skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not 100% sure how I’d tackle this problem, but the plane you described could play a roll. It’s not poorly thought out by any means. Generally, I’m a fan of a diverse set of assets for survivability and cost. Focus on specific missions instead of trying to do everything. For Air-to-Air the Mig-21 Bison is an interesting example of upgradable lower tech aircraft.[1] Currently, I think the ability to go fast is still an asset to defeat missiles and would be a severe limitation of a slower platform (okay if it’s unmanned and cheap though). High tech stealthier fighters with lower tech fighters and drones in support. Mainly all working as missile trucks or targeting platforms.

For a mission such as Close Air Support the perfect tools are the AC-130 [2] and the Super Tacano. [3] For Strike I think drones, cruise missiles, and JSOW [4] are the main way to go. As for Air-to-Air, a mix of assets is critical so defeating one doesn’t defeat others, and they can’t all depend on one commonality such as GPS. Would probably keep a few high tech and more lower tech manned bombers available and ready too.

Complicated, interesting problem with strategy, logistics, and politics all involved, but the bankrupt the country super weapons definitely is the correct course in my opinion.

[1] http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?121375-MiG-21-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-154_Joint_Standoff_Weapon
As an American, I would say our illegal immigrants tend to be a lot closer to us culturally than what Europeans are experiencing.
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> And when you need to make or receive a call? Pull out the bluetooth earpiece (yet another fiddly thing to carry around)? I'd rather just have a tablet and a phone and I think most people would agree.

Bluetooth or just pick up the phone? Especially if it's wireless then you could do it however you wanted. Video chat on a large screen, move the phone to your ear to talk and listen discretely, etc.
One of the great features of a web-based bug tracker is that I can paste ticket links in various places, which people can view with a single click.

On top of that, it's yet another app to be installed and kept up to date, which everyone on your team has to independently do. If it auto-updates, presumably one person updating will update the database and then require everyone else to upgrade to continue use? I can't tell you how annoyed I'd be if it did that right after I finished entering info for a new ticket..

I appreciate the feature set and motivations from that perspective, but I have trouble with the native app part. I'm a very heavy app user though; Aside from my actual IDE, git, and the executable code I am actually writing (generally web apps or background daemons), everything I do is web-based: Email, chat, docs, bug tracker, wiki, build server, repository management, notes, news, music...
> The easiest would be through the use of a caching proxy and/or load balancing system.

Sorring if I sound like an asshole, but before we actually use the word "easiest", can you please share with us how to do all of that. It is not as easy as you claim, to be honest. Not just some /etc/hosts hijack.
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This is exactly what Bugs Everywhere does: http://www.bugseverywhere.org/
Nice aliases.
Another cool project is git-extras.[1]

[1] https://github.com/tj/git-extras
We like to call out politicians and such for who sponsors them. What's wrong with calling out our information sources in the same way? (serious question)
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Yes that makes sense. I stand corrected. Thanks for the info!
I tried using that sort of setup for a while (with ditz), and it really doesn't work as well as you'd think it might. Issues mostly want to refer to the global state of the project, and be accessible independent of where in the revision tree you have navigated.

One interesting compromise would be to tag issues with branches or commit hashes, and have a view filter for the tracker where you could search for all issues that applied to a given point in the tree.
The comments show why most people shouldn't be writing security-critical software in C: They think they know the language's pitfalls when in reality they only know some of them.

Use memset_s! The compiler isn't allowed to remove calls to it: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1381.pdf
Despite what the article seems to claim, it appears to be describing the most basic anti-fraud measures which are easily defeated by basic fraudster tools and techniques.

>User ID

1 account per card per IP, basic stuff.

>IP address

Vip72 is a pretty basic example of a commercial solution, more advanced people either source fresh IPs from bots or scan for SSH tunnels.

>Geo location

While not as trivial to defeat, most "serious" fraudsters either operate their own mule networks or pay for access to one. There's no lack of stupid people.

>A tracking cookie

lol?

>Credit card number

There's no lack of credit cards, even if you're paying $30 for a no-AVS card with full VBV info that still costs less than a TV.
Check out the abandoned Mozilla Persona, and the SRP protocol.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona
http://srp.stanford.edu/whatisit.html
Perhaps even leave a comment: TODO: FIXME
The access control limitations in Apache CouchDB are a big part of what we addressed in Couchbase Sync Gateway. Info about our Sync Function API http://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/mobile/1.1.0/ge...
Continuous integration, continuous delivery. Your Jenkins jobs all point to repos on GitHub? Do you plan to fix every single url? Some tools actually pull stuff from GitHub. If you don't have a mirror privately somewhere, where do you push your code? How can you tell you actually own the latest of everything? Time to compare with every co-worker.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/02/why...

