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The ground speed is not useful information. You can be moving backwards relative to the ground and still be overspeed. The only thing that matters to the airframe is the airspeed, and the only way to know the airspeed is to sample the air around the plane.
Just enough money to cover her college tuition me thinks
It's my social responsibility? Screw you. Make your own choices, don't try to foist them on me.
Ah yes, I remember them fondly. According to my MCSD records, Microsoft has certified that on three separate occasions in the early 2000's, I had an extra $100 in my pocket and an hour to kill.

The scary thing was that you could pretty much take those exams cold if you worked with the technology at all, yet you'd meet these extremely nervous looking people in the waiting room at the testing center talking about how they hoped their 6-week prep class would pay off and they'd be able to pass this time.
A million kilometers is considerably less than a million miles. A million kilometers is about 621 thousand miles. That's a lot, but it's much less than a million miles.
You can display so much information before you add to confusion in a high stress situation.
Haptic feed back could be useful.
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you're right. Looking at the numbers again, it ought to be 0.56%!
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Rumors of a partnership between TerraPower and China aren't true.

http://www.technologyreview.in/blog/energy/27395/
To be fair, you went from PHP > Ruby.

You can't really call a framework a language.
What were the terms of your employment agreement? Was is expected you would be working full-time on this?

Have you given them any project timelines estimates, like "this feature will take about 30 programming hours to get roughly implemented, and I'm working 10 hours this week on it..."?

What they are, or are not, doing is probably not directly related to what their expectations are of you. Maybe they just have no idea how long it takes to get stuff done and you need to give them better guidance.
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I am surprised by the distribution. Does the upper end (>$11M) represent founders or really just non-founding employees (I guess the Google-generation?)? I see 66 votes but not a single comment from anybody in that bracket.

It's unfortunate that ESOP has such a bad reputation. I have never been a non-founding employee, but my last venture paid out about $3M net to about 20 non-founding employees and 30 interns (about $4.5M gross before strike price). Roughly 10%/15% net/gross of the exit value. Ranging from high 66 digit all the way to 3 digits (for late-stage 4 months interns).

In my latest venture we simply give common shares to employees (reverse vesting but otherwise the same as the rest of the cap table).
Nice article, though I'm a bit confused by what your startup does. You may want to make the benefits/problem you're trying to solve a bit more obvious on the main page.
Looking at your "twenty people" website, greeting me with a big "Warning: You are using Opera. This browser is not supported" text on the top, maybe explains a bit that this thing is failing. There are about 30 - 40 million opera users out there. If the main website of your project starts with that attitute, I'm wondering if it goes on like that.
> apparently our schools teach way more math.

That's a required test for 10 graders, so most of our students would pass it as well.

Math retention is another thing all together. Almost everyone could pass that test when they were in 10th grade, give it to a 100 random 50 year olds anywhere in the world, and see what happens.
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He either has low standards of housework or a Japanese robot... Yes, vaccuming, laundry and dishes are a bit quicker, but they still take a lot of effort, and what about dusting and ironing? I'd hire a maid in a shot if they were a bit cheaper.
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Already on front page of Hacker News:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3327202

Apparently the duplicate submission detector didn't match the noncanonical form of the URL you submitted with the previous submission.
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What happened to Google's motto "Don't be evil?". Obviously they are trying to balkanize the web with non-standard technologies again.
I'd worry about relying on Android-x86 at the moment as it's not an officially backed project from any OEM. However, Intel and Google have promised first-class support for x86 soon; so virtualized Android will likely be more trustable at that point.

FWIW, the Google TV (Android 3.1) SDK can run in KVM on Linux (current Google TV hardware is Atom-based); some of the work is already there.
This is what I don't like about non-technical people managing technical projects. They have no concept of how long something takes to create.

In this case, they are your bosses. I would just try to explain to them your situation. It might be time to quit or find another job.
OSX makes this process less painful, as it has the downloads folder in the dock by default, and the icon changes to match the most recent addition.

It is still not optimal, but at least my mom is able to do it now...
> if you're practicing BDD then your tests will be documenting how to use your code

I'm going to call bullshit on that one all the same.
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Typically there are two lights, master caution and master warning, that indicate a problem. From there, the details can be read on another screen. Additionally, there are voice alarms for critical events, like "Traffic! Climb now!" or "Fire! right engine!".

