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> The plane would have kept flying. Perhaps it would have flown out of the storm, perhaps it would have descended.

I was talking about Qantas Flight 72, not AF447. In the instance of AF447, everything would have been OK if the pilots had done nothing. The airspeeds returned and were valid after ca. 1 minute. But in other scenarios, the plane would likely have crashed if the pilots had done nothing.

> Instead they did pretty much the only thing that could doom it: They ascended. This despite knowing they were near the "coffin corner" - i.e. the highest safe altitude for the Jet.

They could also have descended and risked exceeding the critical Mach speed, which could have broken up the plane.

> The pilot clearly panicked and didn't want to crash into the ocean, so he went up, and it was exactly the wrong thing to do.

Actually, the standard operating procedure called for a slight nose-up pitch (5 degrees) and maximum continuous thrust.

> Your point about pilot inexperience in manual flying, is close. But from what I read it was actually that the pilot was used to the computer taking over and not letting him fly in a dangerous manner, this caused him to try ascend to the point of stalling the plane because he believed the computer would stop him.

Exactly (although the pilots did know call out "alternate law" and should have known what that meant (no more stall protection).

> So you end up with the worst of both worlds: A human who relies on the computer, taking over in a situation with no computer. You have to pick: Either computer all the time, or no computer.

The current setup does work very well (given the current safety record of the aviation industry), and looking at GA statistics we'd likely have a more airliner crashes if pilots were hand flying all the time.

> This was impossible for both of them.

And it would have been just as impossible for the computer. Maybe some time in the future we'll have a computer that will do a better job than humans with dealing with emergencies, and then the autopilots will never need to disconnect for any reason.

But until we're there, the original assumption that more automation means that we can get by with less skilled pilots is just wrong.

> The windscreen was completely blank, and (some of) the instruments were disabled. Neither the pilot nor the human had any idea what their situation was. What they should have done was remember where they were and assume they were more of less in the same situation.

This was a reasonable assumption in this instance, but in other cases it would be the wrong assumption.

The big question is what led the pilot to follow the wrong procedure for inconsistent airspeeds, and why they didn't trust the instruments anymore even when they became valid again. It'll be interesting to see what the human factors group of the investigation comes up with.
I'm not sure it's a datapoint against; most people I talk to use it because it fixes objective flaws in JavaScript.
Ah, I was thrown off because you said "rangeCheck defense" -- it sounds like you meant "rangeCheck offense".
The capture and killing of bin Laden was one of the biggest news events of the last few years and most Americans, right up to President Obama, consider it a huge victory. Social media and tech press too celebrated it vigorously. Dr. Afridi from Pakistan, who played a role in finding Osama's whereabouts is now charged with treason and sentenced to 33 years of rigorous imprisonment without a proper trial. If this is not a violation of human rights, what is? Come on America, it is time to show your gratitude. Save Dr. Afridi as you would save your own. If you fail to do so, who will want to help you in future?
The design isn't "inspired" by anything - it's Bootstrap. That has it's place, when thoughtfully deployed, but not in a site espousing good CSS designs.
Pretty cool concept. I love the flowing endless canvas on the public page, it's what I wish Reddit and HN had. If clipboard.com fails, you could always pivot and pitch that component as a SaaS for aggregators and blogs, or something.

Some UX suggestions: I sign up, and I said I wanted to follow music, programming, and tech, but I get to the Home page and I don't see any way to see others' content based on that subscription. Sure, I haven't clipped anything yet, but you already have the content at Public, so why not show me what you can do right away? Also, it's unclear that I need to click the Visit button to visit a post. Think of Reddit Enhancement Suite: it shows inline pictures, but if you click anywhere on the picture or on the link itself, it takes you to the original source. Here, clicking the picture does nothing.
Thank you for this great review, but could I please correct you on one point: Parties can submit evidence in attachment to their email testimony. If they feel a need for spoken testimony, they can upload a private YouTube video and include the link in their testimony as well.
You can make your own hobbyist 3D printer/CNC mill for around ~$300-600. I'm considering one, but I'm a bit stuck on what I'll use it for.

https://www.inventables.com/technologies/cnc-mill-kits-shape...
Israel's numbers are actually fairly middle-of-the-road. They don't have any habitual points donors (except maybe France), but they've only failed to qualify three times (four if you include last night). They made the top ten in both 2005 and 2008, and they won in 1998.

