skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite part, right at the end:

> After each crash, disaster or terrorist episode, it is natural to point fingers and say, Why didn’t we foresee that specific threat? Thus one attempted shoe bombing leads to a decade of shoes-off orders in security lines. The truth is that air transportation, like most other modern systems, could not operate if it fortified itself against every conceivable peril.

Many people like to use phrases like "one $INCIDENT is one too many". In reality, all of life is about balancing and mitigating risks. Just because a single failure happened in one case doesn't mean the entire system is faulty; given enough time, any system that is not 100% foolproof (that is, all of them) is going to have a failure. The question is whether it is actually feasible and/or reasonable to prevent those.
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How many terrorist attacks have these things actually prevented? Won't it become worthless if it keeps growing?
Thank you very much - bookmarked.

BTW, Apple is missing a great opportunity in my opinion. They don't need a ton of user data to make money and could evolve into the secure consumer device company. I see only upside for Apple if they work towards making as secure as possible devices.
Appeared to be using Gnome 3 as well.
Children seem to always figure out the details eventually, whereas many second language learners seem to miss out on some details unless explicitly corrected, and even then find it hard to change established speaking habits. I’m not sure anyone really knows why this is, but it’s one reason why some people recommend trying very hard to avoid speaking (and listening to others speak) incorrect sentences when learning a language.
>I think the real problem here is that the tech industry does not know how to manage their workers

It's not just the tech industry, almost all companies struggle to measure productivity, especially as a comparative measure. People like salesmen do have defined metrics like sales, but it's harder to do that for people in HR and Accounting, for example.
The whole point is that the gate-designer decides if their gate works in various directions (there are usually much more than 2 or 3). And this simply means that if they get a stream
of events coming in in the wrong order, they can choose how to "complain": They can stay silent and ignore the broken language sent to them. Or they can throw a panic and halt the entire program. You decide. The NAND gate makes little sense to go in anything but one direction. But a PLUS gate or the REASON gate make sense in multiple directions. You can read more about this here:
http://www.maymounkov.org/memex/abstract
Yes. All the functional programming language had the right idea (as you point out). But not the right grammar.
Escher has 3 grammar rules (reflex, circuit and valve). All these other languages have much much more. That's the point.
Try this if you have a windows machine.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt

I have yet to see some a video advertisement on any site, and text ones are almost nonexistent on popular websites.
I agree. The point of a state should only be about who has responsibility for building the roads and such in that area. Why anyone would kill people to have more roads to pave alludes me (actually, I do know why, but their reasons are not resonating with me).
> evolve into the secure consumer device company

They don't have this option. They are too big to not cooperate the US law enforcement and intelligence communities. They must cooperate, it's given. There are just way too many pressure points that can be exploited to make them cooperate, even against their will. If they start selling themselves as a secure and trustworthy device manufacturer you can rest assured it's just lip service and pure marketing.
Personally, I don't see any reason to blame them for either crash. As far as I can tell, pretty much every airline in the world thought that the corridor they were flying over eastern Ukraine was perfectly safe. That flight just had the bad luck to be there at the time some marginally-competent Ukrainian rebel in charge of a high-end anti-aircraft missile system got a little enthusiastic. Could have been any other flight just as easily.

We still don't have any idea what happened to that flight 370, either.

I don't think this will help them, though. I sure wouldn't buy any stock in anything connected to them. Even if nothing about either crash was their fault in any reasonable way, people remember stuff like that.
Although the issue with NSA is important, the problem with most of those threads is that they all the same. Same predictable arguments, or no arguments at all.
Very excited to see my old friend Ben Kallos on the right side of the news again.

I know a few folks from my high school and college years who've gone into politics. He's the only one who was a cool, level-headed intelligent guy then and still seems to be one now.

I need to see if he wants to play Diplomacy again.
yea okaaaay...
i was born at night, but not last night.
Don't you have some sort of unique id to identify one person from another even if they share the same name in the US?
I am glad. The truth is: Eventually every mind, in trying to save itself from "repetitive" work, reaches the same conclusion: recursive metaphorical programming. It comes out in different buzz words "flow-programming", "metaphor mechanics", etc. They are all fuzzy but roughly correct. The only way to propose a theory of 1st-person consciousness, which is not ambiguous (the theory as communicated to others), is to give a programming language. This supersedes a philosophy paper that no one reads and is predicated on the author's "knowledge". And if the author is an academic, they can just assume "people don't know math" and people assume "we don't know math", so no knowledge is transferred at all.
I wasn't gonna go into a discussion here, but I'm tempted to say that not everyone believes states should have any responsibilities, including building roads. The problem is, you cannot have one without the other. If you have states and taxation, they're gonna trick you into paying for things you don't want or need or even object.
OK, thanks. Our government has ways to get what it wants.
He presented an earlier version of this, Circuit[1] at GopherCon[2] explaining it more. Probably not fake.

