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The point you're making is orthogonal to the point Aitel is. Aitel is saying that on a day-to-day operational basis, Russia and China are usually using a different set of vulnerabilities than the USG is. So, putting Russian discoveries of USG tradecraft aside, the point he's making is very simple: is the USG is obligated to disclose its bugs, and meanwhile Russia is clearly not and never will be, then Russia has an advantage: it's bugs are safe, but its adversary has to churn through new ones.

That's all I think he's saying.
I'm really curious - I've heard no one mention the concept of "hell-banning". Basically, instead of outright banning destructive users, you make all of their content only visible to themselves. It reminds me of the phrase "in space, no one can hear you scream". Eventually, after a while they stop posting. If they don't notice this for a while, they waste efforts posting content that no one will ever see. It's a bit like an automatic cold shoulder from the community.
> train for the current war instead of falling into the trap of preparing to fight the last one < This is likely true, but they haven't done all that well in the last few they started. The completely flat-footed occupations have been more than a little humbling I'd have thought.
In other words, inflation.
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Though presumably not $6+ trillion, right?
For more on the dynamic peg controversy, this article lays it out in detail:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-12-22/the-flash...

TL;DR:

> In other words, the objection goes, IEX uses the magic shoebox (and its router's ability to skip the shoebox) to do "latency arbitrage" and trade with stale quotes on other exchanges before traders on those exchanges can update their quotes, just like it accuses high-frequency traders of doing to its own investors. And, the objection goes, if it's unfair for high-frequency traders to do this to IEX's customers, then it's just as unfair for IEX's customers to do it to high-frequency traders.

[but maybe this is just leveling the playing field...]
> First, who is getting fired for this and what outsider will be brought in to fix this to keep it from happening again.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not believe the military has ever successfully and accurately completed its accounting in the modern era, so probably not.

It's also not like the military leadership's major concern is accounting practices.

> Second, is a larger question. Why do US citizens tolerate spending a disproportionate amount of their financial resources on their military?

We like and have gotten used to having a military that arguably more powerful than any other in the world. That requires lots of money, but most people big enough policy wonks to understand the degree of waste.
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Its some kind of advertising? How can I read it outside of a paywall?
Yes, but if it's a totally different program there's no real reason to expect the output to be even slightly similar.
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The code reads the file into a big buffer and then does array operations to index into it, which seems like the opposite of what you want for a good decoder. Using iterators etc. will let you read the file incrementally and will avoid array bounds checking.
I did the same last October. It's definitely illegal, only ETECSA kiosks are allowed to sell the cards. But resellers are ubiquitous and it seems that the authorities mostly turn a blind eye.
I know all about Duverger's Law, but that isn't the point. There are more than two candidates and refusing to acknowledge that only accentuates the problems caused by the first-past-the-post polling system. It's lazy reporting and people should rail against it.
You make me wonder what I should do to preserve my Steam account now... Maybe there's some way to get a VM image of the computer in offline mode?
> Even more notably, the benefits of improving your credit score early are immense.

[citation needed]

EDIT: I also particularly like the part where "financial literacy" is used as a surrogate for "people who want to overleverage themselves to make the bankers money".
Oh, clickbait. Nevermind.

I suppose maybe this identifies the polarity of backchannel.com's political alignment.
That's true, but after years of typing "ls" into terminals that's just more natural.
T'so is simply wrong. I don't know that it's worth going into any more detail than that. You can look to threads on HN where he's commented about the utility of weak and strong random to see that concerns simply aren't rooted in cryptographic reality. He is simply not a cryptographer.

Meanwhile, teams of people who are cryptographers of world renown, such as the Bernstein, Lange, and Schwabe team that designed and implemented Nacl, just use urandom.

This case is closed. Use the system call interface by all means if it's available to you! But don't use userspace RNGs, like OpenSSL and GPG do, and don't use /dev/random.
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The article describes interpersonal Prisoner's Dilemmas, where if every person optimizes for themselves, the final result will be worse for each and every person (than if they had all shown restraint). As the article points out, this may explain pollution and overfishing.

There are also intertemporal Prisoner's Dilemmas, where each if person-at-time-T optimizes for their immediate goals, the final result will be worse for each and every moment in that person's life. This may explain why we overeat: any given moment is made better with a Big Mac, but if you ate a Big Mac all the time every moment your life would be made much worse than if you led a restrained, healthy life.
This appears to be the source document: http://www.dodig.mil/pubs/documents/DODIG-2016-113.pdf
65B is still significant. 65B is still almost 1.8% of the total budget for 2015. If you say the government spent 620B on defense, that means 10% of that can't be accounted for. Imagine if you couldn't find 10% of your paycheck at the end of the year. It isn't a trivial amount.
There are two candidates with actual chances of winning; so "both presidential candidates" is fine to say.

