skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Show me a case where an IN-FLIGHT transponder shutdown is a needed issue

When changing squawk codes, it is procedure at most airlines to put the transponder into stand-by mode. This prevents inadvertent transmission of incorrect squawks should the pilots mis-key.

e.g. once squawk 7500 Hijack is transmitted, ATC must implement appropriate measures regardless of what the crew subsequently do or say. Consider that fact given 7050 is a valid non-emergency squawk.

Once the squawk has been confirmed as correct the transponder is returned to active status.
Master Google Analytics For Growth Hackers From A-Z In Less Than 6 Hours
You have not the faintest trace of an idea what feminism or Marxism are. This is the most idiotic thing I have read all week. OK, it's Monday morning, but I give it a good chance to stand...
An aviation noob here. I have a question:

If the flight starts another journey from wherever it is, will it be possible to track it via radar ?
Did you ever use VRML? Its grand if you only have 4 polygons, anything else and its a nasty mess.

We use 3d interfaces in the real world. They do not translate to the 2d world.

real 3D widgets are there to save time, or provide a service that isn't possible without them. In the computer world, they just get in the way. When starting from scratch, why hobble your self with something designed for a world we don't control?

They are similar to animated transitions, sure they look good, but they eat time. (apple spaces really Pisses me off, why the fuck do you want to slow me down? you can tell the designer never uses them.)
The tech industry tends to be a bit more long memory minded than most. I still haven't purchased a Sony product since the CDs with malware incident a long time ago. Though I still work with MS technology, and use their products in the workplace, I've been slowly able to replace their products in my life and this is from decisions they made well over a decade ago.

I admit, I do care about things more than most. My workgroup, and much of the company I work for migrated to github enterprise (and a lot in github public) about a year ago. These kinds of things sour opinion. There are differences between a single bad actor/incident and a systemic problem in a toxic workplace. We don't really know what this is, but it was clearly more than at least one person was willing to put up with.

It's bound to be difficult working in an environment where 4:5 of your peers are the other gender. I worked in a couple of workplaces when I was younger where I was the only male. It was rather eye opening and sometimes uncomfortable to say the least.
IOS Tutorial – Learn to love Auto Layout
Nearly all the time, memory management in C can be done using the following incredibly sophisticated pattern: create an object at the start of a function, and destroy it at the end of the same function. Use constructor/destructor functions or macros to hide the details (such as whether the object is a plain fixed-size struct, or has to allocate additional variable-size memory on the heap). There are situations where this pattern cannot be used, but they can be made very rare in properly structured C code.

Finally, write unit tests and run them through Valgrind. That catches almost all memory-related bugs.
It's time for me to switch to python3! btw, I can't wait for the matrix multiplication operator which might be released in python3.5.
Thanks, good thoughts here. I work for a crazy-fast growing tech company that supports its users by email and text only. Yet we still receive multiple requests on a daily basis from our strongest users to speak on the phone.

I believe there is a perceived notion in the general public that speaking is the fastest way to resolve an issue. This probably comes from the fact that we can speak our thoughts faster than almost any other method of communication. Verbally talking with someone is also the most primal way of resolving issues. Finally, 7% of any message is conveyed through words,
38% through vocal elements (how those words are spoken),
and 55% through nonverbal elements (facial expressions, gestures, posture, etc) (from a blog I wrote - http://blog.blainelight.com/2012/09/NonVerbalCommunication.h... most people want to have their frustrations 'heard' when reach out to support, and text only convey's 7% of their whole message.

In a tech-centric world, it's easy for us to want to embrace the future. We have to realize that even the early majority is still dependent on voice communications to express their primal need for help (i.e. asking for support from a company).

Would love to hear your further thoughts.
-Blaine
if we reverse the genders, do you think no woman would complain (or just gawk) if she saw this happening in the office

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrA5zL9u5NE&feature=player_de...
Why should they give a public explanation for something that should've stayed internal in the first place? This should've stayed between the OP, GitHub and GH's HR team.
> Wow, you make it sound so easy.

I think you misread me. I believe I made it pretty clear that I think that people from all walks of life do not find it easy to make good decisions. I don't believe it is so easy. I talk as one who has made many poor decisions myself.

> How is that relevant, and what exactly does that even mean?

I really don't want to get into this, mainly because we don't have enough information. But the gist is what I've stated, that he may have entered into a marriage with a selfish and megalomaniac woman who cares more about herself than him. Again, we don't have enough information to confirm, but the questions are asked because there are allegations of such behaviour.

