skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Braking distance is a factor of speed, weight, brakes, tires and road surface. A 40 ton truck can only stop so fast with rubber tires on typical brakes on a typical highway road surface.

Race cars are designed to stop faster than passenger cars. Their brakes are huge, they're designed with exotic components to transfer heat to air faster, designed to take higher heat for longer, the cars are designed to flow air over the brakes, and they cost much more and don't last as long, and have advanced computerized systems to optimize brake utilization. They also have pretty big tires (usually for power transfer, not braking). Their tires are also grippier on a given surface at a higher tire temperature, so they cost more and don't last as long, and work best on dry flat surfaces. They strip all the weight out of the car to decrease the amount of force working against the tires and brakes. Even the suspension and shell is designed to increase tire, and thus brake, traction. They stop really goddamn fast - 93 feet for a Ferrari F430 Scuderia, from 60mph.

Trucks are designed to carry 40 tons up and down hills, survive tire blow-outs, brake system failures, and more miles than 1000 F430s will ever see, on all kinds of road surfaces and temperatures. It is possible to improve the brake time, but it would probably cost so much you might as well ship your produce in a Ferrari. Halve the weight they carry to reduce braking distance and now we have to have twice the trucks to carry the same loads, but you still have a vehicle 10x heavier than other vehicles with dynamics that simply can't move around like the lighter ones. More accidents would be guaranteed.
we wrote such dupefinders as fun hackathon contest organized by the dallas perl user group 2013:

http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1067570

discussion at http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/dfw-pm/2013-December/thread.htm...

=> http://dfw.pm.org/winners.html

it is really not easy. I used as only one bloom hashes, which explains why mine was fastest and smallest, but unfortunately not correct.
The comment is topical on HN because of previous incidents of sexual assault allegations at/after tech conferences that were not dealt with by the criminal justice system, but rather by internet mobs and character assassination.

I'm of the opinion that this kind of stuff should be reported to the police and be dealt with there, rather than via blog posts and twitter, but the argument "police don't care" seems to trump my position.

I live in Australia where the police would give a flying shit, especially if you have corroborating witnesses (the case I am thinking of here on HN did).

This all ties in with the "All White Men"/"Women In Tech"/"Male Privilege" microcosm that is not unique to startup web tech, yet has somehow crept in, in the last few years.

I like to keep my peas and corn separate on my plate, but others like to mix them together. Oh well.
> "Dot, a hockey-puckish satellite, extends the range of an Echo or Tap"

No. The Dot is standalone, and is not a range-extender. I think Amazon's tactic of allowing only those people who already own an Alexa device has backfired, if an otherwise well researched article misrepresents this basic fact.
WestCoastJustin, a lot of your comments got marked as dupes, because they are identical to each other.

I've gone through and vouched them for you, so now they will show up, but new ones will have the same problem. Perhaps you can modify each reply slightly to avoid tripping the detector?

shykes, it might be useful to add a note that people need to sign up to the beta first!
Is it not notable how, among all of these examples and thought processes, not a single word was lost on the value provided to the totality of customers, in addition to how much is monetizable?

Obviously the ability to pay quality journalists is a valuable cause, but it irks me that retaining a large percentage of customers/consumers, and the corresponding potential to make much more of a difference in the world, isn't also considered a mention-worthy aim in itself.

Got the opportunity to cure diseases but decides to play mind games for fun instead? In a position to bring awesome tech to the masses but prefers to market it as luxury item to a limited audience? Making lots of profits already but spends serious effort to drive the competitor out of business to earn even more as monopolist? ...good for you, "disruptor".
I remember the AVR hype. It was supposed to "change everything" but is became a big nothing burger.
Ah, thanks very much! FYI for anyone reading this. You'll need to have signed up at https://beta.docker.com/ first, then post your Docker Hub ID (username), or send email to feedback+hn@docker.com. We cannot send beta tokens if you have not signed up to the beta first.
Then each party is criminally liable for the rape of the other, under law. But, in practice, for heterosexual liaisons the male partner will be charged and prosecuted while the female goes free.

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I did that for three years and regret it. I realize now that I should have just shaped my use to fit my needs: unfriend or unfollow people I don't care to follow, write more messages rather than scrolling through the newsfeed, and join events and groups more deliberately.

Now I actually use it to keep in touch with people I care about, rather than just pretend that's what I'm doing.

