skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is complete bullshit. The whole story is based around the fact that some people have tried to call their relatives on the plane and have heard the line "ringing" after placing the call. This is exactly what you'd expect to happen when trying to call a phone that's at the bottom of the ocean, as the network will spend some time searching for it and you'll often hear a "ringing" while that happens, but idiots have taken this and transformed it into "the actual cell phones themselves are ringing!"
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I'm no expert, but Delaware is likely going to be a strong contender. It's the most popular place to incorporate in the US for a number of reasons.
Or just read all the articles I put out for free. I bet you'd learn a lot.
I do not have a degree. I was an honor roll student who slipped to barely passing grades in my last year. I did not go to university until my 30's, after I married a professor.

So I would have to agree that I fit that saying somewhat, but my C's were more the result of high school rebellion than lack of ability.
Sure, then someday an airliner crashes into a mountain because this system got triggered accidentally and it wasn't fixed in time....
I'd really like to do a real long-distance walk/hike eventually. I tried walking south out of Nagoya station in Japan, aiming to get Hiroshima, but I only ended up going about 50 miles before I ran out of time and had to take the train the rest of the way. I didn't make nearly as much progress as I hoped, at least part due to shoes that weren't appropriate at all, and hadn't been broken in. That was a huge surprise, as I had spent the rest of the year training for a marathon, and figured I was plenty used to foot pain. So I learned that shoes matter just as much for walking as they do for running when it comes to long distance.

I was hoping it was going to be a transformative experience, but either I didn't try hard enough to break habits, or a few days wasn't enough time. Now that I've learned a thing or two about mindfulness, I feel like I'd approach it differently in terms of attitude/mindset. It was still an interesting adventure.
Maybe it has to do with the location on the transponder? A laptop in baggage or an electrical component buried deep in the bowels of the plane would be hard to get to in the event of a potential fire. A passenger's laptop would be fairly easy to put out with a fire extinguisher.
I tried that. It did not work. ACA is not designed for entrepreneurs. When you are entrepreneur your cashflow projections are quite unreliable, and cannot be easily deduced from your previous income. But when you sign up for ACA plan you are asked all sorts of income questions to figure out what your subsidy is going to be. And worse of all, if you don't have any income (which is normal when you are starting a business), you cannot get any ACA plan - you are referred to Medicaid, so ACA is quite useless in that situation.

In my case we are without income for more than a year. The marketplace did not allow my family to sign up for any insurance and said to use Medicaid. However we are running out of savings this year, so two things will happen - either our business will pick up, or I find a regular job. I any case we will have jump of income and will not be eligible for Medicaid or any subsidy with ACA.

In my view, ACA intentions are good, but it is realized in entrepreneur unfriendly way and I cringe every time people say that how it is going to boost startups in this country.
I initally got that vibe awhile ago, but Nathan is really open and transparent about all of his products and their successes/failures. Being honest seems to project scamminess these days, which is unfortunate.

(I haven't purchased any of his products, so I'm not here defending him for any particular reason. I'm just a fan.)
It sounds like you're describing KAL007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

There's a larger list of airliner shootdowns here, and this is the only incident which seems to match your recollection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inci...

There's nothing in the wikipedia article about the USA's ability to track planes. We did have a radar station in AK, which may be what you're thinking of? According to wikipedia it didn't produce useful information, and wasn't necessarily tracking the plane at all points anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007#U.S...

I don't think we've ever had the ability to track all planes in the world.
I'm glad you mentioned this. My father just recently passed away from this terrible disease. But if this was just a few years ago he would of had almost zero treatment options. So many new treatment options are coming out. Be sure to get with a specialist they are the only ones who really understand this disease. Also look into PD-1 inhibitors they are only in clinical trials but have shown a lot of promise as well. Stay strong you're not gone yet and even though it might seem like it's the end, it's not.
As a founder I can say ACA will make my wife happier during the early months of my future startup(s). Tying healthcare to employment is about the worst thing you can do for innovation. I'm glad those days are over.
I don't have a lot to give. But me and my wife and our four kids pray together every day, so you can be assured when I say that we'll include you in our prayers. We'll pray that God comforts and guides you and your family through this unimaginable time, and that He reunites you with your family in the next life, with never ending happiness.
Not sure about their efficiency, but the CBO is normally way off on their estimates for what various programs are going to cost.

