skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You´ll be amazed how fast you can start screwing things at a cockpit once you have an unknown emergency or even worst a known emergency that you have misunderstood. Just deselecting the wrong button (for example disconnecting a generator and a cross tie connector), will put you in manual control, with all the cockpit lights and half the instruments off, several alarms ringing... not a desirable situation even for an experienced pilot. You are able to forget to communicate, to navigate, you are able to crash to a mountain because you are looking at a flashing light, I can´t find a good example outside of aviation to make you understand the feeling to look at a panel and not knowing what the hell is going on.

At simulators we practice all the normal emergencies, that will cover you 99,5 of the times. Most emergencies are simple, but some times something that is not known even to Boeing happens. Or it´s a simple emergency but you take the wrong steps. This happens more frequently to pilots who passed a lacking instruction method (like the one I describe that´s happening at china), but can happen to anyone.

The Air France crash was due to a no emergency situation (they just needed to keep altitude, and engine thrust selection to keep a normal flight and recover the instruments) that was converted in to a crash due to a misinterpretation and wrong piloting skills.
Your sources are correct, it is easy.

Also, it neither problematic nor scary nor weird. The pilot can kill everyone on board in any number of ways. You're putting your life in his (or her) hands every time you step on the aircraft. Same goes for your city bus and taxis...
The actual important stuff:

"Simplify the directive API

Integrate with other component frameworks using web standards

Improve performance

Allow tools like IDEs to analyze and validate templates"
"He has $20m in the bank now, so he is happy"

What?
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Sounds like they played it pretty well.
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I don't get this "punishment more primitive than torture" nuance. It may be inconvenient (for people born somewhere outside U.K. to loose an inherited citizenship), but isn't a stretch to call that a "punishment"?
I still think that it´s some kind of hijacking, but there is the possibility that the crew started screwing themselves while working on an emergency, and then getting lost at sea.. Not the most probable but possible.
Mechanical failure hasn't really been in play since the satellite data was released.
Of course. It is also a fact in every single community of a certain size because there's always a number of that have sexist behavior.
You can use a proxy to get US Netflix, but that's illegal and doesn't work with a smart TV.

This is by no means a good solution, and perhaps still illegal, but it does work. I used to do that for Pandora:

You can run a VPN client on your router connected to a server in the US and add routes for Netflix to go through that connection. That way all devices on your home network should be able to connect to Netflix.

Or some other geo-ip-restricted service. You just need to sniff out their IP blocks.

You set it to reconnect automatically and it's not even that inconvenient. Although you do have to pick networking up as a hobby.
Oh well, here we go again...

I'm really pissed off and disappointed by people that assume that most hackers, being white, male and heterosexual, were somehow privileged to get into the position that we are in now... The reality is, it's not my skin color, my sex or my sexual orientation that made me a hacker, but years of hard work in my teens and pure perseverance in the face of insults, mocking and being "the unpopular geek". I've most definitely been much less privileged during my teen years than most girls (can't say about non-whites or gays, because there weren't any (yet)). It only now, after we've struck gold and the "outsiders" want to get in to get a piece of the pie, that we're being acknowledged, envied and called privileged. Maybe that's why we don't particularly try to make tech welcoming to the outsiders - we want no impostors who are only in it for the money or because it suddenly became cool.
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Agreed.

Sometimes I write nice code, I come back a few months later, understand how it works and it is easy to change / add features to it. Other times I write nasty hacks, because it is required quickly, and they just need something that works. Depends on time constraints and other factors. This interview technique obviously assumes that time is plentiful, and refactoring is the most important thing about the code. Usually it is not (at least for most of the places I have worked over the last ten years).

I personally find I get a good idea about someones ability by talking to them. I have a good idea about my colleagues ability, despite not having read much of their code. If they seem s to have a passion for programming, understand a variety of concepts, know what libraries are useful for what tasks, then I will have an idea that they are good.

Or are they still logging onto MySQL from the command line, because anything else is too complex to set up. Print statements for debugging, because an IDE is to complex to set up with graphical debugging. Still using the same tools that we got taught in University ten years ago, because they have not bothered to keep up? Yes, I work with these people as well. If I was hiring, these ones would not get chosen.
@lisper:

>The fact that the plane has not been found is very strong evidence that it did not crash. If it crashed on water, some debris would most likely have been found by now.

The current "most likely water crash" area has only started being searched today.
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What does this have to do with saving us from terrorism?
Letting Banks fail is what the Fed did during the Great Depression. See http://www.stlouisfed.org/great-depression/qa.html.

"Many people criticized the Fed for its response to the Great Depression. How is the Fed's response to the current crisis different?"

