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> The U.S. military uses encrypted signals for geolocation of vessels, rather than commercial GPS.

It seems like a massive oversight to keep encrypted GPS signals for use exclusively for US military. As mentioned in another comment, the collision could have been caused by spoofing the commercial ships GPS rather than a cyber attack on the Navy vessel.

The ability to selectively enable GPS in a region for only US military (as mentioned, once again, in another comment) doesn't even seem like that big of a strategic advantage - surely a sophisticated enemy wouldn't rely on GPS, would they?

Any strategic advantage doesn't really seem worth the potentially massive damage that could be caused by a large scale spoofing of GPS signals.
To clarify I mean ban and enforce the ban (enforced by CN, RU, EU and US). Non compliance results in severe economic penalties/blockades. Use the UN in all possible ways. The big-4 might agree to something like this lest they repeat the nuke proliferation problem.
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Sorry, I don't follow you. So they are not discriminating against hispanics? What exactly is the issue?
There are so many videos like that out there. The fact that two Reuters journalists were killed in the "collateral murder" video is notable, but unfortunately children and first responders being killed is not out of the ordinary.

Yesterday I posted a compilation of Apache gunships blowing up black and white silhouettes of people and massive expanses of land. I don't buy for a second that the US military or their contractors really know anything about the people they are killing, beyond the fact that they have identified with certain groups for reasons that could range from nationalism to just plain self-preservation and a salary. It is undebatable that most of the 1,000,000s of people who died in the Middle East in the last 15 years were not guilty of any crime, and even if they were the US consistently provided no proof before incinerating them extra-judicially.
Maybe all of their current customers are on the enterprise plan?
To discuss it? I guess?
Radiolab takes down episode “Truth Trolls”
Service Fabrik from SAP Goes Open Source
Service Fabrik from SAP went Open Source yesterday. It is a one stop for provisioning & management of Enterprise grade backing services like PostgreSQL, Redis etc for your Enterprise grade Cloud Foundry applications on a multi-cloud infrastructure. It has got excellent capabilities and will prove out be future for management of Cloud Foundry services. You can read more in this blog https://blogs.sap.com/2017/08/21/service-fabrik-from-sap-goes-open-source/.

It was announced in wider CF Community and has been well received there as well :)
https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/archives/list/cf-dev@lists.cloudfoundry.org/thread/ST6FBH5G3KHAAPOHEXJ55JO2ATRDZDJX/
An enemy doesn't need its robots to kill you to defeat you. It just needs to disable your infrastructure and break all your weapons, including any killer robots you have. All the taxpayers can keep living. The new rules will be in the email.
All the apps on the app store will be written assuming more powerful devices with newer API versions.
I imagine one could make a modern device that tracks position by watching the sky. I wonder how well could that work in bad weather. Is there any light spectrum of the stars that passes through a serious storm? Humans may be incapable of seeing it but how about advanced telescope/camera?
You can get a Nougat device for as low as Rs 3500($55) in India. Which would be considered low end mobile.
It's hard to find an appropriate definition. What if AI is there theoretically only to provide suggestions to a human operator, but in practice, the operator gets so used to AI's predictions that he always goes with the AI's suggestion.
I find it interesting that "Honeydue" is in the list, when there are multiple free apps already in existence such as Buxfer and Splitwise that have already been available for years.

Both Buxfer and Splitwise serve the exact same functions as Honeydue (splitting bills/expenses with room mates and/or partners), and both of them are free to use. Sadly, neither app has found a way to be all that profitable after all these years.

Maybe Honeydue will do something to solve the marketing problem that apparently both Buxfer and Splitwise have?
Plus with the advent of Glonass, Galileo, and Beidou, the ability for the USA to turn off GPS has less strategic value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...
Completely agree! There is plenty of unexplored space and tradeoffs across the spectrum :)
Has "No more, this conflict must cease" ever happened?
The iPhone doesn't suffer from this problem. It should be up to the phone manufacturer (HTC, Samsung, etc.) to test their product.

Moreover, in some European countries it is normal to buy a phone and a subscription separately. In some countries bundling is even illegal. I have never had a carrier-branded phone since I switched to smartphones, including my Android excursion (Nexus 4, Moto X 2013, Moto G, Moto X 2014) and some Windows Phones that I played with (Lumia 710/920/640). They all worked on multiple carriers.

Everyone should stop perpetuating the carrier testing myth. For this we have the GSM standards and in many parts of the world a large number of phones are not carrier-branded.
Rejection is turned into an exception with "await", though. And rejection is perfectly normal with, say, network I/O.
> I don't think that a failed artist would lose out on basic needs because of money.

How many former humanities students do you know?

