skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For cats it's better to fall off a higher floor than a lower one because they have more time to turn feet down and increase their air drag thus getting under the terminal velocity and allow them to survive the fall.

True, and there's been at least one, probably many, actual study done that came to that conclusion.

Small nitpick (I'm sorry, I couldn't stop myself!), their action doesn't get them "under the terminal velocity," it lowers what their terminal velocity is. It's just the speed at which the wind resistance is enough to prevent further acceleration by gravity. It's terminal as in the end of something (acceleration), not terminal as in the predicted death of the something.
> My experience with these communities is that they are very close to non-functional

I had really good luck with the Elixir Slack channel when I was first starting out with the language. I guess I'd say Slack can be a great newb friendly place to ask dumb questions. There were plenty of times I didn't know what to Google, because I didn't understand a basic concept, and I couldn't figure out how ask a clear question on StackOverflow. When you're in newb territory, having a Slack channel full of helpful people is nice.
TLDR; Caused by trees. And poor planning.

FirstEnergy didn't adequately trim trees in the right of way for a 345 kV line. On a hot day, due to other outages, the load on that line caused the conductor to heat, expand, sag, and then electricity shorted to the tree. Protection equipment removed the line from service, but with the loss of that transmission capacity, other lines also exceeded their capacity with their protection equipment tripping them offline. Planning criteria should have 1) prevented the first line from having as much load as it did, and 2) prevented the loss of the first line from causing cascading failures.

Page 18 is a good place to start if you don't have the patience for the full 238 page report.
Does any major frontend framework plan to use these native APIs? Seems like a good opportunity to enhance the performance of web apps to me.
Yep, using WebDav with Nextcloud too - much nicer to use than the official desktop client, IMO.
Ah, maybe it's just the UK :-(
One problem with using or is if the key is associated with false, then it will be ignored in favour of the default. Keywords support a second argument which is the default to use on not-found so you can just write:

(-> {:a 1 :b 2}
(:c 5.5)
inc)
I read recently that stress isn't actually related to mortality as much as people think. Similar to this post, it showed that people who are stressed, and additionally think that stress is bad for them, are more likely to die. Whereas people who felt stress and thought it was a good thing, i.e, their body calling them to action, were actually pretty much okay.
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As a jQuery diehard, I recently hit the wall with it and decided to work with Vue instead. Looking at what I have learnt so far. I really wish I moved to webpack, npm and Vue a year ago now. It's nothing short of amazing!

The Net Ninja does VueJS 2 and Vuex tutorials with a lot of great content. Helped me getting up to speed fast and being able to move across easily.

I do see his series in the list, but starts at episode 15. Here's the full playlist for both.

VueJS 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LYrN_cAJoA&list=PL4cUxeGkcC...

VueX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGAu__J4xoc&list=PL4cUxeGkcC...
We don't see the need at the moment to use any ionic components... So the ionic 4 stuff won't be needed, but regardless of whether we use stencil to build our components or not, I was hoping to find some clarity on whether the community size would be an issue as our product matures, and also whether talented developers would avoid opportunities to join our team if Angular was our framework instead of React.

The adoption rate of Angular vs React is a bit concerning to me.. is that a real concern?
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I similarly encourage any Mac users who are serious about emacs to use Mitsuharu Yamamoto's fork, which adds several usability improvements that RMS refuses to endorse and is just generally a better experience on Mac. Mainline GNU Emacs feels clunky and obsolete by comparison.
You never want matching airflow in a PC case, it creates pockets of heat, frying components, usually the top disc drive or sometimes the PSU.

Positive pressure is very good at assisting the PSU fan and any radiator exit fans you have, negative pressure is very good at cooling the edges of the MoBo and upper drives in a tower system. Negative is generally cheaper, so its usually negative.
> a lot of that wealth is new

Where is the "new" wealth coming from?

> There are effective mechanisms to not being poor.

That seems like a generalization to me that doesn't factor in location, race, access to good education, medical conditions, existing debt, etc.

> So yes, we should focus on the lower end of the scale.

Why not both?
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They get Federal grants to pay for the police cooperation / joint activity. The politics will be local and the locals get a pass since they usually cooperate or become well known. Even a license plate reader will say the car is local. These areas tend to be conservative as well so they view the law enforcement presence as useful.
It's been a pretty long time since the Bitcoin paper. About the same or longer than the time between the definition of HTTP and the emergence of the web as a useful mainstream technology. Why does this seem to be developing more slowly than the web? Maybe a better analogy is the time it took arpanet to develop into the modern web? Perhaps analogies like this are not worth looking at?

