skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's all speculation, it's a hell of a lot better than what the government does with these baseless terrorism claims which they disguise to look like facts. At least going through these scenarios (fire in the cabin, electrical damage, loss of cabin pressure) might lead to some clues worth pursuing.

I do share you pessimism a bit though because I believe since we haven't found the plane by now, it's probably at the bottom of the ocean. There might be an accidental discovery in the years ahead though. And with a little luck they can reconstruct a credible scenario from the engine telemetry... it wouldn't be the first time.
If people can just take their technology and grow it again themselves, there is no way for them to recoup their investment and we simply won't have better crops.

Thousands of years of selective breeding refutes the above statement.

It's not always about ROI. Some of us just like variety. I do agree with your sentiment, it's just the legal aspects that I dislike.

Oh for a world without money & greed!
As were the boxes on 9/11, but those were allegedly destroyed in the fire.
One guy having issues with one ISP hardly makes a universal argument though.
> And if you started hanging around the meeting rooms to ogle the people doing it

There's no way to prove or disprove the fact that they were 'ogling' rather than merely watching though - Horvath's judgement was likely biased by how upset she was with everybody else's (fuck, mine would be if I'd been as epically shat on by an employer as she felt she had been) and we don't have any other data.
The biggest problem that forces you to run through all the pre-setup UI views and other stuff is that often time you need those to recreate states, and when you have a bug, more often that not, you have a corrupt state, which will stay corrupted with or without code injection. dyci is definitely a very neat method but of limited use.
What do you do if chilling out is not an option ? If your day job is maddening (and you feel like any other job would probably be maddening too) and the only alternative you have is to start your own company ? What do you do if you need to keep the day job to pay bills and work on your own product in the evening and the week-end until it can bring money ? When it seems that you can either burn out or succeed ?
What is the point if you can't add content via web browser? Do they really expect the dinosaurs of enterprise to be purely mobile?
No matter how sharp your blade, your steel must be tempered.

Life is about balance. You will break if you don't give your mind and body the rest it deserves. Often, great ideas find me when I am cooling down.
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I'm not making a universal argument, I'm answering your question
A few days prior to this Google App Engine apps that were using custom domains started redirecting to google.com for about 3 - 4 hours. (Google hasn't acknowledged that publicly yet, but did set a security flag on one of the issues on the appengine issue tracker)

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...

Potentially related, perhaps?
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Burnout is a syndrome that happens from a series of failures, resulting in your brain automatically associating work with failure.

The cure for burnout is a series of successes. You need to retrain your brain to associate work with success. Start small. Don't take on more than you can handle. Quit trying to make the uber server app and write a few simple command line utilities that work and work well.
Hey,

So I understand there can be hassle on how setup your own VPS Server on services like amazon, etc... but sticking to Heroku still isn't that cheep either.

If you have your Heroku app "production Ready" you might still be costing you 200 bucks a month.

Also Heroku isnt as stable and performant as for example amazon server. I migrated my app out of heroku to Amazon and got a 5X increase in performance while spending the same money I did on heroku, not to mention you have more controller over your servers where you can play around and increase performace even more.

And don't worry about setting up your own servers in amazon, Now youcan use OpsWork for deploying your apps, and its like having heroku on Amazon servers plus Root access to them.

cheers
A quick hack that lets you update (not submit) your Y Combinator application from a Google Document. We found using a Google Document for collaborative editing of our YC application worked great, but pasting in the data to the form manually is a pain. So I wrote a script to automate it.
I would say that LINQ is one of the worst things to ever happen to .NET. On one team I had to make a dictum that barred LINQ from even being used, except in exceptional circumstances.

I do not mean to raise the ire of defensive .NET programmers by saying this: as with most things, used right it is a beautiful thing, and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with LINQ. But what it was used for in practice was almost always grotesquely inefficient.

If someone had to make a loop to iterate objects to find a member on every function call, pretty soon they'll realize they should using a System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary for instance, or some other appropriate data structure (e.g. Need sorted data? Then use a sorted tree, for instance). When it's a simple LINQ query, though, it's one seemingly harmless little line, so it tends to get a pass.

Pretty soon profiles were just hundreds (if not thousands) of different cases where LINQ was used as a cure-all, destroying performance under any load at all.

LINQ is not magical. It is doing the same dirty work that you would be doing yourself if you needed to filter / sort / recast, but provides syntactical sugar to do so. The compiler and runtime will happily generate horrifically inefficient code if you request it, with no warning or complaints.

The tldr; is that it is a fantastic set abstraction that is more often than not grossly abused.
Good post - short, sweet and to the point.

