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Here is something that will help you as a cyclist, pedestrian or pretty much anything else except transportation where you're boxed in: learn how to fall. Take some judo classes and learn how to control how you hit the ground, that's everything there is to it short of blunt impact against a lamp post or something like that. If you can roll with a fall rather than simply absorbing the energy with impact or abrasion then you're much more likely to walk away from an accident either entirely unharmed or maybe with some minor injuries. It always surprises me how terribly bad people are at something as basic as falling, which we all do at least several times in our lives and which when handled badly can cause injury or death. Falling with some grace is a very important skill to have.

Also: when you're older your bones will take much less abuse before they break than when you're younger so be more careful when you get older.

Helmets on bikes: if it makes you feel better: wear one. Don't make them compulsory because the statistics are not clear-cut that wearing a helmet is a good thing in more than 50% of the cases. For kids, probably better, if you're in-experienced or insecure, probably better. If you're an adult, know your bike and you're not going for some kind of record you should have the option to cycle without.
Well, I do wear a helmet while skiing - largely because I witnessed an accident where a stationary skier was hit on the head by a flailing T-bar.
But they benefit lawyers, and since they get to dispense legal advice ...
This is a complete non-sequitur.

One statement: Bike helmet laws do not help rider safety.
Another statement: If you, the individual, crash, then wearing a helmet can save your life.

These are not contradictory.
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From a Dutch perspective the comments are hilarious.
That really frustrates me. I'm running a Dreamplug [1] as one of the main boxes on my network. The second USB port has died and it's really starting to show its age.

The Gigabyte board would give me enough SATA ports and grunt to run a decent NAS - I think it'd give the C2750 from Intel a run for its money, power wise.

Your linked article has a comment suggesting the Gigabyte board retails for 987 Euros. Jeebus.

[1]: https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.a... ($50+ JTAG boards... yay! /s)
That's horrifyingly nasty. Between this, the cowspiricy documentary, new studies surrounding meat consumption and cancer I'm strongly considering becoming a vegetarian again.
Basically this. I think that we are in a very awkward time right now, where are we understand how things work mainly in a read-only degree, but are just finally turning on write access.

The next genetic leaps in the next century are going to be stratospheric.

Regarding the headline of this article, if anything, the past century has been great for keeping death at bay and promoting life when it otherwise would not have thrived, but I don't think there will be a major shift in evolution from this because there won't be enough time for it to manifest vs the changes we're about to institute via the above paragraph.
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> I assume they transfer it to local storage first before signing it so that a potentially malicious storage device can't pull a switcheroo.

In the article they mention it doesn't have local storage. It's too bad they didn't go into more detail about tamper proofing the USB portion of the ceremonies.

> This laptop has no battery, hard disk, or even a clock backup battery, and thus can’t store state once it’s unplugged.
Are we reading about the same case?

> charges of operating a complicated scheme that allegedly defrauded Medicare of upwards of $40 million.

> federal government moved to freeze not only her “tainted” assets, meaning those assets that can be arguably traced back to the alleged underlying crime; but the federal government also moved to freeze Luis’ undisputedly legitimate assets, which amount to some $15 million that cannot be connected in any way to any alleged criminal activity.

> Luis v. United States raises significant questions about both the scope of the Sixth Amendment and the reach of federal asset forfeiture law.

> According to the federal government, because all of Luis’ assets could be subject to forfeiture if she is ultimately convicted, federal prosecutors should not be stopped from freezing all of her “forfeitable” assets before she goes on trial.
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1. Homejoy

2. Theranos

3. Doordash

4. DraftKings/FanDuel

5. Fab

6. Evernote

7. ...
See also this recent Economist article [1] on a new species, the coywolf, found in North America and their comments on the difficulty of deciding if it is, in fact, a new species. And associated HN discussion [2].

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2167718...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10475739
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If it had, it would totally have been in the news. That I knew what parent was talking about exactly goes to show that they don't happen that often. I'm not really a fan of Jack in the Box, but 1993 is when I graduated HS, for crying out loud.
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OneLook Reverse Dictionary [1]. I use it all the time and it's helped me with coming up with domain names.

[1]: http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
Yes, but even cheap digital voltmeters (this one is analog) would not work well for high frequencies and does not measure power, a volt meter is simply the wrong tool for the job.
If you're referring to overweight people, people with diabetes or with heart disease don't necessarily look overweight.

I also don't believe that appearance affects chances to pass on your genes. The ability to have sex does. But people with a lower than average appearance score (lets say), have the option of having sex with other people having the same problem. This also bypasses the fact that human beings are very complex animals, capable of falling in love with pretty much anything, including a piece of fiction and that when looking for a partner we also end up looking at other traits.

