skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, there's only 12 items on that list - and the reason that they're memory items is that they're "fix ASAP or bad things happen" items.

A: Aborted Engine Start

B: Airspeed Unreliable

C: Cabin Altitude Warning

D: Emergency Descent

E: Engine Fire or Engine Severe Damage or Separation

F: Engine Limit / Surge / Stall

G: Engine Overheat

H: Loss of Thrust on Both Engines

I: Runaway Stabilizer

J: Uncommanded Roll

K: APU Fire

L: Overspeed - Warning Clacker

From a quick glance, I can recall accidents caused by/involving at least 6 of those general categories (C, E, F, H, I, J, L) and several others (A, K) are primarily ground issues from what I can tell. If the pilot doesn't know one of them, what's the chance they don't know some of the others?

> If you're not aware of something, it takes a non-trivial amount of time to break out of your trained response envelope and to start thinking outside the box.

Unfortunately, the MCAS fix is one of the things written on the envelope - there shouldn't be any unpacking to do in the first place. Yes, the plane shouldn't put pilots in that position. But at the same time, pilots need to be ready to be put into that position - because sometimes things don't work for reasons outside your control. Like eating a couple geese on takeoff in both engines or something else equally unlikely.
Social media (effectively FB outlets and Twitter) killed many people already.

So you think these companies should be shutdown immediately ? Mark Z in jail ?

For example, from [0]:

'Across India, social media rumors have caused rural villagers to patrol in anxious groups on the look-out for anyone they don’t recognize. These mobs have already killed numerous people. In May and June alone, at least six people died in WhatsApp-related mob attacks in eastern Assam, western Maharashtra and southern Tamil Nadu. There’s also simmering tensions over Hindu vigilante groups who’ve targeted and killed Muslims.'

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/one-cop-s...
Just do it! You have a passion for it, so harness it!

Go to the dollar store and buy some brushes and canvas (both are surprisingly good despite being cheap). Then buy a 48-color acrlyic (or oil) set, so you don't need to worry about mixing colors (~$40, but worth it).

Paint from photos. Find a really nice photo, sketch it out with paint/pencil and then paint what you see.

Paint with a friend or a nice teacher. Painting will be, and is always, frusturating. Throughout every painting, at some point, you will look at it and think its terrible. Painting with others is nice because when you get to that point and you can ask someone to look at it and tell you its not bad (and they are usually right). Once you paint through the frusturation you will find anything you think is bad can be made good.

As others suggested, you might also learn to draw. IMO the best way to do this is to go to a model drawing session. These are uninstructed and the time-varying of the poses will help a lot.

Take pride in anything you make. Hang it up on the wall, take a picture of it. Don't compare yourself to Monet or other painters, just paint what you like and enjoy what you paint.

Good luck, I'm happy to share more if you'd like.
That's why it's called PRISM. It's exactly what you describe. Splitting an optical signal into 2 using, basically, a prism. One signal goes out to the net as normal, the other goes to their own datacenters, that they keep continually building and expanding. The newer ones are being build on military bases, for added security. Check em out. Look at the size and cost of them. Some are over a million sq. ft. That's a lot of data. They measure it in terms of zottabytes and zettabytes (in 2013, a lifetime ago in terms of storage space):

https://modernsurvivalblog.com/government-gone-wild/nsa-loca...

http://worldstopdatacenters.com/government-data-centers/
The ever-impartial Wikileaks? Sure, let's jump right on that...

I don't think such a site has to be that impartial. I'll just settle for not evil. It would be best if they had competitors.
You have an overly simplified view of Apple Music.

It’s on multiple platforms, it’s tied to Beats, it has a relationship with iTunes Store, there is advertising involved etc. So there could be multiple licensing and revenue sharing deals that mean Apple Music is not running at a loss.

In fact I think it’s likely than you’re wrong.
Saying "I trust you" is baked in in pgp. There's no such thing for DMARC because that's not its goal: DMARC and co are on the sender side for it to say "look it's really me", but that's not what we want. What we want would be a way to instruct our MTA to say "I trust these guys, the others go to the trash/spam"
I understand that you are not fans of Facebook. But couldn't this be a good opportunity to show Facebook users that there is an alternative out there? I'm just not sure that restricting users who primarily use Facebook oauth does any good, to me it feels like a wasted opportunity!
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NYSE-BA/

Make sure you use a log Y-axis when looking at historical data. Steady compound gains (even just from inflation) will make any chart look like a 'hockey stick' otherwise. You're almost always more interested in relative price movement, not absolute.

