skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gorging on cheap credit works great until it doesn't, then you're screwed.

Even debt on a 30 year timeline has to be repaid eventually. Pushing the limits of how much credit is available leaves a country with no margin left to weather an economic slowdown. See: Argentina at the turn of the millennium.

In the USA's case it already took on a huge amount of debt during the last financial crisis. Another round of deficit spending that big would put the US at its highest debt/GDP level ever and firmly into unknown territory as far as just how much credit the world is willing to extend it.

Edit: For the US this is an especially dangerous game to play because unlike most other nations, it is too large to be rescued by the IMF.
Some of us enjoy building robots and having more than a basic standard of living.
I feel like every time internet speeds increase I find reasons why I'd want it to be a bit faster. Currently, 4k video adoption is likely being held back by bandwidth speeds: http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/01/4k-streaming-bandwidt... - Youtube recommends encoding 60fps 4k video at 53-68 Mbps, which is beyond many people's internet connections. The business potential of technology rarely arises until the mainstream customer can use it.

This study quantifies the gains from a fairly macro perspective: https://www.ericsson.com/news/1550083. 0.3% GDP growth for doubling internet speeds seems reasonable and is not unsubstantial. My guess is doubling internet speeds is cheaper than e.g. adding public transportation to even a small number of cities.
I said trusted, not encrypted. I wasn't talking about private keys at all. I think I understand the issues involved. Thanks though.
And it has a BSD license, too. Unfortunately it's written in Python. I don't see Python becoming a requirement to update FreeBSD.
Yup, for example I specifically remember the New York Times rolling out a persistent campaign of pro-Facebook articles, several on the front page.
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I think now alot of companies are using that term for what is basically a data analyst or perhaps statistical analyst role. Because it sounds impressive it's a way to attract people because we have egos and would like a title that is externally fascinating.. 'look dad, I am a scientist!' Not to say there aren't some doing impressive things or that there is not valid science done with data. What I often have seen is more like BI roles marketed with a new title though.
Frankly if the US can get to $19 trillion in debt and not fall over, $4 trillion more won't kill it.

All the while, lenders have few other borrowers to have as customers on this scale. China is a black box and Europe is a disaster.
The GPUs in Apple computers may not be to Palmer Luckey's liking, but you can't deny that Macs have a high quality construction. For most people, this is what matters over the graphics performance: form factor, weight, battery life, screen brightness and color reproduction, quality of the keyboard and trackpad.
Net neutrality applies when your network provider holds destinations hostage. It doesn't apply when the destination volunteers to pay for your connectivity.
> Should no one work on the cure for a rare disease because it will provide little value to the world, in comparison to a more common one?

Well obviously. We should invest in whatever saves the most expected quality adjusted life years per unit of resource spent. Investing in rare diseases is just silly and missing a huge opportunity cost. Usually.
> Today there are a lot of jobs changing oil, mufflers, tune-ups etc, that will go away with the switch to electric cars.

But that isn't much of an issue with big rigs, nor with cars generally. The engine/powertrain isn't a big maintenance item on new cars. Engine internals are a very evolved and reliable bit of kit. It's the other things like brakes, wheels, control systems and electrics are the source of most maintenance costs. Those aren't going away with a shift to electrics. Some things will transfer over (air filtration) and new things will appear (battery systems maintenance) and, looking at teslas, powertrain maintenance will still be a thing.

With autodrive, there will be a host of systems that now need new maintenance. And, given that the driver isn't there to fix the little things on the spot, there may be an increase in demand for mechanics that can travel to locations.

Lastly, any switch to autodrive may radically increase trips to the mechanic. Plenty of cars drive around with engine warning lights on permanently. If you know what the problem is, sometimes you just live with it. Just look at the number of cars with blown headlights. An autodrive system might not be so willing to tolerate faults. We may have to keep the vehicles to a higher standard, increasing maintenance needs. (Also a great day for parts manufacturers.)
> Existing key distribution systems may or may not be encrypted, but the reason for encrypting the channel is far more to protect the interests of the requestor than the integrity of the key itself.

btrask wasn't saying that encryption is necessary for key distribution; he/she was saying that HTTPS guarantees identity and integrity, both of which are necessary to trust a key.

> What matters is that the web of trust associated with that key is sound (that is, you have assurance that the key belongs to whom you think it does), and that the integrity of the private key has been maintained.

That's a possible alternative to btrask's proposal, though you're equating "assurance that the key belongs to whom you think it does" with "web of trust". btrask's proposal is a special case of that, in which the web of trust is simply the sender.

