skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Missiles go extremely fast. Like stupid fast. Most ABM systems today use hit-to-kill, which means that you actually have to make contact with the missile to kill it. Physically hitting something that small and fast from a long distance away is hard even if you know exactly where it's going to be. Terminal guidance needs to be very accurate, since in the last second the missiles are a mile apart. With an update rate of about 10 hZ, you have to make your final correction that is accurate to about two feet (the diameter of the missile) over about 1/10th of a mile. That's tough.

Most other missile systems (like surface-to-air or air-to-air systems designed to kill planes) have proximity fuses, and don't need direct contact, they just blow up nearby and throw shrapnel into the plane. That's enough to kill a plane, but doesn't work very well to knock a ballistic missile off it's trajectory.
I remember the joke "if 90% of the Internet is porn, nobody forces you to watch it all"
Sure, and how did they have the money to gamble (sic) on Bitcoin?
https://github.com/SimonKagstrom/kcov

Also uses LD_PRELOAD.
It's not quite that. Metafont models type using pen strokes rather than outlines, so the process of translating paper designs into the format couldn't be accomplished by just scanning the outline -- but of course it would be a great aid.
I estimate there are 100 million people or more in China alone who work in sales and sourcing departments on manual supply chain processes that could easily be replaced with a single decent piece of open source software and a manager who can be assed typing in some figures or buying a smart factory upgrade to do it for him.

That's very much tending towards post-work, for a significant chunk - 1/14th - of China, which is now I believe the world's largest economy. And that's the white collar scenario!

And yet, by removing overheads and allocating resources to produce goods and services less wastefully for everyone, it will produce a net positive for the environment, despite the social upheaval.

Then there's other areas at high risk from automation including transportation, QA/QC, law enforcement, financial and legal services, retail, manufacturing, construction, etc.

I personally have no problem believing that at least 1/3 of society in developing or developed economies will see their lives change significantly through automation in the next 12 years.
Do you consider the growth of Chinese manufacturing to be a bad thing? IMO China's economic growth has also helped US economic growth.
4 years ago I was broke and considered myself unemployable. I’d been out of the job market for 6 years as I tried to start my own software business, releasing one failed product after another. My skills had stagnated, I was in dept, and had maxed out my overdraft.

When crunch time came, I took the first job I found, worked there for 6 months as a C++ developer, and then started working as a .Net contractor after teaching myself C# over the space of a few weeks.

Forward 4 years: I earn top money as a contractor, have released 4 new applications and a couple of web apps — all far better than anything I released during my failed solo career. For me, the truth was I produced more and of better quality when I was in full time work than when I had all the time in the world. There’s a saying: “If you want something done, give it to a busy person.”

Contracting 6 or 9 months in different companies actually helps with my own software, as I learn new ways of doing things, get new ideas for products, and get huge confidence boosts from doing well in each new job.
wow -- starts and runs very smoothly! A very good POC!
Or OP's point was the largest company using Haskell only employs 30 Haskell devs. A Haskell proponent will say exactly, you only need a few developers with Haskell, while someone suspicious will say if this tech were truly great more people would use it
Hahahhahahha...
This is effectively the business model of every health club out there. They lock you into a 1 year contract, knowing most people will not continue past the first or second month.
You're not up to date on the current rhetoric, it's been decided that all white people are in fact to blame. That's probably why you're getting downvoted to hell.
This is the case IIRC with Android - even though I want to build it for a 32-bit ARM architecture, I can't build it on anything but 64-bit. I guess the vast majority of Android systems cannot even compile Android!

https://source.android.com/setup/requirements
This post is worthless your only point seems to be "Other people make websites too!"

If you think "Stripe's design isn't great design" why not tell people why you think that? That would at least be worth reading and worth writing.
Not really, I mean, your opponent is the one controlling the size of the thing you're trying to intercept and they're not going to be trying to make things easier on you. The only viable option given that is to go for area saturation and basically play the odds, but that's really expensive because not only do you need lots of interceptors in that case, but each one needs to be capable of getting a kinetic kill since there's no guarantee which one (if any) will actually hit. At some point I imagine the interceptors become a bigger danger to each other than they are to the thing you're trying to intercept.
You might want to note that you can test it on the testnet. It looks like it works, i did it using ropsten testnet but the verbiage in the posting says mainnet regardless of if it is actually the mainnet.
Bill & Ted taught me it's pronounced 'Soh-Crates'.
Font: Fira Mono 12pt — Colors: https://github.com/romainl/iterm2-colorschemes/blob/master/b... (but in Terminal.app)
I wonder how long before bitcoin gets banned by us gov completely (or at least conversion to/from usd by us banks).

