skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A troll once tried to take one of my websites off-line by reporting to ICANN that the whois info was fake:

http://www.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/whoi...

That was... interesting.

Good timing on the troll's part as I was migrating from 123-reg to Gandi at just that moment and had to persuade both of them that I was who I said I was and that the info was correct.

If I recall correctly it involved proof that there was a company behind it (company registration documents), proof that the address for the company was correct, and proof that I worked for the company and had the right to represent it.

It's pretty scary to think that your domain might be pulled, and the web properties and email with it, based on a third party report.

At least with this proposal a 15-day window to verify details when you change info is an expected thing.

Oh, and ICANN sent the notification via the registrar to the admin email on the domain... make sure you're monitoring all of those email addresses.
MISSING MH370: Debris found at Straits of Malacca
Yes, but it's not like every patch of land is monitored at all times. A satellite can only point it's camera at one place at a time.
Sadly logic isn't required in the media. "Cabin fire" isn't nearly as exciting as "Eight days after Flight MH370 vanished, Malaysian authorities are seeking diplomatic permission to investigate a theory that the Boeing 777 may have been flown under the radar to Taliban-controlled bases on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan"
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MH370 might have entered into a blackhole and come back as a dove.

What's with all this speculation?!?
From what I understand, the traces they are correlating now come from military radar (which is also why they have not been made public).
The main issue with doing work in 3 days that was scheduled for 15 under such circumstances is that your employer will start to expect such performance - and you might get a worse treatment for performing "normally" than your coworkers who never excelled (but weren't particularily unproductive either).

This doesn't mean that you should never put in some extra hours and work miracles when the situation is clearly improved by doing so, but be careful about the expectations you set. They might come to haunt you.

And in particular, learn to say "No". It doesn't make you "friends", like cutting 12 days off the schedule (and by the way, if your work is billed by days, that's actually a problem), but it's one helpful tool to keep your sanity.
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Here's where a Proof of Bandwidth system like Bitcloud would come very handy. This way everybody is rewarded automatically in the same measure they contribute (ie seeding).
so sad.i always push my junior do some sport like bowling or badminton.
i not believer of agile or extream programming which push programmer to the limit.it part or senior developer or manager to manage their staff.
That statistics module makes me happy too
I think that shared memory is bad because it doesn't scale: once you've saturated your memory bus because you have too many cores that use it, then you need to have several memory buses and 'shared memory' doesn't seem so nice anymore..
this is actually a not that bad theory. The question is: have they already scanned that area?
Not all workaholics are same. Some know when to just take a break. What happens with people like that is, they generally make great progress career wise, take breaks when needed. Come back and again play hard.

I know a successful people who do that.

This isn't binary 'healthy long living easy takers' Vs 'Just to be dead workaholics'. There are regions in between them where people do just fine.
You're such a killjoy; how is tw268 gonna be able to make sweeping generalizations about those damn feminists now?
You should get tailgated, headlight-flashed and all around road-raged if you drive at any speed in the left lane and you are not passing.
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There are not many ways to incapacitate hundreds of passengers.
Which mall in Stuttgart? I lived there a few years ago and never noticed the shopping areas looking American...
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You're probably being ironic, but for the sake of the readers, I'll point out that most of us in the United States that are older than around 30 years old and learned to type using a formal system (including typing software) use double-spaces.

That's the way we were trained to type. The only thing this proves is that Satoshi was probably not a very young person. I don't think many people believe this anyway (or maybe he just "faked" the double-spaces?).
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surely so, but in the odd case that even one single image might have a plane on it, on the path the OP currently discusses here, might be enough to confirm further travel. the full step-by-step transition of the plan wouldn't even be necessary. just one shot with that plane. from somewhere.
First of all, hijackers would have threatened passengers to give them their mobile phones.

If the plane indeed was landed on a remote airport with the passengers alive, the hijackers would have stripped the passengers of their clothes to ensure nobody could bring weapons or devices with them.

By now, most mobile phones (even the Nokia developing world ones) would have been out of battery.
> just bugs that can be exploited forever.

...or until someone else patches them; remember the WMF exploit at the end of '05? There was an "unofficial", but just as effective, patch released before Microsoft released theirs.
>But why do we care? Does everyone post to Github for the circle jerk of attention?

Ugh, I hate that the term "circle jerk" is being applied to "a place where people share things they have made."

Github is a self-described "social coding" website. If people did post code simply to show it off to others, do you feel this is better or worse than Facebook-esque low-content narcissism? I feel like you come to this with a feeling of superiority for some reason.

