skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google wants to buy this automatic text summarizer on behalf of zanndo.com
>How easy is it to insulate the electric motors?

Very easy. There are submerged electric motors for marine propulsion after all.
If it wasn't a viable business model, Google wouldn't move into the space. It's just that they first use their infinite pocket money to kill off all the competition, then switch to making money.
Funny you found this! I was quite amazed what you could do with the styling, especially the support for background-image.

As soon as this got merged, I realized, just as yread points about below; the complication of tracking due to the ability to include url() tags. Would be fun exploring the complications of that.

Blame is on me for not testing it in multiple browsers but I kind of assumed it would break somewhere due to this relying on fairly experimental features. :)
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The video states a 100kw motor per wheel.

Wikipedia states the humvee has a 142kw motor.

Not only the vehicle would probably be lighter (batteries vs motor, gearboxes, etc) but it would have 2.81 more power, so it would probably vastly overperform current vehicles?
The Influx ecosystem actually offers https://github.com/influxdata/chronograf for graphing in stead of Grafana.
For cmd you can install clink.
Don't children have bicycles anymore?
I'm not sure this makes a lot of sense. If you google "evil robot", immediately the whole page is filled with black and dark silver robots. So maybe, through movies and series' of the last 30 years, people have been conditioned to the "dark robot = evil" paradigm instead of assigning them a race by judging their color.. Interesting research though.
I saw it there a few days ago, great idea. Like the visual explanation on the new landing page also. Time to send in to Product Hunt!
That just killed my swimming sessions. Thanks HN!
Carbyne wants to replace outdated 911 systems
How to Choose Topics for Blog Posts
I recommend putting your e-book on an established selling platform, like Leanpub. This is crucial especially when you don't have an established following.

Make a dedicated e-book selling website as well.

Regarding monetization, there are many tricks. Make different price brackets, include extras in pricier packages. For example, if your book is a programming tutorial, offer team licences. In your book content, try to up-sell your other products if you have them. Create many micro launches every time you update your book. Collect e-mails by providing a free book sample. You can read more on this matter in a blogpost I have written: http://codeandtechno.com/posts/tips-for-writing-an-indie-ebo...
OSM does not have layers, did you mean _eliminating unneeded keys_?
Reddit, because it is indexed by search engines. Others I think are not.
Thanks for the feedback!

I'll try to improve the clarity of the pods and what they do. Basically each pod is a simplified version of what could be a standalone app. Pi acts as a single space for all the pods. No set up is required. You can use them as your normally would any todo list, calendar app, etc.

I hope I clarified things for you a bit. Let me know if you have any other questions or comments.
Three years after steep price hike,Martin Shkreli’s drug company is losing money
The recent surge? A dev getting a bunch of shares in 1988 would have been filthy rich by 1996, already :)
It’d be neat to see a divergent lens made of carbon metamaterial at the aft of the craft. (... or convergent depending on the shape of the craft)
Throw Away account.

The pricing tiers in this article do not include the additional levels of volume discounts which are available if your usage is high. You need to contact a partner or the google sales team to get details of those additional tiers.

The small fry like these kind of people are not google's real customers - the real customers were already paying to use the APIs before these changes happened.

The free limits before were hugely generous. There is a cost involved in offering the free service. If you weren't paying for it, then google was losing money. If you stop using google for free now because of this, then they actually save money and can now dedicate those resources to supporting actual paying customers for which there are many. Sure individual small users are a drop in the ocean, but multiply that up by many thousands and thousands...

Mapping is commoditized. There are many free and paid-for competitors as the article states. If you want the extra value that google offers and chose to stick with using them, then you need to pay for it now. I dont think that is unreasonable. If you dont want to pay for the service and continue getting something valuable for nothing, then go and leech MapBox/Here/someone else's free limits instead. See how long a small company without google's resources can support thousands of startups hammering their services & infrastructure without any revenue to pay for it.

Good luck.
Agreed. I think self driving technology can help here. I imagine a lobby area where you check-in, go through passport and baggage control, then board a pod that securely takes you right on the tarmac, to the mobile ladder adjacent to your half of the plane.

The whole duty free forced march -> endless tread mills -> gate -> bus routine is harrowing busy work. It creates multiple choke and synchronization points, thus multiple queues: you queue to enter the gate, than wait for everybody to board the bus, then queue again as people take their seats and place the luggage in the overheads.

It's a telling sign of how bad the current system is, when boarding on a single front door is considered a large speed up. A pod can take you to the right door in real time, gradually, as people arrive and clear passport control, overlapping multiple activities and allowing tighter turnaround. Why should the gate close 40 minutes before take off? If a passenger just checked in, and it takes 10 minutes for the pod to get to the plane, that's the minimal effective cutoff (with a larger official cutoff for safety).

