jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you add some additional information on the status of the plane (engines, electronics, etc) in addition to the telemetry you could infer much more on the current situation aboard the plane. In this case the simple reversal of the initiation of the descent (as a precautionary measure) might have prevented the unfolding of events. Obviously we can all think of corner cases where the pilots and the ATC would come to different (and potentially disastrous) conclusions while being unable to communicate and resolve these differences.

Ultimately I think that remote control or a comparable safety measure will become a necessity in civil aviation, because passengers will demand it to feel safer.
Unfortunately platform-specific stuff leaks into the intermediate representation of LLVM.
> Have you just compared Comcast to KKK?

No?
Ah, but that's fine regarding the recruitment fluff.

The question above carries the assumption that one can't be "ridiculously in love" with a programming language because "if only they knew better" they'd realise the flaws of the language (whether that's specifically Python or a different language).

But that's inherent to any programming language - it'll be good for some things and bad for others - using the phrase "ridiculously in love" just means they're looking for someone who likes working in that language.
As a side note, I have seen the `def a(b=[])` being used to have a static variable in a function.
Naming the person opens them up to personal harassment (which happens way more than people think).

Potential employees don't need to know her name to make an informed decision about whether or not apply to Netflix.
That's right - INR 115,000 per month (~ $1900 per month).
In the US maybe. Here (Switzerland),, when you have to call a company’s customer service (usually because they messed up), you also have to pay 0.08 CHF (or rarely 1.50) per minute for the privilege.
If you feel that comment section shows that crowd intelligence works, you have different definition of works than I do.
> Of course this is quite tricky, but I think in Europe they're starting to move towards the right idea: they have the precautionary principle

The precautionary principle can't be satisfied. Also, its application is extremely political. For example, it should applied to folks who might become parents.

Note that the precautionary principle is typically invoked by folks who don't don't have much skin in the game and don't understand what their costs and benefits are.

Note that regulation is the best example of systemic risk not to mention the inevitable corruption.

This is not to say that "ethics codes" are good and effective.

There is no silver bullet.
"Banned" is a strong word. "Not invited" might be more appropriate.
Negotiating power, and the ability to shift books around the country. They can demand discounts because they are making bulk orders larger than a single bookstore and textbooks refresh at 3-year intervals for the most part.
Your final paragraph does sound like a reference to the Intelligent Design argument, which is just creationism in drag.
I read his book of the same title. It is entertaining, but I agree that he makes some questionable interesting assumptions. I get the feeling that he starts with a conclusion that he knows will get some attention or likes -- and then works backwards, even when one must use a suspension of disbelief like when reading fiction.

Even if the sexual contact network is not a hub oriented "small-world network" and more like our highway system -- that doesn't seem to mean that diseases will stay isolated in one area, just it might not spread quite as quickly or pervasively.
His view is pretty conservative. Sometimes the interesting thing about apps written from another, outsider perspective is that they approach it in creative ways most people in that niche have not yet thought of. I think the author is parroting the figure of speech "Jack of all trades, master of none" or perhaps the french "Qui trop embrasse, mal etreint"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_n...
In my mind, Apple has made a determination that such content may be sensitive to some parents.

Right, so that way kids can be shoved off to another magical media device, and the parents can put the exposure of the child to "offensive content" in the hands of a giant company. We saw this same thing with music, movies and video games. Same shit, different day.

Its obvious that the iPod/iPhone/iPad platform (apps) is not a distribution channel for free speech.

Then why would anyone want to use it? Where do you draw the line? Can we censor pictures of the Iraq War in the App Store under the veneer of "respect for the families"? If Apple forbids content that questions the authority of the US government and hides behind the facade of "national security", is it still okay? Where is the right spot to draw the big red moral line? I think there isn't one, and Apple will just keep moving the goalpost until people stop refusing to buy their products. When faced with someone who isn't and won't be a customer due to a moral issue, you can either convince them to change their morals, or bend over backwards to shape your content to please them. Guess which is easier? Which leads me to my next point...

From a business perspective, I understand why Apple is doing this. Agreeing with it or not is another matter, and doesn't help understand Apple's reasoning.

I know what Apple's reasoning is - build an image to sucker in the largest number of consumers. It's the same thing every other company does; they want to make money! Is there really any interesting analysis to be had talking about their reasoning?
Reposted from 288 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794116) because I found it relevant to the just discovered mineral deposits in Afghanistan.
Speaking of having fun with radiation. I've never had the opportunity to point a geiger counter at the stomach of someone who has just eaten a banana, but I have "tracked" through walls and around the corner a co-worker who had just taken radioactive iodine(to destroy his thyroid). Good times.
Only have to for a few more months until the Yahoo! deal is completed.
I'd like to see a server-side system that spliced video clips together to create a custom, downloadable video file.

