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Yes, Dan Carlin's Series on the Mongols (Wrath of the Khans) discusses what-ifs at depth regarding the Baghdad of 1258. The destruction, in his estimation (iirc), set back the greater region by at least 200 years. It was absolutely devastating.

http://www.dancarlin.com/product-tag/mongols/ (free at the moment apparently, good listen)
The word secrets wasn't intended to imply a criminal secret. But then the sentence after that (in my message) made it sound like that's exactly what a secret was. Yeah, I see the problem.

>Instead, you need to argue that completely innocent people need encryption, and you need to explain why they need it.

This makes sense, yes. The obvious answer being safety from bad guys who might gain illicit access to information that allows them to do harm.
As far as I understand, their infrastructure is from the home/street to the exchanges. Major backhaul links are still done via individual ISPs, the net result of which is vastly differing NBN performance between providers.
FBI wasn't responsible for the data being stolen by China, that was OPM[1], a completely separate and NON-security focused branch of government.

From my point of view, whenever "we the people" demand more "answers/solutions" from the government, what ends up happening is more bureaucracy that ends up failing us all.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Person...
Mods for Civ IV? :P
Question, does Apple employ any engineers that are not US citizens? Or are telecommute workers living in other countries? If so and they were one of the key engineers, what would happen if they refused? What type of international laws would come into play here?
Apologies, I guess that was more of a reference appropriate for Reddit than HN.

> I too am very smart.

is a reference to the subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart which points out people describing themselves as very smart, often in ironic ways. I realize now that it may have looked like I was actually making a claim about my own intelligence; I was not.
>And of course H1B visas drive down wages. This is basic supply and demand.

In the short run. The increased growth associated with them would typically lead to a general rise in wages in the long run. They also offset the tendency for companies to just move overseas.
The law has not treated new weapons in private hands (ie. explosives, automatic weapons, etc) favorably.

RSA-2048 will be the small arms equivalent of a musket in 2040. Since the US government controls so much of the global brainpower for crypto, that's not a standard that is acceptable.
an engineering strike sounds powerful.

might take a few years of striking though.
and by 'we' you mean the Mongols who sacked and razed this version of Baghdad to the ground in 1258, right?
@jdietrich, while this is generally true there are a bunch of special welds like silver to steel, aluminum to other metals, etc that have specially formulated multi element fillers so there's chemistry going on there, it's not just steel to steel with a slightly different steel filler. Bronze, copper, it can get interesting.
Can anyone really know what it's like to be a pig?

- Thomas Nagle paraphrased :)
Stallman looks more and more prescient every day.
also I meant that a mig wlder is like squeezing glue all over things... sure it works completely differently on the physical level but the high level action is like using a glue gun. It's wicked. And don't get me started on plasma cutters... oooh yeah.
but, there are many instances where software would not get rewritten with proper technical foresight in the first place.

i take your point none the less- there are contexts where it doesn't matter.
I have some issues with the current UI, though some of them may be because I've used JIRA on and off for the last 6 or 7 years and came to have a mental model of how things USED to work with previous generations of UI that the lack of it in this UI irks me.

However, I don't know how anyone could strongly dislike the UI. It's kind of dated, some things are not great for how I want to use it, but in general it's not bad, simply just not good in all places.

As for the workflows- if you don't like it blame your implementors. You can have pretty much any type of workflow that you want. It's kind of like complaining you didn't like your plate at a Mongolian Grill- you've got no one to blame but yourself.

Speed is also generally not a problem. If your company is using a ton of extras the plugins could cause performance issues with each other. Indexing your data on a regular basis is pretty key- but a properly configured/provisioned server should be able to handle plenty. Cloud hosted JIRA definitely has speed issues if you don't have a super active user base, as your data will get cold pretty quickly and it'll be a few minutes until your back in the warm cache.

I've used a lot of other bug trackers/work planners and there isn't one that has given me the combination of flexibility, performance, and UI acceptability. Plus the integration with other Atlassian products makes it pretty easy to just buy all in.

Atlassian products can definitely get spendy, especially when you're self hosting. The Cloud hosted when you're small-ish is very reasonable.

Finally, as a company I feel like Atlassian does many things right by their customers. Maybe because I'm in Seattle, but there seems to be something being hosted by Atlassian for their user groups at least every quarter, their support has never left me frustrated, and every technical resource I've fired off random deeply technical questions to has been extremely knowledgeable about their product and threw ideas back and forth on a path to a hypothetical solution.
You're right, I meant hospitalizations; I goofed.
Venezuela has gone after farms as well. Similar results.
This is not true. Unchecked immigration is always a negative for native workers. It can be accurately described as wealth redistribution from workers to the companies that employee them.

