skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So i had one single bike accident in my life so far.

Happened to be in a urban area. Happened that a car cut the way and i hit it, and the ground with the head.
I have a permanent scar (its not so bad) on the side of my face.

Without helmet it'd have something much worse (yeah i broke other body parts, the hit was rather violent - i can avoid a car going at regular speed, but if i'm going fast and the car is speeding, sometimes it's though luck). So you know what? As long as I'm not going down at 60mph in the forest I don't care if I've a helmet or not. Ground is soft, and I'm probably not gonna fall. The chance to hurt my head is low, and the skull is strong.

Now in a urban area, 60mph isn't unheard of. Specially from cars, even if you're at "only" 20mph on the bike. Thats exactly where a helmet is a good idea.

For sure I'm ok with people choosing to wear a helmet or not (as long as if a biker gets hurt by it's own fault, the car driver doesn't have to pay for it, which I fear ain't the case in the US). But I don't think that's a very good idea in a urban environment.

You'd need bike-only lanes that are fully respected, proper visibility, etc. That's not the case in Paris (velib) and that's not the case in the US. In both cities bikers also pass at red light, in both cities non-bicycles use the bicycle lane (in Paris scooters take it all day long to avoid traffic, at high speed). In some other EU countries, or some other French cities it's (much) better than in Paris, though, safety-wise.

Also in the EU (Minus Paris and probably a few other big cities), cars will not attempt to kill bikes if there's no bike lane, and bikes will generally respect the road signs. Makes a world of a difference.
It's apparently not very clear whether bike helmets increase or decrease biker safety: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/09/bike-helmet-doubts.htm...
Women I've dated were/are some of the nicest people with little to no meanness in them(something I personally find a huge turn off). Their niceness and care make my days and weeks and inspire me to reciprocate.
Most of the "anti-helmet" studies and arguments I've seen aren't particularly anti-helmet in principle, but rather just make the case that the benefits of wearing a helmet apply equally to pedestrians and automobile drivers/passengers. The argument isn't that helmets can prevent head injuries while riding a bike. The argument is that if there are laws or social stigma around bicycle helmets, then they should apply equally to pedestrians and automobile drivers/passengers.
The first point just begs the question.
The third one is questionable at best.
The last two are just incorrect.

I think the "no helmet" thing is just a weird bit of biker culture that's going to eventually die out, much like smoker culture is dying out in the US.
I think this is a little too cynical. I've seen elements of what you describe in previous jobs, but never all at the same time, and never to the same extent.

Then again, the culture and the work varies in different cities and in different roles. In London we tend to get excellent developers joining the industry (traditionally there hasn't been much else for good developers locally) so you can typically expect to have skilled colleagues. And the closer you get to the front office, the more money there is for IT projects, and the more remit you have for writing good software.
My team has been working toward this goal for the last 8 months. We've talked a lot about testing and making it a requirement to have passing tests before a feature can be called "dev complete".

In going back and writing tests for even some recently developed features we have found a few (albeit, minor) bugs. In adding tests to legacy code we found mountains of issues, but it's also very time consuming to do.

We're just starting work on an API and our goal is to have tests written before the code is written, allowing us to essentially write the requirements for each API and write the code to match those requirements. I'm looking forward to the process as I really feel it'll make our code clean, concise, compartmentalized, and much easier to maintain in the future.
As a kid in the 1970s, I rode my bike everywhere, never wore a helmet (nobody did), and here I am today. Of course helmets can help avoid head injury, not riding bikes probably helps even more. I mean where do you draw the line on the fear vs. the actual chance of something happening.

On the subject of community shared bicycles, our town tried that about 10 years ago, all the bicycles were stolen within the first month (or maybe it was the first week) and it basically died at that point.
I pulled up the stats on ihackernews; 86% safari, 6% chrome, 2% for the other big three, but OS says 68% ios, 25% android eh? Safari isn't available on Android, neither is MSIE (2%). The OS field obviously has issues, even beyond not being able to tell the difference between Android and some other Linux machine; even though telling the difference isn't that hard.

UPDATE: I just checked from my Galaxy Nexus and it thinks that I am running Safari, it also claims my browser is 1210 days old, even though Android 4.1 obviously much younger than that;

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.1.1; en-gb; Galaxy Nexus Build/JRO03C) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30
Related TED talk "Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY
What The F**k Is Lean Startup And Why Should I Care?
He was probably a perfectly normal guy, but I doubt that he checked her out to "ensure compatibility." It is perfectly normal for young men to pretend that they are interested in things which they aren't in order to attract a girl's attention. Maybe some of the guys who approached her were genuinely interested in horses, but the majority probably just wanted to give a good impression.

