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> Your definition would include tradesmen and craftworkers, then, who are not strictly professionals.

According to what definition?

> Anyone can work in wood long enough to say "That wooden bridge looks like it'll hold X people,"...

I severely doubt that, given the complexity of trussed bridge designs [0]. There's a lot more to it than how much weight a 4-by-4 can support.

> ... and not have any way of conveying how they came to that conclusion...

If you can't transfer knowledge in a way that other people can independently verify, you're working in magic. If such a transfer is possible, but simply not possible for a particular person because they lack the tools, then that's a professional failing. For some reason, this state seems acceptable to you when we're talking about physics and complex loads. But could you imagine a doctor describing the appendix as "that thing sticking out where the long thin squiggly bit meets the short thick squiggly bit"?

> Also, your definition includes itself as part of its own definition, which is a circular definition fallacy.

You can't just throw out "circular definition is fallacy" and dismiss the idea. That itself is a fallacy -- "argument from fallacy". [1]

Yes, I use the word "professional" twice, but that's not necessarily a circular definition and especially not necessarily a fallacy. First, the two "professionals" are not the same person. The first mention of "professional" is an individual, while the second mention is a group. What I did is tie membership of a group to a conditional ability which is dependent on the group itself.

However, I did cheat a little bit. Because what I did not define is the individual ability necessary to meet that conditional. Because, of course, that changes depending on what group of professionals we are discussing.

For backup, let's look at a definition of malpractice [2]:

> a dereliction of professional duty or a failure to exercise an ordinary degree of professional skill or learning by one (as a physician) rendering professional services which results in injury, loss, or damage

In other words, malpractice is a professional doing something which such a professional should not do... Because the mere fact of a person being a professional implies that they should know better.

It's this same logic that I am using: A professional is someone who acts in a professional capacity, and understands the practices of such profession, and thereby is capable of judging whether another person understands and acts in a professional capacity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss_bridge#Truss_types_used_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/malpractice
privatize the profits (oil), socialize the losses (coastline)
Not at all. I'm just stating the facts. You're indulging in speculation.
I have no idea since I haven't reviewed the contract. But consideration can be more than just cash money. In some areas and circumstance continued employment can be enough consideration. Or getting access to more information might be enough.

There isn't a bright line rule.
Racket seems focused on education and experimentation and in that arena I think it's very successful. I'm pretty impressed with where Racket has gone and I think it's very cool.
I really want to know what you are working on, in that it can just be in the mist.
Say you've gotten your hands on an old, expired TLS certificate (or cracked one using old crypto). Then, if you can convince a client it's in the past, you can use that to mount an attack.
Well yes, anything can be done, but doing it in a way that doesn't throw away all the potential gains of a low level api is hard.
If your problem with welfare is that it should have no drop off points, what makes that the product of a "deeply misguided, sociopolitical philosophy"? It seems to me more like a problem created by the fumblings of a bipartisan beauracracy.
Too bad, the best schools are free where I come from. A few ones actually pay you.

The point stands. Your link doesn't infirm what I said.
It is a fine line. From practical experience: there is a class of inventors who have genuinely convinced themselves that their broken tech will work if only they get the bugs worked out, and this is always just over the horizon. They probably see themselves as doing you a favor by lying to you because you will reap the benefits after all, once the pay-day arrives.

I've seen lots of misery because of this, both with the inventors themselves, their families and employees. In one case a suicide.

It's very sad and one of the downsides of being in the business I'm in because I have come to recognize the signs of this particular ailment fairly quickly and it is a huge balancing act in both convincing my client not to invest while at the same time not pulling the rug out from under a quite possibly already unstable person.

Fraud can be intentional, or it can be the consequence of someone genuinely believing their own misguided version of reality, usually powered by some form of 'wouldn't it be great if' and associated lines of thinking.

Even so, Theranos - to me at least - seems to have crossed over into outright fraud from very early on in their lifetime. There were significant questions about the tech early on and without a good answer to those the project should have never moved as far as it did without some serious caveats about what they believed to be possible and total transparency about what had actually been achieved.

For a nice example of how gullible people are check out the Ilium thread on the homepage right now, it's a great example of how wishful thinking can cause investors to part with their money:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167870

uBeam is another, so far they produce roughly two ecstatic press releases per year but there is no product in sight.
How do you cancel out the total system mass? I'm not completely following your derivation.
Keep in mind with your math that you have to account for the VTOL component of flight too. Also, the ducted fans they're using are not efficient at all in your stated flight regime.

There are other considerations at work here as well. Having a 70l/d ratio means huge wings on something that will be this heavy. Gliders have big wings for their size and they have a very very low gross weight (ASK 21 2 seater at 900kg and a 17m wingspan). On top of just being absolutely massive, having all that wing area can cause problems in other than optimal weather situations. An ultra low wing loading will mean that the craft responds like a kite to any air movement so it would be very uncomfortable for the passengers who just want to get where they're going.

