skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tweet from a purported passenger:
https://twitter.com/Eunner/status/353592664526028801

> I just crash landed at SFO. Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal... (at @flySFO) [pic] — https://path.com/p/1lwrZb
It seems like everyone may be fine, i pray that they all are!
https://path.com/p/1lwrZb
The problem I have with Akka is the runtime, and these problems won't go away with any feature additions built on top of it.
probably because of the word "news". And the fact that it doesn't seem to be "up" other places yet.
why not netrw?
Close up of SFO Boeing 777 crash site
This is how I do it: Erlang manages the distributed portions of my application but a throughput oriented language (such as Haskell) handles the non-distributed portions. A la using the right tool for the job. Cloud Haskell has come a long way but it is still missing Erlang's per-process heaps and scheduler behavior.
It depends on the phrasing.

"This is [how it works]", "How does it work?"

I was wondering [where the name dickerlite comes from]?
Where does the name dickerlite come from?
Latest Greenwald leak describes NSA mass surveillance of Latin America
Units also have the property that they cannot be written as the product of two non-zero non-units. There's no important reason for Units and Primes to be disjoint sets.

Units could be considered primes. It would make some things more convenient and others less convenient. For example, a prime decomposition of an element would really be a prime decomposition and not "up to a unit"; on the other hand, a proper statement of its uniqueness would be more bulky.

Ultimately mathematicians decided that it's much more convenient to not consider units to be prime. It does seem to be a matter of convention, with no deep significance to it.
I added you. Add me too and we can start an HN channel.
I'm just starting up with .Net and VS and there is a lot of great resources for the .Net folks.

Here's just a few. .

VS SPA Breeze/Angular Template To Do app
http://www.asp.net/single-page-application/overview/template...

Angular MVC Cookbook:
https://github.com/Wintellect/Angular-MVC-Cookbook
Dictators use Lincoln's actions as justification for their own because most people are brainwashed into thinking Lincoln was a great President. I guess when you measure greatness by body bags filled and broken laws, Lincoln was a great.

* Apr. 19, 1861 -- Lincoln imposed a blockade on Southern ports of South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Did Congress declare war? No. Constitution violated.

* Apr. 20, 1861 -- Lincoln ordered the Sec. of Treasury to spend public money for defense without congressional appropriation, violating the Constitution.

* Apr. 27, 1861 -- Lincoln made the unprecedented move of suspending, through an unconstitutional order, the writ of habeas corpus, or the protection against unlawful imprisonment. Lincoln signed a warrant for the arrest of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court because the Judge rendered an opinion that Lincoln acted unconstitutionally by suspending the writ of habeas corpus.

* Lincoln had U.S. Rep. Clement Vallandigham of Ohio arrested for “disloyal sentiments and speeches.” Vallandigham opposed the Morrill Tariff and the central bank.

* An estimated 13,000 Northern citizens were detained for merely expressing opposition to the war. This group contained hundreds of newspaper editors and owners. None of these people ever heard evidence against them and were never brought to trial.

* During the war, adult male civilians in the South were compelled to take a loyalty oath to the federal government or be shot. In the words of Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, Lincoln had established “a military despotism.”
I'm hearing more air traffic overhead than usual. I bet there are going to be a lot of diversions to SJC and OAK.

http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KSFO
Show HN: annotated drum machine for the Novation Launchpad, in Chuck
a musician friend of mine is interested in learning a bit about programming, so I wrote a simple drum machine and annotated the source. The drum machine itself is designed for the Novation Launchpad, so it can't be played without the proper device. That's probably going to severely limit the audience, but I figure it's still worth sharing on HN, so that people can see a bit of what Chuck looks like, for simple things.
because the people on HN voted it to be
Sweden have done other... weird things.

For example, during the H1N1 vaccinations, a Finland woman that had some good credibility, pointed that the Sweden vaccines were dangerous, she claimed that Sweden had some sort of conspiracy with the US to get rid of young people.

