skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dayton tops the list for least natural disaster prone. Similar with Southern Maryland. Denver is pretty high on the list and Seattle seems pretty safe too.

There are plenty of places to go.

For some reason we seem to love to build massive cities on disaster areas. I'm looking at you SF, LA and NYC.

But hey fuck it, lets just continue being bad at statistics and assume that because a natural disaster happened recently it won't happen again for a long time (the idea of a "500 year" storm is insane).

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/media/top-10-safest-us-cities-from-n...
The emojis didn't display for me, on iOS. Content-encoding issue?

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I think you chose the wrong half of the original title.
because the law says so, and the law was written by bureaucrats with no understanding of the industry or of the extremely predictable outcomes of their legislation
All I could find on these archives were summaries of the letters, is there anywhere where we can view the actual documents that are archived (either scanned or OCR)? I admit, I had a hard time navigating that page, so I may have missed something obvious.

Edit: My bad, after reading the Conditions Governing Use I found this: "Photocopies and photographic copies of material in the archive can be supplied for private study purposes only, depending on the condition of the documents." So it looks like these written summaries are all we can get?
Generally, when a visitor visits a website, which I call an interaction, then they must agree to its terms of service. This forms a contractual relationship. Contracts are private, and outside of things like not promising to do something illegal, it is up to each party to decide on its terms. In this case the website generally decides on the terms, and then the visitor opts into them through use of the website. Much of the issue lies within contract formation. When a lawsuit happens later, one thing that is frequently questioned is whether the contract is valid. A common angle is to claim the the contract is invalid because it was not correctly formed. Bad contract formation. For example, in a different setting, you didn't sign your name on the dotted line when buying a house or something like that, so there was never a contractual agreement, so there was never an actual sale, etc.

However, there is case law (law made by judges who hear cases and issue opinions) that says that sometimes contracts can be implicitly formed. For example, if you as a website visitor are given proper notice of a website's terms of use, and then you continue to the use website, you have implicitly agreed to the terms of the use. Even if you didn't sign anything, or check any box somewhere saying you agree. No explicit action has to take place.

Except, that is not exactly worldwide statutory law (laws passed by government and written down in the books with codes like Law #1234.56). While the issue of formation is mostly settled, there is still some room for creative legal maneuvering. Aka lawyering the shit of things. Aka screwing things up because someone with deep pockets is paying you to win using any angle you can get.

This cookies notice and agreement probably falls right into this category. And while it is generally settled law that the contract is formed even without this agreement, some schmuck somewhere still thinks there is wiggle room, but it is merely case law and not exactly authoritative, especially not in the international setting.

When in doubt, lawyers adhere to CYA. Cover your ass. Use the narrowest, most conservative, safest interpretation of the law. In this case, there is this tiny bit of doubt, so CYA. Just in case.

I personally believe you can make a good argument that contract is implicitly formed merely from continued use, and the notion of requiring express consent is outdated. The law is catching up to how things are done online, the trend is rather obvious, and anyone whining about it is probably just some established cash cow business that somehow wants to manipulate the market to further extend its antiquated business practices and is willing to spend millions on dollars on go screw yourself legal teams.

So, yes, you could theoretically get in trouble. But you are not likely to, and anyone suggesting otherwise probably has an ulterior motive.
Please do write that post!
You won't find argument from me that people are irrational friend.
Could too much sitting be bad for our brains?
Are the photos swapped? The face of the watch is shown with a caption describing the back.
Ask HN: Can you help Houston Emergency Services help Hurricane flood victims?
Houston is flooding, affecting over 6.5+ Million people [1]

911 services are completely overloaded. There are major parts of Houston that are inaccessible due to flooding. People are trapped in their homes and cars.

Victims are at-times turning to Social Media to try and get boat/coast guard rescue to escape their home even though the only official way to get resuce is via phone (at capacity) [2]

The city has exhausted government and state assets for rescue and have been callingo n volunteers since this morning. Unfortunately, all coordination is being done via phone.

