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I love the Intruder, but it simply wouldn't survive in today's environment, especially against S300 etc. It was relatively slow, had a huge radar profile, and was pretty much a single role aircraft. It did pack a huge wallop though, and had great range.

What's really sad is comparing the capabilities of today's carrier airwing with what was available in 1991. Then you had F-14D, F/A-18C, S3, A-6. A great array of aircraft that had the range to take the fight to the enemy.

Now you have the F/A-18E, F/A-18C, and that's it. No S3 for ASW, no long ranged tactical bomber, an "interceptor" that has short legs, and you've also given up your KA-6D for inflight refueling, relying on buddy tanks off the already shortlegged F-18.

sigh...
It's satire. From the article, last paragraph:

The London and Edinburgh Vacuum Tunnel Company report is accompanied by a small notice: "The foregoing Jeu d'Esprit appeared in a recent number of the Edinburgh Star, and being well calculated to throw ridicule upon some of the preposterous plans now before the public for the investment of money, we insert it in the Register".
Not to be snarky or anything, but have you tried calling the park office? US national park rangers, particularly in the parks with large backcountry area, are both very knowledgeable and very helpful.
It is extremely rare for someone with little to no knowledge or training in a field to step in and change everything. Anyone claiming to do so should is making extraordinary claims and needs to provide extraordinary evidence.
There you go: http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/EinreiseUndAufenthalt/Uebe...
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Depends on what you mean by "false"? In a scientific sense, the position of North is arbitrary because we have no evidence to suggest a "correct" way up for our relative position in the universe. The poles are arbitrarily named as a reference point and a Northern Hemisphere dominance in cartography was probably what lead to the orientation of what most people recognise as the "right way up".

In non-scientific terms, the orientation of the map is a fairly universally accepted format from which most people work, so in that sense it is necessary that North is at the top because that's what people understand.

I'm sure someone with a little more knowledge of cartographic history/time to research will fill in some blanks here but I'm fairly certain the orientation we give to globes and maps was from European influence, consequently it makes sense for them to place themselves at the "top" half of the world rather than the "bottom".
When I see someone doing something like this and:

1. They are not using the latest Go (atm 1.1.2)
2. GOMAXPROCS is not = the number of CPUs
3. They are using ab rather than something more scalable like wrk

I assume they either don't know what they are doing, or want to make Go look bad.

On a side note, Go is already known to be much faster at web-serving than node.js: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...
Would freight hyperloops make more sense than those for people?

Trains are still the cheapest form of freight transport in the US, but I assume radically faster speeds + even cheaper costs + lower pollution and environmental impact would generate a net win for a freight hyperloop. Freight doesn't care about inconveniences like lack of toilets or being cramped. Do the benefits begin to rapidly erode under much greater weight, or will that scale?
Pierre Sprey is the one who wrote the A-X detailed specifications. Saying that the A-10 was his baby is not wrong, if the A-10 has a father it's Sprey.
I'm all for eletric cars and I find Tesla an amazing car, but I'll never understand why people buy cars like Nissan Leaf or Prius. They're ugly, slow and expensive. I feel like the only reason to buy them is just for the sake of having a "green" car.
More likely to be finished, too.
WePay has had this for years, the title is a bit sensational.
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Check recent blog post from Jeff Atwood. He explicitly mentions that he chose ruby because it has become boring, and this is a good thing !

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/03/why-ruby.html
How East Coast Tech Startups Became a Downtown Phenomenon
While the author attempts to view the world as a user, I think many of his bad experiences are early adopter woes. Given that most people didn't have smart phones in those early days, I'm not sure ancient history matters.

In the long term it will be a battle between mature and slowly changing phone/tablet OSes. Apple knows this, which is why they are desperately designing watches.
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I appreciate that. I had a couple friends in different cities also check and it wasn't working for them. Just found it strange that all embassy sites we tried were unreachable for about an hour during a prime part of the day.
Nitpick:

> (iOS7 will have multitasking for all apps).

Not really. iOS7 allows more situations for the OS to wake up an app for a short amount of time, but there's no real multitasking as in android where you just write your service and stay running.

Aside of that, I agree with the article about strengths and weaknesses of the two platforms. I've used both Android and iOS over time, but in the end, many small things just let me prefer iOS, even though it's probably completely subjective at this point.

The biggest lock-in to iOS is iMessage though and I hate Apple for that as it makes it next to impossible for me to ever not use an iOS device as my phone any more: When you move your SIM card from an iOS device to a non-iOS device, there's a period of time during which Apple accepts iMessages for your number, especially when you have other devices configured with iMessage. At this point, people sending you an iMessage (it's not as if they get to chose) will think that the message is delivered (it might even say "delivered"), when in fact nothing the like has happened.

