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> I have found, in NYC at least, bicyclists are a much greater hazard to pedestrians than cars.

I'm sure it feels like that sometimes, and I have no doubt that in NYC that you have witnessed some bad bike behavior, but even in NYC cars are the greater threat to pedestrians by a long, long way. Here are some statistics:

Just so you don't have to read through all the links, in the three years 2014+2015+2016, there were 3 pedestrian fatalities and 932 injuries in all accidents between a pedestrian and a bicyclist. In the same time frame, there were 32,217 injuries and 421 fatalities in all accidents between a pedestrian and a car.

Between 2002 and 2016, there have been 10 pedestrians who died from a bicycle collision, and 2,345 who died from a car collision. The rate of death from bikes vs cars is 0.42%.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nycdot-pedestrian-...

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bicycle-crash-data...

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bicycle-crash-data...

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2014-bicycle-crash...

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2014/10/the-rate-of-p...

Something to keep in mind is that the main reason bikers are behaving badly is defensive biking turned aggressive. It's when they're terrified of cars and don't have a safe space of their own that they act stupid. If we design better biking spaces that are separate from both the driving and the walking spaces, both behavior and safety on the whole will improve. Cities across the US, including NYC, are studying this and have been proving it true for years.

> It was enough to make me wish I had a steel pipe to stick in their front wheel and laugh in schadenfreude as they get carted off to the hospital.

I hope you never act on that wish, it wouldn't play out well for any party involved. (And, incidentally, it's not schadenfreude if you cause it to happen.)

I know that peds, bikers, and drivers at times are all frustrated and scared of the others. Take pity on the minority of assholes, rather than get angry. If we understand they're just scared and acting out, then we can ignore the bad behavior and focus on improving the situation as a whole.
Just to be clear, and I don’t think you said otherwise, that 5k number is only pedestrian deaths. In 2016 there were 37,000 fatalities from motor vehicle crashes.

The figure in the article is similarly reporting all automotive fatalities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths...
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This was a necessary phase. Mass adoption couldn't have been achieved without the exponential price rise of various cryptocurrency tokens. There would not have been media coverage of this proportion, had it not been for the gains.

People now talk cryptocurrency, read more about the underlying technology and accept that it will positively affect the industry in the upcoming future. I hope the market stabilizes and some of the tokens actually become useful.
This brings in the question of how long the client certificate would be valid for and how it would be renewed before expiry. If sending a tech costs a good sum of money, one may be tempted to use certificates that are valid for decades, which may or may not be a good idea depending on the client environment, advances in cracking some algorithms or proving collisions in hashing, and business related factors.
I would argue for a menu like this: https://twitter.com/iamlucamilan/status/953201356545974272

Combined with a confirmation dialog like this: https://twitter.com/Ajedi32/status/953303114995597312
In blackmail, you keep the damaging information secret while you try to get the target to pay. Publicizing it doesn't work, because the whole point is for the target to pay to keep it secret.

So, unless there is something worse that Levandowski would know she knows that would come out if the allegations in the lawsuit were litigated, this is not likely to be “blackmail as lawsuit”.
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Major companies like Google do all sorts of dumb things, and, equally importantly, have gigantic well-funded security teams triple-checking what they do, so that the pitfalls in these standards are mostly an externality to them.

(The actual answer is: I have no idea what Google does with JWTs.)
I switched to Vultr years ago because they gave each VPS a proper IPv6 /64. DO was stuck on doing /128s at the time. I haven't yet looked back. At the time they also gave you 768MB RAM for $5 while DO had 512MB.
There are no better alternatives. That's the point.

The article makes it seem like the only reason the rules exist as they do now is because some industry players forced us into this situation.

No. The rules exist now because the majority of people agreed that cars should be given the road and people should be given the sidewalks, and that people darting to and fro on the street would be very bad for everyone involved.

