skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trouble is, there are multiple separate radios they could use, both HF and VHF.

Or they could apparently have taken a second to activate the 777's Emergency Locator Transponder, powered by its own battery and with its own hardwired, non-computerised switch circuit to the cockpit.

You could imagine the aircraft accidentally flying (and transmitting over SATCOM) for hours with no other communications if there was some kind of crisis that completely cut off the pilots' (and passengers') ability to use the flight controls for the whole time (quite possibly by killing them) without damaging plane's systems much overall. Hypoxia or smoke inhalation seem plausible. Some kind of fire that completely destroyed the instrument panel without spreading too much further sounds vaguely possible. (IIRC at least one of the pilots had a habit of smoking while flying.) Surely both pilots couldn't somehow have locked themselves out of the cockpit behind the security door? The problem is that such a scenario is hard to square with a flight path that apparently included multiple changes of course and altitude long after any initial cockpit emergency https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7420894 .
It's probably going to be the crippled Office365 version wrapped in a native layer or something, right?
>I call BS. "Within our current theories, this pattern can >be created only by..." would be a more accurate statement. >The arrogance that "with this theory, we understand it all" >has been shot down over and over in the history of science.

I echo your BS call. Arrogance is what this is. And hype.

And this is not totally unrelated to the fact that the experimental physics community is always looking for money. This is more likely just money hype. I am not saying there is something supernatural they are missing. I am just saying they don't understand the universe yet. Yet they are saying they do, and they have their hands out for more money.

Big Bang theory is a form of religion. Thus, I am suspicious of it.

This entire thread is a great example of homo sapiens groupthink.
So far the rulings have been that you can have the genes from accidental contamination but you cannot go out of your way to take advantage of them. Which I think is stupid, but it's a consistent and workable rule.
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"Startups are what the US is the best in the world at. We figure out new businesses faster than anyone else. It would be disastrous if that stopped being the case."

"Exploiting cheap labour is what <insert 3rd world country of choice here> is the best in the world at. We figure out how to exploit our economy and people faster than anyone else. It would be disastrous if that stopped being the case"

Maybe US is best about startups - but I believe that in the long run its toxic to everyone, including people involved in the process. Just because something seems like a disaster doesn't mean that it has to be one.
First thing I looked for myself, this doc is titled "Polymer Notes" https://docs.google.com/document/d/16O2Im1ekfdJ4FU8FBbVRYGjq... - sounds like team Angular and team Polymer aren't exactly on the same page quite yet.
Wow, how many errors can this writer make in such a short piece? Besides misunderstanding the difference between a Github user and Github employee (both which may be able to write programs), he gets the gender of a New York Times writer wrong, even though she quite clearly states what her gender is and at the top of Google results for her name. But Asian names are tough, I guess?

The excerpt before the inevitable correction:

> Some of it may be about age. As The New York Times noted this week, there's a terrifying cult of youth in Silicon Valley, and with youth comes a lot of testosterone and a sense of invulnerability. What Yiren Lu misses in his op-ed piece, though, is that the men who are funding these young guys are often older, but they don't seem to be imparting much thoughtfulness or wisdom into the mix.
Is this a trick to get her to work in Silicon Valley? Kids always do the opposite of what their parents want.
Agreed. Also it would be nice to adjust the spacing with a real measurement.
I have an experience with that.

I was applying to the Canadian entrepreneurship program since 2010, so 4 years now. I was aware the processing time was long, so I was just waiting to be my turn to be processed. 3 weeks ago I've heard that the entrepreneurship program has been canceled in profit of the startup visa one. I mean that seems to be on whim and that's not really nice to wait 4 years for nothing but that's life I guess. I have started to contact the people on the accredited list, they seem to be overflow by the applications following the program. The big winners seem to be the organization on the accredited list, everyone else has been fucked.
This shows promise. Currently thermal imaging cameras are very expensive. This may open up a whole arena of applications if it becomes cheap enough.
Well since the GCHQ is part of the government, and the government has a root cert in the browsers, they can basically create all the SSL certificates they want.

Governments can MITM without any problems.
I'd like to have Netflix. I'd really like. But the only alternative here costs 30€, doesn't work on every device, and has a very limited selection, even limited in time. I won't try to bypass a geo-block just to watch movies at a normal price. It's not even authorized!
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Linkedin actually didn't work for me with httpseverywhere - I had to exclude it for that site...
Yeah, I did mix them up. They're in the same "man's inhumanity to man" cluster of neurons in my brain.
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Fly by wire is controlled by a computer, but the autopilot is controlled by another one and the FMC is another different one. All of the can only be loaded with new software locally via cable, and they are very limited computers, most of them are microcontrollers running custom software and when an OS is required they use a custom one that´s real time. (http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html).

