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> Ada is too complex.

Compared to what? C++? You're joking right??

> Well, I'm not sure it's better than C++.

I disagree, Ada is complex ok, but its default behaviour is much better for security than C++.
A theory is that the cargo area of the plane contained valuable goods: gold, silver, diamonds, etc and that's what the hijackers were after.

From this:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-15/missing-malaysian-f...

the 777 can have up to 25 tons worth of cargo payload.

25 tons of gold is worth ~ $1B, that's quite a bit more than the value of the plane itself.
C#/.NET/PowerShell has some decent path abstractions. You still usually create the initial object via a string at some point though...
Interestingly video was where Linux worked for me when iTunes failed miserably. I was trying to import videos taken on my Panasonic Lumix and I simply couldn't import them using iTunes (I tried various options including trying to repair them but iTunes simply didn't see them). Granted this is not the entire OSX and only iTunes but considering the user is supposed to do all interfacing with their iPhone/iPod using iTunes, it was quite disappointing. Upon a whim, I tried to open them using Handbrake on Opensuse 12.2 and basically saved them back and that fixed whatever was wrong with them. iTunes could see and import them (though it is possible that Handbrake is available for OSX as well).
In that case, it'd be much less suspicious to purchase a small private jet. No reason to hijack a big airplane everyone would be looking for.
‘Intelligent people are more likely to trust others’
But why do we care? Does everyone post to Github for the circle jerk of attention?

I come back to programming again and again to solve problems or deepen understanding. Popularity is nice, but I post to Github because it is a public place, not to gain popularity. You will never see my code there, I am sure. Most Github repos I stumble upon are through other media and social networks mentioning cool stuff, just like HN. I use plenty of self-hosted tools and I respect those people just the same, maybe even more because they got their somehow without recommendations on the side of a page or trending repo notifcations and email updates.

However, what do I wish I saw more of, like a lot now that I read up on Common Lisp, is people mirror aggressively on repo.or.cz, Github, Bitbucket and the like, when their site goes down or they lose interest. Github makes that easy, but we should not throw out the baby with the bath water: Git and tools like it encourage this simple reproduction of effort. I love open source because it is the only human organization I am familiar with that makes this and transparency such an important mantra (I am biased).

In short, I will never get attention, but I hope to get understanding. I understand some people contribute for different reasons, but if you are on Github to get attention, the rest of "normalized" society is laughing at us anyway.

I work in an IT department, and when I mention Github and source code and different languages, people stare at me like an alien. I will never get attention anywhere, but Github is not making that better or worse.

(And to be fair, I know I am vastly oversimplifying your argument and I know I am overemphasizing it. This is not meant to troll, but I see a lot of people these days on Github and places who embody your one comment much more grandiosely, and it pisses me off. Who does open source for attention? Haha.)
This is a nice idea, but if you're going to pay money for content, doesn't it make a lot more sense to pay it to a legit publisher/distributor rather than a pirate?
From what I read elsewhere, synchronization problems between different radar systems and other effects can also cause echoes or "ghosting" to appear, so it's not uncommon to see more than one trace for a particular object. Depending on the sophistication of the radar system, these traces could be ignored either by software or by operators.

When they say they put national security second to investigating the flight, what they're saying is that they're now exposing a lot of information about these radar systems with other countries in order to figure out what happened.
> People like to rag on lisp, but their language dujour just got what lisp's been packing for at least 20 years.

Strong static typing? ;o)
Java doesn't release anything new for 8 years. Whereas in python world some people don't upgrade for 8 years.
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> Except that legally speaking bulk collection is even easier for NSA overseas where the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply

Treating notionally allied countries as free-fire zones is a curious definition of "easy". You run this kind of risk: http://en.alalam.ir/news/1528560

And for that reason, anyone with regard to the long term would deploy that kind of thing cautiously, if at all. But I have no idea if that applies to the NSA.

It's curious, I have seen this kind of comment on HN before, essentialy saying "US law doesn't apply in other countries therefore the NSA can do anything that they want there" ignoring that other countries have their own laws, often stricter in terms of privacy. My suspicion is that this is a particularly USAian myopia, which does not bode well for the NSA. Clearly they have gotten away with for a decade or more; but it relies on goodwill and secrecy; and those reservoirs are looking very low lately.
> MH370 makes for an incredible setup to 'Lost'.

I believe it's more like Timtim's Flight 714

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_714
Your address isn't a public key. It is the formatted hash of a public key.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1...
> I'd love to hear some proposals for simplifying the implementation.

