skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind the context of this conversation is about regulation, not about individual decision making.

From an individual stand-point, you are correct: "will my flight crash?" is a question that the individual would ask. But from a regulatory stand-point, the question is, "what is the safest way to transport people?" and those questions are not the same statistically.

This is similar to Taleb's "black swans" conundrum. You're comparing likely events with small ramifications to unlikely events with large ramifications.
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I feel we're getting into strawman assertion territory here.

I've worked with statically typed and dynamically typed languages, and the fact is that there's some overhead involved in static typing. You pay that overhead upfront in order to hopefully prevent some bugs (and possibly get a performance boost) later on.

If you haven't tried both, you probably won't notice the mental overhead.

I've also found that this difference sometimes result in people approaching things differently, with static typing leaning itself more to specifying things upfront compared to jumping straight into the code with dynamic typing.

Sometimes this surely means things end up being clearer with static typing, but I've also seen the reverse happen, more often than you'd think, because some kinds of code have a lot of messy little details - with a dynamic language like Python you can model, or perhaps rather avoid modeling, those little local details by just stuffing things onto something you're already passing along, while the static typer would have to think harder about how to fit them in without polluting the overall data structures.

When you're rewriting things a couple of times as your understanding of the problem evolves, it can certainly help to be able to not worry too much about those details.
There's no attack from the FBI or NSA, there's a court order.
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No. I make 6 figures and I live in a tin shack. Nobody is winning except maybe people who bought real estate in the 80s.
It's also completely abandoning any notion of rehabilitation. Prison, in no sense, rehabilitates people, but at least some level of redemption should be possible. It seems as though prison no longer pays back the convict's debt to society.
> If this had been snuck into a regular patch with no fanfare, would we even be talking about it?

Oh, yes - we would be talking about it, at some point in time. This was going to come out one way or the other (dissecting firmware updates is a veritable cottage industry). Juniper had to announce this in order to control the messaging and maintain trust, when it comes to security, trust is the foundation.
Trekkies? Many, but not one that would call you a rapist for disagreeing with them, i.e. none that think that is it appropriate and fair to you put you in jail, where you’d get beat and raped on a daily basis for a decade, with no possible recourse, for suggesting that their point of view might be partial. Did I mention suicide rates?

I know: That got very real very fast, didn’t it? De-humanising your dissenters can have such strangely overwhelming consequences. I mean, just look at every conversation the original article quotes: death-threats are hardly the worst. That’s why when someone claims (proudly) to have invented the key-word for empowering something like that, I pay attention. I couldn’t find the reference where she did, though.
At first I was like please die, cold fusion from Adobe. Then I was like oh. Nevermind.
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They match up the activity they observe with tactics/techniques/procedures (TTPs, an awkward term but it's of old military origin) associated with various known state actor groups. These are widely published by various security firms, although the details are often kept in the industry and behind a paywall. You can find a lot of info just by googling the codenames firms assign to the groups, APT28 is one such group on my mind which has recently had some public reporting: https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/global/en/cu...

These TTPs may consist of known attack infrastructure, email payloads, even things as simple as an email subject line if the attacker leaves it fairly static. They may also be as complicated as artifacts of dynamic analysis of malware, software engineering techniques and tools, language use, etc.

Attribution to state actors comes via similar techniques, generally tying attacks back to infrastructure known to be owned by state agencies or companies operated by the same. The line between state actors and higher-end criminal groups can be very blurry, both in that attribution may be difficult and in that the groups actually overlap in many areas. But still, you can often make a pretty confident guess.

These attribution techniques are well-established in the security industry, and I'm not surprised to see these big providers starting to automate it where possible.
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Not a lot of of time to respond, but my first observations about your comment are:

1) How many pilots are actually unlicensed? I suspect given the relative difficulty of getting access to aircraft vs. cars that the more pilots in the air are of greater competence than the average driver by a long shot. Moreover, I'll bet that the examination standards for pilot licenses are somewhat more rigorous than the average drivers license.

2) Have you failed to assess that the greatest likely danger in a road trip is not the driver giving you a ride, but other drivers on the road? I use to commute between LA and the Bay Area every week for a couple of years. I guarantee you that not everyone you encounter is sane or competent to be on the road. And yeah, in the middle of nowhere on I-5 (or better still, I-15 between LA and Los Vegas close to Death Valley) you can ask to get out of the car if you are uncomfortable with the way the person is driving... but get out in the middle of nowhere and then what?

