skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, that Torx wrench. Pre-internet, that was nearly impossible to find unless you knew someone that had a Mac repair business.
You could keep things out of body cavities. Put on a helmet and a chastity belt, securely locked in place.
I don't think anyone is disputing that. Just asking if it's part of a larger plan, or not.
I'm not a diver so what I'm about to say may sound incredibly naive but I'm surprised they don't use more advanced communication tech when diving than just relying on light signal.

They could use some kind of haptic feedback system working to communicate between each other through RF waves. If one person presses a button, the other members feel a vibration or some similar haptic feedback. This would allow people to signal danger more easily. It would also make sense to have a notification signaling when any member is outside of the RF range.

Having such a tech would have allowed Gronqvist to have directly been alerted when Huotarinen became stuck either by Huotarinen alerting him or by the notification that Huotarinen was outside of the RF range (which would probably not carry very far in that situation). If other members had been alerted faster, Huotarinen would have had less time to start panicking and would maybe not have needed that cylinder of gaz.

So, maybe I'm incredibly naive and there's a good reason but it seems stupid and dangerous to rely on a torch to signal distress (which is often not going to be visible to members in front of the group).
Canada wildfire could be the kickoff to a record summer for Earth
What is a large-ish app? Just for comparison's sake?

What makes it large-ish? The number of tables? The number of views?

What is the problem that large-ish apps give that Rails solves?

Genuine questions, I only do small projects and I honestly don't see a huge benefit to using rails, despite having used it before.
I hear you there! If you're looking for a tool that scratches that itch, I've spent the last year and a half working on a could based search engine that spans all services and devices.

We inherit all the information from your existing file system structure, as well as the people files are shared with, and provide a powerful content-based search on top of that.

Check out our website if you'd like: https://www.meta.sc
What a hit piece. Lyft and Uber can't provide exact fare estimates. Maybe an accident hits and your driver has to take the long way, etc. Good grief.

When I call a cab in MN, I don't get an exact fare estimate either. Even worse most don't have an app.

The last cab I took (because lyft was 15 minutes away) was $15 more than my average Lyft fare from the airport to home, when I went to ask if he took credit card do you know what happened? He took out the manual imprint machine.. you know the one that goes chunk-chunk? Yeah.

Oh and "Clicking on the property to make a booking revealed that it didn’t include a $25 “cleaning fee” and a $45 “service fee.” Both are mandatory. That brought the actual rate to about $105 per night."

Hotels do this today.

Using Lyft or Uber I get better pricing, cleaner cars, better drivers, and an app/credit card with the ability to rate my driver and them rate me.
The currying was cool. I had to read the pull requests on that one and it seems that it was removed because it complicated language development. I'm hoping they bring it back in a modified more extensible way!
"Obviously redditors like their articles"

Do they? Isn't being coated in ads a normal condition of clickbait? Is clickbait high quality content?
The laws are intended to protect the consumer by making sure there are physical places that can repair your car in the state. The question is whether that's necessary any more.
It doesn't. IDA is a result of years of development & research, it's so big no other project got even closer to it. It's so big, the comparison is like you would compare a new startup to Google.
Well, at least we didn't start the war, not even under false pretenses, we welcomed a lot of refugees, held real trials, didn't torture or assassinate anyone and sent countless of soldiers on peacekeeping missions. And it wasn't like the US one day got involved and saved the day. NATO and the UN (Yes, the air strikes were UN sanctioned) was involved from the beginning of the war.
From my minor tech support experience, users don't understand what they've saved a file as. Search is great but if you don't know what the needle is it gets hard.
Not too surprising. PHPixie spams /r/php like crazy. Trying to ride the huge success that Laravel has experienced except they are skipping the steps of having a solid product or a strong community.
It looks like it's open source with an MIT License, so at least you should have the option to self host.

https://github.com/CSSE497
Apple actually directly cites Rust as inspiration for Swift.
Show HN: Give your photo the “Unsplash” look with one click
facebook is a public company insofar as a single person having the only vote
People forget that all- and four-wheel _drive_ don't necessarily mean all- and four-wheel _stop_. Especially when you're asking a tire to exceed it's grip level with a sudden braking input.
Ready Player One, and How I Fell in Love with Reading Again
Yes, cell state is really important. My view is that nobody is looking at the big picture of state - cells store state in many different ways, with time periods of milliseconds to years. It's probably my CS background, but I think figuring out all the relevant state of a cell is important and neglected. Epigenetics is a part of this, but not enough.
Why PayPal?
> There is no need to have a perfect system for handling all situations with bad laws and which should be broken.

