skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your passport is another first world problem. "There are so many visa-free countries I can visit! How do I pick one to go to for my next vacation?"
At height of Turkish coup bid, rebel jets had Erdogan's plane in their sights
It was my understanding that towers were in the back so pilots could look not only at their destination, but also down on the ship to see its orientation
> MediaNama: As far as I understand, they wouldn’t know the IP address of the host server?

> Matthew Prince, Cloudflare: They should not. That is true.

> MediaNama: So the only way they can understand what to block via this route is by sniffing every packet?

> Matthew Prince, Cloudflare: That is what I’m concerned about, but we don’t have a satisfactory answer at this point. But you are correct, that is what I infer.
> What else in the world MUST GO UP IN PRICE!

Pretty much everything. The stagnation and zero inflation of many economies is a problem.
Housing bubbles (where prices outpace incomes) are particularly damaging for the long term survival of a civilization because they hit it where it really counts: family formation.

Celebrating high housing prices is the civilizational equivalent of giving a toast as you sit down to a banquet of your seed corn.
"The cost of administering a cap and trade system to the minor producers would be incredibly expensive - the legislation would instead focus on gouging the five major producers"

Why is that different from the tax approach? Wouldn't taxing the 50,000 minor producers appropriate to their levels of pollution be equally as expensive?
The problem is this is far removed from the world that we live in.

Here in the UK, at least in the south/east where the jobs are, monthly rents tend to be the same order of magnitude as monthly mortgage payments on a 25-year loan for a home of the same size in the same location.

The choice therefore is not between low rent or high purchase cost; it's between making about the same payment for 25 years then never again, or making it for your whole life (while your landlord keeps it for their nest egg).

Since you have to live somewhere, if you are able to get a loan at all, and barring expectation of massive disaster, buying seems to be a no-brainer.

Two things could change that equation. We could add vast numbers of rental properties to the market, enough that the competition forces down rent prices by a very significant amount. The private sector is certainly not going to shoot itself in the foot in this way, and conservative UK governments have been pushing hard in the other direction, so this seems unlikely.

The other alternative would be to reduce the need for homes in expensive places by having more people live together, in cheaper areas. We're seeing this happen by default now as young people are priced out of the market, but widespread telecommuting has the potential to make this a plausible deliberate choice rather than a forced decision.

No idea how the US situation compares, natch
Who said they cared about the environment? They wanted lower fuel costs to save themselves money, which makes perfect sense.
Since you know so much about shipping, why don't you go tell them that then?
That's not really a summary of the article, which is about a particular company.

And the article itself already has a nice condensed explanation of the fraud: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-fake-biofuel-factory/...
For sure. From the perspective of a visitor to the site, you see the padlock, it should be secure. Cloudflare makes it extremely easy to disguise an insecure endpoint as a secure one. In fact, Cloudflare does this for free! It harms visitors.
The tricky part is that there is no guarantee that the hot skill of today will still be hot once you've developed expertise. When I was a young junior software engineer in 2005-07, for example, the hot skill that everybody wanted but few people had was Javascript (recall that this was before JQuery, let alone Node). It was great for a few years, and helped me get my foot in the door at a couple places where I could learn other skills. But now basically everybody knows Javascript, and it's looked down upon as the language of junior developers.

If I were you, I'd look for a sub-field that's interesting, something where you enjoy doing the work and learning the material itself. And then wait for the rest of the world to come around. When you look at people who are actually acknowledged as experts, it's usually because they got started on something before it was cool, and then had built up years of expertise when the world decided that this was suddenly the hot new thing. Note that there's plenty of risk in this: there's no guarantee that the world will actually come around, and you might end up working on something that the rest of the world thinks is a niche hobby. But at least you'll be working on something you enjoy, which is sorta the point of life after all.
Runways are aligned with the prevailing winds in the area, such that aircraft can land along either direction depending on the wind. The uphill/downhill slope thing would require twice as many runways per airport lest pilots be stuck trying to take off uphill into the wind.
If you don't intend to sell antytime soon, that's not si very important
> No, if you belong to the working class or the upper class, you most definitely don't think of yourself as middle class.

That's utter baloney.

I know people with $150,000 / year combined income who think of themselves as middle class, despite being in the upper 10% of income in this country.
The american definition of middle class is "there shows on TV that are about people like me."
Wait usenet is still alive??
Thanks! I had almost forgotten about the container networking mayhem. Would love to find out what progress has been made over the past six months since the blog post was written.
Absolutely. For reference interested readers can read up on the Mfecane [1], an African war / genocide in which some 2 million people were killed / genocided.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mfecane
> I'm always astounded by americans who think that your income bracket defines your class.

