skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the bigger problem is that people on bicycles don't always obey the laws which are in place to protect both them and motor vehicle drivers. The parent mentioned cyclists who run through traffic lights and similar infrastructure with wanton disregard for the situation (I have witnessed this many times myself). This creates a situation that is dangerous to everyone involved and is quite illegal. However, there is no recourse as there is no easy way to identify them as you would a motor vehicle as there are no plates or identifying items on the bicycle.

Ultimately I agree that adding plates is a bit extreme, but I think it's also disingenuous to say there is no problem and ignore them.

Edit: I would also like to note that I'm not commenting on motor vehicles disobeying laws in similar situations, they routinely do, however that does not take away from the fact that there is an issue here as well.
BSPs are never updated, so that's a given. But I think he was more likely talking about codecs (no H.265? too bad) or DRM.
The OP asked for 'released source'
Bicycles are banned on sidewalks in most major cities because a head on collision can still easily cause a fatality. When the existing traffic laws on bikes are rarely enforced, this becomes a much more likely outcome as the laws are ignored.
Yup. Anyone who doesn't believe the media narrative = alt right.

Right...
>I don't think non-cyclists realize how much risk you take on when you ride in the city.

That's why everyone should try it! To understand that it's not that scary and to better understand their responsibilities as an automobile driver.
Ooh!! Big Bad Russia!

In comparison, free world good good. Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Michael Hastings, Paul Wellstone, Omar Torrijos, Oscar Romero, Salvador Allende, Mmmm!
My neato botvac seems to forget its wifi settings every couple weeks :(
IOS: Internet of Shit. As JLG notes in the article.

Io[B]T[TSoY]: Internet of (Broken) Things (That Spy on You).
This person never said that they did pass cyclists while it's unsafe. They only perfectly described what actually does happen. As someone who commuted via cycling daily in Sydney for several years, "I just don't see how you can be safe when…" perfectly reflects my own opinion on the matter. It wasn't safe and I could not be safe and I couldn't imagine how I could be safe. I just chose to do it anyway because it was better for me physically (so no as it wasn't suddenly deadly), the environment and it was faster.

One ought to be able to describe shitty reality without others supposing that they support said shitty reality.
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That's okay. Sooner or later they'll get around to integrating ssh into systemd to fix this.

/joking

I hope.
P2P discovery and connectivity within homes is pretty spotty so it's more reliable for all devices to initiate connections to the cloud.
You've had guns pulled on you for riding a push bike?

Only in America.

The worst I ever got when I rode my bike (I also got lazy) was a driver threatening to beat me up (while his wife and kids were in the car) after I had the nerve to turn from the turning lane at the traffic lights. On the other side, my brother pulled a screwdriver on a cyclist once (he's a real piece of work).
Little over a year ago, at Erlang Factory SF, Visa was poking around looking to hire Erlang developers too, not sure what ultimately happened with that though.

The guy from Visa was at Erlang Factory again this year and, from what he told me, the project is chugging along.
> poisonings leave little doubt of the state’s involvement — which may be precisely the point.

Exactly. That was the point of using Po-210 for Litvinenko. The goal was to leave no possible doubt who killed him and for what. It was a warning to all future defectors.

So yes, nobody is safe even outside Russia.

Funny enough during Soviet times US seems to have been considered off-limits for targeted assassinations. But recently there have been two cases (Lesin and Poteyev) mentioned that are a bit suspicious.

Wonder if we'd feel a tiny bit like people where targeted drones attack happen feel. It is abstract when it happens 1000s of miles aways. It is different when it happens in your backyard.

> Other countries, notably Israel and the United States, pursue targeted killings, but in a strict counter-terrorism context. No other major power employs murder as systematically and ruthlessly as Russia

Like others pointed out. That is a great line. It is great because it embodies so much -- expected criticism, hidden guilt, need to rationalize, ideology (War On Terror excuses things).

It is also interesting that as soon as War On Terror started Putin has quickly jumped on-board and also started to claim what they were doing was "War On Terror" as well.

Besides the obvious moral repercussion here, engaging in torture and targeted drone killings has made the "we are qualitatively better than <random country>" a bit of a harder point to make. Even to the level that NYT can't assume it anymore, but rather have to explain it, expecting the obvious criticism.
Is there a rule where everything exists in hashtag form? Just over a year ago #persphinctery

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23persphinctery
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So they remove the urinal and call it a win for diversity? Almost certainly incapable of even seeing the irony in their actions.
One of the lead devs of GoJS here (where Go is short for graphical object). Just wondering: did you consider using our name when starting the project?
If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. There is no magic. Where there is money, there is deceit and opportunistic theft. Don't believe anyone who tells you they will do a job without staging and proof.

Unless you bought those venture-backed rose-tinted glasses for those passionate about whatever the next fad is.

