skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This test is a part of ISRO's next gen "two stage to orbit" (TSTO) launch vehicle.

First stage of TSTO will have delta wings and scramjet engine for landing. Second stage will have parachutes for landing[0].

The winged body that was tested two months ago will be the first stage of TSTO. In this experiment, ISRO tested aerodynamics and flight control systems of this delta-winged body at hypersonic speeds.

In the next experiment (scheduled on July), ISRO will be testing the scramjet engine.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/p2CUxE1.png
A lot of this is that these "superior" tools usually try to implement about 50% of the dinosaur's features. For people who don't use that last arcane 50% they're fine - but for people who do, they're useless.

That said the past few releases of Illustrator have been a mess and I've been getting really tempted to try and see if the latest version of Affinity Design can do all the Illustrator things that I've shaped my workflow around for the last decade. But I feel like if I'm going to spend the time to learn a new tool I'd really rather learn one that's going to open up new places, rather than just take me to the same place in a different way. Which is why I have Blender open in another window right now.

InDesign usurped Quark for a couple of reasons: everyone hated Quark, even people who used it on a daily basis, and Quark took forever to move from MacOS to OSX. That gap offered people a huge excuse to spend some time learning a new tool that held out a hope of sucking less.
Introducing Microsoft Stream
And even plan B is not finalized and approved by regulators etc. Meaning it could as easily drop dead as plan A.

Frankly the engadget headline here is as hyperbolic, if not more so, than anything The Register gets shit on for.
I imagine there are managed service IT companies out there sitting on gold mines worth of data that could be used this way.
> Could easily happen in this country.

Which country?
> Very few organizations in the world truly need to scale out their database.

Everyone organization that has a database wants to scale out to at least a 2 node cluster just for not having a single point of failure. Scaling is not always about performance, at first, it's more about availability.
or the author is simply paid to add it to their extension. With the auto updating its basically impossible to stop.
In Memoriam: Roger Faulkner
Does anyone know of any good resources to learn more about reverse engineering apps: Books, Blogs, Online Learning Courses, etc?
I prefer:

h1('Hello')

https://github.com/Jador/react-hyperscript-helpers
It's the Register, they're a tabloid. Though giving one month's notice of shutting down a major and as far as I can tell unique part of the Tor infrastructure is pretty major.
Spiritual successor in the sense that it is highly customizable with lots of shortcuts?

From a technological perspective, it seems quite different. One of Opera's great strengths was how "native" it felt on every platform, plus a full suite of Internet tools. This doesn't seem to do chat, email, bittorrent, etc.
May give Vivaldi a look. Made by many of the original Opera people.

https://vivaldi.com/
Simpler, yes. But everyone lived near subsistence, and maximum population density was enforced by war, human sacrifice, and starvation.
That's actually pretty brilliant. I haven't ever heard of metropolis coupling before, but I can see how it would break the algo out of a local minimum.
Also, klaatu barada nikto.
Isn't it inherent to your opinion that it doesn't necessarily apply to how other people feel, such that you can't actually use "we" in the way you used it?

As a species, we're drastically better off today than we have ever been. That includes calorie counts globally. The human population of earth has far more food than it needs. There are radically fewer famines today, not more.

The suffering that is happening in Venezuela wasn't caused by 'complications of modern life,' much less apps.

I completely disagree with the base premise, and do not believe our lives are more complex. I believe our lives are drastically simplified versus the concerns of just a few hundred years ago: near total lack of any rights, serious fear of starvation or exposure, constant war, a life filled with non-stop violence and death, almost total poverty, extreme majority illiteracy, constant risk of premature death by unknown illnesses, extraordinarily horrible hygiene and living standards, no stable / functional / trustworthy systems of savings or retirement (meaning a constant fear of not making it through the next year), and on it goes.
The point of the troops isn't to be an invincible garrison that no army can conquer, it's just to act as a deterrent and trip wire.

