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> "What really makes dogfighting unlikely, is the fact that United States hasn't fought anyone with airplanes in 40 years."

This is flat out wrong. The US fought Iraq twice, and Yugoslavia/Serbia, both of which had significant air forces. But in both cases the battle was so lopsided due to technological/numerical/logistical imbalances that the other side only had a few engagements before deciding to avoid doing so. In the first gulf war more than 2 dozen Iraqi aircraft were downed in air to air engagements. In the quasi-war that persisted between the gulf war and the invasion of Iraq there were numerous air to air engagements and downings of Iraqi aircraft. During the Kosovo campaign the Serbian military decided to try to test the mettle of their Mig-29s against NATO and got their ass handed to them by F-15s and F-16s. In the Iraq war the Iraqis decided to keep their aircraft grounded.
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> "At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it"

So much physics reporting mistakes science for philosophy. It leads to so much confusion among laypeople.
Gimp's UI is almost as awkward as its name.
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Three [1] exists in both the UK and Ireland, and has an "all you can eat" bundle [2] in Ireland, for €20/month, but their closest deal in the UK is £17.00/month on a 12 month contract. They also provide a "Like Home" service, where your bundles apply outside your home country, so I can use my UK mobile data/text/call allowance in Ireland and Vice versa. Despite not having roaming rates, It's still cheaper for me to use my UK sim here and have a separate one for home, as calling the UK from Ireland or vice versa on a phone incurs costs that aren't part of the standard bundles.

[1] http://www.three.co.uk/ http://www.three.ie/
[2] http://www.three.ie/eshop/sim-only-plans/prepay-sim-only/
Make Edge cross platform and open source it. Its annoying to have a browser that is locked to a specific OS yet may potentially be used by many in the future.
> The problem is that once we're talking tens of millions of dollars and up -- no, you can't.

Sure. If you're willing to build a new GPS system, because that's decently jammable for cheap.

Also are you proposing that all the drones will be individually piloted on missions as they are now? If so, I don't strictly have to jam the drones on the battlefield, I can just jam your satellite uplink or physically attack your operations centers. Add the cost of a plane ticket.

So far, we haven't used these weapons against any military that could be considered our peers. I wouldn't be so confident in our operational deployments without anything to base it on.
I'm surprised people are so worried about nuclear waste. It's literally the best type of waste imaginable - you can easily grab it, put it in barrels and store for possible future use as fuel source, and even if not, left alone this waste turns harmless with time, without reacting with anything.

Compare that to waste generated from burning dead dinosaurs - its storage is not a problem only because it's dumped into the atmosphere to poison everyone. You can say that nuclear plants have one less externality here.
The US is selling the F35 as an air superiority fighter to all its allies. No one else could buy the F22, so now counties like Japan and Australia are likely to lose regional air superiority.
Good. I saw this news from Weibo...

Also you could submit it to geek.csdn.net and other Chinese HN products.
I'll be honest - I find the UI impenetrable. It's dark and full of fiddly icons and I'm not sure what I can click, what I can drag, etc.

If there's any way you can find someone amenable who has no personal attachment to this project (ie. hasn't used it before, doesn't really know what you're trying to achieve) and has strong UI/UX sensibilities to take a look over this, I really think you should. Sometimes when you've built something and you're proud of it, it can be very hard to have an objective perspective on how usable something is.
Is the idea so earth shattering that you can't reveal it here?
Dev here. Yeah, that page turned into a mess compared to what it was originally designed to be, but at the current stage I'm actually trying to ward off impulse buyers. The game isn't even done yet!

I mentioned in the post-mortem that I only want quality players right now who are very familiar with what they're getting into, and I haven't even been advertising the game to a general audience, only the primary target audience.

The Steam/GOG launch next year will be cheaper, and for a different audience. "Problem" is, players are having so much fun with it that news about Cogmind continues to spread...
Definitely possible - should be no more difficult than adding support for a different language. That said, I need to work through some other features first.
I read an article some time ago about how the US Air Force was more interested in fighters that looked like what they felt fighters should look like, rather than simply effective fighters; designed for missions that they wanted to be important, rather than missions that are actually used in reality; and of course big orders with manufacturers, because that's where the top of the air force retires.

That article also pointed out that for those reasons, the air force hates the A-10, despite the fact that it's actually the most effective planes for one of the most common mission types that they have. But it's not what they want to do, and it doesn't look like an F-15, so it's no good.
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What kind of fuel and coolant does it use? Googling only turns up a couple fairly uninformative articles.
Dark matter is the eflourescent ether theory of the 21st century.

