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The Russians don't rely as much combat air support - they do not care about the cluster munition bans at all making the US seem positively humanitarian.

They'll remove entire map grid squares with artillery. The Russian army has always been an artillery force that happens to also have lots of tanks, planes and infantry.

Combine that with the disparity in willingness to take casualties and you can see why perhaps the West isn't that interested in risking a conflict with Russia or China over regional aggression. The really interesting part will come if Putin decides to test NATO over a small Baltic member state...
Parse it is a good solution for a quick app backend setup but I never realized build big things over there. To me the most important to me is no vendor lock-in I see as very important to have full control over what I'm developing. I started to use a great platform www.back4apps.com and Im happy with the results. I recommend it as a migration option
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Is it not a bit premature to argue this considering BingeOn has only been recently released?

ISPs have been performing traffic management since their inception two decades ago. I've done network engineering for about 1/3 of my 15 year career. To be blunt with you, its definitely scalable. Could you explain to me why it isn't?
Because on the other side, not everyone can opt in. Also, it's misleading marketing.
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Ask HN: What are the best references on language design
There is a lot of work on language implementation (parsing, compilers, etc.), but I haven't found many good sources on the aesthetics of language design. What makes a good language good? Has anyone approached language design from a usability standpoint? Thanks.
> Aircraft that are more expendable and can be upgraded with new tech quickly and at less cost.

I'm just a putz in an armchair, but I've been reading a lot of the think tank docs about this stuff recently. We could get a ton of value out of a simple platform. My guess of what it looks like:

* 2 seat, enough cabin for long manned missions
* optional autonomous or remote piloting features
* primarily subsonic, but perhaps with a dash capability
* no expectation of high speed high g maneuvering
* oversized electrical generation
* bomb truck for 16+ SDB's
* missile truck for enough AIM-120's, etc to defend itself
* open platform designed for continuous upgrade of radar, EW, EO, etc
* only low cost stealth features
* enough fuel capacity to loiter in theater

Something like this could be pretty cheap to fly and provide a lot of flexible capability as a truck for state of the art electronic systems and the emerging generation of smart munitions. It'd still be relevant in an increasingly drone dominated future as an optionally manned node in the "flying network". Leave the missions that require more extreme capabilities to more specialized aircraft. Do all the basic stuff with something cheap.
Unless you set up a system of mirrors. There are plenty of examples[1] to draw from.

1: http://mirrors.cpan.org/
If the information includes local variables and parameters, then we are agreeing; if not, then we are disagreeing.
Some of the hacked images available here: https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/hacked-images-from-israe...

You would think that drone data links would be encrypted and key management would be taken seriously. Israel has no shortage of great software engineers either. So quite an impressive attack.
Opt-out, actually. Everyone got opted-in by default.
Why are so many middle-aged white americans dying?
Is this project open source?
Leave it to the Brits to invent a computer that leaks oil. (Yes, the difference engine in question has an oil pan, and I would assume needs regular maintenance.)
The fact is however, HTTPS offers massive improvements for security for the majority of users, especially those using public or shared Wi-Fi (i.e. Work or School), assuming they're using their own device. Assuming HSTS was set up, it would be impossible to strip SSL without causing most browsers to panic and refuse you access to the website.

On those types of networks, MITM attacks are extremely easy, and there are tools to do it in seconds. It may be more likely for you to get MITM'd and have them modify the signature, than for the actual website to get hacked. Combined with the fact that some people would try to download Tails across these types of network for the added anonymity.
So by being politically incorrect, he "proves" that he "just speaks his mind," and ends up gaining voter trust! I do think he's an expert salesman, something I've only recently grown to admire. His book might actually be worth reading...
Blue collar workers would vote for Hitler.

Ahh yes, glad to see there is still civil discussion on ycombinator.
> sexism in video games, Internet feminism, etc

What's abstract or unreal about them? What's "Internet" feminism, for that matter? I'd say sexism in videogames is real... and the level of aggression in online discussions about that topic is almost asphyxiating, enough that I consider it a serious problem. Would you similarly argue that it's "unreal" to argue about sexism (or racism, or whatever -ism) in movies?

It's a shame you said this, because I'm in agreement with the rest of your post.
From the article...

"Scoville lifted up Molaison’s frontal lobes with a spatula and reached far into the center of his brain. Then, using a silver straw, Scoville sucked out fist-size chunks of the medial temporal lobes on both sides of Molaison’s brain."

fist-size chunks? (plural!) I'm hopefully imagining that this surgeon had freakishly small hands.
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>Microsoft pulls in an impressive $1.35B in revenue for Surface line

Really? Impressive for whom? 1.3B is less than what Apple made with the iWatch -- and that's after decades of MS losing money and trying to go somewhere with their table OS and then tablet offerings.
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> Also, it's a complete myth that San Francisco is expensive to live in.