The one thing that stands out is that many of the classes only have one instance created, and they're classes that don't have much functionality in them. Returning structures from functions requires a copy, in this case the array of button states, and copies of them are also created inside of functions like ButtonDebouncer::update. Only one of these state arrays is ever needed, so make only one...

The actual matrix-scan loop in HardwareController could also be simplified greatly; this usually just involves shifting a 1 bit through the row/column driver output port register(s) and reading the input port(s). There's no need to turn all the rows/columns off each time, since getting the next col/row is only a matter of changing which one is being driven. Getting the button number shouldn't require a multiplication (I'll admit I was pretty shocked when I saw that!) either, since each iteration of the inner loop is the button after the previous one, so it can be done with one counter.

> Mostly USB library stuff, I think. Been a while since I profiled it.

I'm more familiar with PS/2 keyboard protocol which is much simpler, but USB shouldn't be that much more complex to send/receive info once everything has been initialised (and as I understand from working with USB controllers in non-keyboard devices, the SIE does much of the actual transfer work in hardware.)

> Can you further explain this paragraph? I don't know what you mean by "unused positions in the key matrix".

There can be row/column combinations which don't have keyswitches at their intersection, but are scanned anyway. You can connect other units so that they act like keyswitches when they send information.

> Like I said: I'd have no implement the protocol from scratch, in software. The hardware UART does not support this functionality.

Of course.

> Which were?

A non-continuous clock. Transfers that occur in small bursts instead of one continuous serial stream.

(I have studied the IBM keyboard firmware, and worked with one for an 8051-based controller before.)
Absolutely. The problem is, as always, convincing the legit publisher/distributor to sell you the product you want at a price you find reasonable.
I think it's highly unrealistic. The plan simply involves too many risks. First of all how could the potential hijackers know that the Malaysian military wasn't properly monitoring the radar? There would have been a huge risk of the Malaysian military discovering it and scrambling jets.

The collision avoidance system only works when the transponder is enabled. So flying in the radar shadow of another aircraft would take some extreme skill. And wouldn't they have to adjust their position according to the position of the several radar antennas? What about potential mobile radar systems, e.g., on military ships? It would have also all depended on perfectly finding SIA68. What if it had a two hour delay? Not unlikely on international flights.

Where would they secretly land the aircraft? It takes a more than 1km straight and wide runway. And it has to be remote enough from any town or military installation. But they would have to bring large amount of supplies like jet fuel. (Which they would secretly get where?) They would have to deal with 240 people on board. Someone who would steal such an aircraft is certainly ruthless but ruthless enough to murder 240 people? They would have to hide the aircraft from satellite surveillance. It would take a ground crew to refuel and maintain the aircraft.

All in all there are so many things which could go wrong. And it's very unlikely that a bunch of amateurs could pull it off.
As an emergency measure it's not a bad idea. But it just shows the shortcomings of the transport policies. They have to think of smarter ways in the future. Outright ban old gasoil cars without particulate filters, congestion charge, selectively lowering the speed limit, better road design to accomodate for bicycles...
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P.S. i cannot resist the impression that all this talk in the comments, about how we don't know anything to make any conclusions, is coming from distrust of Ms Horwath because she is a woman.
> I've never been in a work environment where it's acceptable to do your exercising in the office space. What are you talking about -- yoga, bicep curls, jogging, jumping jacks?

My workplace has people doing yoga and dance classes in meeting rooms over lunch.

And if you started hanging around the meeting rooms to ogle the people doing it you'd be having some conversations about your workplace behaviour.
Anything is possible, but my guess is that if they were hijacked, they had a plan that went wrong. It's far more likely, and it's happened before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961
I think what your parent comment meant is that Microsoft requires UEFI to grant OEM licenses, otherwise known as "compatible with Windows 8" stickers.
Laugh all you want, but the tech is pretty simple. You need to look at what it is doing. Replacing a transponder with something that is much simpler than an epirb. The example I gave is a $100 dollar current piece of tech that weigs 150 grams including power-source, and if it was available to LOS througha window could track the plane for 4-7 hours off a single set of batteries. If you want to raise the budget for an order of magnitude or two, for 10k dollars you could surely create a redundant system for the transponder.

The larger point is that any "real situation" that would need the transponder turned off (power/fire/corruption) would have almost no bearing on the operability of such a simple system.

