skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot like the stigma against aspartame. It found its way into popular culture and has become firmly entrenched despite all evidence from decades of intense scientific scrutiny to the contrary.

My gut feeling is that we're going to be in a similar place in 10-20 years with HFCS. The body of research there is still relatively young, however.
Question for the people answering: how do you handle revenu/salary taxes ? I see no mention of it in any post, do you keep paying in your home country, or do you pay in each countries ?
I don't know - but I do know that if no one goes to jail for reckless driving, people will continue to drive recklessly. And it's not just bicyclists who die from reckless driving - lots of motorists die as well. And yet, hardly anyone is prosecuted, and people continue to drive tired, distracted or otherwise incapacitated. And people die. And society seems to consider it the price of doing business.

Presumably when we start to care, we'll start to prosecute, and people will be a lot more careful behind the wheel.
You're not a cyclist so you judge them differently than you judge cars. Cyclists do get ticketed, even when they are commiting crimes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhWCFi3JIcU
How do we determine "unintentional"? Does having a blase attitude towards the road qualify? Most people don't even internalise the fact they're driving a ball of steel weighing over a tonne with the potential to mame or kill. Is that entirely their fault or of a society that treats driving as a right rather than a privilege and doesn't bother to educate the driver with advanced skills to handle the death machine.
No one is suggesting that the driver should be held accountable by default for a collision with a cyclist. But it would be nice if society even entertained the possibility that a driver could be at fault.
Rolling stops on bicycle are only legal in one state - Idaho.
China likes Bitcoin because the USG doesn't. As long as that dynamic holds, Bitcoin is safe in China.

Unlike the US, a hundred million+ internet users in China are already accustomed to digital money through the use of the now defunct Q coin.

It makes no difference to me if Bitcoin stays fringe or goes mainstream. It's value will continue to increase as long as it finds uses all over the globe, with or without the blessing of the USG.
I have ridden a bike year around in Chicago for over four years. I have been hit once by a car, and once by a motorcycle. Both times I managed to walk with only scrapes and bruises.

What is interesting is both of those times, I was in a bike lane with rear and front lights. When the car hit me I flew over its hood and landed several feet away. I had never heard of a car/driver being held responsible for a cycling accident. You could say I am conditioned to believe that drivers are never at fault. Once, I stood up from the fall and realized I was in working condition, I was ready to leave without calling the cops. My girlfriend had been on her bike riding behind me. She called the cops.

The driver said it was an accident. Accidents happen... I know the risks involved with riding. The cops wrote a report stating in a heavily biased manner, how I was riding too-fast for a car to notice me. Yep, me a guy on a bike with a bright flashing light, going no more than 12 MPH was in the wrong. I wasn't even mad. I felt great just to be alive.

Long story short her insurance paid for most of the damages, including a bent bike frame, ripped pants, and broken prescription glasses. But, had my lady not called the cops, I would've been left without a bike and without glasses.
http://search34.org/ has been doing this for a few years.

As the creator described it to me: it does a search, and a parallel search with porn filters, and returns the diff.
In cyber extortion, pay ransom to unlock PC
The argument is going to be that Tesla batteries cover the entire bottom of the car where other cars have the gas tank under the trunk. Probably, Teslas will get more armor underneath and that will satisfy everyone.
There's a big difference between civil liability and criminal culpability. If you're not drunk or driving recklessly, and you have no criminal intent, hitting someone isn't illegal even if you're 100% at fault. Nor should it be.
Haven't lived in Munich yet, but I expect salaries in cities like London or Zurich to be significantly higher.
How is everybody being spied on by a very small minority information symmetry?
A key difference, I think, is when one driver kills another there is often a more grievous error involved. With cyclists on the other hand, it only takes a tiny error at low speeds to have a fatal accident. I'm thinking the magnitude of the error might be playing into verdicts.
When you have an environment that only assholes will tolerate, only assholes will inhabit it.

Can you imagine grandmas and schools kids riding their bikes in urban traffic?
A rolling stop is illegal in CA.
Portland, ME. Several colleges in the area, can rent an apartment in town for < $1K, an office with parking for less than half of that, good airport 15 minutes from downtown, < 2 hrs from Boston, tons of outdoor activities (hiking, sea kayaking, fishing, etc), burgeoning startup culture (see: http://startupportland.com), high end craft beer (Allagash, etc) and a great food scene if you're into that (e.g. http://www.bonappetit.com/columns/the-foodist/article/portla...).

