skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions a tool called Flight Recorder for profiling, but it appears this is commercial and not available in the openjdk?
Perhaps the pilot procedures take x amount of time - which is fixed. Whether boarding takes x, or x-10 minutes wouldn't change the ability of the flight to leave.

There is also landing/takeoff slots, which are outside the control of the airline.

All in all, I doubt boarding faster would help an airline fly a plane more often.
Nuclear powered aircraft have undesirable failure modes.

The best possible battery designs actually do approach the energy storage density of liquid hydrocarbons, nearly, and theoretically (metal-air batteries, specifically lithium-air).

The best currently practical battery designs are at least an order of magnitude less dense.

And as I note above and in my longer piece (linked above), the additional engineering constraints for electrically powered aircraft argue against their feasibility.

Synthetic fuels strike me as much, much, much more viable, though even there the economics of flight will change markedly. Probably acceptable for the military and VIPs, not so much for everyone else.
Other services (like spotify) have tended to have clauses in their licenses saying something like "If you get acquired, the deal is cancelled and you have to renegotiate it" so that the record companies can prevent exactly this from happening. I would be surprised if Beats doesn't as well.

That means that it doesn't matter if Apple (or anyone else) buys someone who already has a deal - the previous terms go away and the record companies get to start the negotiations all over again.
Think slf4j as API, and logj4 as implementation. slf4j has multiple implementations, e.g. logj4, logback, apache common logging bridge, so you can swap implementation easily without change your code(except configuration)
do you guys plan to add tables editing support? :)
I LOVE the fact that you can download to read later!
It's really minutes to see all the drawings, i7, Win 8.1, FF 29 (to compare the CPU speeds, jslinux boots in 7.9 secs on my computer). Adobe Reader is immediate to see all the 20 pages.

Have you tried to see all the pages, all the drawings? How many minutes you needed, on which setup? Are you using Firefox? Does it use pdf.js? Is it something OS dependent, or you just didn't look at all the pages?

Now I see, Gracana mentions manuals on AutomationDirect.com. Look at this one for example:

http://www.automationdirect.com/static/specs/dl0506select.pd...
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if you handle med info you need to comply with all regs. There are no exemptions. Thankfully, the regs are very straightforward. You should be able to comply no problem.
Dumb question - but why is luggage above instead of below the seat? I seem to find that a lot of slowness comes from maneuvering a 35lb bag up over your head. When the plane lands, pulling it down is an act of controlled chaos hoping you don't take anyone out while lowering your luggage.
> Alibaba, which filed for its IPO on May 6, isn’t just the “Amazon of China”—it’s also the Dropbox, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, ING Direct, and more.

Hulu is a Chinese company.

Edit:

I was mistaken by the fact that it has a Chinese name and a pretty big Chinese subdivision... Hulu is an American company. facepalm
Since your brain exists in physical reality...

Beyond the religious arguments we don't know if the brain exists only in the physical reality in the sense that you can't prove/disprove this hypothesis.
Of course there are things that can be done.

Shift from turbofan aircraft operating at Mach 0.9 to ducted-fan turboprops at perhaps mach 0.7 would reduce fuel consumed per-mile quite a bit.

Ducted fans and propjets have their own issues (primarily weird/obnoxious noise characteristics) but if fuel costs spike I suspect that will be dealt with.
The major labels have a love/hate relationship with iTunes. It brings in loads of cash, but it's a monopoly and the majors have little to no control (on price and promo, compared to retail).

So I wouldn't be surprised if the labels are being somewhat difficult to Apple about streaming rights - they'll dominate, and once again the labels lack control.

This deal could get round that somehow?

Add to that that I think the labels have vested interests in Spotify and very favourable deals, (while cautious of the streaming model) and it makes sense to not let another player in just yet, especially one like Apple.

Apples service is one that'll ride roughshod over everything, installed instantly on 100's of millions of devices with an iOS update - Sounds like a good use of their money to get that sooner rather than later.

I haven't used Beats headphones but if their tech could be used to perceivably improve idevice's and laptops built in speaker audio it's a win there too.

I'll believe it when I see it though.
Dude, where's my BeagleBone Black?
The bizarre states uncovered by quantum mechanics resulted in a million popular works trying to distill quantum reality into a world in which multiple states could coincide even at the macro level. We know that this is true at quantum scale, it has been a little harder to swallow at the level of everyday reality.
Yes, there's definitely room for dialogue between Orthodoxy and Zen (and many other eastern religions). In fact, I came to Orthodoxy from Buddhism in college via an excellent class that compared hesychast prayer to yoga. While I haven't read this paper myself, it was written by my teacher and formed the theme of the class I took: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2008/0350-08610...

Dogen's Shobogenzo is interesting in that he is trying to convey the ineffable by abusing language. Perhaps from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein, Dogen is trying to break the language game. Then again I never got too far into it, so I might be misrepresenting it.