Open your eyes, people... Oh and this just reeks of con.
Pop Will Eat Itself - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Will_Eat_Itself

Hmm, and they're still touring. Wouldn't mind seeing them do "Wise Up! Sucker" live.
We're just starting to get separated bike lines in New Zealand, where the bike lane is on the other side of the parked cars, so the parked cars essentially make a barrier.

It's not perfect, you can still get doored by the parked cars, but at least you aren't going to get run over at the same time.
> Israel is also no friend of the Obama administration to put it mildly.

Why do you say that? I understand US is sending billions of dollars of military aid. AIPAC is active and lively in the US lobbying scene and so on.
This isn't the first time gratuitous "technologisation of stuff" has been proposed, though it seems to be proceeding rather apace.

From 1922, "Radio All the Things!": http://i.imgur.com/TSJnicdl.jpg

(Via: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2015/01/videophones-from-fut... and origionally: http://wi.mobilities.ca/grant-wythoff-aerophone-telephot-hyp...)

Or the original book if you'd prefer: Hugo Gernsback, Radio for All (1922): https://archive.org/details/radioforall00gerniala

I think I know what a radio phone might do. Radio clocks even exist (though a networked NTP timekeeper is more useful). I'm not sure I'd care to fly in a radio-controlled airplane. And I'm utterly perplexed at what a radio heater might be -- unless it's a microwave space heater, or an early instance of Nest.
In NSW it is illegal to pass within 1m of a cyclist. I ride to work, and every single day people ignore that rule.

I have never seen anyone fined for it. Our police/government just doesn't care, and attitudes like yours don't help. Cycling on the road is legal and until it isn't, just saying, "I don't see how it's safe" is irrelevant.

I also drive, but I'm capable of not losing my mind and putting other people's lives in danger to save a few seconds on my trip.

If another road user is going too slow for you, you need to suck it up and find a safe, legal place to overtake.
Did they put wastebaskets and tampon dispensers in the other bathroom? If so, it's not mentioned in this article. It really sounds like they just decommissioned a perfectly good urinal and made everyone's life more inconvenient.
Shouldn't it be PACELC?
Rule of thumb for mobile web (not app, web) is that conversion rate is roughly half (so: 4% desktop web, 2% mobile web). Source: Google analytics of several companies doing > $20mm annually.
I know it's not a popular opinion here, but the only way you approximate or beat desktop web conversion rate and average purchase size is through building a well done, native ecommerce app.
+1. This is also my default recommendation for people from other disciplines who want to get in to professional programing. This is a great intro to understanding how everything hangs together, before going on to learn the framework flavor of this month.
Pulling a gun is one thing. Actually pulling the trigger though? Four whole months in prison…

http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/11/23/charles-diez-gets-120-...
Given that you put the letters together, it is a word. The only question is how many understand it, and which dictionaries (if any) you can find it in.
> people on bicycles don't always obey the laws which are in place to protect both them and motor vehicle drivers

I'm willing to buy an argument that "vehicular cycling" (using the road in a way that's similar to a car) can be safer in certain circumstances and that obeying traffic lights, stop signs, and so on can help cyclists and drivers share the road more safely. I have certainly felt that way when I've cycled in communities that aren't used to many bikes on the road.

On the other hand, the idea that traffic laws are there to protect cyclists just doesn't make sense to me. By and large, traffic laws in the U.S. seem to privilege the material concerns and safety of drivers.
I probably could have been clearer, but my "as a driver..." Was not meant to single the poster out individually, but to apply broadly to all drivers. Many drivers seem to feel that it's their God given right to pass whenever they want to.
Thanks! I bought the book earlier today and am looking forward to it. One of the things I'm interested in is how to construct gate-level emulation in software. I saw a video about 6502 hardware emulation where the guy said his was half-cycle complete. Looking forward to understanding all of that.
I think people tend to think that C lets you go fast because of the tricks it lets you get away with and how “close to the metal” you are. Which is partially correct, but C is also an obnoxiously hard language to optimize because of the flexibility.
I searched the same thing, decided it's probably a pun on "perfunctory" + sphincter-clench-inducing
> No, I mean "undertake the emotionally harrowing and deleterious task of yet again... (actual content)...

Nah, you mean recounting negative events. And people have been recounting negative events throughout history until you people convinced yourselves that pretending things didn't happen is a mature way to solve anything. You seem to have also convinced yourself that this is merely about satisfying someone's idle curiosity, which is IMO a dumb interpretation of all this.

> ...there's definitely a conversation to be had about some of the ways that those "liberal infants" approach problems of inequality and injustice

* perceived problems of inequality and injustice. I agree, there is a conversation to be had about the unreasonable sensitivity and generally infantile manner in which social justice warriors / liberal arts majors behave.

