skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fatalities are more likely in non-first-world countries without developed infrastructure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Road_traffic_accidents_wor...

Conversely, I think it is reasonable to assume that the orange and red countries on the map can and will eventually look like Europe. Higher than 150, yes, but 3000 only if you count deaths from places like Iran.

(there's a decreasing trend here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.s._traffic_deaths_as_fra... )
I agree with you 100%, especially on the "It just works" point, but you're wrong on the "friends let friends login" thing. As far as i know, no other OS allows me to log into someone else's computer and get the exact same experience i have on my own, and vice versa.
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I don't think it's useful to include all countries in a statistic like that.

In that 3000 you're including countries without roads, signs, traffic laws, etc. You're including countries without speed limits, driving licenses, etc etc.

Wikipedia says the deaths in the US are about 90 a day.
> ... and Aaron faces a possible fine and up to 35 years in prison, with trial set for September.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14270655

> Under Norwegian law, Mr Breivik faces a maximum of 21 years in jail if convicted...

WTF.
Thought from left field:

Have you considered starting a cough lifestyle business, or less-controversially, working as a contractor for <20 hours/week?

The idea would be to earn a decent living from a part-time source, and spend the rest of your time learning new languages, tools, etc. In other words, disconnect your dreams from your job. If jobs aren't fulfilling you, change your definition of "job" to "something that pays the bills."
In the case of terrorism, the solution is to address grievances before they build up into smoldering resentment.

I was surprised to learn that this was done by Norwegians.
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Who runs an internet-accessible development machine? Maybe I give the rest of the dev world too much credit.

I am reminded of Sony's plain text captcha. There are stupid people out there.
People like to knock government services, but I have no complaints. I went to the DMV earlier this year - fast, polite service. I got a copy of my birth certificate at the office of records - the workflow was smooth and I was in and out in less than 10 minutes, despite the long lines. I filed for an EIN a few years back, and received a friendly call from a guy at the IRS who walked me through the form, explaining the fields and terminology, and confirmed everything over the phone. On point, standard air mail and priority mail have served me well for my business. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I'm usually impressed with how well our government services do run.
I find the language of this post surprising. They use words like 'comply' and 'cave' when explaining how Amazon, Kobo and WSJ are pulling the purchasing options from their iPad apps.

But I view this action as standing up to Apple, who I perceive as being very greedy in this case. I applaud Amazon, Kobo and WSJ for not submitting to this greed, and I respect them more for it. Ultimately, I view this action as good for consumers, because let's face it, it's the consumers who would ultimately be paying for the 30% Apple toll, through price increases in the products.
This was the model I was referring to: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MC505LL-11-6-Inch-Laptop...

Which is being sold from Apple on Amazon. I do not know if it is the latest one, but given the OP's original statement, was it ever implied that it was the latest one he was referring to?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2682750
No, a laptop docking standard, among other things.
Who said he was not supposed to access the files? JSTOR is available from MIT. MIT gives out generous guest access. Did Aaron have to agree to not download above a certain number of documents?
Slightly disappointed the book is almost entirely empty.
Chrome OS has a weird non-standard ssh, but I wouldn't think there's any problem ssh'ing into a remote machine where you have emacs running. Having emacs running locally probably wouldn't be possible though.
I was spurred by a specific sentence in your comment. Honestly I'm not especially concerned with your take on the situation, but with the conversation as a whole.

Am I surprised that the Feds are seeking a criminal indictment? No. Am I unhappy at the expansion of Federal power both at the expense of State power as well as an independent authority? Yes. Do I think that the justice system takes its job seriously? Yes. Do I think they do this selflessly? No. Do I think their position will lead to a better future? No.

Do I think their prosecution of this case stems from a desire to assert the will of the people? No. I think it comes from their own selfish desires, and should not be defended.
The biggest Chromebook advantage, in my opinion, is that it never slows down because you never change the software in any meaningful way. For the average person who bloats their computer over time until it isn't usable, that is huge.
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You know what I'll never know? Why people think they know better than the scientific community after reading a few pop science articles.

If you have a single issue with gravitons that can be expressed mathematically, show us.
A Google recruiter cold called me about a year ago after finding my profile on LinkedIn, and asked me if I was interested in a QA position he was recruiting for. I told him that I was quite happy running my own startup, but if I ever wanted to work anywhere else, it would not be for a QA position given my background which includes a Masters in C.S. from Georgia Tech, 5 years of experience as a software engineer, including 2 as a research engineer at a startup that was acquired by McAfee, where I spent 2 more years and then 1 year as CTO of the startup I cofounded. He proceeded to inform me "to be frank, you have no chance of getting a better position at Google". At this point I disconnected the call.
Removing everyones freedom to drive because of those few isn't very fair, and would result in a boring 'locked down' society.

