skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why even design it to do a mediocre job of dogfighting when they could equivalently eliminate that design constraint and allow it to do its other roles better?

From what I've read, the F-35 was supposed to excel in all roles. It's supposed to be a bomber, fighter, be useable from flight decks as well as airports, etc...
For some reason copy-pasting some of those into iTerm2 doesn't work.

http://i.imgur.com/GEMAeM8.png
Worth remembering when people talk about how the US military budget is bigger than everyone else's put together. It doesn't mean quite as much when everyone else is just waiting for you to pour trillions into R&D then stealing the result.
Get Microsoft Exchange to interoperate with other mail clients like Mozilla Thunderbird. The biggest challenge I find working on the Microsoft Development/Enterprise stack is vendor lock-in. Of course, that is where they make their money but it's also what I find most challenging. It's easier to start-off on an open stack and pivot into something else than with MS - so now I avoid MS and other enterprise solutions unless it is overwhelmingly necessary.
Samsung Files Patent for a Wearable Robotic Suit
Internet has offered more than a way to reach our beloved brother or sister
Find the best spots for July 4th fireworks and submit your own
"In the settlement, 3taps, PadMapper and Lovely will collectively pay Craigslist $3.1 million — $1 million from 3taps; $2.1 million from Lovely and nothing from PadMapper. Craigslist has pledged to donate $1 million of that to the Electronic Frontier Foundation over 10 years."

They're not settling with $1M donation to EFF, they're still getting $2.1M from Lovely.
Reminds me of http://instacod.es/
Here is a video of Pierre Spray (one of the F-16 designers) discussing the same thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
> it's insane ramblings

Exactly. I'd recommend the other 100 commenters or so who posted a similar reply to learn some basic quantum mechanics. Contrary to popular belief it's not that hard if you have a grasp of math.
Cool! some suggestions:

- show it on http://www.reddit.com/r/tinycode/

- if you aim for low character count instead of low byte count, you can pass your code through my unicide packer here: http://xem.github.io/obfuscatweet/

- Golf your code even more (using the tips of the other comments), and use all the remaining chars to add features to your game and fill the 140 chars of a tweet :)

Cheers
what made you to create this app? i haven't found any use case for myself yet so i'm curious.
> The agreed rules establish a right of all Internet end-users (consumers and businesses) to access and distribute legal content, services and applications of their choice.

I'm hoping "legal" content here will ultimately be defined by a judge (before a blocking occurs), and not law enforcement or worse, the ISPs themselves.

Reading further below, guess not:

> to comply with Union or national legislation related to the lawfulness of content or with criminal law, or with measures implementing this legislation such as a decision by public authorities or a court order, for instance if a judge or the police have ordered blocking of specific illegal content;

So it will depend entirely on national laws, which probably means some countries could make it so ISPs themselves block some type of content automatically.

It seems there are quite a few "exceptions" to the "Open Internet", and while they seem to have arrived from good intentions, my guess is at least some of them will be abused.

The "specialized services" thing doesn't seem very clear. They keep mentioning autonomous driving and telesurgery and whatnot, but it doesn't sound like there will be a set number of such services that carriers will provide. Although that should encourage innovation, I'm also foreseeing services like Netflix entering the "specialized service" mode - therefore paying more money to the carriers, and doing exactly what the EU says here it's trying to avoid (paid prioritization).

They also seem to allow Internet.org style zero rating, with even less clear rules. Ugh.
oh this brings up memories of corewars and redcode
"However ethics teaches us that you are wrong."

Well, there is nothing ethical about war. People in horses killed easily those not in horses. Then people in horses were killed easily with artillery as it improved.

The same happened with ships, making boarding unnecessary.

You know what they said about tanks when they appeared: they were not ethical. Then planes made possible to shoot someone kilometers away with heavy artillery(that before planes could not see far away). Not ethical at all.

Then came air bombers, the nuclear bomb. Today the US kills 10.000 people in Iraq annually with air drones just pushing buttons thousands of miles away.

