skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your point?

> few 150 pound blobs of jelly can survive getting flung across the street.

Which is why I put more effort into riding safely and defensively than I do in riding predictably. This is why (depending on traffics, shoulder, lighting, pedestrian visibility and driveways) there are many situations where I will go onto the sidewalk with my bike. (The main reason I do this is to use walk signals rather than risking following traffic laws and using the left turn lane.)

> a biker who runs a red light through the intersection.

They did not follow the idaho stop law. I think you are arguing against a strawman.

> When a bicyclist flaunts the basic rules of traffic, rules meant to keep people safe in a world of multi-ton vehicles, they force drivers into situations that often end badly only for the person without the airbags.

Which is why we should establish rules of the road for bicyclists that make sense, and will be easily followed by the majority of bicyclists. Then we enforce those rules against the 5% of arrogant jerks.

> When you're driving a car, predictability and muscle memory are pretty much the only thing that keeps you alive and anything out of the ordinary is a danger that you must prepare for and avoid.

Predictability helps, but:

Paying attention to your surroundings and not relying too heavily on predictability is how you avoid accidents and hurting people. This is true with or without bicyclists on the road.

Solely relying on muscle memory and predicability means you are a very BAD driver.
Change is a crucial factor to consider in any long-lived system. Douglas Adams had a few words about it in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

It's relatively easy to create a first-time-through map of something. You simply record everything you see (or thought you saw). On revisiting, there are now questions of:

• Was that here the first time?

• Did it move? Was it mismeasured?

• What about the stuff that's recorded that we don't see?

Early cartogrophers (as well as researchers in conceptual fields) often mistakenly create or record features where none actually exist (or at least no subsequent evidence is found). Often the ghosts of these features haunt maps (or textbooks) for centuries.

Essentially, you need a map, ultimately, which has a sense for the permanence of any highway feature, and to not fall prey to map-territory relation assertion fallacies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map-territory_relation

The map is not the territory.
One would hope that you're correct. And in the very long run you will be. But IMO not anytime soon.

True, Quark was unable to "change their stripes" and crashed and burned. Contempt for customers (and also contempt for their own US-based developers) came from the top.

However, programs like Photoshop are the result of thousands of man-hours of development. Perhaps even thousands of man-years! It's difficult to compete with that.

What does a startup's business plan look like? Perhaps:

Adobe is led by a bunch of dickheads who are
alienating their customers. We think there's an
opportunity for a more enlightened competitor
to take market share.

Nobody will fund that. Especially since Adobe management could decide, overnight, to not be total dickheads. And then what happens to the startup's business plan?

Adobe gained market share from Quark during a time of transition in the industry. Quark was slow to transition their software to OS X. But now? OS X is stable and Apple isn't making any major changes. The only new thing is "the cloud". Which, ironically, is where Adobe just stumbled. But Adobe could trivially fix that, literally overnight!
Back online for a while already, just FYI.
Oculus Rift, three Kinects bring human body into a virtual world
The adverse reactions came from sensory deprivation.

For social isolation, reactions varied. Love that guy who just Gump-kept sailing.
Yeah, I'm guessing that is pretty common, and it's why EME is winning.
I don't think so. It would be hard to write an article about him without hinting at the importance of being in the right environment to grow an idea into a company (see his university's shortsighted decision).
If it makes you feel any better, as a cyclist those idiots are just as annoying, if not more so. They're oblivious to their environment and if they do something stupid there's good odds I'll get hurt.

You'll find them all over bike paths in particular, which tends to make those less attractive than they might otherwise be -- at least on busy weekends.

Even (or especially) on country rides, where I can see the road ahead but a car following me can't, I'll signal when it's safe to pass, or more critically, when it's not. Dropping my hand with fingers to indicate how many cars are oncoming, and signalling all clear almost always helps the driver behind me (who understandably wants to pass) know what to expect, and most respond with a friendly toot after they've overtaken me (honking from behind a bike tends to be startling, don't do that).
Been there, done that. I switched from Java to Scala and Play. Back to Java 8 and Spring MVC and couldn't be happier to be back.
The sailing articles sounded like social isolation and not sensory deprivation.
You don't need to "purchase" a video game to play it
The nuanced argument that the article makes is not to standardize the currently common (bad) behavior, but rather to find a regime that will improve the scenario. One major goal is to make cyclists more predictable. Another is to recognize and clarify the distinction between cars and bikes.

