skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, winning the "war on automobile deaths" does not help those who choose other modes of transportation. More in-car technology creates a more dangerous environment for those outside the car.

Pedestrian deaths have dropped over the time period but not nearly at the same rate as driver deaths. We are seeing more fatalities from distracted and intoxicated drivers.

I think it is about time we stop focusing on safe cars. We need to create roads that are safe for people, not just cars.
Interesting, I wonder when that proposal first went up (mine was first posted to lists in February). Could be a case of synchronicity.
Most Open Source Project use version control systems/Source code management system to track the code base. Do you have experience in using them. I found a bug in miro few months back, and wanted to patch it. They managed their source code with Git, So, I ended up learning some important things in Git.

So, Also make sure you have knowledge about VCS like Git, Subversion under your belt.
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Disagree on point 2; we see some of SAP's tentacles down here in New Zealand which is about as far from Europe as it's possible to get. Wikipedia seems to think they're pretty global too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_AG).

Having said that, I don't think it would be the biggest issue anyway; 1 and 3 are much bigger problems for HP and you're spot-on with those.
Who's blocking Google? Do you mean everything from Google servers or only @gmail.com addresses? If so it's trivial to get a domain and still be using Google for your email.
IPhone 5 Marketing Strategy.
Those technical specialties are specific to certain genres of games. You don't have to learn all of them to get started and make good games. You probably do have to shoehorn yourself into one (or a few) of them if you want to work on big budget games.
Apache Killer Is The Biggest Little Internet Threat
If it's anything like the existing JTAG SMC hack, it will be detectable by Live, and modded consoles will be banned automatically in under an hour. Despite this, determined cheaters buy expensive KeyVaults from other modified but unbanned consoles to get themselves back online for a short while.
Because we are actually in a position to change the world to a significant degree in various areas, most importantly including Civil Rights, money, privacy, knowledge propagation, news, voting systems, new representational models for political input, education, etc. (edited to add to the long list)
In response to cperciva's comment . . . Statistically? Sure . . . on an individual basis? Should be irrelevant . . . that's why we base employment decisions upon the resume of the individual and not based upon the resume of the parents.
In McAfee's case, his Rodeo paradise -- on which he's spent millions -- drew only a few modest bids. The home, which included the airstrip and hangar, sold for $525,000 to a couple from the Washington, D.C., suburbs.

"It's a little less than what I paid for the landscaping," he said. "Somebody got a great deal."

Yeah, if they can afford the upkeep.
Hopefully this doesn't become abused as the new disposable-AOL-CD of our decade...

How would you use this for something that seemed cost-prohibitive before? (E.g., I can see this being useful in testing server/client systems or learning networking administration.)
I'm interested in your idea and I read your G+ post. What is a super group? You gave some examples but I can't figure out what thing your examples have in common.
Online Doctorate Degree -- Direct Effect of Education Revolution
Pursuing quality education is now very easy in today's world. This is because of the introduction and development in science and technology. Life of humans is now very peaceful and tension free. Education which was earlier considered as very hard now is very easy to achieve. Internet has helped a lot in achieving this with the help of online education.
Earnings. I've heard comments on how he only increased earnings by cracking the whip, and cutting R&D. Maybe that's the case.

You can restore R&D, and make employees happy again (though there is a cost). Heads can be replaced. Killing off products is not so easy to reverse.

Maybe they are reducing their product lines to focus on what they do best. Or maybe they are just playing the "chop the company into pieces, and hope that the sum of the parts is worth more than the whole" gamble.
> I wish I'd been reading this list thirteen years ago when it was started.

Thank you; that's a wonderful compliment.
You had to know this was coming~
They may be the biggest PC maker, but I would not say that is because they make great PCs-they just make A LOT of them.
HP used to make great printers and servers.
I hope they can get back to a place where they do SOMETHING well.
This phenomenon has nothing to do with being black but everything to do with genetics. The defining characteristics of world class sprinters is not the fact that they're black but is rather attributed to either genes passed down from their ancestors or their own genetic mutations. My theory is that if we traced the family trees of top sprinters we'd find that many are descendants of slaves who were bred to be bigger, faster and stronger.
India Vs England 2011 Indian T20I Team Squad Players
India Vs England 2011 Indian T20 International Cricket Team / Squad, India Tour of England 2011 Indian T20I Squad againts England in T20 Internationa Cricket Matche.MS Dhoni (c/wk), Varun Aaron, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar...
reading the title, i thought that the article would be about the difference between the master of sales that sells lemonade since his childhood, and the nerd that can't speak smoothly but has disruptive and needed project and working skills. and that investors start to prefer the latter.
I'm certain many of you have no formal experience in the sciences, ie. biological sciences. It is unfortunate, since in my opinion it is the basis of an education. It is the basis of the understanding of the world.

