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I remember when the first passenger list came out, one was obscured (passenger 84). I thought it may have been because they were unable to contact the family before releasing the name.

Looking into it again, this page [0] seems to suggest it is a Uyghur name?

[0] http://therealsingapore.com/content/who-passenger-84-mh370-a...
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More likely like a modern William Gibson plot. Mystery and modern technology in the same place. Objects that do not want to be tracked. Definitively Gibson style.
What a great idea. I had noticed that software requirements for machines seem to have relatively plateaued (other than for GPU requirements for gaming but that's a very different matter) but if you have a dual-core system (not single core or single core hyperthreaded), I would image that shoving an SSD in is going to keep you bubbling along happy for quite some time.

Great idea.
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I am slow. Where is the recursion? There are a lot of hyperlinks on the page but I can't see the recursion? I am trying to find duplicates.
> Later he spoke about how the effort he put into the company should have given him more respect and a better position.

He was free to find another job, or create one. I hope he bounces back...
Does "life and humanity" include a bad breakup, tons of drama, and pulling the entire office/company into that drama? (not saying it's always the case, or even a lot, but it's very bad in the few cases when it does happen) If people could truly separate their personal lives from their professional ones, this wouldn't ever be an issue.
Is the part that bothered me, they are implying that the inappropriate part is the women hoola hooping. The logic there that I have a problem with is that it's the women's fault for being attractive, and that the man isn't at as much fault for being attracted to it because the women are doing something attractive.

What are you even talking about? People find each other attractive. Most commonly between sexes. It happens in workplaces. Get over it.
...it's very unlikely that a bunch of amateurs could pull it off.

The pilot had decades of experience and a flight simulator in his home where he could practice such things. If he was involved, he probably could have pulled it off.

...how could the potential hijackers know that the Malaysian military wasn't properly monitoring the radar?...

We don't know what the contingency plan was, because fighters weren't dispatched. Maybe pulling off this plan was a million to one shot, and they just got lucky.

IMO, the only reason that one would try for stealth in this situation is if their intention was to land the plane somewhere. If their intention was to crash, they didn't need stealth or 7 hours of flying time. They could have pushed forward on the stick for a few seconds and dove the plane into the ocean.
There's a difference between looking and turning into entertainment.
True. The light has been traveling for "only" 13.7 billion years, but meanwhile the space between origin & destination kept expanding. That's why I wrote about an apparent radius, but on further thought I no longer believe that the travel time will reflect in an apparent distance. It's the amount of redshift that will result in a calculated proper distance.
Think of the universe like a low resolution digital image. When you zoom in, every part of the larger image is still part of the smaller image. And so the universe expanded in a way that every part of the universe would be an original starting point from before the expansion. Thus these waves would be coming from all directions rather than just being "ahead" or "behind" us.
> I wonder how many other languages already had abstractions for this (smalltalk ? ruby?).

I remember VBScript/JScript with FileSystemObject decades ago. It's from COM
> He was free to find another job, or create one.

Easy to say, but not how we work, the more you commit the more difficult it is to extricate yourself. This holds true of everything I can think of at the moment: jobs, relationships, gambling and addiction.
If that's hacking then security must be putting your hands over your ears, shutting your eyes and going la la la la.

Seriously the "security" measures were to remove the run box and the icon. That was it.
Add to that list:

- A depressurization event, either as a result of an accident or a botched hijacking (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522)

- Pilot suicide, with a somewhat unexpected signature (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990)

Pretty much anything is possible, indeed. However, I'd recommend this post on airliners.net for a comprehensive sanity check: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...
Looks like two planes can fly close enough together to look like one plane on radar...

http://keithledgerwood.tumblr.com/post/79838944823/did-malay...
Weirdly simplistic view of mental illness and an employer's responsibility to their workforce.

"completely insane" normally refers to psychotic illness - a person cannot distinguish their hallucinations or delusions from reality. This type of illness is rare.

We do not reduce stress in the workplace to reduce the incidence of very rare illness, although that's a useful side effect.

We reduce stress in the workplace to increase productivity and quality, and to reduce the incidence of much more common stress related mental health problems.

It is disappointing to see that a company chooses to fire a previously productive employee because that employee had some time in hospital. It feels like it is fine to do that if the employee had a mental health problem but not, for example, cancer or a broken hip. (But maybe this is a bias of mine: I just hear about the people with mental health problems?)

