skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While mistakes in aggregate are inevitable, individual mistakes are not, and neither are certain categories of mistakes.

Not paying attention to your airspeed is the sort of mistake you should be able to eradicate.

I want to know why a pilot who says that he is "very concerned" with doing a simple visual approach is allowed to have a couple hundred lives in his hands in an airliner. This is Piloting 101.

Mistakes are inevitable, but we shouldn't just throw up our hands either, especially when this particular mistake comes down to straight-out incompetence and a pilot who's afraid of a basic and straightforward flight operation.
Are you Ray Kurzweil's personal assistant? If not, then I'm amazed you can read his mind.

You're naive to think that the combination of Google and the work of a military robotics contractor is benign.
How much? I don't think the pilot should have the authority to fly the plane into the ground, at least not without cutting out several circuit breakers.

In this case, it clearly appears that a computer could easily have looked at the altitude, attitude, air speed, and thrust and decided with enough time to recover that the meat module was malfunctioning, and could have initiated a go around.

Also, it's pretty clear that the automation could have started yelling LOLWUT or whatever the industry jargon is for exceptionally inconsistent inputs, such as flight level change mode on final.
I work in a very large distributed enterprise so this list is a little off topic, but maybe it'll be useful for someone and maybe it will awaken a few ideas for how incredibly rich an opportunity the enterprise space is. I write code and help the rest of the team write code. We use Windows. These tools have been helpful.

- Microsoft Lync (excellent product! Love it. Seriously it's only serious flaw is it needs Windows.)

- Microsoft Outlook

- Microsoft Sharepoint (meh, it's better than nothing)

- Trello (useful for ad-hoc teams)

- GitBlit ('cause outside the Firewall GitHub/BitBucket isn't allowed)

- HP's Agile Manager (expensive, but a very good Agile/Scrum product)

- Rally (before HP Agile Manager, a very good Scurm product)

- Adobe Captivate (decent for screencasts; save time sharing your ideas inside your firewall)

- TechSmith's Snagit (the best screen capture tool I've used; great for quick-and-dirty 'do this' email or doc)

- IntelliJ IDEA (great IDE, we don't use it collaboratively or anything but it got into our Enterprise because individual DEVs could buy it at a reasonable price for themselves, then other DEVs wanted it and mgmt started signing POs... smart tactic).

Sum it up. Lync is awesome (friends in smaller/not-so-MS-focused shops use Skype w/ success). A good asynchronous communication tool like Captivate/Snagit is useful. Some shared space to manage the work is necessary (Trello, HP Agile Manager, Rally, numerous other good products). I wish I had Campfire or something like it.

edit: formatting
Preemptive monopoly on the inevitable. If you can afford it, why not?

The only question is whether it can ever be cheap enough to reap the kind of profit Google is used to.
Well, you are matching the buy and sell order of your internal orderflow at market prices, e.g.,

Retail trader Bob wants to buy 100 shares of MSFT at the market price
Retail trader Sue wants to sell 100 shares of MSFT at the market price

NBBO of MSFT is at 36.70/36.72

You fill Bob at 36.72; and you fill Sue at 36.70. So Sue's account is credited with 3670 cash while Bob's account is debited by 3672 cash for the privilege of owning 100 shares of MSFT; while you collect the $2 difference and get RegNMS compliance.
This is an honest post, thanks for sharing.

I am confused by something though. I have only (to my knowledge) known one person that got a perfect score on the SAT. The reason is that it requires both reasoning as well as 'stamp collecting'--(i.e. book knowledge). If you didn't bother to learn all the obscure vocabulary words used on the SAT that most high schoolers don't know--(extol, capricious, etc.)--then you must've been an exceptional reader. Where did you get this other knowledge? Did you just read a lot?

If you 'barely graduated' high school and got dismissed with university, then you must've simply not done the work. I've known plenty of people that were smart, but lazy.

If you are gifted at a young age, it's easy to get relaxed... become lazy and satsified with the easy victories. The only way you can break this cycle is to endeavor to place a hurdle in front of yourself, one that you can't easily jump.
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It's not always a simple thing. Lots of corporate apps are only bug-compatible with particular versions of some tools. I know of one large company who has told everyone do NOT update your Java when prompted, or blah blah chaos blah.

Stuff has to be tested, and mitigation routes planned. Corporations are a mess of organically accreted apps, kludges and workarounds.
This is very relevant:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...

>If something is a real disease, the patient deserves our sympathy and support; for example, cancer sufferers must universally be described as "brave". If it is not a real disease, people are more likely to get our condemnation; for example Sandy's husband who calls her a "pig" for her inability to control her eating habits. The difference between "shyness" and "social anxiety disorder" is that people with the first get called "weird" and told to man up, and people with the second get special privileges and the sympathy of those around them.