Or tl, dr:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/02/Scree...
There was, fairly recently, a half-hearted attempt to do that in the way of Persona. Unfortunately, neither Mozilla nor any of the other browser vendors implemented it, and the fallback mechanism was very poor UX.
It's possible you've not experienced the problems that we have with web based issue trackers. That's ok. Ship may not be the right tool for you.

As for all-at-once upgrades, so far it's not been an issue. The client ignores things it doesn't understand and we've kept the server backwards compatible for the last 7 months. We expect to be able to continue to do so.
There are sites that can use keys to authenticate. They're usability is miserable.

Key based authentication is difficult for a layman to manage and understand. May mother can memorize a password and use it across computers. Asking her to do the same with a key will be difficult.
Your reference link literally says that Jamie Zawinski is the originator of the quote.
I've got a great way of increasing the percentage by an order of magnitude! Doing the math correctly would immediately boost the number to 0.1% from your stated 0.01%. See, being painfully pedantic has already paid off handsomely.

(And don't worry, at least you were only off by a factor of 10. The original article is off by a factor of 100).
Please be aware that moving to the bay area for any reason other than fun will be a serious life mistake.

If you move to the bay area in your 20s, by the time you're in your 40s you will have a specific knowledge of a fad language that is 20 years old. But even if you somehow keep up with new tech in your spare time, you will look 40 something and thus be nearly unemployable solely on those grounds.

And you simply will be unable to save any reasonable amount of money no mater how many beers you don't drink. Like anyone else in the states, your sole savings would be home equity which you won't have because you won't be able to buy any kind of home in the few years your age makes you employable.

If in doubt, for those still in SF, determine the savings of your co workers in their 20s and 30s (who are now near then end of their employability), and whether they rent or own (good luck finding a 50 something coworker to ask). Be aware that you do not leave the bay area rich, you leave it because you can't afford it. And be aware there are few middle aged and effectively no old people there. And beware that 45 is only half way to retirement age.
Not necessarily in a better light, but it's a wildly relevant, informed, and interesting perspective IMO.

"I really do feel for the bankers here. It’s Friday afternoon and nobody’s reading so I feel comfortable making this confession: when I was a banker I once underwrote some convertible bonds for a company that we’ll call Company X, and later when I was a blogger Company X went bankrupt and those bonds are … those bonds are not doing so hot, these days. That keeps me up at night, sometimes."

Assuming it's better to have both sides of the story, could you ask for a better representative from the GS side?
When I worked at Apple we used a native Mac issue tracker. It was much nicer than anything I've used before or since. I hate having to click-refresh-back-forward in a browser window, whereas a native client can have multiple windows, one for my assigned list, one for a search I did, then I minimize that search window and make a new window for a new search, then I cmd-H to hide the whole app without also hiding my browser.

At my current company we have an in-house project/issue tracker system which isn't quite as good as Apple's IMHO but very customized to this company's workflow. For my at-home consulting projects I try various web apps, most recently Mantis.
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Bob Woodward is not an investigative journalist these days. He's long morphed into a vanilla establishment insider. Why would you bring him up, of all people?
The server appears to be down?
You don't have to wait for the user to click anything. Just read each key press and send a message out.

Hard to believe this is still a common vulnerability. Of course, even in 2007 a significant number of bank and credit card web sites operated like this.
The speed of input is not, I believe, what is most meaningful about using voice to deliver computer instructions. Rather, it is the voice's unique capability to convey meaning to other humans that text simply cannot convey. There is a power held within the human voice that has yet to be fully exploited by software, although Baker did much great work towards this goal.

Speech to text, to me, is so attractive because it may help to usher in a whole new, even more powerful input paradigm than anything else in-use today. It's not about speed - it's about precision.

EDIT: A study demonstrating my point can be found here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243272/
I had a Steelcase Leap at my old agency job. I miss it dearly.
Use to many prominent warnings and people learn that they happen all the time and ignore them. It's a fine balance, and browser vendors invest a lot of effort in it (I know the chrome team had papers/talks on quite a few conferences about the topic)
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Except that it is not. It redundant array of computers, if one goes down, another takes it place and all the apps running on it are migrated to the new hardware. And if the whole zone goes down, the apps are migrated to a different zone. If the whole region goes down, the apps can be migrated to a different region. The 9s are so high that you don't have to worry about hardware issues anymore, unlike when you are running your own hardware.
This makes me reminisce, we had lots of bug trackers that were close to having these kinds of features when git was first hitting in the mid-ish 2000's.

