skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relevant statistic is fatalities per billion vehicle-kilometers, which attempts to even out that discrepancy, and leads to the same conclusion. Using this metric, the US still has twice the fatality rate than the UK.

> In the EU it's half that.

I'd like to see a source on that. I think the average American drives about 30% more.
Clearly your father wasn't Scots
Of Guinness, Student's, and the foundation of statistics
Four hours and no comments. I guess I'm not the only one who has no clue what this is about but upvoted it because it sounds important :)
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Maciej's talks are the best. His combination of humor and insight is, in my opinion, unmatched. I just wish he posted more often!
It does not have to be related to this. INTC is at an 18 year high. They also crushed their Q3 earnings. Maybe this is a sign that there will be less crushing of their Q4 earnings.

Technically this was a normal executive sale. He is holding the required shares and is the second largest inside shareholder after Andy Bryant, the chairman. In general INTC executives own very little stock. I have been somewhat bearish on INTC for a variety of reasons and now I will add what appears to be the lack of insider ownership to that list.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INTC/holders?p=INTC
I'm not suggesting that the legal system would throw their hands up and exclaim "There's too many possible parties at fault! Let's not blame any of them!" Instead, as you say, many parties could be held liable. Notably absent will be any one individual, i.e. the human driver of a car. No-one will be left feeling remorse. The writer of the original article could not get the death out of their mind. That won't happen to the developer of faulty collision avoidance AI code.
Ice cream probably isn't the best option anyway if you have diarrhea. Generally it's best to eat a lot of the types of food that feed the good bacteria, such as vegetables, whole grains, etc.
But if Google does it on effectively their own network it's okay? Nothing changes there except analytics and bandwidth usage. Too much for the internet but not to fear Google is here with a web scale solution: build a new internet a googlenet where services only get info Google blesses them with......
First there's the adaptation period. Even after you're adjusted you'll experience hunger sometimes, but once you start moving and have a coffee, tea or water, the hunger subsides. The only will power you'd need is just to have your morning drink before acknowledging you're hungry.
Well it looks like it's available to order: https://davidrumsey.reprintmint.com/002-default.html?varific....
I had a similar experience yesterday when my wife related a near-kidnapping that happened in a grocery store. It seems that a pair of child-traffickers attempted to take a baby out of a shopping cart. It was a male/female duo. (Side note: NEVER leave your children unattended even for a moment. In this case, the parent was right beside the cart, moving groceries from the cart to the conveyor belt. It was a brazen act on the part of the kidnappers.)

In the past, stories like that would make me angry, but that's about it. Now that I have a kid, my brain plays through the scene with him as the baby being taken. My response is violence. I'm not a violent person at all, but I think I'd probably kill those kidnappers in the heat of the moment if I realized what was happening. I mean I would find anything to use as a weapon, and I'd just beat the everliving crap out of them. It's probably the worst reaction I could have, as it would mean me spending my life in jail, my son growing up without a dad, etc. Just a terrible, terrible decision, really. But I think that's what I'd do in the moment unless I could manage to overcome emotions with reason.

It's hard to express how having a kid changes your perspective on things like this.
that's been a big request in the last wave of popularity (as in 36 hours) ... I'll think about how to do it in a non-awful way.
Spinning a fantasy? Please.

We are both speculating, that's all.
Oh yeah, the "burglars know when you're not at home" scenario... I feel like maybe there's something else, but this one's definitely a standard IoT security checklist item.
Very good point indeed. And that is how the publishing industry used to do with segmented magazines. Each publication built their own reader's profile and ad agencies would chose a publication over another based on who they would like to target. That is a much more ethical approach, in my opinion.
Every system does. They're not called "death panels" but that's the function.

True. As noted, in our current system, it's just the insurance companies making the call instead of a bureaucrat. And it's usually done at a general level, not individually (except for rare, expensive, edge cases).

But, politicians in the US who oppose change would have us believe death panels are going to single out Grandma as not worthy of care.

Lots of fear-mongering about this.
Actually, you don't get REM when you smoke. That's why you don't dream and it's why it comes back full-swing when you stop. I occasionally smoke and drink (alcohol also disturbs REM quite a bit), but I try and do it early in the day so I can get quality sleep.
> It wasn't a default option (you were asked to enter into a text field your number of older brothers, older sisters, younger brothers, younger sisters).

Is blank coerced into 0?

That would seem to explain the size of the effect.
Well, if we’re doing > 10 9/11s per year, and we’ve had 16 years of comparison since 9/11, my back-of-a-napkin reasoning suggests we’re almost half way to a year’s worth of 9/11s.
Thank you for those kind words!