"The key difference between the 1930s and today is how the Fed has reacted to the crisis. In the ‘30s, the Fed more or less let the banking system collapse, allowed the money supply to collapse and allowed the price level to fall."
Firefox is still the least secure web browser
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Good ol' tic-tac-toe with a few more squares. Simple bot.
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I'm not sure I follow. They are a commercial enterprise, and that's the revenue model for their product. How could someone charging a price for their product make you sick? Who is John Galt?
More plausible than a lot of stuff that's been posted.

However, if true... You'd expect DevGru or Legionnaires or whatever the Chinese equivalent is to have acted by now.
In the UK we've got the last half of Season 5, sorry :(
I think there's a significant difference between saying "I don't want my daughter to work in Silicon Valley" and "I will forbid my daughter from working in Silicon Valley". All the author is saying is that he sees SV as a hateful place for women to work and, wanting the best for his daughter as he does, he would advise her against going there. I don't think he's saying he'd actively stop her if she still wanted to.
If Popcorn Time "went legitimate", how much per month do you think would be a reasonable price?

I'd happily pay $30/month if it worked on my TV -- I'd just buy a digital antenna for local OTA broadcasts.

Even $50/month wouldn't be too horrible. I believe that $30 is the "sweet spot", though.
TL:DR - You pure development guys are more likely to have success if you realise you have a need for people with other complimentary skills, and you need to have respect for them, their intelligence and their role.

I've seen this so many times its tragic, and it comes down to largely one thing IMHO... the arrogance of extremely intelligent people with specialties in maths/physics or other numeracy focused backgrounds over other people.

How about an office move where developers sat around and bitched because network cables hadn't been moved across yet? Young office admin girl shows initiative and drives to old office and gets all the network cables. They now see her as their runner as they know that she's paid less so therefore its optimal.

Its crunch time and a ScrumMaster who goes and gets coffee for the team before a release so they stick to working is then perpetually told "We're busy, coffee needed", and is slowly reduced to Team Mom, or worse Janitor.

A startup's CTO and part shareholder overrules the Head of Marketing and lead designers on their design choice because he's read an article saying how Arial is optimal for reading, and then gets involved in every decision. Only once the CTO is moved on does the sales and marketing team really start performing and the company is saved.

I've seen numerous friends who are extremely technically capable Java developers create excellent technical solutions in the finance space to problems that people won't pay for, or don't need solving, or that they don't know how to market or keep running 24/7. They see MBA's as a waste despite their MBA friend saying "Look at the market segmentation, and consider your positioning to see if you can compete" - A valid point that could have answered the question before the £80K in lost wages.

I've had conversations where I've quoted a previous stand-in lecturer who was worth £110m from 3 different startups who told of the importance of a well rounded team including sales, finance etc. to young developers who think that DHH is basically a prophet, they only need tech guys and if you build it they will come, and their answers to me were words to the effect of "I disagree because HN said so".

I'd rather put £1000 of investment money in the hands of a proven sales guy's startup than a proven back-end developer, as I've seen first hand that a great sales guy can sell crap and make money.
This theory doesn't really seem tenable at this point...
The UK vehemently opposed the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, in the end opting out of it, so UK ex-citizens can't even sue against their state disowning them.
"Obviously new releases can only be viewed in the cinema"

Wrong
Xamarin.iOS generates full iOS binaries, not Objective-C source code, and they can be published to the app store.
There are various services that do the proxying for you and you "only" have to change your DNS server. One I've used in the past is unblock-us.
Paxcom to enable merchants to sell on multiple e-com portals
1. Pick up a good C++ book if you already don't have one (coursebook or Herbert Schildt or some O'Reilly book).
2. Open an IDE of choice.
3. Start reading, write code & understand what you code.
4. Calm down, repeat 3.

Do well.
Redis client library for asyncio (Python 3.4)
Want to challenge your Github friends through code battles?
Sure, I understand this. The mystery is that the plane was (apparently!) making turns over a period of at least nearly a couple of hours, well after any initial pants-on-fire emergency (or panic misreaction like Air France), with not even a peep on any of the radios, the transponders, or the ELT.
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Once a startup is beyond the "critical mass" of users, it goes on to erect barriers to entry for new comers. But since it's a free market (sort of), competitors are equally welcome to get in and take their share of the pie. But having OpenSource build web apps (products) would actually blur the difference b/w a commercial entity and an open source project.
Is debugging not a pain in these languages?
I'd characterize it as an investment, rather than gambling.
We need to start taking care of our health data
I'm not sure if truly defeating such attacks is feasible, but if you demand employees use a (ssl terminating) proxy, you can at least monitor and/or log all traffic (not necessarily legal or ok in many jurisdictions) -- and so have a reasonable way to look for malware (possibly only useful after the fact).

