skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the solution to unsafe roads is to throw everyone that is at-fault in an accident in jail.

I understand the frustration cyclists have with auto traffic, but we've seen a million times that harsher penalties don't always have the intended outcome. And we have a habit in the US of using prison as the answer for every malady.

Instead, I think the answer is better road design, separating cars and cyclists using dedicated lanes, and automated vehicles.

Also, according to this report, pedestrian fatalities are also on a long-term downward trend, even without correcting for increased traffic: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/pedbike...
Is this overindulgence in corn a USA thing? I'm not overly familiar with your foodstuffs.
Well I guess I need a new alt. dns to provision phones with.
I'm familiar with the criticism, but remain unconvinced that:

1. oil and gas are strictly "required" as an energy source

2. energy consumption of these methods is higher per yield than traditional farming

3. oil/gas will run out in any meaningful time frame

4. peak oil/gas will be sudden or catastrophic

5. adaptation to new conditions is impossible

6. exporting profitable crops is a net social loss for a local population (or even the stronger corollary, that locovorism is ever beneficial)

Some of those are contentious areas, matters of continuing study. Some are probably hyperbole, and we'd likely agree on more moderate formulations. Some I'm pretty firmly convinced are incorrect. Even if they were all just mildly suspect, though, it's a lot of shaky steps for me to take all at once. So I remain cautiously optimistic, skeptical that food insecurity due to Borlaug's methods and oil shocks will have any meaningful impact for the next fiftyish years. I guess there's some chance, just seems exceedingly unlikely to me.

That said, I think you laid out your criticism of his methods in a clear and concise way, and while I disagree with some of the premises, they're not radically unreasonable or anything, I can see how one would stand by that conclusion. Have an upvote for a well formulated dissenting view, something we should all encourage whenever possible.
Really depends on where you live, but unfortunately true for much of the U.S. and Canada. Not true in the biggest North American city (NYC), though. Also not true in much of Europe.
Myriad problems indeed, I'll be "watching" for the solutions
Here's the whole thing unsorted: http://pastebin.com/z7BzEnhC

and in case you want to learn about NAPTR: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2915.txt
That quote was specifically about attitudes towards cars, not statistics for mortality rates.
This is a bit silly.

> Frankly, if you are not reading something with %100 comprehension, you are not reading it.

No one reads anything with 100% comprehension, and the assertion that such a thing as perfect understanding exists is absurd. Real meaning of words is fleeting and there certainly isn't any universal truth to every written work.

These new-fad speed reading tools are an alternative method of presenting text, the comprehension of which is a function of the speed setting. At what speed does reading become not reading and something else entirely? I say such a limit doesn't exist.

Maybe such tools aren't for you, not everybody is going to like them but some people find them useful. There certainly will be people that overstate their usefulness, but in the end a perfect scientific description of it isn't necessary.

A tool is useful if the person using it finds it useful, not if somebody can scientifically prove it.

You're a skeptic, so what?

I find it to be a useful tool, not for all reading but certainly for longer blocks of text or books which 100% understanding is less important than completion. I find for me it is easier to stay focused reading more words for longer periods, especially for things which I don't find particularly engaging or valuable, or when my mind isn't running at peak. I'm sure lots of others will find usefulness in it too.
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

Woody Allen
I don't think the ridership has to be that large, as when I lived in South Lake Tahoe (fairly small town) they had something similar. $5 to go anywhere in town on a small bus, door to door. It may have been subsidized by the town however, so perhaps a private company would need a larger ridership base to become profitable. I looked into this and apparently it's called "Demand Responsive Transport" in the city-planner lingo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_responsive_transport
No, they decide who is left.
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http://www.cambus.net/storing-ascii-art-in-the-dns/
Thank you for the reply. We are in the midst of planning a last assault on the prize, and will be sure to give everyone fair warning of what is at stake.
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Sure, they have the right to make an oppressive TOS, and I have the right to take my business elsewhere in protest.
I think this is why all of our recent presidents seem so similar once they are in office. They all have the same dirt on them. As with information revealed in the pentagon papers, I don't think we have much hope of decent governance until the cancer is excised.
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Google Fiber expansion moves fast; San Antonio approves construction
A bit of old school soul never hurts
>If you're going to read critically (i.e, with good comprehension), which is generally the proper way to read, speedreading is useless.

