skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what about the shorts and tee-shirt? Everyone knows you can only fly a drone properly if dressed in a complete flight-suit.
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From personal experience, in 2 years on Bitbucket I can remember one unscheduled outage and that was only a few minutes IIRC. This from daily use at UK time.

And to echo xauronx, the new UI really is great and pretty much did for my Github envy.
They should make the UI user safe. If it goes point-and-click, they could hire almost anyone to operate it. Easier said than done, I guess.
These were on HN a couple of months ago:

http://authpad.com

http://throwww.com
Then standing in line for two hours at security will be even more ironic.
Agree. But it needs to be taken into account, as a significant number of people do it, despite all the reasons not to.
Men and women explore the visual world differently
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Wikipedia disagrees about the profits on "most of its flights". It says "it is reported that British Airways then ran Concorde at a profit, unlike their French counterpart". That is half the fleet for slightly over half the years of operation.

The linked-to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2935337 says:

"British Airways […] was reckoned to make a £20m annual operating profit from its London-New York Concorde service."

But also:

"By 1975, the year before commercial launch, more than £1.2bn - at least £11bn today - had been spent."

So, their margin on investment was 1.6% or so, starting about ten years after the investments were made.

They would have needed a lot more planes to get their investments back. To fill them with passengers, fares would have to drop. Lower fares means they needed even more planes, etc.

Concorde also was limited to long distance flights. On shorter routes, its fuel economy did not compensate for a slightly shorter (boarding+flight+deboarding) time.
Options for HTML scraping?
Not buying this slippery slope argument at all. Nobody has ever cared about opera. Wake me up when people stop supporting Firefox.
It seems very nice. It was originally an app for Windows Phone 7 [1], released something like one year ago.

[1] http://www.windowsphone.com/fr-fr/store/app/touchdevelop/fe0...
In civilian airports equipped with ILS navigation support. Modern commercial aircraft can literally land themselves without human input. As long as runways are properly equipped with the right beacons, automatic landings of drones are not far fetched.
Anything wrong with tumblr, posterous, wordpress.com, blogger, etc.

The world is not short of free/cheap blogging tools ;)
Try this: http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

Lots of fun. Use it to make old stuff like this feel more authentic, or just run your builds in it and tell your housemates you're haxxing teh gibson.

TBH though the reason it doesn't feel the same is ultimately because you're not the person you were 20-30 years ago, whoever that was. Nothing to do with the code or its execution environment.
But a huge one.
I just don't see the point in responsive emails at the moment, all of our smart phones have the technology to support big beautiful newsletters that you can get on desktop/web email clients.

If I receive a 600px wide email on my iPhone I can zoom and pan around it. I feel the same way about websites, I don't want my mobile browser to redirect me to a crippled mobile website with half the content. Especially when I have a browser designed to view desktop websites on a smaller screen.

I think we should wait and see if responsive emails are just a fad or is going to become the mainstream.

That being said, this is a fantastic tool for creating responsive emails.

Shameless plug: I made https://www.mailrox.com/
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Motherboards with a slot for a cache SSD have been available for quite some time. See, for example, http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-Smart-Response-Te...
> Which brings me to real salespeople, the ones who actually make sales in the real world, rather than in fantasy plays....
> Mythological salesmen like Ricky Roma, who are really highly skilled scammers, have given the sales profession a bad name.

Anyway, do you have any kind of evidence that deceitful salespeople cant be successful? It is a rather extraordinary claim. I mean the guy who sold the Eiffel Tower as scrap iron multiple times was pretty successful.
It works perfectly fine on Linux. You need Python2, PyQt and Sqlite for it to use though.

(run: python2 pybitmessagemain.py)
Throwww looks very nice! Thanks
I do not understand how the physics of a ram afterburner would work. A ram duct generates compression via aerodynamic drag. It slows and compresses the air forced into it by controlling shocks.

The expansion stage of a brayton cycle engine maximizes exhaust velocity rearward and hence by Newton's third law creates thrust. Constricting the exhaust will only reduce efficiency.

If you're talking about an expansion duct with secondary combustion, that has nothing to do with ram effect and is just an afterburner.

