skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much would it have then cost to develop three different aircraft?

The lightweight fighter program (LWF), which spawned F-16 and F/A-18, was done for daylight dogfights, but both aircraft have picked a lot of electronics during the years and are used for laser guided precision bombing (something for which you needed an A-10 in the nineties still).

Further, AFAIK, the primary US adversary back in the seventies, the Soviet Union, was much closer technologically than what they or others are now. Russia and China are catching up though.

So a "good enough" "jack of all trades" aircraft might make a lot of sense. You might just need less aircraft in total. The US Air Force and Navy have been simplifying their inventory a lot in the past years anyway. The F-14 and A-6 are retired for example, with worse aircraft (for specific missions) used instead. You can always go in a more "hot rod" direction - but what will be the price?

General Dynamics' Harry Hillaker is the real designer of the F-16. Boyd, Riccioni, Christie and Sprey were part of the LWF mafia, while General Dynamics designed the actual F-16.

GD used a lot of resources, did a very thorough analysis and spent a huge amount of time in the wind tunnel. You can see the very visual design evolution in various stories about it. (Incidentally the LWF third place competitor Boeing design looked a lot like the GD one, as did the Vought design.)

Here is one history: http://www.codeonemagazine.com/f16_article.html?item_id=131

IMHO, the fatness-inducing lift fan space could have been ditched to make the airplane perform better. A separate less commonal version could have been created for VTOL use.
People invested $1 Million in an app that just says "Yo"
I would probably suggest extending one that already exists. If you extend one by adding the features you want, great, perhaps others want those same features too. They might be willing to help in some degree (coding, testing, documenting).

Starting from scratch, or from an existing library, without lots of dedicated effort and some thought about maintaining it, it will decay into yet another "half finished" project.
I'm sorry, what? I should avoid labeling myself as an atheist... when I'm an atheist? Why?
Yea. If I had a nice car, no way in hell I would sell it this way. What stops people from joy riding?

Someone could go on Carlypso tomorrow and say they were interested in 'buying' a Subaru STI. Nope, didn't like it. Now they're interested in 'buying' a BMW 3 series. There is a reason you can't walk into a car dealership and start driving cars without someone screening you.

If you think that is an idle concern - I've had joyriders come and try to test drive my vehicles that I have listed on craigslist. It is an infuriating waste of time - and the best reason I've ever found to use a dealer/broker to sell things for you.
I would disagree, I haven't payed over 15 dollars for a burger unless it was a gourmet burger in multiple large cities.
Rubber objectively ages worse than metal. Glass is objectively more fragile.
They're on a snack break, should be back in 5-10 minutes with office hours.
One aspect of in-browser functionality OP mentions is "offline". However, browsers are pretty cool in that they can mix offline and online. You can open a local html file and it can then make online requests. Alternatively, you can request an html file online that then can access local files.

This ability to mix offline and online content is something that I think has a lot of potential to improve client-side encryption. Specifically, client-side encryption coupled with an unhosted webapp[1].

I've been exploring this potential for my byoFS[2] project, and made an example end-to-end encrypted chat demo[3]. You can request the app anonymously (or even save it and open it locally). The app then lets the user connect an online datastore (e.g. Dropbox) to save the encrypted chats.

This separates who serves the anonymous static webapp and the authenticated datastore, and makes it much harder to target a javascript attack (the most common attack from the Snowden leaks).

[1] - https://unhosted.org/

[2] - https://github.com/diafygi/byoFS

[3] - https://diafygi.github.io/byoFS/examples/chat/
As an American, I'm not too ashamed to admit I need a reference point :)

How does it compare to places like San Francisco or New York? What about cheaper places to live, such as Portland or Atlanta?
I think people have just convinced themselves it's good 'cause they're stuck there.
Amazon's web services and their control panels support multi-factor authentication methods and customisable permissions models. For details see: http://aws.amazon.com/iam/
I like your advice, what languages and tools were you using to bill clients $100/hr.
The filesystem, backed up by git, ought to be perfectly fine for serving text content.

