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I would suggest that current trust laws, where legal fictions like companies can be trustees, could be a foundation for creating a programmatic trust deed for cars been trustees.

The trustee (car) is given legal title to the trust property (car, software, service contracts), by the settlor (manufacturer company), but is obligated to act for the good of the beneficiaries, humans.
Interesting anecdotes. Which book is this from?
On a positive note: those Nukes are probably what has stood between many state v state wars which may have taken place over the past 60 years had the assured destruction not been there.
It's too bad React Native isn't covered in this comparison. Native code with an effective es6 compliant javascript runtime seems like a good idea.

I would also love to see some comparison between different js frameworks. There's huge differences in the various javascript frameworks used in conjunction with phonegap. For instance is famo.us fast and has some good third party widgets, like famous-flex. Ionic is very fast to learn and use, but scrolling isn't excactly fast. If you combine both famo.us and ionic on the other hand, you should be able to get a near native feel. There are efforts to create angular directives for some famo.us widgets.
Missile silos on land were invented to hold the Blue Streak missile [1] and the problems you describe with hiding them were a large part of the reason to cancel the programme.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Streak_%28missile%29
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Six books, each $20, none of them that big? That seems excessive to me.

Does it need to be spread so thinly?
Yes, absolutely everything in the article is possible without driverless cars.

In fact most of it is being done currently, except the owner-less bit.

It seems a common mind screw up.

People think when technology X is released all these other advanced technologies will come with it.

Voice recognition is an obvious example.

Just because a computer can understand the words perfectly, it still has no idea what you are saying.

For it to do that it'd have to be close to passing the Turing test.

This fallacy should have a name if it doesn't already.
Reviewing VPNs without providing any detail about their privacy policy seems...superficial.

TorrentFreak has a more useful list [1], which is supposed to get updated this month.

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-services-take-your-anonymi...
What sort of heat bomb? All arsenal we have would melt only few cubic kilometers of ice, raising oceans by a few micrometers.
>>These things are getting to easy, it's not really geeky!

In defense of these opinions, we need at-least somebody in the next generation to understand how the lowest level of technology works. I am told that everybody in my field built a radio communication system in high-school, now its a project for a senior level class.
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archive.today is blocked as "proxy avoidance" or sometimes the category of whatever the archived page is. Yes, it's one of the reasons I'm looking for a new job.
At the same time, unless they are used as a desperate weapon against an undefeatable opponent, most likely nuclear weapons are relatively pointless, because they cause escalation and way too much collateral damage. Conventional means are largely sufficient to destroy military equipment, and nuclear war has for only purpose to destroy civilians more than anything else.

However, I am more concerned about the accidental use of nuclear weapons because of current procedures and measures in place. See the excellent book "Command and Control"...
That's what I don't get. If you threaten someone with 10 or 20 or 50 years in prison, then why the hell would you allow that person to only serve 2 years? If you thought about giving him that much, then clearly he must be a very dangerous person to society. I probably wouldn't want such a person to get out after only 2 years. If the prosecutors are charging such a person with 10x less than what he should be getting then maybe those prosecutors should be investigated for corruption. For instance, like how it happens when the prosecutors are always somehow much more lenient against cops.

But of course it has nothing to do with how dangerous he is in most cases. They're just selectively enforcing vague laws just to pile them up and force him to accept at least some prison time, even if he considers himself innocent.

That should be illegal and considered against human rights, especially since usually I believe the judges have no say in it, as the charges happen before the accused is brought in front of a judge. Without a judge you can't have "justice" either. You just have government bullies using the government's might to put someone - anyone - in prison, even if he's innocent or only guilty of minor offences. This is exactly why such abuses of power should be illegal.
He would not be allowed to plead guilty in The Netherlands, as The Netherlands is not charging him. The extradition hearing is about whether he will be extradited after being sentenced. So it would go like this: US says you are guilty, 25 years in jail for computer hacking and mass copyright infringement. US sends warrant for your extradition to The Netherlands. The Netherlands arrests you but allows you to go to explain why you should not be extradited. You cry and say it's unfair. The Netherlands grants the extradition anyway(why not?). You'll be in an American prison for most of your life.

See how bargaining can make your life a bit easier?
Actually a small percentage of people (the government says 9%) can become physiologically addicted to cannabis. Withdrawal is pretty mild, though, compared to other drugs.
That's Iran-grade justice.

