skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a widebody captain, maybe I can add some insight.

The handling of the aircraft is a small part of the job. Autoflight systems have been capable of flying and landing since the 1960s. It is a mature technology although it does need to be monitored by humans as equipment failures do occur.
I am confident a system could be developed with sufficient fail safes to remove the requirement for monitoring, and a fully automatically flown aircraft could be built tomorrow although at a higher cost than the current monitored setup.

Even if an unmonitored autoflown aircraft was developed, judgement decisions about the operation of the aircraft still need to be taken, and these are best done by a human. Examples of decisions I make:

1. The best fuel consumption maybe achieved at a higher flight level, but I elect to stay low and burn into contingency because I've heard reports of turbulence at the higher level. I judge that I probably won't need the contingency fuel later based on previous experience of the route and destination. So I give my passengers a smooth ride, which helps repeat custom for the airline.

2. I experience radio crackle whilst in cloud and elect to change my routing as I suspect we are near a developing thunderstorm that may soon become active. I have to balance the extra fuel burn of a non-optimal route versus the risks of being caught in a thunderstorm which could destroy the aircraft.

I'm not an AI expert, but it seems to me these are value judgements that are best made by a human. So the fully autoflown aircraft will still need a human in the loop at some point.

It is possible to remotely site this human, and maybe make efficiency savings by a single human controlling many aircraft but this would require a bulletproof, near realtime datalink.
Again, I'm not an expert in the field, but I would suggest this is, if not technically impossible, then a lot more expensive than the cost of employing human pilots. I imagine this datalink would also be of interest to people with ill intent- no fun when you get the airborne equivalent of a rickroll.

TL;DR: A human is required in the loop, not to handle the aircraft but to make decisions. It's cheaper to have them on-board than the cost of a datalink. It's cheaper to have them trained to take manual control than the cost of an autopilot sufficiently fail safe that it can be left unmonitored.
I remember reading that back then. Clifford Stoll was a respected sociotechnical writer (along the lines of Malcolm Gladwell), so the content wasn't easily dismissed. Sure, we laugh at how darn near every Luddite prediction he made therein came wrong; of note is how the truth kept slapping him upside the head, but he didn't recognize the significance of "my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, 'Too many connections, try again later'" - the demand was exceeding the supply, and supply tends to catch up with demand.

Fitting juxtaposition at the bottom of the reprint: GET NEWSWEEK ON YOUR TABLET
Root SSH Key Compromised for Emergency Broadcast System
> The current method of injection of money into the economy via debt is broken, benefits mostly banks, and requires that a percentage of people continually go bankrupt due to lack of available cash in the future.

Sorry where did you come up with this? The CB can buy any asset with newly created money, this includes bonds. How does this in any way require a percentage of people going bankrupt?

If you really belive that the amount of cash in the economy is bound to goverment dept and that leads to a lack of cash I would strongly suggest you pick up a book on montary theory because that makes absolutly no sence.

> Basic income is an alternative means of monetary expansion that would fix this.

Have you even read what I wrote?

> Not that you have to inflate with basic income, you could simply redistribute wealth. But that requires people decide who takes how much from whom, and is ripe for favoritism. Inflating via basic income is the most egalitarian method I can think of.

Again. Have you actually read why montary transmission is not done in a direct the people way? Its not like you came up with something new, the idea was around but its simply not workable because its a one way transmission. Its like you are saying that if a ship has to turn to the left its okay to have steering wheel that can never steer to the right. What happens if you steere to the left to much for a time, what if you have strong current from the right (witch in this analogy would mean for example a change in money demand).

If you really want BI, and to it in a natural way. Make one basic tax, flat or prgressiv does not really matter as long as it is one clear function and stop any exeption people can take (alternative is a consumtion tax that applies equally to everything), and set a number of BI you want to pay out.

Montary policy should just be conducted in the usual way to hit its target, your big error is to assume that if the central bank has a 2% inflation target it has to print money, look at australia they have relativly high inflation but the montary base is very low. The market ajusts to your target and if you have a credible target you dont actually have to print any money.
> These things are still pretty rare.

Prove that. You can't, cause it's a negative. It seems much, much more likely that "The times these things are uncovered and get national press attention is rare." For the few times that are, how many are not, 10x? 100x? I can't know, but I 100% doubt we catch 100% of these things.
Pedagogy aside, Mathematica will serve them better from a 'other people use this' perspective over the years.
Concrete isn't very good insulation. There isn't much difference between a concrete wall and the stone wall of a cave.
Google Interns Are Annoying Their Neighbors at a San Jose Apartment Complex
Balloon — Contact Forms. Reimagined.
Why You Should Learn HTML5 Now Before It Explodes In Popularity
"Not to get all tin-foily, but I would assume that any undertaking that ambitious would have government agents working from the inside."

