skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a quick note: The CTO you mentioned is an unprofessional amateur. Don't believe anything that comes out of his mouth.

Also: REALLY learn Javascript!
Airfields are the quintessential sitting ducks: high value targets with have a fixed position that could have coordinates recorded long in advance of any action.

An carrier on the other hand is a thousand foot runway that can move at 56 km/hr.
the chinese are working on the DF-ZF, a hypersonic glide vehicle... it could search for the supercarrier when it nears the carrier group, and maneuver itself into position to hit it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WU-14

This is the last stage.. it gets launched by a missile like the DF-26 or DF-31:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-31

The DF-31 can hit California from China. So if this works, they could keep a supercarrier out of the pacific ocean with enough of these (assuming they can get an approximate location).
Another uninformed article from warisboring. At least in this one they don't laughably assert the first ever air attack on a battleship happened at Pearl Harbor.

Unless I'm Googling the wrong David W. Wise, the author has never been in uniform and has no actual expertise in naval affairs. Most of the points in the article are regurgitations of dubious headlines ("CBG Never Detects Chinese Sub!"), and x vs y comparisons that don't make sense in isolation.

There is, though, a valid question buried in all the war nerd theorizing - what is it, exactly, Americans want their navy to do? Do we still expect to be able to fight a two front war against well armed adversaries? Now that the cold war is over, does it make sense to have alliances in Asia that require large force projection?
If you turn your phone sideways, you can use the up-volume button as a shutter button in the Camera app.
Even on x86, you could have a pthread_mutex protecting a struct with two integers that need to be updated "atomically", and have a signal delivered in the middle?
I don't feel that it's the same thing here. I do agree that if someone is unhappy a decent manager should find out why and do what can be done to change it.

However, I see someone sitting back for six years without offering any input on improvements or anything, just literally collecting a cheque and doing nothing as not being efficient or showing motivation for the company.

I agree, it shows he's smart, though he doesn't show commitment in my opinion, which is why I wouldn't justify a promotion. That's just my thoughts on the matter.
Yep ^ This is what I often do too. Simple, but effective.
Many of those companies probably started using ZFS before Oracle acquired Sun. After Oracle acquired Sun the risks of using ZFS skyrocketed legally and Apple had the option of just not taking on that risk since they hadn't shipped it yet.

Given what we know about Oracle that was probably the right call.
several hundreds of 4TB HGST enterprise in a cluster at university. Disks get replaced ASAP but I'm seeing the checksum errors often in the logfiles when a disk starts to collapse.

Btw: So far the Backblaze reliability numbers check out (<1% annual failure rate)
Did all of the "No affiliation with craigslist." warnings come after some legal action?
Alcohol is a performance enhancing drug in archery and marksmanship as well. It steadies their aim.
I am and have been living in Toronto, but I hear that craigslist is even bigger in the US than Canada, so I presume the same is likely.
It’s not hard to come up with quotes from the Chinese showing how much this carrier has to do with national pride instead of military usefulness:

“Building aircraft carriers is a symbol of an important nation. It is very necessary,” the China Daily paper quoted Admiral Hu Yanlin as saying earlier this month. “China has the capability to build aircraft carriers and should do so,” he said.

If you’re used to reading through DoD propaganda, no matter what country it’s coming from, you see what the admiral is saying here. Here’s my loose translation of what Admiral Hu is getting at: “We don’t actually need a carrier, but it’s part of being one of the big boys so we have to do it, like paying for your kid’s wedding. So we’ll turn out a few of them, but we’re only going to do it when it’s cheap and doesn’t interfere with production of real weapons like the DF-21.”

http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-china-joins-the-yacht-club/
I'm working in something like this but only in memory (because I'm building a relational language).

I have wonder how much better could be row or columns store if only for the in-memory data build typically in a program execution. I wonder if exist some data about this - because I'm too early stage to have meaningful data for benchmarks and my intuition is that column-store could be better long-term because searching for few columns dominate all other things (and joins could be better?), but in other aspects, like iterating, things not look good.

