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Capitalism at work. Commercial businesses need profit to survive and so, in general, deliver better innovative products. There is no way for CIA and NSA to compete with Google on search and web crawling, so why bother competing with them with their own subpar products?

I don't think the contractors leaked themselves. I think foreign intelligence agencies target most of them, and having multiple attack points yields more leaks than having just a single well-guarded agency. Trade-off between clamming up and remaining State-of-the-art.
> we can easily take that multi-dimensional input, and find a formula that reduces it to a single scalar value based on our practical valuation of these forms of intelligences (almost like an intelligenc 'utility function' from economics)...

My original comment addressed that specific case.
Rejection sucks. I was fired from a job I hated and it did not help my self-esteem at all heh. Also a lot of the time firings / layoffs happen around bonus payout times so it hurts the head and the wallet.
The following comment might seem off-topic, but it's not. There are well-known techniques to propaganda, and it is important that we recognize them by now or we will continue to be victimized by it. Also, we cannot wait until we have certain evidence of propaganda to point it out: It's very rarely certain that something is propaganda - that would be poor execution indeed, violating its basic purpose - so we cannot give propaganda the benefit of the doubt, wait for certainty to call it what it is, and therefore empower it. That benefit of the doubt is normal, healthy good faith, but propaganda is a parasite on good faith; good faith is a tool of manipulation for propaganda, used to take advantage of others.

Here are some techniques I know; I'd be interested in more or where I can find useful research and expertise about it:

* Create uncertainty. The strategy is not to persuade people, but to create enough uncertainty to disable them and disable debate. One way to do this is to question every possible flaw in the evidence; in reality, nothing is so clear-cut that there aren't questions (and that especially applies to intelligence operations).

* Make many baseless claims in order to force others onto defense and occupy all their resources. A baseless allegation takes seconds to make but hours or days to defend. Also, many people remember only the first headline, the baseless allegation, and don't see the followup story. Again, it's a way of disabling debate.

By design, it's tough to deal with propaganda - it's tough to continue intelligent, valuable discussion in the face of it. I'm not sure of the answer, but comments matching those techniques, such as the parent, seem to appear when Russia is discussed, for example.

One thing I do is to look for whether the comment adds substantive knowledge to the debate, or whether it just increases uncertainty about others and includes baseless information (unsubstantiated claims and rumors). Do I know more about the subject after reading the comment, or less?

EDIT: Clarified my purpose in the first paragraph.
> WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical

So somebody would imagine that he will publish Russian data as well, to make Russian capitalism more free and ethical...
Huh? Seattle is dense.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-densit...

Ok, so it is no Manila or Shanghai, but it is denser than low regulation "build baby build" Houston Texas.

A lot of the low density places in Seattle are places that wouldn't support density very well anyways (i.e. hills); places that you don't see density at even in mega dense Hong Kong.
C++ constructors can't return error codes or Result. That's the two-stage initialization (constructor call + initialize() call) wvenable is talking about.

(Of course you could do the same thing as Rust and expose only a static creator function and hide the actual constructor.)
No, there's not. Read what you posted more carefully. Planck temperature is the scale at which gravitation becomes as important as other forces, and thus without a working theory of quantum gravity we can't predict what happens at that scale.
A number of years ago, I hit against a GCC bug that generated an ICE (internal compiler error). Cause? Usage of an anonymous namespace in the global namespace. It was a short-lived regression, I think in the 4.1.2 series that came to me as a result of a supposedly minor OS update.
Interesting wording in that paragraph too. The quoted extract says "the transmission, between OR among points" yet the following sentence refers to ""points" between AND among." That subtle change allows them to argue that the Internet isn't a telecommunications system because users don't explicitly specify ALL the points along a route. Gross.
I know you have worked with former IC cryptographers and developers at Matasano/NCC Group. I still assert that this world view is inaccurate. I respect where you're coming from.

Intelligence agencies are lead by people. Those people have motivations that inform their decision-making. Prestige, power, increased income, and (often, but not always) patriotism are, in my opinion, their primary motivators. This should for the most part be similar for any corporate executive.

Unless there are hard metrics tying headcount to performance reviews and promotion considerations, and simultaneously soft-power incentives for having more headcount, then other things will dominate. In the military, splashy achievements dominate.
Or at the minimum, making your boss and your boss's boss like you is essential.

The current NSA chief didn't get his job because he was in charge of the largest Fleet. He got it by networking, seniority, luck, and having a reputation for excellence (I do not know if it is deserved). The same can be said about civilian executives in the IC, who are rated in a more arduous, more holistic manner.

