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The flight path into SFO goes right over my house in Palo Alto. It's funny, I was wondering why there had been no planes flying overhead today, but hadn't realized what had happened until I saw this post.

I hope everyone is OK.
Is there a pilot error that can account for the tail ripping off that plane?
Nobody is saying this is a random criminal prosecution. He's being pursued for fraudulently obtaining a security clearance and stealing classified state secrets.
KTVU is borderline comical ... they were making wild assumptions that, even using basic logic and common sense, could be dismissed. I was really surprised how unknowledgeable they seemed.

Much better to just report what you know and not try to make up information (even just claiming it as conjecture). Online sources were far more valuable.
Software in general is 'picking up steam and maturing a across the board'. We now have almost 2 billion consumers carrying a unix box in their pockets, not running open source.

If anything, the relevance of open source is dwindling by comparison.
I think on of wikileaks misstakes was to apply for asylum in 21 countries. Make it easier for the countries to say no. It is like hichhicking. Chanses of you getting picked up at a road where the drivers of the cars know that there is only one car in one hour is higher then getting picked up at a high trafic road. Same psychology.
When you say developed country you probably actually mean every large developed country, I suspect quite a few of the smaller ones don't bother.

While free trade and open borders are a great thing, I often wonder if smaller countries is the way to go for the world.
in addition to all previous replies: they are also missing the camera from above (ie: hexacopter at ~325m), which was very nice to see
Expanding on your post, the previous Falcon 9 launch had an unplanned engine shutdown in the first stage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailstrike

Eyewitness, standard caveats apply:

> “The tail was too low. Instead of coming in flat it was coming in at a 45-degree angle, with the tail far too low,”

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/06/19323541-boeing-7...
Apparently if you mouse over the image, the sharpened image overlays the original (no I didn't pick that up either, it was mentioned on another comment :)
Seems like you have a solid focus. I'm going to start using you app to keep a to-do list and will get back to you will more comments after using on multiple browsers and platforms. When trying to sign-up, I received a django error message when a cookie was not set (I use a cookie white-list). Perhaps consider having back-end errors triggering your own error pages for UI consistency.
about your first observation, don't know if the name is what's wrong...

that's exactly what my app does: it uses the cloud to keep any documents you open :)
I have a very short .vimrc, and beyond that my only "plugin" is tmux. :-) For my Rails work, I run one vim in app/models, one in app/controllers, another in app/views, app/assets/stylesheets, and app/assets/javascripts, each in a separate tmux session. That's the right-hand terminal. In the left-hand terminal I have tmux sessions for git, the server log, a db connection, specs, and another miscellaneous vim session for migrations, config edits, Rake tasks, etc.

I use a separate xfce workspace for each client, arranged horizontally in one row. Sometimes I fill up five at a time. Keeping each project in a separate workspace gives me good isolation between them.

I don't really have anything against adding plugins, but with this setup I'm very fast already. I just glanced at Ctrl-P, and I'm not sure it'd add much. I'm pretty good at saying `:!grep -r foo ..` to search all of `app` whenever necessary.

If there were such a thing as a vim spellchecker that understood LaTeX, now that's a plugin I'd be interested in. . . .
netrw is actually a built in, not a plugin and acts as a file browser like NERDtree.

That said, I've never found netrw's behavior to be as friendly as NERDtree's at least out of the box.
Well, I guess it is safe to say that the Stasi would have sucked up and stored zettabytes if they had the capability to do so.

So, the implication that the NSA is much worse than the Stasi is wrong. But they don't seem to be any better, at least when it comes to data collection. That is not very comforting.
The price of an apartment is determined by supply and demand for housing units, not by dividing the price of a house occupying similar land area by the number of units.

Taxes are typically levied on the value of each housing unit.
Actions and results matter more than words and intent. Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is better than doing the wrong thing for any reason.
It's because downscaling is technically a digital filter, so it can smooth the signal and cause ringing artifacts.
thanks for the tip. The numbers were always saying to give up, since I put way too much effort, with little reward...
Well, that depends on your perspective, I guess. I would say "ready to try in a production-like environment".
Building a better Ecuadorian embassy bug
> believing that 9/11 was an inside job.

On that subject, there's a video that it would be great it every American watched. It's made by a group called Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. It's about evidence that explosives were used on 9/11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz2mw2vaEg
The reason I see the wonky errors is because DEBUG = True in your Django settings file
Is it really that hard to navigate to the source?
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/less/mixins...