It's my suspicion that people will slowly stop saying "not to get tin-foily, but" as more and more is revealed re:NSA et al. Seems like a natural shift, given current and likely near-future circumstances. On to the point, the part I quoted is why I think revolts are bottom-up and revolutions are guided, even if the former progresses into the latter, at some point things get diverted. What makes all this scary, though, is the most powerful reason behind the existence of currency: the ability to create and (financially) back an army.

Meanwhile, the gen. pop. has lived their entire lives kept in a dialectic, watching shadows dance in a cave, and consuming bread and circuses. I'm not for anarchy, but it seems short of something akin to the final scene in Fight Club, there's not much to be done about it. Unfortunately, the following options are all that's left: accept the status quo, pretend/believe you can change it or move.
Privacy and data use — a gap in the theory
Good question. This is the point why I'd like to discuss with you guys. Let me explain, for example, Linux hosting and deployment is a must to have before I can relesae, right? You may say, it barely takes two weeks' time. I thought so too. However, it took me 2 months. Why am I so slow? See the following tasks I've completed, almost none of them can be eliminated:

- Find the right hosting service after learn how to analyze the Linux memroy usage, VPS (Virtual Private Service) simply cannot serve the needs for a multi-server environment
- Choose Linux flavor, CentOS vs Debian, choose OpenJDK vs Oracle JDK
- Download, install and configure applications, servers and modules
- Set up multiple static IPs with vitual server instances and link to Tomcat from the Apache through mod_jk
- Purchase and generate SSL certificates and deploy them for each Tomcat instances
- Grant proper privileges for different instances of Tomcat and MySQL servers.
- Build auto-scripts for database initialization and entire Linux server environment set up with the applications deployed and configured
- Set up the firewall with appropriate security privileges with or without LinuxSE
- Document every step to repeat the tasks

Since I'm a Java developer with some Unix knowledge, not quite familiar with Linux, I need to figure out every command to run through all the processes. After every thing is done, I found GoDaddy VPS cannot support two Tomcat instances. I have to find another cheap hosting site, chat with some of them to find out which one is ok and run the deployment again and again to make sure everything is ok. Actually before I deploy it on GoDaddy VPS, I need to run it through CentOS on my local Vitual Box which took another one week to figure out how to set up static IP on it, which is different from the physical Linux server, along with the CentOS environment.

I did take the performance into design consideration to scale it out by learning various of Java synchronized/concurrent Collections in the new version, but I didn't take too far away, simply use the LRU cache so far, and not invested time into Tomcat and MySQL performance tuning yet, only make sure the JDBC level is scalable.

That's why I'm asking how long it may take for any real world beta production site from their prototype. I'll really appreciate your comment and advice. Thanks.
Why the meaning of life is 42
Sailing Stones were (allegedly) recently figured out.

http://www.livescience.com/37492-sailing-stones-death-valley...
It'll be interesting to see this Laura Poitras film when it comes out with a full set of interviews. According to this tweet by Greenwald [1] she has hundreds of hours of footage which she's no doubt in the process of editing. I hadn't seen this video before either by Poitras about Binney, done for the NYT, he gives a nice explanation of the way this sort of multi-domain surveillance is more intrusive than what came before. [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/354275009826533377

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur...
Neither, it was Dr. Pepper!
Good! Keep on educating people! More knowledge means more responsibility. Don't forget that we have the social network effect on our side, today. Things may suddenly go very fast. If people are unaware of the dangers, send them links to the recent news. There's enough to see that total surveillance and therefor manipulation of the People and corruption within government is about to become the new "normal".

EDIT: And if there's 1 law about democracy, it's this: "Every single vote counts!"
There is no "my vote wouldn't change anything". If you ever only think that, then you can kiss democracy goodbye for real.
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The Program - William Binney interviewed by Laura Poitras
Only 12 states:

* California
* Connecticut
* Florida
* Hawaii (in general a one-party state, but requires two-party consent if the recording device is installed in a private place)
* Illinois (debated, see next section)
* Maryland
* Massachusetts
* Montana (requires notification only)
* Nevada
* New Hampshire
* Pennsylvania
* Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#Unite...
After trying a lot of terminal emulator, rxvt-unicode is still my favorite. I run it under daemon-client mode which makes it super light.
Of course. Any discussion of a story about the NSA cannot, by definition, have any off-topic comments about the NSA.
Wow, I thought this was a bad joke about KDE being bloated. It is not, KDE actually requires a local mysqld instance for PIM data:

http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/02/19/kde-42-bring...
I am currently working on interactive 2-d physics simulation in the browser with much the same ideas. On the desktop we have apps like KDE Step but I haven't found anything similar for the web.

