skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For one thing, the system knows if you’re not actually in motion. More important, it constantly self-corrects, based on data from other drivers.

> “The nature of crowdsourcing is that if you put in a fake accident, the next 10 people are going to report that it’s not there,” said Julie Mossler, Waze’s head of communications.

This sounds like something solvable with a farm of Android VMs and fake location data. Get an estimate of how many cars are cutting through the neighborhood, spin up enough VMs to out-vote them, feed Waze fake location data (pretty sure you can do this through developer options, though I don't know if Android supports spoofed motion specifically), and simulate an accident or some other blockage.

On an unrelated note, if you're stuck in traffic, wouldn't there still be a lack of motion? That seems like a weird sanity check. It's probably an oversimplified description of what's actually being detected against (stop-and-go versus just standing there), but it sounds like even this check could be defeated with an ordinary GPS-enabled smartphone and a bicycle.
>> According to this essay, about 3% of men will get falsely accused of rape in their lifetime: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/17/lies-damned-lies-and-so....

>> The real number is impossible to determine, but is uncomfortably high.

> May I argue that it is uncomfortably low? The estimated percentage of women that are the victims of sexual assault is an order of magnitude higher.

If I'm reading you correctly, you seem to think the solution to the problem of rape is to falsely report more men?

How does arresting non-rapists for rape prevent rapists from raping?
jacobappelbaum.net is hosted on github at:

https://github.com/cephurs/jacobappelbaum.net

Cephurs was an op in a channel run by the law enforcement folks who took down LulzSec:

http://www.xeroflux.net/uploads/Operation_Anon_Rat.pdf

Kinda suspicious.
Quoth Spolsky: "All nontrivial abstractions are leaky."

This means you still have to deal with it.
And the other way around? What if you had a big existing submodule in JS that you wanted to make use of within an Elm app? Is that doable?

One of the things that's really attractive about React is that there are already a lot of components you can drop in to handle behaviours for you. If I could somehow utilise those within Elm, it would lower the entry barrier for me.
"The people who take a short cut to save time are probably not the ones who are willing to go 20 miles an hour looking for kids on bikes, house cats in roads, etc."

This is the problem.

Where I live, people taking shortcuts roll thru stop signs and bomb down side streets, peering at their phones, speeding up as needed to validate their choice of this time-saving shortcut.

The local cops (LAPD) have bigger things on their plate than traffic scofflaws, so it leaves residents with little recourse.

The abstract principles here ("it's a public road") don't translate well into what is in reality a complex situation.
I'm one of the authors of this piece, which was produced by a YC-backed non-profit trying to revolutionise careers advice (80,000 Hours). AMA!
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Given Musk's legal jujutsu w/ SpaceX and ULA I think Tesla is much less susceptible to similar issues.

It's just anecdotal evidence but it seems like Telsa has plenty of momentum and real tangible products.
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Craigslist is not responsible for what is done with hammers acquired through its website.
a) I don't know, it was a guess from experience.

b) Sometimes people cry 'ad hominem' after any statement that refers to the debating party ('you') and I wanted to avoid that.
Allan and Steven are fantastic guys. Great to see them finish a successful exit.
The comments seem to back up Nick's character and his story about Jacob Appelbaum
Technically that says they "shall not be liable" for those things if they comply with the DMCA takedown process. It doesn't say anything about what happens if they don't.

There is some caselaw about what happens in that case (e.g. Grokster) but it's more complicated than "if you link to The Hollywood there is jail."
It's automatable. But the old saw is that anything you need Simplex to show is probably pretty obvious anyway.
So wait, you entered, and they just pulled a gun? They weren't trying to get you to leave?

> Especially well for them, considering they were involved with breaking, entering and theft.

You implied that they weren't involved, that some other group was, and they had just stayed there.

I've never had my home invaded, do I need to be personally affected to sympathise with it?

You don't know me either, I'm just taking your post at face-value. it suggested you turned someones place upside down, despite having only the suspicion that they associated with the people that took it.
Scientists attempting to harvest human organs in pigs create human-pig embryo
Angel List's salaries are literally a joke. It's not hard to find something like "senior full stack developer; salary: $1,000 equity 0.0%" or "co-founder salary $0, equity 0.0 - 0.05%"

It's completely useless. I can't imagine who you'd actually attract with these ads, because you literally can't pay the rent with this money and the equity for senior positions is insulting.
I understand the benefits of diasporas settling in one city, just surprised it's one in Minnesota.

