skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I included a footnote to address this criticism.
http://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/03/12/the-operating-syste...
>The phones will ping just by being in range, you dont need to queue a message.

Yes, that's true, but it is not so useful, because it would not add much information to what we already know. A message from a passenger would give some clues about what happened.

>Nothing in your argument makes (say) hijacking more likely than mechanical issues.

In the absence of more evidence, I prefer the simplest theory.

-

The simplest possible hijacking theory relies on one event:

1. A rogue pilot, acting alone, incapacitates the other pilot, disables the transponder, and incapacitates the passengers and crew by depressurizing the plane.

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The malfunction theory relies on an event that has all the following complex series of effects:

1 disables all communications ability suddenly

2 deactivates the transponder, and then disables a data transmitter system a few minutes later, after the plane has begun to turn

3 incapacitates most of the passengers and pilots swiftly, but without incapacitating everyone aboard

4 somehow prevents the person(s) in control of the plane from using a mobile phone when they are over land

Both theories suffer from the issue that a passenger or crew could have attempted to send a text message before they were incapacitated, which would have been transmitted when the plane passed over land, but apparently nobody did this. Passengers only have a few minutes of emergency oxygen, but crew have more, I think.
> I was day dreaming about how far they could take this and imagined them freezing the scene and the three of them breaking character/fourth wall to pitch a product and then unfreezing the scene and going back to acting. You could imagine this getting so popular that it eventually becomes annoying and then eventually edited out of any shows/movies.

This has been around for a while: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ProductPlacement/LiveA...
Be careful about causality there; I'm conversational in 6 languages and am hopeless with women.
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Yes they are. I spend a lot of time in meetings with these people. Definitely not a straw man.

The project plan was an embedded WMF so its not about Microsoft project.
That's female chauvinist ape, shitlord!
"if being called bossy is causing girls to lose leadership skills"

... then they aren't leaders anyway.
Ah, the RMS model of economics, "this is free but you are allowed to attempt to charge for it, so long as you tell your customers that they can have it for free. By the way I have a $1M grant from the MacArthur foundation, another $1M from the Takeda foundation, and tenure at MIT, I don't need money".
My entire article is about things that happened between 1955 and 1969. The part where I state my thesis literally concludes "With a solid historical perspective we can dare to do better." I'm not sure how much more obvious I could make it that I "see the merit in the past when attempting to blaze a trail into the future".

It's the _present_ whose merit I find lacking.
I've added the flashsocket transport to the socket.io config. Hopefully it should now work on most devices?
All they need is a good advertising campaign. Another poster put the cost of a dedicated pumping employee at a 3.3% of fuel served. That's 11-12 cents per gallon in Oregon. Consumers would be all for that, assuming they knew about it (and could be confident it would be passed on to them.)
There's a space in the url in the QRcode that needs to be removed (it's 24~25 characters from the end)
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is that in Singapore Dollars? (comes to USD160K) still waay too much money for a fresher.
You also want to save 9k per month? hmm... looks like you have put in a lot of time on analysis/charts, so when you surveyed for rental prices - didnt you bother asking your friends if it these figures were even realistic?
because they aren't kids being fucked who just happen to get filmed

reportage is not the same
I am very glad that Urbit exists and is being funded. I have corresponded with the author and differ with him on some design decisions that I consider significant. Nonetheless, it is an excellent example of the "rethink everything" type of ambition that I would like to see expressed more.
If the history of Preferred Medical Term(s) for Mentally/Physically-Challenged Individuals is any indicator, that theory is lame.
To be pedantic, tan doesn't have a value at tau/4 (or pi/2, if you swing that way). Also, algebraic functions don't return, they are - cos(0) is 1, it doesn't return 1, it doesn't compute 1, it is not a kind of computer, nor a kind of program, nor any kind of thing that consumes resources and time and returns a value; it really literally is 1.

Algebraic functions are just syntactic notation. You can sit down and convert from one notation to another, like how cos(5) is a number quite close to 0.28366218546322625, and deriving one representation from the other does take resources and time, because it's a physical process performed by a person or computer.

But sin, cos, tan, cotan, log and all their friends by themselves don't compute, they are just a different kind of notation for numbers.

