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> Air France 440 was also shrouded in mystery (but nowhere near this degree), and turned out to be very poor airmanship by one pilot.

It was flight 447. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

IMO The mystery of MH370 is partially due to some incorrect assumptions, which can't be proven or disproven until the main wreckage is found, and/or the blackboxes recovered.

Where the wreckage ended up could depend several factors.
eg. glide ratio of a 777 (~18:1), or how the 777 Fly-by-wire control system works under certain failure modes. There hasn't been a crew incapacitation crash in a fly-by-wire airliner before.

A small fire in the electrical bay could disable aircraft systems in unexpected ways, and possibly even burn out on its own, and the damage doesn't actually cause the jet to crash immediately. If the cockpit crew were incapacitated at cruise altitude, the jet could still end up 100 miles away from the point the engines flamed out.
That was a really good article and explained a lot of things I hadn't considered about the whole "servant economy" problem.

You hear a lot of fans gushing that Uber-type companies are awesome, but there's a ton of reasons why it shouldn't be done this way. If they had to compete with some of the things that a lot of employees (and companies) expect as very basic requirements, it wouldn't be nearly as disruptive (if much at all).
> Unfortunately, Greece has been for a long time a vassal state, British and American interfering in our political life down to very basic levels. Even today, IMF, which is an American institution promoting privatization and looting of public resources, along with the Nazi like EU, govern our miserable life.

South Korea is another US "vassal state". So is Taiwan. So were Japan and Germany after WW2. I'd say that the Greek problems have other sources.

As a Romanian I wish they traded Greece for Romania in 1944. So that you'd learn a painful lesson.
I love my thinkpad T450s. Looks sleek, professional and handles ubuntu like a champ.
You know being highly productive isn't everything...

But anyway if you see someone being fucking awesome at something, I can almost guarantee you that they have no special talent or "magic tricks." They have just spent, and are spending, lots and lots and LOTS of time doing what they are so good at.
Yeah, I'm with you. I have a guitar! I have books! I have a large bed and a variety of clothes. I need some place to store my skis and my running shoes. I enjoy cooking. I don't see myself as materialistic, just as a passionate hobbyist/human.
I think after it is shipped on a environment with actual users. But at GitLab we always review before merging into master.
Can you say what you charge for SQL access? I have been unsatisfied with 100% of analytics solutions we've tried because of our inability to answer specific questions about how our games are played. SQL or SQL-like query access to the data is something I've wanted for a while.
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They all are. That's the whole point of the comic.
Very impressive -- lots more depth than I expected and the satire stays sharp the whole way through. For a challenge, find your way into the deep web...
"Wow, and I was excited about 4 weeks of paternity leave at my company. Which I'm still excited about by the way"

I realize this may be better than what you had, but the rest of the civilized world puts this number to shame. And it's not really going to change unless people get angry.
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CSP does help, but it is document-specific, not js-context specific. At least in Chrome, tracing the js context that was responsible for some network request would be significantly more difficult to implement.
Better blame history navigation, functionally the same as how Textmate does it.

1. git blame file
2. click on a hash for the change
3. show the file for that change

Right now, (3) shows you the diff for the hash
Any good manager scopes the amount of work to the number of people available. I work at a large tech company. I have a coworker who was on extended medical leave for the last year. During that year we shipped a new release of our product. I can absolutely tell you that there are areas of the product where we could have made additional improvements and had higher quality if that coworker was with us - but even without him, we still shipped, because we scheduled our workload knowing he wouldn't be there for that time.
Well, if what you're saying about not needing M:N to get thread scalability is true, I'm probably wrong. I really like being able to run tons of threads and write synchronous code, letting the the haskell RTS swap threads when I block.

My mental model, which probably comes from everyone complaining about apaches thread-per-request model a few years ago, is that you basically either consume lots of resources with lots of threads, or you write ugly cps style code. I view haskell/go as giving the best of both worlds, but perhaps they aren't separate worlds after all.
Advances in manufacturing. Each shrink will involve a large number of patented improvements to the etch process, layer alignment, chemistry (e.g. "high k metal gate"), sputtering, reduced-kerf diamond wire saws for the wafers themselves, and so on. You could probably find everything in Intel's patents.
I had to close the tab as i couldn't scroll. Fuck new tech that doesn't work.
All the companies I've ever been interested in never had a problem with my education. One actually asked me to verify I'm a drop-out for their background check =/
>Pay is of equal value to all employees. Benefits like leave and 401ks are only valuable to some

Well, no. In general, pay and leave are not 1:1 exchangeable if, indeed, they're exchangeable at all. At most companies, an employee can't just say "I'll trade 2 weeks pay for 2 weeks vacation." And, indeed, at some level an employee has to be worth more per day than they are actually paid.

