skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say it can't be done, I said the people arguing for real time satellite tracking haven't even examined whether it is feasible.

Iridium only has ~8Mhz of bandwidth, that is fine for a sensor platform that probably only transmits a couple of times a day, but could quickly run into trouble with constant positional updates from thousands of planes (especially with streaming of cockpit data recorders, as has been argued for as well). And the saturation of the Iridium network is not something that can be controlled without extensive re-engineering to enable QOS.
However, nothing, so far, indicates that the plane has crashed. If the plane has actually managed, ON PURPOSE, to avoid radar detection, it could have as well landed in secret somewhere else.
You should strongly consider making a product and selling it, then using spaceindustrynews.com as a friendcatcher for that product. This lets you have a virtually ad-free experience for that site (with the exception of a few plugs for the house product every once in a while), and would probably be substantially more lucrative than donations or webmaster welfare (AdWords in a non-commercial niche). It will likely sell to a fraction of a percent of your audience, but given that rather more than that is people with high-paying jobs in e.g. engineering or the space industry, amounts of money which are lifechanging for you (when aggregated) are still pretty small beer for them.
Here's one:

https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/download/attachments/18543...
> Users don't know enough about computers to distrust malicious software.

Then the solution is to educate them, not mollycoddle them and keep them locked up. But knowledge is power, and educated users are difficult to control and deceive, so the "developers", the ones who want to remain in control, don't want that happening.

> We put barriers between people and phishing sites, so they can't be tricked into giving their money away.

The same people who would then fall for a different scam, before even more barriers are erected, and would think "security software X doesn't think this is a phishing site, so it must be safe."

> We put barriers between children and in-app purchases, because they don't understand the consequences.

A "think of the children" argument? I agree a lot of young ones haven't developed to that point yet, but if you make it so they never experience any bad consequences, they'll never learn from them too.

> If you, an Administrator, were standing right there beside them, you'd grab the mouse from their hand and stop them, for their own good.

No, I'd just tell them "you're very likely not going to like the outcome, but the ultimate choice is yours."

"We do not truly have freedom if we do not have the freedom to make the wrong choices."
So would you mind handing over your email password so I can go snooping around for a while? I'm not malicious and I won't delete or steal anything. I'd just like to read your private correspondence.
And videos from the ground.
See here for the long answer - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-26544554

The short answer, as I understand it, is:
1) Most communications technology, including satellites, is focused on where most people are communicating - ie, on land; ie, on 1/8th of the earth's surface
2) As you correctly point out, satellites over water aren't as obvious a problem as, say, mobile phone towers in the Indian Ocean, but the cost to retrofit existing aircraft is considered prohibitive given the rarity of this type of situation (ie, existing communication systems work well, and in this case seem to have been deliberately turned off anyway - so a different system is likely to have proved no more helpful).
I'm not sure how this is necessarily much different than phone communication with the notable caveat that text is quicker to parse. It's already inadvisable to give that information over the phone as a landline can be tapped and there's plenty of proof of concepts of tapping wireless networks.

At least with an app you have the option of adding in security layers. SSL for one, Simple uses a PIN on their app, Art.com will process a transaction in chat but direct you to their website to submit payment information, and on top of all this you have the added benefit of easily documented interaction. -You- can reference your own interaction without the near impossibility of having a call recording audited (as a call center CSR and supervisor I've seen this happen no more than six times).

In fact, in one interaction with Art.com I sent an email to an agent with photos of some damage to the piece they shipped me in my initial email which resulted in a resolution in the response.

Another case with GIGABYTE I was able to send photographic description of my issue due to a consistent (likely language barrier related) misunderstanding about what was meant by "a missing pin." which immediately clarified the conversation and we were able to move forward.

tl;dr the variety of "offline" security measures available and the convenience gained with "offline" support makes that minefield significantly less dangerous in my experience, especially considering the dangers already present in phone based support.
Your phrasing struck me as well, though not as arrogant exactly. (By the way, I'm in no way calling you out specifically on this by what I'm about to say.)

I understand full well what people mean conversationally when they say that their time is worth $x/hr, but it's worth unpacking the notion: what has worth is the value you create* by the work you perform during that time. If you spend an hour watching a movie, you are (presumably) not performing that work, and not creating that value.

To go from "I get paid $x/hr when I'm working" to "My time (even when I'm not working) is worth $x/hr" is to reason that because you sometimes create a lot of value with the time you spend working an hour of your life is more valuable than an hour of someone else's. From there it's a short semantic step to "this is beneath me because I make a lot of money."

In your particular case, I presume the spirit of your remark was more along the lines of "I make enough money that it's no hardship to spend what is for me a little bit of money to stream a movie, and if you work in tech you probably do too."