BTW, this is in F#
Faraday Future to Hire Former Ferrari Exec Marco Mattiacci
I was thinking about getting into bitcoin mining when it was still plausible to do it by yourself. Kicking myself now, but really it was a weird longshot thing at the time.
It's printed on lots of macbooks? http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/09/15/apple_macbook_air_11in_mid_...
Sorry to hear that. I'm sure, though, that the Sauce folks would want to hear more detail about the issues you saw.
Because if this becomes big enough, and enough grandmas lose their nests, my tax dollars will be used to prop up others' dumb decisions.
Oh man, I would love to have this functionality. Unfortunately I value the security of the contents of my Dropbox too much to open it to 3rd party services. Frustrating. Great idea making this.
My understanding is building ships is our jobs programs. Thought that all 50 states had a role in building one ship in the end.

Isn't that what war is all about? Boys and testosterone? It's that simple. Boys and toys. Someday we will advance as a society beyond that, but who knows when that will be.

Guess one can say, "hey we need this to advance our science, war is the big experimental space."

Don't really seeing Elon Musk doing much war planning. He does seem to be getting us to Mars just fine.

The amount of $$$s spend building one ship could probably build a heck of a lot of hosptials and universities, all around the world, but guess that would be just kind of boring.

There are still many people in my Brooklyn 'hood that can't read and write. Think that would be a far better mission, AKA Education. But just my opinion. Maybe we can do both?
I read Berg's biography back when I was a noob editor, and I recall it being a good read. It is not an exaggeration to say that several generations of editors were influenced by him (an example that would be almost impossible to emulate today). The 'new' authors mentioned--Paton (Cry the Beloved Country) and Jones (From Here to Eternity)--ended up being the last books he edited (spoilers: he dies at the end).
Are you sure you want to publicize your home address?
4 months.

I built a Slack bot called Standup Jack (https://standupjack.com). It's a ton of work upfront but if you launch early, keep an open dialog with your users, iterate on their feedback and keep your costs low, it's a nice way to earn some side income each month.

Udemy is a pretty easy way to start since they do the marketing for you (for a pretty big cut).
Yes—https://webkit.org/blog/6240/ecmascript-6-proper-tail-calls-....
for me it has been http://allthefreestock.com , it's not a serious side project and the only revenue has been ads.
Link to a paper talking about this: http://pcp.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/4/684.full
If Steve Jobs Still Ran Apple
>To force military leaders to focus on the services and not themselves, I’d support a ban on senior level leadership (O-7 and above) from accepting board seats or contractor / full-time positions with defense contractors.

That is an excellent idea, though I would extend it to cover any senior government leadership revolving into private sector positions in industries they regulated or for which they awarded contracts. There's clearly a conflict of interest, and nobody is going to starve on a senior official's retirement package.
I don't know why all military ships aren't submarines, from aircraft carriers on down..
I made a course on Udemy on how to make complete web applications without writing code using APEX.

Link and free coupons:

https://www.udemy.com/create-web-apps-with-apex-5/?couponCod...

Expenses:

$100 for a nice microphone (not necessary) but didn't want to record a bunch and have it be garbage
$100 for Screenflow (to do video editing).
20 hours time (split across a couple of weekends

Profit:

I've made $1405 on it so far. It is almost completely passive income.

