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> Yes, since drones are used IN ADDITION to traditional air strikes, and for different kind of attacks.

"Traditional" air strikes haven't been going on since 2001 (for Afghanistan) and 2003 (for Iraq). Do you really think that fighter jets are just roaming around randomly in Afghanistan bombing random things? There are plenty of aircraft, sure, but they are doing missions like CAS (close air support of ground troops) or delivering bombs to precise targets.... the same kind of thing drones are doing. Except drones carry smaller bombs than 500lb JDAMs, which helps drones reduce collateral damage (and civilian casualties) from the equivalent strike directed by a manned attack fighter.

But either way, being used for "different kinds of attacks" is not even close to illegal. If anything using drones with lower-payload ordnance to perform different missions instead of manned fighters with cluster bombs or JDAMs is a noted improvement in the U.S. military's efforts to reduce CIVCAS and collateral property damage.

> If anything, with drones getting cheaper, smaller plus not needing pilots and not having any casualties on the operating side, etc, they will also be used more than "traditional air strikes" which are much more difficult to approve and costlier.

Drones are, sadly, not getting any cheaper. They are cheaper to train pilots for, that much is true. But again, "it's not quite as sporting" isn't an argument against drones.... the same argument was used about long-range artillery in the Russo-Japanese war (some British fogies actually said they would never personally use artillery if they couldn't personally see the aimpoint, an attitude which didn't last long on the Western Front). The Germans used the same argument to complain about Americans using a brutal, evil weapon in WWI... that's right, the shotgun, the "OMG drones!!" of 1917.
>> Uber drivers are independent contractors,
>> so they can't form a union, which is why
>> they're trying to form an association

Does this mean it's illegal for them to form a union? Why would it be? What prevents them from unionizing?
This is really interesting. Uber and Lyft are trying so hard to recruit drivers in the face of their rapid growth. A strike, or whatever the equivalent is in this "association", would really hurt them. It flies in the face of Uber's mantra of always available.

Given the vulnerability, I expect it won't be too long until we see one, unless drivers' concerns are addressed.

You could say with Uber's war chest they could wait out a strike, but again, it flies in the face of their long held core value prop - always on. It will create massive surge conditions.

If I was Uber, I'd eat the difference between surge price and normal fare and starve the union out.
Facebook login? Yuck.
I hope it's going to be integrated into https://yunohost.org
I'd agree with you if we were comparing apples to apples.

This is not the case with Fast.js as it breaks away from the language specifications. I'd much rather build, profile, and then optimize the few areas that actually require better performance than potentially introduce bugs by replacing the built-in methods.
Well, say... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/03/browser_history_snif...
Have you found any documentation beyond what's linked to here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7282133/alipay-intergatio...?
This reminded me of 2008: http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-12-04/how-to-make-t...

[Spoiler alert] soil sensors + telemetry + spectrum = Internet of Things [/Spoiler alert]
> If military jets were bombing areas in Pakistan, there would be an outcry.

That literally just happened the other day, after Pakistan Taliban forces attacked the airport at Karachi. Where was the outcry? Did we miss it? Or do people not notice Pakistani civilians dying when it's Pakistani aircraft dropping the ordnance?

If it's OK for Pakistan to bomb people that the U.S. is also at war with then I don't see why it is wrong for Pakistan to allow the U.S. to bomb people that the U.S. is at war with. That was, after all, the story of WWII in the European Theater of Operations.
I still can't fully utilize the nvidia Optimus gfx card under Linux. I've tried the bumblebee project and other suggestions I've found through google, but I'm still stuck with minimal capability. I hear that the latest stable release of ubuntu (14.04?) has added more support for it, so maybe that will work for me.
I think the two vs four was referring to the number of weeks drivers had to switch car that built in or after 2010.
Take something as simple as SSHD, NTPD, CROND or any other of the many background daemons that get used once or twice a day. They only need a few bytes of themselves in active memory to sit waiting on a socket connection or on a timer. The rest can be paged out for the actual application you're using the server for. It doesn't even matter if these services take a few milliseconds to get paged back in when needed since things like SSHD are working over the network (many orders of magnitude slower than hard drive access).

There's basically no reason not to have at least a small amount of swap. There's never been a benchmark showing no-swap as faster.

It should also be mentioned that things like mmap()+MAP_PRIVATE on a file will flat out fail if the file is larger than free_memory+swap. It's a common, easy and fast way to work with large files where the portion of the file you're working on gets paged in and out as required. Turn off swap and you break this functionality. You're basically limiting what you can do on your system with no performance gains.
Data shows iBeacon vastly improves app usage and retention
The broader point--that research takes a certain amount of courage--is generally true, but to me, it's weird to make the point by focusing on Oppenheimer's lack of a Nobel Prize. It's not exceptionally rare that someone so brilliant just happened to miss a Nobel.

