skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Careful there.

The article doesn't state that the city shortened the yellow lights. They promised to not use cameras with yellows shorter than 4.4 seconds. They then started moving the cameras around to other intersections. It is possible that these different intersections had light programs with yellows shorter than 4.4 seconds.

I also don't see any mention in the article of increased accident rates.
Poll: How many of you can do car repair?
How many of the people can do car repair, and how many of you actually do it? (Oil changes/etc don't count)
Yes, I can repair my car and do so.
Yes, I can repair my car, but rather pay a mechanic
Yes, I can repair my car, but rather pay a mechanic and I'm not well off
another disadvantage for homeowner:

in unstable countries, the new government that replace its old one will try to steal the land from owners

if the new gov is democratic, it only honors those who can show certificate on ownership (even the ones granted from old foreign govt -- the countries that gain independence from colonial in ww2 show this trend)

if the new gov is communist, it will simply take the land (worse, the big owners will be labeled capitalist and shot to dead -- happened in china, see the movie 'to live' by zhang yi mou for ref)

those are best and worst case, of course, america is far too remote from civil war or foreign invasion

the renters can just walk away; however, the old money will be of no value ... so it's better to diversify to foreign currencies or precious metal ... or tools

my grandparents actually buried a minivan when the japanese invaded us. once the new govt is set, they resumed the transportation business. it could be more optimal than currencies/metal because ... after a war, the survivor is the only pioneer, no competition -- sufficiently a monopoly by event
it's seven...from ten pm to five am
Hm. Boring and secure, or interesting and anxious? :)
The first half of his autobiography is a good read on how to make yorself a more acomplished person. Later on, though, he becomes too boastful.
The most interesting parts are the questions:

What good shall I do this day? and

What good have I done today?
Everyone knows that yellow has been morphed into meaning, "Speed up!" When really people should be stopping. They don't stop. They should stop.

And they should be punished for not stopping.

Round abouts, when first introduced cause more accidents in america as well. Doesn't mean they aren't better.

American drivers need to be taught that yellow means stop. In this case, the judge is teaching us, "Hey, run the light, if they catch you, maybe you can weasel your way out of the ticket by blaming the system."

I hear your points and i understand the little guy against the state perspective, but it's like blaming the highway patrol in the speed trap because he hid his car so you couldn't see it and slow down before he saw you. You were speeding and you should have gotten a ticket. In this case, people in fact, did run the red light and they should be punished for it because it is more dangerous to try to make it through. Most people don't make it through, even if the yellow is 4.4 seconds.

In my experience, yellow lights are different times in lots of different cities. When I see one, I slow down, i don't speed up. Unless it's raining and I know I'll lose traction. Then I just go through.

We exist in a world with others, not only ourselves. We need to live like it.
The guardian newspaper has a lot of interesting datasets; plus a blog and flickr group for those interested in using the datasets for data visualisation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store
Here is something for you to feel good -- http://patrick.net/housing/crash.html
Isn't this basically the same as most corporate wage slaves - particularly ones with kids?

The major difference seems to be that there was no TV in Ben Franklin's day. But other than substituting "TV" for "idle diversion", this could be the daily schedule of any of about 100 million Americans...
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This seems to assume a fixed number of programmers, all of whom program during the week and at the weekend.

My guess would be that it's much more likely to be two largely disjoint sets:

Professional programmers at work during the week, and amateur programmers who have other day jobs (e.g. school or non-programming jobs) who are more likely to be programming during the weekends.

If we assume that this is the case, then the data simply suggests that professional programmers are more likely to use C# and Java, whereas hobbyist/amateur programmers are more likely to use Python or Ruby.

This is just a hypothesis, but it is equally well supported by the data as the article's hypothesis:

programmers choose to use languages like Python and Ruby for their personal projects, despite their weaknesses, because these languages are more fun to program in

Which assumes that all professional programmers are also hobbyist programmers in the weekends, and that the numbers of amateur programmers are not significant enough to make an impact on search statistics.
Well, there's ColorForth, the environment Chuck uses, which I think is used by Chuck and another person or two. That really might be lost.

Then there's Forth, the huge family of languages, including an ANSI standard. There's no risk that it will be lost within the next few centuries, unless the human race disappears.
Ownership and renting do not have that simple a relationship; it's easy for them to get out of sync such that renting is more expensive than owning, for a time.
I think the last point, authenticated metadata, is the most interesting.

