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Is the US slowly bowing out of the international tech scene?

China is still going to get their processors from somewhere, the difference is if they don't get them from US companies then no money gets added to the US economy when they do buy their chips.

This type of government interference doesn't hurt Chinese businesses at all, but could damage or destroy US-based businesses that may depend on foreign customers to stay afloat. This only serves to hurt US business and limit the amount of money being added to the US economy by Chinese consumers. It feels like a spiteful, self-destructive move to me.
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Yeah I was thinking much the same. I really do believe that we should just remove the downvote button entirely, too many people abusing it for the wrong reasons. An entirely upvote-oriented site would work reasonably well. You could still flag offensive comments if need be.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Java is big on Wall Street. Some companies are even more progressive and use Scala, Haskell, or oCaml (e.g. https://blogs.janestreet.com/category/ocaml/, http://adtmag.com/articles/2011/07/29/why-hft-programmers-ea...)

Btw, the creator of C++ works on Wall Street.

http://www.morganstanley.com/profiles/bjarne-stroustrup-mana...
If computer-controlled aircraft have the advantages of high maneuverability, small size, fast reactions, and disposability, what do you get if you turn the knobs on all of those up to 11, and then fit the simplest possible kill mechanism? A very effective AI controlled airborne machine that already exists - called a missile!

The only question is how you get the missiles to the battle (because being small makes it hard to make them long-ranged), and how you get slow-but-powerful human brains and large-aperture sensors near enough to them to make effective use of them.

So far, we've got two ways of doing this. Firstly, by slinging missiles beneath manned fighter aircraft which carry the brains, and sending those out along with airborne early warning aircraft which carry the sensors (and more brains). Secondly, by fitting them to warships big enough to carry plenty of brains and radars themselves. The aircraft have the advantage of speed (and altitude, if that matters), whereas the ships have the advantage of range (and a few other things).

This battleplane idea can be seen as either converging the fighters and AEW aircraft, or as transferring some of the attributes of the warships to the fighters.

Alternatively, the idea could be seen as converging reality with a 1987 techno-thriller:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Old_Dog
It's shocking how much disdain programmers show for mathematics which gives us the tools to prove that our applications are correct.

I personally think these things are great but too expensive. My customers care about solving their problems not perfection. There's a balance to be struck and I'm not excusing bad software, but if the customer isn't willing to pay for better and is happy with the current quality, there is little incentive to put in this extra effort (and therefore cost) when the resources could instead be put to work on providing value in ways the customer does care about.

I guess after you exceed the customers quality requirements/expectations, there are diminishing returns.

I'd love to produce perfect software, but nobody will pay me to do it.
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No, I'm not. It's 8 ticks per second. I have one and I have checked. Look at this video of the hand up close (it's a 28800 bph movement):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxgahvNH3q0
I read this as part of a science fiction class back in college. It was amazing and well thought out!
What? Of course not. If you think I implied that then you need to reread my post.
"Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis

It's a novel which makes you think about how you want to spend your everyday life. It's a book about appreciating what you have, about friendship, about love. It's very pure.

I'd recommend it.
Why is that undefined? Seems like it should obviously cause a fault...
I edited it because "irresponsible" wasn't strong enough in this case. What they did was idiotic. I think they were on the stupid side...with this kind of money floating around, any hint of kickbacks or corruption would quickly float to the surface. I'm sure that the funds they invested in were run by world class investors, but the pension manager(s) simply didn't understand the implications of the fee agreement.
More peaceful, no. But that supports and ecosystem, which has other benefits, and the wolf that kills the deer uses the deer to survive, so while the deer dies, the wold lives. I find that justifiable.
Agreed. At least from a consumer standpoint. I use an online only bank account after switching. And there's plenty out there. Better service, fewer fees, and without a physical "bank" location in the traditional sense it can keep costs lower. Haven't looked back. I don't need a physical bank to accomplish 99.9% of my banking needs. With offerings like Ally, Simple, etc I think the traditional and big banks will only be necessary for non consumer facing stuff: large investments, mass ACH, trading (including high frequency stuff), etc
'Studyblrs': Teens take to social media to show off their…study habits?
This seems insane, but appears to be true. Here's an article with a little more supporting information:

http://www.hpcwire.com/2015/04/08/chinese-supercomputing-org...

While I'm excited that Intel may experience greater competition (resulting in lower profits and faster development) I wouldn't have expected this to be the mechanism.
Meditations: Read this thinking about the power held by the hand writing it. Absolute control of the Mediterranean world! Incredible!
low cost index funds are passively managed. there's nothing to be informed or educated or engaged about other than having an opinion about the general market. not sure what your point is here.
Yep, that's the closest I've got to a plan at the moment: build enough audience to run a kickstarter of some sort.
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> It depends on the size the library.

