skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You claim things without being knowledgeable of the matter.

Oh, sorry about that, forgive me for speaking my mind in a public forum, and out of turn at that. Would you like a position paper with references?

I claim things because I've been interested in transportation for a very long time and have read up on the subject from countless sources. There are a whole pile of reasons why you can't just overnight remove all traffic from cities. For one you're still going to have to supply the cities which means you will need to keep all road and other infrastructure in one piece but with a far smaller tax base available to pay for them, you will have numerous exceptions to your rule (due to for instance people with handicaps, emergency vehicles and so on), there is the small detail of a lack of public transport capability, the fact that public transport is not usually practically usable when you need to transport more than a small bag of stuff and so on. Another issue is that if the larger part of the alternative transportation methods will use electricity that we will need more grid infrastructure, charging points and generating capacity, all of which will not spring into being overnight.

Simplistic solutions such as 'ban all cars' from one day to the next will have serious side effects and you're not going to win this battle by making such idiotic suggestions. Society is like a super tanker, the minimum turning radius is large and if you try to exceed that limit something will break.

'Plans with regarding alternative means of transportation' require time to be implemented and require actual alternatives.

Amsterdam has been slowly but surely pushing vehicles out of the cities inner center with a combination of tax pressure, changes to infrastructure, improved public transport and so on, it's been going on for decades and the effect is very clear. If they had done this any faster there would have been too little time to adapt for all the individuals and businesses depending on mobility.

It's akin to how you change a large technological system: the agile method applied to society. Large uncontrolled swings in direction will not be manageable and will result in only one of two things: some kind of disaster or a reversal. If you don't want either of those you are going to have to be a bit more patient for a proper solution.
HEAD is still less wasteful and just as effective.
Integrate the Entire Survey Life-Cycle into Your Web Application
Joyas Voladoras (2004)
It's a weight thing for me, and not a warmth thing. I crave the feeling of something on me when I'm sleeping. Probably a sense of security. I've been on the eternal hunt for something heavy weight, and low heat. Currently using 3 x varying weights of knit cotton blankets, and does the job.
I agree on base image point. Although if we have python apps in the image, it should not matter (both 2-alpine3.7 and 3-alpine3.8 work ok).
Systemd vs sysv is not an issue in docker containers since it's (mostly) not used. If you are using an init system, you are probably using tini (included in recent Docker) or supervisord (usually used for older/legacy c/c++ apps).
Gun confiscation from law-abiding citizens at a Federal level? Yes, I believe that has a pretty significant chance of going sideways quite rapidly.

Target a vulnerable sub-population and you just might be able to pull it off (mentally impaired, under 21, etc.)
Coincidentally the same places that contemplate banning cars. How convenient!
“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Jan from ArangoDB here... true, and we know that it is a thin line to publish benchmark results when you're a vendor. But hope to at least provide a boilerplate for own tests and show that just because a db is multi-model, doesn't mean it has to be slow
No it's five years. As the internet changed everything in 10 years, mobile internet changed everything in 5 years. Change will come rapidly not slow.

Also if you're a lawyer

"An AI just beat top lawyers at their own game"
https://mashable.com/2018/02/26/ai-beats-humans-at-contracts...
The BBC Micro:bit would be a great starting point. It's a simple microcontroller module with Bluetooth Low Energy, an accelerometer and easily accessible IO. There are browser-based IDEs supporting drag-and-drop code blocks, Javascript or Python; you can also program the device from a smartphone app over Bluetooth. There are hundreds of lessons and projects for the micro:bit, including a 14 week introduction to CS course. A starter kit costs just $16.50 from AdaFruit.

In my opinion, it's the best introduction to computer science for children.

http://microbit.org/guide/

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3362

https://makecode.microbit.org/courses/csintro
Well, almost. We don't use Kubernetes, but Cattle (which is part of Rancher.)