The quip I'm fond of is:

Dark Matter is the Phlogiston
of Contemporary Cosmology

But, right now, dark matter is the best explanation we have of what we've observed.
It's my favourite dark colorscheme too.
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All right, yes, I do that. I thought the OP was alluding to something more sophisticated :)
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$30 leaves it out of the impulse buy category for me.
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Also, fulldome IRST means it won't need much of a dogfight. It can direct missile from any angle.
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The biggest thing that pisses me off about CL regarding house/apt listings is that they don't require addresses! How is their mapping feature supposed to work well if 70% of the listings are all grouped together with just the city name? No wonder people are trying to fork their business.
Well at least he diverted him away from dinosaurs, otherwise Jurassic Park might have been a documentary!
This is really useful. I've always wondered (but never bothered to search) if there was a cli interface for Google calendar. Integrating it into tmux is a nice bonus.

I really should setup my gmail account in mutt, it could save me a lot of alt-tabbing time.
Hey thanks so much Pyxl101!

As per my reply to another commenter, the buy page has been morphing constantly over the past several weeks, and has gotten increasingly messy (it already looks better than it did last week, so good thing you didn't see it then =p).

I'll swap it out with a simpler version soon, but the idea is that I want to make sure players know what they're getting into since this is alpha. (That and the page still contains old info I've left there for reference by the many current owners, but it no longer applies to new purchases...)

When the full 1.0 launch happens next year the page will be incredibly simple.
PVs can't be weaponized because they suck as an energy source compared to burning fuels. Any power source with enough energy density to be interesting is a weapon, just like any engine with enough power to give you reasonable interplanetary travel times is a weapon of mass destruction.

Humanity needs to find a way to deal with high-energy technology if we're to move forward as a species.
Don't set the colorscheme on Vim, set it on your terminal and Vim will honor it. I do that with iTerm2.
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That's not the same thing at all. A company can easily keep non-personally identifiable information about you and never have to release that information.

This is about device to device communication, not information storage.
As I understand it the real advantage of the A-10 is persistence. It can stay around and provide close support for a long time period relative to a fast jet. Apparently the shooters on the ground like having this type of support...

Why not let the Army decide what ground support planes it gets and leave the Air Force to gain air superiority and strategic bombing.
It's more like the model in a Model-View-Controller UI.

The philosophical question would be "what is the controller?"
Of course there's the catch-22: if those locations were not so desirable as speculation assets, would the 2-3 bed houses (aŕ flats) still cost several millions?
Reality lacks a compile stage entirely - hence all the runtime errors.
Several specialized fighters would probably be a lot cheaper, and they'd all be a lot more effective too. It's really the requirement of "it has to do everything and then some" that's crippling the design here.
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Unpleasantly spare?

http://take.ms/k83XH
Physics be damned. It'll work eventually if we just keep throwing money at it.
The downside is that a majority will have to pay higher overall fees for the benefit of a minority (those travelling regularly aboard)

Rather unfair.
I'm sure the military contractors that profited from this contract don't consider it a failure.
> But as we all know getting bureaucracies to implement something like this will cost hundreds of millions, and will it be beneficial in the short term? Probably not. But we should start looking at long-term solutions.

Penalizing people for having extra rooms while it is impossible for them to downsize because there is insufficient supply of smaller properties is not a long term solution.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/big-lie-behind...
The J-20 seems to being coming along nicely, however.
I didn't want to be negative, but I had the same impression as you.

As far as I can make out, something like Asana is their direct competition and from a UI perspective, it is so much cleaner: https://asana.com/product
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It's a measure that there's been a lot of effort going on in the past decades, so it's unlikely that a random startup with minuscule budget will suddenly crack it. SpaceX vs. Airbus Group is a bad example because Elon is only dropping costs of what is a proven technology (rockets). We don't have a break-even fusion reactor yet.

But to be honest, I think we need to encourage more effort, so I applaud the project anyway, and keep my fingers crossed.
As a sidenote, gcalcli is the best way to manage your google calendar. I always found creating calendar entries through apps or web such a nuisance that I just didn't bother.
When I was googling for Vim color schemes some time ago I've seen that webpage. It is really nice, I like that dark/light feature (but some themes were miscategorised as dark, at least when I last checked).
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And troff got a revamp with neatroff http://litcave.rudi.ir/
Interesting. This is during the 'phony war' when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty, and not yet PM. His oratorical flourishes seem a little misplaced here; they didn't become appropriate until 10 May 1940. 1940-05-10 was truly a day of destiny. Churchill became PM, and Hitler launched his offensive in the West. A terrible struggle, with many defeats and setbacks continued up to Oct 1940, and the end of the Battle of Britain.