"Let's persecute a random programmer that touched thing we really dislike".
Yet education rates are increasing not decreasing.
That's a difficult assumption to prove, and we have had extremely bloody conflicts nonetheless (Vietnam for once) during the Cold War even without the use of nukes.
I also think that systems that have plea bargains, also have a tendency towards longer sentences for petty crimes. Just so discourage people fighting long, expensive trials.
Heh, that'd get me fired. Neat trick though, I'll have to remember that.
Interesting, but massive overkill when you're transferring assertions between two parties where only one party (the server) is allowed to create the assertions.

In the examples in the article, the JWT header is just plain cruft because you're unlikely to be switching encoding often (and if you decide to, including a single much shorter token as a "stand-in" for the bloated JSON data would be much better; using JSON).

The payload also represents a lot of extra overhead unless you intend to transfer more than just a single level dictionary.

It's kind of comical that they present it as "compact" given that probably something like 30% of the length of the presented example is unnecessary.
And by people avoiding the filtering proxy at $EMPLOYER
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Well, what you are saying isn't really true, since about half of France's nukes are also nuclear submarine-launched missiles, as well as a large part of the US nukes and a sizable part of the Russian nukes (and China also has a few of those).

The other countries just don't have suitable nuclear submarines.

Also, I assume the UK have no plane-delivered warheads simply because they lack an aircraft carrier, making those quite useless.
The colors are just like back in the cold war. The blue are the "good" nukes and the red are the "bad" nukes. That's what it looks like.
Indeed, but where they have been used, conventional incendiary bombs had done way, way more destruction than these two nukes. This being said, I'm not downplaying the horror of nukes, but there's certainly no need for nukes to massively kill people. WW2 is a good example of that.
In order to avoid aving to put ugly digits in the middle of the code, I suggest removing their support and using instead a single instruction to put 1 on the stack. By using numerical operators, it becomes easy to have any number (1 1 + 1 - would be one, 1 1 + would be two, 1 1 + 1 + would be three).

Also, the multiplication operator appears blank here.
Uh, oh. Lets hope that programmers at Google and Dropbox don't find themselves in prison for knowingly developing web applications that people are using for infringing content. This is ridiculous. Lets jail the developers of uTorrent while we are at it, thanks to them, I am able to easily queue up a torrent of Game of Thrones.

We are living in a world where people are being jailed or acts that cause no actual harm to anyone all the while people committing actual crimes go unnoticed or repeatedly go in and out of the system. People slinging drugs in the streets probably get lesser sentences than Andrus got for helping develop Megaupload.

"In court papers, Nomm agreed that the harm caused to copyright holders by the Mega Conspiracy’s criminal conduct exceeded $400 million. He further acknowledged that the group obtained at least $175 million in proceeds through their conduct."

Classic entertainment industry mathematics. How can a figure as large as $400 million be accurately proven? Seems like they just spun a massive wheel down at the law firm and chose whatever number sounded large, but not over the top. More specifically, how can a computer programmer who doesn't sound like had any involvement in the business side of things know how much Megaupload supposedly cost the industry?

There are so many things about this story that don't sit right with me. They went after the low hanging fruit. They couldn't touch Kim Dotcom, so they're going for the vulnerable and lesser high profile people involved in hopes of building up a case for bringing down Dotcom. This is what it is all about: sending a message to Dotcom and trying to slowly try anyone even remotely involved in the Megaupload site. They know Kim won't go down without a fight, they'll basically say: Well one of the sites developers admitted there was copyrighted material on the site and he knew about it, he was sent to jail.

As a developer this worries me. If my employer is committing illegal acts I don't know about like copyright infringement or fraud, does that mean I'll be sent to jail even if I legitimately didn't know? We should all be concerned with this judgement.
Everything is becoming abstracted, and as that happens, we're spread thinner and thinner
Not just Tokyo. Most large cities of Japan were by large totally destroyed by fire bombs. That's why in most Japanese cities there's virtually no pre-WW2 builds left anywhere, with Kyoto and Nara being notable exceptions.
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To a cat too.
I don't agree, having all engineers in the same room is akin to having only global variables in your code.
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The most annoying thing in the latest iPods (mine is a v7 nano, about a year old) is the fact they made the headphone cables out of a grippy, matt surface instead of the glossy one they had before. This new surface has increased the number of tangles exponentially.
Have a read:

http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nwarplan.asp (2001)

There is some logic to this, if you want to have the ability to do a retaliatory strike then you need to have your targets selected beforehand and in that case you might as well program that target into the missile ahead of time to save some time.