There's nothing wrong with trying to give someone a good impression, but when you research someone's hobbies so you can feign interest in them, you are starting your relationship off on the wrong foot. If you can't be yourself around someone, then things probably aren't going to work out anyways.
My mother worked in a head trauma unit while I was young, and I particularly take umbrage with that last bullet point. While wearing a helmet won't do you much good when you ignore a stop sign and get plowed over by an SUV, neither will a seat belt save your life if you lose control going 110 down a tree-lined rural highway.
It's not my app, I just thought it looked pretty cool. I don't see a price tag anywhere either.
There are two ways to compare returns. Higher returns at the same risk or the same returns at lower risk. Either is better.
For Dropbox, I earned my credit by linking to my referral URL in the download page of my website, which gets about 1k hits a day. It took a while but I maxed about my Dropbox credit and have over 20GB on my free account now. This was basically an ad that I placed myself, so an Adword campaign should work quite well especially with a free advertising code.
Brand arbitrage is a mainstay of many affiliate marketers. Given that one can transform success with it into (large piles of) generally spendable currency, most don't spend too much time optimizing for (small piles of) gift cards.
Yah, the author claims that we Americans cling to our "helemet = safety" notion dogmatically, but then she takes it as fact that people won't ride bikes if the law says they have to wear a helemet. But I don't think wearing a helmet is really that bad that it's keeping people from riding.

Like the fact that biking is aerobic exercise and people hate that.

The policy implications are very interesting and I'm sure it might affect behavior at the macro level, but for me as a cyclist, I'm going to wear a helemet AND ride a bike, so it seems like I don't fit her model.
I was serious about getting opinions about how to promote the site better
Thanks for the thoughts. I personally don't like adding comments about submissions, as the point to submitting stories is that they should be interesting and self-explanatory on their own merit. I believe the community, if it finds something interesting enough, will upvote it. If its something that is pointless but gets upvotes, then enough people will flag it for removal.

In regards to the "1/10,000" comment, some people have conceived of designs where energy production is centralized in desert areas. While if built, indeed the amount of power would be sufficient, but this is more often simply meant as an example of the amount of land area that would be needed world-wide. It does not in itself imply that this is the strategy that should be pursued.

In the same way that we say, "faster than light" instead of "speed of electromagnetic waves in a vacuum" and "half a dozen" instead of 6 (and I've never understood where this phrase came from), it is simply a metaphor that lets uninformed readers better grasp the concepts being imparted. In reality, what is implied is that globally it would only take an equivalent amount of land distributed world-wide to achieve the same effect.
I've used those NFC stickers on the parking meters with my Nexus. You don't even need to have the PayByPhone app open or running. When I tapped my phone it automatically launched the app with the parking spot number inputted so I just had to confirm a duration.

Also, if you don't have the app installed, your phone should launch the Play Store to download and install it automatically.
Did you read the article? There are some interesting ideas being explored, really just theory for now. I don't see it as asking you to learn anything unless you want to participate in theorycrafting.

To me it seems like a waste of time to build crud websites in CL, but if people want to write articles about ways to make that experience better, i'm not going to write 'haha wtf' in response. (Yes, all analogies suck)
That's not exactly a very good list. Here's what i think is a better one:

- doesn't look cool

- slightly less comfortable

- one more thing to think about and carry along when you go for a ride

On the plus side:

- does actually make you safer

- its cheap unless you need a super competition-brand-etc (then you've a different issue)

- its light

- when everybody wears it you don't have to feel like you're the only clown who fears for his life wearing one
Criminal law, it wasn't his to sell, you both broke the law.
Does your comment add anything at all in a positive way to this discussion, either positive or negative? No.
The front end server pages are not.
Most of the devs I know use one browser for everything and IE for testing. I take it you use FF for dev because of Firebug and Web Developer Toolbar and Chrome for browsing and personal stuff?
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This would be much more compelling if you could bring some statistics into the argument rather than tell a personal story and then, basically, guess.
> I think the "no helmet" thing is just a weird bit of biker culture that's going to eventually die out, much like smoker culture is dying out in the US.

Is this a US-only claim, or do you reckon people in Amsterdam and Copenhagen will see your light and start wearing helmets?
Intel demoed several Ultrabooks at CES 2012 earlier this year which had NFC built into the palm rest.

