skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best is when sales low-balls to score the gig and leaves the development team holding the bag 8 months later when the scope is radically out of whack.

/me sheds a sad lonely tear of sorrow
The Rafale and the Gripen? The difference in performance between most the Cat-4 aircraft is minor. And are we talking about performance in BVR or WVR. In a dogfight an F22 will fall to a hornet with 9x and HMCS. But are dogfights even relevant. I know Topgun loves to spend billions of taxpayers dollars on it, but the reality is BVR is where any air war will be won and lost. And any cat-4 is going to fall to an invisible cat-5 aircraft. And missiles, radar, ea, etc. matter so much more than the differences in performance. Sure it’s nice to cap in the stratosphere and turn on a dime but that’s not going to win the fight. But is the best strategy expensive super planes or cheap missile trucks and drones? Perhaps cheaper aircraft designed for the various missions: Strike, Air to Air, Close Air Support, Electronic Attack…? Maybe Patriots or SA-20s or some other SA options? Outside of a few countries these questions hardly matter as the purchase of planes is more a vanity project then anything else. Sure, buy a Gripen or Rafale and have fun flying circles in the sky or use plane purchases for political statements, but I wouldn’t ask people to believe either of these planes is a key part of their countries defense strategy.
Off-topic/not related: out of curiosity, how are you aware that you're being downvoted? I didn't downvote you, FWIW, although I apparently have the ability to. Perhaps being able to see your {up,down}votes is one of HN's "incremental features" and I simply haven't been around long enough? Or maybe you track/watch your karma points? I can see mine, of course, but I don't think I've ever really paid attention to it.
http://mdaily.bhaskar.com/article/referer/4444/t/320/NAT-TOP...
Git Extensions is by far the best windows git client that I ever used.
Those in power are the phony overly politically-correct types. People who get outraged when comedians say racist things at comedy shows, but then unfairly target black people in the war on drugs. Those not in prison get to enjoy stop and frisk's 100,000/year. Kids grow up with no fathers with single mothers on welfare. Rinse and repeat.

The wealth gap between black people in America is higher right now than apartheid South Africa.

So I wouldn't celebrate the end of racism by those in power. It just happens quietly now, with a phony smile.
At that point you might as well steal the dog :)
Taleb's writing style is atrocious and his personality obnoxious, but his fundamental ideas are profoundly interesting and important. At its root is the idea that we humans don't understand the world we live in, but we think we do. This is just as true of "intellectuals", whose lack of understanding is merely better concealed. (Most of Taleb's critics are those, like professors, government big wigs, mainstream media editors and pundits, and the like, whose personal power depends on their ability to convince others that they understand the world better than we do.)

Taleb's books, unlike almost all other "policy" books, isn't about replacing the bad theories of others with his own correct theories. It is about how best to live well despite our lack of correct theories. He examines the implications of this idea in many, MANY areas, and I think he draws the wrong conclusions some of the time. The needs of his own personality are omnipresent, which gets very tedious.

But this idea of how to live well in a world nobody understands is a fascinating, and potentially very valuable, concept to explore. Taleb's books force me to ponder this question more thoroughly than any others I've read.
hyperbole much? See reader5000's comment below for a fairer assessment.
I don't think the answer to this questions is "comment your code", it's "give your functions meaning full names".

Commenting is great, but you need to know how the program is put using meaningful function and method names not only when they are declared, but also when they are called/passed.

I use comments when I've taken a non-obvious path with the code, and I explain why in comments. I think that is what comments are for.
what the are you talking about.. start with being more conscious and make more effort to explain yourself. thanks. a fellow human being.
>What are "the appropriate actions"? What pressure do you apply?

Blackmail them. Bribe them. Make them a counter offer under the table that gives them some benefits. Expose something they'd done (that you know because of spying on them) to the press. Play into their parties politics to get them ousted. Sponsor your own lackeys to outvote them.

>How do you "favor officials that are against them"? They are appointed.

Lackeys are appointed all the time too (which can also be their bosses). The number of people paid by agencies like CIA to take specific action against their countries' interest is staggering.

>Can you point out any that were removed from office?

Here's a recentish example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_v._Strauss-Kahn

It's incredible how easy you can setup this kind of situations to "happen" to people you want to take out of the game.

Sometimes you don't even have to set them up, you just know their tendencies (from watching them) and just decide when it's best time to act on them or ignore them.

Of course, those actions being covert, and the quality of police work being what it is, don't expect those things to be unmasked in time and be able to be proved 100%. Usually we learn about those manipulation after decades, when somebody opens his mouth, or some files are declassified.

