skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. The Scorpion appears to be designed to fill the role that the F5 largely filled in practice. Well, up here in Canada, at least. The F5 may not have been designed for the role, but it filled it much better than the 104 or the Voodoo could have, and those were the alternatives before we got the F18.

Unfortunately, it doesn't have the advantage of being quite as pretty as the F5 (which, like the Spitfire, was as much a Platonic projection of what a fighter of the era should look like as it was a real aircraft). It looks like what it is, and, politics aside, it's not going to tickle any fancies. Customers, if any, will be those who realise that this aircraft is what they need, not what they dream of.

As for the politics of procurement, Textron isn't exactly a virgin here (although Bell has been helicopters and Cessna hasn't done much since the T37/A37). And the F35 (well, the whole JSF debacle, going back to before the F35 was selected) has left some rather bad tastes in some rather important mouths.
Incidentally I remember this study a while back stating that red indeed is a colour that can make both men and women more attractive:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-social-thinker/20100...
So most programs can't "just create a device node".
The entire premise of conventional weaponry these days is that you dont need much.

What if you needed 3000 of these. I would buy them.
That is a bit like worrying about the innocents working on the deathstar.

They know what kind of job it is. They do it anyway.
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Probably my most-used OS X program and the first thing I use when I setup a new Mac. Terminal.app is just so...janky.
Snapchat's Our Story feature launch at Electronic Daisy Festival was great, too.
I guess to me prestige is secondary to actually doing the job. After all with the congressman's connections he or she can continue to have an impact afterwards. Look at retired US presidents and vice presidents who want to continue to make a difference! Sometimes it's even easier and more pleasant for them once they're out of office.

People also say that regulators are captured by the industry via opportunities they get in a revolving door. They are offered cushy positions at the industry after they stop being politicians, in exchange for favorable votes. I could see this as possibly being a bigger motivator than re election.

Maybe there should be some consequences to not voting according to the policies you ran on. Buy in any case, if most politicians are awayed by lobbying, then being one politician who isn't won't make a huge difference.
I feel like taking a shower after listening to this call. Is this what it's like most of the time in the US when dealing with service representatives?
The linked Twitter conversation is reasonable:

https://twitter.com/hfiguiere/status/483040912491036672

If you read the email, they mark the notification as read so it doesn't bother you in the web UI. I'm a strong supporter of user privacy, but this is a reasonable thing for GitHub to do.
No, it's not.

I assume you're incorrectly referring to the Stolen Valor Act (of 2013, as the earlier one was struck down for violating the First Amendment). That law specifically handles cases in which someone claims they are a recipient of an award related to combat AND does so with the intent to receive money, property or a tangible benefit.

Simply lying about military service to a Comcast Support Technician is not a crime.
The linked Twitter conversation[1] explains it quite well:

> It’s only used to mark notifications as read when you open the email

And the reaction from Hubert there is a bit excessive.

[1]: https://twitter.com/hfiguiere/status/483040912491036672
This!

also, we've had clients who wanted to know the payments so they can budget accordingly i.e. send them the invoices, but they might not be prepared to pay all 3 of them at once.
This is fully official: https://github.com/blog/1214-notification-email-improvements

> Notifications that are read as HTML email are automatically marked as read in the github.com notifications interface. An invisible image is embedded in each mail message to enable this.

If your client displays email in HTML (GitHub also sends the text version) and does not intercept images, then your client is leaking, and you should be concerned for your privacy every time you open a email.

I suggest to give a spin to this checker: https://emailprivacytester.com/
I'm really a fan of this thing as a potential replacement for the A-10C since the USAF is hellbent on retiring the Hog. It's not a direct replacement, but it's a better fit for the role than the F-35 would be and the things are so cheap that you could field a ton of them.

It's supposed to be a sub-$20M jet and I've seen cost per flight hour numbers in the range of $3-5000. In comparison, the A-10 runs around $15-20k/hour, the F-16 anywhere from $15-30k/hour depending on the numbers you can find, and the F-35 is reportedly around $30+/-5k.
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If you don't out them, it's still a win for them.
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This estimate doesn't seem to account for enrichment. For every KG of uranium mined, you get a much lower ratio of enriched fuel.
You're assuming that the timeframe for this is anything remotely relevant. All indications are that humans are changing their own circumstances far faster than evolution can keep up. The kinds of changes you describe take tens or hundreds of thousands of years at best, and more likely millions.

Sure, if things stay exactly as they are, then given enough time, humans in wealthy countries will evolve to have lots of children again. But things won't stay exactly as they are for anywhere near long enough, not by several orders of magnitude.