It will be interesting to see what happens if they add a lot of images and videos and git starts choking.

The main benefit of adding a RDBMS in this scenario would be being able to run indexed queries using SQL. The text content itself wouldn't benefit much, of course, and would be better off with something like SOLR for search. But there will probably be dates and other loose metadata that is ideal for a RDBMS. If the content in the filesystem ends up with associated metadata in a RDBMS, they may wish they had just put everything in the RDBMS to keep it simple.
Makes me sad.

The part that got so much easier was distribution. Steam and appstores did that making it easy (maybe too easy?) to just make a game and get it sold.

If something's fun, easy, and make's money - you'll get a lot of people doing it.
I have been mulling over a research MSc looking at the metrics available from OSS projects and how they might feed into better software practises (I think we can improve somewhere).

This stuff kind of inspires me - but also makes me quake a little in my boots
It didn't turn up in a TESS search (at http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4802...), perhaps it's an image mark, not words.
> I'm quite tired of hearing people saying Swedish people are "cold."

For what it's worth, I think Norwegians kind of are. I say that as a shy (which can come off as cold) Norwegian. I think that our social lives can become very compartmentalized, which I guess hurts outsiders like new countrymen disproportionately.
I think ultimately it's what works for you.

I have friends who've been all over the whole low-carbohydrate and grain-free fad. They're still fat. That's probably partly due to the quantity of what they're eating, plus there's a lot of junk food that doesn't contain carbohydrates.

Myself, I like my carbohydrates, and I eat a fairly large amount. And most of the other triathletes I train with, or endurance guys - they also eat a stackload of carbohydrates, and are pretty darn healthy looking. Also, most professional cyclists/runners are probably also quite carbohydrate heavy.

So I don't get it when people say carbohydrates are evil, and you'll get fat eating them. I don't think we know enough about the science to go one way or the other on something like this.

If it works for you, sure. But I suspect a lot of it's just due to being more attentive to what you're eating, and having good self-control. Eat less and exercise more - that's been the line since the 1970's, so it's hardly anything revolutionary.

Heck, our ancestors probably figured out if you ate less, you'd lose weight...
Even if it's some kind of Diffie-Hellman JS crypto?
Frankly, the best thing with coming from Sweden is that you get better weather wherever you move (except Iceland, Greenland -- and England). :-)

That said, I'd like to be more in .se in the summers than I can do now. It is so beautiful with the light, the forests and the lakes.

Edit: I don't mind the cold, but: For yellowapple and others -- the lack of sun influences your hormone levels, people are a bit different in the winter. I was amazed when I saw discussion of SAD among Californians; up in Scandinavia, it is just how it is. I didn't even note it, unless I went on a winter vacation.
"because Google has now given other websites the ability to destroy your rankings. That just doesn't make sense."

Makes sense to me.

* Take a snapshot of the link graph

* Hit spammers hard with negative penalties.

* Wait for vengeful SEOers to target their competition with negative SEO, and for the search results quality for mainstream users to noticeably drop

* Switch off the negative penalty flag -- Innocent competitors targeted by SEO negative SEO bounce right back

* Compare the before and after link graph.

* Update the list of low-quality link sources.

* Google wins because it has found a lot more spammy link sources than before.

* Spammers lose because their sites drop even further as previously okay link sources are now determined to be spammy

When you play a incomplet-information game with Google, you need to make sure you are not inadvertently providing them more information by changing your tactics. By changing your link building habits because of a negative link penalty, you are giving Google more information than before, you are confirming more link sources are not natural.

The smartest thing you can do is not to be tempted into negative SEOing your competitors. You are only burning the back links Google haven't flagged as spammy yet. So either keep doing what you were doing before the penalty, or stop building spammy back links. But playing with negative SEO plays straight into Google's hands.

