moderates content, sure the founding family "controls" editorial responsibility but does Carlos Slim mexican telecom magnate excert his >14% financial interest to "shape the feed".

America is a community, yes we need "some form of moderation", but we enter into a very slippery slope when anybody but the community chooses what "moderation" means.

Reddit is a decent example-- albeit still flawed; of how this can work. It is states right, sharding, seperation of concerns, or a subreddit type model where small microcosms choose what is acceptable.

I dont agree with the KKK and hate speech is terrible, but if it is limited to speech I am all for it. I, like I assume many, will use my power to ostracize and dissiauade people from being hate mongering racists-- but it is helpful when I can identify who they are when they self-select to dress up like ghosts 365 days a year instead of just the end of october like many other Americans do.

Edit: to be clear, I am all for free speech & freedom to organize-- not all for the kkk obviously...

Thanks! That was one of the more kafka-esque debug stories. Going to reread it for old times sake and encourage anyone who hasn't to give it a look over.

I'll try and dig my favorite debugging story up about all emails failing to send passed ~500 miles. That was pretty crazy near sorcery as well.

This article is at least 3 years too late to be unique. I suggest anyone who feels the same way should switch to using the broadcast platform of the huge media platform they work for to opine to their many followers-- oh wait...

Promoting censorship is dangerous. Twitter is an option-- NOT a requirement. This is easily the 10th nearly identical article some arrogant reporter has written about their choice not to use a social media service.

What about buying rights to the liveatream and setting up a huge movie screen and sound system. Sell tickets to the live rebroadcasting venue.

I agree. Patronizing a company diametrically opposed to one's interests is terrible. Disproportionately, music lovers seem to be the first to deride TM but defend why they won't use anything else.

Buy a prepaid vanilla visa. Give credit card info over the phone.

Give regular credit card over the phone.

Buy tickets on craigslist (at least not directly supporting TM)

Go a day early, buy tickets at the venue.

Have friend buy extra tickets at the venue.

I agreed with the parents sentiment but I think it should be up to the incestors. I also agree with you. I was stating why 3 years of being public it was still relavent to discuss the news of the original post.

That said, a public company that has an incomplete product roadmap-- or poduct, shows no profit and has a poorly understood revenue strategy is immature. GM has been public for a comparable amount of time. It is well understood what they do-- they make and sell cars. Twitter aggregates and dynamically prices advertising and monetizes information. It is much harder to understand a new business model and one that is not making money. It was not ready to IPO.

Yes, the market goes up and down. Twitter was a shitty company, still is a shitty company and will be a shitty acquisition. I understood that and I didn't buy it. Thats how the market works.

Edit: While the market goes up and down, Twitter has pretty much just gone down. It was in the 50s 2 years ago and has pretty much just fallen.

While I concur with above, I think investors should have the option. I suspect that the parent was referring to Twitter having a string of issues since IPO. Over the 3 years they have faced significant problems like leadership change, product, revenue, m&a and this brain drain.

Twitter is an example of a company that has had poor performance and may have been to immature to go public.

Are there any free apis/rss feeds for newsline breaking stories?

Reuters and other publishers have rss feeds however they are split accross many categories and also have strict ToU. I have been trying to find news & event feeds that are free to consume; ideally with a headline and article, but simply a blast like "3 trapped in hiking incident in montana cavern" would be useful.

Any resources or experiences would be helpful.

Pedantic correction: the hacker does not respond the author of software exploit tool responds. Firefart himself did not actually hack into the sysadmins server, he wrote the code for a PoC that exploited dirty cow vuln. It seems the hacker used this code to gain root because of the unpatched software

I have been saying this since pre-election-- the way this has been portrayed in the media as well as other coverage of politics, ect leads me to believe that they will throw out the election results.

I dont know what will happen after, but this election has been framed as "tampered" and the language and posturing in all media does seem indicative of creating a narrative that will over turn the results

I have read this and another post from CM team. I somehow missed what the main catalyst was for shutting down. Is there a succinct explanation? What happened?

Voice is not even close to the next big platform. Thats not possible. Is it the interface to the next big platform. No, at least, probably not.

"Ok, google glass, zoom in on that hot guy!".

Voice, a great interface for SOME things. Likely not what this article is pitching.