skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and judging from the many rolling stops they undertake, so do drivers. When any vehicle has to come to a complete stop for absolutely nothing, they're just putting wear on their brakes and wasting energy. I'm happy to see 4-way stops (which people are terrible at) being replaced by more roundabouts. A roundabout features the desired intersection rules without having to wait for the state to enact Idaho-style bike laws.

As a cyclist, I'm in a very good position to assess how empty an intersection is: no windows isolating me in a sound bubble; low speed, so not much wind noise in my ears or tire noise on the ground; no A pillars obscuring my vision ahead; and my eyes are usually about as high off the ground as those of an SUV driver.

Motorists will tend to be in a worse position for assessing the emptiness of an intersection, and their vehicle is much more dangerous, so the onus to slow down is greater, but coming to a complete stop is often unnecessary. Slowing down to make sure there really is nothing there is sensible.

If I were on a recumbent bicycle, or in a little sports car, I'd have to be more cautious when approaching an intersection because my eyes are lower, and farther back from the front of the vehicle. (I hate riding recumbents in the city, but they're pretty awesome on long distance rides).
I hate to be a downer, and I really like what you've made...

You're currently breaking the Reddit API access rules. In order to follow the rules, you would need to name your app "Grid for Reddit" or something along those lines.
https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api

Edit: I'm not sure how the API rules play out if you're not using the API directly (like tacking on the json parameter), so maybe you're ok?
Does _just_ reading the comments count?
Decided to give this a quick try and WOW! I'm blown away by how fast it is! The speed is incredible!

On the downside, two of the most important extensions I use (uMatrix and Enpass) don't work with this version of Firefox. It looks like they're both being updated to support it though, so it's just a matter of waiting til they get published or installing them by hand.
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Nice work! I once made a similar page (although for a specific subreddit) to show an endless page of perfectly looping gifs. It's certainly not perfect and just a quick afternoon hack when I was first getting into JavaScript.. you may have to resize the page to get the images to fill the screen at first. https://cgati.com/loops/
NYC don't even have a train from the airport to the city. Of course it is a driving city.
Well that's the major question, as far as I'm concerned. Does the punishment fit the crime? Are there punishments for which there are no fitting crimes?
I see Weld as an embeddable component in systems like pandas, not a replacement.
You're totally right, from the Rockaways to Riverdale cars are difficult to obtain for the majority of NYC's residents.
I meant that New York is a 'driving city' in the sense that for-hire drivers such as cabs, Vias, etc are ubiquitous and necessary.

Cycling has several benefits, but I believe the current situation makes it a hard sell. I don't believe cars will organically leave the road as more people turn to bicycles, and I don't believe cyclists can coexist with the current volume of vehicles. Proposed initiatives to limit this number, such as Bloomberg toll for driving through Manhattan, seem totalitarian.

Cars are dangerous, but when I cross the street I am pretty certain the driver will be following basic laws: such as driving the correct way on a one-way street or stopping at a red light. The same can not be said for cyclists, in fact I witness them and their motorized bicycle cohorts breaking these laws every single day.
Today one would think Tor and Bitcoin to be involved.

But no - classic meeting with the killer and handing over a (faked) image of the victim.
I never thought I'd say this but the 2 fastest bowsers on my computer are Firefox and Edge
If AES is a lightweight cipher now, you should probably inform all the academics working on lightweight cipher designs that what they're doing is pointless.
I switched to Chrome years ago and every time I try Firefox it feels sluggish, so I don't switch back.

Last time was a week ago :\
> cyclists in New York City have no regard for human life.

I'll meet your anecdata with the data that cyclists aren't the ones killing people. The folks doing the killing are frequently your beloved cab drivers (and charter buses).
Many transits are actually flexible, and people can react to weather and traffic conditions by postponing or canceling their plans. Often, that's exactly what happens completely independent from the transport options because, for example, any outdoor activity is going to be less fun when it's cold and rainy.

