skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guns on a bomber were never really meant for engaging aircraft. They're meant to deter fighters from ever getting near the bomber. Not many pilots are willing to sit directly in the path of machine gun fire, even if it is not very accurate. German anti-aircraft figured this out as well. They switched to shooting mostly tracer rounds. You aren't going to hit anything in the first place, so you might as well just scare the crap out of them.

There were some WWII 'gunship' style modifications of planes, but that was not that common.

For a more modern comparison, consider that the Bradley fighting vehicle carries anti tank missiles. Sending a group of Bradleys directly against tanks would be suicidal. The Bradley has aluminum for armor. A well trained set of tank crews operating even WWII vintage vehicles would decimate them. Instead, the misiles are there to deter tanks from engaging them. It also provides the crew with an enormous psychological benefit. That benefit is they at least have the benefit of being able to respond to an enemy tank with a potentially lethal weapons system. Ironically of course the TOW missiles on the Bradley destroyed more Iraqi tanks the M1 tank ever did in the Gulf war. But that is because Iraqi tank crews either had no experience or had armored vehicles in horrible condition.
The benefits and costs of investing in early childhood education
Author here, happy to answer all questions.
Cobol is still in use. That doesn't make it good.

PHP is a poorly written language. From comparisons to namespaces to other gotchas, it's just pigs guts. From the ground up, it's a badly designed language. Look up "Fractal of bad design" for a better understanding of why.
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Mutual funds of some sort, I'd guess. Assuming there are any.
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSQlYX5DU0
Erik Meijer likes php.
inline and inline-block are not the same thing. inline-flex behaves like inline-block
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The same applies when buying microcontroller starter kits, like the MSP430 for school.

That, and clauses about not using it to controller missiles. Which is admittedly more applicable than the weapons of mass destruction (exaggerated) clause in iTunes.
>I must state clearly that my teaching is a method to experience reality and not reality itself, just as a finger pointing at the moon is not the moon itself. A thinking person makes use of the finger to see the moon. A person who only looks at the finger and mistakes it for the moon will never see the real moon.
I absolutely agree the "war on drugs" and racial bias in enforcement disproportionately hurts people of color. No one disagrees with that in this conversation.

What we disagree with is your decision to blame the law in this specific case rather than a racist conspiracy.

The reason your actions are scary here is that they follow a pattern of dehumanizing the crime and divorcing the responsibility for said disgusting actions from the people who did them (people who deserve life in prison many times over) and instead saying it is the law itself that did this. I mentioned "all lives matter" intentionally. You're following a very similar pattern here, but ignoring the perpetrators instead of the victims.

People did this. Cops and judges. They were not following a racist law.
> by employing 68% men and fewer than 50 black people in a company of more than 10,000 employees (to say nothing of the unholy spectre of gentrification) – Mark Zuckerberg himself continues to reproduce the inequality he and his wife are taking aim at with their pledge

It seems the author thinks Facebook (or any other company) should hire more black people just because they're black, and more women just because they're women. That's seriously crazy.

Nevermind evaluating the candidates on their merits, and if there are zero black applicants, then you just drive around San Fransisco until you find enough to fill your quota, and proceed to hire them regardless of whether they have any skills you could use!

Don't forget one-legged midgets either! They need to have equal representation in your workforce! Who are you to "reproduce inequality" by not hiring them?
GitHub's physical infrastructure team doesn't dictate what technologies our engineers can run on our hardware. We are interested in providing reliable server resources in a easily consumable manner. If someone wants to provision hardware to run docker containers or similar, that's great!

