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It's strange...I love the A-10, both its rugged design and its crazy anti-tank capability. Keep in mind that retirement plans for the beast are slated for 2028, and all plans to retire it sooner have been shot down. That's 52 years of service, which is a solid service lifetime.

But that said, I think there's a decent argument that can be made for phasing it out given current operational needs:

The A-10 was originally designed in the Vietnam-era as a close air support(CAS) aircraft for conventional wars, armed with a payload of unguided bombs and shells to destroy tanks.

Helicopters at the time couldn't carry these types of anti-armor heavy weapons, and strike aircraft like the A-1, A-6, and F-4 couldn't survive anti-aircraft fire at low enough altitudes to put their bombs on target. In CAS roles, missing the target meant killing friendlies, obviously unacceptable.

Thus, the A-10 was built like a beast so that it could survive SAM/AAA fire at the low-altitudes needed to deploy these weapons accurately.

Over time, however, CAS munitions have evolved with guidance, from missiles like the AGM-65 and Hellfire, to laser-guided (GBU-27) and GPS-guided (JDAM) bombs. These have longer ranges and thus don't require the carrier aircraft to be nearly as survivable. The A-10s resistance to AAA and small arms fire seems less relevant.

This suggests that the A-10 may be less necessary for strike roles, even if it carries them out admirably.
I can relate. About three months ago i went from drunk daily to absolutely no alcohol. I too felt like it took a lot longer for me to unwind, but now i use my after-work-momentum to get things done at home which i neglected when i was drunk, like cleaning, doing the dishes and general hygiene. My day is generally better balanced; i run a little slower at work, and a little faster in my personal life. Thanks for sharing.
> The name Dread Pirate Roberts should've given away the fact the site is supposed to be handed down to different operators if you read/watched Princess Bride.

It did, and that has been pointed out literally since the start. It's one thing to know that the name suggests the ownership could change hands at any time, and quite another to have the current DPR state that this is so and when he took over.

> This guy is making a fatal mistake of talking to the press.

What makes chatting with a reporter on the SR forums any more damning or fatal than, say, a _Gawker_ article going viral years ago and inspiring US Senators to publicly condemn the site and call for its busting?
Yeah, alcohol interacts with sleep in complex ways. Insomnia is one of the more common and long-lasting, but less recognized, symptoms of moderate alcohol withdrawal, versus something like delirium tremens, which is more recognizable (and more dangerous), but rarer and tends to happen only when withdrawing from very high alcohol consumption.
I read it correctly but wrote the sentence incorrectly.
Hi Sumant, Thanks for the reply.

How many oz of coffee would you be sending out for the $15 indigogo?
Mailpile. An experimental indexing and search engine for e-mail
Making a robot that can draw blood faster and more safely than a human can
Isn't it reasonably easy to copy let's say Trello? Why it doesn't happen?
So you have a marketplace now for illegal (stolen) digital products and one for illegal physical products. What other illegal marketplaces will crop up because of tor and bitcoin?
Shuttle busses also go to places far from Silicon Valley such as Berkeley, Santa Cruz, etc. I do think that many of those people wouldn't work in Silicon Valley without the shuttles.
I've slipped into the habit of drinking almost every single night over the past few months and I'm currently trying to cut it out. It's harder than I thought it would be.

Like the author said, I've never noticed any physical withdrawal, but I have a strong urge to have a drink every night (sometimes even in the middle of the day). This is one of the most stressful times of my life and it's so hard not to just say "fuck it" and give up. And even when I don't really have that strong of an urge, I'm haunted by rationalizations and second guessing: "just have one," "moderate drinking isn't bad for you," etc. I'm trying to do more self tracking to prove to myself that the last one is BS.

What really sucks is I've noticed that a few beers will cause me problems with dehydration, weight gain, horrible sleep (I'm told I always freak out in the middle of the night after drinking) and yet I've developed such a tolerance that I don't even get buzzed unless I'm on an empty stomach.
Firstly, I'll offer that the article doesn't claim to explain why other elements aren't liquid, and simply observe that it does explain why mercury is: the math works out.

