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The main thing is that it's not just a medical issue, so citing medical studies isn't sufficient. Even if wearing a helmet decreases your injuries 100% of the time (and there are a few counterexamples to that), if a helmet law causes more deaths overall, it's still a bad law.

The main negative effect of helmet laws that I've seen cited is that they reduce the popularity of cycling as a transportation mode, and that can have extremely negative effects on public health (due to increased driving, reduced physical activity, and indirectly as a general damper on pro-cycling sentiment and infrastructure changes).

[I think Australia's helmet law is one of the main examples people talk about.]
It is a little naive considering how many HN reader probably have experience with complex software systems. If someone suggested running oracle on a grid of mainframes using some esoteric programming language we would be naturally sceptical but nuclear power always gets a free ride. Big and complicated is expensive even when it is the best solution on paper.
Yea, sbrk makes sense in a flat address space. I don't think it makes as much sense with virtual memory.
I wear a helmet, because I want my daughter to wear a helmet when she rides and so I set a good example. But I have no idea why anyone believes it's appropriate to make a law about this. Risky behavior that puts others at risk is fair game -- you can't speed in your car, for instance. But to have another adult forcibly stop me, scold me, and fine me if I don't want to put a piece of plastic on my head? That's insane. Same goes for motorcycle helmet laws, seatbelt laws, and drug laws. With that in mind, the premise of the article is flawed. I do not care which policy "saves more lives." I don't care which is safer. If I see another adult riding around without a helmet, the thought doesn't occur to me "Oh no! How unsafe! Won't someone compel him to protect himself?" So should I accept the same sentiment applied to everyone collectively? (And if someone wants to argue that my getting injured imposes a cost on society, blah blah blah ... we're just not going to agree about the responsibilities of the individual to the collective and the role of government therein)
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The type of cycling in Amsterdam is certainly different than what I see here in DC. In Amsterdam, most bikes are the classic "Dutch" style utility bike - slow, stable, and easy to step down/off the bike. Here in DC, cyclists are almost universally on some variant of the "10 speed" - most with drop bars, higher COG, and higher average speeds.

As a cyclist myself, I ride with or without helmet based on conditions. On my road bike or mountain bike? Helmet, always - I've had enough concussions to know I don't want another. My cruiser - usually no helmet, but it's use is almost exclusively below 10mph and on a bike trail, not roads.
100% agree, and this has been very frustrating for me over the last decade or so. Elected reps (in the US, at least) are barely going through the motions of obscuring the quid pro quo any more, and it seems like nobody really cares.
I hope I'm wrong, but on busy bikeways, I can see cyclists feeling annoyed with the new powered interlopers. But, if it gets more people out of bigger vehicles (cars and 1000cc+ motorbikes), this should prove positive.
Most of my friends would be in prison under your idea, and their children would have grown up without their parents, and I fail to see how the world would have been better off that way.

Oh sure, they MIGHT have killed someone because they were a little bit over an arbitrary and always decreasing blood alcohol limit, but they didn't, so I'm not sure what a 10 year prison sentence would accomplish.

I suppose at some point you can create such massive penalties for every possible misdeed that people become too terrified to leave their homes, but I don't want to live in that world.
Agreed, I just finished writing the same thing in many more words before seeing the point had been made.
This is indeed one of the main reasons that modern cycling advocates generally consider helmet laws a bad thing.

Helmet laws make the general public less likely to cycle, and as many would then drive instead, thus have an overall negative effect on public health.
I think you'd be happy with the cleanup procedures for some of these newer reactors. For example, ThorCon and Terrestrial Energy use sealed units they can just ship back to the factory after a few years for decommissioning.
Cheap shot.

I could describe countless communications where the supposed tech-warrior-wizard didn't record accurate notes, didn't listen properly, didn't respond and ... later, this all conspired to ensure that they didn't know what the hell they were talking about.

And don't get me on the customer services staff ... I name no names ... (VODAFONE have completely dropped the customer services ball. It's a disservice).

I actually disagree with the article (from my experience). It's not the communication platforms that are to blame, it's the rigidity of processes and the imprisoning of staff within those processes that are to blame.

I feel sorry for staff and despise the people who design such customer service architecture (at least any I have encountered).
They'll be USB soon :P
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Totally right - I think however it will be a long time before things become so natural - especially with the concept or writing as a whole. I'm sure you'll be able to find specialists with any interface who can perform far faster than even experts on another interface. I'm not being cynical here, but I think the keyboard is an excellent interface right now. Neural feedback and direct thought transcription seems like the most likely thing to replace it, but it also might require far too much attunement. Take all the ways that humans communicate - writing and text have survived as long as they have for a reason.
Anarcho-Capitalist, Right Wing? Not really. All them I know are hard core peacenicks who want to end the drug war and Wall Street bailouts. They're more Nader than Cheney.
>As in many things in life, making a conscious choice to follow your own path is best.

