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What happened to airframe 129554? Some random person claimed[1] on Wikipedia that it was sold in September 2014. Earlier, it was at the Museum of Flight Restoration. I'm wondering because I wan't to see a flight capable example.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vought_F7U_Cutlas...
Nice! I like how the world grows with the movement of the ant, as opposed to my rather boring static one
I have two GCE accounts - one personal, where I do have the cloud console feature, and one business domain currently on a $300 trial, where the button does not show up.

Curious
I don't want to lose any anxiety about death. I'm hoping that organizations such as sens and calico can solve aging within my lifetime, and that I'll be able to afford the treatments. This goal definitely requires a strong ego. It takes pride to say that I deserve to live longer, instead of donating that money to save other people's lives. I've come to the conclusion that I would like to extend my life indefinitely, and I'll have plenty of time to help the poor after that.

Of course, I'm probably going to die pretty soon (relatively speaking), and I've come to terms with that, but you should question the inevitability of death.
There's another type of depression that comes from always grasping for (money|acceptance|fame|success|whatever) and never fully attaining it. For people stuck on this treadmill, the long perspective can be a good reminder that none of it is really worth getting too bent out of shape about. On a cosmic timescale, all these things we worry about will be gone and forgotten in the blink of an eye.

The best antidote to avoid swinging the other way, into nihilism, is to simply live in the present as much as possible and enjoy what's there. Things don't need to be permanent and important to be enjoyable. Think about games. We know the outcome doesn't matter in any larger frame of reference, but we still like playing and get wrapped up in them for their own sake. Life is just another game--not ultimately significant, but fun to get wrapped up in if you don't take the outcome overly seriously.
This plane sounds like the F-35 of its time -- with even worse reliability!
I was under the impression that Heisenberg made a fundamental mistake on a back of envelope calculation of the amount of an important input required that led him to believe it was not a tenable option and therefore the project was eventually killed. that doesn't mean that we didn't just get very lucky and that he might have on the flipside gotten very close to building something
How software is unbundling the event planning industry
Installation/Labour costs, an inverter and if you want to be relatively off grid a honking great battery.

Here in the UK battery backed PV on residentials isn't really a thing (it made no sense to store it in a battery when you can sell it back to the grid at a large tariff, however the government just killed the feed-in tariff (87% reduction) so the future of PV looks pretty bad).

Kinda pissed about that tbh as we spent nearly a year working on a product for installers and then the government just kicked the legs out of the entire industry.
A few guesses:

a. It just works. No need to download and configure the right version of the SDK.

b. Does not timeout when you close your laptop [I hope!].

c. I works on a Chromebook. Possibly not something you care about, but a historical pain point for the consistency of Google offerings.
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I have blacklisted google webfonts with hosts-file entry as many websites use fonts from there that are terrible.

For instance open sans seems to be used more and more. Here's what it's like without antialiasing (top), vs Arial (bottom) http://files.benjiweber.co.uk/b/fonts.png

Antialiasing hides some of the terribleness but it is still much harder to read than alternatives.
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Source: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970
woa. that looks awesome ;) what am i looking at - whats the rule? and are you also coloring the spaces the ant has already been on, but that reverted to their original state?
He never reveals a car when he opens the door.
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>Nobody in their right mind wants to live in Russia

They just enjoy richer countries with more niceties for them (and/or better weather) because they have the money. That's the same not just in Russia, but in most countries in the world.

Rich people go (and send their kids for school) to places like Paris, London, Zurich, New York etc.
I have no doubt that you cannot win the 'war' on the language front. All those bloggers, internet and conference luminaries that never write real-world production code miss the point. It's about the platform, the whole programming ecosystem not about 'beautiful' syntax. That's why Java - the platform (Java EE, Android, ...), not the language - won and is still going strong. New languages (D, Rust, ...) have not the ghost of a chance unless they are able to create a platform.
Ask HN: What happened to the monthly “Best Laptop" threads
Is everyone satisfied with what they have? Is most of the computing being done in the cloud and the computer is just a portal?
Arithmetic is hard, it seems. That laser isn't even 700 million times faster than a pedestrian, and they should know that, writing: "186,000 miles per second? That's 669,600,000 miles per hour. "
Or the second version, with more frameworks: https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown/blob/master/RESULT...

