skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are afraid of flying because they aren't in control. When you or someone you can see is behind the wheel, you have more control, which makes you feel safer (even though having that control makes things more dangerous).
Just curious why the US would play any role in this situation... it's a Malaysian plane, over Ukraine, coming from the EU. Seems like the EU should be tasking their satellite's, or even Russia.
Wrong. You have to be employed - meaning Active Employment - to be on H1b visa. Severence package is no excuse to stay in country.
IANAL , but please don't say anything you don't know about law. If you overstayed yourself you broke the law.
A bunch of random people with different life stories together inside a tin can flying thanks to physics' magic exploding fuel at 800km/h. It's something that a lot of people can relate to as millions fly every single day not really expecting to die, specially over a war zone. That's why we pay attention. The massacre in Gaza is pretty important as well, but an entirely different story.
If it was shot down, it was done with some pretty high-grade weaponry. You can't touch a passenger plane at cruise altitude with a shoulder-mounted RPG.
Ukraine has previously closed all airspace over the east of the country to civilian flights.

I know that lynch mobs form very quickly online, especially to attack unpopular people, but in this case, the responsibility of directing a civilian plane into closed airspace over a rebel-held region where a vicious battle with tanks, airplanes, and artillery has raged for months is shared between two parties: the Ukrainian air traffic control (the airplane crossed the length of the country before being shot down) and the pilots.

Now, these rebels may be the worst people in the world since Cain - I am not taking up the politics of this at all - but even if they did shoot this plane down, they acted reasonably given their military situation: they have no aviation of their own and they are bombed frequently by Ukrainian jets, while no civilian traffic has flown anywhere near them since April.
Thanks, that is novelty to me! I don't seem to get an example working, though. Is that XPath 2.0?
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Let the battle begin!
MH, SQ, LH and TG all fly over Donetsk.

BA and NH appear to avoid it.
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Yes, it is too much to speculate that.
I guess so. This is only viable if you have enough time for garbage collection.
Product Hunt is for the generation who grew up in the real estate collapse. I feel like those same people will all leave for real estate once the market fully recovers. They don't seem to have any real enjoyment or interest in tech outside of getting rich.

The whole scheme that is Product Hunt may very well be the harbinger of the end of the good times.
Pictures of wreckage:

http://t.co/2o0SGVnjbE

http://t.co/z4byDeovcp
Well that's awesome to hear.

I am curious how much JRuby performance advantages impact the rest of the code beyond just routing. There will be more benchmarks.
"An unfortunate side effect of the development of all these new surveillance technologies is that the work of journalism has become immeasurably harder than it ever has been in the past," Snowden said.

"Journalists have to be particularly conscious about any sort of network signalling, any sort of connection, any sort of licence-plate reading device that they pass on their way to a meeting point, any place they use their credit card, any place they take their phone, any email contact they have with the source because that very first contact, before encrypted communications are established, is enough to give it all away."
"bright"
I appreciate the feedback, huhtenberg. Can you describe what you mean by "blunt and obnoxious"? Maybe we can improve our /about page copy or something else?

On a related note: we just started handing out recommendations to give people in the community the ability to invite others to join the discussion. This way we can enable the community to help grow itself without opening the floodgate entirely. The site and team simply aren't prepared for it.
Nokia/Meego and Nokia/Android both nixed at launch. Could the redundant Microsoft Nokia people be hired by Nokia Research in Finland? Launch a new device when the Nokia smartphone trademark reverts in 2016?
That's easy to fix- link to a line in a specific commit. Assuming you never clobber the history, that link should remain constant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqu9y4iqKVI
That's because, like Hacker News, there are a relatively small amount of people who actually submit when compared to the number of people in the community as a whole. I personally subscribe to quite a lot of startup newsletters and follow people on Twitter who post product-related news, so I tend to have things to post most days. I assume it's the same for other people who also post on a regular basis.

People will use it for different things. Some will submit products, some will upvote, some will comment and get involved with the discussion, and some will do all three.
I'm sorry I didn't really mean to frame this as open vs close source; but more on the bsd vs nt plane.

Compiling/porting C or C++ code on any bsd-derived or unix inspired platform is a lot easier than crossing over to windows IMHO, because of the WINNT kernel and the legacy of the prior oses.

I think MS's force is precisely in Office Exchange etc -- business user facing stuff. The rest is a cost. XBox Zune etc. They should have embraced and extended(forked) the android kernel, (the boot to gecko firefox os approach) for these; it would have been a lot less expensive to have a foothold in those markets.
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It seems like if you didn't have a green account, you would have been down voted. Seems like an overly angry un HN post
> Imagine flying a 2 pound brick with 4 sharp, spinning blades at 25 mph.

With 4 sharp blades spinning at potentially over 10k RPM.

