skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've really just illuminated what the MAFIAA doesn't want us to understand: that it is empirically false to state that people aren't supporting the arts. But let's not use their loaded propaganda bullshit terms when we're talking about these things. Sharing media isn't stealing. People who share music and movies online are not the same as armed robbers attacking a ship at gunpoint. If we are to win this war--and let's not delude ourselves, it's a war that the traitors started against us--then we must refuse to think the way they tell us to. These people screw over the creative folks who earn them record profits on a daily basis and they will cling tightly to their monopolies by purchasing more laws unless we stop them.
do you think that the gasoline cars don't have software updates? their engine is nowadays all software controlled and theres a fw update plug, generally under your driving wheel.

and they'll update it when they service the car. how is that software any safer than the OTA?

its not.
It's not that fascinating. Most of the world does not have cellular or radar coverage, and those are the places where you will have a hard time finding missing aircraft (and phones).
You should definitely check out the work going on in Dynamo right now: https://github.com/DynamoDS/Dynamo We've put a huge amount of work into this problem.

Dynamo has the notion of a "custom node." This is essentially a lambda. It is represented by a "nested" set of nodes, making up the function body.

There's a bunch more stuff going on there - including compiling nodes to a domain specific, associative language called DesignScript.
>What exactly are you hypothesizing? That the pilot faked a hijacking because insurance would pay out in event of a hijacking?

Yes. Apart from insurance, someone might care about their image, even after death, so making a deliberate mistake and causing an accident, this might not be acceptable for them.

>Would there not be an easier way for a pilot to purposefully crash that would also be covered by insurance?

Maybe, but could it be done without leaving evidence on the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder?

One scenario that the current limited data fits, is an attempt to hide the evidence in deep ocean, far from the search area.
Do you still get cell signal seven miles up? I remember one time accidentally leaving my phone not in airplane mode and I had no signal. YMMV.
Learn another language, gain another soul.
Exactly. The node is just a lambda - no reason it can't be expressed in exactly the same way.
Good luck finding your iPhone if someone else has taken enough control of it to turn off the signal. Or just while flying over the middle of the ocean.
(personally I do always turn my phone off on international flights because otherwise the battery will be dead after searching for signal for so long. I suspect there are far fewer phones left on for a long international flight.)
Because somebody will get the idea to offer of interest on bitcoins in exchange for lending their coins. And somebody will take that bet.

It's not like cryptocurrencies can change human nature.
I don't see any reason to discount the odds of the plane having an actual major mechanical/electrical event and secondary (non-pilot) crew trying to make the best of the situation before eventually crashing in the middle of the ocean.
Chat is completely open, anyone can join any room and anyone can see the full history of that room. This isn't just development, even Legal and HR have rooms. If you need to have something that exists as institutional knowledge Issues is a good way to go, but we try to hook Chat convos into Issues. Hubot is setup to post comments in an Issue when someone posts a link to an Issue in Chat. Great for looping that synchronous convo into the async stuff.

If you need to be more private, in person, email, or Bluejeans is the way to go.
can I ask why?

I am not an openbsd guy obviously but know httpd is popular. Is it because adding it to base install adds too many security concerns?
I think the major point is that we want to be on his side. As long as hes not saying or doing something completely wrong, I'm sure we all agree there are huge issues with the govt, laws and corruption and that any strong voice attempting to fix this is a good thing.

There's also a lack in innovation and lead from the US market in various technologies.

Elon Musk took all of these things head on and keeps doing so all the time. What's not to like, I would ask?

I am 100% behind the man as long as he keeps doing so.
There are very few cellphone towers in the middle of the ocean.
No, but that may only delay the inevitable if the malware is smart enough to silently wait until the user decrypts their wallet.
It is being replaced by Nginx
It varies with conditions, weight, and altitude, but figure something like 4000 feet.

But add in the "desperate madmen" factor and who knows.

http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/commercial/airports/acaps/7...
Actually it's not great since a disproportionate part of the outcome of legal proceedings is luck, just like all of life.
No it doesn't
. backup the disk image
Got it. That makes sense :)
in fact openssh has support for full-blown certificates but its also a little more painful. what makes ssh easy to use is that it doesn't have any central trust authority by default.
you get a fingerprint and you trust it.

if it changes, it warns you.. but in most cases you're going to know why it changed or just accept the change anyway (which is a problem when you admin 10000 servers of course as the warning might be a real issue)

central trust/revocation is still an issue everywhere to this day, i think. both technically ("my client trusts this, but do i?") and from the useability pov.
You know its deliberately potter-ish, right? Did you miss the wingardium leviosa reference at the beginning of the post?
I agree wid that guy at the top tho
> I obviously won't change your opinions, but here are some facts that may be relevant.