There will be at least three candidates who are on the ballot in enough states to win. Beyond that, we should be very careful of making advance declarations about who and can't win. The media even more-so, exactly because they serve to influence who wins and loses.
I put money into LC's automated investing system 25 days ago. The money has been gradually lent out, and I expect the last loan to close today or Monday. There were plenty of borrowers at the low-risk, low-interest end of the scale, but it took a long time to lend out the money in my high-risk pools. It's too early to extrapolate, but I expect a noticeable fraction of my money to be uninvested most of the time.

LC's documentation says lenders with a large uninvested percentage get priority over lenders who are almost fully invested. That matches my experience. I hit 80% invested in four or five days and waited until now for the last 20%.
If I ever chose to invest with K2, it would be entirely because of our contribution to HN. You always make great posts about financial news.
Time, as a print magazine assumes it role to pontificate on the lower class of publishing medium. In it's knowed position of media, they point out surface level and uncontroversial annoyances. Trolls are easy to spot, but it's a distraction from what Time isn't going after: the under-informed and sensationalized media assaulting the public non-stop from every direction.

Time, as a print magazine, doesn't dare acknowledge this fact. They're in the same exact business as tabloids, just at different rungs on the respectability ladder. So they're both going to go after the trolls. The fact Milo works for Breitbart only gets a parenthetical mention. They don't stop to question the quality of Breitbart's content, just play a bit of guilt by association towards it's board.

Of course it only gives more power to Weev and Milo's actions. But Time needs the trolls to be powerful, because if they weren't Time couldn't teach you to hate them.
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It's not even just an internet thing, you see this situation in pretty much every community, offline or online. Surfing beaches getting flooded by tourists, gyms get taken over every January, the quiet, local bar suddenly becoming a college bar, it happens to any community place that starts out small but has a low barrier to entry. I can't even count how many times I've had to find new spots to skate (downhill longboarding, nothing that damages property or anything) because more and more people started showing up and the cops end up being called.

It's just another example of the tragedy of the commons.
What you just described is my whole approach to programming and problem solving in general. Having time for your brain to chill out makes you exponentially more productive when you are actually working.
The main reason for the increase in education costs is the availability of student loans.

Lenders will loan huge amounts of money to students, who have often never worked and have no assets, because the loans are almost impossible to discharge or otherwise get out of. In many cases, students qualify to borrow more money than even their parents could.

State governments know that students can get student loans in pretty much all circumstances, and they use that as a justification to cut funding to state colleges -- after all, aid is available for those who need it.

Colleges increase tuition to make up for the shortfall in state funding. They also need to attract students who have the means, via the loans, to attend the school of their choice. So, colleges build amenities, such as luxurious student housing and health clubs, which increase operating costs and necessitate further increases in tuition.

Meanwhile, students are being told by their parents that they will have no problem paying back their loans, but that's not generally true. Their parents went to school before this vicious cycle of loans and funding emerged, and don't fully understand the burden these loans can cause for new grads, especially in non-STEM fields. The students borrow more than they ought to.

This is a parable of unintended consequences.
Source document: http://www.dodig.mil/pubs/documents/DODIG-2016-113.pdf
2-a. The Unites States spend 3.3% of it's GDP on the military. This is in line with other countries. Japan and EU are spending less only because they are under NATO (US) defense umbrella. France, for example, is at 2.1%, so 3.3% is hardly disproportionate.

2-b. Military spending (along with other public spending) is the cornerstone of Keynesian economy. It's the best way known to man to stave off deflationary spiral.

2-c. Military spending is the driver of innovation. Pretty much all of US technological dominance is rooted in military spending. Nearly all of our jobs here on HN came form that.

2-d. Projection of power brings tangible benefits to the US economy.

So 3.3% is a real bargain, all things considered.

[EDIT] Many comments ignored the benefits part of my argument. Yes, 3.3% is larger than 2%, it was not lost on me. Now consider that in exchange for the 1.3% the US managed to snag the first place in the high-tech industry with a huge lead over the rest of the world. Until just recently almost everyone who is anyone in the high-tech world was based in the US. Boeing, Intel, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Google, Yahoo, Uber, AirBnB, the list goes on and on. It's not an accident. That 1.3% comes back many times over. And it's just one of the benefits.

Look, I dislike people-killing as much as the next guy. But you can't ignore the economic realities, especially if you want to change the status quo.
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The general perception of the marginal cost of a vendor of stocking and selling the good, as compared with the price they ask you and the value-added service they offer. With digital goods, the marginal cost of delivering you a copy is pretty much zero. As for service provided - it depends, but most of the time, the service itself doesn't seem to be costing much more than "pretty much nothing".

