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I am a car enthusiast. Rolling through a stop sign is a serious offense for us, and outright dangerous, and can only happen out of negligence. But cyclists seem to do it routinely, as well as passing on red, and don't think it is a big deal.

I am nervous about cyclists both as driver and as pedestrian. When I walk, they can turn out of nowhere where a car is not expected, and they are silent. I can suddenly turn or stop, and a cyclist can happily bump into me, as it has happened more than once.

On the road, cyclists are much more vulnerable than pedestrians (it takes just a light touch to tip over the bike), and they often ignore the basic safety rules like "never pass on red". I mean, I respect your mode of transportation, but please respect ours! I don't want to go to jail, and most cyclists probably wouldn't want to be dead, so it is better to play it safe.
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Yes. I am constantly telling people to switch to email after having contacted them on Facebook, WhatsApp and Quora. It would be nice if there is some enforced standard to exchange personally written information. Why not return to email? Perhaps upgrade email, for example by using utf-8? I have no idea, however, how to create a compatible upgrade path. This would be my wish: Someone should create a feasible upgrade path to email and create a standard which all mayor player have to follow.
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glad meditation has helped ya -- i think everyone gets different things about it. It helps me slow down and be more present instead of worrying about all those career things. It makes me feel a little more connected to the world. It helps me reflect on who I want to be.
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> Never mind the more than 500 people a year that are murdered in NYC and another 500 in Chicago every single year.

It's a war going on outside we ain't safe from
I feel the pain in my city wherever I go
314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago

- K. West
What's the liability situation if you deliver an incorrect footprint?
For this use case, phones are kinda powerful enough.
Not quite though : applying photo filters (even just HDR+ in order to improve the picture) can take a lot of time. I am not sure whether Prisma slowest is due to mobile SOCs or would be helped if they switched to a better implementation though (Google Photos & Snapseed rely heavily on Renderscript and have been able to deliver very fast filters that way)
HDR+ is still slow though .. and I don't think it is unrealistic to ask to see the resulting picture in less than one second.
So better SOCs would help there

Also, for motion design, fluidity is very important : if you miss frames, the illusion is shattered. And that's also important for a lambda user, having things move into place helps in understanding what is going on. When you delete a mail (or have a new one), having the list of emails move into place instead of blinking from one state to the other helps the user understand the event. Same thing for screen transitions.
Android is not quite there yet (and to be fair neither is iOS, it is even surprisingly worse in many regards). Again, it is not entirely clear how much of this is due to software (not java, but the OS debuts as a camera OS, then a blackberry competitor and only after that as a modern mobile OS) but surely better single core performances would help accomplish this and Apple wrecks Android in that specific area.
Let's hope router manufacturers include sensible firewall defaults. They probably won't in many cases, though.
> The key enabler underlying EQ-Radio is a new algorithm for extracting the individual heartbeats from the wireless signal at an accuracy comparable to on-body ECG monitors.

I'm wondering: could this technology be used to detect contraction of other muscles than the heart? Like performing a wireless EMG?
I've decided to flag this article.

Usually I won't flat out say something is racist, because it is about points of view and such; however, these are clearly identifiable biases that stem from British colonialism, and either no longer exist, or never did in any relevant time frame.

Yes, India has a weird culture, by western standards (or several, really). Yes, they have insane amounts of poverty that make even our poorest look positively middle class. Yes, India has cultural roots in sexist practices.

However, this? This ain't journalism, and this is insulting to the memory of what the New York Times once was. This is fear mongering, this is a shock an awe campaign. This has little roots in reality.
If the bikers are to be treated as pedestrians, they better behave as pedestrians. Like, for example, never crossing three lanes at once at heavy traffic, forgetting to hand-signal the turn.
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I would guess this is either an artifact, or a deliberate requirement to avoid patients who are entirely helpless "agreeing" to something because they have no choice/little control/...
Spreadsheets are just small-medium SQL databases with better UI.

The hard part is actually populating the spreadsheet/database and adding value to it. Almost anyone can envision and mock up the usability aspect.
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As a (very very minor) shareholder, I'd rather pay for that than Google+.
Most people value (some) animal life above human life. Could be because nature is sold as an innocent paradise free from sin, or that every animal is the noblest creature on Earth or just because we all have experience with assholes, while our only experiences with animals are them being majestic on the National Geographic Channel. Try giving people the trolley problem with 5 golden retrievers and one adult human male.