(I'm talking leave generically here. I've no interest in getting into a debate over parental leave specifically which of course applies under certain specific situations.)

As for 401-K contributions, this gets into tax law and the fact that employer contributions (subject to various limits) are deductible in the US. In general, a lot of decisions related to benefits are very much driven by cost to employer (after taxes) and perceived benefit to typical employee (after taxes).
LOL, I just got around to installing the latest 4.x yesterday. Needed to update my resume... Pretty much everything else I use is either in Google Keep or Docs/Drive these days.
That would be really interesting to see. I bet there would be convoluted CSS hacks we never even dreamed were possible and they won't be practical at all. :)
For what it's worth, the author, Ira Rothken, has been litigating these cases for well over a decade. Notably, he is Kim Dotcom's lawyer for Megaupload-related litigation. It's really cool that he's sharing some creative thoughts about the different safe harbors ISPs can use to fight copyright claims.
" Do you really want to give someone $2-3000 per month or $24-36k a year just to have a box around you? "

Yes. I want to leave the office. I want to have my own space, where I can do my own thing. I want to have a place where I can cook my own meals, and raise my plants. Possibly a pet.
I agree, especially if you're not home a lot, it's not worth it.
where do people get that kind of styling for buttons? i certainly can't find it in bootstrap
Like only buy the ones whole will go up in price?
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I'm surprised how critical people are on this thread.

Perhaps it touched a nerve because there are quite a lot being done in a relatively small space that makes it look messy.

An option would be to show some features that gel together and list the others in the git markdown page.
HitchBOT Was a Literal Pile of Trash and Got What It Deserved
Slow Motion Labradors and Game of Thrones Soundtrack = Epic
Come live in my developing world country, where the gardener, the corner store, and even the maid has that benefit mandated by government.
I think a lot of career paths on the site are showing the ultimate goal, and then a "path" to it, the career ladder.
The dream could come back. In my opinion.

Defeating legal threats:

- Design server architecture so can be migrated from one country to a different one without censorship. Now is easy, with VPSs, you can move infrastructure in few hours, if you do automated deployment.

Defeating cost threats ("run your own software like a 'megacorp' "):

- Services running on cheap hardware handling 10-100x more users per server than current high language implementations (back to CGIs/Fast-CGIs on native code, instead of PHP/.NET/Java/NodeJS/Python/Perl).

- Filesystem-less storage (start server, load filesystem to optimized in-process RAM DB), so following steps can be avoided: disk cache, filesystem tree search, multiple memory copies, etc.

- Separate persistent and non-persistent data, so most operations don't need to hit the disk.

- Abstraction over those low-level systems so people with high-level capacitation can build a massive-scale web application.
Has anybody found the speech?
The users beg and plead for /r/ShitRedditSyas to get banned, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

When asked why /r/coontown was banned, one of the mods replied:

>We didn't ban them because we disagree with them. We banned them because [they] exist solely to annoy other redditors, prevent us from improving Reddit, and generally make Reddit worse for everyone else.

Which is criteria that most users seem to agree fits SRS too. I mean, I only heard about /r/coontown through these content policy threads, I hear users complain about /r/SRS everyday.

To me it seems pretty blatant that they're really just banning content that is contrary to their political agenda which seems to be far-left authoritarianism.

Also, to view the "quarantined" subs, one must register with an email, which reddit plans to store, basically creating a database of people they find questionable.
I have bet a significant amount
of money on the EMH being correct.

How do you do that?
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Imagine an affordable mobile home for college students, or developing nations, or even just Americans who are priced out of the area where they work..

http://www.designboom.com/design/cornelius-comanns-bufalino/
Hear?
also you can't edit messages, apparently that's a big deal for some people
I've always viewed benefits like this as a way for the company to incentivize and/or reward certain behavior from employees. Offering a 401(k) match is a way to encourage employees to save for retirement.

By that logic, offering parental benefits is a way to encourage people to have babies. That's always seemed a bit weird to me because it seems inappropriate for a company to be involved in something so personal. It seems reasonable for the government to say, "we want more people to have kids for the greater good" but it seems strange for companies to take it upon themselves to do that.

I'm not saying new parents shouldn't be able to take time off, but it seems like people who choose not to have kids should receive similar benefits. Maybe companies should offer sabbaticals to everyone, and if some people choose to use that to take time off after having kids, then that's fine. But if someone isn't interested in having kids and instead wants to spend three months pursuing a hobby, that seems equally valid to me.