What matters is perception. To use Amazon Kindle Store as an example - the primary service they (and most on-line merchants) offer you is... a payment gateway. It doesn't seem expensive. They also host the ebooks, but again - downloading digital goods is free at the margin. You could say that e-book prices also subsidize Kindle R&D and/or manufacturing (not sure if that's true, but assuming it for the sake of an example) - but at this point I have to ask, why should I care?

Businesses like to move around costs and profits and do anything but transparent pricing in order to maximize profits. Koerig sells you coffee machines at a loss for price X, and then tries to make it up with DRMed, overpriced coffee pods. I feel it's unfair because - why should I care about the coffee pods subsidizing my coffee maker? They didn't tell me up-front they're doing it, they just sell me a coffee maker for X.

Similarly with ebooks. The marignal costs to the retailer are zero, so the price should be low too - if they're subsidizing something with ebook sales, that's not my problem. I'll call expensive ebooks unfairly priced. If they want me to think the price is fair, they need to work on my perception of their cost structures, instead of obfuscating everything.
Awesome stuff! Why are you guys focusing on produce as opposed to say corn, which has so much more acreage in the US?
1: Necessary service industries like healthcare and higher education cannot be easily replaced with alternatives for the same price point. There's a reason few people choose to go to SUNY Binghamton while many others fight tooth-and-nail to get into Cornell. Likewise, if you need a medical procedure done and are in pain/discomfort, are you really gonna go for the cheaper option?

2: Real estate is a highly regulated industry and the costs of which are baked into nearly every facet of every local economy. It affects the price of food, haircuts, tax consulting, name it, when those businesses are affected by the rents, which are largely affected by property taxes, which are affected by the local economy...it's a tough cycle, one that cannot be "innovated" or "disrupted" by some new app or device, no matter how revolutionary.

Self-driving cars and 3D printers don't change the fact that everybody has to live somewhere and work somewhere.
Inflation is a general increase in prices. This is an increase in prices for some goods, and a decrease for others.
I think it's gotten worse. It's one thing for some dude to argue anonymously. It's another thing to make credible death threats and such.

My daughter wrote a paper about Gamergate and the crap around that, and she was afraid to publish it widely for fear of retaliation. A bandmate wrote a fantastic song about trolls hating on women in gaming, and we only play it live because she's afraid of what will happen if we release a recording. It's scary. Women are justifiably afraid of what will happen to them if they publicly criticize the trolls.
Without knowledge of the law in this specific case, it still feels like there are reasonable grounds that a private, not-publicly-traded company should be allowed to keep its financials private.

Though of course, any such NDA should be revealed ahead of time, including the precise language of the NDA, so that investors (and yes, employees who receive equity in lieu of cash are investors) make a fully informed decision.
>Second, is a larger question. Why do US citizens tolerate spending a disproportionate amount of their financial resources on their military?

The larger question still is how did you come to the conclusion that they spend a disproportionate amount on military?
It's corruption that really drives the desire to find out where the money is going. Waste & pork are acceptable on some levels, but most people have zero tolerance for corruption on the public dime, and are thus driven to find it.

Now, how you can give the data to find corruption without revealing black ops, I don't know.
> They have been a part of the internet since the first BBS.

Yes, they have. But ordinary people have not. And I believe this is the biggest problem. The trolls have been setting the tone of a Internet that most people don't want.

I want a Internet without harassment and harsh/trololol comments. We need to fight back against the trolls.
Some of these functions are easy to compose to get something impressive, true. But that is not often the case. Take the case for games and imagine we wanted a meta-algorithm to select an algorithm to apply to each game. The intelligence would then shift into, how does one select the correct algorithm for the current game in the shortest time possible?

There was a recent blog post covering this and the difficulties involved:

http://togelius.blogspot.ca/2016/08/algorithms-that-select-w...

I also posted a link (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00289v2.pdf) above which is an easily readable exposition on just how current approaches fall short. It's nothing so trivial as "it's just not what we're used to".
If you think about the insane cutting edge technology the Special Forces teams get, 6 Trillion seems a bit. . . .low.

Case in point are the Stealth helicopters they used in the Bin Laden raid. Up to that point, no one outside the military and probably very few inside the military knew they existed.

A fact that would have been concealed had they not crashed one during the operation.
C++ is not just boost and ICU - there are a handful of C++ libraries with a good ABI compatibility track record, for example Qt and the KDE stack.

