skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuel exhaustion, starvation, fuel contaminants such as water, catastrophic failure of components that are operating under extreme heat and stress, carburetor icing caused by high humidity, engine component icing (pressure/temp sensors on turbine planes, air induction icing on piston power planes), bird strikes. Piston and turbine aircraft engines are phenomenally reliable but all the best minds and all of the money thrown at the problem over the past 112 years have not reached a 0% failure rate. Electric motors don't have the complexities of combustion engines which would be reassuring when flying a single engine airplane over water, in bad weather, or over a populated area. I think it's an awesome idea that could add a huge margin of safety relative to the cost.
It has less detrimental effects as opposed to an inferior alternative, yes.

The question I was asking, and which your response does not address, is whether or not a certain activity that claims to be beneficial becomes beneficial purely on the basis that it is practiced over 'x' period of time. Which I do not believe to be true. If you have evidence to the contrary, please post it.
I wish Gmail would blacklist addresses when I clicked that button. Lately my Gmail address has been signed up for all kinds of "official" corporate mailing lists/newsletters (e.g. Home Depot). Even though I follow the Home Depot unsubscribe process AND I report the emails as SPAM, Gmail keeps letting them through.
I wonder if you could use your propeller as a "wind turbine" when landing to recapture some energy? Of fly around in thermals and charge your battery??
I think the topic is more spurred from this being a government sponsored service that is offered to minors. Overall, this seems like a shining success. However, are IUDs the safest option? Should the government offer others? No "policing" is necessary to answer these questions.
Some more interesting facts:

Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those that do not. The study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000 population).

For example, Norway has the highest rate of gun ownership in Western Europe, yet possesses the lowest murder rate. In contrast, Holland’s murder rate is nearly the worst, despite having the lowest gun ownership rate in Western Europe. Sweden and Denmark are two more examples of nations with high murder rates but few guns.

and

the study also shows that Russia’s murder rate is four times higher than the U.S. and more than 20 times higher than Norway. This, in a country that practically eradicated private gun ownership over the course of decades of totalitarian rule and police state methods of suppression. Needless to say, very few Russian murders involve guns.

source: http://www.theacru.org/harvard_study_gun_control_is_counterp...
There is an STD pandemic. Multi-drug resistant STIs are rapidly spreading. The "sexual revolution" was basically the twenty year period when a shot of penicillin cleared anything up. That's over.
Shareware conflated two different concepts that are now separated: the distribution model, and the pricing model.

The distribution model was the genius of shareware at the time. In the days before the Internet and websites, physical distribution of the bits was a significant challenge. Shareware got the users doing the distribution work for the creator. Take this free version and copy and share it as much as you like. This succeeded very well, of course. But it's just outmoded now when anyone can toss up a website to host anything.

The pricing model is alive and well, we now call it freemium. Offering a limited free version, with a paid upgrade for full features, has been successful all along and transitioned fine from the days of shareware to Internet-hosted distribution. Or the product was full-featured all along and just asked you to register on the honor system. That still exists too and we now call it donationware.

So the "share" part of shareware has been superseded, but there are still elements of it in the modern software industry.
Did you just (sic) your own comment? I'm confused.
create a way to stop any pre-programmed moral reasoning rules, and let the nearest human override them and take control of the robot's actions under their own responsibility.

Believing in absolute moral rightness of "humans" is crazy talk.

Have you noticed all the noisy sand people in the middle east wanting to make the world revert to how it was 2,000 years ago? What if they capture war robots with punch-the-red-button-to-become-new-master overrides? Is it okay since it is now "under human responsibility?"
Do you have any evidence to support that?

From an anecdotal perspective, I found that I suffered more stress and frustration via praying than not.
> Bash would have been more appropriate

A script that is compatible with POSIX Bourne shell (/bin/sh) would be more appropriate. FreeBSD, for example, does not come pre-installed with bash. If you want cross-platform portability, this is a better default.
We do indeed take that duty seriously, but the purpose of that bit of text was more of a sop to a losing side in the Constitutional debate, that wanted to depend on militias instead of formal armies, which everyone agreed were a long term danger to liberty. People like George Washington convincingly argued from their Revolutionary War experience that militias weren't a complete solution.

Needless to say, like the Revolutionary War smoothbore musket (not necessarily as useful for hunting as a slow to load back then rifle), today's "assault weapons" are the arms particularly suited for that duty.
Heh, i recall reading the experience of someone from some Nordic nation or other who went to USA to visit his in-laws to be.

"Back home" they were sharing a bed and sleeping in their undies each night.

