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> If cycle helmets were made compulsory in the UK, it is calculated that an extra 253 people per year would die from obesity related diseases

It seems you'd need work upstream a bit to prove your point. The conventional wisdom is that bicycle helmets are a "good thing".

Ok so 253 extra people will die from obesity. What about the ones that will not die but be disabled. What about those that don't die from falling of the bicycle but get disabled permanently or temporarily.

> They enforce the perception that cycling is dangerous.

Is that so controversial though. Cycling, absent dedicated bike lines, separate bike paths, and very well organized intersections is dangerous. Heck, driving is dangerous, riding a bike among cars is even more dangerous from what I understand. Now, I don't have the data, you seem to have some, so I can't point to any studies right of the bat here.

> Finally, as the study showed, they are designed to only be involved in an accident between you and the road. Not another vehicle.

Well ok, the helmet protects the head. Hitting the road because a car hit the cyclist or a deer or someone put a stick in the spokes, I can see having a helmet, even one not designed for automobile accident protection as a better idea than not having one.

One thing I can see is the false sense of security. I buy that argument. Someone before talked (sorry, can't remember who or where or if it was study or not) how when they were riding alongside cars and if they had a helmet, cars actually drove closer to them, and if they didn't, cars gave them more room. That's interesting I think.
Bicycle helmets and the law
I had to read Linear Algebra by Hoffman and Kunze for a class. It was really applicable and useful.
Yeah, it's too bad there aren't any free operating systems or suites of office productivity apps.
You may have already read this, but if not, this is an incredibly chilling reconstruction of the events leading up to that crash:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/...

Key excerpt from halfway through:

"Another of the pitot tubes begins to function once more. The cockpit's avionics are now all functioning normally. The flight crew has all the information that they need to fly safely, and all the systems are fully functional. The problems that occur from this point forward are entirely due to human error."

Really tragic.
Everyone upvoting it on the discussion site news.ycombinator.com
everything we do is in volumes of 1. What is the dev board you use? Mbed is quite convenient for us doing random 1 offs.

EDIT: also can't find evidence of a ROS client working on ucLinux :(
I don't think the fact that KPCB nearly invested in Tesla is a great counterargument that cleantech was a bad industry for VC.

Even Tesla barely made it.
These were fairly veteran pilots. One was new on type, but he had a check captain sitting next to him.
At what level do you remain responsible? If I build a faster microprocessor that enables the creation of an automated weapon that kills thousands of people am I responsible for the choice to use what I built in that way?
As a web developer who isn't familiar with assembly or any web server more barebones than nginx, what benefits does something like this provide? Speed? Could this be a solution for an extremely simple directory/static file web server?
Yeah... unfortunately, they always get my face as I roll through red lights on right hand turns... usually talking on my cell phone.
They may be used to achieve similar results, but follow different paths. Each framework has a different philosophy and functionality out of the box, which may be adjusted to the needs of the project.
>If I didn't wear a helmet, I might not have the courage to ride at all...etc.

So wear a helmet, there is no law whatsoever prohibiting you to wear one.

Me, I am a datum point for the argument that helmets stop you from cycling. I used to ride a bike everywhere before the compulsory helmet laws were introduced. After, cycling became so much less convenient, you had to make sure that you brought your helmet, that you kept it secure, and I plain do not like the way bicycle helmets feel on your head.

I hate the compulsory helmet laws, and I want them gone.
Not writing off achievements. These are simply not inspiring people the way the Chinese are being inspired today just by going to the moon. That's all.

At some level Mars is as intangible of asking someone to understand how a bird feels while flying. Outside of small circles there's no real appreciation for just how difficult these missions are. Therefore, the sense of awe isn't there. I'll bet most people in the US don't understand why you can't drive the robots on Mars like you do an RC car on the street. Yes, I am hinting at other problems.

I am not sure what the ROI of robotic or manned missions to Mars might be. And I am not necessarily in financial terms.
You probably get shit like this comment because you evade the burden of proof (you started this whole crap, where are your numbers?) while making painfully racist claims.
1. Drive a car with enough Ron Paul bumper stickers to create a local gravitational distortion and bend light away from your license plate. Which you only have because government FATCATS force you to REGISTER impeding your natural right of FREE MOTION! Fascists.

2. When issued a ticket because you were going 70 in a 45mph zone (presumably because driving as fast as possible is what segregates the Men of Action from the taker scum), respond with the most passive-aggressive note possible, citing every single Bill of Rights item (it'll be hard to connect your camera ticket to quartering, but you've got enough Ron Paul quotes to find a way).

