skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Do you think we're going to have a shooting war with China or Russia before 2025? Because those are the only countries that can come close to challenging US air superiority.
It's funny how a very large part of this is because Greece is still for small transactions very much a cash society and that means that it is relatively easy to keep things off the books. The irony is that the current situation will make sure that nobody in Greece will ever trust a bank again and that in turn will make it a lot harder to collect those taxes.

This won't blow over easily.
> Shouldn't they be able to outmaneuver a human?

Surely so. Even with current aviation technology, the lack of an onboard bag of meat that dies at high accelerations should be a huge advantage.
Well, the new carriers are somewhat of a disaster too.

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-pentagons-concurrency-m...
I read a piece that I wish I'd saved that suggested that one of the reasons programmers often have better experiences with computers is we've internalized what is likely to be the well-trodden path and we stay on it. Hence we encounter mostly smoothed edges. The same article postulated that some programmers don't internalize this, and they encounter bug after bug, the same way Zed does.

Oh, and this. A million times this:

I don’t fucking work for you. I’m not going to waste 15-30 minutes
navigating your bullshit bug tracker, filling out every random
Jira/Bugzilla/Confluence/AgileXPHardon12000 tracking data point just so you
can ignore me.
> If they are built cheaply enough, wouldn't a larger number overwhelm a conventional air force?

Probably. Do we really have an answer to a swarm of drones in a very spread out pattern, each with 2-4 long range missiles?
What we learnt from the Reddit fiasco, as an API company
Key to Winning: Not Getting Lost
Greeks are very hard working, that's not the problem here.
Where did bans come in to play? What food is banned that you want? And please don't say trans fats if you don't understand that they were a harmful preservation method and don't affect taste at all.
Marines operate amphibious assault ships. They're currently equipped with Harriers. Those need replacing.
Sure, but with OpenGL's state system you could only safely use it from a single thread. Even if you had multiple threads using it, you still needed a command buffer to safely operate it from one thread processing the commands on the command buffer. Vulkan is capable of being fed commands directly from multiple threads.
Why this startup has an ‘unfair advantage’ making apps for Microsoft HoloLens
Hi Mohsen,

Interesting! Re: SwaggerUI, it already existed as CoffeeScript and Backbone.js.

I built "Swagger Editor" for Tony, the creator of Swagger, as a paid OSS project; the screenshot shows the Swagger Editor back in Apr 2014 before yours existed.

I notice that a month later, you created "Swagger Editor" using the same technologies I chose (Yeoman, AngularJS, Ace Editor, etc) and took over the name.

I imagine the people who shared the private repository, including your employer Apogee, saw how fast I made mine and wanted to do their own from scratch, but I don't know.

I just took a look at your slides, looks like you've worked on yours for a year since, and use AST to understand where errors are, nice.
The air force is planning on using the F-35 to replace lots of other planes and entire plane categories (CAS). The plan is to have 187 F22s, 1763 F35s, ~100 bombers, plus some utility planes (C&C, tankers, cargo, etc.)

You can see the F35 is the workhorse there. If it's a dud it's a huge dud.
The Navy has had trouble with Seawolf (canceled after 3), Zumwalt (canceled after 2), and LCS (should be canceled). All were basically down the same vein of trying to be a jack of all trades plus major new innovations.

On the other hand the Virginia class submarine is working quite well, and the new fleet of aircraft carriers seems to be OK if you still believe aircraft carriers are useful.
It sounds like you were using relatively loosely coupled AWS services. RDS doesn't change your programming interface to the database, it just hosts it. If you needed to, you could switch to a non-RDS Postgres server with only a configuration change to your core application.

