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To be fair, its been a busy newsweek. The ruble collapsing, Putin's ridiculous Q&A and befriending of North Korea, the Sony hack, Iran coming to the negotiation table, a few days of no deaths in Ukraine, Australian terrorist operation, UK VIP sex ring deaths, Hong Kong protestors being pushed out, etc.

The torture report is just more details on what happened 10 years ago. No one is shocked or surprised. The guy in charge of all this left when the current guy took office in 2008. If we're playing nation state PR trickery games, it seems to be Russian and Chinese media outlets were really pushing the report as a way to distract from their own domestic issues, their own domestic human rights issues against their own citizens, and to continue to vilify the US as it serves them domestically to deter people from their god given rights to freedom, justice, and self-rule.

Of course, to many internet commentators, Russia and China never do dirty tricks like these, only the US. Shame we can't have a more evolved view of press release timing, news cycles, etc. Its just more anti-US conspiracy theories while the rest of the world, especially dictatorial regimes, get a free pass.
There are far better ways to drum up support for an invasion of North Korea than a false-flag hacking of an entertainment company. All you'd really have to do is wait a little while until they test another nuclear bomb or shell South Korea again or sink another South Korean ship or anything of the sort, and then take a hard line response instead of the standard "if we ignore them maybe they'll go away" response. The idea that this was drummed up to start a war makes no sense to me.
Strong evidence is lacking to make any conclusion, including that NK is responsible.

There are incentives to falsely place blame on NK and there is a wealth of history demonstrating that type of behavior. In particular the US may have wanted to attack NK for some time but lacked a way to galvanize the public's support. Opportunities to get backing for war are rare, and so there is good reason to think that the government would try to capitalize on them. The fact that the government isn't releasing evidence suggests that it is weak or non-existent.

There is also good reason to believe that NK did do the hack.
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With streams you don't wait for them to end. They may never end, in fact.
I don't know why (espacially key-) people in development (Torvalds, now Rossum etc.) seem to have a hard time phrasing their thoughts with a little more consideration.
Would it hurt to put it more like "this project is not of interest to me" - what is completely misguided in working on something and trying things? Or to restrain oneself from bashing the effort as being "laughable" and instead try to offer ideas for improvement or presenting the alternatives without discrediting the whole thing. And if he is bored, why not just skip the whole thing?
> At some point, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies will likely have to shift from this work-when-you-can-but-don't-expect-money model to something a bit more conventional with, you know, employees.

People need to understand that money is not the goal there, the goal is to improve transport standards. I'm sure the best CEO and investors understand that money is just an abstract measure, you can't dismiss money, so you must insert money in your strategy, but it's just to make it compatible with the current economic model. People in companies work not to say "look at my paycheck" but rather "look at what I made".

The goal is to make something better. Who cares if the business model is shaky or out of the box or unconventional, the goal is keeping research and improvement makings going. Nobody likes to be an employees, but I don't see everyone knowing enough engineering and having the initiative to design some new technology like that.
or,

4. the NSA has nothing to do with this and the FBI are incompetant
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I got the annual thing from here, I got it a bit wrong as the threshold is turnover, not income - https://www.gov.uk/vat-annual-accounting-scheme/overview

VAT Annual Accounting Scheme

You can join the scheme if your estimated VAT taxable turnover is £1.35 million or less.
Professional degrees are a special case. Law firms, in particular, are strongly credential-oriented.
This has been making my bullshit detector ping loudly, ever since the first mention of North Korea.

Every article that I have seen recently in the mainstream news boldly implicates North Korea as the culprit, with absolutely zero evidence to back it up. When I don my foil hat and wear my fnord-detecting goggles, this is what I find.

- The US federal government has been attempting to assemble a military "cyber command" with both offensive and defensive capabilities since 2005, if not sooner. 2005 was when I first heard about it, but it wasn't actually called "cyber command" until late 2006.

- China has a military-sponsored unit of network security professionals, which would be proven very capable, if any of the attacks attributed to them could actually be traced back to them.

- North Korea is simultaneously ally and irritant to China. Blaming China for past network security breaches has not produced the expected political support. Using North Korea as a more reviled and less diplomatically capable proxy, who also happens to have both a well-funded corps of network security professionals and a rapid and tenacious propaganda response to any possible slight to the country or its leadership, may be a safer means to achieving the desired result.

- Truly damaging security breaches rarely achieve news media saturation. Front-page stories in every outlet are rarer still.

- Nations occasionally conduct false flag operations for propaganda or political gain.