[1] https://github.com/gocircuit/circuit

[2] http://confreaks.com/videos/3421-gophercon2014-the-go-circui...
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057470
Thanks for the link! It's time to meet my peers. I will say to all people who find similarities between my work and cognitive scientists or neuroscientists: I have never read a line of text on either of these subjects, nor have I ever read anything written by Chomsky (other than email exchanges). I've only listened to Chomsky's you tube vides and skimmed the titles of his book. This was suggestive enough.
hate to break it to ya.. but i doubt we ever landed on the moon.
Interesting theory. I think there's also a sociological component as well. We're just far more familiar with them.
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Right, but I mean the start and end of those graphs. That shows 6+ Gbit for one flow without Fastpass, and around 4 Gbit with it.
You're right about the "example.com" and similar domains always being
registered to IANA, and I even did a brain-fade on whois/nslookup in
my comment, but as far as I remember, the example domains are never
supposed to resolve to an IP? I'll look at this again after I get some
sleep.
You can see a pretty thorough treatment of these ideas in Ptolemy II, at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/. Ptolemy II offers a variety of underlying computation models to execute the "program graph".
Please don't take this the wrong way, but you are coming across as a bit of a crank. Exaggerating the significance of your work is a marker for crankiness, second only to incomprehensibility.
I don't know about Germany, but Alamo Drafthouse does something similar in many cities in the US.

AMC has experimented with a similar approach in a few places, not every theater.
There's something strange about adding meta noise to a post you believe is meta noise.
I really don't want to hear another fucking word about "karma" on this site, ever again. "Karma" is what ruined reddit, with spam and reposting rampant only for the sake of stupid fucking Internet points. That is not what the system is meant for.
That's correct. For instance, I discovered the link to Choiceless Computation AFTER I invented Escher. It is a real mathematical connection, and I only bothered with it, because academics will not look at my work unless you shove some terms of their own into it. So I do, and it is real, because you can go and verify that Shelah's paper exactly matches the sematics of Escher. And the conclusion is that Shelah's paper wasn't necessary for my invention. It was necessary to convince an audience of a specific kind. (Not that this is accomplished yet. But it will. With time.)
To be fair, when the Scribd links were first implemented, 1) in-browser PDF was much worse than it is now; and 2) Scribd's interface was better than it is now. Over time, browsers got better at showing PDFs, and Scribd got more cluttered and weird.
Securing Elasticsearch: Learning the hard way
I'm going to take issue with that taxation and states being the root of evil. They are an inevitable result of the way that we humans are. If anything is evil, it's human nature itself.

There are always going to be people who want to form organizations, leadership cabals, and have control over things. Even areas already under the control of a strong Government still have corporations, criminal gangs, and various types of civil organizations, all vying for a little bit of that control pie.

Essentially, there will always be some sort of government. It can be a single one that's powerful enough to be unquestionably dominant over anything it chooses to touch, or it can be dozens of little ones, all vying for control over various things in various places. That essentially looks like Somalia or Syria or Libya - total chaos, with constant risk of offending one warlord or another or some gang of bandits, and none of them will make the slightest pretense of listening to you. Avoiding that requires having one government with enough power to squash anybody like that. The best we can get is to have one dominant government, set up in such a way that it has some degree of obligation to listen to the population.
- wears sandals with socks
FWIW, the NYT's news section has a more detailed examination of the politics and technicalities here...and the OP (who is writing in the opinion section)...seems kind of weak:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/world/europe/downing-of-pl...

I would've posted this link had I seen it earlier...but it is interesting to see how the OP, a pilot himself, thinks MH17 didn't have much cause to change its route. I mean, the OP even acknowledges that the Malaysian Air pilots would've known about the Ukranian cargo plane that was shot down earlier that day...in the NYT news report linked above, the 32,000-ft-restricted altitude left planes exposed to rockets that could strike at twice that height.
I added a graph using graphviz here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByAekPg2AgZoQUFGdl8yd1h3SWs
Tangent: This is a good site for PDFs, immensely better than scribd. Whenever I click a link in the PDF (for eg. pg 17), the document zoomed in permanently. I cannot find a way to revert back to original zoom, even opening the link again does not help. So whoever is running the site, please look into this bug.
Does the current implementation have support for reversible gates?
A pretty bold statement that will be used as a reference in the crusade against the war on drugs.
The trend indicates this already. Colorado, California et al has already taken a step in this direction with legalization of marijuana.
Problem is, there is a generation who grew up with being taught the opposite which will take some time to change their minds.
That's an argument I hear a lot, but karma was integral in building the community when reddit is young. It motivated people to contribute.
A large pool of H1B quota is being misused for sure. Instead of those mediocre or low tech workers, if more highly skilled workers are let in, I guess it would be better and we can manage with current allotted quotas.
My high school Spanish teacher has to bring a form from homeland security every time to the airport, because she married someone from Argentina with a common last name.