Thoughts?
You can choose one of two open protocols to interface with slack, IRC and XMPP:

https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec...

Granted, they have to be enabled by the Team Owner, but still...
Creating a slackbot that helps our biz dev team access data faster
Being able to write one in plperl would rock
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I'm 29 and do not have an undergrad degree. I was recently accepted to a well respected masters in computer science program. I declined to go because I'm pretty happy with my career trajectory at the moment and I think taking the time off work to do that would actually be detrimental.
Part of the mystery is due to the radical change in the flight path. It was supposed to fly North from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

But for some reason, the plane was turned around, and flew towards the Indian Ocean instead of China for at least an hour: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/MH370_fl...

Merely incompetent crew or a technical failure would not cause that - it has to either be a hijacking or an unstable pilot doing it on purpose.
FireChat will become a totally free mobile carrier
Nice! Never heard that stuff. I stand corrected.
Wait, her response, with the hashtag, was to promote the fact that there are lots of engineers who don't look like many people's stereotype of an engineer, no?

What about that involves 'shame and fear'?

Why does it bug you?
Checkbox matching in HR processes.
agree with the logo comments. we will fix that soon.
I think it's more that they're incentivizing potential new hires that value having a family to come work for the company.

Existing employees are going to have a baby either way, in the grand scheme of things a few months aren't going to change your mind about having a child. On the other hand, all things being equal, working for Microsoft vs working for another big corp, having more time off for your kids could tip the scales in Microsoft's favor.
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I'm in need of a good retreat, anyone have any recommendations for a digital detox style retreat, perhaps 3 or 4 days long?

Any suggestions are welcome, even places that don't restrict internet. I'm interested in any suggestions across the broad, from no restriction, to total restriction. Just somewhere relaxing.

I'd preferably still want to still be able to access email once a day just to make sure the world hasn't ended.

What would be fantastic, is a place that also provides healthy meals etc.
No. They are increasing from 50% of 6% to 50% of all deferrals. So the maximum before was like $540 if you put in $18,000. Now its $9000.

"Retirement readiness is an important part of overall financial wellness, so beginning Jan. 1, 2016, we’ll increase the company’s 401(k) match from 50 percent of the first 6 percent that employees defer, to 50 percent of all regular deferrals."
The idea that "everything has a part number" is generally correct but has a few exceptions. You won't find serial numbers (or often, part numbers) on small consumables, like washers, or things like rivets. But it's very common for bolts to have part numbers.

Something as large as a flaperon would definitely have a part number (which would tell you if it was part of a larger assembly), and might be serialized and directly trackable.

Disclosure: I don't work on commercial aircraft, but I do work on military aircraft.
spectrum.ieee.org, money.cnn.com, searchsecurity.techtarget.com, techcrunch.com, and news.ycombinator.com
You might enjoy the book Plutopia by Kate Brown.
That and his own spies in the Manhattan Project.
Agreed. When people say degrees are overrated and there are too many people with "useless" degrees, they're not talking about science and engineering degrees.

Skipping a degree in CS is just making things harder for yourself. Best case scenario you'll just spend that 4 years working up your salary to what you would have had in the first place with a degree.
Could definitely be a factor. Then again, there are plenty of people who don't post on those forums (like myself).

I recently got a new MacBook Pro after my previous 6yo machine was stolen. Would love to say that I was shocked at the bugs I've run into, but I was fairly well prewarned. Things like internet dropouts caused by the DNS issue. I was told it would be a problem, and it was. But people had been complaining about it for ages. Seems unlikely to be just a few users experiencing it.

I know I'm just another single datapoint but, after hacking on macs most of my waking hours since 2004, I too feel the basic quality is really slipping.

Cloud services are something else altogether. I've been saying for years that Apple can't be trusted to handle data and syncing. Now they're pushing deeper into it things are getting messy. My best friend and I frequently have this conversation as he jumps into their services but he's also lost faith. A message he recently sent me:

"Apple syncing is so fucked man. After the first round of Photos craziness where I lost tons of albums (thankfully no photos), for some insane reason, I’ve just lost a ton more. Any albums from 2012, 2013 and 2004 are totally gone. Head in hands shit."

And this from someone who until recently would try to fight their corner.
I'm betting Phoenix is the next announcement. Tempe just passed some Google Fiber related stuff last week Scottsdale is set to do the same later this month. I haven't check the upcoming meeting agenda's for Phoenix itself, but I'd assume it's also set to do something similar if it hasn't already.
You might want to educate yourself. He's rather well known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte
Our company had switched from Postgres FTS to Elasticsearch and saw huge performance benefits without loss of relevancy.
> indentured to the government with a student loan

I graduated with under $30K in debt from a state school (with a number of merit scholarships and some but not extensive parental help) and paid it off my second year out of college. One need not take on heavy debt (don't you love the rhetorical phrasing, though? Indentured!) to go to college, and I tend to think that self-styled autodidacts discount the social rounding and educational breadth available at any good university.
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I attended this talk at OSCon 2003 and it still remains the best talk I have ever attended.