If you live in a big city in Russia, Western Europe, China, North America or Australia there is likely a warhead with your number on it sitting around somewhere.
I can understand your joy. However, the valid question is not "How much of the available CP material is on X" but rather "How much of the total available material on X is CP" because I can tell you with certainty, that all of the available CP material on the internet will go away if we just turn off the internet.

"For the children" is a readily abused argument for about any collateral damage that incurs with about any attempt to filter, block or control aspects of the internet and by extension our free society. But even "for the children" must be balanced against the damage we're doing while rallying under that banner.
It's missing but I wonder how many nukes they actually have. And the way they use them is rather like terrorists. They threaten their use, and get financial aid and food in exchange of not doing anything with them. It's like International-level racket.
Sorry, but that's simply not true.

British drug laws were relatively liberal until the 1971 misuse of drugs act.

It's also widely known that Queen Victoria used Cannabis as a medicine for her menstrual cramps.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-imprisoners-dilemma/ has this creepy chart https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/roed...
See also: Dresden.
If it's on the books then it's on the books as "y did work for x" which is about as much as they need.
This same "research" was on the cover of the Sun, Mail, etc. about 20 years ago.

Then as now, it's simple propaganda.
Anything by Iain M. Banks. Start with "The Player of Games" and "Consider Phlebas".

Anything by Vernor S. Vinge especially "Zones of Thought" series.

"Daemon", "Freedom(tm)", "Kill Decision" and "Influx" by Daniel Suarez.

"The Martian" by Andy Weir.

Anything by Neal Stephenson, especially "Reamde: A Novel" and "Cryptonomicon".

Anything by Hannu Rajaniemi, especially "The Fractal Prince".
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Of course. And Dresden was especially horrific since there was no military target at all in that city at the time. It was purely for the pleasure of killing civilians and wounded people.
The content is interesting but I find them verbose, but I like when it is very terse.
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Which explains why you are here, commenting on an article about Apple's lead designer.
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Many other countries have SLBMs. They're possibly the most reliable "second-strike" weapon. This was a particular concern for the UK as it's very close (relatively) to the USSR; in the event of a nuclear war the US would have had enough warning to scramble bombers / evacuate the president / etc. in a way that the UK wouldn't.

That's one part of the reason the UK doesn't have air-launched nuclear weapons. But really they fell out of favour ever since Gary Powers was shot down; ballistic missiles are inherently a lot harder to intercept than planes. I suspect the reason other countries still have them is mostly residual, and a reflection of the fact that those are the countries that still fly heavy strategic bombers. If you already have your B-52 (or Russian equivalent) fleet carrying heavy bombs and air-launched cruise missiles, it costs relatively little to maintain the capability to put nuclear warheads on those missiles. AFAIK the UK simply doesn't fly a heavy bomber any more - only the Tornado.

Land-based silos make sense for countries with large areas of empty, relatively unpopulated land, which the UK isn't. France doesn't have any either. I suspect India only uses land-based weapons because it can't maintain a sufficiently reliable submarine fleet.
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That's a criminal disservice to some incredibly insightful writing.
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I really love how the british decides to _write a letter_ as a final set of instructions, unlike the US with it's 24/7 flying command centers that cost an arm and a leg to maintain. And i would guess both is just as effective as each other!
They try to explain again:

"Unlike skunk, hashish - cannabis resin - contains substantial quantities of another chemical called cannabidiol or CBD and research suggests this can act as an antidote to the THC, counteracting psychotic side effects."

Which is still nonsense, because hash will have exactly the same cannabinoid profile as the plant it was made from.

And are they seriously using "skunk" as some kind of meaningful distinguisher? Even if that's just their term for all deliberately cultivated, non-landrace cannabis, there's still a huge variety of stuff out there.
You can't control the internet. GCHQ needs to grow up and accept it
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The flying Octocat is pretty slick.

I like the idea of collecting news for individual Github repos. At least it's something I don't see on other Hacker News readers.
I think his context was that the zero was "since 1945".
enough times to not need to count.
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Do you have anything like this up on github?
I think the really interesting thing about the "letters of last resort", is that the captain can decide what he wants to do when he opens the letter in that horrible event.

I'm looking for the source, but I read an article with a few former captains and they pretty much unanimously said that they wouldn't launch and would seek sanctuary in the nearest friendly harbour instead. Because what would be the point, the UK would essentially be gone, and all they would be doing would be adding to the misery. Can you imagine what that knowledge would have done if it had been known in Soviet circles, for instance?

