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>For current mission profiles, ALPHA’s red forces are handicapped with shorter range missiles and a reduced missile payload than the blue opposing forces. ALPHA also does not have airborne warning and control system (AWACS) support providing 360° long range radar coverage of the area; while blue does have AWACS. The aircraft for
both teams are identical in terms of their mechanical performance.

>When Geno took manual control of the blue aircraft against
the reds controlled by the baseline controller AFRL had previously been utilizing, he could easily defeat it. However, even after repeated attempts against the more mature version of ALPHA, not only could he not score a kill against it, he was shot out of the air by the reds every
time after protracted engagements.

That's pretty damning. They tied one electronic arm behind the AI's back and it was still able to down a veteran pilot.

IRL the AI aircraft would likely have substantially better performance than a manned aircraft, making the disparity even worse.

This all squares with what I've been hearing in recent years. There seems to be quite a bit of resistance to the idea of unmanned fighters in the upper ranks of the USAF, but the writing is on the wall. Been there for a long time now.
If you want a further response I need evidence that you recognize how badly you broke the civility rules here.
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Totally agree, it would be a political and engineering mess to try and implement on an existing busy street. The conditions were very ripe to experiment with the high line.

Not an easy thing to develop certainly, but relative to the cost and level of engineering effort needed to build new subway tunnels, I'm surprised that adding transportation improvements at street-grade and then bumping the street up one level, isn't something that ever gets considered. We could run effective BRT through Manhattan, or surface light rail to solve the crosstown transportation problem.

Imagine how much easier getting from Queens and Brooklyn to the Lincoln and Holland tunnels would be by car or bus if say 39th St, Canal St moved the pedestrians to an elevated walkway. What if Times Square's tourist bottleneck could be eliminated by raising Times Square?

Anyhow, unlikely to happen probably ever, but fun thought excercise
Kind of like how everyone knew Evernote would be successful four years ago? Or Gilt? Or Dropbox? Or Fab? Or Foursquare?
This doesn't just affect upgrades from earlier versions of Windows to Windows 10. I've seen Windows 10 computers spontaneously become unusable for hours, saying "All your files are exactly where you left them." Real helpful.

I haven't personally used Windows in years, but I remember a completely unproductive day at work when we installed a Visual Studio upgrade that look approximately 24 hours to install (might have been 18, or maybe 36 -- I forget) with no option to cancel. At least that was a bug that Microsoft later admitted to and fixed.
What about the Venus project
> And I never said that I want to keep corner stores away from where people could walk to it.

That's currently what we have; nothing at all resembling a free market where you can buy a piece of property and more or less do what you want with it. The rules and regulations in place are absolutely about enshrining the car-centric city.

With a more market-oriented solution, some people could have their "burbs" and others could have other kinds of housing and neighborhoods.
With border controls in place people don't feel very united and the border control was the main reason why the UK had to leave EU.
I think the more integrated EU becomes the better for all so you end-up with USE but this should take time(i.e 100 years). To sum it up UK is not interested in the EU values or political integration. It wants just a trade agreement so I fail to see how EU could meet its demands.
This is no different from fluff tabloid pieces that say that foods cause cancer. A typical headline might be "Eating chicken every day increases your risk of stomach cancer by 50%!"

Unless they specify absolute numbers, this could be a one in 10 million chance increased to 2.5 in 10 million. Or, it could be 4/10 increased to 6/10.
I prefered 7 to XP. XP used to screw up and need to be restored from a disk image fairly often, 7 not so much.
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To build off of enricosada's post, this is indeed being tracked and actively worked on right now. More information here: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3705#issuecomment-22889...

Known issues will also be updated, as will documentation on how to use F# on .NET Core.
Barium-144 has an excess of Neutrons.

The Protons and Neurons that are properly paired up make a "sphere" that is nicely distributed, and the leftover neutrons are pushed to one side and make the tip of the pear.

Now you might think that mixing the extra neutrons evenly would makes things even more nicely distributed (which in an atom means: lower energy), but consider the Helium nucleus.

The nucleon binding energy of helium is very different from its neighbors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Binding_energy_curve_-_co...

That is because pairing up the way Helium does is just so favorable. It's the same with the Barium-144 - the nucleons that can pair up do so, at very low energy, and then you have some leftovers.

I suspect that lots and lots of unstable nuclei will be found to be asymmetrical this way.

By studying exactly how asymmetrical they are we can finally find out exactly how neucleons pair up, so we can actually model the energy levels.

Once we do that we'll be able to figure where the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability is. Figuring that out might lead to some amazing new materials.

