skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I transcribed part of it:

0:00-0:02 - Tower: "Asiana 214, San Francisco Tower, runway 28 left, cleared to land"

0:02-0:04 - Asiana 214 pilot: "Cleared to land left, Asiana 214"

0:05-0:08 - Tower: "Skywest 5427, fly runway heading and contact (north cal?) departure" (plane took off and is making a straight-out departure, and now will contact departure control)

0:09-0:12 - Skywest 5427 pilot: "OK, going to departure, Skywest 5427 (free?)"

0:12-0:14 United 885 pilot: "United 885" (pilot makes a quick break call to tower before making a longer request)

0:14-0:16 Tower: "United, uh, 85, OK?" (tells pilot to go ahead)

0:17-0:21 United 885 pilot: "Yes, United 885 at the end, we might need a few more minutes, just a heads-up" (It sounds like 885 is next for takeoff and has taxied into position next to the runway)

0:21-0:25 Tower: "United 885, roger, hold short of runway 28 left, let me know when you're ready"

0:25-0:27 United 885 pilot: "Hold at 28 left, United 885"

0:27-0:32 Skywest 5452 pilot: "San Francisco Tower, Skywest 5452, (quite ?), 28 right"

0:32-0:36 Tower: "Skywest 5452, San Francisco Tower, runway 28 right, cleared to land"

0:36-0:38 Skywest 5452 pilot: "Clear to land, 28 right, Skywest 5452"

0:38-0:41 Tower: "Three Sierra Fox... (garbled)"

0:39-0:41 Voice in background (in tower?) "What? Hell? What happened?"

0:43-0:50 Skyhawk 737ZD pilot: "San Francisco Tower, Skyhawk seven three seven zulu delta (garbled, another transmission saying 'GO AROUND') (something) plus 500 feet please, over San Carlos" (A four seat Cessna is over the San Carlos airport just southeast of SFO and wants to cross the SFO airspace. 737ZD [if I have it right] is the aircraft's tail number, no connection to the Boeing 737.)

0:50-0:52 Tower: "Skyhawk 6389, maintain 3000 [feet altitude]" (It sounds like 6389 is on approach to land and tower is telling him to go around? Not sure)

0:53-0:54 Skyhawk 6389 pilot: "(something) 3000, yes, 389" (speaking quickly to keep the channel clear)

0:55-0:57 Asiana 214 pilot (!!): "Tower, Asiana 214!"

0:57-1:00 Tower: "Asiana 214 heavy, emergency vehicles are responding" ("heavy" refers to any large aircraft)

1:00-1:01 Asiana 214 pilot: "214" (acknowledging)

1:02-1:03 Tower? "Emergency veh(something)"

1:03-1:09 Asiana 214 pilot: "OK, now, uh, uh, and ten or twelve (?) (unintelligible)"

1:10-1:16 Tower: "Cessna 737 Zulu Delta, San Francisco Tower, remain clear of the San Francisco (Fox Bravo?) airspace, contact San Carlos Tower"

1:17-1:21 Skyhawk 737ZD pilot: "Seven Zulu Delta, contacting San Carlos Tower, and remaining clear"

There's another minute or so on the recording, but my nerves are shot after doing that much. If anyone would like to pick it up from there, correct it, etc., please do.
I have always been a big fan of Unity. The only changes I don't like are the ones introduced under pressure from users.

Namely, removing the "dodge" option for the launcher and disabling the scroll on it[1][2]. It now allows you to switch between windows of the same application on the same desktop which has to be in the running for the most useless UI function ever devised.

I haven't really noticed HUD for quite a while but a few days ago I tried it frustrated with GIMP's cleverly hidden sub-menus and was blown away by how easy it is to jump straight to the desired function if you know (or can guess) the name. Invoking "Arbitrary Rotation..." doesn't even take a second. I was like a magician, I wasn't using the system, it was an extension of my being.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1173623

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1149092
Docker is great. For those that don't know, it's basically a sandboxing infrastructure for linux running many apps on one physical or virtual server. The future is only having one app per server container. This means mounting a read-only opaque deployment image with an overlay so has a live-cd inspired filesystem (AUFS or dmsetup overlay). Install just one app per a container, do that, and do it well. Combined with an approach of just enough operating system (JEOS), it's possible to have lean-and-mean server instances minus all the default crapware (i.e., bluetooth and pptp).

