skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Coronary calcification is but one stage in the process of atherosclerosis. So he could have had severe atherosclerosis without extensive calcification. This is why coronary CT is not a perfect test for prediction heart attacks. Furthermore, coronary CT cannot assess the tendency of the blood to clot, which is a function of both local and systemic factors. A useful guideline is that physiology is never as simple as one test or one variable.
What makes you say that? Microsoft have been providing warning of XP going End of life for years now, and (AFAIK) they already supported it for longer than other OS vendors do for desktop OSs.

It hasn't been the current offering for them for 6 years and there's been 3 major releases since it...

Ultimately there's got to be a cut off for support of any software product...
> while the computer would have to have an algorithm in place specifically to detect a combination of rider posture, angular acceleration of the bike, identify a heavy package affecting the center of balance, and so on.

Or just an algorithm to detect that the rigid body in moving in front of the car is about to enter a collision trajectory. Isn't that a pretty much solved problem? There's no need for computer to "know" that the dangerous object is a cyclist.
Thanks!

The fundamental product I wanted to build is done, so it basically runs itself while I do business development and sales. Eventually I'll need to dive back into the code to add more features I have on the roadmap, but I work best when I "switch modes" for spans of several weeks at a time so it may be a while. :)

The current revenue is about $250/mo. I've been trying to focus more on agencies with many clients and offering them custom-branded whitelabel emails reports for their customers. Making some progress on that end.

At the same time, as you can tell, I kind of have a habit of doing other random projects on the side, so things take longer than they should. :)
The video of the LIDAR data and the software's interpretation of the environment is fantastic. The "augmented reality" of the long barrier in front of potential collisions, and the green/red road-ahead indicator makes it easy to see what the software is seeing and thinking.
Love hearing this! I co-founded the first MHacks and after going to 10+ hackathons, I think this will become a trend. Hackathons are held in nearly every major city and every college now. More prize winnings, more hackers to meet potential cofounders and you're ripe to see just a few more startups.
> CLOS is actually very similar in some ways to Go's structs.

You've completely missed the article's point: users were able to create CLOS before it got integrated in the language.
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That question is best asked and answered in other forums. OT.
Nope, they removed the premium option altogether.
>audio echo

That's a difference in the audio algorithms used. Skype uses SILK while I believe that Google Hangouts uses Opus. SILK and Opus are closely related however. I would assume that Skype didn't allow all their fancy echo-cancellation tweaks to be open-sourced so it's a little better in the Skype implementation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILK#Opus
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My thought: LIDARs and other kind of sensors are much better than human eyes. I'd expect the current self-driving cars to have already better sensory resolution than human drivers.
Why I pull in front of the line of cars stopped at the red light on my bike is because otherwise a car will clobber me. It's not a matter of if but when and the consequences will be severe for my family and me. On my commute I am minimally wearing a bright neon green penny over my clothing. When I have stopped in the line of cars at the light I have had cars almost rear end me. Also when I get to the intersection drivers do not seem to notice me there and turn right directly in front of me or a car from the oncoming lane decides to turn into me. So I crawl to the front. And do you know what happened here a handful of time? Even when I make eye contact with an oncoming car, the moment the light turned green, the driver forget I was there and tried to turn left as I was crossing on the green. So for my safety on this particular intersection on my commute I crawl to the front, wait for the light for the cross traffic to turn red and verify that all the cars are slowing, then I book it across before the light turns green for me and the other people barely awake behind the wheel. In this way I am not there anymore when another car starts going. I know it's illegal, but it is the only way I have found to get to and from work safely as it is the only entrance. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know why I do that. Some people that do not ride bicycles enough just don't have the experience to appreciate what other things might be going on when not in a car.
>The thing is that GO was designed to replace c++ thing that absolutely failed.

I was so excited for GO to become a nice replacement to C++. GO has awesome build times. C++ has awful build times. This is partly due to all the extra work the C preprocessor has to do make sure all the headers are present.

The big lose for me is the fact that GO has absolutely no operator overloading. This is one of the biggest wins in C++, especially since I do lot of high-performance scientific computing. Overloading operators makes code a lot more readable and user friendly, in my opinion (I'm others will disagree, though). I'm aware that you can hack GO to mimic operator overloading but it involves hitting the vtable. And hitting the vtable is completely unacceptable in performance-critical code.
Wow, "writing lots of compilers and type checkers" definitely wasn't on my radar screen when I was in high school.
You cant reconciliate mandatory IE6/8 and the need for security in the corporate world. I understand some corps cant upgrade because they have software that only runs on XP.By the way this is a direct consequence of MSFT rejecting web standards in the years 200X and going VB/activeX/non standard IE apis. Some web clients will never be updated and wont run in anything but IE6-8. Whereas if your devs tried to use cross browser features only in 2005,chances are your web app is future proof and needs little update. The irony is your 2005 flash site may still run, even today, on all desktop browsers.
Yes, my point is that Go intentionally makes it hard for users to extend the language, while simultaneously learning from the successes and failures of other languages, and Yes, my point is that Go intentionally makes it hard for users to extend the language, while simultaneously learning from the successes and failures of other languages, and incorporating the results of that into Go.