I'm not sure about any of this, but I feel like lots of people recently have been making the argument that it's really early, hasn't had time to develop, etc., when I've been waiting for it to turn into something for a long time now and becoming increasingly skeptical as the goal posts have continued to move.
As a non-white person, there's no way I would refuse to cooperate with a US police office or other authority figure.

The price of refusal can be very high, including being arrested, put in jail for a few days, or even being shot dead.

Unless you're rich or connected, the US can be a very cruel place.
Although I'm willing to believe this kind of low-latency news-mining tech may be quite robust against noise, it seems like it would be difficult or impossible to filter real news from intentional, hostile, targeted false news injected by people who understand the basic principles upon which the tech is based.
Feel like it might be being optimistic. I believe "positive outlook" at the very least has correlated with better health, longevity, etc.

Feeling in better shape (and not actually being so) is a byproduct of optimism.
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Oh this is really nice! Thanks - gives me something to construct tonight :)
Ask HN: Which $AFE is better and Why?
OMG This Is Wrong.English Teacher Marks Up White House Letter and Sends It Back
Ask HN: Should You Work for Free as a Freelancer?
The idea of this question came after seeing this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqi62NGdCZw&t where the OP says that it could be beneficial for new freelancers to work for free to get a portfolio piece. I believe that working for free is unnecessary, but I'd like to get HN's opinion on the matter.
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Thank you. Going to watch this later on this eve. I'm upvoting this and commenting this way. Just in case anyone else who comes across this thread and has come across other interesting videos, to please comment and share!
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Height is also important if you've got a multi-floor house. In upper stories, make the fans face outward and on the ground floor make the fans face inward and you'll set up a continuous air path throughout the whole house favoring cooler air.

Personally for a single fan in a smaller room where you're near the window, I'd say just point it in. That way you get fresh air right where you are sitting, you get the breeze, etc. In the other direction you won't get the cooling effect on your body from the breeze.
I consider myself to be an environmentalist and normally wouldn't think twice about taxing producers of plastic for its cleanup, but this doesn't get to the real issue. Most oceanic plastic comes from only a handful of sources: a few rivers in Asia. The plastic cups at a London Starbucks aren't killing sea turtles.

What we need is a cultural change in places like china. They need to stop dumping plastic waste into rivers and instead put it in landfills. Landfills are evil, but not nearly as evil as what is happening to our rivers and oceans. So rather than spend our money/energy on reducing plastic use in Europe we should address our attentions to the much larger issue in Asia. The good news is that we already know how to solve the problem, it doesn't cost that much, nor does it require radical changes to behavior. We just need to convince a handful of countries to do what a great many have already been doing for decades: landfill the plastic.
That makes sense, and now I see why they might mention that, since the incident was from 2002
I think they just know that getting away from the monstrous predator is better than getting eaten by it, and so they escape without regard to the size of the leap. If you did the same experiment with your hand held out over the ocean, I'm sure they'd make the same leap, only to drown in the water.
The Martinez-Fuerte ruling specifically applies to a section of US territory along the border.

The ruling accepts that illegal border crossings DO occur and that therefor Border Patrol need jurisdiction to stop and question people within a reasonable distance from the border in areas where illegal border crossings occur.

A less penetrable border would be the cleanest solution here.
After the multimillion dollar Bitcoin Gold 51% attack a few weeks ago, I was curious what an attack like this costs against other currencies. I calculated the cost of renting hashing power from NiceHash to complete an attack.

I found it surprising that it is possible to rent enough hashing power for many of the smaller currencies, which makes me question the use of PoW for smaller coins.

Please note that the attack costs do not include the money you earn in the form of block rewards, so in many cases the costs will actually be substantially lower.
that RMS refuses to endorse

What's his rationale?
They key term is of course "at a slower rate" which implies more and more of the total wealth of society is accumulated at the top.
A K-12 student's performance correlates strongly with the family's wealth [1], and interacts with several other factors like race category, stable home life, and the low incidence of everyday violent crime. If rich people successfully exclude poor people, which can be done with legal price mechanisms instead of illegal discrimination, public school performance remains high.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/29/upshot/money-...
I try to take a couple breaks, and then use the stairs (instead of the elevator). I try to use the toilet one floor up or down as well.
I disagree.

What the article is trying to point out is that the 9.9% thinks he's not so wealthy, so he is against inequality, but he still, somehow, for his own comfort and merit belief system, likes his higher income.

Trying to talk about ranges of income, would it the top N%, is pointless.

You could strip out the hypocrisy like so: "I am not at the top, so I am still against inequality, but I am comfortable, but since I AM NOT AT THE TOP, YOU CANNOT BLAME ME, so blame the richest". This is the core problem about stretching inequality, because individualism makes people work for their own selves, and NEVER encourage anyone to "take one for the team". The whole story is about how people perceives their own selves. This is an important debate.

