skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it is extremely rare for a human pilot to come up with a "creative solution" to an emergency. The vast majority of emergency responses are established procedures for which pilots train. Most of the time they're following a check list.

I can only think of a single example of a "creative" response to an in-flight emergency that actually helped, and that was UA232 in 1989.
Russia seems to be the richest vein of "weird road videos" for precisely this reason - when you're recording "everything" then you get a lot more strange incidents on camera.

The habit seems to be spreading by Russian immigrants too - I had a Russian driver the other week, and that was the first US taxi I had been in that had a dash cam.
America the land of the brave. The land of the free.
The original Xbox had more than 30 rejected names
Right, and I could make a living manufacturing those machines if it weren't for slave labor.
"The message will be accompanied by a short video message by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and images required for the re-creation of fundraiser banners."

The thought that a few million years from now an alien race will encounter a message from Jimmy Wales asking for money is fitting for Wikipedia.
I found it very ironic when I tried to read GTD that it actually has a very cluttered layout. Every page was littered with little side boxes explaining something. I found those so distracting that I was unable to focus on the main text.
So GTD definitely isn't the solution for everyone.
And how much does it cost to monopolize humanity's last words?
lol we must have read that part at the same time
> However, I am stunned by the leap of logic it requires to say that public knowledge results in no oversight.

Is that what I actually said?
Is this not of interest to hackers? Or is it too off topic?
Minimum wage law.
You make it sound much worse than it actually is. The court ruled "a government and its agencies are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen." If the opposite were held true any person who was ever the victim of a crime could sue the government agency with jurisdiction for damages. Warren does not hold that the police have no duty to protect you if they are witnessing a crime being perpetrated upon you.
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Assuming we could make such a system secure and unhackable as well as unjammable, why would we want to? To save some money? I would rather pay a little more to have the pilot sit in the same airplane and have his life on the line as well.

I just find it fascinating how obsessed people seem with getting rid of pilots. You don't often hear the same discussion about train or bus drivers, or doctors for that matter, even though we are just as close to having automated robotic surgery and expert systems have been around for a long time.
Granted, I wasn't even thinking about the paid paternity leave. Obviously if the state pays for it, the thought "how much am I willing to pay my babysitter" is not a factor. It's actually fascinating that despite full pay a lot of dads apparently prefer to stay at work? I can only assume that they worry about a negative impact to their career in the long run (ie employer doesn't think they are loyal enough to promote them)?
If one were to attempt to "walk across the world", this would be about as close as they could get. :)

It makes for a much better headline than "Man attempts to walk across the largest section of the earth that you can."

And also, to "walk across" sort of implies you only need to do half of it.

I'm too tired to check, but Internet, is there any continuos stretch of land that connects one point on earth to it's polar opposite on the sphere?

(too "tired to check" should also imply "too tired to post comment", but oh well. it already is resulting in "too tired to properly edit")
Didn't Steve Levitt prove this wrong?
I realize you probably also wanted to answer OP, but let me just state that there was no real judgement intended. I am not a C-programmer, it was meant as an explanation.

> Thus using `^` for exponent and `+` for addition

That is good in my eyes.
It is hard to look at this case and find any presumption of innocence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_case
> In the end, I think the cop got a 3 week suspension. AFAIK, he's still on the FCPD.

And this is why I don't trust cops at all.
FAIR is independent of any mainstream media outlet.

While NPR is nothing if not mainstream.
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Maybe you presume incorrectly and videos of airplane landings are taken as a routine course of action -- but not released publicly.
I also recommend Vundle [1]. It can install any plugin that can be installed with Pathogen.

[1] https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Am I the only dad out there that constantly takes my daughter to the park / science center / library alone ... and doesn't feel the least bit weird about it?
In 3 years I've received nothing but smiles and conversation for doing this.
Maybe it's a Canadian thing ...
iPGMail http://ipgmail.com The website is pretty helpful.
see also Keith Rabois' answer on the subject [1]; sorry for the quora link but it's worth it.

tl;dr:
reasons given to avoid ipo include lower speed/innovation (counterexample: apple), problems with short-term market expectations (cex: google), outside capital not required, maintaining a low profile, and sox compliance. Keith asserts that the real reasons are (a) incorrect assessments of above; (2) BoD issues, and (3) -- the important reason -- private company valuations are detached from reality and have been substantially inflated, so companies have to defer exits for years until their business can actually support the valuation.

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-main-reasons-that-...
So all those factors, when you combine them and take a young black high school dropout, low-income male, you're talking 5 percent employment.

Paul Solman: 5 percent?

