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Well fair enough, I was talking about commercial pilots reports in final approach or take off. I guess that VFR flights are going to be less precise, also VFR flights are more probable to flight themselves in to a zone where drones can be flown legally. They are going to be sharing airspace much more than drones and airliners.

I haven't seen a drone yet, I do have like 12 or so laser reports under my belt. They are annoying (mostly kids being "funny") but not that dangerous, it's impossible for a person to track perfectly the cockpit at the speed and distance we are traveling for them, so you only get to see a short red or green flash and the laser beam moving around.

I eventually expect to have some air-miss with drones from dumb plane spotters or a guy that's taking some video from above without realizing that he is in a final approach zone. Not a big worry right now for me, my friends or other pilots I fly with.

But take into account that just a drone strike in an engine can cost more than 1 million dollars in repairs, or up to 5 or 6 of an entire engine depending on the damage. Plus the losses and delays caused by the plane being grounded for some days. Also although much more unprovable, it can lead to a crash or at least a runway excursion while landing, or total hull loss once stopped on the ground and with passengers evacuated, due to an unextinguished engine fire.
Technically you can import any car you want without paying taxes (basically). But if you want to legally drive it you need to register it and get local license plates, and that is what you are taxed for. If you, for example, buy a car exclusively for racing and never take it out on the road then I think you're fine.
I disagree with this being an admission of Rackspace losing, and think it's more that Rackspace is finally embracing the ideals internally communicated for over a decade now -- Rackspace isn't a technology company, but rather a service company that heavily leverages technology.

The cash cow at Rackspace isn't running servers or even VMs in a data center. It's providing management of those resources.

It's also woth noting AWS is only the latest 3rd party RAX supports, following Azure, Office365, and Google Apps. It's quite likely other environments are supported in one-off arrangements.
Interesting, would love to see a 'fluxed' version.
I think the problem is they're in a transitional phase right now. Retina displays aren't ubiquitous yet and are introducing an extra axis of differentiation on the one hand, while the new ultralight Macbook is the first example of a step change in form factors. They're a long way from PC manufacturers where the main distinction between two models can be as trivial as the audio chip and speaker specs.
Drunk man gets mauled by a dog ALIVE  People don't even react
JQuery form validation
If it helped to end child labour, then why child labour is still present?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27350413
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/17/child-laborers-america-2...
Same here, wondering what it is...
The "superfunds" from the title are the superannuation funds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia

"the arrangements people make in Australia to accrue funds to replace their income in retirement. Superannuation in Australia is government-supported and encouraged, and minimum provisions are compulsory for employees."

And SIV is explained in the main article, it's the "Significant Investor Visa":

"Under the SIV scheme, investors who invest a minimum of AU$5 million into Australia, with at least $1 million of it going into an Australian venture capital fund will get permanent residency for themselves and family after four years. This could be a major win for Australian VC’s, since the previous SIV scheme brought in a reported AU$4 billion from processing over 800 visas, to mainly Chinese investors."
This is one reason I am pretty excited about the potential for web assembly in terms of a cross-platform and cross-language performant target.
With things like this, it makes me glad I write C++ (and that gets bashed enough!). I do not miss the days of maintaining a Perl codebase (and trying to decipher what on earth code was doing). This is insane.
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A $12B Commodities Giant Is Thinking About Ditching the Oil Business
I may not write a bunch of Perl 6, but the planet is better for having Perl 6. That says a lot about the person who guided Perl 6 to completion, he's a gem of a guy. Thank you Larry!
There is no "shift away from JIT", just a simple observation that JITs are a tradeoff that you sometimes don't want to make. They have three drawbacks and two advantages. The three drawbacks are 1/ slow warmup, 2/ somewhat increased RAM and CPU usage and 3/ complex implementation. The two advantages are 1/ (often much) better runtime performance (i.e. more optimized code) and 2/ much better support for runtime manipulation of code (for profiling, debugging "at-full-speed", hot-patching, monitoring etc.).

The slow warmup makes JITs a bad choice for quick command-line tools, and the increased RAM/CPU makes them a bad choice for battery-powered devices and those with very limited RAM. The better performance and optimization opportunities makes them the only performant choice for some languages that are hard to optimize AOT (those that rely a lot on dynamic dispatch and/or have dynamic data-structures, i.e. maps instead of class instances). The better instrumentation support makes them a terrific choice for long-running server-side application, where the drawbacks don't matter. On the client-side, unless the language requires a JIT for decent performance (like JS), there is no compelling reason to use one, and that's why Microsoft's decision makes perfect sense, as they've decided to focus on .NET on the client. This has nothing to do with JITs' great utility in general.

