skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people have said that over the course of military aviation history and all of them have been wrong. In the ideal situation you can kill your enemy at beyond visual range. But in reality there are multiple situations where you won't have that advantage.

Rules of engagement can prevent you from firing on another aircraft without visual ID
Terrain can obscure enemy aircraft until they are WVR
*Enemy aircraft can use electronic countermeasures to confound your radar

If dogfighting were truly obsolete there never would've been a requirement for the aircraft to be more maneuverable than a F-16 and short-range missiles and a nose cannon wouldn't be part of this aircraft's armament.
Libelium waspmote: sensor board for hackers
> Or I could ignore what are obviously semantics following a clear retroactive change in US policy that affects criminal law.

You can ignore whatever you want, but it doesn't change what the words in the Constitution meant in the context they were written, and have been consistently been interpreted by the courts to mean. Arguing that something is unconstitutional just because you've invented an entirely ahistorical set of definitions of the words used is, well, not all that unusual, but still not particularly interesting.

> It doesn't have to be as complex as you make it out to be.

Its not at all complex: A government action is an ex post facto law if it criminalizes, or increases the criminal sanction for, an event that occurred before the act occurred. Even by your own characterization, the only thing this might criminalize is a refusal to pay the newly-calculated tax after the policy. So, no ex post facto law.

You can argue that it is undesirable for other reasons, but you can rest on the Constitutional prohibition of ex post facto laws to do that when its not an ex post facto law.

> The NYT even called it a retroactive policy change!

Its obviously a retroactive policy change, in that it applies to IRS assessment of taxes for prior tax years.

No act that was committed in those tax years becomes criminal because of the policy change, so its not an action which retroactively criminalizes an act or increases the criminal penalty for an act.

"Retroactive policy change" and "ex post facto law" aren't the same thing.
The program has not cost $1.5 trillion so far.

The Pentagon is spending about $11 billion on the F35 for the entire fiscal year (2% of its budget).[1] About ~$30 per tax payer.

$1.5 trillion is the 55 year projection on the total cost of the program over that time frame. Including purchase, operation and upkeep. Or $27 billion per year for everything.

It has cost roughly $100 billion so far over 20 years.

[1] http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/02/02/Pentagon-s-Too-Big-...
Show me another nation /of our geographical size/ with active well used long distance passenger rail outside of a few highly dense corridors - a hint, it doesn't exist - people will nearly always choose speed. There are very few passenger rail systems with higher than 90% farebox recovery - and none in a country of our geographical size.

That said, I'm in favor of keeping amtrak for strategic reasons (a trained pool of operating talent for national emergencies).
Good that you mention this point. This is for me the main reason to use jQuery in a project: backwards compatibility. I am gladly in the position where I make my own business decisions and so I choose which browsers I want to support. That said I totally refuse to support super-old browsers like IE6. I even refuse to support IE9. If someone has trouble using a site built on modern standards: Go get a modern browser. If it looks shitty on your old IE6 then don't blame me.
Js-graphy – Visualize, Test, Tweak and Play with JavaScript Math
Five-star system in Ursa Major highlights proto-stellar disk fragmentation
I am always really curious to know how these kinds of services deal with security issues: they don't get to control the security of the devices they are running, and often will only even sort of have access to reflashing them; how do they deal with someone testing an app with a kernel exploit, installing a persistent backdoor, and then watching what everyone else later using that device is testing?
Scrum Bingo for all those great Agile meeting
Talk to an accountant and an attorney because LLC rules vary from state to state and the correct form of revenue distribution will vary depending on the actual cash flow model of the business. Finally, LLC's do not always provide a corporate shield for their owners [though usually they do].

My advice is to give yourself maximum flexibility in distributing revenue to yourself because the big challenge of consulting is cash flow and you don't want to have to pay yourself when the company account is empty or be prohibited from making up for a missed check when the business is flush.

Good luck.
I am also pretty sure that Apple is intentionally adding more and more features to iOS to make it Do More Stuff so that they can sell more iPhones.
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If you are really interested in this subject (how western societies treat the "insane" as the societies themselves evolve) I would recommend Michel Foucault's "Madness and Civilization", more recently published as "History of Madness". It's a very long book and I must confess I only got through about two thirds of it, but it certainly opened my eyes into how definitions of what it meant to be "sane" have changed over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization
I submitted this a couple days ago... government slowing moving.
http://www.logicworks.net/blog/2015/06/government-cloud-publ...
See also OpenSSL.
> While the specific details remain secret, Kopp estimates the APG-81 can detect an aircraft with a radar cross-section of three square meters—a MiG-29, for example—just over 100 miles away. Russian radar-maker Tikhomirov claims the Su-35’s Irbis-E can spot a similar-size target at greater than twice that distance.

