skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting sidenote: why did vehicular deaths decline by 25% between 2007 and 2009, without any real decrease in miles traveled? Odd.

My hypotheses:

Older, less-safe cars are breaking down and getting off the road. Newer cars are better able to handle higher speeds and collision avoidance maneuvers. Safety features previously found only in luxury cars are becoming available in lower-end models.

Many roads were widened and/or improved as part of the economic stimulus. More lanes and wider shoulders means more room to dodge a potential accident.

Maybe the weather has been more mild on particularly dangerous roads.
It could be worse -- Oracle could have a popular browser.
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The Noel Smith-Wenkle salary negotiation method:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/noel.html
Dude, I run a popular blog. I've had every insult imaginable thrown at me. No offense taken. I tend to answer every question in the same dry, blunt manner. ;)
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> Is it even "legal" for the US to be doing this?

From Wikipedia,

On 9 December 2011, Iran lodged a formal complaint to the United Nations Security Council over the UAV violating its airspace. Iran's U.N. ambassador stated in the letter that "My government emphasizes that this blatant and unprovoked air violation by the United States government is tantamount to an act of hostility against the Islamic Republic of Iran in clear contravention of international law, in particular, the basic tenets of the United Nations Charter."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-US_RQ-170_incident#Complai...

So, I think the short answer is that it's not illegal.

On the other hand, if Iran had captured the pilot of a manned aircraft, they would certainly charge him with espionage, like Francis Gary Powers, the downed U-2 pilot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident#Aftermath
It's better but not Siri.
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still seeing 20% IE6 usage in my Corporate clients in the UK. I have spoken with IT administrators and they give the reason of internal tools needing IE6 to run. Some kind of backwards compatibility might help but until hardware is upgraded and there is an OS upgrade from XP IE6 will be around for a while IMHO.
Google are feeding Facebook servers fake data/page content I presume.
Bootstrap Rising
How to build your own Jeopardy-playing supercomputer.
Congrats on hitting the milestone! The UI is really wicked. Props to the designers. Mind sharing the technology behind it? All in HTML5?!
We're using existing couriers - instead of creating a new courier company, we make them more efficient and give them awesome tools.
Interesting. We have a 9yo boy, and twin 2 yo girls. So we have all the lego stuff, plus lego designer on the computer, etc. The girls LOVE getting into their brother's stuff, and one of them sleeps with a toy garbage truck (she also sleeps with a bus pass, a collection of stuffed puppies, and an Olivia board book...) It may be because I'm interested in this stuff, too, because they're too young to have "girl" vs "boy" divisions, or because they're just different. It's hard to tell. I do know that when I was a girl, I loved lego, and had a huge collection of matchbox cars (also my little ponies...).
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I actual wish I could send this link to my Boss.. Spot on!!!
I blame companies instead of consumers because they market the shit out this stuff.

No one is born with an innate desire for that specific Barbie or Lego set. The companies market to you, make you feel like you want it. The companies may not be able to change the entire macro environment, but they actively profit and exploit it.

So yea, they are way more to blame than what 11 year old girls think their place in the world is. Who do you think told them?
Man, he is like the best person. I'm a huge fan of all the stuff he actually performs for the public (standup, TV shows, movie work), but I also love how he writes in situations like this. So good.
I think he was just making fun of how easy it was to capture.
Clojure's wonderful. Give it a try if you get a chance. :)
To add to that, once the java plugin is removed the browser will prompt them to install the default (icedtea) which is secure.

They will see the prompt the next time they visit a web page which uses java.
Agreed. Thank you for your post! That's basically exactly what the book I recommended says, except she goes into 200+ pages of detail about it (with much supporting evidence.)
Leaving the old Java installed means the security risk is still there, that's not a very good work around.
Just spoke my gf. She's doing grad research on children's play and is actually (partially) funded by Lego. I'll just quote her (but bear in mind that it's a soundbite - there's likely a whole PhD in boy/girl play behaviour).

"Generally speaking, boys will happily construct just for the sake of it and although girls will also build things, for them there's no point if they can't breath life into it."
Then why not simply insert the document in the "record". That is precious time being wasted.
It goes along with the "soft bigotry of low expectations". We've come to a common mental model of the world that disempowers the individual, especially in the realm of responsibilities. The state and the corporation are the sole seats of responsibility and of blame, and thus the sole seats of power.

It's more than a little disturbing to see people willingly disempower themselves in such a fashion for so little in return.
This is not new. When I was growing up with lego in the early 80s, there was a line of lego marketed at girls which were sets of lego that you made jewelery with.

Also, what nonsense is this that you won't make anything with the millenium falcon because 1000 pieces is too many? What garbage. How can lego possibly fix the issue that you refuse to make anything else with a set with lots of pieces?

