skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, this doesn't work everywhere since some jurisdictions have joint liability for the registered owner and driver[1] and some don't care at all and the registered owner is ticketed regardless of the driver (protip- don't lend your car to people who break the law).

But secondly, reading the post it seems like OP did break the law and is trying to get off on some technicality, which I admit I can't support. Sorry, don't drive like a jerk if you don't want to deal with the consequences. While fines might not discourage some people, points on the license tend to stop repeat offenders.

[1] http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/auto_enforce.html
On my blogs I used to use a script that banned bad bots by adding their IP to a list on my .htaccess file. Until it crashed the banning script by adding over 5,000 IPs of bad bots in just 1 month. If my google analytics numbers were correct I'd say between 50% and 70% of my traffic were bots. So 61.5% sounds about right.

I've pretty much stopped looking at "number of impressions" when purchasing advertising too. It's always untrue. A recent blog I was going to advertise on said it had 35,000 unique visitors a month. But yet just a few weeks ago they had a "free give away contest for a jewelry brand (no purchase necessary, international readers allowed, free to apply, no shipping costs)" and only 100 people applied. That pretty much said it right there.

One more example: A site I was on allowed unregistered visitors to give their entire collection of corporate logos a rating between 1 and 10 stars. And they used radio buttons to vote for the numbers 1-10. As soon as you select a radio button it auto-submits and gives the logo that rating. EVERY SINGLE LOGO had a massive number of "1 star" ratings because all the bots would see a radio button, check it, and trigger the vote. All the logos on their site had a rating of 1.
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It's common sense: the human pilot is always responsible and therefore MUST ALWAYS have the final say. Period. There can be plenty of warnings, but automating too much machine behavior (Airbus methodology) has unintended consequences:

- 0. Less control over the machine's behavior atrophies pilot's situational awareness. Boeing requires a deeper understanding of how the machine behaves and hence what's permissible.

- 1. Reduces an experienced pilot's potential recovery options.

In this case, three clowns stalled a perfectly working multimillion-dollar craft into the ground and killed a few people (it could have been significantly worse). I wouldn't let these jokers fly Flight Simulator, they're liabilities.
This is a study that I'd definitely need to see repeated. The "reproducibility crisis" looms large.
I had the same issue with Super Meat Boy on a Mac! I just checked, and it looks like there's been an update that fixed it, at least with 10.8.
nasalgoat 256 days ago:

"I'm sorry, but the talent shortage is a real thing... we have a really difficult time filling our open positions."

Glad to hear you've solved the problem so fast!
I know monitoring services like ours (NodePing) create a huge amount of traffic by just keeping watch over all those servers... in case someone wants to see that cat video. <grin>
Yeah. I'm gonna have to agree with you here. I'm all for charity, but in the end, an app is an app. If we want to be truly unbiased, why should we care that the guy who wrote it was homeless? Shouldn't we focus on the quality of the app? And after enough homeless people "learn to code" at what point does this story cease to be newsworthy?
When assuming that in the normal case the pilots are never doing the opposite of each other ... the difference between each stick is probably less than 5% or something. Agreed that in this case it seems the worst thing to do.
> surely you can come up with more than 1 confirmed case within the past 30 years?

See, that's an interesting claim. "Surely, if there were clandestine activities, we'd know about them and have solid proof about them."
The exercise benefits vastly outweigh the additional injury risk.

http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4521

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920084/

That said, everyone should have the right to choose which risks they assume (including biking w/o a helmet).
Who asked you to 'give a shit'? Who even asked you to weigh in on this? TLDR: Nobody.
Or might not, no matter how far you go, there are no even numbers in the infinite set of odd numbers, and you can tell that without counting very high.
I completely agree. I was rather disappointed to find that it didn't.
hoping this is not too good to be true.
This isn't actually as rare as is being made out, though good luck to him, once he has an online folio of work sorted he should be able to freelance off this. A lot of people have housing problems during their lives and there are a fair few coders, so it is no surprise that the two sets overlap, especially given the tendency to nomadism. It is amazing what you can do with a cheap laptop and free wifi.
Like the idea of normalizing email behind a web API, but don't see how this can survive if there is any credible open-source alternative. I can't imagine that the number of people wanting to write email clients is that large - unless you consider bespoke applications that have some email functionality to be a custom client.

In fact, if I had to guess, I'd bet a late night convo that went: "You know, any sufficiently advanced application gets email," "Then we should build and sell an email backend SaaS!" "Yeah!" And then the splash page went up and you started hacking.

Good luck with this anyway.
You can find plenty of coverage of Israelis spying on the US for Israel. A 'friendly' country long since proven to conduct espionage.
>Huh? You can buy line-following robot kits on Amazon for $30, and there are even cheaper ones out there.