As such, one may want to inform you that over the last few years there has been considerable progress in evolutionary biology. We have discovered various genes that are statistically significant with intelligence. We have discovered evidence that certain hominids bred with indigenous european hominids (ie. neanderthals). And that certain humans have no neanderthal admixture (Africans).

The IQ debate has been a consistent force in pseudo-intellectual circles. I'm sure many of you wish to voice an opinion on it, that it isn't hereditary. This viewpoint has pretty much fallen out of fashion and has been replaced with a more practical understanding of the biology.

Humans aren't the same, and genes make us different. To understand why we're different you have to understand evolutionary biology, and selective pressures. Selective pressures exist on the organism as a consequence of the environment to select for the most fit organism in that environment. When you alter an environment, you alter the selective pressures on survival. This is why we have diversity.

The fact is that genes code for certain functions in the body. Speed would be a result of numerous genes - probably both nuclear and mitochondrial - that regulate muscle contraction and energy metabolism. Other genes code for neural pathways, dopamine transport systems, energy metabolism.

No two humans are the same. We're both our genes, and the expression of our genes. When people say that IQ or speed is not fully hereditary, that it's environmental, what they are inferring is that we express our genes differently based on our environment. The truth is that your environment is causing your genes to produce less optimal speed or intelligence, by altering the expression(1 or 0 in computer terms) of those genes. Genes can be turned on and off depending on different signaling pathways and interactions between them.

So, yes, sprinting is hereditary - as is IQ.
This is a fascinating (but long) read - kudos to David Argentar for getting his startup off the ground - talk about dilligence, he just didn't give up despite some serious problems building his prototype and that inspires me.
Why Can’t You Buy Wine Online
Elliott writes in from California to report that he was recently shopping for wine online and was surprised to see that only certain states allow wine to be shipped to their residents. “I’m perplexed,” he writes, “because Article I . . . of the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate [interstate commerce].
Server-Sent Event Notifications with HTML5
tl;dr: This guy doesn't want to work for Google because he hosts his own email and Google wants you to store your email in Gmail.
Show HN: DSL based motion typograpy tool (nodeknockout entry)
Both Play N Trade and Vintage Stock do exactly what GameStop does, but with a partial emphasis on retro games. They tend to be a tad more expensive than GS, but shopping there is a much better experience.
Ask HN: How do you host your Rails Application?
I've just learned rails a month back, I'm building some small apps, I'm trying to host it. Heroku seems easy to host, but it seems costly (remember costly is subjective) down the road.

I researched a bit, and found may be using Heroku with Amazon RDS might reduce costs. I also think since these are new applications, why not host it on a dedicated server, until scaling issues shows up.

I was wondering how you rails devs, host your application? Also, which method is cost effective?

Thanks.
"But information technology is what I know, and it’s probably too late for me to learn a new field from scratch."

Rationalization; party line.

(Someone as smart as Chris Dixon could pick up a new field in 3 months. It actually doesn't take that much intelligence to learn a new field. It takes some intelligence, it takes a good mentor and it takes discipline.)
I totally understand that. I was implying that to be Socratic you need to listen a lot more than you talk. Ask a question and then listen.
I agree.

Look at this way though.

Let's say you share a picture of me at a concert and my dream romantic partner sees it, decides she must be with me, and tracks me down. We fall in love and get married and I never again have to think about dating, because I choose not to.

Now I have more mental resources dedicated to the tasks of providing everyone with healthy food, disseminating compassion, ...
> > A response of, "Disregard that the design sucks cocks,"
>
> Excuse me?

Sorry, my (previous) 4chan roots showing through:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disregard-that-i-suck-cocks#.T...

My point was that the responder at the top of the thread was saying (in so many words):

ignore all of that so-called 'content' in the parent
post, my (subjective) ideas about the design should
trump all of that
that way of phrasing makes it sound as if it's a nonsensical move all the time. bureaucratic overhead can grow to the point that destroying it can make the parts worth more than the original whole.
I'm not trying to be a twit here, but be fair to the site admins: say that after *.matasano.com works fully under https without any mixed-content warnings.

E.g., http://www.matasano.com/ sources http://use.typekit.com/zpb4ovg.js. But there's no https://use.typekit.com. How are you going to fix that? It takes a village.
I'm trying to understand the relevance of the point you're making. While your point is true, it seems largely technical and irrelevant to real world actions. It's not like your average person will out and do a test to see if their biases have a real world basis. The more practical takeaway is that we should attempt to not form these biases in the first place.
What Every Politician Should Know About Domain Names
Hey nice idea. The project's in its infancy, but I'll add this to the stack. Thanks!
In theory, yes; if the invention is "known or used by others in this country [the US]" prior to the date of the invention by the patenting inventor, it counts as prior art.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_35_00000102----000...