>In short, I will never get attention, but I hope to get understanding. I understand some people contribute for different reasons, but if you are on Github to get attention, the rest of "normalized" society is laughing at us anyway.

So what if people are on Github to get attention? Self-promotion can help you get a better job or help establish a reputation. The programming community is small and there's nothing wrong with wanting to participate.

However, I posit that people push to public-read Github so that their code gets attention. When I post code to my tech blog, the broadcast audience is small. When I post it to Github, anyone can see/critique/benefit/suggest changes/easily discuss it with context. That's pretty cool.

>I work in an IT department, and when I mention Github and source code and different languages, people stare at me like an alien.

If you work in an IT department where Github or code-review is strange, that's a different issue.

>I will never get attention anywhere, but Github is not making that better or worse.

I don't even know how to respond to this.
According to the author, the plane may have continued on auto-pilot after the crew had been killed by smoke inhalation. It's a large area to search.
I knew a guy who had a similar breakdown because of personal life issues.

Should the take-away be to not have a personal life?

What a silly article and a silly reason to not just take personal responsibility for the work-life balance that you choose.
Yep, my only problem with Skype on Linux is that is an older version. Mumble taught me to use Push-to-talk, but it is only available on a newer version of Skype.
> Just the fact that the wife of an employee was consistently allowed in the building, is already a serious matter

Not necessarily. I've worked at plenty of offices where spouses occasionally showed up, including mine. The problem is that she acts like she hold a position of authority.
A fair point, but in my book the "holic" in "workaholic" implies the inability to do just what you describe. You're describing an effective worker.
A developer being a "Java dev" is like a chess player that only knows one opening. Broaden your horizons. Learn C#, it's not that far from Java and will improve your technical chops.
Satoshi stopped communicating to the public (at least qua Satoshi) back in 2011. So that's not going to happen.
I had a glimpse into that "lack of recognition" recently when the company had an AGM type thing for all employees.

We're fundamentally a software company, we fundamentally make some B2B software, sell it, ship it, support it.

Despite being a software company, the development team, the whole development office was a side note. It was clear from this event that the company as a whole saw the development team as a marginal entry under R&D and actually that it was support and sales who were the "real" business.

It made me realise quite sharply that even as a software company, we're not a software company, we're a support company who happens to make a product to support.

It goes a long way to explain why programmers don't always get the recognition that they think they deserve. While you might see your core product as a piece critical to the success of the company, others may barely notice it.
I agree. And the fact that this article's author is also a pilot ("We old pilots were always drilled...") makes his thesis even more trustable.
Sadly, I find it hard to believe that passengers wouldn't have tried to use cellphones, and I'm inclined to think that the cabin became depressurized before the last report of contact (a ping off of an inmarsat sattelite) which is reported as 7.5 hours after takeoff.
Still doesn't answer to questions like this:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163954/are-th...
So you say the pilot does not have switches in the cockpit to turn equipment on or off? They have to WALK through the whole plane to turn devices on or off?! Bollocks.
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That would be perfect for a ratio-enforcement scheme that works cross-tracker.

I'm sure there would be ways to game it, but it could go a long way in ensuring the average user gives what they get. It would be awesome to integrate a 'currency' into a similar client, where you slowly earn more by seeding.
> Ms. Horvath's act of taking this directly to the press was obviously intended to inflict the maximum possible harm on Github

If you had read the original article [1] you'd have known that she decided to take action after a "Secret post" was publicly published about her departure. (We could comment all day about the bravery of the anonymous GitHub employees who used Secret as a public mean of ridiculing her)

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...
the pilots were shortly on the radio after the deactivation of ACARS (a signalling system). while this doesn't completely disprove your theory about the autopilot it still hints towards malicious intent.
> Nobody wins when dirty laundry is aired.

Not necessarily. It can put pressure on the company to take it seriously and fix it, and make more people aware of these kind of problems. And that seems to be what's happening here. Keeping it under wraps allows the situation to continue as it was.
We are almost on the same page: here's my theory purely based on what I read!

1.Something happened like explosive decompression, Explosive decompression occurs at a rate swifter than that at which air can escape from the lungs, typically in less than 0.1 to 0.5 seconds.Everybody onboard(including pilots) would have died in less than a second due to castrophic mechanical failure which caused explosive decompression.

2.Plane was on autopilot there after ,nobody complained since nobody was alive.Fell silent into the ocean and rests there.

3.Plane blewup and disintegrated just like an endevaour....leaving only ash...nothing was left.

