skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At its core, GPS works by having each satellite continually broadcast the current time. By observing the time-of-flight differences from multiple satellites (at least 4), the receiver can then compute its position and the current time.

There's a lot more to it, of course, in terms of how it's encoded and how you know where the satellites are and such, but that's the basic principle.

Note that the receiver itself doesn't know what time it is until it gets a position lock from the satellites. Receivers can have onboard clocks, which helps them calculate their position and the time more quickly than starting up with no idea of the time at all, but it's just a helper, not a requirement. Even if you have one, the onboard clock will necessarily be much less accurate than the ones on the GPS satellites, so any (reasonable) delta will be assumed to be clock drift, not spoofing.

So, if I set up a receiver at point A, then rebroadcast the signals I receive to your receiver at point B, and your receiver is blocked from getting the true signals at B, your receiver will think it's at point A. It will also think that the current time is behind, by whatever the rebroadcasting delay is, but it won't have any way of knowing that's wrong.

As far as mitigation goes, if your receiver was running before the spoof signal started to arrive then you could easily notice that things had suddenly gone crazy. I think military equipment that depends on GPS also has backup inertial navigation systems which would quickly show any divergence, and allow it to continue without GPS input (albeit at reduced accuracy).
MBNA, a few years prior to the BofA acquisition. The company mostly issued affinity cards, of which it was the largest US issuer (I want to say largest globally, but not sure, whereas US I am certain about) at the time. You got to see a pretty good cross-section.
I used to be like that in high school, college. Everybody did it.

Now? I've been paying for Google play music and Netflix since they've been available in my country.

I pay for my IDE

I have a steam library so large that I'll never be able to play everything
I am not the original poster that said anything about boyfriends. In fact, I disagreed with the notion.
>The thing is, theses users don't come to my product page for getting updates for example, so I think it's a loss for me because I can't reach them and talk to them.

You assume that they would buy in in the first place. I would not spend a penny on 95% stuff I pirated. Most of the stuff was a one time thing, like game was too boring (I would request a refund), game had too high requrements, so I couldn't even start an episode, music was not interesting after literally one song from whole discography etc.

> in the FAQ and try to not show it if I detect the software is not cracked ?

Things have FAQ? I've never seen them.

>What if I distribute the pirated version myself

I remember this coll guy https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2mjxde/develo...

>I have faith that some of my pirate users can become my clients one day

I've pirated more than 1k of PC games, my steam account has 97 tites right now, and there is also GOG.

Try to make your stuff easy to reach, steam, gog, https://itch.io/app, try to build hype around your game, it's easy now no reddit in /r/gaming show some cool/funny scene from the game, make announcement on /r/linux_gaming that game is available from first day, etc.
That is laughable and doesn't provide any kind of military utility. What is the value of spoofing GPS by putting everyone into the same point, with zero inferred velocity and acceleration vectors, while other data sources like inertial will easily tell the supposed victim this is all wrong?

Also, M-code can't be affected this way because it is encrypted, and military grade GPS receivers use virtual directed beams so they are next to impossible to simply jam, either.
I agree with you - from a theoretical perspective, it seems pretty crazy to be taking pills that alter the brain chemistry when we don't fully understand the effects those changes might have.

But the strange fact is that SSRI therapy does seem to help with depression in many people, just as lithium seems to help with mood even though we don't completely understand why.

With the example of serotonin, even though the SSRI effects serotonin levels almost immediately, it can take several weeks for depressive symptoms to improve. Therefore it is unlikely that inhibiting serotonin transport alone accounts for the anti-depressive effect. It has more recently been theorised that the strong anti-inflammatory effect of SSRIs may be involved, as depression is increasingly known to be related to chronic inflammation.

Lastly I'm pretty skeptical about "imbalances" altogether (though I took it for granted at the time). For example, when I and others have been prescribed SSRIs, there have generally been no medical tests given first which might detect or confirm any such imbalance. In fact I'm not even sure such a test is possible. Instead, they give the pills out solely on the basis of a personal report from the patient, which the physician interprets to indicate depression.
>Just to name one, I don't have usually a smartphone, or a switched on smartphone, when driving, and the police officer should have a way to find and call my phone number, which not necessarily is linked to the car license plate.

Sure it's a flawed idea, but may result in better ideas. For example, what about integrating that technology into the car itself? Yeah there are problems to be overcome (doesn't help with cars already out on the road, needs to account for spoofing and 4th Amendment considerations), but it is an interesting direction.
Vietnamese humour is remarkably focused around puns and other word-play, much more so than American humour. The reason is presumably because Vietnamese has a ton of homophones, and even more words that differ by only one vowel or tone.