Even better, we'll actually start to understand neutron stars (understand what actually happens to those neutrons at those pressures), and maybe calculate the Quark degeneracy pressure - it could be that pressure is so high that black holes can not exist.
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At my shop we have been using ASP Core since RC1 and have been quite happy with it. The tooling feels a lot like Node.js in a way, much different from any previous .NET development. It's awesome to have C# be deployable as docker containers on Linux hosts.

My biggest gripe so far has been that Nuget doesn't have a way to search only for libraries that are Core compatible.

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event the DVR became too much work, constantly having to interact with the tv.

I just switched to TCM, which doesnt play commercials in the middle of movies. problem solved.
The ACPI power spec allows the computer to set an alarm and have it woken up at a particular time... like 3:30am
In my own opinion, job responsibility and stress level are proportional.

A year ago, I was burned out from a VPE level job for two years before and after moving down to a Engineering Lead (developer) job, responsibility greatly reduced, so were the stress level. I am able to take care more on myself and my family. So for the pay-cut and title downgrade, it's a good tradeoff so far.

Having said that, by no means responsibility is the only factor, I also feel that the work culture is also geographical. For instances, from my anecdotal experiences, same type of company in U.S. and Japan are working longer hours than the ones in Canada or France. A startup job in S.F. may seem a bit more stressful than a similar job in the Midwest/South. Your milage may vary.

PS: 8-hours of sleep is a great way to help me wean off the heavy coffee-drinking lifestyle. I remember reading an article recommended by my Jawbone UP wristband app about the quality of sleeping - REM sleeping is the key for brain consolidate memories. [1]
[2]. As as aside, I love Jawbone's health awareness content. Too bad, they are going under :(

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michael-j-breus/whats-in-a-...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15560767
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There was no thought behind it. Not rational anyway. Hence it was death by Lethal CEO. We the founders were kindly removed from the company not far from its actual demise.

And yes - I would take B2B any time. B2C is hard and requires twice the luck B2B does. When you provide a service to businesses, if your service adds value, they will buy it. When you deal with consumers, you have to be trendy, at the right place and time, cool, exciting, amazing, talked about, add value or not - who cares, etc.
That startup started as a B2B idea, and morphed fairly arrogantly to a hip wannabe consumer app.
> I installed Windows 10, and then discovered that the third-party driver that I needed for work was not compatible

Similar. I KNOW that my wifi adapter's driver is not compatible with Windows 10. So were I to upgrade, I'd have no Wifi until I buy a new adapter, which I don't want to do for that machine. So the constant harassment to upgrade is frustrating.
Commissioners don't represent the people that elected them, they take an oath to put the interests of the EU itself ahead of the wishes of member countries.
Poetry is the literary equivalent of minimalist painting. The machine is doing just enough, or as little as possible to tick the boxes needed to make the art identifiable as art. But art only exists in context. These poems' only value is that they have come from a machine, just as many paintings derive most of their value from the person who paints them. They are interesting, but as art they are next to worthless because the process of their creation is so easily replicated.

This is art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IKB_191.jpg
It's certainly better than just going along with it and waiting for installation.
Hopefully, that's about the only thing likely to steer us away from calamity.
This research is a waste of resources unless most basic needs of citizens becomes free as in freedom and price. For that to happen, global retail franchises, as well as the major players in countless other service industries are going to have to be rejected by our newly realized cities. They should be rejected unless they are willing to donate extremely large proceeds and services to the city. If they comply, they still arent allowed to come to our city, but we as citizens will purchase from them online. We will purchase the things we want from them and have them delivered. We wont have to purchase basic needs. They will be provided to us by the corporations who want us as customers. One of endless examples: Im definitely ordering my mega awesome television from walmart, best buy, costco, etc. because they pay for our electricity and daycare.

This is what they should provide us in order to do business with our city:

Energy, water, trash, recycling, food centers, construction materials, police, fire, EDUCATION, housing, healthcare, EDUCATION, farm and agriculture equipment, construction equipment, manufacturing equipment, internet and basic mobile phone service, and housing for newer citizens who dont yet own their residence. Note: everyone should own their place, tax free without the lifelong cruft of mortgage and property value flux. Im serious. If you want us to buy from you, you buy from us, or you give to us. The people will own and run such a new city. Not the corporations that are ruining human values, health, and economies for cities all over this earth. The people will have to have the best hand, and the buy-in to our game is extremely high.

In addition to this concept, we wouldnt have a mayor, chief of police, or other forms of a single person running any one show. Even schools shouldnt have a single Principal, but more like 3 to 5 awesome 'lead educators'.

