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WebRTC is not a bad technology for this project. The answer to this question is: little bits of different reasons.

1. We don't have a ton of resources (as in people working on it), so we have to be laser focused on making the implementation as simple as possible, to prove out the initial "v0" set of use cases. Straightforward client/server HTTP is the simplest possible thing. A couple dozen lines of node.js or python code are all that is necessary to throw up a FlyWeb server on a smart device. WebRTC support is way more complex, and less accessible to developers due to that complexity.

2. WebRTC is peer to peer, but it's also implicitly "cloud". One of our goals is to focus on approaches that are purely local. This is my personal opinion, but the minute that smart devices are somehow addressable from 'the internet', they become way more creepy - the surface area they expose to billions of people makes them troubling. Limited local-network (and eventually network-less local-area) HTTP is implicitly not "visible" to the entire world, which is a nice property.

3. Fundamentally, the "core strength" we're trying to leverage here is that the web platform lets you easily and securely "stream" applications between computers. That's what you do when you go to gmail or facebook or whatever - servers on the internet incrementally stream an application to you that's encoded in terms of HTML/JS/CSS/etc. WebRTC is a message-passing technology, which is not quite the core fit we're going for. Web and HTTP are the core of the app-streaming concept, so we're building on that.
People are going to regret not voting for Bernie Sanders - who was the better choice anyway.

Watch this:

https://twitter.com/the_big_feta/status/775003445979934720
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> If you were born before 1989, your SSN can be guessed with 44% accuracy by an algorithm.

The actual situation is quite a bit less dire than your quote.

What that linked article says is that for people born AFTER 1989, the first five digits could be guessed with 44% accuracy. (There's a very real sense that the "last 4 of your social" are less guessable than the first five, so it's no surprise that the last 4 is what is often used/misused.)
> but you can also call malloc/free within an unsafe block.

Very cool. I was afraid I would be forced into an FFI type scenario (which Rust apparently has good support for anyway).

Thanks!
That's actually a fascinating argument I've never heard before. It's similar to the more pragmatic argument against drug prohibition. When you prohibit something people want, they find other ways to do it or get it and in the end you've just created a lot of perverse incentives and new opportunities for corruption.

I'm not totally sold on your position, but I definitely agree that ideology has become a huge problem in politics. It's totally driven out the "git r done" types of real problem solvers in favor of deluded ideologues unwilling to compromise and therefore unable to do anything other than posture for their constituents. Meanwhile all the real wheeling and dealing is driven to the margins and into the dark.

I wonder if another symptom of what you describe is stuff being railroaded through with trade deals instead of domestic laws.
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Same goes for every credit rating agency in the country (world?). Remember all those AAA rated swaps?

It is disturbing how the entire economic system is set up to make life harder on those it's hardest on. Poor, in debt, barely making ends meet? You're lucky if you can get a credit card for under 30% APR. Mortgage rates historically low? Not for you. Need a loan? Sucks to be you.

Finally clawed your way out of debt, trying to get ahead? Tough shit, your credit report will haunt you for the better part of a decade.
> Another concept that I don't understand is that USA's social security number has to be kept secret or otherwise your identity can be stolen. How that is even possible? Doesn't your employer needs it?

It doesn't make sense, but basically knowing name, date of birth, and social security number is enough to open a credit account (sometimes you have to answer some questions which would be on a credit report, or provide an ID card if you're doing it in person). This is why it's important to try to keep it secret; on the other hand, employers are required to have it for taxation purposes, as well as any creditors (including utilities) want it too; most health insurance is driven by SSN too, and so are many health records; so the number is all over the place.

Court records (the issue in this article) wouldn't normally include a social security number, so the credit agency is 'helpfully' associating those by name, maybe date of birth, and city of residence with other records in their files.
Sounds like I should!

Thanks!
> If the federal government runs it, now they have to own or rent a bunch of land in every major city in every state so they can service id card requests.

Don't we already have that with the post offices and the passport system?

Couldn't they expand passports into a Federal ID system?
60TB at 500Mb/s transfer will take +1 day to read the data. This is the problem of drinking the ocean through a straw. Even with SSD transfer rates, is still a problem at scale. Clusters give you no only capacity, but also multiplication factor for transfer rates.
What happens if a consultant approaches a company that uses Hadoop and offers them "custom data transformation" solutions for their most frequent processing jobs at lower cost and that beat Hadoop's processing times 100-fold?

The company saves money by choosing the lower cost and time by not having to wait for slow Hadoop processing.

It seems like there is competitive advantage to be gained and money to be made by taking advantage of Hadoop's inefficiencies.