So, we're comparing some blogger's estimate of the F-35 radar, to the unverified claims of a Russian radar-maker. This does not seem like the firmest ground upon which to base an argument.
JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately
You can polyfill it in those browsers. Just use polyfill.io, or if you prefer, manually feature-detect it and if necessary load Github's fetch polyfill, which is good: https://github.com/github/fetch
I think Apigee wanted to announce their own "Swagger Editor" instead of mine when they created the Swagger 2.0 working group with Tony, as is their right since Tony paid me as a consultant, and Apigee put their own employees to work on it. So they made a fresh repo: same name and technology choices, different approach.
How a small Spanish town gave the tech giants a lesson on empowerment
"Hi, my name is s73v3r and I'd like to interrupt this discussion to say that I, s73v3r, have been brainwashed through Pavlovian Conditioning to react with repulse to the word "communism" whenever that word is found in an argument I cannot counter".

FTFY.
Let's compare and contrast.

Look at the F-111B program, the attempt to build an F-111 variant for carrier use. The F-111B was too big, too unmaneuverable, and had too many other problems so after about 6 years with an initial production of 7 aircraft the program was cancelled. The Navy went back to the drawing board, sought out new aircraft proposals, and eventually ended up with the F-14 to fulfill that role. There's a long history of mistakes and bad designs in military history, but in the US at least most of those mistakes are accepted by the top brass, work arounds are developed, and better systems are procured as replacements. It's a history of lessons learned and applied to future generations of weapons systems.

The F-35 on the other hand appears to not only be enormously flawed but government leadership has consistently refused to address or accept those flaws, and has instead doubled down on the program. The F-35 was sold based on some simple promises: that it would be cheaper than alternatives; that having a common design with 3 variants would reduce costs, increase reliability, and increase capabilities; and that it would be a next generation multi-role fighter capable of easily gaining the upper hand against any competitor in any theater in the world. All of those promises have been broken, utterly. The reality is that there are three completely different planes that have similar names, but the commonality between the different "variants" is only around 30%. Worse, the plane is hugely expensive to produce and even more expensive to operate, with a dismally low "duty cycle" (with a ratio of 3-5 hours of corrective maintenance needed for every single hour of flight time). Slowly but surely the cost of the F-35 is approaching the cost of the F-22 (which is a vastly more capable aircraft). And now we see that the planes aren't actually very good at their job either.

It's like going to the car dealership and trading in your beloved and trustworthy family automobile then the salesman selling you on the idea of a fun but inexpensive and reliable high performance sports car. Then when you get the car you realize that it's a lemon, it has the performance of a Geo Metro but the gas mileage of a HUMVEE, it's in the shop every week for some new problem or other, and then when you check the paperwork you see some stuff you didn't notice when you signed and it actually cost 3x more than you thought. That situation would cause anyone to be pissed off. Unfortunately, the Pentagon is so in bed with LockMart/Boeing that they refuse to criticize it or do anything about it.
OPM cybersecurity team lacks any technology background
As some one who comes from a country where tax evasion is common(India), I can tell you Greece's problems have just begun. And its not like introducing plastic money or online transactions will fix anything here. By now most of the Greeks would be so mentally conditioned to not paying taxes, any attempt from the government to make them pay will come across as a being handed out a very unfair deal. Most will feel cheated and being asked to make sacrifices out of their way.

In fact this is the reason why its so difficult to turn around things in such countries. The issue is not technology or government policy. When you have a whole generation of people grow up in such a ecosystem, these practices seep into your culture and everyday life. You can only undo them gradually overtime, and sometimes it takes 2-3 generations to get out of it.

Another defining characteristic of a society where cash transactions are common - Every day corruption is omnipresent.
Firstly, a major congratulations to the gang at GitLab - well deserved!

We'd used GitLab for over a year internally, but as I've mentioned previously, it became a pain to maintain. So we switched to GitHub for our private "important" projects and turned off our GitLab instance (other reasons caused this too mind). Our version was 6.7 or something up until today.

Today we realised we should run GitLab internally again for non-critical repositories - since our networking is a pain to give external access to servers - we can't access it out of the office. I updated us to 7.12 CE and I kind of regret it.

