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Here we have an Indonesian company with a terrible safety record and an aircraft that hasn't been maintained properly.

However, if the computer is found to have initiated the pitch downwards, then the same failure could happen to any aircraft of this type, even if well maintained, if the sensors or computer simply begin to malfunction while the plane is in the air. Absent pilot error, the worst that should happen is a reversion to manual control.

What concerns me is that any software flaws with the aircraft will not be addressed until the problem reoccurs with another more reputable airline in the future, because Lion Air appear so guilty in this case.
I've been futzing about with VoIP since the late 1990's. First as a developer and test engineer and then as just an interested party. When ZRTP came out I was excited, and then Jitsi was developed and I was interested. But everytime I try Jitsi it has terrible quality issues.

About a month ago I evaluated it again, hoping it would have changed since I last evaluated it 2-3 years ago. But it still had terrible quality issues.[1] I want to use SIP instead of Skype, and I want to tell other people to use SIP, but for that to happen Jitsi needs to stop sucking :(

I can only hope this acquisition means Jitsi gets better to a point where I can recommend it, and use it myself. There's a lot to hate about Skype. It's a closed protocol, it's owned by MS, and it's UI is garbage. But everytime I use it I don't suffer from any A/V quality issues, which is actually the point.

[1] By this I mean scratchy audio and video between two test laptops. Whereas Skype had no such problems.
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The most annoying (and visible) example of this is people naming their programs after the language/toolset used. As a user, I need not care that your code is written with Go/Python/KDE/Gnome, so why name your program with it?
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I believe we can find the way to reuse nuclear wastes

Nuclear waste can be fed in to a breeder reactor and continue to generate useful energy. The key is understanding why nuclear waste is dangerous in the first place: because it still contains lots of energy!
I’m in the process of porting a bunch of go code to dotnet core 2.1 on AWS lambda. I’m on a Mac using vscode. I never installed mono, just the dotnet sdk.

Honestly, I’ve been amazed at how good the tools have been. For cli and serverless dev, it’s been surprisingly great. It’s fast. C# is decent. The cold starts are not as fast as go, but not terrible. Memory usage is low.

It’s been a legitimately positive experience. When I started the port I was skeptical, but it is legit cross-platform. I would consider starting a project in it for lambda... I never thought I’d say that about a MS product.

Something over there is different, and I suppose it has been for awhile. I think it could get a lot more popular as non-ms devs realize that MS has built dotnet to work really well on Mac/Linux cli, far away from the weird tightly-coupled Windows/VisualStudio-hit-f5-to-do-the-magic-with-the-15-billion-auto-generated-magical-xml-files world. It feels well engineered instead of thrown together, which is nice.

Also, So far, I’ve pulled in no external libs other than the AWS sdk for the port either. C# with linq is a pretty complete toolset. I’m sure I’ll pull in more as I get more familiar, but it’s been solid on its own. Really nice surprise.
Ask HN: Are there any studies about common app-/SaaS-MVP features?
I'm doing some research about common features/requirements in software MVPs. Functional and non-functional features alike.

Some things like accounts for users are obvious, but there is probably more.

Anyone knows if there are any studies out there about this topic?
Doesn't seem like big news. IMHO Jitsi was never a particularly good product and seems like Atlassian finally understood it.
Maybe it is useful for some businesses now but I don't see future for it.
As humans, we don't design economies. Instead we generally try to steer them and fail. Ref: Governments printing money and no gold standard.

To give their life worth, some arrogant economists/finance people think they do have control. But they don't.
Hey, there are still quite a few Thunderbird users around :)
> For a while you could get 90% discounted local only data.

Interesting idea. It's usually the last-mile that's the hard part - I presume that's the reason it's no longer done?

Did 'local content' include, say, Netflix?
Here in Brazil most carriers also offer social media data for free. On Whatsapp the exception is for voice calls. It would be great (for me, not them LOL) if they included Google Photos.
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viber is still operating. But I've never used it. Their landline calling system is 'package'-based, unlike the very straight forward Skype setup. On viber's web site there's not even a simple way of listing the countries they support. You have to 'search' for a country, and then you get an offer of various packages to use. Way too much hassle, and too limited (you have to buy a 'package' for each country you want to call. Not very convenient).

For ordinary chats, groups, video conversations, file / movie / photo / album sharing etc. I use Naver Line, as nearly every Japanese do as far as I can tell.
When I applied last year, you said you're "looking to hire people who are already settled in the (viscinity of) Amsterdam (NL) and are available on a short term". Is it still the case?
Never heard of 8x8 before. Anyone who used their services care to comment on them?
Huh, funny to see this here as I just finished my msc thesis on the subject (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~mirela/publications/ioq.pdf)

We basically proved that the trivial connections approach is equivalent to something called the mixed-integer approach (http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/David.Bommes/publications/mi...)