While visiting it was pajamas and sleeping in different ends of the house.
pprof the tool is really just a visualization tool more than a profiler itself[0]. But yes, enabling it will enable it for the entire program, so you will see a massive performance hit when it's enabled.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8083112/format-of-google-...
I am not a doctor. That said, my understanding is that IUDs are one of the best contraceptive methods out there. They have a bad reputation because they had issues when they were initially introduced, and they haven't quite overcome that reputation yet even though modern ones are excellent. There are non-hormonal ones too (pure copper), so it can avoid a whole host of side effects that some women experience with hormonal birth control. However they can also cause heavier periods with some people. Otherwise they seem to be the model of what you'd want a contraceptive to be (excellent effectiveness, safe, easily reversible, and forgettable–they last years and years).
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When you ask female "women's health providers" what contraception they use for themselves a modern IUD is top of the list.

Here's a Vox article about it: http://www.vox.com/2015/2/23/8092483/birth-control-iud
In my state, teenagers can get them for free from the health department.
Check out this series of charts. Each method of contraception in its own chart, and "perfect use" and "typical use" are both plotted.

Out of 100 couples using a condom as birth control, 55 will have an unplanned pregnancy in 4 years with typical usage (8 out of 100 with perfect usage).

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/14/sunday-review/...
For a really dramatic example of this, look at the controversy over the HPV vaccine. People fought the vaccine viciously. They would rather have people die than do something they see as encouraging sex before marriage.
Your argument is ridiculous so I'm just writing to let you know I won't even entertain you. Hopefully nobody else does either.
Your analogy misses the point that a fallback mechanism is needed in the rare cases where something unexpected happens.

Even in cases where you have everything formally defined, you could still have some axiom not holding, or a transient hardware issue - a random bit flipping in memory for instance.

Putting simply, everything fails eventually, the question is not "if" but "when".
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> It's just a side-effect of Internet culture, and it happens to men too.

This is false-equivalence horseshit. It may also happen to men, but it happens a couple of orders of magnitude less. I've spoken at a number of conferences and never received anything like this. If you talk to prominent men and women in tech about their experiences, they get radically different levels of abuse.

Also, Internet culture is not something that has been going on for thousands of years. It is entirely new. So either a) this should be a pretty easy fix, or b) it's actually part of something bigger than "Internet culture".
Call me a nitpicker, but this the URL looks like an Italian jobs site.
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The former. By telling people 'how' to have sex it carries an implication of approval. This will lead, logically, to more people thinking it's ok to have sex (otherwise why would they be being told how).

This probably does increase the levels of total sex-having somewhat, but it also allows for much much higher levels of safe and informed sex having. Apparently this is not always considered an acceptable trade off.
That's exactly what it is. Different groups optimizing for different outcomes.

For most religious folk, teens having sex is bad regardless of whether it's safe or not, so it makes sense to push for abstinence-only education. Giving out condoms is like giving up. Or maybe even slightly worse than giving up - implicitly encouraging kids to go out and have sex.

Of course, this doesn't stop kids from having sex, but it does make it so that when they do they're generally unprotected.
Imagine that there are so many robots/automata up and running performing safety-critical, ongoing tasks - guiding air traffic for example. When the red button is pushed, it is not exactly clear what the robots should default to, if ceasing all activity could cause injury or death. What if there aren't enough humans around to take over capably? What then? Seem to me the red button is not as clear-cut as it sounds.
Your comment made me go into a meta loop. Is it ok for you to say that we should look past the skimpy photos, or is it exactly what OP is fighting against?
when i briefly consulted for a security firm working for banks, i learned that most banks takes daily hits as high as 100,000 and they don't even get reported to the police as to not generate any public record. most get reported to the insurer, which also avoid reporting it in most cases. i confess i never got the whole picture. but most issues I've been involved with was to try to track down the internal people, if any, and the exact means used. and this only over for criminal reports if we did find something conclusive and it was overseas. if it was local it was usually dealt with lawyers and such out of the records.

edit: forgot to mention it wasn't the us. but the banks were american.
It is interesting, but they did just buy Microsoft's map division http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/29/8863687/uber-acquires-mapp...
I have a lot of guns, and I know lots of people with lots of guns.

None of us buy them beause we're "afraid of being the next shooting victim".
Where as if someone stopped eating mid meal and said "I've reached sufficient caloric intake" we would be confused and puzzled.

You clearly don't live in San Francisco. Talking like an asocial robot is encouraged to be part of the in-crowd.
There isn't a whole lot of content here but since this case has had a lot of publicity I thought it would be nice to highlight when the programmer wins one over the larger corporation.
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I did some back of the envelope checks on those statistics, and they would require us gun owners to have arsenals worth $100,000 or so.

