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I lived near one of the major crossroads in one of the biggest German cities. The speed camera they put up made a change between waking up 4 times at night because of illegal street races and beeing able to sleep uninterrupted till the lorries start to drive in the early morning.

I am not saying that this isn't a tool to generate revenue, but it certainly can make a difference for some of the people living there.

However the weirdest thing is, when a street feels like you can drive 80km/h but you have to go 30km/h "just because". People don't like that. You shouldn't just put up signs and speed cameras on a perfectly fine street. You have to alter the street too. Make it narrower, etc. People will then drive slow without problems.
Older generations didn't trust things on screens. They cursed at things on screens.

They could and did seek alternative opinions, though often it cost more. Subscribing to newsletters has long been an option. For example, the John Birch Society's TheNewAmerican was created in 1985 as the merger of two older newsletters that date to 1956 and 1965. It's now available at https://www.thenewamerican.com/ but you can still get the print version delivered to your house twice a month.
>What do you think makes the complexity of Linux achievable with FOSS while the comparable complexity of a AAA engine not?

It just comes down to incentives. Practically every living human being stood to gain from the existence of a high quality general purpose FOSS operating system, and so Linux naturally came about.

The people who would benefit from a AAA open source game engine are... closed source AAA game development studios. As such there's really no incentive for some physics whiz to spend their extremely valuable time toiling away on something that is only going to be used for someone else's profit. The intersection of people who build game engines, and people who make games with those engines, is extremely small.

There's really no such thing as open-source game development except for hobbyists, because that would be literally giving your product away. Games are a hit based, one-and-done type product much more akin to movies than other software.
They would make the roads safer if they weren't used so often as money machines. Do they stand at schools? Nope. They stand at the bottom of the hill at the exit of a town.
From the video above, his statements are simply false.
This is reminiscent of the UNIX "finger" command usage from 30 years ago.
yes, it's a mixed bag.

In some places the cameras are signaled up to 500m before, and are very visible with yellow reflective stripes. There is often one at the entrance of towns to force drivers to adapt their speeds, and it works.

Then some are clearly placed with malice, it really depends.

> Unless someone can prove a connection that someone poor is more likely to speed, then I don't see how that's true.

I think an issue would be that poor people will drive more. Middle class population will tend to be more urban and rely on public transportation for day to day use, even if they still own a car and may do a few trips during the week.

People in remote areas will be more at the extreme: crazy rich or pretty poor, and the poor in these area will have to drive everywhere to get almost anything, thus being more subject to speed traps. (anecdotaly almost everyone speeds way over the limit, some big highway feel like the autobahn sometimes)
IMO the book "Computer systems : a programmer's perspective [Randal E Bryant; David R O'Hallaron]" provides a good foundation on this and other lower level system details.
Genuinely curious how useful this has been to you, personally.
Not a fan of how they portray their brand, but in my experience A&F makes really solid fits for althetic type build (think big thighs). This in my experience is really hard to find on clothes of a somewhat modern cut.
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> I think there is a strong use case for a Arch-like Linux distro that has an open architecture for building the entire distro from source into container images automatically.

Take a look at NixOS. I'm not sure about containers, but it has `nixos-build build-vm` which builds a VM disk image with your current system configuration.
Technically not true. There are accidents caused by those who slow unexpectedly because they only just realised there's a speed-trap.

It adds an element of unpredictability to the road.

This almost completely offsets any positive safety gain.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3861844/

Which makes me think it's a cash-grab.
GitHub is a social network of sorts. There's definitely a network effect and a moat with the large open source projects on there.

It'll be interesting to see where Microsoft take this. GitHub is fundamentally a collaboration tool so chat would make sense.
The Montpellier area : 2x3 ways limited to 110km/h + 2x3 ways limited to 90 km/h. Road in perfect state. So let's put an average speed radar system.
we all do
In Switzerland as well but only for highway with more then 25 Km/h over. [1]

[1] https://rp-online.de/panorama/ausland/raser-drohen-782000-eu...
Finland does. Sweden and Denmark do not. Norway I don't know, but suspect not.

