skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you're speaking more of bike/pedestrian conflicts, but that's not an issue on my commute, so I can't speak to it.

Every single law I break as a cyclist benefits drivers as well as myself. It's the lack of infrastructure that makes it safer for me to hop from bike lane to sidewalk rather than follow the bike lane which magically reappears on the OTHER SIDE OF A LANE OF TRAFFIC on a 40mph arterial. It's the lack of infrastructure that makes me prefer to go from road to crosswalk (or cut across an entire road when it looks safe) instead of forcing all of the motorists and their precious steeds to have to accordion up and slow for me as I try to make my way across the 3 lanes of traffic to the left turn lane when I need to turn.

Additionally, every single law I break exposes me to 100% of the legal risk, and anything a driver might consider "unsafe" is putting 100% of the risk of bodily harm on myself, not on the observer in the car.

I say all of this as a car and motorcycle enthusiast with an avowed need for speed. But the reality is that the car-centric view of the roads has to change.
I love experiments like these, that push the limits of what I thought possible with existing technologies. Using Git to version-control the database makes sense, and although the implementation might not be practical/scalable in its current form, it points to an interesting direction.
How did you balance that with your job? Do you have a normal "9-5" or "10-6" type job? I always wonder how people carve out time for stuff with family and such in the early evening on weeknights when normal leaving times + commute mean I likely wouldn't get home till 6:30 at the earliest.
This has limited utility since people are archiving comments in real time and uploading them to Big Query https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9869871

Here's the realtime comments feed - add .xml, .json or .rss to change the format: https://www.reddit.com/comments
The US Government's backwards policy of emphasizing offensive capability over defensive strikes again -- the NSA may have a treasure trove of vulnerabilities and the capacity to extend its reach into the nether regions of other nation-state's networks, but it leaves its belly wide open for other's to feast on.
> What I find fascinating in this setting is that Google becomes such a powerful weapon due to a series of perfectly legitimate design decisions.

It does have a certain "perfect storm of good intentions" quality, but no, "prefetching" hundreds of gigabytes worth of images that the user is not looking at right now* and that will not be cached for the next time the user views it, that the user did not indicate will be changing frequently or have recently changed, and doing it every hour on the hour (according to timestamps in a screenshot), is not a "perfectly legitimate" design. Calling it that implies IMO that there is nothing Google should change about this (maybe the author does not mean that.)

Maybe I or the author are missing something here -- why did Google think it was necessary to fetch something that will not be immediately shown to the user nor will it be cached for later? I can understand the no-caching decision, but then why fetch at all if it's not needed now? Why is 1 hour supposedly short enough for some hypothetical user that wants their spreadsheet's embedded images to update automatically, but long enough to not cause damage (wasn't long enough in this case)? And I hinted at "on the hour" above because it seems like some sort of staggered refreshing would be better on the CPUs and networks involved, though it wouldn't make a difference to the author.

Even if for some reason they think fetching this aggressively and wastefully is good, it seems like it's in Google's own interest to have some kind of safety valve (bandwidth restriction, hard abort, something in between) after a few hundred megabytes on one spreadsheet's refresh cycle. If nothing else, that omission means it probably wasn't a "legitimate" design decision.

Wild theory: the author was accidentally causing the refresh somehow (or maybe purposely automated but forgotten.) Somehow it seems more likely than Google setting it up this way on purpose...

* I'm kind of assuming here, but the author doesn't mention anything like he was actively viewing the spreadsheet while the attack was happening. Even if he had it open (and with all the image-linked cells in view!) for hours on end, I stand by my other points that it's strange and not a perfect design for Google to auto-refresh in this fashion.
at least here in Canada, pretty sure it's about the same in the US).

We're getting there. TWC is one of the largest ISP's in the US, IIRC, and they have said they have IPv6 support for about 90% of their residential network. Anecdotally, I started getting an IPv6 address from DHCP on my cable-modem connection about 2 months ago.

