skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll have to try and find the article, this was years ago, but there was a study about people just tapping their brakes lightly that would cause the person behind to do the same, a little longer, etc. etc. that would cause a big traffic jam over time. The study calculated some figure that showed if people just kept their distance up to the person in front, and instead of lightly tapping the brake as a reaction to a merge, and just let the car idle a bit to slowly decelerate, you could reduce traffic slows / jams by a lot. This seems more reasonable than the solutions presented by this article, don't let people merge.. really?
Ball Sack. It sounds like "ball sack"
Its a legal lane to no where. By using it you're then relying on the good graces of one of those chumps you just passed. They don't need to let you back in. They're in the legal lane to somewhere, you just got no where really quickly.
It's great that they did this study. I wish more people would publicly challenge many of the outlandish claims in advertising. But it seems rather hypocritical to knock Microsoft for a sample size of "nearly 1,000" when their own study "obtained 1,008 Bing It On challenge responses from the MTurk platform and narrowed our analysis to 985 respondents who submitted screen shots for 4925 searches."
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In the quote you've chosen the researcher specifically says "on the whole".

Are you arguing that your physiology represents the whole of humanity? This may have enormous implications for cancer research and neuroscience if so - you should get in touch with your local research university.
I'm using Wordpress for a project because of the wealth of existing templates and plugins. Without these Wordpress is not terribly interesting; it's not Wordpress.

Once you drop the ecosystem there are plenty of alternative to creating static or near-static sites.

edit: I should point out that more alternatives for creating Web content is, on average, a Good Thing. Presenting a tool, however good, as an alternative to Wordpress however brings a lot of assumptions that may cause people to focus on the wrong things.

There's probably a market for a form of Wordpress that could use existing themes but not plugins, and only allowed basic posts and pages, with perhaps a more robust security model. E.g. prevent commenting (in order to avoid having to accept external content) except via Disqus or something.
How does stating that one country has certain values imply that no other country has those values?
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Yeah, it takes a bit of tuning, depending on what you want to do with Elasticsearch. There are so many different use cases. I found that especially keeping the heap size for field data down to 40% helped quite a bit, in my case.
oh ok i see.
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There are cases where leaving a greater-than-normal lane spacing makes sense, in the interest of safety. Safety is something utterly ignored in the fascinating analysis in this article. For example, if I'm in a left lane buzzing along at wide-open freeway speeds and the right lane next to me is congested and backed up and not moving, I leave more than normal spacing in front of me. Why? Because it's very likely that someone stuck in the right lane is going to dart out in front of me or the driver in front of me, and very likely that I'm going to need to make a very sudden stop. It's just unsafe to cruise along at 75 mph next to hundreds of cars that are looking for an opportunity to jump in front of me.

The prisoner's dilemma also applies to this. Behavior that is "optimal" for a single individual in terms of getting to destination is not what's optimal for the collective in terms of safety. And optimal behavior for getting to destination is not the optimal behavior for safety or lower stress driving, either.
Well, the last time a government tried to create an artificial market, it ended in disaster. Years ago, California tried to create an energy marketplace. This of course led to rolling blackouts, widespread abuse, bankruptcy of a Fortune 500 company, and the state signing overpriced long term energy contracts.

I believe these exchanges will fail. You can't add a whole slew of new policy requirements and then expect the prices to go down. But then, the goal of the exchanges is to make the prices go up, justifying the complete takeover of the healthcare system by the government.
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Can you explain how the set of possible anomalies are defined?

Does each user decide them for their own application, or does Anomalous try to figure out when something weird has happened?
http://javascriptjabber.com/070-jsj-book-club-javascript-all...

I'm not sure if you'll find it as great as I did, but there it is.
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That's fine if you can safely merge into the exit lane without slowing down traffic in the non-exit lane.

Here's when it's not OK: cars in the exit lane are traveling at 2mph. You drive up next to the line, slow down from 55mph to 2mph and wait with your blinker on for someone to let you in. Now you've slowed a second 55mph lane down to 2mph, blocking thru traffic and creating a dangerous stoppage in the non-exit lane.

Seriously, don't do this.
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It is absolutely ok for nations to spy on each other under certain circumstances. Primarily when there's a serious risk of war, and even more so when it involves nuclear weapons.

I see no evidence that the US or South Korea spying on North Korea is a bad thing as one example. It's a dark regime when it comes to transparency and easily available intel, but at the same time it routinely threatens nuclear holocaust.