We may eventually offer higher order infrastructure or platform services internally, but it's not our current focus.
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How much of that 3B was profit?
Honestly that sounds like bullshit to me. See the Clash of Wings documentary, episode 11, for more about the bombing of Japan with the B-29.
Awesome. 100 hours of some civil engineering and I will be able to build some small simple bridges.
Even artificial light is bad; I can't sleep with the TV on and prefer complete darkness.
Emperor Palpatine’s Poison Pill – Modeling the Galactic Economy of Star Wars
How to field test an idea, app, or gather reseach
I think the most important thing to consider is "composability". I.e., that you can take a DOM-subtree from someplace, and put it somewhere else (perhaps inline) without modification. The current way CSS handles things violates this basic principle.
Really good point! Most of us veterans assume that because we have learned things the hard way and from bottom up, everybody else should learn like that.

"Make them suffer like us and they will learn the holy truth" ;D
I was quite surprised to learn recently how the B-29 was (A) about as expensive a project as the atomic bomb and (B) almost a complete failure (until the firebombing of Japan) due to no one knowing about the jet stream.
Not that I recall, though I wouldn't bet on it. Maybe it goes up to 0.7. Definitely less than 1g, though.

For reference, I can easily decelerate harder than that in my car.
‘The Mountain’ from Game of Thrones Demolishes Keg Toss World Record
Building a Bitbucket Add-On in Clojure, Part 1: Building a Web Stack
Well I'm crushed, but hopefully I can get over it ;)
When the iPhone 7 is released, you will be able to clearly see the locations of the Apple stores :)
Is the Web HTTP2 Yet?
You do realize that the number 2 ranked website on the internet runs on PHP.

Get over your elitest attitude. PHP is a fine language and has it's warrants of use.

Speaking of, 2 days ago marked a year since I last used PHP.
I read the entire article and all I know is they are working on deep learning for hardware. What a complete waste of bits and my time

I kept thinking of: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
A Panoramic Tour Through Combinatorial Optimization
Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released
So it all comes down to "100 hours of something and you'll know more about it than someone who didn't take 100 hours"

Uh. Okay.
A honest feedback: Please give some respect to your team members offshore and display their names on About page. Or else clarify that only founders names are listed there...
Some summary charts, claiming $750 in per-capita benefits by 2050, breaking even in 8 years: http://equitablegrowth.org/report/prek-snapshot-us/
I have overcame this by forcing myself to "dream". By this I mean put myself in a situation outside of my body so that I begin to think of this dream as the reality. My mind eventually turns off my local body receptors and falls into the dream. I also have a white noise in the background to help drown out all the sounds as any little sound change brings me back to reality. I hope this helps.
When I read 22yo CEO and $1.5M in funding, I knew it was gonna be good...

The author can't be much older to be so utterly naive though...
That depends on the amount and time scale. The quoted $50 billion platinum asteroid would contain around 2500 tons – the equivalent of 15 years worth of terrestrial production –, and most certainly not in a pure form. Mining all that and returning it to Earth safely is likely a long-term project.
Simple: CRUD operations

Advanced: Everything else
It's almost certainly not economically efficient for a software engineer
to be darning their own socks.

...or cooking their own meals. Or raising their own children. Or commenting on HN.

I don't know about you, but I don't do a very good job of software engineering 100% of my waking time, even if doing so would certainly be more economically efficient than the alternative. 8 hours a day? Sure. 10 hours? Maybe. 12? Probably not, especially for extended periods.

We all make decisions about how we spend our time, both on and off the clock. Personally, I'm perfectly capable of sewing a loose button while watching TV and still consider it downtime. Even if I could easily afford to buy a new shirt instead.

I agree with you that you shouldn't at all costs repair everything or do everything yourself. But I'll happily assign some of my spare time to maintenance tasks, and I think doing so does make economic sense as well as environmental.
> "Think what needs to happen on the world stage in order to enact a global ban (1) on oil pumping and coal mining within 20 years. That's the job."

You could aim for that, or you could aim for a steady stream of improvements leading to larger change once momentum is built. Or in other words, revolution vs. evolution. If you want to pursue revolution, go for it, I'll continue to pursue evolution.
while i cant comment on the validity of their advice, i can say with certainty that it is quite up to date. after all, the last change was just 2 weeks ago...

