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shimon_eon Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open Criminal Inquiry

Anyone with access to Expert Flyer can see exactly how many seats are being sold for any given flight.

shimon_eon Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open Criminal Inquiry

This is being mentioned on flyertalk. The maximum amount of bookable tickets was 50 less than the actual amount of seats. They had 4 passengers on standby which were only allowed to board after 5 passengers were no shows.

shimon_eon Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open Criminal Inquiry

Exactly.

shimon_eon Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open Criminal Inquiry

The cargo list for this flight has still not been released. The max amount of passengers allowed to board this flight was 50 less than the number of available seats. Suggesting the flight was carrying heavy cargo.

shimon_eon Expert Was Needed to Disable Malaysia Airlines Jet Systems

Cargo. The cargo list has still not been released. It is speculated that the cargo was heavy as the max amount of passengers was 50 less than the number of seats.

shimon_eon Jan Koum promoting WhatsApp in the Flyertalk forum (2009)

The best deal on FlyerTalk, by far!

shimon_eon DigitalOcean opens a Singapore Datacenter

You gotta love how some people can spin investments in the thousands of dollars as if it was millions.

shimon_eon Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system

Do you think ubuntu will be hiring package maintainers to rewrite all the init scripts so it can continue importing debian packages into universe?

shimon_eon Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility

Yeah they do. Heck even the Yoga 8 uses MTK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo_A750

shimon_eon Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility

> At $12.5B, Motorola is Google’s largest acquisition to date. Google paid $40 / share in cash, but received ~$11 / share in cash and $8 / share in deferred tax assets. Thus the value ascribed to operations + patents was about $21 / share, or $6.3B, reflecting a multiple of ~0.5x sales and 12x EBITDA. Now adjusting this further for the $2.35B total consideration Google is expected to receive for the Motorola Home business, we get a purchase price of just under $4B for Motorola's handset business and patent portfolio (17K patents and 7.5K patent applications).

http://www.zdnet.com/googles-motorola-purchase-was-it-worth-...

shimon_eon How I “hacked” Kayak and booked a cheaper flight

Flight price quotes can take the currency and sales city as input. You get to play with both those options in ITA matrix.

What you saw is probably based on those inputs being changed.

shimon_eon Linux 3.13

Great finally some drivers I've wanted have been merged. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.13-DriversArch

shimon_eon Why do washing machines have windows?

In addition to the reason mentioned above; in case you put too much bleach. in case an item is leaking a dye.

shimon_eon Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699

I could do it if anyone wants help me financially or with marketing. I've got many years of direct factory sourcing in China. First came here a decade ago and I've been living here for the most part of the past 3 years.

Is there a way to be contacted through HN?

shimon_eon Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699

It shouldn't be long before some Korean/Chinese factory starts selling these for half price on ebay.

shimon_eon China Formally Eases One-Child Policy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6978474

shimon_eon Google offering free Chromebooks to Indian schools

It must be so different going to school these days. I feel excited for our future kids!

shimon_eon Admob refunded all my payments

People are gaming the system. They are just smart enough not to brag about it.

shimon_eon Gmail - Find Emails That Never Got a Reply

Google should hire this man.

shimon_eon My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS

The decimal point adds two zeros. ;)

He is still a criminal either way.

shimon_eon Amazon Prime Air

We already have this in China. The SF Express has been testing these for years. Just last year we got the drop off boxes that amazon has been installing in 7-11s installed into our building. It's used for all package deliveries not just amazon.

shimon_eon Ask HN: Open Source alternatives to Disqus?

There is some work to make discourse into a commenting system like disqus. Like disqus it has universal accounts.

shimon_eon Jolla

it will be interesting to see how this competes against the Chinese competitors in this arena. Just yesterday Gionee announced the E7 for about the same price. A phone that includes a camera sensor from a point and shoot.

http://www.gsmarena.com/16mp_gionee_elife_e7_claims_to_be_th...

shimon_eon Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions

The links feature will make deploying sites a million times easier.

shimon_eon OVH Forum – Turnover on dedicated servers

>Like moving/removing their ssh keys

/root/.ssh/authorized_keys

>installing your own kernel

option during installation. You can also configure your own ssh key and set a post-install script under the expert check box.

>turning off their monitoring ping so they don't reboot your server if you are doing something that blocks the ping for too long

option in the control panel

shimon_eon OVH Forum – Turnover on dedicated servers

I've been with OVH for a few years now. Historical when they have advertised the server will be ready in 1 hour it is. The problem with the new range was that they were simply too popular. So much so that OVH's hardware partners could not deliver the hardware fast enough. They got something like 15,000 orders for just one type of server in about a day. That is 10% growth in their total server count in just one day! Sooo maybe you could cut the a little slack?

Actually the cheap servers are suppose to be for personal use. They lack hard disk raid, proper support, and have the lowest priority for hardware replacements.

shimon_eon OVH Forum – Turnover on dedicated servers

A kickass cloud offering could be the solution.

shimon_eon Linux 3.11 for Workstations has been released

Release annoucement: http://lwn.net/Articles/565482/

shimon_eon Show HN: Help programmers from Syria get jobs elsewhere

Obviously the suggestion is stupid as both the rebels and the Syrian forces have mutual enemies that they both would use chemical weapons on.

I don't think Israel will allow an enemy guerrilla army from being armed with chemical weapons.

The real issue here is that Russia has vowed to protecting the Assad regime. This conflict is ultimately a proxy war.

The real question I have is why Russia is protecting Assad? Is it just a question of support what in their eyes is the lesser of two evils or is it a case of RDF?

shimon_eon Show HN: Help programmers from Syria get jobs elsewhere

No one is denying that there was a chemical attack. The question is how big it was. If it was just a small attack then it could have been the rebels dropping a bag of sarin gas. But if it is confirmed it was a large attack that could have only been launched by payload thus it must have come from the Syrian army. Leaving two possibilities. A rogue element from within the army or the Assad regime.