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Marathon runners aren't generally dodging the mirrors of automobiles driven by inattentive people.

Do you really believe bicycle helmets are completely ineffective? I'm going to have to call [citation needed] on that, because having at some hard padded thing on my head seems like it should at least help somewhat. Concussions, etc.
It worked instantly for me on OS X. I installed, restarted the browser, and it opened the side panel.
Thanks! We had a similarly successful experience with this calculation for a party of about 50 people, hence we knocked the app together.
Yes, I believe it should work on any wireless card because you're not doing packet injection.
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Besides, we use EC2 machines to make rebranded software for our customers on demand. E.g. you the customer requests a build, we fire up EC2 instance, run it and shut it down. We also run scalability testing on EC2 to see how our product behaves with hundreds of simultaneous users.
my dad and uncle are fanaticso, send me your contact information, i'll hook you two up.
Although, if your opinion is correct, it doesn't mean anything that I can't look you up online.

That's on purpose. I establish new HN accounts from time to time because I despise the fact that many people will upvote old users more readily, or will cite 'user for a long/short time' as though it means something.
I read Managing Humans twice, both before starting to manage a team, and after having managed a team for a year. The book was great both times, but the second time, when I had more experience, it was insanely better. Suddenly, everything talked about in the book made sense - I had real-life people and situations straight out of the book, and I could understand exactly what Rands was saying.

My advice - read the book. It's amazingly accurate. Then read it again once you have experience; you'll be able to appreciate it a whole lot more.
Has to be very hard to separate signal from noise on the deployment of the air bag. Those dummies were in very controlled environments and the helmet deployed at very low rates of acceleration change. In the hit from behind demonstration, you can see the rider's head experienced only around 1g of acceleration and little jerk.

It would get annoying as hell when this thing senses similar accelerations from non-car-hitting-you movements like bending over to roll up a pant leg or changing positions. Prankster friends would have a heyday too.

Dainese has an has an impressive motorcycle airbag suit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo9Vlt5tGwY

tl;dr - That thing would go off all that time if they made it sensitive enough to work.
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Wow, you keep track of calories for every meal? how do you manage to do that? any tools or resources?
Had we tried this 10 years ago, we would have killed each other. We've been married for years, so we've had a lot of time to work the kinks out of our working relationship.
Oh thanks but I don't deserve it. Compared to some of the sites like enc-wot -- mine is just a hobby. It just tracks things at a Point-of-View level. I did it basically to try and keep track of what the hell was going on before Gathering Storm came out.. wotsummary.com
What does this mean for HTTP basic authentication? How about digest access authentication?
that's why i wear my (normal) bike helmet whenever i get into a car.
I'm curious how noisy it is. It has to inflate fast, so it's rather "bang" than "pffft". I wonder about the implications, given that it's so close to your ears.
Very nice fade in effect when results are shown - soothing and not too jarring.

I'd suggest that when no results are found that a message is displayed to that affect. There is currently no feedback to tell if the system is still loading, broken or has found no results at the moment.
Comparing another case with another company isn't really the proof you need to make people believe you. Once you provide proof of your actual claims we can all honestly believe you.
The same problem was with early car airbags. The issue is long resolved.
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Also, if you host your ssh server on 443 rather than 22, you can also tunnel through most corporate firewalls.
Refreshing viewpoint. As a woman in this kind of community you it would be difficult to avoid special treatment, for better or worse, and it definitely takes focus away from whatever it is we come here to accomplish.
There's TortoiseGit: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
The only good thing about taxis in London is that they need to pass a test called The Knowledge (refs below) which means they are able to figure out the best route to anywhere in London on the fly.

HNers who are into Sci-Fi ought to check out Will Self's "The Book of Dave", which is funny, brilliant, and (in large part) about a future post-apocalyptic society which makes a religion of "The Knowledge."
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Why would an employer want to do that?

A github account just makes it slightly more likely that the candidate's experience involves more open source, and less proprietary code.

Personally, I'd rather filter candidates based on factors that relate to their performance. After all, bad hires are very expensive... as such, most of these shortcuts strike me as incredibly misguided nonsense.
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What can I say, sometimes by 6AM my edge is considerably dulled, and a bit of a break can help fight off total exhaustion.