The only feedback is that BTRFS == fsck, and is also sponsored by Oracle, an organization that is killing off the superior, but N.I.H., ZFS. Let's not forget all of their other community fails (Berkeley DB, Java, MySQL, OpenOffice).

FreeBSD ZFS and ZFSonLinux are good-to-go.
I used Unity for three months or more.

While it had lots of cosmetic issues that I'm sure could be improved and will improve, what infuriated me was that it seemed to revolve around the assumption that I would only about five, well-known GUI apps. This might be a point of, uh, Unity for Newbies and programmers who "live in the shell" but it completely excludes me and I think it excludes some portion of Linux users.
I feel like this entire argument is less against Amazon and more against modern economics. The author attacks two trademarks of the Amazonian publishing spectrum: algorithmic pricing and a diminished sense of competition.

The first, I think, is difficult to make because you're saying "hey, this pricing scheme is arbitrary and capricious" when the current model of publishers setting prices for goods seems equally arbitrary. Books are art with little intrinsic value -- if you were to ask me to value a book in my collection, the answer would range from less than a dollar to thousands of dollars, with little in between. I'm not saying demand is a perfect proxy for value, but I think its better than the other options. (I feel the same way about clothes. Any pricing scheme where there's a systematic understanding that everyone is going to discount the hell out of the base price is, I think, a flawed scheme.)

The second, I think is much more valid overall but the same points could be made about Barnes & Noble or Borders, back in the day. (Remember You've Got Mail?)

A much bigger and interesting topic of discussion, I think, is what happens ten years from now when eBooks become the du jour method of literary consumption. Personally, I'm looking forward to the Bandcamp of poetry.
The Mandelbrot set was what introduced me to programming as an adolescent. :)
Really cool idea. Just backed a pair.
I must confess I didn't expect the number of curt "the search is inadequate" responses; I posted this because it solved a particular problem I've been curious about for some time, and does a great job of displaying the data in a way that's useful to me. I found the graph display quite handy--using the same scaling on all pages allows me to easily compare different locations in different browser tabs, but the data is displayed simply enough that I'm not overwhelmed with sparklines like I am at other climate sites.

That said, I'd love to see more details about the underlying dataset; given the way the search works it appears to be a SQL database, so I assume it's public data from somewhere?
Why don't you actually present a single piece of evidence, rather than just irrelevant innuendo?
I believe it is interesting, because accidents such as this one imply a thorough investigation. That is: figure out what went wrong, why and how, and how it can be avoided in the future (and, unlike some people believe, it's never about blaming or suing anyone).

That sounds quite hacker-ish to me. It's all about learning to understand facts, understand information and events; and then obtain conclusions and analyze them (when they are released).
> I would only about five, well-known GUI apps.

Nah, you can have as many apps pinned to the launcher as you like. I have 18, and some of them probably have dozens rather than thousands of users. Plus, you can easily search for applications from the dashboard, though that's a bit laggy.
> they were making wild assumptions that, even using basic logic and common sense

Agreed. I changed the channel (well, found a new live stream) when they said "it's likely that all or most of the passengers died" immediately after showing the photograph from the scene, showing many passengers leaving.

The caption to the photo was "I'm fine, and everyone else seems fine."

