skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does this make any more sense for bikes than for cars? This seems to be an argument for why the current rules for stop signs are wrong because there is an "obvious" set of cases where someone shouldn't have to stop.

Isn't the problem when the two parties disagree about who got to the intersection first?
Honestly I might not mind being unable to control the vehicle as long as I could adjust the temperature with a hardware control.
This is a very bad idea! It'll cause far more accidents as the result. You'll have some crazy bicyclist who'll fully ignore the stop sign and fly through them.

What you describe is illegal now and will remain illegal if this law is passed.

The proposal is for cyclists to be able to yield, but not fully stop, if it is safe for them to do so. Blindly flying through an intersection at full speed is and will remain illegal.
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> I don't consent to any form of non-necessary irradiation, regardless of the quantity.

TV, radio, cell towers...
I hear you loud and clear. But that is what sort of happened:

I figured out I could built simple CRUDS in minutes (literally) using scaffolding, and may a couple hours of editing for special cases.

But I got bored, and went to look for what I could do differently. How to make it "smoother". I'm sure scaffolding and quickly generating CRUD with SPA's will happen soon enough and we will move on to something like "pure browser functions" using links and changing pages statefully.
You never ride on highways? How do you get anywhere?
If you limit to just that, then there's no benefit over 10 lines of Ruby and Nokogiri.
Initial story I've submitted a few days ago (worth read as well)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10388019
Great explanation and very interesting project.
I love it. It works great. Use it with https://github.com/rollup/rollup-babel for a complete es6 build.
I never assume HN commenters are idiots. That's the very reason I hang out here - I learn a lot from what people say in this place.

Having said that, this thread is dominated by commenters who refuse to do the math. X-rays sound scary but they aren't death rays; if you add up the numbers you'll see that it's not even worth to talk about them here. There's higher probability they'll harm someone by introducing more cars onto streets.

EDIT: oh, I forgot. The Chart: https://xkcd.com/radiation/.
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He says he himself that he's barely at home, except to sleep. He's out on the town a lot. He also hopes to travel a lot, and views this experience as a way for him to become comfortable with unusual situations that he'd experience globally. Given all that, how would living in a truck cause him to have fewer fond memories?
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Yeah I've been hit multiple times by bikers ignoring pedestrians in the city, thankfully no injuries.

One time the biker got pissed at me, when he had a red and was making a turn in the wrong direction at night. He and the biker in front of him didn't slow down at all. I narrowly missed the first biker and paused when the next guy hooked me with his handlebar.
Same thing most cars do, at least where I live. If there's no cross traffic, nobody comes to a complete dead stop at a stop sign.
Is it possible that quieter cars (without combustion engines) simply seem squeakier?
Just a warning for any other contributors, at the moment the changeset that WheelMap posts to OSM puts a huge bounding box on the map which makes it really hard for other OSM users to see what's been changed.

https://github.com/sozialhelden/wheelmap/issues/29
Wow..incredible. Thanks. Like a vastly more detailed http://www.amazon.com/The-Timetables-History-Horizontal-Link... -- more simultaneous dimensions, esp. geo dimensions, would also be useful.
Vaping was the only way that worked for me. I smoked cigarettes for 20 years and tried patches, nicotine gum, lozenges, and medications. Vaping did it. I worked my way down from 24mg and eventually stopped a few weeks after I had been on 0mg.

I have ZERO desire to ever smoke again. It's been about 4 years now and I'm still not (nor ever plan to be) an asshole ex-smoker telling other people to quit. Cigarette smoke still smells delicious though and I tell smokers when I'm near enough to smell it:)

Good luck. I don't think you'll have a problem.
I was thinking that: why didn't he buy a Winnebago?
There are motor vehicles that are barred from freeways.

From: http://vespamotorsport.com/?p=654

In California, any scooter with 150cc of displacement or more is legally classified as a “motorcycle” and all motorcycles are freeway legal (see California vehicle code section 400). Any scooter with less than 150cc of displacement is not freeway legal, therefore, even though you still need a motorcycle license to ride a scooter in this class.
> By your reasoning, it would be OK for the police to take a few pennies here and there from large bank accounts.

By my reasoning it's ok for the police to drive around in their cars even though they add up to traffic, which costs a lot of people some pennies lost in gasoline and opportunity cost.