My favorite was Simple Defects: http://syncwith.us/sd/
No, T-mobile is detecting all video content and throttling it. This include video files that you download instead of streaming.
It's API compatible, but even then not all API endpoints work. It's NOT their commercial product.
Indeed MS Office can be a pain the neck, but I haven't found a better product in the same market category (i.e. desktop WYSIWYG office suites)
Stop the music Booby-trapped song carjacked vehicles – security prof
No, I am stating the following (maybe unclearly):

1) In a thread where the author shows up and says "I am very hypocritical", standard rules like "discuss the article, not the author" do not apply. The author is fair game for discussion.

2) I don't usually crap on other peoples' industries, but not in this case, because (1).
> The old rich were families whose wealth passed down or perpetuated through generations specifically because they taught their kids the discipline needed to build and keep wealth.

No, the old rich were families whose wealth was secured by long-established bonds of connection with other old-rich families who constituted the ruling class and dominated politics and business and acted together, for protection of their mutual interest, as a tribe jealously defending against outsiders, the new rich were those who had secured money but not yet been admitted to the ruling tribe.

(This is still the case, though "old rich" and "new rich" aren't particularly popular terms for it; if your family has connections where, e.g., the Saudi royals will bail out your failing enterprises for the value of maintaining a useful network, and you wealthy establishment donors will pour fortunes into your brothers campaign for office for the same reason despite being willing to say that they think the whole thing is a waste as long as they can be anonymous while doing so, what your parents have given to you is connections more than discipline.)
Not only will it look the same, but we'll be working with a lot of the same code :) Android didn't exist 10 years ago, but it's based Linux, C++, Java, strung together with Makefiles, shell scripts, etc. All this stuff was well over 10 years old when Android was created.

Likewise, iOS is one biggest changes in the last 10 years, but based on old technology.
They've had an HTML / JS Add-in model for a few years now: http://dev.office.com/getting-started/addins?product=excel

It's not the exact same as VBA macro extensibility, but you can do some pretty interesting stuff with it - build task panes, build embedded charts that leverage web content, etc.
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Part of the whole venture capital startup game is diversification if investment. VC's expect a lot of their startups to fail (angel investors too), while a few grow and maybe if they are lucky one of them takes off.
I admire what you're doing, but I can't help but see gaping holes in your card wiki idea.

1. Your examples all seem to suffer from the same problem all of Bret Victors ideas do too; they don't scale. Sure I would like interactivity, no I don't want to re-eval my entire codebase on every keystroke, and no I don't want to recreate my vertex data every frame in the Draw method just so I can scrub a tree's bendiness.

2. The card wiki is too reliant on perfect structure. What if I need to change the structure at some point (refactor), then all my queries break. They'll break even worse too if my queries just says 'get the salaries per department', but then I modify the structure to have two sets of employees per dept (perhaps current and ex-employees), which changes the meaning of the query, yet the computer would plod along and now wrongly sum both groups I presume, if working in this automated way.

3. Performance. Sure it's easy to re-calculate an equation based on dependencies. Want to do 'a = b + c'? Then obviously re-calc 'b' and 'c' dependencies before performing the equation. But the hard part is when to do the re-calculation? Perhaps store an 'isDirty' bool? Or cache the value? Or just re-calc everytime it's needed? Human programmers make this decision based on how the result is used, how many times it is used, framerate, memory consumption and performance heuristics. There isn't a one size fits all, it's highly contextual.

4. You say 'we know Wikipedia works'. But have you tried scraping data from Wikipedia? Computers get stuck on all sorts of dumb stuff. Wikipedia is obviously meant for human consumption, where visual data and the English language rule, and the only structure we need is a 'top to bottom' layout. Programming is way more specific that this, so I can't see how combining the two ideas is any good.

5. Organisation. Perhaps you're still working on this, but you switched back and forth between a single card at a time, but given 20+ cards I'm not going to remember where stuff is. Code editors throw a bunch of stuff into one document, have tabs, and an explorer, and intellisense and search etc - and I still lose stuff all the time!

Hopefully when you do this release you'll include some complex samples, like you said you could build a compiler with these cards? So perhaps I'll be proved wrong.
"the people who haven't been included in the tech boom" ...are living on salaries that are supported by the people who have been included in the tech boom. It's exactly their expensive offerings to the tech people that is supporting their good income, BTW!
Very high quality dairy has a very nice flavor of its own, as does vodka. I've had very small production half and half in the San Juan islands that tasted exactly like vanilla ice cream. Butter often tastes different in France. I've also been told the Greek yogurt in Greece is completely unlike anything sold in the US and much much better.

