skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Considering that, I think that it is a fundamental problem of current programming languages that you cannot address both the computer and the human in the language itself. (comments are an escape mechanism)
In the US, most planes do have GPS, and it will be a requirement by 2020.

For those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc...
Most modern aircraft have GPS receivers built-in. They are actually constantly reporting this information to ground stations [1].

I'm not saying that things couldn't be better (and I'm no expert at all) but I doubt that any of these new technologies would have saved MH370.

It's very weird, for instance, that the ground station that reports to flightracker24 lost ADS-B communication with the plane all of a sudden and it's pretty clear from the number of planes that you can see in the area that it is probably not a coverage issue.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder_(aviation)
This is great, I love scratch! You should share this as much as you can with IT teachers in your area, I bet they'd appreciate it.

Here in the UK we have a nationwide organisation called Code Club [0] which supplied volunteers with curriculums. They're available on the CC website but also in their raw forms on GitHub. Check it out if you want some inspiration for further lessons: https://github.com/CodeClub/scratch-curriculum

[0]: https://www.codeclub.org.uk/
Or just outsource it to Tencent? [1]

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2103680/chinas-windows-xp-use...
I think there is more pessimism than required here. We need not start with ATC directly sending instructions to the iPad thats controlling the aircraft (although something similar happens in UAVs). We can start with it displaying the required instructions along with the HF radio. Also the final judgement of obeying an instruction is with the pilot and he will responsible for the results.

In the era of having artificial hearts and pacemakers that are helping better lives, I don't think its as hard to even build sound and safe automated flying systems.
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Doesn't work on Android, Galaxy s3.
And then another 5. And another 5 after that. For an operating system so old that any other company would have long ago discontinued it.

These businesses had a decade to plan to transition off XP. It's not like other vendors that have no planned EOL dates and don't even announce their plans. Contrast Microsoft with Apple where Snow Leopard, which is only 5 years old, is suddenly abandoned and is no longer getting security patches, but there's been no announcement.
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The Lake Shore Limited (NYC <-> Chicago) runs through Albany and Buffalo, so it's closer to 950 miles, instead of the 800 miles you'd expect taking I-80 straight through. So the train does average closer to 50 than 40, which is better but still not great.
I've never taken the NYC/DC route (never had a need), but taking the California Zephyr and the Empire Builder have always been magnificent experiences for me. Absolutely beautiful, relaxed rides. Let that be a counteranecdote.

My long distance travel has been exclusively by Amtrak for the past ten years. I live in Chicago, which is pretty central to the system - I might not have been so strict if I lived somewhere else.
I don't know much about aviation, but a number of these technologies are being implemented in commercial flights now, including NextGen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Air_Transportat...).
Aargh! Fix that horrible "jumping of links when I try to click them" behaviour of the page.
Amtrak is by far the best experience. What would you prefer, Greyhound or Plane? Both are even more miserable.
Exactly! From the beginning I considered this an essential feature of a business website that the budget website builders didn't offer. So after putting it together, why not offer it as a key feature/differentiator? We'll see if it helps over the next few months.
Good point. On-board internet works great when the aircraft is at level and stable flight. It's a lot harder to transmit to a satellite in the middle of the ocean when the plane is gyrating and tossing all over the place (as in the case of AF447).

All bets are also off when the plane has had a catastrophic loss of power.
US and UK VPN providers ban BitTorrent traffic
A lot of airlines hire the engines by the (flight-) hour, and those engines are monitored in real time by the manufacturer. For example:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8111075/Live-mo...
Considering that 57% of China is on XP and 70% of those users have NEVER INSTALLED A SECURITY UPDATE, I don't know how well that would go over. No wonder so much spam and attacks comes out of China IP space.
I love this.

I clicked on the link, and being South African, I've been conditioned into thinking that all sorts of cool services/products from overseas either aren't available here or are prohibitively expensive to import. So, I was delighted when your page said, "Free shipping from Japan, even to South Africa". Thank you.
While I don't share the cartoonists political views, I can't blame him for the frustration. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Starlight

> In recent years the train acquired the nickname "Coast Starlate" because of its abysmal on-time record. From October 2005 through August 2006 it arrived on time only 2% of the time, often running 5 to 11 hours behind schedule.

I've taken that line... it is beautiful (and provides an amazing view of Vandenberg AFB) but you've got to be in no hurry. The staff were amazed when we were "only" 6 hours behind schedule.

Unfortunately for Amtrak the North-East corridor trains that you've experienced are the exception, not the rule.
ADSB is a whole new can of worms [0] just waiting for people to exploit…

[0]: http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/02/28/defcon-20-renderma...
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Most modern airliners have satellite links (data and voice) with their dispatch centers. They also use the ACARS system to send and receive clearances (they can acknowledge by pushing a button). The old SELCAL+HF radio is no longer in use, except for backup.