If success just means being happy with yourself then sure, go for it. However this is a retreat from what OP stated: "The World Belongs to Those Who Create VS Those Who Don't".

If we are restricting ourselves specifically to artists then, for an average person, becoming a materially successful artist requires capital investment and an appetite for risk (or a lack of understanding of the risks). The capital investment will most likely come from parents in the form of education, food, security, etc.

Becoming a successful artist without any of that support sounds like a horrible all-or-nothing proposition with no fall back position. (You have no capital if you fail because you didn't hedge your bets with a steadier/less fulfilling career).
http://jsnice.org/ does a solid job.

You can choose "interactive renames" in the settings if you want, and go through and fix bits up as you go. But it does a remarkably nice job already.
Yeah, KPFK is my go to in L.A.
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The world belongs to those who create VS those who consume
I wouldn't be surprised if sleep deprivation was a leading cause. The military in general has a problem with letting people get enough sleep, especially if the personnel are not on the day shift/watch.

With two deadly collisions in the same fleet, I bet there is some silly regulation/task that is keeping watch standers from getting enough sleep. It could be as simple as letting sleeping personnel get pulled into working parties as everyone else is on watch or doing repairs/maintenance.

I wouldn't be surprised if things got worse as they pile even more training requirements on trying to fix the issue.
Have there been any attempts at attacking or bringing down those systems yet? How did they hold up if so?
A robot war could end with the losing country just going for a nuclear EMP, that would shut down not only his country but a whole continent.

I agree that the sooner we put laws on what we can create with true IA's the better.
Someone wrote this above... I agree with.

The decision of who to fund may rely in part on seeking people similar to oneself and if the demographics of the applicant pool are not reflected in the staff of YC it may skew the outcome against minorities.
Isn't a lot of mining done in places where electricity is cheap and/or clean, such as hydroelectric in China and geothermal in Scandinavia?
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Suddenly a 500k PR contract from the Navy lands in his lap.
This has existed for quite a while. The SR-71 (introduced in 1966) had an astro-inertial navigation system that tracked stars to reduce error in a standard INS.

Using spectrum filters, was able to track stars day and night (and I imagine potentially in bad weather).

https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/nortronics...
One contractor in Israel already has an 8-rotor small drone with a machine gun. A teenager in Connecticut built a 4-rotor drone with a handgun and made a video. (Recoil pushes it backwards about a foot when it fires, but it remains level.) On the hardware front, we're there.
I didn't say no reference materials, only Stackoverflow :-)
I'd guess it's a 136 thousand run rate, and there's just a typo in the article. $136 million would really be something.
A much better explanation for that is that the guys there are being overworked and exhausted. Navy resources are overstretched as there is lack of destroyers due to many years of interruption in DDG construction. Navy has at least 12 destroyers less than it would have if not the catastrophe of Zumwalt class construction.
> Maybe the UN can create something similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but effectuate Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" (https://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/robotics.html)

There's a story around those three laws that's quite important.

> Computers (by their current architecture) don't have the ability to become conscious and self-aware

I see absolutely no reason to think this is the case.
This article is just idle speculation with some of the vague 'Russia is behind it' rhetoric we've been seeing over the past few years.

Even if someone had developed the capability to spoof military grade GPS why would they use it on a random ship for no reason? That would accomplish nothing while tipping off the military that someone had cracked GPS.

Even if this is a GPS problem at all it is more likely to be a bug in the implementation than a targeted attack.

By Occam's Razor this is likely just a plain old human error and not some sophisticated conspiracy - someone was negligent and shit hit the fan.
This is spot on. In fact, for most users Lollipop brought lag and excessive battery drain for little user benefit.
When I heard this I had to listen to it. Found it here:
https://iono.fm/e/461744

I love Radioloab, and anticipated sympathizing with them in this episode. However, I must say I think their coverage was rather callous and sympathetic to the trolls. Their thematic point was pretty tenuous. While the trolls' abilities are impressive, they are pitiful assholes.

We don't have to think Shia's art is good to respect that he's attempting something very moral. And even people with a dark sense of humor (me) should respect when that humor makes others feel truly sad and afraid.

Some opinion:
https://davechen.net/2017/08/radiolab-removes-truth-trolls-p...
Most mining are centralized factories where such thing is not even possible, so I believe it would not even make sense to put your case into account.
Initially I assumed this was the same facility as made famous by the move "The Dish", but further reading seems to hint that that particular dish is 300km away - is that right?
The smartphone was invented long before the iPhone. This is 10 years after it went mainstream.

And in ten years that iPhone has not changed much, except that the CPU/GPU rapidly caught up to current standards. The only other dealbreaker toward using it today is 3G support, and that's a 9 year old feature. If the iPhone 3G had the same relative performance to 2008 desktops as the current iPhone has to 2017 desktops, it would probably still be viable.

