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Yeah, but if I bring a fleet of trucks launching SA-20s [1] or a fleet of Mig-21s (and drones) with advanced upgrades [2] functioning as missile trucks, who knows. You’re really battling the missiles and BVR targeting capabilities. The plane is increasingly a delivery platform and missiles are far cheaper then jets.

I agree with the parent in that a diversified set of aircraft focused on specific missions and more easily produced and upgraded with new tech is critical (no ones saying build bi-planes). And sure we can say 4th-gen beats 3rd-gen and now 5th-gen beats 4th-gen, unfortunately adversaries often don’t follow the script. F-35 seems to be more a danger to national security than a help.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300_(missile)
[2] http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?121375-MiG-21-...
Totally cool! :)
Depending on what kind of level of virtualization they opted for, I've run Windows on Linux under KVM. They are doing the "boot a kernel" mode instead of fully virtufalized hardware mode probably to save on resources.
> I think it's pretty clear that the bar for safety must be much higher (10x) than human-level for these to be accepted by consumers.

That's a really low bar.

Take a look at Google Maps in San Diego when it rains. Accidents everywhere. A self-driving car won't get into stupid accidents because it's following too closely, driving too fast, hydroplaning, etc.

Toss in the people who are distracted, tired, or drugged out on medication, and your numbers are even worse.

We're looking at the end of humans driving cars within 10 years.
This is a harder problem than you think it is. This is a classic reinforcement learning problem, and it is incredibly difficult in the real world. It's easy in discrete state-space, perfect information, turn-based games like Go (the recent advance there). Very difficult in robotics.
Assuming this isn't a deliberate joke, based on squids having some relevance here, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squib_%28explosive%29#Origin_o...
Google offers Inbox which has built in snooze. I used it for 6 months or so and liked it. Lack of ICS support eventually soured me on the interface.
Probably something along the lines of, "If you call them fools, you probably deserve the alienation."

Edit: Read that wrong, but I'll change my answer:

I feel that a large amount of the issues in science and "exclusive knowledge groups" stem from alienation at its root. Exclusivity, obfuscation, lack of publishing, "no true Scotsman", "othering", etc. By calling them fools, you're only contributing to the sorts of alienation that causes these issues to exist.
That would be a pretty interesting fight. It looks like the 400mph rc jet engines cost about $4000. decent drone packages are around $1000. let's be crazy and say $100,000 per drone. around $104,000,000 per F-35.

i'm not sure how well an F-35 would stack up against 1040 400mph targets. the F-35 is much much quicker, but only has, what 200 bullets? something in that range.

Or, take it up a notch. blow $10,000,000 per drone. give them an air to air missile or two. that puts it at a much more reasonable 1 v 10. I get 10 shots, you get 4.

You're not wrong, but i think you're missing a classic military lesson, quantity has a quality all it's own.
I was at least thinking that once you pick a distro, they'd be first in line updating the security patches for it (or at least as fast as say your own ops team would). But I guess that is not the case.
Possibly relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11014175
The cells can remain when the lipid contents are depleted. One feature request of mine is triggering apoptosis for empty fat cells.
I remember MS-Word classes where they told the students to click on the save icon and to say it looked like a TV Set. It was really a floppy disk but the instructor said TV set in case students didn't know what a floppy disk was or what it was used for. This was before Office 2007 and the ribbon interface. I think it was Word 97 and at the time most people saved files to hard disks instead of floppy disks.

I remember people used to customize the toolbar and replace the icons with different icons as well.

I guess the new generation of computer users will not know what a floppy disk was used for, in the age of where USB drives replaced the floppy drives. They know it is the Save icon, but not what it was used for.
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OK I agree that's closer to delegate, while not the same. You couldn't substitute 'delegate' into that sentence, for example.
I have been fairly happy with Things 2. A big on the pricey side but have had zero issues. I have lists of lists, including places I want to visit, movies I want to see, etc. Everything goes in there.
It isn't a prejudice if you don't want to support a company with such a history. Azure could be the best cloud host for all I care, I still wouldn't use them.

In any case, I have no issue with listing them as an option, not everyone feels the same way I do.
Possible power struggle / deadlock advice
I've started a small business about 7 months ago. Since then I've done about £110k in revenue and £11k profit (I'm in the UK if that matters).

This is a very cash-intensive business and I'm struggling with cashflow. Cashflow finally turned positive in January but now I'm not being able to grow because all my cash is tied up in my awful payment terms.

Recently I had a conversation with a potential customer and we came to the conclusion that it would be beneficial to partner up. The deal we discussed was the following: they take 50% equity and 50% profit share, and in exchange they bankroll me (this is on top of the fact that I get a new customer and they get a new supplier).