I note with interest that the two frameworks which are faster than Phoenix (in both throughput and latency) are Gin, written in Go, and Play, written in Scala. In this run of the benchmark, they also have more consistent latency than Phoenix, although the author notes a suspected problem with his Erlang installation; previous runs had consistency better than Play, but still not as good as Gin.

I note with amusement that:

> Play consistently appeared to generate hundreds of socket read errors (see the detailed output), so I believe it should probably be semi-disqualified from the results for now.

I'd be interested to see another JVM framework tested. Play is really rather complicated, and it's written in Scala, which is also rather complicated. I'd love to see a comparison with a Sinatra-for-Java type framework like Spark, or perhaps Undertow (since it does so well on the TechEmpower benchmark). Oh well, maybe it's pull request time ...
Hmm..

Didn't mean to read too much into it, but i wonder if your vehicle was stolen for cross-border smuggling (possibly of refugees?)
Not really - like Norvig said, that's one interpretation, but there is another valid one.

Say you had a bunch of families with two children each. The children are evenly distributed in terms of gender and the the days of the week on which they were born. If you pick one parent from the crowd, the chance that they have at least one boy is 3 / 4, the chance that they have two is 1 / 4, and the chance that they have none is also 1 / 4:

| B| G|
--|--|--|
B |BB|BG|
--|--|--|
G |GB|GG|

Each of the four squares on the above table is equiprobable. However, if the person says they have at least one boy, they must be in either the left column or the top row, so in one of three squares. There is only one square in those three with both boys, so the chance of that parent having two boys is 1 / 3.

Now, for the day-of-the-week problem. If you ask a parent if they have a male child born on Tuesday, it is not equiprobable that they're in any of those three squares. In the BG group, they all have male children, so the chance that any parent chosen has a male child born on Tuesday is 1 / 7. Similarly in the GB group. However, in the BB group, either one of their children may be born on a Tuesday to satisfy the condition. The chance that either child is born on a Tuesday is the same as the inverse of neither child being born on a Tuesday, or

1 - (6/7 * 6/7) = 13/49

So the number of parents in the top left group (BB) who satisfy the condition is 13 / 49, whereas the number of parents in the top right (BG) is 1 / 7, and the bottom left (GB) is also 1 / 7. You're looking for the probability that a given parent in that satisfies the condition is in the top left group, which is

(13/49) / (1/7 + 1/7 + 13/49) = 13/27
Web fonts done properly don't require JavaScript. You are correct about Windows having objectively terrible font rendering though, and not just in web browsers.
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All the Google-served web fonts are open source, mostly OFL or Apache licensed.

https://github.com/google/fonts
This. Maybe I'm being unfair, but it does remind me somehow of George Packer's New Yorker piece[1]:

"It suddenly occurs to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up."

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/change-the-worl...
Again, your complaint is with developers and designers who did not do their job properly, not with web fonts.
People are "concerned" about a lot of crazy things that shouldn't bother them.
So can many of those in the US. Hypertension isn't something to be taken lightly, especially given how easy it is to test for.
Yes.

Either you have a solution, and that's a great thing, or you are close to a solution and one will be found more quickly and that too is a great thing, or you don't have a solution. That's not such a great thing, but it's a contribution to the set of cases not known to be solutions, potentially hinting at where the solution may lie.

This assumes you have done the thought work and want to know. Don't you?
You, too, are complaining about what the developer did and how he did it, not the web font. I use web fonts almost everywhere and our pages "blink" on.
If you would equate painting a fence to painting a portrait.
The only plausible explanation of a non-criminal nature is that day to day engineers having to hunch over the exhaust of a running VW to debug quirky CAM bus stuff did it as debug mode code and it shipped with the feature toggle on.
Promises in the JS world have lost out to async[1].

The callback pyramid madness has been traded for a simple and flat waterfall[2].

The constant .then and .catch when working with promises naturally makes a lot of people uncomfortable, and on top of that the async library provides a plethora of other collection manipulation and control flow utilities.

Frankly I think managing side effects should be abstracted away, and furthermore I cannot wait for C#-like async/await to become first-class citizens in the JS world.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/async

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/async#waterfall
The F-35 arguably had a design philosphy that was the opposite of the one used for the Cutlass. It looks like the design started in 1945, and this story was taking place in the early 50's. The F35 took longer and cost more, whereas the Cutlass was killing people and being improved on the fly only 6 years from inception, so maybe this is a lesson in extremes of "agile" developement vs. extremes of big budget "waterfall" approaches.

