skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The radio (in it's traditional sense) has no chance of survival. It's only lifeline is people listening to it in cars but even that won't last. If I'm in the mood for listening to music I can pick my own songs or use a service that creates customized playlists and listen to them without sitting through 10 minutes of ads every three songs. The whole idea of radio stations is old-fashioned and if it was pitched today it would be laughed at by every VC in the room. Maybe I'm being too harsh on it, but that's just my opinion that I've formed over many years of trying to find something good on the radio in the car.
Ah, I see how that would make some people uncomfortable. Thank you! ^_^
1. It isn't a "limitation" of bicycles -- it is "inconvenient". They don't WANT to come to a full stop because it is annoying -- it is annoying for me too, I still do it.

2. Absolutely, this is a HUGE part of it -- bicyclists need to start getting FULL FLIGHT tickets for blowing stop signs and such. Few $150 dollar tickets might get them to stop. Policy departments generally hate dealing with bicyclists for tickets, and this needs to be rectified.

I am OPPOSED to TWO SETS OF RULES. It seems insane to retrain the entire population that bicyclists do X at stop signs while you do Y. At a red light, bicyclists do X and you do Y. I think this will amplify confusion and danger.
> I can safety claim that cyclists are at least an order of magnitude more likely to blatantly violate traffic laws than drivers are, and the argument that "drivers are just as bad as cyclists" holds zero weight to me.

Except that the most commonly, blatantly violated traffic law is the speed limit. This is one that is almost never violated by bicyclists.
At worst Soros did Britain a favor. They should send him a thank you card. He helped expedite and lessen what otherwise would have been an even bigger crash had the Bank of England been able to continue their guaranteed-to-fail scheme for a longer period of time.
In the Netherlands the bank account number is printed on the card. Would that solution not solve the problem being addressed here?
Interest. Thank you.
A computer repair shop I worked for used ifixit everyday. Big pictures, warnings when you can easily break stuff( I severed many a flex cable when a started), and clear instructions. The only setback is the range of devices well documented. Once you get outside of mainstream devices, or something made a year or two ago, the docs get skimpy.
You omitted the qualification "that has code coverage as a religion" ... obviously those that "are sensible about what they test" do not have "code coverage as a religion".
As you surely read, plenty of people get zero years of probation for killing a human being (or multiples).

You seemed to be plenty enraged with Bucchere, when his case is an obvious outlier for the system as a whole.

This is why we discuss, to calibrate expectations and guide our understanding.
One solution: hide the nsfw tag by default, make it opt in like reddit.
It's probably standard legalese, but I find it funny that in the TOS (https://www.takeitapart.com/terms-of-use) there is

You acknowledge that (i) you own and are solely
responsible for the content that you submit, post, or
transmit

And

You grant TakeItApart a non-exclusive, royalty-free,
transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use,
store, display, delete, reproduce, modify, create
derivative works from, perform, and distribute your
user content for the purposes of operating, developing,
providing, promoting, and using our Site. Nothing in
these Terms shall restrict our legal rights to user
content.

Pretty much a "we own the content you submit, but if this bother someone, it's your fault and you'll face the aftermatch".

That said, it looks like a nice site, a crowdsourced iFixIt. Maybe the next time I take something apart I'll remember to take some photos (I'd me more willing to contribute if the TOS wasn't so restrictive, but since I still own my content I don't mind so much").
Someone pointed out that this was posted a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731094. I don't have an easy way to change the submission credit, but can at least transfer the karma from this submission to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=001sky. I'll do that tomorrow.

This might be a good place to mention that we're working on some pretty big changes to the story submission mechanism, one goal of which is to smooth the time decay curve for new stories. That would have prevented the above problem.
SQL, VBA and a title of analyst: looks like you are in Finance or related industry. Why not try to get a job in the same industry? - you will certainly make more money than in web development.
There are vehicles which are not permitted on the highway.
I love this for instructional purposes. It is also good for when a very lightweight api is needed. I like how it used more modern OO based php and not some procedural mess.
I just thought Id give some positive feedback bro !
The fact Austin is less regulated isn't a hypothetical. We know Austin is less regulated than most cities. Its a Google Fiber city, which means it agreed to ditch most of the regulations, like build out requirements, that other cities impose. Google doesn't bring fiber to a city without massive concessions. Kansas City agreed to get the permits through in five days. Provo sold Google a $30 million fiber network for $1.

Maybe pole attachments have something to do with it too, but lots of cities own their poles but don't have competing fiber services.

See: http://crosscut.com/2014/03/04/business/118993/google-fiber-...

Also re Portland: http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2023420101_b...

The last article is a must-read. This is the kind of person standing in the way of fiber deployment, as much as any cable lobbyist.

