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Worth noting: Two days ago, an actual AN-26 cargo plane was shot down [1]. At the time, Ukraine assumed it had to be a Russian missile, because they did not think the rebels had the ability to shoot anything above a ceiling of about 2.5 kilometers. This seems to be confirming that the rebels are the ones doing the shooting. The intelligence agencies of the world are having a busy day, I'm sure.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/europe/ukrainian-mil...
It's a public page, not a profile. The posts are visible to everyone including web crawlers. (I'm using VK)
I don't think that anyone is advocating the 'right to be forgotten' as a way of wiping all content you don't like about yourself from the Internet, or even that it extends to content less than a day old.

It has more to do with companies keeping their records on you from now until they go bankrupt (and then sell that data off as an asset to appease their creditors).
Not just Android, but AdMob. AdMob consistently beats every other mobile ad network I've tried for my apps by a large margin.
Funding The Right Stuff
http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/16/y-combinator-gets-the-sequo...
adsense is pretty big
Most (adversited) decisions are about elected officials and executives failing their duties. There is a difference between dodging taxes and slaughtering civilians, but the idea (jail sentences for people with political power) is close enough for lawyers to see the need for clarification.
I meant it in a way, does it make sense really? I think not. At least not in the way EU did it.
There are also claims that UA was really trying to shoot Russian Plane #1 which was flying close to malaysian boeing both in time and space

There are many claims.
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A subsequent search of the inter-webs yielded this (what may be the strangest site I've ever seen):

http://www.pigeonphotography.com/en/portfolio-2/#
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Yeah, but you've been on here long enough to know that major off-topic news won't get flagged/will be forced up on the front page for a while. HN understands that sometimes our tech news bubble has to be popped with a little dose of the real world every once in a while.

This isn't just a plane crash, this was an aircraft that was shot down while on a perfectly normal commercial flight between two major international hubs. This could have very serious, long-term global ramifications and every person who comes to HN should be aware it happened.
The law is not restricted to search engines:

> The EU defines ‘data controllers’ as ‘people or bodies that collect and manage personal data.’ (WP)
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The newly proposed system call, as implemented in the mailing list patch, provides the functionality of both random and urandom: the behaviors are distinguished by a bitmask.

Take a look at the code. If the flag GRND_RANDOM is used, then it uses the random device, otherwise urandom.

Independently of this, blocking behavior is requested with GRND_BLOCK. If this is omitted, then the random device bails with errno == EAGAIN if it doesn't have enough entropy, otherwise it blocks.

If GRND_BLOCK is omitted with the urandom method (GRND_RANDOM is omitted), then it will bail with -EAGAIN if the urandom device is not initialized; otherwise it just calls urandom_read. With GRND_BLOCK, it will block for urandom to initialize, if necessary.

The new system call only blocks when given GRND_BLOCK, and it uses urandom unless given the flag GRND_RANDOM. If it is given GRND_RANDOM, but not GRND_BLOCK, and not enough entropy is available, then the system call with bail with errno == EAGAIN. If there is no GRND_RANDOM then it falls back on urandom_read: that is usually non-blocking.
The "right to be forgotten" laws aren't really "all about" any particular subject matter as far as I can tell. They seem to be potentially (though not definitely) applicable to nearly any story about a person that might be considered "old news."
My point is was that spectrum doesn't scale. There's X gigabits per second available over the air, and a similar X over a cable. For cable companies they can push equipment closer to the home and have fewer subscribers on the same line. I suppose Verizon could do the same with more towers, but imagine doubling the number of towers to support double the bandwidth (or something like that). As people have pointed out though, the congestion is specific to connections that carry netflix.
Agreed! I don't mean to say that it applies to this situation (or that it was a good idea to recognize this right in the first place). I simply answered the question "who says there is a right to be forgotten?" Maybe shmerl did not mean the question literally, but I can't really tell.
This is entirely possible. I will see if I can come up with ways to test that hypothesis. One puzzling bit of not well known information is that Google recently yanked their mobile ad feed from many (if not all) of their partners. One way to interpret that would be that they were trying to shore up their mobile CPC values. Really too bad they don't break out mobile and non-mobile.
I don't think any of the passengers were from the US.
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Pro-tip for google docs: you can use /preview instead of /pub to get a much more readable version of the document (pagination, &c.).
The rest of the world will see the actual search results, only Europeans will be left in the dark.
MH17 Air plane shot down
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Great idea. Don't have an experiments in mind but would love to get involved with any projects that do get accepted. How can I drop you a mail?
Agreed.

What I really find distasteful is that the Ukrainian nationalists immediately announce their theories to the press, with no evidence, whilst the wreckage and the bodies are still smouldering.