> The first problem you point out, that any encrypted channel is not necessarily a secure channel

Correct, but not what btrask said. The first problem he pointed out was the fact that clients need to know whether a host expects secure communication before ever connecting to it.

> though given your misunderstanding on subsequent points I'm not sure how well that applies to this discussion

That's not very nice.
Chrome does preload public key pins for large sites, not that it's the ultimate solution to what you describe.
They were even worse before the Recovery Act funded some projects....but yes, mostly terrible
There's also The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. There was an article about it earlier this year. [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest...
4 trillion to start to fix our country's infrastructure but we spent $6 trillion in Iraq [1][2] that resulted in ISIS. We used to help rebuild economies like in Germany/Japan with economic plans implemented after WWII where everyone mutually benefits. Many other things could have been done to better economics, economics wins all wars. Maybe that is the long goal but it is almost two decades in and is in worse condition.

Building up infrastructure leads to better economics on those improved platforms. How about upgradeable GB internet across the country? How about an electric car upgradable highway charging system? How about paying down some debt not making more of it after each war since WWII? We sure know how to invest...

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/18/business/la-fi-mo-ir...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-iraq-war-cost-2-trill...
More often than you'd think, depends on how you judge the severity of these relative to the I-35 collapse, but on a human life scale there have certainly been many in the last couple decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures
My father once had the idea of taking my shoes to a shoe smith to have the soles repaired. That would have let me get it to 2 years, although unknown to him, I had a few years worth of spares in my closet. Anyway, if you want to make something that is made well last longer than its wearable components, replace them.

I just ordered a new touchpad sticker and keyboard for my 5 year old Thinkpad. I expect to replace the batteries within the next year, but other than that, I expect it to go to 10+ years, even though my previous Dell laptops did not make it past 5 years.
I haven't seen a single billboard of Sundar Pichai in India. Stop spreading lies.
If we ever paid down the national debt it would be a disaster. The government prints its own currency. The only reason to borrow is to give the market 100% accurate information on exactly how much the government is spending, as opposed to just printing more dollars. As long as the economy grows faster than the debt it can be rolled forever without any major problems.

Of course taxes are near historic lows in the post-war period so we can easily pay for it by raising taxes.

I'll also point out that the infrastructure spending stimulates the economy, generating tax revenue so the long-term cost isn't perfectly correlated with the immediate price tag. As long as the private sector isn't at capacity (or the spending is limited to actual infrastructure needs) it won't distort the market.
TBL's points here are well-made. In particular, there's the issue that security is a multidimensional probability field, not a binary state.

The questions of secure document transfer and/or interchanges are:

1. Am I talking to the party I intended to?

2. Is the communication free from third-party interception?

3. Is the message itself originated by the party I intended?

4. Are the contents of that message as originally intended by the author?

(Possibly more, but those strike me as the Big Four.)

There are various ways for this to fail, and there are different and independent assurances which can be afforded. I remeber the first time I heard phrases to the effect of "you can trust our secure webserver" in the context of commercial transactions, and cringed.

The present HTTP / HTTPS split addresses only a subset of these concerns, and few of them well, whilst breaking multiple elements of functionality.

I will note that TBL seems to be concerned over the expiration of old, previously-valid URLs. To that I can only say that this appears to be a lost battle. The duration of a contemporary URL is on the order of 40-45 days, I think from the Internet Archive. That's scarcely longer than an old-school Usenet post might be relied on to persist online, and suggests to me that perhaps the successor to Usenet is the Web, with origins and various archival services (archive.org, archive.is, the NSA, ...) providing robust storage needs to various audiences.
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Since I have bought a manual car, my efficiency has gone down by a ridiculous amount.

Fortunately the fun factor has gone up by the same amount so I don't care...
I agree. The stall Bourdain went to, across the street at Maxwell's, has always super long queues. Not 90 mins but still a pain. I'm glad most of the other stalls are usually not far off on their quality..
There is also a BSD-licensed version that we wrote in Go: https://github.com/flynn/go-tuf
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And I still disagree on that point.

Maybe I misunderstand (though I also think I understand teh issues involved pretty well), or maybe one or the other or both of us are communicating poorly.

How would you distinguish a trusted, encrypted, and untrusted channels, say?
Fiscal consolidation seems like an orphaned child in USA. The left does not believe in it and the right does not care anymore.
Doesn't ANTLR usually generate a bottom-up parser? I've never used ANTLR but it would be very odd to generate a recursive descent parser; LR grammars are parsed bottom-up (presumably the ‘LR’ in ‘ANTLR’).

