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EM doesn't really sound like a place for unhealthy, depressed people. Yet most of the characters in the article all seem to have psychological issues themselves, including the main character, Eris.
I guess I just don’t see what benefit is gained by writing a dozen lines of fragile boilerplate to run Browserify via Gulp. If you want to put the build automation in a well-known location, a typical Browserify+Babel build is one line in the scripts section in package.json that says something like

"js": "browserify src/index.js -o dist/index.js -t [ babelify --presets [ es2015 ] ]"

If you need more complicated configuration, you can use separate sections of package.json to set useful defaults, which is also the common convention for build tools in the Node/NPM ecosystem.
Unless you're on 495 then it's like 20mph over and the police may still pass you....
Public shows huge interest in riding the first trains
If there is an iOS version I'll jump from NVAlt/SimpleNote to this plus dropbox and write a migrator
The lowest limit in my state (aside from 15 in some parking lots) is 25. It is rare for anyone to go below 30, most are going about 35.
In summary, he's made a speed camera and is now proposing the use of it to his local council.
Are speed cameras not as ubiquitous in the USA as over here in the UK?
If this was an actual startup, your point would make sense. But the portfolio is very obviously one guy making tools he personally thought would be useful, polishing them, and then selling them. It isn't fun to create things that you can't actually use, at least in my opinion.

I'm sure if he was making a lot more money he wouldn't hesitate to release for other platforms, because he would be able to to hire someone to do the other platforms
I agree and that's why I cited total education expenditure. Not how much a student pays. So the total cost of education in France is 5.9% of GDP.

Yes, of course it should be at least roughly balanced against that utility. But that's an entirely different debate, than one about equality of opportunity in education by cost paid by the student.
I hope people start including information on platforms when posting apps that are not cross-platform. Some hint such as 'OSX only', 'iOS only' or 'Windows only' in the title would help uninterested ones among us tone down our expectations or avoid the topic altogether.
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Really? Speed is a major factor in pedestrian deaths. In fact, this fellow is responding to a child being hit on his street. Seems like he's identified a problem and is doing something to highlight that problem. Good on him, I say!
> I would thinking rolling through a stop sign (especially at an intersection that is not a 4-way stop) would be much more dangerous than going 30 in a 25.

This is exactly the scenario I have outside of my house. The speed limit on both streets is 25mph, but when most people don't stop at the stop signs and everyone is going too fast...

The issue is even worse at certain times of the year (right now) because, depending on the direction you are going, the cars with no stop signs are mostly blinded by the position of the sun between trees and houses. Just last Monday a neighbor stopped by to say he turned the corner and side-swiped my mailbox because he couldn't see anything.
Even in industrialized countries like the USA, I have shipped products to "Gas Station, Small Town, Kansas". This was very hard to put into the shipping software, but finally it worked.

I spoke to the customer on the phone, and he said "You can't miss it, it's the only gas station for 20 miles" . Surprised me that it worked to get them their stuff, but I guess they do it all the time.
The duplication is worse than that. It's a data structure problem. Docker deals in opaque disk images, a linear, order-dependent sequence of them. The data structure is built this way because Docker has no knowledge of what the dependency graph of an application really is. This greatly limits the space/bandwidth efficiency Docker can ever hope to have. Cache hits are just too infrequent.

So how do we improve? Functional package and configuration management, such as with GNU Guix. In Guix, a package describes its full dependency graph precisely, as does a full-system configuration. Because this is a graph, and because order doesn't matter (thanks to being functional and declarative), packages or systems that conceptually share branches really do share those branches on disk. The consequence of this design, in the context of containers, is that shared dependencies amongst containers running on the same host are deduplicated system-wide. This graph has the nice feature of being inspectable, unlike Docker where it is opaque, and allows for maximum cache hits.
Better than a movie. Its not a remake, reboot, sequel, or formula. A startup should be able to disrupt Hollywood. There are stories out there.

The author needs an editor, and an agent.
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Speaking of dark, I see this story as somewhere in the middle.

Here's the dynamic: There's the 'feel good' stuff of raising money for good causes or getting people to send letters to a sick child - all of which takes online validation to spread - and then there's the 'dark side' where those who are vulnerable and seeking validation online can be exploited and driven to suicide. A Mother-bullying-neighbor-girl case comes to mind, and I don't think it'll be the last.

