skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other sources of the same story - here are some.

This one has significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558615

Hacker told F.B.I. he made plane fly sideways
(aptn.ca)

This one also has some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554841

Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane
(wired.com)

Other submissions, there may be more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9556690

Researcher may have adjusted airplane controls from in-flight entertainment-FBI
(theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558222

Security researcher claimed to hack, control plane in flight
(engadget.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560248

Hacker 'made plane climb' after taking control through in-flight system
(telegraph.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9557418

Security researcher hacks plane mid-flight
(arstechnica.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9557796

FBI: researcher hacked plane in-flight, causing it to "climb"
(securityaffairs.co)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555669

Hacker told FBI he made plane fly sideways after cracking entertainment system
(aptn.ca)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558411

Researcher hacks flight system of plane, making it climb
(dailymail.co.uk)
It's a classic NY/Jewish joke that the only doctor worth seeing is a doctor whose schedule is fully booked.
My favorite manager, as far as I can tell, communicates N*2 to the client, then we either have time to fix unexpected bugs, or maybe throw in one new feature before delivering exactly when the client expected.
I think one of the issues is that often when it comes to depression treatment precedes diagnosis, and treatments affecting the symptoms can make the diagnosis even more difficult.

People going to their GP with a 'I feel depressed' that get told 'well, here's a prescription for some pills, let me know if you feel better with them if not I can give you something else to try' would be the same as if somebody reports a thorny concurrency bug with your embedded multithreaded application and your first response is 'well, let's try to overclock/underclock the CPU to see if it improves things, if not maybe we can try to change the RAM next time'.

It is a lot cheaper for medical services as a whole to have GPs easily prescribe antidepressants and psychoactive drugs in general rather than have psychologists available immediately for anybody who might need them, but it does not make it right.

Others might not share my misgivings but I would only be willing being prescribed a psychoactive drug by a specialist (psychologist/psychiatrist) after a thorough evaluation and non-pharmacological therapy first, and even then very conservatively and after an explanation more objective than "you have a chemical imbalance in your brain" (which chemicals? what imbalance? what should be the normal values?).

There should be much easier and cheaper access to non-pharmacological treatment for mental issues, but maybe to have that one would need it to be destigmatized, which of course is a very slow process and might or might not be possible due to the identification we have with our minds: if our knee hurts we think "my knee hurts, it needs fixing" if our mind hurts we think "I feel bad, I am a worthless person" which is a lot harder to deal with unfortunately.
> However, it's not clear exactly what a solution would be.

The issue or course is that they don't publicly acknowledge the issue. They'll produce hundreds of pages of reports on the issue and end it with a "what could the problem be?" with shoulders shrugged.

Acknowledging the problem is the first step towards finding the solution.

Here's me almost 1500 days ago (4 YEARS!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598491

Here's the recent thing that was going on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215168

Here's an article on it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3272466

And another
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612638

This discussion goes back to 2011 at least, and WP just can't seem to admit that there's a problem.
What the GP might take from this comment, and possibly what the commenter might have said next, is "Wow, you have real, and serious, problems, no question about it. Problems that should not be dealt with alone. Your problems are serious enough that you should persist in getting help."

And he would be right. It's serious, don't give up, it's very likely that something will work if you give yourself a chance to find it. But you have to look.
Extra? Those people were already somewhere before they died. We'll put them where they already were. First World countries have declining populations, more so when you factor out immigration. What overpopulation crisis?
The linked article in question is the same thing. The author complains it won't run on his PDP-11.

I beg you, however, to reconsider "not such a good idea for a book." It is a perfect idea for a book. It is precisely the kind of information that we're going to lose when Google shuts down Groups, or when the last fidonet archive goes offline. Books like the Unix Hater's Handbook are the only historical context we have for the rise of UNIX, and the death of TWENEX and the LispM.
I wonder how much of it is not because it's in AWK, but because it's about Lisp.

But yes, it is interesting that you can do this. I'm not entirely sure what you'd learn from the image, but it's cool that it's relatively short to do this.
You do realize that he is actually in possession of a reasonably large amount of money and can live independently (if frugally) without payment for the rest of his life.
This is why prayer is better as a preventive measure, not a treatment.

Keeping faith feels healthier than trying yo regain it.
The $25 supports getting the fish to 3rd worlders at a low cost, http://www.luckyironfish.com. Far as I can tell the fish doesn't work if the water is contaminated with arsenic and/or manganese, so more research is needed.
Can C++ become your new scripting language?
> As long as we delude ourselves into believing that the system can be made to work with just the right combination of rules and checks (in other words, as long as we delude ourselves into thinking that markets aren't dynamic and don't route around damage), nothing will change.