3. After producing enough laughter to lighten the entire week of a DC government schlub and her entire cubicle farm (not to mention the years of entertainment they'll get from putting your absurd essay on the immorality of the very concept of a "speed" "limit" and the gross infringement on the natural right of man to drive as fast as possible, as far as possible, in order to demonstrate his mastery over the laws of nature just as chain-smoking demonstrated the Objectivists' mastery over fire), get waived out so that you don't fill up an hour of a judges time (again) with an "opening statement" that reads the entire Wikipedia page on Ayn Rand into the court record.
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You put it very well, and I agree with everything you wrote. The only point I was trying to make that was different than what you have said, is that if GitHub had consistently removed all satirical repos, then it wouldn't be a problem.

Sites are free to set there only rules, but sites like github can also be considered as a public space, and so I think these sites have a moral obligation to make these rules objective and not politically biased. What is troubling is that, whether the rules explicitly say so or not, they tend to censor non-pc material. I'm sure progressives would have no problem seeing the issue if the censorship was the other way around.
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There are many ways this isn't unfair. Driving is a privilege, not a right. If you refuse to pay the ticket, but deny your car was stolen, it would be simple enough for the state to revoke your license. Same as with failing to submit to a breathalyser can result in a suspended license. The state can simply make it your duty to monitor who drives your car.
I don't think we read the same article. From his letter I understood somebody else was driving the vehicle: "I also see find no legal requirement for me to implicate someone else in this process, as it is the government’s responsibility to prove a person’s guilt. It is also my 5th amendment right to remain silent on the matter."

It's just a speeding ticket but I hope that for something more serious they aren't so lazy on proofs. Hand-wavy justice is not good either for the system.
I really use it for everything. From home projects, to repairs, robotics, auto repair, crafts, and school projects for my child. It is a very handy tool to have. Gathering dust is not a sign of a bad tool, but a sign of a lack of projects. Go find some. :)
>What about the ones that will not die but be disabled...

You mean disabled by obesity, right? I am sure there would be LOTS.
Well, it does! The only points to the contrary that I've seen presented so far are that 1) he left the country after being persecuted and prevented from working for years and 2) he was Chinese. Neither are even remotely convincing.
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This is obviously a toy, or PoC.
Urbit: functional programming from scratch (2010)
Pay is worse at big industry and the fact they have a lot of innovation is a myth.

As you say VC isn't very good either, the state funds most innovation, industry commercializes it.
Popular Mechanics did a mesmerizing writeup of the Air France transcript. Worth a read:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/...
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I don't know if it's the consensus, but that's certainly how it looks to me (PPIASEL - private pilot instrument airplane single engine land). Complete and utter incompetence. The Koreans are actually notorious for this.

http://blog.rongarret.info/2013/07/do-not-fly-asiana-or-kal....
> I would buy from any vendor that's willing to drop legacy features such as upgradability in favor of improving the device for people

Except that most of these removals don't improve the device for people. If you weren't so blinded by the "Less is always better" dogma, you might have understood my previous point. The changes Apple made to their devices have continually made them harder to use on a daily basis for many people. Go on the forums, there's hundreds of complaints about the extremely small thermal envelope due to the thin chassis. There's even more about the removal of Ethernet, still a very, very viable technology, and yet more about the super-sharp palmrest bevel. There's tons more about the removal of Exposé and Spaces in post-Lion releases, and yet more about the "improved" document handling in OS X. The takeaway is that OEMs are running out of ideas, so more simplistic at the expense of function seems to be the only thing they can think of.

But hey, it's shiny, so it must be better.
The GPL doesn't cover every file in a distribution.
I don't know about calling it a piece of crap. Seems a little harsh. :-)
The aircraft was landing. It was supposed to (gently) fly into the ground. A lot of automatics are disabled below a certain altitude and/or when landing gear are extended because otherwise they would prevent landing. A landing is essentially stalling the aircraft just before the wheels touch.
To the best of my knowledge, the NTSB has not released any preliminary assignment of blame. They spend years on these sort of things, checking every detail, dotting every 'i' and crossing every 't' before they make those determinations, as they carry a huge amount of weight. (And I do think this is the appropriate thing to do).

That being said, from all the information that is publicly available, the consensus of everyone else seems to be that it is human error, as there have been no reports of any of the plane's systems not performing normally given the inputs of the crew.

Now, that being said, we shouldn't say "Pilot Error" and move on, but should instead look for any systematic flaws that allowed the pilot error to take place. This might be the result of training issues, or the airlines policies on crew rest, or something else that we can remediate to prevent this sort of thing from recurring in the future
I just signed up, and I hope it's not just a new way of
getting Emails? It seems to good to be true?
What I meant was that the death rate for soldiers was higher.

Total civilian deaths are higher because there are more civilians.

Israel-Palestine is a special case because it is so one sided. I'm not very sympathetic to Israel (did Nelson Mandela recognize the right of the Afrikaner people to exist, and affirm the existence of South Africa as an Afrikaner state? This is what the Israelis are always going on about right?) but that's not really relevant to whether being a soldier is in general more dangerous than being a civilian.