In fact, I think it's how web sites like Facebook should have been designed. Rather than "handing over" personal information, each site should receive binary blobs identified only by purpose (e.g. "E-mail address", "photo #3 of gallery 2"). The data could be a copy, an entry in some public registry, or a URL. Facebook can then decide when it wants to send this information to the web browser (e.g. when someone tries to view your photo gallery), and the only way to actually render the blob is with an appropriate decryption key on the client side. The encoding could include other trust factors, such as expiration dates that would make the images impossible to view even with a key.
Isn't the obvious conclusion that severely depressed people are working under their capacity? I don't see where he considered that.

Some commenters wonder why high income rat-racers don't attempt suicide, then learn to stop and smell the roses, and lose income. I doubt that this is common. Suicidal feelings are brought on by a sense of futility, not stress or overwork.
We're travelling through time right now, and not even at a fixed velocity given relativity. That makes the question whether you can control your velocity, not whether you can travel.
Two hour lunch? What a slacker.
Here's how I would explain REST to a wife:

It's a made-up pile of bollox. It stands for "and now I'm going to refer to meaningless pseudo-science in an attempt to confuse you and bill more money to the project."

On second though, that probably explains why I don't have a wife.
The Weird World of Hollywood Finance (2001)
That looks like a new BeOS. Nice.
Oh, definitely. But they might not be trolling on purpose; there is the off chance that they actually believe the stuff they're saying.
The difference is that Dvorak is little more than a troll.
I said yes, but I probably lied. 20 years ago I made minor repairs, but they have gotten so complicated that I would probably break things now.
This is no longer true.

As of June, all you need is a username and password for starbucks.com. It's a free signup.

https://www.starbucks.com/account/create
I have tried doing "what have I done today and what shall I do tomorrow" in that order, right before I go to sleep. It works amazing whenever I do it. I just need to do it everyday.
The Microsoft Word injunction has nothing to do with XML
Possible. But people like Hannity purposefully edit videos (President Obama's speeches, for example), twist the facts - that seems trollish to me. But I guess, they get paid to do that. Sad thing is, they are good at it (judging by the audience of Fox network)
I really like this response. Not that I didn't like the study - it made no claim of proof, just support, and was a neat idea. Too often we see this kind of thing written up in articles or blogs with only the one interpretation w/o consideration of other explanations. I've seen this in corporate meetings re: whatever measurements, too. Nice study idea, and nice reminder here that supporting results fail to disprove but do not prove.
In America, Crazy Is A PreExisting Condition
I came across her work several years ago. In our age of disposable hardware her crafts(wo)man ship is incredible.
To me she's really one of the great artists of our time. Her work is so much more than technical proficiency and craftsmanship - there is a love for technology and an awe for the natural world speaking from it. To me, anyway...
"This reminds me of something I read years ago. If you move to a small town or rural area with a lot of former hippies and rednecks and want to do something different, usually the rednecks don't have a problem with it, it's the "free-thinking" former hippies that set themselves up as the aesthetics police and harass anyone doing anything they think "unattractive"."

The self-proclaimed "free-thinkers" in most cases just want to control everything; not surprising, doesn't anyone remember that the hippie-types this evolved from were ardent communists? (Several commenters on the original article mentioned the money the organizers make; I strongly suspect that is secondary to their being rabid control freaks).
Absolutely. I hardly think that's good company for Dvorak to want to be in, though. :)

edit: Then again, those morons make a lot of money with their hate speech, so whether or not Dvorak would want to be counted among those ranks depends on his moral compass, I guess.
Aaron Swartz (of reddit fame, and sometimes news.YC visitor) started http://theinfo.org/
I _can_ repair anything on a car but I'd rather not. I'm very fussy and am only happy when my work area is nearly surgically clean (dust and dirt are the enemies in car repair). Watching others work on my car can be maddening, as I watch them make one mistake after another. Consequently I choose my mechanics carefully and don't watch them anymore!

So why do you ask?
Indeed. I wonder if they wouldn't decline again after that, though.
A good find. There is much more info in the paper:

1. People who contemplated suicide actually started with 21% less income than comparable peers.

2. Income increase effect (23-44%) significantly decreases with time - it goes to zero in 12-14 years.

3. The effect is the strongest for young while males.

So it seems after suicide attempt, you just get to income level of non-suicidal peers (or slightly above for more serious attempts), and this effects disappears after some time.

Also, it seems to me like the reason for income increase effect could be not so much "extra resources and care", but something more simple: people who got farther in executing their suicide plans are more driven/goal oriented/resolute, thus more likely to succeed financially. There is probably a similar effect for "people who contemplated running marathon" vs. "people who ran marathon".
Nope, not even possible. They manipulate the facts and intentionally make provably false statements on a regular basis.

That said, they may believe that the ends justify the means.
Last time I checked, that's not how we define income unless he's saying that this additional support is what's driving a concomitant rise in income.