Lots of people believed it was balooney at the time, but now we have Swedish young people with narcolepsy because of the vaccine (it only affected those below 20).

Now the balooney claim, look a lot less balooney... But I still wonder what the hell is going on sometimes... All of my ideas fail both henlan and occam razors, but maybe there IS some conspiracy really going on...
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I wish I'd seen some of this before I took a discrete optimization course. I would have loved to submit some of this.
a musician friend of mine is interested in learning a bit about programming, so I wrote a simple drum machine and annotated the source. The drum machine itself is designed for the Novation Launchpad, so it can't be played without the proper device. That's probably going to severely limit the audience, but I figure it's still worth sharing on HN, so that people can see a bit of what Chuck looks like, for simple things.
I haven't seen the flight where they cut the engine and restart it. Very impressive!
I did some experiments with Ruby and Wikipedia data, first I implemented an #ambiguous? method for articles (to check if the article links to an disambiguation page). The second idea was to implement a method to disambiguate a given sentece or paragraph by using term frequency and idf from wikipedia articles: disambiguation pages provide a set of categories and articles, a corpus is built up from articles of each category. So for a given text you may infer its category.

https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/wikipedia
Do you have a source for number 3 (warrant to arrest the Chief Justice)? It's not that I don't believe you, it's just the kind of think I'm interested in reading about.
FAA: Boeing 777 crashes at San Francisco International Airport
Without some special agreement from the upper tier service providers or a Ono-like plugin, this is probably not a good idea.
Trying to figure out the point of this. It's counter intuitive to how most people think. If I want to move, chances are, I want to move somewhere different than the climate I'm already in. Same thing for vacation. I'm still trying to find a reason I want to go somewhere with the same climate as the one I'm currently in.

Perhaps a better idea would be to show places which are completely opposite of the one you're already in.
Isn't that more or less a solved problem, at least? Maybe there are aspects of it that I'm unfamiliar with which make it much harder for a rocket than for a capsule, but it seems similar, and SpaceX already has that down for Dragon.
Because a plane is the nearest thing to a hack which humans have designed.
You'd think that intelligence and defense was outside of the scope of the EU or something...
It doesn't really matter because in the surviving universe you don't do it.
Heres an applied class integrating Linear Algebra and Python:

https://class.coursera.org/matrix-001/wiki/view?page=overvie...

This session started on Monday (July 1st) and if you have an interest in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or Cryptography I'd recommend you join us.
There's an easter egg video if you hover over the 4-color bar in the bottom right of the page. Direct link:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ap2yUubnw4c?rel=0&fs=1&showinfo...
I really need to get up to speed on cryptography. I've been a software developer for a while but haven't had a chance to get into it. Part of the reason is time, the other reason is that I haven't a clue where to start. I've heard about the books Security Engineering and Cryptography Engineering. Are they good books for someone new to all this?
It seems to me this is a disaster they'd cover on TV news (thus off-topic) and it doesn't gratify my intellectual curiosity (thus not on-topic). Little different than a jackknifed semi on the highway that a lot of HN members probably use.

Now a technical analysis of the factors leading to the crash would very much be intellectually gratifying and I look forward to seeing that posted on HN.
For me it was the opposite: I choose where I live and I prefer mild climates like southern California in the fall, or Chicago in September. I'd love to see a fully-blossomed climate-view during the year, to city-jump during the most liveable seasons (avoid Chicago Nov-April or July-August for example)
No, he's suggesting that he's being hunted due to political opinion, which is something the US Govt themselves protect other whistle-blowers from (provided it's not their activity that's being exposed):

> Asylum may be granted to people who are already in the United States and are unable or unwilling to return their home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

-- http://www.immihelp.com/gc/asylum.html
There's a Wikipedia page here with some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taney_Arrest_Warrant

LewRockwell.com also has some interesting articles on Lincoln, but they redesigned the site so a lot of links on Google are broken for now.
Don't know about other people here, but I've actually taken Asiana Airlines #214 several times.
Shameless plug: My Rust 6502 emulator used macros for opcode decoding as well. CPU emulation is an ideal use case for Lispy macros: the addressing mode and opcode combinations have a lot of closely related code that's amenable to macro factoring, and having the interpreter, JIT (if present), and disassembler share code is a nice application as well.
This is another example of the real life ungovernability of the EU in relevant things.

