skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(2) is the most plausible. Given the amount of computer control and automation in a modern plane, it's likely the whole thing would've been put on autopilot when it was hijacked.

It could've easily kept going for a long time and even been redirected in that mode. Once you run out of fuel of course, game over.
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I thought the same thing. I haven't really heard any complaints. Most comments are more along the line of "Amazon increased Prime rates by $20. I hope they don't figure out how much more I would actually pay"
This is a very important point. I haven't yet seen a satisfactory conspiracy theory that explains why anybody would pursue this sort of action in the full glare of international publicity, and it's hard to imagine someone being good enough to pull this off, yet not realize this would happen. There aren't many conspiracies that benefit from continuous, sustained attention of this scale, or that could plan on absolutely no incriminating piece of evidence being turned up anywhere, by anyone, on such a large scale.
The problem is that most of the ideas surrounding markets in a post-scarcity world are largely all marxist.

Pure marxist thinking (not what the USSR/Soviet Bloc practiced) states that when the means of production out pace the demand of people you can start moving away from a capitalistic model economy. To a large(-ish) degree this is the state that software currently exists in.

The cost of serving a file to 10,100,1000,10'000 people are (not counting bandwidth) nearly identical concerning human labor. Which is the point that Marx spoke of. Technological infrastructure is a build once and wait. Continuous labor doesn't have to be supplied for production to continue (i.e.: a factory vs a web server or a router) nobody has to flip a switch for every packet.

The real issue is that software doesn't want to be associated with Marxism due to the stigma, but overall it is Marxism in practice. We just don't have better economic theory to describe whats happening.
> playing Russian roulette until i find one

Well, you've certainly found the most badass way to get in contact with a politician -- not sure how effective it is over the long term though...
"Those who score lower on measure of intelligence."

We know how well those work, don't we?

I know that unless I trust someone (say, my team) I won't get anything done, and that's enough of a reason to find people to trust.

But the implication of this study that this is directly the result of my intelligence, is actually insulting to my intelligence.

Are people who fall for scams highly intelligent? I'm not saying they're necessarily stupid, but people who fall for scams definitely "trust others" a bit too much.
I doubt a fire and an impact on to water would do it though.
A couple of (fairly old) North Korean examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_YS-11_hijackin...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858
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I completely agree with you that in fact this is "hacking" in the negative sense of the word (ie, accessing forbidden resources).

However, at least in this instance, let's not use the word "crime" to describe breaking school or corporate policies. Opening a harmless program that administrators took minimal steps to disable may have been breaking the school rules or policies, but it wasn't a crime.

We're already an over-criminalized society (at least here in the U.S.). We don't need any more "crimes", even if qualified as petty.
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If the plane was carrying a tonne of gold(and could have been carrying more) then that gold would be worth 44 million dollars[1].

[1]http://www.onlygold.com/tutorialpages/value_of_gold.asp
Ansible is easy compared to Puppet/Chef specifically because it doesn't use Ruby. That doesn't make it good.
"We generate money by serving Google text advertisments [sic] on a network of hidden Websites."

They are not really ads that are viewable by consumers. Most likely bot traffic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Karachi_bus_bombing could qualify (a bit short of the 20 casualties, but not for lack of trying).
We had one of these in the office, and I hate to say this, but it was TOO big. Everyone who used it developed eye pain after a few hours - it's taxing to have that many bright pixels glaring at you all day. We ended up sticking with thunderbolt displays for everyone.
Some of us come back from our twisted versions of personal hell...

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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I wonder about the tax implications of doing that. Seems like it would be pretty tricky if you were to follow the letter of the law.
"my prospects for gainful employment have been harmed"

sounds like he's gearing up to sue Newsweek
I did say might be. Rescue ops have to be within 15 miles for detection and the overflight area is absolutely massive given the very approx location data provided by the SATCOMM pings.
Neither of the games you point to seem to be using original Nintendo models or assets.. the style is similar, and a trademark suit could be made, but would be difficult. I remember a Super Maryo Bros, and a couple of other games as well... I really wish that Super Mario War could be playable as a portable game with network multiplayer, that would be awesome.
An entry in a database that powers a website aiming relaxed, 'trustworthy' (it's "voted" up by your "peers" in a "democratic" way!) content at a certain segment of the population who create sophisticated tools that manipulate both first world and to a lesser extent global society en-masse suggested passively that its readers were intelligent and that their trust in their environment, notably including their employers and investors, was well placed.