Source: I live in Sweden and recently got caught by a speed camera in Denmark.
Also have a look at https://en.opensuse.org/Kubic:MicroOS

It uses btrfs instead of OSTree. It only allows writes inside /home, /var, /tmp, /etc, ... and everything else is updated transactionally.
Unity's blog post refutes a lot of what Improbable claim about released and in production games:

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/01/10/our-response-to-improba...
> You should write about the Oxford M.Sc. CS

I get quite a lot of email from people on HN about it actually, but am a little overwhelmed with a number of other things to try and put something cohesive together. If anyone wants a free blog article, feel free to send me a bunch of questions, and I'll reply and you can write them up. In summary: part-time MSc in Software Engineering from Oxford, meant to be done while working, existing undergrad degree not a hard requirement.
Western commentators have be predicting that one social phenomenon or another would lead to a democratic awakening in China for decades: The collapse of the USSR, economic liberalisation, the growth of the middle class, generational shift, the internet, growing prosperity, falling prosperity, etc.

We must be pretty far down the list if we're now proposing that career scientists will lead a political revolution.
Because many see it as a tax. Especially when safely matching the actual speed of traffic will consistently get you the lowest ticket of about 50 EUR for being 5km above the limit.
It I was hoping for a better researched article on the lineage of various workout philosophies. Crossfit as an offspring of circuit training, the large family of aerobics including Tae-Bo and many other forgotten ideas.

I also found the tone towards all those excercises a little negative; working out and staying fit is clearly good, and establishing and popularizing excercising in the first generation in human history that had technology to really help with many physical tasks is a difficult and noble task.

The consequence of insufficient excercise on human health is too severe than to belittle the attempts or to focus only on the gender issues of the past.
So clearly throwing money at ‘public education’ isn’t working

I wasn't aware that money was being 'thrown at' public education anywhere. However you define that exactly. But it sounds, the way you describe it, like stopping 'throwing money' is part of the solution? i.e. spending even less on public schools? How much is spent anyway, compared with some other important things the US spends money on, like, say, invading/attacking other countries? Or keeping so many people locked up?
Donna did “Dallas,” then “Knots Landing” and lots more
What "repair" option is there with STS gone?
They used to be positioned like this in the UK but all the ones I’ve seen like this have been removed or moved over the years to places where they could be regarded as more for safety than easy money making.
Maybe there is hope for humanity after all.
The very reason Stalin approved Katyn massacre.
Interestingly here in my native Finland, traffic tickets for major violations are progressive. So for a low income driver, major speeding might lose your license for months, but only cost you 150 €. The same infraction would cost a upper-middle income individual 15 000 €. Apparently the biggest speeding ticket written in here has been 170 000 €.
“Since around 2007 strongly-typed functional programming has shifted from relative obscurity to be a central paradigm in programming. C#, Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Rust and TypeScript now all include elements of strongly-typed FP, and Apple executives extolled functional features at the launch of Swift in 2014, including pattern matching, generics, option types, type inference, tuples and closures, something unthinkable in 2005.93 Haskell, F# and OCaml have all grown in use, and newcomers such as Elm and ReasonML are also finding good adoption.”

I feel like we’ve taken the long way to popularize functional programming.
MS cares about developer mindshare. Through GitHub they have access to the worlds largest software developer social network (well it's almost a social network). The large number of open source projects on the site provide a moat and a network effect.
The solution seems to be to put of more of them so people constantly expect their presence. More modern designs are also capable of calculating average speeds over longer stretches of the road.
I find the front-page itself to have poor signal-noise ratio. New is much worse. So, I stick to the main page and the "ask" page. I seldom look at the "new" page.
It is quite irrelevant whether population has peaked. It is 4x the US's.

I mentioned centuries of anemia, not humiliation. China had fallen way behind the West by 1900. The US had become the largest economy in the world by 1890 with a population much smaller than China's.
China's economy might have been the largest before that but it does not mean it was dynamic.

All of this does not really address my point apart from alluding to the fact that China used to be the largest economy. I'm saying that it is on its way to reclaiming its crown BUT in a position of strength compared to its position of weakness (and humiliation) in the 19th century.
"The requested content cannot be loaded.
Please try again later."

That's all I get instead of pictures.
It depends, I've met developers who considered everything above the database to be 'front-end' and front-end developers who consider their domain to end 'as far back as' the Service layer so I think the line is not so clear cut. On the otherhand, I consider myself a back-end dev who is happy writing from the Controllers back to SQL if necessary. I don't think in terms 'seriousness' but I firmly believe front-end UI work is a completely different skillset and is far more art than science.