This second point is very important. There are significant differences between a car and a bike. Cyclists have a much better field of view, on account of not having blind spots and being situated much higher. Cyclists are far more invested in avoiding collisions since they have more on the line. Bicycles are significantly less massive and travel at much lower speeds. Bicycles are narrower and more nimble and are therefore better able to avoid collisions in tight traffic.

Any regulatory regime that ignores the differences between these two vehicles is just as nonsensical as one that ignores the differences between a car and a pedestrian. As the article points out, you wouldn't expect a pedestrian to be required to stop at each and every stop sign.

The whole "two sets of rules" argument is not particularly compelling. You already deal with many distinct sets of rules in all sorts of contexts: besides the aforementioned difference in rules between pedestrians and cars, there are fifty states and innumerable other jurisdictions with drastically differing laws, there are rules that apply only to semis or commercial vehicles, there are different rules for highways and surface streets, etc. etc.
This is the reason why I stopped reading Doctorow, it's all just 'geeky back-patting'.

His stance on copyright is very black and white, and he uses his books to preach this black and white 'internet is best' world-view - Makers for example has the 100% good open blogger vs. the 100% evil traditional journalist, Down and out in the magic kingdom has post-scarcity financial system based on how much people like you on the internet..

It's all just preaching to the choir mixed with an obsession with Disney, and I learn nothing new from his writings.

Edit: Why the downvote?
Another point about bicycle safety: my worst wrecks (or near misses) have frequently been very unpredictable (though with some foresight and experience a few were foreseeble): wiping out turning across traffic as I crossed the grease strip on a warm summer afternoon (fortunately no traffic imminent), multiple parts failures (freewheels, cranks, frame, handlebars, spokes), gravel and road debris. The parts failures in particular tend to come on suddenly, and in a few cases occurred within a few days, or sometimes a few minutes, of circumstances which would have been far, far worse.

After a while it's enough to convince even an enthusiastic cyclist to slow down, check things over carefully, and wear a helmet.

NB: it's "flouts", not "flaunts".
The At Sign
> Biologists believe that human emotions evolved because they aided co-operation ... fear, anger, anxiety and sadness

Mammals exhibit emotions such as fear and anger.
Or, the earth's electric fields repel more cosmic rays when it is excited by solar winds.
What exactly is the “Visual web”?
Which is why I put more effort into riding safely and defensively than I do in riding predictably.

These aren't mutually exclusive. Nor is situational awareness, which you mention.

I'll hog the lane if not doing so increases risks or increases the likelihood I'll have to respond unpredictably to sudden events (doors opening, pedestrians, vehicles entering or leaving the lane).

I do agree generally that a slightly laxer set of regulations for bikes may well apply. My experience with urban cyclists suggests that the line is rather short of where many of them place it.
A question (disclaimer... I don't know much about encryption and assume types are recognizable to experts).

If Al-Quida has it's own type of encryption wouldn't that be a huge red flag as it went across the wires and the senders and recipients be fingered almost immediately?

It seems it would be safer to use something lots of other people are using as well.
If one wants a parallel to social-politial battles around the means of production in recent centuries, it's an attempt by licensing companies to abolish ownership of reproductions of works of art -- and to establish a monopoly on the means of distribution.

My perception is that few people understand or care -- and the US political elite mostly acquiesces because it has been (or wants to be) bought by those aspiring monopolists.
Only if you can distinguish them on the wire.
It is a personal decision whether to go to surgery or not, but our group really believes in letting patients known all the options.

The spoon only solves one problem - scooping up liquid food. One can argue that a fork or knife version could help with other food. It doesn't solve writing, playing instruments, typing. Shaving may be a little too delicate for something like this. DBS when done right solves all of this.

The problem with DBS is that best practices for implantation can vary widely, and I've seen it done really poorly, either with surgical groups with crappy experience w/ a lot of infections or poorly targeted leads that are many millimeters off the intended brain target. Our group prides ourselves in being pretty accurate most of the time, and with a complication rate of < 1%; of which I can't recall anyone who had a serious hemorrhage or death from this.

One thing to note, it's a stereotactic neurosurgical setup, which means our surgeon uses a skull mounted frame that inserts the implant in a 1 cm burr hole. It's not a typical open craniotomy where a large segment of the skull gets removed. So in a sense, yes, it is invasive, but no, it's not as invasive as full blown surgery.

