skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US Fatalities per 100K per year: Fishing and related workers: 116 or 0.116%; Logging workers: 91.9; Aircraft pilots and flight engineers: 70.6; Farmers and ranchers: 41.4; Coal mining: 38.9; Roofers: 32.4; Refuse and recyclable material collectors: 22.8; Driver/sales workers and truck drivers: 21.8; Police and sheriff's patrol officers: 18.0; Electrical power-line installers and repairers: 15.6.

Those are "normal" jobs.

High-altitude mountaineering: "23 deaths among 535 mountaineers beween 1968 and 1987", which is 4% or 214/100K per year. Roughly 450 people have flown into space or, like Challenger, tried to. Some 34+ have died. That's 7.5% (over the 5% you say is "politically unfeasible for NASA"), and scales to 151/100K per year.

About 375 American soldiers have died per year for the last few years in Afghanistan, out of 43,000 in the country. That's about 870/100K per year.
I have read through quite a bit of their plans for mining asteroids, such as they have publicly released anyway. Are you suggesting that they are lying for short term gain?

Surely that kind of approach would backfire quite badly on them as it would be fairly obvious whether they are bullshitting or not in less than three years.
You can use Ruby, Python, Perl and Tcl.
>> "The one property I really love about UTF8 is that you get a free consistency check as not every arbitrary byte sequence is a valid UTF8 string."

>You don't get this at all using UTF-8. You only get it if you attempt to decode the string which even something like strlen doesn't do.

I wasn't talking about using strlen (aside of when I was jokingly talking about US-UTF8 where I've seen instances of strlen() being used against UTF-8 strings). I was talking of using library functions designed to handle UTF-8 encoded character data (which strlen() and friends are not).

What I meant with "free consistency check" was that any library function that is designed to deal with UTF-8 data is by default put into a position where it can quite safely determine whether the input data given to it is in fact in UTF-8 or not.

This is not true for any other character encoding I know of (I don't know about the legacy 2-byte Asian encodings at all).

In legacy 8bit character sets, there's nothing you can do to check whether you have been lied to aside of analyzing the content, trying to guess the language and map that to the occurrence of characters in the character set you have been told the string is in (pretty much unfeasible).

With UTF-16 you can at least use some heuristics if you are dealing with common english texts (every second byte would be 0), but you can't be sure - especially not when the text consists of primarily non-ASCII text.

Only with UTF-8 you can take one look at input data and determine with quite a bit of confidence whether the data you have just been handed is in fact in UTF-8 or not (it might still be pure ASCII, but that still qualifies as UTF-8).

If you ever get lied to and somebody tries to feed you ISO-8859-1 claiming it to be UTF-8 (happens all the f'ing time to me), then any library or application designed to deal with UTF-8 can immediately detect this and blow up before you store that data without any way to ever find out what encoding it would have been in.
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Also most movie soundtracks are written "for hire", and some of them are pretty successful too.
The genius leap (from which special relativity is derived) is the postulate that it's constant for regardless of the state of motion. The older research mentions nothing of the sort.
How do I get a refund on my Arch setup? Seriously, WebGL talks to the driver almost directly. All it takes is a browser/driver bug and the whole display stack goes down, possibly bringing the OS with it.
Protip (sorry for using the term), stop using the titlebar to move Windows. I feel physically encumbered when using Windows or OS X because I can't Alt+Drag windows around. It will make you so much faster because you just hold Alt and click and drag. No more searching for that tiny little microscopic bit of window to drag. (For example, Chrome on OS X has almost NO hit space to drag the window). I guess this post is sorta useless if you don't use Linux, but take it for what it's worth I guess.
Compressing logs that are being written to? Never heard of that...
You mean the one with a floppy disk (honest question: I'm not even remotely a Office Live user)?
I use the method on http://www.twitterdoctors.net/ and more than 70% of my followers are now doctors, which is useful for the occasions I do tweet about new features and stuff related to my healthcare start-up.

For those interested, I am in the process of re-writing the site (dev version at http://www.twitterdoctors.com/) – to automate the process, try the wizard out, it uses twitter's new event listeners.
my thoughts exactly.. Wasn't most of what we today see as great works of classical music paid for by the church or a king?

His statement is simply false..
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It's hard to see kickstarter as the same type of bubble we saw in real estate or web 1.0. That type of bubble is driven by investor group think leading to absurd valuations.