You can't expect a 'freedom' to exist in perpetuity for something that can easily result in the deaths of others by the actions of one person.

I'd put it in the same category as things like not allowing people to smoke in workplaces, public buildings, etc, or allowing people to shoot firearms in the backyards of their suburban homes.

I just don't see there being a 'freedom to manually control tons of metal for the purposes of transportation' trumping the immense amount of benefits to safety, among others.
> Until Google deletes your account for no specific reason and refuses to give it back (this has happened to more than one person)

Google can delete my Facebook account? My Office Web Apps account? How do they manage this?

> Every OS ever has had this feature. It's called "Users"

No other OS saves OS settings and apps in the cloud, to my knowledge.

> What does this mean? That you designed it to be inefficient so you can speed it up and gather favor from your users? That you just stopped optimizing halfway through and pegged it 1.0?

They are talking about the auto-update feature.
Why? Plenty of people are able to drive a vehicle, and drive it well. It's the many who aren't, or choose to ignore the rules who are causing danger.

The "every vehicle should be automated" line is lowest common denominator FUD.

How about we start by actually applying a proper, rigorous upgrade to the new driver education from the DMV, and stop treating driving as a right, and instead a privilege?

How about we improve mass transit and spend more money fixing roads (which is a bigger cause of accidents than you might imagine).

What about Signage, which is over abundant and people ignore - or important signage which is entirely missing (many median lines are faded away - not repainted due to lack of funding)?

And what about the culture where drinking and driving is, in many states, acceptable? Why isn't there a dramatic and meaningful campaign to demonstrate that there is really only zero-tolerance to drink-driving that is acceptable?

The United States approach to driving is embarrassing and smacks of largesse, but for much of the country, where there is an abundance of space and empty roads, is tolerated.

Accidents happen routinely in city centers and suburban areas where the laws and driving regulations are not more stricter, but often just as (if not more) relaxed.

There isn't consideration given to heavy traffic, patterns of driving, preparing for exits - it's just expected that as long as you know how to steer and stop at a sign, you are qualified to drive.

Computer controlled cars is a stupid argument (mostly because they are almost already there, in the full part, and certainly the car you are driving is doing more work than you are to get you to your destination). Never mind the fact that the better answer is amazing and undeniable mass transit, obviating the need for personal car ownership in densely populated areas, and a 2-3 magnitude leap in driver education to prevent such stupidity on the roads as a basic requirement to even begin to address this problem.
>Your comparison is absurd.

A strange complaint, coming from someone who not twenty minutes ago compared mandatory automated cars to vaccination, the former being a significant infringement on freedom for an undetermined safety gain and the latter being the most successful medical program in the history of humanity.

>Bear in mind I'm not advocating the removal of cars - merely that great efforts should be made to introduce self-driving cars over the next generation or two.

Okay, and that's fair, but this thread started with someone saying automated cars should be mandatory, so surely you'll understand if we choose to argue against that point?

I support computers being used to improve highway safety. I am not yet ready to conclude that the best way to go about this is to mandate self-driving cars for everyone, no exceptions.
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I'd likely use this if it were a module on my sites, like the G+ support tool.
And the hold mail pages are still the same: https://holdmail.usps.com/holdmail/landingView.do
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo bow to Apple sales edict
You'd probably be interested in https://github.com/ryanb/enlighten
I'm the author -- and yes, you got it in one :)
I too struggle with the price of Chromebooks. I do love my CR48 but expected price to be around $200 considering the OS is very limited.
The DoJ would say --- and a grand jury would agree --- that it became clear to him that he wasn't supposed to access the files when both MIT and JSTOR took steps to stop him from accessing them; his intent to access that data knowing that countermeasures had been erected, and his purposeful evasion of those countermeasures, helps establish mens rea.
By Lodsys, of course.
Samsung Series 5 cost $334.32 to make.[1] Your price expectations are way off.

[1]http://www.thechromesource.com/with-what-it-costs-to-make-is...
That's my biggest beef about the whole thing. I guess you could argue it is Apple's prerogative to change rules, but Kobo and Amazon can't even communicate why things are changing to their customers. It really points out how much the App store is sharecropping. Making apps is not a viable business when so much about developing a business is the customer relationship.
What's interesting about this article now, is the feature is (more or less) going mainline in MySQL 5.6, except the API will be the standard memcached protocol and not the handler socket API in the linked article.

See: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/nosql-to-mysql-...
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Actually given how safe modern cars are, you are quite likely to survive some pretty serious crashes.
An over zealousness to punish others out of proportion with their alleged crimes is not something which we should make a virtue.
Google can delete my Facebook account? My Office Web Apps account? How do they manage this?