I hate these posts that go, "I'm just assuming completely reasonable thing X." No, you're also assuming rather controversial and far-fetched things Y and Z, you just assume them so hard that you don't even mention it, possibly don't even realize it.
Last week my wife called to disconnect our service with Comcast after we switched to another provider (Astound).... she and I have already played along and given a myriad of reasons and explanations... which is why I simply stopped answering the rep's repeated question https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service
I'm very exciting to see Rust move into embedded!

Some minor comments:
The page includes example code. I worry that it might be abstracting TOO much away, while at the same time hiding details.

For example, in the main oscillator example, you still would have to consult deep in the manual to understand what m, n and divisor do if you wanted to change the frequency. I think if you're going to use a library, it would be cool to operate at a higher level than this.

Also notice in the timer example, you still have no idea what frequency the timer will run at! Maybe I just want something higher-level built on top of this? Maybe I should implement libopencm3 on top of this?

p.s. Crazed fans of the greatest microcontroller of all time, the stm32f4, check out http://reddit.com/r/stm32f4 and http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/stm32f4
This isn't a scandal. Either the originator is genuinely surprised that this kind of thing is an ordinary practice in corporate mailouts or they're trying to kick up a stink.

Downvoted.
Had the exact same experience with Clear.com (which I think has since been acquired) a few years back:

http://www.bird-dog.co/blog/2012/11/05/clear-com-makes-it-im...
>> When I read "integer multiplication", I think of "123 * 456". Is that what is actually being said here? If so, why would you do anything but "123 * 456" to arrive at the actual answer?

The paper is talking about methods to multiply integers of significant length. Think 2048bit RSA keys, or multi-million-bit numbers used in GIMPS. Of course you just use a single machine instruction for small numbers. But the hardware designers actually care about such algorithms too because it affects the number of gates and propagation delay. That said, this paper will likely only be relevant to large integer software implementations.
How else could the caller have possibly handled it?

This is obvious: by answering the question. I'll repeat that he was under no obligation to answer that question.

My mother-in-law does the same thing this guy does: stands her ground and refuses to answer any questions. It's completely her right to engage in that manner, but she neither asks for nor gets any sympathy for how long she has to stay on the phone with people.

Maximally demanding all your rights all the time is usually not coincident with smooth interactions with other human beings.
Many of these are either snake oil or well intentioned but doomed dilettante projects.
Well, it uses the libc runtime [This is actually mostly incorrect, see comment below by dbaupp], which obliges me to invoke the old quote, "the greatest trick C ever played was to convince the world it has no runtime".

I wish I could track down the originator of that quote, but I have no idea. I'm sure someone here will know.
This is the most accurate funny thing I've read in a very long time.
And you can always read Github's source code to find out if they're using the tracking pixel for anything el- ohhhh waaaait
I wouldn't mention my PHD ever. You have an MSc and 2 years experience thats all.
Air Purifier - is your air actually so dirty? If it is, there are great purifiers already on the market.

EyeSpeak - no idea if this will work, but sounds cool.

Rainforest Connection - no idea if this will, but sounds cool.

JAESA - I call BS. If the only thing that stood between us and the kind of AI this is talking about was a $30,000, don't you think IBM, or NASA, or Microsoft, or one of a few dozen other large companies would have already done it? Hell, $30k is pocket change to invest into something like this for an individual with a large savings account. The profits earned would be huge.

Pyramid Garden - go to Home Depot and build your own.

GlobalStar - no idea if this is good or bad.

Daymak Beast - the problem with these is always that the battery doesn't have enough juice and the solar panels are only strong enough to power a pocket calculator. It's possible that this thing is a fun toy, but it is not real transportation. Get a bicycle if you want to be green.

Go Kin Packs - IMO a hand wind generator would be much more convenient than tiring your on your hike over many miles.

idenergie/river turbine - is it not a solved problem to extract energy from running water? Wouldn't a water wheel be easier/cheaper?

Rapidly rechargeable battery - it's a capacitor/supercapacitor. They do indeed charge very fast, but hold only about 1/10th of the energy of an equivalent Li-Ion battery. I believe you can already buy pre-packaged supercapacitors with charging circuitry elsewhere.
I wonder how this could work against the F35 etc when being flown by a country with greater manpower. EG if (for the sake of argument) China could put 10-20 of these in the air for every F35, could it win an air battle?
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The tracking beacon is harmless, I actually think the feature is pretty cool. And it looks like Mozilla's MDN uses non-opting tracking beacons as well: https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/issues/1985

So there's no need to file an issue with the same company who does the same thing on their developer network.
I have the same issue, and I know it doesn't happen when using Macvim, so it's probably an iTerm problem.
My guess is they're not aiming their sights at the Pentagon, but rather medium sized country exports. Plenty of countries want a modern yet cheap to maintain air capability.
It was also announced officially on their official blog back then: https://github.com/blog/1214-notification-email-improvements

> Notifications that are read as HTML email are automatically marked as read in the github.com notifications interface. An invisible image is embedded in each mail message to enable this.
A ton of people are irritated about the A-10 being retired to make way for the F-35, since the A-10 is vastly better at the ground-attack missions that are currently needed in Iraq.