And another interesting one: https://graphics.tudelft.nl/~klaus/papers/nFields.pdf
The costs of regulation, while perhaps not ideally efficient, are a real cost of nuclear power. They are the mechanism by which risks to the common environment are controlled.

Currently, and increasingly in the future, there is this huge “externality” in the full costs of burning fossil fuels, which is not being connected to the use.

Basic economic theory argues that externalities need to be handled by “non-market” means. Which essentially means regulation.

For whatever reason, the particulars of nuclear power enable enough political will to make a serious attempt at regulation aimed at minimizing (horrific) externalities.

The problem of human induced climate change presents a scary political reality, in which the political structures required to apportion the “true” cost of fossil fuel use might be not be possible. Or possible in a way where the cure is worse than the disease.

If these costs were indeed born by users, the competitive position of nuclear power might be improved.

However, this is not a sufficient argument to relax regulatory requirements for nuclear power.
The oocyte doesn’t have a direct way of recognising that sperm is stressed. However, stress does weird things to cells (the sperm, in this case), and the consequences of that are often severe. This definitely has an effect on the fitness of individual sperm cells, and purely stochastically this means that it’s more likely for healthy sperm to inseminate the egg.

And after the fusion of sperm and egg, stressed sperm likely exhibits genetic damage (despite the topic on hand being non-genetic information), and this in turn makes it less likely that the zygote (fertilised egg) will be able to divide correctly. This leads to a spontaneous abortion of pregnancy — a process that naturally occurs more frequently than actually successful pregnancies (this happens within days of fertilisation and goes unnoticed).

So to answer your question: the egg itself probably doesn’t have a way of sensing this directly but there are many factors that indirectly have a similar effect. Stressed sperm is selected against.
This is China-bashing on the same level as during the 1950s, except that the racist aspect cannot be explicit anymore, and you're just repeating the official line that you've heard in the media.
Have you tried Zoom?[1] Seems much better than Skype for business meetings.

[1] https://zoom.us/
The real question is "Will it be powerful enough even though I use a Desktop operating system and a software stack designed for programmer comfort rather than efficiency to control <simple-ish device>".
Devdiv (org that builds .NET, C#, VC++, VS etc) has always been one of the top notch organizations within Microsoft with great engineers (although from what I hear, some of them have left recently). Nonetheless, as someone who now works at a company with an open source tech stack, I sorely miss the tooling I had when I worked at Microsoft.
Writing good software is hard I guess :)
Hi there, Jitsi dev here: note that the Jitsi desktop client (the one which supports SIP) is no longer actively developed, it transitioned to being community maintained.

We have been focusing our efforts on Jitsi Meet for past few years: https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
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The two things interact.

Because of the 'eco' and other organisation successful 'anti-nuke' organisation any improvement or discussion is made extremely difficult. I would say its one of the most successful 'campaigns' the 'eco' people have ever pulled.

You ask normal people, who don't have a clue about nuclear energy if they support it and 'normal' people will simply say 'no' and the reason is some vague 'dangerous and waste'. Exactly what the messaging from these organisations was for 50 years.

In some states, like Australia for example the minister is expressly forbidden by law to even consider a nuclear solution to a environmental or energy problem.

In Austria Greenpeace activists surrounded newly build nuclear plant and forced is shutdown (it was replaced by coal but Greenpeace of course doesn't care).

In Germany massive anti-war and green movement went strongly anti nuclear and progressively increased pressure against nukes and in a politically opportune moment they managed to shut down the whole industry.

In Switzerland we passed a law not even allowing research on nuclear reactors mostly for the same nonsense reasons.

You can go back to the original Sierra Club Anti-Nukes, they quite literally had an express strategy to sell one thing 'danger/waste' and they specifically did this to increase regulation in order to make it unprofitable. That is directly stated in their communication. This has been their strategy for 50 years and it has worked on the population and on governments around the world, people are simply misinformed.

Of course they could not do it alone, but while they are loud the Oil/Coal lobby is massively against nuclear energy and always has been. You can find that even 40 years ago they cross financed anti-nuclear 'eco' people.

The problem with the current landscape is that because of regulation in most countries is basically impossible to bring a new nuclear plant to market. Lots of government money dumped in a few (mostly government) project does not mean that nuclear as a technology is the problem.
It’s interesting to consider what, if any, impact there would be on these measures if Google were regulated more aggressively as a monopoly.

