skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain how you can prove you are talking to the NSA by call foo ask to be transferred to bar, ask to speak to baz?

Logically the fact that you called into the navy base indicates you are talking to them but by the time you get transferred how do you know who you are ultimately talking to?

Couldn't you be talking to anyone who works at the navy or works with someone who works at the navy? One great thing about court orders is that its trivial to authenticate them and they get the exciting task of making sure the person asking for them is a legitimate actor on legitimate business.

If a random private wanted to fool you couldn't they have had you call in in such a way as you would trivially be talking to a known party who will ultimately transfer you said party? Hey this joker is going to be transferred to your extension asking to speak to john doe at the NSA send him to my extension please.

Considering that we now know that intelligence apparatus was used to spy on love interests how do you know you were collaborating with a legitimate legal operation as opposed to illegal spying on citizens?

Likely you aren't in a position to judge right which is why we have you know judges and court orders and such ceremony.

I respond to random calls that seem strange by hanging up and telling them to send me something official in the mail.

Neither the people who claim they would like me to give me a fortune I inherited overseas, the guy who claimed I won the lottery, or the guy that claimed to be the IRS demanding immediate payment have followed up yet.

At best your judgement is questionable.
You can have conditional protobuf fields / messages.

Checkout:

- Any: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#a...

- OneOf: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#o...

I believe Any is the equivalent to having a proto in format of:

```

message MyMessage {

string type = 1;

bytes data = 2;

}

```
people here can't understand sarcasm :) I had a laugh, then got sad. but upvoted you anyway.
No. map should be much slower than a for loop, because map has to cons the result list, while the for loop only does it for side effects, but ignores all the return values. If map is faster, then there's some thing wrong with the loop optimizer or loop run-time overhead.

In cperl there are many loop optimizations which are not in perl5. I'm pretty sure "for" is faster than "map" there.
What about https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/06/persistent...
Interesting. So does the president have a free ticket to declassify anything, even if it puts the nation at risk (e.g. during a time of war)? For example, if trump posted the location of a surprise invasion force on twitter, can the rest of the government just "lol, trump on twitter again" and move on?
This is all provided by Swagger/OpenAPI out of the box. What is exceptional about it?
don't forget that gRPC multiplexes requests to various RPCs over an existing HTTP2 connection.
Do we know how the calls are being intercepted?
The problem I was suggesting could be solved Docker wasn't with the privileges of up itself, but the problem of commands you write within up being potentially destructive. I didn't say I thought Docker was a good solution.
Arq Cloud Backup
The problem is that American interests have extended beyond the limits of the American borders for too long - China exercising its rights to protect its own interests outside its borders is a response to that, which automatically triggers American hubris: "nobody, but the 'greatest nation on Earth', should have the right to say its interests extend beyond its borders" .. this is the point of American hegemony in the world. If America doesn't do it, someone else will - so eventually, America becomes the very threat it was resisting all along: a totalitarian state which uses its military might to usurp the interests of other nations, at any and all cost.
> US consumer auto sales per year are in the 16-17 million range. I personally wouldn't consider 3% to be "almost 10%", do you?

The parent comment said "cars." You switched that to consumer auto sales. 6.3 million passenger cars were sold in the US in 2017. With passenger car sales declining and generally losing popularity in the US (dropping from 7.9m in 2014), it's plausible that 500,000 will in fact be "almost" 10% of total cars sold in the US in 2019.
But classical political correctness is such a useful concept, that is a problem in our current politics (and not just government politics; its insidious in a lot of more private organizations of people as well).

It doesn't help that I still have no idea what this new "political correctness" actually refers to; and I get a feeling people using the term are still trying to associate what they are referring to with the old sense of "political correctness". Eg, if you listen to people arguing against what they refer to as political correctness, they still almost always frame the argument as being for the ability to speak truth in some form.
Is most of the intermediate processing done in memory, or is it limited by hd write speed?
It is relatively trivial to identify the friends of a famous person, such as any sitting President of the United States. Since the government doesn't go around paying for secure lines for all friends of all Presidents, it seems likely that all calls from all Presidents to all of their friends throughout modern history were subject to eavesdropping. This isn't a "Trump is an idiot" issue, as the article strives so diligently to imply. All Presidents have had this issue when speaking to friends who don't have secure lines at government expense.
Alpha/Preview => Beta => General Availability
"""

When using Protobuf on a non-compressed environment, the requests took 78% less time than the JSON requests. This shows that the binary format performed almost 5 times faster than the text format. And, when issuing these requests on a compressed environment, the difference was even bigger. Protobuf performed 6 times faster, taking only 25ms to handle requests that took 150ms on a JSON format.