That is if the routers inside your own network can be trusted. Paranoid turtles, all the way down.
They use first-mover advantage to create long-lasting, high-margin monopolies with persisting returns completely out of proportion to the value they add.

In drug patents, the company gets 12 years to make revenue from its innovation.. why should ebay get an eternity?
A few years ago, the piracy user experience was far and away better than the legitimate user experience. Things then started to change: Netflix, Spotify, BBC iPlayer, etc etc. The legit services are - with three exceptions - now in most cases better and easier and smoother than the piracy alternative. But the three exceptions can be fairly major:

1. Price (well, duh). Netflix is cheap imo, Spotify is cheap, but piracy is still free.

2. Spread of content. Less an issue with Spotify which has just about EVERYTHING but more so with video services. Piracy has any movie, any TV show. Netflix (and other services) only have those they've signed up.

3. Availability. Netflix is great in the US, okay in the UK, tolerable in other places. HBO Go is only available in a few countries. BBC iPlayer only in the UK. It's patchy.

But: the signs are there than when content owners and distributions services can get their act together, legitimate distribution is a better user experience than piracy. That's only been the case for the last year, eighteen months. Mulligan appears to be casting aside many years of history when piracy was the only game in town. Popcorn Time has a great UI and is simple to use, but it's now playing catch-up with paid services when for a decade or more, piracy was streets ahead in ability and usability.
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In a truly competitive market, at some stage government would step in and break monopolies. For instance, they would go to Ebay and say, "look, you need to pool all your auction listings with other online auction companies, so they have access to yours and you display theirs", forcing them to actually compete on price and service.

And wikipedia is a non-commercial web app. There isn't really a blurred line - either it is for the common good or it is for profit.
Just VPN to the UK and you'll have the last half. Although I'm sure I read about it coming to the US at some point this spring
Another way to look at this is that human civilization consumes a scary amount of power.

Our global energy consumption in 2008 was estimated to be 474 exajoules. The total energy received by the earth from the sun during a year is about 5 million exajoules, a fraction of which reaches the surface.

So we are only a factor 10,000 away from that. At a seemingly modest 2% yearly growth rate, we could increase our energy consumption a hundredfold in two centuries, and waste heat will start to become an issue.
I'll keep this high level; that's where I have issues with Angular.

Angular wants you to learn its vocabulary, and encourages users to expand it further.
Like you point out, smart-float is a directive specific to the example. To me, it is a foreign object I don't recognize in html. In fact, directives, scopes?

The big one. Dependency Injection, factories, modules. In JS, this is a solution looking for a problem.
There are simpler alternatives to DI. They have issues, but only in theory.

Clarity matters a lot. ng-show="form.length.$error.float". Is there a more simpler way of doing it? There should be; I can't even tell what that means.

I think there are distinctly two camps. I'm in the one which wants frameworks to make me productive with the languages, specs and standards I already know. React (+ router) does this. Backbone does this too, depending on what you're building.

(Edit: replaced semantic with clarity)
As far as my experience goes (roughly ten years of trying to access sites like Comedy Central’s Daily Show), no geo-blocking solution works for more than a month — up to a couple of weeks now. Hola worked for 10 days for me.

I am happy to pay for Netflix; the selection, partial where I am now, justifies the price. However, if they won’t sell me anything more up to date… well, I won’t buy it.
I hate package managers too, but the worst I've ever seen were proprietary "solutions" in the games industry which did do awful tricks to make VS play ball.

It is no exaggeration to say people would avoid updating packages in their projects (i.e. the whole point of using a package manager was nullified) since they knew they would lose days or weeks merely getting back to where they were.

The problems with package management seem to be exponentially proportional to how clever the person implementing the system thought they were. Any more than a declarative list of dependencies per package that can be fully evaluated to a programmer readable dependency tree prior to a single package update and you've created a self sustaining beast that will consume more of your time than developing the actual product.
Same here, I've been using WinMo for quite a few revisions and prior to that I had two Treos. The iPhone was an excellent smartphone that was as usable, if not more, than the others for day to day use.
If the gatekeepers (hiring managers, venture capitalists, etc) are only willing to hire or to invest in young, white, straight males then working there is very much a privilege that is only afforded to young, white, straight males. It's a privilege because it's granted by someone else. "outsiders" who are women, black, gay, etc can't "earn" their way in. No amount of hard work earning your hacker spurs is going to change the fundamental make up of who you are. That's why it's not fair, it's unequal, it's wrong, and it's something that everyone should rally against.
when everything has it's own version of a dependency don't you risk to get into a condition where you get e.g. incompatible objects Lib-v1.Foo and Lib-v2.Foo ?
Well, no Netflix is not tolerable in other places. In Poland there is no reasonsble way to watch legal 1st world movies. Perhaps aside from iTunes which has a limited catalogue, and it's usability is far behind torrents imho.
Not to mention the crazy prices.
How dare you spout such obvious tripe?! You have no say anymore, STFU and stop misleading people!
You're absolutely correct.