You could replace "markets" with "people pursuing their personal gain" there. Of course they will adapt to changes, much like a businessman will just leave the country if he gets tax-raped too hard.

We all pursue our personal gain all the time, and there's nothing wrong with that per se. That's just the way we're biologically programmed to operate.

But go back to what Rod said and take it to its logical conclusion: as long as there is political power, people with it will always be bribed.

But then again, that's pretty much the point of having political power. We're all pursuing our personal gain, and political power is just another means of doing that. The solution, then, is for no one to have political power to begin with.
Terrifying language from a civil liberties stance, but not altogether shocking given the existence of radical groups within the UK territory.

What scares me about government, both in the US and abroad, is not the polarization of parties, but how quickly the dominant ideologies cycle from left to right. The pendulum swings to fast.
The dangers of fishing for p values (to focus on those paragraphs) are covered pretty extensively in undergraduate courses in, at the very least, economics and political science. Something happens between that point, and the point at which a researcher is trying to publish in a journal. I think it is fairly obvious that the problem is related to competition for funding and advancement. Of course this is probably a much more difficult problem to solve.
They pump the milk out of the cow, into a tank. And periodically the milk company comes and take all of it. I guess it is to preserve it inbetween pick-up.

So, it is cold in the tank. And taste really good!
Let the Kids Learn Through Play
This is so important, and one of the subtle reasons that the modern divorce-friendly culture adds dangers to men.
Show HN: Our 1 week hack: A chat room for every app installed on your phone
As far as I can tell the fedora guys wrote libhawkey and dnf to reach some sort of middle ground, as switching to zypper would have implied breaking everything (i.e. all the scripts admins use, rewriting parts of anaconda, etc). The compatibility is not perfect, and in fact a fair amount of people complained (see some discussion on phoronix). As far as the parent post is concerned, to switch to apt would imply switching to deb, which would be a massive change. RPM is simply too different, both in positive (the possibility of changing target directory and of rolling back) and in negative (dependency specification is still rudimental compared to .deb, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNwNF19oFqM). And as rwmj14 said, libsolv is better.
Management: How long will it take?
Me: 2N weeks.
Or maybe he didn't want a friend as a patient. You're not supposed to bond with your therapist but if you're already a friend it's too late.

So his rejection may have been ethical and not about your worth as a patient.
Remember that busy doesn't have to mean hectic -- taking a walk or seeing a movie with people is a way to stay busy.
I'm personally not clear on the history etc of the Apache foundation- why would node join them?
Effort? The more effort you spend on being shocked and appalled, the falser it appears.

And I am really, properly shocked and appalled. I fail to conceive of how people could ever not be terminally depressed in that situation. I fail to understand how they can keep functioning in that situation.

How can people live that way? Worse: how do we expect people to live that way?
Pre-crime? You COULD be a baddy in the future ... we will just lock you up to make sure you won't be one. You have to trust us: It's for the best!
Xero is getting a lot popular among startups these days. My company uses Quickbooks too and we are satisfied with it.
Please don't make people uncomfortable sharing their troubles.
Because switching just the package manager will yield no benefit at all. Having apt as the common package manager among Debian derivatives is meaningful because those distributions get most of their packages from Debian, so they use not only the same package manager, but also same packaging format, same file system hierarchy, same package names/package splitting. All Fedora derivatives, OpenSUSE and Mandriva(?) would agree on using dnf but that would provide no significant benefit at all (other than reusing muscle memory).
That's because most government agencies don't know how to run a software project. From experience, they don't understand the requirements, don't pay attention to conflicting requirements, and often times have no choice in who they hire as a contractor (must submit 3 bids, take the lowest cost.) So what you end up with are a bunch of under paid, under qualified and under staffed people building things.
This series is really awesome. Thank you.
Thanks for the support!! I have heard a lot worse from people. The worst is always when I am suddenly cut off from their life or just ignored. Well, the only way is to move on and try again in such situations. Over analyzing or confrontation only hurts more.
Toy-sized miniature drone picks up enemy subs and eavesdrop on troops
The title is misleading. 'Exercise alone' suggests no change in diet but the article talks about exercise coupled with an increase in calorie consumption.
Hostage saves herself via Pizza Hut app: “Please help. Get 911 to me.”
At reddit were not really Lisp experts - more like they heard the hype and believed it for a while, without having written anything substantial before. They wrote not more than a sketch of the site in Lisp and at the first sight of problems they switched to a language/implementation they were more familiar with. Neither Lisp in general nor SBCL specifically were/are that much used to form the bases of high profile websites.

> I know of several other large corporate projects over the years that made similar switches for similar reasons.

