skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cited doc doesn't take into account the deep breathing that bicyclists do, leading the pollutants deeper into the lungs. So yes, there may be more in the car, but I'd argue it's doing far more damage to the cyclist. The regular coughing fits many suffer (Similar to smokers) attest to that.
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That was nice of him to do. And I doubt, after the reaction he got, that he'd do it again any time soon.
Haskell demonstrates the difference between theory and practice.

What does it matter if an arbitrary language X is beautiful in theory if nobody uses it in practice because they don't comprehend it?

Consider all those theoretically beautiful languages: APL, Ada, Lisp, Haskell, OCaml, ... How many developers use them? I think less than 1 percent in summary. Why?

Because syntax really matters. For this reason imperative languages like C++, Java, Python, Perl, Javascript, even PHP are so successfull.

As a long experienced programmer I discovered that (at least for me) the best technique is not to be fixed on one language but to use metaprogramming. That means, use your current favorite language (or create your own DSL) and compile it to the platforms/languages of choice.

My current recommendation: shenlanguage.org
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I appreciate that you're sharing your perspective here, but we see this about 180 degrees differently. This, for instance -

> When you wrote that piece you were just being silly. After truly grokking why it was a stupid piece

Actually, I stand by every point I wrote in that piece and the followup - the problem was in involving another person without clearing it with them, which was out of line.

But all the points stand and no malice was intended. Beyond that, I explicitly asked by email if he wanted it deleted - no asking or begging required.

> So, don't be a jerk, take it down. Leaving it up doesn't diminish Patrick in any way, but it sure diminishes you.

Reasonable minds can disagree. I stand by all the points in that post, apologized for the impoliteness of involving someone else before it clearing it with them, but if you're trying to honestly explore controversial ideas, you simply can't just delete things you stand by because an unrelated third party thinks it should be done.

In any event, cheers for sharing your perspective - we're in about 180 degree philosophical disagreement here, but you did make some good points worth thinking about.
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Where's the original page ? Only the 3 variations are presented...
Well they ain't gonna use or promote C# are they?
Would love to go but I:m going to be hitting a deadline for an Android app.

Next time, hopefully.
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Actually no one really cares what your host file looks like.
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Yes, using mod_rewrite is what I've been doing for years. My question was on the second situation - how do you let Apache execute the controller directly?
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Did you control for the fact that the 'Try demo' button is red and the 'Buy now' button is blue? I'm sure I've read about A/B test studies (probably on the VWO blog itself), which showed red buttons had higher clickthrough rates than other colours, which could be a big confounding factor.
Most CEOs don't think long-term. By the time long-term arrives, they'll have moved on to other companies.

They would probably prefer government programs to let those places buy new "modern" computers right now.
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That was amazing. You know its a joke.. but the production value is so high your can't help but be really creeped out by it. I have removed every app which I have signed up to from accessing my Facebook account. I have also bolted my front door.

shivers
I own a popular domain - for China. What to do?
I registered a .com domain 12 years ago which is a popular, two-word chinese expression. I have used it for various projects (in english) but I now want to make the best use of this domain which has nothing but an index page. It gets 300 uniques a month, 90% from China and essentially all direct traffic, so nothing from search engines.

Given the issues with internet in China, I am avoiding anything with user-generated content that could get me in trouble with censors. I have two ideas right now that I am considering but I was hoping for input from the HN crowd. I am looking for an idea that could generate real money on an ongoing basis so adsense or content farming is not an option.

P.S. I have access to mandarin-speaking web designers and freelancers.

Thank you.
Hmm, tried and the page hung. Will try again later.
It could replace pneumatic tube systems for mail. Not that these are still in much use today, except hospitals.
I think we should fear Microsoft lowering OEM licensing prices for manufacturers who remove the option to disable secure boot. They'll probably justify that by claiming it will help reduce piracy and support costs and say that it helps bring computers to more people.
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I remember Webmin from years back. The code was very badly written Perl, full of security holes, not abstracted per distribution in any useful way, and quite difficult to read.

Anyone have any experience of what the code is like nowadays?
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I'm quite interested. Mostly because I use similar Facebook blocking techniques so its nice to know what others do too.
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You could always use electromagnets.
It's stopped with a finger. Watch carefully on the left side, frame by frame.
One of the problems with speaking for everybody on a forum with 10's of thousands of active users is that invariably you don't.
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You HAVE to take full control of your 'lively hood'. The Occupy hood in London is getting pretty lively also.
The point is that a whole class of things that you would have to write unit tests for, you get "for free" with strong typing, and for a lot of the others, there's QuickCheck. Or as the old saying goes, why get a dog and bark yourself?
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Performance v. weight with the Macbook Air is currently easy.

The real issue is battery life/screen size (on the move) v. weight.

The top end 13" and 11" Airbooks both upgrade via BTO to a dual core i7 clocked at 1.8GHz, with 4Gb of RAM/256Gb SSD. The difference is in screen size and battery life (the 13" model has more of both) and weight (the 11" wins here, by 300 grams).

