skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding was that it hasn't to do with phones being turned on per se, but rather one's attention at the moment the flight is the riskiest: at take off and landing.

The rationale was that when you're playing on your device, you're paying less attention to the crew and what's around you, which can be problematic in case something bad happens and you need to react.

EDIT: I'm just the messenger, guys ;)
How about goroutines? Not that they created them (although their actual implementation is fairly unique) but they certainly gave them a chance to make them mainstream.
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You're right that it's not a "secret treaty" per se. It's a "too secret treaty". Discussions have been ongoing in secrecy for years, despite the fact that the treaty does not regard a sensitive matter of national security and it does regard subjects that cause spirited public debate. This makes people feel disenfranchised for obvious reasons.
I quite often get early morning flights (e.g. I got a 05:50 on Monday) - usually by the time the flight takes off I am already sleeping. Nobody has every tried to wake me up so that I pay attention to take off or landing.
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I find that a lot in the UK, it's a lot better to get set up as a limited company than a sole trader. Some companies and even industries won't touch you as an individual. I guess it's related to the personal liability etc
That, and a few other things. For example, you wouldn't launch an executable named GOOGLE.COM, you'd launch your terminal emulator[1] and then select the Google BBS from a phonebook (or enter the number manually, perhaps even with ATDT in front). Also, 8-bit ANSI art[2] was rapidly embraced by BBSes in those days (what you see is 7-bit with colors).

[1] Terminate was pretty popular: http://www.terminate.com/tour/tour.html
[2] Example: http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/htmlpictures/ansi.gi...
Reminds me of Brett Victor's “The future of programming” (http://vimeo.com/71278954), “Learnable Programming” (http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/) and “Inventing on principle” (http://vimeo.com/36579366)
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It's called leasing. It's there for some time now ;)
With self-driving cars this could actually make some sense.
I actually ask Miquel about this very thing at Evolve last April and he said they would love to do something like that but Apple TOS forbid it. That is your impediment.
It's worth noting that while Renault is not in the US market and we won't get the Zoe EV, Renault and Nissan are partners and this tech could wind up in the Nissan Leaf.
(edit: depending on future battery lease models)
It's all about the idea
Yup that's where we are now, Flex is the only technology that can target IE7 and give us what we need.

We still have to support that far back, which has issues with a lot of frameworks and in this case Dart.

I don't think enterprise IT departments will ever subscribe to the always update nature of Chrome 1, so it just means more and more IE6 situations down the line.

1 We actually have an app that IT install that prevents you installing Chrome :p
alternate it is ;) The joke was on me.
https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Opt...
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I was also expecting to see a program running on multiple computers at some point until I realised the article is actually not news-worthy.
His voice is the archetypal of the mad German scientist
I've never switched off my devices during take-off or landing because if it actually risked any damage then they'd be screening people before they board.
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I work on an FX trading application which has IE7 in the compatibility list :(

All other banks with similar apps have the same targets as far as I know. (HSBC, JPM, MS, RBS, Barclays etc)
My understanding is that's the common ex post rationalization that arose to try to come up with a plausible-sounding reason for this idiotic rule.
Well, I can't speak to your personal experience, but the "click-click-clicking" is in my experience a perfect example that most people try to do what the flight attendants tell them to.

As soon as the plane lands, there is a tricke of clicks until the plane is parked. And when the "fasten your seatbelts"-sign is switched off, the rest of the passengers go "click". From my experience, this sounds like most of the passengers.

(My experience is mostly from Norway and Europe in general)
Ask HN: Why does no one use client certficates for auto-authentication? 
client certs can get generated hassle-free in the browser without user interaction:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9197484/generating-client-side-certificates-in-browser-and-signing-on-server

implementing this into an authenticator seems straight forward: generate client certs after first login and link it to a user's account. the next time that user visits the website the browser will automatically pick the right cert to authenticate itself. depending on the browser settings a confirmation dialog might pop up.

thinking even further the authenticator could also require the user to enter a password after manually logging out and accessing the site again. in that case i'm assuming that the user doesn't want other people using the same machine to be logged in automatically.

why do we still have to fill out login forms?
So many hoops you have to jump through to "do a startup" (I want to differentiate between starting your own company).

It's starting to look like less freedom and more BS compared to working for BigCo.
I think no one buys it anyway.
I saw two of them here in Bordeaux and one of them was the store demo model.
Separate out the biopic & documentaries into a new list. They definitely have a different kind of appeal.
GWT is browser side
You have written two comments in this single discussion that begin with a single paragraph saying "Huh. Interesting."

This sort of habit, if noticed by others, can look bad.

