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It's the educated people that make all the fun toys that enable modern warfare.

And a insurgency with smart engineers and chemists will be one hell to contain.
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I thought the same. It seems to just be yet another group chat clone.
I know I'm going to sound crazy, but sometimes I really wonder if "mind over matter" can make things that we've been made to believe impossible, is actually possible. Like, what if we could willpower ourselves out of a disability that even medical-science claims is impossible. Maybe we all just have to believe "there is no spoon".
I'll admit that from time to time I try to move small objects by focusing on them. Maybe I watch too much anime...
Kind of interesting that these "corporate" bundles always remove the EFF from the list of charities.
> I can't figure out how a feature like putting a resume on the top of a pile solves any problem to do with matching candidates with employers. Much less why good employers would care about this arbitrary order.

It helps them get through the human keyword filter in HR faster, which (theoretically) makes them more likely to get an interview. Even many "good" companies have issues with poor HR filter functions, and on top of that a majority of the jobs seem to be with "bad" companies.

I agree, though, that its set up to prey on the naive and desperate. Those for whom any job is better than no job, or simply think this is how "the game" is supposed to be played.
This, I thought.

"Maybe guide rails leading up to it"
They all offer DLC; depending on the game, some, all, or none of that DLC is included:

- Burnout Paradise: offered version contains all DLC

- Crysis 2: offered version contains all DLC

- Dead Space: tons of weapons DLC, not included. They're effectively cosmetic or so overpowered it's like buying cheat codes.

- Dead Space 3: tons of weapons DLC, not included. Like above, they're either cosmetic or shootable cheat codes.

- Medal of Honor: missing the DLC map packs

- Mirror's Edge: missing time trials DLC; DLC is incompatible with the Steam version

- Sims 3: contains a small fraction of the available packaged DLC; game is centered around micro-transactions for things your home (i.e., there are countless items not included).

- Battlefield 3: missing the DLC map packs

EA, of course, profits from DLC purchases not included in the games on offer: they're not sold through the Humble Bundle.
> It's one of the reason that warships in general (including carriers) are designed to be compartmentalized, to have redundant backups (and backups to the backups), etc., is because it is expected they might have to survive battle damage.

For a carrier, not-sinking != operational. The flight deck, catapults, and arresting gear are necessarily exposed to anything that explodes above them. Take them out and the carrier is basically useless.

A carrier can be severely damaged or even sunk by just a few comparatively-small bombs if they're well-placed, intentionally or fortuitously. This was vividly demonstrated at the Battle of Midway in June 1942 [1], where four Japanese carriers and one American carrier were sunk. (It only took one U.S. bomb to sink the unfortunate Akagi.)

In January 1969 my former ship, the USS Enterprise, was taken out of action for several weeks by an accidental fire on the flight deck that cooked off ordinance, spread, and killed 27 sailors [2]. (It was before my time there.)

I would imagine that a ground-launched ballistic missile could carry a much bigger payload than I've been talking about. But yes, it'd be no small navigational challenge to make sure an ASBM actually got to the (moving) target and past the last-ditch defenses.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway#Attacks_on_the...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)#Vietnam...
Not to mention, the dude had to have money (even before taking this over) if he said the previous owner was "well compensated".
I love this app! Textit should focus on small businesses/ people who cannot afford a developer to start a sms service rather than directly competing against Twilio for enterprise customers. Great job!
People who have preternaturally good memories invariably turn out to have intuitively rediscovered classic mnemonic techniques at a young age and have used them semi-consciously without realizing it most of their lives.
Well, it's a bundle all right, but there is nothing humble about EA :) I'll wait for the next Humble Bundle, so I can buy more games I don't have time to play.
Use 200 bit's to encode the message except the last bit which is determined if the message had 100 1's or 101 1's. QED knowing the number of 1's buy's you at least one bit of information.