FYI the imarsat pings are not all that different, are they? Its just a simple ping with some data that including headers is going to be very minimal payload...like SMS text type level of data.
> irony of throwing Bitcoins at a person whose life has been just severely discomforted by the very same subject.

that's sort of the whole point. The community are apologising on behalf of Newsweek. Not as a publicity stunt, not to convert the guy to bitcoin (he will receive a check in USD), just because it's the right thing to do.
I've realised that I have a tendency to fall into this trap when I find I'm working for someone, rather than with someone. It seems that distinction is important to me (subconsciously). It seems to come about when I start thinking 'just keep them happy and off my back' vs 'just do the right thing'. Thankfully, I've only been pulled into this thinking twice in my career.
Fixed as of tonight, though you'll have to reinstall your bookmarklet :)
Bad title. Almost the first thing he says in the video is that the graphics are just a quick stop-gap. Therefore 'fresh look' gives an inaccurate view of what he's trying to do - at least at this stage.

Outcome. People are just going to leap in and criticise the textures.
What is the source of the image shown in this tweet? Why are we discussing a random image in a random tweet?
"Cultural Marxism" is an academic offshoot possibly inspired by Marxism. Though I'm not quite sure why it's called "cultural".

As for feminism, what's your definition, and do you think other people are practicing that definition in particular? Look at tumblr posts discussing patriarchy theory sometime; somewhere amidst the paranoid depressed teenagers is a pretty well-defined belief system, and it's not yours anymore.
So maybe you can explain to me why Ubuntu 12.04 LTS hangs on hibernate on my Asus Netbook.
https://twitter.com/felixsalmon/status/445432426970763264
I'm not sure what "Spritz technology" is. RSVP has been around for a long time—it may be that they genuinely added to it with the centering and the red letter and the nice pauses, or it may be that they're trying to patent the equivalent of a one-click purchase.
It may be seen as heartless for the victims, but I still find comforting that in this day and age of widespread surveillance technology, one of the most tracked thing on earth can still disappear and leave everybody clueless.

It gives me hope that there will be still a chance for a resistance movement when the time will come.
I need something that Yogi Bear would understand :)
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Because most people would rather support their allies and people who like them, rather than playing the hand of people who hate them. This is actually a tragic situation. I don't want to comment further.
That's exactly it why would anybody put this much effort into making a plane disappear and why this plane.

Given all this effort it is very unlikely any of the passengers will be found alive so what would warrant the murder of all the passengers.

Digging should turn up something very interesting.
In theory, you're right, in practice it seems that the computer world is very much like a fashion industry where people won't look at things because "they're old"..

Proof: you didn't put Ada in your list, even though if you want to have a "secure" program, this ought to be a computer language to evaluate..

That said, I agree with you, Rust devs must take their time, I think that Rust 'fans' underestimate the amount of work which remains, from IRG logs apparently there isn't even a proper way to do a "unit type" (meters, seconds, etc) library in Rust!!
Well, for one thing it's going into production this year (i.e. it's a real thing already). And ronaldx is right, Wikipedia material is worth more than the car's official webpage.
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Could missiles ever be targeted on the transponder beacon? I could imagine that it is preferable to turn off such beacons when landing/taking off from near war zones or when the terrorist threat is very high.
the number of people contributing is extremely small compared to the people who know about it/make money of it/are enthusiastic about it/could contribute. There is not a deep bench of developers. Many open issues which don't get solved because the 3-4 main devs (laanjw, sipa, gavin) are to busy. look at coinbase: they get rich of it, take 1% fees and add nothing back whatsoever.
Why would you need a 777 when you can probably pick up old Russian cargo planes much easier and for a fraction of the cost and without needing super skilled pilots?
Thats actually a good point, I agree the list of "successful" programs for Haskell is a sad joke. I know some People in finance use it for HFT, but other than that? Can anyone give better examples? Because it is hyped a lot around HN, and I wonder if it is worth it to learn.
Thanks for pointing this address out.

But what this guy needs more than money or an apology from Newsweek is a job. Shouldn't "we" hook something up for him?
The motivation for the title is specified right in the article.
> The way Lancelot motivates himself to get past self-doubt in combat is not to care whether he lives or dies.

As Ariely says: Lancelot fights better than anyone else because he found a way to bring the stress of the situation to zero. If he doesn’t care whether he lives or dies, nothing rides on his performance. He doesn’t worry about living past the end of the fight, so nothing clouds his mind and affects his abilities — he is pure concentration and skill.

