skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the pilot will do to keep the passenger and plane safe can't be foretold by software written in static situations on terra firma.

Sensors can lie, equipment can break. Your software may have no better idea of the true situation than the pilot.

In the end it is a judgment call and if you limit the ability of those judgment calls to a bunch of software then you are saying that those in a different time and place have a better idea of what to do than those with their feet in the dirt.

It looks like in this case someone made the wrong judgment call. False positives in warning systems in commercial aircraft are happening with some regularity, in the end the pilot has final say.
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Citroen C8/Peugeot 807 (same car, different badge). It's built into the trip computer.
Another trick might be using star alignment. A fixed position camera on the top of the plane could sense pitch by tracking which stars are in view. Or similarly, if you boxed a sensitive GPS receiver so that it could not detect signals from the sides, the satellite IDs which are in view could possibly indicate alignment of the plane as well. The best model would tie in as many observations as possible to maximize the probability that it is right.

EDIT: What about fuel sensors in the wing? If the computer knew the volume of the remaining fuel and the altitude was not dropping, it could determine the orientation of the plane if there were sensors inside the tanks to detect which were submerged.
> Someone from a former communist country could chime in

I am from a former communist country. If you ask my opinion, communism was the most repulsive and despicable experiment in the history of mankind. Nazism was communism under a different name. The way people bonded with each other was through vile and resentful hate of the westernized upper class (communism) or the Jews and the British (nazism). Schoolteachers brainwashed children from the early age to become haters as well. Both were populist movements enabled by "liminal" conditions of post-WWI period and spearheaded by ruthless Machiavellian manipulators of public opinion who harnessed the newly emergent mass-media to appeal to the disgruntled poorly educated populace lacking a better leader. See any Dostoyevsky's novel where he portrays the character known as the "Underground Man" for a better background, as well as the following links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality#Imitation.2C_leaders...,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458375/.

You introduce a dichotomy between wealth (aka Bill Gates) and fame (aka Michelangelo, Einstein). It's a false dichotomy. As PG wrote, money is not wealth. The way money works is that it makes you important in the eyes of a number of people. The way fame works is it makes you important in the eyes of a number of people as well, perhaps a different kind of people, but the underlying logic is the same. It's not one against the other, and whoever ardently defends that idea carries an agenda. Ultimately both money and fame are tokens for power. If you were infinitely powerful, you would need neither.
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Oh no, not my comment too! You guys don't like Youtube?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkJXioTetwQ
I doubt that as well. And in fact what he said was that "Doctors and scientists can draw a lesson in prudence and humility from this," which is not stupid at all.

The program that he is linking to the initial outbreak wouldn't be the first vaccination program, surgery, antibiotic, or pain relief drug to cause harm.
If it happened once, odds are it could & would happen again.
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/82/4/457.full
I think a more robust model of N completely different systems (both mechanical and electrical) to compute the same variable could be found so that the probability that it is computing a value outside of x% of the actual real value is lower than the probability that the human could make a mistake. Even if a speed indicator model in the event of pitot tube loss had a 25% margin of error, autopilot could have done the right thing or it could have possibly influenced their decision to pull back.

EDIT: You can down-vote, but this is already the direction that cars have gone. For example, there is no way to stop any Mercedes after 2009 from automatically applying full brakes in an impending collision.

http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-1210220-1-1210348-1-0-0-121...
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3132761
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It's instructive for all programmers (not just Java) because it's a beautifully designed API.

It's really difficult to design a good API and Guava didn't get to be like this overnight. It was used internally at google for years then spent years as a pre-1.0 open source project.
> only a selected few can access.

Anyone can access it...
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I was thinking of primarily technical projects but I could see this applying to a wide range of disciplines (for small companies in particular) like law, graphic arts, etc.
> Mainframes were replaced by PCs scaled up to mainframe levels

At the same time, mainframes moved on, acquiring new features PC-based servers cannot yet replicate. You'll never get the 5 nines a zSeries gives you out of a Dell. Or an xSeries IBM box. It's an incredibly sophisticated stack that goes from the user-facing applications and how you design them down to the processor microcode and processor cores dedicated to hardware management functions.
All car computers know this even if they don't display it to you. The computer directly controls the flow in the injectors and the computer knows their flow rate (unless you swap them out, of couse).
Yes, that's why I said "...whose result depends on nothing but its arguments." - the example bar() function in the original article does not read global memory, so it can be declared __attribute__((const)).
And do these folks work part time in addition to a full time job?
Lower transaction fees maybe? Like in the 0.x%.
In the GV app settings, select "Receive notifications also in the messaging app". If you compose or reply to an SMS through the GV app, it will require data, since I presume it sends it over the internet, but if you send via the default messaging app, it goes through Sprint like a regular SMS.