Meanwhile, Dr. Evil atop the US megaplex looked on, powered by mass-psychology and post-WWII Nazi science, snickering at the simple fools stupid enough to buy his cut-rate strategically Monday-launched commercial PR company output, all the while expanding his coffers and political influence.

Well, what degree of back-slapping do you require?
If they shut off the transponder, which we know they did, how would they get the traffic information on their NDs? It goes away when you turn off the transponder. To the best of my knowledge that applies to both Mode-S interrogations and ADS/B ones.
It had been proposed various times in the past and it was rejected.

I don't remember the semantics of the reasons it was rejected, but if you search about 'pep' and object paths you ll find more info
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$19B LATER, FACEBOOK Now WANTS TO OWNS MY PHONE
...and Google App Engine still uses 2.7
What makes this obvious?
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Nice! That's something I like about Haskell and Elixir: the ability to define behavior for a given case. Though it looks like that's constrained to type-based dispatch (a la Java method overloading). Is there any way to define for specific values?
What are the odds that if you had that plane, you could 'sneak in' to US airspace and pull another 9/11?
Do the docs worry you?

"Note This module has been included in the standard library on a provisional basis. Backwards incompatible changes (up to and including removal of the package) may occur if deemed necessary by the core developers."

http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/pathlib.html
I was addressing everything except the founder's wife problem; you're in the wrong thread.
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The movie "Nebraska" played with this notion quite a bit, although it might have been inverted in the case of the main character. The most straightforward take was the behavior of Dave's cousins (who were portrayed as being dumb as hell). Despite being told numerous times in very plausible fashion that the prize wasn't real, they didn't believe that until they had committed crimes motivated by its presumed reality. Very entertaining!
Regarding that, I only know what I've read from commercial pilots and heard from a family member who's a commercial pilot in the last week, though I appreciate the accusatory tone. Besides, the circumstances make no sense...how would the fire be severe enough to destroy all major communications of the plane, then somehow extinguished, yet the plane not only didn't crash but flew aimlessly for another 6 hours? I suppose it's possible somehow but sure seems far-fetched.
Let's try this one again, from the start:

It's sexism if a human being[1] is being mistreated, harassed, or "labeled" because of their gender[2].

It's perhaps easier to understand from analogy[3], take a look at racism[4] and see if you can find any similarities.

Feel free to ask any question if something is still unclear.

[1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_being

[2] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

[3] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy

[4] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
For those in Denmark, the people you should contact are http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/da/28153/BRITTA_THOMSEN_h... and http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/da/96710/JENS_ROHDE_home.... (there might be others - the full list of Danish members of the European Parliament is here: http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/guide/alle/vejviser/).
Perhaps the statement was intended this way:

"Shipping is 'free' [for Amazon Prime members]."

That is a factual statement, even under a very strict definition of the word "free". And I think it corresponds to the original poster's intent. Obviously, it costs money to become an Amazon Prime member, but for such members the shipping is, indeed, free.
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Uh, that's not confirmation bias.
There are motives for school shootings. There are motives for terrorist attacks. There are no known motives (as of yet) for hi-jacking MH370.
I was confused when I read the tweet after the article, but this seems like the most likely explanation
Diversity exists on many axis, and personality types are an important form of it just as much as gender is.

I find your use of 'more diverse' to mean 'more gender balanced' distasteful, because privileging gender roles as important like that is a huge part of the problem.
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They did use Tor for all communications. They're not around any more.
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"sex-up"?
Seems like this was before my time. What exactly am I looking at here?
Satoshi was on board!
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I don't have a word for it, but I have a mental category for "stupid ideas you have to be educated to believe". Education expands the realm of things you can think, but it doesn't always come with the wisdom to discern the truth. Consequently, it can be as dangerous as it is helpful.

