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You are significantly underestimating what is possible. For one we are talking about a civilization millions of years older than us (very likely, the chance of intelligences evolving within a few thousand, let alone a few hundred, years of each other is negligible.) They will likely have hit physical limits of what is possible technologically long ago. Maxxed out tech trees, essentially.

It's possible they can have dyson spheres, and artificial brains the size of planets, running far faster and more efficient computers and algorithms. This is of course just wild speculation, I'm only trying to give a sense of how absurdly far ahead of us they could be.

Interstellar travel is difficult yes, but possible. We've had the basic technology requirements for interstellar spaceship since the 50's (project Orion.) If you accept the premise that it's possible to send a reasonable size package (possibly as small as a pin if nanotechnology is possible) then wiping out a primitive planet doesn't seem so difficult.

>If the civilization was that scared of being wiped out, it'd probably be cheaper to build a single defense for their civilization rather than a bunch of attack platforms intended to wipe out other civilizations.

Possibly. It depends entirely on the costs of defense against advance civilizations vs the cost of wiping out primitive planets before they become a threat. We don't know what futuristic interstellar warfare would be like, but my guess is crushing intelligences before they advance to far, is far easier.
I have never had the need to force a push. What are the circumstances that would require it?
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I don't think they can, because the phones aren't connecting. Apparently what is actually happening is that the exchange is connecting and people are confusing that with the phone.
Most of the detection platforms referred to in the "billions to develop" are meant to operate as needed, in time of crisis. They're simply not an "always on" affair, and operating costs for airborne detection platforms are expensive. There simply is no need to operate AWACS 24/7 except where a threat of conflict is involved.

Moving to ground radar, many counties simply don't have total coverage. When a transponder works fine the vast majority of the time, and peacetime is the prevailing norm, there isn't a cost justification for it. The prices involved in covering fast stretches of ocean and remote islands with radar coverage is a hard sell.
This is a great point. Can anyone expand further?
I think the correct way to do it is to do the old 'pick two' method - quality, features, timeline, pick two. (I'd say you never want low quality but... situationally.)
I wonder if engine data like revolutions/second etc could determine if the plane landed/crashed.
Have you watched The Phantom Edit? It's a fairly decent Star Wars movie, set in the Old Republic.
If it has a parent it means it is obvious, so no i wouldn't code, because I'm sure there are 3 open source projects on that already.
More so considering the city might want to close down the bridge (eh... open it? lift it?!) remotely in case of an emergency.
They might also want to throw in some traffic condensation sensors and cameras for security and/or tickets and so on...
For German (and maybe English too?), I think splitting up compound words into their constituent noun stems could work.
U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Flew On for Hours
Hermes Logistics is but ONE of Otto Group's +100 companies. HL isn't even a mainstay of the OG portfolio as they were only purchased a few years ago. Judge not, the whole bushel because of one bad apple.
The best part of this theory (which I think is good) is:

"Losing Helios 552 might be a freak accident, but if decompression and a locked door led to the loss of MA370 as well, then this would be a new threat that will now have killed 360 air travellers—many times more than have died as a result of hijackings since 9/11.

Is it appropriate to employ anti-hijacking measures to prevent violent hijackings a couple of times per decade, if they run the risk, as a side-effect, of crashing in-service airliners a couple of times per decade?"

That's funny! When has there ever been a proportionate response to the threat of terror? The response to 9/11 was so over the top and all out of proportion to such an mind-boggling degree that the idea that they would address this is a bit ridiculous. Even if hundreds of thousands die to prevent one plane being hijacked, it would all be justified as just what needs to be done to fight TWOT. National Security!!
Yeah but we did find Amilia in the end, though.
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Impossible. The consequence of hiding the truth is an international shame. And do you really think any country launching a missile can go unnoticed? You know that area is under dispute and nearby countries are claiming ownership, meaning they are actively monitoring all military actions. There are satellites watching that area too. No. No.

And why China? I think this is more of an anti-China/China conspiracy. You got Philippines and Vietnam right over there. In fact, Vietnamese navy was the first appeared on the newspaper claiming it had detected a crash before the Chinese.
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- automate everything what can be automated

- delegate everything what can be delegated
A valid observation. I actually like the music, independent of the video & I liked the video as well. Just felt that the music overwhelmed what was an otherwise great video to watch. The visual experience literally got better for me once I turned the sound off.

