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Ironically, after the request from JSOC and the Marine Corps for a modified Super Tucano (A-29B) was nixed, the United States' main procurement facility for this plan is still building them... for the Afghan airforce.

Sure, the Super Tucano doesn't have the punch from the main gun or crazy survivability of the A-10. But in a battlespace where air supremacy is guaranteed, it has the advantage of being able to get a close-up visual on the target, and accurately fire ordinance tens rather than hundred of meters away from friendly forces.

My personal understanding is that the Super Tucano was sacrificed on the alter of the myth of technological progress.

Every airframe, every digital HMI, and every weapons system must be more technologically sophisticated than the last, even if that solution is completely unsuited to ongoing and forecasted combat missions.

The fact that our most common enemies can't field a proper SAM site, much less a fifth-generation fighter, be damned.

Of course there is also the cultural issue. That the great United States might have to admit that the South Americans know more than us about air warfare in counter-insurgency campaigns is anathema to both the military and the civilian government.
Having read 1984, I find the desire to remove undesirable language from our vocabulary quite unnerving.

I realise it has the best of intentions, and nobody is proposing to remove 'to be' from everything. But the discussion here about how adopting E-Prime forces you to rethink what you mean to say, is eerily reminiscent of how Newspeak was used to control people's thought process.
The cynical view is that these people are simply using the attacks as a way to push through legislation that they wanted to push through regardless. Politicians like these are just opportunists and would use any hot button issue to get their way because they know that's the easiest way to railroad through their pet laws. It's easy to get people to vote against their own interest, all you need is fear.

There are many such tricks, another is to bring the important stuff up for vote in the last little bit before a session closes and to waste as much of the session prior to that by debating some inane point of some un-important issue at great length leaving insufficient time to debate the important stuff.

It's all tricks and psychology, reason has little to do with it.
Java's ConcurrentModificationException shows up very quickly if you test at all (probably 99% of the time). It is very good at helping beginners not make these mistakes.
As if public Wi-Fi has been somehow related to the attack or its causes.
But how would the first thread know when the map/data structure has been moved? I guess you could cause a page-fault in the first thread after the move, although that would rely on inter-CPU synchronizaiton of kernel memory maps...
You don't say that terrorism is just a tool of totalitarian regimes cloaked as democratic states? That would be outrageous. ;]
Why not? If a GC can move an object, why can't I change its representation? We do this all the time for code - compiling and deoptimising in a JIT - why not for data as well?
An SCP and SFTP client.
I think that's a pretty sharp observation. The powerlessness of the state to prevent these attacks translates into a perceived weakness, effectively showing that those that are nominally in control of keeping 'us' safe have oversold their ability to do that.
Windows 10 lets you share your WiFi password with your Facebook friends. That's technically a shared WiFi isn't it?
https://isgnaffreeyet.xyz - I couldn't resist.
> What you end up with are some people getting offended or marginalized

I expect this is exactly the intention, to scare FN supporters away from the project and its community. Open source projects in particular are defined by the people involved with them, and the author does not wish to work (for free) with and for people who threaten his ability to live peacefully in his home country.
A charitable interpretation would suggest that you can replace "the coat is red" with "we see the coat as red" or "the coat reflects mostly in the 620-750 nm spectrum" depending on the context (whether the subject is psychological perception or physical properties).

But certainly it seems to be a theme with these "logical" languages, to embed questionable philosophical assumptions that don't hold up under more careful analysis...
The same way a thread learns about an object being moved by the GC - change all the pointers to point to the new one when you move it. Do this in a safepoint so access to the object is not interrupted.
Probably different people were applauding it then from the people that call this childish now? HN is not an singular entity, an overmind made of people who think exactly the same.
This might stimulate some progress in the UK which is under a legal stranglehold of the privatised post office address file. The licensing of UK postcodes infects all the derived sources meaning there is no clear path to constructing a freely licensed set of geocoded postcodes. The ODI published a report on describing the details of the obstacles faced: http://theodi.org/case-studies/open-addresses-the-story-to-d...
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True. Copyright laws are a sneaky backdoor which I can use to install my own political agenda.
The government will be using the threat of violence to enforce my rules against violence. Muhaha :)
Well you use a Quadtree for path-finding. That gives you some advantages- regarding
a) Resolution, (Long stretches of open terrain can be handled in one entry)
b) Memory needed (Quadtrees are always just resolved as deep as needed and can be placed cache friendly in mem)
c) Ask kloot. https://www.youtube.com/user/Kleaut

Regards
> using the attacks as a way to push through legislation that they wanted

This practice is culturally independent and it is as old as human corruption. Egyptians and ancient Chinese and Romans were already experts.)
That's more than half the average monthly gross salary.