That that's the case is because you've (presumptively) earned a lot of money, but not because your leisure time is inherently more valuable than, say, someone who earns minimum wage, or someone who performs uncompensated domestic work.

*This of course leaves aside the valid critiques of markets-in-practice as measures of value.
Surely that is the job of HR?
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>It's important also to say this article may have been translated from Malay, which could affect its readability.

The article was from the New Straits Times, which is an English-language newspaper. The initial report may have been written in Malay though.
I don’t think you know how click bait works. For that you actually need a descriptive headline (i.e. one that actually says something) but then you use exaggeration or selective reporting and maybe question marks (or outright untruths) to make that headline appealing.

This headline is emphatically not click bait. It just doesn’t say anything and wouldn’t lead anyone to click on it. If you think that headline helps driving up views then I really can’t help you. Why would you ever think something so ridiculous?

As you already figured out, this headline is a reaction to the completely bonkers top-comment yesterday whining about the headline of Worse. You are talking about a private blog here and not using descriptive headlines is a HN problem, not a private blog problem. Not every author has to bend to the whims of some link collection site and use headlines that fit that site. It’s really as simple as that.
In my layman understanding current prevailing theory is that acceleration of expansion will reduce observable universe, and as consequence there is basically no question of "size beyond observable universe" - there is no possible interaction with it and as such it doesn't exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_universe
My problem with APUE is that it includes so much detail about platforms I'm not likely to be exposed to. It's probably a great reference for that stuff (it's almost a rosetta stone for unix programming), but it could probably be half as long without the "extraneous" stuff.
trend micro blocks this domain as malicious, fyi.
You're saying this from a user's perspective, not from the company's perspective, right? From the company's perspective, a) their lawyers will advise them that "We sometimes let users use the product without signing a contract. How do you feel about that?" invites incredible levels of legal risk, b) the person who monitors the Rejected the TOS inbox is buying themselves hundreds of hours of work answering very frustrating emails from the worst customers ever, and c) this choice will not appreciably increase any metric the company cares about.

You can get a custom TOS written by many software companies, by the way. It will just cost you a heck of a lot of money. The reason we use "contracts of adhesion" (the take-it-or-leave-it terms) is because lawyers and compliance are really freaking expensive, and we can amortize e.g. $10,000 of legal costs over e.g. 700k clients, but if you want things to be custom-negotiated then you can expect to pay $10,000 for that.

Customers frequently ask for this for Appointment Reminder, by the way. "I just have one paragraph I wanted added to the license." Sure, for enterprise pricing, we can do that. "How much is enterprise pricing?" 20X what you think it costs. "THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS." I tend to agree, but welcome to paying professional wages for professional services. If you'd like to not end up footing any legal bills, you're welcome to buy the $29 plan and click Yes when prompted.
China is pretty much the only (reluctant) sponsor of the abomination that is NK. They wouldn't kidnap a plane with 100+ Chinese citizens. Frankly, I think they'd rather try to nuke Seoul first. (Just my two cents.)
Rank who to unfriend on Facebook
> Your logical error is in assuming that if a company that pays no dividends now is considered a good investment, then that must mean that investors don't care if that company never pays dividends.

That is not a logical error, it is an uncontroversial fact. In point of fact, investors DO NOT CARE whether a company pays dividends, as long as their capital grows. Do you really think people who invest in Berkshire Hathaway are stupid or misguided? And will you people PLEASE do some reading and stop arguing from a position of ignorance?

> ... investors don't care if Google pays dividends now ...

That's right, and investors also don't care whether Berkshire Hathaway never pays dividends, because it's a very attractive investment, and it has never paid a dividend. If Google's growth curve should flatten, they'll have to pay a dividend. But your claim was that a stock that didn't pay dividends was worthless. It's embarrassingly false.

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Link: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1939371-no-dividend-stocks-c...

Quote: "Having delivered an average of one-third of stock returns since, (it was more than 50% in the '70s and 14% for the '90s) the case for dividends is clear. But there is no free lunch here. In periods of economic and market growth, dividend payers typically trail the performance of non-payers. Like now. According to S&P Dow Jones Indices, for the 12 months through November dividend payers in the S&P 500 delivered a 39.6% total return. No need to apologize for that. But the non-dividend payers clocked in with a 46.4% total return.

Ranking the entire S&P 500 by 12-month price gains, seven of the top 10 are dividend holdouts, led by Netflix (NFLX) which has quadrupled in price this year. The others: Micron Technology (MU), E*TRADE (ETFC). Genworth Financial (GNW), Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), Celgene (CELG) and Boston Scientific (BSX), all of which have at least doubled in price over the past 12 months."