But then things are not always what they seem.
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Class-action defamation suits to provide some incentive to protect consumers?
That's a very practical argument and I agree with it.

The Tenth Amendment's Reserved Powers clause also suggests this is a states issue, unless you can contrive it to be part of the census.
I have 2 System76 Ubuntu laptops and I love them both. One is a 14" Galaga UltraPro from 2014 (they don't have this model anymore) and more recently their new 15" Oryx Pro. Nice solid builds, good keyboards (apparently there has been a vast improvement with the kbds) no hardware issues etc. I use both for work. My Oryx Pro has 64GB RAM, 2 512GB SSD's (I put Win 10 on the second disk) and an NVidia GTX980 (I game on it as well, e.g Dragon Age Inquisition etc). The only issue is battery life - I ordered two power bricks for each (for work/home), but then I was not expecting a lot there. I highly recommend them (I'm a bit annoyed I missed the 10 series GTX cards which were just announced)
Edit : I live in Finland, and ordered them from the U.S.A
Yeah but while you're in a different state your "current driver's license" is the one from that state. Effectively it changes when you move, and changes again when you go back.
Why? Bad planning?

When I was a student, I was registered to vote in central London. The polling place was still only responsible for roughly the same number of people as some place in the countryside. There were simply more of them in the centre of a city.
> How much is this connected to not having a real id card?

None. The credit reporting agency should be verifying any facts they intent to include in a report. If the are including unverified hearsay, the their report may be libel[1].

Also, your own ID card wouldn't fix someone else with either no ID or fraudulent ID doing something in your name. If the bank gave a loan to someone else, that's their problem, not yours.

[1] I'm aware that regulatory capture has granted the agencies immunity from slander/libel laws. Just because unethical behavior has been legalized doesn't make it the victim's responsibility to work around libelous claims.
Hey $40 can get you a cheap android phone that will replace your iphone.

Apple is amazing at sucking up your dollars. God bless capitalism. You can always find a way to make a buck.

I just wish it was more constructive. We have a never ending hate for oil companies and mining companies. But companies like Apple that make sure we buy stuff, that uses oil and minerals, and throw it away for the next stuff should be at the top of the list.

I wonder what the carbon foot print of the iphone is? How about Apple as a company? No environmentally balanced home campus will ever be able to make up for all the negative environmental impact they are responsible for creating.
How about first-class map / dictionary support? That is, const or log time retrieval of key-value pairs.

Right now I can only see a way to create lists, so access will be in linear time.
You don't need to be "half the size of Twitter". What does that even mean, in headcount, in TB stored, half of the snapshot they used?

The benefits of using a distributed/hadoop style approach to managing your data assets becomes evident as soon as you have more than 5 employees who access such systems. Unless your workload is highly specific, e.g. in Deep Learning, it makes total sense to use a single machine with as many GPUs as possible.

Let me clarify that I used the exact snapshot, in 2012 (here is post that was even cited by few papers [0]) , However I knew that reality of using this data was far complex, and even though you can write "faster" programs on your laptop (I used GraphLab) than a cluster (I had access to 50 nodes Cornell cluster), it didn't mean much.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
In 56 Presidential elections, the electoral college has differed from the popular vote four times: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2008/... (one in recent memory). So... yeah it has problems.

Reforming it I believe would require a Constitutional Amendment, which is virtually impossible to accomplish in the current political climate.
There are different systems for different things. The Id card is typically verified by looking it up in a database and by a person comparing your picture.

For online usage you need digital identity cards and they have two factor or are hardware tokens.
There is NitroKey[0], which seemed to me like a good alternative to Yubikey, but I haven't ordered either yet so I can't say I have first-hand experience. But much luck if you decide to go with it, something I'm looking more and more into, especially since I too use password-store and it would be good having an easier to use setup that is still secure.

[0] https://www.nitrokey.com/
Thanks. I missed that when I read it. The UK also does not have 6.7K banks and various state regs...

But, still, I was associated with a BankOne thing about two decades ago - they had been on an M&A spree and then wanted to "merge" about 80 core banking systems. After about $200M "wasted", the answer ended up being sticking a service bus in front of the lot and routing to the right core...

And they were all digital too! :-)
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The article doesn't really describe time crystals themselves in terms I could understand. Wikipedia to the rescue: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time_crystal
I've seen multiple databases that have the results of asking the user to enter the "last 4 of your SSN"

If you have those last 4 digits, and you can guess the first 5 digits with nearly 50% accuracy, then you have a very good chance on getting legitimate SSN's for mass numbers of people with a DB dump.
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You can be vegetarian and eat a low carb diet. It's not as easy as eating meat and eating a low carb diet, but it's eminently achievable. Eggs, cheese, nuts, avocados, and oils will probably comprise most of your diet.
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I find it very difficult to read. It's like minified javascript.
> I wrote this article because it seems to me the basic income discussion is orchestrated by people, notably in technology, who are unaware of politics and reluctant to get their hands dirty.