Due to non-stop rain, new areas are flooding and residents over Houston's 600sq miles are completely dependent on the running media stations to provide coverage (one of the media outlets also was flooded out).

*

We are in need of volunteers to help build solutions that can help save lives and I unfortunately don't have the ability to build these myself. Some solutions, based on identified needs throughout the day:

- text to get Police rescue services -- to streamline emergency dispatch operations + off-load phone only capacity

- platform to connect boat/high water vehicle volunteers w/ HPD Emergency Services to coordinate rescue operatons and track assets across Houston (ideally w/ GPS)

- platform for users to crowd-source flood incidents and for officials to manage a live map of events, that can be utilized by News outlets

Please email me if you will consider helping build a solution and/or leave a comment on any ideas on how to best get started.

[1]
https://twitter.com/search?q=houston%20flood&src=typd

[2]
https://twitter.com/search?f=images&vertical=news&q=elderly%20flooded&src=typd
Hi I worked for a short time at Duracell. I do not know why they were ultimately rejected, but all of the consumer battery companies were researching lithium cells decades ago. I suspect it is some combination safety, environmental, and cost concerns of Lithium vs Manganese. The alkaline manganse cells still have very impressive lifetimes and energy density. The chemistry is amazingly suited for one off cells.

It could also be there is just not a lot of market pressure. If a manganese alkaline cell last a bit more than ten years, are you going to be upset with Duracell ten years later when you have no idea how much it has been utilized?
Relevant article: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/17/16162226/corporatio...

The thesis of the article is that corporations are replacing the role of churches as the moral voice of society. Interestingly, this applies on both sides of the spectrum: both liberal and conservative corporations are becoming more and more outspoken on issues.
I think the problem with yielding an array of lines is that all the code that uses the result of the function would have to be aware of this grouping of results all the way up the stack.

What he was proposing was a solution that looked like you were only returning one value per iteration (so none of the code doing the processing had to be aware there are arrays of values) but underneath the covers was actually being processed in batches on each run through the event loop.

It's actually a very elegant solution. The only code that would have to be aware that it's actually dealing with batches of values is the code producing those batches right at the top of the stack of calls.
I guess it's the seasonings/flavouring they add then.

The vegan milks sold downunder taste like sugary, oily, porridge liquid. My soy milk phase ended when I couldn't finish a 1L carton before it turned into a gloopy mess.
> I think this is exactly how Uber will fade into irrelevance.

Like Amazon? Because they used to break rules left, right, and centre. Their competitive advantage, in their early years, was ignoring tax law. The difference was that Bezos was smart enough to hedge against the day he'd have to comply, and to diversify.
An ubercoin and ICO would be more buzzword compliant.
Yes, vegan cat food is fine

Doing it yourself will only kill the animal slowly
How could I be "doing it for months now" when I haven't posted for months? Other than a comment a few days before this I hadn't posted for almost 5 months. It takes about 10 seconds to look at my account's posting history to see it's been inactive for months, so do you have me confused with someone else? What's the deal?
Even if that's the only way it could be headed (and I think there's lots of room for variation) - The correct path for Uber for the next few years and through an IPO is hardly a given.

They're currently far and away the market leader but that's a dangerous place to be. Lots of people want them to fail - both for competitive reasons and because they just hate the evil guy at the top.

Competition (backed by huge names like GM) is healthy in some markets for both riders and drivers, and they haven't been able to make a go of it in others. On top of that the autonomous space alone is going to be a war zone for the next decade and casualties will happen.
So I think the article is about Wingsuit Proximity Flying, and what you're describing is Wingsuit BASE Jumping. Are these two considered 2 separate, albeit similar, sports? Can any pilot practicing BASE Jumping leap off a cliff or do you somehow train for this?
If you look at the numbers I have to say that's a little bit silly to say. They have $6.6 bill cash on hand, they are burning ~$2.5 bill per year, although quarter to quarter net loss fell 9% last quarter. They very likely have 2 years, likely more, to start making profits each quarter.