Kickstarter is based on purchases (or donations), not investments. In other words, I don't think people are paying irrational amounts for your comic book because Kickstarter is so hot right now.

Now, if the pebble watch I just bought turns out to be a POS, I'm probably going to be a lot less likely to buy other new untested products on Kickstarter. So, a few high profile flameouts could damper the whole marketplace, but I don't think could lead to value crushing collapse like when a bubble bursts.

Good luck with your comics!
Fantastic. I've been trying to pinpoint the cause of it since aeons. It's absolutely dreadful in awesome wm and at some point I laid the blame on (cairo-)XCB, or some Xft bug, but it cropped back too, only less often, under gnome/xfce.
Surely the comparisons should be more in line with mortality rate of pursuits such as Arctic exploration, rather than those of policing a largely sedentry population.
Thanks guys, I live in Houston (in UH's entrepreneurship program and teaching myself to code) now so Austin is one of the places I'm really considering, but I am from Denver so boulder too is appealing. What do you all think about Boise? I hear that it's like Austin ten years ago, and click bank and some other big guys are based out of there. I've got one year until graduating so the clock is beginning to tick!
Nice work:)

You could add the name of the artist/melody...
Likeware - like it to use it.

Tweetware - tweet about it to use.

Referware - refer friends emails to use the app.

Reviewware - write an app store review to upgrade to pro version of the app.

And so on....
Don't they have a big start up grant thing as well no?
Thanks for the hard work, but the only person that should decide what is or not in my .vim folder and my .vimrc is me.

Also the name doesn't seem very good to me : "vimifying" something means that you make something (a browser, a PDF viewer, whatever that is "non-Vim-like") more "Vim-like". Customizing the hell out of Vim is quite the opposite.
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Good luck; my attempt on this story got flagged in seconds. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3893103
Are those video download links dead, or maybe just region-locked? Silverlight works fine, but they don't.

EDIT: Never mind, i can get them via my offshore VPS.
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I think the entire idea of "packages" is fundamentally broken on some level. The problem is that defining yourself in terms of your dependencies is a a very fragile position to be in.

And its basically not necessary -- you can just include your dependencies with your program. Statically link it and make a fat binary. The whole notion of packages seems like it's optimizing for hard drive space and bandwidth, which is rather silly when you consider that there's an abundance of both.

I'd rather software just come as self-contained as possible and avoid the entire packaging system altogether. If there's duplication and a waste of resources so be it.
You 'claim copyright', eh?

http://ask.yahoo.com/20041213.html
In Europe we don't even know what Kickstarter is all about, unless we google for it...

I just found out about it by reading American blogs.
I wonder if this will make angels worry, the same way that angels made VCs worry. And if so, I wonder if we'll be seeing better terms for future founders from the old system investors.
As a user, the best is that each program is self contained.

There are a few issues with code duplication, but at least it never breaks.
I think that's too narrow, it should be the "learning to play a musical instrument" of the geek world. With music theory overlapping Computer Science theory, and with various technical skills (mixing, rigging, mastering) corresponding to domain knowledge in various fields.

So these skills would be a prerequisite for doing anything that has to do with computers and computation. Definitely not overrated.
It's a shame the video is too low res to actually read the code!
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Yes it does, as any OO language does.

This is not only about data member access. It also applies to adding methods on the base class that change the behavior of existing methods in already declared subclasses.

Take a cup of coffee and read this famous paper about the issue,

http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~emil/Publications_files/Mikhajlo...
Thats a limitation of the embedded player, if you go direct to youTube you can bump it to 1080p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYrbc-g6R-U

Edit: Seems you can actually bump to 1080p in the embedded player also, my mistake.
Programmers: you should be founding not applying. Don't waste your time on other people's ideas. Bag groceries if you have to. As an employee you will probably get nothing or some small token amount if the company is sold.
It's spelled "Gmail", lowercase 'm'. Source: the Gmail blog, http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
Unless I'm missing something, Kickstarter sure seems like the closest thing I've seen to a tool that enables closer-to-perfect price discrimination.
I'm (thankfully) out of date on Facebook marketing tactics, but gating content behind Likes and Invited Friend Counts is standard - there are even plenty of sweepstakes to win just for consenting to being shown a like button. Generally speaking, the content behind these gates is a single payoff - a little nibble of digital content. Companies love that trade for ears to promote content to, "like" being a friendly euphemism for "subscribe" and all.