There is the hexbug spider which makes a nice, hackable beginner platform
(http://www.amazon.com/HEXBUG-Hexbug-Spider-colors-vary/dp/B0...) with the addition of an arduino nano.

The kilobots are also cool
(http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/projects/progSA/kilobot.html), and an even smaller, cheaper robot (http://www.hizook.com/blog/2011/09/08/infrared-remote-contro...) using the same principle of locomotion.
100% of web traffic isn't human, but some of the software listens to humans more than others.
Isn't is possible to send those upsell messages to those who've not bought the book?
The biggest problem for apps right now is discovery and this is a smart way to get discovered.
What good are your legal rights if you refuse to exercise them?
> i take it you've never really sat down and thought through some of your assumptions of the history of ww2 / europe / asia / america. i urge you to do so one day. it can be quite stimulating.

I enjoy your condescension. It reminds me of why on Lesswrong, we say 'politics is the mindkiller'. Here we have a simple situation in which people with foreign ties often become spies and this justifies extra investigation, and people are going berserk and engaged in all sort of motivated reasoning.

> for example, did you know china was an ally in world war 2, while japan was an enemy?

Yes. I have more shocking information for you: Soviet Russia was an ally in WWII too.
It would have been worse^. Throttle response is far from instantaneous (jets spool relatively slowly), and any speed that they did manage to gain contributed greatly to lift and almost certainly lessened the force of the impact.

Throttling up a plane for a go around is not at all analogous to stepping on the gas while crashing into a brick wall.

^ total speculation
I'm sure there are plenty of compensation lawyers, and even pilots, who will agree with you. But from a safety perspective "wilful pilot negligence" simply isn't good enough. In this situation, there just wasn't room for negligence to slip in. If we blame the pilot, we'll miss something important.

A wilfully negligent pilot would be unlikely to get through training. And even if he was sloppy, it's hard to imagine somebody being so negligent that he didn't bother to check his airspeed when landing a 777 under the watchful eye of his instructor. And why didn't the instructor intervene?

Something else is going on. And, yes, if I was a gambling man, I'd put money on the Airbus explanation. I've spoken to Boeing pilots who describe the experience of flying with an Airbus as "creepy" and "eerie". To me, that's a hint that something interesting is happening. I suspect that, by removing certain kinds of feedback, the experience of flying an Airbus is rewiring pilots' brains in dangerous ways.

If I'm right, when we finally get to the bottom of what's going on, we'll learn something important about human cognition and response. This will have important implications for the design of safety critical systems.

This time, it was easy for me to make the case against pilot negligence. It's rarely so clear-cut, and it's normal for people to want to blame the pilot. None more so than the pilots themselves, who love to say, "That couldn't happen to me. I wouldn't make that dumb mistake." This is why the "no-blame culture" is so important in aircraft and medical accident investigations. If we insist on pointing the finger at the human involved, we never learn.
Ask HN: Do you have images of Jerry Garcia writing code?
Hey man I'm just curious if anyone has any pics of Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead writing Python scripts or anything ill like that.
Legal rights should protect you from the government, not get you off of a crime you committed.
The (minor) bad first: your landing page is utterly broken without JavaScript (I use NoScript, and while I whitelist most sites, a broken page before setting that still leaves a bad taste if there's no reason for it to break), and I can't see anything you do on it that couldn't at least gracefully fall back. At the very least, if you wish to require JavaScript, you might want to say upfront there that it'll be required.

As for the good: I'm liking a lot of where you say you want to go with nvlope, and I can't say I particularly enjoy IMAP, from working with it, so your planned API is more than a few steps up. :)

Can't wait to see how things develop!
TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly
The comments section got absolutely slaughtered by Reddit and 4chan after this made its way on a popular subreddit.

That said, I personally thought her entry only ended up (unintentionally?) conforming to the very stereotypes the project served to satirize in the first place.
>So this might be consistent with the information that the captain was transitioning from the Airbus to the Boeing.

>It's a big mystery to me how three pilots could overlook this condition for four minutes.

Three pilots didn't overlook it. One did. Ironically, it was a different Boeing/Airbus distinction that prevented the guy in the left seat of Air France 447 from realizing the mistake the guy in the right seat was making. Airbus has separate (unlinked) controls for both pilots, so the guy in the left seat didn't realize the guy in the right seat was commanding the aircraft to pitch up. In a Boeing, the controls are linked, so it would have been immediately obvious what was happening.

The other pilots were confused because it never occurred to them that someone would try to pitch a staling aircraft 'up'.
Here's a good start - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16715/Controlling-Floppy...
> True, but you still can't count them as people who "turn out" to be passing secrets to the PRC.

