skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something you guys haven't discussed is there's an old PR move in .mil aviation to propose a ridiculous theoretical possible cost per hour of operation compared to actual results from deployed weapon systems. Then when its deployed the cost of of the new weapon system goes to the traditional "twenty grand per hour" or so, unsurprisingly.

The problem is you can make things a little faster or slower but fundamentally the labor cost of an air wing is about the same and the support of the support troops is literally a constant. Replacing a wing of A-10 with this thing isn't magically going to make the gate guard work for less money or remove the need for a diversity officer from HQ. Inspecting a really expensive XYZ costs the same labor as inspecting a cheap XYZ. Ditto replacing landing lights or tires or whatever other consumables.

So take the total budget of an air wing, divide it by total hours flown (some a/c are more or less reliable than others) and you get about twenty grand per flying hour.

Another tradition is you pick something thats a labor nightmare. Lets say Osprey super high pressure hydraulics. Now you can fix that in a new A/C using somewhat better hydraulics design. But its like a murphys law that you'll just mess up the ... engine controller or some ridiculous thing. Another way to put it is since pre-roman era times, the troops are always complaining about something, although what they complain about varies a bit over the centuries. So its never all that much cheaper to maintain and operate one similar plane over another.
Time for some trust-building with the community, after that um, unpleasant discovery that NSA has been up in that Google, and Google willingly accepted.

About Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft etc, we have seen the list, Ive got to say, scumbags.

They sold us all out and threw us under the bus.

Lavabit - a simple company put up more of a fight than a multi billion dollar giant.

Never forget.
What I really like is when you get random J's in emails from people.

Took me a while to figure out this is some kind of autoreplace thing in Outlook that switches out emoticons with characters from the wingdings font, and J is a smiley face.
When I was pivoting away from my failed academic career - and the ripples of the Dot Com bubble were still fresh in most employers' minds - I had a job interview that went more or less like this:

HR Clerk> Why should I pay you [for a full time position] more than what you are currently making [at your current, unsustainable, part time gig].

Crpatino> Because I'd rather scrub toilets and sell potatoes by the road before giving away my skills for nothing.

HR Clerk> I am sorry, I did not intend to offend you, but you must realize this is a question every employer is going to ask...

The interview went more or less uphill from there, though I did not end up getting the position. But what I want to point out is that you are not required to just take whatever X employer is offering you. You must remember that this is a game with asymmetric information. They are trained to low-ball you every time they have a chance, expecting that you will push back and negotiate. And if you do not negotiate, they just shrug their shoulders and pocket the difference.

I am aware that it is different when you already have a job. But it is not the only way to "put food on the table", no matter how much it looks like. There are other jobs, and there are other industries. And you always have the option to create a job for yourself if all else fails.

You may need to take it as it is for some limited time while you put your ducks in line, but you don't have to do that forever.
It will never get more expensive than $20 million per plane + all the new support structure needed, from new ground radars and data systems to even new tooling for the mechanics.

In any case those countries are more far more likely to buy drones instead, which is why the number of companies in that sector is huge.
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Great. Looking forward for Dutch prices, that would be great. FYI an entire translation seems unnecessary, and in my experience (at least with dutch peole) most will prefer an english interface though that is usually because translations are so bad.
To add, there might be applications in for example bignum or other arbitrary precision math libraries/implementations.
Aside from the courses/exercises mentioned above you could also give Google Gruyere a go: http://google-gruyere.appspot.com/

If you want to go in-depth I learned a lot by just reading interviews (and following the links) from the 'How to Break Into Security' series of KrebsOnSecurity, here's the ones I had in my bookmarks (there are more if you use the search)

Thomas Ptacek (tptacek) Edition: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/06/how-to-break-into-securit...

Charlie Miller Edition: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/08/how-to-break-into-securit...

Richard Bejtlich: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/07/how-to-break-into-securit...
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The point is that this tactic would be selecting against the nice reps in the long run. Of course, I can't think of any other tactic that wouldn't do so.
Might have been PEBCAD, it's working now, once I enable cookies for site. Sorry for the distraction.

(FF 30.0, JS enabled, but AdBlock Plus and CookieMonster installed, fyi, jic.)

EDIT: Excellent article BTW.
Sure. And C-w being `close window or tab` in many GUI I often `cut` my windows away to heaven.

Also I dream of GUI textfields with emacs keybindings. I can't fathom Ctrl-$arrow in Windows for instance. I need my home row.
Tell you what. You point me towards the stats and the literature (not the anecdotes!) that have led you to these conclusions and we'll explore this topic together.