If you've made a conscious choice to follow your own path, why is the path you've found so similar to others?

It's hilarious when non-conformists end up conforming even more.
You can't call something a Show HN unless users can try it out. Signups aren't enough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
way too complicated. the logo was distracting as hell too.
I have been sleeping in a tent for over three years. I go to a library to plug in. I don't have cooking capacity and I get hot meals from eateries. I self identify as homeless and I am fairly poor, but it was a choice. I walked away from a corporate job that was helping to keep me sick. This lifestyle is helping me get well.

There is no heat or electricity in my humble abode. We adjust amount of bedding and other details, depending on weather.

It has been an interesting experience. I want a house again, but I can imagine it being something small and simple with few amenities compared to most conventional housing.

I am still trying to work out those details. But very much enjoyed this article and posted a link to it on my homeless blog.
Come out of the atheist closet already. Good grief man.
I was hoping for Intellectual Ventures.
Can those new reactors compete (on a per kwh basis) against solar and wind? Which are already at ~3.5 cents/kwh?
His patch after review is linked in the last line of the article:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/12/427
For one thing, you're likely to piss off Godzilla.
outside of Syria, you could only argue that the aggression of Russia has been his glaring foreign policy flaw.
Interesting. I commute by bike in SF and see electric skateboards on the street pretty frequently– I'd assumed they were legal.

Anecdotally, their speed seems like a good fit for the bike lane. I keep a pretty good pace on a bike, but still find electric skateboards occasionally passing me (especially if we're both stopped at a light, since their acceleration is a bit better than mine).
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Right, so we're talking about the same NZ, so no cycling-related policy as enacted there should be used as a positive example of how to enable cycling (or cutting off reliance on cars as the only mode of transport, but that's another discussion).

People didn't 'get over' it, there are very few cyclists there (rightfully, because you'd have to be insane to drive a bicycle for e.g. the commute through Hamilton I used to have, which is not even a big or busy city, although in terms of distance it would have been perfectly fine). All these things exacerbate each other - the lack of bike lanes, the lack of awareness by car drivers, compulsory helmet wearing, lack of supply of suitable bicycles and supplies, lack of legal protection of cyclists, ...

Bike helmets are not just vanity a problem:

- where do you put your helmet when you arrive?
- ho do you prevent looking unsightly after you arrive? Hair gets smashed, sweat builds up, helmets and straps leave impressions on your face, ...
- additional cost and general cognitive overhead

All in all, bicycle helmets have very few benefits, benefits which are absolutely negated by their negative consequence - especially having helmets being required by law.
The fact that this is not specific to a certain type of cancer is quite amazing.

This paragraph captures it pretty well:

"In collaboration, the two university research groups have tested thousands of samples from brain tumors to leukemias and a general picture emerges to indicate that the malaria protein is able attack more than 90% of all types of tumors. The drug has been tested on mice that were implanted with three types of human tumours. With non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the treated mice’s tumours were about a quarter the size of the tumours in the control group. With prostate cancer, the tumours disappeared in two of the six treated mice a month after receiving the first dose. With metastatic bone cancer, five out of six of the treated mice were alive after almost eight weeks, compared to none of the mice in a control group."

The first link you provided seems related, in the sense that the OP link is what was sought after in the linked submission.
That still ties it to a physical VM host doesn't it - what happens if you want to host the VM in a cluster and have it migrate?
Actually I think I sent maybe 4 texts last month. That's been entirely subsumed by Facebook messenger and whatsapp.
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Why do you think Canada hasn't built a nuclear power reactor in 30 years? [0]

If Canada's system is better, then there must be another problem here that's shared with the US and Canada. Since neither is actively expanding nuclear power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Canada#Curren...
It's been funny to watch the various phy standards converge in feature-space (alas, not interop-space) over time. PCI got a packet architecture with addresses and routing and credit-based flow control, USB got a packet architecture with addresses and routing and credit-based flow control, SATA said "screw it, we'll just become PCI-e, because they have packets and routing and flow control," and thunderbolt basically is PCI-e...

Unfortunately I think Ethernet might be too fragmented to ever take the convergence to its logical conclusion. But who knows. If someone high on the food chain at Intel wakes up on the other side of the bed one day it could happen.
I know that this was originally posted as a write-up by the New York Times, but I figured it would be nice to have a look at the actual paper. This goes in-depth on the various approaches taken, which may be of more interest to some people here.
They're not useless. Except sometimes they are.

I have to give estimates all the time. They're estimates, but they're in the ballpark.

But recently, I had to give an estimate for porting some software to a new environment. I knew it was going to present me with a bunch of obstacles, and I didn't know what the obstacles were, or how long each one would take. I didn't even know how many obstacles there would be.

