skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a similarly hyperbolic F-35 comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9446079 earlier this year (the comment at the top). I'm half-way kidding in both comments, regarding my comments about the F-35, but on the other hand, unless my aforementioned comment about secret programs, etc. is at least partly true (meaning you're partly wrong), then the F-35 (or at least the opportunity cost of it) will surely turn out to be the fall of US military dominance.

When we're spending nearly (or more than) $100MM for a jet that cannot even stand up against an F-16, a jet introduced in 1978. That's 5 years before I was born, so it's really weird to think about a jet from that long ago even flying today, let alone a pre-Nintendo jet dog fighting (let alone, beating!) a modern jet in 2015, that surely has orders of magnitude more computational power on board than did the entire world at that time.

In other words, the scenario described is a bit like that movie, The Final Countdown, except the fighter jets on the aircraft carrier lose to Japanese Zeros :/ what a frightening situation to be in.

All that said, I understand that we live in a different world now, and that air superiority isn't defined only by dog fighting capability, and that we also have to factor in that most modern dog fights would be over before either pilot could see the other with their own eyes, and that this is, in fact, part of the promise of the F-35. But, regardless of this, what was the value gained by the F-35 by making the wings so small? A slightly larger wing size could have increased fuel capacity, increased fuel efficiency, increased low-speed and low altitude capabilities, and made it a much better dog fighter, at no real expense to other features.
Source down. Other source: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33894-i-fit-t...
Good stuff!
Thanks for sharing
The first two lines of this comment should be written down on every wall of every dev shop in the planet.
Socialist regimes have been te most suppressive in peoples history. Think about Pol Pot, Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, etc…

Socialism kills [0]. Or a more eloquent and less extreme read would be "The Road to Serfdom" by F. A. Hayek

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[0]: http://jim.com/killingfields.html
Sure, that would work if the group you're dealing with is receptive to the prospect of intelligent debate.
PC Principal, you can't just break an API like that.
* Acid atmosphere is mostly near below the surface, and is fixable in the long run.

* Suface access can be done by robots, resource extraction can happen on the surface and balloons can lift the resources to the habitable zone.

* No magnetic field, agreed. Problem.

* Larger delta-V, less of an issue in the long run. It's easier to get to Detroit than Cuba from Toronto, but most people winter in Havana.

* Launch systems are easier that bioengineering.

* Water can be imported or synthesized. We'll have lots of extra O2 with all that CO2 we'll be converting.

* We haven't really looked at Venus. We've sent some soviet probes in for a couple of hours each back in the 80s, and they focused on the hellish surface.

In terms of long term development of human cities, I still think Venus is a far better candidate than Mars, even if Mars is easier for now.
1. I believe that termination for toxic behaviour is the only way to adjust the behaviour of these types of people. There's the PIP, but these individuals would quit if they were put on a PIP. These individuals aren't dumb, they will have F.U. money, and some of them would be financially independent.

2. In electronics, that would be a positive feedback loop as it is reinforcing the behaviour. A negative feedback loop would reduce the undesired behaviour.
What are examples of successful(profitable) open source companies?
Edgy.

I assume you mean "capability"? If so, the BoE has about as much as anyone else.

And wouldn't it be up to the entrants to decide whether they want the reward? Sure they might not enjoy it, but it would certainly be educational.
This component implements transition animation to crumble view-controller into tiny pieces. UIDynamics, UIKit or OpenGL?
Data Structure and Algorithm Questions from Microsoft Interviews
> but his mistake was answering the officer's initial questions.

You know, a lot of Internet Tough Guys(tm) make this claim. Only those who have been stopped by cops randomly (I have, and I'm not white) will understand that this is nearly impossible. You are intimidated. You know that you have basically no rights; they'll just charge you with "obstruction of justice" or "disobeying a lawful order" and throw you into the justice( * ) system, where you'll end up wasting countless hours and dollars before "all charges are dropped". A white person, on the other hand, has a strong feeling of "I have rights". Most non-whites don't.

( * ) for some definition of "justice"
Show HN: QuickFuzz – An experimental grammar fuzzer in Haskell using QuickCheck
High-Skilled Migration and Global Innovation [pdf]
You seemed to be implying that there wouldn't be violent objections to such redistribution. There will be. And even assuming you succeed in that redistribution, the original point remains: in a zero-growth world, people who want to get ahead will try to do so by taking from others, ultimately through violence.
> I don't remember being "trained"

I see.

Do you remember being potty trained? Do you remember being trained on what things and behaviors are masculine and feminine? Because you were trained, and if you spend time around toddlers you can see them being trained on both.

You were also trained in the use of tens of thousands of words. Do you remember being trained on each one of them? I sure don't. Do you remember being trained on how to avoid collision on the sidewalk? On how to use a fork? On how to use your fingers to put things in your mouth?

