skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The software and data that powers American’s iPad-based flight kits are provided by Jeppesen, a unit of Boeing Digital Aviation."

So not ForeFlight. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9457945.
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Good point and definitely possible. In fact I've done it myself - switched computer rejected the old certificate and suddenly nobody could access the app. Fortunately at the time it was only a few people and a beta so not too big of a problem.
Why? It saves a tonne of cash ($1.2 million per year), and has led to a few dozen flights delayed, ever.

It's wasteful to force the pilots to carry around 30lbs of paper which is out of date every few months, and which is not safety critical.
Talking of Hardware and Javascript I have to plug the Espruino: http://www.espruino.com/Reference

Disclaimer: My pico arrived the other week.
Agreed. That's one of the reasons I'm not able to use it as much as I'd like to. Basically only works perfect well for basic Markdown (and adding images with their GUI)—if you need any extra code or tweaks on Markdown, you'll be escaping a lot of characters.

Still a nice app in so many ways.
This certainly fits with my personal experience.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to live for a 1000 years so I can just do some of the things I still want to do.
From "The Guardian" live feed:

"JSpOC, located at Vandenberg air force base in California, also says there are 44 pieces of debris in the vicinity of the cargo vehicle and part of the rocket body."

I'm speculating then that it got nailed by something. With the large drop in propellant as you noted, maybe something nailed a pressurized tank? That could punch a hole in it, and maybe the resulting thrust from the tank is what drove it's spin.
Password Alert: a Chrome extension by Google to detect password phishing
You could spend that 4 hours developing a side project. 4 hours a day is a LOT of time.
And why would I want to understand how things work down in the OS?

Anyway, C is a horrible language. Between Fortran and Ada it's unclear to me why C should be chosen for anything, inertia and herdthink aside.
> Paper worked, and we should go back to it.

The article says pilots experienced "frequent injuries... from carrying heavy flight bags".
Can you elaborate on that? What's the C code, the translated Java code and your expected Java code?

Thanks!
> Why would you want to downplay the dangers of pilots losing access to their flight manuals?

If it happens at an actually critical time, they can have the ATC read the relevant sections to them.
Google Launches Password Alert for Chrome to Keep U from Reusing Ur Passwords
A while ago this was sort of leaked on HN, but someone called it "really unlikely": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566022

Now we've publicly released my project. It's a bit different than most phishing detection -- it detects phishing by noticing where the user has typed their password. Please try it and let me know what you think. The source code is here: https://github.com/google/password-alert
It's available in the Chrome Web Store here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noo...
There are so many possible scenarios that are encountered in flight that there is no way to have them all memorized. There are certain "memory items" that a pilot must know, but many procedures for dealing with both routine and emergency problems require the non-flying pilot to pull out a quick-reference handbook or checklist to be sure everything is done in the proper order and nothing is overlooked. Even routine departures and landings follow a checklist.
The notion that education reform can't ever happen in Brazil, or that no education is allowed outside of the classroom as long as it's in addition to (rather than replacing) the regular classroom, are both false. In fact, that reform is already at play and it's been a big topic in Brazilian media the past years. It's no longer banned, although you still need to put your kid in an accredited school, which means that homeschooling is legal, but forgoing 'regular' education is not. It may not practically change anything, but it shows things are already slowly shifting.

For example I've personally ran a modestly successful software business and never took a CS class in school. I'll never consider myself an actual software engineer but I've built, sold and shipped software products to large companies with self-taught skills, and could have become a full fledged software engineer if I delved deeper. And those skills cost me absolutely nothing, were attained completely through the internet and were in addition to a college degree in a completely different field.

I don't see how Brazilians don't have and can't have similar experiences.

Anyway I appreciate your frustrations and internet education is still really nascent, I agree it's not a suitable replacement today for classroom education. But let's be fair here, we're talking about an article here that expects the education gap to be bridged by the year 2100, so the notion that internet education can accelerate that (not to 2016, but say to 2050) is entirely feasible in my opinion.

And that'd be gigantic, two whole generations earlier? If you're wondering how significant a single generation can be, a generation is about 25 years, and every year 130 million kids are born. Two generations of kids having improved education is literally empowering over 6 billion people who have had access to improved education. One of the big hopes of the 21st century are the inventions of the billions of people who'll be empowered by that. Look how far we've gotten with a few hundred million educated people.