I didn't want to give an estimate for that. They made me give them one anyway. I did, but I knew that no reliance whatsoever could be placed on the estimate. Whereas other tasks, estimates were close to "bet the company on it" solid.
Thanks for your feedback! Just to make sure we can act on your feedback: Do you mean the first diagram is distracting or which logo are you referring to? If you would make the change, what would you improve?
It's not much for a late-stage company.
> no other failure of tech comes close

Chernobyl killed 56 people directly. The full lifespan of the radioactive leak is statistically estimated to result in shortening the lifespan of roughly 4,000 people through cancer[0].

If you can't think of a more deadly technology failure incident, then you're horribly undereducated. You don't even need to go beyond the scope of electricity production to find incidents that were orders of magnitude more deadly. The Banqiao Dam hydro power station catastrophically failed and killed an estimated 171,000 people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_...
For those wanting some more background on Keys in general I made a timeline [1] There's also a good discussion of the sentencing guidelines here [2].

[1]http://newslines.org/matthew-keys/
[2]https://popehat.com/2015/10/08/bad-reporting-on-matthew-keys...
One of the comments on the original article nails it. The real problem is conflating "estimates" with "deadlines" or "commitments". You see it with the casual replacement of "story estimating" with "story sizing" in our language. "Sizing" implies a degree of certainty that may not be there.

Estimating is most definitely useful. But you have to fight every step of the way to keep an estimate from becoming a "promise". Promises that can't be kept are not good for any of the parties involved and lead to things like developer burnout, poor quality, technical debt, surreptitiously reduced scope, lack of trust...it goes on and on.
Onthe software side, the Arduino programming environment now supports the ESP8266. This makes it very easy to start playing.

One hint - to program, reboot with the programming pin (GPIO0) grounded, but take it back to 3.3V before you start programming. That took me a couple of hours to figure out.
Producing a crappy interpreter for a toy C-like language is about the same as producing a crappy interpreter for a toy Lisp language.

C did turned into a Tower of Babel: in the libraries. For instance Win32 is essentially one language, POSIX another. Portability among Unix systems alone used to be a mess of #ifdef directives through the 1980's and 1990's.
'Layer 8 error' is a good one for that, based off the OSI 7-layer network model.
This argument? Which exactly? There are multiple to choose here, and I'm not seeing how they apply to motorcycle helmet laws.

In any case, the helmet discussion is a silly one. You wouldn't argue that the victims in a school shooting should have been wearing bullet-proof vests. I mean, I'm sure there are studies on the remarkable efficacy of bullet-proof vests when faced with bullet impact, and clearly everyone of us should wear one. But we don't, because we fully understand that a much more sane course of action is to make sure there are no high-powered bullets hitting school kids.

Similarly, when faced with the impact of a 2 ton car at speed into squishy flesh it is a hopeless task to effectively diminish the forces involved with a piece of styrofoam. The clear factor in traffic mortality is the presence of machines with enough power to satisfy the electricity demands of a suburb street. There is no solution that doesn't involve eliminating the source of danger.
>The best possible tax scheme for poor people would be a simple flat tax that is impossible for rich people to avoid.

You're looking at the wrong end of the telescope. It's really not that difficult to look at a tax table and cross-reference your income, so a flat tax is a very minor improvement.

Where every tax system gets tripped up is in determining what qualifies as income. People who manage to avoid taxes aren't somehow lowering their rates; they're getting inflows of money excluded from the "income" accounting box.

It's not an easy problem to deal with, either - states have been trying for centuries. Most of the write-offs individuals and corporations take are perfectly reasonable for some situations and very much abused in others. As you try to prevent abuse you end up with a tax code that's so complicated there are more ambiguous "gray areas" for people to take advantage.
I work for a law firm. We have this in place, and people use it to schedule meetings, or ask a call back, or even detailed questions.
Generally, yes, very much so.

Technically, no. Artificial hydro (more commonly known as pumped storage) means you can essentially store energy in gravity, anywhere. i.e. build a container at an elevated position, pump water into it using intermittent energy (e.g. wind at night, excess solar etc), drop water down through a turbine to generate electricity again to provide a low baseload.

The reality is that 1) this is hugely expensive and so generally pumped storage is restricted to exploit existing natural resources with lots of elevated mountains between which one can store ridiculous volumes of water rather than build your own giant water container.

So generally hydro is limited to existing water resources (e.g. large rivers), or storage resources (e.g. mountains) which are quite limited.
Can I have the reverse? IP over USB at USB 3.x speeds?
It's unfortunate that the text of this included power and speed limit caps in the definition of an electric skateboard. It's not as if cars are defined as only moving under 65 mph and having 120 horsepower. This seems deeply myopic and it's disappointing for Boosted and others to have helped these provisions get cast into law in a state that limits future development and defines unnecessarily conservative limits on performance.

