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> Genuine question: is it about time that we start thinking about banning (most) swimming pools?

Genuine answer: no.

> We're more than happy to ban guns

Define "we".

> And as soon as autonomous cars are on the road, I'm going to be first in line to want to ban the incredibly dangerous human-driven death machines.

After we just had a WiReD article on here last week about how hilariously insecure current-generation cars are? I'm sticking to my '99 Chevy Blazer, thank you very much; if my car's outlawed, then I'd much rather be an outlaw than trapped in an incredibly dangerous computer-driven death machine (especially if you're advocating for a ban on human-driven vehicles, which implies that it would be illegal for me to take manual control of such a vehile - thus further implying a lack of physical controls and therefore an outright inability to override the computer when safety requires it).

> But cigarettes

Swimming pools, unlike cigarettes, are actually good for your body. There are numerous health benefits to swimming in general in terms of the cardiovascular activity involved without the joint damage associated with other cardio workouts like running, biking, etc.

> in reality it will be a long while before it's even plausible we'd think about putting the most basic of restrictions on them.

Define "most basic". Quite a few public pools that I've been to require children to pass swimming tests, for example (usually an ability to tread water for a given amount of time, usually a few minutes), will impose height restrictions on children, etc.

> And swimming pools might be nostalgic, but they're really death pits.

Oh please. You want to ban bicycles, too? Lots of people crash those things at sufficiently-high speeds to cause serious injury. And why stop there? Let's ban everything that might cause death. Trees can fall down and kill you, so let's ban those. Kitchen knives can result in you being cut or stabbed (either by yourself or someone else), so we should all cut our food with spoons instead. Kids jumping on trampolines might miss the trampoline on their way down, so we should ban those death machines, too, while we're at it. Planes crash and disappear all the time, so we should shut down the airlines and turn all of Earth into a no-fly zone. You might trip and fall while walking, so let's get everyone those electric wheelchair/scooter thingamajigs while mandating that everyone shall wear helmets and protective padding at all times. Children sometimes suffocate in their sleep over simple things like their blankets and beds, so we should require all babies to sleep on hard, sterile surfaces. Dogs maul children sometimes, so let's exterminate the canine species en masse.

How far down the slippery slope do you want to slide? Personally, I'd rather there be a pool at the end of the slippery slope than your proposal of hard ground.
There are a number of videos. Mine was a kid that fell off their float out towards the middle of the top third of the screen and panicked. Refreshing and force refreshing hasn't gotten me a new one (or I'm just getting similar ones and don't notice) but there's ~30 on youtube.
In the world of Agile, opinions seem to be treated as fact.
The point of phrasing things in terms of rights is to set goals for ourselves. We believe that innocent people have the right not to be jailed. Sometimes they are anyway. But not jailing innocent people is one of our goals. Similarly, people don't always get a fair trial, but when we say that we believe people have the right to a fair trial, that means that our goal is for every accused person to have one if they want it.

So, here is my reasoning: you say that you think it's a good idea to punish people for getting a fair trial. If you punish people for something, then it's inherently not a right, because if it's a right then the goal is for everyone to have one if they want it. Thus, you think that people should not have the right to a fair trial.

Note that I asked for clarification rather than just stating that this was your position, because I wasn't sure. So your upset response does not make sense to me.

Further, I don't understand why you find that phrasing to be distasteful, since you seem to be against the notion of phrasing things in terms of "rights" anyway. If you think "rights" are not a useful concept here, why is it wrong to say that you don't believe people should have the right to a fair trial?
>hoik

I learned a new word today.

>2. To lift something up wildly.
> It's entirely possible to write an offline-capable web app.

Yeah. It is entirely possible to make web app do a lot of things. Even do them cross-platform. Even to get almost native feel.
But when you are done doing it you understand, that going native even on each platform would be faster and cheaper.
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When you want to investigate about something new to you, you have to trust what a search engine gives you. When for whatever reason google wants to influence people, a little modification of search results for specific topics can make a big difference and push public opinion in any direction.

I prefer to get balanced views from all sights, and not only voices that agree with whatever i'm already thinking, pushing me further down a mental rabbit hole.
Same. At the point they invested IIRC Uber was only doing 12m/year. Very impressive investment.
They're promising the first chip to be 128Gb, which is where MLC flash is right now. But their die size looks a lot larger than MLC.
Britain closest?

I think not. Canada is one of the five and is much much closer. GCHQ is in the news, but much of the cross-boarder legal fiction stuff happens via Canada. Britain controls the international routes two and from europe, but when it comes to domestic spying Canada is the much closer partner.
more or less a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954686
You might be interested in the in the works WebAssembly, if you haven't heard of it already.

https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2015/06/17/webassembly/
You can alter each of your questions responses individually to see what effect it's having on the results.