I've seen lots of large corporations rewriting all kinds of software. For example I've seen a lot C++ software being rewritten in Java.

Large corporations are not interested to use 'powerful' languages like Lisp. They are more interested in cost cutting, outsourcing, offshoring, 'industrialized' software production, cheap supply of labor, ...

> Continuing to claim that Lisp is better than all the proven better alternatives starts to make it smell like religion.

It's religion. Stallman's statement is decades old. Lisp is powerful, flexible, etc. ... but there are a lot of great alternatives. Plus, as I said above, in many companies 'powerful' and 'flexible' is not the most important criteria when selecting languages and tools. Java got successful because of other qualities: being developed by SUN (then Google and IBM) for enterprise software development.

'GNU CL' was never a GNU project as such. GNU CL based on KCL/AKCL and has been used in a few applications. It never has been a focus of the GNU project - it's merely published under their umbrella.

Stallman also never was a fan of Common Lisp - when he developed Emacs Lisp, he developed a very much simpler version, also based on Maclisp - which Common Lisp replaced.
Common Lisp doesn't have full static type checking, and very little polymorphic type checking. Only one Lisp compiler (and its derivative) can even do something that's remotely close to static type checking, and even then it's woefully incomplete.

It's nowhere near Haskell/ML, or even C/Java.
Not everything has to be about ROI, especially when it comes to art, in my opinion. For example, I might want to write a fiction book even though I know I won't sell any, just because it's something that inspires me and want to have done in my life.

You could also mitigate the ROI by learning both the guitar to get your quick ROI boost, while learning the cello when you want to get serious (not that you can't get serious on the guitar, but you might like the cello better and want to get serious on it instead).
This reminds me of the terrifying epistolary short story Computers Don't Argue [1] by Gordon R. Dickson

[1] online here: http://www.dave.rainey.net/calendars/dystopias/process3.html
> RMS is a brand

No, he's a person, trying to live the life he wants - just like everyone else. That he is talked about does not make him a brand. GNU is his brand.

> The jarring "Oh the CSS hasn't loaded" moment is precisely what he wants you to experience.

Actually, Stallman's website has been around for decades - as has the GNU project - and his sites have always been very plain. I don't think I'd describe consistent apathy for gimmick as a gimmick.

> The kind of people who visit his site know how to use reading mode on their browser

What's reading mode?
Extending Om – Event handling, part 2
Ruby on Windows Guides
Why is there an engineer shortage?
That's all fine, but what do you expect the person you are engaged with to gain from reading your post?

It isn't readily apparent to me what that would be, but instead of assuming that you were just being a jerk, I suggested trying harder to communicate whatever it was you thought was of value there.
Not using String, eg. using CharBuffer (and #slice) or building your own. It's annoying and not always an option.
Ants use jaws to catapult themselves out of death traps
Subjectively the problem seemed less bad in the past so I'm thinking that limiting to the donwvote permissions to longer term users will reduce the problem.

Very obviously requiring comments for downvotes is better.
You make a good point, but I think getting rid of political power is at least as difficult as changing the economic system to provide better incentives. It's like companies that claim to have flat corporate structures. There are bosses, they just aren't identified as such on the org chart.

To look at it another way, in a market economy (at least a capitalist one), the possession of money and property is a form of political power. "If you do what I say, I'll give you a bunch of money", the "Prank Monkey" episode of The Simpsons comes to mind, etc.

My ultimate point is that there are conflicts between the market economy and the democratic political structure. This is contrary to "conventional" wisdom, and I think it is important to start recognizing these conflicts openly (recognizing that they are fundamental) and coming up with some kind of solution (whatever it looks like).
Rust is a replacement for C++ not C
Is "very slow depsolving" even relevant? In my experience that part of installation and remove is a very small part of the overall installation or removal time and goes by so fast I've never really noticed it.

Even if dnf and zypper are 1000x faster than apt there, that alone wouldn't convince me to use them.
StarterKit: Angular 2, Router, TypeScript 1.5, Webpack by AngularClass
I still think pacman is far superior to yum or apt-get
Honest question: Is it just me or did articles related to suicide appear more frequently than usual lately here, and in the general media? Or is it this bias where I just pay more attention lately and the frequency never really changed, plus/minus noise?
If you are the author, thanks for sharing the project. You did a great job and made the right choice of having per CPU worker processes each with their own epoll loop.
While I admire RMS's passion on freedom and privacy and the abhorrence of using non-free (free-as-in-freedom) software, I just wonder what he'll do or feel when non-free software has to be used to save his life one day.
Really? Submitting something less than 2 hours after the author posts a "Show HN"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560269
apt-file is pretty damn lightweight when you get to "another tool" stakes.
Ποιο Είναι Το Φετίχ Σας; – Golden Diamond Escort
"How are you not dead?"
And what would you have me do about it - Kill myself. Not really a solution. is it?