I believe that it is indeed what he is saying, and moreover it makes sense. That help can help them get jobs and resolve problems holding them back that they could not otherwise have resolved. This applies more to the low end of the economic scale than the high end of course, but then the low end statistically has more suicide attempts so would make up the bulk of the relevant population.
I wish I had the will power to rise at 5. But I don't sleep till way past 1.

// I would also love to know where this was taken from and what is written on the opposite side of the page, its letters just barely visible.
I'd love to see this up and running, but I'm trying to wrap my head around the adoption process. For example Twitter recently shut down their API for finding users by email address citing spam concerns.

What's in it for the people running the servers who'll need to support this?
Internet Telephony – Could it finally be taking off?
"Time travel" is real, but the only thing you can do is slow down relative to others. The way you describe is a valid method, though some might quibble that it's the accelerations involved that slow down time for you, rather than simply the movement at a high velocity.

You can also "time travel" by moving to an area of higher gravity (per general relativity). Time travels more slowly for you there, so you can let your original location get ahead of you, then go back there to effectively travel to "the future".

Of course, gravitational time dilation is a tiny effect, so you'd have to get near something unhealthy like a black hole to notice much difference.
You mean something like South (http://south.aeracode.org/)? Did you have any problems using it or did you prefer something else?

It would be nice to see something like this incorporated into Django itself, but I guess you can't expect it to bake you a cake, manage your finances and provide you with an easy way to build websites all in one single package. But a man can dream.
His confession cleared up my doubts. Text book definition of a troll. Direct link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWDYaWAVQQ

If someone is a repeat offender, you better blacklist them if you value your time.
XML is probably supported on more platforms, and certainly has better support for transforming into other formats (there are some analogs to XSLT for JSON but they're nowhere near as ubiquitous as XSLT processors
I personally think he was being more tongue in cheek than anything. Basically if you need someone to tell you what to do here is an arbitrary metric for you to base your decision off. Beards.
I would be very careful not to write off an entire field just because you consider it difficult or complicated. It has its place and purpose, and the complexity is not just for show. It's not "one size fits all", it's just that the minimum size at which it might become useful is probably larger than that of many of the interpreted, dynamic web languages and frameworks that are popular these days.

For example, I would much rather maintain a Java-based web application than a PHP-based web application.
Fox could be more accurate than much of the rest of the media (their manipulations are presumably equally as deliberate and they'll deny their bias despite the fact the vast majority openly support Democrats - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/scalliwag/200908/why-mos...) and I suspect that better explains their audience (but also the decline of the mainstream media as a whole). There's a reason more people read the WSJ than the NYT though most people don't realize it.

The irony is that Fox News was scored by UCLA study as being left of center: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Find...

disclosure: I don't watch Fox, I read the WSJ and the NYT though I find CNN particularly infuriating and I'm quite far from being a Republican.
I prefer the creationist belief.
I consider myself a person who does their own repairs. I buy the factory service manuals for my vehicles. Having the factory diagnostic procedures is very helpful even if you decide not to do the work yourself -- it's helpful to know what repairs need to be taken to solve a particular problem.

Car repair can be a fun hobby, but in my opinion it's rarely cost effective. Most procedures require single purpose tools. I elect to do my own work because I'm particular about the quality of the work and I enjoy doing it.
Qustion for hackers: do you actually get any code written at starbucks? I've always found it too distracting and usually only go there to read...
>Marcotte's study found that after people attempt suicide and fail, their incomes increase by an average of 20.6 percent compared to peers who seriously contemplate suicide but never make an attempt. In fact, the more serious the attempt, the larger the boost—"hard-suicide" attempts, in which luck is the only reason the attempts fail, are associated with a 36.3 percent increase in income. (The presence of nonattempters as a control group suggests the suicide effort is the root cause of the boost.)

Or maybe the people who are willing to do things about their problems are both more likely to commit suicide in tough situations and more likely to thrive in better ones.
Well safari kept saying how it was the fastest browser around.
I don't have (or want) a beard, but prefer Ruby/Ramaze.

Luckily, in both Python and Ruby there are many choices for Web dev, so don't let that drive the language choice.
why would renters be, by default, anxious? I would be anxious if I owned a home and saw the drop in value over the past two years. or if I were upside-down. or if my mortgage rate could reset in the future. or had to worry about fire, flood or earthquake wiping me out.

as a renter, I don't care about any of those things. if my apartment building burns down, the thing I'll be most sad about is my macbook and some personal mementos. if they increase my rent beyond what I'm willing to pay, I just move to a cheaper part of town. maybe I could be evicted, but finding a new place is more of an annoyance than a financial tragedy.