(I've been caught out in similar things myself.)
They seem to be killing this car intentionally. You can't use wall plugs to charge, and the battery rental stuff is also a mess. Apparently they were trying to sell 40k in 6 months, and only ended up selling 10k.
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> Given the overwhelming amount of cynicism and ennui in most people's minds about any meaningful change to US policies for the Internet or NSA spying

A lot of this is entitled whining in the sense that changing stuff is hard work. If you get cynical just because you voted for one president who didn't do what you want, you're failing in the persistency department.

Think about the history of the civil rights movement, for instance. Not to compare the two directly, just that some struggles are very difficult, and some are things you fight for in the hope that your children see the benefits.
I was a passenger sitting in the co-pilot's seat on a small plane in Africa, the pilot was texting during the flight even at 10,000 feet ^_^.
The DRM stuff aside, the obligatory battery rental is probably because the battery itself is expensive, and it allows them to hide the price of that.
> I can see Dart being big in enterprise, although with no support for IE7 and IE8 this could be an issue...

Actually it's not supported in any standards-compliant browser and only available in Google Chrome.

That makes it a bit of a no-no.
If you bought the book and decided to apply for a job in or related to the federal government that required a security clearance, this would be a huge red flag. IMO this is a non-story, since the purpose seems exclusively to potentially screen out people who cannot be trusted with the sensitive information that gets handled by people with security clearances (which includes social security numbers), which the federal government has every reason to be wary of.

If anyone questions the data gathering of the government, sure, but this particular story is a non-story IMO.
What about C to assembler?
For me (latest Firefox beta, on Windows 7) your materialization effect animates at about 2Hz.

[EDITED to fix a stupid mistake: I wrote 0.5Hz but meant once per 0.5s, or 2Hz.]
Simple Minecraft-esque block game in 1022 chars of JS
The best part of it:

if (typeof my_var !== "undefined" && my_var !== null) {
// you idiots put Rasmus Lerdorf to shame
}
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They didn't really throw much weight behind Poke. They also had the fb camera app which was a competitor to instagram if you recall.
Poke I thought was a weekend project.
This has EVIL written all over it, in so many ways I don't even...
There's a Firefox bug to implement it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660196
GP didn't say "it always ends slow", but "it always ends in tears".
Most of my friends in South America use it, that's why I said developing nations. I do have EU friends who use it, but their coverage is typically better.
I used to do this, but then when compiling the project the Dropbox client would shoot to over 70% CPU usage and the fan on my laptop would go into overdrive.

Switch to GitHub/BitBucket
"Give 'em the razor; sell 'em the blades"
On the other hand, you're permitted to be absorbed in a book or newspaper.
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Apple pioneered webkit to kill flash, I don't think they are that bothered anymore and I expect we will see them drop off in terms of browser development and holding up standards.

Sometimes the only way to push things forward it to do it in isolation, make leaps and bounds, and then present it as an open standard.
Our industry could really do without this type of condescending, unhelpful attitude.

Big deal. Concepts are being repeated and technology stacks are stealing ideas from one another. Remind me again how that is a bad thing ? The fact is that there is no perfect solution to every problem.
This article seems a little harsh. Does leasing/renting the battery out make the car more affordable? Because aren't batteries still a huge cost driver for these vehicles? What is the difference in sticker price? And can drivers be incentivized to share their driving data - maybe lower insurance or insurance per mile, a lower battery leasing fee, etc? Just saying that this 'brickable car' may be worth it for some. No need to write it off just like that.

And would you really want to own an expensive battery that has to be replaced eventually at great cost?
nice work. but you seem to be giving equal weight to all crimes when multiple categories are checked. that doesn't give a very clear picture
This is actually sounding like some sort of accounting gimmick, that combines a lease (power) with a purchase (shell). It may have the effect of some cost benefit to the end user. They are trying to sub the "rental" for the "gas payment" ($8/gallon==lots) to not make the stupidly uncompetitive on price. The main risk of this strategy, then would be if people "carjacked" the battery and a black market of non-traceble inter-operable parts emerged. Also, a grey market or secondary market that limited the "ticket sale" to only the commodity shell. This has the also obvious abuse potential (forced maintenence $$, engineered obsolecense, etc). Also, the value of the residual car? Going to take a huge hit. Athough this last point would be mitigated somewhat if the rental was not much worse than petrol costs (op-ex, otherwise incurred).
Isn't this still pretty true? I've seen a lot of job offers for RoR (granted, when looking in Japan it might be biased).

