skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is highly application dependent.

If you can set up clear distance markers 100m apart on the road itself, a regular surveillance camera set up with its line-of-sight perpendicular to the road could probably estimate speeds between 5 and 80 mph with at least 1 mph precision, and adding some image processing software could probably give you 0.1 mph precision or better.

Oblique views, curved roads, unclear markers, or even differently colored cars could produce false results, or no results at all.

It may be enough to convince your local cop shop to set up a radar trailer on your street for a few days, but you're not going to be convicting anyone of reckless driving with it.
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Why would it be addressed before anyone complained? And it was planned as part of the Readability feature, which is very popular and not considered "unnecessary". But FF devs were having a hard time making a good read-it-later UI and decided to use Pocket instead of reinventing the wheel.

Edit: To be clear, I think the browser code was always a stub, and the privacy policy was modified before the feature launched as part of Firefox.
It looks like Rayon is the same thing as Java's ForkJoinPool and parallel streams but with the neat trick (really, Rust's neat trick) that it can statically check that the code is safe to parallelise through the borrow checker.
In my experience x++ is far more common than ++x when it doesn't matter which you use, "for" statements for example.
You've posted many such claims and stories to HN in the past. Unless you can substantiate them, would you please not continue to post like this? The genre of the internet forum comment doesn't allow us to disambiguate true first-hand stories from people making shit up for weird reasons, and unfortunately there are many more of the latter than the former.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14053357 and marked it off-topic.
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I take weekend-long vacations from email from time to time. Easy and nice!
A suggestion for the current and next generation. Collect experiences rather than things.

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/want-happiness-buy-experienc...

Some quick tips:

- Pictures with people are much more fun to look at later in life than landscapes, unless you're an amazing landscape photographer of course!

- Get off the tourist bus when visiting foreign countries. Walk the city. Pop your head into a local shop. Try that weird doughy thing, it might be tasty. Be almost late for your train - very exciting.

- Climb the stairs of the Eiffel Tower (ugh, it's tough, but I remember it) then have wine and cheese in the park on the lawn to cap it off.

Relating to too many things, I have 5 large moving boxes of photo albums from my parents along and a few trinkets here and there. Fortunately me and my siblings had no arguments in the distribution or tossing of just about everything. The photo albums are being scanned slowly but surely.
Why is secp521r1 no longer supported in Chrome, others?
One of the top five best tech gadgets I've bought in my entire life was my electronic toothbrush. It's like going for a dentist cleaning everyday! Seriously, it rocks.
Because an end user has zero recourse after getting such a syntax error. Those are only useful for developers.

Graceful error handling is one of the things that set good applications apart from (really) bad ones.
It's draconian because an error anywhere in the page causes the entire page to stop rendering, instead of just causing that one small section with the error to stop rendering.
For an alternative take on the job satisfaction - age relationship (as well as inclusion of the moderator variable of job tenure) in the United States, using a large (12k+) sample:

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/minds-business/job...

Dobrow Riza, S., Ganzach, Y., & Liu, Y. (2016). Time and job satisfaction: a longitudinal study of the differential roles of age and tenure. Journal of Management. doi: 10.1177/0149206315624962
Guardrails are really ugly, and have been shown to increase traffic speeds -- they make drivers feel safer, since they think they no longer need to look for pedestrians.

I think you might be assuming the aim is to maximize traffic flow, or similar. That's not necessarily the aim of a European city's traffic planners -- they may prioritize pedestrian or cyclist safety, child safety or play space, reducing noise, improving bus/tram speeds, or maintaining a historic appearance. This might be for a single road, a small area, or a whole district.

Several of these can reduce overall traffic. If parents don't think it's safe for their children to walk to school, they might drive them instead -- increasing traffic at the worst time for other children. Similarly for private vehicles obstructing buses and trams.
>Why would I spend $70 on an editor rather than treat myself to a new game or a nice meal out instead and have a still-excellent experience using something like VSCode?

Because the game you'll finish in a few weeks and forget about and the meal you'll shit in the same day, whereas the editor you'll use for years on end daily.

Now, if you find another editor (free or paid) is better and gives you just as good or even a better experience, by no means, use that.

But if one feels ST3 is better, or even just a little better, then complaining about it costing 1/40th or less of a month's salary as if its any large factor doesn't make sense.
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> I don't know what people being insured or not has to do with the fact that people will sue for whiplash claims (even when they don't actually have whiplash) in order to extract some $ from the system, enriching a bunch of lawyers in the process.

From the very top of your Google link:

> There is no guarantee that the person who caused the accident will even have insurance. You may have to file a personal injury lawsuit to facilitate collection of your damages.