Scientists, as individual human beings with limited time and energy, have to make an informed decision on just how far they really want to pursue an idea. The fact is that brilliant scientists have just as easily followed dead-end paths as have failed to go far enough down the right one. Hindsight is 20/20, so it's easy to see which is which only now.
5 Annoying Things Adwords Doesn’t do but Should
Here are 5 super annoying things Adwords doesnt do but should!
Previous discussions at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863264 [~June 7, 2014]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7514156 [~April 1, 2014]

recap: Bluetooth+WiFi; closed source, apparently little
privacy/security.

This might be useful in post-disaster situations, when
large portions of the normal infra-structure are impacted
or unavailable, either intermittently or for some time.

I'm thinking earthquake, hurricane, flood, and similar, when people
might be more willing to trade privacy/security for information &
communication. OTOH, it might just amplify a rumor mill.
That is their response. It is not coherent, but this is not propositional logic. This is a militarized force that cannot be punished for their abuses, can and does inflict those abuses as will and it attracts saddists and psychopaths that cover each other asses.

You are trying to come up with technical solutions (oh install sewer traps). The problem is not technical. It legal, and regulatory. There is no, 0, nada, zilch repercussion for just throwing a flash grenade in barge in. Why install sewer traps and spends all that money? That is irrational from their point of view.

The floor boards and all that sewer stuff is just noise. All those "problems" are just a list hurdles they will never and or even think about solving, that was the main point.
Implementation/execution is another story. I would call "necessary" everything that falls into everyday life needs (and that could be clearly defined and spelled out and agreed in the first place) - and it would be relatively easy to define "optional" -> warring outside of your own borders is probably hard to justify as ultimately necessary.
Awesome book, thanks, exactly what law idiots like me need.

I actually ignored the jury factor, my fault. When police officers brutally kill someone they're still "our" guys, good guys.
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"...EdTech tools and products that claim to answer every problem they 'think' us teachers have"

"...both sides of the community, both teachers and EdTech entrepreneurs"

Aren't students part of this community? Are EdTech companies trying to solve problems for teachers, or for students?
I did. It doesn't really help unless large numbers of people do that. Don't take HN or any message board as being a representative sample.
7 Brilliant Women in Tech
I'm a doctor and I do tech (details in my profile). I might have missed this by skimming quickly, but it isn't clear to me whether you are creating a new startup without your current co-founders, or whether you want to bring in new people with your current group.

Actually, it's not totally clear what the relationship is between you and the "technical guys" - are they co-founders, hired hands, etc? More clarity there would be useful, I think if you're looking for people from this community to potentially join you.
Theo de Raadt explains how hardware support works in Windows, OpenBSD and Linux
Not really, because you'd have to agree on how to measure average temperature of the earth.
>What you're describing is a lab - which should be built in such a way that it's as wide open as the class requires, but can be restored to a clean base quickly and easily.

Unfortunately, these schools I'm talking about don't have computer labs. They're lucky if the AC works and the roof doesn't leak. They have a half-dozen of Windows machines in some classrooms, and now (thanks to several generous donors) one friend has a half dozen Android tablets. One has a "mobile" lab consisting of 10-15 laptops on a cart shared throughout the school, but they are as locked down or more as the classroom computers.

>This is one place 'we' can help though - by documenting or ideally packaging up the tools for building proper environments.

If you are someone who still has influence with district-level IT staff, where you could help the most is by making them aware that what may seem like abstract policies can have major impact on a child's education, often in ways they would never imagine if they're not teaching.
This is very promising. Ever since Gmail for domains and Outlook for domains became paid-only, I've been looking for alternatives. This looks like potentially a perfect solution.
I didn't realize soccer players were so much shorter than a lot of North American athletes in hockey, basketball, American football, and baseball.

For example, the average height of Brazil's team is 181.7 cm or 5 foot 10, whereas I wouldn't be surprised if most North American sports teams had an average height of 6 feet (much higher for basketball).

Of course, if I look at Team USA's stats, the average is 6 feet.

Also interesting to note is that the goaltender on most teams is the tallest guy.
Took me a second to understand what you are saying, but YES, that is definitely on our backlog. It's a PITA when item has very small clickable bar.
Yeah, I did it just for the ease, then it turned out to be more work than it was worth.
three questions:

1 - Will you handle micropayments (i.e. not rake 30 cents on top of 3%)? Alipay excels at this.