The use case they showed off at the press conference was to save you the hassle of typing your credit card info by just tapping your credit card to the palm rest. It could also be used to login to your computer for instance.
So are you railing against the nature of humans? I mean you're not the 'Wake UP! sheeple' type generally, and you're contribution here (and presumably elsewhere) is clearly appreciated, so you are taking action on your concerns (which is great and way ahead of a number of others).

Patrick rightfully called me out the other day for creating out of whole cloth this 'other' which could be held up and criticized. Is that what you are doing by saying "... we are O.K. with this,"? Who are the 'we' in that context, I don't like it, you don't like it, so it isn't you and I but is this group of 'others' some great uncritical mass of readers? And then to go one step deeper are you railing against, 'their' agenda or this technique of spinning?

"Pandering to the crowd", "Preaching to the choir", and other colloquialisms for providing positive feedback on a system of beliefs is as old as humans. Maybe older. I suspect its in our nature to have self doubt and to seek out re-assurance of our beliefs. It takes practice and introspection to catch yourself being 'sold' rather than 'educated.' For some people that effort doesn't pay sufficient dividends to invest the effort.

I find these human driven belief systems to be some of the most intriguing from a systems analysis point of view. I feel compassion for folks who are unwitting participants, and I feel anger towards folks who manipulate them to their own advantage, and admiration for folks who manipulate them for the greater good of the community.
The front end server pages are not open sourced.
I did read closely, given the context it is readily apparent that you are not referring to Murphy's law.
Yes, it's a scam. I can refresh my Linux Firefox till the cows come home, it doesn't rate a mention.
Torn between Cape Town and SF Bay Area
Great point. I mentioned in my post that "there isn’t a huge amount of upside" financially, but I definitely got personal value out of just doing the experiment. I'd suspect that most of the truly lucrative affiliate opportunities are extremely competitive.
the fact is that a helmet is not enough to guarantee your safety - if cycling without one is "nuts", cycling with one is too.
Well true, Chrome was always the best for browsing, and Firefox for developing, but now that Chrome's web tools kicks Firefoxes ass, you can use Chrome for both :)
Or just separate it, Canary for development, and stable/beta/dev for browsing :)
I'm rather shocked at the number of comments in this thread that just extrapolate anecdotes. Your mother's profession has nothing to do with this whatsoever, unless it involved studying the actual statistics of bicycle helmet safety.
First of all, thanks for your feedback!

It's really important to know the experiences of people that already worked on this area, I'll consider everything that you've said.

How it's important to me to store my thoughts and my work on my own server, I though that improving the process of blogging and bringing some social features (taking care with noise problems) would be nice to everyone.

It's really a naive approach, I know, because as you also have said, Tumblr is very powerful now and it's free.

Probably I won't get attention of the usual Tumblr user in the beginning, so I'll bet on the developers and designers, with a simple to use app for their clients and easy to work and customize (as orangethirty brilliantly suggested).

What you think about it?

Thanks again!
Very interesting. Thanks for your reply. Out of curiosity, I have 2 questions:

1) Do you measure the defect counts over time? And if so can you share it?
2) What is your platform (web?)?

Thanks!
every of these articles manipulate the data to make you believe a simple fact "helmet or no helmet is the same".

Just use common sense instead (yeah I know it's so freaking hard). If you're going to ride on a safe road, bike path, etc, like many people do, helmet or no helmet makes an insignificant difference.

If you're going to ride in traffic, in SF, NYC or Paris, that is where you want to wear one. If you're going to go down hill in the forest at extremely high speeds (ie: you're doing competition), you're going to wear a helmet. Heck those guy don't need to be told, they know the risk if they don't.

That's all there is.
So, everybody in their 40s has a family.
You already supplied the context, so I thought I'd put the quote in there with it.

It's hard for me to say that common law was not invented by the courts, given that it derives from a lot of old court decisions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

Though it's fair to point out that congress did enact laws to codify the parts of it we wanted. That said, one of the few surviving bits is copyright-related (the "hot news" doctrine):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#United_States_federa...

In fact, I dare say that copyright law is one place the courts like to make up new stuff. See, e.g., Capitol Records, Inc. v Naxos of America Inc.

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20050412225604...
Looks like browser versions newer than newest version they have in the data files get 0 days. https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-ms... doesn't have IE10 mentioned in the other post, https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-op... doesn't have Opera 12.02.
* plays badly with city-supplied shared bicycles
the test that your helmet has to pass is a 12.5mph impact.
Scrappy Marketing at Dreamforce
When the iPad 1 launched in germany, i bought a 64GB model with 3G. I payed more than 800 Euros. And now Apple tells me "it's to old, go and sell it on eBay for 150 bucks".