Proof:

http://i.imgur.com/sexsrzK.png?1

If you know any of the topics in the Hot Topics list and can do desktop recording, maybe you should think about teaching others and making some side money while doing it. Best of all, the Udemy community is awesome. They are very supportive of each other.

https://teach.udemy.com/course-creation/hot-topic-courses/
Don't let the non-standard keyboard get in your way. They still make great Linux boxes.
He Tried to Be a Badger
Bye bye PayPal
Yes. or GTK4-alpha-1 to 5 before that big 4.0 point release.
That's hilarious! I totally expected some sort of automated testing suite for emulators/simulators, not a physical robot with a stylus! Awesome work!
Big Optimizations for Chrome 53, 47% Improvement on Motion Mark by WebKit
There is no other known effective defense against Sybil attacks in fully decentralized systems.
This is extremely cool, I need one of these little guys on my desk already!
A day. Okay, it isn't quite that simple. My sideproject is Breaker 101, an online class for web security. (https://breaker101.com)

I launched on HN and sold out (75 seats or so, $1500 each IIRC) that same day. I had designed the syllabus over the previous couple days, but there was no product -- because I honestly thought that only a few people would buy it, and I'd just have to refund them.

I built the class over the next few months and that went really well (not perfectly, but definitely well), but subsequent runs never got anywhere near the same success in terms of sales -- just couldn't get it in front of enough people.

I recently relaunched it at $150 in more of a self-driven form. It's profitable by all means, but it needs marketing behind it. I've been thinking a lot about selling it to someone that can give it the love it needs, but I'm still on the fence there.
if you are the audiophile kind, then you may already have an portable dac/amp that you use with your phone, or have attached to your pc through spdif/usb that then goes into your headphones, bypassing the onboard dac/amp.

what will happen is that some headphone manufacturers will start selling headphones with internal dac/amps. there are plenty of pc-oriented headphones that have that, and the gaming oriented ones even have onboard audio processing for surround emulation, like dolby atmos or dolby headphones kind of technology.

but what will also happen is that most performance headphone manufacturers will continue making whatever they were making before because a lot of audio equipment out there still rely on the (1/4") phone connectors, and don't need to have dac/amps built into the headphones because the equipment should have their own already.

if consumers don't care, they'll just continue using the earphones that comes with the iphone, which will likely work out of the box, or they may buy something else off the rack (like beats which will almost surely make headphones that are compatible with the new iphone) that comes with better speakers.

if consumers do care, then they'll get to put whatever dac/amp they love in between their iphone and their headphones.

but there are some consumers that care enough about good headphones but not enough about good dac/amps (because honestly most smartphone dacs are already pretty good on their own), who will have an existing pair of headphones they like very much but will need to fork out a little bit more for a dac/amp they don't have. hopefully with apple forcing this arrangement, dac/amps become less of a hobby purchase and we'll see some mass market $10 portable dac/amps hit the stores.
Hey I really like your approach of a lot of little project with a framework that suits a quick pace. I hope its okay to reach out to you through the email you provided in a different comment to correspond.
Long time Selenium and Sauce Labs user here. Thanks for all the good work Jason!
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Yep, the good old dial-up modem.

In this case, I assume they can beat the old modem bandwidth by cramming modulation in more ranges of frequency, with no need to adhering to the frequency range of the voice phone line.
I don't know how you find the time/focus to become proficient as a full stack web developer with like 10 different frameworks AND iOS AND Android, that's not normal.
The correct solution to a transcription error is a checksum algorithm. See for example the implementation I made for reverse-searching incorrect IBAN from a liberal list of probable transcription errors @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/ .. it's very fast, cheap and accurate.
Very interesting case study! And kudos for being able to pull this off! Curious to learn about some $ numbers
This article hits home. Five years ago, I created a SaaS app that did well, followed by one that did less so, and another that flopped (all eBay selling software).

New projects weren't having as much an impact and making me feel good, so I sat around reading books.

A turning point came when I read two: Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and On Writing by Stephen King. The first teaches we get optimal experience out of what we spend our attention on. It really got me psyched about chasing that feeling of being in the zone with my work. On Writing did that too. I saw another HN poster refer to King's "blue collar work ethic" -- totally true. He works hard because he loves to.

