skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traffic doesn't move at 60 mph during rush hour though.

Automated cars have the potential to reduce the lag in speedup after breaking, eliminate most accidents, and pick better routes, and all while letting you do other things with your time. Commute time is a huge reason to do this.
I wasn't aware of the feminist's support for these men's rights issues, which is admirable and good to know.

As far as your last comment is concerned; my support for women's rights comes out of having been gay and now being somewhere on the bi/genderqueer continuum so I can definitely relate to that.

If you're interested, this speech by Gary Carter captures it more beautifully than I've ever been able to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P...
I think most reasonable people would conclude that these threats were not justified, I didn't see any comments supporting these on HN.

If the identities of the people making these threats was known they would likely be facing criminal charges and held in public contempt. Problem is that we don't know their identities because they are anonymous trolls hiding behind tor or proxies so any attempts to identify them as members of a particular group is speculation.

So that makes it difficult to condemn these people in better terms than "internet trolls are assholes" which everybody already thinks.
Guava's Hints.tryParse is about as good as it can get in Java... Maybe it could return an Optional instead of a nullable boxed type, but the calling code wouldn't be much different.
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Well, Berlusconi just got back into the Italian parliament together with that other clown, so I prefer not to take guesses at the outcome of Italian votes.

My point was that there wouldn’t be such a thing as a ‘German authority’ to accept in a united and democratic Europe and that at least the French don’t appear to be entirely opposed to the idea of working closely with Germany.

(Oh, and Merkel isn’t all that popular in Germany – (un)fortunately, her social democract contender is the guy (not necessarily seriously) suggesting to send the cavalry into Switzerland[0] and pirates to Cyprus.)

[0] http://www.euractiv.com/elections/outspoken-spd-chancellor-c...

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/spiegel-gespraechsreih...
Indeed, I bet the perception of outsiders for one thing is way more important than the actual culture. It could really be anything which has caused the inequalities so I wont accept anything without a good argument.
| Suburban living is all about being safe from
| criminal hordes outside the gates - whether real
| or imagined.

Or being able to afford a house.
Leave it up to Monsanto to figure it out:
http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-bee-collapse-buys-bee-res...
Show HN: Stupidly simple screencasting utility (Chrome / FFox)
I'm no expert either, but I will take offense at your statement. It's everything I think is wrong with the patent system.

Sorting is a mostly solved problem. You take a group of numerical things and end up with a group of numerical things that are now sequential. You can either do it slow, fast, or stupidly.

If you have the example of ratings of restaurants, you're going to have some kind of group of numbers. If you want them sorted, you use a predefined and should-be unpatentable algorithm and sort the damned list. But your business model shouldn't be sorting a predefined list, because that's a really stupid business model and any fucking person can do it. Your business model should be to find a unique and novel way to rate restaurants (social graph, Zagat, number of cockroaches found in soup, etc.). The outwards facing UI of that rating system should be entirely disconnected from what your patent does. The order of that list is, yes, directly connected to how you rate restaurants, but the end result itself is not exactly how you rate them, it's just representative of the end result of your rating.

Think of Page Rank. Anyone can crawl the web and get a list of pages on the internet. Anyone can then sort that list by whatever means they want. It's not the sorting that is patentable, it's the association of some qualifier into a numerical representation of which gets sorted by another un-patentable system that is the "secret sauce".
Another Wordpress blog down by the slightest bit of traffic. They really need to do something about performance...
It's for the same reason that people like myself don't do home repairs on their own - because it can be really, really hard to tell what the right solution is without a lot of research and experience. Without that knowledge, it's impossible to know if I will have hosed something beyond repair if I try and fail.
Thank you. Do you know how they did the "intros" -- the dark overlay with popups that point out various buttons / explain concepts? Are they using intro.js, something else, or something they made themselves but haven't released yet?

Also, could you provide more detail about what you mean by "run LaTeX in the browser directly"? It sounds like a fun challenge.
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> I have been very surprised at the discrepancy between the level of dialogue.

I haven't been. Without doubt there are some brilliant minds on HN, but even this populace is not immune from "believing first, proving second". The group writ large tends to fall into that trap on different topics than most people, but it falls eventually. Not just regarding sexism in tech either; there are others.
Driverless cars also means that taxis can be scaled a lot more according to real time demand. Unlike taxi drivers who have to work on a x hour shift, on demand driverless taxi can start and stop working at any time. Second, if people can call a taxi using a smart phone app then taxi's don't need to wondering around the city without passengers. These two factors combined will further dramatically lower the cost for taxi more, a lot more than the 2 thirds cost cut down this article predicted (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ec...).
The cost (and effort required) of using such taxis as main means for transportation will be significantly lower than owning a car even without the concerns of parking expense (in rural areas).