Contrast this with using AWS DynamoDB, which would likely be a major overhaul if you needed to switch to something that could be used outside of AWS.
It's not that they overlooked it as such--it's that, at different points in the plane's design, requirements changed. The original powerplant design was probably settled on before the stealth requirements were brought up.
You lost any credibility when you mentioned communism.
Chlipala, if you're on here, I want to be the second person to say: `crush` is the least communicative tactic I have ever seen. Where the hell is `unsafePerformIO` when I want some reporting on exactly how you crushed my proof goals!?
Digital thermostats rather than mercury tilt switches, also digital thermometers. Most people dont know how todic mercury is. If you break a mercury thermometer call 911 to request a hazmat team.

Autmobiles are far more efficient than they once were, also they have far cleaner engines. Even with smog certifications dirty cars become so worn out they can no longer be repaired.

One can still purchase a beater but it will have fuel injection and a computer.
Has anyone tried beta testing iOS 9? I'm interested to see if there are any speed increases for iOS, since iOS 8, my iPad2 has been as slow as molasses.
The only counter-argument I am aware of is that "It will get better as software and training improve." I don't doubt the veracity of this statement, however with the whole JSF fighter project falling this far behind schedule there is just too much uncertainly in how long it is going to take it to "get better" and how far you can push the airframe which is, as everybody can agree with, somewhat mutilated from the beginning.
I doubt the engineers would overlook anything like that. It's more like:

Engineer: "We can't get the engine to work with the current airframe design if we use stealthy engine nozzles. It's going to require a significant re-design."

Manager: "Will it work with old style round nozzles? Then use those."
On the other hand, most modern mathematicians know stuff that would blow Whittaker and Watson's socks off.

Much mathematics is obsoleted. For example, there was a lot of incredibly difficult mathematics for finding areas under curves, which was all completely obsoleted with the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. Nothing of value was lost.

Individual pieces of mathematics come and go from general awareness, but the overall trend is definitely one of increasing, not decreasing, understanding.
I think architects have to be very careful in deciding which components would qualify as a microservice and which ones should be lumped together. This article sums up my thought.
http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/11/ucon-microservices-enterpr...
I suppose a lot of engineers prefer function over form rather than the other way around. If anything I'm suspicious when a tech/engineer focussed product prioritises aesthetics over function. Might be irrational but it's my first reaction.
Thanks for the feedback!

I plan to open source it down the road, which would give you the option to self host.

Main differences? Right now, UI and functionality wise, not much. Simple Note has a whole slew of native apps and a few years of history going for them. In the future, I plan to tailor my offering to people who are trying to make writing a habit. That means activity calendars like Github for writing progress, with word counts by day for example, in app writing prompts, etc.

It does look like the database is hiccuping right now. I am going to look into optimizing calls over the next few days- I'm a jr. dev and don't get paid to do this, so I'm learning in my spare time. Thanks for bearing with me!
> Is there any reason the F-35 is receiving this much scrutiny versus other military vehicles?

The premise of the question is dubious. Similarly problem-plagued programs -- that have been far less expensive -- have gotten similar attention at similar stages of their lifecycle, some of which have been subsequently abandoned, others of which have dealt with the early problems to become reasonably useful.

OTOH, the fact that the manned combat aircraft seem to be reaching a point where the expense of making them minimally survivable dwarfs their utility, similar to what happened with battleships several decades ago, probably mean that there will be more triggers for attention paid to manned combat aircraft programs, both in terms of problems and overall expense, which draws attention on its own.
Jump Tables in C
Who is this Joseph Trevithick guy anyway? His linked in profile says "Journalist and researcher with experience using various open source and public domain resources", "Acted as an on call military history consultant for various miniatures gaming products."

I feel a lot of the reasoning seems a little dubious.

> Russian radars, such as the one on the new Sukhoi Su-35, at least match the JSF’s APG-81, according to data compiled by Carlo Kopp at Air Power Australia. While the specific details remain secret, Kopp estimates ...

Air Power Australia have a MASSIVE axe to grind when it comes to the F-35. They also have a history of publishing things that look like F-22 fanfiction (e.g. an article saying that navalizing the F-22 should be a piece of cake, http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-230209-1.html).