You sue when the other person is uninsured. That's why insurance matters. Insurance is legally required to drive in most states (New York is one of them).

It's just a scam in general. If you have insurance, they go after your insurance for as much as they can. Also a claim to sue isn't actually suing. Nobody sued you, they just claimed they would twice. The threat is very common, but it actually happening is not. It's all very overblown, like the McDonald's coffee incident.

> In Europe the most likely response to such a minimal accident would be two parties getting out of their car, assessing the damage - if any - filling out a form and getting on with their day after taking some pictures and shaking hands.

Is there no form of insurance at all in Europe? You just take the damage to your car and deal with it? What if you're too badly injured to get out of the car and shake hands?
Thanks for the great response.

> The number who would have no effective recourse under this license, who would have had effective recourse before, is quite high.

I think that's the rub. If that is the case, then this is certainly very problematic.

In any event, this is certainly a class of licenses that needs to be watched carefully on an ongoing basis and added to the (already substantial) checklist of licenses that need to be carefully considered before being added to any project.

I appreciate your comments and candor on all of this, btw. Thanks again.
The electric toothbrush is one of those "holy crap how did I live without this?!" things for me. First time I used it my teeth felt as if I'd had a professional cleaning. No amount of manual brushing gets them as clean as even a lazy, quick pass with the electric. How manual toothbrushes are still A Thing outside of camping supply stores baffles me, now that I know how good electric toothbrushes are.
There are very few positive comments here, but I think it's fantastic that this progress has been made (even if it's not perfect). I had no idea the sites could be used without JS at all; that's brilliant!
That holiday is Epiphany, which is a separate holiday (and I believe actually falls on the 6th of January on the Gregorian calendar).
Thanks :) Fixed.
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You can't widen a residential street without eminent-domaining everyone's front garden and/or maybe demolishing some of the houses.
Honestly, I tried really hard to attribute this to stupidity. But this level of stupidity and negligence is really beyond my understanding.
You can argue it all you want. Whoever is storing that is responsible under the Canadian laws criminally. It's probably the same if not worse in other countries (Germany, etc).
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I've been slowly chipping at this problem as well.

https://github.com/madelinecameron/Dash

It probably isn't useful to you as a non-coder though. :)
We're hoping to have stylo in 57, and I would expect it to be on android in the next release (58), but no promises.

Basically we intend for it to work eventually on android, but it didn't get prioritized.
Just because of all that doesn't mean it's not controversial - that's kind of what the article is trying to point out.

I wanted to share it with e.g. colleagues as a thoughtpiece, but decided not to because of what it might say about me.
Really neat application of the data. I'm the Director of Marketing at a mid-sized destination marketing organization (DMO) represented on your map (Aurora, Illinois -- we're actually a terrific place to visit in winter!). Curious to learn more about the variables used to deploy the "best time" pages and get a sense for where you'd like to take this further.
No, because physical goods and 0's and 1's are not the same.
This is super interesting idea and something I'd reference a lot. The big question I have is what are your factors for deciding the best time to visit? I'd argue setting up the context is really important because weather is a major factor but it isn't the only one. There are times of year that have cultural significance as well as annual events, etc. I like the safety advisory aspect and the population of travelers. It would be interesting to know what types of groups travel there and when. So for instance, I want to go to Hawaii but not there are going to be tons of kids and I'd like to do it cheaply and I don't care about the weather.

Lastly, I don't recommend bucketing NZ under Australia :)
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This is wrong on many different levels.

First of all, the guy doing the manual process didn't even realize that it was easy to automate. So he never would have invoke the processes.

Even ignoring the above, the official process is by nature too heavy. It would cost over hundred man-hours by the time the proposal is written, put before a committee, acted on, the proper story wrote, and someone assigned to the write the code. In the mean time 6 months have passed and the first guy thus spent another 2 hours doing it manually. That is 100 hours on a manual process that ultimately costs the company 4 hours a year over the expected 15 year life of this project - the math does not work out. Oh, and the committee includes marketing who don't really care about engineering tools (they should not!), so the end result would be the process remains manual because the final decision is this isn't worth doing - and it isn't worth the time it would take to make them understand why they should do it.

There is a reason for official processes. There is a reason companies give trusted people authority to ignore them for trivial things.
Hmm, maybe it's just the Enterprise version that's using Electron.
That probably predates Google's acquisition of Blogger.
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What is IDEA-zl? (Google turned up nothing)
I'd prefer not to have an app to find rare species. They're rare for a reason, and that reason is because there are few places the can live, and those places are likely difficult for people to get to. Please don't make it easier for people to get there.
> The article itself shows that new leadership made poor decisions

The article is also careful to couch all those problems in the context of the wider industry. And so we found ourselves suddenly reliving recent media history, but in a time-compressed sequence that collapsed a decade of painful transition into a few tense months.

