skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The angles on the tail roter look similar however according to reports the downed helicopter was carrying half of a 25 man seal team so it had to be something bigger if the government was telling the truth.
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Gotta love utility computing. One minute your paying a fair market price of $3/mo comparable to Mozy, Carbonite or Backblaze. Next thing you know you are paying 33 times what you should have. Reminds me of the good old days of Compuserve and AOL. I remember getting this crazy $300 bill after discovering Neverwinter Nights II. Steep price for text adventuring.
One thing worth noting: Doctors aren't able to respond to reviews at all. If a patient posts a completely baseless, factually untrue review of a doctor, the doctor cannot say anything due to privacy laws regarding the patient. This is in comparison to local businesses on a site like Yelp, where a business is allowed to talk about a customer's situation if the customer posts something defamatory. The doctor's only recourse in such situations is to sue the patient, something which is a) expensive b) time consuming and b) generates bad publicity. Not saying that patients should be forced to sign such agreements, but it's worth noting that the playing field is not level.
Prior to CK's acquisition by Rackspace, I'd say the main selling point is a common control panel experience for cross provider stuff. They were adding on monitoring as a pay service top as well.

I was suggesting it initially as a way to not suffer any pain with the existing Rackspace Cloud CP.
It's a stealth optimized MH-60. Nothing to see here, really.
What's amazing to me, especially after seeing these few photos of wreckage, is that everybody inside got away alive, according to the Pentagon. Intuitively, I've always thought that any helicopter crash = death sentence. Clearly, that's not true.
Talk with the CIO directly. It's plausible that the CIO isnt aware of who actually does work in the firm, so give him/her a chance.

At the same time, Look for another job. At this stage, if you dont feel like you are advancing personally [either career or learning experience], the job isnt worth it.
The tests were free, if you passed you simply had permission to take the higher level courses without those prerequisites. It's been a long time so I might be mis-remembering, but I remember there being some short answer questions, I think C++ was used in questions where you were asked to look at code, but pseudocode was acceptable for answering the programming questions.
Ask HN: Best non-university web development training?
Assuming cost and location aren't significant issues, is there anything worthwhile? Online or summer courses at universities are actually fine as long as you don't need to be currently enrolled.

So far I've learned through a mix of open courseware (cs50.tv and cs75.tv being the best), Lynda, Tutsplus, and books from Amazon -- but maybe something more formal would be better?
"We are hiring the best in the world."

EDIT: I wish I was experienced enough to work with you guys.
An oldie, but a goodie. Easily my favorite scientific report paper of all time.

>Banking on my hopes that whoever grades this will just look at the pictures, I drew an exponential through my noise. I believe the apparent legitimacy is enhanced by the fact that I used a complicated computer program to make the fit. I understand this is the same process by which the top quark was discovered.

Absolutely brilliant.
I'm not saying it's a Comanche..just saying there are similarities (to me) and it might provide a starting point to see what/where the upgrades modifications came from.
That is an absolutely fantastic summary. I upvoted the parent just to get this one more attention :D
Why not leave? It's not exactly as if silicon valley is a hard place to find a job if you're a decent engineer.
Mr. Herlein should now do the right thing and stop using PayPal. It's obviously not the service he wants.
So you want to learn Clojure?
Many of us won't disagree with the need for building skills thru standard exercises. But, when the maximum efficiency/minimum-personal-commitment bureaucrats have too much input, risk based learning is replaced with no-personal-risk rote learning for all education -- with the obvious failure to society.
According to the official explanation, it didn't crash, it was forced to land, and was subsequently destroyed by the crew and passengers.
How often do you modify your hosts file? I only ever find myself adding more things to block to it.
Startups may need to live on a budget, but good to see that they didn't overlook the importance of nice whisky with the Johnnie Walker Blue. No office should go without a good scotch.
I don't see how adding a completely different syntax layer and compilation makes coding in JavaScript less overwhelming.

Using jslint eliminates item 1.

Item 2 is a stupid language quirk. Guess what, Coffeescript is a whole new layer of quirks.

Aside from item 4, the rest are based on a mistaken idea that reducing typing somehow is a huge advantage. (I don't know, it may be for some people but I'm either too fast a typist or too dumb a programmer.)

CoffeeScript is probably very appealing to some people because it imports coding conventions from some other language (Ruby I guess) that they like. I happen to like JavaScript and running code through jslint once in a while is a heckuva lot less annoying than having to compile code and deal with debugging "assembler".
according to the guy that was live tweeting the event.. it wasn't that quiet
I always thought the opposite...since you can't eject from a helicopter, I always thought (and pretty sure I've been told) they are built to maximize survivability during a crash. There were survivors to both downed black hawk in Mogadishu.
It didn't crash persay. It had problems generating lift and the pilot had to land it during the raid. The military then destroyed it into into the current state you see now. Usually they do this to prevent people from reverse engineering the technology and stealing it.
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π being, simply, the measurement of the curvature tensor of an ideal Euclidean plane. If we lived in a universe that was non-Euclidean at macro-scale, π would be just another irrational number, and some other quantity would be exalted as "fundamental."
Odds are the helicopter hit a tail rotor on a fence or some such thing, and had a relatively uneventful landing, even though it was too damaged to be used for extraction.

