skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, had to leave college for financial and family health reasons. It always left a question in my head as to whether I was as good as those at the job with a degree. I, too, worked my way up redacted, since personal info was removed by parent poster, my whole rise driven by feelings of inadequacy. Despite the ever increasing disfunction at the job, I stayed way too long, fearing I was not good enough to find another job.

You know what? I got over the fear of change and quit (you don't have to, one can always job hunt while still working). A year later, rested and in a better place, I started the next phase of my career where my experience was acknowledged and I gained a much better sense of my worth. I now work with great people, at a job I love, doing interesting work every single day.

There is better to be had out there, you just may not see it until you are on the other side. Take the chance, if you value your health and life.
of course a fire is a great way to get the pilot/copilot to open the door - "smoke in cabin"...

I think the other guys theory about a second triple 7 better than this.
This is what I've been saying for the last couple of days.

The cool thing with watching this story develop in real time is understanding how fucking incompetent conspiracy theorists are. From confusion on how ACARS works, to the limits of radio comms, to the organization of the plane's electrical system to their complete misunderstanding of how accurate primary radar readings are at the edge of range. These people aren't qualified to speculate in the slightest.

If you don't know what you're talking about: shut the fuck up.

By default I disbelieve all conspiracy theories, unless overwhelming evidence is forthcoming, because their proponents don't know shit.
We're talking influence here, not intelligence or hardworkingness or importance. If you can't influence your way in, by definition you aren't one of the hundred most influential.
As someone who likes C and Go for their lack of support for exceptions, the thought that someone might actually want to implement exceptions in C is mind-blowing.
Doing this is sure cheaper and easier than building a bomber capable of deploying a nuclear weapon or another type of WMD. Definitely cheaper than building an ICBM.
Is this what passes for journalism today? (see section below bracketed in +++)

quote from the CNN story:

"Report: Plane flew low to avoid radar

Whoever was flying the airplane may have flown below 5,000 feet and used mountainous terrain as cover to avoid being detected by radar, the New Straits Times newspaper in Malaysia reported Monday, citing unnamed sources. +++CNN could not immediately confirm the newspaper's account, which is just one of several as-yet unproven theories about what happened to the jetliner after its last contact with flight controllers.+++"
The rerouting affected networks in that country and Brazil for 22 minutes, BGPMon said.
US government set to give up net oversight powers
I don't think the main Taskwarrior group is focusing on a specific mobile app. With the task server now available hopefully other developers will create mobile apps for Taskwarrior. I'd like an iOS app, while Todo.txt works ok with dropbox and the iOS app I'd prefer Taskwarrior since i wouldn't have to use a cron job to set up recurring tasks.
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Why do I have to play the one-armed bandit until I possibly reach one of the 19 MEPs from my home country Austria?
Imagine you are an employee. You find out that another employee has made threats of violence. He's coming into work today. What do you do?

It really really sucks for the mentally ill guy, but it's not on the other employees to tolerate it. A violent coworker is just as violent whether it's due to a chemical imbalance, him being a deliberately violently person, or him being justifiably angry with the boss.
It's just bundled, meaning it's still developed externally. In fact, 3.4.1 will include a newer pip version.
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Perhaps the plane didn't keep flying for 7 hours but it kept floating on the water for those 7 hours (at least that part/device).
Someone already thought of it! Perfect, thank you.
You're acting as if SXSW is(was) the only draw to Austin's music scene. ACL, Fun Fun Fest, X other festivals and the hundreds of different venues with bands playing every night all make up a a part of it.
That's from primary radar. Those altitude readings are unreliable at that range.
This is a textbook response to a harassment issue. It is extremely professional. You put the accused on paid leave. You do not fire them. If the accuser is correct, this prevents further damage. If the accuser is incorrect, this prevents permanent damage to the accused.

You contact a full internal investigation, and you do not issue any statements biased either way until you have full information from that investigation. At the end of the investigation, you either bring back the accused employees if they appear innocent, or lay them off if they appear guilty.

This is absolutely the right thing to do. I understand the Internet would like companies to go in with pitchforks before investigating. That is wrong. In the majority of discrimination cases, the accuser is wrong (for example, the accused is an equal-opportunity-asshole, but the accuser feels targeted). When the accuser is right, you want to know the level and details before acting in any irreversible way (and a public statement, aside from potentially being libel, is irreversible).

The Internet's attention span is the Internet's problem -- not github's.
This would never happen in the US.

