skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the Tu95 were grounded after a series of crash (they are not that good ;) ) (nice pictures of the new bombers used by russia here http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/raf-typhoon-jets-scramb...)

And I cannot find the UK articles from 1 year ago saying the exact problem with typhoon and why UK wanted to replace them with F35. I remembered something about costs, availability attrition and budget. Like typhoon were to expensive and that 24/7 battle readiness was kind of a joke given the budget.

I was in the french navy for my conscription. The aeronaval would have preferred F16 over rafale ~2000 for exactly this:
1 rafale = 10 F16 (at the time) and OPEX of rafale >> F16.
And they could have had another diesel carrier thus france could have had a fully usable aeronaval task force for the same price.

Anyway: cellular grids where not that developed yet, but efficient distributed radar were. And every "refinment" is kind of another order of magnitude in the equation. Harder to measure, harder to counter, harder to build but it can be anticipated : every generations are almost an order of magnitude more expensive.

Can you see a pattern? Stealth like aircraft (Typhoon, Rafale, F35, F22) are hard to sell because they cost a lot due to complexity (in software notably). Thus government HAVE to subsidize them ...

Thus, people try to make them polyvalent BY DESIGN (waterfall model) and like any jack of all trades they tend to master none of them and inflates OPEX and KPEX with erosion of the benefits and a LONG development time that make them likely to be obsolete when delivered.

A lot can be said on the history of aircraft industry. I dare say we lost the art of being smart that requires some fast feedback loops (agile but correctly done) with minimal correct design (waterfall but correctly done) and cost efficiency.

That is the difference between the spitfire and the Me109.

Can a general purpose warbird be built during peace time?

I do not think so. They are like hammers built without knowing which nail will need to be hammered or may be screwed.

But simple cells (F4, mirage, F16) with awesome lines (ok, I am found of nice looking planes so it is not serious) that can sustain modifications (like the spitfire) have proven to be good planes ... on the long run when you have good workers, engineers, (tests) pilots, industrial able to make them evolve in a reasonable time and price constraint.

The quality of out warplanes reflect the actual problem with our civil economy : Quality and costs do not matter when industries relies on finance and not production for making benefits.

Bonus : This guy was amazing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Quill <== tests pilots. Kind of a badass QA man like most of the tests pilots in great planes history.
For many people (myself included), standing up feels like working, sitting feels like being lazy.
the relapse rate for methadone is around 90%, that's why I object to wording it as 'at least'
Deploying Parse Server to Google App Engine
Make Every Visit Count: The Complete Inbound Strategy
> 2. Stop lottery system and grant visas based on top salary.
> 3. Make the H1B job easily portable.
These two seem at odds.

Granting H1 to top salaries mean only big companies will be able to afford these visas.
What happens to an H1 holder that starts off in a 200k position and wants to leave to a 150k+equity position?
Racket is a lisp (more precisely it's a descendent of Scheme). LISP in all caps generally refers to McCarthy's original description and the first few implementations.
I made an HTML knock off years ago... Carefully screenshot ting each graphic. Might try to revive it now that it's open. :)
https://xkcd.com/908/
Methadone is the most popular maintenance drug for opiate abuse and the relapse rate is around 90%. Many people on methadone/buprenorphine maintenance prefer to just stay on the program rather than come off.
They could. But how would they show the users their desired contents after login?
Lots of apps in this list are there because they use Sparkle Framework.
It doesn't automatically mean that if an app uses Sparkle it is vulnerable.
Each must be checked for insecure HTTP requests. Sparkle is not the reason of the vulnerabilities. Sparkle clearly states: use HTTPS.
"they can sell high their place"
It must be nice to live in a world where even the service workers own property.
Who do you think is, I don't even know what, harrumphing at the idea of people buying old things and repurposing them? I live in the midwest and have a pretty good idea of what the stodgiest old-fogiest ideas about housing could be, and all I can think of even the retired guys around here thinking is "Hmm, that would be an interesting challenge." Repurposing barns is a cottage industry around here. (From what I gather, the farms are doing fine, but improved logistics has rendered a lot of storage excess to requirements.)

Repurposing space is basically what happens to space.
I think you mean a mirror, and many package managers use them.
Why OSX 10.10 or later?
How important is choosing a no lock-in MBaaS? Some considerations for backend users: http://www.anypresence.com/blog/2016/01/29/parse-shuts-down-...
Again, this is not startup/bubble-specific. There are unqualified people all over the place.
What do people normally count in cost of living? Utilities and services are fine, and groceries are easy to find reasonably priced. Transportation is fine.

So I think as others have mentioned, rent and house prices are the things climbing sharply. I know someone paying $900 for a room in a 3 person house, in a really great part of town (Division, for locals). I've heard studios go for well over $1000, and fill up fast. But really, you don't have to look very hard to find something cheap(er). Surrounding areas (with new access to light rail that goes down town) are reasonable.

