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Yuriy Butusov is a Ukrainian chairborne commandо. His opinion on all things Russia is known in advance and so is irrelevant.
It's overwhelmingly likely to have been shot down by "Ukrainian rebels", who are Russian-backed.

It's not going to be the end of the world unless someone very high profile was on board, but it will further worsen relations with Russia. Malaysia isn't exactly a nuclear superpower. A US airliner would be a lot closer to end of the world territory.

Number of civilian casualties is roughly comparable to those in the past few weeks in Gaza.
Ukrainian officials may have said as much -- and they may be right -- but given Ukraine's obvious interest in this situation, it may be a stretch to say that they are capable, on their own, of "confirming" anything about it.
What in the world would make you write something so asinine in response to what was essentially mourning the death of 295 people?

You're not cute. You're a dick.
I wouldn't jump to conclusions if I were you -- from the actual track record[1], it looks like the middle of the country, rather than near the border. It's not even over one of the "troubled" eastern regions, nowhere near "rebels" or Russian troops.

[1] https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/489795658879348737/...
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Further, people within the controlling interest tend to prefer dealing with those they know.

Even if you are a high performer, being part of the now-controlled interest deals you something of the short stick, as they say.

If your company is acquired, be prepared to move on. Regardless of personal performance, they may give you no choice.
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Which commercial airliners can withstand missile attacks?
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I'm not sure if this was intended as sarcasm? Is having a twitter account all it takes to guarantee good PR? I'm skeptical.
It has been empirically shown that the only thing Lehman Brothers lacked was a good Twitter response time. If they had been on the ball they would not have gone bankrupt.
Whooosh! That's kind of the point, hard to forget a name like that.
I think that's the point - nobody has any idea what happened to these two Malaysia Airlines flights and /that's/ why they should be shut down.

EDIT: to clarify, I don't believe Malaysia Airlines should be shut down, just trying to clarify OPs comment.
Check out the link he posted (and bookmark it :})

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Not too negative. We love hearing from people who use Sourcegraph. :)

Which page was it, and does it take that long every time you load that page?

We have improved average page load time a lot (it's now 200-500msec), but we're seeing a lot of variance on pages with a lot of data and when DB load spikes during backend build imports. So, just know we are working on it, and let us know about specific things that are really slow. (We track all page load timings, but we try to prioritize what matters to our users most.)
>other

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Does anyone have any idea what types of terrorist controlled surface-to-air missiles would be able to take out this aircraft?

Would any of these systems have prevented it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Guardian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMPS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Guard

BTW, according to the Guardian article a MANPAD can be purchased for as little as $5,000.

Apparently this was something else such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system

I know this happened before, but shooting down civilian aircraft cannot be tolerated.
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I don't mean "nature" as an explanation for action, as in your second line, but as a guide for it. The context in the article uses it in the guiding sense. My point is that the article uses "nature" in a very short-sighted and artificial sense. I do think that discussion of "nature" can be part of a broader teleology for human action, but that's obviously not what the author is attempted.
May depend on whose citizens were on the plan, and who thinks they can benefit from joining in on the fun.

I can't think of any nation powerful enough to rival Russia wanting to risk this level of conflict today though.
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They said "other possibility" because their first suspect was something like a SAM (i.e. long range surface to air missile).

So your reply is quite confusing. Did you misread the above post?
Doneck region isn't troubled Eastern region? Where are you getting your news from? KGB TV aka Russia TV ?
There have been reports of this bad boy deployed in Russian controlled areas of Ukraine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system

This could take out a 777 trivially either. I wouldn't put it past Putin to give control of this to his proxy soldiers or fuck up trying to shoot down what they detected as a Uke fighter or cargo jet. This is the system the Uke military has been blaming on shooting down their jets.
Looks like a useful resource. It's a little strange that you have to scroll through the entire list of libraries to get to the description at the bottom though.
>Take everything with a grain of salt!

That's rich coming from the guy linking to Russian state controlled media.
I think that "we can run this unprofitable business with half its current headcount, thus turning it into a profitable business" is hardly an indication of failure.
It may be much more damaging to them. As far as anybody knows, MH370 wasn't the fault of Malaysia Airlines.

This is a whole another level. If they really approved a flight plan to fly over a war zone... I just can't... WTF.
Not sure whether this is true

https://twitter.com/ReutersWorld/statuses/489795402892591104
I can't really wrap my head around the notion of "addressing systemic problems on a systemic level" in the first place? How is it possible to act singularly with respect to the macro-equilibrium of a system that is by definition the product of intersecting micro-level behaviors?