"That’s a nice deal where it’s available. But the company has been slow to expand its coverage area in Kansas City and vague about if and when it will reach some working-class areas, according to a report in The Kansas City Star.

Cities really have one opportunity to ensure that all of their residents will be served by these next generation broadband services.

That’s during the initial franchise negotiations, when cities can press for universal coverage in return for the special rules and public property they’re offering up.

Once cities provide these handouts, they don’t have much leverage. They’ll end up bowing and scraping and hoping that Uncle Google throws a bit more fiber their way, someday."
Pinterest Is Now Worth $5 Billion
Wait: Kobo won't present a PDF which doesn't contain DRM?
It's primarily intended for Essential Tremor, and actually most people don't elect to get DBS, and most don't qualify. Brain surgery is a risky procedure, and most individuals at 60+ have complicating factors that disqualify them from DBS. That's why so few operations have been done relative to the patient population size.

The device isn't a "hack", but a non-invasive way to deal with the problem.
Ok, we'll use that. Thanks! (I took out "Meet", though, since that's also a linkbait gimmick.)
Not quite 'own' as the license is non-exclusive. Also interesting that the usual word 'perpetual' is missing.
A new CDN node is a new privileged route. An existing CDN node is not a new privileged route.

> CDN nodes do not route traffic that does not have that node as either a source or a destination.

Correct. That is true of any router.

Netflix did buy a new route, replacing the one they were previously buying from Cogent.
I understand this, but I feel the opposite. I'm a heavy user of both platforms and find the lack of depth in Windows shortcuts maddening. On a Mac, almost every individual operation can be accomplished with a direct shortcut while on Windows, you are often invoking a menu and navigating to the option you want.

I think Mac shortcuts take longer to memorise as they are often a combination of command, shift, option, etc. (although they are helpfully spelled out in each menu) but once you have learned them there is little that can't be done directly from the keyboard with a single invocation.
For years people have been hacking their way to slanted headers in Numbers. This sort of works if you're a graphic artist, but completely fails if you're a scientist doing data discovery, trying to figure out what the columns and rows should be to begin with. Excel is fairly good about it.
OSX doesn't have a lot of shortcuts for working with the GUI like Windows does. On the other hand, OSX has some fantastic and consistent shortcuts for actually working with data. (For example, Cmd-G, Cmd-Shift-G, Cmd-E, and Cmd-J for text search.) OSX is also incredibly powerful in that it allows you to assign shortcuts to Services, which in turn can be created using simple Automator workflows. This opens up so many possibilities system-wide. Finally, and most importantly, OSX adheres to the same sort of natural language philosophy that we're so used to with Google: if I want to find a specific menu action, why would I navigate the menu graphically when I can just type in the name? Cmd-Space and Cmd-? are the shortcuts I miss most of all whenever I switch back to Windows.
As far as I know, Quicksilver has been taken over by another team, and is in constant development at the moment.

I know because I regularly see "Quicksilver has been updated" messages ;)
Even in a large department, individual specialties may have one or only a few experts. Sometimes none if the department is looking to branch out or fill a gap. There's also typically competition between groups for hires, so no group gets the final decision on which candidate to present (to the department, then the dean, and on up the chain...)

As for the filtering, there aren't any widely accepted ways for a nonspecialist to rank candidates. Hiring committees are a standard part of a professor's job.
This looks great! Laravel is such a joy to work with, having a nice way to get it deployed is a big win.

$10 / month for unlimited servers seems like a great deal. It would also be nice to have an option for $1 / month / server for those who only manage one (or a couple) of servers.
"a country was worse off because of his direct and deliberate actions"

The country was worse off because its fiscal policy, determined via politics, amounted to a completely untenable long term position. An epic disaster was the only possible conclusion.
This is it. Only insiders win, and people think that they've put their money with real insiders.
It seems insane to me that we blithely accept the number of deaths caused by drivers and don't hold them more than minimally responsible.

The differences in driving laws between states is far greater than the proposed differences for bikers vs. drivers. People seem to muddle along fine.

You trust drivers to maneuver deadly boxes of metal at high speeds but not to learn two new rules? I think you are just lazy.
N2O: Erlang Web Framework
Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options
If this is true, then why do so many other countries around the world have both actual competition AND much more compelling products than the US? These other ISPs are also commercial entities and yet they aren't filing for bankruptcy left, right and center so clearly it's commercially possible.
I'm certainly biased (as we all are), but there are very simple ground truths in this discussion. The biggest statistical killers are motorized vehicles. They are the overwhelming factor in any kind of car-on-X collision. This is a directly intuitive result of their weight and power.

As such, any policy must concentrate on the risk that radiates from them if it wants to be effective in controlling injuries and fatalities.
Based on their website it sounds like they just modify their existing designs.
Yeah, for square the user can use debit card info or routing/account info. It appears that square has designed the onboarding UI to strongly favor debit cards, but there is a little link in there to account instead.

