skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if earlier comments on news aggregation sites (like Hacker News, but probably more influentially Reddit) may have changed the practices at some of the press-release recycling services. Maybe they are getting better (although I would still much better like submissions of actual independently reported journalistic stories about science here) because people have been complaining.
Something about this article rubs me the wrong way:

- Name dropping a couple random pilots (who are probably going to be fired), when it sounds like this is a systemic issue.

- Implying that using a GoPro camera during flight is illegal, since "most" devices have WiFi. Maybe true for newer devices, but none of my older GoPro cameras have WiFi. And I especially don't see the problem if recording was started before flight began.

- Glossing over the fact that all of this is legal, if done with a conventional (non-WiFI) camera when sterile cockpit rules aren't in effect.

Ya, using a laptop while flying is probably a bad choice. But I fail to see why it's okay to take a photo with a complicated DSLR camera, but not to take a quick snapshot with any other device. Especially considering that pilots are already allowed to use tablets as electronic flight bags now.
It is frequently claimed that in some European countries, it is standard practice to "shoot-to-disable" but I have been told by trainers in the USA that doing that makes you likely to miss and/or risk danger of hitting another person. if that is true, then it would seem to be a bad policy, but it's claimed it works better. Who is right? I wish some journalist would write an article on this.
I have a really hard time looking at what was done to Sony and thinking "that was a force for good in action".
> at least they seems to be sober.

Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to step out of the car ...
I've always wondered how B-Squared got such big design wins. They also did the Coca-Cola Freestyle.

Best I can tell is that they're so tight with Microsoft (ex-employees, maybe?) so when a large F-100 class company wants an embedded GUI and goes to Microsoft first, MS sells them on WinCE and then points the client to B-Squared to finish the work.

Or maybe B-Squared is the only firm left still writing GUIs for WinCE.
Hah, that's amazing. Great solution. If I had a house, I'd put together something like that, but with a Qi wireless charger with the magnet holding it up (hopefully strong enough).

Still waiting for home automation widgets to come down in price so I have an excuse to install a lot of them in my apartment.
It seems I skimmed the whole thing a bit too quickly. I didn't realise it was a baseball term. It sounds so wrong to me.
I refreshed the page twice, thinking that the server was under too much load to serve the CSS properly.

I was wrong.
What about for just a smallish single machine corpus of document (1000)?
They're missing a very important distinction between pilot and pilot in command.
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From Ratatouille:

"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so..." - Anton Ego
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He works for a company called Prezi whose product is the slideshow software he's using. God, I sound like a stalker, don't I.
What company do you work for so that we can thoroughly vet that you are not a part of any global conspiracies? If we do find something that could be a problem, you will be tried for crimes against humanity as a lowly employee trying to make ends meet.

Everything you responded to me with btw, has nothing to do with Sony. Your strawman, burn it.
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I flew 172's as a kid and I took lots of pictures. There were times that it could be done safely, especially when the guy in the seat next to me had the controls. Would I have risked my life for a photo? Never. These guys are in the same boat.
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> photo with a complicated DSLR camera, but not to take a quick snapshot with any other device

I think it all comes down to distraction potential. DSLRs don't have apps and games etc on them.
Only among commoners.
RethinkDB keeps looking better and better. That aside, I have recently been convinced of the huge advantages of a strict schema on your data. It's just very very useful to know that your data will be a specific type when loaded.

In cases where we didn't enforce that (e.g. allowing nulls when we shouldn't have, or using a JSON blob), it came back to bite us in the ass.
If the other guy has the controls it's not like you're going to grab them away from him without clearly communicating anyway... Plenty of time to drop the camera while you say "I have the controls" and he says "you have the controls".

Edit: They're trying to make this seem like it's texting and driving. The stakes are much higher and it's clearly not.
Yeah, this is horsehit. I can mount my iPhone to my window and have it record high def video. Then I can go back into the video and pull a couple nice Instagrams after having not interacted with the device for hours.
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I have a 2014 Escape too and I am happy with Sync insofar as I can get most things I need done done without actually using Sync :-) HVAC has buttons below the screen, radio has buttons on the steering wheel. And the feature I use most often is probably the hands-free phone call integration over bluetooth, which seems to work well without any intervention once it is set up.

Agreed that the actual GUI is atrocious and clunky. The way it deals with text messages is hilarious. Really I just pretend it doesn't exist and I'm happy.
This code reminds me why clever is the enemy of good.
> essentially cured [...] fully potent [...] unprecedented [...] unparalleled

Is anybody else getting a strong "too good to be true" vibe from all these unqualified superlatives?