Totally aside, how do you keep out the drug cartels? How do you instill an attitude of giving a shit about your neighbor? How do you create resources that eliminate the need for acts of crime and violence for less privelaged to 'make it'?
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Well, that's a reasonable point of view, but it's not Microsoft's job to make it happen. I could see a reasonable case for the idea that people should be held liable for hosting malware on their computers, and that failing to patch security holes could have some kind of secondary liability consequences. If that were the law, it might well make sense for Microsoft to offer upgrade contracts as a form of insurance. Refusing to accept an upgrade would then reasonably terminate the insurance agreement, and it would now be your job to keep your machine safe. Most people wouldn't be up for that and would probably opt to upgrade instead.

But that is not the world we live in, and those are not the rules in play, and even if they were, forcibly updating people's machines against their wishes would not be the solution.
Oh this is too real.

I spent 3 years of my life, working ~100 hours a week on the same project. It was a startup (local one) and I can't remember the details of that time. I went to 2 vacations, only to spend my time working on my laptop, just by a pool rather than at the office. I carried my laptop to everywhere. Kept my phone accessible 7/24. Even got stressed on ~1 hour flights I had to take, because I'd be offline. I planned to quit but never acted on it. That mental state somehow locks you in.

As far as I can remember, my only comfort was my cat. He'd sleep on my lap while I was working at home. Like a stress reliever.

Then he died one day without a warning. I just went ahead and quit my job the next day.

Best decision of my life. I had some stock in the company and sold it during a later investment round to our older VC. Spent 6 months doing absolutely nothing. Then started a new company, started working healthy hours. Started cycling, eating healthy. Lost a ton of weight. Taking care of yourself makes everything work much better in long term. Later, even found a cat with a broken rib on the street, barely breathing. He's now sleeping next to me.

Please, please if you are in a similar situation, just stop. Doesn't worth it.
Both iOS and Android have various blocking methods, usually built into the OS.

They do not prevent the network from connecting to you, only prevent your device from triggering during the call, instead it will be silently ignored.
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Reluctantly moved away from the city to a rural college town while my wife is going to vet school and I have come to appreciate the benefits from living in a smaller town and teleworking.

It does seem like a lot of thinking about cities is very one sided. People clearly have an axe to grind with car culture, suburbs and endless commutes which I don't blame them for.

I think to fix how live we have to think beyond cities.
Well in the article linked they state the following:
> He is scheduled to make more than 50 such appearances around the world this year, earning speaking fees that can reach more than $25,000 per appearance, though many speeches are pro bono.
In Chicago, I'm currently living in a high rise where the fastest plan I can get is 24 Mbps for around $80/mo. My high rise has an exclusivity contract with AT&T U-Verse. I've spoken with AT&T reps and they can't offer any higher speeds. I also talked to property management and they said there's nothing they can do for me. They are locked into an exclusivity contract with AT&T for the wires in the building.

Does anyone have experience dealing with properties who claim to have exclusivity contracts? I talked to people at Webpass, and they've stated it is available in my area. They'd come in and set everything up free of charge. I don't see the downside for my building to allow Webpass to come in.
The battle lines have shifted. It's now nationalism vs. globalism, not conservative vs. liberal. It turns out that the elite, while split between conservatism and liberalism, is firmly in the globalist camp. The people tend to go the other way, especially once the hollow veneer of political correctness is shattered (terrorist attacks, migrant crises, and economic downturns can do that).

You're seeing it in Britain, where Brexit crossed party lines. The people were told they couldn't have a say on immigration or many other aspects of their lives. Britain's cultural identity, their nationhood, would just have to give way over time to a pan-European globalized society. They were told that high-minded technocrats in Brussels, not the British nation, should run their country. It turns out that the common people don't like that deal.

You're seeing it in America. Trump is not running on a policy platform. He's signed up to enough conservative pieties to get the Republican Party behind him, but his whole campaign is really premised on kicking out the ruling elite and restoring government for the interests of the American people, not the establishment and their globalist agenda. Regardless of whether you agree that his policies will accomplish that, there's no denying that that's the core sentiment that he's tapping into. This is the quote that seems to be extremely popular among his supporters: "We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism. The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony. I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down."

You're seeing it in continental Europe, with nationalist parties pulling supporters from both the establishment conservative and left-wing parties. Marine Le Pen's National Front has a very good chance of winning the election in France next year. Her platform isn't right-wing or left-wing, it's nationalist and seeks to preserve the culture of the French nation, including their social and economic model.

Alternative for Germany (AfD) is gaining rapidly in reaction to the disastrous decision to allow migrants to flood into Germany. They have benefit in the polls at the expense of both the main left and right parties.