Of course, you wouldn't be able to stop users from skipping the ads...
Take on talent like the CoD guys, offer them compensation through royalties in exchange for owning their intellectual property and giving them access to massive distribution, and then duly fire them once you don't think you need them anymore.

Sounds like a great way to discourage future talent from dealing with Activision, although there's a sucker born every minute.

As a side note, the company does $3.2b in revenue but only has $100m in profit? That's miserable!
The only html5 think here is border-radius. Now this just shows that we can encode weird shapes using borders which is a well known fairly old technique.

Perhaps we can have a small image maker took which generates html5 vs an image.

Now that is great and all and is probably a really nice experiment into doing stuff with CSS, but this is a tiny fraction of what CSS can do being used, but practically, an image takes less memory/cpu to render.
Completely tangential, but I was very excited many years ago when Swatch came up with beats, a decimal time system, intended to replace our current sexagesimal system. Even though the latter has many advantages, I suppose the real reason beats never became commonplace is the overwhelming inertia that prevents wholesale shifts in measurement systems that are used earth-wide (even though the Swatch Group is the biggest watch maker)
I have the same problem.

Any startup who wants a wide open market?
Stoic philosophy sounds something like mindfulness or meditation [0], except for the part about "no thinking should be done without a purpose."

[0] http://amzn.com/0385303122
Downboats for being British. Not my fault you people don't have a queen anymore, get over it.
If you have enough power to purchase another company, you're probably making at least 500k year. If the company you acquire does great, then you'll probably get a small bonus. And if they tank, you'll get fired

I wish (speaking from my own experience). It may be true for very large companies acquiring really small ones, but there is an entire world out there of acquisitions of small players by slightly larger companies. Neither the 500K salary nor the small bonus apply. Such acquisitions almost look like mergers: they can make or kill the entire company. We are not talking about a small bonus here, it's the livehood of the entire startup. It matters a lot.
> Smart writing [...] in the profanity-laced angry rants you’ll find on someone’s blog.

I'm thinking of Zed Shaw.
I think I'm dumber than a randomly selected sentient being (from the entirety of space and time).
It seems that Tornado Cash (https://tornado.cash/) could have been used to launder the funds. I wonder if:

- Laundering happened before Tornado Cash existed, so Tornado Cash was not used

- They used something like Tornado Cash, but the funds were still traceable
On at least one of my cards magstripe is officially considered a legacy feature, I have to explicitly request that it's enabled if I'm travelling to a place likely to make use of magstripe payments, and it will only remain enabled for one or two weeks.
No, it's not hyperbole. I was at the Portland protests this summer, and nothing even close to this happened. They'd have gone to mass use of tear gas and less lethal munitions long before that point, and if by some improbable chance a context like the above video push into a building arose, there's no question in my mind the CBP and related agency unmarked officers would have just straight up opened fire.

There are two standards at work in how protests are treated. This is a factual matter, not an opinion. It doesn't mean every protester on the left is a blameless, as obviously that's a straw man position on its face. But the disparity in how violence is used, and in particular how early its used is very clear. You can't just handwave that away. Likewise you can't handwave away that showing up with military style gear and loaded firearms is a defining feature of right wing protests that is not duplicated on the left.
Walmart and Home Depot seem to be major holdouts in the U.S. I wonder what they’re waiting for.
Exactly. This is about finding the nail that sticks up and pounding it flat, before it can cause any trouble, such a movement for changing, say, distribution of wealth.

Instead, the result will be that change is suppressed until there is a large scale rupture.
yes, that is the core premise of a company.
IIRC, people "got over" the R6 uproar by agreeing to reverse course for R7 and have a conservative R5-like subset as part of the standard.
That is really good insight. Ill move some of the information from my "about" page to the front.
I'm not so sure about that. Thinking about work before going to sleep is also a pretty good way to make it hard to fall asleep, especially if it's something stressful. And lack of sleep is my #1 cause of loss of work efficiency.
Clickable: http://www.thesmartestpersonproject.com
Excellent video with some real nuggets of wisdom - don't miss this!
Actually, in all of those cases it's the people with the most money. On abortion in particular, you've got a silent majority and an extremely vocal minority. I'm pro-choice and have never donated to planned parenthood, not because I don't support them, but just because I'm not that motivated on the subject.

Business vs labor, I'm not going to bother to try and write a thesis tracking down the funding but I would suspect that there's more money on the business side. Heard of "Americans for Prosperity"?

Same with healthcare. Note that Obama spent significant effort courting the health insurance lobby for his bill, combined with a little courting of labor and no courting of consumer advocates.

Environmental regulation? The oil industry vs Sierra Club? Please.

Immigration, I'm not even familiar with the sides involved, the minutemen don't seem organized enough to lobby effectively.
"The author ignores that Rand would have quite limited access to information on the whole story, for a start."