"New single-cell molecules with triple-hormone action" sounds like somebody's already planning the marketing campaign.
Written language has become more prominent, recorded language has been introduced, and more of us experience some formal instruction in what the rules are. Those seem all like reasons new words are more likely to conform to the rules.
Is there a clear violation for a co-pilot or navigator who isn't actively participating in flight duties? If you've ever sat second seat on approach there's not much to do after turning final.
Choosing between more/er and most/est has always seemed quite random to me for two syllable adjectives. The problem with English is that there ALWAYS seems to be an exception to the rule.
Yes, I agree with dmurray that it shouldn't happen consistently. I haven't seen it, and I've found the ratings system to work really well in practice. I'm roughly an intermediate level player, so can't speak to lower levels in particular, but I've never heard anybody complain about not being able to find competitive games against others with comparable ratings.

The only times that happens as far as I know are when the rating really doesn't reflect the current skill, which can happen over the board with juniors that are improving so quickly that their rating hasn't caught up yet, or people who haven't yet played enough games for the rating to be accurate (e.g., a brand new account on a site that starts with a rating of 1200, which is solved by not playing people who haven't played enough games yet).
Ok, I think that make sense. Basically, importing it lets you refer to the symbol in an abbreviated way. But it is always that symbol. If there was some odd case where you wanted every ??:FOO to be overridden, it would be tougher. (No, I am not trying to make a case for that scenario. Just making sure I understand.)

And I understand what you are saying about CL being nice. I'm currently going through Land of Lisp and it is interesting to see how many things are covered. Granted, even scheme has this, to an extent. Reading SICP feels like reading a book on what was going to rise and fall in programming in the years to come.

Regardless, Thanks!
The "asshole" in the end was wholly unnecessary.

Did it occur to you that for a moment scotty79 was truly asking an honest question and didn't think of it from the angle of the effect on employees and was probably agreeing with you up until you called him an asshole?
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In an awesome paper [1] published in 2007, it was shown that irregular English verbs have been dying out (i.e., "regularized") at an incredibly precise and measurable rate. The paper shows "how the rate of regularization depends on the frequency of word usage. The half-life of an irregular verb scales as the square root of its usage frequency: a verb that is 100 times less frequent regularizes 10 times as fast."

[1] "Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language" by
Erez Lieberman, Jean-Baptiste Michel, [...], and Martin A. Nowak
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2460562/
Real names (as opposed to anonymity and pseudonymity) are double-edged sword, too. In a less civilized countries you can get physically hurt if someone didn't agree with your writings, no matter whenever they're valid and constructive or not. Maybe on civilized ones too, since a joke about punching on s face over TCP/IP didn't happened out of nowhere.
IMO this is why we need to get humans away from the controls. If it's such an intense situation that we need the utmost human focus for hours on end, then i'd say its a process that really ought to be improved by additional systems to assist the humans.
The Swiss may have one of the highest rates of firearms at home but almost no ammunition is held at home. Previously the militia stored ammo at home, but it was strictly audited and missing ammo would get the person in potentially serious trouble.

So, while they have arms, the arms are in effect, disarmed.
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Sure it's all meta. That doesn't change that we aren't talking about HN only though :)
I <3 the ending - 'and that is how our youngest irregular, snuck, sneaked in.'
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Ford's also the company that has critical systems disable if the key is bumped out of the ignition. And then "Fixed" it by closing the hole on the keyfob so people couldn't hook more stuff on it and thus reduce the chance of it falling out.

The fact that any safety critical systems just die when the key comes out of the ignition, while moving at high speeds, is even more damning, IMO.
I think the app is a great idea, but why limit to just this? Deeper integration of intelligent personal assistant features would be useful.
TL;DR: Capitalism solves everything. /sarcasm.

Some day humanity will realize that the freedom to say and pursue a different opinion, is not the same as "competition".

The freedom to a diff opinion, and pursuing it, is good. Cooperation and sharing, is good. Competition, is bad. It focuses on "wining" and not on solutions and improvement.

PS: Yeah, I know, I live in a wrong, fucking, century :-(
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I feel like PG's submarine piece has really made HN's view of PR very black and white. There are a lot more gradations, and likely this is a piece that was pitched by Facebook and actually was moderately investigated by Wired. The worst journalists are copy pasting press releases, the best are finding their own stories, but the vast majority lie somewhere in between. And I'm not convinced there is anything wrong with that.
There's more than one person in the cockpit and only one of them is touching the controls at any point... This really isn't as dangerous as people are making it seem.
Lack of Google login while supporting Android is kind of glaring, in the app itself. Not everyone has Facebook or Twitter.
B-Squared had some very good talent also; a few of my UW CSE classmates worked there in the mid/late 90s. I think it kind of went downhill when none of their own products took off and they basically became a pure consulting company.
+1 This is a better answer... if they could do the CTA in Chicago first that would be great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elMXt00xyIU
> to their employees having their privacy destroyed

I'm always shocked at how concerned Americans are about the big bad wolf that is "identity theft". Is it really as bad as everyone thinks?