We may as well launch, because the captains won't retaliate. Scary stuff.

Edit: this is an excellent discussion about these letters on Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0210spf
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How about just not making wild claims about byzantine fantasy designs that you never tested under any kind of load.

There has been a lot of research in messaging architectures, some of the best message brokers are free. As it happens, none of them have any resemblance to your proposed design.

RabbitMQ has been benchmarked[1] to 1 million messages/sec on 30 servers and works very well for many people.

Why not start with that?

[1] http://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal/products/rabbitmq-hits-one-mi...
Just to follow up. Perhaps a design more like this - http://i.imgur.com/Hv2I9m6.jpg ?
I structurally read most comment threads on HN, even on subjects that I don't care about to see what's going on in the world of software and hardware without having to go and work with each and every device and piece of software out there.

Part of my job is to stay informed about lots of things that I don't have direct experience with, there is simply too much out there for any individual to experience directly.

So I use HN as a time-saving device, the collective wisdom and time invested vastly exceeds my own and it's not rare at all to find that HN comment threads are more informative and correct than the articles themselves. FWIW if a subject does interest me I'll read the article too (obviously...), and plenty of times the HN comment threads make me change my mind about what I should be interested in.

The effect of this is that I can state with some certainty why apple does not interest me without investing a chunk of cash and a large amount of time first.

Of course that wasn't what you were after, you'd like me to admit that I'm secretly interested in apple after all. But there isn't a single apple product that I'd like to own or use (I have an ancient Imac here that's been off for more than a year now), I don't want to buy an 'experience', I only believe in being able to run whatever software I want on the hardware that I own. As soon as I need to jailbreak a device in order to be able to really use it you can safely count me out and OS/X is not such a large step up from Ubuntu that it makes me want to run a different OS on my desktop than on my servers.

So as far as I'm concerned Apple is not (currently) interesting to me.
i think they only admit to thinking this because it's peace time atm. In the height of the cold war, i don't think they'd be stupid enough to really admit that!
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Most websites just put the highest paying affiliate VPN first. So it is refreshing not to see affiliate links. This being said: I miss astrill.

They try to do a good job. Depending on your priorities (chinese FW!) a very good one. The only thing I am lacking for astrill: an app armor profile.
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Not bad, any pointers what technology is involved to build such a summariser?
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>but you have to wonder if locking people away as retribution really benefits tax-paying, law-abiding citizens

Well, we should also consider if it's benefiting or humane to the people we lock away.

It's not like "tax-paying, law-abiding citizens" are more human than those that end up in jail.
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I think it's reasonable to assume that a larger land war would've taken place, had there not been the threat of nuclear war limiting the cold war to a very localized region. I would prefer proxy wars over all out war, all said.
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It is interesting that you mention the US in the 1940s. After the war the allies were baldy outnumbered in Europe in terms of conventional force. Nukes were the only way that we could possibly defend against a Soviet attack. Nowadays nukes are seen as a detterant against other nukes; a much more distant threat that becomes less plausible. As that happens I wonder if the detterant effect of nukes on conventional forces is becoming diminshed. For nukes to be a detterant adverseries need to believe that we would use them. Otherwise it is the same old sabre ratteling leading to inevitable conflict.
The author has a bunch of "nexus-*" repos for this idea. Don't know if they actually work for "millions of users". It will only be adopted when it's battle tested anyway.
The language itself is probably fine but the fact that they are starting from scratch with what appears to be no input from security or financial professionals is a clear sign that there will be security holes
http://akkartik.name/post/scifi

Recommendations here that I consider over-rated: Ramez Naam, Daniel Suarez, Reamde. I also couldn't get through Three-body Problem. I might try again, though.
There's something funny about using a 37-year-old CPU with a chipset made 20 years later... but the 80C86 is still being made - not cheap though:

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/CP80C86-2Z/CP80C86-...

As far as "DIY x86 computers" are concerned I think the newest CPU someone has managed to use in one is a 386/486:

http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/80386%20Boa...
> assume that a larger land war would've taken place,

You seem to forget that wars are expensive, very expensive. The US was already running bankrupt before the end of WW2, nobody in any sane state of mind wants an all out war unless they can avoid to do so.
Stumbled across and started reading
A. E. van Vogt's "The World of Null-A" last night.

Super trippy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Null-A

http://www.amazon.com/World-Null--E-Van-Vogt/dp/0765300974/
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