Your bottom line is correct in the specific case. If a Latacora client is targeted by the NSA with high priority, you cannot protect it unless you make it intractable for them. For the rest of us, using boring commodity mitigations, such as TLS and MFA, and sound network architecture are fine. Intractable-for-all is a noble effort, but I don't think it's realistic.
How would you phrase it? I'm not quite sure how you can magnify the intensity of a noun or the size of an adjective.
Once would be too many, but I suspect most of the "tricks" (liquidation preferences, "secret" cap tables, etc.) are in play well before an acquisition. The acquisition is just laying your cards on the table.
It seems like everyone would be better served by addressing the root problem, which is that ISPs enjoy local monopolies. This would be a free-market solution that ought to satisfy both free-market and privacy advocates would win. Of course, I don't know if there's a good solution for fixing monopolies that doesn't involve additional regulation...
Flexible working is making us work longer
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- 200GB "Streaming Gigs" for up to four authorized devices
- 100GB "Gaming Gigs" (with Super-Ping technology!)
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Little glimpse in to our future, ladies and gents.
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> If I were more conspiracy-minded, I'd think they let Otto happen in order to feed a poison pill to Uber...

That would be a very bad strategy if true so I highly doubt it. IANAL, but I believe under estoppel Google's knowledge of Levandowski's activity and implicit permission to continue would forfeit Google's right to sue later. Likely as soon as they came to know about it they took immediate action to prevent him from taking this defense.
Survivorship bias? Getting fired wouldn't upset me all that much but I'd be upset to lose my fiancé. Perhaps the sort of people who get fired are also prone to depression?
You must fly very different routes than me... the flights I am on are almost always full.
Since when does "freedom" only apply to the government and not to any other powerful institutions? Are slaves free if they are held in captivity through a private slave owner's actions instead of through government enforcement?
Yeah I have to agree with you, but sometimes people need help moving on and getting fired could be that push someones needs. Hopefully the next job would be something you enjoy, or you work for yourself.
> "Lede" is the newspaper term, "lead" refers to a toxic metal element, or to someone who is followed.

If you're going to be pedantic you should at least be correct.

Lead here is fine, especially since lede is a neologism.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-...

> Although evidence dates the spelling to the 1970s, we didn't enter lede in our dictionaries until 2008. For much of that time, it was mostly kept under wraps as in-house newsroom jargon.
Thank you, we seem to be coming to the same conclusion.
Ha! Nice catch. Good thing I'm not like, a person who's paid to write words or anything...
Yeah everyone who "has an issue" with coverage of Silk Road or the treatment of Ulbricht seems disturbingly eager to gloss over him trying to have people killed.
That's tiered pricing based on quantity consumed, isn't it? Which is already very much allowed for ISPs.

Net neutrality is a completely different thing. Without it, it'd be as if the electric company could charge more if you used this 700 watt toaster than if you used that 700 watt toaster.
Perhaps I am going too far with my speculation, but GT strikes me on two aspects as being highly unusual, with regard to what I "know"[1] about hunter-gatherer societies.

1. The site seems to be built with a plan. Maybe they did not use paper and pencil, maybe they were using some kind of sand table[2]. And there was a number of people involved, who were quite good at stone cutting, and on a large scale. Just have a look at central obelisk and pedestal [3] - those sharp edges, those smooth surfaces. Now, getting good at something requires daily practice, for a long period of time during which one would rather not go around for hunting. So not only there was a population of proto-carpenters but also societal structure to support them, at least for times of learning and construction work.

2. Even more unusual, the site seems to have been abandoned (evacuated?) in planned manner. Great effort has been made to cover it up with huge mass of soil mixed up with broken stones, as if to make it tougher against elements. This, for me, really stands out. AFAIK the norm is, when supporting culture "loses interest" in site maintainance (like, when all its members are dead), the site is being taken over and/or decaying and/or reused by next wave of humans. But not this time.

Quite fascinating.

[1] what I know is subject to change as time goes by and I get updates

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_table

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Göbekli_Tepe,_Urfa.jpg
Isn't that rather more fundamentally a documentation failure? Or communication failure, if data producers are expected to signal protocols where you work. Else a formality oversight for the data consumer developer to not seek documents and check your specs?

True, it _results in a bug. But when bug count gets high, and I see a noticeable percent originating from slacking habits, I start prowling to find who's been pulling too much overtime or something family is tiring them out. Nine out of ten times, it's someone who needs only firm advice to look after themselves better. Where I work age skews much higher than SV norms, so young children and other delights (not /s at all) have notable impact on code quality.
I don't know what word you guys are talking about.
This article is stupid. Getting fired has always been a long term positive experience for me.
"you can do that by picking up literally one or two textbooks and participating in bug bounties" is a good idea and certainly something I hadn't considered. My main concern was bootstrapping yourself into the area, so that's an interesting approach.