>And if something is a real disease, it is socially acceptable (maybe even mandated) to seek medical treatment for it. If it's not a disease, medical treatment gets derided as a "quick fix" or an "abdication of personal responsibility".

...

>People who make good decisions are intrinsically good people and deserve good treatment; people who make bad decisions are intrinsically bad people and deserve bad treatment. But people who make bad decisions for reasons that are outside of their free will may not be intrinsically bad people, and may therefore be absolved from deserving bad treatment.

>[But] because all actions are biologically determined, none are more or less metaphysically blameworthy than others, and none can mark anyone with the metaphysical status of "bad person" and make them "deserve" bad treatment. Consequentialists don't on a primary level want anyone to be treated badly, full stop

>if giving condemnation instead of sympathy decreases the incidence of the disease enough to be worth the hurt feelings, condemn; otherwise, sympathize.... Yelling at a cancer patient, shouting "How dare you allow your cells to divide in an uncontrolled manner like this; is that the way your mother raised you??!" will probably make the patient feel pretty awful, but it's not going to cure the cancer. Telling a lazy person "Get up and do some work, you worthless bum," very well might cure the laziness.

Sorry for the overly long summary, I didn't want to cut out the important points.
What kind of helmet impairs vision and hearing? I haven't heard this before so I'm curious.
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Well, Oracle has its SQL query tuning tools... but in a production system you often don't want too much magical optimization leading to erratic behavior/performance problems. Oracle also has a "plan stability" feature for this very reason.
From my very limited interaction with the YC network, it is quite common to use B1/2 visas. Also in some cases YC founders will get O-1 (genius) visas, though I've only seen those happen during or after YC (my guess is that after investment you can then get your big-brand-name investors to vouch for your "genius" as a formality).

Right or wrong, as an entrepreneur you should be scrappy and you will need to bend the rules.
Would you like to keep testing whether a prosecutor is daring enough to bring charges against you, especially in this social climate?

It's not paranoia. Once you start straying from the path of responsible disclosure, the path to danger is quite short.

In this case, I think you're in no real danger since it's Twitter. So don't worry. But if it were some other company, though, you wouldn't be able to rely on goodwill to protect you. And without any protections, there's nothing preventing the (extremely powerful) courts from bringing charges. It's happened before; it will happen again.
Dividend reinvestment programs often offer the opportunity to purchase shares with no fee (I guess usually after an initial purchase):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_reinvestment_plan#Cash...

Most brokers also have some range of mutual funds with no trading fee.

Building up funds over time is probably a better use of small amounts than trying to earn percentages trading them. For one thing, even an amazing annual return on £100 isn't going to cover a whole lot of your time.
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The major downside is that it is an inherently non-scalable behavior for a database engine. A few databases do what you suggest but they are limited in the amount of data they can organize in this way without performance becoming problematic. Since data is becoming quite large rather quickly, it is not a sensible architecture choice these days.

There are several reasons why you would not want to design a large-scale database this way. It implies an enormous amount of extra data motion which is arguably the major killer of performance in parallel databases; it is the same reason Hadoop is so slow and inefficient for analytic queries. Additionally, secondary indexing structures and similar types of de-normalization offer poor performance in distributed environments due to the implied consistency and coordination problems; it will severely degrade insert/update/delete operation performance as the data structures grow. Most database applications also value a high-degree of predictability of performance under load, which this definitely will not allow. These tradeoffs are unacceptable for many (most?) applications.

In short, while you could design a database that does what you suggest, it would only be useful at tiny scales or for read-only databases where consistent performance characteristics are not a requirement.
from Wikipedia:

> The speeds of vessels relative to the fluids in which they travel (boat speeds and air speeds) are measured in knots.

It's a little like the difference between mass and weight - the frame of reference is important for one and not the other.
Do newspapers make similar accusations of 'friendly' countries proven to conduct espionage?
Interesting that they point to GE as a place to do basic research. It used to be AT&T.
The associated blog post also seems to use median and average interchangeably(?!):

While the median federal income tax burden across counties is about $3,400

the average tax burden across counties is $3,419

The distribution may be more normal than I assume, or the word "median" in the first graf may be a mistake.

