skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure the sentence might be too much. 7-8 years might be suffice. But I totally disagree with Seems more like a 2-5 year offense, and unless you can point me to even one incident of a person that's been killed by this behavior the argument about it being potential murder etc.

Here is one for life sentence: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/21/texas-man-sentenced-to-4...

So do a quick search.

Why do I disagree? Because that's a reckless behavior. Did you read the article? He did it twice. Twice. Twice.

As someone have put it, if you were on the aircraft, how would you feel about your safety? How would feel about people who are important to you on that aircraft? Of course we should punish assholes driving on the roads. If you have problem with your local laws on handling bad drivers, please talk to your local council members/congressmen to do a better job. If they think 14 years is too much, they can appeal and I think there is a high chance of lowering to 7-8 years. But whatever the length might be, he deserves a good hell lengthy sentence. And sometimes, lengthy sentence is to scare people off.

This is what I called "establish an example."
I can't tell if I despise you or admire you, all I know is that there was light outside my window when I first began playing this, and now it's pitch dark.

Upvoted you to show my anger! :)
I wonder if buying bullet-proof vests for every person in American would be cheaper on the system than jailing people as criminals for over a decade..

If someone intentionally tries to cause another person harm, or in this case, crash a helicopter, I believe they need to be removed from society.
Now your post is the only one that mentions his startup by name. Brilliantly played, I must say.
The sentencing guidelines already incorporate points for criminal history. Its not a reason for going outside the guideline range.
I actually visited Hill Farmstead Brewery last month in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. If you're not aware, they're sort of the Magnolia Cupcakes of breweries - people drive hours to get there, wait in line for hours, and generally get very hyped up about the beer.

While I waited over an hour to buy my 2 allowed bottles, I was able to read a little about the guy who started the brewery. I'm paraphrasing, but he basically explained in an interview somewhere that once you realize you're not doing something for fun or for yourself, you come to see other elements about the work that matter, and that those are what ultimately make it worth while. (His motivation has a lot to do with maintaining his family connection to the land he's brewing on, which has been in his family for like 200 years.)

I thought those were pretty wise words for anyone considering a new venture. Novelty and fun wear off. If you can figure out what about the work really matters, you'll be less likely to burn out.

FWIW I saw the founder of the brewery, and I can tell you he was not showing any signs of having a good time or a good day.
Airplanes have been known to fly for hours with sleeping or otherwise incapacitated pilot(s).

Helicopters do not fly for hours with sleeping pilots.
If you have access to a GPU (or can evaluate quadratic functions of barycentric coordinates) Loop and Blinn's 2005 algorithm is brilliant http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cloop/loopblin...
> I realize I'm probably supposed to be outraged about this.

As the person who posted the link to HN, I posted because there have been other discussions of "lasing" here.

If you mean "outraged at the 14 year sentence," I didn't expect people to be outraged by that. Given previous discussions, I expected people to be glad to see it was taken seriously.
"Judge O’Neill cited Rodriguez’s criminal past, which includes probation violations and gang affiliation, as additional reasons for the sentence."

That might help add a few years.
Tell that to the multi-billion dollar correctional services industry who has a very easy time convincing politicians to increase prison sentences.
Can Docker be a solution for GOG to offer long term Linux support? Their concern was about difficulty to offer long term support when distros are moving with different pace. May be Docker can help them isolate the environment while having little performance overhead?
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This:

>Judge O’Neill cited Rodriguez’s criminal past, which includes probation violations and gang affiliation, as additional reasons for the sentence.

And this:

>convicted of using a high-powered laser pointer to strike the cockpits of a Fresno police helicopter and a hospital transport helicopter near the Fresno Yosemite International Airport in the summer of 2012.

(In other words, they did it twice).
Got it - thanks.
While we are throwing around clones of threes, here is my SEXY clone of titled Menage a Threes. Heh.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/honkskillet/menage-a-threes

Also, protip: to get high score choose one direction that you will never push towards. You'll end up with a gradient of high value tiles on one side, lower on the other, which desirable.
Just like my questions weren't arguments? I thought you saying that knowledge was timeless was related to older people (the topic) having knowledge. A person may understand principles but if they are not wiling to learn what a company wants they won't be hire able - do you disagree with that too?

I'm trying to understand exactly what on topic (you arguing that ageism is real but not explaining why people would possibly want to higher younger people over older people) you are saying.

If you really think I'm wrong say something which will change my mind.

To summarize the generalizations:

- Companies hire younger people for competitive reasons : they cost less, they are more willing to learn, they have less baggage and less liability

- Older people demand more - they know they can't take risks with jobs and want high paying positions

- Older people are less willing to learn the things younger people are for whatever reason

- Older people may have more fundamental experience, more general knowledge, but if they have specialized heavily in something which is obsolete they can't compete unless they learn something new

- We know that older people run the companies, and start up most new companies - so why are older people choosing younger people instead of their peers?