It seems like this thing is ripe to create either some systemic financial crisis or help governments of countries that are not exactly allied with us interests (china, dprk etc).
Using WhatsApp to support maternal health
No doubt someone will build that library though
Your Crypto Kitty isn’t forever – Why DApps aren’t as decentralized as you think
> I can't understand being so hostile to these conservative but useful features.

I am not hostile to them, just skeptical of their cost/benefit. I don't think every useful feature has a place in every language. Different languages should have different thresholds for the cost/benefit of features they want. It's perfectly legitimate for Scala to have a low threshold, and for Kotlin/Java to have a high one. In fact, a high threshold on cost/benefit is one of the cornerstones of the Java design philosophy, as laid down by James Gosling back in the 90s. He said that his design philosophy for Java specifically excludes features that are just a good idea, and only includes features that solve major problems (of course, what constitutes a major problem is neither universal in time nor in space; as coding fashions change, problems that were once minor can become major). You may prefer to use a language with a different design philosophy, but I think that philosophy is certainly reasonable. Again, without any kind of empirical data, I don't see how this can be settled by anything other than personal aesthetic preference.

> HKT has one of the strongest cases in terms of power-to-weight: it's a very cautious extension of the type system that doesn't really make the language any more complex, since it just means permitting type parameters to be used in ways that concrete types are already allowed to be used.

Maybe, and maybe Java and Kotlin should get HKT one day. But I don't think this feature would be the most important one to add right now, and I can certainly see strong arguments against encouraging higher-order abstractions in general. For one, I find that abstractions-in-the-small take precious mental resources away from far more important things. For another (although related), I think they encourage abstract code of the kind that was common in Java frameworks like Spring, which took Java a long time to discourage in favor of simpler, more concrete code, YAGNI etc.

> Threads, loops and exceptions are notorious sources of bugs and incomprehensible code.

OK, but I strongly disagree (BTW, by "threads" I'm not implying any kind of communication mechanism, like shared memory; Erlang is also based on threads. I just mean one or more sequential instruction stream that can block).
+1, kill functions only make sense in contracts which are expected to operate within a specific narrow time window that is governed outside of the contract.

For example, a fundraising period. Kill functions work well when you can effectively say "oops we screwed up the event window, we're going to relaunch with a fresh event window."

For something that is intended to exist permanently, the kill function is strictly harmful as it creates risk for anyone depending on the contract (unless your intention is to avoid having people depend on it, I suppose).
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Submitted many times, to very little discussion. Multiple sources, you may care to look at the stories from them all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15833907 (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15832229

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15831290

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15829715 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15829334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15828221 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15823925

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15823925

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821482 (1 comment - a spoiler)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15820538 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15819652 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15819127 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818693
Robotic chefs. Nice handle by the way, no more waiting! :)
I bet there are flow diagrams created by drag and dropping things. Any corporate process-related software evolves in a final form into an UI with diagrams created by drag and dropping things.
From an economic standpoint, Bitcoin is backed by generated electricity, computer hardware, and network trust. This is not dissimilar from the American Dollar, currently backed by the global energy economy and network trust. Here, the network is the US Treasury and the American public, depending on your analysis; Bitcoin's network is necessarily smaller but the opening of Futures trading suggests a vested interest in continued network growth by exchange operators. Consider the hedge on continued access to electricity and advanced technologies.

What this is worth to the consumer (is currency a product? opinions vary) will vary, but diamonds without industrial use were valued at billions of dollars only 150 years ago. Large diamonds still carry multimillion dollar values, despite that a 32-karat diamond can be grown from carbon ash in a small plasma cell for only hundreds of dollars. Maybe even less if the laboratory is powered with a renewable energy source.

The diamond was perhaps my favorite currency to study. It is an object historically backed partially by human fascination with light, partially by industrial demand, but the industrial demand was slowly diminished by the introduction of synthetic grit and stones. Despite the low cost of manufacturing a synthetic diamond for jewelry, they usually depreciate immediately--that may be a comment on the consumer's demand by those who practice valuation, or it may be that a "used" diamond is somehow worth less than a "newly discovered or grown" diamond. Impossible to say.

Good talking to you!
Its pretty low hanging fruit, the issuer was someone they had previously sancitoned and was probably prohibited from issuing Securities-like things for several years

That and promising a particular return, no ambiguity on the expectation of profit, directly from the issuer!
Canadians who can afford it go to other countries to get prompt care
The term "Gods in white" exists for a reason, many people ascribe a lot of authority and knowledge to physicians and doctors in general.
Doubting your doctor's diagnosis is usually considered a rather odd thing to do and if it's a doctor of psychology it could even be interpreted as a symptom.