She may not have had the whole story, but how much of the story did she need?

Hickman's entire claim to fame was the cold blooded murder of a little girl. What nuances could Rand have been missing that could have mislead her on that point?

Here's what the author of the original article had to say about Rand's knowledge of the case:

The gory details of Hickman's crime were indeed reported in the newspapers
of the day. (They didn't call 'em the Roaring Twenties for nothin'.) Nearly
all the info I presented was taken from contemporaneous newspaper accounts.
Rand followed the case closely enough to know the day-by-day events of the
trial, so she surely knew what Hickman had done. She just didn't care. She
mentions not one word about Hickman's 12-year-old victim in all the hundreds
of words she penned about the case.

If you've read Rand's journals, you know that she did present her ethical
positions in detail, even when writing for herself.

Objectivists typically bend themselves into pretzel-like shapes to avoid
acknowledging Rand's obvious psychological problems. The facts are, Rand
knew exactly what Hickman had done and admired him anyway. Make of this what
you will.

(The above quote is from one of the comments to this article:

http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/20... )

"Rand was fascinated by what she glimpsed in the news story (namely the 'I am like the state; what's good for me is right' quote, and the mob-mentality of the public reaction), because it gave her some ideas for a work of fiction, regardless of the facts of this particular case."

Even if that was all that fascinated her about Hickman (doubtful), it's quite interesting what conclusions she drew from his words: not that that kind of attitude could lead egomaniacs like Hickman to senseless murder but rather that they are ideals to be emulated and praised.

"But this is where Michael Prescott has 'done the dirty' - the sentence I italicized was, if you read the whole passage from the diary, not referring specifically to this murder case"

Are you kidding me? The section she wrote it in is titled "The Hickman Case", and it's clear she is talking about that case in particular from beginning to end. The entire section reinforces what she said in that quote. She said it and meant it about the Hickman case. There's no doubt about that.

Read for yourself:

http://books.google.com/books?id=2Gkx0STfl5kC

Just search for the phrase "Hickman Case" (including the quotes).
So how come it works fine in other countries?
It's not a policy that people shouldn't receive things they can't pay for. Very few in the US believe that the receipt of goods should be predicated solely on one's ability to counter with money for goods received.

The policy is that the government shouldn't be involved in private affairs and that while public encroachment in these spaces may make things cheaper in the short-term, everyone, except perhaps a very small portion, will be worse off as the intervention matures.

I don't necessarily agree that government should stay totally out of the matter at this point either, and I of course concede that it is a little off-kelter to have the same group screaming bloody murder when they think that they may go to a government-sponsored doctor but happy to submit to electronic strip-searches and groping at the airport, but I didn't want such a gross mischaracterization to slip by without challenge. There are many generous people in the United States and many who'll help you if you need it. The opposition is not hostility to the poor, merely a different conception of the proper place of government.
And, Penang is a state in Malaysia. : ) Proud to be Malaysian.
In fact, all Malaysian speak Malay. It is a must-learn language in our public education system.
I get access to Twitter via IRC by using Bitlbee.
I always linked "fonts" and "text" together.
Welp, time to change all my passwords, maiden names, and friendships.
damn human your scary
I've come around to the idea that a corporate charter should come with the understanding that the corporation will serve the public interest.
> Emily Short

... who, incidentally, is married to Graham Nelson.
Gasoline is already super energy dense and a car full of gasoline only gets like 3-400 mile range. Getting comparable range and < 20 min charging time is a lot more reasonable and likely.
There is no method for consumers to validate copyright status of digital files. It would be interesting if someone started selling drm-free high quality downloads for copyrighted videos while (falsely) advertising as being legal and fully licensed for sharing copies with friends.

I'd pay 0.05 per movie for plausible deniability (in addition to quality and reliability): would be much harder for movie studios to bring a case against you if every file came with a license for which there is no consumer mechanism to validate - ideally spliced in as a preroll. Something like "This copy of $moviename is licensed for unlimited sharing and copying by $studioname". Would be incredibly cheap to automate with ffmpeg, and would plausibly reduce prosecution risk for everyone downstream.
What a bummer we can’t do this with the computer encoding of a long but memorable phrase. Ah, were that the tech existed!
I too visited in 2008. It really is one of the world's most spectacular countries. So much history and culture. Bagan at sunset is absolutely breathtaking.
I build cool stuff, I have kept up to date on new technologies, and languages. But I don't have a big network of people who "need a website" and I don't build websites, so I don't have people constantly calling me offering me work. That doesn't make me someone who has "done the same job for 30 years".

My skill is not marketing my skills on a freelance basis. My skill is in engineering.. and a variety of others (like startups, people management, etc.)

I hate 80/20 like splits that are so binary.