We're a long way from full IPv6 coverage, but now you finally start to get the sense that it's real, whereas in the past (even a year ago) it was easy to wonder if the ISPs and what-not were even really trying.
How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name
Leave.
There are ways of dealing with snow on sidewalks. Just because they require upkeep some part of the year doesn't excuse not having any.
The thing about physical buttons is that they make more sense on an e-reader than a tablet. It's not an input-heavy device, it doesn't need such a versatile input mechanism. It's primarily an output device, and the design should reflect that. Use buttons, which aren't as versatile as a touch screen, and keep the actual screen clean.
>Uhh, reddit hemorrhages money, every attempt at profitability has failed. Paying moderators would provide no value.

I don't see the correlation.
> some regularly lecture me about how dangerous that is

I think this is a case of the "vivid example" fallacy. People can easily envision the carnage caused by a bike-car collision. Less easily imagined is the health toll wreaked by 500+ hours / year commuting in a car.
Having tried to walk from a business hotel in Roseville Minnesota to the nearest restaurant I discovered just this - and passing motorists looked at me like I was bonkers!

Heck, you couldn't even get from the hotel to the adjacent office block without walking on the road, or cutting across scrub.

Santa Clara is only marginally better. However retrofitting cycle lanes is a much easier prospect than retrofitting sidewalks, and crossings.
Intel Management Engine is the exact same thing as Windows' Group Policy or OSX's Enterprise Configuration Profiles, just applied at the hypervisor level[1]. IOW, it's a thing you use to pair a corporate-owned PC with its mothership. If you bought your PC, you control it; you can just turn IME off in the BIOS or whatever you like.

Note that this level of enterprise control has been possible for some time; even without IME, if HR hands you a laptop and doesn't tell you the BIOS password, then it might be set to, say, attempt to network PXE boot by default from the corporate intranet's deployment-and-compliance servers.

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[1] Actually it's more literally like the kind of "smart" server-rack backplane that allows you to connect a remote serial console to an unresponsive server to see what's going on, or send it a hard reboot or whatever else. Except for managing desktops instead of servers.
7 days is probably reasonable in the case where there's an active IT staff who will notice when, say, servers stop backing up. But if nobody's watching for that...

Do you have a solution in mind for the case of a company where email is going to /dev/null and nobody is reading the output of their cron jobs?

I mean, if I can't contact someone, it doesn't really matter if I wait a week or a month...
Oh even paying customers have long been the product. Just look at printed magazines etc, where the number of subscribers is used as part of the advertisement sales pitch.

Hell, buy/rent a DVD/BR these days and you will likely find yourself with a face full of (unskippable) ads.

Edit:

Welcome to the modern metric laden day. Every waking moment will be measured and assessed by algos and "experts" alike.
Boooo... Market research is one thing, hunting out millionaires is another.

What is your net yearly household income?

What is the value of your primary residence?

What type of phone do you have?

Do you own or do you plan to buy (within the next year) a Tesla?

Who lives in your home?

How old are you?

Please indicate your gender (only two options)
Smule CEO Defends the Company’s Lawsuit Against Former Employees
The article misses the elephant in the room; the US Dollar is in trouble.

To get some view into why, take a look at the emergence of the AIIB (China's equivalent of the World Bank) and take a look at the reasons why the US has been in negotiations in Iran (Just about nuclear proliferation? There's a bit more to it... http://youtu.be/hs_2zzNyP_M ).

In short, the strength of the US Dollar is seen by quite a few people to be based on its position in international trade, and this position is being challenged (past challenges have led to wars, but that's not going to work for much longer, unless the US intends to start WW3). If the funding base is taken away, the US military is unlikely to remain the dominant force it is today.

Kind of puts the TTIP/TTP/TISA deals into a new perspective too, international deals to reassert the US position by boosting the role of big business.
For the record, I don't have enough karma to downvote.