It's not a new phenomenon to be seeking attention - that's pretty much hard-wired in some people's composition - but the online dynamic (+ influences by Kardashian-esque mentalities of fame uber alles) has added a new wrinkle to figuring out how to deal with such compulsions.
In practice, implementations of things like red-light cameras end up making things worse, by shortening yellow light durations (which makes intersections less safe) in order to generate more revenue for the city and the company running the program.

http://pix11.com/2015/11/19/red-light-cameras-may-be-causing...
I don't understand why you are getting downvoted - there's nothing controversial or ridiculous about this suggestion. Unlikely perhaps, for reason stated elsewhere in the thread but that's another matter entirely.
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To give some opposite anecdote...

My wife and I recently (under a year ago) moved into a house in an area that was totally new to us. If it wasn't for Angie's List we'd have been screwed. Really great website there for people new to an area, absolute bargain.

We received a couple of referrals from our otherwise excellent realtor. One turned out okay, but we could tell immediately that one was going to be bad and didn't go with him.
At least here in the UK, there are sensible guidelines to ensure you don't do that. For example, if the light is amber (turning from green to red) and you are so close to the line that braking would be hazardous, you should carry on. A system as sophisticated as the one presented here could surely take speed and stopping distance into account. And even apart from all that, I'd rather have one car rear-ending another that's braked too harshly, at slow speed, than a car careering through the light, much faster.
mail me and I can send some of those.
Ah, a Ulysses clone for developers.
ISIS killers executes dozens of its own militants for desertion  NEWS
This is still more or less at a proof of concept stage, so you won't be able to use it to build apps, but it will introduce you to some functional reactive programming concepts
These kids 3D-printed their own superhero-inspired prosthetic attachments
Yeah but in my version of the story Eris dies at the end.
I like that idea but I do worry about it causing rear-end collisions.

In an ideal world drivers wouldn't speed and they also wouldn't tailgate, but in the world we currently occupy both are extremely common (even amongst law enforcement).

So while this would act to reduce speeding, the unpredictability may increase accidents and it is definitely going to reduce traffic flow.
I made my way through it, but in the end I went with JSPM because of the ES6 imports, and the fact that it handles installs from NPM and automatically adds it to the dependency list for you.

It feels much more seamless than webpack.
Try VLC 3.0.0 nightly builds using VideoToolbox or activate GPU decoding.
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I wasn't suggesting anything that triggers red lights or leads directly to a citation. Just gathering the data would often be useful, to drive design of intersections and allocation of other resources in a quantitative way.

Also, if people aren't maintaining a safe distance from the car in front of them, then that's useful information too. So is video of people illegally using their celphones while driving, which this technology could also provide.
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Speed limits are very much consensus based. The rule of thumb is "set the speed limit so that if you didn't have any signs only 10% of people would be in excess of it if left to their own devices. Adjustments for things like high traffic intersections, pedestrian traffic, school zones, (speed traps the local PD insists upon having) etc are made after that. Typically they're much lower than people consider reasonable and IMO this has resulted in two generations of drivers being trained to always exceed the posted speed limit and instead of thinking about how fast they should be going think about how best to speed (e.g "I'm driving on a 4 lane boulevard at 1AM and I'm the only one around, I can do 10-20 over" or "It's a school zone on a week day, better do 0-5 over")

Looks like Mr. Reynolds has begun building a data-set to support what the handful of highway engineers I've spoken to on the subject just assume based on observation.
Lookout, here come the down votes! Your comment wasn't full of praise or cheerful enough or generally not acceptable according to a consensus of HN users with down voting privileges. By the way, I'm at -1 karma for the same bullshit reasons...
I think people hope that they work by shaming. Remind people that they're breaking the law, and they'll break the law less.

I think they actually work by intimidation. Remind them that The Man is watching and they could get a speeding ticket. Once people realize that this is an empty threat and nobody is handing out tickets, they'll go back to their usual behavior.
This editorial was sparked by a recent proposal by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). They are considering requiring that those publishing clinical trial reports must also share the underlying data.

The ICMJE says that authors should have the ability to prevent release of the data for six months after publication. This will prevent researchers from performing independent analyses of a study, until well after its conclusions have been trumpeted in the press. Also, while many papers currently promise data or other materials are "available on request," anyone who has tried to actually get these data knows that this is often just wishful thinking. Only by requiring data availability in an independent repository at publication can journal editors and reviewers ensure that it will be available to other researchers and the public.

The ICMJE is accepting comments on this proposal through April 18:

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If you are a patient or a researcher, please comment.
> https://github.com/robUx4/vlc/tree/cc_master_intf_snd2

Should be what you want.
To be exact, I meant code that just repeatedly locks and releases same mutex on all CPU cores.