This is "somewhat" similar to what Steve Jobs said in his commencement speech at Stanford:

> Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Atwood closes with: "concentrate on the daily routine of doing what you enjoy, what you believe in, what you find intrinsically satisfying." What this fails to take into take into consideration is that unless you are focusing on the "right" things, this pattern can be more harmful. On most days I just want to meditate, catch up with family, exercise and perhaps hang out on the beach or travel to exotic places. I don't currently find work intrinsically satisfying (a majority of the working population don't find their work intrinsically motivating).

This is also bad advice if you are depressed. It just doesn't work then. Most days you want to sleep in, stay within your space, and think about darker stuff. Completely unrelated but the reason many people fail to quit smoking or quit eating unhealthy things is not because they don't know that these habits are bad for them but because in that moment, they are unable separate their desire from what they should be doing for the long term betterment of themselves.

I'm assuming that the author is primarily writing this post for programmers/computer scientists and how they can focus on increasing their skills in their chose field, but this post is generic enough that I though my comment may be relevant enough to add to the discussion.
If you use Hyper-V, Windows is already running in a VM as well.
It's different because in all other services where you are required to verify your identity, your services do not start working until you do so.

This applies to domains that are already working. If you update your whois record and don't do this, it stops working.

Big difference.
It's not throwing him under the bus. It's distancing him from the investigation. That's both to protect him, in case things favor his story, and to protect the company, if it turns out he was in the wrong.

In both cases, they wouldn't want him having any potential influence on the investigation. To do that, his power within the company needs to be suspended until a conclusion is reached. The parties investigating (likely HR and the other founders) must be able to do their job without fear of retaliation from the accused founder, that would taint the decision.
I don't know about international aviation law, but in the U.S. the text is:
91.3 Responsibility and authority of the pilot in command.
(a) The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft.
(b) In an in-flight emergency requiring immediate action, the pilot in command may deviate from any rule of this part to the extent required to meet that emergency.

This does not mean pilots can break rules as long as they make sure to do so safely, but if a situation is unsafe they may break all rules necessary to make it safe again. Furthermore, pilots are required to inform ATC of any deviations they made from the regs or ATC instructions (of course this is one of the rules they're allowed to break if making such a radio call would be unsafe). Again, this is only for the U.S., but other countries do tend to look us for how to do aviation safety.
Who is to say that any ransom demand would have been made publicly? It may well be that one has been made but that we just don't know about it.
Maybe they didn't want the plane, but someone on the plane. For example, those 20 Freescale Semiconductor employees. North Korea has a history of abducting foreigners, including a South Korean movie director kidnapped by Kim Jong-il to produce films for him.
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There's a huge difference between startups and a huge corporation!! think small teams. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done at all I'm just saying one should expect drama in the workplace after you decide to cross over that rubicon, especially in a software startup
Which is better – 6 DBs with 5,000,000 tables or 5,000,000 DBs with 6 tables?
No one in their right mind would attempt to transport 25 tons of gold on a commercial passenger flight.
There is a protocol to task satellites to cover emergencies which was used in this case

http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/activation_detai...

Skybox is also contributing and has this visualisation of the Search Efforts with Satellites to date including those that are needed to cover the expanded search area
http://www.skyboximaging.com/news/in-search-of-malaysia-airl...
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> I've never been in a work environment where it's acceptable to do your exercising in the office space.

I've done some minor (sedentiary) exercises in the office. For something that requires a bit more space, I wouldn't do it next to someone's desk of course. I don't know what Githib's office layout is like, but the way I read the hula hooping, it sounded like it was outside, in a courtyard or roof terrace maybe, or in a recreation area.

> It's an unusual thing to do, so it will draw eyes.

There's still a big difference between attention and gawking.

I've seen plenty of other recreational activities in offices, like playing darts, pool, computer games, etc. I don't see hula hooping as particularly out of the ordinary. And gawking at your co-workers is just rude.
Same here.

I have a small Asus netbook for traveling with Ubuntu LTS, bought from Amazon with Linux already installed.

My home system, a more beefy laptop, has Windows with VMWare for Linux related stuff.

Since 1995, my first Linux experience, there are things that hardly have changed in terms of hardware support.

My latest issue is trying to make MTP support work properly.
Don't tell my mom I'm a domain registrar! She thinks I'm a webmaster for a cyberporn website.
Previous discussion (guess you got this off reddit yesterday):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575144

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Similarly:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3290#comic
As a company, maybe I want to inconvenience the customer a little bit. Making them pick up the phone seems like a barrier to support requests and may therefore cut down on the number I have to deal with, reducing costs.

Just a thought.