skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly, the high-wing and landing gear configuration on many cargo aircraft designs is intended to facilitate a low loading floor and the ability to load and unload the aircraft on rough fields without special ground equipment (e.g. by means of a ramp integrated with the the rear doors of the aircraft like a C-130 or with a deployable forward ramp and kneeling front gear like the An-124.) Another benefit is providing extra ground clearance for the engines to reduce foreign object ingestion.

Everything else flows from this. The wing spar and structural supports needed in a cantilever monoplane (i.e. not a biplane with a truss structure) take up a fair amount of room. By moving these structural elements to the top of the aircraft, it's possible to get a low floor and still hang engines from pylons beneath the wings. The wings themselves will be angled downward from root to tip (known as anhedral) to partly counteract the pendulum stability caused by having a center of gravity so far below the center of pressure.

Passenger aircraft do not usually use this configuration because it is heavier - the sides of the fuselage must be built stronger to support the load, compared to a low-wing configuration. Weight costs performance costs fuel costs money, so you don't build a large aircraft like this unless it has to operate at fields without ground equipment.
Romer was covered by Planet Money a while ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/11/09/164813887/episo...
Tor Attack Could Unmask New Hidden Sites in Under Two Weeks
You may be interested in this paper by Hubert Dreyfus, "Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it even more Heideggerian."

http://leidlmair.at/doc/WhyHeideggerianAIFailed.pdf
> there is simply nothing that compares with WebKit, as this engine began its life in a fairly insignificant manner as the heart of Apple's [not very widely deployed] Safari browser.

KHTML?
How much information does "Google" or "YCombinator" provide? It's just a name, if you want a description, you can just go to their home page.
>As an American, the idea of muzzling a scientist is strange. I had thought Canada was more free than this.

It isn't about law, it's (bad) policy and politics. And to think that similar circumstances aren't occurring in America is naive.
Looks really good , is there going to be a cycling version at some point? Most cycling apps are road centric so a MTB version would be even better!
We have been a grasshopper user for a long time. I've found it to be a mediocre product with limited options and a confusing interface. We've stuck with simply because phone calls are not a big part of our business and it is a pain to switch.
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> You just can't direct traffic like this if your infrastructure can't handle the load to begin with; it's selfish beyond belief.

I don't see what's "selfish" about this. Different roads serve different purposes--these sorts of neighborhood streets are meant to be quiet streets shared by a variety of modes of transportation heading in various directions, freeways like the 405 are designed to accommodate large numbers of motor vehicles heading in a single direction. They are designed for these distinct purposes--they differ in their construction materials, in the number of intersections, in their safety features, and in their proximity to homes.

To me, the idea that we should just declare the two equivalent when traffic is sufficiently bad sounds a bit like saying that it's selfish of pedestrians to not allow drivers to use the sidewalk at rush hour.
Also see, Ted Unangst's post about ZFS where he lists some criticisms[0] which somewhat expands on Brauer's criticism, and he talks about when he was interviewed on BSD Now[1].

Keep in mind that their criticisms are mostly about it not being a good choice for OpenBSD, although some of them apply across the board.

[0] http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/ZFS-on-OpenBSD

[1] http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures
Yes, you can. The roads weren't designed for huge amounts of commuter traffic, so maybe you should stop using them for huge amounts of commuter traffic.
Show HN: Weekend Project (Dog Ball Fetcher and Feeder with Arduino Controller)
Writing NPM Packages with ES6 and Babel 6
Yes, looks like you don't get the point. The exact opposite is true, this is harmful from the time it get implanted, and the harm only grows with time.