Haha, indeed it does.
Can we get a title change? It's misleading.

> ... Uncle Sam has put this supercomputer centre, together with National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, the system’s creators, and Tianjin centre, among others, on so a so-called “Denial List”, which prevents any high technology from the USA to be sold to these sites.

If I understand correctly Intel can't sell them any tech nor can anyone else in the US.
The lack of ports don't bother me. Yet another cable incompatible cable bothers me. Yet another dongle bothers me. Lack of magsafe is really bothers me.

Magsafe was a step forward. Why go back?
Basically, if you're maintaining that old Silverlight app with no roadmap to modernize it.
A few years ago, while moving there was a small herd of deer in the middle of the road, around a bend and I was doing 55 in a rather large moving truck... I had to swerve into the other lane (glad nobody was coming the other direction) to make it into an opening. I remember as a kid deer were very skirmish around people and cars. Now, it's like there's no fear there.

On the flip side, I do think we should probably migrate some deer populations to those areas seeing desertification to encourage more plant/brush growth. It may be more homogenous, but it's better than barren land. I'm thinking that there should be some efforts to make venison more appealing to people, and perhaps start stocking it in regular grocers.
It is 8 ticks per second. Look at this video of the hand up close (it's a 28800 bph movement):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxgahvNH3q0
While this is a significant vulnerability, I don't think the article is correct when it calls it a 'backdoor.' The term backdoor typically implies something that was intentionally left to allow illicit access, and while this is a significant bug, I don't see anything to indicate that's the case here.
> In my view ... shouldn't be encouraged if it has a negative impact on surrounding homeowners

So... You support the idea that we will eventually get rid of all farms in favour of suburbia? How will this not end up negatively affecting the world around us?
>because the city had no means of forcing the sale of the land.

I'd find it pretty horrible if the city did have the means to force the sale of the land so that developers could build more houses. Gentrification of any sort has plusses and minuses but I'm generally pretty opposed to the government imposing it by forcing people to move out and sell their property.
>So what's to stop China from getting the same chips from Intel through another company?

sometimes CBP/FBI/etc. happen to do their job :)

http://www.fbi.gov/sanfrancisco/press-releases/2015/san-fran...
The name sounds a lot like our old mobile game "LaundroMatch" (with an updated release coming soon).

http://laundromatch.com/
Don't be sad that you can't change the past: you weren't the person you are now 6 years ago. But be happy that you can change yourself, and get better over time. Don't let the stress of not measuring up destroy you, but definitely let it propel you forward, to keep pushing yourself to do better. Not better by someone else's metric but by your own.

Would you like to create and maintain useful projects that you love to write and people love to use? Then it's not to late at all! Edward Kmett maintains a ton of widely used haskell libraries. He had a successful career as a software developer, went back and got his master's degree in his 30's, learned haskell, and became a leading figure in the community. Not just as a hacker, but he gained a deep knowledge of the mathematics behind haskell and made numerous contributions.

Think about that. At 26, you may not even have found the thing that you'll become famous for yet. You may not even know anything about the field that it'll be found in. The only way to get better is to push yourself, and little by little you'll become more disciplined, and learn more.

Read, push yourself, code, learn. You aren't dead yet, and don't let the achievements of people younger than you make you feel like you are.
I was ready to dismiss the article because the first set of questions didn't seem that bad and Fitbay doesn't strike me as a "unicorn". Though the next set of questions does really nail it. But I think that's just a different way of saying "can this team create traction?"
General question about remote work: as a european, can you work remotely for an american company without an H1B visa?
On the one hand, I've been wanting something like this for a while. On the other hand, I have so many bad memories of problems caused by NFS in production from the 90s that I'm leery.
Maybe not a million, but TWO is far more reasonable than one.

Here is a brief list of wired accessories likely to be used at least 2 at a time: headphones, mouse, flash drive, mobile device.
This seems to be contradicted by this recent article:

http://asiancorrespondent.com/125980/thai-immigration-offici...
and I'll add that they are too unfun

Maybe I'm alone, but I don't have a huge problem with my bank being "unfun".
I've just finished The Lean Startup by Eric Reis. I'm now onto 'Zero to One' by Peter Thiel. Also read Business Adventures by John Brooks recently. Oh! And 'Tales of Mystery & Imagination' by Edgar Allen Poe I've got for bath-time reading :)
Looks like its already been changed.
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I think this is a great product, but I've been actively avoiding NFS for a while now. It's a real shame that there isn't a better network FS protocol standardized already - NFS is complex, is usually a single point of failure (would be interesting to know if EFS isn't...) and comes with a whole set of cruft.
What apologists? Were the comments deleted or something, because I really don't see anyone defending Apple in this thread.
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Can it link to torrent?
The problem is when those predators have been completely removed. It requires manual intervention to bring them back. Can you imagine the protests to bringing back predators to an area? "Think of the Children!"
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I suppose the difference is what they use the data from the toothbrushes for. OralB produces pretty dashboards with the information while this is a game. I suppose this is closer to your rainbow example.