As for passport and baggage control, those can be automated and sped up to a large degree using new technologies. And of course, the will of people in charge to change anything - I've spent to many hours waiting long queues while only 30% of the desks were manned, to know they just don't see queues as a problem. As for the duty free revenue this whole circus brings in, it must be massive.
Most original Microsoft devs are millionaires, yes. I think Microsoft created the biggest group of billionaires and millionaires, out of any company.

Yup, found it:

> The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees.

12k millionaires! Let that sink in :)
Modern Microsoft... God you guys are falling so much for PR it's not even funny.

Careful, you’ll end up like ESR
The 9x series and ME use DOS during the boot process but not once booted, except for legacy disk access (if there's no 32-bit Win9x disk driver). Microsoft went to huge pains to make Win9x act as if it was an application on top of DOS for compatibility reasons, but it very much isn't, it's a full-blown OS. This is almost true of Windows 3.x too or Windows/286 and Windows/386.
I agree that's it's much more map-like. You're not looking at a map to rest your eyes with gray mess.

They also have an API that's completely free also for commercial purposes (and they have coverage for Poland)

https://api.mapy.cz
Conspiracy and RICO charges necessitate many low level indictments to demonstrate to the court that there is probable cause to the indict the bigger fish and restrict them until trial.

There will be no trial in this case, so your point is moot. The government gained no leverage with these indictments either, because the people it indicted are beyond the reach of the US government. That was the whole point of my comment. There is exactly one person that was affected in any way by this indictment - and that was Mueller himself, who was congratulated on a job well done by a press that is hungry for Russia-related headlines. The case itself will not be prosecuted unless one of these guys happens to come to the US on vacation or something, but that is extremely unlikely since they know they are under indictment.

Mueller has already brought these charges in front of a judge

I see that someone else already corrected you on this, but for the record, that person is correct. No judge has ruled on the merits of this case, and the standard that the grand jury uses to indict is very low relative to the standard used at trial.

So, in closing, there are 2 undeniable facts at issue here:

1) All of those indicted are Russians residing in Russia; and

2) Russia does not extradite its citizens to the US.

Therefore, it is not "clearcut propaganda" but rather an undeniable fact to say that this case has no chance of actually being prosecuted in the US, and that the only person affected by this indictment at all was Mueller himself. Mueller presumably knew that he was indicting only Russians that would never be extradited, and therefore knew that the case was not going to actually be prosecuted.
It sucks that the reactions to this are so close-minded and negative. It definitely makes me feel that the HN community is becoming a toxic and insular echo chamber.
There have been many critiques of SQL for example: https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/1306/pdfs...
Airports make a fair share of their money by passengers hanging around and spending money in shops and restaurants. This video is pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdU1WTBJMl0
> They use arxiv.

Highly depends on the subject area.
For mathematics almost 100% of new papers are on the arxiv.
However, in biology or chemistry it is not nearly as pervasive.

One reason for that, besides history and culture, is given by exceptions in journals. Most journals demand exclusive copyright and that your article is not made available elsewhere, but all math journals include an exception for arxiv. That might not be the case in other scientific fields.
> Firefox and Chrome are secure-by-default and I do not find them inconvenient at all.

I really do.
The headline is a bit clickbaity. The third paragraph starts with "In fact, chlorine is still a culprit." A more accurate title could be "Urine and Chlorine Cause Red Eyes in Pools."
CryptoPort Review
CryptoPort is an Android and iOS application that allows users to monitor and manage their portfolio easily and effortlessly. The cryptocurrency supports the popular coins and lets users customize their coin lists. You can also view popular rankings for popular coins.

Features
The crypto portfolio tracking tool allows you to view balances for your portfolio. You then can easily calculate profits and losses for each of the synced wallets. You are also able to summarize the total value of your investment.

With this application, you are able to sync your balances from multiple exchanges and even import data in several ways. The exchanges supported are about 20 and includes the popular ones such as Coinbase, GDAX, Poloniex, Bitfinex, Binance, and Bittrex.

If the exchange is not supported, then it is possible to include your data manually. You are also able to sync your unpaid mining balance from your mining pool. It also provides a pie chart for holding percentage analysis.

The crypto tracking portfolio tool allows users to view their balances and value of cryptocurrencies in their local currencies. You can switch among altcoin holding, bitcoin price and your local currencies. This will eliminate the need to keep doing conversions.

For detail info check here: https://coinpedia.org/crypto-tracking-tools/cryptoport-review/
I've incurred $30 since the switch for my website. At about $10 a day, I'd have to pay at least $100 a month (after their $200) discount. By contrast, I pay $170 for my server.

I looked at available options, and have been hesitant to switch to another. The article mentions Mapbox's pricing opacity. I tried Mapbox a while ago, to be surprised that map interactions (zooming and loading new tiles) counted as usage. I used up quite a bit in an afternoon of playing around with maps.