Also, just like smoking, once the harm is big enough, there's no easy coming back.
"Local Traffic Only" signs are very common, and legally enforceable.
On a tangential note plane wins are quite strong themselves

Here's Boeing wing being stress tested:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sA9Kato1CxA
These are nice stories and congrats on the success. One thing about Unicorns and VC companies in general is that a lot more than 2 people make good money when there is a healthy exit.
Syrian refugees beginning to arrive in New Orleans. Are you OK with it?
I just wondered if anyone had any insight in how this differs from shedskin - https://code.google.com/p/shedskin/

From the shedskin website: Shed Skin is an experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but implicitly statically typed Python (2.4-2.6) programs into optimized C++. It can generate stand-alone programs or extension modules that can be imported and used in larger Python programs.
I've just installed it from the Ubuntu 15.10 Software Centre (v3.0.1-2).
> freebsd-update still implies semi-manual /etc/* merge

freebsd-update.conf

> Both freebsd-update and pkg are no way close to apt-get and more importantly Debian 'unattended upgrades

Exactly, it's better.
Even in America there are restrictions about what federal employees may say to the media. Freedom of speech is different when you are representing an employer, although the restrictions on Canadian scientists were egregious.
This would be a great opportunity to correct any misconceptions that might be present. If not for the op, for all the readers.
If you believe using your phone late at night is harmful to you at all then why continue to maintain a that behaviour?

Paraphrasing from one of your previous posts, "if you really have to question every action that might be harmful then you would never go outside, put anything in your mouth, go to the bathroom etc. Your question really only makes sense when considering activities that have a relatively high risk of harm in which case the answer has to come down to two things. Firstly how harmful is this activity? And secondly, how much harm am I willing to take?"

If a bed mode is enough to make the disruption to one's sleep negligible, why not use the phone late at night?
Where does reading a book on an iPad fall in the spectrum?
> A hypervisor is not a security layer

Of course it is.
Here is a TL/DR; in one word: Triton
> Americans justify the use of nukes on the basis of the war being just.

So would ISIS. You really think they're all sitting around going "gee, we're assholes and this what we're doing is wrong and unjust, but let's keep going!"? They think they're fighting a just war of survival against a new wave of Christian crusaders.

Sure, it's wrong, but it's a belief genuinely held.
Not every killer should go to jail for life, but (let's say) some do; thus, the maximum is life. Maybe these brothers deserve 20 years, maybe they don't, but bringing people into a new country, where they will be dependent on you, in order to take advantage of them, is a serious offense. 20 years seems reasonable to me.

(Edit: changed "charge" to "offense" since that is a pattern of behavior rather than a crime.)
> Docker is not the same thing as FreeBSD jails.

No it is not. Like Norton Anti-Virus, it has a much bigger user base. Other than that...

> Docker is available on FreeBSD (as of June this year) and uses jails.

Huh? I wonder why?

^sarcasm.
Yes, its just cosmetic. Hacking the grenade count is what I would consider to be a gameplay mod, and there is a third category, UI mods, featured in WoW. With some overlap between them.

I think people who pay for games should be able to do all types of mods, but developers often think otherwise, or, maybe they just don't have time to build mod support into the game.
You should take that number with a large grain of salt. Twenty years is more than likely the sum of the maximum sentences for each of the six charges.

Popehat has touched on this subject (how the media doesn't understand federal sentencing) from time to time.

https://popehat.com/2015/10/08/bad-reporting-on-matthew-keys...

https://popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-el...

https://popehat.com/2013/03/26/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-shitt...

https://popehat.com/2013/08/13/the-eric-holder-memorandum-on...
That's a really nice idea - fancy a deep dive into say python pdb?
Did they ever approve the wind farms, or is this smart technology going to be powered by coal-fired power plants?
I'm surprised so many people during the last days have said stuff like this here on HN, i.e. that these things have something to do with mental illness.

Do people really know this little about what mental illness (in this case psychopathy or schizophrenia) actually is?

I also thought it was widely known that very little is needed for people to be able to act abhorrently towards someone they identify as somehow other than themselves (e.g. sociological out-group, "otherization").
We dissent
Let's be honest this day isn't going to come or if it does no one is going to care.