The notion of acting systemically - rather than merely observing the emergent patterns that the system reflects - seems to be almost a kind of creationist mentality: you need to posit some sort of demiurge that is external to the system, and can therefore treat the system as a singular entity that can be manipulated as an engineer would manipulate the overall parameters of a machine he was working on. But there doesn't appear to exist any such demiurge in real life; human individuals and insitutions are limited to shifting their own particular micro-level behaviors. So how is it even meaningful to speak of acting directly against a complex system's macro-level equilibrium?

The big fallacy of modern political ideologies is to equate the particular insitutions of politics with the emergent equilibrium of society at large. The political state is just another micro-level input into the overall pattern; casting it into the role of a demiurge, and charging it with tweaking the parameters of the macro-level social system generally always leads to failures in the form of unattained goals and unintended consequences.
this. what a company budgets for the average full cost of an employee per year. so someone who makes $100k and someone who makes $225k in their own salary all average out to $200k when you take salary cost + insurance costs, 401k, perks, overhead, etc.
> Let's hope this plane won't be the Franz Ferdinand 100 years later.

Don't worry. Malaysia can join forces with Thailand, and then together attack all of their neighbours, but that would hardly make an impact to the "world order".
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At the time the plane lost contact, Singapore Air had other flights near the MH flight, as did other airlines. Not sure MH can be blamed for that as they aren't the only airline flying in the area.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/mh17/#3d6095b
http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sq333#3d3c1a6

Also, commercial flights from Europe to India fly over Afghanistan every day, no one is concerned about that.
Some media reports say (citing official ukrian reports and AP visuals in the region) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system
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It was the page you've linked to (https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/.GoPackage/net/...)

just now about 7 seconds (repeatable), on a faster machine it went down to 3 seconds (also repeatable) (all numbers are from me counting in my head, so this is not exact)
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Then you might suppose those good cops might stand up when one of their buddy bad cops kills unarmed people or does something equally wrong. And you might suppose that, while silence doesn't imply consent, that maybe it implies something a bit more serious in a profession where people can kill with impunity and get put on paid leave while the situation is sorted out. You might suppose that maybe those good cops should publicly speak out when their departments do something bad. If they don't, you might suppose that their primary interest is in saving their jobs, our lives be damned.
We definitely have a pretty good idea what happened to this one.

I don't think they should be shut down at all, just stating. Both /seem/ to have been mostly out of the control of the airline, aside from flying over the area, which MH isn't the only one doing.
I think it's a long term thing. Having a camera on you at work takes getting used to and habits need to change (thats a big part of the point).

"let the watchmen wear their own cameras" isn't all that outrageous. It's a momentum thing. If all cops were wearing cameras any incident without footage would be suspicious. I think it will happen eventually.

I agree about internal investigations. They shouldn't be internal. Investigating police and other law enforcers should be a separate unit.
I guess people misunderstand my comment - I am not saying 777 (or any other plane) can withstand the SAM. It's remarkable that in almost 20 years in operations all over the world, only a very small number of planes have been lost.
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You believe that Malaysia Airlines should know within about 90 minutes whether one of their planes was shot down by a surface-to-air missile?

Do you believe United Airlines would know such a thing?

Air France did not know what happened to AF447 for several years until the wreckage was found.

No airlines are in a position to investigate the cause of their crashes. These tasks fall to national agencies, such as the NTSB in the United States.

Airlines neither manufacture their jets, nor have access to all the territory they fly over. They merely operate them.

Unless you can point to some exceptional flaw in the management of Malaysia Airlines, it's absurd to suggest a well-respected airline should be shut down.
Malaysia Airlines plane crashes on Ukraine-Russia border
> Malaysia Airlines is a respected, professional airline.

Okay.

>On Friday, Malaysia Airlines CEO released some new information that could bolster the fire theory. Four days after denying that the plane had carried any hazardous materials, the CEO admitted that it was carrying a shipment of lithium-ion batteries in its cargo hold.

