skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think manufacturers are already facing damages for those remaining 3000 fatalities. I assert "deep pockets" is the overriding factor.

I'd really like to get a sampling of those 3000 non-driver-error fatalities.

I think the term of art is "vehicle factors." Using that I found http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17916886 which suggests that manufacturers could address "the majority" of them, and I don't think I'm being crazy by suggesting self-driving vehicles already include a lot of them, since they aren't exactly Geo Metros.
> Average readers read between 120 and 200 words per minute

I don't know if that's true or not, but my reading speed is over 500 wpm, and I'm not even a native English speaker. At that speed, Squirt makes me seasick.
Yes, I've contacted PayPal before and asked them for a user setting to be able to disable the 2FA fallbacks, but they don't really seem to care that much for security. I hope someone from PayPal Security team reads this and considers implementing this change.
She is in the same boat as Congress when they asked Clapper what was happening.

Unless there is a law that explicitly excludes certain activities then government agencies are free to do what they like.

In the UK our freedoms are not given the protection that the USA gets with its constitution and Conservatives are talking about reducing the powers of the EU's court of human rights.
You could always rename it!
Relatively modern SSDs will write at least 500TB before dying:

http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experim...

I've an SSD that's been running in my development Linux laptop for very, very close to three years. The drive houses a couple of encrypted swap partitions along with the rest of the system. According to the SMART attributes, I've written 18TB to it in that time.

Don't worry about SSD wear. Really, don't. Either you'll get a drive that succumbs to crib death or super-shitty v1.0 firmware, or you'll get a drive that will last until long after you outgrow it.
YAPC::NA 2014 videos (June 23-25 Orlando, Florida)
Greg Young: Scheduling for Things to Happen in the Future
> I don't think it makes a difference. "Free will" or not, the validity of "could have done otherwise" explanations remain unchanged

You misunderstand. I am defining "free will" as the property that makes people moral agents --- ie. able to do otherwise in such a way that features in (some peoples') moral judgements. I am not claiming that we in fact possess this property (I think that's an open question).

It isn't a substantial account of what free will is. It's a bit more meta: an account of what a substantial account of free will is. Which is important, because as you said yourself: what the hell does 'free will' even mean?

Imagine you're trying to understand a codebase with as much legacy baggage as human thought. You do so by identifying modules, finding out what depends on each one and what it depends on, testing and later maybe improving on it, or discarding it. Free will is one of those modules and before we try to 'fix' it, we need to know what it does.
Very, very hard, if you mean kernel threads running in parallel. However, if the other cores run separate kernel instances (machine partitioning, separate memory and everything) that would be more achieveable. UNSW call this the clustered micokernel approach.
There is an real-time system shared by all banks. I can see my remaining quota immediately updated whenever I made an exchange.

In your example, if you have RMB in your China bank account and withdraw RMB overseas, these are no currency exchanges at all. It's not relevant to the $50k exchange cap.
Phoenix -- I love the sun and the heat... and you have both year round! And you're enough to the mountains to take a snowboarding trip.
Well, should it? It's a neat idea. But what exactly is the big deal being patented here? It's pretty trivial.

To me it seems that it's a bit like patenting flappy bird.
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Pretty sure everything in top500 is using infiniband by now.

I was briefly involved with the supercomputing world about four years ago. "Should we use Infiniband?" was no longer considered a non-rhetorical question even then.
Sure, I tend to target books I see mentioned on twitter. Then I also tend to stick to books by O'Reilly, Pragmatic Programmers, and Manning. I've found there quality of books to be much higher in general to others. Then I tend to try and find books that are written by a blog author or the library/open source project that I like. For instance Chas Emerick is pretty well know in the Clojure circles, has a good blog and a good twitter account, he has also written a book on Clojure for O'reilly so I picked it up. Then I've seen the PragPub book about Web Development in Clojure and I've seen at least 3 other people on twitter mention it positively so that was book number 2 for that month. For number three I took a chance and picked up a self published book, Functional Programming for the Object Oriented Programmer because it covered Clojure and I'm mostly an OO Programmer so it completed my deep dive into Clojure for that month. I don't always dive so deep on a subject but last month was my learn Clojure month :).
Yeah, seeing avg. team salary plotted against world cup performance would be interesting. Spain and England would be right at the bottom despite the salaries (or perhaps because of).
Oh yes. Users who don't know how to crop a photo w/out Photoshop are totally using a Package Manager and the command line to install stuff. </sarcasm>

Chocolatey is great, but unfortunately package managers don't work for every piece of software on every OS. Period.
DUBAI DENTIST UNVEILS WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE SMILE
Drone-assisted Swiss construct virtual 3D castle
Russia Today. It's probably fake.
They're not exactly "super-branded" racks of "PC"s the way we tend to think about them, a bunch of white/beige boxes. They are server-grade computers, with all that comes there (special interconnect features, ECC memory and all that), but there is indeed no question as to their distributed nature.