I know that HN is used to thinking in terms of "cash for equity", but notice that this is slightly different. It's more a "very big zero-interest loan for equity". I estimate that without the cashflow constraint I could scale this up to about £1m/month in revenue in a year's time.

My concerns are about possible power issues / deadlock situations. I'm a single-guy company and they're a 20 employees company. If it comes to lawyering up, I'll get screwed.

Basically, how do I avoid getting screwed and/or deadlock?
Bernie Sanders actually, check out the links.
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Spark is dead.
Custom kernel support is actually available for certain distributions on DigitalOcean, though it's not widely marketed.

Right now, Debian 8, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Fedora 23 and FreeBSD all allow you to control your kernel version. The next LTS release of Ubuntu in April, 16.04, will also allow you to customize your kernel.
If I recall correctly, the FedEx logo is an amalgam of two fonts to begin with.
This is correct. 1.5 each way.
Your latter statement is just plain incorrect. Google Drive app will recognize your old files and re-associate them with the cloud counterparts. Its had this capability for over a year now.
Total war has time control. You obviously never tried the "Run your light calvary around the map until the attacker loses because the clock" trick.
Part of our Chaos testing in prod is exercising our ability to route traffic around failures of entire regions. jobs.netflix.com
NYC is a big place. I am far out in Queens.
Net neutrality is an important issue for many posters on Hacker News.
NYC is a big place. I live in Glen Oaks, near the border of Nassau county.
This website looks great, but feels like it is from a template. I want to know which template, if you don't mind? If it is original, well more power to you! Someone should make a template of your site :)
There seems to be a bit of confusion about how we handle kernels at DO. Hopefully I can clear things up a bit. On newer distro versions (e.g. Ubuntu >= 15.04, Debian 8, Fedora, CoreOS, FreeBSD) we no longer use "external" kernels. You are free to compile and use custom kernels. We're happy with what we've seen, and with Ubuntu 16.04 around the corner our default distribution will have support for this as well. After that point, we'll be backporting the change to older releases.

For Droplets still running with external kernels, we import new ones on a regular basis as they are released. If you happen to need one that hasn't been imported yet, just open a support ticket and the team will do so.
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Yes, that is what happens. Especially on days with bad traffic.
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It's not nearly as thorough as this site, but I'm reminded strongly of 'The New Turing Omnibus', which has been on the Cambridge (UK) Computer Science pre-undergrad reading list for many years: http://blog.codinghorror.com/practicing-the-fundamentals-the...

It's a great introduction to the fundamentals of many fields of CS and is accessible to all sorts of folks.
I didn't downvote your first comment, but in my opinion the reason it was downvoted was that it amounted to ad-hominem ("Don't listen to him because he's from Google.") rather than a reasoned argument like you've posted here. Sure, it's wise to take into account the source of an argument, but you can't reasonably stop there.

I do disagree with your first point, that an always-running self-driving car having to make more decisions is irrelevant because a car spends the majority of its time moving forward. I think the point is that a driver assistance system basically only handles that moving forward case. It may cover 99% of the time, but it only covers a small fraction of the decisions and actions the car has to take. It's the other 1% (probably higher than 1% actually, but it doesn't matter) that's the tricky part, and it is difficult to iterate from handling the special (if very common) case of basically just moving forward, to handling all the other situations a car can find itself in. You would quickly lose any easily-understood distinction between what situations the car is and is not able to handle, making it difficult for the human driver to know when their input will be required.
> They should also be purpose-built for specific missions just as we built planes in WW2.

Even in WW2, all the major nations had aircraft that were multipurpose. Even the famous P-51 was built to be multipurpose. The difference between then and now is process/planning to build those aircraft hasn't kept up with their complexity. Also there's a lot more consideration of pilot safety and environmental extremes than the typical propeller fighter/bomber of WW2.
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It's less about customised kernel and more about an up-to-date one. You may want to patch at your own schedule (faster, or slower than DO). Any serious project will take updates (especially security updates) seriously.
Particularly the Support (collaborative inbox) and Live chat
It sounds like you're talking about sending mail, not receiving it. Port 25 is only an issue if you're trying to receive email.
With taxes they are partners. That's the reasoning behind public financing.

I think a better alternative is just tax breaks. The team can build a stadium but gets huge tax cuts on everything for a certain period of time to justify the build cost.

I also don't understand why stadiums have such limited lifespans. Wrigely field in nearly 100 years old.
/me waves
I tried it.
I like this app, especially this tile interface.
And it won't scramble all of things into notes like evernote.
bookmarks, files, notes are separated. seems nice.

cons:

- You need to take certifications for OSX app
- it's scare to install un-certificated apps
- Uploading file and images should be merged
- I don't want to care whether it's image or not, App should detect, isn't it cool?
- The note editor, it's too poor to use. and default height of textarea is too thin. expand it to users want to write something.
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Do a blind ABX test of files made using popular compression settings vs FLAC or other lossless files. You may be surprised at how good low bitrates can be these days. Obviously, if you care you're going to insist on lossless, but mastering problems (e.g. the loudness wars) are a much bigger culprit of poor audio quality these days.
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How about adding a flag to the bloody compiler to allow me to compile my code with unused bits?

