skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotta be careful about history; when the F-35 program started, drone-based warfare was pretty infantile.

Drone payloads are still relatively light compared to heavily-laden fighter-bombers (or indeed outright bombers). This will likely evolve over time (the future bomber program requires both manned and unmanned capabilities in some proposals).
Globalization, trade, and the nuclear deterrent.
Have you stopped using Linux? Why?
You've got a trailing comma in your about json.
Currently SpaceX doesn't offer significantly lower LEO delivery costs -- they are on par with Ukrainian/Russian space programs [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_orbital_launch_sy...
How much of an advantage, if any, does Node provide because it's more "mature", or at least has been used for far longer.

For example, when I go to StackOverFlow I see that Node has far more questions asked:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/go

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/node.js
the article title is a total troll, thx mit.

for a real world example of failed uniformity assumptions, see cryptocat.
Test nr 3 sends a whopping 2891 Mbytes/s over http ?
I know it's localhost, but wow ?!
How Dan Pink Invested in iDoneThis
I wouldn't waste a minute of time writing a business plan. If you want to throw together a 1-pager, or a quick "Business Plan" .ppt presentation, sure. Nothing beats product and traction. For the record, I've contacted thousands of VC's, spoken to hundreds, and closed none of them over the past 4 years. I have only once been asked for a business plan, and of the rest every one of them asked to see a demo.
Identifying Third Party Services for Django Projects
Foundation 4 v Bootstrap 3.

Your thoughts?
Usually these "lessons learned" posts are very hand-wavy and hard to relate to. But this post has some great tips and the author sounds like me, just a regular person trying to sell a product.

I also think that building something beyond your authority is a really common failure pattern more people should be aware of.
The London Pneumatic Despatch Company actually built a system of pneumatic tube tunnels under London in the 1860s that were capable of carrying people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Pneumatic_Despatch_Comp...

(they were mostly used for packages but engineers travelled using the system as well)
Yes:

"I removed the Disqus comments and the many many lines of CSS from the old site and replaced it with only a couple of lines of CSS alongside a CDN-hosted copy of Twitter Bootstrap. Finally, the Go site is deployed to a free instance of Heroku and the MongoDB hosted on a developer version of Mongolab, while the old Django site was hosted on a Webfaction shared server. All these things influence the validity of a direct speed comparison between the two versions"

Indeed, all these things _invalidate_ the direct speed comparison between the two versions.
Minimizing Compile-Time Dependencies, Part 1
As for sea sickness - don't people also get sea sick at sea? Or at an airplane? Does it stop them from travelling this way?

He compares hyperloop with the smoothest mode of transportation invented, and says it will fail because it doesn't meet it's standard. Why not compare it to flying planes or sailing boats? Or riding a Marshrutka in Ukraine?

As for the low capacity - the critique's author says Hyperloop can handle 3 times less passengers per hour. But forgots to mention that you could buy more than 3 HL lanes for the cost of one HSR lane (if I remember correctly).
Nice to see that Midway Island has been street-viewed: http://goo.gl/maps/1M7UN . Seems the birds have taken over there.
oops, I thought that was the item price.
> you'd have to implement it on a per-type basis

Alternatively you can implement everything on interface{} and force the user of the higher-order function to use type assertions everywhere.
>> "By mandating it, an employer has to consider the possibility whenever they hire someone"

We have discrimination laws against that.
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
Dutchman here. We're buying the F-35 'Flying Piano' to replace our F-16's...
I usually conquer them last.
Sadly, OS X users will find that they lack the ssh-copy-id utility. I can't recall where I got it, but this is a script I use (but did not author) that replicates the functionality:

https://gist.github.com/bradland/6231127
Windows 8.1 will be available to the public in 96,300 minutes (18 Oct)
Sure, I was just arguing possibility, not feasibility.
I think that's obvious: forces you to stick with one specific legacy dynamic weak-typed language.
Yammer Releases Open Source SDKs For iOS And Windows Phone
Nice video, and this is a great target market. My dad's in India so collaboration could be a challenge :) PM me if you think he can still help though - I'm here on vacation for a few more weeks.