> 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 that spread out their exhaust plumes,

I think they are flat mostly to shape radar reflections. I think the fact that the B-2 exhaust nozzle is on the upper half of the aircraft also is supposed to help the IR signature, but does the flatness really affect anything?

> Even with its radar off, an F-35 could struggle to hide from enemy planes ... “You can’t stealthify against long-wavelength radars”

Sure, but this affects every airplane, it's not a weakness of the F-35.

> The F-35’s limited weaponry was one of the major problems that a controversial simulation highlighted back in 2008.

Well, it was indeed controversial. As one article puts it "RAND’s core conclusion is not about specific fighter performance. It’s about the theoretical limits of better performance under adverse basing and logistics conditions."(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/the-f-35s-air-to-air-cap...). In particular, they concluded that the F-22 would also be completely outgunned, despite being indisputably the best air superiority fighter right now.

The War is Boring coverage of the F-35 in general strikes me as kindof shoddy, it's like they decided that writing snarky anti-F-35 articles is now part of their blog brand.
In what way does the European Parliament does not qualify as "EU"?

In any case, it wasn't the national governments that voted for it.

(Especially since the Parliament is mostly a fig leaf for the Council and Commission, but I digress).
I wonder how much of the mobile app market is a pyramid scheme. It seems to me like most mobile apps are supported by ads for other apps that, in turn, have ads for other apps.
The JSF C-variant (carrier based) had a hook that didn't work last year...they finally rectified it. When it comes to the F-35, there are a lot of engineering items that have been overlooked that are mindboggling.
Another approach is to invert the problem and use html web components - so declare new objects in html and separate the logic. That feels far more natural to me than an almost html (react) or some sort of dsl which shadows html mixing up logic, data and presentation - html is the one part of the web stack which is pretty much fit for purpose, why try to replace it?

See Polymer for an example of using this in current browsers:

https://www.polymer-project.org

The markup is just custom html elements separate from the behaviour (in js). e.g. a dialog:

https://elements.polymer-project.org/elements/paper-dialog?v...

<paper-dialog>
<h2>Header</h2>
<paper-dialog-scrollable>
Lorem ipsum...
</paper-dialog-scrollable>
<div class="buttons">
<paper-button dialog-dismiss>Cancel</paper-button>
<paper-button dialog-confirm>Accept</paper-button>
</div>
</paper-dialog>
It doesn't have to be a mistake or something overlooked. Consider the possibility that funneling money from the US government to defense contractors is the primary goal, and that the shape of the engine nozzles isn't particularly relevant to this goal.
Last time I checked the seamless mode of VMWare was VASTLY superiour to the VirtualBox one. While VirtualBox did not much more than hide your desktop-background and make it transparent, VMware integrated the window manager of the guest OS into the host OS (i.e. guest-windows would appear in the host-OS window manager's window list). Furthermore it overlaid the screen with a button with an applications menu (native to the host-OS) sourced from the guest OS.

Nowadays I am without a WMware licence, and I found that KVM and its frontends are enough for my use cases right now because I do not rely on Windows-VMs for my day-to-day work so I can always use X forwarding for an integrated experience.
The entire military-industrial complex is a boondoggle at taxpayer expense. The Iraq war cost, what, $1,000,000,000,000? And that didn't even involve any fancy next-gen fighters.

I just don't see why people harp on this one stupid-expensive plane when there's all kinds of other stupid-expensive junk we waste money on.

