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Needs an https endpoint :)

I was wondering what would happen if you turned on a firehose and just slammed it for a good length of time...how durable it would be? If they're planning to use it on the surface of an airplane wing -- curious how durable the surface is.

wow, thanks for the info. lawyers - gah. still, no excuse for apple to limit the speakerphone...no one is at risk of hearing damage from a cell phone's speakerphone...you hear me apple?

thanks for the suggestion. i still lament the fact that my phone can't do this out of the box. this is a silly limitation, IMO.

leg pulled. maybe because i'm not the only one on this end of the convo?

"Why can't I just turn up the volume on my iPhone?" is something I ask myself everyday and shake my fist toward Cupertino. Seriously, the gain on the phone is severely limited. Try listening to a voice call on speakerphone in even a moderately quiet environment with just a twee bit of ambient noise. It is maddening that I can't get any more volume out of this device without jailbreaking it.

The problem with North Korean "sleeper cells" that are resident in the US, is well...once they're here, they kinda shift their opinion on how the world works.

I just experienced this early this week. Very frustrating. I also posted to AWS forums and got zero assistance; am currently not paying for AWS support plan. This article came at an opportune moment -- it makes sense and removes the shroud of mystery around why it "works sometimes" which leaves me with an uneasy feeling for a production setup.

> But IMO, for Detroit to get "fixed", we just need a change of MIND (which can be more difficult than getting sustainable energy, but seriously, could change in 1 day, for free, if we had MLK Jr. type people on the ground).

Yea, care to explain?

As a local, it is encouraging that what the pilot sees from the air, I also see from the ground:

> From the air today, the decline appears to be slowing. The spaces once covered in rubble are cleared and mowed. Open green spaces, along with new community gardens and orchards, look almost bucolic against the downtown skyline. From my plane, I sense the potential for resurgence in these areas.

> I think that the inner ring of Detroit will win out in the long run, as cities are and will continue to be the greenest places to live on a per-capita basis.

It is really, really hard to bring a city back from this, but it is happening here.

The problem with AWS reserved instances is their limitations on modification later http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ri-modify... -- if you grow and need more capacity, you're kinda stuck unless you have Amazon Linux AMI. It would be nice if you could upgrade RDS instance, for example -- but I don't think that is possible.

Or maybe they even work for both companies? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8589879

Doesn't look like I can debug websockets? Chrome's network tab allows you to see websocket frames, but you have to navigate away from it and back to it again to refresh it -- which is a pain.

I'm not seeing where/how to view frames in the network tab here, but perhaps I missed it?

I'd suspect they have to be using a cache, too, but I tried a whole slew of random torrents off kickass.to, and if it played it at all, I could scrub every single one of them to any point in the video with a mere 1-2 sec delay. So, they've either cached a gi-normous amount of torrents, or they've come up with something really interesting in the ability to dynamically stream any block with very low latency.

Agree. I worked for one of these three companies for a span. While I was there, they did have a rule that if you're not driving their car, you can't park it in the covered parking lot. That was the extent of the backlash, and I've lived in this area most of my life. I think a lot of these stories and anecdotes about tires getting slashed, and people being harassed for driving foreign are not accurate today.

this article is dumb, but what do you expect from usa today? i work and live in the detroit area, and have lived here most of my life (also lived in silicon valley, fwiw). there's no doubt there's some great innovation being done on the west coast, and these local guys could use a kick in the pants - a literal kick in the pants (i mean i would love to kick some of them...i worked for some of these pricks). but it takes a good deal more than some infotainment radios, and interesting r&d project to displace a major sector of the economy. it's much harder than you think. as the article already points out -- manufacturing is long gone. competition is good -- viva competition.

This is a well known github flame thread from 2.5 years ago. Not sure why this is here now?

Having built my own custom Chromium for Android several times on a project, 250MB is out of line for stock Chromium. My builds for my custom browser with Chromium content-shell were ~70-80MB. Chrome, indeed, adds a bit of extra "google chrome", and probably some additional internationalization, but 250MB does not seem square, in my experience.

Me neither. It seemed like a fascinating read, but I wish he would have trimmed the amount of soapbox talk about his own credentials and bad software engineers, and instead provided the facts about the case (at least what changed the case and could have been revealed).

atom.io is nothing but an icon in the Finder for me until they fix the terrible performance bottlenecks. i really like the app / features / ux, etc. but the performance is abysmal compared to sublime.

Where do you source the data if you're interested in getting started in your own family history and your personal archives are fairly limited?

Wow, if you're looking at the Chinese government as a model for governance...

Uniting all world governments into a single state scares the hell out of me, and I think it could very well be the worst idea, but suggesting China as a pattern is the icing on the cake, quite frankly.

Hm.. wondering if:

/vehicles/{id}/snooplion/hydraulics/bounce

is idempotent or not?

I (really do) hate posting this but I swear every single "REST" or "RESTful" or "REST-ful" API post I see, there's always that guy that chides it for not being pure or REST or "-ful" or something. Do we really care that much? Does the API work? If so, move on...

Consider this example: https://square.github.io/crossfilter/#charts and this example https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/#yearly-bubble-chart -- sure, you could probably do this without dc.js and crossfilter.js but it would be _a lot_ of work, and likely not re-usable.

If you don't need interactive charts that you can drill-down into, don't use it. If you do, this is the best of breed right now for this kind of thing. dc.js doesn't abstract away the d3 api -- you can still use it to your hearts content, but it sure makes these kinds of examples really easy to spin up with minimal code.

see my post a couple down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7868603

dc.js marries crossfilter.js with d3.js -- that's it in a nutshell.

crossfilter allows you to group and filter your data in-memory very quickly, and potentially for a LOT of data See http://bl.ocks.org/milroc/7032589 for a good intro to crossfilter (launch the demo on slide #39 -- loads 36M flight records).

you likely already know what d3 does. dc.js makes it easy to generate dashboards where the user can interact with the charts (e.g. filter by Q1, Q2...see the NASDAQ example at https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/)

Why do they insist on a separate heavyweight installation for each functional area / language? IDEA (Java), PhpStorm, RubyMine, PyCharm, AppCode, WebStorm, and now 0xDBE? What if you were building something that used all of those? You'd be buying a license for 7 IDEs? What happened to the good 'ol plugin model?

I still prefer the lightweight Sublime Text to having to install all these monolithic Java-based IDEs, but I agree that the SQL/DBA tools have sucked for a long time -- especially a good cross-platform tool. Valentina Studio was the best I've found http://www.valentina-db.com/en/valentina-studio-overview -- has support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and their own proprietary db.

The use of the word dimension here more than likely stems from dimensional modeling / data warehouse / OLAP design [1], where designing your database in a star/cube schema will allow you to query it easily across many "dimensions".

With crossfilter.js your data gets structured similarly and then bound to d3.js svg charts. dc.js provides the glue between the two to make it easier to work with. This allows you to interactively select part of a chart and immediately see other charts bound to that data get filtered at the same time.

It allows for an interesting way to explore / visualize data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_modeling

Wow, I am surprised this has never hit HN before. I've been using the combo of dc.js/crossfilter.js/d3.js for a while now to great success. If you need to make interactive charts for things like dashboards -- this is an amazing triplet.

The dev team behind dc.js is also super nice and very responsive to questions / prs.