I wonder if this law will be a problem in 10 years.
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Sequence of events this implies when coupled with other information:

1. Electrical fire starts, takes out ADS-B transponder, pilots unaware and continue the flight as normal
2. They radio a goodbye as they leave ATC, still unaware of anything which means that a fire has taken out a transponder and they are unaware of that fact
3. The fire is discovered. The crew put on full-face oxygen masks and the pilot makes for that airport either by dialling in a bearing into the autopilot or disengaging it and flying for it.
4. They attempt communication but fail because the systems are out due to the fire

At that point, we then have a lot of things to consider: was it pilot input or autopilot that took them to FL450? When did the pilots lose the ability to land, either because of control surface damage or because they were incapacitated? In the event of being alive but unable to fly the aircraft because control surfaces were no longer responsive to cockpit or autopilot input, is there anything else they could/would do other than do some maths and work out when the inevitable crash was coming? If they could control some surfaces but not others would they use that to buy themselves more time, e.g. climbing to ceiling (FL450), or would they get low quick?

This theory raises quite a few questions then, but it's a perfectly valid hypothesis: the issue for me around it is understanding why the pilots didn't go on to make the landing suggesting loss of control or their own lives by that point. The only way we'll get to understand that is by finding the black box which of course would explain the whole thing anyway.

This theory also suggests a likely ditching or crash into the water, and if that were the case then I would expect sonar operators over a large part of the region to hear the black box locator, pretty much as they did with the Air France crash.
Both email and POTS / mobile phone conversations suffer the same security disadvantages.
I expect this type of comment on Reddit, please take it there.
This is a great concept, and in fact already exists as an Excel addin - http://schematiq.htilabs.com

It's paid-for software, but available free for personal use. Put simply, it extends the concept of what can be stored within a single cell on the spreadsheet, enabling much more powerful functionality.

There is also a Q&A forum at http://schematiq.htilabs.com/community so if you need to ask any questions you should be able to get some help.
It's also hard to square with the fact that the satellite system was still pinging 7+ hours later. It doesn't appear to have been powered down at all, it just stopped sending ACARS reports. And so it wasn't powered down deliberately (or if it was, it was then powered up again), and it wasn't powered down by fire damage, even seven hours after "goodnight", and it wasn't sunk under water or torn apart by a plane crash within that time either. I think it's conceivable that that could happen as the result of the suggested fire accident, but it would take a very specific set of circumstances. And you'd also have to have an explanation for the other apparently contradictory information, such as the reported radar pings west of Malaysia and heading north, or (as you said) the later deviation from course. Doesn't seem likely.
Also note that when you do 15 days of work in three 16+ hour days, what you've actually done is do 15 days of scheduled work in 6-7 days by being smart and competent, and then compressed those 6-7 days into three by being stupid and anxious to fit in.

Quit while you're ahead. If you can cut project times in half while working 8 hours a day, you probably shouldn't kill yourself working 16+ hours a day to quarter them. Halving is impressive enough.
Doesn't look like they did it yet: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default
Awesome stuff. As a side note, anyone else see a rise in .NET/Microsoft related posts recently?
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Well problem is for them the cockpit door is very secure. They can try to open it all day but they will not be able to.
Based on this belief system you have detailed how do you feel about MRM's?
But why not make it public?
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That report was falsified.
It's one thing to have a big airplane.

It's another thing to have a big invisible airplane.
20 freescale semiconductor employees on board.
1. Is unlikely as door is very secure now. Passengers can't get in.

4. Seems a possibility.
People, especially young people, can push themselves quite far for a short period of time, but it takes a toll on you. Don't do this for longer than absolutely necessary. If you're in programming for the long haul, adjust your pace. It's not the 100 meter dash. Or if it is, make sure you take time to recover afterward.

Take care of yourself first. Even if you care only about work, you're no use to your employer if you're sick.
Nice post, if you plan a writing a full featured provider I recommend using the ReLINQ framework: http://relinq.codeplex.com/

I regret I didn't knew about it when I wrote my first LINQ provider.
Maybe, but then you need to make sure you're actually working on improving your situation: if you're in a crappy job, you should be quietly applying for other jobs.
I would propose an even more "meta" categorization. Research should be categorized into 'A' level and 'B' level. B level would mean that the purpose of this research is to explore an hypothesis and suggest directions for further research, while A level would mean an attempt at conclusive (or as close to conclusive as possible) results after enough B level research has been done in a certain field. B research would encompass what we suspect and/or want to examine; A research would encompass what we claim to know.
You clearly don't understand how unsurvivable water landings are.
I'm actually GLAD to see this rise in .NET stuff. I feel like us enterprise developers are left out on [Y] sometimes. Not everyone rolls python / ruby / node / etc.
Why are you referring to the black box at all? ACARS and the Transponder signal the plane's position to the ground, not the black box.
Can you expound on that? Does it have to do with atmospheric curving of the radar beam?
I'm going to sound *ist... You know how this is solved? Seriously? If you are abused, violated, made to feel uncomfortable, intimidated, etc... Write it down, gather evidence, gather some witnesses and then hire a lawyer and start suing. Go after the vc if it's a start up and the founders are involved... That's how we got seat belts...

