skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
beyond agreeing with just about everything in the article, a few points to add/emphasize:

* speed limits are set at the 85th percentile of speeds to minimize speed variance, giving slow drivers a target speed and thereby making them go faster than they might otherwise go (but still at a safe speed).

* larger variances in speeds correlate with both greater traffic and frustration. if highway patrol could enforce just one law, it should be that drivers should move to the right if they are not passing cars on the right. this allows faster cars to clear out of congestion, increasing the overall average speed and throughput for a given section of road. it also reduces overall frustration.

* traffic enforcement as a revenue generator creates a perverse incentive and adversarial relationship largely exacerbated by artificially low speed limits. let's abolish those limits and bad incentives and give the police more time to develop relationships within their community.

* change the term "speed limit" to "safe speed" on signs (along with commensurate fines/laws), because that would have the same normalizing effect on speed variance, while also removing the revenue incentives for police.

* distracted driving is the real killer on the roads, not speed. changing roads to make them more hazardous (like narrower lanes, obstructing sightlines) probably reduces distracted driving more than it reduces speeding (just my conjecture), and thereby lowering accidents. i don't mind narrower lanes and such, but i'd advocate separating cars from bikes and pedestrians as much as possible so that cars can still move at a good clip while providing greater safety for pedestrian and bike traffic.
I will still need to pass thebpath to the kernel. If I ipen a 3GB filename'd file the kernel will have an issue.
Which RFCs did they propose the solutions in?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51qqzFE0rsw
There is no correlation between temperature and CO2 level. – K. Denninger
>Economists are very worried about the decline in labor’s share of U.S. national income.

This is not U.S. centric problem at all. Labour share has been in decline in all OECD countries since 70's.
Excuse the pedantry: Biennial is every 2 years ;-)
Using Neo4j for Call Detail Records (CDR) Analytics
Yahoo has a really crummy recovery system compared to the big 5. If things really go wrong, Google will let you recover your account provided authorized forms of identification -- obviously forgery is an issue and Google is very thorough with regard to this (like checking if the account is still being used by the regular IPs or has gone inactive.)

Yahoo on the other hand basically tells you "go fuck yourself." I literally had a Yahoo agent curse me on the phone after I asked for the supervisor. And then she hung up. I gave up on recovering my parents' yahoo account. Yahoo deserves the demise it suffered. Unlike the big 5, its processes are kludgy, even when it comes to customer service and people stuff. Good riddance.
All these "generic" apps like notes, photo, project management etc will all be bought once they become successful and be consumed by one of the existing giants in the space. On one hand I would love to try out all the latest and greatest apps. On the other hand, I already know that they will either a) shutdown OR b) sell my data OR c) show ads or some such nonsense.

Why can't people just build products and ask for money upfront? Is bootstrapping really so out of fashion? The startup agenda is either make a billion dollar company or go home. Nothing in between. Very sad (I even saw Sam in some video last week asking 'how do you become a monopoly'?) Why this obsession to grow massive?
Lots of countries had widespread Chemical weapons usage.

Iraq used chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program

Israel used white phosphorous till 2013: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22310544

the Soviet Union was accused of using chemical weapons in afghanistan: http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/afghan/report.pdf

The UN stated that Cuban units used VX as well as Sarin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_warfare#Angola

even the vietnamese used chemical weapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_border_raids_in_Tha...

None of these examples include the use of chemical weapons in WWII or WWI. During these wars most major european countries used chemical weapons of some kind.

these instances don't excuse their usage, But I don't believe much is gained by pretending the rest of the world is blameless.
Next time, run `optipng -o9 -strip all` on all your png files!
Direct link to web book: https://checkmarx.gitbooks.io/go-scp/content/
In my experience, all this does is create a dangerous speed differential between the people who go 80 regardless of the posted speed limits, and the people who follow the speed limits with room to spare.

And it's the large differentials in speed which create the most dangerous conditions and accidents.

Even rigorous enforcement can't catch everyone, and the high speeds quickly become the norm; with people going 65 the dangerous exceptions.
I've been pretty happy with my Pixel XL's camera (easily keeps up with the incremental improvements in cell phone cameras over the years) but I also appreciate how they didn't make this into too much of a puff piece where they "hand wave" away the amount of work still needed in Photoshop or similar.

The takeaway is that with some effort and intelligent use of other software tools, you can put together a nice image with all sorts of lower-end cameras. The bit at the end about hopefully adding some of this functionality to software available on the phone was a nice touch, as I imagine all of the big players are always working on that sort of thing.
3 daily tech stories on Tech Titles – Episode 2
So same outcome, just less violent and voluntarily vs military intervention? I don't think that's the outcome the leadership of NK are looking for.
I like that it centralizes payments, like PayPal. So I wouldn't have to have 10 different websites who all want to store my debit/credit card info themselves.
Ha! I'll try to add some decimal points for sub $.01 sites.
Even if vomit isn't a common occurrence, there's wear and tear and empty soda cans and it means you can't leave stuff in your car.

