skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most of those deaths come from inexperienced riders

Similar things can be said for driving, in that motor vehicle accidents are concentrated in certain segments of the population, (and people having unlucky interactions with those segments.)

Though this niggle of the statistics is more of an issue with bicycling statistics because the bicyclists who know more or less what they are doing get lumped in with the accident rates of people like the "DUI bicyclist" riding home after dark with no lights into oncoming traffic, or terrible tragedies of people driving carelessly through neighborhoods and running over little kids on their bikes.

Then consider, even if we had statistics showing moderately higher injury/death rates for comparable travel styles with a bike opposed to a car, the overall mortality rates in the bike vs car cohorts would no doubt be reversed because of the physical activity vs sitting factor, and likely lower stress levels of the cyclists. Physical activity tends to reduce stress.
Heck, for Game 5 in last year's Finals, there were tickets in the Lower Bowl for < $200 and in Club for < $350 by game time. That turned out to be the last home game. Prices collapsed after the Game 3 loss.
tldr

The company said it expects to lift the pause on hiring as soon as next week.

“WeWork's growth and expansion continues to accelerate and we expect to add hundreds of employees between now and the end of the year,” a company spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail. “Recent employee actions were part of the company's talent review process to ensure that we have the right teams in place that align with the company’s priorities.”
For what it's worth, think of a couple of things you might need to interact with the government on. Go to http://gov.uk/ and see if you can find the right website, and see how many clicks it takes to get there.

A couple of maybe odd examples to try:

* You're a Brit abroad, had a kid, want to register them as a British citizen (children of British citizens are eligible for it provided they're under 18)

* Renew a passport

* Renew your driving license.
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It doesn't particularly matter if the game is zero-sum or not because of the way money interacts with influence/power. Essentially it is a bidding war, so those with the most money will always command the most influence by way of being able to bid the most. It doesn't matter that others are still gaining in their monetary compensation. They are still suffering through a widening deficit in power and agency.
It implied it had good design or worth vs other languages due to massive uptake vs other languages.
While possible for customer networks you cannot do this for transit as you don't know the source address.
I'm in. My email address is in my profile.
No. Consider many similar items being sold at one time by one seller (common scenario). By bidding what you think "it's worth" up front, you announce to the competing bidders what you are willing to pay. You are much better off waiting until the last minute then bidding slightly higher than the current bid on every item.
It's a bit more complicated than that. NASA didn't build the moon rocket or the shuttle, they use a huge number of private contractors so much of the technical progress is pretty intertwined between public and private sectors.
You can in customer networks but how is the source IP helpful on a transit network where you receive it from another ISP or transit provider?
I like the idea of banning motorbikes, but it is probably impossible to ban american-freedom-harley-wake-the-whole-neighborhood lifestyle in US.

IMHO ebikes are not less safe. You can manually pedal faster than most ebikes, and just because their average moving speed is higher, that does not make them intrinsically less safe.
All Major US Mobile Carriers Expriencing Outage: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile
Your first link refers to the Self-driving Coalition for Safer Streets which also includes Volvo, Uber and Lyft, and it's just a lobby group.

The second link, about Google Ventures investment in Uber is unrelated to the self driving car program. Uber has, in the meantime, acquired a substantial portion of the Carnegie Mellon robotics department [1] and has siphoned off ~100 engineers from Bing Maps [2], which to me implies that for whatever reason Uber wants to be as independent from Google as possible.

To graduate from a science project to a revenue generating business, Google needs a major manufacturing partnership, and while they've been seeking such a partnership for years now, no formal announcement has been made beyond a deal with FCA to outfit 100 Pacifica minivans with autonomous sensors. It was emphasized that Alphabet and FCA have no plans extending beyond those 100 vehicles [3].

[1]http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-acquires-part-of-bings...

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-selfdriving-idUSKCN...
I loved these names the first time I read them.

Hopefully with an increased launch cadence SpaceX will need more barges, one for each launch arena.
The current two are names of GCUs from "The Player of Games"[0]; extrapolating that gives us only Flexible Demeanour

Of course since Elon plans to motion to Mars he'll need a proper ship name...
Might I suggest Synchronize Your Dogmas for that one.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult...
I expect that decompressing the image produces one that looks close enough to the original to meaningfully call it compression. This I call mostly image deletion.
Honestly, there is too much world for 2 true paths. A multiparty system sounds nice from here.
You're kidding right? This wildfire isn't doing anything to help Canada's carbon footprint.
Calgary is demographically young and cosmopolitan. The average Calgarian came from somewhere else in Canada. Their political views reflect this. When Nenshi was elected, Toronto's media had a massive freak-out over the fact that he's a Muslim. This did not happen in Calgary because Calgarians didn't view his choice of religion as being pertinent to his job. Meanwhile, the enlightened, progressive people of Toronto elected Rob Ford.

