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“We all speed, yet months and months usually pass between us seeing a crash,” Lt. Megge tells us when we call to discuss speed limits. “That tells me that most of us are adequate, safe, reasonable drivers. Speeding and traffic safety have a small correlation.”

So the standard for acceptability is that you only see a crash (i.e. a tragic event, often with fatalities) every several months?

According to https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/ "more than 32,000 people are killed and 2 million are injured each year from motor vehicle crashes. In 2013, the US crash death rate was more than twice the average of other high-income countries." With that data, I don't know how a post that starts by saying this even gets this high in HN.

Car travel is more than one order of magnitude more unsafe than train travel, and two orders of magnitude more unsafe than plane travel. I think our grandchildren will wonder how people in our time were so crazy to drive around so much in cars, just as we now wonder how they were so crazy some decades ago to watch nuclear tests live or hold asbestos shoving competitions.

As for the argument of the overwhelming majority of people not obeying limits, I don't know the laws in the US but I suspect it may be relating to not fining enough. It used to be the same way in Spain until they introduced more fines the possibility of taking "points" off your license, which you lose for six months (and it's cumbersome to get back) if you get to zero. Now most people follow the limit or only drive slightly over it (there is a certain tolerance level below which there are no fines) and when some years ago it went temporarily from 120 to 110 km/h in highways, it was very visible how most people were indeed driving slower.
It's well-meaning advice, but understand that, in situations like these, certain personality types don't think as rationally as you would expect. One size does not fit all when it comes to handling adversity.
I would argue that in the amount of credence people place on each account, there is very little difference.
Mac OS "as it's now called" is a compelling offering because of third party commercial software support including Microsoft and Adobe. Linux is great for some developers who work with stacks that live entirely in Linux. There are still some things though that it doesn't stack up well against like the software available for Windows or Mac.

As someone who does front end graphic work to mockup apps before building them as part of my workflow I couldn't see myself switching off Mac OS unless Microsoft drops the registry, replaces NTFS, stops with the spyware being built in, disables the forced updates and finally goes with one UI/UX for everything.
It seems people are confused by this comment. My interpretation is that you mean what I've heard phrased as 'kill the person you are'. Meaning, if it's your life situations and identity that are causing you such distress, why not just walk away?

This could mean switching careers, getting divorced, cutting ties with friends, moving far away, or a combination thereof. After all, suicide would end all of those things too, in a worse way. So if you were willing to do that most final and extreme action, why not just say screw it and start driving? After all you'd have nothing to lose compared to suicide.

In some cases just the realization that one can make changes is significant.
That seems unlikely. You need to register each car you intend to drive with Uber and each one requires them to perform an inspection. So the chances of just grabbing a ZipCar and using it for Uber for the day being allowed are pretty much zero.
It is unfortunate that the theory of Dark Matter doesn't have a cute parlor trick like the EM Drive.
I truly feel awful for the family, but to play devil's advocate: What could you do if you were in Uber's position to prevent something like this?

And no cop-out answers like "Don't make an environment that pressures people" (everyone has deadlines, pressure is ubiquitous). What, specifically, would you do tomorrow to prevent this in the future if you were the CEO of Uber?
Thanks! Been working for an year now (graduated last year), just want to try out new things! :)
As much as all the recent events seems to be targeted campaign, I wouldn't think it's unusual. This is probably the most heated topic in startups right now and I too myself upvoted the link after seeing it.
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It's not just Uber. There is no shortage of toxic workplaces, sadly.
> I think now you can use, or soon will be able to, Pascal based GPUs which would great for deep learning/CUDA.

You can use them right now but the driver is still in beta. See https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/04/nvidia-releases-beta-g...
I would agree with you if the cost was high. Running a suicide prevention hotline strikes me as a low cost preventative measure, moreso if you get actuarial/gruesome and take into account someone's dollar value as a human being (mid to high six figures for most people).
Driving on the German Autobahn is not stressful. 3-4 lanes highway are usually around the bigger cities and they have a speedlimit anyway.

Because people know cars can fly past them with more than 200 kmh, they also actually stay to the right and use the left lane to pass and not to cruise. All in all it's a pleasant experience and all a driver really needs to wrap his head around is to keep as much track of the traffic behind and as in the front.
Oh, so a bug in the debugger basically. Speaking of the registers it sounded like he was talking about some weird cache incoherency issue that shouldn't conceivably exist (on x86 at least).
There's winter in Germany, too, you know? Salt is used, too.
> I think now you can use, or soon will be able to, Pascal based GPUs

They are supported! I'm writing this comment on a hackintosh running a GTX 1060. Nvidia released Pascal-compatible Mac drivers 2 weeks ago (April 11).