The quad I'm building now has a foam shield all around the rotors. And it's a mini. It's gonna be slow, but safe(r).
This also reminds me of the the sinking of the Lusitania by German u-boats in WWI.
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/world-war-i/reso...
Until 2016 .. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/12/windows_phone_micros...
It's important to have as many sides involved as possible - I wouldn't trust US satellites alone or Russian satellites alone, but I would trust all satellites together. Russia, US, and EU could all try to spin this story in their own ways.
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Yep, but that's how it works. A year ago, people were complaining that Apple sucks because iOS was still using skeuomorphs instead of flat design like Android and Windows 8. Now they've switched their style, and they suck because they invented flat design and everyone is just copying them.
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Who would have thought that the safest route from Europe to Asia would be via Iran? (Wars in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine)

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=AMS-IST-THR-KUL,+AMS-KUL
I don't know, something seems fishy here. The official is claiming that separatists shot down the plane from 30,000 feet? Do the separatists own the technology to do that? What do they have to gain from shooting down a passenger plane?
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Any font end developers or designers ever go out to websites and just make a few quick changes, take a snapshot and then email them, showing them what those changes can do, opening them up to the potential of using you to develop a new design?
Way to go Upside!
The flight was on a codesharing agreement with KLM. Likely a very international set of passengers on that plane.

https://twitter.com/NicholasCollins/status/48980231956832665...

I don't see what your other point has to do with this event?
If they weren't before, they will be now that Microsoft's layoffs over the next six months hang over everyone's heads. Microsoft should have ripped the bandaid off in one quick move so other employees will feel secure.
I'm sorry to be that guy, but .. not appropriate for Hacker News. This is all over every news outlet. You can throw the age-old "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" all you want, but "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic". Please flag this post if you agree.
After seeing how this is being misinterpreted (there was quite a bit of verbal context around this) we've decided to just remove it. Definitely don't want to send the wrong message or perception!
Two things I think:

1. Almost everyone has an intrinsic fear of flying and any accidents in the air hit that nerve.

2. Everybody knows that living in a war zone is dangerous. Conversely, you know whether you're living in a war zone or not, so most people don't see deaths in war zones as related to their everyday lives.

However, in this case, these people were on a flight between Amsterdam and Malaysia. They weren't involved in a war in any way. So that really hits a nerve. You can image yourself in their place.
That's why the world is so terrified of trains.
As someone who lived through those times as an avid gamer, and spent countless hours suffering from "one more turn" syndrome, I really enjoyed this piece. I wish I could tell clearly when it was written. As for this line: "Meier began coding Civilization on the IBM PC in early 1990, soon after MicroProse killed a sequel to Railroad Tycoon that he and Shelley had been working on," all I can do is /sob.
Our startup lets you track the event in real-time, and has thousands of people actively confirming and refuting content as to its validity. There is a lot of fake info floating around on Twitter (and even some mainstream media organizations), so act with caution. http://grasswire.com/#/newsfeeds/1e4b388a-8ea7-461d-8acf-ba1...

Confirmed: Malaysia Airlines confirms it has lost contact with #MH17 from Amsterdam. Last known position over Ukraine. Was shot down, all passengers dead.

The pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine deny shooting it down, and are blaming the Ukrainian armed forces.

The Ukraine Defense Ministries claim it was shot down by a BUK missile, which the separatists do have, and it would reach. We also have this interesting translation of Ukraine rebel leader’s VKontakte (Facebook) post regarding another downed airplane: http://pastie.org/9400258. (I translated it, so forgive me for any inaccuracy).
"Any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history"

Given the amount of time we spend rooting about in our past, I'd think the opposite is true.

What archaeologist would turn down the chance to simulate and step into or observe any civilization from our own history?
Well, shit. I'm sorry if this ruins your backpacking plans.
Downloaded, looks good. Though it crashes when trying to do slowmo on my iPhone 5, 16GB AT&T. Also when you view "My Steady Videos" the Navigation bar buttons feel reversed, "Back" buttons are usually on the left in iOS, in that case the three dots should be on the right. Keep up the good work, hope it's successful.
"Because the rules are looser for general aviation than for commercial planes, the risks are much higher."

Isn't that also because the full risk analysis should be weighted by the number of people involved? That is, "general aviation aircraft average nearly seven accidents per 100,000 flight hours, compared with an average of 0.16 accidents per 100,000 hours for commercial airlines", which is about a 42x difference. But each commercial flight averages more people than general aviation. While I don't know the numbers, even 10x makes the two modes much closer.

By the same token, we have higher standards on bus and truck drivers than we have on standard passenger drivers.