I don't know how an Airbus notifies the crew of the switch to alternate law, but I'm willing to bet that the master caution light comes on.
Well, there aren't any terms of employment agreement actually.
They just said develop this and we'll pay you. Since they're actually my friends I took this on faith.

No, it wasn't expected that I would be working full time on this and yet they insist (with daily reminders) that I implement things faster.

Actually most estimates I've made tend to be off by around a few hours, but since I give them estimates in days, this isn't much of a problem.
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No, Google is doing a promotion of certain apps for $0.10 each day. If I remember well, the common price of the app is $1.00 (I bought if a long time ago). It is a great app and they are certainly making good money with it.
News like these are fantastic.
I often wonder how much time and resources mankind looses because there're so many young people in third world countries who are very smart and can ask the right questions, but who will never be able to gain the necessary education to be able to commit their fantastic innovations to society.
Imagine how much further ahead, as a whole, we could be if the education and standard of living of the first world would be the same all over the world.
I can't help thinking this guy is reinventing the bus.
Gruber's assessment is more reasonable, but watching the video, I completely fail to see the controversy. In context, Schmidt's response seems almost humble, and he seems to be addressing two separate concerns raised by the question: 1) The actual challenges for developers (in terms of both the software being good enough to deliver killer apps and the store being able to generate money for developers) and 2) The perceived uncoolness of Android/perceived lack of developer interest

On the first point, he's conceding that Android, up until ICS, fell short. On the second point, he's saying that, whether Android suddenly sparks developer interest or not, it's gonna be on so many devices that developers won't be able to say no (to the fame and fortune). I can't say whether he'll be correct, but I think he could be. It's an honest, if not direct, answer to the question asked -- and doesn't come across as a threat.
1) Get an Android phone and enable USB debugging on it.

2) Plug it in.

3) Use adb as normal.

I'm sorry, but if you hate the Android emulator (I find it slow but tolerable in a pinch), then it's easy to use a real device to do development on.
From the article, it seems like the plane had a downward velocity of 10,000 fpm (~110mph) upon crashing.

Would passengers have died instantly upon impact with the water? (It appears not)
Yes - but it's reaallllyyy hard to teach a bunch of non-mathematicians statistics in a couple of terms. The problem is that it is an assorted mish-mash of hard and easy maths, the basis of which is too difficult for them to understand, and the brain-bending proper interpretation of a p-value.
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Duplicate content is not a problem if you link to the original. If you are lucky, sometimes the source site has poor SEO, and you can outrank them.
I started working on this to get some hands on experience, so quitting wouldn't really help me much. Unless there are startups out there ready to allow a novice freelance developer on their team.
Yes - there is nothing as sexy as being given a big chunky real-world problem with no predefined mathematical representation and getting to pick and choose your own. I live for these moments.
Well it is actually a scholarship, as shown by the over-sized cheque in this image: http://i.imgur.com/qIFgX.jpg

^ (please excuse the borderline-racist meme on the second half of that image, it is not mine.)
If google is breaking the law then the government ought to act against them.
There's an interesting article on lesswrong about efficient charity. It's not really about the expense ratios but the impact of the donation.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others...
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unbelievable, that something like this happened in a real flight to a real pilot

Actually, most fatal crashes are "stall-spin accidents", where pilots stall the airplane near the ground without sufficient altitude to recover. But those are not cases where you keep the airplane in a deep stall for 90s. When you stall an airplane in VFR, it's obvious what happens.

No one would persist in keeping the airplane at 20 degrees positive pitch while descending at thousands of feet per minute without realizing the airplane is stalled. But here, without outside references and with obvious confusion about the state of the airplane, it was apparently beyond these guys. (Except the captain, whose comment about "no, don't climb" seems to indicate he was on the right track, but by then it was too late.)
Google does deserve to get rapped for pulling the shenanigans that it does with the Irish taxation hole.

The timing of this notice is a bit suspicious however. The Income Tax department is one of the favourtie ways that the those in Power decide to get their Vendetta and pressurize those that speak out.