It is already happening on one side. The only difference is when the other side starts using it too. Then we will consider it unethical(after decades using it on others).
That's nice to know. I know we're starting to finally sell those planes to a few countries, I've always wondered whether it was due to the price point or the technological merits (or lack thereof). Thanks for the info.
Probably. This has always happened and will always happen. It's no different than the Soviets stealing US nuclear tech 60 years prior.

Stealing the plans is the easy part. The challenge is building an integrated military system top to bottom, from engines to electronics. If it were so easy to keep up by stealing, China would have a dozen aircraft carriers by now.
How did 'silo' get to mean something else?
Lewis Page is a joke in the defence community for a good reason.

The UK's harriers were shagged after years of use, they were sold to the US so they could be cannibalised for spares. Plus we only had the GR versions which were not fighters, the Sea Harrier was retired even earlier.

The UK needs a STOVL multi-role fighter because of the Navy. The RAF are ordering the same planes because then they can fly them off the carriers as well. The cat and traps option on the carrier wasn't really a flier as no-one has managed to get a reliable EMALS catapult working. The US at one point was going to pay us to be the guinea pig for EMALS, but that's rather a risk if it hadn't worked out.
If stealing information were the key, Russia would have the most powerful military on earth, with a combination of their espionage of US military technology over 60 years and their very substantial defense budget.

It's drastically more difficult than that.

The US military also doesn't spend trillions on R&D - R&D is the light end of their budget ($80 billion per year for R&D, testing, evaluation). Operations, maintenance, and personnel are the principle costs of the US military budget.

You're talking about China (or Russia etc) stealing a fraction of that $80 billion total. The amount of that theft they can then actually put to use, is a further reduced fraction.
scumbags like that with too much power and too little oversight, feeling righteous... if any of you are reading this, please do a properly good deed for this world, and either quit or shoot yourself (that's a honest request, unfortunately)
> For a few hundred dollars I can jam your communications channel(s) to the drones.

The same could be said for manned fighters. Granted, you still have a pilot who's there and capable of making decisions independently of communications.

But, I imagine if you threw up enough interference to screw with a drone, you'd probably make some very pretty lights happen on an F-35's radar.
> Dogfighting was supposed to be archaic and improbable in 1968 as well, since who was going to get close and maneuver when you had guided missiles? Then the losses mounted, and they created TOPGUN.

There were some actually good reasons to believe that dogfighting was a part of a bygone era. When those planes used in '68 were being developed, missiles truly had the kind of superiority that their designers expected them to have. Then better countermeasures and anti-missile tactics were developed, and suddenly dogfighting was relevant again.

The first part is again true today. Missiles are easier to update than aircraft. Taking an air-to-air missile from the 90's and ripping out the laughably outdated electronics and replacing them with a modern CPU and targeting software makes it able to completely bypass all countermeasures available to current fighters. Right now, if an enemy gets to lock a missile at you from within the envelope where you can't simply outrun the missile until it's engine runs out, you might as well immediately eject. Your evasive maneuvers are not going to beat a missile that is getting mid-course updates from it's firing aircraft, which can tell your decoys apart from your plane, and which can plan and simulate the optimal attack vector in ways that the 90's missile designers could only dream of. Near future missile designs using much improved engines like ramjets or the throttleable ducted rocket with a secondary ram combustion stage on the MBDA Meteor seek to increase the engine performance and longevity of missiles to the point that you really can't ever even outrun them.

So currently no aircraft can remain flying with missiles in the air. There is, of course, always the possibility that we develop new countermeasures that can beat modern missiles, returning dogfighting to relevance. However, even if missiles always beat aircraft in the future, that doesn't make a F-35 a good fighter. Because, if missiles always beat planes, why not just build lots of cheap planes with a lot of missiles?
There are lots of fun things you can do with a few gigs of images and an inverted index.
> The investor only makes money if people are willing to pay rent for his property.

