skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rails stack isn't designed for Windows, why should they waste dev cycles trying to support it? In any case, I do a fair amount of webdev on my windows gaming computer (don't want to mix work and side projects), VMs are so easy to set up that I barely install any dev tools on base os.
> parallel and different approaches in the research
> community are always welcome.

There's always my work.

[1] Screening Anti-Aging Interventions For Fun And Profit
http://morse.kiwi.nz/kingsley/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media...

[2] The Younger Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7XcJ2VsLhI
IHR is not a trustworthy source...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Historical_Rev...

"The IHR is not regarded as conducting serious historical research by mainstream historians and academics but rather as conducting pseudo-science..."
It's very easy to judge past America 60 years from the moment.

Say you're about to be shipped out to run up a hill and killed by Japanese machine guns.

Wouldn't you prefer Truman use a super weapon to end the war ?
agree. At some point you have to throw in the towel and admit being wrong
I'm not so pessimistic. While absolutely there could be problems I think of a similar Australian scheme that has been largely successful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_Mountains_Scheme
>I never said he reimplemented active record, I said he reimplemented ActiveRecord

You didn't yet you did? You've said the same thing twice here
>now you only have must-read articles that surface in other companies' platforms

As it should be, imo. There never really were must-read publications so much as publications frequently containing must-read articles, and the amount of such material makes it so you can't get to everything even with a lot of time dedicated to reading and staying on top of things. Aggregators (e.g. HN) and review articles are (at least partial) solutions to this problem.

For that matter, a lot of "mere" comments and discussion threads on articles are more "must-read" than the median article even in a good publication. If the article itself is mediocre, the commentary on it may still contain valuable discussion, which is (part of) why you end up with effects like people tending to read top comments before, or instead of, reading the article. Another reason being to determine if the article was even "must-read" in the first place. Aggregation is great, what's really needed is better ways of separating the wheat from the chaff, across all publications and media types, including comments and entries on obscure blogs...
The next wars will be fought over water, not oil. We are already seeing pressure in India, heavily dammed China, SE Asia, not to mention smaller problems between the US and Mexico.
Before people start engaging in fear mongering and doomsday prophesying, please spend a little time researching this issue further.

This isn't the first time a project of this scale has been done successfully. Germany has already done something similar with the Rhine-Main-Danube canal[1]. 3 similar projects have been conducted in America, involving over 2500km of waterways[2][3][4].

There are indeed some concerns over the environmental impacts that this will have, just like with any major infrastructure project, but no scholar has forecast the kind of doomsday rhetoric that people here seem to be spouting just from reading the headline.

If you're going to make the argument that such projects should be reflexively abandoned because of "unintended/unpredictable consequences", any and all GMO agriculture practices should also be abandoned immediately by the same reasoning. And yet, reasonable people have come to agree that blindly standing in the way of progress, especially when it stands to benefit hundreds of millions of people, is just silly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine%E2%80%93Main%E2%80%93Dan...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Waterway

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%E2%80%93Tombigbee_Wa...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Intracoastal_Waterway
Generally, vc backed start-ups nowadays only spend money on direct marketing online, and get a return on every ad dollar spent. The giant established brands buy clicks randomly, but they can afford it. Its pretty sustainable.
Parent child relationship graphs in d3
On a scale of "zero" to "a lot less than six million", how would you rate the Institute for Historical Review?
>the organization is still bound by local regulations whenever it actually engages in a market.

That seems true, and I also think it's one of many significant problems with the DAO.

Though imagine if some of the organizations being funded are also DAOs. It seems very likely that some types of DAO-funded services could operate without ever being directly exposed to a state-regulated market, except at the level of the individual users and other participants. Individual humans are de facto state-regulated entities - but potentially they are anonymous or not expedient for governments to punish.
Sounds like 'normalisation of deviance': when something is dangerous but has previously been done without incident, so it becomes standard procedure. NASA has some guidelines on eliminating it from your practices and systems: https://sma.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/safety-messages/saf...
I've been doing a lot of the same recently. Super light in terms of code and very readable. When appropriate, easy to gemify and then mount in a Rails app
This article was written immediately after the war, and doesn't really pass any judgment. It's one of the greatest works of non-fiction of all time, in my opinion.
Puma's racing robot lets you race against Usain Bolt
Why isn't buying using other people's money for other people considered resale?
There is no difference to the victim if the company sends the ants directly, or if you receive the ants and then re-post it.