On the other hand they pass a lot of truly relevant laws like a new one concerning the minimum distance of chickens in egg-farming plants in 2012: just in the middle of the crisis, Greece, Ireland &c.

We are so happy here...
Did anyone in Sweden claim that the vaccines weren't dangerous? The point of vaccines is that they're less risky than the disease they're preventing, even considering the low likelihood of contracting a disease.
I may not understand quantum computing properly, but would not this approach require N entangled qubits? If no, can someone explain how it would function on less than N qubits, for example 1? If it does require N qubits...I can imagine a classical solution with O(n) and slightly less ridiculous hardware requirements.
Awesome reporting! Seriously, good job.

I honestly believe that a collection of sources like this is the future of news; allow people to draw their own conclusions based on the first-hand content you can collect.

Shameless plug: OK, that's actually what I've been building for a few months. We had to break it to finish building it (sorry, or i'd just show you), but our launchrock page is at http://grasswire.com if you want to have access when we launch
You could build something where the human never had the actual key. The human has a passphrase which goes to a piece of hardware with the actual key, either tamper-responding physical hardware with a clock, or some kind of network service (e.g. a .onion service) which takes the user's passphrase and returns a key. As long as the user (or subverted hardware) doesn't retain the actual key each time, it's probably ok, and protected from this particular case of compelled disclosure.

The ideal is to use some kind of tamper-responding hardware to process the data (as well as decryption), though. And probably locally -- I don't think I'd trust an .onion service to stay up if it disappearing meant I would no longer have access to my files.
Roberto Ierusalimschy included this in his talk at Lua Workshop 2012.

What is Next for Lua: A Personal Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izhUbMGUIPE
How about: because the 777 is one of the newest airliners in production and SFO is one of the busiest airports in the US, so if this is due to an engineering defect it's both extremely concerning and relevant to general HN discussion, even aside from the immediate personal safety aspect. Just as the 787 battery problems were.
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Yes, sorry about that. We surely need one... Check out the live chat in the meantime http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sharefest
It's a well-known fact that Sweden is a lapdog to US interests but thinking Assange has been framed in some kind of conspiracy is just ridiculous.
And what is the "best" result in your opinion? I'm getting the homepage of Hacker News (news.ycombinator) along with a nice description. I'm as skeptical as the next guy when it comes to this kind of stuff, but this is just plain ridiculous.
but it does seem inefficient if you often have lots of images to process
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The warrant, if there was one, never issued. The case in question was Ex parte Merryman. Justice Taney was sitting as a Circuit Court (middle level federal court) judge for the case, as was the usual practice for Supreme Court Justices at the time.

Historical evidence for the purported warrant comes from a book written by a Lincoln confidant and bodyguard named Ward Lamon in the 1880s.
My family had similar "between home" experiences. I suspect these sorts of experiences are not terribly uncommon, but I'll share a couple stories.

We stayed in a shady motel for 3 months. They hadn't paid the electric bill and we found out in the middle of the second night there. Front desk clerk waited for the technician to leave, then brings bolt cutters, a 2x4, and metal shims to the master panel... 3 minutes later (and a little bit of my help) power was back. Police visited daily, victimless felony arrests were quite common.

In another occasion, we spent 10 months in a campground frequented by biker gangs. To my parents' dismay, I made many friends (both my age and significantly older) and learned how to fight, had my first kiss, and grew to love heavy metal, got drunk for the first time, among other things.
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Obviously it's just a proof of concept, but I think the principle is good. Let me know if you use it.
Since the 70s seemly all mass vacinations related to H1N1 caused more damage than the disease itself.

