skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>why do people keep lending them money?

Let's look at it this way. What if they take that seriously and stop lending them money now?

Please note the amount of diplomatic and geo-political pressure being put on other european countries/creditors currently to bail them out and give them more funds. So this is damned if you do, and damned if you don't kind of a situation.

If what you said is taken seriously, Greece will not get a single penny now either in bail out money or other recovery loans.
Ask HN: Assume the tech bubble will burst soon. How should programmers prepare?
TechCrunch ran a pretty opinionated article (http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/26/the-tech-industry-is-in-denial-but-the-bubble-is-about-to-burst/), and it got me wondering about the implications of the author's conclusions.

Given I'm a developer who is considering a change of jobs, I'm especially interested in which companies would be relatively safe during a tech industry contraction. I'm assuming startups would be most vulnerable and mainstays would be most protected. Thoughts?
Yeah, it's pretty much a given that checking for overflow won't be the bottleneck when you're doing pointer arithmetic to traverse a large data structure. The memory accesses will dominate over the cost of the highly-predictable branches.
There's a relevant HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271679
Sadly, it does not support IPv6 :(

Other than that, this was unexpected :D
I got a different ad, viewing on Nexus 5 I get a non-video ad that fills my entire screen, but the X box is off the right of the screen and I can't scroll or pinch to view it & click on it to make the ad go away. Made the page completely unreadable for me.

(Going back and clicking the link again, I can now read the article.)
OK. One possible universe.
> This is more an indication of the NSA focusing too strongly on offensive/monitoring operations and not on information security, which is their job as well.

This is precisely how I feel about this kind of thing.

To my mind, the NSA should be working to make the security technologies used by American individuals, American companies, and the American government as strong and as free of vulnerabilities as possible. The necessary degree of transparency would, of course, mean any such improvements would be available to anyone in other countries, but I think that situation is far superior to our current climate where we suspect (and not as wild conspiracy theory) that our vulnerabilities were as likely created by the NSA as not.

Many American individuals—and presumably companies—consider the NSA an adversary simply because these individuals value their privacy and the NSA has shown only hostility toward Americans concerning their privacy. In some alternate universe, my own opinion of the NSA could have been positive had they been an agency focused on decreasing the risk of individuals' privacy being compromised.

At the very least, that they are not (apparently) presently sufficiently charged with assisting other branches of the government maintain security is a misallocation of talent.
Orwell coined the term duckspeak to describe the quacking sounds made by people without original thoughts.
Who cares? Air-to-air combat is exceedingly rare these days, and in the very near future no piloted aircraft will be able to keep up with a drone anyway (smaller, lighter, able to pull G-forces that would black out or kill a human pilot).
Yea... In theory it would be nice to have any DSL style created in the language, but in practice it seems easier to specifically build HTML-like syntax into the core language (like JSX). Or build a separate language like Haskell's Hamlet [1], or Python's Jinja [2].

[1] http://www.yesodweb.com/book/shakespearean-templates
[2] http://jinja.pocoo.org/
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It you're using an int as the index of your array, and your array already has more than half MAX_VALUE elements, you've got a much more serious problem coming in the future, when your arrays are twice as big as they are now.
We can't be more than a decade away from autonomous drones becoming the fighter of choice. Shouldn't they be able to outmaneuver a human? If they are built cheaply enough, wouldn't a larger number overwhelm a conventional air force?
As John Maynard Keynes said: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

It's usually easier to recognize a bubble than to predict when it will burst.
Is there any reason the F-35 is receiving this much scrutiny versus other military vehicles? Maybe it's just that it's the information age, or that there are more public people reviewing government action, but there's been a certain fascination with this F-35 that makes me suspicious.

Surely the F-35 isn't the first bad military vehicle the government has/will purchase...
The NSA was slow in adapting to the Internet. Also, US cyberwar efforts have been too focused on offense. They've assumed technological superiority. That was safe 20 years ago (maybe even 10) but it's clearly not safe now.
do you know if there is a way to cache things if used across multiple apps?
Hacking Team Email Archive on Wikileaks
Correct. That's science. And if you can't say that ("I was wrong"), it's simply dogma.
US Patent 7309866 - Cosmic ray detectors for integrated circuit chips - Intel (applied for 2004-06, issued 2007-12)

http://www.google.com/patents/US7309866

Is Intel using any such things in their commodity chips?
why they spend money on it and dont develop new better fighter jet ? are they incompetent or corrupted ?
So why build a "fighter" at all then? Why not just extend / modernize the A-10?
A good time to repost this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
Another user of pinboard here (not a heavy user though). Are there any other examples of services that are simple and just work? Seems like this is the holy grail of SaaS - a simple service, barebones design, something that just works out of the box, happy customers. Great service.
No, but it is the most expensive. It's the most expensive weapon program ever.
> Who cares?

