skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JavaScript Style Sheet = JSSS = JS3
Instead of putting programming in CSS, it puts CSS in a programming language.

JS3 is a real-time CSS generator. It let's you code your CSS inside javascript and offers a rich object model to play around with style rules and other constructs within your programming environment. All changes are applied instantly unless instructed otherwise.

Breaking off the CSS from being a dead text that DOM interprets and apply, it adds life to CSS constructs by adding javascript accessibility to them.

If you are a new age JavaScript coder, you are going to love it.
Navy confirms flight MH370 crashed into the sea
David Wetherall teaches this course @ Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/course/comnetworks

He pretty much wrote the book.
Tuoitre's news link: http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/18157/missing-malaysia-airline...
Likely a reuse of their "site down for maintenance" functionality.
I like that the syntax for features is illustrative, so that the raw text representation doesn't end up as a mess of ugly tags. However it looks completely inflexible. It's a mishmash of special cases. How would I implement a new feature without breaking existing implementations? Or without having to write a new parser that in all likelihood will break on some subtle edge case?

At its core XML (if you ignore all the DTD, namespace and entity rubbish) is both simpler and more powerful than this. You have text, tags and attributes. What those tags and attributes mean is up to the application, but at the very least you can be sure that the document can always be reliably parsed into a form you can work with.
You realize a bunch of people died in this right?
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Maybe one day. :-)
With sooooo many static site generators (all very well done too), would be awesome to have a side-by-side by-feature comparison table.
Taking pictures of suffering people is so inhuman, we rarely see this side when we look at the news.
This is very sad. My thoughts with all those involved and those related. :(
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Why do you want to buy a house/condo?
Over water or in other remote locations, there is no radar coverage thus there is absolutely no information about the plane location except position reports from the pilot. Airliners have "ping home" systems that regularly send various info (including GPS location) back to the central company servers using satellites. However, the reports frequency varies from 15 to 90+ minutes and even 5 minutes is A LOT for a plane traveling at MACH 0.7. But even if the position reports will be timely and accurate, during the descend (after a catastrophic event onboard), the plane might travel tens of miles from the last reported position. Then, ocean currents can move the pieces even further from the last reported position (as it have happened with Air France plane pieces).

Lastly, ADS-B is not a solution for over the ocean position reports - the radio is not powerful enough to transmit data over the long distance (this is why we need to build so many ground stations in the US to actually use it). Not to mention, that ADS-B is not fully operational even in US.
Sheriff's deputies, really?

Newsweek is really scraping the barrel on this one. It really looks like the people relaunching the print edition of Newsweek today screwed the pooch on this, their cover story. It behooves their growth-hacking to keep the story in the news, but who's going to pop up next, a crossing guard who was nearby for a sec?
Robert made a deal with Kent, 300k for 10%.
What bothers me aren't so much the adults on the flight. They've more or less lived full lives, especially the ones from the US. What eats me is thinking that there were two babies on that flight =(
> I'll state for the record that I donate to EFF and would be happy to be listed among their supporters, any time, any place.

But not in a way that would be used against the EFF. That is what was being attempted here.
I'm sure he does, but knowing what happened and where it went down (for the main purpose of locating the CVR and FDR) is critical to help prevent things like this from happening in the future.

It sounds very grim, but we learn from our mistakes. Although blunders in mission-critical situations like aviations can cause loss of life, we save many more by learning about what happens in scenarios which we aren't prepared for. With AF447, we had to wait years for the investigation. It's likely this one will start faster.

My condolences to the families of everyone involved. It's a sad day for aviation – the first fatalites of the 777's spotless record – and a much, much more solemn one for everyone onboard. May they rest in peace.
It's nice to put disclaimers in there, but if it's the first time a person has heard the information, the disclaimer is basically ignored. Because what are you going to do when you have to troubleshoot a tcp connection or write an application? Go back and find a book on tcp and learn the whole thing from the beginning? Unlikely, as you already have what you consider to be knowledge about tcp. Even if you don't consider it to be authoritative, you probably have just enough to get in trouble.

That's why I find the whole "blind leading the blind" way of teaching to be counter-productive. Not that it's really serious or anything; nobody's going to lose a leg if you screw up your tcp connection. But when extended to other more serious topics, it can be dangerous to teach things to people if you're not sure about the subject matter. For example, something as simple as jumping a car battery actually isn't simple at all (when done correctly).
Last transponder position of #MH370 was Lat: 6.90 Lon: 103.57

http://pic.twitter.com/PVsNuYtbtS
iPads are OK but not ideal for this sort of thing. Because they're capacitive (rather than resistive) touch, writing is relatively coarse and crude and you have to be somewhat careful with false pickups from your palm. They're usable to draw on but it's not like writing on an overhead foil or a piece of paper.
Power of Prayer for Malaysia Airlines MH370
Is it possible to both receive and transmit FM simultaneously?

