skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It seems like those kinds of more removed scenarios point to a strategic void in compartmentalization."

It's on purpose. After 9/11, the intelligence agencies were lambasted for not sharing information. They were told the next one (a) couldn't happen and (b) would be their fault if it did. Lots of other motivations for the expansion in power, too. One side effect of this was compartmentalization was weakened a lot across the board. Over time, the security strength of things such as cross-domain solutions and endpoints had been dropping. The rush to get everything in that could benefit the mission increased that further.

Yeah, they're probably more vulnerable now than they ever were with more information to take with less chance of detection. Government and private sector. Their people like Roger Schell and Brian Snow warned them for a long time. Private contractors warned them. Those such as Aesec, BAE, and Green Hills even built and paid for evaluations of the kind of tech they said they wanted. They just used it less and less with stuff easy to hack being used more and more. In Snowden's case, the level of security was worse than a lot of enterprises with far less money.
Amazon gets many of their prices by scraping competitors websites. Higher prices on walmart.com might mean higher prices on Amazon too.
I think property taxes (and not necessarily limited to land) are considered more ideal because it taxes wealth as opposed to income.
Work from Internet?
These men are humans, not mythical warrior gods.

Stories like this suggest that perhaps after years of continuous wartime service there are some cracks in the armor.
Frankly I think this also applies to car drivers. Get a dashcam in case you get into an accident.
I think what will blow our minds into an alternative dimension is that these trucks are level 4 self driving...
I read the temp. production issue is they're hand welding and making custom parts. It's been three+? months, either way. Maybe temp. isn't the best word to use here. They apparently have no plan to actually deliver the 400k+ preorders in the near future or the schedule they presented.
First day I got my bike cam, I was riding near park slope and coasted straight through a green light. Almost to the crosswalk on the other side of an intersection, a kid maybe 5-6 years old just books it right in front of my bike. I swerved into the center of the street to not hit him(luckily I had just looked over my shoulder 10 seconds earlier and knew no cars were behind me). Day in the life of a NYC biker, but the father(who was talking to someone else when his kid ran away from him) started yelling obscenities at me for almost running over his kid, and started chasing me down the street. I got away easily and nothing ever came of it, but I am so glad to have the dash cam because I would have no way of showing that the kid ran out in front of traffic, and not that I ran a red light and almost killed a kid.
Eventually high income producers are going to have to emigrate to countries that are more respectful of their privacy and private property rights.

Western democracies are going to get increasingly authoritarian, as voters, the majority of whom favour social democratic policies, call for increasingly harsher laws against privacy and tax avoidance, in reaction to the inevitable stories of individuals and corporations attempting to avoid the tax burden placed on them.

We've gone from a tax rate of less than 10% on the top income tax bracket, with the first income tax passed in 1799 to support Great Britain's war against France, to today, where in many countries 50% of people's income is taxed during peacetime.
That's because it's not laden with shitware like most other sides.

Herb Sutter's awesome like that.
I would love a camera with a button that when pressed automatically saves the previous 15 seconds and the preceding 15 seconds into a clip and send it directly to the police. Every single time I go out I have to deal with dangerous and inconsiderate drivers clearly braking the law, driving as if the world only exists in front of the car.
These are good recommendations, because in the greater scheme of things these are (relatively) small expenditures that can greatly improve level-of-service.

Many European commuter rail systems -- or mainline rail segments that end up hosting predominantly commuter traffic --- run EMUs and have renovated their stations with level-boarding platforms.
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Oh shit I think I have to go through a dozen projects in production and fix some code now. Thanks Herb.
Maybe, maybe not.

NSA hacking tools can't necessarily be kept privately within their network, because they have to be used to attack targets across the Internet -- they have to be deployed.

By comparison, the data that the NSA collects can presumably be sucked into their airgapped network, where data has a way in but no way out.
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Liars must be ruthlessly exposed, because they threaten our ability to trust each other.
I'm not sure how to word this well, but almost everything to do with clinton loosing had nothing to do with fake news. they seem to have this duality where the russians hacked their systems and spread real news and aknowledge it was real, but complain they lost because of russians spreading fake news. talk about a red scare.

- maybe clinton could have done better if her campaign wasnt the archetype of bad data science. sticking to models empirical truth disagreed with, sticking to models that failed to predict Bernie Sanders losses.

- maybe Clinton could have done better by not calling 49% of the country a basket of deplorables.

- maybe the party in general could have done better by calling everyone who disagreed with them a racist bigot, then were surprised how many people disagreed with them because they didnt hear people disagreeing with them.