While I myself am a programmer and support basic income, I have talked with many people outside the technology world who are also in favor of such a system. YC is getting their hands dirty with their research project and Finland's government is most definitely aware of politics. The only way for us (US citizens) to get our hands dirty in politics when not voting is talking about these things.

> ... energy thrown in BI-related discussions is wasted while it could be invested in favor of universal health insurance for instance ...

BI and health insurance, universal or not, solve very different issues. Both deserve attention and one doesn't preclude the other. I do think that a very important part of BI discussions is what programs it can replace, what it can supplement, and what it doesn't solve.
You could delete all of their suid helper binaries.
I've finished both microcorruption and jailbreak (at least, the publicly available bits). I really enjoy these single player CTFs and wish more were available.

Jailbreak was clearly still in development when I played and bugs were being discovered regularly (it is software, after all). I assume the architecture of the backend was designed to scale in such a way that maybe was never exploited.

Once the core of the game world is complete, how much effort is it to construct new content (new levels, for example)? I imagine the creative effort is more significant than the concrete construction of a level. I'm trying to understand if there is a way to balance the small subset of people who would pay for a "season" of a game like this. Is there a way to balance the effort and the price for such a thing to break even?

I'd pay to play a game polished like microcorruption (if you add an API documented like jailbreak). Especially if it were wrapped in a campaign/story. Combining open ended development/coding of such a task, the puzzle aspects of most exploit development, and a genre-fiction story would be a win for me.

I worry there aren't NEARLY enough people interested in such a thing but I wish there were.
Okay, now that's just fucking stupid. What idiot thought that up?
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Sophie's choice: people are either going to die from climate change, or from policies making oil more expensive to consume to slow climate change.

The question is as old as time: who is going to decide which cohort dies. And the answer is the entirety with the most might/force/influence, as always (unfortunately).
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>People have a desire to use the 'big' tools

Not only that, people seems to love claiming that they're "big data", perhaps because it makes them sound impressive and bigger than they are.

Very few of us will ever do projects that justifies using tools like Hadoop and to few us are willing to accept that our data fits in SQLite.
There weren't comparable tools in 1990. There still aren't, for a lot of things--something as simple as embedding a spreadsheet table in a document is still not really feasible except through similarly closed mechanisms.

Your attempt to define flexibility solely as "the use of non-Microsoft tools" while casting aside exactly what OLE does for non-technical users is pretty transparent.
Just going to have to disagree... I think earmarks are exactly the thing that caused congresspeople to lose all of their power.

> you've just put the big donors totally in charge of the campaign, because their spending dwarfs the spending of the candidates themselves.

When the donors are the corporations, and earmarks result in higher profits for the corporations, a dangerous positive feedback loop occurs where you basically end up with corporations controlling the government instead of the elected politicians.

As far as the worst political decision of the past few decades, watch this video if you have an hour to spare. It lays out the case where adding transparency in congressional voting is really the root cause of Congress being so screwed up. It might change your mind... https://youtu.be/1gEz__sMVaY
Depends on how often you do the task (and similar), of course. If it's frequently, then not learning a faster technique is getting stuck in a local optima.
OK, so, the obvious "congratulations" messages aside, what's really in that file?

Example: Take the PNG, convert it to another lossless format. Then convert that lossless format back to PNG.

Different file size, right? OK, the comment accounts for about 120 bytes.. but what about the rest? Why is it that much bigger?

"As I read, numbers I see. 'Twould be a great shame not to count this art among the great texts of our time" - count this art among the great texts... it's a one time pad, isn't it.
Lots of ways still to prevent it.
This is something it amazes me more people don't see. I've read a lot of the scientific literature on human creativity (there isn't much) and it is quite clear that we don't understand it at all.

Additionally, there is a transformation that takes place in our brains from information to knowledge. Our understanding of this process is also pretty weak.