Anyway I'm hopeful :)
The flight plan is programmed into the airplane's avionics, as well as on a printed hard copy in the cockpit. The app is supplemental. It can not be used as a primary navigation reference, per FAA regulations.
I'd say I've never seen a community of substantial size where assholes did not try to ruin it. /r/askscience has fantastic mods and there are many smaller subreddits like /r/london and /r/unitedkingdom where it's too small to attract anything worse than a mouthy ukipper.
> But we have to deal with the cards we were dealt

Are you sure about that? You're a manager. Responding to your parent comment about managing worker's perceptions of their team members: In the case that someone wants to leave at 3 because they got there at 6, why not just explain to everyone that it is, in fact, okay (or even encouraged)?
You are free to assume that undefined behavior never happens. Unless you want to support invalid c programs.
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Does anybody know why neither Chrome nor Firefox have TOR routing built-in? It would be so awesome to open .onion links without having to jump through hoops.
Is there a website or something to search legal movie torrents? An RSS feed will be great
Of course, packing people into these Hong Kong apartments (dozens of stories of flats upon each other, 3 people living in a 5 square meter unit) is not exactly considered "good quality life" by most of us. Though it is better than the life these people had before.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/wealthy-hong-kong-poor...
Eh, yes and no. The FAA requires operators to get approval for iPad EFBs individually, and does not require GA pilots to do any such thing. "Certified," however, has a special meaning in aviation. iPads are not certified hardware, period. Pilots must still use their aircraft avionics (which are certified) as their primary means of navigation. iPads can be supplemental only, for both general aviation and commercial operations.
Um if you need flash to play the video it's not an HTML5 player. Neither of these formats have consistent HTML5 video tag support across browsers.
Thank you!

But of course a lot of development and money went into our translation framework. So the main aim has to be to make money with it. But as long as we have capacity, we're happy to translate open-source software and improving our translation while doing so.
That's interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Does that only extend to the age group you mentioned (>12)?
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because there aren't any such dangers.

Nothing safety critical would have been entrusted to the iPad. The pilots would be able to deal with the problem with either ATC support (anything the pilots can read to each other, ATC can read to them) or backup papers.

Yes, if you're on the ground, you won't be taking off without the stuff, but that's obvious when it can be fixed by the pilot getting out for a few minutes.

People don't screw around with plane safety. The failure mode of 'our iPads turned off' will have been considered as a prelude to their being introduced.
# ----------------------------------
# general layout of the land
# ----------------------------------
$GOPATH/src/.go
$GOPATH/src/.go/config
$GOPATH/src/.go/vendors # for all projects

# ----------------------------------
# $GOPATH/.go/vendors sketch
# ----------------------------------

lib/mq = github.com/lib/pq@master
mgo = labix.org/v2/mgo
... etc

# ----------------------------------
# specific project 1
# uses the global version of package labix.org/mgo
# uses a project specific package hotness
# ----------------------------------

$GOPATH/src/mygofoo
$GOPATH/src/mygofoo/foo.go
$GOPATH/src/mygofoo/.go
$GOPATH/src/mygofoo/.go/vendors

# ----------------------------------
# foo.go fragment
# ----------------------------------

package mygofoo

import (
"mgo" // version spec'd in global .go
"lib/pq" // version spec'd in project specific .go
"hotness" // version spec'd in project specific .go
...
)
...

# ----------------------------------
# $GOPATH/src/mygofoo/.go/vendors sketch
# ----------------------------------

lib/mq = github.com/lib/pq@experimental // lets pretend
hotness = bitbucket.org/wiz/hotness@master
... etc

# go tool

> cd $GOPATH/src/mygofoo
> go build -vendors
using:
mgo -> labix.org/v2/mgo
lib/pq -> github.com/lib/pq@experimental
hotness -> bitbucket.org/wiz/hotness@master
>

# go tool can obviously allow for command line mods of the .go
This will spawn 1,001 hipster existential crises. Am I more committed to my "individuality" through my commitment to body art or my usage of Apple products?
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Try http://kat.ph they are the largest public listing I know of and they probably have what you're looking for.
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By working remotely, you are not a butt in a seat.
> Why? It saves a tonne of cash ($1.2 million per year), and has led to a few dozen flights delayed, ever.

In total? That's nothing.
Actually, no, the article refers both to years of study and skill measures, and notes that both are low in the developing world.

If it was just years of study that were low, you'd perhaps have a point; perhaps you were confused by not reading the article and only looking at the graphic.
See also the Lockheed D-21: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21

I don't know why, but the D-21 feels very creepy. Especially in person.
in which case they can call in for vectors
Maps too, from what I hear. The problem is scalability. If no one carried maps, everyone would have to talk verbally and take notes with ATC for five minutes for every landing to make sure nothing had changed.

If only a couple planes pester ATC then the system will keep up. It would be safe enough. What are the odds of an inflight emergency requiring a diversion at any instant? Pretty low. So if it happened to one plane they'd figure it out verbally. However requiring all ATC and all pilots to talk over all maps at all landings isn't scalable.

