skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Authorities initially estimated that 9,200 vehicles would cross the bridge every day.

This is... very few. Should they open it up to anyone that wants to use it? Otherwise it kind of defeats the purpose of connecting the cities.
My wife is an architect and the one that resonated most with me -- both on behalf of her (especially given architects' pay), and for me as a founding engineer of a software startup 7 years in:

80. The reasons for their tenacity.

Reflecting on this can be enlightening, and like many enlightening things, uncomfortable
The rationale is that non-trivial conditions on ActiveRecord model associations can be quite dynamic (possibly implying ruby code evaluation), therefore constraints are best handled at the model level, or else the constraints would only be partially checked at the db level, or even conflicting with the models (e.g if a constraint is to be enforced based on some condition evaluated at runtime, like a simple if clause, or when using STI or polymorphism).
If your existing board can actually provide enough power to run the chip properly, since clamping it to 95 watts really screws up the performance.
One (relatively small) criticism: there doesn't appear to be a way to purchase the repair parts without getting the tools, as well. I already have a deluxe toolkit from iFixit, so I'd be getting tools I don't need—ironically, leading to some waste (though far less than disposing of a phone, of course).

Edit: never mind! There is a "part only" option for each kit.
I have a lot of respect for iFixit. They at least appear to have their heads screwed on right, and the tools I've bought from them do really seem to be good quality.

My only recent "complex" task that needed their tools was adding a hybrid water cooler to a 1080ti GPU. Their stuff was great, and their customer service has been good too. (EDIT: I meant to say, the addition went well due to their tools, good quality stuff means easier job with tiny screws)

I'd love to see the right to repair/replace be enshrined in law. It's possible to strike a balance between tiny components and being able to replace them. My phone, a LG V20, is very thin, yet has a replaceable battery and is still waterproof to a "certain extent" (MIL-STD-810G but I'm not sure what exactly that means for waterproof-ness). Which is kind of amusing because I dropped the damn thing in the sink for the first time ever this morning.

I'd love to see something like T-Mobile partner with iFixit and certify particular phones to be user or expert repairable.

Hopefully this is the start of a larger movement in the world.

(EDIT2: I really didn't intend this comment to sound so public-relation-y. I swear I'm not a product placement shill!)
Outvote tells you which friends can vote in swing districts
Instead of complaining about how evil society is that it leaves them in the lurch, poor people should rather be mad at their (often poor) parents that the parents give birth to them.
How useful is it in practice?
There are a few 24" 2560x1440 panels around, I have a pair of dell ones at work, nice IPS screens and not expensive.
Why would they need to change their status just because they have a large revenue from being successful?

Girl Scouts, a non-profit, bring in 700 million from selling their cookies. United Way Worldwide, another non-profit, has a revenue of 3.9 Billion.
not a time issue...the show just became not funny and kinda lame. I pinpoint it ~5 years before the movie came out.
It could be for some, though I remember distinctly feeling, years ago, that the episode called Homer Simpson vs The State of New York was the last solid episode, and the one with N*Sync was the first that I really didn't like and it was a marker for the transition to more farcical humor with celebrity cameos. It's just not my thing, and I gave the Simpsons many chances after that. There's a reason nearly all the current Simpsons memes come from the Golden Era.
> Apple would very much like you to have the experience that apps do not change when you leave them. There are a couple ways that apps break this model, though: if they use a lot of memory, iOS will kill them in the background. In any case, apps are supposed to have state restoration to get back to where they were when you last left it, but few apps implement this correctly.

