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the military tends to have swift justice.

Not for capital cases, which themselves are quite rare. The military hasn't executed anyone for over 50 years. There are people on death row, the one closest to execution was convicted in 1988.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_Unit...
> Prioritizing developer ease of use over end-user performance is a very bad habit to get into

Why is that? Whenever you use a high level language, you are making development easier at the cost of end-user performance. Or using a foreach loop instead of a regular for loop, is usually a bit slower, but makes development easier and less bug prone. Premature optimisation is the root of all evil and all that. Obviously at some point you have to prioritise end-user performance, when making decisions that will have a big impact on performance, but when making decisions on the level of promises vs callbacks, I don't think end-user performance should be a priority.
"I'm not one of those people" - yet you still call hypocrisy?

The organizations in the article, backed by wealthy supporters of affordable housing, do believe that the market sets rents; the policies that they advocate are a) allow low-income people to get housing outside of the market, and b) to change market rules to encourage higher supply and lower market prices.
>emotionally invested in the site.

Sorry but can you elaborate more?
You're being downvoted by the lazy neoliberals, but I sympathize with you. The men should be integrated back into society via restorative justice.
Monetization is a bit tricky without making the userbase feel like we're selling out. I was more focused on making the user experience better before I think about monetization.
25 IoT (Internet of Things) Phrases and definitions every IT person should know
But his domain his ad tech. It's not as if he threw away his technical aptitude when taking on the FB job.
Introduction of Mac OS X (2000)
Perhaps you should consider that you are not paying your fair share. You need to make more money so more can be taken from you in order to meet what is in your own words an existential threat.
Its something I built without much expectation and now there's thousands of people using it everyday. I get emails from them saying how much they love it. So in that sense, I really want to keep running it.
Has anyone done a TCO of the NSA? Like, if the NSA takes $X bn / year to run, and has $Y bn / year in negative externalities for US companies by leaking their malware, then just how much have they cost the US economy?
Cargo is profitable and has a bit more flexibility in schedule (often loading at odd hours). Passenger isn’t profitable without a subsidy and requires service employees (on train and off) along with more expensive infrastructure as opposed to buildings owned by clients (e.g. grain elevators). Insurance is also more and B2B is always easier than B2C.
Let's say I am in the last quarter of a tax period where I am going to have to pay taxes on a million in revenue.

Now let's say that I am planning to invest in some new equipment in the next 6 months.

If I buy the equipment now I don't have to pay taxes. If I wait I do.

How is that not an incentive to invest?

Every dollar in business expense is discounted by the amount of income tax not paid. The higher the income tax the greater the discount on business expenses and the greater the incentive to do something with cash other that hoarding it.
> Military experts were hard-pressed to think of another case where elite U.S. troops turned on one another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman#Surrounding_Tillma...
Yes, and the fact that business isn't betting on "climate adaptation" technology here at home feels like this is still far off or won't be as apocalyptic as the article suggests.

If the worst does come to pass, I'm sure it will alter life as we know it, but the danger would probably be more to animals that can't compensate with technology like we can.
I bought a house in 1993 with a good view. Neighbor built house where front window viewed. Stupid me, should have thought about it but the lot was a drainage pond for a year or so after I moved in, then suddenly got filled with dirt and a house built right across my living room window.

But it is my own fault for not noticing that the drainage lot would be eventually filled in. Oh well, was a nice house to live in and I enjoyed living there. Sold in 1996.
Ask HN: What should I specialize in?
I understand that it is not easy for a stranger on the Internet who does not know me well to give me specific career advice. I am still hoping that this post would generate some ideas that I could incorporate in my life and career. I will briefly describe my background and if you need to know more about me in order to help me, ask me in comments and I will answer you.

My background: I have 15 years of experience in the security industry as a software developer. I code in C, Java, Python, etc. My areas of expertise include: application security, creating solutions using cryptography (remember I am not a cryptographer, I am a software developer), log analytics, parser development, SQL engine development, neural networks, etc. I have worked for some big name companies like Apple, Amazon, etc. I love Linux and use Debian or CentOS for personal use as well as work. I used to be an active open source contributor 7 years ago and used to give talks on computer security and computational mathematics (discrete mathematics, number theory, etc.) For the last 5 years, I have been too with my employer's projects and no longer doing these things.

My objective: I want to get back into collaborating with the larger security community (open source contributions, submitting papers, giving talks, etc.) because I believe this gives me joy and also sets me apart from the rest. My focus right now is to go deeper into some areas of security and technology that would help me to contribute back to the larger community.