BTW, not sure if you saw the following video - it was embedded in the last newsletter from Leap, and shows a vet controlling OsiriX (an open source viewer for medical/DICOM images) using Leap:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152121411384392

Looks like a little hokey compared to cyber science or your app, but the approach of simply plugging into and enhancing an existing viewer seemed quite pragmatic.
Just a few days after Elon Musk publicly objected to the newly-approved "high speed" railway in California...[1]

Is this supposed to make people sceptical about Hyperloop?

1. http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop
The high paying coaches are probably college coaches. They do get paid a lot of money.
Atlas of the WWW
480 * 12 is 5760! And that's assuming no time is spent accelerating and decelerating.
And Marc that's also what really good employees who leave because they're not listened to always think on their way out the door.
If your input is "perfectly" random then the codebreaker has no chance of determining when he/she has successfully decrypted it (regardless of how weak your encryption is). So the more random your unencrypted data, the harder it is to decrypt it once it is encrypted. It follows that less random data will be easier to decrypt. Now I can't prove the shape of the intermediate function (e.g. might there be a sweet spot in the middle? "Common sense" suggests the relationship would be monotonic, but common sense is often wrong).

Incidentally, it's also clear that if the encryption schema is large relative to the compressed data then it will also be harder to decrypt (of course if the encryption schema is public, e.g. a public key, then this is decidedly not true).

So, none of this should be terribly surprising. What it does suggest is that you should compress data before (or while) encrypting it, and the better your compression algorithm, the more entropy there will be in your data, and the more secure your encryption.
Agree on drones and unmanned aircraft. Manned combat planes are going to be the cavalry of war in a few years (if not already) for the simple fact that a pilot cannot withstand the g-forces that an unmanned plane or missile can.

US hasn't realized this yet because we are currently using our military might to pick on folks who are decades if not a century or more behind us technologically but would likely be a different story against a more up to date competitor.
I was waiting for this question... The encryption is done on the server.. so it is possible to decrypt the data. However, I haven't written any tools to do that; I certainly don't think I have any right to look at what you store, nor is it useful to me in any way; and I am serious about the ToS -- decrypting the data requires a valid subpoena.

Also you can use client-side encryption (which I cannot decrypt). Everything else will still work -- dedup, history, etc.
AOL CEO Apologizes For Public Firing
Not noticeable at all (I'm testing on a 2 yr old Macbook Pro).
A pipeline doesn't need viaducts because it doesn't have severe restrictions on curves. It can follow terrain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_Sys...

A high-speed railway needs to be flat, so it needs tall pylons to support it above uneven terrain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SNCF_TGV_Duplex_Viaduc_de...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Millau_Viaduct_constructi...
Windows 8.1 will launch on October 18th
Sure would be. I would expect that to have quite significantly more effect than any of the other changes, probably more than all the other changes put together.
I sort of think you miss the point. This gives a sense of place and location, which is why I posted it. Some of the data, unfortunately, looks a bit wrong.

What I did find interesting is that it awakened in me a little more curiosity about the lands and countries around me, and the people who inhabit them. That's really not a bad thing!
Optimizing C++ Code: Dead Code Elimination
This is the most inspiring thing I've read in a long time. There's a lot of chatter on HN about how people became an "expert" in this or that, but for some reason, the way you phrased it really resonated with me. And to see the end result -- holy crap. HTML is complicated.
my response was flippant and uncalled for. the list is generally great, but for some reason the few times i've seen seemingly moral judgments it makes me bristle.

"augment the human condition", "a huge number of people", and "a meaningful way" are really subjective and arguably VERY few people are doing things that meet those criteria.

those criteria aren't offensive, but the part that flips me was "it's not worth doing". Granted its 4 words in an otherwise insightful piece, but I have a problem with it when people tell others that their life's work is worthless.