Calgary's CTrain has the third highest annual ridership among North America's light rail systems [1]. The bus system is lagging behind, but the LRT system is being expanded. The airport is a 22 min drive from downtown under normal circumstances. There is traffic congestion during peak travel times, but absolutely nothing like in Toronto or Vancouver.

If all you know about Calgary's cultural scene is the Stampede, one has to wonder if you've even been to Calgary.

In short, thanks for slagging a city you clearly know nothing about.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_light_r...
I disabled cross-grain and drape and it billowed and exploded:
https://twitter.com/eigenbom/status/738887973559668736

Not sure if bug or if those parameters are not in the space of valid options.

Cool project btw!
Ans they keep getting it wrong. It wasn't his abusive personality, but his turtleneck that was behind his success, Just like how a great suit commands respect.
Any examples of ones that were more transparent?
> But that's why we have linters, static analyzers,

Which tend to be based on heuristics, rather than any sort of rigorous foundation. There's no shortage of static analysis tools for C and C++ that reject good code and accept bad code.

> style guides,

Which can be very onerous, limiting your ability to define useful abstractions, leaving you with just the bad parts of the base language (e.g., Google's C++ Style Guide).

> compiler options and warnings,

No amount of compiler options or warnings will force you to use an abstract type, well, abstractly, in a language that has unrestricted memory access (C and C++), unrestricted reflection (Java, .NET, anything dynamic), or both (some Common Lisp implementations).

> and ultimately code reviews and good taste.

If only the latter weren't in short supply...
$6.9 billion? sounds like this fire is razing quite well
> otherwise honest people have to resort to clickbait tactics to compete with the worsening signal-to-noise ratio

Exactly. Imagine that you are a pristine expert in your subject and want to share your knowledge. Now, you want to write a well-researched article and post it on your blog, think what title will you give it?

If its a plain old title like "Acme stock is down by 5%", that won't be doing justice to your well-researched article. Maybe, you have got insights about technical/fundamental analyses about Acme stock that the rest of the professionals don't? Unless you give it a catchy title like "10 reasons to avoid Acme stock" or "Unpredictable mess lie ahead of Acme", no one is going to read your article (although it deserves to be read by millions).

tldr; Even a good product needs marketing sometimes.
Actually our airspace was saturated. We had more aircraft ourselves we could have put up but it would have been unsafe to do so.
"bespoke"
I don't disagree, but it doesn't contradict my point. ML module correlate functions. The basic feature that helped me are still there. I'd even say that without this I couldn't understand the value of Modules later on. Level zero functional programming enforce a strong thinking hygiene around parametricity. Modules and functors are just the next step.
Yes, but hindsight is 20/20. The only decisions you can make are the ones in front of you - and Larry made the right one here.
Make it expensive to own and park a car, and make it a challenge to drive it in towns and cities, then absolutely ebikes will become popular in the USA. But if the above is true, then regular bicycles will still be MUCH more popular than ebikes - as they should be.
> Letting govt agencies who don't know what they're doing go out and tender for private sector building of internet services would be a disaster; they'd be oversold six ways from Sunday.

You mean like this? $1.4 million for an app that chooses left or right.

http://www.geek.com/apps/tsa-paid-1-4-million-for-randomizer...

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/tsa-randomizer-app-cost-336000...
I think/hope he was being sarcastic.
JRuby+Truffle: Why it’s important to optimise the tricky parts [pdf]
Victory: Court Ends Prior Restraint Against MuckRock
It's great they have a children's union! So nice of them to let the children collectively bargain for a little extra food.
I really appreciate the forthrightness of this answer.
It sounds like Canada is metaphorically and literally playing with fire by turning down help because of the logistical problems. They got help fighting fires from Mexico, the US, Australia, NZ and south Africa last year [1]

Here's some comparisons to the numbers in the article you linked to:
Canada:
700 firefighters, several choppers, 27 air tankers and 46 pieces of heavy equipment deployed to fight 500,000+ hectare wildfire that has destroyed 2000+ buildings.

In Australia, 2013:
2000 firefighters, 90 aircraft, 200 fire engines were deployed to fight a 118,000 hectares fire that cost ~US$50 million and destroyed 250 buildings

Many of the firefighters in Australia (and in the southern hemisphere) are idle at the moment as it's heading into winter. It's very weird that Canada turned down help when so much property is on the line.

Source
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-02/australian-firefighter...
Before the buyout, the firm didn't have that debt! This scenario is a way of converting equity (which costs the firm nothing) to debt (which must be repaid). Of course VC deals can have debt too, but their goal is some sort of equity event, whereas this is almost the opposite of an IPO. The theory is that a PE will buy a firm with the revenue to support such debt payments, or that will have that revenue once the PE partners give it their special kind of love.