In most cases, yes. But not in all cases.
The thing is, it is not normal to be able to make money on an empty property. So then, the expensive parts of London are not normal.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/lights-out-london-stre...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/25/its-like-a-gh...
Review of Dutch PHP 2015 Conference
Just want to say thanks for creating an awesome suite of products that integrates nicely and seamlessly together.

Re: stash. It's by far the best code review product I've used. And I've tried plenty!
When filtering by Light, some color schemes come through that are Dark. Is this a bug or do those color schemes have both light and dark versions? I looked at one of the dark "light" schemes and it didn't seem to have a light version on the github page.
Base16 looks amazing. I'm gonna steal an hour or two of today and give it a whirl.

Thank you!
It's a really cool front-end experiment, but I fail to grasp its usefulness.

http://instacod.es/101573
yay, I wrote an article about that!

http://xem.github.io/articles/#implicitgetelementbyid_en

Cheers :)
I thought this has been the case for over a decade?
> the only thing funding the miners will be transaction fees

How does that work, exactly? I thought that the only reward that the miners get is the block reward hard-wired in the system. Is there another mechanism that allows them to negotiate transaction prices with clients and accept/decline transactions?
Instacodes was made as a joke I think. It's like posting food photos on instagram, but for programmers.
DIY :)

http://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com/
Dark matter isn't a solution, it's a quantification of the unknown. It's more nuanced than just "I don't know", but it's not far from it. I think you're wrong that science is bad at those words, it's just that's it all plays out a little more subtly than that. There are lots of things we DO know about this unknown phenomenon that we've named dark matter, and we have lots of theories, but everyone will admit it's still a bit of a mystery.
It’s OT, but why is there so much “promotional” crap all over the blog? One can’t read the text without distraction.
Corporate espionage is like tax havens. You can't expect one country to stop it, everyone needs to agree to stop doing it at the same time. Otherwise the first to stop will be at a disadvantage.

And a lot of countries do this.
Yes.

Especially when you switch from C-style languages to assembly, for example. Or to line-break sensitive formats like Python or YAML. Or markdown.
Or consult an attorney and threaten to sink the ship. They should buy you out/pay you off/settle.

Don't feel bad, remember, they screwed you first.
It gets posted every time the F-35 is mentioned on Hacker News.

But yes, very appropriate.
Ask HN: How would you fix academic publishing and funding?
> shoot yourself

What a bizarrely horrid thing to say.
Back by FoxConn, PIQ Launches the First Connected Gold Experience
Impossible Mission – Commodore 64 game remake in JavaScript
Looks cool, but I was a bit miffed by the use of the WeChat logo as a chat icon on your /livestreams/ page (next to "join Q&A live chat") (see: http://www.wechat.com/en/) when in fact you are using Candy Chat (http://candy-chat.github.io/candy/)

Looks like this was done somewhat intentionally, since in your HTML you have

<i class="fa fa-weixin"></i>

(Weixin is the Chinese name for WeChat)
> For a few hundred dollars I can jam your communications channel(s) to the drones. Asymmetric warfare sucks.

The problem is that once we're talking tens of millions of dollars and up -- no, you can't.

We're talking the swarm is likely operating in a shared point-to-point link mode, either using highly directional antennas that are essentially deaf to below, optical links, or (more likely) a mixture of both modes.

At 10,000 drones, they likely can form a stable mesh network over the city covering a wide enough area at a few miles in the sky that you're talking about having to run power plants or detonate magnets with high explosives to generate the kind of wattage needed to shout in to the directional communications gear.

Jamming a few hobbyist drones is nothing like jamming thousands of military grade drones, and the techniques you think will stop their communications aren't all that effective.

