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I am not super up to speed on this news, but I had a quick look and my guess as to why you are being downvoted, is without context, it sounds like you are implying Ukraine may have had some role worth investigating in the shooting down of MH17.

That is not the case. It sounds like the consensus is that pro-Russian troops brought a missile over from Russia, and shot down MH17.

What the Dutch parliament is proposing an investigation into, is whether Ukraine should have officially shut down its airspace.

Implying that Ukraine is at fault for shooting down an airliner because they did not shut down the airspace seems like blaming someone for being raped and shot because they didn't lock their front door, which is patently absurd.
I don't know. What's the opposite of "immediately"?
Just FYI, I don't know about others but France legalized abortion in 1975 after what is told as a rather uphill battle lead by Simone Veil [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Veil
When I last used it, it hung up on bigger images. I've had more success using ImageMagick's liquid rescale
Doesn't it kind of stink that there are so many WebAssembly runtimes? Fragmentation, different ways of doing things, etc.
> but it seems like in practice this doesn't come up too often in Go?

It comes up in any language that allows shared mutable state, so not much in functional languages which discourage mutability or Rust which discourages shared mutability.

On the other hand, most code tries to avoid shared mutable state by convention, there’s a nice bit in the Go lang design article that basically says convention is good enough, significantly simplifies the language, at the cost of the odd bug.
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>Sorry you took that as an insult, it was not intended as such. It's a generic observation that on places like HN we've collectively lost our shit and started acting like we are aeronautical engineers. It's actually one of the big factors that has recently caused me to lose a lot of confidence in the HN crowd. Thought we were above it. Even in middle age it seems I'm still capable of wide-eyed naivete.

Things are getting a little heated, so I just figured I'd chime in, because I've unintentionally become a bit of an expert on this.

It is correct that blameless postmortem has been a major contributor to the culture of aviation safety. I don't necessarily question that culture so much as the prevailing executive culture at Boeing since the McDonnell Douglas merger.

https://www.mymoneyblog.com/boeing-engineer-dream-job-nightm...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-09/former-bo...

In that case, the aviation safety culture is being undermined by executive pressure, which has been a more recent thing as far as I'm aware from my aviation history deep dive. Boeing only after the merger showed signs of trying to "financially engineer" the company into a vessel of shareholder value growth over and above it's primary mission of making safe, high quality aircraft.

In regards to
>It's a generic observation that on places like HN we've collectively lost our shit and started acting like we are aeronautical engineers.

They who grapple with questions and issues of aeronautical engineering, who run down facts, find evidence, employ sound reasoning to make predictions are, de facto aeronautics engineers in the sense of people doing tasks normally being associated with the responsibility of a practicing aeronautical engineer.

They are not a protected class of people, and anyone willing to pick up the tools and use them correctly, basically is one. The protected class is a Professional Engineer (U.S. not sure about anywhere else), who has been granted authority by the State to sign off on Engineering projects.

The elitism communicated by calling someone out for not being a practitioner in their day job is not desirable or conducive to fruitful discussion, and is regularly frowned upon.

One doesn't pop out of the womb an engineer after all, so drawing such lines only serves to discourage inquisitive minds.
WebAssembly in the Browser and Beyond (Mozilla Developer Roadshow EU 2019)
(The Lack of) Postgres in Academia
My XPS 15 (9550) has treated me very very well for the past 4 years! Ubuntu works straight out of the box and the battery life is wonderful. The super slim bezels keep it looking modern looking, too, if you care about things like that. I do somewhat wish I waited a year to get the fingerprint reader, though (not sure if it would work on Ubuntu).
And yet neither Android nor iPhone today as as good at doing email as Blackberry was 10 years ago.

They do lots of other things a lot better, but email? Nope.
https://gsuite.google.com/customers/

I don't think your comment is accurate, based on my first-hand knowledge of large companies that use gsuite, as well as their customer list in the above link.
In Defense of Fiction – Zadie Smith
> To convert boiling water to ice involves a net removal of energy. Inputting energy would keep heating the water.

A refrigerator also requires energy.
When Windblows decides to kill itself in various ways is very useful. I used it to run checkdisk when windows crashed and then booted normally without any disk check.
It has a lot of utilities that are very helpful when something goes wrong.
The new manager reportedly gave Mr. Chen verbal approval and told him to stay on the team until the PSC, but eventually gave him the "Meets Most" rating, which factually voided Mr. Chen's transfer request because the other group is very unlikely to accommodate a new IC who just received the worst possible rating, according to Facebook internal sources close to Mr. Chen.

