jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"In this case the simple reversal of the initiation of the descent (as a precautionary measure) might have prevented the unfolding of events."

I think you might have missed my point. What telemetry do you think would have given ATC enough information in 8 minutes that would tell them reversing the descent is the correct course of action? If anything, the data in this flight would have indicated that the dive was initiated by the pilot, and would suggest allowing him to continue the actions. And how long would they have to discuss what should be done? The descent started 8 minutes before the plane hit the ground. That is a very short amount of time for people on the ground without full information to make the call. They would probably spend at least half that time trying to make contact with the pilot.

The bottom line is that the person best appraised of how to fly the plane is the one behind the controls, and that is how aviation has traditionally treated these situations. If a pilot wants to bring down a plane bad enough, it's mighty hard to stop them.

Anyways, and this is my speculation, I am fairly certain that remote control has been brought up many times before in aviation, and that there is a good reason why it isn't presently implemented. And as for the corner cases, those corner cases matter. This isn't a software engineering problem we are talking about.
My train of thought was following:
1. vote result represents opinion of "masses"
2. the comment in question says "masses of people need a clear, obvious Right Thing"
3. the comment itself is not clear and obvious as it contains double bind (asks to consider to be inconsiderate)
4. comment got downvoted which confirms #2

Just our of curiosity I've replied with another double bind "downvotes proof comment worthiness" which seems have reversed the trend.

Speaking on topic, I think that choosing between Right Thing and Full Picture for the "masses" is like choosing between acceleration and breaks for a car: it is better to have both. Right Thing mobilizes masses while Full Picture helps to avoid dumb aggression.
"I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography" -- http://www.amazon.com/Want-Mathematician-An-Automathography/...

This was a very influential book for me in just thinking about what it would be like to do math for a career. And I'm not a mathematician, so I think it worked. :-)
So what does the additional patent grant actually grant?
I have mixed feelings about this. In one sense, it's actually pretty true that no new language has really been developed with compilation speed as its primary focus for ages. So in that sense I applaud Go for its dedication to that purpose. On the other hand, a language devoted largely to compile speed (and that's really the one unifying principle I've seen in Go's feature set, since I view "simplicity" as essentially arbitrary in a formal sense) might be a cool research language, but I wish Go did make a few concessions for the sake of productivity. There are some really fast ahead-of-time compiling variants of ML, like Poly/ML, and in the spirit of pragmatism I think Go could have settled for "fast enough" compilation instead and used well-known techniques like type erasure to basically get 'interface{} but with static checking' generics.
This is absolutely disgusting. All of these terms should be immediately struck down. No company should be able to say squat about what you do when they're not paying you.
It's mostly, right now, because Amazon's desktop software is _so_ bad. Whereas with Dropbox and Google Drive, I can simply save files to a directory on my computer and can be assured that Dropbox/Drive are uploading them automatically and keeping them in sync, with Amazon, they seem to have forgotten about Sync all together. There are files that I add to the cloud. Should I need to work on them again, then I download them from the cloud, edit them, and add them back.

This workflow sucks, and it's worth paying to not have to do that.
StackExchange is a well-known-ish case of "startups can run Windows too". I wonder if they get any leeway on licensing for the PR?
What does LTS stand for? My dirty guess is Love ThreeSome.
I welcome any effort that aims to improve performance and the python Web ecosystem. From the code in the tutorials Falcon feels a little un-pythonic. This is not a criticism. But a comparison from my experience with other python frameworks (mainly django and flask). It is unfair to compare mature frameworks with a new one. Though this one feels a bit java-ish. Good? Bad? To me that's good. It's stepping out of the comfort zone a bit. Rather than read purely like the idioms of the language, it seems to aim to read like the process it defines. Something that other frameworks abstract down their own idioms.
Or just use zsh.
I had the exact same experience about 6 years ago...my second oldest daughter (I have four) wanted comic books. She'd found some cool ones about Mary Jane Watson that were probably young adult-ish in story, but the drawings were pretty okay (nothing overtly sexual).

So we went to a comic book store and immediately the guy behind the counter jumped out and steered my kids to a very small corner in the front of his store. He looked me in the eye and said, "They really need to stay in this section."

I look at the rest of this very large store and it's a few teenagers, but mostly middle-aged men. The image I got in my head was not one of the defensible comic-book reader, but of a soft-porn environment.

So we looked at the kids comics and it was Archie and stuff. Nothing that my daughter wanted because she wanted the "drama" and "serious" tone...without the hyper-sexualized stories and images. We asked the owner and he said there was no market for those comics. They (the publishers) tried a few, and he named the exact comic my daughter had found, but those just didn't sell.

So we left with a handful of replacement comics, but we never went again and my daughter moved on, never even considering a comic book again. She reads YA novels now.