The complexity of the driving environment and the relatively low barrier to entry for cars don't make the risk assessment as simple as you would like to believe.

Finally, unless you are a pilot (you may be) seems like you're merely a member of that ignorant general public that can't make such assessments. If that's the case, how can you possibly be in a position to make a judgement? Or are you just better than everyone else and it's your paternalistic instincts taking over?

EDIT: To be clear... I am not arguing that general aviation is safer than driving (last I looked it's not). But I am arguing that the risk assessment may not be a difficult as people here are making it out to be, especially in light of the complexity of driving on the road.
> Static typing ensures that some sliver of that knowledge is explicit and checked.

No. Testing ensures that the knowledge is checked. As in: run experiments. Empirical evidence. Static typing only checks one set of assumptions against another set of assumptions. Don't get me wrong, this is better than nothing. But the only real check is actually running the code, getting empirical evidence.

In every other engineering discipline, math is seen as a tool, simulations are cost saving measure because running experiments for everything is too expensive. Only in the discipline where gathering empirical evidence is actually generally cheaper than trying to prove things (with mostly dubious value) is there this odd notion that using math is superior to running the experiment.

If flying planes or running wind tunnel tests were as quick and cheap as running computer simulations, there would be no more computer simulations in aviation.

Compare Knuth: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
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Producing even a little heat with fusion produces a lot of nasty radiation. As in kill everyone in the unsheilded room within a few seconds.

Based on the amount of unexplained heat they produced fusion would have been extremely radioactive, however they did not treat there setup as an extreme radiation hazard. Which suggest they did not think there would be any fusion.

PS: Here are some pictures for a device expected to produce less than 1W of fusion. http://www.cmgww.com/historic/farnsworth/inventions/fusion/f... Note the deep and cheap to produce pit.
The same thing goes for those that would dare to dispute string theory or human-caused global warming. Trying to publish any papers that defy either of those canons will likely end your career.
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I worked at restaurants with id based POS systems (pre touch screen, you just typed in numbers for every item).

Then the touch screens came out, so slow in comparison. The learning curve was faster but the operations were terrible in comparison.

I still remember Red Lobster POS codes from the 1990s. 2411, 2443, 901, ... Good times :-)
As far as I know, it hasn't been proven, as the requisite access has not been granted. Of course, Rossi could easily have disproved it as soon as the issue was raised, if it were not so.

Edit: The posited arrangement is diagrammed and described here, along with other reasons to doubt:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/05/21/the-e-cat...
I'm not sure how this is relevant to what I said. While it is certainly the case that one can catch more flies with honey, I think we'd all rather be people who digest the message instead of disregarding it because we don't like how it was delivered to us. This isn't about textfile's delivery, but that it's useless bordering on childish to take a response from an author and respond simply with "I don't like your tone."
Not exactly. Some Chinese mining firms maintain a stratum connection to pools in the US so they can get just the new block header when a new block is found on the network. They then mine on that header until the full block is downloaded and validated by their local bitcoind (which can take 20 seconds, to several minutes in the worst case) This has been referred to as "SPV Mining".

If they find the next block during the time they are mining only against the block header, that block will contain no transactions. This doesn't happen very often, and there are some other issues that can arise from the practice (a multi-block fork happened once), but miners believe that it increases their profitability so (afaik) they continue to do it. More info here: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/38437/what-is-spv...
Luckily there's an "unflag" button. I hate this too, but something similar needs to be done about the downvote button, even if there isn't an undo.

Also, there's no reason to have flagging accessible from the main list page. This isn't true for comments, which you have to click to the individual page to flag, but for articles it is listed.
Has anyone had to wait behind a senior citizen trying to use those touch screen 100 flavor Coke machines? It's an eye-opening experience.
How do you figure out the factorizations? I've been looking for an efficient way to do this with really big numbers
Yes, LÖVE includes ENet and LuaSocket.
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Just because people that are being pushed out are "losers" (your words, not mine), that doesn't mean the people that are going broke to stay in the city are "winners". The winners are the property owners and NIMBY's.
It's 6:30AM here in the Chinese city of Kunming. I just returned from a 5AM trip to a market to buy some herbs for Christmas dishes. On the way I passed one of our many street cleaning water-tank trucks, which basically drive around all Chinese cities spraying the road and nearby traffic with water and a fine mist (just what you want at 5AM on an e-bike in the winter morning!). While they most operate in the early mornings and are no doubt targeted at dislodging and collecting road-top detritus, they have been about for ages and are very much ubiquitous. A separate fleet of trucks drive about spraying water on roadside gardens, which in some kind of cuddly holdover from socialist central planning are in fact very numerous compared to most western cities (with the exception of the center of older French cities, perhaps). Despite the construction boom going on, it's all Himalayan blue skies here! I pity the poor people in those polluted east-coast cities, and those in the north with their wintery outlook, and particularly those in the northeast like Beijing where not only do you have both problems, but the time dedicated to negotiating traffic every time you leave your house is soul-crushing...
The questions actually improve my opinion of the restaurant if the waiter is very good.