Which is why I find the desire to make functions in programming like algebraic functions silly - by definition they are two completely different things. One is a specification for a process that produces binary-encoded numbers, the other is a syntactic notation for real numbers.
Same issue for me on iPhone Chrome and Safari. Clicking "Pair" has no effect.
IIRC there is no such rule in Windows Store (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh69408... ), just there is no browser engine which would satisfy technical requirements of sandbox (no executing generated machine code means no JIT, all GUI must be implemented trough WinRT APIs or DirectX and probably many others).
That's a good question - why don't modern consumer OSes offer simple, convenient one-click app sandboxing?
You shouldn't use binary everywhere, just like you shouldn't just hex everywhere. Binary literals make sense for bit data. For example, coding an icon for a game:

char unsigned bottomLeftCorner[8] =
{
0b11000000,
0b11000000,
0b11000000,
0b11000000,
0b11000000,
0b11000000,
0b11111111,
0b11111111
};

They may, at times, also make sense when coding some low-level protocol.
People aren't smart. They like full-service, and they know it'd disappear if it wasn't the law. What they don't realise is that the reason it'd disappear is that they don't like it enough to pay extra for it.

The stations themselves might not be against full-service, either (at least away from state borders.) It's an extra cost, true, but it's paid by all of their competitors, too, so it just drives prices up. Demand is pretty inelastic, so profits aren't much affected. This might change with electric and fuel-efficient cars becoming more common, but it's hard to think long-term when you're selling oil.
Tails[0] would be a good candidate for this.

[0] https://tails.boum.org/
> Second: It's ridiculous to expect of me to buy a movie I haven't watched, or a book I haven't read.

I've heard this argument many times before, but don't buy it (no pun intended).

There are enough professional and user reviews, video clips, etc of everything for sale online that anyone can make an informed decision on whether the product is likely to be something they'll enjoy.

Why not take advantage of all these great online sources? If many films, for example, haven't suited your taste it may be more valuable spending some time on sites that help you find films more to your taste, and reading/watching/listening to user opinions that are more in line with your own.

That said, I do prefer music services that allow the user to preview tracks prior to purchase. Even Youtube has become a popular platform for previewing content. Seems reasonable for such a type of short-form media.

As for accessibility, companies do need to provide better and more open support for customers to consume their content. It's come a long way though, and hopefully it becomes even more consumer-focused in the future.
While I agree, in the case of NI it wasn't a mystery: an occupying force who enslaved the population [1], installed a settler population and terrorised the natives and ran an apartheid society using religion as a proxy for heritage, leaving in the 20C, an economic and politically disenfranchised majority.

[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgo...
So I'm Walmart (or some other large retail employer). What stops me from simply cutting every full time employee down to part time because I know the government will pay the difference in their salary?

Presumably you think that you actually need those workers in your stores doing work, otherwise you'd just lay them off.
Malaysian PM just concluded a Press Conference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwRUf4NlwDc

He himself confirmed that satellite data (alledgedly cross-checked with US and other countries) shows the plane was still up in the air until at least 8:30AM Malaysian Time (~4-5 hours after the disappearance iirc).

Search and Rescue operations in the South China Sea (east of Malaysia) have been cancelled - the search now focuses west of Malaysia.

I quote (emphasis mine) :
"the last satellite communication occurred in one of two possible corridors, a northern corridor, stretching approximately from the border of Kazakshtan and Turkemistan to northern Thailand, and a southern corridor, stretching approximately from Indonesia to southern Indian Ocean."

PM exited the press conference right after ending his speech, not answering questions.
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It is very clear. It is also dishonest.

That's a serious problem with Kickstarter - they allow groups to offer tiers that appear to be pre-orders and do nothing when those pre-orders are not delivered.

Kickstarter isn't going to stop doing this despite all the criticism. So people need to keep reminding everyone that tier rewards are menaingless. Maybe you'll get the reward, maybe you won't, but you don't back a project for the reward but because you want to see the project succeed.

Repeating this message may make kickstarter stop projects being dishonest with reward tiers.
This really misses something... it's written as if the consumers are somehow entitled to the music from the songwriters. Right now, musicians think streaming rates are too low, and the streaming services are operating at a loss. That basically means they are unsustainable, and that musicians are not willing to release their music at a rate the consumers want to pay. Because of debt financing, consumers are currently under the impression that they're entitled to this music anyway, but the gravy train might very well end, and then easy music enjoyment might become more scarce. For a lot of musicians, this would be a welcome development, as it would give the songwriters more options in how to control their revenue streams.
If Malaysian Airliner was hijacked here is Why
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If you turn on dim in the browser, the status isn't reflected in the phone.Thereafter off becomes on and vice-versa
Yeah there's a real counterfactual here, of what could exist but doesn't due to the existing market forces.
Well that's the point isn't it? We've tried pretty much everything troughout the last century, and the only solutions that seem to work in practice requires being reversible in the case of errors.

Ergo, most likely working solution for the 'money of the future' would be something that's reversible. You'd try to get the other advantages of bitcoin in the proper solution, such as instant, verifiable, cheap/free and easily scriptable global transactions - but abandon those that require irreversibility.
> However, more serious kinds of feminism directly attack the existence of bosses, since many more women are at the bottom of hierarchies than the top.