This is probably a technological response to the rapid pace of development. It's more efficient this way, instead of developing custom chips and boards for two years and deploying them when the high pace of advance makes them half-obsolete.
The git repo is here: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/tuned.git/tree/profiles

Easy enough to implement own scripts using the profiles as a basis.
No, I'm not mixing them up, I'm just commenting on something similar that informs our overall mindset as to creative work. Hence why I opened with "This isn't quite on subject" and even added a couple minutes after posting the addendum.
This is not a language change. It is a new convention enforced by a standard build tool. The compilers/linkers are not affected, nor is the language specification.
Why do you like cold rainy weather? Just curious.
Ask HN: Can you recommend a good open source warehouse management systems
The company that I work for is evaluating solutions but I would like something that is open source.
It's not an hypothetical future, you can often disable dangerous features in XML parsers. It seems sensible to me to do the same with YAML parsers.
That would be dangerous for the utility company employees, because this tactic would quickly become known, and all utility vehicles and employees would then be viewed with hostility and suspicion by criminals and other residents.

Similar to the vaccination blowback after the Bin Laden raid.
Built an app called "Hipstar". We find new restaurants and bars on yelp that have few reviews, and gamify being the first to review them. You know, for hipsters, so they have proof they were there first.

We built it at a 48 hour hackathon and won some kind of prize, so overall it worked pretty well, but we weren't all that invested in the concept.
Deploy and iterate faster, hello ecosystem.json
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And that Krebs finds his way into many criminal forums, one of which the accused was running.
Let me show you what it looks like without adblock:

http://imgur.com/a/kuKqo
TrapCrunch – A better designed TC spoof
Makes some sense.

Same for me on the cultural acceptance. Though, I was very hesitant to bite the bullet and shave my head completely. I just know that even for me, it was somewhat stressful to have random parts of my hair go missing. Doesn't help that I rarely look at myself in a mirror, so I wouldn't even always know when I was missing more hair. Would just get the occasional, "why did you shave right above your ear?"

Nowdays, though, it is just funny. My legs have spots where I have lost a lot of hair. Some folks assume it is because I bike. Explaining that I will likely lose all of my hair is one that I don't think most folks believe.

At any rate, if it were stressful for me, I can only imagine it would be worse for my daughters. Luckily, to date they have had absolutely none of my difficulties growing up. No allergies or anything.
It's very hard to market a system when the first (and often last) comment on it is inevitably about the syntax, which isn't going to change after 25 years or so, let's be honest, no matter unimportant it may be in the long run.
No I have a combi boiler, it doesn't store hot water. They can work with boilers though.
Have you reached out to your customers yet? @ev has obvious ties and Tim Ferriss was an early investor.
I think the ban should stay regardless of safety. One big issue here is noise and visual pollution.
Yeah they are simpler in the UK, no one cools their house for example ;)
I'm a bit confused here. He says Soundcloud does not provide a fitting reason, but i see "I have a valid license" listed among the reasons, which seems to fit perfectly in this case, as a PD work is implicitly licensed to everyone. Why would he skip that?
Of course, I'm not opposed to people being paid- I commission art regularly, I've got too many friends as artists to count, and the startup idea I've spent ages working on is based on the idea that artists currently don't charge enough for their work, and deserve more.

But you don't avoid that by retaining tight control over your IP. You do that by providing a product people genuinely want, and giving them a way to pay for it conveniently. No one thing is an instant solution, and the possibility of your original artistic work being outright stolen for someone else is incredibly rare, as people naturally want to see more from the original author.
Universe Shouldn't Be Here, According to Higgs Physics
Pdfpc – PDF Presenter Console
Not only were there likely to be side effects of the Prednisone, it didn't really work. Only plus side, for me, was that the side effects didn't hit me hard. When I paid attention and realized there were long term consequences, I stopped.

So, good choice in not doing it. :)
You've got a typo in the link in dev FAQ #7. Main-In-The-Middle
Once I read somewhere that Paint.NET developer is the only in the interwebs than can make a living out only of donations for his software. I don't know if this is true, but it is totally deserved.

I use Paint.NET for a lot of things, most of them professionally. If I someday get lucky in this startup lottery thing, I intend to donate some thousands of dollars.

EDIT for add: I see a lot of comments talking about using Paint.NET for croping and resizing. I do so much more than this. I actually create all kinds of communication materials with it. Flyers, images for a landing page, business cards, etc. The layers feature is what make it of great value for me. Also the feature to open different images at the same time is great to create an image that includes a logo, a stock photo, a standard background.