By and large afterburners are hideously inefficient, but many military craft still include them because it is easier to manufacture an afterburner tolerant of secondary combustion temperatures than a turbine. SABRE erodes this motivation as the incident temperature into the flame holders (or rocket nozzles) is dramatically lower than common in a turbine engine, so you can get more of the energy possible from the oxygen density of the engine's intake flow without secondary combustion.
To me the most worrying part of this article is this part;

> In a Nov. 20 speech in Washington, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said the Pentagon would expand its use of the unmanned attack planes “outside declared combat zones” as it pursues al-Qaeda supporters in Africa and the Middle East.
All those platform makes you create a "blog". I don't want a blog that I have to keep updating otherwise it will look odds with only 1 post every 2 months.
Ask HN: Which Vim plugins / config line can you not live without?
I'm sure most of us know about the following plugins, so please don't include these in your response.

- SuperTab

- NerdTREE

- Surround

- MatchIT

- Snipmate

- NerdCommenter / TComment

- Ack

- Bufexplorer

- Ctrl-P / Command-T

- Syntastic

- Fugitive

A simple description of the plugin and how you use it would be great. Always willing to improve my toolset :)

PS: I've heard a LOT of good things about EasyMotion and Gundo plugins, but haven't really given them a fair shot. If anyone uses them, do let us know.
I won't claim this is elegant, but here's the same thing in one line:

for(i=1;i<300;i++) document.write(i % 30 == 0 ? "<br>" : (Math.random()>0.5) ? '\u2571' : '\u2572');
Shape may not be directly related to performance, but I'd guess it's similar to the argument for the iPhone not having a removable battery (i.e. the housings and connectors required would restrict the size of the battery itself thus resulting in shorter battery life.) I'm not saying it's the same case here, but knowing Apple's preference towards a compact and efficient use of space, I wouldn't rule it out.

Definitely agree with you on your marketing point. If it can be proven incorrect then it's not ok (nor is it legal). I think they use the word "revolutionary" in place of the old go-to "best". Everyone can say they're the best because it can't be proven wrong. It's subjective. Take, for example, a smartphone screen. Objective observations can be made about the screen size, but personal preference makes "best" subjective.
I was thinking the same thing but then I asked myself if the guys killing people at the other side of the world were dressed like that, and feel ill at ease.
White House draft cyber order adds changes to mollify tech industry
For those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend this video on liquid-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTR): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...!

I passed the video by my uncle who was an expert/engineer dealing with control and safety of water cooled reactors. This is what he had to say:

"I found the video very informative technically, as well as being effective in countering many of the the arguments of those who profess to be against nuclear power in any form. I also found the details of the design of the liquid thorium fluoride reactor intriguing. To become an advocate for further investment in this concept, I would have to learn more about how the concept deals with the safety issues involved in the handling of fluorine gas and fluoride materials."
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Before Google and after Google there were other competitors to Apple, such as Windows Mobile and WebOS. Also, to be very clear: you seem to be talking about Android, when I was talking about actual physical phones and tablets; right now there are a bunch of people angry that Google is pretty much giving away Nexus devices in an entirely unsustainable fashion. This is a fairly recent development (and would probably be getting more complaints if they didn't immediately run out ;P).

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/03/editorial-amazon-and-goog...

Regardless, your same argument could easily be said about web browsers, and somehow that case happened, so obviously anti-trust actually does work like that, at least in the eyes of the US prosecutors: just like with Internet Explorer, Google has managed to squelch numerous markets where there could have been competitors by being the only player willing to do it good enough for free; for some less obvious examples, think of cases like Google Code, or Google Charts, or even Google Groups (which is still around, but whose only competitor was another free offering from Yahoo! which is largely a laughing stock at this point).
There'll always be someone to point out that such degrees are necessary for higher(!) degrees which are necessary for academia. While the myth that we have a shortage of PhDs and scientists - combined with a huge portion of academics retiring - continues, it is a very profitable excuse to get more public funding.

But that's okay, we have plenty of money to spend on all kinds of research - we're aiming at a lofty goal! But the discomforting bit is when the majority of the graduates regard everyday-life mundane stuffs are below them, that all high is in the textbooks, and simultaneously have no urge to do something (themselves or earthly people value) instead of just "learning".
"Norwegian crude oil production peaked in 2001 and as of 2012 it has declined about 50% from the peak. This fact has been overshadowed by the oil price growth in recent years."

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9166
Maybe something similar to Craigslist's min. max. price filter on for sale items.
I am somewhat reading between the lines but from the article it sounds like military contractors handle the local take-off and landing then hand over the drone to the military for the actual combat missions.

I'm guessing they are using microwave communication locally for a more reliable link (than satellite). Since you need twitch responsive communications for take-off and landing.