Are these all wrong? Your other posts have not been convincing. I'm sure if you care about this cause it would be worth converting someone who cares to your view point, because right now all I see are lazy whiners who don't want to compete and want an easy scapegoat to blame.
Quick question. How much CPU usage/time does the monitoring tool itself utilize ?
Cheaper, maybe. What leads you to believe that drones would be quieter?
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Anyone who is shining a laser at a plane knows that it is dangerous and can impair the pilot, if not they will find out how dangerous it is at their sentencing hearing. Stupidity doesn't absolve you from putting someone elses life at risk.
Emitting unwanted photons is not an act of violence unless the laser is ablating.
Coming from a graphics background, this reminds me of a similar problem in graphics.

In the OpenGL API, you have two functions (hard core graphics pedants, please forgive my simplification): There's glFinish() which instructs the graphics system to process all graphics commands previously sent and to block until everything is done. Then there's glFlush() which returns immediately, and basically says, make sure all commands previously sent will finish "in a finite amount of time" (as opposed to "maybe never").

From the discussion here, it seems that fsync() is like glFinish(). Maybe what's needed would be something similar to glFlush()? Something that says, "kernel, now would be a good time to start writing out data, but I'm not going to wait."
[Ask HN] – Marketable Web Skills for the Near Future
What technologies should someone who wants a career in web development spend their time learning?
"Lasing" an airplane is actually much worse than doing so to a car because of the way the cockpit glass is made (in addition to the diffusion from being so far away). See http://www.pangolin.com/faa/images/FAA-simulator_4-pics.gif for an example of this. Basically, the laser light gets diffused throughout the cockpit.
Is San Francisco New York?
We've clocked the CPU usage of the scout_realtime daemon at 1% on an Intel Xeon 2.40GHz CPU. Memory usage is around 22 MB. If you turn off the metric collection (by clicking the pause button on the web page), CPU usage will effectively drop to 0%, and you'll still be able to visit the web page and re-enable metrics at any time.
I may be misunderstanding it, but the Clinical Assessment section of that article appears to claim that the reported injuries were not due to a laser but to other pre-existing conditions.
Not automatically, but there is no free lunch. Also, if Apple disables too much stuff they also get yelled at for not bringing all the features.

I mean, sure, there is a balance somewhere in there, but it’s not easy to hit quite right and I don’t think it will make everyone happy.
Show HN: Own your time. Ditch Emails.
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It is probably upgrading your home folder (".vagrant.d") to the new format. That should be IO-bound though, not CPU-bound. Let it run for awhile... I haven't heard of this happening.
Ask HN: Great Jobs Using Haskell...OCaml...Erlang...Scala?
Hi!

I'm looking for a job with great people using functional languages daily. I have an excellent background in Python and Java, and becoming stronger in Haskell daily, and would love to work with some smart people using functional languages, somewhere in the Bay Area near Palo Alto or San Francisco. I also have a very strong background in biological sciences having done some work in computational biology :-). Just shy of a year out of school, but several years of programming experience.

Would be happy to send out my resumé!
What bodyfour is proposing is not just getting a write-notification -- it's in tandem with being able to specify write ordering. If you need to be able to specify write ordering, you also want to be able to have a write notification.

fsync does not work because it returns when everything (in the same thread? or whatever) has been written to disk, and doesn't let you wait for a particular block to have been written.
amd64 has enough registers that using one for the frame pointer isn't too bad.

On the other hand, some platforms don't need a frame pointer for debugging; if you emit correct unwind tables that's enough for the debugger to construct a backtrace. I haven't looked lately but am pretty sure amd64 ELF is one of them.

Also, modern gcc generates okay debug info for optimized programs such that it's much more likely you can read variables out of a crash in gdb.
Embedded at the end of the Article is the critical information that reduces the Outrage-of-the day reaction a bit:

"Judge O’Neill cited Rodriguez’s criminal past, which includes probation violations and gang affiliation, as additional reasons for the sentence."

So this is some "repeat-offender" (three srikes/N strikes/Parole violation) type sentencing.

Still a bit much in my opinion - He & his girlfriend were being stupid and reckless no doubt, but 14 years (and five for the GF) for this crime is excessive however you slice it.
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She went into coma after 4 year long battle with cancer as her body started to shutdown.
She stayed in coma for more than a day. Then she woke up from coma and completely healed herself within weeks, leaving no traces of cancer in her body.

She understood the true causes of her cancer and how true healing occurs. She explains it all in her interviews.

