skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I assure you that's not making anyone any safer, because compliance is zero."

That's a strong (and I believe false) claim. You think the number of instances of people wanting to look at their phones, and thinking "no, I might get ticketed, better not..." is zero? or no greater than the number of times people think "fuck the law, I'm going to look at my phone now because it's illegal when I wouldn't have otherwise!"? You don't think anyone has cut a cellphone conversation shorter partly because they didn't want a ticket? Compliance is well (well) below perfect, and it may be that the reduction isn't enough to merit added complexity and bureaucracy, but I would be flabbergasted if it hasn't at all reduced the time people spend interacting with devices while driving.
I received the letter in my mail reporting my information was stolen from Adobe... pretty scary we had to sign up for a credit check company as a result. With the article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583103 we decided not to go with Experian... but that didn't ease my concerns with the other two options...
Who maintains the open source code?

What if a source change is accepted and Cisco does not want to release binaries based on that code?

What if the code contains a security issue that is exploitable, but only in remote cases and the maintainers do not want to accept changes to the code for whatever reason?

How many attacks will there be trying to redirect the Cisco DNS in order to let Firefox download a malware-ridden binary?

Will the binaries be available as deterministic builds?

Will the binaries be signed and checked by Firefox? Who has access to those signatures?

How is this a victory over using GStreamer and using the encoders/decoders available on the OS?
Although it's called WebRTC, and the billion or so installs of the two existing Web browsers that actually implement it both use only VP8, there's a lot of moneyed interests (like Cisco) that want to be able to inter-operate with legacy systems outside the browser. Video transcoding would really put a crimp in their plans.

And when I said "get an AAC decoder" I mean in the same sense that they get the H.264 encoder/decoder from Cisco, or the AAC and H.264 encoder/decoder from later versions of Windows or Android, with the key feature being not paying any patent fees for it.
Well, yes, cars are heavier thanks to life saving crumple zones and other safety engineering. I'd rather crash in a prius than a classic mustang.

That said, its also a little unfair to compare a 4 door sedan to a 2 door sports car. Modern cars are still heavier, but the difference is a bit more sane.

I think my dad's Cadillac when I was growing up was over 5,000 lbs. The 70s and 80s certainly had heavy cars, but heavy and death-traps and super shitty mpg.
This is an extremely common ACM question. This would heavily bias toward anyone who has competed in the ACM, which is probably the worst metric for hiring ever.
I am getting either the offline message or an error that says there was an error and the error page also had an error.

" An exception occurred while processing your request. Additionally, another exception occurred while executing the custom error page for the first exception. The request has been terminated. "
She should be ticketed for wearing Google Glass, regardless of whether she was driving or not.
But she wasn't watching YouTube videos; the Glass was off. She was just wearing them. How is it any worse than wearing normal glasses?

What happens if and when Glass-like devices become common and glasses-wearing people like me get them with prescription lenses?
I doubt compliance is zero. Driving around in other states, you easily see many more drivers yammering on or playing with phones.

Police will stop and cite you in CA, so while not everyone complies, I'd bet the majority do. Or at least a higher percent than states without the laws.
Great reminder. I am turning 32 early next year and started teaching myself programming this year. Sometimes doubt creeps up on me and makes me feel like I am wasting my time, but stuff like this helps. Onward!
I'm getting past 40 and I don't think the problem will necessarily be with me in the coming years as much as it will with employer bias. While you can keep up with the latest tech stuffs, some employers still don't want to pay for your experience or see your age as a liability vs being able to run a youngin' ragged.

One other thing I took away is that the author seemed that if you didn't make a big world impact no matter your age then you didn't succeed. I get into that mindset every once in awhile and feel rather down about it. Then I realize I'm raising my family, and while I may never be remembered for that amazing startup, I will be remembered by the ones that in the end truly matter.
No, they are not advertising the ratio. They are advertising reducing both. By your size/weight ratio, the original iPad would be the "ideal", but any one who has used any of these devices knows that's absurd.

Density is far less important than the actual size and weight. High density is a demonstration that they've utilized all the available space (since the density of the components themselves are not changing) for components and need less room for heat. Alternatively, it could be a sign that the internal structure matters less than less and only the exterior components (aluminum and glass) are meaningfully different from one version to another.