So my current working hypothesis is as follows. A US intelligence organization, with the support of federal network security contractors, worked with Sony insiders to "hack" Sony network security. As we already knew from previous breaches, Sony network security is weak, and they don't even implement the same standards they demand of their partners, contractors, and vendors. Key influencers in the media and entertainment industry are quietly encouraged to support the frame-up. The Congress will soon introduce a national cyber-security bill. Sony's movie, The Interview, is probably an otherwise unremarkable comedy that will enjoy a slight box-office boost from the unconventional publicity.

When I take off the foil hat and fnord goggles, this is all just Sony acting like an ass, then getting checked hard by a small group of trolls doing it for the lulz. The news media should be thoroughly embarrassed by its decreasing commitment to fact-checking, but instead it will simply pretend it never happened.
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It's basically a specialization of the base rate fallacy. If, say, idiots can still be right by chance 10% of the time, and experts are right 90% of the time, but only 10% of the population are experts, then lucky idiots will make up fully half of the population of people who are right.
I'm kind of confused by the notion that Javascript execution times and CSS3 animations aren't part of the core functionality. I'm assuming they're not going to build their own JS JIT compiler and use v8 or spidermonkey. And while I don't see the necessity of animations, there's no reason to not put CSS3 as part of the core considering that every current major web browser basically supports its current form.

I do understand that the purpose of this browser is to be privacy-first, but what we don't need is a new browser that's just like IE6 in terms of bad web practices but with better privacy settings.
Your problem resonates well with me. I used to be able to code 24 hours straight, forgetting to sleep, when I was just out of high school. I dreamt about code. Now I'm a grown man, professional developer, but I have a hard time accomplishing my (code) goals. I want to learn Clojure, I want to build some side projects, study SICP, and become an expert in one language. But I don't. I play bf4 and watch bad TV shows ("The 100" iirc). I'm a great heli pilot, though...

On to my advice:

Decide on a project to build. Set a deadline you want to build it by.

All those other questions will fall into place.

Don't pick a project that is the next-big-whatever. Just pick something you can accomplish within, say, a week. If you want a list of ideas, I have a couple of links or I'd even be willing to share my list of (mostly non-trivial, hopefully profitable) ideas.

Doing a few projects small projects has turned me around more than once, and made me focused and proud of myself.
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> "they're making this up to go to war"

literally nobody has said that, all that most people have said is that if you're going to accuse another nation of an act of "cyberwar" at least provide proof. Is that too much to ask?
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I wish one of the tests was the doom codebase.
Don't call it DRM: what's Denuvo Anti-Tamper?
Maybe it's 25 students + 100 working professionals?
There is also the very strong polarization of everything in the US. When they choose a target they just paint everything about it in black.

On a related note, I discovered that many Americans have no ideas of the tremendous role of Russia in WWII, it has been completely erased from US collective memory the only thing that's left in popular US memory is USSR, communism is bad (and I'm pretty sure the details of why are blurry), and Russia can only be evil.

They are now painting other targets that way, like Iran, NK, and they used the same propaganda against Iraq. I guess they don't know (and acknowledge and take part of the responsibility for) the role of the US in creating the current situation in Korea.

There is a real lack of a measured and intellectual discourse in US public space (and by radiating influence, it's crushing it in the rest of the world).
> I’m the type of person who likes eating meat, drinking beer, talking about politics, money, science, entrepreneurship, programming etc.

Honestly sounds like the NYC culture is more your thing
>>> While FBI and NSA may both be looking into it, they don't share all of their data.

The irony of this statement is this is one of the primary reasons the department of homeland security was established, so sharing of information between these very offices would enable them to be more on top of stuff like this.
try compiling a super simple sass file multiple times. The time it takes varies so much. Ruby's performance is not predictable.

The point here is why the same algorithm would take 0.3 sec to run and the next time it would take 1 sec. After seen that I never coded Ruby again.
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Shouldn't "NSA" be replaced with "FBI" in all three scenarios (and all additional scenarios)? After all, the news release from the FBI indicates that the conclusion is the FBI's, not the NSA's.

Further, the equation of "competent" and "correct" in the scenarios is ill-founded; competent people can reach incorrect conclusions and vice versa.

> Since we know that the NSA is filled with highly competent people (based on the quality of the people who periodically join the commercial world after a stint at the NSA) we can probably consider 1 or 2 the most likely explanation.

Perhaps, but even if so, #1 and #2 need to be expanded to:

1a. The FBI is competent, and has correctly determined that NK is responsible, and is accurately reporting its correct determination.

1b. The FBI is competent, but has nevertheless incorrectly assessed that NK is responsible, and is accurately reporting its incorrect determination.