I don't entirely understand your point though; is our level of abstraction too low? With Heroku (preference of the OP) all of this, the containerization, the orchestration, the deploy tool, is abstracted away. Is that what you'd prefer?
personal heroku/dokku clone, which is really just a remote git with some hooks that build images and provision to docker.

haproxy in front loadbalancing and doing routing

tinc mesh for a ghetto private cloud with dirt cheap boxes

consul k/v store used for runtime configuration
Savings in the US are not quite disincentivised, but not actively encouraged. You're only taxed on interest, the principal in a savings account isn't taxed.
Some people are inconsiderate :-( . Some of those people ride bikes. I've been annoyed at bicyclists while walking along holding my helmet just after docking my Dublinbike, even.

But a jerk walking is virtually certainly not going to kill me (or my kid). A jerk cycling almost certainly won't either. But a jerk driving quite possibly will - after all, where I come from there's a 9/11 on the roads every month due to drivers, and the dead are disproportionately people walking or cycling.

Of course, 100 years ago the streets were for walking (or horses, bikes, early autos, whathaveyou) and it was quite a feat that auto makers convinced people that only folks inside cars deserved to use 90% of it (all of it, in much of the US), and that it was perfectly normal to leave people walking clinging on to a shred of space at the edge.
I know this post is young but surprised not to see Linode on here yet. We are deploying to Linode and have recently switched from Puppet to Saltstack to manage our servers. There's a bit of Fabric and Capistrano to glue it all together.
Quite a few Luddites starved during those times.
It is possible to power up and down nuclear power plants, it is however very inefficient. And when you have neighbors wanting to buy your surplus electricity and a grid that support it, why bother?

France and other countries (like Switzerland) import electricity from time to time not because they are unable to produce it, but because it's cheaper to do so. Germany on the other hand have to import electricity when there not enough wind/sun and their coal plant are already maxed-out.
This is on the right track. You actually sort of need both but it's important to get the language right.

Objects, particularly highly sophisticated objects, generally have minimal requirements that determine who can use them successfully. Requirements can be anything from strength to knowledge. At the same time people have skills (or don't have skills) and attributes which lets them use objects. Some people are more skilled than others.

Modelling this requires both the ability to ask an object "What are the minimal requirements needed for somebody to use you?" and the ability to ask a player "How skilled are you really at using this object?"

As a smell test, it doesn't make much sense to ask a sword "can I use you?" How would the sword know? But you can ask the sword, say, "how heavy are you?" It does make some sense to ask a person "can you use this sword?"

And yes, it's not clear at all that every object type corresponds to a first-class language type. You might have a Sword type... but in reality, unless the game is very sophisticated, all bladed weapons do pretty much the same thing. This is where it's useful to take a step back and focus not so much on nouns but also on verbs in our domain language. Swords, axes, ninja stars -- they are all cutting damage. Spears, knifes, polearms -- they are all stabbing damage.
Nothing like the cars from the '70s or earlier. Every once in a while driving, I'll pass a restored car from the 60s or 70s going the other way, and can smell the exhaust for about a mile. And that's one car.
You have a gambling problem? HN is surely not the right place for seeking help, they [1] will help

[1] https://www.ncpgambling.org/help-treatment/national-helpline...
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon..

U r special and unique. Just like everyone else...
“We were surprised when we saw [the correlation] and then we were surprised no one had noticed it before“

Seems like lots of women noticed it. Just sayin’.
Soylent to launch new Strawberry 2.0: Summer 2018
European law has been very tilted towards
Diesel engines for a long time. As the recent VW debacle proved - oversight was quite lax compared to the US diesel regs. This laxness was the result of the influence of BMW, Mercedes and VW and the outcome of years of corporate lobbying. It’s a good first step, but they have further to go.

Despite the rhetoric, Germany has also been very restrictive with Tesla, viewing it as a challenge to its crown jewel automotive companies (no credits, no additional supercharger stations, much harsher reading of laws to protect their own industries).