The YA novel industry is huge. I really don't understand why there's no market for YA comic books (not graphic novels). It seems odd and sad.
You don't have to do it forever, you just need to do it until you're happy with your weight. I've personally used this method of weight loss because I find it very difficult to exercise effectively when I'm running on a caloric deficit. I consumed 1,000 - 1,500 calories a day for ~2 months and lost ~20 pounds, then began living life normally again. I found it more sustainable than grinding out weight loss over a much longer period of time by exercising.
It's this kind of grandstanding that annoys the heck out of me and makes me want to reconsider donating to the EFF in the future.

There are far more important and immediate fish that the EFF should be focusing their limited resources on frying. Once said fish are fried then start taking potshots at Apple's Dev Agreement.
Plus, who's going to buy all that nifty "war on drugs" gear when the police no longer have "free money" to purchase? Republicans will definitely shoot this down for the reasons you mentioned, and I'm sure will also hear from local constituents concerned that they're neighborhood will now be overrun with drug dealers due to this policy change.
Do you honestly think that 12 random people are going to understand the law better than say a 3 judge panel?

There are a few benefits as for example Juries are harder to bribe and sequestered juries are harder to tamper with. But, the core issue and why they were considered so important is there a check on unjust laws or even just laws unjustly applied.
Humans have been engineering expansion joints for various types of continuous structures for well over a hundred years, including sealed pipelines.

The new design requirements and constraints posed by the Hyper Loop concept just increase the complexity of the problem. Certain engineers love this kind of challenge.
Can you not get it back from them? Christmas gift to the world?
Are "altruistic" and "narcissistic" antonyms of each other? The opposite of altruistic is selfish. I can't think of a single word that exactly conveys my impression of the opposite of narcissism, but in this context I would use the phrase "Interested in the behaviour of other people."

Thus, you could have a blogger who blogs for selfish reasons but blogs about the behaviour and affairs of a wide range of people because they are interested in other people. This is how I view myself: I blog because writing out my thoughts helps my crystallize my thinking and ultimately manifest changes in my own life and career. But while I blog about my own work I also blog about things I observe that interest me, and many of these things are concerned with other people.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Or even to leave neutral or positive comments:

- Your left brake light is out

- Thanks for being aware I was on a bicycle to your right and waiting before making that turn

- Nice RomRaider decal on the side of your WRX, is there an open-source ECU tuner's group in this city?

- I saw a black Mustang, license plate XXXX, clip the side of your parked vehicle and drive off.
Death by violence has, though, increased drastically since hunter gatherer societies: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...
I just wrote one that should work. The only thing is you need to write in your chrome's install directory in the Run method right now.
AutoIt script is as follows:

Func chromeTabs($num)
Run() ;Insert Chrome's install directory here
While $num > 0
Send("^t")
$num -= 1
$time = TimerInit()
While TimerDiff($time) < 1000
$time = $time
WEnd
If $num < 249 Then Send("^w")
WEnd
EndFunc
chromeTabs(250)
What subreddits do you frequent? I'm interested in social games and game mechanics, though not so much "serious" game programming like OpenGL.
Strong Disagree. Great products often have to come out of small teams and companies. Often times it's even former employees who create those comapnies and are re-acquired!

This is why Cisco acquires companies started by former Cisco employees on a regular basis that some folks have been acquired into Cisco 3 or 4 times in their careers!

Also, the competitive intelligence is not as useful as it may seem. Data for the sake of data isn't valuable. And when you figure out what they could turn it into, it doesn't seem like it would show much more than economic and market forces already show, even if CK got to scale.
Believe me, I know all about pattern matching, recursive functions, and all that fine functional programming stuff. If I wanted to write a recursive Fibonacci function, using an accumulator is the first thing that would come to mind. But that's not the point. I'm not asking anybody to throw out pattern matching, or recursion, or any of that. I'd just like to be able to write locally non-functional code.

Look at your native Erlang implementation of fib again. Would you say that it's easier to understand than the version I posted which uses a for loop? It uses an accumulator and an auxiliary tail-recursive function; I know you get used to writing like that after a while, but I'd like another option.

Haskell demonstrates conclusively that this is possible. We don't have to choose between pattern matching or mutable variables; we can have both, cleanly, as long as there's a way of keeping the mutable variables isolated in a safe box where they can't affect the rest of the program. In Haskell, this is the State or ST monad. In my proposal, mutable variables would be function-local, and such code is transformed to use tail-recursion. (This is what Haskell's State and ST monads do behind the scenes. The same could be done by a compiler with Erlang as the back-end.)
I still don't get why one should do that in the first place
In my formative years I was a huge RTF fan. Chick. Stanley. Al. I followed them all as they drifted apart. RIP
how makes that Canonicals side of things better?
Please stop spreading learned helplessness. I see a lot of people don't like both Apple and Google, so GNU/Linux phones will definitely spread significantly.
This is the 'not on prem' tax that will be the norm going forward.
Not really MPC but Shamir's secret sharing is a similar concept and used in some (many?) real-world systems, I think Hashicorp Vault uses it for key unsealing.
> ecuador actually got itself into a very serious currency bind precovid, and it seems to be staying that way.

