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There's a degree of irony in that the reason air travel is so safe is because air travel safety is so heavily regulated.

Before I even opened the article I knew it was going to be a legislative rather than customer-focused approach.

God forbid hotels recognize their inherent strengths and AirBnB's weaknesses and cater their services/marketing to that end.

While there is plenty to criticize about this article, knowing when not to intervene or help is one of the tougher and critical tasks of parenting.

As an anecdotal example my toddler was often the smallest kid in a given group of playing children. He was at the mall play area one day and he kept getting knocked down onto the foam floor. I kept thinking man I've got to step in and helicopter a bit. I almost did, but right as another kid was about to bump into him he did something new. He bowed at the legs, leaned and braced with his elbows causing the kid to bounce off harmlessly and they both ran on.

I'm often reminded of that moment now when I see him in safe but precarious situations. I'm always there for him if he needs me, but I have to wonder if I step in am I denying him a life lesson?

> Requiring one for many jobs is much more about ensuring applicants belong to the class the employer prefers than any specific education the job requires.

I'm not sure this is the case. A lot of employers probably just require a degree because they get so many applicants and it serves as a lazy filter.

On a practical level it also shows that a given applicant has the tenacity to power through a long term plan and come out successful.

Supposedly a degree is also signal of critical thinking, but this has not been my experience with people at all.

Thanks I'll have to check that out.

I suppose I'd go with B, though I have no idea what to do about that.

They probably don't want to get into the realm of maintaining user contributed modules.

They do offer an alternative (Entity Reference) and asked if anyone would patch or maintain the module. They also added a warning on the module's page.

Could anyone recommend a better one?

No sarcasm intended, this is an important issue.

I haven't; I haven't tried Flow either which looked promising.

For kicks I tried the online Elm demo. Offhand it doesn't seem like Elm highlights errors inline(?). The syntax also looks a little foreign, whereas TS generally still looks like JS with a few exceptions.

I imagine Elm/Flow both have this, but another thing I like that TS does in VSCode at least with a watching task is collecting errors project-wide in a "problems" window.

What sold me on TypeScript was that it didn't just add features, it actively solved a problem I'd been experiencing.

Once a JavaScript project scales beyond what can fit in your head, JS's initial productivity boost crumbles because you have to constantly double back and make sure your methods/constructors/etc. are correctly used, which properties are optional, etc... A lot of the debugging happens in runtime and god help you if you try to make a breaking change to one of the major classes/apis in your project.

It's not unbearable, but the main reason for using JS is because of the productivity it allows.

With TS for the cost of taking the time to explicitly define your data you get a C#/Java level of debugging that has clear productivity gains and shifts your debugging from the browser/console to the IDE.

And when something doesn't fit the TS model you can just exclude it or only type the wrappers that integrate with the rest of your project.

That and async/await is a godsend over promises.

Learning to find answers and sift through documentation (or even source code) is a critical skill I see a lot of junior developers lacking.

Most of the time when I help someone I didn't actually have the answer when they asked, but I did know the terminology to use when searching and how to spot a credible answer.

Two tips I didn't see mentioned in the article are rubber duck debugging and typing out your question into StackOverflow and then googling what you typed before posting it.

> The Commission had announced a similar challenge in 2009 and it claimed no one could hack its EVMs.

That's a bold claim. Makes me wonder about the validity of their tests and how they evaluate results.

I've wondered this for a long time but never felt comfortable asking... Has ethnic/racial diversity in the workplace actually been shown to increase productivity or innovation, or is that dogma used to justify the practice?

Maybe that's what they want to see, and it's not impossible that it will turn out to work very well, for Amazon.

I understand prion diseases are rare and it's more likely I'll die in a car accident or something, but the persistence of prions is just a horrifying concept.

Highly resistant to heat, radiation, proteases, enzymes... Basically if you've got a prion disease it's just a matter of time before they end you.

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ nailed this bit last week:

> A financial website documents Tesla's overvaluation, while explicitly noting that Tesla cannot compete with real automakers in any sense. The company's valuation is recognized to be so high purely because Elon Musk is our lord and savior.

Scientology has clear paths to make money from their nonsense... What's the goal with arch trees/flat earth theory?

Ring stored WiFi credentials in plaintext on their video doorbells -- would you say it requires a cryptographer, a network specialist and an embedded device expert to know that was a terrible move for a home security device you can walk up and physically rip off the outside of someone's house?

IoT manufacturers don't have to contract Linus Torvald to review their code, but it's entirely reasonable to expect IoT manufacturers to use existing best practices to secure these products.

A lot of times when people ask this what they really mean is "Don't you get meat cravings?"

You do, but as your gut bacteria changes you sort of stop craving meat so much and start craving the new foods you've been eating.

FWIW, plant-based complete protein groups are fairly inexpensive and easy to come by.

Also even if you aren't necessarily willing to be vegetarian all the time you can have say one or two nights a week where you prepare a vegetarian meal.

This introduces you to new ingredients and recipes without adding immediate restrictions to your diet and life.

Even if you never go full vegetarian, just cutting back on meat consumption still has an effect.

Not sure about your definition of "these things" -- are you including say Bootstrap, jQuery or Angular/React/Vue/etc.?

Is that a problem, give em/strong cover b/i these days?

You know I almost didn't include the two minutes bit because I figured people would fixate on that and not realize you aren't conscious for it.

I appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing; I understand it takes time and I think most people are willing to wait.

When I saw this post I immediately hit http://isfiberreadyyet.com/ and was sad it went back down to 92% :|

What's wrong with propTypes?

According to this [1] they didn't need them:

> Outer space is just as effective a suicide agent as a cyanide capsule, perhaps even more so. Exposure to its empty vacuum often results in a blissful loss of consciousness in a matter of seconds. Death by asphyxiation usually follows within two minutes.

[1] http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/10/astronauts-and-...

> The two main treatments are cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a talk-centered approach that gets patients to readjust their habits, and antidepressant medications. Both are about equally effective.

I was under the impression that CBT is actually more effective than medicating, and especially has far less relapses than medication.

Between the alt_uscis Twitter suit and recent changes in ISP legislation it seems like there are going to be more and more of these "give up the anon!" pushes.

What a great time to be a VPN service.

It seems like every language you learn teaches you a new facet of programming.

I've never picked up Python but kind of always meant to -- what's it teach you?

For years I've wondered about the feasibility of this but the thing that always held me back was the liability of having a spinning blade running around people's property effectively unsupervised.

A bit dramatic but a serious question: what happens when one of these sucks up a poodle or maims a child?