In either case, I too would love to see the median-based map.
Is this supposed to be a joke? If so, it's not all that funny.
This is very sad, my country is very sad. The law states that "if you sell something in Italy then you are a permanent establishment on the Italian territory." Someone can say that if a server isn't hosted on the italian territory than the company that uses it can't be an "establishment" in Italy. It's not the case. According to the law if you use the italian network to communicate to italian IPs than you must pay.
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I did my undergrad with Jon Clark! Great guy. It's cool to see a few bio-robotics people on HN
VCs do seem to be able to raise larger sums, if not for long durations. Look at all the late investors into Facebook. The challenge isn't dollars, it's the need to return money in 7 years.
>encouraging psuedo-scientific beliefs about psychiatry (which is, make no mistake about it, more of an 'art' than a science, but so was the beginning of many now-scientific fields)

This back-pedaling is where you begin to lose steam.

> Nobody tries to tell a cancer patient how to treat their cancer, yet so many people feel obliged to opine about mental illness.

Including the psychiatrists who admit to 'more art than science.'

>You pretty much need to start with the medication, then work from there to figure out which group they're in, and adapt their treatment accordingly (i.e. stick with meds or drop them but help them learn how to manage it).

Sounds essentially like just guessing.

Now let's look at your first statement.

>While I'm sure you mean no harm, you are - quite simply - wrong.

While I'm sure psychiatrists mean no harm, that doesn't mean they're right.
I can't either, but a Google search suggests the previous version used Freescale's ColdFire MCF5208:

http://forums.lantronix.com/showthread.php?t=857

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?co...
right, but there was also a pilot who was pulling back on the stick the entire time.
I thought an absolute rule was that if you are two or more notches below the glideslope (or two notches left or right of the glidepath) on the approach, you must perform a go-around and try again. Maybe this is only for ILS approaches though (this was a visual approach) and maybe this is only a "rule" in quotes and not an actual rule.

In any case the other posts are absolutely correct, monitoring your airspeed on the approach is arguably priority one for a pilot flying an approach. Even if the autopilot is selected and even if airspeed is being controlled by autothrottle, monitoring the airspeed is supposed to be one of the key things to check on the routine "scan" of the instruments as you come in on your approach.

It's inconceivable to me that both the pilot AND the right-hand-seat instructor both missed the drop in airspeed.

Also raising the nose is the wrong thing to do in response to being to low. In fact increasing power (engine thrust) is the thing one is supposed to do in order to increase altitude. Raising the nose is what you do in order to decrease airspeed. It's actually a rookie mistake that beginning private pilots flying single-engine cessnas make. They think throttle = airspeed and elevators (nose up/down) = altitude. The opposite is what you're supposed to do for stable flight.
There's a major black market at my college (top 10 liberal arts) for Ritalin and Adderall. At least half the students I know have, at some point, taken it as a study tool. It's super frustrating for the kids of have ADHD, because they need it to get on par with other students. Then other students take it to get another leg up.
Judging from the downvotes, looks like I've run into an institutional dogma here.

To a large degree and for many people, mental health issues are something the individual can deal with on his own. To the extent that one can he should be urged to do so, not be put on drugs which we simply do not know all the unintended consequences of.

I know that is an unpopular sentiment in our culture but it's the truth.

To be more specific: often it's bad ideas and habits that lead to most mental health problems. E.g. if you sit around all day watching TV that's not good for your mental health. Everyone can choose to not do that, on their own, without drugs.
Really?

Exchange: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj900500(v=ex...

Gmail: https://developers.google.com/gmail/gmail_inbox_feed
(Search is only available publicly via SMTP and IMAP, which technically isn't HTTP, but the Gmail app is clearly using HTTP XHRs)
The controlled studies they do, that determined the increased rate of suicide, is in a very controlled environment - where no one would have missed their doses. If you get angry and feel violent because of missing doses, perhaps it would be valuable to explore the underlying anger - see what it's associated with and perhaps learn skills to calm and cope with it, in case you miss a dose again, etc..
When the UK's Beagle failed, the public reaction was "Oh well, better luck next time.". If the Chinese mission failed, the reaction would probably be "Ha, you guys suck, you need to steal and copy some more".

The Chinese don't want to be humiliated thus I'm surprised there were live feeds. This must show increasing confidence in the space program and their abilities to execute successfully.
This isn't the context of people using Angular the hammer, it's in the context of people trying to learn Angular, the forklift, and all of the forklift users saying "It's not our fault you can't figure it out!"
depends on how much you enjoy food i guess
Good for him. Now, why should we give a shit?
since when should we care about who does what?
sorry but for what I remember, this must be the third attempt to go viral with this crap.
TLDR: another carpooling app.
>Angular's Disqus comments were a perfect example of the hate and entitlement in open source that makes people quit contributing.