Worse: Even once this settles and apple's server stop accepting iMessages to a number, now the sender will see green chat bubbles instead of blue ones. This has caused me so much grief with non-technical iOS users, believing that something went wrong with delivering the message, causing them to call me after nearly every message they sent ("the bubble didn't look the same. did you get my message?")

This is an ugly mess and I don't see any motivation for Apple to fix it as it only punishes those who don't use iOS, never those using iOS.

The other big thing is visual voice mail which I really like and so far is not supported by Android (aside of some crappy carrier specific apps) even though in most cases it's just audio-files-over-imap that's powering the secret sauce under iOS.
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Pyreshark v0.1.2 released – Wireshark plugins in Python
Amazon developing game console?
> You're thinking that the money to be made in cable is in advertising

No, I'm thinking that the specific claim I was responding to upthread was that AMC lost money on AMC proper, but could afford to make it up because it required cable carriers to carry WeTV and IFC, which were "unwanted programming", but nevertheless made up for AMC proper's losses by advertising sales.

I am arguing that that claim is not sound. I am not arguing one way or the other on where the money comes from.

> AMC Networks requires that cable providers (Comcast, RCN, Time Warner, DirecTV etc) carry WeTV and IFC at $0.25/subscriber, even though they are unpopular, and carry AMC at $0.75/subscriber.

> Cable providers pretty much have to comply, so they can get AMC. As a result, AMC Networks makes up losses on AMC proper with subscription revenues from the unwanted channels.

Assuming that that is basically true, then if WeTV and IFC are losing money (before considering subscription fees), then AMC is really just charging $1.25/subscriber for AMC proper (the thing cable cos want) making a profit, and subsidizing WeTV and IFC with it.

If the subsidy works the other way, then the bundling works around the fact that what to consumers is actually desirable enough to be profitable isn't what cable cos want for some reason, which is possible if what viewers actually watch and what viewers look for in selecting cable providers are not aligned, but a counterintuitive enough claim that some evidence should be provided for it.
Has it not been realized? I think it has, there is a ton of drone stuff going on. The DoD hasn't rewritten the war fighting manual and strategy yet though so manned fighters and bombers are still part of the plans but I don't think UAVs haven't proven themselves. This is a titanically slow moving organization... lives and deaths are on the line with their decisions.

One of the real lesson of the JSF is the amount of institutional inertia surrounding it. We were effectively pot committed before they had demo planes to play war games with. They spent 10+ years selling the idea. How do you kill a project like that? There is a certain irony to how the US picks weapons platforms too, everybody wants a new toy so who says "no" when the toy isn't quite up to snuff? So politically, we kill all the things the JSF is going to replace, we build love for the new platform, promise the world when nobody has even seen it.

The whole "jump jet" fascination is an interesting one, why do you need to land or take off a fighter/bomber from a place where you can't fuel it, can't reload it, and it doesn't carry cargo and people? Now the concept is cool, I get that, I just don't see where it fits in to the war fighting plan in a general way, not until planes have like nuclear reactors for fuel or something like that. It just doesn't seem generally useful.
A short range, relatively dumb, more or less autonomous "air-to-air drone" is also called a missile.

We already have human piloted aircraft carrying and launching what amounts to air-to-air drones. Essentially a modern fighter is a flying aircraft carrier which carries a load of short range drones.

There are some interesting optimization problems where the shorter the range, generally the faster and more maneuverable and effective the weapon is. I think a 500 mile range air-to-air cruise missile would be pretty ineffective and easy to avoid compared to a modern short range missile.
> But we had books and encyclopedias and telegraphs and telephones and phonographs a century ago. Just ... not as distributed, or portable.

Convenience is a big deal. There were books before the printing press (and if you want to argue that they weren't like printed books, then you're invalidating the premise of your argument that the books, telephones of a century ago are like the smartphone ones we have today), and all the printing press did was add a certain degree of convenience in their production, dissemination - and this was a big deal.
I did the test that the article suggested, with the versions of the tools that I have installed on my system. This is a comment on a blog article, not an attempt to engineer the perfect benchmark.

Also in this bench Go danced circles around node. I dunno what you're complaining about.
I agree with you that a Minority Report style interface doesn't make sense as the sole interface to a PC. However, something like the Leap IMO makes a great secondary interface to a keyboard and mouse/trackpad.

I'm using a Leap controller right now, with BTT for Mac/Touchless for gesture-based control. As I read through a page I can simply stick my hand out and wave it up to scroll down the page - it's a phenomenal experience for passive reading as I don't have to break focus to reach out for my mouse/trackpad. I've also configured some additional coarse gestures to launch mission control etc.