I would agree though that Javascript developers are not as respected as they should be.
Some of these cameras are hidden: positioned so that you cannot spot them from afar (and not advertised by a sign neither).
If the sole purpose would be to help people to drive safely then you should advertise them, make them really visible aso.
In that context they probably mean that the signal will be much harder to interpret for a receiver.
So what do you propose? That we punish people who put others in danger less because they are poor? Someone moving at 100km/h through a city isn't any less likely to kill someone when hit just because they are poor. They aren't any less of a danger just because they have a family that depends on them. Someone they hit won't be any less dead because the driver has 5 children and mountains of debt.
Sometimes speed limits are there to reduce noise.
Welcome to civil non-compliance 2.0: vandalism as a form of protest. So now taxes perceived as unjust warrant the destruction of state property in retaliation. The French government has already stepped back before. But it never seems enough for protesters.

It does look like a much bigger movement than the state had anticipated.
If enough people stop paying taxes this will get serious.
You're probably thinking Switzerland, not Sweden. I've been living in Sweden for quite a while, never heard of fines based on income levels.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/auto/rekord-bussgeld-euro-strafe...
Which would be fair, because the goal of these things is to avoid misbehaviour with potentially deadly consequences. There is no reason someone poor should pay 40% of their monthly paycheck while someone rich pays with <1% of their montly paycheck.

This is why in a lot of european nations on top of the fines you have a point-based system – if you have three points you get your driving license revoked and you will have it revoked for some time and then you have to do some driving tests again.

This actually works quite well in preventing bad behaviour (assuming you have a non corrupt police), but one could argue that it is a much, much worse punishment to the poor again (it can potentially destroy them economically, including the loss of income source etc).
As a cyclist I use as much space of the road as I can just to make sure cars behind me have to use the other lane to overtake or slow down and wait for a good moment.

I can't wait for laws to enforce speed limits via tech in modern cars.
You are correct on Finland, you are wrong on Sweden. In fact, Sweden is not even mentioned in your source so not sure where you got it from.
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well, I'm the guy asking weird questions in interviews :)
Do they? Because quite simply it doesn't seem like the evidence backs that up - let alone the brutally obvious fact that if you stand next to a speed camera you'll notice all the cars just slow down for the camera.

If what you meant to say was 'Speed Cameras make the 30m of road that they're focused on mildly safer than it was before whilst mildly increasing the likelihood of accidents due to unexpected braking in the local area at the cost of introducing a regressive tax' I would totally agree.
It is usually some form of entities with the means are not interested/enjoying the current status quo.
How can anyone say this seriously? This is the stupidest thing I keep hearing from certain people.

The idea is to stop you speeding EVERYWHERE. Not just where speed cameras are. It is to penalise people who constantly break the law, and make the road dangerous for everyone.
There are very visible signs telling you how fast you can go without triggering any hidden speed cameras. They even paint them in reflective paint, so that you can see them better at night.
Ask HN: Scavenging Google+ for knowledge?
As you all know Google+ will be terminated this April.
I have been a fairly active user on here since the start, and when I recently (1 month ago) tried Google own "download all your stuff" service my Google+ activity clocked in at 44 Gb of zipped data(!).

This is because I mostly posted pictures and links, and Google will download everything, including the pictures that are usually associated to a link itself.

I think we can safely assume that the actual "content" is more around 44Mb (unzipped) and the rest is either photo I own already, or pictures coming from the linked articles.

I almost never posted original content (and when I did, it was generally a link to an article on my own website) so what I will have is thousands of links to pages that somehow were interesting to me: technical, job-related, hobbies.

All stuff I'd like to be able to organize and retrieve at will.

My main platform is Mac and my current plan is to somehow extract all the urls from the Google+ download (using Perl, Awk, Whatever) and then...

Here is where I would like to know what you think will work best to convert this mass of links into something usable. At the moment I am thinking to get a DevonThink licence because it is the only tool that offers some automated categorization and retrieval (and supports links).
Alternatively I could also batch-convert the files to PDF and then try using qiqqa.

Is there anything else you could suggest to tackle this (possibly non-window based: I can set up a Linux machine - for real or on a VM but I'd prefer not to do the same with Windows unless there is really a killer application available only there).

Has anyone tried this or something similar already? Anything else I should consider (apart from the actual classifier/browser product)?
That is why there is also (in France at least) a system of points on the driving license. Everybody has the same count (12) at the beginning and will lose an equal amount in case of an infraction. If you lose all of them your license is suspended.
Touché. Between CoD, CS and BattleField, it's quite true.