Just because it's not Java-sized doesn't mean the community isn't there.
You are forgetting that Mark Zuckerberg is already a millionaire.
Good to know. I didn't notice that. In Poland and many European countries, a day-pass ticket usually costs as much as 3 one-way tickets.
You could have said the same thing about Java in 1996. Saying there's a lot of hype around Go isn't particularly interesting. Claiming that Go isn't suitable for some particular purpose, or even any particular purpose is more interesting as long as you explain your reasoning. The author if this post explains why he switched to Go, and that is interesting and informative.

Maybe three years from now, Rust will be ready for production use and switching from Go to Rust will help people become more productive and we'll see blog posts about it. This is how progress works and it's nothing to scoff at.
That's called a taxi.
Maybe Go isn't very innovative, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be more useful than the old stuff. With Turbo Pascal and Delphi I could also generate a single exe with no stupid DLL dependencies. But Turbo Pascal and Delphi don't support anything besides Windows and Borland's Kylix never got traction. Go on the other hand can generate no-dependency executables for Windows, Linux and OSX, pretty much all the major players of today. And what's maybe more important than the language's innovativeness is community support. Of all the languages today that allow generating a single executable for all major platforms, Go probably has the most active community.
There are no cars in the future.
Kill it with FIRE.
Uh, banks made a whole business out of this in real life.
Show HN: 3d Word Vectors with Neural Networks, T-SNE, and WebGL
Obligatory CoffeeScript version: http://jsfiddle.net/hYfN3/759/

(Uses a regexp instead of `with` statement as CoffeeScript forbids with).
My favourite theory was that cellphones above the clouds could connect to too many cell towers at once, making triangulating your location impossible.

Conveniently forgetting that they have a live update of your exact position from NORAD/FAA/etc...
I for one welcome our new...
Nope. I can't even trust them not to burn their apartment down. There is no way I would let them have access to mine. I don't even know most of them. That being said, I don't live somewhere where having a relation with your neighbours is common.
Which Dart has. (Type safety)
It's time for someone to root the battery!
If you bought the 40,000Whr tesla model S, they give you a 60,000Whr battery and use similar "DRM" to limit it to 40,000.
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"There have been no abuses, as a result of mass surveillance", said Obama.
He probably means "stabilized using gyro and accelerometer" (ie, release sticks = evens itself out) as opposed to "just stabilized by gyros" (ie, release sticks, copter stops any rotation but keeps pitched/rolled position).

Sure, learning to hover in one general spot is doable in 10 minutes. I wouldn't call that "learning to fly".

What about very basic maneuvers like landings (no bouncing around, no dropping from too high, and at the spot where you wanted to land) or circles/eights, dealing with ambiguous orientations when your copter is high enough (~ 6m ?), nose-in flying / dealing with control reversal and recovering from orientation loss?
I've heard they were under scrutiny because they were looking into a book of which the exact title is: The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, by Emmanuel Goldstein. That's not goodthink.
I think it's mostly a scheme to suck some money from the State. There are various things involved, but I guess the biggest are the research tax credit, and the special grants for electric cars. I suppose it helps sheltering the profits from normal cars to avoid normal corporate tax. It also helps green washing the brand in the news.
... it was a figure of speech. I have actually never seen anyone get born. I was talking about the sibling-like relationship you can get with people that are close to you.

Sure, if one of my close friend is also my neighbour, I would let him take care of my house. But it would be on the basis of him being my friend, not my neighbour.
For sure. I was once asked to remove my headphones even though they were visibly not plugged in to anything (I wanted to block out the noise from takeoff).
I'm also on a core2duo, but I found it slow. It loaded and rendered quickly, but when I resized the preview window (the ability to resize being the main point of doing it this way, I assume), it was very choppy.
This treaty has been in secret negotiations for years and only the large content companies have been able to be part of the negotiations.

Information about the treaty has been shared with negotiators for the member states and large content companies, but no one who represents the 'normal' person. No legislators and no organizations like EFF, Wikipedia or Creative Commons have been allowed to advocate on behalf of ideas like fair use or limits to powers of content companies.

The text of the treaty was recently leaked by WikiLeaks and is contradictory to what politicians have promised it would represent. It represents a huge step back on the rights of users and extends copyright yet again.

See the full text at wikileaks:
https://wikileaks.org/tpp/
I was thinking exactly the same thing.

Makes you wonder if all the people dismissing everything as 'fads' even have jobs. Because I can't imagine anybody hiring someone in IT who is so proud to dismiss any new technologies not on merit but because it is somehow fashionable.
The fact that they were able to hock 10k makes me sad for the state of the global society.
Non-SSL mirror: http://blogs.fsfe.org.nyud.net/gerloff/2013/10/31/renault-wi...
If you are in for the hype, it might be tiresome. Once you mastered the tech, it goes out of fashion.