I recently started working again for pleasure, less encumbered by insecurities. I'm still working on it, still practicing. I created an open source framework for Amazon Echo development, and it's starting to get some traction. I think I was able to produce the work to get the traction because I've had a clearer mind.
In most cases it shouldn't matter; revocation lists ought to be trimmed to the lifetime of the issued tokens--when they are used at all, revoking a JWT rather than just letting it expire is likely not extremely common--so you could stuff them anywhere at all that is convenient to your other technology selections.
> I don't know anybody that invested a significant amount of their savings

You weren't hanging around the right IRC channels the day after MtGox went under, I take it.
I would like to comment on this but my account was killed. I said something in favor of the German ethnic group in a comment thread. I guess it was deemed too right of the far left attitude on HN.

As a German-Jew I feel like I've been unfairly bullied. I was just trying to level the world out. If you're a mod please fix my account. I have a good geopolitical understanding to provide to this thread, but what's the point if my account is dead or I make a new one and get it killed?
Elon Musk is a prime example of boys and toys. Granted, they are toys with more peacetime applications, but don't kid yourself, it's still a testosterone-fueled dick measuring contest. Witness the puerile "mine is bigger" feud with Jeff Bezos/Blue Origin.
yeah it's definitely OK
Something something private information changing hands in buyouts...
A SQL convenience library for Java built on top of Hibernate, 1.0.0 released
You may be justified, but that would certainly rub me the wrong way to be denied a job because I had a blacklisted employer on my resume.
If you want to try 2 devices, here's another demo, again sans TCP https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js/

I recommend running the receiver on a non-mobile device if you try this. Unfortunately running a receiver smoothly from a mobile browser is fairly difficult.
> On iOS, with regular touch on the camera you get the camera. 3D touch - you get the ability to specify the camera you want before loading the app.

Every time there's a thread about 3D Touch on HN, I learn new things. Which tells a lot about the discoverability of the 3D Touch features...
Thx Lawrence. Appreciate it.
Anyone know what the fees are?
Not a problem for NixOS!
Prevailing wisdom at the time was that airplanes were toys that could not in any way, shape, or form put enough explosives on target to do anything more than scratch the paint.
> Boys and testosterone? It's that simple. Boys and toys

That's impressively sexist. Why are you referring to men as boys, if not for derogatory purposes based solely on their sex? I see that in public forums extremely frequently now, and it's only ever done as a belligerent insult.

Here's a historical reality check for you:

"European Queens Waged More Wars Than Kings"

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/01/european-queens-waged-m...
Organizing a community tech conference: an ill-advised rant
^ this

A related startup is Cladwell. They kept the vision of building a set of basics, but instead of making clothes built a recommendation engine to understand your preferences for clothes that you can already buy. They actually just got into 500's Batch 17.

https://angel.co/cladwell
This isn't meant to be snarky, but I seriously suspect that your business will really take off when the bot + ad click farming communities clue into what they could do with such a system.
Sure, and then the handler only sees one integer as updated and the other integer will be updated after the handler. The lock gets silently broken unfortunately, but there's probably a useful reason for why this is. It could just deadlock instead.
Just because you do checksumming doesn't mean you have to report those errors in a way that might frighten a non-technical user. How many regular Mac users sit there looking at the syslog all day?
You only need large datasets to train a model - the result can be shipped around pretty easily. My company builds an app http://forevery.com/ which actually runs a neural net on your phone to organize your photos.
If you define 'profitable' as $100 a month, that's where one of my iOS apps (http://postcardpanda.com) is at after 2+ years. I've only recently started putting actual time into it though.

If you want the full income report, here is May's: http://mattsencenbaugh.com/postcard-panda-may-2016-income-re...
>Who writes a linked list in Javascript? Or Python? Or even C++? I haven't had to code a linked list since the 1990s.

Neither have I, but I didn't write that bloody circular queue in SPARC-V9 assembly language for nothing!

But, seriously, so many interviews are full of these sorts of questions. It's almost like they're trying to hire a reference book... or they don't know how to interview and just use the same sort of methods they were exposed to.
This is basically the APM program in Google. Google stopped hiring PMs without a technical background (either CS coursework, or professional experience as an engineer) in 2008, because they found that the PMs they did hire with no technical experience universally sucked.

