skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

I thought nearly the same. But my thought went more along the lines of "it's sad that this person's highest priorities are all about money".

If it's not in the face of death that you set your priorities on your own accord, then when is it?

That said, I can totally understand not leaving the family behind in debt.
In addition, the critical frequency for the ionosphere is ~10MHz (that is, above that frequency, you can't really bounce a meaningful amount of energy off the ionosphere, most passes through). 10MHz = a wavelength of 30m. So in general, you'll only be able to detect things about 100ft or larger in size (and that's a lower limit-- practical is probably bigger). I'm not at all surprised that you'd need line of sight to track a plane. Knowing that there's something there is easier, but tracking is trickier.
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I don't think you've seen them in Chrome Dev Tools with GWT because I don't believe we are generating the source maps properly. IIRC, I asked about this before and was told Dev Tools does support deobfuscating globals as far as the stack frame is concerned. The fact that we are still seeing obfuscated function names on the call stack I think is our bug.

Edit: I take that back. I just looked at the Blink source code, as far as I can tell, it throws away the name index. Therefore, Chrome Dev Tools won't deobfuscate symbols, but Google server-side JS deobfuscation framework will, which is a pitty. I guess it is time for a Chrome Dev Tools patch. :)
Mouse wheel scolling works in vim, less etc when using Mintty and cygwin on windows. Worked out of the box.
The story is particularly touching, as it is a 'regular' person speaking.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, you reminded me of my own vulnerability and that we all have to be prepared for the worst case scenario.

Best of my sincere wishes.
Like in opening the door at flight level 295 and throwing out a bag full of mobile phones?
Looks like the website might be on the verge of getting hn ddos'd. Can someone inform him/possibly hook him up with mirror/hosting? I think opening up bitcoin wallet will be helpful too.

Memento mori - deepest thanks for a wakeup call.
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I have noticed this. Every one claims to be doing agile, even though they pick and choose the parts they decide are "agile".

I just continue to write software the way I always have. Kind of disciplined version of cowboy coding I would say. Sometimes I have design documents - when I feel it helps. Other times the problem might be less clear, built a prototype, and iterate from there. It really depends on the problem you are trying to solve and the time frame you need to do it in.

I get software working, usually in a decent time frame. Is that not what agile is supposed to be about?
I have no knowledge of how this works so I have to ask. How hard would it be to pitch it to a major Hollywood studio?
In my childhood, I used to go and watch the four bridges [1] opening and closing in sync. All done by chaps in caps pressing buttons. I imagine the reason for electronic control is to remove the need for chaps. Still causes travel problems [2] even in the reduced state of the docks today.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Float scroll down to bridges section

[2] http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/10988354.Wirral_bridge_to_... To enjoy the full flavour of our local politics, you need to read the comment on this article. The one written in block capitals (purple font colour isn't possible on the Wallasey Globe commenting system)
We spend most of our lives, terminal or not, "worrying about" money. That's the beauty (or perhaps tragedy to some people) of a capitalist society. We are driven by our metric for value.

It's not a bad thing.
Debts are generally not something you can leave to your family. They're generally expunged, barring joint debts and things like that.

So run it all onto credit cards, by all means.
How is this any worse than the rampant "I haven't done anything of note, but let me tell you what you should be doing to succeed" posts on here?
Can emergencies be predicted?
ok, now it compiles, thanks for that. However, I'm getting an incomplete response "<h1>hello world</h1" without the trailing closing angled bracket. And when I try to run final.c after setting the FUNCTION_ADDR and ADDR as per your tutorial, I get some stray HTTP/1.0 200 and Content-type text/html being displayed on stdout as I start the program final.c (compiled to a.out by default)
This is the band that was playing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_%28American_band%29
Life insurance is something that you have to purchase for sums of that magnitude, and a lot of people are too busy buying other things to worry about spending the 10-20 bucks a month that it costs.

Usually an employer will give you an additional survivor's benefit, usually between 10K to up to a year's worth of salary.
I hope for the best for you. One suggestion to use as you see fit, the overhead on the donate is quite high - maybe you can create and list a bitcoin address you control on your blog.
Can I suggest you agree with CxO you can use relatively anonymised blog posts, build an audience around "legacy Ships of Theseus" and move to consulting when finished.