I agree that the chances of power loss are remote, especially compared to the current tech in use, but especially with new designs, you need a way of handling it. The issue isn't so much any individual motor but the batteries and support systems. They'll need a cooling system most likely and any failure will turn the whole thing into a Note 7. Also, sorry about using LiPo as a generic term. LiS batteries will definitely help the situation somewhat.
Frame your needs however you want, if you sign up for a federated network you assume some responsibility to do things with consideration for interoperability and standards.
The problem is a weird type of nationalism, that not only does not allow them to see over their own biases, but it kinda goes like this Turkey>Islam>Rest, and you can't be a good Turk if you don't slam all your enemies 24/7 :)
Worms in the nose
re: Amazon and low cost
Don't know how accurate this is, but this article claims that Amazon, and in a different way, Google are gaming your preferences to try and maximize their profit by offering different prices to everyone, at different times of the day.
Or maybe a large percentage of people care about convenience more than price. Not able to tell from just this. Except people who are sensitive to price need to carefully shop with price comparisons.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-onl...
What are you looking for that you wouldn't get from looking at the IPFS website, or just googling in general?
That's a very good question. I asked this question at a dinner after European Common Lisp Meeting in Madrid in 2013, a wonderful, memorable gig, BTW. I was surprised how unanimous CL elites were on this subject. They were strongly against even small, incremental improvements or additions. IMHO, it would be nice to have a standard socket library, for example. One of the reasons mentioned was cost of the standardization, including updates of all the implementations. I kind of understand it, but, on the other hand, it makes me a bit sad. Things either grow, even very slowly, or become fossil.
I'm unclear if this replaces in any way their existing (annual?) performance review process. Employees do request immediate feedback: it's a major "best practice" and a very common performance improvement area.

Now, usually this takes the form of just talking to your direct reports when you see them do something good or bad. I haven't seen an institutionalized IT system that would do this, nor that those micro-interactions would somehow "add up" to a full performance appraisal.

So this seems to add more friction to giving feedback: never a good thing. And refer also to the whole Amazon "Anytime Feedback" peer feedback tool that turned into political posturing and back-stabbing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-reportedly-s...
Mind-Reading Devices by Science and Facebook
OP probably wants a Concurrent/MarkAndSweep GC rather than a Generational GC. because 16 ms is too much for game dev
Don't see how something like this will be good for morale, but I suppose that's what the enormous bonuses are for.
Why wouldn't they? Seriously, I'm curious.

If you're going to get 360 feedback, wouldn't you prefer to have it in a timely fashion instead of getting blindsided monthly, quarterly, or yearly?

Or is the very concept of a 360 where you have issues?
My guess: At 500Krps on a single proxy you're probably using 40GbE or higher right? So you're a fairly niche user and should have some sort of in-depth knowledge of this space. Your current setup should already some sort of horizontal scaling system in place. Just throwing out you "need" a 500Krps came across as fake boasting/clueless/whiny.

I'm sure HN would love a more in-depth comment where you say how you're accomplishing things today and what you expect out of general purpose reverse proxies, etc.
This was fascinating. Can I read more somewhere?
Are there jobs like this out there that you can do for months at a time without being too skilled?

He was manning the Antarctic station - that sounds like it involves routine work that anyone can do (absolutely no offense), are there jobmarkets out there for these sort of gigs?

Just curious really.
As a thought experiment, if you define Americans as those with natural rights, then every human being on Earth could be considered African American.

Although I've met a surprising number of intelligent people who somehow do not believe we are all descended from Africa. Which I suppose is related to people failing to understand that all individuals have innate inalienable rights, regardless of their citizenship.
the current airtime with current power/weight battery technology should be around 10-15 minutes with 1 passenger.

fixed wing required reserve is 30min, rotorcrafts 20min depends how this vehicle is classified, nevertheless current total airtime is less than reserva.
Judge orders Volkswagen to pay $2.8B in emission scandal
I think they already happened, but we just insist in calling them "helicopters".
I've had issues with web scraping with content generated from JS, and I just ran it through PhantomJS, then extracted the rendered HTML.
Interesting. Are you sure? I didn't remember a big re-write ever happening, and after poking around in the current codebase for a while I see lots of old code and familiar names. Are you referring to just the UI? The address book code (the part I had something to do with back then) looks very similar.
There's a density issue with urban flying vehicles (only so many places to stop and park) but suburban FVs make a lot of sense (assuming the physics work out). Though it's funny that this article still thinks of people buying the vehicle and not the ride. Apart from all the financial reasons (capital utilization rate etc) having a corporation that manages the maintenance for AFVs will make everyone feel safer.