I just don't see much good coming from putting this in the open like this. Sue them then do the book deal or tc article
I will take .NET posts over Node.js ones any day of the week. I feel like I am taking crazy pills whenever somebody celebrates discovering "async performance" in Node.js.
Cool, I like it. I'm not a native English speaker, but it worked for me better than Siri :)

How many predefined answers do you have?
Those were primary radar readings which aren't accurate at range.
Thanks for replying.

I decided in this question to focus on what I regard as obstacles to enter on another countries or finding a job. That's why I avoided talking too much about myself professionally.

The reasons I want to emmitgrate are basically the same as the ones this guy described: http://amatarazzo.tumblr.com/post/79624842882/bye-bye-brazil.... I disagree on some views, but he is almost 100% correct.

On my skills, I prefer not to talk about this now, as I'm interested on understanding how the process would work. I would say I've been in the workforce for more than 12 years, and have done a little of a lot of things.

Thank you again.
Do they have satellite phones? Over the ocean there is no cell reception.
1.13, released on 2014-03-14, does support Python 3. It's just someone must have forgotten to update PyPI metadata to indicate so.
I am happy to have seen Ioannidis' talk on this very matter a while ago - very inspiring indeed.

However, I think, often such articles as the one in The Economist lead "outsiders" to the opinion that much of the current biomedical science is flawed. They say that "only" 10 out of 13 in the article have been shown to be reproducible, and while even three bad teeth are not good, it is not even clear what was wrong in the remaining three. It might be very trivial issues, or it might be fraud, who knows. Furthermore, it does mean that at least 3/4 of those papers were fine. Last, so far, the reproducibility results of the 50 cancer papers is still outstanding.

So while I do agree there is an issue at hand, it is a bit like with Apple vs. Windows issues: consumers of the former brand are used to high quality, so a single bug or issue in an Apple soft- or hardware quickly fills news outlets in the world, while nobody gives a damn about even the most critical issues in Windows, because their customers are used to it. While it is important to correct the (ab-)use of biomedical statistics, I think the way this is being presented to outsiders tends a bit towards sensationalism.

I do agree with Ioannidis' as far as that our papers should get more in-depth reviews (not only) of the statistics in them, but the problem is that we need to publish 2-3 papers per year that in turn need 3-5 reviewers per paper, so everybody has to do about 10-15 reviews per year. And by "doing a review" I do not mean just doing an "intensive" reading of the paper being reviewed in half a day, but actually looking at the data and methods and spending some days on it. I am not sure we have the time for that and I believe the reason is this madness of having to publish several papers per year just to survive. I.e., the real problem is our "publish or perish" system, nothing else. All this leads to the fact that it can be better to have dozens of junk papers than one good one, at least if you do not manage to get it to the very top (Nature, Science, Cell, etc.).
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It's a pretty massive area and the boxes might be trashed.
Edit: what was here was wrong so I removed it.

Anyway, there have been bug fixes and there will continue to be security related releases of 2.7 for a while still.
Cell phone signals can be jammed fairly easily. It's illegal to do-so in the states, but the devices are pretty easily obtained from what I've read. I'd imagine even easier in other countries.
Try Paul Rübig's office: +33388175749. I have been in touch with his assistant Ms Barbaro there, which is responsible for the net neutrality issue. Here is the letter I sent them regarding the issue (German): https://www.dropbox.com/s/4wmn08zsxwftspw/Brief.pdf
The "Standdesk 2200" [1] is similar and seems easier to make, if you have access to an IKEA.

[1] http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...
Possibly explaining the climb to 450? To remove more oxygen from the depressurized compartments to try to smother the fire? I don't know if this is a legitimate fire-fighting technique for an aircraft though (i.e. somehing that the flight crew would have been trained to do).
Why is this being downvoted? Are people really so naive as to not be aware of this?
Glad you liked it. It uses Google's voice recognition servers, so Android's voice recognition may prove better for you than Siri.

It currently has 64 predefined answers with multiple triggers linked to each one.
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If there was indication that something was awry the passengers would have had plenty of time before reaching the open ocean to use various forms of communication.
Or right, you mentioned luck being a factor. Sounds fair to me /s
No idea having them on the website is a nice change though.