Sure the car industry backed these ideas, but people accepted them because they made sense.
If even half of what this complaint claims is true, Levandowski is going to prison for a long time--or should, if our justice system is worth anything.
I’m not arguing or criticizing or even differing with you here, but simply and genuinely asking: who is exploiting Antifa, and for what gain?
Does anyone how good Scaleway actually is? Vultr seems pretty good for a 2.50€ instance which is often good for small things. 3€ also seems reasonable to me but cloud computing has thought me that price means nothing. Sometimes you get decent general performance for a good price (this seems to be the case with Vutlr, at least for me) and sometimes you get really bad general performance for a high price. Some vastly oversell hardware, others seem to have slow networks and don’t use the internal SSD so that everything goes through their internet network which makes the server unusable and unresponsive for quite a lot of things. I know that benchmarks don’t tell the whole story and provider A might be better for certain things but I’m more concerned about general performance.
I got 23andme tests for the family and I think it was worth the price as far as entertainment value. It suggested I had some Native American heritage I was not aware of that I later confirmed with the grandparents. They let you download the raw data so you can process it yourself if you do not trust their algorithm. As far as keeping your DNA private, you do not have to use your real name for these services.
Nobody is having a problem with walking on motorways being banned - we're talking about this kind of jaywalking (walking across non-busy regular city streets, especially while black):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJFqvRwOiis
Aka, blame the user, not the design. The FAA got away from that because it caused too many planes to drop out of the sky. Sure, user errors will happen, but designs should try to avoid them and mitigate their consequences.
Where did you get that from? Stokab covers 90% of Stockholm with fiber. 4G and fixed broadband coverage is 100%.
yeah, it's somewhat a "hidden" treasure. No idea why they are not often mentioned or used in comparisons and such. The servers are great, the pricing is great and the UI is really nice.
I'm not sure what you mean. Why do you say whitelists don't work in a decentralized context?
Taking the opposite side side of the argument, good UX only matters for inexperienced employees. People that mindlessly click are going to mindlessly click "yes" on the confirmation dialog
He nailed it!
People tend to get less motion sickness when they are in control of the motion (i.e. drivers are not as susceptible to motion sickness as their passengers). So in this future world you might still be allowed to hold the steering wheel (if you paid for the option of having one in the car at all), but the car will take control from you immediately as soon as it decides that someone might be in danger (just like some present-day cars can auto-brake if they sense an impending collision).
My concern with severity groups is you have users and managers deciding which messages go in which severity groups. That ignores the impact of politics and short termism on the decision making process. (e.g. How severe is a missing child?). Before you know it, everything will be in severe, and your users will be asking for a "really, really severe" category.
The question nobody is asking is "how does this token benefit from the value of the app, and how does this app benefit from the presence of a token?"

It's a messaging app, right? Not every stall needs its own Starbucks Giftcard.
It was enough to make me wish I had a steel pipe to stick in their front wheel and laugh in schadenfreude as they get carted off to the hospital.

Perhaps you need to take a good look at yourself.
Weird that the article says "Read part 1 first" but doesn't have a link to part 1. Or did I miss it?
I think this is the key here. Why do we keep trusting the one person who never uses the actual product to decide which product everyone should use?

I wish we could have a sane conversation about how UI's should be customizeable for the end user
I've been comparing DO and Linode, and quickly finding out that Linode is missing things that are super handy for automated infrastructure building like a metadata service and userdata required for cloudinit. Does vultr offer such options?

EDIT: Got to a desktop machine and poked around their site for a few minutes, they appear to offer metadata support (https://www.vultr.com/metadata/) but I don't see anything for user data, which is unfortunate and seems really easy to add.

EDIT2: I can't find specific documentation on how to access the user data but they have a page on cloud-init which makes reference to such an option (https://www.vultr.com/docs/getting-started-with-cloud-init)
DNA heritage testing is often referred as genetic astorology:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21687013

UCL has a nice page collecting the scientific facts:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mace-lab/debunking
Just a brief addition to this as a user of APIs. Allow me to create a new token and have two tokens for the same account. This makes rotation of tokens without loss of service possible :)
> Cyclists may be restricted and anything else that confuses AI drivers.

I don't think that will ever happen. It may even be the opposite: AI will drive in a way it will always be able to stop if there's a possibility that there's someone behind some obstacle that may jump to the road at any moment.

Worst case scenario, beacons become mandatory. Cheap and anonymous beacons you have to carry when you're near a road. Smart phones may include such functionality.
Very nice, it would be great if you added more filtering options (for example, I'd like to exclude anything with 'coin'), and generate RSS feeds with those filters.

Great job, now I'll go back into the rabbit hole you've created!
I read that there was a conformation screen the employee clicked through the confirmation screen.

People blindly click through confirmation screens all the time.
The fanciest tracking trick is the HSTS supercookie.

You use a bunch of subdomains -- a.example.com, b.example.com, etc. -- each configured so that a particular URL (call it the 'set' URL) sends an HSTS header. A different URL (the 'get' URL) doesn't.

