skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flint's not a great example of alternate ways for how F-35 monies could be spent. Political and administrative ineptitude led to unsafe water conditions in Flint and now federal taxpayers are bailing them out to the tune of $170M. That's wasteful all around as the situation was entirely avoidable.
This is either a horribly timed announcement or a joke written very seriously. I have no idea which.
This explanation comes up in every thread about the F-35. While it has good explanatory power, it doesn't explain why the US couldn't have a non-dysfunctional procurement process that actually delivered effective planes.
As a mere average user of computer languages, every time I play around with Go I start wondering how a language like this became so popular.

It feels like it was invented in a universe where Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Smalltalk, Lisp and so many more languages and research in languages never happened.
Judging from the effect Mexican and Asian imports have had on America's manufacturing industries, I feel it's pretty smart to be skeptical. The middle class lost tons of jobs because of NAFTA, and the low demand for labor is a major cause of the currently stagnant wages. IP may be an important subject, but I'd say the stability and equality of our society and economy should be our #1 priority right now.
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Wow, that's pretty subtle. Thanks for explaining.
Here's what I'd have told them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14013617
My group's mission at NASA is highly related: https://sspd.gsfc.nasa.gov/restore-l.html

We're going for LEO reservicing. It's quite a challenging mission, especially since our client was never meant to be reserviced let alone rendezvoused with in the first place.
For younger people, restaurants have taken budget away from movies and clothes. Wages aren't a factor. It's true that movie prices have increased, but it's not a significant rate of inflation compared to food.
Does music affect our behavior?
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Pray explain how you could use the electrons coming out of a CPU as a side channel. I don't need anything specific, but I'd prefer something that doesn't sound like its taken out of a Heinlein novel.

You're again using terms incorrectly. A "side channel" implies that someone is listening to information that is unintentionally leaked. Unless your expectation is that this CPU is going to start side channeling our minds with the EM waves its emitting (which again, "deity-like attributes"), we'd need to be specifically listening to whatever "side channel" it uses, and it would require knowledge of and access to that side channel.

Something being able to send additional information over a side channel doesn't help unless that information is received, and so realistically, unless your hypothesis is "mind control/hacking the airwaves/whatever via sound waves the chip emanates" or similar, which are preposterous, it'll always be just as easy for the thing to transmit information via the normal channels.
True but these approaches have never been marketed as part of the java experience
I think any sane framework should generate a random secret each time an app is generated.
LastPass is terrible, but without alternative, at least if you want cross platform.

People keep bringing up KeepPass, but apart from the bad UX, it's developers seem to be even more incompetent concerning basic security design. That leaves 1Password, which also hasn't covered itself in glory security-wise, but appears to be marginally more competent. No linux client though.
For all the a10s greatness, building new ones would be a waste. Improvements can be made. New material and design mean the airframe is now less than ideal. Improvements in ffars (the ones made in canada now fly straiter then bullets and nearly as fast) make even the iconic gun, around which the airframe is wrapped, less than ideal. Google the texco scorpion for what a modern a10 might look like.
Really? I see perceptions Trump fact all the time …
The main solution here is for urban planners to create streets that force drivers to slow down and also allow pedestrians to cross easily.

We already know how to do this. We know that thinner streets cause drivers to slow down. We know that bulges at intersections shorten the distance that pedestrians have to cross, limiting interactions with cars. Cities need to rebuild their streets to be safer.

The onus is on drivers to pay attention, slow down, and not kill people. It's a reasonable expectation that a human can behave in an unexpected manner. Drivers need to behave accordingly. Good urban design can guide them into doing this naturally.
Related to 16 bit lookup tables, unum is a format for representing numbers as sets of number ranges as an alternative to floats.

http://www.johngustafson.net/presentations/Unums2.0.pptx

http://www.johngustafson.net/presentations/Unums2.0.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.00722.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
> On top of that, it seems like most big movies are formulaic, following the same pattern and not eliciting anything more than mild amusement

Yeah. The problem is that studios have gone risk-averse. A movie production can run way up to 250-300M US$ in budget plus promotion costs (earlier movies had analog reproduction and logistic costs, too, but most cinemas are digital now which has basically no distribution cost). So they tend to stick to either sequels or adaptations of popular comics, to reduce the risk of having to shoulder a 250M $ loss.

The same mindset exists in the cinema industry: either fill your screens with "blockbuster" movies and have an okay-ish visitor count, or risk having a couple indie films which gather no audience.

In old times, there was stuff like the German "Filmförderungsanstalt" (roughly translated to "movie subvention agency") which provided subventions and financial help to all parts of the chain - from production to distribution. But with costs increasing (labor, advertising, and especially the extremely expensive switch to digital), subventions don't have the same impact on production cost to also make indie films viable.