While with teachers it's kinda the opposite; Even tho their whole job is to know and teach things, many people have a way easier time disagreeing with them straight out of principle.

Wonder how much of that boils down to socialization aka in what contexts children are introduced to these professions?
This doesn't work well for ballistic missiles. A few ounces of shrapnel doesn't knock the missile very far from it's trajectory. You'd have to get lucky to break the fuse, and even then you'd have a big hunk of explosives heading toward the target and making a big crater. Plus a lot of old missiles have such simple fusing systems that you probably won't break them with just a bit of shrapnel anyway.
having something deployed near encounter ... damaging flare/shrapnel, a flock of timed explosive ...
Well, to take the bait, considering that according to Wikipedia the range starts from early 1980s with some even considering the beginning at late 1970s, i'd say 1981/1982 is firmly Millenial material.

Although that is probably closer to the Oregon Trail Generation :-)

https://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2015/04/oregon-trail-genera...
>Who exactly do you think is going to pay for that extra work?

If it puts out of business doctors and facilities (perhaps even specialties?) whose patients agree to care based on grossly inaccurate understandings of their track record, then it would more than pay for itself.
The inconvenience of this argument will do worse than earn you downvotes if you're not careful. It might earn you no votes at all, because there's things far more inflammatory and black and white to take sides on, and that's what's fashionable in the human world
Personally, as a Gen-X, I blame Boomers for everything, and especially Brexit.
You can delegate to applications which other people are using, I don't see why that should be a problem. Plus an API token is more trackable than just sharing your password.

It would be an improvement over current.
Can anyone give an credible estimate of the net currency flow between bitcoins and conventional Forex market? (no investments in mining)

By all means be Bitcoin fan, but unless you can answer my question, you know nothing.

Every time the market sell side , the BTC value drops like a stone. Bitcoin has large market liquidity risk and Winklevoss brothers have liquidity problem. Bitcoin markets don't seem to have any resiliencey and breath. There are no controls for market manipulation.
So iiuc, the problem was that they promised a given profit in a given timeframe?
<too many column inches to fill

Perhaps the greatest unexpected result of the internet is how we dont need papers. Choice in what i read is mine.
I found this article helpful: https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-12-04/bitcoin...

tl;dr:

- Increase access to btc (futures can be more liquid than BC itself, which has large transaction costs and transfer times)

- Probably reduce price volatility in general, but futures could also compound speculation

My guess is that BTC will rise in price, and I think the recent price increases are partially explained by the news of future markets.
Developing the Servo Web Browser Engine Using Rust
as my investment banker grandfather was keen to drill into me very early, the proper ending to this sentence is “[...] when they sell.”
> Any way to increase the interception surface/volume ?

Yes - the usual way is to fit the interceptor with a nuclear warhead (see Sprint, Spartan and Nike Zeus on the US side - Fakel 51T6, Novator 53T6 and S-300PS/S-300PM on the Soviet side)... But it has sort of fallen out of fashion...
By successfully pursuing their claim against Facebook till the end to the tune of 65million USD

Of which they put 1/5th of the Facebook shareholder money into Bitcoin
That won't fix the problem, since IE11 is still available in Windows 10, and IE11 is supported until 20-freaking-25.

That's 6 more years. Let that sink in for a bit.

Seriously thinking about switching careers at this point.
FPGAs just aren't that useful for most applications. (I like FPGAs, they're cool and they're fun, but they're niche for a reason.)
Project DMT: The UFO abduction mobile game Croud funding
Hypercomplex Numbers
As other folks have mentioned, there's no reason this has to be the case. It's totally possible to take a basic GraphQL schema and programmatically enhance it with generated filters based on field types. Graphcool offers this. I think it makes a much better platform for this than REST. My guess is that eventually, standards will emerge. We can already see it in Relay, with their connection pattern for pagination.
80% of all tests should not be written, or if already written: deleted. A test is only valuable when it fails alerting you to a change you made that introduced a bug. There is a catch though: I don't know which of those tests are valuable.

I find the ROI for tests is high despite the large number of worthless tests because of the ones that fail a small number alert me to something I wouldn't have found otherwise.

The 80% number was of course made up. In my experience it is realistic, but I have never done a formal study.
The point about the quote going back to the ancient Greeks is to show it is an eternal argument.

Except the quote does not originate from the ancient Greeks that is.
https://www.netmarketshare.com is biased towards US corporate market but doesn't represents the real world. Check wikipedia stats for more generic stats worldwide. What really matters though is the stats of your web site, not the rest. eg. debian.org does not have the same stats as msdn.com.
I'm shocked by the overwhelmingly negative response here. Honestly I expect better when I come to Hackernews.