People pursue all sorts of activities in their lives, personal and professional, that, by this metric aren't worth doing.

i'm aware, of course, that you've written opinionated pieces that narrowly define "startup" as well, so maybe all those things just aren't startups and don't apply.
An App Store Experiment Part 2 - In App Purchases
BREACH is a variation on the theme (compression at a different protocol layer, but again pre-encryption). We're going to see more of these.
I think I have a use for this if their SDK is good. I'll check it out. Thanks!
The Street View availability in Europe isn't really accurate from the macro level- if you zoom into central Europe, you'll see that Germany and Austria have very little Street View coverage.
What You Need To Know About Cloud Computing Systems Architecture
At some point, Heineken shipped mostly-oblong bottles to somewhere in the Dutch West Indies for use in walls. I have the impression--I read this years ago--that it was more or less a hobby of the owner. Still, it worked.
Your thoughts can release abilities beyond normal limits
The F-16 design was too well done for its own good. Its history as a "no compromise" design (at least in the beginning, before Pentagon paper pushers got to it) from the "Fighter Mafia" is well known.
Aspirin for Cancer Prevention
Realtime Voice Analysis with Google Glass
Can you elaborate a little more on which aspects of the 40 year old F-16 design you think is better than the F-35? After looking on the Wikipedia page[0][1] it looks for me that the F-35 outperforms the F-16 in all aspects:

|------------------------|-----------|----------|
| | F-16 | F-35 |
|------------------------|-----------|----------|
| Maximum speed | Mach 1.2 | Mach 1.6 |
| Combat radius | 550 km | 1 080 km |
| Dry thrust | 76.3 kN | 125 kN |
| Thrust w. afterburner | 127 kN | 191 kN |
| First flight | 1974 | 2006 |
|------------------------|-----------|----------|

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_...

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_...
Thanks for checking out our hack! Let me know if you have any questions.
Logging in with Clef is a breeze. However, it's only protected by a 4-digit PIN plus possibly by the 4-digit PIN of your phone, in effect giving a protection of an 8-digit PIN (which is even worse than an 8-digit password with a mixture of [A-Za-z0-9])… So this is more about convenience than security, as far as I can see.
Roll your own social network buttons - Node.js Server
This is more conjecture, but I don't think this is so much a capability problem (they're already mounting stingers on drones; larger models with large electronic sensor platforms/radar and sidewinder/amraams are just a matter of time). The problem remains rules of engagement, which are currently easier to verify/enforce with a human in the seat.
Anyone know if the map of "literal Chinese translations for country names" is accurate? Seems like there's some possible insight into Chinese culture if what it portrays is accurate.

I wonder how much business China does with Italy :D
Leap Motion – Just a toy or the future? - http://tech.particulate.me/
Gumbo: A C library for parsing HTML5
doesn't disqus start replacing a specific div on a page ready event?

If so, disqus loading is 'postponed' to after page loading? Or is it taken into account?
The map also seems to be saying there's no McDonald's in Romania, but I'm pretty sure I've eaten in a McDonald's in Bucharest.
Braintree Takes On Stripe, PayPal With Debut Of “Marketplace”
Which is why I mentioned using a private browsing tab, so those cookies would be deleted/not used across from normal browsing mode.

Would be interested in seeing some stats/research on whether this is true and how much prices are affected by it.
cheaper than the trams
That's pretty worrisome considering the costs of a F-22, as well as the costs of an F-35 vs. a Hornet (which can outperform it apparently). From it's specs, it's a terrible bomber compared with the A-6's...

Compromised designs are compromised designs.
Usually there is 0% of me at most conferences, so shouldn't I be paid some money to correct that bias?
How did you achieve a 16 second response time for your blog? What the heck were you doing?
> Once the huge, lumbering aircraft carriers are sitting on the sea floor, they will be replaced by heavily armored battleships. In a major war, the only sea launched aircraft will be VTOLs.

