skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People serve in the military for all kinds of reasons.

Some, because it's a family tradition. Others, because they believe in serving their country. And many others, because it presents them with an economic opportunity they would never otherwise have had: college, vocational training, and increased social status.

Very few join hoping to go to war. I doubt that most of the people sent to invade Iraq truly wanted to be there.

And when they went, they were sold a well-scripted dog-and-pony show about how they were defending the freedom of the Iraqi people, about how they were there to fight a horrible dictator that murdered countless innocent lives.

Those people are not to blame, and certainly not to be held responsible, for the utter failure of both our political system and our media, which is supposed to be a watchdog, not a lapdog.

Also, something most civilians don't know is that military service isn't like a regular job.

In civilian life, you can quit your job whenever you want. In the military, while you may be able to change your job and re-train for a new one, it's not that common. Also, you do your job until you finish your term of service, or you go to jail. Only way out is to be assessed by a military doctor as unfit to serve.

In civilian life, if you screw up, screw off, or screw around, the worst that will probably happen is being fired.

In the military, at best you will face Non-Judicial Punishment for minor infractions (show up late to work once), and at worst you go to jail (keep showing up late for work).

How severely punished you will be is in large part up to your boss (commanding officer).

What makes it worse is that most people only see the marketing campaign before they join (pay for college! defend freedom!). But after they enlist, they discover that they don't get the job they were promised (we're full up on surgical assistants and aircraft mechanics, so you'll be sent to train for food service), that they spend countless hours on utterly pointless work (yet another safety briefing), and that overall, the life of a service member is pretty much the opposite of glamorous.

You don't need to worship the uniform, or agree with what the US Government does, to at least appreciate that people who serve in the military are, generally speaking, at worst a bunch of well-meaning Americans that are doing the best job they can in a situation that they largely can't control.

Oh, and once you get out? Getting all that college funding and a lifetime of government healthcare ranges from "easy peasy" to "tell me again why I made a deal with the unholy spawn of Initech from Office Space and Satan's legal team"
Which episode?
Many people joined the Taliban for those reasons, and ISIS and Al Quaeda. Many common criminals commit crime because they need money too. Just because you're desperate, doesn't give you the right to kill people. Just because you feel it serves your country doesn't make it OK to ruin someone else's country. These soldiers complaining about their money helped to destroy Iraq and caused the deaths of 100s of thousands of people.
Philosophy doesn't have much place when it comes to individual incentives.
"Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you a single score that measures how “trustworthy” you are."

Oh, like the US.
I just finished the third and have liked all three but agree with you completely. The original runs packed far more punch than what I've seen so far.
I wouldn't consider it terrible to have a car that can only self-drive during the summer.

I'd compare it to having a convertible car---it has one lovely feature, that only really proves it worth during elusive weather conditions.
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This is from a British show called The Real Hustle. They show a modern way to cheat at roulette using a tiny computer and an earpiece to predict where the ball is going to land. The scammers then quickly place bets on all the immediate slots around the predicted slot (because it is imperfect). They admit, this is still pretty tricky to pull off.

Starts at 3 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH2FAZqScxM
No. It mattered.
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Couldn't scroll on the site on my iPhone. I don't think I've seen that before.
I'm not a gambler, so wondering why this is? Because you can see every card at some point? Is this to stop the phone from doing so and keeping a count?
Traditional billboards are a form of visual pollution, but those large LED billboards with excessive brightness are downright hazardous. (Examples: at Ravenswood 101 in East Palo Alto, and near Woodside Rd. near the former Circle Star Arena site.)
and this is why I have three giant books upstairs in the attic, with every order, leave request, expense report that I've ever made. Soldiers are used to it. We've come to call them "I love me books" ( http://www.ezarmypoints.com/army-i-love-me-book/ ). They shouldn't be able to come back after that many years for a signature, that's insane.
Did it? I only sort of noticed as well.
Now is a strange time to commit to spending billions on light rail. In multiple cities ridership is down even as more money has been spent on rail. Two examples are LA and DC.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/local/california/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/met...

Transportation options are becoming more personalized with Uber, Lyft, and autonomous cars around the corner, but rail is and inflexible technology.

Without new ideas on how to make light rail more flexible and personal, these investments lock people it to inflexible transportation infrastructure and that is troublesome.
Huh? I'm asking how with PHP. You would write a 100% client side app.
> [3] My vacuum cleaner crashes if I send certain malformed HTTP requests to the local API endpoint, which isn't a good sign

Egads!
Just about every war ever has taught us these things over and over again. Maybe if we stop glorifying soldiers, those naive kids will stop believing it. Perhaps we should just admit that soldiers in wars do bad things and are bad people. We managed to convince most Germans that the Nazis were bad and not to be glorified. We partly achieved that with Vietnam veterans. But all the lessons of history were forgotten when Iraq came around.