It´s possible to create a custom software and charge it to the airplane? very difficult but possible.
It´s possible to take over the control and fly it where you want to, without the pilots having a chance? no.

Maybe in the next generation airplanes once more complex computers are used.

The most probable outcome is that the computer you have hacked will stop communicating with other systems or it´s own sensors and will crash (the computer not the airplane).
> I think nobody is to blame here

An industry who employs women as booth babes, apparently because staring at a booth babe sells tech better? Stinks.
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Courageous captain dealing with a cabin fire radios "all right, good night" ???
New York artists =success. Boston artists = unsuccessful. Please explain why?
It doesn't matter for the parent's argument that most people, on the whole, don't live in jail in the US. Chance of incarceration and longer sentencing is higher for racial minorities in the US. That is true, and it is not an exaggeration. [0-5]

The point of the knowledge isn't to just "treat people differently", its to recognize something is broken, identify root causes and change them.

I'd be very curious to better understand the motivation for your perspective.

[0]: http://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/raceinc.html

[1]: http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/us-incarcerati...

[2] : http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/...

[3]: http://www.hrw.org/news/2002/02/26/us-incarceration-rates-re...

[4]: http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet

[5]: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/20133267193...
"Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA"

This post is complete nonsense, and has no value at all because their words don't match their actions. A company that respects privacy wouldn't partner up with another company best known for infringement of privacy.

Suit the word to the action.
If you bypass the geo-block, you don't have a license to play the geo-blocked content either, regardless of your Netflix subscription.
There's certainly a limit to how many of these should ideally be appearing on the front page and we have passed it.

I did like the 4d version though, and some of the AI discussion was interesting too.
And before the iPhone data charges where horrific, £/$/€'s per MB (not GB). If you were only nickel and dimed you were doing well. To get the initial exclusive iPhone contracts the telcos had to offer unlimited data which made a smartphone useful in a way that the earlier models weren't.

That is how the iPhone changed the market for the better at least in the UK and even if you don't have one. Competitive pressure may have caused it to happen eventually but we can all thank Steve Jobs for speeding up that important change.
Does the prospect of SF startups clipping the ticket make anyone else sick?
So some guys made a web app and had the first mover advantage

- Should that give them 10-20% of taxi fares all over the world?

- Should that give them 10% of every takeaway/delivery order for eternity?

- Should that give them 15% of fees every time someone stays in a bed and breakfast?

The open source movement needs to move from software to web apps - either under a wikipedia-like model relying on donations or decentralised blockchain/crypto based networks that eliminate ticket clippers who inevitably squeeze the lemon until the pip squeaks, transferring wealth from everyday small business people earning an honest living to venture capitalists and 20-something year old multimillionaires
HTTPS stripping attacks
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/

or

Valid SSL certificate and MiTM attack
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/unqualified-names-ssl-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUANTUM#QUANTUM_attacks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Comodo_Internet_S...

or

Plant your malware directly into the Linked servers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_%28surveillance_progr...
Sorry but I simply do not trust her. Anybody that "fights for the bad guy" for two whole years (she said "I regret defending GitHub's culture to feminists for the last two years. I'm sorry to everyone I've hurt in doing so.") can not be trusted now that she has just jumped ship.

Lastly all this talk about her being a brilliant developer needs to stop. Take a look at her recent activity in her Github account: https://github.com/nrrrdcore?tab=activity It is mostly just text changes!

Oh and lastly anybody that thinks I'm a sexist, please note that one of the female developers I used to work with was by far the best developer the company had. She, due to her outstanding work, is now their CTO. Hard work and good skill always rewards people regardless about your sex. It is just a pity Julie wanted to play the old "sexist card".
Apparently Big Red found HN: https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/42980...
You make a great point, just wanted to point out that traditionally the name is "booth babe" (as opposed to baby, which largely fell out of favor after the Austin Powers movies). I learned about this term from a female employee who also happened to be an excellent coder and a victim of statistics.

Not that I wouldn't like to see a booth baby - a toddler with a mini Python shirt would be adorable and would certainly drive more traffic to your booth.
The page for 2048 lists them itself, rather than making effort to look 100% original, which is a nice thing we should see more often.
> Mark Mulligan, an analyst and co-founder of Midia Consulting, said this should give content creators great cause of concern.