If you somehow get people to try, they also discover that biking in really bad conditions is actually quite a lot of fun, provided you are wearing the right clothes. In the cold, your usual jacket is almost always enough because you're exercising anyway, but you'll need the best gloves and hat you can find. The days where I got to work in a snowstorm are actually my most productive :)

The real problem in bad weather conditions is that the threat from cars is amplified: it's usually dark in winter, snow and rain further deteriorate visibility, and snow/ice are dangerous because both bikes and cars are less predictable. Bikes are also extremely vulnerable to blocks of hardened snow that often get shoved right onto their usual path by cars.
You cannot seriously expect the rules of the road to be the same for multi-ton vehicles capable of 50+ mph speeds and human-powered vehicles that weigh 200lbs tops / max out at 20 mph.
Show HN: Voxel Space – terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code
Beta for 57 rolls out today I believe.
Somehow difficulty of proving damages is not so problematic when someone is prosecuted for downloading movies.
What is worse?

[ ] Medium’s floating “open in app" desperate plea
[x] Someone hiring a killer to kill his competitor

My pleasure.
Predictive AI Doubled Site's Traffic and Rankings
I don't think it was the college major, true, but it appears she enjoyed a large scale of "falling up" into that position that most people in our industry aren't afforded.
As a data scientist, I think losing actual words would be a loss. Words would be only used by word embeddings like word2vec, but actual words let you switch to better word embedding later.
I obey traffic laws when it is safe to do so. There are some dangerous interections around here where the bike lane disappears then starts up again. If you ride with the traffic as you're supposed to, cars behind will try to pass in the middle of the intersection. In those cases, sometimes I will ride up on the sidewalk to bypass the dangerous part of the itnersection. I would feel better if there was a separate light in the bike lane that allowed the bikes to proceed first.
This release only includes the CSS components (Stylo) from Servo. The new rendering architecture, WebRender, is expected to land later.
Breaches occur. Negligent security, networking, and auditing missed or ignored network segmentation. I can forgive a small company dealing with my email when they lose it. Equifax is't a small company. They didn't just lose my email. They should be disbanded and their CTO, CIO, and CEO should be held personally responsible.
In banning Uber, London is fighting the future
Anecdote in Toronto: I bike to a beach volleyball game with some friends from the same place in the downtown core. It takes me 16 minutes to get there by bike, it takes the rest of the team about 30-45 minutes to get there by car.
>SEO
>industry

Snakeoil is more like it.
I would argue that in a signal (1D) you can expect some sort of relationship between consecutive elements. In an image (in essence a 2D signal), you can expect a relationship between consecutive elements not just on the horizontal, but also on the vertical axis.

If you arbitrarily represent a signal as a 2D matrix, then abrupt changes in the gradient on the vertical axis are meaningless. But the same is not true in an image, which is naturally represented as a 2D matrix. Here, a sudden change on the vertical axis usually corresponds to an edge in the image.

If you represent an image as a 1D array, you throw away spatial information. So I'm not sure about the 1D-ness just being in ones head.
> It's a similar situation in Philly, every day I watch bikers run red lights and stop signs or speeding in a 25.

I've yet to see a vehicle not speeding in a 25. It's honestly infuriating when people are actually going 24 in a 25, because despite these limits being in a mostly urban area, there are almost zero pedestrians there and it's a 3 lane wide road in good condition.

How much can a bike possibly be speeding in a 25 to be a danger? 28mph? Come on.

Running a red light is a big no-no however.
This is certainly not the case. Some, but by no means all, of the core maintainers prefer the unicode glyph, but the vast majority of the code uses a spelled-out lambda.