Given that defining class is entirely and inherently arbitrary in nature, it means your premise is no more valid than an American that chooses to define themselves on class by income.
TL;DR:

MediaNama: So the only way they can understand what to block via this route is by sniffing every packet?

Matthew Prince, Cloudflare: That is what I’m concerned about, but we don’t have a satisfactory answer at this point. But you are correct, that is what I infer.
I don't know if RINs are good or bad, but I don't think you can say that this article proves anything.

It might equally be that the system is open to widespread fraud, but with a bit of effort it can be made watertight.

Or that there is a tiny amount of fraud which the authorities are mostly on top of, as the case of the two imprisoned felons from the article shows.
The numbers that I would find interesting, and which may very well be out there, is startup failure rate by average founder age.

It's an easy discussion to fall victim to selection bias.
They mention that they have monitoring that would quickly notify people if any significant amounts of money started to be stolen.
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Interest, tax, and PMI are a total loss every time too.
Therein lies the rub: infinite growth cannot be sustained in any finite system. This fosters an environment where real value & perceived value diverge and balloons occur...and pop. Beany Baby Marketing 101.
> Notice I say price and not value, for it is truly only the price going up. Their utility remains static, or decreases as the view is blocked by high rises.

Interesting observation, does make sense. I suspect a strong relationship to the land the house is built on. The value of the house itself should go down indeed, because the house deteriorates from the moment it is built.

However, the house makes that land usable and the land underneath it might become more valuable, because more people want it in dense areas.

Accordingly, house prices fall in less desired areas.
Rivkin is a short, stocky 51-year-old who grew up in Atlanta, the son of a surgeon. He started Green Diesel in October 2005.
At hundreds of miles an hour, isn't wind resistance orders of magnitude stronger than rolling friction? If you live somewhere with even moderate wind, and that wind doesn't always blow in the same direction, you'd want to take off with the wind and land against it, which would cause problems when that meant landing on the downslope or taking off on the upslope. I suppose you could mitigate that by having runways that slope up and to the east, down and to the east, etc.
I got the opposite impression. My impression is that he's addressing our own problems. And that countries with less evolved rules and, yes, poor, might be the best partners.
Paint stores have lots of English indistinguishable names for colors, with people who take 20 shades of green very seriously.

If you need an idea, that affect language far more than language affects ideas.
Some of the smarter among us own homes, because they can delay gratification, and save. That same saving and delayed gratification could be used to put money into a business that benefits others, instead of a home, which benefits basically only them and their close family. Not only do they misallocate that capital, while being the intelligent class that can actually run a successful business, or service, which benefits others. That's just bad thing 1.

Bad thing 2 is that they cop an attitude, and affect legislation which causes their "investment" in owning a home to rise in price. Executed by preventing competition (zoning laws) and being more costly for everyone else to buy, because they demand and fight for it. *Homestead tax exemption, etc. Their choice to own a home makes them want others to have a harder time to get what they themselves have, through the vehicle of higher prices, and tax benefits to the capital class.

Thus intelligent, useful people, become cockblockers. Houses must become more and more unaffordable for everyone else, because they happen to own one. :( How selfish. Sadly, the idea that high house prices screw over more people than they benenfit is undermarketed, and its impossible to teach a man a thing he profits by not understanding... We end up in a world where no young person can afford to own the home they live in. And if you try to build some new supply, the local captured regulatory agency, vetos you. The zoning board of people who already have nice houses, cock blocks you. Not in my backyard!

Stop cock blocking. Stop expecting your future to be paid for by your non productive, benefits only you "asset." Go forth and benefit others at scale if you desire riches.
Even if it's intentional, at some point of obviousness it starts being a front door.

They already have multiple backdoors and they have a proven history of poor implementation.
An arguably better treatment of this topic from the WSJ a few weeks ago: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/21/not-just-the-1-the... (The key finding is that most of the people who have "left" the middle class have gone up, not down.)
What job can you get from "Gender Studies" beside teaching it ?
The new hires at the G.M. plant in Lordstown Oh. are only starting at $15.hr.They now have the line separated by a fence new hires on one side old-timers on the other , the old timers are making between $28. to $38. hr , last I heard . . so really by old standards only the old guys our comfortably still middle class.
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> it isn't that expensive though. ~500,000 euros. Any homeowner in the bay area could do it.