It's like somebody burned down your house, but what you're really mad about is that they burned down the brand-new tool shed out back.
I bought an iPad a little over 5 years ago. At college (longer ago) I used Unix (ultrix) and have had a Linux server ever since and that won't stop any sooner than will my iPad use. Back 8 years ago, I bought a beautiful 17" Sony laptop that was stolen from my car, working in Australia (I'm Scottish) along with mine and my wife's passports (a different story) but once insurance money came, Apple had upped their spec on the MacBook Pro 17" so I got that, and I'm still happily using today. However... I love my "proper computer", my PC (you know what I mean), had one with CGA when jealously looking at my fiends Atari STs and Amigas, but those things plugged into TVs, not monitors like a proper computer, as PC tech advanced, it was clear what the winner was and I'm still trading on the skills picked up when I was in secondary school. I bought the iPad, it was (is actually, still using it, and recently added an air to my arsenal) brilliant, but as this article nicely spells out, it's casual. I've never (as an analyst) managed to successfully use it as a tool, it's a toy and truth is, so is my MacBook. The apple version of excel isn't good enough (or familiar enough) to replace my essential windows version. I've been writing my next big thing software (stop many times on too many platforms) for over a decade and still not made traction, despite learning every library on multiple releases and paying apple's "developer" tax - though I see they've removed that recently. Long story short, I've just ordered a Microsoft tablet thing, with hope that it will be a real productive business device, which for my use my MacBook or iPads (or iPhones or iPods) will never really be.

So I look forward to delivery of my windows tablet (my brother has an RT first fen one, so I've got an idea) and my work phone is a windows phone, it's functional.

I hope to write my next big thing app, and this article has reminded me to not have any shame about marketing it as windows only, because that's what I use and like (though in my heart, I still think of windows as being win.com).

All that and I can play skyrim on it. Meantime I'm sticking with windows too and not many of my colleagues or friends even think this is a controversial thing.
Right, I was thinking about the neutrons. Maybe something like methane would be more efficient than pure hydrogen. Anyway, it's just a thought.

It's very surprising to see how efficient boron is. I thought neutron shields (paraffin, water) are supposed to be very thick. Maybe boron does the job via a different mechanism?
I'm immensely jealous of Estonia's ability to rebuild their infrastructure from the ground up. I know we'll never have that chance in the US, but if we did, we could build something truly incredible, especially now that government is slowly starting to understand the benefits of the "lean startup" model (I say that loosely).
Well, the thing is, nobody really needa a Wonderplane like the F-35. Yes, the Marines need a VTOL plane, but they could be developed cheaper, probably on the base of the old AV/8B. A-10 is still fine for CAS. Maybe ask the Israelis in turn about modernization options for "older" planes. Generally, countries that have to make do with "old" hardware have pretty good Ideas.
E.G. the Olifant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_tank#South_Africa
The Sufa
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/f-16i/
For those interested, the creators of Sails.js (a node-encapsulating framework) have created a sorta similar product called Treeline[1].

[1] https://treeline.io/
My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple.

Podcasts:

Varieties, science, design.

* This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

* Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/

* Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney

* Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/

* The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w

* The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly

* Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac...

* Anticast (for Portuguese speakers out there - the best Brazilian podcast I know). http://www.brainstorm9.com.br/anticast/

* 99% Invisible. http://99percentinvisible.prx.org/

Technology, programming, Apple, etc.

* Debug. http://www.imore.com/debug/

* Mac Power Users. http://www.relay.fm/mpu

* Accidental Tech Podcast. http://atp.fm/

* Overtired. http://www.esn.fm/overtired/

* The Vergecast. http://www.theverge.com/verge/verge_archives/show?mode=Entry...

* What's Tech (also from The Verge, fun show). http://www.theverge.com/whatstech

* Pragmatic. http://techdistortion.com/podcasts/pragmatic

* Iterate. http://www.imore.com/iterate

* The Changelog. http://5by5.tv/changelog

* Build Podcast (each post is actually a screencast about some technology). http://build-podcast.com/

* The Talk Show With John Gruber. http://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow

* Inquisitive. http://www.relay.fm/inquisitive

* MacCast. http://www.maccast.com/

* Exponent (from Ben Thompson). http://exponent.fm/

Music and recording:

* Lauren Laverne (music and interviews from BBC Radio 6). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrv0l