I missed out on some things during my three years with Facebook off, and although I learned so much from having done it, I wouldn't do it again.
Should I choose Q or Bluebird as Promises library?
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I wrote a HolyC compiler and an x86_64 assembler. It does a little bit of 16-bit, but noone needs it because it is juts used during boot and you have no business.

My 64-bit assembly is missing all the MMX SSE stuff at the moment.

I don't really care for those.
Thanks for this! A super interesting and well written look into what a career in software development can look like!
I wish. Unfortunately, even though that is the better option, it is more risky: everyone (meaning businesses in this case) already pay taxes to support roads, thus using them, even if it's less efficient, is "free". Plus, all businesses are connected to a road. Compared to building and maintaining infrastructure for a rail network, where you're limited to customers you've built rail to. So I'd wager the "last mile" would likely continue to be truck based, even if rail use exploded.

To be fair though, the rail networks here in North America are seen as the most developed freight networks in the world (I wish we had more passenger service though; my daily commute to KU and back is a pain): 2863 Gt-km (NA), 2451 (China), 2351 (Russia), vs 391 (EU).
I don't doubt the cut-ins but I mean, how common is the disaster part?

Not as often as truckers having incidents through tiredness etc. I'd warrant.

> You can try to brake ....

We're talking about "The computer ...."
Warm fuzzy nostalgia aside, this article seems to amount to "Learn everything, read everything, do everything, don't bandwagon, Apple is pretty cool. The other stuff is OK too, if you like that sort of thing. Learn Node. PS. Don't harrass people".

It's an amalgamation of every Medium tech-post ever.
Thaumasiotes has already explained the situation on campus in regards what is considered drunk and consent, but even in the wider world you can only give consent when not intoxicated. The level of intoxication is not clear cut, but at least in Australia it needs to be “substantial” [1]. What exactly is substantial is up to the jury.

The US case law is much more murky as this article explains [2].

1. https://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/25.%20Sexual%20Offences...

2. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/08/opinions/cevallos-sex-cons...
Seems a bit bitter about the shit working conditions. And he's right. It's funny how the whole trade is shit.
There's also the rather odd "Sign up to see prices."

I did sign up to see what Autodesk Maya cost in my country's currency. At the time, in $US is was $3,995 for a single seat. In my country, it was around $US12000.

I did what any good person with a goodly amount of cash in the bank would do - I said "$#@! it," and bought a house instead.
Is the generated code really faster? Or what is the point of this?
If I were you I would use a filter to auto-archive all those mailing-lists you don't intend to read.
Slightly disappointed about the post not being about how they became a developer at age 40, which was what I initially thought it was.

I started my career as a software developer at precisely 10am, on Monday October 6th, 1997... I had recently celebrated my 24th birthday.
You can do many of these effects in plain CSS using the filter operator. As a bonus, you get hardware acceleration if you combine them with translate3d(0, 0, 0).
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Well, that's a bit apples to oranges. You don't have many options for sending shit into space.
You complicate the issue too much.

What would you prefer, to live in a Somalia with 0% public debt or in a Japan with 300% public debt? And why? Because in one there is real infrastructure and knowledge and the other not so much.

Or if we want to go all science fiction. In what future do you prefer to live? One with economic fusion, artificial intelligence, and robots that do the entire job but a 300% debt or a future of 0% debt and less technology or infrastructure that today.

Debt is a political arrangement and organizational issue. Real wealth comes, surprise, from real wealth.
I brew updated a few times today and finally got that message. By the time that message showed up, the file ~/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid was already 4 hours old, which makes me wonder when they actually started doing the analytics
This was a good read - I'm a dev over 40 and much of this rang true. I think there's a lot of great advice in there. One standout for me was "Be prepared to change your mind at any time through learning. " - something that I think we should all aspire to.
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anything :(
> Railroad: maybe they will get it there, maybe they won't.
> If the railroad puts a refrigerator unit on your boxcar and it breaks down, too bad - they won't reimburse you. A trucking company will.

Sounds like both of those are more to do with shit rail companies than inherent downsides of rail (or upsides of trucking)?
First, thank you for your interest. We have had firsthand experience of this problem ourselves. We're clearly not alone in this. Now about our approach.