You're probably right. But Facebook isn't just some random app - it's used by around half of all iPhone users, and Apple is known for lengthy acceptance process in their app store. They should be able to detect such cases. And if Facebook doesn't implement the model correctly who will. Also, switching apps is such a common pattern it shouldn't be garbage collected that fast in the first place.
That's a very important point. I moved from Montreal to NYC a couple of years back and one thing I definitively miss is the food scene. Not that NYC is bad by any metric but Montreal just has an amazing food scene.
FYI: Motorola is also friendly towards ROM development. You can easily unlock bootloader and slap lineageOS/AOSP. Of course, for people from US - it may not work if you have a carrier branded phone.

https://motorola-global-en-uk.custhelp.com/app/standalone/bo...
I assume he's on the forced upgrades and data loss teams
The skill barrier is low. It’s all turnkey now with cloud platforms. Literally just a web tutorial away. The hard part is the audience and the fact that video hosting is expensive for individuals.
and also is owned by a Chinese corporation.
Not if they've been destroyed or handed over to the authorities.
Or you could just run containers without the abhorrent mess that is hardware virtualization...
Text editors like vscode and atom (electron) go head to head with sublime (c++). The dominant editor now is vscode.

For Rust to win it must be adopted by Gaming or gaming engines.
There are a couple sitting about in my office. One guy broke his foot climbing recently and is using one as a footrest at present.
Scott Adams' sexist sociopathic personality and divisive red pill politics and narcissistic sock puppet antics makes me loath to read his tired comic strip or watch any of his lame cartoons.

http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppe...

"[0] plannedchaos -21 points 4 months ago: If an idiot and a genius disagree, the idiot generally thinks the genius is wrong. He also has lots of idiot reasons to back his idiot belief. That's how the idiot mind is wired. It's fair to say you disagree with Adams. But you can't rule out the hypothesis that you're too dumb to understand what he's saying. And he's a certified genius. Just sayin'." -Scott Adams' number one fan: Scott Adams.

"I Assume you don't hate all self-promoters, such as homeless people applying for jobs. Is it Adams' enormous success at self-promotion that makes you jealous and angry?" -posted to MetaFilter at 8:08 AM on April 15, 2011 by Scott Adams pretending to be somebody else promoting Scott Adams.

"Lots of haters here. I hate Adams for his success too." -ibid
Just think of the headline being: "How I leveraged music tempo and celebrity endorsements to bootstrap my startup from nothing to $85 million+ per year without paying a penny in tax." Its a business, maybe not one that you or I may engage in but that level of success is at least worth a headline news link.
The transition was nearly instantaneous. We all used slide rules in high school chemistry and physics. Two years before I entered freshman engineering, “engineering computation” was taught with slide rules. The next year, you could optionally take the traditional course or the new version based around calculators. My freshman year, the calculator-based course was required. As a senior, I bought the most high-end Post slide rule at the campus bookstore at the clearance sale for $3.00.
Past Hacker News thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3070094
> I imagine that this is inevitable as a matter of efficiency, but it's probably such a small practical gain that we won't see much traction in the next decade.

I agree that if the advantages boil down to saving a hundred MB of RAM of two, and enabling additional compiler optimisations, it won't be compelling to that many folks.

Taken to the extreme though, we can start spinning up instances 'just in time' to deal with incoming requests. Doing this, you could run (and hopefully pay for) your instances for only a tiny fraction of the time your service is in a working/available state.

This has apparently already been demonstrated [0], but their demo has been broken for as long as I can remember. I presume it worked at one point. I don't know if any commercial Xen-based offerings can spin up an instance as quickly as their configuration did, but the idea is there.

[0] http://erlangonxen.org/zerg
Except that, realistically, most people aren't going to consult a lawyer or accountant for a small side project. I don't even really know how to hire a lawyer or accountant, or how to assess whether the person I pick is minimally competent to give me good advice, and I don't want to burn a few grand of my own money on a zero-revenue hobby project to guard against risks that will probably never materialise anyway. So instead, I'd chance it.
>>The first thing to do upon arriving at a Code Blue is to take your own pulse.