Helicopters can quite easily land if they lose power, etc., through a process called autorotation.

It was the explosive charges that were set and detonated before the team left that did the vast majority of the damage.
From the Army Times article:

That crash landing might have been caused by a phenomenon known as “settling with power,” which occurs when a helicopter descends too quickly because its rotors cannot get the lift required from the turbulent air of their own downwash. “It’s hard to settle with power in a Black Hawk, but then again, if they were using one of these [low-observable helicopters], working at max gross weight, it’s certainly plausible that they could have because they would have been flying so heavy,” the retired special operations aviator said, noting that low-observable modifications added “several hundred pounds” to the weight of the MH-60, which already weighs about 500 to 1000 pounds more than a regular UH-60 Black Hawk.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/05/army-mission-helocopte...
I know exactly what you mean, and I'm only beginning to overcome my 'bad design sense'. Since I started coding before designing, I've found it helpful to draw parallels between the two. Like studying good code helps improve your own programming skills, finding and examining what makes a design 'good' is extremely helpful. I've got a huge folder of code I use over and over again, improving it as time goes on. Likewise, I've started to keep a folder of design components -- layout ideas, button designs, gradients, as well as links to the previously mentioned 'good designs'.

Edit: This sounds like common sense now that I read it over again. Sorry if it's not helpful.
The first comment over on RWW makes a great point:

"I think XYDO feels different simply because, unlike most RSS readers, it's not made to disappear into the reading experience. Instead, it adds highly visible layers of functionality and interface on top of the reading experience (that's its draw, after all). When a typical RSS reader opens a full feed, you don't really notice, since the reader's just a vehicle for consumption. But because XYDO doesn't fade in the same way, it feels a lot more like linkjacking."
Python has had a "quite" ternary operator for years now:

expr if cond else expr
Ask HN: Please Review My iPhone App  - Search Ninja
Search Ninja aims to make it easier and faster to search the web using different search engines on your iPhone and iPod touch.

Unlike other search apps, it is lightweight and it launches fast. It opens with the keyboard out so that you can start typing to search. It does many other little things to optimize and save you those precious seconds while searching on the go.

Other main features include ability to search using multiple search engines, add custom search engines, star searches and comprehensive search history.

Please let me know what you think.

Link: http://searchninjaapp.com
A bit later than engadget's post, but Ars has the best article. The second graph in the second page got me to understand why this is important.
I'm the same age but single, and I applied to LaL but realized that I just don't have the energy anymore to sustain the pace they want. I could've done it at 19, I probably could even have done it at 24, but now that I'm 29, I just can't code for 14 hours a day, let alone 20. (Actually, that's not entirely true - I've pulled 14 hour days for 4-5 day stretches working on a Google doodle or coming up to a launch, but I need like 2 weeks of recovery time afterwards.) Alas, I wasted my twenties on college and 3 failed startups.

It's certainly possible to start a company in your 30s - PG did it, founding ViaWeb at 31 and selling it at 34 - but it does seem like a bit of an uncanny valley without many founders. My theory is that people who are the type of person that's going to found a startup probably would've founded it by 26, and then if their first couple attempts failed, they're licking their wounds at 30 and trying to figure out how to give it another go.

Those same people often end up starting follow-up ventures much later, after the kids are self-sufficient. I have one friend from elementary school whose dad is working on his second startup at the age of 70. His first venture - founded at around age 60 - ended up IPOing at a market cap of several billion before crashing and burning.
How important is the hard drive cache?
Microsoft tries luring iOS devs as Windows Phone 7 dev interest falters
The crap results were probably due to the soldering messing around with the crystal properties. Using a pressure-contacts approach instead seemed to do the trick:

http://tinyrock.com/resources/4000918/Bandgap-Measurements-I...

Has it really been 10 years!
This was a lot more entertaining than the typical Techcrunch blog spam. They should maybe try to do more things like this "boots on the ground" sort of stuff. I'm so tired of hearing about so-and-so getting funded by so-and-so, that stuff was never interesting. But here we're getting some actual honest content. We get to see a startup doing tech stuff, where and how they work, in their natural habitat.

