skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pilot in question has out and out stated that he was uncomfortable performing visual approaches. Now, while it does indeed boggle the mind as to how such a person could get through training and attain command of a 777, the fact is that he did so. I don't see how you can argue against negligence when the pilot has basically come out and admitted it (although he doesn't seem to think he has).
Does "formal intelligence" mean that construction is involved in its development?
Natural Language Processing in R
I don't normally see 'piece of crap' written as PoC. I'm used to seeing PoS used often. I usually see PoC as 'proof of concept'.
> While countries like the US haven't really done anything in the last few decades

At least, US and Europe have got Mars rovers into working, with failure and success.
Yeah, we're more at the Homebrew Computer Club stage of soldering our own machines than the <platform> BASIC and BBS stage right now.

Give it 5 years though and I can see home kit manipulator, teachable robot kits that you could program to maybe water the plants or dry some dishes.
You miss a lot of interesting stuff if you don't check the new page regularly. I probably have that open more often than the main page.
Hmmm, it is a fair question, but one of the reasons I continue to visit HN is because of the quality of postings. It is a discerning audience, tough crowd. So, find interesting things to post and try to be thought provoking. There are a lot of influential people that frequent this site so it is worth your time to try.
Don't know why you were downvoted. The BMJ article even gives the caveat "albeit with a single author and subject."

Hinrik: the BMJ paper we're talking about also gives the actual citation, not the commentary that you point to.

BTW, looking at the citations to that paper, there's a re-analysis of the same data, at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... . It broadly agrees with Walker's conclusion, but notes a diminished effect of wearing a helmet:

> Risk compensation theory for helmet wearing while cycling has generated increased interest in the peer-reviewed literature, although there is little to no evidence to support the theory. Walker's [2] argument that helmet wearing affects the behaviour of motor vehicle drivers does not support risk compensation theory upon re-analysis. Helmet wearing is associated with a small difference in passing distance and is not associated with close passing. The evidence from this study does not justify recommendations around helmet wearing, but rather highlights the more important factors of kerb distance, road characteristics and traffic type which may inform more effective cycling safety improvements.

It too says "This study has several limitations with regards to the data. Ian Walker was the only cyclist observed and therefore his cycling behaviour may not be representative of cyclists in general", then lists other limitations.
We've caught a lot that word processors haven't, should make a gallery :)
Give asylum to Edward Snowden in exchange for his testimony
A traffic citation is not a felony charge, and hence different rules apply. There is a general, and reasonable (please feel free to argue how it is unreasonable) expectation that the registered owner is the driver of the vehicle or is aware of who is driving the vehicle at any given time.
I was not anticipating on my little 3 hour jQuery plugin hitting the front page of HN, so I didn't take certain precautions. That's a good problem to have.

In any case, I've now moved the library to also be hosted on Github pages.
More feedback for you: the animation when loading the reviews on your site is HIGHLY HIGHLY un-necessary. It's quite annoying actually.

This is the URL I'm talking about: https://www.tuftandneedle.com/reviews
I'm not an expert in AI or NLP, but my impression is that Chomsky is opposed to any progress in formal semantics, probably because it goes beyond the formal syntax that he worked on. Luckily everyone in the field is free to ignore him and work on it anyway.

There was a beautiful attempt by Roger Schank and his students to come up with a better mathematical description of human reasoning. This fizzled out without making much progress, but who knows what the future holds.
Bill Gates looks alot like Steven Hawkins. I wouldn't be suprised if gates was a clone of Hawkins. If anyone could pull it of, Stevie could.
Yes, exactly that. It's a sizable revenue stream.
what's your favorite alternative?
I use microcontrollers for prototyping and proof-of-concept work. Often I combine multiple devices into a system that I can control from a PC. It's been my experience that dropping in a something-to-serial converter is 100x easier than trying to install and understand a communication protocol "stack," even if the code and documentation is supplied by the chip vendor.