But why mention this now? Some analogy with Greece perhaps? Or Ukraine, or the Da'esh?
That's wrong. NSAs new IDS also protects enterprises that the state considers to be "critical infrastructure", such as banks.
That's a great book - and one that I've discussed at some length with real diplomats from involved countries - but actually it's more focused on the use of burdensome and unnecessary international debt to dominate developing nations (hence the name).
The UI is quite jarring at first, and doesn't give any call to action or incentive to "try" anything. The "Join the Beta" window is overlaying the "Welcome to Zephyr" box, which is confusing.

The dark color scheme is nice for a workspace, but the font size is difficult to read with large quantities of text. This makes it harder to onboard a user.

Also, I took myself to the home page (https://zephyrplatform.com/) in hopes of a nicer pitch....and was presented with a sparse version of the demo.
Belgium is building an artificial island in the sea for this http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510806/a-manmade-island...
The answer to that question is: Amazon.

At various times they've managed around a $100 to $200 billion valuation while losing money. They're an extreme outlier of course.

Salesforce.com hit near a $50 billion market cap recently, and they've never once printed a positive net income result.

If the sales growth and market dominance is there, the valuation will float a lot longer than seems reasonable given the lack of profits. This is especially true in tech, as it's believed that market dominance in tech inevitably leads to later outsized profit. It also helps if the losses are brought under some control, such that they aren't threatening the survival of the business.
I was expecting a [1] + some kind of [2] module + GNU software

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_microcontroller
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device
Shame. The Gripen sounds a lot more like the right plane for smaller NATO air forces. Not the best at anything, but decent at everything, and for a cost more befitting our economic situation.

The Dutch air force is going to be reduced to about 30 F-35s. We've always had about 100 fighters, but the F-35 looks like it's going to be the end of the Dutch air force.
Are you chinese ? Do you guys have some HN that's for westerners but about stuff from China ?
Also can you comment on how is it hard for foreigners to do SW/ SaaS business in China ?
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I am part of community and Visual Studio Code is definitely NOT what I want.

Gradually reducing investment in JS and TS and focusing on WebAssembly and related C# pipeline would be a great start.

Microsoft developers are mostly enterprise. JS is not what we like.

They are literally not listening to the voice of community: look at top UserVoice dev requests - no definite answer after years of silence http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
The contract you mention is also available on a 30 day contract at £20/month. I picked one up this week for my upcoming trip to the states.
They have to use Amazon's VPC service - AWS has a 'secure' vpc service where you don't share the server with other customers which is a requirement for HIPAA compliance. That service gets really pricey.

I run a similar service but for SMS messaging that is 21cfr11 compliant. We rent a 1/4 rack with our own door/lock and throw in pretty much disposable servers as needed. It's much cheaper than doing the equivalent on AWS, and it's not that difficult to set up your own secure servers once you have a few recipes to follow.

We started it about 9 years ago before a secure service with amazon existed. Every year or two I price alternative solutions like AWS's secure service, VPCs, etc and it's always cheaper even taking account my labor to stick with our 1/4 closet. In fact, it seems they base their costs on the going rate for rack space, plus a premium for using the convenience of using their servers.

Oh, and it's funny - we have almost the same number of users and we're processing more messages per month than them, all on a old-fashioned webserver-appserver-dataserver arrangement - three servers (with fallover redunandancy not counted) and it's barely breaking a sweat.
Note it is £500k which is more than $750,000.
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Besides I don't see why taxi companies can't offer the same value (ordering taxi on a mobile phone app). Here in Moldova we already have that. You can order a taxi from several services at once with a mobile app, and the app is made by the company/companies (I'm not really sure it's only one, but they certainly do business together) behind these services.
The stealth the anti radar feature is visible on long wave radio. Something that was likely sold as a feature to the tax payer but does as far as I understand work that well in practise.

Pierre Sprey F16 and A10 co-designer speaks about F35 and specifically about dog fight 04:00 in the video. Stealth capabilities 06:00 in the video.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x203cgj_pierre-sprey-co-des...
> Could you provide a similar list ...

I may very well be able to do that, but it wouldn't do anything to disprove the notion that Wikileaks has a pro- Russian, anti-US bias.

I see two simple reasons for the lack of Russian coverage at Wikileaks: either Russians aren't providing material, or Assange isn't publishing it.
I've never streamed coding before (or anything) and ended up going with livecoding.tv vs Twitch to start with because of the smaller userbase (I guess it felt a little less intimidating...like there was a big chance that nobody would even see my stupid boring stream ;))

It's been pretty good so far, though I've only streamed a couple of times. People actually DID end up watching the stream and participating/asking questions about the project.

