skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily -- it would take a good few pumps of the pedal to introduce enough air into the system for the brakes to become ineffective.
In most situations I'd imagine the routing systems can avoid the three-right detours just as much as avoiding left turns. Another truck can likely handle the other road on its route.
As a young web engineer who have had the pleasure of dealing with what seems like 30 different versions of RSS-feeds, which also appear to be evolving in random directions like living things, I can confirm this. (I've also messed around in C, and even Assembly at one point.)
I don't know anything about Google's current algorithm, but I would be surprised if they don't factor click-through and other user "satisfaction" metrics into page ranking. Someone searches for XYZ coupon, clicks the RetailMeNot link and doesn't immediately hit "back", RetailMeNot wins some PageRank.
Mythbusters covered this.
http://youtu.be/ppCz4f1L9iU
We call this a 'right hook' in the US.
Language Learning Challenges: Spanish vs. Programming
I found this very true, even for other kinds of low-level. I do database engines in low level Java.
Ask HN: What are the problems that computing industry will try to solve in 2025
I recently saw a talk by Alan Kay where he asked all tech enthusiast to think of the problems and use cases for a time span of 10 years. What problems do you think will be relevant after a span of of 10 years from now
It's easy, you just draw your arbitrary moral line wherever your outrage stops.
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A few years ago, I created a Vimeo account for a company I used to work with at the time. It was used to upload a video that similarly was found to contain copyrighted content. Vimeo deleted the account on the spot. So as bad as YouTube can be, it can get worse.
The point which the article makes about Google Ventures having invested in the RetailMeNot speaks volumes. RMNs business model is absolute cash-cow until a mass of advertisers change their commission policies, which they won't as they are amongst one of their biggest affiliate partners.

So for Google, this is a great way for them to monetize their SEO SERPs. Invest in a company like this, get them to maintain clean SEO practices, reward them with obscenely dominant rankings against their competitors and then get the return from the IPO.

After IPO, wean off their reliance on Google with a push into mobile, as Google doesn't need to protect their investment any more and could disappear at any moment...

Pretty obvious how/why they have such dominant SEO results across practically all their markets, including arguably the second biggest market, the UK, if you ask me.
Creator here - we are currently relying on the JS RegExp API, and thus only support features of that engine, which are somewhat limited. In the future, we may support other flavours. We may also add specific errors for more common features that are not supported, as I've already done for lookbehinds.
It still holds regarding all the other Google activities in Chrome.
I believe this is right.
How I Hacked a Router
The article is lighting a vintage 1980's straw man on fire. Nowadays, we find the government bailing out Too Big To Fail banks, insurers, and other enterprises that have conglomerated themselves into owning industries that they can convince the government are of national strategic importance.

TBTF means certain corporations have a much higher level of protection than limited liability. You can't liquidate them. Evidently you can't nationalize them. And you can't even stop the bonuses because that would make it look like they are distressed. Feh.
Personally I'd be more interested in a CEO candidate's position on WebP implementation, am I right?
> No one is in this space unscathed

That's both not true, and misleading; even comparing it to applications that have had serious published flaws, this one has vulnerabilities of a number and magnitude that distinguish it.
a standard tire rotation should handle most of the asymmetric wear on the tire. I'm not sure about the steering system.
They said they saved 10 million gallons of gas, that's 100 gallons per truck which is $30 million with 3 dollar gas. I think you did your math wrong.
You take arachnids outside? But they keep insects down! I'm perfectly happy to cohabit with them, so long as there's a clear and evident understanding that where I go, spiders don't, and vice versa -- I mind me of my childhood home, which we shared with a sizable black widow who made good use of the space behind the toilet tank; as long as you didn't go carelessly sticking your fingers in dark crevices, you had nothing to worry about, and that's a good rule in any circumstance. (And black widows really are lovely creatures, once you know how to treat them with proper respect -- not at all like the false widows now cropping up here in Maryland, which are so godawful ugly as to make you imagine they spring full-grown from the forehead of David Cronenberg.)

But don't take my word for it; try it for yourself -- next time you find that a spider's spun her web in a corner, leave her be, and you'll likely find yourself less frequently called upon to escort importunate insects out the door; she'll be happy to take care of the problem, to the benefit of both of you.
Then again, a hard question is: Do we want developers with problematic habits working on the linux kernel?

I'd put the core linux system into a situation special enough to make it the correct decision to toss everyone but the best of the best of the linus-compatible developers out. It's not a pretty decision, but after a certain point of importance, I can understand that decision.
>I have no motivation more, I think I'm burned out.

Recently found myself in the same situation. Partner was generous with buying me out. Best possible outcome.
This is the underappreciated part.