I don't think it's really as bad as some people make it out to be, but it definitely is getting more expensive in town. I mean, that's the nature of the housing market recovery :)
Fedex probably does charge different prices to different shippers.

Which I think for the purposes of the comparison you are making is the same thing (that is, Fedex does make exclusive deals that are advantageous to Fedex).
What do you want to know about them?
Twitter should have taken a page from Apple's playbook: let third-party developers innovate and then integrate their functionality by copying them (Sherlock, etc) or, less so for Apple, acquiring them.
A company I work for, has pretty strict security policies. I have to subject my phone to these, because of calendar and email, but I wouldn't want to subject my personal laptop to these requirements. I can totally see myself hooking up the phone to some dock in order to do things remotely, if necessary.
If you understand the difference between the two, you'd realize your comment makes no sense. The fact that github went down due to a power failure has nothing to do with git as a solution.

The fact that everyone uses git more or less the same as svn is the problem. Git is decentralized, but because so many people rely on github most don't ever use the decentralized aspect to it.
I don't disagree, the lag time for the market to respond to flavor is obviously much higher than something easily measurable like yield. However the solutions seem to revolve around going back to "natural" methods which are anything but, rather than simply making more genetic modifications to get the desired trait or perhaps needing more or different fertilizer.

The option is there to utilize the land less efficiently to get the same effect for some characteristics, but we may have to accept at some point feeding people on a modern scale may not be tenable with what is considered more "natural" or "organic" or whatever term is being used to ambiguously describe the techniques that are not natural at all in the dictionary sense.
Sometimes, but not always. City accountants certainly fall under this, since accountants can work in the private sector, but what private-sector competition exists for police employment? Are they meant to be comparing their salaries with those of armed bodyguards, or para-military organizations?
Unicode Sets to Exclude
Ask HN: Do you know/use speaker recognition software?
I've been looking into toolkit form University of Avignon called ALIZE. It is very complex and I'm wondering if anyone has worked with it or something like it before and could give me some pointers.
I spent three days checking out Kajakhistan tech scene
How have you been playing with Freon, if you don't mind my asking? Specifically wondering, does it expose some GLES context that you can work in, is that passed through, or is that reserved for the compositor... if you have anything at all to share I'd be interested in that.

My tale of woe, which is really OT in this thread, is that I've been trying to get an Enlightenment WM to operate in accelerated mode on my Samsung Exynos-based chromebook that has a Mali T-604 graphics chip.

Enlightenment says it can support accelerated mode with either an OpenGL or GLES driver, so my impression is this should be technically possible (even if it can never be done in an X server running alongside Freon). I have got free-standing Xorg to run very fast on ALARM Arch Linux, using framebuffer driver, and Arch which provides a decently recent Enlightenment... but damned if I'm able to get the two to talk together and let the WM acknowledge the graphics capabilities of the hardware.

I know this has nothing to do with Freon but I am curious what you're doing with it nonetheless, and I saw an opportunity and thought I might be able to corner someone with more knowledge and get some answers at the same time.
What is that exactly? I'm really curious. Presumably the code you write gets used by someone, right?
> Police higher-ups say the traffic unit has made Port Arthur a safer place to drive

They don't show any data to back up this claim that they make throughout the story. IMO part of the problem is that the speed limits are far too low for modern vehicles. They keep them low so they can continue to collect.

It's not about safety it's about money. How is going around with plate readers making anyone safer? Unless they were using that technology to find a fugitive, but they're not they're using it to collect.
The good reverend Laphroaig preaches:

If the 0day in your familiar pastures dwindles, despair not! Rather, bestir yourself to where programmers are led astray from the sacred Assembly, neither understanding what their programming languages compile to, nor asking to see how their data is stored or transmitted in the true bits of the wire. For those who follow their computation through the layers shall gain 0day and pwn, and those who say “we trust in our APIs, in our proofs, and in our memory models and need not burden ourselves with confusing engineering detail that has no scientific value anyhow” shall surely provide an abundance of 0day and pwnage sufficient for all of us.
This article was great, as well as the video and Chris's response. It reminded me of 2 problems I've encountered time and time again that I'd love (for someone) to solve.

1. Often presentations, reports, etc. rely on calculated data from e.g. an Excel spreadsheet. Whenever data gets updated it's really tricky to make sure everything that uses that data reflects the latest state. Too often have I heard the phrase in meetings "Oh that graph? Yeah, that's still based on last month's data."

2. I've had very smart colleagues who couldn't program, but could bend Excel to their will. Eventually they'd hit the limits of what's possible in Excel though. It always struck me that a) Excel is basically an FRP system and that therefore b) these people already have most of the skills to program if they had slightly different tools.

