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Agreed, cost is what would drive using drones instead of high performance fighter aircraft.

I am not suggesting that you build unmanned F-15s for the $4mm each that you can build a Predator for. That's patently ludicrous I agree with you! So no fancy engines, nor fancy avionics. Also don't bother with swarm AI, have people on the ground handling targeting. Don't develop a billion dollar solution when $50k/year (roughly) works just fine.

What I was suggesting is that you build a bunch of aerial SAM launchers. Take a Predator, put something that can receive targeting info on it, arm it with air to air missiles. Deploy many of these in the sky. Then for every 10 missile mules, you put up a single command and control Predator. It has the fancy equipment to ensure that you can actually do targeting. Then put a transmitter on all Predators which can be turned on such that you can't detect which Predator is the command and control one.

Let's suppose that you could create this fleet of 11 for $4mm * 11 + $2mm * 10 + $20mm * 1 = $84mm This is very conservative in my mind because at this point we're basically paying US prices for the gear.

Again, we're not going for the fanciest, best, most high performance stuff ever built. Use old designs, don't worry about the best survivability, don't make them too rugged and thus don't drive up the cost. We're going for The Innovator's Dilemma style worse-is-better so long as it's functional enough to mule up the ordinance.

You can now afford at least 2x of these 11 unit Predator swarms for every 1x F-35 that can be deployed. An F-35 only carries 10 air to air weapons and that's when loaded with nothing but. The odds they get both command and control Predators on every engagement is statistically slim provided you're talking about at least a few dozen engagements.

That means that just playing a numbers game you're going to shoot down the F-35s and because you've got so many damn drones in the air enjoy quite a bit of air superiority. It's not exceedingly difficult to imagine that if the sky was thick with these things that the F-35s might not get all their ordinance away before being shot at making the grinding more painful.

Could the US manage such a feat of engineering discipline and fast-track development? NOT A CHANCE!! If you're thinking that this is unrealistic based on how things work in the US you're 100% correct. But to suppose that no other industrialized country in the world could embark on such a venture and succeed? If you believe that please stop reading HN because startups could never work/win against the entrenched giants who have all the advantages.
If you can get away with that, it's certainly a way to reduce complexity. However, providing in-flow auth without a page reload is undoubtedly a nicer, faster experience. This library seems like a good way to lower the effort for Ember app developers.
Yes, but I factor in having to create a folder structure, edit the project.clj file to add my compilation targets, and all of that, it's not "light weight" for something like a small script that just is a single widget.

Btw, I ran: time lein cljsbuild once on a project with a minor change (added a line break) and it took 22 seconds.... so this is also what I'm talking about.
"Taxi drivers protesting Uber aren’t saying that they want apps out of their cabs. They want leverage to negotiate wages and working conditions so they aren’t barely scraping by. The pushback is on exploitative business models, not technology."

I have been on the receiving end of exploitative business models. The answer is Exit, not Voice. Here's why: enough people exit -> wages go up and/or working conditions improve. Period. Yes, it's that simple. The problem is that we are creatures of habit, driving around is a relatively easy job, and the self-awareness necessary to change is scarce.

But wait, survival of the fittest and I don't give a shit. I really don't. These taxi/uber drivers will be replaced by driverless cars. We need a government program to retrain these people and employ them, just like we had for farmers and factory workers. Or not. Seeing people try to fend for themselves is more interesting than seeing them do make-work in a federal building - who knows, they might actually adapt, thrive, and makes something of themselves.
But, we have an official API!
http://live.mobileapp.fifa.com/api/wc/matches

More details on my last submission here on HN.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_excluded_middle
Marvellous. I'm going to start flipping random bits in memory. In a few million years I might have an interesting piece of software.
Yep, this is basically what I meant.

I mean, I applaud the good intentions and I sure would love for there to be a good and stable public dyndns solution, but history is not on side with that outcome unfortunately. :(
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> I've tried as much as possible to supply an API that doesn't stray too far from conventions JavaScript programmers are used to from underscore, lo-dash, etc.

This is a nitpick but JavaScript convention is to use camelCase, not underscores, and it feels weird whenever you encounter a library that uses them, usually it's a library that is written by Ruby or Python programmers. It's irritating if it's a library you need to use a lot.
Anybody with current experience can likely not talk about it, due to security clearance issues.
> Before MTG though?

Don't know about JRPGs, but at least some American tabletop RPGs used the term "mana" relating to magic earlier than M:tG -- e.g., GURPS used "mana levels" to describe the strength of the ambient magical field (not as "magic points") since at least the publication of the first edition of GURPS Fantasy in 1986.
> Well, we’re three decades into an era of systemic deregulation and financialization. The result?