And what about those starship delivery robots photographed supposedly "making a delivery"? I've never seen one in the street without at least one person supervising it.
It's getting easier with every release to not allocate, with things like ref returns and locals[1] and new types like Span<T>[2]. I think there are more things like that coming in the pipeline[3].

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/118

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab/blob/master/docs/specs/s...

[3] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/10378
The idea of the banking system being subject to market forces is nice.
IRS penalties for late filing are a portion of taxes owed. Most people don't owe anything (rather, they receive a refund), so there is no penalty.
Just think how much more they could do if they stopped using MySQL. /s
> Just pointing out that China likely won't sit on its ass as this happens

China already is behaving aggressively, expanding territory under its control (e.g., in the S. China Sea) and threatening to do so elsewhere (e.g, in the Senkaku islands). They may try to justify their next aggression by blaming someone, but that isn't meaningful.

The same applies to Russia, which already had annexed part of Georgia and clearly had designs on the southern Ukrainian province of Crimea (which did nothing to protect them against missiles). They justify their behavior, like all bad actors throughout history. Look at the Nazi's list of excuses as they snatched territory in the run-up to WWII.

The U.S. and others can't be intimidated into inaction while aggressors like Russia and China keep moving forward, for fear of 'upsetting' their tender feelings.
Google is a registered trademark, Googlebot may not be registered. However as it clearly is affiliated with Google, even if Google had not registered it they might pursue claims.

I am not familiar with U.S. law. If the courts in U.S. adopt a strictly formalistic approach on using names in a business context, then the results may be different.

However IMHO, Googlebot is clearly associated with Google and anyone who uses Googlebot as their User Agent is tricking the sites owner's into believing that the request was made from Google.

As for legal grounds, Google could sue on unfair competition.
I talk about this elsewhere in this section. Pipistrel tried this on the Panthera and the system complexity is enormous. The whole advantage of electric propulsion is it's simplicity. Might as well just use the turbine for lift.
Κίνητρο και πάμε στοίχημα πάμε μαζί
Same with me, but Trump supporters are in low volume in areas where you want to live anyway. :)
We certainly don't have all the facts surrounding this case, but we definitely have enough to move forward under the assumption that this would be resolved with American and probably Californian law. I'll leave you to research whether California requires consideration for valid contract.
That's great if your taxes are simple. Mine is not, and one of the critical forms didn't arrive in my email until April 16th, so I couldn't finish till then, and it affected other parts.

And yeah, I know being late isn't terrible, and in fact if you are owed a refund there is no penalty at all. But it's still annoying that it was late because critical government run infrastructure was broken.
Doesn't sound like it. The video mentions their annual performance review process still being a 'big deal' and that it is still where raises and bonuses are determined.
I don't really know why this has to link back to Stanford.
He's a game dev, says it all. The problem with GC is that often it imposes a performance overhead and, more importantly, it results in non-deterministic performance characteristics. In game dev it's typical to want to be able to complete an entire cycle of computations for calculating game mechanics within a single frame, which could be just 17 or even 7 milliseconds in entirety (60/144 fps). If you get even a fraction of a millisecond delay in computing a chunk of work that can screw up your frame rate, produce noticeable visual effects, etc.
Also Mailbox.
My guess is it supplements. Ultimately the person managing an employee's development still has to be involved in coaching and formal evaluation. 360s provide data points as well as an opportunity for ongoing improvement rather than saving it all for a once-a-year feedback loop.
The problem with atomic CSS
How would this work through clouds? The water vapor would in theory block or scatter everything from UV to microwave radiation. Also, I don't want to be near a 1W laser/maser, and if our energy budget is 100kW, you'd need at least a 100,000W laser pointed at your tiny air taxi.
Just think, in the future everyone could feel like they live next to an airport!
Rails + Devise + Paperclip + JWPlayer = who's got Bob Iger's phone number?
https://stichtingbrein.nl/public/20170420%20SLOV%20vonnis%20...

Here is the original court ruling -- can someone translate (heh) this (I can't read it in the original)?
WTF? We're talking about real dryers here, not dorm-sized dryers that you can dry maybe 2 shirts in.

However, if you select the Samsung 7.5cf dryer, it also has free delivery. Of course, this is built into the price, and $550 for an appliance isn't pocket change.
I feel like the only person in the world who doesn't want flying cars. With cars, a crash isn't necessarily fatal. But with flying cars... any failure means cars fall out of the sky, woe be to who/whatever's in and/or under

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5888216/the-first-flying-car-was-base...