Edit: or as one internet meme put it:

A child has fallen in the gorilla enclosure. You hold a gun with one bullet and you can choose to shoot the gorilla to save the child. If you do so, he will make national headlines and lead to discussions that question our morality. If you don't, the child might will be rescued and the gorilla will live out his days in peace in the gorilla enclosure, completely unknown to the world. He will not be as famous. In the end, what do we value more: Harambe or the idea of Harambe?
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Of the 66 comments here at this moment, almost every comment strongly agrees with the article's premise that the US has a "bizarre disconnect between real and perceived danger when it comes to kids".

There's an obvious contradiction: How do we (Hacker News readers at least) agree that this is crazy but society keeps doing craziness like "arresting a mom for letting her kids, 8 and 9, wait at the condo for an hour".
This is the first I've heard of Google's Project Shield. Very cool project, is it relatively new? Does anyone know if this was the result of someone's 20% time or a top-down Google initiative?
I mean yes, but... at minimum it's just another bitcoin fork, like, say, Dogecoin.

Still, given what I expect the time investment was? A worthwhile experiment. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but you probably learn something.
> but can understand the reason why they went with LuaJIT instead.

why is that?

For a text editor I don't see how ludicrous speed would help...

Especially when considering that luajit doesn't compile string operations well; which is what I imagine text editors do a lot of.
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There are plastic fork clips that are used for support when the wheel/axel is not in place.
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Mega-Thanks to the authors of grep (longtime user)
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Washing the feet of an elder or teacher is often a part of ceremonies and is symbolic of respect and is often done during important ceremonies (like marriage).

I've experienced some villages and I'm not aware of any village custom in which this happens daily but it wouldn't not surprise me if it did exist in some places though I suspect it would be rare.

The sentence seems to portray it as something that a girl is forced to do against a wishes - I suspect in reality its just a custom and they don't think twice about it.
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PUC lua is probably the fastest traditional scripting language. LuaJIT is much faster, in particular if you are interfacing with C, as the ffi has zero overhead, while the traditional Lua API is relatively slow. Also the performance is noticeable if you are doing a lot of work in the language too, generally as fast as C code for many use cases if you tune the code.
Interestingly their FAQ says:

Project Shield welcomes applications from websites serving news, human rights, or elections monitoring content. We do not provide service to other types of content, including gaming, businesses, or individual blogs.

I guess Brian’s a reasonable exception.
Sure, with an execution model that is so complex that it takes scientific experimentation to determine the /best/ (in terms of execution speed) to write code to manipulate a simple memory mapped device. (This, from the lecture).

That is so complex, it is the only language that I need the language at hand to read someone else's code. Not a library reference, a /language/ reference.

Indeed, I am maintaing one C++ application. This is a wrapper for CEF3 (https://cefbuilds.com/). This is the Chromium browser as a library. I have to support the library and wrapper on two platforms: Linux 64 bit and Windows 64 bit. Note that the usual Windows build uses the Microsoft C++ compiler. But, I am uses mingw. This requires source code edits to compile! I blame the complexity of the language.

Indeed, C++ is so difficult that the shop I work for (which is, by the nature of our product, very conservative) has gone to Java instead.
@"overuse of resources is a typical pattern" - I don't agree, the drive for overuse of resources may be considered as such but this is hugely species-dependent, and besides a lot of cost-to-gather-resources vs energy-you-get abstractions one can knit oneself into, the main (limiting) factor is and always has been the (ever changing) environment and a sort of equilibrium all systems within are forced to adapt to/operate in(or, extinct).

Without steering even further from the thread, humanity is unable to adapt to the ultimate limiting factor as of today(one can say earths biosphere) and the cause for that is as I pointed out earlier .. at least that's what I came to realize once I dived into all that boring policy/economy more-pr-than-science.

@Patent-law: stumbled-upon a freely-available book about the patent system and its evolution years ago(maybe via HN), I'm not on my PC so can't tell you what the name or authors were(from UCLA IIRC), but one gets pretty upset when reading it :)

@"playing the blame game, or trying to assign causality, is frequently nonproductive and/or fraught" I Don't agree, wrapping one self's mind into a nicely-picked-set of philosophical nuances is whats unproductive. Its like going through academia without ever asking anyone for clarifications/more information on a subject because you were brought-up/"propagandized" into believing that everyone who is asking is a non-productive burden to society. Its time to point fingers even knowing you could be wrong(which should be the default anyway), at least you get some information out of that process ..

@Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity - haven't read that one, but based on your last point, although I do agree that some level of coercion will be present in the society for years to come(since, its a product of "our nature") .. I don't think there is room for critique of a "decentralized system"(other than of a decentralized system made of competing centralized systems), same as there is no room to criticize democracy(once defined properly) because every other competing system was killed-off(no, Churchil was not right). Will give that book a look nevertheless(if only to get some ammunition:)
Leveraging sunk cost fallacy?
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The same is true of any language with similar history.

Do you believe anyone knows Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Ada, Haskell, OCaml, VB.NET, F#, ... across all language versions, the whole standard library, and most used third party libraries?

One always need to focus on a specific domain.
I don't remember finding any interpreter bugs, found quite a few compiler bugs in the early days.
Some segements which are more pious do in fact, consume a small amount of water - but I've not heard of it happening as a daily ritual - only during ceremonies.
I would be tempted to sort of accidentally drop the package, just so that I could guess what it is by the sound it makes.
Democratically legitimated means there is a consensus within of the majority of society, yes.

Society can not cater to every minority, but has to hear them at least out, if they can present a logical argument for their position, and consider that. (See also: Petition laws, Election laws)
I'm a bit younger but also used to walk to school when I was little, but now with a kid, I probably wouldn't let him do the same trip as I did. Growing up, my town had like 2-3 main roads where people tended to drive slow (roads werent that good, holes, etc). I had to cross just one street to get to school (bit less than a mile). Now, it would have been 6 crossings in roads that idiots speed at 70+km/h easily (limit is 40km/h) because their cars now can get to 100km/h in seconds and for whatever reason, they do it (vs growing up and having a car that could actually get to 100km/h was a feat that took a very long road and a few minutes)
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Cython is intended for making Python extension modules. So if the end goal is to make something that you interact with only from Python, then Cython is a good choice. You can still use it to simply wrap some existing library, but ctypes or cffi might then be a bit simpler since it they don't require an added compilation step.
> How do we (Hacker News readers at least) agree that this is crazy but society keeps doing craziness

Because HN readers tend to be an extremely small subset of the general population. General population will happily vote for Trump, le Pen, Orban, Petry and other populists, which in my opinion is equally stupid with arresting parents for growing up their kids "range-free"...

More and more, I have the feeling that "Idiocracy" looks more and more like a documentation of now than a satire.
The guy/girl is actually not so junior any more if he/she realizes this.
> The government CAN do video surveillance though. Both our governments do it. What varies is how its deployed and who has access.

But they literally can not at any point ever do it. Video surveillance of public space is a crime, even for the police, government, or security agencies, and it does not happen.

> COLLECTING PII is seldom the problem. Storing it or promptly and thoroughly deleting it is the challenge. You might argue that you shouldn't have collected it in the first place, and maybe that's true. But given the modern world where we have a rapidly expanding frontier of data analytics, it's actually difficult for real (re: not rhetorical trashbag arguments on HackerNews) people. Often times it's not obvious what PII is until later.

The law literally makes that a crime. You have to stop collection of PII, not just delete it at any later point.
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Have an upvote well deserved. Thank you for making me laugh, even on a serious matter as this.
I feel like the best mentor/mentee relationships aren't based on incentives, but a friendship/concern for one another. A small handful of senior ex-colleagues who I've worked with genuinely look out for me and my career interests. It takes time from their day and often unrewarded intros to their network. Aside from goodwill (and maybe a referral bonus if it leads to a job), there isn't much incentive for them.

If we treat it as transactional, then certain relationships will never foster. For example, if some high school kid got admission to a university I went to a few years ago and wanted my perspective on how to make the most of his education, I have no discernible incentive whatsoever to answer (assuming he can't pay me). Giving a quick response is either useless or hurtful without taking the time to understand his needs and wants. But that kid could probably benefit tremendously if someone took him under their wing.

I think some people want to feel they have accumulated a lot of skills and experience and simply want an outlet to give back in a manner that feels effective to them.

Maybe universities can tell their alumni network that if people mentor new students, they get access to premium recruitment opportunities on campus? Or cities can give tax rebates to people who take an underprivileged youth under their wing. Employers can promote more externship/shadowing opportunites and give invites to the employees. Or maybe senior positions at companies should have "train junior employees" as one of their top job objectives, and alter promotion criteria to bias towards that.
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We did the same in 2006, and are mainly a Java/.NET consulting shop nowadays, but I still use C++ on side projects.