If it was that easy, wouldn't we have made and edited the laws already to align to that?
Yes, but releasing energy through chemical bonds is not the phenomenology of losing weight. It's all about particles in, particles out.
Chronicles of Elyria on Kickstarter – MMO with marriage,kids,aging,reincarnation
Ask HN: Agressive flagging and downvoting today?
I think I have seen an unusual amount of downvotes and dead comments today.

Is it just me or is there something going on?

PS: this is not about me. I seem to get more and more upvotes by the day : ]
I'm not surprised, the author been spamming reddit about his framework for years. He has a really bad reputation in /r/PHP. At the same time I've never seen any projects using this framework.
Government Asks Wireless Manufacturers and Carriers About Device Security Updates
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3188825/
Isn't that somewhat possible with extensions and constraints? At least that was the impression given by last year's WWDC talk [1], unless you're thinking of something else?

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/408/
Why are most technology things gooblygook to normal people?

Management is a domain with domain-specific terminology and jargon. It's not terrible, just not user friendly. 5 whys is at its core really approachable. You may need to find the guy with domain-specific expertise to answer the 5th why, but still understand how you got there.
The American two-party system is so weird. It tries to condense a complex matrix of sometimes-overlapping and fluid opinion scales -- socially conservative vs. socially liberal, globalist vs. protectionist, environmentalist vs. laissez-faire capitalist, and so on -- into one binary value. And somehow people have become convinced that not only is such a binary scale meaningful, but also the only available choice.

In many European democracies there's a functional multi-party system where parties appear and disappear over time to reflect voters' opinions. For example, there might be a protectionist right-wing party that's favored by farmers, and another one that supports free trade and listens to big business. Same happens on all the axes. Governments are formed as coalitions of these "SMB-sized" parties based on the votes. It's not "winner takes all", but rather "winners and not-so-bad-losers negotiate to find common ground".

What if the Republican and Democratic parties would break up into 6-10 new parties to better represent the actual opinions of the existing divisions within these parties?

Statistics like "88% of journalists are anti-conservative" show how difficult it's to say anything meaningful about a polarized political field. To look at it another way, that 12% is roughly the level of support that extreme right-wing political parties enjoy in Europe these days. Lumping 88% of European voters together as one party would be ridiculous because that party would contain both former communists and free-trade globalists.
When Disruptor gets Disrupted
But, that wouldn't make any sense to include UI components in a programming language. And I think the interest level is already "spiked".
Putting Community Back in Education
The Schwarzlose Model 1898 Pistol Was Way Ahead of Its Time
Bonds are not nearly as liquid as stocks. You can buy and sell, but the spread and fees will be high and not transparent. A good alternative is to buy a bond fund or ETF. Vanguard has a bond fund specific for CA munis. You also get diversification for free (as much as you can diversify within a CA muni bond fund).
not production ready but will be soon : asp.net core. If you want something like Rails with a statically typed language like C#, that's you best bet.
Spotlight can do the same thing, no ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_%28software%29
This makes updating all versions easy. You run a tool like Pur then run your tests. If they pass, you commit and push the requirements.txt changes.
They did their civic duty and moral obligation by paying the exact obligation asked of them by society. If they don't use the number they got by following the tax law as written, which number do your propose is the ethical one? Rule by moral indignation of upper-middle class software developers is not a scalable system.

If the tax law is written unsatisfyingly, try to fix the tax law. Don't claim immorality on the part of those who are working within it.

Or colloquially, don't hate the player, hate the game.
this is why i said "total corruption" - not the best choice of words, yet i meant that in Russia and Ukraine all depths and kinds ("faces" one can say) of corruption are present everywhere through the society.
> Sugar they sell you is bad, period. Every gram of their nutritionally empty sugar takes away from the caloric input that you could have got from real food with many other nutrients than pure energy.

Again, is Nestle's sugar somehow chemically different than ordinary sugar?
The ICIJ's release is here:

ICIJ releases database revealing thousands of secret offshore companies

Searchable database displays more than 300,000 entities from the Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks investigations

https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-databas...
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Interesting, thanks for the pointer.
isnt the point of hiring a "curator" to have people select and omit stories based on newsworthiness vs being nonstories?
Works reasonably well, but it absolutely ruins your compile times.
Using an adblocker that takes money to whitelist seems like a bad idea.