That's how hierarchies tend to be structured. :)
"You would get a couple of sunsets and sunrises, because at those northern latitudes often you would see day to night, and then a terminator line..."

Eh, this would only happen if they were adjusting their vector in like a wave, or their speed, right? It's not like they are shooting around the planet.

And he says England to Russia, so not following the sun. What is he talking about?

edit: reading further i'm having a real hard time believing this shit.
What about this: you drag me to court, you ask me X millions in damages; if you lose, you owe me X millions. Now that's a lawsuit I would pay for upfront if I think I'm in the right. Even better: many lawyers would probably fight to get my profitable suit pro-bono so they can cash in a big chunk of the eventual damages I would get.
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Ever seen the credits for a movie? Hundreds of people. Yeah, hes talking about those people. Lets lookup some numbers. BMI lists around 500,000 composers/songwriters/music publishers. The NEA lists around 2.1 million people employed under the artist category (Actors,Directors,Authors, Musicians, Photographers,etc,etc)

Lets take a nice round number. One Million. How many "rich" artists can you name? 500? 1000? 10000? Thats still 0.01%.

>Artists should earn their living, sure. But they don't need to be filthy rich.

Who says they are?
This is a fair point which deserves a response.

Before text was invented, people communicated using spoken language. Text was a major breakthrough because once some communication was written, it became a physical object which could be stored in libraries, carried by sea or horseback, and read by more than one person. However, it was a compromise: you could no longer interact with the reader. As a result, most people prefer to communicate interactively. Even people who cannot speak use sign language instead of resorting to text.

What we are doing right now is a hybrid of textual and interactive communication; we're taking turns writing chunks of text. In the programming world, this is roughly equivalent to a REPL. But actually developing software using a REPL is still quite uncommon; I think it's reserved mostly for Emacs Lisp hackers.

We're doing this instead of communicating by audio partly to create a public indexable record of our correspondence, partly to protect our privacy, partly for synchronization reasons, and partly due to arbitrary norms and the information systems that co-evolved with them; but mostly to save ourselves from mentally keeping track of the edits we make to our expressions before committing them ("scratch that...what I meant to say is.."). When the target of one's communication is a machine with a visual display, that latter concern completely evaporates.

Naturally, the screen editor (introduced in 1961 as Expensive Typewriter for the PDP-1 and pretty well refined by the NLS era) implements this suggestion thoroughly. Yet, generally, the screen editor is used only to edit pieces of text, which are then separately turned into programs. What I'm proposing is nothing more outrageous than a screen editor which edits programs directly instead of textual representations thereof.
Fixed by encoding/decoding the data in the URL with Base64. Thanks for the hint.
I agree that the tier rewards are dishonest and are morally and ethically wrong.

But "do not use Kickstarter as a shop or as a pre order platform" was reasonably common before the veronica mars kickstarter; the changes to tier rewards was before the VM kickstarter (and perhaps Kickstarter needs to implement another change to prevent people offering things they cannot provide).

We need to keep repeating the message that tier rewards are just suggestions of what you might get, maybe, possibly, and that there are many reasons why you might not get that product.
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Fixed the space issue by encoding/decoding the data with Base64. Thanks for the hint, hope it works for you now.
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Motorola/Freescale is apparently a dangerous place to work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Airlines_Flight_006
The fork of Apache 1.3 that OpenBSD had wasn't really that big.

EDIT:

The C source files and headers under src/usr.sbin/httpd are about 100k lines. Under src/usr.sbin/nginx you have closer to 170k lines. Of course this isn't exactly apples to apples comparison as both have optional modules and at least nginx has some OS-specific code.

In any case though, it is really hard to argue that nginx is "light, small, and fast" while httpd is a bloated swiss army chainsaw with a kitten sink...
This is old news. The malware was discovered by someone on Reddit shortly after the release. I immediately contacted the ISP hosting the server used to retrieve stolen wallets and it was taken down. I doubt anyone lost any bitcoin. I'm really not sure why TC claims the malware was
"discovered" by these security researchers a couple days later.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/200k30/the_tibanneb...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/20152d/vpsbgeu_took...
Can't this same criticism be made about (word-based) programming languages? Programming languages communicate the what or the how pretty well, but not the why.
Thanks for the write up. It's very inspiring considering I'm looking towards getting started with making games. To know it took you 7 months goes to show that sticking with a project to the very end yields results. No matter how frustrating it can be. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing what else you come up with.
> Case in point: my wife wanted to surprise me one day and saw that I had domains expiring while I was out of cell reception on a business trip. She obviously has all the necessary to verify she is my wife, and has access to my domains. If she used this to do something bad, this would be a different story. Instead, she was able to have a good conversation with someone who ended up giving her discount codes because she "knew I used them, but didn't know where to get them" and she wouldn't make the purchase until she saved at least 35% as I always said I did, minimum. All my domains got renewed, with a new card being added just to be sure it wasn't using money I didn't authorize - no matter who called. She is afraid of breaking things and still got through the process with positive experiences!

