skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost nobody in The Netherlands cycles with a helmet. There's been various studies that cars are not as careful with cyclists when cyclists wear a helmet.

You're talking about one example where this helmet would've saved you. However, requiring helmets would mean a massive decrease in cycling. Further, the studies that a cyclist seems safer with a helmet, so more risk is taken by others in traffic.

> You don't want to wear helmet? Sure, just in case of incident and head trauma,

Why be all dramatic about this? Millions of people cycle without a helmet, including kids. It's nice to be over protective but society is actually worse off. Helmets are more common on racing bikes of course.

It's better to have separate clearly marked cycling paths, make cars responsible (basically: car responsible for anything more fragile than them, same for a cyclist), etc.

Again, you hardly see anyone with a helmet in The Netherlands. Though strangely, in Denmark everyone seems to use it. Number of cyclist related injuries is pretty small.
I'm on the same N4 boat. I can't help but suspect that this push for bigger Android phones is part of a plan to make people use phones as tablets and consume much more web content (thus, revenue for Google). I like my phone to be small and convenient for mobility, not for browsing in my couch :|
What I think this demonstrates is something that a lot of cities are waking up to. The car is not a friend of the urban landscape.

A lot of cities are now prioritising walking/cycling/public transport over the ability to drive anywhere and everywhere and this is having a profound effect on health and well being of their residents. It is hard though.

Events like this show what is possible.
> I refuse to stop paying

I'm not sure you meant that
I am interested.
If you rent or don't want to make holes in your wall for HDMI Chromecast is actually pretty neat way to bring Netflix, Plex, Youtube, etc. to your TV.

Of course you could buy new SmartTV that had necessary features, but so far I haven't found SmartTV that supported Plex and I don't want to buy a new TV since my old one works just fine.

Added benefit is that it can be controlled with just phone (or in my case I have dedicated my old tablet for Chromecast duty) which could theoretically save you the hassle with more remotes, but I only use my tablet for my bedroom TV, I don't even know where the original remote is, but Chromecast handles content and volume, so I just need my mobile device.
> Nobody's going to bother to recreate your fingerprint,

Whyever not? They might have a copy of it lying around. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/23/us-governm...

> Yes, but is it worth spending the required resources?

When it becomes easy - and it will become easy, there's nothing basically hard about printing out some ridged plastic - it will become commonplace. And unlike stolen passwords, an attacker can be fairly sure that you haven't changed your fingers.
Only this wasn't their goal at all. The goal was to enable easy access to the back seats, which is something all modern SUVs lack.
Same. After using premii and cheeaun for a year each, I prefer the experience in cheeaun's hackerweb.
Speaking from experience (Of getting hit, not running one of these services!) - Gaming is a particularly juicy target, you can set up a basic front-end that allows people to 'hit' certain IP addresses offline for x amount of time in exchange for money. Its use is quite common in certain games like League of Legends, CS:GO etc.
Ok, thanks for the corrections, everyone ;-)
If I had to guess - with air being forced through a full filter, you are going to take a serious hit to range as a lot of power is required to force the air through the filter at full "filtering" setting.
Hat tip to this link http://road.cc/content/forum/165819-whats-wrong-bicycle-helm... but let me quote a comment from there:

Just to save everyone else the time and effort as well as repetitive strain injury I am going to summarise the entire crux of how these responses will go:

Someone will kick off with an anecdote about how they or a friend's life was supposedly saved by wearing a helmet.

This will be followed by a post saying it isn't much use wearing one when getting driven over by a HGV.

Someone else will then link to the University of Bath research.

Following again with another anecdote where a helmet was ineffective or lead to more injury.

Now someone is going to come and call everyone else morons and telling the other posters to stop pressing for mandatory helmet wearing- despite the fact no one has done so.

Someone else will now make an observation about why car drivers or pedestrians don't have to wear them.

Mr "Stop-making -me-wear-a-helmet-despite-no one -actually-calling-for-it-to-be-law" will then quote the Australian experience before again insulting those imaginary posters no one else can see who want to make it illegal to ride without a helmet.

Someone who hasn't read the previous comments will again post a link to the University of Bath research.

A sensible post will then mention Chris Boardman but this will be ignored as the pro and anti-helmet debate hots up.

Someone makes a reference to "noddy hats".

Someone makes another sensible statement about not forcing anyone to wear one, that it should be personal choice and they choose to wear one. That will then be ignored as the rest of the posters get nasty and call into question each others moral and intellectual standing, again despite NO ONE ARGUING IT SHOULD BE COMPULSORY.

Another person again posts about making pedestrians wear helmets.

