skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What i don't get:
The aforementioned link to the Ethiopian water landing says: "The incident is the only true water landing of a widebody airliner with survivors."

But:
Wikipedia on water landing (ditching) shows a high survival rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditching#Passenger_airplane_wat...

I'm confused.
Now that's a lot of drama but it has nothing to do with sexism or any abuse towards women in technology.

For one thing as far as i can tell we're dealing with the wife of a founder that has delusions of grandeur and a founder who is easily manipulated.

The very few allegations of sexism like some employee asking her out and the passive aggressively harassing her will happen in any environment not just in technology it's just the guy not being a man and facing the rejection. All you can say to him is grow up.

I also don't see anything wrong in the guys looking a the girls playing with the hula hoops If the girls minded the wouldn't have done it what right does she have to judge them.
Reminds me of "Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement"... except the author here seems to be oblivious as to the law or perhaps even common sense.

Its a shame. It would be cool to have a HD remake...
If it was outside fire (tire), wouldn't it die out in higher altitude?
The OP is probably an extreme case, but the most important thing for YOU is to take care of yourself.

You're probably just lacking sleep at the moment (when I work crazy days like that, I have codemares, which means my mind never really gets a break from coding). You need to unwind properly this weekend, or whenever your next days off are.

Also, I'd recommend telling your boss how you're feeling, and what you've put yourself through. He might not understand, and may be surprised at how you're feeling about it, but you don't want him thinking you came in as a rockstar and burned out in a flash. You want him to know he can rely on you when things get rough, as they always do, but that you can't push yourself endlessly.
Amen. In my experience academic research is very different from what the wider public thinks it is.

You sometimes ask yourself: Would the public continue throwing their taxes at scientific research if they knew that most of their cash is just consumed to fuel the egos of professors?
The part about tire fires producing "horrific incapacitating smoke" seemed a bit odd to me --- the landing gear are located outside the pressurised part of the fuselage.
"overworking" is the new boogeyman.

Rather than encouraging people to make deliberate, healthy choices to find a work-life balance that achieves the goals they want to achieve, we see simplistic articles like this trying to pin someone's (very possibly) pre-existing mental health issues on their work life as though everyone needs to take more vacation.

Working hard has its place in the path of people who want business success.
You'll find much discussion of the growing popularity of snuck on Language Log:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=snuck

Snuck is "orig. and chiefly U.S." according to the OED, but it's definitely growing in British usage, too: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sneaked%2Csnuc...
• run an IRC bouncer, or whatever the modern IM-network equivalent of that is (is there one? we've regressed, if not)

The modern equivalent is the IM-network itself. You don't need a bouncer to store messages sent while you were offline or to keep your nickname when the IM servers already do that. If you want to hide your IP, you can just use the VPN.
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Damn that evil sexist dubstep and IPA ...

Now we know what the real problems are in this industry: taste in music and beer!
I think the same, but I suspect in the most (all?) of the USA sick employee have no recourse when fired. I remember something about that (what to say to a sick employee you're "involuntary separating with") in a course I had in "Change Management" (what a polite thing to say instead of "Bloody Restructuring") during my tenure as manager in a US multi-national company.

Which side of the "anywhere civilized" this places USA is a different problem, open to debate, that seems most of US people don't think is something they should fix (it's our business, btw, I'm not an US citizen, nor living in the USA).
I'm sure I've seen your college on stargate :)
Langoliers, it is there, just slightly behind time.
How is it easier to go around hitting 20 people on the back the the head and then figuring out how to drive them to North Korea at the back of a van without being detected? If your goal is to get a large team of semiconductor engineers against their will, I can hardly think of a more efficient way than simply flying the plane they are on to your country.
Here's a good explanation of this technique: http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2013/python-3.4-single-dispat...
So you're saying the best way to figure out what happened to MH370 is to do nothing, don't think, don't have any ideas, in no way make any effort to interpret the facts as they present themselves or try to fill in the blanks with educated guesses?

Nice plan.
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It was sarcasm.

The joke was a reference back to Goodman's observartion in the original article: "the punctuation in the proposal is also consistent with how Dorian S. Nakamoto writes, with double spaces after periods and other format quirks."

Your comments about prevalence of this technique stand, of course.
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No, I don't "don't like Haskell" for any reason, I just see many people talking about how cool and productive it is, so I want them to stop talking and show it in practice. Because, as I said, there aren't many (should I say "any"?) successful apps written in it, so it's a little hard for unenlightened people like me to grasp how good it is.