Edit: You can do better than this by counting the number of 201 bit messages with 100 0's which is well below 2^201 and then encoding which of those corresponds to the original message. Aka if you had an 8 bit message with one zero 11111101 you have a total of 8 options which means you can encode it as 3 bits.
People love a good conspiracy.
Ask HN: Best laptop for backpacking + programming
I'm planning on traveling extensively for a year but would like to continue freelancing and programming my own projects.

I currently have the option to buy my work computer (15" Retina macbook pro)... but I am curious as to others experiences traveling with a laptop?
In case anybody else was as confused as I was, this is a story about a fictional rocket company.

Aside: does Amazon not categorize its books by "fiction" or "nonfiction"?
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I feel like you've already answered your question.
My warning bells went off when the article mentioned the real estate value.

I'm predicting someone will scoop up the company, develop the real estate, and attempt to relocate the entire company to a new cheaper facility somewhere nearby. But Steinway will most likely lose something special in the process of moving either through attrition or morale or just plain ol' disrupting the assembly line and the company will never be the same afterward.

I was reminded of the story of the Vienna Sausage factory in Chicago, our most famous brand of Chicago hot dogs. They moved to a new facility and instantly had a quality problem with their hot dogs. Luckily, it was tracked down:

"The reason, which they only figured out while chatting about the old days, was Irving who didn’t make the move to the new plant, but who had wheeled the hot dogs from the manufacutring room to the smoke house. The thing was that this took a while and served as a cooling period because it took 30 minutes to do the walk through the twisting factory. There was no Irving at the new plant – there was no need – and it was Irving’s trip was the secret ingredient. So they built a new room to leave them in and cool and that new addition was to recreate teh effect of Irvings walk."[1]

[1]: http://inreblog.com/2008/12/19/in-re-irving-the-secret-ingre...
I have a 2007 prius, and that car is nothing like you describe.

- It's quick enough to merge onto any highway around Boston safely, without waiting at on-ramps. I don't notice it being slow, and my previous car was a BMW 330.

- it's more than big enough for my wife, 2 young kids and 90lb dog to take on a weekend trip (with all our stuff.)

- I drive it as hard as I can, and it consistently gets 42 mpg average in mixed city/highway. It's cheap as hell to run.

- It's really nice inside, with lots of gadgets that most cars didn't have 5 years ago (like auto-dimming mirrors, reverse cameras, bluetooth, etc)

- I bought it used, but new it was roughly the same price as a similarly sized and equipped (as in, not base model) conventional engined sedan.

I'll agree, it is sort of ugly, but the new ones are much nicer, and actually one of the nicer looking non-performance cars on the market, in my opinion.
I think it requires just as much intellectual honesty to admit that people will make decisions about what they are reading and whether to continue, and some people may include in that criteria whether the person is making ad hominem attacks. The argument here isn't that he doesn't have any useful information, just that the many people are being put off by his presentation of that information.

As for Musk's character and intentions, I think he's been forthcoming in enough interviews[1] as to his reasons for starting his multiple current ventures (Tesla, SpaceX, Solar City). I don't believe his actions have contradicted his words in this respect, so for someone to attribute intentions to him that go against those statements and be believed, the burden of proof is on them.

[1]: I don't have the links on hand, but he's talked about how after Paypal he didn't *have* to do anything, being wealthy, so decided to focus on a few major areas he thought major contributions to the future of humanity could be made, to his best judgement. Those being cheap solar power, electric cars, and colonizing other planets.
BF3 has several DLC and I Origin would get 100% of those purchases. In fact BF3 was recently a free PS+ game; I'm guessing with the idea to drive people to buy the mulitple $14.99 DLC packs
Every time a new Ember RC is released I read a little more about it, and I have to say that this time I'm actually considering giving it a go.