At least, risk someone else's private link network, rather than your own ones when doing negative SEO. :-)
That sounds like exactly the same risk as meeting a person you met online in any conceivable way. Online dating, all of Craigslist, even job interviews have the same risk.
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Co-author here. There is a common misconception that consensus of the Bitcoin community is correlated with the hashing power of the miners.

A miner can have 51% of the hashing power, but if the blocks he produces are not accepted by clients (i.e. people with wallets, merchants, and the like), his 51% hash power is completely useless. His blocks need to be recognized by the clients, and if the clients decide that they do not want centralized mining pools, and decide that they only accept blocks with a second cryptopuzzle in them, miners who fail to switch will produce blocks that are unrecognized and therefore useless.
The problem with the tools we are currently seeing created is this:

Nigeria (for example) doesn't derive its power from the people; but from its oil, currently being pumped by Western oil companies. The populace are simply an expense. The source of their money comes from Exxon and Shell; their military might from foreign weapons manufacturers. I know a number of people who work for said manufacturers.
A few drones plus an 'armored riot-control vehicle': https://inkasarmored.com/armored-riot-control-vehicle/ with a built in water canon and those evil protestors won't stand a chance.
Contrary to what you think, writing crypto things is interestingly hard, not discouragingly or too difficult. Anyone can write one and most coders would enjoy it. The trouble is that if you are not already good in security, your creation will have too many security problems and holes to be useful for anybody who is not NSA.
My definition of religion isn't "spirit beings". My definition of religion is more along the lines of: A crutch for the weak, a tool for manipulation, an excuse for the lazy, and a template of evil for the manipulators.

Edit: I don't believe for one second that morality springs from religion. We have morality in spite of religion.
Speak for yourself; that sounds quite lovely.
No worse than the Danes ;-)

Urban populations (from Wikipedia):

Oslo, Norway: 951,581
Copenhagen, Denmark: 1,246,611
Stockholm, Sweden: 1,372,565
I would expect them to not like it, but I assume the people in Copenhagen laugh a lot. :-)
Back when I was 31, I considered the antipodean tradition of getting a working visa somewhere in Western Europe and doing odd jobs ('bar work' is the traditional one, but I would have gone for other unskilled labour). A sort of working holiday. Then I found out about the 30-year-old cut-off...
New scientific markup language
Comcast Collects 20 Years' Fees From 2 Customers Without Provding Any Services
Are we actually in a tech bubble? (nope)
Diplomacy. It's interesting that the movement (and support) mechanics are easy, it's the social aspects that are hard.
That seems like a staggering amount of people leaving New York.
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Attesting software (i.e. JavaScript, even from third parties) might be possible if https://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/ gains traction.
I'm not sure you grasp what Tex Live is.
> The amendment would block the NSA from using any of its funding...

Why is the legislation is written to cut off funding as opposed to making the act itself illegal?

In fact, why not do both, i.e., deny the use of funds and make the action (warrantless searches and backdoors) illegal?
Amazon says HTTPS is not intercepted

https://www.eff.org/2011/october/amazon-fire%E2%80%99s-new-b...

Also, Amazon has most of its customers banking information already.
Ask a nigger, like stephen hawking, "What's 2+5?" "I can't answer, it's a trick."
What if I get bitten on a Saturday?
Exactly. My favorite static site generator is Varnish.
Well, I'm Norwegian and I do not approve. :P
R programming, Android development, and Lisp programming with Norvig's book.

Android development. So far, it is the exact opposite of what fun with computers is.
There isn't really an either-or here. Do both.
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Yes, but we probably aren't half as active as those medieval people...

I agree with you about the activity though.

It's like you go to rural China, and you see the farmers eating tonnes of rice and vegetables. And I'm sure the low-carbohydrate crowd is going "OH NO! You'll get fat!!".

Well, no, they're farmers, and they work damn hard outside all day.

