skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the kind of data I was looking for too! I'm also on the software fringes of trucking, and that was my reaction to the 2009-2013 statistic. Pretty much anything driven by economic activity is up over that period, we should be looking at accidents per kiloton or something like that.
What does "guanxi" mean? I'm aware it's a Chinese word.
Belief in Evolution versus National Wealth
Sounds very reminiscent of what Jeff Hawkins has been talking about. His company, Numenta, is specifically about creating AI by understand the neocortex. Fascinating stuff.
Sounds like a sensible rule that is impossible to enforce.
Firebug is one of the worst extensions I've seen in terms of performance. Uninstall it and see if there are changes.

Especially since devtools are native in Fx now.
You, my good fellow, are awesome. :)
'You Buy These or I Take Your Car': Cop Shakes Down Driver for Police Fundraiser
oh god, another "Guns don't kill people" nut. not sure why you're defending an antiquated amendment that helps the NRA sell more guns.
That's not usually the side anyone has trouble with.
>the EPA does not allow one to build refineries

Two refineries have opened in the US this year:

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=29&t=6
Maybe I misunderstand but how can being forced to move your wrist cause strain? Your wrist moves all the time in day to day activities.

If anything I would think keeping your wrist in the same position too long would cause strain, especially if it's unrelaxed.

Even in piano, if you have to play the same notes many times, you are supposed to move your wrist slightly so you aren't doing the same movement each time to prevent injury.
I'm confused: this link doesn't go to what the title says.
I think his claim was that the utilitarian analysis is flawed because if you accept it, it may force you to justify Hitler, which is morally unacceptable, so the utilitarian premise that forces you in that direction can't be accepted, and therefore can't be used to justify nuclear weapons either.
Don't know how are things on the Common Lisp side, but on the Clojure side, as much as I prefer it to Javascript I end writing regular web applications in Javascript, because for me, it is the more pragmatic choice when I need to get something done.
Javascript/nodejs has lots of good mature libraries with good documentation for anything related to web dev, sponsored by companies that eat their own dog food (ex: the passportjs lib).
the idea that there is maybe not "room to spend" on safety seems absurd. Safety should something that only happens if you can afford it. If the cost of shipping needs to increase to accomodate the cost of safety, then let's do that, but trucking needs to be safe, both for the truckers and the other road users, no matter what the financial cost is.

If paying for safety hurts the trucking industry by making rail or air freight more attractive, i don't see that as a bad thing. We should not all have to subsidize the trucking industry by compromising our own safety on the roads.
Am I Being Tracked?
I suspect that this NYtimes article is a move by the lobby for self-driving cars.
The App Store doesn't present me with that option. I believe you need to have an older version already installed to be able to redownload it.
It's going to be the other way around. The brain is a knotted mess of connections between lots of different neuron types, and I don't believe the complexity of the brain is a necessary feature of Intelligence. Because of this extra complexity, the brain will serve as a poor model system for Intelligence.

I think deep neural networks running on GPUs will teach us more about Intelligence. Eventually, Neuroscientists will have to transfer ideas from machine learning to notions of how the brain works.
Do you still type 130wpm if you are typing a lot of numbers? I'd be surprised if you could reach those speeds while typing all number keys but one with a single finger.
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Any job that is created by automation will later be automated anyway. That's the whole point of automation. It's a recursive function, and in the past it was so that the jobs were created faster that they were automated away. But I don't think it's reasonable to assume this will continue. There's a great qualitative difference between automating muscle power (what we did in past centuries) and brain power (what we're doing now).

Even now more and more jobs that are created are jobs that are harmful to society and shouldn't exist in the first place. Imagine a slight modification of your story - that there are two public works projects; one is digging a canal, the other is filling it up. More and more fuel, material and man hours are being used up as both sides gain access to additional workers and better technologies, and yet the canal stays half-built, as one group cancels out the work of the other.

Now replace canal building with advertising industry, and it's exactly what we have today in the real world. Hell, I'd argue that half of the web industry is also such useless waste of time and resources. This is what we get because we still keep the meme that you need to work to be a decent human being. A lot of unsustainable make-believe work. The so-called "bullshit jobs".

It's high time for the world to embrace that jobs are going away, as they should.
I was taught the same method, although on a keyboard.
WOW! The masthead alone is worth a scroll, you even get an achievement badge. LOL
Tap water also contains chlorine or chloramine which evaporates fairly quickly (chlorine much quicker). That may affect the taste directly or indirectly by allowing other bacteria to grow in the water.
An airline nearly crashed a passenger plane with 150 people onboard
http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4616 :)
That might be true, although it does seem like a reasonable choice for authenticity in a tv show.
How to make a living doing creative work in 2015
cl-project[0] is another nice project generator. It's mostly pretty similar - but I like the default layout and having a built-in test suite.