Once the drone is in the air if it loses communications with the ground then it just either flies it predetermined route or at least flies straight and level until communications are re-established.

The problem here seems to be that people both on the military side and contractor side are cutting tons of corners and we are starting to see the fallout from that here.

I think failure to communicate with ATC (e.g. taking off without permission) is a massive concern. If a traditional pilot did that then they would soon have their licence ripped up, not sure why drone pilots aren't held to the same standard.
I don't think Mr. Atwood is suggesting that you bow to what the community wants, but rather that you implement systems to facilitate what they're already doing anyway.

That aside, and regardless of if SO is going about topic policing in the right way, I think this bit from a guest post[1] by Randy Farmer might hint at why they're doing what they do.

"As user-generated content grows, content moderation of some sort is always required: typically, either employees scan every submission or the site’s operators deploy a reputation system to identify bad content. Simply removing the bad content isn’t usually good enough-most sites depend on search engine traffic, on advertising revenue, or both. To get search traffic, external sites must link to the content, and that means the quality of the content has to be high enough to earn those links."

[1] http://www.communityguy.com/2010/04/01/guest-post-theres-a-w...
Yes, in different countries there are different mechanisms to do this. Some places you can manage completely online. There are things you can do before the ID check, but at some point it needs to be done, yes.
So how does these look on Outlook 2000 - 2007? Love the initiative but it's impossible to use a template that doesn't work with Outlook.
Did you completely ignore the comment you replied to? Fusion drive aka tiered storage is not a cache.
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US Dept. Of Energy wants 5X battery power boost in 5 years
For those writing a lot of HTML: ZenCoding

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2981
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It's amazing how much better xz is at compressing that disk image:

-rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 143473160 Nov 26 11:53 9pi.img.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 60972776 Dec 1 11:48 9pi.img.xz
> And given that he pleaded guilty what else of his story do you need to hear?

I agree with the rest of what you say, but in general it's rather dangerous to assume that somebody pleading guilty to a crime necessarily means they did something wrong.
These services are in part an answer to relatively high labour cost for low/semi-skilled work, in particular outside normal working hours.

That is, in European countries with strong labour laws and unions, it's relatively expensive to pay people to deliver packages when most people are at home (early evening hours). The obvious answer is something like the Packstation, replacing labour cost with machines.

The US has a much wider market for very low income jobs because the marginal cost are lower, thus US companies can make money with jobs like people guarding parking lots, something you hardly see in Northern Europe (the weather might play a role, though...).

So naturally, such solutions spring up earlier where the relative win is higher. Plus as others mentioned the denser/more urban life style.

That's not a clear win by the way, lots of relatively decent jobs for low skilled workers are lost to these machines. The machines are cheap, but it might still have been more efficient to pay slightly less to the delivery workers (and kept them in jobs).
On a related note, has anyone tried https://github.com/hayaku/hayaku (available for Sublime Text 2 only at this time)? How does it compare to ZenCoding?
95% of the power generated in Norway comes from hydropower[1] so we already have a sustainable and green power source. I think it's more likely that the government sees power generation in Norway as a "solved" problem, and wants to be careful about introducing nuclear power. The general opinion is basically "nuclear is dangerous!", and no-one wants to be the first politician to support it.

[1]: Source: http://www.ssb.no/energi/ (Norwegian site)
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That's not very convenient.
Doesn't seem to in 4.2 either...
Agreed, there are lots of tools like this around.
Is it the killing that bothers, or the casual dress?
That's nice and all, but "help reduce" doesn't really equal a "solution for waste storage", and does not change the fact that society, not the companies that built, run and extracted profits from these plants, will have to pay the costs (which we cannot even calculate as long as we don't even have a storage solution, which makes shrugging them off even more criminal -- yeah, maybe it won't be so bad, but we shrug it off because we'll be dead by then, not because we know, and that's rather weak at best, disgusting at worst).

In that wikipedia article you linked, Germany only occurs only once on that page, with a facility that has been out of operation since 1990 - WTF?
Coal plants also produce nuclear waste. It either goes with the smoke or is filtered. What do they do with the filters though?
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Am I the only one who finds the design and layout totally confounding on their desktop browser?

