skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Idaho Stop makes sense to me and is basically what I did as a kid when I biked a lot more, but as a driver (in Redmond no less, the "bicycle capital of the northwest") I still want more restrictions on bikers. Basically my dream is this: if there isn't a defined bike lane, bikes are pedestrians. This implies they should stay on the sidewalk (or if there is no sidewalk then the shoulder or side-dirt) and use the pedestrian crosswalks at stoplight intersections unless the Idaho Stop applies, especially if they need to go left they should wait at the crosswalk instead of crossing over a few lanes to the left-turn lane.
There was very little content or you already knew fp so you didn't learn much?
Vehicles should avoid pedestrians in crosswalks regardless of right-of-way. After all many pedestrians are senile or otherwise of diminished capacity. I certainly wouldn't want anyone running over any of my elderly relatives. However, I recommend against deliberate "cut off" attempts. You might find them quite entertaining most of the time. The rest of the time someone will be injured, and it won't necessarily be the cyclist.
Good job on being so aggressive. I suggest you go even further like Chris Bucchere [1] who killed someone and then proudly posted about it online. Maybe one day, you will even make CEO. Asshole.

[1] http://abc7news.com/archive/8635496/
Obviously something like brain surgery shouldn't be taken lightly, but I've had a family friend with tremors go through the process and the result is pretty amazing.

Went from pretty severe tremors to appearing basically completely cured.

This is a pretty good example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBh2LxTW0s0
> I think an animal capable of self recognition may still fail the mirror test if visual sense is not their primary window to the world.

You first do the mirror test with many animals that do primarily use vision. Then you rank those using a different test - if you pick your alternate test properly it can act as a proxy to the mirror test.

Then you test your target animal to see how it does on the proxy test.
totally agree. I have been researching on this topic for a while. In my opinion instant search makes killer. Any search term that is rising higher , making it appear in instant search just make it nuts and goes on breakout.
I think google need to apply weight on content relevancy and not apply same rule to big and small guys.
A sound mirror is just a wall.
One problem is a 2-way stop at a 4-way intersection, where the bicyclist doesn't necessarily see the car, but at a 35-45mph speed limit, even if the car doesn't hit the bicyclist, the car has to brake suddenly to maintain an adequate buffer.

Even though I hate aggressive cyclists, I wouldn't want to hit one even if the bicyclist were 100% at fault and somehow magically had insurance to pay for all damage to my car, as the bicyclist would probably be seriously injured if not killed. So I'd end up braking, potentially getting hit by a car behind me.
افضل دكتور انف واذن وحنجرة
My brother has downsyndrome and struggles with muscle control. When he eats he tremors quite a bit losing food on his plate forcing him to take a desperate eat fast approach to his meals. He has gone through quite a bit of muscle therapy to help. Needless to say, I will be buying this for him and can't wait to see what other types of people find an improvement in their lives with this product.
The execution was frankly abhorrent to say the least; and I personally couldn't care less about all that gimmicky 'social' cruft; but, having just watched a demo of the thing [1], I must say I'm having a slight mini Xerox Parc-ish feeling about the map navigation stuff, which is after all a key part of Marchiori's original vision [2].

Paraphrasing an earlier reviewer [3], I feel this guy is definitely onto something here...

[1] Starts at 0:51: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Mxlb-Gqhs&t=0m51s

[2] http://www.math.unipd.it/~massimo/2012/left-volunia

[3] http://searchengineland.com/volunia-a-social-search-engine-s...
GreenZoner egypt
جرين زونر مصر كل مايخص اخبار الطب والصحة والتغذية والعلاج بالطاقة الحرة والطبخ وتنمية المجتمع والتكنولوجيا والعلوم والاختراعات والزراعة والبيئة الخضراء وردع الماسونية
For San Francisco, my biggest right of way question is: is a homeless person pushing a shopping cart filled with bags of recycling, at 1mph, occupying a lane of traffic, a pedestrian, or a vehicle?
Relevant HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6977177

BTW, I wonder if Paul Turner's work on fibers will change this equation if/when it makes it into the production kernel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw

Google has had very promising initial results with it.
I live in Australia and the debate here is pretty heated between cars and cyclists. The main reason pedestrians are not really mentioned is, in my opinion, because Australia does not have many pedestrians centres and they don't coexist with bikes all that much.

