skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And no, that's not a Blade Runner screencap. That's Beijing."

Same difference, as the kids used to say. The "gonkai" described in the article is essentially the proto-Blade Runner universe, so life is imitating fiction. It is fascinating that the filmmakers were so prescient.
Groupon already does this and cheaper
http://breadcrumb.groupon.com/
Nicely done! Was this a full time effort ? Please do come back and share how it is doing.
I have never read Ayn Rand, but I have heard of her before.

Why are such quotes inappropriate?
Your first link is a red herring. We are trying to increase safety, not reduce red light violations.

Your other two links make a common mistake in traffic safety debates by assuming that an increase in accident rates is a decrease in safety. Look at the types of accidents that are increased or reduced by red light cameras and you'll see that they generally do make intersections safer by reducing high speed, side impact collisions. This comes at the cost of increased low speed collisions, namely people running into someone's bumper as they slam on their brakes to avoid the red light ticket which is a psychological (risk aversion) problem, not a problem with the technology itself.
I think short yellows are dangerous, especially with loaded vehicles. US DOT should set standards for minimum yellow light times. Here is one such proposal: http://www.shortyellowlights.com/standards/

EDIT: Linked to proposed standard and equation
I wonder how it would be if we eliminated yellow lights altogether and instead had a countdown on the green light. At the very least it might save gas, as you could see that the green light ahead will turn red long before you could hope to hit the intersection, so you could coast in. Of course, you'd need to have an adequate "all-red" time for it to not be dangerous.
What are the new features?
Love to finally see a product built in Meteor that isn't just a demo application!

Did you guys have any intentions of re-writing CATS to use Meteor?
I keep hearing this a lot but if I was "embroiled" in all of this, I would sue the state for entrapment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment

Excerpt:

Two competing tests exist for determining whether entrapment has taken place, known as the "subjective" and "objective" tests. The "subjective" test looks at the defendant's state of mind; entrapment can be claimed if the defendant had no "predisposition" to commit the crime. The "objective" test looks instead at the government's conduct; entrapment occurs when the actions of government officers would have caused a normally law-abiding person to commit a crime.
I'm sorry, but blowing such thinking a bit out of proportion one could go as far as saying that intelligent life on Earth is a blip in the history of our planet, and is just a blip even on geological scale. What does it mean?

Sadly the copyright is abused badly (even "good-guy" Amazon self publish takes away 70% of money spent on one's book (that's the number I arrived at when I was looking through the rules).

It's hard to say if it doesn't have positive effect of culture, since before it's introduction art was funded mostly by state/exceptionally wealthy establishments.
It's not only that. A good buddy of mine is a criminal defence lawyer. He says that a goodly portion of his drug-related cases begin with traffic stops. By goodly portion, I mean 50+%.

We've talked about it at length. There would be major changes in law enforcement practices if automated cars obviated trivial traffic law enforcement stops.
I find the news article rather sensationalist, because the reductions on the yellow light timing are now based off the limit rather than the greater of the limit or average speed. While this does increase the number of ticketed incidents it

It seems reasonable to ticket those who would be impacted by this, for if the forumla is correct it should just impact speeders.

I agree with the sentiment shared by others that the all stop time should stay the same to protect drivers from the speeders.
Maybe not in large cities with some sort of oversight but in small rural towns with only 2 or 3 cops, it helps pay for their jobs and keeps them employed.
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> Bill Joy was convinced that it was possible to give the class loader the ability to statically analyze a class and determine whether or not it would work with the code that was trying to invoke it.

Here, 'work' must mean 'has the methods and other stuff the client code is looking for with the types the client code expects', except the Java type system isn't really expressive enough to do a very good job of that, especially if there are any generics involved (such that a lot of stuff has been hammered down to type Object). But Java didn't have generics that long ago, did it? Something like Eiffel, with design-by-contract and automated contract checking, would be able to make more use of the concept.

Pretty trivial, especially if you can rely on the compiler to do dead code elimination before checking to see what the client code is expecting. I don't know if javac (as opposed to the JIT) does dead code elimination, though.
I know this has been done in Sacramento for years. Yellow Lights at large higher speed (40mph) intersections (like Fair Oaks and Howe) have the yellow light set at the CalTrans minimum safe approach speed, which is often 25 mph. This is on a double lane left turn with traffic at or above the posted speed limit.

Good luck fighting that ticket, well within the California State law.