They cause $515 billion in losses for native workers and $565 billion gains for native businesses. Look at the chart on page 9

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/03-16-16%20Bo...
If you're not asking about the financial legs of a company, you're not doing your deligence and not asking the right questions. If the people in the company aren't answering the questions completely and with transparency, you're talking to the wrong people.
Mechanical fasteners are easily inspected. Welded and glued joints, not so much.
> Same with many top professors, researchers and tech execs like Nadella, Gundotra, Pichai etc.And many people on this list too like the inventor of USB etc.

Some of them might have, but the H1B is an awful avenue for this. You are not allowed any side businesses while you are employed on an H1B visa (and you can't be self employed using it). If you are Indian, you are looking at what is currently an 11 year processing delay before you can get a green card, not counting the time it takes to get your H1B initially. If you're from other countries, the backlog is shorter, but it is still multiple years before you can leave your company to try self employment.

Assuming you get approved for a green card. It's possible to get an H1B and then get denied for a green card.

Academics and other similar figures of note can already apply directly for a green card, which I suspect many of the people on this list have done. If you want to expand immigration, a simpler, faster path to permanent residency is essential.
I use a VPN on my phone while on work wifi. Openvpn is free for ios and Android and a digital ocean server costs 5 bucks
Immigrants are a self-selecting group. The barriers you have to cross leave the most motivated individuals/families capable of coming here. The immigrating generation, at least from my experience, come with the intention of setting up their children with better possibilities. Their lives revolve around making their kids hard workers in school, which transfers over into their character.

There's a joke in my community between the younger generation that we all had two choices after high school. You could choose to be a lawyer or doctor. If your parents were kind, then you could be an engineer.
I haven't the faintest idea why you're being downvoted when you're the only one who actually hit the real issue directly.

Free trade isn't free. We can not possibly compete fairly with countries who employ indentured servants or slaves compared to our working condition expectations and wages. Nor should we.

We need fair trade if we want to keep manufacturing in the country. Further, I'd say it needs to be sustainable if we're going to ever correctly price in the true cost of a product into the retail price. That by definition includes the cradle-to-grave life cycle of a product and all of its constituent parts and raw ingredients.
If it's a button, it'll be in the :focused state, you can use that to style it. Or you could use a CSS transition with a very very long time in one direction on the :active state.

And of course, you can use adjacency selectors with buttons, while you can't with :visited links.
H1-B visa holders can switch jobs.
Sounds like this http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/27/world/la-fg-venezuel...
PS btw, only at risk of loosing our jobs if we hire people that aren't aligned with the mission and ask these questions.
This from the man, Lynn, who said that we'd be making houses the same way we make shoes. He's a techno carpet bagger. He takes the most current and promising technologies, from shoe makers, to car makers, and then rails at the building establishment for not taking that technology and his lead seriously. When in fact, his actual works are bonded kids toys. And that's the problem with these guys, they talk big game, but when it comes to implementation, they barely elicit a shrug.

Structural steel was adopted quickly once it was clear that it was superior to all other existing construction technologies. The same thing would be true with glue-this and glue-that, if it turned out the be true. It's not. It's the architectural equivalent of vapor-ware.

Sorry Herr Lynn, we are still waiting for your shoe houses.
Designing workflows isn't the easiest thing in the world but it's not THAT hard.

If your complaining about the fact that the workflow in your system sucks, then blame that on your administrators/implementors. The out of the box work flows are pretty darn simple- especially if your using the Agile boards. You have To Do, In Progress, and Done.
The purpose of video game AI is not to beat you, but to lose to you in a fun way.
Yes, this is an old problem. It came up with early versions of Rails scaffolding, which only used GET at the time. There's no excuse for deleting with GET.
You should never read a Terms of service. You would be shocked about the shortage of the word "please". And most upsetting is that there is no "Just let me ignore this!" button next to the "Accept" button.
Yeah. I thought building a text editor in a web shell was incredibly stupid until I tried VSC. It's still more memory hungry than I'd like, but it's really fast—as fast as Vim for me (but noticeably slower than NeoVim).

Did MS actually modify Electron, did they just write better JS, or some of both?
One anecdote: I found something in the documentation that was outdated, I submitted a ticket and within hours two contributors were not only fixing it but discussing how to improve the underlying issue.
Gov’t accidentally publishes target of Lavabit probe: It’s Snowden
Most of what he said has already appeared in Aviation Leak.

"ULA did not seriously consider Aeroject-Rocketdyne bid"[1]

ULA's problems with using Russian engines are well known.[2]

ULA's cost-competitiveness comes from a bulk buy deal with the USAF.[3]

None of this is surprising.