As you said tools like Asana are about project management and collaboration on a clear fixed project, xCollabr is more about linking potential collaborators. Which means that, every person in a team can talk about what they're doing and make it available in the scope of say "all the teams in this organization" e.g i can say that i'm currently starting xCollabr and i'll use some A.I. techniques to do this or that. He can do the same for pieces of conversations, pieces of meetings and make them available to a broader audience.

Now teams or organisations as a whole can also tell what they're working on or plan to work on and make it available to say similar organizations in the network.

An example on student organizations :
Undergraduate entrepreneurship club on campus organize a pitch night week 5 of the term.
Later MBA students want to organize a pitch night at week 8 , we can suggest collaboration so that both teams can sync and organize one big pitch night.

This is really a simple example. But it explains well how we go about collaboration differently. No other products provide an interface for teams to form an ecosystem where teams can collaborate with other teams.

Did you check pur mockup/wireframe ? it should also help getting a feel of what it'd look like. https://moqups.com/konoufo1@gmail.com/HbtBvliq
cortesoft is on track by pointing out how small the gaps are (in absolute terms) between bad, average, good and very good in baseball. And just as importantly, the gaps have been shrinking. Stephen Jay Gould famously wrote about this in explaining why we don't see .400 batting averages anymore (that's a hit 4 out of every 10 times a player bats; it last happened in the major leagues in 1941).

The average major-league player of today is significantly better than the average player of seventy years ago, so there are fewer opportunities for the best player in the league to take advantage of large numbers of truly-outmatched opponents and achieve inflated performance numbers. The highest batting average in the modern era of baseball is .426 by Nap Lajoie in 1901. 2015's highest batting average in the major leagues was .338, and it was .341 the year before; even an average of .360 or better is now rare (only happened eight times since the year 2000).

And overall team performance is affected in the same way. The 1906 Chicago Cubs own the best win percentage in major-league history at .763 (116 wins out of 152 games played). That year the worst team (the Boston Americans, predecessors of today's Boston Red Sox) went 49-105, a win percentage of .318. Last year (2015) the best win percentage was .617 while the worst was .389. Only four major-league teams failed to win at least 70 games last year, and over half managed to win at least 81 games (81-81 being an even .500 win percentage with the season now 162 games long), while at the top there were seven teams with at least 90 wins, and four of them had at least 95 wins.
I've been looking for a different interface for email that focuses on actions and not emails. Other types of communication, e.g. RSS, could feed actions into the same interface. Every incoming email is an intended action: a text that you intend to read and decide to either take any number of actions on.

At different times of the day, different filters apply. During work hours, only work mails and a few personal contacts get through the filter and on my 'read mail' task. I perform the 'read mail' task a few times during work.

Outside of work, only mails with private topics will get through. Phone and text can be used for urgent work issues. For mailing lists, each updated thread is one read task.

Every read task can lead to one or more immediate or intended actions. Intended actions have categories.

Different types of actions:

- current action: the action I'm taking right now

- action stack: a current action can lead to a small subactions

- intended action: action that is in the system and shows up as a possible current action. This includes sports and cooking.

- planned action: an action with a fixed start time, usually these are synchronous with actions of other people e.g. meetings or travel.

An important feature of this interface is to group and filter actions by context. When working on project X, only show actions of project X. This reduces the huge number of context switches the many people struggle with.

Every action that is taken is linked to the action that led to it. Sending email gives the option to create an intended action for a follow-up when there is no reply from the receiver within a set time.

While an action is being performed, your computer IO is monitored. These data packets, e.g. git commits, changed files, emails sent, visited web pages, sent web forms, can be included in an action report. This way, there is a simple report after each action.

All action reports form your archive. The archive are your past actions, they are out of your way once you've dealt with them.
What experience are you drawing on for that recommendation? Big companies don't typically negotiate wildly on salary, as it's tied to a leveling system that breaks too many things if your numbers don't fit. They would have to negotiate on levels and make everyone VPs to meet your salary demands, which would cause other problems. So, this might not be the best advice. Acquihirees get a few knobs to turn, but salary is the least turnable.
> I cannot believe they are using `docker.local`. This hostname will cause nothing but trouble for years to come.

We are indeed moving away from `docker.local` in Docker for Mac. There have actually been two networking modes in there since the early betas: the first one uses the OSX vmnet framework to give your container a bridged DHCP lease ('nat' mode), and the second one dynamically translates Linux container traffic into OSX socket calls ('hostnet' or VPN compatibility mode).