The supporters of these movements are unified in one thing: a love for and desire to preserve their nation's culture and values, which they perceive to be under siege from uncontrolled immigration and globalization.
There are a few implementations listed here: https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/wiki/P...

It's early days but there are a number of organizations working on this. Today one such server was demoed at DevNation by RedHat - Java via the JDT.
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yea, xamarin.forms targets UWP.

and looks like there's a forms mac branch being somewhat worked on: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/tree/mac
Then you did something wrong. Don’t you pass on the way from school/uni/work to home by a store anyway? just hop out of the bus, buy stuff, and walk the rest.
In this article:

>He is scheduled to make more than 50 such appearances around the world this year, earning speaking fees that can reach more than $25,000 per appearance, though many speeches are pro bono.

Snowden movie:

> Snowden had a hand in making the film as well, consulting Stone and helping with the casting.

https://www.rt.com/news/335319-snowden-stone-movie-problems-...
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It definitely raises interesting questions about mind-body duality. If a telepresence robot is a physical manifestation of Snowden's self, then it would seem to be fair game for the FBI to arrest it. If it isn't, then we have to ask how a sufficiently-advanced version of the robot would really differ from one's physical body.

To make the question meaningful, I suppose you'd have to stipulate that the robot is somehow irreplaceable. Meaning it's the only one of its kind that's capable of representing itself as the body of Ed Snowden, and that it's the only means at his disposal for interacting with the outside world.

On the other hand, it's no stretch at all to say that the company who provided the robot is liable under US law for aiding and abetting him, especially if Snowden has to use their servers to communicate with it. (Well, OK, it's a stretch, but it's a stretch that the US judicial system has had no qualms about making in the past.) Our Federal courtrooms aren't often mistaken for philosophy classrooms.
This is something that has existed before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

I've lived in 'man camps' on remote jobs where it was easier to just put up trailers for workers than put them all in hotels. Or sometimes there isn't any temporary housing options available so you get to stay in the man camp. Pretty sure programmers aren't going to fall into line for that option though.
I live a 10 minute drive, 45 minute walk, 75 minute bus from work. 30-60 minutes of my life = 125-250 hours a year.
I'm not sure I agree with the premise that a beginning programming language needs to be all that accessible or easy.

My boss (I'm a developer on a Data Science team. And my boss doesn't suck as a developer. But I do the heavy lifting for the team) just put his 6 year old girl in a google code camp for young girls. They started out with assembly, for crying out loud.

That young girl is as engaged and excited as you could ever expect.

I think that we might find over time that involvement in the nerdy things of life really comes down to environment more than it does aptitude.

Could be entirely wrong. But, you know, I'd like to see a theory that was testable before we toss that out completely.
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I suppose, if the interactions with particles external to the nucleus are weak enough, that the nucleus could be in a quantum superposition of all/most/many orientations anyway? (Not sure whether I'm off-base here.)
And then Iceland beat you. That's gotta hurt.
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Good point - and also like arresting Ultron - "Don't mind me, Officer. While you arrest me, I'll just be downloading myself out of this robot and into another robot across the city."
Because public/private partnerships are a terrible idea designed to channel public money into the pockets of the wealthy. You can only make that kind of terrible policy public after it's too late to change. See the Chicago parking meter debacle for an example.
Estonia isn't Nordic, it is not part of Nordic Council.
You don't need a "technical" solution to a problem like that. You need a social solution. What would suffice is a criminal investigation into a company's behavior.

99% of a company's employees would immediately "rat out" a company as an alternative to being personally faced with criminal liability. A board of directors would fall over themselves to change a company's management if they were personally faced with criminal liability.

Oh sure, there are a few CEOs willing to push the envelope too far. But ask Bernie Ebbers and Jeff Skilling how that's working out for them. I'd say go ask "Kenny Boy" Lay, but alas, he departed the corporeal plane before his situation played itself out.
Typically the exclusivity agreement is a marketing exclusivity only. It's also true that AT&T may have maintained ownership of the lines, especially if it is fiber direct to the unit. If that's the case, any new provider would need to install new lines, which is costly once the building is complete. The ROI likely won't pencil for the new provider.
Hong Kong is fucking awesome to get around. Why not moving sidewalks like they have there with the Midlevels Escalators? I used that to walk from Midlevels to Central every day and loved it.
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I've always thought it would be fairly lucrative to offer to act as an isp (w/o lock in) for an apartment complex.
You'd still have to pay taxes on it as per your (audit-able) 409a valuation.
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Source code: https://github.com/insin/react-hn