[1] I use "stress" to mean "bad stuff, over which you have little control". I use "pressure" to mean "good stuff, that makes the job exciting and dynamic and etc". What one person may find stressful another person may find enjoyable pressure. re
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Strange.

When I built my current PC, I specifically set it up to boot in UEFI mode with secureboot disabled, so that windows won't thrash the mbr. Then I happily installed arch, everything worked fine (even though the double-bootloader, i.e. UEFI->grub->linux still makes me queasy).

The only trouble was when afterwards I tried installing windows. At least at the time, windows 7 DVDs weren't able to boot in UEFI mode, therefore weren't able to use the GPT-partitioned hard-disk. The fix was easy enough at least - just copy the bootloader to the correct location on the DVD and it boots just fine.
I don't understand what the twenty Freescale employees have to do with anything and I keep seeing this fact mentioned in every discussion about MH370.

How could they be important/valuable/dangerous enough to justify the hijacking or destruction of a commercial airliner containing hundreds of passengers? That sounds completely insane to me.
This scared the hell of me. I am on my first programming assignment ever, putting extra efforts to do it quick and do it well. I am working on it for like 16 hours a day and in 3 days have brought it to level which was expected to be in 15 days. I made it 18 hours yesterday thanks to the comments like "phenomenal work" from my employer/mentor.

Side effects? My head is feeling numb. It's the same feeling as you have when sitting crossed legs and your feet go 'sleep', when you can't feel you have feet and there's no feeling of pain on pinching them. Also I am finding it harder and harder to think deep. I could collect great level of detail earlier, but now I feel like my head is refusing to think. I thought it was just another level of boredom as I haven't seen daylight for last 3 days. I thought my brain is behaving strange because it's tuning itself for more optimal performance. But Fk performance, I didn't realize things can get as wrong as the OP says.
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It is sad that some people dispute the existence of sexism in tech, but that does not make it controversial in the sense that it is contentious, because it isn't. The facts are simple: 1) technology is a big source of power in our society, and 2) women are underrepresented in tech. Whenever a well defined group of people is absent from (or underrepresented in) a source of power, discrimination is taking place, period. Sexism, like racism, is a loaded word, and people often believe that malice is required for it to exist, but that is not the case. Whether sexism begins in kindergarten or in mens-club startups is, at this point, secondary. It is there and we must address it.

In the case of GitHub specifically, the issue is even clearer. This is a company that for years had a blog with little else than their drinking escapades. Perhaps that's changed, but the burden of proof is on them.

The only thing that is up for dispute is whether this particular case is an example of sexism in tech or not. We can't be 100% sure, but at this time it's safer to assume that the weaker party is right, if only because the stronger party can handle a quick-to-judge public much more easily than the weaker party. I'm not saying it's boycott time, but it's best to at least open the discussion with that assumption in mind. Again, the burden of proof is on GitHub.
Of course it does. That's humanity. I understand entirely why a business would want to avoid this stuff, but I also understand why a business might want to not have to pay employees, or might want to work them 24 hours a day if it could. None of these things is healthy.
I think there is whole chunk of story missing.. Some context/information is missing from her allegations. The wife's behavior doesn't make sense.

Too many red flags in Julie's version. But I will wait for the complete story.
Fair points.

1. If you need to restart your server because patches, then you restart it. :)

2. Backups: AFAIK you can simply just backup /home/user that runs GitBucket. "To upgrade GitBucket, only replace gitbucket.war. All GitBucket data is stored in HOME/.gitbucket. So if you want to back up GitBucket data, copy this directory to the other disk."

3. "Since it's Java ... therefore security" yeah, you need to keep it updated, same goes for ALL software. Luckily I'm using an enterprise class distro which provides timely security updates and pays particular attention to Java (RHEL/CentOS).

Nothing is ever "simple", but running stuff yourself is not as hard as many people think, you just need to get a bit involved.
It did sound like I was criticising Github but that wasn't what I intended. Github actually came out looking good because like Google, its done a good job posting a copy of all takedown notices. In fact, looks like Github put all the repos back online again!!
You cannot create objects in C. I tried to work out what you meant, but honestly I can't. Where do you put these "constructor/destructor" functions? In the global namespace? So you have structs, and functions that modify structs. How is this pattern different from the one we call "programming in C"?
And they're back in business :)
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Yeah, everybody heard that about HFT. As I said, there people like pointing to that list: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry
Many cool names (Facebook, Google, AT&T), but no real products.