If Google deletes your Google/GMail account, can you still login to your Chromebook?
I'm honestly not certain. I absolutely understand where you are coming from and why you included the information you did but when I first read "my project... with 100 followers" it struck me wrong.

I guess it's one of those situations where the projects are so different that having to throw in some mark of delineation seems unnecessary and more like a plug...
Before nervous, frightened people in denial of their own conspicuous mortality decided to remove yet another source of fun and excitement because of the irresponsible actions of a few.

In general, driving is not a source of fun and excitement. In fact, commute times are strongly and negatively associated with self-reported happiness.
Yes, that model is no longer being manufactured. If you weren't wanting to compare what a new computer costs, this already silly argument becomes even sillier.
Only the homepage was redesigned. It seems like all the pages off of it, where you actually do stuff, are unchanged. Like the calculate shipping page, or the store.

The shipping calculator has the particular annoyance of requiring you to provide a bunch of info that is often unnecessary. To/from ZIP code for first class letters?
The problem with that analysis is that there's nothing criminal (or even illegal) about sharing public domain works over BitTorrent. So whether he copied the documents for personal use or distribution, it was still the initial copying that was at fault.

It's a little like someone broke into a library every night for a few months and scanned a bunch of public domain books.

The only actual crimes are breaking and entering, and using the scanning equipment without authorization. What he intended to do with the scans is irrelevant.
Well, I heard a story once of a student who brought in his entire year's tuition to the payments office of his school in pennies...in a large barrel on a trolley.

The office refused his pennies and said they wouldn't spend their entire week counting them and that he should pay in a different fashion. Well... apparently according to some law, if you refuse payment in legal tender, the person is not obliged to pay you...not sure if this is true or not but may be worth researching. You could see if your school wants to count all those pennies.
What does this mean? That you designed it to be inefficient so you can speed it up and gather favor from your users? That you just stopped optimizing halfway through and pegged it 1.0?

Are you a programmer? The idea that there is a finish line for optimizing a program (beyond "This seems fast enough") is weird, and not the sort of thing I'd expect to hear from anyone who's ever done it. You do just have to stop at some point and release. Otherwise you'll keep improving things until the heat death of the universe.

IIRC, the Chrome team has a zero-tolerance policy on performance regressions. Since it auto-updates, it should get faster over time.
You've probably figured this out by now, but I'm pretty sure you're missing the point. From your other comments in this thread you appear to think that the machine needs to be internet-accessible. Have a public IP. Open Firewall. All that.

The reason this is so dangerous is that it needs none of that. All it needs is for your development machine to have access to the internet.

I open up a project, enable this, and run rackup locally.

I then view your Twitter stream, where you've embedded a crafted link behind a URL shortener.

Because that link is executed by me, you've now remotely executed code on my machine. Assuming I'm anything like most Rails shops you can probably get to a number of other machines through my machine.
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I agree that we should not make overzealousness a virtue, and will go you one further by saying that zealous or not, out-of-proportion punishments shouldn't be considered virtuous either.
I realize Apple required it. But Amazon still had a choice. They could have complied with Apple's rules and paid 30% of their revenue to Apple for ebooks sold from within the app. And passed the price increase on to consumers.

I view it as standing up to Apple that Amazon did not do this. I think this will be better, if a little inconvenient, for consumers in the long run because it will ultimately keep ebook prices lower.
Highly recommended. I use this method exclusively, even though I have working DVD drive: scratched discs don't cause nasty surprises during the movie, and the drive doesn't make noise during playback.

With RipIt.app set to auto-rip every inserted DVD and eject it it's no hassle.
A valid analogy would be "N people die from someone dropping her knife, the knife bouncing on the floor and stabbing a nearby fellow restaurant customer in the chest". This doesnt' happen often, so we don't really feel the need for checks there. We do have automated systems to check food quality all the way from the farm to the consumer, though.
Ask HN: famous programmers died recently?
Do you know famous programmers or computer scientists died in last 10 years?

For example Steve Lacey, Jim Gray, E.W. Dijkstra...