But interestingly there is one other element which is liquid at STP: Bromine. Every element has a melting point, and some element has to have the lowest[1]. If Earth was just a few dozen degrees cooler, we'd have no liquid elements at "STP", a few dozen degrees warmer, and we'd have several liquid elements. So there's nothing particularly special about mercury being the only liquid metal.

Check out this periodic table[2] annotated with melting temperatures. See a pattern? You might argue that the other elements in mercury's column have significantly lower melting points than the metals to the left; indeed Zinc and Cadmium have filled s orbitals as well.

But putting general pattern-ology aside, the macroscopic properties of an atom are essentially completely defined by the orbital structure. Observable properties such as melting point depend on these details in a highly nontrivial way.

[1] Actually many elements are gaseous at STP and have very low "melting" points. Most would actually sublimate at standard pressure.

[2] http://www.emsb.qc.ca/laurenhill/science/trends2/melting%20p...
Yeah that would be an intense minute, followed by 3 minutes of terrifying anticipation, followed by some nasty seat-belt marks. Had they invented the 4-point harness in 1825?
This passage bugged me :

".. was grossing $1.2 million a month in the first half of 2012. Since then the site has doubled its product listings, and revenue now hits an annual run-rate of $30 million to $45 million by FORBES’ estimate."

I guess 1.2M/month -> (30M - 45M)/yr makes the growth like much higher than :

1.2M/month -> (2.5 - 3.75M)/month
14.4M/yr -> (30M - 45M)/yr

Maybe he should have written revenue increasing is from 1.2M/month to 45,000,0000 per year.
If you read further you'll see that as of now they've handled over 700k in transactions.
To be clear, the source code for the website http://raspberry.io was open sourced. (Not any more source code to the embedded device itself)

Github link: https://github.com/python/raspberryio
With SIP you have two popular models. HTTP Digest, which requires an extra round-trip to get a nonce to auth, and going off IP. "Carriers" and most high volume folks just auth off IP. If you were using SIP TCP only, this wouldn't be so terrible. HTTP Digest is generally only used for phones and the like.

Except, most folks use UDP, and IP auth is simply broken on many SIP platforms. If you can spoof an IP packet (who can't?) and you know someone's IP that's allowed to send traffic, _most likely_ you can auth as them and complete the call and no one will notice. More paranoid implementations will give each customer their own IP and setup firewall rules, which mitigates the issue.

Either way, using UDP and going off IP is still terrible. Because now, a spoofed IP packet comes in, and based on that packet alone, you're going to start up all the call processing and make a call. The SIP transaction might timeout and end the call in 5-60 seconds, but it's very open to [D]DoS'ing. Oh, and even some major platforms consider 100 calls/sec to be "high volume", so even an unsophisticated attacker could probably bring a lot of systems to their knees via IP spoofing.

The real mitigation is that there's so much low hanging fruit, that hackers are just going after the quick buck by hitting PBXes or phones and calling rebate numbers or 30+ cent destinations.

Telephony has traditionally been a trusted system, and a lot of that's carried over to VoIP.
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Try something like InternMatch (.com).
I never had a single drink for my first 40 years on the planet, and, yes, people absolutely look at you like you've got two heads.

I started drinking (about once a week) two years ago.

It's moderately nice from time to time, but I also think the decision to avoid it for twenty years of adulthood was a good one - I established who I am and what my coping mechanisms are for stress, and now it's a nice little social adjunct.

My advice: if you're even the least bit undecided about drinking, don't do it. You can always give it a shot later. Or perhaps you'll never drink; that's great too.
Thank you for insight. Really interesting. But popular sci-fi movies features like waving hands in the air / parallel to the floor touch screens // transparent monochrome screens(not HUDs) just seem so obviously wrong to me and I don't understand why so many people fail to see it.
This list couldn't be more true.
I'd say people that are capable of making responsible decisions and regulate their passions should be making statistically more money, so no wonder.
Helvetica Neue - that wonderful font again.

