skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a hypothetical drone pulled 9Gs+ in extreme maneuvers routinely, the USAF would be buying a new drone pretty quick. Even without weapons load, the service life would be short as a few years.

This is precisely what happened when the US Navy F-16Ns were used exclusively by TOPGUN, and had a short service life before the airframe developed cracks and went to the boneyard. These jets were flown harder than the USAF flew them in operational service.

Also, the aerodynamic control surface effectiveness on fighter jets does not allow rapid reversals at some magic level significantly beyond what a human pilot can handle. An old A-4 Skyhawk can roll beyond 360 degrees a second with a human pilot.

Another issue is that thrust vectored aircraft like the F-22 Raptor, will rapidly loose airspeed at a relatively low sustained turn rate. This turn rate is way less than the 9G maximum of the aircraft. Additionally, An F-22 (91-4003) was effectively written off after a -11G overstress mishap. The pilot was okay, but the jet never flew again. To fly a fighter in an expanded G envelope would require additional weight, negating some of the benefits of unmanned fighters.
Is he saying the end results of the project [...] did not have enough economic value to sustain the project... and hence founders were "forced" to collect data as a means to generate value?

I don't see any reason to read that into his speech. We're used to the "you pay or are the product" dichotomy being propagandized at us as the reason for accepting surveillance business models. I don't see that here. I see it more like describing the realization that there is an(other) revenue stream staring the creator in the face.
The sound of dial-up: an example handshake
I will be revisiting OCaml sometime in the near future to write a more solid web framework for it (compared to OWebl). This time it will be based on FastCGI rather than doing the networking itself I think.

In the meantime, I'm more actively working on Ponyo for Standard ML right now. Take a look at the ponyo.org server[0] for a brief glance at what it can do today.

Check out the /r/sml wiki if you are trying to get started. And please join #sml on Freenode if you have any questions!

[0] https://github.com/eatonphil/ponyo/blob/master/site/server/s...
The proposed solution mentioned is easier - let a country select two languages.
No correlation between estimated size and actual time taken
You're talking about the past in the present tense. I had dinner with a Russian couple last night in Tallinn who had been planning on moving their business to the UK. As of this week, they've changed their kind, they're staying in Tallinn.

Sure, one data point, but you can't act as if nothing has changed. It has.
With type hints in Python 3.5+, does Python fit your list? Genuinely curious.
Yes.

Alpha Decay is just a low mass form of cluster decay.
It's not really making software that more than barely works... it's changing the definition of "barely works". I've spent most of my career in banking and health care, stuff under heavy regulation. The regulations become part of the requirements. And within those bounds, banking and health care software barely work. Avionic software barely works. The software that keeps your pacemaker going? Barely works.

Remember, a pacemaker that doesn't work 1% of the time doesn't work. Specs are different.
Hm, I don't recall seeing multiple RAFs in that demo. GSAP is all driven by a single one. And yes, I totally agree that nobody should place too much weight on just one performance test. I always advocate people doing their own tests which is why I was wondering if you had one that showed anime matching/exceeding GSAP's speed. No big deal, though. Just curious. Congrats again!
In following case, supreme court is set to determine if law of gravitation is constitutional.
My take is that metaprogramming does not scale to teams.

Or maybe it's just the historical artifact that everybody claims to be, and if the PDP-10 supported a lisp environment, things would be different. But if I had to bet, I'd bet on metaprogramming not scaling.
PDF, TeX, MS Works, and even images with styled text in them were all around in 1993. Edit: I just realized that TeX and Word were mentioned right at the top of the article.
Some additions to this profile:

Scholze won 3 gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad [1], refused the Milner and Zuckerberg's Millenium Prize (without justification, afaik) [2], answers once in a while on mathoverflow [3] and has played the bass in a rock band, obviously. [4]

[1] http://imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=7867

[2] https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/2015/11/09...

[3] https://mathoverflow.net/users/6074/peter-scholze

[4] http://www.express.de/bonn/professor-mit-24-so-tickt-mathe-g...
Someone Can Change Your Facebook Credentials by Just Sending in a Fake Passport
Perhaps the fuel matters more than running the engine.
That's what you all told me when I said it'd be an out vote, and when I said trump would be the GOP candidate.

Just call me Cassandra.
It is and it is.
> really takes down the system

Well, for one, that's exactly what I mean.

I've hit the half-century mark with pretty much nothing to live for.

My last full-time gig went to India, after I was asked to train two people in India who after 2 months still had no clue.

Every time you read about system X being breached and Y hundreds of thousands of PII and financial records compromised?

Well, I think of those two hapless fellows in India. And the VP's and C-suite schmucks who saved a few bucks and made a few bucks more for themselves by screwing over their own systems.

Let it burn.

