skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has freelanced and is also criticising (I guess, although I'm not critical of the business overall, just one way in which it lacks transparency), I don't think financial advisor is a fair comparison.

The assumption with a financial advisor is that there's value add; the advisor should either out-perform a standard investment mechanism, or know how to navigate bear markets, or preferably both. And also should definitely handle taxes and fees etc. without blow a bunch of my money or exposing me to risk/loss. In other words, they should know how to do something that I cannot reasonably learn how to do, or even if I learn could not do on my own without investing a huge amount of time/effort.

What Even provides is a service that someone with the ability to do a bit of personal financial planning is certainly able to do for themselves by taking :30 out of every Sunday afternoon, no knowledge of tax code or stock market finesse or weekly research projects required. It's certainly not a worthless service, but the recurring monthly fees seem on the high end of what I'd be willing to pay. For that reason, the lack of transparency about how exactly these amounts get determined (and where exactly the time value of my money is going) is extremely troubling to me.
Thank you :)
Also thanks for the information; I had been wondering if someone had made some more thorough automated tests, I will definitely check those out!
Who is asking for this? Foundational technologies best move a bit slower than average, that way everything built on top can go fast without wasting energy on changes beneath.

Web browser development should go-slow so that web development can go-fast.
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You listed two things that are optional plugins and are being aggressively deprecated.

The vast majority of Chinese users who use VPNs aren't technologically savvy and just want to read the NYTimes or watch Netflix. Now any embedded ad or tracker can rat them out[1]. We shouldn't ask them to jump through 15 hoops or deal with the the slowness of Tor. A VPN offers a very good compromise of ease vs. security for casual users.

[1]: https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/
I am still leery of the "unconventional" HDLs. I don't really see many of them as much of an improvement over say, VHDL-2008; you get records and functions and instantiation is not as verbose. Yes, the language is a little wordy but it's well proven and I already know it; and many other people know as well, so they can read it and understand it better w/o learning a new language.
Be charitable. If you haven't been exposed to actual linguistics (and know about things like PIE), you have the current, normal, common-sense view on language, which is that what you speak is normal, and what speakers of any other dialect or language do it wrong. I've heard intelligent, university educated people say things like "I don't want to learn $Language with an accent". The fact that no such 'accent-less' language exists is simply not a fact that they know. Such misconceptions about, and people who suffer under them are misguided, not stupid.

My two cents.
They explicitly mention that it CAN'T replace DRAM. It's faster than SSD, but way slower than memory.
I'll state it somewhat differently: Stop pushing the specs forward - finish implementing the specs.

If all those spec writing engineers were told "sorry, the spec store is closed", they might actually get their hands dirty writing code for the current specs. Hell, I might even lend my tired old hands if there were a moratorium on new specs.
Try talking to it. Voice recognition is really good on most platforms today. I realize that its not always an option but can be very handy at times.
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Exactly, that's how I would (hopefully will soon) implement it as well; it takes a few extra cycles but avoids extra overhead.
I thought the obvious reason was storage. I don't see it mentioned here, but storage is a huge pain point. How do you store your critical data "with Docker" is a labyrinthine set of steps.

Docker's answer to storage so far has been "don't use Docker". That's their answer. Use volumes to map some other storage, but then you have to have some way of mapping storage to containers outside of Docker. Now you're really stuck.

Containers are awesome, but unless your product doesn't do work, you'll need to store data at some point. And that's when the magic stops.
Cryonics with revival is far, far closer in technological achievement (and actually has working science associated with it) than is any realistic FTL travel. Worm holes, Einstein...and those who have further derived his special and general theories of relativity, namely Alcubierre, Natario and White, all towards a "warp" type drive, are at best "speculative". One step above educated fantasy at this point. No working science. Just incomplete math and ideas. FTL.. warp and worm holes are thousands, if not tens of thousands of years beyond us. A suspended animation scenario... about 100 to 150 years....if that far.
10 drownings per day, but take away all those involving alcohol, physical accidents (ie hit on head by boat then drown), drownings that happen at night ... and you have a very small number. Kids, or anyone else for that matter, drowning in supervised public pools is almost unheard of statistically. It's akin to being struck by lightning. You are much more likely to die on the drive to the pool than while in it. So greater safety can be gained though countless other measures. One popular in my area is to teach people how to swim through free lessons. That's reduced the number of river drownings significantly in recent years.
I agree that maybe a more objective angle would have conveyed the information a little better. However, your comment is in poor taste. This is a real person they're talking about, someone who suffered and died. Not a character in a movie.
Skimming through them, the features there are all user facing, not really new web technologies. Better add on management shouldn't cause any problems for web devs.
Generally autoplaying anything for me is a no-no. If there's a setting to stop it, I have it set in advance.
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Except white collar and government crime, from the Wall Street deregulation abuses to colonialism. Those net trillions....
New official Chrome extension to control this: https://goo.gl/74pT1m
Japan Fires the World's Most Powerful Laser
Ahh, midwest changes the equation for sure. Maybe try disclosing a salary _range_ in the description? Without knowing the details of the job, it's hard to tell if there's something in the description driving interest away. If it's exactly like cairo140's job, it may be simply too much for a single person. Here's what he/she was asking for, and I'll take a stab at breaking it down into the fewest mere-mortal-sized job reqs that I can:

