skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You claim: This gets everyone through the construction zone faster since you don't have a stream of last-minute merges jamming things up.

There are countless studies demonstrating that this apparently widely held opinion is wrong. Here's one, discussing joint merge (i.e. merge at the end):

http://www.workzonesafety.org/node/10936

Overall, merging speeds were found to be relatively similar at volumes ranging from 600 to 1,200 vehicles per hour and did not affect the discharge rate at the merge outflow point. However, the experimental results did suggest that drivers were more cautious in their merging maneuvers. This was thought to be attributable to the joint merge, which produced a more evenly balanced lane volume at the transition zone entrance.

That is: drivers were more cautious (good), exit traffic flow was the same (contrary to your statement) and lane volume was balanced - i.e. the traffic jam extended less further down the freeway (very good).

Two major reasons for accidents during merges are

1) Anger at merge points based on perceived fairness
2) High speed traffic in the empty lane hitting vehicles
attempting to enter the free lane

The ideal pattern (maximal traffic flow, minimal accidents) is to fill all available lanes and merge at the ends on a take-turns basis.
You know, there's more than one company doing social mobile photo sharing, right?
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This. I find markdown and all its bastards insufficient and their syntax hard to remember. Sometimes you can use _ other times it's * and none of them are more intuitive that <em> or <bold>.
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It's still in beta, but I'm finally ready to get some more eyes on this. I'd love any feedback / suggestions.
I really like the new look of explorer with the ribbon: http://www.itworld.com/sites/default/files/HyperV-11-600.png

Wish I could get that on Win7.
Haml is also great for writing <table>'s.
Agreed, but then it starts to sound like you're just participating in a really unstructured forum. I like the thought of public Circles but they really have to nail the implementation.
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Nature's summary, with a bit more detail: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110803/full/news.2011.456.ht...

Since I occasionally pound on this point, I'd observe this is a good use of computer models; they take their hypothesis, explore its possibility, and generate real-world predictions that we can test against to determine if it accurate. (Albeit perhaps decades later, but that's not their fault.) And no claims about how it has now been proved or anything.
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I down voted you because

1) I think the way you process driving situations that annoy you is probably to imagine the other driver has ill intentions and to get pissed off, and as a biker in a city I'm tired of dealing with that kind of person

2) your implication that a truck driver making 40k is more than enough "for the lifestyle" isn't your judgement to make. as a person who has heard that line from employers who don't want to pay me fairly, that pisses me off

3) "Lastly, welcome to life". Fuck everything about that.
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I wonder how many people are seeing the sarcasm, and how many think you are serious. =)
A truck passing another truck isn't necessarily objectionable, but when they're on a hill and spend multiple minutes doing it (and sometimes even give up), I get very annoyed.
Why is this on HN? I don't flip off truckers, or anyone else unless they drive dangerously enough to put me at risk. It has nothing to do with programming or economics, and none of us are experts in transit policy. {Edit: or at least, widely known to be.]
Similar position here! Spent 4 years working as a programmer for a few faceless corps. While some of that was pretty interesting (wrote a quant investing engine from scratch) the politics eventually took its toll. So I spent the whole of last year travelling, came back refreshed and am now in the middle of a startup with two other college friends.
If anyone else is in a similar position I wholeheartedly recommend both ( the travelling and/or the startup)
Actually, it's <strong> and not <bold> ;)
One thing that I currently use Circles for that is related to the original article is book mark managing. If I see something I'm interested in and want to read later (mostly programming stuff) I'll post it to a Circle that has no followers. Pulling the meta info and providing a thumbnail is really handy. And if I think a link would be of particular interest to one of my friends I can easily share it.
Is there any consensus on an improved/extended Markdown?
Between MultiMarkdown, Github Flavored Markdown, Stack Exchange's additions, this new "elegant" markdown and others there seems to be bit of fragmentation in this idea of a simple markup.
Nevada has already legalized self driving cars: http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/06/22/nevada-passes-l...

And I bet Google's car is already better then most if not all human drivers can ever be.

The fact that the road is full of unpredictable humans does not mean that a computer can't be a better driver then another human. In fact, the more dangerous the road conditions, due to other bad drivers, or any other reason, the better it is to have a super-human computer do the driving.
But I wonder if unstructured forum isn't precisely the model for sustained conversations best suited to feed/stream interaction?

