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And the right to win in court: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCA_v._Singh

Unfortunately, this doesn't invalidate the fact that you're correct in a way. If Simon Singh hadn't been able to afford the time and money to defend this case, the libel suit would probably have stood.

Still, it's a step in the right direction, and an important legal precedent.
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> It's obviously at the bottom of the ocean.

That's the default expectation in this kind of situation, but in this case it's actually slightly hard to see how it could have happened. The evidence suggests that when it first "disappeared", and likely for hours afterwards, the plane was under controlled flight by someone with at least some idea of what they were doing. Whoever was flying the plane could easily deliberately crash it at any time while flying over the ocean, of course, but if their intention was just to crash the plane somewhere non-specific, why not just do it right away or soon afterwards? So they very probably had other intentions.

And an airplane in a controlled cruise over the ocean is unlikely to just happen to crash into it by accident. It will obviously run out of fuel at some point, but the people flying the plane almost certainly planned to do something interesting with it before that happened: the likely candidates are a) land it or b) crash it into something notable. They probably had the ability to read the fuel gauge and/or an a priori idea of what the available range was, too. Now there are all sorts of ways their plan could have gone wrong, or could have succeeded by crashing the plane, but they nearly all involve the plane landing and/or crashing on land, or relatively near a coastline on the approach to land instead of the deep ocean. AFAICS it's easier to list ways in which the plane could be lost in the deep ocean:

1) A Flight 93-style battle for the cockpit erupts while 370 is over the ocean

2) The person flying the plane is a terrorist/hijacker/pirate who lacks real airliner flying expertise but has been equipped with a cheat sheet telling him in detail exactly what to do. Everything goes fairly well for a long time until something unexpected happens and/or he messes up one of his scheduled actions. At this point he likely panics and maybe does something rash

3) The people in control attempt a controlled ditch somewhere in the ocean, probably in order to rendezvous with one or more speedboats and transfer themselves and some or all passengers. This could very easily go wrong, but succeed or fail the plane will probably end up sinking either way

4) The people in control attempt to strike out across the ocean for some distant target which they guess is near the limit of their range. But they miscalculate, and by the time they realise it they're trapped over the ocean with no path back near land in time

Scenarios 3 and 4 are fairly unlikely if you believe the radar interpretations suggesting that the plane went west across Malaysia and then north, though.
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Exactly, people seem to forget the usage patterns.
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It depends on the size of the swarm or systems consuming the content. For very small swarms, it would be imperative for everyone to contribute, but as the size becomes larger it may not be needed.

Since a streaming app is deadline aware, which is different from a normal torrent. A normal torrent works on fetching either rarest-first or respond-first chunks, while a streaming app tries to fetch chunks linearly and as soon as possible. It is likely to fetch the same chunk from several places (basing them off RTTs (bandwidth-delay) and availability). Moreover, if popcorn inherits BT's congestion control algorithm (LEDBAT, which is a scavenger algorithm) we might not even see spikes in network traffic.

LEDBAT: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6817
I'm curious how an army of people from military and civil aviation organisations, including radar operators, Satellite Image analysis, air accident investigators, air traffic control and pilots, have been helpful in finding the plane in any way.

This is an unusual situation, and none of the facts seem to make any sense. Who care's who is trying to make sense of what happened? If I was one of those passengers, I wouldn't be on the other end thinking "You know, I hope no one on the internet tries to figure out where I am".
I have registered in January 27 2009 to github, but I have been running my own git repository on a dedicated server for quite some time. I have never really been active at github or any other third party repository service. The reason I want to self manage my hosting is that I can get cheaper private repositories.
> As it turns out, the person writing the parent comment defined a founder's wife as "one of your most valuable business resources"

To be fair, in a world (the world of business) where employees are referred to as "human resources", everyone involved has already been objectified.
Gawk? Quite possibly. Complain? One* ex-colleague of mine was gay, and he'd have been rendered temporarily incapacitated by that, I suspect.

But the point is that hula-hooping, or shirtless weight-lifting, shouldn't be prohibited just because some people gawk and others are made uncomfortable.

If you want to sexualise hula-hooping or weight-lifting, fine, just don't use that point of view as the basis of a complaint.

* many were; it's just he was the guy I was thinking of for this example
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Oh, I’m so very sorry that you have to do a tiny bit more work and find out specifically what someone stands for before you can coherently argue against them instead of slapping the feminist label on it and being done with it.