You know that Germany will be serious when that changes.... (or the German car companies will have finally caught up to Tesla’s battery power and power train)...
I think knowing the symptoms of autism and such can help you explain at least to yourself how you're different; I think that peace of mind and acceptance is the most important. I'm fairly sure I'm somewhere on the spectrum too, but it's mild and I'm managing fine. I'm afraid I'd turn it into a victim complex if I were to get a diagnosis.
This idea of defining a hard error for a transition which makes no sense is a nice way to deal with the OPs problem. You must still explicitly handle the situation, but it minimizes the "unwind/undo" code.
Manually deploying using scripts to RHEL virtual machines.
what?

Just send a hash from the client and have the bloom filter built offline with the sames hashes, no big deal. You'd never ask clients to download it.
An interesting and well-written paper.

The authors not only advocate remarkably well their approach
for protocol-aware recovery of distributed systems,
they also give a broad overview of storage faults, their adverse impacts on consensus protocols and the possible recovery strategies.
Sidebar...

I mostly envision 500px as a B2B platform. That is, showing your peers your chops. You don't see too many wannabes there. The exception to B2B being the elite level shooters who do workshops, etc.

On Instagram, everyone with an index finger and an iphone is a photographer. It's a large audience and images get views / likes, does that make it a good marketing fit?

I haven't heard Flickr mentiined in too long. Shame really. It was Instagram before Instagram existed. Kinda.
Don't really know Toronto, but bikes are pretty annoying for pedestrians here in Germany as well.
Djdi
Back in the late '90s when I got my first diesel (a Citroen AX, with what was at the time the smallest production diesel power plant available) you'd have to wait many seconds for the glow plugs to warm the car before trying to start it. Diesel also freezes in the extreme cold, though that's not really a major issue in the UK. You could also run it on used cooking oil.

In the 20 years since then diesels have undergone massive and very rapid evolutionary changes through tax incentives (massively favoring low CO2, high MPG cars) and resulting fleet buying pressures. The result is what we have now: fabulously complicated, precision-engineered common rail engines with multiple turbochargers, incredible efficiency, almost petrol-like smoothness, weird stuff like urea tanks, and instant starting. If you put old vegetable oil in them they would break instantly and expensively.

I went from that AX in 1995 to a new Jaguar XJ6 in 2008 (via lots of petrol cars). The only thing they had in common was the black pump. In no other way were those engines comparable; the Jag was a beautiful, torquey, silky, rumbling thing that felt like a big V8, did 1,000 miles on a single tank, and beat 911s off the traffic lights (well, until 30mph). The AX was an agricultural dinosaur that deafened anyone in it and was so nose heavy you'd break a sweat parking it. One of those cars I could and did keep in tune with a hammer and a can of WD-40; the other needed a team of factory mechanics with computers and an expensive annual service. I sold it as soon as the warranty expired, but the AX was running fine until my sister drove it into a parked car shortly before I got the XJ.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

-Maya Angelou
Cold calling for my startup and how I learned to embrace the challenge
Google Cloud Platform - their PaaS or serverless solutions are extremely cheap. Also having 1TB free query on Bigquery is a true hidden gem in cloud. The same instance compared to other cloud vendors have better performance. We always needed fewer workers on GCP compared to AWS for example.
The incarceration rates of Europeans in America are similar to those of Europeans in Europe.
Also JS has possibilities for better interactive visualization using D3 and other things.
That comment wasn't even my own commentary. It's from the study's abstract. Nothing about my post was my own commentary beyond "hey I took this off google". I'm not against scrutiny insofar as I'm against having assumptions of intent thrown on me for little more than googling something and returning the first published paper I could find.
Kudos. I am more of a relational world kinda guy, but good work.
You seem very much in favour of cars, but also imagining that cities without cars would look much like cities with cars. Huge amounts of land are given over to roads and parking. Get rid of these and you have much denser cities without decreasing usable space per inhabitant.
The way I see it, if it's not something you can just do naturally, you need to apply a more conscious, scientific process to it. There's loads of books on the subject, starting with e.g. Dale Carnegie's classic on what to look for and how to act.
Google starts a push for cross-platform app development with Flutter SDK
I mean free at point of delivery. People using them don't necessarily pay for them (if I drive from SF to San Diego, I pay nothing to LA for the use of their roads, which doesn't really seem fair, though admittedly most of that drive would be on Interstate) I'd have no problem with tolled roads. Funny enough I would _love_ tolled bike paths - I'd pay several grand a year for them willingly - if I could even get them.