We make sure all our patients who are candidates are aware of the risks and what the surgery entails going forward - both the eager beavers raring at the bit and the reluctant folks who are afraid of it. Many of them choose it, some of them don't. Some of them don't qualify, and that's every bit their decision.
Contemplating moving from RS to Linode. Anyone done the same? Was it worth it for the savings?
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Author George R. R. Martin says this in interviews. “Ideas are cheap, it's all about the execution”; I'd say he comes through by experience and hard work himself. (From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnBvf5rFPkw )
Not if Disney has anything to say about it. Mickey Mouse shall never go out of copyright, as long as politicians are able to change the laws.
I felt like there wasn't much content. Some of it was also very misguided, like having an Int => Bool set representation, and then having part of the assignment say "pretend the domain is limited to 0-10000 for this next part". It took 4 or 5 weeks to get to examples of using map. That just felt remarkably slow.
How to quit your day job (and build a tech startup)
It's not that difficult to allow some level of social interaction while still preventing violence.

I think the question is why society should bother to spend further resources on enabling this for him?

And probably far from an insignificant amount of resources in the context of the correctional system...
It is a pretty basic course. Depending on your level of programming experience it might not even be worth it.
SoftWheel
> My experience with urban cyclists suggests that the line is rather short of where many of them place it.

I have a suspicion that this is the case of a few bad apples and selection bias. I don't think the majority push the rules much past what is described in the article.

> I do agree generally that a slightly laxer set of regulations for bikes may well apply

What do you think of the specific rules proposed in the article?
Who amongst the political rulers of the country, apart from Jared Polis and Ted Cruz, is fighting against this?

I don't mean populists who make vague promises about net neutrality in order to be elected, then put people in place to undermine their promises -- I mean people who are in a position to fight the FCC, and who are actively doing it.
So what is the play today? The US is backed into a corner. Interest rates are near zero (Fed fund rate) and they're buying $75Billion in bonds a month to keep interest rates low. That was $85B and was supposed to taper, but as soon as they dropped a little bit mortgage rates rose and home sales dropped again - the housing market is at another peak with the low interest rates with nowhere to go but down. They keep hoping to get some inflation going by pushing on that rope and it's just not happening. All the money is going into stocks. If we do get significant inflation they'll have to raise rates and destroy the housing market (worse than last time). So we're on the brink. It's hard to short stocks when they're rising so fast - one who could time this thing could make Soros' gain look like lunch money. What is the play?
10 years later, and what I would consider a "power user", and I still spend time every day trying to maximize windows on OS X. It's usually a game of hitting the "+" button to see what will happen, and usually being disappointed by the results.

Does anybody know how to maximize a window with OS X?
Sounds like a lot of bloat and over exaggeration on the part of banks and credit card companies for how much all these things cost. They're still making a killing...
Makes more sense than Occulus
I feel like this totally picks on Snapchat. So they run an ephemeral data service, but probably don't profit so much like Google or Facebook to do anything in court.

If a company doesn't have any data to hand over, that should give a few points, not just ignore it.
For myself, I greatly appreciate having a service like Mailgun available to Rackspace customers - does Linode (or another company) have a similar e-mail service?
Yes and David Sterling is clearly not a racist.
With lightweight threads you can spawn as many fibers as you like. Creating and starting a new fiber is basically free. You can start fibers and join them, in any dependency tree structure.

Of course, you can keep using futures (what I call semi-blocking API), only futures that block the fiber rather than the thread, when you join them.
I ask because with Spring Data REST, you don't
Well I'm glad someone made the entire country pay for the Chancellor of the Exchequer's decisions.
If you enable case sensitivity on OSX filesystem, adobe photoshop won't install.

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-case-sensitiv...
Pinterest would be fools to accept their money at orders of magnitude better valuations. Pinterest has a solid product, a vastly better user experience (albeit solving different problems), is not pressed to find or invent business models, and could easily expand into more commercial areas. Facebook is a brand people love to hate, it has a stench of evil, and a highly uncertain financial future. What could Facebook do for Pinterest?
I think of it as what is the overall benefit. For Parkinson's, the DBS will enable them to move and walk. Many advanced patients have tremor but can't move well enough to even use a spoon. To me, it seems like a solution that doesn't really see the forest for the trees.

Not that the spoon won't be useful in many situations, but I've seen other appliances - walkers with laser cues to try and improve the "freezing of gait" phenomenon, stomach tubes to try and get over the fluctuating levels of medications, all tried. They're nice, they're not invasive, they don't get used.

