Caltech alum in my 30s, move to the Bay Area.

What are you talking about? There are no babes in the Bay Area.

So everyone suddenly hates AirBnB, huh?

Nope. Not everyone. I wish. The nasty side-effects of AirBnB in metro areas however are becoming increasingly clear to non-users/non-hosts... and journalists.

moron

Very nice.

maserati problem

Why would you say that? This is impacting my Google search results TODAY. If I turn off Adwords, my leads drop to virtually nothing...

Funny how Matt Cutts was all over the Rap Genius article on HN right after it came out and he's nowhere to be found here. Must be the millions Expedia spends on Adwords, or my cynicism, one of the two.

"graciously pleased to extend our grace and mercy".. what a bunch of garbage. I hope that is toned down for the actual pardon.

right, but there was also a pilot who was pulling back on the stick the entire time.

And the airplane averaged the inputs from the two sticks, which strikes me as a positively BRAINDEAD design choice. Why would you ever want to average the two inputs when flying a plane? Are you hoping that one pilot pushing and one pulling will somehow, on average, fly the plane correctly?

The braindead decision (in my uninformed, armchair pilot opinion) was made when the controls were no longer physically linked. Once you have controls that can move independently of each other, none of the options for handling conflicting inputs makes sense to me...

Sum them?

Only take the most extreme of the two inputs (in any given direction)?

Only take the most recently seen input?

Averaging makes more sense than any of those, given the premise of "Control sticks that can move in different directions"

You're right, but I'd go with "the secondary control is ignored and clearly marked as such" ("ignored" light turns on or something). But yeah, if they aren't linked, there's not much you can do that will make sense.

Nah, the right way to compute the final inputs in a case like this is, "This design is stupid and is going to get somebody killed. There is nothing I can do at this level to fix it. You must physically link the two controls."

When assuming that in the normal case the pilots are never doing the opposite of each other ... the difference between each stick is probably less than 5% or something. Agreed that in this case it seems the worst thing to do.

Is this named after Juan Arango?

Arango is a special sort of avocado - but Moenchengladbach (where Juan ARango currently is under contract) is next to Cologne, ArangoDB's head quarter :-)

Oh, he's so good...! And I say that coming from Cologne. You need to know the local club really dislikes Arango's current club (based 50 km away from here).

the stuff was initially named AvocadoDB, but we have to rename last year because someone else claimed the same name (for whatever reason)