(Exceptions like Iron Sky proving the general rule)
I have mine set to grey so people can't spot what I'm up to from the other side of the office ;)
No, the argument is more like saying that Germans calling the allies as beasts for what happened to Dresden should also look at what happened to the Jews.

The difference, in case you didn't notice, is that while racists are indeed racist and people against racism aren't, here the two sides are equally bad.
My favorite is #F6F6EF. It's so classy! http://i.imgur.com/El12iud.png
Here's the other perspective – if I'm working at Open Philanthropy, I'd be wanting to get to know people who run organizations I'm likely to be really interested in.

So, it's natural that I'd be expecting there's a high chance I'd want to give to the organization they work at later on.

Just because someone has a personal connection doesn't mean it's a bad use of money – it indicates it's worth asking the question, but just because there's personal connection doesn't make it "unbelievable."

Also - not just his roommate and future brother-in-law. Also a project funded by Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, etc. Seems pretty damn reasonable to think they would've evaluated OpenAI for a grant regardless of the personal relationships.

Hater News at its best.
Kotlin in Production: Should you stay or should you go?
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The people controlling the purse strings like the dysfunctional system as it is. Nobody has the power to stop it. There was zero reason for Trump to end the sequester except to funnel more money into the MIC.
Scales small-to-medium codebases well. Modules and packages work well. PEP8. Linting tools like flake8.

Documentation is top tier. Docutils + Sphinx + ReadTheDocs. Autodoc and intersphinx (linking across python projects) are just wonderfully implemented.

Contrib Library quality. Mature and well documented. Permissively licensed. Django, SQLAlachemy, Requests, Flask, Werkzeug, Boto, Jupyter, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, fabric, ansible, saltstack, pytest (a new favorite of mine).

Standard library quality. Well documented and just the right amount of features in many cases. In some situations you may find more elegant API's in the contrib community.

OOP is implemented nicely. It scales well. It's easy to traverse large codebases and get situational orientation fast.

Language consistency. Python 3 is generally a consistent language. There are warts in every language, but nothing in python is insurmountable. Python 2.7 with __future__ imports and a compat module eliminates a lot of problems.

Debugging: Tracebacks are human friendly. ptpython/ptpdb and ipython/ipdb are a delight to work with.

C API integration. Well documented and well supported. Also see Cython, CFFI. Also C++ with boost python and pybind11

Editor integration. Jedi, pycharm

Stability. CPython (the main implementation) doesn't break. Clear distinction between 2 and 3 and easy enough to code to both versions. Contrib libraries generally follow semver and have consistent API's

Community. Friendly and great support on IRC and so on.
Yes, destroy the note immediately after or when doing the task.
Sometimes I think the syntactical difference of functional languages alone is the reason they're unpopular.

Iterative languages seem to match more closely how people speak/think in verbal language.
If any of the developers are reading this, converting the existing C code to SaferCPlusPlus[1] (a memory safe subset of C++) is probably a more expedient solution (if that's what they're looking for). (And speaking of contributing, an automatic translation (assistance) tool is in early development, and could maybe be functional in short order with a little extra motivated talent... :)

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus
This makes me think you don't know what the word "airgapped" means in this context.
If only someone could invent monitors that sticky notes actually stucks...
That's very interesting. I do it myself, but not because I had any idea it really worked, it's just habit. When I am hitching up our trailer and getting ready to set out on a road trip, I walk around it pointing at things and calling them out loud to myself -- hitch pins, safety pins, sway bars, various things that have to be stowed, etc. Now I can tell my wife it's not because I'm senile, but because it works :)
Please close this and wait for Monday for the official thread. I'd rather not crawl through 2 threads and not many people are going to post over the weekend anyway
Those collateral assets start out covering the loan, but are often invested in the same assets as the borrowed money and will loose value at the same time. So when the collateral no longer covers the loan, the investor gets a margin call and doesn't have the money... then what?

Does the broker have any recourse to credit bureaus or courts?
I would guess that it's not the contractors fault as much as the clients. Maybe this is my bias from doing contract work and having horrible clients.
Now std::ifstream isn't 100% idiomatic RAII (because constructor sets error state instead of throwing and it also provides open/close-methods) but generally you should be able to encode a safe file handle into the c++ type system. Here is how i would compare it to what idris describes in https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/idris/latest/idris.pdf

