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>> ... you can detect radar before it can detect your return signature.

That's old thinking. Cutting edge radar tech involves transmitting in way that is very very hard to detect. It's basically a strong signal spread thin across a wide band so it looks like background noise to the target. The radar receiver then relies on a massive, literally heavy, computer system to differentiate the returns mathematically from the background. I've even heard this called "encrypted radar" as it adds creates an asymmetric situation not unlike public key cryptography. The days of assuming that the target will always hear the radar before detection are over.

This works particularly well for aircraft viewed from the ground. They, looking down at the ground, see a much noisier background than those looking up at them against the sky.

Also, much work is being done on very long wavelength radars, with the possibility that an aircraft might not be able to carry a dish large enough to detect the incoming signal while remaining stealthy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-frequency_radar
Do you have kids? It's expensive for families..
If you had to have a computer for 20-30 years, you would definitely want to be able to load new data. Even if we could fit all the current radar data into the computer, as weapons change we would need new data. And there is much more to mission data than just radars. You can’t fly around with all of google earth.

And this doesn’t even account for the general crappiness of military aviation technology. People assume the latest fighter jets are cutting edge, but the F-35 technology is probably already 10 years old. Flying F-18s from 2002-2012, the max number of GPS points we could store was something like 256. We had “bricks” the size of a brick that could hold kilobytes. We updated to cards that could hold a MB. This is when thumb-drives where moving into GBs.

Cheaper, specialized aircraft, both man and un-manned is critical for our national defense. Aircraft that are more expendable and can be upgraded with new tech quickly and at less cost. The industry, however, just builds what they want and then the Generals and Admirals get board seats so everyone is happy. When I left, the F-35 was pretty much considered a turd by most pilots, but a hand-full of senior leaders where pushing hard and based their careers on it.
it's not what you know, but who you know. or as they say in SV it's no the idea but execution.
If you're using an Android, get yourself an inexpensive USB-OTG cable. They're usually under £1. You can then plug in a keyboard & mouse (and anything else) to your Android phone.

If you have an MHL compatible device, you can also plug in an HDMI cable and use a bigger screen.

Something like http://amzn.to/1SgkguB will do the job. Of course, you might need to VNC into something to get the UI you want!
Great report. Do you know of anyway to monetize slack apps?

Also, I like the icon, where did you get it?
It's the Lifespan TR-1200 DT.
We have been hearing and reading similarly titled articles for the last couple years. This, however, is the most stupid one in my opinion.

What the author describe is a lavish (according to him) standard of living, judged startups to be dumb by their name/description (but they got investor money). He concludes that we are in a bubble.

Here are the metrics that matter:

* Are current startups generating enough money to pay salaries.

* Are current startups raising enough funds to make ends meet.

* Are there new startups funded.

* Is the number of exits/IPOs higher to create new millionaires.

* Is the number of failed startups higher to create new unemployed engineers and free capacity.

If someone is interested to know these numbers, maybe finance me for a couple months of research and get the right facts.
Hey everyone!

James and I made Ship because we were frustrated with other tools we've had to use. It's focused on developer productivity and meant to be used frequently without wasting your time.

But seriously, we'd love feedback, both good and bad.
Github: https://github.com/momentumworks/swift-elm
On iOS typically your organization does take control of your phone's security policy to connect to Exchange. I would personally prefer not to have 6 number passcode.
iOS and OS X were the first things that came to my mind.
Some of the funnest jobs are when you delete lots of code.
The odds makers are giving him a fair shot at it next best after Hillary. If you disagree that he has a shot against her you can make some cash from it.

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/politics/other-politics/us-pol...
I can't believe the CHM is located smack in the middle of Silicon Valley and nobody is willing to put their hand in their pocket to keep this available as an educational resource to inspire future generations. Pathetic.
When you compare that to Detroit trouble, you will see that bubble is not that bad after all. All those overrated engineers will have connections and confidence.
Good question. I think he's doing all he can to become president, while knowing that his presence in the national spotlight is only benefiting his career as a television personality. I think he's well-informed enough, behind his political facade, to look at the polls and prediction markets to see where he stands in the running.

How does this differ from the consensus view?
but a DST change is a government-mandated rescheduling of the entire lives of its citizens within that jurisdiction :-)
Is there a caching story to tell, here? In other words, is it possible that most web infrastructure is set up in such a way that caching is used to mitigate much of the load on the servers, and moving too many things to HTTPS too quickly would result in a MUCH greater content generation load?
I strongly disagree that these sorts of communications are pointless. In every major service outage I've seen where the company maintained a degree of silence, it's caused major damage to their public relations and consumer trust.