The one negative people tend to bring up is the weather, but Portland tracks Boston temps pretty closely. It won't be mistaken for Miami or Southern California, but the foliage is fantastic and snow can be fun.
Other ideas have the potential of going very wrong, it's in the implementation, which sounds like a challenge worth attempting to take
gibraltar if you commute by foot from spain. predominantly, the tech culture is based around established gaming and finance companies. english is the lingua franca in work hours.
I'm not from the US but I plan on doing a cross country adventure at some point. Let me ask you this; If my vehicle of choice was a delivery van of recent vintage with an artistic decal of a well known soda brand, would that help with avoiding such encounters?

At worst I could claim to be an Andy Warhol fan, would that fly?
Yes, they are but I am saying the cells are in their own mini compartments. Think of like a ship has compartments to keep the entire thing from flooding if it is breached. At least that is how I have understood it to be. Obviously this doesn't prevent heat from spreading and could still have a runaway chain reaction like in this case but it does maybe give more time to warn you.
Are you sure? The Model S has a quarter-inch thick armor baseplate, which is way more than a similar combustion engine vechicle undercarriage.
Anyone with input about Valencia, Spain?
"Doesn't that sound similar to hacking the system?"

Ha. No. The system is designed to make you learn about physics, in this case. You did not learn about physics. You actually hacked the system to take your time and money and not give you a good result.

Kind of a dumb hack, if you ask me.
> And there's certainly a desire to avoid fraud given that schedule of payments, if I'm correct about it.

But why is it any different than the desire to avoid fraud through underwithholding of income tax?

If someone files an in incorrect W-4 and underwithholds by $2000, then the Treasury is out $2000. If someone files a fraudulent insurance application and gets $2000 of unwarranted subsidy, then the Treasury is also out by $2000.

It's the same $2000, whether the Treasury writes some checks to the insurance company, or fails to collect it from an individual on his paychecks. Either way, the $2000 gets paid back on the tax return -- or the IRS goes after you.

> Erk: if you're right about estimates and it depending on that years tax return; what do you do if you lose your job and can't afford to pay the unsubsidized rate? What if you earn a lot more money, spend too much of it, and then get hit with a huge bill next April 15th?

Again, not different in principle from income tax withholding. If you do not withhold the right amount, then you may get hit with a big bill or receive a big refund when you file your 1040.

The main difference is that the subsidy does not automatically adjust. Withholding tends to automatically go up and down with income, because it's calculated by the employer on the paycheck. Whereas the insurance subsidy stays constant unless you make changes.

If you lose your job, you're supposed to tell the exchange so that you can get a bigger subsidy. If your income goes up, you're supposed to tell the exchange so that you can get a smaller subsidy.
I'm glad that people are cycling and that this article pleads with everyone to follow the rules of the road, but beyond that, it's still pretty sensational.

Even with the best of intentions, discipline and strict follow-through, accidents still happen. I'm aware of more than a handful of people that have been involved in an accident where they or another person have died and no criminal charges followed.

I would think that in most cases where a vehicle and a bicycle are involved, the risk of death to the cyclist is more likely due to the size difference between the two (the author hints to the same thing). This is something that motorcyclists have been aware of and dealing with for some time.

In places like Minneapolis, there exist tons of specially created bike paths that allow for bicyclists to travel throughout the city without risk of colliding with motor vehicles. The road is a dangerous place, regardless of transportation method and I'd much rather avoid it if not surrounded by technology designed to survive in it.
You missed the point. It's a fishing question.

> know/care

This is an implied project management question. (1) Can the employer even speak to it? (2) Does the employer see those who specialize on these areas as less important than other areas, in that they are fine with having no opinion on the matter?

> legacy practices

Did you not see this?

I picked HTML and (presentational) CSS (classes) for a reason, as they are boilerplate and they indicate whether or not Separation of Concerns bubbles up to management. Questions about HTML minification, the whole point behind preprocessed languages, etc. can be teased out with just one question.

It's like breaking into a network, looking at the codebase, and then combing for organizational and sociological judgments based on what you see. (LESS/SASS will comparatively more likely be documented. That said, would you take on an employer that leaves undocumented what can most easily be documented? — so it's likely they have lots of throw-away, unreadable, undocumented CSS. Do you want to work for an employer that is okay with "throw-away, unreadable, undocumented"?)

HTML is the lingua franca of the Web. Would you honestly work for an employer that calls this "petty stuff"? Tell me that. It's a tech interview both ways.

What if the employer responds, "That's petty stuff. We hire you to make that decision. We don't care. See the forest"?

You can find any person on the street who might say this. So why are you dolled up in a suit and tie yet again to be told "What you care about is irrelevant"?

Or what if the employer says, "I don't really know, but I'm glad you think about very finely detailed problems..."?