I think you may just have a different opinion of what makes a good song than the voters of Europe.
Looks nice - I'll try to use it and share my opinion in a few days.
For the lazy.

https://clipboard.com/

http://clipboard.com/site/news.ycombinator.com
There's also a Million Song Dataset Challenge going on on Kaggle now:
http://www.kaggle.com/c/msdchallenge
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At $1-$2 prices, purchases are made mostly on impulse. This is why I think e-books should come down to that price, too. For many authors the sales would just skyrocket, because people will just start buying 10 books at a time, without even thinking that it may take them a full year to read them all. But they will just "want them there" for a later read.
The problem with Florian Mueller is that he positioned himself for a long time as an independent analyst and has continued posing as such with many various media outlets and continues to be quoted that way. We all expect Oracle and Microsoft's lawyers and PR team to argue their case and nobody blames them for it. But somebody who deliberately tries to distort and influence a public issue through misinformation and deception - they absolutely deserve to be called out for it and criticized.

(And for what it is worth, Mueller actually provided genuinely informative coverage of many of the issues - which made him all the more effective).
Spot on. Social media is a nice achievement, but we can do much better as a specie.

Let's build things! Let put humans outside the solar system!

Let's dream big!!
Good point. I took a course on business communication, and remember learning that tone is often lost in writing. You may send an email to someone in a friendly, playful mood, but it can come across as sarcastic and/or rude to the recipient.
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This is why I always put a "fall through" comment in place of break if I intend to omit it, and always put a blank line after each case. Once I got in the habit of this, it makes spotting this bug pretty easy.
What do you see as existing alternatives?
I can say, there are Instapaper and Pinterest, for example, but they both differ from this one.
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Since I am the proud owner of 150 trillion Zimbabwean dollars, I'm not sure that counter goes high enough, really.
This is absolutely the only right way to do this. It's very unsettling that locking to a specific revision isn't considered the default.

Depending on git master is cowboy coding at its most cavalier; build systems should prize repeatability above all else.
Thanks for the offer! I don't have any published apps but sure someone will take you up on your offer.
Oh thank goodness ! Finally its over. I hope Oracle learns some kind of lesson from this.
I find utilising the Feedback Sandwich Technique, with some authentic positive encouragement, usually works well.

I apply it mostly when I'm writing something and am getting the feeling that it might not come across so well.

http://www.rightattitudes.com/2008/02/20/sandwich-feedback-t... (from a quick Google)
Striking resemblance to Slash7's Charm logo: http://charmhq.com/ ?
Specifically

wget -m -k -nH <http://site.url/>
Ah yes, I was implying a similarity to the "Chewbacca defense" in its stupidity :)
A bit of feedback - the first thing I see is a message saying "you need to create your account", which put me off. It would be nice if I could save a few things immediately with an auto-generated temporary account, accompanied by a "sign-up to keep what you've saved" message. Otherwise, it's difficult to know whether it's a service I'd find useful.
Well, something like "privileges" seems like a design that is a holdover from a time of shared computing. We've adpated it for other uses, and for some people it's become some sort of security religion. If we assume it exists for the purpose of protecting users of the same computer from each other, it has no need to exist in most cases. Computers are affordable enough that we can all have our own. There is rarely necessity to share computing time.

Plan 9 settled the issue.

But sometimes I think some people have come to love the mental challenge of UNIX permissions. It is like a game to them. I made a function that produces all possible permissions for a file, including the nonsensical ones, so I could display permissions as octal instead of the usual ls format. Have you ever thought about how many possibilities there are? Too many.

The setuid concept is interesting and must have seemed quite innovative at the time. Doesn't surprise me they filed a patent for it. But today, I could just as well do without the complexity.
If this is for real it has major implications in the aviation industry. Icing is a major safety factor and grounds/diverts flights regularly. If you can get rid of the heavy, expensive anti-ice systems on aircraft with just a coating you'll get significant safety and cost savings benefits.
Irrelevant fun fact : In germany, if you have tv you have to pay yearly ~271$ as a tax ( and it doesn't matter if it's 50000$ super hd 3d or ~30$ old crt )
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But once they do realize that they have a year's worth (or more) on their reading list, why would they keep coming back to the store to buy 10 more books?
This is cool!I really like the clipping interface. I tried everynote before a while back and it didn't feel as good.

Just a side thing, you sent me two emails: An email confirmation and a Welcome To Clipboard email. Would it be possible to join the two together, or forgo the latter? I'm just tired of getting so much email.

It looks really good. You seem to have the potential for the pinterest/delicious tagging stuff, but I don't know anything about that stuff. Another rant: when you delete a clip, it just deletes and displays the empty page, would be better if you went back to Home.

I wish you guys luck!
This pretty much sums up what's going on with "Chance."

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=second_chance_af
Activable: a modern approach to UI components
I travel fairly often and most of the time when I travel I remote into my machine back home so I'm many times logged into google services from those two locations, then throw my android phone into the mix as well and my webserver which uses google api's linked to my account as well. All in all I have tons of connections to google at any given time.

A few months ago I was flying home from a trip and was using the in flight wifi. As soon as I landed though at my connection city and turned on my phone I quickly noticed things weren't working. I tried logging into services and my account was disabled for some reason. I of course started freaking out since I have so many things linked to this such as my suplemental adsense income. I filled out a form assuming it'd go no where.