Really, KTVU?
Korea exports pilots to countries like China (where I live), they don't import them so much anymore.
Schneier joins EFF board in wake of NSA scandal
Do you have citations for the last three?
Most books sold by Amazon are sold by 3rd party sellers, which are small businesses generally. They use SaaS apps to do repricing. Pricing is not, for the most part, done by a special Amazon algorithm.
It's not so much why do we follow something as it breaks - that's normal human curiosity/pattern hunger. But my question is how many people will do it consistently enough to be neutral, rather than because they're selectively interested in (but not necessarily informed about) a small set of stories. As I understand it this has been the problem for Wikinews - it can't function as well as Wikipedia because the number of people is below a critical threshold, so it lags breaking news by up to several days.
With more research along these lines, we may have a day when a programming job interview will consist on interacting with some codebase for 10 minutes, and the model will spit out our normalized scores on syntax comprehension, algorithmic thinking, library familiarity, etc.
Think recursive Mersenne primes.
There is already an absurd amount of literary content freely created online by millions of people. And most of the sites offer some ranking system to filter the crap out. I think I bought my last book ever in college, considering I have an infinite supply of 15 - 25 year old Tolkein's works available that they put out for free because they just want people to enjoy their writings if I look hard enough.
> Most books sold by Amazon are sold by 3rd party sellers

Are there any solid figures on that?
Show HN: Flightpath of AAR214 compared to previous days. Much steeper approach.
confirmation bias in its most unadulterated form. excellent.
The AAR 214 crash is in red, with other approaches of the same flight from previous days in white. Looks like the flight took a much steeper approach today, and fell short. Link to KML: https://s3.amazonaws.com/tendian.io/AAR214.kml
The point is definitely that it's demonizing.

However, I don't think "denialist" is always referencing holocaust denial... that connection didn't occur to me until you mentioned it. I could only think of "climate change denialist" which may be a reference to holocaust denialism, but that's once removed already.
I think he means this textbook: http://www.szit.bme.hu/~gyorfi/pbook.pdf
It's never worthwhile to spend much time pondering any of Malcom Gladwell's pseudo-scientific drivel.
I also used to complain about off-topic submissions reaching the front page, but doing so is also against the guidelines, so it's better just to flag them and move on. I know it seems like the flagging system is broken at times but I've been convinced that having arguments about it is just a waste of time.
Didn't Bolivia just cancel a free trade agreement with the US?
In a way it's even an improvement on confirmation bias. With confirmation bias, you have a conclusion you want to sell, and selectively search for evidence that might support it. But with this suggestion, you search for interesting evidence, and then invent a conclusion that it might support, post-hoc.
> "Truther" movement (which does include some genuine crackpots)

No contest. Just for anyone reading this, please remember that having crackpots in a movement doesn't make it a crackpot movement.
It isn't really left in the dust, the growth rate of tech adoption is just greater than the exposure rate of FOSS and related technologies. Which is sad, but since Microsoft is the primary conduit of traditional computing systems (and today it is Google) it is against both their interests to introduce users to open compute platforms.

I imagine what will happen is that foss and linux will pick back up in popularity over time when technology hits global saturation and the only difference is old people dying and new people entering the market. The younger crowd is more likely to inquisitively understand computers better and realize they aren't just a dumb tool to be used to view facebook.
While I don't think my C++ or C# is an example of modern and idiomatic Windows programming, I wouldn't say I know "nothing of Microsoft technologies that have been used for the last half decade and more". I sure haven't used them, but that doesn't mean I haven't read about them.

You mentioned you used "Assembly, Turbo-C, Turbo-Pascal, Borland C++, Java, Javascript, Perl and many, many others", and, apart from JavaScript, none of them is closely associated with modern non-Microsoft development. I initially questioned you about it because, like myself, lack of knowledge of other options may hinder your ability to clearly assess a given technology's advantages.
I used to use Xubuntu, got frustrated with the ways that it hasn't really kept up integration-wise, and tried to switch to straight Ubuntu with 13.04 and... couldn't stand it.

I'm glad I found Mint after that. Cinnamon is by far the best experience I've had with the linux desktop yet.
what the author means to allude to, through some nonsensical rambling, are the incomputable numbers [1]

the cardinality of all real numbers that can be described by a terminating computer program to some accuracy is a countable set (since the number of such programs is countable) however, the cardinality of the reals is uncountable.

hence most real numbers cannot be computed beyond a certain accuracy.