I just ignore the native GV app altogether (and disable notifications for it). Texting works exactly as you expect it would, but everything is also stored on voice.google.com. Using GrowlVoice on my Mac is a dream for texting.
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Sounds like money laundering.
Your parent is probably skeptical because in 1906 total human powered winged flight time could reasonably be measured in minutes. Europe still believed it was a hoax. Pilots didn't even have instruments let alone a cockpit. If you were a pilot, odds are your name was either Orville or Wilbur.

Remember, the Wright brothers first flew in 1903.

As another reply points out, it was likely blimp, balloon or some other form of aviation that spurred the research on vestibular effects.
Pilots are very reluctant to hand over control to any kind of computer. It goes completely agains their self image.
This is more true in certain company than other.

A very similar phenomenon is how the USAF crashes more drones than the Army since they use pilots that insist on flying them in manual, vs the Army operators that do not consider themselves pilot. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/29/young_usaf_predator_...

Commercial flight will become much safer when the persons in the cockpit will considere themselves plane operators vs pilots.
I doubt it was actually "accidental".
Usmanov holds the largest stake in Milner's Digital Sky fund.

It's probably going to be hard to get a bead on Usmanov. He's a CIS state extractive industry billionaire with close ties to Gazprom, itself an instrument of the security state. That's unsettling. But then, it creates a huge incentive for people to villify him.
> so it seems like a very clever plot to pay these money back to where they belong

Um... you seriously believe this?
I'm pretty sure they just meant "handling".
When part of what makes you "smart" is the hands you choose to shake, and the most lucrative hands are also the ones buying all the television stations and running the shadow government...

Al Capone wasn't a robber baron. He was a criminal entrepreneur. The robber barons have universities, foundations, and financial institutions named after them. The distinction between mobsters and robber barons is germane.
There are several types of "flight law" modes (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_modes_%28electro... ) that define the set of protections enforce-able by the software.

For example, in the case of Airbus airplanes, flying in normal law's flare mode provides protection against high angle of attack and bank angle protection.

However, when something bad happens, the plane is usually switched in alternate or direct law, based on the philosophy that the software can fail and the pilot is the only one able to see the big picture and compensate for possible faulty sensor data. It's all a question of who to trust in highly-tensed situations: is the pilot suffering from vertigo or it's just a matter of faulty sensor readings due to external ice build-up?

And if the software were to override pilot decisions, just think about liabilities in case something goes wrong, which is a Pandora's box for aircraft manufacturers.
Here is the fatal scenario: http://www.aerosafe.net/page6.html

As a VFR pilot, you've received basic instrument training. Remember that training, trust your instruments, and you'll make it though.
It's an average, you might do better.

Dramatized:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXzYZjpoz_E
I don't feel it's right to use printf where a simple puts would suffice.
Writing fancily for the sake of it.
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I want to just be able to connect it to my TV and watch Youtube and Hulu.

Already tried (and didn't like):
Ubuntu 11.10 (open to other version)
Chromium
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> The whole Java is too verbose argument is starting to sound like a broken record. With an IDE and tools like ProjectLombok around, you don't need to type much more than most other languages.

The fact that you need an IDE to handle all the boilerplate for you should indicate the language is too verbose. In fact I feel like that's what it means for a language to be too verbose.

You should read this: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.ht...
Why do designers always get so butthurt by these crowd-sourced design competitions? If you don't like spec work, don't do it.
After all that cleaning up that Larry Page has been up to lately? I hope not.
Very interesting : I was actually thinking about redoing the spectrometer music visualization for MythTV to be use 'piano keyboard' pitches (rather than the FFT that they're using at the moment). And I came to the conclusion that some kind of recurrence (short) resonant filter would do the trick (with 88 different copies) - but never got further than that, since I had limited imagination about what algorithms to search for. Unfortunately, I've got overwhelmed with other projects now...
I think it's that so much of our orientation is dependent on peripheral vision. I know Canadas worst pile up was caused by a heavy fog. 87 vehicles piled up, they believe in a very short time from the fog rolling in. The main factor was speed, basically people were over driving their view distance. Visibility was estimated to be something like 50 meters, but driving at 110kph gives you a stopping distance of around 150 meters. What worsened the incident was that light fog generally reduces drivers speed, but heavy fog is known to increase speed as the lack of peripheral markers means people can't gauge their speed and too few drivers check their speedometer.