Planes have GPS trackers. Not only their company knows where they are, the control center can too. In the case of the north atlantic track system, air control keeps a tight eye on speed, altitude and separation with very precise measurements, even as airplanes are far away from land.

I just fail to see the point of this post. I recently hitched a ride on the cockpit jump seat of a modern airplane for a Europe-East Coast flight and during that I saw the air traffic control knowing exactly where we were, and the pilots communicating via text message (ACARS) with control, as well as using satellite links to contact dispatch (via text messages), as well as satellite phone calls.

Pilots keep paper around them because pilots are there to maintain control, and paper is just another failsafe (with pretty good reliability record!).

Bonus: some planes can notice alterations in the flight dynamics and report an ice buildup. No pilot in this planet is going to let any external person input flight parameters remotely into their aircraft's system while they are in the air.
"I've been consistently amazed that my Mac has updated from version to version perfectly"

If you stayed on 10.5 too long, there was no way to go to 10.8 without serious hijinx.
As a millennial, I recently discovered the sleeper-car Amtrak experience. It's by far my favorite way to travel.
Original post from his reddit account:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zz21j/mtgox_2014_h...

Bitcoin's history already has a trilogy's worth of entertainment
True.

Tyson is joyously authentic as his natural self.

Tyson on Carl Sagan's influence, on his formative years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqrN3Bfro8

Tyson Defending the U.S. Space Program and the innovation it birthed, on Real Time with Bill Maher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAXPyAafQvA

Tyson on the dysfunction of the U.S. Congress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HWGihz0UGg#t=134
Like this

https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/

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Functional language cannibalism at its finest!

Seriously, it seems like the more people agree on something the more they bikeshed over it.
The most generous American employers barely meet the minimum legal requirements in Europe. Americans tolerate conditions of employment that would be utterly unthinkable to most western Europeans.

EU workers are entitled to a minimum of four weeks paid holiday. The EU requires 20 weeks of paid maternity leave, mandates a maximum working week of 48 hours for most employees and enshrines a great deal of protection against unfair dismissal. Those pan-EU minimums are exceeded in most member states.

A very large proportion of European companies, especially French and German businesses, regard the wellbeing of their employees as a primary aim, not a cost of doing business. Planning is done in the long-term, with the creation of stable and sustainable jobs being a primary objective. Silicon valley 'perks' like subsidised canteens and employer-sponsored social clubs are the norm for semi-skilled manual workers in many EU countries.

That's before we even address things like generous welfare benefits, state healthcare and other policies that are as normal in the EU as they are unthinkable in the US. The Democratic party would be considered centre-right in most European countries. A left wing in the European sense simply does not exist in the US. 20 seats in the French Senate are held by communists - not socialists (they hold 128 seats), but bona fide Internationale-singing, red flag flying communists.

If you think that Americans aren't unusually capitalistic, you really need to travel more.
Does this (the almost one million BitCoins) mean that he openly lied about being insolvent, or is this an undisclosed donation?
Not sure that's the best analogy. You can also take a bunch of starting material, process it, and make yourself an actual diamond.
You're thinking of fastclick. This is different, it's page prefetching so that you start loading the page before the UI event that would normally start loading it happens.
> It may be stuck in the 60's but HF radios work

Really? When you have to worry about things like "Squelch" in order to deal with voltage supply ground noise? You are on thin ground.

The real problem with modern technology is that the pilot can't rely on it. Sure, a digital radio is $1,000 (or less). However, the digital radio that is FAA certified will be expensive and nobody is going to develop it because the FAA won't require it because all the pilots will bitch that it is too expensive.
It's quite common for compilers to be written in the language they compile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29
No, not really, it's the same way that C compilers are written in C. The first one was written in another language like assembly, to be sure, but after that you could use the first compiler to write a second compiler in C, and the second one to write a third one, and so on.

In this case, I'm assuming the first version of the compiler was written in Javascript. After that, they could use the first Javascript-based Litescript compiler to compile a Litescript version of the compiler, and once you have that you never have to go back to Javascript again.
Agreed it is nothing new, and agreed the situation should have been managed better. Never the less, here we are, and the need to pay £200,000,000 to Microsoft for updates that they have to provide for XP embedded anyway is going to have a negative effect shall we say. As the OA was explaining, this is all about perceptions.
That looks almost exactly like what I was describing. Thanks for pointing it out.

I would probably be willing to try it except for the fact that it's subscription based. If I forget to cancel my subscription after the first month (which I will) I will either end up with more clothing than I want or the hassle of having to return the clothing.
There are a lot of people here complaining about redundancy against other scripting languages, but how many of them are working on anything really unique? They're probably all at some "innovative, gamified social media marketing startup".