I included the story about the radio astronomers because it's such a nice example of doing something creative with technology in the service of a broader goal, while staying true to who you are—a big giant nerd.

I don't think applying technology to political problems is anathema, it just requires special care and humility.

My quarrel is with people who think you can treat human society like a deterministic computer system, and 'hack' it. Politics is hard!
Depends how you define richest while saying "in history"

From Forbes... By the time Rockefeller died in 1937, his assets equaled 1.5% of America's total economic output. To control an equivalent share today would require a net worth of about $340 billion dollars.
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SETI@Home and Folding@Home actually solve real problems. Are the calculations done by bitcoin miners actually applied in a way that accomplishes anything other than being used as a score to decide who gets a new bitcoin?

The problem with bitcoin is not that it costs energy, but that it's specifically designed to waste energy. If it was designed to help SETI and Folding, every conceivable @Home problem would probably have been solved by now.
Would you be even more surprised to find out that he’s not the richest in history?
> Reduced economic activity, increased unemployment and poverty

"Won't someone PLEASE think of the children!!!!"

There are already non-ad-supported funding alternatives for small creators (like Patreon). Maybe the loss of an ad-supported web would finally create sufficient interest in development of micropayment and microfunding services to help the rest.

Edit: and maybe we can finally rid the web of clickbait and Taboola-style garbage content.
Sure. They want effective attribution, because that leads to more effective ads. But they are also perfectly willing to do any and all of those other things to get "effective ads."

Those other things mean that the next big data hack/leak won't be your SSN & DOB, but your SSN, DOB, and porn preference.
> Detection of suspicious individuals by clothing color.

Police seems a crime and reports that suspect is wearing a green shirt. Surveillance system reports everybody that is wearing a green shirt on walking distance of the occurrence.
Since the MIT Tech-Re article is super brief, I have got some information from quartz that goes a little more in depth.(https://qz.com/1174091/china-wants-an-orderly-exit-from-bitc...)

>Citing government sources, Bloomberg and Reuters earlier reported that China is planning to limit electricity supply to bitcoin miners.

>“Currently, there are some so-called ‘mining’ enterprises that produce ‘virtual currencies.’ They have consumed huge amounts of resources and stoked speculation of ‘virtual currencies,’” according to the document dated Jan. 2.

>The document, issued to local offices of the internet-finance regulator, asks local authorities to use measures linked to electricity price, land use, tax, and environmental protection, among other things, to guide bitcoin miners to quit the business.

>It also asks the local offices to report information about mining facilities in their regions, as well as the progress of the exits from mining by Jan. 10, and then on the tenth day of every month.

If that last statement is true, I wonder what the consequences of such would be on the price of bitcoin. Would that artificially drive the price up because the btc is being mined less?
The problem with so-called "web APIs" is that usually they function as a way to get users to "sign up" to a website in order to use it, then to track them by some token, rate limit them at will or ask for fees. This is certainly not "accessibility".

The common sense of the user is that either the information on a website is free or it is not free. But "web APIs" have tried to blur this clear distinction. The information is free only if taken in small amounts. Consume too much, too fast and it is not free.

It is the Google model. Allow users to search public information on the web collected that Google collected for free from wesbites and has stored on its computers. But users may only query this public infromation in small amounts, and not "too fast". Otherwise users get blocked.

Now some websites might claim they need the ability to rate limit because if too many users started accessing their website at Googlebot speeds, the websites performance would degrade. But can Google make that claim? Is their infrastructure really that brittle? We are continually bombarded with PR that suggests Google is state of the art.

Is this really the era of "big data"? Users are restricted to very small data. The solution to any website performance being degraded by "too many" requests is to provide bulk data. For example, pjrc.org, where users can buy Teensy microcontrollers, makes the entire available as a tarball for users to download. The SEC traditionally provided bulk access to filings. There are countless other examples.

Is this really the age of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, etc.? Teenagers and companies around the world build robots and the press gets excited. Yet websites block requests out of fear they are coming from "(ro)bots"? Is there something wrong with automation? (The majority of requests on the web are indeed from bots; using software to make requests, as Google and myriad other companies do, is far more efficient than manual typing, clicking, swiping and tapping.)

Summary: The "Web API" is nothing more than an another senseless urging for users to "sign up" to receive free information. Not every "Web API" user is an app developer submitting to an app store, nor are they necessary running a "competing" website. Everytime a website collects unnecessary "sign up" credentials it is one more unnecessary risk for the user that those credentials will be leaked.
The “Quiet Life” Hypothesis Is Real: Managers Put Off Hard Decisions If They Can
This discussion came up sometime within the past few months. It was really interesting.