The really curious thing, however, is that no matter which one you choose, the transactions appear to be debit.

I'm pretty sure I signed up with an account number, but all the transactions in and out of my account are debit transactions.

FWIW, chase online clearly report either "ACH {Credit,Debit}" or "Debit Card Transaction"
The British government might be the least "innocent" institution in existence.
>Are you suggesting having the ads actually baked into the video stream?

Networks already do this on their broadcasts. Why couldn't they do it on free downloads as well? How many people are going to actively avoid the high quality, well-seeded, official download just because it has a few lower third ads?
I think you misunderstood something. If you read the info text for the driver on the linked page, it explicitly mentions that you need a _separate_ driver for CUDA.

GPU driver: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/73628/en-u...
Additional CUDA driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-6.0.37-driver.html
Asics also has a treadmill they use to demo Hall's 4:46 marathon pace - http://youtu.be/ziQEsdXMbi8
Whoa, that has tab completion? I never knew!
> It's not about artists; it's about distribution (which eventually makes it back to artists, but that's another story entirely).

Does it make it back to artists? Stronger control of distribution channels would increase power of the distributors. Which I think would make it easier for them to minimize artist payouts. The monopsony equivalent of an oligopoly, whatever that's called.

An example that springs to mind is music. In 1994, Steve Albini wrote a legendary breakdown of how much it sucked for artists [1]. He recently said that the Internet's open distribution has greatly reduced their power. [2]

[1] http://www.thebaffler.com/past/problem_with_music

[2] http://qz.com/202194/steve-albini-the-problem-with-music-has...
Other vehicles not getting ticketed for violations has absolutely nothing to do with this. If LE isn't doing it's job, then it's not doing it's job regardless of the mode of transport. The article is about laws directed at cyclists not being logical. It rings a little hollow when the subject of the article can't follow the laws they already have.

For whatever it's worth, I don't hate cyclists. I have a bike that I ride around neighborhood streets and through local parks for recreation. I don't ride it on highly-traveled roads or as a transportation device because I think I'd be impeding motorized vehicles and I'd really rather not be killed.
> I mean, to maintain this valuation, they have to constantly sell yuan and buy dollars, but they can't do that forever, right?

In that direction, yes they can do it forever because they can keep printing yuan. The dynamics of the Soros' bet was in the other direction: The Bank of England needed to expend foreign reserves in order to buy pounds, and the supply of foreign reserves is finite.

The other interesting dynamic in yuan/dollar: China owns a sizeable amount of treasuries (since the US keeps running a trade deficit, they turn around and invest in interest-bearing bonds). The treasuries are denominated in dollars: If China decided to dump all the treasuries on the market at once (driving US interest rates through the roof, and the price of the T's down), the US gov't would just buy it's debt back for pennies on the dollar. There would no doubt be chaos, but it would be a very different dynamic than the BoE fiasco.
If scientific validity were our lone motivation, than yes, it would make sense to ignore these "slippery concepts," as you describe. But this is not the case. I, for one, dread the mechanization of human behavior, even if it may seem accurate. The same goes for others, too. In general, people will not reduced themselves to mere cause and effect; they want to exist as more than than.

Having verifiable evidence against my beliefs means nothing, because my intention is not factuality. That's why creationism and evolution may coexist in the theologians mind. And that's why the utilitarian ideology will never become widespread.

The sciences are valuable in all tangible senses, but these "models," as you describe, are just that - models. And I feel no obligation to model my existence. Honestly, I prefer not to understand myself. Life's more amusing while unpredictable.
Pinterest Confirms Raising Another $200M At $5B Valuation
No. Scientific theories with cryptography and security. Both of those are closely associated with politics, but have verifiable truth.
I thought like that in my 20s, but as I've gotten older I've decided life is too short to give everything a chance. I'd like to be really sure I'll like something before I give it a chance. Ironically, the Internet, which has probably decreased my access to content because of its role in the creation of DRM, has also increased my ability to see what's worth spending my time on.

Perhaps I lose out on some serendipity, but it's worth it so I don't feel like I've wasted my time.

Which brings us back around to the point about DRM. There's so much I can consume where my rights as an owner are respected that I don't often feel the need to bother with anything else. Hell, I can even get Game of Thrones on DVD if its that important to my social life.