I also believe it was important for the US and the USSR to spy on each other during the cold war, as a means to prevent misunderstandings, panic, war, nuclear crisis, etc. Keeping tabs on the enemy when they're a nuclear-heavy global superpower (either side), is a good thing.
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no i don't play games at all. I do web developing. Basic HTML, CSS, Javascript authoring, maybe a little Photoshop and some services for testing purposes *AMP, Node, Databases, etc...
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Not in this case, no. They were trying to replicate Microsoft's results, which entails using a similar sample size.
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I am thinking for the 13" cause i want for traveling too and in my office i've got another 24" that am intending to plug.
Looking for a tool that can help in quickly testing a website for the popular phones and tablets (iphone, ipads, galaxy, kindles, etc).
Like I said, for embedded systems. The wired connection is not an active link to the internet.
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Yes, that's exactly what happened.
This seems to more accurately be "Audio Analysis with Signal Processing Algorithms". It shouldn't be surprising that Fourier analysis applies to audio... up next: discovering that wavelets apply to audio.
Microsoft lying in an advert? Impossible! They've never had to resort to that before!

http://www.curi.us/1571-lying-microsoft-advertising

http://blog.debate.org/2010/12/06/the-cloud-is-a-lie-how-mic...

http://techrights.org/2010/01/09/guardian-microsoft-podcast/

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/23/microsoft-caught-l...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-zq2JD-3A

http://modmyi.com/content/10764-microsoft-bashes-apple-samsu...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/13/3984700/microsoft-negative...

Of course, Microsoft has an article about why telling lies in your advertising is bad, but as usual, they fail to heed their own advice.

http://www.microsoft.com/business/en-us/resources/marketing/...
They are hugely fustrating, we did per tab modal dialogs in Firefox OS, I imagine they will be fixed in desktop shortly.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613785 open bug for it
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Why is it wrong for nations to spy on each other? That is a practice that has occurred throughout recorded history. Espionage gives nations early warning when they are about to be invaded, or when treaties are being violated, or when gross violations of human rights are occurring.

The problem is when the spying extends beyond governments and starts covering civilian populations. When surveillance is conducted against the general population, when the government of one nation uses its surveillance systems to engage in industrial espionage on behalf of domestic businesses, when spying is used to subvert democratic processes, that is when we start to have problems.
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The first comment on the article is by Jason Schuller, who created a great little open source blogging platform called Dropplets (http://dropplets.com/).

I use it myself and it's fantastic. Simple and elegant and I feel in control of my blog now- there's no magic.
So I'm not in your target market, but just throwing this out there, I do a lot of client or client/server development (e.g. mobile). And so something that I really want is a logging service that creates unified client/server logs and treats both clients and servers as equal partners.

There are just so many server logging services (Loggly, Splunk, Logentries, etc.) and some of them even have some shitty client logging feature as an afterthought. But if you're serious about catching both client and server issues you either have to use separate dedicated client/server products, or roll your own server on FluentD or similar. Which, I'd like to point out, is terrible to set up on VPS or inside Docker because you have to tweak all sorts of Linux kernel parameters so that the network stack performs well[1].

So I mean maybe there is a great market for Yet Another Loggly Service out there, and if so, hats off to you. But I have spent a lot of time googling for a logging product I can use as a client/server person, and I've got nothing. So if you (or anyone on HN really) can easily enter that market, I will be your first customer. E-mail in profile.

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> The animals are all arranged in poses by the photographer

Oh. Well that's slightly less horrifyingly dramatic than the photos imply. I figured it was "animal accidentally dives into lake, escapes, and then finds a spot to sit and dies there". Not that the photographer just made use of some weird-looking statue-like corpses from the beach.
That's essentially what I do in much of my C code: implement pool allocators. And that's essentially what the post we're commenting on is talking about.

Incidentally, good common case for 8-byte allocations that is actually common in real-world C code: 32 bit linked list nodes (4 bytes nextptr, 4 bytes dataptr).
If ever I hit a jam on the motorway, I always pull to the left lane (UK), join the trucks, and imitate their driving style. Almost always, over the length of the jam, I beat my neighbours in the middle lane without doing any lane hopping.
Also notably, the answer linked is from October 2010, so this has been in use for a while.
Ha...that's nothing, I had two wires, a bulb and a AA 1.5v battery and had to make do with that.
>The width of the lines given by the version axis is for visibility, not to encode data.

Bar graphs do exactly the same thing in a 2D graph. Would you suggest that all bar graphs be replaced by a one pixel wide stacked bar graph?

Of course not, because even though the samples in a bar graph are discrete, they convey order. It's the same here. The width of the lines is only for visibility, but the Z position of the lines conveys version order. A 2D line graph would only convey that by labels. And if labels were as useful as visual position, we could just replace all graphs with lists of numbers.

I personally found this graph trivial to read and comprehend. The spacial distortion is canceled out by the fact that the differences we're looking at are very large, and the steps axis is spaced out sufficiently to line up the points visually.

My only complaint is that it shouldn't be a line graph, as the steps are not continuous.
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I'd argue that safety directly translates into speed as well, as a single accident can shut down 1-all lanes of the freeway and result in several hours of delay for the parties involved. So even being selfish you'd have reason to err on safety's side
I don't understand why Quora seems to be a standard to some. It hides it's answers behind a registration wall and ask that you give it access to your Facebook profile on registration.

It's a creepy website from my perspective.
That is sort of terrifying but also quite cool
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You probably shouldn't be cruising at 75 mph next to a lane of stopped traffic regardless. Leaving more space between you and the next car wouldn't seem to make that practice significantly safer.