Everyone that paid for the promises that it could do all this stuff.
> Everyone concedes that these are fundamental, but they have been scandalously neglected, perhaps in the naive belief that anyone learning calculus has outgrown them. In fact, arithmetic, algebra, and geometry can never be outgrown, and the most rewarding path to higher mathematics sustains their development alongside the 'advanced' branches such as calculus.

I doubt one's "outgrowth of certain branches of math" is the reason math as taught to non-math majors is a castrated mess it is. It's probably the market forces that reject real analysis, abstract algebra or anything at that level or higher. It's the same reason "some programming language du jour > fundamentals of CS, IRL".
Well, the website does do what it purports to do.
it is the largest expenditure on one military vehicle in history though
It's the first generation during which we're buying a single plane for all roles. That makes it the most expensive and riskiest plane procurement ever... which is a great reason to have it looked at very carefully.
Of course internet access isn't a "necessity". Air, appropriate temperature, food, shelter, those are "necessities". But just like a driver's license, internet access is one of those things we can make a "privilege" legally, and a necessity practically, and then make the privilege into a control mechanism. Just say it, you blithering idiots.
The mistake there really lies with the laptop manufacturer, not the CPU manufacturer. Stupid motherboard firmware and stupid operating system drivers can undo any chip designer's hard work, and that's why laptops are so failure prone (especially where GPUs are concerned).
No. but because ALL services bet on the same plane, NOTHING else is developed. Additionally, still formidable planes like the A-10 or F-22 receive flak because the brass wants its wonderplane...
A view from the boundary – JuliaCon 2015
As I recall, when the last HN story came out about the F-35 not doing well in short-range combat, there was a rebuttal that basically said that the test run was not designed to accurately simulate short-range combat, and that in particular the F-35 was missing the expected software suite that significantly augments its navigation and dogfighting capabilities.

I didn't follow the story after that, so I don't know if there were any counter-arguments made. But if that was true, might there also be some similar mitigating factors that apply to this story?
Ask HN: Why do referendum polls suck?
With the 2014 Scottish Referendum [1] and with the 2015 Greek Referendum [2], opinion polls indicated that results might be "close" (say around 4%), but the former ended with a 10.3% lead, and the latter with a 22.6% lead. But why? Does this reveal a systematic problem with polling? Is it a problem with the sample (e.g. size, distribution, etc.)? Is it the nature of the questions in a referendum that make choosing a sample harder than in traditional elections?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Scottish_independence_referendum,_2014#2014
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015#Opinion_polls
Because the F-35 has been a huge boondoggle, at the taxpayers expense.
The intended use is to be able to use things like Hadoop or other tabular text processing systems to glean information from enormous amounts of data, then once valuable insights are found, use the Data Lake source to process it into a form suitable for a data mart, or preferably, a data warehouse.
Yes, I'd be fully in favor of a 10-20 year life extension of the existing platforms, followed by "no more manned combat aircraft" after that.
The F-35 is receiving so much scrutiny because of the exorbitant cost of the program and the very poor product that program produced for the american taxpayer.

Better fighters have been produced in far less time for far less money. I think it's receiving so much attention on HN because it's an example of poor engineering.
There is no "very near future" in military spending. It will take at least five and probably ten years to get a working high-G drone design with equivalent capability off the drawing board and into the air.

Meanwhile the F-35 is a fiasco for US and NATO force projection. The whole point of modern weapons - ugly and expensive as they are - is that they're supposed to be so intimidating you barely need to use them.

The F-35 fails to continue that tradition. The political consequences are going to be a lot more significant than the military ones.
Maybe it's the $1.5 TRILLION price tag for the program so far?

$1.5 trillion / 318.9 million people in the USA = $4,703.67 per person!

I want a refund!
say, helicopter is behind the hill and waits until a fighter passes low over the hill, and after that the helicopter shoots into the tail of the fighter? well, i think no fighter would fare well :) On the other side :

"The official report details how the F15 was able to lock on to the helicopters around 64 km. However did not get visual ID till 6-9 km.(Beyond-visual range combat wasn't practiced at this typical exercise) "

But why would fighter fly low? It would just shoot a missile from 10km height - unreachable height for helicopter and for many anti-aircraft missiles.
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Yeah, I was worried when I was doing this that, say Batman, would be underrepresented due to all the references pointing to specific movies or comic books, but that worry seems to be misplaced. Maybe later work will group entries into categories, but I'd only do it if it could be done programmatically.
If Twinkies can make a comeback, then it's completely possible that Reddit can overcome this mess.

Whether or not that happens remains to be seen.
The missile argument is a bit of a stretch to me. The F-35 can carry way more than four missiles if they're attached to the wings (like the Su-35 the author compares it to), it will just destroy any semblance of stealth.