Too bad they don't have to set the yellow light timing consistantly. That probally wouldn't give you the 2x increase in citations.
As much as your simplification sounds reasonable, if you dive down into the details, it falls apart.

Mark Rippetoe is a well respected strength coach in fitness circles. He may not be delivering Olympic-level athletes, but certainly good at delivering strength knowledge for the lay person.

"Ultra-high calorie diets" is a suggestion that needs to be taken in context. His focus is strength, not diet. Excess calories are required to gain muscle and strength, and for one of his target demographics, young skinny teens who lack muscle altogether, ultra-high calorie diets are exactly what they need. Obviously for heavily obese people this advice would not necessarily apply if their goals were to lose weight.

Regarding the supplement, don't judge things by the marketing fluff, but rather by what it actually does and its ingredients. DMAA is a well-known stimulant that does what a pre-workout supplement should do.
he's pointing out the irony cops endangering traffic safety in supposed aim of improving traffic safety
"We now have more than 70,000 apps in the Windows Store (the online app store for Windows) – apps such as Twitter, ..."

Did anyone else chuckle that he felt he had to describe parenthetically what the Windows Store is?
People object to Ayn Rand quotes because they believe her politics to be naive, or her fiction to be heavy-handed. I cannot speak to either of those things one way or the other.

Even giving these things, these are of course no reason to never quote her. Hell, there is a time and a place for quoting even Himmler.
No, these are different things. The monads or 'simple substances' in the monadology of Leibniz are an important part of his later philosophy and a tool to solve metaphysical problems. For example, God is a monad, all other monads are created from it, they cannot come into existence by themselves.

In computer science monads are an abstract data type.
Many people don't understand the why's of something, so when they hear 'don't ever press an Unsubscribe button' they never hit unsubscribe buttons, even for services they know they signed up for. People will remember things when it is most inconvenient for you.

Also, they may have signed up to find out more because they wanted to find out more right then. After they learned more, they no longer cared. Since they no longer cared and there was no presented way right then to indicate they don't care, they may look at further marketing emails as spam, especially when there is a lot of them and not a simple follow up 'we miss you' a couple of weeks later.

Just because you know you're not sending out spam, doesn't mean that what you are sending doesn't look like spam to the receiver.
What - no GoDaddy option?
Is there a reason the ukulele helps your voice aside from the irresistible urge to mimic Tiny Tim's falsetto?
You need a pile of karma to be able to downvote people. So you're not stupid, pg only assumes you are.
PriUPS - Prius UPS as Distributed Backup for Electric Power Grid
I never said Go was bad. I just said it was ugly and gave examples. Those code samples came from the race condition page detector which I wanted to learn about, because that's awesome.

If a programming experience was designed to impress superficially, then it wouldn't live in a pure text editor at all. I'm commenting on aesthetics as it also relates to usability (readability). I don't get this mindset that things that functionally work well have to be ugly. It's a very unix/engineering mentality that just isn't true. You CAN have both.
And despite all these tickets being issued in the name of 'safety', people still continue to slightly miss the yellow, not quite come to a complete stop before turning right, and fail to make a snap judgement correct 100% of the time. The accident rate remains fairly constant or goes up as the city rakes in millions (and the company that makes the camera gets theirs as well, which can be used to lobby for more cameras).

100% enforcement of traffic laws calculated with machine precision is mindbogglingly stupid, and proponents willfully bury their heads in the sand regarding the conflict of interest and the eventual outcome of such an arrangement. So yes, I sympathize with people committing what amounts to normal human error, and despise those who seek to profit off of it.
One issue is that many of these points are design characteristics of MongoDB and should have been known before hand. I am not criticising but it's almost like you did zero research before hand.

Transactions for example have never existed in MongoDB and joins doesn't really make much sense.
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After you become an adult you'll realize that being smug does no one any good.

Any quote has an appropriate moment when it directly relates to the topic at hand, despite where it originated from.
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And at another point, possibly later, you realize that blind rejection is just as intellectually lazy as blind acceptance.
I offered to help out on the Haunts game when they had their first round of problems. They had lost the developer who had chosen Go and so were left with no way to continue development. I wrote and offered my help and apparently so did a large number of other people because we were all sent a long questionnaire to fill in with our skills, experience and what we could offer the project. It just seemed like a big barrier to cross simply to offer my volunteer services, so I didn't bother completing it.

