skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"TFA" is an abbreviation for "the fine article" (Other adjectives are sometimes inferred, much like "RTFM".) You'll find the link at the top of this page, but here it is again: http://www.bicycling.com/senseless/ The quote in this case was attributed to Steven Madey, an orthopedic surgeon who designs bike helmets and other biomechanical devices. As near as I can tell, he was summarizing the studies in this field. (Well, maybe one would say he was summarizing the public health studies rather but not the clinical studies.) Here's another summary: http://www.medpagetoday.com/CriticalCare/HeadTrauma/39122

Not to be any sort of jerk, but until you've spent enough time cycling in traffic to be comfortable, your intuition regarding the safety of that activity is suspect. Several factors are involved. First of all, there is the risk compensation phenomenon (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21418079), which is also seen for seatbelt-wearers etc. and causes users of any "safety" device to behave less safely to compensate for that use. This phenomenon also applies to other road users, so that when they see a cyclist they perceive to be "protected" by a helmet they don't give her as much space, they drive faster, etc. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457506...) Other factors are follow-on effects from the fact that requiring helmets reduces cycling rates (http://www.nber.org/papers/w15658): fewer cyclists make for more dangerous roads for everyone (http://www.ctc.org.uk/campaign/safety-in-numbers) and cyclists who cycle less aren't as good at cycling. There is a "rhythm" to riding in traffic, and after I've taken some time off, I have to be more careful until I sharpen up. With regular practice, you know:

- exactly how close the damn delivery truck is going to pass, just by the engine
sound
- which car is going to change lanes without signalling, not from its brakelights
but from its slight pause in acceleration
- how fast you have to pedal to intimidate an entering SUV into waiting for you
to pass instead of turning left completely across all lanes
- the distinct whine of a BMW (the official car of assholes) that's going
to attempt a right hook from 50 feet behind
- etc.
Sorry, I realize that. I mean, you're asking people to literally pipe data into their shell from a website and you're not using HTTPS. That seems lax to me.
Don't mean to flamebate but every time I read one of these article this book comes to mind.

http://www.amazon.com/In-Defense-Flogging-Peter-Moskos/dp/04...
>It's interesting that this event may spur countries into making their own electronics

Or, more likely, some hand-waving policy that states "cooperation in fighting the thread of global terrorism" and more monitoring/gathering of data.
Supposedly there have been 10 "plots" in the last 12 years that have been disrupted by US government surveillance of its citizens. That's much higher than 95% yielding nothing. This is a fact, something we already know.

I think you're making a category with respect to traffic stops, though. It's not "law enforcement" at the point the searches are being done in the context of surveillance, and I'd argue that meatspace comparisons here are inapt on the whole. The level of inquiry through surveillance would be comparable to a LEO having reasonable suspicion of something, then downloading your GPS history and searching your car after you leave it at your destination (imperfect, but close enough for internet debate).
The US administration agreed to reflag Kuwaiti tankers as US tankers as a dodge around US law that prohibited the US from convoying foreign merchant ships, as part of administration's broad policy of support for Iraq's unprovoked and extended war of aggression aimed specifically at seizing particular Iranian territory, mainly Persian Gulf ports. (Why protect Kuwaiti tankers as part of supporting Iraq's war? Because the reason Kuwaiti tankers were being targetted was because Kuwait was spending billions of dollars supporting the war; Iran was attacking the flow of money supporting Iraq's war effort.)

The entire operation (and several other operations close in time in the Persian Gulf) was the US administration choosing to directly intervene in support of Iraq in the war with Iran; the limited scope of the intervention was a matter of sell it, above all to US domestic audiences, as something other than the direct support for Iraq that it was.
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I think this is great, nice to finally see microsoft following suit.
I don't think there's any other way to interpret free. Nobody assumes that the cost of operation of bus routes will drop to zero.
How much does Microsoft get from the US government for those same vulnerabilities? More or less than what they pay the outside researchers? Are the "direct cash payments" tax-deductible? Is the government money taxable or not?

Now that we know Microsoft passes vulns along to the NSA, this looks a lot different.
Me as well. I always use reload but I don't really know how it works. Does it maintain the old and new configs and drops the old after the last connection using it is complete?
Prices also help keep the foul-smelling derelicts off the bus.

Maybe you think "well, foul-smelling derelicts deserve to ride the bus." And you could well be right.

But other people won't ride the bus with the foul-smelling derelicts.

If your goal is have a bus system you can feel happy about, this isn't a problem. If your goal is to have a bus system that people actually use, this is a big problem.
If you install your own cache server, not only can all of your DNS request be logged off the wire, but you're vulnerable to DNS spoofing attacks. Those attacks are probably impractical today, but might not remain so.