Hopefully it will help to get a new perspective.
Sorry - no FreeBSD support yet.
He had a criminal past because of which his sentence was so harsh. His gf who is an accomplice got 5 yrs imprisonment.
The sentencing is IMO shameful, but shining a laser into someone's eye is not at all like shining a bright light, and temporarily blinding a driver on a well maintained, well marked road is nothing light blinding an operator of a technically sophisticated, carefully balanced machine that operates in six degrees of freedom.

Bright lights cause an iris response that protects the eye and is familiar. Lasers cause temporary spot blindness and are bewildering.

Helicopters are, to my knowledge, the most difficult vehicle that humans pilot. They are fundamentally unstable and operate in an environment in which seemingly benign towers are fatal and there is no means of escape. Have you heard of an ejection seat on a helicopter? How about an escape hatch? Parachute? Floatation device? Airbags? Most failures in a helicopter can be fatal, even simple mechanical ones. You basically hope that you don't hit the ground too fast.
Ha yeah - we opened up a port in iptables for this so we don't have to ssh tunnel in to see stats. Obviously, if you're concerned about exposing numbers, you can view via an ssh tunnel instead of opening a port.
Brewery incubators are coming... Some of them might work out pretty nicely to help test and get your feet wet with bigger equipment before taking the leap.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kitcheninc/the-brewery-...

http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2013/02/innovative_cra...
Surely there's a way to make a code coverage tool work in reverse - figuring out which tests don't apply to anything in the code?

Maybe someone should make one.
A gentle introduction to tensors.
http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/#/
"How to explain the rise of Neil deGrasse Tyson? It’s hard to deny that we live in an era in which science — as both a worldview and as a practice — is under near-constant assault. On the left, there are those who rail against the dangers of GMOs and vaccines. On the right, there are those who deny climate change and the evolution of species."

I've thought about this a lot. I know a number of highly intelligent and articulate people who seem to hold a kind of animosity toward science, and in talking to them I always try to figure out exactly why this is.

I've identified what I think are several reasons.

(1)

Science is about reality. It's about learning about reality and a commitment to reality. Unfortunately for a great many people reality just flat out sucks and there's little they feel they can do about it.

You're stuck in a dead-end job with debts piling up, an underwater house, and failing health. The last thing you want to hear about is reality. You want unreality-- the more unreal the better-- because your reality is awful and then you're going to die.

(2)

There has been a general loss of confidence in institutions, scientific and academic ones included.

I don't think this is wholly irrational. We've had multiple presidential administrations that have lied us into war. The financial industry has run what amount to pump-and-dump scams against the public (e.g. the housing bubble). These sorts of things show people that institutions aren't to be trusted. They are often either predatory or incompetent.

What's that got to do with science?

Well... from an ordinary person's point of view, science belongs to the same stratospheric realm as high finance and government. It's part of the world of "big" things... "big" things that stomp on the little guy.

(3) (and I think this might be the big one)

Science says things that are concrete and falsifiable. Since humans are not infallible, that means that some of what you say is almost certainly going to turn out to be wrong.

Superstitious ideologies on the other hand seldom make concrete promises or provide answers that are actually testable or verifiable. As a result, they are never wrong. They're never wrong because they are not really saying anything. (Politicians and salesmen are also masters of this art... it's not by any means confined to religion.)

Every time science makes a mistake, it counts against it in peoples' minds. "Oh, they were wrong about trans fats... that means GMO foods can't be trusted either!"
yeah sorry, wrote that in a hurry. i meant, if it can match nothing and still be valid, what's the point? you may as well write `.*`
There are only few things funnier than people fresh from watching a Neil deGasse Tyson lecture, acting like they earned a PHD in Astrophysics and Anti theism across an hour on the couch.
A laser that can dazzle from half a mile or more is not your standard $10 lecture-hall laser pointer. They don't put "AVOID EYE EXPOSURE TO DIRECT OR SCATTERED RADIATION" stickers on those things for funsies. There are consequences for reckless use of dangerous equipment.
Invite code is "ditch-emails".
I'm a sysadmin - can I still use your tool?
Not really. Apparently it's not all that dangerous to shine a laser into a helicopter, because rather than attempt to escape and control his vehicle, the pilot was able to catch the offender by staying in flight and locating him by following the source of the light. This allowed ground personnel to come in and arrest the offender.

It's conceivable that it could be dangerous if it happens at a very inopportune time for a pilot. So far, though, nobody's ever died from laser pointers shined at cockpits.
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None of that applies here. Range at 35,000 feet for primary radar systems is over 100NM (~190km). It was a clear night over open ocean using a country's primary early warning and defense mechanism situated along the coast.

The US located the cargo door that departed from UA 811 in 1983 using radar analysis to find the part. They could see a 6meter piece of metal fall from the aircraft at 25,000 feet. 100km off shore.
Do you browse the web logged into Linkedin?
Sorry. Just FYI, we've clocked the CPU usage of the scout_realtime daemon at 1% on an Intel Xeon 2.40GHz CPU.
How Drones Help Smuggle Drugs Into Prison
NdGT is a rock star communicator and all around excellent proponent of Science - no doubt.