These same comments will then be repeated ad nasueum until suddenly there are hundred of posts all saying the same thing and mirroring the exact same helmet threads that seemingly appear every few days which no one then reads because once you have read one, you have read them all.
> Also amusing - the API says "Do not supply a request body with this method", yet obviously you'd have to supply a request body - the app itself! I have a feeling this is not a well-used API.

Or Google just doesn't give a fuck. There's various bugs with uploading expansion files that are documented from day one and still unfixed.
Byrne’s book is lovely and wonderful, I highly recommend the modern reprint: http://amzn.com/3836544717

But it only covers the first part of Euclid’s Elements, and even in the first 6 books the original text and drawings can also be helpful. I recommend this Green Lion Press edition to anyone looking to study from Euclid – http://amzn.com/1888009187 – which is an amazingly well printed and constructed book, an incredible bargain for the price.
If 95% of cyclists wear helmets (that would be my guess, at least when cycling on the road) and only 80% of fatalities happen with a helmet then it would seem to me that helmets are very effective - which is why you need to qualify the statistic.
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That is not at all dumb. Doing the preference learning for a huge number of users lets you set up a prior over the preferences that includes correlations between different attributes. Then you use the population prior together with the data for the individual to get the posterior for their personal preferences, which will then take into account the correlations revealed in the population data. This is what we do with http://findmelike.com where we perform the Bayesian update over the user's preferences after every user interaction.
c'mon, it's easy for me in europe to do 400 miles trip without stopping, on highways and no kids of course.

say what you want, albeit cool car, 260 miles is nothing for this category of cars. heading good direction, but not there yet. and if you head into real mountains, where you might end up doing 500-1000m vertical difference to get to some remote places, the batteries will last much less, pushing this super heavy monstrosity upwards.

Useless car for anybody but posh soccer mums. That doesn't mean it won't be popular though :)
Car-free days remind me of the car-free Sundays people tell me about from the 1973 oil-crisis. They used to go cycling on the motorways - wouldn't that be fun to do again?
England might be too densely populated for you but I'm sure you can find hiking trails in the forests/mountains that do not go near roads? There are definitely plenty of those in Austria and Germany, you need to get to their beginning with a train or car but after half an hour walk you can be somewhere secluded, especially if you go during the work week.
>In the city, the most dangerous things are driving next to parked cars (people open doors without looking) and crowded intersections (cars turn without looking).

fucking hell, I remember I was cycling to the gym in London.. CS2 on whitechapel road going west from Bow to Queen Mary university (uni gym) and as I'm cycling, in the cycle lane, with my lights on.. some lads open the rear door of their Mercedes just in time for me to crash into the edge of it.

traffic was stalled so it's not like just he was stopped.. that hurt.. please look when you open your doors drivers.
We're French... If we can't complain about cars, we have to find something else to complain about...
since this service is free, why does it connect to stripe.com when uploading resumes?
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I will guiltily admit that Ctrl+Shift+U is hard coded into my finger DNA - I use Evernote for every meeting, every discussion we have, and quickly creating lists (or getting out of list mode) is actually one thing I like about evernote.
Israel has 1 day per year where there's no car traffic anywhere in the country (yom kipur - no motorized transit of any kind, even trains). It's among some of my fondest memories of childhood, i wish we had something like that in Germany :)

People indeed cycle, roller skate, and skateboard on the highways.
That's limiting, France is also a country with a big poetic history, let's focus on that part :)
(very similar systems are already implemented in Agda and Coq)
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If you're using a Nexus 5X or 6P on Android 6, then probably yes.

Android 5 has full disk encryption but was disabled by default on the Nexus 5 (and most other phones) due to performance issues.
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Isn't the "problem" of the HTML5 clipboard API that you can only access the clipboard during clipboard events, so you can't put stuff in the clipboard on a button click, which is exactly the user-case for this library?
I found the same benefit living here in Trondheim. The city is built for pedestrians -I'm always safe walking. grocery stores and pharmacies are built in locations accessable to walkers, though to get to 'big' stores you'll have to walk a bit. I have normal commute of 30 minutes walking daily. Most times a vehicle wouldn't be any more convenient and I'd still just walk. High fuel prices and vehicle taxes help encourage walking. I never had anything near this in the States. A town of 3000 people was more inconveniently spread out over the landscape, and most streets lacked sidewalks. Laws favor automobile traffic at the expense of pedestrians and cyclists. All of this could be done in many areas in the states, unfortunately it requires a change in zoning regulations, change in laws, and some major investment in infrastructure.
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Somebody here at HN suggested using Zim wiki a while ago
http://zim-wiki.org/