Another difference would be that this is not a toothbrush in itself so it can be used with multiple manual toothbrushes.

I would agree that holding the smartphone in the other hand is a bad idea. It would be better to prop it up against something or use one of the bathroom kits showed in the video on the page.
For a person trying to make a point about having a legal business in Thailand (sorry for the fortune spent) and hiring local people, you're actually being quite offensive calling them local retards. I'm sure those "retards" are not so much retarded if you actually funded a profitable company there, dou*bag. Or was it just because your charming personality?
surely you're joking mr feynman
HN Hiring Trends is really sweet, I didn't know about it. I do include only top level comments; and incidentally, digging through HN's HTML code was... uhm... let's say a bit messy.
Sorting by language would be a great feature for this as well, particularly for those of us who work in more obscure / esoteric languages.
Heartbleed: One Year Later, and Most Users Still Have Not Heard of It
I haven't paid attention for 15 years or so, but I spent the late 90s with a company making server software for banks to run on pcs instead of mainframes. Mostly C, C++, but also VB, and I think even some Turbo Pascal if I remember correctly. Consumer lending, mortgages, lead generation, checking, atms...

Since that was so long ago, I assumed they'd be further along by now.
Your problem is, you are hiring for a "stack", not for competence.

For the developers that go out of their way to learn a tool only because people like you will hire him, their problem is that they'll be hired by people that hire by a "stack", and not by competence. Jobs that select this way normaly place a negative value on competence, and the developer will face the choice of adapting and become mediocre, or going away and losing some short term benefit.
I care a lot about battery life benchmarks because, well, that's what a laptop is for: not being constantly plugged.

I'm always disappointed when I see "with all the laptops set to comparable brightness (around 75 percent)" instead of all laptops set to the same luminance. It's like comparing mileage for cars while pressing the accelerator pedal at 75%.
Skimming this, it doesn't appear to argue for any upending, just a "missing link" role (which, granted, would be a great discovery if it's supported, but doesn't upend anything).

Or did I miss something?
Well, the problem is that we messed up the ecosystem by removing the predators. I'm not sure how well reintroducing the predators would work, I'm sure there's some evidence to be found. It's an interesting, and hard, problem. I was very specific in my wording. It started as "There are better ways" and changed to "I imagine there must be a better way" before submitting precisely because I think it is a hard problem, but I'm confident there's some answer that's better that shooting with guns. Even if there isn't, it's a worthwhile thing to study, IMHO.
How dare that farm that was there prior to all the sprawl continue to exist. Why can't that farm owner consider the property values of his beleaguered new neighbors who only had full knowledge of the existence of a nearby farm when they purchased their property.

It astonishes me how obstinately self-centered people can be.
Thanks, we updated the HN title to be less bait-ey.
80% on 10.9 or 10.10: http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/os-x-market-share-st...

Only 50% on Windows 7 or 8: https://analytics.usa.gov

Oh, wait, Windows 7 is from 2009. Only 10% use a Windows younger than two years.
We have been needing this very thing for hosting a large number of assets across multiple ec2 instances. Hope they roll this out quickly.
Currently reading:

* Machine Learning - Peter Flach

* Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond

* Dune ( for the third time, I love it :) ) - Frank Herbert

I usually read some of pg's, sama's, avc's or some other prominant essayist in the bath each week.
Still, why not two USB-C ports, like some of the recent comparable Windows laptop designs?
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How about Brussels to Sydney in about 4.6 hours?

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/lapcat.html

JFK-NRT is 6745 miles, BRU-SYD is 10398 - although the Reaction Engines plan would be to go the long way round to avoid bothering people with the noise, a distance of 10097 miles.

Generations of hypersonic unmanned fighters required: zero!
Interesting talk. Love the multiple examples of the same concept!
Hmmm, it's not clear that "a database of “over 1,450 air-to-air victories” around the world from 1965 to the present" can really help us understand a world that is infested with aerial drones. A supermegabomber might well carry enough missiles to drop scores of fighters before they even see it. What can it do about a cloud of thousands of tiny autonomous jet-intake-seeking drones? Even if it can see them, it can only disable a particular percentage. Then one drone finds a jet intake and the supermegabomber is a sitting duck.

For the wars that will be fought in the very near future, a bigger plane is mostly a bigger target.
As someone who doesn't know AWS much, what are the major differences between this and EBS?
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You can mount the volume on more than one instance at the same time, which you can't do with EBS.
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Hi HN, I'm one of the co-founders of Laundromatch, I would be happy to answer any questions!
You can put your pilots in a flight simulator.
For design software and design-related topics, there is skillshare.com. SkillShare has really grown in popularity over the past year. The quality can vary, as you'd expect. But then I've found that to be the case with Lynda.com too. It's inevitable given the huge number of courses.