>Linux is not inextricably tied to any single language

It is pretty tightly coupled to GCC, which, as you know, is a C compiler. Some people are working on supporting Clang, but last I heard they haven't succeeded.

It would certainly be interesting to see someone link Linux to Rust code though.
> I don't think there will be more than 1500 articles better than C-class in Wikipedia's Philosophy category

We're getting there! There are currently 793 philosophy articles [1] better than C-class in Wikipedia.

By quality:

* Featured articles: 41 [2]

* Featured lists: 4 [3]

* Good articles: 113 [4]

* B-class articles: 635 [5]

1. Summary table of philosophy articles by quality and importance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Philosophy_articles_b...

2. https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&...

3. https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&...

4. https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&...

5. https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&...
Procrastinators will just procrastinate signing up.
I liked this article from 1989: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/832/do-cow-and-term...

> Methane breaks down in the atmosphere to form carbon dioxide, ozone, and water, all of which absorb heat.

Almost every current article about cow burps cites a 2006 U.N. study saying that livestock accounted for 18% of methane pollution. That study was later called into question as being slightly exaggerated because it included pollution from farming infrastructure itself, not just the animals.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatecha...

> The meat figure had been reached by adding all greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production, including fertiliser production, land clearance, methane emissions and vehicle use on farms, whereas the transport figure had only included the burning of fossil fuels.
They should've at least implemented lazy loading, i.e only fetch the thumbs the user is looking at.
You mean people are super-abrasive and think that’s just normal?

I don’t think that’s honesty, that’s being an asshole.
The web has never been more cable for creative thinkers to take it to the next level. thanks for writing the Medium post. I dig he glitchs
Of course we can't discount them. My own field of research, chemical information as it applies to pharmaceutical research, is dominated by industry.

Given that collyw works in a bioinformatics organization, my underlying question was why collyw discounted all of the cutting edge technology coming out of academic bioinformatics research.

I could also have pointed out, say, cutting edge techniques in photochemistry for arene C-H amination, which came from a university (see http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6254/1326 ).

By limiting "tech" to those areas of software where Google and Microsoft have a strong business interest, then of course they will have a strong presence. I wanted to highlight that possible bias.
Great! Please implement them in Rust as soon as possible.

But until then, Rust's approach is runtime bounds checking.
It's actually octagonal: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3050576/3-design-trends-hiding-i...
I lived for ten years in a street that had that design for historical reasons (rue de Rivoli, designed by Napoleon to fck over the aristocracy from the previous regime, and has an odd half-private status).

For bikes, the result is that I got right-hooked into daily, got my bike crushed weekly (I used rentals), and ended up twice in the hospital. Unless you physically crush every car that tries to turn right, they will* T-bone every bike there is. This is, without exaggeration a way to kill a significant portion of your riders. Once again, the alternative is making turning right physically impossible to cars.
Not so sure myself, check-out page 63:

http://www.theicct.org/use-emissions-testing-light-duty-dies...

Car B was a 4cy VW diesel with urea from last year.
I'm not criticizing Chris Poole at all, but if your value metric is doing "good in this world," I'm pretty sure Union Square Ventures has brought about more good in this world than 4chan has.
In my experience, driving is less safe than walking in snow. Granted I am still fairly young and fit so falling over is not a serious or life threatening concern. Road users significantly overestimate their ability to drive on difficult terrain and chances of accidents are greatly increased.
The auto industry is so incestuous as it is. If patents came to play at all, which they didn't, then the big money play would be for GM, Ford, etc.. to buy VW motors and or license the technology. Either build as good a diesel or if you somehow couldn't then buy it or the technology. There is tons and tons of precedence for it. (Heck, the Ford "PowerStroke" diesel wasn't built by Ford for the first half of its life) Auto competitors work together on tons of stuff and with something like a motor that has fuel demands, it's mutually beneficial, if Ford and GM sell small diesel cars, it's more likely there will be diesel at your nearest pump. GM and Ford build heavy diesel too, there is very very real demand if they can improve power, improve mileage and meet emissions and VAG doesn't compete in that market.