H1N1 spreads fast, but is not much deadly anymore.

Here in Brazil for example, H1N1 infected a good part of the population, but only about 100 people died, while common flu killed 100 people each day.

And the H1N1 vaccine also caused some mayhem.

I am not dismissing vaccines in general, or saying that even a dangerous vaccine is not worth it (the original vaccine, was very dangerous, yet made a disease get erased from Earth), but there was people saying specifically that the H1N1 vaccine that only Sweden used, was clearly dangerous for young people, too bad those people had no proof... But now that the vaccine DID caused more damage than the disease.
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High quality close up photo from https://path.com/p/1lwrZb:

https://pathakacdn-a.akamaihd.net/photos2/f36a5729-6db7-40db...
Newest? First flight was in 1994.
I don't know how reputable is this information:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/06/assange-rape-accuser-c...

But it makes me think that framing Assange might be improbable, but not "ridiculous".
Hong Kong, remained there fighting extradition until the leaks were exhausted, then showed up for court in the US, ideally in late 2014. Ideally, find a fairly libertarian member of congress of either party (or a coalition) to request me to testify in open congress, and be brought back escorted by congresspeople to do so.
Learn python the hardway is a great resource. It'll not only introduce you to some interesting quarks about the language. It's setup for daily consumption building on the lesson previous to it. I've used it and I've used C the hardway.
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
There is an ebook available for purchase and video tutorials.
Hi, Patrick! Sprocketnes has been helpful reading as I've worked on my own emulator. Ian Piumarta's lib6502 uses plain C macros. It's even almost as short as cl-6502...though I don't think it's quite as readable. ;)

Keep up the great work on Rust, been waiting on the gc/scheduler stuff to shake out a little bit. Looking forward to 0.8!
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Good luck updating it after Apple decides you won't.

Don't get me wrong. AppleTV is certainly a decent value, but it'll never do anything Tim Cook disapproves.
Apparently, OccupyWS/Anonymous masks are made in Sweat Shops
Has anyone played / tested this with regard to the responsive image hack/trick by the filament group : http://filamentgroup.com/lab/rwd_img_compression/
sudo port install ffmpeg

You're welcome.
Why downloadable package is necessarily more secure than a live webpage over TLS (HTTPS)? Given that you can verify that Sharefest is Sharefest (using the certificate in the future), I don't see the big difference. I do think that a live webpage can be updated with security fixes more easily.

Being a live webpage also give us, as the developers, much less headaches in terms of protocol compatibility -- We maintain just one "version" of Sharefest client at the same time.
If you think it's off-topic and you have flagging privileges, you can flag it.
It was really a grab bag term since the same point still stands. I am aware that there are other technologies, the last I used with .Net was monorail which seemed to be a reaction to rails before there was an official MS version.
Reference photo of the plane, for comparison: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Asiana-Airlines/Boeing-777-28...
I'm not sure I agree. From those first pictures I saw (charred plane) I drew my own conclusion that a large number of people must have died. From the latest reports, it appears I was wrong.

Sometimes we don't know enough to make meaningful conclusions without experts weighing in. Not to mention bias- first hand accounts are rarely impartial. In this instance there aren't any "sides" to take, but I'd bet that most of the photos flowing out of Egypt right now have an opinion behind them.
I am really routing for SpaceX, I would love to see the commercial possibilities (and scientific) if we could reduce the cost of getting to space. Luckily it looks like they're already making some pretty impressive steps if you consider that only 6 months ago they were hovering at 40m.
I wish I could find a well compiled list of facts & sources like this along with every news article. Great work, thanks for sharing.
777-200LR is pretty new though (2006?)
Amazing changes in information [1] flow. HN becomes a better source than all major networks combined.