What makes the iPad Air attractive is not density, it's that there's less of it all around.
So, agreeing that race can (in some cases) be a good predictor of need, we can agree that the opposite is not true? Case in point, the OP had need, but got no help because he was the 'wrong' race. If your goal is to create lasting racial division and engender feelings of racial inequality and unfairness, race-based discrimination (in the form of benefits) seems to do the trick - here we are, years later, and it still bothers him.
They probably left reddit out of the list since it's kind of a dirty word on HN. :)
Doctors are perfectly good candidates for ad targeting, and some are paid quite well (even at academic research hospitals). Those institutions also have quantitative science departments.
I came up with the idea for my startup when I was 47. I don't expect it to be able to make a living at it until I'm 49. Age? Pffth. Then again, I'm not hacking together "Facebook for cats" and hoping for some zeitgeist to make it magically successful while buckets of venture capital rain down on my head, either.

A college kid would never have come up with what I'm building, because they wouldn't realize the problem I'm trying to solve actually exists. It came to me because I've been in the software industry for nearly two decades and have seen the same problems, over and over. I'm solving a real problem that I understand really well, with a straightforward monetization strategy from obvious customers. It's not something that could be knocked off in a weekend by a couple of dudes at a weekend hackathon.

The experience to see substantial problems and the patience to work on them comes with time. Don't worry about getting old.

That all said, my 40s have been the best creative period of my life, by far. I feel like all the things I learned and experienced in my first 40 years were just setting me up for what I can do today.
yes and i want to get to the bottom of this.Someone wants me take an early weekend?
Sort of like... BitTorrent?
Nobody was using the equipment. It was off.
The problem is that this is a bread and butter ACM problem. Anyone who has competed will know the solution. And biasing for ACM competitors is awful.
On the one hand, this just sounds like P2P. On the other hand, I am glad to see people recognizing the value in P2P (wasn't that what was envisioned for the Internet originally?) and trying to head back in that direction, away from centralized, implicitly trusted services run by gatekeepers/middle men.
Sure, but the article does make this point as well:

>My grandpa had no choice but to wait a long time for his opportunity. It's likely he would have achieved even more had be moved to the West.
npmjs.org was also down yesterday.
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How can one work "efficiently" with stackoverflow being down and HN being slow?
You can't.
I am not convinced that the solution to criminals increasing their power with technology is purely political. There are technological solutions as well. Criminals are raiding bank accounts by tricking people into divulging secret passwords or other information? Banks can issue smart cards, thus ensuring that secrets cannot be inadvertently divulged (because the cards cannot divulge their secrets). Governments are abusing their surveillance powers? We can build systems that encrypt messages and send the ciphertexts through mix-nets (or more complicated approaches for things like social networking [1]).

The political side of this should be encouraging or at least not discouraging the deployment of such technologies. Laws can be changed more easily than technologies. Deploy a secure infrastructure now; if the law changes later, the technology will still protect us.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/social-ne...
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I must be in a minority, but I find AngularJS inelegant. I am back to Backbone and its simplicity. Angular tries to solve declaratively what could be better solved with JS, HTML and your favorite template engine.
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I didn't know about CareerCup. If I ever try my hand at interviews in the U.S. I'll probably use it :)

http://www.careercup.com

The few interviews I've had here are quite different, since most everyone comes with recommendations and the interviewer has a general idea of what work is at other companies. (I did have a test interview once, where I showed I was completely clueless about CSS, it really wasn't a position for me)
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I was just thinking how terrible it would be if I had to read actual documentation again.
Your arguments are about as effective against sunglasses and other displays not directly in front of your eyes (others have already mentioned dashboards, but the HUDs projected on some windshields are a better analogy).
;-) I'm back, and I hopefully fixed it in the gist, adding a second pass (still O(N) but more complex implementation). Probably there are simpler ways, and indeed now I'm going to read the solution proposed in the blog post.

Edit: now that I read the solution, what I found is indeed the two passes solution and not the optimal one with the two pointers going in opposite directions.
You'll be able to do that with JavaScript. (It'll be very disruptive.)
"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."
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Another way to look at it - the 35 line on one side is for people who think they're losers, and on the other side for people who think they're going to be losers.
I love the "In Focus" by The Atlantic. There are always mesmerizing and capture the beauty of the subject being talked about. And also, wow - keyboard navigation! Yes!
You can get HUDs in cars now. My BMW has a HUD and it's hard to imagine how I used to drive without one, especially with GPS. I used to had to glance down and it felt dangerous. When I got my new car, this was the feature I wanted the most because it made navigating so much safer.
I am also a motorbike commuter and I was really looking forward to using the Google Glass for GPS navigation as I ride. It does not obstruct the main field of view, as far as I can tell it is very small and in the corner of your vision.

It is surely more dangerous to look down at a GPS while riding a bike.

I'm in Ireland and early indications make it look like it will be illegal to use while driving.
After another legal review, there is another pull request open / probably part of 0.6.5 which changes the README to have language which the DSFG considers free.
> And they basically removed support for plain text email.