Role 1:
top to bottom web app security,
server ops,
zero downtime rollouts,
performance and architecture (shared)

Role 2:
metrics/instrumentation,
fully-independent backend,
HTML/CSS/JS skills,
integrating third-party modules,
performance and architecture (shared)

Role 3:
managing technical vendor relationships,
work the indirectly technical parts,
technical hiring,
capacity planning,
expectations management,
performance and architecture (shared)

These are still three pretty loaded-up people! Even if there was one person capable of and willing to do this all, their current job title is likely "founder of their own startup".
> Basically the most dangerous type of people across any situation.

The amazing things is that most surgeons are like this -- the traits described are a near archetype for surgeons -- and yet outcomes for surgery are pretty damn good, and rapidly getting better for many types of surgery.
Not on a stock f-16 used for pilot training. There isn't much about those planes that isn't public knowledge already. It's an extraordinarily common and well-understood aircraft.
This is not a C compiler; the language it accepts bears only a superficial resemblance to any version (formally standardized or not) of C. The subset of C's original authors responsible for this needed to accept that C was both (a) extremely popular and successful and (b) to their way of thinking, inferior to what they would have wished. That's a tough place to be, but denial is worse.
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> I guess the designers of C realized there are better alternatives when implementing their own compiler.

Or maybe they went off the rails and lost their minds, like Bill Shockley.
What you do really depends on what focus area you want to start diving in to. Try making a simple drone fly around for awhile automatically, you will learn all sorts of nifty things about control theory, mechanical models, digital signal processing, machine learning, telemetry and more.

Robotics as a field is quite large. There's all sorts of Robotics out there really.

JavaScript probably isn't the language of choice for Robotics though... C/C++ most definitely are a lot more widely used considering you want low latency with hard time limit control loops. Imagine if your robotics software suddenly decided it needed to garbage collect or JIT some code when it should've been making a decision to avoid collisions...
But also failed to respond appropriately to the ATC instructions that he turn immediately. It seems to me you cannot have it both ways regardless.
> I chose to take the job where I wasn't humiliated during the interview.

It's funny how this is a legitimate filter, from the job-seeker's point of view. And, by "funny" I mean "a sad testament to SV tech interviews".
Do not install the beta unless you have a second machine. There are some hardware independent showstopper bugs in Beta 5.
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IFR training in a one-man airframe? That's very odd in the civilian world. One-man planes are rare enough, but a one-man plane with full instrumentation would be something special. And to then use it for training?

I suspect this crash is the result of a gap in FAA regulations. I would suggest that no pilot should be doing IFR training alone while around aircraft not flying IFR. But I can see why the rule doesn't exist: it is an extraordinarily rare situation that, probably, nobody thought needed covering.

This is one of the reasons that American's and Brits go to Goose Bay for low-level training. Canada has more empty sky than either of them combined.
Very first time i went up as an air cadet we all received this lecture.

And it is entirely the case.
This is apparently a big problem historically in countries that derive most of their commercial airline pilots from the military. It creates a culture in the cockpit where deference to rank is more important than the safety of the passengers.
Thanks for posting - I hadn't really considered Chesterton's Fence as a technical metaphor but as soon as you posted I immediately thought of a person who has a habit of this very act. I'm adding this term to my lexicon.
Build? The Youxia doesn’t start producing the cars till 2016 and the first deliveries will be made in 2017.

No.

Better than Tesla? Of course, all the information listed on their website are just production specs and could change by next year.

Not likely.
Oh very cool! I will check it out.
The response in question has a lot of ah, uh's, and stutters:

"Relative to phase change, which has been in the market place before and which micron itself has some experience with in the past again this is a very different architecture in terms of the place it fills in the memory hierarchy because it has these dramatic improvements in speed and volatility and performance"

They didn't say that it wasn't PCM, and they didn't say that the technology was different. They said that the architecture was different than the PCM that Micron produced before. Which would be the cross-point organization and the all important selector element. They mention that the cell works my a "property change of the material", or a "bulk material property change".

