skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a whole the F-35 is one of those big disappointments that was the direct result of each service branch having a say in requirements of the aircraft. There are more than a few documentaries and articles outlining this in fantastic detail.

Ars ran a similar article to this one in January: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/f-35-s...

I was an employee at Lockheed during the time of when the "JSF" vendors were competing for the contract. While I wasn't directly involved in any F-35 programs (I was on the MS2 side supporting NATO programs, particularly ASOC / SCCAN - that's another story in itself...) I was friends with a few programmers responsible for the main flight systems of the early aircraft (I'm unsure if that system was ultimately used in the production version or not) and the attitude seemed to be that the aircraft would never make it to operational use anyway. I was a, relatively, new and naive employee (first employment after college) and it struck me as odd that the plane was a joke internally to the company, at least those "building" pieces of it and it makes me wonder today if the lackadaisical attitude was ripe across all facets of the program. If so it makes sense today of all the failures the program has endured. The aircraft has always underperformed and been overbudget.

Ultimately the tax payers foot the bill for a next-gen aircraft that continually gets beat by task-specific variants that are decades older unfortunately. I used to joke around with people about how the $1000 toilet wasn't far off once I learned about how every program's goal was to be cost plus and then milk scope creep to the Nth degree.

The programs I was involved with were selling commodity Sun + Cisco + some overpriced serial to Ethernet bridges (http://spt.sunhillo.com/products.php) tied to some archaic war/peacetime ATC software. It was absolutely astounding what those packages cost and what was actually delivered.

I saw some were asking what language for some of these systems and if it were along the lines of what I was exposed to it was a mix of anything and everything. Most critical systems were written in ADA, as suggested, but I saw Java (think awesome Java in the early 2000's), TCL, shell scripts and the like as major components to these systems. In fact I remember a dev having problems getting working out reading serial data from a GPS receiver to set proper system time - so he just bundled ntpd in the build as his own work.

Working there was an eye opening experience for both good, and bad reasons. The stereotypical jokes were, unfortunately, true to an extent and I couldn't continue to justify pretending I was working on cool, unspeakable things that were shrouded in James Bond'esque mystique.

Ultimately I was proud walking in day one and couldn't get out of there fast enough. The people were great, but the management and true colors of the company were centered on, IMO, calculated enrichment of select groups of people. It was never about the best product - it seemed it was about who was next in line to get fed.
If you don't care about overkill, you could employ machine learning and anormaly detection: send the input sequences, timing and other difficult to fake data (e.g. gyroscope state) to the server and learn the "typical" distribution of those values. A perfect game played by a robot will likely be an outlier in a lot of the values.

(Note that some legit games will also look suspicious, so you'd want to use this to find out which players you should keep an eye on, not as a tool for auto-banning.)
The Japanese are the gods of commitment. I recall reading the self-mummifying priests, and other stuff that I don't recall, and boy, thats cool and scary. 7 centuries of continuous recording of the same event.
> Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.

Fuck off and die
Pixels over code
Seems ideal if you assume he wouldn't donate his shares if he couldn't retain control.
That's not the Silicon Valley mindset, that's the Wall Street mindset, which was unfortunately exported to Silicon Valley sometime between the dot-com boom and the mid-2000s. Corporate raiders started dismantling the labor/capital social contract in the 80s.

I would also be very skeptical of any politician who claims to be the solution to this. They're using you; economically frustrated masses are a very good way to gain power.

The people I know who actually manage to cobble together fulfilling lives today usually do it by thinking locally: developing local friendships, local business relationships, consumption preferences that reflect what they want, and then opting out of the national conversation.
Makes you wonder who is really "Public Enemy No. 1" now.
This hits the nail on the head. As a US citizen who has lived in the US for 32 years, I'd rather live in poverty in Japan than middle class in LA, SF, or NYC.
That's a result of technology, not trade policy. Not only that, but I can't think of rising, developing countries that have free trade policies. Brazil, China, and the rest are all protectionist. Further, the the notion is that we in the US have benefited from free trade.

So the answer is none of the above.
A brief guide to everything annoying about Apple
It's not like any of it's made in America, so...

I have one of these and it's been fine so far.

http://www.amazon.com/EasyAcc-Bus-Powered-Self-Powered-Ultra...