Check out this Income Tax Notice that a popular Anti-Corruption crusader (Arvind Kejriwal) got just days after launching an agitation http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/annas-a...
This govt. really has no compunctions using any and all means to get its way.
It fully expects that Google will now become more pliant the next time they request something. OR ELSE...

Mafioso Tactics at their best.
I assure you that people will pay extra not to ride in 10-passenger vans, and, in fact, not to share their car with anyone.
Retail banks are special case, because they are given special government permission to multiply money, and if abused, this priviledge can make the whole economy crash.

So banks that lend more money than they have should be controlled by someone. And banks are only a few in a market, big, and can easily ignore new companies wanting to certificate them, making these certificates worthless. So there is need to regulate banks. With workers it's not a problem, so there is no need for state to get involved.

Regarding insurance companies - I don't think there is inherent need for regulation. A few broken insurance companies won't destroy economy. For their clients it will be a problem, but that's also true for other activities we currently don't regulate.

At first, insurance companies wasn't regulated, and they somehow managed to work. Now people expects state to regulate them, so we trust unknown insurance companies too much, so if we were to stop with regulation, many people will lose. But if we did not started regulating them before - this would not be a problem.
It is so inspiring to see MVP! Great job!
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Driving cross country without driving sounds awesome really. About the only thing I minded about going to Burning Man was the drive there. We were all tired (scary) and I'd much rather have just sat and enjoyed my friends (and sleep) for the 36 hour trip.
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This already happens. I have not been trained to fly an airliner, but I believe that the priority is something like stall, gpws (flying into the ground), tcas (flying into other traffic), master warning, and master caution. These all have their own lights and sounds in the cockpit, and if I know them, so does the flight crew. Presumably the 150 messages that needed to be looked at were all "caution" messages. Too many messages, yes, but nothing that endangered the safety of the flight.

In the AF447 case, the crew was getting the stall warning. They did the exact opposite of what you are supposed to do to recover from the stall. Computers were not the problem. (The same thing happened to that Colgan Air flight a few years ago. The crew reacted to the stall warning by stalling the plane even more. The plane tried to physically force the controls to nose down, which is how you recover from a stall, but the pilots fought it. Bad UI was not the problem. Bad flying was.)
I get what you are saying, but it's not quite as bad as it is made out to be.

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

85% of the market is on either 2.2 or 2.3. Those are the two most recent phone versions in general distribution. I'd expect that in about 1 year, 85% will be on 4.x or 2.3.

New versions don't really make it worse, and new hardware standards often do make things better.
Not to say that the reporter(s) weren't being negligent here, of course.

The quote, as reported, is so wildly divergent from the actual quote, that I wonder how you can think the reporter was "negligent", as opposed to "intentionally just making shit up for the purposes of creating controversy".

This wasn't a case of one or two words out of place. I count 3 substitutions, 2 transpositions, 11 deletions, and 5 additions. In one sentence. That is not "negligence", no matter how many books written by yellow journalism apologists exist.
> Beginners don't read the code to find out what something does, they read the docs and the tutorials.

Until the docs and tutorials fall short, or something unexpected happens, or they want to see why something behaves the way it does.
On the other hand, it's not obvious to me that the simulator would behave correctly in this regime either. Having the simulator work correctly in a deep stall is probably not high on their list of priorities. It's possible that this was even the first time ever that an Airbus had been stalled like that, so maybe no one actually knew how it would behave.
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"Her dream job is to be a research professor"? It sounds like she's already better than most research professors! Well done that girl!
I really like the idea of this website, as there might be a module out there that could just save you so much development time and hassle, instead of having to craft a solution yourself. Why, re-invent something when someone has already fixed the problem for you.

The problem that i have however, is that for a beginner in Node.js and in programming itself for that matter, i just cant benefit or take advantage of a site like this because , in my opinion it caters for intermediate level and above.

I dont even know what stdin does yet, let alone what obstacles i might face when using it.

I had the same problem with NodeTuts as well. I found that a lot of the video tutorials were better suited to people who already had a foundational knowledge, but now that i've been learning more about Node, those videos now make much more sense and are much more useful.