Also please don't call a company professional if it's sending planes over war zone with 200+ people on board.
This is so tragic, A second MAS plane involved in an incident in 2014. Thoughts are with the loved ones and families of the people onboard MH17
The prototype appears to mount on top of existing vents and the dampers are also fully exposed room-side. A device that's sticking up an inch from the floor rather than being flush is going to have problems, whether it's tripping or stubbing your toes over it (and dislodging it by doing so) or just damaging the dampers by accidentally stepping on it. That said, I imagine that it's pretty likely that they'll have a solution for it when they get to market.
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My startup blogs about healthcare innovation -- analytics, software, startups, mobile, medical research, process, etc.

Link: http://www.additiveanalytics.com/blog/

How do I choose topics? I look over Google Scholar, Google News, PR sites, and government sites and find what seems interesting to me -- ideally stuff other people haven't written about. Then I write about that.

I promote the content via twitter (@addanalytics), LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook (totally worthless so far, maybe I am doing it wrong), sometimes Hacker News.

Does blogging work for your business? Yes, I've gotten some good leads via blogging. It has also improved my search engine rankings a bit although it's not magic.
Well one of them happened literally minutes ago in a country at war currently. I think it's a little bold to expect them to immediately know why this place crashed.
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Many of them respond with a "Thanks". Not one person has said "Spam".
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>Number of civilian casualties is roughly comparable to those in the past few weeks in Gaza.

That comparison is interesting. What is it about planes that draws so much attention when something like this happens? It is barely news when a couple hundred civilians die on the ground in a war zone, but put the same civilians in the air and the whole world pays attention.

EDIT: Some people have mentioned that Gaza is all over the news but I would make the argument that the civilian casualties aren't what is making news. What is making news is the eruption of hostilities in the first place. For example, compare the coverage of Gaza to Iraq, Ukraine, etc. There have been several times more civilian casualties in numerous other active war zones this month, but they aren't new conflicts so news agencies aren't focusing on them.
"Unrelated but relevant" is an oxymoron.

Edit: it occurs to me that you might legitimately not understand the downvotes. TWA 800 was the center of a lot of conspiracy theories about it being shot down by a US Navy missile, up to and including purported eyewitness accounts of a missile plume. Drawing the comparison between what looks likely to be a shootdown and a relatively mundane fuel tank explosion that spawned lots of conspiracy theories about a shootdown is a good way to sound like a conspiracy nut.
GaN, SiC and Diamond are also very good candidate materials.

Also don't forget multi-patterning, which is what has allowed us to get to 14nm in the first place. I reckon Intel will ditch their immersion lithography which they love so dearly and move on to other techniques, which is when I will actually get excited about these techniques. X-Ray Lithography is also being investigated and seems to hold some promise.

The crazy thing about all these advancements is that no one knows what the future will hold, and right now we are essentially living under a renaissance era, witnessing the death of Silicon. I just hope the stuff I'm working on succeeds so I can make that cash money.
Does anyone else feel like Microsoft hasn't actually done anything in over a decade? OK well .. except with the Xbox lineage. It seems like in every other part of the business they've made a bunch of dumb purchases, epic-failed in all areas - including their previous core competency of the consumer OS space - and brought in this Steve Jobs-esque clone CEO guy who is gagging to be seen as doing something while offering precisely zero believable direction.

It must be hard for them seeing all the areas die for them at once: Bing, Exchange, Hotmail, Office, Windows, XBox, mobile, embedded...
A US congressman was killed in 1983 when a USSR jet shot down a Korean air flight, and it didn't result in the end of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
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More likely the issue is due to him using a ton of -webkit-prefixes for things that have been unprefixed for years in Firefox.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/aurora-16-is-out/
Yep. It's clear that USA shot it down so they can blame the Russians. And Ukrainian officials will gladly confirm.
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Except, they're not laying off most of the staff. This email is, with 85% confidence, going to staff members who will not be fired.

This is a notification that it's happening, that you're not going to be affected, and that they're doing it because they think it will help the company grow and adapt.
Personally I was quite taken with the color scheme, it's soothing to look at.
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History always repeats itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
Report say it was flying too high for a manpad. These countermeasures wouldn't work against a Buk or other radar guided missile.
Other than the unsolved MH370 crash, I don't think the B777 has ever had a fatal crash that wasn't pilot error (Asiana crash at SFO). It's probably the safest passenger aircraft ever built.
IANAL, but it really depends on what you want to achieve.

Posting his name on the internet is not going to give you anything. Given that you have no reliable proof it was an intent and not a mistake, it may cause all sorts of legal issues for you (like getting sued for libel, for example).