None of that happened, I think the competitors knew and I also think the EPA knew in some capacity and it wasn't until some "small time" researchers got attention that it came out.
The Divine Inspiration of Jim Jones
Going off the calendar thing -- some years back I managed to lose a ton of weight and be super productive; I had this little system where every day I would try to keep the number of vices I had that day to less than half.

For example, if I smoked a cigarette and ate poorly, to keep that day at 50% I'd need to exercise and do (home or project) work done. If there was a day where I didn't want to exercise, I'd have to do at least 2 of the other things.

Like most people in this thread, I know I can't trust myself to be perfect, so I give myself outs. I can do whatever I want, so long as I pay for it elsewhere.
Some nginx configuration files are very project specific, especially when you have projects using some of the modules they offer.
Just for Volkswagen - 11m vehicles.

Average price of new car is around $35,000

So, for this recall, we are talking a list price of over 350 billion dollars.

And that is just from what we know of VW.
Check-out page 63, looks to be 40x on the graph:

http://www.theicct.org/use-emissions-testing-light-duty-dies...
7) Ensure my superiors are kept aware of project status.
8) Remain available to vet marketing or other presentation documents on short order.
Calling him Chris and not moot helps put into perspective the fact that he's a human with his own identity and life, and not just someone posting with an online pseudonym.

In summary, I think that's a moot point.
Does anyone have the text of this or a summary?
What Shape is the Internet?
> That the decisions they made at the time made sense doesn't make them any less regrettable in retrospect.

They really couldn't have made any better decision at the time--TCP/IP dates to 1974!

Bits were expensive back then. Backbone links were 56K. The Intel 1103 1K DRAM was the biggest selling semiconductor in 1972 and had just replaced core memory.

The fact that they even allocated 32 bits (the wastrels!) was amazingly forward thinking.
According to one doctor, with no research for effectiveness.

Linkbait.
Do we know what percentage of the employed female philosophers would ever be interested in writing for S.E.P., and what percentage of women in general would ever be interested in writing for Wikipedia? This is an important variable for judging whether under-representation is a real issue or not.
I'm not sure I agree with the notion that OSS is where all the innovation is happening. There's certainly plenty of innovation there. But most innovation still seems to be privately funded developments (esp startups) which get open sourced. Or not.

Has there been any empirical work on assessing it in recent times? Maybe post 2010?
> Are you saying the manufacturers will come up with some way of locking down their radio firmware that still permits something like OpenWRT to be installed on a router (or Linux on a laptop, for that matter)? Why would they bother when they could just lock the device down completely?

Yes. In the actual regs (which nobody seems to read), they suggest a list ("including but not limited to") a number of mechanisms by which manufacturers may choose to control the portion of their radio software that would impact the validity on their RF testing/validation/compliance results. One of them is signed firmware blobs: to me, that's the easiest, cheapest non-invasive method for WiFi module makers that won't create a huge compliance burden on the host device manufacturer. You go from having to load an unsigned firmware blob anyway, to a signed one. Which is a huge step in the right direction for firmware security anyway. As for modules which don't have blobs but do have the means to create non-compliant emissions just through the driver: it doesn't seem like much of a stretch that they could run new region-locked revs of their modules, or at least move those previously adjustable RF parameters/behaviours over to a signed image in a $0.10 SPI EEPROM chip.

All of this isn't just a PITA for users, it's a PITA for the device manufactures as well.

Particularly for laptop manufacturers. They could save $5 locking down the entire laptop, something they've never been able to do even when they try, or they could spend the extra $5 and get the module that's got a stand-alone certification and only requires them to submit a reference to the module's own FCC approval and some demonstration that the gain of the antennas in their product are in-spec.
What can you do in C that you can't do in, say, Algol 68? Or even Pascal (once you get to a recent enough version supporting dynamic arrays/first-class pointers)?