Unlike in a lot of life, being wrong in the government has little or no impact upon your ongoing viability.
Multiple people who know what they're talking about have confirmed that you don't get the "straight to voicemail" behavior if the phone was last registered on a roaming network rather than its home network. As would be the case for e.g. every single Chinese cell phone that was last turned on in Malaysia.
Very interesting, maybe I can use -ex cryptocurrency rigs for something useful after all.
I'm an expat in Canada, and I'm considering shedding my U.S. citizenship over FBAR/FATCA. I don't really want to do so, however, as long as my parents are alive. I will probably do so very quickly after they pass because holding onto my citizenship is providing me no benefit other than being able to see them without hassle.

What I am looking for now is someone who can help me catch up on my U.S. taxes (I'm a few years behind, but I think I might qualify for the catch-up amnesty if I get it done for this year) without costing me an arm and a leg.
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Then why was the transition done in Europe? Was there more fraud there?
This is pretty insane. It seems like such a simple problem to solve (eg, send auditor with an app on his phone, input building condition, occupancy, etc. sync back to database that has other information, value etc.) But the regulatory hoops and the bureaucracy involved just break everything. It blows my mind that we don't try to approach these problems more rationally.
Everyone has different reasons for starting such an adventure but I tend to think that "hoping for a change" might be the worst.
Don't get me wrong, I respect this idea, I just feel the starting asumption may lead you somewhere you did not expect at first.

You might not like what you find during your adventure, you might not like what you discover of yourself, you might lie to yourself, incounciously trying to convince yourself that you're on the right path.

Trying to stay really objective towards oneself during such a trip is quite a challenge by itself, a very interesting one.

I feel that hiking / biking for the sake of it, for the beauty of the world, of its people, for the physical performance is a much more truthful experience than any other self-conviction goal.

In the end, what counts stays in you, in your eyes, in your heart and muscles. And that's not the kind of things you can sum up by a video, a blog or any slideshow back home.

That said, I wish sincerely that you find yourself!
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That's not true. There are cases (e.g. if the phone was last registered on an overseas network because the person was traveling internationally) where the network will generate a "ring" while still searching for the phone.
> Nemisis7654 said: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391380)

> There is also the excellent Genymotion emulator.

> http://www.genymotion.com/

Genymotion deserves to be mentioned in a top level comment. It's the by far the fastest Android emulator and it works brilliantly simple.
I mean they don't pay corporation tax, they're based in Luxembourg for that reason. Why should I have to pay a ridiculous amount of money, when they don't pay anything.
Well, opensourcing a product doesn't forbid you to earn from it, but that's your personal decision ;)
The grass is always greener, etc.
I think it's simpler than that: something about the Latin languages makes them unusually hard to pick up for fluent English speakers. This strikes me as one of the main reasons Latin stayed being taught in the English speaking world for so long. Once you've got one the rest seem to follow, but that first one seems to be brutal.

Compare that with the Asian languages, and I know more people that claim to have picked up substantial bits of Japanese through importing videogames than is remotely reasonable, and have had a sort of light experience of it myself. The very alienness of it prevents attempts to link it back to your previous context, when constantly trying to do so is, in my experience, a perpetual tarpit.
Wow I'm really interested in this, but your reply from the get-go offers nothing. Why not actually deliver something meaningful for the HN audience off the bat instead of passing yourself off as an AMA celebrity while not really contributing to any of the points that the OP has made?
Is that because they're using one of the 32 bits as a boolean to mark if it should be collected? Just curious.
It'll take me ages to go through all the episodes of Mayday, but I'm certain in one of them the US released highly classified radar data to prevent a wider political catastrophe, and that the narrator described the source of the data was from a new type of radar that had the capability to track every plane in the world.

The series is exceptionally well researched and presented.
Not sure what an old lady renting a building has to do with the CBO, but I suspect that cmelbye is pointing out not that the CBO is efficient at its job, but that institutionalizing impact measurement (CBO) is insufficient in the face of powerful political incentives. That's how I read it, anyhow.
It's still awful and hugely expensive and unpredictable. If you don't want anyone over 60, let's get people living healthy 'til 60 and then go all Logan's Run - it's horrifying, but only more horrifying than the current situation because we're a little bit used to the current situation. And maybe we'll find that we don't need to.
As someone said recently "we know you have called a phone sex line 10 times in the last month, and a divorce lawyer last week, but we don't know what you talked about."
I mostly use italki, a lot of teachers advertise on gumtree in the UK for face-to-face lessons and will also do Skype lessons.
Projects you created for fun but ended up being profitable?
Like other users said, it looks a bit cluttered. I think it's because Lato has very narrow lines. My (amateurish) suggestion is either a typeface with thicker lines or a taller typeface.
I am curious about your experience. Have you signed up for a ACA plan?