If you're out of the office and working on the laptop a lot, or don't use an external monitor, I'd go for the 13" model (unless weight and the ability to work in very cramped spaces are an overriding priority).

If you're in the office a lot with laptop plugged into a desktop monitor, or if you don't do much work outside the office (just need the laptop to check email/web/social networks), then the 11" model wins.

But they seem to be a tie on performance, which makes life a little easier than when they first launched (the 11" was, even maxed out, slower than the 13").
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Just read through the whole interview. Wow. Had no idea he did all that. That is just amazing.
Over the past couple of years I've noticed that when I pass someone driving erratically or abnormally slow, they are more often than not futzing with their phone (texting or talking). This is the kind of driving that ten years ago I would have attributed to drunkenness.

It's a serious factor in my desire to move somewhere where I don't need a car to get around.
From the article:And yet, we know today that it’s just not true. Biology is that things that makes you you. Genetics. Neurochemistry. There is no “mind” and “brain” — there’s just the brain.

This is speculation, albeit compatible with that of many scientists. We have no proof that mind/brain are the same thing, we have correlations between brain activity and subjective self reports, but these do not necessarily imply causation.

It annoys me when people assign extremely high probabilities to matters about which we, as a species, have very little understanding (even if I may agree with the particular viewpoint expressed).
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In the same position. Had the new Walking Dead season playing on the TV in the background. Great, great combination.
Would you agree at least that, even if there is a mind, that it requires a brain in order to manifest itself, such that "mind-minus-brain" makes no sense at all?
1. Stick non-alpha characters in the middle of words. Not 31337 substitutions; additions. Now your dictionary word isn't a dictionary word anymore.

2. Use the first letter of each word in a phrase. Again, now it's easy to remember but not a dictionary word.

3. Find a way to customize the password for each site in such a way that you can remember the pattern. Use letters from the stock symbol, the dominant color, the domain name, or some other word you associate with that site. Boom - now your password is unique per site.
But what about my iPhone 4S camera ? Please someone offer me comparison [jokes] :)
Actually, I do exactly this, and I do remember them all correctly. The key is to be consistent about WHAT you mix in from the site. I also use 1Password, but it's frankly a pain on the iPhone (there's no good way for them to integrate with Mobile Safari), and it's handy to be able to use my passwords on others' computers without having to look them up.
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"selling" them on the demo version is not the same as selling the product out (which brings in direct cash in the bank and is the effective "end game").

You need to multiply the demo download conversion with the number who go ahead and make a purchase after trying said demo.

The fact that this was not done brings questions upon the quality of methodology of visualwebsitreoptimiser. Especially when they put out blog posts pimping the results. Up to this point I've been relatively happy with their work and contributions to the A/B field. Which makes this dodgy conclusion a bit of a shame really.
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Wow cool thanks for the link. Just installed it.
The issue is not that bicycling is hazardous; the issue is that drivers are inattentive.

Here in the UK, around 90% of road traffic accidents are attributable to driver error.

We badly need to reach the era of self-driving cars, so that folks who'd rather be checking their email can do so without endangering the rest of us, and so that cyclists can ride the highways safely again (or at least as safely as they did prior to 1910 or thereabouts).
But not only that - we should also apply pressure on the government because this is an anti-competitive move endorsed by a convicted monopoly abuser.
Notwithstanding the right and wrong of this case, if Patrick Webster had done all his investigation anonymously, e.g. through Tor, and expressed his findings to First State Super in a way that does not imply that he actually downloaded anything, I wonder whether it would have put him in a better position.

Even without investigating anonymously, if he had just described the security vulnerability without saying what he actually did, would he be legally vulnerable?

I find it ironic that in helping this company with their IT vulnerability, he possibly took on himself a legal vulnerability.
Awesome. The digital imaging space keeps moving so fast due to the heated competition between Canon and Nikon. I upgraded to a 7D from my old 40D this year and it feels like there are way more than two years' worth of improvements in there.
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Is it actually funny or surprising to you, given your hosts configuration, or did you just want to mention it?
I just think this point tends to be overlooked when talking about "social" websites, almost like it was not polite to point out where these businesses make their money.

Absolutely. That's the dishonest part about this conversation. G+ and FB make more money if you use your real name. Asking whether they are right or wrong about identity is allowing them to keep the conversation one step away from where it should be. G+ and FB use you real name. Fine. Here's the conversations that need to follow: 1) To what extent can they leverage that for profit? 2) Is this leading us to an internet that is non-anonymous by default, and do we want that?

Poole is right, but he's really just talking strategy. I do agree that G+ and FB are creating a vacuum to be filled with anonymous social services.
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For this to work, you'd need a trusted connection between the fob and the server. So this reduces down to relying on a CA system, which first of all isn't open, and second we now know works very poorly. Heck and on the USB device you wouldn't even have a secure way to able to update the CA store to remove bad actors.
I thought one of the big lessons of OpenID is that the non-technical world thinks FQDNs are for web sites (or something you type into Google!) and user@host is for identity? I still have trouble explaining that jay@jay.fm is my entire e-mail address, and that there is no .com at the end of it.

