skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually seems to be normal practice to quickly allocate blame, even when its quite clear that little if any investigation has actually taken place.

One of the effects of allocating blame is that large swathes of the general public will "switch off" and not ask questions of their politicians, who in turn apply little pressure to improve or advocate for improved standards (which big business and comfortable institutions see as too much government interference).

I can't recall any such incident where it wasn't implied that the it was the pilots fault, implying incompetence. The fact that most of us may have inherent and often unconscious racial biases (black and white and other actually display the exactly the same biases) just makes this play damage control that much easier.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1...
Well, they conspired to keep developer wages low so why wouldn't they do this?
>Given that I wasn't aware of this issue before reading this email shows that it's probably not much of an issue in practice

Two economists walk down a road. One of them says, "look, a $20 bill on the ground."

The other one says, "that's impossible, if there was money on the ground, someone would have picked it up already."
Good idea: i added syntax highlighting to the first example on the page.
There's no trim tab on a 737 - the whole horizontal stabilizer is moved to trim the aircraft in pitch. Normally this is done electrically, but the stabilizer jackscrew can also be moved using manual trimwheels that move the jackscrew using physical cables. Whether this is possible at high airspeed while the stabilizer is trimmed nose down, and the elevator is being pulled up as hard as you can to avoid diving - that's the question that is being raised.

Edit: this shows the jackscrew in operation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxPa9A-k2xY
That doesn't make any sense.

Why would Amazon listen - they have a service and the right to sell it.

How about those AI researchers reach out to the morons who buy it? Oh, wait, we're taking about morons. Maybe we ought to have private police that doesn't need to be persuaded and can be fired.
since its based on free and open source editor did it have a chance for a free version?
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Halfbaked idea: perhaps you could make an airbag that you can wear as a garment, and which you inflate if a crash is imminent.

Of course, if everybody in the plane wears one, you could have a space problem, but it would provide extra protection by compartmentalization.
Others of us re-read books over and over and over again and would prefer to keep doing so.
> Before we parachute people out of passenger planes we should be ejecting people out of the roofs of cars if an imminent collision is detected :)

I'd be "accidentally" driving into a lot of trees if cars had that. Sounds like major fun!
Exactly the same as non-lost data.
An aerogel would be among the worst things to use as a heatsink. They are mostly air, held in place. Air has a very low thermal conductivity, low density, and low heat capacity. Air cooling is used because air is abundant and usually readily available, and relies on convection, which an aerogel prevents.

A much better solution are heat pipes, which utilize convection internally to create very high effective thermal conductivity. Assuming the system is not in continual use, the need for a large radiator can be avoided, by using a tank of water or oil (if electrical conductivity is a concern) to dump heat into. With a tank of water, you can also cool below ambient temperature by using evaporative cooling.
Someone like Brendan Eich would have much to add to the discussion
I'm sure Linus used clean language 99.999% of the time. He sends dozens of mails daily, so his rate of swearing is not out of the ordinary. The media made it to be something newsworthy, when it was not.
The “attitude” that allowed this law to pass, was an utter disregard for the will of the people, and the drive to ignore established democratic process.

The A&A bill was rushed through parliament at breakneck speed, after the examining committee ignored over 300 recommendations condemning the law; a process that on the whole was kept extremely quiet, and had next to zero media presence.

There is law and order yes, but whose?
It's trivial even with a watermark and all other forms of DRM. As demonstrated by the article, DRM only punishes paying customers that don't understand what they're paying for.
You have to pay for it basically. My Fastmail subscription is absolutely worth it.
audioteka.pl. They offer mp3s. They're apparently pretty weirdly encoded sometimes, but there's no real DRM. Of course, if you want to, you can use their own mobile apps which don't let you extract the content and provide gimmicks like remembering your last position. There are also some smartphone-only deals, but you can usually get the book in mp3 for a higher price.
I guess it would be the complexity of the troubleshooting procedures involved if every feature had it's own disabler. You only have a short time under high pressure to resolve these issues so I can see that fewer, broader stroke options would be better.
Thanks, that was what I was referring to. Cheers.
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The mass involved is far too great to be practical for parachute descent. Also, when are you going to "eject" this parachute module? Most serious accidents happen in the phases of flight very close to the ground, take off and landing. But just deploying a parachute won't work when you're so close to the ground. Try it for yourself if you like, buy a parachute, attach it, and jump off a ten story building. Your corpse will be surrounded by as-yet undeployed parachute fabric at the bottom.

A fighter jet gets around the being too close to the ground problem by adding a rocket motor. When you "eject" the rocket shoots the pilot's entire seat into the sky first. If you want to eject the entire cabin you're going to need a very big rocket.