My question: Given my background, what do you think I should specialize in? You could suggest me specific technologies like Linux containers, Dockers, deep packet inspection, etc. or you could suggest me domains like big data, distributed computing, etc. You could also suggest me any techniques or methods to choose my area of specialization that has helped you in life.
> does the state of the art language recognition allow for broad on-device translation beyond a subset of trigger words, i.e. "Alexa", "Siri", "OK Google"?

No. You think Apple, Amazon, and Google ship all those audio packets back to servers for fun?

To believe that Facebook is processing ambient audio on a mobile phone, you have to believe that FB is doing things on a phone that even the phone's creators (who have no sandboxes and can access custom chips) cannot.
It is misleading to argue that FB has to store that data. But he addresses the "all they need to do is use the client device to perform speech-to-text" part:

> Because it has no specific trigger word for Facebook, your phone would need to listen for every targetable keyword. That means the speech-to-text translation code could only run on your phone itself, a taxing demand even for the beefy cloud servers that usually handle those tasks.

What app currently does speech-to-text translation with any usable accuracy on the device? Even Siri and dedicated-devices such as Alexa don't seem to attempt anything beyond trigger-word recognition locally.
A smarter way of automating UI testing: content verification
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I think Mozilla ran the numbers a year ago and found that all the advertising on the internet only nets about ~$11/person/month. Though, hell, I'd pay 10x that to be rid of that malware vector.
Bitcast, including the specific nomenclature, comes from LLVM, which had the concept more than 10 years ago.
> They didn't buy the school or the city, after all.

No, but they didn't buy the right to control the school or the city either. And if they thought they did, they were wrong and had an unrealistic sense of entitlement.
The article contradicts your post.
Which is why the author followed it up with "I’ll assume they also had some Centrum Silver and canned sardines on board that they didn’t talk about that kept them from dying."

Centrum Silver is a brand of multivitamin. Sardines, being an animal product, is what's called a "complete protein" - one that contains all essential amino acids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein

Some plants are complete proteins as well, such as soybeans.

To clarify though, amino acids are not vitamins though, they are a component of protein.
Not really surprised to hear that TN is business friendly. That's where the Frist Family is based, right?
You are correct... it was a hastily typed response.
FWIW this appears to be a weird American-only distinction, as “Special Forces” in the US military is a proper noun, where it’s a common noun in other anglophone militaries.

That is: in English, “special forces” and “special operations” are interchangeable descriptions, but the Americans broke this by naming a group of their special operations troops as “The Special Forces”. Much like the Brits and “The Royal Navy” rather than “a royal navy”.
The best tech we currently have is bio-engineered algae. It won't make a dent unless we can farm lakes full of the stuff.
The reason for the high cost of housing is because of Artificial scarcity of land made by regressive zoning density restrictions which creates market inefficiencies or market failures. The economic term is called rent-seeking and the market failures are bad for the economy. Instead of creating more wealth for everyone the instead allow the wealthy landlords to steal wealth from others.

Fir example, these laws benefit President Trump to the detriment of the working class and middle-income class.

Many liberals claim to hate Trump and favor the working person but they are typically behind movements to transfer wealth from workers to President Trump and other wealthy landlords.

The fix is simply to overturn the regressive laws.
True, however:

1. A single bus represents dozens of cars that would otherwise be on the highway in the case that all passengers previously had car based commutes.

2. As long as the average speed is greater than or equal to the car it would still be a net win. The system, combined with disincentives for car commuters would eliminate non high occupancy or industrial vehicles in the long run.

3. A bus solution would result in other improvements such as bus lanes, bus prioritization, etc as they become more ubiquitous.
I want a Snap Spectacles for Christmas!
You're not taking into account the fundamental interconnectedness of all things on this planet and in the universe.
Inference Review looks like a lot of fun. Noam's piece on language was great. I bookmarked the site.

Lapham's Quarterly has been in my bookmarks for awhile now so I'll 2nd that one, and I'll look at the others you've mentioned as well.

Thank you for sharing these!
It’s an interesting idea in principle, but how will you implement it in the real world?
And we're talking about how a (loose) organisation is branded, not the legal implications. The "backyard" in question is already one metaphor deep, for crying out loud.

This is like complaining that Amazon has little to do with the rainforest.
> it's easier to schedule and conduct meetings, there are far fewer slackers, etc.

That's a lot less a problem with telecommuting work and a lot more a problem with your company not being able to hire effectively.

If employees are incapable of being responsive, or even productive, without someone over their shoulder, I'm really not seeing where that is any issue but one of personal responsibility/capability, and if that's a question mark in enough employees to render a telecommute policy ineffective, I have to wonder how these people make it through the door.
> they're just selfish,

This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black
Without tax and wages cheating everything would be more expensive online than in (large) stores. Amazon shouldn't be able to match Walmart in prices at all. Nor should any other online store.