I'm not sure computing is going to have a major revolution, unless we see a massive AI breakthrough. The reason is that the amount of computing power available for a few watts and tens of dollars today now vastly exceeds any idea of what to do with it. With all the data in the cloud stuff the limitations are storage related (i.e. just the time to read data off disk), and the use of the CPUs is really fairly low compared to how long they sit around waiting.

Post iPhone is the best example, because all that's really happened is a (much needed) improvement in the underlying networks and a shake up of the business side of the ecosystem, but very little of this stuff that is actually used wasn't available before. There was a gold rush, but I think history is going to judge that era quite harshly in terms of lack of real progress.
This post from stackoverflow explains the language design choice a bit further: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17311693/why-does-javascr...
git push staging master

or git push staging dev:master

>just edit the code directly on the server over ssh.

Don't do that unless it is a horrible bug fix. Like a security vuln you need to push immediately. Take the extra time to put it into dev or whatever and then push / upload it to wherever.

>I've heard of git push, rsync, ftp, etc.

This really depends on what I'm doing. Obviously if I'm pushing to Heroku it is Git, but I also help out some local folk with the website about their farm fresh eggs. For the latter it is just FTP, because nothing more is necessary. (I I guess I do use a static site generator similar to http://jekyllrb.com/)
A crude precursor to the ideas in the Alto can be seen in the mother of all demos with Doug Engelbart imho.
Brenden Eich may be a slimeball for supporting Proposition 8 (that's my opinion, anyway) but those are his beliefs and he's exercising his right to free speech.

These issues are complicated, I don't necessarily have a solution. It is a shame though that someone who has earned his spot as CEO has been boycotted because of his beliefs. Seems pretty hypocritical of those attacking his views.
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Sure, there's no lower bound on the radius/length ratio.

But there is an upper bound (think huge radius, short length).
This is just one of many puzzles and mathematical curiosities popularized by Martin Gardner. His books and columns make delightful light reading for anyone with a curious mind.
Creator here - can you elaborate? What is your family name? The example in this thread ("Grüneis") matches and displays correctly in all the browsers I've tested.

Are you perhaps trying to use a RegEx feature that is not supported by JS? Currently, RegExr only supports the JS flavour of RegEx.
Mostly we have been making up for these jobs with bureaucracies. Government keeps growing.
He should consider leaving Mozilla for Microsoft Research.
I tried many times to uncheck all the checkboxes to convince LinkedIn not to send me email, but they ignore them or create new ones, so now I just mark them as spam.
Anyone have a link to the Q&A after the talk?
This is a type of accident that is particular to countries that have bicycle lanes. Cities like for example Berlin have closed a large number of cycle lanes (where they are routed to the right of regular traffic) because of that reason, and replaced them with shared lanes.
> • Knowledge dominates IQ. Henry Ford accomplished more than Leonardo da Vinci not because he was smarter, but because humanity's cumulative knowledge had given him tools and inventions Leonardo could only dream of.

This really struck a chord for me. What I got from it was that many people try to build some form of success on pure IQ and get frustrated when they are outmuscled by knowledge in the market.

I think that cuts back to Xerox PARC as well - by focussing everything on IQ, they created the knowledge that allowed Apple to be so dominant.

Where the talk falls a little bit on the obnoxious side is when Mr. Kay makes dismissive statements on how they created what others sold, just 10 or 20 years earlier. I think that ignores the enormous amount of work you have to put into connecting this knowledge that they worked out to the current state of mind that people are in.

Xerox PARC may have invented the future, but the failure of their parent company to bring that future to market shows that even with that knowledge at hand, you have quite a bit of way ahead of you.
I find the demagogy of the American political left to be reaching levels that are disheartening at best and sickening at worst-especially given that the left continues to see itself as 'enlightened', 'progressive' or 'forward thinking'. Discrimination of any sort should certainly be thrust into the spotlight, scrutinized and deconstructed to avert real harm and nobody questions it.

Attempt on any level however to deconstruct and analyze the public reactions to protected speech, even if it's speech considered disagreeable and one is immediately seen as complicit in the mechanisms of the aforementioned domain.

Progressive thinking isn't progressive if you demand that your cause is the only cause worth being heard. It isn't being 'forward' if it means shutting down discourse you don't want to hear.

"I may not like what you say but I will defend your right to say it".

Not anymore.

It's 2014 and the critic has become the heretic.

And frankly, as a minority myself-while I am fully willing to admit that there are distinct parallels between what the LGBT community is going through and our nation's history with civil rights between the 1940's and 1960's forcing people to look at the two as analogous cheapens the struggles faced by both parties. Until a time comes where gays have attack dogs unleashed on them, sprayed with water cannons, arrested for where they choose to sit on a bus, or are told they cannot even be seen in public spheres and forced to use separate entrances, what we have is an American legal mechanism that still needs to be refined and sharply tuned to ensure domestic equity for all citizens. The portrait has changed considerably since Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, harkening back to Jim Crow when the law allowed physical harm of blacks cannot be compared to a legal system that's struggling to find a new identity of civil liberty isn't helpful. It's pouring salt over old wounds and calling it 'medicine'.
Don't look for morality tales in Mozilla CEO resignation saga
If you're running a business, and would like to apply route optimization to manage your fleet, have a look at Routific [1]

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Routific

[1] https://www.routific.com/developers
An increase? You already had a baseline of viruses and worms getting onto your Macbook?