In my current checkout of the codebase, I see the following:

~/src/racket/racket/share/pkgs$ ag lambda **/*.rkt | wc -l
1041

~/src/racket/racket/share/pkgs$ ag λ **/*.rkt | wc -l
163

Note also consistent usage of spelled-out lambda in the Racket style guide, https://docs.racket-lang.org/style/.
The logo (I guess is's a logo?) at the top looks like an arrow telling me to scroll up or pull down or something.
It is a lot faster for me... so far, the most noticeable example is when using the back/forward buttons on Reddit (it used to reload the whole page every time) but more than half of the extensions that I use haven't been updated yet to work with Firefox 57. Looks like you can enable legacy extensions, about:config?filter=extensions.legacy.enabled, but it appears to be only for installed extensions (you can't add new ones).
"It appears"? From what, her LinkedIn?

What concrete information do we have to make that conclusion?
I can vouch for workflowy. I've tried many to-do apps before, but workflowy is simple enough that I can structure it however I like and never feel like I've missed something. Unfortunately, I don't know how to handle repetitive tasks like dusting every two days.
Thanks for your viewpoint, I strongly believe that it sounds more logical. I was suggesting to learn problem-solving in the beginning and gradually progressing it to coding. Interschool/college code camps may take it from there. Exploring many areas of interest in the beginning years of life definitely has an advantage.
Looks awesome. This might convince me to switch back to FF as my default browser.
Their custom scripting language is the main reason for not choosing Godot. I didn't know they were replacing it in v3.

Any idea what are they going to use?
Correct, all companies face breaches, it's the management and response that should determine the course of action. This is where an independent investigation is crucial for determining basic failures vs systemic disregard. The harder part would be weighing it.
Oakland has installed a bunch of "Ford bikes". I thought about using them the other day for a quick one way trip and to check out how they work. $10 a day minimum cost. Is it similar with Citi bikes in NYC? Why not have a one or two dollar an hour option, especially outside of commute hours and weekends.
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As a NYer it's pretty clear that going cross town on a bike or skate board will be faster than a car, especially during rush hour. Moving through tight areas like Soho and Greenwich village, I would say that a skateboard is probably the fastest. I still can't tell if a skate board is safer than a bike. Absolutely more fun though
FWIW, it's well known that high/surprising numbers of computer scientists have a music background. Some people think it's because the subjects are fundamentally similar.

Do you know the story about the famous actress Hedy Lamarr, who invented a channel switching anti-jamming system for torpedos with a friend? Both were musicians with little or no experience, and their invention, aside from being patented and used by the military, is now credited as part of the basis for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Inventor
Nothing New - This programme was originally called RAJIV GANDHI GRAMEEN VIDYUTIKARAN YOJANA (RGGVY) (2004-2017) to electrify all villages. During this period only Kerala achieved 100% electrification to all households. This is old wine in new bottle. More window dressing for a country that is facing unprecedented economic slowdown and job losses.
> But, until recently, or perhaps still, we had more accurate maps of the surface of the moon than we had maps of the bottom of the oceans.

I believe this is still true. The search for the missing Malaysian airliner ended up producing way better maps of the seafloor in the search region than had ever been done before. That search region is a teeny tiny portion of the entire seafloor and it took years.

https://eos.org/project-updates/geological-insights-from-mal...

Meanwhile the entire moon has been mapped down to 328 feet resolution:

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2...
I had a nasty bout with an SEO marketer a few years ago. He had taken content from my website and other assets of mine without permission or advance request. I was willing to overlook it as an inevitable cost of doing business.

But when he started to steal my customer reviews word for word and posting them as fake reviews, I became irate. I guess I am OK with someone stealing from me but I felt the reviews were my customer's property, not mine. When I confronted him he started spamming my business and then wrote detailed fake blog posts about how I was criminal hacker that now works covertly for the FBI. My name and photoshopped images were posted on gay websites for bondage sex. I Googled very poorly for a while, especially my images. I lost many many nights of sleep over this and I probably lost a contract over it.

I eventually found where he lived and fortunately he owned his own home. I threatened to sue him and take his home. He removed all the libelous posts shortly after that.