EDIT: Of course this applies to real restaurants, not mcdonalds style...
I think it's fairly common in Japan too to have the elaborate plastic versions of the various dishes on display in the windows.

I'm not sure if this is a thing aimed at tourists or not, who might have trouble reading the menu but can visualise the dish easily.
A big source of confusion on this kind of thing is that the HN crowd tends to see "state actor" and think "pervasive surveillance (by the NSA)".

In context, and in the security industry in general, "state actor" refers to active (although often broadly cast) penetration attempts by groups thought to be operated by foreign governments. These groups do not have significant surveillance capabilities, so they're trying to build it by doing things like getting access to the email of potentially interesting people, often via credential stealing malware or plain old phishing. Their methods are often not particularly sophisticated, but they're more persistent and better funded than most other threat actors. On the other hand, their methods sometimes are very sophisticated, so it's good to detect a problem as early as possible, as Yahoo is trying to help users do.
I've got more experience in hunting down spam than is healthy and can read headers.

Receiving SPF, DKIM validated spam from Yahoo's email systems, then discovering there's absolutely no way in hell to kick it back to them, sours one rather rapidly.

Trying to send mail to Yahoo has been roughly equally annoying for about as long.
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"In software, _less_ supply..."
You can also use the "viewer" tool to sync your project with a application shell on the device via dropbox.
The same NIMBYs that prevent new housing also prevent new public transit. Build both - whichever one comes first will speed the other along.
Does anyone know what visualization library was used to do this? I am interested in learning data visualization and always wonder where to begin.
Yes, very well
i (mostly) agree. i think thinking about a fraction of a full circle is the easiest way to work with trig. having said that, the mental overload on your average high school student flipping between pi and tau is too much. my personal compromise is to never cancel out the '2' and always work with 2pi. it makes some equations look a bit odd from the textbook but whacks me in the forehead to remember to think about circles...
Welcome to the "shit, how are we gonna make money from this" party!

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(in all seriousness, it was only a matter of time...we just needed the technology to do it)
"because people in power is desperate to control their own people". I agree with this comment. One has to use VPN to access some websites. The restrictions are definitely getting tighter.

But 6 layers of VPN? I don't know about this. I was in China for 3 weeks this past summer. VyprVPN worked very well for my and my family.
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"how to use a linear function to estimate basic financial costs from a baseline and a per-unit cost"

If you told me what those words meant, I could probably figure it out ;-)
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This I did that to men of learning and men deeply engaged in the study of magic, it might, by the Grace of God, be in some degree intelligible, while on the other hand, to the thick-skinned turnip-eaters (imperitis Rapophagis) it might for all time remain a hidden secret, and be to their dull intellects a sealed book forever.

I initially thought imperitis Rapophagis was simply a knock to the uneducated commoners. Then I read that the turnip is used as an emblem (charge) in the shield (escutcheon) of various coat of arms of prominent Austrian families. One particular family would be the Keutschach family, of whom Leonhard von Keutschach was Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg during Johannes Trithemius time. It's a stretch, but I wonder if Trithemius was merely being nationalistic rather than discriminatory?
aha.

Either way, I vastly prefer this to everything else :)

Maybe I'll have to sign up for pre ... I only fly four or five times a year, but it seems worth it.
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shoutout to kalid - love your work.
I have a question I haven't been able to find an answer to, hopefully someone here can help.

Why is HMAC+(hash) considered secure, while being considerably faster than say bcrypt with a cost of 12? For example, if a service used a user provided password to validate a "secret" (what would normally be the signed message), is that less secure than bcrypt? If so, what makes guessing the secret used in HMAC difficult?
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Nationalism in general is toxic. I firmly believe that nations are a deadly plague and that they should not exist.
They are not making a claim backed up by scientific evidence, but are rather stating a believable assumption that premises the work. PL is more about studying type theory than a it figuring out why it is useful (which dives into non science design anyways).
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Well at least the section explaining why they think C is not Turing complete is beyond ridiculous (TLDR: memory is not infinite so there exist a state machine... WTF????? technically mathematically true but has always been completely irrelevant when talking about real implementations)

And it seems to be written with a serious tone, it is probably not even a joke!
Final by default is correct, since otherwise you are effectively exposing and having to maintain an extra stable API towards subclasses, which is a nightmare and won't be done properly unless it's intentional.