I find it to be immensely useful as a first run-though or a refresher for high-importance text reading.
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Thanks!
This is silly. Nearly all accidents car or not can be avoided by being more defensive and alert. I dropped a glass - if I'd taken more care in handling it and been more aware of my surroundings, I probably wouldn't have. I said something dumb and accidentally hurt your feelings? Jeeze, if I'd only taken more care, been more aware of what I was saying. I accidentally deleted that file? Shoot, should have been more careful and considered better what folder I was in.

"You can do things to reduce your risk of accidents" is a vital message, using words in an atypical way can be a pedagogical tool to drive it home, but insisting that there's some deep sense in which that's genuinely the case is silly.
It's corruption distilled to its core. The guard (reasonably) gets extra compensation for doing extra duties (detaining immigrants). The guard wants more money, so gives you a cut to detain more people. You start detaining people who you wouldn't ordinarily have to.
Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites
Yup.

http://www.kidsandcars.org/back-overs.html
Have one left (email in profile).

edit: gone!
Which gives you between 2-10 years of storage if it was recording everyone in the world. (Based on the assumptions above).
Using Tags in Git
Can I get one?

tyler \dot/ brock (at) gmail dot com

Forever indebted.
TXT isn't an option because the records themselves are unsorted. Use the above command without the pipe to sort looks weird, but not as weird as TXT would.
Thanks for writing and you make a good point. We do have some relationships which could result in acqui-hire and will consider that to be the proverbial corn field to try and crash-land the plane in.
What happened to those concept cars that were encased in rubber/(or some other bouncy material) so when they bumped against each other, they would harmlessly bounce off ? I distinctly remember reading about them in Wired some years back.
The critical thing that makes this affordable is only using light for 3 days. Growing full-sized veggies would probably be cost-prohibitive.
A fine point!
Sent. All out now.
A form-letter rejection; I got no response, and assumed that itself was a response.
2048 x 2 = 4096
Norbrook boss Lord Haughey killed in helicopter crash
The dedicated bike lane is surely a great invention, but the implementation is often luck-luster and I think causes more harm than good.

Santa Monica probably has more good bike lanes than most other US cities, but I am terrified to even try the new on 28th leading from Ocean Park to Pico and beyond to Olympic. They basically took a narrow street and tried to leave space for parking and add a bike lane on top of that. As a result, most SUVs or wider cars don't fit into the designated lanes.

As the result, they either try to leave room for bicycles and drive slightly over the center or in the bike lane. If they try the former, they end up swerving violently into the bike lane to avoid on-coming traffic, so I don't know which is worse.

If the bike lanes were actually well implemented the entire way to the office, I would leave my car parked most days... as it stands now, that's not happening any time soon.
Yea I was surprised. When I saw the title I thought infrastructure meant network infrastructure, which seems like a white-hot area of innovation given how much internet traffic they consume. But no, this interview was on internal IT.
Years ago I read about a Japanese supermarket that had a hydroponic room to the side and they had lettuce growing on a conveyor belt timed so lettuce reached the store as the become mature. Customers would literally pick their lettuce off the conveyor belt as they were growing. That's as fresh as you can get.

I wonder if someone could take this further to a whole range of vegetables that could be grown on conveyor belts under/over a supermarket and timed to reach the 'public shelf' as they hit the right maturity.
Yes, you're right.. that's why it's more than just the skin of the car.. it's called the crumple zone:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/safety-regu...

The idea is that the entire front of the car is a crumple zone (to absorb the impact), and there's a rigid frame around the passenger compartment.
Because their cores solve the same problems, and it would be overkill to pull in both projects for views or models. Also, I don't think backbone.js models solve any problems in an Angular application.
Which is why NSA's surveillance and storage of our communications is problematic. Some 19 year old kid today may be president in the future. Should he have something stupid he said today hanging over his head when he's president?
Should be on its way to you. Enjoy!
I love `irssi` :D
Point 2 is a common theme with Google Drive, Dropbox and others. Tested only on hexacore dev machines with SSD backed RAM disks, their moron developers thought it prudent to just absolutely trash the system with harddisk IO on boot, presumably to find out that nothing has changed, as a simple timestamp check could have told them.
Europe generally resisted the authoritarianism of the car, and lashed back against it fairly strongly. In the US, many cities were literally gutted in favor of making sure cars could move fast. Then we started designing with the assumption that anyone worth caring about had a car.
HMAC.
I agree that having exactly the same urban design but just replacing the transit modality is likely to produce only a minimal improvement (not to mention being difficult to do, since transit modality and urban layout are interlinked). I think the bigger wins come from shifts in commute patterns. People who take transit typically also take it for fewer miles, making the annual per-person death rates of transit riders considerably lower than the smaller per-mile gap would imply. I think having an urban layout where transit could even work is the big change. But those are pretty deeply tied, e.g. people won't move into denser "transit-oriented development" if there's no good transit to it.