Send me an email at henry.k.mercer at google's email service. I'll reply back this weekend with a reading list.
No. 99.9% of the time, the people you get on the phone are courteous and helpful. Comcast is notorious for poor service precisely because it is not the norm. Sanity check: if this happened to everybody all the time, why would it be making the rounds on the internet? Anything that is newsworthy is rare by definition.
Thanks. These look great.
That last one is fixable.

I'm on Outlook 2007, so I don't know if the preference has moved in 2010 or 2013, but:

Tools > Options > E-mail Options > Advanced E-Mail Options > uncheck "Press CTRL+ENTER to send messages"
Windows Phone 8.1 now rolling out to Lumia devices
I got fed up with this fairly recently, and remapped it so I can use ctrl-F for find, using AutoHotKey:

#IfWinActive, ahk_class rctrl_renwnd32
^f::Send, {F4}
There is an amazing book about hacking the original xbox.

I think it may be this one, but I'm behind a firewall that doesn't let me open it: http://bunniefoo.com/nostarch/HackingTheXbox_Free.pdf
Is this a safe place? Can I admit that I actually use some of these? Actually, lets back it up; I need to draw a venn diagram.
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Wow. I didn't know that was possible! Ima haveta try it. You can easily see I'm obsessed. I'll add it now.

Seriously, a chip like this hasn't been out in a long time. Sure there are more powerful ones like the BeagleBoards and RPis, but they require more support hardware, space, components and power. Hell, the stm32f4 can run with just a few capacitors and no external crystal, and still have 24 analog inputs, two analog outputs and floating point. Plus it has internal cache so it can run at 168+ MHz and DMA, etc.
Do you live in one of these countries?
Nice find thank you... but it is a bit sad that we need an extension for this... and that it only works in Firefox.
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http://www.threadgroup.org/portals/0/documents/thread_introd...

Page 2 of the presentation says it's supposed to be an open protocol.
Hardware Is The New Software
Microsoft doesn't follow the 'standard' for shortcut mapping or behavior most of the time. Why would any of this give pause to anyone who's used their products for any amount of time?
People here seem to miss an important point.

"Unsafe" internet is not an inconvenience for Google. It's a mortal enemy.

With botnets all around clogging networks they will not be able to serve videos, search results or ads. With malware stealing your credit card details you will not buy stuff online and firms will stop buying ads.

Basically, it's not a matter of choice for Google to make internet safer. It's an absolute necessity long term. The big questions is exactly _how_ to make internet safer - and this announcement shows they at least have an idea where to start.
So the business model is based on piping customers to amazon ? thats neat, however i found that amazon germany lacks the diversity that many of the big online hardware retailers have around here.
Is it only stuff that amazon sells or also marketplace ?
It reads a bit like they're trying to recruit NSA employees to come work for Google...
Many times conventions are broken by some upper level person who isnt in touch with the reality around him. Projects I have been on have suffered because people dont understand technology or the conventions users have become accustomed to.
That estimate for uranium assumes conventional reactors, which fission U-235. That's 0.7% of natural uranium.

For a real comparison, you should look at fast reactors, which use the rest of the uranium. That takes your estimate up to about a thousand years. But the estimate is looking at economically recoverable reserves, and if the same ore produces a hundred times as much energy, a lot more becomes economically recoverable.

Thorium would be 3-4 times more abundant than that. (But if seawater extraction works out, uranium will have the advantage again.)
404 on the first link for tutorial.
Wow.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/eve...
This would all be 100% true in an ideal world. Unfortunately, the world we live in is far from ideal.
I don't doubt that their cooperation with the government played a role in them getting a slap on wrist in the wage fixing conspiracy as well.
Minuum Demos Non-Annoying Text Entry On An Android Wear Watch
This isn't accurate at all. 1) AngularJS was not built by Java developers at Google. Further, it's not clear if the original authors were Java developers. 2) JSF was built by the guy who created Struts, which he did to because he was unhappy with how Struts worked. 3) I wouldn't describe JSF as a Java/XML framework, it's intended to be a component framework.
This is hilarious. I couldn't get the extension to install, though. Also, you might want to repost it as "Show HN".
Understood, but my point is that it is their responsibility to select for nice reps, not ours. If their metrics combined with the natural customer reaction selects for bad reps, that's their fault and their problem.
Assembly is about as nonportable as you can get. Hardware access (not exposed by other languages), speed, and possibly executable size are the practical reasons one would write in assembly. The second and third are almost entirely outdated - storage of executables is free relative to storage of data; hardware speeds have made "slow" programs plenty fast for most things; and compilers can do better than you can quickly do, very quickly. The first is still a valid reason to use assembly, but typically in the form of a small snippet of inline assembly in C/C++ code.
Are other frameworks really that popular? I was assuming AngularJS was still a niche (outside of HN)?
I'd be interested in the yearly/3-year cost data of infrastructure based on a VC's total tech portfolio. I can't believe it to be insignificant. If you're a tech startup, your two biggest costs are labor and infrastructure/hardware.
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So was YouTube, to be fair.
sadly, all of these would/do actually work in the blue-chip firm where I work. I think it's time to resign...
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Despite the hoopla, isn't this project in Microsoft's lab while Google's is in current use online?
Data Warehouse and Analytics Infrastructure at Viki
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Microsoft prepares for biggest ever job cuts
Security is a big issue for all these corporates to the bare minimum degree that would make most people feel secure enough.