I read "cyber security" a bit more broadly. You can certainly be a great appsec-type -- but I still personally believe spending time in and around organizations is really important to be in security. Do take your point there are large domains and specializations where that's less true.

Arguably this will be the same in ML at some stage. In actuality I think devops-for-ML or testing-for-ML is a more agreeable place to get started. It's pretty underserviced right now.

Ultimately I think best to follow the passion. Give both a try and see what feels best.
My understanding is that one's perceived social value plays a large role in their overall happiness and that men attach more of their social value to their employment then women.
IMHO Google/Alphabet's strategy should have been reinvesting their huge profits in buying other big companies like ARM, Nvidia or SpaceX.
> But, how do you think that a browser could theoretically penalize a website?

Easier to do on a search engine. But for a browser they already do: many browsers are or plan to call out sites that don't use HTTPs.

Or as another example: the warning that happens when you try to access a page that uses a self-signed certificate.

Granted the penalty needs to be proportional to the crime. So maybe the penalty and value add go together. If the value add is a useful feature that everyone wants and demands then not having it becomes a penalty to the sites that don't offer it.
As someone who feels like this might be a good thing, can someone politely explain the objections?
I don't know why getting fired is such a big deal. I work mostly as an independent contractor, and my contract usually states that I can be "fired" (i.e. contract terminated) without any explanation at any moment (I can part anytime too, as long as I respect the NDA and went through the parting checklist).

This is much more convenient for the employer, which is the part of the reason I demand much higher hourly rates than normal employees (and it still worth it). A contract with a regular full-time employee is harder for both parties, which is why the "usual" full-time employment is becoming increasingly rare.

Which is a good thing, if you ask me. We are not in Japan, and the company is not supposed to keep us for life and take care of everything (and even in Japan, it is no longer in vogue).
this and parent comment is both sarcasm right ?
Jupyter, does this, but better IMO. Not only you can create slide shows with markdown, but the code is executable and include code completion when your write it.
What's Google's policy on side businesses? They're cool if you work on self-driving cars and start LIDAR and "self-driving truck" side projects?

Did Levandowski have some sort of special pass due to the unicorn nature of his experience and expertise?
Restoring networking equipment owner's control of their own property?
The problem is that there is no self-regulation mechanism in place to keep people from going too much into the deep end of un-employability. A feedback loop that exacerbates a bad situation sounds like a quality of bad design to me.
Connect BART all the way around the bay would be a good start and improve integration with other rail, amtrak, caltrain, airports, ACE, etc.
Hi! I'm the parent user you've implied may be a propagandist for Russia.

Your comment does the following:

* Create uncertainty.

* Make many baseless claims in order to force others onto defense and occupy all their resources.

And we can seriously ask the question "Do I know more about the subject after reading (your) comment, or less?" (I think the answer is less - there's a great many things we could discuss about propaganda techniques that look nothing like the sophomoric list you've supplied).

Are you a propagandist, by your own criteria? I don't think so. Can you see how your criteria for finding propagandists isn't even useful?

I'm not one either. In fact, if you think I am the appropriate avenue is to alert the moderators.

In any case my comment is extremely informative and adds substantive knowledge to the debate, and people know more about the subject after reading my comment.

Figure I need to get in here to reply before this whole thread turns into a witch-hunting exercise.
Perhaps that's the case right now. However, I was just pointing out that they do indeed have brick and mortar stores because the parent said they didn't have any.

Anyway, AWS was once a decimal point in their revenue too. In fact it's around 10% right now, but very important in terms of profit.
For sensors I can see how you could do that (piezo with a small weight attached) and it will likely live a very long time. But for an MEMS actuator that would be driven to oscillate it would be a lot harder to make that long-lived.
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Do you have any reading material that you would recommend for single-threaded concurrency?
I mean, they were selling fentanyl. You don't have to be some sort of hard-line prohibitionist to think that making your living selling fentanyl to kids over the Internet is not in society's best interest.
> you can't write a GC language interpreter in a GC language forever, eventually you need a non-GC language to actually implement the GC in

Here's PyPy's GC, implemented in Python: https://github.com/tycho/pypy/tree/master/rpython/memory/gc

(I haven't looked at it in detail.)

Anyway, even if you absolutely had to use a non-GC language to implement a GC, that would not preclude writing 99% of the browser in a GC language and only the GC in something else.
Well, if it's a 1-2% decrease in revenue there might be a 1-2% price increase. I thought the margins for US airlines were incredibly small (could be wrong, I'm no expert).
Espionage was only a small part of the Cold War conflict. Most of it was diplomatic and economic, and overtly conducted through proxy wars. While you might learn some new facts from newly declassified Cold War-era documents, most of the relevant issues are in the history books.

