skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think specifying the requirements for a modern bomber is made difficult by the variety of ground attack missions a "bomber" might fulfill.

The requirements of "high munition capacity, a large combat radius, and long loiter times" closely fit the description of a close air support role, which has been the primary role for bombers and strike aircraft in recent years (Iraq and Afghanistan).

With that said, there are certainly other roles for bombers; missions where strategic facilities, supply lines, and bases/defenses must be destroyed. These are rooted in more conventional warfare than we've seen recently, but I'm less than convinced that they would be rare in a major conflict.

These conventional missions demand speed and stealth not only to penetrate evade enemy air defenses, but also to keep up with intelligence on mobile/time-sensitive targets. This timely delivery problem is hard to accomplish with small numbers of loitering aircraft or where the target has advance warning.

Also, given the proliferation of advanced mobile SAM and radar systems, I'm unsure of the assumption that US aircraft will have clear skies in a future conflict. Certainly in the early days of any conflict this will be untrue, and those are the days where strategic bombing will be most valuable; disrupted enemy infrastructure allow ground forces to move without resistance.

Thus, I think there's a need for both roles--CAS and penetrating bomber--and it seems to me that the USAF is actually tackling these separately, efficiently. While the Reaper lacks a large payload, it seems that the large numbers providing spatial coverage will have sufficient munitions in aggregate. The B-2 was designed to be the penetrator.
It would definitely depend on the kind of project (for me at least). I probably wouldn't recommend writing the controller for some medical device in JavaScript. My impression was that devices like the one here are more for tinker projects, making LEDs blink and stuff like that.

Although I also don't agree that statical typing makes things so much more safe. And what can also happen is that in the world of statically typed languages bad workarounds are then invented for the inflexibility. An example would be the XML craziness that plagued the Java world for a long time.
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People like yourself are the exception, usually the majority follows what the parent post was stating.

As someone that codes since 1986 with a CS degree, I am often dismayed what many "programmers" seem to know nowadays.
I'm going to nitpick horribly here: in Clojure, an array is just a Java array. But what most people use are vectors, which are immutable. 'transient' returns a mutable vector, not an array.
Works for me. They must have fixed it.
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Bug, not feature.

Running your own code inside your front-facing web host was bad when Apache brought in mod_php and is bad now.
But we're also capable of thinking and acting outside of any given cultural norms, as evidenced by this very conversation!
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My understanding is you can just build an uberjar that contains all that, then just drop that jar on your sever and run it (java -jar myuberjar.jar).
That sounds like a lot of effort and genuine technical skill to invest in crime. If that is true, you have to wonder what motivates people to do it. Is it really profitable enough to be rationally worth the risk if you don't care about the ethics involved, or is it that the people who do it can't find legitimate employment where they live due to the state of the local economy or have personal traits that prevent them from being employed?
There's a lot wrong with the harrier, though. It's pretty complicated and expensive to maintain, it doesn't have very good range, and it's safety record isn't great (though I admit the F-35B's is yet to be seen).
All the professional musicians I know master more than one instrument, even if they show up with just one of them.
A Reaper has no air to air capability whatsoever and a tiny payload. You're comparing apples and oranges.
Trade isn't actually a good deterrent to war. Prior to WW II all the combatants had robust trade, particularly France and Germany.
I'm confused, as I thought that part of the reason why app.net pursued it's monthly payment ad-free business model was to ensure that it was sustainable while providing a non-intrusive service to users.

The way that app.net did this originally was by charging it's monthly fee.

It was actually very difficult for me to find a pricing scheme for the site this time around. So what's the plan to normalize the business? What else besides not adding advertising or something of that nature? Tax developers? Tax users?
While Valve wouldn't be able to rerelease blender with new changes unless the changes themselves are released under the GPL in some form, there's nothing stopping them from making changes and using them internally. If they want to make tools available to their community and cannot do so under the GPL, they can aways use a dual-licensing scheme.
This is an awfully contrived title for an article that could be summarized as "people can find out whether or not you recognize something shown to you by monitoring electrical activity along the scalp."
On the other hand, the computer scientist might still be fiddling with trying to achieve the "correct" architecture long after the self taught guy's software is in production, and earning money.
> I read the linked page and all I could see was a vulnerability in Windows.

I never entered that crappy title. I chose a completely different one, which was then changed by some admin. I added a new HN entry about this incident:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6216685
And they keep extending their footprint (http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_20568679/linkedin-expands-offi...). Sigh!
You're posting drunk, aren't you?
As opposed to studying for five years in a college, learning Java and programming in Java exclusively, never learning anything outside the Java and never perfecting?