The broader issue is that, if this sort of thing were to become commonplace someday, why wouldn't it just become a race to the bottom where your income/mile =~ operating costs per mile. (Or, even more likely as with Uber today for many people, operating costs per mile as calculated by a lot of people who don't really understand their full operating costs.)

Maybe fewer people will buy cars and more will use robo-taxis. But loaning out your car to compete against fleet operations does not sound like it would ever be a good deal.
Behavior-driven development (BDD) tools are designed to help with this use case: sitting down and defining the high-level criteria for functionality.
Microsoft has partially fixed this in Windows 10 but it is not simple or easy. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeremykuhne/2016/07/30/net-...
Taking some random samplings of the content, this appears to be mostly rehashed OWASP Wiki content with some random, incomplete Go snippets. The password hashing content is particularly bad (unsurprising, since OWASP's password hashing content is bad). The sections are inconsistent (for instance: the crypto section recommends "AES", demonstrates [without explaining] AES-GCM, and the data protection section recommends Nacl). Very little of it addresses any kind of pitfall of programming in Go. There are places where the authors seem confused about basic Go data types (for instance, between slices and maps).

I assume this is just a starting point, and I get that bootstrapping a book from OWASP content is a legitimate way to create a starting point; I'd just say: this is definitely an early starting point.
Hey, that's my PhD advisor on the steering board!

So clearly it must be legit :)
> Make one wonder if some things we use are the 'radium' of the future

Microchips which want to connect to the internet.
Probably because some people values clear rules that are enforced; not because they actually want to a slower commute.
yeah I definitely should have had the roots on there, there were a few major omissions here that people have accurately pointed out. to answer your earlier question, no particular goal in sharing this on hn, just thought it would be fun to encourage people to listen to music that they may have avoided in the past and get feedback from hip hop fans.
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Reducing accidents, injuries, and fatalities are is what really desired -- not reducing speed. This seems to be an argument for making roads more dangerous because people slow down when things are dangerous.

The government recently increased the speed limit on a long highway I take a few times a year. Honestly a lot of people were driving at or below the limit and I felt no reason to speed. The highway also seemed to move better and felt a lot safer with fewer lane changes needed.
Not sure why critical thinking is in quotes - critical thinking is a real thing. It's connecting conclusions with premises that lead to those conclusions, so that if someone else started with those premises, they'd also arrive at the same conclusions. It's not a different opinion or perspective, and it's not pompous - it's by definition something that can be shared across all opinions and perspectives.
It's not just the ticket. It's the whole legal machine spinning up and siphoning a pile of money off of you:court costs, lawyer/legal fees, auto insurance increases for the next x years. And as you've mentioned, time away from productive work.

The ticket is only a small part of the actual costs.

And even worse, while this combination-punch can be irritating to middle- and upper-class folks, it can be financially devastating to someone living on the edge of sustainability.

But then, somebody has to pay for all those shiny new Police Intercept cruisers, SUVs, tactical body armor, new weapons & training, drones, robots, etc. etc. etc.
To this point, the files in the install are compressed, and I'm sure XML metadata is the sort of thing that compresses well with the DEFLATE algorithm they likely use.
One interesting reason for imposing speed limits on some sections of German highway is to reduce road noise. It's not always a traffic engineering reason.

The article talks about differential speed and lane discipline. In Germany, it's not rare to see people driving 250 km/h (155 mph), but some heavy trucks are restricted to 80 km/h (50 mph) regardless of the speed limit. Germans are very strict about lane discipline though. It's generally illegal to pass on the right or be in the left lane when not passing, and someone who puts their turn signal on to move left will usually respond to a flash of the headlights from an approaching car and wait for it to go by.

As an American who has spent a lot of time in Germany, and driven across Texas a few times, I sometimes wish for German style speed unlimited-speed highways in the US, but I think it would be hard to get American drivers to adopt German attentiveness and discipline.
That seems like it has some value for super large teams. I guess the thing I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is the workflow for a tool like this. My current understanding is that you'd need:

1.) Design your thing in Sketch

2.) Code your thing in a text editor

3.) Port your code over to this new tool to see it rendered in Sketch?

Like I said. There's some value there (accounting for the changes between 1 & 2), but the workflow feels weird. Maybe someone from AirBnB design can jump in and enlighten me.
>>The thing is, the reason you think this way is the same reason why you won't be as successful as her.