I don't believe there's any realistic scenario where the Turkish military would attempt to seize the bombs, but if they did do something so insane the garrison would force them into fighting and killing hundreds of NATO personnel and capturing the rest. That sets in motion an inevitable response, and one that ensures any rouge military authority in Turkey would not last long.

There's similar logic to why the US maintains a force in South Korea. They aren't expected to solely defeat a full scale attack from the North, but can directly respond to smaller aggressions. If the north did overrun them, killing US troops, there would be no domestic political debate concerning whether to respond in the US.

To put it so bluntly as to be distasteful: they're there to die.
You're talking about performance, that's a different thing than scaling.
> Lack of a functional democracy is the problem, not socialism.

It's entirely possible to democratically decide to steal the means of production from the capitalists — and thus experience exactly these consequences.
This is of course getting a ton of press in Commie hating USA, but how much worse is this than narcostates or right-wing deathsquad-enforced regimes set up by the US?

And of course since the US/CIA loved to plot overthrows and juntas, how could the country trust aid offers? And the wire recordings of Henry Kissinger trying to deliberately collapse the Argentinian economy before their takeover...

I get that this is site is often a huge capitalistic libertarian O-jerk, and I'm not naive to the logistical failings of authoritarian socialism, but I wonder what the full story is here...
They certainly should; farmers made out like bandits during the Wiemar hyperinflation. For Venezuela, see the entry for June 25th here: selling farm produce at free-market prices is illegal, but the ban isn't enforced, and the farmers do well for themselves for as long as their ATM connections stay up.
Florencia, Cristina Kirchner's Argentinian former president daughter, had 5 million dollars in its bank account. Being daughter of a former president seems to be the more rewarding job in our countries.
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/218148/florencia-ki...
There are a ton of not okay things that exist in the world that we all deal with daily (frankly women deal with more).

I'm not pro-harassment, I'm simply arguing for reality.
Lazy load nvm for faster shell start
Hi, author here:

Yep, this is the sort of thing we study in our cooperative and adaptive algorithms class. Similar techniques to what you suggest are shown here https://books.google.ca/books?id=G5ML5EYch94C&pg=PA88&lpg=PA...
It is very sad that chemical weapon used by Iraq against Kurds is still not found. Moreover, it was used again year ago in Iraq against Kurds.

PS.
Moreover, large quantities of mustard agent were found in Syria in 2013.
The weird thing is the behavior doesn't seem to be predictable. I just maximized my screen with Magnet (cause window to stretch out both horizontally and vertically), then I option-clicked on the Green Streetlight - Nothing happened. Then I made the window a bit narrower. Clicked again. Nothing happened. Then I made it a bit shorter. Clicked Again - Window stretched up to top, but didn't change width. Made it narrower. Clicked again. Window returned to previous width. Clicked again, this time returned to the same narrower size as one step previous.

It seems like the Option+Click on the streetlight is kind of like a toggle of the last two previous sizes, but not always - sometimes it stretches to the top, sometimes it doesn't do anything.

I've been a dedicated OS X user since 10.3 - and, despite spending 15-20 minutes at a stretch every year or so (such as tonight) - I've never really understood what the green button is supposed to do. I kind of find it amazing that such a horribly inconsistent user interface control has persisted for 15+ years.

But yet - Magnet (much like Spectacle before it) does exactly what I want. Ctrl+Option+Enter = Maximize window (which is exactly what I bet 99% of people want the Green Button to do)
They can mount it but most exported aircraft models lack the firing circuits that initiate the PAL chain.
Funny, these systems always end up in this state, but it's never the system that causes it!

How many more examples do you need before you recognize the obvious pattern?
This:
1) "trying to conserve RAM in this fashion is outdated?" and 2) "using a monolithic process is outdated?".

However the biggest problem with 2) is that you cannot see what individual thread(s) cause problems and you cannot easily kill/restart the offending DLL.
What Template Haskell gets wrong and Racket gets right
Scalable Continuous Delivery Pipelines
>If the West would have bombed Saudi Arabia instead of Afghanistan and would have taken their oil we might be better off today.