P.S. Nothing wrong with Indians. But in this particular circumstance, they and their circumstances were totally incompetent with respect to the job at hand.

And... inequality is an enormous problem in India, as well.

Finally, it's been argued repeatedly and, IIRC, demonstrated at least in some social science research and papers as well as in e.g. fMRI studies and the like, that a primary role of the human mind is comparative analysis and ranking.

The low end may lose a lot, but if it destroys some of degree of ranking, it may prove to be an advantage.

And, in chaos, you end up ranked primarily with your local peers, as opposed to regional and strategic forces. You may be miserable, but socially, you may have more value.

(Think of the tremendous and enduring bonding experience of "grunts" in the military. On the one hand, you are the low end of the low -- cannon fodder. On the other, you are essential to your unit. The latter, for many, proves to have enormous value. My Great Uncle Joe continued to attend his unit's reunions well into his 80's, until shortly before he passed.)

So... Until you place that misery in context, you have not qualified it from a human perspective.
"The EU would probably /need/ to be too punitive to anyone attempting to leave" - Considering merkel just ruled out being punitive in negotiations I doubt it.

She has cars to sell.
The fundamental mistake of thinking that technology alone can solve all human problems (is this what technological liberationists believe? Great name.) runs deep in this community and comes, I think, of worshipping intelligence.

The entire concept of all powerful AI that must be feared or at least obeyed springs from this trap. But imagine when we create this AI and ask it "how should I live" and it replies "eat better and exercise" how will its intelligence convince me to change my ways better than my doctor does today? How will more smarts give us peace in the Middle East? These human problems seem tied up more with the all too human traits of will and desire and pride and... Intelligence? It's far down the list.

Politics, for better and for worse, is our system for granting humans the power people here seem to think AI will be able to take on its own. I think part of Maciej's message is: stop waiting.
Ace of Brands – Kellogg's Case Study
There are more people talking about code that don't know actual code than people that know what they talk about when they say code source. A software is not only a source code, it's many things: business rules, GUI, database, network, programming language etc. It's seems logical that there's more talking that is macroscopic from the point of view of coder's own microscopic. Hopefully, hackernews is here to help ;)
The Game That Helps Uber Engineers Pitch Better
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11380762
Cool analogy. However don't some startups actually open up things that we didn't even know were painful?

E.g I was happy staying in hotels. I wasn't on fire looking to stay at someone's house. I'm guessing the hosts weren't on fire either having random strangers over.

Facebook, Google, Amazon. I was very happy with the alternatives. They just did somethings better. Although Facebook is kind of dead to me. Haven't opened in months.

I do like the analogy of getting overwhelmed by customers and having scaling problems.
A Web-Based Universal IoT Remote Control
Ooh. Nice one, mate. Thanks.
"The best cure for high prices is high prices."
Editor’s Morning Note: Reticulated Sp(Line)s
There are already commercial VR camera rigs that can do translation within a sphere big enough for head motion. The camera makers want to be able to make content for use with things like Gear VR.
Imagine a voice call, using a variable-bitrate codec, broken into small packets (not necessarily over the internet), of interest to a passive eavesdropper who cannot decrypt the content, but can observe metadata: the timing of packets and their sizes.

Feed that information into a prebuilt phoneme-in-context model trained on that codec and language, and said eavesdropper could probably reconstruct a pretty good estimated transcript - different phonemes compress differently.

There is no reason this would not work in bulk: I am under the impression GCHQ have done a fair amount of research in this area, for example.
You need Elixir with the Phoenix framework!
But, (also by the same ideas), most encrypted texts will not be able to be compressed by more than a single bit.
Awesome, thanks for giving me the term to further research.

There is at least one other ISP that doesn't have access to the property plus in theory Google Fiber should be coming to town (PDX) so I expect this issue is going to become more pressing.
Well if each (lat,lon,cell#,imei) record takes, say, 500 bytes and they take a measurement every minute, 27TB is enough to record every American for 4 months. That's pretty hefty surveillance even if the raw size doesn't impress.
A good question, and your numbers might be mostly correct, but there are some false assumptions leading to them (based on the information presented). Just because 40 years ago there was a 67% vote to join, that doesn't mean 67% of the people that voted to join are still alive (that assumes the voting results were fairly uniform across age demographics. It could be that young voters voted predominantly one way and older voters another back in 1975 (as it is reported they did now). That could greatly raise or lower the percentage of people still alive that voted to join.
Organize projects by feature:

http://jaysoo.ca/2016/02/28/organizing-redux-application/
Cooking doesn't destroy fiber, it just softens it. As opposed to pulp-free fruit juice, from which all fiber is removed, and is unhealthy. Even if tomato sauce were the equivalent of fruit juice, you'd usually have it with pasta, bread, etc. which all have fiber as well.
Where is CAAS "Company as a Service" as a business? Particularly for single person companies, I could see this being a very useful service.
Can we have a do-over on the web? I've seen (and even nominally participated) in something of a resurgence of Gopher as something of a shadow web for nostalgia-addled geeks. Gopher isn't an awesome protocol, but I love anything that recaptures the spirit and decentralized nature of the old web.