If they really need to jettison more expensive parts of the business they can sell off their autonomous unit and their VTOL investments, along with a ton of other fat they can trim.

Your viewpoint does not seem connected with reality IMHO.
Ah yes, I missed mentioning F#. It is a great language have heard only good things about Fable.

I'd be happy to be writing any Typed Functional language - the differences between them are inconsequential compared to anything outside the paradigm.
If you don't mind sub-par call quality, the Bragi "The Headphone" headphones (yeah...) are absolutely incredible and are a worthy alternative to Apple AirPods while providing passive noise isolation. Great range, good sound quality (not as much bass as the AirPods), super duper comfortable, and looks amazing in your ears.

The Dash Pro is the more advanced version of these headphones but reviews are mixed and $350 is a lot of money to gamble on headphones (for most of us).

By "sub-par", I mean "people can hear you, mostly, until they start talking or you step outside/out of range."

If that wasn't a problem, I'd still be wearing mine. Absolutely loved the product.
Plus there's the risk factor. If you fuck up distillation of alcohol, even slightly, people may die.

You get the temperature control on your distillation wrong by 3 degrees, people will get sick from drinking it. 5 degrees, and it may kill kids who happen to get a hold of it, and starting at about 8 degrees it gets to the point where 2-3 glasses of your homebrew whiskey will kill a full blown adult.
I enjoyed this, and was impressed that it was written by a high school senior.
I would think, that the customers who can afford those watches tend to travel between latitudes.
And even if they are aware of the tech shenanigans at Uber, they will forgive and forget as long as they can get a subsidized ride with their local Uber drivers. People care more about their own bottom line than what is going on out in SV. In general, it simply does not affect their world.
Yeah, I suppose for combat training, there's nothing better than joining the actual military or reserves. Many of the habits acquired playing airsoft will probably get you killed in reality (like taking cover behind a 1/4" boards of plywood, staying within the designated field, or being compelled to complete an objective within a half hour), and in reality, an opposing military force is going to put up a much more serious fight than a bunch of uncoordinated kids and middle aged men. Where I live, the odds of a domestic armed conflict are so insanely low, that taking things any farther would be insane. In fact, it would probably be more likely for someone to burglarize a rifle from my apartment than for me to ever end up needing one, so I just fool around with toys for fun.
I had one as a kid. You could tell it was "too fast". Weird stuff.
> Uber is a real opportunity. Kalanick is unpopular, but he got Uber to where it is.

And Lyft got to where it is with no Kalanick. (... actually, does anyone know off the top of their heads, besides Lyft and maybe Uber employees, who founded Lyft and whether they're still in charge?)

The myth of the founder-hero who is the only person who can run a company usually has little evidence in its favor, but in this case it has explicit evidence against it. Lyft as a service is basically indistinguishable from Uber in markets where it serves both, possibly slightly better. And if Lyft acquires Uber, the two services get to stop competing on price, buying them plenty of time to figure out the self-driving tech (which, I agree, they need), and the combined company will succeed easily, no Kalanick needed.

(Also, I think "unpopular" is a pretty low-information description of why Kalanick got forced out. It could mean anything from "people on the internet don't like them" to "regulators don't like them" to "investors don't like them" to "employees don't like them," each of which have very different impacts on the company, and comparing an unpopular founder in one sense to another company's unpopular founder in another sense may not be meaningful.)
There are frameworks for common situations. Too many to list here, but a very common one is being lost while hiking / in the wilderness. People, especially men, will die not because they got lost, but because they moved afterwards when they should've sheltered in place and created signals for rescue.

Then on the other hand, if you're in a civil unrest situation outside of your home, moving is better than not.
There are a lot of jobs that are valued less than project/program manager.