The fact that users are able to create core language features has its drawbacks when it comes to cohesion in the language community. Lisp itself is a perfect example of this - codebases are immensely fragmented in terms of which libraries they end up using (Quicklisp is, in part, an effort to solve this).

Lisp was "designed" (if you can call it that) around the principle that extending a language should be as easy as writing a program in that language. Go was designed around the principle that there should be only one dialect of the programming language, for the sake of cohesiveness.

Both are legitimate philosophies for different use cases, but that's why it's kind of silly (IMHO) to compare Go to Lisp - the goals are not only different, but diametrically opposed in most ways.
If you're a US company doing business in a another country, you have to comply with the laws of that country, and part of that is confidentiality. If the NSA, FBI, whoever can secret warrant any data overseas on companies that operate outside their jurisdiction if the data say, was simply in a file cabinet in that country, it will be rife with abuse.
I don't bother to debate it anymore. I just write "internet".

Just like I write "web", "blog", "electricity", and "debate".

(I do however capitalize "I". Because narcissism.)
TLDR: Its done with Flash. Quelle Surprise.

Disabling the Flash plugin within IE will prevent the exploit from functioning.
The product used appears to be Ultra-Ever Dry and is sold and marketed by Florida-based Ultratech International http://www.spillcontainment.com/everdry
5 lessons open education resources can learn from FOSS
This reminds me of what SWIFT did:

"After these articles, SWIFT quickly came under pressure for compromising the data privacy of its customers by letting foreign government (United States government) agencies access sensitive personal data. In September 2006, the Belgian government declared that the SWIFT dealings with USA government authorities were a breach of Belgian and European privacy laws."

Basically they were caught between a rock and a hard place and had to decide which country's laws to break.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT#United_States_of_America...)
Unlike most altcoins, Nxt is built from scratch and has many features from start Bitcoin forks getting slowly.
Julia is not fun. We expect it to be fun, like python, but it's not.
Because go recently is on hype and thus many companies started to use it (the one where I work included).
As your first assignment in transit 101, calculate the wear and tear on a road from a bike vs a car vs a semi.
The one thing that worries me about this is that since the prize is so amazing, it might encourage "cheating" if you will. If you remember the Salesforce hackathon controversy[1], the winner of the 1 million dollar prize received a good amount of criticism since the winner was a former Salesforce VP and some of the code existed before the hackathon took place.

Even if the Salesforce hackathon rules didn't strictly disallow pre-existing code, a lot of participants came away feeling bitter, as they had put a lot of effort into their code in the given timeframe and felt like they could never have won if their code was compared to code that might have existed for months or more.

I know they want to encourage people to hack on more things, and the prize should not be the goal -- it should be building cool shit and sharing/talking about it. But I know I'd be nervous investing so much energy into building something, documenting it, and polishing it if someone working on a project for a few years decides to submit it and blows everyone away. Hope that's not too negative -- I just want people to walk away from the event willing to build more cool stuff, not feeling bitter :)

[1]http://www.zdnet.com/salesforce-com-tries-to-clear-the-air-o...
It's a great opportunity, thanks a ton for putting in the work to create MHacks! Without people like you I wouldn't have these opportunities!
So they just coated the car in Never Wet? Got it.
Perhaps, but not very good news for US companies either way. The trust will be even smaller in them now, and they won't be able to tell non-Americans that their data is safe with them, unless their enable end-to-end encryption in most, if not all, of their services, and they provide ways to check that they aren't going around that encryption in some nefarious way (backdoors, etc).
Sounds interesting.

Would love to see this for The Netherlands..