And for the record, I have seen plenty of good, high-quality marriages where doing what married people should do does not become public incidents (i.e. they are able to work out their issues in the way you describe, but in private so that they don't become public spectacles).
The problem is that it's always he-said-she-said, especially in the worst cases.
I wonder what's GitHub opinion on this. What would they do if the government would ask them to remove all code including forks from their site?
A basket of crypto currencies
Thank you for making the point that what happened doesn't necessarily imply gender discrimination. After reading what's come out recently, it looks like there were serious interpersonal problems of some kind, but for the part about the one founder and his wife, Horvath's gender doesn't seem to come into it.

The parts that did seem clearly gender-related to me were the coworker who replaced her code after she turned him down, and the thing about hula hooping. Those do indicate a serious failure to make a good workplace culture. But so far, that problem looks separate from her conflict with the founder and his wife.
Or you could include these regional conventions in the character encoding, so that each file knows how it represent its numbers, and enforce them consistently throughout applications.

That would be a easy programmatic way to solve the problem, that wouldn't require the whole world to adopt a single standard. But of course it'll never happen, as it would require that all programmers know their shit and follow good practices, when it's much easier to throw the technical debt onto users and let them cope with the problem.
Crimea Declares Independence, Prepares to Join Russian Federation. Now what?
As a matter of perspective, it's been fun for me to watch a star/folk hero like jwz rise out of nowhere, a young, wild, productive dude. Now it's interesting to see a generation of developers to whom he's less known and who don't quite understand why he would make his webpage look like a terminal.

Just like it was interesting to suddenly see people fetishize super mario brothers about 10 years ago, e.g. Cory Doctorow. But now it seems SMB isn't the childhood reference, it's Pokemon.

The turning of the wheel I guess.
I'm not saying it's wrong for them to watch. I'm saying it's wrong for them to gawk, to such an extent that other employees don't feel safe in the work environment.

Admittedly we only have Horvath's version, and to be fair she was dealing with two (three?) other people who were apparently completely out of line.

I'm saying both genders should be to do some hoola hooping with no one feeling like anyone is being sexually objectified. There are comments in this little subthread about how people think this whole little episode is ridiculous regardless of genders. Those are the people who work in environments where they feel safe to do these things, the fact that Horvath apparently didn't is a problem, whether caused by github in general, or specific people with in it, the jury is still out.

But my point was that this event can not be marginalized due to the logic that it's not the men's fault because the women were being seductive. It can be subject to scrutiny because of the personal feelings involved.
It is indeed, in the 40's they had this issue, when planes were a ~mile apart they become a mush on the screen.

However thats not the case nowadays. Even if you had a nasty radar from the 80's you see that the trace is twice the size it should be. (We'll I'd hope)

I'd assume that military radar ops would be looking for this, as this is a great way to sneak assets about.
They knew next to nothing pre 9/11 (1), odds are they know next to nothing now.

Why?

Bureaucracies are not agile enough to effect real-time and reactive signals intelligence gathering. They breed internal cultures and petty fiefdoms which by their very nature are loath to cooperate. For the relative cost of intelligence agencies, their victories are few and far between and often only accomplished in tandem with established means of spy craft.
Advocates will of course claim this is due to the secretive nature of the work, however declassified documents of times gone by rarely prove that the case.

Any villain that hasn't been living under a rock is aware of the technological capabilities of these agencies, rendering them virtually ineffective. The NSA didn't catch Osama, old fashioned spy craft, detective work and torture did (2).

[1] http://consortiumnews.com/2014/01/07/nsa-insiders-reveal-wha...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bin-ladens-death-and-...
Libel laws in this country practically means he has no legal recourse. He would need to prove that Newsweek made the whole thing up, not merely that they misunderstood him.
> Does anyone know why I can't use a direct competitor to the Apple iStore on my apple tv?

I think if you read your question this way and look at how Apple historically has done business, you will find your answer without the need for further examination.
The fact that the plane was taken up to 45,000, far above it's recommended limit, bothers me in this regard. What would the effects be on the passengers? Would this have been orchestrated in order to somehow incapacitate them?

I have no idea if the cockpit is pressurized separately from the rest of the plane, or if there's any way to tamper with the deployment of the plane's oxygen masks. It's all speculation on my part.
Hindsight is a wondrous thing eh?
a part of me wants the plane to suddenly re-appear exactly where it went missing with everyone on the plane unaware that it was lost
Yes we did use it for a few months. We're actually thinking going back to it but want to check first all the other possibilities.
Binding Chaos: Systems of Mass Collaboration
its all pressurised under the same envelope. The pilots have oxygen masks.
I also didn't see the connection at first, but as I understand it the sexism claim comes from the implication that her experiences are at least partially due to her gender. as in, the situations were handled the way they were because she's a woman. as I read her side, the hoola hooping was more so to show an example of the allegedly sexist culture at GitHub.
Shock them or leave immediately
It's likely that this could be detected by looking at recorded radar-data as a above-average number of "glitches" at this particular track.