The last part about a message to the aliens truly blew me away. The fact that Mark found an error in this set of binary bits, that nobody else had seen, just blew my mind, and I've had infinite respect for the guy since (and frankly already had huge respect prior to that). His higher order perl book should be required reading for anyone working in a language like perl that has functional features (eg JavaScript).
Also not worth it: spending so much time at work that you're not home a lot.
Living in Los Angeles as a college student for five years, none of my apartments had air conditioning. Sure, some houses had it... but even in LA it's a bit of a luxury.

Same goes for the homes of everyone I knew in Lake Tahoe, where I grew up. The climate's similar to the bay during the summer, but it's still (partially) in California. ;)
2000 people earn over $10M a year.

Let's say you take $100M from each of them. That's $200B. The Federal budget is $3.8T. So you increased the budget by just 5%.

It seems that the desire to tax the rich is simply to bleed them down to a normal level, not because we really need their money.

I get that it's a desire to get back to 1950s level income equality, but that time seems to be an historical accident due to the US economy being the only one left standing after WW2. Sure, white guys in the United States were all earning at relative parity, but global poverty was far, far worse than it is today, women here weren't allowed to work, etc.

And are the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer? Doesn't seem so. Rockefeller's net worth was $400-$600 billion in today's dollars, while our current richest person, Bill Gates, is worth a paltry $80B. Globally, the poor are earning more than ever.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when people talk about restoring income equality, at least in this country, they're unintentionally pining for the days when the United States middle class earned more, at the expense of the rest of the working world.

> Cute statistic though, spoken like a true facebook comment

Was this comment facebook-ey enough for you?
I'm not shifting anything.

How can one have agency if they don't know that there is an opportunity?

i.e.

If an opportunity is open to all; but is only presented to one class then you are in general only going to get applicants from the class that you presented the opportunity too.
I can't say what an Hello World uses, but I have a Tumblr API → RSS gateway written in Go running for a few months, and it uses ~2MB.
The aircraft does provide feedback, it says, "DUAL INPUT, DUAL INPUT". IIRC this can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder of Air France 447.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Sweden
I think there are practical concerns too that push away from openness and towards silos - it isn't just about money.

Open protocols can be slow to improve because of the very nature of their openness - they have dependencies and need to remain interoperable.

Closed protocols can adapt faster because one entity controls the entire thing. In the case of chat XMPP was in the lead for a while, but the mobile situation was terrible - connections were constantly dropped and even though there were clients that supported multiple accounts (Meebo) it was a pretty bad software experience. The current messaging products are not open, but they are better.

This is a shame I think - because it'd be a lot better if the open products were actually better, not just better because they are open.

Maybe the trick is to hack on a better open protocol, but even then it could similarly be outpaced. Maybe the path to this is defining an open 'social' protocol and fixing the internet identity issue at the same time. Maybe keybase.io can do this?
It wouldn't be the first part ever installed in an airplane that didn't match print, or the first set of aircraft maintenance records that wasn't complete. I intend no snark here -- just saying, this discrepancy doesn't necessarily mean anything.

But this is not an argument against further investigation. For a tragedy such as this, any discrepancies should be investigated to their fullest extent, as you never know what tiny piece of evidence may reveal what happened.
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I'd bet my money against Amazon following. Amazon already lags behind the rest of the industry in terms of benefits. Employee happiness isn't really one of their values. "Frugality" on the other hand, is.

Just an opinion of a former Amazonian though.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963670 (123 points, 8 days ago, 29 comments)
Upvoted. I cannot grammar today. Thanks.
I guess the difference, as you can see from the threads here, is that many people seem to think that extended paid parental leave is something that civilized governments are obligated to deliver (through employers). This is a fairly modern notion. Sabbaticals, not so much. I'm not sure many people are really viewing this through the lens of incentives though.

I actually agree that, from a rationalist perspective, offering everyone periodic sabbaticals with a lot of scheduling flexibility is a nice thought. (Not quite the same thing--but I've always thought Intel's sabbaticals were a nice practice.)
I don't think that's plausible. More likely the match was 50% of the first 6% of salary employees deferred. That would require an employee to earn $300,000 in order to see a maximum $9,000 match. Now an employee can receive the full match merely by deferring the maximum amount, regardless of their salary.