In the UK the smaller diasporas all seem to end up concentrated in London. My favourite exception to this is Ugandan Asians fleeing Idi Amin, the majority of whom chose to settle in Leicester, a city many of them first heard of through adverts Leicester City Council took out in the Ugandan press addressed to "the many families in Uganda considering coming to Leicester" urging them not to come; they've been one of the UK's most successful minority groups ever since.
Awesome! I presume you're a mass murderer. Prove to me you're not.
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The author of this article started his first day on the job after University at Twitter today. Please send him your best wishes!
Those trades are still just the public ones - a trade doesn't need to have an official paper trail involving every intermediate buyer.
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You could just create a communication scheme between the two parts. They're basically 2 sides of the same coin. I promise it's easy and great!
The State of Steam Machines, 7 Months After Launch
The article is ok I guess. Although I think this is more a book plug than true analysis. I've often thought of the tesla/tucker parallel and how hard it is to get a foothold in a capital intensive business as a start up. However I don't think the parallels stick. Tesla has built and delivered a sizable number of cars. I think the political influence of the big 3 is much lower now as well. For tesla, I think that it's survival hinges upon delivering the model 3 on time and at high quality. Along with a lot of other things going right as well. I probably make about 50k too little to comfortably afford a model x but I would love to own one some day. Quirks and all.
Ask HN: As a developer, how can I get better at design and UX?
Hello,

I'm the sole developer of a SaaS product. Long story short, I'm great at backend and frontend development when it comes to functionality, and getting things done.

However, when it comes to creating a "nice looking" site/app that looks and feels good, I suck. I'd like to get better. Any strategies to get better besides "Keep trying and learning from your mistakes"?
Please stop assigning responsibilities to the victims of abuses.
Why home 3D printing never lived up to the hype
Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature
Contempt is not a basis for taking down a website. If the only 'encouragement' for certain groups to use a site is the political opinions of the owner, then that is not a legal problem.
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Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how this is any more interactive than a YouTube video.
This entire conversation is so screwed up.

You're not open-minded or forward thinking just because you oppose people who aren't open-minded or forward thinking. Both sides in a debate can be discriminatory. You're propagating stereotypes which are harmful (re: the fedora comment).
Bottled water is used for like 1000x more applications then "thirst quench". For example - I just watered my garden with it.
There's also robotic transmissions mostly on Japanese cars that are "automatic" but do have an internal clutch requiring you to take your foot of the gas to switch gears, I've used a car with one and it did promote more civil driving since you could not just bottom out the gas.
That's because a lot of us don't want to let anyone know exactly when we'll take up arms, especially the more they have to lose and the more covert they might want to be about it.

Me, I have a number of declared lines in the sand, the first and most obvious is required registration of all firearms. Although the kinds of enemy of the state I'd become is not so obvious, e.g. I won't start wacking government officials. On the other hand, other people [censored by dang, but please don't open that door].
> Am I just too lazy to make things npm modules, or is there something larger at play here?

Yes. If you want to re-use your JavaScript, build small CommonJS modules. ES6 modules are here, but the loading part is still TBD.

Use Browserify or Webpack to package up the modules if you want to use them in the browser.
I was responding to

>This can theoretically be more efficient than growing plants under sunlight

Which doesn't seem to be talking about all of the other externalities, just about sunlight vs man made light.
People that have a million in stock from a previous exit that don't need the money for a few years?
Yeah they do, if you don't feel like going to jail.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/08/matthew-mar...

So once again, I ask what is the mechanism that allows you to trust your fellow DAO investors? What are the protections the DAO has against the classic Ponzi scheme or Pyramid Scheme?

Again: the DAO is a baby in a young field. I'm sure eventually a digital scheme will be invented that addresses these concerns. But from my understanding, the DAO is not a good digital scheme yet. Maybe a future project will be better at addressing real concerns and solving real issues. Or maybe the DAO will be able to self-mutate itself to solve the issues that truly do arise.
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I'm pretty sure there are laws against posting fake signs on government-maintained roads.
Four years since World IPv6 Launch: entering the mainstream
I'd argue that the functional part of all APIs is nearly identical and that the creative part is what differentiates them.
In my view, the "entitlement" card can be played on anybody, which makes it meaningless.

