skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The official is claiming that separatists shot down the plane from 30,000 feet? Do the separatists own the technology to do that?

Well, "own" is a legal question, but they are reported to at least posess such equipment -- specifically, they claim to have captured Buk missiles [0], which could easily engage at this range.

> What do they have to gain from shooting down a passenger plane?

Making civilian traffic air traffic through (and thus, both to and from) Ukraine unsafe would increase economic pressure on the regime to reach a satisfactory accommodation with the separatists. Alternatively, the separatists could have mistaken the flight for a military one, and they have shot down military flights recently (also at altitudes that MANPAD systems wouldn't reach) [1].

Of course, "separatists" aren't the only people who may be shooting down planes in Ukrainian territory these days. [2]

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/malaysia-airlin... "But the Donetsk People's Republic said in June its forces had captured Buk missiles from a Ukrainian military base, Itar-Tass news agency reported. The Buk missile has a range of 18,000 metres, according to some accounts."

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/europe/ukrainian-mil...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/world/europe/ukraine-says-...
unicorn rim shots are so hot right now.
Hmm, interesting. I'll follow up with you by email. Thanks for reporting this.
Intel already said they are moving to EUV from immersion lithography multi patterning, but tech isn't ready for them in another year or two. X-ray lithography has been used in the past, if I'm not mistaken. I didn't know there is an interest to bring it back. I know there is some research in Electron beam lithography, but jitter and slowness of it is a major hurdle.

What are you working on - graphene? In any case, very very interesting times ahead. Projections are that 2020 will see the last of the cycles (5nm) for Silicon. And that's only a few years away!
Boeing made and sold the plane, they did not operate it.
Sighs. I wish Nimrod were more popular. It seems like a better version of D. But there can only be so many languages with a fully functioning ecosystem, and I just doubt Nimrod will ever get there. It seems to be a one-man shop at this point (as this demonstrates):

https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/graphs/contributors
I also heard a report that rebels were reported to have access to a BUK.
Yogscast Kickstarter failure is a painful reminder of the risks of crowdfunding
grasswire link has some explicit images, be warned.
Perhaps police department payroll/funding systems should also malfunction during periods video recorders do.
AliExpress, though the listings might be lying.

$50 is a more reasonable ceiling: http://www.aliexpress.com/category/5090301/mobile-phones.htm...

That said, from everything I've heard they're almost unusable.
(if you are using iOS 8, we are currently working on supporting it)
Stunning, just stunning. Not only do you put words in my mouth, but you also fail to acknowledge anything that's happened in the last decade of web standards (ever heard of WHATWG and HTML5?). And none of the willful ignorance you are so deftly displaying is even germane to my point. This is one of the worst replies I've received on HN, truly horribly conceived and executed.
Indeed. I was downvoted for bringing this source to the conversation. I don't see how it's not highly relevant to the conversation. I urge everyone to read all reports though with a grain of salt and read reports from all sides.
Lose some $$ and avoid flying over an area where radar guided surface to air missiles are known to hit civilian airliners.
I don't think any commercial airliners fly at "30K". The last updates from Flight Aware show the airliner at 33,000 ft or about 10 km, which is a pretty standard cruising altitude.
"It is probably one of the most unfun and distracting features that Civ games have gotten."

It's controversial, but not without its benefits. Really depends on the type of gameplay you're going for, IMO. I enjoy a very diplomatic game of Civ4, for instance, and I try to squeeze every ounce of quasi-emergent diplomacy and even policy gameplay from what little I feel is there. But I realize I'm in the minority on this. Most Civ gamers seem to prefer a purely military game. In fairness to them, that's the clearest objective of the game. But I like that Civ allows you, albeit with a great deal of against-the-tide effort, to play a different type of game.