Part of the problem here is that it's very difficult for many people under 30 to imagine someone over 40 is not falling into your %75 category. They already think that most people can't do fizz buzz.

I once had an interview with a 20 year old with 2 years of experience. HE was the head of development at one of those startups that raised millions on kickstarter.

He asked me the question: "How would you do feature X in language Y ?". I pointed out that you couldn't do it in language Y but that you could do these other things that were similar. He then said " In language Z you do this and that's the answer I was looking for". But language Z is not the same as language Y.

Flubbing a question? No problem. Everyone can get nervous. Giving a BS question and then using the "wrong" answer as a reason to not hire me? Suspicious. So, why would he try to do that? Well, it turns out we were on a video call.

Who wants to hire someone old enough to be their dad? I understand that sentiment.

But the Software Industry hasn't developed a pyramid of job titles you can climb.
I really don't like LED lights. Even compared to fluorescents, which are pretty horrible. They replaced all the fluorescent lights at my work a while back with LED's and for the first month all my coworker's were complaining about sore eyes and headaches, they hurt my eyes, they're hard to look at, they even mess with calibrating the lasers on our machines. It's been more difficult since the bulbs were changed. Sometimes the laser doesn't read the calibration lens properly. This didn't happen before.
Yup. Engineering, design, and for that matter, life, are all about iterations.

Do. Finish. Learn. Repeat.
There's a huge difference between saying "ensure financial survival" and "their primary purpose is to get paid".

One puts money above everything. The other considers it a mean for a higher purpose.

Can you tell the difference?
I'm not sold on the 3D printer revolution. See: http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/215-Desktop-3D-printi...
"I don't care if it's true or false, i'm just tired of the MPAA not getting with the program!"

I would much rather be honest; and I hope there is accurate, honest, unbiased evidence that can reasonably support the claim.
In the future, you can edit your responses. That way you can modify typos and, like this case, make addendums to your comments.
Us Netflix users should do everything in our power to show that Netflix reduces piracy. Then, the studios, which own all of the IP, will work out a reasonable deal and we will have a larger streaming library. I don't care if it's true or false, i'm just tired of the MPAA not getting with the program!
But I'd be much faster to pay 15-20 than 65+(15 to 20)=80+ and watch 5 channels + HBO.
Are you kidding? Every single good musician who I know well got that way through good taste + deliberate practice + hustle. The same goes for comics (though I only know a couple of those). Re: cult leading, I don’t have enough experience to judge.
I suppose you would have to draw a in the sand somewhere as far as types go, and it depends on the language. I know TOML allows dates as a type, which seems useful, but then you could just stick to ints and use Unix timestamps, I guess it depends on how strict you want to be.

But to me, a primitive type at least can't evaluate to anything other than itself, and also doesn't include pointers or references. In Lisp terms I guess it would be an atom? Likely at least numeric values, booleans (in whatever form), chars and some kind of tainted string (tainted in that it can't be evaluated as code, even if you try to do so.)

>and what's a "simple structure" (can I make a circular list?)

A simple structure as I define it is a collection that contains primitive types, so not, like, an array of function pointers or anything. Array, struct, tuple, map, etc. I think a circular list as a type might be interesting and definitely useful (does it exist anywhere?) If I ever design a programming language that's one of the things I want to add.
There are some bits and pieces on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Beep beep. Back the truck up.

I am a dyed-in-the-wool constructivist and I think the theory of "Learning Styles" as it's used today is rubbish. It's a mistake to think they're attached at the hip.

By "the theory of Learning Styles", I specifically mean the idea that some people are "auditory learners", "visual learners", "kinesthetic learners", etc. and that part of a teacher's job is to figure out which "learning style" best fits a given student and present them material in a manner consistent with that style.

I'll add that in the "literature" these things are called "learning modalities" and "learning style" refers to something else, but I've never heard someone use "learning style" and not mean learning modality.

It's also ironic that you use the phrase "constructivist ideals."

Constructivism has deep roots in the American philosophical tradition of Pragmatism[1]. C.S. Peirce coined the term "pragmatism" to contrast _specifically_ with the Kant's transcendental idealism. One of it's core epistemological tenets is that the only thing we can be sure of is that certainty is impossible.

In _The Quest for Certainty_[2], JohnDewey himself called out the "fallacy" of philosophers in taking abstract categories (e.g., "Visual Learners") for granted and not seeing them as conceptual tools invented to solve specific problems in a specific context.

Like you, I find it frustrating that many educational thinkers take these concepts for granted and deploy them in a classroom environment as if it would be absurd to ever do anything else. However, if you read any early Pragmatist thinkers like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., C.S. Peirce, William James, or John Dewey, it's clear that rejection of this maneuver is one of the central themes in everything they write.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism

[2]: https://archive.org/details/questforcertaint032529mbp