Note that one's willingness to tell an anonymous voice on a phone that one owns guns changes with the political climate towards guns.
He was WAY too early in 2012 to achieve any sort of statistical significance in terms of number of traders talking online consistently. I have a client running 75 different strategies just on our data alone and there are quite possibly hundreds more, not all of which involve transactions. The ability to predict volatility is one that comes to mind.
Very low salaries for tech jobs in Barcelona are a thing from the past. Now there's high competition in the city to attract the best talent.

For instance, Senior Rails or Symfony Backend Engineer market salary is around 45K € [1]. I've seen job offers at the job board I maintain (www.jobsbcn.com) offering up to 70K€ salary for these positions.

Nevertheless, it's not all about the money, flexible working hours and many other perks are also offered at many Startups.

Also, working next to the beach and having a swim at lunch time (I've been working in one of those companies...) or being less than a two hour drive from ski resorts is a plus you cannot disregard, specially if your city of origin does not offer these qualities.

[1]
Please, let me clarify that 45K is not as much as you would be paid in Berlin. Also, housing is cheaper there too. But those are different cities with different things to offer.
A lot of nice things here. See my comment above for some similar concerns/desired features that also apply to this.
I searched my old emails and indeed we called it "Finish Up Weekend." It was held May 10, 2013 at Work In Progress (in Las Vegas). I'll credit John Hawkins (9seeds.com) with the name.
> but some believe that giving teens birth control is encouraging them to have sex

Do teenagers really need to be encouraged to have sex? An absence of discouragement should be sufficient, for mutually attracted pairs.

High-availability abortions and contraceptives given out in schools are just examples of governments giving people what they want. However many in the anti-abortion and abstinence movements are engaged in an ambitious social engineering effort, telling teens to resist their strong biological urges to have sex, in favor of marriage and monogamy, because they believe this leads to a more spiritually healthy outcome, long-term.

There is surprisingly little innovation in this space. It's taken for granted that teenage-pregnancy is a bad word, that 30-40 year olds make better parents because they have more money. Society could choose to support early marriage and childbirth. Parenting requires a lot of energy, something that youth have in abundance. Also, young people remember what it's like to be a child, and make more empathetic parents.
> Is it OK for a large body of authority to support something that will harm you as long as they leave it to the individual's choice to use it or not? Where do we draw the line on this?

In the US, the Federal Government has jurisdiction over drugs such as birth control.

Your argument suggests that negative side effects are harmful, and certain. In the teeny amount of research I've done, it doesn't appear that this is the case.
Would you hire an apprentice?
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you should make a flashlight plugin so it can be used from spotlight
http://flashlight.nateparrott.com/
I think one of the guys in the article says that the sound was not too good. I think I've read the term "comically". Another problem was that it didn't work well if the singer was not singing close to the mic, so the ambient mic direct vocals on it too.

But I think it was a big improvement to what they had before.
I really like http://www.sequelpro.com/ for mysql.
The lack of a good admin gui for postgres is one reason I preferred mysql over postgres.
You had to fish hard for this example, didn't you?

Sometimes, genius strikes and you get something so precisely thought out and so well executed that it lasts for generations.

Still, I'd have to answer your question in the affirmative. The original TeX is quite dead indeed. It (and the ecosystem around it) have evolved significantly over the years and continue to evolve as we speak, so it is far from finished.
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Thanks for that. I did already know firsthand that KFC had changed its name for a time. I found a source (Snopes) that confirmed it. Internally I was skeptical of the reasoning that was provided (since it conflicted with what I knew from more reliable sources), but the actual reasoning was tangential to my point
I wouldn't have called Uber a "taxi rival" when they were an app for hiring a town car either. Things change.

This is Google's first toe-in-the-water for apps to request a ride, but it obviously won't be their last. Considering how much they've invested in autonomous vehicles only a crazy person would believe they're going to leave the entire market for self-driving taxis wide open for Uber etc. Google will have a taxi request service within a couple of years.
Care to illuminate their point of view for us?
The most interesting part of the story about him is that the laws were changed inspired by his former acquittal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov

"On April 11, 2012, Dennis Jacobs, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, published a unanimous decision in a written opinion[11] stating:

On appeal, Aleynikov argues, inter alia, that his conduct did not constitute an offense under either statute. He argues that: [1] the source code was not a "stolen" "good" within the meaning of the NSPA, and [2] the source code was not “related to or included in a product that is produced for or placed in interstate or foreign commerce” within the meaning of the EEA. We agree, and reverse the judgment of the district court.[10]

In the course of these events, Aleynikov has spent 11 months in prison. Aleynikov has divorced, lost his savings,[12] and, according to his lawyer, "[his] life has been all but ruined".[13]

The government did not seek reconsideration of the Second Circuit's ruling, thus ending federal action against Aleynikov.[14]

Later, on December 18, 2012, the law was changed by Congress, in order to punish acts like the ones Aleynikov committed in future rulings, in a law referred to as the "Theft of trade secrets clarification act of 2012".[15]"
As far as I can tell, the upshot after scoring a million tweets is that the only one with all 26 letters was just

"?????????????????????the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog??????????????????"