Generally my belief is that interview questions should fish or have the structure of getting you hired on the spot (http://pbfcomics.com/81/), where in asking them you've maximally described yourself but minimally given the employer the opportunity to fail. (Again, you don't care about your lingua franca of the Web? Go hire someone who has no opinion on this like you do.)
http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/downloads/201...
I like to plan a fun little game on AirBnB for this. Put in Europe as the destination, <$600 per month as the price, and a month as the duration. It'll show you available apartments in everywhere from Sicily to Northern Germany.

https://www.airbnb.com/s/Europe?checkin=12%2F01%2F2013&check...
In my view, if you actually do 8 hours of work in a single day regularly, meaning you perform a physical action which is directly attributable to your work description for a total of at least 8 hours every day for at least 5 days in a row, then you are one of:

* a physical labour worker

* a genius

* a sucker

* working crunch time to deliver a release (a potential sucker if the crunch time doesn't actually pay off)

* someone whose mind is too alien, that I cannot form a theory of mind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind) for
Same as in rest of Germany/Europe: Its nearly impossible for free lancers or small business if you are from outside Europe.

There is an equivalent to green card in Germany, but thats only for wage slaves.

Most Americans I know came as GI's and married a woman to become resident. oh well Its also common to Africans to buy a marriages. We have lots of unemployed people who sell this service.
Cyclists will die no matter what. No helmet will save you if you get hit hard enough.

The difference with this airbag is, your airbag is not aware of anything that's flying towards your head, like a truck hitting you on the side. It only inflates after you hit something and start flying.
I wonder, if Tesla were to harden the protective shield of the battery pack and issue a recall for the existing vehicles, they could just deploy the new battery packs through the automatic battery swapping facilities in the supercharging stations.

The costs would probably be much lower than normal car recalls, and it would also be an interesting value proposition for the owners: "zero downtime, you get for free a safer car and a fresh battery".

Anyway, the more I hear about Model S the more it looks like an exceptional engineering feat.
Elon previously indicated that it was ok to use water:

"For the Model S lithium-ion battery, it was correct to apply water (vs. dry chemical extinguisher)..."

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-fire
I would strongly recommend against Sofia right now. There is no rule of law in my country as a whole, we are busy overthrowing the government and right now there is increasing xenophobic wave (arabo/islamophobic) due to the influx of Syrian, African and Afghanistan immigrants. Our nationalists are rattling weapons and I think the government will use the foreigners as a lightning rod for the populace anger to keep itself in power.

I suppose that during the winter pogroms over them are not out of the question. Actually we had just today a national beaten almost to dead because he is of the Turkish minority and the skinheads mistook him for immigrant.

The situation is not nice.
some of them just speed through the intersection if they consider it safe, I've heard screeching tires a few times, which means they misjudged.

Stopping at every stop sign is a financial pain for a motorist, because MPG drops considerably. So what? Stop sign is a stop sign, it means "stop". The solution to this is not ignoring signs because it's a "pain" but to replace stop signs with roundabouts, like in Europe.
And it's because Google created Android independently of anything Rockstar did

You may be right, but a similar claim could be made about any patent case. (i.e., it's a weak argument.)

Consider you invent and patent a time machine. I've never met you or done business with you, but I read your patent and "independently" start producing a very similar time machine. You might have a problem with that. Obviously, Google claims they've never read the Rockstar patents or that they're irrelevant, but equally obviously, I'd make exactly the same claim regarding the time machine.
Not sure what you mean by decent but here are a couple of articles from MakeUseOf that review free VPNs.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-completely-free-vpn-services-...

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-great-free-vpn-services-compa...
At the very least, loss of driving privileges pending classwork and retesting should be required.

If a death is accidental then that lessens the severity, but it's still pretty high. If we're going to let you drive a two-ton hunk of metal in close proximity to squishy humans, then you bear a substantial responsibility to have the capability to do this safely.

Unfortunately, this attitude is anathema in the US. Personally, I think we should raise the driving age, greatly raise driving test standards, and require regular re-testing at an interval of a couple of years. I got my license at the age of 16 by passing a test that a half-blind monkey would have no trouble with, and that was the last time that anyone ever officially inspected my driving. It's insane.

But this will never happen, because a large segment of the US population would tread that sort of thing as an attack on their rights. People generally vastly overestimate their own skill behind the wheel and take the idea of regular testing as a slight against them.