Not that I disagree with restricting clickjacking etc, but at some point you have to curtail the power that any one company has. That was the motivation behind the Microsoft antitrust cases in the 90s.
When I try to run a random .Net exe file with dotnet core it will complain about libhostpolicy.so dependency missing.

I understand that it is not supposed to run .exe files (no idea why, okay), but overall it sounds like awful usability.
to be fair autofac is not really needed in most projects.

you can even write a bunch of lines that will automatically register all your controller dependencies. (of course autofac makes this more simple). but I actually prefer explicit registration (i had the implicit variant on guice and as soon as the project was big, implicit is a mess).
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Still can't quite wrap my mind around the fact that the world's largest space/satellite programme is about to be run by an LLC.
Interesting to see this here now :-)

I'm part of the Jitsi team, and made the transition from Atlassian to 8x8. I'm happy to answer questions if any, to the best of my ability / capacity.
As far as I understand, Skype never owned the IP around the P2P solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_Technologies#P2P_licensi...
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The amount of long-lived nuclear waste generated per human over a life time is about the size of an apple. That's (unrealistically) assuming 100% nuclear electricity generation and no further progress in reducing the waste amount. It's a problem but compared to our greenhouse problems it's not _HUGE_.
Having just recently experienced this, at 15-20 mph he was well out of easy speech range before I fully realized what had happened, let alone had composed a reasonably polite thing to say.

20 mph is 30 feet per second, and this yahoo brushed my back as I was talking to someone. 5 seconds to turn, understand, and start talking isn't unreasonable. If you can politely get the attention of somebody 150 feet away and receding rapidly using your voice, I'd sure like to see it.
> does .net core run stable on linux

it's probably more stable on linux than if you host in inside iis.
hosting in iis is a pita btw. it's easier on windows to create a service and proxy it inside iis (if you need multiple different applications).
however compared to just systemd+dotnet+nginx it's way harder to debug if something goes bogus.
Sounds like they should've banned a few people, not a few things.
Putting people in reeducation camps guarantees more incidents like this.
Are you claiming that the "official line" is false? China doesn't censor the Internet, Xi Jinping isn't President for life, China isn't developing social credit or internment camps?

Because if you're not saying that, if you don't have evidence that the "official line" is false, then I am concerned for the future well-being of the Chinese people. I'm not "bashing" them. I'm only "bashing" the Chinese government.
Think about the brand awareness, marketing savvy, and analytics endeavours they have to manage their movie empire. They're not dropping Billion dollar movies every few months by accident.

On the streaming side they've got multiple tech houses under their umbrella with oodles of experience on all fronts.

Naw, Disney has gathered multiple cultural touchstones and is putting them all onto their managed platform. This is a stunning play for a generation of content consumers, and arguably puts everyone else in a race for second place.

Speaking of which: an HBO/NetFlix merger has never made more sense...
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Counterpoint to your ridiculous hyperbole: Why isn't the murder rate near zero in states with the death penalty?
Right now? No, now is too late: if you have a technology that will take a decade to prove and another decade to buildout, we'll need to deploy a huge amount of renewables anyway to cover the gap. Fortunately the panels and turbines come off nice neat predictable working production lines.

I like referring back to http://blog.danieldavies.com/2006/05/nukes-and-nukemen-blair... on this: the industry has a real problem with undeliverable promises of cost and time, and it's not just the fault of environmentalists. The approval mentioned there ultimately led only to Hinkley Point C, which is still not finished and overrunning its costs.

Then there's the weapons history; Greenpeace's campaign originated against nuclear weapons testing, and the industry has always been intertwined with the military. That also limits which countries it can be used in. Remember when Iraq built a reactor and Israel blew it up?

Having said all that, https://www.leadcold.com/technology.html from elsewhere in this thread is the most promising thing I've seen in a long time. Molten lead is far saner than molten sodium and makes good radiation shielding. Nothing flashy required, just some good old fashioned special stainless steel metallurgy.
1st million calls on lambda are free... then ~$1.80/million calls/month after that. No ops once you deploy... like none. Dotnet runs on it fine after being written on a Mac, with code completion and linq hints etc. No visual studio in site. I didn’t even install mono.

Your uncool technologies might be cooler than you think. ;)
And then how do I get the ISP to advertise my service as being free to use, the same way they do for Facebook?