I agree that the optimal behavior isn't universal though. One example I'd cite is that I always leave more space when the vehicle in front me is so big that I can't see what's in front of it since that limits my reaction time to what that one vehicle is doing rather than what's going on further ahead.
Part of the problem is a lack of established convention. When a theme park opens its gates in the morning, we expect a large crowd to jostle in through a constricted entrance like a funnel. However, when we queue up at the bank, if the line extends past the cordon, nobody runs up to that point and stands shoulder to shoulder with other patrons; we maintain a single file.

Which of these rules applies to cars merging? There isn't a set standard, so people invent their own and perceive their rule is universally understood.
> Sadly, this is a byproduct of a passivity in relationships that seems to be more pervasive in the Facebook era.

How many close friends do you think your grandparents had? How many people did they interact with? This is not a byproduct of passivity, but a byproduct of having a larger pool of "friends."
I ranted about them fairly recently...

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You do realize that this is not a feature of Docs and no "product manager" had anything to do with it, right? Somebody wrote an app script that uses the URLFetchApp.fetch function.

By the way, Microsoft Office has, at various times, contained a flight simulator, a pinball game, and a first-person shooter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_produc...
So the older/well circulated article that this author complains about would be describing Van Jacobson's algorithm?

Am I missing something about what the author is saying about the empirical data?

The stark uniformity of the empirical data up to the congestion threshold compared to the wild variance in heavier traffic is exactly the point of the older article this author is critiquing. Of course congestion happens when you approach capacity. This article is rejecting the original's explanation of that variance, without offering any new explanation.
Finally Scribd found a business model. I never understood what their value proposition was.
Its a little interesting, I tried Bing for a bit to avoid Google's onerous privacy issues, and I gave up. I moved to DuckDuckGo, haven't been back. The results are usually more relevant for me and I don't have to feed the Big-G machine.
Isn't the real problem with traffic more perception than reality? I'd be much more interested in how much additional stress/unpleasantness is caused by stop-and-go traffic that would be alleviated with the concepts mentioned in the "wrong" article.
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Same deal with <http://www.nist.gov/>. Folks were having fun with jokes on the nist-hash mailing list regarding the shutdown being a conspiracy by the NSA to compromise SHA-3.
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OP here, excellent point. Since so much is determined by occupancy (cars per km), I think the only way to switch domains is to lower the road's occupancy, which is exactly what you're doing when you leave extra space in front of you. However, I tried to point out that this probably comes at the expense of increased occupancy somewhere else, so you're just moving the jam around.
Actually, I have family who recently retired from US government employment. They did have email, but the MS Exchange quota was ridiculously small, even though exchanging CAD drawings with contractors was very much part of their job. Also, things like Dropbox were blocked.

I was amazed that this level of IT stupidity was possible until I learned that the IT people there didn't even report to the local management of their (fairly sizable) facility. No wonder they weren't required to actually help people get their jobs done.
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Yeah, okay.

But in my understanding, a minimum of 25 minutes is required for any (decent) change.

If you go from nothing to something, the first miles will always change you somehow... Although it might be only a little bit.

25 minutes is the minimum duration for your body to finish it's reserves :)
I'm curious if there's any advantage to this over the Espruino which actually runs JavaScript.
> I hate debugging. Anyone that’s worked at a desk near mine has likely witnessed my debugging cycle of rage, insight, disbelief, and existential despair.

I love debugging. Debugging is such a fun thing to do - inspect the problem, dissect the architecture, test your assumptions.
I have to look deeper at SQLite4 spec...

I would say that my objective with ChocoDB is to make it accessible and useful to people who want to manage database structures and queries in a more natural way.

I want the database to help manage different types of relations: inclusion, group, structure, association...

Key/value is simple but it does not help to manage relations.
Relational DB don't either help to manage different types of relations.
>To be fair ...

Do whatever the fuck you want, but be upfront and transparent about it. If you aren't, you're shady and sleazy.
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What an arrogant article. How can you title something 'How traffic actually works' when you don't examine actual traffic. Instead, make up a simple model, run some code, claim it shows what you want.

It's not like modelling traffic is so insanely hard that we need such simplistic models. Pick as complex a model as you like; we have the computing power to simulate it!
Currently, the conditions are user-defined on a per-metric basis. Future versions of the agent will calculate a baseline for each metric and use that as a means of performing automatic anomaly detection.
I used the spectrogram just to get the audio in a 2d representation that was insensitive to timeshifts. The image processing part was the `match_template` function from skimage.

Although normalized correlation (which is what `match_template` uses) has been applied outside of image processing before. I also tried other image processing techniques like harris corner detection and SURF feature detection. I didn't write them up but you can see the code on github:

https://github.com/jminardi/audio_fingerprinting
Recruiting the visual areas of the brain to process information is actually not a strong support for the argument that information processing in other regions of the brain is organized similarly--if it were, processing could be recruited elsewhere and you would not perceive it as "visual".
What basic Excel conventions do you have in mind? I'd like to avoid making the mistake of flouting them.
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