Maybe 10 years is a bit too high, but we're talking about high end phones here. I'd be surprised if the actual hardware wasn't acceptable 7 years down the line.
> you can just executed ordinary code at compile-time

Another 'recent' language that addresses this to the point of being its significant existential justification is D
> surely a sophisticated enemy wouldn't rely on GPS, would they?

That leaves the unsophisticated enemies.
Really OT but since you brought it up, I legit just started reading the book yesterday and this is my first DFW book. Looks kinda daunting, any advice?
From their standard billing option section.

> * Billing is dependent on amount of meaningful change per month. $9 per user per month for static analysis.

I agree it still sounds far fetched that their at the $136 million ARR, but it's not infeasible they're somewhere near the the low-to-mid 8-figures, with their enterprise solutions as well.

If it was $9/user, for all those companies that figure would require the average team size to be 2,800 people. Which is extremely unlikely.
> However, these collisions could be caused by spoofing the general maritime traffic so the US ships are on the 'correct' course and everyone else is offset.

These collisions could not be caused by anything but massive human failure, because while the military may exploit networked electronic conveniences to track expected civilian traffic positions, that's not supposed to be the only system they have.

And they'd be useless as warships if that was their only way of detecting larger ships than their own size short of bumping into them.
How leading tech companies help extremist sites monetize hate
I wish the await syntax was inverted; instead of waiting for an async function, let all async functions await by default. In other words, I wish this worked:

let foo = myAsyncFunc()
foo.bar()

Why? Because that's the common case, and the caller shouldn't care whether the function is async or not. If you have a non-async function that you want to change to be async, or the other way around, then you have to change every single call site.

The case where you want to store a promise or wait on multiple is actually the edge case, and they could have reused "async" here:

Promise.all([
async myAsyncFunc(),
async someOtherAsyncFunc()
]);

Bonus functionality: If you do "async foo()" and foo() isn't async, the compiler could still ensure that it provided a promise.

Sadly, it's too late for this, and everyone's code will suffer as a result. It's way too easy to forget to add "await" to an async call, and doing so leads to failures that can be hard to track down.
>I think there's a spectrum. People who optimize file systems, for example: that's on the "engineering" side of the spectrum. It requires a scientific approach to the research. It requires a very deep understanding of complex systems, formal reasoning, and emergent behavior.

Is it engineering then? Or is it scientific? Because they're not the same thing.
Did you see any black or Hispanic founders in YC for the first years?

Not to repeat myself, but look at the YC staff today. How many?
http://www.ycombinator.com/people/
I've searched for advice once too. At work I'm maintaining a compiler from C# to Java and JS and while the code emitted will by definition never do some things that are slow (e.g. call functions with differently shaped arguments or change the shape of objects) I'm in a far better position to implement other things that improve performance, if I knew what I could do. Of course, avoiding allocations helps other languages too and general algorithm changes should be done by a human, but things at the expression level that only change performance but not semantics could be easily applied over a whole codebase.

A large change we made recently was to extract private methods from classes and have them as normal functions in scope instead of looking them up from an object, but that was also mostly guesswork since "JS then no longer has to do a lookup for the function but instead can call it directly". In the end I still don't know whether or how much that changed, as ot coincided with a major library version change and we're faster than the old version overall.

Generally catering to not only Chrome, but also Firefox and Edge makes such things generally difficult as well, without a bunch of solid performance tests in place to catch regressions on certain browsers.

Ideas I had, but not yet tested/implemented:

· Inline compile-time constants so instead of having some.namespace.Type.CONSTANT, we'd get 25 in-place.

· Merge multiple boolean fields in a class into a single int and access them via bitwise operations from the getter. Might mostly help in how much fits into the cache.

· Append |0 to all sub-expressions of type int instead of only the outermost one. May help the JIT to not even emit code to check types in between.

· Using typed arrays instead of normal arrays if we have things like int[] or double[]. Needs a polyfill for IE 9 then.
An active learning approach would be cool, where the formatter process a large corpus of code and asks a human operator for advice when it is especially uncertain about the best place to split.

Even if training the splitting policy from scratch is too hard, learning would be a good way to establish cost weights on different kinds of rule violations.
there are chapter endnotes and an appendix that looks very helpful.

meta-texts like this one are a must, because the subject is so broad. moreover, i find a lot of the oft-recommended books in this area very noisy on the theory side.

i imagine all of all of the available resources will improve in quality and become more standard over time.
Unfortunately I see 'complete incompetence' as the only rational explanation. This is just the latest in a string of naval disasters this year which are not just confounding and bizarre rank amateur displays, but have resulted in loss of life.