To reiterate everyone else, Anker is great. I've had good results with TronSmart too. And the Amazon Basics lineup is universally reliable. They have all sorts of chargers/hubs/cables at reasonable prices.
Ah, I can see that I wouldn't necessarily get a very good result if I'm actually doing calculations with a 16-bit mantissa.
"Console port" in the gaming world unambiguously means "a game that was originally developed for a console, then ported to the PC." The opposite would be "PC port."
/t/, /d/, and /θ/ are all pretty close, but I've never thought of it as alliteration. But I suppose it does count. Thanks for expanding my literary toolbox.
On the West Coast, most of the small suburban cities never had a town center to begin with. They were designed by real estate developers using standardized high-profit low-density building plans, entirely focused on cars over walking anywhere.

I don't know what you are talking about. I don't believe this to be true of California generally. It is somewhat true of the LA area, but it was always true of LA, before the cult of the car became a thing. In the case of the LA area, it was not possible to develop it without developing large tracts of land in one go because of the cost of bringing infrastructure to the desert. However, when it began, there were trolleys and the like and you could comfortably live without a car. You just used the trolley or other public transit.

Also, the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the few places in the US with population density comparable to parts of Europe. So it has relatively good public transit for the US.

Yes, a lot of America has made it essentially against the rules to create the kind of walkable cities that we once had. The New Urbanism movement was all about trying to find a way to recreate that in spite of the current zoning and legal climate that has whored out development to the cult of the car.

I don't know how to fix it, but I feel like you really don't know the history here that you are badmouthing. It is more complicated than that.
The author claiming he'll never need to do a BFS, and thus does not need to know it is kind of funny to read. You should never be proud of your ignorance.

Oh, you think you're a front-end dev and will never need to do anything else? What happened to striving for growth (personal and professional)? Why not learn how to write a BFS instead of writing a rant about your pride in not knowing it? Are you really just proud of doing your one thing, doing it well, and have no interest in ever branching out? If so, it is not surprise nobody will hire you (who needs a single-use tool?). If not, then also no surprise as you've shown a complete lack of desire to learn (who needs an inflexible employee?).

I am further sorry to tell you that your github history is irrelevant. I've seen _my_ code on github under 10 names. None of them mine. I'd never trust anyone's github profile - no reason to believe they wrote the code, they did it themselves, and how many attemtps of guess-and-check they needed (or not). You know what I do trust? Your ability to prove your "skills", in person, under realistic pressure, on demand, and on a schedule. You know, by solving a problem perhaps a bit out of your comfort zone. Maybe a simple maze?
How Not to Buy a Domain Name
Why would natural monopolies be OK in general?

The screwed up train system in the UK is a natural monopoly under lax regulation. It means we face high fares, bad service and low investment.
Corporate profits have benefited greatly which thus benefits all who own stocks (top 20%). Wages have been crushed which negatively impacts the other 80%. [1] Personally, on a whole I feel we’ve lost as Americans and disagree with the parent. You can argue about cheaper goods or more competition, but most these trade deals seem fairly lopsided with the main beneficiaries being other countries getting jobs and corporations getting cheaper labor.

1. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/29/hillary-clinton-cannot-win-us...
Are you crazy or in denial? Are you not aware of the many publications released about how we are no longer even close to the prosperity of the 1940s-1970s as regular Americans?
That example is of a secretary of state potentially being influenced by foreign donations, going around the usual laws against campaign contributions from foreign countries. But we're taking about Zuckerberg, who can already take foreign money all he wants.

Letting people play philanthropist is kind of the point of a philanthropic foundation.
With significant insider or founder control, the other voting shares don't really have much influence anyway.

Or just in a so called blue chip. What meaning does 1000 voting shares of Ford really have?
> a large number of people are involved in the manufacturing and distribution of a physical good.

Manufacturing per product is typically limited to few locations (likely 1 location for this company as far as I can tell). Yeah it's a lot of work but I'm curious as to what their make-up is as far as employees go. Reading up on a lot of logistics it seems like they could get away with 1,000 so I'm curious as to what those 2,000 do :)

> If you think 2,000 employees is a lot, wait until you see how many employees a company like Ford has

Seems like an apples to organges comparison. Ford does R&D on vehicles which include a vast amount of complex parts but they also do manufacturing all across the world, various offices to manage this and work with partners, dealer inspectors, etc. Ford has multiple products that all are incredibly high in complexity next to yogurt.
Generally these days it isn't a port per-se it's simply one codebase compiled for different platforms. So I'm sure they just take the stance of 'this always worked on the console (where it's much harder to run modified code)'.
Only seen that price for iOS jailbreaks. [1][2]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/03/jailbreak...

2. http://www.ibtimes.com/ios-9-jailbreak-reward-zerodium-offer...
LLVM can already do sibling TCO in cases like that. Of course, it isn't guaranteed at a language level.
Europa League: Ψηλά ο πήχης στο Βιγιαρεάλ – Λίβερπουλ
Feel free to downvote me but some people need to eat.