Building a cheap plane with low running costs which can fulfill that roll would make a lot of people very happy (although no one's going to fit a GAU-8 onto anything but the A-10 airframe I suspect).
Think of it this way: Suppose there exists a politician that cares deeply about N issues. She knows she can only do what's right on M out of those N due to various constraints. She is going to pick those M issues that are most important to her. She will fight tooth and nail to get reelected so that she can complete her work on those M issues. This is exactly what politicians should be doing, no?
I have a more up-to date reference

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/start/register/when-to-register.h...

I do get them from pingdom, and AWS.
I do not get them from Mailchimp or hostgator.
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"An invisible image is embedded in each mail message to enable this."

Im not paranoid about github but when did "invisible images" become "ok"?

Maybe email is the wrong protocol for EVERYTHING.
They should make a poster of this. I'd buy several and hang them in each of our conference rooms.
> I'd never use a Debit Card for foreign currency transactions though, they always seem to have fees involved.

Nationwide used to have commission-free cash withdrawals on their debit cards abroad, but I think it was abused by people who had second homes in other countries so withdrawn a year or two ago. I believe they still offer a commission-free credit card though.
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You've successfully captured the management style of Jean Luc Picard!
I'm really sorry you posted this, I think it's going to hurt people and make them sick if they take any of it seriously.

What I see is a toxic diet loaded with carbohydrates which is not sustainable by most people.

While anyone can survive on just about any food for 3 months most people will (not might, will) get very sick over time eating that way.

About the only thing that can be said about it is it doesn't have much processed food so at least you're not adding much in the way of man-made toxins.

Get back to us when you've spent a year or more eating this way.

But the part that is the very worst to me is all that running, you are taking years off your life with chronic cardio like that.

None of this is an off the cuff opinion or personal bias, it's all quite well known if you keep up on quality nutrition and exercise science and the latest double blind studies, here's a good place for you to start when you get sick from all this and want to do the right thing:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/
He states that he started to record after ten minutes, so he only succeeded after ~18 minutes.
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Isn't this how practically everyone tracks email open rates? MailChimp, Amazon, etc...
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Nice. Is there an easy way to set the new tab url in Chrome? Without extensions?
The F-20's problem was that it was directly competing with the F-16 (and in some ways actually outclassed it). It was always intended to compete mostly for the foreign export market. The problem was that the USAF had already selected the F-16 and thus had a vested interest in increasing F-16 adoption to get their own costs down.

The Scorpion is interesting in that it doesn't really have a domestic competitor. We're talking about a plane that that's going to cost less than a fifth what the JSF does, cost about 1/10th as much per flight hour to operate, and can fulfill a mission the JSF isn't all that well suited to in the first place.

The problem they're going to run into, though, is the same one the A-10's constantly facing - the USAF doesn't really want to be in the CAS business. Personally, I'd be in favor of just axing the 60 year old Key West Agreement and giving the A-10s (and potentially the Scorpions) over to the Army.
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Conflict avoidance is pretty much always a losing strategy and a very bad habit. It makes you less efficient in a company (as flawed decisions aren't challenged until to late), but more importantly, it makes you vulnerable and ensures that you often get unreasonably bad deals.

It can be fixed, as almost everything else, it's a trainable skill/habit.
> When a participant in the meeting uses one of those techniques all I think is: wow, in no way did you just contribute to this discussion.

The problem with this statement is that you're assuming everybody's as smart at spotting bullshitters and manipulators as you. What if only 20% of people in the room noticed what they were doing and the other 80% thought they were a genius?

This is often the case and it's why strictly rational people are playing an irrationally weak hand.
Given the content, I can't tell if the allusion to the disastrous Chinese Cultural Revolution is intended or not. It seems more like Cringely's actually talking about changing Microsoft's culture, which makes the title quite poor.
At 3:36 in the video, when the 'interface' shuts down, it closes into Visual Studio. So not only is J.A.E.S.A. a next-generation AI, it runs natively on Windows.

The whole video screams 'scam'
I'm confused why he has such an axe to grind. It's not like this is an unsolicited email: you have to choose to be watching the repo/issue/commit to get these kinds of notifications.

How he gets from a notification email to a company that violates privacy and has no ethics is beyond me.
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Surely you realize you more or less agree with me!