Your memory of being trained on something isn't a good indicator of whether you were trained on it. A relatively small amount of what society trains people on is explicit, formal, and sufficient to cause episodic memory formation. Most of our learning is implicit.

> And I don't remember my wife being "trained"

Were you married when she was 2? Gender role training starts at least that early.

Regardless, if you look you can read plenty of actual stories from adult women on how they have been trained to deal with it, and how they're still being trained in that by being punished for breaking from it.

Clementine Ford has experienced exactly that kind of training, so if you wanted to learn something, you could start with her articles. Other good sources are Everyday Sexism, Project Unbreakable, or the autobiography of pretty much any pioneering woman. Madeleine Albright talks explicitly about this and how rising through the man's world of diplomacy forced her to cast off her training and adopt loud and space-demanding behaviors just to be heard.
Waiting for the day Starbucks carries Kopi Luwak[1]. /sarcasm

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
Can you read French? https://wiki.laquadrature.net/%C3%89tat_urgence/Recensement#...

People who commit crimes should be fined or arrested. These are preventive house arrests for crimes that they might commit in the future. You really don't see the problem with this?
> However, the underlying api is on HTTPS.

No, it isn't. I tried logging in to the app store (http://apps.drov.io/), and this is what network inspector showed:

> Remote Address: 213.168.248.158:80
> Request URL: http://drov.io/ajax/account/login.php
> Request Method: POST

Where is the underlying HTTPS? The failure resulted in a javascript-based redirect to:

> http://drov.io/login/index.php

Again, no HTTPS. I can't understand why you would launch without fixing that first.
Visualizing Concurrency Bugs on GPUs
A blog series on post-quantum signatures schemes
Great article, thanks
This looks good - I'm always happy when I see tools that allow offline operation and integration with open standards for data formats/sync protocols.

This, gollum style wikis, bugs everywhere issue tracker, etc can make a great working environment that provides offline capability without vendor lock-in to a saas platform
I think a piece of the issue is that, in Boston in December, you can expect about half the folks on the street to be wearing a knit hat and puffy coat. You might as well say "wearing winter clothes." Black man? That's about one in four. 160 pounds ("but you're a little more than that")? Not eliminating too many folks there.

At that point, you might as well just admit that it's an excuse to stop-and-frisk anyone you like, fishing for anything you can find.

I'd hope (but not expect) police to be looking for something a bit firmer, and maybe follow him, but as soon as you're effectively being detained in a public place, you're really messing with folks.
We have in mind that username can be a lot of things including email, a unique username or even a phone number.
It depends on the approach but definitely under consideration in order to improve. Thanks!
The approach is novel but at the moment it's not stronger than the best traditional go programs. See http://senseis.xmp.net/?ZenGoProgram for possibly the very best one.
A top link on HN must send an enormous amount of traffic...has anyone ran a study as to how many hits it generates? I'm guessing a couple hundred thousand if it stays on the front page for a day.
> What could you win? Firstly, your whole team will get an exclusive invitation to visit the Bank. You’ll meet some of the key people in our Projects, Data and Technology team.

My advice would be to not share your ideas with anyone who would take ownership of them when the possible "reward" is minimal.
This is not extreme left, it's center-left. The distinction is important, otherwise we'd reduce everything to communism and fascism.
You have the privilege of being a dick to a cop when you're white.

The moment they claim they were intimidated/frightened, then time and time again we've seen that any use of force becomes justified by police somehow. Just being black means they'll claim that feeling should things go wrong.

Dead right or dead wrong... is still dead.
I understand the reason for fear in the current law enforcement climate in the US. But this quote really misses something:

"...they didn’t believe that I wasn’t a criminal. They had to find out. My word was not enough for them. My ID was not enough for them."

Well ... no. If you are indeed close to the given description of a criminal complaint, they're going to check. The have to check. If they'd come across the actual criminal and he'd behaved similarly (and lying by producing plausible ID, acceptable home address, etc) and then let the actual criminal go, that'd be terrible.

Now, the situation could indeed have been improved by the cops: the 'suspect' made no threatening moves, NO need to reach for a gun; simply act like a reasonable human being having a conversation; call for another officer with the same (similar?) ethnicity...
What comes to my mind: if they receive an valid ID, they could just note down the address and let the person go. They could expect to be able to get hold of them if the suspicions become more substantiated.
"Just doing your job" isn't an excuse for any type of behavior
Good teachers are hard to find even when I was in high school in the 1980s I had quite a range.

Compare three math teachers I had.

One teacher was so laid back he played music in class but it was 1960s music, nobody in the entire class got over 40%.

The second math teacher was also a university professor he was so strict many in his class failed too.