After all had been settled, a few months later he wrote me asking if I wanted to partner with him on a project, demonstrating a pathological lack of awareness. Apparently tormenting me had just been another fun day at the office and not a memorable event. I ignored him and never heard back.

My personal experience does make me wonder if the subject in the parent article was motivated to kill his competitors just for profit. Or did he and his competitors have had a nasty on-going personal war that just kept escalating. Not that I would ever justify attempted murder. Just saying...

edits: grammar, clarity.
The Smithsonian Magazine still has some of the most atrocious mobile ads I see on any website today. They really make me never want to click their links from a phone, even though I know it's stuff I would find fascinating.
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Money is far from the only thing that motivates people to do bad stuff. Plus, consider, he may not even think of what he's doing as at all bad.
I sought professional help to deal with life influencing jealousy and doubts.

What helped me deal with this, is to find out that I undervalued myself and overtly dedicated myself to my partner.

Once you don't view your life as the relationship, but you and your relationship, u will be on a good track.

Most people will notice that if they meet a cute someone and don't see them for a few days, they don't occupy themselves with all these doubt too much.

It's when you sacrifice or throw a big part of yourself onto pleasing the other within an ensuing relationship, is when you lose yourself and become insecure and doubtfull.
Can someone more in the know explain if this uses webrender or not? I thought that it did...

I have to admit that I'm not super impressed with the results here. Based on the talk that pcwalton did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erfnCaeLxSI I was expected it not to just be a little faster than Chrome, but to, like, double the speed, or more.

Is it that these are just not good candidates for showing how much faster than webrender can be? Or has Firefox slowed it down vs. in Servo maybe?
Starting with 1.0.1b5, uMatrix is compatible with the latest Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/versi...
Her LinkedIn profile, before it was scrubbed, showed her as an employee of those companies, but her job title for each was listed as "Professional". It's not entirely clear what her previous roles were and exactly how relevant they were to the role of Chief Security Officer.

It's the same divide between self taught developers and developers with a formal computer science background. If I'm hiring someone to make a website, then it may not make much of a difference, but if I need them to write kernel device drivers, more often than not your best bet is going to be with someone with a formal background who has had to demonstrate at school that they have certain knowledge prerequisites in a standardized setting.

I can't speak for the cybersecurity at HP, Sun Trust, and First Data. It's possible they have great records, or it's possible they've made mistakes and gotten away with them, and these experiences led Mauldin to believe Equifax was more secure than it was.

Edit: I found that she was Group VP at SunTrust from 07-09 and Senior VP and Chief Security Officer at First Data from 09-13. Her experience at First Data is relevant to the discussion and it's strange that the Washington Post article you linked to didn't mention that.
This has been my experience also.

However, I'll try Quantum and see if it improves the situation. I really don't want to be using Chrome.
As a pedestrian in a dense Californian urban core, I have mixed feelings about bikers.

Most bikers are reasonable, sensible bicycle commuters. They stay in the road, wear helmets, and follow laws. No skin off my nose. (ecologically friendly, fights obesity, blah blah blah blah blah)

But I've also had multiple encounters with bicyclists who feel they are entitled to switch back and forth between a wheeled vehicle moving significantly above normal walking speeds and a pedestrian who just happens to be on a bicycle. Usually with no notice and as is convenient for them. Not infrequently such enhanced-pedestrians can top 20 mph barreling down the sidewalk. Sometimes with cargo in tow. I have literally never even heard of there being any real consequences for such irresponsible and reckless behavior.

I understand why they do it. It's so convenient! Roads certainly aren't always designed for the safety of bicyclists. Yet, these are perhaps less than adequate reasons for irresponsible behavior.

More troubling to me is the role bicycles seem to play in the underground economy of the Bay. But that seems more an issue stemming from law enforcement's general disinclination to be interested in bikes and bikers at all.
Just because you can do it, doesn't mean it has anywhere the same likelihood of happening. Not even sure what argument you're trying to make.