Sorry for being off-topic: can anyone please recommend a (legal/accepted) way for licensed use of Helvetica Neue on websites/apps without having to purchase it from expensive font vendors like Adobe or Myfonts?
Anyone who's used both Aweber and Mailchimp? Which is better for a mid-level website?
To quote Chomsky, 'ever product made in a capitalist society requires some level of coercion', from Chinese Iphones to Colombian cocaine.
Foul-mouthed hacker hijacks baby's monitor
I have a rich, client-side, fully-offline-capable javascript application. I started out with a different language for the backend, but over time the benefit of switching to Node and sharing one codebase became overwhelming.

Just to give one example: any data query can get answered locally or from the server, depending on what's already cached and whether you're online. Before, I had to implement every call twice and make sure they stayed in sync. Now I can implement once and run the same code in both places.

And other interesting possibilities open up. The server can just run the client's data synchronization code to pull changes from another server, giving realtime server-to-server replication nearly "for free".
For more default bindings provided by OS X: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
> carry on raising pints

I don't think that means you've learned much. The point is personal reflection.
Those rent prices are not even available in places like San Jose (one example: http://www.equityapartments.com/california/san-francisco-bay...)
Two smart guys writing a programming language instantly gets you 30 years of maturity. Did I just wake up in some bizarro universe or something ?

And nobody cares if Go is being used for some tiny, insignificant part of the Google infrastructure. Get back to me when it is used for a stock exchange, betting site or complex web app.
Addiction doesn't have to be physiological. Many addictions aren't.
Advice from sys admins, for sys admins
Here's Why Your iPhone Will Never Have NFC
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It seems like some people actually take pride in their technical ignorance. They boast to coworkers how unfamiliar they are with CRM platforms and lead generators, and they laugh at the notion of using very basic coding skills to script some of their more monotonous job functions. It's disheartening. They must know that, regardless of age, it's adapt or die, but they're so damn stubborn.

Does anyone know of a Coursera for older, working professionals that have begun to fall behind in their skill development? I know that Coursera and other learning platforms are not necessarily designed for young people, but I'm sure the academic design/nature of it turns a lot of professionals off.

Might be an interesting startup idea (though I'm sure someone's already on it).
Seems pretty suspect to me, but interesting, in any event.
Here's an example of why understanding the NSA's terminology is important:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/guide-deceptions-word-...

If a reporter asks a government stooge if the NSA engages in bulk collection of Americans' data, the stooge can say no with a straight face because the NSA has officially defined "bulk collection" to mean something other than "collecting in bulk." In order to carve through their lies, we need to be able to understand and navigate their twisted terminology.
Yeah with "giant" and "lurking" I was hoping for hints of a planet-sized creature existing in dark matter or some interdimensional plane or extreme wavelength or something. Title is a bit link-baity.
This topic is one that my wife and I talk about regularly.

She is slowly learning to better control her anxiety, but one side effect is that she worries about sleep, all the time. She almost universally resists committing to morning activities because she's worried about how much sleep she'll get the night before.

We just got back from a vacation where she slept like a rock the whole time despite sharing a room with our two kids, a noisy ventilation system and the sounds of the city. I told her it was because she didn't care how much sleep she got.