Or the fact that professional swimmers down 20,000 calories a day - well, yes, if you're in the pool 6 hours a day and doing weights out of it. You're still going to look like Thor...
> the countries there are more similar to each other than to other countries, so combining them is natural.

That seems like a very inaccurate generalization. If you think, say, Egypt is "similar to" Madagascar, Malawi, or Mozambique, that's difficult to agree with.

They're in rough geographic proximity, if that's what you meant. But downtown Manhattan and Ecuador are also the same distance apart and they're pretty different.
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This surprised me too. Anyone from New York care to comment?
I don't think this perspective is correct regarding to the current different business models these companies have.

Apple: We sell an experience of software and hardware.
Google: We sell ads, based on data we gather from our users.
Amazon: We sell commodities\services as close as possible to the marginal utility, so we're very competitive.

Altough each of these tech giants are competing, each has quite a different strategy.

As for the Fire phone, I think that Amazon realized that they could deliver an excellent shopping experience from the mobile phone.
This would enable massive future growth: Think about going home in the train and buying groceries instead of driving to your nearest Wallmart.
> When you say 5x, are you considering the acquisition cost for each product sold, or the annual budget?

When I say 5x, I mean Google gets 5x the amount of money than Amazon does. I think that is more relevant than a "per item" basis.

> Unless you only sell through Amazon, then a global comparison wouldn't be fair, because Google is semi-monopolist in ads while Amazon is far from it in retail.

It isn't my fault Amazon can't sell more of our products. ;)

> You should compare your average user acquisition cost with the wholesale margin left to Amazon; eg: how much does it cost to acquire through ads a user that buys products for $100? And how much of those $100 are left to Amazon?

That is a bad way of comparing for purposes of this conversation.

Amazon has to pay for shipping, pick & pack, customer service, return shipping, etc. That isn't free.
Actually, I heard that pretty much about every countries and experienced it myself (including in the US where people are supposed to be warm and welcoming) so I'm not sure Sweden is so different. Expats always have a hard time making local friends. The reason is that people have already their friends and routine, plus the language and cultural difference. Even in our own country, I think most of us don't make new friends every day (especially when getting older).
I think there is a misconception in this thread that I am arguing against the study of religion, but I'm not.
I understand the value in comparative religion classes in terms of enriching one's understanding of history and human culture.

I personally have no use for this in my current course. I am interested in the harmful aspects of religion.
I LOGGED IN TO SAY THAT YOURE NOT SPECIAL.
I would like to see a phone with a wheel on the side for scrolling.
The rent is not bad for a nice, low-crime, walkable/bikeable, stuff-happenin' urban area, that's true. Certainly cheaper than NYC/Boston/SF. And you can pay less than $1500/mo if you're willing to go 20 minutes out on commuter rail.

Eating out is pretty pricey, though, unless your reference point is Norway. You can pay $30 for a burger+beer in the U.S., but it has to be something pretty unusual. On the other hand, one reason eating out is pricey is that wages are more equal, which I generally like. As a tech person, in the U.S. things are cheap because one hour of a tech person's earnings pays for like 5-20 hours of a restaurant worker's time, but in Denmark it pays for more like 2-3 hours of their time.
This is pretty common for all nordic countries. It's really tough getting to know people, even if you're native. I recently moved from a small town to the capitol, and struggled to meet new people.

I met a lot of people, but all of them were expats, in the same boat as me. After a few years I now have a few local Norwegian friends, but nothing like where I grew up. That said - when you get "accepted" into a group, they'll treat you really nice, and introduce you to a lot of people.

Scandinavians, and especially Norwegians are really reserved to strangers. You'll rarely be talked to in public by a stranger or something like that. It's just a cultural thing.
NYC is very large so will look disproportionately more affected when comparison is expressed in absolute values. I'd be curious to see these numbers per capita.
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Not to be too flippant, but the company's closing shop. So, yeah, the DevOps are fired, along with everybody else.