Could this be used to create a simple, low bandwidth wireless connection between 2 pis?
Nit picking, but the first fatalities on a 777 happened last summer in San Francisco in the Asiana 214 crash.
Apparently there are many aggregation efforts, but no by-feature comparison. https://github.com/jaspervdj/static-site-generator-compariso...
I haven't looked at these recently but I've never been too impressed when I have. These days, the recording part of a regular whiteboard is easy; just pull out your smartphone camera.
Yes I do, and I lost a good friend to a plane accident. We knew they were likely gone and that was painful and sad, but the lack of closure until we knew what had happened was even worse. I hope you never have to experience that lack of knowing, wondering if there was anything could have been done, wondering who to be mad at, wondering how something so tragic could happen to someone for no reason.

Having any information about their last minutes, where they might be, is a "good thing" relative to the over all "bad thing" that happened.
There's lots of data on this. Every accident and incident are logged and analyzed:

- https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/reports_aviation.html

- http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/month.aspx

- http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/

Notice that actual accidents, especially Part 121 ("scheduled airline") carriers, are rare. Major airliners are actually so safe now that there are no "common failures" anymore - every failure is new and weird in its own way. But as you can read through in the links above, there's lots of data and even small incidents are analyzed in depth.

There's another program, NASA ASRS, which are voluntary self-reports of usually minor incidents and can be interesting to read to get a sense of how seriously safety is taken in aviation: http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/search/database.html
Previous submission of canonical URL with lots of comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7333998
Agreed. Authy is great.
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Does anyone know if there's a possibility for survivors? Could a highly skilled pilot glide the plane to a safe crash landing on the water given ideal conditions for an engine failure (assuming thats what happened)? Or does a crash landing over the ocean basically mean the worst? My thoughts and prayers go out to those involved.
Possibly so, but it's unlikely. I have some notion that emergency transponders would have been activated if the plane was brought down safely.
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Is a link to the windows xp default desktop of a rolling hill & likely artist inspiration.
Wow, I had no idea there even was an Android Subtrate. Brb, I'm going to go play with it!
>...or try to read all of the listed material and figure out what I'm going to emphasise in the exam.

Or you could have just sent out an email stating what would be emphasized on the exam.
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That's Mach 22

If the Shuttle were flying at sea level, yes. But of course it isn't. Mach number is meaningless in orbit.

(During reentry, once the atmosphere is thick enough for Mach number to be meaningful, I believe the highest readings seen are Mach 25 to 26, since the speed of sound is lower at high altitude.)
It makes some difference but I agree with your basic point. Especially as you have to add 2 hours or so buffer for check-in, security, etc.--especially for an international flight.

And if you're looking for more generalized "reduced pain of travel," the reality is that really comfortable seating arrangements and decent food/drink can be delivered on a sub-sonic widebody for a lot less $$ than it would cost you to travel the route on a hypothetical supersonic passenger jet.

Transpacific is probably where the difference would matter the most, assuming the supersonic jet had that kind of range (which is sort of doubtful). But it's worth noting that, even with today's jets, some really long haul routes that would significantly cut travel time for some don't make economic sense and have been eliminated (e.g. New York-Singapore).
Have you checked out EDN yet (https://github.com/edn-format/edn)?

It's a relatively new data format designed by Rich Hickey that has versioning and backward-compatibility baked in from the start.

EDN stands for "Extensible Data Notation". It has an extensible type system that enables you to define custom types on top of its built-in primitives, and there's no schema.

To define a type, you simply use a custom prefix/tag inline:

#wolf/pack {:alpha "Greybeard" :betas ["Frostpaw" "Blackwind" "Bloodjaw"]}

While you can register custom handlers for specific tags, properly implemented readers can read unknown types without requiring custom extensions.

The motivating use case behind EDN was enabling the exchange of native data structures between Clojure and ClojureScript, but it's not Clojure specific -- implementations are starting to pop up in a growing number of languages (https://github.com/edn-format/edn/wiki/Implementations).

Here's the InfoQ video and a few threads from when it was announced:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4487462,
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/aRUEIlAHguU, http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-clojure-reader
I'm not completely against using javascript to write styles, but looking at this documentation, I'm not a huge fan of this API.

CSS already looks very much like an object, I think sticking to that form, and allowing the user to manipulate variables in the stylesheet simply, or define and use variables which are loaded on the client, would be beneficial.