4.I dont know why boeing company is not talking about this much, they just are silent ....the biggest benefactor if pilot theory is right is boeing.Boeing benefits alot if its pilot error which caused the incident.

5.Boeing looses a lot if its mechanical or structural or some design failure...."The longer-range 777-300ER and 777-200LR variants entered service in 2004 and 2006 respectively"...they are relatively new...however malaysian airlines is boeing 777-200ER 1997 release...is it possible to have some structural or design or mechanical failure which caused explosive decompression...even pilots die in less than a second...if it occurs.

6.Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Cracks Found in the Wings of 40 New...this clearly shows even the latest 787 is not safe leave alone an old plane like boeing 777-200ER.

7.If its done deliberately by some pilot why nobody is claiming credit for it...ofcourse he wouldnt have done it for himself.

The whole media is trying to protect the company "boeing" by showing pilot has conspirators...I cannot see even 1% of people questioning boeing the company...

Latest	Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Cracks Found in the Wings of 40 New....

All the more we should question boeing...
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I knew a guy who overdosed on pills and died. Should the take-away be to not overdose on pills?

Yes, yes it should. Overworking is bad, don't do it. Having a shitty personal life is bad too, try not to do that either.
Anybody else noticed that "Keith Ledgerwood" has exactly one post on his Tumbler blog? Conspiracy theorist looking for five seconds of Internet fame?
This doesn't explain the zigzagging trajectory of the plane after its disappearance:

Indeed, soon after MH370 disappeared, reports emerged that recordings of Malaysian military radar returns showed an unidentified track that could correspond to the flight turning left onto a westward course and descending. At the time it was difficult to assess the validity of that claim. It’s been bolstered, however, by a Reuters report earlier Friday stating that Malaysian military radar showed the flight following a course westward over the Malay peninsula and then heading out over the Indian Ocean, passing specific navigational waypoints as it went.

According to the report, this latter portion of the flight followed an unusual zigzag trajectory as it worked its way toward the north and west. This is a very inefficient way to get from one place to another, but it had some consequences that may have been useful for whoever was in control of the airplane. For one thing, by navigating between well-traveled waypoints, the plane would have seemed to military radar operators to look just like all the other well-behaved commercial traffic traveling over that stretch of ocean. “That’s going to seem like unsuspicious traffic,” says Maarten Uijt de Haag, a professor of electrical engineering at Ohio University. Had the plane left the well-traveled routes and struck out on its own, it would have been far more conspicuous.

Another consequence of the zigzagging trajectory is that, like a fox crossing back and forth over a stream to eluding a pack of hounds, it obscured where exactly it might be heading.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/14/mh370_dis...
This could also explain the climb to 45,000 feet if the plane was on auto pilot and the fire was messing with the instruments.
Nitpick, but the longest break so far between major Java releases has been 4.5 years[1] (between Java 6 and 7), which also spanned Sun's acquisition by Oracle.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history
I'm currently living in the UK, and some of my packages are delivered by 'amazon logistics'
That's a damned interesting observation on school bus design, though I'd really like to see if that is in fact the case.

The other thing that moving the wheelbase in does is to make the vehicle more maneuverable overall -- it has a shorter turning radius.

Edit: And so far as I can tell, turning radius is in fact the principle concern. There are numerous versions of school bus design specs online, typical: http://ww2.mackblackwell.org/web/research/ALL_RESEARCH_PROJE...
It's a bit Bond/cyberpunk-esque, but one could imagine a scenario where an evil villain could short a company's stock and then kill off 20 extremely valuable employees of said company. Not saying that's what happened here, but 20 of the right employees of a company could be very significant.
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One big hole in this theory is that its been widely reported [1] that a transponder was switched off before the pilots last radio contact. The pilots would have had no reason to pull the breakers before the last communication if they weren't already aware of a fire.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/asia/malaysia-airlin...
I'm not sure it is. With C++, you can just start to work. There's no one saying "C++-11 is completely different and not at all compatible with the previous version, so you'll need to port all your existing code. Oh, and we're not going to support the old version anymore. Except we sort of will. But not. Kind of."

I like both languages actually, and I use python quite a bit, but holy crap has python 3 been a train wreck. C++ moves slowly, but predictably. Python has two active versions: one you're not supposed to use and one you can't.
Downtown shopping is dead; malls can do the shopping experience much better. They can control more of the experience (and keep out undesirables), and don't have to share street space with government buildings or random non-consumer businesses.
How do you transport 25 tons of gold across land and sea?