In all honesty, when your info gets leaked, don't you just cancel every credit card and bank account, get a new SSN, change your drivers license number, change your phone number and a few other numbers and move on with your life?

Is it honestly much different than losing your wallet full of cards? (which must happen to tens of thousands of people in the developed world daily)

Does anyone have direct experience on what "identity theft" is actually like?

(Honest question, I'm not American and I don't understand why it's such a big deal)
Right. Which, in the case of a massive data breach, would tend to cause them to line up behind the potential plaintiffs, not the defendant. In reality, in cases like this, both sides will have top notch representation.

(The problem, of course, is that there are cases where the stakes are non-monetary, or the plaintiff places a much greater value on a relatively small amount of money than a lawyer would...but I don't think that's really what we're talking about here.)
if you download from official sources there's no higher risk than downloading from app stores.

There are tons of malware that ask for shady permissions on Google's app store.. ala battery optimizer -- why Google expose people to such crap?
Your claim is that if a unanimous decision has been arrived at, it constitutes the will of the people. No one disputes this - the case where everyone agrees is trivial and uninteresting. It also does not describe the situation with Uber in Portland, Delhi, or anywhere else. I want Uber in Delhi, some politicians don't. Hence there is no consensus.

You either have a coherent definition of "will of the people" that goes beyond consensus, or you don't. If you do, give the definition.
Real names keeps unintentional trolling down. Besides, I live too far away for anyone to punch me.
Really sorry about this. We try to follow-up with every candidate, and you must have slipped through the cracks during the Thanksgiving holidays.

I'll make sure we get back to you ASAP.
The short answer is that it is very difficult (in many cases not possible) to get a new SSN.
Your first sentence contains an amazing turn of phrase. Thank you.
this got no comments? wow. such a great post.
Dude seriously? I think you've lost the plot… Sony is a company that does a million things, and nothing that I'm aware of that would deserve the term 'atrocity', unless maybe you count some of their movie plots.
NTSB investigates most crashes, not ATSB.

I have mixed feelings about the tone of the article. Institutional distraction is a major cause of mishaps.
In the BEA548 crash in 1972 its believed that an argument over industrial action contributed to the crash. No Personal Electronic Devices were involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_European_Airways_Flight...
Similarly, in Colgan Air 3407, the crash was caused as much by organizational issues such as scheduling, and resulting fatigue, as by distractions and chatter in the cockpit.

Pilots and airliners are approaching an "uncanny valley" of automation where pilot workload is reduced to the point they switch off and don't fly the plane. Fatigue and other human factors are a greater issue than camera/smartphone use in the cockpit.

Air Crash Investigation: Who's flying the plane
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1we1rd_mayday-s06e03-speci...
This special describes the issues of automation.
That article was an amazing read.
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But that's not how the rules are written, what with the prohibition on wireless communication capability regardless of whether it's enabled. If the rules can't be honest about what they're really trying to regulate and why, then they are not deserving of respect. Politicized bullshit rules in the cockpit are way more dangerous than any personal electronics.
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This seems kind of far fetched. They are claiming that using a camera during any part of the flight is not allowed because such a camera these days might have the ability to communicate and therefore is a “personal wireless communications device”. Even if that is how the FAA would interpret the rule (unlikely) how can anyone know how communicative the device used to take the picture was?

Ultimately you have to trust the pilots judgment. This is pretty stupid even if some technical violation of the rules has actually occurred.
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This David Yanofsky needs to get a life. The iPad for example is approved for use as a Class 1 EFB (ELECTRONIC FLIGHT BAG). So, there is no problem using an iPad or even some similar device in the cockpit. http://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/airline_ope...

Also, this is a perfect example of why the FAA was and is foolish to insist upon banning the use of electronic devices for spurious and dishonest reasons (as they have done).
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a quick search shows w00w00 would be connected. Not sure of the others, but I (and I'm sure you do too) know of at least MoD, TESO, ADM folks who came through there.