However, it's important to note that in apophatic theology the intent isn't to cut off discourse to the point where talking about God becomes empty of content completely. What saves the Christian from total unknowing is that the unknowable God has made Himself known through the Incarnation; Christ has shown the path to knowledge of the unknowable, which is the way of the cross: to account only oneself as deserving of death and to account all as worthy of the Kingdom. God is thus known in His energies (in a sense, actions) but unknown in His essence.

As such, Orthodoxy does maintain ideas of true and false, but with the twist that Truth is a Person. To conceive of it differently, truth is a relation between persons, in the sense of being the action of humble, selfless love. But I feel like now I'm saying too many words and only obscuring the meaning. :)
Yes, but I bet check-in, or wherever they enforce the carry on, was slower. That is why they don't enforce it regularly - because the customer blowback and holdups at the check-in are the airlines problem. Whereas people bringing on oversized carry-on because a customer-customer problem, and less of the airlines fault.

It's not right, but that's how it is.
Yeah, definitely doesn't seem to be the case around here. Some local dealers are just one company, but some represent a vast quantity, e.g.:

http://ourisman.com/

http://www.koons.com/

http://www.lindsaycars.com/
Planes are tubes. The widest part is for people. The belowdecks is for checked luggage. That leaves above the seats.
Corecursion is useful for taking a recursive algorithm and transforming it to a stream-like output pattern.

But this is ridiculously inefficient.

Well...you might be surprised in the general case. Because of lazy evaluation, Haskell won't necessarily implode on non-TCO recursive functions (example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13042353/does-haskell-hav...), and will actually sometimes cause a stack overflow on "optimized" functions.

Until now, the only "principled" way I knew of to transform this into something sensible was through memoization, but that's still very wasteful.

I think "real" Haskell code usually favors operations of lists over recursive functions. That said, the standard way to transform your recursive structure into something "sensible" is to use a tail-recursive function. In basically any other functional language, you'd go with that approach.

To get the same "benefit" in Haskell, you'd have to force strict evaluation inside of a tail-recursive function. This prevents a thunk from causing problems. That said, Haskell doesn't always build up a normal stack on a regular recursive call.

Otherwise, you'd just use a list structure.

(Someone correct me if I've said something stupid.)

ref:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tail_recursion
But not too busy to read HN and post questions, it would seem...
Because I'd expect someone as smart as you, with a clear financial stake in the money transmission regulatory situation, to realize that you can make more money by helping to promote reform than you can by hiding your connections to the mess and trying to shut me up.

If you haven't noticed, that strategy isn't working.
Try attacking the problem head on. Science most definitely does not stand on the theory of philosophy (if so, which theory does all of science depend upon?), and neither would it have disappeared from across cultures simply because the west forgot to introduce science itself to the rest of the world. The fact that science arose independently across cultures tells us that it does not rest on any rigorous philosophical theory. But who gets to space flight without some theory of gravity and motion? It's because space flight does depend on a tall body of theory.

Science is simply a community and inter-generational task of causal modeling via evidence. It cannot be denied simply because the west forgot to tell the rest of the world of philosophy. Science was invented by no philosophical theory. Humongous western development may have been spurred by the worldview of western philosophers, but science does not need such roots.

This is not the same as Newton laying down the groundwork for a physics. Now that is a pillar of theory that a community builds around. That's no sarcasm by the way, but rather it is awe and respect for a theory that can act as a pillar or bedrock of continual community growth and stable theoretical illumination for hundreds of years.

Have philosophers finally built any pillar by which they may create tall structures? Or is everything they make made of sand, and thus their buildings are only waist high after thousands of years across cultures?

At most, science only needs 1% of philosophy in order to have some self-perspective. But let's not go too deep in, because we know that pillars of sand cannot build any cross-cultural theory beyond waist-high structures.
the ethics of business are... way harder than the ethics of Engineering.

Engineers occasionally have conflicts of interest with their employers and clients (e.g. when asked to build something clearly dangerous) but it's very, very rare. And Engineers are almost never asked to conceal relevant information from people they directly work with..

Business people face conflicts of interest with their customers and suppliers every day.

In business? concealing relevant information is standard, in fact, you might be failing in your duty to your shareholders if you reveal relevant information to your customers or suppliers. But, you may be defrauding those customers or suppliers if you don't reveal enough information.

This makes business ethics a lot more complex. Now, I agree that the YC ethics as written are super vague and making them more clear would be very good. In fact, I think YC has a chance to set a standard here. Considering how YC explicitly asks for hustlers, and people who push the line, one could even argue that they have a responsibility to make the line clear.