To get £3,000/mo take home pay you'd need to earn £49,500/year.
Perhaps the parent wanted to link to Wikipedia (not the Bitcoin Wiki) where the criticism is more concise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake

"One problem is usually called the "nothing at stake" problem, where (in the case of a consensus failure) block-generators have nothing to lose by voting for multiple blockchain-histories, which prevents the consensus from ever resolving"
This award winning website is the most fascinating one ever for anyone using web
It's drawing attention.
16-09-2015

Top Intel Lawyer Says Terror Attack Would Help Push for Anti-Encryption Legislation

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/top-intel-lawyer-pushing...
That's a generator for docopt parsers, written in python, targeting C. The closest docopt (variant) in C that I know of is the one I wrote: https://github.com/jaroslov/docoptc . Although, at best, I'd say that code is "looking for a maintainer".
And as far as I know, they did not use any encryption anyway, so I don't even see the point here, it's totally unrelated. Should we ban unencrypted connections then since that's what they used ?
They did just voted in their equivalent of the Nazi party in the regional elections though so let's wait and see...

Edit: correction... vote not over yet but it's not looking good.
Anecdote warning, but this feels very common to me in "Hibernio-English" as well. I do it a lot when a simple yes/no would suffice, and I notice other people doing the same. I assume it's a construct that translated over from Irish. I must start listening out for native English speakers of different nationalities for comparison :)
True, but there were very few people calling it childish then (I don't remember any then) whereas in this thread there's a sizable minority that calls it childish.
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It's rough, but I recently explored/compared various struct-like packages https://github.com/moreati/structlytyped
The FN is seeing a very rapid rise in support among French Jews. I don't see how you can call them a neo-Nazi party when (a) they've publicly taken a stand against anti-semitism, (b) they've expelled all Nazi sympathizers, and (c) a large number of French Jews support them.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-24/anti-immig...
Opinion polls like Ifop show Cukierman’s comments reflect a growing reality. Between the last two presidential elections in 2007 and 2012, Jewish voters supporting the FN, the party’s acronym, more than tripled. The shift came after Marine Le Pen took over the helm in 2011, steering clear of her party-founder father Jean-Marie Le Pen’s anti-Semitic stance. In a comment to Bloomberg on the side lines of a conference in Paris Tuesday, Marine Le Pen made common cause with France’s Jews.

“It’s the rise of Islamism that hits, hurts and kills,” she said. “It’s time to fight the danger threatening French Jews.” She welcomed Cukierman’s comments, saying “his words reveal an internal debate within the Jewish community. The comfortable idea that anti-Semitism is a right-wing theme is not true anymore and hasn’t been for decades.”
The slightly less cynical view is that they know that the next time something happens they know that - if encryption is involved, they will be absolutely pilloried by the popular press, opposition etc. for "not doing everything that can be done".

It takes a certain determination to stand up to that kind of threat.
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The U.K. is already far beyond illiberal, but I can’t see Germany going this way. They’ve long been on the right side of the Internet, and I doubt they’ll have any need to do otherwise anytime soon.
> I have 0 faith in governments both for understanding and acting properly in the information age.

Can we go without a government that properly understand the information age? If so, how? Who would you trust instead, to organize public affairs?

If not, why does this kind of government doesn't (want to) understand it?
The political stance is not similar at all. The party has taken a 180 turn on antisemitism for instance.

The reason why some French Jews for example support Front National is because its leaders see young Muslims as the greatest threat to Jews in France. "Fascists" are not the only ones supporting FN. See the link below.

http://www.europe1.fr/mediacenter/emissions/l-interview-de-j...
The premise that video editing is done primarily on dedicated hardware is incorrect. I know two video editors (people not things) that create trailers for block buster movies and they do it on a mac laptop using final cut. Software can be written anywhere now, most TVs costing over 800$ are running some form of android, many with access to the google play store.

In 10 years, I will most likely be using a keyboard connected to a screen. The environment will be a combination of local and remote, just as it is now. Are you saying keyboards are going away? Will I need to run fingers 2.0?
Whether encryption is or is not involved is immaterial, we already know that you can pull off attacks like these without it, so you may assume that it is also possible pulling off attacks like these with it. That law does nothing at all to prevent future attacks and the popular press being clueless isn't news either.
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lurking inside the 1995 handheld UI is a more sophisticated
1997-grade trading engine

I do like the sense of humour here.
99% of apps is data entry + usable interface + communication with a rest interface (meaning, there isn't a lot of 'intelligence' within)

Seems very replicable
In writing fantasy, you don't even try to base mechanics on current theory. Fantasy is predominantly about relationships, where the mechanisms of action are useful for furthering character colour and the plot but not in themselves key plot points.