The UI is so complicated now. Whilst there are good features that we like, it's so hard to navigate to where you want to be. I think this is down to the "contextual" sidebar. I really do prefer GitHub's UI for repo administration and usage, which is a shame.

Sure, the colours are nice in GitLab but it's far from functional. My colleagues felt the same way too.

Also (for those at GitLab) your Markdown renderer is still not rendering Markdown correctly in all cases...

Anyway, not to take away from the funding - it's excellent news!
That sounds like a nightmare to do without software computing it. I realize you and likely everyone reading this use tax software, but many people still do them by hand, and this would involve an individual tax-rate lookup for each transaction rather than just grouping them into short/long-term capital gains.
This and similar criticisms of the F-35 are just silly. I can take any other aircraft in the U.S. inventory and put it in situations where it will lose engagements against other domestic or foreign aircraft and systems. Multi-role fighters like the F-35, Rafale, Viper, Hornet, and Gripen aren't meant to be dominant in any one specific area. They're meant to be flexible platforms that can be tailored for different operations and flight packages based on the needs of the mission at the time, and like most multi-role fighters, they each tend to be a little better at certain roles than others.

Additionally, most of these criticisms act as if the F-35 will be acting alone on these missions, and don't take into account the fact that other aircraft, radars, and offensive/defensive systems are meant to be utilized alongside the F-35. Such a micro view doesn't adequately account for the actual theater of war these aircraft will take part in.

Is the JSF program enormously expensive? Yes. Is it unnecessary? Maybe. However, expensive and unnecessary are separate issues from whether or not this is a capable aircraft, of which it empirically is. Does it have kinks to work out? Definitely, but this aircraft is still in testing phases, and like all other aircraft, it will go through iterations and variations. In time, as systems mature, bugs are fixed, and pilots become more experienced, we can be sure that the F-35 will at least be a capable tool to warfighters.

Argue the cost, argue the need, but making the argument that the folks at Lockheed all of a sudden forgot how to build capable fighter aircraft is absurd.
Show HN: Stratigy – A server app for storing and exchanging stratigraphic data
Before you start shitting on OPM and the like, is this any different than what would happen if a dedicated attacker came after the most valuable data in your company?

Clearly, OPM should know, but omg is the state of security poor.
Hi, my name is Daniel and I developed Stratigy as prototype for storing and exchanging stratigraphic data as part of my masters thesis in Geography. Stratigraphic data are an important source of information in geoscientific disciplines such as geology, physical geography, archeology and beyond. Most scientists still store these kind of data in spreadsheets, with all its shortcomings (data exchange, versioning, schema definitions). In the private sector (ressource industries), central databases are well in use, but proprietary solutions mostly don't fit the needs of geoscientific researchers. This is where I want to fill the gap by outlining an open source data exchange format based on GeoJSON, enabling client applications to build upon a standardized format. For avoiding schema problems with the endless possible attributes in use for stratigraphic data, the prototype stores the attributes for stratigraphic records in a document storage column of PostgreSQL, using the newly available JSONB datatype. Furthermore, PostgreSQL allows the use of PostGIS for spatial operations on the data, such as finding stratigraphic data by location.

There is also a demo client application as IPython notebook, showcasing the data analysis that is possible with data coming from the API. (https://github.com/dkerkow/stratigy_demo_ipython)

I'd be glad to hear if somebody has recommendations regarding the implementation or the underlying data concept. Thanks!
Haha, thanks for the laugh.

I do research on molecular biology, you could say that every meeting with our project leaders goes like that.

Specially that part like:

"Why did you do X?"

"(I didnt' wanted to but...) As per your request, you said it was a really important feature."

"No way, scrap it, how come you thought X was a good idea! Come on!"
OPM hack: 21M people's personal information stolen, federal agency says
The last aircraft shot down by gunfire involving US forces was during Vietnam. I believe the cannon for the F-35 is not operational yet, and will be externally mounted in the navy variants.
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AWS Govcloud has a very small subset of AWS public features. Enough to get the job done though. Most importantly, it complies to all the FedRAMP, ITAR standards. The Government is just inherently slow in adopting and leveraging AWS's awesome infrastructure.
Ugly, ugly, ugly.

Just to copy anything, because it comes from the US. Monopolies help only one: The monopolist. We already have a de-facto monopoly in Germany.

And, yes, I hate Mrs. Merkel, because she makes anything, the big bosses want! She is our Walker Bush and is the leader of the Lemmings.
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article20.html

Oh, they didn't overlook it. The mere fact that he assumes that only flat nozzles are stealthy tells me that the author has not done his research.