That's the main factor impacting the total number, also. Americans are about 2-3x more likely to die each year while commuting than Germans are, but mostly because they have longer commutes, not because the per-mile safety is worse (though it is slightly worse).
Actually there is a good way out for them too, although quite unpopular among the politicians: honesty, integrity, taking the responsibility for their own wrong decisions.

Now that would be a world-shaking example!
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I was recently in Beijing, where the supremacy of the automobile over the pedestrian is just about taken to its logical conclusion.

The US puts cars on a high footing compared to pedestrians, with pedestrians restricted to crossing roads at certain points, generally better signaling and routes for cars, etc. Yet cars are still required to yield to pedestrians when e.g. turning or at a marked crosswalk.

In Beijing, the idea of yielding to pedestrians when turning doesn't seem to exist. Crossing a major intersection, even with full signaling, is an adventure and an exercise in attempting to look in all directions simultaneously. It's even worse than you might think, because the sidewalk often doubles as a parking lot, so somebody might by trying to drive up where you're waiting, or worse, come up behind you! And you are expected to yield. It got to the point where I measured the difficulty of any walk not in terms of distance but in terms of how many intersections I'd have to cross.

Beijing is pretty walkable overall but at the same time this can make it extremely unpleasant, depending on where you are. I wonder if that might not be where the US is heading if we're not careful about it.

(The Chinese are strangely cavalier about cars in general. Essentially nobody wears seat belts, for example, and drunk driving is common. No surprise that their death rate per vehicle is three times higher than the US's. Seat belts would be such an easy way to reduce that. It's hard to understand.)
MX or with numbers then?
Wait, if my familly wants to bring me to some woods and burn me in a fire, can't they just do it?
In other words, much of this is the residual stain from having elected a former CIA head as President.

Smart people take a dim view of a former KGB head becoming Russia's president, and for good reason. We should be just as vigilant here. Indeed, it should be illegal for the head of an American intelligence service to become President. After all, it's a position from which he can classify and forgive his own crimes. And as we've seen, every subsequent President who keeps the cover-up going inevitably adds more bodies to the pile.
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My understanding is that the field, when working with a PostgreSQL database, is stored as a JSON field in PostgreSQL, rather than just a text field. I don't think django-jsonfield can do that.
Most stuff is based on previous work, whether paid or unpaid. Denying that is claiming you can build a wall without laying a brick upon the other, and asking people to mimick a red fish.

It's impossible to do, because it's impossible not to use a solution you know of to the problem at hand. Not to mention it's stupid.

There's a reason for the expression "Not reinventing the wheel" to exist. I mean, what's experience if not building something based on previous work ?
The Economist had a much better article on 25 Jan

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21595031-rich-co...

That was about how car deaths will probably be the leading killer in the developing world within a few years exceeding HIV.

But without the incorrect shock title it wasn't getting posted around the net nearly as much.

Also, technically there would very probably be a few murders committed with cars each year. But it would be a vastly lower number than the total number of fatalities.
Yup, that's a dolmuş, aka a share taxi, and variations of the concept exist across most of the less developed world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi
Very cool! I also love the name... if we waste less using Wasteless, we become wasteless.
Show HN: My friend made this video ad for Tesla (34K views so far)
People are framing this as a coverup story.

It is that, of course.

But the reason it has happened is because the executive branch of government is fighting to preserve its power, even across party lines (ie, the Obama Whitehouse is covering up things that happened in the Bush Whitehouse).

Coming from somewhere with a Westminster system of government I find that dynamic quite interesting. Clearly in this case it is bad, but I do like the way the US system isn't as bound along party lines as Westminster systems usually are.
That is actual one of the creator's goals:

“I’d like this to be something that is like coffee — a commodity something that’s available everywhere. Maybe a utility like water and power. Something that is ubiquitous and easy to consume,” he said. “I’d like to see it in grocery and convenience stores soon.” ( http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/soylent-1m-preorders/ )

You have to keep in mind this is an early adopter, hot-off-the-manufacturing-line, hey-look-this-might-work version. Give it time to grow, mature, and let economies of scale kick in.
Wow, it even applies to resident aliens for tax purposes.
Campaign to save podcasting from a patent troll
Maybe it would help reduce the incidence of citation cartels, but the other issue is that some fields are very small -- especially in highly technical fields like math and in some sub-fields of biology. In those cases, papers that are cited have to be cited because they're the only ones relevant to the research area.
Once again, if people are worried about NSA capturing cell phone meta-data, please, go check out what the CFPB is doing with credit card data. We are talking every transaction from millions of Americans.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2014/02/...
I've been having some success by handing my look and feel over to a css specialist whith instructions along the lines of "make my prototyping less of a hack". So far she hasn't had to be aware of any code related issues.
Okay, I'm about to state what is, around here, relatively unpopular: In one particular respect slashdot.org has what you're asking for. Have you checked them out?