I tend to use little USB-to-serial breakout boards, but I'd do the same with RJ45 if I needed that interface.

Once something of mine is ready to commercialize, it gets handed over to professional developers who tend to prefer the built-in firmware based approach, but they end up spending a lot of time debugging those interfaces.
Mega nerd books.
I would actually be happy if people even went through the 3 steps. More often it will just be: Can't identify with someone's problem - blame the victim.

Side note: The poster's username is 'negativity' after all :-)
Very cool I think. But cooler, Web Server on a FPGA, without CPU, only VHDL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7syu5EC1OWg
Both experts and non-experts should be able to refer to studies of effectiveness of various kinds of treatment, that don't rely on the personal experience of individual psychiatrists.

Even though I am a strong advocate of individual liberty, and I think that except in the most extreme cases people should have the right to choose their treatment, a cursory browsing of wikipedia suggests that there is strong evidence for the effectiveness of antipsyichotic medication.
>because there's no other way to pay for the periodic retraining people need as one job ends and another begins.

Companies used to train people. I'm actually a basic income proponent for similar reasons, among others. But when you put it like that, why should the taxpayers foot that bill and not the companies that reap the value?
I think the intended intent behind an upvote on these news aggregation sites is that the actor oneself "gives a shit" about the article -- rather than "wants others to 'give a shit'" about the article. Of course, in practice, it's the latter, especially for one's own submissions.
Optimization in the Twenty-First Century
A lot of the stuff I see on the front page tends to be simply what is "popular" at the time, not necessarily what is relevant to my interests, I find that the new tab has a more balanced view, in general.
Every time...

Conspiracy theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795

Potential examples:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6885123
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6365495
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6448409
4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6857739
5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6035263 - This is the most obvious one.
6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6902563 - Cover up.

I'm going to just keep on collecting these links and post it on every instance I see. This will be added as the 7th.
xml doesn't HAVE to have a schema. It just has to be well-formed. The main reason it lost favor to JSON is that the markup is so much heavier. Also too few people learned about the power of transforms with XSL, again this was somewhat painful to write because of the XML markup but it was a thing of beauty to use.
The plugin uses the getImageData method on the Image object. It iterates over a portion of the pixels in an image, keeping track of color occurrences. It then returns the most dominant color and any other highly occurrent colors.
Facebook Seeks To Get Smarter With Big Data
Wrk [1] is my preference. Time-limited tests. Average and standard deviation on latency. And now with Lua scripting.

If you must use an ApacheBench-style tool, at least use the multi-threaded clone named WeigHTTP [2].

With high-performance servers, ApacheBench is a limiting factor.

[1] https://github.com/wg/wrk

[2] https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp
How about 45, support a family, very independent, and faced death four times over? Thanks for the ad-hominem attack.
Incidentally, I read it the other way as well.
- Yes Im one too.
- Nice joke.
This is such a complicated problem, probably like many people here, I have family members with various psychiatric issues. One person who was incredibly informative to me was a dear late uncle who suffered from severe Paranoid-Schizophrenia. Over the years he ended up with a small case of maybe a dozen medicines he had to carefully administer to himself so he could keep in tangential touch with reality. The side effect was that many of the medicines caused him to sleep through most of the day and night. I have an inkling that some of his perpetual drowsiness was a way for the psychiatrist to also help alleviate the difficulties of the family with managing him and may have had nothing to do with supplying effective antipsychotics.

Something that's very interesting to me growing up was my uncle's intense awareness of that names, purposes, dosage and side effects of dozens of different medicines he had taken over the decades. When I'm sick with something, the doctor gives me some pills, I barely remember what they are, I half-forget to take them but eventually I get through the course and usually feel better. My uncle, who on a good day could hold a partially connected conversation for a few minutes without veering off into his personal psychosis, knew the cornucopia of drugs he was taking at any one time cold. There's an intensity to the kind of treatment he was receiving on a daily basis that I hope I never have to encounter for any particular disease in my life.