My sense is that time-based content consumption (streams) beg for solutions that allow activity to preserve and sustain the good stuff. This is essentially how FB updates work. But in FB there's no navigation back to active posts. Which is where I think G+ could provide a real solution.
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With what account? Google serves on a ton of third party sites (and not just through AdSense, DoubleClick is huge). And that would require you to sign in to Google before you are opted-out, regardless if you were using Google or not. I use an plugin provided by Google to do the same thing, no worries about a cookie disappearing.

http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/intl/en/plugin/
@ Noonespecial
Exactly the point I was making also.
I live in Quebec, and find the drivers bad. However, I don't find them discourteous to the point of slamming on the brakes in front of you, getting out, and starting to talk shit because they cut you off (New York drive in PA).

Granted, I'm from Jersey originally, and I pride myself on the fact that by comparison, even Quebec drivers are safe. =)

Anyways, my point was, Canadians are generally seen as more mellow, and I still see them getting angry on the road.

Granted, this is all just from my experience.
If I had to nominate favorite chapters in a book, it would be the one in the Vax C manual that walked you through translating C declarations into English and English to C. There was also a program that would do the same They saved me from mental meltdown more than once.
Somehow, I don't think I'm going to be ditching a well-maintained library I've been using for over 2 years that's integrated with all of my code at this point for a 2 month old project at version 0.3.0. Especially since there's nothing that stands out on what this library does (if anything) better.

Give me a nice blog post with some of the details on how this makes my life easier or more productive compared to ASIHTTPRequest and I'll think about it. As it is, it's just Yet Another Networking Library.
They've gotten past lobbying Nevada. Nevada's building the regulations for it, which counts as "google has gotten Nevada to allow driver less cars"
Markdown is for publishing, whereas Haml is for designers/developers. The point of Markdown is that non-technical users can use it, and it generally looks good and self-explanatory even unrendered.
So the insight that the article provides is..?
It looks like they're enabling something like fair use and realizing that the way orphan publications are handled doesn't make any sense. Not very exciting really considering these are regulations that are widely ignored by people who actually use any technology anyway.
I would never have thought of that! Now, if you could grab your content circle and drag that into an audience circle... But as convenient as that would for sharing, I suppose it would create a lot of noise!
Actually, you're the one that's being irrational. Driver's ED manuals recommends taking a break of 15 minutes every two hours, precisely because driving skills deteriorate quickly with fatigue. No amount of experience will make up for it.

e: http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/dmanual/chapter08-manual.htm#dr..., is it that hard to believe that people make mistakes when they're tired?
I was a volunteer for my first PyCon last year - it was a great experience and I highly recommend it. I also went solo, so it gave me another opportunity to meet folks. There are lots of volunteer opportunities with different levels of commitment.
I think the point is that if you're not co-located, network transit time from your servers to IB, not even including IB to exchange, is an insurmountable disadvantage.
Cars don't pay enough...trucks do. Not to mention trucks are providing a service that cannot be done effectively by cars or trains.

Railroads make plenty of money on owning the tracks otherwise I doubt they would still be doing it.
Why do you think that truck drivers aren't risking their life for us like the firefighters and police men are doing? We live in a society where most jobs are needed. If it wasn't for them it would be hard for millions of people to get their food in the stores every day.

Edit: to clarify even more, even the truck driver knows thst he's got a probability to die during his work, which seems to be higher than most other jobs. Most drivers know this.
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I'm sorry, but the ignorance expressed in this thread by some is absolutely astounding. Per mile, truckers drive far more safely than the typical driver. Just to put things in immediate perspective.

Beyond that, though, some people here are spending a whole lot more time blaming the drivers for the inevitable lapses in safety that occur when you're driving thousands of miles a week. Of course, it's definitely more comfortable to do that than consider the systemic reasons that happens, and your own role in it.

Goods have to be transported. The almighty market demands that. Which is to say, you demand it. So various companies have sprung up for centuries to transport those goods. These companies compete to lower costs as much as possible. If they don't, they're driven out of business, because stores know consumers prefer something to be a nickel cheaper even if it's bad for the environment, the truckers, and other nearby drivers. If a price is higher, companies choose to go with the trucking company that offers the cheaper price, because consumers like their nickel.

The way we've set up the system incorporates the public safety dangers into the price, via lawsuits etc., and the way we like it is to essentially demand that companies force drivers to drive the hell out of their trucks and their lives. We like our fucking nickels. At least more than any safety concerns.

Some here have said "well if the job is hard, then quit it!" Wow. Do you think people don't do this? Do you think that changes the market equilibrium at all? It doesn't. Whoever replaces him or her will drive under the same demands and incentives, and will on average respond the same way to those demands and incentives. No benefit.