> Those are poor choices in a dwindling market, and show the relative youth and inexperience of the leader.

Yes, but how poor they are is defined by how deep his pockets are and how willing he is to pay for them. And for more than a year, he was willing to spend with abandon. Were his choices the downfall of the company as it previously existed, or did they just hasten the transition?
>I don't know any of these people and most of the comments are either useless, or just plain dumb.

Uh..welcome to Facebook?
There is a lot of overwhelm these days. It's not just our devices: peak tv, never ending YouTube videos, endless tweets, and a web we can never fully explore.

We live in overwhelming times. The key is not to simply downgrade ourselves, but to focus our selves. Practically applying minimalism to our lives to focus on what matters in our lives and sensibly removing things when they aren't adding value.
>Do you really rely on a cloud solution as your one and only backup?

Most likely yes. Considering most people don't have any backups of any kind, having at least one backup, and an off-site backup at that, is infinitely better.

The number of people who have any backup is small. The number of people who have two is far, far smaller. Most people just don't care about their data that much unless they're a business, which is why this thread exists to begin with.
BackBlaze doesn't have any family plans from what I can find?
Don't put enough crypto on your phone to matter for one. I treat it as i would treat my actual wallet.

I use an electrum wallet on my desktop, and use one of the addresses in that multi address hd wallet as my hot wallet. I load that address on my android electrum install. That way if i ever lose my phone, there isn't much on it, and i can always move the funds using my desktop wallet if required.

But it does suck that it happened. Sorry to hear it.
I think the benefits of Postel's Maxim, have far outweighed the negatives. One of the reasons why the web took off, is that normal everyday non-geeky people could in a few minutes crank out a webpage that could be viewed by the whole world. The browsers just made it work and generally look OK.

If we did not have Postel's Maxim, I think the Internet would have just remained the domain of geeks and not have become what it is today.
> a law against building databases containing other people's data

This is exactly covered by EU data protection law.
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For the US, you can register a "somewhat anonymous" LLC in places like New Mexico, then register your vehicle in the name of the LLC.

Unwinding who really owns the vehicle is still possible for government, though still not quick or automated. It would make it very difficult for private efforts like this one.

Lot of work though.
LA Fitness is month to month. However, they try very hard to convince you to get personal training, which is contract-based. Very sneaky.
Naively I would assume that if we really had experienced two years of darkness, avian species would not be here now.
I find the fastest editors I use (Sublime, Notepad++) to be very stable and have uptime of weeks. On the other hand, the Electron nonsenses have to be killed quite often to clear memory and bugs.
I've been seeing IT become increasingly frustrated at their inability to lock down the security on MacOS to the level they'd hoped. Wouldn't be surprised to see silicon valley startups issue Chromebooks out as the default in 3-4 years time. Especially if Google gets this right.
PS/2 ports? What for?
At a heavy latency cost, and under dubious asumption that regular people control all exit nodes.
> You sue when the other person is uninsured. That's why insurance matters. Insurance is legally required to drive in most states (New York is one of them).

Well, or you don't. See, that was the point. Being insured or not is not relevant, it is relevant for the other party but seeing an accident as an avenue to a payday is a fairly uniquely American thing. So whether you claim from the other party or from the insurance company is immaterial, the point is the claim, not the way in which the claim is eventually settled.

> Is there no form of insurance at all in Europe?

Insurance is mandatory, hence the 'filling out a form'.
And my point is that a person who reacts to a minor crash by begging you not to sue him is not even remotely representative of how things work here. You described "the most likely response" in Europe, as if it was somehow different in the US. It's not.
I did something similar as a little weekend hack a few years ago: http://whengo.io
Still, I'd imagine someone who publishes an article defending the extremes of freedom of speech would not have the comments section closed.
>I have about 4 Terabytes. That's the totality of two decades of collecting music, video, pictures, ROMS, game ISOs, etc.

Good lord. And you need to back this all up in the cloud?
Good riddance. I switched from Backblaze to crashplan because it was cheaper for families. I've regretted it ever since. The client is horrible. Right now it's consuming about 4GB of memory. I had to increase that recently, otherwise it wouldn't even start. It littered gigs of log files around my system when it did that.

Often the webui would just timeout if I wanted to recover a file. Never could figure out why, so I couldn't really recover files reliably anyway.

I'm glad I'm forced to find a solution that better. I'd definitely stay away from them for business solutions.
Seriously it makes me feel like I've taken a disc sander to them, in a good way. So smooth.
> It's says the daily highs in the summer are low 60s

Temperature numbers show the average for the week. E.g. the "high" on the dot is not the highest average day, but the average high. I double checked and these look correct. Check out the "heat index" adjusted numbers below for perceived temperatures, as Portland feels significantly warmer due to humidity in the summer.

