skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AF447 crash was an example of exactly why the Airbus side stick model is flawed compared to the Boeing yoke.

In AF447, one of the pilots had a nose up input held during a stall. Because the other pilots couldn't see his stick, they weren't aware of his inputs. Also, at certain times, the other pilot was giving contradictory (nose down) inputs to the aircraft. This input was averaged (read: canceled) with the other pilot's nose up input.

The side stick has two problems: 1) Lack of awareness of what inputs are being given to the plane by other pilots in the flight deck. 2) The computer has to make decisions about how to resolve contradictory inputs.
Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla
My sentiments exactly! A few weeks ago I spilled an iced latte on my air's keyboard and had to let it dry for a week. Shit. But Apple has a 14 day no questions asked return policy. Excellent! I bought a new air -- installed dropbox, app store xcode, homebrew, ran a script to symlink my dot files / documents etc to dropbox, and done. 30 minutes later I'm back up and running as if nothing had happened. A week later I powered on my caffeinated laptop (works fine after its delicious iced latte bath - not a single sticky key even) and returned my free apple rental. Thank you dropbox, and apple.
No, not your comment, the ad hominem approach. There's plenty of reasons why Comic Sans could end up on the page talking about fonts. It can be a joke, it can be a fallback font, it can be some hosted template that got messed up.

In this case, pixelated jpgs are probably the fasted way for him to publish the content, fading is likely inherited from the general site template, it is presented unconventionally, but I personally had absolutely no problem reading it. The actual content is thoughtful and it makes sense. So do tell me again why nitpicking on the text fading thing coupled with a holy shit drama is a good way to start the discussion.
I would say Apple going out of business is unlikely long term! By the way: In-house developed apps are not depending on Apples App store.

http://www.apple.com/business/accelerator/
Making Online Notarization Legal
Thank god, and just in time. I had just moved my Dropbox to my Google Drive folder, thinking about switching once Google got their kinks worked out (still facing a lot of sync problems and crashing issues), but I'd prefer not to switch. This might solve that problem for me.
No, it's not an order of magnitude less powerful. Tegra 3 games look almost console-like. And you can play a lot of older emulator games on this, too. Next year's ARM hardware should all but match the Xbox 360 hardware performance.
Venture capital funding consolidates in Silicon Valley
Unless you're planning to deploy to a production server running OS X, I don't see why you'd care about Rails running natively on your Mac.

Why not develop against a VM running the same OS as your server?
This diagram is kinda like a roadmap for how to succeed, IMO:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/37assets/svn/952-technical-hierarchy...

(that links comes directly from the article in question)

Good stuff!
If a company has decided to put all their eggs in one basket - you, that was poor management. There is nothing unethical about the side effects of you living your life.
The problem is not technology, but the willingness to pay for it. The average flight is only a few hours long, but costs at least a hundred dollars. Most people are willing to put up with a lot of discomfort to save a few bucks. A supersonic jet would effectively be an all-business-class service, which has been tried many times before and has always failed due to a lack of demand. The 787 optimizes for what customers want: namely, lower ticket prices.
$ /usr/bin/rails
Rails is not currently installed on this system. To get the latest version, simply type:

$ sudo gem install rails

You can then rerun your "rails" command.

> The basic database program that Rails uses is SQLLite3, and you will need to install this to work with it.

yet Tiger had sqlite3 already.

What's more, Ruby is installed already. One can 'gem install rails' and have the latest version landing in /Library/Ruby/Gems
I can vouch for the fact that they have the best of the best. It's a wonderland of unlimited gourmet beans.
To help someone move up the hierarchies, they have to have an intrisic (sic)
desire to do so. Arguments like “but it works” or “it gets the job done” are
tell-tell signs of someone happy at the lowest level of the technical
hierarchy and your cue to just quietly back out of the debate.