Yes, I know that writing a browser or anything serious is a lot of work. But it's productive, right? And quite many people do that in their free time… well, maybe not a browser (at least I haven't heard about that), but at least bittorrent clients, p2p network layers, feature-full messaging clients, firewalls, anything. Their authors started them alone in their spare time, for free. And they are written in C, C++, Python, sometimes Java. Why? Obviously, because their authors for some reason chose that language. They decided it's better. And nothing is written in Haskell. It was like that 5 years ago, Haskell evolved, became much more popular (actually I even do know a company that uses it in production, but it's not the point) and that statement is still true. So every time somebody starts bragging about how all-powerfull Haskell is and how stupid are people that actually write something to choose C++ instead, I can help but ask: so why won't you prove on practice that Haskell is better? Because, once again, for PL "to be better" is to make its user more productive and more able to write quality software. So, it seems to me that this "why won't you…" argument (which is pretty ugly in many cases) is fair enough in this case.

Now, I don't want to rewrite what I said about languages you mentioned, because it was pretty long. So, in short. ML — dead. Python — way too slow (if "browser" is everything including engine, not some shell around webkit). Erlang — just isn't built for that purpose (it's dynamic, highly concurrent "built to fail" language — are you even serious?!). Java — well, maybe, but it's not the perfection itself.
This is true. When I started thinking about it nothing obvious came to mind.

But that doesn't change the fact that flying at 45,000ft probably wouldn't do it and would be a very risky way of not doing it.
The black box is in the tail of the plane, it doesn't make any sense to wire it through the whole plane so the pilot can switch it off from the cockpit.

I have no problem with your questioning my logic and my response, as I'm not expert, but keep your bollocks to yourself.
I don't think it's supposed to be easy to turn off the tracking mechanisms of planes.
You know, cynicism doesn't count as insight nor evidence in my book.
Classic case? confirmation bias? I would have called it an opinion, and an emotionally charged appeal to reason, but not any form of confirmation bias.

Would you accuse scientists of confirmation bias if they chose to look for more evidence rather than just publish the results of the first experiment?
> Then the developers get angry and throw out the people in charge.

The developers aren't the ones giving these companies money. The users are. The developers aren't their customers. The users are. The developers have little power to "throw out the people in charge" as long as the users keep giving the companies money.
I wonder if this could be related to someone trying to mass-scrape you to get to your data cheap ... So instead of having to do tons of domain queries themselves, instead they use you to make the queries and just scrape the results into a large database. At least a 100 to 1 savings.
The first reaction to sexism and racism in well-educated male circles seems to be "Well, there has to be SOME rational and objective reason for these opinions, so stop complaining!"

The story certainly contains some element of "female politics" (which is neither good nor bad, just different).

My theory is that these problems come from a lack of empathy, and that the use of technical skills does not improve the empathy skill. In order to effortlessly switch between empathy and technical thinking, some effort is required. For example meditation has been shown to increase empathy and improve social behavior in school classes and executives...
Some corrections:

* When I wrote "we stayed ahead of the [waves] for so long" I didn't mean that gravitational waves from the Big Bang & its immediate aftermath haven't been hitting us in the past. On the contrary: gravitational waves and background radiation from this event have always kept reaching us as our observable universe expanded. I was only referring to these particular waves that are hitting us now.

* I insinuated we will always see the CMB radiation but that might be too strong a statement. When (if ever!) our observable universe has fully expanded to encompass the entire universe, we will no longer see radiation originating from the Big Bang.

* I think we should stay skeptical about the existence of gravitational waves as they remained undetected for so long and also this time there's the possibility that someone might have jumped the gun.
Unless you're some sort of superhuman the odds of you consistently working well on 16-18 hour days are pretty slim, and the odds of you doing so without burning out at some point in the not too distant future are even slimmer.

I don't know where your work, or what you're doing, but unless you're on the verge of finding a cure for cancer I'm going to respectfully suggest that whatever it is isn't as important as your mental health. Take a break. See some sunlight, spend some time with friends, and think about something other than work for a little while.
That's a much more succinct dismissal of Occam's Razor than my rambling vitriol.
I don't want pip and virtualenv to be constantly changing and evolving. We finally reached a stage where they're usable reliably. Some stability wouldn't hurt.
They probably do, but what is the coverage like? They aren't streaming and storing every square meter of the earth all at once, such that they can just roll back several days and start poking around, meter by meter, minute by minute. Real time high resolution satellite streams are undoubtedly something that need to be scheduled in advanced for particular times and places.
This was posted in 2011, by someone who was confused by databases. This looks like it's making fun of the person who posted it. Is that necessary? Surely we are better than this.
I don't trust you. ;)
It only proves you did not build your solution with scalability in mind. Once you get more traffic and the hosting bill goes up, i'm pretty sure you'll reconsider self hosting for the sake of self hosting.
I think you and the grandparent overlooked something: the article mentions "a few threatening phone calls", and from the description of how the employee behaved, those likely were phone calls where he threatened the company or management.