If you are using LESS, you are probably capable of looking at Twitter Bootstrap's LESS files to find them.
still included with the batteries in 2.7, which comes with most distros.
They can spoof the package and its key.
If the root of trust (CA) is tempered as you suggest and the chain of trust is broken, I don't see how you can really secure it.
This is rather awesome.
Could anyone explain why this is a good way to fly a spacecraft/what they are aiming for with this? It seems somewhat inelegant, considering the challenges having to do with stabilizing a vertical rocket.
We sell non-free tools and services.
Look as though there are very variable reports right now- some saying two dead, at the very least a good number are injured.
I don't have a good answer for that, except to expect that wages wherever the jobs are outsourced to are at a livable standard for that area. Competition and outsourcing are probably inevitable in a global marketplace, but everyone should at least have access to food, clean water, education and decent healthcare.

Of course i'm coming entirely from a labor point of view, and i'll grant my grasp of economics is probably naive to say the least.
At Thinkful (thinkful.com) we're in beta with a python class that covers programming with python, and then web developing using flask. The syllabus overview for the class is here: https://www.thinkful.com/register/syllabus-python
Volvo's Impressive Emergency Braking System
Is this a case for or against automatic airplane control?
Yes, but it's much more limited by the inherent use of server storage. They, for instance, give 15GB (https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2736257?hl=en) for ALL your files. So you end up thinking, should I share via Drive and waste 10% of my space for this one time sharing.

Plus all the security/privacy issues...
Thank you.

No kidding about witness reports. At least one news report has claimed that the plane flipped over, and people are just throwing the word "cartwheel" around.
Austrian officials (the country where Morales had to land) told the press that the US ambassador in Vienna (William Eacho) informed our government that Snowden is on that plane and we should stop and search it.
The theorem(s) about uncomputable numbers do date back only as far as the 1940's, because that's when computability was first being discovered/invented. Yes, the point about there being uncountably many reals dates back to Cantor, but that's a different theorem, and a different proof. The existence of uncomputable numbers follows as a corollary from Cantor's first proof of 1874, but the conclusion must be drawn - it wasn't there in Cantor's work.

Specifically:

We can prove that there are uncomputable numbers simply by noting that the number of Turing machines is countable, so the number of computable numbers is countable. Since there are uncountably many reals (by Cantor - 1874) then we can conclude that there are numbers that cannot be produced by a Turing machine.
It's elegant because you "just" have to strap landing gear and some parachutes to your existing rockets and you can reuse them. You lose some payload capacity, but you get to use your rocket again (which is the expensive part).

We have tried engineering more complex re-usable lifting body type designs, only the shuttle ended up flying, and it wasn't cost effective.
Aren't Project Euler's exercises seem more likely maths exercises? It's kinda difficult for those who graduated from social sciences and tries to learn programming from scratch.
That's David Eun, a Samsung exec, so he was probably up front in biz class.
Ohh, my mistake. Thank you for correction.
Agreed. It was like it didn't even phase the controller. Wow.
It's a Korean airline, so the crew members are probably able to speak both Korean and English.
Ask HN: Guide for experienced programmers interested in web app development?
Obviously, I mean programmers who only have experience outside of web apps.

Most intros and guides on this subject that I've stumbled across seem to assume no programming experience and the pace is rather slow.
It's extremely difficult to land large payloads on Mars unless you have a controlled rocket descent like SpaceX is building with Grasshopper. Check out the way NASA lands small rovers on Mars and imagine trying to build a colony of 80,000 people like that: not gonna happen.
Flight path comparison today vs yesterday.
https://twitter.com/sbaker/status/353611787750494208
When you are self-sustaining. If you spend 9 years living off of investors then you're still a startup.
heh.. I bet the NSA can't wait to sink their hands in this link.
Vancouver startup wants to bring gigabit fiber to Canada
They're now saying 2 are dead, 61 injured

EDIT: They = KTVU News
And France said it was all a big misunderstanding and he could have crossed. After the fact, when the spin control kicks in.
Which eclipse vi plugin do you use?
Yes. Run, don't walk, to buy and read "Normal Accidents".

Anyone involved in systems design, or running systems, needs to read this book.
A declarative syntax based presentation tool
At the moment, the most info on the crash on the Wikipedia seems to be at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214
My ex once asked me what I would miss the most if my house burnt down. I immediately said it would be the documents. I would probably worry about this even after I got an American passport.
Try learning about some simple sorting algorithms and implement them in python. Most algorithms resources have pseudocode and python conveniently resembles pseudo code in a way. You can just use wikipedia's page on sorting algorithms[0]. You could kill two birds with one stone by sharpening your python skills and get a nice intro to algorithms.

Then maybe try implementing some of the fundamental data structures such as queue's and linked lists[1] along with their basic operations (such as push and pop for queues). Try to see if you can use pythons built-in data structures[2], or do it yourself with object oriented programming.

0:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Summaries_of...

1:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_structures

2:http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html
The problem is when you have reports stating that the plane flipped over when that clearly did not happen. Crowd sourced news will not always be accurate, and can also lead to crowd based vigilantism such as happened during the Boston attack and the aftermath on Reddit.