Gains from 2016 have been good, but that likely reflects the clear success of the Boeing over Airbus's new aircraft.
Hex encoding your email address is genius. Don't think many spammers will be picking that one up!
> The Max 8 is outfitted with bigger, more fuel-efficient engines than earlier 737s, and the weight and positioning of those engines shifted the plane's center of gravity forward, increased the potential for the nose to pitch up after take-off. To counteract this risk, Boeing developed software known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS.

reminds a typical enterprise software project - deep serious issues stemming from screwed up basic architecture are hastily patched up by software patches. Sounds like it was a money saving architectural decision as development of more deep modifications to the airframe to allow for those engines to be positioned safely would definitely cost more than a software patch. And after the Lion crash the Boeing is doing patches for the patch ...
I have all search keywords in Firefox be a letter followed by an exclamation mark due to this now, simple and no way for it to mess up searches.
Isn't it more that the rest of the world is susceptible to political winds (US plane) and the FAA is just holding the course?
A week before launch of an SVOD product I worked on, Apple chose to reject us in spite of months of meetings and reviews with their app teams and assurances we were in-bounds since we were working with them for launch featuring.

It came down to the fact we required an email address and password for IAP so you could bring your subscription to the web or other platforms. While everyone else in the category did this, they decided that policy was going to change and we were just going to be the first people to deal with it. Since having an email-based account was core to the architecture and the UX, I went through a week of refactor hell to make emails/passwords optional to meet our launch date.

Since other apps still get to do this, it's clear the policy change message was BS. I've suspected a lot has had to do with Apple's ambitions in the streaming space and their desire to be in a position to offer bundling and other over the top services. They're already trying to control the UX with the TV app and are offering companies better rev share rates to do the integration work. Cutting back from 30% is how Apple incentivizes even heavier integration into their ecosystem.

Apple keeps doing this: Google and the Google Phone app, Netflix, Spotify, my product...more that we haven't even heard of, since not many are as big as the ones I've mentioned. The idea that this is somehow about protecting the consumer rings hollow.
That’s sort of true for the app itself - if the Trello API is down then the Trello app doesn’t work.
The government has automated license plate readers that do much the same thing. Their justification is, you're in a public place, you have no expectation of privacy. I'm a little more concerned about that.

If I don't want to be tracked, I can choose to shop at a different store. But I can't live in a system of underground tunnels.
Without knowing almost anything about Firefox Send, it does seem that the key is embedded in the link you give to your friends. In that case E2E means that the key is not stored on the server. In order to guarantee that, the link is probably in two parts, one that identifies the file on the server and one is the key. The key part of the link is probably generated on your machine and thus never sent to the server (to prevent it being in any logs or what not). So if Mozilla's servers are compromised the attacker still would not be able to decrypt your files. Of course if the server is compromised the attacker could serve up malicious JS for future uploads.
Facebook's own status dashboard (https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/) showed no issues or outtage just 30 min ago.

I run a messenger bot platform - the webhooks stopped being delivered _hours_ ago... nothing on their status page until it had been down for hours.

Their current issue...

"We are currently experiencing issues that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are investigating the issue and working on a resolution."

What? lmao
Google inbox. Please. Anyone?
Sadly every language developed in the 90s has this flaw. Stuck somewhere between bytes and actual UNICODE.
Our jobs, maybe. But I don't see this spilling over into our personal lives. If anything, the problem is too much choice.

I don't know how old people are or how much they've dealt with people who are truly poor or uneducated, but the narrowness of experience is really telling when you do. How much taste and sophistication is one supposed to develop if they can't even read, or never travel? But that was the norm not so long ago.
Still not close to the same scale. The internet has democratized witch-hunting.
I'm moving to Dreamhost.

Similarities:

* Shared hosting

* Cheap

* Supports multiple users per account and permissions (haven't fully explored this yet)

* Custom control panel, nicer than CPanel

* Independent, not owned by one of the large conglomerates

Differences:

* Doesn't support as much dev-friendly stuff. It still gives you some things (SSH, cron, Let's Encrypt, user accounts, permissions) but you're pretty much stuck on PHP/MySQL at least for their shared hosting plans.

For me, that's good enough for the stuff I had on Webfaction, so I'm migrating there now.

You might also want to take a look at Gandi, NearlyFreeSpeech, and SiteGround. Those were the others that looked like decent options to me. Some people might move to a VPS, but I don't want the hassle.
To me another plausible explanation is that the reason the FAA _wasn't_ grounding them was because Trump said not to.

> Early Tuesday, Dennis A. Muilenburg, the chief executive of Boeing, spoke to President Trump on the phone and made the case that the 737 Max planes should not be grounded in the United States, according to two people briefed on the conversation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/business/boeing-737-groun...

Maybe Boeing changed it's mind in between yesterday and today?Or that reporting was inaccurate?

Or, that's exactly what happened, but then today either Trump or Boeing or both of them realized this wasn't gonna fly (no pun intended), and that they had to be grounded, they talked to each other again, Trump decided he wanted to make an announcement about it because he likes being on TV about whatever he's thinking about at the moment. (I'm not sure an "emergency order", which Trump said it was, is even a thing?)