frankly, owning goats and painting walls don't sound terribly exciting to me. OTOH, things I value, like living in the grip of a big city and being able to walk to work are essentially impossible without a fat stack of cash or else renting.
The first two points are the only ones that have to do with Twitter. The rest of the article reads as "How to win a Fourth Generation War", even though the author is trying to make the claim that we've moved onto the next, Fifth Generation of War.

http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/4th_gen_war_gazette.htm is the original article by William Lind that describes 4G War. Bullet point summaries: State (nation) vs decentralized or transnational enemy, psychological war, unequal warfare, everyone's a combatant. Takes a lot from Sun Tzu, really.
Same, but why I keep coming back to HN for these irrelevant stories I don't know.
Shift everything in that forward by about 8 hours and you get my daily schedule.
<sarcasm>I know, very exciting I don't think any browser other then Chrome will have HTML5</sarcasm>
Also dont forget that once you learn the language well, say you picked python, dont evanglise it as the best language onces you have fnished your first little app or program. Read about other languages also and just play around alittle. If you know one well you know where you can always run when there is a big project you want to do, but give others ago, you could be pleasnantly suprised

I know alot of poeple who picked up perl as their first language during uni and wont pickup anything else cause they are so deeply into it and say its the best language. It might be from their point of view which is fine but dont let the first language you learn be the only one you ever use also.

Like the other guys said, if your a beginner pick one, hell pick python for the simple reason that google use it (so it must be good) get used to it and then try to compare with others once you get the swing of things.

Like buying a guitar for the first time, you dont know which one is good cause you dont know what a good guitar is supposed to sounds like so you buy a fender or a les paul cause one of your idols use it !
Your opinions seem quite prejudiced and insulting. Hippies and Astrologers, just like any Scientist is left-hemisphere dominant if they're right handed, it doesn't change and you cannot do anything that affects it (aside from maybe a stroke).

Astrologers believe in something you don't, and it's very ignorant to say they're deficient in basic mental processes. I'm sure many hippies are, but that's called drug abuse. Scientists can be equally as misled as any astrologer to facts, just read up on the amazing work done by many of our cold-fusion scientists who ignore fundamental scientific concepts like the conservation of mass and energy. Personally, I think astrologers are a lot smarter than any cold-fusion/free energy scientist out there, and those scientists somehow got their hands onto Ph.D's.

I'm right-hemisphere dominant, I'm extremely logical, sceptical and I have a high IQ. I scored amazingly in math and science, I'm completely non-religious to the point that I find atheists disturbingly religious in their activities, and I've also worked as a writer. Your brain works the way it works, the way your genes and life have designed it to work. I'm somehow right-hemisphere dominant and out-perform nearly every left-hemisphere dominant people I know at tasks they're supposed to be good at. That's the irony of life.

I find Dr Taylor's views to be psycho crackpot work and I give them less credence than my horoscope. She's claiming a lack of left-hemisphere dominance is good, which I'm sorry but personally I really like writing (as anyone can tell from my comments, including this one) and losing the left-hemisphere kind of ruins that whole fun, also talking.

She apparently had a stroke, probably lost very minor functioning in her brain and had a religious experience, just like thousands of other people do every year when they have a heart attack, stroke, cancer, hit by a car, girlfriend kicked them in the crotch . . . okay I added the last one, but religious experiences don't necessarily come in the same form. She likely wasn't very religious, so when she had hers she didn't attribute it to god.

The whole process of near-death usually helps people not worry about the mundane problems, like your boss being a jerk. At least for a few months.
Uh oh. Parking in Berkeley is a hard even on ordinary days. I don't want to think what it would be like on the day of a football game. I would not recommend driving to this event. Park somewhere else and take the Bart in.
Last year we had 11 so we'll probably have about that many this time.
I hope so, i watched the 2008 one on omnisio and learnt soooo much (this was around the time i started my startup) was able to write alot of points which i still follow now. Wish i could be there in person. Anway if it is streaming im going to be sure that i dont miss it.
It's interesting how there seems to be a niche for 'tech gossip' much along the lines of the celebrity gossip magazines and websites.

I always thought the IT world was above that but it seems that I'm mistaken.

It is almost like an echo chamber where the likes of Dvorak, Carr (not Nicholas, the 'other' one) and other compadres stir up this amazing foam of controversy and plain bull shit in order to generate page views and the crowd laps it up.

By posting and re-posting this drivel we are actually contributing to the effect.
To me, the idea of running applications in the "cloud" on JavaScript and HTML is the total opposite of a new BeOS. BeOS is supposed to be lightweight and highly responsive. The Web is not. That doesn't mean that ChromeOS won't have its uses, but any other modern OS will get you closer to BeOS than this.
Less than 7, since he probably leaves an arbitrary amount of time for reflection and answering "What good have I done today?" while he lies in bed.
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