Something similar happens with manuals. One plane loses a system and its ipad, you call home on the radio or satphone or contact a fellow pilot on 123.45 MHz or call ATC for help. This doesn't scale to every plane in the air at the same time for every mostly minor maintenance writeup. Maybe you can ignore error messages this flight, after all most measurable things are not important, just like in business. Or maybe engine code 3141Z.kjdf.subsection2 means the engine is about to explode on the wing, but you've got no manuals...

Something often overlooked is megacorp analysis paralysis. You'll be formally written up if you don't file an engine operation temperature profile thingy form or some meaningless catering receipts or whatever according to boring corporate policy, and it will be brought up at your annual performance review, affect your promotion chances, etc. This scales pretty well when one ipad breaks and you use the copilots ipad or call your boss and argue and he issues you an indulgence or the boss takes dictation of the form for you or you refuse to fly (its only one flight after all). This doesn't scale well when every ipad in a company stops working.

Personally, if I were in a plane over water and I lost all my papers out the window, no fuel estimates, no weight and balance, no maps, no flight plan, no list of obstacles, no nav plan, no notes, nothing at all, I'd probably panic and head for the closest coastal airport (and where is that, without any docs?) If one plane does this, it scales VERY well. ATC calms you down, vectors you in, gives you some geographical advice, and you land. If every plane in the air does this simultaneously, you'll overload ATC and probably get someone killed.

This applies everywhere to all industries not just planes.
Nicely written. Most of us are not in this league, and personally, I am so happy for that. Companies, and world probably too, needs some people like that. But it's a big fallacy to think everybody should be, act and work like that. This world already has enough unhappy people chasing careers that won't make them happy. What we need more of are balanced, happy and strong personalities (that can create stable and loving environment for their kids for example) to counter-balance these perceptions. One can be a great performer, not despite but exactly because he has a life apart from work. Seems to me like a failed management practices that hurt companies in long run.

Raising a happy well-functioning family is freaking hard, I would say it's by far the hardest task one could endeavor on. I have big respect for every man who achieves that. What one has in CV is marginal and really unimportant compared to that. But I am far from stating everybody should have this drive.
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http://commonmark.org/

> We propose a standard, unambiguous syntax specification for Markdown, along with a suite of comprehensive tests to validate Markdown implementations against this specification.
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This is not true. In fact, we've built our entire business on the fact that pilots can use iPads while flying. www.foreflight.com
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Twitter is incapable of ever meeting the Price-Sales multiple of 20X+ until the stock drops closer to reality. The average stock is less than 2X. Apple is around 3X and has never in it's history been greater than 7X. What can Twitter do to multiply their sales by 5X? It's great they make some money but the stock price is unrealistic.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=duff%27s+device&l=1#
Didn't think too much about it since there are many C specific analyzers and tools that do the same. Well, they do it way better. E.g. Valgrind.
Paper has its own problems. The article links to a more complete article on reasons why "shiny things" replaced paper, at http://hub.aa.com/en/nr/pressrelease/american-airlines-compl... :

> An Electronic Flight Bag, which replaces more than 35 pounds of paper-based reference material and manuals that pilots often carried in their carry-on kitbag, offers numerous benefits for American and its pilots.

> ... removing the kitbag from all of our planes saves a minimum of 400,000 gallons and $1.2 million of fuel annually based on current fuel prices. Additionally, each of the more than 8,000 iPads we have deployed to date replaces more than 3,000 pages of paper previously carried by every active pilot and instructor. Altogether, 24 million pages of paper documents have been eliminated

> ... All American pilots now enjoy the benefits associated with replacing their heavy kitbags – one of the airline's biggest sources of pilot injuries – with a 1.35-pound iPad. The digital format also requires less time to update each of the six or more paper manuals found in each pilot's kitbag, as manual paper revisions take hours to complete every month, compared to the minutes it takes for electronic updates.
Well if his "concept" was "pong, but in a disc" I'm not really sure there's all that much to defend there.
If the Empire in Star Wars Had Big Data
As an US-ian, I agree with this. I take it the gp above means the Big events. For example as a kid I was only ever in one big school event, and graduations from highschool/college.
That's been generally how things are on OS X for years (even before the Mac App Store). Small companies like Panic (much smaller originally) have found out that people are willing to pay for quality tools.
Thanks for the mention, elmin. Can confirm ForeFlight is not involved.
Pure speculation here: crawlers go for bulk and likely don't care if they pick up garbage. There may be another level of email harvesting that goes to the level that you suggest, but in seeing all the conventions that are used like the one you show, such code would have to cover lots of them. Return might be very low.
Thanks, that's amazing. I'd never really shared the above before, and had no idea this book existed. I'm buying it now!
Nailed it. I expect to see that headline soon.
Most universities still teach a mandatory OS course where students build their own shell in C. Just because we start people off in block-based languages and python doesn't mean that Computer Scientists don't get the full tour of languages.
Sorry hipster, can't have your cake and eat it too
I can see why Valve deserves a cut, as distributor there are costs associated (though probably not anywhere near 75%). However I don't see why I need to give Bethesda a cut simply because it runs on their platform.