We never learn, do we?
Actually, evidence says he's not. He started in 1987 with $1 billion, and has tripled that in ~30 years. But simply putting the initial investment into index funds would have made a 13x ROI. So he's significantly underperformed the stock market. In fact, he's barely kept up with inflation. That's far from perfectly competent, any money manager with that record would be a laughing stock.

http://fortune.com/2015/08/20/donald-trump-index-funds/
SoftBank to buy UK chip designer ARM in $32B cash deal
Would you agree that the term collectivist encompasses both communism and socialism?
> Then how come they are still there?

Because they correctly perceive there's very little risk in remaining there.
Then why not have standardized APIs? You could just switch implementations, then, if you stop liking your current vendor. (Or maybe the future lies in call-by-meaning architectures and automated adapter generation?)
Good point, ARM's revenue in the form of licensing fees and royalties is denominated in Dollars.
Amen to this. For example, socialism is what constructs football stadiums in America.
The fabricated evidence in a show trial against Turkish Army officers was accepted as genuine by the kangaroo court. Forensic analysis by the defense which found references to the Calibri font, introduced with Windows Vista and used as the new default font of Office 2007, was ignored by the court. The circumstances of the case set up a logical dichotomy: either the evidence was forged in an attempt to frame the defendants, or the Turkish Army had possession of fonts in 2003 that were supposedly invented by Microsoft in 2004.

So if the answer to the question posed by the headline is "no" (as is implied), then the Turkish court did not provide fair and impartial justice. It is a reductio ad absurdum argument against the guilt of the defendants.
Everything Is “Lock-In”: Focus on Switching Costs
I cant recall a single example of a functional democracy in a socialist government. Seems to be mutually exclusive outputs.
Well, not exactly like Atlas Shrugged, because the article is well written and coherent.
> The socialist downfall of countries are all unique, but follow similar paths

The PRC just surpassed US GDP on some measures, whereas in the 1940s it was a western and Japanese occupied backwards basket case. Is that the downfall you mean?

Or do you mean Russia, which couldn't win a war with the Japanese in 1905, never mind Germany a decade later? The New York Times columns of 1918 said Mr. Lenin's government would fall any day now. What actually happened is as Europe and the US fell into depression in the 1930s, Russia was surging ahead and industrializing. It repelled an attack by a military alliance of virtually all of continental Europe in 1941 and Red Army soldiers planted the red flag in 1945. Then it launched the first satellite, man in space etc. After becoming a superpower, the central committee of the CPSU decided to pack it in in the late 1980s, and attune itself to the economic and political system of the rest of the world. Even Molotov never believed in "socialism in one country", and he was the one proclaiming it.

Some downfall, foreign-dominated backwaters rose to become world superpowers.
> I'm done reading books in long series that haven't been finished yet

> you may want to check out" The Name of the wind"

...which is the first book of a projected three-book series, of which only two have been published.

I mean they're well-written and so far it's not as bad as the twenty-three wait for the next Chtorr book but, well...
>Anything that can be added can be removed and likely such mechanisms would not work (for obvious reasons) by remote control.

Surely the 2000 troops would be able to initiate a self-destruct sequence before being overtaken. I'm sure there are already protocols in place. The mechanism would likely not be remote control, but hard-wired into the facility.

>Because they were too busy saving their asses? Because raining bombs on Turkey would probably not be a better solution than getting those weapons out while it was still possible?

You posited a situation where the US troops were already overtaken. In such a situation, the US probably would have already launched a strike that would destroy the facility <30 minutes from authorization.
How about reputational points gained tied to the number of votes on the bug? This would both encourage coders to fix bugs that impact more people and encourage users to voice their opinion (vote on bugs) more often and more intelligently.