At this point, the American people deserve nothing less than an extraordinary response and complete accountability throughout the ranks. When destroyers are getting rammed by cargo ships, and guided missile cruisers are colliding with fishing bots, and running aground, we have a systemic problem with training, discipline, or protocol, likely all three.

You simply cannot blame broken GPS on getting your destroyer rammed by a 20,000 ton cargo ship. Our enlisted deserve better, and Admirals should be getting shit-canned for this.
'Semantical terms'? Semantics literally just means 'meaning'. If you don't want a discussion to involve discussing meaning, what do you want it to discuss? Your grammar? Your spelling? Your syntax?
This does look nice but we can solve the configuration difficulty of Webpack without switching tools. Webpack should be the standard we all get behind until there is a tool that offers significant improvements, not just being easier to use.

We are using an internal NPM package for common Webpack settings similar to the JetBrains library [1]. With that setup, our Webpack configs are much easier to use. There are other libraries like webpack-config [2] that give you a fluent api and allow common configs to be extended.

[1] https://github.com/JetBrains/ring-ui
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack-config
What are the vital PROs of LaTex over easy-2-use word processing programs like Ms Word ?
> We, as a reasonable majority, can disagree with this assessment.

Who is "we"? Do you think the right to speak should be defined by the majority? Too bad the US was explicitly founded on the diametrically opposing principle. To be sure, they even explicitly wrote it in the constitution, that it is not how things are to be decided. But what they knew, anyway...

> is no reason for private organizations to not exercise their own rights to not associate with those they dislike.

They can exercise whatever they like. But then we get partisan war on the internet, instead of cooperation, with everybody hating everybody (there are many hot topic issues in politics, and once using access to infrastructure like DNS is politicized, there's no stopping of it). And where nobody can be sure that they won't be target of the unpersoning campaign next. It's not the internet I would like to see. Legally, of course, they are within their rights. But not everything that is legal is a good thing to do. Turning access to internet into political battleground is not a smart thing to do. It will hurt everybody.

> None of the white supremacists is being banned as an individual, only specific institutions that they've chosen to raise up.

How does it matter? If Google seizes domain from nazis as organization, because they wanted to, what prevents them from seizing domain from an individual person, who, say, has controversial political views? Or espouses controversial ideas that are outside current scientific consensus? Or merely criticizes Google management a bit more harshly than they'd like? It is a logical next step, if no pushback happens on this one, it would expand. People are all scared about content provides limiting access for commercial reasons, what about political reasons?
That's good, but I really, really want to set the Supervision timeout to something other than a rudiculous 20 seconds:

https://blog.classycode.com/a-short-story-about-android-ble-...
Could they instead spoof the GPS that the other civilian ship was using and guide it into the US ship? That seems like it would be infinitely easier to do.

Isn't is also possible to just hack into the computers of the civilian ship as they are likely incredibly insecure and basically do what you want with it? I understand most industry computer control systems incredibly dated and insecure.

Just speculation of course.
The crew uses cellphones (browsing Singapore Tinder is a really good way to kill time while not falling asleep during the watch at 4am - makes for a peculiar case of "texting while driving" though). Coming from the providers in the region, with many directly or indirectly owned/invested/hacked by China, the phones are already hacked, and they provide a pretty good attack vector on any wireless ship system and after that on any other that it is connected too. Though my bet here is on pretty obvious Chinese spoofing of the destroyers' GPS - it being supposedly military grade makes it the last thing to be looked at.
I'm not fluent in Go but I read this blog post about asynchronicity in Go, https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro/10. Is the idea that Go will be synchronous in calls made with the go keyword only when there's some barrier put in place by a channel?
>journalistsscum

Nice neutral name

>software engineers

Sorry to break it to you, but software development is not engineering.
From Julian to Gregorian Calendar
> A human loses buoyancy around 30 feet deep in the water

Learned something new today, thanks for that. Didn't even realize this was possible.
I don't really know about our natural gas reserves - is cheap natural gas looking like a thing for the next several decades?
Cook for the week in one lot? Eat simpler? (Bean salads are my favourite, takes less than 5 minutes to make).
Then count it towards time spent with your family, not dinner.
>because liberals tend to prefer news that has no bias

You have to be joking. Have you heard of the Huffington Post or MSNBC?

Even NPR is heavily biased at the editorial level. Most of the stories are intentionally selected to represent downtrodden folks, rust belt workers/farmers that realize they are closet Democrats, etc. The individual stories will be true but the representation of reality portrayed by the overarching theme of the stories will be a lie.

It's like a conservative station that constantly reports only crimes committed by Muslims. All of it can easily be 100% true, but the overarching theme will be complete BS.