I don't buy it anymore.
This sounds like a new name (and possibly more executive support) for what those guys have been doing for years now.

The guys in that article have been working on finding bugs in non-Google products for a little over two years and you can see their past results through the advisory credits they've received at Microsoft and Adobe as well as from open source projects like FFmpeg.

For example see Ben Hawkes on this list of Google CVEs in other companies' products: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/research/
so did gambling sites.
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I assume they look for name on ID that matches name on payment method. That's what I used to do when I worked in a hosting company ~10 years ago.

This way, if someone has a stolen credit card, there's a very good chance, they won't have a matching government ID with same name. Hence obvious fraud.
I think the person paying you to do the work should have a strong say in how you do it, no matter how ridiculous.
In twenty minutes, at my hourly rate, I earn roughly:

- the entire hourly-equivalent salary of a new high school teacher (average, US) or

- enough to pay for my entire Starbucks consumption for over a week or

- enough to pay for almost two of my family's "luxuries" (netflix and one other service) or

- enough to pay for the entire quantity of gas I use every month or

- almost certainly double (or more) of the Comcast Rep's wage

This isn't meant to brag but to put in perspective what twenty minutes is worth via a common valuation (money). The lower the socioeconomic class, the more twenty minutes is actually worth, because they tend to have to work more hours to make ends meet, and thus their free time, unit for unit, ought to be valued more highly than mine.
Oak ridge was a uranium MSR.
> all the new support structure needed

They will not require an "all new" support structure. The same basic facilities will work for any single-seat fighter-bomber. The main things needed will be special tooling and ground carts. These are usually provided as part of the purchase package and may already be factored into the $20m price tag.

> new ground radars

Ground-based radar sets are irrelevant.

> and data systems

All those Soviet bird upgrades tear out every piece of of Soviet electronics and refit them with new, Western systems. Data links and similar systems will need to be upgraded anyway. On top of that, the Scorpion and the upgrade packages are going to use compatible data link technology, so an air force can even mix Scorpions with Soviet retreads.
So, this is what, ZigBee+? Any plans on integration or gateways for interoperation with existing ZWave/Zigbee networks?
That's political, however, rather than technical.

As one example a combination of Korea going hot again and China wanting to maintain a buffer state at all costs.

Vietnam wasn't all that long ago, and there's no really good technological reason that couldn't happen again.

We're also reaching a technological stage where it doesn't necessarily take two superpowers to fight a proxy war. Could India and Pakistan fight a proxy war without superpower involvement with a substantial air war component? Technologically, sure.
Not much meat here- just enough to raise your blood pressure.
Hey all, we spent some time porting Minuum over to Android Wear. It's still very alpha, but if anyone wants to try it out on their Wear device, they can sign up at minuum.com/watch and we'll send instructions on side-loading an APK. I'm around to answer any questions.
Jobs that don't let (or help) developers go to conferences that appear to be of little immediate or long-term business value.
Absolutely, but if anyone understands technology, it's Bill Gates. I'm guessing the blame for this case resides with the middle management that forced the programmers to follow the wishes of the boss.
I think you can assume that was his goal (an indirect reference to the cultural revolution that works in the way you say.)
Of course, you mentioned similar websites but I think they have different purposes compared to Pangoly. PCPartPicker offers a huge set of components with different stores so you can find the best price available for almost anything, but it struggle with users having little building experience that are trying to find what's the current best build options for their budget. On the other hand logicalincrements offers a nice viewing experience of components tiers but it lacks building customizations.
I think having another option and point of view is not harmful at all :)
>The other thing that would be great is something like a Shapeways for PCBs.

The service already exists. Numerous companies will produce small quantities (>5) of a PCB design from a Gerber file at a reasonable price and many will also do assembly. Prices vary depending on quantity and lead time; Amongst the cheapest are Itead, who offer ten 5x5cm PCBs (two-layer, with soldermask and silkscreen) for $14 shipped.