It's tricky, though, because that's the invention date, not the filing date, and the "inventor" could lie about the date of the invention. The safest approach is to publish my ideas in print in a foreign country, ideally in a small print run in a language spoken by nobody at Intellectual Ventures, and then wait a year before posting to the list.

Prior art does not have to include a reduction to practice; conception of the invention is sufficient. Lore has it that Charles Hall's waterbed patent was narrowed substantially by a reference to Stranger in a Strange Land, which described waterbeds.
I'm JUST starting some data analysis of this in my city so I don't have much factual evidence yet but I heard something like wearing a safety belt doubles your chance of survival.

There are many low budget things that governments can do to help prevent even fender benders (which have an economic cost) and luckily at least in my city it's data driven. Signage, road conditions, weather and light analysis and more play a part.

While here the police don't capture it at the scene of an accident, I bet that pedestrian headphone use causes at least a few accidents. I bike everyday and am constantly stunned that other bicyclists will be wearing headphones will driving around. Kind of need all of your senses out there.
Yeah, that's a good point. I'll settle for emulators, then.
That is correct. Thanks for pointing that out, Mike. I probably should have linked to that in my post.
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Thank you! That makes me happy.

Don't forget that the future is yet unwritten, though.
Uh, thanks. :)
That's a poorly written/reasoned article.

Draw a set of circles. The big one is all humans. The little one is 100m finalists.

Outside the finalists, you're drawing two concentric circles. The smaller of the two is Nandi. The larger is sub-Saharan Africans, or what much of the world refers to as "black".

First: yes, all 100m winners are "black". More specifically, they're among the better Nandi runners. But as we're noting, Nandis are a proper subset of sub-Saharan Africans, or blacks. So ... yes, the first inference ("100m winners are black") is accurate, just not complete.

The other interesting thing to note is this: humanity originated in Africa, and migrated from there to the rest of the planet in successive waves. Genetic diversity within Africa is greater than in the rest of the planet. For the most part / as a general rule. You'll find this is typically true of origin / diaspora populations, human, animal, vegetable, or even technological.

So: yes, there's considerable genetic variation among various populations. There's more in Africa. And, at least based on empirical evidence, if you want to be a good sprint runner, it's a considerable benefit to have ancestry that traces to a specific valley in Kenya.

As to considering all "Blacks" to be genetically uniform or similar: no, that's not valid.

The other discussions of the article are largely red herrings.
Yes, the Freedom Box project is directed by people whose ideals I share.
只有神知道的世界
"... Names say something about the people who pick them. ..."

There is a freakonomics discussion about the power of name choice in "Super Freakonomics", CH6, "Perfect Parenting, Part II; or: Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?" which hints at this ~
http://freakonomicsbook.com/freakonomics/chapter-excerpts/ch... and http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/ though the message I got was the signaling the name gave to others & the recipient of the name mattered more.
Bcrypt isn't specifically harder to compute on GPUs. It just has an adjustable amount of work it has to do which increases the load. Bitcoin effectively has the same thing with the difficulty.
I think you're trying too hard to explain how a bias against black names isn't a bias against the racial group. The article said they used archetypal black names such as "Latoya" or "Tyrone". Taking this at face value, there is no indication of lower socioeconomic level unless you're taking being black itself as the indication. We're not talking about made up ghetto names that we all love to disparage these days. Being biased against standard <racial group> names is in fact a bias against <racial group>.
Since no one has brought it up yet -- I figured I would.
The entire time I read this article, I was thinking of Clipperz (https://www.clipperz.com)

Their entire product is based on the model of in-browser cryptography of your credential payload.

You can read more here: http://www.clipperz.com/security_privacy
and numerous blog entries, and other articles around the web, but its open source, so you're welcome to review it yourself.

The basic premise is that your browser, through javascript, deals with encrypting and decrypting a blob object which is stored on their server, transmitted via SSL, which they can't read, and can only be read by you when your browser decrypts it with javascript.

I'd love to see the author's take on the Clipperz implementation.
Putting build artifacts in source control does seem a bit strange. Nevertheless, it's very common practice with JavaScript libraries.
Watch again.

page_name is indexed with the term "page_name" not "pagename"
If i recall, you also wrote a (wonderful) gawk script to download youtube videos (which I contributed some updates to). I still use it often (the famous python program link fails, btw).
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/downloading-youtube-videos-with...
The "overlearning the game" problem
To counter this sentiment, one need not come up with examples of how such-and-such software contributes a great deal to the noble cause of blah, because society is built on abstractions. Much of the world is hungry, but becoming a master hunter is not the way to solve that problem.

In my view, you have two choices: (1) trust the market to determine where society needs help and to give job opportunities in those areas, or, since that rosy picture may not be reality, (2) gather as much wealth and power as you see fit and push society to be better.
The internet dates from, depending on how you date it, 1969, sometime in the mid-1970s, or January 1, 1983. Apple dates from April 1, 1976. Maybe 34 (edit: 35) years is "a lot longer" than 28 years to you?