Cool. Can you point me to where I can get an apartment in SF for less that $1k/month?
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I think as long as T-mobile isn't charging the video services actual money, the degree of concern goes way down for me. If money changes hands, then the Tmobile would be effectively hiding end customer costs into the structure of another service, making end customer market choices more convoluted, reducing customer market freedom and giving smaller companies an artificial financial disadvantage.

Since they aren't charging, there's this hurdle of having to do things to confirm the the specs of the program, but there's already all sorts of technical/marketing things that small companies need to do to access expanded customer bases. As long as they can make clean tradeoffs valuing Binge On conformance against other choices that seems not as inherently terrible - especially since in the end, mobile is a market where people have better choices then say the last-mile home broadband market.
So, the protocol is definitely good enough to handle situations like this but just commonly applied that way esp with many Github-hosted projects. Gotcha. That makes sense.
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> Because on the other side, not everyone can opt in.

Can you provide evidence of this? That you're not permitted to opt in if you've met their technical guidelines?

> Also, it's misleading marketing.

Can you explain which part is misleading?
I'm not the op, but here's one quote that deals with the issue. (Source - http://www.speakeasysolutions.com/blog/2011/06/01/the-myths-...)

(Short answer = that depends...and software like Dragon has many other advantages/drawbacks that factor in.)

"For myself, let’s compare typing vs dictating, given the above information and a 1,000 word email.

Straight typing: 90 wpm = 11.11 minutes, no proofreading allowance, correcting errors as typed.

Dictating with Dragon: 140 wpm dictating (7.14 minutes) + 300 wpm proofreading (3.33 minutes) + correcting 10 errors @ 10 seconds each (1.67 minutes) = 12.14 minutes.

For an average professional, typing speed is rated at 50 wpm. A 1,000 word email would take approximately 20 minutes to type.

For an average professional, their dictation with Dragon stats would approximate my own (12 minutes) — they are not unreasonable."
They are comparable IMO, but it really only goes to show that software largely matters more than hardware.

After some early missteps it looks like MSFT has finally gotten the "tablet as productivity device" right, along with "tablet as true laptop replacement".

Much of this is because of Windows as a platform rather than necessarily the hardware itself (though the fact that the hardware doesn't suck like your typical Dell or HP shitbox definitely helps a lot).

Which is to say, the declining fortunes of iPad is IMO largely a symptom of iOS's limitations rather than any larger rejection of the tablet form factor.
IMO, housing is a partial exception. You can easily opt out of 25$ for lunch and 6$ coffee seeming normal, but wasting hours a day driving is soul crushing. That said, making 150k and having roommates is completely reasonable.
Not if they acted like a mirror. Put it on GitHub, Bitbucket, and crates.io
I actually find it funny when Eve is discussed on Hacker News as most people on Hacker News are programmers, so they look down at Eve in the same way that C++ programmers used to look down at Basic Programmers in the 1990s (you had to be a programmer in the 1990s to know what I mean).

Yet a simpler model did prevail, and now we use so called toy languages like Javascript all the time. Eve's time will come, and in 10 years most of us who frequent hacker news today will be like the C++ developers of the 1990s in that we will be the minority. And languages like Eve and other similar projects will be considered normal programming languages. Java, Python and other languages will just be considered special purpose languages, much as C++ is considered "special purpose" today for high performance computing and operating systems
> Are Trump's politics actually reactionary, or not?

His politics are actually reactionary, yes.

> I am not sure I have a good sense of what his actual policies would be.

Whether his actual policies would be reactionary is a different question from whether his actual politics are reactionary.

> Saying things that he's said about immigration might appear reactionary, but I'm not sure it's not as much a play to Peoria, where the lower and middle class whites that still make up the majority of the electorate are feeling the pain of globalization and the erosion of their traditional economy.

Sure, its populist; that doesn't stop it from also being reactionary. (Sanders, likewise, is populist, but rather the opposite of reactionary.)
Yes, it's the actual combiner that can't create an Immutable object.
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H1B worker here. I understand the sentiments of being replaced by an H1B worker. I just want to emphasize that the worker is not be blamed for this. The fault is with the H1B system & the consultancies which exploit the H1B system.

1. The H1B visa is supposed to be a "skilled visa". But currently this visa is purely based on luck and not on skills & that's how many bad apples game the system. The DOL approves LCA based on minimum wages. The consultancies just pay the minimum wages and bring in the H1B employee. This minimum wage should be increased to match the salary of a skilled American worker. So that this exploitation will stop.

eg: (the salaries are approximate)

In Arizona , the minimum annual salary for LCA is 62K, the average salary paid to an American worker is 115K. Consultancy firms like TCS,Infosys and many other local "one room" consultancies pays 62K and bring in H1B employees because 62K is the minimum stipulated by Department of Labor. Increasing this minimum 62K to a realistic salary like 115K will stop this abuse.