Does that mean that cities will further spread out or the other way? Who knows. I think it means more freedom for people to select wherever they want to live. You can live in the middle of Manhattan without worrying how to get to the countryside with your dog. You can also live in the mountain and commute 5 hours a day to Manhattan to work (because that 5 hours won't be lost in driving any more)
tl;dr for comments:
Half the people strongly believe bees are dying because of pesticides and that chemical companies are doing a good job covering this up.
The other half strongly believe that there is no evidence of pesticides being the problem, and at the same time seem completely unable to believe that a company would cover up facts that would lose them billions of dollars in profits.

Everyone is very passionate, and has at least 1-2 anecdotes, though no real evidence.
Thanks for the kind words.

For the server, https is not planed, since It's better be done by Nginx or something alike [1].

For the client, https is planed. We have use case for it, too. Some time is needed to work on it. It will come out in one or two month, I guess.

[1] http://http-kit.org/migration.html#https
Are you a judge? do you have any background in traffic laws and/or driver liabilities? Or is this just your two cents...
The worlds first dynamic interface builder written in Lisp - 1998
ExperTelligence introduced "Interface Builder" in 1986. We took it up to neXt to show Steve Jobs - the rest is history. In 1988, Denison Bollay built a much more dynamic interface tool, in which the interface was fully modifiable AS the program was running. Since it was built in incrementally compiled LISP, all other functions and methods were also modifiable on the fly. Denny took it to Seattle to show Bill Gates, but MicroSoft wanted a version written in basic (no objects, no methods, etc back then). I explained one couldn't do that without OO. They built Visual Basic.
Why 20-somethings have a hard time paying for content
While driverless cars can help with parking w.r.t. city development, I don't think that will be too helpful as we already have issues with the capacity of roads. We should be aiming to reduce the importance of roads for cars in city planning, and I'm not sure how driverless cars will help that. Rather, I could see it being worse if cities make mistakes and try to build more road capacity, making congestion worse as more cars fill the new road space.
Running Your Own Startup Comes With Accountability
While I'm greatly concerned about honey bees and CCD (I raise bees mostly as an effort to help keep them alive), I don't think it's the apocalypse that it's widely made out to be. Mason bees [1] are phenomenal pollinators, and are easily kept. The site linked below is actually dedicated to getting people to keep mason bees as an insurance policy against increasing honey bee fatalities.

They don't make harvestable honey, so they aren't a 100% replacement for the current model. However, they might be able to fill the gap for commercial pollination. They are also not colony insects in the same sense as honey bees, so it's possible that they might be more resistant to large-scale die-offs.

[1] http://www.crownbees.com/category/bee-basics-crownbees/bees-...
You could add CPU pest: Run some really hard working javascript to make the whole browser slow and unresponsive.
There are limits to how much stuff you can put into space and many of the more useful orbits are getting fairly saturated. However, cost is what prevents people from using most orbits so there is a lot of room up there.
In his defense his father was in the Air force, he retired at the rank of Air Vice marshal and I would guess at the time when he claims to have heard from his father of the incident his father was the rank of Air commodore.

On "Air commodore" from wikipedia "Air commodore (Air Cdre in the RAF and IAF, AIRCDRE in the RNZAF and RAAF, formerly A/C in the RCAF) is a one-star rank and the most junior of the air-officer ranks". Note air-officer ranks are fairly high and take a number of years of service to achieve. However these ranks are fairly low when it comes to procuring equipment.

"Air Vice marshal" is one rank higher.

I do think he believes what he claims in his comments, I am just pointing out that his beliefs are vastly exaggerated. His father was likely asked about his recommendations of the aircraft but is unlikely to have any knowledge beyond that about the reason that a particular aircraft was procured. Everything else that he has heard is hear say.

Far more relevant is that the defense ministry has been headed by A.K. Antony since 2006. Antony is known for his incorruptible record and simple personal life, wikipedia has about 10+ references on where this claim originates from. Antony like wise has a very low profile and is rarely in the news. For anyone following Indian politics it is fairly well know that there are a handful of non-corruptible politicians across all affiliations in India. Antony has always been included amongst those.
Animation and the Uncanny Valley
> Q. What was the problem with the thrusters on Dragon?
> Musk: There was a "very tiny change"

Sounds like software development!
In 2004, The U.S. relaxed restrictions on pesticides, including specific pesticides that were already associated with adverse bee health. Within two years, the reported incidence of CCD rose dramatically. Of course, we all know that correlation is not necessarily causation.

It is nearly impossible for researchers to make a definitive case. Colonies that suffer from CCD have consistently higher concentrations of pesticides than their healthy counterparts. But it's a mix of up to 200 distinct pesticides. If anyone wants to believe that pesticides are not the cause, it's easy to view the available data and say, "see, that's not proof".

