skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, jamming a system where all of the communication happens over frequency hopping radio is very very difficult. Normally speaking, the command links are encrypted (they were for sure with the Shadow) and the video links are unencrypted. Video is starting to be encrypted now that hardware crypto acceleration is more prevalent, but in general, it isn't as big of a problem as you'd think. Now UAVs that are on satellites have a lot less spectrum to use compared to LOS (like of sight) UAVs which can use the entire RF spectrum should they choose to.

Blocking the entire RF spectrum all at the same time is possible, but unbelievably difficult. When you're hopping a random # of MHZ every few dozen microseconds, it is super tricky.
A few questions if you don't mind. Do you know if any of your clients who have renounced citizenship have had trouble coming back in to the United States to visit friends or family or for business? Is it common for countries to tax personal income if it was earned overseas and the expatriate lives where the income was earned? Does the US do that? Has the IRS taken any interest in the contacts of your clients who are citizens? Finally, have any of your clients regretted the decision?
> SSGs are hugely popular among nerds and practically unknown among everybody else.

Depends on your definition of SSG. I'd consider an app such as RapidWeaver[1] to be a SSG. They aren't targeting "HN nerds."

[1] http://realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver
That's why I asked about Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a territory of the US, so it isn't considered "overseas". If you google it, you'll see what I'm talking about. Here's a link:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/puerto-rico-woos-rich-with-...
I just don't understand how 2008 was obviously because of deregulation. Not only is that a contestable claim, but you're simplifying the entire crash to a convenient cause that clearly confirms your biases.

Just take a walk over to Wikipedia[1], and you can clearly see that ascribing the crash in 2008 to only deregulation is complete and utter nonsense:

The Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 established an affordable housing loan purchase mandate for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and that mandate was to be regulated by HUD. Initially, the 1992 legislation required that 30 percent or more of Fannie’s and Freddie’s loan purchases be related to affordable housing. However, HUD was given the power to set future requirements. In 1995 HUD mandated that 40 percent of Fannie and Freddie’s loan purchases would have to support affordable housing. In 1996, HUD directed Freddie and Fannie to provide at least 42% of their mortgage financing to borrowers with income below the median in their area. This target was increased to 50% in 2000 and 52% in 2005. Under the Bush Administration HUD continued to pressure Fannie and Freddie to increase affordable housing purchases – to as high as 56 percent by the year 2008.[22] To satisfy these mandates, Fannie and Freddie eventually announced low-income and minority loan commitments totaling $5 trillion.[23] Critics argue that, to meet these commitments, Fannie and Freddie promoted a loosening of lending standards - industry-wide.[24]

And if you can't ascribe 2008 to deregulation, then your point starts to become watered down: maybe deregulation isn't the "unquestionable failure" you claim it to be.

You can read on to see about other things that government had their hands in, such as the CRA and lower interest rates. (Among other things, such as the institutions of Fannie and Freddie themselves!)

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_United_States_hou...
A sometime pot dealer explains the market for marijuana in Colorado
What does an author have to do with a CEO of a startup?

5+ months of highly talented programmer is SIGNIFICANTLY more valuable than anything the CEO can do with the extra $100k in their pocket.
Ditto. I cannot get LinkedIn to stop listing my email address in their search results. Every time I contact support they dodge the question and tell me I "don't have a profile on their site." Of course I don't, that's the point.

The fake referrals are insane - I'm surprised no one has outed them on that yet.
It's used on http://www.thumbtack.com/
Wow, they lucked out -- average 1 bedroom prices around there are up around $2600/month in Boreum Hill:

http://www.mns.com/brooklyn_rental_market_report
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Fast? RocksDB is quite slow. http://symas.com/mdb/inmem/
Have you looked at the work of Bret Victor? Integrating some of his concepts for realtime feedback would be awesome (see http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming and http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction)
I kind of get a feeling that a paid-entry social network like app.net may be the future place for finding this kind of business networking. I'm also a LinkedIn leaver, because of the spam just like everyone else.

More than a few general users I've seen usually get pretty upset when they get random LinkedIn invitations from people they don't even know, because of the address book harvesting.
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Greenpeace Loses $5.2M on Rogue Employee Trading
Qualcomm is American, but on the other hand, Chinese/Taiwanese companies like Spreadtrum and Mediatek which make the bulk of the processors in these unbranded phones have no incentive to cooperate with the US government (including the NSA).
Is bitcoin a viable currency anymore, it seems like a fad still.
The number one source of candidates should be your own social network, and the number two source is the social network of other engineers at your company. Having an employee referral program is nice, but nothing beats just asking your best engineers directly who they've worked with that you should be working together on recruiting.
You are forgetting how many butts a player like Lebron puts in seats, not to mention how much merchandise he moves. He adds far more than the 10% of team revenue he takes.
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You can disable suggestions. It's either in privacy or safari settings.
It's true that rural areas get a lot of farm and energy subsidies - but those subsidies also lower prices for those of us that live in the cities.
> "Being healthy will make you a better programmer."