> but I think it's really funny that you use an isolated pseudonym that can't be traced back to you

Really? I don't find it very funny. I'm not making legal accusations about anyone. Why is my identity relevant?
The richest 10% hold 76% of the wealth
Curious, how is Pony's GC superior to Erlang? Erlang's GC is already pretty quick (since the heaps are very small).
What leads you to believe Elixir is on a much steeper adoption curve? I'm a bit surprised by that statement because I've seen a lot of open source projects written in Go (Docker, IPFS, Kubernetes, etc.) but none in Elixir.
Okay, so, I program, do sysadmin work, and all sorts of highly technical stuff for a living.

If it becomes a thing where only that oven can be bought, and all ovens have those insane controls?

I'll quit eating. I swear to God, I will give up eating altogether.
We have those in the Park here. Passengers seem to be less trained to watch for bicycles than drivers, so I wonder if it's actually safer overall.

But that's not the problem I'm pointing out above. So long as cars park in garages under houses and need to cross the sidewalk and cycletrack to get to the street, it will need to be physically possible for a car to cross the cycletrack. So long as that's true (without frequent police intervention) San Francisco drivers will pull into the cycletrack and idle there, trapping cyclists in the path or forcing them into traffic that has even less room for them than it did before the protected path.
Any open (as in secret-less) P2P discovery protocol will eventually be hacked and used by people not-you.

I just wish there was an open standard, secure, home device discovery and management protocol.
Someone will have to teach the US how to run a democracy first.
> I don't find IAM policies to be tricky, to be honest. It may just be familiarity; I have been doing this for a little bit of time now.

Then you are an elite AWS operator, but you also have to think about how to teach and review work from other, less skilled operators working with you. In my experience it's not easy at all to do that with something as critical as IAM, so when I'm orchestrating resources, I heavily rely on IAM policy automation and built-in sanity checks.
Use the bathroom that has the physical accommodations you need (menstrual products, urinals, handicap accessible stalls).
it's not fiction, but reality
It is not hard to blame drivers here in NSW because it is illegal to pass within 1m of a cyclist.

Nobody ever gets fined though, cyclists still just get killed.
You know it's going to happen.
Stop sign/light honoring daily bike commuter here who often scolds cyclists that do not obey the law, but I think you'll find that the statistics do not bear out the danger you present. How many fatalities (or even serious injuries) result from cyclists blowing through stop signs? If you remove the offending cyclist from that stats, I'd guess you're looking at about zero. I do remember a case in PDX a few years ago where a reckless cyclist struck and killed a man, but it is exceedingly rare.
I hope they replace PAM first; I've never had a good experience with it.
Thank you for that article! I have been feeling like that for many months, and whenever I point it out to co-workers or friends, they mention the Apple-universe as the ultimate achievement of interconnectivity. And in a one-vendor universe, the world may be okay right now. Apple did a fine job there.

However, interconnectivity between devices (and software) of different vendors seems to get worse and worse; standards seem to have become irrelevant. Time to market is the only thing that matters and long-term customer satisfaction and durability seem to be of no importance any more. They just don't care about integration with other vendors any more.

When I saw Minority Report (2002) a few years ago, I thought dragging windows and applications across devices with a gesture would be a possibility in the not-too-distant future. Now, in 2016, this not-too-hard-to-develop feature seems almost impossible to imagine. Sharing content between devices is utterly painful or even impossible: copying large files between computers in the same Wifi without going through the Internet; playing a video from your Android phone on a Samsung TV; moving application state from your laptop to your desktop PC when you leave work; playing music from your Android phone in a brand new Audi via Bluetooth ... All of these things are absolutely achievable if vendors worked together or standards were to be developed/followed. Right now, though, it just looks like technology fragmentation is getting worse every day.
BTW: Just saw this was a duplicate by clicking 'past'. I had searched by URL and turned up 0 results. Next time, I'll try to remember to search by page name.
I like physical knobs and buttons on cars too. Not only are they easier and safer to use while riding due to tactile feedback, but they also work when they're off so you can, for example, turn down the volume before turning the car on.
One if the issues I have with CBT is the same that I have with 12 step programs. In both if they aren't effective often the person is blamed, "They didn't do the process right." or "They weren't willing to do the hard work needed.", allowing avoidance of questions regarding the limitations or flaws of the therapy.
My favourite example of this going too far was a toothpaste sold in "day" and "night" formulations, but their Canadian Drug Identification Numbers were the same. Ie: identical products in different packaging.
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Thanks for your supportive comment. I've learned a lot over the past year and a half... As I've said elsewhere, she was doing quite well until the system got its tentacles onto her, and I can't allow them to wreck her like they do everyone else.

There is a lot of interest in mental health on HN... Sometimes I watch /newest, and come across submissions that provide clues for the puzzle.