The only scientific issue that has such a strong political element is climate change. And given that the new government in Canada is left wing and pro environment I can't imagine their being much (if any) dissension. This was the primary reason the scientists were muzzled after all. All the other scientific issues from the lay person/media perspective simply aren't that interesting.
> xmonad has a built-in (xmonad-contrib) program launcher prompt

kinda-sorta...

http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Prompt-A...

doesn't do exactly what i want... i'm looking for something more like this

http://lpaste.net/145311

, except the completions list and tab stuff don't work

aaand, i have to get back to "web" technologies :)
Agreed, please fix the title who can, it's confusing. Thanks :)
Somewhat similar, but with a much different field of view, given that they have to focus on things much closer than hubble. A pair was recently donated to NASA,[1] and reported as KH-11s.[2] I guess they've moved on since the first 11 was launched in the '70s.

[1] http://www.space.com/16000-spy-satellites-space-telescopes-n...
[2] http://www.americaspace.com/?p=20825
Canada and Australia are actually in similar situations i.e. the removal of a right-wing, polarising leader. When this happens everything is seen as a glimpse into what the new political narrative is.

In both countries we are seeing the policies only change marginally but a strong signal being sent about the respect and commitment to science.
Scala, Java & C# are all languages I've used professionally that have concurrent queues built into the standard library.
They don't scale well because of lock contention, the syntax is missing standard concepts like timeouts etc, & the behavior around edge cases around initialization, closed channels, nil values etc is bizarre.
The aspect of Dessert Sand not being a suitable alternative to Beach Sand was news to me.

I had a half baked notion that, given the long term downturn for Oil and the increasing shortage of Sand, the Middle Eastern countries could diversify into selling Dessert Sand apart from Black Gold. Guess it is not meant to be.
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This "muzzled scientists" story is a bit overblown. I'm also a muzzled scientist - $LAWYER hired me to do some statistics on $FINANCE_THING and search for $LAWBREAKING. One of the conditions of my employment is that everything I did is legally privileged and I can't say anything beyond what is contained in this post. I was a scientific adviser to $LAWYER, and my job was strictly to help him, his client, and only them understand things better.

In much the same way, certain scientists employed directly by political agencies were held to some nondisclosure rules. I'm not sure I know why this is a story - is there some moral principle that all scientists should disclose everything and you can't hire them for confidential work?
1! People moving away from Java is interesting, and we may see a surprise coming up. But do I really have to go and look at the charts with teh Popularity Bubbles to find out whether Java is still a bigger part of the landscape than Modula 3?

2. Do we really wish HTML were Turing complete? LaTex gotta be Turing complete? The author isn't really saying everything has to be underpowered and take 2000 lines to do what 100 lines of Python can do.

3. "Right tool for the job" is the slogan that could defuse about 90% of the language wars. Instead of saying "HTML is better than Lisp" and trying to start a flame war, I could notice that sometimes I just want to mark some stuff up. I don't always want to debug my text.
federal civil service -- the ones whose jobs exist precisely for the purpose of giving advice to the government

I'd say their jobs are giving advice to the public. Moreover the Harper party made it difficult for federal civil service scientists to communicate with journalists (aka the fourth estate of government) and the Greens, NDP, Liberals i.e. any other part of the government not in power. The Harper party overreach has no justification in a democratic society and you shouldn't be making excuses for them.
What employee can't speak freely?
That plus some attitude?

> Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.
I am a hobby poet and musician. What a coincidence :P
Nonsense.
Government scientists must be cleared to speak with press.
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There is no absolute freedom of speech law in Canada; the closest they get to it is "Freedom of Expression", and that's been abridged in dozens of ways through court decision.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Canada#Criticism...
This is weird. I actually posted this like 20 hours ago, and it was a spectacular flop. Now it says 5 hours ago, and now I'm actually on the second page of Hacker effing News!

(Hi Mom!)