> "The next stage of piracy, and one rights holders need to be really worried about, is when the pirates start behaving like the rest of the internet and start making great user experiences."

Couldn't really disagree more, for a long time the user experience has been one of piracy's biggest selling points, second to (or possibly even above) affordability.
I don't believe the UK gov have a TLS CA in any standard browser deployments do they? I'm not even sure we have a CA HQd here for them to compel into giving them certs for mitm?
> I´ve seen very strange results during simulators when trying to solve emergencies, and all where very capable pilots. After all airplanes are very complex systems working in very different scenarios. Corrected procedures and system fixes are constant even on models that have been flying for 20+ years.

The initial behaviour of the plane around the time the transponders went out seems very possible to explain in terms of a less-than-perfect response to a sudden emergency. But how could one square a) making a series of direction and altitude changes over a longish period of time, well after the initial incident, b) no attempt to communicate at the same time and c) at most, limited damage to the plane's systems with d) no foul play? It seems that at least one of those has to give...
I believe I do as I have never lived in the US :) Nice job jumping to conclusions though.
Where the logic of him being "it" falls apart IMO is this:

His name is Satoshi Nakamoto, so he is vain enough to put his name on arguably one of the greatest technical papers of this century yet when directly confronted with being found out, completely and utterly denies being the guy who created it. Not even dropping any vagueries about whether or not he truly is the creator of bitcoin.

Again to iterate, the creator of bitcoin is vain enough to put his real name on the paper, but when all the cards are on the table he goes the path of vehemently denying it, refusing any recognition, and continuing to sit on his bajillions in bitcoin while he risks possible financial ruin and health problems.

There are people who create great things and just want to be left alone. But if their health was at risk, and they could anonymously ask for donations, why would they not do it? "He is too proud," Screw that you put your name on the technical paper.

But of course, this isn't the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Because that person truly wants to be left alone.

You want people to know some time in the future that it was you who created bitcoin? Leave a note in your will.
When did the world get so sensitive? I don't know if I grew up in some bubble of hate but where I come from people were brought up to be able to handle themselves.

> "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me."

Today it seems more like "Sticks and stones may break my bones but that's okay because there'll likely be DNA evidence; names are not allowed because it breaches my human right to be."

I'm sorry, but my kids will be brought up to ignore names and to punch the bully back twice as hard in person, not in the press; and they will be taught to appreciate differences, not gloss over them and pretend they don't exist. Perhaps most of all they'll be taught to pity those that have brought politics-level bullshit into everyday life, and to rail against it at every opportunity. The Github meritocracy rug fiasco makes me feel physically sick - meritocracy is now offensive? We're now being held at gunpoint by professional victims who have a problem with professional status being merit based? Fuck me.

Humanity has been at war of one kind or another forever, when are we going to learn to stop trying to change each other and just get on with it? I never understand those people in bars who get into fights with others who say something they deem offensive. What a waste of time. Sure you might change the view of 1 in a 100, but that's 100 shitty nights out you've had. What's the point? And who's to say you're right and he's wrong? If you think there's such a thing as a moral absolute, I'm afraid you haven't thought long enough. Despite how the NSA might like things, we're all sovereign beings and no one has the right to dictate the contents of another's mind. So cluster with the ones you like and forget the rest. Life's too damn short.

Oh, and don't feel the need to tell me I don't know what it's like to be on the receiving end of this stuff. Just don't.
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I understand that bypassing the geo-block isn't allowed but surely it's better that the content producers/creators receive some money form you rather than pirating it?
Any other analogy you could have made is better than the analogy you made.
True but IMO it's still better than piracy. The content creators at least still get paid.
There is also the National Interest Waiver for entrepreneurship for the EB-2 to further make the process easier: http://www.uscis.gov/news/public-releases-topic/business-imm...
You'll probably like this talk by Adrian about the history behind soundslice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fmU1ZXNov8
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I find it kind of insane that so many people continue to expend any effort at all debunking Newsweek's claims. Unless they derive personal pleasure from it, just write the author off forever as a journalist, and Newsweek and its editors as a publication, and drive on.
Netflix is not so good. Specially if you're not in the US and you don't speak english. Here in the Netherlands the selection is very limited, you rarely see subtitles in languages other than dutch. You can use a proxy to get US Netflix, but that's illegal and doesn't work with a smart TV.