I've been using it ever since. It stores data in plain text files (dokuwiki markup) and in addition the folder structure is mirrored in the note hierarchy. Zim is open, cross-platform, can include Latex-formula, and is extendable with plugins written in Python. I really also like that it is a proper desktop application instead of some webapp that changes UX every now and then, usually to worse, and that is dependent on network connection. After learning the keyboard shortcuts it is really a pleasure to use. Five stars * * * * *

I keep my Zim notebooks (separate NB's for Work and Personal things) in Dropbox for easy syncing between two desktops. Other Win7 and other Ubuntu.

edit: Added mention to Latex, as it might be of interest in this crowd.
In Barcelona (Europe) we have at least two startups in this space:

glovoapp.com and www.stuart.fr

Stuart has not released yet but are hiring quite agressively[1].

I don't think Amazon entering this space means they are dead but quite the opposity. If FLEX enters the European market will make the concierge delivery space grow. And this can only be good for competition.

[1]http://www.jobsbcn.com/?q=stuart
> This is an ironic statement given that your code, as written, is circumvented by subclassing Range and side-stepping its constructor.

You are the second one who says this. I must admit that I do not understand how this would be possible. The properties are not virtual, and not writable for anything but the base constructor. To my knowledge, it's impossible avoid the base classes constructor by subclassing. I'm pretty sure you can actually circumvent the assert, but you would have to use the heavy weapons in the reflection API.

class Range
{
public int From { get; }
public int To { get; }
public Range(int from, int to)
{
Assert(from <= to);
From = from; To = to;
}
}

class LolRange : Range
{
public LolRange() : base(0,1)
{
From = 1; To = 0;
}
}

Error CS0200 Property or indexer 'Program.Range.From' cannot be assigned to -- it is read only
Error CS0200 Property or indexer 'Program.Range.To' cannot be assigned to -- it is read only
Plenty Nexus 5's on Ebay, etc. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5...
We log runtime errors in Slack using a webhook (have an #errors channel which receives a post with a stack trace and useful metadata), then notice patterns in error generation manually, discuss the errors and why they might be happening in Slack, and eventually funnel urgent or important ones into our task management system.

Right now, we don't have a ton of traffic so the errors channel receives a very manageable volume. I imagine this sort of approach would get overwhelming for a product with more concurrent users or more runtime-error-generating code paths.
In the UK, where roundabouts are common, there is an added complication of an inside and outside lane.

If you are taking the third exit (turning right) you have to make your way into the inside lane on entry and back across the outside lane on exit.

Doing this without indicating would cause chaos. As driving standards have worsened over the years this has become an all too frequent problem.
I honestly see little reason for its existence besides speed. R and Python are very well established.
Funny. I find Safari leaps ahead of Firefox, and even further ahead of Chrome, when it comes to browser performance (CPU use, memory footprint, and especially battery life), with snappier scrolling and animations and fewer weird graphical glitches or mouse/keyboard interaction bugs. For my own browsing habits, Firefox is very sluggish, and Chrome is completely unusable: it just can’t handle the load and brings my whole computer to a crawl. The Safari user interface also feels much more platform-native and predictable (though it has unfortunately copied several Chrome UI elements in the last few years, which I think make the basic UI worse than ~5 years ago), and I don’t constantly feel like someone is trying to gather and analyze my keystrokes or sell me out to advertisers. (I don’t have a Windows machine, so I couldn’t tell you what IE is like these days.)

Maybe there’s just a focus on different things between vendors: Google has tons of 20%-time engineers pushing new half-baked features in every direction (yes this is a bit of a caricature), while Apple is taking a more measured approach with a focus on performance and reliability.
All that's changing, though. The younger guys eschew tattoos and finger chopping. Plus, they view drugs as an increasingly important part of the business.

They're being driven slowly underground with changes in the law, and when that process is complete they'll probably be few in number but far more violent.
I'm really not sure how the Model X is going to perform. I really don't think the European market will go for the gull-wing doors. On a sports car yes, but on an SUV? I sincerely doubt it but I'd be happy to be proven wrong if it works well even in our über tight parking spaces and seriously narrow lanes.
Cars are a massively dominating factor in every traffic safety situation.

The number of deaths from bicycle and pedestrian collisions (so, any collision not involving a ton of metal) is on the order of a single death every few years, and it generally involves people that (for lack of a better description) are at a point in life where any injury, just a fall, is very much life-threatening.

The key to reducing traffic deaths is to not have multi-ton cars with power in excess of 50kW crash into squishy humans. There is no amount of polystyrene in the world to diminish the forces involved here.
> This separates programming from verification completely.