Might flow smoother on a touch tablet?
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"unless you are living in the home at the same time."
What are the conditions for living in the home at the same time? What if my roomate is out of town and I'm the role of the host? Can the room still be rented? Does leaving for a few days really mean that I'm not living in the home?
That gives me a gentle optical illusion - there's a sort of 3d effect going on and I can't tell which way is up or out or in or down.
It was very reliant on dotcom and banking transit between London and NY. The sitcom bust killed a lot of that.
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The BBC used to have a policy of requiring evening dress for their radio announcers. There's something to be said for an inflexible and rules-bound mindset when operating critical machinery - making sure checklists are followed, etc. More fluid application of smarts may be necessary in an emergency, but not as a matter of routine.
Interesting that he lied about the price. Or at the very least added lots of spin.

People trust Apple. Are happy with Apple care. Don't mind paying a little extra for solutions that actually work and for a comparatively seamless user experience.

Haters gonna hate.
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1-The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews. William Faulkner 2- Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know
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It's the combination that's problematic. It suggests that the killing is done lightly and carelessly, and it cheapens human lives.
Code sucks
256GB as maximum capacity of a drive? I guess, this connector should have no influence on the maximum capacity of a drive. On bandwidth it has.
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"10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10" Book is Free Under CC License
Wondering if it does support text input.

If yes - then this will be heaven for someone "sniffing" passwords.
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Since it would be post processing anyway, one could possibly also make use of corrections from IGS ( http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/components/prods.html ) (or similar) to get extremely precise tracks. Quite nifty.
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There's no insinuation in my posting this link, and it's not directly pertinent to Thorium reactors, but the free PDF downloadable from here is a good reference for these kinds of discussions, I think. Helped me with perspective anyway.

http://www.withouthotair.com/download.html
Thanks for, without giving actual examples, telling us that the people opposing nuclear are uninformed and unable to form complete sentences. Without this enlightened information one might have listened to them and judged them based on their arguments. Edit: spelling
Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?
Lately, I've been testing out different static site generators but it's a sea of alternatives. My favorite so far is Punch but the non-existing support for articles/blog-posts and subfolders makes it not so good...

So, what's your favorite?

(Let me know if I missed someone, poll options are taking from here: https://gist.github.com/4181764)
NestaCMS
Ruhoh
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Back in the day I spent way too much time keeping up with the MUD-DEV mailing list. There were a lot of discussions that touched on these topics, although not always as constructively as Atwood does here.

Here's an old post by Raph Koster that talks about how to deal with kewl d00ds. I was reminded of it because Koster referred to them as genetic algorithms with respect to bug/exploit finding. It's a bit of a tangent but there are some similarities.

http://nilgiri.net/MUD-Dev-archive/15729.html
Anybody got access to the original paper?

I'd be interested for how they controlled for this (e.g. they talked about threat assessment in the OP - is that down to biological gender differences, or learned behaviour - e.g. would males with builds/experiences that seem to make them more likely to need to evaluate threat have similar patterns).

The "The study represents the most compelling evidence yet that, despite occupying the same world, the viewpoints of men and women can, at times, be very different." line is overstated also. There's been compelling evidence for some time that male/female visions systems are interestingly different in places. For example:

* Colour perception - http://www.journalofvision.org/content/12/1/18.full

* Peripheral vision - http://www.citeulike.org/user/neilh/article/1181022

Not seen anything on the eye tracking front before - but I'm mildly suspicious of the way it's presented since we already know that eye tracking exhibits cultural effects (e.g. the F-pattern in left-right-top-down reading cultures).
According to an article in a norwegian newspaper[1], there are much bigger challenges in extracting the thorium from the ore in Norway. The thorium in India is supposedly easier utilize.

The technology today requires use of a lot of nasty chemicals to extract thorium. I think this is a big issue for the government in addition to running nuclear reactors.

[1]In norwegian: http://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/Gigantisk-energikilde-i-Te...
Airline stocks went down almost 40% the next day. Yes, the economy went down because of other factors, but the immediate hit to airlines was definitely caused by 9/11.
You should now use Emmet http://docs.emmet.io/, since it’s like ZenCoding 2.0. As for Hayaku, it’s CSS oriented and does a great job.
NYC, 8 million people. Many of them don't have doormen and no where to have their packages delivered. I pay for a mailbox which is somewhat close to my house and I'm lucky that they receive/hold packages for me (during a limited time).
THis service is useful for those in large urban environments.

Furthermore, anyone who doesn't want their packages stolen, damaged etc because they aren't home to receive delivery is also a large market.

Yes, UPS does have an area where you can go pick up your package if it isn't delivered, but that is super annoying. I've had to do this many times and not only does their customer service suck, lines are fairly long, and the hours are very limited. It completely negated the point of ordering something online to avoid bad service, lines and store hours.