Ecuador had protests over removal of fuel subsidies to satisfy IMF debt conditions in Oct 2019. Hard to see how that's a "currency bind" in any sense.

> This is the first time ecuador gets in trouble post USD adoption.

Uh...what? You're just making stuff up.

Ecuador defaulted on two bond issues in 2008.

Ecuador had to borrow billions from China in 2015 when petroleum prices collapsed. This affected the country for two or three years. Public sector workers had to wait months for their salaries at times. In an alternate reality where Ecuador uses its own currency, the government would have printed its way through that problem and the resulting devaluation would have hurt everyone with savings or wages.
>Wouldn't surprise me if one only talks about social issues with close co-workers out of fear of workplace retaliation than due to professionalism.

Not really, I never felt like I'd be kicked for talking about politics, but it's just not productive, very often relies on emotions, full of difficult to verify informations and causes biases.

So, don't force* people to do politics, being proficent in politics & tricks requires a lot of effort.

* You'll finally have to pick the ""right"" side.
Don't think this is right, you can see from a whois pulled earlier that the expiry date was March 31st: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113614
As a sysadmin, you probably have a number of areas of responsibility. Imagine a time in your career when you had the least amount of sleep, and still tried your hardest to keep everything together. Then you meet someone who gives you the feedback that they enjoyed talking to you, but they noticed that one of those areas is not quite as buttoned up as it should be. Presumably you take that feedback to heart and fix it as quickly as the circumstances allow. 6+ years later, that person goes on HN and takes you through the dirt. Would that seem reasonable to you?
1) You're wrong, whoever you return your taxes through if not direct to the IRS (which is rare) needs approval of schema and structure. Their workflow engine is not deisigned to retroactively change you from a contractor to an employee. Also Who cares about the IRS, this is Italy. Get over yourself.

2) > They accept your statement as a fair representation.

Yup.. At the time, see above, FY2018 you were supposed to register as a self employed, now you need to register as employed, cool.. But Wait you need to pay last years tax as an employed too. Nonsense. Whoever you filed with owes you in this case, but I don't know why they would pay based on a retro change.

3)
> They can always go back and change things if you made a misrepresentation.

There was no misrepresentation at the time. That's the point.

> Typically in the US both individuals and businesses are expected to keep records for 7 years, in case the IRS wants to check things.

It's called audits and its out of the scope or concern for this discussion.
Is one of the potential prizes priority admissions to Dartmouth?
I get the business case of universal pre-built inventory, but offering a Linux version out of the box signals that all hardware is compatible and fully functional... supported at a first-party level.

More and more developers in big tech companies using Linux just expect it to work and aren’t interested in monkeying around with drivers and configs.. not to say they can’t, but why increase friction for your dev setup?

This is one of the reasons why the XPS 13 Developer edition exists. Guaranteed first party support for Linux.. you know the next kernel or major revision won’t Bork your setup... you can just focus on working within the env.

Offering a preinstalled Linux variant captures the market referenced above, and signals to tinkerers that this is a good platform to build on since all hardware is supported without jenky workarounds.

Alternatively, if you can’t make offering dedicated Linux installs an economically feasible thing, then perhaps offer a mirror or set of instructions to set up latest LTS builds of various Linux flavors, to indicate full compatibility? Because that is the real selling point. Knowing all of your hardware is supported as a first party product. That’s one of the biggest reasons why I chose an XPS this time around, and considered a System76 machine as well.
Yes, all of that. And it's even before we talk about how your worth as a researcher depends on which journal you publish in. There's a number of them where if you get accepted, it's like winning a small lottery and you will do it, whatever the rules are.
In my area, Target is far less crowded and has very short waits at checkout because they actually have people staffing the registers.

Walmart will have one cashier at the special register line where they sell cigarettes, during the dinnertime rush when there are 30 people up front wanting to check out.

Then there will be somebody telling you that if you don't need cigarettes, go wait in the massive line at self checkout.

I don't mind paying a couple percent more for goods if they are paying cashiers with that cash so I can go home sooner.