Comparison with the F-22 (http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0105.shtml).
What in the hell did I just click?
> And, hedge fund folks aside, long-term capital gains are also the taxes that apply to retirees drawing income from years of investments. Raising those rates would cause serious problems for folks who have already done all their financial planning and investing, and cannot afford to pay higher taxes.

Tax-sheltered vehicles such as IRAs and 401Ks already exist specifically for retirement. That's unrelated to the issue of preferential tax treatment for capital gains, which is not limited to retirees and is completely regressive, privileging those who already have access to capital over those who rely on their labor for income.
This is a horribly unscientific article. It reads mostly like a 'because I say so' hit piece.

"Instead, modern planes in a high-tech war would probably rely on their undetectable, “passive” infrared sensors"

Probably? That's all you've got backing up such a significant claim?

"Remember, the F-35 has one huge and very hot engine. True, Lockheed designed the JSF’s fuel tanks to help sop up some of the extra thermal energy the plane generates. But take a look at the F-35’s engine nozzle. It’s round. ..."

Oh, it's round. Great, now prove your important claim with actual science, field data, etc.

"Even with its radar off, an F-35 could struggle to hide from enemy planes"

Oh, it could? More of the same empty statements, with absolutely nothing backing them up.

"Using these radars, earthbound spotters could point warplanes toward incoming F-35s"

Could? Again, empty.

The article relies on Sprey, who himself is well known for half-cranked attacks on the F35:

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/pierre-spreys-anti-f-35-dia...

This entire article reads in the same style: here is something I claim, it's a very important claim, and I'm not going to actually support any of it.
The F-35 program has been overrun with delays and cost increases, making it the most expensive military system ever to be developed (One frequently-quoted number gives a program cost of 1.4 trillion USD). This makes many suspicious that the program has been heavily mismanaged, and this sort of post only furthers that impression.
They could, but the primary limiting factor of maneuverability is the integrity of the airframe, not the human inside.
You may be interested to see Estonia's advancement in this direction: http://estonia.eu/about-estonia/economy-a-it/e-estonia.html
Do some math. It's expensive. 100 r/s for one month is about $900. Plus your bandwidth and EC2 charges (unless your using Lambda). For simple Lambda functions, you can get 100 r/s on a micro for $9.
Thanks Rangel! :)
So did anyone get fired?
How often does this sort of thing actually happen in real life? Or rather, what's the chance that some given computer will experience one of these events in its operational lifetime (or, if the chance is actually high enough, how many such events would it be expected to see on average given a lifespan of several years)?
Ask HN: How do I get paid as an LLC?
Hi HN,

I'm an independent contractor looking to set up an LLC for liability reasons. I have a few questions:

1. If I operate under the LLC's name, do I ask clients to send payment to me (under my name) or the LLC? If they make payment for invoices to the LLC, how do I cash them? Do I need a business bank account or can I cash them myself with proof of ownership?

2. The LLC will only have one member, myself. Can I elect to pay myself a yearly salary from its earnings and do taxes yearly instead of paying taxes quarterly? Or do I need multiple employees for this?

Thanks, I'm looking to do this in the near future so any help would be great.
It's different for simple BT notification buzzers, but "maximalist" smartwatches like the Apple Watch surely call out for the latest and greatest semiconductor processes. They face harsh trade-offs between capability, size and battery life, harsh enough to help make them still marginal as mainstream consumer products, and those dilemmas would be significantly eased if performance-per-watt and size were improved. They're also high-margin products so manufacturing at fancy fabs should be affordable.
Because of the cost.

In this age of austerity having a fighter that cost several times more than the previous generation and yet can't do the things that it's supposed to do in the apogee of pork barrel waste. The project should have been killed years ago and yet here we are still throwing money at the thing hoping it will fly.
>"The best way to teach real mathematics, I believe, is to start deeper down, with the elementary ideas of number and space. Everyone concedes that these are fundamental, but they have been scandalously neglected, perhaps in the naive belief that anyone learning calculus has outgrown them. In fact, arithmetic, algebra, and geometry can never be outgrown, and the most rewarding path to higher mathematics sustains their development alongside the 'advanced' branches such as calculus. Also, by maintaining ties between these disciplines, it is possible to present a more unified view of mathematics, yet at the same time to include more spice and variety."

While I do agree, we have to remember why most math classes actually exist: to teach calculus to physicists and engineers, and, as my stepfather's undergraduate advisor once said, "to keep the children from running in the halls".

(For the mathematician's extremely self-centered view of "children" as "anyone who has yet to ace two semesters of real analysis".)