Try to give hostnet mode a try by selecting "VPN compatibility" from the UI. This will bind containers to `localhost` on your Mac instead of `docker.local` and also let you publish your ports to the external network. One of our design goals has been to run Docker for Mac as sandboxed as possible, and so we cannot just modify the /etc/resolv.conf to introduce new system domains such as ".dev".

We've been iterating on the networking modes in the early betas to get this right, so beta9 should hopefully strike a good balance with its defaults. It's also why we've been holding a private beta, so that we can make these kinds of changes without disrupting huge numbers of users' workflows. Your feedback as we figure it out is very much appreciated!
The lynchpin of this "logical argument" appears to be a Business Standard article that references a Morgan Stanley report that says FK is 4 times as big as AMZN in GMV. While neither of the two authors (and us included) may have the "raw data" that Morgan Stanley supposedly has at its command, we don't need to be geniuses to understand that GMV via exclusive deals with one phone manufacturer after another can only buy so much PR runway.

What really matters is the bottomline. As Buffett would say, it's only when the tide goes out (or in this case, when the funding tap runs dry), do you discover who's been swimming naked. Having said that as a consumer, less competition means less deals. So, I do hope all the shopping sites have their swimming trunks on :)
There certainly seems to be a lot of young 'genius' and '*10' types who are willing to sacrifice their youth on the altar of a unicorn in return for a 1 in 100 chance of getting rich, if it's taking you more than 8 hours a day to make a living, you're poor :(
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I have been really interested in giving Docker for Mac a go for a personal, open source project. lauritzsh. Thanks!
yeah steam was what I had in mind when I wrote that.

but it has changed policy last year or so: before titles got cheaper by time and got discounts on top, so it was usual to find a year old aaa game for 5$ or 7$ in the summer sale, now titles take at least two years before even starting to cheapen in price, and publisher are using the trick of giving out big discount (75% is common) but starting from incredibly high prices (so it ends up never going below 20$)
That's cool, but that doesn't interfere with the library main goal:

"grafi.js is a library intended for learning about how image processing works"
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What if gay and transgendered people "creep you the fuck out", or orthodox jews, or people in wheelchairs?

Once you start making the case for expulsion and the application of a sliding scale of guilt due entirely to other people's beliefs about an unpopular individual or group as fine in principle, you've basically undone the entire enlightenment in law, governance, and ethics.
Even if the unicorns win it really depends on where you entered for you to actually make out rich. These days even the employees of the winner are getting shafted. There seems to be no ideas of human dignity or work life balance in this trade. It's not a profession, it's a trade. It should probably be unionized, and it would be if not for the high wage.
Upselling? Why did several fuel stations pull out their pay-at-pump systems and force you to go into the store to pay -- so they can sell you more stuff you didn't originally intend to by (that they also make better margin on).
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First of all, they didn't caught VW cheating, they caught Audi cheating, amongst others. VW was using those Audi engines.
The press just jumped on VW, because they were the biggest and can take the biggest hit.

Second, the cheaters, and all of them were cheating as already presented at the CCC congress some months ago, used all the same Bosch ECU, which had the cheating option built-in with a misleading variable name, which did the detection of the test cycle. And any engine manifacturer can enable or disable this mode.
Passing the test means the legally they are all fine. Because the european and non-US emission law just honors passing this test cycle. In the US it's different.

Third, historically everybody was cheating with those NOx tests. The US companies starting with that, the Asians got caught, now everybody got caught, with the new VW and Audi A5 engines actually having the least emissions of all, together with Skoda Superb and BMW 3.

Limiting the damage done to VW was a good marketing trick, and you are still falling for it.
So the older a person is, the more their experience is likely correct? Turns out a lot of old people (the majority) oppose gay marriage. Do you feel like they are right?

Since there seem to be some people who believe the account in this article and others that don't, what in your mind is the experience that people have been exposed to that changes their minds?

It seems like you're saying they are purely irrational. Do you have any evidence which suggests that?

I'm really interested because so far you've provided no content to suggest why someone should join you in your incredulity.
The article mentions driverless trucks would drive slower, at 45mph, wouldn't this make a key difference in this scenario, eg a much shorter breaking distance. Also, a driverless vehicle has one option a manned vehicle doesn't - self destruction to save life, eg drive off the side of the road and crash (assuming it could determine that no one was there)