This is considerably less interesting than I hoped it would be. (And a little surprising! That's a lot of data.)
I suspect that while landing you really want the engine in "neutral" so you can at any moment kick it into full power if some issue shows up. Landing is damn close to a controlled crash.

And i don't think these kinds of aircrafts have the wing surface etc to be floating around on thermals.
Only when such statements are made by the narrator, not the puzzle artifacts themselves. The whole point of these sorts of puzzles is that the labels can't all be relied upon, yet some people think the red label can be, for some reason.
The problem is that many banks gave Greece loans for many years and at very low interest rates in exactly this scenario.

And then Greece attempted to make the structural changes you described only having reduced expenditure to $100k per year they ended up reducing income to $60k per year and so actually increased the amount they owed as a proportion of their income.

Further structural changes along the lines of those demanded (leave business and rich people alone - tax the poor) would just make the situation worse.

And so we have a choice,
- restructure (this happens all the time in business even for businesses with outgoings higher than incomings - the long term potential for growth is what matters).
- force Greece out of EU

Kicking the can down the road only postpones the inevitable choice between these two options.
My favorite postgres gui by far has been Psequel.

http://www.psequel.com/
I've found loading QML-based interfaces to be slow on low to mid range android phones. It feels sluggish to start the app. I wonder if the alternate (QWidgets on an OpenGLContext) is still better than random DOM hacks?
To be, or not to be, that is the Q
There is another popular view that replaces 'emotions' with neurochemicals. Basically, serotonin is an actual chemical with actual biological effects which fit's closely with specific emotions.

In this view emotions are shorthand to describe an incredibly complex system and as such fit biology into a social context. However, people's responses to said emotions fall under social conventions.

EX: Hunger is something you can directly study. But, peoples responses to hunger vary widely.

PS: This also extends to things like chemical intoxication. The loss of coordination when drunk is inherent, singing drinking songs is a social response.
> MAC 10's and Mini Uzis are rather popular for that sort of shenanigans, because of their small size (thus easily concealable).

Since you have provided no citation, I can only judge this statement by my own anecdotal experience.

As someone who is closely involved with "gun culture", I'm aware of only a handful of cases where automatic weapons were confiscated in the US - and of no cases they were used in a murder in my adult lifetime.
They are aiming for the weddings.
But as the carpenter goes on doing his stuff, the things he did stay put. They do not suddenly become incompatible with each other, or need to be maintained daily. Carpentry is orders of magnitude less brittle. It doesn't even compare.

Programming is more like policy writing. Definitely not like carpentry.
I find it irritating when people look at some of my projects on Github and consider then "abandoned" because they haven't had any commits in a year or two. They're not abandoned: they're finished. They do what they're designed to do, and I use them regularly.

Outstanding issues may exist for feature requests that I don't need, or for minor bugs that won't occur in anything but obscure edge cases that don't apply to the primary use case. I welcome high quality patches but otherwise have no interest in pursuing them.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr. is a real prick who enjoys wasting taxpayers money trying to prosecute an innocent man who has already had his life ruined because of inappropriate charges and spent time in jail for crimes he did not commit. While, not illegal, his pursuit of Aleynikov is a hundred percent self-centered and illogical (as this decision shows). I hope the people of New York vote him out and choose a prosecutor with the people's interests in mind, not his own personal gains. After all, he is supposed to represent the people of his district.
I'm pretty sure they understand his point of view. Why else would they vehemently deny selling this software to such governments like Sudan then?
Wonderful idea. I do wonder how that changes the center of gravity and how much weight is diminished for cargo but seems well worth it. When the engine goes out you generally only have 10 seconds to decide where to land. Now it seems you have many minutes to find a place. In most circumstances I'd think this is better then the parachutes for planes because you have a chance to save very expensive airplanes.
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That's reasonably common in the US if the parents are religious. If the kid and their significant other are visiting parents and aren't married then they aren't allowed to sleep in the same room (because they might do shenanigans!).