Anyway, this isnt a rant, i just wanted to share in case the feedback is useful for anyone.
It's not just devices, modern cleaning solutions are a huge improvement over what people had even just 100 years ago. As to dusting a good air filter and regular vacuuming dramatically cuts down on dust accumulation. All together the modern household with about 5 hours a week of effort get's better results than you would have from a 20 hour per week maid using methods from 1911.

PS: People still use home cleaning services but the number of hours they work is a lot less than what you would expect from a maid a 100 years ago.
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FXAA smooths out stuff way too much for my liking (look at the character highlights and the detail on the horse):

http://www.geforce.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/guides/the...

http://www.geforce.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/guides/the...

I know very little about this stuff but wouldn't using the depth buffer in addition to the current algorithm make it possible not to smooth over details like this?
The long tail ones get 1000-3000 uniques per month, and earn $5-30 per month. These are random topics like feng shui decorating tips and electric model trains. I hired someone in the Philippines to write articles for $1 each and put 20 on each site, then used RSS to keep updating them. The big earners (if $150 is big) were in travel and shopping and these get 8000-10000 uniques. In both cases a few articles rank well for a keyword. One article on airline miles outranks the airline's site, and one printer review outranks the manufacturer's site. So I got lucky there. The goal was to build thousands of these sites, so that $10/mo average x 1000 sites would be a nice passive income. I may get there, but right now I only built a dozen.
I read a disturbing stat in the WSJ on Saturday - it pointed out that 20% of school's resources are geared towards learning disabled, developmentally challenged students and "low achieving students", while only 0.5% is devoted to talented and gifted students. The article blames this on the increasing costs of adhering to all the national and state laws regarding disabled children, while another argument could be made that schools are more concerned about obtaining minimum scores on standardized tests to receive funding.

It may seem completely insensitive to argue against helping disabled students, but it seems to be happening at the expense of the gifted students. When you read articles like this one, you realize that the people who move society forward in leaps and bounds, the ones who create great businesses, create new products, discover new medicines are predominantly the talented and gifted ones.

If we as a nation are making a decision to cut funding to these gifted students, are we at the same time making a decision that jeopardizes the advancement of our society as a whole.?
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From reading that email exchange I think the answer to your question is a definite "no" :-)

Aside from that, Google seems to be arguing that 1) there exist languages that compile to EcmaScript, so 2) single-vendor VMs in browsers is now OK. I'm being harsh here but that is the essence of it and it makes no sense at all.
Or, rather "I don't know if I agree that MVP's need to work well or even at all for over half the people using it."

That's what you're saying if you decide not to support the current most popular web browser. Like it or not, you need to build things for the platform your users are on. If I were building a product, I'd make sure it works in IE first and foremost before worrying about niche browsers like FF and Chrome.

Just because 100% of the people here use one of those two "niche" browsers as their main browser, don't assume your users will.
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(He mentioned it in this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3328761)
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What we've learned from this post is that when the author was at Microsoft talking and interviewing startups and people in new, innovative spaces, they had absolutely no clue what so ever of what startup founders go through. Yes starting a company it is of course one of the most difficult things you can do -- especially if you waste time trying to raise money rather than say staying focusing on making money.
You can be moving backwards relative to the ground and still be overspeed.

That's not true. The wind even at altitude won't be more than ~100knots. It's true you can't land using GPS speed, but if your GPS tells you 90 knots ground speed at 37000ft, you know something's not right regardless of wind.
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What happens to people who want to drive the car themselves by choice. How long before the idea of a mere human driving the car is seen as too reckless because automated cars are doing lane merges at surgical precision at 120mph.
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I tried to upload my CV by downloading it from Google Docs as 'Word format' and uploading it to your site but it said it wasn't a supported file format. I'd check that as lots of people use Docs these days :)
Well fuel is still not free. In the U.K. at least you would hesitate due to the high cost (much lower in U.S.).
Pithy, but I usually answer headlines framed as a question "No". If evidence was present or the idea cogent then no question is required.

"I'm simply asking questions" - an intellectually lazy way of implanting an idea.
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I love how an HNer was just forced to use a horrible meme from reddit because it has the biggest reference photo available
thanks man! we just changed to a different parser, will look into this right away! really appreciated!
This. Definitely.