skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as dangerous as people tend to imagine.

A bullet will lose sufficient velocity so that it no longer lethal relatively quickly. As an example we can use FBI specs for maximum range of the NATO standard issue M855 cartridge for 5.56mm , which is 3600 yards. Ballistics show a trajectory with 2200 foot drop at that range and a final velocity of 490fps with a retained energy of only 33ft/lbs (about 3% of muzzle energy). To attain impact at 3600 yards requires the rifle to be elevated at about 11 degrees. In reality, the bullet is likely to lose enough rotational velocity that it will destabilize much earlier, which will even more rapidly decrease velocity and power.

So, put simply, for this cartridge shooting in the air at an angle greater than 11 degrees relative to the horizon would not be particularly dangerous.
Err, so I couldn't find a readable and authoritive description but apparently these Waze guys seem have two services:

(1) Aggregation and geocoding of traffic metrics

(2) Aggregation and geocoding of pump price metrics

While this data is already available in some parts of the world (largely from traffic sensors deployed by governments for road network monitoring, which are extremely widely deployed internationally!), live geocoded datasets outside of these areas (typically city centers) are not really out there yet. To get there, sourcing additional data from individuals is a logical step... if you can rely on the sources.

IMHO the biggest issue with this whole area is that it is linked to the notion of driving culture which is in my worldview essentially past its apex and on the way out. I mean, I could see Tesla buying something similar to back electric vehicle networks, but not Google. With so many cities already covered by existing and reliable, government-issued, road sensor based live datasets, I am a little puzzled as to why anyone would care about this area.

Congrats to the newly wealthy as a result of this deal though; please consider contributing to more forward looking, socially engaged projects in future!
Once the cache of pre-charged batteries is empty, the latency is the charge time (~60 mins) and the throughput is the charge time multiplied by the number of chargers they have. So when they run out of pre-charged batteries, have 10 chargers at the station, and you're the 11th in line, you get to wait for 2 hours. "All you have to decide is fast or free, and how to cut in line" ;)
Make a poll: "Is the post linked to in this post visible?" then link to a post you've made from a dead account. The dead post is itself a poll that says "This is the real poll, if you see this post, vote yes on this poll."
We've been using something like this but centered around concurrency rather than networking. It works out great, you get to compare across many candidates how they handle the tricky parts, if they understand the standard vocabulary of concurrency, what their coding style is like and if they understand basic C++.

One thing we noticed was that there is small handful of mistakes that many candidates tend to make. The ones that note the existence of a mistake or work around them skillfully are typically the best.
Really, because there's a lot of video going around of 2007 Obama debating 2013 Obama on domestic spying.

44% of the country cares. Dare not dismiss the a minority opinion just because it's just under the threshold of the majority.
There is also an issue of things that are individually expected turning into an unexpected, and possibly undesired, result through technologically enabled cross-referencing.

For example, if you combine face-recognition, driver's license databases, and feeds from public security cameras, you can (albeit currently with quite a bit of error) track someone's movements around town. All of the individual components are reasonably expected. But people traditionally don't expect the result: the state having a map of everywhere they went today, without having to get a warrant to attach a tracking device or to subpoena mobile-phone records.

Whether this should matter legally seems a bit up in the air. The position that it should is sometimes called the "mosaic theory" of the 4th amendment: http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/111/3/Kerr.pdf
Thanks for the feedback we'll take in into consideration. Our goal is to make a designer's life easier so causing a heart attack is the last thing we'd want :-).
There's routes to Iceland that can bypass the US altogether, and its allies in a more roundabout way...
More generally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_state
You don't have to click on these threads if the subject bores you.
I recommend reading ancient Christian texts. Start with http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html . You'll find a large number of references to parts of scripture as figurative. You might especially enjoy Augustine's "On The Literal Interpretation of Genesis".

Counterchallenge: find me ANY citation older than ~1870 AD that states that all of scripture should be read literally.

I must admit, my studies have not been completely exhaustive. But I'm quite confident in claiming that "some of scripture is figurative" is by far the majority view in Christian history.
A qualification/certification does not imply a good/useful/in-demand engineer. What if the issue is with the education system?
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Moniker.com, they have great bulk domain management.
I think the best solution would be a per account killfile.

Letting somebody post while dead without them realizing it is a kind of emotional abuse called gaslighting, which is based on confusing a person about the nature of the reality they experience. It doesn't have to be intentional for it to be abuse. By hell-banning accounts without notice you are basically denying the person's perceptions; they wonder what's wrong with them, why doesn't anybody care about what they say, when everybody else can see they are dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

Even without banning accounts, I find that the greying out of downvoted posts is a kind of public humiliation for bad behavior. At the very least, the option not to have the text greyed out would be nice.