I also think that most industry jobs are not "exciting", and so people that desire stimulating intellectual work have better options inside academia, even if for just a limited time (if they do not go further after the PhD).
Comcast doesn't serve Madison, WI in case anyone needs a city for this.
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It might be cheap enough, and given the wings might have the loiter time, but can it carry the ordinance that an A-10 can? Certainly doesn't seem to have the same survivability characteristics either.
In rural areas you pay a lot for initial connection, then usual rates. Or just use radio links (WiMAX and fixed 3G stations are kind of popular where my parents live).
For sure. Open the preferences panel for your Chrome, go to _On Startup_, and select _Open a specific page or set of pages._
There, you should be able to select/paste the TypeZen URL.
Knockapp: Best of text message and phone call combined in one
But if you don't, it is pretty expensive:

80$/mo DO: 8GB RAM, 4 Core, 80GB disk, 5TB

163$/mo Softlayer: 8GB RAM, 4 Core, 100GB storage, 5TB
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The main function as below.
1. Battery Saver
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The easiest way to cancel services with shit companies like this is by mail. Spend a few minutes typing a letter, pay the small extra fee for proof of delivery, and you are done. Your post office probably has an automated self-serve kiosk where you can do this in under 5 minutes. Time is money, don't allow a company to spend your time like this.

Sure, you should be able to cancel on the phone with no hassle but that is a pipe dream. This is one instance where the old-school method still works best. I've done this with Verizon & Sprint when I lived in the States and was even able to cancel without penalty (they raised SMS a few cents each time) and not deal with their retentions people.

Now it is my preferred method for anything that takes over 10 minutes on the phone. Even if they are on the line, 10 minutes is a hard cutoff and I hang up, type a short letter, and mail it. It's low-tech but very effective.

And for anyone else with Comcast, here's the fine print that Ryan should have read to save all this aggravation. Scroll down to section 9 b (1): https://www.comcast.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/Subscri...
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BTW, you cand find cheaper boards or with more peripherals from China, just check out eBay or aliexpress
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You can get seriously ill cooking and eating dried beans from Phytohaemagglutinin if you don't do it right.

Beans like most seeds contain specific toxins that are aimed directly at mammals to prevent them from being eaten. This is why you can't eat just about any seed in quantity without processing it; they don't want to be eaten and conduct chemical warfare to prevent it.

Even once processed you are still getting a huge amount of toxins, just not enough to be sick enough to notice. I don't know why anyone eats beans, ignorance I guess.

Beans are also loaded with carbohydrates, peeled potatoes are a much safer source of starch if you just want to load up on starch.
I don't think the mission for this plane is air-to-air. It would be at a huge disadvantage vs. the F-35 and F-22 in the range and sophistication of its radar and targeting. A ridiculous amount of the expense and software code is dedicated to radar, targeting, and communications on modern planes.
There is a bug in terminal.app that manifests itself when you ssh to remote servers, launch something like tmux, disconnect, and try to resize the window[0]. The bad part for me is that this happens every time I leave my desk (the terminal resizes to the laptop screen size, and my usb ethernet dongle gets disconnected).

[0] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3690502?start=0&tstart=...
Only an assumption here, but I would say its due to what to do with the waste. If the waste is useless, then we have to have a place to put it. If it has another use, then obviously we dont have to stick it in a hole somewhere.

Again, totally non-researched, off the top of my head assumption.
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Thorium is not a fissile isotope - meaning it can't be used for fission directly. It needs to be transmuted by neutrons into uranium 233 (which is fissile). By this measure, thorium isn't any better than Uranium 238 - which is 99.3% of naturally occurring uranium. So "All but a trace of the world's thorium exists as the useful isotope" - can be applied to uranium also. Uranium 238 is also a fertile isotope - and doing a completely fair comparison, uranium doesn't need to be enriched either... Except the only way we have to convert fertile isotopes to fissile isotopes is to expose them to a sustained, high neutron flux which is typically only economically achievable using enriched uranium (via the naturally occuring U235 isotope). Thorium breeder reactors need enriched uranium as much as uranium breeder reactors. So while thorium has some advantages, I wouldn't say that natural abundance or supply are particularly significant.

[Edit] corrected use of "fissile" -> "fertile"
I think you're missing the point all together. The only reason a company can behave this way and retain the number of customers who would have otherwise moved elsewhere is because there isn't a free-market. The companies are run as oligopolies. It is government intervention and protection that has caused this problem in the first place which is what most people don't realize.
I think this is great. I think I would still follow this up with a quick standup, but it forces everyone to show up prepared. Can you put up some pricing info or define "small teams"? Is this working? or is this an experiment?
Yes, but answering the first question would lead to a million other questions since the rep obviously set his mind on something from the start. He said he's moving to a different service, then the rep says why are you moving, don't you want the #1 internet & tv, etc.