No, they are not relevant, that's one more piece of disinformation. Your quote:

> Ukrainian Jews seek urgent help from Israel Director-general of European Jewish Association urges Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense...

inside the article

> Rabbi Menahem Margolin, has asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon...

Biography of Rabbi Menahem Margolin:

> Rabbi Menachem Margolin was born in Israel. After graduating from elementary studied he studied in Yeshivot in Bnei Brak and Kiryat Gat, and then in New York. From the U.S.A he left for a mission of a year to the Jewish community in Hungary and helped the local Rabbis to fulfill their rules. From Budapest he left for a mission of several months to Bangkok, Thailand. During these years he received his rabbinical ordination. In 2004 he was appointed as Program Director of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) A year later he was appointed as the Secretary General of the organization and two years later was appointed as the General Director.

Yes, that guy has exactly zero to do with Ukraine. Funny that all this hysteria about neo-Nazies taking over the country is being spread from non-Ukrainian sources, while Ukrainian sources don't see a problem.

> But there is another way to look at it, and it is that Russian views are correct from the outset: The Ukrainian coup that deposed a legitimately elected president has been spearheaded by neo-nazi paramilitaries.

Enemy invaders deposed legitimately elected leader spearheaded by antisemitic communist forces. That's one more way to look at WWII. The problem of course that this view has nothing common with reality. Jews, Russians, Georgians, and plenty other minorities actively participated on Maidan -- something that absolutely impossible in a neo-nazi coup. And sorry, your views are not Russian views, those are views promoted by Putin propaganda.

> They now control key positions in the government, intimidate their political opponents, including what has remained of the Ukrainian parliament.

And that's again a load of bullshit.
I think if it was a successful hijacking we would know by now. The hijackers would of made demands by now if they kept hostages, or taken credit for it and named whatever offended them causing them to do it.
I'm pretty sure that "speed limit + 9mph" refers to the unwritten rule that you are allowed to exceed the speed limit by 9mph and not get a ticket. Cops don't typically pull people over for less than 10mph over the limit on the freeway. They are allowed to (and do at times if they have a particular bug in their hat or have a quota to fill) but that is not the norm.
I believe it was because the Malaysians are supposed to be running the investigation according to international treaty, but they were out of their league and couldn't coordinate anything. It looks like the US kinda came over two days ago and told them to stop screwing around and give them data.

Also, I would not be surprised if they knew even more than we know now and are keeping it classified because of the possible terrorist element. If the plane is sitting around somewhere, you don't want them to know you know where it is first from watching it on CNN.
Here’s how we know MH370 kept flying for hours
Jack Kinzler, Skylab’s Savior, Dies at 94
I took two years of a foreign language in high school. I only learned a little bit of vocabulary, and conjugation in only a couple of tenses. I don't think it much improved my ability to communicate with non-English speakers (and anyway, I haven't encountered any, so it's kind of irrelevant).

Then I had to take more foreign language in college to satisfy a graduation requirement. I'd already had it in high school; I'd already learned that I wasn't good at it and didn't enjoy it. Me sitting through that college class was an utter waste of time and effort for both me and the professor.

Not everybody is good at, or cares about, learning languages. If a student's had a few months of foreign language instruction at some point in their life, you shouldn't force them to take more.
they may be susceptible to having fallen victim to sneaky trojans from previous file executions, but resetting a VM to a previous image state is trivial.

a new class of victim : infected VMs
This is a company whose presentations have used the word “fuck” on more than one occasion, who just today have released a blog entry that discusses their chatrooms and how often the word “fuck” was said, including how often by their Hubot, (“our robot has something of a potty mouth”), so if that was the claim, I think she’d feel justified in expressing a little surprise.
Who – or what – is flying our planes?
> Note that very often X is fine: it's just X which is frozen

You mean "Linux" is fine?
Who said the hypothetical hijackers are seeking ransom or care about hostages?
What would the internet look like without encryption?
What, precisely, do you mean by language? Machine language doesn't exactly have grammar the same way that human language does, and I can't interpret a concatenative language that way either (which is much higher level). We're not going to get away from the idea of a linear sequence of bits/symbols, but beyond that almost anything goes, and indeed probably has gone.
>> "I'm sure Kurt Sutter would make plenty of money if he would collect donations"

You're essentially saying that an entire industry should beg for it's money rather than be paid a fair price for it's efforts. I find that a disgusting point of view.
Weak Random Number Generator Threatens iOS 7 Kernel Exploit Mitigations
> Would describing an idea in a public text constitute prior art

For the United States, yes. See 35 USC 102.

> and cause a patent that was filed later to be void?

For the United States, If the patent was claiming what was described, yes. See 35 USC 102.