One of the biggest breakthroughs in compiler technology in the last decade is Oracle Lab's Graal[1], which can also be used as an AOT, but with less-powerful optimizations. E.g. Graal does this: https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/619885182104043520

Graal (alongside its language-construction DSL, Truffle) has yielded implementations of Ruby, Python and JS that easily rival the state-of-the-art with far, far less effort, and also a very decent implementation of C (also with orders-of-magnitude less effort than the competition).

The third drawback makes developing JITs from scratch a bad choice for anyone but the most well-resourced teams, or those that are in no hurry, or those that target very simple languages only.

JITs have another drawback -- less predictable performance -- that matters mostly for hard-realtime code (or nearly hard-realtime), as deopts that momentarily slow-down performance as a better optimization strategy is sought. This is why hard-realtime JVMs offer a mixed JIT/AOT mode, where the hard realtime kernel (which values predictability over perfroamce) is AOT compiled, and the soft-realtime or non-realtime support code is JITted (which you want to run as fast as possible, but don't mind a rare hiccup).

[1]: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Publications+and...
Except we have no idea that traditional medicines were developed by effective trial and error. It's more likely that some mystic just declared some arbitrary potion to be medicine for some arbitrary disease and the placebo effect, appeal to authority and the desperation of sick people did the rest of the work popularizing them. The ancient Chinese used the positions of the stars to help choose their medicines. This ineffectiveness is shown by the fact that the traditional recipe Tu found actually involved destroying the active ingredient by boiling it! Clearly the original authors didn't know if it worked or not, since it didn't but they still recommended it to patients anyway.

Today in China, almost everyone still uses traditional medicines. It's a massive national problem. They use them for minor diseases like colds and coughs and continue to believe they're effective because "I took the medicine and a few days later I recovered". The medicine companies are ripping off uneducated poor people and the "medicine" doesn't deserve any respect other than as a source of compounds to test using actual science. The scam is reinforced by doctors in hospitals who often prescribe a combination of traditional and modern medicine so that the modern medicine does the work while the (sometimes more expensive) traditional medicine leaves an opportunity for the patient to credit it instead.
I always found it obtuse and overly terse to the point of non-maintainability or readability, far worse than even C++. But that could be due to my lack of understanding, or being used to C-style languages and syntax.

Good to see it still has a dedicated following.
Terminal Escape Sequences: What You See Is Not What You Get
Speaking of voting. I cannot find any terms of service for hacker news when you create an account. Can our information legally sold to advertisers?
The “8th” Programming Language
can we patent them? or is traditional going to be considered prior art? because I don't see big pharma jumping in without profit and with all the regulations around it it's going to be very hard to pay for all the tests for societies not part of the big entourage.
Russia has had 20 years to annex Transnistria if they wanted it, not remotely the same as Crimea IMHO.

The "constitutional forces of the R. of Moldova" were not a professional army but a mixture of police and hastily armed militia that included ultranationalist elements who were encouraging expulsion/cleansing of non-Moldovans. There were real fears that these "constitutional forces" would do the same sorts of things as the Serbian "constitutional forces" were doing to Yugoslavian separatists.
There must be a reason why this is on the front page. Looking forward to see it load again.
> Someone planning a big party has to work out the food, matching paper goods, favors, invitation list, entertainment, etc.

So? Many people solve specific crosswords, but that doesn't mean they can write a generic crossword-solver. The underlying skills are very different.
Still waiting for Rackspace to offer Mac Servers hosting service. The current offerings out there really suck.
On the contrary. See me other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10344886
So was this a flight to China, or a flight from China?
I'm not sure what do you mean? I didn't write this rant. I find it amusing because it has some food for thought – for instance side note about rewarding idiotic behaviour.

AFAIK Erik Naggum used Perl for a fair amount of time so I wouldn't call it a "fear and hate of the unknown" and it is about Perl hence also on topic.

So your point is? Did you even bother reading it?
If you have globals, nulls, gotos, or whatever dangerous (but sometimes useful) features (e.g. states); surprise surprise people will end up using them at one time or another.

Perl is not the first nor will it be the last (imperative) programming language helps people fail too easy.
> JIT gives you more information about how the program is actually run. This allows a large number of optimistic optimizations that GCC etc... can not make.

They'd be surprised to learn that considering GCC supports profile-guided optimisation.
Perl is a language sufficiently different from the main bulk of languages that one must make an earnest effort to learn it before one can read it. Your complaint is similar to someone declaring Japanese insane just because of the way its writing system looks like gigantic and erratic complexity to the inexperienced.
> The problem with hashes of hashes is now instead of the password being directly grabbed, the hash is directly grabbed, which can be thrown through the challenge-response system with no problem.

But now you have to grab the hash first from one of the endpoints, MITMing the connection no longer suffices to impersonate the user.