0 - https://github.com/fukamachi/cl-project
No, if I'm typing a lot of numbers I switch to the numpad. If I had to use the number keys along the top, I'd be much slower than 130. Numbers like "130", though, I just noticed that I distribute the keys among several fingers. I'm not sure of the rules my fingers are following in that respect. Examining your own typing habits is fun :)
Shouldn't the trucking industry be working mostly graveyard? I mean, what's the better time for trucks to drive fast and safe if not night, when everyone else is not on the road?
In cryogenic chambers...
> I don't believe the complexity of the brain is a necessary feature of AI.

What makes you say that? It seems to me that that's the biggest thing, its connectivity, that separates the brain and its self/mind making ability from the rest of the organs.
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Kaldi Speech Recognition Toolkit
+ water quality can change fairly quickly (eg. overnight)
source: im a founder of water quality monitoring company
There are pretty massive economic implications when you're talking about raising freight rates across the board. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that it's a decision that isn't to be made lightly.
What's Behind BLAST(Bioinformatics) – Gene Myers
Boston's WGBH initiates careless groundless legal action against Fedflix project
https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty
Public.Resource.org's Letter to Legal Director of YouTube [pdf]
Keybase.io Invite
Hi,
Does anyone maybe have an extra keybase.io invite code?
I'd really like to try it out.
Do you have an RSS feed for your blog?
Firefox WebExtensions API and NoScript
Look at this the other way - humans shouldn't even be doing this task, the only reason we have truck drivers is because we didn't know how to make trucks drive themselves. Now we do, so there's no point in keeping humans doing what machines could do better.

Yes, this generalizes to all jobs and the entire economy. It's about time we accepted it.
> gas chambers ... sickest thing I've ever heard ... dissected ... raped ... You should be ashamed of yourself

I've asked you before not to bombard HN with political rhetoric. From an HN point of view, it's tedious, off-topic, and leads straight to incivility, which as you know is the thing that's most against the rules here.

Please really stop.
> They are all relative timeframes by which
> a store my be closed; certain hours during
> the day, certain days during the week, and
> certain days during the year.

Huh. That's a way of interpreting it I'd never seen. Thank you.

> Your inability to make sense of it doesn't
> affect the rest of us.

No, except that it may help people see that what they think is obvious isn't always obvious to others.

> ... it is the result of a willful ignorance
> that you are bragging about.

Well, that's obviously your interpretation, but if others see it that way then it explains the hitherto mysterious yoyoing of points on my comments.

> It doesn't make for very interesting trolling.

I find it disappointing that you think I'd troll.
Recharging the Battery for IoE
I think this article covers some of the background better than I could ever explain:

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/

-- Musk is insane (in a good way)

-- As SpaceX builds the tech to DO it, they don't have to be the ones to FUND it. If Musk says "yes we can" and proves it, and the private sector starts dumping money in it, the governments of the world are going to quickly get involved. You don't think russia and the US are going to throw cash at musk so they can jump off the ladder and be the first down together?

-- "then come back to earth" is a pretty big leap. I suspect that there are going to be a LOT of one way trips.

-- Nasa has planed this to DEATH. But nasa is bad at controlling costs. I suspect that spaceX can pick the number, find the money, and get the job done.

In total I don't think SpaceX will foot the bill, but they dam sure will build most of the systems if musk has his way.
You would like the article on how they made it

http://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

All of their MathBox-powered articles are wonderfull really.
Most importantly, you need a visa, which is not necessarily easy to get, especially if you are a Chinese citizen.

It's not just about being attached to your friends or to a place. A lot of people would love to leave their country, but aren't allowed to.
Having lots of connections may be important to Intelligence, but the brain is a knotted mess of connections. It's the knotted part that I am objecting.
Yeah, that would be more informative. But we still need to know about the baseline rates. Trucks are very big, so dangerous to other drivers, and there's a lot of miles driven. On the other hand, there's industry capital to potentially finance safety upgrades, and they're driven by professionals. I'd like to see a more nuanced discussion of what the acceptable risk is, given all those factors.
It would be resoundingly ignored, and its utterly unenforceable.

Right now, if you're a driver and you decline a load, it may be days to get another one at times, especially if you're stuck in a city with a ton of inbound freight, but not too much outbound freight - so you take what you can, push your endurance, and hope you can get far enough out of town that they wont try to swap it on you.
A New Platform for Parental Leave
Supposedly checks for "supercookies" that track your every move on your phone. Anyone know anything else about this?
The most popular domains for startups besides .com
Hummingbirds Are Fierce
This subthread detached from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10102113 and marked off-topic, since it seems to be the root of the flamewar.