Not really, finance and banking are still the most regulated sectors on earth. Hardly deregularized.
What is the logical fallacy in saying "stealth has been credited with protecting aircraft over Iraq, so it's not a scam"? The OP did not say that stealth made an aircraft invisible to radar, just that it 'helped avoid Iraqi radar'. Creating a straw man out of the OP's argument doesn't turn the original words into a logical fallacy.
First, thanks for sharing. It helps me feel a little relaxed in knowing that it is not just a problem for me. And hope it works the other way around too. =)

I think there are a few factors. Being introvert is just one. Being an immigrant is an important factor too (I assume since you mentioned you are not native English speaker). It is not easy being an immigrant (in a new environment and new society, sometimes all by yourself), and combining being introvert it is definitely harder.

I suggest the best way is to start small. Start with things you can do. For example, maybe get a car? If you are an engineer I suppose financial wise this is not a big problem? In the US being able to drive around and move around on your own is very important, since public transportation is very limited. This will give you a sense of being in charge, being more able to initiate actions, instead of waiting for people to pick you up because you don't have a car.

AS far as friends go, it would be easier to start with people with similar backgrounds instead of local people, especially for an introvert. (But if you have opportunity to talk to local people, by all means do it as well.) Do you know other people in your company that is around your age and is also immigrant / Asian? Another way to reach out is to find people with similar interests. A sports club (soccer, tennis, whatever) if that is your thing, or a reading group?

Another thing for me, (not sure if it is for you) is that I have to tell myself to "open up" a little bit, not afraid of making mistakes or being awkward. This is kind of chicken-and-egg. You need confidence to feel free to try and not care about mistakes. You also need to not make many mistakes to have confidence. But as a non-native, sure there are a lot of mistakes to make, English or other wise. I guess I can only start "faking" it first (wink). Or maybe a change in attitude: instead of feeling dead-fish when making a mistake, try to think of it as something funny. (Language mistakes actually can make a good funny story when talking to friends.) When one can laugh at himself, other people feel at ease too.

Hope you will get better through time.
Absolutely; this montage captures the essence of the plot, but watching it unfold is still quite entertaining.

Edit: The clip is really more of a flashback -- the rest of the film deals with the young officer trying to ensure the vehicle receives a live fire test.
Imagem do Dia: A Estrutura Suspensa da Avenida Kozhukhovskaya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
Looks like this YC company burned through 1.8M from Andressen Horowitz, and all of the original founders have left the company to work somewhere else. Sadly, no acqui-hire this time.
I don't think pmarca is saying people are against robots per se, but against the efficiency-driven unemployment they see. I'm firmly on the side of pmarca and technology here -- I'd love to see virtually all crappy jobs today disappear, and we could find new and better things for those people to do (through the market, ideally, but I'd be open to Basic Income or other forms of wealth distribution if needed).

I cannot imagine retarding technology just to preserve existing jobs being a winning strategy which makes the world better. If we did that in the 1700s, there would only be a few thousand people left over after primary agriculture to do anything else. That would suck.

People holding unionized or otherwise protected jobs are rent-seekers (albeit on a smaller scale than large companies in regulated industries). Rent seekers do not make the world a better place.
Initally called the Modding API, it has been planned in some capacity since at least July 5, 2010, shortly after the release of Alpha 1.0.1_01. It was then stated to be released in Beta 1.8.[6] The Modding API was then rebranded as the Plugin API, with the release originally stated to be planned for 1.3, then for 1.4, and then it was accidentally stated by Curse that it would be implemented in 1.5, but has since been delayed...At MineCon 2012, Mojang shared their vision for the future of the plugin API....As of October 26, 2013, the Plugin API/Workbench cannot be found on its GitHub page. Furthermore, the developer website has also been taken offline[1]

Draw your own conclusions.

[1] http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Plugin_API
No way, building a custom CMS for a site which would have always been a good candidate for an off-the-shelf CMS is just as bad of an idea today as it ever has been.

> As developers, we are trending away from the one-size-fits-all CMS and into specialized categories of CMS.

Most of the sites which would typically get built on Drupal (and especially Wordpress) aren't owned by developers. Further, these owners probably don't even have a developer on staff or even on a maintenance retainer. Many of these sites are setup by relatively non-technical users. Many of these sites are setup by a developer the owner has paid and then that developer is out of the picture to be run by the owner.

Even if you are a start-up building your own web app, it still often doesn't make sense to build your own blogging system. Rather, you would get your first version out the door ASAP, throw your blog up on a sub-domain running Wordpress and then maybe down the road figure out something different.

Do what you want for your own site. But when you are doing something for clients who don't have a tech staff, it's not about what the developer wants.
I guess as KDE user I was foolish to buy 3x30" :-). Setting font size works just fine...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeroll
You paint a scary picture.