I never made the leap to Civ5, due to what I perceived as oversimplification, and a trend away from precisely those features I liked (but which everyone else seems to hate). So I can't really comment there.
Didn't someone ask a question about flying over warzones on here recently? Seems like everyone told them not to worry, Manpad's can't reach a commercial airliner, so you have nothing to worry about. Ironic.
Of course that's what they are thinking. But that line of thinking is brittle in a couple of ways: With no constituency for applications on an Android runtime inside of Microsoft, there will be a tendency to find "synergy" and make products for Windows Phone first. Windows Phone has a small enough share that it could fall off the bottom of the mobile market share ladder. Even without a complete market failure, the natural tendency to serve an internal constituency first and best will limit the reach of Microsoft's ecosystem.

There is a good case to be made that Amazon is a better competitor against Google's media products because Amazon's native platform is based on AOSP and development uses the Android toolchain.
Afghanistan doesn't have an antagonistic near-superpower supplying sophisticated arms.
How could the UK government better support startups? A wish list
It wasn't so long ago that Ukraine shot a Russian airliner down (perhaps accidentally, perhaps not):

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/world/after-9-days-ukraine...
Your flight will have a different flight number - they get retired after a major incident :P

The air path for that flight is likely to be heavily monitored over the fortnight, so it's likely to be safer than normal
This is cool tech but I wonder about the efficiency claims. Depending upon how the HVAC system is designed, where vents are located and where return air is located, you could cause the HVAC system to run less efficiently if you alter the air flow through the home.
Looks great, going to give this a shot
I had an idea along these lines... maybe I'll submit it to HN ;)
Anytime there is a incident with a plane the reaction always seems to be intense (bordering on over-reaction) so I seriously doubt any planes will be flying within 100 miles of Ukrainian airspace from this moment forward. I would probably fly if I were you but if you are really worried and can afford not to fly the peace of mind might be worth the loss of $$.

Edit:

Some airlines are already reacting:

"A statement from Virgin Airlines says it "will be re-routing a small number of our flights this evening"."
Well, I thought Ukraine declared their airspace off-limits to civilian planes... so why was this plane over Ukraine anyways?
How does this compare to Luma? I've been using that app for a few years now and it has been great, though it doesn't work well in low light.
No, 10,000m is the altitude of the plane, i.e. 33,000ft or 6.2 miles.
I apologize for the downvotes your comment received then. (Not from me)

I think many people, myself included, wrongly assumed you were insulting the quality of the 777, not complimenting it.
French blogger fined €1,500 for bad restaurant review
The reaction of "WTF, they shouldn't be flying over a war zone" only requires knowing that the plane was actually flying over a war zone, which is undisputed. It doesn't actually require this crash to be a result of that, it's merely a trigger for discussion and observation.
Are these types of "terrorists" targeted by Putin or are they ignored because they're not targeting Russians?
'It's Not a Contradiction for Men to Discriminate Against Other Men'
Doesn't grouping police into "Government" dilute the danger of policework by grouping it with a bunch of relatively safe office jobs? I suspect I'm looking at the wrong plot because there's no way anyone would intentionally suggest such an approach...
Thank you for that; have been meaning to add an "explicit" warning for weeks.
they're also doing internal restructuring. a friend who works there tells me they are doing away with the QA department and instead relying on unit tests & developers to do the feature testing themselves. IMHO that's a good move. QA departments in MS have moved to a position where every developer hands them the dll to even test that it works at all.
Petition: Place all Bills and Changes to Bills in a Public Git Repository
I'm not sure whether you were joking or not - train crashes get massively disproportionate coverage compared to car crashes
Why so quick to blame the Russians?

Would you not put it past the Ukraine backed neo-nazis, which even the state-funded BBC now admit exist, trying to widen the conflict and drag third parties into the fight?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28329329
Could you provide the link to original "rebel leader’s VKontakte (Facebook) post"?
You're correct, we did seed the community with people I knew in startups that I thought would (1) be interested in this type of community and (2) have interesting discoveries/thoughts on tech products.