We've noticed over and over how generic tangents are the gateway to flamewars. Tangents about something specific ("off-topic, but I once worked with that group...") are often interesting, but generic tangents dilute discussion and not infrequently eventuate in Hitler.
The Dimensional Ladder
The art of sound in movies
That's pretty much what I was trying to say... you can decline to add more license to your own work, and decline to ask for your own attribution, but you can't erase the underlying license and WTFPL the whole thing, as the only license.
As maxerickson pointed out, that's true, and I acknowledge the defect in my argument.
What's your email address? I need that to send the invite.
They force everyone to install their 'app'. No content served for you if it sniffs Safari, and ads in the app then can't be blocked.
Ask HN: Where would you move your family to?
My wife and I currently live in San Francisco, both working for tech companies. She's due with our first child at the end of the year. The prospect of raising a family in the Bay Area isn't really getting me excited, and I think that there might be better places out there that I'm not thinking of.

Our situation is as follows:
* We're both in our thirties and have good careers, but not at any single company. We're respected enough and have deep enough professional networks that we could quit our jobs and have new (probably better) ones by end-of-day.

* We're in roles that could allow for remote work. While having a good local economy is nice, I'm quickly realizing that I don't have to physically be in San Francisco any more.

* My wife hasn't decided if she will return to work after taking maternity leave. I haven't decided if I will return to work after taking paternity leave. We do well, but we're not rich, so one of us needs to work.

* Neither of us has any family in the Bay Area. We're willing to move for a better life. We both speak French and English, and my wife speaks Portuguese, too.

* We've owned our current condo in San Francisco for a bit now, so we could either sell it or rent it out and do very well. We don't feel like SF real estate is squeezing us out by any means. If anything, our San Francisco real estate will probably be a means for our escape.

* Ideally we're looking for someplace that has low crime, good schools, doesn't feel like a rat race, some natural geographic beauty (we like taking hikes and walks), a government that works and makes us feel like we're getting value for our tax dollars, decent transportation options outside of cars, low pollution, and good weather. The last one is qualitative so I'll just say that we're willing to trade San Francisco's perpetual cool mist feel for a place that's hotter and/or colder but actually has real seasons.

So, where should we move to and why?
There's no such thing as overkill.
Yes, so why is air travel so much more heavily regulated for safety than all the other things? The perception is skewed, and people just don't think about motor vehicle collisions as being a big problem, even though they kill tons of people every year (more than firearm homicides, too, for what it's worth). Pointing that out is reasonable.
I am not sure you are familiar with modern GPU architecture. Both AMD's and NVidia GPU have no problems with branches. They do not do prediction and prefetch because it's pretty pointless on a single issue architecture. I believe the ISA docs are available to general public - you could easily familiarize yourself with them. I am also quite familiar with latency and bandwidth so the concept of negating one with another sounds very amateurish to me. If you could do that then everyone switched to high bandwidth memory and negated all the latency :) Speed is still speed and bandwidth is still bandwidth.
One of the things we need to do, as a society, is to stop yapping about "creating jobs" and start caring more about "ensuring that if your job goes away, you're fine". For most of us, our job will go away at some point.

As a whole, making work less dependent on manpower is progress. And it's a critical failure that societal progress comes with the effect of "devastating lives". And that's because of crappy laws, not because of the technology.

Place the blame where blame is due.
There seem to be some interesting mechanisms that arise due to the mess. The author mentions that delays, rather than viewed as a problem, can be viewed as something that conveys additional information about the environment.

These delays are a result of the complexity. Sure, replicating the knotted mess might not be an approach that works, but using the mechanisms that arise in the brain to handle complexity would be very useful.
Where are you located?
My System76 Galago Pro has a 1080p matte screen. When the weather is nice I like to work outdoors. With a shiny Apple screen this is virtually impossible.

I believe the Galago Pro and most other System76 models are actually customized re-branded Clevo laptops. Another company that offers customized Clevos is Sager. You can buy Sager latops online from Xotic PC. My last laptop was Sager and it also had a 1080p matte screen.

By the way, my laptop costs a fraction of what I would have paid for an Apple laptop with the same specs. It's also extremely light.

My laptop doesn't overheat and spin its fans so fast it sounds like an airplane taking off. I didn't have to buy any stupid adapters to use ethernet and I'm not vulnerable to two major security issues that are all over the news lately (I'm looking at you, MacBook Pro).

Good luck.
If you're searching for examples, search instead for SNOBOL.

From Wikipedia:
> SPITBOL (Speedy Implementation of SNOBOL) is a compiled implementation of the SNOBOL4 language.