I've heard this pattern (manager drops performance rating to block transfer) more times than I can count on two hands. I've heard this several times within two steps of my professional network. This story shows up regularly in the gender discrimination story piles.

At this point, it should be standard practice that sudden drops in performance ratings coming after team transfer attempts should trigger raised eyebrows.
also magnesium supplements - I had some nervous system/restless leg issues and finally diagnosed as deficient in it, cured insomnia that was ongoing for months - just wanted to throw this out there
“Hey, Turkish ISPs? This is the government. We’re gonna need you to black hole some BGP routes or else. Thanks.”
My preference would be something like arrow keys move the card selection, while holding ctrl + arrow keys moves the selected card.
If they don't get paid, they have lost the entire value of their labor. Why is this worth less than money? If anything it should be worth more. There are only so many hours in the day.
You’re right they don’t put their capital at risk.

Laborers are putting something much more valuable at risk: their time. Those at the lowest rungs of the social ladder are also putting their literal bodies at risk.
Instagram web never allowed uploads.
Yeah, this is exactly what I was alluding to when I said "we all know what the answer is." It's the needs of the business, not customers, that are being put first.
I guess the moral of this story is, if you're about to get on the bus, make sure you have enough battery left on your phone to last until you reach your destination. I use my phone to pay for a bus ticket every day, but I only have to show it when I get on. If I only had 1% left on the battery, I'd probably buy a paper ticket before heading to the gate though, just to be safe.
Would you be interested in Vaio SX12 or SX14 ?
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Vaio-SX14-i5-8265U-FHD-Laptop-...

Loaded with ports and slim and light weight at the same time.
No, a set of "many numbers" trivially maps 1:1 to a single number with the same information content. Constructs like space-filling curves are a manifestations of this relationship. The property is occasionally exploited in algorithm designs in order to modify the number of elements in a set.
I was thinking something similar.

Even within a single area of study "bad days" could involve activities correlated to increased pollution in many different ways.

An example that I can think of offhand: I'm way more stressed on days that neighbors are using powered yard tools (mostly mowers and blowers), which invariably also throw up lots of stuff my body and/or mind react negatively too (never been tested, but I'd be amazed if I didn't have at least an intolerance).
Serious question: have you done much hiring? Because this was a huge component of my lived experience as a hiring manager since the late 1990s, and every hiring manager I've talked with directly since has had similar experiences. If you do a lot of hiring, and you're honestly surprised that there are people who do really well in interviews and turn out not to be good hires, I'm curious to hear more about your experience.
The same way we determine who gets on the ballot. Next question.
Ignoring the whole court case thing (it's ridiculous, but not really relevant to the tech itself), this story includes a most of the issues with using a smartphone for payments that are why I don't consider doing that to be a wise thing.
At first I was thinking that intelligence operations probably have better ways to gather and exfiltrate date but I guess now that their allies have abandoned them they might not actually have better ways to get or share info. This is one of the reasons I can't wait until there are more satellite providers. It's hopefully much harder for a country to block a bunch of satellites in LEO than terrestrial lines.
A review of The Stern Review on the economics of climate change [pdf]
When life is a game, everything is gameable. However, as humans are good at adapting, you are playing one large mass of people against a lesser mass of bad players. So whilst you may get gaming of the system, that would still stand out to others who would investigate.

But let us not forget, things like posting IP and client and other such details that may prove useful in identifying such abuse, may well elude public investigation. So it would be these niche area's in which Twitter could then focus upon.

However, as an example of a slightly comparable problem - wiki editing and the weighted credibility of editors over time, we may well end up creating a hidden social media based upon a small subset of society and perhaps yielding a bias in some direction or another in judgment of what is abuse.
What else have they got to do, though?

Uber have thousands of engineers to develop and maintain a taxi hailing app...
The only good argument IMO is that the Kurd's YPG won't distance themselves from the (actual) PKK terrorists. If they made steps to do so then Turkey wouldn't have nearly as good of a justification and I wonder if this would be different. Although I'm doubtful Turkey would still make that distinction.

The border security argument is a bit weak. You shouldn't need to cross a border to defend a border.
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ZeroMQ is great, but it's important to remember it's more like an MQ framework than a turn-key MQ solution. ZeroMQ is like legos that will allow you to build the MQ architecture that you want and it's not something that you will be able to understand and use right away.

If you decide to use ZeroMQ be prepared to spend many hours reading the docs and designing the architecture you desire with the building blocks ZMQ provides. Also be prepared to build out wrappers for your developers to use so they have a simplified API to deal with.
Unfortunately, others weren't so lucky. The story of Vladimir Komarov [1] is heartbreaking.