I have to go through a skills check every two years in order to keep legally flying airplanes, even though the only person I'm ever likely to kill there is myself and my passenger if I have one. But I'm allowed to drive a car that could easily kill a dozen people or more if driven negligently, even though I haven't been tested on my skills in almost two decades.
I don't understand how people can walk on public sidewalks along bicyclists that ignore all traffic rules and drive wherever they like. The average cyclist is highly incompetent. Most people don't get any training at all. A lot of people are very distracted with talking on cell phones or listening to music with headphones while cycling. Bicycles moving at high speeds can be very dangerous to pedestrians that are walking on sidewalks.
Badia adds it as well. I'm not just referring to here in the US though. I have a copy of Nitza Villapol's La Cocina Criolla, and almost every recipe calls for MSG.
And you telling me that reminds me that the misdirection works.
The textbook that accompanies Pyret (http://papl.cs.brown.edu/2013/) covers many of these topics: the second half of this book is a full-blown programming languages text (formerly a stand-alone book known to some as PLAI).

I fully agree that you can't cover these things well in Python, and most Python textbooks don't, because of the poverty of datatypes and the difficulty of creating new structured ones.

However, while I think SICP is the greatest computer science book ever written, it has its own share of blind spots (for a simple example, see [the lack of] types or pervasive specification and testing). So the above book takes a somewhat different take on these issues. But it hews closer to SICP than any Python book I've seen.
Vehicular manslaughter requires a "wrongful act".
This is why I make sure that I also say in real life all of the terrible things I say on Twitter, Hacker News, and so on.
You said it right. Why didn't they start the project FullScreenGiuseppe.com and start their business with a new original trademark? Why did they have to steal?
> you should probably also be concerned with domesticated foods, since those have been selected by their farmers for many generations to produce specific things - bigger fruits, better tasting meats

This is sort of true, but also not at all. Natural selection deals with incremental changes over the course of decades, or generations. The likelihood that, for instance, Omega 3 production will spontaneously arise in a tomato, is so small as to be negligible. GM represents a step-change in capability, closer to the possibilities of the use of industrial food additives, than it is to traditional breeding. Except, as I say, the additives are now an integral part of the ingredients.
I disagree. Bicycles belong on sidewalks far more than they belong on roads.

That said, perhaps it's situational. My city has large amounts of arterial roads with heavy car traffic and sparse pedestrians. The speed limit on those roads is about 60 kph (about 40 mph), and I much prefer to stay off them as a cyclist. It would be much safer if I was allowed to cycle on the sidewalk in those areas, as there's little to no foot traffic.
In the city itself, different matter. There's much more foot traffic, but the speed limit is lower, so perhaps it's best there to be on the road.
Hack New Zealand's transport card, get free bus rides
Current helmets protect against impact injuries (eg, the pavement hitting your head). Yes, when the speed/energy is high, helmets won't do much. But when the speed is moderate, helmets help a lot. Then, there's also wearing the helmet properly, something many bicyclists fail to do.

The helmets today are only tested with straight on impacts: they're tested by dropping them straight down on the crown of the helmet. But that doesn't happen in the real world. You're moving, meaning you're hit at an angle, meaning that there's a potential for a diffuse axonal injury[1]: the rotational component of the injury. MIPS[2] has helmets that help protect against that.

Is wearing a helmet safer than not wearing a helmet? Without a doubt.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_axonal_injury

[2]:http://mipshelmet.com/home
> Are you sure?

Of the clever misdirection? After reading the rest of your comment, you should be too. The issue under discussion isn't the safety of the passenger versus road debris, it's the vehicle catching fire after colliding with road debris.

This is a clever mechanism to turn discussion to the armor plating under the vehicle; as both replies to me evidence, it worked.
Ask HN: Facebook ads and user engagment
I started running a couple ads on Facebook to my site Zanda.com and noticed the following problem: Those ads create a lot of engagement and discussions but the problem is that this is happening on Facebook and not on my site. Some ads get hundreds of comments and likes and I have the feeling I am generating content for Facebook and I am paying for it.
Do you have any suggestions how to improve that? One idea I had is starting using Facebook Conversations on my site beside my own comment/review option.
What I noticed that likes on the ads get carried over to the page and I am wondering if the comments would be carried over the same way if I use Facebook Conversations?
Any tips and suggestions?
OS X Mavericks: Fixing broken Python development environments
You are holding it wrong, don't drive it over large metal objects at high speed.

I love the boldness of the Tesla, I'm truly impressed by the PR skill of Mr Musk and his team. Let's hope they have enough data now to diagnose.
This does make me wonder if the shape of the Tesla's underbody (very flat [1]) is such that debris is more likely to make a direct rather than glancing impact. Perhaps Tesla should take a leaf out medieval armor design and add more contour to the bottom of their car so that it can shed impacts more successfully.

[1] http://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/non-make/fe/fe_9171228_600...