If you define success as "has money" then yeah, probably. But that's okay, I don't need nearly as much money as MM. Money, after all, has significant marginal utility. The difference between having $10M and $50M is not that much, unless you have extremely expensive hobbies.
There's actually a class action lawsuit related to this issue [1]. I first read about it here [2]. I've got a Nexus 6P too and it's great except for the battery and shutdown issues. Mine will shut down at like 20% or so so it's very usable, but it's often at night when I most need to use my phone (calls, rides, etc).

[1] - https://chimicles.com/google-nexus-6p-battery-early-shutoff-...

[2] - https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/21/lawsuit-takes-aim-at-goo...
Good article.
I am unsure about point 7 "Consider changing where you live"
I accept that for some careers this might be inevitable but in a truly connected world it's also nice to follow the opposite advise and spot opportunities where you are
(I repeat my comment from 3 years ago¹:)

I think nobody argues that it adds security. The problem is that:

1. It adds very little security: 16 bits is not much, and the result is not 256 bits (say) of SSH key plus 16 bits equals 272 bits, but instead effectively still 256 bits, or 256+8×10⁻⁷³ bits.

2. The security it adds is itself bad (sent in cleartext, easily brute-forced)

3. These problems stand against the many drawbacks of this previously discussed (complexity, confusion, etc.).

And the final argument: If increased security is what you want, simply increase your key lengths and/or password lengths, and you will get much more than 8×10⁻⁷³ bits of security, without any of the above problems.

① https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617312
Instead of burning cash by subsidizing travels, Uber could have just bought some competitors but still... The only chance Uber has is becoming a monopoly, and I don't see how they can achieve it.
Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't
Or you have creative types running the show and what I like to call "programming with Photoshop" -treating programming as drag and drop.
what mystery? pay raises haven't kept up with productivity increases. there's also kinds of macro-econ handwaiving that will attempt to drill down into this issue but at a fundamental level worker pay is at the discretion of their managers. the problem is the management culture that distributes profits with extreme preference to shareholders and almost no regard at all for the workers.
Contact the google store about this -- this is something they should replace.
> But if I get rich and blow my fortune on luxury goods so what?

This. Exactly. What prompted you to say this? Do you think if you do get filthy rich, you will follow through on blowing your forture on luxury goods? If so, what prompted you to feel this urge??
"The concept of the service mesh as a separate layer is tied to the rise of the cloud native application. In the cloud native model, a single application might consist of hundreds of services; each service might have thousands of instances; and each of those instances might be in a constantly-changing state as they are dynamically scheduled an orchestrator like Kubernetes. Not only is service communication in this world incredibly complex, it’s a pervasive and fundamental part of runtime behavior. Managing it is vital to ensuring end-to-end performance and reliability."

https://blog.buoyant.io/2017/04/25/whats-a-service-mesh-and-...
Germany is also the most stressful country to drive in I think. You usually have three or four lanes - 80 kmph truck lane, 140 kmph standard lane, 200 kmph I'm slightly crazy lane and 250 kmph I'm a loonie lane.

When you accelerate from the 80kmph to the 140kmph you better have a good engine or you feel stressed like hell slowing everybody else down.

And keeping right all the times just creates a lot of unnecessary dynamics in traffic flow.

Don't even get me started on congestions when everybody slams their breaks and hit the warning blinkers.

German traffic is for macho wannabe race drivers.

I rather have US traffic or the traffic in the Netherlands where everybody just set their cruise control and drive casually.

In the Netherlands they also have trajectory speed checks, so you cannot speed anywhere from point A to B, since they clock your total time. Works wonders for getting a nice steady flow on the highway.

My 5 cents anyway.
Neither I. I'm 6'4" and I think I'd probably spend most of the 8-hour work day tripping over everything.
How so? Technically & legally they can find out that the IP address belongs to you / your computer, and will investigate (not that it necessarily means guilt).

I highly doubt that an individual who commits a serious crime over the internet without masking their IP won't be investigated.
I guess that's one the reasons they created https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd-tcp
Mandatory textbooks that happened to be authored by the professor or department head also had a variant - the collaboration work of different authors writing on some topic together.

At my university there were campuses hundreds of miles away from each other so I imagine the department also had to pay for the travel and other arrangements needed to get these collaborative textbooks written.

One of these textbooks that I had to buy for the usual massive price was one of the collaborative efforts. However, for the purposes of the degree at the campus I was on, only needed the bits written by our head of department were needed for the syllabus, the rest of it was out of scope.

To use a software analogy it was like buying the student version of MS Office when you only needed Word and not the other bits of the bundle. That would mean carrying 43 discs around instead of just the 7 discs around. So you see the problem of carrying a huge textbook up and down a hill every day.