WTH are you doing with your machine?
Sure, in special cases; and it's an important lesson for students to learn: that in small sizes, theoretically impossible problems (in the general case) are perfectly well attackable by brute force enumeration, and it may be the right way to do it under the circumstances.
These stats are amazing for me to read as it reminds me of the bubble I live in.
Tour of the next version of Elementary OS
https://gist.github.com/harryh/9996284
I've been looking at the coupon search business recently and, while I have not done a comprehensive competitive analysis, I can tell you RetailMeNot just works a lot better than Coupons.com.

I was sitting outside Macy's using Coupons.com "local search" and got no Macy's coupons. Oh but they are a "featured coupon!" You have to use that category to find them. Bleah.

All the coupon sites are limited. But RetailMeNot isn't overtly lame. They don't pretend to do things they can't. Local search works. The mobile apps work. They stay away from stuff that would not work on mobile and that burdens the user. They suck less. That's often a winning strategy.
Why not? That's what I would have guessed.
Yes - currently the best result for coins is 5 mutually touching. Neither beaten, nor proven to be maximal.
In the movie 'Cop Land' Ray Liotta's character (a cop) repeatedly uses the phrase "Don't fight, go right" to refer to a tactic fugitives use: avoiding left hand turns. Apparently, if you know that you can chase better.

I think it was meant as a double entendre too - referring to one's moral compass.
The liability is not truly limited anyways.

Proof of fraud in the court of law is sufficient to pierce the corporate veil and hold the principals accountable. It is another thing that most of the so-called "corporate crimes" fail to clear even the basic bar of proof under due legal process. Just because someone disagrees with a business decision of a corporate executive does not make that decision a crime.

Unlimited liability would have the effect of stifling entrepreneurship and/or export of capital and jobs into more favorable jurisdictions, including offshore shells.
Yes, but, because people own corporations, and want to use the corporation can use the corporation to exercise their rights, it is frequently convenient to treat the corporation as a person when deciding how to apply the law to corporations. :P
The level of support for this Eich character is truly mind-boggling. Here is a man who is against LGBT rights, going as far as to pay money to support a law denying them rights, and he is being sympathised with because but but muh free speech.
And this post is no longer even in the top 500 despite 20 points in 41 minutes.
How to get better sleep: A review of blue light elimination strategies
I had none up until 2 weeks ago; the only major change/software installed was a new VPN client.

Before that I've never had a virus and I've been using a Mac since, oh, 1988ish...

SO that what the hell I've been doing.
I was not intimidated (what made you think that?). I'm actually happy that someone corrected me :)
OP here, just saw that. Knew I should have checked Scott's blog before submitting to HN. Or just have asked myself what I was doing before submitting an ArXiv link. :(
It's interesting that UPS drivers have to solve the traveling salesman problem every morning with additional real-world constraints like this one.
Sure, but do they have money to live on while they're experimenting?
Slovenia (Southern part of Central Europe)
>So you knew they were presenting a "very incorrect workaround"

It actually made it a bit more enticing, I was expecting a horrific chain of gotos or some other cliche programming paradigm being completely violated for the sake of pragmatism.

What we got instead was, "This is a hard problem, let's just not solve it." which was written up with a title of "How we solved a hard problem"
Uber surely is a great app. But if we think in terms of harnessing computing power i really don't think it falls into the same category as early GUI or OOPs. They definitely have to work real hard for managing the non computing side. But if you concentrate just on the computing side it is just a scalable web service allowing user to book cabs. And it was nothing that couldn't have been conceived in 2007. Far more complex air line booking system existed before that

Only real example that comes to my mind is PA kind of applications of the type of Google Now/Siri. But still they don't work to the level we desire them to
I'm curious what kind of features you have on the client side that you're using this for.
I was under the impression limited liability was exactly why corporations are legal persons. So they can sign contracts and be liable for violations of those contracts as well as breaches of law.
Torts of all sorts can potentially "pierce the veil"; it's probably safer to think of the liability protection of a corporation as something pertaining exclusively to contracts (though that obviously oversimplifies it).
Another Haskell SPAM.

How can anyone seriously code in a language which introduces new kind of bugs which cannot be detected by any test until running in production on real data when it is already too late?
RetailMeNot has a completely different business model than Coupons.com, so it is an unfair comparison of two sites that look similar.