For an article that claims we need software "in all shapes and sizes" the amount of smug superiority exhibited here is amazing. Yes, different people have different priorities when it comes to software choice, but applying an arbitrary one-dimensional quality pyramid to it and assigning users to levels corresponding from 'absolutely clueless hillbilly' to 'latte-sipping Ruby poet' is just wrong.

And the pyramid itself doesn't follow any logical ordering either. E.g. the implication that "beautiful code" is also fault tolerant is a total non sequitur. We get it, 37signals is moving the industry forward, it says so right in the infographic. I'm not even disagreeing with the fact that this company has been extremely influential, and I did enjoy reading their book - but appointing yourself king of the hill while casually dismissing technology you don't agree with as being lower level, that's just bad form.
Wow. That makes it even more impressive, in my opinion. Looks better than most funded apps :)
Serious question: why not use Backblaze to backup your important things?

Because their homepage says: As low as $3.96/month per computer for unlimited data.

I consider that to be an unmaintainable low price, and their "unlimited data" claim really puts me off. My files are too important to me; I couldn't even consider going with them.

DropBox certainly costs more but:

1) I trust them (knowing that they use Amazon S3 is a BIG bonus)

2) $20/month is an incredibly low price for peace of mind.

Note: I'm not the same author as the grandparent comment.
I use my iPad for almost all my initial mockup work. There are some great apps out there (iMockups, Mocking Pad, perhaps others). I find I'm more creative when sitting on the couch working on UI design than I am hunched over a desk. The apps do a pretty good job enabling pixel adjustments in a touch environment.
Cross-products, aggregation, and groups, oh my. MongoDB 2.1 infographic.
Exactly what I needed to read this morning. Thank you.
Linear Programming - worth learning?
I just learned what you could solve with linear programming and how to formulate a linear programming problem mathematically.

There are libraries and mathematical software that can then solve it for you.
Is it worth learning the algorithms or you can use them without understanding them?
I know there are Simplex, revised Simplex, Interior point methods etc. But could you figure out easily which one fits your problem or do you need deeper knowledge?
I'm coming from a Windows world, where installing Rails and all the tools is as easy as hitting up RailsInstaller.org, downloading an .exe file, and having my environment set up in a few minutes.

Uh, what? http://railsinstaller.org/ has a Mac version too!

It's right on their home page (if you're browsing from a Mac; it shows you the Windows version if you're browsing from Windows...)

https://github.com/downloads/railsinstaller/railsinstaller-n...
Because it's convenient and reassuring to be able to access everything from everywhere, including from iOS devices. Also: instantly share any file or folder with a link; zero upload time for content that already exists. (I did give up Dropbox a while ago because keeping projects on it was killing my MacBook's battery life. I'm planning to come back, though.)
It gets better. Install some PortableApps.com programs like Firefox, Chrome, GIMP, Skype, PuTTY, uTorrent, ClamWin, etc etc
Games like these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtxxbS_qhME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpzkCTe76Bc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJz2UkWYqsA

And also all the emulator games up to and including PSX.
what's the difference between tizen os and firefox os?
"shit hole" is extraordinarily relative, apparently, and reflects more on the person using the term than the place being described.
Agreed. That is so annoying.

I just spent five minutes digging through my Pro account to see why I hadn't been updated to the 100G limit.

Then went back to the article to see this at the bottom: "All this goodness goes live on our pricing page this evening, so stay tuned." Ugh.
Or you could mark the message as 'important' before sending it.

Alternatively, you could still choose email vs sms with a single toggle instead of having to use two very different apps for what is essentially the same thing.
The other issue is where I live, people put all kinds of random keywords in their Craigslist apartment ads to try to get attention. "Just 25 minutes' walk to Foo Square, Bar Square, and Baz Square! Four hours by horse to Lexington, and a short plane ride to London!" If I want to know what's within a 10-minute walk of a given location, I basically have to read every listing with my town's name in it every day and see if they included an address. Or spend 5 seconds glancing at PadMapper.
Personally, I really like the new Xbox360 dashboard. Once I got the hang of it, I found it very easy to move around and get to what I want quickly. Using triggers for "tab" navigation makes a lot of sense.