In retrospect they were probably being protective of their IPR, but erred on the side of being overprotective and pushing away a few folk that could have helped.
I despise these traffic cameras. They are popping up everywhere in the DFW area. So many people I know get rolling right on red tickets... it's absolute BS. It has nothing to do with safety and everything about money. There are so many instances where you can check if it's safe to make a right without having to make your wheels completely stop. I can't imagine many accidents being caused by a vehicle moving <2mph while making sure they were clear as opposed to coming to a complete stop. These photo enforced lights make me nervous as all hell, as I approach, first sign of yellow and I find myself slamming on the brakes.

https://plus.google.com/115905827925711420560/posts/LauLtrvS...

Example of a right turned that ended in a photo enforced ticket.

Edit: fixed the link.
Never have but I really don't want to share my whole screen sometimes. It's more can I just have a code editor session with someone and work on this one bit. More zen-like focus.
Yeah but that'd all seem to be from private individuals, which seems to fit with my idea of a US that is more than happy to collectivly suffer, as long as folks don't feel anyone is getting a free ride.

It's a stupidly short sighted game of russian roulette but nowhere near as hilarious as if the Government itself really does pay out more per capitita than anywhere else in the world.
Hey akanet: You've been dead for 243 days, but I don't see any trolling or egregious spam in your history. I'd email info@ycombinator.com if you want to appeal your hellban.
If you really want to get worked up, he "invests" in Tylenol when he gets a headache, too.

Why is his financial allocation a problem? Nobody was complaining when he wasn't donating to VHI at all. I'm sure it pales in comparison to what the public donates to sports teams and the movie industry.
Is there a reason to believe that the police are trying to improve _traffic_ safety at this place? Perhaps they are trying to prioritize _pedestrian_ safety. That is, after all, why most no-turn-on-red signs are installed in California.
>Some may even accelerate, and having excessively long yellow lights may encourage that behavior even more, despite it being illegal.

If you are in doubt about whether you can safely stop when the light turns yellow (and you have very little time to make that judgment), it's much safer to err on the side of running it.

The longer the yellow light is, the more likely you are to be able to correctly judge whether you can stop on time. The shorter yellow lights are in your area, the more likely you are to to slam on the brakes to avoid running the red light. Slamming on the brakes is far more dangerous than running a freshly changed red light, to say nothing of running a yellow.
Disclaimer: I work for MS. My opinions are my own, but they are biased.

I think we need to make a distinction between automated services and humans eavesdropping. I'd feel weird if someone was snooping in on my conversations and clicking my links, but on the other hand I very much appreciate the little bot that sits in my IRC channel and displays the title of any page linked. Both monitor the chat and access links, but I value one and feel weird about another. I don't think there's a way to truly make a distinction between the two though, and I think saying, "nothing is ever allowed to access your communications" removes the possibilities for a lot of added functionality (the link bot being just the base camp of the mountain of things that are possible). I think the better choice here is to ensure that the public has a way to communicate securely, and that our mental model of "trust usually, distrust as the exception" needs to move to "distrust usually, trust as the exception". This is similar to how sudo works in a way - we maintain a lower level of security usually for the convenience, then escalate only when needed.
How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the ARPANET
This is a perfect example of mismatched incentives.

When a deterrent is working, you get very few violations. Rewarding the detection of violations is incentivizing exactly the wrong thing. You're rewarding for making things worse!

I don't know what incentives would work, in the case of red light cameras.

- Accuracy on unmarked test cars going through the intersection? (testing is expensive)

- Clamping the income from fines below some threshold? (the threshold might be manipulated)

- Rewarding low accident rates relative to other intersections? (probably too unstable)
This is a big hit to US traders for sure, but there are other ways of transferring money (albeit not as convenient).
It seems to me that the difference is not so much 'where those people are put' but rather that there are support mechanisms that help the majority of at-risk people before they deteriorate to the level of homelessness or mental disability that you commonly see in US city streets.

EDIT: While there are obviously outlier cases where treatment is difficult, the majority of mental illness and homelessness is circumstantial and preventable.
We'd love to, but CATS has had 7 years of development now and has thousands of users, so rewriting it from the ground up would be quite the undertaking.

We'll definitely be using Meteor for any new side projects or external apps that tie in to CATS, though.
Calling something "property" does not mean treating it like a "physical object" because the concept of property is not limited to physical objects. There are lots of things, besides intellectual property, which are "property" despite being intangible. For example, certain assignable contractual rights are property, but are intangible, infinitely reproducible, etc.
I was actually surprised he didn't feel superior to Leibniz. I use Wolfram's products, but I absolutely can't stand the persona.
I'm surprised this isn't a more-common outcome of things on Kickstarter. Seems like the perfect "market" to peddle vaporware without consequence.
There's a similar story about Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi. The fact that he lost the tips of two fingers led him to develop a distinctive sound, which Black Sabbath became known for.
I don't see your email anywhere but sent you an invitation on linkedin. or pop me one.
A start menu.
God teaches me all day.