The C++ ABI of Microsoft Visual Studio is stable since practically forever, albeit with a severe restriction: the language ABI is stable, but not the C++ (or even C) standard library ABI - every Visual Studio release comes with a new incompatible msvcrNNN.dll. But you can load as many different runtime libraries into a process as you like, the big practical restriction is that you can't pass standard library objects allocated by one runtime to a different one.

The C++ ABI of GCC is stable since version 3.2, released in 2002, on x86 platforms (there were numerous fixes in later releases for other platforms). They even managed to retrofit new incompatible C++11 requirements on std::string with some preprocessor hackery and namespace mangling, without bumping the libstdc++ SONAME.

As usual, on macOS the situation isn't as good because they threw out libstdc++ for some clang reinvention of the wheel.
The other day I read a Volkswagen (VW Golf) today is ten times more expensive today then thirty years ago. And the modern one is cheating so it will be hard to sell, while the older models still work like a clock if there is no rust issue it will last another thirty years (if well maintained).

Also computers got cheaper and cheaper, but now with smartphones and tablets a desktop computer gets a lot more expensive again. A modern graphic card nowadays costs 500$, whereas in 2011 you got it or 200$. And CPUs got more expensive again as well. Five years ago you could buy a highend computer for 1200$, today you pay at least 700$ more.
It might very well not be, but I still see no reason to not deliberately make the interview as close an analog as possible for the job in question.
Wouldn't it be cool if ALL governments had "fix this to keep it from happening again"?

That is, let's start with nationstates and their banks. Ie. The Fed, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Deutsche Bank / Germany.

$62.4 billion is a rounding error for most of the "world's" banks.So let's temper the huff and bluster... I mean, its corruption and politics all the way down.

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Your second question is interesting. Why does the rest of the world expect the US to "do something" when bad things happen? Don't answer that because it doesn't matter.
Former military and former intelligence contractor here. No quarrel with what you are saying.

The answer to "why not" is lobbying, constituents, and corruption. Military spending influences the economy in literally every state. That's why they don't close bases. That's why the legislature optimizes for maximum spend rather than ROI.
You seem to imply I have a moral obligation to make sacrifices for the cause of consumer rights, but realistically any call to collective action that imposes comparatively large costs to the individual for very slim chances of success is doomed to failure and a misdirection of energies that would better be spent elsewhere.

I will continue to seek out and prefer non-DRM, non-leased content where available at acceptable cost, but consumers voting with their wallets is not going to solve this.
Why should anybody care about "predicted" chances of winning? That only leads to self-fulfilling prophecy situations.

Don't get me wrong.. of course Gary and Jill are both long shots... but at least one of them, if not both, will be on enough ballots to have a shot at winning. And in this election more so than any I can remember in a LONG time, you see a real serious desire for a 3rd party alternative from the American people. I mean, we're talking about the most historically BAD crop of "major party candidates" in ... well ... hell, maybe ever. It would actually only be a mild surprise, not a major one, if Gary Johnson were to win.
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Yeh, I've heard this argument before. If you analyze it, you'll realize it's BS.

You can reduce spending without creating a power vacuum. E.g. reducing the budget by 10% isn't going to create a power vacuum nor shock its allies.

The reality is that their is no political will to start reducing spending on the military, nor is their desire by its civilians to do so. The question is why?
YES. and that's the story that should be highlighted, not some asininely huge number from a shitty accounting implementation. That we are off by more than 10% of the Military budget and 1.8% of the total US budget is nuts.

Unrelated: but after Clapper I don't know how anyone has any faith in the US Gov't. this is just another reinforcement.
I disagree that our military spending is reasonable, or a bargain.

http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

http://i.imgur.com/PhHo3eh.gif

"The United states spends more on defense than the next seven countries combined."
Relative to GDP and most other countries it is disproportionate.
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3.3% of GDP but what percentage of tax dollars?

It just seems a shame that a country that somehow can't afford to pay for the health care of it's citizens manages to lose track of literally trillions of dollars.
Well, there is a pretty strong correlation between "alt-right" and "unbalanced"...
> You can state your mind, without blatantly saying something just to get a rise out of everyone else.

Aha, as long as you are talking about repeat real trolls. (No, I don't share the admiration that some parts of HN seems to have for the old trolls :-)
Textbooks are more highly regulated than cell phone service? I doubt it.

As the article tries to point out, the things we need are largely dominated by human costs. TV manufacturing is automated and scaled, but child care is not.
Well, we had Stallman saying those things for decades, and everyone in tech mocked and ignored him instead.
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It's the biggest corporate welfare program known to man.
The fact that you so casually dismiss the comedian's right to free speech and his way to make a living simultaneously in one sentence is a little frightening.

I'd wager you would have a different perspective if someone came along and prohibited you from making software unless you met someone's asinine set of arbitrary criteria.