Huh... there isn't a single battleship in service in any navy in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship#Modern_times
The nuclear deterrent is the only valid point, and that's a shaky one.
You can use asserts in an exploratory fashion to document code you don't understand too.
Bedava Oyunlar
More about it here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/592620/check-if-a-program...
Debugging Multithreaded Applications in Windows
Try something entirely different. Studio arts, music, English writing, philosophy.
It's less academic for those of us in Australia, and that's why Australians are mentioned in the article. Australia is replacing its entire air superiority and assault capability with F35s and is contributing billions to the development program. We've already given up our bombers -- we were the last operators of F-111s.

We can't buy F22s. I'm pretty sure we would (and so would the UK, Japan, Saudi Arabia and a number of other close allies), but the US Congress has banned their export.

There is a constant undercurrent pushing for Australia to buy Russian fighters. They're cheap, they don't make design compromises we don't care about and you can actually get some, rather than seeing the delivery date receding like a desert horizon.

And more to the point: our neighbours are buying them. In a confrontation, they'd win. Which rather defeats the point of buying billions of dollars of air superiority hardware, don't you think?

Edit: Funnily enough, Lockheed has advertising spread throughout Canberra, our national capital. I mean everywhere. Especially in the airport, it's like a giant Lockheed showroom. I get the sense that they are feeling spooked.
If you want to recruit better developers, give them broken code
>putting the air on for a few minutes will cost about 1-2 miles per minute until the cabin cools down.

....

>Having a battery-powered air conditioner beats a gas-powered one hands down.

1-2 miles per min loss? Often I find it takes about 5+ min to cool my car down on a hot day, in a city like London you don't really want to wind the windows down either.

If I'm going to try and be environmentally friendly, and healthy, you know what, I'll cycle that 11 mile each way commute of yours (hell my current one is ~30miles a day).

I can't help but feel this is an attempt to justify a technology which simply isn't ready yet. The range of the leaf isn't enough to compete with a car, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing a 30mile each way commute unless I could guarantee a charging place at the other end. Now the model S on the other hand, that's a different story.
If you are writing this as a library you're most likely going to end up having to write a C wrapper for most language bindings. In the end it may just be easier to write the whole library in C and then write the specific binding for Python, Ruby, etc.
Germany Fights Population Drop
Overcoming HTML5's Limitations
Range, thrust, and power to weight are just a few performance parameters.

It's somewhat more difficult to get accurate turn performance and acceleration information about the F-35. If I understand correctly (again, can't really find anything but conjecture for performance charts) while the F-35 has more sophisticated aerodynamic designs, the large cross-section looks to be a disadvantage in turn rates and acceleration (especially trans sonic).
|and I decided to give it a go.

Never gets old.
Current fly away costs estimates for the F-35 are in the neighborhood of 100-150M. Current fly away costs for Block 50+ F-16 are in the 100M range depending on electronics suite. It's been a long, long time since you could buy an F-16 for $5M.

Also, the F-35 is more maneuverable than the current F-16s which have to hang a ton of armament on pylons, as well as drop tanks to get range equivalent to the F-35. And try flying any F-16 into S300 range.

Now the criticisms of the F-35B (Marine STOVL variant) are semi-valid, and have affected some facets of the F-35A and F-35C. But other than cost overruns, the performance of the aircraft will be fine.
No, World War One was the war to end all wars.
> I'm also uncertain whether scalars (e.g. integral types) can be used through interface{}.

They can (and there are optimizations to avoid heap allocation in some cases when you do use them), but you still have to write downcasts everywhere.
Mine taught us that it was an alligator, and it always wanted to eat the bigger number.
Edit as HTML would be nice.

So you can right click on the body or a table and edit the html in the inspector.
Your original comment:

> They seem to be making a concerted effort to make Go Chinese friendly https://code.google.com/p/go-zh/

The Chinese fork seems to be a project started by Minux. Minux (Shenghou Ma) is a Go contributer and is very active in the Go community, but he does not work for Google, as far as I know.
This is contrary to what the test pilots and others bringing the aircraft to IOC have reported. Granted, test pilots work for the manufacturer and might be biased, but regular aviators who have flown the aircraft are confirming its excellent performance.
> The DOM gives you NodeList for querySelectorAll and an Element for querySelector.