(this makes learning Vietnamese a kind of trying experience, as every mispronunciation is a source of hilarity for native speakers :) )
I imagine Chromium would be to your liking?
Is there a research paper on this?
No there would not be competition for the same disney movie. But there is a lot of competing content out there that will lower prices.
Currently reading "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right". Similar stories when it comes to medicine.
Thanks, will do (https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock/issues/15)
It looks like there's a $43 option without updates.
> American police

> European police

> It's not something intrinsic to the nature of police

Perhaps it's something intrinsic to the nature of police inside a hegemonic or imperial regime where the stakes of meaningful political upheaval are much higher (and the price of a frightened populous lower).

edit: Curious about the downvotes: is it a controversial assertion that police act differently in the context of empire?
Indeed, the way one phrases arguments has meaning and it is a second higher-level language on top of the grammatical rules and the vocabulary that makes up a language. (plus the non-verbal, plus the social settings, plus the other parties choice of words and expressions, etc.).
Is agile considered a product development framework or just a software development methodology? I think that's quite a difficult question to answer. I'm sure anyone that has worked on product development finds it difficult to figure out how things like research, design and maybe even quality assurance should fit into the agile way of doing things.

Agile is so flexible that it doesn't really answer the question of how some of the non-software dev things fit in, ultimately it comes down to strong leadership, and the honesty to say when something is going wrong. At the very least, agile provides the opportunity to fix bad decisions.
From that page, "use ++g instead of g++ (it’s faster)"

I've seen people say this a repeatedly when talking about "embedded" environments, but never understood why - won't it end up compiling to the same thing either way?
>Culture relishes how much stress one can handle. Not humans. It's a learned behavior.

It might define how much stress people try to handle. But it certainly doesn't define the limit of what you can handle (which is completely out of your control).
> is functionally the same

It very, very much isn't
from Playboy employees writing fake and contradictory letters in the magazine about the Illuminati to adaptive plays and concerts, that means a lot of people really do read it for the articles
You'll need two alternatives to GPS to be able to tell whether it's a malfunction in GPS, or the inertial nav. e-loran is such a third alternative.
Finally, some positive news in the media. How can one help? If you have the need for software send me a message!
Let's not be absurd. Brakes failure in a car isn't going to stop you starting it and getting on the freeway. Wasn't it Toyota found that to be more than an inconvenience?
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Thanks for the report, I'll look into it (https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock/issues/16)
But Disney do produce a lot of content all the time. Enough that they have several TV-channels that arguably cost more than Netflix to get access to. And this is just for the cartoon kids stuff.
> Once you go full cynic

I am not this - I am very optimistic about the human condition. However...

> govts are created to protect the wealthy and wars are instigated to generate more wealth

I think this is obvious at this point.

And I also think that our species is entering an age in which we'll be able to do without these lifeboats.
Detection 1: Constantly run HFDF on all GPS frequencies. You know where your own transmitters live. Process of elimination.

Detection 2: Compare GPS velocity vector to INS velocity vector. For fixed installations, have two receivers spaced some distance apart and compare GPS location.

Detection 3: Measure the time delay between GPS and your RTC. With a GPS disciplined RTC, drift should be low enough to make this viable.

Detection 4: Look for jumps in GPS location or time.

Mitigation 1: Send black vans, soldiers, or missiles as appropriate to rogue transmission locations determined by HFDF or the encoded position of spoofed signal.

Mitigation 2: Frequency-agile and mobile GPS substitutes almost certainly have a prominent role in EW strategy. Of course, as you note, the details have to be classified, but it's pretty easy to speculate what form the overall strategy will take.
Is more root cause analysis likely to be useful at preventing future car accidents? I think that accurate awareness of risk factors with cars probably already exists in a reasonably sophisticated form -- what is lacking compared to planes and trains is a way to turn that knowledge into effective preventive action.

(Not entirely lacking as I think safety regulations do take into account statistical models of accident risk in terms of regulatory requirements on things like frame impact absorption)
It’s hardly instigated the mind-blowing epiphany – the realisation that it’s all fake – which the proponents of Discordianism had originally intended.

The article doesn't emphasize this quite right.

The key insight of Discordianism is that all of human society is "fake". If you can kick it, it's real; if you can't kick it, it's exactly as real as Eris is -- which is to say, the way people behave is in accordance with the way that they truly believe.

The first level of Discordianism is to think that Discordianism is a joke.

The second level is to realize that it's true.