If that's (partially, at least) what they're basing their UI off of, then I'm all for it.
There are many reasons not to use Dropbox:

1. Sensitive/Confidential info - I would never feel comfortable storing any kind of documentation on a 3rd party server that is sensitive to me like mortgage docs, tax docs or receipts.

2. Many companies have a strict policy disallowing use of Dropbox because it would leak information. On a personal level, any kind of work that I don't want to share with others (this includes Dropbox employees) does not go on Dropbox.

3. Slow, limited or capped internet connection. 50GB over the wire in those circumstances will net you a very, very big bill.

Just because you can't understand why someone wouldn't use it, doesn't mean there is no use case for it.
Both Uber and Cheh say that there was some conversation. Cheh claims that Uber endorsed the $15 minimum, Uber says they never endorsed any sort of price-fixing.

Given that this amendment would have severely hurt Uber, I'm definitely inclined to believe them over Cheh on this.
The upshot is "potentially" denser more refreshing air - the airline still gets to decide how much fuel (=$$$) it's wants to 'waste' refreshing that air.
Show HN: Mapsicon - all the countries as icons for designers and developers
Well, as the name tells you, it goes way back.

Iowa, I believe, has a fairly rational process for redistricting. Civic virtue? Lower stakes?
Thank you. FWIW, my post both outlines the reasons why Bitcoin would appreciate and makes an effort to quantify potential appreciation under different worldwide usage assumptions.
I've tried to learn to code, but it's hard to find resources for beginners online. I tried Codeacademy.com but their weekly lessons don't explain things like where to put [] or {} in code so I got lost and frustrated halfway into the first lesson. I work 11 hours a day, so I don't have all this free time. Abe was lucky to get a break like that. I would love a break like that. Too bad he screwed himself and his opportunity up.
>Nope the poster was comparing Apple Developing Macs with Ms developing NT when MS started with NT Apple was on OS9 and stayed that way for years.

Nope, the poster was comparing MS from _one era_ (when they developed NT) to Apple from _another era_ (when they developed OS X).

That is, contrasting those two transitions as different ways of building something.
Congrats to Noah & Rahim!
This article was submitted just six hours ago and it haves 275 points but is no longer in the front-page of HN, why? My only guess is that is because is not a YC Company.
An internet without ads would be amazing.
I am literally just withholding judgement. The opinion only needs to be challenged if it feels threatened. I do not wish to challenge it personally but would passively accept more information as it becomes available.

Genuine thanks for the notes - very interesting and a good read.
It's not presented in a usable fashion, but the existing Pro tiers are having their storage doubled with price held constant (50GB @ $10, 100GB @ $20 --> 100GB @ $10, 200GB @ $20). They're also adding an additional 500GB tier above those, which we don't know the pricing of yet.

Bad presentation on their part, but hopefully that answers the question [that people would have when clicking the link].
I wish there was an option to encrypt all the data not in pbulic folders...

I like dropbox. I think they are providing a great service. I just wish they at least pretended it was a hard decision.

I guess it's pretty easy to live with security concessions like this when people want to give you barrels of money.
We're talking about Android games here running on an ARM processor. They are a lot smaller than a PC game. I've only seen a couple of games that approach the 500 MB mark on Android, and there may be a few bigger ones I haven't tried. But most 3D Games should only be a few hundred MB at most.
I sure hope at least one of you is being sarcastic.
Agreed, 100%. I saw the screenshot and thought, "Oh, it's Sparrow with some red colors and a new little organization feature. Neat."

Sparrow is literally this exact client design, minus the cute "Actionsteps" or whatever. They could easily add some more color coding to Sparrow and it would fill this need pretty easily (well, that and fix some annoyances, which as is usually the case, is the larger usability problem—simply not being annoying).