I think securing the DNS is a poor approach in general, and we should instead concentrate on making an insecure DNS a chronic inconvenience rather than a fatal flaw. But if you're going to try to secure the DNS, the DNSCurve hop-by-hop approach is superior to DNSSEC's approach.
> Basically the same idea as giving up on detailed long distance billing and going to flat rate. Where in this case the flat rate is about $5 on your property tax bill.

Nope. The streetsblog.com article linked near the end says the MTA brings in three quarters of a billion dollars through bus fares. That's going to cost $100 per person in nyc. Yes there will be efficiency gains, but this will also be a billion dollar transfer from people who don't use the buses to people who do. (And remember, this is just the buses. Many people like myself use the subways everyday without hardly ever getting on a bus.) Yes this can be justified by arguments featuring externalities, but those arguments (being dwarfed by political feelings) will not play a role in deciding whether this plan is ever implemented.
If the videopixie team is listening, you should really go after the wedding photographer market. Consider the following:

- Most DSLRs shoot video now

- Most brides want photos + video but don't want to pay 2 separate vendors

- Most photographers don't have video editing time/skills

Drop me an email if you want more details on the industry.
Could it be simply that millenials have always assumed that this stuff was going on, this they aren't surprised or particularly worked up by the revelations?
What about just drastically cutting the cost of a pass? So a single ride still costs $2-3, but you can get a monthly unlimited ride pass for $20?
Most of the submissions by this user are for that site.
Buses can legally only hold so many. Fares are a backstop against uneconomical use (why wouldn't I take the bus to go four blocks? my feet hurt) and overcrowding. If usage increases, and buses can't hold anymore, then what? No stops? Most bus stops aren't proper lines, but people hanging out until the bus comes. I'm certain a free system would be most disadvantageous for those who can't get in line fast enough when the bus does come.

I'm certain people can come up with ideas, but usually when I hear these sorts of discussions, it's not from those who rely on public transportation. I think the answers would be different if those having discussions had their licenses revoked until a decision was made :-)
Is DNSCurve an existential threat to Daniel Bernstein somehow? Because this is just a consumer-friendly implementation of DNSCurve.
I don't really give a damn yet, because I don't even know what PRISM is.

Is PRISM just software for making sense of huge data sets? Is PRISM some system for hacking into web servers and stealing information? Is PRISM just a program where the government can request access to private information on some company's servers?

From reading about it, I don't really buy that it's as bad as many people make it out to be. Have lines been crossed? Yes. Do I know enough about how far we've gone over the lines to be outraged? No.
Your words are always inspiring! I'm building #1 with features more than authentication for a particular platform. I have found those features minimum for every web application I have built for clients, and decided to package them to first assist me and now to many more soon!
That's excellent. 9 of 14 proposed projects were accepted

http://www.scala-lang.org/gsoc2013

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc... (type "scala team" in "Organization" box
Don't all programs you use over SSH take advantage of the fact that you can pretend that STDIN is a file even when it's a socket?
Additionally, Obama's approval rating amongst those under 30 has dropped significantly in the past weeks. I would imagine this is a direct result over the NSA leaks.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-approval-plummets-w...
They tried it here in Uruguay, happened the same, and also the "Ni-Ni" youth (neither work nor study youth, a huge problem here) used them as amusement rides.
No, because it hasn't impacted the lives of any Joe Sixpacks in bad way so far therefore Joe Sixpack is OK with it.

But the looming risk for Joe Sixpack is a mysterious string all of the sudden being rejected from jobs, loans, schools, airline flights, credit scores, tax audits, passports, arbitrations, etc and there's no appeal process for any of that. Your record is has been red flagged, maybe it's an error, but too bad for you, terrorist!

The real outcry would happen if a few dubious data points go viral through the web of information sharing handshakes between government and private industry, and those bad data points start raising irrevocable red flags on the records of ordinary people. That's how this could all go wrong for everyone.
What level of security (minimum, maximum, etc.) was the prison?
Personal anecdote. I am a student. In the town where I live, university students (and faculty and staff if I'm not mistaken) can ride the municipal buses for free. This has had an enormous impact on my behavior, even versus a very small charge like 25 cents. I don't often carry cash, and maintaining a fare card is a hassle, so if I had to pay for the bus I probably wouldn't use it very often. But since I can hop on to any bus I happen upon without worrying about paying or figuring out which transfers I need, I use it all the time.
I think this is because in a large company, the career paths could be endless assuming you have the skills needed to move into the new position, and in a small company they're limited by the size of the company. It's something you can discuss with them in the interview. At my internship with a 200 person group, my career advancement would have been "wait until boss gets promoted. Get boss's job. Else, move laterally."