[1] https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/astronaut-vladimir-komarov-... (that specific account contains a bit of graphic imagery).
It looks like you've been using Hacker News exclusively for political battle. That's against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We ban accounts that do it, regardless of their politics, because that way of using the site destroys the intellectual curiosity that it exists for. Some political overlap is of course inevitable—see the links below for explanation—but accounts whose purpose is to prosecute an agenda rather than meander curiously are not in the spirit of this site and in fact are destructive to that spirit.

Since this is a single-purpose account, I've banned it. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com. We're happy to unban anyone who wants to use HN as intended in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Edit: just to be clear, I don't think you were posting in bad faith. The issues are important and I'm guessing you have deep personal knowledge of them. But we simply can't have people using HN as a political platform.
I once had the joy of being forced to verify a failed HP drive via some Windows only diagnostic tool. Despite the drive being HP supplied in an HP SAN. Refused to even consider an RMA without the diagnostic tool output though.
Yes, and the side of the civil war that we picked (because it was compatible our proxy war) was anything but just.
It's a bit more complex than that though. I'd argue time is a more important commodity than money you put down. You could argue that money was earned by previous time, but the rich poor divide probably isn't going to change withe the latter attitude.
> Even my other 9-5 friends office coworkers are not making time for their friends.

Lots more ways to spend time without involving other people. TV was always there, but you didn't always have something interesting playing. Now you have on-demand Netflix. You have always-on Internet connections. You are always near your smartphone.

I think for most people, the reliable way to value time is to get put into a situation (e.g. job with long commutes) for a while, and then you're forced to eliminate a lot of the pointless things that were eating your time when you did have the time.

That transition may take a year or two, though.
>I did that last night, got tired and went to bed around 10pm. And then I woke up at 1am. Now that it's approaching 6, I'm getting tired. But this happens to me occasionally and I know from past experience that my two options are:

>1) Go back to bed at around 7, wake up at 8 or 9, and feel awful all day

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Faced with this scenario, I would get up at 1AM, go back to bed around 7 or 8, and sleep into the afternoon. Wake up feeling great.
I think no bigger assumptions than when I am trying to interpret the behavior of other humans. Behaviorists in the mid-20th century tried to avoid thinking about other humans' minds for similar reasons, and it was an intellectual dead end.
Turbo tax is a consumer product and is optimized for that. Selling Turbotax to an enterprise will yield very different results
Thank you, I heard this feedback this week as well. We’re hiring for a couple roles right now in the Vault team that will be dedicated to community management and process (that will expand more broadly). We hope this helps with this.

The feedback from customers definitely gets back to product management, so for your case, that works.
I find as both an interviewer and an interviewee that I prefer whiteboarding.

But, it depends who you need to hire. If you need someone to just do the job. A coding challenge is fine. If you want someone who's above the rest in their CS knowledge, and problem solving skills, than a whiteboard interview is best.

Just my opinion. I have no data for this.

A whiteboard interview is pretty much a coding challenge where I can observe the candidate's methodology and their general approach to tackling problems. That's super valuable information.

From being a candidate myself, I've found that having someone watch me and being in a room with the stress and all motivates me to show my best. Whereas coding challenges I really lack the motivation and I end up rushing them, doing them last minute, and really not showing my best.

Ultimately, I think they both aren't ideal, but we don't have anything better short of an internship (and even those don't always pan out, since interns are treated differently and provided more hand holding).

In the end, it's just hard to reduce work that in practice spans multiple weeks per project, and involve all kinds of side process, to something you can test for in under a day.
Any of these, these are major investigations carried out by the NTSB:

https://huntlibrary.erau.edu/collections/aerospace-and-aviat...
Not only that, but the parent is disregarding the human capital put on the line. Time spent educating and specialising is the equivalent of a bet at times.
Its a money problem but not for the reasons you give, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk probably have more money than all the space agencies combined but I think the goal is they want to develop space and still have some money left afterwards
It's not difficult to see that such amount of connections is only useful if your server performs a trivial task. Otherwise, the bottleneck will be your CPU(s).
Training is an issue, because the pilots had at their fingertips the means to recover from the malfunction (turning off the stab trim via the cutoff switches).
It is, though. Your employer or your clients are risking their money for future gain. To make more money than they put into it, to be "richer."
do one for neural networks with keras + pytorch + papers and i will pay for it
>It's a pure computation that will take nanoseconds; is that worth involving the Internet and a third-party API?