You generate an ID for the user, and encode it as a bit pattern using the subdomains to indicate positions of '1' digits. Say your ID is 101001 -- you serve a page which includes images loaded from the 'set' URLs for subdomains a, c, and f. On later page loads, you serve a page including images loaded from the 'get' URLs of every subdomain, and you pay attention to which ones are requested via HTTPS. Since the 'set' URL sent an HSTS header, subdomains a, c, and f get requested over HTTPS, and now you reconstruct the ID from that: 101001.
Apple, Xerox, IBM, and Fumbling the Future
Pretty sure they still just give out a /128, and also silently drop outbound TCP connections on some ports over IPv6 (without documenting it)
You have the right of way when crossing against a signal? Why bother with signals then?
Usually these articles at least make a half baked attempt at journalism, but I like how this journalist brazened it out and straight up pasted whatever the PR person sent them. Perhaps a deadline was approaching?
> I would have pressed on to get the customer to revise the order, or just fixed it

When "trying to do it right" means you have to go through layers and layers of bureaucracy and probably ruffle a few feathers in the process, over and over again, I can see how some people quick learn to "just do their job".

This is human behavior. We can talk as much as we want about what would be the ideal solution here, and how we would never do it, but problems like this don't happen in a vacuum and are rarely one person's fault. It's a whole system that leads to this.
Is React JavaScript fast?
Test and real scenario's shouldn't be in the same menu in the first place, and surely not mixed randomly together.

- What if someone wants to click the link, but a colleague walks in and taps his shoulder to ask for something, moving his mouse in that instant to a different link

- What if at the moment he clicks the link, he lifts his mouse slowly cause human, and the cursor off the mouse jumps to another link whilst in the clicking.

- What if he simply clicks the wrong one, because he had an argument with his wife and his head is not quite there.

There is absolutely no reason to let this depend on human interpretation skill, if you have a frigging computer + basic markup.
__________________________________________________________

Prefix 1 menu with 2 BUTTONS

__________________________________________________________

< test >

(Test scenario's)

< REAL >

SHIT IS GOING DOWN TAKE COVER WAS NICE KNOWING YOU
(press this only in case off real emergency)
__________________________________________________________

You start with the smallest and clearest option off choice that is OBJECTIVELY POSSIBLE which is the choice off 2.

If you click the wrong button due to spasms you can still go back.

Even better is make the resulting list for "REAL" have a BLOOD RED BACKGROUND COLOR.

Colours have proven a billion times over to work for traffic/brake lights, and the chance you do not notice bright red staring in your face is VERY UNLIKELY.

I specifically say red, because if your an adult in the west, this specific memory " red is danger/alert " is strongly ingrained. Alzheimer might not even be able to touch it.
In the pricing page, the lowest tier says that it includes one IP address. If they're charging you for that, I would say it's misleading.
Yup. To expand on that, I'd also consider online.net and Scaleway.com. Both are damn good.
Don't broaden and insult journalism by comparing TechCrunch to it. TechCrunch is now a quite obvious press release translation factory, and has been ever since Michael left. This is their bread and butter, and there's nothing wrong with that: PR needs an easy mouthpiece.

That doesn't mean this is a journalism-wide problem, or even a problem, if you consume TechCrunch knowing that. Nothing about this article is a broader indictment of your scare quoted "journalism," otherwise you're essentially saying TechCrunch put out PR fluff, boy, the field that includes NYT and The Guardian and ProPublica is just problematic, isn't it?
This is required reading for anyone on HN...

https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-C...

...more for fun historical perspective than anything else. Lots of great anecdotes and stories about founders. The book became a PBS series that become a movie with Noah Wiley as Steve Jobs. And useful insight:

"As inventive organizations grow and mature, they often convert themselves into maintenance organizations, dedicated to doing revisions of formerly inventive products and boring as hell for the original programmers who were used to living on adrenalin rushes and junk food. This transition time, from inventive to maintenance, is a time of crisis for these companies and their founders."
Using your numbers, I get the same thing: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(10,000,000+m3)+*+(0.15...

The microgram is a very small unit :) I mean, a gram is already pretty dinky, a millionth of it is even tinier! The whole point of these particles is that they're miniscule and can pass through tissue other particles can't, so maybe it's not so surprising that it's not a massive amount when you pile them up.
There was a very similar incident in 1971 ("code word hatefulness"). Back then, three tapes were kept next to a EBS transmitter, two real alerts and one for testing. One day, an operator accidentally loaded the real alert rather than the correct test alert, and many stations prepared to tell the country the nuclear war was imminent.

The fix was to:

> …In the past three tapes, one for the test and two for actual emergencies, were hanging on three labeled hooks above the transmitter… In the future only the test tape will be left near the transmitter. The two emergency tapes [will be] be sealed in clearly marked envelopes and placed inside a nearby cabinet.

http://conelrad.blogspot.com/2010/09/code-word-hatefulness-g...
Using IP address filters would require knowing the client environment and keeping some kind of planning and communication mechanisms of changes in what. Big enterprises would have teams and a lead time of a few months to sort this out, adding more overhead and costs to the service provider (which would have to somehow be recovered or absorbed).
Experienced employees will not mindlessly click on Yes, because they have experience with it going wrong.

