skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be an ancedote, but this is exactly why people are escorted out of the building. As much as it sucks, I understand why it's a necessary evil.
AMERICA AND NORTH KOREA CRISIS: THE DAVID AND GOLIATH DRAMA?
I reckon that at the point where you no longer have near-instantaneous network communication (and assuming we didn't lose all of the computer scientists) then humanity would revert to using a Paxos-like system for managing state between different areas (I remember seeing on HN not too long ago an interesting explanation of Paxos -- not too different to the paper -- about how you could create a style of legislation between neighbouring cities with hermits and achieving consensus with Paxos).

I don't know if you could do proof-of-work with Paxos, maybe it'd be possible to do proof-of-stake or something like that?
The tense/mood is wrong. It implies it could have been the cause of something that did happen rather than it having had a possibility of causing something that did not happen.

Text of article has correct tense: "In what one aviation expert called a near-miss of what _could have been_ the largest aviation disaster ever..."
Because it didn't. "Might have" means "we don't know if it did".
There are many different work cultures, which vary from company-to-company and region-to-region. Valley / Austin / MBB / B4 enterprise sales/consulting... it's a limited greek-type college culture but employees are expected to entertain clients (ie golf, booze, dinner, whatever) and function at 100% the next day. In the US, having sex or off-color comments with clients, coworkers, customers, vendors or anyone are universally frowned upon as it could risk unpleasant HR politics, bad media exposure and losing million$ in contracts. In the UK, internally, locker-room school humor, sarcastic inflammatory statements are expected, as is handling one's alcohol... externally, stoicism and little personal matters are expected as business is expected to be punctual, efficient and to-the-point.

California startup culture on the other hand varies greatly: from college students whose brogrammer culture risks lawsuits at every turn to the better enterprise-inculcated startups that have a number of married people and more inherent stability/respect/diversity... less drama.
Not trying to be spammy here, but I want there to be awareness that there are startups working on tools to address these gaps. Our startup, IOpipe[1] is working on one set of tools to ease development, debugging, and instrumentation for serverless applications. Aside from Stdlib and ourselves, there are others working in areas like security and CI/CD as well. These are early days, and tools will soon become abundant, but at least there are a handful to try out today.

[1] - https://iopipe.com
That actually sounds pretty badass to me. Legally naive, but cool idea and execution. Kudos to Elaine.
I think the poster was questioning why they weren't running a more recent version of Exchange such as 2013/2016
Without knowing the cause but if I had to guess this looks like pilot error. At least statistically that the leading cause of crashes.

I am surprised pilots still manually land planes. Is the auto-landing feature not implemented well enough? But then it's relied upon in low visibility. So it has to work, they why isn't it used more often?
You would have to solve the human being's innate attachment to number or as René Guénon terms the current state of affairs "The Reign of Quantity."
Attempts to take off from or land on taxiways are alarmingly common, including those by Harrison Ford:

Harrison Ford won't face disciplinary action for landing on a taxiway at John Wayne Airport [1]

Serious incident: Finnair A340 attempts takeoff from Hong Kong taxiway [2]

HK Airlines 737 tries to take off from taxiway [3]

Passenger plane lands on the TAXIWAY instead of runway in fourth incident of its kind at Seattle airport [4]

[1] http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ford-taxiway-agr...

[2] https://news.aviation-safety.net/2010/12/03/serious-incident...

[3] https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/hk-airlines-tries...

[4] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-337864...
Charles Bukowski on the Ideal Conditions and Myths of Creativity, Illustrated
In this case, the server room location is Allen, Texas, likely paying commercial rates.
True, I imagine a lot of software wouldn't know how to handle an email without a dot in the domain part

That and apparently ICANN would frown upon such an implementation [1]

[1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en
Reddit should really try to proxy / VPN / Bot detection because I'm willing to bet the people on fiverr are using large proxy networks to achieve this.
Not having issues with using a GC language is also a huge win.