"""

https://auth0.com/blog/beating-json-performance-with-protobu...
Well, what exactly are you defending against?

Echo, like phones, uses low-power, always-on algorithms to listen for a specific phrase. Only when it hears that phrase does it actually start recording and sending your audio back home.

Are you worried about that low-power, always-on part listening to you? If so, then avoiding the Echo while carrying a phone with the feature switched off is sensible. But I don’t see why this would be worth worrying about, since the data stays local and isn’t saved.

If you’re worried about the device secretly recording you and sending that data to someone else, then the two are equivalent in their threats.
In surprised to hear someone say China is not a military threat to the United States. Can you expound on this?

For example, I believe China could easily organize and fund far more terrorist attacks than, say, bin laden ever did. Furthermore, their terrorist attacks could much more easily utilize nuclear material.
>Impeachable would be when the former Secretary of State did not exercise care when handling classified information

Its remarkable that some people are still keeping up this charade, 3.5 years after it was revealed and 2 years after it was put to rest. C'mon, man. It's intellectual dishonesty.

Apparently we judge a former SoS by the rules of cricket and the President by the rules of Calvinball.
What? Define “rare”. If you’re in any reasonably-sized metro I’d be quite shocked if a day goes by where the average person doesn’t see a BMW or Mercedes.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I think Tesla is fine.

But I think Musk is a bit of a wanker and I have an allergic reaction to the hero-worship that's grown around him.
The ranking system is based on points; a given. But I would argue that a weighted rank(Comments + Points) is a better ranking system. More conversational threads indicate greater interest(not always, it could be one guy spamming). But if you can find a way to weigh the rank as to include comments; yet exclude abuse, your ranking system would be much more superior than HN's.
Facebook launches Candidate Info where politicians pitch on camera
Agree with your botvac comment. It's quite thorough when it doesn't get hung up on something, but it has eaten (damaged beyond repair) about half a dozen power cables (for laptops, phones, etc) in the 3 years I've had it.
Right! Lots more details here (and good comparison of the two): https://www.dnkpower.com/teslas-mass-production-21700-batter...
Wikipedia has a list of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon

"Landings" and "impactors" looks to be about 25 missions total by my count. Many of the "orbiter" missions end with a crash to the moon, as well, although since this isn't the primary mission I guess you have to use your judgment if this counts or not. (The ashes were on such an "orbiter" mission)
Sounds like a great idea. Can you give us a list of the projects in the pipeline?
I was early to the solar thing, I put in a 5kW system in 2002[1] and we've replace one of the inverters when it failed with a single 6kW inverter. So any Powerwall install is going to be either in addition to that, or as part of a re-engineer to replace the panels with new panels that have more power for the same footprint.

When you say 'mandated by the city' do you mean to say that you can't get a permit to put up solar unless you grid tie it? And if so does your power company allow for an even 'watts in vs watts out' scheme?

[1] And yes it has paid for itself and is nominally cash flow positive at this point.
Yeah, makes sense. And I planned it all out even down to timing the post to hit last night after midnight before all the pipe bomb news this morning on TV. Or, much closer to reality, maybe I just wanted to see if I could write a post that got some traction. Don't overthink it.
It’s amazing that I know all this. Like that the president has multiple iphones, he likes to call multiple friends, that foreign governments listen in.

If this was Hillary the republicans would impeach her right away for endangering the country. They should do the same to Trump.
I don’t see these taking away from normal libraries in any way. Why is this the reaction?
> If this is truly the root cause of the issue, it should be relatively simple to rectify.

I think it's pretty clear, with the most charitable possible reading of this article and your comment, that the root cause is not an issue with contacts on his phone.

The root cause is quite clearly a complete lack of respect that Trump has for the American people: He does. not. care. about the country's security or anybody in it.

The root cause isn't some stupid argument about contacts in his phone. The root causes are arrogance [1], hate towards American people [2], and corrupted power [3]. I'll cite these.

[1] He says he is the smartest person in the world and does not need to confer with experts about anything. Why would he need a secure phone then?

[2] He has directly insulted American citizens who care about the national security risks he poses. He uses terrorist-like language to describe Americans. He doesn't care about his phone being hacked.

[3] He acts like he thinks he is King. He acts like there are no rules for him, and the Republican Congress makes that fact true - for now.

This has nothing to do with technology and the solution doesn't have anything to do with technology either.
>yet there is scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes

wat.

There are literally more than 1,000 studies that have been done on the impact of open floor plan offices to productivity (almost universally finding very significant negative effects). My mind boggles at how anyone interested in the topic could possibly conclude that there is scant evidence on the subject. It's extremely well-trod terrain.