It smacks of sick political opportunism at a time when all sides should be trying to figure out what happened. The separatists have at least offered a ceasefire for a few days so investigators can come in and bodies can be recovered.

We simply don't know what happened and we should heed the warnings from missing flight MH370 where all kinds of media reports and intelligence turned out to be worthless.

Sadly many parties have an incentive to shape the narrative and they will use anonymous "tips" to push the frenzied media in different directions. Unless there is independent, corroborated and conclusive evidence, we may never know what happened to this flight.
Nope, Verizon's customers are causing the interconnection point to be saturated. Netflix doesn't send data unless Netflix's customers request it. If they sent data without requests Verizon could (and probably would) interpret that as some kind of a network attack.

This is Verizon wanting to double-bill for traffic. Plain and simple.

> Verizon wants them or their transit provider to pay more to "ensure a level of capacity that accommodates their volume of traffic".

That's Verizon's job. To go out and get by any and all means necessary enough bandwidth to satisfy their customers, namely the residential customers who seem intent on using Netflix. At no point do they have a moral imperative to hold their customers hostage to extort money out of someone else that their customers are trying to access. It's already been paid for!
Both under abnormal circumstances, most likely terrorism.
Only 22% of revenue was from ads on other sites in the last quarter, so, no, Google is not DoubleClick, literally or no.

They do own what was DoubleClick, but it's quite different from the DoubleClick of yore (malware distributed over their network seemingly every other day, for instance).
Has anyone written a large React application yet? Preferably open source?
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This is great. Assuming something like this becomes the new normal, I feel like the next problem is micro-payments so that people can get paid for their data.
It doesn't do any such thing as far as I can tell. The limitations are as clear as mud. It seem to be best summed up as "Any data about any identifiable person that is felt to be 'no longer necessary.'"
"stop coming to my house Internet, I just want to stay friends"
I have not studied economics but I have casually heard that larger populations are important for developing countries to build larger economies/GDP and the political power necessary for growth before these countries become efficient enough to rely on other methods for growth and wealth. What does this mean for poorer countries who might be under pressure to reduce their population/births? There seems to be a correlation between population and GDP and also population and GDP/capita.
Don't you mean caller pays? Otherwise I could make someone else spend money just by calling them.
It's easy to cover your tracks, don't post shoot down videos on Facebook, or supply and weapon inventories.

I don't know how this could even be considered 'tracks', it's strategic information that should never have been posted in the first place. (Assuming the rebels are running a military operation in hopes of gaining control of territory)

Also, if the information wasn't suppressed it would still be just as popular. Do you really think no one was going to check the Rebel Leaders VK? The event was already international news, and would fill headlines for the next week, there is no way that suppressing the information made it more widely known.
MADV_DONTFORK ends up working a bit different, when the forked process tries to read the page it ends up as a segmentation fault because the page wasn't carried over. It can be made to work but that ends up more difficult since you have to trap that signal and be able to prove you aren't going to catch a real one. Adding something like INHERITZERO would end up giving you a new blank page which would be much nicer to deal with in the userspace.
Ask them about it: https://www.facebook.com/LollyWollyDoodle
Thanks! Contact information is in my profile.
True, Objective-C comes into mind.
This is the last straw. I'm done with this shitty community. Ciao
It's not his own website. It's VKontakte, a rather large eastern european social network.
They are but the residential and commercial sides of the business are VERY different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8050089
The also invented time machine:

https://twitter.com/vesti_kpss/statuses/478926313831792640
Show HN: HackerNews web push for stories with 100+ upvotes by Roost (YC S14)
Darn!
Why on Earth would Ukraine try to shoot down Putin? To get absolutely sure they'll be annihilated by Russia??
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What a success story!

I was surprised to see that the second child wasn't sequenced earlier. A family of four study or even a study that includes grandparents is significantly more powerful then a trio study.

Even if only one individual displays the phenotypes it allows more variants to be eliminated and potentially allows an increased ability to distinguish sequencing errors from rare variants and new mutations. It also lets you more precisely identify recombination sites:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037280/figure/F...
Thanks for the thoughts. I keep using various hybrids of the 3 that you mentioned and it's been getting annoying. I'm going to try and see if I can maybe build a tool that could ease this process.
Verizon gave a very clear suggestion for Netflix: work with other providers as well.

Why should they have to do that? Level 3 has open ports now (so they claim). It doesn't matter which provider the traffic is coming from, either Verizon wants it or they don't (and apparently they don't, even though their core is no where close to saturated).

The balanced traffic requirement is bogus anyway. Its not as if Verizon offers their own video streaming service that I can subscribe to as a Comcast or AT&T customer. So they're never going to see balanced traffic in the age of video streaming.
Let's not be blinded by bloodlust. Let me walk past all of the flamebait and caution that amateur detectives should heed caution before they start pointing fingers everywhere. This wouldn't be the first time that people were certain of guilt only to be demonstrated otherwise later.

