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I am one of the early customers and this works like a charm.

Was on a flight last week that was on the tarmac for two hours due to weather one evening last week; the pilot finally got on the PA system and announced we were headed back to the terminal. I booked myself a new flight for the next morning within 90 seconds. Pure magic.

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estimates vary, but I've never seen one that has more than 10,000 ICS cybersecurity specialists *worldwide*

In the U.S., the numbers are around 3000-5000.

And yet, so much relies on industrial control systems...

You are probably right, the news is certainly driving a lot of it, but also these types of attacks are increasing in frequency because of the proliferation of connection points between industrial networks and the internet. There's just more industrial stuff that's out there.

lots of combat veterans are seeing good outcomes with this type of treatment...

so my buddy just built this: https://www.veradan.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1221486205847646208?s=21

It’s interesting to see the swing of the valley — from military-industrial tech to consumer tech. Did the beat movement of the 1960s and onward stoke the anything-goes (burning man style) attitudes that seems to have have led to today’s tech companies? What might come next, as a reaction to the modern culturally Marxist SF monoculture?

Good question. Some might say yes -- but would then be accused of all sorts of heresy.

The weird confluence of Donald Trump, Egyptology, Numerology, and Korean gaming culture. This is too weird to not post. Say what you will about the alt-right and 2016, this is a brilliant exposition on a curious eddy in the current of the national mood. Where it goes is nearly incredible.

Wog ratio on HN... probably north of 98%

I tried this out just for kicks and it totally works. Super simple one-push interface. Pretty neat. Great work. How long did it take you to build?

Very, very interesting to see, especially for someone who lives in the Palo Alto area. From friends in real estate, the conversation at many of the town hall meetings break down to: existing property holders, and those who have moved to the area for work. So depressing to see, as it has second- and third-order effects in terms of who can come to SV to work. As the article points out, certain types of folks (e.g. those with families, or other financial obligations) are being priced out of the workforce. A total disaster.

This is actually -- and I'm sure the artist will agree, albeit with a heavy heart -- a really great representation of investment opportunities.

I wish we talked about evolution a bit differently. It's not that "turtles" "evolved" shells. It's that as the population of turtles mutated into various forms, certain ones survived and thrived, and others didn't.

For many years John Boyd and the "Fighter Mafia" helped to plan, build, test, and then manufacture fighters that had optimal "performance envelopes" that enabled them to maintain dominance in the sky. Perhaps this concept means that the new "performance envelope" is going to be one of software. This argument is fleshed out here: http://warontherocks.com/2016/02/imagine-the-starling-peak-f...

Those uninterested can also consult his wikipedia entry, posted here for ease of access. Though I highly recommend the book. It is quite good. And available on tape for those with long commutes, and Audible accounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

Those interested in Dahl might also be keen to note his career as a World War I flying ace, and then (again as a Military officer), World War II espionage agent sent by the British to nudge the Americans into war. As a member of the British Diplomatic Legation in Washington, DC he gained access to the Georgetown cocktail party circuit, and from there, helped build social consensus among many (including Mrs. Roosevelt) about the importance of an American entry into the War. No need to trust my word for it, check out Jennet Conant's fantastic book on the matter, "The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington" https://www.amazon.com/Irregulars-Roald-British-Wartime-Wash...

" “What did you do in the Great War, Daddy?” The recruiting poster deserves ridicule and contempt, of course, but here its question is embarrassingly relevant, and the problem is one that touches on the dirty little secret of social class in America. Arthur T. Hadley said recently that those for whom the use of the A-bomb was “wrong” seem to be implying “that it would have been better to allow thousands on thousands of American and Japanese infantrymen to die in honest hand-to-hand combat on the beaches than to drop those two bombs.” People holding such views, he notes, “do not come from the ranks of society that produce infantrymen or pilots.” And there’s an eloquence problem: most of those with rsthand experience of the war at its worst were not elaborately educated people. "

Nassim Taleb talks about this a tautology that is reflective of this concept in Antifragile -- basically says that technologies that have been around for "x" years are likely to remain in use for another "x" years. Think about the wheel. Or paper. Or (as cited above) COBOL. Interesting food for thought. I use this when talking to folks who insist that client-side file storage is going away (e.g. "but everything is going to move to the cloud!"). Explicit filenames on the desktop have been around for decades -- and are likely to remain a fundamental part of our system structures for a long time to come (though are likely to be joined by documents stored in the cloud).

> And while some of their projects include working on SOCOM’s TALOS suit —an Iron Man-like exoskeleton that should be prototype-ready in 2018 — it also includes a 3-D printable drone that a local Tampa man brought in recently.

This is an interesting thing to trend, especially since it has been just over a year since @sama put out his famous bet (http://blog.samaltman.com/bubble-talk).

I think the author may be conflating (as most do) VC investments at the left side of the power-law curve, and those on the right side. Meaning that the investments on the left (that produce at least 100x returns) are likely valued correctly, whereas investments on the right (at the tail end of the power law curve -- or even those in the center) are supposedly overvalued.

Even so, the Inc author's insinuations about Uber and Airbnb are not exactly the smartest things I've ever seen written. Since I fully expect that within 10 years Uber will be running a massive network of electric, self-driving cars and busses (and perhaps even long-haul networks?) in every major and even minor city in the world. The global transportation infrastructure is absolutely worth MUCH more than $50bn.

thanks man

Honestly, I never knew that, and am happy to do that in the future.

I'm a bit confused. Currently trending #9 on the front page is: "Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? (news10.com)" >> basically same article. Seems as if the language is approximately the same. I don't expect an answer here (I don't think that you can see my responses)... but I am posting my question for posterity.

How would you have recommended I title this article? The app is very likely listening to its surroundings.

They should just give to that guy who stands outside in the white suit, collecting money for that drug rehab center, all year round.

rumor has it she told the general she didn't think he would be able to perform.

giving an in-depth af/pak primer would not help because most here on hn lack context. plus, if i were to recommend carlotta, or haqqani, or some such i would be accused of any number of biases. best to just give intro books and let the motivated readers dig through the footnotes and explore on their own.