And then finally, this entire thread is violating the HN guidelines:

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.

So it's not like they're going to be particularly open to feedback, and I would be surprised if anything came of this. There's a feature requests link at the bottom that is the right place to post this, but it's basically ignored.
From some point comments of my main account stopped getting upvotes. After seing this post I thought that maybe I am dead and given the assumption that you can't see if yourself are dead I created a separate account and inspected my comments. Sadly, it turns out my comments are just bad :(. I don't know which answer I hoped for.
Well, you have a point with his vote reauthorizing the Patriot Act, but I still think it's tone deaf to ignore the campaign rhetoric that Obama made during the 2008 election.
Isn't there some real logistical problems with that. For example I am used to an particular keyboard and typing on a laptop keyboard is big issue for me.
What does "IB T3 line building" mean? The only part I could parse was "T3 line".
Is this version compatible with RStudio?
That's a very selective school that few people are lucky enough to attend. It is not well named.
I know little about the legal issues, but that strikes me as ill-advised. It's clear that US intelligence agencies aren't concerned by laws, so the power these organizations are able to project in a country is at least as important as its legal framework for extraditions. Snowden may be safe legally in Cuba, but would he be safe extralegally and safe physically? It seems that Hong Kong was chosen specifically as a place that would present more than just legal obstacles for the US.
Radford Neal: oh, let me take a break from ground-breaking stats work to double the speed of R.

I'm very thankful.
The background is that, like Edward Snowden leaving the NSA, Karen Hudes came from a position of relative comfort and security as Senior Counsel at the World Bank to blow the whistle. She emerged some time ago; this is a new article on her revelations and not strictly speaking breaking news. However, her revelations deserve further consideration and so it's refreshing to see them redistributed in the current climate.

The broader background is that the nature of our fractional reserve system is one of wealth centralization via institutionalized, state-enforced usury, and humans have known about the perils of such schemes (for example, most of the monotheistic religions speak out about the dangers of these systems).

The World Bank and other 'international' institutions have over the last few decades been largely unmasked as surrogate tools of the US State Department, for example through books such as Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Having had the chance to personally meet with diplomats who have confirmed details within such sources, and having received shocking responses to some FOIA requests in Europe (), I am in no doubt personally as to the way the wind blows in the global economic system.

IMHO, the challenge that humanity now faces is to adopt fairer and more holistic financial/economic systems that reward social and environmental concern, recognize the interlinked nature of our shared fate, and to transition our current economic systems (in the physical goods/supply chain sense) and our trajectory of technological development toward these new systems without causing sudden breakdowns. Thankfully, most of this should be possible. A critical mass of two things are required: political will and the capacity for disengagement from the sole financial profit motive of corporate and individual actors is what is needed.
Ask HN: How do you re-invent yourself?
I think one of the great things about the united states and other such countries is that it gives lot of hope. Hope in the broad sense. We have multi billion dollar nonfiction book industry that is a proof of this where countless books are published and they sell you somebody else's success story and ultimately we buy it the hope to change things. while buying a book or aspiring to do something different than what you have been doing is one thing, following through is a completely different thing. I think the latter can be a little bit easier with mentorship rather than reading books. Learning for peoples experiences interactively than working on change in isolation.

Would like to hear from the community, from people who have been able to bring pre-meditated positive change to their lives successfully. Many thanks for sharing.
"raise questions about Hong Kong's commitment to the rule of law"

Hope the irony isn't lost on them.
I found the part about CVS surprising to say the least.
I dunno, military hospitals? Public hospitals? Medicare?
This mirrors my opinion, every country has subpar students. I wonder how many of these students are actually quality engineers. Another explanation is that they are graduating from institutes that are not demanding or preparing them for real world challenges.
I believe the word you want is 'Glean'
> Those are secrets of people, not of nations.

Yes, now please bother to read the next two sentences of my original post and then think about it, because I'm not in the mood to repeat myself.
It says nothing about the quality - there are just too many IT grads and engineers. Salaries will drop.
I wrote something similar to hy once before but never finished--was called ruse. I solved the TCO problem with trampolines.
USENET had this (per-account killfile); ended up with a hack to do "global cancels" to try to contain spam, though. There's probably a role for both.

The problem with individual user killfiles is you then end up with weird conversations where some people can't see some of the responses, leading to duplication and confusion.