More importantly, you're right: e-mail is no longer just communication. Our e-mail clients are how we organize incoming tasks and work. This is why GTD and the like focus so strongly on e-mail, because it's become our primary means of incoming information. Organizing that is the problem, and it does need a solution.
It's Putin, I expect they may just disappear sometime soon.
Stop Crapping on Start-Ups (a response post)
This person needs to try outlook. You see, there's a little flag you can click on next to the email with a task priority. And a todo bar/list which shows them in priority order. Not only has it existed before, but it really doesn't help that much. You still need to apply yourself to use it correctly. This doesn't change that.

Sigh... but then I knew I was in for wheel re-invention as soon as I saw the "modern creative workflow" sales bullshit. Perhaps there's something to be gained by making it prettier than outlook, I dunno. I feel like Alan Kay -- read about your history folks. If you're going to "re-invent email" you might want to, I don't know -- try out many different existing email clients?
Mike gave a great talk to the San Francisco PostgreSQL User Group in which he discussed their PostgreSQL setup.

Slides: http://media.postgresql.org/sfpug/instagram_sfpug.pdf

Video: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21929154
As a designer, the OP should know better than to design webpages as a giant <img> tag... It's unreadable on my Retina MBP.
There are a lot of implicit social expectations built into different messaging systems.

I have friends who I regularly email, SMS, and IM with. We've never explicitly discussed this, but it's pretty much assumed that sending an SMS means you want a response ASAP, an IM expects a response within a few hours, and an email can wait a day or two. Even though all three are ostensibly messaging systems, there is a social understanding that different messaging mediums have different purposes; simply filtering based on sender doesn't convey enough contextual information to make a meaningful decision.
The ghosting on the first quote and the logo is really hurting my eyes. When reading further down "clean typography", I had the same thought of "how can this guy's opinion on this be trusted?".

Before Svbtle, Dustin Curtis had a few posts where the design was completely custom for each one but still didn't use any image to display text in various position. So it can be done.
Great point.

I don't use PortableApps itself, but I hacked together my own portable collection of stuff. Together with a portable Launchy, a portable Total Commander, and a few batch files which automatically set environment variables to point to the current location of my Dropbox folder, meaning Launchy knows how to launch all of my software automatically, and in Total Commander, all my directory favorites (ctrl+d) work automagically.
Pretty surprising! This industry (which is seemingly either creating tab apps or Twitter workflow tools) has been battered by the drop off in Facebook custom tab interaction since the switch to Timeline[1]. Very curious what the price was..

[1] http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151235853609705&...
If you're a Windows user, then I'd recommend using TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) to encrypt all of your files. Then put the TrueCrypt file in your Dropbox folder.
No kidding... my first sync basically made my PC useless for a good week. Over 1GB of memory and 100% processor usage for around 8 days to sync 35 GB of data.
I thoroughly agree with this. If they know what they have to replicate, they can do it in style. I can't find three significant points of conceptual difference between Windows 8 Metro and iOS....

available mouse pointer.......... ummm..... more colors?

Meanwhile: mandatory revokable code signing. no side-loading. centralized apps. restrictive filesystem. fullscreen by default. centralized homepage. everything-is-an-app. sliding pane navigation. implied scrollbars. ARM SOC hardware. on and on and on and on, it's a direct clone of what's working in the marketplace.
As operation becomes easier, training can also become easier and, more importantly, cheaper. This results in less rigorously trained pilots. Also, fewer people will fail an easier training program, resulting in pilots with less natural talent making the flight deck.

Technology may be the only thing keeping plans in the air in 20 years. A pilot's career is as risky as any and only those who are independently weathy or have no concern for living a normal life would choose that career now.

Before quoting top end salaries, understand that they have come down dramatically since 2001 and there is nothing stopping that trend from continuing.

Many, if not most private jet aircraft crews, commuter jet crews etc. make less than $35k a year for a captains salary.

Normally, high supply (pilots) vs low demand (pilots slots) would result in a low wage and high quality person (which is what we have now). But overtime, those that have the highest competency know they can perform any number of other jobs and are left to choose "better" careers.