I'm sure a pilot in dense cloud has the potential to make a whole host of mistakes. First I'm sure without instrumentation a pilot would quickly lose gauge on how level they're flying, or second guess how level they're flying and try to adjust. If you get caught in a cloud with a very low ceiling, there's probably not much time between exiting the cloud and that "Oh shit, that stuffs the ground". Or a slight climb and not enough thrust could easily compromise your speed and put you into a stall.

I'm quite sure 3-dimensions of travel is a real bitch when you're blind and can't stop.
Problems are inevitable, problems are soluble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQliI_WGaGk
I use Ubuntu NBR on machines like this and it seems to work ok.
> When part of what makes you "smart" is the hands you choose to shake

Why is picking correct friends wrong all of a sudden?

> buying all the television stations

Surely you mean buying television stations from one of the most vile and controlling governments in the history of the world.
What Google should've done is disable the garbage collector in Android/Dalvik the same way Apple did in iOS/Obj C. I don't know whether it's lack of foresight or incompetence on the part of Google, or maybe they were in a hurry to launch Android they didn't have time to re-architect the thing. Garbage collection exists in MAC OS X/Obj C btw.
Some lighter weight Linux, I'd say.
See : http://tuxradar.com/content/whats-best-lightweight-linux-dis...
You have a disappointing perspective on what makes friendships "correct", but that might just be because I believe we have an immortal soul.

And yes, when the TV stations are bought by companies that are effectively instruments of the state: that's a bad thing. The ruling party shouldn't buy TV stations.

Your beef isn't with me, though. Re-read this thread. I'm hardly the most cynical person here. I can sum my take on it up this way: I'd like to believe I wouldn't accept Milner money, even if I needed it; at the same time, people I consider friends have accepted it, and I don't think less of them for it.
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The session id is stored in the cookie. if you can read that, then you can convince the website that you are that user, and hence do (just about everything (depending on how often the website asks for password)) that that user can do on that website.
There are many, many third-world countries where the gap between the 1 and the 99% is much larger than it is in the Western world. Without wishing to be depressing, I see no obvious reason why our society couldn't slip into the same trap; it's been like that before!
The should obviously be "Farmville". Damn you autocorrect.
Find the corresponding thread in Reddit and post there.
There is nothing "unnatural" about homo sapiens using tools to improve their condition.
It says that in the main article.
With an altimeter, an artificial horizon and an airspeed indicator, you would expect a VFR pilot to be able to get through any light cloud safely.

Untrained, never having touched the cockpit of a plane, I can get the meaning from these instruments. Is it simply that pilots fly without these, or that they simply disregard them during flight?
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Here is the Word Cloud. Enjoy!

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TinyCore if you want minimal and hard work (http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html) {Damn Small Linux is dead. TinyCore is sort of the result.}

Puppy if you want, well, I dunno, but it has a loyal userbase (http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Starte...)

or there are a gajillion "minimal" versions of Ubuntu. CrunchBang is one, but there are many more.
"According to a 2004 study, the average life expectancy of a non-instrument-rated pilot who flies into clouds or instrument conditions is 178 seconds."

This statistic is the aviation equivalent of the "Bill Gates is going to give you $5" email forward.

The study was in 1954, not 2004, and the pilots that were tested had zero instrument time (at least three hours are required to get a license now). They were put into Beechcraft Bonanzas, aircraft that none of the test subjects had time in; Bonanzas aren't tough to fly but you definitely have to transition into them, especially if you're not used to planes with more horsepower than a Cessna 172...they get ahead of you way faster.

That said, if you're a VFR pilot and you knowingly proceed into Instrument Meteorological Conditions, you're probably in for some unpleasantness.
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I'm over word clouds by now. If you look at my site, you'll see that I've done my fair share of them, including one generated from the script of the big lebowski.