Manipulating css rules is easy enough in javascript/jQuery already, so that's where I don't see a massive benefit of what JS3 is adding.
I think they could look at satellites looking at that region at the time. There are satellites just taking photos and they probably have captured something.
This is one of the scariest thing i read on the internet in a while... I feel so sorry.
It's a very different scenario, I know, but when Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 crashed into the ocean because it ran out of fuel during a hijacking, 50 out of a total of 163 people survived.

Of course that crashed happened close to shore and rescues started quite quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961
I found a really bad one:

Your project: It's like a sausage festival for child rapists
"unsendable" makes me think that the e-mail cannot be sent, rather than what the service actually offers -- e-mails that can be retrieved AFTER they are sent.

The idea of mutable e-mails scares me a lot, even if they're immutable after the receiver opens them.
This article completely ignores that fact that incomes have risen as well. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/05/health.drugsandalc...

From $32/week to $145/week, which by my calculation is a 15 fold increase. (but I'm not great at calculating)
Ask HN: Why all the aviation-related articles appearing so suddenly?
Not being a downer. I love aviation, but it's so uncharacteristic of HN to be filled with 3, 4, maybe even 5 on a good day aviation-related articles for the past several days.

Any reason behind this, or can we expect more exciting aviation-related news on the site?
Hah.

Your project: It's like a moment of silence for the undeserving and the ungrateful
>What bothers me aren't so much the adults on the flight.

Why? The first years of life aren't disproportionately more valuable than the last.

>especially the ones from the US.

Does that really imply that they've lived "more" than everyone else on the aircraft?
Well this is very bad news that plane lost its contact with control rum, and its taking over 200 passengers.
Hope for the best that they can contact soon with them.
Is this project already public on github?

Outlet and Outlet-Machine look like what you're describing but the docs on those say they are deprecated/frozen and the last commits are 1-2 years ago.
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Maybe it's late, but ChuckMcM didn't say anything that strikes me as degrading or otherwise disregarding the plight of those who died in today's accident. I suspect you may have misread; if so, that's perfectly fine--events like this strike at the very heart of our society in this connected world, and it's reasonable to express emotions to such an effect.

I just want to remind you that the observation he made was simply a matter of pointing out that, as aircraft safety records have improved, the accidents that do happen seem so startling because of their rarity. And really, it's quite true. Modern aircraft are technological marvels, and it's difficult to think of one simply falling out of the sky. Granted, structural failure, controlled flight into terrain, loss of instruments or instrumentation (as in AF447 where instruments were deprived of important information due to icing), disoriented pilots, and any number of other things conspiring against what is otherwise a very safe method of travel. Hence the shock.

The reality of the situation is well captured by kunai's comment. We can only learn to further improve the airline industry through such accidents. It's a tragedy of limitation and of our inability to see into the future.

But, when you stop to think about it, what better way to honor the dead than to make sure whatever accident claimed their lives never happens again? That's why this is important.
I have to ask: is it just me, or are those upvotes on the frontpage faked?
Why is black box data only stored locally, thus requiring investigators to recover the box in order to figure out what happened?
There's no way the big SQL vendors would switch to a common language. They want the user lock-in. Switching would break code for existing users.
...there really aren't satellites 'just taking photos' of the ocean. You might have a spy satellite taking pictures of a naval exercise. I think you are underestimating a) how vastly big the ocean is, and b) satellite capacity (most intelligence satellites are over land).

71% of the world is ocean. The ocean is vast, and most of it has very little going on. Last month someone washed up having been lost at sea for over a year, having only seen two or three ships (which didn't stop). A few ships in 13 months.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jose-salvador-alvarenga-healthy-...
"$400m" is not moderately wealthy, it's extremely wealthy.

Most moderately or even extremely wealthy people are obscure. One of the wealthiest people I've worked for had a saying: "it's good to be wealthy but not famous." He dressed like a slob, drove a generic Japanese car, lived in a moderate house but in Los Altos (i.e., given the money he went for a safer location as opposed to a gigantic house), and so forth... He never once talked about finance issues despite being involved in angel investments, exits, etc... Most importantly, you'd never see his name in a press release much less in a newspaper story (except once I think, where he was referred to as an engineer as opposed to his actual title).