2. There is no easy job portability for H1B workers. Switching jobs on H1B is a precarious act and if something goes wrong, you will have to be out of the country immediately, no grace period. So to be on the safer side, many H1B employees stay silent and accept lowball offers. They also have kids who are going to school and a spouse who cannot work because they are on H4. So H1B workers job portability is not really easy.

Make H1B jobs portable without any strings attached. So that if an H1B employee is paid less and abused by the employer. He/She can switch jobs easily. So this will prevent H1B abuse by the employers and they will think twice before low balling an H1B worker.

3. H1B is a dual intent visa. Once the employer starts GreenCard process for the worker. The H1B worker is literally on shackles. The rules are so strict that the worker cannot change jobs easily. Cannot accept promotions or title change for years. The worker silently accepts this because he/she has a family & kids to support just like any other American worker.

All I want to convey is: The H1B employee is not be blamed for this. The very rules of the H1B system are being gamed by the consultancy companies from India.
Stopping H1B system is not the solution because all the large companies in US has huge dependency on H1B employees.

So to stop this abuse,
1. Increase the minimum wages to a more realistic one.
2. Stop lottery system and grant visas based on top salary.
3. Make the H1B job easily portable.
> You're accepting a video stream degraded to a bitrate that's still acceptable on a mobile device for unlimited video consumption (which requires technical intervention).

If you read the EFF's report on this, they show that T-Mobile is not cooperating with Google, et. al. in order to provide this service. All they're doing is artificially throttling the connection their own end, and letting the video service's automatic bitrate selection take effect.
First off, the numbers I cited were not theoretical, they were the observed network run rate at the time I posted.

Secondly, Bitcoin doesn't have to scale up to Visa levels, at least not in 2016. In 2016, it just has to scale up. And there's plenty of room to scale up.

Bitcoin has a growth plan that subsidizes the expansion of the network (via inflation and adoption) for many more decades. In two decades, the Moore's Law equivalent of a 1MB block size is a 16GB block size. Even without additional scalability, Bitcoin can process a lot of transactions with 16GB blocks.
I can't
...and that's exactly why discriminatory deals like BingeOn should not be allowed. If Tmo wants to offer unlimited 2mbit traffic, let them offer it for all sites equally.
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>Why is it that when MS makes a "new" product and category, you put it in quotations, yet when Apple does it, you don't?

Because one dominates and defines the market, as can be seen by any before and after, and the other is just putting out some products few people care about.
if it was opt-in (edit: for the consumer) instead does that change the argument in any way?

I remember that being a common recommended consideration when the program launched.
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To be fair, everyone had to stop calling it "iPhone OS" when Apple rebranded it as "iOS."
Well, when the only tool you have is a hammer...
They talk about PRs. They have a "view the project on GitHub" link.
Defaults are a powerful thing, and usually I like opt-in. In this case, opt-out makes sense to me, because the people who care about net neutrality already know about the opt-out by now, and the service needs large scale opt-in to produce real results.

HD Voice is similar, it needs wide adoption to start paying dividends, and I hope it starts being opt-out instead of opt-in.
Well the problem is the people who haven't been included in the tech boom and are living on salaries that can't afford those things and are being forced out of their neighborhoods. You can say it's just free markets again but there is a huge human cost.
Most Windows Phone users say it's great, but it lacks some apps. Is this the main problem ? lack of app-glitter ? It would be sad that an actually fast, light and usable platform is pushed aside for too absurd reasons.
Inflation rates were very low in 2015 (sometimes even slightly negative) [0], and historically have been relatively constant at around 1-5% (even during the economic crisis of 2008).

Aside from extraneous years of course where it hit high teens.

So, yea, if there is a break on the US economy, it doesn't appear to be stemming from inflation.

The United States has an extremely diversified economy, plenty of natural resources, an abundance of talent, a relatively low population, incredible military strength, technological dominance in many areas, a healthy population (unlike, as pointed out, some countries which are declining in population, or about to hit cliffs where the majority of the population is above the working age), and huge geographical buffers.

Some economists say the dollar might be too strong for short term gains for the American worker, and the Fed is having trouble hitting inflation targets between 1-3%.

The private sector benefits primarily from government funding of research.

So I'm just not sure where you're basing your analysis from?

[0] - http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-in...
Yep, that's exactly what I'm trying to say with a larger quantity of less intelligible words.
This looks great, and their kids will look back and feel very lucky to have grown up here. As a US resident, I can't help but wonder whether:

- Property taxes (it's huge)

- Building code

- Zoning

Would prevent something like that happening here.
Last page starts here:

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/mast...