I know it doesn't tell you much about exactly what happened, but the truth is they may still be sorting that out and focusing on ensuring it does not happen again. An in-depth post-mortem accompanied by a description of the fix would be great. In the meantime, admitting culpability and apologizing are the ideal essential first steps.
> People are spoiled. A friend of mine takes an uber to and from work every day, and apparently that is fairly common.

Hard to take any of this seriously. Lots of people regularly taxi to work in large cities and I cannot imagine how it's indicative of a bubble. Author seems too emotional about such an assertion.
Firefox works on Wayland now. So, unless you have redefined Firefox as a non-major browser, "is far from certain whether any of the major browsers will ever run on Wayland" is flatly wrong. Also: https://github.com/01org/ozone-wayland

And the obvious point is that turning ChromeOS into a full linux distribution defeats the point of ChromeOS itself: to have very few "moving parts", and only those necessary to launch Chrome. Also, the bulk of the work "for wayland" is not wayland itself: it is KMS/Mesa/glamor/libinput, which are already used by ChromeOS (except for libinput, I think).
I remember reading a few years back that Yahoo once a week takes a random data center offline, just to make sure they could do that without issues. They probably didn't actually cut the power ;) But they used it as an argument against investing to much in emergency generators and such: they'll fail or cause accidents and you need the ability to fail-over either way, so make it routine.
If I was a betting man, I'd side with you on this one in that low interest rates may be a permanent fixture until the Fed has pushed to the extreme and the system can bend no further.

Can you elaborate on why you think it's "blatantly obvious" though? I can't make any of these types of guesses with high confidence.
Sorry, but this is a totally heartless comment.

By saying things like "Good, they will fail, people won't be able to afford to live here and they'll leave" you're completely overlooking the human costs and implications.

Things don't just change overnight. It's an slow, painful, eventual decline. Things shouldn't need to be pushed to a breaking point for us to make necessary changes to alleviate these problems.
Disney's contract did not have the non disparagement clause, Northeast Utility did.
Here's the only page I could quickly find on Github's architecture for those interested:

https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast

This looks like a single datacenter. I don't see anything here indicating high availability or other datacenters. You'll usually spot either an outright mention of it or certain components/setups common in it. They might have updated their stuff for redundancy since then. However, if it's same architecture, then the reason for the downtime might be intentional design where only a single datacenter has to go down.

Might be fine given how people apparently use the service. It's just good to know that this is the case so users can factor that into how they use the product and have a way of working around the expected downtime if it's critical to do so.
Unless you're in a bar.
You're right in a sense.

On Chromium OS derivatives, there is a "guest" mode, which is not linked to any Google account and is like a browser "Private Browsing" (Firefox) or "Incognito mode" (Chrom*).
We want to use it daily, and are doing this and by using/developing JavaScript applications, and by adding our favorite packages to NayuOS.

There is no way to add custom packages on Chrome OS (and we don't want to use Chrome OS because of privacy issue anyway).

We also share the binary images for some Chromebooks (not all right now, sorry). This is not the case for Chromium OS, that you have to build yourself.

(By the way, npm is not available right now).
> This is why the free market is so great.

I feel like I should just make this my email/social media signature since I say it so often:

A perfect requires these things:

- Perfect market information

- No participant with market power to set prices

- Non intervention by governments

- No barriers to entry or exit

- Equal access to factors of production

- Profit maximization

- No externalities

The less you have those, the less efficient your market is. "Free markets" aren't these magical things that arise on their own in nature. They are carefully crafted and maintained artificial environments and most are far from efficient.

Market forces are not a silver bullet that will solve all problems if we just sit around and wait long enough for the invisible hand to do everything.
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Maybe he was an IT person who doesn't know what IT is called.
Advertising is a necessary part of selling a product. Selling a product is a necessary part of being profitable. Why hate on that? Way better than waste-my-time Farmville or an enhanced "like" button. Adtech actually helps commerce.
Depends on what you consider "serious". You can watch a Kickstarter video, at least the beginning. A gadget which shows you weather. Is it serious? I dunno. But I find it useful. Well, perhaps I don't need to know weather in Tokyo if I'm too far away from it. Just knowing meteo report for my area, and actual temperature outside would be good. But wait, if I have an upcoming trip to Tokyo, I'm actually interested in weather in Tokyo during next couple of weeks. Easy customization and changes like that (literally, "on spot") is the biggest selling point of scripting languages.