This is why concealed guns are banned in most states and fists aren't.
Wow, it really is blazing fast, and just at a glance I like what they're doing with the dev tools. Unfortunately...

> Vimperator : "This add-on is not compatible with your version of Firefox."

Ouch. Guess I might need to wait a bit to make this my daily driver. All in all, though, I have to say I'm really glad to see Firefox is still solidly in this race - and with a kick ass and quite possibly superior product to boot.

edit :

I didn't realize at the outset that a FF57 version of Vimium was available (link provided by gogoengie) :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
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The reception would be much improved with better visuals. I can't read anything, the launch page hurts my eyes and I don't know where to look. The gifs play too fast to understand what I'm looking at.
Since we're on the subject, can anyone recommend a good hacker news formatted that works with quantum?
Compensation doesn't always come in direct form.

Marshall, Tx has a population of about 25k. Yet, the city continues to get donations from Samsung which has patent cases in the district[0][1]. My own hometown was quite a bit larger than 25k, but I don't ever recall having major corporate sponsors of a wide variety of activities.

While I don't know the thoughts of Samsung or Judge Gilstrap, I imagine he's very popular for bring so much business to town.

[0] - https://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/2012/oct/20/samsu...
TVs, MP3 players, athletic sponsor, library, habitat for humanity, boys and girls club, fire department, etc.

[1] - http://www.marshalltexas.net/uploads/pdf/Community_Update_10...
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While I don't have hard data to counteract what you say, my personal experience is that every .0 release is indeed quite rough on the battery, and within a few weeks a .1 or .2 release largely remedies that. This effect is usually visible on both older models and the newest ones (even though, for those, you don't really have a way to compare the behaviour with the previous iOS version).

I've experienced this almost every year.

So - don't attribute to malice what can be explained by a rushed release.
I suspect the same reason PostgreSQL has VACUUM. Immediate deletion can be expensive, and deletion can be cheaper if done in batch. On the other hand, they want to make it immediately unreadable. Deleting key seems to be a good way to make something immediately unreadable while avoiding expensive immediate deletion.
Any idea how I can get rid of that title bar that sits on top of the tab bar? In the demo I saw it's not present or it may have been cut from it.
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Be impeached or subject to other means of removal, if you'll accept this Yale Law Review article:

The Constitution authorizes the impeachment of federal judges, but it nowhere says that they can be removed only through impeachment. Nor do the Constitution’s relevant provisions easily lend themselves to any such reading.

http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/removing-federal-judges-...
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Even if you do, the bikes are not going to kill you. Someone on a bike breaking the "rules of the road" is pretty much only risking his own safety, someone in a car it's almost always other people that die.
I guess it mostly comes down to "performance is difficult, and optimisations for one use case might cause regressions for another".

Note, though, that there's still more to come [1].

Also, I guess the state of Servo can tell you what a tremendous effort rewriting is, and why that would still take quite a while to finish.

[1] "Project Quantum: There’s more to come" at https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/09/firefox-quantum-developer-...
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Dedicated bike lanes have actually been going out of style. Especially those using half of the sidewalk with only symbolic separation from pedestrians are plagued by the inattentiveness of pedestrians, and are usually too narrow to pass other bikes. The pavement is also at higher risk of damage, because these lanes are usually right next to any trees lining the roads, and their roots quickly create breaks, bumps and potholes.

What's now preferred is a marked lane in the rightmost car lane, or to just dedicate a complete lane to bikes.
Two of the three major airports in the metropolitan area (EWR and JFK) have trains to the city. And LGA has buses.
With streetcar tracks if you hit them at about a 30 degree angle you can roll right over them. On a bike no matter what you got to constantly be scanning the road surface before you to watch for potholes, ruts, gravel and ice patches, puddles and whatever.

Usually I do a little bunny hop over street car tracks, and taking some time to learn these sorts of handling skills is very much worth the trouble if you intend to make a habit of commuting by bike.