skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an important point as cars nowadays have more and more electronic overrides - everything from traction control to stability control to anti-lock brakes to lane departure warnings (and recovery) to emergency braking and speed control.

Most of the later ones (emergency braking, speed control, lane departure) are only on expensvie cars, but within 10 years will be standard equipment on all cars. If not by legislation, probably by insurance companies offering discounts on vehicles so equipped.

It's already an issue with ABS braking in that people run into things even though they could steer around them - simply because they become fixated on pressing the brake harder and harder rather than trying to steer the car away from the impending object.

As people learn to drive with these aids and rely on them, they will become dangerous when one or more become faulty. I can see a point where people start to rely on automatic braking and don't bother putting their foot on the brake. Or take their hands off the wheel on the freeway because the car keeps it in the lane for them.

All this is great until something stops - a camera gets a squashed bug, a wheel sensor breaks from a stone, anything. And the car will be under partial human control and the inputs will be badly exaggerated.

This will become a large issue in the design of vehicle interfaces and driver training in years to come. The solution, of course, is mandatory emergency situation training in an unassisted car. But driver training is routinely ignored worldwide for cost reasons.
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Your link doesn't say that there isn't a clear chain of command, it says that there should be a culture that allows professional disagreement or calling to attention. Just because the captain is declared top dog doesn't mean that protocol demands subordinates must remain quiet.
I wonder what the potential would be for vehicles to be hacked and their destinations rerouted by third parties. Would there be a centralized automation system or would the cars be independently smart and networked?
It is immature it is dumb but I can tell you this there are plenty of college kids that would live for games like this.

Drinking is immensely popular in many colleges and drinking games are one of the most common forms of college drinking (see beer pong and others).

The real problem is that their really isn't a shop that wants to carry a game like this I would think if there were a novelty shop it might be the best bet (maybe spencer's gifts style) it is just there are so few of these kind of shops that the market reach for this kind of game is limited.
Forget about the emulator, I wouldnt want to run Eclipse on anything with 2GB of RAM
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pretty sure there is logic in place that automatically grays out any post with the words "The Social Network" in them.
Absolutely. You can almost feel the panic they must have experienced, trying to comprehend what was happening, in the dead of night, over the ocean:

"What the hell is happening? I don't understand what's happening."

"Damn it, I don't have control of the plane, I don't have control of the plane at all!"

It's like a non-fiction horror story. Cockpit data recorders provide some really gripping stories. Same with the air traffic control audio from the bird strike incident that ended with a plane landing in the Hudson river in NYC.
Which users do you get automatically, exactly? Surely not the ones using the Instapaper iPhone app...
There is an unstable mode in some aircraft (maybe only small aircraft?) where it enters into a kind of spiral dive. When you are sat in a plane where that is happening (I have done this in a training exercise) you really cannot feel anything unusual at first - the forces you experience from the different accelerations cancel out. Until all of a sudden you do feel it - at that point you are pitched with the wings at about 45 degrees and the nose pointing about 45 degrees towards the ground. Suddenly you feel it a lot. That is a very scary experience, and one of the reasons to ignore your body if you are a pilot.

When I experienced it it was in clear skies, so it would be rather obvious that it was happening just by looking out of the window, but apparently this can happen to inexperienced pilots in clouds.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_spiral
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I simply don't undersand (or don't comprehend) how the pilots don't know these things. My knowledge of planes is 4 hours of pilot lessons and watching a few documentaries on the Discovery channel yet I know that pulling the nose up of a plane would stall, that when you get bad readings from instruments you cross-check, and that a frozen pitot tube giving bad airspeed readings is very likely in high-altitude storms.

I even knew about the two modes of the Airbus - because I once watched an episode of "Air Crash Investigation" where the exact same thing as what is described in this accident happen to an earlier flight.

I don't know if I am jumping to judgement, but it sounds like some of these modern pilots aren't really enthusiasts - they are just people who are trained and do their jobs, and do them by the book and then go home (just like bus or taxi drivers).
InstaFetch for Android possibly qualifies. The recently revamped version is very nice.
That happened in the main article, but the pilot in error takes control back shortly after.
> When would pulling completely back on the stick while losing altitude rapidly ever be considered within the range of normal?

I don't have a terribly accurate model of airplane control in my mind, but I think this would be the right answer when the nose is pointed down (i.e., the plane is diving). In some cases I think it might also be the right answer if your nose is level but you're losing altitude, e.g. when in a strong downdraft.