While traditional media often relies on sensationalism and also use these same sources of information during broadcast, this is not an ideal method either.
Ha, that's funny. Just ran into this issue a few days ago. Spent an hour or two trying to figure what was going on, thought I was going crazy. Finally caved and asked an experienced python programmer, and they immediately pointed out that lists are mutable. Goes to show the value of working with experienced programmers.
"There is no-one in the world who has died of plutonium exposure who did not have it injected into his body"

False. The "demon core" killed two people in two separate incidents:

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

... and it was not injected, as you'll see.
Yep, and the first three Falcon 1 launches all had major failures, with the first one ending in a pretty big kaboom.
It's highly unlikely any answer based on this crash is going to be accurate for at least a year.
LLVM invented the tablegen language to do this in C++.
The safety briefing before every flight tells you not take take any bags when emergency evacuating the plane.
We don't know (yet) what happened. It could be that the passengers were standing around for a minute or two before being able to exit the plane. In the meantime, you're probably not hurting anything by reaching up into the overhead or under your feet and grabbing your bag.
Interesting. It does seem far less crazy than the '7 minutes of terror' from the recent mars rover. Thank you for the explanation.
> Rushing the door in a panic would have done nobody any good.

No one's suggesting this. You can both leave the plane in a calm manner and leave your bags behind. As far as I'm concerned, there's no good reason to take your bag unless it's actively obstructing the way out -- which, in fairness, could well be what's happened here.

Off-hand, some reasons not to: the aisles have limited capacity, and more bags in the aisles mean fewer people can be queueing ready to get off. It will take longer to figure out how to use the slide if you want to go down it with your bag, especially if the bag is heavy or large. The bag might have sharp corners which could damage the slide (if I remember rightly, people are advised to remove sharp-heeled shoes for this reason).

Seconds count in situations like this. I think people have taken the "keep calm" message to heart and, if anything, need to be taught to treat this kind of thing more seriously. The reason I mention this is that I'm reminded of the bystander effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect#Emergency_vers...

e.g.

> The students were placed in a room-either alone, with two strangers or with three strangers to complete a questionnaire while they waited for the experimenter to return. While they were completing the questionnaire smoke was pumped into the room through a wall vent to simulate an emergency. When students were working alone they noticed the smoke almost immediately (within 5 seconds). However, students that were working in groups took longer (up to 20 seconds) to notice the smoke.

These peoples lives could have been in imminent danger, but they might waste precious seconds to leaving the plane because of social pressures (e.g. someone sees one person taking their bag, so thinks it's okay to do so themselves, or subconsciously thinks the situation is not that serious).

People should keep calm, but they should also know to treat the situation as it is -- an emergency. But as I say, this is all speculation, and may not be relevant at all in this specific instance. I just hope everyone's okay.
Perhaps the point is...you have an ipad 1.
It depends on your programming experience. What language do you code in? Java's a good mainstay and easily migrated to if you are used to c or c++/Csharp?
You may already know this but, I'd say choosing your platform would be a good first step, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, PHP, etc. Then you should've able to find guides of various skill levels from there.
Consider the participation rate of the Stasi vs the NSA. Conservative official records put them at about 3% of the population.
Do not vibrate phone if on a table
Audio from the air traffic control tower: https://www.dropbox.com/s/04qqum874iz4ijr/KSFO-Tower-18%3A22...
Does this really need to be on HN? Just because it's in SFO?

Everyone will already have heard about this on, I don't know, any other news channel
"I just crash landed at SFO... I'm OK. Surreal."
When 9/11 happened here, the biggest news network here had the reporters do that, they kept talking random shit...

It was kinda funny (despite the seriousness of the situation), when they were already full blasting the flight regulations and pilots on how irresponsible they were, when the second plane (that crashed on the second tower) entered the screen, and the anchor (that is the most famous anchor in Brazil) went: "LOOK AT HOW LOW THEY FLY, THAT IS..." and the plane crashes on the tower, and the reporter clearly go on full-confused mode, specially because it probably downed to him that he was speaking shit until now.
Sparkol VideoScribe - What's your story?
That's why you have to build fact-checking in. Reports did say the plane flipped over, but there were pictures on Twitter showing it clearly didn't. If you were shown both of those reports at the same time it would be obvious what the right answer is.

Also, it's worth noting that mainstream media was reporting the plane had flipped over as well, so misinformation isn't solved by the current solutions.
Yes, dockerlite is mainly a proof-of-concept, to experiment with a couple of important things.