I'm sure those 9.9% would be very surprised they belong to the top 10%. The graph of income is always growing exponentially, yet for some reason people are throwing away the idea that they might be the ones to blame, because people will naturally find argument that they're not to blame. It's always the responsibility of someone else.

I personally have not lived the wealthiest life there is in term of income, but you know, at least I don't complain, because when I compare it to the rest of the world, being in the lower 50% or 60% or 30% in a modern and developed country is still a pretty good life.
"We are on the path to something that could destroy C++. We must get off that path!"

Bjarne has spoken, and his warning should be heeded.
I just realized something sad: the reason I never went through using any of ledger-cli, YNAB and Mint etc is that I never really made enough money that it got so complicated it wouldn't fit a single file (lol)
TLDR: they saved 400 to 1000 cores by switching off the switching off of the GC during requests.

The fact that they are running Ruby and are spending 1000 cores on GC is o_O.
this is pretty cool:

> TRAMP has a new connection method for Google Drive
Do you mean the sound combination "el", or the fact of having a definite article?

Latin did not have articles. The use of articles is a grammatical feature that has been borrowed between languages. But yes: that kind of borrowing is a lot less frequent than borrowing of vocabulary.
I wonder about your intentions.

Stainless steel cutlery for a family costs about 30 euros. This is nothing compared to the cost of living in France.

After 1 - 2 years, it is also cheaper than plastic forks and knives.
It's not an alternative to volume rendering as the title suggests. It's a kind of a brand name the manufacturer wants to establish for their admittedly very impressive volume rendering implementation
The current GOI is not going to ban Ramdev's products.
I would add:
3) Rising medical prices make it harder for people to justify going under-insured.
Why can't people just make an hour before or after work to go to the gym or go for a run?
Why not just call her Lord Voldemort then?
Doesn't seem to really take advantage of Julia's compelling tools but still neat.
That's a really interesting idea. Kind of like wheresgeorge.com for trash
Show HN: Rest ninja – REST jsfiddle, make HTTP/AJAX request and share as URI
TLDR: JS devs discovered view encapsulation.

By habit, they’ve decided to ignore any prior implementation of this pattern, and chose a completely new, unintuitive nomenclature (compare: “polyfill”).
edit: Whoops. My recollection of the article was quite wrong!

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No, the article states that the average wealth of the 9.9% is 1.2m. This is of course heavily influenced by people at in the top 1%; people in the 10th percentile are not all millionaires.
1. Click on link.
2. Get huge GDPR banner.
3. Close tab.

GDPR, the new productivity booster.
> And they warn quite clearly about that.

Do they?

https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml doesn't even mention safe_load().

And this is the docstring for yaml.load():

Parse the first YAML document in a stream
and produce the corresponding Python object.

This doesn't sound very scary, and certainly doesn't imply possible code execution.
Yes. Because without the 9.9% the 0.9 are helpless. And the 9.9 can do just fine without the 0.9 but not the other way around.
A hilarious video on how to quickly get through border security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxijuRjX1U
I find it a bit paradoxical that those articles that aim to make calculus more approachable to everyday people are always assuming that those very people already know what the Sigma symbol means, or what [that](http://juliendesrosiers.ca/uploaded/weird-math-symbol.png) math symbol means. I see the author in this case is defining the delta and approximately-equal symbols, but I see quite a few non-obvious symbols in this article.

Maybe it's because I'm canadian or that I have not studied advanced mathematics in high-school?
> I would hypothesize that even within this 9% we’d find the wealth concentrated at the top in the “2nd 1%”, i.e., the top 2% likely make the middle class look mostly irrelevant.

I doubt this particular point. The 98th percentile of earners make something like $200-$300k a year, the 89th percentile make about $100k/year[0]. That's a big difference, and it will equate to an even bigger difference in wealth, but not enough that the 98th percentile will substantially outweigh the combined 89th-97th percentiles. (Arguing otherwise means assuming that the one group has 8 times as much wealth per capita as the other).

It's also true that the 98th percentile includes plenty of people in the HN crowd. That's the point: well paid professional types (or software engineers) are not being hurt by the gains that accrue to the very top of the income distribution.

So far as they/we cluster in the same industries/subsectors that are growing those billionaires, we have--to some extent--shared interests. For instance, Amazon software engineers might gain by clawing back money from Bezos and the stockholders, but they don't have a monetary interest in redirecting pay to the warehouse workers.

[0] immediate googled source: https://investormint.com/investing/how-much-does-the-top-1-m...