Names are the poorest identifier here.
Choiceless Computation is how the "outside" world looks to an Escher program. This is easier to understand, if you study go circuit.org because it is a concrete product not just a semantic. There:

A program starts and sees nothingness. Then a host emerges out of nowhere. (A human provisioning engineer must have turned it on in the data center.) Then the program can do something with it (like start a database) or it can wait (indefinitely) for another emergence of a host (before it sets up an elastic DB, say). The point is that objects emerge in your "sight" and they are nameless. The namelessness is the choicelessness. And this might seem like a small difference, but it is huge.

Chomsky tells Linguists: Try to imagine the world from the new-born baby's point of view; and trust me that the baby is
born knowing nothing. The only difference is that the baby sees a "blooming buzzing confusion" (i.e. many hosts are online already). But the connection is that everything is nameless (at first). The baby sees many visual pixels. They have no meaning (i.e. no linguistic names). Later the baby sorts out the confusion and assigns names to all phenomena in its sight. Same for circuit programs. They see a nameless army of live hosts. They are all equally good, hence nameless. Then the program start purposing them differently (some are dbs, some are https, etc.). This is the same as the baby assigning names to pixels in its sight until it wakes up one day at age 5, thinking it understands the world. Ha :)
Iron Dome – Israel's mobile all-weather anti-missile system
> No, DNSSEC has nothing to do with CAs

You're interpreting "CA" too literally. DNSSEC doesn't rely on X509 certificate authorities but in effect it relies on an equivalent, in that Verisign is a central authority certifying ownership of all .com domains.
East Germany had zero private property, and was governed by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany from 1946 until 1989 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_German...).
I knew I'd be downvoted but its the unpalatable truth
> They sometimes encourage me take a step back and understand the things that truly bring me joy.

Not only that, most businesses (certainly most startups) would be far better served early on by having someone who was a good programmer but not in love with it, but was in love with the business. I'd bet on that setup vs. a brilliant engineer who doesn't understand (or want to understand) the biz every time.
That's an interesting point...

We often say, "X will fail because I don't do X, and this proposed change makes me like X even less."

But if you're already not doing X, the change isn't for you anyway.*

Charitably though, we might interpret that argument as "My concerns are shared to a lesser extent by the marginal user of X. This change amplifies these concerns. Therefore, the change will cause X to lose marginal users."

For me, I don't go to the movies anymore because the internet is amazing and screens are cheap. Also, I like older movies as much as new ones, and being in a room with friends more than being with strangers.

I assume, maybe incorrectly, that the reason most movie consumers don't feel like I do is because they are not rabid technophiles. Maybe they just don't realize the fountain of entertainment they can easily put on a spectacularly sized display in their own home.

If I'm right, that that's the barrier, then once late adopters realize this, it may be game over for cinemas.

Maybe I'm wrong. We should ask, "Why do people actually go to the movies?"

*EDIT: It's a bit like everyone's complaint that 24 hour news isn't more intelligent. There was a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival where MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell basically said: We'd love to tell complex and deep stories. People who enjoy such stories though have busy lives and aren't home during primetime, they're going to the ballet, or outdoors, or reading a novel, and getting their news by scanning the internet for a few minutes each day. We run the market experiment against PBS every night.
> On hardware that is near top-of-the-line and thus poorly supported.

Haha, there's got to be a name for that paradox: you want to run Linux on your brand new computer, but the hardware isn't well supported.

Do you:

a) Settle for a Linux install that sometimes does weird things (on my Lenovo Yoga 2, I have to close the laptop lid and re-open it to get the computer to come back from suspend properly).

b) Settle for Windows 8?

Unless you've got the time to write your own device drivers, the MBA is the most "rational" choice for a new laptop. (IBM pun not intended.)
So it sounds like the incentive model is kind of fundamentally broken. Is it correct to say that miners are incentivized to A) store trash data in a way that lets them mine with zero actual storage backing it up and B) consolidate their storage into the same hard drive, until there exists only a single copy of the data on the entire network?
I think for profit prisons are very bad. I'm not a fan of public unions of any sort either. But laying the blame on them is just a cop-out. These policies were implemented with overehelming public support at a time when the for-profit prison industry was essentially non-existent. The for profit prison lobby is opportunist: taking advantage of the policy. They didn't create it.
They're not downvoting you because it's not secure; they're downvoting you because you don't understand what the product does.
The Economist explains: How Israel's “Iron Dome” works
-uses terminal windows with white backgrounds
Archive.org has copies of this from 2002 with some variation over time
https://web.archive.org/web/20020120142510/http://example.co...
I went to a meta currency event around the time of Occupy, and it was part the inspiration that got me started. I haven't heard much from them lately.
First off, he's not an American. His passport eventually was able to be used to prove he wasn't that 'Richard Smith.'