The third was a bit geeky in behaviour, a bit eccentric, he would "pick volunteers" three of them to solve problems on the blackboard at the front of the class. I can't recall anyone in that class getting under 90%.
I think boron and lithium aneutronic fission require even higher activation energies than he-3
There's another reason to resist being corrected: your colleagues are in the middle of having a knee-jerk reaction to something you did for good reason, and they can't explain why they don't like it in this instance, only in general.
And yet, they're still not ISIS terrorists. The state of emergency was used to stop public discourse and dissent - both anarchists and non-anarchists were banned from attending marches during the Paris climate summit.
The officers should have treated him the same way they'd treat a successful white person.

Would they have asked a successful white person to get in their cruiser and transported to the victim for identification? Hell no.

Would they have asked a successful white person to sit and wait for an hour while the victim is brought to them? Hell no.

If the description matched that of a successful white person the cops would have stopped the man, spoken to him for 2 minutes, recorded his identification, and moved on. If he was in fact the culprit then great. They have his ID. That's the important part. Once you know who a bad guy is you can always catch them later.
I can just imagine someone not already well informed walking away with the impression that the nice rational people who only wanted to talk about their ideas were being drowned out by the mob literally acting like children.
It is not the first time France has done things like this. In the 90s, France outlawed encryption completely, with prison sentence for breaking the ban. As tools like ssh became common, this became less and less practical. For example the supercomputer center at my university had to develop a one time password scheme for the French users (printed out and sent to them by mail), since ssh was strictly forbidden there.
Hey man, nice press release. Flagged.
Prof Carlsson's (http://math.stanford.edu/~gunnar/) "Topology and Data" paper provides a good overview: http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2009-46-02/S0273-0979-09-01...

My recent dive into the literature has enlightened my thinking in terms of database and systems design. It has led me to think more in terms of properties, invariants, intervals, constraints, and dynamic fluidity -- "there are no things" (only actions and properties): https://edge.org/response-detail/11514

Maybe the antiquated abstractions we have been using for database systems is what limits us. Maybe we need to stop thinking in terms of things -- objects, partitions, and static state -- and start thinking in terms of millions of fluid dynamic processes. Maybe Jim Starkey is on the right track: http://www.nuodb.com/about-us/jim-starkey.

Sussman seems to be converging there too -- see his talk "We Really Don't Know How to Compute" (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...) and his work on the Propagator (https://github.com/ProjectMAC/propagators).

The rapid flow of data id stressing our system designs is making this more apparent, and we're starting to see stream processing systems emerge like Google Dataflow and Apache Flink. Ideas from functional programming and immutable state are looking more prescient. Now our database management systems need to evolve.

"At no period in human culture have men understood the
psychic mechanisms involved in invention and technology.
Today it is the instant speed of electric information that,
for the first time, permits easy recognition of the
patterns and the formal contours of change and development.
The entire world, past and present, now reveals itself to
us like a growing plant in an enormously accelerated movie.
Electric speed is synonymous with light and with the
understanding of causes."

— Marshal McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)

'okram's recent paper provides a new graph-based model for stateless functional flows that could be applied in other systems: See "Quantum Walks with Gremlin" (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06278v1.pdf)

And Vladimir Kornyak touches on some of these ideas in these papers:

1. On Compatibility of Discrete Relations (2005) http://arxiv.org/pdf/math-ph/0504048.pdf

2. Structural and Symmetry Analysis of Discrete Dynamical Systems (2010) http://arxiv.org/pdf/1006.1754.pdf

3. Discrete Dynamical Models: Combinatorics, Statistics and Continuum Approximations (2015) http://mmg.tversu.ru/images/publications/2015-vol3-n1/Kornya...
> Ensuring people have purchasing power is the only way to ensure the economy doesn't become a zero-sum game.

How are you going to do this? You can't just print money and give it to them. If you do that, then you're either just creating another, tiny, class of people, or if you do it for everyone, then you're just devaluing your currency through mass inflation. If you take it from people that do have it, then you either have a huge management problem, how are you going to decide which wealth is worth redistributing and which is worth leaving alone, or you'll have mass chaos.

> The way things are going, companies with only a handful of employees can be worth billions.

That's just, like, your opinion man. Mine is that the living standards of the poor have markedly improved in the last 50 years and continue to improve. Purchasing power is only one thing. There's access to food, political stability, access to a social ladder. All of these things are more important than how many dollars are in their pocket. Even the most autocratic nations have in the past few years had to open up.
> Doesn't the part parenthesised in commas have a kind of implicit 'is'?

The part between the commas, I think, is called a subjunctive clause. Does it really break the "rules" of E'? The sentence still contains a verb, so it doesn't look like a loop-hole to me.
> His mistake was answering the officer's initial questions. You are under no obligation to talk to the police if questioned.