I do agree with a lot of this article about the uselessness of enforcing outdated road rules to cyclists. I personally will rarely completely stop at stop sign. I find the danger much higher to try to immobilize the bike, un-clip the shoe and start again with a very slow speed (potentially exposing myself for a much longer period of time in that dangerous crossing zone).

To solve accidents between all of these actors, I think there should be a simple rule of giving the slowest vehicle always the right of way, which is what courteous people do. A pedestrians should always have priority over a cyclist and or a motorist. If accident happen, the cyclist/motorist should take the full responsibility for it. Likewise a cyclist should have priority over a motorist. The person at fault should be proven guilty unless proven innocent of some unpredictable situation.

It is a bit the same on the water, where motor boats have to give way to wind powered boat for the same logical reasons.
> Tear everything to shreds.

That's also called "constructive feedback" or "having something useful to say". OP offered his thoughts on the best cases where this technology could be applied while explaining how Parkinson actually works and how this limits the usefulness of this solution. If this is "such an HN reply", then this is also the kind of reply for which I come back to this site.
The current situation in digital distribution is more akin to only being able to play your record on a Phillips record player from 1976-1979 or your CD in a Sony CD player from 1990-1994. Or to read your book by the Patented Blacklight Color Lightbulb from 3M.
Tell HN: Game Design Google Group
I created a "Game Design" Google group. My hope here is that we get devs that actually want to discuss how to design games, how to implement games we might all see someplace and what makes a great game.

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/community-game-design
They main idea of a hedgefund, as I've understood it is to generate uncorrelated returns. The idea is that by owning lots of uncorrelated assets you will have less volatility for the same return. Hence I think a better comparison than 60stock/40bond vs 100%hedge could be for example 60stock/30bond/10hedge against 60stock/40bond.
The problem with no response (Warnock's Dilemma)
The title of the course is "Functional Programming Principles in Scala". To me this indicates the focus is FP principles, and Scala is the tool used. The FP content they teach is very good for an introductory course, in my opinion.

If you took the course and read the forums, you probably noticed a LOT of people really struggled with the FP part. Imagine if it also added more in-depth Scala features...
The big question is whether the Bank of England would have sold so much GBP if this was allowed to happen gradually rather than overnight. The real problem is still political incompetence, but there's no guarantee that the losses of the British taxpayers would have been equally large if Soros's fund had not made such a spectacular short which sparked a political pissing match.
It would be cool if it had some sort of exchange for the individual parts after tear down. For instance I have an old smart phone with a broken lcd, but I'm sure the other parts are working. If I could use this site to document the teardown and sell or trade the individual components afterward for something I need on current project, that'd be epic.
The inert-ness you're referring doesn't really apply in a world where all this digital content is streamed from servers in the cloud. The infrastructure to provide that steaming content must be maintained.
> ...governed by the exact same laws as vehicles. No exceptions.

So I should be able to ride my bike on the highway?

> Bicycles are part of a larger system and that system runs on expectations.

True, but the current disregard to those laws means that expected behavior is inconsistent with the behavior mandated by laws.

> Adding a new class of movement rules for bicycles which are sharing lanes with cars makes this system much more difficult to predict and anticipate for everyone.

Bikes already move and behave differently, just due to mechanics and physics. Bringing expectations in line with this and normalizing behavior INCREASES predictability.
>I suspect if you tried to copy their idea it'll take you as much time as it took them if you want to match their algorithms.