I guess the developement philosphy for the Cutlass would be "fix it in production."
I used to do the power strip on/off dance for my devices until I had a PSU just straight blow up. Now I'm not so sure the 1W standby power is worth the increased risk of failure.
Yeah.

Nobody with the means to do otherwise wants to live in Russia. And, even if they have extra-ordinarily high means and comfortable life-style (a side-effect of having lots of power in most societies) their children probably want to leave/don't fit in.

Why? There are atleast 2 reasons:

1) Russia might not have the sort of opportunities(life/career/amenities) they are looking for. For the really rich, most of them are probably grew up in Switzerland/US more than Russia.

2) Being seduced by mainstream media which is very west-centric.

You comment sounds harsh because very few people on HN have the same perspective as some of us. Namely, the outlook people who grew up in a "broken" country have.
There's friends, and there's "Facebook friends". In reality people have thousands of different relations between people, and nuances to those relationships. Facebook has two-you're either "Friends", or "not Friends". Needless to say, this is a tremendously leaky abstraction. Thus, don't assume that because two people are Facebook friends, that their relationship in any way resemble friendship.
Ask HN: Where can I get list of valid US zip codes for free?
Hello,

Where can I get list of valid US zip codes for free? I found this list but I do not think it is accurate.

https://gist.github.com/dryan/7486408

For example, 34001 and 04857 are listed a valid in the above link but USPS says they are invalid zip codes. If I do not find a ready made list, I will have to use USPS api and check each zip code individually.
I thought the same thing too. A couple responses:

1) The Elixir community is still in its infancy and the community is growing rapidly and flourishing. If the concern is there isn't an equivalent Elixir library for X gem, it's only a matter of time before it is. So please join!

2) I attended the Phoenix training at ElixirConf this week and an easy answer to registration and auth is "hey, write a plug". Once you dive into how straightforward plugs (1) and what (init/1, call/2) do, it's really simple.

You will appreciate the explicit nature of plugs compared to say, Rack middleware...

I'm rewriting a Rails app in Phoenix and overall, I've found it to be a really pleasant experience.

(1) http://hexdocs.pm/plug/extra-readme.html
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Total bucket list item.
I'm the founder of Datanyze.

We raised $2M in funding so far, but we are bigger than BW (and I'm sure SimilarTech) in terms of revenue.
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It's only a 6 seater in the current configuration so unlikely.
It's definitely a huge contribution. But P=NP potentially means that RSA is solvable in Polynomial time. Then countless servers will be attackable. Not sure whether it's good to announce "publicly".
By that reasoning, in Problem 2 the fact that one child is a boy cannot affect the sex of his sibling so you can reduce Problem 2 to Problem 1. The point that Norvig is making is that there are other reasonable interpretations corresponding to different sample spaces (and therefore to other probabilities).
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Thanks, I should have known that.
Satellite Internet gets a fresh look, cash infusion
Another Formspree[1] clone. Why simple tools like this keep being written?

[1]: https://formspree.io/
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> I think VW should be on the hook to meet their current claims while their competitors should not be.

That would be a very nice form of justice. And for an encore, make them deliver on their promised mileage across the whole line-up.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - Anatole France

To hell with your laws when they serve to oppress.
See also Facebook's weird standards around photos of women breast feeding their babies (strictly banned for years) and terrorists beheading captured people (fine by Facebook).
Are you sure promises have lost to async? This is a crazy statement.
Id probably look at Varnish Cache and see where that gets you. Not sure if that's a proxy or a reverse though
Moral of the story: be careful what the name of your product rhymes with.
Pretty awesome how the Commander of the Carrier can order a type of aircraft off the ship for safety reasons.
Wow these soft costs seem so huge. I was hoping technological innovation would bring down the overall cost of solar but now it looks like that accounts for only 1/3 of the costs. I hope the soft costs can be brought down significantly over time.
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Still trying to interview for a Java marketing position at Oracle?

Oh wait ... Oracle fired all of them.
You can turn that 'text box thing' off and make it behave like normal page.
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>>having to wait upwards of 10 seconds on toy projects<<

meteor-contest Rust #2, 545 lines of code, 4.75s to build

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

I do see what you mean.
I have no data, but ES7 plans to support async/await, and Python 3.5 just shipped with it. I find it a strong signal already.
That actually doesn't matter. What does matter is if he knows he is going to reveal a door that is empty. If he does know you should switch. If he reveals a door arbitrarily, and it just so happens to be empty, it doesn't matter if you switch.