In any case: I'll make sure that my ad blocker allows non intrusive ads. That said, "non intrusive" must not be deceptive either. It should be clear that it is an advert.
Octavo Systems Launches a $30 BeagleBone Black on a Chip
The nature of unbounded capitalism in one sentence.
This is the kind of advice the rich can follow. For the poor, it's not a choice between cheap/bad and expensive/good, it's the choice between cheap/bad and death from starvation right now.
Pity they don't believe in this in real life.

Why does the hybrid braking system and mechanical braking system disengage with ABS, but then only re-engage the mechanical brake, resulting in a considerable change in deceleration, causing you to have to depress the brake further to avoid colliding with things in front of you.

Still waiting on a good reason for that one...
Stunning Footage of the Denizens of Earth’s Deepest Abyss
Quick intro - MMORPG with marriages/kids/aging/death/reincarnation through family and bloodlines!? Plus paying some kind of "sub per life" - one life is estimated to last between 4 and 12 months, depending on your ingame actions and number of deaths. It also has couple more not-so-standard features.

The game already has more than 70% of what they asked for on Kickstarter, with 25 days to go. In other words, they made it - only question being how high above the required sum it will stop.

I know you think: "Marriage...kids...death...and I have to pay for THAT??" Anyway, here is some very early footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb1JcO645BA
And viruses, too! I am very curious to find out what sorts of bacteriophages are part of the picture. In general we have some sense that actively changing the ratios of different bacterial species (e.g. with antibiotics, or fecal transplants) can address some health problems - but it's possible that a targeted phage might be another way to accomplish that as well. (edited for fuller thought)
> If the tax law is written unsatisfyingly, try to fix the tax law. Don't claim immorality on the part of those who are working within it.

Why not do both? Especially to the extent that the actor being criticized is undertaking an immoral action which is insufficiently disincentivized by the tax law?
Incorrect. It's both. From the ICIJ's release:

The data, part of the Panama Papers investigation, is the largest ever release of information about offshore companies and the people behind them. This includes, when available, the names of the real owners of those opaque structures.

The database also displays information about more than 100,000 additional offshore entities ICIJ had already disclosed in its 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation.

https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-databas...
Thanks, now I have a better idea of what constitutes a DSL. It had occurred to me that the ORM might be one, but I forgot about Jinja2 which clearly is.

Though, being pedantic, Flask doesn't bundle SQLAlchemy (though it's what you end up using) unless things have changed recently.
Sure, and wanting control is definitely what's really going on. What's curious is when the argument for wanting control is a belief that the appropriate education differs based on geography.
Carr's decision required him to do something really dodgy, and obviously dodgy, himself. I knew people doing the same thing and they knew they were dodging tax. They just came up with justifications of why they didn't deserve to pay 'so much' tax.

Inheriting money from your Dad, who may have been avoiding tax, is a whole different matter.

They're just ethically in totally different leagues.
Your assumption about agents basing list prices on commissions isn't entirely accurate. First of all, agents tend to price properties to sell quickly so their chances of getting a commission are almost guaranteed. This doesn't always mean the home sells for the highest possible price [1]. In order to determine the list price, agents will runs comps to ensure their listing is competitive against the other listings in the area. Ultimately, the buyer wants the best bang for their buck.

If there's high demand and low inventory, agents will naturally up the price. Supply and demand.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jO_w6f8Ck
That was not what the commentator was referring to;
> "It's very productive in terms of getting something up and running."

Implying that Twitter reached success under Rails, even if it was _not_ the best fit for the problem set.

Dumping Rails when you have won the market is a nice luxury to have, one that most people on HN do not have.
Very similar languages IMO. Scala is a little heavier on the functional and academic fronts. It's syntax is also much heavier on symbols. In general I think scala has a steeper learning curve. I like scala though. Similar ideas at their core, a mixed paradigm approach. Similar also in that both have a legacy language that they need to interop with. That legacy also bleeds through to both pretty heavily. I also much prefer a native ecosystem vs the jvm.

The one big area that separates the languages is tooling. I personally think Swift's tooling is much better. Faster compilation, faster runtime, faster startup, and better ide tooling.
Based on my understanding of LOAC, it seems like you'd need quite a few decently competent people who are necessarily uniformed for when it comes time to run operations at the ROC. And from spending time in internships at some contractors around the fort, it seemed to me that some of those guys were probably working in those development areas too. And the guys at the research labs are certainly doing some interesting stuff; I'm sure they have contractors come in, but surely the core of those offices must be actual NSA people.
Yes, and they'd be burning image library 0days in the process. Security would improve overall.
hmm interesting I had no idea that existed. Looking forward I have high hopes for Vulkan being the foundation for cross platform and cross vendor heterogeneous computing.