- maybe the party should get away from identity politics. you can only shame someone so many times for 'white privilege' before they say hey, I'm just going to vote for the other candidate.
I'm pretty sure the death sentence possibility is for killing the Green Beret. Skimming the money would have put them up for a dishonourable discharge and possibly some jail time, but I can't see where that would warrant capital punishment.
Well...they did focus on the median-to-high scenarios. It seems like in a case like this, it makes sense to plan around the pessimistic end of the range of possibilities, when they're so dire.
ELI5: Government intervention IS the problem.
My favorite is how NSA is funded by government debt, which is their way of printing money. This is also true for the FBI too with the scare against encryption. One of the reasons we got off the gold standard decades ago was military spending.
This is the scale of disruption: old school brick and mortar retailers vs Amazon.

There is a bottleneck in human cognition, after which a human brain doesn’t have the resources to tell what is fake or not.

I think we’ve found a way to achieve that via mobile phones.

Since you always carry them around

And

Since the apps on it are designed to make it sticky/addictively useable

And

Since human brains are not designed to balance themselves by actively ejecting cherished world views-

It suggests we have created an artificial, personalized gravity well/self referencing for ideas and perspective.
A modern translation of the 1+1=2 lemma
If you’re going to make arguments like that though it’d be easier to just keep things the same. Yes, the rich pay way more taxes in absolute terms but equal or less in relative terms.
In terms of fixed railway track, 350 km/h (220 mph) does appear to be a rather hard limit. The higher you boost your top speed, the more difficult it is to build track configurations that don't make passengers puke, and that filters down to things like "being able to build high-speed switches."

Maglevs have reduced physical infrastructure limitations which give them higher theoretical top speeds. The problem is that the fixed infrastructure costs are way too high to be feasible for low-volume routes, and they are completely incapable of sharing their tracks with those low-volume routes, which means you need to carve separate approaches through the very high land values of large, dense cities.
It was for the high-assurance BLACKER VPN:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacker_(security)

Here's the source on that:

http://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=5460

Another notable aspect of that was it used an early secure kernel, GEMSOS, that is still marketed by Aesec but probably in legacy mode in bad way. It did resist penetration during NSA certification and time on market far as what data I have says.

http://aesec.com/
"fairly easily in a language like python or basic" - I don't know where to start but I can say it goes deeper than that. A language like python or basic might seem simple to programmers or computer science graduates who learned their way through C, C++ or Java, but for a non-programmer, who is still tech savvy (like designers/business analysts etc), it is a complete different experience. How did i know? I had friends who can hack in visual basic, but can't do the same thing in Visual C++ (both are different species despite the visual prefix), even if given 4-5 times more time, or sometimes they really can't do it. It could be the initial barrier of entry that turns them off due to the sheer amount of time required to be invested to get the "know-how" or the just the sheer complexity in getting basic things working.

There were lots of people who can build small to medium complexity apps in Visual basic in those days when VB5/VB6 was active (Pre C#/.net). Even as a developer I was happy to hack in VB any day than VC++. But any developer I knew back then wouldn't touch VB, claiming multiple reasons ranging from "not powerful", "no performance", "messy" (don't know what that means) etc. It was like developers wanted to be associated with complex languages in order to have a respect among the community. True, VB performed slower than VC and even lacked few capabilities (like you can't write a device driver or difficult to write a custom COM component etc), but it was perfect for writing business applications.

Not sure what destroyed VB, but I believe it was the web that changed everything. Java and .Net though are well designed and powerful, but they bring a lot of complexity, requiring new developers to spent considerable time to gain even a basic knowledge. With the advent of SPAs things went even worser, current SPA frameworks like React and Angular are adding layers upon layers of complexity to build some basic stuff.

IMO if you can hack a UI in a prototype tool like Balsamic, then you should be able to make it a working prototype within at least 2-3x the time you took to prototype it, including binding dynamic data from a web service. If in 2017 we are still taking 3-4 months to build a basic website (dynamic) or mobile app, we have failed somewhere.

Projects like Bubble are providing stepping stones towards a possible future where we can build UIs almost as fast as we can imagine/sketch them in a prototyping tool.
No, I mean it literally isn't universally shameful. In that in most countries obeying an order to fire on civilians, or doing so because you believe your life is in danger, will not result in penalties. Because "it's what you do" or "us against them" from some perspectives.

See the response to Kent State [1], in which all legal attempts to hold the guardsmen who opened fire responsible failed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#Legal_act...
I have really mixed feelings about Musk.

But I love his ideas... I want to believe... I really want his ideas to work.