In my opinion, one day we'll look back and figure out that bees and bats were our canaries in the coal mine.
Well, also be sure to take into account the people that get placed into the leading positions of the EPA, and USDA - typically industry/Monsanto heads. Those organizations are not as altruistic as we would like to believe.
> I think the type of comments you mentioned are not only relatively rare, but they are quickly downvoted when they occur.

Well, we see a very different subset of comments, apparently.

Look at the top comments in this very thread, for example...
To bee or not to bee, that is the question!
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That's backwards. It's unfortunate that (apparently) our modern farming methods disrupt the natural order of things, in this case pollination.
This, in a nutshell, explains the problem with uniformly applying the VC model to all tech startups. Some tech startups -- often the ones involving creation of substantive new technology with deep intrinsic value -- require many years of slogging. There's nothing wrong with startups like that as long as there is a way to fund them to completion. But how to do that?

THANK YOU. I am not one to usually use caps (normally, what I say is bombastic enough) but I am so fucking glad you said that.

It's not even "slogging". It's growth at a rate (10-40%/year) that is (a) extraordinarily fast by pre-technological standards, but (b) fails to deliver immediate liquidity/gratification.

The problem is that the standard VC model doesn't really fit well for these startups, because the VCs by necessity have fixed, relatively short time horizons.

VCs deride everything designed for lesser-than-50% annual growth as a "lifestyle business", which is why they end up funding so much get-big-or-die social media bullshit and so little Real Technology. Real Technology enables rapid (50+ percent per year) growth in applications (often discovered by external parties with important but non-technological knowledge) but it almost never, itself, grows at such a rate. Instead, 10 to 40 percent per year is fairly typical. Reliable, genuine improvement is hard and requires a certain sobriety-- don't load up on technical debt, get the basics down as well as you can before building applications-- that's incompatible with the "triple-up the sprinters, kill the laggards" climate of current "technology" financing.

To be clear: I'm not saying the VC model is bad; I'm just saying it's not universally applicable. And I honestly don't know what to tell entrepreneurs who want to create companies that don't fit the model well, unless they are already rich enough to self-fund, in which case I ask if I can invest. :)

I'm writing a long series on the causes of organizational malfunction (specifically software engineering, but probably more applicable) and the conclusion I've come to is that VC-istan's mandatory rapid growth (in headcount; 100+ percent revenue growth is fine if you can do it) is just incompatible with stable, long-term cultural integrity. We need to find a way to finance mid-growth "lifestyle" businesses that optimize for genuine technological contribution and cultural health, but don't double their headcount every 12 months.

I wrote about the financial/trust problems here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle... . It's the 17th in a ~21 part series on how to unfuck Corporate America. The short version is that we need to come up with a way to connect passive capital with a Fleet of 50,000 mid-growth (10-30% per year; moderate failure risk) businesses, focused on long-term goals and therefore more able to mentor talent and serve specialized niches, that are currently underbanked. The solution I come up with is a profit-sharing-heavy compensation mechanism that is extremely transparent and kicks back dividends to (passive) equity-holders.
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We have a pull request that changes the Play benchmark (thank you!) so we will be including that in a follow-up soon.

We tested node.js with both Mongo and MySQL. Mongo strikes us the more canonical data-store for node, but wanted to include the MySQL test out of curiosity.
Thinking this through some more, using sort with a comparator function would be unnecessary slow. Given the objective of the algoritm (return a median), it's much better to convert the array of strings to an array of floats (or ints, whatever he wants) first.
Studying ant colony optimisation through robotic ants
Review of Kolab, a free and opensource groupware suite
With C# 5's async features ... a lot of code can now easily be non-blocking by default. Even making asynchronous actions in asp.net mvc can have an enormously positive impact on server scalability. Just because you can write synchronous/blocking code doesn't limit the power of the platform when it's written using the latest features.
"My dad taught me the basics of home building/improvements" ... "My friends were always playing and working on their cars"

You're actually agreeing. You were taught and brought up in an environment where people learnt the skills then you can get by fine.

I certainly wasn't, and I have wasted much time, effort and money getting shoddy results which I'd then have to pay a tradesman to fix afterwards.
Does anyone know what "sequestration" means?
Private collector builds Apple Pop-Up Museum to “tell the story of Apple”
Besides git and syntax highlighting, and I won't be using git, what can this thing actually do that I can't already?

A demo is the very least to show off a new product, not a screenshot of a notepad clone with syntax highlighting and line numbers.