* It is necessary to open a file for reading before reading it
> Enforced by RAII, create file handle(variable) is equivalent to opening file
* Opening may fail, so the programmer should check whether opening was successful
> If opening file fails, exception is thrown when the handle is created, it is impossible to create/use an unopened handle.
* A file which is open for reading must not be written to, and vice versa
> Can be enforced with different types for reading and writing (ifstream vs ofstream).
* When finished, an open file handle should be closed
> fstream is automatically closed when variable goes out of scope.
* When a file is closed, its handle should no longer be used
> Here it's actually the other way around, the correct way to close a file is to get rid of the last handle refering to it.
> Hence a handle can't be used to write to a closed file since such a handle cannot exist in the first place.
Changing default color schemes will impact many other apps. It will take ages to trickle through to all the apps you use. It will not look better until it does. Thats the kind of UI change that is cost, and disputable benefit. I like it, but even if you don't like it, its not bad, technically, contrast etc. And you can change it. At your own cost instead of at the cost of a very large developer community.
Personally I use Ubuntu fonts by choice outside of Ubuntu. Luv 'em.
It's unlikely that the cost of whole-program side channel resistance is worth it for an application like Tor. Side-channel-resistant cryptography is almost certainly sufficient for most reasonable threat/cost models.
Companies are run by businessmen and not people who want to build extraordinary aircraft.
> [...] the only community of machinists nimble enough [...] Which happens to be the Suame Magazine workshop district in Ghana.

Could you please expand on this statement? Why do you think this that only this community could rebuild them?
Thanks a lot for taking time to write a valuable advice. I'd love to learn more from you and your experiences.

I've not yet decided what exactly I want to do but I love computers. I can spend hours and hours trying to do stuffs on it. I also love helping people. I'll tell you what I do mostly, whenever I have someone visit my home, I ask for their phone, connect to my W-Fi and update their apps from Play Store or App Store, enable/disable some settings for privacy.

I don't know but I love doing it. I'm thinking of starting a computer repair business and I'm damn sure I'll rock at it. But somewhere I'm lacking confidence.

I don't play video games but I spend a lot of time watching videos on YouTube, some educational and some just for fun.

In short, I'm just in this world. No idea what to do with my life. Please advice me more on this.
I haven't kept up on the F-35 lately. But this is a jet made of compromises. The Pentagon knew they couldn't get funding for multiple new jets. The F-35 is trying to do to much by being a jet for the Air Force, Navy and Marines. So they combined all the requirements for the specification. Combining the requirements of the Air Force and Navy probably isn't so bad. The Marines requirement of the F-35 being VTOL capable is holding the design back. I accept that VTOL is a key requirement for the Marines, but the F-35 has made a lot of trade offs for that feature. While I don't know how successful the F-35 would be without VTOL, it has to be better then what is being delivered.
Twitter is the equivalent of your local LUG in the scale of things.

Not really. Any serious vulnerability in a widely used product disclosed by twitter announcement makes it into the mainstream media in no time and prompts a response by the vendor (if one had not been forthcoming already). Your local LUG, less so.
That's an interesting idea. Do you have any data on this? I could believe that some money that would have previously gone to movies is now going to food, but I find it hard to believe that lower inflation adjusted income wouldn't impact movie sales.
I believe there is a crate they can use to prevent date bound out of bounds fun leaks. (can't find the link atm)
> I would take a medicament mechanically

This is not intended obnoxiously, but I assume English is not your first language (though your English is good) and you'd want to know: "medicament" is an incredibly uncommon way to refer to "medication." In fact, the majority of native English speakers would not recognize it.
And then you forget where you put your car keys ...
14 years ago it sounded very much like the Joint Strike Fighter was going to replace the F22 (and the Harrier, etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7-LQDueYlk&t=11m20s
SIGBOVIK 2017
Unfortunately indicting the people responsible doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar.
The first 2 films in this series recruited about $80K. How is that enough for producing a movie ? does anybody know how their business model works?
I used to be like that about packing before traveling. Nervous that I'd forgotten something I'd keep checking and checking.

With time I learned that (or got more practice) it is unlikely I actually forgot something. Probably I just don't remember packing it. 95% of the time when I fear I didn't pack some silly thing, there it is, in my suitcase,when I arrive. Thank you past Swizec!

A big part of it is also that I always pack my suitcase in the same way and I always put certain things in certain spots. If I am closing the suitcase and the thing is not in its spot, then I stop and put it there.

Especially important for passports and other such documents. Always put it in the same place. If it's not in that place, then it isn't packed.

This reduces the amount of checksuming you have to do.

Oh and all you really need is your passport and your credit card. The rest is replaceable.
Someone should apply to YC with an air-to-ground fighter startup. They've funded a Concord startup, and an electric 737 startup. Why not an "F35 that works" startup?
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I'm in your boat, and i propose a more flat-rate thesis than your comment does.
It goes like this:
Without the spending of federal money into the M.I.C., USA would be bankrupt within a few months. Not only bankrupt, but broke on a general level. Broken, so to say.
Feeding the warmachine on and on will blow back sometime, there is an end to all wastefullness.
To be frank- it is very much in the realm of possibility.
Panics could be a safe way to handle faults at runtime. To me, "Unsafe operations" are more like ones that continue executing in a comprimised state, such as a buffer overflow, or that crash incompletely, segfault, locking up resources in a live lock, etc. Bailing and freeing all your resources seems harder to exploit and sometimes the only sane response.
Back in the day of 80286's and 80386's there was a popular Fractal generating software that did all calculations in fixed point arithmetic because PCs usually had no FPU back then.