It's not just the media's fault, it's every person who shows sympathy for soldiers and reinforces the idea that it's a good thing to do.
> A portion of ST3 is to pay for ST2 and ST1, which both went over budget.

Completely false. ST2 (which isn't even complete; I'm not sure why you're referring to it in the past tense) is $100 million under budget and 6 months ahead of schedule (source: http://www.masstransitmag.com/article/12171636/ahead-of-sche...).

> mired in corruption and inefficiency.

Again, false. One of the reasons why ST2 is under budget is that Sound Transit got a lower interest rate than they expected on the bonds they issued, specifically because they're one of the best-run, most efficient mass transit agencies in the country (source: http://www.soundtransit.org/About-Sound-Transit/News-and-eve...)

> We need VC thinking here, and more proposals with a clear eye on the ROI.

Ah, the hallmark of the uninformed public transit opponent. Lots of handwaving with "we need innovation and outside-the-box thinking!" with very few concrete proposals. The ST3 planning process went on for years specifically so people could propose alternative ideas- they weren't taken up because none of them were any good.

> If my city dropped 5.4 billion on buses (a tenth of cost of ST3), we could have much more capacity that could be provisioned in a more dynamic way. That could be ready in a few years.

Buses where? The roads (both the highways and the surface streets downtown) are already jammed. Nobody is going to take buses if it doesn't offer any decrease in transit time over just taking their car.

> Instead we get rail in 25+ years

Yup, construction takes time. I will only mention that we could've had this all today if your spiritual forerunners hadn't killed Seattle's transit plans in the 70's and 80's making basically the same arguments you're making now. We can either continue to make their mistakes or try to fix it.

> at a massive cost now.

No, the cost is spread out over the same multi-decade time span as the construction. Do you know how taxes and bonds work?

Behold the usual ST3 opponent: vague proposals that reek of concern trolling, combined with empirical falsehoods. Please vote Yes; Seattle is getting choked to death in traffic and we can't repeat the mistakes of the 80's by doing nothing.
Are you... from the future??? Cuz that sounds way too plausible.
Most people, when passed over for promotion, don't write about it publicly. One has to wonder what sort of spirit possessed this author.
DC's Metro should give Seattle pause for building ST3. Metro's ridership is down because the infrastructure costs are so high and the maintence backlog is out of control. Even though the suburbs around DC are some of the richest in the country, Metro has serious funding problems that aren't getting better.
...And if said spirit was apparent to the people voting, and if they factored that into their decision.
Well, I recall news from at least 1-2 years ago about these Chinese plans.
C-Net in the C64 days, then WWIV when I switched to PC clones in 1990. Both platforms had full source code available. It's where I cut my teeth.
Surely the military tilts right; I've seen numbers from 60/40 to 70/30, but there are quite a few staunch liberals in their ranks. It may seem naive, but I'd offer that these people are sworn to uphold the constitution.

I would trust five military men over five civilians when it came to protecting my rights.

I don't think anti-war qualifies as anti-military. In fact, anti-war is a pro-military position. As the old saying goes: "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
Why is Tenure still a thing? It's basically a lifetime employment contract.

It seems the only argument for tenure is academic freedom.. a tenured professor can pursue an avenue of research without fear of reprisal for it being controversial or not yielding results (though really, even experiments that 'fail' actually serve to prove that it's not the way to go).

It seems to be me like this is a problem that can be solved in many better ways. For example, employees in most (every?) jurisdiction are protected by laws that mean they can't be fired without just cause. Even if the employer tries to find ways around this (making up reasons), the fired employee can generally lodge a complaint/lawsuit to prove otherwise. Can some type of protection of this sort not be written into academic contracts as well?
The thing is there will be no upgrades for the IoT. Just look at all the Android phones abandoned by their manufacturers. Do you think Phillips is going to pay someone to produce patches for a 5 year old light bulb, or smoke detector, or whatever?
I had a small "brush with greatness" in ... ~1984, or so? I was on Compuserve at 1200 baud, and although I forget the circumstance, I had a cserve "chat" with Ward Christensen; the inventor of Xmodem. I can't even remember what we talked about, but he was surprised that I knew who he was just by his name.
That's not how tenure works. Up or out -- you get tenure or you hit the road. So this is actually fairly common in academia. Sort of a parting shot, if you will.
We deployed GitLab just a few weeks ago in our setup and we can already see its impact on our development process.