And please forgive me for my political incorrectness, but as an anecdotal experience, from what I've noticed the people that are breeding a lot (you know, the communities where families of 6 children or more are common place), well those people are downright ugly on average. Which makes sense, given that the people that are breeding a lot are usually the poor and they are ugly and in bad shape mostly due to not having access to health-care. Yet when it comes to having sex, they don't seem to care.
Urban commuters and casual bikers in Holland who wear helmets: approximately 0. I don't know what would happen if they made helmets mandatory, but subjectively, needing to put on safety equipment to go to the supermarket three blocks away, or to the pub, is a significant difference in convenience and ease. Mostly because you need to keep the helmet somewhere. In Holland this would likely mean a table for six at the pub has five helmets on or near it. Might be a small problem in the grand scale but it would be annoying.
Supply and demand -> They can charge more for less.
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15:38 per hour of showtime + 2 minute of re-runs in some programs. Netflix got zero, just enjoy your movie.

Looks like cable companies are still in denial phase. How about ad-free versions of their channels?
Which is odd, because in my world ssds in laptops will lose power, but ssds in servers are on UPS, so will be shut down gracefully
I recoil from this idea as it pushes further in the direction of free play homogenized games. Cloud graphics seems like a subscriptions based nightmare, or a world where the game no longer works after 5 years as the cloud services no longer exist.

Maybe it will go this way, but I don't have to like it.
"if whatsapp usage is so pervasive at other countries as it is at Brazil, it will soon, by (physical) social network effect, dominate USA."

By using this logic, WeChat should also dominate USA - which is not happening. It's still interesting to me that WeChat is not more popular, considering its superior (for me) experience over WhatsApp.
I'm not saying those things aren't cheaper for bigger players, but that the playing field is more level online than it is off, at least in part because the production cost per unit is much, much less. I have yet to see the advertising that benefits from petabytes of data such that it isn't 'crude and lacking focus'. A lot of it has a focus, but it's often a nonsensical one.
good replacement for TK1. Hope we start seeing tablets with X1 soon. And looking forward to Pascal next year!
This Xcode project does absolutely nothing. Am I missing something?
Having known someone who died to a head injury from falling down from a standing position; speed matters little, other than giving you more time to react. Just the acceleration from gravity is enough to fuck your head up pretty badly.

Head injuries are nothing to take lightly.
Helmet laws aside, please look at page 16 of this report before talking about how effective helmets are: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/episrv/episrv-bike...

edit: tl;dr for you obviously, but ~200 people died over 8 years in NYC. Where helmet use was noted in the police report (~ half), 97% of fatal accidents involved people not wearing helmets. Someone else can do the Bayes' numbers but it's pretty obvious. Anyway, I support bike lanes and oppose helmet laws. But I wear a helmet.
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>>For any chunk of knowledge, except for very unlikely ties, there was a first person who had that knowledge, and for that person, then, the claim is false.

For practical purposes, if you want to make anything resembling a business out of your knowledge, you are going to need time. And chances are people in the field would have been aware of what interesting things there are in that field, and would have some idea of what you've come up with. They may not have some very specific things like particular implementations, but they will nonetheless have a good idea of what's up and down in the field.

Obviously you are the only person writing your code, but should you assume that someone with a similar background could not come up with something quite similar if he wanted to research it?
I feel sad for the people on this thread advocating unconditionally for wearing a bike helmet. They must have to deal with terrible circumstances to have come to that conclusion. Apparently they can't even imagine how one could bicycle safely without a helmet.

Keep at it though. It takes a few generations for culture and road architecture to change.
The dual 10GbE onboard is very nice, but it doesn't help to encourage optimism about the price ...
> How about ad-free versions of their channels?

Apparently that was what cable was all about at the beginning

It's hard to lure back people to an inferior product.
Well, for me, $50, reused spare parts. Didn't know about the Link. So the Steam Machine is supposed to be for people without a desktop, to compete with consoles?
Over my lifetime riding bikes I have witnessed two major crashes where both non helmeted victims survived with life changing traumatic brain injuries.

One fell off a low bridge and the other was riding causally along and somehow ended up going over the bars and hitting her head on the curb.

Seeing just one of these was all the reason I needed to never ride without a helmet.

I wear a couple types depending on what sort of riding I'm doing (mountain, road, racing) they are MIPS equipped when ever available.
They are definitively designed to crack as that's a core way for it to absorb the energy of the hit. Similar to how a car crumbles in an accident. Otherwise it's just transferring the kinetic energy straight to your head.

This is also why you should replace helmets after a fall and every few years since the material they are made of degrades with age.
The USA is very much a bike-unfriendly country with some very small regional exceptions, and any effectiveness should be placed in a regional context.