However, scanning the area under your bot swarm of amateur attempts to jam the network is probably a great way to target RF engineers in preparation for a ground invasion, and minimize their ability to improvise communications gear once the main communications networks are knocked out.

tl;dr: Taking out a $10,000,000+ swarm of military grade weapons isn't the same as disabling a few hobbyist trinkets, and may get you seriously hurt in the process.
IIRC they have both java 6 7 & 8 configurations in the new jack & jill toolchain.
I don't know if it necessarily means that the integrality of Java 7 & 8 features will be ported.
What upsets me is that apparently, European nations are just making a political decision of buying these overpriced, handicapped jets in bulk.

There are three nations I know off (Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium), where Wikileaks cables have revealed that the governments had reached an agreement to stack the deck in favour of the F-35 ahead of the official competitions. The Belgian Minister of Defense even went so far as to assure the US embassy that we would be buying them, years ahead of any public decision or even an evaluation of the options.

We have 2 capable European 4.5G alternatives - the Dassault Rafale or Eurofighter Typhoon - which would be able to perform the same duties while also supporting further development of European technology in this sector.

For the countries I mentioned earlier, the 4.5G Gripen NG would likely be just as adequate for any roles in any conflicts they would ever be part of, while being much, much cheaper to purchase and operate than any of the alternative options.

Instead of encouraging competition among developers and funding the design of European fighters (while also supporting the European economy a little), they're buying jets that are incapable of doing most the the stuff that it says on the box, sending billions of taxpayer money over to the the US military complex.
Yes, from 5min to 50min a day, depending on my schedule.

I don't use apps, just follow my personal practice.

If someone ask me advice on this here's what I say:
Start small, like 5 minutes.
Although "serious" meditation is a different matter, a small meditation about mindfulness will surely change a lot of things :)

Keep it small if you don't have enough time and don't judge yourself if you can't make it through 20min easily, it's fine even if you do 1 min.

In the beginning I used an iOS app called InsightTimer, nice app.

Headspace is another great start.
Sexual harassment, not physical assault. The proper procedural response is discipline such as solitary confinement - choosing to additionally 'forget' pain medicine is a punitive measure that was chosen by the officer without any legal basis.

Even if it was in response to a physical assault, it would be improper unless legally established protocol for the prison is to deny medication as a form of discipline, which seems quite unlikely. Denying pain medication is equivalent to inflicting pain on someone - which could easily be called torture. Sure, an officer could punch you if it was necessary to stop you from inflicting harm on one or her or others. Intentionally causing pain by denying medication would be more like punching you after you're already in custody and handcuffs and can't fight back. Clearly that could not be construed to be self defense.
FYI: Your blog only shows a spinner unless the user allows Javascript for no reason at all.
If you want to set up something like this on your own hardware (not just email, also owncloud, jabber, etc), check out sovereign
https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
Absolutely. It's not clear how long the victim and/or authorities waited around for him to show up.
Google patents Classification
Seconded. Tomorrow-Night is an amazing theme with several variants (blue, black, light...) and compatibility with everything. Even the Chrome Devtools.
It's not entirely the Marines' fault. If there was enough room in the budget to credibly deliver a next-gen replacement for the F-16 and F/A-18 platforms as well as a separate Harrier replacement, the Marines would take it in a heartbeat. The problem is that the Joint Strike Fighter concept is a bean-counting "let's use one plane to meet everyone's requirements" program.
TIP: Google Analytics can be added to an old Kickstarter project
Kickstarter recently allowed creators to integrate Google Analytics with the new projects. What they didn't mention was that you can also add the tracking code in an old project's dashboard and keep track of the traffic on your past campaign.

See here: https://waqasaday.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/screen-shot-2015-06-30-at-1-42-38-am.png
You are assuming a multidimensional universe. There may just be a single dimension, with just a now, a single state solution, t=1, d=1. But physicists like to ignore that solution because it doesn't get the juicy book deals.
I've been in Pripyat, and I have seen Chernobyl. I can recommend it to anyone that gets the chance, sadly the recent events in Ukraine have kept me away from the country, even though Kiev is supposed to be safe.