2a. The FBI is competent, and has correctly determined that NK is not responsible, and is misrepresenting its correct determination.

2b. The FBI is competent, but has nevertheless incorrectly determined that NK is not responsible, and is misrepresenting its incorrect determination.
There's no question that people can tell one wine from another. But the point is that people's perceptions of wine are as much a function of their expectations as the actual chemistry of the wine. The same thing can be said about insects or veggie-burgers. Yes, veggie burgers don't taste like real burgers. But if people claim that veggie burgers taste worse (or better) than real burgers, that could be as much a function of their expectations as it is the actual flavor.
Some stores like Macy's actually do fill from their storefronts. They can't get realtime inventory numbers that way because they have employees go and pick off the shelf, at the same time customers are buying off the same shelf.
One is an act of state-sponsored warfare, the other is a criminal act. Different departments investigate different things based on their department's scope.
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Are they blood sucking vermin, or have I just had a run of bad luck. I was hit with a late fee for a bill I mailed 6 days before it was due. I can just picture the envelope sitting in their mail room for a few days, aging until ripe for picking.
NSA and FBI have a strong history of lying to the public. I would say that makes #2 more possible.

It's also in their interest to position the threat as a national security issue because that's where they derive their power to regularly break the law through spying and other tactics as well as their over-inflated budgets. If the threat is coming from a hostile nation it helps their narrative better than a disgruntled employee or someone doing it for lulz.
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The issue I would most like to see progress on is thermal expansion of the the tube. The best solution I have heard is slip joints at the stations but if we're talking miles of slip, I still have a hard time imagining how that would work.
Interesting read for a Haskell newcomer like me!

Regarding the original webpage of Norvig's spelling corrector, I think it is not up to date as I remember browsing the web and finding some shorter versions in other languages.

I've shortened the Python version to 14/15 lines using some features of Python3.
Cyberattack on German steel factory causes 'massive damage'
Would love to know what the people of Mississippi think about their AG spending tax dollars on something that will not benefit them in any way.
>Are people so far out of the loop on world players or current events?

The people who comment on HN about politics are hilariously confused.
FBI Says North Korea Behind Sony Hack
> "We regret having to take this matter to court," Google said in a statement, "and we are doing so only after years of efforts...

If by regret they mean "peed ourselves laughing" then yeah.
4. NSA concluded one thing but another answer was more politically desirable

In just one week we've gotten over the fact the USA tortured people to death only a few years ago, or at least the "news" has.
I don't believe in any of the provided options. My only decision making guide is definitive evidence and not some emotion-based public interpretation as to what might have happened.
you can always solve any problem throwing money at it. I guess the main point is running the same thing with 30% less servers, not more.
Why make caps lock into backspace? Control has always felt a much more natural option to me.

Usually, when I am pressing backspace, I am taking a mental break anyways (even if only a tiny one), so I am ok with having a bit of travel to press it.
What would be the point of randomly attacking NK "computers"? I'm sure the NSA is on top of penetrating such systems for intel. Going about wiping things, what's that going to accomplish? Ha! We taught you a lesson about keeping offline backups, take that for hurting a private company? It's a knee jerk reaction similar to the US's war campaigns after 9/11 or WMD stories.

If breaching poor security was all NK was ever capable of, yeah maybe go for it. Otherwise, they remain an Involved State, so it's best to save intelligence for stuff that matters, and have the FBI use info from this attack to improve other security.
10% is pretty generous for most of the work experts actually do, though.

Experts do many things, one of which is to occasionally make predictions, where 10% might be more reasonable.

But, for work like imagining how a given goal can be realized, I would guess an "idiot" could compose an achievable plan less than a fraction of a percent of the time.
It should make you rethink buying any electronic product whatsoever, since Apple's supply-chain audits are, though insufficient, by far the most thorough of any company (since they face the most scrutiny).
> Refactor it to the point where you can change it everywhere at once and then do that.

This can be generalized: refactor the code to the point where what you need to next is easy to do.
Checked contributors list on Github[0] and most of the code is written by a single person, Kay. Isn't that amazing? A project of this large and value, done by single person in his own time. I wish this project gets more popularity.

Bought a beer to Kay :-)

[0] - https://github.com/kayhayen/Nuitka/graphs/contributors
A possible solution to what is not even a first world problem.
I suspect they know who did it, and they have data that would expose just how much they know and do not want to disclose that information. They possibly know because they've compromised an allies system to do so, and providing that information would expose this vector and compromise relations. These guys aren't incompetent, full stop. Saying so may make you feel better, but we have all the proof in the world about their capabilities.
Haters gotta hate.