2 - Can some/all of the RMB sent to the Alipay account not get exchanged to USD and auto transferred to the Stripe account holder's bank account? This is a common use case to pay for China-side costs and not have RMB exchanged to USD and exchanged back to RMB to pay partners/vendors.

3 - Will you have servers inside China? If you don't you will need some incredibly fault-tolerant javascript and page load magic as some of your interactions with non-China servers will fail.
Oh, now YouPorn knows I've been visiting PornHub too. So much valuable info! Too bad I use them both just to look at chicks being banged.

Seriously though, I'd like to see what the other 45 websites are and what they do, but the PDF linked 404's. And I reckon this is the getComputedStyle approach, and that was, AFAIK, fixed. The new ways of exploiting the styled :visited links are going to require more work.
Thanks for a thoughtful comment that provided way more information and classiness then the OP's
It wasn't meant to be nasty but the text quoted by the person to my mind actively contradicted his point. It stated that in very limited circumstances may "something" be done and was used as evidence that "something" wasn't controlled. I added the "and think about" part of my response when I reread and realised that the restrictiveness wasn't completely explicit although it was pretty clear. I really felt that the parent hadn't properly considered the meaning of what they had quoted.
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That's not the point swombat is trying to make. You can easily rip a Youtube clip into MP3, or just download the video for later playing. I even have an app on my iPhone, McTube, that allows me to do exactly that. YouView on Mac gives you the same option. I used these apps to cache my youtube subscription overnight, as I have unlimited internet after midnight, but otherwise I am limited to 15gigs/mo.

The point is, you can't just as easily rip content from Spotify, Pendora, or any of the other streaming services.
A freelancers trade group just launched a national benefits platform
I'm sure it's a lot more complicated than this... but when a majority of employees vote to unionize, and the union is certified, the union then has sole authority to negotiate employment terms with the company. I think from that perspective, it makes sense why independent contractors, who are by definition negotiating directly with the company, can't unionized.
For licensing issues, actually.
Anyone from RTOS community know how this relates to INTEGRITY-178B ?
I misread 'unmanned' in that sentence as the 'emasculated' meaning of the word, and had a mental question as to why you would make a service out of having your pizza delivered by broken, subservient men... :)
That's not how it works, bigot
since the oculus already tracks its own position in space, a controller would really only need to know position relative to the headset, something like a front / down facing Leap motion (with minimal lag?) could do wonders for VR presence
It's interesting watching the maneuvering to strangle a promising idea while it's still in the cradle.
We had a small party (only about eight people or so) and a couple of us got loud in the backyard. The neighbors called the cops and, where I lived, they were coming in, warrant or no warrant. We knew that, so down the toilet it went.
Microsoft fixes Exchange Online outage after almost 9 hours
Going to be "that guy":

On the installation page, it says to do this:

curl -s http://repository.rainloop.net/installer.php | php
wget -qO- http://repository.rainloop.net/installer.php | php

This is incredibly dangerous. Because it's http, it can be Man-In-The-Middle'd, so you're basically executing arbitrary commands on your computer. (See: php function exec()). Also, even if it's non TLS/SSL, you're putting a lot of trust in Rainloop not being hacked or malicious.
We chucked most down the toilet, some people ate some.
Which is why we have testing and staging environments to make these changes on first. Conversely, when everything is pulling in their own version of a library, you run into situations like the zlib buffer overflow, where you had huge numbers of programs that needed to be rebuilt because no one used system-packaged libraries. Obsolete and vulnerable software is a liability, and not having tools which can readily tell what software needs to be updated makes quite a few peoples' jobs quite a bit harder.
100 million years old crocodile fossil
The license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) kinda sucks. It's not Free or Open Source, but more importantly, "non commercial" for a webmail client is probably an impossibly high standard for the type of person who would be setting up their own webmail client. Even CC recommends against using CC licenses for software.
Why Being an Australian Startup Sucks
I think it sucks that Uber drivers aren't direct employees of Uber. Were they once upon a time? I forget. Anyhow, it's just a bullshit game for Uber to avoid regulations. It'd be much better for everyone involved if drivers could just be salary employees.
Yeah, although the scope of the acquisition is currently limited to the scope of Oculus ("operating independently") within Facebook. I've also seen announcements regarding PayPal acquiring companies even though PayPal is a subsidiary of eBay Inc.
Hacker News effect, the demo takes ages to load. But the frontend looks cleaner than Roundcube, it might be worth a try.
Not at all. We have apps that have their own private data stores either because they need complicated models with many inter-model connections, or because their data is completely private to themselves, and there is absolutely no benefit to a sharing it through an API.