Office spaces were designed for repetitive office tasks which assisted repetitive manufacturing operations. Mental work is profoundly and fundamentally different in character, and offices have never been designed with the goal of enhancing it. The place of work in society, the idea of the 40 hour work week, and all such things are still following practices optimized for manufacturing. That human beings have different capacities for mental exertion compared to physical exertion, that the benefits of uninterrupted concentration are super-linear in terms of time spent in that state, and that mental work of poor quality can have very negative value, causing the expenditure of far more effort overall than necessary, these sorts of things get ignored. Doing anything in a business which appears to make things 'easier' on workers is reflexively viewed at least with suspicion, if not outright derision. That's a social problem, mostly, and not one that is likely to change over short time spans or without great effort and risks being taken. It's understandable that most companies are risk-averse, so change happens slowly.
Other carmakers don't need to build their own charging network. It's already being handled for them by thousands of businesses installing standards-compatible chargers. There are 3 new chargers on my block that were installed within the last month. Another 6 scheduled to be installed in my building's garage in the next month. That's in addition to the dozens that are already located in my part of LA. In Santa Monica, the city installed several dozen chargers in their city parking structures and lots. The Inglewood Stadium and the Dodgers are installing chargers in the off-season. Most malls have dedicated spots for charging EVs. Nearly every parking structure in Century City has EV chargers....

Meanwhile, the closest Tesla superchargers are nearly double-digit miles away, far from the freeways, so at best 30 minutes away without traffic and up to 3 hours away with traffic. And since there are so few of them, you basically cross your fingers and hope that one of them is free when you get there.
How far will Science push the limit in terms of what AI can do?
Do we actually trust the NSA to be better at security than Apple, especially if that "better security" comes in the form of "modifying the phone," whatever that means?

Maybe they just set up a VPN or custom cell information on it? Can you do that on iPhone?
A physically violent and currently-attacking-us Russia, spying on the communications of the US President*, is _not_ a good thing. This is a very clear military threat.
>"America’s national borders create an injustice by keeping Mexican workers from traveling to the United States to look for higher-paying jobs"

That's an inaccurate summary of what he said that's been going around right wing news sites. Here's what he actually said:

> “And so corporations, certain people who get certain rights, can go back and forth across the border seeking out the lowest wages, but people, regular people, cannot go back and forth across the border seeking out the highest wages. So what it creates is an imbalance. It creates an injustice.”

He isn't calling for open borders. In the context he was pointing out problems created by allowing corporations to move back and forth between borders to seek out the lowest wage employees, but not allowing employees to move back in forth to seek the highest wage employer. In the context of the interview, he was talking mostly about market protectionism to correct the employer side of that imbalance.

With respect to the shirt he was wearing. It was band merch for an rap group. It's an inspirational quote empathizing with people crossing the border to improve their lives, not a literal call to remove border checkpoints. He may even prefer a world with open borders, but he's not saying we can or should actually implement that unilaterally.

Again no one thinks Donald Trump wants open borders because he thinks one day we will have to "leave borders behind".

His his actual immigration platform:

"I believe immigration rules need to be straightforward, fair, and predictable. They currently are not. I am committed to passing comprehensive immigration reform and have co-sponsored such legislation in my two terms in Congress. I believe that our reformed immigration system should include a clear path to citizenship for those who are already in the U.S. working and paying taxes. We need to put families first and have an expedited process for family reunification and believe that the federal government has an obligation to clear up the lengthy backlog of family visa requests. I also believe we need to pass The Dream Act, which is legislation designed to increase access to higher education for the children of immigrants and give them an opportunity to succeed and give back to their communities."

Notice nothing about open borders.
No, in fact they had two self-cleaning cupboards.
The botvacs (at least my D85) has a uart interface, and a published API[1] that allows you to control and read back all sorts of information, including raw data from the lidar.

1. https://www.neatorobotics.com/resources/programmersmanual_20...

Edit: damn, they moved the document, or took it down altogether :(
It can also include the fines payable after settlement with SEC
ancient Chinese secret
It wouldn't matter. The weakest link in any chain is the one that will be attacked. They'll simply listen in on the other end (the friend's phone), since the calls themselves are not encrypted and it is unlikely that the government is going to pay for all of his friends to have secure phones/lines. This has likely been the case with all calls to all friends of all Presidents for many decades.
I found this post quite overstates the difficult of picking up a new web framework...

Try learning Haskell and a completely new paradigm if you want to feel like a beginner again, and every day afterwards.