This probably seems a little weird - why wouldn't I want to give it a go? I guess it's because I've been using AngularJS for several months now and learning something as opinionated and complex as Ember is a pretty hefty investment in terms of time and effort.

seivan mentioned ObjectController and ArrayController, which I think are really cool. Does anybody else know of any other features that might whet my appetite and convince me to jump on the Ember train?
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Rent-seeking in silicon valley isn't spoken about enough. Rent seeking has and will always be around, but is it increasing?

When we are talking about rankings and matching algo's in the hands of monopolies be it Google, Facebook, YouTube et al its a great mystery to me why the advertising industry trusts them so much.
We definitely don't compete with Twilio, rather we are built on them wherever we can. We only really recommend using an Android phone as the SMS bridge if you are somewhere that has no good aggregator.

You totally nailed our target customer though, we want to enable small the medium sized businesses, not enterprise.
Well if there asking him questions chances are already following transactions, and its very easy to tell if coins have been mined and maybe shuffled around a few times vs coins with long blockchain history.
Am I right in thinking that Haskell servers will likely be winning on these benchmarks after Mio is released in 7.8.1? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6198068
It's usually 2-3x per week
In general, rocket technology is missile technology.

Wernher von Braun agrees.
AFAIK, the steam versions also run trough Origin. I no this for a fact with Uplay, I think it's the same here.
I see this a lot on HN, people embarrassing themselves by totally missing the point of some post / article / blog / whatever and raging about the tone or taking issue with some particular usage.

Oh no, this guy maybe over reached in his assumption about how well general people can memorize numbers! Better make ourselves look like idiots and go wildly off point about it!

Check out the thread about that guy's blog "Kids these days can't use computers" as a prime example :(
Yup, that part burns up.

It's not a complete waste though. I believe at the ISS they usually pack those sorts of parts (parts that burn up that is. Other examples being the Russian "Progress" spacecraft or the ESA's ATV) full of garbage before sending them off. Intact reentry volume/mass is valuable (currently only the Soyuz and the Dragon can do that) so they just let all of their trash burn up. Here's a neat picture of the first ATV, carrying a bunch of ISS trash, burning up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jules_Verne_Automated_Tran...
@thesis, thats a great question.

Answer: No its not just SIP trunking. We have always supported native SIP trunking (in, out & device registrations) from day 1 we publicly launched in July 2012.

With BYOC launch, we now allow/make it simpler for any developer, business to be able to use existing VoIP carriers and plug in our APIs to build powerful apps. Its completely plug and play. e.g. we offer a dedicated IP to authenticate with, for folks who want to plug in outbound carriers to terminate calls.
"Or just government spending logic?"

I believe it's just this. Too much of our military's decision making is influenced by the contractors that build the weapons. The F-35 is the largest single military purchase we've ever done. Too many people would lose too much if the program was abandoned, so the politicians involved cannibalized budgets from things that could be a competitor.

"Interesting also that there is a ban on export of F-22 (even to good friends like UK/etc) while F-35 is supposed to be available for export."

It is. I think that may be partly to do with materials used on the F-22, particularly the coatings. It has to be 'repainted' every so often in a very precise way, so to sell them to allies we'd also have to transfer knowledge of the materials and process.

It's worth noting that many of the customers that were in line to buy the F-35 have pulled out or are at least voicing concerns in their media.
No, they did something almost as problematic. They cited a legal precedent saying that there was no expectation to privacy. Yes, Google is still bound by their TOS and will keep stuff private. But governments are not and can, under that exact logic, request data without a warrant since "there is no expectation to privacy".

Using that argument in court lends it credence.
Ubuntu to replace Firefox with chromium
http://goo.gl/00vXFy

Is it even possible to run chromium in a way that doesn't send info to google?

This combined with the amazon-Ubuntu fiasco just makes me want o use Ubuntu less and less. Sure I can turn off the amazon thing and I could replace chromium with my browser of choice but the point is that if I have to spend a crapload of time reconfiguring the default installation of Ubuntu to disable features that violate my privacy, then it's starting to become more and more like other OS's that Linux users typically avoid for just these reasons (and others)

Hellooooo Debian!
They didn't lie about NSA stuff in a letter to the public...
You're certainly right WRT OOC vs. sunk.