Not sure how you find "people who have terrible codebases and don't know what to do" audience d but you have the writing skills for it
Excellent answer Blahah.

Now, gaius, why do you need to use a 5.25 inch floppy disc drive instead of a more recent storage medium?

If the answer is something along the lines of 'because that is all the old computer can use' can you clarify if this is a retro hobby or an actual use case?
I got taught waterfall at university. Nowhere did it specify 18 month release cycles, just iterations, and going "back up the waterfall" if need be (critics of waterfall never seem to acknowledge that you can go back the way). To be honest I don't see how it actually differs from agile that much. Just less emphasis on documents up front.
Unless you have a very oddly skewed set of people, by the definition of average most people are average (or close to it)...
There are numerous security issues with WebGL, so I wouldn't really call it "secure".
It wouldn't surprise me if the new system turns out to be less reliable and not last as long, due to all these added things. This isn't aerospace-level, but it's still an application where bugs can be truly dangerous (e.g. bridge attempts to open while you're driving across?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
I don't disagree with you, but this part got me:

"And do you really think any country launching a missile can go unnoticed?"

A few days ago... no, I didn't think so. But apparently a massive xxx ton airliner can go for hours unnoticed, so...
After having beaten 2048 we thought "what's next?". And we made 4096 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7386557 :)
This is 100% incorrect. The loser doesn't have to pay an unlimited amount of money to the winner. If I do a lawsuit against Google and they spend $10 billion on it then I don't need to pay then $10 billion. The judge awards a reasonable amount.

Also, empirically, there are a whole lot more frivolous lawsuits in the US. In many cases, like with patents, this is basically extortion enabled by the legal system. We sue you which means that you will have to spend at least $10000 on your defense even if you win, or we can settle for $1000.

There is a reason why virtually all modern democracies except the US use loser pays.
I was playing someone and when the game ended I had a higher score than them but its said I was the loser. I don't get it
Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA
> 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.

I totally agree to this statement. Even though I guess there is no need to actively sent too many information out in space as we do already have a kind of "frequency pollution" broadcasting TV channels, TCP packets etc. There are many signals travelling from earth to space all the time - communication with satellites doesn't end on them, remember: it's radio we use for communication!

You can easily imagine what it must be outta there when aiming at the earth with some kind of antenna: just imagine a world on which air isn't throttling voice-signals (aka shouting/talking). Those signals would keep floating around until they are reflected by some kind of object. Well, in space there aren't that many objects so our little earth is already looking like a big frequency mess and a kind of big light bulb for other guys out there. We just have to wait until all our civilization-generated signals are arriving at other parts of the galaxy.'

You can argue whether this is a wise thing to do this so naively but it's already too late to stop this from happening and to be honest: we can only do assumptions based on things we do know, so we simply have to speculate when it comes to aliens. The only thing which makes me a kind of sad is, that we humans seem to had a quite clear pattern when it comes to "exploration" of new geographical areas by external people (Northern/Southern American Natives, Africans, Australian Natives the list goes on and on). In this sense it's quite good that space-travels are that hard to do over a fast distance.

Just my 2 cents :)
I agree.

As an engineer who aspires to be on the leading edge of the practice, I've become more picky with who I work with. Luckily, "those few" tend to also be picky and seek each other out.

When I first started out, I sought people who were entrepreneurial and innovative.
There are over 7 billion people on the planet. A day doesn't go by without a story like this. We just don't hear about most of them. Someday a person like this will simply go to his doctor, get a prescription, and go on to live a normal life.

Rather than dwelling on sadness, maybe we should ask if there isn't something we can do, as a group, to make that day arrive sooner. What would it take to cure, or at least treat, cancer(s)?
What are the medical costs for someone with terminal cancer in the USA?

From the limited sample size I've gathered with sadness thus far: For serious cancer, terminal or not, the system seems designed for the cost to be "everything you have" whatever that happens to be.
That seems like a good solution. Why did the crew of the Helios flight not do that?
I don't think the 9-sigma is calculated per operation cycle, I think it's per maintenance cycle which are from a few times a year to every 5 years, depending on the type.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks
This isn't a matter of choice for me, from what I gather. It's already obvious to me that very powerful faceless people, somewhere out there, have decided that this WILL happen, one way or another, and the dismal tide will creep up around us all.