However, it is an extremely difficult thing to do. When a task is beyond your means, is it better to put up a "better than nothing" attempt that doesn't completely solve the problem, or to put up nothing at all? I don't know.
You are quite right. But my posting history has led some to label me as naive... I think it's closer to the truth to say:

Truth, Trust, and Transparency are always differentiators but the reality is they are only subjectively quantifiable, and therefore a problem waiting to happen if a majority of shareholders aren't exactly aligned.

Or, simply put, large companies generally are forced into an amoral "objective and quantifiable" position. Thus it has ever been.

As a founder, I have more control over my company's culture, but I have no illusions that I can set it in stone.
I have yet to see a precise definition of "free will" that does not require magic (i.e. humans are not bound by the laws of physics) and somehow captures the intuitive feeling that "we" decide what we do. As far as I'm concerned, free will is an illusion.
What resources did you use to learn to turn wood into a raised garden bed? Or was it so simple that you just figured it out on your own?
You might want to add something about treating customers ethically, even when not required by law. I think with some of the bitcoin companies out there, there is increased potential for financial shenanigans that could negatively impact YC's reputation. (Frontrunning, etc.)
Interesting. Thanks very much for the explanation.
> If we can model or compute physical processes [...]

We can't, at least not with Turing machines or with things equivalent to Turing machines. Feynman showed in 1982 [1] that Turing machines suffer exponential slowdowns when trying to simulate quantum physics.

Computing physical processes beyond some special cases (which include many very useful physical processes) will have to wait for advances in quantum computing.

[1] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall05/frs119/pa...
WindowMaker representin'!

It totally does: fast, stable, restartable (kill -USR1 <pid>), lightweight, stays out of the way, easily configurable, portable config files, and a very, very, very consistent UI over the past 17 years that I've been using it (nearly a decade of which it saw virtually no dev activity and, frankly, didn't need it -- updates have started trickling in again).

Thing is, after nearly two decades, it's solidly ingrained into my desktop use habits. And while I try alternatives from time to time, they always leave me running screaming back to good old wmaker.
Yep it certainly seems crazy in a obvious way.

Is it a joke paper perhaps? Reading it, it seems a bit muddled, almost on purpose. Stating known incorrect statements like the brain is 'lossless'.

Unless it's trying to say, you can create a conscious computer (obvious) but to compute it, it might be impossible?
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Some of the mistakes mentioned in OP (#1, #3, and #4) can be automatically caught by tools like PyLint (and to lesser extent, Pyflakes), as well as good unittests.
Unix desktops always seem to have weird inconsistent margins and fonts that somehow don't look right.

Just doesn't feel nice.
This is not so a much of a feature request, I would simply like it if the background color could be white, or a shade of white. I have been reading a lot of news here over the past few days and I get the feeling my eyes have been hurting due to the text and background color combination. Could be just me.
VMware is owned by EMC. VMware bought Spring Source. EMC bought Pivotal Labs. VMware and EMC subsequently decided to spin-out a few of their acquisitions, including Spring and Pivotal Labs: into a company they dubbed Pivotal Software.
SLF4j is already the standard wrt logging. I think one thing to think of here is libraries.

If there is one logging engine to depend on that libs can use, this means less dependency hell.

Fighting it is a losing battle with how much traction it has among all the different libs.
Yea it sounds like the mgmt is trying to squeeze money from customers to "pay" for the upgrades. Best solution is just find a new employer.
Ask HN: Finding your awesome job?
Do you have a full-time job you love doing? That you are excited to start when you get up in the morning? That lets you work at your biggest ambition? How did you get that vocation, and how did you get that job?

I am especially interested in people who went from doing one kind of job to another really different kind of job, and in people who didn't even know their current job existed when they were just starting out in their career, and in people who wouldn't describe their current work as primarily about programming or analyzing data (although those things might be part of it!).
I also disagree. And I have no dog in this fight -- no affiliation with YC nor Aaron/thinkcomp.

It is false and tendentious to claim that "lawsuits are signaling mechanisms for ethical problems" -- the law nowadays is sadly well-divorced from ethics. Just look at some of Hollywood's inane copyright lawsuits with Silicon Valley companies as defendants. Or the rise in software "patent" suits. Or Harvey Silverglate's book Three Felonies a Day. Etc.

It would probably be true to say that lawsuits are signaling mechanisms for business success. I once interviewed Cypress Semiconductor CEO TJ Rodgers who pointed to the list of complaint cover pages on his office wall. There were dozens. He said something to the effect of: Whenever we get sued, that means that our competitors are unable to win in the marketplace. Bring it on!

If I'm not mistaken Aaron/thinkcomp is suing just about everyone who could possibly be a defendant including Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase, DST Global, Dwolla, Kleiner Perkins, Slide co-founder Max Levchin, Reddit CEO Yishan Wong, Sequoia Capital, Square, and Y Combinator. (If YC principals don't reply in this thread, it's probably because of litigation.)