However, does this statement from him make sense:
"To be scientifically literate, I’m not going to require that you have a body of knowledge."?
3d Flappy Bird on Oculus Rift wins USC hackathon
I would actually pay $0 and wouldn't use it. Why? It's a logical decision: a hand-written note is, as you said, powerful and it leaves an impression. People notice. I'm in Dallas, Texas - if I send a hand-written note to anyone who knows me, they know that I live in Dallas. If the note is postmarked from San Diego, for example, it loses it's value to me as a purchaser. Also, someone inevitably will ask about my handwriting. "Wow - you have great handwriting! Where did you learn to write like that?" Then what?

It's disingenuous and I'd have to fend off questions like the above. So I wouldn't buy it for any price.

That said, I'm one person and that's simply one person's opinion. It doesn't invalidate your idea so don't take this the wrong way (as an insult or personal attack). It's a fun idea, but not one I can see anyone who is "serious about business" using.
You raise a question which was raised in the article. Did you read all of it?
That's potentially interesting, but the question is: if you're not going to do anything that relies on the data being on stable storage, why bother asking the system to write it out?

Most of the use cases I think of involve a server of some kind servicing client requests. Most of the time, the only sane semantics are that if the request completes successfully, then the change will survive a system crash. In that case, you have to fsync() (or equivalent). Conversely, if the client doesn't need that guarantee (e.g., this is a cache that can be reconstructed from elsewhere, as in the case of a CDN), then there's no reason to make sure it's on stable storage at all. You're basically using the filesystem as a large, slow extension of DRAM, and if everything you ever write fits in DRAM, you wouldn't care if the kernel ever wrote it out.

Is there a use case you had in mind? I can't think of a middle ground.
thanks. i actually went back and forth between compiler and interpreter and didn't think to look it up.

That'll show me to rely on my hazy memory of something I read five years ago on wikipedia =)
I'm Australian and the Australian voice sounds so bad to me. I have to use American English.
This is the second time in a few days Cosmos has made it onto the front page and then received a ton of flags very quickly. Can someone explain why?
Got 2 invites
I have in the past, for realtime traffic info and rerouting.
I have no idea why this is required. Why add friction to posting? Email + password + confirm password seems like the best idea, with Twitter as a separate option.
I've got 2 invites here, if anyone wants it.

EDIT: I've given out all the invites already. Thanks for sharing!
Happens to Windows and Mac OS too. Every time I boot Dropbox thrashes my disk for 10 minutes while the system is almost completely unresponsive.
ROFL. Build a million dollar plane. Confuse the shit out of it with a homemade laser. We need more glass research.
>> The downsides: you will likely need to take a year off for self study and to build up a body of work to land you a job

I am doing this myself. It's a risk but I think the rewards are worth it!
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Is this for the intern applications, I don't see it in the form.
The Reckoning: The father of the Sandy Hook killer searches for answers.
Hah yes! Exactly what we did
I think he is meaning a 'specific' body of knowledge.. saying that scientific literacy is not about knowing a set of scientific facts, because there will always be scientific facts that you don't know. Scientific literacy is about knowing how Science is used to find those facts.
That's the way it is in a doggy-dog world!
As a San Diegan, I can confirm this happens all the time with US-English on various TTS engines.

La Jolla pronounced exactly the way you'd expect someone with no exposure to Spanish to pronounce it (rather than 'La Hoya').

El Cajon ('El Cahone') becomes El Kage-on.

etc.
As a homebrewer I think this would be a pretty rough way to try and scale. The actual brew time would be the same, but you've increased your cleaning and maintenance significantly, you need a solution to pipe from multiple stations into fermenting vessels, you need a significant amount of extra space dedicated to brewing that could otherwise be used for fermentation vessels, etc.

I think the right answer is to get your equipment and do test batches to rework your recipes at scale. If you're successful as a brewery it's a process you'll have to do multiple times as you grow anyways, so avoiding it once seems like a silly optimization.
7 years is a long time, no matter which way you cut it. Nobody likes a contrarian.
You do realise it is almost certainly unauthorised?
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Really simple to use. Just uploaded a CSV into the platform for this, set the GEOM from lat/lon I had already configured in columns, and changed the date string into a SQL Data, then simple click interface for creating each visualization. All told took no more than 5 mins for each visualization.
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In real world projects, I have never seen a GNU Compiler not called explicitly, and in fact this article is advising to be extra explicit in compiler flags, so referring to any output code, especially -o with a .o extension, as 'bytecode', is inherently incorrect, regardless of whatever "intermediate" language GCC actually uses, unless you're outputting that intermediate code.