However USS Yorktown was "taken out of the action" a couple of times in WWII and still put back into the fight and playing very important roles in that fight, before eventually being sunk by a Japanese submarine. So it's definitely fair to say that simply damaging a carrier is not nearly as catastrophic as sinking one.
DH tried answering this above, pasting it here..

Cloud telephony platform consists of 3 main components - 1. Technology, 2. Infra/Ops 3. Carriers. Until now we and other providers have offered APIs which bundled all three together. This is good for folks who are just getting started, as customers want to get the best pricing and direct access to carrier when they start to grow. Just like how one can get own merchant accounts with Payment gateways.
Today's announcement means we basically allow you to use all 3 components from us, or just use us for Technology and Infra and bring your own carriers. Rest of the details in the post. let me know if you have any other questions :D
No problems with the main thrust of the article, but the conclusion that "America's jobs crisis needs to be looked at as a failure of employers and job boards to ensure an accurate and fair employment process" is laughable. The problems with the re-employment engine are multifold, and not trivially reducible to a single sentence.

An interesting, and more nuanced take on the issue from a very different angle, which at least starts to grasp the enormity of the problem: http://lesswrong.com/lw/hh4/the_robots_ai_and_unemployment_a...
One of the biggest factors is pilot training. To put things in perspective, there are instances where US pilots in 4th gen aircraft have gotten simulated missile locks and gunsight pippers on Su-30MKIs and F-22s -- which even have thrust vectoring! You have to have the right equipment, but even great equipment in the hands of bad/inexperienced pilots will result in poor outcomes.

I've read that some think the F-35 is problematic in this regard as well. It will be more expensive to maintain pilot training in these planes, and this will result in less US pilot training.

EDIT: Also, the F-35 seems to be putting all of its eggs in the "stealth basket." It can't loiter like an A-10 for ground support. It can't turn with the F-15, F-16, or F-18 for the air superiority role. It's all about getting in undetected, and firing high-tech missiles. If something goes wrong with that, the pilots are stuck with a less dependable and less capable aircraft.
I NEVER install Origin games on my PC, and this won't change this...

The same also applies to that Ubisoft weird thingy too.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!
Interesting. Do you want to drop us a note at hello@plivo.com and we discuss more about this.
Is it not a worthwhile discussion to have, which is, if I as a non-gmail user send an email to a gmail user, do I as a non gmail user have any expectation to privacy? After all i as a non gmail user never accepted (or even read) any terms of service for gmail. Or does a gmail user hand over privacy rights on behalf of all who may send them an email? If so, ought we not discuss this so that the general public understands this? Send an email to a gmail address and you are essentially agreeing to ... Who knows what? I don't.
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Yep, the INF treaty gutted them, and that's why we rely exclusively on SSGNs, SSNs, and the B1/B52 for delivery. All of which are extremely expensive. We're also range limited with cruise missiles by the same treaty, though I'm not sure if it's still in force since the dissolution of the USSR.
That was my first thought as well. I assumed however they would all be Origin only but was happy to see that most are on Steam as well. I will likely not even bother installing the Origin only games.
Why not pick up the bundle and only use the Steam keys? It's still a great deal...
Our system is designed to run on any of the modern cloud telephony APIs: Twilio, Plivo, TelAPI, even your own RestComm stack. I don't know of anything OS though.
Not sure if you find it cool because you got an iOS development background but http://epf.io that works with Ember (sorta like a replacement for Ember-data) shares the same semantics that Core Data does with its Context Manager (scratchpad).

You can have child contexts and merge to the parent and so on.
Check it out.
Depends on your IRCd, in my case a heavily modified UnrealIRCd that accepts +k as a /keyx
small typo: 'per mounth' instead of month for silver plan
(I am reading this after two glasses of wine).