I always thought the 99th percentile started a bit higher, but this is roughly in line with what I've read before.
That's exactly it!
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In my university all vending machines use a Mifare Classic NFC tag to save users' credit. It has almost become a tradition that each year at the beginning of the second semester some freshmen find out how to read and modify their credit and mess up the vending machine system for some days just for the lulz and for (a very modest) profit.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for the teacher to demonstrate the scientific method by setting up thermometers throughout the room and recording them throughout the day.
Well, yes, except that unless you get a critical mass of people that agree with you, you lose all compatibility. Nobody will buy your Ether-fork and while your Linux fork might work, it’s all yours to maintain from that moment on. There is value in standardization, even if the standards aren’t perfect.
Too many assumptions to answer precisely. Chances are you'll feel cooler if the fan is blowing inwards because that will help your body reduce its temperature via evaporation of perspiration.

There are much more complex cooling setups that can be achieved that utilise outward-blowing fans though, but a single fan can't will cool _you_ faster if it is blowing onto you.
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>Yes, it has none of these features. Intentionally.

Yes, I can see you designed the omission deliberately but what I don't understand is how to do effective budgeting without a timeline calculation. You need date&time metadata to facilitate planning and planning is budgeting. Budgets based only on arithmetic against snapshots of balances without incorporating a time horizon doesn't seem like "budgeting".

>, I have used a collection of manually edited text files

It looks like making text entries "simple" means shifting the "complexity" to multiple sheets (or multiple text files). The hidden implicit metadata is the filename conventions and organization of text files.

>But there's definitely a lot of room for improvement. I actually want to explore creating a plugin API.

To clarify, I'm not saying your project is missing Javascript code to enable functionality of budget planning. I'm saying the data layer below that -- the text representation -- is missing basic metadata -- which handcuffs what future Javascript can do to generate basic budget reports and budget projections. A plugin API system usually does not create new incompatible data formats because of incomplete metadata in the base file.
It would look very odd in office environment, also sweating problem..
Well, there goes my day.
What is the make/model of your ERV?
Excellent news. Next step: reciprocal enforcement.
So how _do_ you handle nil without those things? You've said you try to just avoid it, but many functions return nil and there's no easy way around it (e.g. trying to get the max value of an empty list)
The last time I tried using WebPack on an Elm project it felt as awkward as putting on my underpants head first. I ended up going back to Gulp. That was a year or so ago. Have things improved in WebPack since then?
Don’t understand why you are being downvoted. Chernobyl is a good example what happens when humans leave.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-...
Ironically, this article is not available without opting in to their tracking. Could someone post the plaintext link?
I workout less than 100 hours a year in 1 hour sessions and I'd consider myself pretty fit. My peers and any physicians I've visited also agree.

I have to ask, by whose standard?
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> When you're in newb territory, having a Slack channel full of helpful people is nice.

Exactly my experience as well. In those cases, Slack is just like an old school IRC channel with a shinier interface.
Most replies intelligently include open windows. Running an electric fan in a closed room with unopened or no windows may prove fatal and can lead to irreversible Fan Death. It's not a good way to go.
> If voters approve the measure, businesses will be required to have a "clear and conspicuous link" on their website's homepage titled "Do Not Sell My Personal Information." The link would take users to a page where they can opt out of having their data sold or shared.

Ugh but why though? Why not just have a law that says you cannot sell or trade personal information.
"The poorest quantiles have become more wealthy over time as well, just at a slower rate."

For the last two decades, your source actually says the opposite.
The lowest three quintiles peaked in the dot-com bubble, with the bottom quintile losing the most (almost 10%) and only the middle quintile just recently reaching those levels again.
You just need to decline to be tracked, and then follow the appropriate link on the text-only home page.

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=614419275
All those people you listed are still cogs in the machine, to varying degrees. The CEOs are beholden to the boards, who are beholden to the institutional investors, who manage my 401k. Certainly, the CEOs have higher leverage over the system on an individual basis. But anyone whose wealth is increasing mainly through return on capital is a member, if not a leader, of the capitalist class.
Hi. I use Jekyll and a Makefile that pushes the generated html to S3. I also needed to set up a cloudfront distribution instead of using a bare web-enable S3 bucket so I could use aws’s https certificate automation. Let me know if you need more details.
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Key paragraph:

“He neglects to mention that many of them are actually just retirees. According to Saez and Zucman, whose data Stewart uses, more than 40 percent of all wealth belonging to Americans between and 90th and 99th percentiles is held by the the elderly, meaning age 65 or older. This is what makes wealth data a tricky way to measure class below the very tiptop of the distribution. Stewart’s “9.9 percent” includes a lot of working professionals and business owners with gilded academic résumés, sure. But it also probably encompasses a lot of 75-year-old former accountants and nurses and guys with construction businesses who made a comfortable living decades ago, bought a house, and paid down the mortgage while saving for retirement. There’s no real way to tell a consistent story about who these people are, which makes it a bit hard to blame them for the death of opportunity in this country.”