I won't pretend there aren't voting rings but they're not limited to the "valley in group" at all. We see people across the world trying to game the site, as people do on Hacker News, reddit, and other crowd-curation sites. As I mentioned earlier on this HN thread, we have systems that help combat these rings and in part thank to YC/HN's guidance, we'll improve this.

I also want to point out just a few examples of products that reached the top of the day's board from non-valley, "famous" startup people. E.g.

- Notifyr (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/notifyr) was made by a 17 year old in the Netherlands. It's the 5th most upvoted product right now

- Instanerd (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/instanerd) was made by Alex in Skopje, Macedonia as a small side project. It received over 160 upvotes and ~5x the number of comments than the average submission.

- Pie (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/pie) is a team collaboration app by startup in Sigapore. It too hit the top of the board.

Of course, not everyone will agree with what's most upvoted and an upvote really is just a measure of interest, not a review.
Well, we actually do, really. The French government refused for 30 years to have their pilots interviewed about the issue, relenting only very recently. They even deployed a cover operation to take charge of recovering the relic and mislead investigators. NATO actively impeded investigation at various points, quoting secrecy rules etc etc. The Italian military miraculously "failed" to keep proper records of their radars, and the government actively misled investigators and the public at the time.

It's now widely accepted that the Itavia 870 was downed by a NATO plane, likely French, likely engaged in some sort of anti-Lybic operation.
The downing of KAL 007 was one of a series of events in 1983 that very nearly caused a nuclear war. It is fascinating and scary reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
Major Scientific Journal Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers It Publishes
Founder of Bradley Watch that raised $594,602 on Kickstarter shared some PR tips
Mailing list doesn't accept valid email addresses containing a "+" symbol. Guess I'm not signing up then.
I've also been thinking lately that having 2 levels of "police" would actually be a good idea: normal (aka non-violent/immediately dangerous) incidents could be handled by mediators who could try to resolve the situation (and would hopefully develop a culture/reputation for helpfulness/playing the "Good Cop" role).

So for things like speeding, jaywalking, etc - you could get pulled over and a talking to by a mediator. Then if there was a problem that couldn't be mediated/otherwise handled, only then would they call in an actual officer who could write tickets, use physical force, etc.

Then it's very clear if you're being an ahole, you get to quickly deal with cops just like today. But if you're being reasonable, often disputes could be mediated without the confrontational baggage most police encounters today seem to engender.

The key would also be that you prevent the "real" cops from dealing with these lower-level issues until AFTER they've been mediated, so the escalation process is very clear and unambiguous. Or at least require them to have a mediator show up to...mediate...first.

Of course this is different from the environment in high-crime urban areas, but just as an example of how this can play out in a realistic way: the Burning Man festival has Rangers (mediators) who are there to help people resolve their own issues and handle minor incidents. In theory, the cops there are for backup in case of major incidents, but in practice they wind up being a pain in the a by literally being the "Fun Police" and shaking people down for minor alcohol and drug infractions. Pretty much the entire event's security needs are handled entirely by the Rangers and simple mediation.

The police there could choose to be be a valuable community resource, but instead generally wind up being resented by most of the community due to (at least a perception of) having generally antagonistic and abusive attitudes. This dynamic is the real problem more than anything else IMO - both on and off-Playa. When large numbers of law-abiding citizens have a negative impression of your entire profession, something is definitely wrong.
Who should really worry about Apple/IBM? Microsoft
Republicans since Reagan are huge proponents of neoliberal economics while Democrats tend more towards Keynesianism. Liberal economic policies are definitely to blame, but the party that is usually identified as "liberal" in America isn't the economically liberal party.
There's no shame in taking a non-optimal path, and then working out how to get better at it later. Research is about solving problems, answering questions. Why should that have to be the hard way?
You're still safer on that airliner than you are in your own bed. Anything newsworthy is rare by definition. If you want to worry, worry about getting hit by a drunk driver as you cross the street, or slipping in the shower and breaking your skull, or choking on your dinner.
VKontakte doesn't have a very good "share this specific link feature" - but here it is, probably a couple down now. http://vk.com/strelkov_info
Thank you for standing up and saying it. You're completely correct, according to the guidelines.
Even without Windows Phone you will probably have more than two mobile OSs to support. Some of the contenders will gain a foothold in the market and you will be writing apps in Qt or Javascript on some mobile platform's framework.
Bombshell: Microsoft to Eliminate 18,000 Jobs in Restructuring
> It is barely news when a couple hundred civilians die on the ground in a war zone