I can grasp Haskell without major issues, follow C++14 and C++17 meta-programming tricks, yet I still don't understand quite well how to deal with the borrow checker on Rust.

Still haven't given up on it, but it shows the learning curve is a bit high, or then it is me that cannot wrap my head around it.
Of course :) I see it now. Didn't intend to be link bait, although the original may have intended that.

Changed.
That's exactly right, I parsed the title as "a great aviation disaster happened, and the cause could be an SFO near miss".
I read the title as "Here's a story about the greatest aviation disaster in history and what might have caused it".
After the first time someone makes an unwanted sexual advance, you whether you are a man or a woman have the choice to walk away and NOT take their money!

From the article - "The only thing more timeless than the abuse of power is the tolerance of abuse by those who most need the money.". Many people want the funding bad enough to keep interacting with unpleasant people and tolerate the abuse and hence ensure it continues.... they do have at least the choice to walk away, same as men, or better yet bring it to public awareness. Yet many choose to take the money and then complain - at that point they have no right to complain, because they have actively perpetuated the cycle of abuse in exchange for money and helped the abuser grow a little more powerful.

If any founder desperate for money took money from a terrorist group, we would condemn them for colluding with the enemy, not give them sympathy for how hard it is to get funding.

You can't take the bad guys money, knowing full well what it cost you AND complain about it. That is the problem. I explained more in another comment here.
But the aircraft did actually align for Taxiway C and start an approach. That did happen.
Yep, it's called adding a language model.

Check out this paper (2011) for a good summary of the pros and cons: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36984.html
This isn't quite a regular "runway incursion". That term is usually reserved for a taxiing aircraft (or maybe a service vehicle) which didn't stop in time at the threshold and went a bit beyond it.

This is more like runway "confusion". A term I made up, not sure if there is such an official name for it.
In a VC pitch, sneak in a briefcase that slowly dispenses CO2 while the founders clip their toenails.

<jedi-mind-trick> This is one of the startups you're going to invest in this cycle. </jedi-mind-trick> :)
In a VC pitch, sneak in a briefcase that slowly dispenses CO2 while the founders clip the toenails. :)
Ehh, the fact that he was cleared to land and the taxing aircraft could tell he was over the taxiway means it was probably less than 1 minute from landing. That's a pretty close call imo.
A tangentially related question: Will OpenCV (used under the hood in this example) continue to support Python bindings in future versions?
Why in the world is this even a problem? Shouldn't what's a taxiway and what's not be indicated on maps or diagrams or something that pilots can see?
From what I understand pilots still practice landing in good conditions so they aren't completely out of practice if something goes wrong and they have to manually land the plane.
Against All Odds, England's Massive Chalk Horse Has Survived 3,000 Years
Karabiner-Elements finally supports application-specific key remapping
Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Hummingbird's Frenzy
It reminded you that Erlich, one of the more amusing and interesting characters from the show, won't be in any future episodes.
Right, I meant that if pilots sort-of-routinely spot runway incursions, they surely won't land on 3 wide-body jets sitting there.

This is why you want human pilots, instead of computers, not the opposite. A human can apply common sense and decide not to land on three planes after all even if it looks like a cleared runway.
>Surely the pilot would notice at least one of the planes he'd be inevitably crashing into well before he started to land

In theory yes, but the risk is that the plane you crash into is not yet on the taxiway or that poor visibility or tunneled focus prevents you from noticing it.

You don't need to be moving quickly to have a significant accident. The deadliest aviation accident in history (583 fatalities) resulted when two planes collided on a taxiway (edit: actually on the runway) in dense fog [1].

Edit: as correctly pointed out below, the actual collision took place on the runway at significant speed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
> Aviation safety margins are so wide that this does not qualify as a near-miss.

I think you have this kind of backwards here. If you were going in for an amputation, and they only prepped the wrong leg, would that not be a near miss?