We found these questions were the most useful filters when doing one-on-one advice with people, but I can see they'll probably have to change as our age range expands.

We do quite a few interviews within the profiles. Is that what you have in mind?
The telegraph was simultaneously strung right alongside the intercontinental railroad as it was built. The railroad route is still used today for railroads and highways, it only makes sense that the cables follow the same economics.
That's a valid concern for sure, I've seen exactly what you're talking about.

Interestingly enough though, college hackathons are the only hackathons I've seen actually reward implementation over concept and the actual technical work done by teams over future potential.
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> here is an artist’s impression of the modern browser

> screenshot of Microsoft Word in a 14-year old unsupported OS on what is most likely a 1024x768 screen with all toolbars activated
My wife and I have 4 children, she has insisted that they start lessons at a young age, and now my 9 and 7 year olds are excellent swimmers, with a 2 year old that can make it to the side if he falls in. It is absolutely terrifying to see these videos, but it helps knowing that we are doing everything we can to keep them safe.
What's wrong with that site?

quirksmode.org used to be a great resource but it stopped being updated 10 years ago when IE 6 was still the "thing". Nowadays, http://caniuse.com replaced it.

So quirksmode transformed to a rant blog, like this one we had on HN three months ago: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/05/web_vs_nativ...
That's a good point. We do that elsewhere in the career guide, but I might add it to the intro text.

https://80000hours.org/articles/the-meaning-of-making-a-diff...
The amount of people in this thread that think a consumer device could ever be better at recognizing a drowning person than a human being is staggering.
I see. Would you mind giving an example?
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Our framework and individual career research, like it says at the top of the page.

https://80000hours.org/career-guide/basics/
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/profiles/
The biggest thing that just came to my mind is for durable storage. I think I can some problem at work radically differently and much simpler if I had this available in 10s of GB.

How? Because its bit addressable and persistent. Together this makes it much simpler to implement some durable storage . We don't need the log structure good for NAND block erase issue. We don't need to worry about the flush cost compared to HDD (and this ones even faster than NAND). It would be simple to batch write the data to a slower storage if the Xpoint memory fills up.

You can design databases that keep the hot data in memory and merge the result with older disk storage and this would allow a lot of batching for efficient processing and storage. But given its a database/transaction you need durability and that makes thing that much complicated. There are still lots of problem to solve when you cross the limit of a single machine but the single machine limit can get a lot larger for a lot of problems.
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I think there is a similar core issue (not problem) in both mega-genres, that they tend towards extremity - so anything that represents a particular extremity (e.g. slow despair - Doom, guttural aggression - Death, shrieking hatred - Black) is obviously going to be identifiable. But then since they are defined by extremity, anything less than the most extreme examples or with more competing influences than the purest examples has to be classified in a different way. Hence melodic death metal, DSBM, post-black metal, sludge, grindcore, etc...

Extremity also breeds community, so you get definitions influenced by the kinds of people who listen to them. Would you want a ton of people expecting gabber turning up to a generic hardcore night? It's a very different feel. Similarly you wouldn't want people who were expecting Depressive Suicidal Black Metal (DSBM) turning up to a second wave black metal gig.

Personally I like sub-genres, I think they're useful for people.
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What I found to be a really interesting differentiating factor between the YC Fellowship and other VCs is that they were open to companies in the idea stage. It has taken me on and off about 3 years to come up with a fashion social media platform named MyStylist and I appreciate the chance to compete even though I have not been able to fully execute it. I think that choosing a company in the idea stage definitely has its risks but it can turn up to be a very rewarding venture.
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The press release seems to be intentionally silent on the actual memory cell technology. Another possible tech the cell might be based upon is some variant of Nano-RAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-RAM
My first thought was "Hey this is HN, and that's exactly what PCA is for!"

Followed shortly thereafter by "I wonder where you get/how you generate a dataset of the vital signs of drowning children..."
Based on the name and URL, I initially thought this was a website where you could buy jewellery or maybe statuettes featuring random distorted characters. I was a bit disappointed.
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Hi,

I've been asked to do a workshop but have absolutely no idea how to price it. Just wanted to get some ideas on how to price it without being completely out of line and without giving away the barn.