Can you do it in Arduino? Yes, you can. Arduino is kind of subset of C++ to make it more like scripting language, but still compiled (because AVR microcontroller used in the original Arduino couldn't host an advanced scripting language, but people didn't care even back then, and wanted to run it nonetheless: https://github.com/billroy/bitlash). So, just keep that compiler/IDE around (on your tablet? phone?) if you want to tweak it. Is it big problem? Nope, but should give an idea why people look towards scripting languages which allow to have even less problems.

How MicroPython will be better? Well, we seriously consider Python to be more advanced language overall (while more suited for hardware programming). And I'm a long-time esp8266 hacker with bunch of ideas how to get more from the chip, just looking for a good excuse (like, people actually needing it) to implement them.
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Out of how many? When were they founded? When did they raise the money? What's the trend (founded/total, funded/total and funded/founded)?

It's nonsense to talk about this kind of thing without the correct frame of reference. At least if you're trying to argue that not enough black women led startups get funded (which seems to be what the headline is getting at).

Also, what about other ethnicities? What about black men? What about white women? What about social backgrounds? Was their ethnicity the distinguishing factor at that point or were they preselected prior to becoming entrepreneurs?

The first step to finding out how to solve the problem is to find out where the problem actually stems from. The 5 Whys apply to social problems as much as to technical ones.
Ask HN: Do you have plans for your micro:bit
I've been watching the micro:bit process since it was first announced about a year ago. It was scheduled for delivery. Power supply issues caused to get pushed back to 2016. The BBC recently announced that it was delayed again (I can't find a reason specified). They are now shooting for a mid-February release.

My question is: Are you ready to get yours for your classes / home-schooled student(s)? Will you be able to pull off lesson plans now, or will you wait until the summer or next fall terms?

What is your plan with them?
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> Everything too expensive? Good, don't live here, eventually enough people will leave to drive all of the costs back to other market norms.

That's a rather nonchalant way of saying something that will likely be a very sharp, painful transition. And when a boom-town the size of San Francisco implodes it can have a huge impact on the entire country.
Hiding mixed content warnings (like Chrome did last year http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/chrome...) would probably also really help some sites with SSL everywhere.

On sites that allow users to embed things like images (forums, comments, etc), in order to avoid mixed content warnings or interstitial confirmation dialogs, you either have to pipe everything through an SSL proxy, or severely limit the types of things users can embed.
What are you measuring in terms of productivity?

The employee certainly improves their value in terms of skills acquired during a sabbatical. The employee also gains significantly in terms of value of life experiences when they take time to travel, support kids, etc.

Certainly there are unproductive poor team players who dissapear whenever trouble happens but we shouldn't set our policies based on this minority.
This Anonymous Coward has eloquently put why being able to be an AC is important
Microsoft seems to have no patience anymore. Normally I would agree with you -- and honestly the slow and steady approach is the only way they'd ever make an impact -- but Microsoft just keeps resetting this platform over and over.
Chicago is notorious for organized crime.
I've lived here since 2005 and have yet to see a $30 salad.
That's not the reason. If that were the reason, death would swiftly make it so the best engineers are those with degrees.

The reason is because they learned out of innate curiosity and true passion. You always go farther with those.

However, you go even farther with curiosity, passion and a degree.
Exactly! What is the purpose of being "logged in" if when you then go to browse the rest of the site you are no longer actually "logged in" (because the secure HTTPS cookie isn't being sent on those insecure http: pages).
How technological innovation can massively reduce the cost of living
Next up on TechCrunch, "The 'Bubble' Bubble: What It Means To You When It Pops"
Github is to git as Sourceforge is (used to be) to subversion, but with a better UI.

And yes, there have been concerns raised about what would happen if Github took a turn like Sourceforge, which usually get brought up when information about new shady practices at Sourceforge come up (or they get rehashed here).
You'll pay $7 for a 20oz point of something nice at a bar.

You can buy 6 packs of good craft beer for $7/$8 at any grocery store.
so homeless people don't have homes but they will have internet access? Dumb.
Is the US Government not also to blame for this? I had thought that one of the major rules about immigrant worker visas was that they can only be granted for workers whom are doing a job for which no available citizen worker can be found.
What about TinkerGraph: http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/3.1.0-incubating/#tinkergra...

It is "TinkerGraph is a single machine, in-memory (with optional persistence), non-transactional graph engine that provides both OLTP and OLAP functionality."
I wish it were a protected word in the states, maybe an Engineering association sitting over it. Would help with things like H1B flooding
> So, there really was no trade off for the power vi and emacs offered (less powerful alternatives of the time were still just as inaccessible), where now there is.

There's simply nothing out there as good as emacs. Nothing. Eclipse, IntelliJ, Atom, SublimeText, all those pale in comparison. vim has its positive points (it's an excellent way for a human to edit line-oriented text), but ultimately it too falls down in the general case. emacs is simply the best way for a human being to use a computer to edit data.