God says...

31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this
land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any
portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? 31:15 Are we not
counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured
also our money.

31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is
ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto
thee, do.

31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he
had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in
Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
images that were her father's.

----

God says...

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All I get from that is that betabeat is pissed that the audience doesn't understand that they must care about production value and how much money is being spent to make those videos.

Don't get me wrong I find the Young Turks to be so badly produced that I can't stand to watch them -- but that doesn't mean that I get to tell others what they should value.
The actual video from these camera should not be admitted as they violate the rules of evidence. Out of 1,000 cases this attorney from the Ticket Clinic claims to have won all 1,000 on this argument alone. I have yet to take one to court, but I imagine I will, as an FL attorney not a violator.

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/learn-secret-how-you-can...
Sounds like a service pack just got rebranded as a point update.
Algorithms: it's got what hopeless romantics crave
The Panglossian opinions of a man born and raised in a doomed, dying society in the areas that are dooming it ... surely I don't have to further develop the case?

I actually wasn't necessarily including health care in "welfare state", old age pensions AKA Social Security here are the traditional start (it was Bismarck who set the age at 65, BTW), but of course health care is a big one that gets added later, e.g. for 65 and up in the US in the early-mid '60s. And those supports are a critical part of all this, they tend to destroy the old model, sundering family bonds. The young can say, with complete truth, they're already paying very heavily to support the old, starting when they can least afford it, the parents can say, with much less truth in the long term if the history of government promises are any guide, that the government will take care of them (and in a greater sense, including their money being worth something when they retire).

I also wasn't making a general case about our economic troubles and health care, just pointing out one existential place where the latter are contributing to what well might be the end of US society.
What about size? asm.js is fast, but parsing it is slow and it is super bloated. A real binary byte code is obviously a better choice, but there doesn't even seem to be any good options for this on the horizon. I would take asm.js if we get it, but it is far from the ideal solution.
Google News down?
US Department of Homeland Security forces Dwolla to stop payments to MtGox
From personal experience, you start moving a bit differently, and not shy away from certain positions and ways of doing things. It's certainly nice, but it didn't change the way I interact with people or make different people attracted to me or anything like that. It's a bit of improvement, but learning the Bayes theorem was an order of magnitude more awesome, and reading up on syntax theory, physics, AI and bits of Marxism plus moving countries worked way better for getting people interested in me.

Of course this is anecdotal, but that's what I would expect from the experiment. Secondary confidence improvement would be expected, but that's thanks to awareness that you are more compliant with what Men's Health says you should look like, not inherent property of humans (see: places and times when fat people were seen as more attractive).
For some reason, that has never occurred to me. That is an excellent point that reducing the yellow not only increases the likelihood of traffic accidents but of problems for pedestrians as well.
This isn't very convincing without some specifics.

"He's has brains and tenacity... if only you knew him."

The problem is we only know what we see. And we see underhanded tactics, and enormous luck, not brains and tenacity.

Is Aaron Greenspan lazy? I doubt it. Does he use underhanded tactics? I doubt it. Is he as successful as Zuckerberg?

It seems obvious that a windfall on the scale of Facebook requires more than just "not being lazy." You are of course free to doubt it.

When you have lots of capital to move around (or even a modest amount... like YC), and lots of media attention, you also gain the right of audience. People will listen to you. Even if you have no brains. That is to say, it's not your brains that draw the audience. HN is loaded with brains. But few have an audience like Zuckerberg or pg.

Zuckerberg has a lot of capital and a lot of media attention. A lobby is born. Short-lived. Try again.
Just calling JS "irrational and ridiculous" doesn't advance the conversation; we need details.
Sadly, there are always those who fall between the cracks who have neither mental health or drug addictions. All we can ever do is try though, because not everyone asks for help.
Yeah, but you can use any number of systems to keep track of it if needed. I'm using git submodules in my current project, which keeps track of what commit you are using.

Submodules are flawed in a lot of ways, but as a simple way to to keep a pointer to the appropriate version of an external project they are great. It's a little extra work to set them up, but it's fairly marginal. Check them out with go get, add the repo after the fact with git submodule, and after that just use git submodule to always grab the correct versions.