The only reason we're talking about it is because "radiation" sound scary while other things, like "time lost in increased traffic" do not. At the levels of danger we're talking about here we should not be bringing concept of people's rights, lest we want to also regulate disagreeing in Internet comments because of increased heart attack risk from stress.
I think they can legally fingerprint you and use that to unlock the phone but they cannot force you to reveal your password because you would be forced to incriminate yourself. (If you did in fact commit a crime)
There are many differences. This is in the "beating a dead horse" category of argument because the difference between driving up to an intersection and biking up to one is so intuitively different if you've done both of them. But here are some reasons off the top of my head of why it is safer to yield through a stop sign on a bike vs a car:

1) On a bike you are much more towards the middle of the intersection so there is more space between you and people potentially entering the intersection from the sides, so you have more reaction time to deal with them

2) Your cross section is really tiny and entirely in front of you so there is no risk of hitting something you don't see

3) You have a much better field of view because you aren't obstructed by your car interior

4) You can use your sense of hearing to listen for cars/ pedestrians / other dangers

5) You are going much more slowly
I'm glad Exacycle exists, but the tasks at which it excels are indeed not tasks for which supercomputers are usually employed. The things that are easy for a PI to pay for with Visa are generally not the things that are interesting to do with supercomputers. I see where you're coming from with the DOE stuff, though; those guys are all about high-visibility "status" computing, and I don't really find that scene appealing either.

I'm not sure what you consider a supercomputer, if you don't consider a petaflops machine with a 3PB filesystem and >50Gb/s i/o "supercomputing." I guess we'll just have to disagree.
It's a great idea to regulate click-bait. I wonder if others find it to be click-bait though. The title represents the gist of the article. Click-bait would be a title far removed from the actual arguments or content in the article, IMO.
Grail, a web browser written in Python (1996)
I've been using a Samsung Series 9 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0082PZ1JU) with Linux for about three years and I've been very happy with the laptop.

All the special function keys work, battery life is good, sleep works, etc. The only imperfection is that after I close the lid and it goes to sleep, when I reopen it, it forgets that I've disabled the trackpad, so I have to press the function button that disables the trackpad each time it comes back from sleep (I use an external mouse).
> Granted most places don't have bike lanes but IMO you shouldn't be on a road where the speed limit is 45 and you're blocking a line of cars.

Then appeal for that to be made the law. Otherwise what are you doing deciding who should and shouldn't be on the road? Usually 45 mph roads are 2-lane, there is a perfectly serviceable extra lane for all the car drivers in a hurry.

> The other day everyone was patiently waiting to get around this guy going 15mph on his bicycle, and once we did, at the next stop sign he just cruised to the stop sign in the 2 foot space between the cars and the curb and blocked slowed down even more cars.

You were probably driving too close to him (with your rant, I wouldn't be surprised) and pushed him into that space.

> If you want to share the road you should be held to the same standards. Bicycles yielding at stop signs isn't right.

I agree, on a road that is open to both motorists and cyclists, no one should be forced to ride in the narrow space between the rightmost lane and the curb. Cyclists should be given the use of a specific lane, just like all other vehicles.
I've never known a VW owner that has not had electrical problems within the first 5 years of ownership. Just my own data point.
Golang SPA framework
I kept getting asked in different IRC channels how to use Go with various frontend frameworks, so I decided to throw together an extremely minimal (clean) prototyping framework. It uses Go on the backend and a basic webpack config for frontend build toolchain. It has simple config and endpoint support.

I don't know how useful it is to anyone but it is the same pattern I have used for several React based web applications in production.

Constructive criticism and feature requests welcome :D

https://github.com/huoy/moon
Can you give more details on how this works? I just tried and couldn't get it.
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Not only is your rant off-topic, so is your conclusion. You just rattled off a whole list of irritants that have nothing to do with bicycles yielding at stops.
You should also be wary to chose the new place carefully, there are many areas on Earth where the background radiation is higher than in NY with a scan-van on every corner working constantly.
I'm hoping this could save me some work.

A few questions, if founders are still around:

-Can you cache pages / download entire sites?
-If caching, can you detect changes on a given schedule, trigger the extraction "pageFunction" and save versioned data?

-How do you handle errors?

-Will you handle database extractions and other sites that require multiple levels of what you have as pseudo-URLs?
For the question "What are some of the best books to learn from that you recommend for a young startup founder?", I decided to transcribe the answers.

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"Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" - http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804...

"Republic" - http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Hackett-Classics-Plato/dp/087... (classic, feel free to grab a PDF)

"The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" - http://www.amazon.com/Principia-Mathematical-Principles-Natu... (classic, feel free to grab a PDF)

"Thinking, Fast and Slow" - http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...

"Molecular Biology of the Cell" - http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Bruce-Alberts/d... (different edition, forgive me; free through NCBI, thanks jkimmel!)

"Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" - http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/...

"The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer" - http://www.amazon.com/Supermen-Seymour-Technical-Wizards-Sup... (note: "that one's particularly good")

"Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories" - http://www.amazon.com/Hateship-Friendship-Courtship-Loveship...