Too many people fail to study more than a handful of languages, and they can't understand that how a person's experience in one language can translate to other languages. They spend a lot of time cherry-picking obscure language features and make them out to be make-or-break, everyday-common features of their favorite language, and if you don't know about them, you're doomed doomed doomed. As if the correct selection of StackOverflow postings hasn't already implemented every piece of software known to man in every programming language, already.

I think it will ultimately be good for the world to have more and more new languages come out. For one thing, it will help to blur the lines between languages. Show that languages exist on a continuum by creating that continuum. Show that syntax is trivial, far more important is wise decision making.

"A good workman can make good work with even the worst tools" gets bandied about, especially in response to critiques against PHP. While a good workman may certainly be able to make good work with bad tools, if they are forced to, at gun point, or the behest of their brother-in-law, a good workman would have curated for herself the best tools money could buy. And great workmen have a tendency to make their own tools.

It's also heartening to see so many new languages. It says to me that the quality of the average developer--despite anecdotal evidence--is increasing. It also suggest we live in amazing times that tools have progressed so far to allow anyone with slightly more than a basic CS education to be able to create their own programming languages.

So keep on keeping on, LiteScript. You're okay in my book.
I was curious too, so I tried to look it up. According to the DOT, it looks like driving mileage has trended downward slightly since a peak in 2007, FWIW.

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...
As far as I know you can't enforce arbitration / mediation in the UK it woudl not be justicable i.e you can't sign your statutory rights away

"Acas don't represent people in employment cases. Their job is to try and help you and your employer settle your case.

This doesn't mean that they will try to get the best deal for you, but one that both you and your employer will accept. So if you can't reach an agreement that both you and your employer are happy with, Acas will stop their involvement, and you can decide whether to go on with your case to the employment tribunal."
Somebody forgot DESQview, it was pure DOS without any Windows.
No, but they choose to selectively enforce it. Same responsibility applies, if not more since it's impossible to enforce all laws.
Skype and Microsoft man-in-the-middle chats to give targeted ads
TL;DR: I sent a friend a link to Kotaku that had the word pizza, and a Dominos ad showed up magically at the top of my browser. I disabled my settings not knowing these are enabled by default.

Long version:
Today I was surfing Kotaku for kicks and started laughing as I was skipping through the YouTube video / article about using a Red Baron Pizza Coupon that was 17 years old. (Link: http://kotaku.com/man-uses-17-year-old-coupon-for-frozen-pizza-bundled-wi-1539878046).

I thought it was great, so I decided to use Skype to pass the word around. No more than 2 seconds after sending the link out I had a nice "Order Dominos Now!" ad at the top of my screen.

FYI: Skype and Microsoft enable targeted ads by DEFAULT. I don't mind having ads be presented to me from past traffic/links/urls/etc. However, I thought it was really uncool that they are man-in-the-middling my chats to give me "a better ad experience" by parsing/mining all my chats.

Link how to disable: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA140/how-do-i-manage-my-privacy-settings-in-skype-for-windows-desktop

As always Buyer Beware, and if you don't pay for the product - you ARE the product.

Happy Sunday!
-Phrasz
This only applies to the sample you submit. A competent writer can submit a few paragraphs of throwaway work.
Very horribly probably. Though it is a great book, and everyone serious about chess should read it, I think this quote of Anatoly Lein by Jonathan Tisdall in Improve Your Chess Now explains the problem with Kotov best.

"I don't think like a tree - do you think like a tree?"

I believe John Nunn touched on the problems with Kotov's method as well in Secrets of Practical Chess.

The biggest thing to take away from him is the need for a thought process, not necessarily the actual method he describes.
I suspect this will actually be Microsoft's problem in the future. See the second reference I posted. Attitudes are changing. The OA was talking mainly about consumers and malware. I think the biggest effect on Microsoft will be from mega-corps burned by this.

PS: I would like to see the NHS get rid of XP as soon as possible, don't worry. It is just the complexity of the job exacerbated by budgets being hammered in the last 5 years or so (exactly when a planned approach to upgrade should have been happening).
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Good news, but please [do watch the original series](http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2014/03/cosmos/) if you haven't yet.
I thought recent research was struggling to reproduce the same growth promotion effects in low dose antibiotics...

My money's on "neither harmful, nor especially useful" for the long term scientific consensus here... but I admittedly have a natural inclination towards positions that alienate both sides in any dispute.

Here's one discussion for poultry, though still digging for the economic analysis for swine and cattle: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1804117/
Regardless of corporate backing, _all_ these movements are powered by millions of dollars. That's how it works here in the US.
> Clearly he means

I wouldn't have posted if a different interpretation were clear.
Large image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiTPlBKCMAARAAw.png:large
"...at the top of my browser." == "top of my Skype Window."