Pulling back was the wrong thing in this situation because the plane was in stall, but due to sensor problems and later high angle of attack/low airspeed, the avionics didn't have a complete image and an absolute certainty that the plane was in a stall (hence the stall warnings cutting in and out, too). I'm not sure I'd want the plane overriding me in this specific case.
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That was the first thing I noted in reading this.

Is there any discussion as to why they didn't seek an alternate plan and if not, is this something that needs to or has been remedied?
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Presumably the friction involves the fact that you have to tell Emacs the command to run before entering the search you want to do, making sure that you type exactly the find | [e]grep command you want. Then, grep, egrep, perl, and emacs all use different regular expression syntax, so you're never really sure what to type, and you are bound to have to try a few times. (Quiz: how do you search for a literal paren?)

Ack solves this by using Perl regular expressions and a built-in include/exclude list, which is annoying because you'll have to tell Emacs to tell Ack which one to use.

eproject-grep abstracts away having to type any commands or enter an include/exclude list (since the whole point of eproject is to maintain that information), but you'll still have to guess whether it's going to use grep or egrep and type the regular expression right.

multi-occur will use Emacs regular expressions, but only on open buffers.

So I guess the solution is to use eproject to open the correct buffers, and then use multi-occur on them. I will implement that and see if I like it. Perhaps you might too.
The point of validation is to help users signing up for web sites. A fair percentage enter their email wrong, like

bill.smith@gmail
dave@aol
bob

You can only help them if you give them feedback immediately. If you let them register with a broken email address, they're hosed.
Yes, the source is just stored in jar files, which can contain any kind of files.
It's not just common knowledge, it's the truth. And it makes a huge difference.

When an engine starts up, all the oil is sitting in the bottom. In a good condition engine, the oil pump starts giving meaningful pressure the moment the starter turns, and starts pumping fresh oil throughout the engine.

However, when cold, an engine has the wrong tolerances to account for when the materials heat up and the materials expand. So the oil pressure isn't quite right.

As the engine ages this problem gets worse, so each startup cycle gets progressively worse. This is why a car with a worn engine will show the 'oil pressure' light for an increasingly long time after it's started.

The length of service life for an engine will come down to
a) operating hours (not just distance)
b) operator abuse (revving while cold, excessive RPMs throughout use)
c) service attention (oil changes, filter changes, coolant changes)
d) duty cycles (how many times it heats up and down).

The worst thing you can do for a car is a lot of short trips with a big enough spacing to let the engine cool, and aggressive driving while the engine is still cold.

An F1 engine is seized when cold, it requires several hours of warm water and oil to be pumped around to bring up the metals to the operating temperature.

Modern engines can go a very long way if cared for properly.
Just checked out of curiosity and readitlater pro has 100k+ downloads. There couldn't be a clearer indication that Marco is leaving money on the table.
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Ask HN: Hey VCs, do you mind if ppl intro themselves when you're out at a bar?
Went to a talk by a VC who is very active in my area. Didn't get a chance to introduce myself after the talk (there were < 25 ppl at the talk but the VC had to run). A few hours later, was out for drinks with a friend and saw he was at the same bar but talking with someone else.<p>Discussion ensued with my buddies around whether or not I should intro myself considering I didn't have a chance earlier in the day, but I ultimately decided against it. What say you: Should I have? I ask for the next time I'm in this situation.
Yet he already claims it wouldn't be profitable for him to do it. He's allowing you to build an application which he wouldn't make with to begin with, and them claim 50% of the profit...
I am 6'2 and 235lbs, 16% body fat. According to The American Council on Exercise I am in the "fitness" category (Between athlete and average). However, according to the BMI, I am obese (BMI over 30). In order to have a BMI of less than 25 I would need to have a negative body fat percentage.
Also a good idea, thanks for sharing. This could even be expanded to check whether list items are integers and call objectAtIndex: instead in order to traverse Array/Dictionary mixups.
I can understand not having the drive to try.

But 'Risk averse' and 'unemployed' in Software don't make much sense to me. What risk are you talking about exactly. The risk of failure?
That was terrifying. The commentary lends itself to second-guessing, but anything that distances you from what's going on (e.g. controls without tactile feedback) is generally a bad idea. Addressing it with extra procedures adds complexity, which is problematic in itself.
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Indeed. Java is only different from the rest of the world if you use Eclipse and think its defaults are sane. For everyone else, you write some sort of build script that builds your project, and that's as easy to run from Emacs as it is from anywhere else.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/startssl_security_br...

Yeah, fuck that. Like hell am I going to use a free CA as suggested. They have no incentive to keep things secure or in working order at all.