Rare incidents are hard to reason about and measure because they are so rare; but there are things that lead up to rare events - like being on approach to the wrong runway, that are less rare, and so they are easy to measure.

After you have plans and procedures to stop the actual rare disasters, reducing near misses is the most effective way to stop disasters.

> But no pilot would ever land on a runway (or taxiway) with 3 planes on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
A good affordable https API to determine location from IP address.
1. No, you are not entitled to the final reward (almost certainly).

Maybe your employment contract is different than other companies I have heard of, but this ought to be just like any other bonus (referral bonus, holiday bonus, etc.). When you terminate your employment, you are no longer eligible for employee bonuses.
You might buy an EV because ICEs are worse for the planet.

Point being, you have a problem that needs solved (transportation, cloud hosting). You can pick options which mitigate downsides imposed by your personal values (environmentalism, cloud vendor lockin). You don't have to stop driving.
http://qiita.com/takaeda/items/38ecf7d98d1a3ef99ef0 provides some guidance (in Japanese) and the modification that I've been dearly missing ever since Sierra broke Karabiner, which helps me preserve my linux/windows muscle memory by remapping left control to command except when the application is com.apple.Terminal, can be found here: https://pastebin.com/yY1NBUdS

(place cmd_to_ctrl_except_in_terminal.json in ~/.config/karabiner/assets/complex_modifications and add it as a rule in the Complex Modifications tab)
>Surely the pilot would notice at least one of the planes he'd be inevitably crashing into well before he started to land?

Which seems to be what happened here - the pilot aligned with the taxiway, noticed he was in the wrong spot, and the tower told him to try again.
> they "talk" to the shadowsocks vpn author to
> force him to stop working on the project.

just some side note...

the author of shadowsocks vpn is "her", a girl goes by the id "clowwindy"...
What is science-a-thon?
At night, and if he was fatigued or on instruments for a long time before that, the disorientation could have easily lead to such an error.

LOTS of planes accidentally line up on the taxiway if visibility is reduced and cockpit workload is high. Heck, aircraft have even taken off on non active runways at the most advanced airport in the world with disastrous results at night. [0]

Inclement weather on approach at the end of a long flight can also lead to crew pressing home while under confusion, as in the case of the Korean airlines accident that landed short. [1]

More recently, at SFO too, the Asiana B777 crash was something that should have been almost impossible in a modern jetlines, but over reliance on automation and lazy piloting lead to that disaster.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHekCU9CYvI

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II4dwx00v28
I have been taking inspiration from the Rust project and the way they go about things in general. In my workplace, we have a bot similar to bors, which does the merge request testing and is the gatekeeper.

Tools like bors act as a "force-multiplier".
The article states:

>"Unikernels on the other hand don’t have system calls. They only have function calls."

If my program is compiled against glibc functions which wrap actual system calls how does my program work when there is no userland?

Is there a compiler that compiles my program to a unikernel target? Can someone explain how this works?
Is there a country on Earth which does not have a forced removal of 1000+ people in it's history?

I mean, that doesn't justify the act, but I question the logic of claiming moral superiority or questioning authenticity over this.
Unless they are emergency room patients. :)
You're mistaken. The KLM plane took off when it was not cleared, and they collided at 260km/h.
OpenBSD's WiFi support is still the deal breaker keeping me from trying it out. Per iwm's documentation [0], 802.11n only partially works (no 40MHz channels, and limited to 1x1), and 802.11ac doesnt work at all. That means a max link rate of 72Mbps, and a real world speed of maybe half that.

[0] https://man.openbsd.org/iwm
(pilot here)
Yes, they are very well shown on maps, but it can be hard to map your diagram to what you're seeing, especially if it's raining or if it's at night, and even more if you're tired.

I never made the mistake, but can see how somebody in bad conditions would.
The rise and fall of working from home
> After you have plans and procedures to stop the actual rare disasters, reducing near misses is the most effective way to stop disasters.