I agree with both you and the fanboys on this point, however. Our current system is better than the old, for sure, but at the end of the day it is true that an insane amount of money is paid to these oligopolous firms as fees for doing a very simple job. Payment processing really is a case of moving database rows around, albeit in a highly available manner, yet they demand huge percentages. My bank goes down about as often as my Gmail, and the latter's free and deals with more information than my bank.

The present is better than the old, but very bad compared to what could be.
I don't think the filtering approach is feasible. You need separation.

Maybe run separate VMs for casual browsing, work, entertainment, etc? Like Qubes does http://qubes-os.org/trac
Or how about "So this one guy effectively won a lottery, and is unusual enough that it's a story in itself. Let's move on to the next thing in life". It's not like there's a torrent of support roles walking away with golden handshakes.
> How semantic is ng-show="form.length.$error.float?

I agree with your conclusion, but I think you're misusing semantics. This isn't semantic, but neither would anything else be. As soon as we get to using logic, we don't have semantics.

That line is unclear and not easy to understand. That is why I object to it.
Only to the same degree that all early employees could be seen as such.
So you're arguing that once a startup is beyond a certain number of users (considered a success), it should share that with it's competitors because that would just be fair? I know it's a bit cold but it was because of the competitive nature of the market in the first place that the said startup was able to disrupt a space. Taxi companies have been in existence for way too long. Realtors & brokers have been around since humans started building houses. Startups disrupt existing spaces, creating new business models only to grow big and then get disrupted by another startup. No startup grows to be big and remain big for eternity.

But yes, there should be a check on the type of barriers these fast growing startups erect to discourage new startups from disrupting them.
He tries to not only tell men what not to do (be bros, swear on the job, work long hours, disrupt things), but also women what to do (be emphatic and compassionate, feminine, polite, don't disrupt things). Is he really doing women a service here?

I also think drawing daughters or nieces into such arguments is a very cheap shot.

Why not just let people get on with their lives...
Bypassing the geo-block is just as illegal as using torrents.

If someone for ids me to use/buy content, and I do that anyway, then it's pirating.
I wasn't aware of those features, that would significantly improve what I thought of it. However having to click to see replies seems less than ideal. Reddit and HN just organize them properly to begin with. It also gets rid of voting, which I believe to be the most important feature.
The whatsApp team is disrespecting their users and their users' intelligence. To continue misleading/outright lying to their users is horrific in my opinion.
been writing .net apps for ten years and still don't use nuget.
Works in Chrome now, at least.
I think you're probably right. "Less Technical" or "Not As Technical" is more accurate.

Perhaps "non-SE" or "non-Programmer" or "non-Engineer" might be closest to what we're trying to say here.

It's unfortunate that some technical people look down on others in these kind of roles.
I would suggest that this is by far the biggest possible advert that popcorn time could want.
The question the article is trying to answer is not whether Newsweek was wrong - everybody knows they are wrong, now.

The question the article is interested in, is whether they should have known that they were wrong, before publishing. I think that was already a pretty obvious YES before this matrix was compiled, but there's some value in systematizing it.
Open letters mean nothing.
TOS or it didn't happen.
To be fair though, this works because loading a symbol foo in an isolated scope in javascript is a safe operation.

If you were trying to namespace each of those symbols as you went because of a global symbol table (>_> ... c), then this would be a much more complex task.

It's important to realize that rust libraries are c libraries, complete with symbol information; Rust does mangle symbol names per crate by default, but I'm not 100% sure would stop you from having some issues where the public symbols in a crate caused global symbol table conflicts.

Don't know though, just speculating.
That doesn't happen because most start-ups don't think most support roles are worth it until one of two things happens: Management gets tired of losing people to 24-hour on-call rotations or the company gets big enough that "the devs who wrote this stuff should be able to get some sleep" becomes a valid consideration. Almost every aux position is considered "needless" until, well, it isn't. Granted, I say this from being in the Operations and Support worlds for years since I get to see the other side of not having a functioning Ops model before making it big.