I did evaluate a couple of potentially negative outcomes, but they largely boiled down to Amazon dropping the domain, or having a sudden influx of faked traffic resulting in large bills.

I will keep a more cautious eye out ..
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playing the devil's advocate here, the name "mana" for the concept in question came much later than its incorporation into video games (as "MP"), which argues against the concept having been borrowed from the culture that had the word "mana". and at least after the fact, MP are an obvious solution for the problem of rate limiting spells - so it's plausible to argue that the inherent concept probably would have shown up in games independently of any particular tribal society using it in their formulation of magic or not.
This. Abuse causes a huge headache and will drain resources. If you are sincerely interested in offering this, provide a great value and feature set but charge enough to keep the garbage out..its a catch 22 in that having a higher price keeps the service profitable but having a higher price also means possibly never gaining traction. If you ever figure out how to solve that problem scrap this and open up a business selling that solution :)
> "There's definitely a huge need for this- but I think for everyone, not necessarily just those in poverty."

Absolutely. My wife works across the economic range, and there are opportunities everywhere. I've given talks at her school career days about software development, but that's certainly not the right fit for everyone (though perhaps everyone should at least try a little.) I do think that online forums open up worlds of experience and ideas that weren't as accessible in the past - like a vast library, perhaps a bit poorly edited. I think there's a key place for - coaches/mentors/counselors/teachers/friends - I don't know the best term - to help people adapt knowledge and ideas to their own interests, experiences and ambitions. I suspect the really great relationships like this don't scale. Someone might say 'Khan Academy', but I think the best situations are probably more like Y Combinator, and that looks more like a traditional classroom than it does an app. I say let 1000 flowers bloom... any attempt to lend a hand up to someone is to be valued.
Not a new policy, but what I look at are HTML doc title, article title, top subtitle, and first sentence of the article, in that order. If the latter is significantly better than the article title, we sometimes use it, like we did here.

A good HN title is accurate and neutral (the opposite of misleading and linkbait). Rewriting is bad; it's far better to use words that are already there than to make up words of one's own. Taking words out in order to fit the 80-char limit is ok. Editorializing and spin are right out. Faithfulness to the original content (unless it is misleading or linkbait) is paramount. I think that's about it.
A debug console is planned for milestone I that will help for those issues.
DikuMUD came out before M:TG and had mana, and is the CRPG ancestor of World of Warcraft (by way of EverQuest).
Well, yeah - with regards to it being an "external" communication, they say that on p.37 (as I said in my post). The document starts talking about the differences between internal and external communications on p.37 and how a tweet that isn't directed to another British citizen is considered an external communication because the server is in the US. They then continue by saying on p.41 that even though that tweet is an external communication, they still aren't authorized to intercept it unless it's "necessary" under section RIPA 5(6)(a) and the tweet also isn't authorized for "selection for examination" unless it meets other criteria under RIPA section 16.

The article is focusing on the fact that the tweet is an external communication and neglecting to mention that there are still additional restrictions on collecting external communications. What Charles Farr is saying in that document is a far cry from the article's wording: "By defining the use of ‘platforms’ such as Facebook, Twitter and Google as ‘external communications’, British residents are being deprived of the essential safeguards that would otherwise be applied to their communications - simply because they are using services that are based outside the UK."

(After skimming through RIPA, though, I will concede that UK laws can be very obtuse. Section 16 gave me a headache - but that's an entirely different issue than the external communication argument)
http://www.kimonolabs.com/worldcup/docs Kimonolabs seems to have one a world cup api too
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It is made by Sharp, not Apple. Apple only pairs it with the Mac Pro; otherwise they only sell their own monitors.
I don't think that's really the point of al3x's post. I think it's more we should be very worried that someone with such a balck & white, infantile view of society and economy is in a position to throw billions of dollars at advancing his world view.

I love technology but fear for the world we'll end up with if people like pmarca are left to pull the levers.
> Taxi drivers protesting Uber aren’t saying that they want apps out of their cabs.

Of course they aren't saying that, it would be political suicide to say it. But given the stubborn resistance to even using the credit card readers forced on them by utility commissions, do people really think that cabbies are aching to have apps between them and their customers that would thwart their ability to skip inconvenient fares or grab an easier ride on their way to a call? Uber's end-run around regulation is only possible because cabbies use regulation to make consumers' lives worse.

It's kind of crazy to me the degree to which the left is becoming a movement built around kneejerk status quo bias, based on nothing but a distaste for the idea that someone might be making money off of making consumers' lives better.
What advantages does this have over Phantom.js[1] ?