You may either let it go, or contact the company the recruiter works for (the way "dctoedt" described), stating that you (1) consider the recruiter's steps incompetent, unprofessional, and possibly done on purpose, and (2) the company is not going to do any more business with them (assuming the company decides that way).

Also, contacting the lawyer is not a bad idea (either let him check the letter or write it from scratch). If you have a legal department, they may take care of that.
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We should probably find a way to streamline this outreach but right now it's entirely manual.

If we can't find the founder's Twitter handle, we send a message to the startup/product's Twitter account.
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On first attempt it took me to my address in Chrome's autofill preferences, then second time it worked (got the alert).
I find it fascinating that there's not a single comment here regarding industrial action.

18,000 people will have their jobs slashed just like that without any resistance?

Instead they're just meant to leave with a smile on their face knowing that it's in the supposed benefit of their former employer?

I'm sure Nadella finds the decision to send 18,000 people to the job market much more 'difficult' than they'll find it out there.
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This airliner was flying at a nice cruising altitude of 10,000m - the man-portable surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS [1]) that the systems you linked to can't easily lock-on to planes that high (only about 6,000m according to the wiki), because they rely on infrared tracking of the plane's engines and exhaust. The defensive systems you listed work by shooting out flares that confuse infrared tracking systems, I believe.

It's more likely that this plane was shot down by a radar-guided system like the BUK [2], at least one of which was captured by Ukrainian separatists recently.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANPADS

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system
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Then what happens if the GC keeps taking longer than the allowed time? Will it then not keep allocating more and more memory that will never be freed?
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I like that the list is somewhat random on reload. No preferential placement.
First pictures of the downed plane are already showing up on Twitter. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BswmWPwIIAAAZi1.jpg:large
Ukraine interior minister confirms plane shot down, but claim they didn't pull the trigger. They believe it was Russian separatists.
Really? Would you mind sharing your source on this?
I can't load those links but the better example would be to see which carriers avoided the no-fly zone.}

Also, I don't think it's fair to compare Afghanistan and their weak and limited S2A technology to technology used by Russia and Ukraine.
Litteraly.
Because the passengers on that plane were not shelling a country that they vow to destroy even if it kills all their children.
Indeed I realize that this is Russia Media. I've been monitoring information as it goes by on twitter trying to make the best sense I can of the situation. This report is dated June 29 which is interesting.
Well, as you allude to, I don't think there's a general solution; even a bunch of school teachers who are all different people are likely to have come from a group with fairly homogenous views. I suspect some parents who homeschool do it because they can teach to their own biases, while some do it without awareness of the problem, and others actively attempt to find ways to expose their children to things outside their biases. Those in the first and third groups probably think their way is better than the imperfect delivery of government-mandated biases (for better or worse).
Passenger planes fly over Iraq and Afghanistan regularly, without incident. There was not much reason to believe Ukraine or the rebels would be idiotic enough to target civilian passenger planes in this manner.
this is wrong advice. Don't do this. If DHS gets notified you will kicked immediately and put on ban to US entry for 1 to 3 years depending on offence.
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Don't have access to IE here but he's using a ton of -webkit- prefixing for things that are supported in other browsers since long ago.

http://caniuse.com/transforms2d

http://caniuse.com/css-transitions

http://caniuse.com/css-animation

http://caniuse.com/css-gradients

Must say all that -webkit- yellow on those pages is scary.
La Strage di Ustica ("Ustica Massacre"):
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After more than 30 years we still don't know for sure what happened...
That's what this article says: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/17/us-ukraine-crash-a...

What is a "Pro-Russian militant"? At what point are they considered part of the Russian armed forces?
Can you elaborate on how their attitude is different?
Mh, ok, apologies - i trusted the pic rather than the report. The pic shows a position well outside the Donetsk area.

Still, it's weird that the last tracked position shown on that pic is to the West of Donetsk and very much outside the troubled area, but the reported crash site is just to the East of Donetsk, deep into "rebel" territory. Could that be an artifact of the tracking system?
Congrats! I've never been able to get my startup featured on PH, but I visit often and love reading about the other startups. Excited to see where PH goes.
Erik, you even posted this spam almost verbatim on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8032837

I hope you're not going to continue to do that. I get you're hustling, but this isn't the right way to do this.

> Not one person has said "Spam".

I marked the tweet as spam via the report the tweet feature, I don't know if people usually actually reply as "this is spam."