So far the one annoying thing with the site has been that there's a video autoplaying each time I go to the home page. I want to go straight to my dashboard or at least stream view when already logged in, and ideally not have an autoplaying video/banner taking up the entire space of the home page above the fold.
> Reality is a computer program

I'd like to issue a pull request..
So in fact €1 = 20MB, or assuming a typical instagram image is 250KB, 80 instagram images. That's still pricey in my book. Background app updates... 200MB please, that's going to be €10.
Maybe it was different in the states, but this legislation applies to the EU and I can definitely remember paying ridiculous roaming charges in Europe pre-iPhone (on my Nokia E71!).
Doesn't actually fit in a tweet. 12 characters too long...am I missing something?
Not really.
We have rules but free will allows you to do whatever you want. Hence why hate crimes actually happens, or terrorists or whatever things we have rules against.

Absence of rules may lead to chaos (I'm not entirely convinced since we didn't have rules before, so absence of rules may actually lead to rules) but this has nothing to do with free will imo.
> The fair use safeguard also prevents, when necessary, abusive use of roaming services, such as 'permanent roaming', which otherwise could undermine domestic markets.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-5275_en.htm

Personally, I don't think this should exist. Imagine it saying in the US that the "fair use safeguard prevents people from using a cheaper cellphone service from another state".

That would be absurd right? I see it the same way in the EU. It's like they are trying to prevent competition within EU and maintain local monopolies. God forbid a carrier from one country could actually pose a threat to one in another country!

And I believe both the EU Commission and the majority of the EU Parliament is supposed to be "right-wing" this time around. They keep mentioning "Open Internet" as well, but there are a ton of exceptions in this new directive.

Günther Oettinger from the EU Commission has been the worst in this whole thing. He has been pushing for local ISP monopolies, extended customer lock-in and so on from the moment he became the Commissioner for Digital Economy. I think he's also supposed to be a free market, right-wing guy, but he's probably just corrupt.

https://gigaom.com/2014/11/07/let-isps-lock-their-customers-...
One thing I've always meant to do was to put together a system for loading and saving Sinclair ZX81 games via Twitter messages.

Depending on how much you cheat, you can get about two bytes of data per Twitter character. That'd allow 256 bytes of game to live comfortably within a single twit, which is a quarter of an unexpanded ZX81 RAM. By comparison, that would take almost ten seconds to load off tape. You should be able to get a respectable ZX81 game in that.

With something like the JtyOne Javascript ZX81 emulator (http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html) and some Twitter interaction, the whole process should be pretty seamless --- click on a twit to play; modify it using the ZX81's built-in cough IDE; click on a button to reshare...
Crap man, and when I was earning a modest (by comparison) 45k I thought I was decently well off.

there is something to be said for the house prices though, I would never go back on anything less than 80K.. I don't mean that in a snobby way- I simply mean my standard of living outside of london would equate to 80K of salary -inside- london. I don't expect people to pay it.

it's scary the beast that london is.
> Observers are what deliver to us the results of randomly sampling from the probability distribution defined by the squared amplitude of the wave function by "collapsing" it, according to the Copenhagen interpretation. However, there is no particle that acts as an observer, they all just follow the Schrodinger equation, but nothing that exists isn't a particle.

This is why proponents of the Many-Worlds Interpretation claim that Occam's razor favours it: you don't need to posit "observers" or "collapses"; there's just the evolution of the wave function.
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Exactly. Nuclear waste is one of the best types of toxic waste we've ever seen. It's relatively compact, still able to be used as fuel in the future, there isn't much of it, and it makes itself harmless with just passage of time; no need to treat it with anything.
Why do you think those standards are absurd?

Low level radion is dangerous.
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"However the latest study, (Zablotska et al, 2013) is very large (over 110,000 workers) and succeeded in finding statistically significant leukemia increases, even at the relatively low doses experienced by most of these adult workers (average dose = 92 mSv)."
So, the Sun doesn't exist when experimenter is unconscious? I see.

It seems like at least Philosophy 101 should be mandatory to quantum physicists.)

Reality doesn't depend on an observer (who distorts it by his observation). Reality just is.

There are light and other temporary states of what we call "energy". That's it. Time, space, relativity are human concepts - the hard-wired modes of perception which conditions our experience. From a Photon's perspective none of these exist.
The equivalent of a memory leak being spooky action at a distance?
Corruption in Russia is not a myth. In fact, it's so widespread and open it would make more sense to signal the absence of corruption rather than its presence.

I guess India is somewhat worse, but you get the idea.