I get that that doesn't match your experience after 15 years of Amazon.com being cheaper than stores, but there are clear reasons for that and those reasons have been going away.

Tax treatment has been equalizing, Amazon is now charging VAT in a different (much more fair) way, and there has been action against the abuse of international and interstate postal agreements to get free or absurdly cheap deliveries.
I agree with most of your observations but disagree with your interpretations.

China's per capita GDP is only 8000 USD (vs 57000 for USA). So average Chinese people are still poor, and only few people are rich. But that's what is supposed to happen in a developing country undergone huge socio-economic changes.Also impoverished districts and poor people on streets can be found in pretty much any country, developed or not.

Older Chinese people (born before 1980) are mostly savers with mortgage paid off. Younger Chinese in big cities are more open to spending. Because those older people still hold majority of the existing wealth, China is a saver economy overall. That may change when younger generations start to take over. Housing is expensive and bubbly in big cities and certain regions but more affordable in smaller cities and rural areas. There is no property tax on housing in China and rent is expected to rise for many years to come. So high property cost is not as crazy as the price comparison suggests.

Chinese economy has some problems. Its debt load and housing bubble may bring major slowdown to the economy. But a recession will not be the end of China. Economic cycles should occur in China anyway. USA has experienced many financial crises and recessions and is still doing fine.

Pollution is bad in China, as in many other developing countries and in US and Europe a hundred years ago. That does not contradict its leading status in green-tech investment and research. Big problems lead to big problem-solving effort and political support.
This image is fascinating, is there a source to it? Reverse google images sadly didn't turn anything up.
Well the basic thing going on is "acid + base". Baking powder contains both (baking powder is baking soda + cream of tartar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_bitartrate), and starts reacting when water is added (try it).

Baking soda is a base, and reacts with buttermilk which is acidic.

It's not clear to me why some recipes contain both acid+baking soda and baking powder. Maybe they're worried that the first combination isn't sufficient?

My breakfast this morning used yoghurt + baking soda ;) (бухти)
What is hard to escape are time zones. In practice what happens is you have a few offices in your continental timezones, and a bunch in other continents timezones, and because of team purpose churn, different continents will have to start working with each other. It doesn't matter how fancy the equipment is when you are asleep and awake at different times.

You get 1 day (vs 10 minute) response times and nobody really wants to schedule a meeting because you have to get up very early or stay up very late, well out of working hours. Something that would be 1 day of back and forth becomes 1 week. It starts becoming very frustrating.

On top of that with tech, the tech worker hotspots are north america, europe and india/china. And each band have big differences in timezones. It's difficult to say 'we will only hire in the american timezones', because there are barely any tech workers south of the USA.
The Fitchburg line is even worse because you have to slog through the Concord rotary if you chose to drive. I'd love to see the face on one of my Californian friends driving on Route 2 -- nowhere else have I ever encountered a 55mph highway that ends at a stoplight.
Wasn't Perl created for the NSA? At least that's a story I heard. The official JPL reason is a cover.

Or maybe it was created for both. Or neither. Shrug.

Just googled it.. Here's a quote from Larry:

[...] the NSA project Perl was (indirectly) written to support.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3394

Another one from his 2005 State of the Onion:

> You might say that Perl grew out of the Cold War. I've often told the story about how Perl was invented at a secret lab that was working on a secret NSA project, so I won't repeat that here, since it's no secret

https://www.perl.com/pub/2005/09/22/onion.html
Based off the demos, it seems like you can integrate HTML directly, so it might be possible to move from Bubble to "external API + Bubble frontend" in a straightforward fashion.

You could also likely put a layer in front of Bubble to only serve some pages with Bubble, other with your replacement.

Also from the FAQ:
> The good news is that Bubble is fully extensible via Javascript plugins. The Bubble model is to write the core website functionality using our super-simple language, and plug in Javascript to handle algorithms that are hard to build in Bubble.

So you could probably add shims and move around.

I think the most interesting way of doing this would be something like embracing Bubble for a lot of work and having the "serious" code relegated to places that are easier to manage, like complex API or some custom widgets
We are not dinosaurs.
You’re assigning false significance to a coincidence.
Interesting that he moved from bicycles to shipping containers to progressively larger boats.
that was "friendly fire", which i assume was unintentional.
Of course. But now you proved it.
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The issue is Trump and Sanders.

In the US establishment politics has had a complete, and absolutely uncontested, grasp of control of control. 'Establishment' in this case is mostly a translation to indenture to corporations and other well monied special interests, including banks. Corporations put politicians into office using their money. Politicians repay them by legislating unreasonably favorably on behalf of corporations. Rinse, wash, repeat.