(Counting is a bit tricky, atomic counter on each lock would invalidate the results. Best to only update the counter, say, on every 1000th result or to use some parallel counting library.)

for(;;) {
mutex.lock();
mutex.unlock();
}
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>> It's not impossible that we will look back in 20 years and see Japan not as some sort of failure but simply as the first society that had to learn to live without growth.

They still haven't learned, they're trying really really hard to force growth. Negative interest rates can be seen as a tax on inactivity, and while it's been talked about in the US, I think it comes too close to taxing assets for the rich to embrace it.
Or ban birth control, abortion, porn, and have more arranged marriages.
Some commenters here are commenting as if speeding is some petty thing that doesn't matter.

Speeding kills. Something as small as 10 miles over a 30mph may mean a doubling in fatality rate for pedestrians and bicyclists.

One source: https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/2011Pedest...
In no way should revenue ever be tied to law enforcement. As you point out, the potential for corruption is just too great.
Love Quiver. I've been using it in grad school and has made it much easier to write out any non-lab assignments that require code snippets or references to code. Haven't use the LaTex cells yet but the Markdown and Code Block cells have been great.
I wish he'd give me the source code. I could really use this in our neighborhood. Next step would be to have second and third cameras (if necessary) to get the license tag and a picture of the drive. Then erect a hall of shame board.
It is pretty slow, but I'm guessing that's from the Babel compilation.

I ended up compiling the 3rd party dependencies into a single bundle, then letting JSPM run only on my app's code.
Rear-end collisions are the responsibility of the person behind. If they're keeping the correct distance, there's plenty of time to stop without collisions.

Usually the lights are also a good distance after the radar so you have plenty of time to go from speeding to a halt :)
Shame usually doesn't work in the US because speed limits are routinely underposted, usually by design. So e.g. 10 MPH over is not only socially acceptable, but often expected.

However they will usually keep drivers under 10 over the limit (that it believed by many to be the threshold for an officer to pull you over).
Yep. I completely understand and agree with your sentiment. I am in the same position now and when I leave the state school to visit friends at "elite schools" the entire vibe is changed. There is an incentive to be the best and constantly learn there, will at a large university it's more about just passing through the system.
That's not a coincidence. American haute architecture for much of the twentieth century was heavily influenced by Soviet architecture, and Brutalism is an offshoot of that school.
Speeding doesn't kill people, crashing kills people.
While getting onto a toll road in Oklahoma a few years ago, I was surprised to see a 17mph speed limit.
Well I imagined that it would turn red but at the same time give enough time to the driver to break. So the detector would be at least 300m or 400m from the light.
One of the rules of thumb taught to cops is "over by five, let 'em drive, over by 10, get out your pen"
Today, I tried out your service with a previously-unused domain and a brand new gh-pages repo.

When I ran into a small issue, I used the instant chat applet inside the Kloudsec control panel, and Steven quickly discovered the problem (I simply needed to remove the two A records pointing to GitHub pages, leaving only the Kloudsec A record).

Everything is working flawlessly so far, in regards to having TLS/SSL for custom domain hosted on GitHub pages. I especially like the option to enable HSTS for the domain's SSL. I wish GitHub Pages' own SSL on username.github.com offered that option.

All in all, painless plus quick, and without the unclean feeling that comes with Cloudflare's free SSL option. Additionally, I'm impressed with Steven's quick and quality assistance via chat and email.

edit: I've now noticed that there are large blocks of Javascript injected into my one-page test website. Ostensibly for the Speed Booster CDN plugin; I'll update after confirming the JS is gone upon disabling all plugins aside from the One-Click Encryption plugin.

edit2: Confirmed. Speed Booster plugin was source of JS injection. I suppose that's the drawback to a CDN who doesn't also host your DNS. Ironically, due to test site being small and static, disabling the Speed Booster plugin to remove all the JavaScript increased page load speeds.

Still, this doesn't detract from Kloudsec's simple deployment of LetsEncrypt SSL certificates for custom domains hosted on GitHub pages.
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There is an old soviet movie whose intro sums up how the brutalist architecture was adapted by the regime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9W0GCvPz4E
I think it's fun to create anything, especially if it involves programming by myself, outside of a stupid agile environment with Scrum idiots running around preaching the gospel.
I'm guessing someone used his public git email to commit as him ? https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-commits-linked-t...
Any reason why i would use Grape instead of Slack?