I'm going to try host tiles myself from next month. I've embarked on a Rustification effort where I'm seeing RAM and CPU savings by porting some services to Rust. Hopefully I'll have spare capacity to host map tiles.
My wife had an attack of cryptosporidium a few years back that the doctor said was almost certainly from a swimming pool - very unpleasant bug.
Some airports make a significant portion of the revenue from the long wait between security and take off (e.g. Heathrow where they only show departure information 45 mins before leaving and you are surrounded by shops).
Few do as the name sounds so innocuous. But the name likely originated from the russian biritch.

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

Maybe too contrived.

But I did not think the blatant xenophobia in the OP should stand unopposed.

Especially for a word which already to a high degree has been assimilated into (US) English.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_(political_term)

But when I need to explain the joke I must admit defeat :-)
> TL;DR: Yes. You have to pay for Java now.

You have to pay for Oracle JDK but not for OpenJDK, which is just as good, except for a less business-friendly license, no commercial support, and no LTS builds straight from Oracle (instead you need to put your bets on adoptopenjdk.net).

> Quoting the article: «Oracle JDKs may only be used in production if you buy the commercial support.»

Yes, but the author forgets about this in the "What does the new release train mean to my company?" section and draws completely wrong conclusions.

> The alternative is using OpenJDK in production. We'll have to see how much the Oracle JDK and OpenJDK will diverge.

They will be identical. All of Oracle's JDK work, even LTS related work, will go into the OpenJDK repo.
Oh yes, it would be amazing to see "Windows for Linux". Whatever that means.
There is not an Universal OOP specification to follow.

In Java's case, a lot OOP flavor's design patterns are created due to Java's lacking of some primitives like closure/lambda and higher-order functions back in its old days.

In short, Java's OOP solves many problems that are unique to Java and could be easily avoided in other languages.
But if they timestamped the labels?
Connect to wifi from miles away [video]
....what?

So your arguing that the solution to the annoyance of the platform-specific nature of SQL is to create a platform-specific language?

Or do you think that this language won't heavily depend on the internal implementation of InfluxDB? If you believe that, I want to know what you're smoking. It's gotta be some good stuff.
I've worked for european companies with revenues on the scale of tens of millions of euros using OSM for the same reason of the OP (and Google offered "deals" like the ones Al Capone used to offer in NYC)

1) follow the OSM copyright rules (easy)
2) share your new data with the open ones you are using with the same license (tricky, but not hard at all)
3) design your tile CDN infrastructure (the hardest)
4) if you need to mock Google map tile layout, take a deep breath, it's fucking hell (hell as stated before)
Alcohol: Everyday.
Coffee: Everyday.
I don't see Google, Facebook or Apple open sourcing their core products?
the point is that owner should pay (high) tax on the high offer he is not accepting.
I would assume Chinese as the only language worth learning for this purpose, as in the western world all science or tech will be available in English. Chinese, however, might enable you to access otherwise unavailable knowledge.
Well this is.... unfortunate.
Hopefully. I live in a pretty dusty country (Kampala, Uganda) and I'm hoping to upgrade this winter.
This reminds me of a Wendover video I've seen. The author discovers that airplanes used to fly much faster in the 1960s than they do today. So our flight times have actually gone up! He then explains the reasons behind it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QEj09Pe6k
I would say the obvious barrier to releasing Office for Linux is that nobody would use it, so why bother?
iFixit tests how the anti-dust membrane in new MacBook Pro really works
Death by hugs, 509 bandwidth exceeded~
[Abr/18] Should employers let workers start late to stop them dying early?
If I remeber correctly, their Now service uses several cloud vendors, they let you choose where you want to deploy, including Azure. Now, Up, Netflify and other services like that are basically providing a better UX for a special audience on top of those clouds, that better UX is what you pay for.
Kotlin can do it, too: https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kscript
They have changed for worst. When I upgraded my PC recently my retail Windows deactivated and it took me few days of talking to "support" to re-activate it. They were treating me like a potential thief and I had to even show them invoices that I have indeed purchased new motherboard.
Another one - I purchased Visual Studio 2015 just before they released 2017. They didn't want to give me a refund nor upgrade deal.
Oh and you cannot turn off spying in their Windows 10.
X Window has a good design? Only because it allowed competing tool kits on top of it ("Provide mechanism rather than policy. In particular, place user interface policy in the clients' hands.")

Besides the fact that the X libs are almost universally reviled and nobody used them as soon as they could (Motif, Qt, Gtk, etc.). The core concept, that of network part is actively being abandoned right now, see the Wayland efforts.

X Window won because its competitors were proprietary, basically. And then it dragged on because every application was compatible with it.