Game development doesn't really match well with the consultancy model of most commercial Open Source companies.

Also the RAD guys are awesome, they've been putting out solid tools for years.
I'm not a fan of the taste of texture but I don't think I'd call it "poison". Besides this is irrelevant to the conversation at hand as it's about the company's stock redistribution not its product.
Well to be fair "the whole" isn't fully visible yet so we don't actually know the plain truth. Maybe trade deals are better for everyone overall. Maybe they aren't.

Maybe they have sustainably and permanently lifted millions of people out of poverty and it's a long term step forward on the path to a better life for everyone. Or maybe they have served to increasingly concentrate capital into fewer and fewer hands to the point the entire world will be eventually perpetually enslaved with no path out and this causes very bad things for the human race to happen. Not to mention the destruction of culture (or is this a positive? I never know) and destruction of ecosystems (I'm pretty sure this isn't a positive).

The point is, we don't know the full story yet. The jury is still out. But I'm always wary of concentrated power. Distributed power seems to produce much more good IMOP.
I'm curious what sorts of creative discussions happened around that egg. I'm guessing it involves something about conveying the freshness that they provide, and you don't get an egg like that on a regular restaurant delivery meal. It screams "this was prepared just now, just for you."

Since you guys tracked 8 ads, is there any deeper creative analysis that you've performed? Have you looked at what trackers their sites load or any of the URL params to dig into more campaign details?
Visualization of the traveling salesman problem
I agree with you, but would dispute that Brasil is rising at the moment
Of course Xamarin was built on top of earlier Open Source work in MonoMac, you still could do OS X applications without actually paying for Xamarin but it wasn't as easy as using Xamarin straight.

So this is also partly just giving back from where they took it.
I'm surprised you're being downvoted so heavily. I haven't done food manufacturing before but I've looked into it a few times (so I'm far from an expert but I at least know of a thing here and there). 2,000 seems pretty high to me.

I would love to see a breakdown for their employees and what their roles are spread throughout the company. Also how many manufacturing locations they have (I thought it was just one).
Node.js version 6 is now available
Exactly. The nuance of every discussion is critical.

When somebody says "Never trust the client" inevitably somebody will find a use case that sounds like trust even though it's not what they're saying here and use that as justification.

The lack of nuance is how things like "never use stored procedures" gain traction when they shouldn't.
There is a Xamarin Evolve 16 session shown free on their live channel starting in a few minutes at 5:30pm ET (Wed Apr 27):

"Everyone Can Create Beautiful Apps with Material Design"

https://evolve.xamarin.com/live
As a citizen of a democratic country, I love the idea of mandatory sunsets. I hate how easy it is for legislators to pass laws but how very difficult it is to repeal them.

But, beyond that, I'd like to see the law be self-repairing. There's a legal concept that goes back to the Romans that ignorance isn't a valid defense. Maybe it worked well back then, but not when the legal code expands as it does in modern democratic countries. The law should be a manageable size that is largely understood and agreed to by everyone. In that vein, I've always wanted a built in system to 'garbage collect' laws that were dated or misunderstood. In a simple implementation, a government department would poll the citizen body for understanding or agreement with a law. If the polling doesn't reach a threshold, then the law is purged.
Most of the daily trading in stocks these days is not from people that are long term.
Don't forget the incident where Punk Buster banned anyone with a certain string in memory...
Cinnamon 3.0 released
Yes, good idea. Put "call" in for the price for now and be prepared to negotiate. All the big companies think they're special and will want a "great deal." You can give all of them a great deal and at the same time find out what the market is willing to pay while not underselling.
I think, or hope this was a fluke? Or, a combination of errors in judgement on the part of investors? Investors were/are still in awe of Zuckerburg. Elisabeth was a college dropout, female, white, and from a wealthy family; you can trust her integrity? She looked the part--the black turtleneck, meticulous? She was asking for money for something, most investors only had slight knowledge of how it might work.

She was essentially asking for money for a black box, but since it was tied into the medical profession, I could picture the average investor thinking, "People tied to the medical research are a cut above the rest in terms of ethics?". They wouldn't exaggerate. Remember, it's only lately have people started pay attention to side effects, or even question their doctor's wisdom. Remember how we all rushed out to cure that anxiety/depression because it's all just a chemical imbalance. Even doctors were/are fooled on that one.

I don't know if Mrs. Holmes technology works, but the way she looked, the trusting nature of society towards white tech, all must have played a role in that money grab? Along with investors want big returns.