A uninvolved attorney, commenting on this case, wrote: "Unfortunately for Aaron Greenspan, he has sued enough people to seem litigious at best—his own word choice—and a little crazy at worst (that last word choice is mine)." http://blog.upcounsel.com/aaron-greenspan-versus-silicon-val... While I'm expressing no opinion about the merits of this suit, I do wish Aaron/thinkcomp would do less lawyering and more, actual, you know, engineering.
The area at the top of the cabin is pretty much 'dead space' in terms of the airframe. In contrast, there's a metric shit-ton of wiring and various piping under the floor (with easy maintenance access by popping up floor panels). There's also other important things under there, like the wing spar pass-through :) If you raised the seats to put the luggage there, the curved sides of the cabin wouldn't allow you to put a seat near the window, so you'd lose a lot of valuable seating area (which airlines track to fractions of an inch)...
For a similarly super-geeky exploration of consciousness, I recommend this talk - "Consciousness and The Interface Theory of Perception" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqDP34a-epI

It provides a computable model of consciousness and reality that requires no objective reality, only conscious agents interacting with each other.
Speech recognition is an important problem, but if the problem solver does not have an angle of attack, it does not make sense to try and solve it just yet. To quote Richard Hamming from his lecture "You and your research", "It's not the consequence that makes a problem important, it is that you have a reasonable attack."
these projects died because people thought they were weird

Actually, at least two of those (E and WindowMaker) remain alive. And WindowMaker's got its fervent fans (you're hearing from one here).

While Raster's continued to plink away at Enlightenment, among the reasons WindowMaker development's been so modest is that it accomplished its mission: provide an implementation of the NexTstep interface. I use wmaker without most of the rest of the GNUstep tools (I find them kind of funky and cumbersome), but the window manager itself is simple, straightforward, and rocks.

It's also very similar under the hood to Aqua as used now in OS X, which for the most part just skins it differently and removes a bunch of features I like -- so while I love wmaker, I really can't function on Macs.

As for userbase. Yeah. I'm aware that I'm in the minority. I'm totally OK with that.
Actually, Cyanogenmod is going in a not-so-free direction and the better option now is OmniROM.

Also, the best reference for all these issues is http://prism-break.org/
What are the most overrated films?
I would argue they're way worse than Bose. Bose products, at least to me, sound good but are overpriced. Beats products are overpriced but also sound bad.
I think the majority of dated-ness is due to icons.I bet if you install Faenza icons on this, it'll immediately look a lot more polished.
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Everyone laughed when Beijing proposed the Qinghai-Tibet railway too. It would have to be built 1,200 miles over seasonal permafrost and the workers would have to wear special suits and breathing apparatus.

It has been running since 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinghai–Tibet_Railway
A flat response is rarely desirable, or at least rarely intended, except for equipment designed for audio production.
Alibaba was at one time 40% owned by Yahoo and close to 40% by Softbank, with significant stakes by investors like Silver Lake and Digital Sky. Tencent was 46% owned by South African Naspers, which still owns 34%. Baidu was funded by Silicon Valley venture capital. Google actually contributed $5 million to Baidu's third round and offered to buy the whole for $1.6B (and allegedly could have cinched the deal if they had offered $2B).

Google China was led by a Chinese American academic from Taiwan (though well liked by the Chinese) and staffed with managers recruited from Google's Chinese American employees, who had cushy US jobs to go back to and did not want to lose career opportunities in the US. The managers of their local competitors didn't have such luxuries.
In the short term it does, the long term? Not so much.
I'm using XFCE and Cinnamon on my Linux Mint 16. Can anybody comment if they think installing LXQt (via the PPA) could break my existing DEs? I really want to give this a try as I like to try out different DEs.
Grep is just as good, and with the recent order of magnitude speed improvement on non-C locales that they made -- see https://lwn.net/Articles/586899/ -- which may not have made its way into distros yet, it's easily the best option.

I have a simple wrapper over egrep (see https://github.com/sitaramc/ew ) that adds those little extras (ignoring binary files, ignoring VCS directories...).

I'm sure it's improved since the days I tried it, but I tend to be permanently prejudiced against tools where the author can't/won't document the file selection logic and says "there's really no English that explains how it works" when someone asks.
True, but if they have a system ready to roll and are in a good negotiation position (iTunes is effectively a monopoly) it puts a lot of pressure on the labels to sign
They've got iTunes Match and iTunes radio, which are both similar to but just slightly to either side of Spotify.
I always liked the idea in the old Cyberpunk tabletop RPG, that an artificial intelligence arose out of the 'internet' with its vast amounts of interconnected computing power, but because it was so loosely coupled and distributed we could not observe it nor be aware of it (apart from a few 'netrunners').
It crashes with Chrome also, but I was able to read the page with Opera Mini. iPhone 5, iOS 7.1.
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