I don't want to suggest that GA is safe as commercial flights, or even cars. But I think a better comparison (from 2004) is at http://www.meretrix.com/~harry/flying/notes/safetyvsdriving.... . It's conclusions, based on rather fuzzier numbers than 2 decimal places would suggest, is:

- driving: 1.32 fatal accidents and 1.47 fatalities per 100 million miles

- airlines: .05 fatal accidents and 1.57 fatalities per 100 million miles

- GA: 7.46 fatal accidents and 13.1 fatalities per 100 million miles
OK since you shared your theory here is mine.

This is overwhelmingly likely a false flag operation performed by CIA and the new Ukrainian government to further deligitimize the ethnic Russian population in Eastern Ukraine and put additional pressure on Putin to denounce them or face the disapproval of the entire Western world.

But let's go with your overwhelmingly more sensible explanation since I am clearly just a KGB paid astroturfer and a crazy conspiracy theorist to boot and nothing like that would ever happen in the real world.
It never ceases to surprise me how Americans can turn any international story into one about America or how it somehow links to an American event.

The TWA incident couldn't be less similar to this or have any real similarities at all. They both involve aircraft crashes, granted, but that is as far as it goes.

Oh and before you claim you weren't trying to Americanify this incident let me point out that there have been four commercial airline crashes on July 17th. TWA 800 is not even the most recent.

July 17th 2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes at Congonhas-São Paulo Airport, Brazil, killing all 187 people on board and 12 on the ground. Yet you bring up one from 1964, why is that?
I haven't seen anything out there that goes this deep on PHP or Python or Node, but there are also fewer runtime and server choices out there for those languages.

You can certainly test frameworks, but that's where a lot of the fun begins and ends. Also, Techempower benchmarks pretty much did this outstandingly well.

Probably down the line I might look at PHP, Python, Clojure, .NET, and Java....

It's funny how these things spiral out of control.
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Probably a fair assessment. The EU, Russian, and especially the US spin machines have been in full swing for the past few months.
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From StratFor:

Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 280 passengers and 15 crew onboard went down over Shakhtyorsk, Ukraine 50 kilometers (20 miles) from the Russo-Ukrainian border on July 17, an aviation industry source said, Interfax reported. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said that pro-Russia separatists shot it down with a 9K37 Buk surface-to-air missile system, while separatist leader Alexander Borodai accused Kiev's forces of shooting down the plane, Reuters reported. Kiev previously designated the areas of fighting in the east an "anti-terrorist operation" zone, limiting civilian flights to 7,900 meters (23,000 feet) and in compliance the flight was at 10,000 meters (33,000).
It is interesting to hear them talk about the game getting complex. I think in the latest version they hit that wall with the world government. It is probably one of the most unfun and distracting features that Civ games have gotten.

I do think they can add more complexity in other areas hough.
You're assuming the unprofitable business will become profitable.

Businesses are never unprofitable because they have too many employees.

Businesses are unprofitable when management lacks the skills, the foresight, or the vision to make those employees profitable.

Edit: If this isn't obvious consider what a world-class entrepreneur could do with 12,000 experienced employees, a couple of billion in severance savings, and a kick-ass idea.
Perhaps the defence expert was misintrepreted -

If the plane is 6.2 miles on the ground away and flying at 30K feet (5.7 miles), then basic pythagorean geometry says that a missile has to travel sqrt(6.2^2+5.7^2) = 8.4 miles, which is closer to the number they give?
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Probably because the US has by far the most extensive surveillance satellite programme in the world. Not many countries operate surveillance sats at all. France has a few. Israel and Japan have some. I know Britain has none at all and has a deal with the US to access its material.
Yeah, we're definitely sending almost exactly the opposite message that we intended, on a slide that had a lot of verbal context put around it. I just updated it to make it more clear and remove the quote. No point to it that can't be conveyed in a clearer way. Thanks for the feedback!
First photos of debris: http://imgur.com/a/s7AkM

From the crash site (WARNING GRAPHIC / NSFL): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BswpDkqIcAAp6Wp.jpg:orig
For this purposes of this discussion seeming is being. If cops feel in danger, that is what affects their mentality.
Not so much "rich" as "completely reasonable and expected". Isn't linking to a biased source exactly when you should be saying that?
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Latest changes: May 1st, 2014 according to the changelog:

http://expect.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expect/expect/Chang...

Also, you can apt-get install `expect`.
Sounds like a missed opportunity for a bot then... It is not like you are really personalizing the message at all. The only human part of this would be deciding which photo to use to entice the developer. (Could this be optimized by a bot and A/B testing?)

I agree with the other comments that this is a useful feature, but would be more well suited for a customized twitter account with a name explaining it better.
The plane was manufactured by Boeing, a US company. See http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/foreign.aspx
Making the public earnings call the centerpiece seems like a real bad morale move. If I were a 'Softie it would be a strong signal where the leadership's priorities lie (stock price). It gives the talk of "lean" and "accountability" a decidedly negative undertone IMO.