I wont invest in his companies.. but I'm rooting for them to succeed.
Wow I had no idea about the correspondence with Noam Chomsky. Apparently that has been well known for at least 10 years.
JSON and XML aren't really equivalent though. XML is a markup language, JSON is a data serialization format. Of course a lot of hate for XML comes from people trying to use it to serialize data, which it can do but only in a clunky way. JSON is just plain better suited for what most people need.
Hard drives exhibit the straightforward performance that you'd expect from block addresses linearly increasing around the circle according to all the experiments I've done.
That's interesting. SoftBank invested a similar amount into their rivals Grab to head up against Uber.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/23/grab-raises-2b-from-didi-c...
China would really happy to see US not move forward.
I think anyone want the others to not move forward, except themselves.
If that is the case in your community, then I'm glad I don't live there.

I believe most places in the world, even some of the poorest and most desperate set a higher standard than "kill to survive". Given a chance most people will naturally form communities that will try to protect themselves from harm. Destructive behaviour is not a forgone conclusion and as soon as people start to understanding this they will stop being scared of their neighbours.
There is not much point; the engineering and construction is extremely expensive (and more so in the US [1][2][3][4][5][6]), and there's perfectly good sunk-cost airports that let airlines operate this route at a variety of price-points today.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/4/this-is-why-inf... [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-08/why-u-s-i... [3] http://fortune.com/2017/01/23/us-infrastructure-renewal-buil... [4] https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/04/7-reasons-us-infrastruc... [5] http://theweek.com/articles/449646/why-expensive-build-bridg... [6] http://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/blog/is-u.s.-infrastructure-m...
Most things that were considered shockingly inefficient in the 70s are faster than things we consider merely harmlessly inefficient today. :)

In practice, Prolog requires the programmer to have some understanding of how it's going to be executed. This is in contrast to SQL, which is intentionally high-level to allow the database to figure out the best strategy and does require a lot more in the backend. Mercury also finds this abhorrent, but Mercury is another sufficiently-smart situation and a bit more obtuse.
Yeah, that sucks for you. But again - you didn't own the view, you just expected the view to be there. If you wanted to own the view, you'd have to own all the land in eyeshot.
The ethical issues with Tuvix were actually pretty interesting.

I tend to like story arcs more than specific episodes.

The idea of being far from home with high fallutin’ ethical codes - how do those codes fair with out a support system nearby? (Janeway)

The idea of being transformed physically and mentally by a crime - is self identity fully recoverable? (Seven)

Are computer algorithms sentient - what lines must be crossed for an AI to become recognizably humanlike? (the Doctor)
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From the story it wasn't premeditated, probably got into a fight over the stolen cash and they tried to "knock some sense into him" the way they knew. It doesn't bring him back, no, but given that they panicked makes it seems like they didn't plan on killing him. They would have planned it better:somewhere on the streets and maybe kill the "killer"...some informant coming to a meeting.
What camera do you use?
Thanks. MechanicalTwerk, I meant this is how to make that slope less slippery and steep. They're software design patterns -- going with principles and paradigms, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming
Next someone will say, "But Paris doesn't have to worry about earthquakes". Then you reply with a map of Tokyo.
>before any other consideration, make the other person feel at ease

What excellent advice! My go-to line has been "what's been keeping you busy lately" which is a polite form of asking what someone "does" without making them them I only care what job they have.
I think he/she may be referring to "the execution" as the killing of the Green Beret, not the potential sentence on the SEALs.

But yeah I agree that skimming money is definitely dishonorable discharge territory, and possibly time in Leavenworth, but definitely not capital punishment.
One that fixes parentheses that I left off or automatically fixes typos in variable names or function calls.

Webstorm can do some of what you mention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514285

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15638652

One that knows to keep things DRY and creates a function for me when it sees the same similar code written twice.

Unfortunately this is "sufficiently smart compiler" territory. I'd love to be wrong about that though.
It actually will happen, eventually, as a result of the California HSR project: http://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2012/12/grade-separation-de...
In my experience, it is hard to avoid factoring in the resolution order. Cuts are still gross as hell though.

Often you can follow Bird's advice for Haskell and make an inefficient program that is obviously right as a base. Prolog programs often have a generate-and-test flavor; once you have a good base, you can start refining inefficiencies in one side or the other. Maybe it's easier to make your generator produce better-qualified candidates, maybe it's easier to make your test faster.

Prolog also sometimes has surprising abilities owing to the unification process itself. For example, difference lists give you singly-linked lists with O(1) append to the tail. Data structures with "holes" are a generalization of that idea.

There's also a whole book devoted to making Prolog programs efficient: The Craft of Prolog by Richard O'Keefe.
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I just saw this comment - your comment is affected by survivorship bias.

Over the past several decades, a huge number of news papers have gone out of print.