"The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership" - http://www.amazon.com/Score-Takes-Care-Itself-Philosophy/dp/...

"The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" - http://www.amazon.com/Beak-Finch-Story-Evolution-Time/dp/067...

"The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison" - http://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-Convention-Narrative-Hi...

"The Art Of War for Lovers" - http://www.amazon.com/The-ART-WAR-FOR-LOVERS/dp/0671000632 (fixed! sorry about that...)

"Hold 'em Poker: For Advanced Players" - http://www.amazon.com/Hold-em-Poker-Advanced-Players/dp/1880...

"Solution Selling: Creating Buyers in Difficult Selling Markets" - http://www.amazon.com/Solution-Selling-Creating-Difficult-Ma...

"The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition" - http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antarc...

"Winning" - http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Jack-Welch/dp/0060753943/

I wish he had answered in text. That would have made things easier :) However, I'm still very happy to have some new additions to my reading list!
Some extra links.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail_%28web_browser%29

Code on Github: https://github.com/mdoege/grailbrowser

CNRI on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_National_Resea...

CNRI about page: http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/about_cnri.html
I'm an American (San Francisco) visiting Saigon right now for work. The traffic is insane and the air quality here is horrid (even indoors!). I've been avid cyclist my entire life and motorcyclist for the past 10 years. I use either one in SF almost every day of the week.

Everyone here rides scooters and motorcycles. There is almost zero 'law' when it comes to moving around (walking, biking, car or moto). People drive on the sidewalks, wrong way, don't stop, 2 people a baby and a lawn mower, etc. The amazing thing is that while I'm sure there are a lot of accidents (although I have yet to see one personally), in general things _just seem to work_.

I've rented a moto here and experienced the flow first hand both by myself and with locals. I actually feel much safer on two wheels than while playing frogger trying to cross a street on foot.

I also felt safer here on a moto than I do in SF, simply because the culture here is to accept the insanity and not fight it. In SF the 'us' vs. 'them' argument has gotten so out of control that I feel like many people in cars literally have put a target on my back. I get none of that attitude here in Saigon and it is refreshing.

So if SF wants to let cyclists yield at stop signs because it is actually safer for the cyclist, then let them do it. If you hit the cyclist with your car because they did something stupid, you aren't going to get hurt and you won't be liable (just like before this rule). Many other places in the world have already figured this out and are working just fine.
This is just more evidence supporting the claim, which has already been persuasively argued elsewhere, [0] that fingerprints are usernames, not passwords.

[0] http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
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It wasn't thrown around to scare people, it was used because it's accurate. I fail to see how my statement is inaccurate considering by your own admission there are indeed several (3) orders of magnitude difference.

The point I was trying to make was saying that it's some negligible number is wrong. By your own handy reference, it's the equivalent of 2 Dentist x-rays.

The dentist at least has the decency to put a lead bib over you.
No email should ever be sent from a do-not-reply return address. Ever. You have no idea how much email I get because some idiot used my email address to sign up for something/order something/whatever.

To this I'd also add: Always confirm email addresses. Every time someone signs up for an account, send a confirmation email with an easy means of notifying you that I'm not the person who signed up for the account. So few do this.
There won't be any self-driving on-demand cars in 8 years. Maybe 28.
Fundamental ethics are not subjective. Is murder subjective? A live human disappears from existence by force, how is that subjective? Now, murder something of that live person, say, make him handicapped by force. Is that subjective? You will now claim that it is subjective, because the person is at least alive. No. It is still not subjective. Now, take it further down the food chain. Steal something from a person. Bully him. Curse him. Make his life miserable. All subjective? Nothing is subjective here. The fundamental ethics filters down to the common ethics. If one is subjective, they are all subjective. But you will be hard pressed to prove a murder to be subjective. So, none of the ethics are subjective.
I'm sorry, but if someone were being forced to eat thousands of bananas a day, people would be pretty outraged.

I'm all for keeping this about privacy, but don't dismiss the health stuff. Dentists still give you a lead bib to protect against x-rays (2doses worth according to XKCD), so yeah, don't dismiss it.
This is great! Do you mind if we add it to the HashFav Page? We will credit you.
I don't own the Echo, might be something I would consider buying at some point.

I do have access to WolframAlpha but haven't yet taught her how to use it - maybe it's a bit early for her, I'll give it a go.
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I don't mind at all. Glad to be of service.
HN is a commercial website. In addition to the links promoting YC, they also post job listings for YC related companies.
I can think of a single highly popular counter example which used 100% wireless power over several miles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio

RFID are often a short range example of the same idea.