Let's not make people causalities until the dust settles at the very least.
As opposed to have everybody implement his/her own random()/entropy().
We have been working on something similar for a few years now: https://register.blib.us
I mentioned Plover and steno in my linked comment. Basically, classical stenotype and other similar syllabic two-hand chording systems are a big bag of hurt, and probably not well-suited for anything except transcribing spoken English (or whatever natural language your steno system is designed for). A more orthographic system like Velotype http://www.velotype.com/en/ / Veyboard http://www.veyboard.nl/en_main.html is probably better unless you need to optimise for the last iota of transcription speed in one specific spoken language, especially since most of us will never reach professional real-time transcription speeds no matter what keyboard we use. (And OTOH, Velotype is apparently fast enough to be in use for real-time tasks in the Netherlands.)

EDIT: Also, most people would probably be better served doing something about the time they spend moving their right hand between keyboard and mouse than increasing their typing speed.
How do you own mail.com?
Which is why a port other than 22 is pretty good practice.
Can you provide more details about the ways to monetize wetlands? The property has some minor wetlands; no standing water, but soft ground (plants are used to determine wetlands, anyway).
Amazing how gene sequencing has really started to pay off. A member of my family was recently diagnosed with two mutations of the MTHFR gene. This comes after years of trying different horrible depression medications, thyroid drugs, and hormone pills that often made things worse.

While some of the treatments are still guesses, it's so much better to finally be treating the root cause and not just guessing at how to suppress symptoms.
Nice - can you do it for MongoDB? :)
we need more test subjects...

if it's legal to terminate unborn fetuses, shouldn't it be legal to experiment on them?
I don't have any open source examples, but I have multiple friends at different mid-size startups who replaced backbone with react and they are all super happy about it.

I'm looking forward to try React myself, but haven't yet.

Seems like React is here to stay and become really really awesome, I haven't heard anybody say bad things about it.
Yahoo is now following footsteps of PlannedDeparture on digital legacy
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You could say the opposite thing about Android: people embracing it in spite of the possibility of a screen they take everywhere and look at all the time controlled by an "advertising company".

And in practice, the same thing is true for Android and Glass: there aren't ads popping up in your face all the time, because that would be a sure way to alienate all your users (which is one of the reasons why the "they're just an advertising company" phrase doesn't give any real insight).

I think it's more likely that having a giant thing on your face that doesn't actually do all that much is more the reason for people seeming to start drawing the line with Glass. That and meme status ("glasshole") and echo chamber effects (most people outside of tech circles don't care either way).
We simply don't know what happened and we should heed the warnings from missing flight MH370 where all kinds of media reports and intelligence turned out to be worthless.

Sadly too many parties have an incentive to shape the narrative and they will use anonymous "tips" to push the frenzied media in different directions. Unless there is independent, corroborated and conclusive evidence, we may never know what happened to this flight.
I ended up not like SEV for some reason I can't quite put my thumb on. On the flip side SEIV is a lightweight enough game I have it zipped up and stashed in my dropbox so I can download it on whatever and get to playing. It'll even run on pretty old hardware. I used to play it on my netbook quite happily.
Since the beginning of the conflict UA did everything they can to provoke Russia into crossing border.

Well, almost everything.
It is pretty clear if you listen to nterviews, that the pro-russian rebels are mostly morons. With friends like that who needs enemies.
I also use Dvorak in Spanish, but I modded it with Ukelele to make tilde (`) a dead key. ` followed by an n or vowel will return an ñ or accentuated vowel. I also swapped tag keys ( <> ) with the parentheses so I could write Lisp more easily.

As for nobody using my machines, I see that as a plus :)
>bullet points for why they should get hired:

The resume (CV used interchangeably) is merely a tool for guiding the conversation on background & experience. Treating a job-seeker as a supplicant is a turn-off to professional candidates.
"Google has become 22% better at selling its users habits and personal information to advertisers"
People with high blood pressure need salts to be leeched out of their system, interestingly enough.
The structured data (such as geodata) in Wikipedia is being migrated to Wikidata, which does offer APIs:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

If you dig, I think you can find RDF dumps of the database.
So, here's my hypothesis for what's driving the lower CPCs in mobile. This is based on my observations of what I see myself and other people using Google for, not any inside information (I worked in Search, and they generally kept me away from the Ads numbers).

People use desktop search to research big-ticket items: cars, vacations, mortgages, life insurance, mesothelioma, consumer electronics, etc. There's a lot of value in a sale there. A personal-injury lawyer may collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from a client with a solid case. As a result, these keywords get bid up really high, because the profit potential of a new customer is high.