I'm a subscriber to Skillshare and think it's good value (just $9.99 a month, or $8 a month if you subscribe yearly).

Other sites that cover similar design topics and design software are: digitaltutors.com and tutsplus.com (I've not used either of these though).
Huh. Cool. I always wondered why they didn't make quartz second hands jump in smaller amounts. Something difficult or not efficient to achieve, I guess.

By the way, Seiko has had a movement for some time that is rated to +/- 5 seconds a year. I think it was on a special edition of the Grand Seiko line (already rated to around 10 seconds a year, so you'd get 5 seconds off less. Yay!)
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How did you come to the conclusion that those drugs are more popular than marijuana in the US? I've never met anyone who did coke, meth, heroin, or ecstasy and didn't also smoke weed.
Some short story collections:

* This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
* Get in Trouble - Kelly Link
* St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell
* The 10th of December - George Saunders
* Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
* After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
* The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender

Longer Form (but all still quick reads):

* The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
* Death with Interruptions - Jose Saramago
* The Whispering Muse - Sjon
I tend to think of that more as Orson Scott Card backpedalling after the various backlashes against his personal values. Books are reflections of the people who write them. Every violent encounter in the book is "it's really too bad how everything turned out, but nobody knew, so that makes it okay!" On several occasions, Ender commits what amounts to manslaughter at best, 2nd degree murder at worst, and it's all just washed away as "well, but they hate him because he's so freaking good." It's absurd.
I know I'm late to the party, but I'd love a keybase.io invite if you still have any. My email is in my profile.
>Is there a Linux package manager that puts everything in userland in a place like /usr/local?

GNU Guix and Nix.

I am a core developer for GNU Guix.
The platform I think will decide future air superiority is actually fairly well evidenced here.

There definitely will be a need for high-performance/agile aircraft, but I don't know that it will be the traditional fighter pilot. The main reason is that the presence of a pilot creates an inherent limitation in performance - you have to protect a sack of meat/bones/blood from G-forces, etc.

With that in mind, I could see missiles that are extremely maneuverable and could spend a long amount of time tracking and eventually destroying a target (such as an enemy fighter plane).

At a higher level, one of the most interesting weapons of the cold war was the Phoenix missile. Designed for the A-12 (precursor to the SR-71), it was high-Mach missile that would launch, go to high altitude, power off and then lance down from above into the target. F-14's carried the missiles and were quite capable of removing a large number of targets at well beyond visual range (a "standoff" missile iirc). The biggest limitation was that the missiles required constant illumination by the fighters for their targeting solutions, which meant an opposing flight could attempt to close the distance to their own range before the missiles struck (or escape the terminal envelope).

While I'm a bit out of date on current AAM tech, I think we'll probably see missiles capable of this same type of performance but at even greater ranges and altitudes. A larger standoff-fighter that is capable of extremely high-altitudes (90k+ feet) that can loiter there could conceivably carry a large number of missiles well away from the threat zone - over an international border for instance - while still having target/kill capability.

500-mile range AAM anyone? Fascinating stuff.
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You're not alone, I want my bank to be boring and I want almost no interaction with them. There's a bank in the United Kingdom called Metrobank which promised to be different to existing high-street banks, they managed to get me through the door out of interest but as soon as I saw one of the members of staff dressed as Henry VIII I made a hasty exit out of the other door. They also seem more interested in dogs than their customers[0].

https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/Discover-Metro-Bank/DogsRu...
It's also hard to resize an EBS volume, right? This resizes itself automatically.
I can't seem to respond to your most recent comment, but one thing I find interesting is I think (at least for my own sake) I've found a fundamental idea that may be what wedges people on these issues, but never seems to get expressed in these comment threads.

I get the impression that many people with views which (for the most part) dismiss warnings about environmental issues, etc. have a fundamental belief that the earth will always be habitable by human beings. (forgive me if I'm putting words in your mouth).

Whereas I, along with probably many others who are more sensitive to environmental issues, think this is far from a certainty.

EDIT: Didn't know the numbers off the top of my head, but here's what Google had to say:

1) # of years where life has existed on Earth: 3.5 billion
2) # of years humans have been on earth: 200,000

So given these numbers humans have been around for 0.0057143% of the entire history of life on earth.

EDIT #2: Given these numbers it seems uncertain we're anything more than an anomaly (ie. intelligent life) in the history of life on earth.
I am reading the Foundation Trilogy - Asimov. I am now on the second book, called Foundation and Empire.

Non-fictional i am reading "Pratical Node.js"
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