Would he have been better off without antipsychotics? Definitely not. He once overslept through the time he was to take a dose of something during a family get together and tried to attack my sister thinking she was the source of the blood and insects that were coming out of the walls and insisting that my long dead Grandfather would rise from the grave a la Jesus Christ and bring about the salvation of the Earth with his disciples, my Uncles. I heard other similar accounts from my relatives over the years before he finally died.

I also know a friend with less severe psychiatric issues, who spent most of her growing up years in and out of psychiatric hospitals and welfare. She used to have "episodes" every year or so and go completely loony, and often try and kill herself in various ways and end up under supervised care for a bit - on various antipsychotics for a while. At some point, she got married, had a couple kids and somewhere along the way just stopped taking the drugs. The "episodes" completely stopped. She had some very high stress issues in her marriage and still has yet to have an "episode". Is this related? I have no idea, but it seems to be working for her and she's living a better life, relatively speaking, than when she was under professional care.
Definitely meant it's ROFL web scale, asynchronous, non-blocking, event driven, message passing, nosql, sharded, clusters of highly available, reliable, high performance, real time, bad ass, rockstar, get the girls, get the funding, get the IPO, impress your mom, impress your cat ... applications.
Ask HN:Why should I read science fiction?
I read a lot:Good books as well as trash.However, the older I get the more I need to justify the content of my library.So,what would be a good reason to read(or continue reading) science fiction?
"I suspect that, by removing certain kinds of feedback, the experience of flying an Airbus is rewiring pilots' brains in dangerous ways."

I don't know whether that's true or not, but that seems something it might be possible for an aircraft design to do, and if so, something to avoid. Does anyone know to what if any extent aircraft designers try to avoid letting pilots become too detached from the experience of flying?
This is great. Hopefully the trend continues and the company prices ramp up so we can all make a nice dime out of this.
A lot of things happening at the moment. ~3 weeks ago there was almost nothing, now I heard of 4 exchanges coming online around now or soon, bitcoin ATM is on the way, every week there's bitcoin meetup, just did my first purchase yesterday.

For the regulatory effect, one of the technologically very advanced law firm just did an assessment, it's in Chinese but they promised English translation in the coming weeks.
http://www.eigerlaw.com/zh/publications/cat_view/17-publicat... (Alex Tsai, December 2013, 比特幣之介紹及其交易在台灣法律環境之適用) Good to know that Bitcoin is 比特幣 in Chinese :) My email in the profile, can let you know when the English assessment is published.
Ease? It's hardly easy with LocalBitcoin. Coinbase is easier, but their commission is pretty high, yet, it's most of the time cheaper than LocalBitcoins minus the risk plus the liquidity (coming from the fact they use Bitstamp). Exchanges are buggy, often go offline during big swings, and without something like BitcoinWisdom, you can't really grasp what's going on, but often during big swings BitcoinWisdom starts to lag significantly (maybe an API lag issue, but anyway). Exchanges charge a commission as a percentage, so, let's say, on a 10 BTC trade, the lowest fee is 0.2% (after you do a significant volume at Bitstamp or pick BTC-e), i.e. you pay $20. Normally, you pay somewhere around 0.5-0.6% for low volume, which is pretty high, I think. I did buy last month a modest amount of BTC, moved it to Bitstamp, and did several transactions (lost BTC at the end), move it back to Coinbase and sold - I paid over a $1K in fees, but was over on profit due to the increase of BTC/USD. Also, having the BTC exchanges open 24x7 can really have a very negative effect on your health, lifestyle, and work.
The guy in the left seat was a very experienced pilot. From the article:

"The Pilot Flying was in the left seat. He was a captain transitioning from the Airbus 320 to the Boeing 777. He had 9,700 hours flight time with less than 45 hours in the Boeing 777."