Of course, the TSA measures their effectiveness based on how many people they make miss their flights so they don't really want to make things better.

More importantly, these lists appear specifically to have been made to be generic. The government appears to want to catch everyone.
Brute force password guessing is very common. There's ludicrous numbers of WordPress password guessers running. That's right, someone will make several thousand password guesses over the course of a few hours.
Do people pay attention to who submits items? I never do. Maybe the display of the submitter could be removed without any loss.
> I personally believe we, as people, will never know the truth as to who did it - was it Ukrainians or the rebels or the Russians.

I disagree. There's a very promising international investigation being planned, and they have an excellent track record of success.
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I apologize, if it's a little over the top. But being over the top is the only way to get people to really think: out of anger to prove you wrong. It's just true. But I have no intention to offend anyone.
take a look at /r/undelete some day. Reddit is frighteningly unopen.
Free Course on Photojournalism
Of course it is a bug. Proper behavior would be to confirm the amount plus shipping, or at very least, limit the change to an amount no greater than $20 more than what was confirmed.
That's pretty sweet. I did notice that moving back in time (thus changing the values to what they had previously been) actually caused it to think more stuff had changed, therefore increasing the number of changes to track. Still, a relatively small bug in an incredibly cool demo.

This doesn't exactly answer my question of what people are using to store data for React to use though. For instance, if I have an inbox and I want to display a list of messages, and unread counts for each folder. It makes sense to me to store that data in one place, instead of copying it to each component's state. So where does it go? Just a global POJO, or what?
> He is a Republican Senator from Alabama. He doesn't need to look at facts.

Let's be fair here. That should read:

He is a Senator. He doesn't need to look at facts.
Yes. Be patient a few more weeks, as I have other obligations too. I will have demos how you can make your own gesture-controlled robotics at home, using Escher bindings for the gobot.io library
A comment at the bottom of a 180+ comment thread is not sufficient. I'm always annoyed when I get to a comment thread that is talking about a different article than the one I clicked on. There needs to at least be an indication in the UI that this happened.
How to secure your WCF service and authenticate users
Astronomers Spotted the Most Distant Stars in the Milky Way
Same here on multiple browsers. In case you're interested in what it's running : http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://example.c...
It's an interesting line to try to find: the least rude way to shut down a solicitation with one sentence or gesture.

I've found a hard stare and a subtle "no" gesture with my head generally does the trick with street solicitors.
Nokia's Venture Into Android Deserved to Die
Yes they do. Some people can get to front page at will. Now, whether that's good or not is a different discussion, but people trust their judgement so they get more weight.
I have always found it pretty interesting that he has the most uninteresting setups.
Why do they get upvoted then?
Rediscovering a technique to shoot 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds
I doubt you'd be here using the internet at all if humans didn't cooperate and form governments together. For all the atrocities caused by nations, saying we should all live as anarcho-savages isn't a solution.
Seems like the sort of trust system that is common in restaurants.

1) You get the check with a total of food and drink.

2) The waiter/waitress takes your card to the register for authorization.

3) You get your card back.

4) You hand-write the tip amount and total, then walk away. You trust the merchant to charge the amount you wrote.

5) The restaurant charges the amount you wrote, but you don't know this for sure until you check your statement.
If that were the case, we wouldn't be on our way to legalizing marijuana. I'm sure it feels really great to rage against the "system" but it doesn't seem right in this case.
The language for expressing constraints is what different, not the meaning. People are confused because they properly evaluate that you can do with this language what you can do with any other. But only up to a point of scale. Then the bugs that other languages make you introduce catch up with you. And you can't produce more software because you have to spend too much time fixing bugs of old software. In Escher, every circuit without valves is forever closed as design: for the same reason electrical circuits are rarely recalled. Did you ever wonder why that is?
What are "close access methods"?

Would bluetooth or iBeacon or Wifi be used with that, or does it need a cable, or actual button pressing, for example?
Breaking Down the “Value” of a Viral Hit on Social Media
Most airlines were avoiding the eastern Ukraine corridor...
The entire thread is meta noise.
Mods, please change the article URL to this.
Please tell that to academic journals, especially when the published material was paid for by taxes.