I've noticed the same thing in myself. The nights I slept the worst are the nights where I care/worry how much sleep I will get.
Nice! Definitely a range of people who are only interested in you if you are interested in keeping the party/illusion going.
Remember that all OSX/iOS users will be able to see it, so it may be that it's not an issue, depending on your demographic.
I know a lot of people who are similarly dependent upon (if not outright addicted to) exercise. Typically running although I've seen it with cycling and swimming as well. For these people if they don't get their exercise on schedule, they go absolutely nuts. There are many benefits to exercise but for many there are also big big risks, e.g. joint problems, soft tissue injuries, etc.
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Anti-texting laws seem to cause an increase in accidents
Heroku has new offices
Because it is a single cell. Also, apparently a single cell on earth can get up to 2 inches in diameter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa
To be fair I didn't use revel. Instead I just used pat (the route mapper) and started to try and recreate most of what express does using go's stdlib because nothing else really existed yet.

The gorilla toolkit's APIs are inadequate and it seemed like quite a few people agreed too because most of them said they rolled their own solutions to do things that certain gorilla libs did but with a more intuitive and friendly API.

Go really isn't that young either. It's been what at least 4 years now? There's no excuse. It's not like the language is 6 months old.

As for re-inventing stuff, it's more so go's ecosystem rather than revel's shortcomings although revel does have its own shortcomings if you were to compare it to something like rails and not express.

Revel seems to be somewhere in between rails and express in terms of opinions which is fine but if it's going to make me less productive then I'm simply not going to use it.
I've managed to pull off not drinking like the parent commenter (both because I don't like the taste and I just don't want to)... but unfortunately I love soda/sugar-drinks... which brings other problems lol.
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Have you tried breaking up any of your usual patterns? It may be hard to do with schedules and workload, but just exercising 2 or 3 times a week can make a huge difference. I've found that 90 minutes of exercise per session is its own drug.
There are techniques to handle that. I haven't have too much experience in it but from what I heard in limited encounters with them, unless you have some physiological problem, you can learn to relax and get the circus under control pretty efficiently. Takes some work, of course, as any good thing does :) Drugs are an easier shortcut, that is true.
Microsoft to fund remake of BBC’s sci-fi cult classic ‘Blake’s 7’
>I did find it more difficult to remain polite in the presence of people who were actively annoying me, but I managed to hold my tongue in most cases.

Recently, I did a 42-day voluntary abstention from drinking. And, unlike everyone else I know who has tried this, I didn't cheat. It was inspired by a 21-day abstention a few months prior, which was due to a backpacking trip on which we decided not to bring any booze.

At the end of these periods I felt great, physically and mentally. After starting up again, my alcohol consumption was less than it used to be. Sleep was better than ever, and I wake up feeling refreshed - the better sleep is far and above the most noticeable effect. Generally I just feel healthier.

The social thing is a challenge, but not impossible. I actually forced myself not to go out any less, I still kept every plan with friends to visit bars, clubs, etc. Just drank a club soda. I quoted the above because I had a similar experience: when you are sober, you quickly realize that there are a few or several of your friends who you cannot stand to be around sober. You realize how annoying they are.

It was fun pushing myself for three and then six weeks. It inspired me to follow up with a three-day water fast (that was particularly painful, again I did not cheat). I am interested if any HN readers have suggestions of other self-denial tasks to try out.
This is a bit irrational, but it nags me every time the occasional Meteor post shows up here - it seems to always get a lot of upvotes and very few comments:

The Meteor blog goes back (under a different name) almost two years, that huge announcement thread is from 490 days ago, and they got VC funding over a year ago.

I remember being pretty excited at the time but somehow this long wait for a 1.0 has taken the wind out of my sails. I don't mean to diminish all their hard work, and to be fair, there are frequent signs of life, but somehow it no longer captures the imagination. Am I the only one?
Agreed - although Ember Data is working well for me, I've found the lack of documentation to be a productivity sink. Too often, I have to get into the code to find out how things work (even to get a list of possible values for DS.attr(), for example).

I'd love to know where I can contribute to the docs, so I can help update them as I learn things.
No -- they just open sourced the website code.