At my curmudgeon-iest I like to imagine we carve off our own web where S-expressions reign, there is no Google, and a million timecubes bloom.
oh man...Prodigy. I remember using my ole 1200 bps modem to load up those .. EGA? VGA graphics? I can't even remember. I do remember my prodigy user ID though.
Well, I didn't. I've spent the last year expecting Trump to become president, and the UK to leave Europe.

In my mind, it was only a matter of when. If it wasn't the Conservative party that had called the referendum, eventually UKIP would either have ended up in a coalition or seizing a majority.

In fact, I think it's better that the establishment should try to grapple with these politics now instead of letting them fester too long. At least now certain things have been dispelled, and the machinery behinds the politics is beginning to be exposed. For example, the idea that we could get £350 million of free money for the NHS just by leaving the EU; or the idea that progressive politics are trickling down into poor communities and helping them to understand that they're rightfully poor because they're not competitive in global markets, and shouldn't blame immigrant workers working alongside them (or whatever it is they're meant to tell themselves late at night).
Both sides' civilians could meet together on bleachers and share popcorn.
Not entirely true re: Soviets. While many wanted a glorious technocratic future, many were won over by tales of how it would be just as great as under Peter. People remember despots fondly, generally, and Russians very definitely believe in the gilded age of Russia, and that it was glorious for all. They forget about the serfdom bit.

Re Germany, Aryanism.
I have no idea about the economics, but making your own yogurt is extremely easy. You get rather more control of the contents at that point.

Fresh yogurt is also naturally sweeter
It's not. I recommend watching the documentary Fed Up on Netflix, it help explains how we got to this state.
50ms Nagpur Tata line

70 ms for blr digitalocean
90-110 ms for Singapore DO

120-140 ms for European DC like OVH & online.net
States being the source of money and not a neutral arbiter of it’s value is the major problem in my opinion, not the solution. With a set amount of money (or a slow fixed increase) markets are stable and operate efficiently (assuming minimal other burdens) in the allocation of resources and goods. But when governments ‘make’ money, the markets don’t allocate it, a small set of people do. This micromanagement of the economy leads to declining productivity and stagnation as money flows to the politically connected. The former USSR being a good example in the extreme.

So money becomes politics. We’ve seen that those with money have used this to make even more: regressive taxes, bailouts, corporate inversions, etc. But the spread between rich and poor is becoming worse, so now the talk about UBI. The affect of this money distributed by bureaucratic fiat is that the middle class dies. The rich get richer with access to the new money, the poor get poorer and live off handouts, and those surviving in the middle get pushed to the poor side or figure out how to get to the rich side. A fairly standard state of affairs throughout history (lords and serfs), but not the future I’d like to see.
Yeah, that's crazy. "In Crimes ville, houses are routinely broken into and looted, so the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply in Crimesville"
I happen to have 3 brands of tomato sauce in the cupboard. Each 8 ounce can appears to have less sugar in it than a serving of Oreos (14 grams for the Oreos. 5, 7.5 and 10 grams for the sauces). Only the 10 gram sauce has any added sugar.

The cans each say 2.5 servings (to be clear, above I've done the math for the entire can), and I think for many foods, it will be the case that less than 1/2 the can is a serving. So there is something iffy about the comparison in the article (and 20 or 30 calories of sugar in a meal is not a huge concern for most people).
If there is structure in an encrypted file then the encryption is broken. It is mathematically indistinguishable from true random data. No compression algorithm can compress it.

An additional point you need to consider: You can select different models and compression programs (and some programs do do this), but you have to record which one you use in your output. This again increases the size of the output - this means that even a no-op compression algorithm (say cat or cp :D ) results in output that is bigger (you need a initial byte to say you haven't tried to compress).

I think the better approach to what you're claiming is for you to provide an example that is compressed. Just provide the input, the key, the encryption algorithm (AES-GCM for preference, but seriously AES-CBC would work to), and the compression algorithm.
It can't be too long until we can run VM's on our phones and isolate all our apps from the main phone OS? This seems like a great need to be filled.
The Springfield Mall fell into deep decline and eventually died when everything but the Target left. It was recently renovated and "resurrected" as a high-end, WASP-y competitor to Tyson's Corner.

I preferred the old one, to be honest.
Modern JVM based frameworks are far from being "monsters", and you have a lot, lot of choices! Many of them have an embedded HTTP server so they are very easy to develop and deploy.