I'm sure it's been tried, but it might be interesting to check Like/Follow persistence in exchange for long-term access to content and services. "Have a twitter account following ours? You're in!"
One of his tabs is http://nederland.fm
This is more about HTML/CSS/jQuery coding than about Rails. Nevertheless, insightful video in a typical development process.
I can bump it up in the embedded player... It also helps to enable fullscreen on the player.
I think what you mean is that GMail requires you to use https for their web interface.

gmail requires STARTTLS (or ssmtp) when an authenticated user submits outbound mail to them via SMTP (http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...), which is what he may have been mis-remembering. But, yes, it is incorrect that all mail sent to gmail.com addresses is TLS encrypted.
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I had the same problem and it turned out that if you block Facebook and/or Twitter you will break things.
If you're using a client your mail is probably delivered to a local smtp server, might bounce around for a while, and is then delivered to gmail server. You don't know that the last step uses ssl/tsl. Even if it does, what about the 3 other servers it touched? Was it logged somewhere? Did the anti-spam store it? Was it even removed from the spool at all?

My point is, email was not designed to be "secure" (i.e., secret), and is not though that way. Therefore ppl do not work very hard to secure email, and one little band-aid doesn't magically make the whole system "secure".

Your mail could turn up in a log file 5 years from now.
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There is one really important shared aspect: the point at which all the members of the band/startup decide to go for it - make a serious commitment.
Github link, site's running slow: https://github.com/DCPUTeam/DCPUToolchain
I just want to punch the camera man to death!
put that damn camera on a table! hang it from ceiling! nail it to the opposite wall! pleaseeee!!!
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Typical, install instructions are several times more effort in Windows (not to mention Cygwin and having to restart your computer to play nice with VS). Is it not possible to get this working using MSYS and Mingw32?
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thanks for your reply. that's what it says: Typebased 2.3.1 Framework 2.7.22
I'm doing something similar with all my personal projects, but not quite a live video, more a time lapse style so a picture every 30 seconds. It's not for overcoming procrastination for myself, but to focus me & stop me instinctively browsing my regular sites when a difficult section arises.

It's also prompting me to become more efficient as I know when the project is finished & the video compiled it will be watched by my peers who will hopefully provide some insightful feedback!
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My considered opinion (from the industry) is that its really shocking how under-invested-in the drivers are.

If a fraction of the effort that went into making the card went into making the drivers and maintaining and fixing them, we'd all be massively better off.
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The Duff's Device of browsers? :)
Chances are, you're US based but if European assistance is an option then I sincerely suggest you check out http://startuppoker.co.uk/

There are a large number of talented developers who are keen poker fans within the UK and Ireland and I'm sure quite a few would jump at the chance to have a chat with you.
Windows is pretty much always going to be a second class citizen once you take a half-step outside the mainstream. I would just try to "get used to it" (i.e. run Linux/Mac).
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With bundles I don't know if the software has been tested on my architecture, if it's stable, if I'm downloading a botnet, if it comes with bundled libraries or if it works properly with -fpie and --as-needed.

Then you have software that doesn't have official releases (like half the stuff on github)

I'll stop using a package manager the day that all ruby gems work with MRI 1.8, 1.9, JRuby and REE. Basically, never.
Maybe he's provoking people to spite him by using it.
I do. I still lament for others'. There've been more than one occasion where I want to collaborate with my peers that refuse to make the leap and it's always a nightmare.
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Original resolution is an option in the player for me -- all 2560x1440 pixels of glory.
This is written by a guy who has never been in a band. You would think that fact would be a lightbulb moment that maybe you shouldn't write this blog post. Apparently not.
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>The assumption he implicitly makes is that Google is not going to do anything malicious with his password, and has a secure enough network. If you take this assumption to be true, then his practice of emailing himself private information (over SSL, you can't access gmail without it), is reasonable.

No it's not. First, it's does have to be Google to do something malicious with your mail. An exploit, e.g XSS, could be found for Gmail any day --there were several in the past.

Second, was does "has a secure enough network" means? Does he only ever log on to Gmail from one network? The assumption of "secure enough network" and the words "hacker-proof" do no go together well.
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I don't think he was actually serious about copyrighting the term. I believe he was just using it as a figure of speech.
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>My objection was principally to the notion that the NSA is just some 3rd party security consultancy one calls up.