I think there was a point where everybody wanted to blog, and thus might have an URL that they considered "me", but that's gone away with Twitter and Facebook. Come to think of it, many people have a Facebook claimed URL, but I've never typed or clicked one, and I don't even know my own.
My thoughts exactly. What is the normal variance of per-day numbers of accidents in both cities?

The story shares a lot with the alleged Blackout Baby Boom, which turned out to be utter bollocks: http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.asp
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Surprising, because I'd totally forgotten about it and really wanted to see what this was all about (after reading some of the comments here).

So I thought to myself 'ok, this once' knowing I'd be sticking my head out. It took me a minute or two to realize the cause and I thought that was a nice side-effect of solving this at the DNS layer, even when you're momentarily stupid this will still create enough of a barrier that you'll stop to think a bit longer.

I didn't know about the ghostery extension, so thanks to the person that posted that, that's another good solution.

FB has had its use for me (it found a bunch of long lost people), I haven't been back since.
Container-induced information analysis (like jpeg artefacts) can indeed bring a lot of information about manipulated areas.
The average dude mightnot care yet, but s/he will care in the future.
A few years ago it was common practice to participate in mailing lists, forums, etc. using your real name. Then people gradual learned that that had consequences and nowadays nobody really does it.
The same goes for posting pictures of you and/or friends and family on an open webpage, nobody does that anymore because people learned the potential problems with doing that.

People haven't put facebook and G+ through the same judgement as they have put the internet in general. They still look at it as a place were they can conveniently post personal information. But eventually they will.

An interesting phenomenon occurs among adult people that go through a serious relationship break up. Most go back to their private life and abandon their facebook activity for obvious reasons. So I would say, people will eventually care.
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What were you really hoping to accomplish by posting something this despicable?
Just as a counter to your assertions - the code base I work on at work has its own memory allocation in it. It isn't the same as malloc, because all memory is allocated up front (and done by the caller, not the callee). There are no gaps in the memory (aside from those for aligning things nicely) and there is not really any way that you could make the memory usage any better in these regards (e.g. it is dense, and there is zero overhead after initialisation).

Garbage collected languages prevent this sort of thing from working, because they force overhead, and even though they might be able to do better than a lazy programmer, a person who cares about what they are doing will do ok.
Reminds me of a great quote by Benjamin Franklin:

"The rapid progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born too soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labour and double its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. O that moral science were in as fair a way of improvement, that men would cease to be wolves to one another, and that human beings would at length learn what they now improperly call humanity!"

-- Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Priestly (8 Feb 1780), quoted in "How Mumbo Jumbo conquered the World" by Francis Wheen
Right, and corporate IT managers want interfaces like Metro which cannot be turned off and require touch to be used effectively.
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And the easier sites become to maintain.

Which is easier, maintaining rounded corners applied via CSS3, the old-school sliding doors, or JS? See also: text shadow, and box-shadow.
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With that ISO range, they've effectively eliminated the need for flash on 80%+ of photographs. Obviously, you'd still want flash for fill and studio situations, but sports photographers, and everyone else, even (maybe) concert photographers, can probably get away without! Amazing.
For me, this was rendered hilarious by some of the images people have tagged me in on Facebook that don't actually have me in them. Seeing the serial killer erotically stroke a picture of a T-Pain coffee mug is rather amusing.

That being said, is there any way I can be sure besides the disclaimer that this isn't actually saving/using my personal data outside of the video? I guess that's part of the point, that I really can't, though.
Some better info here:
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I don't think so (I don't know for sure). My logic says no, though.

Groupon always allows you to redeem an expired voucher for the purchased value (e.g., $10 for $20, you can always get your $10 in credit from the merchant). I think the merchant must be able to keep the purchased portion of it or they'd be out a lot of cash over time if their Groupon was a particularly popular one.
> Canon has also eliminated the 4GB clip limit, though individual clips are limited to 29:59, in order to avoid European tax rates affecting HD cameras that can capture single HD video clips longer than 30 minutes

What is that all about? Why a special tax rate? Can't the camera just save 29:59 clips and then stitch them together...
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Most teens and pre-teens I know (by living with a teen brother) use Hotmail. I've seen chain letters with hundreds of emails (yes, they still happen) and there's hardly a @gmail.com in sight.
Circles only solve part of the problem: What you publish can always be reshared and then linked to your (real) name. And of course you have to use your real name to start with.

With multiple identities, on the other hand, I could have my real identity, with my real name, and then - for example - my hacker identity, or my secretly gay identity or whatever. With the guarantee that for other users there is absolutely no way to connect the dots if I don't want that myself, but with an easy to use interface that allows me to manage them all as seamlessly as possible.

I personally wouldn't mind if the provider was able to connect the dots and use that information for targeted advertising - as long as it doesn't sell my identity to the advertisers, only the target. And this could become a real differentiator from FB.
You might get some advice if you put up the domain name--or at least an English translation. The only real relevant discussion would if your particular domain name lends itself to any particular business b/c 300 uniques not a massive number of unique direct visitors.

Any reason not to share the domain?
Your opinion does not equate to everyone's opinion. I'm quite interested in his hosts file (because of blocking like buttons).