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I am not the best source, but into mind jumps..

organizing your team:
trello, openproject.org, workflowy as a basic knowledge base for recerche

if you need time tracking:
clockinit

bugtracker/ticket system:
rt from best practical

git:
bitbucket

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forgot to mention - we will alert you when you are near the limit so you can download artifacts or upgrade your plan.
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I don't know how networks work in your country or where this accident occured, but in Japan when your phone is off, and you try to call it, it does not ring and indeed goes to voicemail directly.
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If they received the data that means the engines managed to communicate somehow. So that tells you the length of time the transmission unit was powered up. Also, using differential signal strength between successive communications one can generate an approximate trajectory (x km from satellite at y time) etc etc. This would surely narrow down the possible locations.
Minutes, not seconds.
Reminds me of Lost, I never thought that was a plausible plot even in 2004. I thought our technology has made losing aircraft, impossible.

Very strange that the transponders were turned off. Very strange that the Rolls-Royce data wasn't released days ago. Was this an oversight?
Article: http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2014/03/mh370-passengers-phones-...
Continuously ringing means the network still thinks the phone's on the network. When you power down your phone it sends a signal to the network saying it's going off. If you just pull the battery or something else where it doesn't send that signal, the network still assumes (maybe only for a time) that the phone is still on but isn't connected to a tower.
Although little cliched, "Sintel"'s story had great depth and pull. In any case writing good story is hard, their is a reason their is only one "Pixar" .
The bandwidth was extremely narrow, 10kHz. That means it wasn't non-uniform, nor noisy.
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This was not the same place (737 is damn old in design, from the 70s, 777 was designed in the 90s), this was not an international flight (security standards for international flights are stricter), so I'm not sure he even tries to compare both of them. Why not reference a Cessna incident as well ?
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Do we know for a fact that it disappeared from military radar?

Also, how low of an altitude would it have to fly to avoid radar? Maybe they dropped down to a thousand feet and changed course?
They have a GPS beacon. The ADS-B system is exactly that. It just stopped transmitting. Apparently it can be manually turned off from the cockpit. Or it malfunctioned.
They do understand developer pain and priority. Super.
There's a pretty good Extra Credits episode that examines this phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKgHrz_Wv6o
Basically, a dead mans switch for the cockpit door lock? Where the pilot/co-pilot has to hit a button every N minutes? That might not be a bad idea...
I'm really not sure why that is relevant?

Do you always check whether what you are about to write/post has been written before?
The requested URL /cs155/hw_and_proj/pp1/boxes-2.3.tar.bz2 was not found on this server.

From https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs155/hw_and_proj/pp1/boxes-2.3.... which is the VM image link.

Anyone got any contacts at Stanford?
The other thing to consider is that there are roughly 90,000 flights/day and 365 days in a year, so even if such an event has a probability of 1 in a billion (that's roughly 9 9s reliability), you'd expect it to happen once every 30 years on average. Extremely unlikely events become plausible when large numbers are involved.
Possibly the most confusing default in git. My gitconfig has:

[push]
config = default
default = tracking

I once made a virtual machine and didn't pull in my usual .gitconfig. It ruined my day.
"hg push" does nothing fancy: it just prepares a bundle [1] and sends it over to the server. The server can either reject (when committing a bundle will result in creation of a new head) or accept (either by virtue of --force flag or just because it does not create any new heads) the bundle and transactionally commit it to the repository. If the repository being pushed to is not "bare" (in Git parlance), it's working copy will not be affected by a push operation.

Note that there's no merging going on here. All the merging/rebasing/rewriting happens before "hg push".

Now, "hg pull" does perfectly symmetrical thing: it downloads a bundle from the server and commits it to the local repository. Working copy is not affected at all. Again, merging/rebasing happens elsewhere, outside of "hg pull" workflow.