For instance, "Nobody owns this street, so I can do whatever I want with it," could be portrayed as being equally entitled.
Of course their claim is worth something. Everybody is suspicious now of Jacob Applebaum, which is exactly the intended outcome of a smear campaign.
I think that your explanation would probably suffice to keep it from being banned. In the case highlighted in the article, the entire purpose of the program is to target people for harassment. They apparently didn't even pretend to have some other legitimate motive.
Am I the only one who's reminded of the Excel 97 easter egg?
That last part sounds pretty cool, how is this sort of thing being encouraged?
Tesla has also delivered the Roadster,Model S, and Model X already. Worst case they will probably be scooped up by a competitor, though based on Musk's record that likely won't happen.

From the armchair.
Yep most of them use a single speed fixed ratio transmission usually with only a reverse mode gear switch.
> Well, didn't it become an Xbox game long before it became a PC game?

No, Bungie started working on Halo, and announced it at Macworld before the Xbox even existed.
Doesn't seem like a big exit?
Nope. I am frustrated that the tool for discussing some software projects is one which doesn't allow multi-line comments.
The people who I've personally known that migrated from Aus to the US do so for very lucrative economic reasons (job in software development or Hollywood) or for love. I don't think anyone is going to move in either direction between the two countries in search of a significantly better life.
> What's so important about Appelbaum that he'd be a state-level target?

Uh, maybe because he could roll over on Assange?

I have personally witnessed mysterious people engage Jake in conversation, try repeatedly to get him to admit to committing fraud in the course of his security research, and even try to literally hand him incriminating evidence presumably to get his prints upon it.
Shouldn't the comparison be with the number of rape convictions, not the number of sexual assault convictions, since he was bringing up the number of DNA overturned rape convictions?

I've not been able to find the number of rape convictions in 2012. I found a claim of 85000 rapes in 2012 [1], and claims that 3-10% of rapes lead to a conviction.

If one really wanted to do this right, it would be necessary to look at what fraction of those who are convicted and claim they are innocent are able to get a retroactive DNA test on the evidence, and also take into account that such testing often comes after years in prison and so the comparison should be taking into account the rape convictions in the year that someone was sentenced, not the year they their conviction was overturned.

Considering that I was not even able to find a good number on the number of convictions by year, though, I have no hope of reasonably finding the information necessary for the aforementioned analysis. I've been noticing this kind of thing (not being able to find some statistics that I would have expected to be trivially findable in an intuitively obvious way by the most casual searcher) happening quite a lot over the last couple of years, and it puzzles me.

[1] http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/australia.shtml
How has it proven that? What I find interesting is that early on, our immigrants were predominantly from developed nations. Over time, this shifted more and more to developing nations. To me that seems to indicate that we're not seen as the land of opportunity among first world nations any longer. There are better options with more economic mobility and social services. Unless gun ownership is your primary motivating factor for immigration, there are many places where the working poor are better off going.
haha I smiled cause I can tell you're super friendly; you even gave me 'critique-sandwhich' where you end off with a compliment after all the criticism (thank you for that!)

With regards to dental surgery, I wonder if I were to call up some dental offices and ask for a price quote on surgery type X or surgery type Y if they would give me a price quote. (Not that that's the only factor your friend would choose for surgery. It could be a starting point).

I agree, a lot of the problems arises from 'how much you know about local service you are trying to get'. My friend thought she needed new rear drums and shoes, but didn't after we got inspected by a friend.

Hmmm you're definitely right with Physiotherapy, I wouldn't go on just price myself either.

Maybe I've got a strong case just for my specific car problem, but this doesn't extend well to other local services.

But with like computer repairs, I think it would be nice to just see a comprehensive list of what's out there accompanied with their prices, GeekSquad and IT-hobbyist included.

Hmmm you're right that the bigger challenge is properly defining problem, market, solution-fit. I have to find good use cases like the car one I had.

Btw thank you for all of this! I really appreciate that it jogged my brain and gave me some new ideas on what to do next!

What do you think of the above?
I'll keep saying it: The most cost-effective way to advance math and hard science research in the United States would be for some person or organization to put down $1 million to hire some developers to produce an enterprise-quality replacement of LaTeX, with an editor. It ought to be somewhere between LaTeX and Markdown in complexity. The amount of grad student, post-doc, and professor time that is wasted dealing with LaTeX is staggering. There's just no reason any should need to spend, e.g., an hour to figure out how to get columns working.
>you're intentionally ignoring the facts about prevailing wage (PW)

>H1B visas are only increasing supply for jobs that pay above the PW, not "all" jobs

Wait, I think I see part of what's going on here: you're completely confused about how the term "prevailing wage" plays into this context.