Am I alone in thinking that he sounds like an addict? I mean, sure he didn't have a big issue sticking to his decision, but at the same time the list of changes is pretty significant.
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This is, further, not anti-consumer, like so many of EA's policies in the past have been. While this doesn't come close to making up for their past transgressions, it's certainly a good act of buying goodwill.
My wife is pregnant and as a show of solidarity I’m not drinking around her (which cuts out the majority of my drinking). Which is not quite this experiment, but has shown me one thing where his and my experiences differ: Socializing.

As it turns out I socialize a lot in bars - and I don’t like bars at all when not drinking. Mocktails° help - but not enough, and basically no bars serve those in Seattle, only fancy restaurants. Which has meant more socializing at fancy restaurant bars…

In general it’s been a mildly interesting change in behavior and a pretty good experience.

° Fake beer is just bad. And I don’t like sodas. And soda water seems like ostentatious abstinence.

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Edit: Thanks for the suggestions! I should clearly have asked the internet before doing this, I could have been doing it much much better :)
I think there is a typo in the go sample program.

bytes = 100

Should be

bytes[i] = 100

Right or wrong?
mine is... borderline offensive?

https://identicons.github.com/ultimatedelman.png

or a racecar. not sure which.
Are you implying that the government engages in... motive laundering?

Well, I am.
I also have one, and after seeing what it sees during the orientation I wondered how many of its problems could be cured by having a second sensor that one could position about a foot away from the other to give the Leap stereo vision. I am speaking totally out of school because I don't know if that would create more problems than it solves, though.

On my phone, to apologies if this is a duplicate of another thread.
I hadn't thought of a few of those tactics. Good thinking. Just goes to show how little data you need acquire identifying information. Still though, I think the interview is fascinating, if possibly revealing.
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> Edit: IvyMike and ryanhuff brought my attention to the 20 year maximum term of patent. It is surprising that Steinway's competitors still are unable to match the quality of sound.

Not necessarily. Patents only need to describe enough to be enforceable, they don't have to include any of the subtle details which are necessary to make things tick. A famous example of this was all the patents filed by the famous German pharmaceutical & chemical giants in the USA to protect their cutting-edge processes: the patents worked very well to protect their IP, and then WWI came and the salivating competitors got the German patents seized - and couldn't figure out how to do the things, because the patents had left out critical details.
It cannot be on trains.
No, people want the conspiracy to stop.
This really reminds of the F-4 disaster, doesn't it?
Was it safe? I mean was there any chance that the system could be turned on and injure the person crawling?

I was trying to imagine a 1/4 mile crawl in a small tube as an engineer and was just thinking, "NOPE." but if I had built the system and it was near 100% safe, maybe...
I'm not the person to which you are replying, but as I have the same attitude I can at least answer for myself:

I already own the games that register on Steam that are interesting. I would only be interested in the games that don't register on Steam, but I do not want to use Origin.
The focused airframe idea is not without a bunch of tradeoffs. The mission and target capabilities of the F-117 were extremely limited, which meant that the USAF had to have other aircraft around to pick up the rest of the missions.

Further, having a variety of specialized aircraft that do not share an airframe is a maintenance nightmare on the ground, as training and parts are necessary for each different kind of aircraft flown. Operating out of a major air base this is less of an issue, but with FOBs and aircraft carriers this is nigh impossible. Indeed, this was one of the motivating factors that drove the Navy to replace the A-6, F-14, EA-6B, and S-3B with aircraft derived from the F/A-18E/F line.

Yes, the F/A-18E will never have the unique capability of the F-14D, but apparently those planes were a massive pain to maintain. Similarly with the F-117 -> F-35. Beautiful beasts.
Sorry, I thought "the end is kinda corny" would be enough indicator that this is fiction. It does predate SpaceX getting on the public radar, though.
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