That is unrelated to whether or not it's a good match for you.

You can be valued by your colleagues - or hated - in any job.
Chris McNamara, who's done some incredible climbing feats, gave a take on getting into wingsuit BASE too fast and managing to get out: http://www.chrismcnamara.com/post/120721775716/base-jumping-...
Cutting Deep to Find Your Genius
My experiences of home brewed stuff from all over Latin America and West Africa disagree with your theory.

Drink it, you'll be fine!
To be fair, it's the "Internet of Text", not the "Web of Text".

But I agree, it's kind of dumb. They could meet all of their 'why's with plain unstyled HTML.
Unless you buy a single cask, all whisky is a blend of at least the casks in a distillery (in this case, single malt).

https://www.diffordsguide.com/encyclopedia/1119/bws/how-is-s...
What can be done about it now is what should have been done before and wasn't. Not for Houston, maybe, but for the next city. I don't accept that "yes, we should have planned better, but let's not talk about how we can prevent similar disasters now".
Conditions like those inside Neptune cause diamond formation
Demonization of the enemy.

Cuba has this tech? Yeah, right.
> If anything, you could always have a dedicated interpreter for interactive work

CMUCL does that. There's an interpreter that's used for the REPL and optionally for loading files on the fly, and an optimizing AOT compiler.

SBCL drops the interpreter and just runs the compiler with settings that make it reasonably fast for interactive use as I recall. Clojure, too just uses the compiler interactively and not a separate interpreter.
I love the concept. But functionally - and especially because hyperlinks aren't clickable - you've recreated gopherspace. (Congrats - I love gopherspace).

Driving the world toward a simpler web is a good thing, no matter how you do it. In the meantime, I like to surf with lynx and links text browsers, which converts the entire rest of the WWW into a text-only experience. (And I'm not alone!)
Luxury good pricing also doesn't follow the supply / demand curve. In some cases higher prices actually increase demand because that signals greater quality and exclusivity.
Yes, but in my case I wanted the two servers to be located in physically separate parts of our datacenter to guard against a switch failing (ideally it would have been split across multiple datacenters), and I think that OpenBSD's CARP, or similar protocols like Cisco's VRRP, can only handle the case of computers on the same subnet sharing another IP address on that subnet. The two machines were on different subnets, and there was a third /24 we assigned virtual addresses from. By making the user-facing address for the web server its own 32 and having the two servers say "Hey, if you want to reach 10.255.255.1 you can route through me" over OSPF, all the switches on the way from a client to the two servers would be able to handle the case of the next hop failing, and let traffic take the other route to the same IP address. (Never mind that 10.255.255.1 was independently served by two Apache processes on the two machines; for all they know it was actually being routed to a third computer directly hooked up to the first two.)
This is a very good point. Unlike other sports - when you push you can be hurt badly, but ultimately learn from your mistake, proximity wingsuit is one-mistake-one-kill.
We'll find out. That's two years to turn a 2.5B burn rate into profits. I wonder what Dara will do?

Users won't like the changes. And Lyft is waiting with open arms and promo deals. That 6.6B cash is only impressive because of their user base and fleet.

Drivers might be the first to suffer. They'll probably feel the effects -- less pay -- before the users see price increases. So if Uber is about to switch to moneymaking mode, their fleet may become unreliable soon.
I think this is a bit different. Even if the file reading code was reading the maximum amount of available data it would still have to store most of it in a local buffer and then yield only one line in a promise which would mean only one line was being processed per event loop tick.

There's one more thing you should be aware of here that can catch a lot of developers out. On most POSIX systems, file reads from disk do not return EAGAIN but will in fact block if the disk is too slow returning the data back. EAGAIN is only meaningful on things like pipes, sockets, etc. The only way I'm aware of to do disk access truely asynchronously is using the POSIX AIO interface.
What is the motivation for supporting MIPS here?

I can't think of a single system that runs MIPS instructions.