Anecdotally, I must disagree with TFA's "...they rarely lose capital..." since the only company I ever worked for that got bought by PE ended up a giant loss.
Quad Core 8051
It's actually less the microphone and more that I recorded this at my coworking space, whose only room for recording is literally a glass box. I'm going to try to find another room to do podcasts in -- the audio engineer flagged it, too, but shipped beats perfect.
> We were seriously considering Git, Jira, and Github.

You were evaluating Git, Not VCS and Git? Looks like your decision was already made.

It seems like you were looking for a project management tool as well, and TFS is both similar to subversion(easy transfer of knowledge) and fills that need. Why Vista's decision was obviously bad is not clear to me.
I like how both the use of ACH by Stripe and Plaid and this story are on the front page at the same time. ACH transactions are interesting but as the article points out reversable as well. All financial organizations agree to reverse them on demand AFAICT. That is why scammers really want you to send them cash via western union or something.

That said, its truly annoying to deal with.
Eh, everyone knows with certainty that everyone else defecates. Almost everyone would be embarrassed to do it in public.
Well, since Facebook said it, it must be true, and immutably so.
It's in iTunes. Sometimes there is a delay for them to crawl the feed. Another issue might be that, if you haven't listened to me recently, your client might not grab updates. (Totally reasonable since nothing was published in several months.)
Really? The fire is over 1000 square km, and there's only like 30 aircraft, right? Plus SA isn't contributing aircraft, only people that have gone through a 10-day "boot camp".

It seems very weird that Russia and the US have nothing to contribute, but inexperienced folks from SA do.
Well, it's an interesting look at a computer pioneer, but here's hoping they add some proper navigation and structure to the site at some point. Like say, categories, templates, that sort of thing.

It's not big enough to need them now, but it seems like it'll get awfully unwieldy past about 30 pages if they're not added.
Why is the US so incredibly backward with day-to-day use of money? As a Kiwi it's like jumping back thirty or forty years in time when I visit.
Yeah, it's not like members of Facebook's board of directors do anything in secret to harm the interests of others.
Why is the world so obsessed with India’s caste system?
Many, I believe, even as quite the Obama-fan. Secret courts & laws is a pretty recent development, so is the reliance on controlled social media vs. uncontrollable media.

I just met George Packer (writer @Atlantic) who said the greatest failure of Obama may end up not dramatically downscaling the scope of the Oval office while he still had the chance. The office has grown so powerful it's a dangerous tool in the hands of anyone less benevolent than the current officeholder.
No actual news, just ACH as it has been for many years. The author was annoyed that credit card companies allow users to pay by "eCheck" without prenote or deposit confirmations.

> The good news is that online ACH fraud is relatively uncommon, just because it’s rare to find an online vendor who will allow you to pay using ACH rails instead of your debit card. The case of paying off a credit-card bill is a unique one, because you can’t use a credit card to pay off a credit card.
I posted this about the MH370 search strategy a week ago, after reading a book on Bayes statistics [0]

[0] - https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5733804/Bayesian_Methods_MH370...
I make $125 cash comp as a manager. Full stack engineers under me typically make $100-120, more dependent on negotiating skills than experience. Fully remote work environment.
I believe such a system is Safer to use for the average customer because the law is on his side. A routing number is (as far as I know) not considered a secret and very judge will rule that it's the banks fault for authorizing the transaction, not the user's.
If the user were to use any kind of authentication (such as typing a pin in a card reader), the bank can claim that it's the user's fault because he used his code carelessly and they are often right, people write the code on cards directly or use their birthdates but even if the pins are random, they can still be easily "cracked" (some people are super skilled in reading them from a distance while others have implemented key loggers in those readers). So you can't really use a password/pin for authentication either (because it is not that secure after all).
In my country, debit cards are quite common and debit cards never use a signature – they use a 4 digit pin instead. If your debit card was stolen, and somebody went shopping with it, you have to pay the bills because you did not protect your pin enough and it's not the bank's fault — they had enough proof for authentication. (I know quite a few people who had bills from $300-2000 after their debit cards were stolen and I can tell you for sure that some protected their PIN properly).

If you have to authenticate a withdraw in any way, the bank will have a better chance to win a fraud case because they had enough reason to believe the transaction was authentic and it is your fault not for protecting your pin or password enough.
The bank might voluntarily rebook the transaction but why even bother if they had to do that anyways (even without a pin). The consumer is not the victim here, the bank who has to get the money back is. So why would you want to fix a system that works in your favor.
That being said, it is unsettling they have the feature.

What feature do they have?
For those who are in to financial markets and investing, if this prediction were true, what moves would you recommend making now and once it happened?
That is approximately the impression I have of the staff in the West Loop office as well. The place feels overstaffed.
Oh, that's awesome. I had absolutely no idea.