I only mentioned it since I've recently seen a few wonderful videos ruined by the "wrong" type of music. I understand music is subjective, but if you've got a magnificent piece of video, it's just a shame to edit in a sound track to try to communicate how cool it is. Case and point, fast 80's music background music, which generally tells me the editors really miss the 80's. This particular video IMHO would have been much better with a more muted background noise level or at least a background where the peaks coordinate with the video (yes, being an video editor in my past life I know how time consuming that is).
But if true, it would be explained by the plane sitting somewhere at the edge of a jungle, for instance on the remains of an old WW2 strip, passengers dead, and cargo gone.

_Flight 714_[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_714
Hermes working conditions might not be the result of the market dynamics itself but you cannot put the blame on the Otto Group either. Hermes was a wholly separate company that was purchased by the Otto Group. It's not like OG bought the company and came in and put in place all these conditions.
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I think you're being unfairly hostile and snarky here. This isn't a good way to get your point across.
So why don't planes do that that? You need 24 bits for 3 meter GPS accuracy (times 2). Add some extra for altitude and airplane ID (or does a unique ID come built in?) So maybe 80 bits in total.

This would be nothing for an airplane - $0.40 per hour? Why don't they do this already?
Has anyone actually seen a product manager cut features to make product better and to make sure the product gets shipped asap?

Well now you know why agile was just iterated waterfall in most organisations...
That is an awesome story thanks for sharing the link.
More people died making the V1/2 than killed in Britain I didn't know that.
Boeing already said that the plane in question doesn't have the device fitted, so the question of fuselage cracking around it is moot.
One proposed method of interstellar warfare involves nanotechnology. You launch millions of tiny machines at near the speed of light. These could be the size of a pin or smaller. A fraction of them survive and begin to self-replicate and take over their planet. Do this for every solar system they inhabit.

Couldn't they defeat it with their own nanotech? Well possibly. Perhaps the winning civilization is just slightly more advanced and has an advantage. Perhaps they slip in somewhere undetected and have time to mess things up before they can be stopped. Perhaps stopping nanobots from self-replicating is just harder to do than replicating.

Who really knows what technology is possible. An 18th century person never would have predicted machine guns and planes. A 19th century person couldn't have anticipated nuclear weapons. Few 20th century people probably even heard of nanotechnology. We can't guess a century of technological progress, let alone millions.
If the cause of the accident is in any way related to "human error" instead of unpredictable failure (unpredictable as in photons causing a bit flip that can't be caught in error correction, not something like a part with a 15 year life span being used for 20), chances are that error is the result of an institutional problem. With 90,000 flights a day I can imagine plenty of people making mistakes during maintenance and flight checks because they're tired, having trouble with at home with the family, etc. but that's why we have so many levels of review and confirmation, checking to make sure it all goes according to plan. If the airline (the asset/floor managers specifically) don't enforce a culture that takes safety and aircraft operation seriously, no amount of reviewers will help them and when things fall apart, they do so in spades.

It's not really a question of "what's the chance that this will break in 30 years." It's a question of the part's function, the added complexity/failure points it adds to the design, and the chances that the added complexity will exacerbate flaws in management when it all goes haywire.
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is it 0xff00c0 ?

On my windows machine here its either

0xff00ff
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0x0000ff

Eventually he was just lazy and had no color palette ready?
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After some link following to [0] I saw tweet [1], which suggests that the phones wouldn't have been on the network at all. It doesn't really answer my questions, but I think it rules out the phones as a source of information.

That tweet implies that the first order answer to my question 'how long before a search times out' is 'a long time'.

[0] http://mh370lost.tumblr.com/
[1] https://twitter.com/AeroMobile/status/443419690350960640
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By definition most companies, most teams and most individuals are average. There are very few really good developers and managers. What suits those few does not really matter. They will do great things not matter what. Agile works for most better than the alternatives.
"No. Good software comes from understanding the needs of your customers and meetings those needs. Shitty developers have and will create awesome products just because they know what the users want and need."

Depends what you class as "good software". My colleague left some code which "worked" and "met the needs" (at the time). I made a small change to the database it interacted with and it fell over. I had to go in a debug it, but it was so badly written I had to completely refactor it just to debug it properly.

So her software met the needs, my rewrite of it met the needs, and has been far more reliable and maintainable. I would say that is better software.
I don't think this is remotely plausible, but remember that dumbphones can last well over a week between charges.
Haha, that's already a visited link for me. I'm a subscriber to Smooth McGroove and I love this rendition.
2 dead, 20+ injured and 5 in critical condition.

Why isn't the government and the entire population pushing for and subsidizing autonomous vehicles? Cars are dangerous.

"X were playing at the time."

Is there a band named X or did the writer forget to replace the placeholder?