But then, I also assume that modern radar systems have some way to automatically filter displayed tracks for "glitches" or temporary loss of contact to a airplane signal to avoid distracting or tiring out airspace controllers.
> Makes no sense unless it was because of what happened.

Makes perfect sense if you have a public watching that will see anything else as protecting the offenders and tear you to pieces.

This mereley proves that they cannot actually disprove the allegations, since that is the only other course of action that won't make you look bad.
that reminds me of a quote in J. G. Ballard's 2003 "Millenium People"... "anyone making less than 300.000£ does not count. You're just a prole in a three button suit." a statement which might not be that off the mark
Interesting issues and good practices in JavaScript
That's fine, but that's not the logic the OP used to counter Horvath's feelings of a problem. The OP instead seemed to imply that the women were more at fault for causing the men to gawk (not just watch). However emotionally charged the event may have been for Horvath due to the situation other Github employees (and their significant others) placed her in to make it feel to her that it was gawking, the logic the OP was using was flawed.
Do you use it yourself? If so what are your favorite features and where do you see room for improvement?
It's still dodgy when it comes in via email along with all the usual phishing and 419 crap.
As others have noted, it may not even be a malicious, targeted attack - just the side effect of other spamming or careless crawling/scraping. Reviewing your full logs, and comparing current traffic/behavior with 'normal' periods, may help further characterize what's happening.

There's a presentation called "Running At 99 Percent: Surviving an Application DoS" by Ryan Huber that may be helpful. (Slides and video from a number of conference presentations can be found via a search on that title.) It highlights some of the ways even a trickle of the wrong kind of app-specific traffic can be enough to bottleneck weak points in your app... and talks about mitigation ideas, both as a matter of good design and emergency request-filtering via server-side tools.
I've been using asyncio in the last week. I've found it remarkable clean and intuitive. It's difficult to compare to channels in go, because it's such a different solution to the same problem - that of structuring concurrent programs.
What makes you think these hypothetical terrorists are after Americans, not Chinese? And why is religion the only reason they could be doing this?
How would the system determine it is in-flight and thus
prevent a maintenance shut down?

You would connect it in parallel with something that cannot be shut down in flight.

If you had a transponder in parallel with each engine, on the ground you could shut down all engines; or for an in-flight fire you could shut down a single engine; but you could not shut down all engines (transponders) while in flight.

Why don't we track buses? Why don't we track cars?

You've heard of LoJack, right? We track cars worth far less than a jet airliner.
The Chinese are victims to terrorism to;

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230470990...
Αποφράξεις σε όλη την Αττική – apofraxeis-vlachos.gr : apofraxeis-vlachos.gr
This rings very true to me. It makes me wonder why most commercially supported software sold to end users doesn't have remotely activated remote administration built in, scary though that may sound.
Thanks for clarifying. Interesting point. I think that DMCA and the likes will protect this site just as it does for imgur, youtube etc. Youtube users can make profit from advertising as well. So I don't think the DMCA distinguishes between infringing copyright for profit or otherwise.

That being said, if this site gives much more opportunity to making profit from copyright infringement, then it's more likely to become a target for 'pirates' trying to make a quick buck out of other people's copyright work.

The site can do something similar to what youtube is doing, which is to forfeit any profits if a copyright complaint is made (and maybe even giving those profits to the original copyright holder). This could deter / nullify infringements at least in theory.

It is rather complex and difficult process to manage, so any site hosting user-generated content should consider those implications.
Cool. Any idea it will be released? :)
Terrorists' rationales are often bizarre to non-indoctrinated: witness Oklahoma city bombing or Utøya. Besides if that was a doing of national separatist group in China, they'd have little problem with that.
my guess is that if it was hijacked by terrorists, the act is yet to come. They are after the plane, not the people.
I find it hard to think of anything that doesn't run on Python3 by now. The only thing that's still good about Python2 is that it's much faster. I always hope for a release that addresses that.
I think the point here is that they failed at their job so many times that Horvath gave up on it.
>So malls are dying because a) most of them are too big and b) most of the social and entertainment opportunities have been replaced by technology.

Also, they decided that a bunch of loitering teens were more trouble than they were worth, and made bunches of rules designed to make teenaged mall rats go elsewhere. Those rules went horribly right.
First, before you make statements like that, you need to understand the motivation of the people doing this.

And since we have no idea who did what, where, why and how, its far to early to judge if it made any sense or not.

That is not to say that I condone senseless violence. However to prevent further incidents you must understand the motivations of the perpetrators and understand from their world view. Just saying they are evil isn't going to help you understand why they did it.

After all if you don't understand how desperate they are, you don't know to what level they will stoop.
Well, thank God for that. Let me rephrase then: Everyone who isn't a complete and total loser gets to vote.
> http://www.mtviggy.com/lists/the-10-biggest-music-festivals-...