Maybe I am addressing a different point to everyone else, but I think it's important given that deaths of soldiers are sometimes considered on a completely different moral plane to deaths of civilians, even though from a utilitarian perspective they are equally important.
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This is really cool! Are you building both the mail provider layer and the UI? (Not clear from the description.) Are you running your own mail relays?

I've actually been working on a new email platform with some friends for the past few months. Our stuff sits on top of IMAP, so you can use it with existing accounts like Gmail or Yahoo!, and the UI is super hackable AngularJS. It's kind of like Rails/Meteor for email.

We're going to open source it in January/February, but looking for folks to try it early while we're still writing docs. (Including OP!) Feel free to ping me-- we're also going to ship it as a docker container so it's super easy to deploy on whatever provider.

Sorry if I'm hijacking this thread! I just figured some folks here might be interested. :)

Death to IMAP!
No, it's not. If you want to build robots at home you will have to accept they will be vacuum cleaner level robots. For "real" robotics we need better software for controlling robot body. And that requires artificial brain. And we don't know yet how to build it, because we don't know how our brain works in enough detail yet.
It could mean proof of concept.
This is a simple, single-threaded single-process accept-read-respond-loop web server. It's vulnerable to trivial trickle DoS attacks and probably has other issues. There are no advantages, the author just did this for fun.

The TCP part comes from C code in the kernel, so this headline is a little misleading ;-).
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No we don't. We operate at a trillion dollar deficit per year. How does that translate into having plenty of money? Should we borrow from the Chinese to compete with them?
> So wear a helmet, there is no law whatsoever prohibiting you to wear one.

And just be aware that you might subconsciously drive less safely while you are wearing a helmet, and automobile drivers might subconsciously pass closer to you while you're wearing a helmet.
Looks promising. Lots of small UI/UX things:
1. Wasn't clear how to move objects around (the iconography for the buttons can use some improvement).
2. Delete/erase button is pretty confusing too - again, it wasn't clear how to actually erase something.
3. The bg music on voice chat is unnecessary in my view. I hate that in most conferencing solutions.. :P
4. If conferencing/collaboration is high volume use case, i'd be curious to know why you chose to hide those options under a menu...

Hope this helps.
Right after I first moved to San Francisco one of my new roommates was hit by a car while riding his bike downtown. He put a large, helmet-sized dent in the car's windshield. He spent a few weeks in the hospital anyway but he would have been dead if he hadn't been wearing his helmet.
> "free give away contest for a jewelry brand (no purchase necessary, international readers allowed, free to apply, no shipping costs)"

The internet conditioned me to ignore such claims as too-good-to-be-true. I would expect loads of people to treat it like "you're the 1000000th visitor! you won!" and other "free stuff here (if you register and fill out hundreds of forms)" offers.
I've got no investment either way. My nginx log has 19,333,928 entries ... when I do grep -Ei '(bot|spider|crawl|aggregator)' on it I get 2,609,874.

That means that bots who declare themselves make about 13.5% of requests to this site. The robots.txt has no restrictions.

I don't know if that's helpful.
Cool!

My comments as an inexperienced assembly developer, assuming this is optimising for binary size:

- The pug/doN macros do an extra reg-reg copy if passed a register - and the recursive definition calls pop/pop/pop instead of just add %esp, -4*N, you could shave a few bytes

- AT&T syntax will always look weird to me, but the heavy use of macros and local labels is quite elegant

- A little bit of candid swearing in the comments? Fine by me, but is this officially associated with canonical?
Evaluation of .Net Mocking libraries
I’ve recently undertaken another round of evaluating .NET mocking (fake/substitute/dummy/stub/ or what ever you want to call them now) libraries. Interestingly the landscape has changed quite a bit since last time I went through this exercise.
>I am currently working on what del.icio.us could have become

That's already been done. It's called Pinboard.
He doesn't say anyone else was driving the car, and there is no reason to assume anyone else was, since he says

I am always in the habit of fighting my tickets and NOT pre-paying them so I don’t have to go to court – like many folks do.
I can strongly identify with your story. However, I have been able to "cure" my ADHD, please read my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6908027 and let me know what you think.
"Due to the potentially disturbing nature of the surveillance video we are about to show, we will pause for a moment to let [people?] exit the room if they choose." (9:22)

Is it the standard warning for these hearings?
Plain text. All day long.
I don't think bicycle helmets would often protect people in scenarios where they would have become disabled without a helmet.
It's a truism, roughly equivalent to "there's no free lunch."
> I think they send the message that what I'm doing is dangerous when it's exactly the opposite.