It's important to find that balance between what you love and what keeps you healthy. Some people here may go on the defensive and read it as "I don't work every waking hour and you shouldn't either", but hopefully they'll take a deep breath, release the kung fu grip on their copy of "Design Patterns" and remember to just grab a decent night's sleep every so often.
I think it depends on how you feel when doing extracurricular work - if you're energized and excited, awesome. If you eventually find yourself drained and/or beating yourself up, take it easy on yourself and rest up.
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Learn to enforce boundaries. If you let your job walk all over you, it will.
yeah, taking into consideration this objection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7414927

seems like that might be the neatest solution
Autocorrect mangled part of my post. The issue is that desk-side visits for OS installs or part upgrades are both expensive and error prone.

If you are outsourcing the process, you're easily looking at $250-400 of labor per unit for an asset that is worth < $100. As an added issue, you're going to have quality issues that are even more expensive to deal with.
Those all-hands meetings, social events, team-building off-sites and more that make up the fabric of a cohesive company

These things, to the extent they are really worth doing, can't be replaced by a "sexed up" intranet.
And a friend just showed me this, which has an interactive map:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/where-...
Assuming you care about the distinction between null and no such key (for many applications you can avoid storing null, IMO), you can actually perform the containsKey() after the get() for only keys which get() returns null. I think that see all of the perf overhead of a single lookup if most values are non-null.
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I agree with everything you say. Good simple idea become a source of money with all the classes and certification that just kill the idea.
Because my ISP (TDC) has been ordered by the Danish court to DNS block certain websites, such as the pirate bay.
Here's a theory — an ideal job is a job that fulfills your desire to code to a level in which you don't want to do any coding after work hours. There's so much challenging tasks and new things you learn right away by doing things you are paid for that you don't need to search for something new after work.
The pilot in question had built a flight simulator at home. I doubt he was flying it mostly on autopilot. He also worked as instructor.

I am not a pilot, but I would expect both would provide opportunities to refresh memory.
Why? Three cases of pilots committing suicide with big jets in the last few years. Silk Air 185, Egypt Air 990, LAM 470.

So either (a) it's an act of war by another country or (b) the far simpler a pilot committed suicide.

However, it if was a state actor, would you as the US tell people that? Wars cost trillions. Perhaps just sweep it under the rug.
Are three-person "designer babies" ethical?
"The list never gets smaller. If anything, it not only gets longer, but the list items themselves grow even more ambitious and far reaching."

Well put. Just wait until your 40's. Or wait until you have kids! (If you plan on that). Sure, the list may get longer, but once you have that feeling of time is running out - that's when it gets freaky.

My wife and I had this discussion over the weekend. There's the rotten underbelly of tech that is overload and burn out. Personally, I'd love to walk away from tech. It has great money attached to it, but a lot of the time it's not worth it. If you're single with no responsibilities, it can be the best thing ever. You can meet like minded people who don't want to leave 'campus' and everyone can build their life around the job.

But if you have a family, it's probably not the best industry to be in. Sure, some places recognize this and allow for 'flexible hours'. But for most of the companies I've come across that are 'family friendly' this means working late into the night, which means you're tired the next morning. Rinse and repeat.

If I could give the 20 year old me some advice it would have been to apply at Netscape when I had the chance. :)
"We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. our success is a victory for purity, integrity — for giving a damn."

Surely he's not talking about the headphones supplied with iDevices.
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>You're confusing yourself, because there're two interpretations of the phrase "exacerbating resistance" in play here.

No, I completely understand what he is saying, and I am suggesting that, in saying it, he is being disingenuous and misleading. It's industry sponsored double-speak. Judging by your response, it appears to be working.

His initial statements that GMOs don't exacerbate the problem and that resistance is completely independent of GMOs are false. Full-stop. When challenged, he goes on to admit as much by acknowledging the well-known fact that resistance has increased where the Roundup Ready case is concerned.

But, he then tries to qualify and obfuscate that acknowledgment by saying that overall resistance is decreased by a corresponding amount for other herbicides which are subsequently used less.

The problem with this is that it is misleading and seeks to let GMOs off the hook. It even applauds them. The reality is that humans are now using and consuming more glyphosate. He tries to dismiss this effect by cheerleading their safety (which is anything but assured when independent research is considered).

The other pernicious bit of his argument is due to the fact that, in the future, we are likely to use more and more herbicide-resistant GMOs. By declaring GMOs "competely independent" of the resistance problem, he is implying that overall resistance would continue to remain the same (or be reduced), even with more GMOs. But, the fact is, the more we use any herbicide-resistant GMOs, the more we will dump those herbicides on crops, and the more resistance we'll see to those (and, hence, overall).