I recall mentioning some research into the effects of food/organics preservatives (namely Parabens) and low testosterone: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12419695
No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them. So yeah, it really doesn't matter.
A Research Data Gathering tool I built using Twitter API. (muchcast.com)
Your last paragraph doesn’t follow from your first three.
A tale of two decompilers
The last 3 years or so I've been working on a decompiler, and it is like a compiler in complexity, engineering, and testing. But different.

In https://github.com/rocky/python-uncompyle6/wiki/pycdc-compared-with-uncompyle6 I compare two Python decompilers which I submit for your review. Of course, since I am working on one, I am not impartial. So I rely on others here to set the story straight.
Hi There,

I am Dilusha,

Co-Founder of MuchCast,

I built this product for people to gather twitter data for quick research projects. As I felt, this might help people who do not have much time to code something using Twitter API, just to grab some data for their projects. (I am about to validate this idea :) )

I have opened sign-ups for 100 users, and still, we got so far 2 sign-ups. Day 2 :(. Even though I haven't marketed this in many places, I feel my idea should be validated even more.

*Please note as we are currently in beta, we have some new features coming up on the roadmap if the next few days going to be a success and if we at least get some active users during the next 20 days.

So Feel free to ask me any question, give me your feedback on this and you are all welcome to sign-up.

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Mailboxes on the opposite side of a street with a 45-50mph speed limit? STUPID. I feel terrible for both the victim and the author, in part because tragedies like this are avoidable. This particular scenario seems pretty egregious, but even the typical line of cars parked along the side of the road - obscuring view of the sidewalk and giving pedestrians a false sense of security - is provably bad for safety. If you want safety you need to maximize all-direction visibility. You can also add traffic-calming elements like bumps or chokepoints, but those are strictly secondary.

FWIW, I live on a pretty busy street - feeder for the neighborhood, popular short cut between two state roads, 35mph speed limit. Technically parking is allowed, but nobody does so visibility is pretty good. In nearly 20 years living here, I've only seen or heard of one accident, and it was a neighbor's dog (who came out of it fine). On runs I've seen evidence of maybe two or three other collisions. We're lucky. I can't imagine the carnage if we did something as stupid as putting mailboxes on only one side of the street.
Retrykit – The easiest python retry library without decorator
GHC might get linear types: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/LinearTypes
Funny showcase for MetaMask Payment
In several hospital patients I have known, they give Ice cream due to the calorie density. So, it has it's uses. Note that this is already linked to sick and elderly patients, so it's ease of eating is also important.
Not if people install a content blocker in Safari. Especially since the same blockers also work in the newer WKWebView that's embedded into apps.
You are conveniently leaving out civil liability. Yes, the self driving car won’t be put in jail because it didn’t have a murderous intent or wasn’t criminally negligent (e.g. drunk). But damn, if it kills someone, at least the insurance company will have to pay up (as it most definitely did in this case); kill more than a few people with your self driving car and you can bet there will be a recall, well, lawsuits, massive hits to financial performance, and so on. Death has consequences.

It really is the same with doctor malpractice, the doctor doesn’t go to jail because their patient died because they made a mistake. Transforming civil negligence into criminal negligence as you seem to be hinting at would be a horrible system.
I only blame Cuba/USSR for violence in Central America. Others blame the U.S. for all of it. There's a big difference. It's very clear that Cuba/USSR were involved in a number of conflicts in Central America in the 80s, but they really were not directly involved in South America -- sure, they had sympathizers, and I'm sure they lent a hand to a number of groups, but not enough to make a big enough difference. The key thing is: political violence in Latin America was endemic long before the Cold War.
How long have the intelligence agencies known about and been exploiting these defects?
I really enjoyed (maybe not the best word...appreciated) the film "Manchester By the Sea" for reasons that this story reminds me of. My wife and some friends who have seen it said it was 'boring' and that 'nothing happened'. To me, the fact that 'nothing happened' was a very much the point; There was no grand character arc because for most people you just don't ever come back from an event like that. There is no major turnaround and everything is all better moment. You learn to live and maybe find some areas of your life that don't quite suck 24/7 if you can, but that may be all that's possible. I found it to be a very 'real' human story that isn't often told well.
It is, because enough people upvoted it. If you don't agree, flag it. If enough people do that, it will be removed, if not, it means it belongs here.
You could simply have people use their email address (or name) as a salt. Not great, but it would help significantly.

Eight character random mixed alphanumeric password, hashed with say, sha256: crackable in hours with a GPU cracking rig.

Eight character random mixed alphanumeric password, hashed with scrypt using aggressive settings: could take years or decades to crack.

There is absolutely a large class of passwords that will be cracked if the hashing is fast, but not if it's hashed with a time and memory hard function.