I think the situation is not far off from what pjmlp is saying: there were several more or less equally good languages available at the time, and C won by virtue of being in the right place at the right time. There are lots of really nice things about C from a systems point of view, but most languages of the 70s had those too. C was a nice language for the late 70s (not so much today, IMO), but not hugely nicer than its contemporaries.
How accidental promises hurt reputation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo
Yeah, searching for indie/freelancer jobs may get a bunch of websites claiming they are seriously building such a bazar. But none of them is well-known enough to attract most posters and freelancers.
> I buy the paperbacks, scan them (takes 5-10 minutes), then throw the book into the recycle bin.

Poe's law is pinging.
iOS 9 Hack: How to Access Private Photos and Contacts Without a Passcode
Airline – A Java framework for building Git-like command line interfaces
Are there closed captions or transcripts available?
Edit: In English?
That's not compiling lua to asm.js; it's running the lua vm in asm.js.

A straight up transpilation is other projects like lua.js. But you loose really nice core lua features like coroutines...
Nope, that's the actual title of IETF RFC 6555

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6555
Happy Eyeballs is primarily designed let users with broken networks continue connecting to dual-stack web servers. In some cases, it also covers up brokenness on the server end (e.g. publishing AAAA records to nowhere), but that's arguably more of a bug than a feature.

Back in 2011, content providers were terrified of enabling IPv6, because the data showed that ~0.1% of users would drop off the map due to broken networks. Happy Eyeballs helped to break the logjam.
Going by citations, women are even worse off, coming up short against David Lewis alone: http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/19/lewis-and-th...
> It told me it was the birthday of someone I know, and all I had to do was reply with "1" to post a birthday wish on their timeline.

Now I wonder how many people who actually wrote out the happy birthday message instead of just replied with a "1", seems kind of insincere..
Oh man, I had not thought about the Innovations Catalogue in basically forever. I used to read it religiously every weekend.

For those who were tragically born too late, a taste:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/majestically-useless-items...
It's what I've done in Melbourne AU and Canberra AU.

I've also ridden to work in Stockholm and Washington DC.

It's kind of remarkable that people say lots of these cities don't have cycling infrastructure. They all do.

The only place I've lived where I would have wanted to ride is Houston.

People just don't want to ride. I work in Canberra AU now that has great paths and many people don't have big differences to ride to work. I work with so many people who drive 5-10 minutes instead of riding. People who don't have kids to drop off.
So then why is it under a heading that says Problem 6?
Nowadays: want lots of traffic on your blog -> rant about Angular.

The problem is just that you're nearly a year too late.

- yep angular has flaws (which framework doesn't?)

- ya, it does dirty checking and yes, that might have perf implications if used the wrong way. But hey, 6 years ago when Angular was created it was a revolutionizing idea, and still holds today. Also, at that time no Objecte.observe existed, nor did SPAs really (well..GWT was kinda the solution at that time). But, did u check what they're doing in Angular 2? Heard about RxJS and stuff?

- DI: strange syntax techniques to work around minifiers? You don't really use those, do u? heard about ngAnnotate?

- Oh...AMD, UMD etc...do not dependency injection. And yes, agree, DI together in combination with AMD/UMD/... creates confusion with newbie frontend developers

- Then: Angular 2 is already live on GitHub, for a while; has even it's own webpage online

- and for god's sake..Angular 2 is compatible with Angular 1...read their blog posts, their Tweets, weekly meetup notes and design docs (all openely available on GDocs)

- oh..and there are even some rumors server-side rendering will be possible in ng 2

I like ur blog, but if you go and rant, please check the latest status, inform yourself, then rant. Nothing against critics, they foster discussion, but only if made properly.
Collaborative Problem Solving by Humans Using a Brain-To-Brain Interface
Simple List App Built with Cosmic JS, React and Flux
NZ Flag Referendum pseudorandom numbers
If that's all you need, an old school RSA token's guts could be put into a regular dumb watch. No need even for extra buttons.