Oh, full +1. This is a bad incident that should result in an investigation and maybe safety recommendations.

My point is that aviation has been at it for so long, that a "bad incident" is very far removed from what the common interpretation of "near miss could have triggered greatest disaster" (#1 on HN) would suggest to a random observer.

(And I think the author knew it, and went for clickbait.)
I expect you are correct, but I also note that it has happened before. One could have said this just before the Asiana flight flew into the ground as well. "What pilot would miss the fact that they were way too low?" Or just before Harrison Ford flew over a plane on the Taxiway and then landed on that taxiway.

Fundamentally it takes several things to fail all at once for an air disaster to actually transpire, but it does happen.
China undoubtedly faces many challenges, as you fairly point out.

However, there's a long history in China that determines the thinking of both the government and its people. That view is that a strong centre leads to a peaceful and prosperous China, while a weak centre leads to confusion and chaos. An Arab Spring-like event isn't as likely, there just isn't the same desire to be liberated.

No one would challenge the centre unless they were prepared to go all the way. And there's a very powerful state security apparatus ready to come down hard if they do.
If a file is so obscure that nobody has ever wanted to read it, and it was only on one node, and that node also stops serving it, then it leaves the network until someone puts it back in.
It's interesting that it happened 40 years ago. Risks might be decreasing if we didn't see a larger one yet.
Watch USDCNY and CNH/CNY spreads.
I see your point but you're falling into circular logic, with PR becoming the answer to any question concerning his success. It's likely the case that great PR resulted from extraordinary products and those products succeeded from both solvIng problems and well, great PR.
Because the pilot is almost never looking at a map on final approach. He is looking out the window, and in the dawn/dusk light, or with a setting sun in the background or inclement weather etc., a taxiway can look exactly like a runway.

Don't forget that almost all taxiways run parallel to the runway, for about the same length.

(NB: I used to be a commercial pilot.)

In most airports I flew into, the surface material for the taxiways was different from the runway, so sometimes the taxiway could end up looking brighter and more prevalent than the runway under certain lighting conditions. Yep, I have had moments of confusion when on long finals into an unfamiliar airport. Never to the point of actually ending up landing on the taxiway, but the confusion is a thing that pilots have to contend with.
Why am I reading this "Unicorns"? :D
Time for a meshnet that smuggles data on peoples devices. At least then the censorship gets more visiblity, with every phone searched at the airport.

And if you add a bonus-kharma system + annoymous payments for smuggling..
Developing countries are a test ground for AI-driven cyberweapons
People "could" run their cars off of bridges every day, but they don't because they can see, and because roads have signs warning them of curves.

This sounds like a story of how well the aviation system works more than anything. The pilot is in constant communication with the tower. The system worked as intended here and he went around.