1. Use BTRFS instead of AUFS, and see if any specific problem arises, or if we hit any corner case when doing that.

2. Setup the network without using LXC default userland tools, in a race-condition free way. This is not as obvious as it sounds.

dockerlite was a success on both accounts. It paved the way for BTRFS support, and gave us some insights about how to make the network setup more flexible.
Graham's number - for a while, the largest number used in a proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg

There are faster growing sequences as well, see:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2497/what-is-the-big...

both fun as well.

But busy beaver consumes them all.
I doubt that really helps with those types of fears …

It’s possible to have a complete and rational understanding of the situation and still feel fear. That, at least, frequently happens to me.
Looks like he landed too steep and short of the end of the runway, which is a jetty. Likely ripped off the tail which would have likely bounced the rest of the airframe down onto the engines ripping them off. At least the fuel was low since it was the end of the flight.
I think people forget that the EU exists somewhere between Federal-style government (the US for example) and pure international organisations (The UN, etc). You can look up where its sole and shared competences lie in articles 3 and 4 of the treaty that established it, but it's not a long list and mostly concerns the operation of the common market (the free movement of goods, services and people) and a grab bag of smaller roles.

The tension inherent in that set-up is between the individual powers of sovereign nations and the collective policy of the group. In this instance, there's no doubt that Sweden and the UK are helping the US in vetoing, but there's a parallel concern that the EU does not have competence to negotiate on this, and I imagine a strong desire to prevent mission creep.

As to the broader question of ungovernability - I'd argue that the really interesting question is whether it is possible to maintain a firewall between economic policy and everything else, which is what arguably distinguishes the EU from other forms of weak federalism. Even before the Euro crisis there were edge cases where economic jurisdiction bled into, for example, social issues (the ECJ ended up having to effectively rule on Irish abortion law under the free movement of services). Now it's even worse. Political parties in Greece and Ireland, for instance, have been co-opted into austerity policy by having the gun of exiting the Euro held to their heads. At that point the questions of the EU's democratic deficit and the sovereignty of its smaller members becomes more pressing. At some point, I suspect, the EU membership (Euro members especially) will find itself forced to pick between actual federalism and supra-nationalism.
I think my comment about Lincoln and emancipation is being misconstrued. Lincoln genuinely believed in ending slavery, but as you mentioned, he cared more about preserving the unity of the Union. However, I don't believe I said he preferred keeping slavery. If he could keep the Union from being divided and preserving the inhumane practice of slavery would do that, I think he would. However, as others pointed out, the rift between the two regions were too great.

I apologize for any confusion if I implied he preferred slavery. I do not believe that to be the case. Perhaps the nuance I was trying to put forward was that he preferred preserving the union, even if that meant keeping the savagery of slavery.

Perhaps an analogy to present day might be DADT. The Obama administration preferred to avoid resolving the issue of DADT immediately, even though his administration wanted to end it at some point, since it would cost significant political capital. However, given the public support at the right time and conditions, DADT was repealed.
1 - nothing you said disproves my statements; that reagan had the word "aids" dragged from his lips during a press conference does nothing to change his record of disregard, contempt, and disregard of a crisis because he and his donors disapproved of gay people; nor does it change the fact that he didn't voluntarily mention it until 1987

2 - nor does a record of funding disprove reagan's intentional oversight; by 1992 aids was the #1 cause of death for US men ages 25-44 [1] and by 1994 the #1 cause of death for all americans age 25-44 [1]; the funding was wildly insufficient to mount a proper response. And were it not for reagan's homophobia and bigotry, a more vigorous response could reasonably have saved many more lives

3 - while it is true that federal policy doesn't hinge exclusively on what the president says, nice attempt to change the goals. The point was not that the federal government and medical establishment -- despite reagan -- did both their job and their moral duty, but that he intentionally hampered the response. I repeat: it's indisputable that if a disease affecting, well, reagan supporters had killed 20 thousand americans it would have garned a much more vigorous response, one which could be triggered and pushed by the president himself. For example, see the improvement in response under Clinton. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that AIDS was a priority under a president who isn't a homophobe.

4 - brent bozell is a proud homophobe; what a surprise that he manages to find supposed evidence -- though you shouldn't believe a thing he says without consulting a primary source -- finding that reagan didn't intentionally fail a group of americans reagan despised

[1] http://aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/aids-timeline/

edit because i forgot the link
The JSON parser actually comes from https://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh (as mentioned in dockerlite's README file).

The JSON parser is not "the main part of this project"; it was included just in case we needed to interact with the registry (but it wasn't deemed necessary).
Snowden confirmed safe and that previous statement written exclusively by him
It's not a conspiracy if its real. He pissed off the US, now he is paying the price. Does anyone dispute that?
What is the point of this comment? Are you mad that a collective of people found this worthy of the front page? That people live and work in SF?

I don't understand your outrage. There was a major incident and people are talking about it. There are millions of other websites you could be spending your time on. Why spend it here if you find the communities actions so objectionable?