How long do you think it took them to get to just the current, non-waterproof (eating utensil!) stage? I invite you to write down a guess before continuing to read this comment.

http://leadersinheels.com/tech/interview-anupam-pathak-found... states "The entire process took about three years from start to finish."

And whereas you open your comment "I suspect if you tried to copy..." but I hope you can extend that "you" to 3 years - or even six months - of Samsung, G.E., Roche, or Eli Lilly copying their prototype. Meanwhile, six months from now their prototype still won't be waterproof, and will still be the size it is now.

Regarding the part after your ------:

The problem is that what you call the "controversial" part is precisely the type of "idea-only" thing that is at issue here. If you're a product engineer for G.E. you can literally copy this invention in 6 months given nothing more than a budget of $1M and this video - literally zero other information.

At $295 that equates to 3389 units sold worldwide to generate that in gross revenue. (Meanwhile "Approximately 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease each year" according to http://www.pdf.org/en/parkinson_statistics).

If Eli Lilly had the right to do it, writing that check would be a no-brainer. How does Eli LIlly's manufacturing, distribution, and credibility in the medical space as well as access to care providers and brand name, relate to "Lift Labs"'s? If Eli Lilly were allowed to write that check and come onto market, six months from now Lift Labs would be a footnote.

Instead Lift Labs is afforded the sole right to provide all 60,000 sufferers detected every year, and every existing sufferer, with their solution, as well as to license it to Eli Lilly or any other company it wants.

This is progress in action.
>>I've brought this up again and again on DRM-related threads here. Publishers don't want to make consumers' lives difficult or prevent you from enjoying yourself - that's a juvenile and inaccurate picture

History tells another story, look at what Sony did last decade. Unless, of course, you consider installing a rootkit on Windows w/o users' consent that actually benefits the customers.

The main problem with DRM is that aside propaganda it serves no purpose as it can be worked around.
Its my understanding that Visa / Mastercard will protect non pin based debit transactions (since they are really credit transactions). ACH is a different beast, from what it sounded like when reading the article, Balanced is somehow determining account numbers / routing numbers from bank accounts, which would be bad if they got hacked. On the other hand, they could just be issuing refunds to the cards.
> Yes, it is always “possible” to make a NaN to compare to. Which is more convenient for programmers: x != x or x == someObscureMeansOfGettingNAN( )? Which is more portable and verifiable? I can’t believe you’re actually arguing for the latter.

Tell me, which is clearer: x != x, or x == NaN. Obviously, the latter is much clearer. We don't live in the 1960's any more, we have libraries now. No need for getting NaN to be obscure.

> Just fine; 0./0. is what this example needs to avoid, tiny/tiny is perfectly OK. That’s the whole point. You don’t want |x| < eps, you really do want x == 0. This happens all the time; if you’re not aware of such uses and you feel strongly about these issues, you may want to spend some more time studying the way these tools are used in low-level numerics.

Please, do give a concrete example, if they are so abundant. Otherwise you will keep saying "yea, but for some examples, that's not an issue". Anyway, this is wholly besides the point. You still refused to answer the question I actually asked: NaN not 0.

> (That said, if NaN < x is an error, that will really cause issues when someone tries to use it as a key in an ordered container).

As it should. The current behavior may cause silent errors and corruption, instead of blowing up and notifying you. Which would you prefer?
Have you tried the iTunes Radio NPR stream?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/station/npr-news-and-culture/idr...
LaTeX/MathJax and hyperlinks in Ace editor code comments
If you're driving your car on the road, I think you need to follow the rules of the road. Otherwise, get off the road.

I've seen way too many cases where drivers make the roads more dangerous for everyone.
Would be interested in any more concrete description of the problems? I'm considering using Vert.x in a project, mainly because of the polyglot features (ability to be extended by many different people some of who only know Python, others who only know Java and some who might only know Javascript, etc).
rosser: please bear in mind that while you are saying "I'm not saying your position is wrong", two respondents actually agree with the position taken in the marked "sarcastic part" :)

so this certainly identifies an avenue for discussion, even if you do not prefer this way of bringing it up.
PHP RESTful API with an example MySQL database.
I recently finished a small RESTful API project for a University project and thought it would be good to upload it to Github as an example as to how a RESTful API should function and work, as I know its hard to find a clear cut solution to RESTful API standards.