People's curiosity is what motivates them to experiment and learn new things, not how or what language they learn (I started with Basic which apparently causes brain damage and I'm getting along fine). If they are curious on their own, they'll pick up data-structures/asm/c etc.
It is clear your a lawyer of some kind. I am not trying to demean your profession or others who practice law. I was using role reversal to make a point. I should have used "legislator" instead. So, I apologize for that.

The decision-makers are mostly comprised of people with a background in law. Why is it fair to pass a law for taxing software development but not taxing the act of practicing law?

I just think it is unfair for legislators to protect their professional occupation at the expense of others. There clearly needs to be more diversity among people who hold public office.

As for unproductive engineers - sure, there are plenty. The same applies to all other professions. However, it is hard to argue against the progress made by STEM fields over the last few centuries.
You should have war with your congress, an entity which borrows money from China and make monopoly crap.
No. You can't have an electron filling lower energy levels if they're already occupied.

Also, I'm guessing what they mean by "electron speed" is actually electron energy.
I would still say it's a bug from the Bitcoin community to rely on one generator rather than XORing a few just in case.

And I'm saying that as a prominent Bitcoin user and not-so-prominent developer. We undervalue redundancy.
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Neat idea. The debit card pin bit does not seem feasible though, at least in a brute force setting - finding out a 6 digit pin, showing each number for 1 second, takes > 11 days in the worst case.
To quote Sturgeon "90% of everything is CRUD". Majority of people that get CS now is due to money (how else to justify the expense of a diploma?), not the appeal computers have, and it's been like that for a while.

Lowering barrier to entry is +EV move, almost always. It multiplies crud but more importantly multiplies the 10% that are worth the crud.
Actually, I said something about "Even with operating and decommissioning costs", so I hardly "forgot" them, I just didn't bother digging them up. And solar has some ongoing costs too, including for dismantling the panels at end of life, repairing storm damage, etc., etc.

And if you want to be picky, the best data we have says that, even if you include all the costs of nuclear, it's still much cheaper than the best case for solar (and the suggestion of "a solar panel on every roof" isn't the best case for solar). For more estimates than you can shake a stick at (although they all broadly agree) see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Living in Australia, as I do most of the time - you would be hard-pushed to 'get by' without a car. The distances to even basic facilities are too large, the population is too-widely distributed for public transport to be a realistic option. Registration / insurance is expensive, yes, and petrol too - but for less than 2kAUD (about the same American) you can get a good-enough car (safe, reliable, if not cosmetically wonderful), and the rewards in terms of freedom are more than worth it.
I am an older guy (41), but my younger friends in their 20s don't show any signs of wanting to forgo car ownership.
I wonder what would happen if they tested them on, say, mathematicians or engineers with a penchant for numbers.
Yes, and the internship referred to in the article above is for a non-profit.
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Don't most people have a 4 digit pin?

But in any case showing pins that way wouldn't work anyway - most people have a muscle memory for their pins, but would not recognize them when written down.
XORing random streams doesn't have as much value as you think.
Can a person ever really catch on on sleep?
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That would be a very, very bad decision. As one possible implementation flaw, consider what happens where Generator A is /dev/urandom and Generator B is SecureRandom whose platform implementor has decided to implement their own pseudorandom number generation algorithm in cases where they're sure they have enough entropy but, if they aren't, they fallback to /dev/urandom.

That will pass all tests and work fine for all purposes right until hilarity ensues in whatever real world circumstances deplete the entropy pool. Note that after attackers realize that depleting the entropy pool is a victory condition, they can actively work to cause that.
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I pulled the latest on the Oprah situation since I can't resist:

During an interview last week with Entertainment Tonight, Winfrey was asked if she had personally experienced racism. She responded with an anecdote about a clerk at a shop in Switzerland who had recently refused to show her an expensive bag, even though she repeated her request multiple times.

"That one will cost too much, you won't be able to afford that," Winfrey claimed the clerk told her.

That shop assistant, identified only as Ariadna N., spoke to Blick on Sunday, and denied Winfrey's version of events. Ariadna said she showed Winfrey the Jennifer Aniston range of bags, explained that they come in different sizes and materials and pointed out a less expensive alternative when Winfrey expressed interest in the 35,000 franc (more than $37,000) purse at the top of the display.