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Which part of this is in any way confusing?

> I'm done with this,

I'll say you are. But your ignorance remains in full bloom.

> but next time try reading what you are replying to carefully, instead of just blasting out facts.

"Don't confuse me with the facts when I'm on a rant." Sadly noted.
The wife was mentioned because she was called out in the earlier article as a problem. We don't know if she was actually a problem or not. We, and specifically you, don't know enough to make the claims you're making.

Please, stop speculating. Have patience, wait for actual information.
The reason pilot suicide is a theory is because of Egypt Air 990.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
I use homebrew terminal colors and I still find it painful to read the type on Jamie's blog. Font choice is a big part of it. I also turn down the opacity to soften terminal.
Yeah, and at least email has a decent 'from' field which might even have some authentication behind it. So it seems like it might be a good place to get the 2FA...
What a fucking circle jerk.
I never owned an Xbox, but I always thought that it was matter of recompiling (Xbox games to PPC) and re-releasing. I could be wrong....
>Show me a case where an IN-FLIGHT transponder shutdown is a needed issue

How would the system determine it is in-flight and thus prevent a maintenance shut down? You would need another device to determine in-flight from ground operations, and thus another device that can malfunction and thus can be defeated by an attacker.

>Give me any reasonable response to why this is not something that should be fixed.

Give me a reasonable response why spending a bunch of money to fix this rare issue is worth it over other safety improvements? Old aircraft, poor maintenance, and overworked pilots kill many times more people than hijackers.

P.S. Why don't we track buses? Why don't we track cars? Why don't we track everybody?
I wish we could stop this.

Women in software is an important topic. This specific issue on the other hand is just a he-said-she-said soap opera.

Nobody but the folks directly involved here know what really happened. Everything else is useless.
Shrikant Jichkar
Is bullying legal in this particular state? If so I don't get why Julia didn't reported it to the police when it all started.
Ask HN: A botnet may be attacking our site right now, how should we respond?
It seems like our ecommerce site is under attack from a botnet, causing our site to go down. We're receiving 50-100 requests per second (far surpasses normal traffic). Some requests are for outdated URLs not even normally accessible from the site.

Here's IP data related to requests: https://gist.github.com/panabee/9595411. Can post more if more is needed for diagnosis.

Questions:

1) How do we confirm if the site is under attack?

2) If the site is under attack, how can we ward off the attack and prevent future ones?

3) We seem to have a ton of sleeping MySQL connections that continue to crop up even after we try killing them. Is this symptomatic of a botnet attack?

We appreciate any help or guidance anyone can offer.

Thanks!
I think the problem with offering both options is that you can't count on your customers to choose the right one, and they'll blame you when they choose the wrong one.

Customer (via SMS): hey, the whole internet on my phone crashes when i use feature x. wtf???

Customer Support Rep A: Hey, we'd be happy to help you with that. What platform/version/subscription do you have?

Customer (7.5 hours later): its the latest version, and i have a verizon. why can't you guys fix this???

CSR B: [lists some possible troubleshooting steps, asks customer to call]

Customer, the next day on Twitter and Facebook: [Company] has the worst support! They broke my phone, and they say they'll help you by text, but then when you ask them anything they just ignore your problem or tell you to call anyway. FUCK [COMPANY] AND DON'T BUY THEIR CRAP!!!
Why would you get drowned in interest? You would have to make regular payments as usual, which is something you know from the beginning, and are supposed to plan for.

Also, if this is a problem, you could try to ask for a clause against this when you sign the loan contract (if you lose your job, you stop having to make payments until you get a job again). Not sure they'd go for it, but it's worth asking for (I think many student loans come from the government anyway, they might accept this clause).
> But what if clicking 'decline' meant that you could actually state a rational reason, and expect some sort of human response?

Sure, no problem. Just expect to pay twice or three times the original price of the program, to pay for the administrative staff required to negotiate with recalcitrant users.

> And in the time it took to get that response, you could use the software?

Never happen. In many cases a program is a collection of modules from different vendors, all with their own requirements, and none of whom would be likely to agree to negotiate with individual users about how they can use the program. And certainly not in advance of forging an agreement -- a contract -- between themselves and the user.

In mass marketing, what you suggest is simply impractical. It's not as though a program is protected by an ironclad international copyright except for John Doe of Main Street, U.S.A. who is using the program under protest while his lengthy and articulate objection winds through a corporate bureaucracy. This isn't realistic.

It's not about fairness, it's about practicality.
Search for Flight 370 Enters Daunting New Phase
Ignoring for a moment the aspect of "going to vote against invaders under the watch of invaders": 93% - Eastern bloc polls always had this good results, probably because their leaders were so beloved that people kicked them out the moment they got the chance.
First step: get in touch with your hosting provider. They're better at this than you are, and may have suggestions or knobs they can twiddle on their end.