There's also writer's block-ish occasions where you keep staring at one problem and it's like beating your head on a brick wall, but if you step away and have a cup of tea and come back, that tough problem unravels itself in front of you.

I've also used the "I need a break" when I know that I'm simply out of juice for the day, and not going to make any more progress (particularly when I have something else heavy on my mind). It's not a break, I don't come back to it for at least a day, but it lets me walk away without feeling like a failure.
I still think that frequent breaks are important as they help change thinking patterns.
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http://lifehacker.com/237227/geek-to-live--encrypt-your-web-...

That link has screenshots to help you configure Firefox to use the ssh proxy.
sahillavingia is one of the top web designers here, I think it's totally worth it to get 5 design hours free off him. too bad I don't have any pet project atm :)
I notice that Joe isn't what we Brits would refer to as an English Gent in the UK. In England many, many market traders sound just like him.

He has a noticeable working class accent. The term "English Gent" usually assumes what the English call "upper middle class" or Americans call "upper class". Joe schtick worked because of Americans lack of familiarity with English culture.

Nevertheless moving his sales pitch to New York was master stroke. Like selling ice cream in the desert,
Not this time, but applied with a female cofounder previously. (no interview, pretty sure it was a combination of technically unproven idea and no terribly impressive achievements between us so far; also, lame video) The application wouldn't really have improved much at this point, as developing the product part-time didn't work out (too many distractions from consulting customers). Instead we've been focusing 100% on consulting to get some cash to keep us going, now transitioning to 100% product dev. Might apply again once we get some traction with a beta.
It looks to me as if what the study shows is not that willpower is not, after all, a limited resource but thinking of your willpower as a limited resource makes you have less of it. That's quite interesting (though not, I'd have thought, a big surprise) but not nearly as interesting as it would be if they'd actually shown that it's only thinking of willpower as limited that limits it.
I agree. This is perhaps close to being a luddite. The difference lies in the fact that the airbag, for the car, didn't replace any already simpler and proven security measure.
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It may be the same problem, but I wouldn't count on the same resolution. A car airbag deploys after the car has crashed into something but before that has a chance to injure the passenger, whereas in a bicycle accident the first impact could be with the cyclist's head.

(Perhaps you can make airbag-helmets that inflate when the bike hits something, which will do for the case where you hit something in the road and get thrown off, or where a car collides with the bike. Not so good for tree branches and such, though.)
Mind providing more information on this? eg, what about WPA2+TKIP?

I'm trying to wrap my head around how WPA2 could still provide protection with a shared key... I'm sure I'm not the only geek who feels like their knowledge of WiFi protocols goes stale every six months or so.
reminded. 20+ years ago my friend biker explained to me the advantages of a full-head-face helmet for a biker - it makes for greater chances that your head/face would be relatively intact, even when severed, so they would be able to put it into the coffin with your body and have an "open coffin" ceremony
I'm one of the cool-looking europeans :) I've started to bike recently and decided not to wear a helmet after reading few articles that suggested there is practically no evidence at all that bike helmets help you in any way. But most convincing was data from Australia - before they started forcing everyone to wear helmets, there were on average 7 deaths/year caused by incidents involving bikers. After the helmets were made mandatory, the mortality rate was reduced to 6/year, yet the number of regular bikers was reduced by 30%!! If anything, this suggests that helmets may worsen your chances to stay alive.

And if you think about it, if you're flying with 20-30km/h towards a tree, no helmet is going to save you. Even if the head is protected, your neck will break. With lower speeds I guess you still have time to try to fall in such a way so the head is somewhat protected.
Btw, I'm not avoiding helmets so I can look cool. It's just one more gear to carry and worry about. And I may still get a helmet if start riding more cross-country. Right now I'm riding on road and unpredictable falls look more unlikely.
The invisibility might be a safety benefit. I think there's research showing that drivers tend to give less space to cyclists who are wearing helmets.
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Arrington notes at the bottom of the post that this WSJ article was published after the TechCrunch article and "was supposed to be published earlier this week, and wasn’t". He goes on to say (and it certainly seems likely to be the case) that it probably would not have been published at all had he not written this post.
This is awesome, please port it to Chrome.