Great article otherwise though!
"China gets to be first (and Thorium reactor products cannot be easily weaponized)"

You do realise that Bill Gates owns and backs an opposing technology?

Hint: it is not thorium based.
I believe they're continually heated.

At least every one I've seen is labeled "heated probe" or the like which probably wouldn't be necessary if they had to be manually de-iced.

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/pitot-tubes_...
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Google has other agendas than profiting from the sale of phones. They have an application store, a music store, a movie store, and a book store, for starters.

They also have an ad business which gets to safely live on the most popular smartphone OS without real risk of it being shut down for competitive reasons.

They have a massive lever with which to move other projects as well. They have millions of users of their maps program on mobile, for example. They get voice search data. They get people doing searches. They get many more Gmail subscribers. Soon those millions will be nudged toward using G+ because it comes on their phone and offers some nice benefits.

As for whether or not Android is here to stay, there's a measure of user lock-in just like there is with the iPhone. You already have your applications and media that you have paid for.

And according to most everyone, their latest version of the OS is a marked step forward, bringing Android's weak points up close to parity with iOS while continuing to build upon the relative strengths that have been there for the past few major releases.

Microsoft may gain traction with their phone and ecosystem, but I'm not sure why that's any reason to forecast that Android will go the way of Netscape.
I like driving and make no apology for it. I love to set off and drive for a 1000 miles or more. I enjoy driving to no particular destination in particular. It's no more or less rational than liking golf or playing computer games.
> For certain sets of needs, you can just grap WP and several plugins, throw them together with a half decent theme and you're done.

until you are victim of a reddit-effect and your precious site goes down. or some yet another security hole is published and taken advantage of by thousands of spammers. I got nothing against wordpress and it's community, but AFAIR (nowadays I don't touch it) the wordpress ecosystem was full of unsecure plugins with awful performance, written by unqualified programmers.
Driverless cars are a great idea and I really want to see them succeed.

But I can see more than a few problems. As they say, there are entrenched interests that won't like that. For example, if you can rent cars that way, I don't see the people with those very expensive taxi medallions being any too happy about that. Yes, getting rid of that would be a good thing, but the people who own them won't be any too happy about the value of their investment vanishing.

Also, there's what happens with accidents. For example, look at that story we have right now about the autopilot flaking out for what? A minute? Only to have the pilots get confused and crash the plane. People underrate intentional risks because they feel that they have control. Conversely, they overrate risks where they do not have that feeling. Driverless cars are firmly in the "don't have control" pile. Sure, the computer is likely to be a much safer driver than most people, but that also means being a nicer driver (which will really piss off some people, passengers and other drivers alike), and people with low skill overrate their abilities. Throw in any actual programming errors into the mix and I just have to hope you have good insurance and a good PR department.
M-x 99 C-x e (play macro 99 times)

Actually, that would be M-9 M-9 C-x e or C-u 99 C-x e.
Yes, he's trying to wean China off molten salt reactor development, specifically reactors like the LFTR.

China is basically the only market for fission reactors left. They are the only ones purchasing new external nuclear reactor technology as well as aggressively pursuing their own.

Bill Gates realises if China produces anything successfully independent from the West, then even if TWR functioned and functioned well, it would be a dead investment from a market (and personal legacy) perspective.
And going out to eat with them probably doesn't help, either.
- users that have heard of Instapaper and need an app that does what this does. When they need an app that does a certain thing, the majority of the users will pick the popular brand.

- users that have switched from an iPhone recently and have been using that

- users that have seen the app on a friend's phone

etc ...

Seriously now, if you built a game now, and got EA Games to publish it for you, wouldn't you like to get 50% of the profits? Not anyone can build a minecraft
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I think the simplest solution to the mismatched stick issue is to use servo motors to replicate the old situation--the movement of each stick mirrors the movements of the other.

A pilot wouldn't have to look for some stick position display, or indicator light, if they can easily feel the deflection of the stick.
This article is obviously written from a developer's perspective but as an end user my problem with Android is simply that I have yet to find any device I enjoy using. I enjoyed WebOS, unfortunately it was limited by subpar hardware, and I've enjoyed my brief encounters with WP7. The two Android devices I've owned just felt seriously half-baked and perpetually in a state of flux. I feel like Google applies their mindset for developing web apps to Android whereas some of the other phone makers are approaching it more like releasing a finished product. In the last year alone I feel like I've had at least 3 different GUIs for the Android Market for example. I went from mostly stock Android to the MOTOBLUR bastardized version with an update for my Droid X. I'm all for improvements when needed but too many of these changes are just completely arbitrary. It reminds me of the old Windows upgrade shuffle where some critical things got moved around for no obvious reason. Going back to developers I can understand why supporting 2-3 major versions, dealing with dramatically different screen sizes, etc just seems like too much trouble. I think some of these iOS-only hold outs would be more inclined to support WP7.
What really intrigues me is the fact that the captain didn't take control of the plane after returning from his nap. If a respected pilot with 11,000 flying hours to his credit made that mistake, I can't imagine what his mind must have gone through during that time.
Chrome 15+ supports CSP. In 15 it uses an old syntax I believe but if you use 16+ then you should be able to use the same headers as in Firefox.