You might just be getting crawled by an overly aggressive search engine, by the way. (Probably not one of the big guys.) From your perspective that is isomorphic to being hit with a botnet, but the nice thing about that is the search engine won't attempt to get around the mitigation steps you put in place. (Well, typically.)
Why would it be hard to fly at an altitude of 1.5km over the ocean?
I got email from the people who run .us domains demanding a photo of my driver's license to prove I'm American. They did not understand why I might think they were scammers and want them to verify their identity first, nor did they understand how to verify their identity.
Say what? : s/scrapper/scraper/

Also, the site is most likely a legitimate Google site in India. Not everything Google emanates from Mountain View, CA.
I'm clearly talking about defaulting on loans in general; default generally means you don't pay it back. If this isn't such a case then obviously it doesn't apply.
I think we shouldn't read too much on her reaction to the hula hooping. As she said, it was the last straw, and in my experience the last straw usually isn't that significant by itself. Maybe, on any other day she would have been annoyed, as it was something that she didn't appreciate, but would have let it go. However, after all the trouble with the founder, his wife and the admirer, she saw the hola hooping as a sign that it was better for her to leave.
Yah, and/or Management/Leadership.
And also the same YIFY group that PopcornTime primairly downloads movies from...
I'm under the impression that GitHub has moved away from campfire and uses their own custom chat system

[1]: https://twitter.com/holman/status/444642237456998400
If ICANN really wants whois information to be accurate they should require registrars to provide functional privacy screens including email forwarding for no charge or at most a nominal fee. And then build a common process to break the screen in the event of a reasonable and unresolved complaint (or legal requirement).
You get to feel mildly uncomfortable about people staring at a moving body, if you are the hoola-hooper. The most extreme acceptable course of corrective action is to stop hoola-hooping.

A bystander gets no such luxury, and if the concern is an intrusive thought which makes them feel threatened... then maybe they're not suitably mature to participate in social endeavors.

It seems like a pretty reasonable (albeit one-sided) complaint except for this one point - but the fact that she was threatened by that, casts some small measure of doubt on the plausible sanity of rest of the thing.
A) If you push people to make a choice immediately, they may out of emotion make a choice (firing) that is more costly for you.

B) The whole point of conversation 3 is that it's true; by this point, you need to know for sure that the political situation is under your control. To go even more GOT on this - Ned bargained as if he were in a position of strength, when his position was in fact very shaky.
If you're supposed to be the leader and no one comes to you with their problems you're not really the leader any more.

A lot of ego and politics in that definition of a leader.

What about this: the purpose of a leader is to become useless?

A leader is there to empower his team, and yes, there are always problems to solve, but you're job isn't solving your problems, it's to teach them to solve problems.

How is your company going to grow otherwise?

Sometimes, B comes to you because he doesn't trust A.

When two people in your team no longer trust each other, it means you had a problem running for a long while and you haven't been doing your job correctly.

It also falls in Ben's category two and must be treated differently.

You need to do more in this case than simply getting them to talk. You need to understand why the trust was broken and work to repair it.

When trust is broken, this is what I call a "broken arrow" situation and this isn't something you just "fix". This generally ends up with someone leaving.
It's not a question of hard, it's just not an efficient way to fly such a big jet and it uses up fuel at a high rate. But various sources suggest that the plane really did fly this low, in order to evade radar, and the confusion surrounding this particular article is resolved elsewhere to mean "descended to 1500m" at least for a while.
Damage to their brand is temporary. If they behave themselves in a civilized manner from here on in, the media will soon forget this incident and move on to the next scandal.

On the other hand, if the lawsuit is for enough money, it can bankrupt the company: a huge award to the plaintiff, lawyer fees, executives tied up in court instead of running the company, etc. Their investors may not be interested in covering big losses; they might cut their losses and move on to the next up and coming company.
Great American Interchange
Dorian S. Nakamoto "unconditionally" denies inventing Bitcoin
Oh, really? That is embarrassing. I had just assumed that it was also Mantis BT because the interfaces were similar. My bad, I will update now.

UPDATE: Sigh, too late to edit now. The internet preserves my follies for future generations!
Depends where you are. Last summer I ordered a laptop from Germany and there was plenty of choice, at least Lenovo and Acer machines were widely available without Windows (variably shipping with FreeDOS, or a console-only Linux env).

Saved a tidy sum compared to shopping locally. Just pay attention to KB layout.
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's official denial of Bitcoin involvement
After all this, what do you do with about 240 people including 2 infants?