ULA's big problems are cost and dependence on Russian engines. Space-X's big problem is that they keep having launch delays and can't launch often enough. They're about a year behind schedule and no longer even publish a projected launch manifest with dates. They have angry customers whose launch schedules are not being met.[4]

[1] http://aviationweek.com/space/ula-did-not-seriously-consider...
[2] http://aviationweek.com/space/usaf-cost-rd-180-termination-u...
[3] http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/boosters_bits/2014/05...
[4] http://spacenews.com/delays-in-spacex-falcon-9-upgrade-sched...
Comp Stomp: Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intuition
"Then they start monitoring every crypto-capable open-source project's responsible disclosure system. When they see a vulnerability good enough to subvert that open-source project, they shut down that project before the bug can be fixed. And then they suppress all knowledge of the bug."

...to exploit it? seriously?

i'm not saying it's impossible or unlikely, it just sounds like 1. it's a tremendous amount of work 2. it still doesn't actually solve the problem
IF they started rolling out TweetDeck features to the official Twitter app on Windows 10, I would find this excusable...but given @Jack's mishandling of virtually ever aspect of Twitter since his return...I have a feeling this is an on going symptom of a much broader problem Twitter has. I think Twitter is a very useful tool, but seriously someone like Microsoft or Google need to buy it and kick out all of the top management to the curb. I have rarely, if ever, seen a major company being so poorly ran in such a public fashion.
I don't see why they have to live off advertising. Right now they're charging a ton of money for firehose access through Gnip. They could charge power users for access to cooler features and better analytics, or just charge developers gradually more money for more traffic instead of having a hard rate limit.
Exactly, i read through the same sentence. I mean i understand the ideology here, but the article is a clear lie. CALEA clearly states Apple needs to decrypt in this case, there is no two ways about it. The software section is there so that government cannot tell apple to install a backdoor API of governments choosing on the iphone. Government just says decrypt and apple complies, government cannot tell apple how exactly to comply. But if apple says not possible, well government goes and says it is possible, for example like this, and apple looses. I am surprised nobody linked to CALEA before.
Yes, but with their democratic votes or public stances, rather than internal business decisions... (since the former is presumably more impactful.)
Similarly, FB has kept me due to its platform for music. Not music itself, but most artists use FB as a central hub. Further, the events are spectacular for me. I have found no better way to discover events than crowdsourcing it, aka scrolling my FB feed.
First, and most importantly, the variant of Dengue that they infected the (presumably somewhat healthy) person with was a weaker variant that is highly unlikely to do serious harm, particularly in a hospital environment.

Second, I know you probably know this, but the purpose of the placebo/control group is to understand if the vaccine is actually doing anything, or whether there is another common factor (possibly placebo effect, but possibly environmental, diet, poorly activated dengue virus, etc...) that is preventing Dengue from taking hold.

I.E. if you have two groups one with the Vaccine, and one with just the Placebo, and both are injected with the dengue virus, and the group with the Vaccine and the group with the placebo both don't contract Dengue - then you have to consider the strong possibility that the vaccine didn't help, but some other factor prevented the two groups from getting dengue.

And, it's far, far better that you try this with 10 people, with a relatively weaker version of Dengue, in a controlled hospital environment where the person can be taken care of, in an area where they are very likely to get the more dangerous dengue regardless of the study, than to come to the incorrect conclusion that you have a workable Vaccine, that you then spend many more hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars in broader clinical trials - only to discover the vaccine wasn't really doing anything in the first place.
For the record, I have the same CPU as him but with 16GB of RAM and Atom is obnoxiously slow for me.

Never used Sublime, but I am biased towards Vim ;-)
> doesn't the quote from the original article refer to the testing model itself

Yes, it does, precisely because the trial is about a human challenge model that uses an attenuated virus. It may or may not be representative of efficacy against natural infections by wildtype viruses, hence the second statement by the authors that "the true efficacy of TV003 can only be established by performing a phase 3 trial in endemic areas."

> it doesn't seem like Wired has editorialized/misrepresented at least the headline much relative to the original article

I believe the inclusion of "in a human challenge model" in the original title is quite significant to its interpretation, but it's precisely the kind of detail that would get overlooked by people unfamiliar with vaccine trials. A researcher in the field would know that human challenge models may or may not be representative of protection against natural infections, but the Wired title ignores that distinction and instead sows confusion by saying the vaccine simply "proves 100% effective".

> millions/year

You're right, I meant hospitalizations; sorry about that. Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a life-threatening condition that warrants hospitalization, and dengue fever in more vulnerable patients also can result in hospitalization.
The Problem with JPEG – Computerphile
No, in foresight. It was so dumb that secure messaging from 80's and 90's did better in various ways. High assurance already settled on proxies, guards, and per message crypto due to many attacks possible. Hushmail put the needed functionality in an applet to avoid relying on just web tech.