But I can't because we give roads to cars for free and that can't be questioned.

For that matter I'd love to lease some of the park and ride spots near transit so I could build an apartment on them (they're nearly free) but apparently I'm not allowed to do that. I can't even use them to park a mobile home permanently. How is that fair?
I'm not reading it because I don't sleep under a blanket on the hottest nights - can't relate.
Vehicle Excise Duty doesn’t (generally) change retroactively, so 5 years ago they were telling whoever bought that diesel car to buy diesel.

The bands are now (since April 2017) flat regardless of emissions for petrol and diesel [1], so the encouragement is to buy either an electric car or a petrol/diesel car (as you prefer) with a new price less than £40k (or more than 5 years old).

The only part that changes with emissions now is the fee at registration, which is factored into the purchase price (for a new car) or already paid (for a used car).

1: https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables
I guess you didn't read his notation in the beginning of the article that you should read his previous posts on the subject.
The whole point is that you give only a part (5 first characters) of the hash (SHA-1 in this case if I'm not mistaken?) to the API, and you are then returned a list of passwords with the same first characters, then you check that response against the actual password.

In effect, Troy's service never knows the password. It doesn't even know if it existed in the list you received.
no mention of the (apocryphal) story of people using dogs (dingos?) to keep warm when sleeping in the australian outback, where a cold night is known as a 'five dog' night. not sure how true this is, see http://www.metaphordogs.org/Dogs/entries/threedog.html for details.
A big part of the problem here is the the EU was focusing on CO2 rather than NOx and that diesels are actually really good in the CO2 department.
Kenya's new digitally enabled national IDs
When you say cyclists in Toronto can be awful, what do you mean? Are they mean to you, or do they not follow the rules of the road, or something else?

When I cycle I fear being killed by a motorist; when I drive I fear killing a cyclist. It's important to clarify whether cyclists are putting you in danger or if they are stressing you out. Both suck, but one sucks a lot more.
I second DigitalOcean. Great UI, almost perfect API [0], excellent support.

[0] https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...
No, lay on your stomach.
Please no bicylces, they are terrible for pedestrians. I'd rather deal with cars than bikes.
In traditional calisthenics, there is a progression beyond a simple squat with your body weight. Uneven squats, half one-leg squats, assisted one-leg squats, all leading up to one-leg squats.
Heck, a car in the netherlands is also very, very expensive. Especially if you live in the inner core of a relatively old city, which are not designed for cars and where parking space is at a premium.

I'm fairly sure most people working normal office kind of jobs could easily live without a car, especially if cities use that money to make public transport available to more "remote" regions easily.

My employer actually used this reasoning and has an office next to the train station, which makes traveling with public transport from other cities a breeze and prevents the company from having to pay massive fees for parking space.
If you like React, you should check out https://github.com/nozzle/react-static
Dedicated servers colocated in town, via shell scripts, libvirt, and an in-house continuous integration service.
Wow, the arguments for using thin soles sounds good and I would honestly be willing to give them a shot. But those are some ugly looking shoes :)
In my opinion after how many years and the modern stuff being pretty pre alpha technology wise. AT least some make a fresh functional is.

Oh and while your at it maybe make a fucking amendment to the FUCKING CONSTITUTION.