Having yes/no labels on buttons, or this kind of random labeled links in haphazard order is always bad. Experienced users may not do errors, but their life would still be better if the UX was good. UX is the same as accessibility, if it is good it does not bother you but it can always help, even if you think you do not need it.
It does include it, actually. The cost breakdown is not totally clear when you have not seen the bill yet, but,it's not too difficult.

They list the ARMv7 board C1 as €3/month. It breaks down to:

- €1 for the actual machine

- €1 for the 50GB LSSD (obviously it is required to boot)

- €1 for the IP address

(obviously not counting VAT)

Now, the €1 does not appear out of thin air, and in fact you are billed an hourly rate initially, for each of those resources. However, at the end of the month, you get billed whichever is cheaper between the time*hourly rate and the monthly rate (which is €1).

You can also deallocate the IP address if you don't need it.
(source: I’m a scaleway customer, and I believe that kind of information is available inside deeply nested FAQ pages somewhere on their website)
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So use a confirmation dialog that can't be mindlessly clicked through: https://i.imgur.com/P18lgRb.png
> If you accept that driving is a good thing

Firstly, that's an assumption that not everyone shares — there are alternative solutions to mass transit. Secondly, even if you, say, accept that driving across medium distances — across the city, but not to the corner shop — is a "good thing", that just means that there have to be some large transit roads, intended only for cars; residential streets could still be freely used by pedestrians, either with very stringent speed limits or no car access, at all.
I expect that we're seeing organizations dust off or setup new systems to warn their populations of incoming missiles as a result of the rising tensions with North Korea. There's an argument to be made that there could and are political motivations in addition to the concerns about safety.

In any case, as these systems are powered up, updated, overhauled or even replaced, there's testing going on. And when there's testing, there's the opportunity for just this type of gaffe.
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One very important thing you didn't mention : you MUST force transport encryption (SSL/TLS) to be used (deny plaintext connections). This is because the bearer token can be stolen by eavesdropping and since it's a bearer token it can be re-used by anyone anywhere.

Also remember to time out the tokens: it is almost never a good idea to permit infinitely long login sessions (surprising how often I see this not done). Again remember to invalidate the token when the user changes their password.

I agree that OAuth is not necessary on its own but it can be appropriate if you are also supporting delegated authentication with various 3rd parties : make your own native auth just another OAuth provider.
I actually would recommend this book: http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/
Follow up, can you define much here? I am just interested in this, I read this paper as a primer to my own question, and it seems that with proper city and road planning combined with the effect trees have locally on the air quality it seems we could have noticeable improvement, especially during the leafy seasons.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223101...
OP appears to be one of their engineers. Flagged...
It works. I run a pgsql db and a few Discord bots on one of the larger machines (larger for more RAM) and have nothing to complain about.
It's a complex equation. An old enough plane will have higher maintenance costs. And many planes are leased instead of bought outright and those lease prices already price in depreciation and expected lifetime.
I can't watch the vid right now, but I don't see how it's not the consumer's responsibility of where they put their trash. It's also the consumer's responsibility to demand environmentally friendly packaging.
Wtf. Why?
you said it yourself: "journalism"
Lots of money to be made in "Enterprise" software, and even bigger amount of impact to be made by having smart developers working in the space.

I'm not really sure where the problem lies, partly economics, and part lack of specialized knowledge. In this case that knowledge might be laws around AMBER alerts, how to respond to an RFP for such a system, or even just not knowing that such systems need to built.
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I bet the naming of each link was approved by a 16-people committee over a 4-week process, each bikeshedding it their own way and forgetting about the actual context of it.

Then adding one new link with any reasonable categorization might mean changing the label on a separate link to make it more distinct, and no one wants to go there anymore.
There's an episode of The Dollop podcast that addresses the introduction of cars to the streets of America when horse and buggie still ruled the road [0]. It is highly entertaining and informative, and it touches upon why "jaywalking" and who "Jay" is supposed to be. I recommend it and the podcast in general to anyone who is interested in peculiar history.

[0] http://thedollop.libsyn.com/193-when-the-cars-came
Makes sense, but I would hope even the most inept manager could recognize that "AMBER Alert" and "Nuclear Annihilation Imminent" are different degrees of severity.
Thanks for the response!

My thinking was that you might sign requests so that a request that was intercepted or inadvertently logged would not contain sufficient credentials to authorize arbitrary other requests for the indefinite future. It sounds like you do not consider that a significant enough issue to justify the complexity involved.
Because when management asks you why their site that they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for doesn't work on <insert major browser here>, your answer can't be "the browser's implementation of the spec is shitty, blame them." Your answer is going to be, "Yeah, sure, let me fix that."
Well, it can be a reason but not the only reason.