Cheers!
When I was 11, I had just discovered I could kind-of swim and somehow decided to try swimming across a rather large lake. By the time I realized that was a dumb idea, I was halfway across. I collapsed from exhaustion and threw up several times after I (somehow) got across.
Just so people have a basis for his figures, Musk's calcs rely on 400wh/kg batteries and ~75% cell-mass fraction which he thinks will be sufficient for transcontinental flights. Another way to improve efficiency is be removing 'unneeded' components on the planes like tails, rudders, and elevators by just gimballing the electric fans for control. An article with a few embedded clips where he discusses his proposed VTOL supersonic electric plane:

http://www.aviation.com/general-aviation/elon-musk-toying-de...
thanks. we'll consider that.
just for information apps with phone verification use "anonymous" in description too. we are way more anonymous than secret and many other out there.
Not to mention that guns are actually meant to kill things (usually; some guns aren't, even if they're still capable of doing so), unlike pretty much all swimming pools (that I know of; I'd be concerned if there were swimming pools designed to kill things). Comparing pools to guns (or cigarettes, for that matter) is a stretch on the scale of at least 27 slinkies.
Fair point, perhaps I should have phrased it more as a technology with similar applications. I find it interesting that there are parts available now, albeit made on a 180nm process apparently.
Drowning can drop heart rate also. I suspect it isn't as simple to detect with low false positives as suggested.
water wings are also terrible at teaching kids to swim: they can't properly use their arms wearing wings.

I had both my kids (currently 3 and 5) learn to swim by having them wear inflatable vests. When they started they had fully inflated vests. every week or so I would deflate it bit by bit, until they are wearing a fully deflated vest. At that point the vest is just for emotional support, and they can pretty much handle the water without drowning (though still need proper lessons of course)
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I have an online service that I started about 2 years ago. The service scrapes publicly-available data primarily from a single data source, hosted by a multi-billion-dollar company, and presents it in a way that end users prefer, and users pay me an annual subscription fee for that access.

I've heard that the data source is planning to "shut down" my service and all copycat services. It's not clear how they intend to do that. If they use a technical approach, we may be able to circumvent, but it'd probably be difficult to dodge a legal request though technically we are not doing anything strictly illegal (no plausible chance against their lawyers). It's not feasible to get this data from any other source. If they shut us down, we will have to stop this service.

My preferred resolution to this would be to get this company that provides the data to acquire us, integrate the tech as a first-party solution, convert/refund our members, and let us be useful in stopping the copycat services.

I'm burnt out on the startup and would LOVE to collect a substantial chunk of money for it and move on (this has been a side project and I've been employed full-time the entire time). This is most likely a long shot, but it'd be the best outcome for me and I think it provides good value to the source. How can I convince M&A that the best method to get rid of me and my competitors is to buy me out and allow me to create the framework that will neuter other competitors?

I understood the problems of doing a startup that's dependent on a third-party before I started; it was never really intended to be just that, always thought we would quickly add some other stuff, but here we are with about 700 annual subscribers and this is still our primary product.

Any take on how I can successfully resolve this situation without financial or legal ruin would be helpful.
I had a very smooth workflow on Python/Django/AWS. Thought of checking out Dockers for the last project and boy did that hurt! "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" is very appropriate here. I would suggest that until you've huge issues with deployment, skip dockers. For me, it added loads of work instead of simplifying the flow.
Yeah, I mean it's not like anybody has ever built anything useful with either of those datastores before, amirite?
You can get this essentially via mysql_fdw: https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/mysql_fdw
A thankless job too, I remember hating life guards growing up because they would blow their whistle at all sorts of things. They aren't trying to be jerks of course, but that was my perception when I was very young and just loved swimming. Being older I see how tough that job would be.
3) if the children are lined up on the shore safe and sound, they're not actually drowning or at risk of drowning.
> my understanding is that it's an 8F2 footprint

Where does that come from? From everything I've read is that its structure is fairly analogous to DRAM, "simply" replacing the capacitor with the magnetic tunnel junction, which has its component layers stacked vertically, thus not really taking up any extra space.

> scaling it down to small process nodes is still problematic, even with spin-torque transfer.

yeah, that's the main gist I'm getting too from following the news.

> people who make the exact same claims about RRAM as you quote for MRAM, which 3d-xpoint appears to be.

At least the xpoint incarnation still seems to be slower than DRAM according to that article, while MRAM is being offered as SRAM/battery-backed DRAM drop-in replacement.
> The garbage rating actually penalizes clickbait further.

But the reason that clickbait works, is that people like clickbait. So I'm not sure you'd get much success with getting people to rate them "garbage" when they like them. Sure, maybe not en masse, but on an article-by-article level, people do like clickbait.
Can we get opencv to detect when this happens?
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I've noticed that and find it really annoying and sad. I had a lot of fun in the deep end of pools especially diving in.
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Thats not whats going on, they just mentioned surge pricing itself was based on extrapolation.
Whadda ya mean "in the future"?