It's not much help that my clone is also free to use if nobody knows unless they go hunting through the fine print, as the initial assumption will be that it's a charged-for alternative.
The difference is that people aren't driving cars at 65 mph down the sidewalk. Or even 15-20 mph. Or at all. Because it's illegal and somebody could easily lose their license for it. So if you're saying we should make it not much different than cars in the sense that it's illegal, that's fine by me.
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Makes me sick that thepp1983's comment was censored for no reason. Sure he made an account to make the comment, but didn't we all at some point? He seems to have experience in the area - why are his words so offensive to you admins? You need to answer for your beligerant censorship across HN. It is entirely gratuitous. As usual, you've prevented people from supporting his comment by killing it - which allows you to fraudulently and prematurely claim that no one supports his view.
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Besides Node.js the main competitor is is Java/JVM. C# is a bit nicer than Java, but you can use Kotlin or Scala on the JVM. All in all I see no real advantage over the JVM/Java world - more of the other way around, since the .Net ecoystem is not as big as the JVM ecosystem. However competition is always good.
In the US, contractors also pay extra taxes (both sides of the payroll tax, ~15% of salary, instead of just one side, ~7.5% of salary).

Smart freelancers also charge more than they’d make per hour as a salaried worker because contract work is less stable than salaried work. When you do have work, you need to put a little extra in the bank to make up for the weeks when you don’t have work.

Add the out of pocket cost of benefits you won’t be paid for; the vacation time you won’t be paid for; any additional costs you have to shoulder (office at a coworking space? Business class internet? New computer?).

Multiply by your freelance security factor. Update that total to account for any extra taxes. Don’t accept less than that.
The closest thing to what you're describing seems to be the Librem 5[1]. It's a bit of an investment to get into now, but if you believe that such a product is worthwhile, I think it's worth backing even at this stage, just to show that the market is there.

1 - https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5
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I just went to check out thrift books and found something surprising. I looked up an old childrens book that’s an old favorite of mine and saw a review that looked really familiar and triggered something in my mind. I went over to Amazon and found the exact same review...word for word. I wonder what’s going on here...does Amazon sell review text to other vendors? Is there a public API for reviews that other sites can use?
I wonder. A quick google suggests that a typical cell might contain 10^14 atoms, and that the number of transistors in a current supercomputer is of a similar order of magnitude. Is the cell really "more complicated" than the supercomputer? The nature of the complexity is so different that I'm not sure the comparison is all that meaningful.
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I believe that the Chinese people are perfectly able to take care of themselves and do not need others to pretend to care.
Also counts against nuclear reactors: do you really want to give the same strongmen and dictators the first step towards nuclear weapons?
Does anyone know of examples where reinforcement learning has been applied to IoT applications?
I'm a carbon chauvinist.
I freely admit it.
Carbon is tremendously abundant in the cosmos and it makes marvelously complex organic molecules that are terrifically good for life.
I'm also a water chauvinist.
It's an ideal solvent for organic molecules and it stays liquid over a very wide range of temperatures.
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I'd be surprised if many organisations pay the full price for Visual Studio Enterprise - certainly a former employer of mine (a pretty large company) didn't pay anything like the list price for any of the MS development tools.
If the sensors are giving the software false altitude readings, how would your heuristics help?
We're Silver Partners for that reason alone, granted it only provides 5 licenses, but one license cost more than the fee of being Silver Partner.
I'm not sure how it works on that specific model, but it's usual that a disagreement between sensors doesn't trigger a direct action like pitch down.

It will more likely trigger a 'fallback' action like turning autopilot off (or changing flight mode which is what happened on AF447)
Not to mention the obnoxious beating heart button. It's super distracting when I'm just trying calmly to read an article. First thing I did when landing on that page was use uBlock (Origin)'s eyedropper to permanently banish it.
Finding an awesome apartment with relatively low rent and then staying there even as my salary nearly tripled.

For most of us, housing is our biggest monthly cost. If you can avoid “upgrading your lifestyle” as you upgrade your income, that’s the biggest area for savings.

I’m now saving $2400/mo (~$29k/yr) just on rent compared to the max that’s considered financially viable at my current income.
I actually find the "f5-to-do-the-magic" experience in Visual Studio Code to be preferable (TypeScipt project with Mocha tests) to the Visual Studio experience :-)
"made in exact imitation of something valuable with the intention to deceive or defraud."
Comparing this press meeting to Swedish press meetings it seems I am missing something. Don't other nation have one question per journalist and then rotate until there is no more questions or time is up?

For Swedish press meeting, most of the time the journalist walk up to the stand, ask their question, and during the time the representative answer the question the journalist walks back to their seat. There is practically never a back-and-forth conversation during a press meeting. If a TV or news paper want a interview they book an interview.

Is this a cultural difference?
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