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> The addition of the HQ-9 — which was first reported by Fox News on Feb. 17 — would greatly increase the People’s Liberation Army’s air defense capabilities in the region. Like the Russian-made Almaz Antey S-300 air defense system, the HQ-9 has the ability to render vast swaths of territory into virtual no-fly zones. Only the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber can safely operate in the vicinity of an HQ-9 for any length of time.

The title is simply wrong.

1) B-2, F-22, and F-35 can all be used to throw missiles at these sorts of targets and then exit the area. The HQ-9 / Patriot can't track stealth aircraft at extreme range effectively. Or you throw sea skimming / low altitude cruise missiles with jamming to provide EW cover.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/american-f-22s-b-2...

> The Raptors “kick down the door” using their unique combination of stealth, high altitude and blistering speed to target the nodes of the integrated air defense system so that the B-2s can proceed to their targets unmolested. It’s a mission the F-22s have only gotten better at with the Increment 3.1 upgrade that allows the jet to geo-locate emitters much more precisely than before. And that capability will continue to improve with the Raptor’s forthcoming Increment 3.2B upgrade.

> The other option to take down an integrated air defense system is to use a combination of standoff weapons like the JASSM and JASSM-ER cruise missiles together with electronic attacks from a platform like the EA-18G Growler. The Growler can not only jam the enemy’s radar, but can generate an ellipse to target the missile site. The problem there is precisely updating the cruise missile with current track data before the enemy moves during the incoming weapons’ time of flight.

2) HQ-9 [if based on Patriot] is actually less effective than the modern Russian systems. Without the ability to move substantial distances, HQ-9 isn't a serious threat to the US. However, pretty much every US ally in the region isn't capable of standing up to that sort of thing. Given the region is largely divided into the US / Chinese spheres of influence at this point it doesn't really matter because there aren't neutral parties.

3) I'm honestly more concerned about China sparking a major war than I am about their ability to create no-fly zones.

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Since I'm rate limited:

Realistically, whether you realize or it, China is in that position and has been for 20 years.

A missile base in Hainan would have the range to hit anything transiting to Vietnam via the sea. Short of taking Hainan away from China, Vietnam can be closed to ships by China at any time.

China isn't interested in provoking a military conflict but rather guaranteeing its security and a world position equal to the US in all theaters.

Similarly, its why Hainan has a semi-covert submarine base:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulin_Naval_Base
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1. This app seems unlikely to be allowed by Apple.

2. This doesn't seem like it should be an app, it should be a service with an api, and then you need an app that provides the UI for it.

3. I don't think there's enough info here to figure out what the UI needs to do, but I'm guessing a couple months - probably need a webview to go through instagram site and select users etc. UI to set your accounts that you want to follow, needs to look passable to get into app store. Probably as the development goes on you will come up with a few extra pieces of functionality because this seems underspecified. This does not take into account how much setting up the service will take, which shouldn't really be that much.
Yeah I don't think the instructors for the CCW classes I've taken would be very happy with the "shucks I just forgot" explanation. I'm thinking of one instructor in particular (who is also a sheriff's deputy and family friend) who would have probably physically removed me from my chair for suggesting that kind of bullshit.

Carrying requires a different mindset, and that mindset doesn't admit the sort of forgetfulness under consideration here. That's the main reason why I usually don't carry.
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setting up dashboards on google analytics is pretty simple and might fit your needs without an additional service. You can also download existing dashboards from https://www.google.com/analytics/gallery/#landing/start/
I thought he was lamenting the fact that Uber has to compete with an unprofitable organization buying their market share. In an article about how his very own company is losing 1B a year to exist in that market. If that isn't irony, I don't know what is.
Once a startup has made enough progress to be competitive for YC proper, that startup could just raise a round from reputable angels. Why bother with YC at that point?

As a founder of an early stage startup, YC just seems much less compelling than it did, say, 5+ years ago. If you aren't far along yet, makes sense to submit an application for the same reasons you might buy a lottery ticket, but if you're further along, what it takes to be truly competitive seems identical to what it takes to just raise an early round.