Are you fucking kidding me?

I'm a Apple user for ages, i have two Mac Pros, three MacBook Pros (family), one MacBook Air and all iPhones that Apple ever made. I sold every old piece of hardware or replaced it when i needed a faster or newer model. But THIS is fucking sick.

Android is rising and in 6-12 month it will be even better. If Apple continues to ship crap like Siri and iOS6 Maps with all this false marketing Apple has a dark future ahead!

I bought a Nexus 7 a few weeks ago and it cost me 200 euro. It can do nearly the same as any iPad (i use it for - yes, instapaper, email, youtube and general media consumption). Sure, there are not as many Apps as in Apples App Store, but this is going to change.

To be said: i will never buy any iPad again. Sorry iPad, but i'm with Android now!

EDIT: As some sub-commenters said/ask: I'm not 100% sure what happens when i have old App versions (compatible with my iPad 1) and i need to reinstall iOS and all my Apps (for whatever reason- maybe a crash or anything else), which App Version do i get? The latest? Or the latest one that is compatible with my iPad 1?

Since many App developers are very happy to drop support for older iOS versions (which is fine - make better software!) i think it's time for Apple to provide some backwards support for older devices. Some mechanic for developers to freeze certain App Versions especially for older devices. It's not like we're talking about ancient technology, that thing isn't even 2 years old.
Facebook users don't give a heck about apps notifications anymore
Statistic of how many head injuries you get if your head is smashed against a car door or the ground at high speed?

I suggest you make the experiment, because, I can only guess it hurts every time, and uhm, that's not backed by any statistic.

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I'm not allowed to reply because this has been down-voted, so i'll reply here:

the study you linked is a net result of people NOT riding bicycles because they don't want to ride if they have to wear a helmet. Thus they die "faster" from lack of exercising. That's twisted crap, IMO. It doesn't mean not wearing a helmet is safer. It means: NOT DOING EXERCISE IS UNHEALTHY. That's a very different thing. Note that everyone else "against helmets" in the HN threads linked to similar stats (!)

As I wrote, I'm all for people being allowed to wear one, or not wear one. But at the end of the day, it's safer to wear one in many environments such as SF/NYC/Paris (yes, Paris too It's not like Amsterdam, at all.).

But since you like stats, here are stats, that helmets protected 85% of helmet-wearing riders, as this study does not compare to "people who wouldn't ride because the think a helmet is ugly":

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198905253202101?HIT...
We closed 3.3 for features months ago (June, maybe?) and it wasn't released. I would have liked to move to 2012 myself but the timing wasn't right.

(I did the 2010 changes)
Firefox seems to have gotten worse. Look at the "inspect element" horribleness, and the ridiculous 3d inspector thing.

The Chrome developer tools blow all others away.
Yes, it probably was. It is a PSA and not a documentary.

But it didn't have to be. What I said would work often enough. It really could be done on the fly, even if it wasn't.
I think it really depends on which part of 'finance' you end up in. I knew one guy who was 'just' a programmer and worked on maintaining some backend infrastructure code and he had a pretty miserable time. Sure the pay was decent, but it was a thankless job, with a shitty legacy code base, incredibly conservative about trying anything new and he basically had no say about anything.

One the other hand I have friends with degrees in mathematics and serious finance backgrounds whom are working in a more R&D style environment and they have an entirely different situation. They work a lot more with hard algorithmic and math based problems and given more freedom to pick their own tools and define their own work.
Opera 12.02: Reports 0 days old, while it really is 28 days old.
When I was a kid, my best friend's brother died because he was not wearing a bike helmet. I do, in fact, always wear a bike helmet.

The argument is not whether, if hit in the head, you are more likely to get a head injury. It is clear that bike helmets reduce those injuries.

The question is, if we required everyone to wear helmets, or required everyone to not wear helmets, which would result in less injuries/fatalities. And secondarily, if it turns out that bike helmets reduce injuries and fatalities, has it been worth the cost, vs other things we could spend money on, say legally required non-slip surfaces for bathtubs.

There are multiple factors that could affect this, here are two such things:

* http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/articles/archive/overtaking110906.html
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY
It would be nice if it would be true, the graph looks great and props for supplying the data. Correlation does not equal causation though. Are there any scientifics researches on TDD or any programming styles?