Go look up Micron's recent patents and applications. This is PCM.

I do find it very interesting that they are bending over backwards not to call out the memory technology and specifically answering a question directly regarding if it is actually PCM.
> outcomes for surgery are pretty damn good

I would say that "good" is relative to what can be reasonably expected. If most surgeons fit that description, then we may not have an independent way to establish our expectations. That is, maybe we think it's "good" because we don't know better.

Hospital error is a leading cause of death in the U.S., though I don't know how much of that is due to surgery.
Great stuff, been playing with it all day, this will be really useful!
There are deep questions that science can't answer. The only "clearly dominating opinion" about them is "we don't know".
To some, thinking about those questions is "beating dead horses", others become philosophers.
It's an interesting article, but be forewarned: it's more than a bit graphic. The sensitive of stomach and anyone who feels that "meat is murder" should steer clear.

On the upside, the farm family in question slaughters their own goats and they use every bit of them - nothing goes to waste.
Amusingly, this is a good example of the behaviour that this essay is discussing.

"Unwilling to engage in productive, open, mutually critical conversations with people they disagree with"
Here's a link to the actual article: http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116
Honest q: what is meant by "modern Firefox"?
As foretold in The Prophecy?
This podcast is very consumer-oriented

Things I wish they covered but didn't

- How did Reddit get acquired, and why?

- Why did Alexis leave Reddit originally, and why did he come back?

- What is the exit strategy for Kash? Are they planning on literally taking over Visa, or is an XXX million dollar exit to PayPal good enough?

- how will Kash beat its closest competitors? There are "pay with an app" companies. Why are you better than stripe behind an app frontend.

I don't plan on listening to this podcast again unless I hear it's become less "consumery".
> which can put out a very harmful amount of ionizing radiation

It's not ionizing radiation any more than wifi is. It's just a lot of concentrated non-ionizing radiation.
Chrome is the new Internet Explorer
The article is 100% correct about civilian (FAA) air regs - in fact the rules mentioned are pretty basic to any civil IFR pilot.

Although it's not surprising that military pilots would not be sharp on FAA regs, it does raise the question, "so how does civil and military aviation share the same airspace?"

From accidents seen around the world, you can't safely mix them. Civil pilots are "solely responsible" and military pilots are "flying under orders" and "flying a mission", which is why they defer to controllers.
Which they will certainly debit out of your account if the money isn't actually in the safe.
It partially is, until you need native dependencies.
Why did they need to accept any of that? They were doing a clean-room implementation, and mostly ANSI C-compatible with a significantly simplified preprocessor.

Theo de Raadt considered using it for OpenBSD at the turn of the 21st century, but backed out over licensing.

I have no idea what angle you're getting at here.
This blog post from a job seeker matches the experiences listed in the article well: http://thebillfold.com/2014/10/my-day-interviewing-for-the-s...
In theory it might be possible to only allow javascript running due to a mouse or keyboard event to control videos.
Until a few days ago I was a DevOps engineer at a medium-sized tech company. My primary responsibility was dockerizing their applications and infrastructure.

I quit the job.

The scenario played out just as you said: I ended up single-handedly and poorly re-engineering something that already existed (they did have a working Ansible setup) for no visible gain. "Swimming in containers upon containers" is exactly what happened; they kinda worked, but the farther we got, the more kludges piled on top of each other. In four months work we didn't even hit production - the most we got was a CI/QA service that was actually nothing more than a loose bunch of Python scripts. Between managing dev/test/prod differences, tracing missing logs, removing unused volumes, networking all that stuff together and trying to provide at least a decent level of security, I realized that I'm wasting everyone's time and money. Developers hated it because it filled their workflows with traps and obstacles. Admins hated it because of the lack of tooling. Business hated it because it caused unexplainable delays. The only thing we really accomplished was some compliance with the The Twelve-Factor App - something that could've been done in a week. Hardly a victory.

My advice? Forget about Docker unless your primary business is building hosting systems. It will take years before Docker gets mature enough for production, and not without a ton of tooling on top of it and some major architectural changes. Until then, go back to the old UNIX ways of doing things... it worked perfectly since the Epoch and it will continue to work long after the 32-bit time_t rolls over. You'll be fine.
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It was an F16 (e.g. military, not civilian).

And if the pilot is simulating instrument conditions, there is a rule: FAR 91.109 "No person may operate a civil aircraft in simulated instrument flight unless - The other control seat is occupied by a safety pilot who possesses at least a private pilot certificate with category and class ratings appropriate to the aircraft being flown".