The data store is intended primarily to be used for hetereogenous "content collections", for the lack of a better terms -- blog posts, comments, classified listings, products, articles, events, messages, etc. Anything that exists in bulk with simple CRUD semantics. It's less suitable for structural objects such as sites, users, groups, memberships, hierarchical, etc. where the semantics need to go beyond CRUD.

The data store model is extremely simple, and therefore somewhat poor in terms of possible interactions. There is very limited support for querying, for example, and no support for transactions. It essentially a slight step up from a key-value store. Interactions that require complicated queries need to go through other services such as ElasticSearch.

But there are benefits. One is that many apps simply don't need very complicated schemas. Another is that this sort of model forces you to optimize the schema in such a way that you avoid complicated joins. Thirdly, it's easy to integrate with a security system. Overall, it's just stupidly simple to get started. No setup, just start posting stuff.

However, we do see the need for a richer data store. A colleague mine is developing a new data store that is optimized for graph-like structures (probably layered on top of OrientDB), which may end up being a replacement for the current store because content can also benefit from being graph-like; blog posts have authors, for example. Another thing we have noticed is that the lack of schema validation leads to discrepancies, and it would be good to have this.
just because more is spent by households doesn't mean profits have gone up. Maybe companies have to spend more to sell their products now (which might seem silly but I'm pretty sure advertising is one thing which _hasn't_ gotten cheaper in most cases).
Juniper Networks' JunOS is a FreeBSD derivative.
Accepting that we have free will means that "could have done otherwise" explanations have a legitimate place in our moral thought.

I don't think it makes a difference. "Free will" or not, the validity of "could have done otherwise" explanations remain unchanged. As long as physics permits, indeed, they "could have done otherwise", but ultimately, the stream of bytes that steer our machinations (be they predetermined or divinely inspired) result in some action being taken based on input from the environment. I also disagree that human morality is capable of responding to the absolute nature of our choices, regardless of their fundamental constituents (see my answer to sapient)

A theory that explains what "could have saved them" means in that context is a theory of free will.

What could have saved them is a different set of input or a different algorithm processing that input. If you can even conceive of a situation in which you would not save them, but then another one in which you would, you've implicitly acknowledged a state change in the private instance variables that underpin your decision making process, even if it's a change as subtle as "I just felt like it".
Show HN: Structural similarity and near duplicate detection in clojure
I'm not sure you are aware, but formal verification[1] is a well known and respected field of research. It does work, but it is hard to build practical tools using it. Nevertheless, if something is formally proven correct then for it to be incorrect one of three things must happen:

1) The proof is incorrect (which of course means it is no longer proven)

2) The prover has a bug (most proofs are done automatically). This is possible, but many of the same formal methods are used on the prover, and it is often build on a human-proved proof at the bottom.

3) Mathematics (the whole field) is wrong. This seems unlikely.

In reality, the problem with formally verified software is generally that it must interact with non-verified software (and sometimes hardware - although hardware can be verified too).

The wikipedia page[1] I referenced is worth reading.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods
23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions
I recently finished my site QABounty.

I would get annoyed when I could not get anyone to answer my questions on sites like Stack Overflow so I created this site, https://qabounty.com/. It is basically your standard QA site but you attach a USD $$ bounty to questions. For example I have a question up at:

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The best answer for that question will award that user 3 coins (which can be withdrawn for about $3). I plan on adding my own questions of the day for a while, basically giving money away for a while hoping people use it for their own questions eventually. If you want to make a quick $3 though and check out my idea please go to the site and try to answer the question!

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If I was Uber, I'd eat the difference between surge price and normal fare and starve the union out.

Let's not think about the children right now, let's think about the drivers instead. When you are between jobs it might easily be you behind the wheel. Think very carefully which of the two dogs in the fight you should support.
Yes, but a 2010 car in 2014 is four years old, and a 2012 car in 2014 is two years old.
It seems only logical. It's evident that at some point it will be a race to the bottom between services with similar propositions, so labor will eventually get some cost cutting.
I understand the idea, but I don't have a lot of faith in the kernel to make the right decision under memory pressure--and neither do server application developers, hence the proliferation of massive userland disk caches in processes. The amount of allocated memory that the kernel can find to discard on a no-swap system is fairly small, so I'm somewhat relying on the rogue program overrunning the point of blowing out the caches and going all the way to panic the system.

Ideal tuning would probably also reserve some decent amount of space for file caches and slab but I'm not aware of any setting that does that.

It's an entirely different story on laptops and development servers, where the workload varies widely, may contain large idle heap allocations worth swapping, and manually configuring memory usage isn't practical.
Several years ago (07) when resveratrol seemed to hold promise, I tried 300mg/day for a few months. I gave it up after the only benefit I noticed (ok, maybe better sleep) was that I stopped growing gray hairs.