First, I would suggest that when you attack feminism in the abstract, you attack views that are actually currently and widely held by feminists. It’s a diverse movement, but there are actual mainstream views. Frequently even that will not be very helpful, so you will have to find out specifically which group of people you are addressing with your criticism.

If feminists can and do frequently criticise feminist views then so can you.

In that regard feminism is kind of like, say, conservatism or liberalism or socialism or nationalism.

Now, I myself do not have a problem with chucking even big and complex concepts like that on the trash heap of history if they actually do have a consistently disastrous history. You won’t find me putting much work into arguing against fascism or royalism or racism or antisemitism. I’m willing to dismiss those wholesale.

Feminism, whatever its faults may be in your view, is about a million miles away from clearing that, however. It’s absurd to even think it could approach that same standard of wholesale dismissal. It has no history of harm at all.
It would be much much easier to get to any of the passengers while they were still on the ground. Hijacking the aircraft and stealthily landing it somewhere is such a complex plan that it's just too ridiculous.
That's a weird definition. If you divide a large file in chunks of different sizes and you are sharing even 1% of them you are already seeding. And the point of popcorn time is that people are participating the p2p overlay much longer than with other p2p applications, thus seeding longer too.

I understand leechers as those who, over time, mostly download rather than upload.
"They knew next to nothing pre 9/11 (1), odds are they know next to nothing now."

But I suspect what __Pthrow was suggesting was that the agencies could look back at the chatter they gathered, and put the pieces together from what they heard. Though, in order to do this, they'd still need to have some idea of what they are looking for.
I'd go a lot further: take a day off tomorrow, no matter what the work schedule says. Of course do that after telling the boss that you're exhausted and unproductive due to overextending yourself with multiple 16 hour days.

In an agile, healthy work environment, this shouldn't even count against any leave budget given that you just gave them 6 workdays for the pay of 3.

Beaurocracy can complicate things and make it impossible to do that, but at the very least your boss should agree to let you go home early. If you get any negative feedback about this, I would seriously consider looking for a better place.
It would be much easier to get a person on the ground instead of hijacking a large aircraft and then magically landing it somewhere without being noticed.
s/print(.*)/print($1) ?

Anyway when a language doesnt have a strong unit testing culture,that's what happens.
Fair enough, I may have interpreted things a bit freely. Sorry about that.

I don't know a thing about The Walking Dead, but I guess you mean the freedom while being alive in post-apocalyptic society which is of course a fair point - even though a bit strange and could be interpreted to mean textbook anarchy.

A significant part of anarchist idea is to increase individual freedom as much as possible so I don't really follow you that it wouldn't bring more of it. Practice can of course always differ from theory and ideal, but as you seem to discard it out of hand I'd like to know a bit more why you do that.

This is a bit anecdotal but I recently read somewhere that the lack of rules on the school playground made bullying less common rather than the opposite.

I agree that clear organizations can nurture freedom as well but I don't agree with you that "diffuse power structures" inherently becomes oppressive. I think people with doubious motives or personalities can cause trouble in both kinds of organizations.
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So, nobody knows the solution?
I've worked (as a support engineer) at software companies where, over a 7 or 8 year period, almost every member of the development team has been replaced, and those that weren't could have been. The same was true of the support team too. I then left and the company survived the shock just fine, so clearly I was replaceable too. So yes developers are vital, there would be no product without a development team to develop it, but then without a sales team it would never get sold. Without a support team it would be unsupported, etc. Removing any one team would be like cutting one of the organs out of someone's body. Sure you can outsource stuff, but the function being outsourced still needs to get done.

The problem comes when people from one world start making the decisions about how to run one of the other worlds. In my experience it's pretty rare for a technologist to try and tell the sales and marketing team how to do their job and expend their resources. Unfortunately I've seen several companies essentially collapse because really good sales and marketing people tried to run the engineering groups and make what are fundamentally technical decisions. I've never yet seen that end well.

I think it's partly because if you run a duff sales campaign, you can regroup and try an alternate strategy relatively quickly. The problem with development projects is they can take several years to come to fruition and if you're on the wrong path it can take several more years to fix the problems. By then it's often way too late.
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I had an exit interview with a software company like this. The CEO was a marketing guy, and asked me why I was leaving after only a few months. I explained that the salary they paid was pretty low compared to what I could get elsewhere. He agreed and said they considered paying software developers the market rate was too expensive and that they would prefer to have a high turnover of devs rather than pay more. I pointed out that this was a short-sighted policy for a software company to have, and he asked why. I explained that the quality of their product would be lower than if they weren't continually training new staff, and he was surprised that I thought that developers had anything to do with the product. As far as he was concerned, the product was produced by marketing, and the code was unrelated to it.