Needless to say, that's not qualifying out a customer who's never going to buy, that's stupidly rejecting a customer who could have easily bought, with cash, on the spot. If there was an award for world's dumbest salesperson, Ariadna would win.
Perception is one thing, but safety and emissions are objective facts. And nuclear power is both clean and safe.

You're right that the Japanese are now very skeptical of nuclear power. But it's also an objective fact that this skepticism is dangerous, is costing real lives, and is damaging to the environment. Nuclear power is just that much safer and cleaner than the alternatives.

Even after Fukishima, nuclear power is still ten times safer...than sticking solar panels on rooftops (on a per TWh basis). Cite: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...
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No, it does not - alcohol as a drug is greatly more dangerous than marijuana. Our culture and politics is just messed up to conjure a moral panic against marijuana but to give a pass to much more dangerous alcohol. Both of course may be used recreationally in a responsible manner, and both can be abused.
> I was surprised by the level of bureaucracy: wasting time in meetings (obviously via WebEx), project managers that only tick items, people who are in charge and don't know anything about the subject (and are not interested in learning).

As a former CCNA/CCNP student I can attest that if Cisco bureaucracy is anything like their online courses it must indeed be a huge timesink and money hole.
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Priceless:

"Believe me, normally people are excited when I come to their stores," Winfrey said. "It's very unusual when I'm not practically dragged into a boutique. Dozens of people will be pressing their noses against the windows to get a look at me shopping."

...

"The woman at the shop said that it was the Jennifer Aniston bag that Tom Ford had created especially for Jennifer," Winfrey told Blick. "It crossed my mind that maybe I should give Jennifer or Tom a call. I know both of them very well."
Does the Pi have WiFi, though? Mine doesn't, but perhaps I don't have the latest model.
Here's how I handle the siren song of the customary evening glass of wine, or single malt.

I don't drink at all while at home during the work week. I'm not anal retentive about it, I drink socially when I'm out with friends and chose not to be out with friends on an every evening basis in order to circumvent that "limitation".

I was surprised how much energy is actually drained of you from drinking and how much more productive you can be during those evening hours.

As an added bonus I sleep - and awake much better.

I don't tend to compensate by drinking more on weekends. If there's a difference at all I probably drink less.

For me such a schematic approach works quite well. It may not be for everybody.
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I do believe its your friendly neighborhood JTAC/ANGLICO/JFO/etc who has the picture "on the ground".
Thanks for the information on Commonwealth. As soon as I stop being a student (another 3 months) I am ready to bail from them, just because I had a dollarmite account with them 22 years ago doesn't mean I should be a customer for life.
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1. Agreed with tptacek. 1% is within the "standard" range of equity from what I've heard in SV. But that range is highly variable: 1-5%, but even 0.1-10% might be justified. But we have nowhere near enough information to judge whether that kind of an offer is a good offer for your specific, individualized case. Some questions to consider: What kind of salary are you making? What salary could you make at a BigCorp? When was their last round of funding, how much did they raise, who did they raise from, and what was the valuation? What kind of shares were issues to the investors (preferred, participating preferred, bla bla bla etc.)

2. Approach this like an investor. You are "investing" a below-market salary (and, if you are going to be working longer hours than at a BigCorp, you have to factor that into your calculations), and in return you are getting equity. The easiest way to calculate the dollar value of your equity is valuation * equity (then divide by four since this is vested over four years), and that is the rough cash equivalent of your equity). But depending on what kind of stock your investors got (preferred stock vs. the common stock or stock options you get), you might want to discount this valuation by 10-20%.

3. Valuing startup equity is a huge topic, there are entire HN threads dedicated to this: search HN for "startup equity." Here are some good articles: http://mba-mondays.pandamian.com/tableofcontents/ (read the Employee Equity sections), pg's essay on this (http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html), an article on someone's negotiation process (https://keen.io/blog/29904565692/how-i-negotiated-my-startup...), and another summary article (http://www.payne.org/index.php/Startup_Equity_For_Employees).
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Does that mean there actually is an answer for "What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountaineer?"
Holy heck that is cool.

I begin to wonder if this is the way a Smalltalk or Lisp-machine-like live environments can be resurrected for 2013?

I mean, Javascript and the Browser are somewhat similar, but this takes it to another level.
The fact that the F-35 is significantly slower than a 55 year old jet really shines light on how compromised its design is.