That aside, these guys kinda look like they're following the Social Network playbook to the T. I wonder how long it'll be until they hire Sean Parker and dilute one of the founders' stake in the company.
In fact, Mirah implementation also available: https://github.com/sattvik/decafbot/tree/master/jvm-lang/mir...
More likely Radar and IR stealth than silenced. It was the trip in from Afghanistan they concealed. By the time they were over Abbottabad it was too late to do anything about it.
I'm very excited about Bitcoin too, it feels like a renaissance for almost every vertical. Especially since there's so much low-hanging fruit right now and there's still a disconnect between these units of cryptocurrency and real hard cash in people's perception. You can get people used to doing things with Bitcoins what they normally wouldn't do with "real money".
It's incredible that I tried to search the type of helicopter used via Google without success. All results where about the crash not the type of helicopter.

Few hours later the answer came via Hacker News.
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To feed the hamsters in their servers! But those are some pretty big traffic numbers so I suppose the frequent sluggishness is reasonable.
The tail rotor is noting like the shielded one on the Comanche: http://sitelife.aviationweek.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store...
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In saying that, even with the contract signed the doctor still has to do the same thing only under contract law rather than defamation.
Does anyone else think the helicopter in the photo looks too small to be anything but a drone?
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Look at some of the other "TC Cribs" features that they've done.
You're suggesting that IE6 gave the user options?
The pictures only show the tail section -- that's the rear rotor in the photos..
Microsoft bought Tellme (of which 555-TELL was a very small part) in March 2007 [1]. GOOG-411 was announced in April 2007. [2]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-acquires-tellme/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2007/04/06/google-launches-free-411-bu...
Most of our engineering and management team is married or with kids and are early Google and FB employees so there's no desire to have to go with this type of lifestyle. I admire the youth who can pull this off and I think it makes sense when you are bootstrapping a service that requires a lot of work to scale up quickly.
I hope this reminds people, especially in light of recent news, that cancer kills far more people in this country than terrorism ever has or will. We must do what we have to to keep our nation safe and secure, without doubt, but if we could spend this amount of money towards medical research and stop politicizing it, we could achieve wonders.
Brother and sister
brother and sister
This internal tension filled drama, Joanna Trollope explores the effects of adopting two children, now adults, all families involved
brother and sister,episode
take on freelance work and get paid to learn
except that there would be lots of people, not the least bin laden himself, who would love to prove his non-death?
Keywords are used by a majority of advertisers in my large sample.
Throw in some ASCII art to make things sweeter:

figlet -f univers time to work! | boxes

figlet -f starwars game time! | boxes -d dog
Depends. tiles used:

> The transparency with which Chrome did this
> was actually a problem for me

"with which Chrome did this" -- to me -- inferred that he was referring to the development group when he said "Chrome" (and also was referring to the process with which they executed said upgrade). This would imply transparency in the 'apparent or not hidden' sense being applied to the Chrome development group and/or the process that they were using.

Just sayin'. The choice of words was a little ambiguous in that it could be taken either way, and that wildly changes the meaning of the word 'transparent.'
... like investing in startups.
> By the time they were over Abbottabad it was too late to do anything about it.

It could be too late to prevent the strike, but it wouldn't be too late to shot down the surviving choppers.

Of course, in that situation, the F-22s would have protected them.
This is something I struggle with all the time when working on a project. For me I have found that the design process is just as iterative as the development process, it doesn't just happen right away; unless you want to grab a template and tweak it a little bit. Check out sites like Pattern Tap for UI and ColourLovers for color schemes. Also, practice. Play around with the UI, experiment with colors and layouts.
- Always be looking for another job

- Don't talk to the CIO by yourself if you are planning to stay with the company. The team lead sounds like a simpleton who thinks that he gains power from controlling your communication. If you talk to the CIO, you may gain a friend in the CIO but you are guaranteed to gain an enemy in the team lead.

If I were your CIO and you came to me with good ideas, the first thing I would have done would be to run them by the team lead. Since the team lead would not be on board with those ideas, I'd think that either: a) your ideas weren't good; or b) you aren't good at execution of those ideas because you don't work well with your leads. Politics suck but they are a part of life.

- Work with the team lead so that you both meet with the CIO to discuss your ideas. Use the meeting to present yourself to the CIO as more visionary/strategic in understanding the potential of the ideas. Frame the team lead as someone in an administrative role with respect to execution of the ideas.

- Ask for a raise/promotion if you are given a green light to work on your ideas and gain once you prove that you were successful in implementing them.
Would something similar* be possible using Nginx's scripting engine? When a back-end comes online, it connects to an endpoint to notify Nginx that it has come online, and this gets added to the proxy configuration. I wish I had the time to find out for myself!