In case you want to investigate some:

- https://grails.org

- http://sparkjava.com

- https://www.playframework.com

- http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot

- https://www.spincast.org

- http://jooby.org

- http://www.ninjaframework.org/

- http://www.dropwizard.io/0.9.3/docs/
While our death row is an issue, you are something like ten to twenty thousand times more likely to die at the hands of our idiot drivers here in Texas. So keeping a sense of perspective is important.
This is the fallacy I am objecting to.

If the majority of the people want to abolish the First Amendment in order to silence hate speech, the government absolutely should not listen the them.

Tyranny of the majority and mob rule are discussed from various angles in the Federalist Papers and I believe were considered carefully when structuring the American government (in order to prevent them).
Is 30x500 course a scam?
Free accounts can only sync with 2 devices now, so if you have a work computer, a personal computer, a phone and a tablet you're totally screwed. Time to switch. Any recommendations?
I'm in favor of keeping pi because of one simple equation:

e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0

This is, IMHO, the most beautiful equation I've come across. It's concise and it relates all the most basic constants in mathematics. It's also useful, for example, for operating on the logarithm of a negative number:

e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0
e^{i\pi} = -1
i\pi = \ln{-1}
\ln{x} + i\pi = \ln{x} + \ln{-1}
\ln{x} + i\pi = \ln{-x}

For more see Euler's Identity[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity
Check out Ur/Web[1].

It's a functional, pure and statically typed language inspired by Haskell. It claims that programs that compile successfully cannot:

- Suffer from any kinds of code-injection attacks

- Return invalid HTML

- Contain dead intra-application links

- Have mismatches between HTML forms and the fields expected by their handlers

- Include client-side code that makes incorrect assumptions about the "AJAX"-style services that the remote web server provides

- Attempt invalid SQL queries

- Use improper marshaling or unmarshaling in communication with SQL databases or between

[1]: http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
So, everyone needs to take a deep breath here. In kernel VPN is giving me a bit of a security heart attack. As a security professional I would recommend not running this on anything but a sandbox that isn't connected to your environment. A single misstep in the code, a bad implementation of a crypto library or a bad hook could easily lead to ring 0 compromise.

Not trying to discount the author's work, and I haven't reviewed any of the documentation, but until this gets evaluated by a CC lab (or like independent group) I would not implement in anything you care about.
Having been born in the late 80s, this is before my time. But there seems to be a lot of fondness in hacker culture for phone phreaking. Frankly it seems almost out-sized: it even got a cameo in Pirates of Silicon Valley. So, why was this such a big deal? My perspective on it was just a way to get free calls from pay phones; is there more to it than that? How important/expensive were these phone calls that it became such a widely known technique? Is it just admiration for an early, and neat, hardware hack?
It's not so much the hate for JavaScript. It's the hate for the developers who know nothing about computing history making all the same mistakes as with any other platform while being so darned insistent that the world will run only on JavaScript any day now because JavaScript is the uber language.
Stunning and eye-opening. I had no idea. Seems all cultures are pretty much the same on this front, then.
There are a number of "Sales tax as a Service" businesses like Avalara out there, which honestly ANY small business that can afford it should partake.

I worked for a company that tried to build an in house sales tax rule calculator, it's damn near impossible unless you want to devote a team of people just to sales tax, and certainly not worth the risk.
I pulled the trigger at work that all new services we build in Node use Koa if the need a web framework because it utilizes ES6/7 features most effectively while still having a good bit of simplicity. That said, all of our legacy services, in Node, that need a web framework use Express. I find Express is a good beginner web framework and then once you understand ES 6/7 features in more depth, Koa becomes rather easy to switch to.
Was there ever a point in time when the founders / CEOs of McDonald's became cultural icons / household names?
Relevant Search: With Applications to Elasticsearch and Solr
beautiful has it's value too. I prefer a code that creates paragraphs using an extra line break. A single comment can
explain what each paragraph means. Reading (simply) a file is "open it, use it, close it", in my code it's three paragraph of code.
No, but are all Scots going to sit still while they are dragged down a path the large majority do not want? Seccessionist violence blooms surprisingly quickly - see the breakup of yugoslavia.
This is pretty much a personal attack and those are not allowed here.

Also, what you're saying doesn't match my recollection of luu's writings on this topic, which is that he's mildly in favor of static typing but changed his mind somewhat after looking at the dismal state of the evidence.
It doesn't matter.

This is not basic utilitarianism, there is game theory involved. You have to be willing to take a loss on some deals to achieve the equilibrium you want.
Isn't Elixir dynamically typed?
Ask a local church to recommend a parishioner who would benefit from it. They usually have a long list.