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I can't even phantom how many travelers make trips without making it on this list by mistake.

Millions of success events vs. 1 human error has no conclusions except that the system works.



I think you mean "fathom"

I doubt you'd measure success exclusively by the number of false positives but you'd also need to factor in the impact of a false positive.

For eg: There was an x-ray machine [1] with a software bug that would accidentally deliver a dose 100 times the intended dose. I'm sure the machine operated correctly thousands of times however there were "at least 6 accidents" and 3 deaths (worst case scenario). One would not say that this system works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25


Are you seriously asserting there's only ever been one such "error"?




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