If not simulating IMC, it's the pilot's responsibility to see and avoid per 91.113(b)
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Wave pools deserve extra care. I've been swimming for literally almost my entire life. My parents put me in swimming lessons when I was six months old and I started swimming competitively when I was 6. I don't remember any time in my life when I have not felt completely comfortable and at home in the water. But I distinctly remember an experience I had in a wave pool when I was probably 7 or 8. I got in the deep end because of course I was a swimmer and I would be fine...but when the waves came they seemed gigantic compared to me and my small size. I clearly remember feeling completely overpowered and it was all I could do to struggle to the side. For a bit I honestly thought that I might drown. Years later I became a lifeguard and did some guarding here and there, but after watching videos like these I can tell you that I definitely didn't take my job seriously enough. I never worked in any truly difficult environments, but I've got to hand it to those who do.

Water is a powerful thing. No matter how strong a swimmer you are, somewhere in the world there is water that can overpower you. It is not always easy to tell when that is the case.
Ask HN: Why can't we build unhackable software?
Is it human error or is there a technical limitation to it? Is it b/c layer upon layer of abstraction doors are left open on purpose? If the first software layer over harware has a finite set of operations with a 100% predictable outcome (no need for testing), why can't we continue to build predictable outcomes on the next layers?
Have you seen http://nodebots.io ? Might be a good place to start for a JS engineer.
The only source for that I have seen assumed that if the optimal treatment was chosen that the outcome would always be positive which I suspect is not super accurate. I wish I remembered where that source was. Do you have one? Would love to look at it again.
99 Percent Invisible just had some interesting episodes on automation and autopilot, especially as it relates to air travel:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magenta-automation-paradox-pt-1/

and self-driving cars:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/johnnycab-automation-paradox-pt-2/
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Twitter Earnings: Revenue Exceeds Estimates but User Growth Disappoints, Again
The F-16 was on a training mission. It was also flying under IFR. That doesn't necessarily mean that the pilot was doing what we think of as "IFR training" (view limiting devices, etc).

It's perfectly normal for a training, proficiency, or currency flight to be operated under IFR, even single pilot.
What constitutes a "civil aircraft" in this situation?
back when the plan9 compilers were introduced to the world [0] POSIX 1003 was less than 3 years old. that they didn't change much in their design since is a testament to a) how good they were and 2) how good their authors were.

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0: ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/OS/plan9/doc/plan-9-docs/dist.ps.Z
> I hope you do understand that the original message was a sarcastic joke.

I'm aware. I just like taking things needlessly seriously. It's a hobby of mine :)

> When I got my first PC, my choice was: MS-DOS 3.3. QuickBasic, Pascal, C or Assembler for writing programs.

Indeed, though those weren't the only choices even back then. Lots of different microcomputers, all with their unique dialects of BASIC, up until the late 80's and early 90's, when the diversity died off and IBM-compatibles became the norm.

Really, the current evolution in software is more just a resurrection of the diversity once strong in the realm of computers. Back then, one would actually have to make conscious choices about CPU architecture of all things; nowadays (for better or worse), we seem to be resigned to the idea of big machines being x86(-64) and little machines being ARM or maybe MIPS.

Not to say that languages weren't diverse back then, either. You still had Lisp and FORTRAN and COBOL and Forth and C and assembly and PL/I and ALGOL and Pascal and Logo (turtle power!). A little later there was C++ and Perl and Tcl to join them as some others faded out.

Basically, the evolution now is less about the quantity of platforms to develop for and more about the accessibility of those platforms. Pretty much all the good ones are open-source, available on the internet, and have plenty of online documentation. The free software and open source movements have been a boon to those seeking to get their foot in the door.

> unless something absolutely mind blowing comes up and replaces everything forever.

I suspect that "something" will either be artificially intelligent or pretty damn close to it. Development time and effort will decrease substantially if a programmer can just tell his artificially-intelligent software maker what the program needs to do - in a natural language - and the software-maker goes and makes a program. I suspect there will be a couple of stepping stones before that, including some existing stepping stones that we've already walked on. One of them is LLVM, providing a common core that any language can use with relatively-few obstacles. Another is the concept of programs that create other programs; languages like Ruby, Tcl, and Lisp facilitate this quite well, and it's probably a matter of time before those and similar languages are used to do things like automatically generate HTML/CSS/JS for web apps (as one example of potential usefulness in the short term). Natural language parsing by artificial electrical systems is getting better and better, too.