You can still compose and view plain text email - the only change is that it doesn't display the plain-text alternative when someone sent HTML. Given that they support both, this makes sense from a usability perspective and makes "removed support" read as hyperbole.
I got hit by a car a few months ago and painfully walked away. The car was turning and not even at a fast speed. My friend passed away a few weeks ago when she got hit by a truck.

People forget just how much force is behind a vehicle moving at the speed limit.

I think, I THINK, that maybe we can respect the value of a human life enough to put down our computers while we drive.
It sounds like a lot of people comment don't actually own a glass. I do. It doesn't project anything into your eye and unless you tap it or use the head nod to turn it on, it doesn't display anything. And if you don't give it a command (voice or tap) then it turns off in a few seconds.

Unless she was actually watching a video on it, then it's no more distracting than the clock on your dashboard.
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I had to run in Chrome, as FireFox reported 10 FSP while actually displaying less than 1 fps. Nice.
This idea is missed by a lot of candidates "Write on your resume specifically what the job ad asks". When I am navigating the online job posting jungle there is one thing I try to remember, you are being judged by the paper you present. Your goal is moving to the next step (interview)so you can dazzle them with your skills/personality. Spending some time learning about the tech the company uses, and from the JD, how they use that tech instead of rushing as quickly as one can to the submit button can make a huge difference. Give some consideration to who is on the other side of that submit button. In most cases the person reviewing your resume is not technical and could really use your help discovering why you are a fit for the job. At some point the non-A playing Ninja Rock Starey regular folks (myself included) are playing a numbers game and tailoring your resume to speak to the specific position/company can help shorten the odds. That being said, networking is by far the best way to find a gig but can take time, and always works best when you have a job.
So, you cannot use gps for distractions, unless you can?

As for FoV - as far as I remember, the screen on Glass is quite small. The location is different from what law allows (top right instead of bottom), but still...
MongoHQ (CircleCI, Buffer and definitely others because of it), Hacker News, stackoverflow, Bitbucket... Is this a big coincidence?
Herbert Simon's Models of My Life is in general interesting and has some very good sections on leadership, mostly in the research and academic world. I don't know that I would call it inspiring.
From the comments:

> cited for speeding (80 in 65 zone) and passing a police vehicle while speeding

Once you're pulled over they can throw the book at you.
"This means that user data will be reproduced and recopied even more than it already is...how does that give users a greater control over privacy at all?"

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

In particular, if we ignore the issue of patents (which we should, since when are patents on math valid?), this is a promising approach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_based_encryption
I don't hate you — I'm a Christian, so I disagree with you about religion, but why would I hate you? I think most feminists don't really hate men, white or otherwise, either, though you and I might tend to have opinions that they disagree with. That is to say, don't mistake disagreement for hate.
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What if computers can help us drive?

Imho it's less distracting to use GPS on Glass, than have to look down and off the road to find it.
I wear glasses as well, and I agree there. But how do you want to prove that Glass was off? Should your Glass report to the Police when it's on and off?
Why do people add github's ip-addresses to their hosts file? What are the practical gains?
Hypothesis found in comments on OP website:

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Go see a lawyer. I was lucky enough to have a friend who was happy to help initially, and a family member who I could call from time to time. Ultimately though, actually hiring someone to sort through the all minutiae can be extremely valuable when dealing with bigger corporate or government clients. Even more so if you plan to accumulate your own IP.
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I would not be surprised if higher percenrage of bonded postings will be fake because all postings required for visa/greencard will be bonded and useless.
Why wouldn't the interaction be peer-to-peer as well? The point is to remove servers from the system, so there should not even be a concept of an "interactive server."
Is it usable for realtime video? Are there any video chat iOS apps that use it?

Edit: I mean usable by apps other than Apple-owned apps such as Facetime.
So they will pay what? When? with what guarantee?
What about production cost of videos? Do we need a license?
That doesn't smell very good...
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It's still too easy to get around that. There's no way to get around "The site is down / ddos'ed"
How is looking at a speedometer and off the road safe, and looking at a screen in front of you in the corner of an eye unsafe?
It's a political statement, though not obviously wrong.

For example, the US employer-provided-healthcare thing is an absurd burden on small businesses (and medium business, large business, and for that matter, the entire concept of labor mobility) that absolutely needs to go.

Of course, the better question to ask is more simple: how much is your time worth when it comes to hiring?

Because hiring takes time amount X, which presumably has value to you. But an employee will cost Y - somewhere on the order of say, let's say $50,000 - per year, in outgoing salary to them. So the question is, how large is X? How much money are you willing to spend hiring someone, considering that an employee, even if you had to do nothing, costs you $50,000 a year.
Or you prioritize exercise, and keep your energy levels up. I'm 38. My pace now is higher than it was since I was 20, despite a 4 year old son.

