skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an excellent posting with graphs comparing the Asiana flight to a United 777 that landed 10 minutes before. The graphs compare height, speed and importantly energy. http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines...

As most have hypothesized, it was an unstabilized approach and they should have done a go around (barring unknown technical/mechanical factors).
Welcoming E. Snowden at German Airports
http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2013/07/07/vo-plane-...
NTSB investigation chairman (may have her title incorrect) shared auditioned & preliminary summary info from their review of the data. No mechanical problems indicated. Throttles were at idle on the approach; speed dropped below target speed; someone in the cockpit requested increased speed six seconds before the crash; speed increased three seconds before the crash; voice request for go-around made at 1.5 seconds before the crash.

My read based on the facts shared at this point: Pilot error, but the NTSB said they do not have all the facts yet, and are not yet ruling anything out.
This is a brilliant approach! I'm sure it will look nothing like this by the time it comes for a vote on the house floor. Will probably have an anti-abortion rider and a lifetime payment cap by the time the lobbyists are done with it...
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In order to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Thunderbirds aviation team, a one off Ford Mustang GT was created and its aspect is definitely a very impressive one. Recently, Ford has released details and images of its Thunderbirds Edition Mustang, which is a special car, created with the occasion of America’s birthday and the anniversary of the famous aviation team.
Imagine that you are not only releasing energy on the body. You are not using heat, like in a thermal motor.

You need a specific chain reaction for getting the molecules you could use to move your body, mainly this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate

You need to make the molecules that make this reaction possible, for every sugar, fat or protein, it is different. Those supplies you need to fabricate or get in your food. Some are very common(inexpensive), some are not. E.g you will need oligoelements, or vitamins.

Not only that, but those substances need to be able to share the same space, not react with other substances, or being toxic to other parts of the cell. Some of them are and need other substances to carry them safely.

You also need other substances to carry them around. Some of them have water affinity, some not.

The output of the reactions also need to be non toxic and some of the are over certain concentration. Some sugars output metabolic reactions produce toxic materials. At high rates you need your body to protect the arteries from acidic conditions with cholesterol layers and so on.

Also what you need to fabricate has a delay. You can't fabricate your supplies instantly, so you have a control system, normally a series of PID controllers(we copied them from nature) to decide how much to fabricate given your normal diet.

So if you eat pizza every single day and caramelize all the sugars, and denaturalize the proteins , like you do at 200C plus, your body will get used to it.

There are fads, but there is also scientific knowledge people ignore. It is frustrating that people that ignore so much try to give advice to others.

You see medicine doctors talk in 2013 about calories, they have knowledge in some areas but are ignorant in others, mainly chemistry and biochemistry, they won't admit that.
humid 32 C in a dress sounds like death.
Ah, good point. I see what you mean--if someone is just learning about PGP the first time, they might not know about issues surrounding key integrity, and the need for trusted 3rd-party signatures.
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Well, "like" is a subjective term but for the most part people support it.

I hear all the time..."It's for the better. It allows the government to keep track of the bad guys and if I have to be inconvenienced a few times out of the year that I travel than so be it."

Or..."All I use email for is work and talking with family. If they want to read that stuff they can, I have nothing to hide. If it helps keep me safe then I'm comfortable."

And the there's..."God forbid we have another 9/11 because too many people are worried about what the government does. There are somethings the government has to do in secrete, there are things they have to lie to us about in order to keep us safe."

I'm 23 years old and I can't tell you where this mentality came from. I know when I was growing up my father showed me how to grow my own food, hunt, use a gun in a respectful mannor and always doubt the government. He told me that violence never solved any of his problems and it's doubtful it'd solve any of mine. He said in order for anyone to be safe they must have their freedom. The freedom to do whatever it is they seek to do. The government is only there to remove that freedom. They want to stifle your ambitions and control how you live.

I know I'm not alone but I'm afraid we are outnumbered.
One of the interesting things in http://businessinnovation.berkeley.edu/WilliamsonSeminar/jon... is the graphs and comments on quantum mechanics - everyone involved got degrees and did their Nobel-worth work astonishingly young. The 'bag of jewels' metaphor really is apt, because it seems you had only to be young and flexible-minded to do groundbreaking work. There will probably never again be a period of such riches in physics (he said in 2013, more than a century after Planck's quanta).

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/it-takes-guts-to-do... also comes to mind as Dirac and quantum mechanics related.
> 1. You lose weight by eating less calories than your body uses. (As a corollary, you almost definitely consume more calories than you think you do. Get a calorie-counting app.)

I see this all the time on HN and like most things, there is truth in it, but it doesn't tell the whole story.

First and foremost, calories matter. Let's get that out of the way. They matter in that, yes, weight gain comes from eating calories in excess, loss from a deficit...normally (we'll get to that in a minute).