There still isn't an alternative to vim and emacs. I kinda wish there were, but there ain't. Someday I'd like to use a modern emacs-like editor, implemented in Common Lisp (or a successor language), but right now emacs is the pinnacle of editor evolution.
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> a particular industry in a particular area was able to get to an approximation of that

On the backs of whom? How much are those Uber drivers, grocery deliverers, and artisanal salad chefs making?

It is good that one group of people is moving forward, we just have to be careful that we aren't doing it at the expense of other groups. The impression I get is that in the US today, it's not just that some people are getting richer, many others are getting poorer.
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I guess that the vast majority of "software engineers" of any kind (not just the best) don't have software engineering degrees. Maybe you were thinking computer science degrees?
I understand what you're describing and I belive that this will be possible in the distant future. I just haven't seen any evidence of this being even close to possible with todays technology.

I think the primary problem is the search space size. I've seen this type of learning work on simple 8 bit games, and it seems we may finally be at the stage to handle Go. However Dota has many orders of magnitude more different possible moves at any given situation. The total search space grows incredibly fast after every move.

Thus, I do think neural nets can eventually learn how to play well, it's just that there's simply not enough memory or processing power to achieve any success right now.
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I used a surface pro 3 for a couple weeks before ultimately returning it. Windows as a dev platform couldn't cut it for me, and the ubuntu VM in Virtualbox did not survive multiple sleep cycles one puts the surface through during normal use.

The thing i did love about the surface is that the processor is not sitting on my lap, where as the macbook air/pro burns my legs all day long.

I would love for apple to make a version of the macbook that puts the processor behind the screen.
You make a good point. I suppose one might be able to justify such a commission on that basis (although that itself indicates the problem with the post-Civil War order).
Exactly right, but over the past six years there's been a strong (and accelerating) trend among developers of "lalala we don't want to know how anything works! give us an API and go away."

Most developers I've seen reject even learning about networks or DNS or operating systems or databases. Such willful ignorance boggles the mind, but they are praised because their goals are shipping half-broken things as rapidly as possible to flip upwards for those oh-so-tasty acquihire payouts.

We even saw this week how overconsumption of convenience APIs can put entire companies in danger when those privately controlled convenience APIs just decide to shut down one day. Convenience of immediacy always seems to trump connivence of long term stability.
As a mechanical engineer, excel has been a wonderful tool. Engineers in our department get to have a smooth transition into programming competency in VBA, which has found itself extremely useful in many mechanical engineering analyses.

My coworkers are given the ability to crawl (simple equations in spreadsheets) then walk (user-defined functions) then run (automatic iterative solutions in UDF's, applying test data to create UDF models of machine performance). Not something a lot of mechanical folks would ever find themselves doing unless an already well-used tool has a good progression toward more complex and demanding use cases.
Thanks for the response! I'll try to dig through your site to find the docs on how to make it work with my servers. MQTT would be a bonus to be able to push data, that's my preferred method at this point.
Just your regular self-aware engineer.

There is nothing hypocritical about acknowledging one's self is spoiled.
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Very good? Hm. That doesn't sound anything like the very good answer of "Styles & Formatting > Heading 2 > Modify > Update All.
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Searching turns up zero results for "FUSTTSP" apart from your comment. Can you elaborate?
Actually I think he was the PM for VBA for Excel, not Excel itself.
I can agree with this too. Recently found a job after 50+ applications. I started with heavily tracking them, but in the end I lost the care in doing it. When a potential lead called me up it was to arrange an interview and so as soon as I got their details, a quick search of the company name in my Gmail revealed what I'd actually applied for.

If you're planning on writing something like this, perhaps a tool for the flip side would be better, i.e. an applicant tracker for organisations (although these do already exist).
Agree,

I'm visiting from Australia and its maybe 10% to 30% more expensive, and alcohol is cheaper. Nothing like what we paid for stuff in new york.
I see a lot of posts about back exercises, I would just like to add that ab exercises are JUST as important in preventing back pain. Your trunk muscles play a huge role in supporting your spine. A strong core pulls your spine and pelvis into a more optimal angle for weight bearing. A weak core will produce a bad angle in your lumbar region (which can compress the nerves exiting the spinal tract in a number of ways).

http://www.somastruct.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/anterio...

Experience: athlete + med student

Personal anecdote: Used to skip ab exercises during lifting. Had lower back pain during football. Decided to stop skipping ab exercises. Lower back pain disappeared.
Written exactly like someone who visited SF from NYC for a few days. The pen is dripping with poison and vitriol.
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