I would imagine most people would qualify what you are doing as dangerous. There maybe nothing technically wrong you do while riding, but if you are sharing the road with cars it takes one tired, drunk, texting or senile or otherwise inattentive driver to squash both you and your daughter. They don't even need to go that fast.

I have seen it myself -- dad hauls his kid in one of those trail-behind carriers, it is nighttime already. Rush hour traffic. Flag barely seen, not big or high enough. People coming home tired and overworked, I've seen a close call once. Very scary stuff. Honestly I was thinking "what a dumbass" about that particular parent. And I can't see how it would be otherwise in that one case.

Most bicyclists I know have had serious falls. Some been hit by cars on rural roads. Out of my acquaintances that are motorcyclists, many are now ex-acquaintances and that is not because we fell apart but because they are dead now. It is often not their fault, it is a drunk driver, or other drivers' fault, it just they are exposed and vulnerable around large heavy SUV sized cars moving around.

> that motorists are more respectful of riders without helmets.

Use of "respectful" here is a bit funny? It would seem they are not thinking exactly "respectful" thoughts, probably thinking "What is this crazy guy doing here? He is going to get himself killed!". Well ok maybe it doesn't matter as long as cars stay away, but that doesn't' help promote the idea of safety, it promotes the negative idea -- people who bike are crazy unsafe and need to be protected from themselves.
Lots of deaths of pedestrian and even automobile drivers/passengers could probably also be prevented with bicycle helmets.
Never tried it but obviously it wont work. It is easier to start with actions than with dialog here.
Saying both, looking at dead people is a bit too binary. Some people I know how are terribly obese are unhealthy and disabled in many respect. Some people who have been hit by cars while riding bikes also can get disabled but not killed. So looking at rates of deaths only might not paint the whole picture of safety.
Great promotion to that repository (some of which I found quite clever). I'm not sure what the writer wanted to achieve by publishing this blog entry, especially as it's pretty thin on commentary.

That being said, maybe the best way to change the tone of the open source community - or any male-dominated community, for the matter - is to get involved with it?
> What you have or don't have, you don't know and quite frankly, nobody can tell you. It doesn't matter either. You have it and it's not going anywhere.

How to take control and improve the life you live is the point of all of this. Identifying what you have is the difference between finding a solution by random chance and a focused search of known successful strategies. Once you know you have a bacterial infection, you have a smaller pool of known strategies to deal with your problems and improve your life.

If you found a solution, at random, to your own problems, like switching projects before your lack of interest hurts you, then you had good luck. You cannot generalize luck.
I think that smile could mean that he's being facetious.
Now we just need a Scott Abernathy (or similar last name) so we can get a quote that goes something like "As usual, the answer lies somewhere in the middle." Anybody here fit the bill?
Yep, that's the one. BTW, didn't know you were on HN, I'm a fan of Bloom.
worst part is that sales of Phil Collins' albums has been increasing!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_2000
>"Sincerely,

Nathan Cox
United States Army Veteran"

I find it annoying when vets use their service to get out of stuff, get free stuff, etc. as if we're owed something. It's a privilege to serve and it's voluntary. Act like it.

> "I am in the habit of not taking “plea deals”, and I am always in the habit of fighting my tickets...so I don’t have to go to court... I just about always record my interactions with the police..."

Dude, how often does this guy get tickets and/or stopped by the police? I've been stopped maybe three times in my life. And I'm black. He sounds like a jackass.

We live in a very generous and trusting society in many respects, thus the flexibility. Use it when you need to, but don't take advantage of it.
> - A little bit of candid swearing in the comments? Fine by me, but is this officially associated with canonical?

Assuming you mean Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, this has absolutely nothing with them — this is hosted on canonical.org, not canonical.com.
I agree with you that her entry unintentionally ends up skewering itself by running head-first into the joke. Really though, she skewered herself by ranting about a really bad joke.

The C+= joke sucks. It's poorly executed. It's far too self-conscious and has way too many "wink-wink" moments to be effective satire. You either need to be clever and subtle, or absurd and outrageous. Instead, most of the jokes fell flaccidly in the middle: too obvious about its subject matter, but not even remotely clever. Making it a programming language doesn't make it clever joke, it just means you tried really hard to tell a joke.

And she fell for it. Which ironically validates its existence, poor joke execution be damned.
Consider that in America, everything is a crime, we all commit crimes every day, from jay walking to improper lane changing to viewing pirated content on the internet.

Legal rights also protect you from the a government's overzealous, overreaching, and overbearing enforcement.
Show HN: Proofville, A Competitive Editing Game – Crowdsource Your Proofreading
Hiring good people remains a serious problem - the ones we did find have to work a lot harder than they should.
Slack is replacing Hipchat for us
Looks good. Can't wait to give it a go. Great work!
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