I was more thinking of Assassin's Creed and Far Cry when I wrote that comment.
Isn't the idea to enforce driving in speed limits all the time. Not only when you /know/ that a speed camera is present.
Having done a 95%/5% or similar arrangement in the past, here are a few things I didn't consider:

• Unless the company's already been generating substantial revenue, 5% is an implicit message that what you've brought to the table already (an idea maybe) outweighs what this person could contribute working their hardest by a factor of ~10. That's out the window if there's salary on top of that, but if it's straight equity, it's an "I'm 10x better than you" implicit message that will color the relationship for the duration.

• Say you take on another 20% from a cash investor. Do you both get diluted evenly or do you cover it out of your lion's share?

• Make an effort to value it for them. Telling them you have 10M shares outstanding and you're offering them for $0.10 apiece, even though those numbers are subject to change, sounds a lot better than "will award you 100,000 RSU's at a strike price of $0.005 per" without making clear what those currently are priced at to investors, or the total number of ownership units outstanding. Always resented companies that didn't figure this out.

• Find a way to make it common, non-voting stock. You don't want to get in a situation where they have to be present for votes (or worse yet their votes are necessary to get your way after you get diluted with additional investors).

• If you're an "egg" of a company, pre-revenue, based on your idea and both of your hard work, there's really not much case to be made for your share being 95% instead of 50%. Greed, for lack of a better term, may be good, but a large amount of equity says "I'm going all in on you" and inspires the best people to stick around and contribute in ways you can't, even carrying you when you stumble. If someone offered to marry you and wanted to split the marital rewards 95/5, with you getting the 5, would that sell it?

• If the person's only 5% material then I'd suggest they're 0% material and you should simply pay them a salary, avoiding the potential perceived insults and headaches associated with equity.

• Do this as a C corporation, not an LLC. Everyone understands C corporation rules. Everyone makes up their own LLC rules and this can cause huge headaches down the road.
Next they will complain about how road accidents have increased and how the government is incompetent
Images are from twitter. Is the browser blocking tracking content? (for me, on firefox, that's the case).

original twitter thread https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1083476320808398849
If I squint I can just see where this is when I look out of the window. The happy thing is that the powercable works (like the A14 improvement in Cambridge) have revealed all sorts of things about the landscape here. The sad thing is that it's such a mess; I really hope they put it back together as promised. The big impact on the landscape won't be from this though, it'll be from Sizewell C being built, which will take 12 years and involve moving a truly vast amount of kit and people on the roads.
It's not that people want cheap diesel, they want their job and wages to match up with the cost of living. The proportion between wages and cost of living has gotten worse over time (while the ones responsible for that, lawmakers and employers, have enriched themselves).
Rubbish. This is just a complete lie, spread by people not wanting to drive safely. It is up there with speed doesn't kill, and I drive better when I have had a few drinks.
I have looked at the study you linked, I don't find it very convincing because it is only counting the number of incidents (or MVC), but not the seriousness of the resulting collision.

I would assume that if speed cameras decrease the average speed (which might or might not be true!), even if you have the same number of incidents, you should see a reduction in the seriousness of injuries.
Of course not all speed cameras are bad. However in my country there is a lot of speed cameras right before a town ends - that means that people will start slowly speeding up from 50 km/h to 90 km/h and thus the camera will catch them going 60 km/h and give them a pointless fine. Same thing at the beginning - what is the point (except for money) in fining people who didn't brake soon/hard enough so they entered the town going 60 km/h? Why not place these cameras a little bit more inside the town?
A great new innovation from the #1 waster of my drive space.
Anecdata, but I'm a typical lurker. If I don't have something to contribute to a discussion, I stay silent. I think that goes for a lot of people.
There's also the commitment angle - if you engage in a discussion, you're typically committed to follow up on the responses you get. That can be more of a time/attention commitment than people are interested in, and with the growing toxicity of online discourse a lot of people don't want to put themselves out there to begin with.
There’s so much weird stuff at CES, but I feel like it’s almost Darwinian. 90% of it is crap but sometimes the zany stuff works. I’d recommend people in the tech world attend at least once just to see the intensity of it all. It’s free if you register far enough in advance. CES is an experience!

This blog post is mostly just making fun of bad English marketing copy though. Yeah lots of international companies have trouble describing things well in English, but that isn’t really the right metric to judge them on.
It doesn't look like he was tear gassed - is that the statement you are referring to?
It's as if both the ESPs are in the barn while everyone else sits on the ladder.
I also believe that people just do not know yet how much nicer and relaxing it will be to be automatically driven at the speed limit even if the street looks like you could go faster and then, as a driver, having to restrain one-self from going faster.