35 USC 102: (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/102)

(a) Novelty; Prior Art.— A person shall be entitled to a patent unless—
(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or ___otherwise available to the public___ before the effective filing date of the claimed invention; or

Note - there are numerous "exceptions" listed in the remainder of 35 USC 102, so for the full picture, read the whole text.
Just to be clear, the 1.85% is not the sum total of the money Pandora "pays to the people who make the music". Pandora pays about 60% of their revenue in licensing fees.
Political and Technical Aspects of placing the 1st Flag on the Moon
I would suggest taking a global perspective and thinking what should be good for the world and not only US. Think trade, cultural exchange, international collaboration in research (think of recent publications that often have hundreds of names on them, from many countries).

When you start thinking globally, term like 'foreign worker' would start sounding ridiculous to you. And protectionist policies probably would stop making any sense as well.

On the other hand, naturalization should take some time. Fast track citizenship doesn't make much sense, as it does take some time to get the culture of the place [e.g to serve public duties, like jury duty, etc].
The plane passed back over land, so the absence of cellphone contact from passengers seems to rule out this idea, unless the plane was depressurized and everyone, or almost everyone, became unconscious quite quickly.

Like Helios 522
>Motors and antennas don't magically communicate with your userland "apps," they're controlled by precisely timed code.

Motors and antennas are usually managed by hardware or dedicated uCs, not PFC software. Aircraft aren't running their telemetry off GnuRadio, and aircraft PFCs sure as hell aren't worrying about servo timing.

"Human interface systems" I thought would be self explanatory; pilots don't care if their plane UIs take 5us or 5ms to update. They can't react on those time scales anyway. Hell, you could probably code all the user-facing avionics stuff in Javascript and be fine.
It's the base system, so it makes more sense to include a small, fast, and secure HTTP server than one that includes everything and the kitchen sink. Note that it's still easy to install Apache from the OpenBSD ports.
Show HN: Let strangers predict your salary
There is enormous tooling and a very good semantics for Ada. Haskell is only somewhat comparable: I've not seen anything like SPARK for Haskell.
I saw the video a couple of days ago and it was flabbergasting that someone thought that this whole thing is going to achieve anything.
a silly article loaded with wrong scientific & philosophical presumptions!
You picked up a nerf gun and expected an AR-15, this is just a little demo of something cool this person created, I doubt that making this water tight was a large goal, at least for now.
"The new powers are supposedly intended to help the government combat the promotion of extremist videos promoting terrorism."

As long as I see "This video was flagged by the UK government for terrorism" on the video, I'm ok with this. If terrorism was your reason, then own it. "We denounce this video because it is terrorism. Signed, the UK." Show that message to users.
"Radar signals recorded by the Malaysian military appear to show the airliner climbing to 45,000 feet (about 13,700 meters), higher than a Boeing 777's approved limit, soon after it disappeared from civilian radar, and making a sharp turn to the west. The radar track then shows the plane descending unevenly to an altitude of 23,000 feet (7,000 meters), below normal cruising levels, before rising again"

Sounds to me like a possible fight/commotion in the cockpit was the cause of the plane to fly in such a weird pattern.

Potential Scenario:

- Fight in cockpit results in the plane flying unexpectedly high ("above approved limit")

- Hijackers obtain control, turn off transponder and turn to their target location

- Unexperienced pilot (possibly learned how to only fly smaller planes) makes an "unevenly" descent to lower altitudes as he knows the plane is above its approved limit

- Rise again could be a second fight in the cockpit? Not sure on how to explain this one.

The rising and falling in altitudes makes me suspect this wasn't pilot suicide.
Bill Gates says the success rate on VC is “pathetic” compared to development
Based on the knowledge demonstrated by the hijackers, I'd say #3 seems fairly likely, with #1 being the failure mode, but it doesn't seem like a standard hijacking. #2 doesn't seem to account for the maintenance info, and if the pilot wanted to kill themselves, why would they turn off the transponders before they did?

One thing that sort of caught my attention, if you presume that they wanted to capture a plane rather than hold it hostage, is that it's a long-range variant, with a range of 7,725 nautical miles, enough to cross the Pacific and have a couple thousand miles of range left over.

Major crippling event and attempted recovery seems to also be more plausible than #2.

EDIT: Never mind, insurance explanation for #2 makes sense.
I'm quite curious where you intend to go with the "mesh" project on Github. "An operating system with the heart of a database" sounds like some of my ideas, as does your doc/index.md, but it seems to stop there.
>There are very few cellphone towers in the middle of the ocean.

And who said there are?

If you read the story, you will see that the plane flew back across land. If you look at a map, you'll see there's no other way it could get to the Indian Ocean
Passed over land for a short time in the middle of the night with what kind of visibility? Who's alive (as you mention)?
That's funny, I actually heard the word used when I was a military cadet in high school. It was used to teach the difference between being a a leader, or just, well bossy. Don't be a boss, don't act bossy, and so on.