In absence of bike-lanes a helmet probably makes sense. What also really helps is to educate drivers and to shift responsibility to the drivers of cars in car-bike collisions. If there was one factor that made bike riding safer here in NL then I'd point at that one rather than bike lanes or helmets.

People are simply much more careful around bikes.
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Paper http://networks.cs.northwestern.edu/publications/wifm/icnp20...

> We show that the digital signal that accompanies broadcast FM radio has sufficient structure to enable effective scheduling relative to it. It thus provides a common reference for neighboring devices to harmonize their transmissions, yet without requiring any explicit communication among them.
Increasingly the population are from countries which are technologically and democratically illiterate. *Your country may vary.
The statistics by their very nature take all that into account. (And very few cars have ceiling airbags or crumple zones)
What do hospitalization rates have to do with injury rates, with respect to head injuries?

Totally anecdotal story, but when I had my last major bike crash (20mph crash during a race), I went to the ER to get checked out. I probably didn't need to go; I knew I had a concussion and lots of abrasions (and know how to treat both). This proves nothing about the efficacy of wearing a helmet.
I worked really hard to get that downvote arrow, but then stopped caring much about karma and probably haven't actually downvoted anything (just like that the option is there). Now I'm off to change my banner color.
Who are these people who are exclusively PC or console or mobile gamers? Everyone I know, rich and poor, are all three.
You could make good use of your karma by adding a Hacker News chapter to your User Acquisition book. I would pay some for that.
This stinks.
I recoil from this idea as it pushes further in the direction of free play homogenized games.

This may be true, but we won't know for sure until we figure out how to make the AAA games as ubiquitous as Candy Crush and Game of War.

Hopefully, that will shame the market into demanding better gaming experiences from every developer.
That may be true but there are definitely common threads of things that always do well on HN (some of which I agree with so this is not necessarily a critique).

Submission Topics:

* Pro-privacy
* Pro-big tech corporations (Apple, Google, even Microsoft)
* Optimism about technology in general
* Press releases about big funding rounds
* Literally any blog post from Sam or pg.
* Most blog posts from some other pillar of the tech world.

Comments on Popular Submissions:

* Agree with the original submission's premise and back it up with an anecdote
or citations nobody will ever click on.
* Ask a question that is really gentle and allows people to respond agreeing
with the original article.
* Defend against anyone who actually criticizes a submission that is doing well.

If you've been here long enough you will be easily able to identify the patterns of things that will always do well, and the things that will always do poorly.
Definitely. The two accidents I've had where helmets have been helpful have been at low speeds. In one, somebody stopped suddenly in front of me while I was novice rider getting used to new brakes. The other, I hit a wet tram rail while making a turn. The problem wasn't total velocity, it was me falling over while being conjoined with a bike. (I also had one accident at speed, but there the bike and I parted ways and I supermanned through the air and kept my head up on landing.)

The study persuades me not at all for a few reasons. 1) it's Canada, 2) it's all of Canada, and 3) it's only in-patient hospital stays.

I'm biking in a US urban area. I know that Canada's automotive death rates are lower, and I'm happy to believe that's due both to Canada's famed niceness and to a more European attitude toward infrastructure. I might also not bother with a helmet tootling along some leafy Canadian rural road, but when dealing with California's drivers in an environment that's mostly cement and metal, thanks, I'll take the helmet.

I also get the theory that in-patient hospital stays might be a good index to help decide the public benefit of helmet laws. But I don't think my helmet kept me from two hospital stays. I think it kept me from two concussions. Given the long-term cognitive effects of even nominally mild brain injury, I'm again sticking with the helmet. Those here who think themselves so smart that a) this study proves it for them, or b) they have smarts to burn are welcome to go without.
If a helmet cracks, it's absorbed energy, cracking is simply how it's designed to dissipate that energy. Whether it cracks or not, it should be replaced when it absorbs energy from a fall.
Thumb up for Qualcomm demo and Andrea Vedaldi presentation of MatConvNet presented at ICVSS 2015 summer school (not a conference). Both pieces made similar impression on me.
Someone from Facebook explained what happened though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386811
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I'd argue that multi-touch and pinch-to-zoom combined represents an innovation. Now, whether that should protected for 17-20 years is a completely different matter.