Look up what the requirement really means. It's linked in one of my comments above.
> What attack is this even preventing - that someone will be able to reverse ssh public keys and get the private? A better approach is to generate a unique key per client so that if you lose access to a device you can remove only its public key.

I don't think this is about security. Just about privacy.

Some people don't like that they can be identified by their public key. eg (I think) github allows public viewing of a specific users public key, and that allows other services you use with your public key to know your github account etc.

It's not a mainstream privacy concern, but there are some privacy oriented people that worry about it.
I'd never trust installing their apps on my phone. The Facebook app admittedly listens to the microphone. So Facebook messages will largely become a black hole for me too.
Advanced control systems could certainly prevent instability causing the upside to become the downside.
> Your comment I would classify as obviously non infringing. Two obvious differences (not the only two): you haven't linked to anything, and you aren't being paid any money for your comment.

If that's not linking, then the pirate bay doesn't link either. They supply a description and a SHA1. You have to locate the content yourself. You have to locate the people that have the content yourself.

What if TPB didn't have ads?
There's an important difference between streets (paved surfaces within a built-up area) and roads (an improved path connecting two points). They're different things with different purposes. The goal of streets is to enable valuable economic activity between the people and property on it, while the goal of a road is to connect separate economic areas. If you close a street to vehicles, it's still valuable, since you can walk down it to buy groceries. If you close a road to vehicles, it's basically pointless.

Basically, the problem boils down to suburban streets being too hospitable to vehicular traffic. Remove the center dividing line, remove street parking, and narrow the street down to 18 feet wide at most (this provides just enough room for two SUVs side-by-side). Allow redevelopment up to the new desired edge of the street to make it even more visually narrow. Nobody is going to commute through these kinds of streets.

And an alternative for the low-density suburban junk - replace the asphalt with gravel when it starts needing repairs. Seriously. It's both cheaper and discourages through traffic.
Wow that pesudo pop up after 30 seconds is a terrible thing to do to your users.
Elm is the coolest, best programming language ever made for practical purpose and adoption by the mass...that cannot be used for practical purpose and the mass because the FFI for libraries is a private API (the "public" FFI only let's you interop within your own application/world, making it hard to wrap libraries or build libraries that do interop).

So it's basically a language we desperately want to use, but can't.
The other side to the Silicon Valley magic
Extreme sampling bias.

Startup has opening -> Can't fill it with people in their network -> Can't fill it with people who come to them -> Resorts to Angel List posting -> Angel list posting stays online longer because they have trouble filling it -> high turnover means the job ad stays up forever or keeps getting reposted.

Great jobs tend to skew toward the left side of that funnel = sampling bias.
They should've horizontally centered the US on the map so that that immigrants from Asia/Russia don't have to jump across the map.
Check out where DC's workers commute from – Greater Greater Washington
:) Ok, I'm going to take your word for it! Hopefully I should get to that stage tomorrow and it will all become clear.

It's not that I even have a clear picture of what I need to achieve but with each of these different tools I'm trying to poke at them to see where they fall down. So far, Elm feels the nicest, but it's the smaller ecosystem / lack of libraries that's the most obvious shortcoming so I'm trying to understand what the options are for interoperability on that front.
What I wanted to do was map offers to startups (so I could at the least tag smaller startups), but the AngelList API intentionaly omits the startup name/information from the Jobs endpoint. I'm annoyed.
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From the people who brought you Microsoft Project...
It depends on the kind of groups/organizations you write code in. In some, I think such strong statements are necessary.

You can mitigate the dangers of pickle by educating junior devs or people new to python, by having a strong culture of code reviews with experienced reviewers, by having a style guide that explicitly prohibits pickle except in exceptional cases.

... Or you can just not use it in the first place and make it trivial for newcomers to your codebase to use safer serialization methods.
I believe that was the joke...
Indian Students Lured by Recruiters Asked to Leave University
Firefox on Linux as well (Xubuntu).
T-Mobile is giving every customer a share of its stock
was the work of Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers part of the 60 studies you analyzed? they give pretty compelling evidence that the Easterlin paradox is not well-founded [0]. this seems to contradict your points claiming that money != happiness.

[0] http://www.nber.org/papers/w18992