So even in the US SXSW is completely dwarfed by Coachella and Summerfest.
Namecoin is a stupid idea, as many/most people can't participate, only people with botnets or dedicated mining hardware.

Alternate DNS roots are just scams, as the intention is to extract more money so people have to protect their name by not only buying many TLDs in the real DNS, but in an extra one as well.
Good analysis, but I'm skeptical that this is not already accounted for in the military radars. Given that so many flights fly everyday in almost every route, it becomes really easy for any country to sneak an aircraft anywhere. Such a glaring loop hole should not exist. And we are talking about crossing the borders monitored by multiple countries here.
I guess it is also a little bit uncertain if the plane is actually totally missing or if those who know just don't want to share their information with public.
That's not sexist. Sexism is when you act out the belief that the person of other gender is inferior to yours. Singling her out for rejecting his advances is not sexist.
I'm another NetHack fork developer (with UnNetHack leading a small team and with NetHack-De having a fun side project), so I also had to think about the issue of rewriting in a new language.

But this is just a huge undertaking for very little gain. You rewrite the 110K LOC of the core game engine in a new language so it works the same as before (which will be difficult because no tests) for having ... what exactly?

If you don't have years to spare, an incremental rewrite would be a viable option. But do Objective-C or C++ really look like a good choice nowadays?

Then there's also some big non-technical issue. With a rewrite in a different language you lose the connection to the old code that dates back to the 80s. It would no longer be a NetHack fork but a NetHack clone. For a fork developer who already has to fight an uphill battle as the DevTeam is dormant for 10 years but is still claiming that they are working on $NEXT_VERSION, this would be another of those arguments for "it's not the real thing, I'd rather play vanilla".

BTW, for a reimagination of NetHack that did something similar, take a look at http://www.wazhack.com/ . They weren't that exactly replicate the NetHack functionality but it at least feels close.

I was a NetHack DevTeam member for a few years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so I got to know the code pretty well... it's pretty hairy, and that may be putting it mildly.

For the time it was written in and with the organizational structure it was developed with, I think it's surprisingly good. After all, it is still C, so it is not for the faint of heart anyway. Sure, there are things that could be better, like that monster attacking monster, monster attacking player or player attacking monster is usually coded in three different places. But for a code base of this size, it's overall not bad. I find myself cursing more often about the limitations of C than of NetHack's code itself. :)

I wonder what language would be the best choice at this point, for such a project.

Depending on what your goals are, C could still be the best choice for such a project.

If you want a program that runs on as many different systems as NetHack does, C is still hard to beat. Heck, it even works on Android and iOS.

Maybe something like Rust or Go, but we're still not there that C has been clearly superseded in all domains.
In theory they must "pay dividends", thats any tine except for infinite, otherwise stocks would be worthless. Its not that hard to get it.

Its like "ideal systems" in physics, they jjdt exist in theory but pretty much are fundamental,
did you just use killing of innocent children as a justification against the possibility of this being a terrorist act? Of all the arguments against potential terrorist foundations, and there are many, the action off killing of innocent women and children appears to be the exact thesis for such an action. check, history.
Money is not the only important factor here.

If you have a pay scale slightly off, but people trust you have their interests in mind and intend to do the right thing - if there is suboptimal pay but good conditions - they won't leave.

What worries me about the original article is that he seems to say: don't ever do anything in the interest of an individual employee; only do whatever is in the direct interest of the company.

That seems a good way to create negative feeling amongst staff, which may indeed result in people seeking out better compensation.
Only if that area is under radar coverage.
Comparing still frames from VBR video streams is spurious on multiple levels.
Sounds like your school sucked as did my university. For me I was accused of hacking for using a word macro to fire up internet explorer (the machines were locked down and IE disabled - you had to use a Sun with Netscape for web access).
>Lawrence Kohlburg classifies this kind of reasoning at the fourth of six stages of moral development.

Great. When I want Lawrence Kohlburg's opinion I'll seek it out.

>This principle is violated time and time again by people in power.

If by "time and time again" you mean "rarely, in the great scheme of things".
chrome extension - node.js - webapp/iphoneapp
So they treated him like a criminal? Do tell.
> I just tried the keys you mentioned in Emacs: they all worked (except for selecting with Shift).

Selecting-with-shift works in Emacs too.

[It was added a few years ago so might not work if you've got an ancient version installed...]
For private repositories, I've discovered a software called SCM Server. It lets you add different users, with passwords, and create SVN/Hg/Git repositories with each their own access list.
Ask HN: If the aircraft MH370 starts another journey
If the aircraft MH370 starts another journey from wherever it is, will it ever be trackable via radar/satellite ? Of course, this assumes that the plane was hijacked and did not crash.