To avoid any confusion: they were NOT in my web browsers.
At times like this, I'm reminded of the Mars Curiosity's tech specs which are something like 200MHz, 256MB of RAM, 2GB hd,and 2MP camera and all the posts about how my iPhone is so much better. Well it was good enough to get to Mars and a hell of a lot more reliable.
The uncountable flames on Web forums, the GPL FAQ, all the questions on the FSF IRC channel and so on are IMHO enough proof that licensing is complicated and people have trouble reading and understanding licenses. Correct & well laid out information about them is hard enough to find. I think a new website could help with that. It could also guide people in choosing a license for their code.

Having said that, in its current state tldrlegal isn't much help.
Early adopters and inverted social proof
The last thing I want to see is internet in the cockpit. What hasn't been hacked over the last few years?
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The comic seems a pretty accurate description of an unlucky, delayed train trip. It's how you would see it if you were an unbelievably self-centered whiner who despised people in general.

I have no doubt that his train arrived 6 hours late, and that one of the crew couldn't pronounce Sauvignon Blanc. Not sure that it counts as a major tragedy.

There should have been a warning on that link for people who remember Peter Bagge from 90s comics: "Yet another person that you were entertained by when you were young turns out to be a total prick, don't click if you don't want a piece of your childhood spoiled."
I don't know exactly how you define "successful online business," but I am currently a university student making $500 - $2000 a month at about 5 to 10 hours a week.

Basically, there is a market for vintage computer hardware, so I post some adds offering to take away old office items they can't just throw away. Such as old keyboards, terminals, etc. and they pay me a nominal fee ($1 - $5 per item depending) to rid them of their "trash". I then resell those items after cleaning them up a bit for extremely high profit margins $35 - $120 for 20 minutes of work (since I was payed to take away the trash).

One of the things I did was sold Model M keyboards which I made USB compatible: http://austingwalters.com/keyboards/

Another way I make money is by tutoring or helping out with programming, I use to help out local people, but I have since switched over to Google Helpouts. Usually, it's just explaining some algorithms and writing some C code. Pretty easy, no real upkeep, and I can set what ever hours I want.
Waiting for a class-action against Mark Karpeles any minute now.
The moment we saw bunch of aviation articles on HN and that plane disappears. Coincident?
The moment we saw bunch of aviation articles on HN and that plane disappears. Coincidence?
Yes, they know very well that they have to replace the system at some point. But it doesn't make sense for them to do this at this point. They have plenty of spare parts for the system at this time. The system has a very small attack surface from outside threats. And the current system is very stable and low maintenance.

They do have a good idea of what they would go to if they needed to upgrade tomorrow. It's just currently a no sale, supporting a new system will cost more at this time then the old system.
I traveled from Beijing to Moscow on the trans-Siberian train. It took five days.

One tip: if you're thinking of making the journey, bring a small hose with you so you can hook it onto the sink and have a little shower. Also, there are companies that will arrange home stays if you want to get off in Yekaterinburg or a few other towns and kick around for a bit.
From what I've read on Krebs site, I don't think Target understands what 'very small attack surface means'.
The superior service in the Northeast Corridor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Corridor has a lot more to do with Amtrak and the like owning those rails, and optimizing most of it for passenger vs. freight traffic (the former prefers banked tracks in curves, the latter vertical rails for bearing weight).
It has to happen sometime, so I won't quibble about now versus two years from now or whatever. I appreciate that web developers are happy about the end of Ie8 support.

However, the various SMBs with which I'm familiar seem unlikely to replace their dusty collections of antique XP boxes with brand-new 8.1s. I predict they'll buy used win7 machines where they must for BSS compatibility, but in general will move to chromebooks and web apps. I don't know that Ms could have stopped this transition, but they may have hastened it with actions like this. Then again, how much money did they ever really make from a business running 15 XP boxes in 2014?
The only sane solution I've yet seen is WYMeditor[1]. All the ease and immediacy of WYSIWYG, but producing proper standards-compliant code with the classes you choose. The code's not brilliant (having Rangy mixed in to cope with legacy IE annoys me), but the concept is so far ahead of anything else that I now use it pretty much exclusively for in-browser editing; as a professional writer I could never rewire my habits to the obtrusive markup of Markdown.

[1] https://github.com/wymeditor/wymeditor
Beautiful, but power management in a devices like these boggles the mind. Such little volume, so much display.
Oh. That makes sense then, I suppose this machine might have a market in the USA if it makes proper wine.

How come wine is so expensive over there anyway? They produce some don't they?
It might be as simple as there being a balance in the accounts, but being insolvent on the books due to outstanding liabilities owed by MtGox. But I'm not an accountant so YMMV.