Sometimes GitLab becomes extremely slow. A few days ago it became so slow that we had to check what was wrong and we found that a process named "bundle" taking up too mach memory and CPU. As we do not have a lot of experience with GitLab we could not figure out the reason behind "bundle" process eating up memory and CPU and therefore we tried restarting GitLab and everything was fine again.
Good point. But still, even with risk of false positives, I believe that ISPs should be informed. And ISPs could acknowledge uncertainty when informing customers.
Of course one funny aspect of the JS number type

var a = new Array();

a["4294967294"] = "foo";

console.log(a.length);

gives a.length as 4294967295, whereas if I did

var a = new Array();

a["4294967295"] = "foo";

console.log(a.length);

it gives a.length as 0.
Just the title of this post reminds me of the anime Psycho-Pass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass
I'm sure a lot of people were unscathed by this event, but it appears to be more of a warm-up than the main event. I think it demonstrates the likelihood of further attacks and the possibility that those could have far-reaching consequences. You're right that the title is sensational, but I do believe the threat is daunting.
This is so terrible, our judicial system lets so many people fall through the cracks
The military in and of itself isn't necessarily bad. It can be used to do bad things. Soldiers in the military who do bad things are responsible for their actions. Is this a fair paraphrasing of your position? If not, please correct me.

If I'm understanding that correctly, I can follow that chain of reasoning.

It looks like you're also making the claim that if they've done bad things they're not allowed to complain if something bad happens to them. I don't know if that's an accurate interpretation of what you're saying, so please do correct or clarify.

I'm not trying to be argumentative or critical. I'm trying to understand your position. The politics and tragedy that surrounds the situation can make these discussions problematic.

Thanks!

Edit: I worked on the wording on this and I'm still not happy with it because I think it can still be read as being condescending or uncharitable. That is definitely not the intent. I'm open to suggestions for wording improvements as well!
Ok so I don't know that much about how DDoS attacks work besides that it's basically a large influx of input that makes it impossible for 'legitimate' users to get through.

But in a block chain, a Sybil attack—imagine voter election fraud, where numerous fake IDs are made to vote for a candidate—is blocked by making the cost of generating hash values (government ID is pretty hard to counterfeit) extremely high.

Can the same methodology be applied to blocked DDoS attacks?

Like using Dyn to find a domain is similar to making a phone booth call to yellow book call center, why not just raise the price of calling from 25c to $1.00?
I'd wait for a bunch of other studies that back this up, or fail to.

The trouble is that there may be loads of studies that find the opposite, but they are more likely to be stuffed in a file drawer somewhere because they contradict what we'd like to believe is true.
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If it becomes to bad and people start to pay attention, yeah. If there were more malware doing (edit: very visible) stupid shit around, people would learn quite quickly (instead of malware that tries to hide and do things that don't effect the device owner), this way we'll see where it goes.
If they cannot find a contract, doesn't that mean they have no evidence that he owes them money? Doesn't mean that they would have to take him to civil court for a tort, but then it would just be their word against his?
I think that's true. Rich people are often jerks.

People are nicer to you if you're a jerk (I say this from my personal experience having being both a nice guy and a jerk).

No one respects nice people.

Nice people don't get promoted, they don't get funding, they just don't get invited places.
> In multiple cities ridership is down even as more money has been spent on rail.

In other cities maybe, but not in Seattle. Ridership on the Link Light Rail has gone way up since the UW extension opened.

> Transportation options are becoming more personalized with Uber, Lyft, and autonomous cars around the corner,

Uber and Lyft exist in Seattle today, and they clearly aren't enough to solve the problem, since commute times are still increasing (2x since 2010). Autonomous cars can't fix it either - the only way autonomous cars can actually decrease congestion is if ALL the cars on the road are networked and there can be a computer somewhere doing birds-eye planning on the whole fleet. That scenario is many decades away if it happens at all.

Also, as another commenter pointed out, Sound Transit is specifically investigating how to incorporate autonomous vehicles into their planning as part of this proposal.
my department voted against my tenure case earlier this week

Since this was posted 2016-10-22, I'm gonna assume the department did this smack in the middle of the semester.
Speaking cynically, the motivation of the essay (and in particular stuff like his thin-gruel attempt to wrap himself in the flag of social justice) seems to be recruiting an internet brigade to harass his colleagues into reversing their decision, or simply as retaliation.
>> Again, false. One of the reasons why ST2 is under budget is that Sound Transit got a lower interest rate than they expected on the bonds they issued, specifically because they're one of the best-run, most efficient mass transit agencies in the country

I don't know how long you have been in the area, but there are reasons they have been one of the most audited agencies in the country (and you don't get audited if people think you are doing things well).

Sound Transit has a multi-million dollar marketing budget (we know here that those slick websites don't come cheap!). They memorably somehow spent a million of those dollars to have a party to open a station.