reminds me of http://left-pad.io/
Runway ML – Machine Learning for Creators
Skype is a Microsoft product, though?
I made a similar library! https://github.com/northisup/curlit
(sorry for the poor documentation!)
Genocide with a cross border operation but millions of kurds living in Turkey's own territory. Okay.
Hmm I've actually thought about that for a long time and I think the prize was in a way for the American people not for the war but peace within the society (or so we though) in electing a black president who went on to take action to get the America/World out of recession wanting change..There is zero evidence of what I'm saying by the way complete speculation, but that's why I believe the prize was given to him overzealously. If I recall Obama himself felt strange about the prize and was taken aback. He considered not picking it up and had his staff ask if he could skip the ceremony.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960
This is just an ad...
QQ: Why is it invite only ?
Such an amazing video. Really interesting how the primes and the spirals are actually (basically) unrelated, but how it nevertheless leads to an interesting concept on the distribution of primes. Love the visualizations.
>The stable community is the USA

I highly disagree with this sentiment. Very few of the US institutions are well designed, and I suspect that there will be a decline of American hegemony worldwide.
Does anyone know what latency overhead switching to ECS/EKS would add?
Comparing against the national average seems like BS anyway. The suicide rate of employees in any given company should be compared to suicide rates of other populations of people with comparable incomes, opportunities, etc. For instance, how does the suicide rate in Facebook compare to Google? Or how does the suicide rate in one Facebook department compare to another?
WeWork could run out of cash by next month
Because the sales are done top-down(via executives) rather than bottom-up(via actual users who are picky about the UX).
It's not about stopping the military, it's about stopping regular people from communicating. Don't want you posting troop positions, pictures of dead people, etc.
Their time is not necessarily much more valuable than capital. I know this because they give up time for capital.
you don't understand because your values are not aligned to the values of the people making this proposal. I value a just society where most people can live with dignity above the opportunity to become mega rich, you don't.
I think what's worse is that the basic nature of taxes is not taken into account, which is allegedly desired government activities, and instead some sort of moral compensation for existing a la christian church.

The consolidated US government already collects 33% of GDP in taxes: how about consuming the worst performing services of the government? I'm sure there's at least 5% of spending thats a no-brainer pure loss to society.
The calculation would be even more lopsided if health insurance was considered a tax. That's the sort of thing you have to do if you want compare American taxes against taxes in other first world countries.
"They're Made out of Meat"

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
If I am doing a phone screen + an all day onsite, sure it sucks but at the very least I know I'm a serious enough candidate that the company is willing to burn one engineer day to evaluate me. With a coding challenge, I have no way of knowing! Maybe they sent the challenge to ten other candidates, maybe twenty, etc? I don't even know if the code will be reviewed. Make me jump through as many in person hoops as you want, I refuse to do take home coding challenges. shrug
> If you care about tree snapshots then each commit is a promise that "I have made these changes, and afterwards the entire combined codebase still works and makes sense"

This is an unreasonably high bar to reach for each commit. This is the right test to apply (among others) for whether a PR has the right stuff to get merged into a trunk, or not.
Why technologists need to get involved in public policy
This is the one thing that finally, after four years, successfully treated my insomnia.
> Other baby outfits are meant for parents. They’re marked "Easy On, Easy Off" or some such, and they really mean it. Zippers aren't easy enough so they fasten using MAGNETS. A busy parent (i.e. a parent) can change an outfit in 5 seconds, one handed, before rushing to work.

Magnets? That sounds like a terrible idea, since babies are not supposed to be around little magnets that they could swallow (and after a few times through the washer/dryer, magnets could come loose.

Is this really a thing? I have two kids (and one baby, so we're in the thick of it), and I've never heard of this. More importantly, we wouldn't think of buying anything for a baby that has little magnets sewn into cloth.
I did this twice in my career & took jobs at companies that seemed very interesting, but after I joined they had bait & switched me and my job responsibilities were way different than I agreed to, and predictably nobody in HR cared.

I was left with a job I disliked & never had agreed to _and_ making less money than before.

I realized the likes and dislikes, interestingness, culture, etc. can never ever be enforced and can change suddenly. Meanwhile it’s much harder for compensation to change like that.
> I think this assumes there’s some inner core of WeWork that is worth saving.

It seems directly related to your first sentence, doesn't it?
Remember that the previous Lion Air flight to the one that crashed also has uncommanded trim movement, and the pilots there simply shut it off with the cutoff switches and landed without difficulty.

The cutoff switches are there to deal with trim runaway, and there is training for that.
All capital represents what was at some point someone's labor. So I labored, was paid, then hired people to labor in exchange for money, then made more money from the products of labor, then risked the value of that labor in an investment. It's not less, and not more.