I mean, really, who the fuck knows. This administration doesn't tend to make a lot of sense, and it's kind of kremlinology trying to guess why they do what they do.
I'm on android pie and I'm not the only one having these issues, go to the play store listing and sort reviews by latest version, many are complaining about the lack of lock screen and headset controls.

The app is extremely unstable on Bluetooth as well, I now leave my expensive wireless earbuds at home because Spotify can't handle more than 10 seconds of continuous wireless playback without cutting out.
This might explain some GA reports I've recently looked at.
Basically they bet right on where the future of commercial aviation is going: more direct flights rather than hub-and-spoke connections, smaller jets that the airlines can fill completely, fuel efficiency is critical, and the air travel industry as a whole would recover after a pretty miserable first decade of the millenia. Their main competitor, Airbus, bet wrong, investing heavily in the A380 which hasn't found much of a market. That's been reflected in their profits lately: 787 and 777 sales have been quite robust, while A330/A350/A380 orders have been anemic.
It would seem to me, though, that society would lose the advantages of specialization. If I decide I want to fish for a while rather than being a computer programmer, well, I'm a professional computer programmer, but an amateur fisherman, and not even a very good amateur. If society needs the fish to keep from going hungry, it needs good fishermen and women, not just whoever felt like fishing that afternoon. If it needs the cattle for the food supply, it needs something better than whoever felt like rearing cattle that evening. And when I go back to being a computer programmer, I very much do not want to untangle the mess of whatever amateur felt like programming on the afternoon that I went fishing.

But it is true that specialization leads to alienation, or (a term I think might express it better) isolation or disconnection. I'm disconnected from the fish I eat, because I'm a computer programmer and not a fisherman. I'm disconnected from the professional fishermen and women, too. That may not have been the sense that Marx meant, but it's also true.
There are drug candidates that make it all the way to phase 3 trials before they fail. One of the (surprisingly?) common reasons for failure at this stage is turning out to be less effective than placebo

https://www.nuventra.com/resources/blog/placebo-response-pha...

https://seekingalpha.com/article/256697-why-phase-3-trials-f...
Regulators come and go. The person holding the reigns at even given point in time is potentially not as good or unbiased as the predecessors.

From what I've read so far, there's absolutely no clear indication at this point it was solely pilot error, and common sense dictates you ground the planes before more crashes happen.
That it took the president to do this is a pretty awful condemnation of the FAA. Maybe he shouldn’t have appointed an industry lobbyist to the position in the first place.
Oops - you're right. I'm using the term "character" for both the intuitive and documented definition, but the documented term I'm referring to is actually grapheme cluster.
U.S. Grounds Boeing 737s After Pair of Crashes, Reversing Course
Sort of.

I've used git for so long and so deeply that it's ingrained in the way I think about code - I break things into atomic commits, and regularly traverse and edit the commits in the feature branch that I'm working on. That doesn't change when I'm working solo, nor do my commit message style rules. I find it very useful to be able to investigate the history of a piece of code, even as it moves across multiple files, and figure out what happened and why.

That said, when I'm working on a team I generally don't care how many concurrent branches are being worked on - it's not a problem at all if the threaded view is n levels deep. When I'm working alone I tend to have a linear (single threaded) history, with tags for each release or deploy.
Also (since RimWorld has been mentioned) Prison Architect, may also have some similar qualities, like complex intertwined systems, and emergent events like prison riots, etc.
Oh well, I did not know that. Do you have any citation that explains this further?
The fix may be as simple as a patch, but the customer confidence in the plan is damaged, maybe beyond repair.

I know I will look twice next time going on a trip which plane I end up on, I'm not sure I will go with a 737 Max anytime soon.
Same. I thought about it after a few surprised reactions, and concluded: I got interested in technology when I was a kid because you could take it apart, tinker with it, understand it. That's less true than it used to be - things in general are more complex and opaque and less repairable. A "technology"/"magic" distinction, perhaps.
I agree with you that the whole thing is inefficient. I think every GDPR advocate, much like me, will agree that it still needs to be improved and worked on. We're nowhere done.
It is a systematic flaw.

Boeing announced that it had been working on a flight control software upgrade that includes updates to the MCAS flight control law, pilot displays, operation manuals and crew training. It's coming in few weeks and expected to be made mandatory by April by an FAA airworthiness directive.
Matrix + bridges should help us technically oriented people connect with friends regardless of what they use. There are bridges for slack, IRC, facebook messenger, whatsapp, xmpp, gitter and many more.
The FAA is great, and I'd agree it's probably better than any other individual agency in other countries. But better than all of them together? Maybe, maybe not.