If you try to be in for a new perspective, it might be useful, since 'Everything is a tradeoff' (tm ;)[1]. Currently I evaluate tradeoffs between speed, readability and maintainability.

In case of Go, I'm also interested in how someone like ken designs a language today.

[1] http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/11/13/the-only-sure-thing-in-...
People who watch what is going on in the software world ?
It was pretty soon after I don't know the altitude but it was within 5 minutes of leaving the ground.
Can a standard wall plug normally charge an electric car?
And actually, yeah, forget about the relative speed, since that is not central to the real issue. The real issue is just that when your light cone changes, the set of points that are simultaneous with you changes (all these points are outside your light cone except for the one you occupy). You cannot observe them directly because they are outside your light cone.
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So don't buy the car. Lots of alternatives out there!
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I don't know when all this happened, or when this interview was, but while I'm certainly not always 'backed up', there really is very little excuse for loss nowadays.

Between Github, S3, Dropbox, etc., it just about takes effort to be in a position to lose data.

That said, I don't mean to fault the author as much as I want to encourage everybody to start using the tools available as part of their every day routine. If you're in a position now where catastrophe to a hard drive or a stolen laptop could affect your business in any way, you're doing it wrong, and it takes practice and regiment to correct, so start correcting it now, or you never will until it's too late.
Wanted: a new city for somewhere in the UK
I consider it a good thing to have but also very tempting for central authorities to set every "legit" owner of bitcoins onto this list. It would be very hard to prove for an individual erroneously on such a list, that he/she is actually not a fraudulent transactor. Once a majority respects that list, the whole Bitcoin system would come to a halt.

While such an attempt should increase trust, this mechanism could be used to destroy it.
"When a company you barely heard of spurns billions of dollars..." is what I said, about Groupon.

I heard Snapchat managed to carve themselves a valuable niche, but this seems like overconfidence.
There haven't been any accidents AFAIK, but there have been several reported incidents: http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/docs/rpsts/ped.pdf - see page 54 for one example.

As newer airplanes are better shielded and old ones are taken out of service, the number of reported incidents have dropped in recent years down to 1-2 per year, which isn't much given the massive increase in PEDs and number of flights.

The report that the FAA published actually has a lot of interesting info about this: http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/ped/media/ped_arc_final...
That happened to me too (except in Venezuela).
It sounds like you are arguing with me, but everything you said is agreeing with what I said, so I am not sure what to say here.
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I don't think it's harsh enough. Renault wants to 'sell' a product to a consumer that he will never truly own.

>And can drivers be incentivized to share their driving data - maybe lower insurance or insurance per mile, a lower battery leasing fee, etc?

This reminds me of the fictional television set that used its built-in camera to take a photograph of its users' living rooms and lowered or raised the price of streaming movies based on how many people were in the room (as insurance that you're technically not broadcasting it to a group that they've determined as needing a paid license). Sure, it's intrusive and you're potentially paying more for a stream than ownership of the media, but maybe there's a bright side.

And really, do you want to buy a blu ray that's possibly, eventually going to have to be replaced by a more expensive format?
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If you were to encrypt your phone, you'd not have to worry about it being stolen with sensitive data on it.

If you are using remote wipe without encryption, all the thief needs to do is drop it in a foil bag.
> "Is the universe fundamentally deterministic?"

The best answer we have to date is "Nobody knows," to which I would add, "nor do we know how to find out."

I see no shame in that answer. I'm surprised nobody suggested that answer so far, unless I missed it. That doesn't mean we'll never find out or make any progress, but we don't know now. Personally, I see value in such a direct answer.

If the question is "Are the laws of physics as we know them deterministic?" that's a question about human knowledge and the most effective equations and interpretations of them we have. We can answer that question definitively, but that doesn't answer the original question about the universe itself.

If the question is about the universe itself, all we can offer is the laws of physics we know, which brings us back to the first point.

We have incomplete knowledge of the universe. No experiment has been done yet to conclusively answer the question, so all we have is opinion. Anyone suggesting otherwise either knows of an experiment I don't (I'd be overjoyed to find out), or stating mere opinion. Opinion is nice, but it answers the question "Do you think the universe is deterministic," which is not the question asked.

Edit: I see someone put this answer on the original site.
I saw a passenger next to me texting at 37k feet over Kansas on an JFK-SFO flight once. It was SMS, not iMessage (the message bubbles were green). How did he get signal up there?
I had a similar experience, small plane over a relatively hilly area in Zambia. It took me a bit to get past the assumption that the vibrating around my leg wasn't a structural problem with plane....
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