If those same couple bucks are what is keeping the store and parking lot less crowded... I'll take it. Walmart is a hellhole over here.
There is no technical answer. OK, there are terrible answers, but not everyone agrees about which those are. In the end making a compiler is a world-affecting act: both to your own, and to those of others. You have to decide socially which group you want to associate yourself with, what kind of world you want.
S/he is arguing, I think, (1) that if it were religious people seeing religious images, rather than scientific people seeing scientific images, then everyone would just say "these people are crazy"; (2) that what leads some people to see brain parts in religious artwork is "fundamentalist atheism", and (3) that there's some sort of equivalence between "actual human brains could have arisen by a natural process taking billions of years and a whole planet full of living things" and "an image of a brain in an artwork, even if accurate, could be mere coincidence", on the grounds that both of them can be caricatured as "brains could arise by chance".

I think #1 is probably true, #2 is idiotic, and #3 is idiotic. (Though I'd agree that believers in evolution -- and believers in Christian creationism, and believers in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and everyone else -- should probably think that these alleged brain pictures in the Sistine Chapel could just be coincidence.)
If you want to look at the bigger systemic effects, they are these: Africa's very richness in easily exploitable natural resources is exactly the reason there is so much warfare and violence.

There's really no gain to capture economic centers in developed parts of the world, because they do things like finance or entrepreneurship or software which are actually dependent on a stable settled population in a consistent legal system. That's why despite all the gangsters in LA, they just sell drugs instead of taking over Hollywood by force and trying to profit from the film industry. Even when gangsters take something over in this country, it's through infiltration rather than mounting a physical invasion of the city.

African gangsters (better known as "rebels", "paramilitary groups", etc.), on the other hand, can actually take over a diamond mine or something and collect all of the income relatively quickly. Crush the demand for diamonds, and the diamond-rich parts of Africa become that much more stable just because they'll have to work harder to generate wealth. And then, maybe, it won't be worthwhile for the paramilitaries and rebels to attack it.
How exactly would a speculator "attack" the greenback? The exchange rate may decline relative to other currencies (or precious metals). But the money supply is huge relative to every other currency and our central bank is not trying to actively defend any particular exchange rate. There's not going to be sharp, sudden break like what happened to the pound.
It appears someone leaked it, and it was built from source, not a port/hack job of the nexus one rom.
People use NoScript to prevent crappy sites from doing annoying, stupid, or malicious things. I'm pretty sure most NoScript users whitelist sites that they visit that are legit and require JavaScript. That's how I use it anyway.
It's in extensive use by Apple on the iPhone and in XCode, and outside Apple. The JVM is also well understood and widely deployed.

By comparison the Parrot project with the widest use is Rakudo, which is still just at a testing stage. Maybe there's some larger user of Parrot that I haven't heard about, so correct me if I'm wrong.
How is apache an open-core model? AFAICT the server is open source and they aren't selling server addons ...
It looks like it. Some other windows commercials:
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the...
Guess mitchdev finally realized his old account was busted for spamming his site.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mitchdev
I've always used http://www.ipchicken.com/
I wish there was less focus on teachers, and more focus on fixing the problem of how badly kids fall behind before they ever get to school.

The battle is IMO largely won and lost in years 0-5, before kids even reach 1st grade. That's why programs like "Baby College" in Harlem are so important.

Even when kids do reach school age, the work of teachers is either amplified or underminded by parents.

My wife teaches 2nd grade (in a poor, needy school district), and frankly, the hours a day she has them can't undo the failure of parents in the kid's early development, nor overcome the constant sabotage of parents undoing much of the day's progress.

Yes, there are bad teachers. But good teachers can badly struggle due to no fault of their own. One teacher may go from superstar metrics to really poor numbers, based on the luck of the draw.

The point is, if you really want to improve education, you have to start in the home, in early childhood.
Could you talk about how you go about finding customers for the site?
Doesn't Nexus One TMo already have it? Well not completely free... you do have to have a phone plan.
Reminds me of the old SNL Bassomatic skit.
Don't use structures as lenses over unchecked input data.
Did he said it's an iPad app? I assumed it was for iPhone and iPod Touch (since there is no "older" iPad).
Honoured Sir,

Understanding you to be a distinguished algebraist (that is, distinguished from other algebraists by different face, different height, etc.), I beg to submit to you a difficulty which distresses me much.

If x and y are each equal to 1, it is plain that

2 * (x^2 - y^2) = 0, and also that 5 * (x - y) = 0.

Hence 2 * (x^2 - y^2) = 5 * (x - y).

Now divide each side of this equation by (x - y).

Then 2 * (x + y) = 5.

But (x + y) = (1 + 1), i.e. = 2. So that 2 * 2 = 5.

Ever since this painful fact has been forced upon me, I have not slept more than 8 hours a night, and have not been able to eat more than 3 meals a day.

I trust you will pity me and will kindly explain the difficulty to Your obliged,

Lewis Carroll.