It doesn't matter much, whether my car or your car is autonomous, so long as the prevailing wind perpetuates a certain concentration of robotic vehicles on the road. Choice, freedom, privacy, become mere platitudes in such an environment. Meaningless words parroted in the same sentence as terrorism, patriotism, job creation and affordable healthcare.
damn. that's kind of beautifully brutal way of looking at it.
I deny that a state that taxes its citizens and provides services to all in return is necessarily tyrannical. I also deny that I said what you think I said, because your black and white view of the world appears to preclude shades of gray. If it suits you to use scary words, however, then my answer is yes - it is still preferable to your alternative.
I have been digging Karla recently and was pleased to see it mentioned. A few that I didn’t know look interesting as well.
Precisely. That's why sometimes I need to build something with it, to be able to get that more specific information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_Airport_diamond_heist
Charlie Stross' Hypothesis on MH370
And since this plane is far larger than 3 meters, it doesn't even need to be that accurate; 50 meter GPS accuracy would be good enough.
Did it cross your mind that it could be a combination of them? Drop the accusatory tone when you don't understand the content.

Do you not see the irony in writing an accusatory reply to me? ;-)

To your main point, I understand the content; I do, however, resent people boldly stating "that can't happen, it's too unlikely," only to then say "Oh, right, yeah, if you exclude old planes, domestic flights and blah blah blah blah blah."

I do concede that it would be more helpful if I was less of an arse about it though.
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Can India, China, and Australia be confidently dismissed as destinations, given that they're going to have pretty good air defense radar that would notice a 777 at altitude, and a 777 flying at low altitude wouldn't have nearly as much range?
I think you're being unfairly hostile and snarky here. This isn't a good way to get your point across.

Thanks for calling me out on that, you're right.
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I really hope that you are trolling. Otherwise, I literally cannot fathom what went through your head as you were typing your comment.
Yes. If the phone is "active", ie. registered on a tower, it's within a few miles of that tower. I think that tells us all we need to know about the relevancy of that claim.
This valuation is basically all from one game.
Once the legal framework is in place and the technology finally sorts itself out, I can see a situation where the idea of private car ownership becomes a strange concept in cities. You just have a fleet of "chauffeur" driven cars available that you can call on as you need them.

Of course the fleet can be 'sent out to work' during periods of low demand.
C was designed way before security was a concern. If somebody exploited your program, you could just slap them because they'd be sitting at a terminal in the same room with you - no need for fancy ASLR or controlling how many characters you write to a buffer when physical violence was a viable option :)
By method of elimination, the only nation-state that is insane enough to try something like this and has a non-zero chance to keep it under wraps is North Korea.

But, given the position that the plane disappeared, it is IMO impossible to fly to North Korea without being detected.

My conclusion is thus: No conspiracy.
Really quite a huge number of people are asking that question already. And a massively disproportionate amount of science funding goes towards cancer research. Far more people in the world die of communicable and vector-borne diseases or illness related to malnourishment. These issues get much less research attention and funding because so many people in the western world are focussed on cancer. So while my heart goes out to the OP, and I hope his treatment is successful and his family are well provided for, I really don't think what we need is more people to focus on cancer. Lets focus on saving as many lives as possible.
Where's your sympathy for the people who don't have cancer but have to go in to work every day because they don't want their family to starve? Should they not enjoy any time with their loved ones? Your viewpoint seems incoherent to me; we can't just support everyone out of common brotherly love.
The simple answer is you have dozens of planes on the ground at airports, which you don't want to appear on all the radars. Yes, a technological fix would be trivial, but those systems were designed decades ago, when being a pilot was quite prestigious and well paid. The thought of a rogue pilot never occurred, I guess.

Locaiton data is sent by the ACARS system, which was apparently turned off.
:( I lost my grandma to cancer, but from what I've heard cancer in young people is even more devastating (young cells reproduce more quickly).
"Believe it or not, things haven't really gotten worse since then. Actually, they've gotten a bit better. See, 2-5 years is about how long a not-really-Agile Agile team can survive before before things shudder to a complete halt. But not-quite-Agile was Actually. So. Much. Better. (I know! Who could believe it?) than what these terribly dysfunctional organizations were doing before that they're interested in making Agile work."

This.