I wasn't able to accomplish anything before boarding my next flight. Before take off I had the inkling to try the recover password option. To my surprise after doing that and having it txt my phone I was able to change my password and magically my account was unlocked.....

Anyway I know the OP already fixed his issue but just wanted to share this story. If you ever get locked out saying your account is disabled try the recover password option as a way to unlock it....
One of the unsung advantages of LXC and OpenVZ, is that the disk cache is unified.

Full virtualization like KVM or VMWare, require you to give each VM extra RAM for use with disk cache. For instance, if you had a typical set of processes that used 1.5GB, and you gave it 1.7GB, that would hardly be enough, as you want more than 200MB of disk cache.

Under LXC and OpenVZ, any unused RAM becomes globally available for disk caching, giving a decent performance boost and further reducing the resouce commitments per-VM.

One example: a customer had some lousy queries in their SQL, but they really needed to have a good demo of their site. We moved them to a 32GB RAM system and gave the container 8GB.

As a result, nearly the entire 20GB database (or at least the parts that were needed), got loaded into the disk cache after the first batch of queries were run. It was enough to get them over the hump (they later figured out the nasty SQL that was getting them in trouble) and they had a good demo. After that, we live-migrated back to their regular server.
If I were representing the "real company" Thomas mentions, I would absolutely recommend that my client consider a suitably-designed arbitration provision for a freelance designer agreement.

Not least, I'd welcome the chance to put disputes into an informal, comparatively-inexpensive forum, where the risk of a runaway jury deciding the case mainly out of sympathy for the freelancer is essentially eliminated.

I would almost certainly object, though, to the ex aequo et bono standard that judge.me proclaims --- that standard, in essence, gives the arbitrator carte blanche to do whatever seems good in his or her eyes, regardless what the contract or the law says. That, coupled with the extremely-limited right of appeal of arbitration decisions, could definitely be a show-stopper.

For those interested, as part of the materials for a law-school course I teach, I've posted an extensively-annotated model arbitration provision [1].

[Disclosure: My wife is a full-time labor- and employment arbitrator.]

[1] http://www.techlawnotes.com/docs/Common-Draft-2012-02-15.pdf...
What happens if the two seats aren't adjacent? :O
It's quite pretty, I like it. Assuming it works sort of like Pintrest?

Huge plus points for the domain name, it's great.
Not necessarily -- it could be different market segments. There might well be one group who will gladly pay full price, and a different group who'll gamble two bucks just to check something out.

Personally, $0.99-1.99 falls into impulse buy territory, while $14.99 means that I won't buy it unless I'm positive it's exactly what I need.
How much did you pay for the domain, and how was it acquired?
I clicked on this because there was a post on HN just the other day about _judg.me_ [1] and I assumed this was a follow-up. Interesting that this is entirely unrelated, but so close in the URL.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4012478
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The RFP says "The proposal may feature a retheming of http://docs.python.org but need not do so," so that depends on how ambitious the proposers are. The focus of the RFP is definitely www.python.org.
Does LXC have a way to control allocations of the RAM based block cache on a container by container basis, or can an very active container end up monopolizing it?
Point taken, though I don't think it's unreasonable to say that the headline misrepresented the true nature of the transaction, as a layperson unfamiliar with such fiduciary transactions (notably myself) would understand it.

While lwhi's "correction" better reflected my (admittedly ill-communicated) sentiment, it still feels as though there's a Digg-like oligarchical groupthink seeping into Hacker News as of late, which is no more preferable to the Wild West antics of r/programming... =\
2 weeks until IPv6 is turned on and left on
Or maybe he is just right. Or can you point otherwise?
It will certainly cause confusion. This is just decidedly uncool.

As the lead developer of the Objectify project, and someone who makes a living through consulting related to Objectify, I am highly annoyed. I'm also talking to a trademark attorney to find out my options.
That's good news for the Android and Java community. One less patent roadblock looming over the heads.
Yes, on the surface it seems to be similar to Pinterest, Instapaper, Evernote and possibly even plain old bookmarks. A comparison between the services would be helpful.
> Who cares if Florian is being paid by Microsoft et al ?

Are you out of your mind? I do, for one. A lot of people think this is a significant issue.
And that will lead to authors only publishing short books, or even sell individual chapters for $1. Not a good thing.
Unfortunately I've been running into a bug with lxc-execute (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/986956) that prevents it from "just working" with interactive programs such as bash or python.
"Chrome Killer" from Yahoo... That's cute.
Well, the postings have been signed 'anonymous', but the title has been signed PJ, so I doubt that it is an admin account unless their servers are setup really weirdly and wrong and back to front and stuff.