I suppose public key schemes would be preferable, but deploying those isn't feasible for a lot of use cases.
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Not sure: he continued Ellen Pao's job in destroying the massive goodwill they had, and being a founder he was immune to calls to step down and effectively made the changes permanent.

Reddit used to be loved and trusted as a place that cared about its community and free speech, but now most users probably stay on Reddit only because it's popular, and would jump ship as soon as a more popular alternative, even in just a niche, shows up.

But of course, thanks to funding, possible good management and inertia, Reddit might just be able to out-innovate and out-compete anyone else and keep its current position.
Note that the 'Synopsis' has been demoted to be closer to a set of design docs than a formal specification - it's more about the test suite these days (cf first two paragraphs of http://design.perl6.org/).

Jnthn made a list of things that are supposed to be fixed by Christmas [1] as well as a list of things that probably won't make it into the 6.0 release [2].

[1] https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123766

[2] https://gist.github.com/jnthn/040f4502899d39b2cbb4
This [1] article references a study [2] you might be interested in.

Quoting from the article: "The study, which synthesises existing research on the effects of frequent travel, finds three types of consequence: physiological, psychological and emotional, and social."

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2015/08/frequent-fly...

[2] http://epn.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/07/24/0308518X1559...
I hear your words and all I can conclude is: What a _great_ ruling. Seriously.

Decentralization is a major thing we need right now. Also: the EU gov. agencies are very unlike the US ones in that we have a political power over them.
My major concern with a CMS that delivers a front-end is that it must to be able to deliver "raw" HTML to be accessible and support search engines.

Yes search engines can index javascript but I still see a requirement of any CMS to deliver html first and foremost.
anecdotally, one of my older relatives who is into climbing said he knew a mathematician/climber who was pretty good at analysing various possible routes and planning a good route while climbing.

so, maybe we can proceed by not reading the article and theorising in a vaccuum.

maybe one way to formalise this is some kind of (adversarial?) game, where one player designs the course, and the other player tries to find a good route through the course, where we quantify "good" somehow.
Yeah, at least with The New Yorker I know what I'm getting myself into. And the authors there are mostly well-established and familiar enough that I can trust there to be some insight buried within the human interest asides. But with pieces like this I can't take that risk.
For a longer audio piece about this topic, which uses the same primary sources (Epstein and Manners) as this 2013 NPR piece, see the RadioLab show "Cut and Run" at http://www.radiolab.org/story/runners/ .
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It's a really interesting point. In defending against sparse 'violent' security issues, they increase the chance that their intellectual property flies out the door - where, arguably, America's real strength is.
Why have I never heard of a Direct Public Offering before? Is it less legally onerous than a full-on IPO?

Personally I wouldn't trust my money to a company with unproven technology promising a six percent dividend but hey, good luck to them.

Still, if it's such a good investment why haven't they been able to attract big money instead of selling dribs and drabs to possibly-naive investors?
HN as a DDOS network
I don't understand why (seemingly) every CMS wants to get involved in the request serving process.

I'd really like to see CMSes which only do content management, then expose that content via very simple JSON APIs. Then I build the website myself separately as a super lightweight HTML rendering service which pulls from the CMS API.

Every CMS I've ever used didn't scale because its templating/rendering/request stack was so heavy.
In the face on inaceptable laws and regulations it can't be helped. We can't just wipe any political discourse with this sentence.
> I didn't write this rant.

You bothered to link to it.

> side note about rewarding idiotic behaviour

The raw and naked idea is not entirely incorrect. Literally everything else in the sentences making up that section is.

> Erik Naggum used Perl for a fair amount of time

> Did you even bother reading it?

Did you? I quote from the screed:

I once studied perl enough to read perl code and spot bugs in other
people's programs [...], but I don't write in it and I don't ever
plan to use it for anything

I don't know about you, but i find that unambiguous.
> The US government or companies can't lobby their way out of this one anymore.

Sure they can. They can make sure multinational trade agreements treat privacy laws as unfair trade barriers and allow companies to sue governments for fictional damages in kangaroo courts.
>Russia has had 20 years to annex Transnistria if they wanted it, not remotely the same as Crimea IMHO.

(I'm only bringing this up because I think it's interesting, not to dispute anything you've written)

The Russian move into Ukraine seems to have some medium-to-long term planning behind it.

For example, there were reports back in 2008 of Russia handing out passports to residents of Crimea:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/257...