Not crashing the plane is better. The goal is to not crash the plane whereupon this is all irrelevant. If you're wondering why that wasn't enough for fighter jets the answer is that the other guy's fighter jet is trying to shoot yours out of the sky. Planes don't fly once you put enough bullets into them. How many is "enough"? Well it may be prudent to eject before getting a firm answer.

Small prop planes can fit parachutes that try to save the whole fuselage, these have been seen to work at least sometimes, but they're very much a last ditch, they are expensive and they're only "practical" (if that's even the right word for something so expensive and relatively ineffective) for small planes.
My advice if you want to be a DJ is to skip learning how to mix with turntables and go straight to ableton live. It took me years to get good at beatmatching, and played gigs in front of thousands of people, but you can be perfect with a few hours spent learning ableton live, with as many effects and filters as you could possibly want. I switched to ableton basically the second I found out about it and never went back.

It’s really hard to do what Jeff mills is doing with turntables. Like years and years of many hours a day practice.

You can recreate it in ableton live with absolutely no practice at all and then do more stuff on top of it.

Of course ableton doesn’t tell you the right moments to mix or the right songs or the right way to filter and so on, so there is still a lot of artistry and skill, but just in terms of dexterity, it’s a lot easier.
I'm talking about a chain of causes here. There are clearly multiple factors at play.
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Hah. I remember the first time my server got DDoS'ed. I was scared shitless and I was stressing so much. Glad everything turned out OK in the end.
Something that Amarok, Audacious, and Rhythmbox aren't already bringing to the world of iTunes alternatives?
How much longer will the emperor have no clothes and the pols claim something will be done? AGs had their chance when the 2008 financial debacle hit and all of Wall Street was guilty of destroying Main street beyond any reasonable doubt. Nothing was done. The republic burns down further.
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.. and Judaism is not interesting at all for majority of people. Only where Jews have or had major presence it's an interesting topic. Go ask Chinese or Indians or Japanese what they think about Jews.
I worked at a Forex company and most people will lose. So ya it's pretty much like going into a casino
http://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla...
The funny thing about the last part is that some soft drinks do manage to compete with (but maybe not topple) Coke + Pepsi outside of their home country (see Irn Bru).
What I take from it (from my Christian background) is simple, you could perform all types of works, miracles, good deeds (feeding the homeless and what have you) but if you did none of it out of love, it's worthless. You can have all the faith and hope in the world, but if you have no love, it's not worth anything. The word love is tough to talk about these days since so many people have their own definition of it, this love being the Biblical definition of love since it's in a Biblical context.

In fact, the context for 1 Corinthians 13 is the previous chapter: 1 Corinthians 12 where Paul writes about the church arguing over spiritual gifts, and he humbles them by saying something even simpler is more important than all of that, because they are arguing about the wrong things, basically who does the most works or miracles, but it's all worthless if you can't even love one another. Anytime I try to make an opinion about a Bible verse or chapter I go back and read the previous verse or chapter for context, it clarifies things a lot.

I'm not disagreeing with you btw, the point still remains, you can have really strong views on something, but they may not matter, you may find out (from a Christian viewpoint) in the end that they were partially right, or fully wrong and all the arguments were a waste of your life when you had better things to do.

I used to really get into theological arguments on Facebook Christian / Bible groups, but it's kind of a waste of time, most people reading what I have to say likely already made up their minds.
True. Quite many incidents / accidents during the takeoff. Also, crashes into mountains seem common as well. Not sure what the reaction time is in those cases.
Why speculate here's memory item (pilot should know without looking at the manual) for all 737s for runaway stabilizer. Do you have any information they followed this. All published information we had was specifically that they did not follow the procedure:

CONTROL COLUMN - HOLD FIRMLY

AUTOPILOT (if engaged) - DISENGAGE

Do not re-engage the autopilot. Control airplane pitch attitude manually with control column and main electric trim as needed

If the Runaway Continues

STAB TRIM CUTOUT SWITCHES (both) - CUTOUT

If the Runaway Continues

STABILIZER TRIM WHEEL - GRASP and HOLD
Risky how? Is there some punishment for not perfectly securing bytes? That would be insane because companies aren't punished for sharing your stuff by accident or even selling it on purpose.
You can do forex at interbank rates. Major gotcha is to have bank accounts in both countries with your name. Just fund your acc from one country, do forex, withdraw in another.

https://gfmasset.com/2018/09/better-than-transferwise-saving...
> curate your own package repositories [and review them]

This is a non-starter. This is even worse than "just run your own mail server".
So you're not attacking this person's expertise on the comittee topic, but their public speech on unrelated political topics ?