Using the Leap for such brief, coarse gestures avoids both the problems you've mentioned because my arm is resting on my desk, with fingers just a few inches above my trackpad/keyboard, so no "gorilla arm" problems; the gestures are coarse, requiring very little hand-eye co-ordination and finally, the gestures are brief so no fatigue problems.

All of this breaks down once you start trying to do any finer-control gestures, like trying to point at links and click on them like the OP tried to do. IMO the Leap should be used to augment the keyboard/mouse as a secondary interaction interface that you use occasionally.
Explaining what exactly Big Data is
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As Microsoft Retires Windows XP, Organizations Can Easily Upgrade to Windows 7
It's surprising how immigration is almost never mentioned as an alternative to these "population-drop-fighting" measures.
You'd think one of the things they'd do was make it easier for immigrants with some level of skill to get permanent residency.
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A big problem with the LEAP is that there isn't an effective way to click / select something. Pushing forward with your index finger isn't very accurate when the finger tip is also controlling the position. Hence, you always seem to miss where you intend to click. Good selection is a pretty important piece of almost any useful application.

Disclaimer: I work at 3Gear Systems (http://threegear.com), developing technology that possibly competes with the LEAP. We solve clicking by tracking the entire hand -- not just the straight finger.
Google Talk isn't carrier specific.
> Is this supposed to make people sceptical about Hyperloop?

China announced plans to build a transport system very similar to Hyperloop some 3 years ago:

http://www.dailytech.com/China+Plans+1000+KPH+Super+Train/ar...

Now we have a link suggesting the idea is centuries old.

I guess all that proves is the idea is nothing new and will not be revolutionary, that is until someone actually builds it!
>"When you move your SIM card from an iOS device to a non-iOS device, there's a period of time during which Apple accepts iMessages for your number, especially when you have other devices configured with iMessage."

If you turn off iMessage before removing the sim card this won't happen.

I do this all the time when switching between my HTC One X and iPhone 4.
The car is great, so you can blame driver ignorance and stupidity...

* Slow acceleration can use more energy than "normal" acceleration (engine efficiency).
* 45mph is a good speed in an EV (faster results in too much drag)
* 35mph gives relativly little more range than 45mph
Or a Moto X? Nexus 4?
the criticism amounts almost entirely to basic arithmetic and comparisons to existing systems that are built on rather different principles.

But many of most important (and show-stopping) principles involved are the same, and those are what tend to cause delays and increase costs - things like running into unexpected geology, dealing with NIMBY's, the eminent domain process and so on.

He seems to think that, in between, his colleagues have been perfecting the fine forms of the art and polishing its many facets.

They (we) are. Want to see for yourself? Go to the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington D.C.: http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting2014/AnnualMeeting2014.aspx

Except feats that were once fairly common, such as building the Hoover Dam under budget and two years ahead of schedule [1], are in the realm of the mythical these days.

You can say the same about the original elevated Boston Artery, the 19th century railroads, etc. The biggest difference between the mega-projects of old and today involve 1) the environmental process and 2) commitments to worker safety. It's fairly easy to build a project quickly when you don't care about splitting neighborhoods, killing/maiming workers and contaminating soil. The environmental process in particular has been a double-edged sword - it's done well in protecting the environment and communities, but it also provides means for anyone who doesn't like any facet of a project to significanty delay (or kill) it.
How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut
I intended to type this ;-)

Still, Disqus has basically a no/low-impact
RSA Warns of New Linux Banking Trojan
You have to let the battery cool before charging it? Can't the charger just wait until the battery is cool? That kind of inconvenience would be a deal breaker for me. I'd make a mental note to go back into the garage in an hour, but ultimately I'd forget to charge it.
I actually wasn't even joking. I install a shit load of alarm systems down there. Around 10 a month, in abandoned properties. Thought it would be an interesting take on Trek.
You mean this one? http://www.capsu.org/features/pneumatic_tube_system_in_pragu...

They say it is no longer working after the floods of 2002, but the article is from 2004 so what do I know.
In many cases, thinking that we are limited is itself a limiting factor.

I've noticed this with self confidence as well. Its interesting because suppose there were two people who were both identical in capability - the one with confidence will do much better. He/She will put ideas out, will come across as more impressive to other people, and in the long term grow faster than the unconfident person because of it...