That's why I always put very noticeable placeholders when doing a first draft. "{{{REPLACE_WITH_BAND}}} were playing at the time."
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There is a code that can be used by the cabin crew to access the cockpit in this cases. It's cancelable from the inside, so if a hijacker tries to use it you can put it of once it starts ringing(it rings for 30 seconds and then opens the door). So this case of pilots unconscious is covered.

Any way I agree that the spending after the 9/11 is insane and unecessary.
Compatibility with the rest? Like, the users?

Everyone, but the US is paying mobile. US are still using magnetic strip credit cards. It wasn't that painful in Europe.
My pet hypothesis: with the vast scale of the universe and the light-speed limitation, when it comes to potential conversational partners, the universe selects in favor of extremely long-lived life-forms (possibly "artificial"). Such life forms would be only be interested in interacting on highly protracted time scales; think "Space Ents". Given also that sending signals into deep space is extremely expensive and energy will always be finite, communication with new worlds is sought only rarely, perhaps one targeted ping per world every 10,000 years, each an attempt to start a dialogue to be carried out laboriously over millions of years.
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This is only one of two devices I've heard of which add usable memory to the iPhone. The other is the i-FlashDrive: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009A5YP0W

Both the Mophie Space Pack and the PhotoFast i-FlashDrive require the use of their own apps in order to view or copy files on the external storage, i.e. the external flash is not available to other apps on the phone.

Does anyone know of any other devices like these?

How did these two companies get Apple to approve their apps, which appear to work around Apple's price strategy with regard to devices with differing amounts of memory?
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There is some discussion about the importance of story on the latest edition of Blender Guru.

http://www.blenderguru.com/podcast-beorn-leonard-working-on-...

It's a good interview with Beorn Leonard, one of the animators on Sintel, and most recently the Lego movie.
CDs, DVDs and USB sticks don't fit in a 5 1/4" disk drive.
There's a band call "The XX" - not sure if that's the actual band on stage.
No, you will not hear a ringing. The ringing only starts after the phone you are calling has been contacted. When you pull the battery out, the network will keep on searching for your phone and since no phone replies, it will inform you that the phone is out of coverage area.
Yup, you're right and I was, let's say, 99% wrong. (The 1% comes from the fact that "you" and "vos" and "vous" are all related -- but "you" is a cousin of both, not a descendant.)

Still no way it's got anything to do with writing "thou" with a thorn at the front and misreading it as a "y", though.
I have that set... and that's what I meant to copy/paste instead of wrapped line navigation. Oops.
This blew my mind. Cell phones don't work that far out from range of towers, and they sure as hell don't work at the bottom of the ocean. I heard that those were rumors and that they were false, but if they're true, then that's a major wtf...
This is for applications that put the terminal into a specific mode (or modes) that don't work. The example given in the patch linked to is man, but really it seems to be an issue with most pagers. What the patch does is hook into that mode being set and start translating mouse scroll events to arrow key events. The easiest way to see the problem is to run "man man" and try to scroll up, then scroll down. Up looks like it works because iTerm is saving that output, but scrolling down doesn't. If you do something like "less +200 rfc1918.txt" to start in the middle of the file you'll find that you can't scroll up either.
I know one guy operates a bridge with them.
If it breaks, you surely need to fix it (and having plans to fix it or upgrading it due to lack of replacement parts etc is of course neccessary). However, there is also inherent risks in upgrading such appliances, so it should not be done simply because the hardware is old.
But the ringing only starts once the target phone responds to the paging from network, otherwise the network just keeps on searching and after a timeout informs that the target phone is unreachable or out of coverage area.
I have two hypotheses, both untestable (and therefore worthless):

1. The distance between stars is too huge, so there has to be a trick to beating it easily, like FTL travel or wormholes, because otherwise it's just crap.

2. If any supervillains want to destroy the universe, they're too late: it's already been done, and this is all that's left.
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>Can you explain which one it is?

Did it cross your mind that it could be a combination of them? Drop the accusatory tone when you don't understand the content.

International flights have higher standards due to extended distances from emergency landing sites. An old plane is not exempt from the check standards, but the age certainly means that there is an increased probability of failures.

>If so, at what airframe age, or travel standard, or aircraft size does that kick in?

Again, sarcasm is really unhelpful when it's just a result of you lashing out at a comment you didn't understand.
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Perhaps, but you are assuming their labor is worth more than a trivial amount in the first place. If it was, then they wouldn't be unemployed or poor to begin with. And regardless, that has little to do with corruption. It's just underpaying an employee.
Of course technically better implementation is better if the only thing that changes is the technical quality of the implementation.