"LAST UPDATED: 2015-11-16 16:19:03 +0000"
(right below their banner at the top)
I always figured the Japanese assumed the plane in the case of Hiroshima was a reconnaissance plane gathered ground photographs and checking on the weather. As you correctly noted, they didn't have many resources. I'd figure a lone reconnaissance plane would rank pretty low on the list of targets they were trying to intercept.
I love this story, because it shows how much potential we as humans have for compassion, even in these kinds of circumstances. I love it too because of the cognitive dissonance that it creates. The whole first world war is, once you start getting into it, confusing. The more you research, the harder it is to see this particular war as anything other than stupid, stupid, stupid. Maybe there is an alternate universe where the soldiers just refused to fight on December 26th, and the war ended right then and there, in 1914, and WW2 never happened..
Can someone please explain how the gunner/computer established the range and speed of enemy aircraft? The article says "a gunner would focus a series of dots" but unless at least two gunners are focusing the same plane I have no idea how they calculated range and speed. Thanks.
Github has binary/release hosting support now, but doesn't do user forums or mailing lists.
Art Against Double Standards: Brandalism at COP21
Are you trying for sarcasm? I'd very much expect that with just a bit of civil engineering study you ought to be able to better design a bridge across a creek than if you did no study, ever. Heck, with the right focus, an hour of study on the topic could well greatly improve your work.

Bridges aren't some sort of dark magic, after all, we've been building them for thousands of years.
It's funny to have to think about cosmic variance with regards to an RNG.
Could you share with us your experience?
Hamster-GTD
I liked this disclaimer

> Despite several rounds of revision, these notes still contain mnay mistakes, errors, bugs, gaffes, omissions, snafus, kludges, typos, mathos, grammaros, thinkos, brain farts, nonsense, garbage, cruft, junk, and outright lies, all of which are entirely Steve Skiena’s fault

(Skiena is the author of The Algorithm Design Manual which is a very popular algorithm book. Seems like he reviewed these notes :)

I like computer science books with a sense of humor in any case...
Summary please?
I will send you a postcard for every video-call
CoreOS Announcing Distributed Trusted Computing
I have no idea why anyone would build content pages with angular (or any other client-side framework). It's just stupid.

Client-side Frameworks work perfectly for "internal" (say: everything behind a login) Apps. Too many people follow every trend because it seems like the way to do things, or because it's just cool. Sometimes you really should think about the implications of your stack decisions.
Why is Monument Valley on iOS now free
Huxley must be smiling (or weeping...) somewhere out there...
Diabetes drug could increase human lifespan to 120 years
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Risk management for scaling startups (and how to do it)
Anti-spoof measures are really only effective close to the edge, further in packets are routed with abandon because of overhead and difficulty in verifying the origin.
I definitely remember that era as the age of Perl but I should note that my first database-driven web app was in 1996, using a beta Java servlet runner with DB/2 on OS/2.

I'm happy to report that I got better at making technology choices.
7 Keys to a New Business Model for Today’s Economy
> I read, action then archive right there.

The problem with responding to an e-mail immediately, is that often you will get an e-mail back immediately, making this habit ineffective.

(I just wish there was an option in my e-mail reader to send an email with a delay.)
Right, but I wouldn't claim it is. I'd say something like "The JVM is fast" :)
But Cobol isn't used by 25% of all websites. It's just a tool, one that learning will give you access to a large share of jobs on the market.

Plus, who cares if anyone learns Cobol? If they want to, there is not reason to stop them.
Reminder: Yahoo invested in Alibaba in 2005.
To be fair, the article doesn't say "Python is fast." It says "Python is slow," and then goes on to say something like "But if most of your heavy-duty calculation involves calling prewritten C routines, you can do your development work in Python without getting killed on performance."