Also, what does this distro do differently from the other 1000+ distos?

Why VOID? Why not something else?
Work with MS Exchange Server 2016 and Enhanced Messages to HTML Conversion in Java
Even though i hate advertising, I'm against weaponizing clicks on ads to punish sites. Boycott, or block ads.
I had a close call this summer whitewater rafting on the Upper Animas River in Colorado and it has caused me to re-think every serious risk I take and has changed me in a big way. I was participating in a multi-day trip run by one of the local guiding outfits through the Upper section of the river, a much more difficult and serious undertaking than the Lower Animas, which is frequently run by average day-tripping tourists. We were on the No Name Rapid [1] and our boat capsized at the entrance to the rapid. I was stuck below the boat, my body somehow entangled in rigging, and was dragged underwater for some distance through a very fierce class V rapid. I was finally able to free myself enough to get my mouth above water and breathe, close to drowning. I managed to fully free myself and swam to shore at the first opportunity. When I made it, I kissed the ground and promised that I would never needlessly risk my life in the pursuit of adrenaline again. I cried like a baby when I returned home that evening and held my kids and wife again.

Prior to this trip, I had done many adventurous and dangerous activities: rock climbing, ice climbing, lots of mountaineering, off-road driving, backcountry skiing... it really brings it all into perspective when you have a close call. All of that adrenaline-chasing just seems completely ridiculous to me now.

[1] The No Name Rapid. We capsized at the spot pictured at around 0:04s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjO37ABQ6mI
yup- he's bound to miss the next big strategic thing that everyone else can see, because that's the only thing he did at Expedia!

C'mon dude
I recently purchased an Eco that has an atomic clock receiver to self correct every night. Auto charging and auto setting is very helpful. Even the dates are always right.

It's a beautiful thing and I've gotten so used to having perfect time on my wrist that I actually feel strange when I don't have it.
Seattle is safe? Aren't they under impending doom from the Cascade fault[1]?

[1]http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/cascadia-subduction-zone-ea...
Its amazing that we at all allow the possibility of a field brimming with promise, that resulted in so much oppression to poor minorites, to be suddenly, just as the moment turned towards freedom, captured and terms dictated by a small group of rich people when others have bled, been deprived of their freedom, and were there first.
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It never was a neutral unbiased concept. It's always been used by the oponents of "neoliberalism", and (almost?) never by the proponents of a free market economy.
Why even host this in Github if it's just going to be a single .md file linking to a medium post.

Seems excessive with no actual information presented
Cheap wireless routers?
IMO, requiring a mobile number is grounds for disqualification, because it strongly identifies a person, and can be abused quite badly. Telegram demands a mobile number, even though it does not need to place calls. Check out Wire for an alternative.

http://wire.com/
The “free” economy comes at a cost
For one, VOID has a unique package management system [1].

[1]: https://www.voidlinux.eu/usage/xbps/
The only way reddit gets paid through advertising is if it has an effect on my purchasing decisions. Are you insisting that I consent to that? I don't. Are you insisting that I let you try to manipulate me into that? I'm clearly allowed to defend myself from such manipulation. Adblock is an effective way of doing that.

Can you charge people to use reddit? Not if you want to make money. I don't think people are willing to pay to use reddit. especially after the exodus that follows.

Some people consent to being manipulating into buying things, and reddit profits off of those people. Some people don't consent to that, but we still add value to the site by simply visiting, writing comments, voting, etc.

The math is clear. As long as enough people are willing to look at ads, you can't go to a paid only site without losing money.

The adblock users of the world thank those people, I guess, but that's just what it is.
Hosting it on GitHub means other people can fork it and add to the list. Thus the content grows in quality with contributions.
No systemd. Some folks will appreciate that.
False advertising is already against the law.

You can protest legally by blocking ads, but there's such a thing as too much civil disobedience. Its a slippery slope, because this argument can be used to justify DDoS.