I suppose web developers may lack exposure to the type of technology churn we software engineers experience on a biweekly basis.
Mods, can we get Russia added back to the headline? It has been removed and is causing confusion in the comments.
If you are wondering if other countries are intercepting calls by hacking the carriers, the article seems to mainly point the finger at malware. It said the protocol is to replace the phones with no backups every month or so.

"Mr. Trump is supposed to swap out his two official phones every 30 days for new ones but rarely does, bristling at the inconvenience. White House staff members are supposed to set up the new phones exactly like the old ones, but the new iPhones cannot be restored from backups of his old phones because doing so would transfer over any malware."
Overflights check on what countries are physically doing. Stepping up that concept, trust but verify, to include policy changes is a big leap. Overflights do not provide a chance to directly alter behavior in the way that diagramming a president's cellpohone patterns can. This isn't verification. This is intelligence being used to alter policy. That isn't trust but verify, that's, examine, meddle and influence.
Persistent storage requires explicit user permission.

IronDB doesn't.

See https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/06/persistent....

Great point, though. I'll highlight this in the documentation. Thank you.
There are other articles talking about how many stingray devices there are in Washington DC owned by foreign governments.
They matter, but they don't negate the statistical extremes.

For what it's worth, I didn't go to any elite universities and I make less than 35,000 per year, so I don't have a horse in this race.
So it'll start as bad as humans, and improve. It's got my vote.
Actually there are a lot of bonds outstanding

Per http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/6db4f56e-1532-4cd6-b8dc-3ff... they have $230 million due in Nov 2018, $920 million due in March 2019, $560 million due in Nov 2019, $113 million due in Dec 2020, $1,380 million due March 2021, and $977.5 million due in March 2022. Plus coupons on all of these payable regularly between now and then.

By my count this totals $4.1805 billion. They claim to currently have $3 billion in cash and cash equivalents on hand. But there are various outstanding liabilities.

Given a GAAP profit in the $300 million+ range this quarter, and a projected European market twice the size of the American one, this may all be doable. But it is still a balancing act.
This is neat, but doesn't it beg the question a little bit? You've used a conditional here in your definition. Can you define cond using only lambdas? (My apologies if the linked article does this, I haven't made it all the way through yet.)
Hey there! DO Kubernetes PM here.

I just added you so you have access to the product. I will reach out to the PM on DBaaS as well.
Ask HN: How do I improve my job interview skills?
I'm not familiar with this website and whether this is legitimate but holy shit, does this mean Alex Jones was right?
Why are you picking a fight with the parent poster when they are describing k-12 education (which is rotten; many studies have shown this) and using our universities (which are good) as your counterpoint?
I'm Derek, one of the co-founders--excellent question!

The former. PipelineDB performs aggregations in memory on microbatches of events, and only merges the aggregate output of each microbatch with what's on disk. This is really the core idea behind why PipelineDB is so performant for continuous time-series aggregation. Microbatch size is configurable: http://docs.pipelinedb.com/conf.html.
I wish I had noted the article when I'd originally read it, but a couple of years ago I read one which surveyed many of the creators of 'big products' in those successful companies, asking them about their working environment. Most of those companies did, it is true, feature open offices. None of the companies benefitted from them. Those who built the important products that catapulted those companies to success did so without exception away from their desk. As I recall, one would find an empty office or conference room and simply claim it for a few hours to get some work done. Another would go outside and work on a bench, away from everyone else. Another would work primarily late at night when others weren't around. The companies succeeded in spite of their open offices, not because of them. But many MBAs are little more than cargo cultists, following along what others who are successful have done without any understanding or curiosity as to the 'why' the thing worked for them and whether it would apply to their own organization.
You can do this with certain applications over a data connection, e.g., Signal, Wire, and others.
Their software with OTA is best in class with nobody even close, their self driving tech is also the best with Cruise coming in second (but including all the other negatives of GM).

The seats they’re making in house now are also very comfortable and I like the minimalist interior of the 3, but that’s personal preference. The buying experience was also nice not having to deal with dealers.

Their power train and supercharger infrastructure is awesome but it’s not the only thing they’re good at.
don't forget office suite:gdoc, and conferencing: hangouts/meet/whatever they force down your throat tomorrow. this is specially pernicious as they are actively using it to undermine Firefox in the workplaces. their proprietary plugin took 2 months to be available in Firefox after they rebranded hangouts as meet. and now it only supports SD video and crashes frequently.
Check odometer readings as a requirement of renewing the vehicle's registration. Assess a fee as a function of vehicle weight per axle and distance traveled. Sure, at the state level there will be some missed edge cases (what if I am registered in Washington but do most of my driving in Idaho?), but it should be close enough. It's basically fair and way less invasive/expensive than GPS-based tracking for road use.