Language discussions always seem to go down the same dismal tube in the end: "Is C > Python, or is Python > C?"
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Wasn't that one of the roles that http://advogato.org/ was going to solve? People would write content, list projects, write blogs, and certify each other.
The ratio of 3 may or may not be correct, but the specific analyses here are absolutely worthless as at least one of the model inputs for each example is just pulled out of thin air. He could be out by an order of magnitude.
This experiment is ridiculous. Of course you're going to be tired if someone jolts you awake every hour on the hour.

What would be way more interesting is to study people who wake up naturally multiple times per night to toss and turn. I do this at least 5-10 times per night due to muscle aches and pains. I fall back asleep very quickly. I've been doing this for years, but do remember rare times when I've slept through the night and felt so fresh in the morning.
I can see myself using this tool. A lot. But I'm missing a vote up(down?) button on annotations already.
I work for a shared hoster and can confirm that PHP works great on IIS6 (with FastCGI add-on installed) and IIS7+.
who remember Mitnick and rsh?
Just park a small asteroid in orbit and drop it on the first one who complain.

( Call it a free sample delivery )
Which treaties, exactly?
If it moves humanity closer to a permanent off-world presence (read: not all of our eggs in one basket), I'm for it.
This is also why I buy higher-end Dell laptops. In fact I'd suggest to anyone inclined to see what life they can get out of their hardware, before buying a laptop, see if you can find the service manual online. My current laptop is at least 5 years old now and going strong. Battery life sucks, of course, but that's just a constant for the age of the laptop. I've had to replace hard drives (easy), get a total air-flow-blocking dust bunny out of the fan (service manual was quite helpful, that involved near total disassembly unfortunately), and replace the keyboard. While I could theoretically blunder my way through the latter two, it's nice to have a manual telling you exactly what to do, so you do only and exactly what you need to do. (Every laptop I've had has been different in terms of what you access from the top and the bottom.)
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Precisely. It's funny to complain about people watching cat videos in a 'Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting' and 'have we all gone mad' manner while admitting to doing the same.
It might also mean that the latter group simply doesn't exist, not in the money-where-your-mouth-is way. It's one thing to be interested in these things in a "someone-should-do-something way".

But I don't really think either of these are true. Bill Gates has some big "political" goals, societal scale ambitions. Elon Musk too, though he seems to like for profit companies as a vehicle. Some charities get substantial endowments and many in the leaser classes dedicate a lot of their time, attention & money to them.
I guess what should really be considered is, why would you return the raw ore to earth? The dawn of space mining will trigger the dawn of space refining and manufacturing I think.
App development reinvented
Why should that be illegal?
> What would be interesting is a framework that allows you to run the entire microservice stack in a single interpreter (shouldn't be hard with flask blueprints) and break off the subapps as necessary when the need arises.

The idea behind microservices is to have small services running on their own processes and communicating using a light-weight mechanism. This means you could write a service in Java, another in Python, Node.js etc. (i.e. pick the most appropriate language for the task)
Are you aware of any publicly traded company operating in this field? If not, then there won't be any mutual funds. This area seems too new for mutual funds.
Why I'm not using Linux on my Servers anymore
TL;DR: Congress signs law about space enabling people to profit, journalist excitedly retells current state of space mining.
Richard Feynman got a Nobel prize out of 'dabbling in things that interested him'. Not everything has to have a purpose right away, good - even great - things can come from activities without direction.
Although it took quite a few hundred years before we started consistently building them to a good enough standard that they didn't collapse after a few years, or decades.

Something I remind myself of when I see the current state of software engineering.
That "share on pinterest" feature sure is annoying when it blocks text.
German nuclear fusion reactor 'stellarator' cleared for 10 December 2015
What are the best Mobile Dev UI tools?
ClojureScript is these days selfhosting. If you want to write and run small scripts you could give Planck a try (ClojureScript REPL). The startup time is much smaller.

http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-08-22-planck-works.html
Soooo one row of a collection represented as an object instance of a collection of instances is bad? Why?
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