In its place there is an explosion of non-newspapers, which have lower barriers to quality, accuracy, and cost.

The NYT website, as you recall was the first website perhaps aside from the WSJ, which jumped the trend of going free in order to survive.

As an aside - Even prior to the internet, there was sweeping consolidation in the media world. Most news papers could not afford to stay in print or defeat takeovers.

There is an older theory on industrialized economies - that most media firms will eventually be taken over, and therefore be soft on their particular conglomerate and sister firms.
I don't think so. If you were willing to hire a team to implement some solution that existed in OSS form, why wouldn't you just pay for the OSS version, which would likely be cheaper (since you're spreading the price across many different companies). This is already the appeal of OSS - it's cheap, other people build and use it so it's well tested, etc. Those are significant benefits, and worth paying for over an in-house team.

And we already have pricing models for small/medium sized businesses vs large ones. OSS could easily have similar models.
A big reason is the young generation has no confidence about their future as the economy crisis one decade ago.
> Amazon wins with price, quality, inventory, and selection.

Not always... I bought something on Amazon last week and the 3rd party seller drop shipped it from Sam's Club (wal-mart). I saw the packing slip, looked it up on samsclub.com and realized I had paid 20%/$4 more at Amazon than they paid at Sam's Club.

Amazon has a great price on a lot of things, which has taught us to think they have a great price on everything. Amazon also takes at least one day to get something to your house. If you need something immediately, that's where retail wins every time... it doesn't even matter what the price difference is.
The LSAT is what's known as a "learnable" exam, which means that taking it without preparation is 100% not indicative of the final score one could get. This is well-reported all over law school forums where people took it cold and got a 140 and after months of study ended up with a 177. Or started with a 155 and ended with a 165.

The LSAT (especially the logic games) is mostly pattern-recognition and understanding the "type" of problem you're being asked to solve. Getting a high score (e.g. over 170) the first time around is probably impossible because the questions are formulated so weirdly (in other words, you'd need to be familiar with the format to do well). Further, you'd probably not be used to the time constraint and end up guessing on whatever you didn't have time to answer. This article is just stupid bravado, but then again, it's Vice and they're not exactly known for hard-hitting journalism.

NB: 158 going in cold is very high (which is why the article seems like humblebragging to me). A 20 point increase is doable with an intense studying regimen. And with a 178, you can write your ticket to basically any law school (given a 3.5+ undergrad GPA).
>>It's better to teach each other about the world.

100% agree with you. Let me try: they are some people who do horrible, horrible things. Unless they are punished severely, other bad people might not fear the consequences. Death or life in jail is an ongoing discussion among different people
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For people in their 20s and 30s in a culture where showing up late or not at all after rsvp is acceptable it is better to invite lots of people having all the foods on the stove keeping warm or laid out family style so people can grab a plate when they arrive or are hungry. Say it starts at 7pm and expect people arriving as late as 11pm.
We can turn them into charcoal and bury the coal. That's a pretty stable form of carbon storage and you get a bit of energy out of the process, e.g. in the form of wood-gas.
I think the only real way nowadays is whether /commentisfree/ appears in the URL and it isn't clearly marked as an Editorial.

I have a hypothesis that if the breadcrumb says "home › opinion" with no third level then you're in CIF, but I have no real evidence that that is actually reliable.
Here's a much older demo of a similar idea:

https://www.metalevel.at/lisprolog/

At 160 lines, it's short enough and readable enough to give a hint of the kinds of things Prolog is good at.
This seems like a direct use of the dc.js demo https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/
It doesn't really matter what a former PM focused on ad tech says, because true or not, the average user will not believe FB anyways. FB won't be trusted because of it's anti-privacy history and experiments. That FB gets so much data from other sources just increases the impression that FB is not to be trusted. The first argument made in the article is disingenious and only acts to discredit FB even more. It's not just a FB problem, it's an ad tech driven business model problem. However, Facebook keeps on a path that makes it the perfect poster of a company not to be trusted. Listening or not, FB is not trustable.
Then why start with rockets?
I feel that the feeling of right-of-way is less a feeling of power but instead a measure of the effort required to stop. Pedestrians can stop pretty easily: they just stop walking. For bikes, it's a more complicated process, requiring braking, possibly putting your foot on the ground, and then extra pedaling to speed up again.
The most powerful Chinese propaganda is that which hits the mark.
Building on that issue, I'd like to add that it would be nice to have a feature that alerts a user that certain a search engine is denying requests. It's visible in the logs or settings somewhere, but usually I find myself wondering for a while why my search queries aren't accurate before heading off to figure out why.

Still a great project though, I use it every day.