After documentaries on Netflix and Hulu, cartoons are already all that I watch, except maybe local news.
If you want to put files on a server and start a process, you are probably looking for something like Apache, not a "PaaS" necessarily.
> All to make a buck.

Really?

> Correct. Freelance sites' negotiation shows that there is due consideration and discussion, along with a meeting of the minds.

Yes, so what? That's the nature of freelance marketplaces. So those types of businesses don't even belong in a discussion about Uber. They involve different business transactions. I'm not signing NDAs with my passengers.

> They simply provide the portal in which to make the deal.

These sites aren't just invisible portals with no QA or control over who uses them. There are ratings and I'm sure there are consequences to putting out crappy work or scamming people. I remember signing up with eLance and I had to go through an interview process to get the verified badge. I mean it sounds like your idea of a freelance site is an open chat room where anything goes. How is that adding value?
> ... [T]hese articles about reclassifying contractors always seem to treat the issue like the laws are stone.

Once you're at the point of a jury, which is the context of your quoted segment, then the law is set in stone. Yes, I'm sure there are many politicians contemplating changes. But the bottom line is that until that happens, the current laws need to be treated as, well, law.
I think it may have been this article: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/6.05/qwest.html

Or at least that's what popped into my mind from your description.
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My question is how much damage to society will Hollywood do before collapsing? Putting a "Strong IP Enforcement" regime in place could cripple the USA for decades, for example.
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If yes, which tool/tools do you use?
If no, what do you hate most about it?
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I thought this was a joke at first, but here is the link.

http://spotthedrowningchild.com/creator.html

Very cool.
> The original supposition was that electric planes are the future - albeit a future very far way - because electric means no oxygen concerns, which means higher altitude

But higher altitude means lower air density which means your turboprops windmill into nothingness and have no way to propel the plane forward (even ignoring the issue of staying up in the air at all, existing airliners already fly quite close to the limits of their flight envelopes in normal conditions).

> What about hybrid - use gas to get to 30,000 feet, then turn on electric to go higher than that?

And where would you get the energy to do that in-flight? Certainly not solar, Helios already had a larger wingspan than a 747-8.

> Major problems to overcome - absolutely, but this is not a short or medium term prediction.

Neither are dyson spheres, and at least we've got some idea about how to handle those.

> But 'Magical thinking' required, more so than Dyson spheres? That's harsh.

Is it now?

> no supersonic public aircraft any more

There is no supersonic "public" aircraft because people have decided it wasn't worth the cost and have gravitated towards cheap high-density flying instead, it's not like we're flying any less than in the 60s or less far (a 777LR can go halfway around the globe without stopping) so the comparison to space travel is bonkers.

> Electric planes - if possible - would be the solution to faster air travel.

That doesn't make a lick of sense, electric engines are the slowest thing you can find in the sky. The only way "electric planes" would be faster than turbojets — let alone ramjets or rocket engines — is for the plane itself to be a ballistic component launched by a gigantic railgun, and then — assuming you manage to build the thing in the first place — your passengers are literally paste on takeoff as they eat a few hundred Gs.
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Things worked fine before ICE. In fact, stuff like Bittorrent still works fine. If they were truly concerned with connectivity, they'd use upnp. But since that wasn't a standard from a friendly body, they added this ICE hack to try to make things work.
Any uncoupler ought to induce mitochondrial biogenesis, as it's a systemic response due to a lack of energy (I may be mistaken?)—same goes for [vascular] endothelial growth factor and EPO (just to name a few).

Also, I really can't recommend reading the paper associated with the third link enough.

Have you tried ephedrine to help with the post-workout swelling? The common 'ECA' stack might be right up your alley.
I believe Docker's biggest feature is it's speed of building. It's a trade-off of portability vs. temporary-ness.

I currently use it for MySQL DB restoration and remote bug-checking by having a handful of xtrabackup instances that I can quickly attach a docker to, hand an IP to a developer, and he can then debug the problem with production data _at that exact point in time._

When they're done, I simply throw that docker away.

It's a tool that (in my mind) doesn't solve any existing problems better than a lot of tools out there. It instead should be thought of like a better hammer for the same nail. Think of it like... would you rather have a giant set of wrenches, or a single ratchet with a set of sockets? They both accomplish the same thing, but both are better for certain jobs.
I'm left to guess at what you mean by this exactly, but, .gitignore only helps with things that are agreed to be ignored by everyone. Files that are more specific to a particular developer or workflow don't always fit in there well.

But, I'm not sure that's what this new capability helps with anyway.

So, please elaborate.