The tour costs around $100 and includes "medical insurance" from the government.
Co-Princes of Andorra
Nobody understands the Ruby GIL
Hey, thanks, Yesterday I changed the theme, which does this... thanks for the hint! ;)
Good thing cruise missiles are self guided, then. Gyroscopes arent easy to jam.
Today Russia is lucky if they have a hundred total modern fighters available, across the entirety of their military, to put into action that can fight with the F35. In the event of a NATO war, they can't dedicate that to one location, given the vast size of their territory to protect. They might be able to throw a dozen modern fighter jets at Denmark. So they'll have to simultaneously fight two dozen domestic European forces, and the US Air Force. Yeah, it'll turn out real well for them.
Stabilize the world? are you effin' joking? the world out there is burning, and things are getting worse every day, mostly as a direct result of US meddling and power plays in given region. Not for a single second I consider US politicians stupid or unexperienced. Unjustified wars are waged with just enough people to not lose completely, but not enough to decisively win. this situation is well planned, and although i have no clue what their plans for future are, clearly they don't give a fraction of fk about some world stability. More like command & conquer approach. You americans shouldn't be that surprised that you meet a lot of friction and resistance whenever you go to "stabilize" the world
Sounds like it will be up to national legislation:

"This general [discrimination] prohibition is subject to a limited number of tightly defined exceptions:" [...]

"- To comply with Union or national legislation related to the lawfulness of content or with criminal law, or with measures implementing this legislation such as a decision by public authorities or a court order, for instance if a judge or the police have ordered blocking of specific illegal content"
> you can also buy two or three times the amount of planes.

we're close to the turning point where for air superiority a fleet of missile armed drone seems the cheapest and more effective way to go

but we just love to design the best thing that would have won the previous war. I guess if that effect is known in psychology, because I see it even in the day to day life at way smaller scales.
Data roaming charges to end in EU within two years
Wouldn't it be easier to use JavaScript?

PixQL: SELECT WHERE COLOR = #FF0000FF; OPERATE SET COLOR = #00FF00FF
JS : if (rgba=='FF0000FF') rgba='00ff00ff'

PixQL: OPERATE SET G = R
JS : g=r

PixQL: SELECT WHERE ROW % 100 = 0 OR COL % 100 = 0; OPERATE SET COLOR = WHITE
JS : if (!(row%100) || !(col%100)) rgba="ffffffff"
The A-10 will get shot down too easily today unless it stays high enough to be out of range of surface to air missiles and just uses missiles or bombs itself. At height it is too slow to cover a reasonable area compared to something like an F-16.
There've been cases of big companies suing whole countries (Philip Morris vs Australia comes to mind). While they may be not technically sovereign entities yet, it seems to me that some megacorps have enough power to successfully compete with governments.
A username isn't the same as anonymity. You can look through my comment history (and as it happens get a pretty good idea of what I do and where I come from). And my username relates pretty closely to my real name. That isn't much protection of my identity.

Total anonymity (no username, no identity) opens the door for anyone to say anything. In some cases that's good. But IME, it is a benefit that ia mainly used by the dregs .
MWI has more than its fair share of physics woo: "QM tells us that everything happens!" and so on. Of course all that's irrelevant to what the MWI interpretation actually says. And likewise with Copenhagen: No respectable physicist thinks that consciousness has any physical effect on quantum systems. Measurements can be taken by machines.

Regardless, the nature of observation really is mysterious. A measurement projects the wavefunction onto an eigenfunction in accordance with Born's rule. MWI does not adequately explain why or how, and Copenhagen simply inserts it as a postulate. Neither is especially satisfying. So the measurement problem is unresolved.
You might do well to familiarize yourself with the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Does this have anything in common with the Zephyr instant messaging protocol designed in the 80's created at MIT as part of Project Athena? A quick look at the link didn't seem like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_(protocol)

It's not the sexiest new protocol, but there are still pockets where it's still used, particularly SIPB.

No other product (save Zulip which used Zephyr on the back end anyway), has had the same notion of messages having both a class and instance which makes it hard to replace, so I'm stuck on screen + barnowl for the time being.