But if you study the post-war history of places like Latin America, Italy, Greece, etc, you can find tons of such instances that have been verified (by declassified agency files, court documents, reporting etc).

Here's some convenient one-tome insight on such affairs (the critisicm to which has been pedantic BS):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_...
The biggest barrier to HTTPS is the fact that it's a royal pain in the ass for someone who's not an OPs guy to set up. Unless you're on a shared host or some sort of PaaS that sets your certificates up for you, it's basically a big "go fuck yourself" to get everything installed and configured properly.

Even the Mozilla article linked in the top comment asks you to choose a ciphersuite. Who the heck has time to know and understand what to use, and then figure out how to make it work on their own server?

Oh, the version of Apache you're running combined with the version of OpenSSL that comes pre-installed on your Linux distro causes "Re-negotiate handshake failed" errors? Good luck finding the answer to that on StackExchange.

For most folks that are just trying to ship something, unless security is a huge issue HTTPS doesn't come first because it's simply too much work. And if HTTP works out of the box, there's little incentive to turn on HTTPS.
GPU or ASIC based mining?
Came here to say the same thing.

A bunch of statements that have little or nothing to do with the requirements for 99% of projects, then somehow links this to being the end of Microsoft? Wait, did I miss a step? And then he concludes with "I will carry on writing C#, ASP.NET Web API and read or write from SQL Server".

Totally bizarre.
You don't wear tablets on your face. Tablets don't make you look like a tool.

I'm not saying it won't happen, but smart glasses are hugely different than any other smart device in how intrusive they are and how visible. If people want them soon everyone will, if not, they will die quickly.
Just had a look at namecheap, can anyone explain the main reason to forgo the PositiveSSL option ($7/annum) and take out their more expensive option; EssentialSSL ($21/annum).
The discussion seems to be here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944118 (reuters.com) (274 comments)

Here are a few of the other submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6947761 (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6947405 (tomsguide.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946039 (reddit.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6945486 (cnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6945017 (reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944861 (arstechnica.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944518 (theverge.com)
Needs to wrinkle out some bugs, image I tried isn't loading for me.

https://picto.io/i/AMzYJdZu
Holding them to the norms accepted today is about as
pertinent as calling them uncool because they
lacked iPhones.

No, screw that. If they were racists, I am going to call them racists. I don't give a flying f--k that they "did a lot to bring things closer to equality". What am I supposed to do, be grateful?

History makes no sense unless you take it in context, my
friend.

I'm not the one waxing eloquent about the demise of this ruling class -- the author is. My point is that it's a good thing that they are no longer in power, regardless of what historical context their (extremely flawed) behaviour might have been in.
I'm currently preparing for a course based around The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind, which (so far) seems like exactly what you're looking for. The beginning has a very quick recap of state spaces, vectors, calculus, etc. It goes over Lagrangian mechanics and conservation laws in the middle before finishing with Poisson brackets.

The table of contents also claims a chapter on E&M, but I haven't looked at that yet.
asking if america is better off without the ruling wasp class is like asking if the world is better off without the british empire.

the arguments for, and against, are practically identical.
OH NOES NOT LIBERAL INTELLECTUALS.

How on earth did we get to the point where calling someone smart is an insult?
What's Wrong With the TechBus Protests
I hadn't thought of that. I wonder how it'll affect the Transatlantic Trade deal or the TPP.
Lockerbie conspiracies: from A to Z (1999)
I don't think glasses as a wearable tech will catch on. I think it would be socially awkward for everyone to be sitting at a table with Google glass on.
Yes, I see it so clear, USA culture is superior /s.
> There is no formal definition of feminism, and everybody that claims something stupid under it's name just hurts it.

A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women. Full stop.
The numbers are: 9 petahashes/second (entire Bitcoin network [FTA]), and 20 petaflops/second (IBM Sequoia [1]). If you equate a SHA-2 hash with a floating point op, the ratio is 0.45, not 4,500.

[1] http://www.top500.org/system/177556
I really don't like this mindset because, ultimately, it's a losing one. Technology marches on. It's already possible for people to wear undetectably-small cameras and computers on their bodies, and we're heading toward a world in which these types of devices will not only be feasible, but both affordable and useful. In other words: mainstream.

Given the reality of the situation, it's short-sighted to poke fun at "Glassholes" and complain about smartphone users, as if these technologies are merely obnoxious fashion trends that will disappear in time. Hundreds of years ago there I'm sure there were swordsmen who complained that gunpowder-based warfare was dishonorable. Is that who we want to be?

Yes, things can go wrong.

Yes, technology can empower evil just as well as it can facilitate good.