Speaking as a manager struggling to get agile implemented properly I think this is key. Pseudo agile isn't great but it is way better than the pseudo waterfall (or just hacking - in the pejorative sense) that was in place before.

Organisational change is really hard. When the consequences of that change go against everything that's happened before and when they reach a long way from the place trying to make that change (including outside the organsiation to customers in many cases), it's even harder, but it is slowly happening.
Transponders have to be turned off while you're at the airport and while the plane's being serviced on ground. I think 777 has 2 transponders, so you also need the ability switch from one to the other. Lastly, I believe all electronics on the plane must be on a breaker circuit in case of electrical shorts so that pilots can isolate and turn off faulty circuits.

But you're right, ACARS (the system through which the engine information was routed - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Communications_Address...) probably should be updated to add more information...
I don't think that has anything to do with the "OSS model". The management/leadership dynamic of FOSS projects can differ from one another just as much as closed projects do.
That is the most fucked up thing I've read for a long time. For a "health" system to be designed to suck everything out of a person of someone who's already dying is vile.
I doubt anyone wants to entertain a 9/11 conspiracy
Thank you, you effectively turned my 3 hours daily commute in instant teleportation.
On the face of it, yes: it is quite sad that money is priority. But I think it's less that money is a priority, but more that his family's safety and security is a priority. By leaving his wife with this epic mortgage to deal with on her own he'd make her life after he's gone very difficult, so he wants to make it as easy for her as possible.
> It's not a bad thing.

... if your 'metric for value' happens to be high enough.
OP here:

His donation page is at: https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/w704/beating-cancer-o... which can handle the load much better

Should have thought to put that up earlier
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Essentially, all lives are terminal (some just sooner than others). Unless you are a jelly fish. Fucking jelly fishes.

I'd say that worrying about money isn't completely bad thing.
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I don't know if history supports the assertion that [revolution] leads to [good times]. I mean maybe on average, and maybe in the long run. However it seems to me the suffering the original government caused is dwarfed by the suffering of a violent revolution. Also that things don't improve as much as expected after the revolution, and that it can just end up a worse government, or lead to more conflict.
Wait a minute. WTF?

If the system sends signals EXACTLY every 30 minutes, then a very careful reconstruction of signal running times (combined of course with the positions of the recieving antennae and the EXACT times the signals were recieved) can reveal information about the heading and position.
Productivity can be measured in raw output but it can also be very subjective, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking (or having your boss tell) you have not been productive during a day when actually you have.

Productivity needs to be measured over weeks or better months. An hour, a morning or a day is too small timeframe to access how productive you have been.

I write down what has been improved, 5 mins at the end of the day. Code I have developed, customers I have helped, sales I have made. It's a nice list to look at later. Easy to forget what you have improved. Writing down distractions also helps me to look how to eliminate them.
It seems pretty common for employers to offer life cover in the UK (my wife has critical illness cover as well) - I have 4x annual salary from my employer, my wife has 3x from hers.

We also both have additional personal life cover for at least 6x annual salary.

This doesn't seem excessive cover to me - maybe because we are in our 40s with kids (and knowing people who have died and having close relatives who are terminally ill) makes you worry about these things more - I certainly didn't in my 20s.
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"A lot of these experiences have aspects that are specific to the tech industry."

Huh - how can the tech industry be more sexist than other industries? Please explain? I mean in what way can such an experience be tech specific? "Woman can't code" comments perhaps, but what else?
I think you missed the part where he implied that what programming culture considers "good" software is nothing short of a near-perfect to perfect technical implementation. In other words: what the other guy called "shitty" is actually the average.

See also the odd thing that most people consider themselves better than average, which by definition cannot be true.
Those posts are somewhat relevant to computers.
It's only a vulnerability if the user can control the format string. Otherwise it's a useful way of getting the lengths of things; but ironically it's not paying attention to lengths that also causes buffer overflow vulnerabilities...
No, I don't think subtrees can really help you with this unfortunately. At least not directly. Using the flattened mode might help, but then you'd be back to your problem with signing them. The subtree merge commit does record the original SHA, so I suppose you could verify as a separate step if you needed to that that merge commit is indeed the result of a correctly signed SHA somehow.

But I think for your use case you're probably stuck with submodules.
Not sure what the US reality on that is. In Portugal, you can and do inherit debt, though the monetary value of the inherited debt can never exceed that of the inherited assets.