By far the most bizarre exit interview I'd had, but very genial and good-natured for that.

Out of curiosity, I just checked out how they're going. And yes, they did have >90% of the market, now down to 60% ish and dropping.
I experience the same thing with charitable giving. While I think I give a reasonable-ish amount out of pocket compared to most people, I absolutely don't give enough to match my ideals - fundamentally, the money is there, in my pocket, and it's hard to part with. On the other hand, at the ballot box, I always vote for parties that tend more redistributive (and since I earn decently, likely to raise my taxes). It's a much easier decision to make when there's that degree of separation.
Re stack allocation: It requires you to know how large the object could possibly be at compile time

Just wanted to point out that alloca exists pretty much everywhere, so you don't need to know the exact size at compile time. You still need to know you're not going to overflow your stack, of course.

There are also variable-sized stack allocated arrays, as in C99 and gcc extension.

Though IMO the value of a consistent approach outweighs the small performance advantages of dynamic stack allocation - it would very very rare for me to use either approach today.
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1. Waypoints far west outside of primary are conjecture. Can be explained by autopilot shutdown due to onboard emergency.

2. Not proven. ACARS can fail without pilot intervention. That's confirmation bias.
It's at the disk's discretion as far as the laws of physics are concerned, but this would a severely broken disk prone to losing data and if it was a major server disk vendor, the vendor would take a pretty serious hit to its reputation.
The way the TechCrunch article read, this wasn't a very big incident at all. Certainly, none of the women involved are said to have been upset or complained about being watched by their coworkers as they performed.

However, because Horvath was already in a very upset emotional state about man-woman issues at GitHub and her own situation at the company, she was in a position to read a lot of meaning into this situation that most people wouldn't.
I concur it is known - however, it is still impressive that google does not have a counter-measure against it. he says they indexed 140k pages of it. phew. consider having a few thousand of these pots set-up and cross linking to each other left and right. they'll be crippled... I sense a bug somewhere...
I agree that we should try to make all chunks of a file available for the other peers, but also all files that participate in the p2p network.

I am not sure which kind of structured p2p system popcorn time sues, but if it was a DHT it should make sure that there is replication of the rarest files works too.

So that people who want to watch weird east European movies also have the opportunity, just as those who want to watch the latest blockbuster.

I hope popcorn time does not immediately delete cached chunks...what a waste.
If you left over pay, wouldn't you have known that a few months earlier when you took the job ?
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that's probably CryptoLocker in real life - http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/10/cryptolock...
Uh, I was taking issue with "admittedly reasonably", not with "attractive", but even that is out of place, because, assuming you don't know Horvath personally, you're implying that knowing how a woman looks is enough to determine if she's attractive or not.
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> something else that is notable is that you know several large world governments have continuous satellite tracking of this flight

They do?
It is a lot easier. Of course you would use a ship or even the official Air Koyo flight from KL instead of a van...

The hijacking and stealthily flying it to North Korea are so complex it's beyond ridiculous. There are so many more details which could go wrong and a much bigger international backlash especially from China. And why would they fly back across Malaysia if they wanted to go to North Korea?
Another massive hole is that the closest airport ,at the point where communication was lost, was Sultan Mahmud in Kuala Terengganu. Long runway, approach directly from sea, can accommodate a 747 according to Wikipedia. There is no justification to go to Langkawi which is on the other side of the Malay Peninsula.
>> I thought my brain is behaving strange because it's tuning itself for more optimal performance

WTF? How can you possibly think this is anything other than a warning sign?
I don't think gold is valuable enough for stealing a whole plane and killing 220 passengers.

Gold, for it's weight, is very expensive. Transporting gold of high enough volumes for it to be worth killing so many people, steal a plane as well as making all of that possible wouldn't be worth it, I would say.
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I thought this post had something to do with the fact that a drunk driver smashed into a crowd, killing a bunch of people and injuring dozens. Which incidentally was also the cause of many reschedulings. But there is nothing about this incident, which leads me to believe that the author was somehow unaware of this, or he wouldn't pick such an insensitive title.
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> Again, the burden of proof is on GitHub

I can see how "to align with the weaker party" can be a sensible goal for a society. However, in this case it directly conflicts with the presumption of innocence principle, which is an even higher goal for a just society.