Of course their website will only contain positive stuff about them. Of course the various blog posts and editorials from folks connected to the developer, real estate, etc groups will gush over the plan -- they are slated to make a killing on the contracts! I would say a lot of untrue things for a few million dollars.

>> Seattle is getting choked to death in traffic and we can't repeat the mistakes of the 80's by doing nothing.

Ever heard of the "invisible hand"?

If Seattle is really getting choked and inefficient, maybe business will relocate to Everett or Tacoma? Is that necessarily a bad thing? I would love to see the region develop more. That would make a strong economic signal for easy connections to those cities.
I can't be the only high school age lurker here that thought your comment came straight out of an AP DBQ.
Reddit, Netflix, Github and Airbnb all appear to have switched from Dyn to AWS DNS for their primary .com domains by now.
90 miles from Chicago. Didn't notice a thing.

Note: I'm not dismissing the validity of the concern. I'm only reporting that I didn't even know about it as the attack was happening. I'm sure others were much more severely affected.
Anyone know what hardware they are actually using other than the RPis?
do you think marketers are the ones building the ad platforms? A bunch of developers knowingly go work for Google to work on this sort of stuff.

"But they offer sooooo much money" is not a moral argument.
why would they? I mean with how they are charging by the GB these days, it gives them financial incentive to not tell you your refrigerator (or any device) is part of a botnet, that's free money for them.
Air India's Delhi-SF flight now the world's longest nonstop flight
State machines & object dependencies [and function composition, and... categories] are often drawn as directed graphs. When drawn like that, the circles/boxes represent objects, and the arrows represent arrows. The name comes from that kind of representation.

You can call them morphisms, too.
It started like that, but I quite liked San Junipero and Hated in the Nation. The latter was on a similar par to White Christmas, in my opinion.
This is in line with the tenure cases that I have seen (across US) -- the department votes tend to be in early Fall, and the case makes its way through the rest of the univ over the next 5-6 months.
Tenure is just an employment contract that can only be terminated with just cause. (And the number of tenure-track positions is going down as far as I know)
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Yes. The attack vector and coordination is very concerning. Just because it didn't impact you doesn't mean it wasn't significant. It could have only been a feasibility test. Scaled up, this attack would be devastating.
>And many others, because it presents them with an economic opportunity they would never otherwise have had: college, vocational training, and increased social status.

You should show empathy, not sympathy for Soldiers. We don't want your freaking sympathy(from former Soldier), most just want opportunity. If you want to stop people from signing up for the US Army then here's what you have to do:
1) End inequality in America
2) End the spiraling healthcare costs (adding a single payer would likely go a long way)
3) Provide a means for formal education and social support for everyone. It's not enough to teach people, there's life skills a vast swath of America misses out on.
4) Fix the credit rating system. It amazes me that this is even allowed. Security check, sure...credit? Give me a break, just another form of discrimination.

Do all those things and we can start to level the playing field. Until then we'll likely need public jobs programs (and the military is indeed such a program, even if it is also something much more) to throw folks a rope to climb towards the American dream.
So I haven't voted yet, but my two concerns are the additional sales and property taxes and I don't believe that ST3 does enough, in a short enough timespan. Do you have any comments on my 2 concerns?
You're insane. This is about having full control over the population.

Imagine a world where saying something bad about a company like Airbnb means you won't get a loan from the bank because the owner is a communist party member and your worthiness score is now reduced to an unacceptable level.

This is a bad idea not because it's the Chinese government. The Chinese government is bad and this is just one more terrible idea that shows us just how far they are willing to go to control the population in perpetuity.
/etc/hosts saved the day for me.
I read the whole article and it's very hard to judge the correctness of most of the article's claims. Most importantly, it's hard to judge the most important thing: the author's own research.

However, I can say that there are different ways to interpret things. The author sees tenure as a way to establish obedience to the unwritten rules of the department. Based on my knowledge of academia, including friends who were granted tenure, the process is mostly fair, but of course most people are going to want to do everything they can to maximize their chances. What the author interprets as proving obedience, I interpret as not wasting time on things the committee can't measure objectively, or doing things that might piss off people on the committee.

As someone in industry, I see academia as somewhere where people can make immense contributions to human knowledge, that cannot be done elsewhere, but they have to jump through certain hoops to do so. Outside of academia there is very little opportunity to do research. Industry is conservative, and prefers to implement and refine known techniques.
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Despite the route being longer, the flight took almost two hours less thanks to tailwinds — winds that blow in the same direction as an aircraft and thus make it go faster.

Flights across the world are doing this but what is fascinating is that how much important is the collaboration of science and engineering.
I can understand the instinct to move, but I think the answer is to split your eggs among many baskets, not just pick a sturdier basket. I don't think the Dyn team is necessarily bad, it was an enormous assault.