I think YC is a huge positive macro force in the ecosystem, but on a micro level it doesn't seem clear why applying makes sense anymore.
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Surely a middle ground is possible? Something along the lines of "Your TouchID sensor has been replaced. If you did not expect this, please take your iPhone to an Apple Store for servicing as your security may be compromised. Otherwise log in with your password to re-enable your device".
Yes. Countless people including those on HN, relating stories of people they know not finding the app on their phones and then using a different service.
Sorry, this is weak sauce, especially "When interpreting the words and actions of others, participants should always assume good intentions".
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If you allow a 3rd party Touch ID sensor to send fingerprint data, you could compromise a powered on iPhone by connecting a malicious Touch ID sensor to it and sending spoofed fingerprints to unlock it.
> the actual headline

jimsojim used the HTML doc title, which is always a legit option, and in this case the better one because it contains more information.
this is a very good point. If the chat data is in Telegram, opening up the phone is useless.
Funny, I did some research and found this article which seems to know where most of the money is going. So what happened in two years between my article in 2014 and your article that came out in 2016?

How are you able to track this and then in two years, you suddenly have no idea where all the money is going?

http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-spends-1657-m...

The lion’s share of the funding goes toward supportive housing, which provides specialized and intensive services to the recently homeless as they adjust to a new way of life, with some combating drug addiction and receiving mental health care.

The City spends $81.5 million annually for 6,355 supportive units, or about $13,000 per unit. Of the 6,436 homeless individuals counted in last year’s homeless count, 3,401 were on the streets without shelter while the other homeless people counted resided in shelters, transitional housing, resource centers, residential treatment, jail or hospitals.

And

Even though The City has built 3,000 new supportive-housing units since 2002, the homeless population has remained mostly flat. The population has ranged from 6,248 to 6,514 since 2005, after dropping from 8,640 in 2002.

You claim "zero accountability" but there's several paragraphs and a large graph showing where the money goes in your article. Not sure how you fix "accountability" if your city continues to build housing for these people and continue toe expand their budget to help them. What else do you want them to do???? Most other cities would see this and spend the money elsewhere and cut the spending on these programs in a heartbeat.
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Lets not forget that they too shutdown part of their R&D department (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley) back in 2014.
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How the fuck does this story have 28 points?

What is happening with Hacker News?
Wow- this is great for me. I have been sitting on iOS8 for some time now because of this.

I broke my screen and home button and had them replaced before I went on vacation. Luckily I had read about the error 53 issue before attempting to upgrade my jailbroken device.

I'm very surprised Apple would respond so well to an issue typically caused by 3rd party repairs.
Much lighter than what?

Google "ostrich weight" immediately comes up with a "250 pounds" factoid result. A Wikipedia result just below that quotes cached text stating that they range from 63 to 143 kilograms.
This is great. We went through a lot of pain keeping our cloud and on-premise offering [0] in check. Eventually took our infrastructure back to the drawing board and settled on a docker based solution with some custom orchestration on top. Cloud is docker swarm and on-prem docker on a VM. A service like Gravitational would have saved us a lot of time.

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probably. Most pre-interview programs are heavily biased for those keywords too. So, when her resume when viral, she got a interview through the front end PR campaign called "this resume went viral, do something about it". Then, the interview was exactly the same as the software screening, but with doublespeak.
I care what my closest neighbors do with their apartment as I share a floor, ceiling, and common spaces with them. If I owned a car, I might care what neighbors on my street do as it could reduce availability of on-street parking (there's little off-street parking here).

But I think the main point was not about the citizenry but the governments in the Middle East. The governments there would care for the same reasons governments in other countries do, companies like Airbnb and Uber are violating and/or inciting violation of zoning laws, regulations, avoiding relevant taxes & fees, etc. Relative to countries like the U.S. they might "lose their shit" because it's more novel to have such disruption. Such outfits might also not fit well with their forms of corruption, reducing bribe opportunities (e.g. why pay a bribe to get a zoning change for a hotel when you can just call the rooms "apartments" and list them on Airbnb?).
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Gorgeous picture and very sound reasoning.
Cut them some slack, a lot of winners today wouldn't have looked like obvious winners when they first applied at YC.
>most people who work in successful companies didn't get there based on merit but largely, just dumb luck

Do you have evidence for this, or are you just speculating? My experience (based on my employment history and the employment history of those close to me) is that ability to get hired correlates very closely with merit (including technical skill, amicability, etc.)
Yes. This is something that Ben Goldacre has been railing on, as it's one of the biggest problems in medicine. https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_kn... <-- Relevant talk.
So, what's your opinion on Diego Garcia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia)? Waste of effort, too?
This is newsworthy because the island exists within an area of overlapping territorial claims. The installation of the missiles is an escalation in an ongoing dispute.
I honestly do not have an exact answer, but I am thinking it has to do with:

1. SF is a city with high population density. It is only second to NYC.

2. Mild climate. Without harsh winters, you can sleep outside year round.

3. High cost of living. If someone falls under hard times and does not have the means to relocate, the high cost of living could be crushing.
By far the game I wasted the most time in my life :) Managed to kill my addiction and stop after Civ 4.
Alumni network and a lot of PR (not free PR since you give up equity for it, but rather more than if you went it alone).