However, Dorian Nakomoto's situation is far worse in that he's perceived as wealthy, but actually isn't: so he can't afford security, lawyers, a gated house (remember, he went through foreclosure -- he can barely afford a house at all!), and so on forth... He's sixty five years old, his mother is 90. He can't run, he's post-stroke so he likely won't be able defend himself even with a firearm. He also has much more at stake than others: he can't simply hand the home invaders or extortionists the money if, e.g., one of his relatives is kidnapped. Is this so hard to understand? Do you personally hate bitcoin so much that you're willing to be an apologist for endangerment of someone who isn't even involved in bitcoin?
It is a dreadful poesy to think that the last stargazer from this planet might have been a robotic rocket, looking up once at the fixed stars for all of humanity before ending it.
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A crypto site with mandatory javascript... seems legit
indeed. And what's with the gimbal lock? Quaternions FTW.
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Is intercontinental wireless communication reliable?
That's one sad thing about aircraft. It's very complex. Thousands of screws and if one goes missing the aircraft could fall apart at critical moment. I know someone who works as aircraft technician and he describes his job extremely challenging. For example, a pilot said he believed the airplane was hit by lightning but the engineers couldn't locate any lightning mark. Could they risk the chance? Spent an extra 15 minutes and they still couldn't find any. Till this day neither the pilot nor any engineer could confirm that a lightning hit the aircraft that day.

Every time I go on an airplane I would pray to get back on the ground safely. Everyone feels the fear when the airplane starts shaking or descending rapidly. Despite all the safety and escape plans, if an aircraft is doomed to crash/break apart/blow up, the chance of staying alive is so slim. And people on the airplane know they are about to die and that fear could last from a few seconds to a whole minute. That's a horrible way to die! I mean if you were on a bus and crashed on the high way, that's probably a few seconds. If you are lucky you could jump off the bus before the impact.

This might be off topic, but this is also the exact reason why terrorists like to hijack airplane (I don't want to raise a holy war on airport security here, just let me finish my thoughts here, please!). And you are right, we have to learn through accidents and that's unfortunate. We do that all the time. I count myself a lucky one because I am still alive. I hope I don't become the next victim. I hope this will not happen again.
>>Still haven't found anything that beats Consolas

Have you tried Ubuntu Mono? http://www.google.com/fonts#ReviewPlace:refine/Collection:In...
Its a bad news for all and specially for those whom relatives or near and dear ones are in that flight..
I don't have a ton of information to back it up, but I imagine they record a ton of data and it would require a pretty constant and huge data transmission from the airplane to get it all to the ground in near-real-time.
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My take in bubbleness is people moving to California for the express reason of working in a startup. If you're doing that because you're an entrepreneurial type and you want to learn about the ins and outs of running a company and your not a stranger to hard work, rapidly changing priorities, and the journey is its own reward, great. But if you're doing that because "startups are cool" and "Man, you get in early and suddenly bam! your like a zillionaire even if you're the Janitor, dude, sign me up!" Well you're chasing a bubble not a career :-). The saddest part for me in the late 90's was the influx of business majors who were going to 'show up how its done' as opposed to problem solvers and team builders.

That said, I'm feeling like there are more and more people in the bay area at least for the wrong reasons. And I for one, having lived through the first bubble, have been milking it rather than going all in (bought some FB when it got down to $18 and sold it once it crossed $36. bought some Tesla, sold it when it doubled) took the money out and put it in more diversified things (like index funds). Its boring, you don't make the 'big score' but when the music stops, and the music always stops, this time it won't all evaporate. At least that is what I keep telling myself :-)
Yea, I don't have the debugger hooked up for catching exceptions. It's just a simple repl. That shouldn't be too tough to add in game though. It could just pull down the console upon error.

I couldn't get Black Hole to install and gave up. I remember the docs being pretty bad, even for Gambit. I use the builtin namespacing system, which works pretty well. Hopefully R7RS will make the whole scheme world a bit more user friendly.
Its helpful for learning programming faster
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The ones from the US, as opposed to Canada, France or New Zealand? What a bizarre thing to say.
Because transmissions are unreliable. If you're over the ocean there is no ground to send your transmission to. Black boxes store considerable amounts of data - telemetrics, voice recordings for the past two hours...stuff that to be useful you really have to stream.

So the only viable option for streaming that kind of data is over a satellite link, except it should come as no surprise that when you most need the data the uplink won't work (maybe something ripped the fuselage and damaged the transmitter, power was lost, you no longer had line of site to the satellite because the plane rolled, etc).

There's no benefit. You are going to be sending people out to the plane anyway. If the plane is under the ocean you're going to investigate regardless. Flight recorders are designed to last - the Air France 447 recorders were finally found two years later, 4000 meters under water. Data links are unreliable, not there when you most need them, and not worth the trouble.
So, they made an announcement after 5 hours?

Lost contact: 2:40 AM

Announcement: 7:30 AM
That's a horribly insensitive comment. If Mr. Wood were your husband, son, or sibling I seriously doubt you'd feel that way. Also, why is an American adult's life any less valuable than any other age or nationality? You should think before you post next time.