When one is Google, it is. Not to mention that NSA very much cares for the trillions of information Google has to offer them and their continuing compliance.
I have noticed some older versions of WebKit do not support WebGL or are less stable, so please ensure your libwebkit is up to date for maximum enjoyment :-)
If there is a feature to be added, this is the one. On track. Thanks :)
Because developers don't spend the effort to learn how to do things properly on Windows.
It links straight to the paper in Nature pretty early on - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7395/full/nature1...
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Can you elaborate? If there is a better way to do this, please do say or link to a pull request for the project...
What mainstream do you refer to?

Surely not the desktop.
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I partially agree with you, Janus is certainly a bit complicated and may hinder people learning vim. With vimified I wanted to keep the traditional approach but make it more powerful from the start. For example, I will try no to split vimrc into separate files, there should be always only one base file (+ folding). You get the base, a convention, but there will be certainly things to be adjusted on your own along the way. That was the idea...
>I know that saying. Either the joke exists in several languages or we share one. =)

Judging from your profile info, we do not share a language, but we share a religion (our countries do, that is).
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keep desktops which to me evoke
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to give up those things we neither need nor want.
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Business with no revenue sold for 1 billion? This single factor could be a prime example of bubble mentality.
Yes and no. The core idea is a lot like plaxo - keep your contact information up to date. But everything else should be a lot simpler:

- The address book doesn't try to use automated updates from Facebook and Twitter. Instead it just shows what people add to their profile.

- The app won't try to reinvent the address book. It is build on top of your existing address list and wants to It will just be faster to get to actions (call, message, search) and pair it with "self-updating" contact information.
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These days, it seems like POSIX has become just another VM environment, like Smalltalk, Erlang, the JVM or the CLR. Mingw/Cygwin doesn't run *nix programs "on" Windows, really; it just provides them with a really half-assed VM implementation. Why not instead just go all the way and run, say, Ubuntu Server in a headless VMware appliance? If nothing else, it gives your spare cores something to do :)
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http://gimmeshiny.com/ is a nice one to throw into this.
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I think something is wrong with your math.

23 out of 535 Mountaineers is indeed 4%, but its over the course of 1968-1987. So that's an actual rate of 0.2% per year (1.2 deaths per year).

You need to do the same math with space travel---dividing the # of deaths by the # of years space travel has been in existance.

But to apply a notion from finance, space travel is such a small 'market' that its liable to fall prey to black swan events---e.g. maybe space travel is very very safe or very very dangerous, but the data set we have is non-typical and we'll start seeing 'typical' data once we ramp up to 100,000+ people per year travelling in space.
The game has barely been started and the entire community is ready to go, wow. This game is going to be something else when it's released, can't wait!
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Yet some people produce brilliant things, others don't. While I also think that it might be attainable for everyone (at least start from birth, not sure about turning into a genius in later age), not everybody becomes a brilliant producer. A lot of circumstances have to come together (for example Mozart's father was apparently also one of the most famous music teachers of his time and started to train him from an early age). Maybe you could hire a brilliant music teacher and start training your child from age 3 and produce a music genius. But few people choose to do so.

Again I have to refer to Laszlo Polgar who turned his three kids into chess prodigies - and it was planned, he even advertised for a wife who would be willing to do the experiment with him. To rephrase: he didn't go "hey, my kids seem to enjoy chess, let's teach them more of it", he went "let's have three kids and turn them into chess prodigies".

The article posted here is pretty useless, though...
Technology has the potential to make operations more transparent and traceable. It will take people to "fix" India.
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The drill tool that NSD built atop ldns[1] is pretty sweet too. Some of the other ldns tools are quite useful too.

[1]: http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/ldns/
A word of warning for anyone considering funding a software project through KickStarter: they may reject it.

I recently spotted this blog post written by a team trying to fund the development of an iPhone app:

http://famnerd.com/2012/02/update-famnerd-rejected-by-kickst...
Now we just need something in betweeen ...
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I quickly checked their company and the acquirer and it doesn't seem like there is enough money to 'retire in a house with an ocean view', not until it's in Nicaragua, of course.

Congratulations, anyway :)
That's an excellent point that I haven't seen anyone else make yet about Kickstarter, and does help to explain a bit of their runaway success. Though it does seem rather obvious that a higher level of transparency and a stronger customer-maker bond would also be useful in capturing a greater amount of the consumer surplus than an average, faceless megacorp would.
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