You're not bothered that you're ad personam-ing them and literally politically policing ?
By "secret" you mean main ingredient, which is basically in the name. This candies made to help with low red blood cell count.
Chosen by the publisher AFAIK.
Funny, I have just opened a bottle of Kofola and hacker news :-)
I think the described use of timestamp is driven by shortcomings of Pythons datetime library not having proper timezone handling. I don't think an approach where database design is driven by the opinions of one single application is good. Timestamptz datatype is universally understood to store an unambiguous point in time, which is usually what is intended for recording events. If the output formatting done by the database is a problem for the application, set client_timezone configuration to UTC.
From today's Ethiopian Airlines press release:

"The preliminary report clearly showed that the Ethiopian Airlines Pilots who were commanding FlightET 302/10 March have followed the Boeing recommended and FAA approved emergency procedures to handle the most difficult emergency situation created on the airplane. Despite their hard work and full compliance with the emergency procedures, it was very unfortunate that they could not recover the airplane from the persistence of nose diving. As the investigation continues with more detailed analysis, as usual we will continue with our full cooperation with the investigation team."

Edit: perhaps you're refering to the LionAir crash, where they didn't disable stabilzer trim?
The dark side of that is discrimination when "someone they enjoy working with" is based on more than a friendly attitude and hard work.

And I'm not just talking about the politically favored and protected groups. I'd say it applies even more so to groups that don't get that political support.
This is a bit like that scene in the Godfather where the mafia smash some reporters' cameras, then chuck some money on the ground for them. Yeah, it's a bit classier than common theft, but it's not exactly kosher either.
Seek legal council now.

Other than that: What does your contract say about this?

Even if the contract does say something like "contractor has to be proficient in these technologies: ..." and explicitly mentions Node.js defining what proficiency actually means in a a specific case is no easy task. In most cases, there's no simple distinction between good code and bad code, especially one that's going to hold up in court.

Who's the auditor? He or she might be biased because they might've been tasked with finding issues with the code so the client can save money.

As I said: Get a lawyer to sort these things out.

Don't give in to attempts by the client to 'settle" outside of court. Building an actual legal case from this will cost the client a considerable amount, too. It's more likely they're trying to get some leverage to threaten you with.
AFAIK modern transgender definition don't include hermaphrodites who were fixed in hospital right after birth.

Someone having issues with their hormones doesn't become transgender either.

So I'd say it's safe to say that the person has to have consciously chosen to transition to be considered a transgender. Also, people who didn't transition (yet) on hormonal level but did minor plastic surgeries and wear clothes accordingly are considered transgenders too.

If someone has XXY chromosomes and consider himself one gender their whole life, do they "trans" between something?
Traced back for what purpose? What's the punishment? Any answer, other than "none", would be insane.
> There you have it, folks, programmers killing people.

Programmers were killing people since before we had electronic computers.

IBM did punch-card system for mechanical computers for managing people in nazi death camps.
> "We're a small independent ebook retailer"

> How does that work?

Small: They're not operating at Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Amazon, or any other major book retailer level. Measuring by revenue seems reasonable in this sense. Pick arbitrary numbers to define small/medium/large.

Independent: They're not affiliated with any one single publisher.
Thats a press release there is cockpit audio pilots vocalize actions when they take them the cutout switches were never turned off. Would you point to the part of the actual report that says the position of cutout switches was off?
If we pretend Elm existed in 97, I think things would have worked out ok in this respect.
If that’s what true no one would know anything and we’d still be wondering how to cook our food when forest fires didn’t naturally occur.
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> The title of the article does say DDOS, however, which is focused more on saturating bandwidth, not CPU.

Sadly DDoS has at times been used as a blanket term that also includes DoS.
> My advice if you want to be a DJ is to skip learning how to mix with turntables and go straight to ableton live.

Mixxx[0] is a good free/libre option (not necessarily for doing what Ableton does, but for DJing).

[0]: https://mixxx.org/
Google for trans ex-men competing as women and you'll get quite a few hits. Sure, nobody says that they transition just to win something. But having participated in amateur-ish sports, boy if some people don't take it too far to win even insignificant prizes using very dirty shortcuts. And some of those transitions do look fishy AF to say the least.

5sec googling: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/21/transgender...
Excellent article, just wanted to point out that I’ve seen most of the stuff described by it in non-geeky social groups, too.
This post right here is why I still read HN. Thanks!
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> Equating games to watching football is disingenuous at best. Games tire you out mentally.

I'd say such blanket statement is disingenuous as well. I can understand that playing complex games (like the ones you mentioned) can be mentally draining, but I don't believe a simple shooter or racing game would have the same effect.