To turn your concluding argument around, what is imprudent about grounding these planes until we have a clearer answer? It's going to cause some economic loss, but this seems like a much lower priority.
internet visitors must be asked for permission in advance for any tracking software to be placed — such as third-party tracking cookies; tracking pixels; and browser fingerprinting tech — and that that permission must be freely obtained... Is this really what we want?

Yes. I'm not even European, and I'm perfectly fine with this.

Ask me to track me. If I like you, your web site, or your content, then sure. I'll give you a little personal data.
Thanks for the answers, that seems like a fun coincidence then!
It's also a vastly longer aircraft than originally designed: the -100/-200 are 29m/30.53m long. The MAX 8 is 39.47m long. (And the MAX 10 will be 43.8m.)
the lazy newb pack is great! I can't play dwarf fortress without it, but even with it the game has a steep learning curve.
The center of thrust moving forward would not have any effect on the pitching moment.
> I don't know how to explain it any other way: These things are fucking important.

I think many people specially on HN understand the implications of using cookies and also understand the privacy concerns by 3rd parties taking their data. What I don't understand is why there are people who assume almost everyone has absolutely no idea or concern about any of these things and therefore advocate for pushing horrible and half-baked regulations like GDPR unto the dumb masses.
I hope one day you get to reflect on that sentence you just wrote.
Nozbe team to release new Nozbe 4 app – beta testers wanted
I've bounced around and worked in many different kinds of jobs. From my experience; people identify themselves by what they do, the majority of work is 'make-work', people really want to learn new things, the worst type of knowledge is 'internal knowledge'.

'Internal Knowledge', is the paperwork that goes into knowing a specific job in a company. It multiplies rapidly as managers keep inventing more of it to protect their positions. It is useless, and cannot be used in another company. Companies use it as a form of punishment, you have to do this in our particular way or you won't get promoted.

But from what I've seen, people are dying to learn new things. Companies just don't want to teach employees anything new, so they won't leave and find another job. I've worked factory jobs, where this was the defacto policy.
Don't teach any new skills to the new hires, they'll pickup and leave.
The tension between

> where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes

and

> society regulates the general production

seems like it's still a bit of a challenge
"This usually means we're making an improvement to the database your account is stored on. While this process won't affect your account, you temporarily won't be able to access the site." https://www.facebook.com/help/134401680031995

I guess that this is all that I will get. Facebook is never down, it is just making improvements (like restarting the services to make them work again).
Not sure what I'm missing here. "superposition" is more of an explanation of not knowing the result of a measurement until it is measured. So saying that one person performing the measurement and not telling someone else what is was, so that person sees it as in the "superposition" state vs. the measured state is not two conflicting realities. One person just has access to different facts.

If I witnessed a murder and withheld that information, and someone else thinks the person committed suicide based on the evidence they have, we aren't living in two different realities.
I am not a big fan of social media too but you will be suprised ... For example here in Sudan (East Africa) the country has been under continuous protests for over 2 months now (53 dead, 4k+ detained, 500+ injured) with strong censorship from the regime & silents from the internatinal community. So facebook, whatsapp & twitter are the only media left for the people to fight for freedom —> every Thursday is the main protests in the week and this Wedensday night the outage might affect this as thousands around Sudan won't know about the meeting points of tomorrow!!!

Actually the government did block all social media for over a month but that was fixable with vpn. (Follow hashtag #SudanUprising on twitter to learn more)
Most of the cookie warnings are clearly against guidance which says that consent must not be a condition of service to be considered freely given, must be opt in not opt out and that even with consent the use of pii must be in the user's interests.

Almost no cookie warnings meet the law and many of the ones that do could use a different lawful basis and not show a dialog at all.
> all Legionnaires must give up their civil identity upon enlisting. With their old identities set ­aside, recruits join the legion under a declared ident­ity -- a new name that they use during their first year of service. At the end of the first year, a Legionnaire may reclaim his old name through a process known as "military regularization of the situation," in which fresh identity papers are obtained from the person's home country. Alternatively, a Legionnaire can choose to spend his entire five-year career under his declared identity.
Facebook and Instagram Outage Spreads to Users Across the Globe
Paint is made up of fixed colored pigments. How can you compute the color of a mixture of different color pigments? Lets say you have a mixture of particles with color c1 and c2 and you know the concentration is x% c1 and (100-x%) c2?

The machine at the hardware store can do this but what is the formula?
I'm excited to hear the software gore on this one.
> The purpose of every job is to change the world in the way that employer wants it changed.

Change the world by polluting it more?

The idea that employers' actions are motivated by changing the world is a very idealistic view of business. They may have that idea at the start but that idea gets lost very quickly when actually doing stuff. Plus people from other common professions like doctors and lawyers want to change the world. Wanting to change the world says more about youth than it does about the field of business administration.
My agent is the scariest part about The Division 2