I've seen also some victim blaming in saying "well if the job is hard, ask for a raise or get a union!" Interesting story there. Back in the mid-20th century, trucking was one of the most heavily unionized industries, via the IBT primarily. However, in the 80s and 90s, various Republican and Democratic administrations collaborated with trucking companies to make war on the unions. Originally truckers were employed directly by the companies, but eventually those companies realized they could react to unionization by outsourcing truckers, either into private shell companies that closed down as soon as unionization hit or by hiring truckers as contractors. Various NLRB boards aided and abetted this regulatory change.

The ruling elite (of which we are all part) largely cheered this on, because those greedy truckers are stupid and uneducated and don't deserve to make as much as us hardworking educated intelligent people, masters of the universe that we are.

So, we got our way! And our nickel. Drivers ended up atomized and could not collectively bargain against the buyers of their labor, decently-sized companies who had monopsony power in the trucker marketplace. So everyone ends up driven to the least common denominator.

If you want a better system, fight for it. Moreover, vote for it. Otherwise when some trucker nearly drives you off the road because they have to feed their family, you're just getting what you paid for.
If you brake going downhill on a long-distance highway you shouldn't be driving.
Wait... what? It seems like half-way through Arment decided to just completely abandon the content of the post he was writing and take a shot at Facebook and Google's privacy mistakes. And then he never returned to the original point of the article. Is that really what his blog has turned into these days?
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Tinted Windows

I've noticed other drivers are more courteous when I'm driving a car without tinted windows. Specifically I had two cars. One was an older standard cab pickup with no window tint anywhere (think fishbowl) and the other was a luxury car with dark window tint and a black interior. Night and day difference between how I was treated on the road. These are the same routes driven similar times. My own little observation that seeing the other driver causes you to treat them differently subconsciously. Truck drivers may have a similar issue being unseen.

Edit: Also as a pedestrian it's nice to see where a driver is/isn't looking.
Y'know, I personally would have believed the self-reported pooping frequency, I didn't really need four days of colon footage.
I've always wished _ meant "underline" not <em>. Of course the HTML standard only defines <em> and <strong>, but _ could create output like <em class="underline"> or <em style="text-decoration: underline">.
Privileged person decides to try hand at entrepreneurship, congratulates self for courage. Reading these is the textual equivalent of watching someone jerk off.
So if I get a bunch of people interested in professional bicycle racing to sign up for HN, we can upvote all our favorite articles and it will be HN material because a lot of us voted for it? The problem with that definition is that there's no "entry exam" or anything like that.
What are you going to do about the areas that are more than 50 miles from a train depot? Haul it in several smaller vehicles? Sounds efficient...whats better 60,000 lbs hauled at 8MPG in one truck or 10,000lbs hauled at 15MPG in 6 vehicles.

There is a reason we are still using trucks...good luck without them.
Nice to read a Chief Legal Officer using plain language.
To some extent I agree that virtualizing at the hardware level (particularly PC hardware!) is the wrong level. Ordinary Unix processes are another sort of virtualization, and one which is far more efficient.

However there are three facts that get in the way of doing the right thing:

(1) Does it run Windows?

(2) We've got Intel and AMD making PC virtualization acceptably fast nowadays, so it makes sense to just use that.

(3) Isolation between processes is not very strong [not sure about virtualenv] but between machines is a great deal stronger because people have a lot more experience protecting networked machines from each other.
Wish I could do an on/off flash. Darn automatic headlights can't turn off while driving. But most drivers know this and a quick brights flash is understood the same way.
This might contain something really interesting, but I'll never know. Blocked by paywall.
Actually, markdown is great for this kind of stuff - it's when you start getting into links, inserting attributes, etc. that I'd rather just write HTML.
If the performance is acceptable, I'd love to do all of my daily Windows work from a VM... on a removable drive I can boot with no fuss on my desktop, laptop, or friends' computer.

If they can really isolate all the hardware this is a game changer for me. I'll just move my SSD seamlessly between various PCs at home and work. Epic win.

Don't dimiss this as a power user feature just yet. Imagine going on vacation and taking one computer for your family, not 4. Get a new computer? Don't "migrate" with current solutions, move everything with full fidelity. Keep your own personal OS for use at internet cafes. Change the form factor of your computer at will.
From my experiences Alberta has the most aggressive Canadian drivers.
I would if I knew it was going to generate some press :)
Thanks! Excellent advice.
Indeed. The comfortable society we all enjoy literally could not exist if not for truckers risking their lives every day to provide its circulatory system.