Personally, I questioned her when I heard the interviews. I question anyone who claims/refers they are visionary, or a cut above the rest. I immediately think, what are they hiding? I've rarely met a brilliant person who needed to play up their intellect. They have been self deprecating, if anything. She seemed to work to hard at crafting an image? An image of the brilliant inventor. She seemed more concerned about discussing her perfect life? It all seemed so breezy. "Just an idea while in class." "I hired my chemistry teacher." That black turtleneck seemed so Jobs, so phoney, or delusional? So visionary? The medical, and Pharmacutical industries get away with too much chicanery.

I guarantee, if she was black/brown/poor we wouldn't be talking about Theranos.
Should You Test Small Changes or Big Changes?
What about LZHAM; I thought that was the top "slow compress, good ratio, fast decompress" contender for games and such?
Pretty sure I had a TSR[1] that did this in reverse (going from cleartext to ciphertext).

But props to the author for implementing this and putting the code up.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_and_stay_resident_pr...
> It reminds me a bit of GO with its packages.

Not that alien a comparison, since Ada and Go both descend from Niklaus Wirth's languages. Ada was directly based on Pascal, whereas Go (and its precursors) is strongly influenced by Modula and Oberon, themselves successors to Pascal. Aside from some superficial syntax differences, Go looks a lot like Modula and Oberon.
I think there's a false dichotomy here. You can't simply ignore the client, so no matter what, you have to have a set of server-side checks that ensure the client's inputs are valid.

Part of what this article offers is "you can't fix it by adding server-side checks", guessing that if they haven't done it already, it's impossible to do. I think it's entirely possible that their model is reasonable (takes movement, fire events, etc. instead of position, inventory, etc.), and they simply haven't guarded against malicious inputs. Adding server-side checks is _exactly_ what you need to do to make movement/firing inputs safe!

The existence of a certain class of bug doesn't mean the whole architecture is broken. It may simply mean they shipped the game without trying to detect cheaters. That may be a bad idea, but if the design is right, it's certainly fixable.
Title feels a little hyperbolic (and was submitted by the author of the comment linked to). It isn't "broken", it is a breaking change, but that's what major version changes are for. No-one needs to be using Node 6.0 right now.
To anybody who is only in for the visualization: This study may show that word embeddings (like word2vec) are a fundamental feature of the representation of semantics in the human brain.
UDP for games – encryption and DDoS protection
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4gjjy0/udp_enc...
Cool projects, thanks for pointing them out! So, the scrape-html-to Swagger one would basically allow you to keep Swagger up to date as you change the human-readable API documentation? In that case, someone still has to make sure the API documentation is in sync with the source code, right?
In the SaaS world, there's the problem your app solves, how good your solution to the problem is, and marketing. The more real the problem, and the better your solution, the less you have to rely on marketing. I think the same applies in freelancing. The more desperate the client, and the deeper your domain knowledge, the less you might have to work to get clients.
Yeah, he likes to rub it in apparently. Imagine a Professor at Podunk State College reading this. Even the list of prizes this dude didn't get is getting more attention than my lifetime of research accomplishments. American academia has a winner-takes-all culture that loves to brag how meritocratic it is, and unlike business, it never gets called for it.
When Google did this I had to pay capital-gain tax on all the "new" shares I got. About a year later the german tax department changed their view and I got that back. It sill was very annoying.
For example, there is no way cab companies, the largest of which may have a few hundred drivers, could ever deploy the kind of software infrastructure Uber has developed.

No, but a small business could build and support the software for many of them, as a service. In fact, there are plenty of startups doing just that. Scale doesn't have to come from building up, it can come from building horizontally, in a web of small businesses supporting each other.

Unless you're facing a stupid number of regulations, which scale linearly with the number of firms, encouraging the centralization and monopolization of markets.
Not that Facebook hasn't tried to have a blogging component before...
> At which point you have become the worlds most wanted terrorist

Only you're not on this world... Interplanetary games of brinkmanship have new rules.
>That's not an IT issue, that's an organizational issue.

I knew this at the time. I never blamed IT directly for the issues, because I knew that they were just doing their job as well.
What were the reasons people brought up against doing this?
Isn't the voting right attached to a stock irrelevant to almost all individual stock holders?
It doesn't happen. For that to happen every trucking manufacture would have have to recall every truck and that's simply never happened. Recalls are generally more along the lines of part Y has an issue, bring the truck in and we'll replace that part.

The same will be true of automated trucking, parts will be recalled, and companies will have multiple different trucking manufactures to choose from so the notion that all the trucks will be recalled just isn't realistic.
Inconvenient facts that don't help the F-35 agenda are national security secrets.