Can you expand on this item, please? I interpret it as "don't just arrive and immediately begin taking action, but take a moment to fully assess the situation because an extra 15 seconds is a worthwhile cost to avoid a mistake". Curious to know if I'm on track.
What Is the QUIC Transport Protocol?
Real-Time Object Detection on Raspberry Pi Using OpenCV DNN
My, completely amateur, idea would be that, there are two major regions in China for centralised power. Beijing and Shanghai. Now with the massive growth in the Peal River Delta region, there is a base for a third major region. Currently it is not, because there is no one leader, you have Macau, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and a large number of other cities in the region.

If Shenzhen, and the people in charge there, are able to become the defacto leaders of the entire region, then you have another centralised regional base, away from Beijing. Which means less power in the central government.
Verizon completely locks down nearly every motorola phone they sell. It's horrible
I was just thinking, "what's wrong with that?". I'm French, though.
From the guidelines on what to submit:

> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

It seems perfectly possible to me to be curious about worship music, and specifically how Hillsong got to be such a 900 pound gorilla in the field.

Speaking as a Christian who has very mixed feelings about Hillsong, I certainly am.

That said, the article had little substance, in my view. It recounted the church's history but didn't really touch on why they're so influential, which is really what I'm curious about.
Seems like none of the new Motorola kits are available in the EU store. Anyone know why?
I've read about their reasons, I just didn't want to open a discussion about it :D

Deciding to implement constraints on the application/business layer is something that github can probably do, in the same vein that Facebook can create their own PHP compiler.

I just think that you can't use these examples as effective arguments on whether someone should use FKs or not. I guess whatever brute-force solutions these companies would apply, on any given problem, would probably work one way or the other.
My kids have had no trouble screwing up and I try to help them learn lessons. There are many other shows that teach that same lesson without a cartoon cat and mouse filleting each other, dad drinking and bumbling around and choking their kids out.

I love The Simpsons; honestly I like Bob's Burgers more, but both shows live on a line between acceptable and unacceptable, like all adult cartoons do. They will find things that do the same and I won't know about it. But I don't spoon feed it to them.

I already give them all the vidya games in the world so they aren't starved for crude content. Also just living with me is all the crude TV-MA content they can handle. Mom and Dad are sort of fun to hang around (at least for Mom and Dad).
Historically I believe they were just "computers" but that is just about impossible to search for these days. "Slide charts" is what I have the most luck with. I've inadvertently picked up a couple (usually tucked into old engineering books I've purchased)so looked into them a while ago.

This page has a great collection of them:
http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/page66.html

That search term also pulls up a ton on ebay.
The real conclusion here is if your use case is purely gaming and cost is not a factor the 9900k is the best processor to buy. AMD cannot compete with 5GHz on 2 cores or 4.7 on all 8. If you have a more mixed workload (multi-core) or are more price conscious AMD is a viable solution.

AMD will be unveiling their Ryzen 2 processors/GPUs in January and it is rumored that there will be a 15% IPC increase. If that is the case, AMD will be on-par with Intel. It is also rumored they will be bumping the Ryzen lineup to have 16 cores.

I've been running a Ryzen system w/ a 1800x @ 4GHz on all cores for well over a year now and have no complaints whatsoever. As a developer/light gamer it was the perfect balance of price to performance.
I sold mine for a gleaming 1970s polished aluminium relic, that has 3x the power, cheap consumables, and will outlast me. I do not understand people who buy a new vacuum every few years. Its a tool, not a disposible cup.
That’s an interesting idea. How could you see that working in practice?
That's an UX problem mostly. I hope one day IPFS will be able to handle that use case reliably.
I am so skeptical of this advice, I have been burned by accountants too.
But who will drive the better off people in their Uber, deliver their groceries, and clean their houses, if there are no poor people left?
Germany.

And thank you again :)
No, just that the a absence of evidence isn't the evidence of absence.

There's next to no way that Bloomberg's sources would still have access to the boards, and that should be considered given all of the calls here to see them.
Smart SaaS
> On the server side, it seems like docker format has already won. Maybe cpu architecture portability doesn't matter there and x86 is good enough?