This is one of those ridiculous scenarios that security folks dream up. I imagine Schneier doesn't live in a concrete bunker with a blast door, because a regular door can conceivably be broken open with a sledgehammer. The vast majority of homes do not have a sledgehammer-proof door, because it's not actually a problem. Same with the shipping of ants.
firms dates and accountability. At least Nate Silver fessed up to being wrong about Trump.
Monument Valley, one of the most polished and loved premium mobile games ever, has made $15m in its lifetime. Meanwhile, there are multiple F2P games with over $1b in revenue.

Now, $15m is fantastic, especially for a small studio. But high-production value F2P games from bigger studios cost around $3-5m to make, not including marketing/UA, so its pretty clear to see why studios aren't investing in premium titles at all, unless they are ports of existing content.
Wow, the coloration doesn't help. I would have given myself about 40% odds of successfully identifying Audrey Hepburn; I can't do it at all when she's washed purple.
Now they'll just be held back by lack of a widespread charging infrastructure.
It's pretty unlikely for anyone to use a mix of roman numerals and decimals to describe.. Anything.
ActiveRecord is an implementation of the active record pattern. DataMapper is an implementation of the data mapper pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mapper_pattern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern
A clever tweak to how apples are sold is making everyone eat more of them
http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_29826659/drain-hetch-h...
It's not that tough. Cutting rifling with a button is done at home from time to time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihPFjuxBjPo
According to the wiki, Interlink has been deemed to be potentially beneficial to Nepal and Bangladesh assuming proper water management treaties are negotiated with those countries.

Please point me to these properly negotiated agreements.

And pointing to the existing water sharing agreement with Bangladesh is dishonest. Putting aside the fact that it only lasts for 30 years and makes no mention of Interlink, everyone agrees that the treaty is inadequate, as evidenced by the massive tracts of arable land in northern Bangladesh that have fallen out of cultivation over the last 40 years due excess salinity caused by poor flow out of the Farakka Barrage.

So yeah: dick move.
Reminds me of "The programming language lifecycle"[1] (written in 2006), which essentially implies that the reason programmers continually search for new languages is simply out of a desire to 'distinguish' themselves from their peers, and have little to do with the actual merits of the languages in question.

[1]https://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/03/06/programming-langua...
http://liliputing.com/2015/11/hacking-amazons-fire-tablet.ht...
Diverting huge rivers is a project people have engaged in everywhere for multiple thousands of years. We do it because it's useful.
Fascinating. On my wish list is which SDKs use location in some way. A real pain on iOS to understand permissions (super easy in Android)
How used electric car batteries can back up the grid (Reddit comment thread)
Thank you for pointing this out. I unreservedly withdraw my citation!
Oh shit. Withdrawn!
Because you never get any money in exchange for the goods.

Buying using other people's money would make him a purchasing agent, and would violate the prohibition on assigning Prime benefits. But he's not doing that either, he's buying with his own money.
WELCOME TO THE GUN SHOW
That's not what makes Haskell what it is. It's not the type declaration syntax or the white space awareness. In fact those things are so superficial that they might as well not be mentioned.
I think he's implying that "why it isn't documented" might be "because it didn't happen" ("it" being serious offers of surrender by Japan that reached the ears of US decision makers.) And that asking "why wasn't it documented?" presupposes that it did happen, which makes it a leading question.
> Ugh, seriously? Is this fashion or engineering?

> It seems incredibly odd to leave Rails over this. For what, Java? Unbelievable.

Back when Java was introduced, it was partly taken up because the features it introduced made developers more productive - hardware agnostic code, network programming out of the box...

Nowadays a lot of developers have moved on from Java. Maybe the same thing will happen to Rails...
As in backchannels of primarily just Shigenori Togo. The Japanese war council was unanimous in rejecting unconditional surrender, and bitterly divided on the terms willing to be offered for conditional surrender. The idea that it was the safety of the emperor they were stuck on is new to me. Perhaps you are referring to Togo's statement that the Potsdam declaration would be accepted provided the position of the Emperor was maintained? Firstly, this was not an official Japanese government offer, secondly it's not exactly as if it's a reasonable request to allow a defeated belligerent to maintain their existing government.

Edit: Sources From The Shock of the Atomic Bomb and Japan's Decision to Surrender: A Reconsideration http://www.mconway.net/page1/page15/files/Shock%20of%20Atomi...

Togo reasoned
that "the introduction of a new weapon, which had
drastically altered the whole military situation, offered the military
ample grounds for ending the war." He proposed that surrender
be considered at once on the basis of terms presented
in the Potsdam Declaration. (When those in the peace party
talked about "accepting the Potsdam terms," they meant acceptance
with one crucial condition: retention of the emperor
system.) However, the military authorities refused to concede
that the United States had used an atomic weapon. Given the
army's intransigence, it was impossible for the cabinet to take
up Togo's proposal.
The parent comment was in a sense asking if nkoren's assertion was reality, or after the fact speculation. If it was in fact speculation (like "the moon landing was staged") then it would follow that there wouldn't be a large amount of documentation. Admittedly not the best comparison.
Ugh, yeah, that's a terrible source. Apologies for the bad Google-fu.