Also, any chance you can release the source for the page plugins you've already written? A couple aren't working for me (for example I need the weather to search google.co.uk not google.com) and it would be nice to be able to just make a quick edit rather than starting anew.
Awe shucks. You're going to make me blush. :)

Silicon Valley needs more people like you. I'm more than happy to help in whatever little way I can.
oh I see, thank you. But then the graphics on the article is misleading I guess...
Ridiculous amounts of green tea, all day long.
Why the cringing then, if you agreed?

Edit: OK, maybe you confused me twice, first by seemingly cringing at me, and then by talking about "mixed" whiskey. I guess you may have meant that the post I was replying to made you cringe.
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Surely Google knew they were saving the packet payloads, even if they didn't have any intended use for them. That is not the kind of detail a programmer can simply overlook. Calling it an "accident" is certainly disingenuous. The only accident was not realizing that people would care so much.
Errr thats because I just registered it :)
I always open links in background tabs and since the first four letters of the tab were "NSFW" I'm inclined to close it immediately.

So, at least for the folks who don't subscribe to every hip, new, social media blog, these comments are useful.
I agree. This sterile electronic communication is very fickle - people will be there, then suddenly not. I've found that something like twitter is very poor in building any kind of proper relationship, as mostly it's about people who want something from the other person.

One could say that twitter is good as a way of introducing people, but I most certainly could not identify enough with the people in any twitter or facebook collection to join in a battle with them.

Let's say it were the 40s and we made a facebook group called "resistance against the german occupation forces". Now, we all have the same interest in mind, but if we actually meet together, it's very likely there will be varying levels or intensity, varying agendas, varying personalities. We could not form an effective resistance group.

If, however, I would do this with my existing friends, we would have a cohesive and trustworthy group with which we could organise things and make things happen. Offline inviting of people to the group would go through a kind of vetting process where you actually get to see the whole of the person, and not just a single sterile attribute like "dislikes the occupation."

My experience with twitter and other boards is that the relationship you think you are building is very weak and fleeting. Most of the time, it's based on what one person wants from the other - for example, entertainment, connections, money, information. It's not based on shared interests or the ability to connect on a more fundamental level.
I use Bloglines a lot, but since it's closing down at the end of the month, I decided to make my own feed reader. It's still in development, but it's basically working so I thought I'd share it for any other (soon to be) ex-Blogliners on here.
Try using http://code.google.com/p/jquery-debounce/ - it creates a throttle/debounce function for you, so the submit would only be called at most every X ms, no matter how often the event fires. It's super useful.
There is a game called rejection therapy that is all about capitalizing on chances and getting out of your comfort zone: http://www.rejectiontherapy.com . I've tried it and it works.

I've found most chances come only once, and never again. That job interview, the cute girl right beside you in the produce section (etc) are opportunities we need to instinctively take (instead of instinctively shy away from).
For anyone else looking for the plugin sources, they are embedded in the Verbal Juicer homepage.

With Firebug/Webkit dev tools, navigate to:
body > #appsCode and the plugins and you can copy-paste into verbal juicer's create window.

For UK users, changing the weather code from google.com to google.co.uk seems to be all you need to do.
Since starting work for CompassLabs, I find myself using more social networking sites as a learning experience.

There are two social networking sites that I have been using long term: Twitter (I follow people who post very interesting links) and LinkedIn (for me, just because it is fun: I have reconnected with a lot of people who I used to work with).
I like the aspect of not jumping on the old 'lets reinvent the wheel again' and 'we need a new tool for an old problem' bandwagon. Sysadmins should not be wasting their ever-shrinking valuable time writing code (that they probably aren't even experienced enough to write well) when they can pick a 'product' like xargs or wget off the shelf and get the job done in a tenth the time. Add to this the fact that modern computers are more than powerful enough to handle complex computing tasks and the cloud is often very costly for the same computing power as you'd find on your desktop and you end up doing it faster and cheaper using a standard Unix workstation and tools.

However, it's a mistake to think this 'taco bell programming' is somehow a good model for actual programming, or even some sysadmin tasks. This should be renamed 'Taco Bell Kludging'. Because that's mostly what we're talking about: using a quick hack/kludge on a command-line to finish a job quickly instead of programming. In terms of actually building a scalable, fault-tolerant solution, sometimes the Unix tools just won't do. Don't shortcut and cut yourself off at the knees just to save time.
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The acceleration your car experiences in an accident is an order of magnitude higher than anything your car ever experiences in everyday use, making the control system very easy to engineer - something like anything over 20g's and it pops (the algorithms take vehicle speed into account too for a varying threshold and probably use jerk.)