Anyway, Apple doesn't do that on their less popular computers — Macintoshes.
Wow, that graph is awesome. I think it's really interesting how miles driven just gallops forward when fuel is cheap, but falls back only very slowly - or even grows slowly - when fuel is expensive. That looks like a junkie's relationship, for sure.
I would be delighted to become better informed. Would you like to explain a couple of my errors to me?
A quibble: Nandi runners from Kenya are distance runners, not 100m sprinters.
The pivot worked out quite well for IBM. It happened when there was significant question as to whether their PC business would ever be an industry leader; they'd just laid off more than 100,000 people because of overall weakness in their business and the economy in general.

The hamburger analogy is disingenuous. Hamburgers weren't invented in our generation and they don't radically change every 18 months.
I think this is a stretch. I don't think there was enough selective pressure to really cause that much of a change in gene distribution in such a short period. Furthermore, unless the mutations for being "bigger, faster" were novel to the slave population, there is no reason to think that any breeding practices would have had any meaningful influence. What is more likely is that genes for excelling at sprinting probably came from the same area of Africa.
That was DEF CON 17 when somebody BGP'd the whole LAN through their datacenter in NYC, right?
That problem is serious, but our server has never been on a dynamic IP or an ISP-owned IP, so it's a slightly different problem than our problem.
Thanks TMZ, for make my weekend sad
"the technology is always too late."

This quote is from one of my favorite movies, Cinema Paradiso, an 1988 Italian movie where Alfredo, the cinema projectionist, became blind after a film strip roll get fire. By that time film strips were made with nitrate what made it very flammable. Some years later Alfredo was introduced to a new kind of film strip without nitrate that doesn't spread fire, and then he said the phrase above.

This weekend, for me, was a sad weekend, because on the last months I'm focusing this two days on what I'm passionate about, technology, business, startups, and everything related. At my regular week it's almost impossible to check tweeter, read HN, Techcrunch and others, so, until now my weekends was empowering, filled with good ideas, knowledge, researches and having a close look at the market players.

Happens then at friday night TMZ release a picture of a moribund Steve Jobs.

Then my weekend became suddenly sad.

I'm not a huge fan of Jobs. But I admit that he personalize in my mind a kind of super powerful man, the one who have the greatest conditions in the world to desire and archive almost anything. More than anyone the guy has the perspicacity, the people and the money to solve any kind of the problem.

Arthur Clarke said that advanced enough technology is like magic, so Jobs is our contemporary Houdini, one move and a million dumb faces appears in the audience.

I get myself wondering what kind of efforts a man like Jobs is applying to try to fix your health condition, what kind of genius are called, what king of research are made, what kind of technology was created. I particularly think that House are leading the medical team.

Then this super powerful man suddenly appears defeated this weekend.

There's nothing to think or say about the left of Jobs from Apple, or the picture. What I just known by now is that I really don't want to check my Ipad 6 in 2015 and see the discovery of cure of pancreatic cancer and think that technology arrived too late, to save our Houdini.

*sorry for the lousy english, it's not my native idiom.
As a young black boy, growing up, in the Caribbean, I always came dead last in my races. sigh
How is it different from advocating standard door locks? I'm not arguing that they should be used for securing bank vaults, all I'm saying is that they serve a useful purpose. If you're trying to say that I'm advocating for jscrypto generally, then that's simply a strawman, because I am obviously not.
Screenshot of Steve Jobs' calendar
Excellent, many thanks.

I've read O'Reilly's Collective Intelligence. It's a great introductory survey, but it was very light on theory.

I also own Collective Intelligence in Action. It had more explanation of theory than O'Reilly's offering, but most of the chapters devolved into how to use Java data mining framework X.
Making important decisions based on stereotypes rather than facts tends to be frowned upon these days. And (at least in the US) it opens yourself up to huge discrimination suits if you base your discrimination on protected classes like gender or race.
SAP's US headquarters is near me in Pennsylvania. I interviewed for a software developer job there once. I was told, by the interviewer, that the programming jobs in the US are boring because the real work is done in Germany...
From the article:

"Fast forward to 1992. The world looks very different. In 1990 the Nikkei Index, which had risen strongly for an unprecedentedly long period, from the beginning of the FGCS project, was about to breach 40,000. But instead of continuing its rise, it started a decline and was down to half the peak value by 1992. Most of the Toyotas and Hondas driving around in the US were mostly made in the US. If MITI was mentioned at all, it was in studies revealing that MITI had never sponsored a successful project; that industry, far from being helped by MITI, had been hindered by its meddling."

From Wikipedia: "The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (通商産業省 Tsūshō-sangyō-shō or MITI) was one of the most powerful agencies of the Government of Japan." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_International_Trade...
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