I've been starting into real analysis myself via Pugh's textbook[1] after not taking a serious math class since multivariable calculus, and found that, once I get past the applied stuff, I really like the approach of building up calculus from its foundations in real numbers (taken as Dedekind cuts), limits (Cauchy-convergent sequences), the set-theoretic construction of functions, and the construction of topological and metric spaces "from scratch". But I can tell that I like it because, deep down, I have the mind of a theoretical computer scientist (which is what I like to be when I'm not writing firmware), which is a kind of mathematician. I appreciate that someone has to teach the applied classes to the people who aren't going to kvetch about "how can I trust that works!?" and who demand to just get their math over with as quickly as possible.

[1] -- http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Analysis-Undergraduate-Te...
In the meantime, Greeks are worried that their fat retirement funds and unemployment insurance will be cut...

This is low. How does the last sentence relate to the rest of your comment? You present a dire situation for post-war Germany, which let me assure you is nothing compared to what Germans did in Greece (and Russia for that matter) during the war (like murdering kids), and then you close it with a comment for Greece which is quite irrelevant to the context. Or is that Greece which was devastated by German occupation more than any other country in WWII has to answer for what happened to Germany post-war. We didn’t even participate in any of that, we were busy killing each other in a civil war orchestrated by the Brits.

I’m sick and tired with the racism and hatred some people in here have towards Greece.
In the 1960s, we had some kind of the same fuckup in Germany, twice.
Once the STarfighter/Lockheed affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter#Ger...

And at the moment basically the whole Bundeswehr in general. Google either:
A400M, G36, Eurocopter Tiger...

Edit: And the Eurofighter
/* Remember how many untrusted certs we have */
j = num;

Flawless.
My IP address seemed extra sad. :( Maybe if it had a little more stability—wasn't so dynamic...
The Rifter fleet is real.
You're right, but there's no question that being somewhat vague with the patch details and producing only a changed binary means attackers will be slowed down a bit from producing a functional exploit. Even if you're only buying yourself maybe ~6-24 hours, that might mean N extra hours for millions of machines to patch.
sad and useless
You missed the word 'just' in that sentence.
Its like a person is their late 40's, who was born into a very rich family and has now spent all their money to bankruptcy. Having not done any serious work all their lives and now expects friends and near family to continue to fund their life as it was, just because they think they are entitled to be rich regardless of their decisions and actions in life.

You can give all the money to such people and they will only want more, it will fix nothing because they think they are 'entitled' to the free money. They will do no real work because they never have, and it will too painful to get off their high horse and realize they are subject to same standards as every one else in the world.
Consider the source. Medium.com likes dirt. Like the man said, dogfighting is obsolete.
Could you design drones that have higher integrity because you don't need to have a conventional cockpit area?
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When I read lines such as:

>"But take a look at the F-35’s engine nozzle. It’s round. Highly stealthy planes such as America’s B-2 bomber and F-22 fighter both boast flat engine nozzles "

I really doubt the credibility of the author; as if engineers would overlook such a basic factor if it was that crucial.
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The cost of development and procurement is currently estimated at $323 billion, a number which continues to balloon (the most expensive defense project of all time, if wikipedia is to be believed). That's a thousand dollars per tax payer on average. It is appropriate that such a project should be heavily scrutinized, to shed light on whether we are getting a good multirole fighter out of the deal; it appears that we are not.
Well the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey had a wonderfully controversy plagued development to the point it was even being questioned as to why it was going forward, now it seems pretty much standard to see them.

The Navy has had fun too with the Zumwalt-class destroyer which ended up cancelled after two. They haven't had much luck with submarines either.

Weapons programs are expensive and only more so as they suffer feature creep. We all know how expensive and annoying that is in software development, in the military its just measured in billions.

You can toss NASA into the mix, from the shuttle to many proposed replacements. Government tends to spend big and fail big with a few good things leaking through.

However if you want to get into real government boondoggles simply go look at transportation projects, from light rail to tunnels and finally bridges.
Additionally, this article does a good job of articulating the case for using 'they':

http://www.copyediting.com/epicene-they-gaining-greater-acce...
I don't think Facebook's business would be at risk at all if they open sourced most of the backend code. As long they kept things like spam/malware detections closed. Facebook's main value proposition is the existing network. Another network could possibly overtake them some day, but they're definitely not going to be doing it with Facebook's source; not even a heavy fork of that source.
I feel that the f-35 was a great plane to start with but ruined by adding a VTOL capabilities for the Marines. Why the hell does Marines Corp need fighter jets? Doesn't the Navy already have it? Doesn't the Air Force? Does this mean the Army will get it's own fighter jets? I don't understand why every branch of the military in the US needs a jet apart from Navy and Air
Are you sure the integrity of the airframe isn't build to a particular strength due to the limitations of humans? Why carry extra weight for structure if the pilot can't handle those turns?

I doubt it's a fundamental limitation of materials or physics, just of the constraints given to the designers of the aircraft.