Andrew Sum: Yes.

Paul Solman: 95 percent unemployment rate?

Andrew Sum: Jobless. Not all of them would be classified as [unemployed], but they're not working. In other words, you could just say, "I gave up looking for work," which a lot of them do, but only 5 percent are working. Yes, 5 percent.

Another factor is geography. Last year, in the summer in [Washington,] D.C., only 15 percent of the kids worked; California, only 20 percent; Arizona and large parts of the south, 20 percent. Yet in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, you had 50 percent to 55 percent of those kids working.

This part is unclear to me. Is the "those kids" in the last section (about the geographic factor) still referring to the "young black highschool dropouts", or to a more general group again?
If you're going to use remote pilots to deal with anomalous conditions, you'd better have an emergency electrical supply that'll keep your remote control running for however long it'll take to glide at the plane's maximum range. You'll also need a communication system that'll work over the ocean, in poor weather conditions, while the plane is having difficulty maintaining a stable attitude (good luck maintaining the alignment of a satellite dish when the autopilot disconnects due to a sudden upset).

On the other hand, if your onboard autopilot is in control of everything, you run the risk of having autopilot bugs causing an accident - indeed, a software issue in the airbus flight protections (which, unlike the autopilot, are always active unless a very severe system failure occurs, and can override the pilot's inputs) has caused an incident that resulted in passenger injuries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

While none of this is impossible, it's certain to be expensive, heavy, have its fair share of bugs at the start, and by quite difficult to get past the regulators. Not to mention passengers probably won't be very happy being on an unmanned plane, even if the system really was perfect. So it's easier in the end to just put pilots on the plane.
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Not sure how you'd warn a pilot about a crash simply using a camera? Either way, there is already a (practically P2P) collision avoidance system that's pretty reliable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCAS
The Supreme Court did rule in favor of Ellsberg, it ruled in favor of the New York Times, and later in favor of the Congressman who added the Pentagon Papers to the Congressional Record.

Likewise Nixon had nothing to do it. He didn't even lift a finger against Ellsberg until Kissinger convinced him that he had to do so for the integrity of his Office. And even if Nixon really was pushing for it, judicial cases don't reset upon a President leaving office.

Ellsberg's case was thrown out on a technicality, as I recall, not due to any forebearance on the part of the Executive branch.

> Snowden's situation is different, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is the one who also appoints the judges to the secret FISA court Snowden has exposed. It's little surprise he didn't throw himself upon their mercy.

I wasn't aware that Roberts counted for all 9 votes now.
I'd love it if management of all stripes, private and public, paid workers what they deserve, but that just isn't going to happen. Money is a zero sum asset, giving to one is taking away from another. So without unions, there is no way these people could get what even some of them deserve. So be mad at the system, not the people doing what they can to survive.

For most people "getting another job" isn't an option. Have you ever lived outside the bay area? Do you know what's happening in small towns all over america? What do 40 something factory workers with a high school diploma do in central Arkansas? What does a 50 year old BART train operator do in the Bay Area? Yes we shouldn't need unions, but we do. And the majority of workers do vote, and that's what being part of union is. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I guess those in the union who don't like the union can "suck it up and find another job like most people do, too."

Yes, your comment "...or something" is an idiom that is derisive. It belies either your ignorance or laziness about the subject at hand. If you intended otherwise, you should have said that in the first place.

Also, I've never heard a tech worker tell another tech worker that "they're overpaid." No, we all fight as hard as we can for what we have, and we should. And so should everyone else. But not everyone has the background, intelligence, training, or leverage to do so. Which most programmers will find out when Peter Thiel gets those offshore programming sweatshops going...
So sick of non-economists advocating economic policy which they don't understand.

Welfare programs of any type are only viable when the ratio of payers to payee's is high. They're desirable at this level. However, entitling every citizen to money which for he does not have to work for exposes the government to UNLIMITED liability as humans are free to create more humans at any time they choose. We cannot expand the GDP any time we would like, in fact paying people not to work removes the excess value of their labor from the GDP (assuming there was a job for them).

When you total up Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid debts the United States is completely broke. Something on the order of 100 trillion dollars of future liabilities. We can't even afford our modest socialism we have now.

TLDR? The numbers don't work.
I was in a hotel that looked across the water (Red Roof Inn) and saw the crash. I talked to several pilots that were watching the aftermath with me and they said the FAA does actually have cameras recording landings and takeoffs.
Perhaps the labor law exceptions for farming jobs explain some of the geographic discrepancy.