This is a perfect example of the entitlement people feel to be free from others' ire or criticism.
The government knows what's best for you. Stop being so individualistic.
The knot is now defined in terms of an SI unit (1 knot = 1 nautical mile/hour, 1 nautical mile = 1852 meters), and the nautical mile is accepted for use internationally by BIPM.

Its continued use is due to the fact that the nautical mile is the average length of one minute of arc along a meridian, which allows easy correction, when measuring distances in nautical miles, for the distortions of representing the non-flat Earth on flat charts.

Or, more simply: there are sometimes good reasons for using a unit other than "look how easy it is to move decimal points".
Any time I’m working in a C-like language and need to type something in SHOUTY_CASE, usually macros/enumerations/constants.
This article reminds me of "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", specifically when the author explains that he really struggled with the idea that as we learn more, we gain a better understanding of how little we know. As Aaronson says, "the subquestions aren’t nearly as small as they originally looked", and Prisig had a tough time reconciling the idea that as humanity's body of knowledge grew, the number of answered questions grew even faster.
See also: What Goes Around Comes Around (Stonebraker and Hellerstein)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.113....

That one's from the time where XML-databases were all the rage. Unfortunately, its publication year is missing. (The youngest cited article is from 97)
I was also disappointed it was subscription.
And the airplane averaged the inputs from the two sticks, which strikes me as a positively BRAINDEAD design choice. Why would you ever want to average the two inputs when flying a plane? Are you hoping that one pilot pushing and one pulling will somehow, on average, fly the plane correctly?
As other's have pointed out that Godus is an alpha game much of it has not been written yet. It is probably over a year from being a good game. The issue is this is not communicated well enough to people purchasing, as illustrated by the above comment. If Hooch expected Godus to be a bug ridden when purchasing their wouldn't be any surprise when he discover it was bug ridden. One idea I could see would be for Steam to require developers to list a sample of issues the game currently has in the promotional video. Introversion does this well with their game Prison Architect http://youtu.be/KDDzSOS0vzc?t=1m6s . I see this serving a similar purpose to the Risks & Challenges section on Kickstarter, warning the customer that they are not buying a game with the typical protections and warranties they are used to.
Couldn't see the article. It just said, "You've reached your reading limit."

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No one succeeds with their first app. Failure leads to success. We should applaud him for actually releasing an app. That's a feat in itself.
Personally, every single bicycle commuter I have known has been involved in an accident, often multiple. The consequences are much worse than an auto accident. If I didn't wear a helmet, I might not have the courage to ride at all--even if they help only in some scenarios. I often see the risks of bicycling and not wearing a helmet downplayed, but to me this rings of agenda and not reality on the road. For example, it seems like all arguments against helmeted cycling also apply to helmeted motorcycling. Should we encourage motorcyclists not to wear helmets?
You haven't seen what I have up close and personal about missed doses. I'm not questioning your controlled studies, just observing something related from up-close-and-personal experience: missed doses can FUCK YOU UP ... I'm not talking explorable anger issues, I'm talking your anger processing unit suffers an electrical storm.
Enterprise option to keep it on our own servers and I'm sold. (Policy forbids SaaS and the like)
If you have linux installed already you can just install Steam an it will work.
Another potentially harmful effect is that drivers tend to be less cautious around helmeted cyclists: http://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/26335_en.html
Yet, advertisers pay for 100% (or very nearly that amount) of ads displayed--regardless of the client.
Just because they didn't "obviously have problems" doesn't mean they didn't.

They are amphetamines but so what? It's a much lower dose, prescribed by a doctor, and is not considered to be addictive. A lot of bad drugs are/have been used in medicine.
What happens when the automation malfunctions and wants to fly the plane into the ground?

Plenty of aviation accidents boil down to conflicts between different automated systems, or between automated systems and pilot's senses, and there is no universal criterion for deciding which one should win.
Being homeless and finding a way to release an app is a good example of resourcefulness.
Few people lose their phones and the problem is that my files are not disposable.
It's really bizarre, and telling, that in this culture you're not permitted to suggest that mental health problems can be caused -- and therefore, remedied -- by personal choices.

It's not only bizarre, it's perverse and sick. No wonder mental issues are running rampant.
You also can't reply to a DM with a URL in the message.

I thought only followers can send DMs to each other, so I am not certain this is much of an anti-spam technique.
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The absolute quantities rarely matter. 100 knots in a 777 is completely different from 100 knots in a Cessna 150. The units are not too terribly important, since the reference numbers you're comparing them to are always in the same units.
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It actually comes with 16MB.

Also, it's MB not Mb. The difference between the two is a factor of 8.