Does the rPi even do anything with TrustZone?
Apple developers website: We are back
I was very disappointed with the new maps, permanently went back to the old ones.
The "download now" files are fantastic!
People who drive Porsches statistically have higher salaries. Lets all go buy Porsches and our salaries will go up. I'm in, what about you?
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Usually because that decision is in within the context of some kind of moral superiority or religious belief (which is in and of itself irritating). In the rare case when it isn't there's also the issue that alcohol is a large part of socialization, someone who's never drank may not have this perspective. I feel I have some credibility on this since I didn't drink for similar ('practical') reasons longer than most people and I think that decision was ultimately a mistake.
> I'll wait for the next Humble Bundle, so I can buy more games I don't have time to play.

So much this. Virtually my entire Steam library, Civilization is the only exception I think, is from Humble Bundles, and I can count the games I've played through on no fingers.

(I love the soundtracks they often include, though. Those actually get some listening time.)
Then you got ripped off!

https://flutterapp.com/
The ultimate in self-denial: no computer usage outside of works hours for a week!
So… how are they doing the blur before you log in? Quick poke around, can't see any -webkit-filter, and can't see any canvas…
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I know that feeling. It seems everybody sees it as a challenge to get me to drink.
it hadn't even crossed my mind that it would be something that big... but now that you say that, I wish that it had been some gigantic solar-system sized being... now I am totally let down- damn you Robert Krulwhich... damn you.
My shameless plug for my ember brunch setup: https://github.com/mrinterweb/brunch-with-ember-coffee-emble...

I really enjoy using brunch for web front-end application development.
It's more your 'typical' Java app.

Which is often the huge array of JARs and folder structure you typically need to bootstrap.
How does that challenge DRAM or flash memory now?
I hate LinkedIn. The pay walls and forced semi-hidden profiles are insanely annoying.

I wish I had the resources to build a competitor centered around openness and UX. It should monetize on really strong programmatic job matching, driven by the improved data from reducing all the UX friction. Somebody, please accept the challenge.
> but a "huge by (earth standards) cell" doesn't mean dog sized.

Well, the smallest dog breeds have a mass on the same order as the largest cells on earth, so, yeah, "dog sized" is a pretty good standard for a "huge (by earth standards)" cell.
Human body is a very resilient thing, so it can withstand some abuse for a prolonged time (and some bodies are extremely resilient, read this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Malloy). But it all takes its toll at the end...
I like where you're going with this. My question is similar: instead of thinking about Julia serving web content, what are the possibilities for getting it to interact with JS in-browser? If Julia could drive something like D3, or even D3 itself, that would make me really think about moving away from the IPython/Numpy/Pandas setup. (IPython itself already works with Julia, I think.)
looks like they are doing it in javascript with data:image/png;base64 urls. Not sure if the blurs are precomputed/stored or computed in the browser.
By sending email to gmail.com you have implicitly accepted that the email will need to travel through Gmail's systems, whatever that might mean - advertising analysis, data retention, etc.
There are tons of distractions within the car - changing the radio, changing the song on your ipod, looking through your purse, eating some food - texting is only adding to the list. THe problem is there is too much for us to do and until all of those things get taken away accidents will continue to happen.
Obviously texting is extremely bad because of the length it takes to read/write a message - but other than cars and phones having a sync to shut down phones within the car - there really isn't an alternative that will be able to stop this problem.
...from 2002. Since then, the Chinese have kept developing their own carrier capability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_progra...

Possibly they are only doing this to fake us out, and I don't disagree with the war nerd's argument that carriers make worryingly good targets...but I wouldn't write off the whole concept just yet.
> if someone talks to you about dangers of such things as marijuana while sipping wine or beer - you're talking to either dangerously ignorant or dangerously dull person.

Or maybe you're talking to someone smart enough to realize that just because a bunch of things are in the same category, that doesn't make them equivalent.
Use smart passphrases
My decision not to drink is not at all religious or related to moral superiority. It would be silly for me to think I'm morally superior to such a large percentage of the adult population. Regarding socializing, it's definitely there, but not required. I'm often at bars with friends not drinking alcohol.