Bottom-up parsers are nigh unreadable by mortals.
Agreed, especially since important infrastructure categories like communications and financial/banking are absent. The categories which are listed closely follow the Millennium Challenge top 10, according to that Wikipedia page, they "had the greatest positive impact on life in the 20th century."

But are achievements of the 20th century likely to be exclusively the same ones driving the 21st century? These categories are certainly still critical, but is it an exhaustive list?

I don't think anybody denies infrastructure is important. Hillary Clinton's plan is to spend $275bn on infrastructure[1]. Donald Trump wants double that[2]. But if we're going to spend billions or trillions of dollars we might want to make sure it's thoughtfully allocated.

1. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/fixing-americas-infras...
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/trump-clinton-...
Good thing that we are importing a lot of poor people, we should have no problem finding an extra 4 trillion.
That was Marc Andreessen, not Mark Zuckerberg. Marc A is on FB's board, though, and sadly a parody of his former self -- classic case of someone who got rich for luckily being in the right place at the wrong time, and coming out thinking he is a god.
Are you suggesting that containers provide about what chroot provides?

Containers provide chroot-like behavior for more than just the filesystem. Processes, user IDs, network interfaces... Chroot is filesystem only.
Please. This is what your numbers mean.

American Population in 1850: 23 million.
American Population today: 319 million.

American Farmers in 1850: 14.72 million.
American Farmers today: 6.38 million.

And this is with several major wars in between.

Basically we've gotten just better than twice as efficient in farming labor in 160 years (this is measured in man-hours worked). The value of that labor is what has changed. Farming itself is more efficient and we can feed 10 times as many people via refrigeration and shipping.
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Strunk and White. I put my email and phone number in the inside cover. Only for good friends. Have gotten contacts from people I haven't seen in 10 years.
What's the current market penetration of 4K video? I work in the industry and have no need for a 4K device. How many normal people even want, let alone have 4K capabilities?
This is so cliche, and so utterly passe. I wasn't a K-12 student all that long ago, and if I saw this, I would view it as another thinly veiled attempt at the teacher trying to feel good about how good a teacher they are, while being utterly boring.

That might be because I totally drink this flavour of kool-aid: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD103...
Generally speaking, monopolies are illegal for this very reason
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"markets" :)
FED holds 10% and other government agencies about 20% more.
FED is basically acting as buyer of last resort
there is already no buyers for about 10% of debt being issued.
Clarifying my own post: I'm insisting that neither a trusted or an ecrypted channel are necessary.

I said that an encrypted channel could be used, and that it might not be, but that if used encryption would largely serve as a protection to the requestor, who might otherwise be subject to traffic and/or interest analysis based on the specific keys they requested, which could be presumed to be of interest, or signing keys (I'm thinking PGP protocol here) of keys of interest. Either piece of information would reduce search space for an Eve.

I'm not equating trust of keys to web of trust, I'm stating that in existing (PKI/PGP) protocols, that is the assurance mechanism. And it is independent of either trust OR encryption of the key delivery channel itself.

There seems to be a rather profound difficulty in distinguishing what I've said with what I've said btrask said. I'm not sure how I could be clearer, but I'm open to pointers.
I think the root issue is that most people would rather drive a Tesla on 'decrepit' roads than pay 50% marginal tax rates and $2/L for gas to drive a Honda on the Autobahn. Give or take.
I agree with you. It just seems to me that people look at events like the rise of the Nazis as diabolical plots from another world that we -as humans- got rid of, often dismissing obvious warning signs because "it is certainly not that bad".
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While I agree with you wholeheartedly, I don't think the situation is that simple. The military industrial complex is the largest job program in US, maybe even human, history. While there was certainly a huge level of corruption and profiteering during the war, I don't think it's much different than inefficiencies in any other industry except for the magnitude. Even then I think healthcare in the US wastes just as much as the defense industry; maybe even more since our healthcare expenditure is at over 15% of GDP compared to the 20% of government income going to defense. Healthcare also has a huge impact on lives just like any war because every human being in the country comes in contact with our health system, often involving high stakes.