Have you been watching the news recently? Wall-to-wall coverage of Gaza.
Exceptions are typically made for huge events like this, it seems.
> Then, tap the "y" key to jump to the last commit found for that region.

That's not actually what happens. Pressing "y" resolves the current reference (master, some tag, whatever). It has nothing to do with what you select, you're just following the pointer that is the current ref.
How is Product Hunt even a business? It's a fine site, but this feels like a development similar to VC firms investing in PandoDaily - control the overall message, ensure Silicon Valley becomes more and more of an insider's club.

Another disappointing move - I want the YCombinator that requested startups working in energy, robotics, healthcare and internet infrastructure back:

http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
Research HN: Is there a data science DevOps?
I'm looking for people who are working in data science, big data analytics, business intelligence, and related areas, who would be willing to be interviewed (confidentially if you like) about how this type of work is best done in teams. I'm particularly interested in the infrastructure or the DevOps, so to speak. We know a lot about the operations management that supports regular software development teams, but I haven't found any good guidelines for which (if any) tools and processes play a similar role in supporting analytics work. Does anyone here have any thoughts or experience with this problem?
Both Keynesian and neoliberal economics are developments of liberal economics.
Downloaded, and like it so far (although I did also experience the crash while trying to record slow motion), but am I correct in thinking it only allows you to record square videos?
You and I both. I have never played a Civ game, but have played other 4X games and this game has be absolutely itching to play it. Its been a while since I have anticipated a game release this much. Oct. 24th isn't too awful far though.
I too am interested. The cheapest I was able to find (and one that is almost definitely a terrible phone) is here on DX.com[1] and is still $44.55.

[1] http://www.dx.com/p/m-h0rse-9500mini-w-e08-sc7710-android-4-...
> The application downloaded from our website will remain fully functional for the first 30 days after you install it. After this initial trial period, you will need to purchase a license to continue using without restrictions.

https://agilebits.com/home/licenses
If the plane was shot down over a very volatile region, I highly doubt there is any reassurance extra monitoring would do to provide for a plane's safety against surface to air missiles.
I think you shouldn't have too much to worry about because all international flights over this area will probably get re-routed for a while in the next few hours/days.
I think the US would be pretty interested at any civilian airline being taken out... not least one carrying lots of US Nationals.
It would be useful for someone who knows to confirm whether after an incident like this, airlines change the route that they send the planes. Taking a bit of a detour would seems sensible.
Arlington isn't exactly "rural", but most of the town is definitely not what most people would call "urban". Dallas has a lot of suburbs that are similar; they're basically subdivisions full of 5,000 sq ft houses built on cheap farm land. Also, being Texas, there's a pretty good chance that anyone you encounter is armed, which makes the cops a lot more cautious.

I'm not saying people shouldn't videotape the cops, but that they should continue to do so at their own risk.
Minis are safer, and perfect for learning how to fly! Take this for example: http://www.banggood.com/Cheerson-CX10-CX10-Mini-24G-4CH-6-Ax...

Mad fun to fly, it can do everything its bigger brothers can (well, apart from carrying your GoPro, of course!), and it's only $23.00. Worst thing that can happen is your cat attacking it, but with these tiny props and this weight, no damage will be done!
Chances are they won't fly in the same location. Lufthansa has already rerouted flights scheduled to go over around the eastern Ukrainian airspace, I can't imagine Malaysian not following suit. It's not like they have the best track record at the moment.