Bossy people, we were taught, boss people around by using their rank. No one wants to follow them, they just have to. That's the worst kind of leader, we were taught. don't be bossy was good feedback. A good leader inspires, sets the example, is firm but fair, and through their behavior and actions people will want to follow them.

Not sure what all this implied sexism stuff is, I only heard it used around men, and it was and still is a damn fine term for the bad ones. What term would they prefer be used for someone that's acting bossy?
The quality of service may not be good, but text messaging will work, at least.
You would know ra fisher..., you're on it... Robert fisher?
well, I did receive that T-shirt and was very surprised!
Question #1: Who would want to hijack a plane full of Chinese passengers?

Question #2: Given the answer to #1, where could people like that land a plane?

Question #3: Isn't Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region about the same distance from the point of disappearance as Beijing, the flight's original destination?

Question #4: If the pilot wanted to avoid detection, what better flight path than north through the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, the Tibetan plateau and the Himalayas at night?

Question #5: With the rampant speculation about this incident, and every kind of wild idea, why haven't we heard this wild idea anywhere?
I'm immediately extraordinarily skeptical about anything that suggests solving a cultural problem by changing language.

That's like trying to solve a math problem by changing the value of pi.
I understand that this is a touchy subject, especially on HN, but come on: "Avoid editing what you want to say in
your head, and try not to worry about being wrong."
This is straight from their Leadership Tips for Girls pdf. They are encouraging girls to just say whatever comes to mind. What's next - calling everyone who disagrees "sexist"?
At this point the only safe headline to run is "Malaysian officials currently saying something they're going to deny saying a few hours from now".
Good find! I guess my memory from back then was a little off. Still, super interesting case to work. I met Hill briefly in the MCC.
Is this supposed to be an explanation of the value of Bitcoin, or am I to take this at face value?
Although Im not an nginx fanboy, I think Apache needs to get out of the way. It's incredibly poorly documented, and in general a pain in the ass. It served us well. time to move on, perhaps beyond nginx at some point in the near future.
Inflation actually tends to benefit the poor in the long run, as it devalues debt. (By definition, the poor don't have a lot of savings and tend to be in debt). Hyperinflation of course causes problems for everyone, but that's not going to happen. That said, there's little reason to worry about out of control inflation for several years to come: these economies still have enormous under-utilized resources.
Too bad it's anglocentric, I expected something a little more generic. As a non-English native speaker, a can assure you that the ROI of learning English is much higher than two percent.

Aside from that, I'm really sad to read about what to study in terms of what's it worth economically, instead of culturally. Then again, when it comes to studying, I'm too much of an idealist.
First service release for Spring Data release train Codd released
The new age of crony capitalism
The largest JSON file I ever dealt with was a few megabytes. 99% or more of JSON I deal with is well under a kilobyte. The vast majority is no more than a few hundred bytes.

Can I easily copy and paste a binary format between text editors and emails and IM? Can I easily write that binary format by hand?

If your answer is "just transform it to/from JSON", I ask this: Why bother, then, since JSON itself works just fine, and avoids unnecessary layers?

With JSON, I get something that can be both read by a human and processed a computer with a minimum of translation and abstraction. I know exactly what is happening every step of the way, and can trivially verify what data is being passed around by analyzing logs, sniffing network packets, and even delving into memory dumps.

I don't think you've dealt with JSON enough. I live and breathe JSON. It is the lingua franca binding together a couple dozen developers working on seven different services written in six different languages (including, incidentally, erlang, which certainly wasn't my idea), and myriad client implementations in at least as many languages and even more runtimes on a dozen different platforms. (And these numbers are actively growing.)

We could not work with a binary format. This is a matter of practicality. There are developers of every skill set and experience level involved, there are third-parties involved (including those with strict control over some platforms that severely limit what kinds of code we can run), there are even customer-service reps involved who see this stuff.

JSON is easy to parse even in languages that make binary data difficult to deal with. It's easy for humans, wizard and muggle alike, to both read and create. As a text format it interacts well with the existing tools the entire world uses on their computers every day.

To say we should just use a binary format because we could conceivably spend time writing new, less-integrated, less-convenient tools to work around the problems it gives us is to miss the forest for the trees. We don't need better performance, and we've got enough problems to deal with without creating more.
How valuable would stored Hashcash be?

It depends on the rules of the system. If the system arbitrarily limits the creation of hashcash to 2.5 per minute and limits the total in circulation to 21 M then it could be worth a lot (although with high volatility). Without such limits each unit of hashcash would be worth almost nothing, but the overall system might be more efficient and thus worth more.

Also, if the system limits itself to 7 transactions per second it may not be useful for anti-spam or bandwidth accounting.