When I was a teenager for a time I was (legally) employed below standard minimum wage working as a farm laborer.
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Agreed on the above point that patronage/network access locks out most accredited investors from the hottest deals. PE/VC is a prime example of this, where the top decile make out like bandits. I'd like to add that speculating on IPOs is like participating in pseudo-alternative asset class - not necessarily capturing value through public equities as the author describes. The level of your earnings/expected earnings, retirement goals, age, level of risk-aversion etc. affect where you place your money. Common sense says that far fewer than 96% of Americans would be well-served having access to this class.
That's a really good question. There are all manner of dirty jobs that people only do because they have no other option except starve or steal. How that differs qualitatively from slavery is beyond me, but I do get the feeling that we aren't paying the "real price" for these services simply because we have plenty of ex-cons in the U.S. and seem happy to keep making more.

But aside from that issue, I think a basic income is the only truly fair way to operate a fiat currency. We know a few things for sure, and one of them seems to be that a small amount of inflation is good for an economy.

One way to inflate is to print money, and the way we do distribute "new money" in the form of debt is essentially a regressive tax. Much fairer would be to give everyone the same amount in cash form.

This system would be so simple it would prevent a lot of the abuses and favoritism of the current system. Imagine if the inflation rate were fixed; say a 2-3% increase in money supply each year, guaranteed, distributed equally among all citizens. It's really hard to game a system like that.

And that's probably also why it's not being seriously discussed in political circles. What's the advantage to politicians?

Forget "capitalists," this kind of thing is the worst nightmare for everyone who is currently a winner in the current system. If I were to propose to devalue EVERYONE's wealth by 2-3% a year so that I can distribute an equal amount to everyone, I could expect a huge fight from anyone with any accumulated wealth.

But as for me, I can't think of a more fair and humane way to operate a system of money.
Here is my one minute as an armchair air crash investigator.

In recent times I've read some very strange incidents reports with regard to airline pilots.

One plane crashed on landing while coming in to final approach at twice the recommended speed.

Another was coming in for final approach some 500 feet below the allowable height and off the designated flight path.

These are examples of some very basic flying errors.

In years previous pilots had to do many hours in light aircraft, then move on to bigger aircraft and only after decades of flying experience did they make it onto the big jets.

But in todays cut price flying environment I suspect most pilots don’t do that much flying and as such they don’t know as much about flying as they should.

This one is going to be pilot error.
The initial crash had some smaller fires that died out. They evacuated the people and then the plane started burning. The damage to the roof was from the secondary fires.
I don't know, did he? Here's some more if that didn't convince you (courtesy of Tim Wise: http://www.timwise.org/2010/07/black-powers-gonna-git-you-su...)

http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/race_at_work.pdf

http://www.eeo1.com/1999_NR/Title.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html?_r=2
It can't be said often enough: Islam does not have an exclusive license for religious nutjobbery.

What it shares with other groups known for nutjobbery, such as Fundamentalist Baptist churches or ultraorthodox Judaism is the fact that Islam does not have an established hierarchy with established public figures: anyone can hang out their shingle, call himself Imam and open up a mosque in part of a rented warehouse, just as anyone can call himself Pastor and set up their church with their band of dedicated followers.

The public eye is a strong force for good.
You can bottle breastmilk for the father to feed his child. Some women even pump exclusively (e.g., because the child has trouble latching).

There are also breastmilk banks, for parents who can't produce their own (partially or at all).
Oddly enough I added listchars data to my vimrc today without even thinking it would be helpful for detecting mixed. This ought to be good enough for now, thanks!
This may be the case, but what should the job prospects for teenagers who just dropped out of high school be ideally?
But it's also very easy to convince virtually anyone that they're a part of the hardworking middle class that's keeping this country afloat, as opposed to those leeches that would use their basic income to hang around and do nothing.
'basic income' or 'negative income tax' is an idea supported by Milton Friedman, who is generally regarded as a knowledgable economist of the Chicago school and a critic of many aspects of the Keynesian welfare state. You may know Milton Friedman from such economic ideas as 'fiat currency' which has been the dominant monetary policy globally for the last 40 years.

Since non-economists should not be critiquing economic policy according to you, may I ask what your credentials are in this field?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
Actually it's quite possible. some (all that I know of actually) African countries issue diplomatic passport not only to foreigners acting on behalf of government but those who work for multinationals so if someone can get you signed up as an 'employee' of a multinational, getting a diplomatic passport gets easy from there
There are fewer young black people in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska which happen to have higher youth employment rates. So that partially accounts for it.

But still, 95 percent..
The stakes in your decision? If doing a full rational analysis has a cost in time and effort, but leads to a more accurate result on average, there's a level of risk/reward at which it's worth applying and one where it's not.