[1] http://phantomjs.org
I'm not sure I see the ad hominem that you're seeing.
It's been recently reported that China will not be able to side step tariffs anymore.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/04/us-usa-trade-solar...
The F-35 is actually a pretty awesome jet.
Is it better than the F-22 in air to air combat? Nope.

Does it have to be?
Here's a similar jet: the Dassault Rafale. Its also multirole. Its not nearly as good as the F-35.
Is it better than the F-22 in air to air combat? Nope.
Did it shot down a F-22, ever? Yes (yes - they have official combat simulations with real planes, only the missiles are not real - and those are made to sell the airplanes so there is no incentive to go easy).
Does that means its better then? Nope, still not. Most of the time, it loses.

There's several points here:

- you dont have to be the best tool for the job to be the best all rounder.

- sometimes the best all rounder is better than the best tool for the job. its cheaper (imagine 3 or 4 F-22 scale programs vs 1 F-35 program), and it does the job well enough for many tasks. in fact, air to air superiority is one of the only tasks where you currently need to specialize. Turns out that the army has done this choice as well and has the F-22.

- views you can see or read of what is "better" or "worse" regarding fighter aircrafts is most of the time completely wrong and extremely misleading. Most people have extremely, extremely high financial interests in this. Billions and billions. War is a very juicy business.

One of the points of the "co designer of the F16" (mind you, id take a F15 over a F16 ANY DAY) are the "small wings" of the F35 giving it mediocre lift.

I like this one. The F-35 has better lift and better aerodynamics than the F-16 or the F-15, or the F/A-18. But its non-obvious. This engineer knows that. The general public doesn't. (note that the main reason for this, beside better design for aerodynamics is that the body of the plane provides most of the lift).

Some of the other commons points are generally either plain false, either have truth in them but pushed further than the reality.
Shocked to see the data type used in column names (I guess these aren't necessarily direct representations of the columns however) in 2014.

Edit: Or is this more common than I thought?
> Not sure what you are getting at by claiming it isn't.

Semantics & accuracy.

I'll appeal to authority for you...

“Some doctors are scientists – just as some politicians are scientists – but most are not,”
"Indeed, most doctors are incapable of critically appraising an article. They have never been trained to do so."
Richard Smith - Editor British Medical Journal
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC428500/

Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc are sciences.

Pediatrics, Oncology, Counseling are practices.

The technique will use science, however they are not a science in themselves. Even though the practices are "based on science", sometimes there issues with the initial studies that we later find out in later studies.

Dealing with the inner working of reality is hard. There's lots of unseen complexity. The unknowns are still unknown. Science often lags practical application because it requires fundamental understanding, capital, accredited scientists, & peer review. E.g. we knew how to create catapults before we had Newtonian Physics.

Also, be careful because the definition of "based on science" has become heavily politicized & driven to sell something to the public. Monsanto created GM crops that are "safe" "based on science". We are now finding out that their crops are wreaking havoc to the ecosystem. e.g. the Bees & Monarch Butterfly populations have collapsed.

In the 1950s, Cigarettes were deemed "based on science". Asbestos was deemed safe "based on science".

I speak because I do know a renowned medical practitioner & researcher. I have a glimpse on how the sausage is made.

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> Many of the so-called 'swamis' of the world would be considered mentally ill in the Western world.

That is more of a condemnation of the Western world. Locking someone up just because they are not "gainfully employed" and "another brick in the wall" is hardly healthy.

> People didn't have it 'figured out' hundreds or thousands of years ago.

We don't now either. Look at how humans have impacted the environment in such a short time. Also look at our pointless & expensive wars that we engage in. Look at the obesity epidemic. Feel the cold unhappiness & judgement of modern western culture.

> Hundreds or thousands of years ago people use to cut out other people's tongues or raid each other's homes to kidnap slaves.

We still do. People are still murdered, oppressed, silenced. Slavery still exists, more so now then ever.

> The human race has done some horrible things to each other over time and I don't subscribe to the idea that somehow we should be looking to those generations for advice on mental wellness.

It's not so much the time period or ethnicity. It's more about the attitude we have toward each each other. There are good and bad people now. There were good and bad people then. History teaches us on what works and what doesn't work.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

- George Santayana

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Note: I find it amusing that my previous comment, which basically says "think for yourself", have a "critical view of things", and "understand causality", is downvoted on HN.
Show HN: Twitter Bot to automatically tweet video replay of latest goal
https://twitter.com/ReplayLastGoal<p>I've open sourced it here: https://github.com/xdamman/ReplayLastGoal
100% make this clear from the outset. I "stopped" at the create account screen because I didn't want to go through the trouble just for some teaser videos. I hopped over to the hn comments to find out what the deal was.