I have tried, and it was frustrating waste of time - since, as a founder, I didn't have any income I was not allowed to get any ACA plan. I was told this after I spent several hours filling out forms.
While this is certainly true, sentences like this one show that The Guardian doesn't understand the nature of the data/metadata distinction: "The researchers cite statements like that of President Obama, that the NSA was 'not looking at content,' and ask whether the legal distinction between metadata and content is matched by harm reduction in the real world."

The distinction between data and metadata in U.S. law isn't about "metadata" being supposedly less harmful than "data." That has absolutely nothing to do with it. The distinction is based on the 4th Amendment's requirement that people have an expectation of privacy in the information in order for it to be protected. The idea is that if you have to expose certain information to a company in order for the communication to work at all, then you can't expect that information to be private. If you expose it, if you have to expose it, it's not private.

The legal distinction reflects the underlying technical distinctions. You can encrypt a phone conversation, but you can't encrypt the signaling information and still have the system work. You can encrypt the contents of a packet, but you can't do the same for the IP headers. You have to expose this "metadata" in order for modern telephone and IP networks to work as they are currently designed, and it's this exposure that creates the distinction for 4th amendment purposes.
My experience with ListView was... weird. It doesn't ask you for a height for each row like UITableView does, just for a row count. Then, it measures your views as you return them. This meant that the scrollbar was completely unreliable, it would resize based on the height of the currently visible views. Is there an obvious way around this that I'm missing? ListAdapter doesn't have anything for specifying height.
It's become fashionable to walk along Saint-Jacques de Compostelle pilgrimage path in France and Spain. Would you call it ultra-long walk?

Anyways, the good part of it is that you have cheap and clean pilgrim hotels all the way, and the food is quite good in most places.
You'd feel a right bloody idiot at that point.
Donated -- stay strong, man!

Love your story and your priority list!
Cancer is devastating and heartbreaking. I lost my brother at age 24, felt agony of cancer patient. Don't know why we can't cure cancer?
"It should be made a law that Congress (or for that
matter, any law-passing authority, this problem exists
not just in the US), should before passing any law
evaluate its impact and interference with already
existing law."

Ironically, that law would have so many impacts on so many other laws, it would be impossible to evaluate them all.

It's the halting problem for lawyers. :)
I was reading about this yesterday. Seems the publishing industry will release a hardcover, softcover, and then a small softcover version of the book. Not sure the exact benefits, but they wouldn't do it unless it made money.
Quite cool, but I can't help thinking a small black plastic USB port cover* would have done the same job a bit cheaper.

* These: http://www.bestbyte.net/merchant/graphics/00000001/CBUS01CAP...
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It was about 2-4 years ago. However, I was only in touch with a handful of companies. Still, my experience is that the continuous strength of java is that "everybody" knows it. Especially if the founder is not from a technical background, I think it is easy for a company to get stuck with programmers that only knows java.
No longer a prime number :(
"OpenDNS has blocked www.woodmann.com due to a security threat that was discovered by the Umbrella Labs.

If you think this shouldn't be blocked, please email us at security-block@opendns.com."

Bah. Humbug.
The share functionality over the video blocks me from allowing that particular flash to load/play. So I can either enable all plugins or not watch the embedded video at all. Just a thought for web developers.
Blatant blogspam? It's a single paragraph that links to http://news.rapgenius.com/Atodd-what-real-time-gambling-data...

Edit: I guess it's cross-promotion, which is fine just not what I expected.
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My dad died from cancer at 36. I was 10 and had a 7-year-old brother and 11-year-old sister. I guess I can relate in some way, being on the opposite end of it. I'm sure I don't need to tell you to spend as much time as possible with your kids, because they will treasure every memory as they grow up. My heart goes out to you and I wish you and your family the best possible.
Disclaimer: I've only recently decided to Stop Worrying and Love the Scrum, so my perspective on the subject may still be heretical.

That said: I think these are not failure modes that can be laid at Agile's feet. They represent a situation that Agile quite explicitly does not even attempt to fix. A key part of the (for lack of a better word) Zen of Agile is that on anything above the smallest of scales, it's impossible to promise both a feature set and a due date.

To an approximation, that's what the whole sprinting thing is all about. It's breaking things down into bite-size pieces that are small and simple enough that you can hit milestones on deadlines with something approaching regularity. But on top of that you've got the overall development arc, and on that scale there are (or should be) no promises made about what's going to be happening on any sprint past the current one. The point of this is to buy the product team flexibility: Either the flexibility to adjust the requirements in response to new information that's discovered during the product lifecycle, or the flexibility to adjust the number of sprints that will be needed to achieve a given feature set in response to new information that's discovered during the product lifecycle.