Yes, 2050 will be different than 2000.

So what? This has been true since the dawn of time. When did it become fashionable for techies to despair at the inevitable advance of technology? When did it become popular to whine incessantly about change? To look at every new development with an attitude of pessimism? To pretend that the world of yesterday was so perfect and pristine? What happened to putting our heads down and working on creative solutions to the problems that face us?
> Those in power are the phony overly politically-correct types.

Sure, but the guys described in the article are much more likely to have brushed the concerns of anyone but their own upper-class, Ivy League set under the carpet.

No one is saying racism (or any other kind of disparity) is done -- as you said, it is very much alive underneath the surface, and often in a hypocritical manner; but there is basic equality under law, and policies like the one you described can be openly criticised.
Dome de interior
Camerele video tip dome de interior sunt camere fixe, neorientabile, care se monteaza de regula apparent, respective in perete sau tavan. Avantajul acestor dome de interior consta in aspectul lor discret in incaperea in care sunt montate. Oferim preturi ieftine si calitate garantata pentru aceste tipuri de camere video.
Presumably your lolcat blog still has an admin login, and in the spirit of the first part of the article, even this would be HTTPS'd.
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> And sexist and elitist - but not more so than the society they lived in.

So let's not celebrate, or even justify, that. We don't have to call them uncool, we don't have to call them anything. Instead, let's celebrate the progressive voices (for the time) who fought against racism, sexism, elitism and who probably paid a heavy price for it. Unfortunately, those are the ones who don't get to write their autobiographies, and who we know very little about.
>I've had the impression it was a kleptocracy run by bankers.

Is this really the view that foreigners have the how the states is run?

We actually rank among the least corrupt nations in the world depending on if you trust Transparency International or not. I guess you could say it's legalized corruption through lobbying and political donations, which I agree with to some extent, but even than it wouldn't be bankers. Pharmaceuticals top that list with room to spare, where as "Securities and Investments" don't even make top 5.

Lawyers are really the people who run America and anyone who has any sort of political ambitions will get a law degree, not become a banker.

Obviously the Citizens United case (the one that allows Corporations to donate) was fucked, but it's not like 20+ years ago everything was fine either. I really think this is just a result of HN/reddit having such a young demographic, no one remembers how bad things used to be as well.

Iran Contra? MK Ultra? The FBI under Hoover? Police assaulting union workers because why the fuck not? Rampant political corruption by organized crime in the 20s/30s?

You know the phrase "I wan't America to be the way I grew up in"? It's not because America was different, it's because you were a kid and didn't see any of it.
> and was responsible for the Sith-sounding Executive Order for internment of Japanese Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066).

IIRC there were just two national-level politicians who publicly took a stand against the internment order: Norman Thomas, the head of the Socialist Party (edit: and very much a WASP!), and the Republican governor of some flyover state. Saying FDR was responsible for the internment is legally true but it might be rather myopic, especially as to the point you're trying to make about WASPs vs. everybody else.
I concur. I wish it were easier to setup.
That's what I thought. And then a huge flamewar emerged in IRC about how equality is wrong. It should be comparability not equality. Because eqaulity would mean men == women.
So the rights shouldn't be equal but comparable, because mixed soccer leagues would be unfair.
It went then on in a discussion if the idea of comparability isn't maybe patriarchic because in studying performance between gender there has been no significant statistical difference etc. etc.

So no. You're wrong.
>For some background as to why people like Appelbaum or Poitras might be so paranoid

Paranoid? He seems perfectly lucid -- people that have lived under dictatorships, right wing political turmoil or "real existing socialism", know exactly what he's talking about.

Sadly, it now happens, all the more often, in Western "democracies" too.
I'm myopic with astigmatism, so I am very interested when the ophthalmic version is coming out. When I visit HN using my 15.6 inch screen laptop I have the zoom set to 150% or higher (the text is tiny), with my specs on.

An ophthalmic frame has to endure a fair amount of physical stress during the glazing procedure, especially curved frames. Also my dominant eye is oculus sinister, am I supposed to wear these damn things upside down?
Other submissions of this story, although none have any discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6945800 (theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6943036 (laptopmag.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942179 (sciencedaily.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939145 (plosone.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939133 (scienceagogo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935903 (arstechnica.com)
lots of successful criminals are lousy liars. I'm not sure what your point is?

Certainly lots of paedophiles are terrible liars.
It doesn't prove it was the government; it proves he didn't make it all up.