I never understood why the lecturers did not produce, update and polish proper course materials that did not require outside materials except for pure reference. They had expectations on us to do homework but I wasn't seeing the results of theirs.
> alleviating traffic for many many years to come

This never seems to happen in practice tho, from what I understand. Traffic always seems to 'magically' expand to match capacity.
One of these: http://sources.hipchat.com/
And the policy response in the UK so far is let's get your children more buried into debt!
Waging foreign policy based on morality over tangible interests has a poor track record. Korea isn't Germany. We could count on West Germany bouncing back on its people and industry. North Korea would involve cultural engineering on a scale and at a depth without precedent. Cost estimates regularly wander into trillions of dollars, and that's just for the first few years.
Well, true velocity as reported by the car. Slop in the drivetrain, tire inflation differences, temperature differences... these can add up to up to 10% differences between your speed as reported by radar/gps and what your car measures from the drivetrain.
I don't think money is the issue. Journalists have their own agenda and tweak and omit accordingly.
Interesting that "In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income”"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194803

...was posted 3 hours before this one.
> Both my kids are in SFUSD schools, and San Francisco actually has a large number of 10/10 rated schools.

If their problem with California was lack of good schools anyplace they could afford to live in the state, why on Earth would you point to one of the most expensive places in the state and say it has some good schools? To address it, you need to point to someplace affordable in California that has good schools.
New York Giants / Jets comes to mind as well.

On top of that, there are other competitive factors involved, e.g., in Baltimore, the Orioles and Ravens generally can't be playing mass-attendance games at the same time because they are too close together, and share parking infrastructure. That of course has to be scheduled around.

Beyond that, there's the rather mundane reality that stadiums aren't just used for sports. Even during football season, megastars like Beyonce and the Rolling Stones need venues to play in. And of course, stadiums are loaned / leased out for a panoply of other reasons as well.
Apps like AirShou (https://appspopo.com/airshou/) listed in Google Play Store is gaining huge growth in term of user base.
> Should we expect this to continue

I think the answer is self-evident: the inland cites are undergoing apoptosis by way of opioid suicides and migration to the coasts as inland economic nutrients dwindle away.

Building new cities on the coasts of Africa might be the best way to go.
Well, so it did definitely NOT lose. The same reason why it won't lose the next war. A Chinese/Russian brokered Regime change is still a possibility. But Kim is not an idiot. He had his brother killed just to eliminate one of the options for a regime change.
How best to build re-usable FE components? Which framework to use?
I normally only develop BE Java stuff and we now want to build FE components for our API. The idea for these components is to be integrate able into as many FE frameworks as possible. Having done some research, https://vuejs.org seems to play nicely with other frameworks. Please let me know what you think is the best framework that plays nicely with others and why.
I don't think we actually have affiliate links! :) Maybe we should...
One thing I've noticed is people are very quick to downvote different opinions.

I've gotten into the habit of upvoting comments that have been downvoted (given that they are somewhat constructive). Even if I strongly disagree with them.

It's something we could all do in my opinion. Just my 2 cents.

I think we live in a time where disagreements or different opinions are quickly seen as offensive and "wrong".
I am curious, what is your personal experience with this approach? can you elaborate?
Investigating React Native
I think that is actually the answer. If you look at the cost to pay some huge companies to create a curriculum and how much money all the publishers and their sales people make, it seems pretty clear why it is so expensive. Why not just have the Department of Education of each state create a curriculum that is free for all schools in the state to use? All books would be sold at cost to schools in that state (plus the state could make them digital). Each school would be allowed to buy alternate books and do their own curriculum but at their own costs. School boards will take this easy road to cost savings. There is also no reason it can't be done at the federal level too and states can pick and choose which parts they want of the federal curriculum to save costs.

The problem with universities is that the $50K price tag means the costs of books isn't that relevant overall. Additionally, lots of professors use books they wrote because it is about publishing not teaching. Universities want to point to all of their faculty who are "known" and "published" so they are not incentivized to cut this cost. Also, they want to be different and unique to justify their fees. The only schools who can afford to give away curriculum are the Ivy Leagues that have so much endowments they don't even need the money. Plus it helps their reputation for the (mostly) online schools that use their classes.
Yeah turns out they're upgrading their web interface so we can't change any of our settings. Keep saying it will be fixed any moment...
To me it seems deeply shameful and embarrassing that these people can't think of a better use for their money. You could spend your fortune building something, starting a business, patronizing public works or artistic projects, funding scientific or medical research, or helping innumerable worthy charities. Instead, these people spend their money buying fancy labels and useless things.

Their inability to use their money well is contemptible and unfortunate.
Is it vegan? Popular an upcomming vegan products
Sweden and the US have almost exactly the same population density (22/km2 vs 24/km2) and GDP (50K vs 56K). The only reason that Sweden has substantially better public transportation infrastructure than the US is because it chooses to.