However, Paul Kedrosky did a pretty nice job with one - check it out at https://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/127796382684819456
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You forgot about Santos-Dumont, and many others besides.

Europe definitely didn't believe it was a hoax, in fact there were lots of people working at attempting powered flight.

That does not diminish the accomplishments of the Wright brothers in any way, but to make it seem as though Europe did not believe powered flight was possible is not true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_history

The time was simply ripe, lots of the bits and pieces had been developed by those that had gone before, such as Lilienthal (who built some pretty amazing gliders) and many others.
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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

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The post should link to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/roslyn .
There are legal reasons why you do it as well..lets say you legally got out of paying high 45% corp tax rate by parking profits offshore in Europe. Than obviously you would re-invest those profits in Europe Social-Media start-ups as you would only have ot get a return of 70%.

Prices of raw material inputs to energy, Metals, etc went from high to low and back again during Russia's past recent history and we are making unfounded assumptions in this thread that have very little to no basis in fact.
For anyone who hasn't used Tor before, I'm going to clarify some of the inaccuracies/FUD in the article.

- A darknet did not 'grow out' of the Tor software. The ability for anyone to host websites on their computer anonymously is a standard feature of the Tor network.

- Tor is not strictly a set of browser plugins. Tor is routing software that routes over TCP/IP. Any program can use it assuming they have set the proxy settings on their computer/program correctly. There is a plugin for Firefox, but the functionality of that is limited to one-click setup of the correct settings, and changing some default Firefox settings to increase anonymity and security.

- The site the article mentioned called 'Hard Candy' is a standard wiki page hosted on the Hidden Wiki. The purpose of the Hidden Wiki is to be a huge directory of all the sites on the Tor network, as search bots are impractical. As distasteful as it is, it would be impossible to enforce those links to be removed.

- As far as I'm aware Freedom Hosting never had a normally accessible domain name, so the article claiming things about WHOIS data is almsot certainly irrelevant.

EDIT: These are my own views, and not those of any other person/organisation. I have experience with the Tor network due to my pet interest in Anonymous networks, and how they function.
What makes you think that a society in a position of universal material wealth would be egalitarian? It's just as likely that the basis of social hierarchy would shift even more towards connections, beauty, style and knowledge. And there would still be striving for limited resources; there are only so many people that this season's hottest media stars will sleep with, so many housebuilding plots available with a view of the Taj Mahal, a limited number of penthouses overlooking Central Park. Yes, you could live a physically comfortable life anywhere you choose, but admiration, acclaim, worship and respect would still have to be earned.

A society where almost everyone was living at the level where self-actualization was their primary concern would not be boring, even if it contained boring people.
I think it is, but either way: Obama was elected in an election with a turnout that exceeded FDR's.
I just thought it was kind of wild that not only does TouchDevelop now feature an app-store-within-an-app, but it has its own capability system that appears fancier than the one in the phone app store itself (or any other that I've seen).
Could MS be trying to compete with JVM in letting people to create new languages targeting the .Net CLR?
I don't mean Europe thought it couldn't be done, I meant they didn't believe it had been accomplished yet.
If sent from a Sprint phone, yes.

http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-steps-towa...
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That's already possible.
First I saw was in a Saab 9000, around 1991.
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If by "friends" you mean people that you can use/be-used to find your way to "financial" success you obviously have a different/distorted take on the term "friendship".
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I like running Linux Mint LXDE edition on my Atom/ION machine with a 1G of memory. It's based on Ubuntu (I think the latest version is based on 11.04), but uses LXDE, which is the lightest "full" UI that I could find. I put Chrome on it and it works fairly well - not exactly snappy, but sufficient for Web browsing.

The plus side is that all the software that's in Ubuntu is still available (from the repositories), which might not be the case with some other minimalistic distros.
I think you mean make sure it has any value at all. When anyone buys a coin from this organization. The first thing they should do is rip off the hologram and make sure the code works. As far as I can tell, casascius provides no warranty, guarantee, insurance, or backing of any kind.
Also, these compiler APIs are language specific, so they don't actually help with that. (it's sort of interesting to think about what a more generic take on this, or a subset of it, would look like, other than the CLR itself, though).

edit: I think my grandparent poster was being ironical, since if you know what the CLR is you probably know what it stands for ... right?