Nobody will believe a government spokesman who say that, yeah. That's why there are DARPA contracts for Twitter sock puppet armies for propaganda purposes. Get thousands of "people" on Twitter to agree that he's a bit nutty and it becomes a meme.
"year of smart glasses' not in my country :(.
How can I be wrong about the dictionary definition of a word?
It's not that the attacker does less work than the honest parties. Rather, it is that the honest parties must work at least as hard as the attacker. If the attacker devotes a gigawatt, the honest parties must devote a gigawatt to defense.

What I like to say is this: Would you use TLS if that was how it worked?
Sometimes that's not about surveillance either. It's about making sure that they are seen through the window -- to instill some fear to their target.

[Edit] Hmm, seeing some comments below, I see this thing even has a name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung
I am tying to get rid of a heavily modified gti. My love for the Volkswagen is great. But I don't need another car presently.
Whenever I see advances in mining rigs I just hope that someone invents a cryptocurrency where the mining actually does some useful work, like protein folding.
The BIG reasons seem to be the transfer of technology and the fact that Sweden hasn't any presence or interests in South America or South Pacific, while France and USA certainly do. So, with the Swedish fighter they have no strings attached.
Why do this via queue? It seems like you could in many cases just send right to send grid and it's reasonably fast. That would get rid of the need for beanstalkd and go.

I can see why you'd do it if you want your app to have a certain level of responsiveness, but otherwise this seems a bit like overkill.

One other option would be create an email api service in Go(or node or whatever) that that just returns a 200 instantly and sends the email after that. It would be as fast as dropping a msg into the beanstalkd queue with fewer moving parts.
New York City adds e-cigarettes to public smoking ban
Another vote for clink. Makes Windows command prompt a lot more digestible.
Triethylborane
Back in the GPU mining days people would say that since their GPU could do either 300 MH/s or 2 TFLOPS that every MH/s is equivalent to x GFLOPS. Then you multiply that by the total hashrate and get a ridiculous number and compare it to the Top500. As others have pointed out, this thinking does not apply to ASICs at all but journalists cannot resist it.
That may be true. Certainly I'll ride it if they ever get the damn thing built.
Bitcoins require mining as a security measure, which is a lot more energy efficient than the security measures for traditional currencies.
What was your reason to switch away in the first place?
Other submissions of this story, although none have any discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948140 (extremetech.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6943036 (laptopmag.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942179 (sciencedaily.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939145 (plosone.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939133 (scienceagogo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935903 (arstechnica.com)
>The Stasi perfected the technique, but that doesn't mean that anybody who uses it is on par with the Stasi.

Well, he can be worse too, I guess.

And no, the ends do not justify the means. Especially since the ends are shitty in this case too.
Spot on, this is exactly what I've been thinking for a while. Like the SETI@Home screensaver -- processing astronomy data, or number crunching for public institutions.
The only time I had Total Commander stop a copy like that was with bad usb hubs/drives that can't sustain fast writes and need to be down throttled. This is the reason why tcmd has option to change how it handles drives, the size of the chunks it reads and writes, and the speed at which it does it.
Here's the difference: banks have every incentive to try to reduce their power consumption, Bitcoin miners have every incentive to increase their power consumption.
Bitcoin mining is all ASICs now.
I thought everyone was upper class, is it just me?

God I love these fucking piles of cash

-- James Chalmers Lang III

p.s. name made up, I have 4 20s on my desk.
How is it not "useful work" if bitcoiners like myself are glad these people exist and are happy to pay them for their work?
In the future, there is likely someone who will be equally able to look back at some primitive activity we're currently engaged in right now and call all of us idiots for some reason or another.

If you eat meat, or plants, perhaps you'll be referred to as a barbarian.

If you drive electric cars, perhaps you'll be called a planet killer.

If you don't bathe in milk, perhaps you'll be called a Typhoid Mary.

Ignoring the context of the times is a naive way to look at things. In 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act was passed, and many rejoiced. In 2013, the Defense of Marriage Act was declared unconstitutional, and many rejoiced; in a lot of cases, the very same people. I was a complete homophobe in 1996, and attend rallies and champion gay rights in 2013.

Society moves quickly now, but it didn't always. Yes, I was stupid for my homophobic ways in 1996, but so was almost everybody else. It's hard to hold an opinion, even one you know to be true, when everybody else disagrees with you. It's even harder to be the oddball that tries to advance the cause for equality.

Just because the WASPs were once racists, that doesn't mean the same people would be now. Times change, and smart people change along with them. By not acknowledging that, the inverse of your argument is just as laughable.

"those slaves of the past that the chap in the article is lamenting were totally spineless lackeys and yes men, completely subservient to white people. For this reason alone, I'm bloody glad that they're not in power."