Alternatively, the maintainer assigns a point value to each bug, and whoever fixes it gets those points, which is then used to rank contributors within that project (but not across projects because of bug valuation inconsistencies and differing values of the projects themselves).
That is incorrect. For example the F-16s delivered to Pakistan lacked the nuclear firing circuits.

"Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Hughes also tells Congress that the nuclear wiring has been removed from the planes"

Similarly when the UK withdrew its WE177 weapons the nuclear circuits were removed from the RAF's Tornados, and the Typhoon lacks them too.
Hmmm... can't say I've seen that before. I agree that 4gb of RAM should be more than enough for Firefox. Chromium has a history of fetching and installing binary blobs w/o asking for user permission.

I'm curious about the frame skipping is caused by -- I've never seen that problem. I'm wondering if maybe it's video card related? Might be worth asking someone involved in the project about to see if it's a known issue.
I see you all the time posting these Quixotic comments, then I get to attend GDC and see what everyone that matters in the industry actually thinks.
Libertarians oppose all the things you mention in your first two paragraphs. Your beef is with neoconservatives, not libertarians.

At the core of the libertarian philosophy is non-intervention.
Corruption, actually. Their neighboring states aren't any better off.

What's hitting them now is a decade of mismanagement of their petro-business... Combined with a collapse in oil prices. If Colombia's exports dropped in price by 60%, things would not be pretty. Fortunately, unlike Venezuela, its economy is far more diverse.
We're trying a different approach currently and developing a new product too, which is somewhat decoupled of our core platform here at http://www.newscombinator.com

What are you working on if I may ask?
Incredible. I owned the game for years, played it a lot, beat it once, and never noticed a way to save, so I assumed you couldn't. I even had the manual!
This example is hilarious, granted, but not even the one I truly worry about.

I work in a lax multi-national corporate environment, to be vague. These extensions, especially with religiously conservative adults, is of limited concern.

I am far more concerned about the semi-professional extensions.

I doubt this is malicious, but someone installed this in my environment and inquried why the quality of output went down (in terms of pixelation).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/screenshot?hl=en-U...

The problem here is it raises fewer eyebrows. It does a purpose-filled operation professionals would need, and they are far less discerning than me.

This person had Adobe Acrobat Pro, and forgot. Such extensions have real potential to IOC (indicators of compromise), but only very expensive next-generation malware detection knows that when it sees traffic out.

But what if there is no traffic out? Or it does a more professional job with exfil?

Most modern software inventory has no intelligence into plugins. That is terrifying. Per-user javascript directories? Enumerating just the obvious ones can be a full-time job?

What about dupes? I am the only one I know in my department who uses uBlock ... Origin. And I know there is a fork. Others are intended to have a similar logo and fool busy professionals.

I love FF, but also use Chromium. I am worried that the freedom afforded to me by the beauty of things like Keysnail, like the generally abstracted trend of vendor lockdown, forces me to voluntarily suck it up and deal with crap software defaults and workflows, and doubly recommend the same to people in my environment. I will increasingly have to part with each of the limited extensions I like, all while people here push Electron apps. I like them (who am I to be arrogant and judge the work of these people half my age; at least they put out code while I bitch all day), but the browser base is not discernibly updated or managed unless some developers coordinate. I am sure that came or is coming down the line, but currently populars apps will play catch up while people like me are forced to preemptively yet again restrict use of likeable tech because security was an afterthought.

Qubes increasingly looks like the future. It is sad, but I must every few years consume more resources of my computer for useful, but wasteful, separation of software from its self, because, well, queue the recently retracted Theo de Raadt "x86 virtualization being secure is a waste of time" trope rescinded because even his OpenBSD crew will bite the bullet and work on OpenBSD virt technology.

I just depressed myself.

Sincerely,
Guy running multiple browsers in Firejail in a VM

EDIT: I do not the difference between have and half apparently; probably a sign of my age, haha!
Sadly, state-controlled economies end up replacing a capital-owning business elite with a connection/power-owning political elite, and in the process, destroying incentives to produce and work.
I my have misread the documentation but there seems to be no way to get the same output as the highestAverage, highestCurrent, or highestCurrent functions from graphite.