Edit: I'm in SF and routinely buy local, organic, blahblahblah. I've still had better dairy elsewhere.
Fascinating, but honestly you shouldn't be warning people off a game you haven't even played based on hearsay.
at the cost of flavour and nutrition

The good news is that it isn't necessarily a trade off, it's just that commercial breeders have ignored flavor and nutrition and focused on productivity and suitability for transport. So we might get vegetables that still work well for modern supermarkets while tasting better.
How does a politician wanting money to start a service defeat my point in any way? He's not fighting a status quo, he's adding a new service which is extremely sexy for a politician to do, especially in the leadup to an election. Not to mention he isn't actually doing anything yet, he's demanding funding to do something, which is also way easier to do then actually doing it.

A Government entity has no competition, or if they do (like the USPS for example) they can rely on subsidies from the Government and run at a total loss if they need to. I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing, but if you have a worker who knows their performance is tied to their ability to deliver a product and another worker who knows they're pay is coming whether the customers are happy or not, one of those is going to be motivated to make sure customers are happy and the other one is not, and they will act accordingly.
There is no interpreter for Swift. At least not yet.
* source code

* static libraries

* dynamic libraries

Provide compiled libs for the platforms of your choice. Preferably all three of Windows, OS X, and Linux. Users can issue pull requests if there is a platform or variant they wish to add.
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I've been playing around with Freon on ChromiumOS - it's really a nice solution to pushing pixels fast and I prefer its simplicity to that of Wayland or Mir. The performance I get out of an ARM GPU is very good.

Only problem I have with my Chromebook is the screen stinks.
What do you like about NYC? I spent a couple weeks there recently, to which I was really looking forward since I had never been there, and after about a week I loathed the noise, the garbage everywhere, and the lines at all the stores. Shortly thereafter, I caught the Norovirus from delivered food and I was knocked out physically and mentally for almost 2 weeks.

What did I like? Seeing a few famous landmarks, a couple of the restaurants, and my rental apartment had free NetFlix.
I'm not sure which would be the more interesting challenge, solving these puzzles, or writing a program that will solve them
Hey Everyone,

I'd really like to know what you think about our alternative to to something like Eve, but less low-level.

Well suited to typical database apps and workflows.

I'd really appreciate any feedback.

We've currently positioned it as a "Build your own CRM" but you can use it build any process.

https://taskputty.com

There's a partial user manual here
https://taskputty.com/user-manual

Which will give you good idea of the flavor of TaskPutty.

It's not for "build any kind of app" (like Eve is trying), just a fast way to automate any typical business process, drag and drop your own custom forms, drag and drop some rule logic.

Could also be a really nice CRM or process automation tool for any startup.

I'm mostly curious, do you guys think we should persist and build it out, or do you think we should pivot?

At the moment, it is positioned as a "Zero-code" tool.

We've applied several times to YC with no luck.
We get a couple of signups every month, and have a hand full of paying users.

What do you guys think: full steam ahead, kill it, or pivot??

Andries
Works for me -- video URLs here https://youtu.be/QSq_bVX2to8 and here https://youtu.be/_6s9IP8hY0k.
A couple of days ago, I shared a link to a knowledge portal demo (https://tuvalie.com/fae/?q=Albert%20Einstein). It stayed on the front page for quite a while and got a fair amount of attention, so I thought I'd show off the larger project that it's a part of. I'd be happy to talk more about it if anyone has any questions!
> If every single one of your competitors is systematically undervaluing entire classes of potential workers, dontcha think that just maybe there's an opportunity to be had there?

This is a common line of thought that I find myself having. I suspect it's a common fallacy, although I've never heard a name for it.

I call it "being too clever again by half". The idea that when others zig, I should zag. Or that any status quo structure has inefficiencies.

My reality is that zig/zag concept only works in certain situations. It'd be interesting to think more about the conditions for those situations, because then I could readily identify them.

In this situation, it's possible that your competitors are undervaluing an entire class of workers simply because that class of workers does not have value to them. If there are no technical, talented, black female engineers in the Valley, maybe the market isn't intentionally ignoring them -- it's just unable to find them.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but sometimes the status quo is an efficiency shortcut as well as being efficient.
(james here)

There are a few tools that do this already. I think it's an interesting approach, and probably makes sense for some people.

However, I feel like tying issues to closely to the code can be problematic. For example, for the product Ship itself there are multiple repositories, there's the server, the client, the web site, and a few libraries that we built along the way and open sourced.

We want to be able to file issues on our product without having to first determine in which repo the problem actually resides. We also want to be able to file umbrella issues or features that require us to make cross cutting code changes across multiple repositories.
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IMO (speaking from my recent disastrous stay in NYC): Pot.Kettle.Dystopia...
Note the firewood. Lots and lots of firewood. Those high ceilings and cavernous rooms are a nightmare to heat. That wood stove must run 24/7.

I'm all for re-purposing, but there is a point at which a building built for one purpose just isn't suitable for any other. Elementary school into residence/home might be that line.
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