But yes, Pamela was reactivated specially for this case. It took a little over three days to warm the reanimation capsule back to room temperature after retrieving it from the catacombs beneath Geneva Airport. Apparently Pamela was extremely annoyed. She had been hoping to stay dormant until at least 2063, so that she could make a killing on some SpaceX investments. Or so I am told.
why thought? They just don't get it, why are they doing these things?

Yahoo has no mission, they have crazy micro departments and no clear focus for picking winners / goals.
Oracle are unlikely to appeal, especially because it was a jury case.

>If the jury and judge had ruled that API's were copyrightable, who knows what that could have done to sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and any other site that relies on a third party framework, library or piece of code to functionally operate.

The jury did see that Google infringed copyright by implementing the APIs, however this doesn't impact others in the way you've stated because using an API isn't the same as copying someone else's, and even then it was still narrowly defined.

>Oracle are the rotting enterprise dinosaur that refuses to accept evolution and adapt or just die.

This isn't all true, while I'm certain their motivation was not in the right place to begin with, the case they brought did have merits regarding the fragmentation of java. (As there are similarities to the microsoft case.)
Yahoo is a well managed company on the forward curve of web technology and I look forward to something that will kill the bloated and poorly backed software that is Google Chrome.
Both are good UX suggestions and we will consider them. Thank you!
He's talking about originality, not permission. An automated tool could fairly reliably determine how much content was already posted elsewhere.
Poe's Law at work here.
The part that would make me pause is that it sounds like you don't buy in to the product. If it is truly just the limitations of the skillset, I say press forward. If it's just a weak idea that is just wanting to die, let it.
So funny how the HN crowd has such a hard time with this when regular users seem to be doing just fine. ;)
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Yahoo is going to dethrone the world's newly most popular browser.

By putting in what are effectively iGoogle, Chrome Sync and Google Instant/Suggest in a new Webkit fork?

Good luck with that project. Never mind the awful name. I think a bigger market share would prefer Yahoo! Allies over Yahoo! Axis.

And the logo looks like something Saul Bass would have done for an agricultural concern in 1978.

Edit: It's a browser extension. Well, absolutely no one will use it especially now.
For text, http://readon.ly/ is somewhat similar.
But it's not about whether it's esoteric to the uninitiated, right? Rejecting patents over obviousness is about obviousness to someone proficient in the field. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_in...
Google Deploys a New API Explorer
The documentation for Python is mediocre at best, which is a wart of how documenting Python works. I think the newer Sphynx site is actually a regression from what they had in the Python 2.5 days.
Yeah, but what does it mean?
As a primary author of the template, I can offer some insight here. This was originally posted on the Mozilla Labs site, which is one of the ways that we try to offer cues that this is early days and not yet production software. As far as the verb "releasing", I don't have a sense for how better to word a blog post about a 0.1 version of something, but I'm very much open to suggestions.

Other folks have asked for an examples as well, and I'm still struggling with the best way forward here. At the very least, I'm thinking that the next version wants the text from "let's get started" included as well as a screencast demonstrating how one could start off a project (by typing at the command-line). But the reality is that this is a minimalist template that most consists of infrastructure bits (it eases pulling in libraries, building, deploying, modularity, tests, etc.). So it's a bit like the HTML5 boilerplate in the sense that it's not very opinionated -- it's applicable and supports almost any sort of game. So if you have thoughts on the best way to demo and talk about this, I'd love to hear them.
http://axis.yahoo.com/ doesn't work for me. Is anyone else having issues?
Thank you. I've learned of something I didn't know.
yeah i feel like they dropped the ball on not making this just an extension for every other browser, and possibly a standalone for those looking to jump ship from their current browser. increase market share, decrease fragmentation. win/win...
The site is about discovery and we find that people are more excited to stretch just beyond the genre they chose than they are to get only the songs that narrowly fit the exact description. Most peoples' complaints about Pandora are that it's too narrow and plays the same music too much. We will often put a song that has ambient (or funk, R&B) elements into the channel, even if it's not straight ambient, and the rating of the song in that channel is still strong.
Naw that's just classic sarcasm.
I am reading!
Really only one class is really prefixed with "NS" - everything else is prefixed with "NSR" which should solve any potential namespace issues.

I did consider this possibility but I think I preferred the elegance of plain NS, and still highly doubt that Apple will release or has any classes named NSRailsModel :) But I do absolutely agree, it's better to be on the cautious side. It's very likely that NSRailsModel will change in the future.

See the ticket posted somewhere in this thread for more details, I'd prefer to keep the discussion there.
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Wait, where in the press release they even mention chrome???

It's launch.co dumb headline.
this is basically 8 out of every 10 Huffington Post articles
I don't see that Yahoo called it that.
Chrome killer sounds, well, rather ambitious. IE killer was ambitious enough back in the day, and that browser had serious flaws.
You could very easily say the same thing about Google. People do, in fact.

Not that I expect this to in any way be good.