I do like the line about "the respect they deserve" without qualifier. It adds a bit of humanity to the whole thing.

But not enough overall IMO. It really leaves me with the impression that this is just typical corporate speak trying to put the stock price ahead of the mentions of "design and technical innovation".
I think HN readers do an excellent job of ferreting out technical inaccuracies in a breaking story, so I rather like seeing this here.
What media isn't state controlled, whether overtly or covertly?

When was the last time you read anything positive about Russia in the Western press?

Maybe since the day you were born you've been conditioned to have a Pavlovian reaction to Russia?
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This might be one occasion where throwing technology at the problem may actually be productive. HN has a reputation for using tech as a crutch for social problems, but this is an ideal job for a quadcopter.

In the U.S. the FCC was overruled over bans on commercial use of these so that's another barrier lifted. As an added bonus, it also prevents immediate discovery of the pilot and thereby avert suppression to some degree.
Open doesn't necessarily mean "excellent choice for flying through" though. I'm sure it was allowed, but it doesn't seem like a good idea.
There was a call for a No Fly Zone over Donetsk on June 2nd[1], but it doesn't appear to have been implemented. Still, that should have been a warning to all airlines to steer clear.

I wouldn't want to blame Malaysia Airlines for this one, but I feel like the route planning tools should include indicators for all known active combat zones with the option to navigate around them.

[1] http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/zyuganov-calls-for-n...
when they are wearing a uniform and holding an official rank
That will largely depend on the severance packages.

Those who stuck around through the merger and take take the first-round cuts offer will likely make out pretty well. Unfortunately for Microsoft, this means that they're largely paying for people with good strategic skills and a high capacity to find work elsewhere to leave.

It's the ones who stay put, largely out of lack of strategic skills and/or alternative options, who are going to be less valuable to the company. There may be further incentives but they're likely to not be as generous.

Or so say the rational expectations theorists.
Lots of airlines were flying over separatist regions of Ukraine. SQ333 was just a few miles away from MH17 according to Flightradar24.

I've flown over Afghanistan on my way to India, didn't bother me in the slightest.
I'm scheduled to be on that exact same flight in 10 days, so I'm not thinking very clearly about this right now.

Can a cool disconnected mind give me a rational perspective on this?

Does logic dictate I have nothing to worry about? ("Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place" argument.)

Or does logic say I would be smarter to lose some $$, and book a different airline and route? ("Lighting does strike twice in the same place" argument.)

Thoughts?
Are you sure that yuvadam is American?
You might as well automate this. I believe it would not be a great undertaking. Also if your only concern was notifying the creator/owner, why would you not DM them on twitter? Or better yet, e-mail them with a bot that scrapes emails off the product site as an example?

Clearly, you guys are also trying to benefit from the increased publicity from using a public message "board" platform instead of a more private form of communication. I believe that may be the origin of some of these concerns. You guys aren't addressing the fact that you are doing this on a public platform to promote your site. Instead, you are still trying to argue that you are doing this completely independent of the traffic benefits....
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
Oh sorry for the crash, I assume you sent a crash report. Will investigate... And thanks for the UI feedback! :)
Malaysian jet missing in Ukraine? CNN must be up to this.
I believe certain agencies in the US (FAA or NTSB etc...) help out other countries when planes crash. Smaller countries may not have the man power or skills necessary to handle a plane crash investigation. Especially if its an America plane, if they find a defect they will ground the fleet (787 Dreamliner for instance).

I have also heard sometimes countries call in the US or whatever EU agency to consult along with their personnel.

For satellites, wouldn't you want the most accurate data anyway? Using US, EU and Russian (even China/India) imagery would probably be better than pointing a finger at the right country/agency and saying we should use their images because the plane crashed in their country.
How can you fire 18,000 people without seriously disrupting your business (not even considering loss of morale, angst, good employees running away or getting their resumes ready). But just logistically. How do you decide who those 18,000 are? Just random? How do you know which are 'expendable' or the 'bad Apples'?
When you are talking this size, I doubt that is even possible.
Plane was US made, and I'm sure there was at least one US citizen on board.
Wouldn't someone who agrees have come to a similar conclusive action as well? I for one discovered this story because it was on HN, so i am happy it made it here.
So does that mean we are not getting rid of the Windows phone "scourge"? No offence, but it's just another OS to support which we don't really need... another copy of IE to tolerate... ;-)

(for the comically-challenged, this was a joke)
Except Microsoft actually does innovate, and they also use their patents. They pour quite a bit of money into their research division, why shouldn't they get a return from that investment?

There are absolutely huge issues with the patent system, but Microsoft's patent licensing profits are not among them.
You can't task a satelite to monitor for an explosion after the fact...