What else do you know?
That's why I've always got Forever Stamps since they came out. No more worrying.
I'm not surprised that you made so little - the ads displayed are useless, frankly. It's always a pain with AdWords with a site like this - somehow you need to include enough keywords about your service so that the ads displayed'll be relevant. Admittedly, I'm viewing your site from Warsaw in Poland, but I'd hope to see more relevant ads than "Raft Trips Under $100" - I'm sure if AdWords was displaying, I don't know, "Save Your Fuel Costs!"-type ads, you'd have made decent money by now.
The iPad is only $150 more. A great conditioned used 1st gen iPad you can get for $50 more. I'll take a 1st gen ipad over this Chromebook easy.
"compromisotron" :)
well said.
$350 should be the max pricing point for a higher quality Chromebook, not the starting point. The starting point should be like $200. They should also make them only with ARM chips to cut the cost significantly. Ideally, it should be like $200 wi-fi only with Tegra 2 (or other dual core ARM chip) and $350 for a better built one with 4G and Tegra 3 (or similar).
I'd like to see per gender breakdown. It's interesting to check past research[1] against new data.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-women-r... [Girl Talk: Are Women Really Better at Language?]
The sad thing is that Apple is the kind of company that is deciding to be evil, rather than just doing it accidentally. I'm sure they calculated that they would make more money by enforcing these harmful rules than the good will they would lose, so they did it anyway.
Amazon is not the only one. So have WSJ and Kobo. Here is the Ars article:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/07/with-pressure-from...

Edit: wrote "and Kindle" instead of "and Kobo"
You don't need to login at all.
http://campaignbar.com - which I'll be relaunching properly in the next few weeks.

Marketing plan consisted of posting links to various sites... and that's about it. No wonder that I haven't had a single user pay for it. Honestly it's been a painful loss - a good 30-40 hours of development (yay Firefox addons! I'm now relaunching with Chrome) and spending around $40 on themes. So, it's been a complete and utter loss so far.

That said, I now have a marketing plan and high hopes :)
where is our Thunderbolt-enabled $500 Windows laptop or netbook?

Uh... The reason you get the Windows laptop for half the price is precisely because it doesn't have nifty hardware like Thunderbolt.
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And how will you program your car's computer to deal with situations that humans react to instinctively by thinking about context?

The most obvious one that comes to mind is the familiar question: "What follows a ball?" While you can program the answer ("A child"), can you reliably say that your car will recognize a ball? What about a soccer ball? A basketball? A golf ball? A football?

Driving is one of the activities that humans engage in that requires true cognizance and awareness. The idea that a computer is "best suited" for driving is laughable until we start using cars where situational awareness and context no longer matters (let's get to work on those flying cars).
MacPorts used to do this, and then stopped because the copy on the system sometimes wasn't "a perfectly working version" and by virtue of being tied to an entire OS update caused giant incompatibilities (as you had to deal with, simultaneously, broken old versions and broken new versions existing in the ecosystem).
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You mention that you think EU stands up to scientific-method scrutiny. I was looking through the site and I wasn't able to find any examples of a place where EU makes a correct quantitative prediction about some phenomenon where conventional cosmology is unable to?

Also, how would you use EU to quantitatively predict how the orbits of planets diverge from what Kepler's laws would predict, or how the time measurements aboard GPS satellites diverge from clocks on the ground? Or was the page you linked to wrong in claiming that EU disprove's Einstein's relativity?
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transloadit.com uses node.js, quite effectively
Reminds me of I Robot. Someday these C programs will group together and develop the ability to think independently.
Nice. For some reason I thought you needed a Google account to use it. Now that I know you don't that's a plus. Not enough of a plus, but it's one less thing to worry about.
Our hackerspace members have built a couple of these. They are very cool, but also require a lot of upkeep. Who knew that the current RAMPS firmware doesn't stop printing when the thermistor reports a bogus temperature.
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Ask HN: Is it necessary to have a business model for your idea?
I have been following HN for last few months and this site gave me some wonderful tips about idea validation and things like how to bring customers or earn revenue. All such articles made me to think that for every product or idea, there should be a business model or a revenue channel. There should be a market and all that.

What if something has come in my mind which would be solving my own problem. Should I just make it, for myself or for others or sit quite? I don't know whether there is any market for such site. Infact I just don't want to know because I want to think like an artist who just paint his creation without thinking whether people would buy it or not. I don't know whether user will visit my site, neither I know whether I would earn a penny. I just want to make it, I just want to create it, as an artist. Though like others every new idea come across make me to think about money as well. After all, I need money, lots of money to have my own home and for that I've been trying different things but no success yet but once, just once, I want to stop thinking about money,business plan and ROI stuff and want to concentrate on what has stuck in my mind.

Am I an insane?(though your answer in YES would not change my mind), May I turn myself into an artist rather than some developer or some typical entrepreneur ?

Thanks in advance
Does anyone know how the patents were violated?

As in, what is actually being done that was "invented" by Lodsys so that other developers can either avoid it altogether, or know if they need to license something.
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I wish it were not $30 on Kindle, but I bought it anyway.
This post is referring to the Acer.