No pricing yet for the German version?
May I ask what languages you tend to favour? I've had a few friends tell me lately that they were all giving up on Go after persisting with it since early 2010. They are all people who tend to work in C/C++ so they don't tend to be thrown by a steep learning curve. I'm quite surprised because they were all vocal proponents in the beginning.
Yeah and I think a larger problem is deer or other animals running into the road especially at night. I don't know if the Google car can handle that situation yet, but the sensors should be able to see animals way before humans can.
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question is ,which IE version will get a patch.
The UK university where I work uses Microsoft's cloud service for email. I've always had concerns, but apparently we have a contract that states the data will only be held in certain jurisdictions (can't remember if it's just the UK, but I think so) so that we can conform with UK data protection laws. If Microsoft lose at appeal, I guess we'll be legally compelled to change email provider. Can't imagine we're the only ones either.
Not sure what you mean by "not part of core language" - CLOS is part of ANSI Common Lisp standard.
It's ironic that the "better" the language (for some hazy definition of "better") the less actual work seems to get done with it. So Go can be pretty annoying at times, and so can Java (I've said before that I find the two almost identical, but that's beside the point now); and C is horrible and completely unsafe and downright dangerous. Yet more useful working code has probably been written in Java and C than all other languages combined since the invention of the computer, and more useful code has been written in, what, 5 years of Go(?) than in 20(?) years of Haskell.

Here's the thing: I am willing to accept that Haskell is the best programming language ever created. People have been telling me this for over 15 years now. And yet it seems like the most complex code written in Haskell is the Haskell compiler itself (and maybe some tooling around it). If Haskell's clear advantages really make that much of a difference, maybe its (very vocal) supporters should start doing really impressive things with it rather than write compilers. I don't know, write a really safe operating system; a novel database; some crazy Watson-like machine; a never-failing hardware controller. Otherwise, all of this is just talk.
Debris is a really hard problem and I don't think they can get that resolution out of their LIDAR. Camera data may serve better, but that's hit or miss.

I'd call this one unsolved.

(Source: I'm a robotics/perception/sensors guy who has worked autonomous vehicles)
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No problem.

Here's an imgur from that page which, on casual inspection, seems to have worked just fine.

http://imgur.com/SNMUrkI
I prefer Skype since although it has always been a huge CPU hog, its UI is perfect for beginners (i.e. family) and in the decade I've used it, I've never once been cross-sold some pointless feature the parent company are currently trying to promote.

Note Hangouts itself once was Gtalk, which I was a user of, prior to the first cattle herding on to Google+. Now Gundotra is out the door, there is no telling into which silo existing G+ users will be cattle-herded next. Hangouts might be technically superior (although I personally think Skype's rate-adaptive video is second to none), but the treatment of users by its parent company, and their endless thirst for personal data keeps me far away.

Skype just works, just like it has for the past decade, and just like I expect it will continue to in the coming years. I'd place a small wager on Hangouts being long dead, or at the very least rebranded before then
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Well, I now have an incentive to use non-US cloud companies.
> Unfortunately I'm pretty terrified of meeting men that are significantly more experienced than myself in the industry when it comes to software. I'm terrified of coming off as clueless or air headed.

Don't worry about that. Making mistakes is one of the best ways to learn. Making a mistake in front of someone or even an entire lecture hall is nothing. They probably won't even remember it. But you will, because it was your mistake and you won't ever make it again.

Leaving wrong ideas in your head instead of saying them and letting someone correct you is how people become clueless. Opening your mouth more will cause you to be wrong less.

> On top of that, the men I have met in the industry are extremely intimidating.

This industry is full of jerks. Defy them by succeeding.
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I know that book well. It's too dated.
Predictability and not jumping in front of cars is unrelated to not being in a crosswalk. Crosswalks actually worsen these aspects, as they make drivers more prone to needlessly slamming on their brakes to wave people out while also fostering a sense of pedestrian entitlement instead of respectful temporal negotiation.

It's really not hard to look at traffic (all types), spot the existing gaps, and navigate within them. On some roads this is impractical due to traffic levels, but in most areas these type of roads are the exception.

(I suppose it's not surprising to be downvoted for saying this, as California has some of the worst drivers I've seen. It's rare that I am able to start walking and successfully pass behind a moving car, without having the driver needlessly stop while looking annoyed and acting like they're doing me a favor - even in parking lots! But frankly, anyone thinking of themselves as a hacker should surely understand and respect the value of down-to-earth informal negotiation and the peril of overformalized systems).
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Ask HN: Is Sublime Text abandonware?
The developer, Jon Skinner, has not tweeted since Dec. 17 [1], has not posted to the blog since Dec. 18 [2], and the latest dev build was released on Dec. 21 [3]. He signed into the forums today [4], but has not replied to any posts (including those asking about the status of Sublime Text) since Dec. 21 [5].

I was thinking about buying Sublime Text, but if it's dead on arrival, then I'd rather save the money. Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?

[1] https://twitter.com/sublimehq
[2] http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/
[3] http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
[4] http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2
[5] http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/search.php?author_id=2&sr=posts
Our law is a clusterfuck :)

See http://www.slideshare.net/Promosfera/sweepstakes-and-contest... and http://www.promosfera.it/faq_italia.php (in Italian).