I have heard this claim from decidedly less-terrible sources, but the hour is too late in my current timezone to pursue this thread. So until then I will need to relax the certitude of my claims.
So you are saying to use a different tool to be fast but to use name for feature detection... Nmap is pretty darn fast if you disable feature detection!
(didn't downvote, but:)

> I prefer the modularity of being able to structure my projects according to the problem they're trying to solve. For instance, you wouldn't create a single-page app in Rails.

Those two sentences don't follow logically the way they appear. A project's structure has nothing to do with its functionality, which SPA is. I admit that rails is late to the SPA game, but if the new websockets (ActionCable) and API mode do what the docs say (haven't tried), there's no reason why it wouln't work nicely. For a given rails project, less than 5% of non-template code should change: create an API (one line for most projects) and... well, I can't think of anything else.

The rails view architecture is also almost identical to React: a bunch of nested templates. React best-practice is a bit more insistent on modularity (small & more generic components), but a 1:1 mapping of React and rails templates is possible.
I picked up this little device for $39 when they ran that sale a couple weeks ago. I ended up downgrading to Fire OS 5.1.2 and then rooted and flashed on ASOP. Basically have a Nexus-eque device on the cheap and have been enjoying it thus far.

All in all it took me 45 mins to complete the root / install but this was mostly just going slow and reading up on the process. The actual flashing and rooting portion of the job only took 15 mins.

For those interested I have bookmarked a few links that guided me through the process (this was my first Android device. Yes I am late to the party).

XDA Index Page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/index-am...

ASOP Guide for Fire 7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig-development...

Firmware Download Page (Used for Downgrade): http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/unbrick-...

Handy Video Tutorial from Root Junky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZjD4ME4wlI
iSOlo Travel Project
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André Staltz – Everywhereness as a foundation
You realize it is that easy for you because it was a pain in the bottom for someone else, yes?
He's buying using donations. If he's laying out money and paying himself back with the donations, what does that make him?
Zendesk recently sent their customers (at least me) a survey asking about thoughts regarding changing their own name from zendesk to something else.
Can you provide some examples?
I can call methods on objects in most frameworks/libraries. The fact that I don't know if .trim() is a core Javascript function or part of jQuery isn't a weakness of jQuery. If a "developer" can't be bothered to consult documentation when they work on a slightly different project than they're used to, then they're in the wrong industry.
The difference here is that Germany and the US could be counted upon to negotiate in good faith with their riparian neighbors.

India... not so much.
Perhaps instead of closing, they should just `promote' content to a discussion site.
Or you could buy approximately 20x as much land in a quiet area of Chile, where there's also very little radio traffic going on and there are much fewer strings attached. Patagonia is also one of the most beautiful spots on earth, IMHO.
Candy Crush, Clash of Clans.
What do you mean by the dimensions are wrong? I use the same css above and it works fine.
I read through this, revisited some of the images of the aftermath.

I don't think I'll be able to eat meat today, my stomach is turning and I feel like I could vomit.

It is so painful figuring that this is one of the "better" possible outcomes of the war.
No problem; I think the issue was just wording.
I was gonna post the same pedantry as m00dy---there's a difference between a Burka and a head scarf. I guess it's just a bit of a trigger topic.
Programming, like anything of substance, takes time, energy, and discipline.
I've been thinking the same, but might it be that being in such a hurry made them choose not to device a safer experimental setup?
Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, Game of War, Puzzle and Dragons, and I believe Monster Strike have all crossed the $1b mark.
> Nobody makes "pipe" so small with walls that thick.

nobody: http://specialtypipe.com/home/products/heavy-wall-seamless/

nobody at all: http://www.steeltube.sk/zelpo/vyrobky.nsf/Tab1UK?OpenPage

found in < 30 seconds via Google.
The article was long ago published as a stand-alone book. I bought and read the book before I ever knew it came from the New Yorker. It's one of the most haunting things I've read, and I guard that book jealously, which is a long-winded way of recommending you find the book and keep it around.
How to Draw a Baby
Don't insult our intelligence.
The US traditionally has a big chunk of the electorate that's very isolationist minded. And with that come quite a few politicians pandering to that----at least rhethorically.
Read it somewhere a few years back but don't recall where it is, sorry...
Should I Report My Bitcoins?
When did the Ottoman Turks become Muslim?
I grew up in the Balkans and was taught in school that assassination of Franc Ferdinand in Sarajevo was jusified act to free South Slavic people from German oppression. To justify the aftermath of WWI - the education at the time said the World War I would have happened anyway.