It seems like a non story.
Intuitive explanation of neural networks
Thanks! But why do you even have to map your diagram to what you're seeing? Isn't there a GPS system that shows you exactly where you are on the map and where you are going to go in the next few minutes? It doesn't seem like there should be any mental or visual processing to figure out that you're heading toward the wrong runway, right?
Gotcha. I am weak and thin skinned if I do not put up with proposals and prostitute if I ignore them.
Seems like disaster was only avoided because there was good visibility. If there was fog that day, it sounds like this wouldn't have been avoided.
That was just one of seven distinct mistakes that lead to the crash. The PanAm pilot missed his turnoff, the controllers were busy watching a football match and missed the radio cues that could have alerted them to the fact there was an impending problem etc. etc.
Also quantum physics is about as gnarly as it gets. And not many people enter PhD's knowing all they need at the end. I'm doing a PhD at what I would consider a great school (Berkeley), and the quality still varies! People are smart yes, there is somewhat of a baseline to get in, but (most of) the smartest ones at the end have gotten there mostly through working hard, asking lots of questions, and being curious. I've seen this happen with my cohort over the past four years. Very few people came in where I thought they were geniuses, but they have all learned and grown so much in their specialty. Even if you're not the smartest one, a PhD can give you 4-7 (low) paid years of freedom to research whatever you're interested in (this depends on group), which is intellectually awesome. It's a process. You can always leave with a masters as well, but if you're interested in some sort of CS problem or engineering or science in general where CS is used for analysis (all of them), I'm sure there's a group that would be a great fit.
I think it is insane that you get so down voted. You have an opinion and voice it respectfully. I think there certainly are women that scream sexism as soon as things don't go their way and there are women who have sex for job related benefits (and there are men too although that is less easy for them). There are also black people that scream racism as soon as things don't go their way. Why is it so bad to explore this a bit intellectually? This open hostility to anyone challenging claims of rampant sexual harassment is crazy imho. It's killing civilized and intelligent discourse on the matter. The number of people shocked by your comment is too damn high.
Speaking of adding to a number, in some dynamic languages, you can add 3/5 to 7/5 and the result will be 2, of type integer, indistinguishable from the object produced by a literal 2. That 3/5 and 7/5 come from some run-time source, so the result type can't be statically hard-coded to integer or rational or whatever. And so now on the static side you're into variant types and "maybes" and other junk creating an incomprehensible soup which basically Greenspuns dynamic typing in a way that will get your name cursed by subsequent maintainers.
Seems like a design flaw. Do any taxiways have markings etc. to make them more distinguishable?
This may be the wrong analogy to use but

" Apple’s decision in 2012 to begin paying dividends didn’t satiate shareholders—it sparked a wider revolt.""

If you're going to be a tyrant, you won't last long as a "soft" tyrant. The N Korean dynasty knows it, the Castros know it. Once you give in a little, it all starts falling apart (for the better).
I believe FB messenger now has secret/disappearing messages as a response to snapchat, but before that it was a pretty clear distinction: if I send you a goofy selfie on snapchat it's gone in 10 seconds. If I send you a goofy selfie on messenger, you could always scroll up to see it again. And share it with others if you so choose.
Thank you! That raises the question, (a) why is there no kind of warning system for when you're about to land on the wrong runway (there's a GPS system in the aircraft that knows where you're going, right?) and (b) why is the pilot (or at least co-pilot) never looking at a map on final approach? Is it really that dangerous for anyone to take a quick glance?
> This is why you want human pilots, instead of computers

I actually believe the opposite is true. Systems like ACARS have managed to avoid the prevalence of air to air incidents that used to be almost an epidemic in the 60's and 70's.

Autolanding technology has brought planes home safely where a pilot would have had to go around and find an alternate aerodrome.
The struggles of digital connection
It's whatsapp if the photos disappeared in 10 seconds so that nobody could save copies of unrehearsed (but I'd argue genuine) moments.
Robust OCR Engine Implementation and Enhanced Characters Splitting Mechanism
> But no pilot would ever land on a runway (or taxiway) with 3 planes on it.

Just like no pilot would ever crash into the seawall short of 28L in broad daylight with unlimited visibility. In that case the pilots knew what was about to happen seconds before impact and they were powerless to stop it. I could easily see the same thing happening here. Airplanes are big cumbersome objects with a ton of inertia.
Ad hominem? That's an awesome thing to have on one's resume.
I don't see why not. The bindings are automatically generated for the most part.

However, this does not mean that all functionality will be available from Python, especially when code generation is not enough.

The image stitching library for example hits an assertion failure when called from Python. Disabling the check appears to work, but then you get warnings about incorrect reference counts.
Well, then the pinning service is a bit useless, isn't it?

If it's popular it should not need pinning, if it's not popular it needs pinning but can be easily censored...
At least that name is not at risk of subversion.

JA.NET is the Joint Academic Network, the university / academic Internet infrastructure for the UK.