I mention it because I was surprised when I realized that success is not just intelligence, hard work, and social interaction, but that success is also intertwined with general personality characteristics, like confidence.
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Can you wait till the next uplift? If not, hop on Nightly ;)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=878412
Cheap? Hardly. A Tomahawk is far north of $1M a shot, and JASSM is above $1M as well.
The viaweb project was created to exit so they would become dot com millionaires. That's still their continuing mission.
I am not saying that the JSF is a good plane, or that VSTOL is a good thing. But the claims of the article are all resting on this:

"In the scenario, 72 Chinese jets patrolled the Taiwan Strait. Just 26 American warplanes — the survivors of a second missile barrage targeting their airfields — were able to intercept them, including 10 twin-engine F-22 stealth fighters that quickly fired off all their missiles"

To summarize this scenario:

() Successful Chinese first strike.

() 72 Chinese aircraft.

() Operating at short range

() With initiative

versus

() 10 F22

() 16 F35

() Operating at long range

() Without initiative

Fastest with mostest trumps technology - e.g. the US didn't prevent the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the Tigers didn't stop the Shermans in 1944 [or less famously in North Africa a year earlier].

In assessing the probability of the scenario, my questions:

() how many allied drones?

() where is the Navy?

() when did the straight of Taiwan stop being
a nuclear tipping point?
Having consensual sex as a minor is very very different from documented abuse of children.
Hackernews is a product. There is no buyer, it is still a product.
Maybe because a lot of choice has been removed from the system? I've worked with a bunch of people from different countries and find that the more strict the gov't, the less they like choice, in general. All anecdotal of course...

Giving one guy from the Ukraine the typical choices at a restaurant here in the US would freeze him in place.

What would you like to drink? Tea

Sweetened or Unsweetened? Sweet. frustration += 1

Sugar or artificial sweetener. Sugar. frustration += 2

Soup or Salad? Soup. frustration += 7

Which soup? Minestrone, Pasta Fagioli, Italian Wedding? frustration += 14

and on and on... Ukraine started packing his lunch.

Then there was the guy from Iceland... He took 10+ minutes to decide what to order in a new place and once he figured out what he liked in a particular place, he never gave the waitstaff a chance to offer him a choice. This, well done, salad with x dressing, with unsweetened tea. Iceland liked making the choices but only a few times.

Some people like to be dictated to:
Code will be formatted like this. Braces will be like this. etc. The author of the article thinks these are a feature while I find it obnoxious.

My brain requires braces to line up in the left column, anything else slows me down. Maybe I'm just old?
So us non-Leaf motorists have to treat the Leaf like a bicycle in traffic instead of a real car?
Wow, that is very cool. The ways in which bash is used never cease to amaze me.
I remember my first game I had, it was a Star Trek game. I used to come home from elementary school excited to play it. I was horrible at it. But it was just fun to play, at that time having a game system was like owning a ferrari.
Huddlebuy seeks PHP Zend developer
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If you haven't read it yet, Robert Coram's book "Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War" is good. He pissed off a lot of people, but he was right. Which is criminal behavior in the Pentagon.

Speaking of which, watch "The Pentagon Wars" sometime. Has Cary Elwes and Kelsey Grammer in it. It's all about the M-2 Bradley. "What it needs is a turret on it!" Col. Burton sacrificed his career to make the Bradley less of a danger to the troops it was designed to protect.
Nissan calls it a single-speed reduction gear, and it's standard on all Leafs. I guess it's not technically a CVT, but the concept is similar.
Those bloody tree huggers in those green cars, who do they think they are?

So they can use renewable energy and their engines are energy efficient -but who cares?
> Another network, FX, seems to be trying the HBO/AMC model in getting quality programming and is going out of their way to appear showrunner friendly. It'll be interesting to see if they can capitalize on some of AMC's missteps in nickel-and-diming their own shows.

Hasn't FX been trying for the quality-original-programming thing for over a decade (at least since "The Shield" in 2002), with limited success?

There's also probably a certain degree of tension between being "showrunner friendly" and being concerned with "quality programming".
I thought it was brave.
What's the deal with working in Germany as a non-German speaker nowadays? Is it possible to get on alright in tech companies or are they still very much German only?
Musk has pretty regularly stressed that this is an alpha design, and that he welcomes feedback and improvements. It may be true that he trashes HSR and that it competes with Tesla. HSR is also stupidly expensive and arguably too slow. Regardless of your feelings on HSR, it's also impossible to argue that the CA government is likely not to screw it up somehow. It's possible that he could both benefit from HSR failing and also be benevolently proposing that we actually try something new. Don't forget, he's pledged his own money to this, and now seems to be leaning towards developing a prototype. I wonder if putting up the cash for a prototype will quiet the critics down. I, for one, am a big fan of rich people spending their money on cool things that they like, from Mark Cuban pushing the limits of analytics in basketball to Musk with Tesla/SpaceX/Hyperloop to Bill Gates' humanitarian efforts.