The main reason to etch your own boards is lead time, as it can take a week or two (plus shipping from China). European and American PCB houses can turn around boards in as little as 24 hours, but at much greater cost.

http://imall.iteadstudio.com/open-pcb/pcb-prototyping.html
"unpleasant discovery that NSA has been up in that Google, and Google willingly accepted." [citation needed]

Specifically for the willingly accepted part.
Is there an English translation of this floating around somewhere? I'm curious to know the specifics of the exchange.
Today I learned there's a fan company called "Big Ass Fans" - and they're a partner in this!
Replacing the btree engine in SQLite3 is far from easy. BerkeleyDB did it with major surgery to the SQLite3 source tree. LMDB did the same. https://gitorious.org/mdb/sqlightning
This article is so bitter and dismissive of Microsoft that I have a hard time even taking it seriously.

"Nadella begins at the altar of innovation, a word that at Microsoft has traditionally meant stealing technology. Of course he is the company cheerleader to some extent but Microsoft’s tradition of innovation is hard to even detect, much less celebrate or revive. This is revisionist history. Can he really believe it’s true?"

Seriously? We're going to poopoo them stealing tech and completely dismiss everything they've ever done? I guess Apple/Google/IBM/HP get a pass...

I'm a Linux fanboy first and foremost, so I don't exactly view MS with rose colored glasses. With that said, regardless of how they did it, MS has left a mark on the world. Show me a huge tech company that doesn't "steal tech" or engage in anti-competitive practices. That doesn't make it OK, but completely dismissing MS's history seems silly.

If the author missed the mark this bad on what Microsoft is and has done, I have a hard time taking him seriously when talking about the future.
I'm thankful that we're (very) slowly moving away from that idea. That's what they pay Product Owners for.
Now I almost want to call Comcast and try to cancel service, even though I don't have any Comcast service.

Better yet, somebody should write a bot using voice recognition, TTS, and a state-machine, and have it call and mess with these people.
What a pain it was to cancel a Telemar landline and Velox DSL subscription. I had to report them to Anatel. It was the only way to get it cancelled.
That would've been too easy - instead it's now used in fewer places, but with new rules ;) When it's long-pronounced, ß is still used, like in Fuß or Stoß. In words like Fluss it's replaced with ss.
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Having the government pay for such resources (as with roads) ... is massively more efficient than private enterprise

Good point that needs repeating, thank you.

I agree with business management guru Peter Drucker when he states that waste is immoral.

I support the most efficient solutions for a context, whether its collectivism, competition, cooperatives, lotteries, various kinds of auctions, whatever.

Whenever a better solution is found, I will support that. Because, you know, things change.
Kind of thought that Angular is a bit like VB <cue shrieks and screams>.

Both allow relative novices to produce sophisticated GUIs rather quickly. Both require a fairly high level of understanding discipline, and organization to produce high quality large-scale products. Frankly, GWT sort of fits that description as well.
Really cool. How do you browse shared builds?
Cool project - Wish I could remove some of the mandatory components - I could not figure out a way to remove the hard drive.
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Then again, it might make huge money too, since so many companies play hardball retaining customers.

How would that result in this endeavor making money?

In any case, this is not actually a problem that is difficult to solve. Yes, a phone call like that is utterly infuriating, but you can still cancel your service at the end of it.

Maybe people would pay money to avoid dealing with that. Maybe. But you do it, what, once a year at most?
Did you submit a bug report? The Windows port of LMDB is developed on Windows7 x64. It is also (naturally enough) used in Windows x64 builds of OpenLDAP and those pass all tests.
I remember on the original mother of all Wiki's there was a vigorous discussion about walled gardens and a link on the front page warning about such: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WalledGardens

If all those botanical pages aren't linked by any other Wikipedia pages it seems like a single link to a "Botanipedia" would be just as well.
> Exciting times!

Agreed!

Yeah, the Squink Kickstarter is sorely lacking in information. They don't give trace width and spacing specs, etc.

I also like that AgIC uses off the shelf printer hardware and can manage high resolution. However, I'm skeptical you can do much more than OSHPark with 0.4mm BGAs. The challenge with OSHPark design rules is the breakout, and here you have one (maybe two?) layers, so again, you can't manage much of a ball grid.

Although these projects are exciting, I can't seem them replacing cheap PCB fabs + reflow oven for my own prototyping projects. So then question becomes, how do you take the next step? Maybe you can print on FR-4 or pre-preg, use optical alignment to handle registration and glue multiple layers together with conductive glue to achieve multi-layer boards. For ground planes, maybe you choose some layers pre-clad with copper. I'm not sure what to do about vias. You could think about using layers with a selection of various pre-made vias, but again, it is hard to see how that would work with large BGAs. So you have to include a drill and find some way to plug/fill the vias.
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Is someone bypassing the duplicate submission logic by editing URLs.

Earlier submission here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8036515