Moved out West and obviously introduced to a few different interpretations of the event, but it took a few years to start to question what I was taught early on and that maybe it is not 100% what would have happend in regards to WWI if not for the assassination.
Yes. Though I am not sure if it's actually effective, or only a superficial courtesy.
If you haven't seen hacker koans, they're fun to read through. Sure they're largely parody, but some of the popular ones feel like proper koans.
I've been shopping for a used car in the Bay Area, and it looks like used electrics are even easier to buy (and harder to sell) than former rentals. That's not a good signal.
According to the article, we are now held back by expensive, non-crappy batteries.

But the price is dropping, and eventually will be affordable.
I dare to disagree. My point about DM being killed by Merb/Rails merge was about what happened back in 2008 with its consequences through all the years. I'm talking about DM1 specifically, if Merb survived and DM could grow with it we would be in a different place now already.

As far as our DM2 efforts go, this really didn't end so bad. rom-rb is growing very fast and we're already in the process of making it easy to use for typical CRUD stuff. Hanami integration will help here a lot too.
Does anyone have any ideas of what the first real uses of the DAO may be?
I think would much rather my leaders just sign some sort of an armistice agreement rather than annihilate "enemy" civilians.

I mean there are ways to end a war without total destruction.

And the logic of killing civilians to save soldiers is just .. no comment.
I'm sure that Bangladesh feels much better now...
Not quite so different. There are huge discussions about the headscarf in Europe, which doesn't cover the whole face like a Burkha.
August 6th, 1945: bombing of Hiroshima

August 9th, bombing of Nagasaki

August 15th, Japan surrenders.

One could note that the two bombs were of different design, that both were tested on real cities and real human beings. As for whether or not Soviet or the bombs won the war - or if the bombs made much difference that waiting would not have; it's hard to judge. Here's one take on it:

http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08...
Not an expert on this, but I think the compiler has to inline the function for that to work well. No matter how good the system library implementation is, the function signature is defined one scalar float, which limits vectorization.
Whoever wrote this obviously has never seen a skydiver impact the ground at high speed. Watch a video of high performance canopy pilot, or "swooper", impact the ground at 60mph; they bounce off the ground like rag dolls, and are usually left with broken femurs. An impact at 100mph will most certainly kill you unless something extraordinary breaks your fall.

- crispytx (Wingsuit Pilot & Programmer)
What I meant to say was that I felt Rails was too rigid for some purposes, especially creating single-page applications. It's true that Rails wasn't built with that in mind originally, but it seems that it's becoming a bit easier now (I haven't been following Rails lately and had never heard of the "API mode" you mentioned).

I also know about a couple of projects using React successfully within Rails apps, but I would personally not do that if I were to start a new project today, even though I love Ruby.
Speaking as a non-Southern Californian... at least your neck of the woods has an obvious and inescapable conclusion. You're going to have a tremendous earthquake on the San Andreas, which will barely touch Southern California physically. It will probably level LA and SF though, at the very least. I suspect that faced with the prospect of cleaning that mess, and rebuilding, suddenly we'll all find our copies of 'Cadillac Desert'.
One programmer almost broke the internet by deleting 11 lines of code
The fact that you're getting downvoted for saying this on HN (out of all places) is kinda odd.
Probably depends on what you want to accomplish. I bought a Kindle Fire HD several years ago and installed Cyanogenmod on it. Turned out to be a terrible decision. After days of fiddling and things not working and many hours of web searching, I began to suspect that I needed a "factory cable" and that the only way I was going to get one was to make one myself. (Which I did, wasn't too difficult, but information was sparse.) Then I discovered that I pretty much hated everything about Android, or at least Cyanogenmod 7. The aesthetics were bad (although Material probably helps a lot now), the icons were universally ugly (seriously, Google can't even hire a artist for its own app icons?), the apps were ugly, the scrolling was lame (I get that Apple has a patent on bounce, but the light blue highlight was both ugly and uninformative), the app store was filled with apps that had ads for 8 hours of developer work, basic things like calculators and notes apps were seriously ugly (and also were not included with the OS). I bought it partly to learn Android development, but I hated programming on Android because the API seemed to have taken the worst features of Java and the Linux UI, and was so full of inconsistencies that it made Microsoft's APIs look thoughtfully designed. Life is too short to use crappy Java APIs, so I ended up using it to read Kindle books for a year or so until the iPad mini got retina displays. Since then I haven't used it once.

If none of the above bothers you, well, the price sure is good. Just be sure to check how hackable it is, and how well your target OS runs on it.
Killing someone for their possessions and meat has been done for thousands of years, and is useful.