Anyway, lego sets aren't atomic - buy a lego set, play with it, then mix it with your other stuff. You've just waxed lyrical about an ad where you can 'just make stuff', right after refusing to do so with a large set, with no real reason given.
I think you missed part of what I was saying.

Of course I don't have the requisite materials or fabrication equipment to build the type of inertial navigation equipment used in missiles.

My point was that, if the article is to be believed, and RQ-170 relies completely on GPS and gyros, then I have the stuff needed to build its guidance system.

(The point here being that of course I don't, and of course it's likely more complicated than a GPS, so the article is probably incorrect)
It is not 1923.
Have you ever bought a plane ticket in Europe or Australia? They offer free transactions that are not credit-card based. It's fairly common to have an extra fee in a lot of non-US online and off-line stores.
Oh good. I can make drones self destruct with a gps spoofer.
"Class warfare"? Seriously? This is a phone review.

Topolsky's point is that Sigeler's piece isn't just a phone review.

As technology becomes affordable to more income levels, people need to make sure they frame the debate correctly. I often hear people talk about those "too cheap to buy an iPad," not considering that the $300 difference between an iPad and a Kindle Fire represents two weeks of groceries for a family of four. [0]

This is similar to the occasional self-aggrandizement coming from white sports journalists covering black athletes, like the "I pay your salary so you'd better play hard every game!" meme that's halfway to plantation dialogue.

It's all about sports and phones until it isn't anymore.

[0] And let's not even discuss the hypothetical "why are they even buying tablets?!" counterargument, which is fraught with problems.
Hey veidr, Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter (cold fusion... made me snort baba ganoush out my nose) - update your profile with further information, dagnammit!
could you expand on why you think mozilla's engineering practices suck ?
I have sometimes had a similar feeling, but I have too little competence to be a judge of that.
This only works if the person who sees the notification is actually in a position to make a conscious decision on the risk of leaving it installed, and possesses the technical knowledge required to manually install it.
Yes, I know, I was none too happy about it in 1998, either - but I didn't know about the ten-day mandatory waiting period. Also, we didn't have YouTube yet or video blogs yet, so the issue of direct interference with free speech was not nearly so dire.
no need to sort by a non existing key, all you need is that the BY pattern does not contain an asterisk, so it is constant, that means all the elements have the same value for sorting, and Redis knows that it can skip it and use the List natural ordering.

It is interesting that you can ask for single elements of an hash, like in: GET object:*->field

With 2.6 and scripting this kind of optimizations will become the rule.
It won't get remixed because at $140 from Amazon, the author will impose adult values upon the way in which the child uses it. As he notes, he no longer sees it as a toy but as a model kit...and the use - or rather non-use will reflect his view of it as a collectable rather than a bunch of parts.

In all fairness, I went through some of the same thing before I came to a more sensible position - now everything gets remixed to my child's content. They aren't mine after all.

I played with Legos in the era of the ad, and I was completely blown away the first time I went shopping for Legos with my child. They are just orders of magnitude better due to the massive increases in diversity of pieces and far more thoughtful assembly of sets.

Indeed, I have built far more stuff as an adult than I ever did as a child - and my child has had far more entertainment from Legos than I ever did despite the massive competition from Cable TV and console games as well as far more time spent reading and completing homework.

BTW, the author's complaints about tie ins is a bit ironic given his tradition of buying Advent sets.
Why not just EMP it to crash it and collect it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compres...
Eh, they don't make 'me like they used to, right? I hardly think LEGO is promoting gender stereotypes. The new girl products and what they sell to boys aren't the problem but a symptom of a larger disease. Gender stereotypes are created within cultures and companies like LEGO don't really have an agenda like people would try to have us think. Instead they market what sells. The culture at large has put boys and girls into their respective roles and companies simply ride the trends. If boys were supposed to be in flowers and wear underwear on their heads then they'd make little Lego flower kits that came with little Lego men with underwear as hats. Companies have to look out for their share holders. If gender stereotypes are the norm then that's what they'll sell. If we, as a culture, change those stereotypes the companies will follow. It's great to be able to commend a company for taking the lead on such issues but we can hardly expect it. That change has to come from families first.
I don't get it. With a budget of millions for these UAVs was it so hard to fit the thing with an IRS unit, or even an older INS unit to augment the GPS? Then one could add a single if statement checking if the GPS location has diverged greatly from where it was in the last NMEA statement?

What am I missing here???
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Ya know, as a father of a 7yo boy and a 9yo girl who together have put in about 40 hours of lego building in the last week alone, using lego from my childhood as well as a dozen kits purchased in the last 5 years or so, this simply isn't true.

Its not true that the pieces will only ever fit in one way.

The reality, I've come to realize after playing with these things quite a lot recently, is that they're simply 'higher-resolution'.