Also interestingly, the article above specifically mentions the passport tactic being used in the other notorious breakaway republics of Abhkazia and South Ossetia.
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> Bad for startups

Only for startups whose business plan consists of plundering EU citizens' data in ways not consistent with the privacy laws of those countries. Those are startups I'm happy to see inconveniences.
Poznań City Center / Poznan Poland / the Best City in the World
> cared about its community and free speech

I'm sure we're all weeping over the demise of /r/coontown and other Stormfront-affiliated subreddits. What a sad loss, and what a valuable group of users to alienate!
Is there a hardware alternative to throwing a bunch of Mac Pro cylinders or Mac Minis into custom-made racks? It seems like the density would be terrible.
Well the real question is: "is it isomorphic?"
Agreed. Not least because you're more than likely going to want to pull CMS data into an existing site, or push it into Solr/elasticsearch, or customise the site in ways the CMS authors haven't allowed for.

I think I'd be more tempted to adopt a CMS library than a CMS framework.
qpm, a package manager for Qt / QML
Personal data includes a lot of things. IP addresses of when someone connects. Yes, email addresses. What 'friends' someone has.
>Either way I'd love to see some form of native IL that can be shipped instead of binaries

WebAssembly could fit the bill, although it's still in early development.
It says a lot about a chunk of the population that being a small, fairly obscure subreddit will generally result in Good Things, but becoming a default will quickly result in being overrun by racists, gay-haters, mysoginists, and suchlike.

Heaven help you if your small subreddit attracts the attention of KiA, redpill, or the like, unless you enjoy a constant stream of filth from rape apologists.
These instructions show how to build the Rakudo 2015.03 release, 2015.09 is the current one.
Forbes Removes Article Arguing Tech Industry Does Not Have a 'Diversity Crisis'
Manifest for a web application – Working Draft
However a JIT can actually optimize the code for the current usage profile, whereas profile-guided optimizations in AOT compilation cannot.
I loaded the website but can’t do anything - is this game online multiplayer?

Edit: Apparently I was right, but we can’t play the game now because it is only going to get DDOSed more.
Gameloft Accuses my 5yo of Cheating
My response posted to their Facebook page and unlikely to ever see the light of day:

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I would like to thank you for banning my 4yo (now 5) who loved playing your cars game on his iPad. Apparently he was able to circumvent your system and accumulate large amounts of wealth by CHEATING! If my 4yo is able to do this I am most suitable proud of him and I hope he gets a career in game testing because clearly, he is much better than your existing testing team.

Please find attached a photo of Harvey's proud achievement... (image NA) as a parent we are teaching our kids about the world, last time I am looked 'innocent until proven guilty' used to be an accepted pastime, but obviously you are judge, jury and executioner (and we didn't go around accusing 5yo's of being cheaters).

http://s16.postimg.org/ukckzb2hx/IMG_1891.jpg

You might think that we (as his parents) had some pent up desire to cheat your game because we too love Disney's Cars movies (among others, and gee we would love to go to Disneyland), but I can assure you that we most certainly to not have the time to induldge in such pastime times (here's Harvey's brother, Fletcher... he is 8 (maybe another candidate for cheating... oh wait, he has Cerebral Palsy and requires full time care and assistance and we could only dream that he could use an iPad unaided!).

Thank you for being so thoughtful and caring, perhaps next time, put a little thought into your target market and lets stop harassing our young kids.

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Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy, it's a kids game... do people really want to go and cheat at this game that is presumably targeted at young kids?
Rogue Wave Acquires the Company Behind PHP, Zend
If you want to say something, say it. Don't say the opposite in a sarcastic tone.
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978) [pdf]
I think reddit has the potential to turn into something really worthwhile, if they let it. But my personal opinion is they need to let the current culture go, and think more about what they want this site to be in 5 years, 10 years, 50 years.

What is their vision for social communications for the short, mid, and long-term future? Is it superficial communications and small discussions around niche interests? Or is more like the discussion boards as they existed, for example, in Ender's game, where where leaders of the world have serious talks about policy, politics, and philosophy, and invoke real change?

I mention the Ender's game boards specifically because it seems so easy to start to transition reddit towards something like that. Make karma worth something. Have karma split into types for entertainment vs. insightful commentary, and earn your way onto "serious" boards. Let the current site just be the starting point, but build a new tier above it, of more serious talk. Build your way up into a multi-faceted communication tool that can be taken seriously by all levels of society, while still leaving the light-hearted, superficial nature of its current culture intact for those who want it.

I have no idea what the reddit leadership desires... I am sure there are 1000 other directions it can be taken. But they need to pick a direction and start going there. Because right now, the site is growing in numbers, but stagnating by all other metrics.
As soon as I saw that edited photo with a blurred out face of the crack cocaine user, I was reminded of http://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration1.htm
Perl 6 is so fucking ugly and a lot of reinventing the wheel like gather and take syntax that similar to Javascripts/Python Generators.

Perl 6 is king of symbols/operator! All symbols are added in Perl 6 that make your Perl code unreadable and unmaintainable. Larry Wall created the periodic table of operators for Perl 6. See this -> http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.pdf