Being able to "killfile" certain submitters or certain sources of articles or certain tags/topics/etc. might work better, and would be a lot simpler.
I made a small open-source IRC botnet incorporating some modules from code in the book: https://github.com/nikisweeting/python-medusa. Feel free to check it out!
I can't think of a good reason to use NetBSD [1] over Linux [2] for any architectures that Linux supports. I guess licensing is an issue for some companies. If there's another reason, the NetBSD project needs to communicate it better to attract new users.

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/ports/#ports-by-cpu

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_supported_archit...
Honcho: a python clone of Foreman.
It might extend their expected lifespan a little if you painted the underside white/grey.
Some companies and employers like when people take a stand. Patagonia, for example, has a bail benefit for environmental activists.

The right people will understand. The others are employers you wouldn't want to work for anyway.
Or $10 for 240 miles of range, if you aren't on a long haul trip, and don't mind plugging it in at both ends of the commute.
Senator Bernie Sanders' Restore Our Privacy Act
Are you sure that's the reason you were banned? "Refreshing the 'new' page too quickly" does not seem like legitimate grounds for banning to me...
I once read a similar thread but swinging the other way. It was how to get rid of mean people and written by the apparent administrator of the site. When I was in a trivial position of authority once I found that I could deal with troublemakers by making them uncertain. Unlike a court of law, uncertainty is available to this site. The whole thread back then was longer than a certain book while I won't bore you the title with. All I ask is to make of those who do not believe their own passions, necromantic dust. I am unvarying in the websites that I read each day and do not know of an alternative for Hacker News yet.
Is using disposable gloves while pumping gas an English thing? I've never heard of it before
This is why laws against wearing masks at a protest are really bad.
> angle greater than 11 degrees relative to the horizon would not be particularly dangerous.

unless there are buildings, of course.
These are literally all engineering problems that can and have been solved. You have no idea what you're talking about as it applies to this situation.
Sometimes people on hacker news would rather vote down a comment than to fact check or try to use compassion and understand the other person's point of view. pg disabled voting down comments within threads you are a part of but I don't know if it's enough...
Diesel is kind of cheating -- you can go to a truck stop and use the high flow pumps (not sure if it works on the 2.0 TDI, it has to do with the vents in the fuel tank, but it works on a lot of non-semi diesel vehicles, including sedans and pickups). They're about 30 US gallons per minute.
Well, I often do:

cat some.log | awk '/regexp/ { print $2}' | sort| uniq

Then tweak that line to get what I want, then change it to:

zcat some.log*| ...
The same issue with pumps when they run out of stock. Now you have to wait for the tankers to arrive ...
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It depends on where you're fueling -- some diesel pumps are really dirty (although this seems more common at truck stops and marinas/ag diesel tanks).

For insanity, the Army fueling procedure involves putting a drip tray underneath the vehicle, wearing gloves/mask/etc., etc. Which maybe makes sense for some tactical vehicles, but is silly when they're putting regular auto gas into a leased SUV. This might have just been a contract requirement in Iraq/Afghanistan/Kuwait. The contrast with the civilian Iraqi fueling (plastic bottles by the side of the road...not fuel bottles, but 1.5L water bottles), and the Kuwaiti civilian stations (leave the vehicle running, remain in the vehicle smoking/on phone/etc. during fueling), was quite marked.
> Why shouldn't they?

Because the purpose of getting a driver's license is to prove ability to drive. We gave the DMV our photo and personal information for that purpose only.
I'm sure there are cases where that's true, and perhaps this software can help with that aspect, but the claims of "Cooking made easy!" seem .... vastly overstated.
I am just theorizing here, but If i were designing this system it wouldn't work like that.

When a battery comes out of a car, it goes on a charger(underground, or wherever). Each charging station starts with 42 batteries(2 extra for good measure) and each spot that a battery sits in wait is a charging station of its own. At minute 0 a battery goes on the charger. After 40 battery changes, one every 90 seconds, an hour has gone by. At this moment the first battery we put on the charger is full, and we have 39 more charging batteries each finishing their charge at 90 seccond intervals in the same order they went in.

In this way, we never run out of batteries.

Of course first they have to change the system to leased batteries so they dont have to give do the whole 'come back for _your_ battery' thing.
This was rather surprising to me. I didn't realise that Hacker News had such a feature and never spotted the "show dead" button on my profile page. I have turned it on now and I agree, there seems to be many users where you have to wonder if banning was the correct action.