But unfortunately the current culture's rampant and excessive technology fetishism means that people can't stop dreaming of them :/
Audacious gets very close.
yes! I loved the description of how that AI is created and becomes self conscious!!!
Here's a comment that mirrors my own thoughts, from the comments on that third link[1]:

"C# heap allocations aren't expensive and are faster than C/C++. They are even faster than stack allocations (if the stack alloc is too large to be a register) as the stack needs to zero out the memory first; whereas the heap has done this ahead of time. However, they do come at a cost, which is deallocation.

C/C++ have both an allocation and deallocation cost. The main advantage is you know when you are paying that deallocation cost; the main disadvantage is you often do it at the wrong time or don't do it at all which leads to memory leaks, using unallocated memory or worse trashing something else's memory (as it has been reallocated).

The GC isn't the bad guy; its the liver and blaming it is like blaming a hangover on the liver.

However; the free drinks the clr allocation bar gives you are very tempting, and does mean there is a tendency to over indulge so the hangovers can be quite bad... (GC pauses)."

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/10378#issuecomment-2...
Ballistic parachutes will help with that some.
I also say it will happen. 30 years is a lot different than today. By a long shot.

We'll have ANI (artificial narrow intelligence) completed by then. It'll be able to drive a car and fly a drone PERFECTLY. So why not a flying car?

We'll have Graphene solved and able to create mass quantities cheaply. Which means the weight problem will be solved.

We'll have far better batteries than we do now. In addition, metallic hydrogen anyone? That alone may actually pave the way for country hopping.

Who's to say, in 30 years there will be no cars on the road or planes in the sky. Travel would have been fully democratized. Just pull out your phone and uber/lyft/other yourself wherever you want to go.

Oh and the final upside. No more TSA. That alone is priceless.

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Plus up next, build a much stronger model for planet hopping. I think that's a worthwhile goal to aim for. Fancy a weekend trip to Mars? Hmm, in 2050?
Looking forward, 10-20 years, maybe the delivery cost issue will be solved with self-driving vehicles and robotic deliveries. But then, why would Amazon be the sole beneficiary of that development and not every grocery store?

10-20 years, sure, but that's a big spread. What if it takes twenty years for grocery stores to get that stuff and Amazon has it in ten? Given the fragmentation of grocery stores and their focus on actual stores I imagine they will have a hard time catching up technologically, plus businesses with brick and mortar roots don't have a great track record at building ways for customers to bypass the brick and mortar. Imagine the time they'll waste on marketing, astroturf, and lobbying to try to stave off automated home delivery before they give up and actually try to make the technology work. That gives Amazon even more time make money and draw further ahead.
Exactly- they made $604 million in profit in the quarter. Certainly nothing to sneeze at, but to put that into perspective, the company currently has a market cap of about $430 billion.
I would be willing to bet you wouldn't get far trying to buy things at CVS with a Gold Eagle. It's likely they've never seen one and will assume you're trying to pull some kind of scam.

Not that I'd be willing to research the point with my own money.
I have a friend with a very important deliverable due today and he was not ready. I'm not saying he's responsible, but in the realm of things that make you go hmm...
Why energy density storage and not wireless power transmission and/or reception?
On the technology page under the safety first section they talk about a parachute being installed as a last resort.
> A green card holder in Texas was just​ sentenced to eight years in prison for voting in a US election. Surely Holmes will go away much longer right?

That certainly sounds like a miscarriage of justice, but not really a sensible point of comparison. It's an entirely different domain of law. And even if it were apples to apples, a random green card holder vs an American tech billionaire will get vastly different treatments and outcomes in the American justice system (which is bad, but simply he reality).

> So will Holmes go to prison?

I would bet heavily against it. Holmes maintained panoptic control over all of Theranos's operations (until she was barred from operating labs, presumably), so it seems very unlikely that definitive evidence of fraud will surface from within.

Also, I imagine that the US regulatory bodies that started actions against Theranos in the past two years are or will soon be... significantly less disposed to vigorously pursuing criminal charges, especially of the kind that would assign personal culpability to corporate management.
How a Christian turns Atheist
It has. It's just been like that for years.
This all sounds preliminary to me. Based on the headline and one paragraph I was able to read (not pay-walled), this doesn't necessarily indicate malicious intent or foul play. Big companies are complicated, and they do things in weird ways sometimes for reasons that aren't immediately obvious.

It's amazing how quickly the winds of the internet shift to absolutely condemn a person/company before all (or any) of the facts are in. The world is a better place when we all extend a benefit of doubt to our fellow humans and there creations.
Microsoft didn't lie about having DOS - that's a myth. They originally sent them to Digital Research and when they failed to work with them said they knew where they could get an OS and they'd take care of it. IBM relied on them as a bit of a liason to the microcomputer industry - which they didn't have a good understanding of.