However, you can determine some paths by the postings themselves. If there's multiple levels (level 1, 2, ...), or multiple paygrades listed (e.g. one of several grades depending on experience), you can kind of see where you're going.
Not just the query string values, it encrypts the path to the resource (and headers, etc) as well. However, another HNer pointed me to an article on side-channel attacks which is helpful to keep in mind when considering privacy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492338
Thanks Ethan - founder here. You're pretty close to the mark. As we were building out SellStage we had office hours with PG where we said (paraphrasing) "retailers have all these different video related problems, we're not sure which to solve", and he said (paraphrasing) "build a minimal solution to all of them, and see which one does best".
Why would they possibly do that?
And what benefit do we get from locking up any drug user? Legal or not? Are we helping the user or society like this?

Hippies? Really? The entire Drug War is a failure and should be offensive to anybody who treasures civil liberties. If you passively accept the status quo then YOU are the problem, because this madness only continues because of sanctimonious people like YOU.
Sure, it's just kind of weird to comment on an article about a web app when you don't use web apps. I don't own an iPhone but I wouldn't comment on an iPhone app and say how much I dislike it for being an iPhone app...
Can you find a single professional vulnerability researcher --- many of whom are openly critical of Microsoft --- that agrees with this point of view? Or are you just trying to connect every pair of dots you can find?

Another thing to note: when you claim a bounty for a vulnerability from Microsoft, you can be pretty confident that the vulnerability will at some point be fixed. When you sell it to a government yourself, the opposite is true.
My pleasure and hope that it helps!

If you guys are doing decent scale on sales it's 100% worth building your own checkout process so you can really drill down your high-intent traffic, or at least testing stripe / etc (or whatever other solutions are available in your market)
The free market doesn't, at least theoretically, work very well for transit. Transit creates a tremendous positive externality and it doesn't make sense to try and capture all the cost of providing transit at the point of the user.[1]

I think the way to go would be to have all transit be funded by a combination of user fees and tax increment districts in the areas served by transit. After all, it's not just the subway rider that benefits from the existence of a subway line, but all the businesses and residential developments near a subway stop too.

But the same would have to apply for road construction. Those segments of state highways snaking through suburbia should be entirely paid for by those who live along the route, not from the general tax revenues of the state. And gas taxes should be raised so they cover the capital costs of the interstate system, not just ongoing maintenance.

And while we're at it, the Army Corps of Engineers should stop subsidizing the west coast by damming up the rivers of the United States. If you want water move to somewhere that has water.

[1] That's without even reaching all the theoretical implications of the use of eminent domain authority, state rights of way, etc--you can't discount from the value equation the opportunity cost of using an existing state right of way for a highway versus a rail line.
Thanks Erik. You're right, and we'll be in touch :)
So, do you think it would be a good idea to turn all public roads into toll roads? After all, building and maintaining a road system is extremely expensive in terms of resources, both in terms of equipment expenses, salaries (for employees who could be providing other benefits to society instead of building and maintaining roads), and use of land. If you just make the roads free to use, people may take more roundabout trips to get to where they need to go, just to be able to make use of the free roads, causing inefficiency and waste.
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London, UK? Which happens to have one of the best and largest underground system in the world covering almost all areas of the inner city. Then you have the train service to get you out to the outer parts, and then the buses?

Admittedly, once you get to rural parts of the UK the public transport sucks, but day or night, I can get myself around London without too much of a wait.
> So, do you think it would be a good idea to turn all public roads into toll roads?

yes.
By "Criminal University" I assume they are referring to the phenomenon of a person going to prison for something minor, e.g. like stealing a bike, and coming out with intimate knowledge of how to commit more serious crimes.
Well, in the US tasers proliferated, and so has taser use....

the weapon's "cost of use" is much smaller than a firearm so it gets used much more casually as a compliance tool rather than as a last ditch tool to keep officers safe.
Fares bring in a lot of money, but they cost money to collect [..] Fare boxes and turnstiles have to be maintained; buses idle while waiting for passengers to pay up, wasting fuel; and everyone loses time.

A large share of my time at the grocery store is spent scanning and paying for the groceries too.
Yea, my dad still hasn't _quite_ figured out copy and paste but was clicking around the Ubuntu Software Center one day and managed to install Chromium (he heard me talk about how I was planning to install Chrome on his computer and I guess the names were similar enough).
I built something like this to automate cropping headshots for players in major sports. I figured it would work flawlessly after I ran a few test images through, but it turns out that it failed detecting a face or gave the wrong coordinates about 20% of the time.