Two things that are missing: be able to save it using CMYK color scheme (better for professional printing) and saving as PDF (easier to send it to graphic stores).
There's another copy of the pdf here:

http://www.kameli.net/~marq/great_northern_machine_wars.pdf
It certainly doesn't make things easier, but it's not impossible. Python has done pretty well, despite tons of people foaming at the mouth about "the white space issue". Maybe it could have done better without that, but I think it's been a very successful language, all things considered.

Think about some of the articles from people like patio11, and what kind of ideas they might apply were they trying to sell something like Erlang.
There are many people who can't afford Photoshop, so Paint.NET is useful for those who want something better than paint without having to sell their car to pay for software.
The OpenStack and Linux developer communities compared
My daughter accidentally downloaded 6 different programs while trying to download Paint.net some which were malware. While I understand these are ads probably out of their control, their website is extremely deceptive in my opinion and should be modified to make the actual Paint.net download more obvious.
Indeed, though I think most people don't know that. My thoughts are with this new title fewer folks with receding hair lines will get their hopes up.

Granted... I am not exactly sure this was a problem. So, apologies if I made it sound like this was a dire concern. And thanks to the mods for changing the title! :)
Except that scraping itself would be prohibited by copyright law. This is why there should be some central repository, so that there can be a legal copy that is available to the public after the copyright expires.
wow that's insane.
The patent acknowledges that Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) methods have been around since the 1970s. Spritz's particular method of RSVP applies research into the optimal positioning of words to reduce or eliminate saccades (rapid movement of the eye). This is called ORP-RSVP (the ORP stands for Optimal Recognition Position).

I would think that if you are opposed to the idea of software patents in general, you would no doubt be opposed to this particular software patent.

But if you are not necessarily opposed to all software patents, but only the ones that try to patent something trivial, or try to add the words "on a computer" to an established real-world practice, then the question arises: Is Spritz's method, which positions words according to an algorithm that is meant to reduce saccades, trivial? One could argue that because it's an actively researched problem, it's not.

But even if you think that Spritz has a chance of getting its patent accepted, a further question arises: Does Squirt's implementation of ORP-RSVP use the method that Spritz is trying to patent, or some other similar method? I imagine there are probably a bunch of different ORP-RSVP methods, and it's not immediately clear whether Squirt's method is a true clone. It could very well end up that even though Squirt is heavily implying that it's using the patent-pending technology, it's actually using a different method.
Show HN: A Chrome extension we built to help you write emails much faster
heck, I downloaded some random program while trying to install it a few weeks ago - and I've got a compsci MSc from Oxford.
From single speed to fixed gear
Aerospike raises $20M, open sources its in-memory NoSQL database
Nastaliq is lovely to look at.
The Ultimate Customer Loyalty Handbook (6000 words)
> There are a lot of things that look like they should be possible with templates, but once you start trying to implement them, it suddenly becomes much more difficult.

No it doesn't.
Francis's Holy War
An excellent overview! A bit worrying that using an object as a hash table and iterating over its keys using ForIn would prevent optimization - I had always thought that this was a common use case that would be well-supported by the optimizer! I suppose in that case, if you need fast reads of all keys and can afford slower writes, you could maintain an array of the keys at insertion time and just loop through that?
Cool stuff. I'm partial to the theory that prior mass extinctions have involved a meteor strike causing a whistler like effect on the opposite side of the plane causing volcanic action. eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_igneous_province#Meteori...

http://charles_w.tripod.com/dweber/antipode_theory_d.pdf
Also worth considering: https://code.google.com/p/mapsforge/
This PDF presenting package seems neat. I sometimes print a contact sheet of slides to help me see where I'm going, but having the next slide on screen would be nice.

At the moment I use "impressive" [1], which has proved rock solid over the last ~6 years. I can hit tab and see thumbnails of all my slides, and jump to them with one click. I also have a wrapper that lets me go to slide by number: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/impressive/ — These features are good for long seminars and tutorial lectures, where what I deliver is flexible and I have numbered bonus slides anticipating questions.

It seems that PDF-PC has added an overview mode and custom keybindings since the last time I looked at it. Ah, as a fork of the original https://github.com/jakobwesthoff/Pdf-Presenter-Console — Now I should try it out again.

[1] http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ cross-platform python script. Debian/Ubuntu package available. Apparently works on Windows and Mac.
Aerospike free distributed lua-functions kv/document/large-types in-memory/ssd
Basic template: how do you single-step through a multiple-statement macro? Advanced template: where's specialization? Also, where's RAII?

Nothing to see there, move on.
Sky replied saying that the UK Data Retention law takes precedent to the European ruling.