If I develop a Windows application, I don't owe any money to Microsoft. If I make a cocoa app I don't owe money to Apple, There's countless examples of people writing software that runs on top of other peoples copyrighted software. I don't think you can make an argument that it makes your work a derivative work. It's pure crazy to think that I would have to give a substantial cut of my revenues for that "privilege".
Yes, TWTR does seem to move 10% or more on any news, but that isn't "very common" in my opinion.
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Ask HN: What's your experience with the new macbook?
I'm about to buy the new 12 inch macbook, primarily for webdev work while traveling. Would be interested in any experiences with this device.
That's cool. I wonder how difficult it would be to implement in practice.
Immediately after graduating from college, I always felt bad seeing parents who were sacrificing time with their kids to put in extra hours even if the hours weren't necessary. Late night calls to "catch up" when we easily could have waited until the morning.

I just turned 25 and I've worked a few jobs where pretending to work was the norm. It was a drag on me and I was single and in my early twenties. I couldn't imagine doing that while having kids at home as well.

At the same time, this ended up being one of my biggest motivators when it comes to my career. I don't want to end up in that position, ever. If I start a company, I don't want to be that manager. It sucked but it was also a great learning experience so that I know what to avoid in life.
Solving the close browser / tab event issue
I believe the correct term is WYSIWYM ("what you see is what you mean"): editing happens in rich text mode, with pretty styles and no markup, however, those styles are merely part of editor's UI, not written into the document.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM
England by 2016. Probably others.
I am so glad you're not my manager. My team just got a Team of the Year award -- and we are completely results-oriented. I usually get to the office by 10, leave whenever I feel like it. We only care about skill and productivity. We would fire someone who hung around the office in order to meet a perception...
Is Gaming Culture Short-Changed by Current Intellectual Property Law?
I saw that ;-) The translation is:

do {

to.set((from = from.shift(1)).get(-1));

} while(--count > 0);

which looks correct to me. Hence my question what orodley thinks is wrong.
Maker Faire founder Dale Dougherty on the first decade of the maker movement
> The 2C family, for example, arose because of the ban on LSD/mescaline/mushrooms, and is considered to have similar safety profile as the originals.

For what's it's worth many people think they have a higher risk of causing HPPD.
Erowid's got a MSDS for LSD that puts the LD50 at 50mg/kg, so for a 150 pound person, that works out to 3.4 grams.

A normal dose of LSD is measured in micrograms, so the 1000x statement is at least very conservative.
The article is really outdated.
There is no "FhGFS" anymore.

http://www.beegfs.com/content/

What i don't like are metadata servers. I mean mostly I would start out small, with every project. But the "real" cluster file systems don't follow this tradition. The bare minimum of a solid production environment is probably more than 5 nodes, which is really huge for using it as a layer for content distribution in the small scale.

I mean its cheaper to rent s3 / the new aws nfs solution or any other s3 like storage solution, than running a server with a distributed file system by yourself and I'm just considering the running costs, no maintance etc...

Its really hard to do this on premise on a really small scale and just for availability. Most people will mostly just buy this stuff from san/nas vendors if they could afford it, if they have a system that needs to have this built in your pretty much fucked with ugly hacks / solutions.
No just a lot of turtles stacked on top of each other :)

Technically it might be possible to capture more of the solar energy falling on the surface and convert it to light with the exact wavelengths used by plants photosystem 1 & 2, but I suspect it would be hard to make this work.
Comparison of Doom 1, Quake, and Doom 3 entity references system
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You can get the esp8266 modules for around $2.43 now from Aliexpress
How are all mods using Bethesda IP? Surely one could make a simple sphere, import it to the game (and any other game) and call it a mod.
They really don't care about accuracy at all.

For example I regularly receive email delivery attempts to message-ids - which obviously look like email addresses but are not.
Looks more like he is advertising his "course" and have an email list to market his games.

"Matt Akins is the founder of Tapped, an online community built around iOS game development education.
Learn how to rapidly design, develop, and distribute iOS games without making the same mistakes he has like getting his game stolen by the assholes who cloned Threes."
How are mods their IP? if you add an asset, or you REPLACE an asset. In most cases that's YOUR IP. When I added a M1A1 tank to Battlefield 1942 as a kid, I made the model, I made the textures, I wrote the code for it. The fact that a user places those new assets in a directory in such a way that someone else reads and uses them doesn't mean i'm using their IP.