I'm curious to know what the success rate of SeatGeek's process is.
Maintaining a road system is far more expensive in all of the categories you list than maintaining a transit system is. Yet road systems are maintained almost exclusively without usage fees (the occasional toll highway notwithstanding). The same is largely true of air and rail travel: government spending on airports, traffic control, security, etc... is generally not recouped from either the passengers or the operators.

Literally all the stuff you say seems to be directly contradicted by the way we deal with every other transport mechanism. So maybe you're the one who doesn't "understand how economics work in a complex system"?
Love the product, and while the grandfather'd pricing is nice - it only lasts for 6 months. If we were to continue using it past these 6 months Intercom would cost, on a monthly basis, more than our servers and other add-on services we already pay for combined. Pricing based on active users might make sense if your ARPU is high enough, at which point it's just a question of return, but at lower ARPU's it simply prices itself out of the equation - at least for us.
So in a nutshell, your argument is that if the public transportation were free, nobody would use it because it's too crowded?
This is an interesting idea, but it has its unseen challenges.

The very first issue is regulatory. Because the addition of passangers does present a real cost to bus companies, no tracking device on how many passengers it has has difficulties from a regulatory standpoint.
This may sound silly, but its a reality of life, such as when you give a free trial product to people owning a creditcard.

Currently, buses in buenos aires are ridicolously cheaper than cars, yet by culture, people really love buying cars. An hour's parking lot fee in the center of the city costs more than a week of bus fare. Making it free would not be a change of paradigm.

Buses are packed, and so are trains and subways. If subsidizing increased not only to cover fares, but to improve infrastructure and service, you are also servicing people with cars, making those more interesting. (less traffic -> also better to go around in cars).

Although this could help a lot, i dont think its a paradigm shift unless people with cars are paying the public transportation.

But that of course, present the other challenges, which is, what about people not having public transportation coverage from one point to another, and how would you administer such a route in a way that you dont charge him penalties.

I honestly believe that in big cities, cars are an expensive hinderance. Using a cab every single time you go out is still cheaper than buying one.
This has been my main project for months - I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks.
>1) Are privately run prisons better for the good of society than publicly run prisons? What does the research say? How biased is the research? etc.

IMO, Absolutely not.

>2) More importantly, regardless of whether they are private or public prisons, how do we get less people to be living in them? What are our other options?

Answer jury summonses. Learn about jury nullification. Pay attention to local elections.

> I then went and tried to find other organizations looking to make sweeping changes. I was not successful.

The Innocence Project of Texas http://www.ipoftexas.org/

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition http://www.leap.cc/
>Luckily however, we have a way to tell which is more efficient: The free market!

The free market rewards selfish, short-term impulses. It also doesn't require that individuals have a full understanding about what they're buying into.

http://www.geo.sunysb.edu/bicycle-muenster/traffic.jpg
Good, they're allowing minors (14 and older) to participate. From the FAQ ( http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/report/guidelines.asp... ):

Is there an age limit for participants?

Researchers 14 years of age or older may submit bypasses and defense ideas to the program. If you are at least 14 years old but are considered a minor in your place of residence, you must ask your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission prior to participating in this program. Please see the program guidelines for full information on eligibility.
This inventive use of language, resembles the way all LSD heads speak.

They can't solve a hard problem, but they can sure come up with a half-fake metaphor that semble's a solution.

There is an entertaining razzle dazzle aspect to these folks, but in the end these people and their words are self-contradictory tosh.

On top of that, these people are on the verge of psychosis, after abusive drug use in their earlier lives.

It's oh-so-difficult to imagine a hippie selling luxury goods, given that we have steve.

I'd rather stick with virtuous gutter idiots, than be steve.
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I disagree with this on the basis of "tragedy of the commons"[0]

For every person acting in their self-interest, it's usually cheaper and more efficient for them to use their car.

However, using their car has a cost of congestion (and a cost to the local and global environment) that is borne by everyone: if everyone makes the same decision, then everyone suffers quite badly and is still more constrained because now the public transport option is unmaintained and even worse than before.

A "Prisoner's Dilemma"-type Nash equilibrium has occurred.

As such, it's important for government to incentivise public transport (which they generally do, as it stands).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Why? So you can turn a city into a gated community?
That might happen. However, changes to systems which require "let us change a lot of things, and afterwards, things might even be better!" tend to go nowhere.

I'd love for people to work on making bus riding more convenient for people right now. The fares aren't really the problem. It's the bus going where I need it go in a comfortable fashion.
The other mile-high club
Logistics is hard in general, is my impression. In fact, most of the interesting problems logistics seem to reduce to NP-complete problems, which has some unfortunate consequences for finding optimal solutions.
He did mention specifically that the structure was provided by the `apt` install.