In that video where the rider was hit from behind, there was very low relative change in velocity of the sensors in that helmet - no direct impact spike - and its on par with the same levels of acceleration you would experience in everyday bike riding.
Yep. And this is the reason that all the sockets have built-in current protection. Additionally, there are circuit breakers per seat row, which is what I discovered when I tried plugging in my 110W laptop power adapter into one of them. The other passengers on the seat row were not happy when the flight attendant said that they were not allowed to reset the breakers. Another lesson learnt - bring a lower power adapter. :(
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I will do that! Added to my list of things to implement. Cheers!
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It's contentious. It's suggested they may prevent certain injuries (fracture) but exacerbate others (rotational/shearing). So wearing a helmet may prevent a large number of lesser injuries at the cost of causing a smaller number of more permanently damaging ones (although this a problem people are working on)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/17/2985631.htm
http://members.pcug.org.au/~psvansch/crag/h-i-mech.htm
On my Macbook Pro (purchased 1 year ago) it doesn't seem to be able to capture traffic on my wifi. It can see sessions originating from another browser on the same Mac, but not other macs on the wifi network.

Is there a way of debugging what's going on?
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My 2nd guess as to why is that if helmets were
effective when it matters, at higher speeds

It matters at low speeds. Falling over the handlebars of a near-stationary bike and on to your head is a serious injury. I've done it with a helmet on and taking some of the blow in my arms, and still had to lie down for an hour afterwards.
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"Every unhappy person that commits suicide raises the average happiness."

I doubt it.

"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 28,322 American deaths as suicides in the year 2000. Conservative estimates are that 6-10 people are intimately affected by each death. However, a study by the Baton Rouge, LA Crisis Intervention Center (Bland, 1994), the combination of possibly affected individuals reached over 28 people per suicide. In some families, the estimated numbers exceed 50 people (Coleman, 2003). Since, on average, 1,200 New Yorkers die by suicide each year, the latter estimate means approximately 60,000 people qualify as suicide survivors each and every year. This is equivalent to the population of the city of Utica (pop. 59,947, July 1, 2002)."

http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/savinglives/volume2/suicid...
No, it was not easy at all with the cars. You can easily have 20g impact when you speed over road bump.

Also, I'm sure in the 5 years they spent on product R&D, the concerns that came up to you in few minutes here were raised too.
This is IMO a completely wrong approach to security. Butler has not raised the threat level, he has merely illuminated the existing threat level.
I added a couple RSS feeds but they aren't showing up for me.

What advantage does this service have over Google Reader?
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personally how I do things is constantly changing. Usually in small increments but I am always looking for new and better methods. Many will just just be used for a short period.

You should not however be so quick in concluding that I said to dismiss the article. I am nearly bringing attention to the fact that it is nearly a year old and to consider it while making your own evaluation of the article.
I was put on probationary status at a company I worked at ostensibly for showing up late, quit the day after.

I am a developer and coming in late made little difference as I worked as many, or more, hours as everyone else. At the same time I was probably twice as productive as most of my peers. The CTO felt threatened by how easily I did my job so he wanted to bully me a bit so I wouldn't get a big head or something. He didn't expect me to suicide bomb him over it, but from my perspective I couldn't have that thing hanging over me so I handed in notice after giving it a night's sleep.

They were in a bit of trouble over it since I was a key team member and it was a big embarassment for the CTO, I even felt a little bad for him, hopefully it taught him a thing or two.
It would help a bit if there was a way to automatically encrypt sessions on an open wifi access point without requiring a password to connect.
Not to be a hater, but this on a site currently entirely sponsored by a huge Microsoft banner in the background ;).
> After the helmets were made mandatory, the mortality rate was reduced to 6/year, yet the number of regular bikers was reduced by 30%!! If anything, this suggests that helmets may worsen your chances to stay alive.

What if the majority of the bikers who stopped biking were less experienced and thus more dangerous on average? This seems likely because the more committed people are likely to be more experienced, and those who don't have a helmet handy on some particular ride and so don't ride are also likely to be less experienced.
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