For example, only an educated person can think that the quadratic equation is -b+/-SqRt(c^2-4ac)/2c ... an uneducated person can't make that mistake, because they can't even conceive of the problem in the first place.-

(Once you start looking for this, you see it everywhere.... it's the reason why the further an academic discipline is from hard, verifiable truth, the more suspect you should consider it.)
No, it's a "let's say this in a way that won't look too sexist" thing.

I don't know if it's sexist to make generalisations about women if it's clearly just a generalisation. And it might even be true, on average - though it's probably a result of nurture not nature.

But I think he didn't want to pour any more fuel on the fire than necessary.
> there is a 99.999% chance (in my experience)

You have bought 100000 items, and only 1 didn't arrive on time? Really?
The problem that needs to be solved is support availability through telephone and email channels. There's no reason for companies to force their customers to sit on hold and there's no reason to drive them through complicated voice menu trees. Similarly, with email based interactions, multiple responses means that the agent is probably not handling the interaction well and could be asking better, more probing questions to get to the heart of the matter more quickly.

(I write this as the head of a large customer service operation for a US-based mobile phone provider - if a phone company can answer the phone without putting their customers through voice menu hell, anyone can do it.)
Lets not go down this road. This is like the guns don't kill people debate.
You just described how private trackers work. (Except the crypto-proof).
This. It's pretty rare cases in that I have to actually restart the system.
that's because in java you can't distinguish between no object found, and null with the default hashmap implementation. in this "benchmark" it would probably not matter though.

> A return value of null does not necessarily indicate that the map contains no mapping for the key; it's also possible that the map explicitly maps the key to null. The containsKey operation may be used to distinguish these two cases.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/HashMap.h...
Warning for all of those who are a little overweight and older. I forced myself to use a standing desk after reading all the health benefits. The end result was plantar fasciatis.
Standing desks are pretty easy: you just need a shelf for the monitor and one for the keyboard/mouse. But if you need to sit for some reason, it's a hassle.

I did a desk that can convert between sitting and standing for less than $200 and am satisfied with the results:
http://planiverse.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/building-a-sit-st...
I think that hypothesis has been disproven a couple of times at least!
This video demonstrates what actually happens when a widebody airliner attempts to land on the ocean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE2Yn0cipTY

767s are bigger than A320s and the ocean is a lot rougher than the Hudson.
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This kind of makes sense, to me at least.

In terms of evolution, brains build out from the center 'older' parts, outward. Newer parts of the brain can override behaviors of older parts.

Reptilian brain (Trust nothing) ->
Mammalian brain (Trust family) ->
Primate brain (Trust clan) ->
Human brain (Trust all those who may help) ->

Trusting is probably a very computationally demanding system of the brain. However, if one is able to trust wisely, one may also expand one's fitness.
> The use of primary radar requires a great deal of signal power, because objects further from the antenna will reflect or send back a weak signal. At longer distances from the antenna, radar becomes unreliable as a way to determine aircraft position with only reflected signals.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-primary-radar.htm
Outside competing contexts, I tend to think you should give 100% regardless of outcome, but not dismissing it since it's also the greatest data to learn from.
Are any plans for Python 3.x on GAE known?

Speculation: A Python 3.x runtime might be the mystery annoucement promised for the Google Cloud Platform Live event on March 25. Unless it's a Node runtime?
It's a shame that .NET is considered 'just' enterprise.

C# is a great language, and there are several libraries with fantastic design aesthetic; one that is much better than most of Ruby/JS.
> Plus you're just testing the standard library implementations. If the hash lookup was the major focus for your program, you would be using a specialized hash map implementation.

If there's a better general-purpose hash table, the standard library hash should be using it.

(Special-purpose, sure, use a custom data structure.)
Haha, let's you and I and everybody else start trading rocks. Whether or not the rocks have value don't matter, as long as the price of rocks continue to go up. Will you keep buying the rocks because of this upward growth?

> Yes, which means you downvoted based on the fact that you disagreed with the views I expressed, not based on whether I contributed to the conversation, a violation of HN's voting guidelines.

That.. is not at all what I said, which baffles me as you quoted me yourself. I said the way you presented it, not what you presented. "The OP was flat wrong, and I was flat right". Again, super aggressive. You're not even attempting to understand others anymore, as evidenced by what we said about downvoting.