I didn't realize FF had CSP working as well. Thanks!
This one feature may have prevented the crash.

A indicator light, saying the plan is in "alternate law" mode, and SHIT can go wrong, very quickly.

Also an alarm in the pilot resting area that would relay when warnings are detected like stall or switching to alternate law.
Well, it won't get you out of recursive edits. I remember visiting a coworker's machine before telling him about those, and the modeline was something like [[[[[[[[[[(CPerl)]]]]]]]]]].

ESC ESC ESC is a much better "get me out of here!" command to remember.
Nant or MSBuild, which one to choose and when?
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An additional case that I know about, the Tenerife airport disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster

Quoting:

Speculation regarding other contributing factors includes:
The flight engineer's apparent hesitation to challenge Van Zanten
further, possibly because Captain Van Zanten was not only senior in rank,
but also one of the most able and experienced pilots working for the airline.

As a consequence of the accident, sweeping changes were made to
international airline regulations and to aircraft... Hierarchical
relations among crew members were played down. More emphasis was
placed on team decision-making by mutual agreement.
I was thinking along these lines on a similar thread recently. The particular thread implied that the cost would be much lower, because there was no driver involved. I agree that it would be lower, but not orders of magnitude lower, because the demand shape will be exactly the same - or even more pronounced.

My hypothesis is that the driver is probably about 10-20% of the cost of a fare, the rest is the capital cost of the vehicle + licensing fees + insurance, and the marginal cost of maintenance and fuel. Because inevitably cars sit around most of the time, then the price of 5-6 busy hours of the day has to make up for the rest of the time.

Further, with a disruptive business idea like this, I could easily see an auction-style interface for the vehicle booking, which would give a much better revenue curve (we are talking about Google). In that case, the peak-demand period would probably exceed the current (regulated) taxi fares. But the plus side of that is that a midnight ride would be very cheap due to lack of demand and simultaneous lack of a need to pay drivers more money to work nightshifts.
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I do this, but defalias is a better choice for implementing it than fset.
When I tried to submit this story, I cut the word "oblivious" out of the title. Of course, someone else had beaten me, so it counted as an upvote for this copy, which uses the original title.

Anyhow, you're right that they will read the amicus briefs. But I do wish they had given them more consideration. While it's true that you can't really gauge how they'll rule from the questioning in general, statements about how they "all agree" that it would be patentable if they'd included a few more numbers are very worrisome. Yes, sometimes they'll harshly question the side they ultimately support, perhaps to see how it fares under scrutiny, but I fear that important points were not disputed at all during that exchange.
I mean, I know the physics behind pitot tubes, but I wonder if we'll come up with a better way of measuring this. Something like measuring deflections of a thousand tiny rods on the plane skin. Still vulnerable to icing and other mechanical damage, I suppose.

Maybe we'll just have really accurate GPS and beam external local instantaneous wind-speed measurements to the plane.
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Yes, the link doesn't say that, but research further and you'll find that the concept of a hierarchy is what CRM aims to eliminate. It's the First Officer's job to take the flight controls from the captain if the FO thinks the captain is doing something dangerous. Not to ask for permission, but to immediately do. This goes against the concept of a hierarchy, but is why they put two sets of controls up there.
The value proposition here is basically replacing cab drivers.

This offers some really interesting challenges because there should be some sort of optimal routing algorithms that would allow a car to carry more than one passenger at a time.

I am sure Google is already working on something amazing in this regard.

The most exciting thing is the potential to radically reduce transportation costs. The cost reduction won't be an order of magnitude but it would probably be at least half the total cost of transportation we incur now.
Good to know - thanks. More support is better, but the thing I really like about CSP is how it is still useful as a canary even with only partial browser support.
The problem with your script, though is that you have to manually update it, like you did with aero, museum, xxx, etc. A much better, albeit slightly more expensive solution, is to get the domain and see if it actually exists and has an mx record, because as this shows, there are times when that regex falls apart.