As it is in the raw, it's pretty rough to use but I am excited to see what interfaces will be built on top of it to make heterogeneous computing more accessible and maintainable. I'm thinking something like PyOpenCL for Vulkan.
Because people have different opinions on morality. Civic duty is not an objective, quantifiable constant. It is a matter of personal opinion, with a great deal of variation, and those sorts of things should not be legislated.

If you reduce your tax burden from 30% to 20% using legal avoidance loopholes, and you think that one's moral obligation to support the community ought to be around 10%, that's still another 10% worth of loopholes to find before you'll ever feel like picking up litter at the local park.
Just a rant because I'm sick of the hypocrisy and double standards being perpetrated by the media and ignoramuses and I guess Facebook too - Black Lives matter is a racist, anarchist organization that engages in illegitimate and illegal protests, and whoever is funding them should be investigated and stand trial for supporting terrorist organizations.
We're in the middle of building out something similar with Playa - http://getplaya.com/ (or track our progress here: https://baqqer.com/projects/playa/) - An Open Service Exchange for Autonomous Intelligent Agents

I think it comes down to a little training from the user, finding out where the user is price sensitive, etc.
(Remember, the point was matching "empirical reality")

> Benghazi was the result of a YouTube video!

Meh. Who cares? That was an insignificant event compared to the climate and government policy.

> We're not spying on your emails!

This one uses the NSA's word game where they claim it's only a "search" when a human looks at it. While I suspect many regular politicians (including Obama) don't fully understand the subject, this one should be counted as a lie.

> I never sent classified information on that server!

Hillary still might be indicted for that, though I suspect the "rich and powerful" will trump "rule of law" as usual. It might be useful to stop framing everything as conservative-vs-liberal, and realize that there are rich people everywhere on the political spectrum. Their most successful strategy was getting everyone else to fight between themselves.

As for empirical reality, I have no idea if it's true. If we're (very) lucky, the indictment will happen and the truth will be revealed in court.

> Drone strikes only hit terrorists!

I agree that this is a lie, but it's non-partisan. Drones strikes (and similar war crimes) started before Obama.

> There are no secret "kill lists"!

(same as above)

> With this insurance program you'll get to keep your doctors!

That's true. If you doctor or supplementary insurance decided to drop you instead of meeting the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, that's between you and your doctor.

> We aren't going to make you pay for insurance you don't need!

You plan to never use medical services?

> The SuperDelegates are just a way to amplify Vox Populi!

I'll agree this one is a lie.

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To summarize, nothing is perfect, but conservatives have a much more serious problem with reality. Most politicians play political games and dissemble to get what they want, but it's disingenuous to claim both side are similarly wrong. Denial of our climate problems, creationist beliefs, and claiming revenue can be increase with tax cuts (the main source of revenue) are in contradiction with reality in fundamental - and easily observable - ways.
Getting to market quickly is often more important than contemplating about handling Twitter like traffic.

Also, I haven't heard of an application that never had to be rewritten partially/optimised after X years in production. Some problems just don't present themselves in the first couple of years.
So my question would be, what's the difference between Rails and other frameworks, especially since we are doing RESTful APIs from the start?

It would seem to me that Rails is just not the tool to use going forward for writing APIs for websites at scale. There are much better tools out there.

Rails' sweet spot is server side rendered pages that are quick to bring up and to add features. It seems great for certain types of websites so it does have its niche.

But moving forward, Rails for API vs. other frameworks in other languages is really a wash in terms of productivity, while other frameworks in those other languages are much more highly performant.
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PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS
That data is already sent to the server. This doesn't give the server control over the user's hardware.
Personally I don't have any problem with disregarding a bad law. YMMV.
The problem comes from this.

1. The costs of any layer of abstraction and magic that we have internalized seem free to us. So we feel free to add a more marginal one.

2. We have little visibility into any layer of the stack above or below ours.

3. As people migrate between languages, they take what they did previously and recreate it. Only "better".

As a result, complexity grows over time. And programmers are really bad at noticing/correcting it. And when they try, they will come up with different prescriptions. Often opposing ones. Explicit is good. (Go.) Don't let people mutate state. (Functional languages.) Convention over configuration. (Rails.) Move work from programmers to IDEs and tooling. (Java.) Make programmers productive so more gets done with less code. (Most scripting languages from Perl on.)

Over my lifetime, I've watched the resulting slide into complexity. Reading up on history I recognize that it had been going on for decades before I learned how to program. And it shows every sign of continuing to accelerate going forward.
A spammy security flaw in JIRA Service
Any sufficiently complicated Sinatra app contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Rails.