I'd be happiest with a world without software patents, but 12-18 months from filing might be a reasonable compromise position for software/electronics patents. That is short enough that you might simply take the filings, assign each a number (do no review), immediately publish the claims, and then after the fact adjudicate any complaints that someone raises. (lazy evaluation for patents, basically)

IMO, that's enough incentive to get us the iPhone, multi-touch, Bluetooth / LE, NFC, etc, etc, without every startup being worried about a company-killing judgement hanging over their head.
You need a trigger as well so when the power rail voltage drops, the firmware dumps its cache. With a substantial write-back cache, the capacitor or battery needs to be sized sufficiently large to write out potentially hundreds of megabytes.
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> would not work well for high frequencies

Correct, but it is going to measure something (it most likely rectifies and sends it to the meter, should work fine in the 100khz range)

> a volt meter is simply the wrong tool for the job

I don't disagree with this
If you cannot access your assets because someone has frozen them essentially this is the same thing as forfeiting them. Especially when the use of the assets can be used to prove your innocence...

Assuming someone is guilty of a crime and taking their assets is theft.
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To be fair, if the hack was carried out by a Scottish hacker, from Scotland, then he should be prosecuted in Scotland. The UK's policy with regards to this sort of thing is an absolute shambles, as illustrated by the Gary McKinnon affair[1].

If the FBI simply failed to supply any evidence to support a prosecution, one has to ask why they victimised Keys, while letting the actual perpetrator off scot-free. No pun intended.

1: There waws absolutely no reason why McKinnon couldn't have been prosecuted in the UK but when his solicitor claimed that no crime had been committed in the UK because the computers McKinnon had hacked were outside the UK (which is incorrect - the Computer Misuse Act applies to hacks where either the perpetrator or the target is in the UK), they made the monumentally stupid decision to try to extradite him, with the end result that he was never prosecuted or punished for his criminal activity.
Something that shouldn't be overlooked is the fact the author is John Graham-Cumming and you are kelvin0. Almost every one in the top 10 leaderboard posts under their real name. They have more respect and credibility than an anonymous poster. It's one of those annoying and readily exploitable flaws of human nature.
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Yes, your point still stands.

Further problem is that most people would probably prefer adds, but only in very narrow subset of all products. And they might not want to share that subset, not with modern privacy concerns and rogue advertisers. So you would have almost infinite amount of groups and no way to find them.
In practice, it happens quite a lot. The duplicate detector is easily fooled, and often the same underlying "story" is reported in a bunch of places.

Getting traction on an HN submission is very random. Unless it's about discrimination in tech work, at which point it will be flagged off the front page almost immediately.
Aren't a lot of psychological studies coming under scrutiny for lack of reproducibility, and now the government is using them in policy design ?
This is more than a little unsettling.
In french there are more words for wine than in inuit for snow (http://www.auduteau.net/oenologie/vocabulaire.shtml)
Haha, I love the bit about pictograms. I have to use Xcode occasionally at work, and it's always a case of hovering over a few dozen buttons trying to guess which one might do what I want.

http://codewithchris.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/img/xcode_5_wor...
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Never seen someone come away with a concussion from a bike accident then?
And, still, it is more probable to have a deadly head injury in a modern car than on a bicycle. Again, why not?
> Not really because they stare at the feed only to find something that then lives somewhere else.

Maybe not. When I want to jump in to @fat's stream of thought and humor for a while i read his twitter log, scrolling thru dozens of tweets.

For me, twitter is for a few things: connecting with folks in a cold-call way; learning of trends and new ideas in my areas of interest; getting to know someone.
Pungent feels similar to me. I've never heard of something having a pungent taste.
The same way we describe smells by proxy (smells like a banana), Ancient Greeks could have have used to describe objects by comparison, rather than colors (bronze sky, sheep the color of wine and so on):
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/61
"Cloud gaming" has plenty of issues with performance and latency (see the now-defunct OnLive) and is too reliant on a user's internet connection. TVs may have better hardware than 10 year old consoles but certainly aren't anywhere near current generation consoles.

It might work for low end or previous generation games, but for cutting edge high-end AAA games, you absolutely need cutting edge high-end hardware.

Not to mention, TV software is an absolute mess of unstandardised differing software between every manufacturer, so it would be very difficult for game makers to get their software/games to work on every TV.
It is also useful in searching for the most popular posts on HN.

A post years ago on HN getting 150 to 200 points may have been the most popular (perhaps most significant) post for a while. We get posts like that daily now.
“Consumers are being trained there are places they can go to avoid ads.”

With that kind of rhetoric no wonder they're still in denial.
idlewords wrote a similar story [1] a month after this one was published, if you're looking for more humor with your discussion of patent law.

[1] http://idlewords.com/2003/12/100_years_of_turbulence.htm
Like the old slashdot "+1 interesting"?

There are nonconfrontational ways of presenting views you know are going to encounter flak. One is to do so as a question.
That's what I was thinking, is karma really worth the time and effort?

I understand how it helps the forum work well, but for the user doesn't seem much more than a vanity feature. Being able to flag/downvote is something I really don't care about.