[1] Information as contrasted to conjecture and dramatization.
Shit, no. A plane is an elegant work of engineering. A helicopter, now that's hacky as hell.
They are ways to do Kickstarter even if you don't live in the US or UK, most involve a little extra cost of setting up a company or finding a friend you trust. (Have never done it)
Truly production ready or "wait for version 2" production ready?

I'm always afraid of 1.0 release stuff for actual production environments, despite who releases it
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Incidents like this make me wonder about interesting problems people are currently solving/or will have to address with commercialized space travel.

Say if this had happened at a docking port to a space station, regardless of the severity, it would have been fatal for everyone (assuming people in transit wouldn't be in some kind of suit meant to protect them from the vacuum of space/or radiation inside of a ship that is supposed to do that).
Thank you sir! Any video to go with the slide deck ? Or article. The deck is interesting, but I'm still thirsty.
Please cite facts, not unsubstantiated tinfoil hat material devoid of citations.

I has been shown [1] that the risk of being affected by narcolepsy among children vaccinated with Pandremix is 4.19 times higher than the risk among children that were not vaccinated with that particular vaccine. This in Sweden, related to the H1N1 mass vaccinations.

69 verified diagnoses of narcolepsy were found among vaccinated children. It has not been proven that all cases of narcolepsy were directly caused by the vaccine.

Your claim that this Finnish woman's assertion that the Swedish gov't in cahoots with the US gov't wanted to "get rid of young people" is somehow not "balooney" is patently ridiculous based on the simple facts.

[1] http://www.lakemedelsverket.se/OVRIGA-SIDOR/Den-nya-influens... (Swedish)
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What's he going to do? Trained professionals are taking care of the evacuation, and if he tries to "help", he will just get in the way. Sometimes there really is nothing you can do. This is not to be confused with a case where nobody is doing anything and everybody is just watching.
I'm seriously considering a Raspberry Pi or a cheap Android HDMI stick and run Netflix on it. Has anyone tried that?
So, the right thing to do would be to protest that fact loudly to their constituents--something which I do not believe they've done. As it is, they simple look derelict in their duty.
And the Fire Rescue frequency: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6336/web
One of the examples contains a 21K loc JS file. That's excessive. If I used this, I'd keep the HTML generation but skip the JS generation.
I feel the same way but a) almost any civvies would not be able to help, b) there would be more people for emergency response to worry about, and c) families/friends would be worried sick and, unable to call, would be looking for any signs/info ASAP.
That's fair, but I think I still disagree. If you are only looking at one source, sure, it can be confusing, but if you have a good collection of all of the first-hand sources really you are able to draw the same conclusion that any reporter might be able to. Right now we have basically outsourced the job of drawing conclusions from opinionated people to reporters. Given the right information I believe every person could do that.

But I recognize that's not a belief held by many people. I've just been able to watch all of the reports come in for a while and feel like that's enough, if not better.
This is HN relevant because it is SF airport but also because when a story is breaking its pretty cool to watch people gather the information and report it, especially HN'ers. Helps give our community a personality. Stories like these don't stay at the top for very long, but while its breaking news I feel like HN has a unique way of reporting and that makes it HN relevant.
As one more simple example of non-constructive proof consider this theorem:
"not rational number raised to not rational number is not rational".

We know it's not true because:
http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.3-5.shtml
Because a downloadable package can't be replaced by something else the next time you use it, while Sharefest can, and nation-states can easily serve you whatever they want, even over SSL.
It's true that our first hastily-drawn conclusions from not enough facts are mostly wrong, but I will say this: it's fascinating and for me, thrilling, to watch the truth about big events coalesce in real time as primary, grassroots-sources get compiled (and fact-checked!).
What a phenomenal photo and speed of information. People are still exiting with their bags in hand, incredible. THIS is one of those moments when you realize how social media and mobile devices have changed the world.
The passengers exiting with wheeled luggage are a much bigger problem.