From my reading of this article, the author accepts the absolute most pessimistic estimates of the F-35 and also accepts the most optimistic estimates and statements of the capabilities of other aircraft and radar systems, without questioning these estimates. For example, take this line:

"Tehran insists its Ghadir radar can spot jets more than 300 miles away."

Tehran also insisted that their Qahar 313 is real, when it's a laughable fake: http://www.thewire.com/global/2013/02/iran-new-stealth-fight....

Now, just because the Qahar 313 is likely fake, that doesn't mean their Ghadir radar can't spot aircraft at 300+ miles. But shouldn't the Qahar fake make a "security analyst" like the author take a closer look at subsequent claims by the same government?
Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application
I think people are getting tripped up on the difference between "fictional" and...I dunno..."fungible"? In a sense all money is fictional, but obviously despite that no one is willing to trade a $10 bill for my $1 bill. So taxing people differently for having $10 vs $1 might make sense.

But $10 and ten $1 bills are equivalent. A tax that applied to one and not the other would be very weird; it's not clear what behavior it's meant to encourage, and anyway lots of people would avoid paying it.

So the argument above is that "realizing" gains is a lot like getting change for a dollar bill. I don't know whether that's right, but anyway it's different from arguing about whether money is real :)
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I know the answer..think Tesla..but instead of a small auto a big truck or better yet a big ship...

both require a rethinking of the transmission to transfer power from the engine to the wheels or propeller in order to get bigger torque

this gear device solves that particular problem
What's with the gap between 207 and 2010? ;)
I'm back with the signers of the Declaration of Independence: "endowed by their Creator". And that's why their inalienable - because nobody has the legitimate authority to supercede His giving of these rights.
You can also use disk2fdi, which works on PC as long as you have two floppy drives and are willing to modify a floppy cable (or buy a pre-modified one).

http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi
Apigee didn't buy Swagger. SmartBear did.
I have some short screencasts showing using the Self user interface here if interested: http://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/self/

Also a short animated gif of a Self VNC morph I worked on: http://bluishcoder.co.nz/self/self_vnc2.gif

I like the 'live soup of objects' feel of Self.
Thank you for the feedback. I really do appreciate it.

The app allows you to create a living document that is accessible for viewing and editing behind an easy-to-remember URL. No login is required. For your convenience, the system sends a snapshot of it to your inbox every morning.

You may want to use this to track your progress on your goals for the week.

A future version will support multiple recipients, so a group can coordinate on an activity.
iPhone comes with serious memory handicap. CPUs are running just fine since iPhone 4. That's been Apple's sales pattern for decades.

That said, it would really interesting to see just how much the CPU actually degrades over time. I guess it's around few percent.
Seems to me this F-35 is the pacifist's wet dream.
It can't fight long or short range and even if it could, it can't kill because it's too slow.
It doesn't respond to violence with violence, hence - pacifist.

For ultimate peace making, they should equip it with pigeons and let the birds loose over the enemy territory, sending out love letters to everyone.

Also balloons and candy for the enemy children would be appropriate.
Are you a lobbyist for TurboTax? (I kid I kid... but seriously, are you?)
The singularity line took me for a very mild loop & didn't distract from the article. It's disconcerting that carter can be taking advantage of the situation given all that Harper represents(maybe it takes a law degree:(
> It would force all people currently saving for retirement to save 10-15% more to pay this new pile of tax.

This will happen regardless, as tax rates have nowhere to go but up in the USA (considering trillions in unfunded liabilities).

> And what, precisely, do they get in return for that added tax burden?

Civilization. That's exactly what taxes pay for.
> The Gmail Postmaster Tools help qualified high-volume senders analyze their email, including data on delivery errors, spam reports, and reputation.

No clarification on who these qualified senders are? Not even a hint..? Why not all domains?
Maybe "superagent". Client side and node.
Caitie McCaffrey gave a talk on this subject at GOTO Chicago 2015 [1], refreshing the 'Saga Pattern' for a distributed environment. Short summary, IIRC:

1) Use a linearizable data store to store transaction metadata

2) Each step must have a complementary rollback step

3) Rollback steps must be idempotent. Depending on the type transaction, sometimes 'rollback' is too strong and you instead implement other types of recovery (e.g. 'roll-forward')

[1] http://gotocon.com/chicago-2015/presentation/Applying%20the%...