I know that this is the common advice now, but I see it as a symptom of the serious problems the US has. The police is supposed to protect law and order. If you're not a crook, you shouldn't be afraid of talking to officers. When innocent people are so scared of interacting with law enforcement that they have to execute right to silence as a default, it means the situation is deteriorating into oppressive state.
Give us your best Blockchain based idea and a working proof of concept and "win" a visit to the bank and a 6 week internship (if you are eligible). Is it me or that does not sound really great?
The 'round up all the black guys' who don't even fit the vague description (which is inappropriate) is what creates the atmosphere of fear and persecution.
When it stops being true, I imagine. http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary
But then, if it IS the actual criminal, he's aware that the police are onto him and he's gone. If I knew for certain that A) I'd committed a crime and B) the police were indeed looking for me, I wouldn't be at my home address. Nor any other address they might be aware of my presence.
When I am used to calling threads master and slave. Am I the only one that just sort of "grew up" associating these terms with threads, servers in fail-over, etc?
I think he was explaining the thought process behind resistance, if you will. I don't think he is expecting anything except for us to empathize.
> You are under no obligation to talk to the police if questioned.

This is a great thing for white people to be aware of.
I'm skeptical. Wouldn't it be more beneficial for them to have a stabilized region under their control than a destabilized one? They have enough economical power to pull this off, so I assume the destabilization is merely a side effect of supporting the wrong groups due to religious association than a dedicated effort at destabilization.
How to SMS your customers, your audience or anyone really – using Slack
For 4 (Your college degree is probably worthless): is the purpose of college to get a job or to learn? The traditional college curriculum is structured in a way that suggests it's the latter, yet we live in a society that expects the prior.

I'd argue that college is doing exactly what it always intended to do -- to create an environment of learning. The disconnect occurs because of how it markets itself. The focus on "job placement statistics" and "post college salaries" sends the wrong message to its customers.
I see some comments here along the lines of 'this is standard, nothing to do with race'

Even if that is true (And I don't know that it is), doesn't it speak to some greater cultural problem that this man was so scared for his life, being a black man questioned by police?

It's all well and good to say "I've had this happen to me, no problems", but thats dismissing the fact that this man, and many others, fear for their life whenever they interact with the police.

(I should note that I am not American, so maybe theres things I'm missing as an outsider looking in / maybe I'm way off base)
You can investigate an item's ranking history here:

http://hnrankings.info/10686897/
It's not uncommon. And yeah, a lot of medical journals do it.
I made the jump at 44, after three burglaries and one knifepoint mugging in the same year. Ahead of the game for once!
Ah yes, when the person being corrected corrects the person correcting them :)
Part of that is that there are funds that are siloed to be spent only on getting tech into the hands of kids so money spent there by the school system couldn't necessarily be spent elsewhere by the school.
They don't print dollars themselves.
WTF?

Can someone point me to what exactly did police officers do wrong in this story?

> Barbara Sullivan made a knit cap for me. She knitted it in pinks and browns and blues and oranges and lime green. No one has a hat like this.

Yeah, dude — I'm looking at your photo right now and it definitely looks like a generic knit cap. It's completely reasonable that when someone hears a detail "knit cap" and then sees you, it clicks.

> If you are wondering why people don’t go with the police, I hope this explains it for you.

No. It doesn't, at all. Nothing in behaviour of this police officers even hinted of a wrong attitude. The "white woman" wouldn't "decide" if you're a criminal or not: she would give testimony. This attitude of "resisting arrest" would seem paranoid on it's own; it seems even more paranoid and insane in context of this story.

By the way, did any officer actually tell him that a victim was white? Or is it just what he automatically thought?

If I would go through something like that, I would be glad that police is doing it's job.
sounds like a bunch of other companies like Versata, DevFactory, gTeam, etc.
If potatoes have value, the total economy is expressible in in some number of potatoes. Unbound growth requires the relative value of potatoes to always decrease. However, the same must be said for every other physical good including gold and land etc.

Thus, economic growth is only infinite when all physical goods have zero value. That might happen, but it seems really unlikely.
In physics, the acknowledgements always come near the end, after the main write up, just before the list of references.
However, I think light attack roles that the Super Tucano can fill can be filled by the new Sikorsky S-97 Raider, and because the Raider is a helicopter, it can also server a number of other roles, and it can land anywhere, and when you consider the cost and strategy differences between a helicopter carrier and a carrier battle fleet, or between a helicopter carrier and taking over / maintaining / defending an airfield behind enemy lines, the Raider, IMHO, will be a godsend for roles where the Apache Longbow is overkill and where the goal is to continually push for new FOBs behind the lines (range for Thunderbolt II and Super Tucano is ~800nm - got a new air field every 325 miles? Only plan to attack targets near the ocean?).
I guess you give statements like that, but for several aspects, e.g. audio quality, durability, etc?