RetailMeNot makes its money through connections with LinkShare (LS) and Commission Junction (CJ). And LS/CJ make their money by establishing relationships with the online vendors for major brands/retailers with online coupon codes.

Coupons.com makes its money through connections directly with major CPG (consumer processed goods) brands, where Coupons.com provide CPG's with distribution of printable manufacturers coupons.

RetailMeNot has been trying to get in Coupons.com game (bc of the less reliance on search/affiliate networks) but to date, they have been relatively unsuccessful.
The drivers have a navigation system that maps the direction for them. I knew a guy who worked on it and making sure it turned right a lot :)
He said New York.

I know here in Minnesota almost nobody goes outside without a hat. Then again weather that will cause frostbite under pants will somewhat ensure sane dressing practices.

And I don't know anyone that walks barefoot in their house. And I tend to take a quick shower before I go to bed, because it seems stupid to go to bed without taking a shower, you're the most dirty then. I also tend to wash before going to the bathroom too for the same reason. I get funny looks for both of those revelations to my fellow americans, but after I explain they all agree it makes more sense.
Zebra – UI library based on canvas, not DOM+CSS
Not to defend the article too much but the title is accurate.

It's imprecise but accurate. "UPS routing algorithms have an extremely strong weighting against left turns outside of residential non-through streets" is well within the errors bars of "UPS trucks don't turn left" when using a tool like conversational English.

In fact the less data the article gives the more it should prefer "UPS trucks don't turn left" you shouldn't report falsely precise digits.
"Memory-mapped devices following a hardware protocol for talking to the bus will actually follow it, damn it, or get off the market."

Says somebody who clearly never had to deal with cheapass webcams in Linux... :)
What kind of client side coding are you using it for?
Activism is one way. David Graeber discusses this very topic. (Article: http://thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars and video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgSJkk1tng)

Neoliberalism since the 70's is a well-known culprit, but he also discusses the corporatization of universities — stifling managerialist bureaucracies.
I've got a few different approaches for deployments.

For static sites, which are built from templates, or by hand, I just deploy via rsync. This is nice and efficient, and is carried out over SSH which allows me to be secure in-transit and avoid having to enter passwords.

For dynamic applications I've tended to write simple recipes via fabric (http://fabfile.org/) which allows me to bundle up the local state of a repository, transfer it over SSH, and run a few commands.

For some things in the middle I use git pushes to different environments, but I'm trying to move away from that and into more scripted deployment via ansible, fabric, slaughter, etc.
Isn't that pretty much why you always cycle with the direction of traffic? As a runner, I've been told to run against the flow for safety but almost always run into these types of situations (which is why I mostly go out of my way to run behind the cars stopped at intersections.)
I've also faced a YouTube content ID match the other day. In my case, it was a bit more warranted -- a 30 second clip of a 2003 episode of The Simpsons, which I wanted to be able to refer to. Content ID matched it, I filed a dispute citing fair use, somebody from Fox submitted a DMCA takedown.

Yet while I say "being more warranted" it still holds that such a citation is legal in my country.

I would really welcome services that are able to work internationally and yet will make it easy for me to share information based on the laws of the country I live in.

(The reason for the services being international is simply the wish that they'd survive -- we have seen time and again that local websites die down as a large international one (YouTube, Facebook) picks up more and more users.)
Use OCaml, it is open source, free and unux friendly. In fact, F# is an adaptation of OCaml for .NET platform.
And what proof do you have that you have a virus now?

(Sorry but suggesting that having unread mail accessed via gmail has infected your computer seems pretty extraordinary, and does require a fair bit of proof to be taken seriously.)
I think ElementaryOS fills a long-awaited gap in the Linux distros but this video was just: "OMG A new icon! It's so amazing!!! :P"
I'm thinking it is the first step to a data type like Ruby's symbols. For the case of spaces I could see the underscore (_) getting used.

var bigKey = $key_with_spaces;
Software and customer's jobs
His argument that 5 year timespans are minimal for invention is on target, but that's opex, even when you are cash flow negative. Where he is wrong is that you need large equipment capex for invention. Unless you are building a novel special purpose computing device, like an giant FPGA cryptocurrency miner, you really don't need more than $5k capex per coder for anything anymore, and renting Web-scale power is cheap.
Systemd is an implementation of an init system, with some extras too.

Init systems are traditionally the first thing that is executed when the kernel boots and passes control to userspace. They're responsible for starting all the services that are configured/enabled.

In addition to this "basic" functionality systemd has extras which allow it to handle dependencies, start services on-demand, and handle logging, etc.

Beyond that you'd be best reading the documentation on the systemd site - I've never used it, but the basics don't seem too hard to understand.
FWIW, killing an animal because you need nutrition is more deferential than killing an animal because it wandered near where you space.

So you might find an ethical niche in there.
It's generally a bad idea to "pass on the right", not just for cyclists (tho they are disproportionately harmed).