You can make an attackers job literally over a million times harder at minimal cost.
The gender split is not expected to be 50/50 for this group.
Relevant: https://hyper.rs/hyper/v0.9.6/hyper/client/request/struct.Re...
Check out this one: https://github.com/wiseman/py-webrtcvad

If this one does not work for your application, perhaps look into simpler ones like the ones used in mobile telephone codecs or in Speex.
Hopefully this is just growing pains and not the first signs of insolvency. MtGox stopped most USD withdrawals by June 2013 but didn't shutdown until Feb 2014.
To prove the vulnerability is exploitable I'd ideally do ahead and do it. Has this not been done?
You'd be taking the bait if you actually made a donation to Terry.
Not really. That's the 'only solution' if use limit yourself to the straight jacket of existing CS theoretical methods. Given how irrelevant it has been to industry up to this point (unable to even prove something as simple to state as whether P = NP), that seems pointless.
Are we discovering anew just how much information google has and perhaps now the real intention behind AMP: complete control of search. Easy solution, opt in and explain the danger to users...or better yet stuff all the privacy violation shit behind an EULA and call it a day.

Thinking about it more, why is it even a problem if the pizza shop across the street knows I searched for pizza and wants to try and offer me a better deal before I pick up the phone and call someone else? If I buy into having my privacy violated by allowing sites and ad networks to track me anyway, wouldn't the better user experience there be to have services competing over me (my business) as soon as I start looking rather than once I've entered their store? Kinda playing devils advocate but now I'm actually curious.
Vehicle inspections, at least, differ between states; AL doesn't currently require one annually. California has long had much stronger environmental regulations.
My mother lost one of her siblings (a small boy of 4) 65 years ago. She still talks about it and becomes very sad. I think life was just much much crueler and a lot lot worse than it is today.
No, unfortunately this is the first I'd heard of it. But it is a great read. Well structured, but with some great bits of history I didn't yet know.

I also hadn't heard anything from Ecclesiastes since I was a kid. Churches started to depart from the old testament unless they wanted to condemn gay marriages, etc for a while there. I still kept my old Bible (as I do many texts). I might even have to give that book a re-read because I definitely didn't appreciate the basic wisdom when I was young. It was well-used, though; sparsely, and with cutting effect.

I couldn't agree more with the conclusion, and it was beautifully illustrated.
A talk that has me both doing some mature self-examination regarding my next career move, AND wanting to learn HAM radio. Inspiring stuff!
I've posted about my experience on some of the other Coinbase links on here, and will continue to do so to be informative.

I had an issue with Coinbase back in early 2016, where my bank account was charged for a transaction that I didn't initiate, and I contacted their support and got no response. I waited a few weeks and reached out multiple times and got nothing. I contacted my bank and they initiated a fraud investigation, and determined it was fraud and refunded my money, partially because Coinbase refused to communicate with myself or the bank.

Do NOT use Coinbase. Use Gemini or Bitstamp, yes you have to get verified, but it's worth the headache.
The one at home uses home internet, not a data plan.
It's weird but some carriers offer basic phones with free data everyday. They don't give that in smartphones.
Every article I read about Coinbase is either about the system being down, people not able to withdraw their funds, or not being able to contact support.

Who's the primary competition for Coinbase in the USA? Seems ripe for a competitor to step up.
Orwell isn't wrong in this case... because the quote wasn't Orwell. Who actually came up with it is lost to the mists of time https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/

Orwell did state a similar notion, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear", in the preface to Animal Farm.
Processor bring up is fun to learn about, then you learn you don't want to know how that sausage is made any longer. >.<
This was pretty interesting in terms of all time wealthiest people:

http://time.com/money/3977798/the-10-richest-people-of-all-t...
How do you know it _wasn't_? We basically have a _whole bunch_ of possible hypotheses here that the data/analysis here does not allow us to distinguish.
Forgive me but that is pedantic.

You know exactly what Orwell means.
> half the Old Testament is one tribe murdering another

That hasn't changed, it's only gotten worse. A huge percentage of this world kills, riots, and is violent. Is God supposed to handcuff everyone?

God's primary purpose isn't to keep everyone safe in a little sealed box where they can't hurt anything. However, one day he will put an end to to sin and evil once and for all. The reason he doesn't is that he continues to extend mercy to as many people as he knows will take it before that time comes.

(Also, tribe is the wrong word. Many of these countries/civilizations had millions of people in them with wars being fought between armies of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.)
Nice to see something like this on Show HN. Well done.

What is it made with?
I define success along two axis: personal success and financial success. Personal success is what will make you happy. Financial success is what will make you feel in control.
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