This resonates with me more than "...Level Up.", because it's true. When I was working out my whole body worked better, including my brain, so I appreciate that angle in the marketing.
Soylent: It's Not People. Or Food.
Obviously very hard to test. But no one is told they need certainty. And a lot of people get existential angst -- a topic discussed on HN at length.

And we clearly have a strong need for social belonging, most of us.

Spiritual experience is scientifically measurable brain activity. People enjoy it.
> I think there's a general disconnect between HN users and how the defense industry works.

Agreed, and I stated EXACTLY that in another portion of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7907637

> When you are designing a weapons system designed to kill people, you cannot just design something 'in a hackish fashion'. No, this shit has got to work correctly all the time.

No, with that part of engineering as with EVERY part of engineering: it depends. Do you want UNIT reliability or SYSTEM reliability? Does every plane have a literal 100% chance of intercepting every target it is tasked with? No, of course not. But the missiles do, you say? Again wrong. But surely SOME portion of the entire system will work ALL THE TIME! Nope, no engineer worth his salt will give you a 100% guarantee for anything as unknown as "stopping all possible threats".

Furthermore plenty of systems that are supposed to be very reliable are made up of less reliable parts. The whole Star Wars program was based on defense in depth where no one layer of system was going to stop 100% of the warheads but multiple layers acting in concert would be able to (presumably) stop them all or almost all. Hackish is fine provided that you've got substantially overlapping coverage from multiple command and control drones. No one drone has to work 100% guaranteed because even at only a 95% success rate (which is abysmal compared to the "all the time" demand you're making) with three overlapping zones gives you .05 * .05 * .05 = .0125% chance of failing. I'll take 1/8 of a chance of failure per thousand incidents as successful enough.

Again, I'm not talking about having 100 drones with 100 pilots but perhaps having 100 drones with 9 pilots for the command and control drones (one for every 10 mules) and some kind of a very rudimentary, randomized loiter algorithm for the mules.

> Kinda naive to think that you can just use SV start up philosophies in this application.

I want to say a bunch of really snarky stuff in response. I'm an outsider to SV; I grew up in MN, went to school in FL and now I live in TX. None of these places ever get accused of being even SLIGHTLY SV-ish in nature so I don't see how I deserve that kind of comment. Ultimately though you've made a lot of assumptions that don't necessarily hold. The idea that you're going to defeat the US using the same kind of procurement and whatever that the US uses is a non-starter. You don't try and beat the US at a symmetric war but you can defeat them with an asymmetric one. We're losing how many lives and how much money in Iraq and Afghanistan right now to IEDs which are what, 10 notches below the fancy shit we have? And yet all our fancy airplanes haven't saved a single soldier from an IED that I'm aware of.

I'm not necessarily saying that you absolutely 100% can use SV philosophies in war and win, but I am saying that the notion that the way the US military does it is the ONLY way to do it isn't correct either.
I'd add the Kimono Labs has done something quite similar with their World Cup API http://www.kimonolabs.com/worldcup/explorer
I've never been a gamer. Except for Descent. And Descent II. I still have them and every few years play them on an old Mac. The queasiness kicks in every time I start playing them again.
Switching to Linux is a conceptual and time-consuming burden that the average consumer will not deal with. Widespread adoption of encryption can only be achieved by making it as simple as possible.
Sure thing. I'll send it on shortly.

There is more to him then simple creativity, he was an academic philosopher and romantic, yearning for the spiritual and his mystic side really shows in this book.

I know! I rushed a bit there, but one of things I cherish about Stapledon is his devotion to the nuance of the intangible, the senses, the "spirit" to which he so often refers. Perhaps one of his crowning contributions is that he melds embracing reality as it is and the essence of worship; it's so rare to find the two in the same place, I've found. Maybe I haven't search enough, and will take a trip through some of your suggestions, so thank you. And that link - an interesting site! Thank you for that as well.

For me, for what it's worth, I had spent years searching for something I couldn't quite place, and once I found him, realized it was this tremendous sense of scope, our littleness and such sensitivity to thought and creativity. At time he's so rich in descriptiveness a break helps, sure, and then you pick up again where you left off.
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It sounds like you're differentiating between model state and view model state.

I haven't used Om yet, but a potential approach could be to maintain two stateful objects: one for the model (e.g. stuff that you'd persist permanently), one for the view model (e.g. which tab is selected).

If you wanted your app to come back to exactly the same state after a page reload, you could persist the model in databases, and the view model in browser local storage.
Having worked on the F-16 in my first job (Jovial runtime libraries) I have a real affinity for it. Even today you can buy a whole boatload of F16s for the cost of 1 F35. I think the plane is too expensive to use as an everyday FB.
and the video links are unencrypted.