In fact, having virtual methods at all outside of interfaces/traits/typeclasses is dubious language design since it meshes together the concepts of interface and implementation and makes it inconvenient, impossible or confusing to name the implementation instead of the interface.

The issues in the discussion are instead due to Apple's framework code being closed source and unmodifiable by users and developers, and also buggy according to the author.
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If you've never seen a selectric (or lifted one) you would be excused for wondering why they didn't go 'in the diplomatic bag'.

The article lists about 11 tons of equipment, that would be one hell of a bag.
Slate is the polar opposite of Spectacle. It's too much configuration for most people I'd say. I couldn't get it to work, and get back to my actual work in less than an hour so it was a non-starter for me.
Wouldn't those all have been caught by a metal detector?
It's fun to imagine keeping the typewriters around in the embassy just to troll the eavesdroppers. But I suspect that at the time, nobody knew for sure what their capabilities were, so the safer choice was just to remove them.
There are plenty of "weapons" you can take with you in the plane. I didn't realize the rules had been relaxed when I recently traveled with a set of kitchen shears in my computer bag. Leaving DFW no one said a thing. Coming back through CLE they searched my bag and found them. I expected I would have to toss them in the garbage, but was told they are OK being under the 4" limit [0].

There are a lot of "weapons" you could take based on the Tools category [1].

[0] https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/prohibited-ite...
[1] https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/prohibited-ite...
Really glad to hear the site helps with new insights (especially for someone who has aced the tests/grades). I was in a similar boat, qualified on paper, but not in my heart of hearts.

1) In general I like any efforts to explain things in new ways, and ExplainedVisually is great. My philosophy is that teaching is like humor. You want to make something funny, present it well, but not overexplain it. Let's people enjoy the joke. If you do too much handholding, you ruin the surprise and it's not fun to be told "Ok, the punchline is coming up...". It's not an exact science, but you get a nose for when something is truly illuminating vs. trying to chew your food for you.

2) BetterExplained is a side business. Happy to share numbers, etc. I have some earlier posts about ebook sales and techniques:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870015

I don't think I should be taken as a model of learning though (I write very infrequently) but thankfully math is evergreen. Many of my most popular articles are 5-7 years old.

I do want to dedicate more time to it. I realize I was afraid of ruining my love of learning by turning it into a profession, but I'm slowly coming to grips with it. That's one of the hardest parts for me actually, feeling I'll kill the golden goose by squeezing too hard.

I'll probably do a blog post / postmortem on marketing, numbers, etc. so keep an eye out :).
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Yes he did - although I never heard of him turning it on.
Also the photo in that article is of Pelorus which he sold quite a long time ago - I guess in 2009 Eclipse was still being built in Germany so they couldnt get a picture
Precisely.

Two grand a month to live in what is essentially a boarding house, like the places I used to live when I was broke and worked as a cook, only with more hipster-friendly decor.

That's absurd.
Another possible explanation is:

He is really not very good at measuring energy input and heat output. He built something and confused himself into thinking it was producing more energy than it consumes. He took some money from investors to develop the technology. He spent much of the research money, eventually to realize that his device does not, in fact, produce energy. His investors now want their money back and he is concerned they are going to break his legs.

So at this point he has no choice but to maintain his original claims for as long as possible. Appearing now to be bumbling and incompetent may be preferable to appearing accurate and precise with measurements.
earlier comments from yesterday's post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10771244
> Bottled water is a terrible comparison anyway, because most of what you're paying for is the "bottled."

I was under the understanding that you're paying for a purified chemical compound with Bottled Water. Very similar to Gasoline actually. Its a purified chemical that matches specific specs.

One is a chemical that you drink, the other is a chemical your car drinks. Beyond that, the effect is the same.

If you don't think Bottled Water is a good example, then I'll change the analogy to Gatorade.
One big argument against free energy at low temperatures is that if it was possible then the natural world would have already discovered it.

The other argument is that if someone has a free energy device, they actually shouldn't need to convince anyone, they could just hook it to the grid, get paid for the power, use the money to build more devices, repeat until they had a serious power company. And then they start bargaining.
Even for that application Falcon would be a lot more usable due to the increased payload compared to BO's offering.