UPDATE: The FAA just prohibited flying over that airspace. So I would be blown away if your plane continued flying there.

UPDATE: Air France now, too.

UPDATE: Even three Russian airlines are re-routing, which will be difficult for some flights heading west from Moscow. No word from Malaysian... they've probably got bigger fish to fry at the moment.

UPDATE: British Airways and Air Canada, too.
There is a library in C++ called Web Transaction Framework(WTF):
https://github.com/belzano/WTF
Interesting. Thanks.

If they can avoid it, then news like this:

> http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/07/ukrainian-milit...

Would make me go 'hey guys, let's avoid this route for now'.
IIRC, AOLServer is also the inventor of database connection pooling.
Definitely a valid point and all early information should be taken very cautiously.
> Also please don't call a company professional if it's sending planes over war zone with 200+ people on board.

Does this change your mind?

https://twitter.com/FlightCrisis/status/489806319717986305/p...

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/489795658879348737/...

https://twitter.com/jc_stubbs/status/489815565868216320

Is Lufthansa a professional airline? Singpore Airlines? British Airways? They, along with virtually every airline, have all been routing flights through this part of Ukrainian airspace.

Then again, perhaps your casual association of Malaysian airline officials with "ex-cab drivers" tells us all we need to know about your biases here.
What makes your theory "overwhelmingly likely"?
Thanks for your reply.

Can you provide a sample of what would be contained in that bag that an average computing device user in 2014 would have a chance of owning?

My TV has it's own OS. My fridge as well. My house thermostat too. The drivers for the toy I bought for kids (sphero) are inside the thing, it also has it's own os and interfaces via tcp/ip to an userland app on the ios device. Same does the parrot drone. There are drivers for the subsystems, you are 100 correct. But they are part of the distro, ie they are not 3rd party maintained plug ins.

What I'm pointing out is that the OS model seems to have changed. There's less and less third party code in drivers kernel side; the plug in stuff is getting smarter and interfaces via client-server approaches to other userland processes. There's less and less standalone HW that needs to be driven directly kernel side.

And I earned another downvote! Maybe I should go post elsewhere as my comments are clearly not hacker news- valued? Would any downvoters be kind enough to let me in on why these comments are not valid discussion?

TIA!
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During the hard times of the war no commercial planes flew over Irak or Afghanistan. There is no problem flying through zones with low capability insurgency, it's done all the time. But given the high tension nature ofthe Ukranian conflict it just doesn't make sense to fly over that areas.

I recently flew to Moscow and our route was quite far to the north, but I would have changed it if necessary. It's a pilot's decission, but also a flight planer and Chief pilot hands to modify dangerous routes.
It would be great to handle problems with only a little data, but more is better is generally true. Also, the goal can be to calibrate the model with a lot of data, and then have it operate on small amounts of data.
It's highly likely that this was shot down by terrorists currently fighting in eastern Ukraine. I seem to recall the US being interested in fighting terrorism.

edit: also, I bet dollars to donuts there were US citizens on the flight.
And in any case, if Microsoft were suddenly to chuck 30 years of their work in the bin and go all open-source, wouldn't that just transform them into a services company?

Isn't that exactly what they have said they are trying to do? Become a "Devices and Services" company instead of a software company?
A decade in the trenches of the Semantic Web
You should be building your AWS infrastructure around failure scenarios, and while you should be notified of a failure, your app should continue to chug along.

/DevOps
> By simplifying the situation to "rational actors" you are doing exactly as I described. Refusing to take responsibility for those who are less able to deal with the forces and influences I described above.

I think that it is condescending to assume that people are unable to make their own choices. Why should you impose upon people that Facebook or soda is not "in their best interests." If I want to drink 6 cans of Coke Zero a day (and I actually do), it isn't your place to tell me that I should switch to water.