Not sure how to filter through say 300 servers and select out the top 10 for a particular time span. I would think that it would be a common need but I guess I'm missing something?
If you are still reading these comments, why Zimbabwe in particular? Nothing wrong with the country, but most landlocked countries do not attractive to much attention.
It's not a problem with open source software.

People who raise reproducible bugs are helping a project to develop, not everyone has to be a coder. However, there's an important difference between commercial software and open source software, which is related to the voluntary nature of open source.

Unless they're paid to work on open source, someone will become an open source developer by 'scratching their own itch', in other words putting the effort in to improve something that matters to them.

Knowing this should be reflected in the attitude of those that find issues. Quite a few times I've seen people get annoyed at developers for not fixing their bugs. Simply put, the developers owe you nothing, they give up their free time to do what they enjoy. Any bug raising should be done respectfully, and the times I've seen the 'you should be the one to fix it' response tend to be after someone is indirectly telling someone else how to use their free time.
It would be interesting to see a study controlling for the "sandwich years". My suspicion is that the sandwich years on top of 40+ hour/week employment causes a lot of cognitive degradation. But, 40+ hour/week employment without the sandwich years would see significantly less, if any, degradation.
Several countries that are fairly socialist have higher living standards than the U.S., where "socialism" is an epithet for some reason. McCarthy lives on I suppose.

Venezuela's problem is totalitarianism. In a socialist country, it is possible for the government to be governed by law and have limits placed on its power. That is not what's been going in in Venezuala.
Uh, it seems you never heard of Moose if you think Perl's OO is weak?

Why do you bother having opinions on subjects which you haven't followed for six++ years..? (Alternatively, a good criticism of Moose/CLOS?)
Ask HN: Is there a relation between Software and Art?
Building architecture is sometimes considered a breed between art and science. Is there evidence or research that suggests software follows suit?
Creepy guys send unsolicited messages to girls on the internet... How is this worthy of a blog post or an upvote?
The PS4 API is already much better than Vulkan.
I see you still are a fan of lock-in. Calling it "fine" and saying that's how it's supposed to be is not helpful. "Industry" which thinks backwards doesn't need to be shown as an example. It's not the "industry", it's monopolistic participants who use lock-in to control the market. Progress is driven by competition, not by monopolistic lock-in stagnation.
Isn't that the concept of the "clipboard" that Excel is always asking me about clearing after doing a lot of copy-pasting?
I see similar parallels, but where as PHP shared hosting often meant one server handling multiple sites upon request, FaaS seems to be more generic with multiple (virtual) server instances handling multiple site functions upon request.

So while each site was a PHP monolith on shared hosting, a FaaS architecture could be many smaller units of code, spun up on demand to handle a specific need of a service, possibly across multiple servers.
Absolutely. I am okay with creating a better tool using Python for example, but the competing project took the entire idea of a bash script on the local folder that implements plugins like my project.

Small details like the colors are the same on the colors script. I was referring to the fact that all those changes could have been done on the original project through Pull Requests, instead of dividing the effort.
Pretty impressive
The people didn't starve under the US-backed dictatorships, so those regimes have that much going for them. But they didn't starve under Castro either, and living conditions were probably better under Castro than in any country in the Warsaw Pact (see Anthony Daniels' _Utopias Elsewhere_); so I'd guess that most of the story is that Chavez was just that dumb.
Landing large vehicles will never be routine. Every ship that moors, every plane that lands, is a life-threatening event that can go wrong in ways the public will never anticipate but the professionals have entire subsystems designed to manage.
No. Crony capitalism constructs stadiums.

Socialism means the state ("the people") owns the means of production.

As far as I can tell, manufacturing is not owned by the government and construction workers are not employed by the state.