"An “electrically motorized board” is any wheeled device that has a floorboard designed to be stood upon when riding that is not greater than 60 inches deep and 18 inches wide, is designed to transport only one person, and has an electric propulsion system averaging less than 1,000 watts, the maximum speed of which, when powered solely by a propulsion system on a paved level surface, is no more than 20 miles per hour."
1. Aah, makes sense.

2. The similarity with openshift is due to their Marketplace [1], but it pretty much ends there. Sandstorm as well for much the same reason (easy deployments of premade services).

3. Mmhm, makes sense.

As for documentation changes, please highlight what improvements your product makes to the status quo! The 'DEEP for Developers' section tells me that it adds abstraction on top of AWS' model services, but beyond that, I don't see any improvement to working on the bare metal, so to speak. Like, Sandstorm [2] (sorry, just heard about them so they're on my mind right now) says that they handle authentication themselves. That's wonderful; I hate reimplementing auth for every project! Or even PyPy [3]: I _could_ use CPython, but their product runs faster and uses less memory. Why should I bother to learn DEEP and add another level of dependency to a project?

[1]: https://marketplace.openshift.com

[2]: https://sandstorm.io/#developers

[3]: http://pypy.org/
While I love the way IG presents its content, I really hate sifting through 15 @natgeo images (don't judge me..) before I get back to my friends' posts.

I do want to see the images from the people/companies I follow, but shit... Can I just have a diverse enough feed to so I can see what my friends are up to?

Now that FB owns IG, hopefully they'll do something about it.
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And ESP8266 is now supported by the Arduino IDE. See https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
You mean hundreds of GOP representatives did not sign a pledge written by a philosphical leader who wants to "drown the government in a bathtub" Are these the same Republicans who when asked in debates what they'll do as president talk mostly about bulking up the military and buying more jets and ships? Or who want to spend more getting involved in wars or building walls?

If you look at Paul Ryan's budget it's pretty easy to conclude the opposition is run by idiots.

And if you want to straw man you opponents, how about calling them Marxists, doubt they're even American, claim they don't love America, that they're tearing up the constitution, that stuff they've done that every other gop president has done is "unprecedented" The GOP has been hyperbolically twisting Obama policies since day 1 stoking up fear. "death panels"? Coming to grab you guns?
Hydro doesn't have to be large scale. If you can have small-scale wind and solar, you can have small-scale pumped storage, too.
god damn it. Fuck parking tickets and everything they stand for. I'd rather live in parking anarchy.
Not that insane considering many people are using things like Babel to run ES6/7 code. If you're already compiling that code to ES5 for production, there's no harm in also minifying things.
You need to make it much more clear that you are not renting out public parking spaces (like spaces on the street, for example).
There's a good chance it'd be cheaper than coal. Which is a better comparison, since they'd be dispatchable power. For wind and solar to be dispatchable they need to add overproduction and storage, which increases their cost significantly.

In any case, if wind and solar outcompete nuclear on a level playing field, fine. The nuclear startups just want the opportunity to try.
There's also still a 20km exclusion zone, apparently to remain in place for 30 years.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/11/...
You hit on another really important point actually. Part of why it has taken me so long to get off my butt to buy the parts has been agonizing over materials, all the different ways I can assemble it, etc. I not only have newfound respect for landscapers and carpenters, but realized that to some degree, you just need to pick an approach with the understanding you might mess things up and it isn't the end of the world. But it is very easy to fall into the "paralysis by analysis" trap.

For me it was first the debate about cedar vs. redwood vs. pine. Pine doesn't last well and the cedar options at Home Depot were pitiful so that made the choice for redwood easy. I worked out that wood screws were probably easier than rebar or railroad ties to install even if it does mean a higher risk of the thing coming apart. I can always reinforce it with metal L-brackets at the corners down the line if I need to. Since I'm going to grow veggies, I needed to make sure there was nothing toxic, so I got raw untreated wood. I may or may not stain the outside with a natural stain, but I'll start by seeing how it looks once I sand it down.

The most frustrating thing in all of this is that I can find plenty of pictures for what I want online, but most sites are crappy fluff content without handy details of parts or considerations for how to build it. Clear SEO spam plays and oh my god so many interstitials and slideshows! Instructables was actually pretty decent, but I couldn't find a style of bed I liked.

I guess I just need to do more of these projects to get more comfortable with the considerations. Like all things, practice makes perfect, and after I build this first prototype I'll decide if I want to do the same style for the others.

Next up...figuring out my soil mix and then sorting out how to convert the old irrigation system the previous owner had at the house to a drip system on a few of the heads and get that running into the beds.