Both of these problems are fundamental to the creation of true, autonomous AI.
Here's something I've wanted to know for a while: How is a foreigner emigrating to the USA (or Canada I guess) supposed to function? We don't use credit cards in my country (we use direct debit cards) and I've never had any debt to my name. On the other hand, I've always paid all my bills on time. Do you get some sort of crappy default credit score given based on estimated factors, or are you SOL until you've lived long enough to establish a credit history?
Previous discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118909
But straightforward use of cat, grep, xargs and gawk is much less "custom" than depending on specific versions of exotic tools and committing servers for use as part of the current "platform".
If I want to run a simple pipeline of UNIX tools on a random system, the worst case prerequisite scenario is reclaiming disk space and installing less common tools (e.g. mawk).
What most struck me is his comment on Chinese's brain washing media landscape actually helps the country to stay upbeat and optimistic. There is definitely truths in it and at this point I can see it as a grand strategy to help the economy in a positive way. Maybe any country in the unique situation as China will tend to the exact same thing.
The majority of the discussion on the topic is not claiming we are on the cusp. It is claiming that it is a) a danger; b) likely to be fast if it happens.

Almost maximally irrelevant to a claim that nothing significant has happened recently, so not a problem.
There's a building in Portland that's going to be twelve stories tall and built with CLT. My uncle works with one of the companies involved in its construction which is how I heard of it: http://www.structurecraft.com/projects/framework
You could have written this up in a Gist or PasteBin, provided a link and a spoiler message.
You mean a fire escape? Most buildings do, but some are internal.

Nothing like that would have helped in the wtc.
Actually there was a Capnproto project for Ruby GSoC project this year!

https://github.com/nemoNoboru/capnp-ruby

https://rubygems.org/gems/capn_proto-rpc
Apple has long had a recycling program. You think the environmental impact of smartphone consumption would be lessened if everyone bought $40 smartphones? What is the environmental impact of each of those phones?
abp didn't block this one. ublock may have tho, but in my experience even that lets through many of these by default
You need your card to do anything. You don't use it to authenticate over the phone, but lesser levels of authentication are available by other means.

You can impersonate somebody with a decent fake card, but just having one is enough to go to jail.
It really does depend on the troop.

I was a boy scout in the Bay Area and we had openly gay scouts and almost all of the kids and parents were atheist.
Of course I love the premise. But I also fear what this could allow to be surveilled.
I don't use BT Sync because if I'm on my local university network they block BitTorrent. It's not a big deal since I've graduated, but I still go there and use the library and meet with people so it would be inconvenient.
> I doubt that they would have been able to survive when exposed from 0 to x1000.

But neither would the patient.
> the basic goal of a political party is to get people elected into office, full stop

You'd be surprised how many people think that parties exist to promote a certain ideology and bring it into power -- not necessarily by getting elected.
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The majority of Mennonites have no religiously-based restrictions on technology at all.
[from the article]
> the defendant, unsurprisingly, had the same legal first name, last name and middle initial. We were also both born in 1987. But our similarities end there: He has half a dozen convictions. He’s black. He’s currently incarcerated. And an arrest warrant indicated that he was homeless

> when all other factors speak against it

Given that the agency thinks they're the same person, the number of convictions is irrelevant. A credit agency has no knowledge of skin color. I'm not sure that a credit agency would know if someone was incarcerated -- their accounts could still be active and paid for by someone else. Credit agencies keep track of residence addresses, but would likely assume that he was at his last know address.

I think the root of the problem is getting a criminal background check and a credit report from the same place. The quality of information is quite a bit different, but the expectation is different.

For a criminal background check, I would expect false matches because the lookup is realistically based n name and date of birth only. As a result, I'd want to know additional information, such as mug shots, and current status (incarcerated, on parole, etc) to confirm if the person with the record was the person in front of me.
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You don't need this technology to read through an envelope. You can get a spray (envelope X-ray spray) that makes the envelope temporarily transparent and then evaporates without a trace. The other way to read mail without opening it is to insert a shaft at the top of the envelope, wrap the contents around it, pull out the contents to read, and then reverse to put the letter back in the envelope.

I think I saw this stuff at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC; it was a much more interesting museum than I expected.
Minor correction -- there's no fee to check your credit score with Citi cards.
Have you benchmarked MPSC-per-core and SPSC-per-pair-of-cores against any of the three concurrent queues in the article?
Last time I tried I couldn't get past the question with the list, "Which of these phone numbers have you had in the past? (check all that apply)"

I've had a lot of numbers in the past because my daughter's phone was in my name, or I changed carriers and my number wouldn't transfer.
Thought they'd make this challenge more challenging but I reckon anyone who does solve this is pretty smart and worth hiring for them. Remember its government so they aren't getting or even looking for the best of the best... they don't pay enough for the best.
Yes, nobody's disputing the idea that there are times when you need a single large cargo hold. The question is whether the plane would be economically competitive in terms of regular cargo. In other words is China going to build 3 of these and have them spend most of their lives sitting in hangers or are we going to be seeing hundreds of these flying all over China? That's something the article doesn't try to address.