In sci-fi, the mechanisms tend to be at least plausible developments of current theory. In some cases, they even form the basis of the work rather than a mere plot point. Compare Greg Egan's oeuvre, where in many cases the mechanism is the point of the work rather than a plot device.
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It's not really cynical so much as realistic. Do you really need more proof than "never let a crisis go to waste."
The last 10% usually takes help
I didn't believe from beginning on that FIX was fictional, since if it's a real protocol (or at least very near to a real protocol) it makes programmers that are good at Stockfighter a lot more placeable in the market - and this is what Starfighter wants to make money with.
There are huge numbers of laws in place to try and minimise road deaths, including compulsory licensing of people found competent to drive, speed limits, compulsory periodic testing of cars for roadworthiness. So you know the answer to the first part of your question.
So... the second thread needs to wait for the GC in order to modify the map concurrently? I mean, it is an optimization for the most common case (single-threaded access), but it imposes a quite high penalty for concurrent access...

Although I could imagine a similar "signaling" mechanism, where each thread would periodically read a single snychronized variable, to check if there's any additional "re-synchronisation" work it needs to do. But I'm guessing that CPUs are implemented that way anyways.
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Great slides. Any additional good references for learning this material?
What is more ridiculous is that shared public wifi would become critical in the event of a major terror attack (on scale with 9/11). We have already seen the use of social media to allow families and friends to connect after a disaster occurs. Given the fragility of mobile data networks under heavy load, public wifi could become the only option for mass communications. The French government will only be handicapping its people when they need help most.
Cool. I'm also living in a different country than the country where I was born.

I also hate discrimination as much as the OP.

Sadly I don't believe the control is in our hands. Usually people choose their governments via media nowadays and media are really, really bad.

I would suggest the author to forbid TV/Websites using his editor for commercial purposes if they run political campaigns. That will surely have great impact than discriminating people that have been vacuumed by that fake rush of "loosing our nation", etc.
Social-Media Sites Face Pressure to Monitor Terrorist Content
The reference open source software for this is LilyPond.

http://www.lilypond.org/

The innovation with VexFlow seems to be that it runs in a browser.
soundmagic e10 are pretty good as far as cheapie IEM's go.

I use mainly Sennheiser HD650 for audio work but for listening the soundmagic's are pretty nice. I use them with Comply foams to block out some noise and get a tighter fit/better bass
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Can someone explain how their AI produces even remotely accurate quotes? Also what is the price range of these projects?
No, that's only sharing the password and that's done by the users, not necessarily by the owner. To share WiFi you have to own a hotspot, turn it on, give the password to somebody.

However I see your point: what if a company network (think a small shop) is shared with its employees and the password goes to their friends and they can connect from a car in the parking lot? _optout suffix for every network in France?
Sure - but to really crack down on road deaths, how about declaring a state of emergency that prevents anyone from driving at all? If you understand why that would be stupid, you'll understand why trying to introduce the GFW of China to France is a bad idea.
> I think calling clear and understandable writing for "anti-intellectual" is the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time.

"Clear and understandable" to who? Communication in general, and writing in particular, usually has a target audience. If your audience can grok[1] it, go for it!

As an extreme example, you cannot write a "clear and understandable" PhD thesis in Linguistics while avoiding five-dollar words (to borrow the term).

I think XKCD's "up-goer five" is a suitable counter argument against words that are too simple to clearly communicate complex ideas succinctly. Jargon has its place in language.

1. Meta-excercise: attempt to use the word 'grok' in casual conversation with a non-techie.
A full browser is not just GUI toolkit library.

I draw the line in everything that uses a webview for purposes unrelated to rendering HTML.
While I'm disappointed in the French governments reaction (which is stupid). I think you should refrain from making prejudiced comments (especially since a) it's a stupid statement if you study France's military history b) other countries behaved equally stupidly in the face of Terrorism).
I expect in the near future Apple will build their own family of processors for all their devices. After you build your own OS(s), invent your own language, design most of your internal chips, what remains is the CPU/GPU.
an eprime linter? https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=eprime
"People who have discovered they have a brain and were frightened by it"

If you are not your brain, who are you?
London has the density to make public transport schemes effective. The same objective BCR criteria are used everywhere - it's just that the benefits of building e.g. a train line between two villages of 100 people are never going to add up.
I struggle to hear a difference between 320 and wav, doubt I would get it right in a blindfold test. It's more of a psychological thing for me - prefer to listen to FLAC (or vinyl/cd) because I know it's "all there" :)

I have a pretty good monitoring environment and headphones. What cues do you listen to to differentiate 320?
Maybe someone will revive the Datahand.
Yeh I know. We discussed this approach on the #PyPy irc channel. As far as I recall the wrapper is not open source.
We needed something that can be done quickly and therefore Reflex code generation based approach worked better for us.
I need a simple program that would create startups + landing pages Andreessen would invest in
"Within two weeks of its launch in late July, Gigster already had $1 million in sales booked."