Given language difficulty, while I hope never to maintain C++ code that makes use of SFINAE, Java's simplicity is misleading.

The language might appear simple, but mastering the whole Java eco-system (JSE, JEE, Spring, embedded, Android, features per JDK version), performance monitoring tools, commercial JDKs and IDEs, isn't that easier either.
> This extrovert/introvert label is used in ways it shouldn't. Two kinds of people hide behind being an introvert: assholes and people afraid of other people, often a mixture of both

That leaves out the sizable kind of people who actually are introverts. It strikes me as rather dangerous to take what seems to be a pretty simple observation - people occupy a spectrum from 'enjoying little to no social contact' to 'does not enjoy being alone at all' and we call this introversion/extraversion - and basically arguing that one of the end of the spectrum is 'wrong' and can be fixed. Not to mention the fact that most actual research on the matter seems to indicate that introversion is, at least to some significant degree, innate, and at the very least can be distinguished at such an early age that it might as well be innate.

Honestly, it's not so different in my mind from believing gay people are gay because <insert some self-serving theory> instead of accepting that in lieu of full understand, we should maybe just assume they are actually gay.

Or Christians insisting that non-believers are in denial and even actively rejecting 'the Truth', actively unhappy, and that they have gaping God-shaped hole inside of them.

Or, for that matter, Christians insisting that other Christians are not happy or doing well because they don't have enough faith, are not trying hard enough, or because 'there must be some kind of sin in their life'.

The danger of such statements is that they have massive impact on the group your judging, and that they ultimately can never be fully refuted. What makes it worse is that, in my experience, most 'outliers' - whether gay, autistic, clinically depressed, etc. - already live with a permanent suspicion that they're just not trying hard enough and making excuses.

EDIT: to be clear, I do agree that any of these labels can be used as an excuse, and nothing is 100% fixed. So in context you might be right. I just feel it's important to note that there are many people who are truly introverted, and they should not feel bad or wrong about that.
The overwhelming sense I get reading this sort of article is: if everybody insists on drawing lines amongst themselves how will we ever solve the world's most pressing problems, which are clearly beyond the reach of individual social groups or nations?
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When I read an article like this, the immediate question is "Where is the picture?" It sounds like they don't have one, because this observations is made well outside the ability to resolve an image, and is really a description of a flare of light with certain spectral properties and time dependence.

OK, that's fine, but why does the author not explain any of that? Why do they use words like "an incredible look" and "a team of researchers has captured how the dust surrounding black holes absorbs and reflects the flares produced by a tidal disruption" and "This is the first time we have clearly seen the infrared light echoes from multiple tidal disruption events" without saying that, well, you know, there's actually no picture. Am I the only one who find this weird?
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> the only trick is to implement that detection in code

String entropy scoring works surprisingly well for problems like this: build a corpus of function names (scrape it from github?), generate a markov model, see how probable the candidate function name is according to the markov model.
I think what bothers me the most is "never spend a minute thinking about the vast and misserable rural lower class around them,".

Yes--I'll get hammered over this, but whenever I see those pictures of huge beautiful skyscrapers overlooking absolute poverty below them; I wonder why the upper/middle class isn't sickened by the depravity, and demand change. I don't know how they can sit in their fancy condos, while overlooking people dying in the streets.

And yes--I am very dissapointed in our American middle/upper class who look at homeless/poverty stricken areas in the United States as something that could be prevented if only they "applied themselves", or "If only they got their diploma, or didn't do drugs.". I have seen people step over homeless in New York forever. I never liked the NY attitude. I now see it in San Francisco, and I'm bothered by the attitude. I'm not saying they should take the person in, but complaining about them is just something I didn't want to see here.

I know people in America have become desensitized to homelessness, and poverty, but most of still care, and are very bothered by it. We still have a lot of people who want change, and will hopefully never become complacent about it.

I hope we never become so desensitized, we don't spend a minute not thinking about it.

Being an American is helping out those in need, and not just being o.k. with it. Some people don't understand that about this country.

Some of the foreign push back is not racism; we just don't want to become your country.

(I won't be back to defend this post. And I know some Americans don't give a dam about anyone besides themselfs, or their family, but this county used to be great. We are sadly sliding.)