People talk about soldiers bravely and selflessly putting themselves in danger to protect The American Way(tm). Truckers deserve that same respect.
Assuming http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2008/08/tables-for-markdown... is accurate, HTML tables look much more readable to me. /shrug
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And here I was, thinking Prague has finally appeared on the start-up map :)
What's the markdown tag for sarcasm again?
I would love to read this article. Too bad it's blocked by paywall :(
It matters a lot, because it speaks to the intent of our negotiating partner. It is the difference between good faith and bad faith.
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Agreed, and if getting it into the App Store was a requirement, wrapping a functional "Web App" in something like PhoneGap is probably the easiest thing you'll ever do using Xcode.
If you are going to engage in name-calling, at least cite a source. There are multiple studies that show that heavy trucks destroy roads and bridges (one truck causes 9,600 times more wear than a car) and also that heavy trucks are disproportionately dangerous, killing about 5,000 people a year.

The point is that heavy trucks don't pay enough taxes to cover their actual impact on the road-system.
Great story. Takes guts. Inspirational for someone in tech finance.
I noticed C#/.NET didn't make the list.
Why is that phrase surprising?
Here's an un-paywalled article on this subject: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hT9kSgvL0...
Google Search the title. Google defeats all paywalls.

Also relevant: http://www.urbanophile.com/2011/07/31/replay-migration-matte...
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One observation: the slight against Warren Buffett is unmerited and undeserved. He is at least as good an example as this person of not living lavishly even with adequate money to do so.
>I am so glad that these psyops tools will only be used against bad guys.

It is a 2nd step. The first step would be is to use these psyops to manufacture the bad guys.
I think that the browser footprint is fairly large, but as you open more tabs it uses proportionately less ram per tab (though it must level off at some point). I'm using 15 extensions (the only one of yours I'm not using is diigo), I doubt they make much difference.

For some time during the 2.x and 3.x series, firefox would leak memory from closed tabs -- the memory usage would keep going up and up with tab churn, and I'd have to restart the browser to get the memory footprint back down. I don't see that with v4 or v5, and I usually restart the workstation before I need to restart firefox.
adhering to the constructions signs indicating that a lane is closed ahead

What part of the construction sign are you adhering? Is there a construction sign that says "merge immediately"? No.

So your anger is based on what? The fact that you merge into a lane, and then the person behind you drives by you? Think about this logically:

If you merge in at point A, and a driver passes you to merge closer, are they an asshole? So now the merge point is now point A. Anyone merged after point A is an asshole. But you have just established a definitive, permanent merge point that a driver may not pass.

Is this effective? Is it effective to have a merge point, beyond which someone may not pass, or should they merge at some point before this? If the answer is "yes, it is effective to have a hard merge point" then why should that merge point be point A, and not the lane end? What is magical about point A? Should the drivers in the thru lane at point A automatically let you in? Why?

But if drivers behind you should also merge before point A (in the same way that you merged before the lane-end) then a new merge point A' is established (beyond which anyone is an asshole). So the "polite, non-asshole" endpoints A, A', A'' move further and further back down the freeway, leaving a huge area of the freeway unused and causing the traffic jam to extend as much as twice as far as it need be.
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Drummond is very smart. And he's always been friendly to me. But that's not to be confused with Google being the good guy. They tried to buy these patents and failed.

And they claim that they aren't litigious with patents, and they haven't been yet. But to paint them as the victim is disingenuous -- while they don't use patents offensively, they have many other tools at their disposal that they do use offensively, market share in advertising and search amongst them.

Google is a massive company with massive resources. They happen to be exceptionally smart and know how to use tools outside of litigation to achieve their means -- but that doesn't make them any less a monopoly or anti-competitive company; far from it.

It's impossible to view Drummond's post in a box -- it's not just about how patents hinder innovation -- /everybody knows that/ already. But Google does everything for a reason, they are very strategic. Since Google knows it has better tools to be competitive outside of patents, it is in their interest to eliminate patents as a source of pressure from competitors.

And if you invent something amazing, and you patent it, and then Google decides to copy you -- you may not feel that patents hinder innovation as much as you do right now. But since they are a behemoth with lots of other tools at their disposal, they want to eliminate a favorite weapon of their competitors. Smart, but altruistic it may not be.
so...don't flip off truck drivers? Seems easy enough.
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> It was a rather gentle collision at around 2.4km per
> second; lower than the speed of sound

Is that the speed of sound through solid rock, or should that be m/s instead?
agreed, sadly.
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So ... if Google had won the patents, was their plan to just release them into the wild? Or would they be defending them, just as these other companies are doing?
to each his own

That was pretty much my point. That maybe the solution to the mystery of the "profound enlightenment experience" around Lisp is that it makes some very happy, but not me.

Have you looked at "The Joy of Clojure"?

I haven't, I'll look into it, thanks. I haven't given up on solving that mystery yet.
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Besides being dangerous, following a truck too closely will destroy the paint on your car because they throw so many rocks up.
Modified host file, no need to install software and it's multi-browser. No information about me.