Fractint[1], the site has a certificate error, but otherwise works fine, even the software still gets updated from time to time.

[1] https://fractint.org/
> wars create huge jumps in GDP

Huge jumps for all the wrong reasons.

> The F-35's rate of return is "we don't have to fight another world war"

The F-35 budget overran due to mismanagement, not because it just costs trillions to create the technology. I can see China working with Russia being able to afford their own competitive machines. There doesn't seem to be a clear "we don't have to fight another world war" end game.
You can use some analysis tools on Rust code, because it generates C-ABI-compatible objects; for instance, I'd expect that https://github.com/agl/ctgrind would work on Rust.

Looking at the MISRA-C guidelines (or more specifically, a pirated copy - are these available legitimately to the public?), it seems like about half of them aren't problems in Rust, because it's warning you about stupid things in C that can't be fixed for legacy reasons, and half of them are things that could be caught with a linter / static analysis tool like https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-clippy . Do you think building something that implements as many of the MISRA-C checks as possible is useful progress towards the high-assurance Rust goal?
I like to cook, and so does my SO. Even if that weren't the case, we have friends over regularly.

I don't think I'd be ok with inviting over guests and shoving bottles of soylent in front of them as a "meal".
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Very nice documentation.

I notice that your confusion matrix for piece classification contains about 10-20% error still. Is that a problem in practice? And any ideas how to improve upon it?
I actually cited the seminal cancer-biology editorial in the GP. I suppose cancer biology is often a form of molecular biology, but I meant more fundamental research into molecular structure and biological function, and in-vitro methods for querying and modifying the structure. CRISPR is a good example.
I should probably change to doing this, I almost always have to use the reset password function anyway
No; Django does that, and the result is that people check that random secret into source control. The correct solution is to not have the secret in code at all, but to read it at initialization time out of some kind of secrets management system (traditionally via environment variables). Unfortunately, frameworks generally can't do this in a hosting-setup-agnostic way; you have to understand the specific facilities that your PaaS or deployment system offers for this, and some (looking at you, Google App Engine Standard Environment) don't offer adequate ones.
PROVENANCE is the backbone of Full Art Catalog mission
"strategy, priorities, budgets, inter team communications, working with the customer" is 90% of how. Your manager just presents these things as if they're not.

weak e.g. http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/5-ways-to-ask-the-perfect-ques...
Ask HN: Are there companies out there not doing whiteboard algorithm interviews?
This has been talked about a lot on HN. Algorithm interviews don't work too well for experienced developers who graduated a long time ago and either can't afford or don't entertain cramming coding brain teasers for months before the interview. Are there companies out there that have better methods of interviewing and want to introduce themselves? I'm sure many people, myself included, would be very interested.

Note: I wish companies featured in "Who's hiring" would also mention how they're going to conduct the interview. That will save a lot of time and energy from both sides. So whoever submitting the "Who's hiring" posts, if you read this, please please please consider asking companies to include this info if they can.
> Many programmers have had the experience of explaining a programming problem to someone else, possibly even to someone who knows nothing about programming, and then hitting upon the solution in the process of explaining the problem.

I've definitely experienced this countless times either in trying to describe the problem to a person or in writing a question for Stack Overflow.
I'll just refer you to the first few sentences of the wiki pages for each fighter :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
The bad thing is I thought this was part of the April Fool's joke:

"An anonymous reader writes:
A "spaceshot" company that emerged from Y Combinator three summers ago and is targeting a revolutionary change in the way computers work has landed $64 million to help it in the race against much bigger tech giants. Rigetti Computing, which operates out of Berkeley and Fremont, is tackling quantum computing and going up against research being done by the likes of IBM, Intel, Microsoft and others... Rigetti is building a cloud quantum computing platform for artificial intelligence and computational chemistry. It recently opened up private beta testing of 'Forest', its API for quantum computing in the cloud. It integrates directly with existing cloud infrastructure and treats the quantum computer as an accelerator."

Then the link said March 28. Well, good luck to them on their quest to disrupt quantum computing, cloud computing, AI, and chemistry all at once. :)
I've been talking for a long time about making one of these - though my idea was to put magnets in the pieces and drag them across the board from underneath. Any advice on getting started with robotics? I'm fairly comfortable moving servos attached to wheels around, but I'm a little more hesitant when it comes to things with fixed range of motion.