So no, the burden of proof lies in whoever is making the accusations, whatever the (un)balanced of power between parties is.

What we should do is (1) not judge any party until there are enough facts on the table (of which we don't have many right now); (2) strive for an impartial account of the events; (3) judge only on and after evidence has been collected. If you want to support a cause, pushing for people to follow this recipe would work much better than pushing for "the weaker party is right until the stronger party proves themselves".
The situation would be equally bad if it were a male founder's gay lover or husband.

Nothing to do with sexism, everything to do with a person making decisions for the company who is (1) personally close to an executive and (2) without a formal role at the company.
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The sad thing is that however the real story may have nothing to do with sexism, but as it's presented as "sexism story" and "protecting other women", the people who will probably suffer the most after that story are that very women. It would be pretty natural for many HRs to remember that story as "possible hazard" and ceteris paribus reject the female candidate.
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I so badly want this technology to be current and working in all browsers. The only way I've found to really 'stream' live video to the browser is with WebSockets and pure JavaScript decoders writing to canvas. This works well - apart from the decoding part.

The best combo would be WebSocket transport + hardware decoded video playback. Then - as the article says - I can write JavaScript apps to inject data as I get it - into the player.

When you start thinking about Web Socket as a streaming video source - lots of funky apps become possible : )
So what is the fair proportion?
And we thought there weren't enough women programmers.
Yes, it's often difficult for developers to prove their worth because they're so far removed from the money. The closer to the money you are, the easier it is to say you deserve a piece of it. It's easy for sales - they say, "I sold £X amount last year so I deserve £Y amount bonus."

The only way as a developer you can really do this is to find a niche for yourself that is yours and yours alone. That way you can say, "product X wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for me, and that sold £Y amount last year. Hence, the £Z amount bonus I'm asking for is nothing in comparison."

Also try and get some friends in sales who can tell you what's going on. I know the separate species of dev and sales don't usually mix, but it's a relationship that can help both of you individually. You'd be amazed how often managers will push the "next big product" so you work on that thinking you'll be in line for the big bucks and the promotion, but then you speak to sales and find that it's actually the old tried and tested stuff that's actually making the cash.

And for the sales guys they actually like having an "insider" in the dev team so they can get one up on their colleagues. "What's that? New product X has fallen behind schedule again?! We were told everything was fine and to go and sell it!"
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Probably not these employees, this company, or this time. NYSE:FSL peaked around $23 and is still around $22. There are 300 million shares, and from the chart it looks like recent volume of a few million, so the potential profit is probably less than what you could simply sell the 777 to the bad guys for.

Most companies with hundreds of billions in market cap would not send many important people on a single plane together. Freescale, not quite that large, arguably made a significant business mistake here, but the market impact so far seems limited.
Yes, they are. I just prefer to use space for this.
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It's possible that things will be brushed under the carpet as you say.

But I'm not convinced that this is a "clever PR move" as you suggest. What else can GitHub do at this point? Fire the people involved without even investigating?
In the words of discrete mathematics intelligence implies trusting behaviour.
"just because the victim is a woman, doesn't mean it's sexism."

You really think people forget about that? That there are a lot of people around the planet who think any aggression against a woman is sexism? So much that you think your comment is necessary and adds to the discussion?
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If you're in a desperate position, bad pay is better than no pay.
Having been through some 'nightmare' crunches myself i do feel some sympathy. However, it is cautious sympathy because this guy chose freely to do this and made the situation for himself.

The fact that he was too weak of character or naive to deal with the situation is entirely his own fault and not something that should be respected or sympathised with too heavily... otherwise the message is that this behaviour is acceptable and that there is nothing wrong with putting yourself in a situation where others will have to pay for your mistakes...

Perhaps whats worse is that these situations arise typically because owners, managers etc. make mistakes - and instead of solving it with their skills they simply fob off their responsibility onto their underlings - who end up carrying their dead weight.

Leadership is a two way thing. When your leaders fail you don't be afraid to chastise them - especially if you are going to work hard to cover for their failings. Ultimately they will never get booted out or otherwise penalised in these situations unless /you/ make it obvious that they are failing.
You must not frequent any niche subreddits. In the sports subs, everybody knows everybody.