Not saying all groups by any means, but even with being a few years late getting started in the infosec world of Atlanta there were still a lot of old guard hackers hanging around when I got out of school and people still felt comfortable sharing stories from time to time.
For others who might be curious about the Hemmingway connection, http://petersencj14.blog.com/2013/02/15/an-essay/ seems to explain what you're referring to
Sweden donated 1.37 billion SEK 2007. That makes approx 200 million Euro. My bad for assuming it had continue to be that large, I assumed because recent recognition.

http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/sverige-okar-bistandet-...

Additional reading http://motbilder.blogspot.se/2007/12/dns-mrkliga-rkning-om-p...
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>DSLRs don't have apps and games etc on them.

A pilot that lacks the discipline and or professionalism to stop himself from playing Flappy Birds instead of doing his job isn't going to magically become fit-for-purpose just because you took his toy away.
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Do not do this.

In 15 years, your car will still be around but there is a very good chance that neither CarPlay nor Android Auto will exist anymore.

You're going in the right direction - this is slightly less stupid than having something like a Pandora client permanently installed in your car such that it cannot and will not ever be updated once the next model year comes out and Pandora makes breaking API changes or ceases to exist.

The only reasonable thing to do is provide long-lived open standard interfaces like the 3.5mm analog connector. Anything else is deliberately anti-consumer planned obsolescence. It doesn't matter if you think "Android is the platform of the future" or something. It probably isn't. Don't tie something with the release-replacement cycle of a car to a disposable device like a smartphone.
Actually, left and right leaning economists are surprisingly unbiased. See the essay (based on data) "Economists Are Almost Inhumanly Impartial". It's as if the scientific method works.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/12/economists-are...
I disagree.

Take a hypothetical, but concrete, situation : blue people are less "bulky" than green humans, and thus can't carry as heavy loads.

Then, if the situation is a fire department hiring, there's 2 ways to go about this :

1) you don't invite blue humans, only green ones -> discrimination.

2) you invite both, test them, and all the blue applicants happen to get disqualified during some test, this is not racism (the odds are very good this will happen if you try it, sadly, but that's not the fault of any fire department. Nor are the resulting ethnic imbalances in companies indications of racism)

Then there are the difficult cases. Like for a fireman interview not inviting anyone under 70 kg because it's just not going to happen ...

(This is the current European legal standard for discrimination. Where racial/sexual/religious/ethnic/... differences directly conflict with tasks to be carried out, like in the case of a fire department it is OK to refuse based on those criteria, provided you give individuals a chance. E.g. there was a European-level case of a muslim who was refused as a fireman because he refused to carry women, that was not considered discrimination. They actually hired a muslim doctor, and then fired him because he refused to operate on a woman, while he was on call, at 3am. That too was considered not discrimination, nor was a certain reluctance to hire this guy (any doctor would of course have been fired for refusing to operate on anyone))
There is value in pointing out problems - if you aren't assessing the given pros/cons of a proposal, you're throwing knives blindfolded on a circus wheel...and I don't want to be the one pinned to the wheel with someone doing that. There are too many examples of where this type of thinking sinks everything it pollutes, including startups.

Critical thinking is not given enough value in our society - a lot of people are not successful because they lack it. Spend a prolonged amount of time around many less fortunate people, and you will see this in abundance. Critical thinking is not the only important thing, but it is the fundamental baseline that is most lacking. There are more than enough creators - there are not enough people laying down foundation for creators to proliferate in.

The ability to analyze and assess, and craft a beautiful solution based on the detailed analysis, cannot be possible without the first step of top level understanding. People forget this, and want to jump to the crafting part. The lack of understanding of fundamentals will prevent such people from succeeding, unless it is in spite of themselves. One cannot hope to come up with a beautiful proof of one of the Millennial Prize problems without an understanding of the basics of mathematics. One cannot hope to craft a beautiful composition of music or improvisation without having an intuitive understanding of how certain sounds/patterns move people. One cannot create a fine work of art without a similar understanding of how colors, combinations of colors, and texture affect the total perception.

There cannot be enough stress on the importance of the foundation that is critical thinking. Each of those examples I cited above are examples of critical thinking in action, each in different forms. Critical thinking is not just the formal realm of abstract thought - it is about how we as humans think on a basic level, and how we derive at our conclusions. Certain applications of it involve tapping into previous experiences and quickly determining what should be the next path to take. Others involve carefully reasoned thought.
You know what man, critical reading/thinking. We should read just everyone in the same manner: with an open mind, but not one that just receives everything written as the ultimate truth.
The original Apple TV does this, in a fashion. The whole UI is a glorious mess of Quartz Composer.

Granted, that's no ActionScript, but very much a prototype being pressed into duty.