This is simply not the case. Significant verification projects always plan for verification and do verification in tandem. This is definitely true for all Dafny projects to date as well. Verification is just so much harder than unverified programming that you generally want to do everything you can while programming to make verification easier. This may become less true as proof automation improves but it will always be a tension.

> But what makes you think you need dependent types to do full specification [...] ?

Also, keep in mind that Dafny and similar tools can only express first order logic; this can significantly restricts the expressiveness of your specification language and intermediate lemmas.

> program logic does not have to be constructive, instead you can use classical reasoning with excluded middle.

This is a silly point. First off proof assistants like Coq aren't inconsistent with the law of the excluded middle (only NuPRL is I believe) so you can always assume it as an axiom if you'd like. Most projects don't do this because constructivism is a benefit not a burden in verification: it allows you to make distinctions that aren't possible in classical logic.

I agree that Dafny and similar projects are very exciting though; Dafny's tight integration with Z3 provides an awesome level of automation that will keep getting better and better.
Haha classic http://i.imgur.com/kzza281.gifv

Might wanna spend more than a few hours.
The Nazis weren't too concerned with legalities
I have also heard the younger ones participate in quite a few scams for moneymaking such as intentional car accidents.
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I wonder is this one reason some in the US Establishment are opposed to Peuto Rico being a state? Since it would probably be 2 Democrats?
Just out of curiosity: what mobile network traffic do you have? Over here in germany, i would certainly kill my free 1 gigabyte per month, even with cache size set to ~ 25 gigabyte.
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>This was before automobile companies finally got all the weak spots out of electric windows.

They still break. Just replacing the switch is over $300 for most cars. I'll stay with my crank windows.
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I'm pretty curious, why is this particular botnet noteworthy? There's a plenty of kids on efnet capable of pushing that
it's about living, not visiting. :\

but yes, I moved to Sweden, the traffic here seems to be much quieter.
Although given the value of Twitter stock bonuses and options a stock price hit does matter.
Ha ha... I'm not against learning preferences at all... I think you misunderstood my comment
Hopefully we will now see some competition in this space, rather than "Evernote" being the answer to "Why aren't you launching?". Though given their finances, I suspect not...

https://transpose.com is an interesting start, but needs a big cash injection to make it better - and suffers from data lock-in again.
We use Airbrake. It also allows us to create errors manually- generally used for logging exceptions from within rescue blocks atm.
I feel like those benchmarks should be redone with modern hardware (x86_64) and a modern microkernel (minix 3.3).

CPU cycles are cheap this days, yet cache misses are even more expensive (need to touch main memory? please wait 300 cycles).
The ethernet adapter using that connector absolutely does not mean it is a USB device. Note that that's a microUSB-B connector, which is not generally used for a host controller. For all we know, the connection between the ethernet adapter and the device is completely proprietary. I'd be willing to bet it's a USB device and they just used a very strange connector setup, but we certainly don't know that just based on the connector.
What tools do you use for Google analytics reporting?
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Even London has parks that are big enough that you don't hear noise. Richmond Park is perfect (it even has free-roaming deer), but even Hyde Park is relatively peaceful in the middle.
This narrow view seems to miss the fact that the world is a complicated place, where mere revulsion frequently isn't sufficient to actually enact meaningful change.

Being in a state of revulsion requires valuable energy. If you spend all your time being revolted, then you won't actually be able make friends and influence people, as it were. PG is in the position that he's got a sphere of influence, and now you chide him for what? Expressing a valuable thing in such a way that he can potentially cause a coherent constructive interference of an important community. I'd say that was quite a good thing. He also used timing to his advantage to get people to listen.

In your post you imply he doesn't think about this regularly, but you have no evidence for this. He could be thinking about this all the time, but we don't get to hear about that.
I hope to join you guys in your fantasy world one day
I am a premium member and I stopped using Evernote when I understood how their versioning works! Seriously, they should rename it to regular backups at 8hr intervals.
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Why's it sketchy? They seem to be highly reviewed; as far as I know a lot have been actually hoping they would finally enter the US market as they sell a lot of nice phones we don't get. It actually seems like they have better quality and use better materials than most of the non Chinese manufacturers
No, you're not alone. It made me feel like I've missed out on the past 30 years of computing, like they never happened like I remember them, or like I'm suddenly in a parallel universe. Quite scary. I guess I sound like that to some people too, some times.
It's called long-press, a touch-screen UI pattern that has been around since at least Pocket PC, carried through on Android, and is only now appearing on iOS. Just like with right click, Apple is late to the contextual menu party.