My guess is air freight is the safest method, does it matter if it goes on a DHL 777 or a Commercial 777? Either way, the plane could be hijacked.

But I suspect you'd have somebody with an insurance claim for $1 billion in gold, and an insurance company going bankrupt as a result.
There's plenty of stuff that still run on Python 2 these days. Google App Engine, for example, is still Python 2.7 only.
Doesnt including those in distribution slows the pace at which they'll be developed and released?
I think it's most likely the plane will be used in a terrorist action. For example in the next week there's a nucleair summit being held in The Hague:

http://www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/EH-eSUP-2014-01-NSS....

It would be a very hard to reach target, though.
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One problem with the theory: The first communication system was shut down before the pilot's last message 'All right, good night'.
If it had been an accidental fire that caused the pilot to cycle the systems, I would imagine the last message would have been more along the lines of "Holy Smokey Bear, the plane's on fire!"
I find it a little disturbing that the passengers would be so docile, especially after 9/11.
from __future__ import print_function has been available since 2.6
There could still have been a phone in a checked bag. They may have also gone the route of suffocating everyone by climbing to 45,000 depressurized instead of threatening passengers and risking a hero.

Sure the batteries would be dead now but what about connection that were made before they landed? I though that data is stored by most phone companies upto at least 6 months.

The fuel would have gone out before most of the phones I would think. If they landed and passed any tower while doing so there is a chance something was picked up.
Thats what I was afraid of. I'm still curious because learning Haskell would probably make me a better programmer, but I find it easier to motivate myself if its not just a theoretical exercise.

Did you venture into web dev a bit? I find the 'once it compiles it usually is correct' bit tempting, as I have a hunch that this might be more efficient that writing tons of unit tests in a language like Ruby.
Damage from an electrical fire on board could possibly explain the first transponder going out, even if the crew wasn't aware of the fire yet.
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somebody thought a confused teenager was funny?
Thanks, it took two hours to do my brain makeup today.

I don't think it's completely irrelevant - if female competitiveness is a factor (wife jealous of star employee at husband's company) - a big 'if' since we don't know the whole story - it is much more likely to be a factor in the case of an attractive woman versus one who is not.
or the climb to 45k
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This story seems very familiar...the fact that it's trending again on HN, leads me to believe that some of us devs must relate with the coder that lost it.

I can strongly relate with the programmer. With the wealth of knowledge that I as a coder possess, it is still disappointing when I constantly crunch numbers, design a structure, or spend what feels like an eternity on a project, only to be stuck on a simple fix.

I envy the ignorant seriously and those who can accept things for face value. I over analyze everything and am critical of anything. One of the sweet blisses I have is to read HN to take a mental break from coding.
Things that aren't meant to be turned on/off routinely by the pilot? why not? There's enough stuff going on in the cockpit...
I plan to buy Microsoft Surface Pro 2 http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/products/surface-pro-...
and install Ubuntu 14.04 on it, however idiosyncratic that may sound: from reading the reviews, I like this hardware and I want its features (note that 64/12). I choose a model with 256GB SSD because it has 8GB RAM. I'm aware of numerous issues with Surface Pro 2 and Ubuntu http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2183946
but I'm counting on 1) making it all work with community's support, as have some people in that thread 2) things improving in 14.04.

I would use it solely with Ubuntu, but I'm not sure whether I can make Ubuntu run in a usable state right away, so I might dual-boot.

What should I know beforehand about running Linux on UEFI computers before my Surface Pro 2 arrives?
"We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation." == "We need to do something about this"

"While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer." == "We don't know what to do yet but we're trying to prevent variables from changing"

"The founder’s wife discussed in the media reports has never had hiring or firing power at GitHub and will no longer be permitted in the office." == "If she said anything along those lines, she had no authority to do so, and misrepresented herself and her role at GitHub"

Yes, it's legalese, but it's not actually saying or admitting anything that anybody didn't already know. It's filling the silence that would otherwise breed directionless slander and conspiracy.

It's manipulative, but arguably well intentioned, and can possibly lead to a more constructive outcome than the free-form slather that would have occurred in a communication vacuum.
>>Apple's infamous "top 100" meetings pick 100 of the most influential people in the company for a secret retreat.

A thing I can assure you those "top 100" people are people whose managers would have fought hard to be nominated as the top people, and are not necessarily the actual top people.

This is a big problem in big corporations. Your manager needs to play Godfather to you, else no matter who you are or what your contributions are, you are screwed.
If anyone's interested in testing out Asyncio/Tulip on Python 2, here's a mostly-compatible backport: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/trollius/