Even though that was obviously a symptom of his mental illness, it's probably sufficient to make the firing legal.
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Why are you doing that? Have you an immediate and direct return in doing that?

Beware in creating unhealthy social expectation about you.
Flying the aircraft isn't the only problem in such a complicated plan. So even if the pilot was exceptional it would still require many other highly skilled people. And there would be huge risks at every step. It would be thousands of details to get right. Maybe they were just lucky. But it's far more likely that they crashed somewhere, maybe as the result of the hijacking.

And maybe we'll never know...
It's also similar to what one of the older budo teachers said (the text is at home, I'm paraphrasing what I understood):

Mindsets for going into battle/duels can be:

1) Believe you are stronger and will win. It's weak because if it turns out you are not you will lose heart easily.

2) Convince yourself you are stronger without taking data into account. (As in, be positive.) Weak for the same reason.

3) Believe you are doing the right thing, and you want to do it regardless of outcome. According to this teacher, here lies true strength because you will not lose heart even against a stronger opponent.
So, is there a publically traded company that makes fireproof transponders? Because I have this hunch...
I'm curious how idle speculation has been helpful in finding the plane in any way?
So women in a yoga class ( at work ) are actively promoting their sexual characteristics at that time?

Your comment reads very, very predatory.
All my computers run UEFI if possible, and all of them run Linux.

I have no problems with UEFI whatsoever; in fact, I think it's a nice improvement to the dated BIOS technology. The Microsoft thing called "Secure Boot" might pose a problem, but I never activate that anyway.

People need to stop confounding UEFI with Secure Boot.
Blogspot changed their behavior long after Google bought them.
Well it definitely won't be bloggers and armchair investigators who figure it out. Unfounded speculation is irresponsible and immature behaviour the very least.
AFAIK popcorn time is also seeding.
totally agree. it must be a what/who scenario by merit of the lengths to which they went to get the entire plane. this is surely a state-level intelligence action.

the blocking off of passenger seats often indicates an especially heavy or oddly weighted cargo.

something else that is notable is that you know several large world governments have continuous satellite tracking of this flight but are not sharing any information about it.
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I've found most companies worth using do provide email/ticket support, with the main ones that don't being ones in very old/stagnant industries.

The article talks about apps though, and honestly, I'd rather sit through a hour on hold on the phone than install some bloatware app. Forget 'apps', email is perfect for support.
1. Zig Zaging flight path between legitimate waypoints after transponders were turned off, plus some pronounced altitude changes suggest that Autopilot was not engaged.

2. Pilots turned off transponders before their last communication.
No problem at all. I hope you enjoy.
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That's how the current estimation of the universe age was made (only it was about the background space temperature of about 4 Kelvin). This time, by measuring magnetic waves they seek to find a (even slight) difference in expanding directions.

/not-a-scientist-either
Yes, but Malaysia PM said there's only mangosteens in the cargo.
It may hurt githubs reputation a bit.

I'm quite certain some women in technology will avoid them now but the reality is this has nothing to do with sexism.

No guy would ever bother to create this much drama. This is clearly a girl problem.

I got one thing to say to that github founder man up and keep your wife in check. What is she doing there to begin with anyway?

Doesn't she have anything better to do then attempt to look important while harassing your employees?
I can see where you're going with this, but I think you're being a little glib with the "nearly all the time" bit. There are large chunks of functionality that can't be written that way. The most obvious one is graphical objects, which are typically expensive to render. You can't be destroying / recreating them on the fly, the number of graphical elements in use changes radically over the lifetime of a typical graphical application, and you generally have an event loop, which means the only function that would keep the objects alive is at the top level of the event loop.

I personally tend to look at malloc/free in the same way that I look at if statements. I generally consider code to be cleaner without them, so where possible I will avoid them, but sometimes that's not possible, which is why malloc / free (or if statements) exist.
Which I've just finally gotten to reading in the past week or so, not realizing the parallels until I ran across them in the story. Pretty bizarre.
>> But why do we care? Does everyone post to Github for the circle jerk of attention?

> Ugh, I hate that the term "circle jerk" is being applied to "a place where people share things they have made."