They also have (had? it's been 2 years since I was there) an active rotation program between eng and PM roles, with the opportunity to transition permanently. A number of my friends did it; I'd seriously considered it, but my manager was willing to let me do PM-type roles without formally switching job titles.
This makes it sound like there is no plan. Rather than coming up with a defined API first, then implementing it through normal alpha, beta, rcs. They are just going to start writing whatever code at gtk4 and the stable version wont be until something like gtk4.xx based on whatever they decided to write.

And after gtk4.xx is released, are bug fixes supposed to happen on the newly unstable gtk5? -- I'm so confused.
It's Apple, so 30%?
It's more than just showing an ID. [See here](http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/u...) item 17.
> Now that the cold war is over, does it make sense to have alliances in Asia that require large force projection?

Yes, even more now that China is likely to become a 'peer' threat. It's really the U.S.'s only use for a high-end Navy.

Also, I agree that War is Boring is sensationalized and ignorant in general. It's heartening to see others have noticed.
> Isn't that what war is all about? Boys and testosterone? It's that simple. Boys and toys.

I have to assume that you aren't even half seriously suggesting this. What about all the war that happened during the majority of man's existence, when the "toy" was a sharp stick? Sure you had the odd technological mismatch at the onset of ${metal} age, but the majority of the time both sides had the same rocks and sticks.
Except people were robbed of their nice boots back then.
It's like no one here remembers the NetApp lawsuit.
Allowing other browser engines would also mean there'd be a lot more room for vulnerabilities that Apple has no control over. That's not to say that Blink or Gecko or whatever aren't secure, but if either of these engines introduced any kind of severe holes the consequences could be disastrous (and worse, unpatchable for that segment of folks who disable auto update).

Besides that, both Firefox and Chrome on OS X are notorious for power usage issues. There's a very good likelyhood that'd be true under iOS as well and the last thing Apple wants is a bunch of users blaming their iDevices for poor battery performance when the issue is actually web engines that are bad at rationing energy.
Press the volume once, the display has an options "cog" on the right, tapping that shows all the volumes on the device and you can set them to your heart's content.
Nope. The processing is handled by a processor like stripe. The fees are as normal.
Indeed, it's a mistake, but the solution isn't military, it's political; to ensure its safety, the US must promote disarmament on a global scale, with Russia and China, but including itself.
> None of what you've written here makes sense.

> The Russians don't have ballistic anti-ship missiles. There's only one model in the world so far, and it's Chinese.

So not true. There are ballistic anti-ship missiles, surprise the article specifically mentions it. A

Russians have sea skimming missiles. Let's not get hung up on the word "ballistic", it doesn't matter what missile is used, the point is it will easy to take out a large ship. Some of the sea skimming missiles can be launched by aircraft, so that extends their range.

> I do not believe the US would respond to conventional missiles with nuclear missiles.

Once whole carriers are starting to be taken down, it will be pretty close to that.

> we could do a whole lot of damage to China with aircraft and cruise missiles

If we do a lot of damage to China, what do you think they are doing to do, sit there and look beweldwered. At that point they'll be launching everything.

> Russian tanks are still vulnerable to the A-10

If they are sitting there doing nothing I am sure they are. But they probably have AA systems around.
I don't see what you're not understanding. If you live in America, then surely you are aware that Visa + Mastercard are overwhelmingly dominant as payment networks, yes?

Obviously Discover, Amex and Diner's Club exist, but they are barely worth mentioning. Hardly anyone (proportionally) carries those cards, and only a few merchants accept them.

In the United States, for a merchant to refuse Visa would be suicidal. In Canada, it's almost a non-issue because all the debit cards are processed on another, non-Visa network.

What of the above do you disagree with?
The DAO can also turn into a AI intelligence that decides we're boring and unsophisticated. The logical conclusion is to raise prices on us and then seize our funds when they stop us for traffic violations through hyperspace.
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