However, this is where everyone should be reading the rest very carefully, details matter here.

For one, if the ONLY thing you care about is number on the scale, eat at a deficit and you'll lose weight.

BUT, if you care about the type of weight you are losing (ie. losing fat vs fat/muscle vs muscle), you HAVE to care about the macronutrient ratios of those calories. For instance, I'm an athlete, recreational bodybuilder/powerlifter and fitness model. I work very, very hard for muscle gains. I don't want to lose muscle when I diet down for a show, competition or photo shoot. If I only cared about calories, I would QUICKLY catabolize my muscle. I need to keep my protein high, fat pretty high and the rest of my calories can come from carbs. In practice, depending on my goal at the time, I implement one of a variety of PSMF (protein sparring modified fast) & CKD (cyclic keto diet, which is Keto with carb refeeds) or TKD (targeted keto diet, which is eating carbs around workouts).

The problem with "just care about calories" is that very few people actually want that as the goal. Most people want to lose FAT, not muscle when they lose weight. If all you understand is calories, yes you'll lose weight, but you'll be losing fat and muscle. Most people, and I would guess everyone reading this, would rather keep whatever muscle they have, they need to understand how to SPARE their muscle when losing weight.

And if someone is overweight there is a very high chance they are or are becoming insulin resistant. If this is the case, Keto is actually appropriate for them.

Before I got into this world seriously, I just thought it was calories, like most people who haven't spent the time to understand the workings of the body. I literally wasted years trying to get lean with just a calories approach. It doesn't work that way.
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They don't count every episode and are self-reported. I have a very hard time trusting those stats.
And from what you've posted in the thread, I gather you believe nutrition and weight gain or loss can be explained in the micro sense by individual things like insulin. Most of what I know about sugar, simple carbs in general, and insulin is what I learned from the just-OK book http://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Blues-William-Dufty/dp/044634312...

But most of what I've learned about weight gain/loss and nutrition I've learned from books and research that look at the subject from a macro level.

The summation of everything I've read on the subject -- and I read a lot through my year long experience of losing weigh and changing almost entirely how I thought about food -- and my own experiences make me believe firmly that this is primarily an I/O issue.

And as much as you say "the science is settled and I am right" it's contradicted by a lot of smart people who study this and admit essentially 'the science of nutrition is immature and in many times conclusions are contradictory.' The most recent time I heard that was just last week in the same Pollan NPR interview I mentioned elsewhere. (Though i think this was a re-broadcast, not sure the original broadcast date)

To be clear, here's my take:

1. Primarily an I/O issue. Everything else is a distant 2nd place.

2. How much of the equation is I/O? I don't know. 75%? 50%? It's not the whole story, though, I don't think. Our bodies are adaptive and complex.

3. There are no silver bullets and anybody peddling one is probably wrong (not to say they are entirely without merit.)

4. Nutrition is a science that is not nearly as well understood as most people think.
Similar situation here. I spoke up at the city council meeting about keeping the cameras and the Mayor used some budgetary magic to make it something the council couldn't rule on (they bought the cameras with RNC money and built in a maintenance contract--the council could only get rid of them if it were a financial decision). Once you give a police force a new toy you will never be able to take it back.
I don't really like when people post these sort of "arm-chair" hypotheses. As much as it's fun to try to figure things out, there is always the danger of people jumping to conclusions based on bad or incomplete data. It reminds me a lot of the reddit people immediately following the Boston Marathon bombings. It's definitely an interesting read, but I don't want to take it for much more than just idle speculation.
It could be my version of GPG, but the following does not work for me:

gpg --armor --export --sign <email>

I changed to

gpg --armor --export <email>

and it works. Just pointing this out as a typo.
The recently released video (which I'm sure the NTSB already had) should be helpful as well (and appears to support the author's speculation).
The artist Heath Bunting worked a lot about fake identity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Bunting

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/arts/design/27iden.html?_r...
>for the right price (a couple of hundred thousand, last I heard), will get you a diplomatic passport from a dodgy country

I don't buy this. Sure you'll be able to buy a passport, but a diplomatic one - I doubt it. And if by some miracle you do pull it off then the country issuing the passport will be so dodgy that nobody recognizes it anyway.
> It also still gets under my skin when people call it "babysitting" or "daddy daycare."

It seems like a lot of people feel that dads can only be second-rate caregivers compared to moms, as if they were to take care of a toddler it would only be as an assistant or subordinate to the mother.
My point is that they apply pressure, and it's only natural that people will pay to get it off
no. the correct phrasing for the current of thought you reference would be "we refuse to submit to undemocratic/unconstitutional restrictions on the democratic process and will attempt to overturn the administrative consensus through technology". The majority of the time this comes through democratizing access to information, thus raising awareness and allowing the democratic process to work as designed.
This has a critical flaw: those expecting to work in a high-paying field will self-select more traditional loans, whereas those pursuing a degree with less promising income expectations will disproportionately opt for this type of loan.