And the same is true for watching videos - it all depends on the content you play/watch. If I'd be watching a video of someone teaching quantum physics, then I'm sure I'd also find myself mentally drained afterwards, even more so.

> equating videogames to outdoor activities is again disingenuous

Well, they are obviously different, not only because of the social component (which, as you wrote, is deeper in team sports) or health (but the balance is still shifting due to VR). They are also different because games train the mind, while sports do not.

> IMO Video games are essentially alcohol without the liver-effects. Yeah it's a lot of fun in moderation if you are in control (OR if it doesn't pull you in like it does to addictive personalities) but they can pull you down a rabbit hole too deep to climb out of.

Pretty much anything is "esentially alcohol without the liver-effects", if consumed without moderation. An adult person should know their own limits and be able to stop an activity, before it pulls them in, regardless of the type of activity.
I know and I've been thinking about making it. Though I feel like it's not worth it. I would rather spend my time working on something that other people can use as well. I don't think many people are interested in a small app that only does GitHub notifications.
As a somewhat contrary opinion, personally I think that waterfall and UML are unfairly maligned most of the time.

Waterfall can be an entirely valid management approach. If you're working on a system that is too complex or ill-defined to be documented, maybe find someone who is better at systems design than you[1] or re-think the system boundaries and try to narrow its scope.

Agile & co are just as difficult to pull off correctly if you have poor systems culture in your organization.

[1] The impersonal you; I don't mean this as an attack
Because said system would be very heavy, and probably on balance it would result in more crashes due to an increased number of failure modes.
Well, I couldn't download half of the albums I bought 5-6 years ago in iTunes because they're no longer available in my country and there is no way to re-download them. An this store is far from being closed...
The EROI literature suggests EROI needs to be much higher than 1 to sustain economic growth. Also, some estimates of solar panel (PV) EROI are as low as 3. This short article addresses both of these points: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...
No.

This speculation is just pointless. It's simply not a solution given the engineering practicalities and cost constraints.

It's also not a good way to solve what is essentially a software problem.

Well-designed planes are ridiculously safe compared to almost any other mode of transport. And it's completely possible to design planes that handle all but the most extreme and unlikely edge cases.

The problem here isn't that passengers didn't have a Rube-Goldberg escape route, but that Boeing made some serious design errors - and then apparently tried to cover them up.
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What is the best site to practice code deisigning skills. Something like GeeksForGeeks which has problems for practicing.
I remember reading this when it was first posted! Hard to believe it's been more than 15 years! Still a great piece of writing though!
It's a classic, but per rules the title should include "(2003)". I remember this doing the rounds on Livejournal.
Depending on the musical niche, mixing with turntables and actual vinyl records earns you valuable respect, at least until you make a name for yourself.
You are missing the key pay of the question: reduce costs for whom? Since railroads are effectively a (regulated) monopoly reducing costs for Norfolk Southern or CSX can mean Wall Street profits combined with worse service for customers at the same price.
Did you know about the ex-coworker while you were working for the owner? If so, this should have been a major red flag. Proceed with caution in the future and good luck
Not trivial to do when the build changes each time. For example adding the build number or the date of when it is built.

But I think this goes in the right direction.
I don't have a perfect opinion of Google, but I for one do not mind that people care about things and not every corporation is a soulless blood sucking monster that doesn't care about anything except the bottom line. I think this attitude, while not invalid, reflects a deep-seated disease in society.
Easy enough to bypass by staying with an older version of the Kindle client. This downloads books in a format that Calibre (amongst others) can strip DRM from. There are instructions on the Calibre help site somewhere.
The preliminary report is not yet public - Ethiopian have seen it, hence their press release, and some of the media have been briefed on its contents, hence the BBC article, but it's not yet public.
As I see it price is driven by our ability to consume energy and our ability to produce. The first part will peter out (you can only use so much heating, only so much transport) whereas the second part continues to grow long before we hit any sort of fundamental limit.
I was picking up on the independent aspect, not the size aspect, although independent bookshops don't tend to be national chains.

Independent in this context includes many different things, most of which I'm not sure are particularly relevant to an online business.

You don't get a knowledgeable enthusiastic shop owner to talk to, it isn't a gathering space, it doesn't keep money in the local community.

So I'm asking what independent actually means in an online context.
Unfortunately a few well know projects do not let you compile from source easily. Brew for example is going in that direction.
It seems to be free until May[1]. But you are right that there are no indication of what it will later cost.

[1] https://cedreo.com/en/offer/
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A fun read rife with lyrical, bilious insults....but he doesn't really explain the economics of "packaging"
Even having a Github profile and some open source contributions is networking in my book.