Because querySelector and querySelectorAll is not the same function, it can return different things.

I don't know how this apply to your case where same dot traversal return different things.
After all he went through, can the poor guy even think straight anymore?

'Extreme tretement'
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/05/extreme-sol...

UN torture chief: 'Cruel and inhumane'
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning...
A solved problem, you launch cheap cruise missiles until you obtain relative superiority.
SaaS Compass is also a poor choice if name IMHO. To me it looks like another CSS preprocessor or the like (Because Sass and Compass both are)
Trains often need viaducts due to those restrictions but a multi span footbridge over a swamp is a viaduct as is the Disney monorail. My point is simply elevating a span is not that expencive. However, as you say high speed rail needs a vary flat track so cost estimates need to look at the actual path vs just saying 5m/km is rediculus without any justification.
They hang back while you launch ICBMs?
Saw these guys the other day. They claim they can churn out 360 burgers/hour.

momentummachines.com
Honestly, for those who really know the battles within the Pentagon about the design and procurement of equipment, it's no surprise. Too much design-by-committee, and mission creep from difference parts of different services who want a piece of the funding pie. When the program is billed as "one plane for all 3 services," you know there's trouble brewing on the horizon.

It's telling that a lot of the quotes from this article comes from former members of the "fighter mafia" that pushed for focused designs from small groups done in "stealth" before the committees with their "mission creep" hit the design process. The F-16 and A-10, as a result, were widely hailed as revolutionary designs for the roles they were meant for (although in hindsight they followed the obvious path for air superiority and close air support aircraft). The F/A-18 was not quite as capable, but was nevertheless able to benefit from the design knowledge gained by these programs.

The managers/designers of the F-16 and A-10 programs include Chuck Spinney and Pierre Sprey, both heavily quoted here. John Boyd was one of the major figures, and is probably one of the most hated men in the Pentagon, but has since passed away.

The F-35 is succeeding brilliantly in its mission, though, which is to funnel taxpayer money to a nice fat cross section of the military-industrial complex.
My only gripe is its intended use as a systems programming language.

The runtime kind of makes it a silo; ie: hard to bind other languages to it through an FFI.

Of course if I am mistaken or there's something being done to address such a scenario then I will be much happier seeing more and more infrastructure code shipping in Go.
> Most of us are just jealous of how successful they've become

says who?
EDIT: Looks like I'm behind the times. Google already did this:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669688/googles-photo-tours-sugg...

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/04/visit-global-land...
You pretty much knew it was having some serious problems when the US Navy started talking about long term F-18 upgrades. They are currently testing conformal tanks (like the F-15 has). It seemed like the F-22 folks were solving their problems while the F-35 has been doing press.

Looking at it from the now, we probably should have built the full F-22 order and scrapped the F-35 for something far cheaper. I still think a successor to the A-10 and an evolved F-18 would have been better paths. Perhaps we also shouldn't award both contracts to the same company.
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It's obviously not a replacement for a mouse and keyboard and never will be. I could see some useful gesture based macros, like "throw your hands up in total frustration" to rage-quit an app or open a distraction-free full screen editor.
Ah, but if you compress it into, say, a ZIP file, then an attacker would be able to look for the characteristics that are typical of a ZIP file. The opening bytes, for example, are completely predictable. This would be just like the Nazi mistake of always ending messages in "Heil Hitler".
Good intentions don’t justify lying about risk
I'm surprised at the criticism the harrier gets in the article. They're popular in the UK and appeared to perform pretty well in the Falklands, for instance.
Those aren't necessarily 1:1. Note that the combat radius of the F16 includes 4x1,000lb bombs.

Assuming the Falcon figure is for a fully-loaded plane, it wins on thrust-to-weight ratio.

Rate of climb on the F35 is classified, so can't be compared.