Here's a little description of what's included:

PHP RESTful API with an example MySQL database. Comes with various HTTP server response mechanisms, basic HTTP authentication, pagination and rate limits. Do note this API sends a delete request using the JSON body rather than using an ID within the URI.

Feel free to reuse it as you wish.
Would someone please ask the Apple Numbers team to fix slanted headers?
What do you use scala for?
Just wondering what types of projects use scala.
Mozilla and DRM
> "Cyclists don't pay their own way on the road because they don't pay registration fees or other use fees such as gas taxes."

http://www.teamestrogen.com/content/cycling_myth2
I was saying that the myth is that people don't want to spend bitcoin.
Welcome to the banking system. If they're going threw the debit card channels, through Visa, they might charge a fee, Balanced's bank may charge a fee, Balanced has to pay its employees, pay for hosting its servers, make sure they are PCI compliant, etc.
I'm curious whether you read the article? They make a pretty good case for why the rules really shouldn't (a priori) be the same. Where there any particular points made you disagree with?

Do you live in a dense city with a large number of cyclists? I think there's merit to the argument that automobile drivers are already predicting that cyclists will run through intersections, so this clarification would be a significant improvement.

The system is composed of individual interactions, and the rules they suggest (and which research seems to indicate reduce collisions) seem sensible in the context of those individual interactions. What specifically do you disagree with?
I completely agree. How someone decides to treat a condition is a deeply personal choice and I certainly didn't mean for my comment to be a recommendation for anyone else. Just that this spoon looks like a great option for a lot of people, me in particular.
Tricking the uncertainty principle
How I Picked My Company Name
Amid protests, U.S. FCC proposes new 'net neutrality' rules
> So I should be able to ride my bike on the highway.

You can't drive a car at 20mph on the highway either.
> So I should be able to ride my bike on the highway?

FWIW, if your car is not capable of traveling at the "speed minimum" (typically 10-15 miles below the speed limit on a highway; though I guess some states don't have this concept), then it also is not allowed on the highway.
My point was not that hoarding is a myth - my point was that "people will not spend bitcoin, because they will only hoard it" is a myth.

Have you actually talked to people who own bitcoin? They want places to spend it.

> Just take a look at the bitcoin transaction volume merchants are seeing beyond the first few days.

This doesn't really mean anything. First-day enthusiasim can't be held as representative of the greater trend. The greater trend being that more merchants are accepting bitcoin over time, and more bitcoin is being spent on real things.
So the scenario that concerns you most is: first that a cyclist doesn't see your vehicle approaching an intersection with the right-of-way, and then that a vehicle is trailing you too closely and can't brake in reaction to your braking? This isn't impossible, but it includes multiple operator errors, so it isn't really something that should drive policy. I personally have driven many miles over many years, and have never rear-ended anyone. I've also ridden (fewer miles, but still) over many years, and I pay very close attention to cross-traffic that doesn't stop, especially if it's going 45 mph.
I'm from Ireland. Our level of cycling and accommodation of such in law and infrastructure is certainly far better than the US but also far worse than, say, the Netherlands or Denmark (who are exemplary in this respect (and many others)).

I come across these kinds of arguments a lot on boards.ie (Irelands main internet forum) and in general public discourse.

What I find interesting in these kinds of arguments/discussion is, basically, how bigoted people are, without realising it.
In almost all cases I have seen, people who cycle are in favour of cyclists rights, poeple who drive are in favour of drivers rights, people who do both are in favour of a compromise. Very rarely do you see any impartial evidence based assertions on the matter.
All of you here: Read back your comment and think about that, are you biased?
I find it interesting that the article compares this to right turn on red. There's a fair amount of evidence that right turn on red is pretty damaging to pedestrians and cyclists. For instance, this report [0] from the US DOT saw an increase in collisions with bikes and pedestrians of between 50 and 125%.