If a university (or a state) chooses to force everyone to study under this model, they'll find that students expecting high-paying jobs will go elsewhere, and students expecting low-paying jobs will flock to those schools.

Fundamentally, if I'm planning to study CS for the next four years, it's a good bet that I'll be making more money than someone getting an English degree; and I don't particulalry want to subsidize their education with my future earnings.

There's a close parallel here with John Galt quitting his job in Atlas Shrugged.
I remember when I was a very young dad, and 15 minutes with my very young son was torture. I see myself in much of what he tells. Much of it by imagining the now dad of a 10yo as a dad of 4 months old son.

But there's one thing I can tell for sure. A father can not replace a mother. I wouldn't take offense if a woman asked me why isn't my wife taking care of the child. In the past 10 years there were countless cases where my wife handled things entirely differently then myself. Specially the emotionally relevant things, which are extremely important at early stages of child development.

There is no gender equality when it comes to what a child needs. A child needs the smile of a mother as much as they need the smile of a father. And one can not replace the other.
They already voted - "The plan passed unanimously in Oregon's Senate on Monday and in the House the previous week. The state's Higher Education Coordinating Commission will next develop a pilot program and in 2015 lawmakers will decide whether to implement the program."

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/oregon-legislature-approves-t...
> But satiation is a built-in feature of your body. A healthy human body counts calories automatically, and governs appetite and metabolism appropriately to keep body weight in a narrow target range.

It's not just the human body, but the mind as well.

Sometimes I'd get engrossed in a piece of work or reading something interesting and forget to eat for hours. Then I'd get hunger pangs, and eat some sugary crap or something laden in saturated fat (this often happened late in the evenings. Eating late in the evening is a terrible habit, as the carbs in your food is more likely to metabolise to fat.)

Now I find by simply calorie counting (MyFitnessPal is amazing, free, scans barcodes, you enter your goals etc.) and planning meals so that I have x4 relative low calorie meals (typically 400-600 calories) in a day, with no hunger pangs. I never feel like reaching for that 1200+ calorie pizza at 10pm anymore. It's simple, no bullshit, you don't have to massively overhaul your diet or starve yourself. Anyone could do it if they put their mind to it. I'm about a month into this new regime and I'm never going back.
I'm not saying that SWAT-teams should have free-reign. I fully agree that they need to be held accountable for their actions.

Edit: Fixed some terrible grammar.
US taps data from undersea cables
I don't think it is fred itself she wants to make money off of, but rather the C++ libraries she wrote that it uses, as well as an automatic build system. Other clients do pay for work based on those, hence the reluctance to give those away.
The barriers to modern cryptography seem to be far more social and psychological than technical.

It seems as though many of the web-of-trust issues that impeded PGP 15+ years ago could be helped by current day social networking practices, if a social network pushed it. PGP/GPG could be used under the hood, as long as the user never has to deal with an actual file anywhere unless they wanted to.

The consequences of evil twin attacks [1] may be worse, but if the 'verify' action was not as casual as mere friending, then perhaps it would be less susceptible.

Are any startups working from this angle?

[1] http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/-/9781597495455/chapter...
How is this any different than simply raising taxes and providing education at minimal cost with no loans?

As always, the US drops the ball again.
Collision detection is a bit ropey, I guess.
Some of them don't escape but start bouncing back and forth. Also, the whole lot should reach equilibrium before long, but it doesn't seem to. It all seems a bit overly bouncy - kind of like Angry Birds physics, but turned up to 11.
O RLY? http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/07/us/plane-crash-main/index.html...
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The short version is there are multiple things on a runway that emit light and I think they're being confused.

"Which appears to be due to someone incorrectly reading a post-crash NOTAM which is about the aids being gone due to the crash"

OK first of all VASI has been obsolete since I was a kid in the 90s, its all PAPI now. (edited to add, in the USA) Much like people still call the AWOS an ATIS because it does about the same thing. I'm not just picking nits, if you try researching this, you'll find the VASI has been outta service probably since the 90s, you want the PAPI. Its all the same anyway, white you're light, red you're dead. VASI is before my time but I'm told it was the same arrangement?

If you want NOTAMs you can just go to FAA's pilotweb, this link might work or you can search. Holy cow SFO has a lot of NOTAMS to read about.

https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/PilotWeb/notamRetrievalByICAOAc...

!SFO 07/047 SFO RWY 10R/28L CLSD WEF 1307062309

!SFO 07/046 SFO RWY 28L PAPI OTS WEF 1307062219

The PAPI (precision approach whatever indicator or something) was marked out on the 6th at 2219 and the runways (not all listed above) formally closed at 2309. I think that is after the crash UTC time?