The longterm outlook for pilot talent is scary. My only hope is that robotics can bridge the gap.
Luvit: node's ziggy stardust (libuv + lua)
> in short, everything I care about is in Dropbox.

That statement should be one of embarrassment, not of triumph. You're only one disaster short of an angry "everything I cared about was in Drop box and now its all gone" blog post. Please, look into backing your data up. The cloud doesn't make the need for backups disappear, it only makes you feel better about not having any.
If I'm calculating this correctly, S3 costs about $12.50 per 100GB per month (and that's not including any http requests you make).

How is Dropbox (I assume they store data in S3) offering a lower price than that?

I know they de-dupe data but is there enough common data being stored for them to be able to charge so little?
Regarding sensitive / confidential info, why not set up a volume with TrueCrypt that you can just mount when needed for sensitive stuff?
FYI to Dwolla people. The developers page shows a scary red, "This is probably not the site you are looking for!" when I click on it.

https://developers.dwolla.com/

"You attempted to reach developers.dwolla.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.heroku.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of developers.dwolla.com.
You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site."
The Ultimate Social Media Profile
Well, the UK has the IWF, which ensures Child Pornography is blocked. If TPB had anything even resembling it, there's a chance it could be blocked UK-wide automatically. Of course, TPB already is thanks to that court order...
What people really do when they telecommute
For $500, they will retweet one of your tweets "within reason".

Wow, put me down for TWO!
(Op here)

Basically what others have said - I want things Synced, not just backed up. I like being able to access all my things on iPhone, on other computers, etc, and with it always working.

Also, I used Dropbox first, Dropbox "opened this market" for me, so to speak, which means I wasn't even thinking that this kind of thing would be convenient before I installed Dropbox and started using it. It's very possible that there are better services which I don't bother looking at because I'm with Dropbox.
I ruined my credit. Will VCs count this against me?
(Throwaway account). I have been working on my bootstrapped "startup" for almost 10 years. During those 10 years we have had many ups and downs. We switched business models 3 times - and each time we did this we cut off all revenue streams and started over. The result was personal financial disaster (when I knew we were going to cut off revenues, I took out as many credit cards as I could so my family and I could live). The good news is that our 3rd pivot actually worked out really well. We are now doing about $1M in revenue and growing pretty fast. I am now making decent money ($8-10k/mo gross)...but not enough to pay back all of my debts (I don't even know where to start). My wife has her check garnished (because of my issues) but I have been able to avoid it.

Basically, I decided a long time ago that if the ship went down I was going down with it. I also decided that I would never let that happen...kind of the classic "you don't lose if you never quit" mentality. I have worked my arse off for 10 years and persevered through it all. I have been able to compartmentalize my credit problems and drive my company forward.

I would like to hear from some people "in the know" if my credit issues are going to hurt my chances of getting my company funded. We are ready to take it to the next level and I am afraid that my credit score may be an anchor.
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In case you didn't know they invented the "Backblaze Pod" to reduce storage costs.

I don't think their costs are unreasonably low.

1 TB of double-redundant bare HDD space costs about $250 for five years (they have an interesting blog post where they candidly admit that they buy high-warranty drives and the manuf's eat the loss of drives).

Even if you manage to upload 1 TB to their servers, they still don't lose money. Just to be clear, imho 1 TB is an insane amount of data. My pictures and videos from about 3 years still total only about 100 GB.

Given the slow upstream bandwidth of most users, most people are unlikely to upload anywhere close to 1 TB.
I'd be very interested in hearing more S3/Dropbox comparisons..
Awesome. I'm going to have a play with this when I get a sec.
A town car in New York is considered luxurious when compared to a yellow cab, which is exactly the same arrangement as in DC.
The future of traditional newspapers according to different experts
I pay for a 50gb account but use about 5% of it. I would imagine the vast majority of their users don't use anywhere near the full storage amount.
Why not let the user "flick" it off the screen? That sounds more fun (and probably intuitive), anyway.