As for the rest of us: AWS is a great one-stop shop. Unfortunately, using just AWS puts you in the "all the eggs in one basket" scenario that we were warned against as children.
I don't think so...

1. I already have spam links pointing to my site. It hurts me so I clean up the spam and make the world a little better.

2. I add spam links to my competitor who previous had no spammy links. Google notices the dates on the links and does not alter the PageRank of my competitor. The world is not made a little bit worse. I stop doing it.

So as long as there is some clear cut of date for spammy links (and hopefully some definition) then it seems workable. Any black hat SEO will know no to bother adding post-Penguin/panda links - for good or ill.
> If someone destroyed bible design blog's ranking, then I wouldn't have known I missed a superior option. I would have found stuff, but no competitors were as good.

For all you know a superior option existed but you don't know about it because 'bible design blog's SEO guy torpedoed them. I know that's reaching, especially given the subject matter but you get the point.

> The main incentive for negative SEO would be to let inferior content win, no?

I'm sure the SEO proponents would claim the exact opposite. We trust in Google to do the right thing here and I'm all for letting it be that way, but google is under no obligation to actually let the best content win. We hope they do, and we assume that our goals are aligned in this respect but frankly I have no idea how for the top 1,000,000 searches the actually achieved precision is. I would expect it to be quite high, but I have absolutely no way of verifying that and for all I know the results are junk. We will only know that that was the case when something better comes along and finds/ranks the content much better than Google does now. Comparing to Bing Google is doing ok, comparing to DDG is not fair given the relative sizes.

But I'd be one very happy person if a new search engine appeared that would give me exactly one page of results with all of them super relevant, even if it indexed only 10% of the web I would probably use it with some regularity. Quality is far more important than quantity.

FWIW I actually built a small search engine along those lines about 7 years ago, I never launched it because I simply don't have the resources to undertake such a project but I learned a ton about how hard the problem is that google tries to solve and even though I'm 100% at odds with them on the joint subjects of privacy and the way google+ gets rammed down my throat I do appreciate the difficulty of their position and the technical challenges involved in operating a search engine at this scale.
Hmm. Separating Los Angeles and Riverside seemed pretty strange to me. I mean, yes, they're 60 miles apart, but in the LA basin, people commute that far all the time.
Edit: This is a reply to a comment that's now deleted. So this orphan reply doesn't make much sense without the parent.

Things are changing:

"Sweden on Tuesday became the first European Union country to announce it will give asylum to all Syrian refugees who apply." : http://tribune.com.pk/story/599235/sweden-grants-blanket-asy...

And yes, immigration is already causing problems. Here, have some riots, happened just over one year ago: http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/05/swedens-r...

So maybe we won't need to wait for the "decade or two" you mentioned. But for what it's worth, while living there (in Umeå, actually) for half a year I got the feeling that people really do set priorities differently. I'm hoping Swedish society will more or less stay that way. Even if that society is based on "peer-pressured conservative egalitarianism". For I like to know that there's a place I can go when I've had enough of peer-pressured competitive consumerism.
Yes, it's absolutely essential that a switch to a nonoutsourceable puzzle also comes along with a variance reduction mechanism.

I have no clear winning solution for this part, but I've got a few ideas and have discussed them with Peter Todd, who also has ideas here. Basically the approach should be to internalize P2Pool, and to let miners choose a lower difficulty if they want (for a proportionally lower portion of the reward).

This is really subtle though. It would increase the amount of bandwidth needed. It would be easier to discourage / punish a block that has less difficulty. Also, some component of the reward should still be a high-variance jackpot... the nonoutsourceable puzzle is only effective when there's a luck component, and thus a big incentive for the real worker to defect.

So there's a ton more work to do. It's definitely not time for an immediate hard fork. But the discussion should begin.
And the "whys" will be answered by religion? I find that science does a better job of that. I'm infinitely more interested in physics and cosmology. As I have stated in other replies, I'm more interested in the negative aspects of religion.