Currently I have particles,disks and boxes working with gravitation, coulomb and custom-defined forces. I also implemented Runge-Kutta method of integration instead of horribly inaccurate Euler's method. You can manipulate the objects, their parameters and laws even while the simulation is running.

I need to add basic collision detection and things like springs, links, and linear/angular motors and embedding the simulation as a widget before polishing it up and releasing.

Email me in case this sounds interesting and you would like to stay updated.
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Very very cool, I've wanted something like this for a while.

But: The autocomplete doesn't seem to work for me, do I need to install something else?

Also the typing effect makes input feel laggy and I can't find a way to turn it off.

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04
The FISC does not make any law binding on individuals.

It most certainly has: citizens of the US have been required to give the intelligence communities their personal data. You may call this something other than "binding," but to imply it doesn't affect individuals (let alone citizens) is a bit imprecise. Surely you aren't saying, "Hey guys, it's only the DOJ."
Right, but I'd bet other societies have their own crazy fears.
Email has been around for fifty years in various forms, and it could be around for fifty more.

How it gets delivered, how it's secured, and how it's consumed will change, but the basic principle will stay the same.

It's extremely rare to see a new technology take hold, the web and HTTP, instant messenger, and BitTorrent are anomalies.

Stop trying to "disrupt" and "reboot" things and instead look to repair deficiencies in our existing technologies with backwards-compatible extensions instead of throwing them out.
If you're using bash and you're familiar with vim, you can use the command "set -o vi" and start using Vi bindings to jump around/cut/delete/modify text in your current prompt.
Isn't this equivalent to Edward Snowden's asylum dilemma? The offer of asylum is pretty worthless if he can't get to that country. Heck, last week it was proven that he would need favorable countries to form solid continuous path of sovereign land between Moscow and the asylum granting country.

The offer of a secure location to store data in Switzerland is pretty worthless if the data has to be transferred over compromised data lines that have to run through at least one of the three surrounding countries, all complicit in tapping the lines.
That's exactly why it isn't.
"If there is one pattern this book couldn’t live without, this is it. Game loops are the quintessential example of a "game programming pattern". Almost every game has one, no two are exactly alike, and relatively few programs outside of games use them."

I've borrowed many of the game loop and other game programming principles when developing code for controlling external equipment like robots and radio transceivers. It's a better model than some of the crazy state machine code I'd written in the past.
You've never displayed content in your terminal that you didn't generate yourself? Never ran curl against a URL to check out the headers? Never popped open an editor containing source code downloaded from the internet?
Know your OTARD rules for antenna placement (occupant's rights for satellite / TV / wifi equipment):

http://www.fcc.gov/guides/over-air-reception-devices-rule
Actually, Docker just got the "bind mounting" feature that you are requesting. If you want the long and boring details, it's in this pull request:

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/pull/602

Dockerlite doesn't have those features, though (keep in mind that dockerlite is just a playground for funky features, nothing else!)
Show HN: A feedback tab with JavaScript callback for onSubmit event
Designed correctly, it would be no larger than the portable game console.

Something that looks like this, for instance: http://www.cellphones.ca/images/news/2008/11/iphone_keyboard...
Surely everyone watching this had their bullshit detectors go off???

Regardless of how you feel about Guantanamo Bay, there is clearly some acting -- some "dramatic exaggeration" -- going on in this video.

Bey volunteered to undergo the procedure. So he knew they would stop at any point if he asked them to. There was no need, therefore, for all the screaming of "no" and "please don't."

For Bey, this procedure was akin to you or I needing a painful procedure performed at the doctor's office. You might hate it, you might cry out in pain, but you don't react with the distress of knowing that you're being forced against your will.

If someone wants to make a video for the purpose of exposing me to some truth I'm unaware of, great. But don't go enhancing it with your own bullshit. There's already enough propaganda and bullshit for me to discern my way through to start with.
In the article you didn't need to do a re-write of the entire site, just a re-design of the UI.

You needed to add functionality but you could have left the old working functionality.

Another case for a re-right is when the project uses old technology that is hard to maintain with the people you have.