For instance, I have watched this brick (from a Star Wars ship)

http://cosmicbricks.ecrater.com/p/11804345/lego-dark-bluish-...

become variously, a foot, an ear, a beak, part of a dragon's wing, part of a temple, part of half a dozen spaceships of completely bespoke design, part of some sort of epic death dealing mechanized tank/robot thing, and probably several more models where I didn't even notice it.

Whereas I had to be content with "8-bit" round shapes with my old Lego brick pieces, my children and I are able to produce models with much higher resolution - and that're pretty satisfying.

My kids play with these "model" kits by building them as per the instructions, learning a few new construction techniques in the process, playing with the finished model for a day or two, then tearing them apart and applying any new techniques they discovered into their constantly evolving storyline.

Just like Dad did... does...
Because you're in technology. There are a number of organizations dedicated to increasing the number of men in nursing and teaching.
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Side note but the ultimate evil present for parents of small kids is to buy the kid a Playmobil Castle for Christmas - http://www.amazon.com/Lion-Knights-Castle-by-Playmobil/dp/B0...

As a parent that spent over 16 hours assembling one last Christmas then watching it disintegrate again, the "joy" this gift brings cannot be described. A great present if you have a brother or sister with kids you feel compelled to annoy.
"Practical value"? How does any of this stuff have any "practical value"? Gruber has one of the most popular tech-related sites on the internet, and a huge readership that overlaps with The Verge's. Seems relevant to me.
I thought that the "unencrypted data streams" was video channel, not the control channel. Is that not true?
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People abbreviate Christmas as Xmas. I feel that, for consistency, it should be Xian, rather than Xtian, but Xtian seems to be the standard.

Incidentally, I enjoy that you used the slur "Christain." alt.atheism?
Why file a lawsuit? Takedowns issued by regexp bots are essentially cost-free.
Facebook Launches Timeline .... Finally
I've been using Parallels for Mac (last year's version). If you just bump up the video RAM to like 8MB you'll get more options for display sizes. I'll upgrade to version 7 ... just haven't had the time lately.
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"Scandal"? Really?
Wait, wasn't one of the main benefits of cloud hosting that we don't have to manage it ourselves? Isn't this just hosting your own server?
It may be propaganda, but it also has some plain technical claims that may be independently verifiable.
I'm an equal-opportunity lego distributor. Girls as well as Boys get just one kind of toy from me: Lego. Duplo for the urchins, 'regular' for 4 to 8's and technic for the older ones. Never seen a kid turn it down, whatever age or gender. For a lark I gave a bunch of it to some adults, claiming that I'd forgotten their birth dates. They ended up being at least as happy as the kids.

I've never given any 'themed' lego, just the plain stuff, no minifigs or other non constructive bits.

Lego is what made me see the power of building using re-usable blocks, the best possible primer for becoming a programmer that I am aware of outside of maths (and you typically don't start math beyond counting when you're a toddler).
Well I "disagree" with "you". There's a lot at stake, depending on the fate of mobile web and computer interfaces in general, and privacy issues as well.
Hmm. If I'd been able to use this for margin on mtgox a few months back...
Anonymous lists the names of Portman's children in the attack.

I don't have much problem with the "attack," which mainly lists Portman's public information.

But his children are innocents and vulnerable, and it's beyond the pale to involve them. People with an interest in this issue are not the only people who read the web. Sometimes knowing a name is all you need to social engineer a crime.

Don't do this, it's wrong.
Because this is "Hacker" news so there is a very strong bias towards science and engineering. I imagine it might be different on a Nursing forum, but I've never seen one so I don't actually know.
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All are examples of why one might defend their preference, which isn't the issue. I quoted the issue; why one would allow their preference to "dictate how we think about and relate to other people."
Excellent catch, and linkage. Thanks.
> it's mostly strange that nobody else has it

It looks like it is the same as clojure's doto macro:

http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/doto

And it is strange more languages don't have it.
Unique pieces are great for remixing once one stops imposing the idea of sets upon Legos. If they don't all wind up intermingled, an adult is probably in charge.
It is suprising that many americans, for the lack of a better term, seem to be "butthurt" over this event.

Look at this news on reddit for example, first it was ridiculed, and speculation was high that it might have been a crash or accident, that the Iranians had luck, and that it in fact never happened, just propaganda. Then the Iranians showed it, and many comments said "its old tech any way". Why the butthurtness?

And now, "the takeover wasnt so high tech anyway".
Because when women dominate the workplace, it's "The End of Men" (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-...) and reason for smug, thinly-veiled gloating. Also, men can't be teachers because we're all pedophiles.
Why do we need more girl scientists and geeks? I'll never get that. Will having more women in roles traditionally held by men somehow make the world better? Will the woman scientist have a better chance at curing cancer? Will the woman construction worker lay better brick?