Whether or not that's enough of a reason is for you to decide.
No it's simply a long play by Google today Microsoft almost has a monopoly in the workplace because of Microsoft office and windows and how people are used to it when they join the workforce.
Later as more people join the workforce having used Google app more corporations will be will to move to it as the cost of retraining will be less.
If Google let's students use Google apps without mining their data today they can mine it later when they are not students and join the workforce as adults. And anyway they are selling Google services to recover the costs.
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> What could possibly go wrong?

Well, my microwave firmware doesn't have any protection either but, seriously, you can apply security models/proofs to the code you run there.
Has anyone seen a way to disable this feature at a repo or org level? I'm not crazy about master getting treated like Dropbox.
I should think the batteries would be themselves targeted by stand-off missiles as soon as any situation deteriorated to a shooting match.

> the very fact that the HQ-9 could compete for an international missile tender against American, Russian and European systems — and win — is an indication of just how capable the Chinese weapon is.

The odd-one-out in that list is Russia. Turkey might be very reluctant to deploy a Russian system, however cheap it might be up-front. Although relations were much warmer back in 2015, Turkey even then would not want to be dependent on Russia's good-will to keep a missile system running.

So shouldn't that quote read "cheap" rather than "capable"? Almost all defence acquisitions are really about backhanders and trade deals etc.
In the case of tactical nuclear weapons, I don't see what gain there is versus traditional bunker busters using depleted uranium warheads.
I doubt they'd shut out an A team of Navy Seals with C4 however. War is boring is one of the better military blogs out there, but this is a silly article. If the US really wanted the islands, a few anti-aircraft weapons will not stop them.
Intel is building entire Xeon lines with embedded GPUs for serving web imagery.

And these Intel Xeon's with embedded GPUs don't need to transfer data to the coprocessor, since they operate off of system memory, so transfer latencies are a non-issue.
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That's exactly the point this article is trying to make, that you get more than just seed money being part of YC.
It's news because it changes the balance of power in the South China Sea, waters that China has been gradually asserting are its own territorial waters rather than international waters governed by the United Nations. This assertion has China and the U.S. inching towards military confrontation, because if China's assertions become de facto reality Western sea and air access to important regional trade partners like Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam could be limited or cut off completely whenever Beijing feels like it.

There's a good timeline on how things have been playing out here: http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-south-china-sea-time...
> Yes I do think that they would attempt to discourage unauthorized repairs in such a way for less-than-noble reasons.

Repairs are not really a revenue stream. Apple Care is a revenue stream but the incentive is to not repair. Since every repair logged against Apple Care is a cost, it doesn't make sense that Apple would want to do this themselves from a purely economic perspective.

I've been in HW all my working life. Any field return is expensive and resource intensive to handle and you cannot pass all those costs onto your customers. You do it to provide good service to your customers. You eat the repair cost as part of internal warranty cost which is built into the pricing of every unit sold.

What you are saying just doesn't make sense to me.

As a user I don't want any yahoo being able to replace my touch ID sensor. I have tons of sensitive information on my phone. I want that thing disabled if touch ID breaks or has been tampered with.

>If you think it was a mistake, then can you explain why Apple wasn't bothered to do anything until someone ran an article on it and publicized it?

How do you know that they didn't "bother to do anything" on this issue until someone ran an article?
This seems... nice.

I'm trying to find a way to ask without sounding like a giant cynic, but: What's Mr Frontend's motivation here? The site has no information at all about who is putting this on or what their goals are. Just "Join us and we'll give you a lot of time, attention and effort. Because reasons." Even just an "About Us" page would help people know what they are getting into quite a lot.
Have you done research to understand why they leave? Is it a trend that is observed only in tech or can it be found in other fields?
"People speak about feeling better on Paleo."

You really have to watch selection bias problem here, as (different) people speak of feeling better on pretty much every popular diet ever.