Re-writing the system in a framework that your team understands will take less time than trying to understand another framework.
This is not unrelated to last week's discussion "Why Green Architecture Hardy Ever Deserves the Name"[1]. The urban form that allows and requires the car is an obsolete artifact of the "oil interval" which is passing into history. In the future you will neither need nor want a car, driverless or otherwise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5995141
Relevant[1] front-page discussion.

[1]http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw...
I'm actually not sure it is predictive yet, but I am not sure how much that matters. It is more useful for validating reality as it currently is today - startups are anything but reliable when it comes to generating consistent growth. I would imagine the later the stage, the closer to predictive this becomes but I wouldn't make any future claims on outcomes based on this. I think you could probably use it to determine the next round of funding though, so it is useful in the short term.
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How did the pictures betray a contempt for women?
"There are risks, of course: People might be more open to a longer daily commute, leading to even more urban sprawl."

Gotta love the NYTimes for the tendentious moralizing. People having more choice, and exercising it, is a risk! Attempts to have a backyard or extra bedrooms, or just pay less for real estate, are dangerous and wrong. Worse, if you can buy extra bedrooms you might be tempted to have kids and we wouldn't want any of those consuming the Earth's precious resources would we :P

(Not that there isn't anything to be said in support of that point. But it's tendentious and moralizing all the same.)
That is a great visualization. Interesting and yet really just confirms the distribution that I would assume.

On the visualization itself, I think the color choices could be optimized a bit. The gold on black is difficult. If you could make the contrast better, it'd be easier to read.

The guitar playing is gimmicky, but these guys obviously have some skill. Nice work.
The gentleman who wrote it is Bret Victor. I highly recommend this talk [1] by him (500k views), he's a true visionary.

[1] https://vimeo.com/36579366
Wrong direction. This is not failure-apologetics.

Outage suggests temporary and regrettable.

This is more like Google just straight up fucking people over via neglect. I was suggesting that stronger negative terms be used.
You could reply to it, countering anything that you believe to be false.
So if someone predicts the actions of some other party, does that in itself make that other party's actions invalid?

Where was that claim made in this video?
This was for a basketball game that will remain unnamed; I was not around when the game was released, and it's been many years since then, so I don't know if this stayed or not.

I wrote a 99% deterministic physics system for the ball trajectory during shots and passes, which gave the ball an incredibly natural behaviour. When a shot was taken, the system simulated up until the ball went below the rim's height, so it knew if the shot would hit or miss, and where was the best position to go for the rebound.

Once in a while the prediction would fail. Determinism is freaking hard, but luckily the game didn't rely on it for networking or anything else.

While debugging I also made the experiment of feeding this into the announcers and color commentary. The result was funny and disturbing in equal parts, definitely not a good idea.
The US government will say that Snowden's actions harmed the US, and because the harm pertains to national security, America's enemies will be part of the discussion.

What's missing from this point is intent. If the USG believed that Snowden had set out to aid America's enemies, he'd have been charged with treason.
The US police have already learned! I have already seen articles about cell service being suspended to stifle protests.

For example:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/barts-cell-phone-shutd...
Replaced by the natural-gas interval, no doubt. ;) :P
Why didn't you just take the hard drive out and take a hammer or power drill to it?
True, but how long can Nintendo stay afloat with only the strength of the Mario franchise to lean upon. 3rd party developers are giving the WiiU no love, and the WiiU doesn't have the hook to attract casual gamers the way the original Wii did.

I think parents will still choose Mario, but that number is going to get smaller and smaller as time goes on. Why spend $300 for a console that only has Mario games? That's not a good way forward for Nintendo.
Ask HN: Aren't Ember and Angular a "wrong" kind of framework, similar to J2EE?
I'm looking at the new wave of Javascript frameworks (Backbone, Ember, Angular)
and can't shake the feeling they are much more similar in style to J2EE than to
more saner Rails or Django. They take you out of control of your code - they
call you and you must fit their world view. They are "everything" and "nothing"
at the same time - they offer you "everything" to build a web app, but at the
same time it's hard to say what concrete functionality they really offer. There is little "meat" inside their code: it's just an abstract model that you MUST work with.

Compare it to Django where in view functions you can do whatever you want - you
are in control of what's happening, and functionalities you need are available
as "library style" calls. Can't Javascript frameworks work like that?

I'm asking the question because these frameworks receive much praise nowadays
with little to no critique, so maybe my all-or-nothing-framework hate (I began
career as J2EE programmer) is inappropriate here.