> I wonder if it is worth it to learn

Well, you may try anyway. It's pretty interesting experience. Many people claim that after you are "enlightened" you'll hate other languages. Seems that I'm still not enlightened. It's nice to write parsers and similar stuff in it, but I couldn't find an area where it would be clearly better to use Haskell than some alternative I'd normally choose. If you don't need hight performance and your product is, say website, than some Python/Ruby seems more convenient (mostly because of many good libraries and instruments for them). Writing GUI app? GUI bindings for Haskell are pretty awful and unnatural. Real time? Sorry, optimizing Haskell is so unintuitive that I can't consider it. Plus it has big runtime and is lazy. Something hightly concurrent? Not better than Erlang. So, I came up with that it only suites well for writing Haskell compiler and there already is a couple of them.
What about Attlassian's JIRA + Stash + Confluence combo?
You class this as good art? I just thought it was a bit of a weird site.
Techniques like these are always interesting, even if you don't have much opportunity/need to apply them. The source for software like NetHack might not be a good place to look for best practices, but it can be enlightening in other ways (if you're careful to avoid copying just anything you see).

On that note, while the article doesn't (explicitly) mention it, it would be wise to remember that VLAs of unbounded size will end up overflowing the stack eventually. They have their uses, but can be tricky to apply safely. Be careful!
> This scared the hell of me. I am on my first programming assignment ever, putting extra efforts to do it quick and do it well.

Unless you're predisposed toward some condition, you're fine. This sort of thing will take years of locking yourself away in your cubicle doing work that guarantees someone else's promotion to send you off the deep end :)
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Just a quick question, but I'd have thought the number of airports where a plane the size of MH370 could land would be quite small.

Is it not possible to work out the number of airports within it's range, and examine those?
Extreme long range? It was a 777-200ER (Enhanced Range) - that model holds records for distance flying:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777#777-200ER
They have swapped hats two months ago (acknowledging an earlier change):

https://github.com/blog/1761-new-year-new-ceo-for-github

I'm not terribly clear on US company governance and GitHub is atypical, so mojombo's new role is a bit fuzzy to me.
I heard there's this language called PHP and it's used by facebook and wikipedia. You might be interested in it.
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If the plane is parked in working condition somewhere on this planet, thanks to the media coverage the hijackers now know that the jet engines will phone home the moment they start them.

But then again, this is hypothetical nonsense. The plane most probably crashed into the ocean.
It's not that simple, due to the gauge invariance of the theory (not all mathematical degrees of freedom correspond to physical ones) and the approximations involved in deriving wave solutions. The argument was finally settled by Feynman's "sticky beads": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bead_argument
> It feels like it is fine to do that if the employee had a mental health problem but not, for example, cancer or a broken hip.

It most certainly isn't. No idea where the guy in the article is, but anywhere civilized a verifiabley sick employee, regardless of the nature of the problem, that's fired should have some legal recourse.
Well it is hacking though.

We used to do a similar thing, they quickly abandoned trying to lock down IE afterwards.

Also all ".exe" were disabled. The solution? Rename q2.exe to q2.com and it ran like a peach.
The big thing that's been bothering me about the hijacking hypothesis is that there's no clear logical motive behind it. This indeed makes more sense than anything else I've read so far.
Yep, sure that might be fine for a few days... but a candle that burns twice as bright burns out twice as fast.
I have to say that the school districts in well-off areas spend a lot of time thinking about these kids, and have some pretty good programs for them. I am thinking in particular of the suburban counties around Washington, DC: Montgomery and Howard counties in Maryland, Fairfax and Loudoun in Virginia.
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> Do you have a source

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408466

> Yes because women moving their hips means they automatically want to be considered for their sexual characteristics. /sarcasm

Actually, yes, they do. If you don't know this then either you're very inexperienced with women or you're the kind of guy they willingly keep in the dark about what they want.
I had the same reaction. Actually, first it's disk encrypting malware which requests payment in bitcoin, now this, what next is going to come true?
Except there's no rug [1] anymore, JAH made sure of that.

[1] http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug
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NB. And there are more full featured alternatives on CPAN like Path::Class (https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Class), IO::All (https://metacpan.org/release/IO-All) and Path::Tiny (https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Tiny).

Rebol has its own file datatype which works seamlessly across platforms - http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/datatypes/file.html | http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-12.html
Sure - providing you live in the US and you have a way to pay it to a legit publisher. Where I live, hulu/netflix/itunes are blocked.
Yes, now that a plane has disappeared (instead of just being flown to a different airport and hostages kept; or being flown into a building) means that there is a reason to implement costly tracking devices that previously had little use.