Why not? These are people who were found to be extremely suspicious by the people in charge of finding spies. What is that, chopped liver?

> If, as you contend, so many Chinese-Americans turn out to be passing secrets to the PRC, surely you can come up with more than 1 confirmed case within the past 30 years?

How many Chinese-Americans are there working in these vulnerable positions? Is 1 confirmed case (with who knows how many scores of undetected or unconfirmable real cases) above or below the base rate for spying? Do you know? Shouldn't you know, before you pass judgement?

> I don't think Chinese-Americans are more likely to be spies in a statistically significant way.

You are, of course, as confident in this as it is possible to be in the absence of all evidence.

> I think the PRC is far more likely to be trying to send people here than trying to recruit people that are already here.

And your basis for this is...? Given the existence of common classifications like NOFORN, this would be self-defeating behavior.
There is a direct correspondence between:

- Recording a license plate associated with some dubious activity, and then ticketing the owner of the car; and

- Recording an IP address associated with some dubious activity, and suing (or worse) the person who pays for the internet connection.

There is a large and schizophrenic body of law about when an owner is responsible for the operation of "their" machine, even if they're not doing the immediate operating (going all the way back to "who pays the man gored by a rented ox"). With automated systems subject to shitty algorithms the problem becomes much more acute but it is by no means a new problem.
Its protest against unfair implementation. You can't charge a person with a crime when you can't even identify that person. But thats what the government is doing. And people are scared enough (or ignorant of their rights) that they simply submit.
They made the runway, it's how they were able to interview the pilots. If they hadn't done anything, I'd expect more of the plane would have hit the seawall instead of just the tail gear. It probably would have been much worse.
Indoor soccer field.
I'll take responsibility for my life and you busybody do gooders can fuck off.

Let's make helmets mandatory after we outlaw being a fat fuck and eating like shit.
I don't follow most laws because i'm afraid of jail. I follow most laws because i think they make society better, and it's my duty. Speed limits are one of the laws that i think make society better. I'd pay the ticket, not because i had to, but because i have a fucking conscience.
Forgive me if I'm a little behind, but is the official consensus that this was a human error? That the measurements were presented correctly to the crew and that a veteran pilot wouldn't have made these mistakes?
Yeah, cause not using your legal rights to escape punishment when you are guilty is exactly the same as not exercising them when you are innocent.

This attitude actually erodes our legal rights, because it causes police officers, judges and jurors to have less reason to think people are acting in good faith when they exercise their rights, causing innocent people to be found guilty and eventually leading to these rights being weakened by having the law change.
Been there, done that, as folks say (and it was quite a while back — the kids have kids). That period in a child's life, though, is a short one, and most folks don't remember their own experience of the phenomenon (or much of anything else from that age, either) very well. (I'd bet that most of the people who use this site read relatively fluently before school age. Heck, most of us are so literate that we often mistake these here squiggles for "real" language when it is, at best, a rough guide for reconstructing what is a much more nuanced (and ephemeral) means of communicating.) "hard to imagine" and "hard to see if you're paying attention" are not interchangeable statements.
Show HN: Stoodle - free, collaborative whiteboard built by 3 teens
Hi all,

I'm a senior in high school and I recently co-founded Stoodle, a free, realtime whiteboard with voice chat made to help students effectively collaborate and tutor online.

I built it Firebase and Twilio (we are getting discounted pricing from both). We are also incubated by the CK12 Foundation. Our press release recently was posted on CNBC and Yahoo! Finance.

http://stoodle.ck12.org

I would love some feedback from HN.
> The article does mention that he did fight deportation.

And that he dropped it: "He later changed course, however, and sought to return to China."

> On the other hand not going to China or working on Chinese rocket projects would have been ludicrous considering his ethnicity and field of expertise.

Why couldn't he go to Europe or any of the other countries in the world which are not China? And when he went to China, why did he work on what he did? It's possible to work in NASA rather than NSA.

> The question is why was he charged with communism (which is not a crime) without proof. Any charge without prior proof is over reach.

He apparently was not an American citizen (eg "Qian was born in the eastern city of Hangzhou, and in 1934 graduated from Jiaotong University in Shanghai, where he studied mechanical engineering."). You are applying the incorrect standards.
Apparently using rvm to upgrade requires sudo access. I'd have to upgrade for that. Also, tks for the hosting provider v. ISP clarification.
Bike helmets are mandatory Australia wide and it is enforced. I have no idea if the net effects are positive or negative but the behaviour is so normalised now people rarely question it.