About the "Why chrome?" page. I needed to put something there to explain why you need to use Chrome to get any use out of the site. I realize anything that I put there will only wind up as flame bait, so I tried to make it as "politically acceptable" as possible. The bottom line is that I couldn't care less about those political arguments. To me, the web will always be more about technical merit than anything else. Back in the "bad old days" of the original browser wars, Mozilla was at the forefront of pushing the technical boundaries of the web. Not so much anymore. Such is life.

But don't let that stop anyone from engaging in an old-fashioned flame fest. Anything that gets this to the front page of HN is a-okay with me :)
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It would be nice if there was a "what is scalaz" before I knew if I wanted to learn it.
I feel like it's horses for courses. Of course there needs to be a mark-up language that's not higher math. Of course that doesn't mean we should all program in Pascal.

Things were saner in 1990. Arguments about whether C was "better" or "worse" than Lisp, without giving any application space, tended to fall on bored ears.
No, the worst line is the line immediately following it:

"Not like here. Here everything is... soft... and smooth." makes creepy advance on woman who's spent the whole movie shutting him down

shudder
When your adversaries are armed with suicide bombs and have no intention of living, armed citizens are very easily victimised. Iraqi civilians have plenty of firearms, and minimal restrictions on carrying them.

What actually did reduce the magnitude of the damage caused in the Paris attacks was the kind of intrusive security checks on people entering the Stade de France that are usually rather less popular around here...
It's mentioned in the article, but I'll go ahead and second the recommendation to read Art & Fear. If you ever make anything of any sort, you'll probably get a lot out of it.
> Even in America there are restrictions about what federal employees may say to the media.

Not outside of the military except in the case of classified documents or the identities of covert agents. It's not even illegal for non-government employees to publish classified documents, as far as I know.
Do Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or Bahrain really have "intensely planned socialist economies"? I see them more as a bunch of plutocracies, where the oligarchy makes all the money due to ties with the ruling family.
Was it the same as the F4 (edit) in norton commander?
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Or people just need to put the phone down before going to sleep. Every non-infantile responsible adult is capable of that.

How hard can it be ?
Well, the wings of the plane are the only bit that actually flies, so you can think of the fuselage as just hanging on to the wings for dear life...
Listen to Barclays CIO speak about his fintech/banking (underskin) implant +more
HN is so anti-Apple it's not funny. I've noticed if an argument makes Apple better, no matter how reasonable you are, you tend to get downvotes.

Anyway, I agree with you. (There are two of us!) Apple's stuff is built to be easy enough for a know-nothing user to get the basics done, and depending on your skill, you gain access to more and more over time.
Why would it not be good to look at pictures before bed?
You did not read the article... It's not about putting down the phone, it's about the light it emits.
By political agencies, do you mean government agencies funded by the taxpayer?
Super hard, and you know it. Plenty people's willpower is basically depleted by night time.

My own little lifehack here is that my phone stays downstairs, in the charger, when I go to bed. I use an old phone without wifi or SIM to act as a simple, programmable, non-annoying alarm clock. It means that by the time I'm down, I don't need to resist to urge to just check HN one more time.
Unfortunately, that's not possible in the current version - originally I had a demo with larger scope in mind, but WebGL turned out to be a lot more limited than I expected.

I wasn't able to implement an acceleration structure in WebGL, so the amount of primitives it can trace in real-time are quite limited, and all scenes had to be hardcoded in GLSL. This makes modifying scenes a real pain, since adding a new primitive amounts to generating and compiling new shader code.