Besides, I run Debian Wheezy with xfce4 on Android. I didn't try git, but I can run Geany and vim. A full desktop OS is not perfect for phones, but with a keyboard attached it works very well. How would an app be better?
My perception is that cost tops the list. That's partly about home size (why pay twice as much for a condo that's half the size?), but I think mostly about sheer high prices. [0]

Cost is also tied up with the issue of public versus private schools, and it's that issue more than any other that in my experience is the reason urbanites become suburbanites. Then generalized negative perceptions of American cities (as cesspools of crime, noise, high taxes, etc.) keep many suburbanites away.

Those perceptions are half-truths at best, but a perhaps even bigger problem is that for the great many people who haven't lived it, there's no consideration of the benefits of an urban lifestyle. Of course you're going to choose to live in the 'burbs if you only see the city's detriments and not also its commensurately higher (or better) advantages.

0. In cities like San Francisco, a lot of that cost is due to land-use regulation. But in a typical mid-sized Midwestern city like Cincinnati or Kansas City, where public transit is poor and parking is provided pretty much everywhere, only the true urban warriors try to get by without a car. So parking is a big driver of the cost of city living. Structured parking costs $40,000 or more per space, and median home prices are well under $200,000. Ten to twenty percent or more of the cost of a condo downtown is parking, and you still have to pay for a car. (And it should go without saying that the benefits of city living are greatly reduced if you need to drive a lot anyway.)
The blog post is about a new font. I see no use of it on the page. And there's not even a picture of it in the blog post.

That's a really bad way to introduce it.

Or am I missing something? (I'm on Mac OSX 10.8, Chrome 26)
Sorry for the confusion. It is indeed regular git support, not only Github. I'll try to find a better suited icon.
Y34h, t0t4lly 1337 – I can see why people want a distro to be usable out of the box. I could even see why people want a distro to have their exact preferences as defaults, had you made that point. I cannot see why people prefer opening fifty boxes over properly unpacking one.
This comment is quickly going the way of "correlation doesn't equal causation" style of karma-whoring. It's so overused, and more often than not misplaced, that it's a net negative to the discussion.

Yes, evolution doesn't have intentions or goals, but scientists, actual zoologists and evolutionary biologists, speak of "intentions", "goals", etc when speaking of evolutionary processes (just open a Dawkins book). Anthropomorphizing a natural process is a short-hand that allows one to communicate ideas more effectively and more naturally. Everyone knows that there isn't an actual Gaia-like being pulling the strings of nature. Pointing this out is just noise in an otherwise productive conversation.
Do you ever get the client that wants to learn how to do the improvements? My house is my largest investment. I don't want to screw it up with an amateur fix, but I would love to work side by side with an expert to learn how to do the more advanced stuff correctly.
Just my two cents (though as someone with a JD).

The idea that manufacturers would be liable for collisions is quite laughable. Is your computer manufacturer liable for the damage resulting from system crashes, bugs, etc? Of course not. Manufacturers are liable for design or manufacturing defects but a collision in a driverless car does not necessarily indicate a defect. They aren't magic--a certain number of errors are to be assumed. In some cases, it may not be physically possible to prevent a collision (computers react at the speed of electrons, but cars only at the speed of big heavy physical objects).

No, I think driverless cars will be handled by extending the concept of "inherently dangerous instrumentalities." If you're say demolishing a building with explosives, your standard of liability is not whether you were doing so carefully. It's strict liability: it's an inherently dangerous process so you better carry sufficient insurance because if it goes wrong you're strictly liable. Cars will, and should, be considered the same way, and will likely be handled through no-fault insurance systems paid for by drivers.
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It is a fact that people have proposed that aliens make crop circles, but that says nothing about the truth of "aliens make crop circles".

That Wikipedia text quote is full of the former kind of phrase, using "Possible causes have been identified", "other proposed causes", and "other possibilities".

The sentence you emphasized starts with such a phrase:

"other possibilities have included […] genetically modified (GM) crops with pest control characteristics"

And then further weakens the statement with "although no evidence has been found to suggest this.*"

So, if I read that Wikipedia article, I mostly read "we don't know."
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Well, I would have rather not shared all this information but at the time my father was an AVM (i.e. a two star general) and was also the head of the air wing of the border security force. As head of an entire fleet, he pretty much had the authority to decide and recommend what he pleased. Also, his recommendations were of paramount importance, especially concerning new purchases. Obviously he wasn't happy when he was asked to recommend something in particular - and he didn't, that's probably why the deal failed.

So no, my beliefs are not highly exaggerated. They are just based on whatever was going on at the time. Take it as hearsay, take it as whatever you want.

I do however request that you remove/edit your post as it is personally identifiable and I will delete this post as well. I'd rather not have an online archive of all these things directly related to my father.
For a better look into all the ways default javascript functionality can annoy your visitors, I wrote an all-encompassing script about two years ago called annoying.js: https://gist.github.com/Kilian/767982 featuring classics such as disabling right mouse click, text selection and leaving the page!