PD is complicated enough that solutions need to get a hold of the "big picture". For ET, it probably would have more of a role but still, what about writing, handling complex controls, etc? The spoon may fix a limited set of problems in all of this, but the bigger picture is what will get a bed bound or wheelchair bound patient back on their feet and doing all the things they need to do in daily life. There are better solutions available for this than just the spoon.
Again, just use jOOQ. It's beautiful executed design, written by smart people.

http://www.jooq.org/

I never cared for the library until I realized I'm spending a lot of time on the developer's blog; he is prolific and very knowledgeable about everything database and java. Was sold on it soon after.
Any wall will topple with enough force. And Soros's $10 billion bet was a hell of a lot of force.
Rumor: Baidu Hires Stanford AI Lab Director
I love Pixelmator! It was on sale for $15 when I picked it up and I haven't regretted it. There's a slight learning curve from Photoshop, but it's definitely cheaper which is a huge plus.
People always underestimate how valuable information is. When you short a stock or a currency, you are not "screwing" someone, but providing information to others saying "this thing is screwed". If you believe something is wrong, you should announce that to everybody, loud and clear. In a marketplace this "announcement" is carried out by a big short, because that's the only kind of message people are able to hear.

And borrowing from your example, if there is a big group of drunk men marching to an abyss and no one would listen to a word you say ( well they are drunk), then maybe the moral thing to do is punch them in the face and run the other way.
I'm pretty sure you can use Mailgun regardless of where you host at, FWIW.
DC - 2004 (when I was deeply involved in statistics for DC, crime and otherwise) cyclists where found at fault for the majority (only slightly) of accidents they where involved in: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bicyclists-are-welcom...

It is my understanding that a new study is underway to see how Capitol Bikeshare (2500+ bikes rented from like little bike vending machines) has impacted this number (very new). Nothing will be publicly released for another year or so, but I suspect the outcome will be a much higher "at fault" rate for unskilled tourist bicyclists making that number even more skewed.

EDIT: Additionally, from reading this thread, it seems like cyclists who don't follow road rules are also a terror for pedestrians.
Most of the basic Emacs navigation bindings work as well

C-a
C-e
C-b
C-f
C-p
C-n
C-d

probably more...
Rethinking Startup Equity: The Dynamic Stock Plan
I have seen the dark side to some of this. I think a lot of hospitals are rushing into implants without a lot of experience, and are either mis-implanting them or not selecting the candidates appropriately. IT's similar to another procedure like carotid endarterectomy in that it's very surgeon-dependent; you don't want it done by someone who does less than 25-30 cases a year.
Friendly feedback, I almost left before realizing there was a demo button on the sign-in pop-up. I'd make that more prominent.

Also, a few screenshots on the front/inner-page would go a long way.
https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ works well, but costs money.
> Bicyclists can injure pedestrians. Bicyclists can kill pedestrians.

So can lightning and banana peels. Are you arguing that bicycles are as deadly as cars?

>How exactly does making bicyclists follow the laws of the road make things more dangerous?

From the article:
> If the Idaho stop were legalized, it'd get cyclists off these faster streets and funnel the bikes on to safer, slower roads. The Idaho stop, if legalized and widely adopted, would also make bikes more predictable.
As a Sketch user myself I still recognize downside for some is that it isn't cross platform. There are still a lot of people that have to use creative tools on Windows for one reason or another. Data exchange is also a big deal. Sketch does make an excellent alternative to Illustrator for my purposes.

I'd argue that alternatives to Photoshop and After Effects are the killer apps needed for getting most people out of Adobe's ecosystem. The OS X specific alternatives for Photoshop (Acorn, Pixelmator, etc) just aren't quite there yet. I really, really want them to be though because I've held off on upgrading from CS4 for about as long as I can.
GitHub claims there is nothing wrong with HR violations
This is a classic innovator's dilemma. The competitor won't compete evenly with Adobe, they will start with an under served market. Adobe will scoff at them even being a threat. Sure, Adobe could stop being pricks any time, but that won't maximize profits, so they won't. Eventually, the competitor's product will become good enough, and the stampede away from Adobe will begin.

And it may not be one company. It may be one for image editing, one for illustration, one for graphic design, and so on. There are really good tools out there today, but "everybody uses Adobe" so everybody uses adobe. Every one of these events (especially when Adobe costs your company money but refuses to provide any kind of remuneration) is one step closer to people saying "I'm going to learn something else".
> Finally C-Reduce has missed some opportunities to fold constants, so for example we see ~1 instead of -2 in the 2nd example from the top.

Do you compile the code using clang -O<level> or optimize using opt? I would think that InstCombine would canonicalize that for you so Souper would have less work to do.
Yeah, we use mailgun without Rackspace.
Who gets to graduate?