This is the actual law: http://www.cr.camcom.it/files/concorsi-premio/dpr_430_2001.p... (in Italian too)

Basically, you have to have a fiscal presence in Italy, and your servers (or a mirror of them) must be here too. The assignment of the price must be done in front of a notary, and you have to take care of tax/vat as well.
What is the definition of fun when it comes to a programming language?
> Does skype even generate revenue?

Even if not, the NSA probably wouldn't let Microsoft shut Skype down
My understanding is that the IE update will not happen for XP. Is this not right?
OpenStreetMap does indeed sometimes mirror and serve up free imagery sets like this so that contributors can trace from it. Sometimes it's the OSM sysadmins doing this on OSM hardware, often it's just individual contributors doing it for their area.

If our worldwide imagery supporters (Bing and Mapbox Satellite) provide equal-quality imagery then there's no great urgency. But these local sources can often be better than what's available elsewhere.
This is amazing! Thanks.
I'm not aware of any country where gas taxes cover the externalities of the emission of that carbon.

I'm also not aware of any country where gas taxes and car registration fees come close to paying for the total cost of roads.
Skype pulls in a lot of revenue in the OCS/Lync product set. Companies want still largely want to be able to IM MSN, Yahoo, Skype, and AOL users and they're the only ones that have access to all those user groups. They also leverage B2C video/calls to Skype users.
Many (most?) car/deer/moose collisions are unavoidable even for a human driver. In particular, because a human driver focuses on monitoring the road ahead, they cannot determine instantaneously whether it is optimal to continue straight and hit the animal or to swerve into oncoming traffic or the adjacent lane. The reflex reaction is to swerve which can often cause an even worse accident.

Humans also can't process the trade-off of hitting the animal vs. attempting to avoid it based on size fast enough whereas a self-driving car could conceivably be able to.
"To my knowledge no one seriously teaches abstinence only sex education."

Yeah. Right...

http://www.policymic.com/articles/86149/the-creepy-way-fathe... be
Ok, that's crazy.

Here's the explanation for anyone interested:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14528397/strange-behavior...
Well, I changed my life and felt better :)

Now I get 3-4h work done 4-5 days a week.
I prefer G+, but the onboarding - actually getting disparate folks easily invited and notified has been inscrutably hard. Part of the prob is that I have multiple gmail accts and address books as do the folks I'm inviting, but another prob seems to be the less than ideal invite workflow. When Goog gets calendars, gmail, docs and hangouts well integrated, Skype will have a serious threat on its hands.
I can recommend www.wuala.com. It uses client-side encryption and the servers are in Switzerland, Germany, and France. It's a Swiss company that was bought by LaCie.
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This go so against EU law that it is a straightforward attack on any international business which includes the EU, run by a "cloud" firm. It also places such a burden on local (EU) companies using, say, DO or Linode services... which will have to switch provider like right now.

Or am I extrapolating wrongly? I certainly would like to know (yes, assuming that this thing goes up and is held as definitive, obviously).
> Yes, writing Lisp is much more "fun" than writing Go for me. But writing Go is much more productive and maintainable (both for solo projects and for larger groups).

Not sure about this statement. As the OP said in order to trick the anti-features of go you need to come up with super verbose syntax. Which is easy that's true but when the project tends to be quite big the mission becomes hard.

Also the "go get" thing is neat for small projects but for larger project IMHO is just broken. Godeps or few sh scripts can alleviate this but definitely is something needed to be addressed.
Well Megaupload was close. Anyway the cloud is one of those bad ideas that just cannot die soon enough for me.
Indeed. I actually believe — or rather, sense, because that tends to be a fairly instinctive appreciation for me, after modeling things for so 15 years — that aggressivity is a fairly straightforward parameter in driving style: basically, it’s the margin you allow yourself to touch, or the acceptable risk you‘d take. Choosing “the country”, on a vehicle with more GPS captors that anyone could remember is probably not something difficult, but there are major and new ethical issues around that point, precisely: what do we let the user control?

Can, should, will Google include a ‘Don’t abide to local driving laws’ mode? How explicit should it be? Modern ethics tend to surround several though exercices, most of which are centered around transportation accidents, namely one involving throwing, or letting fall, or pushing a button to release a lever… to have one obese man fall and prevent a car or a train from hurting three other people; those may or may not be relatives, have been careful in their behaviour, etc. What used to be theoretical questions, used to classify philosophers in their principles might become soon electronic options. Should your car, detecting a swerving vehicle is about to hit a child running after his ball, run that car into the nearby wall (after checking in 10 ms that it has working airbags) and stop the accident? Whose insurance pays the damages?