The original C++ version just constructs the scene from very small (~1px long) line segments and then builds a BVH acceleration structure over them, so you have practically unlimited freedom in the type and number of primitives. Unfortunately traversing a BVH inside a shader in WebGL is almost not doable, so I had to improvise.
Maybe he did. The blue tones are no problem if you simply don't look at the damn thing all evening.
I've learnt basics of Linux with dwm + dmenu. It's awesome. I long for the day dwm style Windows management is smooth on Windows. It's possible to create many virtual desktops in Windows 10 but windows snapping thing isn't close to the functionality of dwm imo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_Record_Examinations

It's one of those tests American takes to get into university.
Mao?
Chang Kai Chek?
De Gaulle?
the Greens, NDP, Liberals i.e. any other part of the government not in power

You seem to be getting government and parliament confused here.
> is there some moral principle that all scientists should disclose everything and you can't hire them for confidential work?

I think the argument is that released scientific knowledge is generally in the public's interest, and since the research is in fact funded by the public, government scientists should be allowed to release whatever they want. The government is a public institution, so some feel that "confidential government research" should be restricted to very limited things.

That said, I do agree that it is all a bit overblown.
I did a small experiment to see if st would actually be much snappier. Font rendering was a little worse but that was tolerable.

ST is fast (as expected)

$ time $(for i in `seq 1 100`; do st -e true &> /dev/null ; done)
real	0m5.493s
user	0m4.417s
sys	0m0.647s

URxvt is a little slower (but traditional wisdom should tell you that if it is actually so small that you need to measure it to perceive the difference, the difference probably doesn't matter)

$ time $(for i in `seq 1 100`; do urxvt -e true &> /dev/null ; done)
real	0m11.099s
user	0m9.780s
sys	0m0.853s

URxvt client (with a separately launched urxvtd) is faster than st.

$ time $(for i in `seq 1 100`; do urxvtc -e true &> /dev/null ; done)
real	0m4.593s
user	0m0.007s
sys	0m0.017s

Given how solid urxvt has been for me over the years, and given that I run urxvtc already, I don't see why switching to st would help (the argument against featuritis can obviously be made, but urxvt is fairly minimal as well).

Note: I do not know how it would affect it, but I also have a .Xdefaults that sets fonts, colors etc for URxvt.

Edit:

adding xterm to the comparison since some sibling comment mentioned it

$ time $(for i in `seq 1 100`; do xterm -e true &> /dev/null ; done)
real	0m8.525s
user	0m2.777s
sys	0m0.770s
They're trying some experiments to make good content surface.

They tried sending an email asking people to repost. Now they adjust the time stamp and apply a small (1 extra point?) bonus.
You need to re-read the OP's linked article.

It's not an academic paper or even anything like.

It's. Notes. From. A. Presentation.

It's not the entire history of compiler languages and the lineages and branchings thereof which make Game of Thrones look like Jane and Dick.

If you're going to spend four sentences speaking about a core language, that is still in active use, that the audience will have heard of then C is a far better goto language than any of the ones listed above.

> All were used to write OS's on minimal hardware with more readability and safety than C.

Awesome. That decade abended years ago. They are no longer germane to a discussion at a conference in 2015, unless you're deep diving in language lineage.

Which the author clearly wasn't.

Edit: my bad. It was seven sentences.
And to bring enough funds into the region to finance an army. The reports of what happened in Mosul are contradictory so I have no idea any more about what's true and what is not but the story goes that the Mosul bank heist financed the initial phase of IS. This is strongly advocated by some and just as strongly denied by others. There are also stories about planeloads of cash moved into Iraq.
Bear in mind that that each of the "high-IQ-associated genes" (alleles) is responsible for the synthesis of a polypeptide, and that the phenotypes produced by their interactions can be extremely difficult to predict.

I believe the studies you have in mind, one of which appeared on HN last week, find that high IQ is not associated with any small set of highly unusual alleles (i.e. "freak mutations"). This isn't to say that genetically engineering a person to have a high IQ is as simple as "putting as many high-IQ-associated genes into one genome as possible." It could be the case that certain specific interactions between the products of these alleles prove deleterious to the individual with respect to intelligence or other traits.

I agree that some of the sentiment on HN about the mutability of intelligence is wishful thinking, but our understanding of genomics and the genetic component of intelligence is still very much incomplete.