I have multiple custom integrations, and a lot of Stocks ones which you probably do not support. I would love to change and port my codes, but in the end i trust Slack more as its nearly to big to fail, so my scripts most likely longer useful.

God how much i would love a proper self hosted alternative -.-
I agree, it's not my place to represent black people. Regarding your anecdote from SA, I find that a bit extreme to be frank. It's likely because the apartheid is still fresh on peoples' minds. However, I don't see how it connects with the master/slave example.
> AI means a piece of software that does whatever you tell it to do

But it can figure out by itself how to do it.
Ask HN: What Front End to Use with a Rails Back End App
How would you go about Building a SPA with a Rails backend API? Preferring the same ease of development that Rails offers on the frontend too.
How would it be any different from a normal red light?
For the vimmers out there, I also suggest looking into vimwiki. Not quite the same as org mode, but a good 80% solution which is integrated nicely into vim.
Switching from immutable.js to seamless-immutable
That's the least of QT's problems. The idiotic way that modern QuickTime container files handle audio-visual sync has caused the entire format to fall out of favor within the professional video industry.

The video and audio streams within such files are, by design, out of sync, and requires playback within QuickTime to actually get the file to play back properly, as the content creator intended. Workarounds exist, and some playback software can handle the problem internally, but VLC in particular is not always able to.
In the video it looks like there's a gradient applied to the speeds. The color of the speed read out changes from a greenish yellow to red orange around what seems like 10 mph. There one that's yellow at 34 and another that's red orange at 35. They don't say if the 25-35 gets binned differently but that's not too surprising, it's a local news piece not a presentation.

Even so just because the police aren't allowed to give you a ticket because of the measurement error or uncertainty or mercy doesn't discount that they're still speeding.
It's interesting to look back at the responses [0] from just two years ago to Ford's admission that they know exactly who is breaking the law while driving their cars or what people were writing [1] in 2002 when ubiquitous surveillance of public space was becoming a reality.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036525

[1] http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/cameras.htm
The Magic Leap team(s) directly responsible for the investor roadshow live demos must literally be delivering mind-blowing experiences for so many swathes of industry to be this excited.
The 10% margin of error for a speedometer only applies in one direction: they're allowed to say you're going faster than you really are by up to 10%, but they're never allowed to say you're going slower than you really are (in England).
Another problem in my opinion is the fact that the metrics in the US are in imperial measures. 30 mph is 50 kph, it's about pure numbers.

50 is higher than 30 so common sense tells you that you are going faster. Even if it is not true. There is a subconscious reaction of people to numbers, no matter the metrics.
Rear end collisions like this tend to be pretty benign. For example, one of the arguments against red light cameras is that they actually increase the number of accidents. However, they also increase safety. How? Because while they increase the number of rear end collisions, they decrease the number of side impact collisions, which are much more deadly. Net result: more bent metal, less bent flesh.

I'd also be surprised if speed-sensing lights really increased collisions much. They still go through a full yellow before turning red. They are only more unpredictable if you know the light's cycle time, watched it turn green, and are carefully timing it so you could otherwise predict it.
Some of it is ugly, but some of it has an incredible stark beauty.
They are common, but not ubiquitous by any means. They're usually used in prominent intersections/stretches in which speeding is observed to be common.
I was assuming from the title that he was going to actually track down the speeders using OCR on their license plate. Cool read though
If you are incapable of driving in a manner that doesn't cause undue risk to human life, then a camera highlighting that should be the least of your worries.
I really enjoyed starting this up out of the box. I love that I can export and that I can write in latex. I'm curious if I can set this up as a notebook for scientific simulations including plots etc.
Interestingly, both norse website and their mailservers are offline.
I'm pretty sure the style is called "industrial chic".
"Locust (Avenue) is classified as a collector road, which means the city prefers not to install stop signs or speed humps. The city is working on alternatives that could include painting new parking spaces, installing planters or narrowing lanes."

The road by (unintentional) design seems promotes higher traffic speeds by having few impediments; it is also intersects a highway (BVP 250 via Google Maps), which I suspect could influence drivers near the highway to be increasing speeds or maintaining speeds they had while on the highway. I'd like to know where the speeding is occurring in relation to proximity to the highway.

This made me want to explore how speed limits are set.

I found this "Methods and Practices for Setting Speed Limits:
An Informational Report" by the U.S. Department of Transportation: Federal Highway Administration.

- http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/speedmgt/ref_mats/fhwasa12004/
- http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/speedmgt/ref_mats/fhwasa12004/fhw...