[1]: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BundleFormat
I'm looking forward to improvements in video editing. Blender is already a very good solution for video post-production but it could be better.
Debugging. Hacking is stepping into a program's skin. It's spinning your laptop around to turn into an effect what someone just blurted out in conversation about what the app should do. Hacking is looking at 3D view in FF and saying "cool." Not "why?" Hacking is rewriting the same if statement knowing full well the profiler will tell you the story. Hacking is forever hoping the damn computer will do what you want, or feel, rather than what you tell it. Hacking is forever refactoring like a kid smacking piano keys until 4am because you know that daylight shit is just tedium and yet another lunch with essentially the same ingredients. It is living to the fullest extent of one's own stupidity, and thriving on the next crushing blow to your ego.

Hacking is ego death.
I listen to Epilogue and To Far way Friends on a regular basis. Yes... slightly lame (or so my girlfriend believes...), I agree, but the orchestral music was so good in Chrono Trigger, FF IV & VI, Lufia II, Secret of Mana, et al.

On a side note, I actually made a music box which plays the music box song (Epilogue) from Chrono Trigger for my son. He loves it.
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It's many to one, actually. Each range of JavaScript has to be generated by only one line of source, but in the other direction there's no constraint. So a single position in source could map to multiple character locations in JavaScript (for example, due to inlining).

However, I don't believe browser debuggers handle this properly yet.

The way to understand the spec is that they wanted to enable breakpoints. Breakpoints in debuggers such as Chrome are line-oriented. If the debugger can find the corresponding position in JavaScript and set a breakpoint, the sourcemap did its job.

However, there are other issues with sourcemapped breakpoints:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333569
Even if there is no GPS, it should still be possible to tell whether a number is registered/active on the network. When a phone connects to a network (including roaming) it's location is stored in the operator's HLR (home location register) where it is used to route calls. I'd assume it stores the time the phone was last seen as well.
The scripts for these Blender works are usually not designed by committee.
Instead of turning your phone off, so that it can inform the network that it is going off line, try pulling the battery without warning.

If I turn off my phone gracefully, the network will send incoming calls pretty much straight to voicemail. If my phones battery has died, or the phone dropped off the network for another reason (went camping?), then the network will have your phone ring as it searches for the phone.
I'd be willing to generalize that it's nice to see fruits available.
Music has got to be it. Every time I hear Corridors of Time[0] it sends shivers up and down my spine. I don't know what it is but the music of Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu is intimately connected with the memories of my childhood.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsj5xjoLXtE
There is an emergency access code to get through the security door, at least on a 737: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/03/a-hypoth....
Even if this holds up to scrutiny H1N1 will still be A LOT more dangerous than the vaccination.
You're showing one botched flight deck O2 tank per 30 years? That's how I read it but I may be wrong.

What are the odds that that one botched O2 tank happens to be on a flight with high altitude decompression?
I suppose it was the way in which I felt attached to the characters. Like reading a good book, that is my #1 criteria for "was the story good?"

I mean, Crono didn't even speak. Not once. But, when [spoiler] he "died"... I don't know, I still get a bit choked up at Marle breaking down in front of the tree. Same for Lufia II when Maxim and Selan [spoiler] die at the end. I felt like I was losing a friend. I just haven't found emotion like that in modern games.

For me it was all about story. I love great gameplay, but I wanted to be engrossed in a storyline while I played the game. That's why I played RPG's to begin with.

I have found games since the 16-bit era which have had the same effect (FF IX, FF Tactics, Kingdom Hearts I & II, and Suikoden I & II to name a few), but there seemed to be an abundance of them on the SNES. Modern RPG's just don't feel the same to me. I still play my SNES favorites every year when I can find the time.

I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, but I wonder if the limitations of the hardware didn't force the creators to be more creative in different areas. I mean, there was only so much you could do on the SNES (even though they managed to do some cool things on such a limited platform.)

After it was all said and done, the games had to offer more than cool looking pixels. The great games had great stories, interesting characters, and innovative gameplay (to be fair, it was probably easier to be innovative in those days.) Graphics were less of a concern.
I haven't seen the names field actually used by a debugger, so it's somewhat theoretical.
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weixiyen seems to be ignorant of, or omitted, the fact that there's a difference between "read text messages" and "read the SD card" permissions. If some Flappy Bird clone wants to read/write the SD card, maybe users don't care, but they might decide it has no legitimate reason to read their messages.