> I agree with you that something is a bit wrong with Psychiatry. It is in fact a very young field, and there is very little basic science or understanding behind the treatments. This is a frustrating and dire situation for patients suffering from severe mental illness.

The field has been entirely corrupted by the drug industry, who used an incorrect interpretation of the findings science to sell their latest patent medicines. There are some good investigative journalism pieces in the Boston Globe in 2000 about the Prozac problem...

It's especially telling that many of the 1st-generation anti-depressants were anti-serotonin drugs, while 2nd-generation "anti-depressants" are pro-serotonin drugs. There are some safe MAOI's, but these don't get used anymore because of "the cheese problem"... I think the proper use for an MAOI is for a week or two, to get someone out of bed long enough for them to start to take better care of themselves. Then the drug would be discontinued.

I think Depo Provera (the 3-month "birth control" injection) turned my girlfriend into a drug addict, 10 years earlier... Provera doesn't do that to most people, but her history made her especially vulnerable to that particular drug.
If that happens, just embrace the dystopia and switch to an un-food like Soylent.
Oh this is interesting. Do you know people who use PyMC extensively, especially in industry? I'm working on some empirical Bayes estimation nowadays, and it's not unrealistic to think I'll encounter an ugly posterior soon enough.
Before visting the link and reading my guess was some quadratic algorithm in logging code, but after reading it seems to be a sudden jump and the explanation in poettering's fix here isn't clear either:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3191

"On overloaded systems this means that only 30 connections may be queued" --- what is it about logging in (and out) multiple times that causes a system to become "overloaded"? 1000 simultaneous logins might, but AFAICS this bug seems to be about sequential login-logout-repeat.

Edit: this is what's actually causing the problem: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1961
I would support a true separation of all vehicle modes. As an avid walker, I've had far more run-ins with speeding bicycles nearly hitting me (and a few which did hit me) than I have with cars. If it were easy to create a solid separation that would keep cars and bikes separate, and prevent bikes from using sidewalks, count me in, you have my vote and my tax dollars to make it happen.
"Hey were you trying to kill me?" "Yeah, I was"

And people wonder why revenge fantasy is so appealing: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~mjh/spike.html

(I would have at least turned to the kids and said "Hey did you hear that? Your Dad's an asshole!")
This is WeChat in China.
> Very few ships travel around the southern tip of South America

The latitudes between Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula are the only latitudes that have no land (barring the area around the North Pole, which are usually locked in sea ice). As a result, there is a very strong current and very strong winds that make shipping dangerous. Note that most ships prefer the Straits of Magellan--a cramped, dangerous corridor, to passing the open water south of Cape Horn, which should tell you just how dangerous the area is.

> Control of the nine-dash-line area would yield huge economic influence to the controller.

The Strait of Malacca is the real chokepoint, not the South China Sea. The concerns about the South China Sea are largely related to natural resources that may lie in the area. It should come as no surprise that Malacca was traditionally the worst area for piracy--before they started cracking down on it in the early 2000's, it was pretty much as bad as the Somali hijackings that gripped press (and those made press largely because the hijackings had spread from the Gulf of Aden, a consistent pirate menace as far back as Roman times, to the Indian Ocean off of Somalia).
You can blame Apple... they convinced everyone that design was important, so now every shitty company in the world is ineffectually trying to push the boundaries to create something "iconic."

(I only semi-jest... I've seen this process IRL.)
This seems like more of an issue with dbus than systemd, based on the comments on the bug tracker.
I googled for some statistics:

USA

1% of all trips is by cycle [1]
743 cyclist fatalities per year (2013) [2]
population 320 million.

Denmark

17% of all trips is by cycle [3]
33 cyclist fatalities per year (2013) [3]
population 5.6 million.

Cyclist fatalities per 1 million people:

USA: 2.3
Denmark: 5.9

...per cycling frequency:

USA: 232
Denmark: 35

I guess I was expecting worse. American cyclists die only 7x more than Danish cyclists.

[1] http://www.bikewalkalliance.org/storage/documents/reports/20...

[2] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

[3] http://www.cycling-embassy.dk/facts-about-cycling-in-denmark...
Why are these parties allowed to make contracts like that without putting up collateral ?

I can pay a bum on the street 10 dollars to sign his name on a contract like that (that he'd take over these payments in the case of bankruptcy). He would not pay up if it does happen. Apparently the situation is the same with these banks. Isn't this fraud ?

They're signing insurance contracts they know they might not be able to pay up. Why don't we demand that they put the money into a locked account like every landlord on the planet does with tenants ? If you don't have that guarantee on a locked account, not used for anything else, then why is that contract accepted as hedged risk ?
On the other hand, one would expect snakes to suppress the population of amphibians and some ground-nesting birds like nightjars and thus indirectly increase the population of mosquitoes.

So clearly, one would have to also introduce something that eats these snakes, like gorillas perhaps. /sarcasm