Also from wikipedia SNOBOL page shows some examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL

And C2 talks about it as well:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SnobolLanguage
Anywhere in southern Sweden. Low crime, good schools, amazing scenery, a government that works, and great access to all of Europe.
Airbnb and Tesla are building a free and global charging network ️
No one ever said white lives don’t matter
How Black Reporters Report on Black Death
UK is heading this way..
What Does “Self-Care” Really Mean?
"You are quite slow to grasp simple concepts" violates "Be civil."
I'm not sure there's much of a correlation there. Most engineers using OS X (a group that's at least as large as Linux-using engineers) use the command line on a regular basis; I think it has more to do with the fact that even a dated *nix userland has 90%+ of what the majority of engineers need.
> Can you name a widely-used contemporary programming language that still uses the 60’s software technology of reference counts to manage storage?

As opposed to the 50's software technology of garbage collection?

What an off-putting remark to include.
I guess there are two possibilities.

1. Profit margins are so tight because truck businesses compete with each other. In this case, increasing safety standards in a uniform way, will not change profits since the costs can be passed on to consumers.

2. Profit margins are so tight because truck businesses are competing with other forms of transport. In that case, imposing more safety standards will result in less business being done by truck, and more by other means. As long as these don't have worse safety issues, this would be a good thing.

You are right the revenue is a meaningless figure in both cases.
SPITBOL is an enhanced version of the SNOBOL language.

From Wikipedia:

SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a series of computer programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL

TkS*LIDE is a Tcl/Tk based IDE for SPITBOL (along with SNOBOL4). Binaries for SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL are included with the IDE, along with a tutorial and sample programs.

http://rms.republika.pl/slide.html

SNOBOL is also distinguished by being described in Guy Steele & Richard Gabriel: 50 in 50 speech as one of the three languages worth knowing:

https://vimeo.com/25958308
Would the same benchmark results be evident using AdBlock and AdBlockPlus currently on Chrome? Does anyone know?
Who would drive a truck for $11/hr max? You could make more driving Uber or bartending/waiting tables...
If Content Blocking Extensions also run in the context of all UIWebViews, then they'll actually have to build an app, instead of an 'app'—and I doubt most providers would bother going that far.
Ask HN: Domain name suggestions for our website
Me and my friend are going to launch a website where all the practical lab (scanned) copies of our college will be available. Soon we will add other related stuffs. And may extend this site to others colleges.
But we stuck at choosing the domain name. please give some suggestions.
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They probably appreciate having their family alive...or something. It'd be better if our colleagues who don't have their hands and relatives tied to create and proliferate liberating software.
Brains are the only pieces of hardware on the planet that exhibit intelligent behavior. I think it's a bit arrogant to think we can do better when we don't even know how the thing works!
Nielsen box at home. What can I do?
I have a nielsen box in my home. What are some fun things I can do with it? Can I somehow make money off it?
>where there are frequent shootings and you are never safe due to some idiotic Constitutional amendment.

Oh please please please move to China or Iran (assuming you live in the USA). I'll keep my evil black rifles.
I would note that you could actually do this on iOS now without a Safari-specific API—the opening-up of VPN APIs in iOS9 means something like an iOS Privoxy could be written quite easily.
I remember a game where you made circuit boards ... I think this kind of puzzle programming could work in low level programming, but for higher level, with millions of objects and layers of abstractions, it will be impossible.
Yeah, it's awful. I also stopped using in favor of the native FF tools. There's https://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/3.0/ but it's way better to just make the switch.
What a posthumous brain scan reveals about Leonardo Da Vinci's creativity?
I'd like to see a comparison of accidents, (or better, deaths), per million miles of personal vehicles vs. trucks. I'm pretty sure trucks will come out as causing fewer accidents/deaths.

I actually did the math for the 2009 - 2013 thing, and truck tonnage increased by 21.75%, so a 17% increase in accidents means that trucks got safer over that time.
Everyone in this thread was at fault. You can't post things like "Did it blow your mind when you understood something for a change" here. HN's rules hold regardless of how provocative someone else may have been.

We all lose it on the internet sometimes. On HN the thing to do is recognize that you broke the rules, stop blaming the other person for it, and move on.

The I-merely defense ("I was merely X-ing, but they were Y-ing") doesn't work. You can, and people do, justify anything that way.
WebViews do not go through content filters.
are they available elsewhere? the video players don't load on my browser
Watching MIT’s Glass 3D Printer Is Absolutely Mesmerizing
Why would you even change your server if a new one came out? If your old server works and is maintained, there's no reason for a switch. Also, 'jlg23 has a good point - learning full-stack frameworks as a beginner only serves to confuse things. For the same reason I never advocate that people new to programming jump straight into RoR or Node.js or whatever framework is hot this week - a person needs to understand the problem a tool solves before using the tool; otherwise you're training a code monkey, not a programmer.
Migrant workers from asia / south america. whom might not speak enough english to do other work. I say this by hanging around my fathers freight forwarding company for the past 15 years.
Revenue from where? I don't see any advertisements.
The Modron Cube in Planescape: Torment was brilliant. Great place to level up and a ridiculously entertaining story.