This is nonsense. The tradeoffs for speed are fantastically expensive and haven't made sense since the 1950's. You reach Mach 3 only with an extremely high fuel expense, with afterburners, so expensive it limits your combat time to minutes. This made sense in the obsolete 1950's role of interceptors (like Avro Arrow), which chased obsolete 1950's strategic bombers. The adversary is obsolete, the role is obsolete, and the tradeoff is also obsolete.

While we're doing nonsensical comparisons with cold war interceptors -- they also carried air-to-air nuclear missiles [1][2]. The F-35 is not only slower and heavier, it also carries smaller weapons!

(edit: I should clarify I'm not defending the F-35 (I'm ignorant about it), only criticizing the interceptor comparison, which is invalid).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-26_Falcon
I've been working on another embedded JavaScript project - first posted on here almost a year ago, and soon to go on KickStarter: http://www.espruino.com

This is really interesting though. It looks like they've got linux and node.js into 32mb RAM, which is seriously impressive. It seemed as if people were trying and failing on Carambola (but that may have been because it didn't use an ARM CPU...)
By the way, this blog might help explain:
http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been
Traffic growth doesn't seem to be very good: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=app.net#q=app.net&da...
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Well, a few weeks ago I would have agreed to your opinion.

But after watching Bret Victors great Talk about The Future Of Programming (https://vimeo.com/71278954) I don't think you're 100% right.

Right at the moment I also prefer hand written code over that generated code by some Adobe tool. But as Bret Victor puts it in the talk, I think it would be shame if we create applications in 20 to 40 years in the same way we do today.

Or to put it into another way, who really knows what programming is? Is programming something you do when you put characters into a text editor or is it something you do when you click something together in a tool like Macaw?

I don't think we should wear blinkers but instead should be open for new ways of thinking and approaching stuff. In the end, as long as computers do the stuff we want them to do, I don't really care about how its done anymore.

Just my 2 cents.
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Oh, and licenseless download-and-"what license?"-type warez seems to be the most wholeheartedly welcomed option with the general crowd.

Free Software's there for a reason. Let's not forget that. And if we stick to that (i.e. not trade freedom to whatever feels comfortable at the moment), there's a good reason to not use LGPL instead of GPL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
According to the last yearly report that is available:

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf

"This year we are able to write this entire report in the Frank part of STEPS, including producing the PDF
version for NSF’s web site. We can give comprehensive high‐quality, high‐resolution presentations using
STEPS which include live code and in situ demos, and which show working versions of a number of the
document types derived from the STEPS “universal document”."

So yes, they have something that is working. Unfortunately, as far as I can figure out - the "Frank part of STEPS" isn't really available as such.

There's a few thing to play with, like:

http://piumarta.com/software/cola/

http://lukego.livejournal.com/16036.html
key quote: "Here's what a hello-world-esque operating system looks like"

There's also:

svn co http://piumarta.com/svn2/idst/trunk idst
head -2 idst/function/examples/tcp/00_README
This example demonstrates an alternate 'shell' for
Jolt and how to build a tiny TCP/IP stack using it.

And there's also:
http://tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/
(see "go to project", top right).
I get an unexpected character on line 1 message when I push the doit button on an iPhone. Boooo. Oh well, iPhone normally isn't great for learning languages on anyway.
Wait, what ?

What happened to the tools developed by Valve for HL2 and the integration with Lightwave and their facial animation tool ?

Those were awesome and already proved their usefulness.

How does it fit with Hammer and the fact that... well... modding is never going to be what it was in the 90's again ? *

* I am looking at all those modders that got folie des grandeurs and turned into studio with 7 years dev. plan.
At least people always have us as the DD :)
You know that you can just do

foo.prototype = {
dothis: function(){},
dothat: function(){}

}

In the beginning I wrote it more like

foo.prototype.dothat = function(){}
foo.prototype.dothis = function(){}

Which was a lot more ugly.
What a veiled FUD. If you doubt the text, check the references.
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Everything has dangers. One could fall in the shower and break one's neck. Still, we don't have people going around telling how dangerous showers are. Drinking alcohol and talking about dangers of marijuana without comparing it to dangers of alcohol is like talking about dangers of showers while racing bikes naked with eyes closed on the wrong side of the highway. There should be a context and an assessment of the importance of potential risks.
If that's all the docs they have, they might have a long way to go. FBX is a pretty huge spec. I find it hard enough understanding the SDK docs.
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> Pick up a regular hobby that makes you happy and do it at least three times a week

It would be awesome if I could do just that. And I don't even drink. Other points seem much easier though.
Nice! I'm 22 as well. I have a feeling it will definitely pay off