I refuse to touch Go until that happens. Go is the asshole of programming languages. It forces you to put code in deeply nested annoying directories

vim foo.go
vim ../../../github.com/blahblah/moreblahblah/blah.go
sigh

But that I could live with. But constantly commenting the code out (which of course leads to commenting out even more code!) is the real PITA.

All said and done it looks like a useful, if uninspired, language. Can avoid it so may as well use it. But this nonsense has to stop!
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Someone is running a clinical trial for metformin as an anti-aging drug. One of their explicit goals is to get the FDA to reclassify aging as a potentially treatable condition.

http://www.nature.com/news/anti-ageing-pill-pushed-as-bona-f...
mine was excel + html. javascript was too advanced?
They will drop you for being unlucky if they are too closely spaced together.
The F-16 has made a successful engine-out landing before, when the conditions allow. Earlier jets like the F-104 were almost impossible to land engine-out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puia_yQxir8

And how many F-14s were lost as a result of single-engine handling performance issues? F-14s have departed from controlled flight after one engine stalls, and entered a flat spin. Yes, the scene in Top Gun was somewhat based on real events.

A few F/A-18s have been lost due to issues with single-engine performance. The F/A-18 doesn't have as much issues with asymmetric thrust, single engine flight isn't always possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Virginia_Beach_F/A-18_cra...
Is it really such a big deal there? I don't think people would be very surprised that a woman can be chancellor.
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It doesn't really matter how effective it is in combat. The project is a wealth transfer first, and a "job creator" second. The only foreign purchases will be either from countries that the US bullied into making some orders, or countries that receive "aid money" from the US, much of which is disbursed in the form of de facto gift cards for the military contractors who are too big to fail, and too friendly with well-connected people in the public sector.

Edit: See grecy's comment for a perfect example. They're a vehicle to siphon taxpayer dollars, not a vehicle to fight wars.
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Worse, they are making the line longer for everyone, and then charging to let people in. And they are doing it for government services that everyone needs to interact with. In essence, trying to charge for access to the government.
My apologies, there doesn't seem to be a way to permalink just the winning entries' blog post.
Hi! I'd love to hear your feedback about our documentation. I work with the team that produces our tutorials. Are there areas you don't think we cover well, or is it something else? With 1,200+ tutorials, our docs are actually something I'm extremely proud of, but we're always looking to improve.
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Ladder Life (ladderlife.com). Life Insurance is huge market that is totally non-digital and focused on the sales agent channel. We are building a company that is built from the ground up around the end user and all digital.

tech: Clojure, ClojureScript, Om.next, Datomic, Docker, AWS ECS

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Thanks Kinnard! We had been using the Sphinx documentation engine to produce the version linked. We have spent the last year writing our own static site generator system alongside making the whole website open source. We are very happy with the result and looking forward to supporting more languages and curriculums soon.
To be honest, I've always found their support to be really good. Sometimes it can be a little slow to start, but I regularly experience technicians that go way above what I would expect to assist me & deliver a great outcome. If other companies in Australia were as responsive as them (e.g. telcos), I'd be a very happy man. EDIT: I'm on Business Support, so maybe that's your issue?
Woe be to the Governor of Wisconsin who loses a sports franchise.
It’s all smoke. Using the F-35 for CAS is ludicrous. Using 4th and 5th generation aircraft in place of AC-130s [1] and Super Tacanos [2] not only costs more, but is incredibly less effective for the soldiers on the ground. CAS and the F-35 shouldn’t be used in the same sentence.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would have cost significantly less (1/4 the total?) if the military hadn’t forced square fighter jets into the round hole of CAS (add up $10k / hr vs $600, plus airborne tankers, plus carriers, plus increased supply costs). Not only did this cost multiples more, provide less effective support to Americans risking their lives on the ground, it damaged the fleet of fighters for other tasks in the future. How many flight hours where burned “in country” on already aging platforms? I know I got some.

Senior military aviation leadership boxed themselves into a corner burning up the fleet in ways it shouldn’t have and betting on a do-it-all turd called the F-35. The cannon could fall of this thing and it would be better for everyone. Dog-fighting is dead and people will scream F-4 / Vietnam, but I’d rather have an extra aim-9x than a fucking gun pod in this day and age [3, 4]. So the plane sucks for CAS and the gun pod is irrelevant for BFM. But don’t worry, the plane is so magical who knows. Just know you’re being sold a bill of goods when leadership talks about CAS and the F-35.