At the end of the day, our crops will be soaked in more of whatever herbicide we're using. But, you certainly don't get that potential scenario from statements like "herbicide resistance is a problem completely independent of GMOs".
> things that bloat larger projects to the point where it literally can take minutes to compile, and load the first request in a web application.

Kind of like how Rails devs have tests that run for minutes?

I kid. Sort of. Both instances are problems of poor design and architecture. C#/VS don't really pay off until you start having larger code bases. Which, for web apps, doesn't happen...until it does, and then it sucks. The semantic analysis afforded by more static languages like C# becomes a real boon then. I'm not going to argue that types will fix the Software Problem, but they do help considerably, especially when an API shifts out from under you.

I love VS (and won't write any C++ without it), but it is pretty hefty. Some of the recent UI changes are highly questionable in my mind, but, that's MS for you.
Of course not. But don’t use meritocracy as an excuse to not be proactive about diversity.
No, Fedora ships with 2.7.
I'm struggling with being irrelevant right now. Not a fun thing, I assure you.
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This, I'm so sick of hearing burnout stories, you're responsible for how you're feeling. When you take the stance of the "victim" all the time you set yourself up for failure.

I see countless people attribute "failures" that had nothing to do with themselves to them just so they feel like they have some control over the situation and then wind up feeling burnt out when they're accepting the responsibility for the entire companies success or doom. Then they're asking why they're feeling so burnt out and can't completely their daily responsibilities that they actually have.
I love the standing desk I installed in my home office. I got a corner desk top from Ikea for ~$70, went to my local hardware store and talked to some wall mounting experts, and a few drill holes later I have the best standing desk ever.

Picture of full desk after initial install: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kr9wu01xshbjyku/2013-10-20%2010.04...

Picture of typical setup during the day: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s5f1v18jet2blbu/2013-11-14%2010.10...
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I think that it's the way the PR statement is written that is 'clever'. By putting the founder on leave and banning his wife from the office they haven taken pro-active action (which was not mandatory). As has been noted, it might seem that they have admitted some wrong-doing when in fact they have not. But it's enough food for the media to drop the issue...
Have you ever had your legs measured by a physical therapist or equivalent? I used to do the same thing. The problem is that resting on one leg tends to push the hips out of alignment (it's easy to see in the mirror; the hipbones won't make a line parallel to the ground).

For me, I would always get pain/numbness in my lower back on the side of my taller leg. Putting a lift in the other shoe and being mindful to keep straight helped to fix it. I had to be mindful (at least at first) because my body was so used to slouching sideways that it would still try to default in one way or another. I think that it's gotten better as the muscles re-learn the necessary patterns to keep straight.

EDIT: BTW, I don't use a standing desk- I prefer to walk around a lot. Before my PT visit, I would get pain within 15 minutes of standing!
Burnout is like being sleep deprived; you can be wildly successful and still burn out if you don't give yourself time to mentally sort through all the ideas and toss out the trash, even if just subconsciously.

When you've been working too hard for too long, small problems can feel like big issues because the cumulative weight of all the stuff going through your mind.

Clarity is tough to maintain.
Yeah, but it's bollocks. Too much grinding dulls your mental acuity. We're not talking about World of Warcraft where your score depends on how many times you press the button in the Skinner box. We're talking about real life where progress depends on understanding better ways to do things. A few years at a healthy, sustainable pace with work-life balance will leave you better at your job than a few years of demented grinding will.
Or the MacBook charge cables that consistently break and need replaced on nearly a yearly basis.
Apparently I'm living in your bizarro world, because Google's DNS servers consistently outperform my home ISP's by a factor 2 or 3, spiking to 10, in terms of measured response time.

So yes, my ISP sucks.
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I should give my feedback too that after standing regularly, my back hurts a lot if I sit more than a couple of hours.
The site for the film Requiem For a Dream was always one of my favorites. It was still online as of a couple years ago but appears to finally be gone. But thankfully here's an archive:

http://archive.hi-res.net/requiem/
I'll wager...

And you would lose.

This conversation was about .NET, and then you (rather oddly) decided to pull in nodejs. It has nothing, at all, to do with Erlang, Go, Haskell, or any other language, and the tactic of using them as the "big brother" to discount another language is petty and disingenuous.
An all-electric vehicle is definitively a design choice.

That design choice directly impacts who Tesla targets with their products.
This nails it. They should fund the best C# open source projects and promote them as micro replacements for existing monolithic libraries.
Actually, there are incompatible changes ALREADY that affect all my projects.

pathlib in python3 has ".parent" property that returns parent-directory, and pathlib in master has ".parent(n)" method that returns n levels UP.