I always had an inkling that these two problems were somehow related, but I couldn't put my finger exactly on how they are related or what the solution would be. I'm really excited to see that EVE seems to go a long way to solving these things. I can't wait to see where they take it next. At the same time I also take some solace from the fact that, based on the number of iterations, people who are clearly much smarter than me also struggle with defining and solving this problem.
We in the Prosody project were using Google Code and the project leader really liked their issue tracker. When the shutdown was announced, we looked around but found nothing that met our needs, so we ended up writing our own. I'm personally quite pleased with the result: https://prosody.im/issues

https://prosody.im/issues/static/readme.html
https://hg.prosody.im/issue-tracker/

Also see https://prosody.im/issues/issue/2 ;)
The people who benefit most from monetary inflation are those with large amounts of debt, not those with large amounts of cash. The middle class has the highest debt-to-cash ratio, so they benefit the most.

However, the point is moot because there has not been significant monetary inflation. Only asset prices have really risen in response to quantitative easing (perhaps this is why you said it only helps wall street); this is a somewhat intuitively obvious result since the fed is buying assets, not printing money.
And heaven help you if RedHat decides not to backport a critical bugfix. OpenSSL on CentOS 6 has 99 patch files, a script named "hobble-openssl" and non-trivial changes to the build system that affect linkage, making DIY backports less than trivial.
Nice. These guys are legit. (RIP, Parse :( )
IE was a product in a platform where they were already dominant. Without Windows IE would have been a non-starter. This situation is completely different. It's closer to the XBox in that it's a platform and there are/were 2-3 established competitors. Unfortunately, the success hasn't been there, and at this point in its life, the XBox would have been written off.
How does this compare to other similar specifications, e.g. MsgPack and BSON?
We don't personally like agile.

We would like to add the ability to order problems - both a personal work order queue, like "I'm doing this, then that, etc." and globally within a milestone, which I think is what you had in mind.

Arbitrary attributes are supported, so you could track point estimates that way, but you're right, nothing like that is surfaced at the top level. Perhaps we can think of a good way to surface things like this without reaching Jira-custom-fields level of pain.
I agree. What this graph is missing is "relevancy". It's much easier to detect fraud when not looking at population numbers or a basic graph since these often lead to super nodes and if someone wants to cover their tracks it is easy for them to avoid creating super nodes, as you've described.

However, with relevancy in a graph we can detect this type of fraud significantly better as we can begin to find relationships that stick out and are uncommonly common to each other.
Why would a parachute not land at the home facility? Some, parafoils, can be flow and landed on runways like a glider. Nasa has been working on this concept for years. The X38 one was massive overkill, a full glider, but the concept of a chute directing the craft to a very specific touchdown point is well within today's tech.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/station/x38/parafoil.htm...
I wrote you inmail about moving the app.
AlienBlue was the de facto reddit app for years on iOS, to the point that reddit actually bought it / accqi-hired the dev for it a year or so ago. Unfortunately it's been pretty stagnant since it was acquired, very few bug fixes and afaik no feature enhancements.
Why can't you do this in a relational DBMS? Recent research says it that would probably be faster.

The Case Against Specialized Graph Analytics Engines

http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper20.pdf
I guess I'm supposed to care? I'm afraid I don't. Nope - don't care.

If the author instead showed how there were all these superb startups led by black women that failed to get funding - I would.

I guess the difference stems from the unshared assumption that if black women represent 6% of US population, they should get 6% of VC funding.
Feels like for institutional tools (where end users are mandated to just use that one system) it's not even the retention that is the problem.

I would generalize it (perhaps ad absurdum) instead as: do not underestimate costs of user onboarding (in whichever shape or form).

I wonder if developing a competitive replacement app actually involves replicating legacy UI. As wasteful as that may seem. And only after that hurdle is nullified, there will be a chance to gradually wean users towards a new experience pattern.
A lot of tomatoes grown and sold in Europe are also tasteless.

In the UK, most supermarket tomatoes are imported from The Netherlands or Spain (two of the largert exporters of tomatoes in Europe). The tomatoes are mostly tasteless, regardless of the variety. Even the organic ones have only a little bit more flavour.

So tasteless tomatoes aren't just an American phenomenon, they are common in Europe too. That's what modern, mass-procuded agriculture gives us: tasteless, low-cost produce all-year round (because price mostly trumps other factors for many, if not most, consumers)
David Kenny, Former CEO of the Weather Channel, to Lead IBM Watson
A lot of tomatoes grown and sold in Europe are also tasteless.

In the UK, most supermarket tomatoes are imported from The Netherlands or Spain (two of the largert exporters of tomatoes in Europe). The tomatoes are mostly tasteless, regardless of the variety. Even the organic ones have only a little bit more flavour.