Well, I did not mean to sound superior. I do not think I can code well enough to look down at other people for coding ability. I just feel that people increasingly, like any social network, will work on projects on Github for attention and the content is questionable or strange. Social is transforming to a place to socialize, and the latter I do not like for Github or anywhere else for enthusiast programming.

Recently, I had an idea because I got sick of TinyTinyRSS, a PHP-based feed reader with some good mobile app integration. I wrote a small README, uploaded a SVG of the MySQL DB structure to get an idea, and had not written any of the Python I described. I received three stars a week later, and not a single line of code yet. How does that even make sense? My point is people go around look for attention without effort. Yes, I know this describes every social network. I dislike them. You can balk at that ironically, because I am here, ostensibly another social network in different orange wrapper. Nonetheless, the kind of voting and sometimes absurd comment threads in nerd wars, like the whole Node.js commit changing gender and the Joyent employee who lost his job over it, were disgusting. I understood both sides of that issue, but people were declaring there sides with superfluous commentary in the pull request comments, and the hundred or so comments supporting various views on women and IT and superfluous garbage showed it was a hot topic. No one wanted to debate the merits of the commit or how to handle the issue as it pertained to the Node community with that specific issue, of course. It was just an angry Facebookesque flameware on Github. I hoped I would not see Github turn into that. I foolishly assumed it would be a long time before I saw that because, like it or not, computer culture, especially open source stuff, is still fringe.

It is this that bothers me. Some people write cutesy meaningless libraries to get attention. I probably write garbage, code far worse than anyone of that ilk. But what I do not like is the stress Github is now turning the celebration of open programming and collaboration into, merely a celebrity contest. I cannot find the talk by one of the Node guys talking about how he started to be really affected by the number of stars he received on projects (and this is a guy that had projects in Node with sometimes three or four digits in his star count! I never broke more than 1, on anything). He said it ruined his focus drive and he had to re-center himself.

My point here, whether you disagree or not, is that a social network for coding does not mean a socializing network where it is playground for different cliques, with random bullies and popular kids looking down at you. Github is not that yet, but my point was that prioritizing attention-getting when working in open source projects seems quite contrary to me.

Ask Richard Hipp.
agree, something very valuable was on that flight, whether it was a person/people or the cargo.

the 50 blocked-out seats indicate a heavy and/or oddly distributed cargo.

let's get real here - this is definitely not the work of hijackers, this is some intelligence service stealing a plane with something _very_ valuable on it. there are far too many what-ifs for even a large criminal or terrorist organization.
It's a bit Bond/cyberpunk-esque, but one could imagine a scenario where an evil villain could short a company's stock and then kill off 20 extremely valuable employees of said company

When was the last time you heard of 20 employees of a company being murdered?

To do so by killing 220+ other people makes such a theory even more absurd.
Do you think power games are more common or more toxic in schools among teachers, who are part of a rigid organizational structure, than among students, who are not? All evidence suggests that alliances, betrayals and bullying are far more rampant in less rigid organizations, because that's where they matter more.

Saying you should hire people who will have your back is as practical as saying buy low and sell high. Nobody intentionally hires people that are clearly disloyal or disruptive.
That is not necessarily true, it will depend on the number of peers and the chunk replication rate. You can tweak the ratios so that the first part is available more often.

In fact,you are also forgetting about the usage of each peer application. With traditional torrents you download the movie, close the app and watch the movie. Total seeding time is the same as the downloading time.

With popcorn time you are seeding WHILE watching the movie, the total seeding time is much, much longer than in the first case.
>You might even give the employee a raise. This may sound innocent, but you have just created a strong incentive for political behavior.

...and if you don't, you just created an even stronger incentive for all your talent to quit so you're left with the people who coast, knowing they are paid their actual value at most or who feel they would get less in another job. People who are good at what they do always, ALWAYS keep an eye on their value vs pay. Not to mention word of mouth - if you pick up a reputation as underpaying or unwilling to give deserved raises, it will affect who applies, reducing the quality pool by limiting applicants to people in an even more underpaid job, unemployed, or otherwise desperate, while anyone better will be seeking to use it as a stepping stone to somewhere that pays them fairly for their skill.

I've worked at a company that followed that 'advice' before and as a result, everyone was grossly underpaid and there was a high employee churn rate, despite themselves advertising in their job listings (which they still do) as having good career opportunities.
The point isn't that Clarke Quay itself is a mall (even though the owners, CapitaMall Trust themselves call it a mall...) but that the weather doesn't have to be an obstacle for outdoor shopping.
I have to deal with a lot of millions and billions in work (reinsurance). Thousands separators are so essential to me!!
Most of those are not "widebody airliner". The smaller the plane, the better the chances.
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