Edit (additionally): the set of computable numbers forms a field (if a,b are computable, so is their sum, etc). and there are several movements in "constructive" mathematics, to work exclusively in this field, instead of the field of real numbers. however, many cornerstone theorems in analysis fail in this context, such as, the least upper bound of a bounded increasing computable sequence of computable numbers need not be a computable number [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
One is Wolfenstein, the other one is Quake!
No, in fact it looks like I was wrong. I based it off my buying of books which are mostly long tail. 3rd party sales appear to be 50% of Amazon sales right now, according to Google (on phone right now, hard to link) buy most of that is not media, so Amazon must be doing 50%+ of sales.
This is a discussion on an article that compares an NSA data center to the Stasi archives. I chose to discuss how I find that comparison fallacious.

I am arguing that the NSA is not like the Stasi. They had different goals, different authorization, and different modus operandi. You're arguing that the NSA is bad (because they are like the Stasi). Whether the NSA is bad or not is orthogonal to my discussion.

To directly answer your reply:

1. The Stasi doesn't collect vast amounts of anything any more.

2. Has the NSA used data to ruin innocent lives? Have you any evidence that they will do so in the future?
Consider the flip side of the coin. The money from Amazon gives Canonical the ability to employ more developers, improve Ubuntu and add features faster, etc.
> You can't expect every single young person to live up to your own unrealized ideals.

If a small fraction of the population lived up to my own realized ideals, I'd be very happy already.

I also don't remember mentioning Microsoft or open-source on my comment. I was only mentioning the "working for a paycheck" aspiration.
This is, and has been, the real issue for the last twelve years. Try these on: War on Battle. War on Murder. War on Explosives. War on Guns. They don't really stand up to scrutiny.

War has historically been against a nation-state, or possibly a land mass or ethnicity. And there is clear endgame: surrender by recognized leaders, or unequivocal military domination. But terrorist cells have no leaders, and cannot surrender en masse. And the only way to dominate them militarily is to dominate the entire globe.

The "War on Terror" is not a war. It is declaration of ownership, that says we can deploy military might whenever and wherever we want.
260 people thought yes, so it's up and staying there for a while
Taiwanese airlines (China Airlines) had a horrible safety record for a while, largely due to having mainly ex-military pilots from a culture of covering up deficiencies and hiding problems to save social standing and such. I would never fly on them as a result (they're probably better now).

OTOH, Evergreen/EVA Air has an awesome safety program and record, and is also Taiwanese. So, it's a cultural issue within specific airlines, not overall national culture. (Similarly, I think it was AirTran and a couple other LCCs in the US which had horrible safety culture, and Alaska has amazing safety culture.)
ATC operators must be the most underrated people in our transportation system.
That's actually super insightful (homogeneous vs heterogeneous). I never made that connection but looking back I see it everywhere in Python code, and even did it unknowingly myself.
Epistemic possibility
Almost all of the cost of orbital launch is tied up in manufacturing cost and operational complexity. Fuel cost is about $200k for each Falcon 9.

The most important factor in reusability is making sure that the vehicle gets back to someplace convenient without any significant damage. If you crash-land using parachutes somewhere in the ocean or in a desert, that's not going to happen. So you need a controlled landing at a prepared site. The overhead necessary to return to the original landing site is generally more than made up by the fact that you get the rocket back exactly where you need it within a matter of hours and without any damage other than the normal wear and tear caused by every flight.
How Business Intelligence Software Simplifies Critical Business Decisions
That's an excellent question. Wikinews doesn't function as well, in my opinion, because Wikinews feels like work - the people I've talked to that use/create Wikinews say they do it out of a sense of civic responsibility; it's not enjoyable, and a lot of the time they say it feels like rewriting the New York Times (from the couple dozen I've talked to).

The solution, I think, is in making following the news as it breaks exciting/interesting enough the average person would contribute. Our solution for that was to show you all of the social media streaming from different sources streaming in real time related to the event, making it more like /r/new (Reddit) than wikinews. Watching everything stream in and sorting out the good stuff is exciting; it's easy to get a lot of neutral eyeballs on it.
Thanks for the great answer! This one, and the one in the Lincoln thread. Very detailed!
Amazing that data is available like that, I didn´t know it was possible.