* The Talkhouse Music. http://thetalkhouse.com/music

* Home Studio Corner. http://www.homestudiocorner.com/

* Simply Recording Podcast. http://simplyrecordingpodcast.com/

Blogs and news sites:

* The Verge. http://www.theverge.com/

* Web Designer News. http://www.webdesignernews.com/

* Stratechery. https://stratechery.com

* Matt Gemmel (one of my favorite writers on the web). http://mattgemmell.com/

* BrettTerpstra.com. http://brettterpstra.com/

* Coding Horror. http://blog.codinghorror.com

* Daring Fireball. http://daringfireball.net

* Guy English. http://kickingbear.com/blog/

* Ignore the code. http://ignorethecode.net/blog/

* Patrick Rhone. http://patrickrhone.com/

* Shawn Blanc. http://shawnblanc.net/

* The Brooks Review. https://brooksreview.net/

* Tools & Toys. http://toolsandtoys.net/

* George Monbiot (my favorite writer on politics & the environment). http://www.monbiot.com/

(I had to post again to get line breaks. Sorry, this is my first time commenting on HN).
So basically these guys?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynote_DeviceAnywhere
I'm not blaming anyone, just comparing the situation in Greece and post-WW2 Germany. All sides committed atrocities, but the Soviets' were by far the worst.

Were they? During the siege of Stalingrad, Nazis were hanging dead bodies of kids [1] in the streets to demoralize the soviet troops. Of course it worked the other way, Soviets were so much infuriated by this that they fought to the last man.

You have some audacity coming here and making such claims.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2228373/Human-excrem...
Funny, I made a very similar comment recently:

A concrete example we've faced. A certain operation requires writing data to N flaky services. You successfully write to N-1 of them, but the Nth fails. Now what do you do?
If these N things were just database writes to the same DB, transactions would save you, as you could just rollback. Without that, the answer has to be handled in code -- do you reverse the previous changes (if possible) by sending delete events, or leave the system in some sort of half-baked state and rectify things later via some other process? (I'm interested in hearing of other options...)

The answers I got were:

1) apologetic computing (Amazon)

2) consensus algorithms / paxos

The problem I see is that these may be non-trivial to implement and/or not fully understood or standardized.
Much of this is rooted in history - namely Guadalcanal. The USMC was very angry at Naval Aviation for "abandoning" them on the beaches without Close Air Support while the Navy instead flew missions to protect their Fleet. The USMC demanded an increased in their organic capabilities to support THEIR mission -- boots on the ground.
>Here's an example (though a bit contrived) where I don't think that right should (or does) apply: during the recent World Cup, many cities in the US showed the final on large screens at public parks. Are you allowed to take pictures of of the park that contain a portion of FIFA's copyrighted broadcast? How about if you take 29.97 pictures per second of the screen, carefully cropped so you get none of that annoying crowd?

Absolutely. They should either make their "broadcasts" photographable or keep their commercial BS out of the streets.

As for taking 29.97 pictures per second and cropping them, that's entirely another issue, and should be dealt with the end result and intention in mind.
I'm by no means an expert on this, however, I do think there are "unicorns" but I don't think these unicorns constitute the tech sector. I don't think there is a bubble as we had during the dot-com, a lot (if not most) of the tech companies today are very mature businesses. If there was something about to "pop", my guess would be, it would be the unicorns.
It was arguably designed when radar stealth was a key advantage. But other detection technologies have since matured. And the Russians and Chinese have redesigned faster, perhaps relying on stolen plans and test results.

So maybe it's time to drop the F-35, and copy Russian and Chinese designs.
Something between an anti-satellite weapon and a long-range cruise missile. It'll be expensive though, very expensive.
On CCD/CMOS sensors it can happen enough to be visible as dead columns or pixels. Pixels can be calibrated out.

Most notably, gamma rays killing columns was the suspected cause of dead columns while filming Superman a few years back. As a result, cameras were shipped by ship rather than air to minimize this happening ( a bit of a reactionary tale to this particular incident and not generally what happens).