YOU PEOPLE ARE RETARDED FAGS.

Amend it to make Turkey's people for all I give a shit. YOUR CLAIM TO BEING A COUNTRY IS A MASTY FARCE. I DO NOT find that remotely cool AT ANY LEVEL.
Asynchronous Tasks with Flask and Redis Queue
What we need to do is to look into is how to get the best deals when on earth. Perhaps check out Chinese dishes in order to predict what will be in 2080 - amazon B005TJ8X3S
PyDev of the Week: David Litvak
I have been coding since 1986, of course I was able to ship software into production despite the lack of generics in the languages I was using.

Even Oberon, one of my favourite languages and influence to Go, which I had the pleasure to spend one year using during the mid-90's lacks generics.

That doesn't mean in 2018 I should be happy when forced to use a language whose concept of generics is to manually generate code like we used to do on those days (//go:generate).
Show HN: A Chrome extension that tracks front-end JavaScript at runtime
Of course. That's one of the main points of real friends.
This is a normal feeling. But one weakness of this approach for javascript is that it's easier to become popular because you have a much larger base of developers.
Ditto. For me, it's weight.
Indeed, currently there is no replacement for organic chemistry for life because it seems that we can't find another combination that would be as flexible and stable as carbon.

Silicon can replace carbon in a few scenarios but it isn't likely enough for any plausible mechanism that would support life to be based on silicon alone.

This is why likely all life is carbon based, some of the other elements like phosphors vs arsenic have more wiggle room but there is simply no "glue" other than carbon and this is simply due to physics not lack of imagination or knowledge.
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WebODM – A free, extendable application and API for drone image processing
> The problem was the author would show some code sand say 'see how easy it is to do this, and this, and this!', but I'd look at the code and have no idea whatever what it was doing or how it was doing it, and the guide/tutorial wouldn't tell me. After a few tries, I just gave up.

You're better off learning OCaml or F# for a small project or two, honestly. The jump from pure procedural to pure functional is big enough without also dragging in laziness, type classes, and monads.
Flutter is now beta
Government policy is to not retroactively change tax bands but to control vehicle use through other means, eg emissions zones.

I’m sure you can work out the morally correct action based on the types of areas you drive through. You don’t really need the government to make this decision for you.
None for now, I'm waiting for my knees and heart to recover.

Overthinking is what I do.
Method and apparatus for controlling electric currents (1925) [pdf]
We should be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are always going to be bad people standing by to abuse whatever -- there are also plenty of scams that shroud themselves in supposedly scientific fact, e.g. practically every single health and nutritional claim in consumer marketing. Certain health-nuts are building entire pseudo-religions around their supposedly scientific beliefs.

I don't think it's correct to cordon off "truth" as being only that which can be empirically learned. That leaves us with phenomenon like true love and the self-evident truth that all men are created equal.

If anything is in a separate realm, I'd argue it's scientific truth. That's not to demean it, rather it's a higher, superior realm.
I assume you're talking about US cities. Because IMHO most European cities are already far too dense. You can hardly see the sky.
Maintainer here, happy to answer questions!
At present, we use a network of bare-metal servers, which are managed by Chef, with a custom deployment system which deploys build artefacts from CI as defined in Chef. It's tidy, smart and quick – but it does require a fair bit of infrastructure.

We're in the middle of piloting a switch to Nomad (https://www.hashicorp.com/products/nomad), replacing much of the custom deployment system with it, though still running on bare-metal servers. It's an absolutely fabulous bit of software that really hits the use-cases for an organisation of our size, so I'm excited to see how that works out.

For side-projects where things like HA aren't much of a concern, I've settled on some minimal shell scripts to deploy tarballs over SSH. It's actually pretty neat – CI builds a project, and runs a small script to copy the results to a server and restart the services. It's always worth considering the simple solutions if you don't need the more advanced features!