So tasteless tomatoes aren't just an American phenomenon, they are common in Europe too.
OK I'm in love too now:

>>Technical Note: The polyglot file pocorgtfo10.pdf is valid as a PDF, as a ZIP file, and as an LSMV
recording of a Tool Assisted Speedrun (TAS) that exploits Pok´emon Red in a Super GameBoy on a Super
NES. The result of the exploit is a chat room that plays the text of PoCkGTFO 10:3.
Run it in LSNES with the Gambatte plugin, the Japanese version of the Super Game Boy ROM and the
USA/Europe version of Pok´emon Red.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but my understanding is that commercial canned tomatoes are more likely to be picked ripe.

The reason is that canned tomatoes usually come from the leftovers and blemishes. When they pick a field of tomatoes (green), quite a few are left behind due to being too small, strangely shaped, etc. These are usually allowed to ripen. From what I understand, those are what canned tomatoes most often come from, as they're the cheapest.

No one cares if a misshaped or bruised tomato gets canned. It will still taste about the same. Therefore, you can ship the tomatoes closer to ripe, as you're not worried about bruising.

On a side note, canned tomatoes are actually usually very good if you buy a respectable brand. The bargain brands vary a lot more. Honestly, unless it's late summer and I can get great tomatoes, I make salsa from canned tomatoes instead of fresh. (Note: this is for things where I'd be fire-roasting the fresh tomatoes anyway.)
I know Scandal prominently featured Windows phones.
While yes, I do use OpenTable for places at which I am already an existing customer, it's not that simple. I'm usually not willing to visit a restaurant that I might not get into. OT is the most painless way to make the reservation, and I far prefer this over calling. Without a restaurant being accessible on OT, I would not be going there nearly as often.
Different prices, sure. Free shipping, not so much.
That's because Heinz is perfection.
I like how they provide the cost of jailing people and the revenue, but no mention of the administrative cost and the "expensive" cost of the system. I have a suspicion that if you did the accounting properly, you would probably come up with a net decrease in income, not to mention the economic impact of debtor prison.
Bad word choice on my part.

Didn't mean "proper" as in "correct", but as in all-in, no-looking-back.
Thank you. Now if only your editing privileges extended to medium.com ... :)
Apple is prototyping AR/VR headsets, report says
It's hard to believe the system is totally useless. Do you believe there is no field that legitimately needs the H1-B program? Exotic research specialties come to mind.
These companies are doing something blatantly illegal.

The H1-B program was designed to prevent abuses like these. It looks like enforcement is sorely lacking.
Ditto. I'm in the midst of my own longer-than-expected job search and was elaborately tracking until I realized that past a 1 week horizon was a waste of effort.
Well, to be fair, if you are jailing people you are taking drivers off the road and thus making them safer. And considering they seem to be jailing people with driving related offenses, it's probably a true statement. Whether it is a morally defensible course of action is a totally different story though.
http://jasonlbaptiste.com/commentary/email-newsletters-busin... was on HN 6+ years ago and inspired me to get into email newsletters, which I was very skeptical about. Now we're a company of 9 doing it :-) It's not a very self help style post, but just seeing examples of something was enough to inspire.
Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft Office. I honestly think that's as far as it goes for most people.

I've felt the exact same pain as you - having the non-technical people work in Excel and moving it back and forth to a database is a nightmare. I've started creating Flyway migrations for each import/export sequence just so we can keep track of what's live in our DB. If you were working in CSV you could even script an import as part of a build process or something.

In some cases better products even exist. For example LaTeX is a fantastic tool - you can create complex layouts (not just for documents, but also Illustrator-type tasks), automagically manage cross-document references/citations and generate tables-of-content and bibliographies, lay out images and tables and formulas, modularize documents (eg by chapter) and best of all the documents are a plain-text "source" that you can easily check into revision control or merge between multiple simultaneous users. Zero adoption outside the academic world and certain publishing niches (eg math textbooks).

Side note: one unfilled niche I've noticed is that there isn't a good word- or character-level diff tool that's appropriate for LaTeX. Ideally you would want to be able to type natural paragraphs and have the diff pick out changes by word instead of line (but preferably also identify command tokens more greedily up to a line). You can break a paragraph across several lines, but if you're making heavy revisions it just ends up being a solid block of line changes.

One more question: is there a "worksheet" or "notebook" concept in something like Mathematica that might be a better model for the type of work you're considering? I know Mathematica has a pretty complete feature set, it very well might have database hookups and an appropriate workflow for that type of thing.
There's a comparison at the end of the specification: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049#appendix-E

Having written an implementation (the Lua one) I quite like this format, it's flexible, not too complicated and still quite compact.