Anecdotal and self reporting data for things like diet/exercise & health are notoriously poor sources (and also often suffer from a host of generalization issues).
I thought this was an excellent reading of Tim Cook's letter: "Apple is signaling to us that the real problem here is the use of the All Writs Act."
Thanks Pat! Long-time reader of STH, I really find your articles incredibly useful and informative!

I assume you meant to write "(so .48A on 120V)". 50W idle with 4 spinning drives, an M.2, and the redundant PSU really is really very impressive. As you say, keeping full load under 120 watts to be able to fit in a 1U/1amp colo gives an incredible value.

The hardware's not even that expensive! And for $50 - $60 / month in colo cost [1], the reliability of systems now with SSDs, and the amazing orchestration tools that are available, the likes of AWS, DigitalOcean, etc. start to look really expensive.

[1] http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=131
That's a false assumption. Features like this one take months to get right -- from design, to ops, to engineering, to support, to marketing, to many more.

Saying nothing never meant we weren't doing anything. It meant we could've been better saying something. :)
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You can reinstall a phone from recovery mode without erasing it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201263
It seems like small, custom systems like these without memory protection should at least use a safe language like Rust.
So is NATO putting missiles into ex-Soviet states bordering Russia, but we don't see much on the new cold war with Russia on these pages.
What would truly be nice would be Hg support in their on site solution. Where is it at guys? We need Active Directory integration if we want to increase adoption of version control in our company.
Hard to know what you're referring to, but it's surely a case of incomplete information. pg is one of the least full-of-himself people I've ever met. I don't say that lightly.

When someone cares so much about figuring things out and so little about superficial nicety, they can seem full of themselves, but that can also be a red herring. The real tests of fullness-of-oneself are in how they personally interact with others.
They've always required you to register on their website and put a licence key in though.
Because we already know from long experience that most people don't have the patience or capability to answer security questions.

The reality is that an unscrupulous repair shop will just answer yes to the prompt (or tell the user to answer yes).

People clicked "install" when prompted by IE to install an unrestricted ActiveX control because a banner ad wanted them to "punch the monkey". Do you really think they're going to think about the security of a touch sensor?

Now take it one step further and imagine a government spy agency wants to intercept phones and replace parts. (In fact I'm sure it is already happening).
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From the international perspective, china unilaterally declared the islands sovereign territory, and specifically claimed there were no military intentions for the island. China has contradicted its previous claims, and alienated the neighboring territories by claiming disputed territory. The international community is understandably displeased with china.
when B players found the company. For example software companies started by people who aren't excellent at writing software. And B hires C isn't even a bad outcome in that case, the founders may have other advantages and go on to be successful.
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> "how do you recover your account, if you lose your device?"

Or the same way you recover a forgotten password: via an email containing a one-time use token, to generate a new public key pair for the web site in question.

Of course this wouldn't be much use if your email provider uses FIDO....
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Incremental DOM updates cause layout thrashing which, when comlared to making a few additional passes over a set, is a couple of orders of magnitude more expensive.

The point is, walk/filter the data completely prior to updating the view.

Immutable sets may also 'seem' inefficient but compare-by-reference works a of a lot faster than change propogation with compare-by-deeply-nested-values.

In CompSci terms, multiple passes are still O(n) and the data sets aren't large enough for micro-optimizations to matter. Compared to O(holy shit) of triggering many cascading DOM updates, it's a huge improvement.

'Seems' isn't a good enough metric to justify optimization.
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Secure_link module shouldn't be used for anything security related. I think it uses plain md5 and without even an hmac.
Not quite. The terms and conditions say that you own the IP and that it isn't used beyond providing the immediate service, meaning they aren't using it to train future models.

Besides, it's a call without any feedback, so it's not that valuable as far as training goes.
The hard part about reading these kinds of things is that China is doing essentially what the United States has been doing since WWII. We put missiles everywhere... Right in China's doorstep even.

I just pray that as China grows in military strength they'll also grow in a desire for peace. Right now they are behaving like someone that has something to prove.
I'll be interested to see how this works - I submitted something, and I'll post my thoughts when I get your summary.

One question: How do you deal with paper links that go to non-open access publications? Have you paid for the usual journal subscription bundles? Relying on crowdsourcing?
Conventional warfare does not include 'tactical nukes', that's nuclear warfare.

By definition conventional warfare does not include bio, chemical and nuclear weapons.
As a primer, I highly recommend The Atlantic journalist James Fallows' deep dive, on California HSR:

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Note: this article contains links to the subsequent articles, which, as of this writing, number 14.
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