I guess that was what was behind the story of insurgents grabbing drone video feeds.

Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB126102247889095011
The best thing one can say about the F-35 is something akin to what rocket designer Robert Truax once said about the Space Shuttle, that it "represents a truly marvelous implementation of an absolutely absurd concept."

If you've read the "Boyd" biography mentioned here by other commenters, you'll recognize many of Boyd's and Sprey's criticisms of the so-called "F-X" fighter procurement program (which eventually led to the F-15) in his critique of the F-35. [1]

None of the Fighter Mafia actually "designed" any of these aircraft, but Boyd, Sprey, Christie and others did play a pivotal role in changing how the Pentagon defined and proved the specifications of the fighters it was buying. The F-X was supposed to be a larger, swing-wing, multi-role behemoth, similar to the abysmal F-111, which Boyd proved to Pentagon brass to be inferior to virtually all enemy fighters, by way of his brilliant "Energy-Maneuverability" theory. In this way, Boyd and Sprey influenced the final design of the F-15, but to a much lesser extent than the designs of the F-16 or A-10. [2]

One key point Sprey brings up in several of his other interviews on the F-35 topic (which he curiously leaves out of this one) is that, regardless of the capabilities (or lack thereof) of the F-22 or F-35, neither will ever be as successful as the historically-great fighters like the P-51, F-4, F-15, or F-16, simply because they'll never be built in sufficient numbers.

For a fighter to be great, its pilots must also be great, and to do that they must train regularly and often, something which has proven impossible with the low dispatch reliability of these complex fifth-gen fighters. Sprey notes that in WWII, the U.S. P-51 fleet triumphed over the vastly superior German fleet of ME-262s, by first developing tactics that could defeat this amazing jet (i.e., shooting them down while taking off or landing), and because there were simply more P-51s available to fight.

Sprey and Boyd were right about a few things: build them light (which helps make them fast and maneuverable), build them cheap, and build lots of them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle#Or...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%E2%80%93maneuverability_...
Interesting idea but I'm skeptical that any writer would ever be able to adopt something so "technical" (for lack of a better word). Writers just don't think like that and I don't think they ever will. It's a wall between creative types and tech types that is here to stay, imho.
A brief history of designing emails
> It forces lurkers to participate

This line of iambic pentameter is the first one that gets to the point of the OP.
Not calling it "food" is a little off-putting, since it is "nutritously edible" unlike a lot of industrial food marketed to the time-money-impovershed. This is fascinating stuff, and people are trying to make their own formulas as well, here's a couple sites:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/h2h/soylent_orange_whole_food_open_s...

http://diy.soylent.me/

Personally I've already invested so much in organics that I'll have to work my way through that before I can give it an n=1 go.
I also wrote an unofficial tutorial here: http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-s...

These docs look pretty nice, particularly the "reference" part. It's probably the first time anyone has attempted to comprehensively explain all of DynASM's concepts in detail, and contains answers to several questions that I previously had to email Mike Pall directly about.
No one has had any problems returning to the USA.

The USA is the only country that taxes its citizens who live outside the country. I think that's what you're asking. British citizens living abroad don't pay UK income tax.

The IRS hasn't taken any interest in my clients -- the tax returns are clean and that's all they should care about. But the Lois Lerner affair shows that they are corrupt, unfortunately.

The people I know who give up citizenship almost all do it with extreme regret. I assume this feeling persists even after the fact.
I'm a Chinese in China.I think your word "Friendships are like pets" is right and warm.It helps me a lot.Thanks!PS:my english is poor,maybe make some wrong words,sorry for that.
> LibreOffice for writing.

My personal wiki consists of thousands of documents and it's powered by Emacs' Org mode. There are numerous benefits to having a knowledge base stored as plain text files that are managed using a powerful text editor, such as the ability to refer to any document in my wiki in under two seconds. I use my wiki hundreds of times per day, and the thought of using LibreOffice or Word to manage a similarly-sized knowledge base is unpleasant.
I agree that the best entrepreneurs just do it - Garry is dead on with that. And Instacart is clearly doing a bunch of things well. That being said, I don't understand why people are excited about Instacart - but I'm ready to be proven wrong!
Any EU citizenship is more useful and less dangerous and more lucrative and more flexible and subjects you to less world-wide paperwork, tax, and business restrictions.

So Estonia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia (or is it Slovakia?), Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia (or Slovenia?), and Greece have more valuable passports for their citizens.

If you travel a lot in East Asia, Japan's passport is awfully useful and has much nicer perks than US citizenship.

Obviously, France, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and other core wealthy nations have much, much better deals for citizens, too.