This project certainly has been well thought through. Looking forward to figuring it out :D
Does anyone here still use paper checks? I'm 29, living in Australia, and have received maybe 3 paper checks in my entire life.
How should the author of this article be compensated for writing it- if not through ads?
It would be interesting if this crash location was an accidental side effect of a pilot/hijackerhijacker. Making it crash in the most remote location, following a very hard to follow path fully out of sight of modern tech.
Suppose you did all that. And maybe you even pulled it off, and left no tracks. Something else happens, and this is what many fail to realize - human nature kicks in and you get high on your own success. Therein lies your downfall. Name one relatively successful person who's done something wrong or criminal who hasn't been caught by the most insanely stupid mistake, even after not being caught for days, months, years even.

This is why privacy, while it is a legitimate need to shield things like personal info, bank accounts, bills, your own home or communication with coworkers, friends, family, etc, when it is used to shield illegal activities, almost always, if not always, it is to the detriment of the person.

Now, some will cry foul to what I said... "If you're careful enough, you will never get caught".. or the best one, "If you've a group of people to support you (i.e. mafia style :), organized efforts are harder to break"... or "if smart people who are wicked join you..." etc.

Go ahead, try it, I double dog dare you. Come post on HN how it went. Or maybe we'll read about you on Ars or HN, but not from your direct reporting.
I meant that a lottery is an unfair way of allocating tickets.
We have a private office in the West Loop WeWork, because when we got it (just coming off the lease at our Oak Park office) I couldn't imagine working in a shared office.

Erin uses it, but I never do; I just stay in the coworking space downstairs. Generally people aren't very annoying (exception: enthusiastic dial-for-dollars recruiters taking loud phone calls), and the open space is a lot more comfortable.

It's like the good bits of working in a coffee shop with none of the bad bits.

As for the price: even with a private office, I felt like WeWork's pricing was competitive. I could have paid less for an office in Chicago, but it would be much less nice, and I'd have to lease it. Leases are especially painful in the early months of your company, because you have no visibility into how you're going to need space moving forward.

I'm not a WeWork booster. The place feels... let's say, "heavily subsidized by investors". I'm happy to take advantage.
Minor nit pick: XT had one PIC, AT had two.
Rules lawyering with the moderator isn't likely to work that well.
WeWork does a lot of pretending about this, but it mostly takes the form of a social network web application. In the space itself, there definitely is not a norm of networking with the other randos at desks. The place has more of a library vibe than a makerspace vibe.

(I can only speak for the West Loop office, though).
I'm not actually sure that there's that big a markup over all the tickets sold

Most of the big mark up tickets are bought from season ticket packages, which include plenty of dud games that can only be resold at a loss

Averaged over all the games, whatever markup realize can probably be accounted for as taking risk of not selling tickets off the primary sellers (the teams) (especially the hard to sell games on Wednesdays in January when the team isn't the best team in the league)
You mean the leftover blastocysts that are otherwise disposed as medical waste after IVF treatments? I think I'd prefer they use them for medical treatments instead of fuel for an incinerator.
> Government is spectacularly inefficient around here, specially when it comes to building and maintaining roads.

It is around here, too, it's just that people go ahead and pay it anyway. For example, the Alderwood intersection for I5 and I405 took about 30 years to complete. They'd build one set of temporary ramps, then tear them down and build another, etc., etc., etc. You had to pay attention to the signage because it changed constantly, all over the place.
You seem confused. neoliberalism is a term used to critique what certain people told us they were doing. The term is Very Necessary to understand the United States right now. But don't take my word for it!

http://majority.fm/tag/wendy-brown/
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Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately, I think the comments inflict more harm than the good the story logline provides.
Checks can be forged, but passwords can be cracked, and data can be stolen. At the end of the day, it's the responsibility of the company to ensure sensitive information is safeguarded and to minimize fraud. Customers still need to understand and practice good habits, but ultimately this ends up in the hands of one or multiple companies that need to be responsible.
Facebook Does Not Use Your Phone's Microphone for Ads or News Feed Stories...

...right now.
No, it doesn't, because it will never be installed on my phone!
> Calgary was also the provincial stronghold of the NDP

Correction: Edmonton is the stronghold of the NDP. Premier Notley's seat in the Legislature is in Edmonton's Strathcona riding, and I believe before last year Edmonton was the only city to elect NDP MLA's. Calgary has always been a Progressive Conservative stronghold.
> 51% of college graduates voted for Romney in 2012 while only 48% for Obama

What happens when you control for race and gender (c.f. the difference in electoral votes that election when you look only at white men (I think the only state Obama would have won was Washington) )
I think it was inevitable. And probably planned for a second release too. Not that web APIs were lacking, but purely from performance perspective. By then, web was designed for 2GHz/2Gb desktop, not a 200MHz cpu from a dvd player.