Interesting but unverified side story, the drivers were apparently released because of an email from a redditor: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/65hpc8/funny_story_a...

> Windows + Linux subystem is pretty great, or just booting directly into Linux.

I built this new computer recently and gave Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 both a shot. I decided I didn't want to relearn how to be productive with them and turned it into a hackintosh, and I'm very happy with it so far.
You said a lot without providing even simple arguments for anything you said.

Net neutrality is the idea that no matter the content of a message sent over the internet it should be treated the same as any other message.

The equivalent for power/water utility service would be that you can use power/water for anything in your house and you will pay the same price per unit you consume.

Imagine if power/water companies were allowed to charge different prices for drinking water compared to dish washer water. Or your power company charges you a different rate for A/C than your refrigerator. That's power/water companies without neutrality.

Do you want an Internet provider charging you more for using your preferred streaming service over using their video streaming service? In a world without net neutrality that's what you will get. You will end up paying for the internet like we currently pay for cable channels. Websites will be packaged into bundles and if you want something from another bundle... To bad you have to buy the entire bundle.
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Well there's good news: nvidia recently announced beta Mac drivers with support for their Pascal video cards[1]

That means you can do a Hackintosh build with their latest video cards (GTX1080 or Titan) with full driver support.

[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/11/nvidia-releases-pascal-web-dr...
At this point one might ask, why have we not heard this stories before?
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Your comment seems inconsistent though - am I missing something? Not eating excessively is a big part of eating healthy. For someone who is prone to overeating this counts as worrying about one's diet, I'd say.
My condolences to this persons family. May his memory be a blessing.

Ever hear the saying "where there's smoke, there's fire"? At this point I'd really have to evaluate whether or not Uber is the right kind of fit for anyone to be working there. There are other options.
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Getting a job "easily enough" is still a big risk to take when you own a home and have a wife and two kids. I was in a job that deteriorated to the point that it was making me so miserable I would get physically ill around 3-4pm on Sundays due to having to go to work on Monday. It took me about 5-7 months to get to the point where I quit.

It is not an easy step to take. I was 24-25, enrolled in a Master's program (easy enough to explain why I left without a job) living in a house that I was not paying rent for and had the full support of both my parents and my fiancé. I didn't want to be a burden to my family. I was scared it would take me another 7 months to find a job like it did when I graduated from college in 2010. I had bills to pay. All of that was overwhelming despite me logically knowing I would be fine and that I wouldn't starve or go homeless or miss a bill payment because my fiancé or parents had stated so.

I can only imagine the pressures he thought he faced at home if he felt like it was his responsibility to take care of his family. It was probably so overwhelming that he saw no other out.

It is hard to describe to someone who never experienced a job that is overwhelmingly and exclusively awful how much of an impact it makes on you. And I am not talking about a job that you don't like or don't enjoy. I mean a job that has zero redeeming qualities and a culture that is incredibly toxic. You feel like a failure at work. You are miserable. And you see an out (quitting) but if you quit (without a job) there are a whole bunch of questions. And in some ways those unknowns are even worse than the misery. But then you go back in the next day and go "no way the prospect of losing my home can be worse than this." Then you go home and it is "no way my job can be worse than losing my home and failing my wife and kids." And it both cases you realize that, yes, somehow, both of those statements are true. The job is more miserable than losing the home which is more miserable than the job which is more miserable than letting down my wife and kids which is more miserable than my job which is more miserable than...

... and suddenly you find yourself with a gun in the front seat of your car because there is nothing in life that is not miserable. Nothing.
It goes beyond just hotlines (which IME are useless at best and actively harmful at worst (having law-enforcement called on you is no fun)) -- the suicide rate for the past 80ish years in US has remained remarkably flat, despite many advances in psychiatry: https://twitter.com/sarahdoingthing/status/68238219583987712...
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Surely, the question should be whether anyone thinks whether the reverse is the case: Do anyone actually think employees benefit from working themselves (to death..) before employers?
It would make more sense to offer rsync (unauthenticated), to ensure integrity of what's transferred.

rsync -r rsync://... ./

will retrieve everything in a directory.
> I can appreciate not wanting to go back and forth between say the middle lane and left lane all the time.