> the driest months are in the middle of the winter.

I'm confused here. If you're looking at Portland, OR the driest months are shown as being in the summer, so I'm not sure what you're referring to. Did you maybe look at another Portland?
Haha. "Important Changes". That's like a draw bridge posting a sign - "Important Changes to this Bridge" and finding out that the bridge now only goes half way across the river.
A fair number of HOAs are voluntary, and have no actual teeth. You have to dig a little though, as they don't like stating that up front.
I found that after I had kids, 9-5 m-f is a vacation. You mileage may vary, etc.
Ask HN: What does Google gain by working on Chrome the browser?
Do they guarantee a say in web standards to benefit themselves?

What do they gain by spending so many resources building a free web browser?
Then why promote the browser as such?

Remove all "we respect privacy" from the advertisement.

It's misleading.
The IETF title makes it sound like developers everywhere were using Postel's words as guidance.

Instead, relaxed or permissive parsing of files/protocols/API even though they have well-documented specifications is an unavoidable emergent phenomenon. The various examples across domains is fascinating:

- HTML (missing tags, unpaired tags, etc). Developers may prefer to strictly parse HTML and any non-compliance results in a "page error". But the websurfers want that page data so developers end up guessing the HTML authors intentions and renders the page.

- PDF (malformed pdf files that Adobe can read). Lots of utilities out there create bad pdf files and Adobe Acrobat has lots of workarounds to read them. Even though Adobe Inc controls the pdf specification, even they succumb to the pressure of adding workarounds to their parser to render broken pdf files. To add to the insanity, all 3rd-party industrial-strength pdf parsers end up copying Adobe Acrobat's behavior to parse broken pdf files!

- Win32 API. Programmers out in the wild will notice an undocumented behavior of an API that's not in the contract and start to depend on it. When a new version of Windows is released that removes the undocumented behavior and breaks the 3rd-party app, the customer blames the "Microsoft Windows upgrade" and not Quicken or videogame company. Raymond Chen has written several articles on Microsoft adding "shims" to Windows codebase to help "guarantee compatibility" for misbehaving apps incorrectly using the Win32 API. If the 3rd-party app is important enough to consumers that it prevents them from upgrading Windows (in other words -- pay Microsoft money), it means Microsoft will bend over backwards to accommodate the badly-written code from the vendor.

The external forces are too great to enforce perfect discipline of strict parsing across all parties. Even the big proprietary companies like Microsoft and Adobe can't enforce their own standards-compliant parsing. An open standard from IETF would have no chance at all.

We'd like to think of a "computing standard" as some inviolable contract but history has shown it is actually an organic (and unspoken) "social" agreement. This is unavoidable unless we all agree to have all software "approved" by a central authority before anyone can download or use it.
I recently finished automating a download. I would like to know who thought you should start with a <meta> tag, followed by <script> tags, then the <!DOCTYPE>, then some more <script> tags, and then finally the beginning <html> tag. How do you write this crap? If I had reviewed whatever code generated that mess, I would have unapologetically rejected it.
In my case I just have NAS that centralizes anything that is important and have only one CrashPlan instance running on it. Any computer in the house that requires backup will have to store the important data in the network attached folder.
You asked about Silicon Valley startups and I work at one. I genuinely don’t think that today I could use a Chromebook to do any level of my work. I have used one in the past (though not for programming) and even that was miserable.
I'm interested in who owns the data after it is collected. Is it the company's or does it below to the person who is paying the $50/year? My hunch is that the company will retain rights over the data collected and it can become another source of income for them over time.
>all that enterprise corporate schlong in their mouths. Hope that money shot tasted good, effing traitors!

Holy fuck. Let's settle down a bit buddy.
This was my thinking as well. I expected "Chrome OS Enterprise" not "Chrome Enterprise" to represent Chrome OS in the enterprise. It's a confusing set of naming conventions.
It's such a shame Firefox (including the nightlies) kills my Mac (making most other applications hang/break), since the new versions are otherwise way better than Chrome.

Does anyone know what it is about Firefox that makes the rest of my system unable to spawn new processes?
I had the same reaction to the toothbrush example, and feel the same way about electric toothbrushes. More than anecdotes, there are studies that demonstrate their efficacy. The criteria the author chooses for what gets downgraded weren't clearly enumerated, but I got the impression that it was because something was 'distracting.' I don't find my electric toothbrush to be a distraction any more than a manual. It seemed a bit arbitrary, like, I downgraded my car to this horse drawn carriage.