So, it's less that wireless power is useless As it is
modern devices needing lots of power.
How can you do that? Are you sure your not just engaging touch id? I tried it with my thumb, which 'unlocked'. Then I tried again with my fingernail, which didn't unlock it.
I see big companies do this all the time. It's annoying. Even a support@ that gives me a ticket number out of ZenDesk is better than no-reply@
This is interesting. You have to add an extra filter to make a camera stop seeing infrared. How it was determined thermal devices aren't generally available?
I've been at my current company for 4 years, however I'm on my 3rd completely different position and in my current one I've grown into a different role than when I started it. My salary is over 150% than when I started

It's not about time in company as long as you're constantly growing and expanding your knowledge
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jghn, that's a really good point! It's awesome that you've had the opportunity to keep evolving your role at your company.
Buying a house in the Bay Area is an investment that you should only do if you absolutely believe that there's not a technological bubble and that tech companies in the area will continue to pay the highest salaries in the world for the next 30 years.
FWIW I've had this same question in an interview years ago in Australia. Don't recall seeing the second part (which is more interesting, mathematically), but it just goes to show how many questions end up re-used by different companies as their employees travel.
Along those same lines, cyclists should remember that they have both considerably more mass and velocity than the average unprotected pedestrian.
A most creative chaos it seems.
>> "...technically impossible for them to betray their customers' trust..."

Impossible is a very strong word in this context. Let me take the opportunity to remind everyone that an iPhone is a very complicated device running nearly 100% closed source hardware and software, include all sorts of opaque cryptographic hardware and a known-to-be-compromised secondary baseband computer, such that the security of the device's entire stack, top-to-bottom, could not possibly be verified by a third party in principle, let alone in practice.

In light of that fact, security claims by Apple could be regarded as changing (reducing?) the probability of the law getting your data by technical means or collusion with Cupertino, but certainly not as insuring that the probability = 0.

Edit: This is not an indictment of Apple per se, since the same is true of literally every smartphone ever constructed, but at least e.g. Blackberry isn't out there claiming that they're unable to compromise your data, full stop.
> ... providing the Verizon employee with a fabricated employee Vcode ... got the information they were seeking. This included Brennan’s account number, his four-digit PIN, the backup mobile number on the account, Brennan’s AOL email address and the last four digits on his bank card.

What's the use case for giving out the PIN? Seems like some elements of the account holder's record should be revealed to no one by default and only accept input and give confirmation. Perhaps the default behavior should be not to trust the support team with this information.
You couldn't. But if they advertised their process of how they do it technically, especially the no server part, then the likelihood is far less.

It would be better than 23andme saying that they store it forever in their T&C, and advertise how great it is that it's in their servers basically forever.
This is the worst idea ever. While you should never expect a bicyclist to follow laws, this will make them even more unpredictable, and give them a feeling of entitlement.
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Ask HN: Why 3d printer manufacturing startups are not getting funded in India?
I work for a fast growing 3D printer manufacturing startup specialised in FDM printers in India. We tried getting in touch with a few investors but none of they are interested in investing considering it's a disruptive technology and vast potential in India as there are few competitors.
Also, isn't what you have now click-bait because it doesn't represent what the article is about?
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Seeing the number of other cyclists that just blow through lights and stop signs, I'm pretty sure that the majority of them must not even know that they're supposed to stop.

There are a few bike specific lights on my route to work and the number of cyclists that stop at these intersections is astronomically higher than at other, equally busy intersections.
I enforced rules would still play a part in accident litigation. If a bike blew through a stop sign, he might me more liable compared to if he was allowed to simply yield. No cop will ticket it but a lawyer would include that in court.
I agree some of the facts but not the conclusion.
The article looks bias and smells like an advertise pieces when I reach the bottom.
Does he mean doing what Galois did [1][2] with tools like CRYPTOL [3][4]? Or something more like this [5] with EasyCrypt and CompCert? Or something simpler like Altran's SPARK crypto [6]? And maybe with protocol-level verification like miTLS [7]?

I don't think there's a question about whether the goals can be met so much as a lack of uptake of methods and tools that meet them. Uptake and improvement on their capabilities, that is. So go for it people. :)

[1] https://www.acsac.org/2012/workshops/law/pdf/Launchbury.pdf

[2] https://galois.com/blog/2012/03/verifying-ecc-implementation...

[3] http://www.cps-vo.org/file/19230/download/59388

[4] http://www.cryptol.net/

[5] https://www.easycrypt.info/trac/raw-attachment/wiki/BibTex/C...

[6] http://www.adacore.com/press/spark-skein/

[7] https://www.mitls.org:2443/downloads/miTLS-report.pdf
Don't call yourself unemployed - you're a freelancer working on various projects (and make sure you put them in github, etc.)