Please don't change the goalposts. I'm responding to this:

> What happens when intelligence agencies go to war with each other and don't tell the rest of us?

I think the term you are looking for is "Cold War".

The Cold War was not secret nor conducted without the consent of the publics of the two powers. Many activities were conducted in secret, but the bulk of the conflict was done overtly.
Exactly this. "Internet Freedom" should really mean a decentralized, equally-distributed network in which my server gets treated the same as every other server in the network. By increasing the power of ISPs, the FCC is in fact increasing centralization, allowing Comcast et al. to determine who gets network traffic and who does not. Internet freedom isn't so much being eroded as it is being demolished.
One thing to clarify here. Swagger/OpenAPI use JSON Schema in order to describe parameters and response structures. The rest of the schema work will start to fall into place pretty quickly now that we've got the groundwork done. Swagger generation based on the annotations will be one of the features, but there'll be plenty more to get excited about too.
Agreed, especially considering the article is almost purely speculation:

>We have no idea why, or where it will go next, and can only speculate.
Haha, I always make that mistake when typing.

Yeah, I've had this conversation a few times. I think that there are some know reasons for the theft, but the black market for this stuff is pretty opaque. I imagine that if you're in the business of cybercrime, you diversify, and one option is stolen health records.
You will be happy to hear that there was a GNOME Hackfest in Mexico recently, attended by several Rust team members. Some productive plans were sketched out for the future; as the GNOME project adopts Rust more and more, I expect this to get easier and easier.

You also might like https://github.com/antoyo/relm
It's the year of divorice/widowhood that is the low mark, but afterwards people recover. Doesn't that make sense? That are still in the negatives as far as life satisfaction goes.

My close friend killed himself nearly 4 years ago. The first year was really bad, the second year was just a little better. And now, ya know, I'm mostly back to myself. Life satisfaction isn't a finite resource that you can only lose, you can rebuild it.
What kind of crash? Rust's memory model guarantees memory safety, meaning you can not have: use after free; double free; buffer overflows; index out-of-bound issues; etc.

What it doesn't prevent is crashes. Rust programs will crash if your program tries to do any of the above, and-or blindly unwrap() Result or Option types.

Now Rust can segfault, etc., just like Java, Node, Go, Ruby, Python, PHP and every other "memory-safe" language when using unsafe or native extensions.
This doesn't really surprise me. I'm a current Computer Science student and most of my peers don't really impress me or strike me as people I would want to hire at my company. Apart from being in Computer Science because they feel it's a lucrative field, many of them do little to nothing to "stuff" their resume. I'm finishing up my freshman year with good grades, getting my needed honors credits, working in a student IT position, volunteering as an ambassador for the CS program at my college and I still feel as if I could be doing more. Most of the people I work alongside (including those further into their CS path than I) do little to nothing apart from going to class while getting passing grades and expect that a job will be handed to them at the end. I can see these same people hitting a wall wondering why their specific path didn't work out when they have little to nothing to show for their time in college other than a degree in Computer Science.
I wonder if the study went deeper into the different types of "fired". Things like:

* Your entire team is being cut because it's not generating enough revenue

* No one likes you

* your position can, and will, be outsourced to India

* you are incompetent at your position

I feel like there would be different levels of upset based on those things.
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I can't even remember the last time I was on a flight (Southwest included) that wasn't at capacity. I'm sure it depends on where you're flying to and from though.
I beat it in two moves out of sheer luck.
They also won't have to pay the people who get bumped which will somewhat offset the lost revenue from overbooking.
Southwest doesn't do this, but some other low-cost carriers do (especially in Asia): they purposefully cancel flights and offer only credit vouchers as compensation instead of re-routing passengers. Many travelers end up buying same-day tickets at considerably higher expense, or not ending up in a position to use those vouchers (which is the same as the airline keeping the money).
That's just Uber trying avoid having their self-driving car department shut-down. But it could definitely still happen. Maybe Uber should apply to Google's 'PatentShield' program ;)
I think you can safely assume that's the case :)
A power company can't charge you extra or give you a discount because you used an LG washer, because LG is a competitor to their sister company GE, or something like that. That's exactly what Net Neutrality regulations were trying to enforce. Without enforcement, you have things like Comcast or TMobile giving extra speed to their own streaming portals, or charge other service providers for higher speed tiers. I don't understand why there is so much contention regarding this, regardless of political affiliation.