It´s early to know because a number of things may have caused this profile, but initially it seems a quite unstabilized approach. For a plane as heavy as a 777 it´s difficult to loose altitude and speed as fast as a (for example) a MD80.
For those who don´t know, the first aproach is a 3 degree normal glide path. The second one is almost double than that. That means maybe more than 1500´ /min of discend. If you are not used flying in such conditions (almost idle engines, steep discend, speed above aproach selection) it´s hard to slow down your descend without smashing your tail with the ground (is what it seems it happened) or overflying the runway due to the excess air speed.

We´ll have to wait for the investigation and all the flight data to know what happened.
thank you for this example. I'm always looking for examples where very theoretic elements of math bubble up into "practical" things (although here it's a bit esoteric).
Yep, sorry! (Also, did not know that was online. It is totally going on my ipad now)
The most frustrating thing that bit me when I was first learning python was the error when you pass the wrong number of arguments to a method:

>>> class A(object):
... def method(self, a): pass
...
>>> A().method()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: method() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)

Once you understand more about how method dispatch works it makes sense, but it's really confusing to be told you were doing something you don't think you are.
1. Needs a shorter headline. Even something like "High Quality Web Apps on a Low Budget?"

2. Needs a call to action that doesn't require two clicks.
I actually like the window switcher, but it would have been far, far better if Canonical had made it so that alt-scrolling on the appicons would have had that effect. Scrolling the launcher should have been standard.
ICBM warheads have about a 90% chance of landing within a circle with a radius of about half a kilometer, at least according to declassified info, the actual accuracy is likely higher. Even so, that hardly compares to a precision landing on a small landing pad.
I tried drawing a "hockey stick" graph and stopped too soon. Got wamu =).

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Bds44NUk_...

We miss you wamu!
Awesome! Looking forward to being able to use FF OS on my laptop!
What Th? One man's quest for a symbol solution
SpaceX's Grasshopper reaches record heights as it tries for the perfect landing
Lava Lamp and camera?
But eclim lets you get Eclipse features in vim, not vice versa... is there something I'm missing here?
Snowden is playing chess.

The end-game is that he will always be looking over his shoulder, whether it's a new host government that wants to score points with Washington or a contractor collecting a bounty placed on his head. Or, anxiety of previous could get him.
Spikes in 2008 and 2012: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:pBuWinPLv...
Not really... pretty much every aspect of OS X is removable, it just isn't as straightforward as Ubuntu and may break portions of the system. You can remove Spotlight and Notification Center with ease, and I doubt it would be difficult to disable recording.

Although I highly doubt Apple would risk the backlash by putting a malicious feature like that in without an option to turn it off.
It does sound representative of the bulk of the daily work.
I got "blackberry support", spot on

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AWbipmJ-...
Java has been a server side tech for almost as long as Perl has.

And Java wasn't always the enterprise thundergod we know and respect today.

But in general, sure. It's not as common as other migrations.
In Germany we have a law that prohibits rebates on books. The prices are usually printed on the back. Selling books discounted is prohibited and may lead to huge penalties. (Of course there are loopholes, damaged books can be sold for any price and books can be damaged by stamping "DAMAGED" on them.) This eliminates pricing competition and will probably give the local booksellers a few more years to live. However: Amazons margin on books is probably the largest ever realized countrywide. Book wholesalers have the contractual right to get the largest discount granted to any customer. This is why basically no-one gets more than 50%. Except Amazon. They'll buy from wholesale, but the book will need 1-2 additional days to ship. To get 24h shipping, the publishers have to sell directly to Amazon at 50% rebate plus around 15% for handling and advertising. This way they realize lower sourcing costs than anyone else. It's ridiculous, but many agree to it.
I can't find anything about the Tivo case being settled. On the wikipedia page for commercial skipping, the only court case is one with ReplayTV, which didn't finish due to the company going bankrupt.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of people who just don't understand how a site like this works.
I really like that headline. I'm going to work off of that. Thank you! I agree on the call-to-action, and thanks for letting me know about that bug. It's supposed to take one click. I'll look into it right away.