Facebook announces a novel app trying to solve common problems with kids using and communicating on the internet and everyone in the comments just comes out with their personal ax to grind with Facebook.

I get it. You hate Facebook, Facebook is a drug, Facebook kicked your dog. All of those might be valid criticisms, and if this was an article titled 'Facebook is destroying everything' I would be very interested in reading those opinions.

But as it is, all I see are shallow criticisms of Facebook as a whole rather than any kind of nuanced discussion of the Messenger for Kids app.

Personally I'm intrigued by the idea. Kids want to communicate using the internet (and before the internet it was phone numbers and texting), but this is the first time I've seen an approach that really helps parents to monitor who their kids are connecting to on the app.

Maybe Facebook is the wrong company to present this app; maybe the connection to Facebook is concerning. But the app itself I think represents the right direction to go in designing apps that minors can use to communicate and helping parents to keep their kids safe online.
I just realized that there is more time between now and the Gulf war than there was between ww1 and ww2. I have no idea if missile interceptor technology has made as much progress as from Sopwith to Spitfire, but wow - I hadn't done the math before on just how long this stuff has been in the field.

... Ok I checked wikipedia and apparently the Patriot was first fielded in 1984 - though not used til '91.
I do agree with you, but saying "I adhere to the ideas of clear goal-setting, team communication, autonomy, and iterative development" doesn't lead you anywhere: you need tools and actual processes to convert this adhesion to an idea into the materialization of this idea.

And that's where those companies intervene: they build an implementation of those ideas. The implementation is not adapted for any project and team and it is lossy regarding the original principles, but it has the advantage of having being seriously thought about, tested and scalable.
Weird Python Integers Part II: Constants in Bytecode
> This article skirts dangerously close to helping one side in this war kill folks from the other side.

You said this but then failed to cite anything from the article remotely supporting your claim.

> in general it's a really bad idea to give critiques to people shooting missiles at you.

Saudi Arabia is not us. Hell, I don't even like KSA, an autocratic regime with a value system completely antithetical to ours but yeah, with a boatload of oil.
As a patient, i feel that there is a need for the doctors themselves to acknowledge that there is a need to measure their performance and give a way to us patients to take informed decisions. That would be step n.1. once we have established this need we can look on the how this can be done.
This could be the largest one in absolute value: according to http://www.xe.com/en/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD&view=1W it went from 11258 USD on November 28 to 9136 on November 29. Then it went up and down again to 9217 on the night of November 30.
The end of the code review spectrum where a business can create value is the realm of consultants. There's not much money on the tree for manual Linting. The market segment where the economics work is code review based on an understanding of the business logic and implementation details as well as the experience to work within existing sub-optimal architectures and tooling choices.

As a market segment, indie developers tend to run lean because the cost of software is their primary cost and raising that cost impedes cash flow and consumes working capital before the product goes to market. An architecture astronaut is more likely to be a distraction than shorten time to market.

Enterprise is where software is a "it takes spending money to make money" case. There's money there for consultants and services and using consultants helps people cover their ass with best practices.
Yes, I was thinking more the Southern Tier for remote New York but Hammond is a good border town example of very un-NYC New York living.

My guess is remote parts of Texas are probably still cheaper. It's so big, remote towns can't be bedroom communities, they're less well-regulated so building costs are probably lower, and property taxes are probably lower (less expensive maintenance than in NY weather and they don't take care of their citizens as well).
This is a neat idea.

But it makes wonder that there's perhaps more to consider about "your goals" if you need "a supervisor" to verify that you met your goals and a monetary penalty for failing to meet your goals.

More importantly, one's _choice_ of goals and the process by which they strive to achieve them (the journey) is every bit as important as the "verifiable" success/failure rate if we're talking about personal goals.
Venezuela is launching ICO backed by oil, gas, gold and diamonds
Debunking the Dark Web Sale of the Stolen Lindauer Painting
Don't you just love the snake millennial chrome extention?
"It seems a reader can barely go a week without seeing at least one news headline about how Snake People are “killing” some industry or product. Serpent Society is purportedly wiping out casual dining, golf, diamonds, homeownership, and bars of soap, among other consumer products; news items have also characterized the generation as lazy, vain, and always looking for a handout."
Is it Cloudy, or can you run it with no internet connection ?
Economic forces are due to governmental decisions (baby boomers are the largest generational bloc in congress, and the president is a baby boomer; millenials, however, are the largest living generation) and consumer behavior (baby boomers are set to control 70% of disposable income within 4 years, https://impactbp.com/baby-boomers, and hold 50% of total wealth currently https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/industry/investment-m...).