That is about as self centered one can be in trafic. In reality, they are endangering themself and everybody else near them.
The effects are small enough that there's some possibility that it's just measurement error. If you produce a drive that actually moves something in space, you have a real effect.
The second point here is a big one. Quite a few cities in California make significant revenue off ticketing rolling right turns, because they can argue the vehicle code is ambiguous enough to let them ticket it under the infraction for running the light (which is $500 plus a couple hundred extra for traffic school if the driver doesn't want to get points on their license). There's a bill that's perpetually in and out of the state legislature to close that down and make it absolutely clear that a rolling turn is a lesser violation (one with a fine too low to be worth the cost of enforcement), but it mostly tends to get shouted down by cyclists who think the oversize fine protects them.
It depends on where you drive. Where I'm from, most highways have 3 lanes.
Its actually really unfortunate this is the only way go to get power/ adaptability.
I had a hackintosh for a couple years and while it ran great I was always nervous the next OS upgrade would render it useless. I got a Mac Book Pro and retired it (Linux and sold to a friend).

Recently I went to a projection mapping seminar (its kinda like DJing but using video loops), everyone who attended had older macbook Pros (with hdmi to power the projectors). The production machines they use to do the projections live are all microsoft windows machines, as its the only way to get enough video horsepower to run the multiple displays.

The artists running the seminar said they couldn't recommend macs anymore, excepting for some backend asset creation. Since most software is mac/windows right now its not a bid deal, I worry if the mac demand goes south, the software won't be ported.

I'm hoping linux starts being more viable solution for content creation. Seems like its heading that way.
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The top comment from that post is gold:

"I bet that could get that last .5 ounce out of a juicero bag."
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That's partly because it seems that the odds of ad shenanigans, abandonment and selling user data seems to increase with the price, rather than decrease.
If you like thinking about programming languages in terms of spoken ones, check out the book on J, which talks about gerunds, verbs and adverbs http://www.jsoftware.com/help/learning/contents.htm
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It's still bullshit.

Place speed camera every 100 meters and red camera at every cross (without cheating the yellow, which is a separate problem) and watch dead rate drop.

People are notoriously bad at assesting danger and probability. Them driving faster doesn't make the faster speed always reasonable.
https://lwn.net/Articles/719282/ is a good writeup on the features of linkerd in a reasonably easy-to-understand way.
>studies consistently are showing that this seems to produce thrust without expelling any matter

Nope, others have been unable to reproduce their results. As for Eagle Works ... their data is crap. The paper consists of 18 data points and large amounts of variance. The largest thrust measurement comes from the middle power setting.

Furthermore, they are measuring (at most!) 120 micro-newtons of thrust. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but that's ~1/100 the weight of a penny[0]. Even if they can produce these tiny amounts of of thrust reliably, they still need to eliminate other sources of error.

Other false-positive results of similar devices have either generated thrust in the null condition or were later retracted after correcting for measurement error.

>I think most people are excited about this not because they think we just proved 2 to be wrong, but instead because we know 2 must be true, so what the hell is going on with 1???

The EM drive literally entails perpetual motion. We know that's impossible, yet someone always manages to sell a new version of it every few years.

>Most likely we will find out that we are NOT violating the known laws of the universe, but we're "not violating" them in a very interesting way.

There is a reason this is in a journal dedicated to publishing experimental results from aerospace engineers and not a physics journal. Peer review isn't magic, it just means two out of three people signed off on a paper being published.

[0]: Seems crazy small, math may be wacky off due to lack of sleep.
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That's actually something I worry about. I'm blind without my glasses, seriously, debilitatingly blind. With them, of course, I have better-than-perfect (for some value of 'perfect') vision. Should I have children? Is it ethical to do so? I honestly don't know.
Germany Autobahn see more use and needs more maintance. Besides more Germans on the road, a lot of trafic pass through German, a lot more than in France.

And the fact that the French highways require payment reduce trafic even more. But they are a joy to drive on. Set the CC and just go.
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I didn't flag this, but there is an argument for doing so: People commit suicide everyday. Many because of job stress. That this person worked at Uber doesn't make it newsworthy.
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Yes, but that does not require complicated structures like blood vessels. Embryos and ova are small enough to grow on cell culture in which diffusion is enough to provide oxygen and nutrients, with only the need to replace culture fluid every few days.
let's take a concrete example. say you want to write a ruby program to scrape some information off a website (e.g. crawl imdb and get a list of the top 100 movies and their stars). so, how would you go about it?

well, first of all you want to download a page. you haven't done in a while, so you google up the relevant ruby library (open-uri) and install it. then you load it up in a repl, like so

irb> require 'open-uri'

=> true

irb> url = 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/'