The US passport and citizenship is more and more like a third world quality passport every year, with one major exception. That exception, of course, is the right to live in the USA, which is a dang nice country with excellent open country, parks, forests, space to breathe free, big highways, fishing, hunting, the right to keep and bear arms, and fine honest people.

But if you don't love this land, you're better off with Latverian or Hungarian or Freedonian citizenship, because our politicians have done squat to keep our citizenship valuable around the world.
I think this would work on your home ;-)

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I remember reading "Graphs and their uses" by Oystein Ore in high school and liking it.
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Any non paywalled link?

Edit: http://pastebin.com/TrTF32uw
This is exactly right. HNers who are US citizens will set up a perfectly ordinary corporation in their country of residence and run their company perfectly legally in that country. Years later they hear of Form 5471. The government's SOP on this is to impose a $10,000 per year penalty then force you to beg for the penalty to be removed. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes that doesn't. How many small businesses could stand a $40,000 or $50,000 hit just because you didn't file a piece of paper saying you owned stock in a foreign corporation?
The policies of Nazi Germany were heavily guided by their requirements for war. As you said, they privatized so as to generate considerable revenue for the government.

Cherry picking this fact and proclaiming that Nazi Germany wasn't socialist is a bit sketchy. But there was plenty of nationalization going on, such as the entire steel industry.

Here's a nice summary from Wikipedia on Nazi Germany's pre-war economy:

Due to state control, business had little entrepreneurial freedom[39] in a regime that has been described as "command-capitalism".[74] In place of ordinary profit incentives guiding the economy, financial investment was regulated as per the needs of the state. The profit incentive for businessmen remained, but was greatly modified; Nazi agencies replaced the profit motive that automatically allocated investment, and the course of the economy.[75] Nazi government financing eventually dominated private financial investment and heavy business taxes limited self-financing of firms.[citation needed] The largest firms were mostly exempt from taxes on profits,[citation needed] however, government control was extensive.[76] Some economists argue that such control was responsible for the rationing, shortages, and low standard of living of Germans during this time.[77]

[1] -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany#Pre-war...
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It's really pretty bad. We're not even talking about the wealthy in many cases. You basically have to have an tax preparer who specializes in expat issues handle your taxes, and they aren't cheap. This is not a job for H&R Block.
Do you think anyone who is ready and willing to use encryption on Windows is incapable of switching to linux?

FWIW, a non-negligible percentage of my not-computer-savvy friends have switched to Linux over the last few years because they mostly just need an internet machine after all, and were tired of dealing with windows. Most of them seem to have no trouble after they figure out how to boot a liveUSB.
I've worked on space-based sythentic aperature radar (SAR) and all the fancy algorithmic stuff can fit on a largish FPGA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_aperture_radar#Multis...

Here's the thing: technology is moving faster than the military can procure it right now. Way, way faster.

When your procurement cycle is at least 10 years and you want something to work for at least the next 40 years and all that projects take much, much longer and get much, much bigger than they need to.

The SAM sites that people started designing 10 or 20 years ago are big, sure. What about the SAM sites that you COULD design today and build in the next year or two, but which the US military would never accept without the impossible to get sign-offs.

The military is kinda like the FDA. They want to make sure that the stuff that makes it through the process is definitely, for sure, to all reasonable scrutiny, acceptable. There are a TON of really neat devices out there that are 5-10 years from being available to the general public but if you're really dying you can potentially get as a part of a clinical trial.

To judge what's available today after jumping through all the hoops for a decade as "The State of The Art" is understandable, but not entirely correct. I can't fault you for thinking that it is but I won't agree with you either.
> Or food.

Neither is half the stuff on the shelf at 7-11 but people still literally live on it. At least Soylent took a stab at engineering for health instead of merely addictive taste over-stimulation.
None of the package managers you mentioned work on Windows...
> After that you only file income tax returns if you have income from US sources or you become a US resident.

Example: So your US corporation "pays" your Ireland corporation, who than pays you in the EU? Would that avoid the income from being considered US sourced?
The first world ones are all pretty much equivalent in terms of getting you around, one or two countries difference with no Visa among the top, not sure where the discrepancies are...

http://www.ibtimes.com/best-passports-have-unrestricted-trav...

US citizenship means you have tax liability on income overseas and dealing with a few weird things like the Cuba embargo, but you're also a citizen of the most powerful nation on earth, which does matter if you get stuck in a revolution or something.
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The leading Emacs PHP mode hasn't had its copyright transferred to the FSF and therefore can't be included.
People tend to overvalue money and undervalue time, and that's the reason "free" services tend to beat "paid" ones in any business where per capita cost of service is low. So, while LinkedIn generates spam, it's not much vulnerable to a "paid" competitor.
Can you make music with strangers? Online interactive art.
The claim put forth was that there is no systemtic deregulation, not that there is no deregulation at all.