I don't think it represents a disincentive to people exercising or kids riding to school. It might have when introduced but I suspect other lifestyle changes have more impact. When I was a kid I had to ride a couple of km just to see a computer. I had two television stations and my only electronic game was pong so riding my bike was the only way to stay sane.

Where it is a problem is you don't carry a helmet around with you so you can't just hop on a mates bike or hire a bike without putting someone else's helmet on which isn't attractive. I have considered hiring a bike when interstate but the helmet thing has always put me off.
I just registered my account and also got the cipher card. I think they also have electronic fobs, maybe for bigger accounts.
It costs 99 cents. That's 70 cents per install. A few days ago, this app was #10 on the App Store. I can imagine this will help him a lot.
People aren't "scared enough" that they submit, they submit because they have been caught.

I'm not sure what makes an automated radar with a camera any different than a state trooper holding a radar gun, can you elaborate why that's an "unfair"?
> Oh yes, as a Chinese let me remind you that from news we have learned that there isn't just Chinese American accused to betray the US government, but other ethnic groups too. So, maybe all of us are guilty then.

No. Different groups have different risks. That is the point. Someone ethnically Chinese born and raised in China has a different risk of being a spy for China than a white Mormon who has never set foot outside North America.

> What kind of stupid idiot you are, by your stupid accusation. Because of your stupid reasoning, let me construct some ideas:...Right?

No. Please read what I have read, and not what you think I have read. Your absolutist reasoning, without any probabilities but with tons of exaggeration, is not applicable to what I have said.
Hardware Lock Elision on Haswell
Theoretically there exists some flexibility in the law to avoid erroneously punishing innocent people.
> Given that it seems he was quite loyal
Maybe this also can explain why MS want to go back to C++ with abandoning 10 years old .NET strategy.
Retail flow is almost always unsophisticated. Decisions are made with a much smaller subset of the information available at any instant compared to active market makers, hedge funds, etc.
I don't quite understand mbed. It seems...toylike. I've been using ucLinux for 1788-based stuff. You get the full stack with that.

The other option is something like the TI CC3000, a serially driven wifi module. Adafruit just launched a cheap breakout module.

http://www.adafruit.com/products/1469
Now we know why IBM was one of the main companies to lobby for keeping the covered business method in the new anti-patent troll bill, along with Microsoft. They were getting ready to sue other companies with that kind of patents.
> this tired old argument and the convenient self-fulfilling prophecies it spawns can be used to justify anything. especially a persecution of any minority population for any activity whatsoever.

No, it can't. It is a precise argument based on fractions of the relevant population. One could refute my argument by simply presenting an estimate of the populations of white potential spies, white spies, Chinese potential spies, and showing the white spy % > Chinese spy %.

Instead, I get shit like your comment.
Yes. Gmail and Exchange are not apps running on your system. It's fine to say that remote apps should interface over HTTP, but this doesn't address any local apps that currently use custom data stores, unless the answer is to move everything online, which is a much bigger undertaking than making everyone use a consistent data store.

The HTTP proposal also ignores all the data your apps already have locally. Outlook already has your mail. Why go to the server?

HTTP also doesn't magically make consistent free-form queries work. So again, I don't see how HTTP really accomplishes anything on its own with respect to the goals of WinFS.
Read the report. The pitot tubes thawed after about one minute. Everything after was pilot error. After the high-altitutde stall, the pilot-in-control kept the angle of attack above 30 degrees.
A few points:

1) If they're FINRA regulated as a brokerage, then it should be enough.

2) Your point on uninformed flow is very very interesting here. I wonder if having a marketmaking group on the other side of a chinese firewall that has flow rights justifies this model by itself.
Same, everybody I know who commutes on a bike has horrible accident stories and my city has designated bike lanes even. That said they also don't like the helmet laws since cops here seem to only go after the poorerst riders like the homeless with tickets because they know they can't pay so can arrest them later. Whenever a major event happens here they sweep up all the homeless for unpaid helmet fines and keep them locked up long enough for foreign media not to see them on the streets.
Study Finds Emerging Bird Flu Strain Still Poorly Adapted for Infecting Humans
Essentially, the rules go like this: white over white: you're too high; red over white, you're just right; red over red, you're dead.

This is drilled into every pilot. Besides, on a visual approach with clear weather, there is absolutely no excuse not to do a go-around if your glideslope is too shallow.

Part of the problem is Airbus aircraft. Similar to how if you write a lot of Python, you slowly forget all of the baggage of C, if you fly with Airbus and the FDC on most of the time, you'll get more used to not having to do more manual work. The sidestick spoils you. Even though the triple-seven is fly-by-wire, there's still a lot less hand-holding in it than the Airbus craft. Same goes for the 787, even though it's a brand-new airplane.