Their T&C state they keep data for 12 months.
a) yes, everything
b) this is on my list of 'if all else fails' but as you know, networking is a bit like dating. it's a whole lot easier if you're not desperate ;)
Title should probably be "V8 Optimization Killers".
Forget touchscreens, 3D holographic displays are coming
Shared Asset Engine: A technique for serving common assets among sub-apps
yes, have considered it, but from first enquiries it seems they are charging rates that are simply impossible to fund at this point, well in the tens of thousands of dollars. I might be able to bring the rates in line with incoming revenue, but this one's a very scary approach, not being vc funded.
The problem with this is that when EMI or some other record giant is the one being abusive and submitting bogus claims, Youtube/SC/et all will not start ignoring notices because they will be afraid that the label will pull their catalog.
Facebook is building an enterprise product dubbed "FBWork"
> Packages and modules should never be reliant under an assumption about the underlying file system

They are not. Import paths are not part of the language, they are interpreted by the go tool. The only relation to the filesystem is that by using the go tool, you will get a directory hierarchy that seems to match import paths in the sense that that in foo/bar you will have a bar directory child to a foo directory. This is very useful to developers, it means they can find their files, but you could build a conforming build tool that keeps files in SQL, if that's your thing.
Without Infiniband or similar proprietary buses, it is usually not considered a supercomputer at all, but merely a cluster.
It's not correct to disqualify a statement mentioning an exceptional cases - 7'4" is such.

Within limits of regular height, football does not disqualify anybody.
> I see no reason to ever allow direct copying by allowing copyright to expire.

The chart of books in print on Amazon, by decade, offers a compelling reason to allow copyright to expire.[1] There are more books available from 1830 than 1930; more books from 1900 than 2000. The cliff in that chart comes when the indefinite extension of copyright began in the early 20th century. It blew a massive hole in our cultural record.

You'll see the same story in film, and in software, though we have no pre-indefinite-copyright data to compare to. There's an era between roughly 1930 and 1980 where works that would have gone into the public domain, no longer are -- and because they are locked away, they are being forgotten or entirely lost. We enjoy the Eternal Sunshine of the Copyrighted Mind.

Though it's not a reason to allow copyright to expire, it's also worth noting that copyright expiration is required by the US Constitution. A copyright law that didn't include an expiration date would be unconstitutional. In practice, of course, a continually-increasing-yet-finite time is hard to distinguish from forever.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-ho...
ImgBurn has the same disease: http://i.imgur.com/8HbuKgl.png

The real download links are below the fold.
I would, and prices will be going up soon anyways, but the problem is: I can't deliver a service for those large customers, they have millions of followers and events happening in their account, the data they require is there, just not through regular non-whitelisted means. I've met folks who got whitelisted years ago, for 'just asking', but this has all been heavily cut down now.
Blaming the hypothetical people that one might imagine would look on the replier badly is not adequate justification for putting the replier in that position.
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How Much Should You Listen To Your Investors?
Minimal Viable Program
There is Elixir [0], with its elegant Ruby-like syntax if that's the issue.

[0]: http://www.elixir-lang.org
ev is pretty much out and focused on different things (not on the best terms with Twitter I believe) I would assume from what I've gather recently and through Biz Stone etc. He seems like a really nice and smart guy, but I feel this is not the right alley.
> Who cares about Windows? Well, anyone who's into the open source movement should be sympathetic to people who are forced to use a certain operating system but still want to get into programming.

But C++ is also much nicer to use on Windows than C.
Writing a new story using characters someone else has developed is theft. Your relying on the history of such characters as developed by the original author to give basis to your story.

Just naming someone Luke Skywalker and writing a story about a drunk cabbie with that name would not be derivative and not likely a problem, writing a story about a Luke Skywalker battling evil on some god forsaken world would be because you know his history, the new author had someone do all the hard work for him - making an appealing character, making a character with intrinsic market value.
>I've wondered if there is any way to coax a C compiler into inlining the sort routine, callback and all, but I haven't tried it yet.

And how is the compiler supposed to inline the callback in qsort() when all it has is a pointer that will be provided only at runtime ? With JIT yes that would be possible. This requires a runtime optimization solution, not a compile time. This is also the reason why templates come so handy, sans the error messages (although GCC has improved by leagues, now to the point I find GCC's error messages easier to debug STL code with than Clang's). The error message scenario would a be a lot better once they get concepts sorted out.
just a minor correction - the script is naskh from the triliteral root n-s-kh (نسج - copy) not naksh from the root n-k-sh(نقش - engrave)
Dr. Catherine Havasi – From the MIT Media Lab to Co-Founder and CEO
That's not marketing Erlang, that's marketing Elixir, though.

On another note, I disagree with calling the Elixir syntax elegant, but that's purely a matter of taste at this point.
It is impressive that Paint.NET keeps on releasing updated software for free.
Question #8 on the non-dev FAQ really should be higher up, like #3. That way the early questions mirror their own thoughts: 1. what is this, 2. but I thought it was secure, 3. what can I do?