The framework is brilliant from a productivity and sheer enjoyment perspective. I don't know if it will scale; you don't either. My estimation, though, is that the team building it is very clever and super-aware of what they need to do to make the framework succeed from a scaling perspective.

A lot of the comments here are spitballs from the back row of the classroom. They are willfully uninformed and unfair. It is hard to imagine these commenters are paying much attention during the learning portion of class.

So go forth, meteor team. You're fighting a great fight here. Ignore the naysayers and do the great work you know you can do. Your best way forward is to prove the haters wrong. Maybe a few will even become lovers, though I wouldn't count on it. If you build it, they may come. [update to spell 'perspective' correctly. Ugh]
I don't understand why there is so much focus on doing this in California where they have tons of development and the huge issue of earth quakes. Surely there's somewhere else that could reap the benefits of fast travel. Off the top of my head I would suggest doing this through the midwestern states which are incredibly flat and mostly void of development for hundreds of miles. You can pay ranchers and farmers for the right to build the support towers on their land. You'd have to worry about tornados and hail storms though. I'm not sure how much concern that would be. If this this is all steel and concrete it should be strong enough right?
> People in companies work not to say "look at my paycheck" but rather "look at what I made".

People also work in order to, you know, pay bills and put food on the table.
On the tech side there's definite things that you could do to get around that and I'd expect some sort of real-time communication would be necessary to track all that stuff, but there are companies that handle that sort of thing pretty cheaply like pusher/pubnub/bashoto.

I'd be surprised if they get more sales without it, if they are only showing available stock values when they are below a certain threshold, say ten items.
"FBI now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these actions"

Their reasons were along the lines of "attacks that look very similar were from North Korea" but were those attacks conclusively linked? I'm also curious how they decided it was the government there, not a rogue group of people.
>>> stop using "hack" for anything

I totally agree. Everything is sold as a "quick fix", add this and your life will be 10x better, do this quick hack...et.al.

The most important thing I found about life in general (or diets/health) is to be specific is habit. Don't sway to a different diet if it doesn't work after X weeks. And don't do silly diets that encourage too much of one thing and too little of another.
"Opportunities to get backing for war are rare, and so there is good reason to think that the government would try to capitalize on them."..."USS Maine, anyone?"..."Queue an invasion of North Korea."

Literally quite literally doesn't mean what you apparently think it means.

And the general conspiratorial narrative is that the US is trying to blame a blameless North Korea to achieve...something. Not sure what.
No need to be snarky. I'm not reading NK news everyday and I'm sure I was not alone not knowing about that Unit 121.

Even so, this article actually raises more question than it answers. Was Sony's security really weak or was the hack very clever? It may have been the former and if so, some other people might have the same information for quite some time now.
This is a political power grab by the FBI from the NSA.
I'm a webdev at an agency, and Meteor looks great from a prototyping perspective. Javascript is already a key component of much of our work, so this framework could help us roll out concepts much faster than we're doing now... looking forward to learning more about Meteor!
Additionally, if you need to mock that doSomething() method's behavior at all, you can't just subclass and override the method. You would need to bring in byte code voodoo (using e.g. PowerMock in Java).
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Wasn't MtGox a Japanese company? That'd put it slightly out of FBI jurisdiction. And weren't other parts of the USG trying to shut down MtGox for trading without proper licenses?
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I think you are right they are targeting large advertisers with significant spend.

It's a unique approach in that they don't need a lot of granular attribution data, but instead use higher level aggregate data. As a result it's easier to integrate with all kinds of media campaigns.

You need to be able to provide impressions over time for your early funnel ads and conversions over time for your late funnel touchpoints. They use some econometric time series techniques to analyze and estimate the impact so you can focus on whats working.
I see your point.

The cheapest "large memory" part on Mouser for the ARM arch with an A/D is a Freescale MKL02Z8VFG4 8K flash / 4k ram and a 12 bit A/D is 1.12 qty 1, just above 50 cents qty 500.
Any one has any experience using an alternative keyboard layout in a qwerty world? How does it fit?
Not a vim user I see.
I think you also need the population density and a population that wants/needs to travel from A to B regularly to make it viable.

Musk proposed LA->San Fran as a commuter route - i.e. people would take it both ways 5 days a week.

How many people want/need to zip across the midwest both ways 5 days a week?
I guess I'd have to favor #2. I think the NK connection is dubious at best, but it probably best serves political interests to point the finger that way at this time in history.
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Lets say already have an outline for your next job in mind.

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Let us know what do you guys think and anything else (might be unrelated to original concept) that you would like to see in this product?

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