=> "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/"

irb> page = open(url).read

# lots of html

now that you have confirmed it works, you paste it into your program

require 'open-uri'

def get_movie_html(id)

url = "http://www.imdb.com/title/#{id}"

open(url).read

end

then just to confirm it, you go back to your repl, load your file and try

irb> page = get_movie_html('tt0093779')

you have now not only written the first part of your program, but it is available for you to use in your repl as you figure out the other bits. as you get each part working properly, extract it into a function and add it to your source code, then reload the source in your repl and continue working.

the main idea is you get very fast feedback about the specific bit of the program you are working on; the repl maintains the state of the data for you, so you can probe at it till you have ironed out the issues, and then once it is in its final form you add it to your concrete code and use it as a building block in the repl.

here's another blog post about it: http://www.davidtanzer.net/rdd_and_tests

the analogy with sketch and react is that similarly, you can design a component (say a top navigation bar) in sketch with a very fast feedback loop, and once you are satisfied with it, you reproduce it in react and then reload your sketch environment from the react file, so that from now on the navigation bar you see in sketch is the exact one you have built in code, and you can use it as a building block for the next part of the site.
> In Icelandic, a compass is a direction-shower, and a microscope a small-watcher.

I find this somehow very poignant :)
What exactly does the author think "microscope" means? From Wikipedia:

> microscope (from the Ancient Greek: μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see")
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Driving in Italy, and Spain for that matter, is....exciting. Especially the intersection rules in Spain takes some getting used to. Oh there is green, I can go - but why are trafic still going from the other direction? Oh, the light closest to me is red, so I may not drive...
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my rule number one to be successful in a job is not to be obsessed about it
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> Why can't people just build products and ask for money upfront?

As the owner/founder/author of a bootstrapped SaaS app, I can answer that:

People really, really, REALLY do not want to pay. Really. The dominating perception is that software should be free, or if not free, paid with a one-time purchase in the single-digit dollars. The aversion to paying is huge, you have to provide a "can't live without" feature for people to (grudgingly) pull out their wallets.

Also, if you actually do the numbers as a business owner, it turns out that consumer SaaS apps are difficult to sustain financially. With a small number of customers, there just isn't enough money, and if your customer base grows, complexity and costs step in. My SaaS only has paid business tiers for now, starting at $39/month, because much as I try, I can't see how I can make anything cheaper work. It's easy to underestimate costs if you've never ran a business.

I decided to stick with it, charge subscription fees, grow very slowly and see where it takes me, but that is a hard and slow path. I estimate it will take me another year (for an overall of 3 years) to get to a sustainable income stream.
I have zero worries that Toki Pona will take over as a primary language in the foreseeable future. It's more of a research toy than a language for daily use.
Great website! Took my first and only ski lesson at Broadmoor. They had an alpine slide as well at one point. Only time I've skied as I tried snowboarding the next time and never looked back (those scotch-guarded jncos kids wore... ugh ;)
"Suicides In Rural America Increased More Than 40% In 16 Years"

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I not understand what you mean by this. We always had those. Do you believe in the existence of:

- computers solving the generic halting problem

- perpetual motion devices

- faster than light communication

I guess no, because based upon our current knowledge of physical/logical laws these are nonexistent (impossible) things. And there are many existence proof with the same confidence level. So science have both positive and negative proofs (actually verification is a better term) with similar confidence.
> a speed limit typically means there's a good reason to follow it

I'd say in the UK it's pretty similar as well. The standard limit on single-carriageway roads, unless indicated, is 60mph/97kmh. This could be anything from a bypass around a town, to a small country road with tight bends and steep drops at the side.

The limit is usually only lowered if going through a town/village (typically 30mph or 40mph) or if there is a some sort of danger that you wouldn't expect, like a hidden junction on a bend.
It would not be as simple as you think though. Example: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...
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Lofi looks cool! Is the advantage over the more broadly used Protobuf or JSONSchema just the leaner syntax?
This is why I am highly sceptical of start ups, and it would take a helluva a lot for someone to convince me to join another. I prefer big corps, as its possible to control you work load a little more and transfer internally if you get a bad boss.
It's not a problem with their driveways. It's a geographic problem, really, with lakefront houses in the 100-400ft strip between an arterial road and the lake. The other side is a steep hill, so you can't make more room, and the main road has to wind a bunch. You don't have the room to put in collection streets and make controlled intersections, so you basically just have to make them wait for a gap and pull out.

And as with pretty much any community that has that much value in their house, they're huge NIMBYs.
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