That's almost as many hours as the instructor had (12,000 hours).
New Android and iOS "fragmentation" charts are just as flawed as the term
I remember during the heady days of SLIP and PPP dialups, my dad was trying to explain how the future of this new weird invention called the internet would have automated software robots that would perform automated tasks to help up out.

I had no idea what he was talking about.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47805860/Scott-Aaronson-...
That's my favoring saying, by the way, but is this more expensive to build and maintain than, let's say, Gmail? I doubt that. Also, there are many ways to monetize - I'm sure Google has something better in mind that the simple commission-based approach.
I could see the Airbus lobby pushing heavily for something like this :)
zombie? UDP? DDoZ botnet?
China's first moon rover 'Jade Rabbit' rolls to moon surface
I absolutely love this. This is about way more than spell and grammar check. It is not just proofreading. Now the crowd can be a test audience to help make content more readable and digestible. I hope this works out!
I just had to update a bunch of directives for 1.2, so I see where you're coming from, but Angular is still young enough that I'll welcome some more major changes if it makes it a better framework in the long-term. It's frustrating to be an early adopter, but I'm loving it enough to bite the bullet.

I believe I saw some slides a while back about their long-term roadmap which made these changes seem relatively minor. If they get around to everything they want to, Angular will be very different across the board in a few years.
I find it hard to believe anyone here is against bicycle helmets.

I can only see people who think helmets should not be mandatory, because the data shows this will reduce the number of people using their bicycles for casual transport, which in turn increases their risk for a wide range of health problems and simultaneously makes cycling more dangerous for everyone else, because fewer cyclists on the road means fewer drivers will take enough care to notice them and give them their space.
Reading these articles, I'm struck by the refusal to admit influence from other systems (or even point out how Windows' features have inspired the same in other systems).

> For example, Windows had implemented the TransmitFile function for optimizing transmission of files from a web server by doing all the work in kernel mode.

Isn't that just sendfile(2) from BSD ?

> An application could attach another stream to the file to hold whatever it wanted. The file system guys really didn’t care, and they didn’t interpret the stream. So this was a very natural extension.

Isn't that just forks from HFS/+ ?

I actually don't know the history behind all of these things, so the influence could have been the other way around (or the features could have been developed completely independently and contemporaneously).

Edit: just saw the nod to DEC, so it's not that they're completely absent, just (IMHO conspicuously) missing in some places.
Just because society is supposed to do something, does not mean that government is supposed to do that thing.

Likely the problem you are so quick to put government in charge of, wouldn't be a problem in the first place if we had a free economy.
I posted this article which is interesting to me since for 15 years we have lived in a really inexpensive area (mountains of Central Arizona) - a great environment for life and for work.

For the last few months my wife and I have been staying in Silicon Valley while I work on a consulting gig. The Bay Area has a lot to offer, but the whole area is crowded and expensive. Fun to be here for a while though.
I think science fiction is not only fantasy plus science, I think, this type of books is an open door to the future, is the type of books that open your mind to think about the future. Also, when you read old science fiction books, you realize you are in the future, this is the future.
Maybe that is true for non-computing tech, but in computer software and hardware this is not the case.

GPU computing, commodity clusters, mapreduce, almost all programming languages in the last 20 years, mobile computing, all came from industry.
> you have access to a web framework similar to Rails

Then why not just use Rails for Java, i.e. JRuby ?
>Ok so 253 extra people will die from obesity. What about the ones that will not die but be disabled. What about those that don't die from falling of the bicycle but get disabled permanently or temporarily.

From the paper:

"Modelling studies have generally concluded that regular cyclists live longer because the health effects of cycling far outweigh the risk of crashes"
This is amazing.

I just love how Carmack has always upheld The Hacker Ethic and had no issue sending the source code for his games to others for the greater good. I do often picture business guys tearing their hair out when I read about this stuff and smile to myself.