The Popcorn Time or XBMCTorrent experience is so much better. You get a huge selection of movies and series in high definition, with subtitles and audio in any language at a distance of a click.

I would pay many times what Netflix charges for a legal service like this. So would many other people.
He wanted to state that he has a daughter, and he'll be there to decide where she can work and cannot. This github thing is dirty and full of jerks watched over by old men, and he doesn't want her to touch that. For equality's sake.
No, I think you're wrong. See my comment above. Note that nowhere in the article you link does it say there's an assumption of normality. Doubtless the journalist or whoever chose the picture of th normal distribution was a bit confused also.

Edit: oh, no, actually I think you're right :). I thought it was referring to the location of the test statistic in its null distribution. But it seems it's a scale for measuring p-values. This explains it clearly:

What does "five sigma" mean? It means that the results would occur by chance alone as rarely as a value sampled from a Gaussian distribution would be five standard deviations from the mean.

http://www.graphpad.com/www/data-analysis-resource-center/bl...
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Out of curiosity I had a quick scan through the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" on this Windows 7 box and it's quite a surprising list - I have no idea who a lot of these organizations are...

Also, one thing I'm pretty confident about, is that if GCHQ is behind any of these certs they wouldn't go labeling it as "UK Government - GCHQ". So presumably I'm just trusting Microsoft that when these certs get pushed out as part of Windows they are who they say they are...
Were they actually generally ever coupled in Europe in the first place? In Finland they weren't.
Screw Netflix!

$7.99 per month and they don't even have the last half of season 5 - Breaking Bad.

Many movies are unavailable to US viewers, as services such as https://hola.org/ have shown us.

Large selection? It seems like every movie I want to watch is "Unavailable for streaming..." or is viewable for an additional $10 fee through their DVD service.

I like Popcorn!
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Advice: switch to latex with beamer.

Latex has a fairly long life time. A friend found the 20-year old source for his thesis and thought it would be fun to see if it would still compile in latex. Sure enough, it did, after just a few header lines being changed (sometimes library names change).
Agree, same true for JS - so many people trying to fix the mess...
He's also pretty much as white as they get. He has mostly European ancestry, little indigenous American ancestry.

The subject was race, not nationality.
Agreed.

Additionally, none of the mechanical failure theories explain the aircraft flying towards Antarctica / Australia.
Yes. Meant to say that but forgot - that the Python docs explain it. That's where I read it myself :)
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'JSX' is also what made me avoid React at first. But once I started using it, it made perfect sense.
The 'JSX' is just compiled to Javascript anyway, it's just more convenient for deep nesting of html elements within a component.

In more recent talks the React devs have avoided using JSX in examples and instead use the compiled form as JSX goes far enough from what people expect that it turns people away before they've given it a chance.

The most important idea to take from React is that UI components are much simpler when they are state machines.
I'm honestly not sure what the best way to do that would be. Perhaps a guide on your website of how to configure the server to sync via Dropbox (or other syncing folders), but with a request for donations at the top and bottom of the article. "If you found this useful, please consider..."

Does that ever work? I couldn't tell you.
I have to disagree.

Its only to check their account balance. Not yours.
Oh its still piracy. You took media you weren't "allowed" by technical force. Its just less, um, pirate-y than simply taking it via torrent. The fact that people are willing to do this (go out of their way to find a way to give the content providers some money even though they intend to break the rules) is a very good sign. People really do balance ethics against easy (or possibility) of use and try to make moral decisions.
Scary thing is, he is now Principal Analyst at Forrester Research.

"Lead analyst covering all aspects of consumer mobility and the digital home. Responsible for a continuous stream of research and strategic advice to leaders at Fortune 1000 companies."
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Many theories have been posted. The only one consistent with the known data is an inside-job hijacking with an intentional cabin depressurization to incapacitate the passengers and non-pilot crew.

The fact that the plane has not been found is very strong evidence that it did not crash. If it crashed on water, some debris would most likely have been found by now. If it had crashed on land, someone would have noticed the resulting fire.

The in-flight fire theory is not plausible because the 777 is fly-by-wire. A fire severe enough to knock out the comms would almost certainly have taken out the fly-by-wire system as well.

And no, cell phones don't work at 30k over water, but they do work at 10k over land. Like I said above, the fact that no wreckage has been found is very strong evidence that the plane landed intact. At some point during that process the plane would have almost certainly come into range of a cell phone tower somewhere.