Then, there was Lavabit founder acting snobby talkinv about how he used same security as banks. What might that be? HSM's for keys, link encryption, and per user policies? No, one SSL key protecting everyone like a generic website. Ohhh....

Definitely foresight on my part when I avoided that and similar services. Not to mention I thought they'd 0-day the servers. Still not sure why they didnt. You dont need US government in your threat profile to know top notch hackers like Chinese, Russians, and Israelis might target you to see who you're hiding with "bank style" security.

Note: I protect my Hacker News posts with bank-grade security. I require a login, name, and HTTPS on all posts. I feel safer already.
IBM Watson now powers a Hilton hotel robot concierge
> My guess (BIG UNEDUCATED GUESS) is that the DoD doesn't take too kindly to its contractors not renewing its contracts

You may burn some bridges in your example but think of DoD like any other organization. If it's not getting the spotlight, there will be no hard feelings when things turn.
As it already is in some cases in the United Kingdom. Granted, their freedom of speech protections aren't as great as ours, but if Congress really wanted to, what's to stop them from making a Consitutional ammendment that declares encryption keys as not being protected under the Fifth Ammendment?
The difference is that they are lying. Hushmail encryption is not end-to-end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail
I think it can be a problem if they stuff the GI learns is morally tainted (doesn't emphasize the high price of life) and it has control over life and death.
I predict that in 10 years, more people than not will be wearing a smart watch of some type that will continuously be tracking vitals. You'll probably even be offered a free one by your employer or health provider.

Average heartrate gradually going up over the last few weeks? Your doctor's office will ping you to drop by. Sleep patterns have been erratic lately? Send down an electronic questionnaire to see what's up. You see? If you unveil the symptoms sooner, you can treat them sooner. That makes sense. $$$.
A place "obsessed with status and pedigree" is not a meritocracy. Success depends on status and pedigree and not on merit.
Having a feedback loop, reflex reactions and the ability to access the situation and recover dynamically would be much more useful.

Agreed. But none of that implies learning. So why are you talking about learning in the beginning of your comment?

This happens all too often in AI conversations. Learning gives you a special and powerful kind of flexibility, of course. But not being able to learn doesn't imply it can't cope with an infinite range of situations. A robot that's unable to learn could be programmed with enough flexibility to walk on any surface it could possibly encounter.
Coincidentally at GitLab.com we just openend up the project search to logged out users https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13676
San Francisco gripes about subway and Bart completely agrees on Twitter
This is misrepresenting the data. The majority of economists and the relevant literature agree that allowing more freedom of immigration improves the welfare of American worker. This is ignoring the huge benefits to the immigrants themselves. To appeal to what I imagine HN's ideology is, the arguments are similar to those around making the market more free--when you prevent buyers and sellers from making transactions they otherwise would, you inhibit growth.

Only 9% of economists disagree with the statement: "The average US citizen would be better off if a larger number of low-skilled foreign workers were legally allowed to enter the US each year."

http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-re...

0% of economists disagree with the statement: "The average US citizen would be better off if a larger number of highly educated foreign workers were legally allowed to immigrate to the US each year."

http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-re...

EDIT, since we're at the reply limit: Borjas is kind of heterodox, and without the chance now to do a better review of his literature I'm inclined to sided with the fairly overwhelming consensus. Picking two graphs that look similar isn't really a convincing argument, and 'redistribution' implies that this is a zero-sum change.

My position generally is that H-1B's (and whatever *-1B you suggest) would generally be good for the economy, though suffer from implementation issues and unnecessary restrictions.
There is a lot of reporting and research about it. Look up Gamergate, for instance.
So much so that one might be led to suspect a coordinated effort, or a "conspiracy"? It's not only western countries, Japan for example is eagerly part of the program.
So - what would you conclude if both the control group and the vaccine group didn't contract dengue during the trial?
Probably speaks to the quality of their product. There are a bajillion free IDEs out there and people are willing to PAY IntelliJ.

That being said, their personal licensing is so affordable that I wouldn't blink to buy it out of my own pocket it if my company didn't pay for it. If you don't need IDEA, I think most of the smaller ones are $50 for a personal license.

I used Eclipse for Java and Komodo for Python/PHP for years. Then Komodo 8 was so bad that I gave PHP Storm a try and liked it so much I gave IDEA a try for Java and never looked back.
What was thd class of the inmigrant? Where did they go to school? And were those that funded them immigrants?

Then the big picture emerges.
This wasn't a public statement. It was an email to colleagues.

"Let's not comment" is, I think, the default position of PR departments everywhere on everything unless there is a crisis or a marketing campaign going on. Throwing fuel on a fire isn't wise unless you want there to be a fire.