I'm not sure whether to roll my eyes at over half a million dollars being "not that expensive" or the assertion that any Bay Area homeowner has that much liquidity to just toss at a Maltese passport. Unless you're suggesting selling the house to do it.
"How many miles would autonomous vehicles have to be driven to demonstrate that their failure rate is statistically significantly lower than the human driver failure rate? ... Suppose a fully autonomous vehicle fleet had a true fatality rate that was A=20% lower than the human driver fatality rate of 1.09 per 100 million miles, or 0.872 per 100 million miles. We apply Equation 7 to determine the number of miles that must be driven to demonstrate with 95% confidence that this difference is statistically significant ... It would take approximately 5 billion miles to demonstrate that difference. With a fleet of 100 autonomous vehicles test-driven 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at an average speed of 25 miles per hour, this would take about 225 years."

This is from http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1478.html

I'd love to hear any problems with RAND's analysis, because it'd be great for this to not be the case.
Art of Illusion: Open source 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java
The short version is Hong Kong which has worked out spectacularly. So I'm not sure I understand the source of your negativity.
I think I've once seen a service, which collected detailed information about the passports and other identification documents from all around the world and provided access to this over the Internet (probably in exchange for nice amount of $$$/€€€ per month).

I just can't remember the name of the service and also can't figure out appropriate search terms.
Not in the significant numbers that have been coming into France by way of land.

Statistically speaking, the fewer terrorists you allow into your country, combined with the fewer amounts of terrorist organizations you allow to operate in your country, the fewer terrorist attacks you will have.
It's an interesting question, specialization vs generalization.

It may be easier for a generalist to get a job (any job) because there will always be somebody who needs to get X done with Y technology and somebody who can learn Y technology quickly and get X done is in demand.

On some level you are not going to be all that productive doing that since you will spend your time learning how to get the length of of a String with technology Y and then having to learn it all over against with technology Z.

At that rate, however, you will be a "junior developer" when you are 45.

On the other hand if you develop some specialized skill it may well be that this skill is not in demand or that the jobs involving this skill may not be well paying, etc. (i.e. many of the best paying jobs give you hazard pay for working with toxic people, toxic code, toxic tooling, etc. -- even if you are objectively more productive taking a "path less followed" you are bucking the dominant paradigm)

There is "no silver bullet" for careers in software development.
Kiasu on his list is essentially 'FOMO' - fear of missing out. I think acronyms are an interesting way to integrate some of these untranslatable words into our own cultural lexicon.

http://www.drtimlomas.com/#!lexicography/cm4mi
Some runways in mountainous areas are built this way out of necessity. The best known is this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courchevel_Altiport

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Courchevel+Alti...

It makes for some really dramatic landings. Upon touchdown you have to apply full power, or you might not make it to the top of the runway. Also, there is no go-around. You either land successfully, or you crash. There is no third option.

The take-off is quite a ride too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Wr3ilAWpo
And that's the important bit here.

A CC license doesn't give you the right to award Google all the rights it demands in Section 8 of the YouTube TOS. To try to do so violates the CC license, terminating your original agreement. Yeah, breaking a license term makes you liable.

Just to restate it, it is illegal to upload content to YouTube under a CC license because it's instantly an infringement. Of course if you have separate permission (or its yours) that's okay but that's not a CC license, that's a dual-license to you.

This is really common with user-submitted-content sites. Equally common is users not understanding this fact. Or caring.

Google has safe harbour. This is their users actions... But they {c,sh}ould be doing more to interrogate uploaders about the material source and licenses. Instead they just seem happy to let the DMCA do its work.
Economies are not zero-sum.

The flow of capital and education to poor countries would increase their productivity (and thus wages and standard of living) while the increased supply of labor decreases prices in rich countries, and the new equilibrium would be strictly better for both sides.

Find a good economics textbook. (This is an issue where economists are in almost universal agreement, and almost universally opposed by politicians and the general public).
All we have to do is figure out how to replicate the efficiency and relative lack of corruption of the British civil service, the relative military superiority of their Navy, the untapped economic power of China, and the political ability to kick the project off with a racist narco-trafficking based trade arrangement enforced with weapons, and just sit back and watch as we yield great benefits in about 100 years.
Especially when human rights are only bestowed on citizens by a government and denied for others just for not being born in their country. Seems hypocritical to me.
Coups Don't Depress Economic Growth
> I'd guess very few of libertarianism's opponents believe in socialist utopias

Just as most libertarians are not anarcho-capitalists. My point is that you don't need to believe in the utopia (in either direction) to believe that a smaller move would be positive.