Can someone walk me through how this is possible? As in, what does a company like Gigster focus on to reach sales so quickly?
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Did you see the interest rates cited in the article? Even the lowest of them is more in line with what you'd find on a credit card account than with what you expect to see on a non-revolving loan of the sort these lenders are offering. Their terms also cite transaction fees, which are generally ignored in discussions of interest, but shouldn't be; when amortized over the term of the loan to provide a basis for fair comparison, they tend to drive the cost of the funds in question from merely high to utterly astonishing. (Payday lenders pull a similar trick, using fixed fees rather than a more typical interest calculation to hide the fact that their loans are priced absurdly high by comparison with even the worst of credit cards.)

Granted, when you find yourself in need of emergency funds at short notice, being able to obtain them even at an extractive cost is preferable to being unable to access funds at any price. But this looks to me like a case where the typical SV veneration of entrepreneurship, regardless of context, is being used to draw a veil over the same abusive practices which have given more typical payday lenders such a bad name.
> There are huge numbers of laws in place to try and minimise road deaths, including compulsory licensing of people found competent to drive, speed limits, compulsory periodic testing of cars for roadworthiness.

Now if only we could apply the same rigour to the process of bringing new human beings into the world.
Those all sound to me like they're approaching purple prose, particularly in a verbal context.
The auto-upload to imgur is a nice touch!

This is me: http://i.imgur.com/5JUJt5g.png
The French regime again showing its ugly authoritarian and statist face with these draconian bills. It wasn't enough for them to put environmentalists under house arrest and subject innocent people to humiliating mandatory reporting to different police stations 3 times a day or obligatory curfew for certain people or neighborhoods without any judicial oversight. [0]

I knew it from the beginning that they would abuse the State of Emergency decree and turn the lives of people esp minorities into a living hell.

[0]: https://wiki.laquadrature.net/%C3%89tat_urgence/Recensement# ((FR))
That's why we enshrine certain rights and protect them constitutionally. It doesn't seem to stop policy makers from attacking them though.
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That was only the first round of the regional elections, wait and see what happens in the final vote next weekend.
“project management is the place where the most human error happens.”

Note sure about that. I mean PM's don't write bugs, right?
What I would like are in-ears that almost completely block outside noise. With some better foam to physically block out the noise, and better noise canceling algorithms, maybe with deep learning. Saw this for cars but nothing for headphones yet

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/huma...
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Id like a reply to do this too
Nobody got 50% of votes, so no, they didn't.

( and with about half of registered voters not participating, it can still change easely )
What is "British" isn't always immediately graspable (hence the article's explicit use of "Great Britain", which is well defined). Here's a useful diagram:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Br...
I'm afraid this is a glimpse into the not so distant future where software developers are next in line after taxi and truck drivers - uncertain if their skills will be required in a decade from now.

That is compound by the millions of youngsters who grew up with computers, have unlimited access to unlimited teaching materials and are entering the workforce each year..

The demand for software may be growing (although that should peak at some point too), but that doesn't necessarily mean that the demand for programmers will follow the same trend.

Quite the opposite it seems...
What does a company like Gigster focus on to reach sales so quickly?

Andreessen.
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> worrisome is the move away from general purpose operating systems to walled gardens

And, on the other end, open hardware is absolutely booming with computers that cost less than shipping. I hope to see open software and hardware flourishing even more as this trend continues.
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> So... the second thread needs to wait for the GC in order to modify the map concurrently?

No nobody needs to wait for a GC, but we use the same mechanism that the GC does.

> Although I could imagine a similar "signaling" mechanism, where each thread would periodically read a single synchronised variable

And that's how the GC already works. Except instead of a variable normally a 'test' instruction is used on a page of memory, and instead of setting the variable, the permission on the page are changed triggering a page fault.
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https://theintercept.com/2015/09/11/today-14th-anniversary-e...
>The FN is a fascist party

No it's not, if it was it would have been forbidden long ago according to french laws.

I suggest you check the definition of fascism, you'll be surprised who currently fits in the definition in France.