I used to build devices for aerospace. These were groundside, never ever airside. The systems (and thus costs) for building these devices were extensive and complex. Every item, every component, every screw, every washer, all the chemicals (paint, conformal coating, etc) could be traced from a finished unit (via its serial number) back through the manufacturing chain. When my company moved from a paperworks systems (suprisingly good) to computers (unsurprisingly flawed) they kept the paperwork system for these products because it was so important to never fail audit.

It's easy to look at consumer grade off the shelf systems and think that the cost would be maybe four or five times higher, but I think the cost would be significantly greater.

Add to that the difficulty of getting any component on a circuit diagram changed and the need to continue producing these units for every aircraft for many years and there's additional complication there.
There's an easier way of getting people. If you want 20 people taking an additional 200 people and an airliner with them seems overly complex compared to, say, hitting them on the back of the head as they're walking home and bundling them in a van.
IANAL, but I would say that if you're violating the TOS, you don't have a proper license to the content (since that's contingent upon following the terms), and so you're committing copyright infringement.

On the other hand,

"In relation to the use of VPNs by Australians to access services such as Hulu and Netflix, on the limited information provided there does not appear to be an infringement of copyright law in Australia," a spokesman for Attorney-General Robert McClelland said. "Whether the Australian users have committed an offence by deceiving these providers about their identity, or eligibility to receive their services, would depend on state or territory criminal law."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/media-streams-spa...
Planes have flown for hours without any human intervention. That part of it is entirely feasible.
The problem is that science for many scientists is the business of persuading reviewers and editors, publishing positive results on a regular basis and spending the rest of the time writing grant proposals.

This has to do with the publishing process itself, and the poor peer review (closed, sloppy, even for "respectable" journals) of the current publishing system. Science nowadays generates large amounts of knowledge, not all of which is useful, but we lack even rudimentary tools to catalog and analyze that information.

Very few people have suggested ways to catalog science in ways that are useful to inform future research[1,2].

[1] http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-tools-to-manage-information-ov...

[2] http://www.silvalab.com.cnchost.com/silvapapers/S2Neuron2013...
FSO is more a Class wrapping the usual FS functions, it still pass around raw string IIUC.
Gold? needs to be something worth stealing a plane for.
There are huge safety margins in aviation.

Ascending to 45,000 ft or above is an aerodynamics issue, not a pressurization issue. Pressurization ("cabin altitude") will adjust automatically.
here you go: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/03/15/mh370_the_...
I'm not familiar with the inner workings of planes, but from what I've gathered, the timing of disabling the two tracking systems, which are on either end of the plane, is just about the same time it takes to get from one end of the plane to the other, and disable the 2nd tracking system (blackbox).

Therefore, it would be a great coincidence that both of these tracking systems would be disabled at the same time. It seems therefore that the most logical explanation is foul play.

I thought/hoped the same as you, that some sort of failure resulted in the tracking systems failing as well, and then the plane crashed, but it sadly doesn't seem as likely given the timing of events.
While running one of the largest free hosting providers we had many of these smaller attacks; usually some netstat & iptables incantations will ward them off. Something like

netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

will show how many connections per IP for instance; with smaller attacks, usually, to actually make a dent in your webserver, the attackers will open many connections per IP. That helps you identify the 'bad' IPs. As someone else said; a lot of them are from eastern EU/Russia; you can use that information to be a bit more sure about what makes a bad IP a bad IP before you block it. Also check the Agent strings; often they all have the same Agent which is another way to filter.

We used to have tons of scripts running to try to identify the 'enemies'; in the end the simplest thing was the best; block everything with a lot of connections and open them up 24 hours later.
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Defeating copyright protection measures is a crime in many countries - EU, US, Canada, etc etc.

BTW: Retard is a pointless insult. The people you are calling retard don't care. But the people who have learning disability do care - language like this continues to be used to oppress those people, to the point that even when adjusted for illness they die earlier than the general population because of discrimination.

Please consider using a better insult.

"It's only a crime in fucking stupid countries", perhaps?
>>That's totally bonkers.

Actually its not. No one will want to spend time and effort on regression just because the tool maintainers want a print statement to be function and not a statement. Or for a small trivial change.
What you get with this plane is huge fuel and cargo capacity not to mention unsupported range.
The Tibetans.

This is a plot by a group of violent fundamentalist Buddhist terrorists.