Fascinating!
This is actually a place where "whoever," rather than "whomever," would be correct, even in the most conservative style.
> maybe because there weren't any

The other comments have said plenty about the benefits, the most obvious being how cheap your daily goods are nowadays, effectively boosting the purchasing power of every American. In addition, had computers and smartphones not been so cheap because of the Chinese workers, the whole Silicon Valley bubble probably would never have come into existence.

> it's because the benefits mostly went to the executives of large multinational corporations

Why should the benefits of the executives be discounted? Perhaps you believe that the rich should not be made even richer; rather, the poor should receive the most benefits. Then why do you think that American workers, orders of magnitude richer than the Chinese, should be made even richer?
I think you must be drastically misinformed about what's necessary to function within those assigned positions.
Ask HN: App that supports task boards, time tracking and a daily/weekly planner?
I spent a few hours yesterday trying out a few productivity tools and none of them fit my needs.

I'm looking for something that supports time tracking like toggl. Has a daily/weekly/monthly planner where I can see upcoming due dates and today's due dates (this is one of the reasons meistertask doesn't fit my criteria). And supports a task board view (like trello or meistertask) so I can see what state tasks are in.

Also there's some other annoyances like recurring tasks (e.g meeting task due every friday at 10) or blocking subtasks that I would like support for but it's not critical.

Anybody know of anything like that?
Is that because Google is using QUIC? Which uses UDP? Which T-mobile's BingeOn config doesn't support (as outlined in the very T-mobile docs referenced in this advocacy paper)?
Welcome to reality. Power outages create real problems and they rarely go as planned.
This. I don't know what happened (that trend was already well underway before Ballmer stepped down) but lately they've been acting like kids suffering from ADHD.

Developers want stability. They had a good thing going with .NET which they could have simply used as the platform for making Windows Mobile apps as soon as the iPhone took off.

Instead they chose to introduce a whole new platform (Windows Phone 7), then kill it off to make way for Windows RT (Windows Phone 8), then kill it off for Universal Apps (Windows 10 Mobile). You can't expect to build a good ecosystem when you establish a pattern like that.
What features would make craigslist better? I like it not in spite of its bareness but because of it.
While I do feel for Dragon Systems and James Baker, I agree with the finer line toed by Matt Levine's article here: http://dealbreaker.com/2013/01/dragon-systems-shareholders-c...:

"Why would you hire an investment bank to advise you on an M&A deal? It’s sort of an uncomfortable question."

This reminds me about Warren Buffet saying that asking an investment bank about M&A advice is like asking a barber if you need a haircut.
I said "$30 total" (IE salad + delivery).
So managing to sell 20% of a competitors revenue, in a category where you were present 5+ years before said competitor, and after 5 years after the competitor redefined the category and created a huge multi-billion market for it (which it never had before) that they totally dominated, is impressive?
Didn't Arcade Fire say this years ago?
You don't need to throw out your favorite regex features—backreferences aren't stupid, they're useful and usually harmless! Rather, a good regex engine should start with recursive backtracking (ideally JIT'd) and fall back to the Thompson NFA if the regex supports it and the recursive backtracking approach is taking too long. Think of it like the adaptive sorting algorithms that switch between insertion sort and quicksort based on the size of the collection.

This approach gives you the best of both worlds: speedy operation in the common cases in which recursive backtracking beats the Thompson NFA, all the regex features you know and love, and worst case polynomial running time for regexes that the Thompson NFA supports.

I don't think it would have prevented this bug, though, because I don't think the Thompson NFA supports the recursive backreference thing that this regex uses.
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NFAs do not do backtracking. So the solution space would look different. More sane, and more performant, but it would not be a pure regex solution.
> For example Linux, hosted on Github, (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master) is also mirrored and hosted on kernel.org (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/).

It's the opposite: Linux is hosted on kernel.org, and the mirror on github.com is just something that was created during a kernel.org outage. The canonical address is the kernel.org one.

(The Linux repository on kernel.org, by the way, is one of the oldest git repositories; IIRC, it was created when git was only a few weeks old.)
And people use their phones (which many think of as their "primary computer") all the time while they've got their laptop open. It seems like it would be really frustrating to not be able to use your phone because it's playing laptop CPU at the moment.
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Not surprising. I bought a cheap 5" Lumia as a navigation device as at that time it was the only platform with world-wide offline HERE maps. Guess what? At some point they killed the possibility to store maps on an SD card, rendering the phone into an almost useless brick. Many complaints were ignored on the forums as plenty of users stated they bought their phone only for maps... WP 8.1 was the first release that allowed transparent tiles that actually looked pretty good comparing to ugly single color tiles they had before, now they are returning back to translucent ugliness as well...
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I'd like to point out that Ramses (http://ramses.tech) has these abilities: https://nefertari-guards.readthedocs.org/en/stable/acl_filte...

Looks like we need to start marketing better :)