Not exactly the horse I'd hitch my carriage to...

[0]: http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/25000/25600/25603/DOT-HS-806-182.pdf
So, I hear you hate bicyclists?

On the flip side:

I have lost count of the number of time I have stopped for pedestrians at crosswalks in Oakland, only to have a car blow past me, sometimes coming close to hitting pedestrians I had stopped for.

As a pedestrian on MLK, I have to be VERY careful of when crossing crosswalks because many cars are NOT paying attention.

Clearly there are many incompentent and thoughtless bicyclists and drivers.

> I spoke to an SFPD officer on Market and 2nd the other day, and he watched as five different cyclists ran a red light stopping vehicular traffic on Market. I asked him why he wasn't giving tickets to the cyclists, and he told me that he is specifically not allowed to. He reiterated to me that the official policy of the SFPD is not to enforce traffic violations by cyclists on Market Street.

So why don't we tie a law legalizing the Idaho Stop, with a law mandating cops enforce traffic laws against bicyclists?
Interesting questions. Part of the implication with granting personhood is that we recognize the creature in question is aware of its situation and suffers for it. Would a computer that can recognize itself suffer? Although computers can be turned off, depending on how we define consciousness and what physical components make those up, it could be argued that a computer is not guaranteed death in the way that all other biological creatures are.
Bicyclists can injure pedestrians. Bicyclists can kill pedestrians.

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

Who decides what these "best practices" are?

Should cars be allowed to treat stop signs as yields in the absence of other traffic?

What's the point of signage if you create a broad exemption from following them?
You can't ride a bike on a highway at any speed.

Edit: To be clear, I intending to point out the ridiculousness of this language:

> exact same laws as vehicles. No exceptions.
I'm just happy Gary's gracing us with his wisdom semi-regularly again.
They're probably related, though. Part of the reason social deprivation is harmful is probably because there are types of sensory deprivation that come with it; similarly in reverse.

To really start understanding it, you'd have to break down different types and intensities of deprivation. How different is it to bed fed by a robot as opposed to being fed by a hostile guard, for instance?
I don't know if this is related directly, but seeing as Soros is in on the largest gold mining company in the world and other gold companies related etf's[0], doesn't that speak somewhat to the type of bet he's making in this landscape?

[0]: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/15/hedgefunds-filings...
> You sit on a board which devises an inadequate Javascript language

No board devised JavaScript.

> then you decide to implement Flash in the same inadequate language, then you go and make an agreement with the original creators of Flash for your EME/DRM implementation, because your implementation doesn't look like it is going to do too well.

EME has nothing to do with Shumway.
As a fellow N. Virginian, I've found it's pretty easy to tell who the bad drivers are: they're the ones with the license plates that say "Maryland".
It's not really, because a motorcycle can out-accelerate the traffic they filter past.
came here just to say this. looks like someone's binding is off?
im a cyclist
i dont own a car
i commute to work by bike
and bike several hours on the weekend

i disagree with the pro cyclist stuff like not stopping at red light. its stupid imo. :)
Quick question on HStore et al. How is it comparing to Json in 9.3? And how does sqlalchemy handle HSTORe

I am going to make the leap and put some experimental schemea-less designs into pg soon and would appreciate any feedback from the trenches !
It was fantastic for me, really helped give me the 'bootstrap' I needed to start writing functional code.
> My question is why they are implementing a Flash replacement in Javascript when C or C++ would be better.

Using JavaScript reduces memory safety problems, and interfacing with the Web APIs from JS is simpler than for C++.
Command-Shift-G in the save dialog or in a Finder window brings up a "Go to folder" prompt that allows text input of a path _with tab completion_.

As an aside, these posts remind me of macosxhints.com of years past.