Of course, identifying the crossover point would seem to require a second-order heuristic...
No they can't. It's pretty defined actually. A really simplified way to understand it is: the police have specifically said "we will protect $PERSON from $THREAT." Take for instance a hypothetical domestic violence case. Say the victim reports an incident, and then is later murdered. Because the victim reported the first incident does not imply a special relationship under the law. But, if the police told the victim specifically that they would protect him/her from the alleged perpetrator of the crime and then another crime occurs they would be liable. This is why you very rarely would find an officer promising protection: it creates that special relationship. For more info check out this source: http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseac...
That is the most beautiful handwriting I have ever seen.
Most of the time when a pilot saves the day he just disconnects the autopilot and writes an incident report. There's been at least four inflight upsets due to autopilot or sensor malfunction in the past few years that I can recall. Some of these caused serious passenger injury. Latest one I heard about here: http://www.aibn.no/Luftfart/Rapporter/13-18
Another one: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
What jobs are you going to give them? Cashiers these days have Bachelors degrees in Communications. It's the inflation in the system. America is not producing as many factories as it used to, manual labor jobs in construction are hard enough to get. If you drop out, it's going to be tough to get a job.
Define "rational". Psychologists like Kahneman often say they're using some agreed-upon definition that exists outside their field. But applications of Bernoulli and Bayes are an area of ongoing research, even narrowly [1][2]. More generally, no theory of general intelligence exists, and to assume you can trick intelligent agents like humans with simplistic experiments is unconvincing IMO.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proebsting%27s_paradox

[2] http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/statistical_physi...
whose legit SSN? You are hiding your identity so why start with using your SSN, then what are you hiding?
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If you're going to use remote pilots to deal with anomalous conditions, you'd better have an emergency electrical supply that'll keep your remote control running for however long it'll take to glide at the plane's maximum range. You'll also need a communication system that'll work over the ocean, in poor weather conditions, while the plane is having difficulty maintaining a stable attitude (good luck maintaining the alignment of a satellite dish when the autopilot disconnects due to a sudden upset).

(Shrug) Sorry, but given the complexity of the rest of the aircraft's systems, none of these engineering tasks sound impossible. 40 years ago we did this stuff on the freakin' Moon.

Although yes, I tend to agree that any move in this direction amounts to fixing something that isn't broken. (In the "freakin' Moon" example, the human pilot still had to handle the tricky part.)
It'd be nice if video sites supported arbitrary aspect ratios and displayed them correctly. I can't turn my monitor to view videos in page orientation -- well, I could, but I won't -- but I can easily turn my phone. Movies are wide screen for good reason, but I'm sure there are genres well suited to page orientation.
I think the name for that skill is "wisdom." You only really get that sort of insight from experience.
That is why the computer must hold a two way conversation with the programmer. How often do we just type out a program from our head to the computer anyways? Most of us write the program, debug it, change it because the result wasn't right, or we didn't really understand what we wanted, or someone else decided the requirements changed, or whatever...
No, you generate your own, then have the public key signed by a CA having proven your identity to some greater or lesser degree, depending on the level of certification - but generating your own and having it signed is not a straightforward process in my (limited) experience.
A minimum wage job?
So basic income might work given current levels of employment and GDP et cetera, but it might not work in other cases. And what might happen in those other cases is really bad: unlimited liability. Got it. But why should that be the end of the conversation? Sounds more like a challenge that might have an answer or it might not. Saying "it can't work" doesn't really help.
Women are graduating in higher numbers and getting better positions. My wife has a permanent secure job so I made the practical decision to be home dad 5 years ago. It is a huge readjustment for anyone not used to looking after kids regardless of their chromosomes. Junior primary and preschool teachers (universally women) and women at playgroup are very accepting. My kids probably miss out a bit on the social activities mums seem to plan with each other but they get to kick a football with dad and dig holes in the back yard. I take my youngest to the park to play in the playground nearly every day. Perhaps I am just thick-skinned but I don't notice being treated any differently and I see plenty of other dad spending time with their kids.

The only time I felt I got the predator treatment was when we lost our escape artist kid in a big store and I found him at about the same time as one of the staff members and she snatched him from me and handed him over to his mum. I think that was just good training rather than a reaction to my beardiness. His mum had reported him missing while I went and found him so the staff member had no idea who I was.
Garbage men make between 20-40k a year.

That is not a lot but hardly qualifies as slave labor.

If only you could create machines that put all of those people out of a job the world would be a much better place....

http://work.chron.com/national-average-income-garbageman-664...