Here's your horror story.

They allowed an unverified (by the account holder) third party to make changes to your account.

That's fucking terrifying.
> from garbage sources by useful leftist idiots from Huffington Post and like.

I appreciate your level-headed unbiased approach. You prefer Fox News, I presume?

> That's just so pathetic that is not even funny. You ignore opinion of the most authoritative Jewish organizations in Ukraine.
> Yeah, apparently guys from Tel-Aviv and from Sweden see the situation better than people who actually live in Kiev and closely observe folks from Svoboda for decades.

So, for you, Russian sources are propaganda, and EU and Israel sources are misinformed (apparently by the Russians), and only Ukrainian pro-Maidan sources matter. That is indeed ridiculous. Did you ever wonder why the Ukrainian parliament, where Yanukovich's Regions Party had the majority, adopted anti-Maidan laws on January 16th, but in February was already unequivocally pro-Maidan? Do you think the armed masked "peaceful demonstrators" storming government buildings might have something to do with it?

I think those armed masked people are the reason why the Ukrainian Jews wrote such a letter. I don't see how Jews can possibly tolerate the Nazi symbols and slogans of the Right Sector (see above for images).

Here is what a chief Ukrainian rabbi has to say about "peaceful protesters" [1]:

"I told my congregation to leave the city center or the city all together and if possible the country too," Rabbi Azman told Maariv. "I don't want to tempt fate," he added, "but there are constant warnings concerning intentions to attack Jewish institutions."

Do you have any theory as to why he'd say that?

1. http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.5757...
The article talks about needing to pull a circuit breaker to kill the transponder - I thought the transponder had a mode selection switch on the pedestal that could be set to standby; is there something else to it that I'm missing?
> And that's again a load of bullshit.

Is this true or not, in your opinion:

Andriy Parubiy, the new secretary of Ukraine's security council, was a co-founder of the Neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), otherwise known as Svoboda.
Good catch. It's because I cheated. The command will be sent from the phone to the desktop, the phone on the other hand does not receive the state of the dim. Button text is just changed by click event. Gonna change soon.
I heard the podcast and skimmed this article. I found that their findings and conclusions are totally irrelevant for me and I think for many people in my situation/location.

I am from Slovakia, where you are never more than 3 hours by car from some border. Sometimes the neighbors speak similar language like Polish, sometimes you stumble into totally different like Hungarian. And not the mention the minorities in Slovakia.

Now I am living in Denmark, that is not much different So the list of languages that I yearly get in contact with is: Danish, German, Polish, Hungarian, plus languages I speak: Slovak, Czech and English.

I can see the profit of learning any one of them.
Yes and no.

The regular python parser will barf on that unknown keyword, so you don't get an ast because the parser never gets there.

Using import hooks, this can be done in a regular interpreter. For example, that's how hy, a lisp in python, works!
> in Singapore, a new Toyota Camry costs almost US$150,000

Wait, what? Surely that's a typo! If not, what makes it so expensive?
APL did not descend from Fortran either - it wasn't even designed as a programming language - rather as a standard notation for algorithms
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Presumably it needed total disabling, not just switching off...
> I mean, how many jobs require significant international communication with people who don't speak English? Not many.

Well, there is more to a language than just words and grammar, right? Learning a language is also a crash course in terms of cultural studies. If you happen to be in contact with other cultures this might be quite helpful to deal with colleagues and/or customers.

We're living in a world where a majority of people communicate. Cultural understanding is more important than ever and even though English seems to be the global language, everyone should be willing to learn at least one foreign languages and basic concepts of other cultures with it.

There's also a small test about this: if you happen to be in a foreign country just try to learn the local phrases for "Hello" and "Thank you". Use it when checking in at the hotel, eating in restaurants and dealing with local people - you'll be amazed what those simple words can archive. It's a sign of respect and that you made an effort to learn about their culture.

To sum it up: cultural understanding is getting more important as the whole world (regardless of national borders) communicates. Learning a language comes with learning about a different culture and reflecting your own. This is an essential thing when dealing with foreign people and everybody should have basic knowledge about it.
Mandating something like FIPS for everything would impair startups quite badly. For the moment I'm quite happy to not have regulations on the development process or content of software.