The big difference is for the last 8 years I've put in 3-5 hours of hard exercise (powerlifting) every week before work. I wish I had more time, both for exercise and projects, but these days I can pull all nighters and walk into the gym 7am the following morning and set new personal records a couple of times a week, and keep my energy up all day, whereas at 30 I was worn down to the point where I couldn't walk up a flight of stairs without my knees hurting, and would collapse on the sofa in the evening and not have energy for anything.

Now I am in better shape than most of the kids half my age at my gym, and have early 20's body builders talking about how deep I can squat.

And I go home after work, play with my son, and put in time on my projects after he's in bed.

Sure, I had downtime when my son was smaller, but kids are not an excuse for all that long - when he was younger, I put projects aside and my only "me time" was focused on keeping fit, and I feel it paid off. Now, every day, he can do more stuff for himself, and wants to, and every new achievement means more energy left over for me.
Interestingly, no mention of VP9.

Although the current political battle is over VP8 vs H.264 (Baseline) for Mandatory To Implement status in WebRTC, that's only the fallback position to avoid interoperability failure. Any random codec supported by the endpoints could be used.

For example, since you're forced to buy patent rights for all of H.264 as a bundle it seems that anyone who uses H.264 for WebRTC would use H.264 High Profile when both ends have it. (Currently Cisco is only offering Baseline, but are happy to accept code for the higher levels).

But just as easily, two copies of a future Google Chrome could use VP9, or two copies of even further future Firefox could use Daala, or IE13 could use H.265.

But VP9 gets no mention at all in Xiphmont's post. Have Firefox decided officially to skip VP9? In WebRTC it would seem an obvious stepping stone towards the Daala future, even if it's usage for standard HTML5 video is less likely to be useful.
Unfortunately conservatives who hardly pronounce a sentence other than "Repeal Obamacare". I think everyone would welcome some debate on alternatives. As much as we like the market influence on routine care, I think the real cost is the elder and catastrophic care. We have sophisticated and expensive systems for health care. I don't know the answer, maybe it means eliminating insurance companies for a single payer model, and maybe it means higher deductible catastrphic care insurance. I do think the combination of insurance company lobbying and american disdain of "socialism" make things different here.
Agree 100%. Many persons are already far too cavalier about driving.

In one of the last TSA threads a few people insisted that requiring a driver's license (also) unduly restricted freedom of travel, totally disregarding that driving is different from flying because you are operating heavy machinery in public.

I think a single DWI should be an instant and permanent revocation. DW-Texting/Facebook should be at least a temporary revocation. Having a computer on your face is the same class of thing. If you're so important that you can risk other persons' lives to save your time you can afford to hire a taxi.
I'm not generally a fan of Google Glass and skeptical of its future in the form it is today. However, I see a huge potential for it as a tool for cyclists, runners, etc. and ... drivers. It can potentially improve our awareness while we're driving. I have a HUD in my new car and it's amazing in its ability to make me constantly aware of my speed and navigation without taking my eyes off the road.

This sort of idea isn't new because pilots of military helicopters and fighters have these. It improves awareness and safety.

I hope the court allows this because making it flat out illegal to have a head mounted display would kill off innovations in this area, which could save lives. Maybe we can accept some compromises like a "car mode" for these device, etc. I don't know what the right answer is but I want the possibility for these devices in the car to be left open.
When you're holding something the way you hold an iPad -- or at least the way I do -- the weight of the device is amplified through leverage.

I tend to grip my iPad the way I do a book; near the bottom. The fulcrum point of support is at my wrist, which is always far from the center of gravity of the iPad. Gripping it from the bottom makes it worse, as the total weight of the iPad is suspended above my wrist. I constantly find myself swapping between gripping where I want to grip (near the bottom) and some other position that requires less effort. Even then, human anatomy dictates that the fulcrum point is always well outside the bounds of the device.

I've owned an iPad 1 (680g) and an iPad 3 (650g). Even the seemingly tiny reduction in weight was noticeable when holding the iPad near the bottom. I've held an iPad Mini, and the difference is night and day.

The iPad Air weighs 181g less than the iPad 3, but only 138g more than the iPad Mini. That means the iPad Air is closer in weight to the Mini than it is the outgoing iPad. If you don't think that's an appreciable weight difference that you'll feel every time you use an iPad, then you've got some serious gorilla-strength arms.
If I remember right the cable tram in Portland Oregon is air conditioned. I think they just run power through the cable.
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Not a chance it is coincidence. The only common thread may be usage of some cloud service provider though I don't think there is anything common between them all.

I would be curious if other popular tech/programmer sites are under attack and just thwarting it better?
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