Most rich people will break if they are forced to live in poverty. Most people take what they have for granted. Rarely realizing, how lucky they are.
And bigger font size. Luckily, because of his minimal style, zooming works perfectly fine, unlike some media-rich sites. :)
Add India to the list
Not only that, but it sounds like someone can just add a solver to apt, whereas repackaging the entire linux ecosystem to use a different format is going to be a bit more difficult.
I think so--seems to be a bit of a joke.
From the source:

> yes, I know...wanna fight about it?
When has it ever swung "left"?
Schools where the students and parents don't revolt against a phone ban probably have better motivated students.
More realistically Why is there shortage of engineers who are young, smart (no, not the looks), excellent on data structures and algorithms, has good knowledge on bigdata, loves analytics, has awesome great frontend development skills?
Played the cello for 7 years as a kid. Gave it up and learned piano with 23 or so.

Your skill is going to depend on how much time you want to invest practising. In my experience, as a hobby musician, my most "efficient" practising schedule was:

* 5 day/week: 30 to 45 minutes

* 1 day: 3 hours

* 1 day: nothing, don't practise
FBI claims infosec bloke made plane FLY SIDEWAYS
These distros use RPM for decades (or at least more than one) now, for them switching to apt would be repackaging everything. There seems to be an apt-fork for RPM, but that hasn't been updated in years.
Can't say I've had the same experience. On all of my touch devices, I can only see the fingerprints if the screen is off and if it bothers me at that point, I just wipe it off.

Given the prevalence of touch devices these days, I'm surprised that I don't hear this complaint very often.
Yeah, it was wrong to say that Common Lisp has static type checking, as it's not part of the standard, and I'm not familiar with many implementations.

All I really know is that when I've programmed with SBCL, I've gotten useful type checking warnings at compile time.

I agree that static type checking is very useful for less stressful refactoring, and so on, and I'm a huge fan of Haskell. But I think very simple kinds of type checking can often be enough.

The argument was that Lisp lacks types to such an extent that building large Lisp systems becomes very difficult (due to the lack of typing). Well, there are lots of large JavaScript systems these days, and Common Lisp, in my experience with SBCL, provides at least more compile-time type checking than that.
“In season 2 of Javascript, Node.js and io.js attempt to set aside their differences, but will they succeed?”
Tweet from the researcher https://twitter.com/sidragon1/status/599956499675287552
Why is it so? Flash is already in a separate process since '11 or '12 and I don't think electrolysis will bring any benefit in that regard.
Bad according to who?
Python was ported to PalmOS, where it could run on a 16MHz CPU with 64KB of usable heap space: http://isr.uci.edu/projects/sensos/python/
There are other sources of the same story - here are some.

This one has significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558615

Hacker told F.B.I. he made plane fly sideways
(aptn.ca)

This one also has some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554841

Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane
(wired.com)

Other submissions, there may be more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560579

Computer expert hacked into plane and made it fly sideways, according to FBI
(independent.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9556690

Researcher may have adjusted airplane controls from in-flight entertainment-FBI
(theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558222

Security researcher claimed to hack, control plane in flight
(engadget.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560248

Hacker 'made plane climb' after taking control through in-flight system
(telegraph.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9557418

Security researcher hacks plane mid-flight
(arstechnica.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9557796

FBI: researcher hacked plane in-flight, causing it to "climb"
(securityaffairs.co)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555669

Hacker told FBI he made plane fly sideways after cracking entertainment system
(aptn.ca)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558411

Researcher hacks flight system of plane, making it climb
(dailymail.co.uk)
If you follow physical materials back to their source they are free. Dirt, gravel, minerals, oil, water, coal, rubber, etc, they are freely sitting around waiting for labor to collect them, labor to process them, labor to deliver them. When you buy a car for $30k you aren't paying for $30k of materials you're paying for $30k of labor and/or perceived value.

Obviously software can be duplicated for free but it often takes significant labor. Often more than making a few thousand cars.
That theory has been debunked long ago. It just isn't true.
I know many people, a lot of doctors, who say that they would prefer to just be allowed to die when the time comes. Not everyone expects to have their lives extended by modern medicine and even if you do get longer to live, it usually isn't very pleasant anyways.
You cam make up whatever hair-brained scenarios you want, but 1 in 3 people in the US have debts in collections. Or 77 million people.

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/29/pf/debt-collections/

So yes, "Pay off debts" is plenty sane, and yet not on there. And given the existing potential answers, gives credence that this is for rich white boys financed by rich mommy and daddy.