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

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder#AIM-9X
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The technical problems are par for the course. What's different about the F-35 is cost - they failed in the quest to be the new F-16 to the F-22's F-15.

For decades the US has pursued a high-low strategy, meaning a small number of very expensive, very high performance aircraft and a large number of inexpensive (but still good) aircraft. Where the F-35 went off the rails is on the "inexpensive" part. We would have been better off buying more F-22s for air superiority and keeping the F-16 for strike missions.
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Pretty cool!

I like the shareable URLs, but I don't like how it breaks the back button.

Use `location.replace` to avoid this.
"Deploy a Linux VM on Azure. Azure supports a wide range of Linux distributions including Ubuntu, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Chef and Puppet."

Doesn't sound very reassuring. Do they have a good track record with non-MS stacks?
F-35 Lightning II: Busting Myths
Does it really matter if the cannon is working or not? The A-10, despite its age, is more survivable, cheaper to build and run, can operate out of anywhere (those engines high up ingest less foreign material) and has a much longer loiter time.

One could argue that today's combat landscape is not ideal for the A-10 and that it wouldn't survive against modern air defenses. Which is a very good point. But, if you are going against modern defenses, what do you need a cannon for? Specially an external one which will ruin your radar signature.
Why is that bad? Mongodb is great for data ingestion.
It is even more arbitrary to do it the way gdp is added up now: if plenty is good, more must always be better, and always counts toward a larger gdp.

What's too much? That's why people study statistics, so they can spot the outliers. 5x other similarly industrial nations is probably too much health care spending. Draw the line at some mathematically defensible place.
After the report came out Monday, Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, of the F-35 program executive office, issued a statement to cast the report’s findings in a rather more flattering light.

Perhaps a posting to the Joint Chiefs is out for Gen. Bogdan, but fortunately Lockheed is keeping a senior VP's chair warm for him. One expects we'll see this luminary on the political bloviation shows in five years' time explaining why we must support our brave allies in ISIS against the savage onslaught of the Tehran-backed Zoroastrians, and oh-by-the-way buy a couple hundred more of these flying coffins.
I would expect the US to have planned for how to perform such a kidnapping, because dealing with rogue agents in one way or another is very definitely someone's job. I would be amazed if there wasn't a report giving a number of options and pros and cons for each compiled—of course, how it was acted on is anyone's guess.
True, there are many implications here. I'm curious if there could be a legal remedy to this kind of convenience-hostage-taking.
I'm wondering if using Apache Kafka and Hadoop Stack, would be a better approach for IoT.
It was Defence Materiel Organisation. "Materiel" being a specific term for military supplies, distinct from "material".
F-35 Lightning II: Busting Myths – Episode 2
>Next time you pull up to a stop light, look to the left and then right. I'm willing to be the drivers on the left and or right are looking at their phone.

And the dude between them is busy staring at his neighboring drivers rather than the road!
Interesting, I don't think that they were behind a paywall when I first posted them. Certainly the editorial wasn't, or I wouldn't have been able to read it.
seems like the most interesting thing here is the sensor itself as the rest of the setup is more or less standard components. I would love to know how the sensors work across different chemicals without losing accuracy over time.
While I happen to share the sentiment(re. the numbers game), how wise would be to deploy a massive amount of remote-controlled weaponry against a developed nation?
Generally speaking, I'd recommend AGAINST running UPSes in racks that are managed by top-tier data centres. I've had way more trouble with UPSes misbehaving than I ever have with data centres losing power. EDIT: I'd also point out that 2 hours is a long time to be running on in-rack UPSes. I've usually seen them designed to withstand about an hour, but not much more.
Soccer has it's dull games too. Watching teams park the bus or just kick the ball around to kill time. Thrilling stuff!

Also, as a fan of all sports, I have to say there is probably nothing more entertaining(at least to me) than the NFL Red Zone Channel. Almost no stop in the action, skip most replays, see all the big plays, often in real time. Of course playing fantasy football plays a big part in that.

Hockey is a great game to watch as well with pretty constant shots and action.

Lots of people I know don't understand how I like hockey or soccer. Some can't stand football. Some like watching sports I find boring, but I don't begrudge them or declare that a sport I find boring must be boring to everyone in the world and they're all somehow brainwashed or confused.
There's quite a few pieces missing from the open source Parse server. https://parse.com/docs/server/guide#migrating
Analytics, Push (a big one), Config, Jobs.
I've been building a mobile app platform on Parse for a while, so I'll have to re-build all the missing pieces for all my existing customers and to keep the new customers coming in. Its something I'd been planning/researching for a while for the next version anyway, the number of times I've said fcuk Parse! Now I have to hurry up and build the next Parse anyway at http://appstack.systems