That sucks so much.
This is the setup I have -- specifically the wider setup shown in the bottom row of pictures. Works great, been using it for about 8 months now full time.

But if you're going to try standing, please save your body and use an anti-fatigue mat. It makes all the difference. I use two stacked on top of each other.
In the case of Java, there is a lot of inefficiency in the standard hash table in the form of Entry<T, K> objects for making it a bit nicer to use. There is also a lot of extra state stored for some of the extra features offered. Everything has a cost. If you just need a straight Int->Int or Int->Object map, there are a lot of ways to make it far more efficient.

The standard library doesn't contain these, because in 99% of apps, the actual performance of the hash table is a very minor part and a small bit of overhead for added convenience is worth it. However in a program where the hashmap is the key point, you'd obviously choose to optimize it to fit your goals.
What? This has a lot more plausible and structured motives than either school shootings or terrorist attacks. Whoever hijacked it has a Boeing 777 now. Not sure why that doesn't seem like a worthwhile task?
"For another, the DOI is a persistent link. Broken links are a growing problem for academia, as link structures are changed and online content is edited. “If your persistent link is pointing to something on Figshare, which is ‘this GitHub repository at that version, at that release,’ then even if the GitHub repository changes or Figshare changes its link structure, that DOI will always point to that object,” Mark Hahnel, founder of Figshare said."

Yeah... well there is the achilles heel of this whole thing. "Always" in internet time means "2 or 3 years, or until we fail to close another round of funding" in real-world time. I'm probably being a cynical old fogey again, but let's see in 5 years time if this whole thing still exists (mozilla, for example, doesn't have a very solid track record of keeping projects up, to put it mildly) before I start putting URLs to this in papers that people will probably still reference every once in a while 5 years from now.

Then again, if everybody thinks like I do, it'll never get off the ground - classic catch-22.
Unless there's some major improvement in data sources (i.e. sensors) it's very difficult to see what Apple are going to achieve here. They've managed to surprise people before, but breakthrough medical sensors (especially around blood monitoring) would make previous revolutions look minor.
Unless they're lying about what they collect (https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy) I'm pretty comfortable with those terms. I would not be at all surprised if my ISP's DNS server is tracking me far more cloesly.
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Being non-productive can be very productive.
Eh, the difficulty here is that shelter is far more important than transportation - people can live without cars (as illustrated in the article), they can't live without a roof over their head. It is an unfortunate paradox that cities were designed to house lots of people close to their work, which should make it easier for the lower classes to access that work, but has actually made it harder because the upper classes have learned about the value of urban real estate, and are thus driving out the lower classes through gentrification.
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Looks cool, cannot see a pricing page do you have plan to have a pro version?
I assume he requires a few more significant figures in his line of work
It's interesting to note people have always been taught if you work hard, you'll get ahead. This just isn't the case anymore, and this is a great example.

This guy worked his ass off and how is he rewarded? By being given tighter deadlines and more work. No promotion, no increase in pay. They just worked him to death until he broke in glorious fashion.

I just won't accept this lifestyle anymore. When I leave on Friday, my laptop and work phone stays off all weekend. When I leave the office, it takes an act of congress to get me to crack my laptop and do extra work after hours. I've seen it over and over again how it doesn't matter how hard you work, you need to know someone to get promoted. Yeah, office politics suck, but if you don't play the game and simply do your work and go home, you'll be a lot healthier in the long run.
How about a job board for people that want to work in the space industry?
As Marge Simpson once said: "We can't afford to shop at a store which has a philosophy".
> Apple's communications are borderline dismissive to people who are less fortunate and less lucky

I'd agree if we were in a 3rd world country somewhere, but we (probably both) aren't. People who need to save $200 on a tablet where we live very likely do not need said tablet at all. In the end we just often buy inferior products (in design, functionality and longevity) in order to be able to purchase a larger total number of unnecessary items. We absurdly feel we've put our money to better use if we spent it on more things, most of which we cannot put to good use anyway.

It's why we get to buy so much broken crap these days (I was going to keep Apple vs. Everyone out of this, but I still use my 1st gen iPad while the only Android tablet I ever bought, an Archos HD97 never worked properly - due to flaky WiFi hardware apparently).

> Is it any wonder Tesla, despite Musk's claims, is working his way from the top of the market, and not the bottom?

Musk explained this many years ago. It has nothing to do with the cost of design: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-p...
Location really has little to do with. While SF is a bit of a hipster enclave, so are a lot of places with plenty of tech companies.