In short, this is a feature of Agile not a bug. It's nothing more than being realistic about an immutable law of the universe: The more rigid you need to be about deadlines the less rigid you can be about requirements, and vice versa. Product teams have a professional responsibility to be honest about this fact. Customers and managers who aren't comfortable with it are free to restore their sense of certainty by building ample buffer space into the schedule.
50 USD per day in Malaysia, in country side? Seems like a lot. In China I would go as down as 20$ par day.
Haha very true. Considering that YinYangPaint hasn't been received so well as a simple product, perhaps opensourcing is a good idea.

At this point, I'd be happy to settle for "good enough for people to look at the code" even if it isn't "good enough for people to use as intended."
$79 in Canada without any streaming :(
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I was aware that the streaming service came to Prime a few weeks ago, but I had no idea that the Kindle Lending Library even existed! I still believe Prime delivers very good value. I have something arriving from Amazon maybe 3 out of 5 weekdays, and now (probably for a long time, I just didn't know) I don't have to pay for books?
American here. I suspect that if you get out in the countryside and smaller towns you will find a lot less of that.
Amazing. It would be great to have some sort of open-sourced effort to catalog government owned buildings. Kind of like an OpenStreetMap. I don't see why most govt buildings shouldn't be publicly listed on a database; they can obviously classify the ones they don't want everyone knowing about.

$1.7B is a lot. I'd be curious how much they'd (we'd) get if the government sold used buildings that are now in expensive areas. For example, the Department of Transportation has a huge gigantic building in the middle of Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA, which is the most expensive office space in New England. I have to imagine the land alone is worth a ton.
I'm not suggesting cutting back on research, but distributing the research budget effectively. We need some long-term research into cancer cures, but not at the cost of the lives of people who can be saved today or in the very near future.
Yeah, but if you qualify for Medicaid now based on your current income then you should enroll, as it's expansion (increasing the income levels) was part of the ACA too, assuming you're in a sane state. At the point in which your income goes above the Medicaid cut-off you should still be eligible for some subsidies up to a certain point. After that, depending on what state you're in your monthly premiums on an exchange plan will be very very reasonable. Anywhere from $50 - $300 for Silver plans, again based on your state, and if you qualify for a subsidy then obviously that's reduced.

Don't quite understand why you think it doesn't work for entreprenuers. I myself left a cushy job around 10 months ago to do a new start-up and I signed up on the NY exchanges nicely, with a monthly outlay of a very reasonable $150.
Youre 100% right and im not a food scientist, but i strongly feel the increase on cancer in humans can be attributed to the largely corn based diet humans are fed.. and the other terrible food items were fed by the powers that be.

Everything is made with corn or corn byproducts and its not healthy at all.. not only that were feeding it to all our animals.. its a bad bad situation how our food supply is treated, and the more we push "lab grown food" the worse its going to get.
Launching a startup while still working full-time
NCI is one of the best funded institutes in the NIH.
This comment pretty much sums it up:

I, too, have not read the original article and have no urge
to. This article is brilliant and just my cup of smart-
ass-take-that kind of writing.
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RPGMaker is such a classic. I've found the console was much easier to make what you wanted, where as the PC version was a bit more convoluted.
Amazon's post is more direct and honest than anything from Netflix during their price increase. I don't think they are similar at all.

And most customers will understand the need to raise prices once every nine years.
We interview, and then we do a paid work test. The person comes in a works with several of the staff (the hardest working ones) and after a day we decide if the person is a good fit. In our world a 'good fit' does not mean young white male hacker, but instead means hard worker, understands new process quickly, and cares about detail.

Usually the correct person to hire is obvious. If it is not (if both candidate were mediocre in the work test) then we keep interviewing. The cost in lost time for training a new hire is high, so we want to make sure the choice we make is correct.

So to answer your question directly - we interview, and try to keep an unbiased opinion until after the work test. Then I poll the staff to find out who was better to work with. 99% of the time the staff doesn't know much about the person's education. I definitely would hire someone self-taught without a degree (like myself), and I agree than some people go to college for the wrong reasons.
Creating good governance(whether it's government, charities, corporations, and so on) is one of the biggest unsolved problem for humanity.

Yes, we function quite well on some level. We wouldn't have a civilization otherwise. It does seems that the government is so inefficient in many way that reducing many of them would probably lead to an order of magnitude of improvement in the lives of human beings, economically and socially.
Loads of "truthy" political bullshit that goes around on Facebook and email chain letters is regarded as fact (by the test of gut feeling) by plenty of voting adults.

There are different kinds of "common knowledge" among different groups of people. What's common knowledge to a person immersed in cyberculture for decades is going to be a world apart from a sales guy.
Heads up, bitcoiners: next week you can also pay with bitcoins:

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