He is truly a person to aspire to. It's a shame I'll probably never be as great as he is. The best you can is good enough!
The actual answer is that insider networks are used to upvote stories. If you don't have a network of people you know on HN to upvote your article, it is very unlikely to ever get seen or noticed. This is a wart of HN that people don't want to talk about. Traffic isn't organic; it's a popularity contest at best. It would be naive to think that people wouldn't game a system that can drive so much traffic to any site.
None of that applies in this case though. There are states where the law is, if it is your car, you pay the fine. It is that way exactly because people like this dude will try and get out of paying the fine, and so the law has had to be changed.

That means, in the rare occurrence that you actually were not driving your car and you don't know who was (and it wasn't stolen, that you know of), you have no way to get out of your ticket.

This type of behavior has directly led to a situation where innocent people have lost their rights.

Your idea of judges and jurors being jaded by guilty people pleading innocent is not real.

Ok, so explain why states have laws where you must show you reported your car stolen to get out of a ticket? What would be the point of that, except if people who were guilty were using such arguments as these to get out of tickets? Laws restricting rights like this are enacted all the freaking time because of behavior like this article.
I could go on and on and on

And you do!
Sweet! Looking to angularize it?
Chinese moon rover launched successfully
Japan’s Top Voice: High, Polite and on the Phone
For LPC I've prototyped on boards from Future Designs, like this one:

http://www.teamfdi.com/development-tools-kits/products/1/DK-...
Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart
I hear what your saying, and I've done some of that thru the years. But it goes beyond just lowering expectations, I'm already pretty chill about whatever life brings my way. It has more to do with bouts of depression that have regularly slowed and occasionally sidelined my ambitions as well as an additional stressor on family and relationships.
And yet, you clearly still think like a child.

So how exactly is this sort of charity supposed to solve homelessness and poverty? What about all the mentally ill out on the streets, do we teach them to code and maybe to manufacture their own medications as well? Have libertarians found the solution-for-all-time to mental illness and they just aren't telling anyone?

Is this man even out of poverty at this point? There are hundreds of thousands (millions, maybe, I'm not up on the latest Apple marketing) of apps in the app store and most of them make very little money. This isn't sustainable, this is a puff piece about someone who did something nice for someone else.

Grow the hell up.
I don't think the K-12 system is going to upgrade because AngularJS is dropping support for IE8. I mean, I don't think it'll be a major factor in their decision. Probably funding will be a big factor. Then AngularJS.
I've known plenty of genuinely earnest, hard working people who really know how to put the time in. I'd rather work with people who can hit the high notes, as the saying goes.
Perma-rooms?
"How much control do we take away though?"

I think it's less about "how much do we take away", and more about "if we automate this, will we train dangerous habits into pilots who use it?"

You don't tech you junior sysadmins to use "rm -rf /" to delete user data "because Unix prevents you from deleting files not owned by you, so it's perfectly safe!" _one day_ that sysadmin is going to be logged in as root.

I have no idea whether the pilot here was trained to let an Airbus override dangerous actions on his part or not - but if he _was_ – _that's_ something that ought to be considered for changing.

We wouldn't let a car manufacturer sell a car with the brake pedal on the right and the accelerator on the left - because no matter how diligently you tell buyers, or how prominently you point it out in the owners manual, somebody is going to mash that accelerator pedal in an emergency expecting the car to stop.
Having frameworks is great. But you still have to type code to use whatever those frameworks are. Having intellisense is critical for any IDE. How do I know what methods exist in your framework without intellisense? Without intellisense you might as well be programming in a text file.
Sure! One of the things I've been trying to do with dynatable is to make it play nicely with other libraries by keeping the internals modular and opening a lot of the internal API to the outside. Someone on Reddit has already opened an issue on Github for Knockout support that I'm working with. If you could open an issue, I'll take a look.
I wouldn't waste my time on Ouya, it's basically dead in the water.
Are you truly afraid of stairs? Are you 85?