There are a number of problems with them, even more now that their new(ish) corporate overlords have been making changes. But there's one thing they do better than anyone else IMO, and that's MODERATION! So that can often get you the "high quality discourse" you want.

Here's an example. Right now there's a discussion there [1] that's a few hours old. It's about the cost of Google Drive storage. That discussion currently has 254 comments. That would be daunting to wade thru. But that discussion has only 18 comments that have been voted up (and down) to be the "best". Reading just those comments will get you a reasonably good feel for the topic.

That said, I mostly spend time on HN now, rather than on slashdot. The overall level of discourse here is better and more respectful, and the moderation here (while more limited) does work.

[1] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/03/13/1834208/1gb-of-googl...
Car class distribution has changed in the past 20+ years.
The startup crowd is quite different from the cs academic crowd. As a semi bipolor, I find it much easier for me to deal with and make contributions.
There are different levels of comprehension, ranging from internalising everything word for word to the point where you could recite it to high speed scans of the page for a particular word that don't comprehending any of the content. All are useful in different contexts. I don't need "accurate comprehension" to determine which HN articles I might wish to click on.

Ultimately a person incapable of progressing beyond verbalising everything to ensure they internalise every minute, insignificant detail and all the excess verbiage is unequivocally worse off than someone that can in the same period of time grasp the meaning and pertinent details of three texts by parsing them at high speed.

Frankly, I don't understand your point better by slowing down to marvel at your sentence construction[1], and even if I did, my recollection of what you'd written tomorrow would be exactly the same regardless of how quickly I skimmed it.

[1]though just in case I read a second time to see what I'd missed and noticed I'd subconsciously picked up on you beginning a sentence with "Frankly" when drafting my reply...
Call me old-school:

iTerm2 + SSH to my VPS + screen + irssi

It's my client for ALL my OSes, and it's consistent/persistent across them. :)
Good start in pointing out those disparate UIs. As you have pointed out, though, devs/manufacturers feel they have an incentive to create something different. From a user's POV what's needed is just one UI that he's familiar with. Maybe one solution is creating a UI (HW/SW/etc) that knows how to map functionalities automatically for different devices/apps.
Modern European tests include pedestrian safety ratings:

https://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/euroncap/crash_tests.h...
I wonder to what extent some of that is a fortunate combination of circumstances. Many European countries were quite positive on highways in the mid 20th century. But city centers mostly escaped having American-style freeways bulldozed through them, I think out of urban-preservation reasons more than anti-car or pro-transit sentiment. Same reason NYC ended up finally pushing back on Robert Moses's plans. So the freeways mostly stopped at the edges.

At the height of the uncontrolled car-ification of Copenhagen in the '70s the place was totally crawling with automobiles to the exclusion of other modalities, though. It's pretty weird to look at some photos from that era, with car traffic taking up almost the whole width of narrow streets in the city center, pedestrians confined to narrow ledge-like sidewalks, and bikes either absent or trying their luck in traffic. Now most of those streets have been either pedestrianized, turned into mixed-traffic, low-speed "living streets", or had the roads narrowed to one lane to make room for bike lanes and/or wider sidewalks.
The Australasian New Car Assessment Program provides a website howsafeisyourcar.com.au. A recent interesting addition is precisely what you say: it measures pedestrian safety in collisions with specific car models. For example, the 2013 VW Polo:

http://www.howsafeisyourcar.com.au/2013/Volkswagen/Polo/Tren...

"The bumper provided mixed protection for pedestrians' legs. The front edge of the bonnet was marginal to poor. The centre of the bonnet offered good protection to a child's head but poorer protection towards the edges. In most areas likely to be struck by an adult's head, poor protection was provided."

EDIT: Seems three of us posted in the same minute. :)
got it. thank you!
I though I would see this sooner. This might be barely solvable, but the next power( after 4096 ) is almost impossible to reach and there should be some innovation in gameplay.
I normally use weechat on a server for a persistent connection, but I've been playing around with ZNC on the server and Textual on my local machine.

Of the two, I've had a better experience with weechat.
edit: out of invites