The third level is to realize that it's a joke that teaches you that everything that exists in and shared between minds has the same ontological basis: Discordia, Islam, Christianity, the US Federal Reserve System, Google -- they all exist because people believe that they exist and behave in ways that indicate that belief.
It would also be fairly short-lived in battle, since the spoofer is broadcasting its own location in a highly accurate "place ordnance here" manner.
Regarding the money aspect: for someone living in western Europe, the police budget and income system in the USA seems crazy. How could they possibly do that they are supposed to do (uphold the law) with a system that forces them to select their actions based on the money it will generate for them.
Why do your plugins need also to update ? There's a lot of changes in the API ?
This guy is actually fairly ignorant of the history. The Illuminatus! Trilogy was a parody of conspiracy literature and was released in 1975. There were hundreds of books about the freemasons and the illuminati going back to the 18th century. There was a whole anti-Masonic political party in the United States in the 19th century. In particular, the book parodied the John Birch society.

The real innovation in the book was how freely they mixed and matched conspiracy theories from the left and right to turn them into a gigantic ur-conspiracy.
There's nothing "obvious" about aging, and we don't even understand how or why calorie restriction works [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction#Mechanisms
How do you know which user released the plugins?
My theory is it's just a question of getting the financials right. A streaming service that's passes along ~80% of it's revenue based on what individual people watch and some weighting so more recent content gets a higher multiple seems like the long term winner.

The idea is if someone watches 2 hours a month then whatever they watch gets high value. But, if someone watches 200 hours a month then everyone gets far less. And the net benifit is both niche content for picky viewers and bulk content for people that want background noise are both viable.

Right now there are similar calculations, but it's very indirect which makes fragmentation seem like a better deal for content creators.
I'd start with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8 first. It won't take too long, and you'll be much better prepared for nes.
I am a remote dev out of timezone, and give a yesterday/today standup summary in Hipchat every day. If everyone else did that, we'd all have ~10min more each day for actual work. It's super effective.
I imagine when something about the project changes, it takes a really long time to rewrite all those stories? Or you end up never re-assessing because it takes too long.
What real estate? The railway companies got land grants because nobody (well, except the Native Americans...) owned the land they built on. The Boring Company is going to be drilling under already owned land no matter where it goes...
I'm glad that you are a former engineer.
An approach I took in your situation was to actually sign up to the forums, I became moderator there and then didn't allow anyone to share my stuff! The flip side though is you still have to allow people to share other peoples stuff so morally it's a grey area. Whatever you choose though, good luck!
Only if you assume they're equally likely to fail. Since INS is much less susceptible to spoofing and ought to have a fairly low nominal failure rate, in wartime it might be reasonable to assume disagreements are due to spoofing.
Thank you, thank you, for taking the time to explain!! This makes sense to me, and this analysis is fantastic.

I see more clearly the issue with 1/1.15 that I was worried about, and what I missed was the gener_ratio_to_population_ratio inside the variance_ratio_to_standard_deviation. I was worried the variance ratio was being double counted, but I see now that it's not, you just made it symmetric.

> It would absolve Google of immediate responsibility if they simply administered an IQ test to candidates

Isn't there a very high probability that this would implicate Google rather than absolve them? I'd be really pretty extremely surprised if Google had managed to hire tens of thousands of people that are all at least 165 IQ. If they prove the average IQ is 130, they then potentially have to take responsibility for the remainder of the discrepancy.

> Don't you mean lower? There are a whole bunch of other factors that make women less likely to go into CS

I did mean higher, but you're absolutely right to call BS on that. Any factors that alone would result in a lower female ratio than 20/80 would push the IQ threshold lower. Factors that alone would result in anything higher than 20/80 would raise the IQ threshold. My assumption was that, being at a very extreme end of the spectrum more than 4(!) standard deviations from the general population, almost all other factors would be closer to 50/50 than to 0/100, and would thus raise the IQ threshold. But that is my assumption and belief, not any established fact.

Since the actual ratio is 20/80, and I believe that IQ is at best a small factor, then for my hypothesis to be right, some other actual factor must be closer to 0/100 than 50/50. That means I'd better accept your suggestion that what I really meant to say is other factors would push the IQ threshold lower not higher, because there's evidence for that. You've done me a favor. ;)

Thanks again for engaging at this level.
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Here's a Google webcache.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
Let's think through that. In order to spoof GPS, you need to overpower the true GPS signal with your own. You put some transmitters in a location, and anyone attempting to get a GPS fix while in that location gets spoofed data and the wrong location.