If one wanted to criticize Android for having such broad SD card permissions, there may be an argument there, but given the current state of things, it's trivial for apps to securely encrypt files they put on the SD card (they store the key in internal storage, which is much better-protected.)
Here's one potential problem with that theory... that plan was equipped with an onboard GSM microcell, right? So people could still use their phones? These should run over a different set of antenna, so if the other set was ripped away, this satellite link should have still worked.

So, if something like this theory happened, why didn't someone in the main cabin use their phone to call home?

Unless everyone suddenly lost oxygen at the same time...
The areas that have been searched are very close to where they lost contact though. I would have thought they'd be looking farther away with this information.
My Verizon bill alone for two phones is $230US
All these late "agile has failed" posts are out of touch with reality. They assume that it is always possible to get the best developers and best managers to work with the problem on hand.

I'm a consultant. Officially my title is Senior Test Engineer and usually my job is to go to a company where shit has already hit the fan or will hit in a short time.

The reality is that the company has a bunch of developers who are mediocre at best (and maybe one or two good ones) and managers who do not understand the situation. And of course the budget is already been eaten.

They want to ship their product and make some money with that so they can continue to live their life. If I go there and say hey, you need better developers, more rapid prototyping and managers who are technical enough, nothing will change. Nothing will change because there aren't "rock star" developers avaialble, there isn't time to find new managers and definetly no motivation to change everything right now.

Sure in some sense I might be correct to say so, but my goal is not to show my superiority, but to improve the situation.

But if I teach them a little Scrum, help them setup some CI and so on, they almost always perform better.

And then this statement "Because creating good software is so much about technical decisions and so little about management process, I believe that there is very little place for non-technical managers in any software development organisation."

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. "Agile" helps even the shitties companies to meet the needs of their customers.
It'll be a walk in the park to track down the debris in that case.

Amilia Earhart levels of mystery.
This is a great observation. After reading Spritz' blog post, I've been thinking about using word shape uniqueness as the main signal for how long to pause--i.e., "soliloquy" would be quite unique thanks to its ascenders and descenders, whereas "excessive" is less unique, owing to its relatively featureless outline. Combining shape with word frequency (across language) seems even more promising.
But who has the code? That'd be important information to have.
Can't recall a government ever asking my opinion which court I use.

Nor the ability to opt out entirely.
Syllable recognition is still an unsolved problem, no? Is anybody familiar with the state of the art?
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Here is what I don't get. A plane, a HUGE plane, supposedly just disappeared. Near China. So this whole "fly under the radar" is just BS? You just need to turn off your transponder, and you can fly wherever you want?
I thought Oceanic 815 was found on the ocean floor?
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Take a look at the takedown notice here - https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-02-12-WhatsApp.md
Awful. Was down there just after it happened, apparently, but didn't realize.

Here's a video of the aftermath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOAdOFYtnA
> So, if something like this theory happened, why didn't someone in the main cabin use their phone to call home?

If rapid decompression occurred, there could have been panic in the plane, making it difficult to establish any kind of communication. Who knows...
If the cargo was the interesting bit, killing off all the passengers by dropping pressure and oxygen is trivial.

When was the last time a criminal killed ~240 people in order to steal some loot?

The solution proposed would, at best, be extraordinary; flippantly adding mass murder makes it absurd.
I fail to see why.
I love getting to Zeal for the first time, even to this day (when it's really the 50th+ time.) So eerie and fascinating :D
I come to Hacker News to get away from depressing news like this. Can we, as a community, please stop upvoting content that isn't intellectually stimulating?

It's already really difficult for me to believe any one of the many front page submissions about MH370 could "gratify one's intellectual curiosity". However, I just ignore them and assume some us must really love aviation. This article is just too far though. I can think of no possible way anybody could find this intellectually interesting.
We can think of problematic occurrences in every social system.

For example:

If you've got this one 'government' controlling everything, what happens if it just up and decides to start enslaving tens of thousands of people and sending them to die in horrific trench warfare? Who's going to stop this 'government' from doing that?

What if this 'government' starts outlawing certain plants and/or alcohol, and punishing people harshly for using them? Who's going to stop the 'government' from doing that?