> what the article suggests is about as far from an incremental step and one can possibly get...

In terms of total impact, drastically changing the rules in a region where no one currently lives could certainly be a smaller step than slightly changing the rules for millions of people, which is what most political arguments are about.
I see this a little bit different. There are always booming industries precisely because they aren't regulated a lot by the government which open up a venue for all kinds of people with all kinds of backgrounds to make their way to the top without a college education.

Then after some time governments start regulating that industry until only the ones with connections and degrees from good colleges have the chance to enter the industry.

This is the moment when this industry ceases to enable people based on merit (smart, working hard) to move up the social ladder.

Eventually this industry dies because of this process, because now it is not the strong willed, smartest and hardest working that make it to the top but instead it's a bunch of drones from colleges that all have the same thinking, manners and world views.

I believe this has already happened in the financial industry and I feel that in the next 1 or 2 decades this will also happen in the IT industry, which currently isn't heavily regulated.

I myself (immigrating from a Socialist country) made it in one of the richer EU countries to the top 0,5% of society without a college education (I dropped out) in the IT sector and I'm quite sure that I wouldn't have made it if this industry was heavily regulated.

I equate regulation to an entry cost to do business in some area. While regulation in itself isn't bad too many regulations can over time create an environment where only the ones that already have money can enter the playing field.

It's kind of like the rich and powerful see that there's an industry where a lot of profit can be made and the first thing they do is to immediately create entry barriers with regulations so only their own offspring can claim future profits in this industry.
Is there a real world, factually verifiable example of this ever happening in the past, or is this an untested theory?
> flavor

I can't turn senses into words. I can't stare at a scene and capture the equivalent of a photograph by talking. But any thoughts I have about the strawberries or the scene, I can put into words.
Leverage is the key. Someone could buy a $200k house for $20k of their own money in the form of a deposit for a mortgage. Now say house prices go up 4% a year (so probably less than S&P) for 5 years, while the mortgage interest is 1.5%. So they will have paid in approx $70k, and gained nearly $30k in asset appreciation. That's a 40% return on your cash, and you've not had to pay any rent!
No, I only find examples of Yahoo & Bing being caught at it. Google hasn't been caught, and they promise not to do evil.
home equity line of credit

the primary distinction I was hoping to make was that you didn't need to be an international spy or an oil baron to achieve the levels of wealth necessary to get these things.
The technology exists, but there's reluctance to give it too much authority. That's changing, especially in the military.

Full-authority automated ground collision avoidance is now on many F-16 fighters. It's a retrofit, and 440 aircraft had been retrofitted by 2015. First avoided crash was in 2015.[1] Here's a test where the pilot goes into a hard turn and releases the controls, and the automated GCAS, at the last second, flips the plane upright and goes into a steep climb.[2] Because this is for fighters, it doesn't take over until it absolutely has to. The pilot can still fly low and zoom through mountain passes. The first users of this system, the Swedish air force, said "you can't fly any lower". It's a development of Lockheed's Skunk Works.

This technology is supposed to go into the F-35, but it's not in yet.

This may eventually filter down to commercial airliners, but they'd need more capable radars that can profile the ground. This is not GPS and map based; it's looking at the real world.

[1] http://aviationweek.com/defense/ground-collision-avoidance-s...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPr2LWctwYQ
Tesla has not shown that that is the case, despite proclaiming so. I've commented enough in this thread already, but see http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1478.html

I really would like to hear Tesla's response to this criticism of their apparently flawed statistical analysis.
> If all the worlds borders were open then economies would move to the average.

That's not the case. That premise would only hold true in a bad simulation - ie one that ignored or removed thousands of factors. Back in actuality, those thousands of factors would still ensure drastic differences between countries. Equilibrium in regards to this premise is inherently impossible. Any amount of friction alone guarantees it, and there would be vast amounts of friction.

One other simple reference proves this point dramatically as well: governance.

The equilibrium theory of borders is equivalent to the perfect market pricing theory in equity markets. Both assume and require omniscience along with perfect action at all times by all actors. All possible knowledge must be perfectly distributed to all actors involved at all times, and then digested and acted on identically at exactly the same time. It collapses into comedy extremely quickly if you try to actually pursue the thought concept.