People currently use mobile search for day-to-day local needs. What restaurant should I go to? Where can I find parking? What's there to do in this town? Most of these have sale prices in the $10-50 range, and so there's just not as much money coming out of the sale. As a result, the keywords don't get bid up as high, and CPC is lower.

These use cases are not substitutes. Just because people are searching for restaurants does not mean they aren't also searching for mesothelioma. We see this in the revenue numbers, which continue to rise. But as a percentage of the total addressable market, high-value keywords like insurance and lawsuits will shrink as the market becomes larger. If you're looking at aggregate CPC numbers this will look like Google is becoming less attractive to advertisers, but what's actually happening is that Google is becoming viable for less attractive advertisers. The total market size is expanding, and with that come more marginal customers.

This, BTW, is one reason why I think Wall Street analysts are idiots. They pay attention to the wrong metrics, because those are the only numbers they have to pay attention to. I have my own set of metrics that I use to judge when it's time to sell Google stock, but I'm not going to reveal them here.
So Netflix should pay Verizon $1/month/customer. And pass that cost on to the Verizon subscribers...

How quickly would this change Verizon's policy?

As a customer of an ISP, I pay for access to servers on the internet. My ISP charges me for a level of bandwidth. If they are the bottleneck slowing down my connection to the services I want to access, they should fix it, and give me what I'm paying them for.
Sure, blocking is a flag. You're ignoring the point, which is that it will never return bad data.
Logic says that, but somehow I doubt that you're going to get a useful answer from anyone you can reach about what route the flight is actually going to take 10 days from now.
You could get it much closer to balanced. A good quality Netflix stream is 3Mbps down and probably only a few dozen kbps up. You just have to send some occasional bookkeeping data.

What if Netflix got that number to go up from say 30kbps to 500kbps? Still only 10% of upload speed link utilization on a 50/5 Mbps customer line.

Even if the ratio only went from 3:1 to 3:2 suddenly you're much, much closer to balanced. Takes a lot of wind out of their sails. Instead of "ZOMG THREE TIMES AS MUCH!" it's "FUCK IT'S 50% MORE!" which doesn't sound nearly as good.
Not really applicable to Django, is it?
Yeah, no kidding they should be on America's Dumbest Criminals.
He doesn't, he just created the "fail2ban@mail.com" email account there. So all those fail2ban installations with the default configuration send email to him.

Pretty funny, and clever too.
Microsoft Just Laid Off Thousands of Employees With a Hilariously Bad Memo
I think the costs work out differently at terabit scale. Sending a terabit split across two backbones may be the same cost or cheaper than sending it over a single backbone.
How did people think this wouldn't happen when ISP's are allowed to be content providers, too. Of course Verizon wants to choke Netflix and promote their own service instead. Letting cable and content providers be ISPs was always a bad idea.
Not necessarily. The population of some countries allows their government to kill (selected) people, but not to experiment on them, so the first doesn't necessarily imply the second.
"The State Department was trying to confirm reports that 23 Americans were aboard the downed aircraft, spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said." (http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-mis...)
I feel like priceonomics is specifically crafting articles for HN. I'm sure they get a lot of traffic from here, but is this really their best channel?
Lessons From America's War for the Greater Middle East
There was also this news article from just before reports of the plane crashing arose. I noticed it this morning right away because they were in the same area at the same time on the same day.

http://en.itar-tass.com/world/741164
You're a sperg.
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Check again, the peak is clearly at 2014 (each tic is 5 years)
@capnrefsmmat, wow! thanks! If this were 4chan, my reply would have been simply an image of Doc Brown exclaiming Great Scott. :-)
Regardless if we can or can't manipulate our DNA with approaches such as gene therapy, we first must get therapeutics to patients with rare and orphan conditions in an adequate amount of time.

Many patients wait on the the hurdles set in place by the FDA who think they are protecting patients safety. However, with a quickly progressing illness and no treatment, often the patient will die without the drug that is being withheld.

The YouTube Video Shows Dr. Bill Gahl of the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program speaking at a TED event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMMBmc_pQVA
Smartphones to communicate off-grid across up to 50 miles
Django Rest Framework for us - http://ansible.com - was easier to customize and also easier to graft in custom auth. One of the major tastiepie problems we had - that maybe everybody doesn't have, was how to be able to make collections hang off REST resources.

The greatest feature by far is the API browser, which in DJRF 2 (I have no sense of what's in the 3rd version) is pretty amazing and a great way for people to learn about an API.

Less automagic made it much more flexible for us, while the API browser is just amazing in a end-user demo. It's my favorite feature, though I also like the serializer system.

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/browsable-api
Intel creates custom silicon that works with Oracle software
Or it could represent, I don't know, maybe conversion?
What are you talking about? Do you not see the giant, golden "Ad" next to each ad?