I always had a problem finding someone to email playing Russian roulette until i find one is slightly easier.
The problem with software engineers is that they embrace Cluelessness. Read up on the MacLeod hierarchy. Venkatesh Rao's series is a great place to start: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o... . You can also read the series I began last February: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/gervais-princ... . Those'll take a few hours.

The MacLeod pyramid has bare-minimum players (Losers) at the bottom. They aren't really losers in the sense of being undesirable or weak; they know employment is a losing proposition and commit minimally (rational disengagement). In the middle are the overeager Clueless, destined for middle management but rarely able to cross the barrier (effort thermocline, which is where jobs transition from getting harder as one moves up to getting easier) between them and the cynical, politically savvy but rarely eager executives. At the top are the Sociopaths who are openly out for personal gain. Again, Sociopaths aren't all bad (the label is more negative than what it describes) but what they are is self-interested and insubordinate. They won't put the organization's interests above theirs, and why should they?

The Clueless tier is the worst place to be, because you become the company's true janitors. You're always cleaning up the messes made by the bare-minimum players below you and the self-interested, capricious gods of industry above you. It leads to overwork and burnout (which can be the first step toward cluefulness and cynicism). You eat buttloads of a pie you don't especially like (even if you once did, in moderation) and the prize for winning the pie-eating contest is... more of that same pie.

Software culture embraces the culture of the middle tier (the Clueless). Startup cults are even worse. They hire specifically to maintain certain illusions, and exclude people who might contradict those (i.e. over-40 engineers who might say, "I've been here before" when a death march begins or a ridiculous executive promise, never to be delivered, is made to motivate people to sacrifice their health.) The real reason these cultish startups discriminate on age and gender is that they don't want to let in people who have the perspective to call the execs out on their bullshit.

Some people, steeped in middle-class eagerness and Cluelessness, struggle with the cognitive dissonance that hits when they realize that (a) there are no adults over adults-- something people've desired for thousands of years, so much as to make them up out of vapor and call them "gods"-- and (b) no organization is a meritocracy and advancement is always political. It's not "who you know" over "what you know". It's what you have over those other two things. Knowing people isn't enough. What can you do for (or to) people? Rather than acknowledge the ugly truth, they plow into their work (heads in sand) hoping the ugliness will go away. It never does. It starts to look like a context-driven case of OCD ("I have to get this done and it has to be perfect"). For some, it leads to exactly this.
Sure, although the NationAir DC-8 tragedy was a different jet. The 777 is significantly more advanced and I believe has some sort of fire detection in the wheel well; they would have known very shortly after takeoff if there was smoke. Unless we're saying that the fire immediately disabled the ability to communicate the fact that there WAS a fire to the pilots...

...but that seems unlikely too, because I imagine the 777 has backup systems that would alert pilots in case a system as critical as the fire detection equipment in the wheel assembly was not responding.

I'm not saying the fire scenario is impossible; I'm still erring on the side of this being a tragic systems failure, and not a malicious act. I just think it might be entirely unlike anything we've seen in the past.
So you’ve been asked to do a knowledge transfer
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WTF? This article is exactly about making healthy choices and work-life balance. You make it sound like overworking and vacation have nothing to do with healthy choices and work-life balance.
As far as I know it's always a string. You just have a bunch of helper methods to handle "path strings". But they're still strings, not Path objects (or File, like in Java).
Here's a stupid one. I keep getting lost what I was doing in each of 20 screen windows. So I keep a "goal" per shell that appears in the $PS1 for each.

goal ()
{
if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
MYGOAL="$@";
else
echo Your current goal is: $MYGOAL;
fi
}

That's it. Put ($MYGOAL) in your PS1 and type "goal fix this bug" or "goal working on that thing". No args just echos back (redundant).
In a dire emergency, you would just dump the fuel and not try to burn it off.
They explained the algorithm in a recent episode of Logbuch Netzpolitik [1]. They weighted all MEPs according to their current stance on the issue, so you're more likely to get the contact info of an opponent of net neutrality than a proponent.

Nonetheless, I also find it slightly frustrating that they didn't include country-matching or at least a language preference setting. After all, the MEP might be more inclined to listen to me if I'm one of their constituents (or if I am at least able to communicate with them).

[1] http://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/lnp094-internet-zero
(Paul Rübig is an Austrian MEP)
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For better or for worse[1], we have a very strong protections on speech in the US. Although the specifics need to be addressed by his lawyer, in general Dorian needs to prove Newsweek did wrong, and that's a tough hurdle.

[1] I think "for better" but this is showing one of the sadder side effects.