And he didn't say he wouldn't enjoy it, he said he doesn't enjoy talking about it. Probably because he hasn't seen it. But the idea that one's under some obligation to see it in order to engage in conversation probably means one needs new friends.
OK, I might be a bit biased because I work for one of the companies involved, but the scoring system seems kind of silly to me. Companies get one star for fulfilling each of the six criteria but they don't seem equally important to me:

1. requiring a warrant for data
2. telling users about government data requests
3. publishing transparency reports
4. publishing law enforcement guidelines
5. fighting for users' privacy in courts
6. and publicly opposing mass surveillance

1. Seems like the most important to me, followed by 2. and 5.

It seems silly that companies could get three "stars" in this analysis but not even require a warrant for data.
Evidence for solar wind modulation of lightning 
What if solar wind does more than "modulate"? What if it powers lightning?
You're issuing 'refunds' onto the cards without charging in the first place, right?
What?! Awesome! I would swear that was once not the case... (checks man page)

Opened applications inherit environment variables just
as if you had launched the application directly through
its full path. This behavior was also present in *Tiger*.

Sigh, I'm old...
> The US is not going to match the #1 and #2 on your list, Hong Kong and Singapore, ever, because it is trivial to wire up a single dense city with weak democratic red tape.

But even the most densely populated areas in the US have terrible Internet access. A small portion of New York City has FiOS, but the vast majority has Comcast or Time Warner, and those are about$60 for 20Mbps advertised[0].

I'm willing to give Singapore the fact that it's a smaller government[1], but the bottleneck in providing better Internet access in NYC is not the NYC government.

[0] I am in midtown Manhattan, probably the most densely populated area in the country, and I am getting 700 KB/s as I type this, so I'm not even getting anything close to what's advertised.

[1] And the population is about 2/3 the size of NYC
"Young Turk" is figurative. He also wasn't a Turk.
The energy-use argument strikes me as ... interesting. It's not that stopping and starting takes any less energy for a car (particularly avehicle without regenerative braking), but that the rider's effort is greater. In fairness, the article states this, but the distinction could be clearer.

It does highlight just how much of an efficiency loss frequent stop/start traffic is. In my experience, my most efficient travel (long distance at ~90 kph) is about 1.7x more fuel efficient than when I'm driving surface streets with frequent stops, based on liters/100km (US MGP ratings obscure this relationship).

As a cyclist, in light traffic I tend to the Idaho Stop practice. There are a number of rationales:

• The injury a bicycle can inflict is generally vastly less than that of an automobile.

• Cyclists almost always have much better visibility and awareness of surrounding traffic, with the possible exception of traffic to the rear.

• Bicycles generally accelerate much more slowly from a stop than motor vehicles.

However, in traffic scenarios, I tend to fairly studiously adhere to the rules of the road. Why? Predictability, and my own risk. If I'm following RoTR, drivers have a much better sense of where I'll be, and I am less likely to get into an unpredictable (and likely harmful) situation.

One other item: stop signs outside the US are often substituted for with "give way" signs (you'll occasionally see "yield" in the US). Where it isn't necessary to always stop, cautioning drivers (and establishing legal rights of way) is considered sufficient. Replacing intersections with roundabouts also addresses this through traffic flow.
Citing dhh's opinion is not a justification for ignoring the law of Demeter, either, so what's your point?
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The article makes a distinction between different kinds of unauthorized usage (not all kinds are malicious or illegal). You don't seem to.
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If I understand your analogy correctly, Walmart is Medicare, and the manufacturer is a drug company? If so, then said QA testing is not a guarantee; you cannot design a drug that will extend the lives of patients with end-stage cancer like you design a grill. It'd be like there was a government agency that compared the manufacturer's new grill to all other grills on the market, and only let the manufacturer sell theirs if it had a clearly defined benefit over the others.
Bicycles are not multi-ton hunks of plastic and steel and treating them as though they have crumple zones creates perverse incentives that make both biking and driving more inconvenient and dangerous.
That completely contradicts my experience and everything else I've read from others.

Less than 60 hz is generally annoying when trying to use a screen as a monitor because of cursor lag, but almost all video is at 30 fps or less so 30 hz is fine for video.
One of my cats clearly recognizes me in the mirror and understands that the mirror is a reflection of me. I've done tests where I put the cat in front of the mirror and I stand behind the cat. The cat looks at me in the mirror. I pull out a treat and the cat turns around to get it from me.

My other cat clear recognizes itself in the mirror because whenever I force it to look at itself in the mirror, it strains to look away from its disgusting recognition that it is a cat and not a human. I'm serious about how it reacts, though it's only my interpretation as to why it acts that way.
Hahaha, they'd just say sorry a thousand times the mutter something about immigrants.
There's nothing wrong with writing down the fixed costs (which will often be estimable) and getting close on the variable costs. Revenue projections in a new company will be made-up usually, but you're correct to point that out.
No, I am enraged by the idea of road aggression and pointed out that there are cases where similar things can be dangerous.

It is not obvious to me how you using italics in the term "outlier" makes his case an outlier.
Esprit de l'escalier applies to the retort you'd apply after an encounter ... but didn't.

Aggressive assertion of one's legal rights isn't that.
Math Trick to Multiply By Lines (aka how the Japanese multiply/Vedic math)