But it does not follow that doing good software is a technical challenge. It does not matter how fast your algorithm is if nobody wants the results that it spits out.

Defining good software is really hard task, but in general what I mean by it is that good software increases the well-being of its users. Yes, one aspect of that is the technical quality of the implementation.
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>This would be nothing for an airplane - $0.40 per hour? Why don't they do this already?

They would likely receive pushback from private jets that don't want all of their flight path transmitted back to RR.
There is no such thing as a "minimum wage" in Germany - at least not yet.
Yeah, ban cars because cars bad. No people drive cars. People no can think good. People not designed for fast car speed. The car think better for people. Then never bad things happen and all people will be controlled by good cars that think good.
Hey, I'm a 21 year old undergrad who's been freelancing part time. I primarily use oDesk and as long as you have a good understanding of english you've pretty much got most jobs under your belt. Execution, however depends on your skillset.
I started out at $5 per hour back in 2011. These days I make(on average) $100/hour working on small-medium tier Ruby on Rails and general front-end projects.

Good luck and I hope you find what you're looking for!
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This begs the question: why on earth is it even possible to turn off a transponder mid-flight on a commercial plane carrying hundreds of human beings? I also don't understand why, if we can send bursts of engine data every 30 minutes from the middle of the ocean, we can't send a GPS location every couple of minutes. Maybe even throw some GPS data in with the engine data - at least we would know where it was within a 30 minute window. We're talking about a few extra bytes.
That would work in the short term, but in the long term they are just going to get rid of the employees entirely with robots. Which is of course, far worse, and already widely done in other industries, with no one protesting them.
It's sad that when we find out something this devastating (you're dying), that we have to spend our last weeks/months/years worrying about, of all things, money. Nobody deserves this sort of thing happening to them, and when it does happen, it hurts me to think they can't spend their last months on earth focused on enjoying time with their loved ones and instead have to live in fear that their family is going to be able to survive without an extra paycheck. It should be a time of finding peace within the chaos that is life, but instead it's like adding insult to injury. :(
It is a false assumption to think that software/hardware would not get made and paid for if it had a different economic model. Like if everyone was used to toll roads, it would be pretty common for people to say things like, "our road system could never be any good without tolls."

Society has undergone massive economic and cultural changes that most people thought were impossible.

I bet 100 years ago that 98% of people would say "impossible" to the prospect that hospitals would exist that would treat anyone without requiring them to pay.
>In my experience the network won't ring if it hasn't seen the device in a certain time period. "Straight to voicemail" for that. I'm no expert though, maybe rings are still possible.

You are correct, rings are still possible regardless of the state of the phone connection.
Next step: get better at management to allow remote employment ;)
Is this Hacker News? Or America News?
I feel nothing but sympathy for Jonathan. I can barely imagine the pain he and his family would be going through :( What are the medical costs for someone with terminal cancer in the USA? I assume they're pretty astronomical, so I can understand why he'd ask for help (I'm donating myself).

In terms of his house and the like, I was always led to believe that life insurance was specifically for cases like his? Is life insurance a big thing in America? My parents have always had a lot of cover, but I'm pretty sure that was because of my Dad being a civil engineer and foreman, so his work was sort of dangerous. I don't know much about how life insurance works, mind you, so I'm sort of guessing here, for all I know Jonathan doesn't have any or if he did he's not covered for something like this (and to be would require premiums that are huge, or something). Anyone shed some light for me?

Good luck Jonathan. I'm not a religious person, but I can hope for the best to occur, however unlikely.
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electromagnetic containment sounds like the most viable solution. Now how are we going to solve the inevitable heat dissipation problem.
Basically we're trying to mimic the conditions of the sun, and wield such immense power in a very tiny handle no?
Don't think this will ever be possible :)
Not just open source, but free under the MIT licence.

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Last time I checked Germany wasn't part of the US and we use magnetic strip cards all the time here.
Cars are fine, but people can't be trusted with them. Just like with guns, and, apparently, keyboards.
There is nothing I can realy say other than I wish you and your family the best.
The Google self-driving cars have been well over 500k without an accident in automatic mode (there was one accident with someone driving it in manual). Autonomous vehicles will result in a huge reduction of automotive fatalities and it's not inconceivable that they would eliminate automotive deaths all together.

Even though I thoroughly enjoy driving, as do many people, it's simply dangerous. Yes, car too big, going too fast, lots of energy stored up, and humans are not perfect, so horrible disasters such as this happen.

Would you rather airplanes be fully autonomous or have a human pilot in constant control 100% of the time?