What if this 'government' enacts racially discriminatory laws?

What if...
When I was in college, me and my project team mates used to go to this fabrication workshop for project work once per week. I was kind of a counter strike addict in those days. The workshop was inside an old building and at one particular spot, I used to feel like hiding behind the wall!
> Do we know for a fact that it disappeared from military radar?

We only know what we are told, when it comes from military sources...
>You just need to turn off your transponder, and you can fly wherever you want?

Just from reading comments in the linked piece, it seems that is true for some parts of the world. The malay military didn't have an operational air defence radar system, or they might have had a better idea where it was going. And there are areas around the Bay of Bengal with no radar coverage either, which, if the plane was hijacked, might be where it headed.
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All of the leaders of countries involved in any kind of war during their ruling would certainly meet the criteria. If Yaser Arafat and Barack Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, I guess now it's time for Vladimir Putin to make the list complete?
Who's "they"? The Malaysian government? Even if they wanted to suppress the information, they don't control the ACARS network.
He does reference the case of Helios Airways Flight 522[0], where a similar situation happened as a result of human error (leaving the pressurisation system set to manual).

Plus, it's possible that the pilots had too much faith in the "9 sigma" system, hence misinterpreting the numerous warnings the aircraft gave them.

Numbers prove us wrong every day.
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I agree that's the weird part.

Every countries spend literary billions to develop radars, stealth fighters and ways to disrupts radars. Now, we understand in a closed area watched by several nations and operating by clear weather, they can't effectively localise one big civilian aircraft? For 4 hours? Because just the guy turn off transponder?

I think either we have been seriously mislead of what our technologies capabilities are or one of states of the area in knowing more than it said.
Ubuntu adds a security feature that provides a read-only relocation table area in the final ELF. To be able to run the examples in ubuntu, add this in the command line when compiling

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e.g:

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According to the Helios 522 investigation report, all staff aboard the flight.
I would. Do you have one top of mind?
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I mean, it would seem easier to steal the cargo at the airport before it got on the plane, just bribe a few ground workers, I guess. Steal some passports, hijack, then divert the plane just for cargo?

It wasn't the cargo; the only reason to hijack the plane would be either the people or the plane or both. Or, it was an accident.
In this case, I think it's more "lots of people from HN community are at SXSW", vs. any intellectual stimulation from "car crashes into a crowd of people".
I was going to cry "sytax error" for a moment until I remembered javascript :D
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:P I guess it was almost perfect attempt, and the quickest of mine so far (just a single 16 apart of 2048)
For some reason, I enjoyed that read.
Thanks for the bug report! Will look into it :)
Edit: deleted hostile, snarky content.
CF props are quite common for multirotors, but I don't think they'd be good for battling simply because they're significantly more expensive than plastic props, and for battling you're not really concerned with efficiency or prop deflection.
> hire a small group of extremely talented developers and product designers and then let them work.

Spot on. Whenever I go into one of my own anti-"Agile" rants, among my main points is that formal organizational process is simply unnecessary with talented, motivated development teams. In my long experience across many start-ups (which tend to get the aforementioned sorts of teams), if you just put a bunch of really smart people (devs) in a room with a project to do, Good Things happen. They know what needs to be done. They know how to do it. Any kind of formal development methodology just gets in the way. Management in those environments (and I've done that) is about care and feeding and listening and gaining consensus. It's not about religion or process. When I first read the Manifesto, not long after it came out, my reaction was YES! But in no time the Formal Methodologists came out of the woodwork and hijacked the whole thing, turning an attractive philosophy into just another management fad, one with nearly as much religious orthodoxy as what it replaced. Agile, with a capital "A", can't die quickly enough.
"Eating is good, grab an apple" doesn't imply "eat something or eventually you will die."
I mean, it would seem easier to steal the cargo at the airport before it got on the plane, just bribe a few ground workers, I guess. Steal some passports, hijack, then divert the plane just for cargo

Exactly.

Even if we want to be horrible about it and suggest beating up and possibly killing ground worker(s), that's a waaaaaaay off killing 240+ people on an airplane.