Perhaps this feature is best left for blatant trolls and spammers. Perhaps only to be done by admins (with a reason given).
I'm glad to see that the US government is being predictably stupid about this. Making public demands and veiled threats is probably the best possible way to ensure that HK and China won't cooperate.
Or use the MeCam micodrone shown in the article that's about 1/10 the size of the drone in the video.
Yeah, I saw the tail end of all that. One difference is that newsgroups don't have the same precise threading that HN does. I would be okay with not only killing comments on a per user basis but also killing all replies to those comments. So don't show me any submissions that SparrowOS makes, don't show me any of his comments, and don't show me any replies to those comments. Conceptually easy, but perhaps expensive in some cases such as looking through another user's comment history.
I just turned this on. What differentiates these comments from others? Do usernames show up in a different color or something like that?
Seems like a problem that will figure itself out over time, my experience has been that the industry has a very high attrition rate for those who are under talented. If you love what you do and actually possess skill the long term prospects aren't terrible in any kind of way. Of course when I say 'talent', I mean the strategic onus is on the individual to find higher profile work.

+1 problem with the education system, if the hustle is that CS is a golden ticket or some crap like that. The gems will always shine and get snatched up by more mature players.
It is actually a Hong Kong issue at this point, and there are a ton of (even British) lawyers in HK who would die to take this case. China is not likely to do anything to interfere in any fashion that might suggest an encroachment of the autonomous rule Hong Kong enjoys.
Looks great!

One thing R really needs is some sort of dead simple pass-by-reference mechanism for functions. Creating copies object copies every time you call a function on an object is a real performance killer.
Two things:

1. This is incredibly anecdotal, but the half a dozen people I know who have come from Indian educational backgrounds (specifically IT programs) did not have much to show with their diplomas. These are all incredibly bright people who seemed to start out levels behind their otherwise peers, and often rely (as we all do) on online material to make up for gaping flaws in their knowledge. From the source article:

Hiring is slowing down because recruiters are changing their strategy. "An engineering degree is a poor proxy for your education and employment skills," says Manish Sabharwal, chairman of TeamLease, a temp staffing firm.

"The world of work is evolving... employers increasingly don't care what you know, they focus on what you can do with that knowledge." While dozens of new institutes have been established in the past six or eight years, he claims that over a third of them are empty and perhaps they are "worth more dead (for the real estate they sit on) than alive."

This suggests to me that many Indian STEM degrees are not an adequate proxy for value (just the same as many American STEM degrees.)

2. I wish decentralized certification systems became a bigger thing. Personally, I would love to be able to take a definitive test on whether or not I knew Python well enough to spend forty hours a week working in Python. Make it open notes and timed, like the real world is. I know this used to be a big thing in the 90's, but that was before my time -- why did this go out of style? Did the rapid advancement and evolution of the industry prove the system prohibitively time/effort-consuming?
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People aren't simply good or bad. There are a lot of people who are good most of the time, but occasionally assault someone. In fact, most of the people who assault other people probably only do it occasionally. Which means if you looked at random time slices from the lives of people in prison for assault, they'd almost always be doing something innocent.

Now I'm going to kill this thread, because as it says in the guidelines,

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something
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Did Dropbox buy Snapjoy or did the team decide to join Dropbox because their product was not working out?
I was commenting on the podcast, which makes a point that "fighting is futile".
I do not like that theory of the fourth amendment. I am neither lawyer nor historian, but what I remember of the purpose was to prevent the state using the police as a means of harassment, as the British did before our independence. (Hence why seizure was highlighted.) Some of the other amendments, like the third, were also to remedy specific, recent abuses. Which is not to dispute the fourth's broader (and good) applicability, but I would wonder what the justification is for broadening it that much.

The purpose of the amendment is not to give criminals a certain minimum chance of avoiding detection by making it hard to collect evidence. That is just an incidental result. So long as such monitoring is not used as a means to stifle legal dissent, I have no objection to it.

My 2c. That said, I'm not a strict constitutionalist. The law should reflect the good of the people now, not just what guys thought a long time ago. If it does more harm than good, the mosaic theory maybe should prevail.
I own one. I routinely get over 600 miles, but 700 needs careful and slow driving. This A4 is a really tough comparison because the fuel economy and driveability is way better than most mid-size cars. The Tesla looks a lot better if you compare it to either more typical sedans or to its more direct competition which is sports cars. Eg compare to an R8 and the range difference is much reduced.
Doesn't surprise me. If they didn't have access to this information they would not be the FBI.
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