Docker has won to a degree, though it still requires complex orchestration technologies like Kubernetes built on top of it, which are rapidly developing and not a particularly stable target.

> Although serverless and edge computing often use JavaScript.

Yes, this is where I see WASM really hold its own. Serverless and edge environments want to be able to have code running in a persistent process that is completely managed by the environment. Right now, they frequently offer just JS, or a couple of language runtime environments like Python as well; for serverless environments, you can generally load native modules if you want to, but its awkward, while edge environments will only run JS, though now they're starting to offer WASM.

It's the places where being able to run multiple tenants within a single process, without paying IPC and process isolation overheads, that make the overhead of WASM more likely to be worth it.

> On mobile this seems to depend on Apple and/or Google deciding to support WebAssembly for native apps, which seems unlikely.

I don't think it would be too unlikely for Google to support WASM for native apps. For one, it would allow them to do architecture independent apps without ART, on Fuchsia, for example. Right now, I think Dart + Flutter compiles to ARM code, but if they want to target a wider range of devices then platform independence could be important.
I've been out of the phone market for a while, but have we reached a point were we're celebrating that we can pay $40 to buy a kit to change the battery of a phone?

When and why did this become a thing? I remember screens being a pain to replace, but the batteries just plopped right out.

Edit: Sorry, that came out more cynical than I intended. I'm just curious why we did away with batteries that fall out.
If you'd like to see something really terrible, try watching the fantasy Simpsons/Futurama-esque mess that is Disenchanted on Netflix.
So they're literally betting the farm on this one... bold, but I am skeptical.
Interesting! I only knew of one person back then but I guess they started building a team under him. I mean it does make sense, Montreal has plenty of AdTech talent.
But even that aside the strip is just boring.
I don't know. I am a senior developer in my 40s. I have been using Android since G1 phones came out. The few times I tried to use iPhones I couldn't do anything, pretty much everything I needed was counter-intuitive and I had to ask someone. How to switch to a different app? How to go back to previous screen? How to change wifi or other settings? How to setup or switch on/off an alarm clock? And many other things that I just couldn't find.
not sure why you got downvoted. i agree w you.
> No problem. Just delete your TS files and work from your JS files.

This is quite an irresponsible comment.

The JS code generated isn't really meant for editing especially if you used a feature that isn't present on the runtime (like async/await in browser), not to mention all the formatting is rearranged.

If you're willing to go back to JS, you want to keep the original source.
I Know the Salaries of Thousands of Tech Employees
> The last slide rule manufactured in the US was produced on July 11, 1976

This is bit surprising to me. Does it imply that slide rule production had shifted to other countries, or did it really fall out of fashion so very rapidly? For reference, HP-35 calculator was released only in 1972 (for launch price of $395), and TIs competing SR-50 ("slide rule calculator") in 1974 (at $170). I would expect slide rules to be significantly cheaper and fairly entrenched (especially in colleges etc), so being killed in only few years is remarkable if true.
You can replace the battery in virtually any phone, Apple included. Apple'll do it for you for a pretty nominal charge - $30-70 in most cases, and that includes the battery and labor. https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power

They're not made to be just popped in/out, sure, but it's entirely possible to get more years out of a phone this way. I'd be more concerned with software updates than battery.
Ah yes, Martin Luther, that famous American. Who can forget when he inspired President Henry VIII to break with the Catholic church!
Is it really a scam if it’s what taxpayers want?

I don’t think this is interesting because any conservative trend. It’s a cool business hack that allows you to make money without taxes.
I recently got a Moto S2 Play and went the LineageOS route with no Google Apps. With no IM apps installed I made it my house's router (small house) and 5-7 devices can happily connect to it. I really recommend it.