Now, if you're close enough to get the spoofed signal, you're close enough to see Putin's entourage and know he's probably nearby. If you're not close, you don't get spoofed. So I'm uncertain of the utility of this Putin Detector.
I'm dying to know the specific techniques and incredibly frustrated you haven't listed anything specific.

The people demand answers!
> There aren't any gatekeepers. There are people are doing work for you. You are totally in control. You (or your org) can opt to have some of that work done for you. You can't pretend that it doesn't need to be done at all.

That's pretty much the heart of the matter right there. One person is complaining that the rest of the world isn't doing enough work to make the need for that work invisible to him.
Well in your parking example, I think the better example would be, "not allowed to park here without a pass".

You are allowed to park there, if you have the pass. If someone told me I wasn't allowed, I'd assume there was no way for me to park there. If someone told me I was allowed with requirements, then I know I can, if I can obtain the requirements.

However I see your point of capable vs allowed, I just think it's a valid distinction to make. I'd never tell someone that they'd not be allowed to park somewhere, because that's not the complete picture. They might leave, thinking that there's no way for them to park there. That's not true at all, and I'd be in the wrong for misleading them, imo.
One likely future is more a la carte purchasing, whether to rent or own. We're well on the way to that with movies. No all-you-can-eat subscription service has even a mediocre selection. And, having effectively driven everyone else in the space out of business, Netflix' long tail DVD catalog is degrading as they apparently don't replace disks that are lost/damaged.

I agree with the broader point though. I don't watch a lot of TV which means there's a definite limit to how many subscription services I'll get. Maybe that means I don't watch a show here or there I might have been inclined to but that's OK.
As a matter of fact, yes a brake failure will stop you from going on the freeway.

You will realize the problem the first time you try to brake, likely on the first turn or the first light.

For the comparison, imagine a brake failure on a plane.

A plane can already take a mile to stop with working brakes. How many buildings and trees do you think it will take to substitute to the brakes?
You assume that they would buy in in the first place

No I didn't say that and I don't believe it. What I believe is that I would prefer thoses pirates to come to the official website to know about the product features and update, being able to comment it and ask for advices and get the feeling that someone is working behind it etc.. Everything is lost when people go to private forums and ask the new update to the software cracking team

I'm not selling a game but a very useful productivity tool. But yeah I'll try to build 'hype' anyway thanks :)
They could option or purchase land, and decide the route of the tunnel based on what they're able to obtain. That puts them in a position to capture value. It could also increase regulatory competition among localities.
What do you mean here? Fines?
It sounds like one thing you’re describing is a vicious-cycle in the world of startups. One where:

1. Founding/funding seems to encourage lying about mental state (financial incentive to say you’re doing great when you might not be)

2. Someone who lies about their mental state seems to be at a disadvantage to manage their emotions and avoid a crisis
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Third, focus on support: you can download, install, and run OpenNMS, for example, totally 100% for free. But if you want support beyond the mailing list, you pay for it.

I feel like it's what's going on actually. You can get my plugins for free on forums by doing a stupid google search, or you can buy it officially and get support.
You're talking about a GPS repeater. Such systems are commercially available to rebroadcast a GPS signal within a building where the signal wouldn't penetrate, but require a license to operate, IIRC.

As for countermeasures, well, whoever's holding the receiver is bound to get suspicious if they move and the reported position doesn't. :) Jokes aside, there is work being done integrating other sensors (inertial, compass, gyro, etc.) to do dead reckoning to detect errors in the position and motion reported by the GNSS receiver.

As an aside, "GPS" technically refers only to the positioning system operated by the United States. The generic term is "GNSS" (global navigation satellite system) and encompasses GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou, etc.)
To the downvoter(s): I'm genuinely curious, can you name any significant software companies that launched during that era? I've not done an exhaustive search, but I've looked for them and have had a much harder time finding software companies with launch dates of 1996-2005 than <1995 or >2006 (the successful launch count in that window obviously wasn't zero but I'm pretty sure it's down significantly from the before and after eras).
No we don't have to.

Stop consuming proprietary code from for-profit corporations.
In a moderately sophisticated compiler, yes they should be the same thing.

The difference in the two is that the latter has to produce the original value, presumably by keeping it in a temporary variable. A compiler which looks at all the code in a function when optimising, rather than just blindly emitting code for each individual operation, will see that the value is not needed, and delete the temporary.

I guess cc65 is a bit more basic. Compilers for more unusual embedded environments are often a bit more basic, hence the general advice for the embedded context.

I think you could probably fix the compiler for this trivial case in the time it takes you to write down the advice though.
That assumes that cars break while not in use. Tires can pop while being driven, for example. There are plenty of devastating and life-taking accidents that come from car failures.