* to the title, as I haven't investigated the project carefully...
Know Thy Platform
FaveOne.com has 766 users :)

Since we are small, I am not sure how our beliefs about this data compare to those with larger projects.
Communications: Never communicate more than once under the same identity. Do not use a cell phone. Borrow other people's phones, Skype, or use public phones if you need to make or receive a call. Never communicate with anyone whose inbound calls may be monitored. Use one time pad encryption where possible. Otherwise, fall back to public/private key.

Finance: Cash is king. Use prepaid disposable credit cards or stolen credit cards if you need to make a credit card transaction. If you have access, use an informal exchange system such as the much famed Islamic system. To move money internationally, buy and sell expensive items such as art or jewellery that you can carry on your person as you travel.

Travel: Boats still seem a very good option for international movement across oceans. If no ocean is involved, catch public transport that does not require leaving your identity and movements on databases (eg: unreserved trains, buses). Stolen vehicles are preferable to registered ones, obviously.

Other: You can also assume other people's identities by stealing their identity papers/other documents. It seems these days this is getting much harder as 'identity theft' countermeasures are put in place.
Unless he is alive and being interrogated.

Now, seriously, I always doubted he would be captured alive. Just imagine how embarrassing would it be all the information about the CIA operations during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan becoming public on a trial. Of course he resisted capture.
It's a problem with STS the first time the browser visits a particular site. Once the browser receives the STS header, all future requests to that site will be over HTTPS.
This brings up another good question. Can a helicopter really fly all across Pakistan and back to an aircraft carrier?

Could they even make it to Afghanistan? I was under the impression that helicopters don't exactly have a whole lot of range
But this odd order is a hack for the fact that python distinguishes between expressions and statements and won't change. It should be:

result = if cond: expr else: expr
When Will People Stop Complaining About Privacy??
The Navy has photos and video that they have not released, including video of the burial at sea. From what I've read, the photos are quite graphic and so they're waiting to publish them for a bit.
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Or a web browser.
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...but their https is broken on the homepage. Not the best security?
I assumed they returned to Afghanistan and transfered the body to a plane.
"The quote I mentioned above certainly implies that goods sold on eBay enjoy protection despite the address shipped to."

They were probably referring to eBay's own protection policy, listed here: http://pages.ebay.com/paypal/seller/

"To qualify for eBay Seller Protection, be sure to: Use a shipping method that provides tracking information and/or valid delivery confirmation to the address in the PayPal transaction details or eBay order details page."

It sucks that you got scammed, and I hope you get the guy who did it, but you'll need to get someone other than PayPal / eBay involved. It's probably just going to waste your time and reduce your chances of catching him if you keep trying to go through either of them.
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Does anyone else feel repulsed by the name itself? Every time I see GNU something, I think "extreme ideology with an ugly name". Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for what GNU did in the 80s and 90s, and I think it still has value (albeit, I think middle way approaches such as creative commons, MIT, Apache License, and others have won the popular geek mind for now). But IMHO, they need to rebrand.
Oh please. The water wasn't strong enough to knock over the wind-up giraffe. There's no way the cats are getting hurt by this. It's set up to startle them, so that they stop peeing all over his car.

Notice that zero cats who are kept under control by their owners appeared in this video.
Does anyone know how this compares to Freenet? The FAQ talks about it a bit [ https://gnunet.org/faq/10 ] but for example, I don't understand what "Economics" means in this context?
Not sure about these modified ones, but a normal Black Hawk can refuel midair.
Good point -- I'm tempted to, but I don't have anyone to help me out if I get in over my head.
Startup Quote: Jason Fried, founder, 37signals
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There is a "dead man's curve". If you're low enough, you can survive a pure drop. If you have enough forward speed, you can turn that into lift. If you're high enough, you can get enough rotor speed to turn that into enough lift to slow down the drop. But there are areas in the height/velocity equation where you probably die.

Chart at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height-velocity_diagram
a word of advice, NEVER go with SEO companies that approach YOU. it should always be the other way around.

usually the ones approaching you end up taking your money and because of the nature of SEO it may take several months before you realize they haven't done anything and you've already lost $1000
Occam's razor, him being dead is probably true. However, I thought about that scenario too. Make his followers think he's dead so he loses his figurehead status, then spend the subsequent years interrogating him.

As for embarrassment, who said he'd ever be put on trial if we had him? If we can hold his followers indefinitely, certainly we could hold him.
Right after privacy stops mattering, which will hopefully be never.
A few things I initially thought of, that seemingly came out of nowhere and changed the world, were -- the steam engine, lightbulb, automobile, radio, television, zippers/velcro, plastic/steel, various aspects of medicine (antibiotics, x-rays, etc).
I wish I was experienced enough

I'm pretty sure in the video the CEO says they're much more interested in aptitude than experience, after all they hired a college freshman.
How can you expect someone to get a good day’s work if they are interrupted all day?

- Jason Fried (@jasonfried)

http://startupquote.com/post/5207753342