Lately I have been finally understanding how Open Source and right to repair go hand in hand.
Yes and that's something most programmers need to do almost never, so let's not make any important design decisions around that very specific case.
Surely that’s wrong. If Apple makes a “bad” UI but all other UI is even worse, then Apple is still the pinnacle of usability.

Saying “Usain Bolt Too Slow” is obvious clickbait.
I own a Moto G, and you don't need any special tools to replace the battery. They just make it easier.

Also, the kit includes a new battery! It's not $40 just for some tools.
Australian gov’t agency, DTA, casts doubt over blockchain for govt use
Why the future isn’t female in computing
Did you know, there’s a direct correlation between the decline in the perceived quality of the show, and the decline in Spirograph? Think about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IYaftepO-s
Well sure, the profit-motive explains clickbait (or in this case, wanting readership; I see no ads).

We should still keep it off HN. I expect the headlines to work for me, not for the author.
> With an inherent lack of transparency that comes from centralized exchanges how is the user to know that trades are being executed fairly?

How do we know Nasdaq isn't screwing the buyers and sellers? It's only a problem with some exchanges for cryptocurrency. The trust issue is with cryptocurrency exchanges in general and not centralization.

Check out the Unchained podcast. Laura Shin interviews the CEO of Binance. His answer on the question of whether tokens are securities is that some people say these are securities and some people say they aren't. Does that sound like someone you want to trust with your money?

Even if you believe in cryptocurrency why would you trust a CEO that's taking huge risks by throwing up his hands and saying that there isn't regulatory clarity when the SEC says the opposite?
> We found around 50 victims located in Russia, Iran and Egypt, typically infecting Windows 2003/2008 Server. Targets were related to nuclear energy, telecommunications, IT, aerospace and R&D.

Seems like they have bigger fish to fry. I would loathe to think this being employed on boring run-of-the-mill Windows users who like to Skype grandma and play Solitaire & Tetris, use Internet Explorer as their main browser etc
I'm pretty sure BitChute uses WebTorrent, although I don't know if that's for mere hosting or just to reduce bandwidth use.
Firefox 63.0 released
The architects would likely chafe at this complaint and grumble something about interior designers, client budgets, and clients' mistaking a trend for good design
We have the entire development environment in Kubernetes. IDE is only used for code editing, which is then synced to the cluster. Auto-generated code and node_modules are synced back for code completion.

That way, everyone has an identical dev environment and we don't depend on any particular IDE (want to use Emacs? sure). No setup steps, just running one script to create a new namespace with all applications running inside. Broke it, messed up an upgrade? Just destroy and redeploy.

We hacked Arcanist[1] to run linters in the cluster. Modified a TypeScript file? "arc lint" will make sure your TypeScript pod is up-to-date and run the linter there, etc.

We're using custom tooling which is faster than https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold, but it's the same approach.

Thinking about open sourcing it.

[1]: Phabricator's CLI client
This is at least the second time someone posts this link. I read it the first time, and found it not convincing: that person failed to get in, is telling a bunch of second hand stories that are probably wildly exaggerated. Not much to see there...
If we colonize mars, and reach the point where we have a full fledged society there it can act as a means of quickly recovering from a catastrophe on earth. The benefit of a fully functioning city/nation sending resources to assist a ravaged earth would boost earths recovery time if the worst were to happen.

Secondly, it acts as a separate bed of innovation. On earth we solve for earth problems, on mars they would solve for different problems, potentially leading to scientific and tech breakthroughs we would otherwise overlook.
Hank Hill had another great set of lines at the end of that episode (S08E02, I believe) where he gets out a box of Bobby's old toys that he's lost interest in. Hank tells him that he doesn't want Jesus to become like one of those once-fashionable toys that quickly loses its appeal. I was quite surprised to find that much theological profundity in an episode of KoTH.

Edit: Also the bit with the rocker's dad about the fifth commandment.
This game needs in-app purchases so you can win at it faster.
“You Are the Product”: Big Data and Social Media Safety