I just don't get it. It seems like there's a subset of women who are into science and are smart and are going after or currently holding roles that are traditionally held by or usually dominated by men who for some reason want every other woman to be into the same things because somehow it's for the betterment of the world. If women and men really are equal (and I can't and won't say women are any less capable) then a woman doing "man work" shouldn't produce any different result.
That does not seem plausible. But there is the possibility that this is a clever ploy to give erroneous technology to Russian and China...
Defending your preference is not the same as letting your preference "dictate how we think about and relate to other people."
Perhaps, but people who make their living as writers, should be more of aware of the power and drawbacks of analogies they use.
So here's a news story about twin boys, one of whom decided he'd rather be a girl. Pretty much essentially the same "nurture". Still want to blame society when the girl decides she wants to wear pretty dresses? I think that's a hard sell.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/12/11/led-child-who-si...
Like in the startup world, it is all about the team. Who now has a better team than Apple? They've demonstrated they can make good decisions, grow revenue, etc., better than anyone else.

That's why I invest in Apple. A great team does great things. Dediu's point that the market as a whole has consistently underestimated the company is well made.
'with' (Pascal, MS Visual Basic, possibly others) is somewhat equivalent (it lacks the ability to return self) but more explicit:

c := LeftAsAnExerciseForTheReader();
with c do
begin
Add(3);
Add(4);
Add(5);
Add(6);
end;
Indeed. It seems to me that even if Iran fails to get much useful out of it, there'll be buyers queuing up for it ready to pay anything.
I expected people would take issue with it. Unfortunately some people really really want it to be the case that girls and boys are only different because of their environment.

Given the way evolution works, doesn't that seem ridiculously unlikely?

Given the way we evolved to have clearly defined roles, and how we have obvious physical differences to enable that, doesn't it seem pretty obvious that we evolved our brain power differently also? eg men lots of brain power for spacial awareness for hunting etc.... women caring nuturing, far more brain power for language, communication etc

The other funny thing is that it's usually the same set of people who firmly believe that you are born homosexual, and that you can't be made homosexual by your upbringing. They believe sexual orientation to be biological. But at the same time claim that being 'girl' or 'boy' is something that you've been taught by culture??
Ahh! I had no clue! Awesome you're doing that... would love to use you when you come to Vancouver, Canada.
I've been hinting to the wife that for Christmas I want an extra 4 hours every day to get stuff done. :)
I'd like to make a point that applies to some (but by no means all) of the comments above. Outrage isn't a very useful emotion. It's become the default emotion for things like this because politicians like to keep people in a state of frothy indignation. That's carried over to the rest of our culture but it's not a good thing.

Resolve is a much better emotion than outrage. What can I do to encourage better behavior? Buying good LEGO sets as presents for children and evangelizing about LEGO to friends spring immediately to mind. Or maybe getting involved with the 3D printing movement.

In summary, I'm suspicious that alternating between "intellectual curiosity" and "resolving to take action" is a much better way of reading articles on the internet than the alternate strategy of alternating intellectual curiosity and outrage.
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The whole point of that provision in the DMCA was that filing a lawsuit to get a judge to order something to be taken down takes time. If that takes two or three days to happen the damage can already be done by that point if the item in question is allowed to continue being hosted for all of that time.

The problem with the solution (DMCA) is that it also removes the monetary burden of filing a lawsuit (making it very low-risk to just file thousands of these things off per day, never intending to ever followup with a lawsuit) and the sanity filter (the judge).
It's really sad, but it wasn't that long ago that Lego was in deep financial trouble with horrible sales. Geeks can say what they want, but it seems to have worked out for Lego pretty well

On the bright side, you can make your own custom Lego set: http://designbyme.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx

There's more time and money involved but if it's really important to people, if there's a will there's a way.
Imagine if you will that I release a phone that everyone in the world unanimously decided had a more responsive and beautiful UI than iOS, but only a battery life of 20 minutes. Would MG and every other person "whom the little details like UI responsiveness are supremely important" stand in line for weeks to get? Of course not.

Decisions as simple as "What phone will I buy" are an insanely complicated calculus of thousands of micro-decisions and trade offs.

People like MG like to pretend that they have themselves all figured out, and THE reason that the iPhone is superior for him is "the little things," or they buy Android because "its an open platform."

Its all bunk, they bought it because, hey the phone does what they need it to, and for some damn reason that particular configuration of options happened to strike a chord with them.
What would you rather be the case then? Let's say Apple don't restrict what you can do on your device, what does that look like? What do you think Apple should do differently, specifically?
The creator series _is_ very awesome. it's the only kind we buy for our girl.
Don't forget industrial and highly secure environments.