I think the way forward for the US is to completely retool the military industrial complex to a civilian/academic industry that utilizes its resources for the public good instead of geopolitical posturing. Between the factories, scientists, engineers, and trained, disciplined soldiers I think that the complex could single handedly turn around our infrastructure decline. US defense spending in 2000 was almost 400 billion so a decade later we'd still have spent the majority of the money we did, war or no. If we just cut the defense industry and reinvested in infrastructure instead of retooling our existing system, there's no telling whether the net result would be any better than what we have now just due to the shock to a $400-600 billion dollar jobs program and any social instability or brinkmanship that results (aka a demagogue like trump winning an election in a backlash).
With 'safety limiters' that you can reprogram or disable in about 5 seconds with no other tools.
Yeah, but that's a subset of "misbehaving servers break the web" as far as I can tell. HTTPS doesn't inherently cause this problem, it just provides one theoretical nucleation point for it.
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[a] If the ownership for the site's domain changes, how does the new owner undo the previous owner's preload?

[b] Is the only way to obtain the full preload list to extract it out of Chromium or Firefox source code? [1][2]

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/net/...

[2] https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/security...
Yes, I have been in this situation and I guess most programmers who started programming coz it is amazing felt the same at some point. I call this the "infatuation with tools", where we keep learning new languages, frameworks, libraries, OS etc but once you learn it you feel empty and bored coz somehow our subconsciousness develop the idea that tools gives you silver bullet to solve any problem, which of-course is wrong. The way to overcome this is that you need to understand that Computing is a tool that can be used to many problems. The tools are not fun and interesting rather the problems are fun and interesting. Think about real world problem and how computing can solve them or at least play a part in solving them. Get fascinated by problems and not tools. Probably that's why I hate most job postings where they say "hey do u know x,y,z tools?" rather than saying "Hey we want to solve X, are u interested?".

And yes, computing is about data and algorithms and nothing else. Don't fall into the trap of new names of same concepts. Always think about problems in terms of data and algorithms and no other bullshit like objects, patterns that so called software engineering piled up in search for a silver bullet.
The article you linked, doesn't say we spent $6 trillion in Iraq, it mentions a report saying the costs could be 6 trillion over the next 40 years. The infrastructure report wants 4 trillion by 2020. Very different time periods.
Yes, scientists do research, and even if you are doing experiments and analysis, if your results are not generalizable, then it's difficult to argue that's a 'research' pursuit. Applying established methods to a particular case is perhaps closer to engineering, or a more general term of 'analyst'.

Consider that all scientists are working with data, often very large and complex datasets, the term comes off like a joke.
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I've had the ergodox ez for a while now. Really like it. I had the advantage in the past and it didn't work well for me.
I made a 3d printable tent kit for the Ergodox EZ which has worked really well for me too.
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Yes, I should have said all drugs. It's not just cancer drugs that are artificially expensive.
In the context of sharing public keys, I'd say you merely need authentication. Web of Trust being one possible mechanism. This isn't a particularly advanced topic.

Relevant to my original post, information about whether the connection should be encrypted also merely needs to be authenticated, not encrypted itself. Of course, the HSTS preloading site uses HTTPS (with encryption) because it's easy and why not.
Unless you've walked every street in India, what right do you have to call them a liar?

I would be willing to be that there are at least two such billboards somewhere in the country, making his statement factual.
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I don't think production needs to be centralized for this to happen-- it's a variant on Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages/Iron Law of Rent. The theory being that workers tend towards being paid the bare minimum that they'll put up with being alive and procreating.

Now if technology means that it's trivial to give everyone plenty, this may not be "bad," but it wouldn't be exactly egalitarian.
True, but if i weren't a technically enabled client then I would want real fraud scrubbing, not this simplistic stuff based solely on someones IP address.

This is something you can add to your own heuristic, but not really use as-is.
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SciFi - Perdido Street Station - China Mieville - http://amzn.to/2aNoWFn

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How long did it take for consumers to go from 480p to 720p to 1080p? 4k+ provides little benefit for the average consumer because TVs aren't quite there yet but with VR/AR on the rise, how long with that remain true?

There are also huge network effects which may cloud the benefits, until suddenly some mass market consumer application makes it blatantly obvious. Youtube and Skype are so successful because a significant portion of the world has access to fast Internet and microphones/cameras to the point where I can talk to my grandparents in rural Russia despite not being able to visit them in person for almost a decade. What if our Internet was fast enough and our displays cheap enough that working remotely or across international offices becomes as simple as installing several wall sized monitors in geographically spread out rooms? The display tech will get there eventually (just look at the stuff Corning is working on), but if there isn't any infrastructure to utilize the tech it will take much longer for mass adoption. It's a chicken and egg loop but while the technology improves, we have to make the positive decision to invest in infrastructure even if the benefits aren't immediately clear.
Some people make things while other discuss the theory. Each has their place. There would be nothing to improve if people don't try.