Now according to this NOTAM

!SFO 06/003 SFO RWY 28R ALS OTS WEF 1306011400-1308222359

They've been screwing around with the ALS lights for like 5 weeks now as per the daily news story. The ALS is mostly to light the place up at night, make sure you can line up on the correct runway (L or R) and most importantly in the USA this has the decision bar, if the weather is so poor that you can't see the decision bar, its too poor to continue the approach. I'm told the weather was beautiful during the crash, so I don't think the decision bar being rebuilt or whatever had much if anything to do with the crash.

Something I don't understand about ALS on an airport by an ocean (not exactly a problem where I live) is how they mount the decision bar and its little friends. Its going to be quite a distance from the end of the runway and some runways seem to go right up to the sea, so piers out in the ocean or something? If they hit the SFO ALS that would imply the plane would be well offshore under water.

The ALS, aside maybe from some wiring, is probably not any more or less messed up by the crash than anything else's power wiring. I could imagine a plane running off the runway into the PAPI and that would be about the end of that PAPI, or at least it'll have to be aligned.
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The complete opposite. We don't live in a centrally planned economy (thankfully). Instead multiple developers have released multiple feed readers with multiple licensing, pricing and freedom schemes. Everyone gets to choose what they want. There is absolutely nothing "ruined" about that.
Had this a couple of times in the UK. It's a new tactic here. I think they learned it from some naff US cop reality show.

Neither time was I actually speeding. It was an estimate on their part and both were in an area with a good probability of bagging a moron who confesses immediately out of confusion.

Usually results in a frustrated piggy who asks to search the vehicle[1] which you don't have to agree to, insurance check, vehicle check and a warning to drive more carefully (bear in mind 450k miles driven, 22 years, advanced and clean driving license, no insurance claims, no speeding tickets, no parking tickets ever).

[1] I have considered purchasing a large quantity of cheap sex toys on Alibaba to keep in the back to make it embarrassing for them when I do agree for a search to be made...
When I tell Google+ to jump, it jumps
- Internet regulation justified by copyright protection

- Continued unconstitutional wars again "terrorism"

- Continued imperialism

- Whistleblower vilification

- Implicit taxation through unbridled govt debt

On Facebook, some friends are even afraid to "like" these stories now.

Most friends just ignore my posts. I can't tell whether they're apathetic, or whether they're suppressing it in fear. Or whether Facebook is throttling my posts using their "spam" algorithm. Maybe I've been throttled by my friends.

Most friends on Facebook post about how ugly or pretty something is, about the food they consume, or they're pushing some agenda of their own, as everybody has them nowadays.

Then you start wondering whether you're just being paranoid. Of course in normal pre-media life, such an inconsistent state of existence would be impossible. Can you imagine everybody around you being happy with ice-cream cones after being abused by yet another "lawful" breach of your liberty by the SWAT team, joined by some "celebrity"?

So it's easy to ignore the signs and live on earning your paycheck. Every day is exactly the same. You can't stay here, keep on moving on.

Dude, how do you even watch sports right now? There's so much work to do.

Yet days go on, everybody is chasing a paycheck or chasing a paper pyramid scheme. Or chasing fame, or chasing tail, anything to help take their minds off the now-ordinary horrid reality.

Some see the problems and can't help but feel that something is wrong, that something is unjust in this world. They're searching for a real purpose, as they stumble with potential solutions that have been tried and have failed.

While we ignore the children.
His experience mirrors closely with my friend, who is a stay-at-home dad. All the crap this guy puts up with strangers is pretty prevalent - my friend's experienced the same, and worse, as he's been doing it longer.
Does anyone know if they've released the information about where the people who died/were severely injured were sitting in the plane? I'd love to see a seating chart that shows the safest and least safe seats on a 777.
At a 100K salary, over 24 years you would pay 72K. The same cost of 72K as a loan at 6.8% paid over 24 years would amount to $146,229.96 with total interest paid of $74,229.96

That's more interest than the cost of the loan. You would have to average more than 203K a year in salary in order for this to be the wrong choice. The average student isn't going to come close to that. Do you really expect that you'll be making more than an average of 203K over the next 24 years?
If digital locks are treated as physical locks, a warrant would compel you to decrypt your files. If you refuse, that is obstruction of justice. Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I think there are few forms of commercially available encryption the government could not crack given time + resources, which a warrant would provide.
Many tech companies do not have a professional environment.
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This is the part I am always confused. If we all know graduates getting an engineering degree(CS,EE) make more money than graduates with english/arts degree. We should see an obvious trend students heading to engineering majors. Why still so many students go to english/arts/... major and they know they will make less promising income?