Win32 is also horrible, but you can kind of get why it was that way: the hardware was abysmal when it was conceived and backwards compatibility was super, super important in the early and cutthroat desktop market.
I am getting a 509 Bandwith Exceeded error. The sites is still accesible via http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jNN8m0q...
Just the normal airport designs could be improved a lot, with no added technology. It doesn't take a genius to see how many airports have very long walking distances or oddly placed stairs etc.

Also, airlines for some reason don't want checked in luggage, since they price it so high. This means everyone travels with maximum hand luggage, and boarding takes a long time. The last people boarding usually can not find space in the overhead bin close to their seat. I wonder if they really are at the global optimum point with this.
Checked in luggage is also notoriously unreliable (it travels to the wrong country or is thrown around with such force that everything is broken) which can ruin your trip.
I'm not connected to them, but do admire the idea. They just secured a 24M funding and are partnering with some of the bigger players to substitute animal based milk proteins with yeast based proteins: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/13/animal-f... . I think that yeast based proteins should be cheaper compared to animal based proteins and this would be one of the reasons why all the way down in the chain they will be replaced.
> The science is simple: water vaporizes at 212F/100C at atmospheric pressure. But if you increase the pressure, the boiling point increases [1]. This means instead of cooking temperatures maxing out at 212F, the cooker lets one achieve higher temperatures. This is why pressure cookers are able to cook faster -- the temperatures are simply higher.

The science, it seems, is not quite as simple as you think:

https://genuineideas.com/ArticlesIndex/pressurecooker.html
Slightly off topic, but you should shower to avoid temperature difference too, specially in hot days. I don't know about the lifeguard situation in USA, in Italy it's pretty terrible; it should be absolutely required to have a shower before jumping in the water.
You can't hijack a train and take hostages to some other country; This was endemic in the 80s.

You also can't hijack a train and drive it into a building.
Genuine Ideas: food and kitchen science
Actually in The Netherlands for this reason peanut butter is actually called peanut cheese (because the word butter is only supposed to be used with products that contain actual butter).
> No

I think they're referring to Symbol#to_proc.
More than is optimal for my physical health, but about right for my mental health.
Comparing Performance of Blaze, React and Angular
Yes, WiFi discovery can be used to track to too.
Actually, the part that you have addressed is half the story.

I wrote about both halves a couple of decades ago.

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/capture-console-win32.html
If you are relying on other services that heavily, it sounds like you didn't have such a great business to start with
To any ecosystem that's considering adopting our governance model: we love it, but it does have some drawbacks. We've changed the implementation a few times over the years, and are considering more change. See here for the latest: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/06/20/prop...

Happy to talk more with anyone who's interested in this topic. :)
Let me share my experience building location based search at Qbix. All of it is available now for free in the Places plugin:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/tree/master/platform/plugin...

First of all, we normally do our sharding by the hash of the primary key. Typically it is the publisherId and hash of the name of a “stream”, which is our general dynamic data structure. What this does is essentially distribute the load evenly between hashes without having to worry about the “water” stuff mentioned above.

Ok now about location based search...

1. We use GeoHash for addressing the surface of the Earth. For lookups, we calculate actual corners of the lat-lng rectangle in Haversine distance and then translate it to geohash.

2. Technically we could have just used a database index at this point and be done with it. But we want to handle both PULL requests and PUSH notifications when something happens nearby.

3. So given a radius the subscriber is interested in, we set up 4 streams for SUBSCRIBERS that together (as rectangles) cover the circle surrounding the location and radius.

4. Then we also set up streams for PUBLISHERS which correspond to all the various drop-down values we have for the radius. This is compicated by the fact that we have one set for metric system and another for imperial. But we just make one stream for each of them. The more radii available the more streams you have to post to (like 10-20) but posting doesn’t happen that often and it’s better to precompute this stuff.

5. Relations between streams are one of the many features that streams do out of the box. So basically the user can just subscribe to a certain location and radius, interest, etc. and get either realtime updates or offline notifications. The item being posted is itself a stream and what’s being inserted is relations between it and the category stream the person is interested in.

Thus you can also see right away who is interested in what. In the future however we plan to encrypt the data end to end so the servers won’t know this info. Then the location search will be harder. (qbix.com/blog)
Not sure where it falls on your ethics continuum, but it's not that hard to tell the difference between a pre-labeled and unlabled picture in a Google Captcha.

I've started noticing that if you're sneaky you can get a surprisingly large tolerance for error. I've no idea how effective that actually is at poisoning results.

There is an (admittedly a little nasty) part of my brain that really likes the idea that if I'm being asked to provide free labor for a proprietary company, then I'm not really under any obligation to be a great worker.

Just refusing to use the service is probably more effective though.
PANDAS: disorder some doctors say can cause extreme behavioral changes in kids
Ever worked at a startup?