Plus, if you actually did read the HN guidelines, you would see something like
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Some of your comments, not just this one, clearly violate that.

If you want to have a serious discussion regarding the value of stocks in society, then message me. If not, I'll just stop replying because it's not worth my time otherwise.

EDIT: I forgot to say that you're looking at transactions at the micro level. You need to look at the grand scheme of things. Why buy stocks at all? What if we took these companies histories to a decade from now? Two decades? Half a century? To infinity? Look at the theory behind what drives the market, not simply what today's market price is.
You buying stocks to sell for higher doesn't refute the theory behind the entire system.
Boto doesn't support Python 3 yet. That's a pretty big one if you're using AWS.
I have a secret "eval" page on sites that's enabled during development (protected by a huge password, just in case, though). It evaluates code & shows the results as I'm typing it in real time. Better than a console.

Take this page away from me, and I'll develop at least twice slower.
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I find that if I try to work through a flu, I'll be sick for a week or two. If I just go home and stay in bed, I get over it in a few days.

In the long run, it's much more productive to take care of yourself before your work. No matter how productive you think you are being while sick, the quality of your work is most likely suffering.
If you knew any of the people involved in pushing the agenda that lead to the policy, you wouldn't be so quick to discount the view that this is a malicious act.
We know at least that the last voice contact with the plane occurred after the transponder stopped, and no one mentioned a fire. If a fire killed the transponder, it would have had to have done so without alerting the pilots in any way. Then killed the comms very shortly thereafter, again with no prior warning.
Yep, intelligent people tend to measure higher on openness to experience, one of the Big Five personality traits.
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That's called having the job ruin your health. Let me tell you a little story to make sure you never do this stupid shit again!

When I first met my fiancee, perhaps a couple weeks after we met and a week or so after our first date, she got sick. At first we thought it was just a head cold. Then it seemed to be a bit of a flu. She is, of course, a workaholic Determinator of a woman, and kept working on her courses (we were in university) through the whole thing. Eventually she went to University Health Services and got diagnosed with mononucleosis.

A day later, she was passing out in the lab and having purple spots flash in front of her eyes. She finished her work, and then had her parents drive out to fetch her and take her to the family doctors. It turned out that she had bacterial meningitis from an impacted tooth, she had to be hospitalized for three weeks, couldn't come back to college for two months, and nearly died.

Why? Because for days on end, she tried to power through her illness, and of course because University Health Services didn't check for what she actually had.

Don't power through your work when seriously sick unless you want your family and friends praying for you to live.
Zero outside discussion doesn't mean zero awareness. There's bound to be someone who brings it up. But he's saying that you don't have a debate over it, and certainly don't pay off the people who complain - you fix it quietly.

If the manager doesn't realise that they are paying too little ... honestly they are so dim I don't think any good advice will help. A manager should know more about the business side than the people they are managing.
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The article makes no mention of this.
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Nice; I'd like something like that, but with the addition of allowing me to track the estimated vs. the real time of a job. I.e., when I start a task, I estimate the time needed, when I finish it, it tells me the real time it took. Ideally, I could take breaks in between, but even just having a linear task would be great. E.g.:

$ doing estimate 3h fixing bug 1234
[ time passes/working ... ]
$ doing done ["fixing bug 1234"]
done fixing bug 1234: task took 1d5h50m longer than estimate
$ cat ~/.plan
2014-03-12 12:00:00 begin "fixing bug 1234" (3h)
2014-03-13 17:50:00 done "fixing bug 1234" (1d8h50m) [+1d3h50m]

Does something like that already exist?
Not as much as in Haskell and/or Erlang.
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As someone that has always found many things interesting, boiling it down to only a few things is very hard. Over the past year I've been slowly doing the same. I'm down to spending time with my family, web dev, marketing, and gaming. Choosing between web dev and marketing will be one of the hardest choices I make yet.
There was one which url was a suite of 0 and 1, and to me it was the best, drawing a very deep click-tree of randomness. If someone still has the url, I'd be happy to know if it is still alive.
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