Edit: Since I have been downvoted, here is a citation:
http://probability.ca/jeff/writing/montyfall.pdf (see Monty Fall problem)
It's not the most obvious UX but hit "/" to open the rules dialog, this rule set is "ant(2L 64F 2S)". Click through to the project page and check out the README for more info on the key binds: https://github.com/jcorbin/hexant.

The coloring trick is a recent addition I call "redraw tracing"; essentially there are two color palettes: one for "cold cells" and "hot cells" (ones that haven't/have been visited "recently").

What makes it "redraw" tracing is that "recent" is simply defined as "since last full redraw". Full redraws are triggered when the ant hits an edge of the screen.

I plan to expand the tracing to support "last-N" tracing where "recent" would mean something more comprehensible like "in the last 1024 iterations" f.e.
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This seems obviously correlated with the gaming side of MS. But I wonder if this acquisition is also related to MS's latest ventures into VR/AR, something that a lot of big companies seem to be doing right now. I hope Havok makes HoloLens a great product because I want that thing on my face.
A piece of middleware used in seemingly every single AAA game in the last decade... seems like a solid investment!

That said, when I see a Havok splash screen when a game is launching, it means "prepare for unrealistic ragdolls" to me. I wish they would tone down how loose the physics on ragdolls are and end up with something more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi5adyccoKI
one of the best decks i've ever seen. very well done.
People who are not rich don't want to live in Russia (forever, together with all their family) either.

Some might say they do, but don't believe them just yet, watch them a bit when some opportunity will present itself.

And I also doubt that "most other countries" do that on Russian scale. British and Swiss schools have just so many places, and those are already occupied by ruskies.

Surely there are some. Kims study in Switzerland I've read.
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I understand your point but from a quick glance to the code it's C#, not the easiest language to port to other OSes. It's open source but it's going to be a Windows only program for the time being (I'll be happy to be proved wrong).
It wasn't condescension. Every word was accurate, intended, and addressed widely with the intention of it being understood by equally competent people. My concision was a reaction to its banality.

The problem with evo-psych just-so stories is that they do not discriminate between possible worlds: ie. if men of place A were all angry then the just-so-ers of place A would come up with a story about why men are "evolutionaryily angry". And if men were mellow in place B, we'd get some other story about how men are evolutionarily mellow.

Narratives of this kind are not good explanations of anything. And I suspect mostly false anyway, since evoltuion does not provide particular psychologies genetically - genetics provides merely the hardware, not the software.
Reminds me that I'm missing GoogleCL a lot. Info: Project is discontinued and not working anymore because it was using OAuth1... they could not upgrade to OAuth2 oO
We are minute, yet here we are - the Universe observing itself.

"Why do anything?". Presented with these options, which would you prefer:

A. Live a normal life and be promised that after your death people will fabricate a story of your adventure, heroism and glory?

B. Live a life of adventure, heroism and glory with the promise that when you die nobody will remember you?

The point being, why derive meaning from the notion of being remembered by people you will never know, when the meaning may be found in the experiences our actions produce now?

The heights of human happiness (yeah, misery too) are ours for the taking. Derive meaning from trying to squeeze as much of the former from life as we possibly can.
> Promises in the JS world have lost out to async[1].

What (js) planet are you living on ? async package certainly has it's place, but the fact that promises are object you can pass around make them more useful than any async package.

> Frankly I think managing side effects should be abstracted away, and furthermore I cannot wait for C#-like async/await to become first-class citizens in the JS world.

Well too bad, because async/await will work with promises.

And I quote the blogpost :

> In practice, returning side effects rather than performing them and returning promises can increase the size of the “functional core” of your application, which is a win in my book.

Which is exactly what I'm saying.
Except that if you could figure it out, others probably will soon too - or already did. If countless servers are attackable, or will be soon, should their operators and users be warned or not?
I was thinking about filing a civil lawsuit against those people back in 2002.
I believe that they started via user submission of URLs to crawl.
I used to submit tons of sites that I was curious about and eventually got their Chrome browser extension so I could find out the tech behind a site by clicking that little button.

Not sure if this is how they scaled out to the volume of sites they now cover.