And to date it's always been easy for establishment backed politicians to win. Give heavily focus tested response and speeches. Call your opponent unelectable in primaries, unpresidential if somebody somehow makes it to the general, and of course pile on the attack ads. And then have the media, which is owned by the same people funding your presidential run, give you biased and preferential coverage.

That didn't work this election. Trump won the presidency on an anti-establishment platform, and Sanders came incredibly close to winning a primary that was completely stacked against him. And he did it running on a platform where he openly referred to himself as a democratic socialist. The DNC no doubt viewed him as something that could help unite the further left individuals into the DNC once he was handily defeated. That his loss was anything but 'handy' is probably something that was never even considered.

It seems the idea is now to try to restrict political speech to only coming from approved sources in approved ways. And I expect in part it's also an attempt to prevent the outright collapse of the DNC. Hillary gained fewer votes in 2016 than Obama did in 2012, and millions fewer than he did in his 2008 election. Just from 2012 to 2016 the US voting age population increased by 15 million - the majority of which ought, demographically, lean democrat. Taking eyes off a failure of that magnitude requires a comparably magnificent distraction. Enter Red Scare 3.0.
Body shop? Explain. How exactly is the system messed up.
you're vastly overestimating humans' collective ability to compensate with technology. for one, all 7 billion people on earth are affected by global warming. Propagating any technological advancement to 7 billion people is difficult let alone one as complex as this. 2nd even if we had the technology to capture and return carbon and pollution to pre-industrial levels, the cultural changes needed to keep those levels down just simply wouldn't be accepted by the population. ready to limit your meat intake to at most once a week and never fly on a plane again? didn't think so. Also, the estimates given in the article are _median_ estimates. there are a few worst case scenarios thrown in but for all intents and purposes the article describes what is basically guaranteed to happen. you're being far too optimistic.
I'm traveling to Norway soon for a short vacation and I'm looking forward to using Oslo's public transit and regional rail network. Apparently it's an award-winning, world-class system.
How Rust Gets Polymorphism Right [video]
Yeah, Ray Kroc is a quintessentially American story!

Anyhow, it is not necessary to hit a home run to become wealthy. I've seen people do it with a series of base hits, and managing the results prudently.
That appears to have been a simple friendly-fire accident, no? I'm sure they mean cases where there was actual hostile intent.
If it can't meet current demand on the Tesla 3, how could it possibly ship much larger vehicles with presumably a much greater battery capacity in a relevant timeframe?
Well, actually that refrigerator costs money to run. You are paying for something cold that can be drunk now.
An ARM killer from IIT-M?
This is a tricky industry. NSA hires a lot of folks from the underground world. The problem is most of these folks do not pledge any allegiances - not that it really matters, as we have seen many of the leaks from the past 6-7 years are leaked by U.S. citizens. But the fact NSA is hiring freelancers to do the work should be an alarm when it comes to "national security" as NSA claims its mission. I am sure NSA does have a vetting, but how much? How good is the vetting? Is there a post-work surveillance? We don't know.
I found that so many people are stupy which cannot think about a question with a bit of intelligence. One of the evilest thing is the argument of orient-west politics. Let's despise them. Most people is just small potato, politics is really matter no you. Just push forward to the future of human being!
That’s a really good point. According to https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/nonusresidenttax... , non-resident aliens are taxed on dividends from American companies, but not for capital gains.

Would we be changing any important incentives by leaving untaxed that portion of corporate income responsible for foreigners’ appreciation? Otherwise, it doesn’t seem like a very significant source of revenue.
Are you saying sane and secure defaults in Django or any other web framework should be enough for a beginner to not have to to worry about this stuff? See another issue for beginners trying to figure it out is they have to deal with people online who post 6 links with no explanation as if it's SOOOO obvious.
Gentrification does not benefit lower income earners and native residents in any long term / meaningful way. You can argue that building new high rises in the tenderloin will help meet market demand, but nobody can seriously argue that it's going to help the local homeless / underemployed population.

If this were true, San Francisco would be a shiny utopia at this point, but income disparity and hyper inflated cost of living have made it just miserable for most people except whatever CTO of the day is moving in.
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Actually the PC suffix has been mostly dropped. See e.g. [1] which is much lower end than what would fit in a laptop.

1: https://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors...
As someone living here: this place is one of the least dense cities I have ever lived in.

It’s insane how low density it is for a major city.

It’s only high density in comparison to the usual CA sprawl.
How so? There are huge parts even of SF proper that have extremely low density. Just look at the vast area that's the avenues. Is there even anything at all with more than four stories? What keeps us from theoretically filling that space in with 80 floor skyscrapers if demand is that high?
Can you really not imagine the concept that other people live somewhere unlike where you live?

Housing is not that expensive everywhere.